Not only wouldn't you have had to re learn a new language every 3 years, every time the current fashions changed, you still wouldn't have to learn a new language to exploit massively parallel systems.
that converting chemical energy to heat, then to movement, then to electricity, then to hydrogen, then to electricity, then to movement might not be the be turning out to be such a great idea after all...
It always makes my blood boil to see how much money is funneled into sporting events such as the olympics without flinching, while at the same time public research, schools, etc..., people of real value to society, have to cry and beg for resources...
You see, money is created from nothing. There is an infinite supply of money, it however doesn't grow on trees, someone has to go to the laborious task of typing the numbers into a computer. Or writing them into a book.
Bankers can get as much money as they like, they just pay the politicians a little bit up front and the politicians pay them back... Well, we're well into the trillions now.
I went to a reading here in Berlin
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I found the first third perhaps a little slow going,
and he pretty much said exactly that himself. The first 150 pages are almost painful, but it does get better towards the end.
The whole reason the ECONOMY is in the tank is because there are not enough people like you taking loans out against their house to buy random stuff like this.
For, all of the top people in an administration, do:
Find out who they worked for. Then find out who owns or runs that organisation. Draw lines between the names to represent associations. Then simply count the number of associations each of the names gets.
For example. The shiny new Timothy Geithner worked for:
Kissinger Associates -> Which is a member of Council of the Americas -> Which was set up by David Rockefeller.
or...
he's a member of the: Council on Foreign Relations -> which David Rockefeller was a director of.
After you do that a few times with different people on both the democrats and republican sides, you find a small set of names start racking up larger numbers of associations with people in the administrations. The more "hits" they have, the more influence they are likely to have with that government.
You'll start to see the nature of the real politics going on. The political parties are just a sideshow.
"Our Mission Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense."
Very simply, I don't because they don't exist. There are groups of delusional youths running sucking blood calling themselves vampires but they are no more vampires than I am.
yah yah yah. The concepts exist though, have done for centuries and the concept of soul is not the same as the concept of consciousness. It never has been. It may be closer to the concepts of personality, or humanity.
If in our culture, the soul was a synonym for consciousness, the loss of one's soul or the lack of a soul would require the lack of or loss of consciousness...
Yes, it is a pain to set up, but once there, you can scale from a workgroup to global filesystem. That is, you'll need a dozen AFS admins compared to 100 CIFS admins in a large organisation. Not only that, with a global filesystem the amount of duplicated data drastically falls, and with that goes storage costs.
One of the problems we are going to face Real Soon, is "Peak Oil". Another is funnily enough "Peak Soil"[1] and yet another is too much CO2 in the atmosphere.
A plasma turns everything into the basic element and from there to the lowest energy state, so yeah we get plenty of energy out, but it doesn't help so much with peak oil, peak earth or too much co2 in the atmosphere.
Some of the benefits of pyrolysis however: 1: Energy is produced. 2: Liquid fuels can be produced for transport. 3: Biochar/Agrichar byproducts can be used to improve agricultural soils.
The biochar byproduct can make the process carbon negative.
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Not only wouldn't you have had to re learn a new language every 3 years, every time the current fashions changed, you still wouldn't have to learn a new language to exploit massively parallel systems.
Perl,
tcl
python
python3000
ruby
lua
etc etc add your pet language here
And updating scripts and applications to new, incompatible versions?... It's busy work.
The same could be said for programmers. Most of which is similarly plumbing.
Sounds crazy, but it works.
Evidently...
that converting chemical energy to heat, then to movement, then to electricity, then to hydrogen, then to electricity, then to movement might not be the be turning out to be such a great idea after all...
It always makes my blood boil to see how much money is funneled into sporting events such as the olympics without flinching, while at the same time public research, schools, etc..., people of real value to society, have to cry and beg for resources...
You see, money is created from nothing. There is an infinite supply of money, it however doesn't grow on trees, someone has to go to the laborious task of typing the numbers into a computer. Or writing them into a book.
Bankers can get as much money as they like, they just pay the politicians a little bit up front and the politicians pay them back... Well, we're well into the trillions now.
I found the first third perhaps a little slow going,
and he pretty much said exactly that himself. The first 150 pages are almost painful, but it does get better towards the end.
And then there is the whole "ECONOMY" thing.
The whole reason the ECONOMY is in the tank is because there are not enough people like you taking loans out against their house to buy random stuff like this.
Basically... IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!
It's simple. Here's how to play.
For, all of the top people in an administration, do:
Find out who they worked for. Then find out who owns or runs that organisation. Draw lines between the names to represent associations. Then simply count the number of associations each of the names gets.
For example. The shiny new Timothy Geithner worked for:
Kissinger Associates -> Which is a member of Council of the Americas -> Which was set up by David Rockefeller.
or ...
he's a member of the:
Council on Foreign Relations -> which David Rockefeller was a director of.
After you do that a few times with different people on both the democrats and republican sides, you find a small set of names start racking up larger numbers of associations with people in the administrations. The more "hits" they have, the more influence they are likely to have with that government.
You'll start to see the nature of the real politics going on. The political parties are just a sideshow.
They'll escalate it from there.
From TFA:
"says Larry Wortzel, chairman of the commission"
Larry Wortzel was:
http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/larrywortzel.cfm
who are:
http://www.heritage.org/about/
"Our Mission
Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense."
Yah got to have a bogeyman.
This is propaganda. It's simply preparing the public for adding China to the Axis of Evil, erecting trade barriers etc.
America is sending all of it's wealth to China anyway and is happily enslaving future generations to chinese investors.
"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." Sun Tsu. 2500 years ago so.
Very simply, I don't because they don't exist. There are groups of delusional youths running sucking blood calling themselves vampires but they are no more vampires than I am.
yah yah yah. The concepts exist though, have done for centuries and the concept of soul is not the same as the concept of consciousness. It never has been. It may be closer to the concepts of personality, or humanity.
Vampires and demons and other nasties?
If in our culture, the soul was a synonym for consciousness, the loss of one's soul or the lack of a soul would require the lack of or loss of consciousness...
in silicon...
How much energy would be required? Our brains run on about 20 Watts.
Who on earth would need a 5GHz CPU on the desktop?
And annihilate it quickly.
Yes, it is a pain to set up, but once there, you can scale from a workgroup to global filesystem. That is, you'll need a dozen AFS admins compared to 100 CIFS admins in a large organisation. Not only that, with a global filesystem the amount of duplicated data drastically falls, and with that goes storage costs.
Killer app.
Slow, but better than standalone.
If it came in a reasonable colour I'd have one.
In fact. Ebay is a great source of books, and once read, it's a great way to get rid of them. The same for CDs and DVDs.
I guess there are going to be a lot of highly successful World of Warcraft experts in society.
Do you think the Chinese will take a trillion in WOW gold instead of US dollars?
400,000 dollars is peanuts... There are millions of much dumber people out there.
One of the problems we are going to face Real Soon, is "Peak Oil". Another is funnily enough "Peak Soil"[1] and yet another is too much CO2 in the atmosphere.
A plasma turns everything into the basic element and from there to the lowest energy state, so yeah we get plenty of energy out, but it doesn't help so much with peak oil, peak earth or too much co2 in the atmosphere.
Some of the benefits of pyrolysis however:
1: Energy is produced.
2: Liquid fuels can be produced for transport.
3: Biochar/Agrichar byproducts can be used to improve agricultural soils.
The biochar byproduct can make the process carbon negative.
[1] Degradation of agricultural soils.
Why systems keep failing, buildings keep costing hundreds of millions more than estimated...
It's like 700 million's worth of protection for corruption, incompetence, nepotism etc etc etc.
http://internationalcashday.webs.com/