Its a nice concept but where it falls down is meta data. You need good metadata on every document when its stored to make this sort of thing work. The computer does not know Romania, the country from some girl who happened to be named Romania. The trouble there are really one two solutions,
A) Make end users actually tag things correctly, and completely B) User mind boggling amounts of computer power to do the sort of deep statistical analysis, like IBM's Watson to categorize things.
B will likely work in the near future, A has been tried a thousand times there is no sense in going down that path anymore.
Its funny how the computer / high tech industry manges to remain seen by general public as green. When we have always known its anything but. Old style smoke stack industry cranking out sheets of steel and similar is probably far less ecologically harmful than any chip plant. The other big issue is water, semiconductor manufacturing uses LOTS of fresh water which is starting to become a scarce resource too. Finally the amount of energy used as pointed out in the article all the energy use probably amounts to a big release of green house gases (if your worried about that sort of thing) at some electrical generating plant someplace.
All these highbrid cars are another good example. Cash for clunkers probably did far far more harm to our planet than any good that came from taking otherwise serviceable cars off the road. When you consider the amount of energy and bi products of manufacturing new vehicles it would have almost certainly been better for the planet for us to keep driving the ones we already made. Yes we should replace the ones we do finally retire with more energy efficient models, but its a pretty rare case the new model is so much more energy efficient it makes up for premature disposal of the existing.
When it comes to this stuff we drive cars until its to costly to keep them on the road, we use computers as long as possible, that means not getting a new one every 24 months and trying to make software more efficient so we don't need so damn many. All those unneeded animations impose a COST, they are not free.
Right on what this country really needs is a fierce and deadly competitor. The Soviets gave us that and we broke them. It had to be that way too, one side had to prevail sometime. In the interim period it drove some of the best in both our nations.
China is good new potential adversary but we need to stop trying to be friends, there won't be any "winning the future" for us by trying to cuddle. We need to COMPETE with them and set the goal of defeating them. We need let go of this stupid progressive notion that the world is big enough for them to do it there way and us to do it ours because well its NOT.
Except that those who are the target of the "blame America first" phrase are IM(no so H)O the reason we are in decline. Egoist philosophy and Imperialism build the greatest nation state the planet has ever seen.
So lets stop doing the things that have brought us into decline. Lets quit trying to generate equality of result, lets stop with the globalist agenda and start using our influence to ensure we get favorable trade partnerships. Lets quit fighting other peoples wars unless there is something in it for us.
Kinda hard to send pizza to India. But it would be something a franchise could do. That brings money into the US. Our 'goods' are whatever we can produce - Music, art, software, games, Levi's blue jeans, Coca-Cola. Isolationism is the worst thing we could do.
The trouble is trickle down economics works, it works when you have a good sized population of people earning 7 and 8 figure salaries. That money tends to find its way out into the economy an enabling lots of other people to earn 5 figure salaries.
When you have a handful of people earning 12+ figures most of that money ends up stuffed in the proverbial mattress. This is what you get when companies outsource (Apple, Levi, are examples from this thread who don't make anything hardly at all here), yes lots of money comes in from over seas as a result of their activities but it ends up in a very small number of American hands; who can't spread it around literally because they haven't the time.
I suppose you could tax it and have government spread it but that usually terribly ineffective. I actually think a this globalist strategy is NOT good for the Average American, a good healthy dose of protectionism might be what our economy really needs.
Anyone is welcome to dispute the term as its fairly recent history and the perspective of added years may or may not make it seem justifiable. Also just as the Pax Romana did not begin when Roam was first founded and nor did the Pax Islamica begin the day Mecca was captured the Pax American would not be thought of as existing until shortly after the conclusion of the second world war.
And again like the previous periods termed Pax before it, it does not imply world peace just a period where one power created large zones of political and trade stability. Its not to suggest that everyone under that power's influence liked the situation or that there were not corners of the world to where that influence did not extend were not experiencing the usual dust ups.
You could credit the Soviets allot as well, Eastern Europe, the Baltic region, and Russia proper was stable under Soviet rule .
Well, I mostly agree but having a thin sheet of metal over most of your outside walls might very well have negative consequences for reception inside as well. Signals bounce you know and it will create pockets were the interference is destructive. So you might experience strange dead zones and such, but these can probably be mostly solved by moving the laptop three feet to the left.
You make sure these house wraps are grounded and thus prevent them from becoming a passive radiator, but that will have other consequences.
While it may be the first time in history that there is know know group of humans on earth traveling at or near our speed records or at least won't be when the shuttle stops, its not the first case of regression.
As past societies declined people who commonly rode horses went back to walking, there is historical record of that. I think it could be argued that this might be more a symptom of the Pax Americana's end than anything else. Now that the great empire no longer has the capacity to project stability and order through the entire world, the worlds people are simply putting their resources into their more basic needs and into fighting over other resources; rather than into flying faster.
The colder the media is the faster it will draw heat away from the component. See Newtons law of Cooling. So yes if you are over-clocking and need to move LOTS of heat away from the tiny surface area of a CPU die, it makes all kinds of sense to want the temperature difference to be as great as possible; provided that does not cause you other problems you can't or don't want to deal with solving like condensation.
Well the easiest solution I can think of would be to have a the electronics suspended off the bottom of the tank, not much maybe an inch or so. You then need a plate a little larger than the electronics mounted over top of them tilted at an angle. It needs to not go the edges of the tank so as to allow the warm oil to rise and slide up the incline on the other side to the top of the tank where it will cool and then roll back down, along the top side. Any water that sinks will also roll down the top side and past the electronics were it will harmlessly collect in the bottom inch of the tank. Periodically when enough water has built up in the bottom of the tank you can siphon the water out stopping the flow slightly before all the water is removed so as not to remove any of the oil.
That assumes the cooling is passive or if the oil is being mechanically circulated its being down slowly enough not to impact the trajectory that water droplets fall at much or dislocate the water from the tank bottom.
Some drives equalize pressure with diaphragm rather than being open to any actual gas exchange with the outside. I am not sure these would fair much better though because the oil is much denser than the air in the drive and is going to therefor push the diaphragm in raising the pressure in the drive to the maximum the diaphragm will allow which might very well be outside the range the engineers designing the drive ever expected to encounter
iven that pay-as-you-go pricing is what the poor and people living paycheck to paycheck use, the result is those who can afford the least still pay by far the most.
Nobody and I mean Nobody *needs* a wireless data plan. Its nice to have but you can certainly get by without one. Its not like it puts you at a real disadvantage in most cases either. That might change someday in the future but right now not having a web browser in your pocket does not yet deny a person many economic opportunities.
A carrier is a business there is far more administrative overhead in dealing with month to month customers and they lose the benefit of certainty about continuing revenue. They absolutely should charge more for contract free plans.
Finally if a person's financial situation is such that they can't work a cellular contract MRC into your budget than you should probably not be allocating any of their evidently limited means to wireless data, its was probably better when they were totally priced out.
I know at least at my local cinema they are only showing 2d versions of films in the smaller theaters if at all. I don't really want to see it in 3d because I actually enjoy the film less that way and would rather save a few bucks but if I HAVE decided to see movie in theater in the first place I will watch it in whatever format its offeredd. So by not showing the 2d versions they make it appear the 3d versions are more popular; which as you say they want because they can charge more.
I am not sure that is entirely fair. We are talking about writers abusing death as a plot device. I consider a plot device abused when its been inserted gratuitously. Its gratuitous when an author uses it add drama or intrigue to an otherwise boring story but does bother to weave it into the underlying theme of the story. Stargate's themes are steeped in Ancient Egyptian myth which was very concerned with death and the afterlife to say the least.
So Stargate actually has more license to use it than most others. Buffy (the series) is a big offender though. The first time Buffy dies it makes sense, the mythology established around the master demands it. Killing Joyce though really is just done to shock the audience.
And they are not controlled (yet) so perhaps we can start growing and harvesting them to use against the government oppress^H^H^H^H^H^H^H law officers.
Might be true some places but certainly not everywhere. Computers don't get slower with age. Something changes, the question is should something be chanting? If your employee workstations are just getting slower, then your IT department is doing a PISS POOR job managing those workstations, and something needs to be done about the IT department not the workstations.
There are lots of cases where five plus year old PCs should be just fine. Its not as if keying orders and inventory movements into SAP is going go any quicker on a new PC. Its the back end that matters. That machine can stay on the shop floor until it dies!
Now if you are upgrading software and such, then yes you need to understand the requirements and make sure the hardware is updated to match them. There are lots of cases though where the employees are going to use the same software for five years and longer and might just as well use the same hardware.
When it comes to software we need to ask ourselves if the new tools are really better as well. Excel 2010 certainly does need more horse power to run on than Excel 2000, but is Bob really going to be able to prep that cost analysis report any faster with 2010 on the latest hardware? My guess is for all but a finite number of special case users the answer is no.
And what kind would those be? Breeder's don't produce much if any waste but I am not aware of any even supposed accident proof designs for them. PBR's have proven to be unsafe in both trials I am aware of.
So stop with the pro-nuke Astroturf already. Nuclear power is UNSAFE full stop. Just like coal is UNCLEAN full stop. Its still an open question if other sources can provide suitable replacements without being just as bad. Hydro for example has a profound effect on ecology for in some cases thousands of mile down stream. Large wind farms pose threats as well, some have suggested build enough of them and they might even lead to OMG CLIMATE CHANGE!
My vote remains coal, its the devil we know and we know from our 19th century experience that we can still have pretty good quality of life with a much higher concentration of coal combustion byproducts in the air, we breath.
I have software on my computer that allows me to manage the certificates that I trust. That way, I can decide for myself. Since I don't actually want to bother to do so, I defer to my operating system vendor's judgment.
What choice do you have other than deferring to your operating system or browser vendor's judgment? I think you are telling yourself something to avoid a feeling of helplessness. I know you can remove Comodo and such when ready they have had a breach but what can really do about the others? Do you have the resources to audit their practices? Once you remove a CA how do establish trust with any sites that use them as their authority? Do you call customer service and get them to read a thumb print to you? How do you get the contact info for CS, from the website you can't authenticate?
Really I don't think the typical user is empowered to chose at all. Even the power user has few options, the ones they do have seriously limit who that can interact with, require the make bad compromises which are every bit as bad as just trusting the vendor and the CAs.
Well maybe we need to admit there might not be a solution you. Sometimes you can't solve social problems with technical solutions and what is more social than the concept of trust!
Ok many of your points are fair but your issue with the word forever really isnt. Many of the root CA certs don't expire for like 30 years! In Internet which has only really existed that long and only been public for a little under 20 years and SSL even less, 30 years is for all practical discussion the same thing as forever.
I suspect both methods will work well depending on the situation. On very subject specific sites Google's methods will probably work best. IE Adsens adds on the AROC home page will probably generate more clicks offering links to after market Italian car parts than Facebook ads pushing sexy singles in my neighborhood, will. Facebook will likely find more success on more general news/entertainment sites people just sort of browse not looking for anything specific like this one.
There are plenty of ideas out there that probably can work. Most of the technology exists, and just needs to be assembled into a single project. Its not even beyond the realm of economic possibility to implement some of these plans they question is why?
What is there on the moon or Mars to make it worth going there. Why should anyone want to live there? Don't say over population even if the population on earth continues to grow at the current rate somehow it will be along time before conditions here would be more cramped then they would be on space/moon/Mars base. Don't say resources its pretty evident that supporting one person on a space/moon/Mars base would take more resources from Earth that keeping that same person right here on Earth. The only reason to do it is for practice colonizing and for the investment required it probably makes more since to try and simulate things here on Terra.
There are for the most part know ways to build and power a multi-generational ship There is lots uninterrupted solar power and other radiation out there to scavenge for your day to day needs, and you could bring enough nuclear fuel from Earth to propel the craft. The trouble is where do want to go. Oh and your going to live the rest of your life in this box, you will never see the destination, nor will your children, their children, their children's children, and likely ten more generations after that. That is if you pick someplace nearby and NOTHING goes wrong. Who wants to take that risk and for what?
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Its a nice concept but where it falls down is meta data. You need good metadata on every document when its stored to make this sort of thing work. The computer does not know Romania, the country from some girl who happened to be named Romania. The trouble there are really one two solutions,
A) Make end users actually tag things correctly, and completely
B) User mind boggling amounts of computer power to do the sort of deep statistical analysis, like IBM's Watson to categorize things.
B will likely work in the near future, A has been tried a thousand times there is no sense in going down that path anymore.
Its funny how the computer / high tech industry manges to remain seen by general public as green. When we have always known its anything but. Old style smoke stack industry cranking out sheets of steel and similar is probably far less ecologically harmful than any chip plant. The other big issue is water, semiconductor manufacturing uses LOTS of fresh water which is starting to become a scarce resource too. Finally the amount of energy used as pointed out in the article all the energy use probably amounts to a big release of green house gases (if your worried about that sort of thing) at some electrical generating plant someplace.
All these highbrid cars are another good example. Cash for clunkers probably did far far more harm to our planet than any good that came from taking otherwise serviceable cars off the road. When you consider the amount of energy and bi products of manufacturing new vehicles it would have almost certainly been better for the planet for us to keep driving the ones we already made. Yes we should replace the ones we do finally retire with more energy efficient models, but its a pretty rare case the new model is so much more energy efficient it makes up for premature disposal of the existing.
When it comes to this stuff we drive cars until its to costly to keep them on the road, we use computers as long as possible, that means not getting a new one every 24 months and trying to make software more efficient so we don't need so damn many. All those unneeded animations impose a COST, they are not free.
Now none of this creates many jobs though....
Right on what this country really needs is a fierce and deadly competitor. The Soviets gave us that and we broke them. It had to be that way too, one side had to prevail sometime. In the interim period it drove some of the best in both our nations.
China is good new potential adversary but we need to stop trying to be friends, there won't be any "winning the future" for us by trying to cuddle. We need to COMPETE with them and set the goal of defeating them. We need let go of this stupid progressive notion that the world is big enough for them to do it there way and us to do it ours because well its NOT.
Except that those who are the target of the "blame America first" phrase are IM(no so H)O the reason we are in decline. Egoist philosophy and Imperialism build the greatest nation state the planet has ever seen.
So lets stop doing the things that have brought us into decline. Lets quit trying to generate equality of result, lets stop with the globalist agenda and start using our influence to ensure we get favorable trade partnerships. Lets quit fighting other peoples wars unless there is something in it for us.
Kinda hard to send pizza to India. But it would be something a franchise could do. That brings money into the US. Our 'goods' are whatever we can produce - Music, art, software, games, Levi's blue jeans, Coca-Cola. Isolationism is the worst thing we could do.
The trouble is trickle down economics works, it works when you have a good sized population of people earning 7 and 8 figure salaries. That money tends to find its way out into the economy an enabling lots of other people to earn 5 figure salaries.
When you have a handful of people earning 12+ figures most of that money ends up stuffed in the proverbial mattress. This is what you get when companies outsource (Apple, Levi, are examples from this thread who don't make anything hardly at all here), yes lots of money comes in from over seas as a result of their activities but it ends up in a very small number of American hands; who can't spread it around literally because they haven't the time.
I suppose you could tax it and have government spread it but that usually terribly ineffective. I actually think a this globalist strategy is NOT good for the Average American, a good healthy dose of protectionism might be what our economy really needs.
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Indeed.
Anyone is welcome to dispute the term as its fairly recent history and the perspective of added years may or may not make it seem justifiable. Also just as the Pax Romana did not begin when Roam was first founded and nor did the Pax Islamica begin the day Mecca was captured the Pax American would not be thought of as existing until shortly after the conclusion of the second world war.
And again like the previous periods termed Pax before it, it does not imply world peace just a period where one power created large zones of political and trade stability. Its not to suggest that everyone under that power's influence liked the situation or that there were not corners of the world to where that influence did not extend were not experiencing the usual dust ups.
You could credit the Soviets allot as well, Eastern Europe, the Baltic region, and Russia proper was stable under Soviet rule .
Well, I mostly agree but having a thin sheet of metal over most of your outside walls might very well have negative consequences for reception inside as well. Signals bounce you know and it will create pockets were the interference is destructive. So you might experience strange dead zones and such, but these can probably be mostly solved by moving the laptop three feet to the left.
You make sure these house wraps are grounded and thus prevent them from becoming a passive radiator, but that will have other consequences.
While it may be the first time in history that there is know know group of humans on earth traveling at or near our speed records or at least won't be when the shuttle stops, its not the first case of regression.
As past societies declined people who commonly rode horses went back to walking, there is historical record of that. I think it could be argued that this might be more a symptom of the Pax Americana's end than anything else. Now that the great empire no longer has the capacity to project stability and order through the entire world, the worlds people are simply putting their resources into their more basic needs and into fighting over other resources; rather than into flying faster.
The colder the media is the faster it will draw heat away from the component. See Newtons law of Cooling. So yes if you are over-clocking and need to move LOTS of heat away from the tiny surface area of a CPU die, it makes all kinds of sense to want the temperature difference to be as great as possible; provided that does not cause you other problems you can't or don't want to deal with solving like condensation.
Well the easiest solution I can think of would be to have a the electronics suspended off the bottom of the tank, not much maybe an inch or so. You then need a plate a little larger than the electronics mounted over top of them tilted at an angle. It needs to not go the edges of the tank so as to allow the warm oil to rise and slide up the incline on the other side to the top of the tank where it will cool and then roll back down, along the top side. Any water that sinks will also roll down the top side and past the electronics were it will harmlessly collect in the bottom inch of the tank. Periodically when enough water has built up in the bottom of the tank you can siphon the water out stopping the flow slightly before all the water is removed so as not to remove any of the oil.
That assumes the cooling is passive or if the oil is being mechanically circulated its being down slowly enough not to impact the trajectory that water droplets fall at much or dislocate the water from the tank bottom.
Some drives equalize pressure with diaphragm rather than being open to any actual gas exchange with the outside. I am not sure these would fair much better though because the oil is much denser than the air in the drive and is going to therefor push the diaphragm in raising the pressure in the drive to the maximum the diaphragm will allow which might very well be outside the range the engineers designing the drive ever expected to encounter
iven that pay-as-you-go pricing is what the poor and people living paycheck to paycheck use, the result is those who can afford the least still pay by far the most.
Nobody and I mean Nobody *needs* a wireless data plan. Its nice to have but you can certainly get by without one. Its not like it puts you at a real disadvantage in most cases either. That might change someday in the future but right now not having a web browser in your pocket does not yet deny a person many economic opportunities.
A carrier is a business there is far more administrative overhead in dealing with month to month customers and they lose the benefit of certainty about continuing revenue. They absolutely should charge more for contract free plans.
Finally if a person's financial situation is such that they can't work a cellular contract MRC into your budget than you should probably not be allocating any of their evidently limited means to wireless data, its was probably better when they were totally priced out.
I suspect because the moment he gives any away more folks will come out of the wood work insisting they are owed a slice of the pie too.
I know at least at my local cinema they are only showing 2d versions of films in the smaller theaters if at all. I don't really want to see it in 3d because I actually enjoy the film less that way and would rather save a few bucks but if I HAVE decided to see movie in theater in the first place I will watch it in whatever format its offeredd. So by not showing the 2d versions they make it appear the 3d versions are more popular; which as you say they want because they can charge more.
I am not sure that is entirely fair. We are talking about writers abusing death as a plot device. I consider a plot device abused when its been inserted gratuitously. Its gratuitous when an author uses it add drama or intrigue to an otherwise boring story but does bother to weave it into the underlying theme of the story. Stargate's themes are steeped in Ancient Egyptian myth which was very concerned with death and the afterlife to say the least.
So Stargate actually has more license to use it than most others. Buffy (the series) is a big offender though. The first time Buffy dies it makes sense, the mythology established around the master demands it. Killing Joyce though really is just done to shock the audience.
And they are not controlled (yet) so perhaps we can start growing and harvesting them to use against the government oppress^H^H^H^H^H^H^H law officers.
Might be true some places but certainly not everywhere. Computers don't get slower with age. Something changes, the question is should something be chanting? If your employee workstations are just getting slower, then your IT department is doing a PISS POOR job managing those workstations, and something needs to be done about the IT department not the workstations.
There are lots of cases where five plus year old PCs should be just fine. Its not as if keying orders and inventory movements into SAP is going go any quicker on a new PC. Its the back end that matters. That machine can stay on the shop floor until it dies!
Now if you are upgrading software and such, then yes you need to understand the requirements and make sure the hardware is updated to match them. There are lots of cases though where the employees are going to use the same software for five years and longer and might just as well use the same hardware.
When it comes to software we need to ask ourselves if the new tools are really better as well. Excel 2010 certainly does need more horse power to run on than Excel 2000, but is Bob really going to be able to prep that cost analysis report any faster with 2010 on the latest hardware? My guess is for all but a finite number of special case users the answer is no.
no-accident-possible-and-practically-no-residue
And what kind would those be? Breeder's don't produce much if any waste but I am not aware of any even supposed accident proof designs for them. PBR's have proven to be unsafe in both trials I am aware of.
So stop with the pro-nuke Astroturf already. Nuclear power is UNSAFE full stop. Just like coal is UNCLEAN full stop. Its still an open question if other sources can provide suitable replacements without being just as bad. Hydro for example has a profound effect on ecology for in some cases thousands of mile down stream. Large wind farms pose threats as well, some have suggested build enough of them and they might even lead to OMG CLIMATE CHANGE!
My vote remains coal, its the devil we know and we know from our 19th century experience that we can still have pretty good quality of life with a much higher concentration of coal combustion byproducts in the air, we breath.
I have software on my computer that allows me to manage the certificates that I trust. That way, I can decide for myself. Since I don't actually want to bother to do so, I defer to my operating system vendor's judgment.
What choice do you have other than deferring to your operating system or browser vendor's judgment? I think you are telling yourself something to avoid a feeling of helplessness. I know you can remove Comodo and such when ready they have had a breach but what can really do about the others? Do you have the resources to audit their practices? Once you remove a CA how do establish trust with any sites that use them as their authority? Do you call customer service and get them to read a thumb print to you? How do you get the contact info for CS, from the website you can't authenticate?
Really I don't think the typical user is empowered to chose at all. Even the power user has few options, the ones they do have seriously limit who that can interact with, require the make bad compromises which are every bit as bad as just trusting the vendor and the CAs.
Well maybe we need to admit there might not be a solution you. Sometimes you can't solve social problems with technical solutions and what is more social than the concept of trust!
Ok many of your points are fair but your issue with the word forever really isnt. Many of the root CA certs don't expire for like 30 years! In Internet which has only really existed that long and only been public for a little under 20 years and SSL even less, 30 years is for all practical discussion the same thing as forever.
I suspect both methods will work well depending on the situation. On very subject specific sites Google's methods will probably work best. IE Adsens adds on the AROC home page will probably generate more clicks offering links to after market Italian car parts than Facebook ads pushing sexy singles in my neighborhood, will. Facebook will likely find more success on more general news/entertainment sites people just sort of browse not looking for anything specific like this one.
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There are plenty of ideas out there that probably can work. Most of the technology exists, and just needs to be assembled into a single project. Its not even beyond the realm of economic possibility to implement some of these plans they question is why?
What is there on the moon or Mars to make it worth going there. Why should anyone want to live there? Don't say over population even if the population on earth continues to grow at the current rate somehow it will be along time before conditions here would be more cramped then they would be on space/moon/Mars base. Don't say resources its pretty evident that supporting one person on a space/moon/Mars base would take more resources from Earth that keeping that same person right here on Earth. The only reason to do it is for practice colonizing and for the investment required it probably makes more since to try and simulate things here on Terra.
There are for the most part know ways to build and power a multi-generational ship There is lots uninterrupted solar power and other radiation out there to scavenge for your day to day needs, and you could bring enough nuclear fuel from Earth to propel the craft. The trouble is where do want to go. Oh and your going to live the rest of your life in this box, you will never see the destination, nor will your children, their children, their children's children, and likely ten more generations after that. That is if you pick someplace nearby and NOTHING goes wrong. Who wants to take that risk and for what?