Seriously. I've looked at the problems CC curriculum presents as "math". The way they lay out and ask you to solve problems is insane. Absolutely and utterly BONKERS (and not in a good way).
If you think the US is bad at math NOW, wait until CC has had a few cycles to sink its hooks in.
You're going to have people actively HATING math in a way that'd be ludicrous even today. And these people who'd be able to solve even a SIMPLE concrete math problem to save their lives.
AMD has pissed away massive leads over Intel in the past.
AMD single-handedly created the x86-x64 market from NOTHING.
Then they fell back on their laurels.
Then they bought a graphics company.
Their last effort in the market was basically a fizzle. Forgoing a custom chip designed to eake the maximum efficiency and power from the device, they went with a crappy computer-designed monstrosity that basically was the worst of all worlds, and a flame-throwing power hog to boot.
Sure, they can kick out a processor that says "I can throw *insert a number here* cores at you!* Are they FULLY FUNCTIONAL cores? And are users actually going to be using anything that can take advantage of the massively multiple architecture? The problem is that AMD doesn't know and has long since stopped caring.
So, until they actually deliver a complete platform that can top Intel, I'm just going to ignore them. They're not worth dealing with otherwise.
Except you're opening up pieces of your infrastructure to the public Internet. At that point, you're opening up this MASSIVE surface area to attack. Sure you can go in and lock down each and every instance. One by one, or with a script or AD.
Sure.
With servers in-house, I can simply double-firewall them and the only point of attack becomes my update server, which I can lock down nicely. Plus I don't have to worry about being nickeled and dimed to death for a bunch of glorified VMs.
Sure, MAYBE it's not as agile as putting up a machine on demand. But if I do my job right, I can do that anyhow in my own VM environment. And save money in the long run.
So in your "ethical" mindset, it's better to just mooch off mom and dad and bitch about not getting that 6-digit salary and a corner office because you have no work experience?
Boomer? Uh. I was born in the 70's Beiber-boy. And I've been working since it was legal for me to work (so, about 25 years). I know all about shit jobs, having held them whilst working towards better jobs.
They talk about how such a road can withstand loads in excess of a quarter million pounds.
Okay. But what about SHEARING FORCES? In a lot of cases this, not straight downward pressure, is what tears up roadways.
You also have heave in the roadways. Now, most roadways are built in such a way that heave is minimized, but there still is some that has to be factored in.
Also, what will weeks/months/years of thermal and physical stresses do to the surface? Here in Chicago, the roadways get replaced every 5-10 years.
How do these things handle a puddle of burning gasoline from an accident? Or howsabout an entire carbecue raging away on the surface?
And once the surface is breached (and it WILL be breached), you have an environmental hazard on your hands.
And how much will it cost to build these things? Compare the coverage to an asphalt or reinforced concrete roadway on materials cost alone. Not to mention the specialty labor for installation. ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE.
You're also going to be installing this expensive road surface in areas that traditionally don't get much sun.
Rush hour anyone?
Currently, most solar cells STILL don't make back their manufacturing costs within the lifetime of the product.
As for loss of transparency due to wear? "It is thought to have a maximum reduction" basically means "They don't know, but they'll ass-pull a number out for you."
All the lazy ones who think they're owed something are waiting for the $15/hr minimum wage to come through so they can work a window job at McDonald's Drive-Thru.
The rest simply don't have the mindset (or intellect) to grasp even the simple stuff.
Right now the infrastructure and tech involved in both just isn't "there" yet. The result are pathetically limited vehicles in comparison to the entrenched petroleum ICE market.
Battery tech needs to go up in power density at least an order of magnitude and find a real fast-charging option (as having to swap out battery packs is ridiculously wasteful).
Hydrogen fuel stations (and electric recharge points) need to come out of the lab and trial environment and start building stations all over the place.
It's nice if there's one path across a country that can be driven for a given vehicle type. But that leaves 99.999%+ of the rest of the country fucked with regards to alternate vehicles.
Slow network upgrades? That'd imply that there was actual forward momentum here! Right now their networks are standing STILL! So? What? They're going to start pulling current equipment out of their networks and replacing it with older stuff? Reversion?
This is an empty threat. If they allow themselves to stagnate, new-market competitors like Google Fiber will eat them for dinner and they KNOW it.
Well "most people" need to fucking die off. 99% of this planet has the collective intellect of a mummified snail, and the loss to society and history as a whole would be nonexistent.
Why yes. I AM feeling a bit curmudgeonly today. What of it?
Anything by "GotyerMoney" to steal a few more bucks from your pocket on their gas-guzzling pollution spewers.
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So, when you're given a shovel and told to fill a hole with shit, it's better to fill that hole with shit than to walk away?
Common core isn't designed to teach kids anything but a touchy, feely "I hate school".
Seriously. I've looked at the problems CC curriculum presents as "math".
The way they lay out and ask you to solve problems is insane. Absolutely and utterly BONKERS (and not in a good way).
If you think the US is bad at math NOW, wait until CC has had a few cycles to sink its hooks in.
You're going to have people actively HATING math in a way that'd be ludicrous even today.
And these people who'd be able to solve even a SIMPLE concrete math problem to save their lives.
It's still classified a "worst case scenario".
Meaning that, things would have to go seriously, MYTHICALLY wrong for it to happen.
Honestly, it's tech we probably aren't going to see, even by 2027.
I'd rather we funneled energy research money into something we could implement wide-scale by then. Like LFTR.
Once we've got plentiful energy, THEN we can go chasing after fusion.
That says it all right there.
This is like the military drawing up plans for kaiju attacks and zombiepocalypses.
"If we detonated every nuclear bomb on the planet over the poles to heat them into water, the seas could rise X-much and we'd all be royally boned."
Nah. That shit only happens in comic books.
More realistically? Think "Emil" from Robocop.
http://youtu.be/tjEdLuqK1RQ
No. Dealing with nuclear materials isn't "difficult".
It's actually, surprisingly easy. You just have to take the proper precautions and act in an intelligent manner.
And, right there, you see the root of the issue.
The main problems are omnipresent greed, laziness, corruption and stupidity.
Actually at least one has tried. A guy down in Nevada tried to find out what kind of info they're collecting on his kid.
The silly bastards want to charge him $10,000 for the info. Supposedly it'll take 3 weeks of programming time to get the data out.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/...
AMD has pissed away massive leads over Intel in the past.
AMD single-handedly created the x86-x64 market from NOTHING.
Then they fell back on their laurels.
Then they bought a graphics company.
Their last effort in the market was basically a fizzle. Forgoing a custom chip designed to eake the maximum efficiency and power from the device, they went with a crappy computer-designed monstrosity that basically was the worst of all worlds, and a flame-throwing power hog to boot.
Sure, they can kick out a processor that says "I can throw *insert a number here* cores at you!*
Are they FULLY FUNCTIONAL cores? And are users actually going to be using anything that can take advantage of the massively multiple architecture?
The problem is that AMD doesn't know and has long since stopped caring.
So, until they actually deliver a complete platform that can top Intel, I'm just going to ignore them. They're not worth dealing with otherwise.
Russia: Maybe you should use trampoline to get into space.
*BOOM*
America: You know what Yuri? That sounds like a damn smart decision!
Sure! Everything's great!
Except you're opening up pieces of your infrastructure to the public Internet.
At that point, you're opening up this MASSIVE surface area to attack. Sure you can go in and lock down each and every instance. One by one, or with a script or AD.
Sure.
With servers in-house, I can simply double-firewall them and the only point of attack becomes my update server, which I can lock down nicely.
Plus I don't have to worry about being nickeled and dimed to death for a bunch of glorified VMs.
Sure, MAYBE it's not as agile as putting up a machine on demand.
But if I do my job right, I can do that anyhow in my own VM environment. And save money in the long run.
Well, they keep our business plentiful (even if we want to kill them ten times a day) right?
Wow, you're greedy. I just want to get to kill them once, then I'd be happy.
Only once? Then you're a miraculously phlegmatic specimen of CS/IT personnel.
If you think these things are going to last 1 year on a road surface, let alone 4...
Well, I just don't know how to respond appropriately to delusional thinking.
Ah. So someone wants to make it about politics now.
Not playing your game. But feel free to rattle off your political diatribe. Maybe if you get it out of your system you'll feel better.
The former about the lazy ones aside, the latter isn't really meant as an insult. Just an observation.
It's no crime not to have the mindset to work CS/IT. It takes all kinds.
As to the dumb ones? Well, they keep our business plentiful (even if we want to kill them ten times a day) right?
Hmm.
So in your "ethical" mindset, it's better to just mooch off mom and dad and bitch about not getting that 6-digit salary and a corner office because you have no work experience?
Boomer? Uh. I was born in the 70's Beiber-boy. And I've been working since it was legal for me to work (so, about 25 years). I know all about shit jobs, having held them whilst working towards better jobs.
They simply won't stand up to the wear and tear.
They talk about how such a road can withstand loads in excess of a quarter million pounds.
Okay. But what about SHEARING FORCES? In a lot of cases this, not straight downward pressure, is what tears up roadways.
You also have heave in the roadways. Now, most roadways are built in such a way that heave is minimized, but there still is some that has to be factored in.
Also, what will weeks/months/years of thermal and physical stresses do to the surface? Here in Chicago, the roadways get replaced every 5-10 years.
How do these things handle a puddle of burning gasoline from an accident? Or howsabout an entire carbecue raging away on the surface?
And once the surface is breached (and it WILL be breached), you have an environmental hazard on your hands.
And how much will it cost to build these things? Compare the coverage to an asphalt or reinforced concrete roadway on materials cost alone. Not to mention the specialty labor for installation. ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE.
You're also going to be installing this expensive road surface in areas that traditionally don't get much sun.
Rush hour anyone?
Currently, most solar cells STILL don't make back their manufacturing costs within the lifetime of the product.
As for loss of transparency due to wear? "It is thought to have a maximum reduction" basically means "They don't know, but they'll ass-pull a number out for you."
Shows how slow our government is on these things.
After the , it ONLY took the government 30 years to shut down?
Way to go Remo!
All the lazy ones who think they're owed something are waiting for the $15/hr minimum wage to come through so they can work a window job at McDonald's Drive-Thru.
The rest simply don't have the mindset (or intellect) to grasp even the simple stuff.
Didn't you know? There's a world shortage of "Saw-ree" right now.
Right now the infrastructure and tech involved in both just isn't "there" yet.
The result are pathetically limited vehicles in comparison to the entrenched petroleum ICE market.
Battery tech needs to go up in power density at least an order of magnitude and find a real fast-charging option (as having to swap out battery packs is ridiculously wasteful).
Hydrogen fuel stations (and electric recharge points) need to come out of the lab and trial environment and start building stations all over the place.
It's nice if there's one path across a country that can be driven for a given vehicle type. But that leaves 99.999%+ of the rest of the country fucked with regards to alternate vehicles.
Slow network upgrades?
That'd imply that there was actual forward momentum here!
Right now their networks are standing STILL!
So? What? They're going to start pulling current equipment out of their networks and replacing it with older stuff? Reversion?
This is an empty threat.
If they allow themselves to stagnate, new-market competitors like Google Fiber will eat them for dinner and they KNOW it.
Here's hoping the FCC realizes this.
It's called "teleconference".
Well "most people" need to fucking die off. 99% of this planet has the collective intellect of a mummified snail, and the loss to society and history as a whole would be nonexistent.
Why yes. I AM feeling a bit curmudgeonly today. What of it?
Anything by "GotyerMoney" to steal a few more bucks from your pocket on their gas-guzzling pollution spewers.