I keep it updated to the latest non-beta release. I use no-script. I don't feel safe, how many fortune 500 companies get compromised on a regular basis? How often has/. been compromised? Whitelisting only works when you have some sense that there is *anyone* you can trust to run code on your machine. And anytime I allow jscript/flash/pdfs/quicktime etc. for a page, that is what I'm doing. I know one thing I should be doing is browsing only from a user with limited rights, but so much crap doesn't work without superuser that it just seems infeasible. And even a user account can spam people all day.
I read recently (on/. I think) that it was discovered the tissue damage was done when RISING o2 levels triggered apoptosis. Meaning there is actually a period as long as 2hrs where little or no tissue damage has occurred. If the o2 levels can be brought up in a way that keeps the trigger from thinking a massive o2 spike is about to mutate all the DNA we might realize the dream of Herbert West. I also read about this a while back and they didn't think it would scale to humans, but if it did, it might stack nicely to allow delaying reanimation even longer.
As you say atomic pointer swaps are often not an option. And if you have to rule out mutex locks for timing or some other reason, I think you may be down to functional programming. If you eliminate objects with state and just pass everything by value (make copies on the calling thread to hand to the called), it can solve the problem, but it can cost a load in memory access times. Wiki the buzzphrase "referential transparency"
I'd run me. Kurzweil suggests we run around 12 petaflops or so. The problem is getting the data out of my head. I'm not letting them slice my brain up until they figure out how to scan the synaptic weightings in addition to the connections. Histography, confocal laser scanning, electron microscopy, those seem to be the holdups to uploading now, not processing time.
amoral seems a strong word for copyright infringement. You can view morals as something handed to us from God, or a set of instincts designed for species protection, but in either case how does driving commercial entertainment workers out of business apply? If all for profit art (movies music, video games (despite what Ebert says), and more traditional fare) went away overnight, I would be ecstatic. I might even argue that purchasing this crap is amoral. But I won't because its really not that important.
I'm just making this up as I go along but it sounds plausible. I suspect the Itanium Epic failed because it targeted too small a niche. Supercomputers and larger servers could get better cost/benefit from using desktop processors in larger numbers. First because those processors had more research money behind them so they improved faster than a niche processor, and second because the compilers were already there. IBM learned, and is using that lesson with the CELL in the PS3. Video games and the mass market driving economies of scale is just too powerful a force to be improved upon by something as minor as VLIW. If they had marketed the Itanium the way IBM markets the CELL it might have worked.
It seems trivial that an entertainment escape like a video game should drive technology, but it is. If they find a way to make a quantum, optical, or nanotube computer/console easy to obtain and get 133t framerates with, then it people will beat the path to their door to play madden 2024 in all its glory.
No, what I really want to know is if they can make a naturally spicy chicken, cayenne, garlic, maybe some basil. If some teenagers (with some help from MIT) can make ecoli that smells like mint or bananas, surely Tyson can make me a prespiced chicken. Or the obvious chocolate milk giving cow. How much harder can that be than the company that made goats that spin spider silk into their milk? The precautionary principle upsets me greatly. All the neo-Luddites and misguided religious zealots are stealing my chance at cool stuff like uploading and prespiced chickens!
The way Susan Sarandon talked about putting two or more or more images together makes it sound like focus stacking. I've been wanting to try this, and the wiki link points to some free software to do so. I wish it had an explanation of how its done. I'm guessing they do DWTs or FFTs on all but one of images and grab the high detail or high frequency components and then add them to the complete DWT/FFT of the remaining image and then IDWT/IFFT.
Because I can choose what perspective to view it from. The creator of a game has put thought into each ending and game style a player might use, and each should not only be fun, but convey a message tailored to that player. I'm a bit extropian in tilt, so I saw Deus Ex in a transhumanist way and chose to merge with the machine. A neoluddite (not meant as a derogative) might get an entirely different message, but it was, no less, intended by the creator.
A previous story indicated that apoptosis was responsible for the tissue damage caused when blood oxygenation was resumed, even up to several hours after the cessation of breathing and brain activity. If this drug could be spread to all tissues (including brain), we might be in for some Herbert West style fun.
I agree the first thing that worried me was that when they get it right and the product of an experiment is able to communicate with us, that they will deny it education and the right to vote. Er, wait this was in China wasn't it? Nevermind.
The world wars weren't due to a single cause, we just remember the big ones from history class. The parent isn't funny, its disturbing due to its insight.
"A prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honor his word when it puts him at disadvantage, and the reasons for his promise are now gone." -- Niccolò Machiavelli
Then LSI would sue and say they implicitly covered that and you'd counter sue for prior art, and that patent office wouldn't care either way. Now if every time someone challenged an approved patent for prior art or that it conflicts with an existing patent, the patent office had to put up the defense in court and spend the money, then things might change. They were the ones that said it was novel, let them defend their decision.
GPS isn't good at altitude measurements, its accuracy in that dimension is significantly lower than in the other two. In addition as another poster mentioned its still just the height above the some earth model, probably the WGS84 ellipsoid. For long distance stuff you could solve the problem with a flash drive and some DTED downloadable (for now) from the survey folks. for more precise elevations I'd recommend a SALT (sonar altimeter, I just made that acronym up but it would work I bet).
I just RTFA and someone suggested an ultrasonic "radar" (thats what pronouncing acronyms gets you) to solve the altitude problem. I think now however he is talking about pitch control using servos, he's not sure how to do it because lego pieces mostly attach in horizontal fashion so he has to do something weird to get a vertically moving servo arm to pitch up or down. I've got no clue on that one.
Suggested solutions have been targeted at procedurally generated models and textures to my knowledge, but the real killer for oblivion was the voices. Convincing text to speech would have halved the size of oblivion at least from what I've read. Even if it wasn't perfectly convincing, something that you could suspend your belief on would be sufficient. Would kinda hurt voice actors a bit.
Am I the only one afraid this thing will come off being too trippy? I have some hope since he is writing the screenplay himself, but there were some moments I was pretty sure he was typing under the influence just reading it, so I have trouble envisioning anything coherent coming out of those portions in a visual sense. Primarily the performance on the boat and the drummer sessions.
Anyway kudos to sci-fi channel, and my fingers are crossed that "Accelerando" or "Fire upon the deep" is next.
The matrioshka brain will disassemble earth anyway.
Launch pads get scorched, its part of their use. Our goal should not be to preserve the earth but to make sure we don't blow up on the launch pad.
Ok that was the inflammatory part to make up for the over assertive confrontational nature of the parent post. I do hope we as a species upload and forget all these meat sacks eventually, but I grew up in the country and do appreciate the beauty of nature. My nihilism aside, the only thing that bugs me about the original post is that it stresses the Northeast this year as an anecdote for climate change. Thats the sort of thing you'd expect to see from people who deny global warming. One region in one season does not a trend make. The folks in Colorado would be yelling ice age otherwise. TFA makes it clear that there was an average change for the entire continent this year, which is somewhat more meaningful... somewhat, its still just one year.
Your post, much like "Singularity Sky" makes me confused. For one, if the event is outside our light cone, how the heck do we know about it? Are we simply seeing part of a shock wave's effects that extrapolated would reach the pillars at a given point in space/time? Also, if the optical effects of the actual topple event are going to reach earth in 1000 years, doesn't it mean the event is in our future light cone? If so should we say "will topple?"
They mention using HAMR to increase stability. Does anyone know if it could be used without bit patterning to increase the reliability of current large drives? You know, the ones with 2yr life expectancies or less.
If someone is willing to accept a specific wavelength (preferably red or green) would the gap between CFs and LEDs get narrower? Where to laser diodes fall in the mix? I read they were insanely efficient.
Does this actually work? I guess it must. My uncle was explaining how he taught his 2yr old hunting dog to avoid the smell of rattlesnakes. It involved a shock collar which he seemed to imply was wide spread among hunting dogs, and turning it to full blast when the dog went to investigate a rattlesnake my uncle had just shot. The dog now avoids rattlesnakes, but perhaps there was a purely positive reinforcement method? If corporal punishment (yelling, spanking, shocking etc.) isn't necessary to teach children or pets I don't think we should use it, but I've always been a skeptic that you can teach something with which you have nothing more than emotive communication to avoid dangerous situations without some form of negative reinforcement. Especially in cases where one failure can mean death (a dog and a rattler, a kid and chewing on 110v cables).
A good reason to fund brain-mapping research. Store down their nuclear and mitochondrial DNA along with a range of state vectors. I recommend we start with lobsters...
Bah, we'll be uploading by then, no need to re-terraform this planet or fix up mars or Venus, meat sacks are on the way out and their replacement is cross-platform in a very general sense of the word.
The question to ask is who is this man's constituency? I thought I was, but I guess I was mistaken. I think that ditching a candidate because he disagrees with you on a single issue, combined with a plurality voting system is the cause of many of our nation's ills, but freedom of speech is kind of an important one...
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I keep it updated to the latest non-beta release. I use no-script. I don't feel safe, how many fortune 500 companies get compromised on a regular basis? How often has /. been compromised? Whitelisting only works when you have some sense that there is *anyone* you can trust to run code on your machine. And anytime I allow jscript/flash/pdfs/quicktime etc. for a page, that is what I'm doing. I know one thing I should be doing is browsing only from a user with limited rights, but so much crap doesn't work without superuser that it just seems infeasible. And even a user account can spam people all day.
I read recently (on /. I think) that it was discovered the tissue damage was done when RISING o2 levels triggered apoptosis. Meaning there is actually a period as long as 2hrs where little or no tissue damage has occurred. If the o2 levels can be brought up in a way that keeps the trigger from thinking a massive o2 spike is about to mutate all the DNA we might realize the dream of Herbert West. I also read about this a while back and they didn't think it would scale to humans, but if it did, it might stack nicely to allow delaying reanimation even longer.
As you say atomic pointer swaps are often not an option. And if you have to rule out mutex locks for timing or some other reason, I think you may be down to functional programming. If you eliminate objects with state and just pass everything by value (make copies on the calling thread to hand to the called), it can solve the problem, but it can cost a load in memory access times. Wiki the buzzphrase "referential transparency"
I'd run me. Kurzweil suggests we run around 12 petaflops or so. The problem is getting the data out of my head. I'm not letting them slice my brain up until they figure out how to scan the synaptic weightings in addition to the connections. Histography, confocal laser scanning, electron microscopy, those seem to be the holdups to uploading now, not processing time.
amoral seems a strong word for copyright infringement. You can view morals as something handed to us from God, or a set of instincts designed for species protection, but in either case how does driving commercial entertainment workers out of business apply? If all for profit art (movies music, video games (despite what Ebert says), and more traditional fare) went away overnight, I would be ecstatic. I might even argue that purchasing this crap is amoral. But I won't because its really not that important.
I'm just making this up as I go along but it sounds plausible. I suspect the Itanium Epic failed because it targeted too small a niche. Supercomputers and larger servers could get better cost/benefit from using desktop processors in larger numbers. First because those processors had more research money behind them so they improved faster than a niche processor, and second because the compilers were already there. IBM learned, and is using that lesson with the CELL in the PS3. Video games and the mass market driving economies of scale is just too powerful a force to be improved upon by something as minor as VLIW. If they had marketed the Itanium the way IBM markets the CELL it might have worked.
It seems trivial that an entertainment escape like a video game should drive technology, but it is. If they find a way to make a quantum, optical, or nanotube computer/console easy to obtain and get 133t framerates with, then it people will beat the path to their door to play madden 2024 in all its glory.
No, what I really want to know is if they can make a naturally spicy chicken, cayenne, garlic, maybe some basil. If some teenagers (with some help from MIT) can make ecoli that smells like mint or bananas, surely Tyson can make me a prespiced chicken. Or the obvious chocolate milk giving cow. How much harder can that be than the company that made goats that spin spider silk into their milk? The precautionary principle upsets me greatly. All the neo-Luddites and misguided religious zealots are stealing my chance at cool stuff like uploading and prespiced chickens!
"Yesterday is for mice and gods."
The way Susan Sarandon talked about putting two or more or more images together makes it sound like focus stacking. I've been wanting to try this, and the wiki link points to some free software to do so. I wish it had an explanation of how its done. I'm guessing they do DWTs or FFTs on all but one of images and grab the high detail or high frequency components and then add them to the complete DWT/FFT of the remaining image and then IDWT/IFFT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stacking
Because I can choose what perspective to view it from. The creator of a game has put thought into each ending and game style a player might use, and each should not only be fun, but convey a message tailored to that player. I'm a bit extropian in tilt, so I saw Deus Ex in a transhumanist way and chose to merge with the machine. A neoluddite (not meant as a derogative) might get an entirely different message, but it was, no less, intended by the creator.
A previous story indicated that apoptosis was responsible for the tissue damage caused when blood oxygenation was resumed, even up to several hours after the cessation of breathing and brain activity. If this drug could be spread to all tissues (including brain), we might be in for some Herbert West style fun.
I agree the first thing that worried me was that when they get it right and the product of an experiment is able to communicate with us, that they will deny it education and the right to vote. Er, wait this was in China wasn't it? Nevermind.
The world wars weren't due to a single cause, we just remember the big ones from history class. The parent isn't funny, its disturbing due to its insight.
"A prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honor his word when it puts him at disadvantage, and the reasons for his promise are now gone." -- Niccolò Machiavelli
Then LSI would sue and say they implicitly covered that and you'd counter sue for prior art, and that patent office wouldn't care either way. Now if every time someone challenged an approved patent for prior art or that it conflicts with an existing patent, the patent office had to put up the defense in court and spend the money, then things might change. They were the ones that said it was novel, let them defend their decision.
GPS isn't good at altitude measurements, its accuracy in that dimension is significantly lower than in the other two. In addition as another poster mentioned its still just the height above the some earth model, probably the WGS84 ellipsoid. For long distance stuff you could solve the problem with a flash drive and some DTED downloadable (for now) from the survey folks. for more precise elevations I'd recommend a SALT (sonar altimeter, I just made that acronym up but it would work I bet).
I just RTFA and someone suggested an ultrasonic "radar" (thats what pronouncing acronyms gets you) to solve the altitude problem. I think now however he is talking about pitch control using servos, he's not sure how to do it because lego pieces mostly attach in horizontal fashion so he has to do something weird to get a vertically moving servo arm to pitch up or down. I've got no clue on that one.
Suggested solutions have been targeted at procedurally generated models and textures to my knowledge, but the real killer for oblivion was the voices. Convincing text to speech would have halved the size of oblivion at least from what I've read. Even if it wasn't perfectly convincing, something that you could suspend your belief on would be sufficient. Would kinda hurt voice actors a bit.
Am I the only one afraid this thing will come off being too trippy? I have some hope since he is writing the screenplay himself, but there were some moments I was pretty sure he was typing under the influence just reading it, so I have trouble envisioning anything coherent coming out of those portions in a visual sense. Primarily the performance on the boat and the drummer sessions.
Anyway kudos to sci-fi channel, and my fingers are crossed that "Accelerando" or "Fire upon the deep" is next.
The matrioshka brain will disassemble earth anyway.
Launch pads get scorched, its part of their use. Our goal should not be to preserve the earth but to make sure we don't blow up on the launch pad.
Ok that was the inflammatory part to make up for the over assertive confrontational nature of the parent post. I do hope we as a species upload and forget all these meat sacks eventually, but I grew up in the country and do appreciate the beauty of nature. My nihilism aside, the only thing that bugs me about the original post is that it stresses the Northeast this year as an anecdote for climate change. Thats the sort of thing you'd expect to see from people who deny global warming. One region in one season does not a trend make. The folks in Colorado would be yelling ice age otherwise. TFA makes it clear that there was an average change for the entire continent this year, which is somewhat more meaningful... somewhat, its still just one year.
Your post, much like "Singularity Sky" makes me confused. For one, if the event is outside our light cone, how the heck do we know about it? Are we simply seeing part of a shock wave's effects that extrapolated would reach the pillars at a given point in space/time? Also, if the optical effects of the actual topple event are going to reach earth in 1000 years, doesn't it mean the event is in our future light cone? If so should we say "will topple?"
They mention using HAMR to increase stability. Does anyone know if it could be used without bit patterning to increase the reliability of current large drives? You know, the ones with 2yr life expectancies or less.
If someone is willing to accept a specific wavelength (preferably red or green) would the gap between CFs and LEDs get narrower? Where to laser diodes fall in the mix? I read they were insanely efficient.
Does this actually work? I guess it must. My uncle was explaining how he taught his 2yr old hunting dog to avoid the smell of rattlesnakes. It involved a shock collar which he seemed to imply was wide spread among hunting dogs, and turning it to full blast when the dog went to investigate a rattlesnake my uncle had just shot. The dog now avoids rattlesnakes, but perhaps there was a purely positive reinforcement method? If corporal punishment (yelling, spanking, shocking etc.) isn't necessary to teach children or pets I don't think we should use it, but I've always been a skeptic that you can teach something with which you have nothing more than emotive communication to avoid dangerous situations without some form of negative reinforcement. Especially in cases where one failure can mean death (a dog and a rattler, a kid and chewing on 110v cables).
A good reason to fund brain-mapping research. Store down their nuclear and mitochondrial DNA along with a range of state vectors. I recommend we start with lobsters...
Bah, we'll be uploading by then, no need to re-terraform this planet or fix up mars or Venus, meat sacks are on the way out and their replacement is cross-platform in a very general sense of the word.
The question to ask is who is this man's constituency? I thought I was, but I guess I was mistaken. I think that ditching a candidate because he disagrees with you on a single issue, combined with a plurality voting system is the cause of many of our nation's ills, but freedom of speech is kind of an important one...