Actually it was a real problem which is why it passes so easily. It was a time when people believed that the law could protect and improve their life and some of those laws did. Things like labor laws and health laws and drug laws. Morphine and Opium addiction where also big problems at the time. You could put anything in a bottle and make outlandish claims with no regulation. Same with food and goodness knows what else. Others went too far. The real goal is to find the right balance of enough law to protect people without making the world a nanny state.
I am sure you do. Why should I have to pay for food. It grows on trees.
Really I do not like DRM at all but this fantasy that the cost to produce software, music, movies, tv shows, and books is pure fantasy. The cost to duplicate them is pretty low but the actual cost to produce them is significant.
And you do not have to buy the content from them. You will not die without it. You are just not free to take it.
Don't get me wrong. The cost of DVDs, CDs, and EBooks is way too high. But they also do not have to be free.
But what type of tech has not been dreamed of by now? I doubt that at this point anything will be more than we can handle. We not understand it but I doubt that we would be in awe of it. In other words we would not bow down but ask how did you do that?
Actually Prohibition was a good idea taken too far. The reason that Prohibition passed at all was because there where huge problems with alchemy abuse in the US at the time. Public drunkeness was common and alcoholism was epidemic. The problem was that instead of stronger laws and people showing moderation they went to outlawing.
Jefferson's ideals didn't work all that well 200 years ago. I doubt that they would work well now. Like most things in life the best solution is to find the right balance. Some protection and regulation is a good thing. Too much is a bad thing. The goal is to find the right balance. Libertarians are too far away from balance to be viable and it's supporters tend to be stuck in an Ayn Rand fantasy world where everything works as it should not as it does.
End result is thousands of people out of work and new planes cost so much that instead of thousands being made and sold a year dozens are.
Well Fox news is pretty bad as a sole source but your point is brilliant and true. When I found out that Obama wanted to end the manned space program during the election I told some of the faithful Obamaians at work. The flat out refused to believe it. The questioned the source first "Wired" and then criticized me for believing it. When I took the link from the wired article to the Obama website and showed it to them then they said, "Well he must have a good reason". Then after the election when he tried to kill the Ares they where shocked and said that they never would have voted for him if they knew!
Actually this is pretty much what Obama said he would do. He never promised to roll back any of the Patriot act. He never said he would get the troops out of Afghanistan.
I didn't vote for Obama but I do not think he is the devil. He was the a first term senator. I think he found out that world wasn't what he thought it was and adapted to it. Now I really hate the Obama faithful. They where the single most delusional crowd I have ever seen. They total ignored everything that he wrote and believed every commercial. You have got to laugh when "peace activists" protest the war the the FORMER vice presidents home! Or the people that blame Bush and Chaney for what Obama is doing now. Until people are really willing to vote for people that tell them the truth and not for those that tell you what you want to hear things will never change.
Oh and any one that thinks their what party they belong too means they are smarter than the members of the other party. You are all morons. There are good and smart people in both parties. We really need to end this cheerleader my party is better than yours crap.
But back to the subject at hand. You can not have a secret life and get a security clearance. It just makes you to vulnerably to blackmail. When I had mine I was really young and involved with an 18 year old woman/girl. The security people told me that if I got involved with a different girl I had to tell them. If it was a one night hook up they had to know.
It doesn't matter if the secret is one that you don't want your wife, mother, preacher, or the entire town to know. If you are going to take a job that requires a clearance you simply can not do anything that you are deeply ashamed of.
Actually I am wondering just how big of a shock 100 years would be to a scientist. Roll back to 1910. We do have cars, airplanes, large steam ships, and radio. Nothing we have today would strike them as magic. Very advanced but not outside the realm of imagination. Out of all the advancements maybe computers and biology would be the biggest shockers. And biology wouldn't really slap them in the face. If you go back only 50 years and thing would really be not that big of a deal. That would be 1960. We already have computers, satellites, and transistor. I am not all that sure that if you take someone from today and put them 100 years in the future that they would be all that shocked. Well unless things are going really bad and we are living in Solent Green times. I think once a society reaches a certain level of scientific understanding they can deal with progress without huge culture shock that we imagine. If anything they will disappointed. I think we all still dream of a technical Utopia. Problem is that I fear that one person Utopia is another hell.
This is just bureaucracy in general. Keeps track of satellites? Funny but I would have bet that was NORAD. This guy is somebodies buddy and is getting a nice paycheck. Frankly if they land in US, the UK, France, Brasil, China, Australia, Canada, Russia, China, Japan, or any number of other nations I don't see them saying.. Just wait here while we check with the UN.
True. People don't understand that reliability and capability need more than speed. These are the same folks that look at an IBM Z mainframe and compare it to an over clocked i7.
Many systems need enough CPU and memory to get a single job done. Once you have that amount of power the rest of the effort goes into making sure that the job always gets done.
Yes they are and all of the bugs are well known and documented. These are embedded systems. If you look at any complex embedded system odds are you wil find lots of z-80s, 68000, and other very old chips. The CPU used in the ELF the RCA 1802 is still in production and being used on satellites. It is made using silicon on sapphire and is very resistant to radiation. It is now mainly used for housekeeping but they keep using it because it works. Also most people don't understand that for control applications a 386 is a monster. Really it is probably several thousands times as powerful as the Apollo guidance computer. It is also more powerful than the systems like the DEC PDP-11, Control Data Eclipse, or IBM 360.
Sorry that was a type. I meant to say that then by definition you are not doing things you are ashamed of.
As to your choices I think they are terrible. You may feel the same about some of mine but we both probably don't really care about the others opinion in those matters.
Then you have the problem of segmenting. Everybody has to know who in the office they can share with and who the can not. Plus even if you do not have clearance but you have some secret that you can be blackmailed about you can be blackmailed into spying. They will not jerk you clearance for being gay. They will jerk your clearance if you are gay and keeping it a secret.
That has been the policy since the 80s when I had to get clearance. I was only 19 at the time and working for a contractor in college. It was interesting. They had to interview my girlfriend and her parents. Yes if you are going to be in that situation you can not have any secrets. Frankly nothing will change that. If you want to do that kind of work you have to deal with it. Just like you can not work as construction worker on a high rise if you are terrified of heights.
Competition is often a driver because it is a valid concern. If you want to be the leader in the those areas and reap the benefits then it is a valid concern. Also it is one that most people can understand. Most people have no idea what supercomputers are used for. BTW fast does allow for more fine grained models in time constrained problems like weather prediction. A 7 day forecast is useless if it takes 8 days to run. Trying to explain everything that we use supercomputers for takes a lot of time and frankly a lot of people will not take the time to listen. So saying that China is going to eat our lunch is a fast way and easy way to explain a complex problem. Maybe they could have put it better but that wouldn't have gotten press.
Size == capability. The larger and more powerful the super computer the better the science you can do with it. There are still problems that we can not solve even with the computers we have now. The rest if just the press spin. If we do not want to fall into being a second rate nation we must keep striving in science. Right now the US does have the number one and number three super computer. China has the number two. China is investing on even bigger super computers so if we want to keep doing world leading science in those areas we must keep investing. That is why the relative size counts. And that is why we need to invest in more super computing resources. And more smaller ones will not do. The biggest problems need the biggest computers. Systems like Folding at home only work well for problems where the latency between nodes isn't an issue. And yes you are still afraid to admit that you are wrong. Such fear is a terrible thing in our society. Being wrong is the first step in learning.
I am wondering if we will ever see numbers from the new SuperComputer at UF. In theory it may be the fastest in the world but it is very different from traditional super computers.
I just shouldn't waste my time but nuclear weapons development work in the US is all about making sure they do not off unintended. Since we do not test anymore safety and systems aging has to be done with simulation. The rest of your comment just shows the lack of understanding. It is not about ego it is about capability. Ah silly boy you just will not admit that you where wrong and let it go so you must keep going off tangents.
You do not get faster prediction using more computing power. You get more accurate predictions. The amount of time one can spend on a single weather prediction run is bounded so you do not really care about getting them done faster but a faster computer means you can use a bigger model and get more accurate predictions.
So yes I feel that meteorology and climatology are important sciences and worth the resources.
I notice you ignored the other subject areas. So one can assume that you do understand that not investing in those areas of research would have a negative impact on the US. Or maybe you are Amish?
So as you can see you are wrong and the US not investing in improving our leading in super computing is a bad idea.
I wonder if there is any real problem. And before anyone gets all bent hear me out and I mean from a tactical point of view. Does it matter if the the drone ends up 13 meters away from a check point? When using a Hellfire the operator will manually point the camera/laser at the target and fire the missile. It really doesn't matter because there is a man in the using a laser designator.
If the Drone is dropping JDams then there may be a problem. I believe there are two modes. One where the drone/pane uses it's video/laser systerm to pick the target. This is the most accurate because it is a differential system. The plane tells the bomb to hit the target x meters away in y direction from where the GPS says we are now.
The other mode is a blind drop where the JDam goes to a preset area.
So no Hellfire missiles will work just fine. JDAMS may be an issue but I are they using them in the pre-programmed mode much? I can not see a good reason why when using a drone.
Oh and as to not arming robots? Too late really. We have been doing it for ever 100 years now. The Torpedo is a Robot. The first ones where really steampunk killing robots. Suicidal ones to be sure but still robots.
Japan couldn't have risked an invasion of Hawaii at that time. They where at the max range of their fleet. As it was they where very close to having to abandon their destroyers. And their was still Australia and NZ so not the US Still would have had a base to operate out of and Japan would have a terrible supply line to defend. At best they should have taken out the dry docks and the tank farm.
At worst The US would have shifted it's focus. We would have kept England in the war but mainly would have tried to contain Germany. No invasion of Italy. Russia would have made do with a lot less Lend Lease so they might not have done as well. The end result would the have probably been Both Germany and Japan getting Nuked. Oh and with out the pressure from the US the ME-262 would have probably gotten even less support from Hitler. That is of course a guess but remember that the P-80 which was as good or better than the ME-262 was entering service in Europe at the end of WWII. So Germany might have faced B-29s and maybe B-36s,with P-51s, P-47Ns, Meteors, Vampires, Furys, Honets , and P-80s.
Nope Hitler's lack of nuclear weapons and the US's industral might pretty much sealed WWIIs fate.
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That is true as well.
The thing is that I find it so odd that people don't get it. This has very little to do with being fair or unfair.
People that you are going to totally trust must be totally honest.
It is that simple. You can not live a lie and be trusted.
Ever see an Easy Bake oven?
Actually light bulbs are also used for heating reptile cages to provide a hot spot for them to bask.
So they do have some uses in heating.
Actually it was a real problem which is why it passes so easily. It was a time when people believed that the law could protect and improve their life and some of those laws did. Things like labor laws and health laws and drug laws. Morphine and Opium addiction where also big problems at the time. You could put anything in a bottle and make outlandish claims with no regulation.
Same with food and goodness knows what else.
Others went too far.
The real goal is to find the right balance of enough law to protect people without making the world a nanny state.
I am sure you do.
Why should I have to pay for food. It grows on trees.
Really I do not like DRM at all but this fantasy that the cost to produce software, music, movies, tv shows, and books is pure fantasy.
The cost to duplicate them is pretty low but the actual cost to produce them is significant.
And you do not have to buy the content from them. You will not die without it. You are just not free to take it.
Don't get me wrong. The cost of DVDs, CDs, and EBooks is way too high.
But they also do not have to be free.
But what type of tech has not been dreamed of by now? I doubt that at this point anything will be more than we can handle.
We not understand it but I doubt that we would be in awe of it.
In other words we would not bow down but ask how did you do that?
Actually Prohibition was a good idea taken too far.
The reason that Prohibition passed at all was because there where huge problems with alchemy abuse in the US at the time. Public drunkeness was common and alcoholism was epidemic.
The problem was that instead of stronger laws and people showing moderation they went to outlawing.
Jefferson's ideals didn't work all that well 200 years ago. I doubt that they would work well now.
Like most things in life the best solution is to find the right balance.
Some protection and regulation is a good thing. Too much is a bad thing.
The goal is to find the right balance. Libertarians are too far away from balance to be viable and it's supporters tend to be stuck in an Ayn Rand fantasy world where everything works as it should not as it does.
End result is thousands of people out of work and new planes cost so much that instead of thousands being made and sold a year dozens are.
Well Fox news is pretty bad as a sole source but your point is brilliant and true.
When I found out that Obama wanted to end the manned space program during the election I told some of the faithful Obamaians at work.
The flat out refused to believe it.
The questioned the source first "Wired" and then criticized me for believing it.
When I took the link from the wired article to the Obama website and showed it to them then they said, "Well he must have a good reason".
Then after the election when he tried to kill the Ares they where shocked and said that they never would have voted for him if they knew!
Actually this is pretty much what Obama said he would do.
He never promised to roll back any of the Patriot act.
He never said he would get the troops out of Afghanistan.
I didn't vote for Obama but I do not think he is the devil. He was the a first term senator. I think he found out that world wasn't what he thought it was and adapted to it.
Now I really hate the Obama faithful. They where the single most delusional crowd I have ever seen. They total ignored everything that he wrote and believed every commercial.
You have got to laugh when "peace activists" protest the war the the FORMER vice presidents home!
Or the people that blame Bush and Chaney for what Obama is doing now.
Until people are really willing to vote for people that tell them the truth and not for those that tell you what you want to hear things will never change.
Oh and any one that thinks their what party they belong too means they are smarter than the members of the other party.
You are all morons.
There are good and smart people in both parties. We really need to end this cheerleader my party is better than yours crap.
But back to the subject at hand.
You can not have a secret life and get a security clearance.
It just makes you to vulnerably to blackmail.
When I had mine I was really young and involved with an 18 year old woman/girl.
The security people told me that if I got involved with a different girl I had to tell them. If it was a one night hook up they had to know.
It doesn't matter if the secret is one that you don't want your wife, mother, preacher, or the entire town to know.
If you are going to take a job that requires a clearance you simply can not do anything that you are deeply ashamed of.
Actually I am wondering just how big of a shock 100 years would be to a scientist.
Roll back to 1910.
We do have cars, airplanes, large steam ships, and radio. Nothing we have today would strike them as magic. Very advanced but not outside the realm of imagination.
Out of all the advancements maybe computers and biology would be the biggest shockers. And biology wouldn't really slap them in the face.
If you go back only 50 years and thing would really be not that big of a deal.
That would be 1960.
We already have computers, satellites, and transistor.
I am not all that sure that if you take someone from today and put them 100 years in the future that they would be all that shocked. Well unless things are going really bad and we are living in Solent Green times.
I think once a society reaches a certain level of scientific understanding they can deal with progress without huge culture shock that we imagine.
If anything they will disappointed. I think we all still dream of a technical Utopia. Problem is that I fear that one person Utopia is another hell.
This is just bureaucracy in general.
Keeps track of satellites? Funny but I would have bet that was NORAD.
This guy is somebodies buddy and is getting a nice paycheck.
Frankly if they land in US, the UK, France, Brasil, China, Australia, Canada, Russia, China, Japan, or any number of other nations I don't see them saying.. Just wait here while we check with the UN.
True. People don't understand that reliability and capability need more than speed.
These are the same folks that look at an IBM Z mainframe and compare it to an over clocked i7.
Many systems need enough CPU and memory to get a single job done. Once you have that amount of power the rest of the effort goes into making sure that the job always gets done.
Yes they are and all of the bugs are well known and documented.
These are embedded systems.
If you look at any complex embedded system odds are you wil find lots of z-80s, 68000, and other very old chips.
The CPU used in the ELF the RCA 1802 is still in production and being used on satellites. It is made using silicon on sapphire and is very resistant to radiation.
It is now mainly used for housekeeping but they keep using it because it works.
Also most people don't understand that for control applications a 386 is a monster.
Really it is probably several thousands times as powerful as the Apollo guidance computer.
It is also more powerful than the systems like the DEC PDP-11, Control Data Eclipse, or IBM 360.
Sorry that was a type.
I meant to say that then by definition you are not doing things you are ashamed of.
As to your choices I think they are terrible. You may feel the same about some of mine but we both probably don't really care about the others opinion in those matters.
Then you have the problem of segmenting. Everybody has to know who in the office they can share with and who the can not. Plus even if you do not have clearance but you have some secret that you can be blackmailed about you can be blackmailed into spying.
They will not jerk you clearance for being gay. They will jerk your clearance if you are gay and keeping it a secret.
Then by definition you are doing things you are ashamed of.
That has been the policy since the 80s when I had to get clearance.
I was only 19 at the time and working for a contractor in college. It was interesting. They had to interview my girlfriend and her parents.
Yes if you are going to be in that situation you can not have any secrets. Frankly nothing will change that. If you want to do that kind of work you have to deal with it.
Just like you can not work as construction worker on a high rise if you are terrified of heights.
Competition is often a driver because it is a valid concern. If you want to be the leader in the those areas and reap the benefits then it is a valid concern. Also it is one that most people can understand. Most people have no idea what supercomputers are used for. BTW fast does allow for more fine grained models in time constrained problems like weather prediction. A 7 day forecast is useless if it takes 8 days to run.
Trying to explain everything that we use supercomputers for takes a lot of time and frankly a lot of people will not take the time to listen. So saying that China is going to eat our lunch is a fast way and easy way to explain a complex problem.
Maybe they could have put it better but that wouldn't have gotten press.
maybe people should not do things they are ashamed of?
Size == capability.
The larger and more powerful the super computer the better the science you can do with it.
There are still problems that we can not solve even with the computers we have now.
The rest if just the press spin. If we do not want to fall into being a second rate nation we must keep striving in science. Right now the US does have the number one and number three super computer. China has the number two. China is investing on even bigger super computers so if we want to keep doing world leading science in those areas we must keep investing.
That is why the relative size counts.
And that is why we need to invest in more super computing resources.
And more smaller ones will not do.
The biggest problems need the biggest computers. Systems like Folding at home only work well for problems where the latency between nodes isn't an issue.
And yes you are still afraid to admit that you are wrong. Such fear is a terrible thing in our society. Being wrong is the first step in learning.
I am wondering if we will ever see numbers from the new SuperComputer at UF. In theory it may be the fastest in the world but it is very different from traditional super computers.
I just shouldn't waste my time but nuclear weapons development work in the US is all about making sure they do not off unintended.
Since we do not test anymore safety and systems aging has to be done with simulation.
The rest of your comment just shows the lack of understanding. It is not about ego it is about capability.
Ah silly boy you just will not admit that you where wrong and let it go so you must keep going off tangents.
You do not get faster prediction using more computing power. You get more accurate predictions.
The amount of time one can spend on a single weather prediction run is bounded so you do not really care about getting them done faster but a faster computer means you can use a bigger model and get more accurate predictions.
So yes I feel that meteorology and climatology are important sciences and worth the resources.
I notice you ignored the other subject areas. So one can assume that you do understand that not investing in those areas of research would have a negative impact on the US.
Or maybe you are Amish?
So as you can see you are wrong and the US not investing in improving our leading in super computing is a bad idea.
I wonder if there is any real problem.
And before anyone gets all bent hear me out and I mean from a tactical point of view.
Does it matter if the the drone ends up 13 meters away from a check point?
When using a Hellfire the operator will manually point the camera/laser at the target and fire the missile.
It really doesn't matter because there is a man in the using a laser designator.
If the Drone is dropping JDams then there may be a problem.
I believe there are two modes. One where the drone/pane uses it's video/laser systerm to pick the target.
This is the most accurate because it is a differential system. The plane tells the bomb to hit the target x meters away in y direction from where the GPS says we are now.
The other mode is a blind drop where the JDam goes to a preset area.
So no Hellfire missiles will work just fine. JDAMS may be an issue but I are they using them in the pre-programmed mode much? I can not see a good reason why when using a drone.
Oh and as to not arming robots? Too late really. We have been doing it for ever 100 years now.
The Torpedo is a Robot. The first ones where really steampunk killing robots. Suicidal ones to be sure but still robots.
Japan couldn't have risked an invasion of Hawaii at that time.
They where at the max range of their fleet. As it was they where very close to having to abandon their destroyers.
And their was still Australia and NZ so not the US Still would have had a base to operate out of and Japan would have a terrible supply line to defend.
At best they should have taken out the dry docks and the tank farm.
At worst The US would have shifted it's focus. We would have kept England in the war but mainly would have tried to contain Germany. No invasion of Italy. ,with P-51s, P-47Ns, Meteors, Vampires, Furys, Honets , and P-80s.
Russia would have made do with a lot less Lend Lease so they might not have done as well.
The end result would the have probably been Both Germany and Japan getting Nuked.
Oh and with out the pressure from the US the ME-262 would have probably gotten even less support from Hitler.
That is of course a guess but remember that the P-80 which was as good or better than the ME-262 was entering service in Europe at the end of WWII.
So Germany might have faced B-29s and maybe B-36s
Nope Hitler's lack of nuclear weapons and the US's industral might pretty much sealed WWIIs fate.