It might go into superposition from our perspective if no information escaped from the box.
Maybe each holographic cell is actually is actually a distribution of cells across a 5th dimension. When information is transferred from one cell to the next, it changes the distribution of both cells in a way that conditionally links the different possibilities. When you observe something you are linking the cells in which you exist to the cells you are observing (and your brain records it which helps to preserve that link.
But if you can isolate a set of cells so that they don't interact with you then maybe those cells can form a large superposition bubble. When you observe it, you get linked to one of a billion states at random. If all of the billions of states are divided into two very similar and distinct categories then that bubble 'collapses' into one of them from your point of view.
That isn't very useful from a dead cat perspective, but it might be useful for computation.
Light travels as waves (and particles -- but let's ignore that for now). Imagine waves on an ocean coming into the shore. A polarizer is like a bunch of thin wooden boards stacked on top of each other, but with space inbetween each layer. If you place this polarizer so that the boards are standing on end, then the waves will pass through the slats between the boards and come out of the other side mostly intact. However, if you lay the polarizer down so that the boards are lying flat, then the vertical motion of the wave will be stopped by the polarizer.
Light waves usually go in all directions, but you can polarize light by passing it though a polarizer. Only the waves that line up with the polarizer will pass through the polarizer. If you then take a second polarizer and rotate it 90 degrees, then all of that polarized light will be stopped by the new polarizer.
To get a 3D effect, you want two images made of polarized light but with the polarization of the two 90 degrees off from each other. Then you put polarizers over your eyes but rotated 90 degrees. One filter will block one image and the other filter will block the other image. The result is you see two different images and your brain constructs the 3D illusion.
LCD monitors emit polarized light. If you wear a pair of polarized sun glasses and look at an LCD monitor, you can rotate your head and watch as the polarized light from the monitor is passed or blocked by the sunglasses.
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A 2002 settlement that arose out of the US Justice Department's antitrust pursuit of Microsoft "established a comprehensive regulatory scheme that not only resolved past conduct, but also created a detailed compliance structure to address future competitive concerns that might arise," the letter said. "This regulatory scheme insures that Microsoft can continue to add new features into its products but allows both users and computer manufacturers to hide these additional features and use competing products instead."
Any new feature added to Windows has the possibility of being declared "bundling". The EU ruling goes far beyond just adding a media player. Microsoft is very careful about complying with the EU rulings.
The EU requires Microsoft to release a basic version as part of their antitrust lawsuite. Each feature in the premium versions requires a price attached to it and the premium version has to cost the same as the basic version plus the price of each additional feature. If any discount is given for combining features then it is considered "bundling" and is not allowed.
Here is a better one: I have a photograph of an apple. Images on a screen are made up of little dots. Look at an old Atari game system and if they draw the picture of the photograph on the screen, it's quite recognizable, but obviously a pretty poor representation.
However, increase the pixel count and color range enough and the computer image become indistinguishable from the real photograph. It still isn't an actual photograph, but it has the same functionality of image presentation. I can't pass it around to friends very easily, but then I can't send my physical photograph over a network or send it to a robot on Mars using radio.
I agree it is pointless. In religeous terms, your "immortal soul" is simply God's will to remember you for eternity. Will God remember AI's? I think he (she?) probably will, but then there is really no way to know.
The fairness of a coin can be modelled by a binomial distribution. If you take the Taylor series expansion of a binomial distribution and then use the first two elements of the expansion to model the binomial you get a normal distribution.
"Assume a normal distribution" is close enough for confidence work.
That is the old "shell game" con. And while I just love that con, it isn't the one I was playing. If you were watching for the switch you would be deeply disappointed.
Also, you obviously don't fall for the old "assume a normal distribution" scam. I would have to play the old "inverted pyramid" scam with you. I just love the old "inverted pyramid" scam. It works especially well with stock newsletters. You can play this game as an inverted pyramid scam, but it only pays off once every 1024 times.
Oh, man. I just love the old "assume a normal distribution" con. Do you have any idea how much money I have made with that one?
How does that one work? I'll show you.
Let's play a game. Assuming I have a fair coin, I flip the coin and it comes up heads 9 times in a row. What is the probability of the coin coming up heads on the 10th flip?
Yeah, and maybe then we wouldn't have the tools to even consider solving knot theory problems and we could go back to ending wars and eliminating human suffering. Stupid, Euler.
Also, why isn't is spelled Oiler? Was Euler some sort of anti-drilling-save-the-tress nut? Didn't he know how important oil is to our country?
It seems that a large part of Surface is "physical computing". Surface already interacts with different physical devices you place on the table. This is just adding another aspect.
Is it useful? I don't know. A piece of paper is probably more responsive than a software interface and it is more intuitive to use. Want to see the other layer? Put down a piece of paper. Want to see it in two places? Put down two pieces of paper. Want to get rid of the other layer? Pick the paper up.
You would be paying "self-employment tax" even if you were not self-employed. When employed you pay it as "Social Security/Medicare". The bookkeeping says that the employer pays half of the tax, but that is a technicality. If the employee paid it all then supply and demand would raise wages by the amount the employer pays. If the employer paid it all then supply/demand would lower wages by the amount the employee pays. Your tax rate is higher by around 7.5% but you should have a higher income than an employee doing the same job (by around 7.5%).
Self-employment tax (SE tax) is a social security and Medicare tax primarily for individuals who work for themselves. It is similar to the social security and Medicare taxes withheld from the pay of most wage earners.
Trucks will all be driven by computer in a few (10-20?) years. That will force a change in business models for everyone involved in trucking.
Likely, people who own trucks will get them retrofitted and then someone will create a site where shipping jobs are auctioned off. The truck owners will bid on the jobs and then send their trucks off to do the work. Capital will flow into the industry such that the rate of return one can get on owning an autonomous truck matches every other low margin business out there.
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It might go into superposition from our perspective if no information escaped from the box.
Maybe each holographic cell is actually is actually a distribution of cells across a 5th dimension. When information is transferred from one cell to the next, it changes the distribution of both cells in a way that conditionally links the different possibilities. When you observe something you are linking the cells in which you exist to the cells you are observing (and your brain records it which helps to preserve that link.
But if you can isolate a set of cells so that they don't interact with you then maybe those cells can form a large superposition bubble. When you observe it, you get linked to one of a billion states at random. If all of the billions of states are divided into two very similar and distinct categories then that bubble 'collapses' into one of them from your point of view.
That isn't very useful from a dead cat perspective, but it might be useful for computation.
Actually, that was the latest in Turing test technology. Its NLP argument binder just needs a little work.
I hate spunk.
> Last time I checked PEOPLE, NOT CORPORATIONS enjoyed constitutional protections such as the 1st Amendment.
Hold on... Are you telling me that corporations can't get married.
I guess the wedding is off.
How am I going to break the news to my family?
Worse, how is my true love going to break the news to her board of directors?
I think you just described Micheal from "The Office."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization
Light travels as waves (and particles -- but let's ignore that for now). Imagine waves on an ocean coming into the shore. A polarizer is like a bunch of thin wooden boards stacked on top of each other, but with space inbetween each layer. If you place this polarizer so that the boards are standing on end, then the waves will pass through the slats between the boards and come out of the other side mostly intact. However, if you lay the polarizer down so that the boards are lying flat, then the vertical motion of the wave will be stopped by the polarizer.
Light waves usually go in all directions, but you can polarize light by passing it though a polarizer. Only the waves that line up with the polarizer will pass through the polarizer. If you then take a second polarizer and rotate it 90 degrees, then all of that polarized light will be stopped by the new polarizer.
To get a 3D effect, you want two images made of polarized light but with the polarization of the two 90 degrees off from each other. Then you put polarizers over your eyes but rotated 90 degrees. One filter will block one image and the other filter will block the other image. The result is you see two different images and your brain constructs the 3D illusion.
LCD monitors emit polarized light. If you wear a pair of polarized sun glasses and look at an LCD monitor, you can rotate your head and watch as the polarized light from the monitor is passed or blocked by the sunglasses.
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Any new feature added to Windows has the possibility of being declared "bundling". The EU ruling goes far beyond just adding a media player. Microsoft is very careful about complying with the EU rulings.
The EU requires Microsoft to release a basic version as part of their antitrust lawsuite. Each feature in the premium versions requires a price attached to it and the premium version has to cost the same as the basic version plus the price of each additional feature. If any discount is given for combining features then it is considered "bundling" and is not allowed.
> As long as they don't try and make me run round with my avatar in Gears of War 2 or whatever I'll be happy!
er... feature cancellation request filed...
In my view, an "immortal soul" is God's will to remember you for eternity.
That is a horrible analogy.
Here is a better one: I have a photograph of an apple. Images on a screen are made up of little dots. Look at an old Atari game system and if they draw the picture of the photograph on the screen, it's quite recognizable, but obviously a pretty poor representation.
However, increase the pixel count and color range enough and the computer image become indistinguishable from the real photograph. It still isn't an actual photograph, but it has the same functionality of image presentation. I can't pass it around to friends very easily, but then I can't send my physical photograph over a network or send it to a robot on Mars using radio.
I agree it is pointless. In religeous terms, your "immortal soul" is simply God's will to remember you for eternity. Will God remember AI's? I think he (she?) probably will, but then there is really no way to know.
The fairness of a coin can be modelled by a binomial distribution. If you take the Taylor series expansion of a binomial distribution and then use the first two elements of the expansion to model the binomial you get a normal distribution.
"Assume a normal distribution" is close enough for confidence work.
You caught onto the heart of the old "assume a normal distribution" scam quite quickly for an anonymous coward.
But how well do you hold up against an "independence assumption" scam?
No. No. No.
That is the old "shell game" con. And while I just love that con, it isn't the one I was playing. If you were watching for the switch you would be deeply disappointed.
Also, you obviously don't fall for the old "assume a normal distribution" scam. I would have to play the old "inverted pyramid" scam with you. I just love the old "inverted pyramid" scam. It works especially well with stock newsletters. You can play this game as an inverted pyramid scam, but it only pays off once every 1024 times.
Oh, man. I just love the old "assume a normal distribution" con. Do you have any idea how much money I have made with that one?
How does that one work? I'll show you.
Let's play a game. Assuming I have a fair coin, I flip the coin and it comes up heads 9 times in a row. What is the probability of the coin coming up heads on the 10th flip?
Oh, man. I just love the old "mean vs. average" con.
Yeah, and maybe then we wouldn't have the tools to even consider solving knot theory problems and we could go back to ending wars and eliminating human suffering. Stupid, Euler.
Also, why isn't is spelled Oiler? Was Euler some sort of anti-drilling-save-the-tress nut? Didn't he know how important oil is to our country?
I believe you are thinking of a different Microsoft technology:
http://photosynth.net/
It seems that a large part of Surface is "physical computing". Surface already interacts with different physical devices you place on the table. This is just adding another aspect.
Is it useful? I don't know. A piece of paper is probably more responsive than a software interface and it is more intuitive to use. Want to see the other layer? Put down a piece of paper. Want to see it in two places? Put down two pieces of paper. Want to get rid of the other layer? Pick the paper up.
If you are earning the same pretax income being self-employed that you are as someone else's employee then you are doing something wrong.
If self-employment was made more attractive, more people would become self-employed. That would create more competition and drive down profits.
You would be paying "self-employment tax" even if you were not self-employed. When employed you pay it as "Social Security/Medicare". The bookkeeping says that the employer pays half of the tax, but that is a technicality. If the employee paid it all then supply and demand would raise wages by the amount the employer pays. If the employer paid it all then supply/demand would lower wages by the amount the employee pays. Your tax rate is higher by around 7.5% but you should have a higher income than an employee doing the same job (by around 7.5%).
From the IRS website:
Trucks will all be driven by computer in a few (10-20?) years. That will force a change in business models for everyone involved in trucking.
Likely, people who own trucks will get them retrofitted and then someone will create a site where shipping jobs are auctioned off. The truck owners will bid on the jobs and then send their trucks off to do the work. Capital will flow into the industry such that the rate of return one can get on owning an autonomous truck matches every other low margin business out there.