Perhaps, but the excessive use of CAPITAL letters, does not help his case much.
The trouble is not mathematics though, it is philosophy, which some argue is a ridiculous thing as their version of science trumps all philosophy. A perhaps untenable philosophical position.
As one who believes in the existence of a creator, I am unsure I find his arguments convincing on a philosophical level. Deism is functionally indistinguishable from agnosticism or outright atheism..
I fully agree. It is a huge problem. The trouble is, in our sensationalist media, who do you give more air-time to? Westboro? Or, say John Lennox(or any other vocal Christian who'd be against Westboro)? Which sells better? A dry boring treatise on why Westboro are really really wrong or pictures of some idiots picketing a funeral?
Society doesn't want to see logic and reason from anyone! No, we as consumers demand sensationalism. That way we can vilify anyone who is wrong and we don't really have to think about it too hard.
The problem with sane Christians, (like sane Atheists, Republicans, Democrats, Muslims, Hindus, and pretty much any group you can think of) is they tend not to shout that loudly. That doesn't imply that they don't exist, or even that they may not be the majority.
If someone shouts too loudly, my suggestion is to ignore them, they will likely eventually go away.
It doesn't actually look that bad. I did a lot of Pentium 1(pre MMX) stuff many years ago, and I could remember and properly use a fair percentage of it. That is only perhaps twice as long. I would imagine a compiler designer would be comfortable with the majority of that, and then some (pipeline optimizations, etc).
But I do agree with you, RISC or near RISC is perhaps better. Especially now memory is cheaper. Cache memory never seems to get cheaper though, not the real fast Level 1 stuff anyway...
Error: 25367. Watchdog timer failed. This phone will now self destruct.
You're the legit owner and now your head has assploded. Welcome to the weird world of embedded systems, where the not every combination of failure can always be accounted for. I get the sentiment you have, but I'd never buy such a device.
To be honest, I haven't quantified either figure, so it may then be a well worthwhile investment. Though having an engineering leaning, while I understand the value, I often wonder if we couldn't extract useful work as a byproduct of the mining process. Riecoin and primecoin may do this, but I question the practical uses of their results...
My point? Simply that a lot of the things we do "because we want to" have other purposes that might be useful in an objective sense beyond fulfilling "because we want to." Parachuting and diamond mining are bad examples of things we " tend to do things because we want to, not because it makes sense [poster]." I am fairly confident the poster would see the sense in them.
Hardened carbon does have industrial uses. Jumping out of aeroplanes has military applications. Not sure what applications bitcoin mining has apart from an expensive to run currency. Maybe worthwhile for just that, I don't know.
Sacrilege! The car analogy is always appropriate! Burn the AC Heretic! All we need do is make the analogy more out of this world; if someone 3d printed a copy of your car (license plates included), should you be liable for their crimes with the copy of the vehicle?
[sarcasm]Oh, wow! Just because I only mentioned Thorium cycle reactors means we certainly can't consider any other designs! My mistake then![/sarcasm]
I mentioned the most interesting (as far as I can see) upcoming fission technology. In reality the rise of passive safety designs (i.e. unlike fukushima, if power fails, the reactor simply shuts down completely) amoung other ideas to do with safety can make things a lot safer.
I wouldn't let an 18 year old near any important embedded system. I would be suspicious of any 23 year old with 5 years experience. Developing embedded systems rests on some fairly specific thought processes and you can be clever as you like, but unless you have the training to think in the right way, you will certainly screw up. Not only that, I don't know that many 18 year old who can do math at the required level.
It isn't about the ability to code, so much as the ability to be thorough and exhaustive about understand the process or application and considering all possibilities. Some of the stuff I do, I would not really fully understand without my degree. Some of the maths is way beyond high school level.
It isn't impossible, but as I say, I would be very suspicious.
I haven't done nearly enough due diligence on Fukushima either, but I did get the impression it was better handled. Then we're comparing it to the Russians, so that may not be hard. I think the point being that a more modern passive shutdown reactor would fair better.
The rational(?) power generating corporations may not be that much better than the general populace. Having worked a bit in the industry, I have seen them cut corners happily... Then again, this is Africa, and I think I may well be cynical. Competition from the lowest bidder (i.e. China in this case) is fierce, and the product quality is often poor.
You don't always need to convince people of the truth... Which is why I would imagine anyone (read:not me) capable of this would either be amoung the most powerful and affluent, or at least soon to be so... I suppose that might not work out so well, since the... uh victims... might realise fairly quickly. I don't suppose you become powerful by being stupid...
In fact I wasn't attempting economic commentary(IANAE), just commenting on the fact that the graphs they drew look a lot like the ones from my old university text books...
Well, simply put, how is Fukushima compared to Chernobyl? We may just be getting a bit better at this and the fact is, our world is fairly large and the nuclear power related incidents so far are relatively minor.
Your idea is pretty good, but why would that company not also cut corners? I don't get how centralizing helps - it just gives a central point for the corruption to occur. Or maybe living in Africa has made me a bit cynical.
From what I recall of my physics, no, but I will listen to the experts on that - I may recall wrong. I seem to recall that it depends on the material. The point being that it might be easier to contain even deadly radiation for 100 years than moderate radiation for 10 000 years. Ever try designing a container to last 10 or 100 thousand years?
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Perhaps, but the excessive use of CAPITAL letters, does not help his case much.
The trouble is not mathematics though, it is philosophy, which some argue is a ridiculous thing as their version of science trumps all philosophy. A perhaps untenable philosophical position.
As one who believes in the existence of a creator, I am unsure I find his arguments convincing on a philosophical level. Deism is functionally indistinguishable from agnosticism or outright atheism..
I fully agree. It is a huge problem. The trouble is, in our sensationalist media, who do you give more air-time to? Westboro? Or, say John Lennox(or any other vocal Christian who'd be against Westboro)? Which sells better? A dry boring treatise on why Westboro are really really wrong or pictures of some idiots picketing a funeral?
Society doesn't want to see logic and reason from anyone! No, we as consumers demand sensationalism. That way we can vilify anyone who is wrong and we don't really have to think about it too hard.
The problem with sane Christians, (like sane Atheists, Republicans, Democrats, Muslims, Hindus, and pretty much any group you can think of) is they tend not to shout that loudly. That doesn't imply that they don't exist, or even that they may not be the majority.
If someone shouts too loudly, my suggestion is to ignore them, they will likely eventually go away.
Let me help you out. The Devil went down to Georgia is a song about a man who can play the violin better than the devil. Look it up.
You must drive a Lada.
Waiting for process "ExchangeFetch" to terminate... *Explosion.
Yeah, I'll still pass.
It doesn't actually look that bad. I did a lot of Pentium 1(pre MMX) stuff many years ago, and I could remember and properly use a fair percentage of it. That is only perhaps twice as long. I would imagine a compiler designer would be comfortable with the majority of that, and then some (pipeline optimizations, etc).
But I do agree with you, RISC or near RISC is perhaps better. Especially now memory is cheaper. Cache memory never seems to get cheaper though, not the real fast Level 1 stuff anyway...
Apparently TechyImmigrant below may not be human....
Error: 25367. Watchdog timer failed. This phone will now self destruct.
You're the legit owner and now your head has assploded. Welcome to the weird world of embedded systems, where the not every combination of failure can always be accounted for. I get the sentiment you have, but I'd never buy such a device.
To be honest, I haven't quantified either figure, so it may then be a well worthwhile investment. Though having an engineering leaning, while I understand the value, I often wonder if we couldn't extract useful work as a byproduct of the mining process. Riecoin and primecoin may do this, but I question the practical uses of their results...
My point? Simply that a lot of the things we do "because we want to" have other purposes that might be useful in an objective sense beyond fulfilling "because we want to." Parachuting and diamond mining are bad examples of things we " tend to do things because we want to, not because it makes sense [poster]." I am fairly confident the poster would see the sense in them.
Hardened carbon does have industrial uses. Jumping out of aeroplanes has military applications. Not sure what applications bitcoin mining has apart from an expensive to run currency. Maybe worthwhile for just that, I don't know.
So? I see no ethical problem time shifting content that has already been paid for. If you use the internet for that, so what?
The ethical issue arises if the content had not been paid for at all.
I feel we should update that joke to include Vista somehow.
Sacrilege! The car analogy is always appropriate! Burn the AC Heretic! All we need do is make the analogy more out of this world; if someone 3d printed a copy of your car (license plates included), should you be liable for their crimes with the copy of the vehicle?
No, his dissertation had obviously been overturned, and using MacWrite, he was able to right it. :D
It isn't about efficiently. It is about not blowing up large systems because the kid made a mistake on the embedded system.
[sarcasm]Oh, wow! Just because I only mentioned Thorium cycle reactors means we certainly can't consider any other designs! My mistake then![/sarcasm]
I mentioned the most interesting (as far as I can see) upcoming fission technology. In reality the rise of passive safety designs (i.e. unlike fukushima, if power fails, the reactor simply shuts down completely) amoung other ideas to do with safety can make things a lot safer.
I wouldn't let an 18 year old near any important embedded system. I would be suspicious of any 23 year old with 5 years experience. Developing embedded systems rests on some fairly specific thought processes and you can be clever as you like, but unless you have the training to think in the right way, you will certainly screw up. Not only that, I don't know that many 18 year old who can do math at the required level.
It isn't about the ability to code, so much as the ability to be thorough and exhaustive about understand the process or application and considering all possibilities. Some of the stuff I do, I would not really fully understand without my degree. Some of the maths is way beyond high school level.
It isn't impossible, but as I say, I would be very suspicious.
This may work, but it would take some setting up...
Wow, given the comments here, it is like I didn't even mention the waste! Amazing.
As noted elsewhere, there are reactors that improve on the current state of affairs re: waste.
I haven't done nearly enough due diligence on Fukushima either, but I did get the impression it was better handled. Then we're comparing it to the Russians, so that may not be hard. I think the point being that a more modern passive shutdown reactor would fair better.
The rational(?) power generating corporations may not be that much better than the general populace. Having worked a bit in the industry, I have seen them cut corners happily... Then again, this is Africa, and I think I may well be cynical. Competition from the lowest bidder (i.e. China in this case) is fierce, and the product quality is often poor.
You don't always need to convince people of the truth... Which is why I would imagine anyone (read:not me) capable of this would either be amoung the most powerful and affluent, or at least soon to be so... I suppose that might not work out so well, since the ... uh victims... might realise fairly quickly. I don't suppose you become powerful by being stupid...
In fact I wasn't attempting economic commentary(IANAE), just commenting on the fact that the graphs they drew look a lot like the ones from my old university text books...
Well, simply put, how is Fukushima compared to Chernobyl? We may just be getting a bit better at this and the fact is, our world is fairly large and the nuclear power related incidents so far are relatively minor.
Your idea is pretty good, but why would that company not also cut corners? I don't get how centralizing helps - it just gives a central point for the corruption to occur. Or maybe living in Africa has made me a bit cynical.
From what I recall of my physics, no, but I will listen to the experts on that - I may recall wrong. I seem to recall that it depends on the material. The point being that it might be easier to contain even deadly radiation for 100 years than moderate radiation for 10 000 years. Ever try designing a container to last 10 or 100 thousand years?