You should be able to access the journals/websites from your library.
I know at my school, Iowa State University, that I can directly access the restricted journal content if I'm anywhere on campus. If I'm at home I can still access it through the library website, and logging in to their proxy. YMMV, but everywhere I've been the library computers are cleared to access the "restricted" content.
It seems to me like any potential for exploiting millisecond delays in transaction transmission will be consumed and defeated by the time it takes a human operator to interpret the information and hit the "confirm purchase/sale" button.
That assumes there is still a human in the loop and not a computer doing trades autonomously. Within certain bounds, of course. But still autonomously.
I had a conversation about my laptop with my insurance agent, (State Farm), and the equipment is only covered under homeowner/renter policies if they are in the home or apartment. As soon as you begin carrying them you need a personal articles policy to cover them. I THINK mine is $24/year for my Macbook, but it stays at the base rate up to $2500 in equipment.
Talk to your insurance agent to find out for sure. It's better safe than sorry.
But it isn't a requirement to learn about every underlying feature in order to learn the issue at hand.
For example, here is discussion Mutex vs. Semaphore, where the concepts are compared to toilets. Very understandable to the average person and completely ignores everything going on "under the hood". They might not be able to create their own libraries for this, (or even code at all), but they can understand what they do and how they are used. You can then discuss real-world examples with them even if they have no knowledge of the underlying details.
In this case, you don't need to describe what MOS really is, you could describe it using a bad analogy like a light switch. We don't make light switches out of copper since it would electrocute us when we turned on the light. We also don't make our light switches 3-feet high. MOS is the material and design that we have come up with so we can turn the really small switches on and off without needing to get a finger inside to flip an actual switch. Want to describe p-channel - do it in terms of a strainer. We want holes of a certain size in a strainer so water goes through easily but the pasta does not. We also want different numbers and sizes of holes when we are sifting flour. If we use a flour sifter on our spaghetti, it will take forever for the water to drain and everything will get cold while we wait. In this case, the p-channel is the number of holes in our strainer and it is dealing with electrons instead of water or flour.
Sure, they won't be able to discuss how to build a p-channel MOS, and the design trade-offs, but that isn't the purpose. The point is, by relating concepts to what they are familiar with, they can understand the general idea.
If you follow the assumption that God is all powerful and Jesus is His Son (I can't remember if its only Catholicism or if its Christianity in general that goes on about the Trinity, in which case Jesus is also God and is His own Son; complicated!) couldn't he just create a new physical form?
Unsolicited advice, (not trying to troll), your discussion on a religious topic would be better received if you at least knew the central facts surrounding that religion. I always take a few seconds to check Wikipedia before posting some things. After all, I would hate to misspell R'lyeh on an Internet forum and have it get back to Cthulhu.
So, to help you out, the Trinity is common to all Christianity and not just Catholicism.
Your post reminds me of the old adage: The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, they are the same thing but, in practice, they aren't.
The U.S. has a LOT of empirical data from all of their tests that they can use to feed into their models, but a lot of nuclear scientists are concerned about the state of our nuclear stockpile - even if the simulations are showing they will still work. If you want to be sure something works, you have to build one and test it.
Except many email addresses are public because they are used as a method of contact which, if you like bringing in new customers, is important. Of course, this might not be necessary for most people in a large organization - unless they do things like volunteer, fundraise, coach little league, etc.
wouldnt nuclear attack kill the robotic network also, and people living in shelters would be safe from it
No, nuclear attack wouldn't kill the network. The Internet was designed to survive a nuclear attack. You might not have service at your home, but key systems will still remain connected. However, if nukes were detonated at a high altitude, it would generate an EMP that would destroy any electrical/electronic system that wasn't hardened. However, given the premise that Skynet is primarily a military system, it would be hardened with a lot of its main components underground, so it would still be running.
How many people do you know that regularly hang out in shelters capable of surviving a nuclear attack? A few thousand people scattered around the world don't make the most effective army.
So, how do you justify anyone making more money at their job than someone else? If you could create a product that would bring in $500 million in a year, then you would earn those millions as well.
BTW - The people creating those movies don't work 8-hour days. Double it, and add weekends, and you are in the right ballpark.
There is one small problem with you "freedom to move" plan... There are already people living in those uphill/inland areas that might object to millions of "refugees" moving in.
For #1: OK, you get a 10x advantage. Now what? The big thing with exponential growth is it keep going in bigger and bigger leaps. A single 10x advantage is only 5 years of "Moore's Law". It might help, but isn't going to revolutionize anything on its own.
For #2: A lot of our algorithms are optimized. Sure, most code isn't as efficient as it could be but many (most?) of the library functions are as good as they can get with out current computing paradigm. You might be able to make something like sorting more efficient with parallel processing, but that is just leveraging multiple processors/cores, which brings us back to the hardware and Moore's Law.
For #3: Throwing money at a problem might help, but not that much. There are a lot of problems we've been throwing money at for decades, (cancer, AIDS, education), and we might have made improvements, even big improvements, but there still isn't a cure or solution.
For #4: We've found that if people get too smart a whole host of psychological problems develop. If we make everyone smarter, we might find we have a huge increase in autism, psychosis, schizophrenia, etc.
For #5: This is being done and, even in its early stages, is pretty awesome IMHO. However, I don't think augmentation will lead to a greater interest in science. (At least not by itself.) Computers have become ubiquitous but enrollment in computer science and engineering is down.
For #6: This is a chicken and egg problem. You want people neurologically linked, but you would probably need a team of neurologically linked individuals to invent said link. Another issue is the psychological and social problems of being linked with someone. What would happen when you linked with someone who had slept with your spouse, or sabotaged your promotion or thinks you are ugly? How do you keep this team working together? I don't think humans could handle this socially or psychologically.
Randomness isn't an all-or-nothing concept. Here's a really bad analogy to demonstrate that.
Imagine you have three 20-sided dice (d20). The first d20 is normal with each face numbered from 1-20. The second d20 is almost normal and is numbered from 1-19 with a duplicate #1. The third has a #1 on all of it's faces. Now, how random are these dice?
Well, the first dice would be totally random, and the third would be totally deterministic (non-random). However, the second die would be "mostly random". It isn't totally random since it has a duplicate #1, giving that a higher probability of showing up. But it definitely isn't deterministic since we don't know what the next roll is going to be. So, different levels of randomness are possible.
My apologies to any mathematicians who hated that analogy.
National Academies == US National Academy of Sciences
Actually, that isn't true. The National Academies include the US National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in addition to the US National Academy of Sciences. The National Academies
As long as the operator is in the same hemisphere, the furthest distance the signal has to travel is to a geostationary satellite and back, about 72,000 km. The speed of light is 300,000 km/second. Even with the inefficiencies in the satellite and equipment, it is going to be less than a 1 second delay for the stimulus to be transmitted to the station, and the operator's response to be returned. Of course, this doesn't include the reaction time of the human, which is around 190 ms for a visual stimulus.
As long as energy weapons aren't in general battlefield use, there will be plenty of time for an operator to react. The latest Sidewinder missile travels at Mach 2.5. If a launch is detected 2 miles away, (which is pretty close - a Sidewinder's range is from 0.6-11.3 miles), this gives almost 4 seconds for action to be taken. Even with the extra time for the signal to be transmitted, the higher G forces that can be tolerated by an unmanned drone will probably give it a higher chance of survival than a manned aricraft.
Actually, in one of the Star Wars books they explained how this measurement "works". If I remember correctly, the path from Kessel required smugglers to go around some black holes. The faster the ship, the closer you could get to the black holes without being sucked in, and the shorter the distance you had to travel.
Actually, people ARE designed to run - even marathon distances. There is a paper published in Nature that described how humans actually evolved to be endurance runners. I can only link to the abstract, but you can find news stories about the paper using your favorite search engine.
I think the biggest reason people believe running is bad for you is the number of injuries that occur when people try to do too much, too fast. They figure they "used to run", and walk around every day, so how bad could it be? It can be really bad. Imagine you hadn't done any stretching for years, and decide to lock your knees and jerk down to touch your toes. Now do it 1000 times. (People generally run more than 1 step.) Would you be surprised if you pulled, or even tore, your muscles? Some people would. Some would even claim that stretching is bad for you. The better answer would be you need to slowly progress towards your goal.
So, you get people who realize they are out of shape and want to make a grand, bold statement about their newfound desire to be healthy - so they sign up for a marathon. They start training really hard, get injured, say running is bad for you and don't want to run ever again. The problem is that it takes time to properly train for a marathon. A LOT of time. If you don't run at all, it takes about 10 weeks to work up to running a 5k (3.1 miles) and that's training 30 minutes, 5 days a week. Once you are capable of the 5k, you can start a beginner marathon training program that takes about 16 weeks to build up to a marathon. Generally there is only 1 long run a week which might take less than an hour the first week but will eventually take 3-6 hours as the mileage increases. Most people don't want to put in that much time, look for shortcuts, and end up hurt.
So don't blame running. It is an intense activity and needs to be approached carefully, but isn't inherently dangerous.
There are a lot of sophisticated methods to watermark films.
For example, you could adjust the "mixing" of the audio track based on some key. One channel gets raised 0.1% and another is lowered by 0.1%. How much it gets changed, when it gets changed and which channels can be determined by a keyed function. Or you could change the frequency of the sound slightly instead of the mixing. Without the original master, you wouldn't know what the frequency is supposed to be, so you couldn't determine how, or where, it was changed.
No power - no heat. Even with natural gas, you can't turn on the furnace or the blower to get that heat throughout the house.
No heat - pipes freeze. No pipes, no water. Sure you can drain your pipes, but you still don't have water until the heat is back. Now you have to worry about what to drink, (no heat, it's hard to melt snow), and how to take care of sanitation.
No power, no transportation. In a large city you NEED the traffic lights, especially if the problem hits during the peak commute hours. Also, gas stations won't work because they can't ring up a sale, or use their electric pumps to get the gas out of their storage tanks.
No power, no emergency communication system. How many people actually keep a battery-powered or even a hand-cranked radio handy? Not many. The Internet will be down - all the network equipment needs power. Data centers might be on backup power but, for how long, and how will someone communicate with them when all the routers between them have gone down? Cell towers are supposed to have 48 hours of backup power but, with the increased use, they probably won't last that long. Plus, most people won't be able to charge their cell phones and won't think to turn them off when they aren't using them.
Another thing - you probably have a few days, or even weeks of food because you have a house with some space for an extra freezer, or a pantry. If you are living in a 400 sq ft. apartment, you don't have a lot of stuff on hand. Even if you do, if you have an electric cooktop or microwave you have to eat it cold or raw in the case of meat.
Moral of the story? Stock up on staple items that are simple to prepare. Be prepared to store your own water and know how to drain your pipes. Have some hand-cranked safety gear like flashlights and radios. Be prepared to defend what you have from neighbors that are hungry and desperate. It's a sad idea but starvation will turn your best friend into your worst enemy in a fight for some crackers.
After the first rocket, artillery round, mortar shell or bomb go off you won't have to worry about the enemy hearing you at all. Even training with earplugs in, your ears are ringing after a live-fire exercise and that's with the shells detonating at a "safe" distance, not right on top of you.
As for heat - a human already shows up pretty well in infrared - especially at night since the ground is cool.
Sure, an unassisted human can carry a variety of weapons that can damage armor or helicopters. However, do you have any idea how much all that stuff weighs? In general, you have as many infantrymen as you can carry one shell or rocket. If you can add even 30-40 pounds to what they can carry, that goes way up. If we call it 20 pounds for a rocket, then we can carry 3 of them instead of 1, tripling the available ammunition.
If it actually does allow carrying up to 200 pounds, that means you can grab someone who is injured and carry them to help at 7 MPH. THAT is probably one of the best things about it. Carrying someone, you might manage 7 MPH for a short sprint but, if you have to go any distance, you are lucky to average 3 MPH. Disclaimer: These numbers are based on personal experience/guesstimation and may not reflect reality.
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You should be able to access the journals/websites from your library.
I know at my school, Iowa State University, that I can directly access the restricted journal content if I'm anywhere on campus. If I'm at home I can still access it through the library website, and logging in to their proxy. YMMV, but everywhere I've been the library computers are cleared to access the "restricted" content.
It seems to me like any potential for exploiting millisecond delays in transaction transmission will be consumed and defeated by the time it takes a human operator to interpret the information and hit the "confirm purchase/sale" button.
That assumes there is still a human in the loop and not a computer doing trades autonomously. Within certain bounds, of course. But still autonomously.
I had a conversation about my laptop with my insurance agent, (State Farm), and the equipment is only covered under homeowner/renter policies if they are in the home or apartment. As soon as you begin carrying them you need a personal articles policy to cover them. I THINK mine is $24/year for my Macbook, but it stays at the base rate up to $2500 in equipment.
Talk to your insurance agent to find out for sure. It's better safe than sorry.
Door hinge.
I mean, for pete sake people, what possible gain would there be in trying to break into a mechanical leg?
Life insurance? Just make the leg fail when they need to apply the brakes in a car.
But it isn't a requirement to learn about every underlying feature in order to learn the issue at hand.
For example, here is discussion Mutex vs. Semaphore, where the concepts are compared to toilets. Very understandable to the average person and completely ignores everything going on "under the hood". They might not be able to create their own libraries for this, (or even code at all), but they can understand what they do and how they are used. You can then discuss real-world examples with them even if they have no knowledge of the underlying details.
In this case, you don't need to describe what MOS really is, you could describe it using a bad analogy like a light switch. We don't make light switches out of copper since it would electrocute us when we turned on the light. We also don't make our light switches 3-feet high. MOS is the material and design that we have come up with so we can turn the really small switches on and off without needing to get a finger inside to flip an actual switch. Want to describe p-channel - do it in terms of a strainer. We want holes of a certain size in a strainer so water goes through easily but the pasta does not. We also want different numbers and sizes of holes when we are sifting flour. If we use a flour sifter on our spaghetti, it will take forever for the water to drain and everything will get cold while we wait. In this case, the p-channel is the number of holes in our strainer and it is dealing with electrons instead of water or flour.
Sure, they won't be able to discuss how to build a p-channel MOS, and the design trade-offs, but that isn't the purpose. The point is, by relating concepts to what they are familiar with, they can understand the general idea.
If you follow the assumption that God is all powerful and Jesus is His Son (I can't remember if its only Catholicism or if its Christianity in general that goes on about the Trinity, in which case Jesus is also God and is His own Son; complicated!) couldn't he just create a new physical form?
Unsolicited advice, (not trying to troll), your discussion on a religious topic would be better received if you at least knew the central facts surrounding that religion. I always take a few seconds to check Wikipedia before posting some things. After all, I would hate to misspell R'lyeh on an Internet forum and have it get back to Cthulhu.
So, to help you out, the Trinity is common to all Christianity and not just Catholicism.
Your post reminds me of the old adage: The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, they are the same thing but, in practice, they aren't.
The U.S. has a LOT of empirical data from all of their tests that they can use to feed into their models, but a lot of nuclear scientists are concerned about the state of our nuclear stockpile - even if the simulations are showing they will still work. If you want to be sure something works, you have to build one and test it.
Except many email addresses are public because they are used as a method of contact which, if you like bringing in new customers, is important. Of course, this might not be necessary for most people in a large organization - unless they do things like volunteer, fundraise, coach little league, etc.
wouldnt nuclear attack kill the robotic network also, and people living in shelters would be safe from it
No, nuclear attack wouldn't kill the network. The Internet was designed to survive a nuclear attack. You might not have service at your home, but key systems will still remain connected. However, if nukes were detonated at a high altitude, it would generate an EMP that would destroy any electrical/electronic system that wasn't hardened. However, given the premise that Skynet is primarily a military system, it would be hardened with a lot of its main components underground, so it would still be running.
How many people do you know that regularly hang out in shelters capable of surviving a nuclear attack? A few thousand people scattered around the world don't make the most effective army.
So, how do you justify anyone making more money at their job than someone else? If you could create a product that would bring in $500 million in a year, then you would earn those millions as well.
BTW - The people creating those movies don't work 8-hour days. Double it, and add weekends, and you are in the right ballpark.
There is one small problem with you "freedom to move" plan... There are already people living in those uphill/inland areas that might object to millions of "refugees" moving in.
Not to be picky, but how do you know it was a great time to live?
I hate that word to pieces!
A few comments...
For #1: OK, you get a 10x advantage. Now what? The big thing with exponential growth is it keep going in bigger and bigger leaps. A single 10x advantage is only 5 years of "Moore's Law". It might help, but isn't going to revolutionize anything on its own.
For #2: A lot of our algorithms are optimized. Sure, most code isn't as efficient as it could be but many (most?) of the library functions are as good as they can get with out current computing paradigm. You might be able to make something like sorting more efficient with parallel processing, but that is just leveraging multiple processors/cores, which brings us back to the hardware and Moore's Law.
For #3: Throwing money at a problem might help, but not that much. There are a lot of problems we've been throwing money at for decades, (cancer, AIDS, education), and we might have made improvements, even big improvements, but there still isn't a cure or solution.
For #4: We've found that if people get too smart a whole host of psychological problems develop. If we make everyone smarter, we might find we have a huge increase in autism, psychosis, schizophrenia, etc.
For #5: This is being done and, even in its early stages, is pretty awesome IMHO. However, I don't think augmentation will lead to a greater interest in science. (At least not by itself.) Computers have become ubiquitous but enrollment in computer science and engineering is down.
For #6: This is a chicken and egg problem. You want people neurologically linked, but you would probably need a team of neurologically linked individuals to invent said link. Another issue is the psychological and social problems of being linked with someone. What would happen when you linked with someone who had slept with your spouse, or sabotaged your promotion or thinks you are ugly? How do you keep this team working together? I don't think humans could handle this socially or psychologically.
It's either random or it's not.
Randomness isn't an all-or-nothing concept. Here's a really bad analogy to demonstrate that.
Imagine you have three 20-sided dice (d20). The first d20 is normal with each face numbered from 1-20. The second d20 is almost normal and is numbered from 1-19 with a duplicate #1. The third has a #1 on all of it's faces. Now, how random are these dice?
Well, the first dice would be totally random, and the third would be totally deterministic (non-random). However, the second die would be "mostly random". It isn't totally random since it has a duplicate #1, giving that a higher probability of showing up. But it definitely isn't deterministic since we don't know what the next roll is going to be. So, different levels of randomness are possible.
My apologies to any mathematicians who hated that analogy.
National Academies == US National Academy of Sciences
Actually, that isn't true. The National Academies include the US National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in addition to the US National Academy of Sciences. The National Academies
When ms count, operators can be seconds away.
As long as the operator is in the same hemisphere, the furthest distance the signal has to travel is to a geostationary satellite and back, about 72,000 km. The speed of light is 300,000 km/second. Even with the inefficiencies in the satellite and equipment, it is going to be less than a 1 second delay for the stimulus to be transmitted to the station, and the operator's response to be returned. Of course, this doesn't include the reaction time of the human, which is around 190 ms for a visual stimulus.
As long as energy weapons aren't in general battlefield use, there will be plenty of time for an operator to react. The latest Sidewinder missile travels at Mach 2.5. If a launch is detected 2 miles away, (which is pretty close - a Sidewinder's range is from 0.6-11.3 miles), this gives almost 4 seconds for action to be taken. Even with the extra time for the signal to be transmitted, the higher G forces that can be tolerated by an unmanned drone will probably give it a higher chance of survival than a manned aricraft.
Of course, IANARAWAO, either.
Actually, in one of the Star Wars books they explained how this measurement "works". If I remember correctly, the path from Kessel required smugglers to go around some black holes. The faster the ship, the closer you could get to the black holes without being sucked in, and the shorter the distance you had to travel.
Actually, people ARE designed to run - even marathon distances. There is a paper published in Nature that described how humans actually evolved to be endurance runners. I can only link to the abstract, but you can find news stories about the paper using your favorite search engine.
I think the biggest reason people believe running is bad for you is the number of injuries that occur when people try to do too much, too fast. They figure they "used to run", and walk around every day, so how bad could it be? It can be really bad. Imagine you hadn't done any stretching for years, and decide to lock your knees and jerk down to touch your toes. Now do it 1000 times. (People generally run more than 1 step.) Would you be surprised if you pulled, or even tore, your muscles? Some people would. Some would even claim that stretching is bad for you. The better answer would be you need to slowly progress towards your goal.
So, you get people who realize they are out of shape and want to make a grand, bold statement about their newfound desire to be healthy - so they sign up for a marathon. They start training really hard, get injured, say running is bad for you and don't want to run ever again. The problem is that it takes time to properly train for a marathon. A LOT of time. If you don't run at all, it takes about 10 weeks to work up to running a 5k (3.1 miles) and that's training 30 minutes, 5 days a week. Once you are capable of the 5k, you can start a beginner marathon training program that takes about 16 weeks to build up to a marathon. Generally there is only 1 long run a week which might take less than an hour the first week but will eventually take 3-6 hours as the mileage increases. Most people don't want to put in that much time, look for shortcuts, and end up hurt.
So don't blame running. It is an intense activity and needs to be approached carefully, but isn't inherently dangerous.
There are a lot of sophisticated methods to watermark films.
For example, you could adjust the "mixing" of the audio track based on some key. One channel gets raised 0.1% and another is lowered by 0.1%. How much it gets changed, when it gets changed and which channels can be determined by a keyed function. Or you could change the frequency of the sound slightly instead of the mixing. Without the original master, you wouldn't know what the frequency is supposed to be, so you couldn't determine how, or where, it was changed.
How do we find an April Fools story to post in?
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Unfortunately, I can't find the post-it note where I wrote down the units.
Just hope that it doesn't happen in the winter.
No power - no heat. Even with natural gas, you can't turn on the furnace or the blower to get that heat throughout the house.
No heat - pipes freeze. No pipes, no water. Sure you can drain your pipes, but you still don't have water until the heat is back. Now you have to worry about what to drink, (no heat, it's hard to melt snow), and how to take care of sanitation.
No power, no transportation. In a large city you NEED the traffic lights, especially if the problem hits during the peak commute hours. Also, gas stations won't work because they can't ring up a sale, or use their electric pumps to get the gas out of their storage tanks.
No power, no emergency communication system. How many people actually keep a battery-powered or even a hand-cranked radio handy? Not many. The Internet will be down - all the network equipment needs power. Data centers might be on backup power but, for how long, and how will someone communicate with them when all the routers between them have gone down? Cell towers are supposed to have 48 hours of backup power but, with the increased use, they probably won't last that long. Plus, most people won't be able to charge their cell phones and won't think to turn them off when they aren't using them.
Another thing - you probably have a few days, or even weeks of food because you have a house with some space for an extra freezer, or a pantry. If you are living in a 400 sq ft. apartment, you don't have a lot of stuff on hand. Even if you do, if you have an electric cooktop or microwave you have to eat it cold or raw in the case of meat.
Moral of the story? Stock up on staple items that are simple to prepare. Be prepared to store your own water and know how to drain your pipes. Have some hand-cranked safety gear like flashlights and radios. Be prepared to defend what you have from neighbors that are hungry and desperate. It's a sad idea but starvation will turn your best friend into your worst enemy in a fight for some crackers.
After the first rocket, artillery round, mortar shell or bomb go off you won't have to worry about the enemy hearing you at all. Even training with earplugs in, your ears are ringing after a live-fire exercise and that's with the shells detonating at a "safe" distance, not right on top of you.
As for heat - a human already shows up pretty well in infrared - especially at night since the ground is cool.
Sure, an unassisted human can carry a variety of weapons that can damage armor or helicopters. However, do you have any idea how much all that stuff weighs? In general, you have as many infantrymen as you can carry one shell or rocket. If you can add even 30-40 pounds to what they can carry, that goes way up. If we call it 20 pounds for a rocket, then we can carry 3 of them instead of 1, tripling the available ammunition.
If it actually does allow carrying up to 200 pounds, that means you can grab someone who is injured and carry them to help at 7 MPH. THAT is probably one of the best things about it. Carrying someone, you might manage 7 MPH for a short sprint but, if you have to go any distance, you are lucky to average 3 MPH. Disclaimer: These numbers are based on personal experience/guesstimation and may not reflect reality.