Or, you could put CFC-generating self-replicating machines (like nanobots) on its surface that which can also warm the Mars though the greenhouse effect.
Yes, the self-replicating machines are called plants or bacteria...
Go to Ebay, pick up any of the linux supported touchscreen computers. you can usually get them for less than $220.00 and by the time you buy an 802.11b card, an accesspoint and a server you sill have spent less than this webpad will cost for the next 3 years.
Yes, I've picked up two Fujitsu Stylistic 1200's, one is being used as a mobile webcam running Win98, and the other is a "programmable picture frame" running Linux on the wall next to me. These pads rule!
While the phone company does not eavesdrop on you to see if you are making business calls, they do charge a much higher rate (nearly double) for business service than they do for residential service.
The reason for this is regulation. Business lines subsidize cheaper residential service. ILECs would prefer to charge everyone on a per-minute-used basis, but regulation generally breaks it up into unlimited home usage and business usage.
The issue is that what cable providers mean is that high bandwidth customers should pay more (which they should). But they're too chicken shit to say it
Exactly - the fair alternative is "pay per bit," and we really don't want that, right? So maybe we should suck up the blocked port 80's and 25's, for right now.
What we have is a cartel of rapists...They think they have been given this magic tollbox that they can squeeze and squeeze.
Reality check: No one is getting full, unrestricted T1 Internet service for under $150 per month! (I know people who purchase bandwidth by the handful of T3s, they can't even get lower.)
The broadband providers have to go to utilize some set of restrictions to bring you the speeds that people want mainly for Web surfing. While they may be doing some stupid things to achieve this, the truth is that the broadband providers have laid out a HUGE fixed expense that they won't see a profit on for years, plus they are trying to figure out how to even be MONTH-TO-MONTH PROFITABLE on the bandwidth and operations side as well. Or maybe you didn't notice Excite@Home's bankruptcy...
If they are "rapists," maybe you should set up your own cable network, and prove it. You can rent power poles for $20 a year. Go stick up some cable around your neighborhood, and make deals with backbone providers!
It's crazy that US Government wholeheartedly back this unethical business strategy to ensure their continuous inflows of political money, while letting oil exporters in Middle East holding our balls by altering the price and supply.
Get a grip, gasoline is incredibly cheap now...compare with 10 or 20 years ago, and add inflation, and think about it.
Moreover, thanks to RONALD REAGAN for the STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE, the USA finished off the USSR, and now backed by Russians who want to make a PROFIT, Russia is pumping all kinds of oil into the global supply, and OPEC is running scared.
Yes, I thought Reagan was crazy at the time too. Maybe he was. But gosh, ass was kicked, and the world is a better place for it.
Digital Fountain's core technology is called "meta-content (tm)". The meta-content engine produces packets based on the original content, such that if the receiver receives enough packets (just slightly more than the size of the original content), the original content can be recreated. The neat part is that it doesn't matter which meta-content packets you get. If you need to receive 10 packets, you can get 5, miss 5, get another 5, and it works. Or you can get 1, miss 10, get 9, and it works as well. As long as you receive some 10 packets from the "fountain," you can recreate the original content.
Why is this cool? Several reasons. Digital Fountain claims that TCP connections with RTT of 200ms and 2% packet loss have a bandwidth limitation of 300kbps, no matter how fast the actual transport channel is. So you just go to town to full bandwidth with UDP to use up the entire channel, and use Digital Fountain technology so it doesn't matter which 2% of packets get lost, just as long as you transmit enough packets to make up for the packet loss.
OK, why else is this cool? Imagine a Digital Fountain continuously transmitting meta-data on a multicast address. If you want to receive a file, just listen to the multicast address. It doesn't matter when you start listening, just as long as you listen for enough packets to recreate the original file. Multicast file distribution.
Interestingly enough, Digital Fountain has also pioneered multicast on-demand streaming, but the real secret sauce there is something besides meta-content, but meta-content makes it easier.
As some people have mentioned, you can use UDP with FEC to achieve some error correction. But meta-content can handle long burst errors, whereas FEC is only appropriate for short, random errors. You can literally unplug the ethernet, wait a while, and plug it back in, and you're still good to go with Digital Fountain, as long as you listen long enough.
I should mention, DF has something called "Fair Layered Increase Decrease Protocol," or FLID, to keep their UDP burst from blowing away other TCP traffic on the network.
Silicon chips don't "wear out" like metals and plastics.
Eventually, ambient radiation deposits fixed charges in gate oxide that damages CMOS circuitry. But the process takes a while, unless you are in space and get hit by a Solar Flare.
I think a big win is the depth-of-field issue. It is difficult to maintain focus of a projected circuit image at both the center and edge of the chip at the same time for photolithography.
By having a physically "thinner" chip with the same transistor count, the quality of the optics required is reduced, and at UV wavelengths that is serious money saved.
Once you've run the competition out of town by undercutting them, then you can jack the prices and milk consumers. The price gouging is also a secondary to the fact that consumers then have no effective choice.
They consumers do have a choice, they can choose to not purchase the product. I myself have often chosen not to purchase Microsoft products based on price.
No consumer will pay a price for a good greater than its value to the consumer. It may mean there is a shift in profit margins from the software consumer to the software producer, but there will still be profits made by the consumer. "Price Gouging" is IMPOSSIBLE - it is just that the true value of items change. A snow shovel is much more valuable in a snow storm than in summer.
Moreover, the price will always remain "fair enough" to keep consumers coming back to purchase the product. If Microsoft started charging $1 million for Windows, their market share would pretty much dry up. It wasn't all that long ago in human history that operating systems cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Obviously, the current price of Microsoft products is "fair," given the incredible demand for them. Microsoft products provide a significant amount of value add for businesses.
Due to competitive pressures in the marketplace (despite Microsoft's "monopoly"), Microsoft products have become much more stable in recent years. If there were no significant competitive pressure, why would Microsoft have turned to NT micro-kernel technology? They could still have Win 3.1, if it wasn't for MacOS and Unixes.
Now anyone who TRUSTS Microsoft or believes in their NICENESS is a nut. But that doesn't mean we need to have government regulation of them beyond REAL crimes like fraud, environmental damage, etc.
Producing popular software that provides for a dominant platform is obviously good, or else everyone on the planet would be running their own flavor of Unix, right?
I remember back in the days of 8-bit PCs, the incredible balkanization of Atari/Apple/Commodore products made it nearly impossible to produce one program to run in every business and home.
BTW, if we want to talk about DUMPING, what about the companies making Linux available FOR FREE? Talk about your PREDITORY PRICING examples. We all know that the real cost to Red Hat of creating a distribution and running an ftp server is greater $0.00, yet they make Red Hat Linux available for $0.00. Those who believe in monopoly theory would clearly label this a preditory attempt to restrain the trade of Microsoft...
Examination of two of the most influential early cases in antitrust history, Standard Oil and American Tobacco, reveals that neither of the accused firms monopolized or "restrained" trade; on the contrary, both firms expanded outputs enormously, innovated continuously, and generally lowered prices for consumers.
For example, in the decade Rockefeller assembled his oil trust, the company's output expanded considerably and oil prices fell about 60%.
Since 10 million years is short with respect to the amount of time the galaxy has existed (10 billion years) and the amount of time that life has existed on Earth (4 billion years), there should be evidence of colonization everywhere, even if there is as few as one advanced civilization. So, where is everybody?
I think we also need to keep in mind that the majority of metal-rich star formation was 7 billion years ago, so other life forms only have about a 3 billion year head-start on earth, not a 6 billion year head-start.
you should pour liquid nitrogen into containers first rather than trying to make ice cream by directly pouring it into a mix of milk and butter.
You can check out my video about making ice cream with liquid nitrogen. I'm a bit afraid about the butter part, generally LN2 ice cream is made with milk and heavy cream, plus sugar and vanilla. I'll have to try the pouring mix into LN2 rather than pour LN2 into mix.
In the UAE large amounts of this money go to building roads, hospitals, housing, schools, desalination plants etc.
The UAE definately is better at giving back to its people compared with Saudi or Yemen. UAE literacy is 79%, Saudi is 62%. Afghanistan, with no oil, is 31%. Infant mortality in UAE is 1.6%, 5.1% in Saudi, 14.7% in Afghanistan. GDP per capita is $22,000 UAE, $10,500 Saudi (that's getting to be poor), $800 Afghanistan.
"Without greenbacks and US airbases, it would have fallen long ago to Islamic fundamentalists. "
Which is exactly why we support them. I think a
lot of people need to grow up and realize that it's not a perfect world, and sometimes you have to choose lesser evils.
Maybe it is better to at least know the majority of the population decided to be Islamic fundamentialists...
On a related note, I always prefer bombing democracies, because at least their population (i.e. incidental casualties) had something to do with governmental decisions.
The Middle East has only recently (in thast 100 years or so) turned into such a hotbed of opression, and it all has to do with oil and foreign involvement.
What exactly do you mean? That there used to be Middle Eastern democracies before 100 years ago? That there was "free speech"? That Shariah was not the law of the land? That women had equal rights with men? That Muslims espousing "heretical" views were not put to death before 100 years ago?
The main difference between now and 100 years ago in the Middle East is that the countries there with oil have more money, which is being distributed in some amounts to the otherwise dirt-poor peasants (making them slightly less than dirt-poor).
As a side note, I will add that you were much better off as a Jew in an Islamic country than a Christian country in the past (esp. 1400-1600). Jews are probably better off in a Christian country today.
The government is working on stockpiling enough vaccine for the whole population
My main concern is that there isn't a weaponized smallpox virus that has been bred to not respond to existing vaccines. In which case, existing vaccine products would be useless.
One final point: many people don't realize this, but a big part of what makes rave/club music sound the way that it does is the fact that it's on vinyl. In particular, the sound of two tracks mixing together (mainly the way the waveforms for the bassdrums interact) is very distinct, and a big part of the live DJ sound.
Uh, I don't get it - it there a bandwidth limitation of CDs in comparison with vinyl? At the end of the day, the two analog output signals of a CD and the same work on vinyl should be very similar over a wide band. Which frequencies aren't being represented? Or is there some kind of whack feedback between the speakers and the stylus?
I find it difficult to believe you can do the same things with CDs you can with vinyl with regard to scratching/dropping "user interface", but I've seen some imrpessive looking CD mixers recently, and I imagine the "user interface" will get better and better.
As a co-inventor on US Patent# 5,331,222 (which has turned out to be basically worthless;), I'd like to suggest to graduate students that they ask around as to whether a research advisor is proactive in getting students names on research papers, patents, etc., or whether they are not.
I've had the luck to work for twoprofessors who were very pro-active about getting student names on papers and patents.
If it were easy to smuggle these sorts of things in, presumably we'd have all sorts of things like suitcase nukes and other medium-size arms.
Smuggling nuclear weapons is much more difficult because of the radiation properties of highly enriched uranium, especially its gamma ray signature.
A few years ago, a friend of mine was moving radioactive samples around the Washington, DC, metro area for a University lab. He got pulled over by a non-descript white van, and the driver asked him a LOT of questions. After a few calls, they found out he was legit, and let him go. I've been told that you can actually detect nuclear weapons from outside of a ship.
OTOH, any explosive can be detected with a timed neutron detector, and there are versions that can sense the return of "slowed" neutrons over a few feet used to sense the explosive in land mines, or the "sniff" variety found in airports. However the range on explosive detection is much lower, certainly if tons of marijuana and cocaine make it into the US every year, a small missle or two could as well.
Of course you can't get rich as a programmer any more (no more IPOs), so I'd suggest just getting an MBA, go into finance, pull down $100K plus and live life on $30K until you have $500K-$750K saved up, then live off the interest.
Check cancer rates between Pennsylvania, USA and Sydney, Australia. I know this is far from a bulletproof arguement, for maybe Aussies are naturally more prone to skin cancer, or spend more time outdoors (which they do)
Or maybe the Aussies and the NZers killed/displaced the reasonably dark skinned people who were properly adapted for living there, replacing them with light-skinned northern europeans...
Hydrogen vehicles are probably never going to happen. Even the best metal hyrdride storage has an energy density of under 1 kWh/kg whereas gasoline has 12.7 kWh/kg. Liquid H2 has a larger energy density per kg than gasoline, but takes up four times more volume for equal energy, not including cryogenic devices.
There is some hope for gasoline powered fuel cells, but I wouldn't be too hopeful here.
At the end of the day, oil is too concentrated and convenient to be ignored. And because the Middle East is where it is cheapest to produce oil from, they will always rule the global commodity price, and will influence the price of all energy products.
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Or, you could put CFC-generating self-replicating machines (like nanobots) on its surface that which can also warm the Mars though the greenhouse effect.
Yes, the self-replicating machines are called plants or bacteria...
Go to Ebay, pick up any of the linux supported touchscreen computers. you can usually get them for less than $220.00 and by the time you buy an 802.11b card, an accesspoint and a server you sill have spent less than this webpad will cost for the next 3 years.
Yes, I've picked up two Fujitsu Stylistic 1200's, one is being used as a mobile webcam running Win98, and the other is a "programmable picture frame" running Linux on the wall next to me. These pads rule!
Microsoft has been found guilty of doing serious damage to the computer industry
What is the real, concrete damage?
While the phone company does not eavesdrop on you to see if you are making business calls, they do charge a much higher rate (nearly double) for business service than they do for residential service.
The reason for this is regulation. Business lines subsidize cheaper residential service. ILECs would prefer to charge everyone on a per-minute-used basis, but regulation generally breaks it up into unlimited home usage and business usage.
The issue is that what cable providers mean is that high bandwidth customers should pay more (which they should). But they're too chicken shit to say it
Exactly - the fair alternative is "pay per bit," and we really don't want that, right? So maybe we should suck up the blocked port 80's and 25's, for right now.
What we have is a cartel of rapists...They think they have been given this magic tollbox that they can squeeze and squeeze.
Reality check: No one is getting full, unrestricted T1 Internet service for under $150 per month! (I know people who purchase bandwidth by the handful of T3s, they can't even get lower.)
The broadband providers have to go to utilize some set of restrictions to bring you the speeds that people want mainly for Web surfing. While they may be doing some stupid things to achieve this, the truth is that the broadband providers have laid out a HUGE fixed expense that they won't see a profit on for years, plus they are trying to figure out how to even be MONTH-TO-MONTH PROFITABLE on the bandwidth and operations side as well. Or maybe you didn't notice Excite@Home's bankruptcy...
If they are "rapists," maybe you should set up your own cable network, and prove it. You can rent power poles for $20 a year. Go stick up some cable around your neighborhood, and make deals with backbone providers!
It's crazy that US Government wholeheartedly back this unethical business strategy to ensure their continuous inflows of political money, while letting oil exporters in Middle East holding our balls by altering the price and supply.
Get a grip, gasoline is incredibly cheap now...compare with 10 or 20 years ago, and add inflation, and think about it.
Moreover, thanks to RONALD REAGAN for the STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE, the USA finished off the USSR, and now backed by Russians who want to make a PROFIT, Russia is pumping all kinds of oil into the global supply, and OPEC is running scared.
Yes, I thought Reagan was crazy at the time too. Maybe he was. But gosh, ass was kicked, and the world is a better place for it.
-Thomas
OK folks, here is the "real deal."
Digital Fountain's core technology is called "meta-content (tm)". The meta-content engine produces packets based on the original content, such that if the receiver receives enough packets (just slightly more than the size of the original content), the original content can be recreated. The neat part is that it doesn't matter which meta-content packets you get. If you need to receive 10 packets, you can get 5, miss 5, get another 5, and it works. Or you can get 1, miss 10, get 9, and it works as well. As long as you receive some 10 packets from the "fountain," you can recreate the original content.
Why is this cool? Several reasons. Digital Fountain claims that TCP connections with RTT of 200ms and 2% packet loss have a bandwidth limitation of 300kbps, no matter how fast the actual transport channel is. So you just go to town to full bandwidth with UDP to use up the entire channel, and use Digital Fountain technology so it doesn't matter which 2% of packets get lost, just as long as you transmit enough packets to make up for the packet loss.
OK, why else is this cool? Imagine a Digital Fountain continuously transmitting meta-data on a multicast address. If you want to receive a file, just listen to the multicast address. It doesn't matter when you start listening, just as long as you listen for enough packets to recreate the original file. Multicast file distribution.
Interestingly enough, Digital Fountain has also pioneered multicast on-demand streaming, but the real secret sauce there is something besides meta-content, but meta-content makes it easier.
As some people have mentioned, you can use UDP with FEC to achieve some error correction. But meta-content can handle long burst errors, whereas FEC is only appropriate for short, random errors. You can literally unplug the ethernet, wait a while, and plug it back in, and you're still good to go with Digital Fountain, as long as you listen long enough.
I should mention, DF has something called "Fair Layered Increase Decrease Protocol," or FLID, to keep their UDP burst from blowing away other TCP traffic on the network.
For more information on the basic Digital Fountain technology, see: A Digital Fountain Approach to Reliable Distribution of Bulk Data.
Silicon chips don't "wear out" like metals and plastics.
Eventually, ambient radiation deposits fixed charges in gate oxide that damages CMOS circuitry. But the process takes a while, unless you are in space and get hit by a Solar Flare.
I think a big win is the depth-of-field issue. It is difficult to maintain focus of a projected circuit image at both the center and edge of the chip at the same time for photolithography.
By having a physically "thinner" chip with the same transistor count, the quality of the optics required is reduced, and at UV wavelengths that is serious money saved.
Once you've run the competition out of town by undercutting them, then you can jack the prices and milk consumers. The price gouging is also a secondary to the fact that consumers then have no effective choice.
They consumers do have a choice, they can choose to not purchase the product. I myself have often chosen not to purchase Microsoft products based on price.
No consumer will pay a price for a good greater than its value to the consumer. It may mean there is a shift in profit margins from the software consumer to the software producer, but there will still be profits made by the consumer. "Price Gouging" is IMPOSSIBLE - it is just that the true value of items change. A snow shovel is much more valuable in a snow storm than in summer.
Moreover, the price will always remain "fair enough" to keep consumers coming back to purchase the product. If Microsoft started charging $1 million for Windows, their market share would pretty much dry up. It wasn't all that long ago in human history that operating systems cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Obviously, the current price of Microsoft products is "fair," given the incredible demand for them. Microsoft products provide a significant amount of value add for businesses.
Due to competitive pressures in the marketplace (despite Microsoft's "monopoly"), Microsoft products have become much more stable in recent years. If there were no significant competitive pressure, why would Microsoft have turned to NT micro-kernel technology? They could still have Win 3.1, if it wasn't for MacOS and Unixes.
Now anyone who TRUSTS Microsoft or believes in their NICENESS is a nut. But that doesn't mean we need to have government regulation of them beyond REAL crimes like fraud, environmental damage, etc.
Producing popular software that provides for a dominant platform is obviously good, or else everyone on the planet would be running their own flavor of Unix, right?
I remember back in the days of 8-bit PCs, the incredible balkanization of Atari/Apple/Commodore products made it nearly impossible to produce one program to run in every business and home.
BTW, if we want to talk about DUMPING, what about the companies making Linux available FOR FREE? Talk about your PREDITORY PRICING examples. We all know that the real cost to Red Hat of creating a distribution and running an ftp server is greater $0.00, yet they make Red Hat Linux available for $0.00. Those who believe in monopoly theory would clearly label this a preditory attempt to restrain the trade of Microsoft...
I am a consumer, and for the record, I have never been harmed by Microsoft.
Examination of two of the most influential early cases in antitrust history, Standard Oil and American Tobacco, reveals that neither of the accused firms monopolized or "restrained" trade; on the contrary, both firms expanded outputs enormously, innovated continuously, and generally lowered prices for consumers.
For example, in the decade Rockefeller assembled his oil trust, the company's output expanded considerably and oil prices fell about 60%.
Since 10 million years is short with respect to the amount of time the galaxy has existed (10 billion years) and the amount of time that life has existed on Earth (4 billion years), there should be evidence of colonization everywhere, even if there is as few as one advanced civilization. So, where is everybody?
I think we also need to keep in mind that the majority of metal-rich star formation was 7 billion years ago, so other life forms only have about a 3 billion year head-start on earth, not a 6 billion year head-start.
you should pour liquid nitrogen into containers first rather than trying to make ice cream by directly pouring it into a mix of milk and butter.
You can check out my video about making ice cream with liquid nitrogen. I'm a bit afraid about the butter part, generally LN2 ice cream is made with milk and heavy cream, plus sugar and vanilla. I'll have to try the pouring mix into LN2 rather than pour LN2 into mix.
In the UAE large amounts of this money go to building roads, hospitals, housing, schools, desalination plants etc.
The UAE definately is better at giving back to its people compared with Saudi or Yemen. UAE literacy is 79%, Saudi is 62%. Afghanistan, with no oil, is 31%. Infant mortality in UAE is 1.6%, 5.1% in Saudi, 14.7% in Afghanistan. GDP per capita is $22,000 UAE, $10,500 Saudi (that's getting to be poor), $800 Afghanistan.
"Without greenbacks and US airbases, it would have fallen long ago to Islamic fundamentalists. "
Which is exactly why we support them. I think a
lot of people need to grow up and realize that it's not a perfect world, and sometimes you have to choose lesser evils.
Maybe it is better to at least know the majority of the population decided to be Islamic fundamentialists...
On a related note, I always prefer bombing democracies, because at least their population (i.e. incidental casualties) had something to do with governmental decisions.
The Middle East has only recently (in thast 100 years or so) turned into such a hotbed of opression, and it all has to do with oil and foreign involvement.
What exactly do you mean? That there used to be Middle Eastern democracies before 100 years ago? That there was "free speech"? That Shariah was not the law of the land? That women had equal rights with men? That Muslims espousing "heretical" views were not put to death before 100 years ago?
The main difference between now and 100 years ago in the Middle East is that the countries there with oil have more money, which is being distributed in some amounts to the otherwise dirt-poor peasants (making them slightly less than dirt-poor).
As a side note, I will add that you were much better off as a Jew in an Islamic country than a Christian country in the past (esp. 1400-1600). Jews are probably better off in a Christian country today.
The government is working on stockpiling enough vaccine for the whole population
My main concern is that there isn't a weaponized smallpox virus that has been bred to not respond to existing vaccines. In which case, existing vaccine products would be useless.
One final point: many people don't realize this, but a big part of what makes rave/club music sound the way that it does is the fact that it's on vinyl. In particular, the sound of two tracks mixing together (mainly the way the waveforms for the bassdrums interact) is very distinct, and a big part of the live DJ sound.
Uh, I don't get it - it there a bandwidth limitation of CDs in comparison with vinyl? At the end of the day, the two analog output signals of a CD and the same work on vinyl should be very similar over a wide band. Which frequencies aren't being represented? Or is there some kind of whack feedback between the speakers and the stylus?
I find it difficult to believe you can do the same things with CDs you can with vinyl with regard to scratching/dropping "user interface", but I've seen some imrpessive looking CD mixers recently, and I imagine the "user interface" will get better and better.
As a co-inventor on US Patent# 5,331,222 (which has turned out to be basically worthless ;), I'd like to suggest to graduate students that they ask around as to whether a research advisor is proactive in getting students names on research papers, patents, etc., or whether they are not.
I've had the luck to work for two professors who were very pro-active about getting student names on papers and patents.
If it were easy to smuggle these sorts of things in, presumably we'd have all sorts of things like suitcase nukes and other medium-size arms.
Smuggling nuclear weapons is much more difficult because of the radiation properties of highly enriched uranium, especially its gamma ray signature.
A few years ago, a friend of mine was moving radioactive samples around the Washington, DC, metro area for a University lab. He got pulled over by a non-descript white van, and the driver asked him a LOT of questions. After a few calls, they found out he was legit, and let him go. I've been told that you can actually detect nuclear weapons from outside of a ship.
OTOH, any explosive can be detected with a timed neutron detector, and there are versions that can sense the return of "slowed" neutrons over a few feet used to sense the explosive in land mines, or the "sniff" variety found in airports. However the range on explosive detection is much lower, certainly if tons of marijuana and cocaine make it into the US every year, a small missle or two could as well.
Of course you can't get rich as a programmer any more (no more IPOs), so I'd suggest just getting an MBA, go into finance, pull down $100K plus and live life on $30K until you have $500K-$750K saved up, then live off the interest.
Check cancer rates between Pennsylvania, USA and Sydney, Australia. I know this is far from a bulletproof arguement, for maybe Aussies are naturally more prone to skin cancer, or spend more time outdoors (which they do)
Or maybe the Aussies and the NZers killed/displaced the reasonably dark skinned people who were properly adapted for living there, replacing them with light-skinned northern europeans...
Hydrogen vehicles are probably never going to happen. Even the best metal hyrdride storage has an energy density of under 1 kWh/kg whereas gasoline has 12.7 kWh/kg. Liquid H2 has a larger energy density per kg than gasoline, but takes up four times more volume for equal energy, not including cryogenic devices.
There is some hope for gasoline powered fuel cells, but I wouldn't be too hopeful here.
At the end of the day, oil is too concentrated and convenient to be ignored. And because the Middle East is where it is cheapest to produce oil from, they will always rule the global commodity price, and will influence the price of all energy products.