Thanks for the link (and for quoting the pith of the article too). It seems a touch bizarre, given that it seems that most years the Chinese kill more people in coal mines than the rest of the world put together.
If you're worried about CO2 emissions, then burn the fuel that leaves the most soot behind, as that's clearly not turned all the carbon in to carbon dioxide.
But they're very different fractions. Ships run off the densest muck and planes off the vapours. I would guess the former is more readily extractable. However, it is good to point out that typical prejudices do not apply.
Worse than just being root, it has read and write access to/dev/mem. Which in theory means if it's stack smashed it could scan memory for sensitive information (such as the cached/saved passwords in your browser), and even rewrite the syscall vector table and handlers i.e. maliciously "patching" your kernel on-the-fly.
I'll see your NT3.51 and raise you OS/2. Yes, it (version 2.0, IIRC) was sloooow on my 486/33 with 16MB of RAM, but as we're now running machines more than 100 times more powerful than that, such concerns should be irrelevant.
I agree, the walk certainly was on the edge of uncanny vally, more than anything else I've seen. (Then again, I'm not that surprised, I think the Boston Dynamics guys have been at the leading edge of walker technology since before they were even Boston Dynamics.) However, I don't think what we saw was really a tethered design, it looks like it's just a stopgap until they have compact enough power source, and don't care about gathering real-time telemetry?
Being almost entirely a softie, I've often been tempted to take some of my embarassingly parallel mass evaluations (e.g. board evaluations in games, or number-theoretic applications) onto a large array of tiny slaves on an FPGA. However, I've get to find a comfortable route into that field. Will the OHJ be heading into that middle ground? And with the skin-flint newb in mind?
> a 100W bulb produces about 98W of heat (2W of light, which is why we're trying to phase them out).
I like those incandescent bulbs - if it wasn't them I'd have to generate 98W more heat from my radiators. When my radiators are maxed out, I *need* those incandescent bulbs - stop trying to take them away from me!
If it wasn't designed to do that, then it's flawed. Which was what the post you replied to asserted. So we've come full circle. (Modulo your gratuitous and hilariously inaccurate/ad hominem/.)
True tamper-proofing means making it resistant to being taken apart. At the cost of self-destruction if need be. However, it's an expensive thing to even try to do, and still not a guarantee against all possible attacks. (Having a device that self destructs if you even look at it funny wouldn't be successful in the market place.)
Elastic collisions are predictable, eh? Have you ever seen 2 identical pool breaks? Even a 3-ball scenario can be unpredictable (two object balls touching each other, aiming to hit both simultaniously).
Seen elsewhere, not my original idea - it seems as if he underestimates Europe's willingness to sacrifice itself at the feet of the almighty dollar. That keeps you afloat for a bit longer, and of course sets us up for exactly the same crises.
Wonderful link, a thousand thank-yous. I wish I'd seen it before seeing some of the other post-crash things I've seen, as I didn't quite understand quite how irrational some of the human players acting in their own interest were before the bubble burst. Property values to increase 20% gross for 10 years? Absurd. Completely dissociated from reality. But certainly contributes to what happened later. I'm still almost in disbelief.
So, what's the maximum load on the bridge going to be? Ooops - you forgot that someone might try to drag their entire house on the back of a lorry across it.
The engineers predicted the maximum load likely on the Tacoma narrows bridge too. They didn't think they were overlooking anything either.
If you want to purge society of economists, then purging it of Jews is a remarkably effective start. Hitler chose his scapegoats well, getting rid of intellectuals from many fields was essential. I would be willing to bet that today there is also an over-representation of Jews in economics compared to their ratio of the population at large, perhaps even more so in the modern day USA than it was in Weimar Germany. At least many of the big names that get bounced around in news stories suggest such a heritage.
Anyone getting a 30 year mortgage in 1970 would have caused the mythical y2k bug to kick in. Anyone buying 15 year government bonds in 1985 would also have seen it. And a million other examples like that. All of which were non-events, and even if they were troublesome, they got fixed back in the 70s, or 80s, or whenever. There was no reason to expect arriving at y2k itself to change much at all.
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Thanks for the link (and for quoting the pith of the article too). It seems a touch bizarre, given that it seems that most years the Chinese kill more people in coal mines than the rest of the world put together.
If you're worried about CO2 emissions, then burn the fuel that leaves the most soot behind, as that's clearly not turned all the carbon in to carbon dioxide.
But they're very different fractions. Ships run off the densest muck and planes off the vapours. I would guess the former is more readily extractable. However, it is good to point out that typical prejudices do not apply.
Maybe one or more Finns hack one lame website organised by and for Finns.
Worse than just being root, it has read and write access to /dev/mem. Which in theory means if it's stack smashed it could scan memory for sensitive information (such as the cached/saved passwords in your browser), and even rewrite the syscall vector table and handlers i.e. maliciously "patching" your kernel on-the-fly.
I'll see your NT3.51 and raise you OS/2. Yes, it (version 2.0, IIRC) was sloooow on my 486/33 with 16MB of RAM, but as we're now running machines more than 100 times more powerful than that, such concerns should be irrelevant.
I agree, the walk certainly was on the edge of uncanny vally, more than anything else I've seen. (Then again, I'm not that surprised, I think the Boston Dynamics guys have been at the leading edge of walker technology since before they were even Boston Dynamics.) However, I don't think what we saw was really a tethered design, it looks like it's just a stopgap until they have compact enough power source, and don't care about gathering real-time telemetry?
Being almost entirely a softie, I've often been tempted to take some of my embarassingly parallel mass evaluations (e.g. board evaluations in games, or number-theoretic applications) onto a large array of tiny slaves on an FPGA. However, I've get to find a comfortable route into that field. Will the OHJ be heading into that middle ground? And with the skin-flint newb in mind?
> So in fact it IS a measure of energy conversion.
No, it's a measure of *rate of* energy conversion.
You can't measure the width of the atlantic in knots.
You can't measure the speed of a rocket in multiples of g.
> a 100W bulb produces about 98W of heat (2W of light, which is why we're trying to phase them out).
I like those incandescent bulbs - if it wasn't them I'd have to generate 98W more heat from my radiators. When my radiators are maxed out, I *need* those incandescent bulbs - stop trying to take them away from me!
The only one I've seen listed things which weren't elements. That's a pretty useless atomic chart, if you ask me.
If it wasn't designed to do that, then it's flawed. Which was what the post you replied to asserted. So we've come full circle. (Modulo your gratuitous and hilariously inaccurate /ad hominem/.)
True tamper-proofing means making it resistant to being taken apart. At the cost of self-destruction if need be. However, it's an expensive thing to even try to do, and still not a guarantee against all possible attacks. (Having a device that self destructs if you even look at it funny wouldn't be successful in the market place.)
Elastic collisions are predictable, eh? Have you ever seen 2 identical pool breaks? Even a 3-ball scenario can be unpredictable (two object balls touching each other, aiming to hit both simultaniously).
It's not a perfect match, but there are enough similarities:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Unjust_Steward
Many mutual greased palms, and you're keeping people happy when the going's good.
Why didn't the models predict that the rational individuals acting in their own self-interest would manufacture the current crisis?
You don't have to short to exploit a predicted decline in the market. It's possible to only sell things you actually have.
Wrong move - you should have sold one you didn't own, and then bought it after the crash!
Seen elsewhere, not my original idea - it seems as if he underestimates Europe's willingness to sacrifice itself at the feet of the almighty dollar. That keeps you afloat for a bit longer, and of course sets us up for exactly the same crises.
Wonderful link, a thousand thank-yous. I wish I'd seen it before seeing some of the other post-crash things I've seen, as I didn't quite understand quite how irrational some of the human players acting in their own interest were before the bubble burst. Property values to increase 20% gross for 10 years? Absurd. Completely dissociated from reality. But certainly contributes to what happened later. I'm still almost in disbelief.
So, what's the maximum load on the bridge going to be? Ooops - you forgot that someone might try to drag their entire house on the back of a lorry across it.
The engineers predicted the maximum load likely on the Tacoma narrows bridge too. They didn't think they were overlooking anything either.
It's better expressed as "any sufficiently advanced economic theory boils down to making decisions based on a coin toss".
And that's more than several decades, that's what culimnated in Nash's Nobel prize, basically, and is 60 years old at least.
If you want to purge society of economists, then purging it of Jews is a remarkably effective start. Hitler chose his scapegoats well, getting rid of intellectuals from many fields was essential. I would be willing to bet that today there is also an over-representation of Jews in economics compared to their ratio of the population at large, perhaps even more so in the modern day USA than it was in Weimar Germany. At least many of the big names that get bounced around in news stories suggest such a heritage.
[but yes, I get the python reference, obviously]
Yeah, but the 2 waiters are livelocked both trying to get through the swing door at the same time.
Anyone getting a 30 year mortgage in 1970 would have caused the mythical y2k bug to kick in. Anyone buying 15 year government bonds in 1985 would also have seen it. And a million other examples like that. All of which were non-events, and even if they were troublesome, they got fixed back in the 70s, or 80s, or whenever. There was no reason to expect arriving at y2k itself to change much at all.