I'm just getting off about ten years of unemployment as a software engineer. I'm competent, I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University, and my major pass time at home is programming. For whatever reason I couldn't seem to find a job. I put out thousands of resumes on monster and Dice, but had less than ten interviews in ten years. Thankfully I just recently got a job doing hardware. It is just weird what this world can do to you. No matter how much talent you have, or how hard you work, if no one wants to give you a chance, the world is a rough place. I think lots of people are seeing this today with the lack of jobs for even talented individuals.
Anyway, that is my point. There are plenty of talented and educated people in this country. The tech companies just don't want to pay a fair wage in a regular display of union busting. I know my story might be on the edge of a bellcurve, but I'm just saying I understand personally what it is like to never get a chance at a job. If you don't watch, it can grind into your very self worth.
I hope you find a FLOSS solution then. I didn't know iTunes was good for anything than a walled garden. I didn't realize you could bring in MP3s outside the ones you bought. You know there's probably a market for a FLOSS itune clone in a way now you bring it to my attention. Make it friendly for general MP3s, but be more transparent to get lesser known artists on the track to being paid and discovered. It is hard for a new artist to get discovered now, but if there was an official place to go to promote yourself outside of youtube. If you combine monetization(selling tracks+shared ads) with promotion, all the artist should technically have to do is make music and stick it onto this place. Finally you'd want a way to do something to find people who are fans of the same artists as you, so you can find music you might like, but haven't discovered yet.
Finally if you want to get really into it... Second Life is dated. If someone would just make a P2P version without worrying about countering hacks, you could make dance halls. Allow people to invent their own dances, and even sell their own dances and you take a cut. Allow people to make mesh objects, dance hall, avatars, particle effects, etc. Allow them to make those on their own, import and sell(where you take a small cut), and there you have a place where people could play their own music they downloaded off your service to people visiting their dance hall. Of course they'd need to hack it to play someone else's music, and your position would be you're against that. But the music people upload to your service would specifically license to be able to be played to small and large audiences.
I used to use Napster, then P2P equivalents. It isn't like I'm buying music anyway. For a while back in the 90s, people bought the lie that CDs were super expensive to make and that is why albums were so expensive. Now with CDs are seen to be nearly free, and you see how much they try and gouge you for something you could dub off the radio if you wanted. RIAA is out suing everyone they can find. They sued a dive bar in nowheresville(where I live) for 100,000$ and won just this past year. I especially don't want to give a dime to RIAA.
If you want to support artists, don't use iTunes. Go use youtube and put your MP3 in a player, or burn to CD. If you want to support artists, either go see them in concert or paypal their personal account. I'd say write them a check, but they probably don't have mailing addies for sake of privacy.
I'm tired of this whole situation where people try not only to charge for something that is free, but also try and stop people from getting stuff for free too.
I was just also thinking of if an individual would let his car go make money for him instead of even being a corporation: Pimp My Ride could have a whole new meaning. "Okay car, you take me to work, and instead of me paying for you to park, you go play taxi all day and bring me money for my ride home."
I think for a person to own a self driving car might be the exception to the norm. I think if self driving cars work, corporations will buy millions of them, and station them in semi-patroling routes. Then people will just summon them like cheap taxis. Some people will even schedule their work day around them. The software will do all the planning on who gets what car. A guy could ride one to work, not pay parking, then the car plays taxi for the day, and comes picks the guy up at work to take him home.
If they work, they'll work big time, but I really worry about lawsuits.
When I first went into the job market, my career center at my university strongly urged me never to apply to a job where I didn't meet every skill set. Ten years down the line, never having gotten a job that way, I realize now that you just need to have some of their requirements, and apply to them.
I liked the old version where I could see every reply I got in its own thread. This new version forces all replies into a single thread, so if you get more than one reply, you might not see the new ones. I'm a fan of yahoo mail. I liked the last version best. Too bad you can't go back to it. Yahoo has been doing a lot of pointless upgrades on things that already work and don't need new functionality. They pissed off their fantasy sports people that way too. I think corporations know they can upgrade and regress software at the same time so they can get you to pay more for something you already had. I'm not saying yahoo is guilty of this. Otherwise it wouldn't be a forced upgrade, and you'd have your choice of mail clients.
Step 1) Make an advanced SHRDLU that does its best guess of true physics. This would be DARPA's chance of making a real time advanced physics simulator. This would let the computer imagine stuff, like what would happen in collisions for new states. So it'd have an idea of how one thing could change another.
Step 2) Database a ton of items into it... Now this is hardwork to put in every object you can, but you'd only have to put a few in to start to test your similator. Get as good as a simulator you can until the next tech comes out.
Wait for tech: Vision detection that can recognize objects based on a known list of models. This tech would look at a scene, and figure out what it is looking at such as a pencil, desk and computer. I believe once you have the tech to recognize objects, you can even make a better vision detection algorithm. Two reasons: A) Objects you recognize don't need to be looked at as part of other objects. B) You'd know what you're looking at better based on the context of where you're at. If you see trees, you're probably outside, but if you see a television and a couch, you're indoors. So you'd know what is around you.
Natural Language is actually easy to code at this point since nouns correspond to objects in the database. Verbs are just actions on the nouns. Adjectives change the noun's object by its style. Adverbs adjust how a verb is described. Natural Language actually comes easily here. Also translation between languages is easier because the AI has stuff in context and isn't challenged by words that have several meanings...
Actually this whole situation is perfectly clear and obvious to me, but maybe this isn't obvious to other people. I should reopen my AI blog. I closed it 10 years ago because I didn't want to work on a vision recognition software program like Kinect ended up being. That's too much work for a single person. But I could write an Artificial Intelligence Blog. That I could do. I'll reopen it. Here is my old blog
Batteries are a much more complex technology than a simple canister. Batteries might still have manufacturing advances, but in general they should be more costly than a simple container. Also batteries have been advanced significantly over the past 60+ years to where they are now. There will be improvement in battery arrays, but it just isn't on the same rate a new technology can be advanced. A battery array today costs several thousand dollars(and sometimes needs to be replaced), but a canister that holds compressed air isn't much more than its scrap metal price. You're looking at thousands of dollars at a battery array against maybe what can come down to into the low hundreds.
I heard the math on regular grid electricity electrolysis is about 1/10th the cost you'd pay in gasoline. It is about the same cost of an electric car's fuel.
The key is the grid would get pummeled if these cars came out cheap. But this would incentivise more people to get personal solar power arrays at their homes. What you'd pay in solar panels would be much less than you'd pay in gasoline and utilities in about 5 years. Then after that it is like free fuel.:)
I think the only other loser besides the oil companies here are the people who liked some semblance of a non crowded highway. Everyone's going to be driving everywhere when the price of fuel is 1/10th what it is today! I bet retailers would even have to rethink their strategies on sales since a poor person can drive from store to store where before the gas money was a road block.
Maybe you can bank on the government regulating helium. Then kids balloons would be filled with hydrogen.:)
I actually figured it'd be pretty easy to make a hydrogen refilling station. All you'd need is a tank to hold the hydrogen and a pressurization tool that is also resistant to embrittlement. This stuff isn't cheap right now, but once the materials science and manufacturing is out on the best materials to store hydrogen with, it will be cheap. So hold off until they're cheap. Then you're just looking at turning tap water and grid electricity into fuel.
To conclude: the cost per mile of driving a hydrogen car is cheaper than a gasoline powered car if you just use grid electricity by maybe around 1/10th. But hydrogen just isn't there yet mostly from materials science and manufacturing lag. Give it some time and it will come around naturally. Toyota getting a car jump starts it though so there is more demand.
I remember at least 2 years ago, Toyota had this plan. Hydrogen isn't as bad as people make it out to be. You just need special materials to work with. If you go steel, it just gets owned. So special materials are expensive in the short run until they're manufactured. Hydrogen itself is just made with electricity and water. It isn't much different than electric cars in that regard. The main difference is electric cars need expensive batteries. Hydrogen cars only need a pressurized tank. I think in the long run hydrogen cars can win out. Do go investing in hydrogen refilling stations just yet though like that electric car got ahead of the curve.
I'm making a Zelda style 2d MMORPG called "Throne and Crown". Many of the art pieces I will be able to use in my game eventually. I sort of wish Congress would say there's a 10 year copyright law. That way, after 10 years, we could use the art assets, and 3d models of other games. Also it'd be pretty radical for the Internet to be a giant library. It'd be an awesome boost to education.
Okay, the hardware idea is bad for a major vector. I was just had another thought,"Aren't decompilers pretty common now? If you decompile an ap, you'd have access to all their encryption functions right there. All you'd need to do is isolate where it is painted on a screen, write a function called to save that data. Voila, you have a snapchat client that can save all the data. I bet people have aps that do this right now because it sounds so simple to do.
Snapchat should have sold. The entire idea should die to hackers making a buck when Snapchat becomes big. Can't someone make a hack to permanently store the data? Outside of a little encryption breaking, it shouldn't be that hard to do. And I'm sure there are ways to dodge encryption breaking even if you'd have to go a hardware button where when you press it, the video memory gets saved.
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I'm just getting off about ten years of unemployment as a software engineer. I'm competent, I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University, and my major pass time at home is programming. For whatever reason I couldn't seem to find a job. I put out thousands of resumes on monster and Dice, but had less than ten interviews in ten years. Thankfully I just recently got a job doing hardware. It is just weird what this world can do to you. No matter how much talent you have, or how hard you work, if no one wants to give you a chance, the world is a rough place. I think lots of people are seeing this today with the lack of jobs for even talented individuals.
Anyway, that is my point. There are plenty of talented and educated people in this country. The tech companies just don't want to pay a fair wage in a regular display of union busting. I know my story might be on the edge of a bellcurve, but I'm just saying I understand personally what it is like to never get a chance at a job. If you don't watch, it can grind into your very self worth.
I hope you find a FLOSS solution then. I didn't know iTunes was good for anything than a walled garden. I didn't realize you could bring in MP3s outside the ones you bought. You know there's probably a market for a FLOSS itune clone in a way now you bring it to my attention. Make it friendly for general MP3s, but be more transparent to get lesser known artists on the track to being paid and discovered. It is hard for a new artist to get discovered now, but if there was an official place to go to promote yourself outside of youtube. If you combine monetization(selling tracks+shared ads) with promotion, all the artist should technically have to do is make music and stick it onto this place. Finally you'd want a way to do something to find people who are fans of the same artists as you, so you can find music you might like, but haven't discovered yet.
Finally if you want to get really into it... Second Life is dated. If someone would just make a P2P version without worrying about countering hacks, you could make dance halls. Allow people to invent their own dances, and even sell their own dances and you take a cut. Allow people to make mesh objects, dance hall, avatars, particle effects, etc. Allow them to make those on their own, import and sell(where you take a small cut), and there you have a place where people could play their own music they downloaded off your service to people visiting their dance hall. Of course they'd need to hack it to play someone else's music, and your position would be you're against that. But the music people upload to your service would specifically license to be able to be played to small and large audiences.
I used to use Napster, then P2P equivalents. It isn't like I'm buying music anyway. For a while back in the 90s, people bought the lie that CDs were super expensive to make and that is why albums were so expensive. Now with CDs are seen to be nearly free, and you see how much they try and gouge you for something you could dub off the radio if you wanted. RIAA is out suing everyone they can find. They sued a dive bar in nowheresville(where I live) for 100,000$ and won just this past year. I especially don't want to give a dime to RIAA.
If you want to support artists, don't use iTunes. Go use youtube and put your MP3 in a player, or burn to CD. If you want to support artists, either go see them in concert or paypal their personal account. I'd say write them a check, but they probably don't have mailing addies for sake of privacy.
I'm tired of this whole situation where people try not only to charge for something that is free, but also try and stop people from getting stuff for free too.
Great. Thanks to you, now I'm listening to Daft Punk on youtube.com.
I worded it wrong. I meant some people obviously will get one. But for the masses, they'll just be summoning them with their smart phones.
Amazon Escort service?
I was just also thinking of if an individual would let his car go make money for him instead of even being a corporation: Pimp My Ride could have a whole new meaning. "Okay car, you take me to work, and instead of me paying for you to park, you go play taxi all day and bring me money for my ride home."
You know what makes me think it will fly:
Since big time corporations will invest in them, they'll have big time corporation pockets to win lawsuits.
I think relative safety is important in the end, but you know how court cases are, logic doesn't always prevail.
I think for a person to own a self driving car might be the exception to the norm. I think if self driving cars work, corporations will buy millions of them, and station them in semi-patroling routes. Then people will just summon them like cheap taxis. Some people will even schedule their work day around them. The software will do all the planning on who gets what car. A guy could ride one to work, not pay parking, then the car plays taxi for the day, and comes picks the guy up at work to take him home.
If they work, they'll work big time, but I really worry about lawsuits.
When I first went into the job market, my career center at my university strongly urged me never to apply to a job where I didn't meet every skill set. Ten years down the line, never having gotten a job that way, I realize now that you just need to have some of their requirements, and apply to them.
I liked the old version where I could see every reply I got in its own thread. This new version forces all replies into a single thread, so if you get more than one reply, you might not see the new ones. I'm a fan of yahoo mail. I liked the last version best. Too bad you can't go back to it. Yahoo has been doing a lot of pointless upgrades on things that already work and don't need new functionality. They pissed off their fantasy sports people that way too. I think corporations know they can upgrade and regress software at the same time so they can get you to pay more for something you already had. I'm not saying yahoo is guilty of this. Otherwise it wouldn't be a forced upgrade, and you'd have your choice of mail clients.
The guy got in trouble for not having any drugs in his secret compartment. Next time the guy will be smart and put some in there.
If you're interested, I just opened a blog I think I'll pursue this to raise AI awareness.
Step 1) Make an advanced SHRDLU that does its best guess of true physics. This would be DARPA's chance of making a real time advanced physics simulator. This would let the computer imagine stuff, like what would happen in collisions for new states. So it'd have an idea of how one thing could change another.
Step 2) Database a ton of items into it... Now this is hardwork to put in every object you can, but you'd only have to put a few in to start to test your similator. Get as good as a simulator you can until the next tech comes out.
Wait for tech: Vision detection that can recognize objects based on a known list of models. This tech would look at a scene, and figure out what it is looking at such as a pencil, desk and computer. I believe once you have the tech to recognize objects, you can even make a better vision detection algorithm. Two reasons: A) Objects you recognize don't need to be looked at as part of other objects. B) You'd know what you're looking at better based on the context of where you're at. If you see trees, you're probably outside, but if you see a television and a couch, you're indoors. So you'd know what is around you.
Natural Language is actually easy to code at this point since nouns correspond to objects in the database. Verbs are just actions on the nouns. Adjectives change the noun's object by its style. Adverbs adjust how a verb is described. Natural Language actually comes easily here. Also translation between languages is easier because the AI has stuff in context and isn't challenged by words that have several meanings...
Actually this whole situation is perfectly clear and obvious to me, but maybe this isn't obvious to other people. I should reopen my AI blog. I closed it 10 years ago because I didn't want to work on a vision recognition software program like Kinect ended up being. That's too much work for a single person. But I could write an Artificial Intelligence Blog. That I could do. I'll reopen it. Here is my old blog
On paper they could make minimum wage themselves, but still make millions of dollars a year.
If you want to get high-energy neutrinos, you better straighten out your computations.
Batteries are a much more complex technology than a simple canister. Batteries might still have manufacturing advances, but in general they should be more costly than a simple container. Also batteries have been advanced significantly over the past 60+ years to where they are now. There will be improvement in battery arrays, but it just isn't on the same rate a new technology can be advanced. A battery array today costs several thousand dollars(and sometimes needs to be replaced), but a canister that holds compressed air isn't much more than its scrap metal price. You're looking at thousands of dollars at a battery array against maybe what can come down to into the low hundreds.
I heard the math on regular grid electricity electrolysis is about 1/10th the cost you'd pay in gasoline. It is about the same cost of an electric car's fuel.
:)
The key is the grid would get pummeled if these cars came out cheap. But this would incentivise more people to get personal solar power arrays at their homes. What you'd pay in solar panels would be much less than you'd pay in gasoline and utilities in about 5 years. Then after that it is like free fuel.
I think the only other loser besides the oil companies here are the people who liked some semblance of a non crowded highway. Everyone's going to be driving everywhere when the price of fuel is 1/10th what it is today! I bet retailers would even have to rethink their strategies on sales since a poor person can drive from store to store where before the gas money was a road block.
Maybe you can bank on the government regulating helium. Then kids balloons would be filled with hydrogen. :)
I actually figured it'd be pretty easy to make a hydrogen refilling station. All you'd need is a tank to hold the hydrogen and a pressurization tool that is also resistant to embrittlement. This stuff isn't cheap right now, but once the materials science and manufacturing is out on the best materials to store hydrogen with, it will be cheap. So hold off until they're cheap. Then you're just looking at turning tap water and grid electricity into fuel.
To conclude: the cost per mile of driving a hydrogen car is cheaper than a gasoline powered car if you just use grid electricity by maybe around 1/10th. But hydrogen just isn't there yet mostly from materials science and manufacturing lag. Give it some time and it will come around naturally. Toyota getting a car jump starts it though so there is more demand.
Horrible typos I had:
Title was supposed to be: They've had this plan since what 2010.
and Don't go investing in hydrogen refueling stations just yet.
I remember at least 2 years ago, Toyota had this plan. Hydrogen isn't as bad as people make it out to be. You just need special materials to work with. If you go steel, it just gets owned. So special materials are expensive in the short run until they're manufactured. Hydrogen itself is just made with electricity and water. It isn't much different than electric cars in that regard. The main difference is electric cars need expensive batteries. Hydrogen cars only need a pressurized tank. I think in the long run hydrogen cars can win out. Do go investing in hydrogen refilling stations just yet though like that electric car got ahead of the curve.
I'm making a Zelda style 2d MMORPG called "Throne and Crown". Many of the art pieces I will be able to use in my game eventually. I sort of wish Congress would say there's a 10 year copyright law. That way, after 10 years, we could use the art assets, and 3d models of other games. Also it'd be pretty radical for the Internet to be a giant library. It'd be an awesome boost to education.
Okay, the hardware idea is bad for a major vector. I was just had another thought,"Aren't decompilers pretty common now? If you decompile an ap, you'd have access to all their encryption functions right there. All you'd need to do is isolate where it is painted on a screen, write a function called to save that data. Voila, you have a snapchat client that can save all the data. I bet people have aps that do this right now because it sounds so simple to do.
Snapchat should have sold. The entire idea should die to hackers making a buck when Snapchat becomes big. Can't someone make a hack to permanently store the data? Outside of a little encryption breaking, it shouldn't be that hard to do. And I'm sure there are ways to dodge encryption breaking even if you'd have to go a hardware button where when you press it, the video memory gets saved.
Cool sig.
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