Osmium

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by Osmium 14y ago
Except in the case of Windows, it's not the case that OEMs have to pay licensing fees to put an OS on their tablet, and considering the state of Windows right now I can't imagine even its fees are prohibitive.
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by Osmium 14y ago
It's not that ridiculous. Intel integrated graphics can acceptably run a laptop of that resolution (see the Retina MBP). When Intel's new IGPs come out next year, it really should be a non-issue.
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by Osmium 14y ago
1680 by 1050, which is the best you could get on a 15" Mac previously, isn't exactly "terrible resolution" (by historical standards anyway). But otherwise agreed. My main machine is a 15" Retina, and I don't think I could ever go back to a
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by Osmium 14y ago
Irritating how the app doesn't let you clear your search terms. You can only delete a search term by entering a new one, even with "search history" disabled. Really tweaks my OCD sense. Great app technically though. Hopefully this'll push A
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by Osmium 14y ago
In fairness, I don't think there are any existing workloads that would benefit 299k cores that aren't already massively parallel :) If you need this kinda thing, your code is already going to be ready for it. I'm with you on the Phis though
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by Osmium 14y ago
Because that momentum transfer is mediated by a fundamental force, typically the electromagnetic force. Entanglement is a property of the particle, and is not mediated by a force: the collapse of the wavefunction of one particle doesn't /ca
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by Osmium 14y ago
What you're proposing is an effect mediated by physical forces. Specifically, on a fundamental, atomic level your beam is made up of atoms. And when you push it, you're bringing atoms closer together, that feel an electrostatic repulsion. A
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by Osmium 14y ago
Could you expand on this a little more? I'm not quite sure I follow.
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by Osmium 14y ago
"If B has property ~k, then we've proven that B had an internal state before we performed the measurement." This part is the flaw in the logic. That doesn't prove that B has an internal state. All it proves is that, in some sense, B's state
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by Osmium 14y ago
It would be a violation of Bell's theorem as we currently understand it. In other words, it can't happen, unless our understanding is wrong. (For more info, the wiki on Bell's theorem has been linked to elsewhere in this thread.)
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by Osmium 14y ago
Agreed; that's what I was trying to say. Perhaps it's disingenuous to frame the problem in this way (that is, talking about rule books and the like), but I was just trying to make it more relatable to normal human experience.
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by Osmium 14y ago
As an aside, congrats to Ars for including a link to the paper (and a DOI) in the article. They always do this, and it's really something that needs to be encouraged elsewhere, especially in newspapers. I think it's fair to say if you don't
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by Osmium 14y ago
"However, both particles have the property from their inception, and so no faster-than-light or non-local interpretation should be needed." This is incorrect, both particles have a superposition of k and ~k (to use your terminology). It is
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by Osmium 14y ago
"Hidden variables" have been proven to not be a satisfactory explanation for quantum mechanical effects for some time now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem Though, I should add, what makes this paper interesting is that they
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by Osmium 14y ago
Congratulations to Tim Cook for making this decision. We might have to wait some time to see if it was the best decision, but at least he didn't just make the safe decision. It may be a risk, but it means Apple won't stagnate. It will chang
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by Osmium 14y ago
I just wanted to reiterate this. From personal experience, this is a bad idea. I never perforated a ear drum with a cotton swab, but I did (and continue to have) extensive ear problems and used to clean my ear religiously as a result, in th
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by Osmium 14y ago
And that's precisely why Apple should be releasing an API to help you :) to reduce the burden of coding something yourself. That's one of the big problems right now. A lot of magazines are using Adobe InDesign to publish their iOS magazine
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by Osmium 14y ago
I've just been looking through the most popular Newsstand apps, and it suddenly occurred to me what's wrong with it: all the thumbnails are of print magazine covers, and they're all too small to read! If that doesn't scream "doing it wrong"
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by Osmium 14y ago
It doesn't surprise me that it takes an AAA iOS developer to finally make a good iOS magazine. It always struck me that Newsstand was a wasted potential: full of good publications trying to squeeze their paper format into an app instead of
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by Osmium 14y ago
Which is a fair point, but it depends who you're targeting: if affluent users are more likely to have high-DPI devices (iPad 3, most smartphones, high-end MacBooks), and they are, then you're going to have to make your site 'retina-ready.'
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by Osmium 14y ago
This is incredible. I can't believe it's taken this long for someone to realise this (at least, it doesn't seem like common knowledge to me). Just commenting for the benefit of anyone without a retina display -- the differences really are s