To extend what you said, there are two problems we're seeing with current transistor technology.
Most inexpensive chip processes involve using blue and UV light to effectively (with chemical baths and deposition treatments) etch the surface of the chip into the correct shape and size. The biggest limitation here is that the light is around 300nm. When you're working significantly smaller than that, etching with this light is not as effective. Using higher frequency light can break down the materials (bathing things in xrays is generally a bad idea). One solution is to use refraction, which brings the wavelength of light of a given frequency to a smaller scale without increasing the energy of the light. This helps when etching smaller features (45nm is close to the limit of this hack).
To make smaller structures, they either need to grow them up, which takes time, or they need to build them individually using finer systems like electron guns. This can allow for tests on impossibly small transistors to see their behavior but are inefficient to produce for mass marketing.
The other concern is that with transistors, since you have charge being separated across a barrier (in a FET at least), the smaller the barrier is, the more likely you're going to breach it. If I remember correctly, and I may be wrong here, this should be related to leakage current.
I don't see us being able to make components smaller than the minimum etching size of 45nm. Since a transistor is usually larger than the minimum size (allowing for room for a gate and terminals on both sides, plus the width to allow for contacts to the silicon), this might still be an improvement.
What I'm wondering about is when people are going to realize that static memory prevents the benefits of a reboot. If a system is shutdown and its memory is still flooded by a program with a memory leak, it may not be recoverable. Better operating systems are handling this nicer, but I still need to reboot my machines from time to time to free up a few hundred megs of ram. I can imagine this might completely foobar a few machines without adequate memory cleanup.
It doesn't necessarily matter that the heart monitor doesn't run windows, although there's nothing stopping someone from trying that, if a machine with that problem is in the loop. It's especially problematic if the devices themselves are at risk of hacking. Windows is not the only thing suffering from security issues.
Just to clarify your statement some, a tennis court is about 23m long from end to end, making an object moving at 55m/s take just under 500ms.
Now, a question... Who can return a volley in tennis at that speed.
Someone untrained in the sport might, but it's not likely. With training, do people realize they are about to hit the ball before they do? What is the last point in time that someone in a tennis match can be told to not hit the ball, and respond appropriately?
If you're predicting the movement of the ball based on the behavior of your opponent, which people who are experienced at tennis do, and you limit your options automatically because you've trained your mind as well as your body in the art of playing tennis, and you don't need to think about whether you hit the ball unless you didn't, then you no longer are limited to the 500ms barrier between realizing that an action has taken place. The key here isn't response time, it's throughput, and it's the only reason that humans are capable of monitoring so many vital systems at the same time as performing conscious thought. Fewer channels to think in would make 500ms to realization matter.
Out of curiosity, who would be horrified at the idea that we don't have free thought?
Can you tell me a mail service that doesn't announce to a sender when a letter failed to reach its intended destination?
You're telling me that you would prefer thinking that you sent an e-mail to someone, and that they received it, even if you mistyped the address by one letter?
I don't see what they're doing as wrong at all. They aren't bouncing the original message, so spam is not originating from google's domains. They're also announcing e-mails which failed to arrive at their intended destination.
Easy, if they think it's no skin off their back for not updating their hardware, they think they can save money by not doing it. If they have 10,000 customers and it's $100 to replace one of their old modems, then it's a million bucks to swap them all out. If they don't think there's a risk of being held responsible for more than that for not changing their hardware, where is the incentive.
Hell, the security flaws typically affect the customer. Will that stop most people's internet addictions?
Here's another one... How many places does At&t hold a local monopoly? What other options doe people have, especially if they're dealing with constant (Video/Voice)oip? That stuff costs bandwidth and with more computers shipping with cameras and mics built in, more people are using it. A dialup line, and even a decent DSL can't really handle streaming video like that.
I know there are both upper bounds and lower bounds on the accuracy of radiocarbon dating. I would assume these are related to variations in atmospheric conditions and carbon intake by organisms and the length of a half-life of carbon. Does anyone know what the limitations are and/or why?
Do the same types of crashes occur when you push other graphics cards in the same ways you typically push nvidia cards?
28% of windows crashes might be a combination of the increased use of NVIDIA cards and the unusual things they are asked to do.
Is that 28% of the total crashes which occurred over a month?
Is that 28% of the types of crashes which occurred over a month?
Is that a symptom of someone with a faulty setup continually trying to play a game like WOW and having it explode in their face, and then attempting to do it again?
In my experience, as long as the stuff in question wasn't blatantly money, nobody's really taken anything.
I've seen a thumb drive have 'new' pictures on it when opened up, but most of the time people used to take the cubes apart or put them back together in new and unusual ways.
If you're dealing with sensitive information, just don't do anything stupid. If there's a risk, don't leave it out.
Get a backpack. Take it with you. It's a LAPTOP. If you can't, and it's the company laptop, I probably wouldn't worry about it so much.
If it's a personal laptop, and you won't take it home, I don't know what to say to you.
Didn't Metallica at one point say that you should listen to their music, even if you had to steal it off the shelves...?
Regardless, I don't see why these companies don't start promoting the p2p and putting up videos with their commercials recorded in for download. Torrent trackers and counters might provide the list of who is downloading, and how many times it was, and not dealing with the latency issues, plus allowing users to watch what they want at their leisure seems to be too good of a deal. Also, if they really want people watching the stuff on TV, give it at a lower quality so people who are interested will come back to watch it again, maybe even pay to watch it at a better (HD) quality.
Most people won't go out of the way to remove the commercials, and if the speed for downloads is high enough, then there's a value to downloading straight from the source.
To be fair, my gamecube is dead. In its wake, I've been playing my super and regular nintendo.
I beg to argue that older technologies have stood the test of time compared to our modern works which last two years or less. I would be far more interested in a black box that works reliably, even with some moderate internal hardware failures.
I should also note, the regular nintendo we've been using is split in half and missing a large chunk. The gamecube could be mistaken for new.
Someone puts you in a perfectly silent elevator and shuts the doors, you will feet the elevator speed up and slow down, but you won't feel anything special when its moving at a constant velocity besides normal gravity.
Don't believe me, do what all physicists in NY do in their spare time:P
Rid the Empire State Building's elevator while standing on a bathroom scale.
If you want my suggestion, go the inexpensive and effective route.
Try internships with colleges with co-op programs and quarter systems.
I'll explain:
Interns are a cheap way to test the water. When you find someone you like, hire them on full time at a good rate.
Co-op programs force students to try working in the industry, and so they will be looking for a wide variety of jobs.
Quarter systems are brutal. Anyone surviving in a college with one is either amazing at BSing, or is a strong programmer. Both are valuable, although I would only use the amazing BSer for inter-business relationships.
Colleges like these often have career fairs and such, which makes it easy for you and your company to meet a lot of these people first hand to see how they carry themselves.
RIT and Northeastern have pretty strong output. You might try them first.
Probably lining someones pockets or lighting someone else's cigars, but what if it was put to standards R&D.
Thoughts on using the money to lock down open patents on standards and techniques so they can be used by all and have a fixed form of prior art that can't be patented over?
If not to line someone else's pockets, what would you have them do with the money?
TFP mentions that they use a few metrics for determining 'arousal' or interest. Mind, I did not read through the whole thing, nor can I post the whole thing here, but, I think this is a reasonable excerpt:
"The facial EMG is an established index of hedonic valence; that is, increased activity over corrugator supercilii, which draws the brow down and together into a frown, is associated with negative emotions, whereas increased activity over zygomaticus major, which pulls the corners of the mouth back and up into a smile, is associated with positive emotions during affective imagery and when viewing pictures (for 6 s) or other media stimuli [e.g., 15, 19, 29]"
I'm wondering if those are valid measures considering that in order for some people to say the word 'SHIT,' I would think they would have to use the same muscles which pull the corners of the mouth back into a smile.
Can anyone who knows anything about anatomy confirm that?
How does the feeling of exasperation come across on those sensors?
They also talk about using skin conductivity as a measure of excitement.
Depends on a lot of things. Some people do, and some don't.
My car is about 10 years old, and so it doesn't.
Some people I know have heated driveways so they don't need to shovel snow in the winter, but in my opinion, that's completely ridiculous. Still, people will live with what they can afford to do regardless of anything else.
I don't doubt the water treatments, but if the windshield is being built this way, it better handle something rougher than a little bit of water and dust.
Have you ever had to chisel your car out from under an inch of ice before attempting to drive to work on that same inch on all the roads? It's fun, dangerous, stupid, and not uncommon in many of the northern states. NY and Penn were particularly fun for this because of the occasional eat-your-car pothole. SD was great for the bee and locust swarms. My wipers couldn't handle the bees. I had to pull over and scrub them off for about 15 minutes because they caked on so badly.
If nano on a windshield can't handle a good scrubbing, how's it going to handle it when a flock of birds makes friends with the hood and roof of your car. Nano tech is CERTAINLY subject to the new car rule. Birds WILL crap on it.
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To extend what you said, there are two problems we're seeing with current transistor technology.
Most inexpensive chip processes involve using blue and UV light to effectively (with chemical baths and deposition treatments) etch the surface of the chip into the correct shape and size. The biggest limitation here is that the light is around 300nm. When you're working significantly smaller than that, etching with this light is not as effective. Using higher frequency light can break down the materials (bathing things in xrays is generally a bad idea). One solution is to use refraction, which brings the wavelength of light of a given frequency to a smaller scale without increasing the energy of the light. This helps when etching smaller features (45nm is close to the limit of this hack).
To make smaller structures, they either need to grow them up, which takes time, or they need to build them individually using finer systems like electron guns. This can allow for tests on impossibly small transistors to see their behavior but are inefficient to produce for mass marketing.
The other concern is that with transistors, since you have charge being separated across a barrier (in a FET at least), the smaller the barrier is, the more likely you're going to breach it. If I remember correctly, and I may be wrong here, this should be related to leakage current.
I don't see us being able to make components smaller than the minimum etching size of 45nm. Since a transistor is usually larger than the minimum size (allowing for room for a gate and terminals on both sides, plus the width to allow for contacts to the silicon), this might still be an improvement.
What I'm wondering about is when people are going to realize that static memory prevents the benefits of a reboot. If a system is shutdown and its memory is still flooded by a program with a memory leak, it may not be recoverable. Better operating systems are handling this nicer, but I still need to reboot my machines from time to time to free up a few hundred megs of ram. I can imagine this might completely foobar a few machines without adequate memory cleanup.
Any thoughts?
Next, you're going to say oscilloscopes don't run windows, and that human beings only do things with the best intent for humanity in mind.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143496-pg,1/article.html
http://www.programurl.com/software/heart-monitor.htm
It doesn't necessarily matter that the heart monitor doesn't run windows, although there's nothing stopping someone from trying that, if a machine with that problem is in the loop. It's especially problematic if the devices themselves are at risk of hacking. Windows is not the only thing suffering from security issues.
You have to applaud the lawyer writing that for finding a way to incorporate both pi and e in an argument about software.
Just to clarify your statement some, a tennis court is about 23m long from end to end, making an object moving at 55m/s take just under 500ms.
Now, a question... Who can return a volley in tennis at that speed.
Someone untrained in the sport might, but it's not likely. With training, do people realize they are about to hit the ball before they do? What is the last point in time that someone in a tennis match can be told to not hit the ball, and respond appropriately?
If you're predicting the movement of the ball based on the behavior of your opponent, which people who are experienced at tennis do, and you limit your options automatically because you've trained your mind as well as your body in the art of playing tennis, and you don't need to think about whether you hit the ball unless you didn't, then you no longer are limited to the 500ms barrier between realizing that an action has taken place. The key here isn't response time, it's throughput, and it's the only reason that humans are capable of monitoring so many vital systems at the same time as performing conscious thought. Fewer channels to think in would make 500ms to realization matter.
Out of curiosity, who would be horrified at the idea that we don't have free thought?
Who would stop making decisions as a result?
Who would be left afterward?
Darwin's law wins?
If that's true, I'm badly mistaken.
Makes sense.
What happens for servers that don't support that on the send side? Is that universal enough to not be an issue?
Can you tell me a mail service that doesn't announce to a sender when a letter failed to reach its intended destination?
You're telling me that you would prefer thinking that you sent an e-mail to someone, and that they received it, even if you mistyped the address by one letter?
I don't see what they're doing as wrong at all. They aren't bouncing the original message, so spam is not originating from google's domains. They're also announcing e-mails which failed to arrive at their intended destination.
Easy, if they think it's no skin off their back for not updating their hardware, they think they can save money by not doing it. If they have 10,000 customers and it's $100 to replace one of their old modems, then it's a million bucks to swap them all out. If they don't think there's a risk of being held responsible for more than that for not changing their hardware, where is the incentive.
Hell, the security flaws typically affect the customer. Will that stop most people's internet addictions?
Here's another one... How many places does At&t hold a local monopoly? What other options doe people have, especially if they're dealing with constant (Video/Voice)oip? That stuff costs bandwidth and with more computers shipping with cameras and mics built in, more people are using it. A dialup line, and even a decent DSL can't really handle streaming video like that.
What is the legal stance on parody?
I know that penny-arcade had a run in with this when they did their strawberry shortcake meets alice comic.
The only thing I could find was this: http://www.publaw.com/parody.html
Thoughts?
Lawyers?
If it's a 3rd party recreation, did they have fun doing it?
Awesome!
Can someone Mod the parent post up?
I know there are both upper bounds and lower bounds on the accuracy of radiocarbon dating. I would assume these are related to variations in atmospheric conditions and carbon intake by organisms and the length of a half-life of carbon. Does anyone know what the limitations are and/or why?
Do the same types of crashes occur when you push other graphics cards in the same ways you typically push nvidia cards?
28% of windows crashes might be a combination of the increased use of NVIDIA cards and the unusual things they are asked to do.
Is that 28% of the total crashes which occurred over a month?
Is that 28% of the types of crashes which occurred over a month?
Is that a symptom of someone with a faulty setup continually trying to play a game like WOW and having it explode in their face, and then attempting to do it again?
In my experience, as long as the stuff in question wasn't blatantly money, nobody's really taken anything.
I've seen a thumb drive have 'new' pictures on it when opened up, but most of the time people used to take the cubes apart or put them back together in new and unusual ways.
If you're dealing with sensitive information, just don't do anything stupid. If there's a risk, don't leave it out.
Get a backpack. Take it with you. It's a LAPTOP.
If you can't, and it's the company laptop, I probably wouldn't worry about it so much.
If it's a personal laptop, and you won't take it home, I don't know what to say to you.
So, does 'Interaction Data' include recognizing that a user has punched their monitor or thrown the keyboard out the window?
Didn't Metallica at one point say that you should listen to their music, even if you had to steal it off the shelves...?
Regardless, I don't see why these companies don't start promoting the p2p and putting up videos with their commercials recorded in for download. Torrent trackers and counters might provide the list of who is downloading, and how many times it was, and not dealing with the latency issues, plus allowing users to watch what they want at their leisure seems to be too good of a deal. Also, if they really want people watching the stuff on TV, give it at a lower quality so people who are interested will come back to watch it again, maybe even pay to watch it at a better (HD) quality.
Most people won't go out of the way to remove the commercials, and if the speed for downloads is high enough, then there's a value to downloading straight from the source.
All the moving parts on the cube work.
:D
The disk spins fine, no weird noises, and the laser moves back and forth.
I have yet to test to see if the laser is faulty. I also plan to open it up eventually to see if I can find anything obvious.
Warranty is up, so it's another potential project.
To be fair, my gamecube is dead. In its wake, I've been playing my super and regular nintendo.
I beg to argue that older technologies have stood the test of time compared to our modern works which last two years or less.
I would be far more interested in a black box that works reliably, even with some moderate internal hardware failures.
I should also note, the regular nintendo we've been using is split in half and missing a large chunk. The gamecube could be mistaken for new.
Laymans terms:
:P
Someone puts you in a perfectly silent elevator and shuts the doors, you will feet the elevator speed up and slow down, but you won't feel anything special when its moving at a constant velocity besides normal gravity.
Don't believe me, do what all physicists in NY do in their spare time
Rid the Empire State Building's elevator while standing on a bathroom scale.
I have a number of friends who've done it.
If you want my suggestion, go the inexpensive and effective route.
Try internships with colleges with co-op programs and quarter systems.
I'll explain:
Interns are a cheap way to test the water. When you find someone you like, hire them on full time at a good rate.
Co-op programs force students to try working in the industry, and so they will be looking for a wide variety of jobs.
Quarter systems are brutal. Anyone surviving in a college with one is either amazing at BSing, or is a strong programmer. Both are valuable, although I would only use the amazing BSer for inter-business relationships.
Colleges like these often have career fairs and such, which makes it easy for you and your company to meet a lot of these people first hand to see how they carry themselves.
RIT and Northeastern have pretty strong output. You might try them first.
Think about how many emo kids there are in the US.
Teenage angst? Mid-life crisis? Clinical Depression?
Does anyone think that the middle east doesn't have something equivalent.
I'm not so surprised that they have an influx of recruits regardless of what the US was doing.
It's important to remember, suicide bombing has been going on longer than the time the US has been in the middle east.
It will probably continue as long as someone over there is mad enough about something.
War, politics, technology, religion, cartoons, maybe skin color. They seem to have a lot of material to go on.
Probably lining someones pockets or lighting someone else's cigars, but what if it was put to standards R&D.
Thoughts on using the money to lock down open patents on standards and techniques so they can be used by all and have a fixed form of prior art that can't be patented over?
If not to line someone else's pockets, what would you have them do with the money?
Just a thought...
TFP mentions that they use a few metrics for determining 'arousal' or interest. Mind, I did not read through the whole thing, nor can I post the whole thing here, but, I think this is a reasonable excerpt:
"The facial EMG is an
established index of hedonic valence; that is, increased activity over corrugator supercilii, which
draws the brow down and together into a frown, is associated with negative emotions, whereas
increased activity over zygomaticus major, which pulls the corners of the mouth back and up into
a smile, is associated with positive emotions during affective imagery and when viewing pictures
(for 6 s) or other media stimuli [e.g., 15, 19, 29]"
I'm wondering if those are valid measures considering that in order for some people to say the word 'SHIT,' I would think they would have to use the same muscles which pull the corners of the mouth back into a smile.
Can anyone who knows anything about anatomy confirm that?
How does the feeling of exasperation come across on those sensors?
They also talk about using skin conductivity as a measure of excitement.
Does Snow Crash count as prior art
The Deliverator knows that there is a 3 foot gap between the burbclaves and... A POOL!
Depends on a lot of things.
Some people do, and some don't.
My car is about 10 years old, and so it doesn't.
Some people I know have heated driveways so they don't need to shovel snow in the winter, but in my opinion, that's completely ridiculous. Still, people will live with what they can afford to do regardless of anything else.
I don't doubt the water treatments, but if the windshield is being built this way, it better handle something rougher than a little bit of water and dust.
Have you ever had to chisel your car out from under an inch of ice before attempting to drive to work on that same inch on all the roads? It's fun, dangerous, stupid, and not uncommon in many of the northern states. NY and Penn were particularly fun for this because of the occasional eat-your-car pothole. SD was great for the bee and locust swarms. My wipers couldn't handle the bees. I had to pull over and scrub them off for about 15 minutes because they caked on so badly.
If nano on a windshield can't handle a good scrubbing, how's it going to handle it when a flock of birds makes friends with the hood and roof of your car. Nano tech is CERTAINLY subject to the new car rule. Birds WILL crap on it.