If you're running control software similar to what I'm running, it's the cause. My computer went from incredible fast to really slow when I installed my plc and hmi development tools.
Half Life however is doing a spectacular job of teaching me how to live and work in a post-apocalyptic society governed by constant surveillance in which i have no real rights.
A soul? Probably not. But then I've never seen any evidence for souls, so my best bet is that I'm as soulless as an average brick. It wouldn't be fair of me to look down on her for lacking something I don't possess myself.
Now, the question of if she's real is an interesting one, which has been discussed to death by various philosophers. The discussion usually goes something like:
Imagine that the test subject has a wholly human brain. There's no question whether the subject is real or not. Now, replace a single neuron with an artificial one. (In this case, simulate it on a computer and put cables in her brain to connect it.) Is she still real? Is she still a human? (I'd say yes, but others might say differently. Some might even say that she lost a bit of her soul.)
Repeat the procedure until she isn't real any more, or you run out of neurons to replace. If she stopped being real, at which point was it? what's so special about that particular point? (etc.)
Henry Ford dealt the libertarianism/worker exploitation of that time a heavy blow, by not only introducing eight hour work days, but also doubling his workers pay in 1914. His company succeeded not in spite of him treating his workers well, but because of it.
I'm wondering if the time is ripe to see a Henry Ford of our time yet.
Sure, if it's mission critical at Ford's engine plant, then the cost/benefit analysis is rather easy to eyeball. (And I'll gladly be standing by, monitoring every little hickkup from the plant - also sweating from the responsibility.)
But your plant is a bit harder: - Is there risk of injury in case of a botched update? - What's the risk of downtime due to a botched update? - For how long will the plant be down in case of a botched update? - How much can the plant operators and IT handle themselves? - How far away is the plant? (i.e., what is my traveling time?)
Depending on those numbers we get wildly different answers to if it's affordable/prudent to have somebody like me standing by on site.
If there is no risk of injury, the risk of downtime is something like 10% and we're looking at a half hour production stop while IT restores the backup, then it's rather expensive to have the vendor on site for your plant. (0.5h * 30k usd/h * 10% = 1.5k usd vs. 2k usd + 1.5k usd = 3.5k usd)
On the other hand, if IT can't handle a restore, and the vendor has to drive an hour to get on site in case of a botch, then, with the same numbers for everything else, it's a good plan to have the vendor on site. (1.5h * 30k usd/h * 10% = 4.5k usd vs. 2k usd + 0.5h * 30k usd/h * 10% = 3.5k usd)
It really depends on the plant and the people opperating it if the cost of having somebody standing by on site is trivial.
I am a control engineer, and frankly, I prefer to be on site when I update the production software, unless the update is completely trivial. My customers would often rather have me stay away from their site and update their automation and control software from home, mostly because they don't want to pay for having me at hand.
And that's no surprise for me.
My company charges in the neighbourhood of 2000 usd plus traveling expenses each day I'm standing by / installing / whatever on site. (And that's cheap!) We charge that, because otherwise the customers wastes our time, have us wait for installation of operator stations, missing cabling, etc. Even with the that price tag I spent half a day, out of the two days I did on site support this week, on twiddling my thumbs, waiting for IT to upgrade the server I was working on, even though they were told beforehand that it would need to be upgraded.
So please, require me to be on site, if a shorter response time is worth it. Just remember to do a cost/benefit analysis of it first.
That actually underlines my point quite well. Serious is as serious does. What you use for developing a robot doesn't really have any impact on how serious you are about it. There might be other things to consider, such as price vs. ease of use vs. durability etc., but just because somebody uses a toy for something doesn't mean they aren't serious.
Lego mindstorm might be a toy designed for children, but that doesn't disqualify it from being a tool you can use if you're serious about robotics and/or programming. Just as an example, when I taught at the university we used Lego mindstorm for the introduction course for automation and control engineering. And believe me, we're very serious about both programming and robotics.
I find that as I grow older I'm more and more in favor of free education, free health care and all the other benefits that I get from living in a country with high taxes. The alternative just doesn't look good from my perspective.
Yes, you're paying for other people, but guess what? Other people are paying for you at the same time so it all works out.
"It all works out"? Holy. fucking. citation. needed.
Here's a state you'd most likely call socialist, high taxes and everything, and they're doing quite well. Also, it's more or less the same in the other nordic countries and the Netherlands.
Let's see. With the slices of spectrum I've had access to I've: Used it for networking (802.11), used it for controlling my computer (BlueTooth+other protocols), listened to radio broadcast on it (AM+FM), used it for operating the sattellite I helped build (AX.25)...
Other possible uses include baby alarms, remote car keys, walkie talkies,...
Of course, some of those slices of spectrums are licenced to private organizations, some are more or less free for all, and just one of them was ours to play around with as we deemed fit.
As time goes by a it will only rise in price - I for one am only happy that my government doesn't sell of the airwaves, but lease them out instead.
The hull is most likely not that thick. It's only there to keep the air pressure high enough that the astronauts can breathe it and be sturdy enough that they don't poke their fingers through it by accident.
Also, a thicker hull wouldn't protect them from space junk etc. The junk is traveling at orbital velocity (otherwise it wouldn't be in orbit) so any impact is likely to penetrate the hull, no matter the thickness.
Every kg to space is expensive, so hull thickness most likely isn't a top priority.
I've used the NeXT (or nExt, NexT, or whatever their crazy capitalization is) for an introduction to control theory for engineering students at the university. It's a great way to quickly hobble together a prototype in Lego and some prototype software and watch it in action, and thereby get them motivated to learn a bit of theory.
Why do you religious people keep saying that atheism is a religion? Are you afraid of letting go of your god-illusion and living without your mind-crutch? Perhaps even to the point of denying that other people don't need the same comfort in order to live their lives?
Voluntary donations sounds like a fine idea. If it wasn't a tragedy of the commons type of situation, that is.
If you based your taxes on voluntaring, then the economically best action for the indivdual would be to pay nothing and freeload of everybody who paid something. That doesn't sound like anything that could work in any society. Paying taxes only works because we are forced to do it (or find another country to live in).
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If you're running control software similar to what I'm running, it's the cause. My computer went from incredible fast to really slow when I installed my plc and hmi development tools.
You have the right to consume. That's still real.
That's not a right, that's a duty!
I was thinking more along the lines of Chinese room or Chine brain.
A soul? Probably not. But then I've never seen any evidence for souls, so my best bet is that I'm as soulless as an average brick. It wouldn't be fair of me to look down on her for lacking something I don't possess myself.
Now, the question of if she's real is an interesting one, which has been discussed to death by various philosophers. The discussion usually goes something like:
Imagine that the test subject has a wholly human brain. There's no question whether the subject is real or not. Now, replace a single neuron with an artificial one. (In this case, simulate it on a computer and put cables in her brain to connect it.) Is she still real? Is she still a human? (I'd say yes, but others might say differently. Some might even say that she lost a bit of her soul.)
Repeat the procedure until she isn't real any more, or you run out of neurons to replace. If she stopped being real, at which point was it? what's so special about that particular point? (etc.)
Mis-modded. (Sorry)
Just to add to the historical anectode:
Henry Ford dealt the libertarianism/worker exploitation of that time a heavy blow, by not only introducing eight hour work days, but also doubling his workers pay in 1914. His company succeeded not in spite of him treating his workers well, but because of it.
I'm wondering if the time is ripe to see a Henry Ford of our time yet.
That's the Dilbert Principle at work. It's the Peter Principle's evil twin.
Sure, if it's mission critical at Ford's engine plant, then the cost/benefit analysis is rather easy to eyeball. (And I'll gladly be standing by, monitoring every little hickkup from the plant - also sweating from the responsibility.)
But your plant is a bit harder:
- Is there risk of injury in case of a botched update?
- What's the risk of downtime due to a botched update?
- For how long will the plant be down in case of a botched update?
- How much can the plant operators and IT handle themselves?
- How far away is the plant? (i.e., what is my traveling time?)
Depending on those numbers we get wildly different answers to if it's affordable/prudent to have somebody like me standing by on site.
If there is no risk of injury, the risk of downtime is something like 10% and we're looking at a half hour production stop while IT restores the backup, then it's rather expensive to have the vendor on site for your plant. (0.5h * 30k usd/h * 10% = 1.5k usd vs. 2k usd + 1.5k usd = 3.5k usd)
On the other hand, if IT can't handle a restore, and the vendor has to drive an hour to get on site in case of a botch, then, with the same numbers for everything else, it's a good plan to have the vendor on site. (1.5h * 30k usd/h * 10% = 4.5k usd vs. 2k usd + 0.5h * 30k usd/h * 10% = 3.5k usd)
It really depends on the plant and the people opperating it if the cost of having somebody standing by on site is trivial.
I am a control engineer, and frankly, I prefer to be on site when I update the production software, unless the update is completely trivial. My customers would often rather have me stay away from their site and update their automation and control software from home, mostly because they don't want to pay for having me at hand.
And that's no surprise for me.
My company charges in the neighbourhood of 2000 usd plus traveling expenses each day I'm standing by / installing / whatever on site. (And that's cheap!) We charge that, because otherwise the customers wastes our time, have us wait for installation of operator stations, missing cabling, etc. Even with the that price tag I spent half a day, out of the two days I did on site support this week, on twiddling my thumbs, waiting for IT to upgrade the server I was working on, even though they were told beforehand that it would need to be upgraded.
So please, require me to be on site, if a shorter response time is worth it. Just remember to do a cost/benefit analysis of it first.
Huh?
PSK doesn't magically increase bits/symbol. Nor does it give you redundancy or anything like it. It's just an encoding scheme like any other.
That actually underlines my point quite well. Serious is as serious does. What you use for developing a robot doesn't really have any impact on how serious you are about it. There might be other things to consider, such as price vs. ease of use vs. durability etc., but just because somebody uses a toy for something doesn't mean they aren't serious.
Lego mindstorm might be a toy designed for children, but that doesn't disqualify it from being a tool you can use if you're serious about robotics and/or programming. Just as an example, when I taught at the university we used Lego mindstorm for the introduction course for automation and control engineering. And believe me, we're very serious about both programming and robotics.
So a Swedish citizen give approximatly six times the foreign aid a citizen in the US does?
Yeah, you're right. That is pretty embarrasing.
Actually, let my elaborate a bit on that. Something that really made me think about my own country in a more positive light was the talk "If Americans want to live the American dream ... they should go to Denmark", which talks about social mobility in different countries and the talk "The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class".
I find that as I grow older I'm more and more in favor of free education, free health care and all the other benefits that I get from living in a country with high taxes. The alternative just doesn't look good from my perspective.
Scandinavia.
Yes, you're paying for other people, but guess what? Other people are paying for you at the same time so it all works out.
"It all works out"? Holy. fucking. citation. needed.
Here's a state you'd most likely call socialist, high taxes and everything, and they're doing quite well. Also, it's more or less the same in the other nordic countries and the Netherlands.
Let's see. With the slices of spectrum I've had access to I've: Used it for networking (802.11), used it for controlling my computer (BlueTooth+other protocols), listened to radio broadcast on it (AM+FM), used it for operating the sattellite I helped build (AX.25) ...
Other possible uses include baby alarms, remote car keys, walkie talkies, ...
Of course, some of those slices of spectrums are licenced to private organizations, some are more or less free for all, and just one of them was ours to play around with as we deemed fit.
As time goes by a it will only rise in price - I for one am only happy that my government doesn't sell of the airwaves, but lease them out instead.
...must resist urge to answer yes to some of those questions.
That's funny, that sounds almost like the music industry. I've never looked at my papers in that particular light.
Thanks for the insight!
The hull is most likely not that thick. It's only there to keep the air pressure high enough that the astronauts can breathe it and be sturdy enough that they don't poke their fingers through it by accident.
Also, a thicker hull wouldn't protect them from space junk etc. The junk is traveling at orbital velocity (otherwise it wouldn't be in orbit) so any impact is likely to penetrate the hull, no matter the thickness.
Every kg to space is expensive, so hull thickness most likely isn't a top priority.
Oh, I didn't know it was available in Danish.
I've used the NeXT (or nExt, NexT, or whatever their crazy capitalization is) for an introduction to control theory for engineering students at the university. It's a great way to quickly hobble together a prototype in Lego and some prototype software and watch it in action, and thereby get them motivated to learn a bit of theory.
I don't know if it's localized, but Lego Mindstorm should do the trick. Rather expensive solution though.
Oy, don't leave us Danes out of all that promiscuous fun!
Why do you religious people keep saying that atheism is a religion? Are you afraid of letting go of your god-illusion and living without your mind-crutch? Perhaps even to the point of denying that other people don't need the same comfort in order to live their lives?
Voluntary donations sounds like a fine idea. If it wasn't a tragedy of the commons type of situation, that is.
If you based your taxes on voluntaring, then the economically best action for the indivdual would be to pay nothing and freeload of everybody who paid something. That doesn't sound like anything that could work in any society. Paying taxes only works because we are forced to do it (or find another country to live in).