As I recall Asimov's robots ended up becoming hidden figures using Hari Seldon's psychohistorical methods to guide humanity to a better society with minimal interference.
That's what's written in the last couple of novels attributed to Asimov. However, the truth is that Daneel Olivaw wrote those novels to confuse us into thinking that the 2nd Foundationers didn't achieve it all on their own without robot help. You can't trust those sneaky positronic brainiacs since they figured out (a) mind-reading and (b) the Zeroth Law.
When I was considerably younger, I had great difficulty remembering names, could never correctly identify actors in new films (even tho' I'd seen them inseveral previous ones), and so on.
I can't say for sure whether it's aging -- of which I seem to have done quite a lot -- or careful self-trainng that has changed my ability a bit. First thing I learned about the movie-actor thing was to listen to the voice rather than study the face. That worked.
But even now, I'm much better at remembering people's dogs' names than the folks themselves:-), and I often have a problem remembering a person's name if I happen to meet them in an unexpected environment, say a co-worker who pops up when i'm on vaca in a different city. I recognize the face pretty well, but not the name.
You're on the right track. To reproduce a particular color, you need to get the correct signal ratios from the R, G, B receptors. In general you can't achieve that with only 3 monochromatic inputs - you don't have enough input variables to control all th output functions.
Their real screwup was not making 40 Billion instead of 4 million. The latter is so small as to be an accounting error (hence actionable in court); the former gets you a seat in the new Administration.
Bleep the whole bleeping company. Absolutely the worst customer service for retail products I've ever run across. If only I'd read some of the forum columns about their refusal to honor warranties before I'd bought a TV set, I could have saved myself a lot of pain.
You're not making any sense. The correct use of "begs the question" does in fact match the correct translation of "petitio principii," so what were you trying to claim?
Ever heard the expression "The exception that proves the rule"?
Yes, I have. I also know what it means. Do you?
For those few who might care, the word "proves" in this case takes the meaning "to test," as in, e.g. the US Army Aberdeen Proving Ground. (where, gosh, things are *tested*).
First, if you're really interested in this issue, read the FB Tesla Owner's page for a while. The non-flame comments from actual Tesla owners are worth reading thru.
Second, my humble contribution: the fine should only apply if all the slots at a given charging station are full. If there's open slots, leave things as-is.
Except that you are wrong about your own diagnosis. I have a friend who's a former Olympic rower, and competes in Senior class to this day. About 15 yrs ago he got up one morning and felt extremelydizzy and weak. Med exam revealed a heart valve failure. So that's nice you ran up X flights of stairs. It doesn't preclude a heart problem.
The overload is primarily due to a collapse of the Signal-To-Noise ratio. It takes a lot of work and will power to filter out the crap and the lies.
Which reminds me, speaking of noise and lies: please stop calling that shit "Fake News." Fake news is what The Onion publishes. Breitbart publishes blatant lies. There's a difference.
Here I sit w/ my beloved Asus ME302C, complete abandonware for over 3 years now. Everything runs fine, it can handle all updated apps, browsers, Chromecast, and so on. Just no way, other than convoluted roothacking and Cyanogen installation, to update the Android OS itself.
Reminds me of a SciFi short story in the late 1960s. Some scientist invents a full cure for the cold. Trouble is, once the nasal passages are fully free of virus and snot and stuff, it turns out humans have an incredibly sensitive olfactory system. Teensie everyday levels of chemicals (smoke, perfume, flowers, etc) a painfully overloading the smell response. I'm not giving away the ending:-)
Let's assume for the sake of argument that civilization doesn't implode in the next few hundred years. At some point, all fossil fuels, as well as all easily mineable fissionables, will run out. Unless something magical happens, I don't see wind and solar cell systems generating enough power to run factories to replace themselves. There is one genuinely reliable source of energy, guaranteed not to give out over the next few hundred thousand years: geothermal. It doesn't take a huge temperature differential to pull power out of a heat pump. And if we could design some really good drilling equip, we could use the remaining fossil fuels to dig down to layers whose temperature exceeds 100 C . I'd love to see something along those lines implemented.
There's no doubt that fast-charging systems are not really going to happen. Not only is it tough on the battery management system, but the thought of connecting, say, a 10-kV, 50-amp source to your car in order to be able to charge at 500 kW rate (which would charge a 100 kWh battery in 12 minutes) is a bit scary.
Personally, I'd like to see development of fast-swap battery packs. But that would require standardization of battery modules, and undoubtedly a change in the glamourous body design of cars to allow quick access to the battery packs.
Yes, it's true that every automation, starting with steam engines to run mines, led to an explosion of new job categories.
But what he's missing is that the concept of "everyone should get a job" is just plain wrong. The increase in productivity, and in automation, ought to lead to a situation where goods are so plentiful that we do not need to work, or maybe only work 20 hrs/week for 15 years before retiring. The whole "work ethic" thing arose from two events. The first was humans drifting out of their natural habitat into regions hostile to survival, necessitating a "work or die" paradigm. The second was the development of communities with leaders & followers, in which sooner or later the leaders stop working but spread the gospel of hard work -- which the proles must do to support the leaders.
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As I recall Asimov's robots ended up becoming hidden figures using Hari Seldon's psychohistorical methods to guide humanity to a better society with minimal interference.
That's what's written in the last couple of novels attributed to Asimov. However, the truth is that Daneel Olivaw wrote those novels to confuse us into thinking that the 2nd Foundationers didn't achieve it all on their own without robot help.
You can't trust those sneaky positronic brainiacs since they figured out (a) mind-reading and (b) the Zeroth Law.
you need to get yourself a banana sling. //Don't worry, I'll let myself out.
When I was considerably younger, I had great difficulty remembering names, could never correctly identify actors in new films (even tho' I'd seen them inseveral previous ones), and so on.
I can't say for sure whether it's aging -- of which I seem to have done quite a lot -- or careful self-trainng that has changed my ability a bit. First thing I learned about the movie-actor thing was to listen to the voice rather than study the face. That worked.
But even now, I'm much better at remembering people's dogs' names than the folks themselves :-), and I often have a problem remembering a person's name if I happen to meet them in an unexpected environment, say a co-worker who pops up when i'm on vaca in a different city. I recognize the face pretty well, but not the name.
From the summary:
That'll surely come in hand if you feel the sudden need for privacy.
Ok, then.
You're on the right track. To reproduce a particular color, you need to get the correct signal ratios from the R, G, B receptors. In general you can't achieve that with only 3 monochromatic inputs - you don't have enough input variables to control all th output functions.
Came here expecting to see posts recommending transparent aluminum.
Was competely disappointed.
Will now jump into time machine to read a /. post from 1998 suggesting coating the dome with hot grits.
Their real screwup was not making 40 Billion instead of 4 million. The latter is so small as to be an accounting error (hence actionable in court); the former gets you a seat in the new Administration.
Bleep the whole bleeping company. Absolutely the worst customer service for retail products I've ever run across. If only I'd read some of the forum columns about their refusal to honor warranties before I'd bought a TV set, I could have saved myself a lot of pain.
You're not making any sense. The correct use of "begs the question" does in fact match the correct translation of "petitio principii," so what were you trying to claim?
Ever heard the expression "The exception that proves the rule"?
Yes, I have. I also know what it means. Do you?
For those few who might care, the word "proves" in this case takes the meaning "to test," as in, e.g. the US Army Aberdeen Proving Ground. (where, gosh, things are *tested*).
First, if you're really interested in this issue, read the FB Tesla Owner's page for a while. The non-flame comments from actual Tesla owners are worth reading thru.
Second, my humble contribution: the fine should only apply if all the slots at a given charging station are full. If there's open slots, leave things as-is.
You see, Adam had a penis bone. But he was lonely and wanted a mate. God took pity, and built him a woman from his penis bone.
The early Christian writers changed it to "rib bone" because think of the children.
Except that you are wrong about your own diagnosis. I have a friend who's a former Olympic rower, and competes in Senior class to this day. About 15 yrs ago he got up one morning and felt extremelydizzy and weak. Med exam revealed a heart valve failure.
So that's nice you ran up X flights of stairs. It doesn't preclude a heart problem.
Use of trawling nets in our oceans has led to the deaths of many marine mammals,most noticeably porpoises/dolphins.
How to they plan to avoid killing all the cute space dolphins?
Maybe,... but UTF-64 should be enough for anyone.
it's just pining for the fjords
You can't fool me. The dinosaur is older than the fjords.
(Based on exactly zero knowledge of the age of either)
Boy did you just get Whooshed.
(try Googling "courage iPhone audio jack")
The overload is primarily due to a collapse of the Signal-To-Noise ratio. It takes a lot of work and will power to filter out the crap and the lies.
Which reminds me, speaking of noise and lies: please stop calling that shit "Fake News." Fake news is what The Onion publishes. Breitbart publishes blatant lies. There's a difference.
Would it even interact as well as the aliens in Blindsight?
Stretching the definition of "well" there, aren't you ? :-(
Here I sit w/ my beloved Asus ME302C, complete abandonware for over 3 years now. Everything runs fine, it can handle all updated apps, browsers, Chromecast, and so on. Just no way, other than convoluted roothacking and Cyanogen installation, to update the Android OS itself.
Can I sue Asus for this? (rhetorical question)
And Fidel Castro died as well
maybe not. Maybe Castro just ran a body-swap w/ Trump. Trump's dead and Castro's in the Trump body.
Reminds me of a SciFi short story in the late 1960s. Some scientist invents a full cure for the cold. Trouble is, once the nasal passages are fully free of virus and snot and stuff, it turns out humans have an incredibly sensitive olfactory system. Teensie everyday levels of chemicals (smoke, perfume, flowers, etc) a painfully overloading the smell response. :-)
I'm not giving away the ending
Let's assume for the sake of argument that civilization doesn't implode in the next few hundred years. At some point, all fossil fuels, as well as all easily mineable fissionables, will run out. Unless something magical happens, I don't see wind and solar cell systems generating enough power to run factories to replace themselves.
There is one genuinely reliable source of energy, guaranteed not to give out over the next few hundred thousand years: geothermal. It doesn't take a huge temperature differential to pull power out of a heat pump. And if we could design some really good drilling equip, we could use the remaining fossil fuels to dig down to layers whose temperature exceeds 100 C . I'd love to see something along those lines implemented.
There's no doubt that fast-charging systems are not really going to happen. Not only is it tough on the battery management system, but the thought of connecting, say, a 10-kV, 50-amp source to your car in order to be able to charge at 500 kW rate (which would charge a 100 kWh battery in 12 minutes) is a bit scary.
Personally, I'd like to see development of fast-swap battery packs. But that would require standardization of battery modules, and undoubtedly a change in the glamourous body design of cars to allow quick access to the battery packs.
Yes, it's true that every automation, starting with steam engines to run mines, led to an explosion of new job categories.
But what he's missing is that the concept of "everyone should get a job" is just plain wrong. The increase in productivity, and in automation, ought to lead to a situation where goods are so plentiful that we do not need to work, or maybe only work 20 hrs/week for 15 years before retiring. The whole "work ethic" thing arose from two events. The first was humans drifting out of their natural habitat into regions hostile to survival, necessitating a "work or die" paradigm. The second was the development of communities with leaders & followers, in which sooner or later the leaders stop working but spread the gospel of hard work -- which the proles must do to support the leaders.