Hah. I own a robotics company. I could probably build these pretty cheaply. What I couldn't do is afford the mandatory testing, liability insurance, permitting, advertising, special individual requirements, mandatory fitting costs, medical consultants, legislative lobbying to make them excluded from traffic laws, environmental impact studies related to the disposal of batteries, payments to financiers to arrange for financing for the twelve month wait between manufacure and actually being paid, FCC testing to make sure they don't interfere with wifi, etc. etc. etc.
I might make something like this for my own entertainment and/or family use and other people have already. If the US actually wanted cost effective medical technology we would pay less attention to tax incentives and more to removing the barriers that prevent innovators from introducing new products that could actually make profits to tax. I'm not saying remove all the environmental and liability laws, I'm just saying make it possible for small companies to deal with them without a staff of a dozen lawyers. That's not going to happen so people get to suffer instead.
Sorry about that. If I help you I'll get sued so you don't get help.
Um no officer, I wasn't trying to steal any ATM. I just backed my pickup truck up to the machine because gold is so heavy you see. Well, yes I know it's inside the mall but the chain wrapped around it and hooked to my bumper is for security. Can't be too careful once you have a pickup truck full of gold you know...
This exactly.- What is malfunctioned supposed to mean for a nuclear weapon that is supposed to be sitting there quietly doing absolutely nothing? It decided to go for a walk?
How do you know the weapon malfunctioned and that it wasn't just some instrument? Did you punch the big red button and get no earthshattering Kaboom?
I was looking into this at one point and my numbers came up pretty much in line with Blueg3's. There just isn't enough power in sound to really provide significant mWh. No matter how advanced the collection technology if the power isn't there to start with you aren't going to get far.
Consider going out to a regional airport and taking a first flight with a flight instructor in a private plane. I have a feeling you will find it an amazingly eye opening experience. Private flying and public flying are about as different as taking your motorboat out on the lake vs. a cruise line tour of South America.
Simply request that the networked functions be turned off. Have an electronic RF sniffer on your desk. Watch for spikes when people come in, then for spikes during the test.
There are a number of expensive detectors or you can build your own. http://electroschematics.com/1035/mobile-bug-detector-sniffer/
I don't think they had any difficulty in filling that one. The only applicant was a bit cocky - he called himself just "The Doctor" - but his resume looked just like it came out of their dreams.
Um no, they can't be definively said to only be there and that's my point. The instructions for building the womb are in a combination of the genome and the parent womb/environment. You can't separate the two. If you didn't have the parent womb (and other reproductive machinery) administering the proper things at the proper times you would not necessarily get a functional reproductive system in the child.
Consider the immune system - the mother's immune system definitely influences the child's, but are the 'plans' for a complete immune system contained in the genes? What if the 'plans' are just for copying and explaning seeded immune components but don't contain anything to create the very first cell that is to be copied? If the mom provides a starter cell directly to the embryo that design could pass down generation after generation indefinitely and is passing information outside the genetic path. This path could also be used by other things that influence the brain.
We might eventually separate the two sources of information some day, but right now we can't as far as I know.
I wouldn't count on it. I suspect I could spin a business case to show the exact opposite by tweaking a few assumptions and still have every one of them look reasonable. There's a good chance someone wanted to sell recycling equipment and made the numbers happen.
I like the part of the landlords being responsible though. If my landlord ticks me off I just anonomously drop recycling into the dumpster and cost him $100 a shot. Nice.
I'm sure the recycling companies make money, but that's easy if you push costs off on someone else.
It is true that the information in the genome goes through a complex route to create a brain, but the information in the genome constrains the amount of information in the brain prior to the brain’s interaction with its environment.
So the implication here is that a genome can create a brain without input from the environment (at least any input that carries information). I have some news: every human born ever has come from a womb. That womb has supplied raw materials and information in the form of the mix and timing of resources. There are no exceptions at all . Would you get a blank brain or a malformed brain if the resources were not supplied in the correct mix? Almost certainly and that means you need to include at least some of the environment in the modeling of the brain whether you want to or not.
Until you rule out these factors (artificial womb experiment with twins anyone?) you can't say all the necessary information to build an operational brain is stored in the genome.
The government and police might exist to protect society, but they have no duty to protect any individual. Society is defined however they like it but generally means continuing operation of the government. This means as long as people think they're safe and continue to go about their business the governmental duties are fulfilled no matter how many people are actually being raped, killed and the like. Under this understanding of the function of the government and police it is perfectly logical to emphasize economic stability over the loss of a few citizens. It also justifies writing off a hostage to capture a criminal.
The are some seriously unpleasant court cases and laws out there. You don't have the rights you think you have and the real reason you haven't been viciously attacked in your home is that you are part of the lucky 90%+ who just don't have it happen to them not because of the laws or police we have. In their defense I like to think they help boost the percentage of people who are lucky.
"more easily"? Personally I wouldn't know where to purchase an ounce of cocaine even if I needed to. I don't think typing cocaine into Google and emailing the search results would work.
So at best they have 100% confirmation of FAKE plans. If you get a positive result they are therefore either a terrorist or play Counterstrike. Wonderful
At a growth rate of 50% per month in a very few years usage will average over terabytes per month and AT&T's extra usage fees will exceed the GNP of the United States. It's a conspiracy I tell you.
Iran's government owned oil company doesn't lobby their government. That's where 1/5th of the subsidies are from - essentially price breaks for the Iranian people from the Iranian government oil company.
A quick search found this $557 billion is primarily from China, Venezuela, Egypt Iraq and Iran consumer subsidies. When the government owns the oil company the subsidy is not making the owner rich. It might help the less well off more than the better off through reduction of gas costs but study results seem mixed.
This is supported by a significant amount of labor economics research. (At least the pay part). The majority of increase in income comes nearer to the start of the career than the end and from changes in jobs/companies rather than promotion in place.
As for the behavior of the companies: If something is promised get it in writing. If they don't want to give it to you in writing you were never going to get it in the first place. Corporations are not people and don't have memories outside of what is written down and can be discussed in a courtroom. Any individual who promises you anything can get hit by a truck or replaced with a moron and then promise is gone.
1) He isn't paying for today's 1TB. He's paying the loan IT took out to integrate a system to provide 1TB in 2005 across who knows how many platforms probably including wonderful legacy applications from 1982 written in COBOL.
Think about the way that would work. IT buys the hardware but you don't pay penny one at that point. They set up the service and start charging you. Hopefully they forecast demand well and don't buy too much extra, but that hardware, setup cost, maintenance, integration, forecasting and everything else is a big lump in month one that you pay back over time in monthly charges. Two years down the line you are still paying for the initial cost even if going out and buying it new would cost only a fraction. Too bad about that, if you didn't need the capacity blame the forecasters or (probably) business people who provided data for the forecast basis.
2) The charge that says "per GB" is not necessarily for storage. It's a proxy for it and it probably includes it, but charge back systems always include compromises about which services are packaged, which costs are shared across multiple charge items and who is using or owns the underlying assets. If you really want to know what the cost should be you have two possibilities: yell at the IT management until they provide you a special charge rate of assets specific to your department or yell at the IT accountant support until they cough up the entire IT budget and chargeback methodology. Both are nearly impossible.
Unless one has a mortgage and should really be out looking for a job or solving the other real problems that cause stressful things.
I, personally, would be thinking "why the heck am I walking around this hot sticky forest risking skin cancer and rabies instead of trying to deal with my problems."
It's good for people who can just let these things slip their mind I guess.
If somebody happens to be the best available information source on a given issue, failure to communicate with them is a major failing on your part.
Wow, "best available information source" what a nice theoretical construct. Lots of whackjobs or politically motivated opportunists loudly claim to be the best sources and back it up with jibberish. Is it surprising the hardworking quiet scientist can't be heard over the noise?
Some scientists make it even harder by layering their politicial views over their legitimate findings which just destroys their credibility.
The way batteries work doesn't support swapping. As the battery ages it stores less and less power until finally it is deemed "dead." Aging can be sort of accelerated by misuse. That means every time you swap a battery you could get a random maximum range. Everybody who cares is going to grab the newest battery they can get and hold onto it. I'd imagine it would be worthwhile for Eddie down at the battery swap shop to sort out and give the good ones to his special customers or those willing to tip properly.
Slashdot Mirror
Hah. I own a robotics company. I could probably build these pretty cheaply. What I couldn't do is afford the mandatory testing, liability insurance, permitting, advertising, special individual requirements, mandatory fitting costs, medical consultants, legislative lobbying to make them excluded from traffic laws, environmental impact studies related to the disposal of batteries, payments to financiers to arrange for financing for the twelve month wait between manufacure and actually being paid, FCC testing to make sure they don't interfere with wifi, etc. etc. etc.
I might make something like this for my own entertainment and/or family use and other people have already. If the US actually wanted cost effective medical technology we would pay less attention to tax incentives and more to removing the barriers that prevent innovators from introducing new products that could actually make profits to tax. I'm not saying remove all the environmental and liability laws, I'm just saying make it possible for small companies to deal with them without a staff of a dozen lawyers. That's not going to happen so people get to suffer instead.
Sorry about that. If I help you I'll get sued so you don't get help.
Um no officer, I wasn't trying to steal any ATM. I just backed my pickup truck up to the machine because gold is so heavy you see. Well, yes I know it's inside the mall but the chain wrapped around it and hooked to my bumper is for security. Can't be too careful once you have a pickup truck full of gold you know...
This exactly.- What is malfunctioned supposed to mean for a nuclear weapon that is supposed to be sitting there quietly doing absolutely nothing? It decided to go for a walk?
How do you know the weapon malfunctioned and that it wasn't just some instrument? Did you punch the big red button and get no earthshattering Kaboom?
I was looking into this at one point and my numbers came up pretty much in line with Blueg3's. There just isn't enough power in sound to really provide significant mWh. No matter how advanced the collection technology if the power isn't there to start with you aren't going to get far.
Consider going out to a regional airport and taking a first flight with a flight instructor in a private plane. I have a feeling you will find it an amazingly eye opening experience. Private flying and public flying are about as different as taking your motorboat out on the lake vs. a cruise line tour of South America.
Simply request that the networked functions be turned off. Have an electronic RF sniffer on your desk. Watch for spikes when people come in, then for spikes during the test.
There are a number of expensive detectors or you can build your own. http://electroschematics.com/1035/mobile-bug-detector-sniffer/
I don't think they had any difficulty in filling that one. The only applicant was a bit cocky - he called himself just "The Doctor" - but his resume looked just like it came out of their dreams.
Intelligence * Experience * Knowledge = Wisdom
Have a zero, be a zero.
Um no, they can't be definively said to only be there and that's my point. The instructions for building the womb are in a combination of the genome and the parent womb/environment. You can't separate the two. If you didn't have the parent womb (and other reproductive machinery) administering the proper things at the proper times you would not necessarily get a functional reproductive system in the child.
Consider the immune system - the mother's immune system definitely influences the child's, but are the 'plans' for a complete immune system contained in the genes? What if the 'plans' are just for copying and explaning seeded immune components but don't contain anything to create the very first cell that is to be copied? If the mom provides a starter cell directly to the embryo that design could pass down generation after generation indefinitely and is passing information outside the genetic path. This path could also be used by other things that influence the brain.
We might eventually separate the two sources of information some day, but right now we can't as far as I know.
I wouldn't count on it. I suspect I could spin a business case to show the exact opposite by tweaking a few assumptions and still have every one of them look reasonable. There's a good chance someone wanted to sell recycling equipment and made the numbers happen.
I like the part of the landlords being responsible though. If my landlord ticks me off I just anonomously drop recycling into the dumpster and cost him $100 a shot. Nice.
I'm sure the recycling companies make money, but that's easy if you push costs off on someone else.
It is true that the information in the genome goes through a complex route to create a brain, but the information in the genome constrains the amount of information in the brain prior to the brain’s interaction with its environment.
So the implication here is that a genome can create a brain without input from the environment (at least any input that carries information). I have some news: every human born ever has come from a womb. That womb has supplied raw materials and information in the form of the mix and timing of resources. There are no exceptions at all . Would you get a blank brain or a malformed brain if the resources were not supplied in the correct mix? Almost certainly and that means you need to include at least some of the environment in the modeling of the brain whether you want to or not.
Until you rule out these factors (artificial womb experiment with twins anyone?) you can't say all the necessary information to build an operational brain is stored in the genome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
The government and police might exist to protect society, but they have no duty to protect any individual. Society is defined however they like it but generally means continuing operation of the government. This means as long as people think they're safe and continue to go about their business the governmental duties are fulfilled no matter how many people are actually being raped, killed and the like. Under this understanding of the function of the government and police it is perfectly logical to emphasize economic stability over the loss of a few citizens. It also justifies writing off a hostage to capture a criminal.
The are some seriously unpleasant court cases and laws out there. You don't have the rights you think you have and the real reason you haven't been viciously attacked in your home is that you are part of the lucky 90%+ who just don't have it happen to them not because of the laws or police we have. In their defense I like to think they help boost the percentage of people who are lucky.
"more easily"? Personally I wouldn't know where to purchase an ounce of cocaine even if I needed to. I don't think typing cocaine into Google and emailing the search results would work.
So at best they have 100% confirmation of FAKE plans. If you get a positive result they are therefore either a terrorist or play Counterstrike. Wonderful
At a growth rate of 50% per month in a very few years usage will average over terabytes per month and AT&T's extra usage fees will exceed the GNP of the United States. It's a conspiracy I tell you.
Iran's government owned oil company doesn't lobby their government. That's where 1/5th of the subsidies are from - essentially price breaks for the Iranian people from the Iranian government oil company.
A quick search found this $557 billion is primarily from China, Venezuela, Egypt Iraq and Iran consumer subsidies. When the government owns the oil company the subsidy is not making the owner rich. It might help the less well off more than the better off through reduction of gas costs but study results seem mixed.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-07/ending-fossil-fuel-aid-will-cut-oil-demand-iea-says-update1-.html
The number $557 came from the IEA
http://www.iea.org/files/energy_subsidies.pdf
This is supported by a significant amount of labor economics research. (At least the pay part). The majority of increase in income comes nearer to the start of the career than the end and from changes in jobs/companies rather than promotion in place.
As for the behavior of the companies: If something is promised get it in writing. If they don't want to give it to you in writing you were never going to get it in the first place. Corporations are not people and don't have memories outside of what is written down and can be discussed in a courtroom. Any individual who promises you anything can get hit by a truck or replaced with a moron and then promise is gone.
1) He isn't paying for today's 1TB. He's paying the loan IT took out to integrate a system to provide 1TB in 2005 across who knows how many platforms probably including wonderful legacy applications from 1982 written in COBOL.
Think about the way that would work. IT buys the hardware but you don't pay penny one at that point. They set up the service and start charging you. Hopefully they forecast demand well and don't buy too much extra, but that hardware, setup cost, maintenance, integration, forecasting and everything else is a big lump in month one that you pay back over time in monthly charges. Two years down the line you are still paying for the initial cost even if going out and buying it new would cost only a fraction. Too bad about that, if you didn't need the capacity blame the forecasters or (probably) business people who provided data for the forecast basis.
2) The charge that says "per GB" is not necessarily for storage. It's a proxy for it and it probably includes it, but charge back systems always include compromises about which services are packaged, which costs are shared across multiple charge items and who is using or owns the underlying assets. If you really want to know what the cost should be you have two possibilities: yell at the IT management until they provide you a special charge rate of assets specific to your department or yell at the IT accountant support until they cough up the entire IT budget and chargeback methodology. Both are nearly impossible.
Under this definition my girlfriend is bricked.
or five Higgses, Higgsi, what the heck do you call a group of Higgs particles? They come in zoos?
Unless one has a mortgage and should really be out looking for a job or solving the other real problems that cause stressful things.
I, personally, would be thinking "why the heck am I walking around this hot sticky forest risking skin cancer and rabies instead of trying to deal with my problems."
It's good for people who can just let these things slip their mind I guess.
Camera flashmob - now that would be something to see.
Why not? Everyone has camera/phones now.
If somebody happens to be the best available information source on a given issue, failure to communicate with them is a major failing on your part.
Wow, "best available information source" what a nice theoretical construct. Lots of whackjobs or politically motivated opportunists loudly claim to be the best sources and back it up with jibberish. Is it surprising the hardworking quiet scientist can't be heard over the noise?
Some scientists make it even harder by layering their politicial views over their legitimate findings which just destroys their credibility.
The way batteries work doesn't support swapping. As the battery ages it stores less and less power until finally it is deemed "dead." Aging can be sort of accelerated by misuse. That means every time you swap a battery you could get a random maximum range. Everybody who cares is going to grab the newest battery they can get and hold onto it. I'd imagine it would be worthwhile for Eddie down at the battery swap shop to sort out and give the good ones to his special customers or those willing to tip properly.