Seeing so much information at once and in such a state of spin these days, i could see this leading to more anxiety. I'm also willing to bet that people who use multiple sources of media spend sometimes inordinately long amounts of time on them. We've seen what fury the current propaganda machines can whip up over the last year alone...so it's no surprise really. It's exactly why i can't watch TV anymore...because it just really pisses me off to no end...i can read it on the net...where i can pick and choose my news with no serious considerations, but watching what passes for news really gets to me these days...along with how many people are either believing it outright, or by proxy, by giving it a legitimate discussion.
Then there is Social Media...take facebook for example...people go on there to tell the world and show them all how wonderful their lives are...but in actuality these days is easily comparable to talking to an empty room...and with so many people 'fishing' for activity on social media to help them define who they are, when there isn't much interest in anything that they post...over time, that can get to a person with insecurities of one thing or another...then try to put the two together...I've had to take many friends out of my feed over the last election...because i couldn't stand watching otherwise intelligent people be so consumed with such drivel as if it were all true...reciting the talking points as if they were real and had actual meaning...the only thing it's showing me is how much underlying stupidity, selfishness and bigotry that still runs rampant in our 'modern society'...
Well...i guess that wikipedia didn't help you with terms that you don't like...here...lemme help you...anything that resonates can create oscillations that lead to amplification...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance
you seem to be lacking on the data here...but thanks for your attempt at looking smart!
Tesla's main secret with most of his work was harmonic resonance. The Tesla coil is a resonant coil, and his studies were clear that resonance would increase the distance that wireless transmissions could occur. One of his experiments used this very concept, and caused some damage to a power plant in Colorado Springs...resonating and amplifying the electricity collected from the earth moving through it's own atmosphere and discharging it into the ground in such quantities that it burned out a dynamo at the local power plant...
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_colspr.html
given a signal at the source/collector + signal at gate/base = close circuit from source/collector to drain/emitter.
This is exactly what I am speaking of...and is seen in intruding in many different parts of our perceptive realities...such things like 'because the neolithic stone builders were alive many thousands of years ago...our first assumption is that they were not as intelligent as us...couldn't possibly be...'
In the thread of the transistor/groups you used as an example, one synaptic connection 'can't run the whole human body' yet it's been proven many times, that each has the potential to do so, should it need to step in due to damage, loss etc.
While properties do emerge from complex systems, i do think it's stretching it to assume that the building blocks can't do the functions that they specifically contain the rules to build things to do...even in the 'building' process, they have to know when they've finished one and must add instructions to begin another. Multiplication and Division are only simplified versions of more complex Addition and Subtraction...
I'm constantly bewildered by the inclination of humans to assign, for various reasons, less than extraordinary capabilities (such as 'not possible to do arithmetic') to such faculties of our bodies that run things like intercellular communication and maintain proper heartbeats and fuel/oxygen mix ratios etc. Why would the framework (the thing that contains all the rules) be something less than that which it produced? SMH...
Now if we could begin to look at the sum total of processes as being derivations of both unconscious as well as subconscious, perhaps we could see that the end points are only small parts of the whole to which we could be *shrugs* 'using' should we acknowledge it's existence and learn to work with it as well...i've seen Freud mentioned in a couple comments...unification of the Id, Ego and Superego, by preventing one from looking down on the others...
What I would do personally is make your own system on the D/L, call it 'making a backup'...or some such...work at home...out of the office...there are entire pages of content management systems out there you can run right on your desktop or to a server...call it 'administrative upgrade'...if you're that worried about your system now, believe me, in the world of data management...it's best to CYOA.
Most hearing aids are prolly paid for with health care...and as long as heathcare charges $99 for a paper packet of Tylenol, and get's $4000 a month for my meds for HIV...why would they want to make a cheaper one?
Facebook's sponsored links are no better these days...wrapping you around multiple malware sites for the illusion of free tickets to Dark Knight Rises...takes less than two clicks to find either boobs or 'three of these offers must be completed plus five subsequent offers but never'...
Imagine that...people believing everything they read on the internet...
Or how i purchased a Hulu account with some thought that it would reduce the number of commercials...which actually increased (i apparently only purchased the ability to watch on my PS3????)
Telling people that others will like them if they pay money...SMH
Well then...I guess we should just let it die, since it's too 'out of the ordinary' or 'impractical' or 'not possible'...too 'inside the box' to do anything about...we should just let it die. I'll bet that Tesla will be turning in his grave...
You have a different view of 'carving out a niche' than I do, seeing just the possibilities of science in the last two days, profit is not far off to be had. But if you're always trying to sell pictures to the internet...you'll go broke. I'm well aware that none of these things are going to happen...the point I was making was a 'hopeful' idealistic look into alternatives...simple alternatives with numbers to be used as examples. If this were one of my businesses, I would stop only using this telescope for just looking into space...renting out time to look into space...find a practical use for it...engineer a new use for it...take the existing and make it better. If i had access to a visible light telescope that had been decommissioned/closed, it would immediately become a giant experiment in solar power and energy for me...on many different levels and scales...you know, in case I wanted to point it right at the sun...try to ring some crystalline structures with the wavelengths of light...add in the new much more efficient solar cells or a silo of molten salt...and voila...no need for 400 mirrors in the desert to create power...just a rather cloudless day. When you maintain the paradigm, the paradigm will maintain...
No, I don't 'create money out of thin air'...actually i've done grant work...and i've browsed through the list of charities and foundations out there...along with their available assets...some funds contain upwards of $600 million dollars...and that was only in Washington State...
I've also suggested sacrificing the purchase of an additional aircraft carrier (~$4.5B for the Nimitz) next year seeing as how many we already have in the water...which would free up about 450 years worth of funding for this telescope...
And what type of bottom lines are we talking...mining asteroids...tourist industry...moon bases...exploration or elections? If you only try to make money with what the market currently has to offer, then there will be no new markets. Bottom lines are 'niches' that have to be carved out of the existing economic landscape...people often mistake cheap/easy with lazy/efficient...
Counting the number of active Carrier Class or above ships our navy has in the water at any given point in time? I'm thinking we'll be fine if we don't buy 10 more next year...and that should run the telescope at $10M/year for ~450 years per vessel that we don't build costing upwards of $4.5B (The Nimitz) a piece...
jes my.02 cents...
I did some grant work when I lived in Seattle...out of the thousands of grant companies I browsed through in just the state of Washington, I found a fund who dumped large amounts of money into 'childhood obesity, youth leadership' and something else related to Parkour...
this fund...$685,000,000...just sits in the state of washington waiting for reasonable applications to give the money away...
It's not like the money is not out there...it's just not a priority anymore...not since we found out how unlikely it would be for Russia to build a missile site on the moon. When Space was semi-attached to the war machine for those few years...well, that was the 'Golden Age' of space...
I heard an article on NPR several years ago...where a group of economists finally came to the conclusion that you MUST include 'animal behavior' into the economic outlooks...because people do not always make the logical/rational choice with their money...
I responded..."Well Duh!!!"
The saying is..."25000 + contracts going to the Lowest Bidder to build the space shuttle"
A) that doesn't make me want to ride in it
B) is kinda undercutting private enterprise who 'in an ideal situation' would be interested in making the equipment as good as possible...to make the Best piece of machinery for the intended goals...
and let's not forget...
C) all the gov't contracts are going to 'good ole boys'...again undercutting other companies who may have better solutions (sometimes more expensive) to problems (such as the 'bigger, heavier, hotter' paradigm that plagues the world these days)
D) most of the 'underfunding' comes from other people's desires to spend more on the 'war machine' or other 'security' projects instead of say 'exploration of space'...
Personally, i figure if there were less strings on the money they did get...perhaps we could approach things from a 'non-brute force' standpoint...such as leaving the atmosphere...
When one's goal is to produce a good product rather than get re-elected...well then they're trying to show off with their equipment...not just put a face on for a corner office in Congress...
I'm hoping we are learning to take science (particularly space in this case) out of the 'gov't' sector...if this telescope was privately funded, they wouldn't have to be dealing with partisan crap based on ideological 'budgets'...politics...but that's the price for receiving 'public funding'...*shrugs*
I'm aware of it's success, but that does not change the fact that it's a list...available to any who 'could/would' access it. A list of people who want their privacy...you know, the same way that NOT having a facebook makes you suspect these days...*shrugs*
Slashdot Mirror
Some US Citizens elect the government...some refuse to play that game and be a part of the problem...*points finger at self*
Seeing so much information at once and in such a state of spin these days, i could see this leading to more anxiety. I'm also willing to bet that people who use multiple sources of media spend sometimes inordinately long amounts of time on them. We've seen what fury the current propaganda machines can whip up over the last year alone...so it's no surprise really. It's exactly why i can't watch TV anymore...because it just really pisses me off to no end...i can read it on the net...where i can pick and choose my news with no serious considerations, but watching what passes for news really gets to me these days...along with how many people are either believing it outright, or by proxy, by giving it a legitimate discussion. Then there is Social Media...take facebook for example...people go on there to tell the world and show them all how wonderful their lives are...but in actuality these days is easily comparable to talking to an empty room...and with so many people 'fishing' for activity on social media to help them define who they are, when there isn't much interest in anything that they post...over time, that can get to a person with insecurities of one thing or another...then try to put the two together...I've had to take many friends out of my feed over the last election...because i couldn't stand watching otherwise intelligent people be so consumed with such drivel as if it were all true...reciting the talking points as if they were real and had actual meaning...the only thing it's showing me is how much underlying stupidity, selfishness and bigotry that still runs rampant in our 'modern society'...
Well...i guess that wikipedia didn't help you with terms that you don't like...here...lemme help you...anything that resonates can create oscillations that lead to amplification... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance you seem to be lacking on the data here...but thanks for your attempt at looking smart!
Tesla's main secret with most of his work was harmonic resonance. The Tesla coil is a resonant coil, and his studies were clear that resonance would increase the distance that wireless transmissions could occur. One of his experiments used this very concept, and caused some damage to a power plant in Colorado Springs...resonating and amplifying the electricity collected from the earth moving through it's own atmosphere and discharging it into the ground in such quantities that it burned out a dynamo at the local power plant... http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_colspr.html
given a signal at the source/collector + signal at gate/base = close circuit from source/collector to drain/emitter. This is exactly what I am speaking of...and is seen in intruding in many different parts of our perceptive realities...such things like 'because the neolithic stone builders were alive many thousands of years ago...our first assumption is that they were not as intelligent as us...couldn't possibly be...' In the thread of the transistor/groups you used as an example, one synaptic connection 'can't run the whole human body' yet it's been proven many times, that each has the potential to do so, should it need to step in due to damage, loss etc. While properties do emerge from complex systems, i do think it's stretching it to assume that the building blocks can't do the functions that they specifically contain the rules to build things to do...even in the 'building' process, they have to know when they've finished one and must add instructions to begin another. Multiplication and Division are only simplified versions of more complex Addition and Subtraction...
I'm constantly bewildered by the inclination of humans to assign, for various reasons, less than extraordinary capabilities (such as 'not possible to do arithmetic') to such faculties of our bodies that run things like intercellular communication and maintain proper heartbeats and fuel/oxygen mix ratios etc. Why would the framework (the thing that contains all the rules) be something less than that which it produced? SMH... Now if we could begin to look at the sum total of processes as being derivations of both unconscious as well as subconscious, perhaps we could see that the end points are only small parts of the whole to which we could be *shrugs* 'using' should we acknowledge it's existence and learn to work with it as well...i've seen Freud mentioned in a couple comments...unification of the Id, Ego and Superego, by preventing one from looking down on the others...
What I would do personally is make your own system on the D/L, call it 'making a backup'...or some such...work at home...out of the office...there are entire pages of content management systems out there you can run right on your desktop or to a server...call it 'administrative upgrade'...if you're that worried about your system now, believe me, in the world of data management...it's best to CYOA.
Most hearing aids are prolly paid for with health care...and as long as heathcare charges $99 for a paper packet of Tylenol, and get's $4000 a month for my meds for HIV...why would they want to make a cheaper one?
Facebook's sponsored links are no better these days...wrapping you around multiple malware sites for the illusion of free tickets to Dark Knight Rises...takes less than two clicks to find either boobs or 'three of these offers must be completed plus five subsequent offers but never'... Imagine that...people believing everything they read on the internet... Or how i purchased a Hulu account with some thought that it would reduce the number of commercials...which actually increased (i apparently only purchased the ability to watch on my PS3????) Telling people that others will like them if they pay money...SMH
I remember the judge... http://lazytechguys.com/news/business/judge-for-google-and-oracle-case-is-also-a-programmer/
Here, you would be labeled an enemy of the state right off...Now if DARPA didn't have such a big hand in the facebook database...
First thing you're gonna have to do is ask your employees...there is no step two...
Well then...I guess we should just let it die, since it's too 'out of the ordinary' or 'impractical' or 'not possible'...too 'inside the box' to do anything about...we should just let it die. I'll bet that Tesla will be turning in his grave...
You have a different view of 'carving out a niche' than I do, seeing just the possibilities of science in the last two days, profit is not far off to be had. But if you're always trying to sell pictures to the internet...you'll go broke. I'm well aware that none of these things are going to happen...the point I was making was a 'hopeful' idealistic look into alternatives...simple alternatives with numbers to be used as examples. If this were one of my businesses, I would stop only using this telescope for just looking into space...renting out time to look into space...find a practical use for it...engineer a new use for it...take the existing and make it better. If i had access to a visible light telescope that had been decommissioned/closed, it would immediately become a giant experiment in solar power and energy for me...on many different levels and scales...you know, in case I wanted to point it right at the sun...try to ring some crystalline structures with the wavelengths of light...add in the new much more efficient solar cells or a silo of molten salt...and voila...no need for 400 mirrors in the desert to create power...just a rather cloudless day. When you maintain the paradigm, the paradigm will maintain...
No, I don't 'create money out of thin air'...actually i've done grant work...and i've browsed through the list of charities and foundations out there...along with their available assets...some funds contain upwards of $600 million dollars...and that was only in Washington State... I've also suggested sacrificing the purchase of an additional aircraft carrier (~$4.5B for the Nimitz) next year seeing as how many we already have in the water...which would free up about 450 years worth of funding for this telescope... And what type of bottom lines are we talking...mining asteroids...tourist industry...moon bases...exploration or elections? If you only try to make money with what the market currently has to offer, then there will be no new markets. Bottom lines are 'niches' that have to be carved out of the existing economic landscape...people often mistake cheap/easy with lazy/efficient...
Counting the number of active Carrier Class or above ships our navy has in the water at any given point in time? I'm thinking we'll be fine if we don't buy 10 more next year...and that should run the telescope at $10M/year for ~450 years per vessel that we don't build costing upwards of $4.5B (The Nimitz) a piece... jes my .02 cents...
I did some grant work when I lived in Seattle...out of the thousands of grant companies I browsed through in just the state of Washington, I found a fund who dumped large amounts of money into 'childhood obesity, youth leadership' and something else related to Parkour... this fund...$685,000,000...just sits in the state of washington waiting for reasonable applications to give the money away... It's not like the money is not out there...it's just not a priority anymore...not since we found out how unlikely it would be for Russia to build a missile site on the moon. When Space was semi-attached to the war machine for those few years...well, that was the 'Golden Age' of space...
I heard an article on NPR several years ago...where a group of economists finally came to the conclusion that you MUST include 'animal behavior' into the economic outlooks...because people do not always make the logical/rational choice with their money... I responded..."Well Duh!!!"
The saying is..."25000 + contracts going to the Lowest Bidder to build the space shuttle" A) that doesn't make me want to ride in it B) is kinda undercutting private enterprise who 'in an ideal situation' would be interested in making the equipment as good as possible...to make the Best piece of machinery for the intended goals... and let's not forget... C) all the gov't contracts are going to 'good ole boys'...again undercutting other companies who may have better solutions (sometimes more expensive) to problems (such as the 'bigger, heavier, hotter' paradigm that plagues the world these days) D) most of the 'underfunding' comes from other people's desires to spend more on the 'war machine' or other 'security' projects instead of say 'exploration of space'... Personally, i figure if there were less strings on the money they did get...perhaps we could approach things from a 'non-brute force' standpoint...such as leaving the atmosphere... When one's goal is to produce a good product rather than get re-elected...well then they're trying to show off with their equipment...not just put a face on for a corner office in Congress...
I'm hoping we are learning to take science (particularly space in this case) out of the 'gov't' sector...if this telescope was privately funded, they wouldn't have to be dealing with partisan crap based on ideological 'budgets'...politics...but that's the price for receiving 'public funding'...*shrugs*
When the church made the money, the church made the law...
I'm aware of it's success, but that does not change the fact that it's a list...available to any who 'could/would' access it. A list of people who want their privacy...you know, the same way that NOT having a facebook makes you suspect these days...*shrugs*
And I told them that all they are doing is adding their name to a list that someone can download and call...
Well how nice...i'm gonna need a 3D engine soon...right after i get the cluster put together...:D
I usually put a shot of whiskey in it to keep from spilling it...we from New Orleans do not waste alcohol...XD Also: Hail to Random Nature!