I have something like this... A 400 watt high-pressure sodium light over my bed that lights 30 minutes before the alarm clock goes off. 50000 lumens of "simulated sunrise". It's a must during the winter on the 60th latitude. Only negative side is that it produces some UV. I have been thinking of putting on some sunscreen before going to sleep.
If you want to be tracked, you'll have to log in to the service and give a specific permission to anyone who you want to give permission to track you.
Yeah. I don't understand why anyone would assume it to be any different. Somehow we still get hordes of these extremists who think that any technology must be either used with no restraint whatsoever or not at all. I guess some people just hate the concept of compromise?
They didn't have access to the more exotic materials of the west in the cold war, so had to make do with conventional metals, etc.
An US admiral and a Russian admiral went to shipyards in their respective countries and said: "Hey, how about we make a submarine out of titanium?"
The US shipyard manager said: "Are you crazy? Where the hell are we going to get that much titanium?"
The Russian shipyard manager said: "How many do you want?"
Well, carbon nanotubes do exist, just not in sufficient quantity or length yet.
Actually, it's looking like nanotubes made from other materials than carbon are going to be the answer. Carbon nanotubes just have had an extremely effective hype going for them. ("Everyone" "knows" that the space elevator is going to be built from carbon nanotubes.)
The positioning info is there. It's a basic feature of GSM networks, the base stations measure the round-trip time between themselves and the phone. (This doesn't have anything to do with triangulation, by the way.)
So the question is: what to do with the information? I don't see any harm in allowing the cellphone owner utilizing his/her own position in services like "where's the nearest Pizza Hut". I don't see harm in allowing the cellphone owner to offer limited access to his/her position information for others. Example of this is something like family members getting rough info "at work"/"at home"/"elsewhere".
And I don't think that many parents agree with you that knowing their kid's whereabouts is a violation of privacy.
We lost many wisdoms and we continue loosing them. AI in a big scale failed. Why? Software engineers don't want to work with knowledge: working with bytes is much simpler and mostly reflect the quality of American education. High order functions and high order logic is just too much for an average Joe-Programmer. The software industry rejected the wisdom. I am seeking to find lost wisdoms of software engineering.
AI in a big scale failed because it has, in the past, proved to be impossible to build usable AI with algorithms. Algorithms for some things like playing chess or limited expert systems do exist, but for handling anything in the real world, the research has hit a brick wall. It was never up to the software engineers in the first place. Software engineers build on the theoretical basis created by the researchers and scientists, and they have been unable to provide the basis. And you are blaming it on the Joe-Programmer? Please!
Why the hell would you want to divide a sheet of plywood into thirds each way? Are you building something where plans specify parts as being a "part of a 4'x8' sheet of plywood divided into nine equal parts"? Besides, how large parts you get depends on what sort of saw you use. If you want to get equal parts, you'll have to first measure the sheet (the size is probably just nominal), then subtract twice the width of the gap left by the saw, and then divide by thirds. You think you're going to get away with no fractions and decimals? Not if you need parts that actually fit together!
Yeah, but back in the seventies, when we still had the ice age, the reindeer-pulled taxi sleds sure were a smooth ride. Sadly the progress has mostly gone backwards since then. Less polar bears on the streets is a plus, though.
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Well, something's gotta crumple and disintegrate in a crash (the.5mv^2 of energy has to go somewhere) and I'd sure as hell like the car to do the crumpling and disintegrating instead of my body doing it...
Not really. Vinge talks about decades-long projects to rewrite everything to get rid of the cruft, but the end result is invariably what he calls a "mature programming environment", i.e. something so big and crufty that no one can fully comprehend it, and we're back where we started...
The software archeologists (the ones that woke the Blight) digging through ancient alien code were a different bunch of folks.
Egan's model wasn't based on bartering. Instead, CPU cycles were traded on world market and had a market price based on supply and demand, just like crude oil.
This could be very useful for some jobs, like rendering movies. No need to buy and maintain rendering farms, or you could have your rendering farms generate some income when you're not rendering anything for yourself...
These quotes are from the abstract: "The goal of this review is to provide biomedical researchers a brief overview of the existing RF radiation-cancer studies." "The epidemiological evidence for an association between RF radiation and cancer is found to be weak and inconsistent, the laboratory studies generally do not suggest that cell phone RF radiation has genotoxic or epigenetic activity, and a cell phone RF radiation-cancer connection is found to be physically implausible. Overall, the existing evidence for a causal relationship between RF radiation from cell phones and cancer is found to be weak to nonexistent."
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What makes you think they aren't aware of this fact?
I have something like this... A 400 watt high-pressure sodium light over my bed that lights 30 minutes before the alarm clock goes off. 50000 lumens of "simulated sunrise". It's a must during the winter on the 60th latitude. Only negative side is that it produces some UV. I have been thinking of putting on some sunscreen before going to sleep.
Yeah. I don't understand why anyone would assume it to be any different. Somehow we still get hordes of these extremists who think that any technology must be either used with no restraint whatsoever or not at all. I guess some people just hate the concept of compromise?
An US admiral and a Russian admiral went to shipyards in their respective countries and said: "Hey, how about we make a submarine out of titanium?"
The US shipyard manager said: "Are you crazy? Where the hell are we going to get that much titanium?"
The Russian shipyard manager said: "How many do you want?"
Actually, it's looking like nanotubes made from other materials than carbon are going to be the answer. Carbon nanotubes just have had an extremely effective hype going for them. ("Everyone" "knows" that the space elevator is going to be built from carbon nanotubes.)
So the question is: what to do with the information? I don't see any harm in allowing the cellphone owner utilizing his/her own position in services like "where's the nearest Pizza Hut". I don't see harm in allowing the cellphone owner to offer limited access to his/her position information for others. Example of this is something like family members getting rough info "at work"/"at home"/"elsewhere".
And I don't think that many parents agree with you that knowing their kid's whereabouts is a violation of privacy.
You can call the phone and see who answers. Pretty much foolproof for guaranteeing the accuracy of everyday tracking.
I thought you had elections over there?
Is there something wrong with the two-party system?
We have the right in this country to say whatever the fuck we want, to whoever we want to say it to.
Exactly! But that does NOT mean that you can't be punished for it. Only that there can't be censorship limiting your sayings before you say them...
AI in a big scale failed because it has, in the past, proved to be impossible to build usable AI with algorithms. Algorithms for some things like playing chess or limited expert systems do exist, but for handling anything in the real world, the research has hit a brick wall. It was never up to the software engineers in the first place. Software engineers build on the theoretical basis created by the researchers and scientists, and they have been unable to provide the basis. And you are blaming it on the Joe-Programmer? Please!
CGI.
Why the hell would you want to divide a sheet of plywood into thirds each way? Are you building something where plans specify parts as being a "part of a 4'x8' sheet of plywood divided into nine equal parts"? Besides, how large parts you get depends on what sort of saw you use. If you want to get equal parts, you'll have to first measure the sheet (the size is probably just nominal), then subtract twice the width of the gap left by the saw, and then divide by thirds. You think you're going to get away with no fractions and decimals? Not if you need parts that actually fit together!
Yeah, but back in the seventies, when we still had the ice age, the reindeer-pulled taxi sleds sure were a smooth ride. Sadly the progress has mostly gone backwards since then. Less polar bears on the streets is a plus, though.
Well, something's gotta crumple and disintegrate in a crash (the .5mv^2 of energy has to go somewhere) and I'd sure as hell like the car to do the crumpling and disintegrating instead of my body doing it...
Not really. Vinge talks about decades-long projects to rewrite everything to get rid of the cruft, but the end result is invariably what he calls a "mature programming environment", i.e. something so big and crufty that no one can fully comprehend it, and we're back where we started...
The software archeologists (the ones that woke the Blight) digging through ancient alien code were a different bunch of folks.
Egan's model wasn't based on bartering. Instead, CPU cycles were traded on world market and had a market price based on supply and demand, just like crude oil.
This could be very useful for some jobs, like rendering movies. No need to buy and maintain rendering farms, or you could have your rendering farms generate some income when you're not rendering anything for yourself...
From the article: "...giving away free software and training. The revenue came from services and support."
So they were giving away this "monstrosity" and then made money from supporting it. Wow, what
a business model...
These quotes are from the abstract:
"The goal of this review is to provide biomedical
researchers a brief overview of the existing
RF radiation-cancer studies."
"The epidemiological evidence for an association
between RF radiation and cancer is found to be
weak and inconsistent, the laboratory studies
generally do not suggest that cell phone RF
radiation has genotoxic or epigenetic activity,
and a cell phone RF radiation-cancer connection
is found to be physically implausible. Overall,
the existing evidence for a causal relationship
between RF radiation from cell phones and cancer
is found to be weak to nonexistent."