But how do you know she's actually trying to catch the fishes?
I've seen humans tap the glass of fish tanks, and most of them certainly know they can't catch the fish through the glass, nor do they intend to break the glass.
Many fish don't appear to know that though and so _respond_ accordingly. And that might be enough for your cat. I doubt someone playing a game is trying to catch something inside an iPad;).
As for whether cats or dogs are smarter, I don't really care. Most don't seem smart enough to be given that much responsibility anyway.
What concerns me are transhumans/posthumans. When scientists start creating human hybrids or very intelligent creatures. At what point do you consider an entity "human", as it it gets the rights, privileges AND responsibilities of a human being?
If society is not ready to answer that question in the near future, then scientists shouldn't be forcing the issue onto society by researching into such directions. It would just lead to more evil being inflicted. Augmenting humans is a different thing from creating more humanlike entities.
If we are creating creatures with near human intelligence (or even smarter) for the purpose of enslaving them, is that really such a good thing? If we are not going to enslave them, what the heck are we doing - we haven't even solved the racism problem yet.
When your pets get really smart, you better hope they treat you nicely, whether because they find you cute and adorable, or something... Maybe out of our good example (haha).
[Dr. Mah] played down health concerns, saying a cone-beam scan produces no more radiation than a whole-body scan at the airport.
Equating a cone-beam scan with an airport scan is "very wrong -- by a lot," said Dr. David Brenner, who directs the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University Medical Center. In fact, cone-beam scanners can be several hundred times as powerful, he said.
Dr. Brenner said that a child faces up to a 1-in-10,000 chance of developing cancer from a single cone-beam scan.
Maybe we should get Dr Banner's opinion on radiation safety too...;)
Basically I want to detect when a drive is having errors, and if it is, figure out what file systems are affected. And preferably automate that- after all an enterprise class OS should make something like that easy to automate right? But I can't seem to find info on this. Any ideas? What am I missing?
I remember trying to make sense of the solaris naming convention and seems it's not really very consistent e.g. sometimes the target is omitted, so instead of c0t3d0s6 you get c0d0s6, and so on.
Then after that there's the "cmdk0" naming convention (and the sd equiv?). I haven't figured out a way to link those to the relevant device.
Frisking bad as it is, is unlikely to give you cancer, deform your eggs/sperm, or sterilize you. So there's that.
Has anyone done a study on that? What's the cancer risk of those scans? Say it's 1 out of X million. So can we be sure that out of X million gonad gropes they're not going to cause permanent injury to the "target"? Or the risk ( probability * impact) of injury is less than the risk ( probability * impact) of cancer?
Apparently there are 700 million scans a year in the USA.
Maybe they should skip the x ray scanners and use millimeter wave scanners instead?
original manufacturer gets screwed over because the junk products are being sold on the market with their company name attached to it.
Which is different from this Slashdot story, where they are trying to sell stuff with Chinese company names attached to it, and claim they have paid up for the IP.
And come on, who really thought that China was willing to spend lots of money just to "build a railway between a few locations", especially when the contract has "technology transfer" written in it.
Mr. SHIROUZU: Well, starting in 2004, four foreign companies - Siemens of Germany, Alstom of France, Bombardier of Canada and Kawasaki of Japan - they agreed with China to transfer technology so that China can come up with the high speed trains. China spent money for that. In Kawasaki's case, China spent close to $760 million to come up with a train that goes as fast as 155 miles per hour.
And over the last five to six years, China's train companies learn quickly, enough so that they started adding technology, innovation to the original technology. And they believe they've done enough re-innovating that trains that they came up with are their own technology.
BLOCK: You talk in one of your reports for the journal with folks at one of China's high speed rail companies, CSR, and a spokesman says, look, this is nothing like Kawasaki's bullet train. He has this great quote, we attained our achievements in high speed train technology by standing on the shoulders of past pioneers.
Mr. SHIROUZU: Yes. That's what they say. They don't deny the fact that their latest trains are based on foreign technology. They don't deny that. Foreign companies are saying that you haven't made enough additional innovation. There's no way you can call this your own technology.
But, China says, no, no, no. You know, we made enough additional innovation that we're calling these trains the result of our effort. So they feel that they can export these trains to places like U.S., Brazil, Russia maybe, and foreign companies feel that that is in violation of their contract.
So looks like a contract dispute to me. If the foreign companies made mistakes in "legal" in their haste to seal the deal or "gain a foothold", then too bad so sad.
Most US and other foreign investors in China thus far seem willing to pay the price of technology transfers - even "state-of-the-art technologies - in order to "gain a foothold" or to "establish a beachhead" in China with the expectation that the country's enormous market potential eventually will be realized. A primary motivation for investing in China at this time and despite the difficulties and risks involved, is in order to beat foreign and domestic competitors to the China market. Numerous US high-tech firms have agreed to commercial offset or technology transfer agreements in exchange for joint ventures and limited market access in China. An increasingly frequent type of commercial offset is the establishment of a training or R&D center, institute, or lab, typically with one of China's premier universities or research institutes located in Beijing or Shanghai.
If you play with fire don't act surprised if you get burned.
Next reality TV show: "Vote them off the planet!" With a suspense scene - One-way or... Return.
Even if you don't actually send the "one-way" winners unless they volunteer to pay for return fare (with a potentially embarrassing interview), I'm sure many would be happy to pay to vote (or even vote more than once;) ).
I heard in some places they just chop off your hand[1].
I don't know about other people, but I'm quite attached to my hands:).
[1] I doubt there's someone standing by to reattach it for you. Hmmm maybe in the future they could preserve it and when you've served your time and been a good boy they'll reattach it back? Heck, I'd certainly be on my best behaviour if it means getting my hand back even if it'll only be 80% as good as before...
The "secret recipe" thing is a marketing gimmick. Their recipes aren't that great, they're not bad, but not the main reason why they have their respective markets.
So unless you can somehow prove it is a real recipe, at most they should just deny that it's a real recipe (e.g. just a decoy recipe) and then ignore you. That way the "secret recipe" gimmick can still continue.
Why I say "a real recipe" not "the real recipe": Coca Cola changes the recipe of their cola. Many people claim to be able to taste the differences (kosher cola, etc).
However, the syntax of Lisp is very regular, so adapting the power of the prefix notation of Lisp into a language with a procedural syntax like Java is not going to be too easy.
Seems that some people write a Lisp-like interpreter in Java and then have the "configuration files" aka programs in XML;).
On a Linux box I can use stuff similar to "smartctl -a/dev/sda", and then from "/dev/sda" I can figure out which PV, then from PVs its LVs, then filesystems.
On opensolaris the "smartctl" equivalent appears to be: kstat -p cmdkerror
Yes, but say I see "c7d0s0 ONLINE" how do I know which drive c7d0s0 really is (get its serial number or SCSI ID), and which file systems (including stuff like swap) are depending on it?
Question about ZFS, say I have a bunch of ZFS filesystems on a bunch of physical drives or drive arrays on Solaris/OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana.
How do I figure out which physical drives/devices a particular ZFS filesystem depends on?
And if a physical drive is faulty, how would I know which actual physical drive it is? e.g. get its serial number or physical slot/bay/position or whatever.
if you are lucky, you'll get paid $8 an hour. You can get as much on welfare and watch TV all day
On the "bright" side, the rich people get cheaper cherries, so that means they save more money and get to be even richer (plus the owners of agri-business make money from selling the cheaper cherries).
This is true in general too. The Mexican/Indians/Chinese "kill" (sometimes even literally) themselves working long hours to produce cheap stuff, the rich in the US benefit from the savings (and the profits), but the US "lower-end" get fewer and fewer jobs (or earn a Mexican salary and maybe be able to afford to retire in Mexico).
The Chinese do appear to have some sort of long term plan (e.g. improve tech, nuclear power, buy mines and stuff in other countries etc). Whether it works, who knows.
But what's the US doing with the savings and profits? If it was invested wisely for the USA, the US will do OK. Is it a big problem for you if your neighbour sells you stuff really cheap and mows your garden for USD1/hour? Is it really your neighbour's fault if you choose to buy a big cheap TV and get fat?
Don't look down on "welfare and watching TV all day" or "socialism" even. It'll be the same thing if instead of Mexicans you had robots/"high tech automation" doing those jobs. If robots ever get smarter maybe > 80% of the people won't have jobs. Whether they (possibly including you) can live comfortably on "welfare" indefinitely depends on your country's long term strategy.
You have smart decent people there. Better find a way of putting them in charge.
p.s. I'm not in the USA, I'm one of those cheap non-US workers, but I can even spell:). Over here, USD8/hour is twice what university graduates typically get as starting salary.
I think another Aliens vs Predator with Crysis class tech could be good.
Have multiplayer coop options (heck doom used to have coop, I don't know why it took till L4D to reintroduce it to the masses).
As for PvP balance, forget making a single alien as powerful a Predator or fully armed Marine, just copy some ideas from Left 4 Dead (e.g. in some type of battles you have lots of "zombie" aliens).
In the US, merging the Gov and Corps too early would be counterproductive, since the Gov would have to abide by the US Constitution, pacify voters and other Pesky Stuff. Pesky Stuff like the FOIA doesn't apply to Corporations.
So if the Companies start owning nearly everything, it's likely to enter Company Land you have to sign away some rights. Don't like it, go live on some other Company's Land instead (and sign away your rights there too).
You might not get executed but if you have no place to stay legally, you'd end up being a criminal.
When it gets really bad, smoking cigarettes might be healthier... Or just breathe through the cigarettes without lighting them up;).
I'd have though they were trying to prevent the "aging population" problem, except they' seem to be trying to clean things up (building nuclear reactors etc).
I can give a rough estimate of the multiplication answer quite quickly. If I keep needing similar or better estimates, after lots of practice I'd get better at doing it assuming appropriate feedback and training.
I haven't seen an FPGA adjust itself when you tell it "bad boy, that's not what I want".
As for picking out a familiar face so quickly. That's because there's a neuron or more in your brain that do the equivalent of yelling "Bingo!" every time you see or think of that face.
Human brains create models of the world. So in your brain there's a model of that familiar person - face, rough expected behaviour etc. Same for objects, and environments.
In the old days of slow computers when people wanted to simulate hydro stuff, they'd build scale models and pour water and see what happens.
Once the model is built, you could get good enough answers very quickly.
Uh, I don't know about you, but I would prefer to keep possession of my OTHER computer equipment. If you haven't realized already the authorities in most countries can seize "everything" given a good enough excuse.
When they figure out the truth, they could pretend to take you way more seriously than you ever want. And you would have given them the paperwork to cover their asses for it.
Perhaps you can do what you propose, then the rest of us can discuss the resulting story on Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
But how do you know she's actually trying to catch the fishes?
;).
I've seen humans tap the glass of fish tanks, and most of them certainly know they can't catch the fish through the glass, nor do they intend to break the glass.
Many fish don't appear to know that though and so _respond_ accordingly. And that might be enough for your cat. I doubt someone playing a game is trying to catch something inside an iPad
As for whether cats or dogs are smarter, I don't really care. Most don't seem smart enough to be given that much responsibility anyway.
What concerns me are transhumans/posthumans. When scientists start creating human hybrids or very intelligent creatures. At what point do you consider an entity "human", as it it gets the rights, privileges AND responsibilities of a human being?
If society is not ready to answer that question in the near future, then scientists shouldn't be forcing the issue onto society by researching into such directions. It would just lead to more evil being inflicted. Augmenting humans is a different thing from creating more humanlike entities.
If we are creating creatures with near human intelligence (or even smarter) for the purpose of enslaving them, is that really such a good thing? If we are not going to enslave them, what the heck are we doing - we haven't even solved the racism problem yet.
When your pets get really smart, you better hope they treat you nicely, whether because they find you cute and adorable, or something... Maybe out of our good example (haha).
Unreasonable means that they're about what a dental X-ray would be.
That's funny, the dental x ray sales people are using the reverse argument to compare the safety of their products ;).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/us/23scan.html?pagewanted=all
[Dr. Mah] played down health concerns, saying a cone-beam scan produces no more radiation than a whole-body scan at the airport.
Equating a cone-beam scan with an airport scan is "very wrong -- by a lot," said Dr. David Brenner, who directs the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University Medical Center. In fact, cone-beam scanners can be several hundred times as powerful, he said.
Dr. Brenner said that a child faces up to a 1-in-10,000 chance of developing cancer from a single cone-beam scan.
Maybe we should get Dr Banner's opinion on radiation safety too... ;)
Basically I want to detect when a drive is having errors, and if it is, figure out what file systems are affected. And preferably automate that- after all an enterprise class OS should make something like that easy to automate right? But I can't seem to find info on this. Any ideas? What am I missing?
I remember trying to make sense of the solaris naming convention and seems it's not really very consistent e.g. sometimes the target is omitted, so instead of c0t3d0s6 you get c0d0s6, and so on.
Then after that there's the "cmdk0" naming convention (and the sd equiv?). I haven't figured out a way to link those to the relevant device.
Frisking bad as it is, is unlikely to give you cancer, deform your eggs/sperm, or sterilize you. So there's that.
Has anyone done a study on that? What's the cancer risk of those scans? Say it's 1 out of X million. So can we be sure that out of X million gonad gropes they're not going to cause permanent injury to the "target"? Or the risk ( probability * impact) of injury is less than the risk ( probability * impact) of cancer?
Apparently there are 700 million scans a year in the USA.
Maybe they should skip the x ray scanners and use millimeter wave scanners instead?
FWIW, apparently the Israelis don't use such scanners: http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=2941610&sponsor=
original manufacturer gets screwed over because the junk products are being sold on the market with their company name attached to it.
Which is different from this Slashdot story, where they are trying to sell stuff with Chinese company names attached to it, and claim they have paid up for the IP.
And come on, who really thought that China was willing to spend lots of money just to "build a railway between a few locations", especially when the contract has "technology transfer" written in it.
For some perspective from "the other side":
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/22/131520776/china-s-technology-transfer-draws-ire
Mr. SHIROUZU: Well, starting in 2004, four foreign companies - Siemens of Germany, Alstom of France, Bombardier of Canada and Kawasaki of Japan - they agreed with China to transfer technology so that China can come up with the high speed trains. China spent money for that. In Kawasaki's case, China spent close to $760 million to come up with a train that goes as fast as 155 miles per hour.
And over the last five to six years, China's train companies learn quickly, enough so that they started adding technology, innovation to the original technology. And they believe they've done enough re-innovating that trains that they came up with are their own technology.
BLOCK: You talk in one of your reports for the journal with folks at one of China's high speed rail companies, CSR, and a spokesman says, look, this is nothing like Kawasaki's bullet train. He has this great quote, we attained our achievements in high speed train technology by standing on the shoulders of past pioneers.
Mr. SHIROUZU: Yes. That's what they say. They don't deny the fact that their latest trains are based on foreign technology. They don't deny that. Foreign companies are saying that you haven't made enough additional innovation. There's no way you can call this your own technology.
But, China says, no, no, no. You know, we made enough additional innovation that we're calling these trains the result of our effort. So they feel that they can export these trains to places like U.S., Brazil, Russia maybe, and foreign companies feel that that is in violation of their contract.
So looks like a contract dispute to me. If the foreign companies made mistakes in "legal" in their haste to seal the deal or "gain a foothold", then too bad so sad.
Everyone with a clue already knew what China wanted. It's been known for years what's going on, see what the US Bureau of Industry and Security says:
http://www.bis.doc.gov/defenseindustrialbaseprograms/osies/defmarketresearchrpts/techtransfer2prc.html
Most US and other foreign investors in China thus far seem willing to pay the price of technology transfers - even "state-of-the-art technologies - in order to "gain a foothold" or to "establish a beachhead" in China with the expectation that the country's enormous market potential eventually will be realized. A primary motivation for investing in China at this time and despite the difficulties and risks involved, is in order to beat foreign and domestic competitors to the China market.
Numerous US high-tech firms have agreed to commercial offset or technology transfer agreements in exchange for joint ventures and limited market access in China. An increasingly frequent type of commercial offset is the establishment of a training or R&D center, institute, or lab, typically with one of China's premier universities or research institutes located in Beijing or Shanghai.
If you play with fire don't act surprised if you get burned.
Next reality TV show: "Vote them off the planet!" With a suspense scene - One-way or... Return.
;) ).
Even if you don't actually send the "one-way" winners unless they volunteer to pay for return fare (with a potentially embarrassing interview), I'm sure many would be happy to pay to vote (or even vote more than once
Next, "Launching up the Stars"...
Seriously. Theft has ALWAYS been jail time.
I heard in some places they just chop off your hand[1].
I don't know about other people, but I'm quite attached to my hands :).
[1] I doubt there's someone standing by to reattach it for you. Hmmm maybe in the future they could preserve it and when you've served your time and been a good boy they'll reattach it back? Heck, I'd certainly be on my best behaviour if it means getting my hand back even if it'll only be 80% as good as before...
The "secret recipe" thing is a marketing gimmick. Their recipes aren't that great, they're not bad, but not the main reason why they have their respective markets.
So unless you can somehow prove it is a real recipe, at most they should just deny that it's a real recipe (e.g. just a decoy recipe) and then ignore you. That way the "secret recipe" gimmick can still continue.
Why I say "a real recipe" not "the real recipe": Coca Cola changes the recipe of their cola. Many people claim to be able to taste the differences (kosher cola, etc).
However, the syntax of Lisp is very regular, so adapting the power of the prefix notation of Lisp into a language with a procedural syntax like Java is not going to be too easy.
Seems that some people write a Lisp-like interpreter in Java and then have the "configuration files" aka programs in XML ;).
I've seen some pretty large XML config files...
It's not theft.
It's breach of trust.
On a Linux box I can use stuff similar to "smartctl -a /dev/sda", and then from "/dev/sda" I can figure out which PV, then from PVs its LVs, then filesystems.
On opensolaris the "smartctl" equivalent appears to be:
kstat -p cmdkerror
And I see:
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:class device_error
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:crtime 73.574017361
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:Device Not Ready 0
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:Hard Errors 0
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:Illegal Request 0
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:Media Error 0
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:Model WDC WD200BB-75A
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:No Device 0
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:Recoverable 0
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:Revision
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:Serial No WD-WMA6Y3097081
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:Size 20020396032
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:snaptime 2583.235683722
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:Soft Errors 0
cmdkerror:0:cmdk0,error:Transport Errors 0
And say there were some recoverable errors how would I know which zpool is on "cmdk0"?
zpool status
pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
c7d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0
Or maybe kstat isn't the right tool for this? What would be the right tool then?
Yes, but say I see "c7d0s0 ONLINE" how do I know which drive c7d0s0 really is (get its serial number or SCSI ID), and which file systems (including stuff like swap) are depending on it?
Question about ZFS, say I have a bunch of ZFS filesystems on a bunch of physical drives or drive arrays on Solaris/OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana.
How do I figure out which physical drives/devices a particular ZFS filesystem depends on?
And if a physical drive is faulty, how would I know which actual physical drive it is? e.g. get its serial number or physical slot/bay/position or whatever.
I'd like to see a PC remake of "Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxc38nlGfA0
With at least an "English" language option :).
Oops, thought that was a console only thing :).
if you are lucky, you'll get paid $8 an hour. You can get as much on welfare and watch TV all day
On the "bright" side, the rich people get cheaper cherries, so that means they save more money and get to be even richer (plus the owners of agri-business make money from selling the cheaper cherries).
This is true in general too. The Mexican/Indians/Chinese "kill" (sometimes even literally) themselves working long hours to produce cheap stuff, the rich in the US benefit from the savings (and the profits), but the US "lower-end" get fewer and fewer jobs (or earn a Mexican salary and maybe be able to afford to retire in Mexico).
The Chinese do appear to have some sort of long term plan (e.g. improve tech, nuclear power, buy mines and stuff in other countries etc). Whether it works, who knows.
But what's the US doing with the savings and profits? If it was invested wisely for the USA, the US will do OK. Is it a big problem for you if your neighbour sells you stuff really cheap and mows your garden for USD1/hour? Is it really your neighbour's fault if you choose to buy a big cheap TV and get fat?
Don't look down on "welfare and watching TV all day" or "socialism" even. It'll be the same thing if instead of Mexicans you had robots/"high tech automation" doing those jobs. If robots ever get smarter maybe > 80% of the people won't have jobs. Whether they (possibly including you) can live comfortably on "welfare" indefinitely depends on your country's long term strategy.
You have smart decent people there. Better find a way of putting them in charge.
p.s. I'm not in the USA, I'm one of those cheap non-US workers, but I can even spell :). Over here, USD8/hour is twice what university graduates typically get as starting salary.
I think another Aliens vs Predator with Crysis class tech could be good.
Have multiplayer coop options (heck doom used to have coop, I don't know why it took till L4D to reintroduce it to the masses).
As for PvP balance, forget making a single alien as powerful a Predator or fully armed Marine, just copy some ideas from Left 4 Dead (e.g. in some type of battles you have lots of "zombie" aliens).
In the US, merging the Gov and Corps too early would be counterproductive, since the Gov would have to abide by the US Constitution, pacify voters and other Pesky Stuff. Pesky Stuff like the FOIA doesn't apply to Corporations.
So if the Companies start owning nearly everything, it's likely to enter Company Land you have to sign away some rights. Don't like it, go live on some other Company's Land instead (and sign away your rights there too).
You might not get executed but if you have no place to stay legally, you'd end up being a criminal.
When it gets really bad, smoking cigarettes might be healthier... Or just breathe through the cigarettes without lighting them up ;).
I'd have though they were trying to prevent the "aging population" problem, except they' seem to be trying to clean things up (building nuclear reactors etc).
The complainer purports that he had already obtained those results in graphene in 2004 but "did not realize it".
Really? That's hilarious. Some caveman might have obtained those results too after mucking about with some soot, just not realize it.
There are zillions of results everyday, scientists are the ones that go "hmm that's interesting, why did that happen".
It doesn't that much like an FPGA.
I can give a rough estimate of the multiplication answer quite quickly. If I keep needing similar or better estimates, after lots of practice I'd get better at doing it assuming appropriate feedback and training.
I haven't seen an FPGA adjust itself when you tell it "bad boy, that's not what I want".
As for picking out a familiar face so quickly. That's because there's a neuron or more in your brain that do the equivalent of yelling "Bingo!" every time you see or think of that face.
Human brains create models of the world. So in your brain there's a model of that familiar person - face, rough expected behaviour etc. Same for objects, and environments.
In the old days of slow computers when people wanted to simulate hydro stuff, they'd build scale models and pour water and see what happens.
Once the model is built, you could get good enough answers very quickly.
I doubt I'd want to get a blow job and "ice cream" from a typical TSA goon.
Heh it'll be funny if more US citizens start finding it less hassle to sneak into their own country like illegal immigrants.
Uh, I don't know about you, but I would prefer to keep possession of my OTHER computer equipment. If you haven't realized already the authorities in most countries can seize "everything" given a good enough excuse.
When they figure out the truth, they could pretend to take you way more seriously than you ever want. And you would have given them the paperwork to cover their asses for it.
Perhaps you can do what you propose, then the rest of us can discuss the resulting story on Slashdot.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=5056235&c=AIR&s=TOP
http://sidelobe.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/zhuhai-unusual-models-on-display/