The funny thing is, if you look under the article, about half the commenters are essentially saying that.
"Lots of buildings in Chicago have roped-off sidewalks in the winter. This is no big deal! Apple can still do no wrong! The astronomical prices I paid for their gear is still justified!"
Your theory is correct only if the following all have insignificant cost: armored cars, theft, counting, sorting, supervising and paying extra wages for less untrustworthy cashiers and managers.
Like many other aspects of this scheme, that hasn't been worked out. One possibility that's been discussed is sending a train of these tiny spacecraft that relay the messages back in daisy chain fashion.
Such a goal practically requires mastering nuclear fusion by that point in time.
Not really. The current leading contender for interstellar missions is a thumbnail-sized chip attached to a nanometers-thick light sail, and propelling that using ground-based lasers. That requires a lot of new technology, but power generation isn't one of them.
Self scanning is generally slower than having a cashier, but there's usually no line.
I use self checkout a lot, so I might actually be competitive with an average cashier. The problem is that the stupid verification scale can't keep up with throwing things in the bag quickly, and the penalty for a weighing error is a big time delay, so it still ends up being quite a bit slower per item. Nevertheless, it's better than waiting in line for a cashier for up to a couple of dozen items; with more than that, the chance of a weighing error is so high that it's better to get in line for a real cashier.
The best system I've seen is a hybrid checkout that one supermarket here has. The customer unloads items as fast as they can onto a conveyor. They go through a high-tech scanning tunnel that can find the bar code on any side of the package. There is a cashier who handles produce and manually scanning the ~5% of items that fail to scan in the tunnel, and there is a dedicated bagger. There are two output stations so that the next customer can be pipelined with the end of the previous bagging. That system seems to work really well.
When Intel takes "risks", it tends to come up with things like the iAPX 432, i860, Itanium, and the 80286 incarnation of protected mode. This probably won't end well.
Sometimes it wasn't so great. Our entire PLATO installation was down for about a week after a storm that caused electrical power surges which somehow fried the decades-old core memory in the mainframe (although one would think that stuff would be resistant to getting zapped). Apparently, the memory in question was no longer readily available.
It is kind of amazing that the system supported about 400 interactive users on graphics terminals, all simultaneously sharing a single processor with compute power that was probably in the same ballpark as an 80286.
Robotic missions weren't possible back then. Now they are.
A robotic mission to Mars would also advance the state of the art for many other technologies right here on earth, and more cost effectively. Automation is also more generally applicable to real-word problems than figuring out how to keep people alive for a couple of years in a tin can.
Hell no. It makes zero economic or scientific sense.
If we had used all of the money that was flushed down the ISS to build a bunch of robotic space bases on Mars, by now we'd already have all of the science results that any human mission would ever hope to accomplish.
The only thing we'd be missing out on is the flag planting ceremony and selfies that the public always seems so focused on.
Oh good lord, get over the net neutrality bullshit already. You lost. It's done. Nothing bad will happen.
If nothing bad will happen, then why were the big telecom companies and their government puppets so hell-bent on shoving this through? Are you really so naive as to think that they were antsy to make this change for any other reason than to extract more fees from their locked-in customers, as well as inflict brand new fees on content creators?
I wonder how many more applications my boss can dream up for Excel that it really should never, ever have been used for?
Ironically, Python can make many spreadsheets unnecessary in the first place. In my case, for 90% of the things that I would have done in Excel circa 1995, today I instead just whip up a plain Python script to compute. Usually the results go into a flat text table, sometimes I even have it spit out a chart in SVG format.
A script is typically much more readable and maintainable than a spreadsheet with a bunch of hidden formulas. It also fits better with version control systems.
What the fuck are you talking about? The Dutch bought New York for some glass beads and a couple blankets. Maybe the Indians should have asked for a little more, but it was perfectly legal.
No, what the Dutch bought was access to New York.
What happened is like if you went to Disney World and bought a day pass, then claimed that your ticket was a deed to the land and forcibly took over the whole park.
At any rate, how are you sure that an AI won't eventually be able to teach itself mechanical control system skills that rival humans? Mice and birds with pea-sized brains are able to navigate the physical world rather effectively.
If my cell phone was recording everything around me and transmitting it, my pocket would be on fire, my battery would be dead before lunch every day, and my bandwidth allowance would be toast by the end of the first week every month.
Not really, at least for audio. I still have one of those little voice recorders that people used before smartphones were around. It can record a couple of days of audio in its 2005-era flash storage, with just the power from a pair of alkaline AAA batteries.
A rogue app on your phone could probably do the same to some file you wouldn't even notice, and upload it whenever you connect to WiFi without you noticing that either.
At any rate, there seem to be no power issues with phones running the microphone 24x7 and constantly processing the data to look for "OK Google". That would probably be at least as power-intensive as just making a recording.
I'm guessing the Russians aren't even going to bother building these robots themselves.
The Russians might just wait until the US creates an army of killer robots, then hack into them and turn them against their owners. This strategy has already worked great when it was applied to our election system.
They can't determine if a photo is unique unless they don't really delete the photo from their servers. (They probably keep a "fingerprint" of the photo, which would be the most valuable part for spying on people anyway.)
Because MWhs and average MWs are different metrics. One is energy the other is power. Don't conflate energy and power, especially with renewables which produce such variable output.
You're the confused one. They were talking about MWhs per year. That's power.
That's exactly what I was complaining about: Their terminology makes people like you who either skim or simply don't understand the text completely misunderstand the meaning.
As far as I can tell, almost every turkey sold in supermarkets has already been injected with brine by the manufacturer (at least I've never found wan that wasn't).
So unless you go out of your way to find some kind of "authentic" turkey, more brining would just be salty mushy overkill.
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Obviously you're holding the building wrong.
The funny thing is, if you look under the article, about half the commenters are essentially saying that.
"Lots of buildings in Chicago have roped-off sidewalks in the winter. This is no big deal! Apple can still do no wrong! The astronomical prices I paid for their gear is still justified!"
Your theory is correct only if the following all have insignificant cost: armored cars, theft, counting, sorting, supervising and paying extra wages for less untrustworthy cashiers and managers.
Like many other aspects of this scheme, that hasn't been worked out. One possibility that's been discussed is sending a train of these tiny spacecraft that relay the messages back in daisy chain fashion.
Such a goal practically requires mastering nuclear fusion by that point in time.
Not really. The current leading contender for interstellar missions is a thumbnail-sized chip attached to a nanometers-thick light sail, and propelling that using ground-based lasers. That requires a lot of new technology, but power generation isn't one of them.
Value is food, materials, information, useful work.
Wait... Finding all of those low-valued hashes wasn't useful work?
I'm crestfallen.
Self scanning is generally slower than having a cashier, but there's usually no line.
I use self checkout a lot, so I might actually be competitive with an average cashier. The problem is that the stupid verification scale can't keep up with throwing things in the bag quickly, and the penalty for a weighing error is a big time delay, so it still ends up being quite a bit slower per item. Nevertheless, it's better than waiting in line for a cashier for up to a couple of dozen items; with more than that, the chance of a weighing error is so high that it's better to get in line for a real cashier.
The best system I've seen is a hybrid checkout that one supermarket here has. The customer unloads items as fast as they can onto a conveyor. They go through a high-tech scanning tunnel that can find the bar code on any side of the package. There is a cashier who handles produce and manually scanning the ~5% of items that fail to scan in the tunnel, and there is a dedicated bagger. There are two output stations so that the next customer can be pipelined with the end of the previous bagging. That system seems to work really well.
When Intel takes "risks", it tends to come up with things like the iAPX 432, i860, Itanium, and the 80286 incarnation of protected mode. This probably won't end well.
Core memory is just as great.
Sometimes it wasn't so great. Our entire PLATO installation was down for about a week after a storm that caused electrical power surges which somehow fried the decades-old core memory in the mainframe (although one would think that stuff would be resistant to getting zapped). Apparently, the memory in question was no longer readily available.
It is kind of amazing that the system supported about 400 interactive users on graphics terminals, all simultaneously sharing a single processor with compute power that was probably in the same ballpark as an 80286.
Robotic missions weren't possible back then. Now they are.
A robotic mission to Mars would also advance the state of the art for many other technologies right here on earth, and more cost effectively. Automation is also more generally applicable to real-word problems than figuring out how to keep people alive for a couple of years in a tin can.
You want to go to mars and beyond?
Hell no. It makes zero economic or scientific sense.
If we had used all of the money that was flushed down the ISS to build a bunch of robotic space bases on Mars, by now we'd already have all of the science results that any human mission would ever hope to accomplish.
The only thing we'd be missing out on is the flag planting ceremony and selfies that the public always seems so focused on.
Oh good lord, get over the net neutrality bullshit already. You lost. It's done. Nothing bad will happen.
If nothing bad will happen, then why were the big telecom companies and their government puppets so hell-bent on shoving this through? Are you really so naive as to think that they were antsy to make this change for any other reason than to extract more fees from their locked-in customers, as well as inflict brand new fees on content creators?
I wonder how many more applications my boss can dream up for Excel that it really should never, ever have been used for?
Ironically, Python can make many spreadsheets unnecessary in the first place. In my case, for 90% of the things that I would have done in Excel circa 1995, today I instead just whip up a plain Python script to compute. Usually the results go into a flat text table, sometimes I even have it spit out a chart in SVG format.
A script is typically much more readable and maintainable than a spreadsheet with a bunch of hidden formulas. It also fits better with version control systems.
Maybe they *did* reproduce the copyright notice. For all we know, it might be etched somewhere on the CPU die in 100nm-tall characters.
What the fuck are you talking about? The Dutch bought New York for some glass beads and a couple blankets. Maybe the Indians should have asked for a little more, but it was perfectly legal.
No, what the Dutch bought was access to New York.
What happened is like if you went to Disney World and bought a day pass, then claimed that your ticket was a deed to the land and forcibly took over the whole park.
So you aspire to be a mechanical actuator?
At any rate, how are you sure that an AI won't eventually be able to teach itself mechanical control system skills that rival humans? Mice and birds with pea-sized brains are able to navigate the physical world rather effectively.
If my cell phone was recording everything around me and transmitting it, my pocket would be on fire, my battery would be dead before lunch every day, and my bandwidth allowance would be toast by the end of the first week every month.
Not really, at least for audio. I still have one of those little voice recorders that people used before smartphones were around. It can record a couple of days of audio in its 2005-era flash storage, with just the power from a pair of alkaline AAA batteries.
A rogue app on your phone could probably do the same to some file you wouldn't even notice, and upload it whenever you connect to WiFi without you noticing that either.
At any rate, there seem to be no power issues with phones running the microphone 24x7 and constantly processing the data to look for "OK Google". That would probably be at least as power-intensive as just making a recording.
I'm guessing the Russians aren't even going to bother building these robots themselves.
The Russians might just wait until the US creates an army of killer robots, then hack into them and turn them against their owners. This strategy has already worked great when it was applied to our election system.
No it doesn't. It takes 45 minutes during rush hour and less than that outside of rush hour.
Another bonus you don't get with the tunnel is the fun of watching all the cars stopped bumper-to-bumper on the Kennedy expressway as you whiz by.
They can't determine if a photo is unique unless they don't really delete the photo from their servers. (They probably keep a "fingerprint" of the photo, which would be the most valuable part for spying on people anyway.)
Everybody knows that no phone manufacturer would ever actually do any software updates.
Because MWhs and average MWs are different metrics. One is energy the other is power. Don't conflate energy and power, especially with renewables which produce such variable output.
You're the confused one. They were talking about MWhs per year. That's power.
That's exactly what I was complaining about: Their terminology makes people like you who either skim or simply don't understand the text completely misunderstand the meaning.
3.6 million megawatt hours (MWh) of renewable energy annually
The power industry seems to act like there's a law that says they have to somehow include an "hours" factor in every physical quantity they discuss.
Why not just call it what it is: an average of 411 megawatts.
If you want to join the latest American fad and become a mass shooter, you really ought to target a hospice.
None of these people were going to live more than 9 months anyway, so it's no big deal. The authorities should let you off with just a warning.
But what those ex-presidents didn't tell you is that all of the additional weight will be in the form of tasteless, chalky white breast meat.
Have you tried brining it and not over-cooking?
As far as I can tell, almost every turkey sold in supermarkets has already been injected with brine by the manufacturer (at least I've never found wan that wasn't).
So unless you go out of your way to find some kind of "authentic" turkey, more brining would just be salty mushy overkill.