The gap between the richest and the poorest continues to accelerate world wide. The effect is less money for everyone except the very few. That means less money to spend on education, less money to spend on research by the large. The only countries that are not seeing this trend is those countries that have not permitted the IMF/Banking community to infiltrate their governments like in Europe and the USA.
2) No capital to do research because the very few value large estates, political power and private jets and jaguars to drive around in. Why risk it on a new technology that will destabilize their investments monopoly holds in Oil and Gas?
Even if it means trashing the entire Gulf of America.
3)More and more public institutions now rely on a very few corporate giants for funding research more than ever before. This research is for products, _not_ solutions. A good example is the research into Cancer, which is concentrating on prescriptions and improving the "Gold Standard" such as chemo.
Why kill your market and create cures? When you can create really expensive drugs which prolong agony, have so many side effects you need _more drugs_ and do TV adds with half the ads explaining the side effects.
4) Huge sums of money that go into "ways of political thought" for students, instead of thinking for themselves. The result, which is planned, half do not graduate. This is planned because the real goal is not so much science ignorance, but control of the mind. With record amounts of money pouring into Chicago and Milwaukee for education with the goal of graduating just 1/2 to 1/4 of the students in the next 5 years.
By creating a underclass, the very few can select which science can be used in society world wide using schools of thought so that dangerous ideas like "Open Source" can be thought of as Anti-American or bad political schools of thinking or just bad for business.
Once the graduation rates are less than 20%, the very few can insure a new "Dark Age" which will benefit them greatly by insuring any new science can be reviewed by corporate boards and insured not to produce any bad effects such as producing any sort of revolutionary energy source, propulsion system or system of thought not approved by the state.
We already see this in the planned bills before the house and senate which would require the Department of Homeland Security to approve any ISP connection with more than 100 customers, which would be run with equipment specifications from the department itself.
Good By Linux.
5) The debasing of corporate media. It is only a matter of time before the ISP's get shut down, or are totally controlled by the IMF or Banking/Government fascists. We already see that happening everywhere with excuses for this tyranny from Child porn, to Hate Speech to whatever.
I can assure for example the Australian government could care less about Child Porn. They want to control what you think, and what you say.
With new bills before the house and senate in the USA that want everyone who connects to the internet or writes BLOGS to have a certain set of requirements to get a license to do anything on the connection to theinternet.
In short to wrap up, if you think the science gap is bad now, wait till they shut the internet down, take more personal liberties away as they plan these new wars that are coming up in the future and tell everyone here that "It is for your own good that we don't allow you to speak."
This isn't a science gap problem, it is a fascist problem and it is going to get worse.
The drill depth was never attempted before by BP, and now from what I have heard from inside sources, the drill depth has produced pressures beyond the technical resources of _any_ of our science at the well head to contain it. All three safety measures failed at the well head.
These pressures were not expected and where a surprise and unfortunately the equipment cannot handle it.
So, it isn't that anyone is stupid, it simply cannot be stopped using any known engineering science.
Interestingly enough, our Russian friends currently hold the record for drill depth. But Russian obsession with drill depth mainly have to do with politics, in that they do not want any sources of Oil influenced by western banking or US dollars. So, against current thinking about how Oil forms (it is a fossil fuel) most Russians believe it is formed through natural processes in the Earth's crust through some unknown geological chemical process. The Russians are also familiar with the consequences of drilling those sorts of depths (10 miles down or further) and would _never_ attempt to do something like that in the Gulf. Why? Because the well head pressures at the surface require specialized and very large structures to contain the pressure that is almost impossible to build at that ocean depth as BP did in the Gulf. So, they only do that on land.
But I digress, but this theory of natural geological process to create Oil is called Abiotic Oil.
If you have not heard of it, it is because only recently have depths been achievable to test it, so there hasn't been any evidence to support it.
Incidentally, when BP was contracted to create the well, the Russians were surprisingly silent and returned no comments on the project.
But over the past 5 years the Russians began projects to test this theory and now have very secretive wells, 5 of them and just 5 wells that have single handedly turned Russia from the number 5 Oil producer to number one in the past 5 years. Internally producing more Oil than Saudi Arabia.
So, if you here people proposing tactical Nukes to shut the well down, they aren't joking. It may be the only way to do it by fusing the crust....if it works.
My guess is, this Oil Well, due to the facts above, isn't going to be shut down any time soon and this could be going on for a while, perhaps even YEARS.
Given the context of time to do the analysis of the SUN, which lets not forget is probably 6 billion years old, I doubt the so called "cycle" of sun spot activity is a cycle. If it is, then it probably is very short term and studying it is probably not going to in and of itself, allow scientists to gleem any information about the inner workings of the sun.
My guess, is that sun spot activity is a by product of the material composition of the sun, namely its rich metals content therefore studying it is sort of a waste of time if your desire is to understand how in actuality the sun works. So as the sun ages the metal content tends to increasingly flow to the surface, cooling more slowly due to its mass and causing the surrounding gases to (Hydrogen and Helium Plasma) to cool.
I have a theory that Sun Spots are not present in young stars that have high metal content like the sun. They are cooler, and do not have the energy levels to cause the kind of flows that would differentiate metal plasmas from Gas plasma's to the surface.
If I was a chemist I would be studying the sun spot cycle very much so, but I wouldn't studying sun spots if I wanted to learn how the sun works.
So this seems to me to be a bit of a waste of time from the Stellar mechanics view of things.
I mean seriously, the scientific community is in no position to proclaim bias in accepting new ideas.
It is a human condition, and the sheer arrogance to suggest that science holds some sort of logical, ethical or even better position on the subject is ludicrous.
History is replete with the scientific community eating its own young.
All in all...I see the end coming for a lot of countries. In debt, power hungry and greedy gigantic revolts will be happening and the world is gonna BURN.
Yeah and if you believe that explanation I got swamp land in Florida real cheap right now that is a real GOOD DEAL.
The markets are rigged and if you are stupid enough to plan your retirement around the activities of thieves, crooks and criminals then you deserve to be broke in your old age on a street corner with nothing but public food stamps and health care like 1 in 4 kids in the US right now.
"What? so the thousands of accurate predictions through experimentation don't indicate anything? the fact that planets have been predicted before we could see them means nothing?"
Well, science doesn't work that way and I think your confusing what I said about conclusions and theory.
No where did I say that thousands of experiments do not indicate anything and what I was speaking about was conclusions. Many of which are far fetched when it came to water.
Given what we know about water, it was determined that Mars for example was a vast desert. Perhaps its atmosphere might be, but we now know from instrumentation that conclusions made in the 1970's based on the thinking of the Mariner team, was false.
But it wasn't the thinking that changed, it was the instrumentation that changed the thinking. (Namely Mars Global Surveyer)
Experimentation is only as good as the instruments. That is an important point, because if you base your conclusions on a framework without experimentation, you end up missing 98% of the Universe for about 200 years with a model that doesn't work and needs VAST revisions. I am talking about the brewing complete new physics that might be required to explain Dark Energy and Dark Matter, and no I am not talking about String Theory. String Theory is probably going to go the way of the do do bird by the way.
-Hack
PS: Geometrodynamics is a field of study. No, you are correct, I do not mean thermodynamics. I would google for Geometrodynamics....but I think your response says volumes about your knowledge about the physical sciences.
Yeah, I think we need to re-examine that philosophy.
Everywhere we seem to look now we are finding water, even in its molecular form in deep space dust clouds.
I must say I am highly sceptical too of the methodologies employed by the people looking for it. I mean, these are the same people who used the same methods, which haven't changed much for the past 50 years declaring water is impossible to exist on the moon for example or on mercury.
It would seem the assumptions are still very simplistic and it just goes to show how deficient the science is and its methods because when better instruments become available, assumptions have to change to usually a large degree.
Normally I usually judge a fields maturity and rigour by how well the thinking processes can predict what better instruments in the future reveal and the worse fields in my opinion are physics (sub atomic) and planetary astronomy.
Physics has just had huge correction in the past 5 years, and it will probably get another large correction in the next 10 years again.
There are a couple of problems I see in web development:
1) Unlike the systems programmers, myself included, for a given topic area tools are adopted and standardized.
Web developers seem to get jobs based on the flavor scripting language of the year. (All of which is crap in my opinion....i.e. php, javascript....python...)
It always seemd too me, that XML, XSLT CSS and Java servlets are really all you need and you can build marvelous interfaces. Tried that once, but the response I got was (thats too hard, lets use javascript).
2) The closest I have come to a decent application framework for building web apps is Java. It has clear security controls, recognizes the importance of Virtual Machine technology to compartmentalize access in a dangerous online world. It even has a very straightforward debugging environment which is quite impressive to track down bugs.
But curiously, it is shunned because if you don't know the scripting language flavor of the day, people don't want to build web sites or won't hire you.
Which is one of the reasons why I don't write web applications anymore. Because when your job and pay is based on how fast you can memorize the scripting flavor of the year, and it doesn't bring anything new to the table (in many ways it can be even worse) to solve the problem of writing a web app, well...it becomes just a money game.
I mean really, I don't mind learning new languages, but I haven't seen anything new since Java 1.6 was released that is any better...just mostly worse.
3) Finally the field has become too greedy. I mean, there is no reason why it has taken this long to standardize video and audio, except for the fact that greed is everywhere.
It is really sort of disgusting, and the crap you have to go through to get video onto a persons browser is just way over the top, mainly due to Adobe and Apple being greedy idiots.
Maybe when the Video and Audio tags get full support for open protocols I will write web apps again. It isn't rocket science, but it is currently a science of idiocy.
The media blitz and review panels _must_ decide there is no fraud, otherwise a trillion dollar carbon credit swap industry will die. (Which, I think the whole Man Made Global Warming crowd are just a bunch of people who want to make a ton of money.)
It really comes down to who you believe. If you read the Email trail that was leaked, it is obvious the panel is phoney baloney.
If you believe the Email trail that was released was a big "conspiracy" then you can believe the panel.
But a siginificant number of people, and I mean important people, were forced to resign in disgrace over this "did nothing wrong conclusion" by the panel.
So I tend to believe that someone released the Emails to blow the whistle and am curious why these "exhonorated people" didn't get thier jobs back?
They never will.
Finally, its hilarious that they had to have a second media blitz at the whole thing to try and convince people the Emails that where leaked where just a scam.
I mean, the Chinese where doing that way back when people thought rocks where cool.
Maybe its time to throw away the standard model, which missed like 95% of reality about how the universe works, and think about a different way to do things.
First though, to do that we need to:
1) Get rid of the money surrounding rocket contracts. 2) Corrupt congressional leaders which are bought off by these contractors. 3) Maybe getting rid of group think that is required in science today to think exactly the same as everyone else if you want to get published or get funding.
oh yes....then of course there is the powers that be...because they simply will not stand for any kind of power source that will be limitless and pretty much freely available to everyone that would come about through said research because well, it threatens to end thier strangle hold on most of the world.
If you decide that really, rockets are so passe, you might want to look at any of the 4 points above.
But be very careful, trying to chaneg just ONE of the above points could be dangerous to your health.
Remember, we have been using a model of reality for the last say 200 years that well, because it can build planes, rockets and air conditioners and nuclear weapons: The Standard Model that says it is impossible to go to the stars.
The Standard Model SAYS its very hard to traverse the distances.
I don't believe that for a minute because this very same model failed to predict 98% of reality in the Universe we live in.
So I think if we were to scrap the Standard Model and start over, and build it with the express intention of colonizing the stars, we COULD do so.
The funny thing about systems of knowledge like the standard model, is that they create almost a kind of group think of indoctrinization.
I mean, you are prevented from thinking about solving problems in a variety of ways because the model says its impossible. I think this is the next step in science.
If I told you in 1980 that there are different forms of matter and energy (forces) that make up 98% of the universe you would have called me a crack pot because your PhD says its impossible.
Which is my point. People have too much invested in their fields (time/money) to DARE think differently.
Is it REALLY a coincidence, that ALL of the revolutionary thinking about reality in the past 100 years came from people totally outside of classical academics and research?
I mean, really, a patent clerk decides he doesn't like reality so he makes a new description of it for example.
Newton was the same way, the guy didn't like people, he didn't like academics, was a average (very mediocre to bad) student at Cambridge (didn't talk to anyone) and if Halley didn't happen to stop by (his probably one and true friend he had) Newton probably would have went to his grave with the secrets of Calculus.
I see this all day long at UW Madison with the people I see. You are threatened you are scared to think differently. You could lose your grant funding, your tenure. You tow the group think line or your out.
I would not be surprised if a fry cook invents warp drive.
After all, it is inline with the natural world, or history.
Any new lands invaders explore brings disease, conquest and eventual destruction of a cultures technology and civilization.
I would like to think an exception exists where we could point to and say, look, everyone just got a long.
But that is not the case.
So if we truly believe that natural laws work the same everywhere in the universe, then we can assume life works the same as well including for the fauna.
Which bring us to an almost stunning result: The reason why there is nobody here, is because this rule is in fact very very real.
That means:
1) Civilizations that do try to communicate are snuffed out rather quickly by their neighbors.
2) Since these civilizations do not survive, they can't come here.
Two very logical conclusions I would like to point out that naturally explains why we have not been visited and why things seem to be very very quiet.
and finally I come to number 3.
3) Civilizations that DO survive either make contact when they are technologically advanced enough to flee to other worlds, or the invader bites off too much they can chew and are conquered themselves.
Right now humanity would be a cinch to kill off and then, you have a nice planet all to yourself. We can't go anywhere and our technology is very primitive. Perhaps Stephen is just being prudent. We should wait till we are technologically advanced enough to travel to distant worlds easily so we would not be in danger of being killed off.
Something to think about and I do not see anything unscientific about 1-3. Seems logical and backed by our own historical fact.
American society is a ticking time bomb, 1 in 4 kids are now on food stamps, the unemployment figures have potentially reached critical mass of 21% where money comming in vs money going out only makes it a matter of time now.
Pick one:
1) Death by civil unrest. 2) Death by starvation and hyper inflation. 3) Death by war, which the power elite are already planning.
There is so much criminality running rampant now in our government no amount of voting I believe will change the outcome of the above three choices.
Due to the terrible weapons technology the power elite now control, owning a gun is essentially useless. If number one is pursued, millions will be squashed like a bug trying to apply the consitutional fail safe of bearing arms and destroying tyranny.
It is all going to end very badly and personally, my bet is on #3.
After the war is over, a new dark age for mankind will be the spoils for the victor.
These people have no intention of providing health care for anyone with this bill. Even if we wanted to, there is no way we can provide care for everyone, we already have a shortage of nurses and doctors. Does anyone here realize how long it takes to produce a doctor? You have to go through like 15 years of schooling.
This amounts to a HUGE money grab by pharma and insurance companies. The stocks are through the roof with these companies.
Who controls these companies? Well of course, the investment bankers and Wall Street does.
WOW, surprise surprise.
When will the looting end with this government?
Everyone just sat by and watched as Bankers robbed 2 generations of GDP growth and now to add insult tot injury they stole another 3 generations of GDP growth.
This is treasonous. This in your face corruption, in the open and public...
Eventually the giant is going to awake and it is going to end very badly for everyone concerned.
1) db Antenna specs on the AP's 2) Area you would like to cover in cubic meters. 3) Are the sender and receivers using the same 802.11 spec or do you plan on mixing the environment? 4) Is this line of site for all of the receivers or are there obstructions?
Personally I have had excellent results with the WRT600. Nice big processor and decent antennas 802.11N, DD-WRT. (You can modify the case to make better interfaces for Antennas...just google for it.)
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1) Wealth Concentration.
The gap between the richest and the poorest continues to accelerate world wide. The effect is less money for everyone except the very few. That means less money to spend on education, less money to spend on research by the large. The only countries that are not seeing this trend is those countries that have not permitted the IMF/Banking community to infiltrate their governments like in Europe and the USA.
2) No capital to do research because the very few value large estates, political power and private jets and jaguars to drive around in. Why risk it on a new technology that will destabilize their investments monopoly holds in Oil and Gas?
Even if it means trashing the entire Gulf of America.
3)More and more public institutions now rely on a very few corporate giants for funding research more than ever before. This research is for products, _not_ solutions. A good example is the research into Cancer, which is concentrating on prescriptions and improving the "Gold Standard" such as chemo.
Why kill your market and create cures? When you can create really expensive drugs which prolong agony, have so many side effects you need _more drugs_ and do TV adds with half the ads explaining the side effects.
4) Huge sums of money that go into "ways of political thought" for students, instead of thinking for themselves. The result, which is planned, half do not graduate. This is planned because the real goal is not so much science ignorance, but control of the mind. With record amounts of money pouring into Chicago and Milwaukee for education with the goal of graduating just 1/2 to 1/4 of the students in the next 5 years.
By creating a underclass, the very few can select which science can be used in society world wide using schools of thought so that dangerous ideas like "Open Source" can be thought of as Anti-American or bad political schools of thinking or just bad for business.
Once the graduation rates are less than 20%, the very few can insure a new "Dark Age" which will benefit them greatly by insuring any new science can be reviewed by corporate boards and insured not to produce any bad effects such as producing any sort of revolutionary energy source, propulsion system or system of thought not approved by the state.
We already see this in the planned bills before the house and senate which would require the Department of Homeland Security to approve any ISP connection with more than 100 customers, which would be run with equipment specifications from the department itself.
Good By Linux.
5) The debasing of corporate media. It is only a matter of time before the ISP's get shut down, or are totally controlled by the IMF or Banking/Government fascists. We already see that happening everywhere with excuses for this tyranny from Child porn, to Hate Speech to whatever.
I can assure for example the Australian government could care less about Child Porn. They want to control what you think, and what you say.
With new bills before the house and senate in the USA that want everyone who connects to the internet or writes BLOGS to have a certain set of requirements to get a license to do anything on the connection to theinternet.
In short to wrap up, if you think the science gap is bad now, wait till they shut the internet down, take more personal liberties away as they plan these new wars that are coming up in the future and tell everyone here that "It is for your own good that we don't allow you to speak."
This isn't a science gap problem, it is a fascist problem and it is going to get worse.
-Hack
The drill depth was never attempted before by BP, and now from what I have heard from inside sources, the drill depth has produced pressures beyond the technical resources of _any_ of our science at the well head to contain it. All three safety measures failed at the well head.
These pressures were not expected and where a surprise and unfortunately the equipment cannot handle it.
So, it isn't that anyone is stupid, it simply cannot be stopped using any known engineering science.
Interestingly enough, our Russian friends currently hold the record for drill depth. But Russian obsession with drill depth mainly have to do with politics, in that they do not want any sources of Oil influenced by western banking or US dollars. So, against current thinking about how Oil forms (it is a fossil fuel) most Russians believe it is formed through natural processes in the Earth's crust through some unknown geological chemical process. The Russians are also familiar with the consequences of drilling those sorts of depths (10 miles down or further) and would _never_ attempt to do something like that in the Gulf. Why? Because the well head pressures at the surface require specialized and very large structures to contain the pressure that is almost impossible to build at that ocean depth as BP did in the Gulf. So, they only do that on land.
But I digress, but this theory of natural geological process to create Oil is called Abiotic Oil.
If you have not heard of it, it is because only recently have depths been achievable to test it, so there hasn't been any evidence to support it.
Incidentally, when BP was contracted to create the well, the Russians were surprisingly silent and returned no comments on the project.
But over the past 5 years the Russians began projects to test this theory and now have very secretive wells, 5 of them and just 5 wells that have single handedly turned Russia from the number 5 Oil producer to number one in the past 5 years. Internally producing more Oil than Saudi Arabia.
So, if you here people proposing tactical Nukes to shut the well down, they aren't joking. It may be the only way to do it by fusing the crust....if it works.
My guess is, this Oil Well, due to the facts above, isn't going to be shut down any time soon and this could be going on for a while, perhaps even YEARS.
-Hackus
Given the context of time to do the analysis of the SUN, which lets not forget is probably 6 billion years old, I doubt the so called "cycle" of sun spot activity is a cycle. If it is, then it probably is very short term and studying it is probably not going to in and of itself, allow scientists to gleem any information about the inner workings of the sun.
My guess, is that sun spot activity is a by product of the material composition of the sun, namely its rich metals content therefore studying it is sort of a waste of time if your desire is to understand how in actuality the sun works. So as the sun ages the metal content tends to increasingly flow to the surface, cooling more slowly due to its mass and causing the surrounding gases to (Hydrogen and Helium Plasma) to cool.
I have a theory that Sun Spots are not present in young stars that have high metal content like the sun. They are cooler, and do not have the energy levels to cause the kind of flows that would differentiate metal plasmas from Gas plasma's to the surface.
If I was a chemist I would be studying the sun spot cycle very much so, but I wouldn't studying sun spots if I wanted to learn how the sun works.
So this seems to me to be a bit of a waste of time from the Stellar mechanics view of things.
-Hack
Pot meet Kettle.
I mean seriously, the scientific community is in no position to proclaim bias in accepting new ideas.
It is a human condition, and the sheer arrogance to suggest that science holds some sort of logical, ethical or even better position on the subject is ludicrous.
History is replete with the scientific community eating its own young.
-Hack
You mean like this guy?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/nyregion/10cnd-spitzer.html
What I like about it is he ran on the platform to clean up New York and prostitution.
LOL.
I think he has his own TV show now...or maybe he will be at CNN.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/19/AR2010051905338.html
All in all...I see the end coming for a lot of countries. In debt, power hungry and greedy gigantic revolts will be happening and the world is gonna BURN.
-Hack
Actually I am a Food, Gold/Silver and Real Estate type. ;-)
-Hack
Yeah and if you believe that explanation I got swamp land in Florida real cheap right now that is a real GOOD DEAL.
The markets are rigged and if you are stupid enough to plan your retirement around the activities of thieves, crooks and criminals then you deserve to be broke in your old age on a street corner with nothing but public food stamps and health care like 1 in 4 kids in the US right now.
-Hack
"What? so the thousands of accurate predictions through experimentation don't indicate anything? the fact that planets have been predicted before we could see them means nothing?"
Well, science doesn't work that way and I think your confusing what I said about conclusions and theory.
No where did I say that thousands of experiments do not indicate anything and what I was speaking about was conclusions. Many of which are far fetched when it came to water.
Given what we know about water, it was determined that Mars for example was a vast desert. Perhaps its atmosphere might be, but we now know from instrumentation that conclusions made in the 1970's based on the thinking of the Mariner team, was false.
But it wasn't the thinking that changed, it was the instrumentation that changed the thinking.
(Namely Mars Global Surveyer)
Experimentation is only as good as the instruments. That is an important point, because if you base your conclusions on a framework without experimentation, you end up missing 98% of the Universe for about 200 years with a model that doesn't work and needs VAST revisions. I am talking about the brewing complete new physics that might be required to explain Dark Energy and Dark Matter, and no I am not talking about String Theory. String Theory is probably going to go the way of the do do bird by the way.
-Hack
PS: Geometrodynamics is a field of study. No, you are correct, I do not mean thermodynamics. I would google for Geometrodynamics....but I think your response says volumes about your knowledge about the physical sciences.
Yeah, I think we need to re-examine that philosophy.
Everywhere we seem to look now we are finding water, even in its molecular form in deep space dust clouds.
I must say I am highly sceptical too of the methodologies employed by the people looking for it. I mean, these are the same people who used the same methods, which haven't changed much for the past 50 years declaring water is impossible to exist on the moon for example or on mercury.
It would seem the assumptions are still very simplistic and it just goes to show how deficient the science is and its methods because when better instruments become available, assumptions have to change to usually a large degree.
Normally I usually judge a fields maturity and rigour by how well the thinking processes can predict what better instruments in the future reveal and the worse fields in my opinion are physics (sub atomic) and planetary astronomy.
Physics has just had huge correction in the past 5 years, and it will probably get another large correction in the next 10 years again.
-Hack
In 2035???
You have GOT to be kidding right?
I mean please, do you realize how fast technology is moving in these areas?
By 2035 that plane design will look stupid.
-Hack
There are a couple of problems I see in web development:
1) Unlike the systems programmers, myself included, for a given topic area tools are adopted and standardized.
Web developers seem to get jobs based on the flavor scripting language of the year.
(All of which is crap in my opinion....i.e. php, javascript....python...)
It always seemd too me, that XML, XSLT CSS and Java servlets are really all you need and you can build marvelous interfaces. Tried that once, but the response I got was (thats too hard, lets use javascript).
2) The closest I have come to a decent application framework for building web apps is Java. It has clear security controls, recognizes the importance of Virtual Machine technology to compartmentalize access in a dangerous online world. It even has a very straightforward debugging environment which is quite impressive to track down bugs.
But curiously, it is shunned because if you don't know the scripting language flavor of the day, people don't want to build web sites or won't hire you.
Which is one of the reasons why I don't write web applications anymore. Because when your job and pay is based on how fast you can memorize the scripting flavor of the year, and it doesn't bring anything new to the table (in many ways it can be even worse) to solve the problem of writing a web app, well...it becomes just a money game.
I mean really, I don't mind learning new languages, but I haven't seen anything new since Java 1.6 was released that is any better...just mostly worse.
3) Finally the field has become too greedy. I mean, there is no reason why it has taken this long to standardize video and audio, except for the fact that greed is everywhere.
It is really sort of disgusting, and the crap you have to go through to get video onto a persons browser is just way over the top, mainly due to Adobe and Apple being greedy idiots.
Maybe when the Video and Audio tags get full support for open protocols I will write web apps again. It isn't rocket science, but it is currently a science of idiocy.
-Hack
The media blitz and review panels _must_ decide there is no fraud, otherwise a trillion dollar carbon credit swap industry will die.
(Which, I think the whole Man Made Global Warming crowd are just a bunch of people who want to make a ton of money.)
It really comes down to who you believe. If you read the Email trail that was leaked, it is obvious the panel is phoney baloney.
If you believe the Email trail that was released was a big "conspiracy" then you can believe the panel.
But a siginificant number of people, and I mean important people, were forced to resign in disgrace over this "did nothing wrong conclusion" by the panel.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/12/climate-change_researcher_resi.html
So I tend to believe that someone released the Emails to blow the whistle and am curious why these "exhonorated people" didn't get thier jobs back?
They never will.
Finally, its hilarious that they had to have a second media blitz at the whole thing to try and convince people the Emails that where leaked where just a scam.
Oh _REALLY_?
Will they have a third and a fourth panel?
LOL
-Hack
Its sort of well...boring.
I mean, the Chinese where doing that way back when people thought rocks where cool.
Maybe its time to throw away the standard model, which missed like 95% of reality about how the universe works, and think about a different way to do things.
First though, to do that we need to:
1) Get rid of the money surrounding rocket contracts.
2) Corrupt congressional leaders which are bought off by these contractors.
3) Maybe getting rid of group think that is required in science today to think exactly the same as everyone else if you want to get published or get funding.
oh yes....then of course there is the powers that be...because they simply will not stand for any kind of power source that will be limitless and pretty much freely available to everyone that would come about through said research because well, it threatens to end thier strangle hold on most of the world.
If you decide that really, rockets are so passe, you might want to look at any of the 4 points above.
But be very careful, trying to chaneg just ONE of the above points could be dangerous to your health.
-Hack
Mmmmm.....I am not so sure about that.
Remember, we have been using a model of reality for the last say 200 years that well, because it can build planes, rockets and air conditioners and nuclear weapons: The Standard Model that says it is impossible to go to the stars.
The Standard Model SAYS its very hard to traverse the distances.
I don't believe that for a minute because this very same model failed to predict 98% of reality in the Universe we live in.
So I think if we were to scrap the Standard Model and start over, and build it with the express intention of colonizing the stars, we COULD do so.
The funny thing about systems of knowledge like the standard model, is that they create almost a kind of group think of indoctrinization.
I mean, you are prevented from thinking about solving problems in a variety of ways because the model says its impossible. I think this is the next step in science.
If I told you in 1980 that there are different forms of matter and energy (forces) that make up 98% of the universe you would have called me a crack pot because your PhD says its impossible.
Which is my point. People have too much invested in their fields (time/money) to DARE think differently.
Is it REALLY a coincidence, that ALL of the revolutionary thinking about reality in the past 100 years came from people totally outside of classical academics and research?
I mean, really, a patent clerk decides he doesn't like reality so he makes a new description of it for example.
Newton was the same way, the guy didn't like people, he didn't like academics, was a average (very mediocre to bad) student at Cambridge (didn't talk to anyone) and if Halley didn't happen to stop by (his probably one and true friend he had) Newton probably would have went to his grave with the secrets of Calculus.
I see this all day long at UW Madison with the people I see. You are threatened you are scared to think differently. You could lose your grant funding, your tenure. You tow the group think line or your out.
I would not be surprised if a fry cook invents warp drive.
History I think will prove me right. :-)
-Hack
PS: String Theory is a crock.
I agree with this premise.
After all, it is inline with the natural world, or history.
Any new lands invaders explore brings disease, conquest and eventual destruction of a cultures technology and civilization.
I would like to think an exception exists where we could point to and say, look, everyone just got a long.
But that is not the case.
So if we truly believe that natural laws work the same everywhere in the universe, then we can assume life works the same as well including for the fauna.
Which bring us to an almost stunning result: The reason why there is nobody here, is because this rule is in fact very very real.
That means:
1) Civilizations that do try to communicate are snuffed out rather quickly by their neighbors.
2) Since these civilizations do not survive, they can't come here.
Two very logical conclusions I would like to point out that naturally explains why we have not been visited and why things seem to be very very quiet.
and finally I come to number 3.
3) Civilizations that DO survive either make contact when they are technologically advanced enough to flee to other worlds, or the invader bites off too much they can chew and are conquered themselves.
Right now humanity would be a cinch to kill off and then, you have a nice planet all to yourself. We can't go anywhere and our technology is very primitive. Perhaps Stephen is just being prudent. We should wait till we are technologically advanced enough to travel to distant worlds easily so we would not be in danger of being killed off.
Something to think about and I do not see anything unscientific about 1-3. Seems logical and backed by our own historical fact.
-Hack
It is all over the place. Watch the news.
American society is a ticking time bomb, 1 in 4 kids are now on food stamps, the unemployment figures have potentially reached critical mass of 21% where money comming in vs money going out only makes it a matter of time now.
Pick one:
1) Death by civil unrest.
2) Death by starvation and hyper inflation.
3) Death by war, which the power elite are already planning.
There is so much criminality running rampant now in our government no amount of voting I believe will change the outcome of the above three choices.
Due to the terrible weapons technology the power elite now control, owning a gun is essentially useless. If number one is pursued, millions will be squashed like a bug trying to apply the consitutional fail safe of bearing arms and destroying tyranny.
It is all going to end very badly and personally, my bet is on #3.
After the war is over, a new dark age for mankind will be the spoils for the victor.
-Hack
but, I simply won't touch this.
-Hack
just ate the hens, chickens and good lord...the FOX is moving on to the Goose!!
-gc
Good Question.
Perhaps you should ask the Banks and Insurance companies who wrote the law for this health care that question.
Although, they won't respond now, because they do not have to. It is law, and they can do what they want.
-Hack
This bill is treasonous.
These people have no intention of providing health care for anyone with this bill. Even if we wanted to, there is no way we can provide care for everyone, we already have a shortage of nurses and doctors. Does anyone here realize how long it takes to produce a doctor? You have to go through like 15 years of schooling.
This amounts to a HUGE money grab by pharma and insurance companies. The stocks are through the roof with these companies.
Who controls these companies? Well of course, the investment bankers and Wall Street does.
WOW, surprise surprise.
When will the looting end with this government?
Everyone just sat by and watched as Bankers robbed 2 generations of GDP growth and now to add insult tot injury they stole another 3 generations of GDP growth.
This is treasonous. This in your face corruption, in the open and public ...
Eventually the giant is going to awake and it is going to end very badly for everyone concerned.
-Hack
Depends.
Do you want your equipment to look like harmless commercial gear while your shadow government does its treasonous activities?
I would think that would be better, as a seperate room with equipment causes susipicion.
-Hack
CIA/NSA software loaded to do deep packet inspection?
-Hack
You need to give us the following to help you:
1) db Antenna specs on the AP's
2) Area you would like to cover in cubic meters.
3) Are the sender and receivers using the same 802.11 spec or do you plan on mixing the environment?
4) Is this line of site for all of the receivers or are there obstructions?
Personally I have had excellent results with the WRT600. Nice big processor and decent antennas 802.11N, DD-WRT.
(You can modify the case to make better interfaces for Antennas...just google for it.)
-Hack
Number 1:
He better start his own company, because the only idiot that would hire the guy is himself.
Number 2:
Can't wait to NOT BUY A DAMN THING from ANY COMPANY THAT BEARS HIS NAME.
-Hack
"which has faced recriminations over inaccuracies in a 2007 report...."
Inaccuracies?
You've got to be kidding me.
The data was downright FRAUDULENT.
Inaccuracies my a**.
-Hack