james says "i am kind of a big deal. i have been featured in books and now on slashdot"
I don't think he says that at all. From the article: "He’s an individual of enormous talent and accomplishment, yet he’s completely unpretentious". Thats backed up when they say how he realized his weaknesses and sought out people to complement them with astonishing levels of success. Your post may just be pointing out the contrast between the two personality types but it comes off as ragging on Simons for accepting success and lionizing Perelman for holding true to his unconventional convictions.
Speaking of Perelman, maybe he had to deal with a bunch of jerks who unsuccessfully tried to marginalize his contributions and doesn't like talking to the public but is that any reason to give up your life's passion when you're one of the greatest minds that field has ever seen? Relax, dude.
Oh No! All of those volcano researchers and their peers/collaborators probably haven't considered what could happen when the charges go off. Some doofus from the internet better warn them via posting on a random message board!!!
All these zero tolerance/black and white/. posts are funny. You binary guys should dust off that old analog design 101 book.
Where's the line between "fantasy" and "conspiring"?
GP laid that out pretty well. General information searches on methods to kill = watch list/fantasy. Specific information on a target, gathering materials = crime/conspiring. (the latter is apparently what the cannibal cop was doing)
And what's up with restricting people we find creepy for what they might do?
Because peoples rights go beyond just not getting killed. If some psychopath is continuously harassing and threatening to do something terrible, they are a detriment to society and should be removed from it.
Should we put you under constant watch and psych monitoring too?
No because in this case you're the one with the fantasy. GP hasn't made any threats or taken any actions against anyone.
It kinda sounds like you borrowed your line of reasoning from a pro-lifer..."Life ends at Death". Everything else is just assault. Oh and there is no harassment either.
... a novelist or script writer or something. Imagine Hitchcock or Stephen King before they made it big. They must have such dark thoughts, some of them committed to paper.
About their girlfriend? Is there a difference between general deviant thought and deviant thoughts against a specific person you interact with regularly? Just askin...
Try and make a joke and look what happens. Anyways....
Hopefully the city will pay for maintenance in 10 years. Because that will mean that the program was a huge success and is highly useful to it's residents. The program will probably have lived through more than one administration so theres a slightly smaller chance that the 10 year life was sustained entirely by cronyism. Or if you prefer, private industry will take over once they see how successful it is and all the risk has been mitigated by the city. They can charge what seems like a shockingly high rate upon introduction (see: privatized toll roads at rush hour) AND mine data. Either way, good for those who came up with the idea.
And if they all start breaking in a few months they probably won't be replaced. Instead they will be redesigned or cancelled. (leaving the door wide open for a flood of naysayerisim with that last sentence. Your welcome!)
Nahh, hes probably just a garden variety/.er who didn't RTFA in a desperate rush to get his knee jerk reaction in as a first post. (for closure, another commenter already pointed out this is not funded by the city)
Sure, you can do pretty much anything if you're flexible with the duty cycle (and eliminate parasitics). How many months in between each ping would be acceptable?
Impossible is generally a strong word that should be avoided but there are many huge fundamental differences between BT and RFID that make using it as a baseline for their claims...well....impossible.
RFID tags don't broadcast in the traditional sense. They basically short out their antenna. When the antenna is active it absorbs some incident energy from the reader, when its shorted it reflects it. The reader can pick up the difference. An RFID reader is also highly directional compared to a wifi router or BT dongle. And instead of sending a message with a couple of bits you have all of the BT overhead to deal with that has to go out through a real transceiver. Even low power BT chips need 10's of mW whereas RFID is in the low uW range.
Cost including reservation and any parking meter costs will be lower than the $15-for-the-first-four-hours cost of the surrounding parking lots and garages
Are they? Honest question because I haven't seen any statistics on what people were paying. And whats to stop a bunch of rich people firing their drivers now that they have easy access to a spot that they can just throw down $50 for? That could be just likely as your ideal "pay park" scenario...which doesn't account for the bidding wars that can drive the prices right up to what you'd pay at a garage...or more if its a really good spot.
Also, do you really get your tetanus shots and do your gardening form 8pm to 1am saturday nights?
These people are providing the city the great and valuable service of a functional smart parking grid operating when parking congestion is high.
And all they need to accomplish this great service is sell rights to property they don't own. I wonder how much cell reception in your neighborhood would improve if I sold verizon the rights to demolish your house and put a cell tower in it's place?
I agree 100%. But I'll expand your point by adding that when the Earth climate changes naturally it takes many thousands of years. Thus I refer you back to my first point: "Why rock the boat?". There currently exists a better option so the sooner we transition away from our coal/oil energy economy, the less painful everything else will be in the long term. Of course a meteor could always wipe us out or yellowstone could blow it's top but if you're really worried about that off topic possibility then you're better served with my second point: "were all gonna die so fuck it".
Its your lucky day because I feel like showing everyone I know how RFID works.
RFID tags consists of an antenna, diode, charge pump and controller. A comparatively HUGE external source lights up the tag with radio waves. The tag's antenna collects power for the charge pump to boost it up to a useable voltage for the controller. This type of "power bank" was developed not long after capacitors, diodes, and switches were simultaneously available. Then of course the controller broadcasts its data right? Well sorta. Since there is not nearly enough power to transmit in the traditional sense, all it does is toggle a PIN diode, shorting the antenna to ground.
What the hell good does that do for the external transmitter? Well, when the antenna is active, a tiny bit of power is absorbed and when it's shorted out that tiny power is reflected back. The external transmitter is sensitive enough to tell the difference allowing a super low bandwidth ID code to get through. Kinda like you shining a flashlight on your computer screen and a single pixel blinking back a message. Wild eh?
This would never work for modern bluetooth. The baud rates and overhead involved currently require powered transceivers on both ends. This kickstart isn't RFID, its a fake.
Holy smokes are you president of the Christopher Booker fan club?? From his wikipedia page "...he speaks truth to power...". From the 2 minutes of research I've done on him I'd say he speaks truthiness to power. He makes his living as a professional contrarian. All of his pubilished views are the opposite of scientific consensus in a vast variety of subjects. Its possible he could be smarter than all climate scientists, cancer scientists, infectious disease scientists, and Evolutionary Biologists. But there is a much higher likelyhood that he is just full of shit.
Thanks for pointing that out. Its a good thing Christopher Booker (author of your "story") is here to report on NOAA data fabrication.
AND ALSO to let us know that 2nd hand smoke and lung cancer are not related, asbestos poses no risks and the/. favorite...get ready, its a doozy... Evolution is based on BS assumptions and BLIND FAITH and Intelligent Design is the truth!. If you include that last bit when you quote him it will be much easier to keep the stories straight. Your welcome!
Of course looking at that we would find that the Earth is in a fairly moderate area between much cooler global temps and much higher global temps
So why rock the boat? How bout we use this time of plenty to fuel epic expansion of the human condition instead of burning everything up and causing a shitload of problems.
The earth some day will get much more tropical again. The earth will again see Ice Ages. These are true statements.
We're all gonna die. This is a true statement. Whats the point of a good diet and exercise?
Nothing we can do in the next 50 years will give us the technological expertise needed to do much of anything about warming or cooling.
You're right, we can do it all right now! The solar panels about to go on my house are going to cost me 10 years worth of electricity bills (at the most). Of course, they'll provide all the electricity I need for at least 20 years. Even when you take away the tax credit, its still cheaper than the cheap coal electricity in my region!. The past 50 years produced the once unfathomable gift of giving every moron on the planet a chance to be heard by anyone with 10 seconds to spare. Perhaps the next 50 will produce a technology (education?) to shut all those morons up. Your prediction for technology in 2064 is the opposite of, yet just as valid as Kurzwiel's singularity.
I think his big mistake is taking the ID of 3D printing and applying it to a martial for which it wasn't intended
Maybe he just wasn't aware "they" have already chosen all of the materials which are allowed to be used in 3D printing and that no further attempts at innovation are necessary. He probably doesn't even know that no useful knowledge ever comes out of an experiment that fails at it's original intent.
If this goes through, another positive side effect of the plant being in NY is that the percentage of electricity generated by coal in north east is among the lowest in the nation. Every now and then I hear the false rumor that solar panels take more energy to generate than they produce. The industry is already energy neutral and all those panels that were produced during the rapid industry growth still have 20-30 years of free energy collection to pay back their debt. It will be a huge win for CO2 reduction if the biggest solar panel factory in the world is powered mainly by nuclear and renewable energy.
Thats a bad idea. Unrealistic at best. Out of the households containing those 224 million boxes I'll be optimistic and say at least 75% know that if they cancelled their service they would save ~$90/month. Even more optimistically, perhaps 0.5% know how to set up
a ChannelMaster for OTA, and a couple of Roku boxes.
You could improve your idea by making it more appealing than 10's of $billions worth of advertizing has made cable subscriptions out to be. Its a hell of a lot easier to reduce power with an OTA sleep mode update than by changing the behavior of 200 million americans.
and then take some money if they ignore the report and don't fix the problem.
This sterling nugget of wisdom would accomplish the opposite of:
The point is to make sure it remains their problem, not yours.
I'll add your sig is not short on irony (not sure if its the./ approved or the Alanis Morrisette variety) given the content of your post. Good luck with your internal conflicts!
Gasoline automobiles were able to take off when they were invented because the liquid fuel infrastructure was in largely in place prior to their invention. Kerosene for lamps was distributed by metered pumps that were easily converted to dispense gasoline.
Electricity for lamps is distributed by metered circuits that can easily be converted to dispense the correct voltage and amperage that a supercharger needs. The problem here is the inertia and lethargy from 100 years worth of gasoline powered cars. Both the chicken and the egg already exist.
$2B for the clippers seems more like an impulse buy than "market price". Add in the fact that Balmer got rich in tech where everyone is used to just paying billions of dollars for stuff regardless of what they produce.
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You keep using that meme. I do not think it applies where you think it applies.
james says "i am kind of a big deal. i have been featured in books and now on slashdot"
I don't think he says that at all. From the article: "He’s an individual of enormous talent and accomplishment, yet he’s completely unpretentious". Thats backed up when they say how he realized his weaknesses and sought out people to complement them with astonishing levels of success. Your post may just be pointing out the contrast between the two personality types but it comes off as ragging on Simons for accepting success and lionizing Perelman for holding true to his unconventional convictions.
Speaking of Perelman, maybe he had to deal with a bunch of jerks who unsuccessfully tried to marginalize his contributions and doesn't like talking to the public but is that any reason to give up your life's passion when you're one of the greatest minds that field has ever seen? Relax, dude.
Oh No! All of those volcano researchers and their peers/collaborators probably haven't considered what could happen when the charges go off. Some doofus from the internet better warn them via posting on a random message board!!!
Where's the line between "fantasy" and "conspiring"?
GP laid that out pretty well. General information searches on methods to kill = watch list/fantasy. Specific information on a target, gathering materials = crime/conspiring. (the latter is apparently what the cannibal cop was doing)
And what's up with restricting people we find creepy for what they might do?
Because peoples rights go beyond just not getting killed. If some psychopath is continuously harassing and threatening to do something terrible, they are a detriment to society and should be removed from it.
Should we put you under constant watch and psych monitoring too?
No because in this case you're the one with the fantasy. GP hasn't made any threats or taken any actions against anyone.
It kinda sounds like you borrowed your line of reasoning from a pro-lifer..."Life ends at Death". Everything else is just assault. Oh and there is no harassment either.
... a novelist or script writer or something. Imagine Hitchcock or Stephen King before they made it big. They must have such dark thoughts, some of them committed to paper.
About their girlfriend? Is there a difference between general deviant thought and deviant thoughts against a specific person you interact with regularly? Just askin...
From the kickstarter page: "And with your help, we'll provide it to thousands of disadvantaged classrooms for FREE."
I could be naive but I'd imagine the more successful the RR app gets, the more they will do to distribute it to people who can't afford it.
Try and make a joke and look what happens. Anyways....
Hopefully the city will pay for maintenance in 10 years. Because that will mean that the program was a huge success and is highly useful to it's residents. The program will probably have lived through more than one administration so theres a slightly smaller chance that the 10 year life was sustained entirely by cronyism. Or if you prefer, private industry will take over once they see how successful it is and all the risk has been mitigated by the city. They can charge what seems like a shockingly high rate upon introduction (see: privatized toll roads at rush hour) AND mine data. Either way, good for those who came up with the idea.
And if they all start breaking in a few months they probably won't be replaced. Instead they will be redesigned or cancelled. (leaving the door wide open for a flood of naysayerisim with that last sentence. Your welcome!)
I can tell you are a Tea Partier, ...
Nahh, hes probably just a garden variety /.er who didn't RTFA in a desperate rush to get his knee jerk reaction in as a first post. (for closure, another commenter already pointed out this is not funded by the city)
Sure, you can do pretty much anything if you're flexible with the duty cycle (and eliminate parasitics). How many months in between each ping would be acceptable?
Impossible is generally a strong word that should be avoided but there are many huge fundamental differences between BT and RFID that make using it as a baseline for their claims...well....impossible.
RFID tags don't broadcast in the traditional sense. They basically short out their antenna. When the antenna is active it absorbs some incident energy from the reader, when its shorted it reflects it. The reader can pick up the difference. An RFID reader is also highly directional compared to a wifi router or BT dongle. And instead of sending a message with a couple of bits you have all of the BT overhead to deal with that has to go out through a real transceiver. Even low power BT chips need 10's of mW whereas RFID is in the low uW range.
Phlogiston, the luminiferous aether, the Rutherford atom, dark matter, dark energy, the Higgs field... .
Getting closer every day...
Maybe one day we'll explore the idea that the geometry of space-time isn't flat, and that most of our constants aren't.
Whats stopping you?
Cost including reservation and any parking meter costs will be lower than the $15-for-the-first-four-hours cost of the surrounding parking lots and garages
Are they? Honest question because I haven't seen any statistics on what people were paying. And whats to stop a bunch of rich people firing their drivers now that they have easy access to a spot that they can just throw down $50 for? That could be just likely as your ideal "pay park" scenario...which doesn't account for the bidding wars that can drive the prices right up to what you'd pay at a garage...or more if its a really good spot.
Also, do you really get your tetanus shots and do your gardening form 8pm to 1am saturday nights?
These people are providing the city the great and valuable service of a functional smart parking grid operating when parking congestion is high.
And all they need to accomplish this great service is sell rights to property they don't own. I wonder how much cell reception in your neighborhood would improve if I sold verizon the rights to demolish your house and put a cell tower in it's place?
I agree 100%. But I'll expand your point by adding that when the Earth climate changes naturally it takes many thousands of years. Thus I refer you back to my first point: "Why rock the boat?". There currently exists a better option so the sooner we transition away from our coal/oil energy economy, the less painful everything else will be in the long term. Of course a meteor could always wipe us out or yellowstone could blow it's top but if you're really worried about that off topic possibility then you're better served with my second point: "were all gonna die so fuck it".
Its your lucky day because I feel like showing everyone I know how RFID works.
RFID tags consists of an antenna, diode, charge pump and controller. A comparatively HUGE external source lights up the tag with radio waves. The tag's antenna collects power for the charge pump to boost it up to a useable voltage for the controller. This type of "power bank" was developed not long after capacitors, diodes, and switches were simultaneously available. Then of course the controller broadcasts its data right? Well sorta. Since there is not nearly enough power to transmit in the traditional sense, all it does is toggle a PIN diode, shorting the antenna to ground.
What the hell good does that do for the external transmitter? Well, when the antenna is active, a tiny bit of power is absorbed and when it's shorted out that tiny power is reflected back. The external transmitter is sensitive enough to tell the difference allowing a super low bandwidth ID code to get through. Kinda like you shining a flashlight on your computer screen and a single pixel blinking back a message. Wild eh?
This would never work for modern bluetooth. The baud rates and overhead involved currently require powered transceivers on both ends. This kickstart isn't RFID, its a fake.
Speaking truth to power
Holy smokes are you president of the Christopher Booker fan club?? From his wikipedia page "...he speaks truth to power...". From the 2 minutes of research I've done on him I'd say he speaks truthiness to power. He makes his living as a professional contrarian. All of his pubilished views are the opposite of scientific consensus in a vast variety of subjects. Its possible he could be smarter than all climate scientists, cancer scientists, infectious disease scientists, and Evolutionary Biologists. But there is a much higher likelyhood that he is just full of shit.
Thanks for pointing that out. Its a good thing Christopher Booker (author of your "story") is here to report on NOAA data fabrication.
/. favorite...get ready, its a doozy... Evolution is based on BS assumptions and BLIND FAITH and Intelligent Design is the truth!. If you include that last bit when you quote him it will be much easier to keep the stories straight. Your welcome!
AND ALSO to let us know that 2nd hand smoke and lung cancer are not related, asbestos poses no risks and the
Of course looking at that we would find that the Earth is in a fairly moderate area between much cooler global temps and much higher global temps
So why rock the boat? How bout we use this time of plenty to fuel epic expansion of the human condition instead of burning everything up and causing a shitload of problems.
The earth some day will get much more tropical again. The earth will again see Ice Ages. These are true statements.
We're all gonna die. This is a true statement. Whats the point of a good diet and exercise?
Nothing we can do in the next 50 years will give us the technological expertise needed to do much of anything about warming or cooling.
You're right, we can do it all right now! The solar panels about to go on my house are going to cost me 10 years worth of electricity bills (at the most). Of course, they'll provide all the electricity I need for at least 20 years. Even when you take away the tax credit, its still cheaper than the cheap coal electricity in my region!. The past 50 years produced the once unfathomable gift of giving every moron on the planet a chance to be heard by anyone with 10 seconds to spare. Perhaps the next 50 will produce a technology (education?) to shut all those morons up. Your prediction for technology in 2064 is the opposite of, yet just as valid as Kurzwiel's singularity.
Britain where people tend to be more grounded in reality.
Is that why John Oliver represents y'all as being so miserable all the time?
I think his big mistake is taking the ID of 3D printing and applying it to a martial for which it wasn't intended
Maybe he just wasn't aware "they" have already chosen all of the materials which are allowed to be used in 3D printing and that no further attempts at innovation are necessary. He probably doesn't even know that no useful knowledge ever comes out of an experiment that fails at it's original intent.
Or maybe the opposite of all that....
If this goes through, another positive side effect of the plant being in NY is that the percentage of electricity generated by coal in north east is among the lowest in the nation. Every now and then I hear the false rumor that solar panels take more energy to generate than they produce. The industry is already energy neutral and all those panels that were produced during the rapid industry growth still have 20-30 years of free energy collection to pay back their debt. It will be a huge win for CO2 reduction if the biggest solar panel factory in the world is powered mainly by nuclear and renewable energy.
a ChannelMaster for OTA, and a couple of Roku boxes.
You could improve your idea by making it more appealing than 10's of $billions worth of advertizing has made cable subscriptions out to be. Its a hell of a lot easier to reduce power with an OTA sleep mode update than by changing the behavior of 200 million americans.
and then take some money if they ignore the report and don't fix the problem.
This sterling nugget of wisdom would accomplish the opposite of:
The point is to make sure it remains their problem, not yours.
I'll add your sig is not short on irony (not sure if its the ./ approved or the Alanis Morrisette variety) given the content of your post. Good luck with your internal conflicts!
Gasoline automobiles were able to take off when they were invented because the liquid fuel infrastructure was in largely in place prior to their invention. Kerosene for lamps was distributed by metered pumps that were easily converted to dispense gasoline.
Electricity for lamps is distributed by metered circuits that can easily be converted to dispense the correct voltage and amperage that a supercharger needs. The problem here is the inertia and lethargy from 100 years worth of gasoline powered cars. Both the chicken and the egg already exist.
$2B for the clippers seems more like an impulse buy than "market price". Add in the fact that Balmer got rich in tech where everyone is used to just paying billions of dollars for stuff regardless of what they produce.