My opinion on desktop VR has been that really, the application isn't gaming, but just regular desktop productivity.
Most people spend all day wearing headphones or ear phones anyway, so a suitably light-weight helmet wouldn't really be that much of a burden. But with enough resolution, there'd be enormous benefit since you could do away with needing multiple monitors and instead just make the whole 180 degree or more space in front of you your computer "desktop".
Well, he's still right: managing 1000 degrees C when you don't need internal moving parts is a very different question to managing the moving cylinders in an engine. A solid-oxide fuel cell isn't going to have high speed moving components.
Usually people do this for the indirect lighting though. You probably don't want the light on in the room with the TV, but you don't want the house to be completely dark either.
We have something similar in my house actually. That's not the problem - the problem is the asymmetry. Cloud services generally have to presume an upload component when it comes to using them to do work - and you're not going to be able to do that to any appreciable degree stuck on a 1 mbps upload speed.
The US has a wide variety of plans, but the most important thing is that a lot of people have access to upload speeds in excess of 1 megabyte per second, which is about the minimum you'd want for serious remote server use. Where in Australia it is just impossible to get anything with a better upload then ADSL2 for less then many hundreds of dollars a month. Even Annex M isn't very common, and that isn't very good.
Seriously, how anyone uses any of the cloud-based services I know about was a mystery still I started realizing what type of internet you could get for $70 a month in the US.
Presumably if you knew this existed, then you might be able to predict the types of circuits it's tied into and figure out if the function could be activated remotely. After all, causing a microprocessor to lock up in debug mode, even if it would be watchdog-timer reset every few seconds, would be more then enough to effectively inactivate military hardware if you could do it continuously (or on demand).
But it does highlight the dangers in outsourcing production of something as sensitive as military hardware, when there's very few ways to actually verify on-chip silicon as being what you ordered, with no extraneous functionality.
Any particular chip can be reasonably expected to have it's application reverse engineered by an intelligence agency if you know the schematics and an idea of the intended use. If you can't make sure the chip won't do any more then you want it to, then how hard would be it be, really, to slip in backdoor code which reacts to certain inputs? i.e. if you're manufacturing a microwave amplifier IC to be used in a radar system, then something as simple as allowing a certain key of radar pulses to cause the thing to fuzz it's output for a second, or mimic a failure condition, would be disastrous if the chip was ultimately used in a radar guided missile or an F-22. China just issues the appropriate pulse-codes and suddenly there's a mysteriously high failure rate, or greatly reduced combat effectiveness because no one can get a missile lock.
Isn't military production capability the one thing you specifically never ever want to outsource, especially when it's to the people you keep simulating wars with.
Well Americans have one that seems to come down to it every 4 years.
More importantly though, that's got pretty much nothing to do with "capitalism" and seeing as how Ayn Rand couldn't but help contradict her own half-baked philosophy within the very text in which she instantiated, it should tell you something about it's connections to any serious theory of economics.
In-car LCD systems are pretty overpriced really. For my upgrade of my system I've been considering figuring out how the iPad drives it's display and then adapting something like that.
I mean consider the university lecture: you have 50 people in a room, 1 professor delivering essentially a fixed lecture. Even with questions answered live, you would struggle to deal with 10 students who wanted to ask different questions. And my university mathematics lectures were far bigger then that.
But when you think about it, it's also just a grossly inefficient use of resources. We have the technology to deliver lectures whenever we want, at any rate we want, at people's own pace. Surely we can think of a better use of human resources in this equation then narrating a powerpoint presentation.
You have to have an accountant for self-managed super (I think unless you are - legally - one yourself). There's paper work and all, but I believe you can in fact just stick it all in term-deposits after that.
My brother had a fairly hilarious rant lately when he took a look at the 10 year returns for his superfund and realized that on that timescale, term-deposits were beating every other option, and some of them were currently showing negative returns, on top of the fees.
What I was driving at was originally where the analogy breaks - you can't really "store" power - except in the case of not burning fuel.
But you're right: it doesn't really work, since the diversity and variance of generator types makes any naive analysis impossible especially when you factor in human resources. But the underlying point is that if we consider internet router/communications technology carefully, it can be concluded that it's best utilized as close to full capacity as possible, rather then being left under-utilized (though obviously some things - like undersea cable - vary in that). Which I guess makes the wider point being "don't make simplistic arguments".
Really? How do you store power economically? If you know a way to store power on a large scale, and do it in an economically feasible way, you will make a fortune, because no-one else in the industry can figure it out at the moment.
That's one of the magic bullets for Smart Grid. If you have that, intermittent resources such as wind suddenly become much, much, much more useful.
You can shut down a power plant, and it will stop burning fuel. That's how you save power.
It makes no sense to do this with internet technology though, since again, if you have to keep a fiber lit or a router operating, then the difference between idle usage and near capacity usage is negligible
Also worth noting is that in the power plant example, there is the very real issue that you hit diminishing returns because you also have a power line infrastructure to maintain, which, if not moving electricity around, is just sitting there rusting away.
Extramarital sex has been rampant throughout all of human history. It was rampant before we had any real effective birth control at all. Why do you think so many people are related to kings?
Social pressures frowning on single-motherhood don't lead to a lower rate of abortion - they lead to a higher one, the illegal nature increases the number of deaths and oh yeah you can just give birth, and then let the baby die of exposure.
So yeah: citations needed. No official statistics doesn't mean it wasn't happening, seeing as how a society that frowns on pre-marital sex needs to have it's abortions characterized by being amongst other things, secret.
It has historically never been done in such quantity, but more importantly in the locations it is now being proposed. The regulations are clean air and water are being wantonly ignored in the interest of allowing coal-seam gas fracking, and most of the places they want to do it are beneath or near arable farmlands. There solution to destroying natural aquifiers is "just truck water in".
It has all the hallmarks of a corporate smash and grab, only instead of doing the traditional "ruin an African country" gig we're going to ruin large swathes of farmland in our own countries.
I mean the first step of that company is rolling out a mass-producible telescope specifically for spotting near Earth asteroids - something with a dangerous orbit also happens to be a great candidate for resource extraction, and their long term plan (deflect the targets into stable orbits around the moon) - has the benefit of developing the exact tools and techniques we'd need to employ for any type of practical asteroid defense.
I mean, I'd say this is very much on its way to being a solved problem. Go go private sector (and potential piles of platinum).
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My opinion on desktop VR has been that really, the application isn't gaming, but just regular desktop productivity.
Most people spend all day wearing headphones or ear phones anyway, so a suitably light-weight helmet wouldn't really be that much of a burden. But with enough resolution, there'd be enormous benefit since you could do away with needing multiple monitors and instead just make the whole 180 degree or more space in front of you your computer "desktop".
Well, he's still right: managing 1000 degrees C when you don't need internal moving parts is a very different question to managing the moving cylinders in an engine. A solid-oxide fuel cell isn't going to have high speed moving components.
Also the merits of any given argument are not invalidated by the company in which they are held by individuals.
Usually people do this for the indirect lighting though. You probably don't want the light on in the room with the TV, but you don't want the house to be completely dark either.
You usually know you shouldn't mess with eth0 in that situation...but you do it anyway.
We have something similar in my house actually. That's not the problem - the problem is the asymmetry. Cloud services generally have to presume an upload component when it comes to using them to do work - and you're not going to be able to do that to any appreciable degree stuck on a 1 mbps upload speed.
The US has a wide variety of plans, but the most important thing is that a lot of people have access to upload speeds in excess of 1 megabyte per second, which is about the minimum you'd want for serious remote server use. Where in Australia it is just impossible to get anything with a better upload then ADSL2 for less then many hundreds of dollars a month. Even Annex M isn't very common, and that isn't very good.
Oooh I live in Australia: no!
Seriously, how anyone uses any of the cloud-based services I know about was a mystery still I started realizing what type of internet you could get for $70 a month in the US.
No one working in IT or nanotech is innocent. Killing them is protecting the masses from future slavery!
Presumably if you knew this existed, then you might be able to predict the types of circuits it's tied into and figure out if the function could be activated remotely. After all, causing a microprocessor to lock up in debug mode, even if it would be watchdog-timer reset every few seconds, would be more then enough to effectively inactivate military hardware if you could do it continuously (or on demand).
But it does highlight the dangers in outsourcing production of something as sensitive as military hardware, when there's very few ways to actually verify on-chip silicon as being what you ordered, with no extraneous functionality.
Any particular chip can be reasonably expected to have it's application reverse engineered by an intelligence agency if you know the schematics and an idea of the intended use. If you can't make sure the chip won't do any more then you want it to, then how hard would be it be, really, to slip in backdoor code which reacts to certain inputs? i.e. if you're manufacturing a microwave amplifier IC to be used in a radar system, then something as simple as allowing a certain key of radar pulses to cause the thing to fuzz it's output for a second, or mimic a failure condition, would be disastrous if the chip was ultimately used in a radar guided missile or an F-22. China just issues the appropriate pulse-codes and suddenly there's a mysteriously high failure rate, or greatly reduced combat effectiveness because no one can get a missile lock.
Seriously.
Isn't military production capability the one thing you specifically never ever want to outsource, especially when it's to the people you keep simulating wars with.
Well Americans have one that seems to come down to it every 4 years.
More importantly though, that's got pretty much nothing to do with "capitalism" and seeing as how Ayn Rand couldn't but help contradict her own half-baked philosophy within the very text in which she instantiated, it should tell you something about it's connections to any serious theory of economics.
Agreeing with an AC on this.
Profit is still profit.
In-car LCD systems are pretty overpriced really. For my upgrade of my system I've been considering figuring out how the iPad drives it's display and then adapting something like that.
Is it though?
I mean consider the university lecture: you have 50 people in a room, 1 professor delivering essentially a fixed lecture. Even with questions answered live, you would struggle to deal with 10 students who wanted to ask different questions. And my university mathematics lectures were far bigger then that.
But when you think about it, it's also just a grossly inefficient use of resources. We have the technology to deliver lectures whenever we want, at any rate we want, at people's own pace. Surely we can think of a better use of human resources in this equation then narrating a powerpoint presentation.
You have to have an accountant for self-managed super (I think unless you are - legally - one yourself). There's paper work and all, but I believe you can in fact just stick it all in term-deposits after that.
My brother had a fairly hilarious rant lately when he took a look at the 10 year returns for his superfund and realized that on that timescale, term-deposits were beating every other option, and some of them were currently showing negative returns, on top of the fees.
Except the common occurrence is a website gets compromised and they get a plaintext dump of all the passwords.
You can hold onto that data, and match usernames against each other then, or just try your luck with an email account.
Most analogies break down when pushed.
What I was driving at was originally where the analogy breaks - you can't really "store" power - except in the case of not burning fuel.
But you're right: it doesn't really work, since the diversity and variance of generator types makes any naive analysis impossible especially when you factor in human resources. But the underlying point is that if we consider internet router/communications technology carefully, it can be concluded that it's best utilized as close to full capacity as possible, rather then being left under-utilized (though obviously some things - like undersea cable - vary in that). Which I guess makes the wider point being "don't make simplistic arguments".
Really? How do you store power economically? If you know a way to store power on a large scale, and do it in an economically feasible way, you will make a fortune, because no-one else in the industry can figure it out at the moment.
That's one of the magic bullets for Smart Grid. If you have that, intermittent resources such as wind suddenly become much, much, much more useful.
You can shut down a power plant, and it will stop burning fuel. That's how you save power.
It makes no sense to do this with internet technology though, since again, if you have to keep a fiber lit or a router operating, then the difference between idle usage and near capacity usage is negligible
Also worth noting is that in the power plant example, there is the very real issue that you hit diminishing returns because you also have a power line infrastructure to maintain, which, if not moving electricity around, is just sitting there rusting away.
[citations needed]
Extramarital sex has been rampant throughout all of human history. It was rampant before we had any real effective birth control at all. Why do you think so many people are related to kings?
Social pressures frowning on single-motherhood don't lead to a lower rate of abortion - they lead to a higher one, the illegal nature increases the number of deaths and oh yeah you can just give birth, and then let the baby die of exposure.
So yeah: citations needed. No official statistics doesn't mean it wasn't happening, seeing as how a society that frowns on pre-marital sex needs to have it's abortions characterized by being amongst other things, secret.
It's cute that you think "owning" your land means anything absent the protections of the state in the first place.
It has historically never been done in such quantity, but more importantly in the locations it is now being proposed. The regulations are clean air and water are being wantonly ignored in the interest of allowing coal-seam gas fracking, and most of the places they want to do it are beneath or near arable farmlands. There solution to destroying natural aquifiers is "just truck water in".
It has all the hallmarks of a corporate smash and grab, only instead of doing the traditional "ruin an African country" gig we're going to ruin large swathes of farmland in our own countries.
Aren't we way ahead on this with asteroid mining?
I mean the first step of that company is rolling out a mass-producible telescope specifically for spotting near Earth asteroids - something with a dangerous orbit also happens to be a great candidate for resource extraction, and their long term plan (deflect the targets into stable orbits around the moon) - has the benefit of developing the exact tools and techniques we'd need to employ for any type of practical asteroid defense.
I mean, I'd say this is very much on its way to being a solved problem. Go go private sector (and potential piles of platinum).
Also Goldman-Sachs happily helped Greece cook the books to get into the EU.