Not sure why we have a picture of the US flag, in an article about Australian politics.
Also I wonder why we aren't talking about Oracle taking google to court over patents in Java. Are the slashdot editors waiting to see if the topic goes away?
But all those people with fibre into their homes are going to try to distribute their data around the house with wifi anyway, and then you still have bandwidth (channel space) issues. Its more efficient to use the available spectrum for a protocol which can share channel space between adjacent buildings, and for me that means using a cellular network.
A cellular base station can be as small as the router hanging from the optus cable outside my house. There are plenty attached to traffic signal poles in the Melbourne CBD. Big, long range base stations are definitely on the way out in the city.
please - consider that the internet filter shenanigans has been an elaborate charade to woo that nufty 'family first' senator steven fielding, and as soon as he's gone, labor can drop the charade entirely.
in that regard, if you must vote below the line, reserve the last couple o spots for family first.
( oh, and given there are 60 candidates for the senate in victoria, a 61 for anyone will render your vote null and void...)
Believe me, Family First are going down too. I downloaded the CSV file for the senate in victoria and counted lines. Maybe I got it wrong. I will check. Thanks.
The things is, I don't think there will be many stationary devices in the home and office environment of the future. The intelligent dishwasher which Abbot was talking about won't have a phone or data cable going to it. It will have a cheap cellular modem. Yeah, spectrum is finite, but we make such poor use of it now, and the wireless step only has to go from the street to inside the building.
In the future I think many small businesses will use telco data services. They won't install their own networking gear.
Why is Slashdot so pro Sex Party and not greens? They have around 15% of the primary vote, compared to the 1% or so of the Sex Party, and have very similar, left leaning policies.
Reorganise your spectrum so that you can deliver a gigabit per second over cellular protocols. Roll displaced services into cellular data. By all means pull fibre into the street, but then deploy microcells in high demand areas. The last step is always wireless anyway. In the future people won't install their own wifi if they can get a good service from a telco.
Red Matter was a brilliant plot device. It basically said that anything that happens in any future Trek movies is based on a universe that split sometime before Kirk got onboard the Enterprise. No canon materials that were written that refer to events or "facts" after that point are valid any more.
It may be a brilliant plot device, but it's a stupid name. Couldn't he have come up with some better technobabble?
One of the problems with western style democracies is they tend to focus power into urban centers and drain rural areas of resources... so the cities (small percentage of the population) are getting wealthier but the countryside (most of the population) is getting poorer.
There's nothing specific about "western sytle democracies" with regards to this. It's happened with all forms of government throughout known history, and probably before then as well.
Yeah but if the natural situation in Afganistan is to have ten strong state governments and a single national figurehead with no power, then the US won't favor that because they want a single person they can negotiate with.
For me Afghanistan is a bit of a political museum. Other countries have their federal systems (take Malaysia for example) but give the national government enough power to be credible internationally. Doesn't work in this case.
Rather than putting the module on a boom, I'd just put jets on the module and spin it up.
Won't work as the module is too small. To get any noticeable gravity at the ends of the module, your spin rate will be high enough to cause dizziness. (Not to mention the area of useful gravity will be small, and the gravity gradient will be very steep.)
Which is why most proposals use tethers or booms to give a 'virtual diameter' large enough to hold the spin rate down.
How about a toroidal (or cylindrical) running track, with no spin beyond the movement of the runners? It worked on skylab. The main problem is the impulse from the masses moving around.
Look at the beast in the eyes, take its life and then eat parts of its body
This would surely make those McDonalds birthday parties *way* more exciting for the kids.
Yes what we need is an animal which wants to be eaten. HHTG aside my wife is of Chinese origin and every time her family eat crab or lobster for dinner they insist on being photographed with the live animal 20 minutes before the main course is served.
I'm the squeamish one who asks for a "nice glass of water".
The other day I was sitting in a release planning meeting, listing to a discussion about our version control system and related tooling. Suddenly I had this thought that we were all just a bunch of apes, manipulating abstractions of abstractions of tools ultimately designed to help us catch our dinner. Now I don't know how we do it at all. It all seems so unlikely.
But much more importantly: how did the release go?
I can put up a shelf. But I can't butcher a carcass. Evolution in reverse eh?.
The other day I was sitting in a release planning meeting, listing to a discussion about our version control system and related tooling. Suddenly I had this thought that we were all just a bunch of apes, manipulating abstractions of abstractions of tools ultimately designed to help us catch our dinner. Now I don't know how we do it at all. It all seems so unlikely.
In the event of a major failure of the spacecraft you need a reasonably fail safe way to get to safety. In the future when there are more deep space vehicles it might be possible to rescue a crew in this situation. Until then, being able to directly reenter and land is a good idea.
The cheapest and safest way to finish the mission would be to load the crew and samples into an apollo style capsule and reenter directly. The article doesn't describe that.
Also the module doesn't seem big enough for the centrifuge they describe. They could have a module on a boom, then rotate the whole vehicle. Perhaps the high gravity module could slide along the boom and dock with the main vehicle. If this goes anywhere I expect the centrifuge will be dropped. It is just too hard to engineer.
Well I'm not sure what you mean by nerve cells vs. neurons (they are the same thing, by my understanding), but for every neuron there might be 1000 synapses, so that might be what you mean. I couldn't tell from the story, though.
The difference, I think, is that nerve cells are more isolated than neurons in the brain. So for a nerve you can use a large detector to isolate a signal but to get meaningful data from nerve cells (neurons) in a mass of neurons you need high resolution.
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Not sure why we have a picture of the US flag, in an article about Australian politics.
Also I wonder why we aren't talking about Oracle taking google to court over patents in Java. Are the slashdot editors waiting to see if the topic goes away?
But all those people with fibre into their homes are going to try to distribute their data around the house with wifi anyway, and then you still have bandwidth (channel space) issues. Its more efficient to use the available spectrum for a protocol which can share channel space between adjacent buildings, and for me that means using a cellular network.
I would be happy if the greens (+ sex party, say) have the balance of power in the senate, which might keep internet censorship off the table.
Reorganise your spectrum so that you can deliver a gigabit per second over cellular protocols.
No chance of that happening - as it is we've got people bitching about cell towers.
A cellular base station can be as small as the router hanging from the optus cable outside my house. There are plenty attached to traffic signal poles in the Melbourne CBD. Big, long range base stations are definitely on the way out in the city.
Victorians: Vote [61] Stephen Conroy
please - consider that the internet filter shenanigans has been an elaborate charade to woo that nufty 'family first' senator steven fielding, and as soon as he's gone, labor can drop the charade entirely.
in that regard, if you must vote below the line, reserve the last couple o spots for family first.
( oh, and given there are 60 candidates for the senate in victoria, a 61 for anyone will render your vote null and void...)
Believe me, Family First are going down too. I downloaded the CSV file for the senate in victoria and counted lines. Maybe I got it wrong. I will check. Thanks.
The things is, I don't think there will be many stationary devices in the home and office environment of the future. The intelligent dishwasher which Abbot was talking about won't have a phone or data cable going to it. It will have a cheap cellular modem. Yeah, spectrum is finite, but we make such poor use of it now, and the wireless step only has to go from the street to inside the building.
In the future I think many small businesses will use telco data services. They won't install their own networking gear.
Why is Slashdot so pro Sex Party and not greens? They have around 15% of the primary vote, compared to the 1% or so of the Sex Party, and have very similar, left leaning policies.
http://greens.org.au/policies
Probably because its funny. The greens are pretty mundane sounding by comparison. In the senate I am going to put both ahead of labour and the libs.
Reorganise your spectrum so that you can deliver a gigabit per second over cellular protocols. Roll displaced services into cellular data. By all means pull fibre into the street, but then deploy microcells in high demand areas. The last step is always wireless anyway. In the future people won't install their own wifi if they can get a good service from a telco.
It may be a brilliant plot device, but it's a stupid name. Couldn't he have come up with some better technobabble?
At least its better than "unobtanium".
One of the problems with western style democracies is they tend to focus power into urban centers and drain rural areas of resources... so the cities (small percentage of the population) are getting wealthier but the countryside (most of the population) is getting poorer.
There's nothing specific about "western sytle democracies" with regards to this. It's happened with all forms of government throughout known history, and probably before then as well.
Yeah but if the natural situation in Afganistan is to have ten strong state governments and a single national figurehead with no power, then the US won't favor that because they want a single person they can negotiate with.
For me Afghanistan is a bit of a political museum. Other countries have their federal systems (take Malaysia for example) but give the national government enough power to be credible internationally. Doesn't work in this case.
that robot has a gun! we're totally screwed!
Is it a Point of View gun? If so I agree.
Won't work as the module is too small. To get any noticeable gravity at the ends of the module, your spin rate will be high enough to cause dizziness. (Not to mention the area of useful gravity will be small, and the gravity gradient will be very steep.)
Which is why most proposals use tethers or booms to give a 'virtual diameter' large enough to hold the spin rate down.
How about a toroidal (or cylindrical) running track, with no spin beyond the movement of the runners? It worked on skylab. The main problem is the impulse from the masses moving around.
This would surely make those McDonalds birthday parties *way* more exciting for the kids.
Yes what we need is an animal which wants to be eaten. HHTG aside my wife is of Chinese origin and every time her family eat crab or lobster for dinner they insist on being photographed with the live animal 20 minutes before the main course is served.
I'm the squeamish one who asks for a "nice glass of water".
The other day I was sitting in a release planning meeting, listing to a discussion about our version control system and related tooling. Suddenly I had this thought that we were all just a bunch of apes, manipulating abstractions of abstractions of tools ultimately designed to help us catch our dinner. Now I don't know how we do it at all. It all seems so unlikely.
But much more importantly: how did the release go?
So-so
I thought you were going to say: The other day I was sitting in a release planning meeting and all I could think about was butchering carcasses.
...of management. Yeah that too.
I can put up a shelf. But I can't butcher a carcass. Evolution in reverse eh?.
The other day I was sitting in a release planning meeting, listing to a discussion about our version control system and related tooling. Suddenly I had this thought that we were all just a bunch of apes, manipulating abstractions of abstractions of tools ultimately designed to help us catch our dinner. Now I don't know how we do it at all. It all seems so unlikely.
With luck, another 800 000 years.
In the event of a major failure of the spacecraft you need a reasonably fail safe way to get to safety. In the future when there are more deep space vehicles it might be possible to rescue a crew in this situation. Until then, being able to directly reenter and land is a good idea.
I meant, be careful what you wish for, somebody else might go out and try it and then people will be taking close interest in your IP address.
This is probably a rotating drum inside a module.
The radius is too small for that.
Hell, if it weren't for JFK taking a bullet to the head we may have never even gotten to the moon.
Careful there.
The cheapest and safest way to finish the mission would be to load the crew and samples into an apollo style capsule and reenter directly. The article doesn't describe that.
Also the module doesn't seem big enough for the centrifuge they describe. They could have a module on a boom, then rotate the whole vehicle. Perhaps the high gravity module could slide along the boom and dock with the main vehicle. If this goes anywhere I expect the centrifuge will be dropped. It is just too hard to engineer.
Or Terminal Man?
Well I'm not sure what you mean by nerve cells vs. neurons (they are the same thing, by my understanding), but for every neuron there might be 1000 synapses, so that might be what you mean. I couldn't tell from the story, though.
The difference, I think, is that nerve cells are more isolated than neurons in the brain. So for a nerve you can use a large detector to isolate a signal but to get meaningful data from nerve cells (neurons) in a mass of neurons you need high resolution.
I wonder if 100% of the brain is monitored and analyzed if somewhere in there we will finally find a soul.
I take the opposing view. Once we model all of a working mind I think we will be surprised to find out little is going on there in reality.