So you think cleanrooms are dead technology because the next iteration and advancement of clean room tech doesn't follow the exact same path? All you are describing is clean room compartmentalization and automation. We stand on the shoulders of giants, this new tech stands on the sholders of Willis.
Hi. Nice to meet you, Dana. I go by the name Sarten X, often represented with a hyphen.
When The global warming concerns were first being voiced, I was skeptical. Surely humans' influence couldn't be that severe? Then I started learning. I learned about how CO2 traps heat. I learned how human CO2 production has been increasing exponentially. I learned how small shifts in ocean temperatures put far more moisture into the air, producing more severe storms.
I learned too much to doubt. Even if half my knowledge turns out to be wrong, the other half still leads to the same conclusion: Our society is royally screwed because of global warming, and we're making it worse every day.
See, this is where I have trouble. I take the first jump, and do come to the conclusion that AGW is happening. Its the second jump that bothers me, that society is royally screwed. Looking at history, I am amazed at humanity's ability to respond to changes in the way we live, either man-made or naturally. Comparing 150 years ago to today is light night and day, and the rate of progress only continues to plow forward at breakneck pace. The focus is always on how expensive it will be to relocate or re-engineer coastal cities, and I'm not convinced this is an accurate way to measure the impact of GW. If you look at a city, any given building that doesn't exist for historical importance has either been built anew or heavily renovated in the past 100 or even 50 years. City relocation predictions tend to not weigh the costs of sustained society next to those of the proposed relocations. This is all aside from the fact that the change will be gradual, making trillion+ predictions alarmist in nature and not amortized so as to give us a clearer picture of the cost.
Cost vs. Benefit. That's what it boils down to for anyone who believes in AGW but doesn't agree with a massive societal restructuring to mitigate its effects. There is no extensive cost benefit analysis of the different paths, and there likely never will be because we're unsure of what technologies will make expensive things now trivial in 20-50 years. Hell, advances in AI and robotics alone could turn construction and scrapping into a trivial affair, as could breakthroughs in Fusion in regards to sustainable energy, or civil engineering techniques in coastal cities. I guess I've seen such a malleable society in history that I'm not worried about the changes that come, since change is the only thing that's constant and its not something we've found daunting in the past. Maybe I'm a short-sighted asshole for this? I don't know. What I do know is that being labeled a denier because I debate the response to AGW is assinine. The focus needs to be on people who refuse the science behind AGW, not the people debating humanity's reaction to it. Tieing action to beleif in AGW, turning this into an all or nothing debacle, is the #1 flaw in the AGW issue.
As much as I agree with the problems congress saddled on the post office, it doesn't need to me repeated 20 times in the same comment section and modded to +5 insightful every time. Repeating something louder and more often only serves to irritate, people who didnt get it the first or second time have their head in the sand anyway.
What did those 180,000 people do? Wait in line until it closed/they missed their flight, then try again another day? Decide not to fly?
They drove. Its a product of time and convenience, not necessity.
Local flights are no longer reasonable because of the large wait times associated with security theater. Say, for example, I wanted to fly from Charlotte to Atlanta. Great, get to the airport 2 hours early, sit on the tarmac for 20 minutes, fly for 40 minutes. 3 Hours, plus the 30 minute drive to the airport...OR I could just drive 4 hours there and have the convenience of a car, plus pay less in gas than I would for a plane ticket. Then you've got connecting flights, I drive to Toronto in 12 hours rather than fly in 6-7 and saved $350.
Problem is priorities, sir. People work through learning a sport and relationship struggles because they want something they can see further down the line. I listen to music to enjoy it and relax, unwind. Suffering through dissonant music when I'm trying to relax isn't my idea of enjoyment.
Such an excellent post, I'd mod you up if I could. I'd wager a heavy majority of music listeners do weigh what you mentioned, whether the music stands alone without the artists statement, whether they realize they are or not. I mostly prefer music that moves me simply through the sound, without understanding the message or the lyrics behind it, so the article makes perfect sense to me. Some others can't separate that from the philosophy and intellectual searching that can be associated with music, and thus have trouble with what the article is explaining.
A second idea I had was to alter the final-result file in a way that isn't obvious, like removing someone's shoelace, mis-spelling a word in the background, or removing/adding some dust-specks. (I know map publishers and music transcribers use this trick to catch copiers). But this still requires that she look for the alteration in each file.
Ummm, maybe I'm missing something here? She should be looking at the file, right? What's the harm in checking one little thing as she's looking at it? I mean, how else is she going to be sure they actually did it properly without checking it anyway? Zero solutions should allow her to skip checking the homework entirely, if it does, its kind of missing the point.
While the flat no-layered file is the obvious solution, it will have an unintended side effect of not acting as a fall-back guide for students who get stuck. I don't think she'll particularly save any time when she has more students needing individual help, whereas the sample will clearly show how certain things are done without intervention.
Can't look it up while at work, but if I recall it was a fundamental shift away from how graphics cards were made at the time. Theif came out back when Voodoos were still the shiznit, and we've come a long way since then.
This reminds me of the work some enthusiasts have done with old games. Due to fundamental changes in the way shaders are done by GPUs, Theif 1 and 2 look like a green mess of hot garbage if you try to play it on a modern comp. I dont know how it works, but someone made a little hack that feeds the shading requirements to the CPU instead of GPU and it works great. It allowed me to re-enjoy those great games again, and I applaud the work they put into it.
I work in the ports industry and have visibility into nationwide container movement. The issue here is an electronics manufacturing facility is going to be getting all its parts from asia, so youre going to have them come into LA, ship inland, then have to ship them to coastal cities because thats where all the big box dsitribution centers are. The inland rail depot competition collapsed in 2007 so most low pop locations are natural monopolies. While they are still cheaper than OTR, trucks movement more than 200 miles from a deep water terminal is expensive in its own right.
Yes, i was oversimplifying things in regards to those rail depots, but what Im getting at is they'd be doubling their distribution costs by going too far away froma population center. Given that this is likely to be highly automated, that offsets labor and construction cost savings by using one of those areas.
The notion that unions are corrupt, their members slothful knuckle-draggers, is political spin by the GOP and the business community which has unfortunately become common wisdom.
Sorry, but this has come from current major unions such as the UAW, ILA, and ILWU. It takes years, sometimes decades of negotiations to get technological improvements tp processes that have existed for decades overseas, and the guys get paid sometimes an order of magnitude more than their non-unionized white collar bosses to put twist locks in a corner. It is not a myth, it really does happen.
It cost more to rail a container from LA to NY than it does to ship it from China to NY. The rail networks are laid out in a way that there isn't much capacity for this 'flyover country.' Major rail lines connect LA, Chicago, Houston, and Newark. Everywhere not in close proximity to one of these cities is expensive as hell to ship to and from.
Call me crazy, but I've seen the opposite. Skype used to be utter shit on smartphones, now its been properly optimised to not constantly peg the processor and constantly send data. Skype has an indicator telling the other party you're typing that would devour mobile battery life because you're in constant communication with skype servers. Now its a push/pull system where it only pushes when you finish a message and only pulls when the skype server receives a message for you while you're logged in mobile. This was a MUCH needed optimisation and I'm glad they implemented it.
Not to be cynical, but we're talking about an order of magnitude difference here. The US has literally 10 times the number of people. Unfortunately, some things don't scale well.
I disagree as it was sold to me with that as advertised functionality, and one of the reasons i bought it (didnt want more boxes). Its analogous to the ps3 removing its OS access with an update, if anything. They can kiss my shiny metal ass and lost a big customer over trying to game the consumers with that legal stance you mentioned. As you well know, techies end up being the go to destinationfor family members looking for the right product, and i no longer like giving samsungs name out due to that shady business experience.
Samsung managed to piss me off with their bluray players. I was an early adopter and spent about $300 on one, and with subsequent firmware updates to play new movies, they had to re-purpose the memory used to playback DVDs for more bluray stuff because they didnt put enough into the product. So I had a choice, either play DVDs or be able to play new Blurays, not both. That's not what I bought and paid for. Long story short, they wanted to charge me $150 to "fix" it and were adamant in their stand. I managed to get two customer service reps to concede but they refused to confirm it and get it taken care of, when I called back they had no record of the call. So infuriating.
Tender walnut meat is a taste fit for the gods! I'll be making my Kentucky Derby pie for our Thanksgiving potluck in two weeks and I look forward to snacking on the leftover walnuts during the process.
Seriously though, if you're eating bitter walnuts you're not eating good walnuts. Walnuts are one of the least bitter nuts around.
Actually, that's not a bad idea. Might work better as a replacement for cargo ships
Boy oh boy, this is where industry knowledge separates the men from the boys. I just worked a file for a ship that had 180 million cargo pounds handled at one port, and it can carry about 250 million. There are also ships almost twice its size in operation today, and these are on a weekly rotation all over the world. There's some interesting calculations here for the mathematically inclined on how big the blimp would need to be. On the bright side, the bouyancy needed to airlift that kind of weight might solve our albedo issues though, what with the entire ocean being blotted out by blimps an all:)
The USPTO, with these bogus patents, is basically creating value out of nothing. I think the reason the gov't won't touch patent reform with a 10 foot pole is that the US economy doesn't produce anything anymore, and the destruction of this bogus value is the destruction of one of the only things the US produces anymore. Its like they think we can hoodwink the world into believing there's a significant value to 1-click and a stupid rubber band GUI effect. Yes, there's some value to these, but right now its grossly inflated by a few orders of magnitude by our broken patent system.
Just because its said loud enough and repeated by policymakers doesn't make it true. The longer this goes on, the more painful the bubble pop is going to be when someone like China stands their ground.
Human psychology tends to act as a barrier towards providing anyone an argument contrary to their held beliefs, regardless of reason or any provable basis of an argument. There have even been stories on slashdot about these studies and their results. Given this information, it is apparent that your choice in writing style and tone will have a greater effect on one reader demographic than another, for example a religious fellow or an atheist. Do you try to take this into account when you produce your works? Which impact is more important to you, reaching the skeptical believer or comforting the isolated and persecuted atheist?
I think I finally see why the Author's guild is protesting. They don't care about authors who aren't under their umbrella, and the existence of more publically available work not under their umbrella cuts them out of the pie. Its analogous to how Big Media negotiates with radio/etc for exclusivity, and they're only allowed to play their music.
I think the issue is that Apple has shown a propensity towards devaluing something others find valuable (minimize the freedom and openness of the computing industry). Most companies don't do this, but those that do are shunned in the same manner. Most people will respond negatively when they perceive something as negatively impacting their way of life, and Apple falls in this camp for many. Its annoying, but its an expected reaction to polarizing business model.
That's only given all civilizations started at roughly the same time. However, this isn't Civilization V. A space-faring race could have formed a contigous civilization several hundred thousands or millions of years ago, not a couple thousand years like ours. It might be the natural evolution of things at that point.
Its not the nutrients, its the caloric intake. If you eat the same thing every day, you have the same caloric intake every day. Your body adapts its metabolism to the fixed diet which results in it ending just above your needs due to our body's drive to create fat stores, which can result in weight gain. Calorie shifting is a well known technique for keeping off weight where you have a high calorie day and a low calorie day in your week, sometimes two of each, with different carb/protein/fat percentages for your day. It helps keep your metabolism higher than it would be if you evened it out because it doesn't allow your metabolism to settle into optimal efficiency, which lowers it.
Exercise is the same way. If you build muscle and do the same routine every day, your muscles adapt to the routine and it takes less work to get the routine done, because your body doesn't have to spend the energy re-adapting the muscles to the new activity (that painful soreness that comes with a new routine), and its the basis behind workout programs such as the popular P90X. The ad homenim attacks are unwarranted sir, I exercise 5-7 hours a week atm and am in tip top shape, prepping for the October mud run next week. I spent a lot of time optimizing my routines over the past several years and these have been most effective for when I want to get by with only 2-3 hours of exercise a week. They are endorsed by every trainer and nutritionist I've ever met.
This is a boarding gate, not an item at the security checkpoint. A false positive 15 minutes before takeoff is a pretty big deal because you might miss your flight or the flight might be delayed as a result.
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So you think cleanrooms are dead technology because the next iteration and advancement of clean room tech doesn't follow the exact same path? All you are describing is clean room compartmentalization and automation. We stand on the shoulders of giants, this new tech stands on the sholders of Willis.
Hi. Nice to meet you, Dana. I go by the name Sarten X, often represented with a hyphen.
When The global warming concerns were first being voiced, I was skeptical. Surely humans' influence couldn't be that severe? Then I started learning. I learned about how CO2 traps heat. I learned how human CO2 production has been increasing exponentially. I learned how small shifts in ocean temperatures put far more moisture into the air, producing more severe storms.
I learned too much to doubt. Even if half my knowledge turns out to be wrong, the other half still leads to the same conclusion: Our society is royally screwed because of global warming, and we're making it worse every day.
See, this is where I have trouble. I take the first jump, and do come to the conclusion that AGW is happening. Its the second jump that bothers me, that society is royally screwed. Looking at history, I am amazed at humanity's ability to respond to changes in the way we live, either man-made or naturally. Comparing 150 years ago to today is light night and day, and the rate of progress only continues to plow forward at breakneck pace. The focus is always on how expensive it will be to relocate or re-engineer coastal cities, and I'm not convinced this is an accurate way to measure the impact of GW. If you look at a city, any given building that doesn't exist for historical importance has either been built anew or heavily renovated in the past 100 or even 50 years. City relocation predictions tend to not weigh the costs of sustained society next to those of the proposed relocations. This is all aside from the fact that the change will be gradual, making trillion+ predictions alarmist in nature and not amortized so as to give us a clearer picture of the cost.
Cost vs. Benefit. That's what it boils down to for anyone who believes in AGW but doesn't agree with a massive societal restructuring to mitigate its effects. There is no extensive cost benefit analysis of the different paths, and there likely never will be because we're unsure of what technologies will make expensive things now trivial in 20-50 years. Hell, advances in AI and robotics alone could turn construction and scrapping into a trivial affair, as could breakthroughs in Fusion in regards to sustainable energy, or civil engineering techniques in coastal cities. I guess I've seen such a malleable society in history that I'm not worried about the changes that come, since change is the only thing that's constant and its not something we've found daunting in the past. Maybe I'm a short-sighted asshole for this? I don't know. What I do know is that being labeled a denier because I debate the response to AGW is assinine. The focus needs to be on people who refuse the science behind AGW, not the people debating humanity's reaction to it. Tieing action to beleif in AGW, turning this into an all or nothing debacle, is the #1 flaw in the AGW issue.
As much as I agree with the problems congress saddled on the post office, it doesn't need to me repeated 20 times in the same comment section and modded to +5 insightful every time. Repeating something louder and more often only serves to irritate, people who didnt get it the first or second time have their head in the sand anyway.
What did those 180,000 people do? Wait in line until it closed/they missed their flight, then try again another day? Decide not to fly?
They drove. Its a product of time and convenience, not necessity.
Local flights are no longer reasonable because of the large wait times associated with security theater. Say, for example, I wanted to fly from Charlotte to Atlanta. Great, get to the airport 2 hours early, sit on the tarmac for 20 minutes, fly for 40 minutes. 3 Hours, plus the 30 minute drive to the airport...OR I could just drive 4 hours there and have the convenience of a car, plus pay less in gas than I would for a plane ticket. Then you've got connecting flights, I drive to Toronto in 12 hours rather than fly in 6-7 and saved $350.
Problem is priorities, sir. People work through learning a sport and relationship struggles because they want something they can see further down the line. I listen to music to enjoy it and relax, unwind. Suffering through dissonant music when I'm trying to relax isn't my idea of enjoyment.
Such an excellent post, I'd mod you up if I could. I'd wager a heavy majority of music listeners do weigh what you mentioned, whether the music stands alone without the artists statement, whether they realize they are or not. I mostly prefer music that moves me simply through the sound, without understanding the message or the lyrics behind it, so the article makes perfect sense to me. Some others can't separate that from the philosophy and intellectual searching that can be associated with music, and thus have trouble with what the article is explaining.
A second idea I had was to alter the final-result file in a way that isn't obvious, like removing someone's shoelace, mis-spelling a word in the background, or removing/adding some dust-specks. (I know map publishers and music transcribers use this trick to catch copiers). But this still requires that she look for the alteration in each file.
Ummm, maybe I'm missing something here? She should be looking at the file, right? What's the harm in checking one little thing as she's looking at it? I mean, how else is she going to be sure they actually did it properly without checking it anyway? Zero solutions should allow her to skip checking the homework entirely, if it does, its kind of missing the point.
While the flat no-layered file is the obvious solution, it will have an unintended side effect of not acting as a fall-back guide for students who get stuck. I don't think she'll particularly save any time when she has more students needing individual help, whereas the sample will clearly show how certain things are done without intervention.
Can't look it up while at work, but if I recall it was a fundamental shift away from how graphics cards were made at the time. Theif came out back when Voodoos were still the shiznit, and we've come a long way since then.
This reminds me of the work some enthusiasts have done with old games. Due to fundamental changes in the way shaders are done by GPUs, Theif 1 and 2 look like a green mess of hot garbage if you try to play it on a modern comp. I dont know how it works, but someone made a little hack that feeds the shading requirements to the CPU instead of GPU and it works great. It allowed me to re-enjoy those great games again, and I applaud the work they put into it.
I work in the ports industry and have visibility into nationwide container movement. The issue here is an electronics manufacturing facility is going to be getting all its parts from asia, so youre going to have them come into LA, ship inland, then have to ship them to coastal cities because thats where all the big box dsitribution centers are. The inland rail depot competition collapsed in 2007 so most low pop locations are natural monopolies. While they are still cheaper than OTR, trucks movement more than 200 miles from a deep water terminal is expensive in its own right.
Yes, i was oversimplifying things in regards to those rail depots, but what Im getting at is they'd be doubling their distribution costs by going too far away froma population center. Given that this is likely to be highly automated, that offsets labor and construction cost savings by using one of those areas.
The notion that unions are corrupt, their members slothful knuckle-draggers, is political spin by the GOP and the business community which has unfortunately become common wisdom.
Sorry, but this has come from current major unions such as the UAW, ILA, and ILWU. It takes years, sometimes decades of negotiations to get technological improvements tp processes that have existed for decades overseas, and the guys get paid sometimes an order of magnitude more than their non-unionized white collar bosses to put twist locks in a corner. It is not a myth, it really does happen.
It cost more to rail a container from LA to NY than it does to ship it from China to NY. The rail networks are laid out in a way that there isn't much capacity for this 'flyover country.' Major rail lines connect LA, Chicago, Houston, and Newark. Everywhere not in close proximity to one of these cities is expensive as hell to ship to and from.
Call me crazy, but I've seen the opposite. Skype used to be utter shit on smartphones, now its been properly optimised to not constantly peg the processor and constantly send data. Skype has an indicator telling the other party you're typing that would devour mobile battery life because you're in constant communication with skype servers. Now its a push/pull system where it only pushes when you finish a message and only pulls when the skype server receives a message for you while you're logged in mobile. This was a MUCH needed optimisation and I'm glad they implemented it.
Not to be cynical, but we're talking about an order of magnitude difference here. The US has literally 10 times the number of people. Unfortunately, some things don't scale well.
I disagree as it was sold to me with that as advertised functionality, and one of the reasons i bought it (didnt want more boxes). Its analogous to the ps3 removing its OS access with an update, if anything. They can kiss my shiny metal ass and lost a big customer over trying to game the consumers with that legal stance you mentioned. As you well know, techies end up being the go to destinationfor family members looking for the right product, and i no longer like giving samsungs name out due to that shady business experience.
Samsung managed to piss me off with their bluray players. I was an early adopter and spent about $300 on one, and with subsequent firmware updates to play new movies, they had to re-purpose the memory used to playback DVDs for more bluray stuff because they didnt put enough into the product. So I had a choice, either play DVDs or be able to play new Blurays, not both. That's not what I bought and paid for. Long story short, they wanted to charge me $150 to "fix" it and were adamant in their stand. I managed to get two customer service reps to concede but they refused to confirm it and get it taken care of, when I called back they had no record of the call. So infuriating.
Tender walnut meat is a taste fit for the gods! I'll be making my Kentucky Derby pie for our Thanksgiving potluck in two weeks and I look forward to snacking on the leftover walnuts during the process.
Seriously though, if you're eating bitter walnuts you're not eating good walnuts. Walnuts are one of the least bitter nuts around.
Actually, that's not a bad idea. Might work better as a replacement for cargo ships
Boy oh boy, this is where industry knowledge separates the men from the boys. I just worked a file for a ship that had 180 million cargo pounds handled at one port, and it can carry about 250 million. There are also ships almost twice its size in operation today, and these are on a weekly rotation all over the world. There's some interesting calculations here for the mathematically inclined on how big the blimp would need to be. On the bright side, the bouyancy needed to airlift that kind of weight might solve our albedo issues though, what with the entire ocean being blotted out by blimps an all :)
The USPTO, with these bogus patents, is basically creating value out of nothing. I think the reason the gov't won't touch patent reform with a 10 foot pole is that the US economy doesn't produce anything anymore, and the destruction of this bogus value is the destruction of one of the only things the US produces anymore. Its like they think we can hoodwink the world into believing there's a significant value to 1-click and a stupid rubber band GUI effect. Yes, there's some value to these, but right now its grossly inflated by a few orders of magnitude by our broken patent system.
Just because its said loud enough and repeated by policymakers doesn't make it true. The longer this goes on, the more painful the bubble pop is going to be when someone like China stands their ground.
Human psychology tends to act as a barrier towards providing anyone an argument contrary to their held beliefs, regardless of reason or any provable basis of an argument. There have even been stories on slashdot about these studies and their results. Given this information, it is apparent that your choice in writing style and tone will have a greater effect on one reader demographic than another, for example a religious fellow or an atheist. Do you try to take this into account when you produce your works? Which impact is more important to you, reaching the skeptical believer or comforting the isolated and persecuted atheist?
I think I finally see why the Author's guild is protesting. They don't care about authors who aren't under their umbrella, and the existence of more publically available work not under their umbrella cuts them out of the pie. Its analogous to how Big Media negotiates with radio/etc for exclusivity, and they're only allowed to play their music.
I think the issue is that Apple has shown a propensity towards devaluing something others find valuable (minimize the freedom and openness of the computing industry). Most companies don't do this, but those that do are shunned in the same manner. Most people will respond negatively when they perceive something as negatively impacting their way of life, and Apple falls in this camp for many. Its annoying, but its an expected reaction to polarizing business model.
That's only given all civilizations started at roughly the same time. However, this isn't Civilization V. A space-faring race could have formed a contigous civilization several hundred thousands or millions of years ago, not a couple thousand years like ours. It might be the natural evolution of things at that point.
Its not the nutrients, its the caloric intake. If you eat the same thing every day, you have the same caloric intake every day. Your body adapts its metabolism to the fixed diet which results in it ending just above your needs due to our body's drive to create fat stores, which can result in weight gain. Calorie shifting is a well known technique for keeping off weight where you have a high calorie day and a low calorie day in your week, sometimes two of each, with different carb/protein/fat percentages for your day. It helps keep your metabolism higher than it would be if you evened it out because it doesn't allow your metabolism to settle into optimal efficiency, which lowers it.
Exercise is the same way. If you build muscle and do the same routine every day, your muscles adapt to the routine and it takes less work to get the routine done, because your body doesn't have to spend the energy re-adapting the muscles to the new activity (that painful soreness that comes with a new routine), and its the basis behind workout programs such as the popular P90X. The ad homenim attacks are unwarranted sir, I exercise 5-7 hours a week atm and am in tip top shape, prepping for the October mud run next week. I spent a lot of time optimizing my routines over the past several years and these have been most effective for when I want to get by with only 2-3 hours of exercise a week. They are endorsed by every trainer and nutritionist I've ever met.
Why should the false positive rate be so low?
This is a boarding gate, not an item at the security checkpoint. A false positive 15 minutes before takeoff is a pretty big deal because you might miss your flight or the flight might be delayed as a result.