The violation of Bell's inequalities shows that there are no local hidden variable theories, but there might be non-local hidden variable theories. But in contrast to what you seem to think, non-local hidden variables theories do not necessarily enable faster than light (FTL) communication.
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I am still angry about Nokia. 10 thousands of jobs lost and the only mobile platform which was nice from a technology point of view destroyed. All for a hopeless attempt to get some market shared for Windows Mobile.
Well, the truth is we have the non-locality anyway. Whatever happens which reduces the measurement to a definite result is non-local. And - ofcourse - there has to be something like this. Stil, I am not too convinced by the pilot wave theory, but it is at least an attempt to deal with the inherent problems of QM by trying to create a proper physical theory, not by philosophical bullshit.
Non-locality means transmission of information with faster-than-light speeds
No. There is some kind of non-locality which does not imply FTL transmisson of information.The effects in QM are exactly of this kind.
Sadly, the CIA has already set a new standard here.
Rather obviously it does not work out in the wash. This discussion was about the massive waste of energy in the US which leads to a per capita consumption which is about twice that of other highly developed countries such as Japan and Germany and order of magnitude compared to developing countries. The externalities of the energy use affect people globally (like the war in Iraq and its dire consquences or global warming). As such, your idea that "It's not to anyone's detriment other than the person spending" is simple wrong.
I am not sure why you think rewriting in a different way is the solution. One could also refactor and fix bugs (which is being done).
For example the implementation of the core X protocol has been described as good by the guy who found these bugs (because
bugs have already been fixed in the past). New code will not automatically be better: E.g. compare his comments about Qt and KDE.
From looking at it superficially, Wayland seems to be a pretty good code quality though. I am just not too much a fan of breaking
compatibility with the on-the-wire protocol of X.
Yes.
Why can't you use ssh -X ?
Yes, most Linux distributions seem to have used -tcp nolisten for quite a while. ssh -X still works fine and is very useful (IMHO).
Original story:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
CCC talk:
http://media.ccc.de/browse/con...
You understanding of economics is poor. You also missed the main point: Externalities usually affect others than those who benefit from cheaper prices.
> It's not to anyone's detriment other than the person spending.
False premise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
Ok, I try again.
He claims that a moving non-object (a shadow, a reflection of light, or a mouse cursor) isn't real. They are real.
Of course the reflections are real. The movement is not real.
They can be seen, they can be measured and defined. And they can move faster than the speed of light.
They are real, but the movement is not. There is no movement of anything - because the reflections you see at different times are different reflections. They are just synchronized in some way to make it appear as there were moving - in other words: it is an illusion. Different things appearing at different places at different times is not movement. Do you know the story of the Hare and the Hedgehog?
I would say there is nothing which moves - atleast nothing physical. There are *different* things happening synchronized in a way that there is the appearance of motion. But talking about "motion" depends on an observer who synthesizes these different events into a motion of a single logical object. Similar to how a mouse pointer moves on a screen. Nothing actually moves. This is simply an illusion, not "propagation of non-information".
"More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined." -- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_
