Comment: Re:Innovation (Score 1) 449
I missed that. Found the PC pro article, and one from omgubntu, but didn't see the original Shuttleworth announce.
Heaven knows I wish he hadn't mentioned Minority report though.
Comment: Re:Innovation (Score 1) 449
I dunno about genuine innovation; Maybe I'm missing the parallel but it looks a lot like Aza Raskin's Enso Launcher. Take a peek at the second half of this video.
I'm not faulting them for implementing it; After all, Enso Launcher looked fantastic but as far as I know never got much uptake and certainly never ran on linux. But I just think it's being forgetful to call this a new innovation.
Comment: Re:Sorta useful suggestion (Score 1) 377
I think the idea's a lil bland, I mean
Ditto: Results in Present Face.
Difficult Campground WIFI design 1
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MahlonS writes "I am a retired network hack wintering in my RV in a campground in southern GA. 3 years ago I reconfigured the wifi system to a marginal working ability, It now needs a serious upgrade, prompted by a new cable net connection replacing a DSL. 5 dual radio HP access points connect to a 6th via single or double radio hops in heavily wooded space. The main connect is an old Cisco router. Burying wire is frowned upon, due to shallow utilities. Since I'm not up on current wifi tech, are there solutions out there that would make this system work much better?"
Quantum wavefunction is a real physical object aft->
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cekerr writes "Nature reports:
Quantum theorem shakes foundations
The wavefunction is a real physical object after all, say researchers.
"... the new paper, by a trio of physicists led by Matthew Pusey at Imperial College London, presents a theorem showing that if a quantum wavefunction were purely a statistical tool, then even quantum states that are unconnected across space and time would be able to communicate with each other. As that seems very unlikely to be true, the researchers conclude that the wavefunction must be physically real after all.
David Wallace, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford, UK, says that the theorem is the most important result in the foundations of quantum mechanics that he has seen in his 15-year professional career. “This strips away obscurity and shows you can’t have an interpretation of a quantum state as probabilistic,” he says."
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Quantum theorem shakes foundations
The wavefunction is a real physical object after all, say researchers.
"... the new paper, by a trio of physicists led by Matthew Pusey at Imperial College London, presents a theorem showing that if a quantum wavefunction were purely a statistical tool, then even quantum states that are unconnected across space and time would be able to communicate with each other. As that seems very unlikely to be true, the researchers conclude that the wavefunction must be physically real after all.
David Wallace, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford, UK, says that the theorem is the most important result in the foundations of quantum mechanics that he has seen in his 15-year professional career. “This strips away obscurity and shows you can’t have an interpretation of a quantum state as probabilistic,” he says."
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Comment: Re:"Smart" phones are a dumb buy. (Score 1) 447
Kudos on retracting. Manners on the internet. Whoda-thunk.
Comment: Re:"Smart" phones are a dumb buy. (Score 1) 447
Fair point.
Comment: Re:"Smart" phones are a dumb buy. (Score 1) 447
But if you were worried about privacy and control, why exclude the baseband firmware? If one is powerful and malicious, wouldn't that be the ideal place to put surveillance tech?
Comment: Re:"Smart" phones are a dumb buy. (Score 1) 447
But if you're worried about privacy and control, doesn't it worry you about what can be hidden in the baseband?
If I were a government of power, trying to add surveillance tech, that's where I'd put it!
Comment: thinkpad iPad. (Score 4, Informative) 425
If handwriting is desired, I generally would recommend against an iPad. I've been using one with a stylus, and the non-intelligent screen just doesn't work well enough.
A friend of mine has a convertible X-series thinkpad, and it's great for them, with intelligent built in stylus + OneNote.