I have to say that Ubuntu's forums and documentation aren't worth hardly anything. The forum is overloaded and there are so many new threads that very few of the threads will ever be touched or answered.
The documentation covers the basics, but it rarely helps if there is a problem.
I had a problem with graphics card issues last year and spent a couple weeks of research before finally finding a way to fix the problem myself. The forums and documentation didn't help.
And I found numerous other people asking the same question but not getting any answer. After I found the solution I posted it on their forum threads.
This is because you come to a rare and frutrating problem. This type of problems are not different on any kind of systems. They are hard to solve and low number of people tackle on them. If the problem having party is not some kind of big corporation or a person having influence over masses, that problem is non existant for the systems' producer.
Very fascinating article. I fell into the Calculus trap myself, and I admit that it definitely would have been more interesting to have avoided it.
As it was I got an A in Calculus, breezed through the course as an early college course student.
How much better it would have been to have enjoyed the alternate possibility presented:
"Going from ‘top student in my algebra class’ to ‘average student in my city’s math club’ is a huge step forward in your educational prospects. The student in the math club is going to grow by great leaps, led and encouraged by other students."
Then you missed the best part about quantum computers. ;)
LOL
I agree that quantum mechanics, and applications like Schrodinger's Cat are strange and seemingly senseless, but I think that it is fascinating that it may be applied to computing.
I think what people usually refer to as Quantum Mechanics (i.e. Quantum Inference) will likely go the way of Maximum Entropy. Maximum Entropy originated as a physical concept and was eventually shown to have an origin in Information Theory and is now very important to fields outside physics. Applications of Quantum Inference outside of the traditional physics applications are being developed (see http://uk.arxiv.org/abs/0810.5290 and http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/03...).
Quantum Mechanics is not yet completely understood as an inference method so people confuse it with physics and Shrodinger's cat silliness results.
The documentation covers the basics, but it rarely helps if there is a problem.
I had a problem with graphics card issues last year and spent a couple weeks of research before finally finding a way to fix the problem myself. The forums and documentation didn't help.
And I found numerous other people asking the same question but not getting any answer. After I found the solution I posted it on their forum threads.