You are correct, I was confused about a story I read here about Office on iPad. When I checked it seems there are far more options than even I was aware, like iWork, QuickOffice, DocsToGo and others.
It really -is- a story because it isn't monopolistic by design. I saw a show on public tv about stocks and the broker was saying how Microsoft was still in a good position because they had Office software that was completely inoperable in other platforms which forces you to buy Windows. That surprised me because they are planning Office on Apple, Android and Libre Office is usable as a replacement ( you see I didn't say compatible ). It seems that even brokers don't understand that Microsoft must eventually compete on a less slanted playfield in order to survive and I don't think they can do that without completely cleaning house ( beyond Ballmer ) and bringing in outside management from a company like Coke or Pepsi that understands a competitive market.
I won't be impressed until it can run on bugs it collects along the way, can fly, is self replicating, genetically adaptive, intelligent, and ornamental. Then we have to call it a bird, because of prior art.
This is an inevitable consequence of conflict in values. This type of document is a reinforcement and no matter what anybody says, it serves its purpose. The government has become a cult in the same way as many other countries. Conditioning to be part of a specific group is a strong tool and always has been. Humans would likely not exist if there were not a natural tendency to operate in packs or troupes.
You are right that others will pay the cost of this and that is the advantage of their being a member of a power group.
All of these things are well documented techniques of control. It isn't just here , but it extends to business, advertising, and any social contact.
The internal operation of something like scientology, the reich, Jonestown, political parties, abusive relationships, bullying, and a million others can seem other worldly to a person is less influenced by the opinion of others as they are by experiment, analysis and observation. The emotional / neural structure of people is pivotal in having society and somewhat paradoxically in the destruction of it also.
There are many vestigal behaviors that stem from our origins that allow association in family groups or packs and we would not be here except for them. So this letter seems very creepy to me and is hard to look at, very much like listening to the Jonestown tapes, right before they drank the kool-aid. Mob mentality is something that I don't understand personally, but I have taken courses in advertising and I know that I can create situations that move people to do things that are not in their best interest. The creation of Linux, Red Cross, and many others would be examples of the positive side of this.
The price point is self replication and that is the thing which first interested me 2 years ago. I have a device that has taken me a year to design and nearly a year to perfect and I started working with a local group at a maker space because of this. I have not finished some critical tests. My interest was to make a device which was scalable, operable to near a nanometer, and most of all could print itself ( in metal -and- other materials ) with sufficient accuracy to make self replication reliable. The one part that has not been achieved is the electronics and as a person who worked in semiconductor fabrication as well as SCADA, that is a thing which can be achieved in any number of ways, and currently I am testing a method that would combine a bio-molecule to serve for control as well as a substrate that might be suitable for space.
It should be obvious that no company interested in profit would ever deliver a self-replicating device. That is why it has to be done by a person who believes in open source hardware. A lathe can fabricate a lathe, a robot can manufacture a robot, and a -good- 3D printer can print itself. The bigger issue is the data base of construction information which might be automated by OpenCV like capture.
I worked in control applications of robots like pick and place, as well as many other applications, and many of the techniques can be applied here. It is a composite effect where a product that is advantageous can only be manufactured with a 3D printer.
The next thing I will focus on is collection of raw materials. Mining or recovery.
I think you are making my point. The only person who could get one started is somebody who should already be able to do it and is willing to give away 5% for nothing or if it is so innovative that kickstarter doesn't understand it, then neither of them gets anything done because they are both stupid in two different orthogonal ways. Besides that, it seems that kickstarter is just a dressed up man in the middle attack on people who invest or buy and those who create. Kinda like RIAA.
The problem with that is that they become like the patent office and if they don't understand what they are looking at it can't be funded. It assumes they are technically more competent than anybody who would use the service. I never saw a javascript that allows somebody to teleport a physical device for them to look at, but I could have missed it.
I beg to differ. I would say that in my estimation there is no way to cancel gravity but there are other ways. I don't think that the concept of space elevator is workable but I have begun doing the work to prototype a device that would have the same effect as a space elevator without the engineering limitations. I have already done tests and it works on the scale of my tests. The physics is just an extrapolation of a linear effect to scale. I am putting up the data, CAD, equations, and construction methods for anybody to call me out on the physics and I welcome any criticism , constructive or otherwise. I have worked in process engineering for decades as well as systems design so I have a bit of experience in developing systems and it looks good on paper and the tests match my expectations so I will go to the next step. It requires several new technologies, but each has already been tested and I am releasing the first part of the design and even have a video explaining it by an actress that did a decent job of making it. It has only been a week now that I have been getting the stuff ready to publish so a lot of it is ragged and I intend to polish the web info when I can spare the time from my regular work. In fact I have an appointment now and will be gone until tomorrow. Just saying that so that if I don't reply to further stuff, that is why.
That was actually brilliant. That was several orders of magnitude more interesting than the summary.
But you lose a point for not converting distance to international standard apartment block scale.
This is the only suggestion that I saw that was at least creative. I think you jest, but all of those things would be bypassed with a cheap way to get in and out of the gravity well, as things can just be moved about where they are needed. It is assumed that cheap exit and entry from a gravity well is an intractible problem. It is a dependeny issue. The great cost and delay in space exploration hinges on the cost of entry and exit from the gravity well. It is less difficult on a body without such a thick atmosphere, but exit and entry is still the limiting factor. What do mean it went prompt, isn't it good to be prompt.
I looked at the site and it is filled with fluff that you might see on public tv. Compared to MIT it is a joke. There are plenty of resources already available and it would seem that if they concentrated on cooperation and not empire building they would do better at serving their stated intent. If they had a format like stackoverflow it would be even better. Google already indexes and if there were a data base that was peer reviewed that would allow access at any level of understanding and problem resolution it would be more useful. I remember a wonderful source of information that used to be on the web and got sued out of existence by an encyclopedia company IIRC.
I think that wikipedia is trying to do this with the science, but seems a bit mired in their own process at this point.
It is a rookie karma whore mistake to poke fun at the zoo keepers.
Taco is playing GTA V and will get back to you after he checks his stock quotes on his windows phone.
I could be wrong, but I think the moderation dice(.com) are loaded. It does not surprise me that fantasy is a better business than reality because reality is hard and it guarantees no reward. It is the old mouse experiment from the 1960s. You give a mouse a button that stimulates the pleasure center in the brain and they will never eat again and push that button until they die. I think that Ringworld had a running story line about Louis Wu and "The Wire".That is essentially the problem, It is why heroine and pain killers are such nasty things. At least this type of escape doesn't leave track marks and heroine is a far more expensive habit.
So excuse me while I reconnect this wire.
I have worked with startup companies too. The first started with 1000k for year in a do or die configuration and we eventually made several billion for the parent company.
One of the people who was hired there is now the secret weapon for Micron. Sometimes it is the people and that person in particular was a modest genius, which is rare.
In this case I am not looking to make a company that makes money. I hear about a lot of people who would pay to die on Mars or Europa and wonder what they are smoking. Effective space isn't any more of an engineering challenge than many of the things I have already designed. It is a lack of creativity that haunts space technology, it requires a really profound advance to even be reasonable to try.
I just started going public with information last week and I guess that I expected people to look at what I have put forward and say "Eureka" as I did.
I worked in industrial systems process design using relay logic and ladder diagrams. I saw this future ( computers ) when I saw the first 7400 integrated circuit and then I helped create it. Now I have made something of my own and I see another future where people live in a solar empire on every planet and moon, I just want that one to happen sooner.
Trying to translate that leap to something that can be easily understood by most people is sometimes harder than solving the problem in the first place. Sadoway at MIT combines both skills as a teacher and a creative genius. Rare. I get most of what he teaches, but I really don't understand how he came up with a liquid metal battery Ambri
How does "I want to do something and don't know how" take precedence over things that actually start the right way.
I have wanted space technology since I was a child and wanting is not a project. First you study and then you design and then you test something that will serve to do the job and -then- you decide how to apply it. I have worked on this for decades and found a technology that I am reasonably certain will allow cheap travel in and out of the gravity well. All I was ever interested in was getting more technical people to help develop it and to make the first prototype like Copenhagen Suborbital.
I agree with many of the other comments , that this is just somebody trying to make money by exploiting people's gullibility.
I registered a site and have been working to put content on the various projects that would allow completing a sytem that would make space travel a reality. When ridiculous fantasy like this gets more attention than science, it makes me wonder.
Who would ever have thunk it. Time of flight of a signal is dependent on distance.
Next they will tell me that ping times are smaller for nearer nodes and I will be astounded and mystified.
I am looking forward to overclocking flies for super slo-mo, however.
Oh yeah, I see the wire, my eyes aren't so good anymore.
The problem is that the universe is a harsh mistress and she always comes up with new material for the Darwin survival scholarship tests .
I am certain that it is available now because I have it and not only can you buy it but make it yourself for material cost. I have been studying this and Sadoway at MIT has developed a liquid metal battery that will store charge cheaply and I have developed a method to collect energy cheaply and store it in that battery. I understand that Jan 2014 is when they will be in production and I will have a production device and DIY instructions to collect solar , and wind energy before that. So leave your number and I will call you , oh maybe that was just a phrase, sorry.
Sadoway MIT battery A video to explain solar thermal and wind collection
The video isn't all that technical, but the principle is sound. My only interest is to see that it is known. So you can buy it or DIY for 0$.
I have no idea how costly solar panels are now, but if they can beat 0, I would be very surprised.
I was going to submit an article for slashdot about solar energy and this seems to work just as well. I was wondering if a woman could be the new genius like Nikola Tesla. There is a video on this web site solar energy that describes a device that converts solar energy directly to electrical energy without any semiconductor materials at all, very cheaply and efficiently and could be manufactured by anybody. It seems correct, but I am really confused because it don't think it could be that simple, but the physics seems to be correct as far as I can tell, but I was hoping that somebody would tell me, what is the catch? It doesn't use any new coined terms like nano molecules or quantum ultralight so it has to be wrong? I saw an April fools edition of an electronics magazine that got me , which showed how to make solar cells on a cookie sheet in the oven for ten cents or something. It is a bit like a female version of "Bill Nye the science guy" but does explain the principle eventually. So is it real or is it PONIES!
I am glad that government employees aren't people too because then they would be prone to panic as well. I hadn't realized the emergency workers had all been completely replaced by super intelligent emotionless cyborgs that are incapable of human response, I will have to take a closer look at my nephew the next time he stops by to see what implants the fire department gave him when he was hired.
From a technical standpoint this is interesting and if what someone else said is true that serial numbers of bills are tracked going out and in the bank it is a type of graph. Since I was recently reviewing courses at MIT on algorithms and matrix math and neural networks it clicked.
It is another point of association that allows a person to be connected to others. I don't know about them, but it would seem that with the right memory and compute power it would be possible to model the entire society like weather. It would be a simpler task than weather as it is very granular. I could even imagine some type of Navier Stokes / finite element analysis that would tell you what might happen tomorrow.
It is only worrisome if the people who do it are crooked and politicians are known for their honesty and commitment to people's interest above all possibility of personal gain. Just look at , um, okay I will think of an example, give me a minute.
And that made me think of something that would be excluded and that seems wrong. If I am tracking money and I find that a large amount of money flows from company "A" through a dozen twisty little passages and ends up in a politicians pocket and that next day they vote to give them a specific contract, that would be an indicator of graft and I would bet that it would be excluded as a matter of course as those same people decide how much money the NSA will get to play with. Sounds like a great tool. Senator, we need another trillion, and by the way, nobody will ever pick up on how you paid for your secretary's abortion, who really owns her condo or where she bought that whip, without the type of technology we have.
What are the odds that the amount of money flowing from the banks to congress would be made public. I did a quick Markov matrix of it and it came up with NaN. Who is Nan? Perhaps it is too small and fails, because it couldn't be too big and fail.
Large country with large economy has large national debt. News at 11.
My neighbor is up to his knees in debt, and thus it is okay for me to do the same. I am sure there is something about "if your friends jump off a cliff", that my mother used to say, but I don't recall.
Interesting link.
All of those problems are obviously solved by a method that allows cheap low G entry and exit from the gravity well.
I registered a web site yesterday ( no content yet ) and it will be there only to describe in detail the technology implementation in necessary steps to get off this planet and live normally. The site registered is here . I would like to share the knowledge in the same way that open courses at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and others have helped me to actually be able to do this.
Not a dream, proof, pudding, eating is the only way to know for sure. No point in arguing until there is something to argue about however. When the data is there I am willing to argue ( or demonstrate ) the physics, chemistry, mechanics, software, and electronics of the process. The heart of science is repeatable experiment and if it works it is science , even if theory can't predict or explain it. I look forward to intellectual combat, it is my favorite sport. I work with many engineers in business and take -real life- courses at the university and I think I am right based on discussions with other engineers, but it isn't a fact until it is implemented. I also have a public radio talk show where myself and other engineers will discuss the technology. I am negotiating a live web cast with IRC questions , but that won't happen till later.
Dreams sometimes come true, just ask Walt Disney or Tinkebell:)
I found your homepage site very interesting and got a great laugh from the Douglas Adams quote about moving around little pieces of green paper.
I am of the opinion that letting people off this rock could go a long way to solving social issues because people can live further apart and though nature does not love a wall, if your neighbor is far enough away, you don't feel the need to interfere with their choices.
I am working on a range of technologies and the one that I feel is the most useful is one that would allow very cheap transport in and out of the gravity wells. IMHO it is possible to construct right now at a very reasonable price and my only wonder is how quickly it would be destroyed by governments to maintain their populations in isolation. Space is not so nasty if you can -afford- to take everything with you and even have room for a towel.
This is an issue I have dealt with for decades. When I was young and stupid I worked to design process automation hardware and software for many different companies all over the world and I assumed that if the plants were automated that wages would go up and people would have more free time to enjoy life, but in fact what happened is that corporations fired everybody, had increased profits and the cycle continued.
The only way to solve this problem is through individual action. The process of concentration of wealth could continue until there is only one "owner" of everything. Business is a competitive process and is a zero sum game. This is how it is taught and how it is played. The larger issue is the biological basis of that concept. Natural selection is a fact even though it is cruel. It isn't necessary for human life to be a zero sum game in a sufficiently advanced society.
I have been working on a device that collects and stores energy as well as a metal fabricating 3D printer that is efficient and cheap. It does not solve the issue of biological competition and the inherent competitive nature of people is the root cause of conflict. It is a biological condition of life itself and many people realize that cooperation achieves greater goals than conflict and can make that effort to overcome their inherent predisposition to force biological selection for no other reason than a vestigial impulse that is no longer useful due to the fact that no new evolution can exceed the utility of technological gain to all people.
Nature will not evolve a computer interface that will allow people to plug in SSDs to help them remember, but people in cooperation can establish systems without conflict which produce vastly more utility than a wasteful competition to see who is the coolest, richest, and cruelest king of fools.
It is a personal choice like Linux. I contribute, I use it, I support it and this is as much as I can do and if in the end some large corporation is able to destroy that, it is because people were not willing to free themselves. In that same way I hoping to bring shared technologies that can be supported by community adoption and if a cheap effective -personal- robot / 3D printer and energy source can be made that is more efficient than the consolidated manufacturing, then this too can be a place where people can cooperate to get another tool for choice.
Kumbaya:)
From a biological standpoint it is similar to the rise of the multi-cellular organism which came to dominate the biosphere. Governments hope to design that mechanically through force and it is misguided as well as being derived from principles like Thomas Hobbes "Leviathan", which is social technology that is literally centuries out of date.
Slashdot Mirror
You are correct, I was confused about a story I read here about Office on iPad. When I checked it seems there are far more options than even I was aware, like iWork, QuickOffice, DocsToGo and others.
It really -is- a story because it isn't monopolistic by design. I saw a show on public tv about stocks and the broker was saying how Microsoft was still in a good position because they had Office software that was completely inoperable in other platforms which forces you to buy Windows. That surprised me because they are planning Office on Apple, Android and Libre Office is usable as a replacement ( you see I didn't say compatible ). It seems that even brokers don't understand that Microsoft must eventually compete on a less slanted playfield in order to survive and I don't think they can do that without completely cleaning house ( beyond Ballmer ) and bringing in outside management from a company like Coke or Pepsi that understands a competitive market.
I won't be impressed until it can run on bugs it collects along the way, can fly, is self replicating, genetically adaptive, intelligent, and ornamental. Then we have to call it a bird, because of prior art.
This is an inevitable consequence of conflict in values. This type of document is a reinforcement and no matter what anybody says, it serves its purpose. The government has become a cult in the same way as many other countries. Conditioning to be part of a specific group is a strong tool and always has been. Humans would likely not exist if there were not a natural tendency to operate in packs or troupes.
You are right that others will pay the cost of this and that is the advantage of their being a member of a power group.
All of these things are well documented techniques of control. It isn't just here , but it extends to business, advertising, and any social contact.
The internal operation of something like scientology, the reich, Jonestown, political parties, abusive relationships, bullying, and a million others can seem other worldly to a person is less influenced by the opinion of others as they are by experiment, analysis and observation. The emotional / neural structure of people is pivotal in having society and somewhat paradoxically in the destruction of it also.
There are many vestigal behaviors that stem from our origins that allow association in family groups or packs and we would not be here except for them. So this letter seems very creepy to me and is hard to look at, very much like listening to the Jonestown tapes, right before they drank the kool-aid. Mob mentality is something that I don't understand personally, but I have taken courses in advertising and I know that I can create situations that move people to do things that are not in their best interest. The creation of Linux, Red Cross, and many others would be examples of the positive side of this.
The price point is self replication and that is the thing which first interested me 2 years ago. I have a device that has taken me a year to design and nearly a year to perfect and I started working with a local group at a maker space because of this. I have not finished some critical tests. My interest was to make a device which was scalable, operable to near a nanometer, and most of all could print itself ( in metal -and- other materials ) with sufficient accuracy to make self replication reliable. The one part that has not been achieved is the electronics and as a person who worked in semiconductor fabrication as well as SCADA, that is a thing which can be achieved in any number of ways, and currently I am testing a method that would combine a bio-molecule to serve for control as well as a substrate that might be suitable for space.
It should be obvious that no company interested in profit would ever deliver a self-replicating device. That is why it has to be done by a person who believes in open source hardware. A lathe can fabricate a lathe, a robot can manufacture a robot, and a -good- 3D printer can print itself. The bigger issue is the data base of construction information which might be automated by OpenCV like capture.
I worked in control applications of robots like pick and place, as well as many other applications, and many of the techniques can be applied here. It is a composite effect where a product that is advantageous can only be manufactured with a 3D printer.
The next thing I will focus on is collection of raw materials. Mining or recovery.
I think you are making my point. The only person who could get one started is somebody who should already be able to do it and is willing to give away 5% for nothing or if it is so innovative that kickstarter doesn't understand it, then neither of them gets anything done because they are both stupid in two different orthogonal ways. Besides that, it seems that kickstarter is just a dressed up man in the middle attack on people who invest or buy and those who create. Kinda like RIAA.
The problem with that is that they become like the patent office and if they don't understand what they are looking at it can't be funded. It assumes they are technically more competent than anybody who would use the service. I never saw a javascript that allows somebody to teleport a physical device for them to look at, but I could have missed it.
I beg to differ. I would say that in my estimation there is no way to cancel gravity but there are other ways. I don't think that the concept of space elevator is workable but I have begun doing the work to prototype a device that would have the same effect as a space elevator without the engineering limitations. I have already done tests and it works on the scale of my tests. The physics is just an extrapolation of a linear effect to scale. I am putting up the data, CAD, equations, and construction methods for anybody to call me out on the physics and I welcome any criticism , constructive or otherwise. I have worked in process engineering for decades as well as systems design so I have a bit of experience in developing systems and it looks good on paper and the tests match my expectations so I will go to the next step. It requires several new technologies, but each has already been tested and I am releasing the first part of the design and even have a video explaining it by an actress that did a decent job of making it. It has only been a week now that I have been getting the stuff ready to publish so a lot of it is ragged and I intend to polish the web info when I can spare the time from my regular work. In fact I have an appointment now and will be gone until tomorrow. Just saying that so that if I don't reply to further stuff, that is why.
That was actually brilliant. That was several orders of magnitude more interesting than the summary.
But you lose a point for not converting distance to international standard apartment block scale.
This is the only suggestion that I saw that was at least creative. I think you jest, but all of those things would be bypassed with a cheap way to get in and out of the gravity well, as things can just be moved about where they are needed. It is assumed that cheap exit and entry from a gravity well is an intractible problem. It is a dependeny issue. The great cost and delay in space exploration hinges on the cost of entry and exit from the gravity well. It is less difficult on a body without such a thick atmosphere, but exit and entry is still the limiting factor.
What do mean it went prompt, isn't it good to be prompt.
I looked at the site and it is filled with fluff that you might see on public tv. Compared to MIT it is a joke. There are plenty of resources already available and it would seem that if they concentrated on cooperation and not empire building they would do better at serving their stated intent. If they had a format like stackoverflow it would be even better. Google already indexes and if there were a data base that was peer reviewed that would allow access at any level of understanding and problem resolution it would be more useful. I remember a wonderful source of information that used to be on the web and got sued out of existence by an encyclopedia company IIRC.
I think that wikipedia is trying to do this with the science, but seems a bit mired in their own process at this point.
It is a rookie karma whore mistake to poke fun at the zoo keepers. .That is essentially the problem, It is why heroine and pain killers are such nasty things. At least this type of escape doesn't leave track marks and heroine is a far more expensive habit.
Taco is playing GTA V and will get back to you after he checks his stock quotes on his windows phone.
I could be wrong, but I think the moderation dice(.com) are loaded. It does not surprise me that fantasy is a better business than reality because reality is hard and it guarantees no reward. It is the old mouse experiment from the 1960s. You give a mouse a button that stimulates the pleasure center in the brain and they will never eat again and push that button until they die. I think that Ringworld had a running story line about Louis Wu and "The Wire"
So excuse me while I reconnect this wire.
I have worked with startup companies too. The first started with 1000k for year in a do or die configuration and we eventually made several billion for the parent company.
One of the people who was hired there is now the secret weapon for Micron. Sometimes it is the people and that person in particular was a modest genius, which is rare.
In this case I am not looking to make a company that makes money. I hear about a lot of people who would pay to die on Mars or Europa and wonder what they are smoking. Effective space isn't any more of an engineering challenge than many of the things I have already designed. It is a lack of creativity that haunts space technology, it requires a really profound advance to even be reasonable to try.
I just started going public with information last week and I guess that I expected people to look at what I have put forward and say "Eureka" as I did.
I worked in industrial systems process design using relay logic and ladder diagrams. I saw this future ( computers ) when I saw the first 7400 integrated circuit and then I helped create it. Now I have made something of my own and I see another future where people live in a solar empire on every planet and moon, I just want that one to happen sooner.
Trying to translate that leap to something that can be easily understood by most people is sometimes harder than solving the problem in the first place. Sadoway at MIT combines both skills as a teacher and a creative genius. Rare. I get most of what he teaches, but I really don't understand how he came up with a liquid metal battery Ambri
How does "I want to do something and don't know how" take precedence over things that actually start the right way.
I have wanted space technology since I was a child and wanting is not a project. First you study and then you design and then you test something that will serve to do the job and -then- you decide how to apply it. I have worked on this for decades and found a technology that I am reasonably certain will allow cheap travel in and out of the gravity well. All I was ever interested in was getting more technical people to help develop it and to make the first prototype like Copenhagen Suborbital.
I agree with many of the other comments , that this is just somebody trying to make money by exploiting people's gullibility.
I registered a site and have been working to put content on the various projects that would allow completing a sytem that would make space travel a reality. When ridiculous fantasy like this gets more attention than science, it makes me wonder.
Who would ever have thunk it. Time of flight of a signal is dependent on distance.
Next they will tell me that ping times are smaller for nearer nodes and I will be astounded and mystified.
I am looking forward to overclocking flies for super slo-mo, however.
Oh yeah, I see the wire, my eyes aren't so good anymore.
The problem is that the universe is a harsh mistress and she always comes up with new material for the Darwin survival scholarship tests .
I am certain that it is available now because I have it and not only can you buy it but make it yourself for material cost. I have been studying this and Sadoway at MIT has developed a liquid metal battery that will store charge cheaply and I have developed a method to collect energy cheaply and store it in that battery. I understand that Jan 2014 is when they will be in production and I will have a production device and DIY instructions to collect solar , and wind energy before that. So leave your number and I will call you , oh maybe that was just a phrase, sorry. Sadoway MIT battery
A video to explain solar thermal and wind collection The video isn't all that technical, but the principle is sound. My only interest is to see that it is known. So you can buy it or DIY for 0$.
I have no idea how costly solar panels are now, but if they can beat 0, I would be very surprised.
I was going to submit an article for slashdot about solar energy and this seems to work just as well. I was wondering if a woman could be the new genius like Nikola Tesla. There is a video on this web site solar energy that describes a device that converts solar energy directly to electrical energy without any semiconductor materials at all, very cheaply and efficiently and could be manufactured by anybody. It seems correct, but I am really confused because it don't think it could be that simple, but the physics seems to be correct as far as I can tell, but I was hoping that somebody would tell me, what is the catch? It doesn't use any new coined terms like nano molecules or quantum ultralight so it has to be wrong? I saw an April fools edition of an electronics magazine that got me , which showed how to make solar cells on a cookie sheet in the oven for ten cents or something.
It is a bit like a female version of "Bill Nye the science guy" but does explain the principle eventually. So is it real or is it PONIES!
I am glad that government employees aren't people too because then they would be prone to panic as well. I hadn't realized the emergency workers had all been completely replaced by super intelligent emotionless cyborgs that are incapable of human response, I will have to take a closer look at my nephew the next time he stops by to see what implants the fire department gave him when he was hired.
You replied to the wrong person.
No, I am pretty sure this is the right windmill and it was tilting at me.
It is another point of association that allows a person to be connected to others. I don't know about them, but it would seem that with the right memory and compute power it would be possible to model the entire society like weather. It would be a simpler task than weather as it is very granular. I could even imagine some type of Navier Stokes / finite element analysis that would tell you what might happen tomorrow.
It is only worrisome if the people who do it are crooked and politicians are known for their honesty and commitment to people's interest above all possibility of personal gain. Just look at , um, okay I will think of an example, give me a minute.
And that made me think of something that would be excluded and that seems wrong. If I am tracking money and I find that a large amount of money flows from company "A" through a dozen twisty little passages and ends up in a politicians pocket and that next day they vote to give them a specific contract, that would be an indicator of graft and I would bet that it would be excluded as a matter of course as those same people decide how much money the NSA will get to play with. Sounds like a great tool. Senator, we need another trillion, and by the way, nobody will ever pick up on how you paid for your secretary's abortion, who really owns her condo or where she bought that whip, without the type of technology we have.
What are the odds that the amount of money flowing from the banks to congress would be made public. I did a quick Markov matrix of it and it came up with NaN. Who is Nan? Perhaps it is too small and fails, because it couldn't be too big and fail.
Large country with large economy has large national debt. News at 11.
My neighbor is up to his knees in debt, and thus it is okay for me to do the same. I am sure there is something about "if your friends jump off a cliff", that my mother used to say, but I don't recall.
Interesting link. :)
All of those problems are obviously solved by a method that allows cheap low G entry and exit from the gravity well.
I registered a web site yesterday ( no content yet ) and it will be there only to describe in detail the technology implementation in necessary steps to get off this planet and live normally. The site registered is here . I would like to share the knowledge in the same way that open courses at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and others have helped me to actually be able to do this.
Not a dream, proof, pudding, eating is the only way to know for sure. No point in arguing until there is something to argue about however. When the data is there I am willing to argue ( or demonstrate ) the physics, chemistry, mechanics, software, and electronics of the process. The heart of science is repeatable experiment and if it works it is science , even if theory can't predict or explain it. I look forward to intellectual combat, it is my favorite sport. I work with many engineers in business and take -real life- courses at the university and I think I am right based on discussions with other engineers, but it isn't a fact until it is implemented. I also have a public radio talk show where myself and other engineers will discuss the technology. I am negotiating a live web cast with IRC questions , but that won't happen till later.
Dreams sometimes come true, just ask Walt Disney or Tinkebell
Hold on , I made a deal with the Russians and was granted asylum if I give up my weapons of mass deduction and independent thought.
I found your homepage site very interesting and got a great laugh from the Douglas Adams quote about moving around little pieces of green paper.
I am of the opinion that letting people off this rock could go a long way to solving social issues because people can live further apart and though nature does not love a wall, if your neighbor is far enough away, you don't feel the need to interfere with their choices.
I am working on a range of technologies and the one that I feel is the most useful is one that would allow very cheap transport in and out of the gravity wells. IMHO it is possible to construct right now at a very reasonable price and my only wonder is how quickly it would be destroyed by governments to maintain their populations in isolation. Space is not so nasty if you can -afford- to take everything with you and even have room for a towel.
This is an issue I have dealt with for decades. When I was young and stupid I worked to design process automation hardware and software for many different companies all over the world and I assumed that if the plants were automated that wages would go up and people would have more free time to enjoy life, but in fact what happened is that corporations fired everybody, had increased profits and the cycle continued. :)
The only way to solve this problem is through individual action. The process of concentration of wealth could continue until there is only one "owner" of everything. Business is a competitive process and is a zero sum game. This is how it is taught and how it is played. The larger issue is the biological basis of that concept. Natural selection is a fact even though it is cruel. It isn't necessary for human life to be a zero sum game in a sufficiently advanced society.
I have been working on a device that collects and stores energy as well as a metal fabricating 3D printer that is efficient and cheap. It does not solve the issue of biological competition and the inherent competitive nature of people is the root cause of conflict. It is a biological condition of life itself and many people realize that cooperation achieves greater goals than conflict and can make that effort to overcome their inherent predisposition to force biological selection for no other reason than a vestigial impulse that is no longer useful due to the fact that no new evolution can exceed the utility of technological gain to all people.
Nature will not evolve a computer interface that will allow people to plug in SSDs to help them remember, but people in cooperation can establish systems without conflict which produce vastly more utility than a wasteful competition to see who is the coolest, richest, and cruelest king of fools.
It is a personal choice like Linux. I contribute, I use it, I support it and this is as much as I can do and if in the end some large corporation is able to destroy that, it is because people were not willing to free themselves. In that same way I hoping to bring shared technologies that can be supported by community adoption and if a cheap effective -personal- robot / 3D printer and energy source can be made that is more efficient than the consolidated manufacturing, then this too can be a place where people can cooperate to get another tool for choice.
Kumbaya
From a biological standpoint it is similar to the rise of the multi-cellular organism which came to dominate the biosphere. Governments hope to design that mechanically through force and it is misguided as well as being derived from principles like Thomas Hobbes "Leviathan", which is social technology that is literally centuries out of date.