Right, this much I kind of inferred - but what I'm wondering is, surely you could connect a reasonably blunt reading of spinal cord electrical signals to electrodes, and use that to control the stimulation of the walking action. The brain's body map is a pretty fluid vehicle, so even with limited control it seems likely that people would be able to control the synthetic system fairly well.
Actually what I'm wondering here is if they can control how the rat walks, then what's stopping them from using electrical receptors on the other side of the break to let the rat control how it's legs moves? If the technology is precise enough to stimulate, then it can surely be precise enough to receive.
If you look at where it bends, it's pretty clear they don't even need to do that - they could probably get away with simply milling the aluminum thicker around the areas where there are cut outs for the buttons, which are acting as stress concentrators. Plug the whole thing into a simulator and tweak until those areas don't exceed the tensile strength of the region.
I wonder if this actually explains Samsung's resistance to making a metal phone. There's been a lot of commentary of how they just don't do it with their flagships, and the bending issue is the type of thing which your engineers would tell you in testing and simulation.
Breaking the glass is one thing, but that's always been a risk, but bending the case without damaging the glass is quite another and yeah - a ton of plastics would have much better performance then metal in this regard.
Regardless, it seems like Apple could probably afford to fix this by adding a stiffner bar to the case somewhere - a very thin carbon fibre shim wouldn't cost too much at scale, would be basically impossible to break without taking out the glass too.
Why does there have to be an absolute end? An infinity of smaller layers can make a lot more sense then have some ground state which then became another state and never reverted.
You say a zero became a one, but that isn't correct because the very definition of "nothing" by human expectations is non-trivial and non-obvious. People rage as though they're deceived when someone points out that "empty" space generally isn't. depending on your perspective and relative point of view.
The idea of nothing being a default state is born of the human experience, but it is hardly clear it makes sense as a model of the universe in the first place. We imagine nothing as darkness - but any systems model can reverse the terms and model light as dark and dark as light and it will make just as much sense. Nothing is only "dark" because to an animal brain connected to photoreceptors, the dark is a bad state to be in for survival. A bat with echolocation would have a much different perspective.
Because it happens all the time in quantum mechanics? Because the heat death of the universe would imply a settling out such that quantum events would become the most energetic events in the universe? Because it might all just be a simulation that was switched on one day, and we can check for certain types of simulations by looking for lattice QCD partitioning that would be aliased into the large structures of the universe, depending on how it was programmed.
You know what these answers all have in common? They're testable. They're explorable. They invite further questioning. They do not require, nor ask for, faith.
Absolutely true. And even though science can disprove the 6k Earth it doesn't mean everything else in religious texts is false. While I don't proscribe to a religion I also don't proscribe to invalidating religion - even if certain elements are suspect that doesn't degrade some lessons to be learned from the texts - faith or not.
The same can be said of any other work of literature.
People tearing down science's ability to answer all questions do so on the faulty assumption that it somehow raises the credence of religion to do the same.
Moreover the Big Bang is just the current limit of measurement. There's no specific reason to think that won't be revised, and several efforts have been made to extend the predictive model to a "pre" Big Bang epoch (for all the meaning that has when time itself is compacted down to infinity - of course, part of it is showing that that isn't quite what happened).
Science establishes the limits of things in-so-far as they can be presently measured by reproducible means.
Seriously, you cannot get in the god damn door if you don't have paid experience in the exact area they're looking for. No one cares if you read a book. What does that say on your resume? "Familiar with ".
Any idiot can put that on a resume, everyone does, but they can't put it in their paid experience column which is the one which matters.
For one thing, it doesn't have to support more then a fraction of it's weight against gravity. You could design a space printer that prioritized printable parts, so you only needed to take a much smaller supply of irreplaceable ones.
Yes, melting plastic in a closed environment. Brilliant. Instead of planning for their little hobby-jump in Low Earth Orbit, let's bring a cranky, tiny toy to make coat hangers... (in free-fall LOL). I just love the armchair engineers and programmers here going on about the 3D printer will be this tool to help colonize the universe..
It's baffling to me where this nonsense comes from. I'd expect that from eight year olds, not adults.
But then again, simple math and reality in the video game generation is too much to ask for, I guess.
We don't even have the Concorde anymore, and you loons are talking about going outside the Solar System as if it's even remotely possible. The only propositions you have are decades-old fantasies.
Reality isn't going away. You're not going anywhere. Not you, not me, not your kids, not their kids, and not whatever will replace us in a hundred thousand years... Evolution is still happening, you know.
As opposed to the idiot who's pretty sure that the actual engineers and scientists involved in building the device, planning its mission and experiments on the ISS, and then putting it in an actual rocket and launching it into space...didn't consider all of this?
This is also why the Secret Service collaborates with the FBI and other intelligence agencies to proactively assess threats.
If you've not seen or heard any evidence of a planned attack, and no one potentially has any sort of firepower or exotic weaponry, or could be in DC, then the unarmed crazy man is almost certainly an unarmed crazy man who you should just tackle down.
The same naysayers would be screaming if the Secret Service had shot an unarmed crazy man as being somehow emblematic of Obama being a tyrant.
It also can't remove duplicates automatically or by a rule. For a while when I had an iPhone I ended up using a completely separate app to handle that in the iTunes database.
$1.3 trillion (US) federal tax cost / 12 million people = $11.3 million per person covered. Does that look right so far, or did I fat-finger the calculation? That's US trillion, which is different from UK trillion, I believe.
As has already been pointed out you were off by a factor of 100 and that's assuming the basis of your calculation is correct. It isn't.
They estimate 1.4 trillion over the next __10 years__ with a net cost of $36 billion in 2014. 36 billion for 11 million people is approximately $3300 per person per year. Without considering inflation that is about $33,000 per person over 10 years.
For comparison the US goverment in 2012 spent $4075 per person on healthcare (http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_STAT#).
On a side note, European nations providing free healthcare to their entire population spent about $3500 (Purchasing Parity USD) per person in 2012. Adding in private expenditures and the US spent about 2~2.5x the amount per person on healthcare as comparible nations in Western Europe / Australia / Japan and generally achieved worse out comes in pretty much all categories.
Also to be factored into those long term costs is the proportion of people in the population who will be coming of the age where they need to purchase healthcare - currently circa 15-20 million or so. Factor that they're distributed along the same demography and that's a 800,000 people a year who can be expected to directly benefit (i.e. have health insurance, where they previously wouldn't) each year over the next 10 years, not accounting for people who are likely to benefit from increased competition etc. via other mechanisms (of which the healthcare.gov website is one of them).
Oh it only has the one server in it. It's serving double duty for a file server, an HTPC, network, amp, UPS and some shelving for home routers and stuff. It's just a convenient way to stack all that stuff together and power it.
More importantly: it's a regular, repeating sequence that would visible separate variable data.
Even with no knowledge of what a tab is, it would be obvious in analysing the data that it was doing something special. Anyone with some knowledge of DNA's structure would be able to infer the rest.
My purchase of the year last year was a 42u rack for $1 off ebay.
Though technically I think the seller got a better deal, because I had to navigate that thing down the narrowest stairs ever before getting into an elevator it couldn't stand up in. I think basically I paid them for the removal bill.
It's been shown that all these "helical" polarization schemes are degenerate forms of MIMO essentially, and can't achieve speeds better then what MIMO antenna configurations can.
At short distances in quiet environments, you can do a heck of a lot which will never, ever work anywhere but in that experiment.
There is some level of quarantine - the liberian government blockaded in the slum area where a clinic was raided, and sealed off about 50,000 people. That's probably about the limit of their efforts.
But frankly, you're also ignoring what's been actually happening: such an ambassador catching Ebola in one country, knowingly returning to another (via air travel), then staying in a hotel without telling anyone being treated in secret by a doctor, who also doesn't tell anyone, goes home, and spreads it to his wife.
Queue a couple 1000 potentially infected, by a vector which would be utterly missed due to plain old corruption and idiocy.
So what do you do now? Expand the quarantine? Do you even have enough troops to do that? And in the meantime, what about all the regular issues such as food and water, sanitation and normal completely curable diseases which will take hold.
I think he just doesn't care about things that don't get in his way.
A few weeks ago, when systemd would lock up the system if you turned kernel debugging on, he did have rather colorful opinions about systemd and the systemd developers who insisted that systemd was doing the correct thing.
That's also just Linus reacting to stuff he thinks he's right about. And well, he frequently is. I don't really approve of the way he structures his rants sometimes, but the dude gets things done.
It can be a collection of utilities all dependent on each other, running 3 or 5 or 15 services all communicating with each other, all to bring up the system and supply system state management. This is the simplest and easiest way to make a complex system
Why not make 3-15 modularly written sets of source files, and compile them into a single binary ? It's hardly more complex than 3-15 separate programs, and it makes communication of structured information a lot easier.
And is in fact, how SystemD is put together and intended to be expanded, for better or worse.
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Right, this much I kind of inferred - but what I'm wondering is, surely you could connect a reasonably blunt reading of spinal cord electrical signals to electrodes, and use that to control the stimulation of the walking action. The brain's body map is a pretty fluid vehicle, so even with limited control it seems likely that people would be able to control the synthetic system fairly well.
Actually what I'm wondering here is if they can control how the rat walks, then what's stopping them from using electrical receptors on the other side of the break to let the rat control how it's legs moves? If the technology is precise enough to stimulate, then it can surely be precise enough to receive.
If you look at where it bends, it's pretty clear they don't even need to do that - they could probably get away with simply milling the aluminum thicker around the areas where there are cut outs for the buttons, which are acting as stress concentrators. Plug the whole thing into a simulator and tweak until those areas don't exceed the tensile strength of the region.
I wonder if this actually explains Samsung's resistance to making a metal phone. There's been a lot of commentary of how they just don't do it with their flagships, and the bending issue is the type of thing which your engineers would tell you in testing and simulation.
Breaking the glass is one thing, but that's always been a risk, but bending the case without damaging the glass is quite another and yeah - a ton of plastics would have much better performance then metal in this regard.
Regardless, it seems like Apple could probably afford to fix this by adding a stiffner bar to the case somewhere - a very thin carbon fibre shim wouldn't cost too much at scale, would be basically impossible to break without taking out the glass too.
Why does there have to be an absolute end? An infinity of smaller layers can make a lot more sense then have some ground state which then became another state and never reverted.
You say a zero became a one, but that isn't correct because the very definition of "nothing" by human expectations is non-trivial and non-obvious. People rage as though they're deceived when someone points out that "empty" space generally isn't. depending on your perspective and relative point of view.
The idea of nothing being a default state is born of the human experience, but it is hardly clear it makes sense as a model of the universe in the first place. We imagine nothing as darkness - but any systems model can reverse the terms and model light as dark and dark as light and it will make just as much sense. Nothing is only "dark" because to an animal brain connected to photoreceptors, the dark is a bad state to be in for survival. A bat with echolocation would have a much different perspective.
And you keep implying that 'why' must have universal significance because you can ask it.
The puddle pondering why the ditch it was in is just the right shape for it.
Because it happens all the time in quantum mechanics? Because the heat death of the universe would imply a settling out such that quantum events would become the most energetic events in the universe? Because it might all just be a simulation that was switched on one day, and we can check for certain types of simulations by looking for lattice QCD partitioning that would be aliased into the large structures of the universe, depending on how it was programmed.
You know what these answers all have in common? They're testable. They're explorable. They invite further questioning. They do not require, nor ask for, faith.
Absolutely true. And even though science can disprove the 6k Earth it doesn't mean everything else in religious texts is false. While I don't proscribe to a religion I also don't proscribe to invalidating religion - even if certain elements are suspect that doesn't degrade some lessons to be learned from the texts - faith or not.
The same can be said of any other work of literature.
People tearing down science's ability to answer all questions do so on the faulty assumption that it somehow raises the credence of religion to do the same.
Moreover the Big Bang is just the current limit of measurement. There's no specific reason to think that won't be revised, and several efforts have been made to extend the predictive model to a "pre" Big Bang epoch (for all the meaning that has when time itself is compacted down to infinity - of course, part of it is showing that that isn't quite what happened).
Science establishes the limits of things in-so-far as they can be presently measured by reproducible means.
It actually counts on your resume?
Seriously, you cannot get in the god damn door if you don't have paid experience in the exact area they're looking for. No one cares if you read a book. What does that say on your resume? "Familiar with ".
Any idiot can put that on a resume, everyone does, but they can't put it in their paid experience column which is the one which matters.
Guess which Middle Eastern country we're invading for a 3rd time because it's finally blown up into a situation that would be bad to persist...
For one thing, it doesn't have to support more then a fraction of it's weight against gravity. You could design a space printer that prioritized printable parts, so you only needed to take a much smaller supply of irreplaceable ones.
Yes, melting plastic in a closed environment. Brilliant. Instead of planning for their little hobby-jump in Low Earth Orbit, let's bring a cranky, tiny toy to make coat hangers... (in free-fall LOL). I just love the armchair engineers and programmers here going on about the 3D printer will be this tool to help colonize the universe..
It's baffling to me where this nonsense comes from. I'd expect that from eight year olds, not adults.
But then again, simple math and reality in the video game generation is too much to ask for, I guess.
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We don't even have the Concorde anymore, and you loons are talking about going outside the Solar System as if it's even remotely possible. The only propositions you have are decades-old fantasies.
Reality isn't going away. You're not going anywhere. Not you, not me, not your kids, not their kids, and not whatever will replace us in a hundred thousand years... Evolution is still happening, you know.
As opposed to the idiot who's pretty sure that the actual engineers and scientists involved in building the device, planning its mission and experiments on the ISS, and then putting it in an actual rocket and launching it into space...didn't consider all of this?
This is also why the Secret Service collaborates with the FBI and other intelligence agencies to proactively assess threats.
If you've not seen or heard any evidence of a planned attack, and no one potentially has any sort of firepower or exotic weaponry, or could be in DC, then the unarmed crazy man is almost certainly an unarmed crazy man who you should just tackle down.
The same naysayers would be screaming if the Secret Service had shot an unarmed crazy man as being somehow emblematic of Obama being a tyrant.
It also can't remove duplicates automatically or by a rule. For a while when I had an iPhone I ended up using a completely separate app to handle that in the iTunes database.
$1.3 trillion (US) federal tax cost / 12 million people = $11.3 million per person covered.
Does that look right so far, or did I fat-finger the calculation? That's US trillion, which is different from UK trillion, I believe.
As has already been pointed out you were off by a factor of 100 and that's assuming the basis of your calculation is correct. It isn't.
Here is the actually CBO report: https://cbo.gov/publication/45...
They estimate 1.4 trillion over the next __10 years__ with a net cost of $36 billion in 2014. 36 billion for 11 million people is approximately $3300 per person per year. Without considering inflation that is about $33,000 per person over 10 years.
For comparison the US goverment in 2012 spent $4075 per person on healthcare (http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_STAT#).
On a side note, European nations providing free healthcare to their entire population spent about $3500 (Purchasing Parity USD) per person in 2012. Adding in private expenditures and the US spent about 2~2.5x the amount per person on healthcare as comparible nations in Western Europe / Australia / Japan and generally achieved worse out comes in pretty much all categories.
Also to be factored into those long term costs is the proportion of people in the population who will be coming of the age where they need to purchase healthcare - currently circa 15-20 million or so. Factor that they're distributed along the same demography and that's a 800,000 people a year who can be expected to directly benefit (i.e. have health insurance, where they previously wouldn't) each year over the next 10 years, not accounting for people who are likely to benefit from increased competition etc. via other mechanisms (of which the healthcare.gov website is one of them).
Oh it only has the one server in it. It's serving double duty for a file server, an HTPC, network, amp, UPS and some shelving for home routers and stuff. It's just a convenient way to stack all that stuff together and power it.
How are you UPS'ing for 6 hours?
Images are a sparse data set though. See the preponderance of techniques which rebuild a nearly complete image from 1% of the pixels.
If you took those negatives and tried to write densely packed information to them, how recoverable would it be then?
More importantly: it's a regular, repeating sequence that would visible separate variable data.
Even with no knowledge of what a tab is, it would be obvious in analysing the data that it was doing something special. Anyone with some knowledge of DNA's structure would be able to infer the rest.
My purchase of the year last year was a 42u rack for $1 off ebay.
Though technically I think the seller got a better deal, because I had to navigate that thing down the narrowest stairs ever before getting into an elevator it couldn't stand up in. I think basically I paid them for the removal bill.
You must live in an amazingly quiet RF area, or have paper-thin walls.
With 802.11n I don't see transfer speeds higher then 1.1 mb/s, presuming only 1 device is online.
It's been shown that all these "helical" polarization schemes are degenerate forms of MIMO essentially, and can't achieve speeds better then what MIMO antenna configurations can.
At short distances in quiet environments, you can do a heck of a lot which will never, ever work anywhere but in that experiment.
There is some level of quarantine - the liberian government blockaded in the slum area where a clinic was raided, and sealed off about 50,000 people. That's probably about the limit of their efforts.
But frankly, you're also ignoring what's been actually happening: such an ambassador catching Ebola in one country, knowingly returning to another (via air travel), then staying in a hotel without telling anyone being treated in secret by a doctor, who also doesn't tell anyone, goes home, and spreads it to his wife.
Queue a couple 1000 potentially infected, by a vector which would be utterly missed due to plain old corruption and idiocy.
So what do you do now? Expand the quarantine? Do you even have enough troops to do that? And in the meantime, what about all the regular issues such as food and water, sanitation and normal completely curable diseases which will take hold.
I think he just doesn't care about things that don't get in his way.
A few weeks ago, when systemd would lock up the system if you turned kernel debugging on, he did have rather colorful opinions about systemd and the systemd developers who insisted that systemd was doing the correct thing.
That's also just Linus reacting to stuff he thinks he's right about. And well, he frequently is. I don't really approve of the way he structures his rants sometimes, but the dude gets things done.
It can be a collection of utilities all dependent on each other, running 3 or 5 or 15 services all communicating with each other, all to bring up the system and supply system state management. This is the simplest and easiest way to make a complex system
Why not make 3-15 modularly written sets of source files, and compile them into a single binary ? It's hardly more complex than 3-15 separate programs, and it makes communication of structured information a lot easier.
And is in fact, how SystemD is put together and intended to be expanded, for better or worse.