BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
input = bufferedReader.readLine();
number = Integer.parseInt(input);
In Pascal (1960's) you could just do something like: integer number; read(number);
See if the compiler knows number is an integer do I really have to tell it to create a stream and parse it as an int? seriously? Java is an abomination.
I remember lots but most of it never happened. Impossible to tell the real from the imaginary. Lots of (really) intense dreams that were very unpleasant. However those would almost certainly have happened afterwards while I was unconscious not while I was on the operating table. They say that after a week in ICU you go a bit insane. "ICU psychosis" is what it is called. Hallucinations were very common, I could not tell the difference between when I was dreaming and when I was awake. A bit like nightmare on elm street.
Could have been worse the guy next to me and the one across from me died (painfully)
Not quite. I was unconscious for about three weeks (maybe more), still not sure how long, never checked the dates. I would occasionally be "self aware" (but unable to sense anything external) I presume when they were changing medication or trying out different stuff to see if I could be woken but then I would kinda disappear again. Had a few intense dreams not sure how long they lasted or what order they occurred in. They were mostly unpleasant, I presume my brain was trying to make sense of what was happening to my body. Then I woke up but still heavily drugged and hallucinating (still unpleasant)
I had something similar done about 10 years ago. It was a bit experimental at the time and they told me I was very probably going to die during surgery and if I did not die I would prob. have brain damage and/or organ failure but without the surgery I would be dead in hours. They cooled down my body and then removed all my blood, there was no saline replacement. I was dead for about 10 minutes and apart from some problems reanimating me it worked out OK (there were some problems,I spent a month afterwards in a medically induced coma and had to have further work done repairing some damage caused during surgery). It was considered a major success at the time.
A bit scary to be told that you have about 30 minutes to live. Last thing I remember is the anesthetist putting a line in and thinking that once he injected the anesthetic I was going to die.
I would say I am embarrassed to be Irish but I am not. Dumb asses are spread pretty evenly throughout the world. This one just happens to be Irish. He displays the intellectual rigor I have come to expect from our politicians. Badly educated and unthinking. Nothing new here.
I once went to a talk where a guy from MSoft basically said that they only hire the top 5% of graduates and complained that very few graduates were in the top 5% (about 1 in 20 I believe;-).
The things we can do now adays in medicine are shocking...
The article claims the thing can last "up to 13 years" before having to be replaced.
In the past, we used Pu-238 RTGs called "Plutonium cells", and the pacemakers never had to be replaced.
I guess this step backwards, towards treating pacemakers as a treatment, rather than a cure, guarantees a recurring revenue stream. One wonders, given the industry that surrounds it, whether we will ever get a cure for anything that started out with just a treatment, such as diabetes, when there's so much money tied up in "recurring revenue streams" and so little in "pay for it once". The whole SAS field itself is based on it.
The problem with the plutonium cells was that when you died you had to be buried as nuclear waste (or so I was told).
It's the future and whining about it is no different than whining about the advent of the rifle or the machine gun or the bow. Your taking the fight away from the human being through a layer of abstraction to keep your soldier alive. The layer of abstraction in this case happens to be a robot, once upon a time it was a gun or a bow.
The people complaining about this are really no different than the Luddites that think warfare should be conduced hand to hand with swords and maces. They wont be satisfied unless their own soldiers are getting killed on the battlefield too. Technology advances whether you want it to or not. Change and human nature are the only things that stay the same.
The machine gun was only a good invention if it was not pointing at you. It helped destroy many cultures, enabled genocide in the name of "civilization" and allowed the west (us) to basically steal land and resources from other people - something from which they have not recovered as yet. Any technology that tips the balance of power decisively in favour of one group will not stop war, it will ensure war (albeit a quick and bloody one).
Something that allows one side to fight a war without any cost will, I think, result in "bad" things happening.
And do not assume that you will always be at the safe end of this machinery.
Because billions of years of evolving something that is incredibly good at what it does isn't deemed "high tech" enough
Evolution is slow. Evolution goes by trial and error rather than absolutely optimized engineering design and QA, and doesn't have any kind of recursive ability so as to improve its own methods. Sure, give it billions of years and the absolute minimum optimization capability and it'll make something that works pretty well, up to and including the human brain, but that's it. Now, give those human brains a solvable challenge and they'll work it out in a matter of centuries, if not decades, years or even just months.
So, sure, right now horses are better, after all nature got a few hundred millions years advantage before allowing us to start running, but we're catching up, and fast, very, very fast. In a few decades no living thing other than human beings will have any advantage left over our technologically-developed alternatives. And then it'll come the time for technology to outgrow even that last remaining bastion of biological-over-technological superiority too.
Well when you put it like that it does not sound at all worrying.
there is no nuclear reactor design that could power that thing like a gas engine can.
If there was we could have nuclear powered electric cars.
I really wish people could understand that. the small nuclear reactors could power a laptop or two for 30 years but could never produce enough electricity fast enough to run a clothes dryer for one run.
Second,
people see horse or mule and can't conceive of a horse or mule getting scared of bullets flying by and or getting shot. using a horse to carry your gear only works until the horse gets shot. then the horse runs away with your gear.
Horses have been used in battlefields for years and can be trained to continue even after getting shot (check the history books for examples) unlike gas turbines which can blow up after being shot. A trained horse will not run away with your gear if trained properly (occasionally it can but that is because it is smarter then the *wildcat*, this is an advantage as it can carry you to safety even if you are unconscious). They are also quieter and do not need gas supplies to run! just saying.
The British minister of Environment does not believe in global warming. I heard him say on the radio recently that the artic melted millions of years in the past so it basically does not matter if it does so again in the future(?). They seem to be very anti-science - it interfers with their belief sytem (bought and paid for by big business I suspect).
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Engineering used by terrorists
Lets declare a war on Engineering and ban all engineers
I am sorry but can I just say:
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
input = bufferedReader.readLine();
number = Integer.parseInt(input);
In Pascal (1960's) you could just do something like:
integer number;
read(number);
See if the compiler knows number is an integer do I really have to tell it to create a stream and parse it as an int? seriously?
Java is an abomination.
I remember lots but most of it never happened. Impossible to tell the real from the imaginary. Lots of (really) intense dreams that were very unpleasant. However those would almost certainly have happened afterwards while I was unconscious not while I was on the operating table. They say that after a week in ICU you go a bit insane. "ICU psychosis" is what it is called. Hallucinations were very common, I could not tell the difference between when I was dreaming and when I was awake.
A bit like nightmare on elm street.
Could have been worse the guy next to me and the one across from me died (painfully)
Not quite.
I was unconscious for about three weeks (maybe more), still not sure how long, never checked the dates.
I would occasionally be "self aware" (but unable to sense anything external) I presume when they were changing medication or trying out different stuff to see if I could be woken but then I would kinda disappear again. Had a few intense dreams not sure how long they lasted or what order they occurred in. They were mostly unpleasant, I presume my brain was trying to make sense of what was happening to my body. Then I woke up but still heavily drugged and hallucinating (still unpleasant)
No donor blood, old stuff put back in after operation and then heart restarted.
Some internal changes and upgrades were made.
I had something similar done about 10 years ago. It was a bit experimental at the time and they told me I was very probably going to die during surgery and if I did not die I would prob. have brain damage and/or organ failure but without the surgery I would be dead in hours. They cooled down my body and then removed all my blood, there was no saline replacement. I was dead for about 10 minutes and apart from some problems reanimating me it worked out OK (there were some problems,I spent a month afterwards in a medically induced coma and had to have further work done repairing some damage caused during surgery). It was considered a major success at the time.
A bit scary to be told that you have about 30 minutes to live. Last thing I remember is the anesthetist putting a line in and thinking that once he injected the anesthetic I was going to die.
do not feed after midnight
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I would say I am embarrassed to be Irish but I am not. Dumb asses are spread pretty evenly throughout the world. This one just happens to be Irish. He displays the intellectual rigor I have come to expect from our politicians. Badly educated and unthinking. Nothing new here.
I do fear for the future however.
What is the definition of a sociopath again?
I once went to a talk where a guy from MSoft basically said that they only hire the top 5% of graduates and complained that very few graduates were in the top 5% (about 1 in 20 I believe ;-).
This is the same complaint here!
J.
Seeing how he does not believe in paying tax maybe he will re-emburse the navy and hospital for the full cost of his "rescue" and treatment.
J.
what did they say about absolute power again?
The things we can do now adays in medicine are shocking...
The article claims the thing can last "up to 13 years" before having to be replaced.
In the past, we used Pu-238 RTGs called "Plutonium cells", and the pacemakers never had to be replaced.
I guess this step backwards, towards treating pacemakers as a treatment, rather than a cure, guarantees a recurring revenue stream. One wonders, given the industry that surrounds it, whether we will ever get a cure for anything that started out with just a treatment, such as diabetes, when there's so much money tied up in "recurring revenue streams" and so little in "pay for it once". The whole SAS field itself is based on it.
The problem with the plutonium cells was that when you died you had to be buried as nuclear waste (or so I was told).
Shit. Under a local anesthetic?
Yup. If you ask they will give you a valium (or equivalent). It does not really hurt.
It's the future and whining about it is no different than whining about the advent of the rifle or the machine gun or the bow. Your taking the fight away from the human being through a layer of abstraction to keep your soldier alive. The layer of abstraction in this case happens to be a robot, once upon a time it was a gun or a bow.
The people complaining about this are really no different than the Luddites that think warfare should be conduced hand to hand with swords and maces. They wont be satisfied unless their own soldiers are getting killed on the battlefield too. Technology advances whether you want it to or not. Change and human nature are the only things that stay the same.
The machine gun was only a good invention if it was not pointing at you. It helped destroy many cultures, enabled genocide in the name of "civilization" and allowed the west (us) to basically steal land and resources from other people - something from which they have not recovered as yet.
Any technology that tips the balance of power decisively in favour of one group will not stop war, it will ensure war (albeit a quick and bloody one).
Something that allows one side to fight a war without any cost will, I think, result in "bad" things happening.
And do not assume that you will always be at the safe end of this machinery.
J.
Because billions of years of evolving something that is incredibly good at what it does isn't deemed "high tech" enough
Evolution is slow. Evolution goes by trial and error rather than absolutely optimized engineering design and QA, and doesn't have any kind of recursive ability so as to improve its own methods. Sure, give it billions of years and the absolute minimum optimization capability and it'll make something that works pretty well, up to and including the human brain, but that's it. Now, give those human brains a solvable challenge and they'll work it out in a matter of centuries, if not decades, years or even just months.
So, sure, right now horses are better, after all nature got a few hundred millions years advantage before allowing us to start running, but we're catching up, and fast, very, very fast. In a few decades no living thing other than human beings will have any advantage left over our technologically-developed alternatives. And then it'll come the time for technology to outgrow even that last remaining bastion of biological-over-technological superiority too.
Well when you put it like that it does not sound at all worrying.
there is no nuclear reactor design that could power that thing like a gas engine can.
If there was we could have nuclear powered electric cars.
I really wish people could understand that. the small nuclear reactors could power a laptop or two for 30 years but could never produce enough electricity fast enough to run a clothes dryer for one run.
Second,
people see horse or mule and can't conceive of a horse or mule getting scared of bullets flying by and or getting shot. using a horse to carry your gear only works until the horse gets shot. then the horse runs away with your gear.
Horses have been used in battlefields for years and can be trained to continue even after getting shot (check the history books for examples) unlike gas turbines which can blow up after being shot. A trained horse will not run away with your gear if trained properly (occasionally it can but that is because it is smarter then the *wildcat*, this is an advantage as it can carry you to safety even if you are unconscious).
They are also quieter and do not need gas supplies to run!
just saying.
You can't order a horse to carry gear to specified coordinates unattended. Horses don't climb rough terrain particularly well either.
unlike mules...
I presume this is a joke.
Or in microsofts case: You buy it you break it.
J.
America is becoming a strange place.
(when I previewed this post I saw I had accidentally type strangle instead of strange - Freudian slip?)
The British minister of Environment does not believe in global warming. I heard him say on the radio recently that the artic melted millions of years in the past so it basically does not matter if it does so again in the future(?). They seem to be very anti-science - it interfers with their belief sytem (bought and paid for by big business I suspect).
J.
A good writer (and I hear he was a good person as well but I did not know him). My sympathies to his family.
J.
Their minister for the environment does not believe in global warming either. So the UK is in good safe hands.
J.