Well, since power usage is directly related to heat output, we could benchmark SSD's versus standar drives much more scientifically; we could even use the author's broken benchmarking tool. Put the hard drive into a calorimeter, run the benchmark for 10 minutes and measure the total heat output. Repeat for the drive you are benchmarking against and presto, actual, scientific numbers on power usage for just that device, rather than simply plugging away until the battery runs dry.
In the hybrid, the mitochondria mostly come from the egg, initially making up around half of the DNA by weight, and the team will do experiments in order to ensure that the trace of human mitochondrial DNA takes over, not least because it is designed to work with human nuclear DNA.
Apparently they are trying to remove the Pig Mitochondria as well, or atleast make the human mitochondria dominant.
The summary seems to imply that they are creating embryos which combine genetic material from humans and pigs. The article, on the other hand, says that they are taking 100% human DNA and implanting them into pig egg cells which have had their DNA removed. I think it's safe to to say that there is a huge difference between the two ideas.
My wife works for a small investment advisor firm, they probably have 1500-2000 clients with all their information on file. If a criminal went for their backup tapes rather than whatever loose paperwork happened to be floating around they could have every single one of them. Their security basically consists of the Admin Assistants asking people who they are there to see, I doubt they even have a lock on the server room door.
I had nothing but great respect for Powell, up until the point that he lied and mislead the country on the reasons to go to war in Iraq.
Remember, it was Powell holding the vial of "anthrax" in the UN chambers, even to the point to telling how many people that amount of Anthrax could theoretically kill even if the actual number was much much lower. It was Powell who presented the "intelligence" that supported the idea that Iraq had WMD's, including satellite photos "mobile chemical weapons factories" that turned out to be ordinary semi-trailers.
If you can tell me with a straight face that Powell knew nothing about the lies and exagerrations in these presentations, maybe I could support him for political office. Until then, I will see him as nothing other than the biggest sellout in recent memory.
One, which has been discussed here at length, is a nano-scale black hole is formed and is somehow stable. It falls to the center of the earth and over the course of anywhere from months to billions of years (depending on who's numbers you believe) it eats all the mass of the Earth, killing everyone.
Two, the collisions produce stranglets, which are more stable the regular nuclie and set off a runaway sub-atomic fusion reaction, turning the earth into a very small "Strange Star". This would happen relatively quickly, in a matter of seconds or minutes.
There have been other concerns raised but they are generally considered scientifically implausible. Magnetic mono-poles (magnetic particles with only one pole) which could produce a chain reation similar to stranglets. I also seem to remember a couple of years ago someone was arguing that the LHC could produce a negative vaccume pressure (or something along those lines) that would spread from the LHC at the speed of light until it had destroyed all the visible universe, so I guess you could say that would be the absolute worst case.
The philosophy of the argument is very, very important. The government setup equipment that could have convievably allowed them to monitor any phone conversation in the US.
Now, whether that capability was used or not is important, but the fact that the capability existed at all is also important. Would you let the government install cameras in your house as long as they promised to only watch criminals that they had a warrant for?
Actually, they don't do research. They organize and fund research, but DARPA itself does little to no research as an organization. In fact, they must be pretty desperate for people as they only directly employ about 200 people (According to Wikipedia some even call the agency "100 geniuses connected by a travel agent").
The planets found are "earth-like" because they are believed to be rocky, terrestrial planets. Right now, we can only detect such small, lightweight planets when they are very, very close to their star.
The fact that we see so many of them gives some hope to the idea that there are many terrestrial planets out there and that some of them would be in the habitable zone. We can't yet see planets that might support life so right now we look for planets that share some characteristics with Earth, in this case size.
Short orbital periods are much easier to detect. Most planet hunting activity today is done by watching the parent star for changes in velocity. When a planet is close to the star the changes are both larger and faster, making them much easier to detect.
Elections are seldom decided on the issues, at least not the issues that matter. Most are decided on charisma, single issues (abortion, gay rights), and worst of all, percieved electability. If Obama hadn't won IA, he would not have stood a chance the rest of the election cycle.
By winning IA he said to a lot of people, "Yes, a black man can win a white, rural state". Without that established, a vote for Obama would have felt like a vote for Nader; more a statement against the Edwards and Clinton than for him. Unfortunatly, by attacking Obama on this issue, Clinton established the idea that white working class people dislike Obama. Groupthink followed and now Obama has to win all those voters back before the general election.
Correlation != Causation. This is true. However, you seem to misunderstand what correlation is. Correlation is not examining rapists and seeing what they all have in common. Correlation is graphing violent sexual tendencies against the amount of porn consumed.
As milk consumption increases and there is no corresponding increase in violent sexual practices there is no correlation. If, as porn consumption increases there is a corresponding increase in ciolent sexual practices then the correlation is valid.
I'm not saying that this correlation exists and I am certainly not saying that this correlation would mean anything, but you are not representing your oponents ideas fairly with your argument. You could just as well use the same argument to deny any correlation no matter how well established.
For example, most people with lung cancer smoked. Most people with lung cancer also skinned their knees learning to ride a bike. Therefore, by your argument, skinned knees are equally likely to be the cause of lung cancer.
The president may not enact laws but generally they do set the discussions and have a huge influence on their party's congressman's behavior. Combine that with the fact that, according to current polls, the democrats may control up to 60 senate votes (more likely ~57).
Obama, at least, will be able to exert significant influence over all of these issues; McCain? probably less so.
On the other hand it could make a handy mobile bookmarks system. Just do a search for "aeqoucqoueiriue123" then add all your bookmarks to the results. Next time you want to see your bookmarks just do the same search again.
So, lets say that the average lifespan for my generation is 75 years and I'm currently 25 years old. I can expect another 50 years of life before I die of old age.
Then lets say that your friend is correct and any significant improvement will take the next 30 years of research and that when completed gives us another 20 years. Now my expected lifespan is 95 years and my age is 55. Though 30 years have passed I can still expect 40 more years of life.
There are two posibilities then.
1) Each new improvement will be much, much harder than the last (the next 20 year extention takes 40 years to develop). 2) Each new improvement is based off the last and using improved knowledge and computation power is developed faster than the last (the next 20 year extention takes 20 years to develop).
If option 1, I die at the ripe of age of about 120. If option 2, I live on indefinately as new research continues to increase my life expenctency faster than I am dying of old age.
If I remember right, the singularists would agree with you; if we advance at the speed we currently do, AI is centuries away. Where they would disagree with you is in assuming that we will continue to advance at our current rate.
I've heard estimates that we will experience 20,000 years of progress (at the current rate) during the next 100 years. It sounds insane, but if you think back to the year 1900... no polio vaccine, no relativity/quantum mechanics, no airplanes, no electronics, no radar, no X-rays, etc, etc, etc...
Things have changed a lot in the past 100 years, if progress continues as it has, even slashdotters will be massively behind the cutting edge by the time thier grandchildren are born.
To me, that looks like pure panic. In the long run every one of those actions is going to cost them. Luckily, the place where I work is showing no signs of panic. The only action taken has been to let a few underperformers go, they're still planning on hiring 400-500 new engineers this year.
The market is growing quickly. In 2007, with sales of 575,000 systems, rugged notebooks made up only about 1% of the global notebook market. However, Krebs forecasts growth for rugged systems to top 11% annually, with sales reaching 879,000 systems in 2011. So, they expect it to grow rapidly from 1% of the market all the way up to... 1.5% of the market over the next 3 years. Wooo!
Which is, of course, the point of the analogy. There are more costs associated with Spame than just the cost of forwarding it through your servers. Your customers get pissed and don't trust you, you have to have customer support to deal with phishing scams, you need extra hardware to handle the increased load and since the loads are higher there are more failures. Eventually, you just bite the bullet and pay for some anti-Spam software the prevents it from reaching your customers.
Not all religions insist that other religions are going to hell. Unitarianism especially stresses that all religions are a path to truth. Many others insist that the afterlife is determined by one's actions rather than one's beliefs.
Even the Roman Catholic Church (one of those considered more political and conservative in nature) doesn't condemn people of other faiths to hell. The Pope recently prayed with a Muslim in a Mosque, stating that Islam and Christianity looked upon two faces of the same God.
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It's called conservation of energy; in a closed system (such as a colorimeter) all the energy will be converted to heat.
Well, since power usage is directly related to heat output, we could benchmark SSD's versus standar drives much more scientifically; we could even use the author's broken benchmarking tool. Put the hard drive into a calorimeter, run the benchmark for 10 minutes and measure the total heat output. Repeat for the drive you are benchmarking against and presto, actual, scientific numbers on power usage for just that device, rather than simply plugging away until the battery runs dry.
In the hybrid, the mitochondria mostly come from the egg, initially making up around half of the DNA by weight, and the team will do experiments in order to ensure that the trace of human mitochondrial DNA takes over, not least because it is designed to work with human nuclear DNA.
Apparently they are trying to remove the Pig Mitochondria as well, or atleast make the human mitochondria dominant.
The summary seems to imply that they are creating embryos which combine genetic material from humans and pigs. The article, on the other hand, says that they are taking 100% human DNA and implanting them into pig egg cells which have had their DNA removed. I think it's safe to to say that there is a huge difference between the two ideas.
My wife works for a small investment advisor firm, they probably have 1500-2000 clients with all their information on file. If a criminal went for their backup tapes rather than whatever loose paperwork happened to be floating around they could have every single one of them. Their security basically consists of the Admin Assistants asking people who they are there to see, I doubt they even have a lock on the server room door.
I had nothing but great respect for Powell, up until the point that he lied and mislead the country on the reasons to go to war in Iraq.
Remember, it was Powell holding the vial of "anthrax" in the UN chambers, even to the point to telling how many people that amount of Anthrax could theoretically kill even if the actual number was much much lower. It was Powell who presented the "intelligence" that supported the idea that Iraq had WMD's, including satellite photos "mobile chemical weapons factories" that turned out to be ordinary semi-trailers.
If you can tell me with a straight face that Powell knew nothing about the lies and exagerrations in these presentations, maybe I could support him for political office. Until then, I will see him as nothing other than the biggest sellout in recent memory.
There are at least two world ending scenarios:
One, which has been discussed here at length, is a nano-scale black hole is formed and is somehow stable. It falls to the center of the earth and over the course of anywhere from months to billions of years (depending on who's numbers you believe) it eats all the mass of the Earth, killing everyone.
Two, the collisions produce stranglets, which are more stable the regular nuclie and set off a runaway sub-atomic fusion reaction, turning the earth into a very small "Strange Star". This would happen relatively quickly, in a matter of seconds or minutes.
There have been other concerns raised but they are generally considered scientifically implausible. Magnetic mono-poles (magnetic particles with only one pole) which could produce a chain reation similar to stranglets. I also seem to remember a couple of years ago someone was arguing that the LHC could produce a negative vaccume pressure (or something along those lines) that would spread from the LHC at the speed of light until it had destroyed all the visible universe, so I guess you could say that would be the absolute worst case.
The philosophy of the argument is very, very important. The government setup equipment that could have convievably allowed them to monitor any phone conversation in the US.
Now, whether that capability was used or not is important, but the fact that the capability existed at all is also important. Would you let the government install cameras in your house as long as they promised to only watch criminals that they had a warrant for?
Actually, they don't do research. They organize and fund research, but DARPA itself does little to no research as an organization. In fact, they must be pretty desperate for people as they only directly employ about 200 people (According to Wikipedia some even call the agency "100 geniuses connected by a travel agent").
The planets found are "earth-like" because they are believed to be rocky, terrestrial planets. Right now, we can only detect such small, lightweight planets when they are very, very close to their star.
The fact that we see so many of them gives some hope to the idea that there are many terrestrial planets out there and that some of them would be in the habitable zone. We can't yet see planets that might support life so right now we look for planets that share some characteristics with Earth, in this case size.
Short orbital periods are much easier to detect. Most planet hunting activity today is done by watching the parent star for changes in velocity. When a planet is close to the star the changes are both larger and faster, making them much easier to detect.
Elections are seldom decided on the issues, at least not the issues that matter. Most are decided on charisma, single issues (abortion, gay rights), and worst of all, percieved electability. If Obama hadn't won IA, he would not have stood a chance the rest of the election cycle.
By winning IA he said to a lot of people, "Yes, a black man can win a white, rural state". Without that established, a vote for Obama would have felt like a vote for Nader; more a statement against the Edwards and Clinton than for him. Unfortunatly, by attacking Obama on this issue, Clinton established the idea that white working class people dislike Obama. Groupthink followed and now Obama has to win all those voters back before the general election.
On the other hand they could just say, "Tell us the keys and you'll only get 10 years in prison."
Because no one should have a problem with the government using fear tactics to pass legislation that the puplic would otherwise resist.
Just because you agree with the end result doesn't make it right.
Correlation != Causation. This is true. However, you seem to misunderstand what correlation is. Correlation is not examining rapists and seeing what they all have in common. Correlation is graphing violent sexual tendencies against the amount of porn consumed.
As milk consumption increases and there is no corresponding increase in violent sexual practices there is no correlation. If, as porn consumption increases there is a corresponding increase in ciolent sexual practices then the correlation is valid.
I'm not saying that this correlation exists and I am certainly not saying that this correlation would mean anything, but you are not representing your oponents ideas fairly with your argument. You could just as well use the same argument to deny any correlation no matter how well established.
For example, most people with lung cancer smoked. Most people with lung cancer also skinned their knees learning to ride a bike. Therefore, by your argument, skinned knees are equally likely to be the cause of lung cancer.
The president may not enact laws but generally they do set the discussions and have a huge influence on their party's congressman's behavior. Combine that with the fact that, according to current polls, the democrats may control up to 60 senate votes (more likely ~57).
Obama, at least, will be able to exert significant influence over all of these issues; McCain? probably less so.
On the other hand it could make a handy mobile bookmarks system. Just do a search for "aeqoucqoueiriue123" then add all your bookmarks to the results. Next time you want to see your bookmarks just do the same search again.
So, lets say that the average lifespan for my generation is 75 years and I'm currently 25 years old. I can expect another 50 years of life before I die of old age.
Then lets say that your friend is correct and any significant improvement will take the next 30 years of research and that when completed gives us another 20 years. Now my expected lifespan is 95 years and my age is 55. Though 30 years have passed I can still expect 40 more years of life.
There are two posibilities then.
1) Each new improvement will be much, much harder than the last (the next 20 year extention takes 40 years to develop).
2) Each new improvement is based off the last and using improved knowledge and computation power is developed faster than the last (the next 20 year extention takes 20 years to develop).
If option 1, I die at the ripe of age of about 120. If option 2, I live on indefinately as new research continues to increase my life expenctency faster than I am dying of old age.
If I remember right, the singularists would agree with you; if we advance at the speed we currently do, AI is centuries away. Where they would disagree with you is in assuming that we will continue to advance at our current rate.
I've heard estimates that we will experience 20,000 years of progress (at the current rate) during the next 100 years. It sounds insane, but if you think back to the year 1900... no polio vaccine, no relativity/quantum mechanics, no airplanes, no electronics, no radar, no X-rays, etc, etc, etc...
Things have changed a lot in the past 100 years, if progress continues as it has, even slashdotters will be massively behind the cutting edge by the time thier grandchildren are born.
To me, that looks like pure panic. In the long run every one of those actions is going to cost them. Luckily, the place where I work is showing no signs of panic. The only action taken has been to let a few underperformers go, they're still planning on hiring 400-500 new engineers this year.
"Aside from the couple of loonies, I think that went quite well."
How much does it suck to have to say that during the announcement of your career.
Whoops. I stand corrected. College calculus leads to not being able to do simple math in your head I think.
Which is, of course, the point of the analogy. There are more costs associated with Spame than just the cost of forwarding it through your servers. Your customers get pissed and don't trust you, you have to have customer support to deal with phishing scams, you need extra hardware to handle the increased load and since the loads are higher there are more failures. Eventually, you just bite the bullet and pay for some anti-Spam software the prevents it from reaching your customers.
Not all religions insist that other religions are going to hell. Unitarianism especially stresses that all religions are a path to truth. Many others insist that the afterlife is determined by one's actions rather than one's beliefs.
Even the Roman Catholic Church (one of those considered more political and conservative in nature) doesn't condemn people of other faiths to hell. The Pope recently prayed with a Muslim in a Mosque, stating that Islam and Christianity looked upon two faces of the same God.