Dig down and use Lunar rock to shield from radiation. Build large loops underground that centrifuge up to 1G for normal living.
Getting tunnel boring machines onto the moon isn't exactly a walk in the park. Getting excavating equipment to the moon isn't going to be cheap or easy.
I've always wondered how many people would be driving electric cars if it wasn't for the state/Fed subsidies (rebates) or other benefits like Leaf's free charging. Though Elon Musk, as of 2015 had benefited from almost $5B in Gov't subsidies.
I see people driving $100k Teslas, and they're not doing it to be green. It's the new status symbol of wealth (used to be BMW/Benz).
The Voices from the Hellmouth series seemed like one of the most important stories on/. as enabled the masses of readers to express their own experiences of being bullied or treated by others within school. It seemed to be one of the first articles about us rather than about some technology or company.
Recall that this story was from back in '99, way before being in IT/computers was cool or mainstream.
The fuel/exhaust that a rocket uses and produces isn't exactly the cleanest or safest stuff on earth. I can't imagine people putting up with this stuff being produced on a daily (hourly) basis just outside of their city.
People care more about the content than the medium it's delivered on. Let's see, we watched Disney movies in the theater, then bought them on tape, then bought them on DVD, then streamed them online via $cable_company, then Netflix and now Disney's Service.
Who always made money in all those forms? Disney. Not the movie theater, the VHS tape mfg/distributor, video stores, DVD mfgs etc etc... Disney.. People will be wanting to watch Disney flicks for the next upteen years.
Same thing with all the other content.
We could have a scenario where every content owner has their own streaming service, so you pay them $10/mo, and then buy an aggregator box/service on top of them (Roku etc). Now you're back to paying $100/mo.
We haven't seen ESPN do it with sports, but once they get around to streaming it standalone (and not requiring a cable provider), it's gonna sell like gangbusters.
Do the bootcamps attract tiger mom/dad parents who will pay anything to get their kids into Stanford/Berkeley including make their kids learning programming even when they don't have any interest in it so they can brag to their peers that their kid(s) have an app on the Apple/Google store.
Then yes. These things are in every strip mall in the SF bay area.
These bootcamps aren't about turning kids in successful programmers or software engineers any more than petting zoos are making zoologists out of kids. It's a way to make money, pure and simple.
In the beginning we had free, over the air, TV... then cable came along... and now we pay Netflix/Amazon/Disney for their programming...
Radio used to be free, over the air... then XM came along and soon we'll be paying youtube/Pandora/Spotify/Some-music-label to listen to their catalog.
Most people used to drink tap water too, now we pay $2/bottle because it has a picture of a mountain on it or it says it comes from a Tiny island 3000 miles away (Fiji).
There's tons of apartment buildings being built. All along Tasman by Cisco are massive apartment/condo complexes, and the old IBM facility off Cottle Rd had a 1000 units recently completed.
Nobody is building new stand alone single family homes. High density, multi-story apt or condo complexes, complete with pools, rec rooms, gyms and shopping on the first floor are the norm. If there's a single family home being built, it's being ruled with an iron fist by HOAs that charge $300/mo for nothing.
It had raised more than $580 million in funding from top investors like Khosla Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Kleiner Perkins.... and... BlackRock, which loaned Jawbone $300 million in 2015, which has a stake in the new company
In California they have carpool lanes that have variable pricing depending on the time of day and the congestion on the road at that time. Similar and probably the inspiration for Uber's "Surge Pricing".
Why would your friend/relative want to store a bunch of HDDs and do this "swap dance" for eternity?
These ideas of setting up a server at grandma's house two states away are absurd. You think she wants a server or even a RaspberryPi with a HDD attached running 24/7?
Either backup to an online service like Backblaze, run a server in a hosting provider, or ship your HDDs off to Recall or other archival storage company. Never understood why IT people around here want to involve their friends/family in overly complex backup/DR schemes. Think about them before suggesting your rich aunt buy a 1000 cartridge tape library.
Disney knows this. They've got a huge library of content, and love it when you consume it in different formats. They don't care if you buy it online, stream it, VHS, DVD, laser disc etc. Netflix and Amazon know this and adapted as demonstrated by their switch to original programming.
Notice how the VHS tape manufacturers are suffering or the companies that manufacture DVD discs? Technology changes and boom, nobody is buying VHS tapes any more.
BUT we're still watching disney films, and watching sports. ESPN should have fully embraced their ability to own content and then make that content (sports programming) on as many devices as possible. Sports are sports regardless of the platform i'm watching it on, just make it as easy as possible to watch it.
I'd much rather pay $15/month to get all of ESPN's programming than to have to buy season passes for NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL individually.
How is this different than matchup ads with viewer preferences? Now instead of some random ad or product, I'm being matched up with some person. This can't end well when a bunch of gold digging 20-somethings get matched up with married men.
Or we all get matched up with people that think like us and the diversity of opinion goes down even more. We already have seen this on FB with regards to posts or news articles.
So under this premise Uber could charge more for someone going from Apple's Campus in Cupertino than they would in East Palo Alto for going the same time/distance?
We're nolonger in an age where a ride is based on time and distance, but on your economic standing.
What about charging more for "dangerous parts of the city"? $5 more for picking someone up in Oakland rather than Atherton (home of the CEOs)?
Or you could crank it up $10 more if you were going to the airport (bonus if Uber could determine when your flight was and jack up the price if they thought you might be late and needed a ride right now!).
What about automatic "surge pricing" if you were taking an Uber to the hospital? Surely, you'd be willing to pay an extra $20 if you were in labor?
This is great for the homeless population, but for those that aren't employed by high-tech. They just can't afford to live in Seattle anymore. Teachers, fire-fighters, police, food service workers, etc can't afford to pay $2000 for a 1bedroom apartment. What we all saw in SanFrancisco/Silicon Valley area, is happening in Seattle.
Hope these high tech workers don't plan on having kids, there will be nobody to teach them. Maybe Amazon can buy Khan Academy and launch Amazon-School. "Alexa, teach my child to read."
And not powerpoint presentations or pointless meetings with people who you're not sure why were invited (and oftentimes that includes yourself)?
What about status updates to management who require them in powerpoint which is just an export of all the dashboards you specifically made for them so they could refresh them 10x a day instead of asking for status on a 20 person concall every week?
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Dig down and use Lunar rock to shield from radiation. Build large loops underground that centrifuge up to 1G for normal living.
Getting tunnel boring machines onto the moon isn't exactly a walk in the park. Getting excavating equipment to the moon isn't going to be cheap or easy.
I've always wondered how many people would be driving electric cars if it wasn't for the state/Fed subsidies (rebates) or other benefits like Leaf's free charging. Though Elon Musk, as of 2015 had benefited from almost $5B in Gov't subsidies.
I see people driving $100k Teslas, and they're not doing it to be green. It's the new status symbol of wealth (used to be BMW/Benz).
The Voices from the Hellmouth series seemed like one of the most important stories on /. as enabled the masses of readers to express their own experiences of being bullied or treated by others within school. It seemed to be one of the first articles about us rather than about some technology or company.
Recall that this story was from back in '99, way before being in IT/computers was cool or mainstream.
Do they poll a group of men of the same grade and group as them?
The fuel/exhaust that a rocket uses and produces isn't exactly the cleanest or safest stuff on earth. I can't imagine people putting up with this stuff being produced on a daily (hourly) basis just outside of their city.
Found the same video on youtube from 2010.... had no idea /. was going this far back for "current news"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fng6gCjl58
People care more about the content than the medium it's delivered on. Let's see, we watched Disney movies in the theater, then bought them on tape, then bought them on DVD, then streamed them online via $cable_company, then Netflix and now Disney's Service.
Who always made money in all those forms? Disney. Not the movie theater, the VHS tape mfg/distributor, video stores, DVD mfgs etc etc... Disney.. People will be wanting to watch Disney flicks for the next upteen years.
Same thing with all the other content.
We could have a scenario where every content owner has their own streaming service, so you pay them $10/mo, and then buy an aggregator box/service on top of them (Roku etc). Now you're back to paying $100/mo.
We haven't seen ESPN do it with sports, but once they get around to streaming it standalone (and not requiring a cable provider), it's gonna sell like gangbusters.
If you want to define "working" as:
Do the bootcamps attract tiger mom/dad parents who will pay anything to get their kids into Stanford/Berkeley including make their kids learning programming even when they don't have any interest in it so they can brag to their peers that their kid(s) have an app on the Apple/Google store.
Then yes. These things are in every strip mall in the SF bay area.
These bootcamps aren't about turning kids in successful programmers or software engineers any more than petting zoos are making zoologists out of kids. It's a way to make money, pure and simple.
In the beginning we had free, over the air, TV... then cable came along... and now we pay Netflix/Amazon/Disney for their programming...
Radio used to be free, over the air... then XM came along and soon we'll be paying youtube/Pandora/Spotify/Some-music-label to listen to their catalog.
Most people used to drink tap water too, now we pay $2/bottle because it has a picture of a mountain on it or it says it comes from a Tiny island 3000 miles away (Fiji).
If it was email (apple/gmail/yahoo) these would be lost forever unless someone had his password and cellphone for two factor authentication.
Was it this kid's mother who did it and needed to brag to her friends and relatives?
In America, the only time 99% of the SUVs on the road, go off-road, is when the owner backs over the flowerbed.
From today's earning's call for Apple:
Appleâ(TM)s total cash and securities: $261.5 billion
Appleâ(TM)s total debt: $89.8 billion
Net cash position: $171.65 billion
I can't replace CPU/RAM/HDD on my MBP when it fails...
Though I have no interest going back to the days where all the components were pluggable and I had a 10lb laptop.
Why only phones and tech? I can resole a pair of leather shoes, but my sneakers, I cannot get resoled? What gives Nike?
There's tons of apartment buildings being built. All along Tasman by Cisco are massive apartment/condo complexes, and the old IBM facility off Cottle Rd had a 1000 units recently completed.
Nobody is building new stand alone single family homes. High density, multi-story apt or condo complexes, complete with pools, rec rooms, gyms and shopping on the first floor are the norm. If there's a single family home being built, it's being ruled with an iron fist by HOAs that charge $300/mo for nothing.
It had raised more than $580 million in funding from top investors like Khosla Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Kleiner Perkins.... and... BlackRock, which loaned Jawbone $300 million in 2015, which has a stake in the new company
Plus 14 rounds of funding.
How is this CEO still trusted with anybody's money if he blew through over half a billion dollars? #SuckerBornEveryMinute
In California they have carpool lanes that have variable pricing depending on the time of day and the congestion on the road at that time. Similar and probably the inspiration for Uber's "Surge Pricing".
Why would your friend/relative want to store a bunch of HDDs and do this "swap dance" for eternity?
These ideas of setting up a server at grandma's house two states away are absurd. You think she wants a server or even a RaspberryPi with a HDD attached running 24/7?
Either backup to an online service like Backblaze, run a server in a hosting provider, or ship your HDDs off to Recall or other archival storage company. Never understood why IT people around here want to involve their friends/family in overly complex backup/DR schemes. Think about them before suggesting your rich aunt buy a 1000 cartridge tape library.
Disney knows this. They've got a huge library of content, and love it when you consume it in different formats. They don't care if you buy it online, stream it, VHS, DVD, laser disc etc. Netflix and Amazon know this and adapted as demonstrated by their switch to original programming.
Notice how the VHS tape manufacturers are suffering or the companies that manufacture DVD discs? Technology changes and boom, nobody is buying VHS tapes any more.
BUT we're still watching disney films, and watching sports. ESPN should have fully embraced their ability to own content and then make that content (sports programming) on as many devices as possible. Sports are sports regardless of the platform i'm watching it on, just make it as easy as possible to watch it.
I'd much rather pay $15/month to get all of ESPN's programming than to have to buy season passes for NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL individually.
How is this different than matchup ads with viewer preferences? Now instead of some random ad or product, I'm being matched up with some person. This can't end well when a bunch of gold digging 20-somethings get matched up with married men.
Or we all get matched up with people that think like us and the diversity of opinion goes down even more. We already have seen this on FB with regards to posts or news articles.
So under this premise Uber could charge more for someone going from Apple's Campus in Cupertino than they would in East Palo Alto for going the same time/distance?
We're nolonger in an age where a ride is based on time and distance, but on your economic standing.
What about charging more for "dangerous parts of the city"? $5 more for picking someone up in Oakland rather than Atherton (home of the CEOs)?
Or you could crank it up $10 more if you were going to the airport (bonus if Uber could determine when your flight was and jack up the price if they thought you might be late and needed a ride right now!).
What about automatic "surge pricing" if you were taking an Uber to the hospital? Surely, you'd be willing to pay an extra $20 if you were in labor?
A Tesla still costs $70k USD, while I can get a nice 4cyl 35+ MPG car for under $20k. Even less than that if it's used, and it will still get 35+ MPG.
This is great for the homeless population, but for those that aren't employed by high-tech. They just can't afford to live in Seattle anymore. Teachers, fire-fighters, police, food service workers, etc can't afford to pay $2000 for a 1bedroom apartment. What we all saw in SanFrancisco/Silicon Valley area, is happening in Seattle.
Hope these high tech workers don't plan on having kids, there will be nobody to teach them. Maybe Amazon can buy Khan Academy and launch Amazon-School. "Alexa, teach my child to read."
Done before, just run windows on windows...
-Your friends in the OS/2 Warp Community.
And not powerpoint presentations or pointless meetings with people who you're not sure why were invited (and oftentimes that includes yourself)?
What about status updates to management who require them in powerpoint which is just an export of all the dashboards you specifically made for them so they could refresh them 10x a day instead of asking for status on a 20 person concall every week?