I agree with your sentiment in regards to hand-held communicators - but I believe that a headset is less distracting and in fact might slow drivers down. This has happened for me, I am in a good conversation and I find that my speed has decreased and that I am a more stable element in the system as a result.
It is my thought that the reason cell phone usage is associated with collisions is because the driver is literally juggling the handset. It is the fact that the driver is being physically overloaded by manipulating a clumsy device.
After all, I have no recollection of mere conversation being considered an undue safety risk in regards to driving.
Arguments, perhaps, but mere conversation? I think a good chat may actually help individuals stay awake and more alert.
No matter how dumb an idea is from upper management, try to put a positive spin on it to your employees, but if it's truly stupid then gripe like hell about it to your boss!
That's interesting. I had A Franklin Apple clone running an 8bit bus at 1Mhz. Now, my maths aren't the best so I might be missing some variable here, but I'm guessing that's about 8Mbits of data per second.
I know bauds and bits don't line up exactly, but if I'm right then my 10Mb dsl can indeed move more data (at least down).
I guess then that we are just entering the realm of bona fide internet buses.
There are benefits to be gotten from both a served-software model and a standard local model, so why not use something like google gears and get the best of both worlds.
Even if you are off the internet at large, we are getting into an age where a personal area network will become ubiquitous. Served-software would still be available from, say, your phone as the server (always keep the gears software on your phone ready for load) or maybe your bluetooth watch could maintain local copies of frequently used software.
While at some remote location you might be lucky to find that a colleague has a local copy of a certain, rarely used software on their wristwatch.
Then again, it is something to think about that within 20 years will it be as unusual to find oneself without internet access as it is to find oneself without electricity...perhaps it will be even more unusual than that (what with satellite communication).
Just thoughts.
It is interesting to note how much more bandwidth my internet connection has as compared to my first computer's bus speed.
That's the beauty and the bane about neutrinos, isn't it? No interference in transmission, and yet no way to detect them as a result. But here in this article they explicitly say "real-time" detection.
To me, that is the first step. There must be a way to grab these damn useful phantom particles:)
I'm going to wax somewhat sci-fi here and imagine that detection in real-time of neutrinos might have potential application in regards to communication tech.
In my view I see the ability to detect neutrinos as the first step towards a truly peerless communication system. Imagine that instead of radio waves one were to use neutrino emissions for communication. There would be no (or very little) interference (pass straight through any material) and subsequently the latency of communication from any point on the globe would be decided by the diameter not the circumference of the com point's positions on the earth - meaning that communication delays would be greatly reduced.
Imagine if any communications device could simply connect directly to any other device on the planet at low-latency with high-signal strength - wouldn't that be neat!
It's always refreshing to find someone posting one's exact thoughts and sentiments.
This is certainly an opportunity for the creators, here. This world of today is so concerned with cash that we seem to forget the value of things which do not produce cash.
Really, those like the FSF, Creative Commons and the EFF should in fact be sponsoring these kind of productions. That would then be genuine revenue for the creators.
How elegant it seems to me, sending visual information in packets of light. It reminds me of seeds of some beautiful flower which instantly sprout when planted.
I wonder, if one were to send a one minute stream of uncompressed video data, would more photons be required for the transmission over the fiber, or in the final display to the user/viewer?
We have domesticated so many animals, and done a pretty good job of it too, apparently. To me, wiping out the little-guys was never an option - there is just no way that we could hope to kill all diseases. Only by "domesticating" the harmful microbes can we hope to avoid the plagues and pandemics these germs have created in our massive and highly-connected populace. Also, as shown by this example, we can have our friendly mico-life (if a virus can be called living) remedy diseases caused by non-living entities (plaques and such).
I see this new research both as a concrete example of exactly how far our bioengineering has come as well as a reminder of how ancient this field truly is.
I was just talking with my friend about desktop fabrication and we came upon the topic of using metals rather than plastics.
I proposed that it may be possible to have two canisters of particle-ized metals which could perhaps be alloyed together on a very small scale. This could be done using a standard 3D fabrication gantry system and some kind of micro-sized welding nozzle head thingy.
Seeing a desktop cutting laser made me consider that this might work very well as the welding method - rather than electric arc-welding or gas: how could you even miniaturize those?
this may sound off topic at first, but I think I have a relevant observation - please bear with me.
I was in a parking lot at a local shopping center the other day. I saw a person come speeding out of a lane and almost hit another car. There was screeching brakes, blaring horns and unfriendly exchanges between drivers, but there was no collision.
This got me thinking: have I ever seen a collision in a parking lot? Of course they happen, but neither my wife nor I could recall having ever seen one. I would propose that collisions are more common (statistically) on the road.
One could assume that because parking lots are slow-driving zones that drivers have more time to react to situations. I would propose, however, that it is the lack of explicit (imo overwhelming) signage and laws which allow (force) people to take responsibility for themselves. People need to negotiate between each other without the ability to hide behind a stop sign or a no-u-turn sign.
My point is that I think laws are good to a point: after that point laws will become burdens to the very safety they were created to protect.
I applaud any action which intends to help the current nutty copyright situation, however I think adding more laws ("signs") would only cause more collisions, ultimately.
In this case a ruling is overturned (if I'm not totally off, it was essentially done-away-with) which would seem to result in less law. As per my above observation, I think this is good.
I am the middle child, but my older sister is 12 years older than me, and my older brother 17 years older.
It is interesting here: my younger sis is only a year behind me, followed by similar spacing for my younger bro and then youngest sis (large fam).
I think this would make me a hybrid. I am the oldest of a cluster of 4 closely-spaced siblings, with two older siblings more than a decade ahead of me.
I don't ask this implying that it must be water, but rather I ask for more speculations. I wonder, maybe these are massive collections of opalite.
So much is known about mars: but this of course means that so little is known as well. The planet is harsher, and yet less harsh, than anywhere on earth. There is little atmosphere, so the whole breathing situation is much harsher, yet because of this fact 100km winds would fail to move a tent.
I think it's important to guess and wonder about things.
Personally, I hope it is water and that inside is a vast civilization of nano-sized intelligent beings. I hope one day they look up at the sky and witness a gargantuan machine staring down at them.
Correct me where I'm wrong here, but I believe animal bodies have developed some pretty good ways of dealing with radiation over the eons. I know my skin does a fair job of managing UV radiation - though I will probably be darkening it when the therapy is available.
I wonder, has the antioxidant level in the plant life been measured? How much research is there in regards to long-term, lower-dose radiation exposure not just to individual organisms, but to ecosystems. Ecosystems are like massive organisms themselves.
I would think that selective pressures are probably biting at the bit to get working on increasing tolerance in populations inhabiting these no-man-lands.
To me this is exciting. Imagine, hundreds of years from now this cavern may be visited by our descendants, and they will probably be just as crazy as we are today and thus will do things like this.
Ah, the future. I really want to stick around to see as much of it as possible!
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You're right - I just want to use something other than an analogy for once! ;)
Why is it too much to ask that if you like the CD, you pay the money?
Is it too much to ask that if you pay $50+ for a concert ticket that you get a free CD (free music)?
It is my thoughts that music is a service, not a product, and that artists should be payed to perform these services, not to create false products.
I agree with your sentiment in regards to hand-held communicators - but I believe that a headset is less distracting and in fact might slow drivers down. This has happened for me, I am in a good conversation and I find that my speed has decreased and that I am a more stable element in the system as a result.
It is my thought that the reason cell phone usage is associated with collisions is because the driver is literally juggling the handset. It is the fact that the driver is being physically overloaded by manipulating a clumsy device.
After all, I have no recollection of mere conversation being considered an undue safety risk in regards to driving.
Arguments, perhaps, but mere conversation? I think a good chat may actually help individuals stay awake and more alert.
Just my thoughts.
I wonder if what you just said could be a metaphor for the observer of a system changing the state?
My favorite bit of wisdom of a superior:
"Gripes go up, not down, always up."
No matter how dumb an idea is from upper management, try to put a positive spin on it to your employees, but if it's truly stupid then gripe like hell about it to your boss!
That's interesting. I had A Franklin Apple clone running an 8bit bus at 1Mhz. Now, my maths aren't the best so I might be missing some variable here, but I'm guessing that's about 8Mbits of data per second.
I know bauds and bits don't line up exactly, but if I'm right then my 10Mb dsl can indeed move more data (at least down).
I guess then that we are just entering the realm of bona fide internet buses.
There are benefits to be gotten from both a served-software model and a standard local model, so why not use something like google gears and get the best of both worlds.
Even if you are off the internet at large, we are getting into an age where a personal area network will become ubiquitous. Served-software would still be available from, say, your phone as the server (always keep the gears software on your phone ready for load) or maybe your bluetooth watch could maintain local copies of frequently used software.
While at some remote location you might be lucky to find that a colleague has a local copy of a certain, rarely used software on their wristwatch.
Then again, it is something to think about that within 20 years will it be as unusual to find oneself without internet access as it is to find oneself without electricity...perhaps it will be even more unusual than that (what with satellite communication).
Just thoughts.
It is interesting to note how much more bandwidth my internet connection has as compared to my first computer's bus speed.
That's the beauty and the bane about neutrinos, isn't it? No interference in transmission, and yet no way to detect them as a result. But here in this article they explicitly say "real-time" detection.
:)
To me, that is the first step. There must be a way to grab these damn useful phantom particles
I'm going to wax somewhat sci-fi here and imagine that detection in real-time of neutrinos might have potential application in regards to communication tech.
In my view I see the ability to detect neutrinos as the first step towards a truly peerless communication system. Imagine that instead of radio waves one were to use neutrino emissions for communication. There would be no (or very little) interference (pass straight through any material) and subsequently the latency of communication from any point on the globe would be decided by the diameter not the circumference of the com point's positions on the earth - meaning that communication delays would be greatly reduced.
Imagine if any communications device could simply connect directly to any other device on the planet at low-latency with high-signal strength - wouldn't that be neat!
If someone leaves a hose running into the street is it wrong to take some of that water?
It's always refreshing to find someone posting one's exact thoughts and sentiments.
This is certainly an opportunity for the creators, here. This world of today is so concerned with cash that we seem to forget the value of things which do not produce cash.
Really, those like the FSF, Creative Commons and the EFF should in fact be sponsoring these kind of productions. That would then be genuine revenue for the creators.
How elegant it seems to me, sending visual information in packets of light. It reminds me of seeds of some beautiful flower which instantly sprout when planted.
I wonder, if one were to send a one minute stream of uncompressed video data, would more photons be required for the transmission over the fiber, or in the final display to the user/viewer?
Good point - I believe I agree with you here.
Of course, couldn't a virus almost be considered a nano machine by itself?
We have domesticated so many animals, and done a pretty good job of it too, apparently. To me, wiping out the little-guys was never an option - there is just no way that we could hope to kill all diseases. Only by "domesticating" the harmful microbes can we hope to avoid the plagues and pandemics these germs have created in our massive and highly-connected populace. Also, as shown by this example, we can have our friendly mico-life (if a virus can be called living) remedy diseases caused by non-living entities (plaques and such).
I see this new research both as a concrete example of exactly how far our bioengineering has come as well as a reminder of how ancient this field truly is.
I was just talking with my friend about desktop fabrication and we came upon the topic of using metals rather than plastics.
I proposed that it may be possible to have two canisters of particle-ized metals which could perhaps be alloyed together on a very small scale. This could be done using a standard 3D fabrication gantry system and some kind of micro-sized welding nozzle head thingy.
Seeing a desktop cutting laser made me consider that this might work very well as the welding method - rather than electric arc-welding or gas: how could you even miniaturize those?
Perhaps it's about time, then, that we did like the founding fathers and started fighting for ourselves.
this may sound off topic at first, but I think I have a relevant observation - please bear with me.
I was in a parking lot at a local shopping center the other day. I saw a person come speeding out of a lane and almost hit another car. There was screeching brakes, blaring horns and unfriendly exchanges between drivers, but there was no collision.
This got me thinking: have I ever seen a collision in a parking lot? Of course they happen, but neither my wife nor I could recall having ever seen one. I would propose that collisions are more common (statistically) on the road.
One could assume that because parking lots are slow-driving zones that drivers have more time to react to situations. I would propose, however, that it is the lack of explicit (imo overwhelming) signage and laws which allow (force) people to take responsibility for themselves. People need to negotiate between each other without the ability to hide behind a stop sign or a no-u-turn sign.
My point is that I think laws are good to a point: after that point laws will become burdens to the very safety they were created to protect.
I applaud any action which intends to help the current nutty copyright situation, however I think adding more laws ("signs") would only cause more collisions, ultimately.
In this case a ruling is overturned (if I'm not totally off, it was essentially done-away-with) which would seem to result in less law. As per my above observation, I think this is good.
I am the middle child, but my older sister is 12 years older than me, and my older brother 17 years older.
It is interesting here: my younger sis is only a year behind me, followed by similar spacing for my younger bro and then youngest sis (large fam).
I think this would make me a hybrid. I am the oldest of a cluster of 4 closely-spaced siblings, with two older siblings more than a decade ahead of me.
Perhaps this would explain my immense IQ.
I don't ask this implying that it must be water, but rather I ask for more speculations. I wonder, maybe these are massive collections of opalite.
So much is known about mars: but this of course means that so little is known as well. The planet is harsher, and yet less harsh, than anywhere on earth. There is little atmosphere, so the whole breathing situation is much harsher, yet because of this fact 100km winds would fail to move a tent.
I think it's important to guess and wonder about things.
Personally, I hope it is water and that inside is a vast civilization of nano-sized intelligent beings. I hope one day they look up at the sky and witness a gargantuan machine staring down at them.
Neat. Thanks, I will remember this.
Correct me where I'm wrong here, but I believe animal bodies have developed some pretty good ways of dealing with radiation over the eons. I know my skin does a fair job of managing UV radiation - though I will probably be darkening it when the therapy is available.
I wonder, has the antioxidant level in the plant life been measured? How much research is there in regards to long-term, lower-dose radiation exposure not just to individual organisms, but to ecosystems. Ecosystems are like massive organisms themselves.
I would think that selective pressures are probably biting at the bit to get working on increasing tolerance in populations inhabiting these no-man-lands.
gotta break a couple eggs to make an omelet, eh? ;)
Robots with hairy chests! I love it!
So adorable! I think I would like this robot to carry me to bed every night and tuck me in.
To me this is exciting. Imagine, hundreds of years from now this cavern may be visited by our descendants, and they will probably be just as crazy as we are today and thus will do things like this.
Ah, the future. I really want to stick around to see as much of it as possible!