When the human race suddenly fails to reproduce, and the population gets down to say 1% of the current count, maybe then scientists would have a reason for doing this kind of research. Right now it sounds like making up a new way to get money from distressed people. The hard reality is if somebody is unable to reproduce, they should get a sympathy card and the offer to adopt.
Says the Greenpeacer who thinks that the human species is an infestation to be erased from the environment.
Congratulations on deciding not to have any children of your own. May your ideas die with you and not be transmitted to a new generation.
I think all of Seba's predictions could come to pass, but it's going to take more like a generation, rather than 8 years. First of all, road-ready self drive vehicles will have to be able to coexist with human drivers until the "manual drivers" are all off the road. This is a much harder problem than operating in an all self drive world.
It will also take time to build out the electric vehicle infrastructure and retire the massive gasoline/diesel distribution network. There will be a transitional period in which self drive cars are hybrids, rather than pure electrics.
Finally, a world of self drive will be a world in which cars will be much more up-front expensive than today, and therefore will be all owned by fleets and operated like Uber or Lyft. This will lead to replacing all that parking at places where people live, work, eat and shop with warehouse storage at places where it proves easiest to stage vehicles to end users. This will free up all that end-user parking for more construction in place of the old parking lots. Just by itself, resculpturing urban areas will take longer than 8 years.
On a Mac you say "print" and then "save as PDF"... nothing to edit.
That's just the way you create a PDF. What I'm talking about is the ability to, after PDFs have been created or downloaded, remove individual pages from one, copy and paste pages from other PDFs, write text on PDFs, and apply markups like circling a price or drawing arrows to text you want to emphasize. To do these things on a PC you have to buy a "Pro" version of the Acrobat add-on that costs hundreds of dollars.
NK has earned itself megatons of bad publicity by keeping South Korea at the edge of war for two generations, by kidnapping people at random off Asian beaches, and most recently by taking American hostages.
But now, with war threatening and their starvation problem not getting any better, NK may think it is doing us a favor by destroying Windows. It would be as if the last remnants of ISIS were to come up with a cure for Ebola.
Have they fixed PDF creation and editing in the release?
You mean the PDF editing that comes with the OS, rather than being an Adobe add-on that just displays PDF, has no editing facilities, and which still has to be updated every time you use it?
OR you could run a fundamentally safer operating system and don't run anything with a DMG extension unless you knowingly downloaded it from a known site.
The economy is a zero sum game, except for new technological developments that create new net wealth. Then the politicians have to wrangle over how those new spoils are divided. The new wealth eventually trickles down to us all.
In ancient times, tech breakthroughs happened occasionally and slowly (Bronze! Concrete aqueducts! Cutting for kidney stones! Transoceanic sailing ships! Potatoes and maize! Genetic engineering through hybridization!) Then the industrial revolution came along to speed up the rate at which tech added innovation to the economy, and politics became correspondingly more intense and chaotic.
"Riiiight. Launch a payload of intensely radioactive stuff with high environmental/biological mobility into space. What could possibly go wrong?"
RTGs are what we have already been using in space, for years, and plutonium-based. And yes, there have been launch accidents - and...nothing happened: http://listverse.com/2012/01/2...
The 14C battery being envisioned is a type of RTG that uses carbon-14 rather than plutonium, and whose output is electrons directly, not heat.
"Contact Us" feature that may have been used by some victims to communicate directly with the fraudsters...
So the agencies that supposedly can backdoor any electronics and trace all movements of data can't penetrate thise fragile Bitcoin exchanges or trace phone calls to the perps?
La Rance opened in 1966 and is still the only tidal installation in France.
The country's official power plan is to be 23% renewable by 2020. Half of this will be existing hydroelectric plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"This is just an opinion, which ignores some renewable not deployed in France yet, such as tidal energy."
France has already tried all that crap years ago (tidal at Rance, solar concentrators at Odéillo, pathetic little scatterings of wind turbines in other places). Then they went whole-hog nuclear and solved the carbon problem within their own country. Now it's just a matter of waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.
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When the human race suddenly fails to reproduce, and the population gets down to say 1% of the current count, maybe then scientists would have a reason for doing this kind of research.
Right now it sounds like making up a new way to get money from distressed people. The hard reality is if somebody is unable to reproduce, they should get a sympathy card and the offer to adopt.
Says the Greenpeacer who thinks that the human species is an infestation to be erased from the environment.
Congratulations on deciding not to have any children of your own. May your ideas die with you and not be transmitted to a new generation.
Oh man... the US patent system is beyond broken and useless...
How dare it grant patents to a company you don't like!
" I'm only 47, but I already vomit nearly every day and have constant diarrhea."
You seriously need to cut back on watching Rachel Maddow.
I think all of Seba's predictions could come to pass, but it's going to take more like a generation, rather than 8 years. First of all, road-ready self drive vehicles will have to be able to coexist with human drivers until the "manual drivers" are all off the road. This is a much harder problem than operating in an all self drive world.
It will also take time to build out the electric vehicle infrastructure and retire the massive gasoline/diesel distribution network. There will be a transitional period in which self drive cars are hybrids, rather than pure electrics.
Finally, a world of self drive will be a world in which cars will be much more up-front expensive than today, and therefore will be all owned by fleets and operated like Uber or Lyft. This will lead to replacing all that parking at places where people live, work, eat and shop with warehouse storage at places where it proves easiest to stage vehicles to end users. This will free up all that end-user parking for more construction in place of the old parking lots. Just by itself, resculpturing urban areas will take longer than 8 years.
On a Mac you say "print" and then "save as PDF" ... nothing to edit.
That's just the way you create a PDF. What I'm talking about is the ability to, after PDFs have been created or downloaded, remove individual pages from one, copy and paste pages from other PDFs, write text on PDFs, and apply markups like circling a price or drawing arrows to text you want to emphasize. To do these things on a PC you have to buy a "Pro" version of the Acrobat add-on that costs hundreds of dollars.
NK has earned itself megatons of bad publicity by keeping South Korea at the edge of war for two generations, by kidnapping people at random off Asian beaches, and most recently by taking American hostages.
But now, with war threatening and their starvation problem not getting any better, NK may think it is doing us a favor by destroying Windows. It would be as if the last remnants of ISIS were to come up with a cure for Ebola.
Have they fixed PDF creation and editing in the release?
You mean the PDF editing that comes with the OS, rather than being an Adobe add-on that just displays PDF, has no editing facilities, and which still has to be updated every time you use it?
But if you happen to still have a bound paper Chemical Rubber Handbook in your college attic box, your grandkids will think it's the Book of Kells.
At all costs, do not let United Airlines find out about this!
OR you could run a fundamentally safer operating system and don't run anything with a DMG extension unless you knowingly downloaded it from a known site.
Too many see the economy as a zero sum game.
The economy is a zero sum game, except for new technological developments that create new net wealth. Then the politicians have to wrangle over how those new spoils are divided. The new wealth eventually trickles down to us all.
In ancient times, tech breakthroughs happened occasionally and slowly (Bronze! Concrete aqueducts! Cutting for kidney stones! Transoceanic sailing ships! Potatoes and maize! Genetic engineering through hybridization!) Then the industrial revolution came along to speed up the rate at which tech added innovation to the economy, and politics became correspondingly more intense and chaotic.
"Riiiight. Launch a payload of intensely radioactive stuff with high environmental/biological mobility into space. What could possibly go wrong?"
RTGs are what we have already been using in space, for years, and plutonium-based. And yes, there have been launch accidents - and...nothing happened:
http://listverse.com/2012/01/2...
The 14C battery being envisioned is a type of RTG that uses carbon-14 rather than plutonium, and whose output is electrons directly, not heat.
Next Article: Britain is disconnected from the Internet to avoid all content they cannot control.
InterExit?
Wrong. You should always pay the ransom. It should be a law to do so.
Okay, now tell us how much you hate space since that time you caught Jack Parsons in flagrante with your ex-wife.
WTF is randomware?
You know, all those weekly updates to Adobe Reader and Flash.
"Contact Us" feature that may have been used by some victims to communicate directly with the fraudsters...
So the agencies that supposedly can backdoor any electronics and trace all movements of data can't penetrate thise fragile Bitcoin exchanges or trace phone calls to the perps?
La Rance opened in 1966 and is still the only tidal installation in France.
The country's official power plan is to be 23% renewable by 2020. Half of this will be existing hydroelectric plants:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"This is just an opinion, which ignores some renewable not deployed in France yet, such as tidal energy."
France has already tried all that crap years ago (tidal at Rance, solar concentrators at Odéillo, pathetic little scatterings of wind turbines in other places). Then they went whole-hog nuclear and solved the carbon problem within their own country. Now it's just a matter of waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.
"Almost all left-leaning people I talk to believe in GMO and nuclear safety,'
These exist, even in Texas?
That is why advanced manned missions belong in the private sector.
"I don't know of any drug or bomb sniffing humans."
Any cop with an attitude.
We call this an insane asylum. Let's see if Bezos can come up with a workable new way of running something like this. He might surprise us.
Hey Amazon: They need a huge one in Portland Oregon too. I visited once and haven't seen so many homeless people in my life.
What you saw in Portland were the political activists.
Serious question. We can't get it right down here, so why should we start branching out?
There has NEVER been a time and place where we got it right before branching out to somewhere else. That's very basic human nature.
"Hasn't he read Seveneves? We need Izzy for the survival of mankind!"
But if you did read Seveneves, you would recall that Hillary Clinton, as President in that scenario, pops in on the ISS and screws everything up.