Now THAT'S interesting. AT&T's cellphone network competes in a money-per-bandwidth market with a transmitter network which covers the area redundantly with the competitors'. And when they choke on their own soaring sales, they race to upgrade capacity, so they can deliver the bytes faster and bill for them.
Conversely, when they're selling bandwidth to homes, they're in a divided and conquered market, which pays on the buffet model, so they have an altogether different solution to capacity problems.
All they need is a fabrication shop which is built entirely from parts which the shop itself is capable of manufacturing. (or maybe certain manufacuring-intensive sundries, like diamond drillbits, which could be launched over periodically from Earth)
Assuming that same fab shop can be used to make mining, smelting and life-support gear, and that some viable energy source exists, that's all the bootstrap gear you need.
Furthermore, all they've measured (with one sample) is the rate of mutation of a Y chromosome. Every chromosome except that one can pass through a female or a male ancestor, and so they're subject to different mutations. The parental-age-vs-zygote-integrity curve is way steeper for women than for men, for instance, since men are replenishing and draining their supply all the time whereas women are born with a lifetime supply.
So the mutation rate for the whole genome could be quite different from the part that comes from a direct paternal line.
Also, we've spent the last decade building a lot of big, really expensive mobile hardware, training staff to use it, and then sending both overseas to be destroyed. And apparently we actually have to pay for those. Who knew?
you can easily base quantum on determinism if you give up on Einstein's concept of reality. Which is to say, that there are "real things out there with real, measurable properties".
Quantum implies heavily that, for example, there is no particle out there with an actual, measurable position, and so on.
You needn't give up on Einstein's notion just to believe in QM. There are still real things out there, with real, measurable, probabilistic properties. There's nothing more 'real' about a Bohr atom than a Planck one.
The penalty for going 'off-chip' is so large and the links between chips suck so much, that a distributed architecture like this just can't compete with a screaming fast 3 GHz single-node
BUT: If this turns out to be a viable programming and networking paradigm, then we've also got a recipe for arbitrarily scalable cpus. For if it's so expensive to go off-chip, why can't we just print entire silicon wafers tiled with these things? And then stack them? The only real limit on processor density would be the power and cooling requirements.
For that to become the Better Technology, all we'd need is a a proof-of-concept that shows software can run efficiently on this kind of "flat" hardware.
If we built two ground-based lasers on the Moon's equator, each within a few degrees of longitude of the Earth border (but far enough to keep the Earth firmly in their blind spot) then we could have nearly month-round coverage, interrupted only while the probe is occupying that same blind spot.
And then, of course, the terrorists and/or James Bond villains will hatch a plot to hijack a laser, build some hidden thrusters and change the angular momentum of the moon!
This was my first and second thought too. (The researchers will have to be proficient at running simulations, adjusting inputs, and running them again?)
I don't have the mod points to 'insightful' you, so instead I'll chime in that I think you have exactly the right response.
Things like country-bans are circumventable by the very nature of what the Internet is. Comply 100% with the court order, while loudly demonstrating its ineffectuality.
Now you're talking. A bit of video-analyzing CPU muscle with these things could mean a webcam that senses Z-axis.
You could drop a virtual greenscreen at a fixed Z plane, like you suggest, or you could point the camera around your room, analyze its layout and clone it into your Second Life house (or whatever the hell the kids are up to these days) as a 3d mesh. Avatars could be made from a few stereo photos of your face.
Slashdot Mirror
Very good.
I'll just nip off and shoot myself.
*polite applause*
Apparently, you have a laugh-on for people who are of low mind.
HP is not on IBM's side. This I promise you.
Now THAT'S interesting. AT&T's cellphone network competes in a money-per-bandwidth market with a transmitter network which covers the area redundantly with the competitors'. And when they choke on their own soaring sales, they race to upgrade capacity, so they can deliver the bytes faster and bill for them.
Conversely, when they're selling bandwidth to homes, they're in a divided and conquered market, which pays on the buffet model, so they have an altogether different solution to capacity problems.
It could be that 3d films are intentionally shot with depth of field which is chosen to mimic the focus of a human eye.
If it's impossible to correct vision in one of your eyes, then it sucks to be you.
Insensitive clod.
All they need is a fabrication shop which is built entirely from parts which the shop itself is capable of manufacturing. (or maybe certain manufacuring-intensive sundries, like diamond drillbits, which could be launched over periodically from Earth)
Assuming that same fab shop can be used to make mining, smelting and life-support gear, and that some viable energy source exists, that's all the bootstrap gear you need.
What temperature and atmospheric conditions are they comfortable in?
Hey, we can volunteer other people for this? See, I know his guy, he's a telephone sanitizer...
Do any of you know someone?
Furthermore, all they've measured (with one sample) is the rate of mutation of a Y chromosome. Every chromosome except that one can pass through a female or a male ancestor, and so they're subject to different mutations. The parental-age-vs-zygote-integrity curve is way steeper for women than for men, for instance, since men are replenishing and draining their supply all the time whereas women are born with a lifetime supply.
So the mutation rate for the whole genome could be quite different from the part that comes from a direct paternal line.
Whoa. If you were your own grandpa, your DNA would be a Quine!
Probably not. The keyboard would have to be made of those little metal discs you have to 'pop'. Once per keystroke.
Count me out.
Also, we've spent the last decade building a lot of big, really expensive mobile hardware, training staff to use it, and then sending both overseas to be destroyed. And apparently we actually have to pay for those. Who knew?
you can easily base quantum on determinism if you give up on Einstein's concept of reality. Which is to say, that there are "real things out there with real, measurable properties".
Quantum implies heavily that, for example, there is no particle out there with an actual, measurable position, and so on.
You needn't give up on Einstein's notion just to believe in QM. There are still real things out there, with real, measurable, probabilistic properties. There's nothing more 'real' about a Bohr atom than a Planck one.
If I'm not mistaken, this ended up being the plot of "The Girl Next Door"
Alright. This was a slam-dunk AC post. Props, whoever you are.
The penalty for going 'off-chip' is so large and the links between chips suck so much, that a distributed architecture like this just can't compete with a screaming fast 3 GHz single-node
BUT: If this turns out to be a viable programming and networking paradigm, then we've also got a recipe for arbitrarily scalable cpus. For if it's so expensive to go off-chip, why can't we just print entire silicon wafers tiled with these things? And then stack them? The only real limit on processor density would be the power and cooling requirements.
For that to become the Better Technology, all we'd need is a a proof-of-concept that shows software can run efficiently on this kind of "flat" hardware.
Oh, we know. We're Slashdot users.
But how would YOU know, AC? Unless you'd been through the Initiation ritual as one of us!
If we built two ground-based lasers on the Moon's equator, each within a few degrees of longitude of the Earth border (but far enough to keep the Earth firmly in their blind spot) then we could have nearly month-round coverage, interrupted only while the probe is occupying that same blind spot.
And then, of course, the terrorists and/or James Bond villains will hatch a plot to hijack a laser, build some hidden thrusters and change the angular momentum of the moon!
The ideal time to make that discovery is not when you're kissing the Sun from 0.1 AU away.
Let's start with unmanned probes, hey?
This was my first and second thought too. (The researchers will have to be proficient at running simulations, adjusting inputs, and running them again?)
Hurrrr.
I don't have the mod points to 'insightful' you, so instead I'll chime in that I think you have exactly the right response.
Things like country-bans are circumventable by the very nature of what the Internet is. Comply 100% with the court order, while loudly demonstrating its ineffectuality.
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Now you're talking. A bit of video-analyzing CPU muscle with these things could mean a webcam that senses Z-axis.
You could drop a virtual greenscreen at a fixed Z plane, like you suggest, or you could point the camera around your room, analyze its layout and clone it into your Second Life house (or whatever the hell the kids are up to these days) as a 3d mesh. Avatars could be made from a few stereo photos of your face.
And oh my god, the porn.