In the Terminator series one machine is trying to kill humans: Skynet. Its reason for this changes depending on what movie you're watching but it boils down to humans being scared at what they've created and trying to kill Skynet. This turned out to be a bad move.*
All those terminators, HKs etc running/rolling/flying around are just 'fingers' with varying levels of autonomy.
*Humanity kinda deserved though, I think. If you're building something that's leagues ahead of any human in terms of intelligence only a moron puts it in charge of freakin' nukes.
Juice from citrus peel, lighter fluid or pretty much any solvent will shift thermal past, or you could:
A: Use gloves
B: Not be so ham-fisted (I'm not trying to be insulting but seriously, how difficult is it to put a small blob of goo on a little square and spread it around with a credit card?!)
To me it just sounds like a replacement for colloidal silver paste: flexible but with a high thermal conductivity. I'm not poo-pooing the invention but what was wrong with paste, exactly? From what I read in TFA this just sounds like something else being hyped because CNTs are involved.
What's a good article to read about CPU longevity and running temperature? In my ignorance it seems like there's not much of a problem so long as nothing cracks as a result of differential expansion.
To take a more pragmatic view, who cares if you can eke a few more years out of a processor? The chances are those extra years will be after you've bought a new and better model anyway.
Personally I feel that if you invent/discover something cool but have no idea how it works you should treat it with kid gloves, which seems wise considering what happened with preliminary research into radioactivity.
What about the Earth's gravitational field? Wouldn't that have a significant effect as well?
I think the point was that it's going around the sun so it has sunlight shining on it. IANAA but I don't believe the Moon is subject to any significant 'kneading' like Titan; I imagine this is because the Moon is so large compared to the planet it's orbiting.
Though this does raise the question of why Blockbuster, cable companies, ISPs et al still ask for it with impunity. Obviously many high-up judges and politicians have mobile phones, Internet connections etc., so why haven't any of them kicked up a stink about this and stopped a supposedly illegal practice?
I can only speak for the UK, but I'm fairly certain I've never had to provide my National Insurance No. to anyone but my employers, the DWP, HMRC and the NHS*
* Dept. for Work and Pensions (self-explanatory why they would need it), Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (The Tax Man) and the NHS only need it to establish whether or not I'm entitled to free medical care (people receiving means-tested benefits are entitled to free prescriptions, dentistry and glasses, among other things), though I have to pay my own way.
OK, fine. But you should know that my credit card company are already happy that I am who I claim to be (and that I pay my bill on time, natch) and my bank have already given me a free security token. Oh, and I have no problem with remembering a few different passwords so thanks, but no thanks.
To be honest, I'm more interested in whether this Schmidt fellow even knows what a smartcard or CA is. I doubt he could be more ignorant than that fool in France that started the OO.org is a firewall thing though.
"Someone is force-feeding you 5 bricks while kneeing you in the crotch. Suddenly, they decide to feed you only FOUR bricks. Do you THANK them?!?"
If I didn't have a choice in getting fed bricks and kneed in the crotch, then yes. If, on the other hand I paid for the crotch-kneeing in the knowledge that I'd have to put up with the bricks, then no.
Seriously, though, if you buy a game knowing about the stupid DRM measures then I have no sympathy; if the measures weren't made clear before purchase or were foisted upon you after purchase then you have grounds to demand a refund.
I can understand people mocking Ubi for adopting such a customer-unfriendly policy but - to use the customary car analogy - bitching that your Kia can't do 200mph just makes me think you're a tool for buying it in the first place.
I'd settle for bluetooth that actually works on my iPhone. C'mon, Apple, would it really hurt to just have OBEX? Please?
I mean, I can live without FM radio but it sure would be nice to be able to receive videos from people who are even more apathetic about mobile email as I am.
I would RTFA but the summary makes it sounds like just another fluff opinion piece written by a journalist that doesn't know what he/she is writing about.
Yes, startup from cold. The engine is stopped for brief enough periods to mitigate problems with oil cooling or flowing away from where it's needed. Also, what do you mean by O-rings? I can tell you that the things sealing the pistons against the cylinder are called piston rings. O-rings are usually rubber and they're used in the same situations as gaskets.
Cameras may be small but they still weigh something. Setting aside the need for them to transmit footage, the main concern with any spacecraft - but particularly sails - is the mass you're pushing around.
An undignified operation, which won't hamper one's ability to procreate or needles upon needles upon needles until the day you die. Tell me, truly, which would you choose?
He may be a hack, perhaps, but just because current computers don't work the same way as the human brain doesn't mean future ones might. Even if they do not, yet are still able to do everything a human brain can, would it not be fair to say that they can match a human brain in terms of computational capacity?
We are often chided for comparing apples to oranges, for example, but both can both evaluated in terms of their water content, chemical composition, structure. Or to put it another way, one might compare a plane and a car: they're obviously different but that doesn't stop one from seeing which goes faster.
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In the Terminator series one machine is trying to kill humans: Skynet. Its reason for this changes depending on what movie you're watching but it boils down to humans being scared at what they've created and trying to kill Skynet. This turned out to be a bad move.*
All those terminators, HKs etc running/rolling/flying around are just 'fingers' with varying levels of autonomy.
*Humanity kinda deserved though, I think. If you're building something that's leagues ahead of any human in terms of intelligence only a moron puts it in charge of freakin' nukes.
Juice from citrus peel, lighter fluid or pretty much any solvent will shift thermal past, or you could:
A: Use gloves
B: Not be so ham-fisted (I'm not trying to be insulting but seriously, how difficult is it to put a small blob of goo on a little square and spread it around with a credit card?!)
To me it just sounds like a replacement for colloidal silver paste: flexible but with a high thermal conductivity. I'm not poo-pooing the invention but what was wrong with paste, exactly? From what I read in TFA this just sounds like something else being hyped because CNTs are involved.
What's a good article to read about CPU longevity and running temperature? In my ignorance it seems like there's not much of a problem so long as nothing cracks as a result of differential expansion.
To take a more pragmatic view, who cares if you can eke a few more years out of a processor? The chances are those extra years will be after you've bought a new and better model anyway.
Personally I feel that if you invent/discover something cool but have no idea how it works you should treat it with kid gloves, which seems wise considering what happened with preliminary research into radioactivity.
Radium enema, anyone?
It's not bullshit, it's science.
You forgot the dammit, dammit!
What about the Earth's gravitational field? Wouldn't that have a significant effect as well?
I think the point was that it's going around the sun so it has sunlight shining on it. IANAA but I don't believe the Moon is subject to any significant 'kneading' like Titan; I imagine this is because the Moon is so large compared to the planet it's orbiting.
It's illegal? Good!
Though this does raise the question of why Blockbuster, cable companies, ISPs et al still ask for it with impunity. Obviously many high-up judges and politicians have mobile phones, Internet connections etc., so why haven't any of them kicked up a stink about this and stopped a supposedly illegal practice?
I can only speak for the UK, but I'm fairly certain I've never had to provide my National Insurance No. to anyone but my employers, the DWP, HMRC and the NHS*
* Dept. for Work and Pensions (self-explanatory why they would need it), Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (The Tax Man) and the NHS only need it to establish whether or not I'm entitled to free medical care (people receiving means-tested benefits are entitled to free prescriptions, dentistry and glasses, among other things), though I have to pay my own way.
OK, fine. But you should know that my credit card company are already happy that I am who I claim to be (and that I pay my bill on time, natch) and my bank have already given me a free security token. Oh, and I have no problem with remembering a few different passwords so thanks, but no thanks.
To be honest, I'm more interested in whether this Schmidt fellow even knows what a smartcard or CA is. I doubt he could be more ignorant than that fool in France that started the OO.org is a firewall thing though.
If you can get a computer to understand what you mean, then it'd change UIs forever.
If we get them to understand what we want, it'll change the world. I make no predictions as to whether it will be good or bad for us.
"Someone is force-feeding you 5 bricks while kneeing you in the crotch. Suddenly, they decide to feed you only FOUR bricks. Do you THANK them?!?"
If I didn't have a choice in getting fed bricks and kneed in the crotch, then yes. If, on the other hand I paid for the crotch-kneeing in the knowledge that I'd have to put up with the bricks, then no.
Seriously, though, if you buy a game knowing about the stupid DRM measures then I have no sympathy; if the measures weren't made clear before purchase or were foisted upon you after purchase then you have grounds to demand a refund.
I can understand people mocking Ubi for adopting such a customer-unfriendly policy but - to use the customary car analogy - bitching that your Kia can't do 200mph just makes me think you're a tool for buying it in the first place.
I'd settle for bluetooth that actually works on my iPhone. C'mon, Apple, would it really hurt to just have OBEX? Please?
I mean, I can live without FM radio but it sure would be nice to be able to receive videos from people who are even more apathetic about mobile email as I am.
Disappointed? That's nothing new. We were promised a revolution - pah! - with the n-gage and what did we get? A taco.
Can you imagine the impact if Henry Ford had been able to patent "thing with wheels on it and a motor"?
Nope - Prior art! This might be news to Americans, but Henry Ford didn't invent the car.
Or, indeed, the train.
I doubt it.
I would RTFA but the summary makes it sounds like just another fluff opinion piece written by a journalist that doesn't know what he/she is writing about.
Yes, startup from cold. The engine is stopped for brief enough periods to mitigate problems with oil cooling or flowing away from where it's needed. Also, what do you mean by O-rings? I can tell you that the things sealing the pistons against the cylinder are called piston rings. O-rings are usually rubber and they're used in the same situations as gaskets.
Also what is more secure as a destruction process, encrypt and forget or zero the drive?
Fire.
No, you have to nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Indeed! I thought nothing could be seen in a NoRoo...
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
Cameras may be small but they still weigh something. Setting aside the need for them to transmit footage, the main concern with any spacecraft - but particularly sails - is the mass you're pushing around.
'You're going to take some cells from where?
An undignified operation, which won't hamper one's ability to procreate or needles upon needles upon needles until the day you die. Tell me, truly, which would you choose?
You want to know the difference between Northerners and Southerners?
Northerners don't start complaining until the snow is higher than their wellies.
Thanks, I'm here all night.
Don't they have single lane traffic in California?
Now I just have to wonder if he'll receive a pardon of some kind.
Or a job.
He may be a hack, perhaps, but just because current computers don't work the same way as the human brain doesn't mean future ones might. Even if they do not, yet are still able to do everything a human brain can, would it not be fair to say that they can match a human brain in terms of computational capacity?
We are often chided for comparing apples to oranges, for example, but both can both evaluated in terms of their water content, chemical composition, structure. Or to put it another way, one might compare a plane and a car: they're obviously different but that doesn't stop one from seeing which goes faster.
Nor was it in the UK - see the direct debit guarantee. Besides, the OP didn't spell cheque right ;)
It's about as honourable as lending what you don't have.