The idea would be to have 1 powerful server that would serve multiple users. One box to maintain, upgrade, and update. One box to store you files, one box to install programs on. Think of it like a mini-cloud. Obviously the average home doesn't have 10 users, but the average classroom, library, place of business does (and yes, I think tablets can have a role to play in a business setting, used along side PCs and laptops).
I still don't understand why no one has done a thin client tablet, with the real horsepower being a server, or even just server software, sitting on your home network somewhere. Most everyone has a desktop or laptop with multiple times more computing power than a tablet. Use wireless N to get the speeds you need for input and display and you could have 10 tablets for $50 each running off a single PC shoved in a closet somewhere. Yeah, no portability, but portability isn't the be all end all for many users.
Unlimited, to me, in this context, means "as much as our network can support". That means that if I connect to a cell tower, I expect to receive 100 / (number of people actively using data) % of their service or the max my phone will allow, whichever is lower. If the problem were at the spectrum level they wouldn't have to artificially limit data speed, the waveform implementation in the phone and the tower would do that automatically to support all the connected users.
Look around at Google's investment relations pages, read their mission statement, review their bylaws. Seriously, if you're not going to do your due diligence before investing in a company you can't blame anyone but yourself. Their information explicitly says they have no plans to pay dividends. They explicitly say they take risks and maintain a long term focus. They explicitly say they believe building value for the users it he way to build value for the shareholders. They don't say they are out to maximize profit, or short term shareholder value.
I agree, I stumbled on that the other day and watched it all the way through. I was more interested and engaged in his verbal telling of the story than I ever was in any of the prequels. It is exactly what the prequel should have been, with surprisingly minimal changes to the overarching plot... if I were a movie producer in a world with loose copyright and trademark laws I'd greenlight his version in a heartbeat.
Magnets couldn't hold it up from the ground at that range.
You're just not thinking big enough. They're talking about running hundreds of mega-amps along wires in the ground and dozens of mega-amps through wires in the ramp. The magnetic field will be massive in size, and massive in strength, enough to provide 4 tons of levitating force for each meter of rail (2x the weight of the system per meter). There will be problems; lots and lots of problems, which is why I prefer the launch loop idea, but there's no reason their theory isn't sound.
All the equations that say what is and isn't 'possible' in space are really describing what is and isn't economical. If you cut the cost of LEO by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude, lots of things that sound ridiculously impractical now become feasible. If you can cut the cost of LEO from $10,000 / kg to $100 / kg, space based solar becomes practical. If you drop it to $10 / kg it becomes the cheapest energy source available. And that's ignoring all the other benefits that cheap LEO travel would bring.
You're imagining a 12 mile high roller coaster. They're proposing a pair of superconducting cables, one on the 'ramp' and one on the ground, that would repel each other, lifting the ramp into the air (stabilized by cables). Obviously there's some difficulties there, but they aren't talking about building a compressive structure 12 miles high. Personally I prefer the launch loop idea, which uses kinetic energy to hold the ramp and transfer power to the launch vehicle, since I feel there's less unknowns there. But there's no reason a magnetic system couldn't, in theory, work.
35756 Km of cable is going to weigh quite a bit no matter what you make it out of, multiply that by $10,000 per Kg and you've got one heck of a problem to solve right there when it comes to building a space elevator. Several non-rocket launch technologies, the star tram included, can be build from the ground, you could build the whole thing without a single rocket launch. The same can be said about space fountains and (my personal non-rocket launch technology) launch loops.
The ban on being alone with his daughter seems overly harsh but I can appreciate why.
You're not a parent obviously. Not being able to be alone with my daughter would be devastating to me and my family. Not only is it unwarranted, unjust, and probably unconstitutional, it is also massively disruptive to the day to day workings of the modern family. This isn't the freakin 60s, I have an active and important role in my child's life; I get her out of bed in the morning, take her to day care, take off work when she's sick... etc etc. There is a chance that he looked up child porn, but this 'precaution' is being implemented on essentially zero evidence and without any due process.
Also, 4 months? They're worried about him spending 5 minutes alone with his own child and it's been 4 months without any decision as to whether he's a violent sexual predator or a good, (overly-)responsible parent. So which is it? Is he so dangerous he can't be trusted with his own flesh and blood or is he so innocuous that there's no need to actually, you know... investigate him?
2. Correct, though from the only tests I heard of in the past none damaged the patient in an unexpected way.
Not unexpected, but at least one of the patients ended up in the ICU for a couple weeks as his body effectively fought off the most massive infection (from the immune system's point of view) a human has ever seen. You can't have 10 lbs of cancerous mass dissolve off your body in a week without there being some pretty serious repercussions to the rest of your body.
The only way keeping food aide out of North Korea is going to take down the dictatorship is if so many North Korean civilians die of starvation that there aren't enough peasants left to support the military. The upper levels just don't care if their people die, and the common people are too overworked, hungry, brainwashed, and outnumbered to even consider rising up in rebellion.
Alternatively, we sent desperately needed food to people who are starving to death by the tens of thousands and got a temporary concession out of the North Korean government in the process. And don't tell me it just supports the dictatorship either, do you really think the people of North Korea are about to rise up and overthrow the Kim family business? It's not going to happen until something major goes down, either a military coupe from within or a 2 week war with one of their neighbors, neither of which will be effected by us giving them food aide.
The plain fact of the matter is that people are starving in North Korea, not a handful, not by the hundreds, but by the thousands or tens of thousands. I'm well away that giving food aid is seen by some as supporting the regime but in all honesty I don't see the people of North Korea rising up to overthrow their oppressors in any event. Given the choice between letting tens of thousands of people die so that we can look tough or sending some food... I'm gonna send the food. I may as well try to get some concessions, even temporary ones, as part of the bargain.
[...] while changing the rules of society in order to gain more and more and more.
To be fair, rather than changing the rules he just chooses to ignore them, or at the very least interpret them in a way that allows him to make millions of dollars at other people's expense. I completely agree that the current copyright and patent system is broken and unrealistic in a modern world, but that doesn't mean I think people should be able to become multi-millionares by helping people distribute other people's work.
If he has a mortgage on his $5 million house that alone will eat into most of that amount. And there are good reasons the fabulously wealthy would have a loan rather than pay cash, namely the fact that once you get to a certain amount of money, using it to generate more money is pretty easy. You'll probably come out better off with a loan with a crazy low interest rate (since you have the cash and income to cover it times 10) and invest the same money in something else (if you make even a 7% profit you come out well ahead).
Guess which American President has killed more Jews via drone strike than Hitler? Barack Obama. Almost certainly true (though I have no actual data to back it up), and absolutely certainly meaningless. What, exactly, are you trying to get across here?
Whereas the raw death rate of the user cohort was 4.86 times that of non-user controls (table 1), adjustment for all covariates (eg, age, gender, BMI, smoking) with stratification by comorbidities only reduced the overall HR to 4.56 (95% CI 3.95 to 5.26).
You know what I don't see in the list of variables they controlled for? Sleep issues. It's not a matched set of controls if your experimental group is diagnosed with a serious medical condition (in this case sleep disorders) and your control group is not.
Most people taking prescription sleeping pills have been fighting sleep disorders for a long time, probably their entire adult lives. Getting terrible sleep for 30 or 40 years will probably increase your mortality regardless of what pills you're taking. Do the same study again only this time instead of looking at what drugs they're on, give them a sleep disorder questionnaire, drowsiness survey, and a sleep study. Then you'll have enough data that I actually care to look at your results.
Summary is terrible and misses out the parts of the camera that are actually exciting. First, they never intend for people to use the 41MP setting, instead, they intend you to use 5MP and let their fancy new pixel averaging do it's thing to dramatically reduce noise levels by averaging out 8 pixels into one. That will allow higher iso settings, better low light pictures, etc. The other interesting thing is the size of the sensor, 10x7mm, which is ludicrously large for a phone, about 4 times more surface area than the latest iPhone's sensor. Heck, it's larger than the vast majority of point and shoots. Now obviously, just like megapixels, I imagine that sensor size could be artificially inflated just like any other number, but the example pictures they have posted look pretty incredible for a camera phone.
It's just statistics (probably). The Atlantic ocean alone average 50 damaged cables a year, you're going to have times where cables are breaking one day after another without pushing into anything statistically significant. Take 50 people in a room and ask them their birthdays, odds are (very, very) high you'll find two that share, it doesn't mean anything. You'll find several groups who all share birthdays on within the a week of each other. It doesn't mean anything other than humans are bad at thinking about probability.
Imagine that instead of a garage is a 10,000 lb, ultra high security safe. The kind where opening it by force is more than likely to destroy the contents. They will absolutely subpoena you for the combination to that safe and will absolutely hold you in contempt if you refuse to give it or if you claim that you can't remember it. Especially if they have evidence that you opened the safe on a regular basis (which is the kind of thing a good computer forensics team might be able to show).
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The idea would be to have 1 powerful server that would serve multiple users. One box to maintain, upgrade, and update. One box to store you files, one box to install programs on. Think of it like a mini-cloud. Obviously the average home doesn't have 10 users, but the average classroom, library, place of business does (and yes, I think tablets can have a role to play in a business setting, used along side PCs and laptops).
I still don't understand why no one has done a thin client tablet, with the real horsepower being a server, or even just server software, sitting on your home network somewhere. Most everyone has a desktop or laptop with multiple times more computing power than a tablet. Use wireless N to get the speeds you need for input and display and you could have 10 tablets for $50 each running off a single PC shoved in a closet somewhere. Yeah, no portability, but portability isn't the be all end all for many users.
Unlimited, to me, in this context, means "as much as our network can support". That means that if I connect to a cell tower, I expect to receive 100 / (number of people actively using data) % of their service or the max my phone will allow, whichever is lower. If the problem were at the spectrum level they wouldn't have to artificially limit data speed, the waveform implementation in the phone and the tower would do that automatically to support all the connected users.
Look around at Google's investment relations pages, read their mission statement, review their bylaws. Seriously, if you're not going to do your due diligence before investing in a company you can't blame anyone but yourself. Their information explicitly says they have no plans to pay dividends. They explicitly say they take risks and maintain a long term focus. They explicitly say they believe building value for the users it he way to build value for the shareholders. They don't say they are out to maximize profit, or short term shareholder value.
I agree, I stumbled on that the other day and watched it all the way through. I was more interested and engaged in his verbal telling of the story than I ever was in any of the prequels. It is exactly what the prequel should have been, with surprisingly minimal changes to the overarching plot... if I were a movie producer in a world with loose copyright and trademark laws I'd greenlight his version in a heartbeat.
Magnets couldn't hold it up from the ground at that range.
You're just not thinking big enough. They're talking about running hundreds of mega-amps along wires in the ground and dozens of mega-amps through wires in the ramp. The magnetic field will be massive in size, and massive in strength, enough to provide 4 tons of levitating force for each meter of rail (2x the weight of the system per meter). There will be problems; lots and lots of problems, which is why I prefer the launch loop idea, but there's no reason their theory isn't sound.
10 megajoules of electricity is a lot easier to come by than 10 megajoules of rocket fuel, especially once I get up to a few 10's of km.
All the equations that say what is and isn't 'possible' in space are really describing what is and isn't economical. If you cut the cost of LEO by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude, lots of things that sound ridiculously impractical now become feasible. If you can cut the cost of LEO from $10,000 / kg to $100 / kg, space based solar becomes practical. If you drop it to $10 / kg it becomes the cheapest energy source available. And that's ignoring all the other benefits that cheap LEO travel would bring.
You're imagining a 12 mile high roller coaster. They're proposing a pair of superconducting cables, one on the 'ramp' and one on the ground, that would repel each other, lifting the ramp into the air (stabilized by cables). Obviously there's some difficulties there, but they aren't talking about building a compressive structure 12 miles high. Personally I prefer the launch loop idea, which uses kinetic energy to hold the ramp and transfer power to the launch vehicle, since I feel there's less unknowns there. But there's no reason a magnetic system couldn't, in theory, work.
35756 Km of cable is going to weigh quite a bit no matter what you make it out of, multiply that by $10,000 per Kg and you've got one heck of a problem to solve right there when it comes to building a space elevator. Several non-rocket launch technologies, the star tram included, can be build from the ground, you could build the whole thing without a single rocket launch. The same can be said about space fountains and (my personal non-rocket launch technology) launch loops.
the social services worker made a judgement call that there was a non-trivial chance that the porn came from the man himself.
I'm glad an underpaid bureaucrat can destroy my life and my hurt my family based on a "non-trivial chance", that's... that's just awesome.
The ban on being alone with his daughter seems overly harsh but I can appreciate why.
You're not a parent obviously. Not being able to be alone with my daughter would be devastating to me and my family. Not only is it unwarranted, unjust, and probably unconstitutional, it is also massively disruptive to the day to day workings of the modern family. This isn't the freakin 60s, I have an active and important role in my child's life; I get her out of bed in the morning, take her to day care, take off work when she's sick... etc etc. There is a chance that he looked up child porn, but this 'precaution' is being implemented on essentially zero evidence and without any due process.
Also, 4 months? They're worried about him spending 5 minutes alone with his own child and it's been 4 months without any decision as to whether he's a violent sexual predator or a good, (overly-)responsible parent. So which is it? Is he so dangerous he can't be trusted with his own flesh and blood or is he so innocuous that there's no need to actually, you know... investigate him?
2. Correct, though from the only tests I heard of in the past none damaged the patient in an unexpected way.
Not unexpected, but at least one of the patients ended up in the ICU for a couple weeks as his body effectively fought off the most massive infection (from the immune system's point of view) a human has ever seen. You can't have 10 lbs of cancerous mass dissolve off your body in a week without there being some pretty serious repercussions to the rest of your body.
The only way keeping food aide out of North Korea is going to take down the dictatorship is if so many North Korean civilians die of starvation that there aren't enough peasants left to support the military. The upper levels just don't care if their people die, and the common people are too overworked, hungry, brainwashed, and outnumbered to even consider rising up in rebellion.
Alternatively, we sent desperately needed food to people who are starving to death by the tens of thousands and got a temporary concession out of the North Korean government in the process. And don't tell me it just supports the dictatorship either, do you really think the people of North Korea are about to rise up and overthrow the Kim family business? It's not going to happen until something major goes down, either a military coupe from within or a 2 week war with one of their neighbors, neither of which will be effected by us giving them food aide.
The plain fact of the matter is that people are starving in North Korea, not a handful, not by the hundreds, but by the thousands or tens of thousands. I'm well away that giving food aid is seen by some as supporting the regime but in all honesty I don't see the people of North Korea rising up to overthrow their oppressors in any event. Given the choice between letting tens of thousands of people die so that we can look tough or sending some food... I'm gonna send the food. I may as well try to get some concessions, even temporary ones, as part of the bargain.
[...] while changing the rules of society in order to gain more and more and more.
To be fair, rather than changing the rules he just chooses to ignore them, or at the very least interpret them in a way that allows him to make millions of dollars at other people's expense. I completely agree that the current copyright and patent system is broken and unrealistic in a modern world, but that doesn't mean I think people should be able to become multi-millionares by helping people distribute other people's work.
If he has a mortgage on his $5 million house that alone will eat into most of that amount. And there are good reasons the fabulously wealthy would have a loan rather than pay cash, namely the fact that once you get to a certain amount of money, using it to generate more money is pretty easy. You'll probably come out better off with a loan with a crazy low interest rate (since you have the cash and income to cover it times 10) and invest the same money in something else (if you make even a 7% profit you come out well ahead).
Yeah, how dare they complain about wealth disparity that's barely higher than it was during the Great Depression, the nerve of those people.
Guess which American President has killed more Jews via drone strike than Hitler? Barack Obama. Almost certainly true (though I have no actual data to back it up), and absolutely certainly meaningless. What, exactly, are you trying to get across here?
Whereas the raw death rate of the user cohort was 4.86 times that of non-user controls (table 1), adjustment for all covariates (eg, age, gender, BMI, smoking) with stratification by comorbidities only reduced the overall HR to 4.56 (95% CI 3.95 to 5.26).
You know what I don't see in the list of variables they controlled for? Sleep issues. It's not a matched set of controls if your experimental group is diagnosed with a serious medical condition (in this case sleep disorders) and your control group is not.
Most people taking prescription sleeping pills have been fighting sleep disorders for a long time, probably their entire adult lives. Getting terrible sleep for 30 or 40 years will probably increase your mortality regardless of what pills you're taking. Do the same study again only this time instead of looking at what drugs they're on, give them a sleep disorder questionnaire, drowsiness survey, and a sleep study. Then you'll have enough data that I actually care to look at your results.
Summary is terrible and misses out the parts of the camera that are actually exciting. First, they never intend for people to use the 41MP setting, instead, they intend you to use 5MP and let their fancy new pixel averaging do it's thing to dramatically reduce noise levels by averaging out 8 pixels into one. That will allow higher iso settings, better low light pictures, etc. The other interesting thing is the size of the sensor, 10x7mm, which is ludicrously large for a phone, about 4 times more surface area than the latest iPhone's sensor. Heck, it's larger than the vast majority of point and shoots. Now obviously, just like megapixels, I imagine that sensor size could be artificially inflated just like any other number, but the example pictures they have posted look pretty incredible for a camera phone.
It's just statistics (probably). The Atlantic ocean alone average 50 damaged cables a year, you're going to have times where cables are breaking one day after another without pushing into anything statistically significant. Take 50 people in a room and ask them their birthdays, odds are (very, very) high you'll find two that share, it doesn't mean anything. You'll find several groups who all share birthdays on within the a week of each other. It doesn't mean anything other than humans are bad at thinking about probability.
Imagine that instead of a garage is a 10,000 lb, ultra high security safe. The kind where opening it by force is more than likely to destroy the contents. They will absolutely subpoena you for the combination to that safe and will absolutely hold you in contempt if you refuse to give it or if you claim that you can't remember it. Especially if they have evidence that you opened the safe on a regular basis (which is the kind of thing a good computer forensics team might be able to show).