Since the article only spoke of yens and pounds, wouldn't it be more appropriate to flame about multi-billion dollar "investments" that the Japanese and British governments have made. I mean, variety being the spice of life and all...
The whole idea of the singularity is that they just keep going, since we can probably design an AI that's a little bit smarter than a human, and then it could then design an AI that's smarter than that, and the whole thing just takes off. I don't know that this is what would actually happen, but why do you think that it would stop at a human level?
10 months seems just shy of the time it takes for heat to really start causing damage. I'm talking about stuff like wire insulation getting brittle, quickly followed by vibration causing shorts. Then there is the increased molecular migration in the silicon of the ICs.
But they only ran it for 10 months. I wouldn't consider that long term. I would consider that the break-in period, just before everything starts dropping out.
I've been in so many server rooms where racks were set up so that case fast exhausted into each other. The racks are setup back-to-back. The most logical server room I've ever seen had a wall built around the racks. The back side was in a separate room than the front side. Cooling air was delivered to the front side, and pulled out from the back side. Empty spaces were filled in with corrugated plastic used to make signs. Sliding doors at the end of the rows kept the air from mixing.
Combine this with the chimney effect, and you can make the case fans provide more useful work.
Wouldn't matter. If you made the cell thicker, there is still only so much sunshine on each square meter of surface. Making it thicker just means that the price of the mountable panel goes up.
Not happening, and anyone who can do math knows it because the energy density on a rooftop isn't enough, even with 100% efficiency which isn't going to be approached in our lifetime.
Damn! I guess those people doing it should just stop, and give up the checks they're getting from the electric company for pumping more energy into the grid than they're pulling out. Bastards! They should know that it is impossible.
And I mean EVERY available dollar. Freeze every other research at 75% of current dollars, AIDS, green tech, EVERYTHING included and start ramping up research on fusion just as fast as the projects can get vetted and construction underway.
That's right. Throw out all the technology that we currently have working, in favor of some pie-in-the-sky cure-all solution that has never broke even as an energy source. Good plan, jmorris.
Could you solve my countries economy problems next please?
No. It doesn't. It leaves out a fairly significant portion of "the whole world"...specifically, the part I live in. Believe it or not, I actually consider that the most important part of the world, and I would not trust it to the hands of a radical, naive liberal touting washed-up socialist ideology as "change". If the people of the countries you list care to have that sort of government, they are welcome to implement one.
That said, the latest polls show that McCain has my state locked in. If the trend continues, which I believe it will, I'll be back to voting Bob Barr.
with obama, you have the chance to prove youre a good neighbor. nobody likes bad neighbors.
By "good neighbor", I take it that you mean doing what is best for the European Union. Excuse me if I don't choose to play the game the way you would have it played.
The graph was only for one speech for each person. The ones given at the conventions. Bush is probably in the middle, because he basically didn't have anything to say or time to say it. Once you cut out the time spent on "We're feeling sorry for the people in the hurricane" (How can you spin THAT!), there wasn't much material left to analyze.
It is possible for a politician to talk straight today, and spin like top tomorrow.
It also searches out phrases that offer qualifications or clarifications of more general statements, since speeches that contain few such amendments tend to be high on spin.
The statement is not supported, but it would have us believe that some previous studies indicated a correlation between spin and qualificating/clarifinating.
(put the emphasis on the second syllable, and those last two almost sound like real words)
They intercut sentences from it with sentences from Bush's acceptance speech eight years earlier.
Again and again and again they were virtually identical! Anyone got that YouTube link?
It wouldn't be hard to do the same with Obama speeches vs $candidateOfChoice speeches. I've always found political speeches to be full "yeah, us! Booh, them!", and the difficult part is finding the occasional clause where they do say anything significantly different.
The problem is keeping things in low earth orbit around. Atmospheric drag tends to de-orbit anything up there eventually.
The thing is to turn two negatives into a positive. To stay in orbit, the orbiting body needs to throw something behind it to regain momentum. The obvious answer is an incinerator/ion drive. Low thrust, but it would run constantly while burning/ionizing/ejecting trash that would otherwise need special protocols to de-orbit. It would also reduce most of the need to send fuel up.
Unfortunately, since capacitors are more prone than dry cells to losing energy over time due to internal resistance, this won't eliminate the need for dry cells entirely.
I don't see them replacing batteries at all, but augmenting them instead. Batteries are limited in the power they can absorb. They are much more efficient with storing energy if you spread the charge out over a longer period.
The efficiency of regenerative braking in cars is limited by the ability to pump the energy recovered by the brakes back into the batteries. Lots of energy is generated in a few seconds, but there isn't enough time to force that energy into the batteries.
The big benefit from ultracapacitors will be as a front end to the batteries. They can absorb nearly all the braking energy as fast as the pumps can generate it, and then pump it into the batteries at a rate the batteries like. If the driver accelerates before the energy is pushed back into the batteries, the drive motor would pull energy from the lower resistance ultracapacitor, making life even easier for the batteries.
Americans WANT socialism. They WANT to be controlled.
That's just silly. No one wants that. They WANT their NEIGHBOR to be controlled, and take all their stuff. They're just (predictably) to stupid to realize that they are the neighbor.
You are right-on the mark, D-Cypell. I encourage people to read multiple responses from any Google response. Usually if there is a "LHC will blow up the world" in the top three, there will also be a "LHC is safe" also. Both will present data, and we get to sharpen our critical thinking skills.
What makes you think that a world-class education will cause people to set aside their own prejudices on any subject? Educated people still make bone-headed analyses whenever their own ox would be gored by the "truth".
Educated people are, however, less likely to do so.
That does not jive with the world I live in. I come from meager beginnings, but have done well for myself. I constantly switch back and forth between dealing with educated and uneducated people. I have never seen any difference between either groups selfishness/selflessness quota.
Because "the world" also wants to see a weakened United States. Now, "the world" has stated what it wants, but as an American, what incentive do I have to give it to them? (and, no, I do not believe they'll like me more if I do.)
When an argument goes on and on with both sides simply restating what they've said, it is usually because they are arguing about different things. There is 'evolution' and there is 'origins of man'. The former is rigorous, testable, and as proven as anything. The latter is shrouded in mystery and covered deeply enough by time that the truth can only be guessed at.
The evolutionist side declares life started at a certain point, and that proof of the mechanism is proof enough of the claim. Religious zealots claim God created life and that progression of species is full of holes.
The argument is ridiculous, because how life started and how life progressed are two seperate (albeit, related) questions. Evolution is needs to be taught in schools. Our entire friggin' society is built on an understanding of it (antibiotics to high-production food crops). Origins of life, regardless of the explanation, should be broken out into a philosophy class and left there until such time as someone invents a time machine or Jesus returns (whichever, comes first).
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Since the article only spoke of yens and pounds, wouldn't it be more appropriate to flame about multi-billion dollar "investments" that the Japanese and British governments have made. I mean, variety being the spice of life and all...
The whole idea of the singularity is that they just keep going, since we can probably design an AI that's a little bit smarter than a human, and then it could then design an AI that's smarter than that, and the whole thing just takes off. I don't know that this is what would actually happen, but why do you think that it would stop at a human level?
Didn't you hear, it will stop at 42.
You replace your hardware every 10 months? Wow!
10 months seems just shy of the time it takes for heat to really start causing damage. I'm talking about stuff like wire insulation getting brittle, quickly followed by vibration causing shorts. Then there is the increased molecular migration in the silicon of the ICs.
10 months is NOT a long term study.
But they only ran it for 10 months. I wouldn't consider that long term. I would consider that the break-in period, just before everything starts dropping out.
another note on efficiency.
I've been in so many server rooms where racks were set up so that case fast exhausted into each other. The racks are setup back-to-back. The most logical server room I've ever seen had a wall built around the racks. The back side was in a separate room than the front side. Cooling air was delivered to the front side, and pulled out from the back side. Empty spaces were filled in with corrugated plastic used to make signs. Sliding doors at the end of the rows kept the air from mixing.
Combine this with the chimney effect, and you can make the case fans provide more useful work.
Wouldn't matter. If you made the cell thicker, there is still only so much sunshine on each square meter of surface. Making it thicker just means that the price of the mountable panel goes up.
Not happening, and anyone who can do math knows it because the energy density on a rooftop isn't enough, even with 100% efficiency which isn't going to be approached in our lifetime.
Damn! I guess those people doing it should just stop, and give up the checks they're getting from the electric company for pumping more energy into the grid than they're pulling out. Bastards! They should know that it is impossible.
And I mean EVERY available dollar. Freeze every other research at 75% of current dollars, AIDS, green tech, EVERYTHING included and start ramping up research on fusion just as fast as the projects can get vetted and construction underway.
That's right. Throw out all the technology that we currently have working, in favor of some pie-in-the-sky cure-all solution that has never broke even as an energy source. Good plan, jmorris.
Could you solve my countries economy problems next please?
When you get really goood, you can throw multiple birds at one stone at the same time.
No. It doesn't. It leaves out a fairly significant portion of "the whole world"...specifically, the part I live in. Believe it or not, I actually consider that the most important part of the world, and I would not trust it to the hands of a radical, naive liberal touting washed-up socialist ideology as "change". If the people of the countries you list care to have that sort of government, they are welcome to implement one.
That said, the latest polls show that McCain has my state locked in. If the trend continues, which I believe it will, I'll be back to voting Bob Barr.
with obama, you have the chance to prove youre a good neighbor. nobody likes bad neighbors.
By "good neighbor", I take it that you mean doing what is best for the European Union. Excuse me if I don't choose to play the game the way you would have it played.
The graph was only for one speech for each person. The ones given at the conventions. Bush is probably in the middle, because he basically didn't have anything to say or time to say it. Once you cut out the time spent on "We're feeling sorry for the people in the hurricane" (How can you spin THAT!), there wasn't much material left to analyze.
It is possible for a politician to talk straight today, and spin like top tomorrow.
However, they do state:
It also searches out phrases that offer qualifications or clarifications of more general statements, since speeches that contain few such amendments tend to be high on spin.
The statement is not supported, but it would have us believe that some previous studies indicated a correlation between spin and qualificating/clarifinating.
(put the emphasis on the second syllable, and those last two almost sound like real words)
FTA:
when a person "presents themselves or their content in a way that does not necessarily reflect what they know to be true".
They intercut sentences from it with sentences from Bush's acceptance speech eight years earlier.
Again and again and again they were virtually identical! Anyone got that YouTube link?
It wouldn't be hard to do the same with Obama speeches vs $candidateOfChoice speeches. I've always found political speeches to be full "yeah, us! Booh, them!", and the difficult part is finding the occasional clause where they do say anything significantly different.
The problem is keeping things in low earth orbit around. Atmospheric drag tends to de-orbit anything up there eventually.
The thing is to turn two negatives into a positive. To stay in orbit, the orbiting body needs to throw something behind it to regain momentum. The obvious answer is an incinerator/ion drive. Low thrust, but it would run constantly while burning/ionizing/ejecting trash that would otherwise need special protocols to de-orbit. It would also reduce most of the need to send fuel up.
Unfortunately, since capacitors are more prone than dry cells to losing energy over time due to internal resistance, this won't eliminate the need for dry cells entirely.
I don't see them replacing batteries at all, but augmenting them instead. Batteries are limited in the power they can absorb. They are much more efficient with storing energy if you spread the charge out over a longer period.
The efficiency of regenerative braking in cars is limited by the ability to pump the energy recovered by the brakes back into the batteries. Lots of energy is generated in a few seconds, but there isn't enough time to force that energy into the batteries.
The big benefit from ultracapacitors will be as a front end to the batteries. They can absorb nearly all the braking energy as fast as the pumps can generate it, and then pump it into the batteries at a rate the batteries like. If the driver accelerates before the energy is pushed back into the batteries, the drive motor would pull energy from the lower resistance ultracapacitor, making life even easier for the batteries.
Americans WANT socialism. They WANT to be controlled.
That's just silly. No one wants that. They WANT their NEIGHBOR to be controlled, and take all their stuff. They're just (predictably) to stupid to realize that they are the neighbor.
Not all this tells us is that Democratic leaning economist are more likely to answer a survey from a comedian.
You are right-on the mark, D-Cypell. I encourage people to read multiple responses from any Google response. Usually if there is a "LHC will blow up the world" in the top three, there will also be a "LHC is safe" also. Both will present data, and we get to sharpen our critical thinking skills.
What makes you think that a world-class education will cause people to set aside their own prejudices on any subject? Educated people still make bone-headed analyses whenever their own ox would be gored by the "truth".
Educated people are, however, less likely to do so.
That does not jive with the world I live in. I come from meager beginnings, but have done well for myself. I constantly switch back and forth between dealing with educated and uneducated people. I have never seen any difference between either groups selfishness/selflessness quota.
Because "the world" also wants to see a weakened United States. Now, "the world" has stated what it wants, but as an American, what incentive do I have to give it to them? (and, no, I do not believe they'll like me more if I do.)
EXACTLY!!
When an argument goes on and on with both sides simply restating what they've said, it is usually because they are arguing about different things. There is 'evolution' and there is 'origins of man'. The former is rigorous, testable, and as proven as anything. The latter is shrouded in mystery and covered deeply enough by time that the truth can only be guessed at.
The evolutionist side declares life started at a certain point, and that proof of the mechanism is proof enough of the claim. Religious zealots claim God created life and that progression of species is full of holes.
The argument is ridiculous, because how life started and how life progressed are two seperate (albeit, related) questions. Evolution is needs to be taught in schools. Our entire friggin' society is built on an understanding of it (antibiotics to high-production food crops). Origins of life, regardless of the explanation, should be broken out into a philosophy class and left there until such time as someone invents a time machine or Jesus returns (whichever, comes first).
they allow a senile grandmother work on major portions of it, when she obviously doesn't know which side the headgasket is on.
If you want to check for a blown headgasket. Pull the dipstick. The oil will look like mocha cappacino. No need to go under the car.
you have your choice of clients to pick as a corporate standard.
I don't think you quite grasp the concept of "corporate standard".
Dude, you rock.
Microsoft doesn't have this competition for the most part, and look where that got them.
The last time they really advanced their interface, Win95, I remember PC Magazine printing this poem about it:
Something old,
Something new,
Like a lot from Apple,
and OS/2