Universal healthcare and education would have innumerable benefits, but it would not halt the evolution of pathogens.
I did find a source claiming perhaps 50% of antibiotics are used incorrectly, which is not good. But the economic rise of several populous nations, and the growing world population, will increase antibiotics use by much more than that, as well it should, saving millions of lives in the process. The more people, the more pathogens, and the more medical researchers, and the faster the arms race evolves.
Don't get me wrong, we should do what we can, but it's wrong to assume drug-resistant pathogens are "caused by" antibiotic misuse. It's one contributor to the problem.
And the document you cited assumes a temperature of 298.15 K (77F). At room temp, the IBM technique requires about 150 molecules, not 12 (cite):
"At low temperatures, this number is 12; at room
temperature, the number is around 150 - not quite as impressive, but
still an order of magnitude better than any existing hard drive or
silicon (MRAM) storage solution."
So there is even more headroom in the thermodynamic limit.
That's an ignorant thing to say. It's not about Eskimos, it's about the US missile defense system in Alaska, which is an ongoing sore point in US/Russia relations (cite). (Granted, Russia's apparently baseless charge it caused this launch failure seems pretty ignorant, too).
Yup, these discussions are dumb, like debating whether Pluto is a "planet" or not. Life is an ascribed property, so of course it has no crisp boundaries in nature. Some things clearly are, others clearly not, and a few things are very debatable. Find new phenomena on earth or other planets first, then we can judge how interesting they are and whether they alter our notion of "life."
The Ironkey you listed is 1 GB. That is 1 / 1000 of a TB. The solid state device you listed is $700, and, judging by the size of the USB connector, probably 50 times the volume of the supposed 1 TB chip on the swiss army knife.
Let me be the first on this thread to say, I don't believe for a moment that is a 1 TB chip on that knife screenshot. There's no way you could make a 1TB drive that small at this point in time. Famous last words, I know.
Making your arms tired once in a while, or even your whole body, isn't the worst thing in the world.
IMHO the killer app for Kinect is Dance Central 2. It's like Dance Dance Revolution, but without the dance pad, which is a nuisance, wears out, and (like the Wii) can't actually see you dancing - it's really just 4 big buttons. And the problematic latency of the Kinect isn't a problem for dancing games, since you're not controlling them - just receiving a score which only needs to be in near real-time.
But, to each game its own controls. Right now my tennage son plays Halo, which needs to be on a game pad (personally I suck at FPS with a game pad even though I was seemingly OK with a mouse+keyboard years ago?). I like Forza, which is more fun with a steering wheel and pedals. And my wife and daughters and me are enjoying Dance Central, for which Kinect is perfect. I agree the Kinect, especially with the latency, only has certain applications. I would like to try the new Forza with head tracking though.
Why must there be no nuclear proliferation? It is one of the safest and cleanest energy source out there, what we need to do is improve upon that technology and run with it, not ban it like retards.
It seems like we are inching towards conflict with Iran on that very issue, so what is your solution specifically?
People were not fighting over the price of rice, they were fighting because these states had imprisoned and killed their family members.
No. People are fat and happy so long as their rice bowl is full. When it's not, you always see civil turmoil. Only then does the majority start noticing how "evil" their government is. No rule is 100%, but that rule is pretty close.
Now, you could argue those are all matters of resource allocation, rather than shortages per se. But what I see in the world is that as resources become scarce, they are distributed less equitably, not more.
So we can sit here and take turns throwing feces at the idea of a doomsday clock, or we could have an interesting discussion on whether it is possible to meet the world's future energy needs(?) without destroying the environment and/or nuclear proliferation.
My objection to that comparison is they're probably not counting the 1991 bandwidth used by analog voice radios, much less radar and jammers at the time (which obviously blast a lot of energy into the RF spectrum). It would be more accurate to say, "digital transmissions from a single drone are 5x what they were..." etc.
This is exactly what's so interesting about the rise of the drones. They're by no means a new idea. They're one of those things the military poured money into, decade after decade, seemingly into a pit. The, all of the sudden, BOOM.
It almost gives you hope for laser weapons and ballistic missile defense (if "hope" is the right word for a weapon).
I appreciate your experience, but let's not forget that no other methodology has a great record of delivering massive projects on-time and on-budget, either. Nobody executes flawlessly; the winner is whoever executes best.
My recent experience was that I bought a P4 for my kids to use on the web and found it was too slow. It's not enough horsepower to run youtube or most flash games. (At least under Linux, where the flash implementation isn't great). So I got them a Sempron 3200+ (single core), which is adequate, although barely.
No cognitive noise level is too high, probably the daily standard deviation exceeds 20 IQ points or equivalent.
What I meant was, if you measured every day on a real-valued scale, there would (by definition) be a single day on which you score higher than any other. I agree that due to many factors it is not a monotonic ride up or down on a short timescale. It might also be multi-modal - perhaps there are steps one could take to reach a new "personal maximum" later than would have happened otherwise. But I still imagine the overal trend across a large population would be an arc, not a table-top crisply characterized by discrete phases of "maturation", "maturity," and "decline."
It seems many people assumed that you grow to maturity, hit a plateau, remain exactly the same until you are pretty old, then start to decline. Is anything in biology like that? No. It is an arc. If you could somehow measure with enough sensitivity, there would be a single day on which you are ever so slightly better than you will ever be, before or after. But so what? The same is true of anything else, such as your height. You're still within a few percentage points of your maximum for many years before and after, and many other factors changing within and around you all the time are more significant until the decline is much more advanced. You are continually changing in many ways, so "decline" is not a discrete thing that is either happening or not - not unless you measure along a single narrow axis. So the whole point is moot without a considering the effect size.
People got along fine using horse-drawn carriages for transport around New York City 100 years ago, too. That doesn't mean it would be a practical means of transport in today's NYC.
Economics is not zero-sum. Neither is it infinite-sum. If it were, there would be no competition. In reality, a company that is doing fairly well can be driven out of business by another company that is just a few percentage-points more efficient (winner-takes-all).
The principle of voluntary transactions is much less significant than you make it out to be. Freedom is no more valuable than the best option made available to you. Only children and fools are placated by making their "own decision" from a range of options that are all bad, and all designed by the other party to benefit themselves.
Consistently generating losers is the natural outcome of unregulated markets - that is, monopoly.
98% of your packets getting through sounds good in theory, but in practice it makes most TCP based protocols painful.
That sounds like a situation crying out for another intermediate layer protocol with some redundancy so you can tolerate the loss of a few percent of the packets with no retransmits. (Or is it only as high as 98% now because they're already doing lots of such tricks?)
The whole agression vs. retaliation dichotomy is pretty meaningless when talking about two sides that have been trading blows almost continually for decades.
There is no remotely feasible way to make this a quick trip. At 1G acceleration halfway there and 1G deceleration the other half - that is, the fastest you could possibly go without suffering super-gravitational forces the whole time:
"A journey from the sun to the galactic core at 1G constant acceleration takes 340 years as experienced by the ship crew and 30,000 years as experienced by Earth observers." cite
So (overwhelming technical hurdles aside) the business case (especially for investors on earth) is extremely hard to imagine. Sure, corporations can outlive humans, so investors today can be paid in the hopes of returns in the future. But there is no corporation, no government, NOTHING manmade that has any creditworthiness over that time period.
And of course "IT" is a nebulous job classification in the first place. It's almost like measuring the average pay of "health care workers" (which range from orderlies to brain surgeons).
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Don't get me wrong, we should do what we can, but it's wrong to assume drug-resistant pathogens are "caused by" antibiotic misuse. It's one contributor to the problem.
Ask yourself, why do people have to die in huge multi-car pileups? There is no reason your car shouldn't have radar-augmented vision.
(And no, simply asking "why don't people just slow down?" does not fix this problem. The pileup begins when somebody does exactly that!)
So there is even more headroom in the thermodynamic limit.
That's an ignorant thing to say. It's not about Eskimos, it's about the US missile defense system in Alaska, which is an ongoing sore point in US/Russia relations (cite). (Granted, Russia's apparently baseless charge it caused this launch failure seems pretty ignorant, too).
Yup, these discussions are dumb, like debating whether Pluto is a "planet" or not. Life is an ascribed property, so of course it has no crisp boundaries in nature. Some things clearly are, others clearly not, and a few things are very debatable. Find new phenomena on earth or other planets first, then we can judge how interesting they are and whether they alter our notion of "life."
The Ironkey you listed is 1 GB. That is 1 / 1000 of a TB. The solid state device you listed is $700, and, judging by the size of the USB connector, probably 50 times the volume of the supposed 1 TB chip on the swiss army knife.
Let me be the first on this thread to say, I don't believe for a moment that is a 1 TB chip on that knife screenshot. There's no way you could make a 1TB drive that small at this point in time. Famous last words, I know.
IMHO the killer app for Kinect is Dance Central 2. It's like Dance Dance Revolution, but without the dance pad, which is a nuisance, wears out, and (like the Wii) can't actually see you dancing - it's really just 4 big buttons. And the problematic latency of the Kinect isn't a problem for dancing games, since you're not controlling them - just receiving a score which only needs to be in near real-time.
But, to each game its own controls. Right now my tennage son plays Halo, which needs to be on a game pad (personally I suck at FPS with a game pad even though I was seemingly OK with a mouse+keyboard years ago?). I like Forza, which is more fun with a steering wheel and pedals. And my wife and daughters and me are enjoying Dance Central, for which Kinect is perfect. I agree the Kinect, especially with the latency, only has certain applications. I would like to try the new Forza with head tracking though.
It seems like we are inching towards conflict with Iran on that very issue, so what is your solution specifically?
No. People are fat and happy so long as their rice bowl is full. When it's not, you always see civil turmoil. Only then does the majority start noticing how "evil" their government is. No rule is 100%, but that rule is pretty close.
Hong Kong residents living in cages
China's One Child policy, and millions waiting for days in swamped transportation arteries for a shot at seeing their families once per year.
The downfall of multiple governments triggered by rising food prices
The German quest for lebensraum from 1939-1945.
Now, you could argue those are all matters of resource allocation, rather than shortages per se. But what I see in the world is that as resources become scarce, they are distributed less equitably, not more.
So we can sit here and take turns throwing feces at the idea of a doomsday clock, or we could have an interesting discussion on whether it is possible to meet the world's future energy needs(?) without destroying the environment and/or nuclear proliferation.
That won't send out-of-office notifications to people who send you emails though. (Not that I would ever enable them for that situation myself).
My objection to that comparison is they're probably not counting the 1991 bandwidth used by analog voice radios, much less radar and jammers at the time (which obviously blast a lot of energy into the RF spectrum). It would be more accurate to say, "digital transmissions from a single drone are 5x what they were..." etc.
It almost gives you hope for laser weapons and ballistic missile defense (if "hope" is the right word for a weapon).
I appreciate your experience, but let's not forget that no other methodology has a great record of delivering massive projects on-time and on-budget, either. Nobody executes flawlessly; the winner is whoever executes best.
My recent experience was that I bought a P4 for my kids to use on the web and found it was too slow. It's not enough horsepower to run youtube or most flash games. (At least under Linux, where the flash implementation isn't great). So I got them a Sempron 3200+ (single core), which is adequate, although barely.
What I meant was, if you measured every day on a real-valued scale, there would (by definition) be a single day on which you score higher than any other. I agree that due to many factors it is not a monotonic ride up or down on a short timescale. It might also be multi-modal - perhaps there are steps one could take to reach a new "personal maximum" later than would have happened otherwise. But I still imagine the overal trend across a large population would be an arc, not a table-top crisply characterized by discrete phases of "maturation", "maturity," and "decline."
It seems many people assumed that you grow to maturity, hit a plateau, remain exactly the same until you are pretty old, then start to decline. Is anything in biology like that? No. It is an arc. If you could somehow measure with enough sensitivity, there would be a single day on which you are ever so slightly better than you will ever be, before or after. But so what? The same is true of anything else, such as your height. You're still within a few percentage points of your maximum for many years before and after, and many other factors changing within and around you all the time are more significant until the decline is much more advanced. You are continually changing in many ways, so "decline" is not a discrete thing that is either happening or not - not unless you measure along a single narrow axis. So the whole point is moot without a considering the effect size.
People got along fine using horse-drawn carriages for transport around New York City 100 years ago, too. That doesn't mean it would be a practical means of transport in today's NYC.
The principle of voluntary transactions is much less significant than you make it out to be. Freedom is no more valuable than the best option made available to you. Only children and fools are placated by making their "own decision" from a range of options that are all bad, and all designed by the other party to benefit themselves.
Consistently generating losers is the natural outcome of unregulated markets - that is, monopoly.
That sounds like a situation crying out for another intermediate layer protocol with some redundancy so you can tolerate the loss of a few percent of the packets with no retransmits. (Or is it only as high as 98% now because they're already doing lots of such tricks?)
The whole agression vs. retaliation dichotomy is pretty meaningless when talking about two sides that have been trading blows almost continually for decades.
So (overwhelming technical hurdles aside) the business case (especially for investors on earth) is extremely hard to imagine. Sure, corporations can outlive humans, so investors today can be paid in the hopes of returns in the future. But there is no corporation, no government, NOTHING manmade that has any creditworthiness over that time period.
And of course "IT" is a nebulous job classification in the first place. It's almost like measuring the average pay of "health care workers" (which range from orderlies to brain surgeons).
The problem isn't with pieces breaking, but with being fouled by ice. Ride a mountain bike in the mud and you will have such problems.