I had a feeling English was not your first language, and that a Germanic language was, based on your use of "webstandards".:) So, good to know my emotions are working correctly, at least in that instance.:) (And just to be clear, although my brain is constantly pointing out typos to me, I generally don't comment on them unless there's something special, like in this case how it neatly showed the process of creating the comment.)
The slow lane could be the inductive charging lane; after all it's not powering the vehicles constantly, just charging them -- which of course would mean that it would need to charge them faster than they are depleting the charge in order for it to be effective. Well, I suppose it would still be "effective" even if it didn't charge as fast as it was being drained, because the extra energy would provide for longer range.
But anyway I agree, adding a significant cost to our infrastructure doesn't make a lot of sense. Now, putting this on toll roads, that might.
But I think burying the smaller nuclear plants, like the Toshiba 4S, and this one, makes even more sense. The math from that link says $25 million for the plant, and it generates $12 million of electricity per year (at 10c/kilowatt hour). And it needs to be refueled every 7-10 years, so even if we say 6 years, it basically triples its investment in that time. And refueling likely will cost a fraction of the expense of the entire plant, so "it gets cheaper over time". I would invest in a fund that invested in these plants. Heck, I might even create one.
And with a nuke in everyone's back yard, filling your car up will be simple.:)
But there is a lot on FB about me that I don't want others to see in their google searches.
This says more about your willingness to share intimate personal information with a corporation, than anything else. You put it out there; others may make it easier to find, but it's already out there. And you put it there. What is so wrong with email?
I like how one extra letter give insight into your creative process:
an webstandards based app
I infer that you originally typed "an app" and then later edited it to add that it was based on standards, and didn't remove the "n" from "an".
(After I typed that, it then struck me that "an before web" might be standard in some locales, so I looked closer and see "a website" in your text so I think that the above analysis is correct.:)
It makes that neither less nor more fantastical. However, it does lend strength to the theory that this is all a computer simulation. At first they didn't have the processing power to do 3D graphics, but they have apparently brought more machines online. As we dig deeper into reality we discover new physics models which govern behavior at smaller and larger power states than we have previously been able to create and observe simultaneously...
To me, the potential existence of billions of computer simulations (we'll all soon have at least one on our desks, if not in our phones) lends strength to "what are the chances that we are existing in the original?" And the corollary, how many simulations does our reality need to create in order for it to choke the computer it's running on? In other words, once we've achieved it, our runtime is complete.
I like the duality of the corollary: we aspire towards technological excellence, but achieving it will be our downfall.
Isn't it interesting that social media and modern technology have done more for the desire for democratization than most of our cold-war efforts ever did?
US military invented Internet. So this was just a long con?
I suppose Zeppelins might come into fancy again as well; they can likely stay airborne for a long time, and we could make them city-sized.
We should launch a bunch of hard drives (and CDs, DVDs, hardened flash, etc) containing the Earth's history, in satellites so any disaster on Earth won't get them (the nova/supernova will though).
There's a disaster coming, we need to think about ways to survive it. (Not to be melodramatic:)
Emotional torture is still torture. I learned that when I graduated from public school (beatings) to private school (humiliations -- physical contact was expulsion, and mommy and daddy paid).
I'm thinking of the movie 2012. The crust just moved, causing the earthquake and the tsunami. I didn't realize that the flipping of the magnetic core was going to be this disruptive, but I suppose it coincides... What if there's a pocket of something way under the Earth's crust that collapses into a smaller form, perhaps from being moved by the new magnetic direction, where two (or more) things combine in a reaction releasing energy and making them smaller? And imagine that pocket being very large, it's certainly possible to have the same sort of "towns falling into the Earth and lava everywhere[1]" scenario from the movie. ([1] -- the lava being pushed up from the energy released, of course.)
Which is why I think we should as a world (not just a nation) start significantly funding our getting-off-the-planet-permanently plans to the same level we're funding our military plans. We've got a year and a half or so, if some calculations are correct.
Sigh. I know you're trying for humorous sarcasm here, but how did we ever get to the point where buying government interference is considered a part of a free market?
Wrong question. The right question: how do we get away from buying government influence as a way of affecting markets? I feel the answer is staring us in the face.
LOL I was just doing the same, wondering what to remove to get one more char. Protip: "Function" can be shortened to "Func".:) (PS Yours is too a sig -- or perhaps a Star Wars reference.:)
Interesting. So, tourism dollars versus electricity dollars. I wonder if something could be designed at the bottom that absorbs the load of the falling water without turning a wheel, like with springs. (Yeah, the idea just germinated, hasn't taken root.)
I've heard it claimed it is because just like we all think we are better than average drivers, everyone in the US think they're one day going to become rich.
I went to the government office for name changing, and am now Rick. Dammit!
Thanks, reading it now; the link is good, ignore the AC response. Now I wish I had a margin account, so I could buy some Puts. Man, this is going to hurt them.
Agreed. I just did a thought experiment with putting lots of little waterwheels on Niagara Falls. I searched and see that they're already doing it (well, using the river for power, that is; I didn't see whether there were any actually in line of the falling water, which I think would make sense, suck that gravity well as much as possible!). Still, I think a lot of power could be generated with far less environmental impact than, say, Boulder Dam et al. We just need to mine the waterfalls!
if human ingenuity is unencumbered, then let's rock and roll
FTFY. Not sure what all the nationalistic bullshit was meant to say.. perhaps that the people of other countries somehow are less intelligent, and don't get their jobs done?
Yeah my dad makes the same, um, mistake when communicating. I've yet to train him properly...
Slashdot Mirror
[...] so that we get all these stories of guys who finally kill some unfortunate party [...]
New meaning to "party crasher"?
Yes, that's it exactly.
"History is written by the winners." -- Alex Haley
Gee, funny that nobody has had that thought before!
Yep, it's "his story", the story of the guy who survived to write it. The dead guy's story (generally) remains untold.
I had a feeling English was not your first language, and that a Germanic language was, based on your use of "webstandards". :) So, good to know my emotions are working correctly, at least in that instance. :) (And just to be clear, although my brain is constantly pointing out typos to me, I generally don't comment on them unless there's something special, like in this case how it neatly showed the process of creating the comment.)
The slow lane could be the inductive charging lane; after all it's not powering the vehicles constantly, just charging them -- which of course would mean that it would need to charge them faster than they are depleting the charge in order for it to be effective. Well, I suppose it would still be "effective" even if it didn't charge as fast as it was being drained, because the extra energy would provide for longer range.
But anyway I agree, adding a significant cost to our infrastructure doesn't make a lot of sense. Now, putting this on toll roads, that might.
But I think burying the smaller nuclear plants, like the Toshiba 4S, and this one, makes even more sense. The math from that link says $25 million for the plant, and it generates $12 million of electricity per year (at 10c/kilowatt hour). And it needs to be refueled every 7-10 years, so even if we say 6 years, it basically triples its investment in that time. And refueling likely will cost a fraction of the expense of the entire plant, so "it gets cheaper over time". I would invest in a fund that invested in these plants. Heck, I might even create one.
And with a nuke in everyone's back yard, filling your car up will be simple. :)
But there is a lot on FB about me that I don't want others to see in their google searches.
This says more about your willingness to share intimate personal information with a corporation, than anything else. You put it out there; others may make it easier to find, but it's already out there. And you put it there. What is so wrong with email?
an webstandards based app
I infer that you originally typed "an app" and then later edited it to add that it was based on standards, and didn't remove the "n" from "an".
(After I typed that, it then struck me that "an before web" might be standard in some locales, so I looked closer and see "a website" in your text so I think that the above analysis is correct. :)
When the Universe was new it wasn't 2D, it was text based.
Yeah but when Infocom switched to graphics, they died... Text was where it was at!
It makes that neither less nor more fantastical. However, it does lend strength to the theory that this is all a computer simulation. At first they didn't have the processing power to do 3D graphics, but they have apparently brought more machines online. As we dig deeper into reality we discover new physics models which govern behavior at smaller and larger power states than we have previously been able to create and observe simultaneously...
To me, the potential existence of billions of computer simulations (we'll all soon have at least one on our desks, if not in our phones) lends strength to "what are the chances that we are existing in the original?" And the corollary, how many simulations does our reality need to create in order for it to choke the computer it's running on? In other words, once we've achieved it, our runtime is complete.
I like the duality of the corollary: we aspire towards technological excellence, but achieving it will be our downfall.
Aww, I thought your third sentence might contain a rhyme as well. Oh well.
Isn't it interesting that social media and modern technology have done more for the desire for democratization than most of our cold-war efforts ever did?
US military invented Internet. So this was just a long con?
There will be little difficulty getting coverage, it's mostly there already, and then there are the little remote control airplanes etc.
Interesting, I think this might (ultimately?) be to catch the citizens who want their own UAVs.
I suppose Zeppelins might come into fancy again as well; they can likely stay airborne for a long time, and we could make them city-sized.
We should launch a bunch of hard drives (and CDs, DVDs, hardened flash, etc) containing the Earth's history, in satellites so any disaster on Earth won't get them (the nova/supernova will though).
There's a disaster coming, we need to think about ways to survive it. (Not to be melodramatic :)
Emotional torture is still torture. I learned that when I graduated from public school (beatings) to private school (humiliations -- physical contact was expulsion, and mommy and daddy paid).
I'm thinking of the movie 2012. The crust just moved, causing the earthquake and the tsunami. I didn't realize that the flipping of the magnetic core was going to be this disruptive, but I suppose it coincides... What if there's a pocket of something way under the Earth's crust that collapses into a smaller form, perhaps from being moved by the new magnetic direction, where two (or more) things combine in a reaction releasing energy and making them smaller? And imagine that pocket being very large, it's certainly possible to have the same sort of "towns falling into the Earth and lava everywhere[1]" scenario from the movie. ([1] -- the lava being pushed up from the energy released, of course.)
Which is why I think we should as a world (not just a nation) start significantly funding our getting-off-the-planet-permanently plans to the same level we're funding our military plans. We've got a year and a half or so, if some calculations are correct.
Sigh. I know you're trying for humorous sarcasm here, but how did we ever get to the point where buying government interference is considered a part of a free market?
Wrong question. The right question: how do we get away from buying government influence as a way of affecting markets? I feel the answer is staring us in the face.
LOL I was just doing the same, wondering what to remove to get one more char. Protip: "Function" can be shortened to "Func". :) (PS Yours is too a sig -- or perhaps a Star Wars reference. :)
Interesting. So, tourism dollars versus electricity dollars. I wonder if something could be designed at the bottom that absorbs the load of the falling water without turning a wheel, like with springs. (Yeah, the idea just germinated, hasn't taken root.)
I've heard it claimed it is because just like we all think we are better than average drivers, everyone in the US think they're one day going to become rich.
I went to the government office for name changing, and am now Rick. Dammit!
How about the not-being-allowed-to-exercise, or wear clothes?
Thanks, reading it now; the link is good, ignore the AC response. Now I wish I had a margin account, so I could buy some Puts. Man, this is going to hurt them.
Yes, and the drug-like state that it induces. Next?!
Agreed. I just did a thought experiment with putting lots of little waterwheels on Niagara Falls. I searched and see that they're already doing it (well, using the river for power, that is; I didn't see whether there were any actually in line of the falling water, which I think would make sense, suck that gravity well as much as possible!). Still, I think a lot of power could be generated with far less environmental impact than, say, Boulder Dam et al. We just need to mine the waterfalls!
if human ingenuity is unencumbered, then let's rock and roll
FTFY. Not sure what all the nationalistic bullshit was meant to say.. perhaps that the people of other countries somehow are less intelligent, and don't get their jobs done?
Yeah my dad makes the same, um, mistake when communicating. I've yet to train him properly...
Meh, I think it's purple anyway. That's all I can think of but I'm sure there's something else.