Even better, Natalie Portman. With hot grits.

I wonder how much marketing jargon has contributed to these misunderstandings. Using terms such as "bandwidth" and "broadband" when referring to data rate will not make information theory any easier.

But will it survive a swordfight against a Model M?

To the parent and the GP, these are good points. I wonder why the notion of causality is such a holy scripture -- it's just a part of the "common sense" which we know to be wrong in so many cases. For example, Igor Novikov argues that temporal loops are OK as long as they are self-consistent. In such a loop, you cannot order two events in a before/after fashion (aka causality) but the whole can nevertheless be physically consistent.

Interesting. I usually stay away from physics discussions on /. as the pop-sci babble is just too much, but this is actually a fresh point of view. Of course, like any technology, this will soon be used by everyone so there will only be a time-limited edge for the first mover.

You can't use quantum teleportation to transmit information faster than light. QT requires a classical information channel (like fiber optic cables) on the side to actually work. The point about QT is being able to transfer a quantum mechanical state, i.e. the wavefunction with its full phase information. You cannot do that with classical means, because you'd need to measure the state, thereby collapsing it into a classical state.

Well, maybe.

My thoughts exactly.

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Interesting point. Wondering this from a technical perspective, you might ask if it is even possible to fully integrate an artificial limb into your body-consciousness, unless you grow up with it from a very young age, regardless of the technological sophistication.

However, people have shown surprising flexibility in dealing with this sort of thing. For example, people with surgically corrected nerve damage have reported that their sense of touch is literally out of place -- feeling the touch in a different position than actually touched. However, after a while their brain will have updated the routing tables to match up the positions. Presumably, such learning is based on visual feedback, such as shown in the experiment where you learn to feel a plastic hand as your own, and you even feel pain when the plastic hand is hit.

Why not a round number, such as 2048?

I can't believe nobody posted the obligatory XKCD yet. http://xkcd.com/732/

Nope. You need sqrt(2) to combine two into a bigger version with the same ratio, as we do with standard paper sizes like A4. The golden ratio means cutting a line into two pieces so that long piece / total = short piece / long piece. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25...

Of course, if you combine displays this way, you are turning subpixels into non-optimal orientations, but I guess it won't be a problem at these huge resolutions.

IMHO, cooling is the first reason to keep them separate. Projectors generate a lot of heat compared to a low-end CPU, and then you'll need a lot of extra cooling to keep the CPU happy. The projector itself would be OK at a somewhat higher temperature, and the computer alone wouldn't need much cooling.

Also, there is the usual argument about bundling computers with appliances -- the computer gets obsolete much faster. So this can only fill a very limited niche.

Discrete log is certainly being used with elliptic curves. EC isn't really an algorithm, but an alternative "number system" that is well suited for crypto (the common alternative is finite/Galois fields).