Don't think so. It's like this guy who was quite much into motor cycles and, one day, was bored. He went to his shed and his this crazy idea of mounting a rear axle with two wheels on an ordinary motor cycle - and thus the trike was born. Do I want one ? No way. Useful ? Nope. Intention ? Hardly any. Entertaining ? Hell, yes.
More than half of Stroustrup's talk was concerned with pointers. In 2015, we still need the kind of effort Stroustrup is calling for, simply because a fairly advanced OO language STILL uses pointers, with the risk of dangling ones, of pointers outliving the thing they point to, etc. etc. ? I dunno, people... but this is one of the main reasons I never made the switch to C++.
I have been teaching UML, modeling and systems architecting at several companies that directly supply to the German car industry ( especially to Volkswagen and BMW ). It is the car makers themselves that impose rigid rules and constraints upon software traceability and configuration management. So the idea of
"software dev/test audit trails are almost certain to pinpoint who embedded the code and who authorized it"
is not that outlandish, and following such audit trails may well lead to (at least some of) the culprits.
I have a slight problem understanding how gravitational waves would necessarily be detectable. We know, by href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle">Landauer's principle, that any erasure of a bit of information must be accompanied by a corresponding increase in entropy. Arguably, a neutron star / pulsar slowly inspiraling is a source of increasing entropy, i.e. information is being erased by its doing so. Until now, we have always seen this increase of entropy as a release of energy ("potential to do work"), very often if not always in the form of either heat or electromagnetic radiation.
Although GR does predict gravitational waves to exist, it does not predict such waves to necessarily be chained up to any entropy changes, i.e. GR does not necessarily "oblige" gravitational waves to be carriers of information. If such waves are not chained to entropy change and/or are not carriers of information, then measuring such waves may well be close to impossible, even if they are there. The energy of such waves might even be "dark energy", for all we know.
Is this coherent and consistent, or am I making an error somewhere ? After all, I am not a physicist, just a dumb engineer.
I have never seen an example of the Indian state successfully enforcing anything, whether it be in the technological sphere or in the realm of keeping Indian men from gang-raping Indian women or tourist. Nothing to see here, folks.
It was, however, written by an unknown Chinese author. How much of the paper is truly original, and how much of it was copy-pasted or downright stolen, remains to be seen.
Who says that any trash collector could be educated to be a "painter, musician, scientist, educator or doctor" ? That is quite a bold assumption, sirrah!
That's what I have been thinking for some time now. Microsoft still has deep pockets, but one day these are going to get empty, what with all the spending on Nokia takeovers, failed OS versions etc. etc. I can't wait for the day, really, and will dance on their grave.
Where I live (a rather affluent suburb of Vienna, Austria) trash collection is done by unskilled, lowly-educated workers who don't have much chance at any other type of job. I would hate to think of these poor people being pushed out of about the only job they could get by... robots.
There definitely is an ethical side to employing - or not employing - robots. I truly do hope we get that one right, for once.
Very good point. Moreover, in a recent discussion with a friend ( male ), we concluded that the price many women tend to demand for sex is simply too high. This "price" is mostly quoted in terms of involvement, of at least the promise thereof, or otherwise of exclusivity of feelings. Which conclusion of ours tend to corroborate your point.
all frequencies involved in the collective state (1) are dampened by the factor 2-n
And this is where they stuff away the rabbit they pretend to be pulling out of the hat. For any moderately sized, non-trivial SSP ( Subset Sum Problem ), this brings down the produced output signal's readability to being so hard to detect that you need exponential time to decide upon a reading. Which debunks this entire piece of bullshit in one phrase. 'Nuff said, OP is BS. QED.
Quite decisive. One of my customers is Siemens, who built and delivered the centrifuges that were spun to death by Stuxnet. I am not allowed to give numbers here, other than the fact that more than half of the centrifuges were destroyed, basically doubling the lenght of the gas enrichment process. Not to mention the great cost and difficulty of repairing the centrifuges with their own, somewhat primitive technology.
Now for the most interesting bit: successors of Stuxnet, stealthier than their ancestor, may still be lurking in some parts of Iran's nuclear infrastructure, says my well-informed source @Siemens.
Disagree in the case of books. An old review is absolutely not worth less than a recent review, especially if e.g. a classical engineering or math text is 2 decades old.
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Don't think so. It's like this guy who was quite much into motor cycles and, one day, was bored. He went to his shed and his this crazy idea of mounting a rear axle with two wheels on an ordinary motor cycle - and thus the trike was born. Do I want one ? No way. Useful ? Nope. Intention ? Hardly any. Entertaining ? Hell, yes.
I am 48 and seem to get it. It is just doing stuff for the sake of doing it. Or so it seems.
More than half of Stroustrup's talk was concerned with pointers. In 2015, we still need the kind of effort Stroustrup is calling for, simply because a fairly advanced OO language STILL uses pointers, with the risk of dangling ones, of pointers outliving the thing they point to, etc. etc. ? I dunno, people... but this is one of the main reasons I never made the switch to C++.
I have been teaching UML, modeling and systems architecting at several companies that directly supply to the German car industry ( especially to Volkswagen and BMW ). It is the car makers themselves that impose rigid rules and constraints upon software traceability and configuration management. So the idea of
"software dev/test audit trails are almost certain to pinpoint who embedded the code and who authorized it"
is not that outlandish, and following such audit trails may well lead to (at least some of) the culprits.
... in order to be a witness to this.
*stashes plans for early exit*
That would be 6.51 cows per square centimeter, here on the European mainland.
can readily substitute "information" for "momentum" here
. Momentum is expressed in Newton meters per second; information is expressed in bits. How does this equivalence "work" ?
QED
I have a slight problem understanding how gravitational waves would necessarily be detectable. We know, by href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle">Landauer's principle, that any erasure of a bit of information must be accompanied by a corresponding increase in entropy. Arguably, a neutron star / pulsar slowly inspiraling is a source of increasing entropy, i.e. information is being erased by its doing so. Until now, we have always seen this increase of entropy as a release of energy ("potential to do work"), very often if not always in the form of either heat or electromagnetic radiation.
Although GR does predict gravitational waves to exist, it does not predict such waves to necessarily be chained up to any entropy changes, i.e. GR does not necessarily "oblige" gravitational waves to be carriers of information. If such waves are not chained to entropy change and/or are not carriers of information, then measuring such waves may well be close to impossible, even if they are there. The energy of such waves might even be "dark energy", for all we know.
Is this coherent and consistent, or am I making an error somewhere ? After all, I am not a physicist, just a dumb engineer.
You're right. I may have been a bit overbearing, there. In which case: apologies.
I have never seen an example of the Indian state successfully enforcing anything, whether it be in the technological sphere or in the realm of keeping Indian men from gang-raping Indian women or tourist. Nothing to see here, folks.
Of your comment, at least, 23/25th ( by word count) or a whopping 92% were copy-pasted or downright stolen.
It was, however, written by an unknown Chinese author. How much of the paper is truly original, and how much of it was copy-pasted or downright stolen, remains to be seen.
What in hell makes Mr. Regis qualify as a competent judge on the feasibility of interplanetary space travel ? Just askin'....
Who says that any trash collector could be educated to be a "painter, musician, scientist, educator or doctor" ? That is quite a bold assumption, sirrah!
That's what I have been thinking for some time now. Microsoft still has deep pockets, but one day these are going to get empty, what with all the spending on Nokia takeovers, failed OS versions etc. etc. I can't wait for the day, really, and will dance on their grave.
...bloatware.
Where I live (a rather affluent suburb of Vienna, Austria) trash collection is done by unskilled, lowly-educated workers who don't have much chance at any other type of job. I would hate to think of these poor people being pushed out of about the only job they could get by... robots.
There definitely is an ethical side to employing - or not employing - robots. I truly do hope we get that one right, for once.
That is not a bloody glitch. That's a fucking critical bug, close to being a showstopper.
Very good point. Moreover, in a recent discussion with a friend ( male ), we concluded that the price many women tend to demand for sex is simply too high. This "price" is mostly quoted in terms of involvement, of at least the promise thereof, or otherwise of exclusivity of feelings. Which conclusion of ours tend to corroborate your point.
all frequencies involved in the collective state (1) are dampened by the factor 2-n
And this is where they stuff away the rabbit they pretend to be pulling out of the hat. For any moderately sized, non-trivial SSP ( Subset Sum Problem ), this brings down the produced output signal's readability to being so hard to detect that you need exponential time to decide upon a reading. Which debunks this entire piece of bullshit in one phrase. 'Nuff said, OP is BS. QED.
It's happening right now in your brain, nitwit.
Now for the most interesting bit: successors of Stuxnet, stealthier than their ancestor, may still be lurking in some parts of Iran's nuclear infrastructure, says my well-informed source @Siemens.
Red for stupidity.
Disagree in the case of books. An old review is absolutely not worth less than a recent review, especially if e.g. a classical engineering or math text is 2 decades old.