>Which is better than nothing, but why not give us a slightly more commercially viable platform to work with?
I agree, Neuro's website goes out of its way to not mention Tivo. Since Tivo is what I have now, I'm looking to upgrade, not downgrade to a Neuros box with no storage.
Basically, instead of incinerating turkey parts, you cook them with water and pressure, to release calcium and a light oil (which I'm sure you've seen in your kitchen).
It's a simple idea, but in practice, the parameters need to be fine-tuned for each load of garbage that goes into the machinery. Still, cooking garbage into oil seems better than incineration (toxic) or landfill (big and smelly).
It looks like this mouse is made out of the same cheap plastic as every other mouse.
Can I get that material in a sofa, or maybe in some flashy evening-wear? After all, if this mouse is the latest, greatest thing, then I want to have it all over my house. I'll gladly replace oriental rugs and leather with plastic if that's what it takes to stay current.
Oh wait, mice are disposable. I buy a new one every week. OK, now it makes sense.
But Bloomberg represents local NYC, so he can't be vocal about the fact that he's not taxing commuters. All this really amounts to is putting a toll booth on the Queensboro Bridge during the day.
In other words, humans assumed themselves differently then the rest of the universe, and thus showed that the results show the universe itself is non-deterministic.
OK, so the universe is deterministic.
Want to count quarks? All 10^80 of them? Plus whatever sub-quantum physics havent been discovered yet?
I'm perfectly willing to believe that the univese is deterministic. It doesn't mean we're smart enough to keep track of it all.
Wasn't Enron a cyberwar? According to the documentary "The Smartest Men in the Room," Enron employees shut down California power plants with direct phone calls, and monitored the price increase with their stockbroker software.
>The other day, someone was telling me that they pay out over USD2,000 per year for cable service.
$150x12=1800. It's believable, if a bit extreme.
>Sure, the guide is important, sure it's an annoyance to lose it
I'm still paying $13/mo for my TiVo guide. The guide is kinda important. If I lose the TiVo guide, then I just have a digital vcr that I program manually, like the vcr's of old.
Would it be more correct to say that the behaviour of matter is the same but that our model of that behaviour is insufficient to continue to predict it at that smaller scale?
Yes, thank you.
However,
If you can cross the distance of an atom, via strong/weak forces, as quickly as you can cross that distance via the speed of light, then you have a new physics.
Entirely predictable, of course. It's just a whole other realm where forces converge. The short distances make speed a different issue.
>They seem to be saying that new black holes cannot form.
Yes, I read the article, and I think this part of it is b.s. All black holes existed since the beginning...uh??? What about, you know, space, and time, and all that? I seriously doubt that black holes were pre-fabbed like houses.
>Somewhere there is a contradiction. Can somebody explain?
It sounds to me like you understand the difference between time and speed better than most. The universe understands speed, there is a limit. Time is a reduction of that.
Anything moving at perfect speed has, by definition, infinite time to complete its task. Observers at lower speeds get to watch and die in the meantime.
That's an interesting viewpoint, but I don't think you understand physics.
QM lies at the physical border of observable physics. At the QM boundary, concepts we take for granted such as electrons and the speed of light have different meaning. Humanity has nothing to do with it. At a small scale, the behavior of matter changes.
Here's an analogy:
Let's say Newtonian (ordinary) physics involves sitting on the side of the road and tracking how fast people are driving in their cars. From this perspective, you can get a pretty good idea where the cars are going. But there's still some randomness to it, if some driver changes their mind.
In this analogy, QM would be like sitting inside each car tracking who is having what conversation, who is on their cellphone, whether their hands are on the gearshift or on their girlfriend's boob, etc. It's a whole other level that you can't see from the side of the road.
If you could be inside each car, then you would know. But you can't. That's QM, the individual decision-making of each driver on the road.
Each driver==each electron. Whether you choose to track electrons with free will or with robotics, it's still too small and random to keep track of all the time.
Remember throughout the 1980s, there was this big debate about the existence of the stealth fighter/bomber? With the Persian Gulf ware in 1991, all of a sudden they appeared.
The stealth fighter (F-117) appeared in 1991 and was produced by Lockheed's Skunk Works. It was top-secret in the 1980's...the closest thing in the public was the F-19 Aurora, which was a combo of UFO and stealth technology. When the F-117 finally debuted, it looked nothing like the F-19.
Northrop's B-2, on the other hand, was never secret. There was a great deal of debate about the bomber's cost, complexity, and usefulness way back in the 1980's. The only secret of the B-2 was that they refused to photograph the engine exhausts for several years.
The B-2 was a nuclear bomber, so it didn't enter service until Afghanistan when it was fitted with GPS-guided JDAMs. The B-2 is actually less stealthy than the F-117, since GPS requires active signaling.
Does anyone wonder why after 40 years, there is no [known] plane which exceeds the SR-71 speed and altitude?
Well, the Air Force stonewalled like this in the 1960's. The X-15, which first flew in 1959, eventually reached Mach-6. Yet the Air Force refused to build a Mach-2 fighter until the F-14/15 in 1972. As per History Channel, many promising Mach-2 fighter programs were cancelled in favor of bombers. I suppose many promising high-altitude planes were cancelled in favor of spy satellites.
Roger and Me: Excellent movie, until the final five minutes when he screams, non-climactically, from a distance at the GM president. That's journalism.
Bowling for Columbine: Basic point, guns are bad. Unfortunately, gun ownership is guaranteed under the US constitution. I know that my constitutionally-guaranteed rights are wrong, but I didn't feel it until I saw this movie.
Fahrenheit 9/11: Basic point, the US has a cozy relationship with Saudia Arabia. It's interesting that administration sources have never refuted this point. Again, props for the obvious.
I have to say, when it comes to the obvious, Roger Moore is an expert without peer.
>This project is doomed from the start -- take the pink glasses off for a second
Actually, I'm surprised that you're surprised by this. Latin America is the next North America in terms of size, economy, and growth potential. It was only a matter of time before cheap, reliable PC's became part of the Latin American economy. Ever been on Battle.net (Wc3)? DOTA BRAZIL ONLY.
The only pink vision I have, is that someone like me would move down there, and do it myself. I guess I'm disappointed that Latin America still needs a dictator-esque leader to do it for them.
>The sad thing is that they couldn't even beat Apple, who wasn't doing that great at the time. The Amiga was a better, cheaper Mac in many ways.
Yep, I've heard the Amiga was great...in fact, the whole MOD (screamtracker/fasttracker) music community was based around early Amiga work.
There was an Amiga in my h.s. computer classroom, it's sad that I never used it, but it was completely unfamiliar to me. Other than that, I never saw another Amiga. All the other computers mentioned, I had at least 1 friend who owned one.
Meanwhile, I already had an 8086 of my own and there were 2 8086's in the classroom...1 mac (the rest were in the english dept)...and the rest were apple II's.
Here's the relevant paragraph from the Wiki article:
"Unlike a rocket that quickly passes mostly vertically through the atmosphere or a turbojet or ramjet that flies at much lower speeds, a hypersonic airbreathing vehicle optimally flies a "depressed trajectory", staying within the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. Because scramjets have only mediocre thrust-to-weight ratios, acceleration would be limited. Therefore time in the atmosphere at hypersonic speed would be considerable, possibly 15-30 minutes. Similar to a reentering space vehicle, heat insulation from atmospheric friction would be a formidable task. The time in the atmosphere would be greater than that for a typical space capsule, but less than that of the space shuttle."
Now we know why the SR-71 required titanium construction at only mach-3.
TFA: They said it reached an altitude of 530 kilometres (330 miles) before the scramjet was successfully deployed following re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere.
So the scramjet was deployed during a ballistic rocket dive? Seems like an easy way to reach mach-10, with or without a scramjet.
Now they're talking about using it on the way UP, that's quite different from what they did.
Actually, the early Mac was notable for being the only 1980's computer platform without color. It's true that early PC's and Apple II's were frequently monochrome, but at least color was available. By the time the colorized System 7 was released in 1991, the B&W Macintosh line was a laughingstock. Today, the Mac line is still recovering from the "niche" label earned in the black-and-white 1980's.
As to why IBM bested the Commodore, Amiga, Adam, Sinclair, Apple II, and Vic20, it's because only IBM cloned their hardware to third parties-->dirt cheap hardware-->lots of software. And those home systems were underpowered compared to the 8086 and especially the 286. The Amiga had a chance, but nobody knew about it until afterwards.
The only reason Mac survived at all is because of the WYSIWG text editor and because they scammed public schools into buying them.
>By the way we typically lead the country in malfunctioning gas pumps too - about 1 in 12 is cheating you as reported in earlier N&O stories. I myself recently put 18 gallons into a 15.5 gallon tank.
The gas station rip-offs seemed to pick up when gas hit $3/gallon. I now put between 15.1 and 16.1 into a 16-gallon tank, usually with a couple gallons residual fuel in there. When gas cost $1.50, my fillups were always 13.5.
I read a study (couple years ago) that up to 50% of California pumps were rip-offs, and if you think about it, a gas station owner would need to jigger at least half his pumps to make it worth his while. The average scam seems to be about 7%, within the normal mileage fluctuation to make it hard to notice.
>The second is that private meetings, foreign pressures and lobbyist drafted bills is how law gets made in Canada.
History Channel's "Secret Superpower Aircraft" made a pretty good case that Canada's early-1970's mach-2 fighter was scrapped because of pressure from U.S. industry (which had no comparable fighter, as all resources were being diverted to bomber programs).
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>Which is better than nothing, but why not give us a slightly more commercially viable platform to work with?
I agree, Neuro's website goes out of its way to not mention Tivo. Since Tivo is what I have now, I'm looking to upgrade, not downgrade to a Neuros box with no storage.
>I'm not sure that there is a world of difference between Component and DVI and/or HDMI in quality.
Well, if anything, component would be better, or the same. Component is 5 wires (3 video, 2 audio).
The question is how much difference is there for Composite, since composite (RCA) is what this box supports now.
You're still missing my original point, QM and "free will" have nothing to do with each other.
Let's imagine that humans cease to exist. Does QM go away? No, it does not. QM is a scientific theory, it describes everything, human or not.
Do apples fall upwards in a world where Newton never lived? Is gravity based on Newton's life, or does gravity just exist, waiting to be observed?
If you want to get into "a tree falling in the forest", well...now you're the one who is being anthropomorphic.
Discover has a series called "Anything Into Oil" which is about pressure-cooking landfill to release oil, gas, and minerals.
/ ?searchterm=anything%20into%20oil
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r chterm=anything%20into%20oil
http://discovermagazine.com/2006/apr/anything-oil
http://discovermagazine.com/2004/jul/anything-int
http://discovermagazine.com/2003/may/featoil/?sea
Basically, instead of incinerating turkey parts, you cook them with water and pressure, to release calcium and a light oil (which I'm sure you've seen in your kitchen).
It's a simple idea, but in practice, the parameters need to be fine-tuned for each load of garbage that goes into the machinery. Still, cooking garbage into oil seems better than incineration (toxic) or landfill (big and smelly).
It looks like this mouse is made out of the same cheap plastic as every other mouse.
Can I get that material in a sofa, or maybe in some flashy evening-wear? After all, if this mouse is the latest, greatest thing, then I want to have it all over my house. I'll gladly replace oriental rugs and leather with plastic if that's what it takes to stay current.
Oh wait, mice are disposable. I buy a new one every week. OK, now it makes sense.
"In order to make your stay in our city more enjoyable, we are going to charge you a congestion fee every time you drive in."
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If you're referring to NYC, Bloomberg's proposal is not a surcharge.
From the New York Times: The fee would be deducted from the tolls commuters already pay to come into Manhattan via the bridges or tunnels.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/nyregion/23mayo
But Bloomberg represents local NYC, so he can't be vocal about the fact that he's not taxing commuters. All this really amounts to is putting a toll booth on the Queensboro Bridge during the day.
In other words, humans assumed themselves differently then the rest of the universe, and thus showed that the results show the universe itself is non-deterministic.
OK, so the universe is deterministic.
Want to count quarks? All 10^80 of them? Plus whatever sub-quantum physics havent been discovered yet?
I'm perfectly willing to believe that the univese is deterministic. It doesn't mean we're smart enough to keep track of it all.
Wasn't Enron a cyberwar? According to the documentary "The Smartest Men in the Room," Enron employees shut down California power plants with direct phone calls, and monitored the price increase with their stockbroker software.
No more implanting career chips??
But, "you gotta do what you gotta do."
>The other day, someone was telling me that they pay out over USD2,000 per year for cable service.
$150x12=1800. It's believable, if a bit extreme.
>Sure, the guide is important, sure it's an annoyance to lose it
I'm still paying $13/mo for my TiVo guide. The guide is kinda important. If I lose the TiVo guide, then I just have a digital vcr that I program manually, like the vcr's of old.
20721 FTW?
It's so five years ago. Well, to be accurate, more like seven.
Would it be more correct to say that the behaviour of matter is the same but that our model of that behaviour is insufficient to continue to predict it at that smaller scale?
Yes, thank you.
However,
If you can cross the distance of an atom, via strong/weak forces, as quickly as you can cross that distance via the speed of light, then you have a new physics.
Entirely predictable, of course. It's just a whole other realm where forces converge. The short distances make speed a different issue.
It's true, I was able to read your post almost without stopping.
Offtopic tho.
And I've heard this before.
>They seem to be saying that new black holes cannot form.
Yes, I read the article, and I think this part of it is b.s. All black holes existed since the beginning...uh??? What about, you know, space, and time, and all that? I seriously doubt that black holes were pre-fabbed like houses.
>Somewhere there is a contradiction. Can somebody explain?
I think they just took it one step too far.
>IANAP, so feel free to chime in and correct me.
It sounds to me like you understand the difference between time and speed better than most. The universe understands speed, there is a limit. Time is a reduction of that.
Anything moving at perfect speed has, by definition, infinite time to complete its task. Observers at lower speeds get to watch and die in the meantime.
That's an interesting viewpoint, but I don't think you understand physics.
QM lies at the physical border of observable physics. At the QM boundary, concepts we take for granted such as electrons and the speed of light have different meaning. Humanity has nothing to do with it. At a small scale, the behavior of matter changes.
Here's an analogy:
Let's say Newtonian (ordinary) physics involves sitting on the side of the road and tracking how fast people are driving in their cars. From this perspective, you can get a pretty good idea where the cars are going. But there's still some randomness to it, if some driver changes their mind.
In this analogy, QM would be like sitting inside each car tracking who is having what conversation, who is on their cellphone, whether their hands are on the gearshift or on their girlfriend's boob, etc. It's a whole other level that you can't see from the side of the road.
If you could be inside each car, then you would know. But you can't. That's QM, the individual decision-making of each driver on the road.
Each driver==each electron. Whether you choose to track electrons with free will or with robotics, it's still too small and random to keep track of all the time.
Remember throughout the 1980s, there was this big debate about the existence of the stealth fighter/bomber? With the Persian Gulf ware in 1991, all of a sudden they appeared.
The stealth fighter (F-117) appeared in 1991 and was produced by Lockheed's Skunk Works. It was top-secret in the 1980's...the closest thing in the public was the F-19 Aurora, which was a combo of UFO and stealth technology. When the F-117 finally debuted, it looked nothing like the F-19.
Northrop's B-2, on the other hand, was never secret. There was a great deal of debate about the bomber's cost, complexity, and usefulness way back in the 1980's. The only secret of the B-2 was that they refused to photograph the engine exhausts for several years.
The B-2 was a nuclear bomber, so it didn't enter service until Afghanistan when it was fitted with GPS-guided JDAMs. The B-2 is actually less stealthy than the F-117, since GPS requires active signaling.
Does anyone wonder why after 40 years, there is no [known] plane which exceeds the SR-71 speed and altitude?
Well, the Air Force stonewalled like this in the 1960's. The X-15, which first flew in 1959, eventually reached Mach-6. Yet the Air Force refused to build a Mach-2 fighter until the F-14/15 in 1972. As per History Channel, many promising Mach-2 fighter programs were cancelled in favor of bombers. I suppose many promising high-altitude planes were cancelled in favor of spy satellites.
>Moore pieced together two different speeches.
Hah.
Let's look at Moore's history as a filmmaker.
Roger and Me: Excellent movie, until the final five minutes when he screams, non-climactically, from a distance at the GM president. That's journalism.
Bowling for Columbine: Basic point, guns are bad. Unfortunately, gun ownership is guaranteed under the US constitution. I know that my constitutionally-guaranteed rights are wrong, but I didn't feel it until I saw this movie.
Fahrenheit 9/11: Basic point, the US has a cozy relationship with Saudia Arabia. It's interesting that administration sources have never refuted this point. Again, props for the obvious.
I have to say, when it comes to the obvious, Roger Moore is an expert without peer.
>This project is doomed from the start -- take the pink glasses off for a second
Actually, I'm surprised that you're surprised by this. Latin America is the next North America in terms of size, economy, and growth potential. It was only a matter of time before cheap, reliable PC's became part of the Latin American economy. Ever been on Battle.net (Wc3)? DOTA BRAZIL ONLY.
The only pink vision I have, is that someone like me would move down there, and do it myself. I guess I'm disappointed that Latin America still needs a dictator-esque leader to do it for them.
>The sad thing is that they couldn't even beat Apple, who wasn't doing that great at the time. The Amiga was a better, cheaper Mac in many ways.
Yep, I've heard the Amiga was great...in fact, the whole MOD (screamtracker/fasttracker) music community was based around early Amiga work.
There was an Amiga in my h.s. computer classroom, it's sad that I never used it, but it was completely unfamiliar to me. Other than that, I never saw another Amiga. All the other computers mentioned, I had at least 1 friend who owned one.
Meanwhile, I already had an 8086 of my own and there were 2 8086's in the classroom...1 mac (the rest were in the english dept)...and the rest were apple II's.
Here's the relevant paragraph from the Wiki article:
"Unlike a rocket that quickly passes mostly vertically through the atmosphere or a turbojet or ramjet that flies at much lower speeds, a hypersonic airbreathing vehicle optimally flies a "depressed trajectory", staying within the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. Because scramjets have only mediocre thrust-to-weight ratios, acceleration would be limited. Therefore time in the atmosphere at hypersonic speed would be considerable, possibly 15-30 minutes. Similar to a reentering space vehicle, heat insulation from atmospheric friction would be a formidable task. The time in the atmosphere would be greater than that for a typical space capsule, but less than that of the space shuttle."
Now we know why the SR-71 required titanium construction at only mach-3.
TFA: They said it reached an altitude of 530 kilometres (330 miles) before the scramjet was successfully deployed following re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere.
So the scramjet was deployed during a ballistic rocket dive? Seems like an easy way to reach mach-10, with or without a scramjet.
Now they're talking about using it on the way UP, that's quite different from what they did.
Actually, the early Mac was notable for being the only 1980's computer platform without color. It's true that early PC's and Apple II's were frequently monochrome, but at least color was available. By the time the colorized System 7 was released in 1991, the B&W Macintosh line was a laughingstock. Today, the Mac line is still recovering from the "niche" label earned in the black-and-white 1980's.
As to why IBM bested the Commodore, Amiga, Adam, Sinclair, Apple II, and Vic20, it's because only IBM cloned their hardware to third parties-->dirt cheap hardware-->lots of software. And those home systems were underpowered compared to the 8086 and especially the 286. The Amiga had a chance, but nobody knew about it until afterwards.
The only reason Mac survived at all is because of the WYSIWG text editor and because they scammed public schools into buying them.
>By the way we typically lead the country in malfunctioning gas pumps too - about 1 in 12 is cheating you as reported in earlier N&O stories. I myself recently put 18 gallons into a 15.5 gallon tank.
The gas station rip-offs seemed to pick up when gas hit $3/gallon. I now put between 15.1 and 16.1 into a 16-gallon tank, usually with a couple gallons residual fuel in there. When gas cost $1.50, my fillups were always 13.5.
I read a study (couple years ago) that up to 50% of California pumps were rip-offs, and if you think about it, a gas station owner would need to jigger at least half his pumps to make it worth his while. The average scam seems to be about 7%, within the normal mileage fluctuation to make it hard to notice.
>The second is that private meetings, foreign pressures and lobbyist drafted bills is how law gets made in Canada.
History Channel's "Secret Superpower Aircraft" made a pretty good case that Canada's early-1970's mach-2 fighter was scrapped because of pressure from U.S. industry (which had no comparable fighter, as all resources were being diverted to bomber programs).
It's fun being our neighbors, eh?