Remembering Ramanujan: India Celebrates Its Famous Mathematical Son

India, home of the number zero, ends a yearlong math party in unique fashion

By Evelyn Lamb

PORTRAIT OF A GENIUS: Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician, was born December 22, 2012. Image: Konrad Jacobs, Oberwolfach Photo Collection

December 22, 2012, marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. An intuitive mathematical genius, Ramanujan's discoveries have influenced several areas of mathematics, but he is probably most famous for his contributions to number theory and infinite series, among them fascinating formulas ( pdf ) that can be used to calculate digits of pi in unusual ways.

Last December Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared 2012 to be a National Mathematics Year in India in honor of Ramanujan's quasiquicentennial. Ramanujan's story is dramatic and somewhat larger than life. It is even the subject of an opera by Indian-German composer Sandeep Bhagwati, a novel and two plays . Largely self-taught, he dropped out of college, took a job as a clerk in Madras and attracted the attention of British mathematician G. H. Hardy through written correspondence in 1913. Although Ramanujan's mother believed that as a Brahmin (the highest class in the Indian caste system, which was in place at the time) he should not travel overseas, Ramanujan, aged 27, went to England in 1914 and spent the ensuing war years working with Hardy and other mathematicians? at the University of Cambridge. He grew quite ill in England, and in 1919 he returned to India where he died in 1920. Since his death at age 32 mathematicians have analyzed his notebooks ( pdf ), which are full of formulas but light on justification. Most of the formulas have turned out to be correct, and researchers continue to learn from his work while trying to understand and prove them.

India's mathematical heritage extends far beyond Ramanujan's time. The nation is considered home of the concept of zero. Babylonians had used a space as a placeholder (similar to the role of "0" in the number 101), but this space could not stand alone or at the end of a number. (In our number system, as in theirs, this could be problematic; imagine trying to tell the difference between the numbers 1 and 10 by context alone.) In India, however, zero was treated as a number like any other. India is also the home of our decimal numeral system.

Indian government and mathematical societies pursued several projects to celebrate their year of mathematics, from enrichment programs for students and teachers to the "Mathematical Panorama Lectures" that occurred around the country. This series of 20 short lecture courses, which will continue into 2013, brings prominent mathematicians from different fields to Indian universities to deliver five or six lectures. M. S. Raghunathan, president of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society and chair of the organizing committee for the National Mathematics Year, wrote in an e-mail that he hopes the lectures will facilitate an infusion of Indian talent into fields that lack it right now.

Indeed, a primary purpose of the year of mathematics is to reinvigorate mathematical education in India. In his speech announcing the event, Prime Minister Singh said that although India has produced many distinguished mathematicians, "for a country of our size, the number of competent mathematicians that we have is badly inadequate." He mentioned concerns about the rigidity of India?s academic system, which some believe might squelch rather than nurture mathematical curiosity and achievement. "A genius like Ramanujan would shine bright even in the most adverse of circumstances, but we should be geared to encourage and nurture good talent which may not be of the same caliber as that of Ramanujan," he said. Singh also mentioned the need to prevent attrition of mathematically interested people. "There is a general perception in our society that the pursuit of mathematics does not lead to attractive career opportunities," he said. "This perception must change." Lectures for undergraduates, camps for motivated youngsters and educational programs designed to acquaint teachers with new topics and pedagogical ideas have all been part of the attempt to nurture mathematical interest at all levels.

Two longer-term projects begun this year could help as well: a documentary on the history of Indian mathematics and a mathematics museum in Chennai. Raghunathan hopes that the documentary will be available in 2014 and the museum will open its doors in 2015.

This yearlong fete is culminating in "The Legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan," a conference at the University of Delhi from December 17 to 22. Included are technical lectures on mathematics influenced by Ramanujan's work, public presentations on Ramanujan's notebooks, dance performances and a film about Ramanujan's life. The annual SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, which recognizes a mathematician age 32 or younger who works in a field influenced by Ramanujan, will be awarded as well. The awardee this year is Zhiwei Yun of Stanford University, whose work lies at the intersection of geometric representation theory, algebraic geometry and number theory.

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'This Is 40' Star Leslie Mann Was 'Protective' Of Megan Fox's Chest

Mann fills MTV News in on filming with the bombshell actress.
By Kara Warner, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

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Armed guards, locked doors: Schools seek security

A long-dormant national conversation about guns has reignited: some are calling for an assault weapons ban while other feel guns themselves aren't the root of the problem. So far the shootings have sparked several gun buy-back programs and even an anti-gun video organized by big-city mayors ? but the NRA says it's the entertainment industry that is partly to blame. NBC's John Yang reports.

By Elizabeth Chuck and M. Alex Johnson, NBC News

The National Rifle Association?s call to put armed guards in every public school in America has further intensified the debate over how to protect our nation?s children in class, with some districts saying they?re preparing to take just that action and other educators cautioning that doing so sends the wrong message about education.

And short of giving teachers and officers their own guns, administrators across the country are desperate to find a way to keep their pupils safe. Locked vestibules with buzzers, emergency preparedness drills, stronger glass and surveillance cameras are among measures being considered after the massacre last week at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Even before the?NRA?s Wayne LaPierre said Friday that armed police should be placed in schools, guards with guns were posted at all 14 schools in Butler, Pa.

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The district of 7,500 pupils about 40 miles northeast of Pittsburgh had already gone to court to get a judge's approval to have at least one armed retired state trooper in every school. They were in place as classes resumed Monday after the mass shootings Dec. 14 in Newtown, Conn.

"We plan to have that on a daily basis from now on," Superintendent Michael Strutt told NBC station WPXI of Pittsburgh. By the time the next school year begins, every guard in the school system will be armed, he said.

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The sense of urgency is undeniable, with a few districts willing to fight fire with fire, as in Butler. Schools in Marlboro, N.J., for example, will have armed officers in place by January, Mayor John Hornik told NBC News on Friday.

After a week of calls for tighter gun restrictions, the National Rifle Association called for putting more armed security officers in the nation's schools and expressed concerns about violence portrayed in video games, movies and music. NBC's Pete Williams reports.

State Sen. Joe Scarnati, a Republican representing northern Pennsylvania, said there was only one important question: "What do we do to protect our kids?"

"If it requires to put armed individuals in our schools to protect our kids, then we need to do that," Scarnati told NBC station WJAC of Johnstown.

But that idea doesn't sit well with other educators, like Tony Scott, superintendent of schools in Bellaire, Ohio, where a local firearms association said it would provide free shooting training to teachers after the Connecticut shootings.

"I just don't believe our teachers signed up for this," Scott told NBC station WTOV of Steubenville, Ohio. "I know I didn't sign up for it."

Ronald Stephens, executive director of the National School Safety Center, a joint project of the U.S. Education and Justice departments, said there's no centralized database tabulating how many school systems have an official armed presence on campus, but he estimated it at 25 percent. He called the NRA proposal "unfeasible."

"We have to ask ourselves what kind of climate we want to create in our schools. Do we want our school campus to look like the Old West with people having sidearms attached to their hip, or do we want education to happen in a positive way?" Stephens told NBC News. "That's the hard part of this."

Michael Smerconish, author Steve Siebold and David Corn of Mother Jones debate the NRA's idea that more guns and armed teachers would curb gun violence.

Some administrators are looking elsewhere for solutions.?After years of unlocked front doors and casual conversations about someday increasing security in the small school district of New Hartford, Conn., Superintendent Philip O'Reilly isn't wasting another minute.

Fearing a repeat of the tragedy in nearby Newtown, O'Reilly is planning to modify the district's school buildings so they each have a small, locked vestibule between the main entrance and the building's interior, which will hold visitors for screening.

O'Reilly wouldn't give the cost of these new entryways, but he said the money must be found.

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"Cost is no longer the priority. Keeping kids safe is the priority," he said.

In some cases, parents are leading the charge.

"I've had superintendents and headmasters who have been fighting for a year or two trying to do this, and the parents have been fighting them hand and fist because they didn't understand, and now the parents are coming to the school officials saying, 'Why aren't you?'" said Michael Dorn, executive director of Safe Havens International, a nonprofit group based in Georgia that helps schools improve their crisis preparedness.

Michael Dorn of Safe Havens International relays tips on how schools and parents can keep kids safe.

Security experts recommend that school districts start with a security assessment. Because changing entryways or installing security cameras can be expensive, these experts said school systems need to figure out exactly what their biggest shortcomings are before plowing ahead.

"The number one request [schools have been asking for since Newtown] is to conduct a security assessment. We look at everything, from your written practices to the physical security devices and emergency plans," said Paul Timm, president of Illinois-based, school security consulting firm RETA Security.

He said his recommendations usually fall in two main areas.

"There are two categories that protect people better than anything else: access control, which includes a locked vestibule, running a closed campus, visitor management procedures; and communications.

Do we have public address systems, do we have telephones that are outfitted with emergency dialing instructions, do we have two-way radios?" Timm said. "Those two areas, more than cameras, more than metal detectors, more than burglar alarm systems, protect people."

Locked vestibules can literally stop an intruder in his or her tracks. As administrators have become more concerned about security, many schools have restricted access to just one main entry point in the hope of doing that, Timm said.

Another solution for safety-proofing schools: bullet-resistant glass. Timm recently helped a school in Hastings, Minn., replace all the tempered glass in the building with laminated glass after a student brought a gun to school, and the total cost was about $3,500.

But such a low dollar figure for security fixes is rare.

"A large percentage of our schools are not designed well for any of these things. Sometimes, something simple can be $5 million," Dorn said.

Federal funds for school safety ? the Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) project ? were eliminated in March 2011. Now the money must come from local taxpayers.

"There's not much in the budget for security at all. I want to say that before Columbine, not many schools had a line item for security in their budget," Timm said.

One security measure that doesn't come with a hefty price tag is running drills with teachers, students and administrators for various scenarios.

"It prepares us to make life-and-death situations more quickly," Dorn said. "They have an opportunity do something like lock a door, move kids out of a classroom, and [if] for various reasons don't take that action, our casualty rate doubles or triples. The human brain works faster than my laptop to make those life-and-death decisions, but only if you've had the exposure to prepare you."

Andrew Mach of NBC News contributed to this report.

The manufacturer of a children's backpack designed to stop bullets says sales have skyrocketed in the wake of the Newtown massacre. But are some parents overreacting? KPRC's Courtney Zavala reports.

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NuVo P200 Wireless Player

NuVo's new Wireless Audio System delivers streaming audio anywhere in your home?even to multiple rooms simultaneously. The P200 ($599 list), the company's wireless stereo amplifier and media hub, supports dual-band 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi and MIMO for truly reliable performance, and is capable of transmitting up to 16 simultaneous streams at 600Kbps each. It's also a stereo amplifier, giving you the ability to hook up any pair of passive speakers that could very well sound much better than any AirPlay or Bluetooth speaker.

Used as intended?in multiple rooms, with?the GW100 Gateway (which is required for wireless use),?multiple P200s, and multiple sets of speakers?the whole system is very expensive for the average music listener, and it has a few issues as well. But if you're an audio component fan interested in top-quality wireless streaming throughout your home, and you have the means, read on.

Design, Amplifier, and Main Setup
The NuVo P200 measures 1.65 by 9.02 by 5.0 inches (HWD) and weighs 2.5 pounds. It's made entirely of black plastic, with a vertically curved edge on one side and a horizontally curved edge on the other. The front panel is clean save for four capacitive buttons, which control volume, muting, and Bluetooth functions, plus a combination power and status LED. The back panel houses standard-size 3.5mm input and output jacks, a 3.5mm setup mic port that the manual says is for "future use" only, and four gold 5-way binding posts for connecting speakers. There are also USB 2.0 and Ethernet ports, plus a hardware power switch that, thankfully, doesn't send a loud thump through your speakers when you switch it on.

Inside is a 60-watt-per-channel stereo amplifier that works with 8 ohm and 4 ohm passive speakers. There's Audyssey-powered dynamic volume processing onboard for balancing day and night listening at lower levels, as well as bass and treble adjustments with 12 dB of range in either direction. I tested the P200 with a pair of Klipsch HD Theater 600 satellites and their companion 100-watt, 8-inch powered subwoofer. I hooked up the satellites to the P200 via its five-way binding posts, and then used a 6-foot stereo Y-cable (which is not included) to connect the stereo 3.5mm mini-jack line out on the P200 to the pair of stereo RCA inputs on the powered subwoofer.

The setup process is a little confusing. First, you hook up your speakers, plug the P200 into the wall, download the NuVo Player iOS or Android app on your mobile device, and follow the on-screen instructions. From the app, you can begin setup of a new system or join an existing system you're expanding.

Unfortunately, while the P200 supports Wi-Fi, you need the $199 NuVo GW100 Gateway in order to use the P200 wirelessly. Otherwise, you must use the included Ethernet port and connect it to your router. I tested the P200 with the GW100, which came with no instructions. Basically, you just connect the main port (not one of the four LAN ports) to an existing free port on your router with the included Ethernet cable. The app found it immediately. Next, I powered on the P200, waited for the solid green LED light indicating ready status, and then tapped Next in the app. Then I paired the P200 with the GW100 by holding down the Volume Up and Mute buttons as indicated. From there, I was off and running.

Sound Quality and Music Source Setup
As a general rule, sound quality from the built-in amplifier was uniformly excellent, with a clear soundstage and plenty of gain. I wouldn't have any reservations about powering a full-range pair of floorstanding speakers with the P200. That said, audiophiles may wish to bypass the P200's internal amp and employ the line out for use with an external integrated amplifier or preamp/amp combo. Even better, I didn't experience any audio dropouts while sharing music from a variety of sources, even on our extremely saturated PCMag Labs Wi-Fi networks.

The real purpose of the NuVo system is to enable multi-room wireless streaming, and with multiple sources of music. For that, you may find that a single P200 isn't enough; you can put one in each room, along with an appropriately sized set of speakers, and then control the whole shebang using the app's visual interface. This is the kind of setup where the NuVo system excels, thanks to its reliable wireless performance.

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Homeowner now? - Redfin Real Estate Forums

?? I think we have discussed all sorts of things about homes, rents, Facebook, Zinga, Minga, Chinga and whatever, I am just imagining words.

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? But, when I see Redfinnians throwing questions after we/they sign the paperwork and become homeowners, I wonder where's that guy who lead us/them to the front of such home and like what everybody imagines "he/she" opens the home or makes you open the home and with that gallant attitude shows you the home that's going to be yours for the years to come. Your wife, or your girlfriend or your husband draws some tears like a Magdalena, even 911 is dialed to call the ambulance because such emotion is taking its toll on one of you

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? Wait, rewind back that movie please! I am going to start to tell our own story. Such movie doesn't exist or perhaps we are the exemption and not the rule.

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? After a month of anguish, we are exactly a year ago mad because the city had closed its offices due to the furlough. Then we hear there's going to be an additional % added to sales closed next year 2012, so in my stupidity we need to close now!

?? ?I call our realtor, he says he hasn't heard anything but it's in the news.

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?? We have had a amicable relationship with him. I think him and I are alike. We crack jokes, we tell stories about what we have witnessed in the RE market and so much. And, like me, I noticed he speaks more than what he knows.

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?? I remember we were offering on properties that weren't short sales or REO's but we were mentioning as a loan contingency a down payment assistance from the county which in its statues?said only to be used on those properties. He could have known that, right?

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? So, during the inspection, I noticed not only the walls on the kitchen peeling off (fresh paint, remember?) but I think?the inspectors, 2 of them, walked on the roof even though they put a disclaimer that they wouldn't risk their lives doing that and somehow walked on the carpets, leaving a trail of stains. Of course I made a video of that and the response from the seller agent was "no aesthetics/cosmetics" delivered in that property, something that threw me under the bus. Well I said, me a painter, easy job. But, I make sure my realtors knows the carpets need to be cleaned. He promises to let the other agent know they need to be cleaned.

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? So, January comes, in the middle of the month, Escrow has asked my wife to sign the paperwork, only waiting for the city to fund. It's a Wednesday, on Friday, I call our realtor and tell him to remind the seller's agent that the carpets are all messed up and need some cleaning. He promises to do so. Monday, right in the middle of the day I get the call from the realtor. My friend, he says, you own it, congratulations! Even though, I don't remember him saying that......Then, he says do me a favor, can you go to the house and pick up the keys, the code to open the box is xxxxxx. Then he tells me that being?our home from now on,?we needed to remember that some realtors still haven't gotten the idea of what "pending" means and they may be still showing the homes to others. So, thinking of any intentional damage by some delusional buyer, I go from our rental, 4-5 miles away to pick up the keys. I call my wife and she says she was called by him already. No surprise here, so, I keep the keys so we can go at 6:00 PM and take the famous "walk through" in the house with?our realtor. ?

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?? We show up at six, we wait, wait, wait, he shows up, his wife is in the front seat, she doesn't come down, she is kind of mad?even though she was all smiles when I used to see her at the office or at the flea market where I met them.

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? He doesn't say anything, I feel entitled to open the home, I am acting as the realtor you know. My wife walks in, then he does, he is 3 feet, in the middle of the landing place where the stairs are and next to the door going to the kitchen. Well, he says, how you like it? He doesn't move, he is there with his arms crossed over his chest. I say, let me see, and walk on the stairs, see the same spot I saw before and then the next and the next. We are talking about a quarter size coin stains, black, that bothered you if you saw them. Not a big deal, but a new carpet is a new carpet if you know what I mean.

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? So, he is still there, standing, tapping the floor with his shoe. He doesn't do any move showing us the will to symbolically walk through the home saying anything, I wouldn't care if it was the car salesman mantra. We knew what the house was, I think. So, he stays there, I go and right in front of him I asked him "what happened"? I go, I thought I called you to remind the seller that the carpet needed some cleaning? He makes this gesture of "what? They didn't do it"? So, after a few words of amicable tone, he promised to send his cleaning crew tomorrow to clean the stains.

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? Tuesday, I start to move things into the garage, I start to sand and prep the walls in the Kitchen, living room and the upstairs bathroom. The stains? Well, still there!

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? Same thing Wednesday, stains there! I called him and he, with this "cara dura" straight face tells me "sorry, my cleaning crew told me they can't clean brand new carpets".? Not a single promise, not a "I will pay you for the cost to clean it". We are still waiting for him to fulfill his promise. He has come twice to the house, once to see some issues, and second time for a big issue that's still is pending.

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? Last conversation we had is that they are willing to pay above $400K for this home, that's because I called him to find out how is the market. So, we didn't get a picture, an ornament, nothing as a token of appreciation nor a souvenir from him.

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? I opened this topic to remind you that's some times there's not that agent, realtor that they say it's going to stick?with you until the day you die. He will take care of you buying and selling, and in between he would come to cut the grass, feed the cat, and check for any problems at your home?when you're on vacation.

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? Of course, this is when you watch too many movies.

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?? Let's hear from you, shall we?

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?? Merry Christmas! no matter what your story or your experience!

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HP Envy 23-d060qd TouchSmart

The HP Envy 23-d060qd TouchSmart ($1,720 direct) is HP's latest evolution of its veteran all-in-one PC line. Filled to the brim with technology, the ENVY 23-060qd TouchSmart is a built-to-order system with a speedy quad-core processor, upgraded 3D graphics, loads of system memory, a huge hard drive, and that 1080p 10-finger touch screen. It has all the specs to keep a speeds-and-feeds nut drooling, but it also has the touch interface to take advantage of Windows 8 on a desktop. Competitors have narrowed the once vast lead HP had with its TouchSmart PCs, but HP shows that it can still produce very good touch PCs when you are willing to spend some of your hard-earned cash.

Design and Features
Sporting a design evolving from the older HP Omni 27-1015t, the ENVY 23-d060qd TouchSmart hops to the next logical step. Since Windows 8 on the desktop really only comes alive when paired with a touch screen, the ENVY 23-d060qd comes with a full 10-finger capacitive touch screen that's quick, responsive, and has a full edge-to-edge flush glass surface. This is an improvement over older optical touch screens like the one on the HP TouchSmart 620-1080 3D. That screen comes in with 1080p full HD 1,920-by-1,080 resolution, giving you the full screen you need when viewing HD videos online or using the included Blu-ray player. The screen can also be used with a game console like an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 using the included HDMI-in port.

The screen tilts back a decent amount, enough to make it easy to touch the screen from a seated or standing position, though it doesn't tilt back far enough for full time use. The older, more complex design on the HP 620-3D lets you use the touch screen full time. That said, the Envy 23-060qd does tilt back further than the Editors' Choice Asus ET2701INKI-B046C. Alleviating the Envy 23-d060qd's shorter tilt are the included wireless keyboard and mouse. You can use the mouse for precision tasks (like selecting text) and use the touch screen for broad navigation and Windows 8 gestures. The Envy 23-060qd's screen is rock steady while using the touch screen, something that can't be said for some laptops and desktops with touch screens.

In addition to the HDMI-in port and slot-loading Blu-ray drive on the right, the Envy 23-d060qd comes with a pair of USB 3.0 ports, audio jacks, and a SD card reader on the left. The system's four USB 2.0 ports, power, and Ethernet are on the system's back panel. The system uses an external power brick, so make sure you have space for it. We'd have preferred the four USB ports in the back to be USB 3.0 as well to alleviate confusion, but that said, having the USB 3.0 ports on the side are more convenient for connecting portable drives and USB memory keys. The headphone jack and speakers are Beats Audio branded, and sound from the speakers was sufficient for home office or den use. The system comes with a subwoofer-out port, which can be used with a third party subwoofer or HP's Pulse subwoofer ($130 list). In our testing, the HP Pulse subwoofer helps, but we'd deem it necessary only if you're using the Envy 23-d060qd as your primary entertainment source, like in a teen's bedroom, college dorm, or small apartment.

The system comes with a few added programs, including eBay, Snapfish (HP Connected Photo), and the like. They are mostly relegated to tiles in the Windows 8 interface, where they help populate that screen to make it less empty than a stock Win 8 system. There are a couple of icons on the desktop mode, but they are easily tossed in the recycle bin. Gone is HP's former TouchSmart mode, but new users probably won't miss that screen, as it was an added interface to make Windows Vista and Windows 7 more touch-friendly.

Performance
The Envy 23-d060qd comes with 12GB of DDR3 system memory (upgradable to 16GB), a 3TB 7,200rpm SATA hard drive, a quad core Intel Core i7-3770S processor, and 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 630M graphics. Though upgradable to 16GB of memory, you probably will never have to upgrade, as 12GB is certainly enough for home and enthusiast use for the 5 to 7 years you plan on keeping the Envy 23-d060qd. Likewise 3TB is enough to keep a family's photos, videos, and music together, any more and we'd suggest buying a NAS (network attached storage) drive to share your digital life with the family. The HP ENVY 23-d060qd's benchmark scores were decent, though they lagged slightly behind the former high-end Editors' Choice Dell XPS One 27 and the Asus ET2701INKI-B046C on the general PCMark 7 test, which tests day-to-day scenarios. The HP Envy was competitive with the current high-end Editors' Choice Apple iMac 27-inch (Late 2012) on the multimedia benchmark tests. The Envy 23-060qd should feel fast enough for most of its usable life.

The HP Envy 23-060qd TouchSmart comes in with most of the features that you'd want on a high end all-in-one desktop: a large 1080p HD screen, 10 finger touch, a large hard drive and lots of system memory that you won't have to upgrade anytime soon, wireless everything, and even a Blu-ray player for your movies. The USB 3.0 ports are convenient, and the screen is rock solid when used as a touch screen. However, systems that lean back closer to a flat angle like the older TouchSmart 620 3D are more comfortable for touch screen use full time. Plus, with the advent of Windows 8, other systems like the Asus Aspire 7600U (A7600U-UR308) are competitive on a usability basis, though the HP outclasses the Asus on the system memory, processor, and hard drive capacity fronts.

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MIT Research Shows New Magnetic State That Could Aid Quantum Computing

It kind of is. The magnetic field behaves like a liquid while the atomic structure is in a solid crystal.
So your "Type one" is the magnetic field is aligned with the atomic structure.
Your "Type two" is the magnetic field is aligned (cancelled out) with the atomic structure.
In this new type, the field is in a liquid state while the structure is solid.

Explain how that is not a different state. (by the way, there is no claim it is a new 'type of magnetism', it's about the state of it) It's also already been th

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