Typically road wear is estimated as proportional to mass^4. So that 40 ton semi truck is causing about 500K times the wear as your 3000 pound car. Automobile traffic (even SUV traffic) has an essentially negligible effect on highway wear.
Just for fun take a look at the pavement around bus stops in your town (if you have buses) and notice the amount of wear.
Think of it as "Upload me" and "Original me". They're both you. Original I would care about Upload me and Upload I would care about Original me. Even given weak posthumanity (where Upload I would simply run much faster than Original I, instead of developing qualitatively more powerful reasoning) the opportunities for collaboration are incredible.
But that's all academic. I think the first uploads will be destructively scanned cryo patients and upgraded live humans. I don't think we're ever really going to have to deal with the issue of copying.
Turns out your eyes evolved to be exposed to visible radiation from a giant nuclear furnace in the sky. Not only that, but people used to spend *all day* outside. I know it's probably hard for some people here to imagine.
Self-assembly is probably a long way away. But an automated 'Assembler' that can create many structures (at least diamondoid structures) is most likely completely feasible. The physics and chemistry have been laid out rather well in Eric Drexler's excellent 'Nanosystems'. Noone, including Dr. Smalley, has so far managed to provide any evidence that Drexler's assembler is not feasible.
Of course, self-assembly is more difficult. For the initial assemblers, raw material processing, waste processing (what little there will be), energy gathering, etc. will all be more easily solved as seperate, bulk mechanical systems (although potentially perfectly manufactured by an assembler).
As an aside, Nanosystems also goes into some detail on failure mechanisms and failure rates. You can expect nanomanufactured artifacts to have extremely long lifetimes, especially for human-scale devices.
Libre, Gratis, and Commercial. If there is some person actively managing the software, good for them if they can actively control the development instead of it being an uncontrolled free-for-all. More people will want to use a small, well-built system than one with hundreds of poorly-tested features donated and used by only one developer.
Minimization of CNS Effects and Abuse Potential
Your promotional materials5 present claims that "Provigil promotes wakefulness without widespread CNS stimulation in preclinical models"
and "Low abuse potential" to suggest that Provigil does not have
CNS properties that may lead to abuse and are common to other scheduled
stimulants or stimulant-like drugs. The claim is misleading because it is
inconsistent with the Pl. The PI states, "[t]he abuse potential of
modafanil (200, 400, and 800mg) was assessed relative to methylphenidate
(45 and 90mg) in an inpatient study in individuals experienced with drugs
of abuse. Results from this clinical study demonstrated that modafanil
produced psychoactive and euphoric effects and feelings consistent with
other scheduled CNS stimulants (methylphenidate)." Furthermore,
presenting data from pre-clinical models is not considered substantial
evidence to support efficacy claims.
Apart from the delicious irony of a bacon bagel, there is no better food than eggs fried in lard.
I personally prefer Fatty-Bomb Lard Pops (TM), made with congealed fat and fat products extracted from over 30 different kinds of meats, primarily lard and tallow, with none of that vile, tasteless vegetable oil. Not only are Fatty-Bomb Lard Pops (TM) the ultimate in flavor, they can be used to lubricate skis, door hinges, jet engines, cigarette rolling machines, and tape recorders; AND they make a fine laxative suppository. Nothing beats a Fatty-Bomb Lard Pop (TM)!
"When the 0.13 micron chips come out, they will crush the Pentium 4. Right now the best Athlon is neck and neck with the best Pentium 4, and the Pentium 4 has the benefit of a 0.13 micron process (i.e. a much higher clock rate)."
Does the process really matter if they are "neck and neck"? If the best Athlon is as fast as the best P4, buy the damn Athlon.
The Rubberhose encrypted filesystem might be more suitable for individuals.
Read about it at www.rubberhose.org. It's primary feature is deniability, (from their web page)
Rubberhose is a computer program which both transparently encrypts data on a
storage device, such as a hard drive, and allows you to hide that encrypted
data. Unlike conventional disk encryption systems,
Rubberhose is the first successful,
freely available, practical program of deniable cryptography in the world.
It was released in an earlier form in 1997, but has undergone significant
changes since that time. The design goal has been to make Rubberhose
the most efficient conventional disk encryption system, while also offering
the new feature of information hiding.
Rubberhose is a type of deniable cryptography package.
Deniable cryptography gives a person not wanting to disclose the plaintext data
corresponding to their encrypted material the ability to show
that there is more than one interpretation of the encrypted data. What
deniable crypto means in the Rubberhose context is this: if someone grabs
your Rubberhose-encrypted hard drive, he or she will know there is encrypted material
on it, but not how much -- thus allowing you to hide the existence of some of
your data.
Arrgh, have you ever actually built a large program?
How about this?
class Proxy
{
private ProxiedObject target;
public int size {
get {
return target.size;
}
set {
target.size = value;
}
}
}
proxy.size *= 2;
Now how nice is that? There are numerous and sundry uses for properties. I didn't know about them until I read that article and they alone are going to make me learn C#. Network, database, and adapter pattern proxying, transparent access to calculated values, all are extremely useful tools which I am dying to use. Any programmer whose life is not simplified by this is not a professional programmer, IMHO.
It seems that if current expiremental reactors are producing just more energy than is put in (say maybe 1.1x), this new reactor will produce four times the energy (4.4x) with a net energy gain of ((4.4-1)/(1.1-1)) or 34 times more usable output energy. This seems like a pretty major breakthrough.
If you were the (probably male) artist, wouldn't it be much for interesting to work on an anatomically correct model than one that's not? At least in the game industry, every 3D game I've worked on has had anatomically correct models at one point or another.
To be a good designer, you must play a lot of games. Be able to identify game aspects that don't appeal to you, indicate why they are unappealing, and offer corrections. Also, having a large store of game design ideas from past designers will serve you well.
Good game design is also in large part psychology and deep knowledge of human nature. To keep them playing the game, you need to be able to anticipate the effect of game design decisions on the user's emotional response and keep them emotionally involved by manipulating their primitive urges and reactions (greed, wonder, frustration, etc.).
If you have these skills, you should probably go into whatever degree plan will best help you do design. The gaming industry is (thankfully) not as degree-oriented as a lot of other IT industries, so you probably want to go to school to learn and party (or play LAN games:) )
And finally, design games. Build a portfolio - do a simple, but complete, game design and apply around.
You misunderstand the progressive tax. All of your income is not taxed at the same rate. Given the following fictional tax scheme:
Income/Tax
up to 10,000/5%
up to 100,000/10%
up to 1,000,000/20%
over 1,000,000/30%
The first 10,000 you make is taxed at 5%, or $500.
The next 90,000 (100,000 - 10,000) is taxed at 10%, the next 900,000 (1M - 100K) is taxed at 20%. So if you make $101,000 you are taxed at
5% of 10,000 - $500
10% of 90,000 - $9000
and 20% of 1,000 - $200
for a total tax of $9700. By your calculation the tax would be $20,200, which is not the way it works.
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Typically road wear is estimated as proportional to mass^4. So that 40 ton semi truck is causing about 500K times the wear as your 3000 pound car. Automobile traffic (even SUV traffic) has an essentially negligible effect on highway wear.
Just for fun take a look at the pavement around bus stops in your town (if you have buses) and notice the amount of wear.
Of course, we could fish to extinction the fish needed to feed all of those shrimp.
There wasn't really a sentence there in the middle.
Think of it as "Upload me" and "Original me". They're both you. Original I would care about Upload me and Upload I would care about Original me. Even given weak posthumanity (where Upload I would simply run much faster than Original I, instead of developing qualitatively more powerful reasoning) the opportunities for collaboration are incredible.
But that's all academic. I think the first uploads will be destructively scanned cryo patients and upgraded live humans. I don't think we're ever really going to have to deal with the issue of copying.
Turns out your eyes evolved to be exposed to visible radiation from a giant nuclear furnace in the sky. Not only that, but people used to spend *all day* outside. I know it's probably hard for some people here to imagine.
Self-assembly is probably a long way away. But an automated 'Assembler' that can create many structures (at least diamondoid structures) is most likely completely feasible. The physics and chemistry have been laid out rather well in Eric Drexler's excellent 'Nanosystems'. Noone, including Dr. Smalley, has so far managed to provide any evidence that Drexler's assembler is not feasible.
Of course, self-assembly is more difficult. For the initial assemblers, raw material processing, waste processing (what little there will be), energy gathering, etc. will all be more easily solved as seperate, bulk mechanical systems (although potentially perfectly manufactured by an assembler).
As an aside, Nanosystems also goes into some detail on failure mechanisms and failure rates. You can expect nanomanufactured artifacts to have extremely long lifetimes, especially for human-scale devices.
try
google/search?q=your+query
Libre, Gratis, and Commercial. If there is some person actively managing the software, good for them if they can actively control the development instead of it being an uncontrolled free-for-all. More people will want to use a small, well-built system than one with hundreds of poorly-tested features donated and used by only one developer.
Nanomanufacturing could create perfectly spherical containment vessels.
Minimization of CNS Effects and Abuse Potential Your promotional materials5 present claims that "Provigil promotes wakefulness without widespread CNS stimulation in preclinical models" and "Low abuse potential" to suggest that Provigil does not have CNS properties that may lead to abuse and are common to other scheduled stimulants or stimulant-like drugs. The claim is misleading because it is inconsistent with the Pl. The PI states, "[t]he abuse potential of modafanil (200, 400, and 800mg) was assessed relative to methylphenidate (45 and 90mg) in an inpatient study in individuals experienced with drugs of abuse. Results from this clinical study demonstrated that modafanil produced psychoactive and euphoric effects and feelings consistent with other scheduled CNS stimulants (methylphenidate)." Furthermore, presenting data from pre-clinical models is not considered substantial evidence to support efficacy claims.
That should be "wont to do"
Mod this up. This is the first I've seen of it and if it's true it's something that should be made known.
Apart from the delicious irony of a bacon bagel, there is no better food than eggs fried in lard.
I personally prefer Fatty-Bomb Lard Pops (TM), made with congealed fat and fat products extracted from over 30 different kinds of meats, primarily lard and tallow, with none of that vile, tasteless vegetable oil. Not only are Fatty-Bomb Lard Pops (TM) the ultimate in flavor, they can be used to lubricate skis, door hinges, jet engines, cigarette rolling machines, and tape recorders; AND they make a fine laxative suppository. Nothing beats a Fatty-Bomb Lard Pop (TM)!
That's Nigh Invulnerable, my friend.
"When the 0.13 micron chips come out, they will crush the Pentium 4. Right now the best Athlon is neck and neck with the best Pentium 4, and the Pentium 4 has the benefit of a 0.13 micron process (i.e. a much higher clock rate)."
Does the process really matter if they are "neck and neck"? If the best Athlon is as fast as the best P4, buy the damn Athlon.
The Rubberhose encrypted filesystem might be more suitable for individuals.
Read about it at www.rubberhose.org. It's primary feature is deniability, (from their web page)
Rubberhose is a computer program which both transparently encrypts data on a storage device, such as a hard drive, and allows you to hide that encrypted data. Unlike conventional disk encryption systems, Rubberhose is the first successful, freely available, practical program of deniable cryptography in the world. It was released in an earlier form in 1997, but has undergone significant changes since that time. The design goal has been to make Rubberhose the most efficient conventional disk encryption system, while also offering the new feature of information hiding.
Rubberhose is a type of deniable cryptography package. Deniable cryptography gives a person not wanting to disclose the plaintext data corresponding to their encrypted material the ability to show that there is more than one interpretation of the encrypted data. What deniable crypto means in the Rubberhose context is this: if someone grabs your Rubberhose-encrypted hard drive, he or she will know there is encrypted material on it, but not how much -- thus allowing you to hide the existence of some of your data.Arrgh, have you ever actually built a large program?
How about this?
class Proxy
{
private ProxiedObject target;
public int size {
get {
return target.size;
}
set {
target.size = value;
}
}
}
proxy.size *= 2;
Now how nice is that? There are numerous and sundry uses for properties. I didn't know about them until I read that article and they alone are going to make me learn C#. Network, database, and adapter pattern proxying, transparent access to calculated values, all are extremely useful tools which I am dying to use. Any programmer whose life is not simplified by this is not a professional programmer, IMHO.
Acy
An Heirloom fruit or vegetable is one that breeds true from seed and self-pollinates, as opposed to a hybrid.
It seems that if current expiremental reactors are producing just more energy than is put in (say maybe 1.1x), this new reactor will produce four times the energy (4.4x) with a net energy gain of ((4.4-1)/(1.1-1)) or 34 times more usable output energy. This seems like a pretty major breakthrough.
If you were the (probably male) artist, wouldn't it be much for interesting to work on an anatomically correct model than one that's not? At least in the game industry, every 3D game I've worked on has had anatomically correct models at one point or another.
Enough of that, Jar-jar.
To be a good designer, you must play a lot of games. Be able to identify game aspects that don't appeal to you, indicate why they are unappealing, and offer corrections. Also, having a large store of game design ideas from past designers will serve you well.
:) )
Good game design is also in large part psychology and deep knowledge of human nature. To keep them playing the game, you need to be able to anticipate the effect of game design decisions on the user's emotional response and keep them emotionally involved by manipulating their primitive urges and reactions (greed, wonder, frustration, etc.).
If you have these skills, you should probably go into whatever degree plan will best help you do design. The gaming industry is (thankfully) not as degree-oriented as a lot of other IT industries, so you probably want to go to school to learn and party (or play LAN games
And finally, design games. Build a portfolio - do a simple, but complete, game design and apply around.
Guess there's a use now for aluminum foil hats. How long after this comes into effect until someone starts making clothes with sewn-in wire mesh?
SPOON!
You misunderstand the progressive tax. All of your income is not taxed at the same rate. Given the following fictional tax scheme:
Income/Tax
up to 10,000/5%
up to 100,000/10%
up to 1,000,000/20%
over 1,000,000/30%
The first 10,000 you make is taxed at 5%, or $500.
The next 90,000 (100,000 - 10,000) is taxed at 10%, the next 900,000 (1M - 100K) is taxed at 20%. So if you make $101,000 you are taxed at
5% of 10,000 - $500
10% of 90,000 - $9000
and 20% of 1,000 - $200
for a total tax of $9700. By your calculation the tax would be $20,200, which is not the way it works.