In the UK as ADSL gets faster the traffic allocations seem to get even meaner. The prices of ADSL connections remain static, even falling, yet the speed of the connections increase. This is obviously unsustainable and this is why people are complaining that they have an 8MB connection yet only get about 4-6MB download speeds.
There's already 50:1 contention, if the ISPs and BT don't increase the speed of their pipes and add more pipes then the extra speeds accounts for nothing. It helps with latency; and also burst in off-peak hours.
Just a side note, Toyota cars have more "produced in America" man hours than any of the competitor's cars.
For those of you in the Kentucky area where I came from, I would recommend you check out the Toyota plant in Georgetown. They talk about all this-- the quality, why they've never had a problem with unionization, etc. Most intriguing. They are actually quite proud that being a Japanese company their cars are more American than Ford's/GM's/etc.
They pay very high too-- most workers start are making $24-26 within a year or two last I checked.
They rotate the employee's assembly line position every week so nobody gets overly bored-- after about a year of working they can assemble all of the Toyota cars by hand if they had the parts.
Each worker also has a "quality control" button that they can pull to stop production on the whole line if they see something not fitting right or that seems out of place, at which point the engineers come over and check it out.
They also offer rewards to employees for optimizing plant layout-- a new part transportation route frees up room on this isle and makes room on that one giving more room for xxyy.
Whereas GM designs the car and then says to the worker "Ok yes having to assemble this might give you RSI or back problems in 30 years, we'll pay for them then", Toyota redesigns the parts and assembly process until there's no risk of injury to the workers.
Not to mention they're geniuses. Did you know the integration of the combustion and electric engine and how they coordinate for power in the Prius went from conception to the market in less than a year?
There's a billion reasons why they're #1 and not unionized, and it's because they're masterful artisans interested in producing a better profit through a better product.
Such a rover would be so big and heavy, it would never make it to mars. In order to make sure the rover will last for a couple of months given everything that could possibly go wrong, it has to be so over engineered, that odds are it will last many years.
Or to put it in numbers, a 99.99% chance of surviving for 3 months, could easily translate into a 50% chance of lasting 5 years. Instead of wasting all this money over engineering things they should make them simple and in bigger quantity. Send up 20 instead of 2, if the failure rate is 50% you're still much better off.
English is a living language. Stop trying to kill it! It was dead when people stopped caring about possibly one of the simplest rules of thumb out there:
If you can replace it with "you are", then you simply much the two words together and replace the a with '. You're.
If you can't, then you write "your".
The fact that people haven't figured this out yet is a testimony to their stupidity.
You better figure this out before you apply to any real job-- the HR lady will be laughing "you're" resume all the way to the shredder.
...not only all my private email is stored, my office documents analyzed, my photos categorized, now i can have all my sms and phone calls archived. let me celebrate this with a little dance of celebration: tippididibclapdip. I'm starting to see this as a good thing.
In my Instrumentations and Circuits lab we're regularly required to use PSPICE, Multisim, etc type programs for homeworks.
I send myself the homeworks once I've completed them, and I linked my school account to my Gmail account, so any emails from classes go straight to Gmail.
Between the two, Google figured out a free version of SPICE is what I needed, and placed that in the "Sponsored Links" section at the top of my email (yes you can turn it off but sometimes there are interesting things there).
AFAIK SPICE/Multisim cost a few hundred dollars, even for personal use. Or it doesn't I don't really know; I haven't looked into it because if I'm in a lab there are fewer distractions than on my home PC. Anyways, point is it placed an ad for a free SPICE clone version (personal; paid for commercial) in that sponsored links section that I clicked through and was able to download this mini-SPICE for free.
They are, but it's rather cheaply at that. Instead of new raid content, they're going to "revamp" Naxxramus and make it one of the beginning level 80 instances, similar to Gruul. Feels cheap; they could probably assign one guy to the whole process of getting attuned (again) and changing the Boss HP levels and attack power so that we get to go through it. Then just increase the stats on the gear by the formulas they're running on to create the new Tier 7.
Perhaps I'm just extra sensitive to this stuff but I see them making lousy decision after lousy decision:
-Northrend Content: Reused instances. It would be one thing if they said "here's the old Naxx, redone and attune process removed, so if you and some guildies are bored on a non raid night you can jump in there and have a new challenge that most people haven't experienced". Instead they said "Ok we're 'redoing' Naxx, it's the Tier 7 dungeon now, that content you paid for in the original wow we're charging you for again, and we're not giving you any new content for Tier 7, Naxx is taking that place" -More Northrend: You won't be able to fly until level 78, under the guise of "We don't want players to blow past all the new content our designers worked on". This is simply an excuse for bad design to create the illusion of substance-- if the content were interesting and the zones fun, they wouldn't have this problem. Instead that 5000g you spent on the Epic flying mount (if you got it) is now useless until level 78. Imagine if they said the same thing about all the Outlands gear you acquired, hey you can't use it we want people to start from ground zero again. Also, imagine any new subscribers leveling to 70 for the first time. What's the first thing you want to do when you hit 70? Buy your flying mount. But whats the first thing you lose in Northrend when you enter at 70? Your flying mount. Horrible design on their part. -More 10-man instances like Karazhan: these are a horrible idea. They split the guild and bind people to groups such that the better players much choose: either help the "2nd group" get through the 10-man, and miss chances at gear upgrades because we're probably not going to get very far, or ignore the 2nd group/2nd rate players and just stick in their own group of 10 good players. You can't do both. So then at the end of it all you've got a group of 10 players geared and ready to move on past Karazhan, but the rest of the guild is still struggling on the third boss. So the group of 10 players gets restless waiting for the 2nd group to go through the whole process they did and they and jump ship to another guild. Unless they let players join multiple groups for the same instance, these 10-mans do nothing but split up guilds; guilds now are in a much worse state than pre-BC: hardly any have gotten through Kara, let alone Gruul.
get over it. What the hell? Where did this come from? I don't care how stupid the OP is you've got to be just as retarded to reply with something like this. Have some manners people jeez. This childish slader is pathetic.
You're right about the first point but as for the networking P2P that the GP was referencing the problem was never the users' connections, it was that a player was picked to be host and all the other players connected to him. You could block all the ports on your router except the host port and you'd always be host. Then in CTF you could power cycle your modem and while that froze everyone else's game, you were able to continue playing and go cap the flag. Stop power cycling when you've cap'd and bam free points for your team.
The other issue was when a host dropped out it spent 30 seconds finding another host. So in a 25 kill 8 player deathmatch which would normally be over in 3 minutes, you spent 15% of the time lagged out.
then people would be demanding a reversal on this Genuine Advantage program.
It's been a few decades since the people have "demanded" ANYTHING. So long as they have their beer and their sports channels and big screen tv's, the people - for perhaps the first time in history - are content to let you take everything else away from them. Or am I wrong? Actually I've been coming to see this as truth, and no longer look down on the decision. If I have my beer and big screen TV I'm happy. There's enough neat stuff on history channel and discovery channel to keep me entertained, and the beer makes socializing fun. Bam, no more desire for computers, much less ones that crap out on you. Then you have a fool me once/twice situation, where you simply stop using your computer (or Windows). Linux and hardware (auto boot to cd) will get to a point where you say "grandma put this into your computer and when you see the brown screen that says ubuntu start pressing enter" and they won't care because they can't get their documents anyways. (I say it will get to a point because it still chokes on multi-hard-disk-computers like mine when I try this). So we have a computer that does web browsing (don't care so much about Friday Night Wow gaming because you have buddies who like beer too and you play console games + beer games at the same time and have a jolly fun night; or you don't play console games and decide to go to a club that plays music you like) and we don't need it for much else because the computer at work we can use for work (the IT people worry about that and if Vista breaks too much or it's too much of a security issue they handle the transition to Linux).
So why would I demand that my Vista works? Ok yes I got burned but it's just $100 and I've learned my lesson I move on install Linux with enter enter enter and I'm back to drinking beer.
This is a prime example of why we should never have gone over there in the first place. You incorrectly assume they care about Capitalism. That they care about freedom.
They don't.
You should talk to some of our soldiers. Know what happened? Grandmothers and 4 year old children welcomed us with open arms. We performed the coup and instantly they were trying to shoo us out. Started grumbling about American presence. Etc.
Their country has been the grounds for a factional war for centuries between the Sunnis and Shiites. They wanted our help overthrowing the power they couldn't themselves. Then they wanted us out so they could go exact revenge on that power.
If a radical group had been killing members of your family for generations-- and I mean literally, generations, would you care about "Democracy"? About "Capitalism"? The thought is laughable! They care about killing the people who killed their fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters. They wanted our help in destablizing the government authority so there would not be repercussions to their vendetta.
As a result, the violence is not predictable as it once was.
If we want the Iraqi population to welcome democracy with open arms in such a way that we can leave and be sure they'll stand up themselves and say "NO" when another dictator tries to rise to power, then we've got to give them something so much more impossibly desirable than what they've ever known so that they'll give up the prospect of revenge. As it is, all they've ever known their and their parents' whole lives is violent dictatorship after dictatorship. They haven't grown up with the western mindset that they have rights; let alone that they should want them. To them another dictatorship rising to power would simply be another guy at the top. Nothing they haven't already seen. So they wouldn't have the gut vomiting reaction we would if the same happened here (well it kinda is hah); not unless we have them something infinitely better, that they can see as such, to replace what they've known. I'm talking about government pressure on Hollywood to produce middle-eastern films that are shown weekly for free in Iraq that have nothing but stories of people being oppressed and overcoming the tyranny and how much better off they are when they finally do overcome it, of free love, of women with rights and the wondering ways they can help our society; BASIC propaganda work. In the absence of this, it's a 30 year job. The fact that people thought from the start that this could be a 1-2 year in-out (that's all it took before people here started complaining) was enough reason by itself to not start this. Sixty years ago our country had the character and will and dedication to rebuild another country. Not so now.
Frankly I'm of the opinion that the NSA/CIA/FBI failed us on this one. They should have had more operatives in the middle east studying their culture; if not before then certainly after 9-11. To know how they think, because that's the first and most important place you start. Then they also should have been considering the way we Americans think now. It was their job to see that our country didn't have the guts to go through with such a long job, and they missed it. Big time.
So we're stuck with our pants down in a catch-22 while the economy is sputtering along as long as we can keep getting loans from other countries, while our middle class is slowly but surely ground to low-middle-class and finally lower class; all while our politicians work for their next 4/6 years to the detriment of all our next 50.
I think you may already have what you need for the simulation of such a device. Folding at home has been pumping out protein sequences for years-- but especially now that we have GPGPU I would imagine the simulation wouldn't be too difficult.
As for designing the system that you want to simulate; the thing with microprocessors is that they're very modular. You can create a register, use it 256 or however many times, and there's your cache. Then you build the part that interfaces the rest of the CPU with that group of registers, and deals with addressing, etc; and there you've got something that you can reuse again and again by simply making minor modifications to the gate schematic if, say, you wanted a 64 bit register instead of the 32 bit register you'd already designed. So the processors we're working with now are largely the result of sitting on shoulders of giants. The majority of the work has already been done, and then the engineers add a few things here and there like MMX/3dnow, SSE, etc; and then make various architecture changes, some minor, some major (Hyper Transport/On Die memory controller comes to mind), etc.
Now is your molecular nanoassembler modular like this? For sure it doesn't have the years of design and reusable hardware behind it that microprocessors have; so the comment about 400m transistor processors isn't exact applicable as far as I can tell-- one is such a mature technology that design can be, if one were on a very very tight budget and simply had the resources, literally copy and past; the other would require much initial R&D if I understand the idea correctly (you'd have to first design the mobility you need of the arms of the assembler, then design the best mechanical way to implement those arms, and make sure at such small scales they can withstand the torque you need, and then finally turn that into a molecular design)? And then write/tweak the software to interact with your design and start the simulation, etc.
Come to think of it, it seems to me processing power would be the least of the worries; but I really don't know.
There's a great journal out there I would recommend to anyone interested in some of the deeper issues with copyright, patents, intellectual property, etc. I found it the other day when skimming through the school library's periodicals. I went and found the website for the journal. While the articles on the website are years out of date, they are still certainly interesting and applicable considering how slowly legislation slugs along anyhow. The more recent additions are available for subscription for a quite reasonable price of 25 odd dollars/year if you're a student, $70 if not.
I just hope the cars will run without the computer chips.
Who else has seen Jericho?
Someone, somewhere, who isn't happy about something, is going to get a suitcase nuke, or several of them, or it's going to be a planned coup by the FBI or CIA or something like in Jericho; and they're going to detonate them, and then all our cars that require computer chips are going to stop working thanks to the EMP from the explosion.
You can call it paranoid I just call it common sense. Don't build a nation on a transportation system just begging to be silently (you can create just the EMP if you want to or so I've heard; similar to what they did in Ocean's 11) compromised.
Hehe. Well, I have a thought along similar lines. Here's my prediction: Much like the Shoe Bomber prompted this new ridiculous screening procedure, the "Bung-hole Bomber" is going to be put-up or shut-up time for TSA and the airlines. Either they stick to policy and watch the airline industry go under, or they admit that security theater is useless and encourage us to shrug and go on with our lives. Something I've been doing a bit lately before I reply is checking the ID number of the user if their post looks stupid. If it's high, I just ignore it, because more often than not it's just some digg user who's wandered his way into the wrong part of the forest and will soon leave after his dumb comments you spent all the time replying to get modded down. [And for the record should point out my ID is rather high, I have another UID in the 800k's, I just thought the name I chose years ago was gay.]
On the other hand, maybe the correction is necessary. But usually you can tell when it won't make a difference; they'll go on thinking as they darn well please regardless of the logic presented. "Don't throw your pearls to the swine" comes to mind. Keeps your blood pressure nice and low I've found.
Thanks and great job re-iterating what the rest of us were thinking though.
But you know, of all the things we should be fussing about; this to me does not seem like one of them.
The officer being able to record where he saw your license plate isn't going to hurt you later. At all. It's not recording the speed you're driving at.
I have that problem a lot. It's something along the lines that...I have to spend a whole lot of processing brain power on organizing my thoughts into sentences...seems to be my brain is a bit lacking in the "verbal" ability area. This coincides with reports of the same from other people who were born "purple", meaning that when they came out they were somewhat oxygen deficient. In babies whose brains are still developing, such oxygen deficiency appears to be permanentally harmful.
Anyhow, point being that I spend so much time trying to just say something half the time I've forgotten to think about _how_ I was saying it, and whether that was polite or the best way of saying it when talking with other people.
Seeing as buckytubes have enormous conductivity, and are strong under tension, graphene should act similar, providing a far better replacement for silicon and copper. I do not think that the transition will come soon, but this is a great innovation and ahead of its time. I personally think that buckytubes should be looked into in greater detail before attempting graphene. Uh...could we possibly be any more generic?
Since when did re-summarizing the link's summary constitute something "interesting"?
Well, it already is, as I learned recently. So this means nothing to me. What I'm interested in now is 100% encrypted communication between search servers. If they did that, and then allowed me to 100% anonymize my search data (using a freely viewiable, verifiably applied to all servers open source solution), then that would be an act of good faith sufficient for me to say "ok, keep the data, I can see with my own eyes that it is truly anonymized; any company willing to go that far can keep it in my book".
Until then, isn't it jolly we're all up in arms over entirely the wrong thing? I.E., the threat here from Google's non-anonymized search data is much less than AT&T's reacharound with the NSA.
The people I've talked to (while I haven't talked directly with OIT about this some of my friends who are on #2 have) said on #3 they turn your information over to the **AA. Has something changed?
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There's already 50:1 contention, if the ISPs and BT don't increase the speed of their pipes and add more pipes then the extra speeds accounts for nothing. It helps with latency; and also burst in off-peak hours.
Just a side note, Toyota cars have more "produced in America" man hours than any of the competitor's cars.
For those of you in the Kentucky area where I came from, I would recommend you check out the Toyota plant in Georgetown. They talk about all this-- the quality, why they've never had a problem with unionization, etc. Most intriguing. They are actually quite proud that being a Japanese company their cars are more American than Ford's/GM's/etc.
They pay very high too-- most workers start are making $24-26 within a year or two last I checked.
They rotate the employee's assembly line position every week so nobody gets overly bored-- after about a year of working they can assemble all of the Toyota cars by hand if they had the parts.
Each worker also has a "quality control" button that they can pull to stop production on the whole line if they see something not fitting right or that seems out of place, at which point the engineers come over and check it out.
They also offer rewards to employees for optimizing plant layout-- a new part transportation route frees up room on this isle and makes room on that one giving more room for xxyy.
Whereas GM designs the car and then says to the worker "Ok yes having to assemble this might give you RSI or back problems in 30 years, we'll pay for them then", Toyota redesigns the parts and assembly process until there's no risk of injury to the workers.
Not to mention they're geniuses. Did you know the integration of the combustion and electric engine and how they coordinate for power in the Prius went from conception to the market in less than a year?
There's a billion reasons why they're #1 and not unionized, and it's because they're masterful artisans interested in producing a better profit through a better product.
Or to put it in numbers, a 99.99% chance of surviving for 3 months, could easily translate into a 50% chance of lasting 5 years. Instead of wasting all this money over engineering things they should make them simple and in bigger quantity. Send up 20 instead of 2, if the failure rate is 50% you're still much better off.
Perhaps this is why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIO-tCPSfHA
So you want it Gorey?
If you can replace it with "you are", then you simply much the two words together and replace the a with '. You're.
If you can't, then you write "your".
The fact that people haven't figured this out yet is a testimony to their stupidity.
You better figure this out before you apply to any real job-- the HR lady will be laughing "you're" resume all the way to the shredder.
This guy has a wife-- he must be doing something right.
...not only all my private email is stored, my office documents analyzed, my photos categorized, now i can have all my sms and phone calls archived. let me celebrate this with a little dance of celebration: tippididibclapdip. I'm starting to see this as a good thing.In my Instrumentations and Circuits lab we're regularly required to use PSPICE, Multisim, etc type programs for homeworks.
I send myself the homeworks once I've completed them, and I linked my school account to my Gmail account, so any emails from classes go straight to Gmail.
Between the two, Google figured out a free version of SPICE is what I needed, and placed that in the "Sponsored Links" section at the top of my email (yes you can turn it off but sometimes there are interesting things there).
AFAIK SPICE/Multisim cost a few hundred dollars, even for personal use. Or it doesn't I don't really know; I haven't looked into it because if I'm in a lab there are fewer distractions than on my home PC. Anyways, point is it placed an ad for a free SPICE clone version (personal; paid for commercial) in that sponsored links section that I clicked through and was able to download this mini-SPICE for free.
Pretty useful IMO.
They are, but it's rather cheaply at that. Instead of new raid content, they're going to "revamp" Naxxramus and make it one of the beginning level 80 instances, similar to Gruul. Feels cheap; they could probably assign one guy to the whole process of getting attuned (again) and changing the Boss HP levels and attack power so that we get to go through it. Then just increase the stats on the gear by the formulas they're running on to create the new Tier 7.
Perhaps I'm just extra sensitive to this stuff but I see them making lousy decision after lousy decision:
-Northrend Content: Reused instances. It would be one thing if they said "here's the old Naxx, redone and attune process removed, so if you and some guildies are bored on a non raid night you can jump in there and have a new challenge that most people haven't experienced". Instead they said "Ok we're 'redoing' Naxx, it's the Tier 7 dungeon now, that content you paid for in the original wow we're charging you for again, and we're not giving you any new content for Tier 7, Naxx is taking that place"
-More Northrend: You won't be able to fly until level 78, under the guise of "We don't want players to blow past all the new content our designers worked on". This is simply an excuse for bad design to create the illusion of substance-- if the content were interesting and the zones fun, they wouldn't have this problem. Instead that 5000g you spent on the Epic flying mount (if you got it) is now useless until level 78. Imagine if they said the same thing about all the Outlands gear you acquired, hey you can't use it we want people to start from ground zero again. Also, imagine any new subscribers leveling to 70 for the first time. What's the first thing you want to do when you hit 70? Buy your flying mount. But whats the first thing you lose in Northrend when you enter at 70? Your flying mount. Horrible design on their part.
-More 10-man instances like Karazhan: these are a horrible idea. They split the guild and bind people to groups such that the better players much choose: either help the "2nd group" get through the 10-man, and miss chances at gear upgrades because we're probably not going to get very far, or ignore the 2nd group/2nd rate players and just stick in their own group of 10 good players. You can't do both. So then at the end of it all you've got a group of 10 players geared and ready to move on past Karazhan, but the rest of the guild is still struggling on the third boss. So the group of 10 players gets restless waiting for the 2nd group to go through the whole process they did and they and jump ship to another guild. Unless they let players join multiple groups for the same instance, these 10-mans do nothing but split up guilds; guilds now are in a much worse state than pre-BC: hardly any have gotten through Kara, let alone Gruul.
Because, you know, it's not like good grades will earn you anything else in life.
And then the parents wonder why their children aren't ready for the real world-- because they haven't been shown any of it!
You have to log out and then post anon for it to keep your mod decisions.
Now why would they do that? They'd lose all chances to use these quantum computers for their own means.
You're right about the first point but as for the networking P2P that the GP was referencing the problem was never the users' connections, it was that a player was picked to be host and all the other players connected to him. You could block all the ports on your router except the host port and you'd always be host. Then in CTF you could power cycle your modem and while that froze everyone else's game, you were able to continue playing and go cap the flag. Stop power cycling when you've cap'd and bam free points for your team.
The other issue was when a host dropped out it spent 30 seconds finding another host. So in a 25 kill 8 player deathmatch which would normally be over in 3 minutes, you spent 15% of the time lagged out.
It's been a few decades since the people have "demanded" ANYTHING. So long as they have their beer and their sports channels and big screen tv's, the people - for perhaps the first time in history - are content to let you take everything else away from them. Or am I wrong? Actually I've been coming to see this as truth, and no longer look down on the decision. If I have my beer and big screen TV I'm happy. There's enough neat stuff on history channel and discovery channel to keep me entertained, and the beer makes socializing fun. Bam, no more desire for computers, much less ones that crap out on you. Then you have a fool me once/twice situation, where you simply stop using your computer (or Windows). Linux and hardware (auto boot to cd) will get to a point where you say "grandma put this into your computer and when you see the brown screen that says ubuntu start pressing enter" and they won't care because they can't get their documents anyways. (I say it will get to a point because it still chokes on multi-hard-disk-computers like mine when I try this). So we have a computer that does web browsing (don't care so much about Friday Night Wow gaming because you have buddies who like beer too and you play console games + beer games at the same time and have a jolly fun night; or you don't play console games and decide to go to a club that plays music you like) and we don't need it for much else because the computer at work we can use for work (the IT people worry about that and if Vista breaks too much or it's too much of a security issue they handle the transition to Linux).
So why would I demand that my Vista works? Ok yes I got burned but it's just $100 and I've learned my lesson I move on install Linux with enter enter enter and I'm back to drinking beer.
I fail to see how this is not a winning option.
This is a prime example of why we should never have gone over there in the first place. You incorrectly assume they care about Capitalism. That they care about freedom.
They don't.
You should talk to some of our soldiers. Know what happened? Grandmothers and 4 year old children welcomed us with open arms. We performed the coup and instantly they were trying to shoo us out. Started grumbling about American presence. Etc.
Their country has been the grounds for a factional war for centuries between the Sunnis and Shiites. They wanted our help overthrowing the power they couldn't themselves. Then they wanted us out so they could go exact revenge on that power.
If a radical group had been killing members of your family for generations-- and I mean literally, generations, would you care about "Democracy"? About "Capitalism"? The thought is laughable! They care about killing the people who killed their fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters. They wanted our help in destablizing the government authority so there would not be repercussions to their vendetta.
As a result, the violence is not predictable as it once was.
If we want the Iraqi population to welcome democracy with open arms in such a way that we can leave and be sure they'll stand up themselves and say "NO" when another dictator tries to rise to power, then we've got to give them something so much more impossibly desirable than what they've ever known so that they'll give up the prospect of revenge. As it is, all they've ever known their and their parents' whole lives is violent dictatorship after dictatorship. They haven't grown up with the western mindset that they have rights; let alone that they should want them. To them another dictatorship rising to power would simply be another guy at the top. Nothing they haven't already seen. So they wouldn't have the gut vomiting reaction we would if the same happened here (well it kinda is hah); not unless we have them something infinitely better, that they can see as such, to replace what they've known. I'm talking about government pressure on Hollywood to produce middle-eastern films that are shown weekly for free in Iraq that have nothing but stories of people being oppressed and overcoming the tyranny and how much better off they are when they finally do overcome it, of free love, of women with rights and the wondering ways they can help our society; BASIC propaganda work. In the absence of this, it's a 30 year job. The fact that people thought from the start that this could be a 1-2 year in-out (that's all it took before people here started complaining) was enough reason by itself to not start this. Sixty years ago our country had the character and will and dedication to rebuild another country. Not so now.
Frankly I'm of the opinion that the NSA/CIA/FBI failed us on this one. They should have had more operatives in the middle east studying their culture; if not before then certainly after 9-11. To know how they think, because that's the first and most important place you start. Then they also should have been considering the way we Americans think now. It was their job to see that our country didn't have the guts to go through with such a long job, and they missed it. Big time.
So we're stuck with our pants down in a catch-22 while the economy is sputtering along as long as we can keep getting loans from other countries, while our middle class is slowly but surely ground to low-middle-class and finally lower class; all while our politicians work for their next 4/6 years to the detriment of all our next 50.
I think you may already have what you need for the simulation of such a device. Folding at home has been pumping out protein sequences for years-- but especially now that we have GPGPU I would imagine the simulation wouldn't be too difficult.
As for designing the system that you want to simulate; the thing with microprocessors is that they're very modular. You can create a register, use it 256 or however many times, and there's your cache. Then you build the part that interfaces the rest of the CPU with that group of registers, and deals with addressing, etc; and there you've got something that you can reuse again and again by simply making minor modifications to the gate schematic if, say, you wanted a 64 bit register instead of the 32 bit register you'd already designed. So the processors we're working with now are largely the result of sitting on shoulders of giants. The majority of the work has already been done, and then the engineers add a few things here and there like MMX/3dnow, SSE, etc; and then make various architecture changes, some minor, some major (Hyper Transport/On Die memory controller comes to mind), etc.
Now is your molecular nanoassembler modular like this? For sure it doesn't have the years of design and reusable hardware behind it that microprocessors have; so the comment about 400m transistor processors isn't exact applicable as far as I can tell-- one is such a mature technology that design can be, if one were on a very very tight budget and simply had the resources, literally copy and past; the other would require much initial R&D if I understand the idea correctly (you'd have to first design the mobility you need of the arms of the assembler, then design the best mechanical way to implement those arms, and make sure at such small scales they can withstand the torque you need, and then finally turn that into a molecular design)? And then write/tweak the software to interact with your design and start the simulation, etc.
Come to think of it, it seems to me processing power would be the least of the worries; but I really don't know.
There's a great journal out there I would recommend to anyone interested in some of the deeper issues with copyright, patents, intellectual property, etc. I found it the other day when skimming through the school library's periodicals. I went and found the website for the journal. While the articles on the website are years out of date, they are still certainly interesting and applicable considering how slowly legislation slugs along anyhow. The more recent additions are available for subscription for a quite reasonable price of 25 odd dollars/year if you're a student, $70 if not.
IDEA - The Intellectual Property Law Review.
I just hope the cars will run without the computer chips.
Who else has seen Jericho?
Someone, somewhere, who isn't happy about something, is going to get a suitcase nuke, or several of them, or it's going to be a planned coup by the FBI or CIA or something like in Jericho; and they're going to detonate them, and then all our cars that require computer chips are going to stop working thanks to the EMP from the explosion.
You can call it paranoid I just call it common sense. Don't build a nation on a transportation system just begging to be silently (you can create just the EMP if you want to or so I've heard; similar to what they did in Ocean's 11) compromised.
On the other hand, maybe the correction is necessary. But usually you can tell when it won't make a difference; they'll go on thinking as they darn well please regardless of the logic presented. "Don't throw your pearls to the swine" comes to mind. Keeps your blood pressure nice and low I've found.
Thanks and great job re-iterating what the rest of us were thinking though.
But you know, of all the things we should be fussing about; this to me does not seem like one of them.
The officer being able to record where he saw your license plate isn't going to hurt you later. At all. It's not recording the speed you're driving at.
I'd say that's very likely.
I have that problem a lot. It's something along the lines that...I have to spend a whole lot of processing brain power on organizing my thoughts into sentences...seems to be my brain is a bit lacking in the "verbal" ability area. This coincides with reports of the same from other people who were born "purple", meaning that when they came out they were somewhat oxygen deficient. In babies whose brains are still developing, such oxygen deficiency appears to be permanentally harmful.
Anyhow, point being that I spend so much time trying to just say something half the time I've forgotten to think about _how_ I was saying it, and whether that was polite or the best way of saying it when talking with other people.
Since when did re-summarizing the link's summary constitute something "interesting"?
Well, it already is, as I learned recently. So this means nothing to me. What I'm interested in now is 100% encrypted communication between search servers. If they did that, and then allowed me to 100% anonymize my search data (using a freely viewiable, verifiably applied to all servers open source solution), then that would be an act of good faith sufficient for me to say "ok, keep the data, I can see with my own eyes that it is truly anonymized; any company willing to go that far can keep it in my book".
Until then, isn't it jolly we're all up in arms over entirely the wrong thing? I.E., the threat here from Google's non-anonymized search data is much less than AT&T's reacharound with the NSA.
The people I've talked to (while I haven't talked directly with OIT about this some of my friends who are on #2 have) said on #3 they turn your information over to the **AA. Has something changed?