Possible the author is right, we do seem to be quite close to reducing aging. We now know that there a two main causes of aging, chemical wear and tear, (free radical damage, glycosation of proteins, etc), and secondly programmed shutdown of varies hormones and growth factors. The programmed shutdown evolved to reduce the risk of cancer as we get older, increasing the hormone levels can cause cancer if not balanced out with cancer preventives.
So if you take cancer preventives, free radical suppressers and hormone replacement, you should be able to live much longer. Companys and Organisations like the Life Extension Foundation, http://www.lef.org/, sell a range of products to do this, most interesting is a mixture of anti-oxidants, anti-glycosation drug, and mitochondria boosters here.
"64-bit processors tend to be slower than there 32-bit counterparts"
Depends on the Architecture, if the instruction sizes are the same, and the 64-bit chip can also run 32-bit code, then clearly the 64-bit one will be faster.
Best guesses so far, reckon that x86-64 code should be about 15% faster than x86 code, mostly due the doubling of the number of registers from 8-int 8-fp (SSE) to 16-int 16-fp. This is in additional to a estimated 25% gain in speed over the Athlon at the same clock speed and however many, more GHz AMD can squeese out the new core.
Actually the day/night ratios detected at SNO is more complex than this, the neutrino capture cross section in matter is so small that the even the whole mass of the earth doesn't block a signicant fraction of the neutinos, the detected flux of 1 neutrino per hour at SNO as a testament to the vest number of neutrinos emitted by the sun.
Instead what is happening is that (according to theory), the neutrino oscillation rate becames signicantly increased while the neutrino is travelling through matter, so that at night detented particles contains less electron neutrinos and more of the other types.
Oh, and finally, the neutrino captured in SNO emit a cone of UV light (checknov radition), and the cone points in the direction the neutrino came from, so scientist at SNO can have a good idea weather the neutrinos came from the sun or from deep space.
Gigabit optical network cards a only a little over a 100$ now, are full duplex and faster than copper in most cases. We've just installed 4 Dual Athlon 2000MP linux boxes, with gigabit optical cards, pretty damn fast as you can imagine.
1) The inter-connection of existing telegraph exchanges or offices all over the world;
2) The establishment of a secret and non-interferable government telegraph service;
3) The inter-connection of all present telephone exchanges or offices around the Globe;
4) The universal distribution of general news by telegraph or telephone, in conjunction with the Press;
5) The establishment of such a "World System" of intelligence transmission for exclusive private use;
6) The inter-connection and operation of all stock tickers of the world;
7) The establishment of a World system -- of musical distribution, etc.;
8) The universal registration of time by cheap clocks indicating the hour with astronomical precision and requiring no attention whatever;
9) The world transmission of typed or hand-written characters, letters, checks, etc.;
10) The establishment of a universal marine service enabling the navigators of all ships to steer perfectly without compass, to determine the exact location, hour and speak; to prevent collisions and disasters, etc.;
11) The inauguration of a system of world printing on land and sea;
12) The world reproduction of photographic pictures and all kinds of drawings or records..."
Wow, Tesla imagined the Internet and GPS and radio clocks and the world stock market. OK was wrong in thinking he's magnifing transmitter would do the trick, but still thats an incredible feat of prediction.
It wouldn't be a cure, but if you created a new line of stem cells in the bone marrow that produced HIV resistant T-cells, the HIV infected person would never lose his/her immune system, and so live a nearly normal life. But they would still be capable of passing on HIV though.
Maybe they could build a retrovirus that inserts an anti-sense version of reverse transcriptase gene into the genome, once there it would prevent you ever getting a retrovirus, of course it would also prevent gene therpy by viral agents.
Which history is that? Is that the history in which the detonation of the first H-bomb ignated the atmosphere killing everyone on the planet? Saving the worrying about what scientists are doing to other scientists and ethics commities who are qualified to that task. Sciences works by peer review not peon review.
This has happened in real life. Billy MacKenzie the Singer/Songwrighter behind the Band, the Associates was a depressive. He was given prozac which seemed to destroy he's songwriting ability and so he killed himself. Of course he might have killed himself without the prozax too.
Yes, volcano's blast kilotonnes of dust into the stratosphere, preventing some of the suns light reaching the earths surface and cooling the climate of a period of one or two years.
Hans Moravec estimates the human mind to have the computationial power of around 10 THz, This machine ought to be able to emulate a human mind in real time. Which to me is more useful then simulating nuclear weapons.
Time to build a proper X-ray holographic scanner, and start uploading the worthy.
This is a late reply so probably no one will read it. But, i think my argument still applies if there is a soul, as long a soul is a stateful object that changes with time. After all in most religions souls pick up and lose sin or karma as they progress through time.
I agree with your second paragraph, but the point is the cohesive I, you talk about is a best match across time, and this gets much more completical when you include contrafactuals or parallel universes.
While I'm griping, I'll also mention that the X86-16 (Virtual real mode) support has been dropped when in 64 bit mode. I know that noone uses it much anymore, but there are still old legacy games that I have that run in DOS mode and it would be nice to be able to support them.
Not a problem, boot in legacy mode and Virtual Real mode is still there. Your old DOS games wouldn't work under a 32 bit OS,let alone a 64 bit one.
You are exactly the sum of all your experiences, and memories. If you hadn't have gone bald, you wouldn't be the you,that you are now, someone very similary possibly but not the same.
The thing with contrafactuals (those objects and events that could have been but aren't), is that as soon as how change one thing, you have many other chooses that just weren't there before, e.g. If you weren't bald, how many grey hairs would you have?
Give all the new possiblities, you can then try to "best match" one of them with you, to say, "that is what i want i would have been like if i hadn't gone bald", but even if such a best match exists, this in no way is a unique match.
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Like most of us here, i've got plenty of computer programming skills. Plus i've also got a degree in Physics, but what i like is much Biology or Biochemistry apart from the basics like DNA, the base pairs and amino acids, what do in need to learn to become useful in bioinformatics?
So why should I subsidise dirty polluting car drivers
You don't, us drivers subsidise your public transport, not the other way round. The london underground and the buses are money pits, meanwhile road and petrol taxes take huge ammounts of money from drivers, which pay for the whole of the UKs transport policy and still have plenty left over to be sucked into other parts of the goverment.
Maybe you didn't notice but inner cities in the U.S. and many other countries are economic wastelands.
Apart from little places like the square mile in London, or Manhatten in America. Which have huge ecomonic clout.
The injection of big money can rapidly change the inner city, For example London Docklands was economic wasteland at the beginning of the 1980s, but is now a economic powerhouse.
>How is a system fair and free when 80%+ of the >SU wealth is held by less than 10% of the >population?
Because these people worked hard to get that wealth, because most of the wealth is tied up in the companies they created, and because if it was given away to the poor, then the poor wouldn't bother to work (hell i wouldn't be bothered to work if i could get a good quility of life without it) and society would quickly shut down. Lets make one thing clear, having some else richer than me, doesn't make me poorer. Fairness is about equal oppertunaties not equal actuallities.
AcesHardware as this info on the UltraSparc RoadMap which looks pretty strong to me.
http://www.aceshardware.com/#55000446
With Sun's presentation here: http://www.sun.com/analyst2002/presentations/Shoem aker_WWAC_020702.pdf
An UltraSparc V running at 2.0-3.0GHz should be very competative with Madision (McKinley II), and it should have on chip multiprocessing, SMT or SMP (or both).
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Possible the author is right, we do seem to
be quite close to reducing aging. We now know
that there a two main causes of aging, chemical
wear and tear, (free radical damage, glycosation
of proteins, etc), and secondly programmed
shutdown of varies hormones and growth factors.
The programmed shutdown evolved to reduce the
risk of cancer as we get older, increasing the
hormone levels can cause cancer if not balanced
out with cancer preventives.
So if you take cancer preventives, free radical
suppressers and hormone replacement, you should
be able to live much longer. Companys and
Organisations like the Life Extension Foundation,
http://www.lef.org/, sell a range of products
to do this, most interesting is a mixture of
anti-oxidants, anti-glycosation drug, and mitochondria
boosters here.
Doctor Suzz, was right, this was how the
star-belled sneaches ended racism.
"64-bit processors tend to be slower than there 32-bit counterparts"
Depends on the Architecture, if the instruction
sizes are the same, and the 64-bit chip can
also run 32-bit code, then clearly the 64-bit
one will be faster.
Best guesses so far, reckon
that x86-64 code should be about 15% faster than
x86 code, mostly due the doubling of the number
of registers from 8-int 8-fp (SSE) to 16-int
16-fp. This is in additional to a estimated
25% gain in speed over the Athlon at the same
clock speed and however many, more GHz AMD can
squeese out the new core.
Actually the day/night ratios detected at SNO
is more complex than this, the neutrino capture
cross section in matter is so small that the
even the whole mass of the earth doesn't block
a signicant fraction of the neutinos, the detected
flux of 1 neutrino per hour at SNO as a testament
to the vest number of neutrinos emitted by the
sun.
Instead what is happening is that (according
to theory), the neutrino oscillation rate becames
signicantly increased while the neutrino is
travelling through matter, so that at night
detented particles contains less electron neutrinos and more of the other types.
Oh, and finally, the neutrino captured in SNO emit a cone of UV light (checknov radition), and
the cone points in the direction the neutrino
came from, so scientist at SNO can have a good
idea weather the neutrinos came from the sun or
from deep space.
Gigabit optical network cards a only a little
over a 100$ now, are full duplex and faster
than copper in most cases. We've just installed
4 Dual Athlon 2000MP linux boxes, with gigabit
optical cards, pretty damn fast as you can
imagine.
The last part of Chapter 5 reads:
1) The inter-connection of existing telegraph exchanges or offices all over the world;
2) The establishment of a secret and non-interferable government telegraph service;
3) The inter-connection of all present telephone exchanges or offices around the Globe;
4) The universal distribution of general news by telegraph or telephone, in conjunction with the Press;
5) The establishment of such a "World System" of intelligence transmission for exclusive private use;
6) The inter-connection and operation of all stock tickers of the world;
7) The establishment of a World system -- of musical distribution, etc.;
8) The universal registration of time by cheap clocks indicating the hour with astronomical precision and requiring no attention whatever;
9) The world transmission of typed or hand-written characters, letters, checks, etc.;
10) The establishment of a universal marine service enabling the navigators of all ships to steer perfectly without compass, to determine the exact location, hour and speak; to prevent collisions and disasters, etc.;
11) The inauguration of a system of world printing on land and sea;
12) The world reproduction of photographic pictures and all kinds of drawings or records..."
Wow, Tesla imagined the Internet and GPS and
radio clocks and the world stock market. OK was wrong in thinking he's magnifing transmitter would do the trick, but still thats an incredible
feat of prediction.
It wouldn't be a cure, but if you created a
new line of stem cells in the bone marrow that
produced HIV resistant T-cells, the HIV infected
person would never lose his/her immune system,
and so live a nearly normal life.
But they would still be capable of passing on
HIV though.
Maybe they could build a retrovirus that inserts
an anti-sense version of reverse transcriptase
gene into the genome, once there it would prevent
you ever getting a retrovirus, of course it would
also prevent gene therpy by viral agents.
Which history is that? Is that the history in
which the detonation of the first H-bomb ignated
the atmosphere killing everyone on the planet?
Saving the worrying about what scientists are
doing to other scientists and ethics commities
who are qualified to that task. Sciences works
by peer review not peon review.
Blood tests!
White blood cell count.
And they can also see if the white blood
celss are efficient is a test tube.
This has happened in real life. Billy MacKenzie
the Singer/Songwrighter behind the Band, the Associates was a depressive. He was given prozac
which seemed to destroy he's songwriting ability
and so he killed himself. Of course he might have
killed himself without the prozax too.
The K5 was AMD's only, your thinking of the K6,
which began as NextGen's but was modified
(but not enough) to
fit AMDs process and bus.
Lisa: What do you get if your cross a elephant with a mountain climber.
Homer: I said you go to your room
Lisa: You can't cross a moutain climber, its a scalar
Yes, volcano's blast kilotonnes of dust into
the stratosphere, preventing some of the
suns light reaching the earths surface and
cooling the climate of a period of one or two
years.
Hans Moravec estimates the human mind
to have the computationial power of around
10 THz, This machine ought to be able to emulate
a human mind in real time. Which to me is more
useful then simulating nuclear weapons.
Time to build a proper X-ray holographic scanner,
and start uploading the worthy.
This is a late reply so probably no one will
read it. But, i think my argument still applies
if there is a soul, as long a soul is a stateful
object that changes with time. After all in most
religions souls pick up and lose sin or karma as they progress through time.
I agree with your second paragraph, but the point
is the cohesive I, you talk about is a best match across time, and this gets much more completical
when you include contrafactuals or parallel
universes.
While I'm griping, I'll also mention that the X86-16 (Virtual real mode) support has been dropped when in 64 bit mode. I know that noone uses it much anymore, but there are still old legacy games that I have that run in DOS mode and it would be nice to be able to support them.
Not a problem, boot in legacy mode and Virtual
Real mode is still there. Your old DOS games wouldn't work under a 32 bit OS,let alone a 64 bit one.
Woa, hold up there on the contrafactuals.
You are exactly the sum of all your experiences,
and memories. If you hadn't have gone bald, you
wouldn't be the you,that you are now, someone
very similary possibly but not the same.
The thing with contrafactuals (those objects and
events that could have been but aren't), is that
as soon as how change one thing, you have many
other chooses that just weren't there before, e.g.
If you weren't bald, how many grey hairs would you have?
Give all the new possiblities, you can then try to
"best match" one of them with you, to say, "that
is what i want i would have been like if i
hadn't gone bald", but even if such a best match
exists, this in no way is a unique match.
Like most of us here, i've got plenty of
computer programming skills. Plus i've also
got a degree in Physics, but what i like is
much Biology or Biochemistry apart from the
basics like DNA, the base pairs and amino acids, what do in need to learn to become useful in
bioinformatics?
So why should I subsidise dirty polluting car drivers
You don't, us drivers subsidise your
public transport, not the other way
round. The london underground and the
buses are money pits, meanwhile road
and petrol taxes take huge ammounts of
money from drivers, which pay for the
whole of the UKs transport policy and
still have plenty left over to be sucked
into other parts of the goverment.
Maybe you didn't notice but inner cities in the U.S. and many other countries are economic wastelands.
Apart from little places like the square
mile in London, or Manhatten in America.
Which have huge ecomonic clout.
The injection of big money can rapidly
change the inner city, For example London
Docklands was economic wasteland at the
beginning of the 1980s, but is now a
economic powerhouse.
>How is a system fair and free when 80%+ of the >SU wealth is held by less than 10% of the >population?
Because these people worked hard to get that
wealth, because most of the wealth is tied up
in the companies they created, and because if
it was given away to the poor, then the poor
wouldn't bother to work (hell i wouldn't be bothered to work if i could get a good quility
of life without it) and society would quickly
shut down. Lets make one thing clear, having some else richer than me, doesn't make me poorer. Fairness is about equal oppertunaties not equal
actuallities.
Yeah, but you give Media player access to download new codecs, and if it sends spyware data out at the same time, your data is still captured.
AcesHardware as this info on the UltraSparc
RoadMap which looks pretty strong to me.
http://www.aceshardware.com/#55000446
With Sun's presentation here: http://www.sun.com/analyst2002/presentations/Shoe
An UltraSparc V running at 2.0-3.0GHz should
be very competative with Madision (McKinley II),
and it should have on chip multiprocessing, SMT or SMP (or both).
SSL is in java, at least at the https: level, and
has been since JDK 1.3, you just need some additional SUN libraries.
download and add, jsse.jar, jcert.jar, jnet.jar.
And you can open URLs like
URL u = new URL("https://where.ever.com/file");
and can make connections on them, just the same
as you could any other URL.