Yeah great, there's 1.5 billion people living in industrial world. What your're talking about is applying to them. The rest of the planet is still reproducing like mad rabbits. Having 300 millions of people living on the size of the USA is sustainable. Having more than 1 billion living in India or China IS unsustainable. They will eventually end up with some huge problem. History has shown that when you reach a certain point, nature has regulation mechanisms that will bring the population back to a more normal size. Imagine the damage a virus like the spanish flu would do in Asia or Africa? In Industrialized countries scientist has estimated that the survival rate would be in the upper 80%. But for the poorer place in the whole, it could be the other way around.
The world population should be around 1.5 billion anyway.
Wall of Tokamak-style reactor become radioactive after a while and need to be properly disposed. If there was to be an explosion than there could be a radioactive leak. But much less than fission reactor would. The main problem that can happen btw with a fusion reactor is not the reaction going uncontrolled or the power admission going down, but a failure of the cooling system. This would cause melting of the torus and part of the facility. But this is unlikely to happen, it would require power level to stay high while the cooling fail and require security check to fail.
Actually, sexual orientation is not by itself a genetic feature. It's mostly a mix of personal development AND of chemical functionality. It's been shown that effeminate men does have a smaller amygdala just like woman. But, being effeminate by itself is not the cause of being gay. So, having someone cured for being effeminate will only have him act with more virility but he could still prefer men. Keep in mind that the concept of sexual orientation by itself is man made. On the animal side, there's a difference between reproducing and getting pleasure. One can only be accomplished with the opposite sex while the other can be accomplished with whatever you see fit. It's only a cultural and moral matter, which are overrated IMHO.
We're working hard toward getting rid of our dependence over the USA and China is now becoming one of our biggest trade partner. Canada is not US 51th state nor will it be the next european country. Our economy is strong, we've got plentiful of natural resources and we've got space. If we can ever get somebody wise at the head of the country, Canada could be the next big thing in the world.
The AIME is saying the teachers posting video online of their lecture are infringin copyright laws. But aren't the teachers owner of their lecture copyright?
I guess having most chineese firms not caring about legal threats from the US helps a bit. In the US you can't do anything without having a lawyer telling you if somebody has already patented a part of what you've been doing.
I forgot to say : Not only does it land the ability to nuke every important city in the world, but this almost without being detected. Current missile lunch detection system spot big rockets lifting-off. In space all you would need is a smaller missile being able to resist entry into atmosphere and guide itself while falling.
Because space is for everyone and provides too much firepower ability. Placing a satellite the size of a school bus loaded with nuclear missile would lend it's owner with enough power to nuke most big cities in the world under 8 minutes. This goes completely contrary to non proliferation treaties. There's is also a domino effect. Almost no country in this world could survive on its own now. Everyone depends on someone else. If a third world war was to happens, the last things you want is to be alone. If every communication means goes down you won't be able to contact either allies or enemies.
Einstein said: I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks!
Commonly used patented technologies that didn't got enforced for a few years should lose their patented status and fall under public domain. This is plain common sense. The best examples are FAT technologies, which most of the world embedded stuff use. Why should MS let everybody use it for years than once if got global domination try to enforce the patent on everybody and cash in. That's just evil. (Patent trolls are evil, but they shouldn't exist first, that's because of the boggus patent system in the US).
That's why I can still play with my S939 Opteron 180 machine pretty well. I simply upgraded to a 9800GTX+ in 2008 summers and my machine is still doing pretty well for its age. But it's maxed out with 3Gigs of ram and the video card is bottlenecked by the CPU. After 5 years (with upgrade all along) I think that this machine served me very well. I'm looking toward a new build by the end of this year. I'm doing more and more intensive multitasking and going for a quadcore will be huge boost in productivity.
Natural law demonstrate that when one of the ressource become almost inexhaustible, a specie starts to grow and deplete the other resources it depends on. Dont get me wrong I'm the first to support nuclear fusion and free energy for all. The sudden advance in technology it would bring would be incredibly huge. But I do think most of the world is not ready for such a boon. Having lots of energy not only provide you tools to create good things. It do provide you tools to do incredible bad things too.
Who care's about peak oil anyway! The barrel price will continue to rise and most of the dependant sub-product will gradually shift toward another medium. There's already organic produced plastic and we will be able to produce pure octane fuel using algea soon. You know there's other goods in history that were deemed as unreplaceable. Spice was use to extends meat life and for a lot of stuff during most of 1000-1800 AD. People even went to travel to the end of the world to get some. They ended up on another continent.
Now we're digging everywhere and polluting more than ever to extract tar. This is a stupid thing. But one day we will simply move to something else as if oil had never existed. People tend to get focused on current tech without ever thinking that something else could be good too. It's just out of their sight. If I told you that in 50 years we will have home size nuclear fusion reactor for real cheap and that we'll have teleportation, you would call me freak or dreamer, but that's the same somebody would have been told just before cars happened. Now if Colombus ended up on another continent seeking for India, then our seek for tritium could send us way farther!
What isn't said is that water vapour is a far more efficient green house gaz than carbon dioxide. But first thing first, we need to engineer a bacteria that will survive in the harsh environment of Mars and grow into its soil, to release frozen CO2 and water. Once enough of both are present in the atmosphere, we'll be able to introduce plant that survive harsh, desert conditions. Finding the right bacteria is the only tough thing. Once we have it, seeding it is a matter of sending a rocket to the red planet. Once started, the process would have to reach a point where it can sustain itself. Its a matter of starting back the ecosystem that once rose began on Mars. Having the global temperature of the planet being elevated by only 1-2 Celsius degree could melt some more underground water, adding to the green house effect. This wouldn't be instantaneous, but it would mostly be done free of any mankind intervention except at the beginning. After a couple hundred years the condition will be fair enough to introduce plants and bugs, the air would start to become breathable. Its a long term process, but it can be done, fairly easily. The "gardening" task wouldn't have to be accomplish until many hundred years, and we can hope some technology to get to Mars fairly easily will have been invented.
Why do the China has to get into this? Don't the US realize that by having such deals and loan with China they're selling their country. Obama has planned for the green energy industry to help to rebuild the economy. If the wind turbines and most of the manufacturing is done in China, where's the point?
Fusion is still years away, but in a time frame much more reasonable than say an antimatter reactor. The first ITER estimate were talking about 2025. I think the last time I read about it, it was about 2034. We should be able to see it happens.
Also the fusion CAN be safe. The containment shell radio-active decay last about a hundred years and is way smaller than the by product of nuclear fission. The fusion waste should be handled as safely than fission waste.
This fiber must have been installed somewhere and it must be on public terrain, no? Than why in the world the city have granted the permission for that company to install the fiber? I mean, most telco cable runs in/on public utilities (sewer, terrain, phone pole). They are granted a permission to use it. Why can't it be revoked? Fiber pipe should be public utility. If a company would decide to run water to every house and sue the city for doing so too, would it be more capitalism-correct?
Quebec is not a joke, its a desperate issue. There's actually people in Quebec that would like to finish up with the independence and get to a real workable relation with Canada. I don't want to separate from Canada and but I don't to be part of just another american states clone. I just want Quebec to have the right to protect its culture and language. Our national identity must be preserved. But for all of the other shit that's left, we HAVE to work with the rest of the Canada. And that would change Canada dynamics completely too. If the Bloc Québecois would disappear, most of the people here would vote NDP and make it the official opposition. Hell it could even get to win a minority mandate. The same thing apply on the provincial level. I would never vote for any secessionist party, the ADQ is completely screwd up and I hate the liberal orientation's. But, I'd like to have social-democrat party, a bit like the NDP, which would not be completely federalist but that would be open to work with rest of the Canada while defending Quebec interest fairly.
One file install is dead simple, link all your apps statically, package them in one folder, than install them into/opt. All it lacks is a kind of autorun that would start the apps when you would click on the folder. Geez, it's already possible with installer : a bash script with a.tar.gz appended to it. Nothing would stop you from only tarring the directory and having that bash script from running the app.
Who said you're showing everything to the world? Google isn't displaying my email box content to everyone. Sure they admins can access it, but why the f**** would they have to care about my mom asking me how I'm doing. Any service that you use, may it be online or IRL, anyone can gather info about you. Why do everybody live happily without being paranoiac about your grocer stealing your credit card number or selling your nourishment profile to your insurance company that would really love to know if you eat healthy : trust.
You trust your ISP not to repport law enforcement if you go online and download warez.
You trust your mechanics for not telling your car insurance company you've been driving with bad break for 10000 miles. You
You trust your MD not to tell everyone you've got STD.
Everybody have plenty of stuff to hide but have to share with some. Trust is the base of a relationship. If people don't trust a company, they won't do business with it. Then the company will close its door. If Google would sell your email to third party and that you'd end up with some offer in the real mail for something that you had wrote by email, without ever telling others, I guest you'd close your email account pretty fast.
Now, if you don't trust your cloud computing provider, then why are you doing business with him? Are cloud computing service provider less secure than ordinary webhoster that would offer you a virtual private server? Why don't they deserve the same trust?
You said yourself, it was a terminal. The computation was done on a mainframe. If the job was dispatched through a bunch of mainframe than it would have been a cloud. Also, how was your computation defined? Having a distributed application doing a specific job isn't cloud processing. Anyway, I think cloud computing has more to do with hype than true conceptual definition.
Cloud is as private as any other thing you would put on in a web application : Privacy is bound to your service provider usage term. Their tem of use are a contract between you and them. They are as bound to it as you are, except they have the right to change it anytime and you have the right to refuse the modifications and quit using their service. If they break their term and for any reason your data end up in someone else hands, than you could always go after your service provider and the one that cause the leak. Now if you fear that your info end-up in the government hands, then you've got a bigger problem than worrying about the cloud.
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Yeah great, there's 1.5 billion people living in industrial world. What your're talking about is applying to them. The rest of the planet is still reproducing like mad rabbits. Having 300 millions of people living on the size of the USA is sustainable. Having more than 1 billion living in India or China IS unsustainable. They will eventually end up with some huge problem. History has shown that when you reach a certain point, nature has regulation mechanisms that will bring the population back to a more normal size. Imagine the damage a virus like the spanish flu would do in Asia or Africa? In Industrialized countries scientist has estimated that the survival rate would be in the upper 80%. But for the poorer place in the whole, it could be the other way around. The world population should be around 1.5 billion anyway.
Wall of Tokamak-style reactor become radioactive after a while and need to be properly disposed. If there was to be an explosion than there could be a radioactive leak. But much less than fission reactor would. The main problem that can happen btw with a fusion reactor is not the reaction going uncontrolled or the power admission going down, but a failure of the cooling system. This would cause melting of the torus and part of the facility. But this is unlikely to happen, it would require power level to stay high while the cooling fail and require security check to fail.
Actually, sexual orientation is not by itself a genetic feature. It's mostly a mix of personal development AND of chemical functionality. It's been shown that effeminate men does have a smaller amygdala just like woman. But, being effeminate by itself is not the cause of being gay. So, having someone cured for being effeminate will only have him act with more virility but he could still prefer men. Keep in mind that the concept of sexual orientation by itself is man made. On the animal side, there's a difference between reproducing and getting pleasure. One can only be accomplished with the opposite sex while the other can be accomplished with whatever you see fit. It's only a cultural and moral matter, which are overrated IMHO.
We're working hard toward getting rid of our dependence over the USA and China is now becoming one of our biggest trade partner. Canada is not US 51th state nor will it be the next european country. Our economy is strong, we've got plentiful of natural resources and we've got space. If we can ever get somebody wise at the head of the country, Canada could be the next big thing in the world.
No, that's the french way. In quebecois you'd say : Va chier! (Which mean literally Go have a shit)
The AIME is saying the teachers posting video online of their lecture are infringin copyright laws. But aren't the teachers owner of their lecture copyright?
As anyone tried fuel-cell using fuel? That may be pointless but...
I guess having most chineese firms not caring about legal threats from the US helps a bit. In the US you can't do anything without having a lawyer telling you if somebody has already patented a part of what you've been doing.
Nah, the true leap will be the first real space pr0n movie!
I forgot to say : Not only does it land the ability to nuke every important city in the world, but this almost without being detected. Current missile lunch detection system spot big rockets lifting-off. In space all you would need is a smaller missile being able to resist entry into atmosphere and guide itself while falling.
Because space is for everyone and provides too much firepower ability. Placing a satellite the size of a school bus loaded with nuclear missile would lend it's owner with enough power to nuke most big cities in the world under 8 minutes. This goes completely contrary to non proliferation treaties. There's is also a domino effect. Almost no country in this world could survive on its own now. Everyone depends on someone else. If a third world war was to happens, the last things you want is to be alone. If every communication means goes down you won't be able to contact either allies or enemies. Einstein said: I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks!
Commonly used patented technologies that didn't got enforced for a few years should lose their patented status and fall under public domain. This is plain common sense. The best examples are FAT technologies, which most of the world embedded stuff use. Why should MS let everybody use it for years than once if got global domination try to enforce the patent on everybody and cash in. That's just evil. (Patent trolls are evil, but they shouldn't exist first, that's because of the boggus patent system in the US).
Yes, but by producing energy from this meet you actually waste less energy than doing nothing.
That's why I can still play with my S939 Opteron 180 machine pretty well. I simply upgraded to a 9800GTX+ in 2008 summers and my machine is still doing pretty well for its age. But it's maxed out with 3Gigs of ram and the video card is bottlenecked by the CPU. After 5 years (with upgrade all along) I think that this machine served me very well. I'm looking toward a new build by the end of this year. I'm doing more and more intensive multitasking and going for a quadcore will be huge boost in productivity.
Natural law demonstrate that when one of the ressource become almost inexhaustible, a specie starts to grow and deplete the other resources it depends on. Dont get me wrong I'm the first to support nuclear fusion and free energy for all. The sudden advance in technology it would bring would be incredibly huge. But I do think most of the world is not ready for such a boon. Having lots of energy not only provide you tools to create good things. It do provide you tools to do incredible bad things too.
Who care's about peak oil anyway! The barrel price will continue to rise and most of the dependant sub-product will gradually shift toward another medium. There's already organic produced plastic and we will be able to produce pure octane fuel using algea soon. You know there's other goods in history that were deemed as unreplaceable. Spice was use to extends meat life and for a lot of stuff during most of 1000-1800 AD. People even went to travel to the end of the world to get some. They ended up on another continent.
Now we're digging everywhere and polluting more than ever to extract tar. This is a stupid thing. But one day we will simply move to something else as if oil had never existed. People tend to get focused on current tech without ever thinking that something else could be good too. It's just out of their sight. If I told you that in 50 years we will have home size nuclear fusion reactor for real cheap and that we'll have teleportation, you would call me freak or dreamer, but that's the same somebody would have been told just before cars happened. Now if Colombus ended up on another continent seeking for India, then our seek for tritium could send us way farther!
What isn't said is that water vapour is a far more efficient green house gaz than carbon dioxide. But first thing first, we need to engineer a bacteria that will survive in the harsh environment of Mars and grow into its soil, to release frozen CO2 and water. Once enough of both are present in the atmosphere, we'll be able to introduce plant that survive harsh, desert conditions. Finding the right bacteria is the only tough thing. Once we have it, seeding it is a matter of sending a rocket to the red planet. Once started, the process would have to reach a point where it can sustain itself. Its a matter of starting back the ecosystem that once rose began on Mars. Having the global temperature of the planet being elevated by only 1-2 Celsius degree could melt some more underground water, adding to the green house effect. This wouldn't be instantaneous, but it would mostly be done free of any mankind intervention except at the beginning. After a couple hundred years the condition will be fair enough to introduce plants and bugs, the air would start to become breathable. Its a long term process, but it can be done, fairly easily. The "gardening" task wouldn't have to be accomplish until many hundred years, and we can hope some technology to get to Mars fairly easily will have been invented.
Why do the China has to get into this? Don't the US realize that by having such deals and loan with China they're selling their country. Obama has planned for the green energy industry to help to rebuild the economy. If the wind turbines and most of the manufacturing is done in China, where's the point?
Fusion is still years away, but in a time frame much more reasonable than say an antimatter reactor. The first ITER estimate were talking about 2025. I think the last time I read about it, it was about 2034. We should be able to see it happens. Also the fusion CAN be safe. The containment shell radio-active decay last about a hundred years and is way smaller than the by product of nuclear fission. The fusion waste should be handled as safely than fission waste.
This fiber must have been installed somewhere and it must be on public terrain, no? Than why in the world the city have granted the permission for that company to install the fiber? I mean, most telco cable runs in/on public utilities (sewer, terrain, phone pole). They are granted a permission to use it. Why can't it be revoked? Fiber pipe should be public utility. If a company would decide to run water to every house and sue the city for doing so too, would it be more capitalism-correct?
Quebec is not a joke, its a desperate issue. There's actually people in Quebec that would like to finish up with the independence and get to a real workable relation with Canada. I don't want to separate from Canada and but I don't to be part of just another american states clone. I just want Quebec to have the right to protect its culture and language. Our national identity must be preserved. But for all of the other shit that's left, we HAVE to work with the rest of the Canada. And that would change Canada dynamics completely too. If the Bloc Québecois would disappear, most of the people here would vote NDP and make it the official opposition. Hell it could even get to win a minority mandate. The same thing apply on the provincial level. I would never vote for any secessionist party, the ADQ is completely screwd up and I hate the liberal orientation's. But, I'd like to have social-democrat party, a bit like the NDP, which would not be completely federalist but that would be open to work with rest of the Canada while defending Quebec interest fairly.
One file install is dead simple, link all your apps statically, package them in one folder, than install them into /opt. All it lacks is a kind of autorun that would start the apps when you would click on the folder. Geez, it's already possible with installer : a bash script with a .tar.gz appended to it. Nothing would stop you from only tarring the directory and having that bash script from running the app.
Who said you're showing everything to the world? Google isn't displaying my email box content to everyone. Sure they admins can access it, but why the f**** would they have to care about my mom asking me how I'm doing. Any service that you use, may it be online or IRL, anyone can gather info about you. Why do everybody live happily without being paranoiac about your grocer stealing your credit card number or selling your nourishment profile to your insurance company that would really love to know if you eat healthy : trust.
You trust your ISP not to repport law enforcement if you go online and download warez. You trust your mechanics for not telling your car insurance company you've been driving with bad break for 10000 miles. You You trust your MD not to tell everyone you've got STD.
Everybody have plenty of stuff to hide but have to share with some. Trust is the base of a relationship. If people don't trust a company, they won't do business with it. Then the company will close its door. If Google would sell your email to third party and that you'd end up with some offer in the real mail for something that you had wrote by email, without ever telling others, I guest you'd close your email account pretty fast.
Now, if you don't trust your cloud computing provider, then why are you doing business with him? Are cloud computing service provider less secure than ordinary webhoster that would offer you a virtual private server? Why don't they deserve the same trust?
You said yourself, it was a terminal. The computation was done on a mainframe. If the job was dispatched through a bunch of mainframe than it would have been a cloud. Also, how was your computation defined? Having a distributed application doing a specific job isn't cloud processing. Anyway, I think cloud computing has more to do with hype than true conceptual definition.
Cloud is as private as any other thing you would put on in a web application : Privacy is bound to your service provider usage term. Their tem of use are a contract between you and them. They are as bound to it as you are, except they have the right to change it anytime and you have the right to refuse the modifications and quit using their service. If they break their term and for any reason your data end up in someone else hands, than you could always go after your service provider and the one that cause the leak. Now if you fear that your info end-up in the government hands, then you've got a bigger problem than worrying about the cloud.