I'm not a big fan of java, but come on... Java is *everywhere* from a phone in your pocket to the mainframe in the datacenter, including windows, and.Net is nothing but Windows.
Vanished. The art of making it was lost. In fact the ores they mined contained vanadium and when those were exhausted, the "art" was lost. Roman concrete, the same. You need the raw material to make the stuff. Not everyone has a volcano in their back yard and when trade collapsed with the empire, there wouldn't be any of the stuff around.
Why are we still choosing and typing in passwords? Replace the password repo with a key repo. The site should generate a large random password for each user. We could do it with the password fields now. Simply automatically generate a big (100 character), secure password when someone applies for an account and get them to cut/paste it into the password field, the browser will automatically cache it. The user never has to see it again. Hell, I bet javascript could even do it automatically.
keypass safes/password wallets are far more secure than having the same username/password everywhere.
Government creates money for the economy by selling bonds to the banks. The banks, buy bonds (with interest) using credit created from nothing, give the credit to the government and the government spends it into the economy.
The debt grows due to the interest and the government taxes people to pay the debt, shrinking the amount of money in the economy. This causes a recession.
Meanwhile the banks are also creating new credit and interest bearing debt (again, from nothing) for the people in the economy. The people take on a load of debt, get the credit, start spending the credit and everything is hunky dory. Then as the debt is paid off, the amount of credit in the economy decreases, again, causing or adding to the recession.
Well, if the banks have been particularly busy and gotten really big bonuses, there is a lot of debt out there and as the money decreases and people can't pay, the banks get to foreclose on any businesses or individuals who can't make the payments. The thing about banks is, they are all technically insolvent, all of the time. This is why it's possible to bring a bank down simply by going and taking your money out. So they foreclose more and more, more debt is paid off, less and less credit is available in the economy, accelerating the recession until it looks like the banks are in big trouble.
In steps the white knight. The government will save you! They will take on the (now) bad loans and the bankers can get their money that way. The government goes to their bankers, they take on lots and lots more debt (With Ts now because a B just wasn't big enough)(created from nothing, with interest to be paid), and pay the bankers for their bad loans.
Of course your average person (i.e. you) has an attention span of about a week, and your typical politician, a fraction of that, so the next time the government numbers are published, there is SHOCK, HORROR I tell you ! Look how much in debt we are! OH My god, SOMETHING MUST BE DONE! The deficit must be REDUCED! Not eliminated, mind you. Only REDUCED.
So the private bad loans are translated directly into lots of government debt and then cuts in government spending. All is right with the world, the system was saved, the bankers got their bonuses. Phew, that was close, Aston Martins are getting sooo expensive.
But unless people have failed to notice, europe(and the UK along with it) is in some pretty bad financial straights.
Europe is in exactly the same position as the USA, i.e. no danger. In each of the regions there is a central bank which absolutely will print money until the currency isn't worth the paper it is printed on. America has it markedly easier because they have the world reserve currency. i.e. They can tax the entire planet to pay their debts using debased paper.
The financial system (as it stands today) is parasitic, and the bankers are parasites. There is a reason for my sig, and it pertains to bankers.
I am not alone in enjoying my own private personalized micro-environment while being transported
Unfortunately, I think you'll find yourself replaced by someone cheaper who pays $3 per day to be driven to and from work using an autonomous cab vs your 50k capital expense and ongoing finance servicing.
Existing mass transit is group based and suffers some significant disadvantages vs cars and so people who make use of public transport today; cabs, buses, trains, also suffer those disadvantages. With autonomous cabs, those disadvantages go away.
Cabs are also not economical in many suburban or rural areas as the fuel cost is amortized among too few clients (with possibly many miles of empty transportation between them).
That is only because so many people have cars. When they don't need to own one, because a low cost cab will pick them up at a call, there will be many more clients.
Not everyone can afford to blow $80+ just to get to and from their night out.
Question: Why does a cab cost $80? Answer: The driver.
If you have cars which can drive themselves. No driver required. Therefore, much cheaper cabs.
You only have business running costs, repairs, fuel. no driver.
ok. so you've just blown $50k on a new personal autonomous car. What are you going to do with it? Put it in the garage all day while you work? It cost 50k, you bought it on credit, you are paying for finance. Its autonomous, it can drive itself it doesn't need to sit in a garage all day. It can carry passengers while you are at work and pay for itself.
So there you have it. When the autonomous car arrives, it'll end up as a taxi cab. It'll put the existing cabbies out of business, and the concept of personally owning a car will also go out of the window (This will also kill the mass market for cars entirely). Why spend 50k on a personal autonomous car at all? Cabs are now cheap and will pick you up at the door.
That farmers have to pay to have hives driven round because they liberally spray insecticides which wipe out local populations of native insects, including bees.
Anyone who stays more than 3 years in a position is going to be very much left behind and facing increasing inflation in housing prices, cars, and eventually the basics as well.
nat is here to stay . Firewalls, load balancers, port forwarding,internal and external networks,internal and external dns are all permanent features . ipv6 and ipv4 . Ip routing is dead long live the port forward . The internet has been found to be insecure . Anyone who thinks ipv6 will bring back routing is a fool .
Basic financial management for governments is no different from financial management for individuals: first, earn a productive income (i.e. not stolen from others); second, maintain your capital investments (needs); third, plan for the future (pay down debts, save & invest); fourth, consume (satisfy wants). Taxes are a symptom of failing the first step. Debt and degrading infrastructure are symptoms of erroneously prioritizing consumption.
This would be true if our money was not debt based and inflating in double digits every year.
After all, mining coal, burning it for energy creating CO2, reclaiming the CO2 in trees, converting the trees *back* into coal and dumping the coal back in the ground is crazy: might as well just skip the coal step.
It depends whether you see the point as carbon sequestration or energy generation. For pure energy generation you'd be right, though there are faster growing weeds which generate more biomass than trees.
If you think current CO2 levels are a problem then this is an energy positive way of sequestering carbon. Course it isn't economically viable unless you see CO2 as a problem and are willing to make producers pay for the damage being done.
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Freemind for organising and planning things.
tiddlywiki for random useful information I've come across.
As to remembering. I don't, I have delegated that process to other people.
Called "auto start stop".
http://www.bmw.com/com/en/insights/technology/efficient_dynamics/phase_2/technologies/auto_start_stop.html
I don't see too many reasons why they wouldn't be able to apply similar technology to this Mazda.
I do.
I believe the N900 is soon to be discontinued.
You realise they make new phones every year. Today the N900, tomorrow the N901, or whatever it'll be called.
It's basically a Debian box with phone functionality.
Add blue tooth keyboard & mouse, plug the video out into a decent monitor and I'm not even sure you need a desktop or laptop.
Java = yes .Net = no
I'm not a big fan of java, but come on... Java is *everywhere* from a phone in your pocket to the mainframe in the datacenter, including windows, and .Net is nothing but Windows.
Really, it's a no contest/brainer.
Vanished. The art of making it was lost. In fact the ores they mined contained vanadium and when those were exhausted, the "art" was lost. Roman concrete, the same. You need the raw material to make the stuff. Not everyone has a volcano in their back yard and when trade collapsed with the empire, there wouldn't be any of the stuff around.
I'm sure it'd be great. It could document the rise of great civilisations based on the advancements they make.
Why are we still choosing and typing in passwords? Replace the password repo with a key repo. The site should generate a large random password for each user. We could do it with the password fields now. Simply automatically generate a big (100 character), secure password when someone applies for an account and get them to cut/paste it into the password field, the browser will automatically cache it. The user never has to see it again. Hell, I bet javascript could even do it automatically.
keypass safes/password wallets are far more secure than having the same username/password everywhere.
chess is politics, not warfare .
It's now rare to have a debate amongst subject-matter experts,
LOL.
and more common to have arguments between the ill-informed.
As it has always been.
OK. Here's (approximately) how it works.
Government creates money for the economy by selling bonds to the banks. The banks, buy bonds (with interest) using credit created from nothing, give the credit to the government and the government spends it into the economy.
The debt grows due to the interest and the government taxes people to pay the debt, shrinking the amount of money in the economy. This causes a recession.
Meanwhile the banks are also creating new credit and interest bearing debt (again, from nothing) for the people in the economy. The people take on a load of debt, get the credit, start spending the credit and everything is hunky dory. Then as the debt is paid off, the amount of credit in the economy decreases, again, causing or adding to the recession.
Well, if the banks have been particularly busy and gotten really big bonuses, there is a lot of debt out there and as the money decreases and people can't pay, the banks get to foreclose on any businesses or individuals who can't make the payments. The thing about banks is, they are all technically insolvent, all of the time. This is why it's possible to bring a bank down simply by going and taking your money out. So they foreclose more and more, more debt is paid off, less and less credit is available in the economy, accelerating the recession until it looks like the banks are in big trouble.
In steps the white knight. The government will save you! They will take on the (now) bad loans and the bankers can get their money that way. The government goes to their bankers, they take on lots and lots more debt (With Ts now because a B just wasn't big enough)(created from nothing, with interest to be paid), and pay the bankers for their bad loans.
Of course your average person (i.e. you) has an attention span of about a week, and your typical politician, a fraction of that, so the next time the government numbers are published, there is SHOCK, HORROR I tell you ! Look how much in debt we are! OH My god, SOMETHING MUST BE DONE! The deficit must be REDUCED! Not eliminated, mind you. Only REDUCED.
So the private bad loans are translated directly into lots of government debt and then cuts in government spending. All is right with the world, the system was saved, the bankers got their bonuses. Phew, that was close, Aston Martins are getting sooo expensive.
But unless people have failed to notice, europe(and the UK along with it) is in some pretty bad financial straights.
Europe is in exactly the same position as the USA, i.e. no danger. In each of the regions there is a central bank which absolutely will print money until the currency isn't worth the paper it is printed on. America has it markedly easier because they have the world reserve currency. i.e. They can tax the entire planet to pay their debts using debased paper.
The financial system (as it stands today) is parasitic, and the bankers are parasites. There is a reason for my sig, and it pertains to bankers.
I am not alone in enjoying my own private personalized micro-environment while being transported
Unfortunately, I think you'll find yourself replaced by someone cheaper who pays $3 per day to be driven to and from work using an autonomous cab vs your 50k capital expense and ongoing finance servicing.
Existing mass transit is group based and suffers some significant disadvantages vs cars and so people who make use of public transport today; cabs, buses, trains, also suffer those disadvantages. With autonomous cabs, those disadvantages go away.
Cabs are also not economical in many suburban or rural areas as the fuel cost is amortized among too few clients (with possibly many miles of empty transportation between them).
That is only because so many people have cars. When they don't need to own one, because a low cost cab will pick them up at a call, there will be many more clients.
There's a fundamental mathematical difference between all forms of group transport and all forms of individual transport.
And these US cities have no cabs?
Not everyone can afford to blow $80+ just to get to and from their night out.
Question: Why does a cab cost $80?
Answer: The driver.
If you have cars which can drive themselves. No driver required. Therefore, much cheaper cabs.
You only have business running costs, repairs, fuel. no driver.
ok. so you've just blown $50k on a new personal autonomous car. What are you going to do with it? Put it in the garage all day while you work? It cost 50k, you bought it on credit, you are paying for finance. Its autonomous, it can drive itself it doesn't need to sit in a garage all day. It can carry passengers while you are at work and pay for itself.
So there you have it. When the autonomous car arrives, it'll end up as a taxi cab. It'll put the existing cabbies out of business, and the concept of personally owning a car will also go out of the window (This will also kill the mass market for cars entirely). Why spend 50k on a personal autonomous car at all? Cabs are now cheap and will pick you up at the door.
That farmers have to pay to have hives driven round because they liberally spray insecticides which wipe out local populations of native insects, including bees.
a german company which planned something similar in the nineties . They ran out of money when germany went into recession.
Mobile phones are coming with HDTV built in now. You plug it into your TV & audio system and play your media on a big screen.
Add a bluetooth keyboard and mouse as well and you've got a personal do everything computer in your pocket. Plus it makes phone calls.
e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLJsPpNcEig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AZh1X2Vj_0
Anyone who stays more than 3 years in a position is going to be very much left behind and facing increasing inflation in housing prices, cars, and eventually the basics as well.
nat is here to stay . Firewalls, load balancers, port forwarding ,internal and external networks ,internal and external dns are all permanent features . ipv6 and ipv4 . Ip routing is dead long live the port forward . The internet has been found to be insecure . Anyone who thinks ipv6 will bring back routing is a fool .
DUH. Obviously he's a terrorist.
Basic financial management for governments is no different from financial management for individuals: first, earn a productive income (i.e. not stolen from others); second, maintain your capital investments (needs); third, plan for the future (pay down debts, save & invest); fourth, consume (satisfy wants). Taxes are a symptom of failing the first step. Debt and degrading infrastructure are symptoms of erroneously prioritizing consumption.
This would be true if our money was not debt based and inflating in double digits every year.
baysian classifiers can do a good job on emails. Why not on web pages ? The index entry could be tagged with adult , pharmaceutical etc .
After all, mining coal, burning it for energy creating CO2, reclaiming the CO2 in trees, converting the trees *back* into coal and dumping the coal back in the ground is crazy: might as well just skip the coal step.
It depends whether you see the point as carbon sequestration or energy generation. For pure energy generation you'd be right, though there are faster growing weeds which generate more biomass than trees.
If you think current CO2 levels are a problem then this is an energy positive way of sequestering carbon. Course it isn't economically viable unless you see CO2 as a problem and are willing to make producers pay for the damage being done.
And form charcoal, which is mostly inedible.
Google "Terra preta".