I disagree
I think we are already at the upper limits of battery technology and I only see minor improvements coming.
Railroads have wanted powerful batteries for years since they use electric motors to actually drive the train and just use diesel engines to generate the electricity for the drive motor.
In a similar vein, how long do y'all think the NFL will last?
I just read where Jerry Jones' Dallas Cowboys football team is worth $4.2 billion.
Perhaps.
But in our economic system, worth is determined by the buyer, not the seller.
That means bitcoin is 1) going to go up and down randomly and 2) it is dependent on an already existing market. It cannot hold the market up by itself like a dollar or renminbi.
You can put your house on the market for whatever price you think it can get. The price you actually get might be different.
Is there any consortium of millionaires or billionaires who think buying into the NFL is a good investment?
Granted, folks might buy a team for status, but there are baseball, basketball and hockey teams around.
I think the NFL begins dying for good once the next team goes up for sale. The Denver Broncos owners are trying to sell shares quietly.
It will die the same way bitcoin does. It won't ever disappear completely but soon, and suddenly, it will be completely irrelevant, and for the same economic reason(s).
They aren't at sea. They are in a river where the pollution matters quite a bit more.
And using electricity to haul coal _is_ ironic, owever, it's still a good idea because the coal is going to be delivered regardless.
Kind of like selling weapons to Saudi Arabia. The real choice isn't between them buying or not buying weapons; it is whether they buy weapons systems from the US or from China or from Russia (which is different from the US at least for the time being).
Without electricity, we can't move beyond the iron age because we don't have enough energy to melt the other ores and make aluminum or titanium. One we had fire, not only could we make bronze and iron, we could also get a lot more energy from food. Cooked meat provides far more calories per chew than raw meat.
I think antibiotics have a _lot_ to do with wieght gain in Americans.
The reason we give it to livestock is because it's a cheap way of putting on weight. It works on people, too. The salesmen in the 1950s used it themselves to show how much weight went on with antibiotics and no other change in diet.
Exactly. Bread (wheat) is the staff of life. Protein-poor and fat-poor kale and broccoli have something that is nutritious.
In the article summary itself it says losing weight is the effect that 'cures' diabetes and their diet does that.
Since you can lose weight on lots of different diets, there will be a lot of statistical noise with other folks hawking their solutions for sale.
The current modern lifespan is ~68 years using the same criteria as we used on earlier populations. If we're going to ignore infant mortality and disease as you suggest, then if you don't get sick or starve to death, you ought to be able to reach 110 years old in modern civilization, n'est-ce pas?
I think one problem is the economic incentive of paying for college. Every single degree from the same college costs the same amount of money even tho the college probably pays math and engineering profs more than they pay lit and history profs.
If you only have to pay $20 grand for an English degree and $100 grand for a computer science degree, then some aspiring students might make a slighty smarter choice. But if you're going to spend $100 grand anyway, then you might decide to go for the degree that takes as little time as possible away from all the other non-curricular acitvities that are supposed to broaden your outloook (most of which you could do for free without paying tuition while working at Whole Foods or McDonalds).
The connotation of 'sinister" came from all those sinistral sword-fighters in medieval Europe. Left-handers won all the amateur fights, and by win, that means killed the opponent.
In order to stay healthy, you're supposed to eat foods with lots of colors, so I'm thinking red meat, white bread, and Trix cereal ought to be a very good diet.
Not when it is completely lacking in practicality.
Practicality: assume an infinitely fast city bus. How much faster does it get from one side of the city to the other with a normally full complement of passengers embarking and disembarking?
If a town is 8 hours away driving time, it takes the same amount of time to drive as it does to fly and get door to door (getting thru security and dealing with additional ground transportation.
Hyperloops might be good as replacements for long distance buses and trains, but not inner city stuff, and even then, it's only going to/from one point in a town which requires taxis, busses, etc, and the density could be an issue if the route is popular.
Ditto ditto. I tried correcting the 5-string banjo article. It's totally bogus. But there is a cadre of editors. Kind of reminds me of the trolls on usenet.
Take time to plan. Our rule of thumbi the organization is that you ought to have a general idea of how long a project ought to take, two weeks or three months or five years, and then you ought to spend about 10 percent of that time planning.
The language is pretty much irrelevant. You have data and you have processes. You can try ot turn all your stuff into data objects like Java but you still end up with Interfaces (processes).
Recognition that there actually are different kinds of thangs used to program with leads to widespread use of actually useful languages such as Cobol, C, C++, Perl and Javascript, all popular and none with a design philosophy that overrides real-world coding.
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I disagree
I think we are already at the upper limits of battery technology and I only see minor improvements coming.
Railroads have wanted powerful batteries for years since they use electric motors to actually drive the train and just use diesel engines to generate the electricity for the drive motor.
They also use cold hard US dollars, cash on hand - recommendations for that?
Vote Republican, implement trickle down economics, and wait for the dollar to crash.
That'll show them danged terrorists.
In a similar vein, how long do y'all think the NFL will last?
I just read where Jerry Jones' Dallas Cowboys football team is worth $4.2 billion.
Perhaps.
But in our economic system, worth is determined by the buyer, not the seller.
That means bitcoin is 1) going to go up and down randomly and 2) it is dependent on an already existing market. It cannot hold the market up by itself like a dollar or renminbi.
You can put your house on the market for whatever price you think it can get. The price you actually get might be different.
Is there any consortium of millionaires or billionaires who think buying into the NFL is a good investment?
Granted, folks might buy a team for status, but there are baseball, basketball and hockey teams around.
I think the NFL begins dying for good once the next team goes up for sale. The Denver Broncos owners are trying to sell shares quietly.
It will die the same way bitcoin does. It won't ever disappear completely but soon, and suddenly, it will be completely irrelevant, and for the same economic reason(s).
They aren't at sea. They are in a river where the pollution matters quite a bit more.
And using electricity to haul coal _is_ ironic, owever, it's still a good idea because the coal is going to be delivered regardless.
Kind of like selling weapons to Saudi Arabia. The real choice isn't between them buying or not buying weapons; it is whether they buy weapons systems from the US or from China or from Russia (which is different from the US at least for the time being).
Without electricity, we can't move beyond the iron age because we don't have enough energy to melt the other ores and make aluminum or titanium. One we had fire, not only could we make bronze and iron, we could also get a lot more energy from food. Cooked meat provides far more calories per chew than raw meat.
I think antibiotics have a _lot_ to do with wieght gain in Americans.
The reason we give it to livestock is because it's a cheap way of putting on weight. It works on people, too. The salesmen in the 1950s used it themselves to show how much weight went on with antibiotics and no other change in diet.
Exactly. Bread (wheat) is the staff of life. Protein-poor and fat-poor kale and broccoli have something that is nutritious.
In the article summary itself it says losing weight is the effect that 'cures' diabetes and their diet does that.
Since you can lose weight on lots of different diets, there will be a lot of statistical noise with other folks hawking their solutions for sale.
I don't buy your argument.
The current modern lifespan is ~68 years using the same criteria as we used on earlier populations. If we're going to ignore infant mortality and disease as you suggest, then if you don't get sick or starve to death, you ought to be able to reach 110 years old in modern civilization, n'est-ce pas?
I think one problem is the economic incentive of paying for college. Every single degree from the same college costs the same amount of money even tho the college probably pays math and engineering profs more than they pay lit and history profs.
If you only have to pay $20 grand for an English degree and $100 grand for a computer science degree, then some aspiring students might make a slighty smarter choice. But if you're going to spend $100 grand anyway, then you might decide to go for the degree that takes as little time as possible away from all the other non-curricular acitvities that are supposed to broaden your outloook (most of which you could do for free without paying tuition while working at Whole Foods or McDonalds).
Now I have another question: What's Blockbuster?
Renting is like leasing but without any of the bullshit double talk about eventually owning.
Maybe we can buy some cheap trailers from China. They save money by making them out of really inexpensive stuff.
dextral: right-handed sinistral: left-handed.
The connotation of 'sinister" came from all those sinistral sword-fighters in medieval Europe. Left-handers won all the amateur fights, and by win, that means killed the opponent.
He'd better watch out for dragons. too. That's the _real_ reason rocketships have to have heat shields.
I'll bet he's not using the metric system either because there's no difference between that and the Freemasons.
In order to stay healthy, you're supposed to eat foods with lots of colors, so I'm thinking red meat, white bread, and Trix cereal ought to be a very good diet.
It wasn't extremely hard to find food but I'm thinking there were a lot of people in America in 1776 who were actually starving.
It's supposed to be yang and yin. They got it wrong years ago.
Tech drives down costs.
Not when it is completely lacking in practicality.
Practicality: assume an infinitely fast city bus. How much faster does it get from one side of the city to the other with a normally full complement of passengers embarking and disembarking?
If a town is 8 hours away driving time, it takes the same amount of time to drive as it does to fly and get door to door (getting thru security and dealing with additional ground transportation.
Hyperloops might be good as replacements for long distance buses and trains, but not inner city stuff, and even then, it's only going to/from one point in a town which requires taxis, busses, etc, and the density could be an issue if the route is popular.
You mean you have daemons in your car? Way kewl.
"most cellphone batteries last 48 hours?"
ummmmmmm
Seems to me if humans as batteries worked in The Matrix, that means it would have to work in real life. Or do I have that backwards?
Ditto ditto. I tried correcting the 5-string banjo article. It's totally bogus. But there is a cadre of editors. Kind of reminds me of the trolls on usenet.
Take time to plan. Our rule of thumbi the organization is that you ought to have a general idea of how long a project ought to take, two weeks or three months or five years, and then you ought to spend about 10 percent of that time planning.
The language is pretty much irrelevant. You have data and you have processes. You can try ot turn all your stuff into data objects like Java but you still end up with Interfaces (processes).
Recognition that there actually are different kinds of thangs used to program with leads to widespread use of actually useful languages such as Cobol, C, C++, Perl and Javascript, all popular and none with a design philosophy that overrides real-world coding.