There are a bunch of reasons. For instance, the infant mortality rates have been curbed by modern medicine, but the people still have large numbers of kids. Used to be this was offset by only a few making it, but now a lot more do, and the culture hasn't had a chance to adjust to this yet.
Another reason for the starvation is that some fast food chains buy out the prime farmland in some third world countries to grow food for their cows, which will make burgers. The undesirable farmland is left to grow food for the populations. Greenpeace was saying this in the 80s and got sued by one of the fast food companies, but were able to show evidence of this in court that more than 50 percent of world hunger was caused by the major fast-food company of the time.
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"But in a chunk of tissue there would be billions or trillions of strands which were originally identical. They would not be damaged in the exact same way. It seems logical to me that if many different samples of these damaged strands were sequenced then statistics could be used to filter out the damaged portions from each individual sample and build a map of the original."
Add in a correction system in living cells and wham, a cure for cancer.
What interested me more, was that at the bottom of the article, it mentions that we have quantum entanglement of 3 electrons working. I don't know what will be more useful to continue Moore's Law, the nanotubes or the quantum computers. The nanotubes seem to be an evolutionary upgrade where the quantum computers seem to be more revolutionary.
I wonder if this will stop bass vibrations. I work nights and during the day when I try to sleep I get my neighbor playing his music real loud. I can't hear the music, but the vibrations from the bass keep me up until I get out of bed go over and knock on his door to get him to turn it down. This would help if it could block bass vibrations, but I don't think I want to spend a four digit sum on it.
The other cool thing would be that they might start supporting p2p technology like gnutella since it keeps people online and using their bandwidth longer.
The ISS is an aid program for Russia's scientists so they don't go off to other countries like Iran and Libya (sp?) that want to give scientists high salaries to make missiles. NASA's admins don't see any scientific benefits coming from the ISS, though it does have a good goal of preventing the underpaid Russian scientists from leaving to go to more volatile nations. The space station is currently no more than a shadow of what was once planned.
This might be bad in a sense that with the current rules it seems no one can create a viable streaming business. Perhaps this is another sign that current music (maybe other art) copy control will not work forever even in a business sense and that the laws will have to be altered. It seems inevitable.
The way this will probably work are hardware keys. I would think maybe something like cprm was being designed (and failed) to handle keys against copying media (songs and movies) from original cds would probably be what might get tried. The computer might keep an unencrypted copy of anything encrypted on a part of the hard drive not accessable to anything else for a while. The FBI or whoever would show up at your door and take your drive or analyze it right there and see what you sent encrypted. I can't see how else this could work
I have read that some of the earliest data points are from before world war 2, when we left a lot of bouys (sp?) to track the directions and temperature of the currents for trade. They were picked up decades later. Most of todays data, of course, probably comes from sattelite.
Desease resistance is nothing new, though maybe it is new in potatoes. What would really be news I look forward to is seeing something about desease resistant humans. I don't mean resistant to current deseases only as viruses (at least biological) and bacteria tend to evolve around the resistance. I mean desease resistance that pretty much makes the issue of attacks by bacteria and viruses a non-issue.
I realize this might bring images of the movie Gattaca, but new technology always brings new problems while solving some old ones. Problems I see from this? Medical advancement in desease research would experience a great lack of funding as there would be less need for it. Fields such such as injuries and emergency care would probably still see scientific advancement.
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The fact that carnivore runs on ms-windows makes it feel like a slap in the face too. Though I guess if it ran on linux, I can see some of us linux people taking that as a slap in the face too, depending on how you look at it.
He's not saying we should beat them. He is saying we should join them. An interface between humans and machines would mean we can stay in the race longer. Ultimately the lines between man and machine will have to blur as we are made out of the same prefabricated stuff: atoms. At that point moore's law applies both to machine and human engineering. We simply have to survive till that point.
Well, consider this. The programs for things like navigation have to work without fail. If the thing turns the wrong way, we could lose the ability to feed it directions. Just making 100 percent sure that doesn't fail can take a ton of money. I'm sure that is only a small part of it but it would be expensive cause you have to run it through all kinds of testing to make sure it doesn't fail on the working environment. Then you have the rocket scientists that determine what can be done, the trajectories. Then you have to pay for the computers (mainframes, mission crit network, etc). You have to pay janitors, security, cafeteria staff. You have to pay people to monitor the craft and others to monitor their computers (to make sure they don't surf on the job:). It can build up to a few million. I imagine most of the cost is just various kinds of support staff.
What is the technological ability of the majority of our legislatures? Do they use the computer hardware and software they make the laws for? or do they leave that mostly up to the people that work for them. How much are they themselves in touch with the technology that they affect with their decisions?
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There are a bunch of reasons. For instance, the infant mortality rates have been curbed by modern medicine, but the people still have large numbers of kids. Used to be this was offset by only a few making it, but now a lot more do, and the culture hasn't had a chance to adjust to this yet.
Another reason for the starvation is that some fast food chains buy out the prime farmland in some third world countries to grow food for their cows, which will make burgers. The undesirable farmland is left to grow food for the populations. Greenpeace was saying this in the 80s and got sued by one of the fast food companies, but were able to show evidence of this in court that more than 50 percent of world hunger was caused by the major fast-food company of the time.
"But in a chunk of tissue there would be billions or trillions of strands which were originally identical. They would not be damaged in the exact same way. It seems logical to me that if many different samples of these damaged strands were sequenced then statistics could be used to filter out the damaged portions from each individual sample and build a map of the original."
Add in a correction system in living cells and wham, a cure for cancer.
What interested me more, was that at the bottom of the article, it mentions that we have quantum entanglement of 3 electrons working. I don't know what will be more useful to continue Moore's Law, the nanotubes or the quantum computers. The nanotubes seem to be an evolutionary upgrade where the quantum computers seem to be more revolutionary.
Thine space is so big, and my nanotubes so small...
what are you talking about? what is everything2?
You could still do that by skipping across universes :) From one quantum universe to another, it might become possible.
Xcom, apocalypse.
So you're basically saying that this one is getting nowhere real fast :)
I wonder if this will stop bass vibrations. I work nights and during the day when I try to sleep I get my neighbor playing his music real loud. I can't hear the music, but the vibrations from the bass keep me up until I get out of bed go over and knock on his door to get him to turn it down. This would help if it could block bass vibrations, but I don't think I want to spend a four digit sum on it.
The other cool thing would be that they might start supporting p2p technology like gnutella since it keeps people online and using their bandwidth longer.
The ISS is an aid program for Russia's scientists so they don't go off to other countries like Iran and Libya (sp?) that want to give scientists high salaries to make missiles. NASA's admins don't see any scientific benefits coming from the ISS, though it does have a good goal of preventing the underpaid Russian scientists from leaving to go to more volatile nations. The space station is currently no more than a shadow of what was once planned.
> The current rules are created by the music companies and follow copyright laws. They're doing nothing illegal.
Well it looks like the court ruling says they are doing this specific business illegally.
This might be bad in a sense that with the current rules it seems no one can create a viable streaming business. Perhaps this is another sign that current music (maybe other art) copy control will not work forever even in a business sense and that the laws will have to be altered. It seems inevitable.
I've already accidentally called them fremen a couple times :) It was an awesome book.
The way this will probably work are hardware keys. I would think maybe something like cprm was being designed (and failed) to handle keys against copying media (songs and movies) from original cds would probably be what might get tried. The computer might keep an unencrypted copy of anything encrypted on a part of the hard drive not accessable to anything else for a while. The FBI or whoever would show up at your door and take your drive or analyze it right there and see what you sent encrypted. I can't see how else this could work
I have read that some of the earliest data points are from before world war 2, when we left a lot of bouys (sp?) to track the directions and temperature of the currents for trade. They were picked up decades later. Most of todays data, of course, probably comes from sattelite.
Desease resistance is nothing new, though maybe it is new in potatoes. What would really be news I look forward to is seeing something about desease resistant humans. I don't mean resistant to current deseases only as viruses (at least biological) and bacteria tend to evolve around the resistance. I mean desease resistance that pretty much makes the issue of attacks by bacteria and viruses a non-issue.
I realize this might bring images of the movie Gattaca, but new technology always brings new problems while solving some old ones. Problems I see from this? Medical advancement in desease research would experience a great lack of funding as there would be less need for it. Fields such such as injuries and emergency care would probably still see scientific advancement.
The fact that carnivore runs on ms-windows makes it feel like a slap in the face too. Though I guess if it ran on linux, I can see some of us linux people taking that as a slap in the face too, depending on how you look at it.
He's not saying we should beat them. He is saying we should join them. An interface between humans and machines would mean we can stay in the race longer. Ultimately the lines between man and machine will have to blur as we are made out of the same prefabricated stuff: atoms. At that point moore's law applies both to machine and human engineering. We simply have to survive till that point.
If you can't beat em, join em.
Well, consider this. The programs for things like navigation have to work without fail. If the thing turns the wrong way, we could lose the ability to feed it directions. Just making 100 percent sure that doesn't fail can take a ton of money. I'm sure that is only a small part of it but it would be expensive cause you have to run it through all kinds of testing to make sure it doesn't fail on the working environment. Then you have the rocket scientists that determine what can be done, the trajectories. Then you have to pay for the computers (mainframes, mission crit network, etc). You have to pay janitors, security, cafeteria staff. You have to pay people to monitor the craft and others to monitor their computers (to make sure they don't surf on the job :). It can build up to a few million. I imagine most of the cost is just various kinds of support staff.
I didn't know McGyver worked at NASA.
What is the technological ability of the majority of our legislatures? Do they use the computer hardware and software they make the laws for? or do they leave that mostly up to the people that work for them. How much are they themselves in touch with the technology that they affect with their decisions?
I think it said "pc load letter" at least once during the movie. "WTF does that mean?" was one of the script lines.
I don't know. 3 visitors at a time. That makes for one strange honeymoon.
That is how many men per hour it can take out :)