Utopian = everything seems perfect at first, yet these is something is deepely wrong in the background.
The original book that provided the name was about how it couldn't happen without downsides. A perfect society requires perfect people and nobody is born that way, so it sucks to grow up in someone's vision of Utopia. "The Scarlet Letter" and some stuff about the Salem witch trials is about Utopian societies of the past and how much it sucks to not fit into the ideals of the Utopian society. Some of the Arabian city states fit the futuristic Utopia idea already in many ways, but be an outsider in a deal with a local there that goes bad or do something that defies their idea of order, or piss off somebody powerful and things get dark very quickly.
This presumes that people regularly leave the tower, or at least the upper floors of the tower
Yes. Most definitely. If you can't get everyone out in a relatively short time then you have utterly failed as an engineer or architect. It's an assumption considered as important as an aircraft being designed to be able to get off the ground.
Conflict makes for interesting stories - which is why stuff like "Ghost in the Shell" with a future full of amazing things dishes up stories of people using them to commit crimes.
Good point, develop the technology, refine it, then throw it all away because it challenges established industries, leaving China to pick it up as if gift wrapped for them and make money out of it.
Or the German government's solar disaster if you want to see an extreme fail
I haven't heard of that one, how about you show us where to look to see such a disaster?
Correct. An 'established' what? It needs to have a noun of some type appended
An established creative:) Come on now - you live in a world where Donald Rumsfeld is considered an intellectual and you're complaining about a bit of poor communication?
You didn't answer my other one. Does our use of Hindu-Arabic numbers conversely make the Indians and Arabs superior to us? Their use is far more pervasive than business suits after all.
Does that get the message across that I consider your argument about superiority of a culture (as demonstrated by influence) impacting on a space program as misleading, and to be frank, incredibly fucking racist. IMHO this "we are the masters of everything just because of where we were born" thing is straying damn close to Godwin territory.
This isn't the ice cap. Also look at a diagram showing the average extent and the current extent. This is a clear case of arguing about apples while using oranges as an example.
Fair enough - why don't you try something worked on more recently than 2009 like e17 and see if you can find some glitches in it instead of in a proof of concept toy composited desktop? As for your sig, even e16 in 1998 was more "ready for the desktop" than MS Win7 was when it finally came out with some similar features.
Actually though I was thinking more for tertiary education than primary and secondary.
Good point - virtual models of things that you can manipulate could really help with understanding. I'm not so sure about watching from the POV of a surgeon.
Guilty as charged - but not "ill", I picked the name from a database program. There's been a bit of distance education done using satellite for a couple of decades - it's either that or very low bandwidth radio in remote places.
That's using wires. If your signal is coming from a geostationary satellite 25 degrees over the horizon because that's what's cheap then a little bit of latency can be noticed and has to be worked around. Also max out the link and suddenly you have a lot more latency than you get from mere distance because your request packets are not getting out quickly. Skype apparently backs off and lowers audio/video quality when that happens. Other things would need to be told to do the same sort of thing.
Egyptian stuff was all the rage in Victorian England. Influence depends on more than some idea of superiority. Does the massive cultural influence of Hollywood make New York inferior? OK - stupid question, but it's in the same set as what you appear to be suggesting.
From 2009! FFS! I didn't even know Mint was that old! So an experimental thing in a brand new distro had a bug five years ago that others failed to reproduce - you reposting that tells us a shitload more about you than anything else. What motivated such hate of linux that you are willing to embarrass yourself that much to run it down?
Bandwidth sucks with Distance Education. Typically latency sucks as well. If that's taken into account and you can pre-download bits of a virtual Smithsonian, then that's useful, but for a lot of other things close to realtime voice and crappy, but timely video gives the kids the answers now and lets interaction happen pretty close to immediately. I'm not dismissing it out of hand. I was really pumped on the idea after looking at molecular interactions using 3D goggles at the Hitachi pavilion at Expo88 (in 1988), but up to now it's turned out to be not as good an illustration tool as ping pong balls and glue. I think for a lot of situations a 2D representation on a flat monitor looks enough like 3D to get the message across, especially if it can be manipulated or the point of view changed.
On a similar note: do we use an Arabic number system or do they use a European one? It's a bit of a trick question since it looks like it came from India. History is not clear cut. Just because we eat fried potatoes does not mean we have a civilisation based on the Incas.
My understanding is that many oil wells vent large quantities of natural gas that are unprofitable to collect as a product
One astonishing example is almost all of the electricity generated in Nigeria comes from actually doing something with the heat from the flames on vented off gas. Until recently it was just burnt off - now it's generating quite a few MW.
Just for shits and grins, how do you plan to remove the CO2 from the atmosphere
Easy, just bind it up with the lime we make from calcium carbonate:) No I'm not being serious, I'm highlighting how the "obvious" methods are like leaving the fridge door open to try to cool a house and make things worse. Looks like we're stuck with it unless some dirt cheap energy source that does not produce as much carbon dioxide as can be removed per unit of energy becomes viable at immense scales. The "just cool down air until the carbon dioxide falls out" idiots are not considering how much energy it takes to do such a thing.
Several examples are yeast. One tested recently is to use modified yeast to produce a chemical originally found in oranges that can be used to make up half the volume of jet fuel.
There's a "shallow" geothermal energy source under an oil basin in Australia but it's still a matter of drilling some pairs of expensive holes to use it. However it may be a more viable use than running power cables from a geothermal electricity generator on site than to a city close to a couple of thousand kilometres away.
Yes but I'm discussing taxi licences and similar in general and what happens when somebody threatens the revenue stream a government gets from such things. IMHO regulation of such things should be limited to what is needed for safety (which is this case is already handled by drivers licences and vehicle roadworthy status) instead of being a deliberate barrier of entry to new players and a profitable revenue stream for the body that is enforcing the regulation.
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The original book that provided the name was about how it couldn't happen without downsides. A perfect society requires perfect people and nobody is born that way, so it sucks to grow up in someone's vision of Utopia. "The Scarlet Letter" and some stuff about the Salem witch trials is about Utopian societies of the past and how much it sucks to not fit into the ideals of the Utopian society. Some of the Arabian city states fit the futuristic Utopia idea already in many ways, but be an outsider in a deal with a local there that goes bad or do something that defies their idea of order, or piss off somebody powerful and things get dark very quickly.
Yes. Most definitely. If you can't get everyone out in a relatively short time then you have utterly failed as an engineer or architect. It's an assumption considered as important as an aircraft being designed to be able to get off the ground.
Conflict makes for interesting stories - which is why stuff like "Ghost in the Shell" with a future full of amazing things dishes up stories of people using them to commit crimes.
Good point, develop the technology, refine it, then throw it all away because it challenges established industries, leaving China to pick it up as if gift wrapped for them and make money out of it.
I haven't heard of that one, how about you show us where to look to see such a disaster?
An established creative :)
Come on now - you live in a world where Donald Rumsfeld is considered an intellectual and you're complaining about a bit of poor communication?
So now he's more powerful than when he was Vice President of the USA?
Give it up loser.
You didn't answer my other one. Does our use of Hindu-Arabic numbers conversely make the Indians and Arabs superior to us? Their use is far more pervasive than business suits after all.
Does that get the message across that I consider your argument about superiority of a culture (as demonstrated by influence) impacting on a space program as misleading, and to be frank, incredibly fucking racist. IMHO this "we are the masters of everything just because of where we were born" thing is straying damn close to Godwin territory.
Bullshit. He had both power and wealth before he took that line and has less power and not much more wealth now.
You are using Fox news as a thing to cite!
What's your next source - Uri Gellar?
This isn't the ice cap. Also look at a diagram showing the average extent and the current extent.
This is a clear case of arguing about apples while using oranges as an example.
Fair enough - why don't you try something worked on more recently than 2009 like e17 and see if you can find some glitches in it instead of in a proof of concept toy composited desktop?
As for your sig, even e16 in 1998 was more "ready for the desktop" than MS Win7 was when it finally came out with some similar features.
Good point - virtual models of things that you can manipulate could really help with understanding. I'm not so sure about watching from the POV of a surgeon.
Guilty as charged - but not "ill", I picked the name from a database program.
There's been a bit of distance education done using satellite for a couple of decades - it's either that or very low bandwidth radio in remote places.
That's using wires. If your signal is coming from a geostationary satellite 25 degrees over the horizon because that's what's cheap then a little bit of latency can be noticed and has to be worked around. Also max out the link and suddenly you have a lot more latency than you get from mere distance because your request packets are not getting out quickly.
Skype apparently backs off and lowers audio/video quality when that happens. Other things would need to be told to do the same sort of thing.
Egyptian stuff was all the rage in Victorian England. Influence depends on more than some idea of superiority. Does the massive cultural influence of Hollywood make New York inferior? OK - stupid question, but it's in the same set as what you appear to be suggesting.
From 2009! FFS! I didn't even know Mint was that old! So an experimental thing in a brand new distro had a bug five years ago that others failed to reproduce - you reposting that tells us a shitload more about you than anything else. What motivated such hate of linux that you are willing to embarrass yourself that much to run it down?
Bandwidth sucks with Distance Education. Typically latency sucks as well. If that's taken into account and you can pre-download bits of a virtual Smithsonian, then that's useful, but for a lot of other things close to realtime voice and crappy, but timely video gives the kids the answers now and lets interaction happen pretty close to immediately.
I'm not dismissing it out of hand. I was really pumped on the idea after looking at molecular interactions using 3D goggles at the Hitachi pavilion at Expo88 (in 1988), but up to now it's turned out to be not as good an illustration tool as ping pong balls and glue. I think for a lot of situations a 2D representation on a flat monitor looks enough like 3D to get the message across, especially if it can be manipulated or the point of view changed.
Maybe it will with the right MineCraft mod :)
On a similar note: do we use an Arabic number system or do they use a European one?
It's a bit of a trick question since it looks like it came from India.
History is not clear cut. Just because we eat fried potatoes does not mean we have a civilisation based on the Incas.
Why not? The USA did pretty well in the 1940s despite a similar situation.
One astonishing example is almost all of the electricity generated in Nigeria comes from actually doing something with the heat from the flames on vented off gas. Until recently it was just burnt off - now it's generating quite a few MW.
Easy, just bind it up with the lime we make from calcium carbonate :) No I'm not being serious, I'm highlighting how the "obvious" methods are like leaving the fridge door open to try to cool a house and make things worse.
Looks like we're stuck with it unless some dirt cheap energy source that does not produce as much carbon dioxide as can be removed per unit of energy becomes viable at immense scales. The "just cool down air until the carbon dioxide falls out" idiots are not considering how much energy it takes to do such a thing.
Several examples are yeast. One tested recently is to use modified yeast to produce a chemical originally found in oranges that can be used to make up half the volume of jet fuel.
There's a "shallow" geothermal energy source under an oil basin in Australia but it's still a matter of drilling some pairs of expensive holes to use it. However it may be a more viable use than running power cables from a geothermal electricity generator on site than to a city close to a couple of thousand kilometres away.
Yes but I'm discussing taxi licences and similar in general and what happens when somebody threatens the revenue stream a government gets from such things.
IMHO regulation of such things should be limited to what is needed for safety (which is this case is already handled by drivers licences and vehicle roadworthy status) instead of being a deliberate barrier of entry to new players and a profitable revenue stream for the body that is enforcing the regulation.