The problem would be establishing trunks to carry enough traffic to make it worthwhile, or figuring out a way to distribute the traffic over many links so as to (again) make it worthwhile. I think streaming would be hard. And of course it would be an ecosystem, in which bad things could grow, just like the net is now. You have to solve the problem of DDoS to make this work, I think, and I don't know of anybody who has any idea how to solve that problem.
This isn't true. Reusing your 20-year-old refrigerator is way worse than recycling it, for example. Old computers draw a lot more power than newer computers that do more work. Etc. Sure, if the thing still works and is relatively new, keep using it, but the idea that we should keep using 20-year-old computers rather than recycling them isn't true.
Yup, the idea that components can be reused is absurd. If you can take a macbook and suck all the material out of it and turn it back to input, that's actually a much better result than keeping it running: battery tech has improved, power consumption is down, etc. I suppose it's a criticism of modern computers that they aren't modular the way PCs used to be, but this isn't really something Apple invented. What the hell else am I supposed to do with an old computer that isn't working anymore? Repair is likely to cost as much as buying a new one, so if you can't recycle everything, the alternative is landfill.
I used to do this with X all the time back in the day, but when I've tried to do it with linux distros more recently, it was really flaky. My emacs window kept disappearing, to the point where it was easier to just log in over ssh and run emacs in ascii terminal mode.
Poppycock. This stuff has been studied extensively for years, with copious FMRI modeling and psychological measures. See this article or watch this video for some more interesting results that don't rely on psychedelics (not that the results for psychedelics are wrong, mind you).
This would be awesome, except that my experience is that it's so brittle that it's not worth doing. Do you not have frequent app crashes when you do this?
Still, that's not too many bandaids. The Matrix was lots of awesome cinematography and a really cool idea pretty much held together with bandaids. Like, why does dying in the matrix kill you IRL? Doesn't make any sense at all, but required for the plot, so that's the deal.
The Martian may well be forgotten, but it was a much better movie than any that you named. Space Odyssey is practically unwatchable because it's so full of anachronisms. Star Wars is a typical hollywood three-act play. Don't get me wrong, I loved it when I was twelve, but it's not great art, and it's not even great story. The Matrix was fantastic, I loved it, I even use imagery from it in my meditation practice, but there were way too many bandaids. One of them is even the bandaid that my wife and I use to joke about Hollywood scriptwriting bandaids: "combined with a form of fusion..." Alien 2 was pretty good, I'll grant you that, but it was basically a bug hunt.
What is great about The Martian is that it's got story, it's got adventure, it's got a kick-ass optimistic view of the future, and most of the science is fine. There is one plot band-aid at the beginning—the windstorm that can knock over a spaceship—but that's the worst one. And above all else, the film honors and lauds science. That's what science fiction is about, not blasters and bugs.
I remember these fondly whenever I travel through Chicago. I always wanted one, but they were too expensive. Basically, these were tiny little PDP-11s, which would have been cool, since that was what I had at school. Sigh.
A friend of mine from school had one of these. He would program the tape boot loader on the console from memory, then boot Tarbell BASIC off the cassette. It was all static RAM. He made memory boards from kits, but there was shag carpeting in the basement where he did his soldering, so he fried one of his (very expensive!) 4k memory boards walking across the carpet with it, not realizing that it was that sensitive to static. I had a healthy paranoia about static for many years afterwards which probably helped me when I got a job in the industry. This is the home computer I always wanted, but couldn't have.:)
Yes! With the beeping disk drive and the horizontal sync interrupt handlers. Good times. Did you learn to call machine code from BASIC as quoted strings of ATASCII?
This may not be as hard as it sounds. The real problem is that right now our defined outcome for how trades and commerce in the market is supposed to work is that it's supposed to generate profit. But the actual goal that most people have for the market is that it generate prosperity. Which it doesn't really do very well. So if you were to give an AI "prosperity" as a goal for running the markets, it might actually have quite a bit better of an outcome than what we are doing now, with greed, essentially, as the driver for how the market operates.
Yeah, this is wrong, so wrong, and yet I'm having a lot of trouble getting worked up about it. If your device is that hackable, it probably needs to be bricked for the sake of humanity. The Internet of Things That Go Bump In The Night gets exorcised...
The problem is that just a couple of years ago manatees were dying off in large numbers—there were losses in some years of something like 30% of the total population, as a result of unusually cold waters. The current population peak coincides with a period of unusually warm water following El Niño. It's possible with global warming that that temperature trend will continue, but by no means guaranteed. So taking them off the endangered species list is premature. A population of 6000 is not exactly huge.
Also, am I the only one who just feels insulted when I pay >$10 for a movie ticket and then when I get into the theater, there's a dozen ads? I never see ads on Netflix. FFS, if you want people to use your service, stop insulting us!
Yup. Basically, "we asked a bunch of people to predict the future, and there was a significant degree of pessimism, although there was also a plurality of optimists."
What meaning are we supposed to gather from this? It's not even a well-characterized sample—it's just "we asked a bunch of people with strong opinions." This is not news—it's noise.
His big mistake is neither incorporating nor filing suit in West Texas, where I'm sure his claims would have been upheld. On the one hand, this shows what a judge who isn't trying to lure patent cases will decide. On the other hand, what a sadly missed opportunity!
Right. The freer the market, the harder it is to win with Hollywood Accounting. It works as well as it does because it's not a free market. In a free market, you pull that trick once, people will never work with you again.
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The problem would be establishing trunks to carry enough traffic to make it worthwhile, or figuring out a way to distribute the traffic over many links so as to (again) make it worthwhile. I think streaming would be hard. And of course it would be an ecosystem, in which bad things could grow, just like the net is now. You have to solve the problem of DDoS to make this work, I think, and I don't know of anybody who has any idea how to solve that problem.
The wife is still dead, whether this story is true or not.
This isn't true. Reusing your 20-year-old refrigerator is way worse than recycling it, for example. Old computers draw a lot more power than newer computers that do more work. Etc. Sure, if the thing still works and is relatively new, keep using it, but the idea that we should keep using 20-year-old computers rather than recycling them isn't true.
Yup, the idea that components can be reused is absurd. If you can take a macbook and suck all the material out of it and turn it back to input, that's actually a much better result than keeping it running: battery tech has improved, power consumption is down, etc. I suppose it's a criticism of modern computers that they aren't modular the way PCs used to be, but this isn't really something Apple invented. What the hell else am I supposed to do with an old computer that isn't working anymore? Repair is likely to cost as much as buying a new one, so if you can't recycle everything, the alternative is landfill.
I used to do this with X all the time back in the day, but when I've tried to do it with linux distros more recently, it was really flaky. My emacs window kept disappearing, to the point where it was easier to just log in over ssh and run emacs in ascii terminal mode.
Poppycock. This stuff has been studied extensively for years, with copious FMRI modeling and psychological measures. See this article or watch this video for some more interesting results that don't rely on psychedelics (not that the results for psychedelics are wrong, mind you).
This would be awesome, except that my experience is that it's so brittle that it's not worth doing. Do you not have frequent app crashes when you do this?
Yup, learning to combine machine code and BASIC definitely stood me in good stead too when I got a job. :)
That was in the days when they were still learning how many caps per transmission line and how often to do RAS/CAS. Good times.
Still, that's not too many bandaids. The Matrix was lots of awesome cinematography and a really cool idea pretty much held together with bandaids. Like, why does dying in the matrix kill you IRL? Doesn't make any sense at all, but required for the plot, so that's the deal.
The Martian may well be forgotten, but it was a much better movie than any that you named. Space Odyssey is practically unwatchable because it's so full of anachronisms. Star Wars is a typical hollywood three-act play. Don't get me wrong, I loved it when I was twelve, but it's not great art, and it's not even great story. The Matrix was fantastic, I loved it, I even use imagery from it in my meditation practice, but there were way too many bandaids. One of them is even the bandaid that my wife and I use to joke about Hollywood scriptwriting bandaids: "combined with a form of fusion..." Alien 2 was pretty good, I'll grant you that, but it was basically a bug hunt.
What is great about The Martian is that it's got story, it's got adventure, it's got a kick-ass optimistic view of the future, and most of the science is fine. There is one plot band-aid at the beginning—the windstorm that can knock over a spaceship—but that's the worst one. And above all else, the film honors and lauds science. That's what science fiction is about, not blasters and bugs.
I remember these fondly whenever I travel through Chicago. I always wanted one, but they were too expensive. Basically, these were tiny little PDP-11s, which would have been cool, since that was what I had at school. Sigh.
A friend of mine from school had one of these. He would program the tape boot loader on the console from memory, then boot Tarbell BASIC off the cassette. It was all static RAM. He made memory boards from kits, but there was shag carpeting in the basement where he did his soldering, so he fried one of his (very expensive!) 4k memory boards walking across the carpet with it, not realizing that it was that sensitive to static. I had a healthy paranoia about static for many years afterwards which probably helped me when I got a job in the industry. This is the home computer I always wanted, but couldn't have. :)
Oh man, I used to lust over the ads for these in Byte magazine. Not in my budget, unfortunately.
Yes! With the beeping disk drive and the horizontal sync interrupt handlers. Good times. Did you learn to call machine code from BASIC as quoted strings of ATASCII?
The 6809 was a really nice processor. It came on the market a little too late, unfortunately, or it would have been in everything.
..broadcast TV is dying.
This may not be as hard as it sounds. The real problem is that right now our defined outcome for how trades and commerce in the market is supposed to work is that it's supposed to generate profit. But the actual goal that most people have for the market is that it generate prosperity. Which it doesn't really do very well. So if you were to give an AI "prosperity" as a goal for running the markets, it might actually have quite a bit better of an outcome than what we are doing now, with greed, essentially, as the driver for how the market operates.
Yeah, this is wrong, so wrong, and yet I'm having a lot of trouble getting worked up about it. If your device is that hackable, it probably needs to be bricked for the sake of humanity. The Internet of Things That Go Bump In The Night gets exorcised...
The problem is that just a couple of years ago manatees were dying off in large numbers—there were losses in some years of something like 30% of the total population, as a result of unusually cold waters. The current population peak coincides with a period of unusually warm water following El Niño. It's possible with global warming that that temperature trend will continue, but by no means guaranteed. So taking them off the endangered species list is premature. A population of 6000 is not exactly huge.
Also, am I the only one who just feels insulted when I pay >$10 for a movie ticket and then when I get into the theater, there's a dozen ads? I never see ads on Netflix. FFS, if you want people to use your service, stop insulting us!
Yup. Basically, "we asked a bunch of people to predict the future, and there was a significant degree of pessimism, although there was also a plurality of optimists."
What meaning are we supposed to gather from this? It's not even a well-characterized sample—it's just "we asked a bunch of people with strong opinions." This is not news—it's noise.
His big mistake is neither incorporating nor filing suit in West Texas, where I'm sure his claims would have been upheld. On the one hand, this shows what a judge who isn't trying to lure patent cases will decide. On the other hand, what a sadly missed opportunity!
Right. The freer the market, the harder it is to win with Hollywood Accounting. It works as well as it does because it's not a free market. In a free market, you pull that trick once, people will never work with you again.