The hydrogen economy probably won't be on us for at least about 5 years if it paces itself at a break neck pace. The dream of having a farm with solar panels, converting water to hydrogen to store in tanks in the ground is a cool dream. You can then use that hydrogen to power your car or heat your home. The key is that the tanks haven't hit an economy of scale yet since the commercial hydrogen car just came out by Toyota this year. In the short run Hydrogen is expensive as all get out, but in the long run it can be cheaper than batteries. A battery array likely won't come down in price nearly as much as a pressurized tank will.
Get a farm, a solar array, some underground tanks, and you have unlimited fuel for your car and can heat your home in the winter for free. Gas stations will be something any Joe can make himself by installing a pump in his own personal system. The creation of the hydrogen gas is done on site with electricity and water.
That said, it will be a little while before we can all embrace it because economy of scale need to hit things like pressurized tanks and such. I'm interested in hearing about these other gases being made through solar energy though. I've heard other gases being used at powerplants and such, but I forget which ones.
I'm still not sure how they convinced sharing music where no one loses is stealing, but some people think it is stealing even though the distribution costs are basically 0. Anyway, if they can pull another fast one and convince people that not watching ads is stealing, they'll want to go the extra mile,"If you watch your content without buying stuff our sponsors promote, you're basically stealing free content.". Don't buy into their mind poison.
For a long time, muscle cars kept trying to push the 0-60mph acceleration. We basically hit a limit with internal combustion engines. I don't think we've even come close to the limit an electric motor can do. Don't they produce more torque than you can get friction with tires? So the limiting nature might be on the tire design. It's been a long time since I've been intrigued by fast cars, but I want to see just how quickly they can get 0-60mph if the car is designed for that. We all know electric cars blow the doors off internal combustion engine cars, but just how much can they smoke them. What opening about a drag racing league with electric cars?
The last bill that was past was claiming to reign in spying, but it for the first time legalized spying on American citizens. People were claiming it reigned in spying powers, but it actually gave out tons of legalized spying powers. I love the USA, but the people writing the laws like to treat us like mushrooms.
As Slashdot knows, the STEM shortage isn't a shortage of talented people, it is a shortage of jobs, so less people do it. In the 90s, my physics professors lamented less people coming in to physics. This is because there isn't a lot of jobs in physics like there is with computers.
If big business starts poaching smart people, more people will have incentive to get an education. It's not like university research is going away, but there will just be different faces as always. The net gain for society is more R&D and more educated folk.
I probably worked with some of those guys who got in with Uber when I also worked with the self driving car down Carnegie Mellon. Good for them.
I've in the past said,"It'd be great if I could order and pay for my groceries before I get to the store and have a stock person have them in a cart for me.", but I was criticized that this takes a stock person's time.
If Uber/Lyft had a computer database of the stuff sold at grocery stores(not trivial), they could simply have drivers be ordered to pick up stuff for people who ordered. The driver would show up at the grocery store, do the shopping and take it back to the person who can't get out of their house, or someone without extra time to go shopping.
In addition to the app-taxis, stores themselves could put together a delivery service for a fee or over a certain amount bought. It wouldn't require much more than building a front end to their store's database of prices. Then they'd just have a driver(like pizza delivery). I think it'd attract more business if a company went this route. I'd use it myself if Aldi's did it.
Mercola is a mixed bag of helpful tips and harmful advice. I was once told by a health fanatic coworker to read his stuff. A little of what Mercola says is right,"There is no minimal amount of mercury you want your body to be exposed to. Eat fruits and vegetables over drinking fruit drinks", but it didn't take me long reading his articles to see something is off. His anti vaccination stance is what made me stop reading the articles.
Every year there's more and more drivers on the road. More drivers = more people who can run over a cyclist.
Just going by observations I did sitting on a porch: It seems like 1/10 people are texting actively at any time. And 1/4 people are on their cell phones. Distracted drivers today are more dangerous than drivers back in the day.
For about a decade, I've envisioned the way to help the poor in countries that get deforested is to replant some of their forests with fruit trees. Even if farmers don't farm, or the country sees unrest, the fruit trees remain. A steady source of food is good in third world countries. Thankfully 'Food For The Poor' saw this too and there is a program for planting fruit trees that I try and endorse to people. If we have a good job, and are on our feet, we should be helping our fellow man, and this is a good way to do that.
Yah, hah hah. I make that mistake often. I tell myself, lower case it, and instead of lowercasing the b, I lowercase the m. Thank you for correcting me. My highschool teacher used to get on my case for not putting the units at all in my calculations until them reappearing at the result. So at least I have units there at all, heh.
Also while I'm talking about corrections, I did calculate the new hike in my calculations, but I said I didn't.
Maybe lets just go by the gist of what I said.:):):)
My point that we're overcharged for slow service stands.:(:(:(
If other countries have 8000 mb/s and they're fighting for customers so much some people don't even pay a bill for the first year then afterwards it is only 20$/month, why can Comcast get away with this? Is it just that we're a wealthy country that they expect us to pay more? They sue legitimate competition away. How can we make competition in the telecommunication a political issue for the presidency this year?
Comcast offers 10mb/s for $90, and in foreign countries they get 8000mb/s for $20.
We're getting charged 320,000% as much as they get charged in other countries, and this isn't counting the new hike.
I'm not sure what good javascript would be for an accountant. It's hard to get anything done unless you know what you're doing with coding and have put years in. It's like asking to dabble as a concert violinist. You just won't perform until you become really good.
An accountant would have a lot of use for Excel scripting though or the Open Office equivalent. I think one's job could be boosted in numerous ways by the automatic math of tables, columns and cells. And if he likes that, maybe then introduce him into coding.
Software Engineering is a lifestyle where you either are all in, or don't touch it. Like anything, it takes about 10,000 hours before you get up to a respectable level of knowledge. If he really wants to learn Software Engineering, don't start with a messy scripting language to start. Get all your core principals in the basics with Java first.
More reason just to teach your kid how to play sports and hope for the best. Or music, arts and crafts.
I think people keep thinking of the robot apocalypse of robots killing us. But what if robots were declared sentient beings, and some super rich guy who owned all the robot corps gave his wealth to his robot. Then we'd have a robot who owned all the production and wealth in control. He could be a robot with no ill feelings, but just the perfect business bot. Since he doesn't die, wealth doesn't get redistributed. And since he is the best business bot by code, he never loses wealth... He can just eventually own most the property so everyone else's property is prohibitively expensive.
I didn't use Windows 3.1, and preferred DOS. With DOS disks, stuff booted up cleanly every time. But with Windows, if you set something up wrong or got a virus, your computer wouldn't boot at all. The funny thing we're still in the era of click on the wrong URL, and you get a virus. Viruses shouldn't be so easy to get.
I think to explain further, its okay to make a game in a genre, and try and make it better than has been done before. It isn't total laziness to stick with a genre and go, but you're treading ground someone else has done, so the temptation is to clone as much as they've done to get a foundation before improving. In fact, people might be so used to another game doing something, that is almost the defacto standard, and people expect it in other games. It's not really laziness to build on something else someone has made and try to make it better, but your original game design doesn't start until you've taken and done what someone else has done. Using "industry standard" established techniques for a genre makes it feel lazy.
This makes sense. When I was quite young, I was perplexed by the idea of a genre. I saw surveys with a check box. What games do I like"[] platforming, []racing, []shooters, []puzzle, etc" I looked at the survey and was confused that they could classify such diverse games into such small categories. The thought didn't even occur to me that games were like each other so much they could be classified. I simply thought games were all different. Now as a game designer, game programmer, I can see genre classifications, but I think to operate in them is laziness. I think with something as complex as a computer, we can have new genres of games like Katamari Damacy if someone puts their mind to it. I think experimenting and trying stuff no one tried before is bold and to be praised.
Just like children can't see through the veil when watching a movie and needs to be reminded Godzilla isn't real and the set is a miniature city, I think a lot of people get caught up in games without thinking how the game is made or similar to other games. A lot of people just play and if they like it, they stay. I just wish the veil wasn't so thick that people could see through a Clash of Clans, Farmville meets castle, pay to win, and wouldn't sponsor that type of drivel. I once had a "game designer" honestly think Clash of Clans took as much skill as Wacraft3 to play... The veil is there even for people who are supposed game developers.
I always have to explain to new authors that it doesn't matter how good you think your book is, to get sales, you should try and achieve some fame first. I'm not saying Munroe didn't earn his fame, those xkcd comics are funny sometimes. I like them. It is just that being well known is important. For this reason, running a free site with no ads can benefit you in many ways in the long run.
You hear most of the cutting edge health nuts coming from Cali and lately they've been talking about the toxicity levels of plastic in bottled drinking water if left out to age or in the sun. Yet they managed to pour plastic balls in their drinking water reservoir. Didn't anyone go,"Hey, maybe this sounds like a bad idea to California residents concerned with their health?"
There is a security flaw in email where spammers can validate you're an active email if you have images turned on. I guess if you accidentally hover their link that they can see you're an active email too! I set my network.http.speculative-parallel-limi to 0 in the url: about:config.
Ads are way more evil. Ads are irresponsible because they're not checked against viruses. Want a virus? Don't run an ad blocker.
I think someday we'll look back today like we do to 1998 webpages. We'll go,"They really tried to slap you with an ad before you read some goon's pointless article that was hyped?" I don't think ads should or will go away, but I think they should be more responsible. Commit to who you want to advertise with, don't just run an adnetwork. Do you really want to put nefarious ads on things kids might be reading? Well you might be doing that if you run a generic adnetwork. Sadly I don't think people will become more responsible with advertisements. I see them becoming more obnoxious because they're greedy for the monies.
Now this last thing is a pet random idea: Actually I think if you wanted to really get a huge ad based network, you should build a pyramid scheme where no one loses anything. Use the gameshow model so they're playing a game of any level of skill, but they share ad revenue with you. At the end of the month with a raffle where they get points by doing well in the game + 50% additional tickets from everyone they referred and 25% tickets from people they referred etc... People would get a portion of the ad revenue by playing the game. And they'd get additional tickets by just watching ads. Get people wanting to watch the ads for their own profit, and you have a gold mine. If I'm not getting anything for watching your ad, its just wasting my time at best. At worst, my computer is getting crypto locked with ransom ware.
I run adblock. And yes, I'd download a car if I could.
ATV robots were some of the first attempts at robotic killers the military did. I was at Westinghouse for technology talks for highschool kids in like 93 or 94. Turns out that air based robots are easier to navigate because they don't have to go through a myriad of terrains. I think someday they'll make ground based guys, but I think before that happens, we'll have a self driving car. After all, if the thing can't drive on good terrain, what hopes does it have for forests, and hill/mountain/cliffs? So maybe 25-50 years from now unless AI gets incubated.
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The hydrogen economy probably won't be on us for at least about 5 years if it paces itself at a break neck pace. The dream of having a farm with solar panels, converting water to hydrogen to store in tanks in the ground is a cool dream. You can then use that hydrogen to power your car or heat your home. The key is that the tanks haven't hit an economy of scale yet since the commercial hydrogen car just came out by Toyota this year. In the short run Hydrogen is expensive as all get out, but in the long run it can be cheaper than batteries. A battery array likely won't come down in price nearly as much as a pressurized tank will.
Get a farm, a solar array, some underground tanks, and you have unlimited fuel for your car and can heat your home in the winter for free. Gas stations will be something any Joe can make himself by installing a pump in his own personal system. The creation of the hydrogen gas is done on site with electricity and water.
That said, it will be a little while before we can all embrace it because economy of scale need to hit things like pressurized tanks and such. I'm interested in hearing about these other gases being made through solar energy though. I've heard other gases being used at powerplants and such, but I forget which ones.
I'm still not sure how they convinced sharing music where no one loses is stealing, but some people think it is stealing even though the distribution costs are basically 0. Anyway, if they can pull another fast one and convince people that not watching ads is stealing, they'll want to go the extra mile,"If you watch your content without buying stuff our sponsors promote, you're basically stealing free content.". Don't buy into their mind poison.
For a long time, muscle cars kept trying to push the 0-60mph acceleration. We basically hit a limit with internal combustion engines. I don't think we've even come close to the limit an electric motor can do. Don't they produce more torque than you can get friction with tires? So the limiting nature might be on the tire design. It's been a long time since I've been intrigued by fast cars, but I want to see just how quickly they can get 0-60mph if the car is designed for that. We all know electric cars blow the doors off internal combustion engine cars, but just how much can they smoke them. What opening about a drag racing league with electric cars?
The last bill that was past was claiming to reign in spying, but it for the first time legalized spying on American citizens. People were claiming it reigned in spying powers, but it actually gave out tons of legalized spying powers. I love the USA, but the people writing the laws like to treat us like mushrooms.
As Slashdot knows, the STEM shortage isn't a shortage of talented people, it is a shortage of jobs, so less people do it. In the 90s, my physics professors lamented less people coming in to physics. This is because there isn't a lot of jobs in physics like there is with computers.
If big business starts poaching smart people, more people will have incentive to get an education. It's not like university research is going away, but there will just be different faces as always. The net gain for society is more R&D and more educated folk.
I probably worked with some of those guys who got in with Uber when I also worked with the self driving car down Carnegie Mellon. Good for them.
I've in the past said,"It'd be great if I could order and pay for my groceries before I get to the store and have a stock person have them in a cart for me.", but I was criticized that this takes a stock person's time.
If Uber/Lyft had a computer database of the stuff sold at grocery stores(not trivial), they could simply have drivers be ordered to pick up stuff for people who ordered. The driver would show up at the grocery store, do the shopping and take it back to the person who can't get out of their house, or someone without extra time to go shopping.
In addition to the app-taxis, stores themselves could put together a delivery service for a fee or over a certain amount bought. It wouldn't require much more than building a front end to their store's database of prices. Then they'd just have a driver(like pizza delivery). I think it'd attract more business if a company went this route. I'd use it myself if Aldi's did it.
Mercola is a mixed bag of helpful tips and harmful advice. I was once told by a health fanatic coworker to read his stuff. A little of what Mercola says is right,"There is no minimal amount of mercury you want your body to be exposed to. Eat fruits and vegetables over drinking fruit drinks", but it didn't take me long reading his articles to see something is off. His anti vaccination stance is what made me stop reading the articles.
Every year there's more and more drivers on the road. More drivers = more people who can run over a cyclist.
Just going by observations I did sitting on a porch: It seems like 1/10 people are texting actively at any time. And 1/4 people are on their cell phones. Distracted drivers today are more dangerous than drivers back in the day.
For about a decade, I've envisioned the way to help the poor in countries that get deforested is to replant some of their forests with fruit trees. Even if farmers don't farm, or the country sees unrest, the fruit trees remain. A steady source of food is good in third world countries. Thankfully 'Food For The Poor' saw this too and there is a program for planting fruit trees that I try and endorse to people. If we have a good job, and are on our feet, we should be helping our fellow man, and this is a good way to do that.
Yah, hah hah. I make that mistake often. I tell myself, lower case it, and instead of lowercasing the b, I lowercase the m. Thank you for correcting me. My highschool teacher used to get on my case for not putting the units at all in my calculations until them reappearing at the result. So at least I have units there at all, heh.
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Also while I'm talking about corrections, I did calculate the new hike in my calculations, but I said I didn't.
Maybe lets just go by the gist of what I said.
My point that we're overcharged for slow service stands.
If other countries have 8000 mb/s and they're fighting for customers so much some people don't even pay a bill for the first year then afterwards it is only 20$/month, why can Comcast get away with this? Is it just that we're a wealthy country that they expect us to pay more? They sue legitimate competition away. How can we make competition in the telecommunication a political issue for the presidency this year?
Comcast offers 10mb/s for $90, and in foreign countries they get 8000mb/s for $20. We're getting charged 320,000% as much as they get charged in other countries, and this isn't counting the new hike.
Nothing makes an old car feel like a new car again quite like a monthly payment.
That's pretty cool. Maybe it was made with an impact of another object from somewhere else. Does anyone know what the official scientists think it is?
I'm not sure what good javascript would be for an accountant. It's hard to get anything done unless you know what you're doing with coding and have put years in. It's like asking to dabble as a concert violinist. You just won't perform until you become really good.
An accountant would have a lot of use for Excel scripting though or the Open Office equivalent. I think one's job could be boosted in numerous ways by the automatic math of tables, columns and cells. And if he likes that, maybe then introduce him into coding.
Software Engineering is a lifestyle where you either are all in, or don't touch it. Like anything, it takes about 10,000 hours before you get up to a respectable level of knowledge. If he really wants to learn Software Engineering, don't start with a messy scripting language to start. Get all your core principals in the basics with Java first.
More reason just to teach your kid how to play sports and hope for the best. Or music, arts and crafts.
I think people keep thinking of the robot apocalypse of robots killing us. But what if robots were declared sentient beings, and some super rich guy who owned all the robot corps gave his wealth to his robot. Then we'd have a robot who owned all the production and wealth in control. He could be a robot with no ill feelings, but just the perfect business bot. Since he doesn't die, wealth doesn't get redistributed. And since he is the best business bot by code, he never loses wealth... He can just eventually own most the property so everyone else's property is prohibitively expensive.
I didn't use Windows 3.1, and preferred DOS. With DOS disks, stuff booted up cleanly every time. But with Windows, if you set something up wrong or got a virus, your computer wouldn't boot at all. The funny thing we're still in the era of click on the wrong URL, and you get a virus. Viruses shouldn't be so easy to get.
I think to explain further, its okay to make a game in a genre, and try and make it better than has been done before. It isn't total laziness to stick with a genre and go, but you're treading ground someone else has done, so the temptation is to clone as much as they've done to get a foundation before improving. In fact, people might be so used to another game doing something, that is almost the defacto standard, and people expect it in other games. It's not really laziness to build on something else someone has made and try to make it better, but your original game design doesn't start until you've taken and done what someone else has done. Using "industry standard" established techniques for a genre makes it feel lazy.
This makes sense. When I was quite young, I was perplexed by the idea of a genre. I saw surveys with a check box. What games do I like"[] platforming, []racing, []shooters, []puzzle, etc" I looked at the survey and was confused that they could classify such diverse games into such small categories. The thought didn't even occur to me that games were like each other so much they could be classified. I simply thought games were all different. Now as a game designer, game programmer, I can see genre classifications, but I think to operate in them is laziness. I think with something as complex as a computer, we can have new genres of games like Katamari Damacy if someone puts their mind to it. I think experimenting and trying stuff no one tried before is bold and to be praised.
Just like children can't see through the veil when watching a movie and needs to be reminded Godzilla isn't real and the set is a miniature city, I think a lot of people get caught up in games without thinking how the game is made or similar to other games. A lot of people just play and if they like it, they stay. I just wish the veil wasn't so thick that people could see through a Clash of Clans, Farmville meets castle, pay to win, and wouldn't sponsor that type of drivel. I once had a "game designer" honestly think Clash of Clans took as much skill as Wacraft3 to play... The veil is there even for people who are supposed game developers.
I always have to explain to new authors that it doesn't matter how good you think your book is, to get sales, you should try and achieve some fame first. I'm not saying Munroe didn't earn his fame, those xkcd comics are funny sometimes. I like them. It is just that being well known is important. For this reason, running a free site with no ads can benefit you in many ways in the long run.
You hear most of the cutting edge health nuts coming from Cali and lately they've been talking about the toxicity levels of plastic in bottled drinking water if left out to age or in the sun. Yet they managed to pour plastic balls in their drinking water reservoir. Didn't anyone go,"Hey, maybe this sounds like a bad idea to California residents concerned with their health?"
There is a security flaw in email where spammers can validate you're an active email if you have images turned on. I guess if you accidentally hover their link that they can see you're an active email too! I set my network.http.speculative-parallel-limi to 0 in the url: about:config.
Ads are way more evil. Ads are irresponsible because they're not checked against viruses. Want a virus? Don't run an ad blocker.
I think someday we'll look back today like we do to 1998 webpages. We'll go,"They really tried to slap you with an ad before you read some goon's pointless article that was hyped?" I don't think ads should or will go away, but I think they should be more responsible. Commit to who you want to advertise with, don't just run an adnetwork. Do you really want to put nefarious ads on things kids might be reading? Well you might be doing that if you run a generic adnetwork. Sadly I don't think people will become more responsible with advertisements. I see them becoming more obnoxious because they're greedy for the monies.
Now this last thing is a pet random idea: Actually I think if you wanted to really get a huge ad based network, you should build a pyramid scheme where no one loses anything. Use the gameshow model so they're playing a game of any level of skill, but they share ad revenue with you. At the end of the month with a raffle where they get points by doing well in the game + 50% additional tickets from everyone they referred and 25% tickets from people they referred etc... People would get a portion of the ad revenue by playing the game. And they'd get additional tickets by just watching ads. Get people wanting to watch the ads for their own profit, and you have a gold mine. If I'm not getting anything for watching your ad, its just wasting my time at best. At worst, my computer is getting crypto locked with ransom ware.
I run adblock. And yes, I'd download a car if I could.
Let me revise that, if you have a waldo robot, and a remote operator, we could probably do that today or soonish.
ATV robots were some of the first attempts at robotic killers the military did. I was at Westinghouse for technology talks for highschool kids in like 93 or 94. Turns out that air based robots are easier to navigate because they don't have to go through a myriad of terrains. I think someday they'll make ground based guys, but I think before that happens, we'll have a self driving car. After all, if the thing can't drive on good terrain, what hopes does it have for forests, and hill/mountain/cliffs? So maybe 25-50 years from now unless AI gets incubated.