I would drive back to my hometown immediately. While there I would try to get access to as much cash as possible. The rest I would move to bitcoins and place the wallet on a flash drive in my pocket. As soon as dark came on the second day, I would leave and move through town in the dark. Where I come from there are deserted dead end neighborhoods connected to long dark abandoned railway tunnels. Using a variety of pathways through this abandoned streets / tunnel system I am confident I could lose pursuit and gain access to the rail network. I would then stowaway on trains heading west until I reached california. After that I would hobo it north to the "Gold Coast" and get employment at a marijuana factory, or hide out with a bunch of hippies in the woods protecting the redwoods, hoping to not get arrested. I would be in california. My last transaction would be on the east coast. I am assuming they would believe I was in my hometown somewhere using "home territory advantage".
Population within city limits is a totally useless and meaningless way to rate anything. Local politics destroys any semblance of reality or functionality.
San Jose is a part of San Francisco.
Look at how advertisers delineate media markets for a more functional approach to ranking cities.
Calgary, Alberta - Just located the world's greatest source of hydrocarbons near here on top of the second largest heavy oil deposits in the world. Coupled with great opportunity for growth in both tourism and agriculture. This city is one of the safest bets. Not too far from Vancouver and the sea as well.
Perth Australia - Australia hasn't had a recession in 50 years. Perth is isolated both geographically and politically from most of the destructive currents on our planet, has significant energy deposits in the are, so it's probably a pretty safe bet. Good climate too. If global civilization collapses this is a possible re-seed point of civilization.
North Dakota. - Low unemployment, booming economy.
Pittsburgh PA - Low unemployment, booming (relatively to res of US) economy, massive sources of clean water, cheap place to live.
Russian border regions around china - Probably a good area to locate economically. May have to worry about wars caused by demographics.
Halifax Nova Scotia - Stable climate, place is isolated, local stocks of food.
Since there is an increasing wealth of archeological sites that predate 15,000 years ago it seems these people must have eliminated the original native inhabitants of the americas.
It's tough. I'm 39 and I've had to reinvent my skills completely 3 times in the last 6 years as technology has been phased out. I don't agree with the post doing grunt work comment. It's easy to cut a project manager, unless you are a truly skilled people person with the skills to market and bring in clients. What has allowed me to stay employable is finding what the market needs and learning it. I rode the housing bubble in the naughties, and now I work in the marcellus shale industry. Try looking for a job in the energy industry. Calgary is booming. GIS is hot. The entire GIS software ecosystem is switching from Vbasic to python. The ability to move where the work is is key. Consider the fact that not owning a house gives you the flexibility of going where the work is. Not everywhere is in recesssion. Calgary. Namibia. Perth Australia are all worth looking at. Alaska as well.
I work for a company that cleans groundwater and we have many clients in this industry. So far I have never encountered anything that to me seems any more dangerous than a clothes factory. What I have seen is horrible groundwater quality due to oil / gasoline. If you drive a car, and are out to ban fracking then you are uninformed.
Groundwater can be cleaned.
Once we have ubiquitous Johnny Cabs you will no longer need to drive. Therefore, you will no longer need to carry a driver's license.
Since the car never speeds there will be no reason for cops to pull you over and search you and your car.
Plate scanners will be useless on community owned Johnny Cabs.
This will be THE revolution in civil liberties in the 1st century as most government tracking is performed with the assistance of driver's license regime, and the base punishment of not paying fines is revocation of the driver's license.
I commend google on there newest disruptive technology.
You seem very sure of this. I am unsure. Since time is not a constant then almost anything is possible with regards to causality. Relative causality?
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/04/decision-to-entangle-effects-results-of-measurements-taken-beforehand/
I would bet hard money you could run an experiment similar to this but instead send the information forward in time, faster than light.
If you transported one of a pair of more stable molecules that were entangled then constantly manipulated there states wouldn't that information travel faster than light even though the particles themselves cannot travel from place to place faster than light?
Also, if you took a stable wormhole and transported one end at the speed of light for an extended period of time. Then sent something through one side of the wormhole to another you could theoretically instantly skip the time betwen, allowing for either faster than light travel, or travel back in time.
Isnt' accessing facebook and pretending to be someone else already a felony prosecutable by federal law? I was under the impression that accessing a computer system while pretending to be someone elase, violating the terms of service, was already a felony.
Speech recognition on the kinect with netflix integration already gives me remoteless 10 foot away control of my tv experience.
Then there's the fact that I fucking hate remotes of any type. And the fact that i'm not too into tablets. If I need a tablet to control my computer I have to get up and go get it. With a kinect I just address it in a stern, Picard - esqe voice and tell it what to do. I already find it more convenient.
Speech recognition and general biometrics are the future. Touch screens are so last decade. My xbox knows when I enter the room and brightens the screen, and does so for other people that have a profile on it. With kinects getting cheaper microsoft has done a nice end run on apple and google by actually bringing us into the world of minority report today. A kinect equipped billboard could today provide custom advertisements to me and call me by name.
Not sure about html5 but I looked at this type of project about 14 years ago and vrml kinda did the trick although we never linked it with queries and databases. If you are trying to visualize a lot of data you might want to look at html5 as the above post suggests and also pick up some skill with python to manage the data. If html5 contains some descended code that is similar to vrml then you can rough out some pretty basic shapes. Instead of hand coding for each type of data you have in your specific data store create a function that automatically assigns characteristics by examining the data. Should save a lot of time and you can write the visualization function with a general idea of the data. Python also works with several different types of databases and can script commands easily to a variety of windows programs.
Did a little search, and this came up. Not sure how far they have come on this as this seems to be a pre-release web page, but if x3d is descended from vrml and it works in html 5 natively then it is a very basic and quick way to start rendering in 3d with minimal experience.
http://www.3d-test.com/interviews/x3d_2.htm
The amount of energy stored in fossil fuels per year and the amount of energy that falls on the earth do not have a one to one ratio. We can currently provide all of our energy needs by harnessing the amount of solar energy that falls on a very small part of the planet. The problem is that it is too expensive. As time goes on there is a 100 percent chance that renewable energy becomes less expensive than fossil fuels.
http://www.solarfeeds.com/surface-area-required-to-power-the-world-with-solar/
Imagine if they put in a clause requiring spectrum purchasers to provide free air time to top political candidates so it is no longer necessary for them to take bribes from special interests.
So you expect ME to pay the bill if you don't buy insurance and end up at the hospital? Are you immune from injury or are you immortal? If not then you deserve to go to jail for stealing money off of ME because you refuse to by health insurance.
I would research this but I'm in the field and don't always have internet. Does anyone on slashdot have information on what is the cheapest / best way to set one of these networks up? I live on a hill overlooking one of the top 30 cities in the USA and I would really like to set up a Metropolitan Area Network that is dissociated from the traditional internet. Basically for gaming and file sharing. If we can do this and it catches on then we can begin to set up point to point microwave relays between them at some point. Anyone remember Wan's across american about 7 years ago?
Please link me to some hardware for this network there was nothing in the article.
3.5 bothered me because it always erred in decreasing power of spells. Wizards of the coast seem to consistently take the 'magic' out of any game they own with each edition. Compare spell listings of second editions with 3.0 then 3.5 and you will see this. That's why I don't trust them to maintain the flavor of AD&D
IMHO Spell descriptions from second editions are definitive.
Then compare the strength of early editions magic the gathering cards with leter editions.
This guy is an idiot. There are NO citations for his calculations in the article. I would like to say that I am employed as a consultant to oil, and gas companies. Geothermal plants do not have to run off of steam produced by the earth. I have to run now as turkey is being served. Life on this planet has been using renewable energy for 4 billion years. The world has a shitload of water on it. We can move it to the desert. Renewable energy is the future of mankind. Our population will continue to increase. His take on everything is anti-humanity. As a humanist, I expect our energy use to increase along with our population while we simultaneously decrease our negative effects on the environment because that's how we roll.
I feel bad for the cows, who will go the way of draught horses very quickly. It has been a long and prosperous partnership between us. For that we will now stop feeding them and providing them with land.
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I would drive back to my hometown immediately. While there I would try to get access to as much cash as possible. The rest I would move to bitcoins and place the wallet on a flash drive in my pocket. As soon as dark came on the second day, I would leave and move through town in the dark. Where I come from there are deserted dead end neighborhoods connected to long dark abandoned railway tunnels. Using a variety of pathways through this abandoned streets / tunnel system I am confident I could lose pursuit and gain access to the rail network. I would then stowaway on trains heading west until I reached california. After that I would hobo it north to the "Gold Coast" and get employment at a marijuana factory, or hide out with a bunch of hippies in the woods protecting the redwoods, hoping to not get arrested. I would be in california. My last transaction would be on the east coast. I am assuming they would believe I was in my hometown somewhere using "home territory advantage".
Population within city limits is a totally useless and meaningless way to rate anything. Local politics destroys any semblance of reality or functionality. San Jose is a part of San Francisco. Look at how advertisers delineate media markets for a more functional approach to ranking cities.
Calgary, Alberta - Just located the world's greatest source of hydrocarbons near here on top of the second largest heavy oil deposits in the world. Coupled with great opportunity for growth in both tourism and agriculture. This city is one of the safest bets. Not too far from Vancouver and the sea as well. Perth Australia - Australia hasn't had a recession in 50 years. Perth is isolated both geographically and politically from most of the destructive currents on our planet, has significant energy deposits in the are, so it's probably a pretty safe bet. Good climate too. If global civilization collapses this is a possible re-seed point of civilization. North Dakota. - Low unemployment, booming economy. Pittsburgh PA - Low unemployment, booming (relatively to res of US) economy, massive sources of clean water, cheap place to live. Russian border regions around china - Probably a good area to locate economically. May have to worry about wars caused by demographics. Halifax Nova Scotia - Stable climate, place is isolated, local stocks of food.
Since there is an increasing wealth of archeological sites that predate 15,000 years ago it seems these people must have eliminated the original native inhabitants of the americas.
This is neither IT or age related. You are a hacker, they are not. Get used to it.
3,000 euros for 8 semesters? Isn't that like 4500 euros? That is cheaper than one semester at an american school.
It's tough. I'm 39 and I've had to reinvent my skills completely 3 times in the last 6 years as technology has been phased out. I don't agree with the post doing grunt work comment. It's easy to cut a project manager, unless you are a truly skilled people person with the skills to market and bring in clients. What has allowed me to stay employable is finding what the market needs and learning it. I rode the housing bubble in the naughties, and now I work in the marcellus shale industry. Try looking for a job in the energy industry. Calgary is booming. GIS is hot. The entire GIS software ecosystem is switching from Vbasic to python. The ability to move where the work is is key. Consider the fact that not owning a house gives you the flexibility of going where the work is. Not everywhere is in recesssion. Calgary. Namibia. Perth Australia are all worth looking at. Alaska as well.
I work for a company that cleans groundwater and we have many clients in this industry. So far I have never encountered anything that to me seems any more dangerous than a clothes factory. What I have seen is horrible groundwater quality due to oil / gasoline. If you drive a car, and are out to ban fracking then you are uninformed. Groundwater can be cleaned.
Once we have ubiquitous Johnny Cabs you will no longer need to drive. Therefore, you will no longer need to carry a driver's license. Since the car never speeds there will be no reason for cops to pull you over and search you and your car. Plate scanners will be useless on community owned Johnny Cabs. This will be THE revolution in civil liberties in the 1st century as most government tracking is performed with the assistance of driver's license regime, and the base punishment of not paying fines is revocation of the driver's license. I commend google on there newest disruptive technology.
You seem very sure of this. I am unsure. Since time is not a constant then almost anything is possible with regards to causality. Relative causality? http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/04/decision-to-entangle-effects-results-of-measurements-taken-beforehand/ I would bet hard money you could run an experiment similar to this but instead send the information forward in time, faster than light. If you transported one of a pair of more stable molecules that were entangled then constantly manipulated there states wouldn't that information travel faster than light even though the particles themselves cannot travel from place to place faster than light? Also, if you took a stable wormhole and transported one end at the speed of light for an extended period of time. Then sent something through one side of the wormhole to another you could theoretically instantly skip the time betwen, allowing for either faster than light travel, or travel back in time.
Isnt' accessing facebook and pretending to be someone else already a felony prosecutable by federal law? I was under the impression that accessing a computer system while pretending to be someone elase, violating the terms of service, was already a felony.
I thought this phenomena also occurred int he high desert of chile? Ocean waves will not explain those ones..
There was no necessity for boolean algebra when george boole created it.
Hyperion & Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmon. Hand Down
Speech recognition on the kinect with netflix integration already gives me remoteless 10 foot away control of my tv experience. Then there's the fact that I fucking hate remotes of any type. And the fact that i'm not too into tablets. If I need a tablet to control my computer I have to get up and go get it. With a kinect I just address it in a stern, Picard - esqe voice and tell it what to do. I already find it more convenient. Speech recognition and general biometrics are the future. Touch screens are so last decade. My xbox knows when I enter the room and brightens the screen, and does so for other people that have a profile on it. With kinects getting cheaper microsoft has done a nice end run on apple and google by actually bringing us into the world of minority report today. A kinect equipped billboard could today provide custom advertisements to me and call me by name.
Not sure about html5 but I looked at this type of project about 14 years ago and vrml kinda did the trick although we never linked it with queries and databases. If you are trying to visualize a lot of data you might want to look at html5 as the above post suggests and also pick up some skill with python to manage the data. If html5 contains some descended code that is similar to vrml then you can rough out some pretty basic shapes. Instead of hand coding for each type of data you have in your specific data store create a function that automatically assigns characteristics by examining the data. Should save a lot of time and you can write the visualization function with a general idea of the data. Python also works with several different types of databases and can script commands easily to a variety of windows programs. Did a little search, and this came up. Not sure how far they have come on this as this seems to be a pre-release web page, but if x3d is descended from vrml and it works in html 5 natively then it is a very basic and quick way to start rendering in 3d with minimal experience. http://www.3d-test.com/interviews/x3d_2.htm
The amount of energy stored in fossil fuels per year and the amount of energy that falls on the earth do not have a one to one ratio. We can currently provide all of our energy needs by harnessing the amount of solar energy that falls on a very small part of the planet. The problem is that it is too expensive. As time goes on there is a 100 percent chance that renewable energy becomes less expensive than fossil fuels. http://www.solarfeeds.com/surface-area-required-to-power-the-world-with-solar/
Imagine if they put in a clause requiring spectrum purchasers to provide free air time to top political candidates so it is no longer necessary for them to take bribes from special interests.
So you expect ME to pay the bill if you don't buy insurance and end up at the hospital? Are you immune from injury or are you immortal? If not then you deserve to go to jail for stealing money off of ME because you refuse to by health insurance.
I would research this but I'm in the field and don't always have internet. Does anyone on slashdot have information on what is the cheapest / best way to set one of these networks up? I live on a hill overlooking one of the top 30 cities in the USA and I would really like to set up a Metropolitan Area Network that is dissociated from the traditional internet. Basically for gaming and file sharing. If we can do this and it catches on then we can begin to set up point to point microwave relays between them at some point. Anyone remember Wan's across american about 7 years ago? Please link me to some hardware for this network there was nothing in the article.
I trust this a lot more than the electronic voting machines. At least you can call the help desk for a backup tape.
3.5 bothered me because it always erred in decreasing power of spells. Wizards of the coast seem to consistently take the 'magic' out of any game they own with each edition. Compare spell listings of second editions with 3.0 then 3.5 and you will see this. That's why I don't trust them to maintain the flavor of AD&D IMHO Spell descriptions from second editions are definitive. Then compare the strength of early editions magic the gathering cards with leter editions.
Should toshiba quietly let them build it and then sue for royalties? http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/01/toshiba-shows-off-latest-laptop-fuel-cell-prototype/
This guy is an idiot. There are NO citations for his calculations in the article. I would like to say that I am employed as a consultant to oil, and gas companies. Geothermal plants do not have to run off of steam produced by the earth. I have to run now as turkey is being served. Life on this planet has been using renewable energy for 4 billion years. The world has a shitload of water on it. We can move it to the desert. Renewable energy is the future of mankind. Our population will continue to increase. His take on everything is anti-humanity. As a humanist, I expect our energy use to increase along with our population while we simultaneously decrease our negative effects on the environment because that's how we roll.
I feel bad for the cows, who will go the way of draught horses very quickly. It has been a long and prosperous partnership between us. For that we will now stop feeding them and providing them with land.