I imagined pure evil as that maniac who wants to control the world for his own benefit, at the cost of anyone elses lives or pleasures.
I thought this too. Then I wondered how you could analyze such an AI. A big part of being pure evil includes deception with lies and half-truthes. One would almost need two ways to interact with the AI: one as a random person and one as the "always gets the truth" person.
I put privacy glass on the top half of the shower door so I don't have to look at the people watching me, which seems to be the same kind of privacy I can expect on my iPhone 3G.
It depends what they are overselling and to what degree. Overselling a plane screws whoever is left behind (large impact over small set of customers). Overselling bandwidth slows someone's download or game (small impact over many customers).
Overselling a rack and causing servers to a) fail or b) corrupt data costs in hundreds of thousands or more pretty quickly in damages and legal fees. It's a much wiser business decision to just increase the power capacity (not that some suits will think this is the greatest thing since cloud computing).
No not really. A 5-seat Lupo 3L gets 88mpg on the highway. The new VW 2-seater arriving after Christmas gets 250mpg on the highway.
Show me an electric car that can exceed that? It doesn't exist. In fact the best EV ever made (GM EV1) is no better than a Prius (~50mpg) according to greenercars.org and falls short of an Insight (66mpg).
You must be from Europe. Here across the pond, we get excited about 32 mpg. Silly, isn't it.
I have to agree. The idea that they are spending hundreds of millions on each plane but not using them in Iraq or Afghanistan is stupid. Even the B-2 is being used there, and it's way more expensive.
This reads like the Craig Jorgenson rifles of the Spanish American war. They had an internal magazine just like the Mauser used by the Spanish, but unlike the Mauser required the 5 rounds to be loaded individually. It was nicknamed the one-war-rifle because it sucked so badly in combat. To not battle test the F-22 in our easy (from an air-power perspective) combat situations now makes me wonder if the designers and decision makers have any faith in it. Perhaps they wanted to keep their factories open until all were delivered before we discover an expensive overhaul is necessary.
There are a number of potential causes that a half-competent tire shop will fix simply by replacing a tire (following normal procedures):
- Needs balancing
- Lugnuts aren't on tight or are on unevenly (sometimes caused by a broken stem, but that requires a $3 part)
- Tire is worn horribly unevenly or has lumps
This is more anecdotal, but I've seen way more drivers with their eyes at or below the dashboard because they are leaning on the center arm-rest to hold their phone to their ear. Then for them to do a proper shoulder check is near impossible (try doing the motion while holding a phone to your ear; you have to turn your whole torso way over where normally you can do most of it with your head).
I have to back this up. TFA says the maximum temperature in Brussels is 66 to 71 degrees. I recall it being warmer than that during the summer I lived there. I can't quite remember the temperature, but 24 or 25 C (which is in the mid to upper 70s F) comes to mind.
I seem to recall stories of this happening in Russia. I think the spammers pissed off the Russian mob and were taken out.
Now really, I think there is a long line of not-so-nice people I'd piss off before messing with the Russian mob: the Italian mob, drug cartels (as long as I'm not going to Mexico any time soon), Dick Cheney...
I'll bet they implemented striping a different way than RAID. Since all they need to do is act like a standard hard drive to the machine, they can implement something faster and more specific to flash memory (since every optimization counts).
We can always do what we see in other industries: exemptions for smaller entities. The question is, how small. Will it just be college radio, or will independent stations be exempt or pay less?
You raise good points that I won't argue with, so I'll raise my own.
Most wind farms are in the middle of nowhere (for example, the one an hour outside the LA area on the I-10). Building a test location here requires a) the R&D staff relocate or b) the R&D staff drive potentially hours to work and then back. Neither of those is attractive to potential hires. If you were generous and decided to include their commute as paid time out of their 8 hour day, this could result in 4 or 6 hour work days. To offset the reduced productivity (in pure hours), the team needs to be doubled. Then there is more overhead (meetings, admin, recruiting, lower hiring standards, etc) due to the higher headcount. As painful as it might sound, $45M to build this in a population center might actually be cheaper.
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I imagined pure evil as that maniac who wants to control the world for his own benefit, at the cost of anyone elses lives or pleasures.
I thought this too. Then I wondered how you could analyze such an AI. A big part of being pure evil includes deception with lies and half-truthes. One would almost need two ways to interact with the AI: one as a random person and one as the "always gets the truth" person.
If this actually happened there would almost certainly be a massive increase in depression and suicides.
Hasn't this already been brought on by industrialisation and modern society?
Agreed. WTF, did the original creator not like the reimaging?
Does Starbuck need to be a guy instead of a chick for him to be happy?
The first word is always free!
And the second word is always "beer"?
Mod parent up.
Sure it is "easy" to make diamonds for industrial roles. But it to make one with the size (not to mention color and clarity) for fine jewelry is not.
I put privacy glass on the top half of the shower door so I don't have to look at the people watching me, which seems to be the same kind of privacy I can expect on my iPhone 3G.
Fixed it for you.
I have to agree with this. Go back 100 years and the idea of the 40 hour work week was non-existent.
Best come-back of the morning.
It depends what they are overselling and to what degree. Overselling a plane screws whoever is left behind (large impact over small set of customers). Overselling bandwidth slows someone's download or game (small impact over many customers).
Overselling a rack and causing servers to a) fail or b) corrupt data costs in hundreds of thousands or more pretty quickly in damages and legal fees. It's a much wiser business decision to just increase the power capacity (not that some suits will think this is the greatest thing since cloud computing).
Personally, I don't mind the idea of not having an extra $5,000 battery with high voltage levels that I'm expected to swap.
No not really. A 5-seat Lupo 3L gets 88mpg on the highway. The new VW 2-seater arriving after Christmas gets 250mpg on the highway.
Show me an electric car that can exceed that? It doesn't exist. In fact the best EV ever made (GM EV1) is no better than a Prius (~50mpg) according to greenercars.org and falls short of an Insight (66mpg).
You must be from Europe. Here across the pond, we get excited about 32 mpg. Silly, isn't it.
I have to agree. The idea that they are spending hundreds of millions on each plane but not using them in Iraq or Afghanistan is stupid. Even the B-2 is being used there, and it's way more expensive.
This reads like the Craig Jorgenson rifles of the Spanish American war. They had an internal magazine just like the Mauser used by the Spanish, but unlike the Mauser required the 5 rounds to be loaded individually. It was nicknamed the one-war-rifle because it sucked so badly in combat. To not battle test the F-22 in our easy (from an air-power perspective) combat situations now makes me wonder if the designers and decision makers have any faith in it. Perhaps they wanted to keep their factories open until all were delivered before we discover an expensive overhaul is necessary.
There are a number of potential causes that a half-competent tire shop will fix simply by replacing a tire (following normal procedures):
- Needs balancing
- Lugnuts aren't on tight or are on unevenly (sometimes caused by a broken stem, but that requires a $3 part)
- Tire is worn horribly unevenly or has lumps
As the others said: you need to learn about cars.
This is more anecdotal, but I've seen way more drivers with their eyes at or below the dashboard because they are leaning on the center arm-rest to hold their phone to their ear. Then for them to do a proper shoulder check is near impossible (try doing the motion while holding a phone to your ear; you have to turn your whole torso way over where normally you can do most of it with your head).
As an example, are you agnostic about Zeus, too?
That word does not mean what you think it means. Hint: it's not that specific.
Perhaps it'd come with the promotion: "The first pre-nup is free."
Cylon lover...
Here you go.
I have to back this up. TFA says the maximum temperature in Brussels is 66 to 71 degrees. I recall it being warmer than that during the summer I lived there. I can't quite remember the temperature, but 24 or 25 C (which is in the mid to upper 70s F) comes to mind.
The "sin" tax on those smokes must have been part of the new anti-smoking bill.
That, or the president thinks the best way to prevent him from ever smoking again is to never be able to afford one.
I seem to recall stories of this happening in Russia. I think the spammers pissed off the Russian mob and were taken out.
Now really, I think there is a long line of not-so-nice people I'd piss off before messing with the Russian mob: the Italian mob, drug cartels (as long as I'm not going to Mexico any time soon), Dick Cheney...
Nitpick:
I'll bet they implemented striping a different way than RAID. Since all they need to do is act like a standard hard drive to the machine, they can implement something faster and more specific to flash memory (since every optimization counts).
We can always do what we see in other industries: exemptions for smaller entities. The question is, how small. Will it just be college radio, or will independent stations be exempt or pay less?
You raise good points that I won't argue with, so I'll raise my own.
Most wind farms are in the middle of nowhere (for example, the one an hour outside the LA area on the I-10). Building a test location here requires a) the R&D staff relocate or b) the R&D staff drive potentially hours to work and then back. Neither of those is attractive to potential hires. If you were generous and decided to include their commute as paid time out of their 8 hour day, this could result in 4 or 6 hour work days. To offset the reduced productivity (in pure hours), the team needs to be doubled. Then there is more overhead (meetings, admin, recruiting, lower hiring standards, etc) due to the higher headcount. As painful as it might sound, $45M to build this in a population center might actually be cheaper.
If only I had mod points as this is a well-written retort to a troll post.