You think a national gun ban would create a barrier to importation of guns to the US? We can't keep drugs out, what makes you think guns are any different?
I was going to say people aren't addicted to guns but maybe that's not the case.
And barriers to importation of guns into Chicago are nonexistent. It's a majority-minority city, which means you would expect its murder rate to be high for American cities because in the USA, murder rates are many times higher among blacks and hispanics than among whites and many times higher among poor people of all races than among middle-income and up people of all races. If you don't figure that in when thinking about violence, you will come to all kinds of conclusions that won't withstand the light of day.
We had this argument years ago when they were talking about putting encryption engines in everybody's phones, but they'd have back door keys and NOBODY WANTED ONE. They still won't. All this will do if passed is prevent anybody from buying a new phone until they have a method in hand to turn off or change the back-door codes so nobody can hack them.
Why? You pay so much more than if you just drink at home.
The extra paid is a finders fee to meeting other similarly buzzed people, and perhaps some of them would want to have sex with you before your night is over.
So why not talk to them? This is my main point. You are at the bar for the social interaction.
But the robotic bartender is all wrong for this purpose. Instead, it should be telling you how drunk the OTHER people in the bar are, so you can hit on the chick that's three sheets to the wind and will be easy to talk the underwear off of. A bartender might give you hints about that, but then he might have a conscience. The robotic bartender won't. It can be programmed to sell creeps Coca Cola and that info instead of liquor all night.
The reason it wasn't considered a violation of medical ethics, if I had to guess, is that the voltages and currents involved are ones are brains are naturally exposed to from time to time. Thus if there are side-effects, they are currently widespread and undiagnosed in the population of the first world. It's like how it's not unethical to test(reasonable, non-extraordinary) dietary plans, because people eat anyways.
Suppose the experiment had the opposite result. Would you have considered it ethical then?
It's not clear to me that consciousness is well enough defined for anyone to say how it can be synthesized, evaluated or measured, whether animals have it, whether children have it and if so at what developmental stage and whether all adults have it.
No shit! Researchers don't understand how it works, we don't understand how it works, 60% of biomedical research results can't be repeated...
Is this published in the AIR (http://www.improbable.com/magazine/), by the way? It ought to be, because it sounds unethical and crazy on the face of it. Just the kind of thing they like.
But now that the information is out there, it can't just be ignored. Either there's something weird going on that's useful or there's something weird going on that's not useful. Maybe some day we'll all have little remotely controlled (or consciously controlled) electroshock devices implanted in our heads to improve various abilities on demand.
But numbers found on the internet were put there by people. There are infinitely many more numbers not found on the internet than can be found on the internet.
Jesus Christ on a stick! an iPhone app? Who the fuck wants to order drinks with a motherfucking iPhone app? What's wrong with using my god damned voice to order my fucking drinks? Who wants to know how many other drinks and in the fucking queue? Do you really think I want to know what horse piss the other doucebags are putting in their drinks?
What makes you imagine I want some machine tracking my drinking habits, much less to be made aware of it? # profanity off
Why would I want to go to a BAR to avoid SOCIAL INTERACTION with OTHER PEOPLE?
"My own opinion is that AI has failed to fulfill its promise because we are using the wrong kind of computers. We are using digital computers, and the human brain is probably analog rather than digital. So my guess is that AI will succeed only after we move from digital to analog computing."
Freeman Dyson knew a lot about a lot of things, but AI isn't one of those things.
Proposed penalty:
1. Refund customers 30% for every bit of electronic media they sold since they started this corrupt practice.
2. 2-year ban on Apple selling electronic media -- e-books, music and video.
Amazon was operating under a normal wholesale/retail model. They bought from the publisher for some agreed-on price, and sold the books to the public for a price they set (which could be higher or lower than what they paid the publisher). Apple convinced the publishers to stop selling to Amazon and switch to an agency model. Under the agency model, the publisher set the price the public paid, and gave the retailers a cut of that. Apple also managed to write into the contracts that nobody could get less of a cut than Apple. That is price fixing.
Good thing Apple has $100 billion on the bank. They might need it.
May be that they still use discrete FETs, it's just control circuitry is on die now. (I'm speculating)
That's an interesting question. They can make a FET with as big a voltage and current rating as they want by just making it many times the size of a logic FET. But they also need thicker gate oxide to prevent Vdg breakdown at multiples of the normal logic operating voltage. Not sure how they would do that. It could add a process step, which would make it expensive.
Intel refers to this as a FIVR (Fully Integrated Voltage Regulator), and it apparently eliminates voltage ripple and is significantly more efficient than your traditional motherboard VRM. Added bonus? It's 1/50th the size."
I have yet to come across a voltage regulator that doesn't run hot. Typically, it's one of the hottest components in an electrical circuit. And we're integrated this into a slab of silicon already well-known for getting so hot it can catch fire?
Can someone please tell me why this is a good idea, because all of my experience in electrical engineering says that when things heat up, they become more unstable and prone to failure, and the one thing you do not want going critical is your voltage regulator. If that goes, the whole computer catches fire.
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You think a national gun ban would create a barrier to importation of guns to the US? We can't keep drugs out, what makes you think guns are any different?
I was going to say people aren't addicted to guns but maybe that's not the case.
No it doesn't. Houston has more Hispanics. Chicago has more blacks.
Well, guns are pretty much banned in Chicago, New York City, etc. And yet, dozens of shootings every day....
This image has a nice take on it... apparently cold weather causes violence.
http://danieljmitchell.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/houston-chicago-guns-weather.jpg?w=500&h=500
And barriers to importation of guns into Chicago are nonexistent. It's a majority-minority city, which means you would expect its murder rate to be high for American cities because in the USA, murder rates are many times higher among blacks and hispanics than among whites and many times higher among poor people of all races than among middle-income and up people of all races. If you don't figure that in when thinking about violence, you will come to all kinds of conclusions that won't withstand the light of day.
We had this argument years ago when they were talking about putting encryption engines in everybody's phones, but they'd have back door keys and NOBODY WANTED ONE. They still won't. All this will do if passed is prevent anybody from buying a new phone until they have a method in hand to turn off or change the back-door codes so nobody can hack them.
Why? You pay so much more than if you just drink at home.
The extra paid is a finders fee to meeting other similarly buzzed people, and perhaps some of them would want to have sex with you before your night is over.
So why not talk to them? This is my main point. You are at the bar for the social interaction.
But the robotic bartender is all wrong for this purpose. Instead, it should be telling you how drunk the OTHER people in the bar are, so you can hit on the chick that's three sheets to the wind and will be easy to talk the underwear off of. A bartender might give you hints about that, but then he might have a conscience. The robotic bartender won't. It can be programmed to sell creeps Coca Cola and that info instead of liquor all night.
Seriously, it's unreadable.
The reason it wasn't considered a violation of medical ethics, if I had to guess, is that the voltages and currents involved are ones are brains are naturally exposed to from time to time. Thus if there are side-effects, they are currently widespread and undiagnosed in the population of the first world. It's like how it's not unethical to test(reasonable, non-extraordinary) dietary plans, because people eat anyways.
Suppose the experiment had the opposite result. Would you have considered it ethical then?
It's not clear to me that consciousness is well enough defined for anyone to say how it can be synthesized, evaluated or measured, whether animals have it, whether children have it and if so at what developmental stage and whether all adults have it.
No shit! Researchers don't understand how it works, we don't understand how it works, 60% of biomedical research results can't be repeated...
Is this published in the AIR (http://www.improbable.com/magazine/), by the way? It ought to be, because it sounds unethical and crazy on the face of it. Just the kind of thing they like.
But now that the information is out there, it can't just be ignored. Either there's something weird going on that's useful or there's something weird going on that's not useful. Maybe some day we'll all have little remotely controlled (or consciously controlled) electroshock devices implanted in our heads to improve various abilities on demand.
It would have to be negative.
But numbers found on the internet were put there by people. There are infinitely many more numbers not found on the internet than can be found on the internet.
Is it set at Princeton?
Jesus Christ on a stick! an iPhone app? Who the fuck wants to order drinks with a motherfucking iPhone app? What's wrong with using my god damned voice to order my fucking drinks? Who wants to know how many other drinks and in the fucking queue? Do you really think I want to know what horse piss the other doucebags are putting in their drinks?
What makes you imagine I want some machine tracking my drinking habits, much less to be made aware of it?
# profanity off
Why would I want to go to a BAR to avoid SOCIAL INTERACTION with OTHER PEOPLE?
Which makes some politician's car an attractive target for the bat. In my state, they're conveniently marked with special plates.
I tend to agree with Freeman Dyson
"My own opinion is that AI has failed to fulfill its promise because we are using the wrong kind of computers. We are using digital computers, and the human brain is probably analog rather than digital. So my guess is that AI will succeed only after we move from digital to analog computing."
Freeman Dyson knew a lot about a lot of things, but AI isn't one of those things.
Aren't those called Quatloos?
Then you damn well better own the robots. Those who don't will have no options except revolution.
You mean they were not the ONLY victims. But Apple needs to make restitution to its customers and other perps need to make restitution to theirs.
Proposed penalty: 1. Refund customers 30% for every bit of electronic media they sold since they started this corrupt practice. 2. 2-year ban on Apple selling electronic media -- e-books, music and video.
Amazon was operating under a normal wholesale/retail model. They bought from the publisher for some agreed-on price, and sold the books to the public for a price they set (which could be higher or lower than what they paid the publisher). Apple convinced the publishers to stop selling to Amazon and switch to an agency model. Under the agency model, the publisher set the price the public paid, and gave the retailers a cut of that. Apple also managed to write into the contracts that nobody could get less of a cut than Apple. That is price fixing.
Good thing Apple has $100 billion on the bank. They might need it.
Such activities involve a pretty large number of people. It's interesting how they collectively can keep it a secret for a pretty long time.
It wasn't a secret so much as thinking the government wouldn't come after them for it. Everybody knew about it.
Imperfectly. The additional inductance and delay result in poorer regulation.
May be that they still use discrete FETs, it's just control circuitry is on die now. (I'm speculating)
That's an interesting question. They can make a FET with as big a voltage and current rating as they want by just making it many times the size of a logic FET. But they also need thicker gate oxide to prevent Vdg breakdown at multiples of the normal logic operating voltage. Not sure how they would do that. It could add a process step, which would make it expensive.
Being 1/50th the size it will be welcome on mobile devices. Not sure that its a good thing for your gaming desktop.
That 84 watts is going to rip through your mobile device's battery pretty damn fast.
Intel refers to this as a FIVR (Fully Integrated Voltage Regulator), and it apparently eliminates voltage ripple and is significantly more efficient than your traditional motherboard VRM. Added bonus? It's 1/50th the size."
I have yet to come across a voltage regulator that doesn't run hot. Typically, it's one of the hottest components in an electrical circuit. And we're integrated this into a slab of silicon already well-known for getting so hot it can catch fire?
Can someone please tell me why this is a good idea, because all of my experience in electrical engineering says that when things heat up, they become more unstable and prone to failure, and the one thing you do not want going critical is your voltage regulator. If that goes, the whole computer catches fire.
It's cooled by your CPU fan.