No, the FFT is done not in the neuron signals, but in the way the physical ear is built - by the time the neurons in your ear get stimulated, FFT is already done by a practical process.
The same issue about catching a ball and differential equations - it's fuzzy evaluation of functions, which can be done by neural networks on computers, or by your neurons - but it in no way implies that a differential equation is being solved unconciously.
The brain "does FFT" in the same manner as a rock in orbit "does orbital equations".
Being able to jump around still has no sense, if you can't do anything worthwile - the battle is ended, there is no gameplay happening, you can't go to the next goal, you have to wait until some NPC finishes the monologue. YES, you haven't "lost control", but it still is effectively the same, only worse - since in other games, when you don't want to hear the monologue (say, because it's your third replay through the game), then you can usually skip back to action, but in HL2 your only choice is to wait. Or run around aimlessly while waiting. Or shoot in the air while waiting. Does that ability improve anything? You might as well go to kitchen and fetch some coffee while waiting.
Also, a small mailbox limit simply means that these emails either a) get moved to a non-secure solution as gmail or, say, local hard drive, or b) get deleted.
There is no other possibility. Which one of these choices offers better data retention?
"stop/start that same train every 2 miles and it's a completely different story."
But hey, that's the exact thing that this article is about! If this battery solution eliminates most (70%) of this overhead, then maybe it's not a completely different story anymore?
Exactly, a platform that executes malformed code, as life has shown many times, tends to be more successful than a platform that breaks down, stops executing it and exits. That's the whole point, IE gained a lot by being designed this way. To 99% of the users, ease of use and convenience is much more important than security.
Looking at the job ads is the wrong way to go. I have been doing some hiring/choosing potential employees recently. It's the same as in any position - finance, sales, law, whatever - you put on a laundry list of requirements which basically states "big plus for you if you have done this exact thing before so that we can train you twice as fast and potentially get some tips/tricks/knowledge/contacts from your previous position".
Then you get a dozen of persons who basically the same in terms of these qualifications (if the qualification list was stupid and unrealistic, then simply they all fit this list equally poor), and choose the one who looks the most sane thinking and/or seeming good (the last statement basically equals communication skills). So in the final choice all these 'soft' qualifications mean everything.
Well, I am evisioning a completely scenario - society survives the pandemic, but with 10% less people. Refineries won't stop if, say, over 6 months it so happens that every tenth employee dies of the flu. Agriculture won't stop as well. The manual-labor-intensive industries will get reduction in their productivity, but it will even out with the reduction in demand.
In essence, the tough part is to maintain stability over the time when 30-60% of the workforce is temporarily disabled (either home coughing, or healthy, but wanting to stay isolated from the infection). If you get over that part, then the major issue (as told in the article) of losing 10% of the workforce is not as bad as it seems - as the granparent stated, it would reduce the ecological footprint issues.
The technology is going nowhere, even a nuclear exchange that would incapacitate 99% of world's (leaving 60 million people healthy) will leave the technology intact. Nuclear war can destroy society because it will destroy infrastructure; however, if on a single day simply every 10th person would drop dead, then it would be a huge personal tragedy for every family, but society in general would recover quite quickly. IMHO.
Well, that's the point - right now oil is so cheap that we simply burn most of it. If oil prices rise 10x, then for cars and energy production it will get replaced by other sources of energy, but industries like pharmaceuticals (for which petrochemicals is the source of much of components) will easily eat up the cost increase. If we use our (finite) supplies of oil for chemical purposes then we have a lot longer time to research and develop alternatives for them, compared to us currently simply burning this versatile resource away.
"But if you can fly the Shuttle up to about 8,000 feet -- you lose the need for about 1/3 to a 1/2 of the fuel."
This is completely false, as the fuel is spent not to gain height, but to gain orbital velocity. Getting to 1/3 of the height is pretty irrelevant for this purpose, it does not save 1/3 of the fuel.
It does work for purposes of reaching "orbital height" as SpaceShipOne is doing, but for true orbit, even if you started from the orbital height, you'd still need to spend 90% of the same fuel to gain enough speed to *stay* in the orbit instead of falling down.
Actually, don't most of the designs require the climber as the MEANS of building most of the tether? As in, get a single (low weight, low capacity) strand up via rockets, and then have climbers pull up the 1000 other strands in order to get a tether strong enough for full-sized cargo.
So climber is a pre-requisite for building the elevator, not something that comes after it.
We still need a viable material for the tether, of course - but that's a different problem in a rather different area of science and that is being worked on in parallel with this issue.
The big issue is soundcard - the analog-to-digital converters. 100-200$ for a low-end soundcard with a couple of nice inputs will put your setup up to 99% of the studio quality (if you want to record your Korg; recording vocals, for example, will require some $$$ for good mics).
"a set of 20 rules can be compressed down to 3 if you don't mind the result being up to a penny off" Sadly, this is not the case. Many 'penny off' cases, once they happen on accounting papers, will most likely result in at least 10 hour long investigation (think $$ in costs), as every penny must be correct, even if the cost of investigation/corrections greatly exceeds the amount of mistake.
I have seen 2 different laptops recently, where XP really was not a possibility - there were no functional drivers available for the montherboard included LAN and sound. I tried for a full weekend to get them working, and failed; all googling attempts only showed other people who failed, no solutions.
As I said, 'after we explore them'. We'll take anything that looks interesting with us before the launch, and since the next landing most probably will be elsewhere (just to ensure diversity, i.e. checking different places), then we won't be returning to that spot in any case.
Actually, if it's thrust/weight is better than current chemical rockets, then, as you say, it would be good for getting off the planet - but Mars instead of Earth.
A major problem in a Mars mission is the huge weight of the rocket needed to get up from Mars to orbit - since that rocket also needs to be raised up from Earth beforehand. Anything that can make Mars lander/launcher lighter is desperately needed, and who cares if we nuke a spot of Martian desert after we've analysed it already...
Who cares ? It does keep them away from the rest of society for a significant time. The main part is to prevent them from harming others, and for that the method used doesn't really matter - it can be a result of rehabilitation, where they don't want to harm others anymore, or it can done by physically not allowing them to harm others by locking them away.
Another case of RIAA selling shoddy, lame products. My friendly neighbouring pirates are distributing high-quality, premium versions of the same songs that are fully compatible with everything!
No wonder that RIAA can't compete with them, as RIAA is selling cheap knockoffs, while pirates are offering the real goods.
"While I don't wish to burden legitimate users, I do want to prevent most piracy."
This will not happen. Cracks for very heavy-handed measures will be available to exactly the same people in exactly the same ways as a cracks for a simple serial-number check on installation, ergo a simple serial-check will get you 99.9% effectiveness of any other software system.
The only things I have seen that seem to work are the hardware usb-dongles; the earlier ones were cracked but the new versions seem to be quite safe. (but they cause a number of other issues and don't qualify as non-intrusive).
Well, I can agree with you on the laziness part. This feeling would also encourage to use it for sensitive passwords, like online banking - and that's a risky thing.
There are quite a few suggestions on this thread on how to implement a more secure (but less convenient) password storage, but maybe a hybrid solution would be best ? Say, have a feature to mark a password as 'important', and Firefox would keep it encrypted, and wouldn't send it to webpages until you order to do so (like in Opera)..
Well, often I don't decide if I need a password. Most of these 'remembered' passwords are completely useless to me, just some random site requires that I 'create an account' to, say, view the postings in it's forums. And that dumb site then requires '6+ mixed case letters with at least one number', when I would be happy with a blank password - there Firefox remembering this password is a nice thing.
Heck, I wouldn't even want to remember what username I have on these sites, I want it to 'just work' - if my computer wouldn't remember the usernames for me, i'd simply create a new disposable account every time instead of trying to write them down. Remembering it is feasible only if it's a standard username/password that I use on a hundred other sites.
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No, the FFT is done not in the neuron signals, but in the way the physical ear is built - by the time the neurons in your ear get stimulated, FFT is already done by a practical process.
The same issue about catching a ball and differential equations - it's fuzzy evaluation of functions, which can be done by neural networks on computers, or by your neurons - but it in no way implies that a differential equation is being solved unconciously.
The brain "does FFT" in the same manner as a rock in orbit "does orbital equations".
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you expected :)
Did you read what the parent said?
Being able to jump around still has no sense, if you can't do anything worthwile - the battle is ended, there is no gameplay happening, you can't go to the next goal, you have to wait until some NPC finishes the monologue. YES, you haven't "lost control", but it still is effectively the same, only worse - since in other games, when you don't want to hear the monologue (say, because it's your third replay through the game), then you can usually skip back to action, but in HL2 your only choice is to wait. Or run around aimlessly while waiting. Or shoot in the air while waiting. Does that ability improve anything? You might as well go to kitchen and fetch some coffee while waiting.
Also, a small mailbox limit simply means that these emails either
a) get moved to a non-secure solution as gmail or, say, local hard drive, or
b) get deleted.
There is no other possibility. Which one of these choices offers better data retention?
"stop/start that same train every 2 miles and it's a completely different story."
But hey, that's the exact thing that this article is about! If this battery solution eliminates most (70%) of this overhead, then maybe it's not a completely different story anymore?
Exactly, a platform that executes malformed code, as life has shown many times, tends to be more successful than a platform that breaks down, stops executing it and exits.
That's the whole point, IE gained a lot by being designed this way. To 99% of the users, ease of use and convenience is much more important than security.
Looking at the job ads is the wrong way to go.
I have been doing some hiring/choosing potential employees recently. It's the same as in any position - finance, sales, law, whatever - you put on a laundry list of requirements which basically states "big plus for you if you have done this exact thing before so that we can train you twice as fast and potentially get some tips/tricks/knowledge/contacts from your previous position".
Then you get a dozen of persons who basically the same in terms of these qualifications (if the qualification list was stupid and unrealistic, then simply they all fit this list equally poor), and choose the one who looks the most sane thinking and/or seeming good (the last statement basically equals communication skills). So in the final choice all these 'soft' qualifications mean everything.
Well, I am evisioning a completely scenario - society survives the pandemic, but with 10% less people. Refineries won't stop if, say, over 6 months it so happens that every tenth employee dies of the flu. Agriculture won't stop as well. The manual-labor-intensive industries will get reduction in their productivity, but it will even out with the reduction in demand.
In essence, the tough part is to maintain stability over the time when 30-60% of the workforce is temporarily disabled (either home coughing, or healthy, but wanting to stay isolated from the infection). If you get over that part, then the major issue (as told in the article) of losing 10% of the workforce is not as bad as it seems - as the granparent stated, it would reduce the ecological footprint issues.
The technology is going nowhere, even a nuclear exchange that would incapacitate 99% of world's (leaving 60 million people healthy) will leave the technology intact. Nuclear war can destroy society because it will destroy infrastructure; however, if on a single day simply every 10th person would drop dead, then it would be a huge personal tragedy for every family, but society in general would recover quite quickly. IMHO.
Well, that's the point - right now oil is so cheap that we simply burn most of it.
If oil prices rise 10x, then for cars and energy production it will get replaced by other sources of energy, but industries like pharmaceuticals (for which petrochemicals is the source of much of components) will easily eat up the cost increase. If we use our (finite) supplies of oil for chemical purposes then we have a lot longer time to research and develop alternatives for them, compared to us currently simply burning this versatile resource away.
"But if you can fly the Shuttle up to about 8,000 feet -- you lose the need for about 1/3 to a 1/2 of the fuel."
This is completely false, as the fuel is spent not to gain height, but to gain orbital velocity. Getting to 1/3 of the height is pretty irrelevant for this purpose, it does not save 1/3 of the fuel.
It does work for purposes of reaching "orbital height" as SpaceShipOne is doing, but for true orbit, even if you started from the orbital height, you'd still need to spend 90% of the same fuel to gain enough speed to *stay* in the orbit instead of falling down.
Actually, don't most of the designs require the climber as the MEANS of building most of the tether?
As in, get a single (low weight, low capacity) strand up via rockets, and then have climbers pull up the 1000 other strands in order to get a tether strong enough for full-sized cargo.
So climber is a pre-requisite for building the elevator, not something that comes after it.
We still need a viable material for the tether, of course - but that's a different problem in a rather different area of science and that is being worked on in parallel with this issue.
The big issue is soundcard - the analog-to-digital converters.
100-200$ for a low-end soundcard with a couple of nice inputs will put your setup up to 99% of the studio quality (if you want to record your Korg; recording vocals, for example, will require some $$$ for good mics).
"a set of 20 rules can be compressed down to 3 if you don't mind the result being up to a penny off"
Sadly, this is not the case.
Many 'penny off' cases, once they happen on accounting papers, will most likely result in at least 10 hour long investigation (think $$ in costs), as every penny must be correct, even if the cost of investigation/corrections greatly exceeds the amount of mistake.
Well, EU has both more people and a larger economy than the USA. Germany alone is just a portion of it though, but your post does feel like flamebait.
HP Pavillion dv6525 was one, can't remember the other - but it was a different company, not HP.
Well, but that's the truth!
I have seen 2 different laptops recently, where XP really was not a possibility - there were no functional drivers available for the montherboard included LAN and sound. I tried for a full weekend to get them working, and failed; all googling attempts only showed other people who failed, no solutions.
Seriously, this does sound like a superior solution that would actually work in the real business world.
As I said, 'after we explore them'. We'll take anything that looks interesting with us before the launch, and since the next landing most probably will be elsewhere (just to ensure diversity, i.e. checking different places), then we won't be returning to that spot in any case.
Actually, if it's thrust/weight is better than current chemical rockets, then, as you say, it would be good for getting off the planet - but Mars instead of Earth.
A major problem in a Mars mission is the huge weight of the rocket needed to get up from Mars to orbit - since that rocket also needs to be raised up from Earth beforehand. Anything that can make Mars lander/launcher lighter is desperately needed, and who cares if we nuke a spot of Martian desert after we've analysed it already...
Who cares ? It does keep them away from the rest of society for a significant time.
The main part is to prevent them from harming others, and for that the method used doesn't really matter - it can be a result of rehabilitation, where they don't want to harm others anymore, or it can done by physically not allowing them to harm others by locking them away.
Well, if it slams into a cliff when falling from the orbit, then it just might be something enough to spread it out in the environment as a fine dust.
Another case of RIAA selling shoddy, lame products.
My friendly neighbouring pirates are distributing high-quality, premium versions of the same songs that are fully compatible with everything!
No wonder that RIAA can't compete with them, as RIAA is selling cheap knockoffs, while pirates are offering the real goods.
"While I don't wish to burden legitimate users, I do want to prevent most piracy."
This will not happen. Cracks for very heavy-handed measures will be available to exactly the same people in exactly the same ways as a cracks for a simple serial-number check on installation, ergo a simple serial-check will get you 99.9% effectiveness of any other software system.
The only things I have seen that seem to work are the hardware usb-dongles; the earlier ones were cracked but the new versions seem to be quite safe. (but they cause a number of other issues and don't qualify as non-intrusive).
Well, I can agree with you on the laziness part. This feeling would also encourage to use it for sensitive passwords, like online banking - and that's a risky thing.
There are quite a few suggestions on this thread on how to implement a more secure (but less convenient) password storage, but maybe a hybrid solution would be best ? Say, have a feature to mark a password as 'important', and Firefox would keep it encrypted, and wouldn't send it to webpages until you order to do so (like in Opera)..
Well, often I don't decide if I need a password.
Most of these 'remembered' passwords are completely useless to me, just some random site requires that I 'create an account' to, say, view the postings in it's forums. And that dumb site then requires '6+ mixed case letters with at least one number', when I would be happy with a blank password - there Firefox remembering this password is a nice thing.
Heck, I wouldn't even want to remember what username I have on these sites, I want it to 'just work' - if my computer wouldn't remember the usernames for me, i'd simply create a new disposable account every time instead of trying to write them down. Remembering it is feasible only if it's a standard username/password that I use on a hundred other sites.