That's what always got me about Sherlock Holmes. He'd look at the evidence and conclude that a specific series of events MUST have occurred. I always thought "Gee, you've got a limited imagination. It could have been this or that instead."
One important think to keep in mind is this: the cops CAN legally lie to you. They can say things like "We found your (fingerprints / DNA / firearm / teddy bear) at the scene of the crime. Would you care to explain how it got there?" even though they didn't find any such thing. They can lie to you about what's going to happen to you. They can tell you that some criminal is out to kill you and the only way you'll survive is if you turn "state's evidence". They can tell you practically anything they want if they think it will make you talk.
In almost every case, even when you're totally innocent, then best policy is to remain silent. They will twist your words and use them out of context in court, and if they can "catch you" in an even partially untrue statement (even as they intentionally misinterpret in out of context) they'll use that as evidence of guilt.
For those with short commutes, a windmill or a few solar panels (or both) could power your commute gasoline free, off the grid. That's true energy independence.
Humans can build very tall structures for living and working in, yet have bodies so fragile that if they fall out of one they splatter all over the ground.
According to my understanding of it, a quantum processor will be best for large matrix operations. What hardware do we have that does that now? Video cards! So the race is on; who will release the first truly quantum GPU, ATI or Nvidia? And will there be an exploitable glitch that moves the hostess' undergarments one foot to the left?
There's no "opt-out" option. I don't want most of those "services" that I'm paying for, I just want to live here. If I could choose which services to buy, such as military protection, fire fighting and emergency medical service, that would be great. I'd GLADLY pay double for those what I'm paying for them now. I do not, on the other hand, want to pay for bank bailouts and special interest pork barrel projects.
Hello!!! We HAVE parallel processing on silicon. My video card has 196 processors. It's part of Folding@Home, which I dare say is a massively parallel system outputting four to five petaflops. If my GPU (Nvidia 260) is average among GPU contributors, there are 3209696 Nvidia processors in it. Also, when it comes down to it, analyzed at a fine enough grain, neurons ARE digital. At any given moment and specific connection can be charged or not charged. What APPEARS analog is the averaged strength of that signal over time, which is achieved by a kind of pulse-width modulation. What's the difference between "simulating", "modeling" or "imprinting" the brain in your usage? I don't see one. If you have a system that produces the same outputs given the same inputs, you have something that is functionally the same thing. As far as having cures, simulating a NORMAL brain, and then later simulating a problematic brain, will be great tools for learning how to fix a "broken" brain.
How about if much of your launch weight for the Mars mission is fuel, and if that fuel can be generated on the moon? How about if the large fuel tanks can be flown to the moon in compactly stacked pieces, or made to be inflatable balloons which would be far too fragile to survive Earth launch but handle a moon launch just fine? Structural requirements for a moon launch would permit a far lighter vehicle than those for Earth launch would.
...you won't be able to afford anything due to the hyper inflation and raised cost of living.
That's been going on for decades. They've been printing about 14% more dollars per year, if you count electronic-only currency. It's hard to blame that on the guy who happens to be in office now.
The thing is, the more efficient you are, the more complex you are. The more complex you are, the more you cost.
While these assertions may hold true in many or even most cases, I would not accept it as given that they hold true in all cases. For example, I would say that an all-electric car is mechanically much simpler than an internal combustion engine one, especially a high-end performance one. The electronics are a bit more complex, but electronics manufacturing is cheaper than machining. The biggest cost in a good electric car is in the batteries, which are expensive despite their simplicity.
Assuming you're starting with preexisting rats, what is the value of what a typical rat does for the betterment of society? While some rats do provide value by being lovable pets, if you eliminate lab rats I'd bet the average value of a rat's life to society would be negative. One should also take into account the fact that lab rats are specially bred for the purpose, so if there were not a demand for lab rats those particular rats would not exist. With that in mind, the use of rats for experimentation contributes to the biological success of the rat species.
In any species some traits are more susceptible to mutation than others. I think it's possible that over a long enough period of time this species and it's predecessors may have endured intermittent threats from various animals. If exposed to such a threat that comes and goes, the species may have been conditioned to protect the genes encoding the defensive trait to prevent loss of the trait, so as to be ready for defense when the next threat manifests. In human terms, if you've found that you get shot at once in a while chances are you'll wear a bullet proof vest much of the time even if you're not getting shot at at the moment.
The chance of certain "coulds" happening at the same time without interference may be minimal, however if it's in anyone's perceived best interest that probability will be drastically altered.
Step 1: Survey the system. Step 2: Change what you can to increase the probability of certain occurrences. Step 3: Sit back and wait for an appropriate combination of occurrences. Step 4: At the right moment, intervene and force the last occurrence or two.
Fixing cars also requires a suitable place to work and a few $100 of specialized tools just to get started. Lots of luck finding a place to work on your car in the dead of winter in Minnesota (or other northern area) when you live in an apartment.
Things needed to swap out a CPU:
1. Desk, table, or floor area.
2. Screwdriver (maybe).
3. New CPU.
4. Arctic Silver.
5. 15 minutes.
Things needed to swap out an engine:
1. Garage or parking area. Heated garage if it's winter.
2. Screwdrivers, wrenches, sockets, ratchets, air compressor, impact wrench, engine hoist, etc.
3. New engine.
4. Replacement fluids and filters.
5. A couple days?
I do CAD/CAM, and I use the Logitech Trackman Wheel, corded. They're still available for $35 each. Between myself, my wife, our son, and my dad we have six or seven of them. We started with the old white Marble when they were new and never looked back. With a trackball the cord doesn't get in the way, and you don't need to worry about batteries like you do with wireless. I have suffered from neck and shoulder problems whenever using a regular mouse for an extended period, since you have to support the weight of your arm to move it. With the Trackman you can rest your arm and hand on the desk and the body of the trackball.
I imagine if you're coding you probably don't have your hand constantly on the mouse like you would if CADCAMming, so it's probably not as big a problem.
One thing the guys on the eMastercam forum got me hooked on is the SpacePilot from 3Dconnexion.com. It's a view orientation controller designed for your offhand, with six degrees of freedom and several programmable buttons. The price is a bit prohibitive, at almost $500 list ($380 from some sources), but they came out with a new "Pro" version so I was able to get an off-lease non-pro for $99 + shipping from eBay.
The guys on eMastercam were telling me that if they had to model or program a part without their SpacePilot it would be like having their left arm chopped off. After getting used to it over the last week I can see why; it's amazing! It works great in Mastercam and Solidworks, and their site has a long list of other applications it's been tested with.
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So much for the Neumann-Neumann dance.
That's what always got me about Sherlock Holmes. He'd look at the evidence and conclude that a specific series of events MUST have occurred. I always thought "Gee, you've got a limited imagination. It could have been this or that instead."
One important think to keep in mind is this: the cops CAN legally lie to you. They can say things like "We found your (fingerprints / DNA / firearm / teddy bear) at the scene of the crime. Would you care to explain how it got there?" even though they didn't find any such thing. They can lie to you about what's going to happen to you. They can tell you that some criminal is out to kill you and the only way you'll survive is if you turn "state's evidence". They can tell you practically anything they want if they think it will make you talk. In almost every case, even when you're totally innocent, then best policy is to remain silent. They will twist your words and use them out of context in court, and if they can "catch you" in an even partially untrue statement (even as they intentionally misinterpret in out of context) they'll use that as evidence of guilt.
For those with short commutes, a windmill or a few solar panels (or both) could power your commute gasoline free, off the grid. That's true energy independence.
Humans can build very tall structures for living and working in, yet have bodies so fragile that if they fall out of one they splatter all over the ground.
According to my understanding of it, a quantum processor will be best for large matrix operations. What hardware do we have that does that now? Video cards! So the race is on; who will release the first truly quantum GPU, ATI or Nvidia? And will there be an exploitable glitch that moves the hostess' undergarments one foot to the left?
There's no "opt-out" option. I don't want most of those "services" that I'm paying for, I just want to live here. If I could choose which services to buy, such as military protection, fire fighting and emergency medical service, that would be great. I'd GLADLY pay double for those what I'm paying for them now. I do not, on the other hand, want to pay for bank bailouts and special interest pork barrel projects.
Hello!!! We HAVE parallel processing on silicon. My video card has 196 processors. It's part of Folding@Home, which I dare say is a massively parallel system outputting four to five petaflops. If my GPU (Nvidia 260) is average among GPU contributors, there are 3209696 Nvidia processors in it. Also, when it comes down to it, analyzed at a fine enough grain, neurons ARE digital. At any given moment and specific connection can be charged or not charged. What APPEARS analog is the averaged strength of that signal over time, which is achieved by a kind of pulse-width modulation. What's the difference between "simulating", "modeling" or "imprinting" the brain in your usage? I don't see one. If you have a system that produces the same outputs given the same inputs, you have something that is functionally the same thing. As far as having cures, simulating a NORMAL brain, and then later simulating a problematic brain, will be great tools for learning how to fix a "broken" brain.
How about if much of your launch weight for the Mars mission is fuel, and if that fuel can be generated on the moon? How about if the large fuel tanks can be flown to the moon in compactly stacked pieces, or made to be inflatable balloons which would be far too fragile to survive Earth launch but handle a moon launch just fine? Structural requirements for a moon launch would permit a far lighter vehicle than those for Earth launch would.
How do you know it hasn't happened? The FBI don't care who they throw in jail as long as they get credit.
I... at least until you run out of galaxy to colonize.
And then you'll have an economic recession...
How do you know they're not already here? Walking among us... Look! There's one! Aaagh!
...you won't be able to afford anything due to the hyper inflation and raised cost of living.
That's been going on for decades. They've been printing about 14% more dollars per year, if you count electronic-only currency. It's hard to blame that on the guy who happens to be in office now.
The thing is, the more efficient you are, the more complex you are. The more complex you are, the more you cost.
While these assertions may hold true in many or even most cases, I would not accept it as given that they hold true in all cases. For example, I would say that an all-electric car is mechanically much simpler than an internal combustion engine one, especially a high-end performance one. The electronics are a bit more complex, but electronics manufacturing is cheaper than machining. The biggest cost in a good electric car is in the batteries, which are expensive despite their simplicity.
attempting to compensate
...failed. Abort, Retry, Ignore?
If you liked Star Control (and I loved it!) try Starscape: http://www.moonpod.com/English/about_ss.php
Assuming you're starting with preexisting rats, what is the value of what a typical rat does for the betterment of society? While some rats do provide value by being lovable pets, if you eliminate lab rats I'd bet the average value of a rat's life to society would be negative. One should also take into account the fact that lab rats are specially bred for the purpose, so if there were not a demand for lab rats those particular rats would not exist. With that in mind, the use of rats for experimentation contributes to the biological success of the rat species.
Nor does it love you. But you are made of atoms which the AI could be using for something else... http://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ai_drives_final.pdf
In any species some traits are more susceptible to mutation than others. I think it's possible that over a long enough period of time this species and it's predecessors may have endured intermittent threats from various animals. If exposed to such a threat that comes and goes, the species may have been conditioned to protect the genes encoding the defensive trait to prevent loss of the trait, so as to be ready for defense when the next threat manifests. In human terms, if you've found that you get shot at once in a while chances are you'll wear a bullet proof vest much of the time even if you're not getting shot at at the moment.
The chance of certain "coulds" happening at the same time without interference may be minimal, however if it's in anyone's perceived best interest that probability will be drastically altered. Step 1: Survey the system. Step 2: Change what you can to increase the probability of certain occurrences. Step 3: Sit back and wait for an appropriate combination of occurrences. Step 4: At the right moment, intervene and force the last occurrence or two.
Fixing cars also requires a suitable place to work and a few $100 of specialized tools just to get started. Lots of luck finding a place to work on your car in the dead of winter in Minnesota (or other northern area) when you live in an apartment. Things needed to swap out a CPU: 1. Desk, table, or floor area. 2. Screwdriver (maybe). 3. New CPU. 4. Arctic Silver. 5. 15 minutes. Things needed to swap out an engine: 1. Garage or parking area. Heated garage if it's winter. 2. Screwdrivers, wrenches, sockets, ratchets, air compressor, impact wrench, engine hoist, etc. 3. New engine. 4. Replacement fluids and filters. 5. A couple days?
Hey, the Colbert ain't workin'! It's full of $#!7...
Okay, use an aluminized mylar umbrella then. Of course they can still track your implanted RFID chip...
I do CAD/CAM, and I use the Logitech Trackman Wheel, corded. They're still available for $35 each. Between myself, my wife, our son, and my dad we have six or seven of them. We started with the old white Marble when they were new and never looked back. With a trackball the cord doesn't get in the way, and you don't need to worry about batteries like you do with wireless. I have suffered from neck and shoulder problems whenever using a regular mouse for an extended period, since you have to support the weight of your arm to move it. With the Trackman you can rest your arm and hand on the desk and the body of the trackball. I imagine if you're coding you probably don't have your hand constantly on the mouse like you would if CADCAMming, so it's probably not as big a problem. One thing the guys on the eMastercam forum got me hooked on is the SpacePilot from 3Dconnexion.com. It's a view orientation controller designed for your offhand, with six degrees of freedom and several programmable buttons. The price is a bit prohibitive, at almost $500 list ($380 from some sources), but they came out with a new "Pro" version so I was able to get an off-lease non-pro for $99 + shipping from eBay. The guys on eMastercam were telling me that if they had to model or program a part without their SpacePilot it would be like having their left arm chopped off. After getting used to it over the last week I can see why; it's amazing! It works great in Mastercam and Solidworks, and their site has a long list of other applications it's been tested with.
Well then they'll just have to use the methane.