I would love to see a few studies comparing the effects of age-related cognitive decline to the effects of incessant, compulsive TwitSnapGramBook activity. Not that I'd want to make any unflattering generalizations about younger workers, of course.
VR can "fail", and will, because people don't stick with games where the main challenge is "keep from barfing".
To clarify: today's VR will fail, as did VR from the 1990s and 2000s. We might get there in the 2020s, with tracking cameras operating at kilohertz frame rates, displays refreshing at 300Hz or better, and a graphics pipeline that doesn't introduce more than a frame or two of latency -- IF game designers put some serious thought into maintaining consistent motion perception among all modes (visual-field, inner-ear, proprioceptive).
Of course, the most pernicious diseases are those congenital disorders of metabolism that cause you to develop the wrong skin/hair/eye color, or the wrong adult height or weight. At least, that's what the money will say.
And perhaps 130 years from now, someone will find a way to encapsulate or solidify the electrolyte to prevent spillage or evaporation. Maybe they'll call it a dry cell.
Hey, that's the most sensible thing I've heard all day! I should try that myself.
"Before I sign up, could you please tell me what this health insurance policy's premiums were last year? Yes, I understand that you'd like 25% more this year, but I think we should all agree it's more reasonable to expect an increase of 10% at most. Now, let's talk about my expectation for you to go the extra mile when there's additional medical work to be covered -- without additional pay, of course."
Apologies to those readers in first- and second-world countries where this "signing up for health insurance coverage" analogy is sensibly unintelligible.
"Content is like water. And because there are lots of pre-schoolers running around, and they're LOUDER than you, we're going to make sure we only present enough content to fill a sippy-cup. If you don't like the fact that it barely wets the surface of the 55-gallon drum that you have for receiving content, well, why do you want us to discriminate against other users?"
Meaningless until you compare him with someone who's maintained a high level of physical activity, spending little time sitting, throughout 50 years of full-blown ALS.
I'm a chrono-American, and I have this problem when there's a lot of background noise: I don't like background noise. I've often joked that I look forward to needing hearing aids, because then I'll be able to turn down the rest of the world whenever I want. No "luck" so far, though.
My late mother got a pair of $5K hearing aids a decade or so ago, but could never get used to them. They had to be programmed by the audiologist who sold them to her, and they didn't even have a volume adjustment. When she put them in, the noise of the refrigerator running, the clocks ticking, and Dad's TV drove her nuts.
When/if my time comes, I'll absolutely want hearing aids over which I can exert this kind of control. And if this product works very well, I may not wait until I need them. In fact, if the noise cancellation is good enough, perhaps they'll help preserve my hearing.
Now, if only there were a way to shrink the update further by transferring only the parts of files that have changed -- in other words, the information that's actually different...
You assume humans are not and and human activity is not 'natural' or 'normal' or that the planet does not already have sufficient feedback measures in place we are not yet aware of to compensate for human activity without harmful/dangerous rates/amounts of climate change. We, ourselves, are a product of nature, after all. How many times in the past has nature created species that upset the global climate? Are we so arrogant as to think that just because we've developed a higher intelligence and self-awareness that we are somehow beyond/above nature and nature's ability to mitigate changes caused by life that is nature's own product?
Sure. Just google "Oxygen Holocaust". Great for us, but kinda sucked for the planet-wide biosphere of anaerobes, who now survive only as a few reviled and persecuted minorities. (There may well be people talking about protecting them, but I don't see many people volunteering to host them in the form of botulism and gangrene.)
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for advancing both our knowledge in this area and for finding *pragmatic & economically viable/practical* ways to pollute less and impact the environment less overall. I don't believe it warrants extreme measures bordering on emergency status that will harm people by destroying economies and lowering standards of living while empowering authoritarianism to enforce those measures.
Strat
You know what destroys economies and lowers standards of living? Human extinction. But it's a totally pragmatic and viable way for the biosphere to reach a new stable state.
I assume you're prepared to dedicate equal time to whinging about "Platinium" and "Molybdenium", never mind "Ferrium", "Aurium", "Plumbium", "Stannium"...
If the anonymous reader or the msmash had done more than copy-pasting the first three paragraphs of the article, adding a link -- if they'd even read what they copy-pasted -- they might have realized this. If they lived in this fairy-tale land where editors edited, they might have gone so far as to summarize the bit about "pops" which appear to damage the speakers over time.
Moreover, X-rays can penetrate obstacles that impede radio communication.
As well as the ones that facilitate it -- otherwise known as reflectors and collimators. As long as X-rays are so very difficult to collimate, they're going to be hard to use for long-range communication. And as long as it's difficult to make emitters or detectors with very high bandwidth, they aren't going to be worth a lot for any high-speed communication.
Plus there's the whole radiation hazard thing. Not so relevant in space, but kind of a big deal here on DNA-factory-infested Earth.
From a bit of googling, they'd use Radium-226, which is an alpha-emitter. Thinking a bit of crystal covering the dial, and a metal frame, and you're sorta safe, no?
Yes, you, the wearer of the intact watch, were completely safe; its housing would stop alpha radiation at effectively 100%.
The people who drew up the radioactive paint using mouth-operated pipettes, and the people who scavenged through the trash containing the smashed watch bits, not so much.
You don't eat bananas, either, do you? Because those monstrosities not only turn out beta radiation, they produce nearly-impossible-to-shield gamma radiation, and they occasionally even spit particles of pure antimatter. Boo!
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I would love to see a few studies comparing the effects of age-related cognitive decline to the effects of incessant, compulsive TwitSnapGramBook activity. Not that I'd want to make any unflattering generalizations about younger workers, of course.
Is that a branch of the Federal Oligarchy Enforcement Service?
I solved a lot of problems, developed algorithms, designed, analysed and optimised systems, but never encountered riddles.
Riddles are questions with simple answers which are deliberately obscure.
I see that you don't work in Perl.
Well, that would be a considerable improvement from the number of tears induced by existing plans.
VR can "fail", and will, because people don't stick with games where the main challenge is "keep from barfing".
To clarify: today's VR will fail, as did VR from the 1990s and 2000s. We might get there in the 2020s, with tracking cameras operating at kilohertz frame rates, displays refreshing at 300Hz or better, and a graphics pipeline that doesn't introduce more than a frame or two of latency -- IF game designers put some serious thought into maintaining consistent motion perception among all modes (visual-field, inner-ear, proprioceptive).
Of course, the most pernicious diseases are those congenital disorders of metabolism that cause you to develop the wrong skin/hair/eye color, or the wrong adult height or weight. At least, that's what the money will say.
And perhaps 130 years from now, someone will find a way to encapsulate or solidify the electrolyte to prevent spillage or evaporation. Maybe they'll call it a dry cell.
Do you want Shonokins? Because that's how you get Shonokins.
Hey, that's the most sensible thing I've heard all day! I should try that myself.
"Before I sign up, could you please tell me what this health insurance policy's premiums were last year? Yes, I understand that you'd like 25% more this year, but I think we should all agree it's more reasonable to expect an increase of 10% at most. Now, let's talk about my expectation for you to go the extra mile when there's additional medical work to be covered -- without additional pay, of course."
Apologies to those readers in first- and second-world countries where this "signing up for health insurance coverage" analogy is sensibly unintelligible.
"Content is like water. And because there are lots of pre-schoolers running around, and they're LOUDER than you, we're going to make sure we only present enough content to fill a sippy-cup. If you don't like the fact that it barely wets the surface of the 55-gallon drum that you have for receiving content, well, why do you want us to discriminate against other users?"
<MORBO>Brains do not work that way!</MORBO>
No one questions that there's a lot of noise at the meteor's surface. But that noise is originating sound-minutes away from the observer.
We aren't wondering why there's noise; we're wondering why you hear it simultaneously as you see the meteor, instead of minutes later.
Meaningless until you compare him with someone who's maintained a high level of physical activity, spending little time sitting, throughout 50 years of full-blown ALS.
Cinema 4K also uses the DCI-P3 colour space...
Oh, come on. DCI-3P wasn't even in the original trilogy. Unless it was one of the droids that never got called out by name...
Yes, those childish, petty liberals, trying to pin blame on Trump for a company not being invited to Trump Tower to meet with Trump.
I'm a chrono-American, and I have this problem when there's a lot of background noise: I don't like background noise. I've often joked that I look forward to needing hearing aids, because then I'll be able to turn down the rest of the world whenever I want. No "luck" so far, though.
My late mother got a pair of $5K hearing aids a decade or so ago, but could never get used to them. They had to be programmed by the audiologist who sold them to her, and they didn't even have a volume adjustment. When she put them in, the noise of the refrigerator running, the clocks ticking, and Dad's TV drove her nuts.
When/if my time comes, I'll absolutely want hearing aids over which I can exert this kind of control. And if this product works very well, I may not wait until I need them. In fact, if the noise cancellation is good enough, perhaps they'll help preserve my hearing.
Now, if only there were a way to shrink the update further by transferring only the parts of files that have changed -- in other words, the information that's actually different...
You assume humans are not and and human activity is not 'natural' or 'normal' or that the planet does not already have sufficient feedback measures in place we are not yet aware of to compensate for human activity without harmful/dangerous rates/amounts of climate change. We, ourselves, are a product of nature, after all. How many times in the past has nature created species that upset the global climate? Are we so arrogant as to think that just because we've developed a higher intelligence and self-awareness that we are somehow beyond/above nature and nature's ability to mitigate changes caused by life that is nature's own product?
Sure. Just google "Oxygen Holocaust". Great for us, but kinda sucked for the planet-wide biosphere of anaerobes, who now survive only as a few reviled and persecuted minorities. (There may well be people talking about protecting them, but I don't see many people volunteering to host them in the form of botulism and gangrene.)
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for advancing both our knowledge in this area and for finding *pragmatic & economically viable/practical* ways to pollute less and impact the environment less overall. I don't believe it warrants extreme measures bordering on emergency status that will harm people by destroying economies and lowering standards of living while empowering authoritarianism to enforce those measures.
Strat
You know what destroys economies and lowers standards of living? Human extinction. But it's a totally pragmatic and viable way for the biosphere to reach a new stable state.
I assume you're prepared to dedicate equal time to whinging about "Platinium" and "Molybdenium", never mind "Ferrium", "Aurium", "Plumbium", "Stannium"...
If the anonymous reader or the msmash had done more than copy-pasting the first three paragraphs of the article, adding a link -- if they'd even read what they copy-pasted -- they might have realized this. If they lived in this fairy-tale land where editors edited, they might have gone so far as to summarize the bit about "pops" which appear to damage the speakers over time.
Moreover, X-rays can penetrate obstacles that impede radio communication.
As well as the ones that facilitate it -- otherwise known as reflectors and collimators. As long as X-rays are so very difficult to collimate, they're going to be hard to use for long-range communication. And as long as it's difficult to make emitters or detectors with very high bandwidth, they aren't going to be worth a lot for any high-speed communication.
Plus there's the whole radiation hazard thing. Not so relevant in space, but kind of a big deal here on DNA-factory-infested Earth.
From a bit of googling, they'd use Radium-226, which is an alpha-emitter. Thinking a bit of crystal covering the dial, and a metal frame, and you're sorta safe, no?
Yes, you, the wearer of the intact watch, were completely safe; its housing would stop alpha radiation at effectively 100%.
The people who drew up the radioactive paint using mouth-operated pipettes, and the people who scavenged through the trash containing the smashed watch bits, not so much.
2010 called and...
...I certainly hope you warned them about the election.
You don't eat bananas, either, do you? Because those monstrosities not only turn out beta radiation, they produce nearly-impossible-to-shield gamma radiation, and they occasionally even spit particles of pure antimatter. Boo!
Telempath by Spider Robinson, published 1976. Contagious hyperosmia led to the collapse of civilization. The novel is set in the aftermath.