Agreed, the solution is obviously to swap out the batteries at fueling stations. Everything else is capitalist individualist crap.
In fact that's what this article is talking about, it's talking about the problem with battery WEIGHT. A real problem, batteries have low energy storage per unit of weight as well as per unit of volume. By using the body of the car as the battery you get the ability to swap this external battery while also replacing some of the heavy safety equipment on the car with something that's dual purpose.
I'm tired of saying this, the fucking bumpers are going to be the batteries.
Stupid engineers, evolving things instead of starting fresh.
I agree, by embracing open standards Google has ensured that they won't be a flash in the pan.
Seems like every 2 bit tech venture hits 60% market share, tries to set standards and fizzles in 5 years.
I'm just trying to imagine Google standing up to the teleco lobby and not seeing it happening. The teleco's don't need to partner with Google at all and Google is going to make the phone and their service commodity products.
Google seems to be giving up ring0 control by supporting a protected area for the radio controller and a channel to the SIM card for l/p,eid, whatever.
War: Product of "end game" mentality, whether religious or pragmatic.
As far as overpopulation goes, how long until it's the matrix. I mean once we pass what 30 billion, where are we going to put people? Endless suburbs? What will their mentality be like.
Some other ones: total blandishment... the end of change in human society. Group suicide: The best explanation for why we can't find aliens, civs reach a point figure something out and die off. Grey goo, we're closer than ever before, what would five years of total war do to the technology of Japan... Europe or America? Higgs Boson: See subatomic gray goo / Existential crisis / unlikely quantum event.
I hope we're aware, I hope we get to see the clock count down:P
This is something we can't get working properly now! What the fuck greenies! This is like going after nuclear power, if you win this one humanity is fucked.
Google should really buy Nimbuzz. After looking over Gizmo5 and Nimbuzz, Nimbuzz is the only one with a hope of really breaking free of the telephone # game.
It just got $10 Mil in Venture capital, waiting for an IPO.
I think the example is that Matt will approach the SKILL rather than the game, once he understands what the learning curve looks like (or ideally makes a model of the entire problem that's cohesive [think Tic-Tac-Toe connect four or the miriad other games that aren't worth playing because all the conditions are preset]) or maps the solution space he's bored... giving him victories based on that solution isn't really an enticement.
Paul on the other hand likes winning and achieving, he cares about points, coins, swords, paychecks, accolades etc. The products of winning and will continue to work towards them until he becomes bored.
As an example think of the game http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/mastermind.jpg/ some people will guess and enjoy winning (and feeling super smart!) others will get out a pencil and come up with the can't fail formula and stop caring.
I am definitely from the second group, if I don't feel challenged I don't perform. Interestingly sometimes I can lose while not feeling challenged. The thing I find most challenging, trying to determine my opponents actions/psychology/pathology/strategy and not being able to... for this reason I loved chess and now love games of stealth.
I find it really interesting when I'm losing but unconcerned, an example would be losing to a team in hockey where they are larger/better trained.
It's easy to tell when a group is more experienced/stronger and to know what effort it takes to gain those skills... and sometimes to realize it's not worth it.
An offshoot of this is when I'd be disappointed when I won... my hockey coach didn't understand this at all. Winning was everything to him and to watch me score a goal and shrug... well he didn't take kindly to it.
In volleyball you're supposed to chant "side out" indicating you want the other team to make a mistake and give you a point... I actually questioned the coach about the validity of such a mentality.
Anyway I've found that randomly bumping around on the net finding random games is what turns me on now... get in build a team/learn what everyone's up to... perform better than everyone else and then leave before the winner is decided... great fun and constant stimulation.
Also for those interested in "gamer" mentality and the healthy bravado surrounding it check out...
For some good negative Sci-Fi check out Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin... while it's definitely written for a teenage crowd it does an amazing job of pointing out that without free energy environmentalism is synonymous with population control and the implications of even the most beneficent forms of population control.
I think Tuf's solution to over population might occur proximately with Stephenson's Diamond age... I'm pretty sure we won't get nano technology until it doesn't have the potential for Grey Goo. Which will be never if modern virus authors are any indication.
It's interesting how the real dangers of evolving technology have to be envisioned by dozens of authors.
There is one of every type of exploitative, destructive or just curious evil genius lurking behind every innovation... think of spam.
Implanting a single input at an early enough stage will produce a "line in" effect that may feel either instinctual or actually produce cognizance depending on the other end of the system.
Your brain will simply assume a complex network on the other end of the "input".
The brain "grows" the ability to use our current senses no reason this would be any different.
The other direction will be more difficult (and probably desired by more people) but the "line in" functionality will be the real game changer.
The biggest obstacle keeping us from using the greenest energy source we have is the pushback from groups like greenpeace. Yea and fuck the police too, never produce anything useful.... oh wait I'm getting shot 1 second.
Ever notice that greenpeace never actually does research or other work to make the world a greener place? The research they do is politically motivated and centered around preventing others from doing things they are politically intolerant of. When's the last time you read a press release from greenpeace about a new technological development they made? If groups such as greenpeace were actually serious about the environment they would be all over themselves in doing everything they could in order to increase the use of nuclear energy.
Perhaps Greenpeace understands that environmentalism will eventually be entirely focused on population control, slowing down the date when this is the case is their motive? But speculating on the long term mentality is pretty silly, if we'd gone Nuclear we wouldn't have solar and we still haven't done enough research on Geothermal, which seems like it would be a really good source of free energy.
Why build our own nucear reactor when the centre of our planet is constantly on fire... We're just getting heat pipe technology up and running, we've got superconductors for the first time. Cheaper in the short term isn't always better and while groups like Greenpeace may seem fanatical in some instances their purpose of long term sustainability isn't all bad.
Ask why you'd rather be in a field than a cubicle and you can perhaps understand their perspective.
There is no bank to big to let fail, look at the Crusades and their attempts to kill all the Jews.
In the short term it is beneficial for China to maintain the U.S. as a consumer of their goods allowing them to purchase resources from countries like Brazil, Canada and Australia. But at some point it will occur to a Chinese worker that he makes 500 iPods a day and can't afford one.
If Chinese knock offs have taught us anything it's that the Chinese saw what happened to manufacturing in Japan, then South Korea/Taiwan and have NO intention of allowing themselves to move into the consumer role.
Maybe they didn't get their message across with the Olympics, it's not a billion faceless uneducated people who are basically the same. It's a billion individuals each of whom is ambitious... couple that with a pretty good grasp of economics and a populace forgiving of human rights abuse if it means prosperity and you have a viable economic machine.
Japan launched itself into the information economy successfully in the early 80s and it was only the timely oil crisis that broke their ability to transition.
I'm glad you see the irony, just wish you'd realize that all the other nations see it as well... it'll be interesting to see what convenient methods the CIA finds to defuse several nations making a move towards becoming the dominant culture at once. Sigh, it's so obvious how this is going to go... wish they'd all calm down and stop racing towards the end game.
You think Environmentalists are nazis? (BTW I think the word your looking for is Fanatic, bring out the Nazi's once genetics get involved... like with Zionists).
Saudi Arabia is REALLY REALLY rich. Like crazy rich, like if you're born there you're guaranteed the equivalent of a U.S. doctor salary just for being a citizen.
The U.S. class of consumer goods doesn't really excite them anymore and they're conscious of the prisoner's dilema situation arising as peak oil becomes a reality.
The last person selling oil makes the most money, and they have enough reserve CASH that they can just stop and wait until they're the last one standing.
Of course all of that cash is in American currency which seems likely to become worthless once people actually look at the breakdown of the trillions of $ of American debt.
I'm not surprised prices are rising, I'm surprised nations that "cash in" on oil are still selling to other nations.
Maybe it's another situation like the one that exists with China, their production pretty much makes America their servant as well.
The Chinese seem to think that American money is going to be worth something into the future, WTF is America investing in? Not themselves, not oil, not money, not education, not military power...
It's Taco franchises and entertainment isn't it... Sigh.... so stupid.
Well if they could convince us that President Hugo Chavez wasn't the nice people serving anti-communist he clearly is (No I'm not being sarcastic, look as his public opinion polls) then at least the CIA would still have a modicum of power.
See this is why we should have kept the USSR around. America could have sent them a billion dollars and they'd solve this with Crazy scientists nestled high in the mountains.
Or they'd make it some kind of race involving a "domino" effect ("If we don't harvest this oil shale. What will happen to all the other little shale fields? [Eisenhower voice]")...
Look what happened when China got involved in the Canadian Oil Sands... all of a sudden the U.S. was like, "yea those are actually worth something"...
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Agreed, the solution is obviously to swap out the batteries at fueling stations. Everything else is capitalist individualist crap.
In fact that's what this article is talking about, it's talking about the problem with battery WEIGHT. A real problem, batteries have low energy storage per unit of weight as well as per unit of volume. By using the body of the car as the battery you get the ability to swap this external battery while also replacing some of the heavy safety equipment on the car with something that's dual purpose.
I'm tired of saying this, the fucking bumpers are going to be the batteries.
Stupid engineers, evolving things instead of starting fresh.
I agree, by embracing open standards Google has ensured that they won't be a flash in the pan.
Seems like every 2 bit tech venture hits 60% market share, tries to set standards and fizzles in 5 years.
I'm just trying to imagine Google standing up to the teleco lobby and not seeing it happening. The teleco's don't need to partner with Google at all and Google is going to make the phone and their service commodity products.
Google seems to be giving up ring0 control by supporting a protected area for the radio controller and a channel to the SIM card for l/p,eid, whatever.
Until they start building mortar launchers that aim at that frequency.
"a *net* producer of metal" - Go China!
Considering the average american is $10k+ in debt they're still richer :P
War: Product of "end game" mentality, whether religious or pragmatic.
:P
As far as overpopulation goes, how long until it's the matrix. I mean once we pass what 30 billion, where are we going to put people? Endless suburbs? What will their mentality be like.
Some other ones: total blandishment... the end of change in human society.
Group suicide: The best explanation for why we can't find aliens, civs reach a point figure something out and die off.
Grey goo, we're closer than ever before, what would five years of total war do to the technology of Japan... Europe or America?
Higgs Boson: See subatomic gray goo / Existential crisis / unlikely quantum event.
I hope we're aware, I hope we get to see the clock count down
This is something we can't get working properly now! What the fuck greenies! This is like going after nuclear power, if you win this one humanity is fucked.
Kudos on the Stainless Steel Rat idea, with the right actor that would capture the imagination of millions.
There's already about 20 books made, it would make a fantastic trilogy.
Google should really buy Nimbuzz. After looking over Gizmo5 and Nimbuzz, Nimbuzz is the only one with a hope of really breaking free of the telephone # game.
It just got $10 Mil in Venture capital, waiting for an IPO.
Jesus when these go 802.11n there's going to be pretty serious municipal coverage.
Android users (and apparently Nokia n900) are experiencing seamless voip integration... looking bad for the telecos!
Mod parent +1 Amen.
I think the example is that Matt will approach the SKILL rather than the game, once he understands what the learning curve looks like (or ideally makes a model of the entire problem that's cohesive [think Tic-Tac-Toe connect four or the miriad other games that aren't worth playing because all the conditions are preset]) or maps the solution space he's bored... giving him victories based on that solution isn't really an enticement.
Paul on the other hand likes winning and achieving, he cares about points, coins, swords, paychecks, accolades etc. The products of winning and will continue to work towards them until he becomes bored.
As an example think of the game http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/mastermind.jpg/ some people will guess and enjoy winning (and feeling super smart!) others will get out a pencil and come up with the can't fail formula and stop caring.
I find it really interesting when I'm losing but unconcerned, an example would be losing to a team in hockey where they are larger/better trained.
It's easy to tell when a group is more experienced/stronger and to know what effort it takes to gain those skills... and sometimes to realize it's not worth it.
An offshoot of this is when I'd be disappointed when I won... my hockey coach didn't understand this at all. Winning was everything to him and to watch me score a goal and shrug... well he didn't take kindly to it.
In volleyball you're supposed to chant "side out" indicating you want the other team to make a mistake and give you a point... I actually questioned the coach about the validity of such a mentality.
Anyway I've found that randomly bumping around on the net finding random games is what turns me on now... get in build a team/learn what everyone's up to... perform better than everyone else and then leave before the winner is decided... great fun and constant stimulation.
Also for those interested in "gamer" mentality and the healthy bravado surrounding it check out
For some good negative Sci-Fi check out Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin... while it's definitely written for a teenage crowd it does an amazing job of pointing out that without free energy environmentalism is synonymous with population control and the implications of even the most beneficent forms of population control.
I think Tuf's solution to over population might occur proximately with Stephenson's Diamond age... I'm pretty sure we won't get nano technology until it doesn't have the potential for Grey Goo. Which will be never if modern virus authors are any indication.
It's interesting how the real dangers of evolving technology have to be envisioned by dozens of authors.
There is one of every type of exploitative, destructive or just curious evil genius lurking behind every innovation... think of spam.
Your brain is a network.
Implanting a single input at an early enough stage will produce a "line in" effect that may feel either instinctual or actually produce cognizance depending on the other end of the system.
Your brain will simply assume a complex network on the other end of the "input".
The brain "grows" the ability to use our current senses no reason this would be any different.
The other direction will be more difficult (and probably desired by more people) but the "line in" functionality will be the real game changer.
What if the Buddhists are right? Life IS suffering...
Now you won't be able to turn a blind eye to this, and you'll die... it'll look like that really bad Markie Mark movie...
Samsung is awesome, so is enlightenment.
It's like Fluxbox in terms of resource use (and unfortunately on flashy little GUI indicators) but looks amazing!
Kudos on this! Let's get windows management handled! It's been so many years of updates on something that should have been handled by now!
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2009101929031/National-news/in-brief-land-mine-deaths-continue-slow-fall.html
Too be slightly less depressing I should point out that I saw people sharing a pair of shoes, yay!
When we can map all possible ideas then yea, until then an original creator should be assumed.
Prove and disprove assume a frame of reference their Plato.
The biggest obstacle keeping us from using the greenest energy source we have is the pushback from groups like greenpeace. Yea and fuck the police too, never produce anything useful.... oh wait I'm getting shot 1 second.
Ever notice that greenpeace never actually does research or other work to make the world a greener place? The research they do is politically motivated and centered around preventing others from doing things they are politically intolerant of. When's the last time you read a press release from greenpeace about a new technological development they made? If groups such as greenpeace were actually serious about the environment they would be all over themselves in doing everything they could in order to increase the use of nuclear energy.
Perhaps Greenpeace understands that environmentalism will eventually be entirely focused on population control, slowing down the date when this is the case is their motive? But speculating on the long term mentality is pretty silly, if we'd gone Nuclear we wouldn't have solar and we still haven't done enough research on Geothermal, which seems like it would be a really good source of free energy.
Why build our own nucear reactor when the centre of our planet is constantly on fire... We're just getting heat pipe technology up and running, we've got superconductors for the first time. Cheaper in the short term isn't always better and while groups like Greenpeace may seem fanatical in some instances their purpose of long term sustainability isn't all bad.
Ask why you'd rather be in a field than a cubicle and you can perhaps understand their perspective.
You don't need a "purchaser" if you're communist.
There is no bank to big to let fail, look at the Crusades and their attempts to kill all the Jews.
In the short term it is beneficial for China to maintain the U.S. as a consumer of their goods allowing them to purchase resources from countries like Brazil, Canada and Australia. But at some point it will occur to a Chinese worker that he makes 500 iPods a day and can't afford one.
If Chinese knock offs have taught us anything it's that the Chinese saw what happened to manufacturing in Japan, then South Korea/Taiwan and have NO intention of allowing themselves to move into the consumer role.
Maybe they didn't get their message across with the Olympics, it's not a billion faceless uneducated people who are basically the same. It's a billion individuals each of whom is ambitious... couple that with a pretty good grasp of economics and a populace forgiving of human rights abuse if it means prosperity and you have a viable economic machine.
Japan launched itself into the information economy successfully in the early 80s and it was only the timely oil crisis that broke their ability to transition.
I'm glad you see the irony, just wish you'd realize that all the other nations see it as well... it'll be interesting to see what convenient methods the CIA finds to defuse several nations making a move towards becoming the dominant culture at once. Sigh, it's so obvious how this is going to go... wish they'd all calm down and stop racing towards the end game.
You think Environmentalists are nazis? (BTW I think the word your looking for is Fanatic, bring out the Nazi's once genetics get involved... like with Zionists).
:P
Take a look at Feminism
Yea see, that's what they're thinking.
Saudi Arabia is REALLY REALLY rich. Like crazy rich, like if you're born there you're guaranteed the equivalent of a U.S. doctor salary just for being a citizen.
The U.S. class of consumer goods doesn't really excite them anymore and they're conscious of the prisoner's dilema situation arising as peak oil becomes a reality.
The last person selling oil makes the most money, and they have enough reserve CASH that they can just stop and wait until they're the last one standing.
Of course all of that cash is in American currency which seems likely to become worthless once people actually look at the breakdown of the trillions of $ of American debt.
I'm not surprised prices are rising, I'm surprised nations that "cash in" on oil are still selling to other nations.
Maybe it's another situation like the one that exists with China, their production pretty much makes America their servant as well.
The Chinese seem to think that American money is going to be worth something into the future, WTF is America investing in? Not themselves, not oil, not money, not education, not military power...
It's Taco franchises and entertainment isn't it... Sigh.... so stupid.
Well if they could convince us that President Hugo Chavez wasn't the nice people serving anti-communist he clearly is (No I'm not being sarcastic, look as his public opinion polls) then at least the CIA would still have a modicum of power.
Had a dream the other night that humanity adopted the concept of mega cities. Small landmass with cities built up and down and moving walkways...
It was cool, the environmentalists loved it.
See this is why we should have kept the USSR around. America could have sent them a billion dollars and they'd solve this with Crazy scientists nestled high in the mountains.
Or they'd make it some kind of race involving a "domino" effect ("If we don't harvest this oil shale. What will happen to all the other little shale fields? [Eisenhower voice]")...
Look what happened when China got involved in the Canadian Oil Sands... all of a sudden the U.S. was like, "yea those are actually worth something"...
Such a bunch of crap...