Predicting it is not the point. Cray, Silicon Graphics, DEC... I'm sure they all saw the writing on the wall. We can predict social security going insolvent, we can predict China surpassing the US, we can predict global warming. The question, in every case, is "now what"?
What you just described is almost exactly what a password generator is (CryptoCard, SecureID). If you don't use them for long enough the clocks can drift apart and it won't work anymore. They have two advantages over your password table however: they require a PIN, and each generated password can only be used once.
An old P3 would have a much better chance of surviving high temps than today's CPUs, which are pushing the thermal limits much harder. I think a P3 700 consumes about 18 W.
I wish this work were funded by anybody *but* PETA just so it could get a fair shake.
Cattle require an absurd amount of rangeland and calories. Current meat production technology (growing it on animals, that is) is simply not going to scale as the population continues to skyrocket and people worldwide have increased buying power. Also the quality of today's product isn't usually great - perfect tender hunks of meat cost a fortune because the vast majority of meat is sub-prime. The day I have my last ground beef or hotdog and switch over to filet mignon will be fine with me, even if it's from a petri dish. It if it means I can drink from a mountain stream when I go backpacking without fear of being poisoned by cow poop, that's great too. And if it means the recent high grain prices are reversed, all the better.
It is also the filtering of evidence and interpretation of evidence so as to favor one's viewpoint. Quite common in our science today.
But for every scientist doggedly clinging to a highly dubious theory (probably because he invented it), there are couple more trying to make names for themselves by displacing that theory with one that better fits available data and / or makes more testable predictions.
Are we using the same definition of bias? Having a strong opinion is not bias, if it is a sound conclusion of the evidence. Bias is starting with the conclusion and selectively gathering the evidence to support it.
Good point about transporters. Probably not going to settle for lossy compression on that one:) Maybe transporters is what ATT is really worried about.
I can't think of any way for a single household to usefully saturate a one terabit per second link.
I know it's supposedly suicide to say this sort of thing, but I don't believe it will ever be common for a household to use a terabit per second. The human perceptual system only has so much bandwidth. Once every person is saturating all their senses, what more use is there? Even if the Internet goes totally P2P so everybody is running servers, the average upload bitrate will only equal the average download bitrate.
Is the GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB used in the review any good? It could only muster 18 fps on Crysis at only 1280x1024, regardless of CPU. Isn't that game about a year old? Interesting that the most graphics-hungry game would be two years ahead of the hardware (because 18fps doesn't cut it).
This seems to be universal among web designers. They just aren't happy unless they're redesigning something to make it more complicated and less likely to work.
My award for "sticking with what works" goes to craigslist.org.
T or C is no worse or different than a lot of places in NM, which is to say, not very well off. IMO there are many places here that a lot of Americans would be surprised to see in the US at all. (Sort of how I imagine the Ozarks). But then, a fair number of the people here are on reservations they consider to be sovereign. The islands of non-poverty subsist largely on the federal defense budget, since it's an ideal place for hiding away from prying eyes and setting off explosions.
Let me first say, the idea of US science "dying" is just silly. And yes, for the moment we are leading.
Hanging on to our lead, on the other hand, is doubtful:
"Cited papers first-authored by Chinese scientists -- an important indicator of scientific creativity -- increased by 25.3 per cent in 2006, and the number of times they were cited increased 28.3 per cent. However, China remains thirteenth in terms of total citation numbers." At that rate, China won't be in 13th for long.
From the global perspective it doesn't matter; all this means mankind as a whole is simply progressing much faster now. But from the US nationalist perspective, this definitely decreases our ability to compete for increasingly scarce natural resources. We've already seen this occur drastically in the price of oil.
I am waiting with interest for an informed response to your question. But my guess is that a superconductor is only half of a supersemiconductor, which is the name I just made up for something that's instantly switchable from 0 to infinite resistance. And since infinite resistance is impossible, I would guess there will still be some current leaking through any real semiconductor, and thus waste heat. Besides the direct loss of this heat, it would make it harder to keep the superconducting parts cold enough.
With fancy algorithms and math constructs being all the rage these days (dare I say a bit of a fad?) it behooves us to remember that they are far from the whole story. It helps to have some useful data with which to make connections. No matter how fancy the algorithm you aren't going to harvest rice in a desert.
Sure, but that's why people import "lots of data from other sources," so why do you call that a bad thing? Yes, collecting more and better data is often more important than additional algorithm development for the same old data sources. But I disagree that's somehow "cheating" and not valuable. In fact I think the reason AI falls short of human intelligence in the real world is largely because we haven't figured out how to import (via artificial perception) lots of data from other sources which people use.
To build on your point, a good captcha must not only be difficult to solve automatically, it must also be easy to generate automatically! The whole point is to increase the ratio of costs between attacker and defender as high as possible, akin to trapdoor functions in crypto.
Oh of course not! And why should they when they consider it their money in the first place.
I hate to say this, but Americans are very undertaxed relative to govt spending. The only thing worse than heavy taxes and heavy spending is light taxes and heavy spending (i.e. what we have now), because it WILL have to be repaid... with interest! Our deficit spending is killing the dollar, sending gas prices (and all imports) sky high.
At the risk of getting burned at the stake, I do see a problem with the mentality that it's "our money" implying we deserve to pay no taxes. We drive on the roads, we expect the fire dept and police to show up if necessary, we cheer on the troops - then we expect it all to be free. Could we disband public education and save a few bucks in tax money? Sure, in the short run, but about 20 years later the GDP would fall by many times the amount "saved." Sometimes taxing and spending is worthwhile.
I think we need a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. This idea has come and gone many times, such as Grahm/Rudman, and later Ross Perot advocated it. Our current course, especially since Reagan, is nothing short of robbing our children and grandchildren. Whether the deficit is resolved by cutting spending or increasing taxes, at least it would force us to be honest. We have proven beyond doubt that we're not capable of using the good times to repay deficits incurred during slowdowns.
I guess a heavy app on a lightweight OS is still better than the same heavy app on a heavy OS. I'm hearing Vista needs 512 MB just to boot and login with acceptable speed, which blows my mind.
The RIAA/MPAA aren't the ones complaining about being drowned in data, it's the ISPs, like Comcast.
Still, I'm not sure I see the point of this study. Everybody knows the last mile is the main problem. Most of the Internet is in the last mile! Just as your body contains something like 100,000 kilometers of capillaries, but only a few meters of arteries. So saying the problem is "just" the last mile isn't saying much.
It's not Microsoft that would have to include them, it's ASUS. But for cost reasons, it would probably have to be windows versions of the same open-source software that's on the linux version. (Do they use OpenOffice? It's not very lightweight!)
You and all the geniuses who modded you up are flat out wrong. The article is quite clear that there are separate classes for different technologies. From the article "The Pulsar vehicle from Purdue University was the top solar finisher; it got credited with a fuel economy rating of 2,861.8 mpg" which curiously is only insignificantly better than the non-solar car described in the headline.
"You need to go back to high school and study elementary physics"
...which conveniently ignores little things like rolling resistance. Go push your SUV a few miles at 2mph along a level street, then get back to me with your frictionless highschool physics.
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Predicting it is not the point. Cray, Silicon Graphics, DEC... I'm sure they all saw the writing on the wall. We can predict social security going insolvent, we can predict China surpassing the US, we can predict global warming. The question, in every case, is "now what"?
What you just described is almost exactly what a password generator is (CryptoCard, SecureID). If you don't use them for long enough the clocks can drift apart and it won't work anymore. They have two advantages over your password table however: they require a PIN, and each generated password can only be used once.
I have a competing hypothesis: greed is short-sighted.
An old P3 would have a much better chance of surviving high temps than today's CPUs, which are pushing the thermal limits much harder. I think a P3 700 consumes about 18 W.
I wish this work were funded by anybody *but* PETA just so it could get a fair shake. Cattle require an absurd amount of rangeland and calories. Current meat production technology (growing it on animals, that is) is simply not going to scale as the population continues to skyrocket and people worldwide have increased buying power. Also the quality of today's product isn't usually great - perfect tender hunks of meat cost a fortune because the vast majority of meat is sub-prime. The day I have my last ground beef or hotdog and switch over to filet mignon will be fine with me, even if it's from a petri dish. It if it means I can drink from a mountain stream when I go backpacking without fear of being poisoned by cow poop, that's great too. And if it means the recent high grain prices are reversed, all the better.
Are we using the same definition of bias? Having a strong opinion is not bias, if it is a sound conclusion of the evidence. Bias is starting with the conclusion and selectively gathering the evidence to support it.
Good point about transporters. Probably not going to settle for lossy compression on that one :) Maybe transporters is what ATT is really worried about.
I didn't exagerate. You believe the claim of infinite storage capacity? Pull the other one.
Nothing in this universe is unlimited.
Is the GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB used in the review any good? It could only muster 18 fps on Crysis at only 1280x1024, regardless of CPU. Isn't that game about a year old? Interesting that the most graphics-hungry game would be two years ahead of the hardware (because 18fps doesn't cut it).
My award for "sticking with what works" goes to craigslist.org.
T or C is no worse or different than a lot of places in NM, which is to say, not very well off. IMO there are many places here that a lot of Americans would be surprised to see in the US at all. (Sort of how I imagine the Ozarks). But then, a fair number of the people here are on reservations they consider to be sovereign. The islands of non-poverty subsist largely on the federal defense budget, since it's an ideal place for hiding away from prying eyes and setting off explosions.
Hanging on to our lead, on the other hand, is doubtful: "Cited papers first-authored by Chinese scientists -- an important indicator of scientific creativity -- increased by 25.3 per cent in 2006, and the number of times they were cited increased 28.3 per cent. However, China remains thirteenth in terms of total citation numbers." At that rate, China won't be in 13th for long.
From the global perspective it doesn't matter; all this means mankind as a whole is simply progressing much faster now. But from the US nationalist perspective, this definitely decreases our ability to compete for increasingly scarce natural resources. We've already seen this occur drastically in the price of oil.
I am waiting with interest for an informed response to your question. But my guess is that a superconductor is only half of a supersemiconductor, which is the name I just made up for something that's instantly switchable from 0 to infinite resistance. And since infinite resistance is impossible, I would guess there will still be some current leaking through any real semiconductor, and thus waste heat. Besides the direct loss of this heat, it would make it harder to keep the superconducting parts cold enough.
To build on your point, a good captcha must not only be difficult to solve automatically, it must also be easy to generate automatically! The whole point is to increase the ratio of costs between attacker and defender as high as possible, akin to trapdoor functions in crypto.
At the risk of getting burned at the stake, I do see a problem with the mentality that it's "our money" implying we deserve to pay no taxes. We drive on the roads, we expect the fire dept and police to show up if necessary, we cheer on the troops - then we expect it all to be free. Could we disband public education and save a few bucks in tax money? Sure, in the short run, but about 20 years later the GDP would fall by many times the amount "saved." Sometimes taxing and spending is worthwhile.
I think we need a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. This idea has come and gone many times, such as Grahm/Rudman, and later Ross Perot advocated it. Our current course, especially since Reagan, is nothing short of robbing our children and grandchildren. Whether the deficit is resolved by cutting spending or increasing taxes, at least it would force us to be honest. We have proven beyond doubt that we're not capable of using the good times to repay deficits incurred during slowdowns.
I guess a heavy app on a lightweight OS is still better than the same heavy app on a heavy OS. I'm hearing Vista needs 512 MB just to boot and login with acceptable speed, which blows my mind.
Still, I'm not sure I see the point of this study. Everybody knows the last mile is the main problem. Most of the Internet is in the last mile! Just as your body contains something like 100,000 kilometers of capillaries, but only a few meters of arteries. So saying the problem is "just" the last mile isn't saying much.
It's not Microsoft that would have to include them, it's ASUS. But for cost reasons, it would probably have to be windows versions of the same open-source software that's on the linux version. (Do they use OpenOffice? It's not very lightweight!)
You and all the geniuses who modded you up are flat out wrong. The article is quite clear that there are separate classes for different technologies. From the article "The Pulsar vehicle from Purdue University was the top solar finisher; it got credited with a fuel economy rating of 2,861.8 mpg" which curiously is only insignificantly better than the non-solar car described in the headline.
And Formula 1 cars can't even go over a speedbump. Who do those jokers at Ferrari think they're kidding!