Well, barring overturning peano's axioms ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms ), nothing is going to unseat Shannon. Shannon is as mathematically proven as it gets.
The 'proof' that we could not travel faster than 40mph was not a mathematical proof, but rather a theory, and not a widely held one at that.
And the energy sources you're nominating are only free to the extent that someone else isn't willing to kill you to take your share, which is only true so long as there is enough to go around, which is only true so long as the population stays low. Likewise, the space to even temporarily replicate yourself a nice comfy couch is only free so long as things aren't too crowded. There are people in our world even now who don't have access to that kind of space, and an alien civilization leveraging spaceflight to expand and conquer would know that space is even more precious.
As to the economics, you're obviously right there, we're in complete agreement on that area.
The problem I was pointing out was that the time necessary to stop talking and start driving better may be longer than the time required to end someone's life, even if you do so at the maximum possible speed.
Even if you have a star trek replicator, you need to buy the energy to run it, and the space to store its output.
Money as virtual currency is a close to maximally compressed proxy for future assets. Shannon has proven that you can't do much better, so whatever the aliens have as a proxy for future assets seems unlikely to be radically different.
At that point the only rational choice is to not participate online at all, or allow pictures to be taken, comments to be made, anything that relates to you. What a sad life that seems.
Yeah. It would be just like life before 1995.
He already said it was sad, no need to be redundant.
Speeding is also an obvious risk. People do it anyways.
Going 60 in a 55 mph zone is considered speeding. I don't consider myself to be more at risk in that case.
And yet, the physics/statistics make either a liar or a fool of you, as you are in fact more at risk at 60 than at 55. The energy available to kill you is simply higher.
Sadly, the US justice system frowns on lynch mobs, which is why we have a lot of these stupid social problems, the corrective feedback mechanism has been castrated.
It's a limit for me, but admittedly, I'm a software developer, so my usage is a bit different from the conventional. But I bet anyone who does video editing would love to stream data at that rate.
Because after alien contact, the speed of light no longer applies? Because as long as the speed of light is the limit, there will be finite resources to fight over, and money to proxy for fighting.
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This is not Amdahl's law, this is the dispatcher being inefficient.
You were surprised? This is slashdot, where the LCD wins every time.
Well, barring overturning peano's axioms ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms ), nothing is going to unseat Shannon. Shannon is as mathematically proven as it gets.
The 'proof' that we could not travel faster than 40mph was not a mathematical proof, but rather a theory, and not a widely held one at that.
And the energy sources you're nominating are only free to the extent that someone else isn't willing to kill you to take your share, which is only true so long as there is enough to go around, which is only true so long as the population stays low. Likewise, the space to even temporarily replicate yourself a nice comfy couch is only free so long as things aren't too crowded. There are people in our world even now who don't have access to that kind of space, and an alien civilization leveraging spaceflight to expand and conquer would know that space is even more precious.
As to the economics, you're obviously right there, we're in complete agreement on that area.
Compiling, deploying, starting complex server software. Several minutes, twenty or thirty times a day. Almost purely disk bound.
It's happened time and again. Lots of bad banks under new ownership, etc. The times this hasn't happened are the exception, not the rule.
The problem I was pointing out was that the time necessary to stop talking and start driving better may be longer than the time required to end someone's life, even if you do so at the maximum possible speed.
Even if you have a star trek replicator, you need to buy the energy to run it, and the space to store its output.
Money as virtual currency is a close to maximally compressed proxy for future assets. Shannon has proven that you can't do much better, so whatever the aliens have as a proxy for future assets seems unlikely to be radically different.
Nice.
The greedy ceo should be the one who won't engage in such a practice because he wants to make more money.
I've been getting spams from them for over two years, so, about negative two years.
That kind of practice can't really last, though, as the businesses that fall victim to this trap will be out-competed by their rivals that don't.
Yeah. It would be just like life before 1995.
He already said it was sad, no need to be redundant.
While men never pull over, and instead just keep trying to brute force their own passwords?
It takes into account personal history via sample size.
The point of the study seems to be that that's what you say, but not what you actually pick.
But the aliens would still have money.
Yep, we traded a social problem that was going away from social evolution anyway for one we will never escape, sure enough.
Speeding is also an obvious risk. People do it anyways.
Going 60 in a 55 mph zone is considered speeding. I don't consider myself to be more at risk in that case.
And yet, the physics/statistics make either a liar or a fool of you, as you are in fact more at risk at 60 than at 55. The energy available to kill you is simply higher.
Sadly, the US justice system frowns on lynch mobs, which is why we have a lot of these stupid social problems, the corrective feedback mechanism has been castrated.
Just remember to always stop talking before you are surprised by the need for tricky driving.
It's a limit for me, but admittedly, I'm a software developer, so my usage is a bit different from the conventional. But I bet anyone who does video editing would love to stream data at that rate.
Because after alien contact, the speed of light no longer applies? Because as long as the speed of light is the limit, there will be finite resources to fight over, and money to proxy for fighting.
Can you provide a link for that, the doc I read said 2.4Gb/s. for wide SAS full duplex.
The philosophical and moral issues dealt with in TOS, TNG and DS9 were almost completely lacking.
It's worse than that. The moral issues were there, and the characters we were supposed to identify with reliably made the evil choice.
Are you joking? Because the bandwidth has the same limitations this company (and all the other ssd makers) are trying to find a way to break free of.