One benefit of people living in the jungle and not getting addicted to modern technology is that they will be able to stay self reliant and uncontrolled by centralized power entitites. When everyone in the world owns a PC that does daily "windows updates" from Global High Command in Redmond, that's the end of liberty and human freedom in the world. Perhaps some children can be a lot happier without a laptop.
I practically looooved Windows 95, with all my heart. As soon as I saw wat Windows 98 had done, integrating the browser into looking at my own harddrive, in order to kill Netscape, and support the artificial argument in the antitrust court that "the browser is an organic and integral part of the operating system" instead of the fast, nimble and functional windows explorer that was such a revolution in letting me use the computer, I had a sour taste in my mouth, and it just got worse and worse with the newer and newer hogging and control taking features, to the point where Win XP threw the tongue at me for not registering in 90 days and refused to function. My last windows version was/is Windows 2000, and I cope. Once you get into this defensive/offensive control and squat everything octopus measures, you're strategically down the wrong road, eventually leading to internal collapse. Look at how nVidia functioned - no chessgames and control wars, but pure performance and product delivery, and no bs. Unlike 3dfx, they were never out to "eliminate" the competition by withdrawing chips from them, or such other nasty measures. Unfortunately Windows could never live side by side in peace with companies Netscape, or even Lotus or Wordperfect, and just be the best OS provider, while competing on merit, not control-hog measures, at least not as a supermoneymaker. Software companies are no longer started up because of this bleak outlook on their future, it doesn't matter what they do, their fate is decided by these precedents. There is a reason for the Borg picture on Slashdot - innovation by assimilation - what happens when you squatted everything run out of things to assimilate? Beat other people up to come up with something new, so you can assimilate more? Even the "Aero" features in Vista have been around, with much lower hardware requirements, on other platforms. What's really new and about Vista, other than the despicable "improvement" in speed and performance, and with less liberty to me as a computer user?
How about a big flat concave surface riding on a pillow of air? You'd completely eliminate skin-drag on the bottom, and then the problem would be the hydrodynamic and turbulence drag around the sides and behind the ship. Then apply the air bubbles to the sides, and fix the turbulence generated behind the ship. As far as the wave from the tip goes, have a "digger" that smoothly lifts the water portion that would rise and create the wave, lifts it up and over the hull and releases it well spread out without much turbulence somewhere in the back. This would give you some very funky shape. I wonder why they don't do monte carlo FEA shapes, and set the range of shapes completely random. I had that Idea while reading up on Enercon windmill blade designs finding faults in 1929 reasonings, and improving efficiency. Why not analyze random shapes, and have the supercomputer sort out the mess about which aerodynamic design is best, kind of like evolution came up with goose-wings. Of course things like supercavitating propellers are hard to predict with hydrodynamic equations, because they are about nonlinear behavior, and our knowledge of the equations isn't as good as we'd like it to be, same with golf ball shapes, but still, brute force monte carlo + FEA in a supercomputer deals with linear things, and there could be some monte carlo crazy shapes thrown at the computer, including convex bottom surfaces.
Sometimes when I sit at the computer and read something, the feeling to having to go and sit on my throne in the bathroom overwhelms me. It'd be nice if I could print the subject material, and read in in some quality quiet, while doing something else very important. I wouldn't mind having such fading paper in my printer for such occasions, because I still have lying around stuff I printed on real paper a while ago, and still looking to reuse the backside of it. Just think of it, how many times can you use the backside of a printed paper? Each such occasion warrants a fading paper, though they should make it UV fadable and install a UV light bar in the printer that erases the paper on the printed side. I don't necessarily want it to go off and erase itself after 10 hours, I'd rather be the one in charge pushing the button say "erase now."
As long as we're talking about IBM denies destroying evidence, we're talking about a question like "when you stopped beating your wife." Even if it has nothing to do with reality, it instills into the subconscious "knowledge" that will be hard to ignore.
I think this is a bogus story, trying to promote the idea of virtual goods. You own territory in an online game, like a big house? Sell it for more than your real house! Soon people will be forbidden to deal with real world items and will be relegated to commerce and lives within virtual communities, and only properly authorized people will be allowed to buy/sell/decide over anything tangible and really relevant. You must live your life virtually, we'll feed you just to keep you "safe". We catch you doing any actions with consequences in the real world, including chopping wood, or anything tangible, off you go to prison.
I'm starting to get really annoyed with the hype when I hear the word nanotechnology. Hey how about the combo buzzword e-nano? Or synergystic e-i-nanotech!
That reminds me of the grandma who died, but the people living in the house put her staring out at the window making her look alive so the next pension check would still come and they could cash it, and only then announce her death and lie about the actual date. How many authors would be kept on life support?
I was just looking for the toilet paper reference! One use is an awesome random seed generator for security applications! Everytime you wipe, first scan and read contents to update the seed, before you toss!
Oh, and by the way we get the message out that Putin is a pedophile. He must be a hardass and tough negotiator, so this is one way to erode some of his political aura - kill somebody, blame it on him, then blame it on him being a pedophile not wanting the news to get out. Even if people pass over it, it remains in the subconscious every time they see his face from now on. That could be another reason why this is "news."
Because shooting a spy with a gun does not instill a new fear into the population. Nasty stuff happens day in and day out, all over the world, but I'm always curious to see what the media wants to emphasize, and try to poke at what the motives must be. Spies are killed left and right and you never get to know about it. The important part here is that da man through his media channels decided to make a story about it, meaning it will probably have a desired effect. One effect I can think of is the "proliferation" of nuclear poisons and materials, giving you another reason to get stripsearched at an airport. It used to be that cops just tossed a small bag of white powder in your car, and you were caught redhanded, possessing drugs. You can swear you never saw that thing in your car, right, all pepople in prison swear they are innocent. But the penalties for finding powder on you are only nominal, there needs to be something that automatically takes you out of circulation for good, without parole. Soon you'll see people on "cops" caught carrying 2 mg of polonium! Wee! And the law enforcement is ready to counter the threat for your protection! It's like IE7 with "anti-phishing" measures! Gotta have some excuse, something latest and greates and novel to push something on you, getting stripsearched for drug possession is so old-fashioned and boring, but hey, not you'll be "phished" for polonium! Wee! That's the new vogue to get arrested for!
There is a reason why da man wants everyone kept on pills, if nothing else, vitamin pills. Then it's only a matter to changing their pills. The taste is already covered up, because nobody chews pills and expects them to taste good. Easy does it, don't even need a "violent" death like J.F. Kennedy needed it, it's enough to get an "accidental overdose" like Marilyn Monroe with a lot less mess to deal wtih.
That's not an explanation of why, but a what. I was hoping to gain a deeper understanding of superconductivity, not from the point of view of why some materials exhibit superconductivity, but why others don't. If you can explain the why's of the don't then you may get a clue for the why's of the do.
Ahh.. that's right.. it's lighter than air, so it rises easily, and it reacts with free radicals in the ozone layer, just like it easily gets chlorinated if the free radical chain reaction is initiated. I guess any free radical may decompose it, including nitrous oxide species and ozone generated in pine forests, not just radiation/UV/lightning generated ones.
When I'm under stress, I find the need for 12 hr sleep cycles. When life is good, 8-9 hrs. That's too much for a normal 8 to 5 40 hr weekdays, get 5-8 hrs, so Saturday is the major catchup day, 12-14 hrs. Some of it is half awake, especially late in the morning about 2 hrs of semi conscious "sleep", but I find myself thinking through reasonings that when I wake I can barely catch and follow, thinking hard how I went from that topic to that topic, when it seemed so "connected" and fitting together when half asleep, and it's very hard to keep up with the line of reasoning when awake, it takes a tremendous effort. If you have a very complicated problem that you're unable to fix, too many details, or learning something brand new that doesn't fit in your head, pretty much the only thing you need is to enumerate everything you know, try to remember as many details as possible without trying to solve the problem, just getting to know it from many angles, then after a night's sleep, or after a couple night's sleep, you'll be a different person - either know the solution to a tough problem, of own an instinctive knowledge of something you just learned and never thought possible you'd ever "know", but you'll feel like you know it, and you will know it in every sense humans can know something.
I don't think water filtration is the proper disposal place. Just the fact that reefs didn't find them tasty enough makes me believe it was leaching chemicals at biocide levels, and it still is, very slowly. Perhaps the best use for it would be griding it up and putting it into asphalt as a filler - it would make a very great use for that. Another more expensive method would be to dry them up, then pyrolyze them away for some fuel/petrochemicals. If it pyrolyzes into propene or ethylene, then it might be easier to purify the lead, zinc and other unwanted ash out than if it pyrolyzes into a tarry liquid.
No. I also don't want to drink water filled with PAH's polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons leached from carbon black or even mined anthracite, nor DOP (dioctyl phtalate) and other processing aid oils, nor the myriad of funky vulcanization accelerators, all leaking at ppb levels slowly into my body, and then everyone wonders why breast cancer rates are so high. (I'm not a woman, but some of this technology just doesn't sound right.) My preferance is mountain dark rock filtered water, where the water doesn't flow, but diffuses through wet, sweating basalt rock. It also contains the proper nutrients at trace ppt levels or lower, including metals such as molybdenum, tungsten, cerium, samarium, thorium, cobalt, nickel, arsenic, selenium, gold, or anything you can think of, at the proper nutrient levels where they are not toxic, compared to the drab and dry weathered stuff from granite rock or most clay-groundwater wells on plains or filtered water from lakes and rivers that lack these nutrients. You can pretty much taste the correct "good" water from the iron levels present, so I could be tricked into thinking I'm drinking correct water with proper nutrients when all there is just iron in the water, and proper hardness without the trace nutrients.
Actually cows burp a lot of methane when they redigest cellulose the second time. Also when they fart. Also horses fart a lot, but I guess by biomass humans much outweight horses, if not all animal biomass. Methane is a byproduct of anaerobic bacterial digestion, and it is generated a lot in swampy lakes and rivers just as much as in your intestines - the bubbles you see rise to the surface while fisihing are practically methane. If there are a lot less swamps with rotting vegetation around because of human development clearing them away, that means a lot less methane is vented into the atmosphere. I'm still curious what the degradation/extraction mechanisms of methane are - does it accumulate forever in the atmosphere? That doesn't sound true. There's gotta be more than just lighning or cosmic rays or irradiation consuming it - does it all end up dissolved in a sea? There must be some methane-fixing bacteria just like there are nitrogen fixing ones. What is the consumer part of the methane-cycle?
A company like GE would never invest into basic research like this. They need a lot higher and lot faster return on the money to increase investor shareholder value. The only thing GE would ever do is lobby Congress on how to spend the tax money to do the research for them, then obtain exclusive rights to build the thing if it works. But GE has to be cheap even with the taxmoney they "don't own" within the gov't, because they might find much more profitable ways to divert it, "today", "now", "where my money at right this moment," as opposed to something that pays off in 40 years. The "time value of money" that's carved in stone and sacred teaches that having 10 bux in your hand today at 80% APR is worth more than 30 million bux in 30 years, because compound interest "explodes exponentially". And who says 80% APR is too much? There is a rule of thumb that US businesses won't even consider investing into something that doesn't pay back in a year, and that's 100% APR.
Da man knows the materials issue is the critical issue. That's why the hungry japanese stuck on an overpopulated bare rock island got the materials research part of the pie, just in case they come up with something that works well, but they have to bring it to da man in Cadarache to actually test it out, that's why the whole thing isn't hosted in Japan. We can't trust these japs enough given WW2 kamikaze's even if they are very innovative and make the best cars. There is no trust in the world, and there is even less of it ever since G.W. Bush told the UN "I do what I want cuz I can, and what you gonna do about it, huh, huh? Piss on you."
Chemicals we can make from coal. The only problem is profitability, fluid hydrocarbons are cheaper to mine and handle. That's the only thing that's wrong with the world today with respect to this issue: greed.
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One benefit of people living in the jungle and not getting addicted to modern technology is that they will be able to stay self reliant and uncontrolled by centralized power entitites. When everyone in the world owns a PC that does daily "windows updates" from Global High Command in Redmond, that's the end of liberty and human freedom in the world. Perhaps some children can be a lot happier without a laptop.
I practically looooved Windows 95, with all my heart. As soon as I saw wat Windows 98 had done, integrating the browser into looking at my own harddrive, in order to kill Netscape, and support the artificial argument in the antitrust court that "the browser is an organic and integral part of the operating system" instead of the fast, nimble and functional windows explorer that was such a revolution in letting me use the computer, I had a sour taste in my mouth, and it just got worse and worse with the newer and newer hogging and control taking features, to the point where Win XP threw the tongue at me for not registering in 90 days and refused to function. My last windows version was/is Windows 2000, and I cope. Once you get into this defensive/offensive control and squat everything octopus measures, you're strategically down the wrong road, eventually leading to internal collapse. Look at how nVidia functioned - no chessgames and control wars, but pure performance and product delivery, and no bs. Unlike 3dfx, they were never out to "eliminate" the competition by withdrawing chips from them, or such other nasty measures. Unfortunately Windows could never live side by side in peace with companies Netscape, or even Lotus or Wordperfect, and just be the best OS provider, while competing on merit, not control-hog measures, at least not as a supermoneymaker. Software companies are no longer started up because of this bleak outlook on their future, it doesn't matter what they do, their fate is decided by these precedents. There is a reason for the Borg picture on Slashdot - innovation by assimilation - what happens when you squatted everything run out of things to assimilate? Beat other people up to come up with something new, so you can assimilate more? Even the "Aero" features in Vista have been around, with much lower hardware requirements, on other platforms. What's really new and about Vista, other than the despicable "improvement" in speed and performance, and with less liberty to me as a computer user?
How about a big flat concave surface riding on a pillow of air? You'd completely eliminate skin-drag on the bottom, and then the problem would be the hydrodynamic and turbulence drag around the sides and behind the ship. Then apply the air bubbles to the sides, and fix the turbulence generated behind the ship. As far as the wave from the tip goes, have a "digger" that smoothly lifts the water portion that would rise and create the wave, lifts it up and over the hull and releases it well spread out without much turbulence somewhere in the back. This would give you some very funky shape. I wonder why they don't do monte carlo FEA shapes, and set the range of shapes completely random. I had that Idea while reading up on Enercon windmill blade designs finding faults in 1929 reasonings, and improving efficiency. Why not analyze random shapes, and have the supercomputer sort out the mess about which aerodynamic design is best, kind of like evolution came up with goose-wings. Of course things like supercavitating propellers are hard to predict with hydrodynamic equations, because they are about nonlinear behavior, and our knowledge of the equations isn't as good as we'd like it to be, same with golf ball shapes, but still, brute force monte carlo + FEA in a supercomputer deals with linear things, and there could be some monte carlo crazy shapes thrown at the computer, including convex bottom surfaces.
Sometimes when I sit at the computer and read something, the feeling to having to go and sit on my throne in the bathroom overwhelms me. It'd be nice if I could print the subject material, and read in in some quality quiet, while doing something else very important. I wouldn't mind having such fading paper in my printer for such occasions, because I still have lying around stuff I printed on real paper a while ago, and still looking to reuse the backside of it. Just think of it, how many times can you use the backside of a printed paper? Each such occasion warrants a fading paper, though they should make it UV fadable and install a UV light bar in the printer that erases the paper on the printed side. I don't necessarily want it to go off and erase itself after 10 hours, I'd rather be the one in charge pushing the button say "erase now."
As long as we're talking about IBM denies destroying evidence, we're talking about a question like "when you stopped beating your wife." Even if it has nothing to do with reality, it instills into the subconscious "knowledge" that will be hard to ignore.
I think this is a bogus story, trying to promote the idea of virtual goods. You own territory in an online game, like a big house? Sell it for more than your real house! Soon people will be forbidden to deal with real world items and will be relegated to commerce and lives within virtual communities, and only properly authorized people will be allowed to buy/sell/decide over anything tangible and really relevant. You must live your life virtually, we'll feed you just to keep you "safe". We catch you doing any actions with consequences in the real world, including chopping wood, or anything tangible, off you go to prison.
I'm starting to get really annoyed with the hype when I hear the word nanotechnology. Hey how about the combo buzzword e-nano? Or synergystic e-i-nanotech!
That reminds me of the grandma who died, but the people living in the house put her staring out at the window making her look alive so the next pension check would still come and they could cash it, and only then announce her death and lie about the actual date. How many authors would be kept on life support?
I was just looking for the toilet paper reference! One use is an awesome random seed generator for security applications! Everytime you wipe, first scan and read contents to update the seed, before you toss!
So what is it that makes some metals never attain superconductivity no matter how low the temperature? I still haven't got an explanation.
Oh, and by the way we get the message out that Putin is a pedophile. He must be a hardass and tough negotiator, so this is one way to erode some of his political aura - kill somebody, blame it on him, then blame it on him being a pedophile not wanting the news to get out. Even if people pass over it, it remains in the subconscious every time they see his face from now on. That could be another reason why this is "news."
Because shooting a spy with a gun does not instill a new fear into the population. Nasty stuff happens day in and day out, all over the world, but I'm always curious to see what the media wants to emphasize, and try to poke at what the motives must be. Spies are killed left and right and you never get to know about it. The important part here is that da man through his media channels decided to make a story about it, meaning it will probably have a desired effect. One effect I can think of is the "proliferation" of nuclear poisons and materials, giving you another reason to get stripsearched at an airport. It used to be that cops just tossed a small bag of white powder in your car, and you were caught redhanded, possessing drugs. You can swear you never saw that thing in your car, right, all pepople in prison swear they are innocent. But the penalties for finding powder on you are only nominal, there needs to be something that automatically takes you out of circulation for good, without parole. Soon you'll see people on "cops" caught carrying 2 mg of polonium! Wee! And the law enforcement is ready to counter the threat for your protection! It's like IE7 with "anti-phishing" measures! Gotta have some excuse, something latest and greates and novel to push something on you, getting stripsearched for drug possession is so old-fashioned and boring, but hey, not you'll be "phished" for polonium! Wee! That's the new vogue to get arrested for!
Ha ha ha.. you can run but you can't hide from Putin!
There is a reason why da man wants everyone kept on pills, if nothing else, vitamin pills. Then it's only a matter to changing their pills. The taste is already covered up, because nobody chews pills and expects them to taste good. Easy does it, don't even need a "violent" death like J.F. Kennedy needed it, it's enough to get an "accidental overdose" like Marilyn Monroe with a lot less mess to deal wtih.
That's not an explanation of why, but a what. I was hoping to gain a deeper understanding of superconductivity, not from the point of view of why some materials exhibit superconductivity, but why others don't. If you can explain the why's of the don't then you may get a clue for the why's of the do.
Why don't copper and gold get superconductive at an arbitrarily low temperature?
Ahh.. that's right.. it's lighter than air, so it rises easily, and it reacts with free radicals in the ozone layer, just like it easily gets chlorinated if the free radical chain reaction is initiated. I guess any free radical may decompose it, including nitrous oxide species and ozone generated in pine forests, not just radiation/UV/lightning generated ones.
Right on. Was just gonna say that, but you said it better.
When I'm under stress, I find the need for 12 hr sleep cycles. When life is good, 8-9 hrs. That's too much for a normal 8 to 5 40 hr weekdays, get 5-8 hrs, so Saturday is the major catchup day, 12-14 hrs. Some of it is half awake, especially late in the morning about 2 hrs of semi conscious "sleep", but I find myself thinking through reasonings that when I wake I can barely catch and follow, thinking hard how I went from that topic to that topic, when it seemed so "connected" and fitting together when half asleep, and it's very hard to keep up with the line of reasoning when awake, it takes a tremendous effort. If you have a very complicated problem that you're unable to fix, too many details, or learning something brand new that doesn't fit in your head, pretty much the only thing you need is to enumerate everything you know, try to remember as many details as possible without trying to solve the problem, just getting to know it from many angles, then after a night's sleep, or after a couple night's sleep, you'll be a different person - either know the solution to a tough problem, of own an instinctive knowledge of something you just learned and never thought possible you'd ever "know", but you'll feel like you know it, and you will know it in every sense humans can know something.
I don't think water filtration is the proper disposal place. Just the fact that reefs didn't find them tasty enough makes me believe it was leaching chemicals at biocide levels, and it still is, very slowly. Perhaps the best use for it would be griding it up and putting it into asphalt as a filler - it would make a very great use for that. Another more expensive method would be to dry them up, then pyrolyze them away for some fuel/petrochemicals. If it pyrolyzes into propene or ethylene, then it might be easier to purify the lead, zinc and other unwanted ash out than if it pyrolyzes into a tarry liquid.
No. I also don't want to drink water filled with PAH's polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons leached from carbon black or even mined anthracite, nor DOP (dioctyl phtalate) and other processing aid oils, nor the myriad of funky vulcanization accelerators, all leaking at ppb levels slowly into my body, and then everyone wonders why breast cancer rates are so high. (I'm not a woman, but some of this technology just doesn't sound right.) My preferance is mountain dark rock filtered water, where the water doesn't flow, but diffuses through wet, sweating basalt rock. It also contains the proper nutrients at trace ppt levels or lower, including metals such as molybdenum, tungsten, cerium, samarium, thorium, cobalt, nickel, arsenic, selenium, gold, or anything you can think of, at the proper nutrient levels where they are not toxic, compared to the drab and dry weathered stuff from granite rock or most clay-groundwater wells on plains or filtered water from lakes and rivers that lack these nutrients. You can pretty much taste the correct "good" water from the iron levels present, so I could be tricked into thinking I'm drinking correct water with proper nutrients when all there is just iron in the water, and proper hardness without the trace nutrients.
Actually cows burp a lot of methane when they redigest cellulose the second time. Also when they fart. Also horses fart a lot, but I guess by biomass humans much outweight horses, if not all animal biomass. Methane is a byproduct of anaerobic bacterial digestion, and it is generated a lot in swampy lakes and rivers just as much as in your intestines - the bubbles you see rise to the surface while fisihing are practically methane. If there are a lot less swamps with rotting vegetation around because of human development clearing them away, that means a lot less methane is vented into the atmosphere. I'm still curious what the degradation/extraction mechanisms of methane are - does it accumulate forever in the atmosphere? That doesn't sound true. There's gotta be more than just lighning or cosmic rays or irradiation consuming it - does it all end up dissolved in a sea? There must be some methane-fixing bacteria just like there are nitrogen fixing ones. What is the consumer part of the methane-cycle?
A company like GE would never invest into basic research like this. They need a lot higher and lot faster return on the money to increase investor shareholder value. The only thing GE would ever do is lobby Congress on how to spend the tax money to do the research for them, then obtain exclusive rights to build the thing if it works. But GE has to be cheap even with the taxmoney they "don't own" within the gov't, because they might find much more profitable ways to divert it, "today", "now", "where my money at right this moment," as opposed to something that pays off in 40 years. The "time value of money" that's carved in stone and sacred teaches that having 10 bux in your hand today at 80% APR is worth more than 30 million bux in 30 years, because compound interest "explodes exponentially". And who says 80% APR is too much? There is a rule of thumb that US businesses won't even consider investing into something that doesn't pay back in a year, and that's 100% APR.
Da man knows the materials issue is the critical issue. That's why the hungry japanese stuck on an overpopulated bare rock island got the materials research part of the pie, just in case they come up with something that works well, but they have to bring it to da man in Cadarache to actually test it out, that's why the whole thing isn't hosted in Japan. We can't trust these japs enough given WW2 kamikaze's even if they are very innovative and make the best cars. There is no trust in the world, and there is even less of it ever since G.W. Bush told the UN "I do what I want cuz I can, and what you gonna do about it, huh, huh? Piss on you."
Chemicals we can make from coal. The only problem is profitability, fluid hydrocarbons are cheaper to mine and handle. That's the only thing that's wrong with the world today with respect to this issue: greed.