Countdown to a sci-fi movie where this idea is only half understood and the "proof of concept" device opens a portal to hell, where we meet the real Maxwell's demon...
Now that I've typed this, I want to see it happen.
Now that I've typed this, I want to see it happen.
Which goes to show what a terrible idea this all is ;-).
[0] - http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=29 - full text of Armageddon and Pantheocide available there; the author decided to abandon the series because someone stole his work to destroy his ability to publish it.
What do you mean? It seems like the author was publishing it for free online already; how would one steal that work and prevent him from publishing?
"The third part never got written. We had a contract signed to publish them and they'd been prepared, copy-edited and put into paperback novel format (I actually have the author's preprints) when a . . . . person . . . . stole the copy and published it himself as a torrent. As a result, the whole deal fell through and nobody will touch an already-published work. So, without any possibility of generating return, I ditched the project. There's no chance of going back to it now."
I once saw a more detailed story about the guy who stole the copy and alleged reasons for doing it, but I can't find it right now.
[0] - http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t...
Xen. It could be worse, it could have been the QEMU dimension.....
:)
Do the wrong transform in, say, a Hilbert space and something quite horrible may come after you.