What a total waste when a far smaller investment in deep geothermal technological development will yield a far more stable, reliable and efficient energy source. See 384 page MIT study here http://web.mit.edu/ceepr/www/mit%20geothermal%20study.html.
The obvious alternative is advanced deep geothermal. If we spent a fraction of the amount spent on the development of fission and fusion power on developing deep geothermal we would be largely energy self sufficient by now. Geothermal is available 24/7 right now! Geothermal offers a place to sequester CO2 while using it as a super-critical heat exchange medium. Geothermal is a huge untapped resource readily available in the western US. It is also better to invest in deep Geothermal technology. The long term payoff is huge. Go to www.mit.edu and search geothermal. The second search result is a 300 plus page study that shows a less than $1BN investment over 15 years would yield enough Geothermal power to replace 10% of US electricity requirements. This is a trivial investment. Private industry will invest over $1BN in the next 5 years using current technology to develop shallow resources. Going deep (6-10km) will make geothermal available anywhere in the world. The current administration has cut all funding for geothermal research (a paltry $27M) from the current budget.
The seed manufacturers (read Monsanto) have integrated herbicide and pesticide resistance genes into major grain crops like corn and soybeans. I also think they have added genes to cause the plants to produce their own herbicide. Now a major food chain dependency is collapsing and they wonder why.
Bees collect and consume pollen. Pollen is concentrated genetic material from plants. Is it any wonder that this could be having a negative effect on bees?
There is a fundimental lack of understanding about the real problem. It is not Group Thinking that needs to be refined but rather Group Being. If science was religated to using only a hammer and pick for discovery the level of knowledge would be concomitantly crude. The tool that needs refinement is the entire human psychophysiology. Effective methods and understanding of this refinement are currrently being taught by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. See: http://www.mum.edu/ for more information.
The key point that your missing is that to be able to run wires everywhere and anywhere the common carriers have to be able to take their wires across your property. This easment, as it is called, is regulated much the same way as the airwaves. Access to these easements is regulated by a combination of your local city, state and the federal governement. As another poster has mentioned the feds get involved when common carriers want to cross state lines.
I work for a small ISV that resells Dell systems. I have seen a serious decline in the quality of the new systems that we receive. Two of twelve new Dell Precision 380s we received last week have died. One from a failed Seagate drive and the other due to a bad motherboard. We are in a rural area and pay handsomely for next business day service. The drive was no problem unless you consider that the replacement that I received was refurbished and I had to reinstall the OS. I got a call from the contract service provider the day that the motherboard was supposed to be replaced (Friday) saying that they couldn't make it until the following business day. When I reported this to Dell the call was supposedly escalated but I never received a call back and now the repair is scheduled for tomorrow instead of today. So I guess they showed me who was boss. What they don't know is that I'm going to start evaluating HP and other venders for our future systems.
Getting a Classified clearance is tough. Getting higher clearances is at least an order of magnitude tougher. There is great demand for persons that hold clearances because much of the required paperwork is already done. From this it can be construed that there is a shortage of persons with the required clearances. From this it can be deduced that more of the information that is FOUO and Sensitive would be classified if more of the required personel were available.
This system sounds remarkably like one I saw at the San Diego Sea World twenty years ago. In the Sea World system a sun tracking solar collector was used to focus sunlight on a fiber optic bundle that piped light too exhibits inside a building.
Back in the '80s when the Macintosh was first introduced I knew a psychologist that claimed that subjects using the Macintosh interface exhibited more coherent brain functioning than subjects using the PC interface. This was probably pre Windows though.
I worked in a neurophysiology lab in the 1980s and when we were doing EEG we would get artifacts that we traced to pre speech nerve stimulus to the throat muscles. I don't think we documented this finding but I know we discussed the idea of attaching more specifically located sensors and seeing if we could decode prespeech thoughts. I couldn't get the lab director interested so the idea went nowhere. It should be noted that the computing power required to do the analysis in real time wasn't available at that time in any reasonably wearable form factor.
Human Interface: Stylish eyeware like direct retinal projector for display with integrated hi-res video camera for capture of environment and behind the ear bone conduction audio and neural sensors for subvocal interaction with a cadre of agents.
Skins like configuration of world viewed for work/play/entertainment/education/communications.
* CPU: 200GHz 256 bit, 1 GWord (GW)data and instruction cache * Main Memory = 256 GB * Other Storage = 20 TB with 2 TB removable (IBM MIMS are what I have in mind)
All interconnections are wireless, Nightly backup might be handled by optical interconnection with house server and/or off site archive.
Power = Fuel Cell good for a minimum of 24 hrs between refuelings. Wall wart power also.
The user interface should read my mind or at least allow me to subvocalize ie think the interactions I want with an agent.
In 1999 the company I worked for closed the local office and offered me a job at another location. After considering the offer including the 20% raise in pay I declined. A couple of weeks after the closure I got a call asking if I would help train the new manager. I submitted a proposal outlining my terms including hourly rate, daily rate, retainer rate, mileage charges, etc. After everything was said and done I provided consulting services to the company for over two years and earned nearly as much as I had as a full time employee for far fewer hours.
The results you get will depend upon the perceived value of your services and your professionalism. I would ignore any assumption that work be performed for free. Simply state when asked to perform a service that you would be glad to provide the services for a fee. Name an amount or an hourly rate that you think is reasonable. Also make sure that any requests for work are approved at the proper level of authority.
Remember if you don't value the services you provide, no one else is going to.
A Reasonable Settlement for Conviction of Monopoly Practices: All of Microsoft's code base and IP becomes open source and public domain up to the date of the settlement. All non-compete contracts that Microsoft holds with current and former employees become null and void. In other words: take away their monopoly.
Often science fiction writers are scientists that use the vision inspired by their research to write science fiction that goes where current technology and art can't. These writers are part of what is sometimes called the "Hard Science Fiction" school. Many stories from these writers are short so they never make it into book length publications but are captured in the Pulp Fiction magazines Asimov and Analog. These magazines also mix hard science articals with their fiction offerings providing an environment for cross pollination.
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What a total waste when a far smaller investment in deep geothermal technological development will yield a far more stable, reliable and efficient energy source. See 384 page MIT study here http://web.mit.edu/ceepr/www/mit%20geothermal%20study.html.
The obvious alternative is advanced deep geothermal. If we spent a fraction of the amount spent on the development of fission and fusion power on developing deep geothermal we would be largely energy self sufficient by now. Geothermal is available 24/7 right now! Geothermal offers a place to sequester CO2 while using it as a super-critical heat exchange medium. Geothermal is a huge untapped resource readily available in the western US. It is also better to invest in deep Geothermal technology. The long term payoff is huge. Go to www.mit.edu and search geothermal. The second search result is a 300 plus page study that shows a less than $1BN investment over 15 years would yield enough Geothermal power to replace 10% of US electricity requirements. This is a trivial investment. Private industry will invest over $1BN in the next 5 years using current technology to develop shallow resources. Going deep (6-10km) will make geothermal available anywhere in the world. The current administration has cut all funding for geothermal research (a paltry $27M) from the current budget.
The seed manufacturers (read Monsanto) have integrated herbicide and pesticide resistance genes into major grain crops like corn and soybeans. I also think they have added genes to cause the plants to produce their own herbicide. Now a major food chain dependency is collapsing and they wonder why.
Bees collect and consume pollen. Pollen is concentrated genetic material from plants. Is it any wonder that this could be having a negative effect on bees?
Knew I should have used a spell checker this morning. 8^D
There is a fundimental lack of understanding about the real problem. It is not Group Thinking that needs to be refined but rather Group Being. If science was religated to using only a hammer and pick for discovery the level of knowledge would be concomitantly crude. The tool that needs refinement is the entire human psychophysiology. Effective methods and understanding of this refinement are currrently being taught by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. See: http://www.mum.edu/ for more information.
Interesting artical in Wired about US fire fighting techniques vs those elsewhere.
r efight.html
http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/fi
The key point that your missing is that to be able to run wires everywhere and anywhere the common carriers have to be able to take their wires across your property. This easment, as it is called, is regulated much the same way as the airwaves. Access to these easements is regulated by a combination of your local city, state and the federal governement. As another poster has mentioned the feds get involved when common carriers want to cross state lines.
I work for a small ISV that resells Dell systems. I have seen a serious decline in the quality of the new systems that we receive. Two of twelve new Dell Precision 380s we received last week have died. One from a failed Seagate drive and the other due to a bad motherboard. We are in a rural area and pay handsomely for next business day service. The drive was no problem unless you consider that the replacement that I received was refurbished and I had to reinstall the OS. I got a call from the contract service provider the day that the motherboard was supposed to be replaced (Friday) saying that they couldn't make it until the following business day. When I reported this to Dell the call was supposedly escalated but I never received a call back and now the repair is scheduled for tomorrow instead of today. So I guess they showed me who was boss. What they don't know is that I'm going to start evaluating HP and other venders for our future systems.
Getting a Classified clearance is tough. Getting higher clearances is at least an order of magnitude tougher. There is great demand for persons that hold clearances because much of the required paperwork is already done. From this it can be construed that there is a shortage of persons with the required clearances. From this it can be deduced that more of the information that is FOUO and Sensitive would be classified if more of the required personel were available.
This system sounds remarkably like one I saw at the San Diego Sea World twenty years ago. In the Sea World system a sun tracking solar collector was used to focus sunlight on a fiber optic bundle that piped light too exhibits inside a building.
Back in the '80s when the Macintosh was first introduced I knew a psychologist that claimed that subjects using the Macintosh interface exhibited more coherent brain functioning than subjects using the PC interface. This was probably pre Windows though.
I worked in a neurophysiology lab in the 1980s and when we were doing EEG we would get artifacts that we traced to pre speech nerve stimulus to the throat muscles. I don't think we documented this finding but I know we discussed the idea of attaching more specifically located sensors and seeing if we could decode prespeech thoughts. I couldn't get the lab director interested so the idea went nowhere. It should be noted that the computing power required to do the analysis in real time wasn't available at that time in any reasonably wearable form factor.
Since SCO filed their suit millions of hours of Linux development time has been wasted reading about and commenting on the SCO suit.
The current (8/20/2003) exchange rate is 118.015 yen to the dollar.
Shirt pocket form factor
Human Interface: Stylish eyeware like direct retinal projector for display with integrated hi-res video camera for capture of environment and behind the ear bone conduction audio and neural sensors for subvocal interaction with a cadre of agents.
Skins like configuration of world viewed for work/play/entertainment/education/communications.
* CPU: 200GHz 256 bit, 1 GWord (GW)data and instruction cache
* Main Memory = 256 GB
* Other Storage = 20 TB with 2 TB removable (IBM MIMS are what I have in mind)
All interconnections are wireless, Nightly backup might be handled by optical interconnection with house server and/or off site archive.
Power = Fuel Cell good for a minimum of 24 hrs between refuelings. Wall wart power also.
The user interface should read my mind or at least allow me to subvocalize ie think the interactions I want with an agent.
The Science of Being and the Art of Living
by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Also his commentary on the first 6 chapters of the Bhagavad Gita.
In 1999 the company I worked for closed the local office and offered me a job at another location. After considering the offer including the 20% raise in pay I declined. A couple of weeks after the closure I got a call asking if I would help train the new manager. I submitted a proposal outlining my terms including hourly rate, daily rate, retainer rate, mileage charges, etc. After everything was said and done I provided consulting services to the company for over two years and earned nearly as much as I had as a full time employee for far fewer hours.
The results you get will depend upon the perceived value of your services and your professionalism. I would ignore any assumption that work be performed for free. Simply state when asked to perform a service that you would be glad to provide the services for a fee. Name an amount or an hourly rate that you think is reasonable. Also make sure that any requests for work are approved at the proper level of authority.
Remember if you don't value the services you provide, no one else is going to.
A Reasonable Settlement for Conviction of Monopoly Practices: All of Microsoft's code base and IP becomes open source and public domain up to the date of the settlement. All non-compete contracts that Microsoft holds with current and former employees become null and void. In other words: take away their monopoly.
This site: http://www.eluminant.com/atm0.htm provides an overview of a last mile fiber product being offered by an NEC venture, eluminant.
Often science fiction writers are scientists that use the vision inspired by their research to write science fiction that goes where current technology and art can't. These writers are part of what is sometimes called the "Hard Science Fiction" school. Many stories from these writers are short so they never make it into book length publications but are captured in the Pulp Fiction magazines Asimov and Analog. These magazines also mix hard science articals with their fiction offerings providing an environment for cross pollination.