1. Why would the enthusiasts turn to ARM? AMD is still around and has way higher speeds. Besides: Aren't most speed enthusiasts gamers, trying to get insane framerates? Most games still don't run on Linux (last time I checked was a while back though) or Metro (but that's still in it's diapers). Yes there are android games, and many of them, but the graphics are not in league with the big guys. Besides: Are there pinned ARM chips? I thought those were all solder chips.
2. This chip is designed for a pinless package. So what? That doesn't mean they will not bring a next chip with pins.
1. A variable frequency microwave oven. These single frequency units that everybody has are just to slow. Just let it repeat a 10 second sweep from 2.3 GHz to 2.5 GHz. Dunno how long it would take.
2.Measure temperature with a IR camera shifted a bit in the 4th spatial dimension do you can look inside the whole thing. Use a normal microwave oven to heat the bulk, use a 4th spatial dimension shifted focused microwave to heat the coldest parts a bit extra so it cooks evenly.
2. Cook in cold fusion reactor.
3. Travel back in time to the optimal moment after the big bang, hold turkey outside TARDIS.
4. Debone turkey, run minced turkey through meat mincer, run turkey through 3d printer with laser add on to cook the minced turkey at the moment it hits the product. Print a model of Nataly Portman covered in hot grits.
5. order online 6. Genetically engineer dragon (w. fire breath) to roast it.
7. make -f turkey.h --delicious
8. Fry enough bacon to release enough fat to be able to fry the turkey in pure bacon fat.
9. Build robot to cook turkey for you.
10....
11. Profit!
The reason they set the bar so impossibly high for some is because some school systems do not separate fast and slow learners. There are differences in abilities. Here in the Netherlands we have different levels in education, starting at the age of about 12. Slow learners get classes suited to them, with early practical approaches (like mecahnics class) and internships. Math and language is reduced to the bare necessities because most of these students will not need it and they do not want it while the useful stuff they find interesting (like how to fix a car, how to mill from a drawing) is a large part of their curriculum. This separation gives both extremes (slow learning brutes, fast learning geeks, to generalize) some security in their group and a suiting curriculum. The slow learners do not feel they should keep up with the fast learners. It does not eliminate all bullying (nothing short of killing all human life would probably be able to do that) but it seems to help in reducing it.
The problem with centrifugal force is that it is there and it isn't. It depends on your definition of force. Centrifugal force is a resulting force. If you define "force" as one of the few elemental forces (gravity and electromagnetism for example) then it doesn't exist. However, it is a resulting force emergent from impulse in a rotating system. One can calculate far more easy in most if not all rotating systems if one just uses the centrifugal force as a "true" force. So while it's just the impulse counteracting the gravitational force the point is the same: The gravity isn't gone, it's just counteracted so we can't measure it directly.
They couldn't have. They used the satcommunication to coordinate their attacks. If they would have jammed it they wouldn't have been able to use it themselves. (Of course they were so awesome they should have had their own satellites, but that's suspension of disbelief)
If I read the radio spectrum allocation chart correctly they would be sued out of existence by satellite communication companies, assuming the C band is still used.
The force of gravity remains, it is just compensated with a centrifugal force. We are just not able to measure only the force of gravity. All we can measure is the net resulting force and that's a vector addition of the gravity and the centrifugal force.
There is probably someone making a mod on some first person shooter to run it at 4 quadHD screens powered by an array of these cards. A couple of posts up someone already posted images of a system with 8 of these cards in it (because 1 wouldn't be awesome enough).
That must be what heaven and hell look like. The patent troll enter a hell where it's allowed to set them ablaze. The rest of us go to the same place as heaven because we are allowed to set them ablaze.
You wouldn't only have "done the right thing" you would also prevent similar shakedowns in the future. As a mafioso, who do you threaten: the guy who folds or the guy who will kick your ass?
Point 2: Not inventing it isn't the solution. Allow for well documented euthanasia (signed contract from deceased if applicable with conditions, for example "When I am diagnosed with dementia, pull the plug.") I agree with you in principle, but the method is wrong. *Remembers a story about a man who realized he was demented each afternoon and stopped eating because he wanted to die. Each morning he had forgotten it again and took a large breakfast, large enough to sustain him for a day. He was not legally capable of making a decision so he could not choose euthanasia. His son didn't have enough contact with his father to see the problem.*
I consider that a good future. Driving your own car should be done on the racetrack, the only reason it's legal now is that we don't have a decent solution yet.
When avoiding a crash this becomes very important. It isn't the only thing a robot car should be good at, not by far, but it is wise to teach it to them.
I'd be more worried if the computer isn't able to block human input that would lead to an accident. Because that is much more likely. Humans are idiots. Distracted humans in a reflex situation doubly so.
Well that mainly depends on frequency. For these applications I'd advise NOT to use 2.4 GHz (the microwave oven frequency) for various reasons (not only does water and fat get heated, but also bluetooth and wifi a-g recievers have bad reactions). There are other frequencies that do fine. Preferably a lot higher (since this helps in the range). The fact that it doesn't need to transmit data (only power) means the transmitter doesn't have to be transistor based: magnetron or klystron based is easier. 40 GHz seems possible. These frequencies do not heat the human body, although I do not know if there is enough free bandwith available.
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1. Why would the enthusiasts turn to ARM? AMD is still around and has way higher speeds. Besides: Aren't most speed enthusiasts gamers, trying to get insane framerates? Most games still don't run on Linux (last time I checked was a while back though) or Metro (but that's still in it's diapers). Yes there are android games, and many of them, but the graphics are not in league with the big guys. Besides: Are there pinned ARM chips? I thought those were all solder chips.
2. This chip is designed for a pinless package. So what? That doesn't mean they will not bring a next chip with pins.
This reeks of FUD.
I like my mother's version of that:
"Before not printing this email please consider my stock in the paper factory"
1. A variable frequency microwave oven. These single frequency units that everybody has are just to slow. Just let it repeat a 10 second sweep from 2.3 GHz to 2.5 GHz. Dunno how long it would take. ...
2.Measure temperature with a IR camera shifted a bit in the 4th spatial dimension do you can look inside the whole thing. Use a normal microwave oven to heat the bulk, use a 4th spatial dimension shifted focused microwave to heat the coldest parts a bit extra so it cooks evenly.
2. Cook in cold fusion reactor.
3. Travel back in time to the optimal moment after the big bang, hold turkey outside TARDIS.
4. Debone turkey, run minced turkey through meat mincer, run turkey through 3d printer with laser add on to cook the minced turkey at the moment it hits the product. Print a model of Nataly Portman covered in hot grits.
5. order online
6. Genetically engineer dragon (w. fire breath) to roast it.
7. make -f turkey.h --delicious
8. Fry enough bacon to release enough fat to be able to fry the turkey in pure bacon fat.
9. Build robot to cook turkey for you.
10.
11. Profit!
Upgrade that with a large version of the chicken gun, use enough popcorn to shoot with the turkey.
Yeah, the stuffing becomes to stringy.
The reason they set the bar so impossibly high for some is because some school systems do not separate fast and slow learners. There are differences in abilities. Here in the Netherlands we have different levels in education, starting at the age of about 12. Slow learners get classes suited to them, with early practical approaches (like mecahnics class) and internships. Math and language is reduced to the bare necessities because most of these students will not need it and they do not want it while the useful stuff they find interesting (like how to fix a car, how to mill from a drawing) is a large part of their curriculum. This separation gives both extremes (slow learning brutes, fast learning geeks, to generalize) some security in their group and a suiting curriculum. The slow learners do not feel they should keep up with the fast learners.
It does not eliminate all bullying (nothing short of killing all human life would probably be able to do that) but it seems to help in reducing it.
The problem with centrifugal force is that it is there and it isn't. It depends on your definition of force.
Centrifugal force is a resulting force. If you define "force" as one of the few elemental forces (gravity and electromagnetism for example) then it doesn't exist. However, it is a resulting force emergent from impulse in a rotating system. One can calculate far more easy in most if not all rotating systems if one just uses the centrifugal force as a "true" force.
So while it's just the impulse counteracting the gravitational force the point is the same: The gravity isn't gone, it's just counteracted so we can't measure it directly.
Global warming is a defense strategy!
Why would you log out?
They couldn't have. They used the satcommunication to coordinate their attacks. If they would have jammed it they wouldn't have been able to use it themselves. (Of course they were so awesome they should have had their own satellites, but that's suspension of disbelief)
If I read the radio spectrum allocation chart correctly they would be sued out of existence by satellite communication companies, assuming the C band is still used.
The force of gravity remains, it is just compensated with a centrifugal force. We are just not able to measure only the force of gravity. All we can measure is the net resulting force and that's a vector addition of the gravity and the centrifugal force.
Isn't that usually done with a simple webinterface?
There is probably someone making a mod on some first person shooter to run it at 4 quadHD screens powered by an array of these cards. A couple of posts up someone already posted images of a system with 8 of these cards in it (because 1 wouldn't be awesome enough).
That must be what heaven and hell look like. The patent troll enter a hell where it's allowed to set them ablaze. The rest of us go to the same place as heaven because we are allowed to set them ablaze.
You wouldn't only have "done the right thing" you would also prevent similar shakedowns in the future. As a mafioso, who do you threaten: the guy who folds or the guy who will kick your ass?
Yes, but that doesn't mean we have to make it easy or safe.
*ducks*
Point 2: Not inventing it isn't the solution. Allow for well documented euthanasia (signed contract from deceased if applicable with conditions, for example "When I am diagnosed with dementia, pull the plug.")
I agree with you in principle, but the method is wrong.
*Remembers a story about a man who realized he was demented each afternoon and stopped eating because he wanted to die. Each morning he had forgotten it again and took a large breakfast, large enough to sustain him for a day. He was not legally capable of making a decision so he could not choose euthanasia. His son didn't have enough contact with his father to see the problem.*
Will this allow for enough power to encrypt the wireless connection these things have?
I consider that a good future. Driving your own car should be done on the racetrack, the only reason it's legal now is that we don't have a decent solution yet.
When avoiding a crash this becomes very important. It isn't the only thing a robot car should be good at, not by far, but it is wise to teach it to them.
I'd be more worried if the computer isn't able to block human input that would lead to an accident. Because that is much more likely.
Humans are idiots. Distracted humans in a reflex situation doubly so.
Correct me if I am wrong, but when combined with the legal transmit limits this becomes a percentage of transmitted power.
Well that mainly depends on frequency. For these applications I'd advise NOT to use 2.4 GHz (the microwave oven frequency) for various reasons (not only does water and fat get heated, but also bluetooth and wifi a-g recievers have bad reactions). There are other frequencies that do fine. Preferably a lot higher (since this helps in the range). The fact that it doesn't need to transmit data (only power) means the transmitter doesn't have to be transistor based: magnetron or klystron based is easier. 40 GHz seems possible.
These frequencies do not heat the human body, although I do not know if there is enough free bandwith available.