If it is the case that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck, and we notice this, than haven't we then sort of observed the Higgs? If so, then maybe WE ( meaning the inhabitants of Earth ) are going to have bad luck.... 2012 is right around the corner....
I would say that yes day trading is a good thing, because wealth in the hands of day traders tends to flow out of their hands and into the rest of the economy. Once the day trader is broke, the problem is solved. Of course a few very lucky day traders will exist and these will brag about how much money they made and attract many others to the day trading industry. These others wouldn't have contributed any insight into the market had they not become day traders anyway. It's worth having a few wealthy day traders as the service they provide is to more efficiently and quickly separate the other fools from their money by being poster boys/girls for daytrading as a practice.
Given that X-Rays can be relatively easily produced, I'm amazed that someone hasn't used them to commit murder. They could give someone an invisible daily dose that would have them dying of some cancer or leave their health otherwise permanently fscked up.
X-Ray/Gamma-Ray/Ultra Violet ( as above )
High powered laser. ( Infrared/Ultraviolet to eyes to blind )
Death by Heavy Water poisoning.
Death by remote control airplane armed with explosives
Death by remote control car ( toy or lifesize ) with or without explosives.
Death by chocolate ( drowning in or dropping on head)
Poisoning via artificially induced allergic sensitivity ( expose someone to something so their immune system becomes hypersensitive to X and then enjoy a meal of X with your doomed victim )
Well this thing is going to have a size, and one end of it is likely going to have to talk to the other end of it in most computations. The fastest that communication can happen is the speed of light.
At a very minimum, you aren't going to get an answer to your question any faster than it takes light to travel from the input port to the farthest point on the machine and back if you require that all sub computations have had an opportunity to interact with each other.
Although this might not be a requirement. You might want all solutions tried and to be notified when the first one succeeds. If the questioner is outside the machine, then they will have much less speedy access to computation power than if they are at the machine's center for answering these questions. The ideal would be to ask the question from the center of a sphere.
For example, you might want to exhaustively search a solution space. You would pose a query to the computer around you with each part trying a part of the space, and not notifying you unless it found the answer. When a part finds an answer you get your reply.
Of course firefox lets me type file:/path/to/file.txt treating it as equivalent to file:///path/to/file.txt, but normalizing it to file:///path/to/file.txt . I think it's parsed as file:///path/to/file.txt . Between the first two slashes and the next one there is a 'hierarchical naming authority' in this case a null one referring to your filesystem. I don't know if there's anything you could put in there that would not be a valid directory name, so it's really just there because many people will expect to have to type two double slashes before beginning the path. I think it's silly to normalize to the triple slash form though. Why not the shorter, clearer single slash form?
Citizens? Don't you think it's more economic to have sweatshops in third world countries with hundreds or thousands of people paid 2 dollars a day each for snooping on the British public? You'd never even break even spotting crimes at 1000 pounds a pop. You'd have to watch for months, so it would be better to just get a job. But employing an army of wage slaves in a third world country, you might even make the big pounds.
Your skin is adequate protection against plutonium. If you had a lump of Pu, with no Pu dust on it, then you could safely hold it in your hand. However it is NOT tame. If you inhale a tiny speck of Pu dust, it sits in your lungs and gives your a 100% chance of lung cancer.
Imagine isotopes of strontium ( acts like calcium in the body and is stored forever in your bones ) or who the heck knows what else.
I bet you're right. What would the implications be for ceramic superconductors that stay superconducting up to say the boiling point of water? How about flexible superconductors?? I mean for every day life. What sorts of gizmos would we all end up having?
OUR (existing) network is 93% efficient because we are too smart to have built ultrahigh capacity long distance copper transmission lines into it knowing copper's limitations. If it had been possible to build infinite capacity low voltage power busses for probably less than the price of an oil pipeline, then the network would likely be designed far differently. This is amazing. This is going to be like a wire wrapped in a thermos going from coast to coast with refrigerators every mile or so. Probably a few hundered volts at most. I wonder if they will use DC or stick with three phase. At the low voltages possible with superconductors ( why mess with high voltage when superconductors don't have losses anyway? ) This could be HUGE. Unless I'm missing something, which I might be because I am not an expert.
You are right of course. I was assuming that all groundwater eventually led to the sea but that is not true. Some of it no doubt just sits there . Also concentration up the food chain would have to be considered. But the groundwater bit really makes this just too nasty. Radioactive shiznit absolutely needs to be disposed of in abandoned salt mines where there are no earthquakes. This isn't something your average shmoe can be trusted to do. One of these batteries improperly disposed of and no big deal. Millions in landfills and in cheap broken toys however would be a problem. People don't buy many smoke detectors. They buy many more mp3 players, calculators, watches, flashlights etc. I mean if this could power a few LEDs you'd have a flashlight that would never have its batteries run out and also never need a lightbulb - everyone would want one. Of course there would be zillions made and lost and thrown out because they got wet and the wires inside corroded away.
If they had determination they wouldn't be so LAZY as to blow them selves up to make a point. Working tirelessly to disseminate their message until they die of old age, or even fighting with the idea of living if possible knowing it could lead you to die of old age in guantanamo bay shows far more determination than LAZILY blowing yourself up for a supposed short cut to paradise. Even without the paradise, unnecessary suicide missions send the message that you aren't really serious about your cause.
But when the junky piece of electronics is obsolete, and the battery still has hundreds of years of use left, do you really think it's likely to be recycled 100% of the time or even anything close to that ?
You overestimate the determination of terrorists. They wouldn't kill enough grandpas to get enough crap for a dirty bomb, but they sure as hell would buy a truckload of surplus crap for next to nothing each with a little radioactive battery, open each one, and then blow it up where the dust would drift over thousands of people.
No, it just means that when you shovel the ashes out of your stove you'll breathe in a tiny dust speck of radioisotope that will lodge in your lungs and kill you in 5 years via lung cancer.
That's the real issue with these things. When they become disposable, then people will dispose of them and there will be radioisotopes everywhere. The chemical should be a water soluable one that is not accumulated in the body.
Some materials are eliminated from the body quickly whereas others stay around. Something that gets stored in your bones might not be harmful at all if it were not radioactive, but because it stays put, being radioactive it does damage over a long period of time. Materials used in nuclear medicine are designed to be eliminated quickly so although they are radioactive they are gone in short order. A speck of plutonium just stays whereever it is in the body and irradiates the surrounding tissue. That's why it's more dangerous than say water enriched with tritium. Tritium water in the body gets diluted with every soda you drink.
Every bit of nuclear power Iran ( or Canada ) produces equals more salable oil. I hate the government of Iran as much as the next guy, but they really do have legitimate reasons for nuclear energy.
Hmm.. My own shit is in my ass. It would stink if I stuck my nose up in there, but usually, I don't notice it. Although one never knows what germs and beasties one might be infected with, at least not having anyone else's shit in my ass assures me of the fact that if I don't inadvertantly eat any feces, it's biodiversity should not increase. With a bidet, I lose that assurance. A bidet squirts water up onto your asshole washing away any dingleberries. This is good, but then those dingleberries wash down over the water nozzle. The next person squirts some of my dingleberry fecal material up onto their asshole and possibly a minute amount up INSIDE their asshole when they use the bidet. It's that first drop of water from the bidet that may possibly contain shit from the last user that bothers me. It's why I would never use a bidet ever. Sure, you could run it a second before sitting down, and that should clean the nozzle, but that doesn't alleviate the emotional revulsion I feel from having
toilet water squirted up my ass. It would be like seeing a plate of shit, and then seeing the shit washed off with soap and hot water so that it sparkles. You know it's sterile, but you still don't want your dinner served off it.
Ok, I don't understand how solar sails are supposed to work, but if light exerts pressure on a sail, then I see how one might wonder if shooting a given candlepower of light out of a bulb might not produce the same amount of force as the light would exert upon hitting a sail. If that is the case though, then there is no need for a sail at all, as all you would be doing would be re-channeling the starlight that hits your craft out the aft end. Would this mean a glass sphere covered in lenses that focus light into fiber optics that all route out one way would move?
Yes, because more people can copy him and up the sample size. If enough people do this ( also switching hands, say cracking their right hand and not their left, and also noting left or right handedness ) then you know the results are valid barring any association between liklihood of doing this and assymetric arthritis. Possibly there is a gene that causes both OCD and arthritis.
Slashdot Mirror
Like taking apart a bunch of microwaves and rigging them to a directional antenna to fry your enemies.
If it is the case that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck, and we notice this, than haven't we then sort of observed the Higgs? If so, then maybe WE ( meaning the inhabitants of Earth ) are going to have bad luck.... 2012 is right around the corner....
(I'm kidding of course - or am I?)
I would say that yes day trading is a good thing, because wealth in the hands of day traders tends to flow out of their hands and into the rest of the economy. Once the day trader is broke, the problem is solved. Of course a few very lucky day traders will exist and these will brag about how much money they made and attract many others to the day trading industry. These others wouldn't have contributed any insight into the market had they not become day traders anyway. It's worth having a few wealthy day traders as the service they provide is to more efficiently and quickly separate the other fools from their money by being poster boys/girls for daytrading as a practice.
Seriously, though, what do they do? Look at X-Rays? Can't a regular doctor do that?
At a very minimum, you aren't going to get an answer to your question any faster than it takes light to travel from the input port to the farthest point on the machine and back if you require that all sub computations have had an opportunity to interact with each other.
Although this might not be a requirement. You might want all solutions tried and to be notified when the first one succeeds. If the questioner is outside the machine, then they will have much less speedy access to computation power than if they are at the machine's center for answering these questions. The ideal would be to ask the question from the center of a sphere.
For example, you might want to exhaustively search a solution space. You would pose a query to the computer around you with each part trying a part of the space, and not notifying you unless it found the answer. When a part finds an answer you get your reply.
Of course firefox lets me type file:/path/to/file.txt treating it as equivalent to file:///path/to/file.txt, but normalizing it to file:///path/to/file.txt . I think it's parsed as file:// /path/to/file.txt . Between the first two slashes and the next one there is a 'hierarchical naming authority' in this case a null one referring to your filesystem. I don't know if there's anything you could put in there that would not be a valid directory name, so it's really just there because many people will expect to have to type two double slashes before beginning the path. I think it's silly to normalize to the triple slash form though. Why not the shorter, clearer single slash form?
Citizens? Don't you think it's more economic to have sweatshops in third world countries with hundreds or thousands of people paid 2 dollars a day each for snooping on the British public? You'd never even break even spotting crimes at 1000 pounds a pop. You'd have to watch for months, so it would be better to just get a job. But employing an army of wage slaves in a third world country, you might even make the big pounds.
Your skin is adequate protection against plutonium. If you had a lump of Pu, with no Pu dust on it, then you could safely hold it in your hand. However it is NOT tame. If you inhale a tiny speck of Pu dust, it sits in your lungs and gives your a 100% chance of lung cancer. Imagine isotopes of strontium ( acts like calcium in the body and is stored forever in your bones ) or who the heck knows what else.
I bet you're right. What would the implications be for ceramic superconductors that stay superconducting up to say the boiling point of water? How about flexible superconductors?? I mean for every day life. What sorts of gizmos would we all end up having?
OUR (existing) network is 93% efficient because we are too smart to have built ultrahigh capacity long distance copper transmission lines into it knowing copper's limitations. If it had been possible to build infinite capacity low voltage power busses for probably less than the price of an oil pipeline, then the network would likely be designed far differently. This is amazing. This is going to be like a wire wrapped in a thermos going from coast to coast with refrigerators every mile or so. Probably a few hundered volts at most. I wonder if they will use DC or stick with three phase. At the low voltages possible with superconductors ( why mess with high voltage when superconductors don't have losses anyway? ) This could be HUGE. Unless I'm missing something, which I might be because I am not an expert.
You are right of course. I was assuming that all groundwater eventually led to the sea but that is not true. Some of it no doubt just sits there . Also concentration up the food chain would have to be considered. But the groundwater bit really makes this just too nasty. Radioactive shiznit absolutely needs to be disposed of in abandoned salt mines where there are no earthquakes. This isn't something your average shmoe can be trusted to do. One of these batteries improperly disposed of and no big deal. Millions in landfills and in cheap broken toys however would be a problem. People don't buy many smoke detectors. They buy many more mp3 players, calculators, watches, flashlights etc. I mean if this could power a few LEDs you'd have a flashlight that would never have its batteries run out and also never need a lightbulb - everyone would want one. Of course there would be zillions made and lost and thrown out because they got wet and the wires inside corroded away.
If they had determination they wouldn't be so LAZY as to blow them selves up to make a point. Working tirelessly to disseminate their message until they die of old age, or even fighting with the idea of living if possible knowing it could lead you to die of old age in guantanamo bay shows far more determination than LAZILY blowing yourself up for a supposed short cut to paradise. Even without the paradise, unnecessary suicide missions send the message that you aren't really serious about your cause.
A styrofoam cup will last as long as those batteries but people throw those away.
Calcium? That seems likely to end up in bones. Also fluorine. Phosphorus. No. Bad idea.
But when the junky piece of electronics is obsolete, and the battery still has hundreds of years of use left, do you really think it's likely to be recycled 100% of the time or even anything close to that ?
You overestimate the determination of terrorists. They wouldn't kill enough grandpas to get enough crap for a dirty bomb, but they sure as hell would buy a truckload of surplus crap for next to nothing each with a little radioactive battery, open each one, and then blow it up where the dust would drift over thousands of people.
No, it just means that when you shovel the ashes out of your stove you'll breathe in a tiny dust speck of radioisotope that will lodge in your lungs and kill you in 5 years via lung cancer.
That's the real issue with these things. When they become disposable, then people will dispose of them and there will be radioisotopes everywhere. The chemical should be a water soluable one that is not accumulated in the body.
Some materials are eliminated from the body quickly whereas others stay around. Something that gets stored in your bones might not be harmful at all if it were not radioactive, but because it stays put, being radioactive it does damage over a long period of time. Materials used in nuclear medicine are designed to be eliminated quickly so although they are radioactive they are gone in short order. A speck of plutonium just stays whereever it is in the body and irradiates the surrounding tissue. That's why it's more dangerous than say water enriched with tritium. Tritium water in the body gets diluted with every soda you drink.
Every bit of nuclear power Iran ( or Canada ) produces equals more salable oil. I hate the government of Iran as much as the next guy, but they really do have legitimate reasons for nuclear energy.
Gartner is there so that if something turns out to be wrong, it's partly Gartner's fault and you can still keep your job.
Hmm.. My own shit is in my ass. It would stink if I stuck my nose up in there, but usually, I don't notice it. Although one never knows what germs and beasties one might be infected with, at least not having anyone else's shit in my ass assures me of the fact that if I don't inadvertantly eat any feces, it's biodiversity should not increase. With a bidet, I lose that assurance. A bidet squirts water up onto your asshole washing away any dingleberries. This is good, but then those dingleberries wash down over the water nozzle. The next person squirts some of my dingleberry fecal material up onto their asshole and possibly a minute amount up INSIDE their asshole when they use the bidet. It's that first drop of water from the bidet that may possibly contain shit from the last user that bothers me. It's why I would never use a bidet ever. Sure, you could run it a second before sitting down, and that should clean the nozzle, but that doesn't alleviate the emotional revulsion I feel from having toilet water squirted up my ass. It would be like seeing a plate of shit, and then seeing the shit washed off with soap and hot water so that it sparkles. You know it's sterile, but you still don't want your dinner served off it.
Ok, I don't understand how solar sails are supposed to work, but if light exerts pressure on a sail, then I see how one might wonder if shooting a given candlepower of light out of a bulb might not produce the same amount of force as the light would exert upon hitting a sail. If that is the case though, then there is no need for a sail at all, as all you would be doing would be re-channeling the starlight that hits your craft out the aft end. Would this mean a glass sphere covered in lenses that focus light into fiber optics that all route out one way would move?
Yes, because more people can copy him and up the sample size. If enough people do this ( also switching hands, say cracking their right hand and not their left, and also noting left or right handedness ) then you know the results are valid barring any association between liklihood of doing this and assymetric arthritis. Possibly there is a gene that causes both OCD and arthritis.