[silk] Teleportation

2007-01-01 Thread Venkat Mangudi
http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/ Happy New Year to you and yours... Venkat

Re: [silk] Teleportation

2007-01-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:12:41PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote: http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/ Calling it teleportation in the SF sense is giving it too much credit. I can already teleport DNA/proteins by ordering oligos by email. Atoms are exchangable, information

[silk] Indians and the honor system

2007-01-01 Thread Venkat Mangudi
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1572805,00.html snip Paying the check by honor system has its risks; there are always those who will exploit the opportunity and eat for free — perhaps more so in big cities. At Babu, an Indian restaurant in New York City, the

Re: [silk] Teleportation

2007-01-01 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Eugen Leitl wrote: Calling it teleportation in the SF sense is giving it too much credit. I can already teleport DNA/proteins by ordering oligos by email. Atoms are exchangable, information isn't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation In quantum information, quantum

Re: [silk] Indians and the honor system

2007-01-01 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 01-Jan-07, at 7:14 PM, Venkat Mangudi wrote: Why is it that we, one of the oldest civilization on the earth, lack basic civic sense (apparent from the trash thrown out of a speeding luxury car) and honoring others' labor? The 30-day return policy would never work in India, in my

Re: [silk] Teleportation

2007-01-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 07:34:09PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote: In quantum information, quantum teleportation, or entanglement-assisted teleportation is a technique that transfers a quantum state to an Ordering oligos via email is not a QC process (even if it may involve transport over a

Re: [silk] Indians and the honor system

2007-01-01 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: Sweeping Generalisation Alert! 1. Do we have a garbage disposal system that works efficiently? Nope, there is a rudimentary system in most cities. Our civic minded citizens still chuck bags/paper and general trash anywhere as long as it is not their home. Funny,

Re: [silk] Indians and the honor system

2007-01-01 Thread Radhika, Y.
We are the worst when it comes to civic consciousness. I went to Sri Lanka and was utterly humiliated to see the contrast between what they have done with their resources and what we are doing. Of course, they are smaller, their population is lower(and why is that not to their credit???) but they

Re: [silk] Indians and the honor system

2007-01-01 Thread Thaths
On 1/1/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have noticed that most of us are on our best behaviour outside India. The same people who would not honk unnecessarily in the US, are honk-happy here. Is it us or is it India? I think it is because of two interconnected things - the crumbling

Re: [silk] Indians and the honor system

2007-01-01 Thread shiv sastry
Another characteristic of some Indians is a very positive image of oneself in contrast to the feeling that other Indians lack all the positive qualities that one has. Stemming from this is the feeling that since faulty, inadequate, other Indians are responsible for what is wrong they (someone

Re: [silk] Indians and the honor system

2007-01-01 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 1/1/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01-Jan-07, at 7:14 PM, Venkat Mangudi wrote: Why is it that we, one of the oldest civilization on the earth, lack basic civic sense (apparent from the trash thrown out of a speeding luxury car) and honoring others' labor? The 30-day

Re: [silk] Indians and the honor system

2007-01-01 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 1/2/07, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Indeed, I'd like to add that there is a restaurant in Coimbatore that does not state a fee and it's been the experience of the organization that runs it that people tend to overpay more than the value of the meal. It could be a

Re: [silk] Indians and the honor system

2007-01-01 Thread Ramjee Swaminathan
Shiv, I too agree with you in toto. :-) Thanks. The one at Coimbatore is called Annalakshmi (near mardudamalai and not the one on racecourse road) - and this is part of a chain of hotels (and much else run by a group called 'shiva family' in australia, singapore, coimbatore, madras...) - I know