Actually, living in a small apartment I cut my electricity usage during non-peak months by close to 10% by unplugging everything when not in use (including internet, computer, television, etc). This was about 50kWH/month, which translates to roughly 70W constant draw. The modem/router was 20, the printer was 10, the computer was 10, the television was 10, etc etc etc.
And no, none of my computers use over 150W. The only people who have 200+W computers are those with gigantic graphics cards, and they are also part of the problem if they leave those on 24/7. Get off AIM already.
+1. Rhaban, physics/graphics is one of the MOST parallelizable operations we have. The "shared dataset" is the previous solved set, and no communication is needed so long as the previous set is in shared memory of some sort. The new data should be deterministically determined by the previous set. Graphics processors use this in a non-core-based system where specialized hardware modifies the data set in a pre-determined way massively in parallel.
WHEREAS, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a blend of government officials and scientists, does no independent climate research but relies on global climate researchers;
What do you propose to collect independent data from 1950 to 2010? Time travel? Of course you have to rely on global climate researchers.
I prefer to get my climate change research from elsewhere.
On a related note, I motion to vote on a resolution decrying Utah.
My eyes have shutters. You must look pretty weird.
About your holographic idea, Heisenberg (or even De Broglie) might have something to say about that. (something about the difficulty of identifying both location and movement of an electron)
Also, (being from/. I have not read TFA) are they talking about staggering pixel capacitor charging across rows? Up until this point, has everyone really been doing this row-by-row? This seems sub-optimal for high-def images of moving objects, anyway.
It was a joke. Google (in some sense) already knows where you live. Where you live is pretty freely available on the internet. All you need is a name (and the first 24 of your IP goes a long way).
Please explain how mandatory health insurance is "clearly unconstitutional", because all of the lawyers I speak to (which are many) have somehow managed to miss that argument.
And if you had any economic sense at all you would realize that a non-discrimination clause for health insurance providers IMPLIES mandatory health insurance for the populous.
Um...
Troed you could certainly provide a purely syntactic review of the code, but the semantics would be beyond your scope of knowledge, and there would be no test cases to troubleshoot, since the system cannot be solved.
And while syntactic review would be worthwhile, without having a semantic understanding you would be incapable of identifying the more elusive errors.
I'm not sure what the Time Machine is, but GOD I hope they cannot come up with something like the ribbon.
And people make good UIs, not companies. If you want a nice interface you put someone well equiped in charge of it. This is typically not a priority when copy+paste doesn't work:) BTW I'm not sure what you mean, I never noticed problems with the clipboard in Mandrake circa 2002. Do you mean between programs?
Brain DRM has already been patented. If you attempt to implement it, expect years in and out of court, and finally an order to compensate the patent holder with some fraction of the souls of your customers.
While I grant that some vision restoration experiments are promising, the rest of what they are talking about is not at all within our grasp. The only reason vision (and for that matter auditory) implants are successful is because the person already has a functioning nerve group for input and the brain systems developed through prior use. In cases where people have been without vision for too long, or where there has been damage/degeneration of the neural pathway, such techniques have had little positive effect.
When you start talking about the "replacement body", this may have similar nerve bundles pre-existing if the injury is outside the brain and occurred in the recent past. I will yield there is fair promise in the programs in which they re-map nerves to enervate existing muscle and then use sensors to detect muscle twitches, but there are no great methods of establishing direct signaling from nerve to machine yet.
None of the above are brain machine interfaces, at least not in the direct sense. Direct BMIs (not relying on existing nerves for IO) have so far not been able to do much of anything in real time.
And the GPS "feature" is likely many decades away. And would probably require claiming some significant portion of the brain already in use. A compass would probably be implementable in the near future (10+ years), if we can find some long-lasting solution to encourage nerve-diode interfacing.
I have a small bit of experience in this field (having attended lab meetings for a University group partnered with the lab of Duke's Dr. Miguel Nicolelis).
I frankly have to say that the resolution in non-surgical methods is just not there, and is not promising. Surgical methods, on the other hand, are fairly invasive, and have yet to yield long-term success. And by success, I mean prediction of a single motor event, ie a mouse pushing a lever. Implants tend to degrade in signal quality over time.
Given that we cannot yet accurately predict simple motor events (which should have very easy-to-identify motor cortex manifestations), the idea that we are anywhere near interacting with conscious thought (which we still have no concept of the physical manifestation of which), is wrong. To put it in CS terms: Our data path is lossy and degrades with time. We have no idea what format the data is in, or even the data structures involved. We can tell that there is traffic on the network, but little else.
I took a step back the other day to consider the progress of Linux as a user-friendly OS. Comparing a 2002 copy of Mandrake to modern Ubuntu (argued the most user friendly mainstream distros/flavors of their day), the rapid improvement is marked. Looking at Windows 7 compared to Windows XP, the progress has not been anywhere near as impressive. Granted part of the difference is that Linux is still maturing as a non-tech-person OS, but I doubt that Microsoft will be able to keep up. I don't know about 3 years, but 20 years I might give you.
All ribbons did was take the menus and turn them into tabs, then the items buried under the menus are now out in the open once you select the tab. Most normal people actually find the ribbon much easier to use because they (and I as well) never wasted the countless hours to memorize how many menus deep you had to go to find X rarely used feature. Now X rarely used feature is out in the open once you select the tab for what general thing you're trying to do - no more digging for it.
Yes, because scanning through a set of pictographs arranged in no particular order is much easier than reading a list. Oh wait, that is false.
Yes, because scanning through a set of pictographs arranged in no particular order is much faster than reading a list. Oh wait, that is false, too.
This is always a conclusion people come to, "bullies are assholes".
Often times the "bullies" have it worse that the poor socially awkward people they prey on. To feel the need to dominate others the way a "bully" does, you need some pretty messed up stuff going on at home, or your own set of social deficits (probably both).
Don't get me wrong, I played the awkward social outcast, but this demonizing the bullies (who are usually not even popular, themselves) does not help anyone. "Bullies are dicks" should be revised to "kids are dumb" and "bullies are typically abused by their parents".
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We will just have to convert them to 2H, then!
It is called a 2D plane bisecting a 3D space. Now we just have to fit the ship on it.
Actually, living in a small apartment I cut my electricity usage during non-peak months by close to 10% by unplugging everything when not in use (including internet, computer, television, etc). This was about 50kWH/month, which translates to roughly 70W constant draw. The modem/router was 20, the printer was 10, the computer was 10, the television was 10, etc etc etc.
And no, none of my computers use over 150W. The only people who have 200+W computers are those with gigantic graphics cards, and they are also part of the problem if they leave those on 24/7. Get off AIM already.
+1. Rhaban, physics/graphics is one of the MOST parallelizable operations we have. The "shared dataset" is the previous solved set, and no communication is needed so long as the previous set is in shared memory of some sort. The new data should be deterministically determined by the previous set. Graphics processors use this in a non-core-based system where specialized hardware modifies the data set in a pre-determined way massively in parallel.
since most of the "scientists" are on government dole
Needs citation. See United States post circa 1970.
WHEREAS, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a blend of government officials and scientists, does no independent climate research but relies on global climate researchers;
What do you propose to collect independent data from 1950 to 2010? Time travel? Of course you have to rely on global climate researchers.
I prefer to get my climate change research from elsewhere.
On a related note, I motion to vote on a resolution decrying Utah.
My eyes have shutters. You must look pretty weird. About your holographic idea, Heisenberg (or even De Broglie) might have something to say about that. (something about the difficulty of identifying both location and movement of an electron) Also, (being from /. I have not read TFA) are they talking about staggering pixel capacitor charging across rows? Up until this point, has everyone really been doing this row-by-row? This seems sub-optimal for high-def images of moving objects, anyway.
It was a joke. Google (in some sense) already knows where you live. Where you live is pretty freely available on the internet. All you need is a name (and the first 24 of your IP goes a long way).
But then Google will know where you live! Oh wait...
if you ever get to write code that is used commerically by 100000000's of users, you'll eat those words i promise.
The fact is, you can only do so much. the more idiot proof you think you have made it, eventually a big enough idiot with break it.
Or, in the case of video games, a big enough OMGZZZZZZZZZR 1337 H4X02!!!!!!1111111111
Please explain how mandatory health insurance is "clearly unconstitutional", because all of the lawyers I speak to (which are many) have somehow managed to miss that argument.
And if you had any economic sense at all you would realize that a non-discrimination clause for health insurance providers IMPLIES mandatory health insurance for the populous.
I had not previously read the Lenski Dialog. Thanks for the link! it was a good (smile inducing) read.
Um... Troed you could certainly provide a purely syntactic review of the code, but the semantics would be beyond your scope of knowledge, and there would be no test cases to troubleshoot, since the system cannot be solved. And while syntactic review would be worthwhile, without having a semantic understanding you would be incapable of identifying the more elusive errors.
My guess is that they don't print them any more, and it was a PITA to turn your entire monitor upside down!
I'm not sure what the Time Machine is, but GOD I hope they cannot come up with something like the ribbon.
:) BTW I'm not sure what you mean, I never noticed problems with the clipboard in Mandrake circa 2002. Do you mean between programs?
And people make good UIs, not companies. If you want a nice interface you put someone well equiped in charge of it. This is typically not a priority when copy+paste doesn't work
Brain DRM has already been patented. If you attempt to implement it, expect years in and out of court, and finally an order to compensate the patent holder with some fraction of the souls of your customers.
While I grant that some vision restoration experiments are promising, the rest of what they are talking about is not at all within our grasp. The only reason vision (and for that matter auditory) implants are successful is because the person already has a functioning nerve group for input and the brain systems developed through prior use. In cases where people have been without vision for too long, or where there has been damage/degeneration of the neural pathway, such techniques have had little positive effect.
When you start talking about the "replacement body", this may have similar nerve bundles pre-existing if the injury is outside the brain and occurred in the recent past. I will yield there is fair promise in the programs in which they re-map nerves to enervate existing muscle and then use sensors to detect muscle twitches, but there are no great methods of establishing direct signaling from nerve to machine yet.
None of the above are brain machine interfaces, at least not in the direct sense. Direct BMIs (not relying on existing nerves for IO) have so far not been able to do much of anything in real time.
And the GPS "feature" is likely many decades away. And would probably require claiming some significant portion of the brain already in use. A compass would probably be implementable in the near future (10+ years), if we can find some long-lasting solution to encourage nerve-diode interfacing.
It also might not take millions of dollars to do. This could potentially be solved by someone in their garage.
I'm not sure what this person is envisioning, but it has to be disgusting.
They are correlated, so clearly there is a causal relationship.
False!
I do not believe you would experience the benefits of REM sleep if there was real input. Sleep is not for your body, but for your brain :D
I have a small bit of experience in this field (having attended lab meetings for a University group partnered with the lab of Duke's Dr. Miguel Nicolelis).
I frankly have to say that the resolution in non-surgical methods is just not there, and is not promising. Surgical methods, on the other hand, are fairly invasive, and have yet to yield long-term success. And by success, I mean prediction of a single motor event, ie a mouse pushing a lever. Implants tend to degrade in signal quality over time.
Given that we cannot yet accurately predict simple motor events (which should have very easy-to-identify motor cortex manifestations), the idea that we are anywhere near interacting with conscious thought (which we still have no concept of the physical manifestation of which), is wrong. To put it in CS terms: Our data path is lossy and degrades with time. We have no idea what format the data is in, or even the data structures involved. We can tell that there is traffic on the network, but little else.
I took a step back the other day to consider the progress of Linux as a user-friendly OS. Comparing a 2002 copy of Mandrake to modern Ubuntu (argued the most user friendly mainstream distros/flavors of their day), the rapid improvement is marked. Looking at Windows 7 compared to Windows XP, the progress has not been anywhere near as impressive. Granted part of the difference is that Linux is still maturing as a non-tech-person OS, but I doubt that Microsoft will be able to keep up. I don't know about 3 years, but 20 years I might give you.
All ribbons did was take the menus and turn them into tabs, then the items buried under the menus are now out in the open once you select the tab. Most normal people actually find the ribbon much easier to use because they (and I as well) never wasted the countless hours to memorize how many menus deep you had to go to find X rarely used feature. Now X rarely used feature is out in the open once you select the tab for what general thing you're trying to do - no more digging for it.
Yes, because scanning through a set of pictographs arranged in no particular order is much easier than reading a list. Oh wait, that is false.
Yes, because scanning through a set of pictographs arranged in no particular order is much faster than reading a list. Oh wait, that is false, too.
This is always a conclusion people come to, "bullies are assholes".
Often times the "bullies" have it worse that the poor socially awkward people they prey on. To feel the need to dominate others the way a "bully" does, you need some pretty messed up stuff going on at home, or your own set of social deficits (probably both).
Don't get me wrong, I played the awkward social outcast, but this demonizing the bullies (who are usually not even popular, themselves) does not help anyone. "Bullies are dicks" should be revised to "kids are dumb" and "bullies are typically abused by their parents".
Is your reversal of ratio order a joke? You said the ratio of X to Y is Y:X, which is ironic given X and Y :D Intentional?