NoNoNoNo. The underlying assumption that computers and humans are fundamentally similar is completely incorrect. The term 'computer virus' is a reasonable analogy but you can't push it so far that you impute that the mechanisms are the same. Cancer is way more complex that 'reprogramming a cell'. It involves cell homeostasis mechanisms that have no analogous function in hardware or software.
"It’s not just an analogy, it’s a deep mathematical insight. Biology and computing are disciplines which seem like chalk and cheese but which have very deep connections on the most fundamental level.”
(FTFA) Oh yeah. Prove it. Or even give us something other than executive level bullshit.
Perhaps when you have computers that can handle errors more gracefully than "PC LOAD LETTER" I might think about taking him seriously. But we've barely moved past that level at present.
Come on guy, the American way to solve that problem is to ask the woman for $10,000, get some Mexican to water your petunias for $500. She sells the house, gets out of your hair and everybody wins.
Not quite exactly unlike that. Large scale healthcare in the US is a kludge (that's the nice word) of dozens of different, overlapping, often contradicting Federal, State, International (i.e., the World Health Organization), public (at other levels), private, public-private, for profit, not for profit, 501C3 corps (bog help me if I can figure them out organizations.
The crippled horse rolled out of the 'free market' barn in 1964 when Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare enabling act (actually first suggested by Harry Truman).
Bog knows what you'd call the current system other than an enormous clusterfuck.
(sorry for the parenthesis, In Seattle, too much coffee.)
But it most certainly would not have received a presumed worth of 9 billion dollars. There are lots of small companies attempting to do ground breaking things. I suspect that the vast majority of them spend most of the time scrambling for capital because research is hard, game changing ideas are few and far between and even if the idea is correct the implementation is damned difficult.
A cute blond in a black turtleneck with Big Daddy Warbucks backing goes a long way.
That just might work. In the fantasy Star Trek world where anyone can get what they want when they want it.
When you get off the Holodeck, you have to deal with resource limitations. That's when you're 'deciding on how to live your life' might interfere with mine. Or Granda over there. Or that kid in the corner.
With pure Libertarianism you can't have rule of law because the law, by design and nature, limits people in doing things. And rule of law is really what separates us from South Sudan. Course, you're free to move there should you decide. '
Remember how the Iranians caused the US military to genuflect in awe of their capabilities to field thousands of Zodiacs with a bit of TNT? No? Well, they wish you did. They were right proud of their new found offensive capability. Kinda like their new stealth fighter (model).
Basically the same theme. One purchases hundred or thousands of drones, slightly larger than the typical Phantom class and capable of hauling, say, a stick of dynamite or C4, and runs them through a civilian target. Pretty easy to do. Pretty easy to defend against but you would have to rig it up specifically for this level of threat - F35's are probably not going to be real useful here.
That's what this appears to be.
Of course, no good deed goes unpunished, you could use this against home grown terrorist, er, patriots in some sort of uprising mode but then you've got more important problems to deal with besides uploading the resolution to YouTube.
Timing. Barometric changes from weather occur in the space of minutes to hours. For, say hiking or a quadcopter it is seconds to minutes. Thus, there is a useful window for barometric information for things OTHER than weather.
That's way every quadcopter that can hover has a barometer inside of it. Accurate to about a foot. Yes, it you watch, say a DJI Phantom hover for an entire battery (15 - 20 minutes) AND there is a relatively rapid change in barometic pressure due to a weather front, you will see it go up or down a couple of feet. However, for moment to moment flying the data is perfectly useful.
You could always use those little Vienna sausages. I don't think any microbe is capable of digesting them. I've seen them sitting in the open air for a long, long time without apparent ill effect.
I've found the iPhone as a wonderful little portable general purpose computer. I do have a number of apps that I find very useful. It's sort of useful as a phone as well. Hardly perfect but if you think back to Palm Pilots and the original Windows phones we really have some neat options and a large amount of computing power.
But I haven't loaded a new app in some time and I suspect most people are the same. You figure out what you want to do with your general purpose portable computer, rig it up and just use it.
Wading through the Apple Store is rather crappy experience. The apps I have loaded I've found from other web sites or word of mouth or just by accident.
I have a number of Apps on my phone. They enhance the features of the phone to do everything I want. Can someone please tell me why I need to keep downloading Apps when I don't need to? In the end the phone will run out of space. Does anyone expect that I would delete any on my current apps just so that I could keep on downloading more apps that I probably don't use more than once?
Bullshit.
Because if you don't download new apps, Apple / Google / etc can't have ever increasing volumes and margins. That's un-American. Probably un-natural.
We've already lost that fight in terms of a truly decentralized Internet. The various governments and large corporations already are fighting to stake out various levels of control. The companies that operate the core infrastructure also have an outsized level of control.
I think the idea of a communication system that relied on numerous small autonomous nodes was a great one, but unless we can make some sort of giant mesh network, it will never happen. Even a big mesh is likely to get controlled by governments in one way or another.
China has enough of a space program to let them quickly bootstrap up to levels they feel are socially, scientifically and militarily appropriate. There is plenty of opportunity for China to go way beyond what the US / European Space Agency / Russia has done. A decade or so of 'just enough' could get them in deep space.
Yes, they're re-purposing Russian Soyuz craft. That sounds like a really intelligent way to.... jump ahead. You just don't make some 3D computer models and run out and build a space program. The infrastructure required is enormous.
Perhaps they won't push the envelope. China has it's own share of problems. But a real, live space race would do us a world (so to speak) of good. It would be about the only thing that would get the US Congress of of it's pork filled ass.
(The other being a credible Alien menace but even Justin Timberlake is looking more normal as time goes on.)
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NoNoNoNo. The underlying assumption that computers and humans are fundamentally similar is completely incorrect. The term 'computer virus' is a reasonable analogy but you can't push it so far that you impute that the mechanisms are the same. Cancer is way more complex that 'reprogramming a cell'. It involves cell homeostasis mechanisms that have no analogous function in hardware or software.
"It’s not just an analogy, it’s a deep mathematical insight. Biology and computing are disciplines which seem like chalk and cheese but which have very deep connections on the most fundamental level.”
(FTFA) Oh yeah. Prove it. Or even give us something other than executive level bullshit.
Perhaps when you have computers that can handle errors more gracefully than "PC LOAD LETTER" I might think about taking him seriously. But we've barely moved past that level at present.
So, in the US, business owns all of government.
End result is depressingly similar.
Hell, if elephant ivory is good for an aphrodisiac, the MAMMOTH ivory should give you an even bigger erection. A mammoth one even.
You're a silent key (SK, aka dead person)? Radio from the grave? Did they bury you with your rig?
And how do you get on the Internet?
Come on guy, the American way to solve that problem is to ask the woman for $10,000, get some Mexican to water your petunias for $500. She sells the house, gets out of your hair and everybody wins.
That's what Trump would do.
There are more police than squirrels in that neighborhood.
That's just nuts.
But it's Oracle, so we're supposed to blame them.
Oregon is cool, isn't it?
"Private sector insurance and healthcare"
Not quite exactly unlike that. Large scale healthcare in the US is a kludge (that's the nice word) of dozens of different, overlapping, often contradicting Federal, State, International (i.e., the World Health Organization), public (at other levels), private, public-private, for profit, not for profit, 501C3 corps (bog help me if I can figure them out organizations.
The crippled horse rolled out of the 'free market' barn in 1964 when Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare enabling act (actually first suggested by Harry Truman).
Bog knows what you'd call the current system other than an enormous clusterfuck.
(sorry for the parenthesis, In Seattle, too much coffee.)
But it most certainly would not have received a presumed worth of 9 billion dollars. There are lots of small companies attempting to do ground breaking things. I suspect that the vast majority of them spend most of the time scrambling for capital because research is hard, game changing ideas are few and far between and even if the idea is correct the implementation is damned difficult.
A cute blond in a black turtleneck with Big Daddy Warbucks backing goes a long way.
That just might work. In the fantasy Star Trek world where anyone can get what they want when they want it.
When you get off the Holodeck, you have to deal with resource limitations. That's when you're 'deciding on how to live your life' might interfere with mine. Or Granda over there. Or that kid in the corner.
With pure Libertarianism you can't have rule of law because the law, by design and nature, limits people in doing things. And rule of law is really what separates us from South Sudan. Course, you're free to move there should you decide.
'
So are you.
"You too, sir, please come with us. Quietly. We have a robot here."
"Sir, please come with us. Quietly. We have a robot here."
Remember how the Iranians caused the US military to genuflect in awe of their capabilities to field thousands of Zodiacs with a bit of TNT? No? Well, they wish you did. They were right proud of their new found offensive capability. Kinda like their new stealth fighter (model).
Basically the same theme. One purchases hundred or thousands of drones, slightly larger than the typical Phantom class and capable of hauling, say, a stick of dynamite or C4, and runs them through a civilian target. Pretty easy to do. Pretty easy to defend against but you would have to rig it up specifically for this level of threat - F35's are probably not going to be real useful here.
That's what this appears to be.
Of course, no good deed goes unpunished, you could use this against home grown terrorist, er, patriots in some sort of uprising mode but then you've got more important problems to deal with besides uploading the resolution to YouTube.
Timing. Barometric changes from weather occur in the space of minutes to hours. For, say hiking or a quadcopter it is seconds to minutes. Thus, there is a useful window for barometric information for things OTHER than weather.
That's way every quadcopter that can hover has a barometer inside of it. Accurate to about a foot. Yes, it you watch, say a DJI Phantom hover for an entire battery (15 - 20 minutes) AND there is a relatively rapid change in barometic pressure due to a weather front, you will see it go up or down a couple of feet. However, for moment to moment flying the data is perfectly useful.
You could always use those little Vienna sausages. I don't think any microbe is capable of digesting them. I've seen them sitting in the open air for a long, long time without apparent ill effect.
I've found the iPhone as a wonderful little portable general purpose computer. I do have a number of apps that I find very useful. It's sort of useful as a phone as well. Hardly perfect but if you think back to Palm Pilots and the original Windows phones we really have some neat options and a large amount of computing power.
But I haven't loaded a new app in some time and I suspect most people are the same. You figure out what you want to do with your general purpose portable computer, rig it up and just use it.
Wading through the Apple Store is rather crappy experience. The apps I have loaded I've found from other web sites or word of mouth or just by accident.
I have a number of Apps on my phone. They enhance the features of the phone to do everything I want.
Can someone please tell me why I need to keep downloading Apps when I don't need to?
In the end the phone will run out of space. Does anyone expect that I would delete any on my current apps just so that I could keep on downloading more apps that I probably don't use more than once?
Bullshit.
Because if you don't download new apps, Apple / Google / etc can't have ever increasing volumes and margins. That's un-American. Probably un-natural.
We've already lost that fight in terms of a truly decentralized Internet. The various governments and large corporations already are fighting to stake out various levels of control. The companies that operate the core infrastructure also have an outsized level of control.
I think the idea of a communication system that relied on numerous small autonomous nodes was a great one, but unless we can make some sort of giant mesh network, it will never happen. Even a big mesh is likely to get controlled by governments in one way or another.
I don't particularly care if my tastes are similar to only a fraction of users. But I hate ads. Passionately.
So, a service that supports my weird desires and habits gets my vote.
China has enough of a space program to let them quickly bootstrap up to levels they feel are socially, scientifically and militarily appropriate. There is plenty of opportunity for China to go way beyond what the US / European Space Agency / Russia has done. A decade or so of 'just enough' could get them in deep space.
Yes, they're re-purposing Russian Soyuz craft. That sounds like a really intelligent way to .... jump ahead. You just don't make some 3D computer models and run out and build a space program. The infrastructure required is enormous.
Perhaps they won't push the envelope. China has it's own share of problems. But a real, live space race would do us a world (so to speak) of good. It would be about the only thing that would get the US Congress of of it's pork filled ass.
(The other being a credible Alien menace but even Justin Timberlake is looking more normal as time goes on.)
Come and see the violence inherent in the system.
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
If engineers were able to think of all this stuff then they would design the car to handle it in the first place.
We've got you covered.
I'd suggest not flying, taking a modern boat or even a bus if you're worried about stuff like this.
Just walk along side of the freeway - you'll be fine.
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that."
That would be so cool.