If you've ever read 'Beggars in Spain' by Nancy Kress, you'll see the first book is mostly short stories combined. It made for an interesting story told over time. 'Beggars and Choosers' was a novel, and it seemed to hurt the narrative.
Chisel a bunch of zeros and ones into blocks of concrete with codec instructions in text. For a 1 MB video, you need 8 million bits or so (without audio), giving about 72 square meters of concrete if you use 3 mm cells. They'd love you for it.
Greg Bear had this ability as central plot points in Eon and Eternity, and Peter F. Hamilton took it much deeper in Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained.
If you RTA linked above, it discusses multiple droughts of durations varying from 10 to 20 years within the last 1,000 years, well within our current 10,000 warm period. These droughts occurred since, for example, the establishment of Heidelberg University, but after the establishment of the Farmer's Almanac.
Don't get me wrong, I dream of new standards in time, length, and mass based on the number of fingers we have, but the inertia of the existing standard is massive. Think of all of the constants that have squared seconds, or square root seconds...
bottom line is: i really don't see how visual tracking is going to work out any time soon, especially given that face-blurring helps destroy critical information needed to rejoin paths if the tracking is ever lost, and especially given that the CPU usage is so enormous that you would need a supercomputer in the back office and a massively-upgraded power line to run it. no - don't expect visual tracking to be hitting a shopping mall near you in the immediate future.
Excellent post, one question, obviously people are of similar sizes and proportions, but with some spatial features (everyone has a top of a head and shoulders) along with clothing colors, couldn't you do without the face?
The monitoring of subway stations is probably a direct result of the sarin attack at Tokyo station. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.... Of course the usual Orwellian arguments will apply, but try finding garbage cans in the subways...it really freaked out a lot of people.
I don't buy it, you definitely need your reference.
I like daylight savings time because I can go for a bike ride after work and still have enough light so I don't worry about cars not seeing me (for example). However, I recognize that it would be dark until 9:00 in the morning and driving to work would be less safe in the winter if we never changed them. So twice a year I do a five minute task for maximum enjoyment for both seasons. It's not that big of deal.
And I assume you'll redefine the second to be 0.864 seconds, and then redefine every physical constant and measurement that has time, force, or energy in it?
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Someone I knew for a long time said, "If you want to work forever, study corrosion." Another quote, "Every metal seeks to return to the ore from which it came, corrosion engineers can only slow it down."
Regarding seawater, outside of the unsolvable corrosion, other problems will be precipitation of the salts within the piping, fish intrusions, and a lot of particulate matter that can erode the piping systems. But that doesn't mean you can't use seawater, you have to design for those problems, which costs money.
The atomic diameter of silicon (covalent bond) is 0.2 nm, the lattice distance between atoms is 0.5 nm. If they are moving to 7 nm, they are already ordering atoms at only a factor of 5 or so less than what is theoretically even possible given space requirements (I would think you'd need at least one atom between the gaps, probably more than that), so they'd need another material.
It amazes me that they can focus the lithography light so tightly.
There are several software products that have a per-use fee attached to it (TurboTax, for instance), as the creator you have the right to set the conditions for use, and the buyers have the right to accept or reject those terms.
Musicians and filmmakers produce a product that is license-based, when you buy a movie you get a license to consume the material as you wish. Those that use that license for commercial applications have to pay a royalty. Whether the artists are important or not doesn't seem relevant to me, someone is using their product for their platform's gain, and the owner of that platform should compensate them for it.
I know old school forensics teams put acid on the site and the cold-worked area would have more fractures in the microstructure which would reveal a scraped serial number. If they did this with EBDS, I would guess you could see differences in the cumulative cold work and still resolve the original pattern (you only need a few reference points).
If a criminal wants to use the gun, or bike, I'm not sure how much stamping they could do before they damage the material enough to prevent use.
Not sure if you have deeper sources, but the public line is that Armstrong was always supposed to go first, although Buzz definitely wanted to go first. They picked Neil because he was senior, and it would have been impossible for Buzz to crawl over Neil with his EVA suit.
Probably closer to Lost in Space, but as a kid in a small school, the row of TRS-80s stood out as The Future, and I would spend all morning and lunch entering programs to run until one kid punched the rest button to piss you off...good times.
The old pyramid was one serving each of meat, vegetables, dairy, and bread. Now recommendations skew towards 50% protein, 35% vegetables, and small amounts of dairy and carbohydrates.
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If you've ever read 'Beggars in Spain' by Nancy Kress, you'll see the first book is mostly short stories combined. It made for an interesting story told over time. 'Beggars and Choosers' was a novel, and it seemed to hurt the narrative.
The first Foundation novel was eight short stories published together. Foundation and Empire was a complete novel, as was the Second Foundation.
Hamilton or Bear? If I were guessing, Hamilton (although I like his work).
Chisel a bunch of zeros and ones into blocks of concrete with codec instructions in text. For a 1 MB video, you need 8 million bits or so (without audio), giving about 72 square meters of concrete if you use 3 mm cells. They'd love you for it.
Greg Bear had this ability as central plot points in Eon and Eternity, and Peter F. Hamilton took it much deeper in Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained.
If you dream it, it will come.
If you RTA linked above, it discusses multiple droughts of durations varying from 10 to 20 years within the last 1,000 years, well within our current 10,000 warm period. These droughts occurred since, for example, the establishment of Heidelberg University, but after the establishment of the Farmer's Almanac.
I remember working at a semiconductor manufacturer that had a flex-time policy. We were allowed to show up before 8:00 and leave after 5:00.
Don't get me wrong, I dream of new standards in time, length, and mass based on the number of fingers we have, but the inertia of the existing standard is massive. Think of all of the constants that have squared seconds, or square root seconds...
bottom line is: i really don't see how visual tracking is going to work out any time soon, especially given that face-blurring helps destroy critical information needed to rejoin paths if the tracking is ever lost, and especially given that the CPU usage is so enormous that you would need a supercomputer in the back office and a massively-upgraded power line to run it. no - don't expect visual tracking to be hitting a shopping mall near you in the immediate future.
Excellent post, one question, obviously people are of similar sizes and proportions, but with some spatial features (everyone has a top of a head and shoulders) along with clothing colors, couldn't you do without the face?
The monitoring of subway stations is probably a direct result of the sarin attack at Tokyo station. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.... Of course the usual Orwellian arguments will apply, but try finding garbage cans in the subways...it really freaked out a lot of people.
The jacket is a good idea (not as many times in the laundry). Wireless power? How? Induction, ultrasonic? They'll have too much attenuation loss.
I don't buy it, you definitely need your reference.
I like daylight savings time because I can go for a bike ride after work and still have enough light so I don't worry about cars not seeing me (for example). However, I recognize that it would be dark until 9:00 in the morning and driving to work would be less safe in the winter if we never changed them. So twice a year I do a five minute task for maximum enjoyment for both seasons. It's not that big of deal.
I go to www.timeanddate.com and I can schedule the meeting without any difficulty.
And I assume you'll redefine the second to be 0.864 seconds, and then redefine every physical constant and measurement that has time, force, or energy in it?
With mod points loaded, I'm having signatures viewing on top of 'Reply to this' link, and the mod dropdown box is positioned a few pixels low. I also don't see the Preview Options Cancel button controls until I mouse over them when I post the comment after mod points have been used (this may be intentional).
Aside from corrosion, which is a solvable issue,
Someone I knew for a long time said, "If you want to work forever, study corrosion." Another quote, "Every metal seeks to return to the ore from which it came, corrosion engineers can only slow it down."
Regarding seawater, outside of the unsolvable corrosion, other problems will be precipitation of the salts within the piping, fish intrusions, and a lot of particulate matter that can erode the piping systems. But that doesn't mean you can't use seawater, you have to design for those problems, which costs money.
The atomic diameter of silicon (covalent bond) is 0.2 nm, the lattice distance between atoms is 0.5 nm. If they are moving to 7 nm, they are already ordering atoms at only a factor of 5 or so less than what is theoretically even possible given space requirements (I would think you'd need at least one atom between the gaps, probably more than that), so they'd need another material.
It amazes me that they can focus the lithography light so tightly.
There are several software products that have a per-use fee attached to it (TurboTax, for instance), as the creator you have the right to set the conditions for use, and the buyers have the right to accept or reject those terms.
Musicians and filmmakers produce a product that is license-based, when you buy a movie you get a license to consume the material as you wish. Those that use that license for commercial applications have to pay a royalty. Whether the artists are important or not doesn't seem relevant to me, someone is using their product for their platform's gain, and the owner of that platform should compensate them for it.
I'm assuming you weren't intentionally copying the premise of Idiocracy.
I know old school forensics teams put acid on the site and the cold-worked area would have more fractures in the microstructure which would reveal a scraped serial number. If they did this with EBDS, I would guess you could see differences in the cumulative cold work and still resolve the original pattern (you only need a few reference points).
If a criminal wants to use the gun, or bike, I'm not sure how much stamping they could do before they damage the material enough to prevent use.
Not sure if you have deeper sources, but the public line is that Armstrong was always supposed to go first, although Buzz definitely wanted to go first. They picked Neil because he was senior, and it would have been impossible for Buzz to crawl over Neil with his EVA suit.
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But then again, if you know something, I'm curious.
While some people may find his actions cromulent, I personally think his work embiggens us all.
Probably closer to Lost in Space, but as a kid in a small school, the row of TRS-80s stood out as The Future, and I would spend all morning and lunch entering programs to run until one kid punched the rest button to piss you off...good times.
The old pyramid was one serving each of meat, vegetables, dairy, and bread. Now recommendations skew towards 50% protein, 35% vegetables, and small amounts of dairy and carbohydrates.
I put bread in the refrigerator, it keeps for over a week.