Technology was not being developed because the people with the power did not want it ruining their business. (i.e. TV and cable/satelite tv execs)
Finally, innovative customers risked their own hard earned cash and developed the technology.
It immediately became a huge success. A new word was formed - to tivo it.
Finally the cable execs realized that they were losing business so they used their installed monopoly on black boxes to take over the business. They tried hard to ignore the copyrighted new word and replace it with "dvr it". Too bad dvr has no vowel.
The innovator that created the business could not compete with the installed monopoly base of black boxes. They tried to pass laws to let them sell the black boxes, but the cable companies effectively weakened those laws. They got destroyed not because they did not have a superior product but simply because of the monopoly factors (i.e. I can buy a Tivo but I still have to pay the cable company to rent a cable box - why pay twice?)
This is why patents exist - to protect the profits of the inventors that actually took the risks and created the product from the slimy large businesses that come in after the product is created and steal customers away.
Wikipedia says 1% are not totally clear, but only.1 to.2% (one in one thousand - 2 in one thousand) are unclear enough to require medical intervention.
I stick with my numbers. One in a thousand people is the low end of the estimates.
While 99.9% of people are clearly male or female, more than one in a thousand can't be easily classified. Some of them are clearly neither, others can be argued are both.
There are:
Chimeras (people composed of cells with two distinct sets of genes).
People that have an XY chromosome but are 'immune' to testerone, so they are physically female.
People with XXY, XYY, and even XXX genes.
People with that are XX but genetically sensitive to testerone so they are physically male
People that are hermaphrodites (non working)
People that are hermaphrodites (working - very rare)
People that looked 'unusual' so doctors 'altered' them when they were a child, surgically and/or pharmaceutically
People that choose to alter themselves surgically and/or pharmaceutically
The law needs to recognize that male and female are not the only choices.
They should test it out at a subway exit. Many times they have a single stair that leads from the platform out and there are a LARGE number of times each day that a lot of people try to exit it.
It should be easy to put a camera up and time people for a week, then install a pole and time them again.
Have an intern count the number of people each time as well as speed.
Most of the time the reason we don't fix something is that it costs more to pay someone to repair it then it does to buy something new. I.E. Man hours are expensive.
But there are lots of places where man hours are a lot cheaper. In a third world country, where they can get the electronics at a per ton cost, it is probably cheaper to pay someone to fix the stuff.
Not to mention the high black market value of the financial information left on hard drives whose power supply broke so no one bothered to delete them (if they even thought about it.)
More importantly, such as system provides immunity to all the old out dated missiles.
We are no longer facing a gigantic super-power threat. Russia and China are friendly, (and Germany and Japan are some of our best friends).
Our enemeis now a days are Terrorists
They are not known for scientific innovation. They are not known for expensive equipment. They make do with what they have. They do suicide missions because they can't afford robotic drones.
They will not be able to test their countermeasures easily. Effectively this development can triple or quadruple to cost for them to fire a missile.
More importantly, it will require them to spend more time and get better engineers. That gives us more time and places to detect their work.
This innovation might delay their attack enough for us to stop them.
Yes, you do need to verify that the email company that sent you the email was in fact who they claimed to be.
The spam-fighting method is to build a sufficient number of email accounts that work that way and start black-listing every email that does NOT work that way and/or is not on your contact list. Not that hard to do.
What we really need is a copy machine/scanner that can detect the valley formed by the spine of a book being copied and automatically correct for it.
That would be worth it.
There is a reputation for being bad and a reputation for being good.
Having a reputation for being bad doesn't mean much anymore because so many people have screwed up. But a reputation for being good is worth it's weight in gold.
If I told you about how horrible my credit card company treated me, would you care? No, because you expect all credit card companies to suck. But if I told you they were fantastic, did a great job dealing with an Identify theft case, then you might want to know about it.
In Firefox, the "Better Privacy" addon deletes flash cookies. Any browser that doesn't offer that kind of control is not worth getting.
In my opinion, Firefox without "TACO" (auto creates a bunch of "opt out" cookies without any identifing details), "Better Privacy" (removes flash cookies)and "NoScript" (prevents unwanted scripts - including site-jacking stuff), is not fully installed.
It does NOT interact with the environment. It refers to a keyed map via the internet. Zero interaction with real life.
Glasses are uncomfortable, people would not use them. A better system would be a projector of some kind to do this kind of thing.
I do agree that it it can change the way we use computers - Remember I said it is not an insult.
But this is NOT AR. Real AR does not refer back to a map, it recognizes the actual object - whether by bar code, RFID, or by light based recognition. The ability to recognize a car is far far more valuable than the ability to identify your locaiton by GPS and refer to a look up table that tells you what SHOULD be there, but because of something unsual, is nto where it is supposed to be.
If you don't want players to attack other players in an online game, you don't yell at them for doing it, you have them damage themselves, not the players.
Similarly, if you want voting to be fair, you need to set up ways where it is OBVIOUS that the election is real.
But note, that the method mentioned her, raising your hand, allows people to know who you voted for. This allows for voter intimidation. You are just exchanging one form of fraud for another.
Evolution is a process, not an end goal.
The creatures described here are not 'completed', but are instead a work in progress.
Also note, many of the 'issues' have secret advantages. For example a whale can dive deeper than most fish can swim because of the huge lungs that go with the blow hole instead of the gills that are more limited.
Assumes facts NOT in evidence. Your 'simple assumptions' are quite frankly, not true.
The Church-Turing Thesis only applies to purely mechanical process, which is NOT proven for nueron interactions.
Here, let me clarify it for you. I hereby 'declare' as a key assumption that the Heisenberg Uncertinty principle is an important part of how nuerons work.
Now the Church-Turing thesis does NOT apply, as it is not a purely mechanical process.
The basic problem with all the 'we can copy the brain' ideas is the basic assumption that 'it is a purely mechanical process'. That is kind of like saying "If we assume a box is made of wood, then we can build one out of a tree." No duh sherlock, but the basic thing we are arguing about is the thing you rather arrogantly assumped was true.
Yes, we can make simulations of a brain. I can draw a picture of one and write "simulation" on it. The question is, does it do what a brain does. And the answer to that is an obvious NO.
What the poster/article discusses is not in anyway close to being a worthwhile simulation of the brain in the way they imply.
Microchips are binary digital information: yes/no.
Human brains are not binary. Originally we thought they were - due to the limited nature of our sensors. But we have discovered they are not. Human brains are not digital, they are analog. We have a full spectrum from little to a lot.
Similarly, we do not have the simple commands of and/or/xor/not. Instead we have rather complex means of making decisions when faced with multiple inputs. We agonize over who to date, what to eat, what to do.
The mere fact that we have mapped out the human brain's conections does not in any way help us with the much more complex problem of how it makes the decisions at the connection points.
As we all should know from STNG, the 3d touchable hologram is probably the most dangerous entertainment system ever created.
The doors never let you out, the holographic characters become sentient, the safety protocals NEVER work and it opens a rift up to places where holographic characters evolved naturally, so they promptly invade.
STOP NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!
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Technology was not being developed because the people with the power did not want it ruining their business. (i.e. TV and cable/satelite tv execs)
Finally, innovative customers risked their own hard earned cash and developed the technology.
It immediately became a huge success. A new word was formed - to tivo it.
Finally the cable execs realized that they were losing business so they used their installed monopoly on black boxes to take over the business. They tried hard to ignore the copyrighted new word and replace it with "dvr it". Too bad dvr has no vowel.
The innovator that created the business could not compete with the installed monopoly base of black boxes. They tried to pass laws to let them sell the black boxes, but the cable companies effectively weakened those laws. They got destroyed not because they did not have a superior product but simply because of the monopoly factors (i.e. I can buy a Tivo but I still have to pay the cable company to rent a cable box - why pay twice?)
This is why patents exist - to protect the profits of the inventors that actually took the risks and created the product from the slimy large businesses that come in after the product is created and steal customers away.
Step 2. ?????
Step 3. Profit!!!!
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Wait, let me clarify
Step 2 = Blackmail
This website says one in a hundred. news
Wikipedia says 1% are not totally clear, but only .1 to .2% (one in one thousand - 2 in one thousand) are unclear enough to require medical intervention.
I stick with my numbers. One in a thousand people is the low end of the estimates.
Chimeras (people composed of cells with two distinct sets of genes).
People that have an XY chromosome but are 'immune' to testerone, so they are physically female.
People with XXY, XYY, and even XXX genes.
People with that are XX but genetically sensitive to testerone so they are physically male
People that are hermaphrodites (non working)
People that are hermaphrodites (working - very rare)
People that looked 'unusual' so doctors 'altered' them when they were a child, surgically and/or pharmaceutically
People that choose to alter themselves surgically and/or pharmaceutically
The law needs to recognize that male and female are not the only choices.
It should be easy to put a camera up and time people for a week, then install a pole and time them again. Have an intern count the number of people each time as well as speed.
A good forensic IT guy can recover data from something that has merely been written once with zeros.
So, what's up with talking about the Esquire bit but still claiming it's the 'first' ever?
But there are lots of places where man hours are a lot cheaper. In a third world country, where they can get the electronics at a per ton cost, it is probably cheaper to pay someone to fix the stuff.
Not to mention the high black market value of the financial information left on hard drives whose power supply broke so no one bothered to delete them (if they even thought about it.)
They cost money to do. A lot of money.
More importantly, such as system provides immunity to all the old out dated missiles.
We are no longer facing a gigantic super-power threat. Russia and China are friendly, (and Germany and Japan are some of our best friends).
Our enemeis now a days are Terrorists
They are not known for scientific innovation. They are not known for expensive equipment. They make do with what they have. They do suicide missions because they can't afford robotic drones.
They will not be able to test their countermeasures easily. Effectively this development can triple or quadruple to cost for them to fire a missile.
More importantly, it will require them to spend more time and get better engineers. That gives us more time and places to detect their work.
This innovation might delay their attack enough for us to stop them.
The spam-fighting method is to build a sufficient number of email accounts that work that way and start black-listing every email that does NOT work that way and/or is not on your contact list. Not that hard to do.
I wonder if the real test is simply: How much do you like marshmallows, rather than how much self-control you have at age 4.
What we really need is a copy machine/scanner that can detect the valley formed by the spine of a book being copied and automatically correct for it. That would be worth it.
Not news. Fark.
I hereby announce that I am studying how bees fly. I plan on creating a bee suit to let 300 pound people fly.
Having a reputation for being bad doesn't mean much anymore because so many people have screwed up. But a reputation for being good is worth it's weight in gold.
If I told you about how horrible my credit card company treated me, would you care? No, because you expect all credit card companies to suck. But if I told you they were fantastic, did a great job dealing with an Identify theft case, then you might want to know about it.
There, solved the problem of suspicious because he has the file.
In Firefox, the "Better Privacy" addon deletes flash cookies. Any browser that doesn't offer that kind of control is not worth getting. In my opinion, Firefox without "TACO" (auto creates a bunch of "opt out" cookies without any identifing details), "Better Privacy" (removes flash cookies)and "NoScript" (prevents unwanted scripts - including site-jacking stuff), is not fully installed.
Glasses are uncomfortable, people would not use them. A better system would be a projector of some kind to do this kind of thing.
I do agree that it it can change the way we use computers - Remember I said it is not an insult.
But this is NOT AR. Real AR does not refer back to a map, it recognizes the actual object - whether by bar code, RFID, or by light based recognition. The ability to recognize a car is far far more valuable than the ability to identify your locaiton by GPS and refer to a look up table that tells you what SHOULD be there, but because of something unsual, is nto where it is supposed to be.
If you don't want players to attack other players in an online game, you don't yell at them for doing it, you have them damage themselves, not the players.
Similarly, if you want voting to be fair, you need to set up ways where it is OBVIOUS that the election is real.
But note, that the method mentioned her, raising your hand, allows people to know who you voted for. This allows for voter intimidation. You are just exchanging one form of fraud for another.
That is not an insult, it is a compliment. The best ideas are usually simple at heart.
Evolution is a process, not an end goal. The creatures described here are not 'completed', but are instead a work in progress. Also note, many of the 'issues' have secret advantages. For example a whale can dive deeper than most fish can swim because of the huge lungs that go with the blow hole instead of the gills that are more limited.
They really need a better name.
Perhaps simply calling it "Variable Pressure Keyboard"
Old World = Africa, Europe, Asia
New WOrld Monkeys are those found in the Americas.
Old World Monkeys are those found in Africa/Europe/Asia
Specifically, Babboons, Colobus, etc.
Old world monkeys usually have tails, but unlike the New World Monkeys, their tails are NOT prehensile (i.e. they can't use them like a tentacle).
P.S. Wikipedia is your friend.
Here, let me clarify it for you. I hereby 'declare' as a key assumption that the Heisenberg Uncertinty principle is an important part of how nuerons work.
Now the Church-Turing thesis does NOT apply, as it is not a purely mechanical process.
The basic problem with all the 'we can copy the brain' ideas is the basic assumption that 'it is a purely mechanical process'. That is kind of like saying "If we assume a box is made of wood, then we can build one out of a tree." No duh sherlock, but the basic thing we are arguing about is the thing you rather arrogantly assumped was true.
Yes, we can make simulations of a brain. I can draw a picture of one and write "simulation" on it. The question is, does it do what a brain does. And the answer to that is an obvious NO.
What the poster/article discusses is not in anyway close to being a worthwhile simulation of the brain in the way they imply.
Human brains are not binary. Originally we thought they were - due to the limited nature of our sensors. But we have discovered they are not. Human brains are not digital, they are analog. We have a full spectrum from little to a lot.
Similarly, we do not have the simple commands of and/or/xor/not. Instead we have rather complex means of making decisions when faced with multiple inputs. We agonize over who to date, what to eat, what to do.
The mere fact that we have mapped out the human brain's conections does not in any way help us with the much more complex problem of how it makes the decisions at the connection points.
As we all should know from STNG, the 3d touchable hologram is probably the most dangerous entertainment system ever created. The doors never let you out, the holographic characters become sentient, the safety protocals NEVER work and it opens a rift up to places where holographic characters evolved naturally, so they promptly invade. STOP NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!