"The free market is pretty crap at research." I disagree based on the discussions of innovations here on Slashdot and similar sites.
VCs are funding all sorts of new ground breaking technologies. "Research" can be actually categorized into theoretical and practical and then the practical gets to single function innovations versus large system innovations. It is a wild world out there in research/innovations.
Ah, but you are being to rational in asking for a better battery charging source, from say a Thorium reactor or Tri Alpha Energy's Boron-Gas Plasma fusion generator.
That would be too easy when we could just pile hundreds of millions a year into what existing university and corporations are already spending in 100s of places worldwide already.
Wow, now we know how to do scientific and engineering advances. Just pile all the money from the extra taxes we will pay into the government's idea of what should work. Now that is going to be efficient use of capital, right?
Just as an aside. If you get a battery that is 5 times as powerful, you start to get to the point of having a nice little bomb in your pocket when something goes wrong. Ultra high energy densities is what makes batteries dangerous today when something goes wrong with a lithium ion and they smoke and ruin things.
With 5 times as much energy density, when they go poof, it might literally be a bang up mess.
This format of a heat engine isn't "going" anywhere as it would work only on a stationary position where the sun loading could be high with steerable mirrors. You could use molten oil, water or any material you chose to act as a heat source for a heat expansion engine.
For mobile uses, it all comes down to kilocalories stored per kilogram. This solution "won't go anywhere" mobile.
Some studies have shown if you "get" music you do better with math and that today is needed almost no matter what occupation you have. No batteries, no internet connection, small, portable, not too loud, pleasant once they learn a bit, nothing be reeds as accessories to buy. What could go wrong?
Warren Buffett in the late 90s as a traveling buddy of Bill Gates was asked if he invested in Microsoft and Warren replied that he didn't invest in things in which he didn't understand the long term profitability.
Warren in retrospect was entirely 100% right. If you can't come up with good reasons for people to buy your products at what is attractive to them, they will figure another product to buy.
Probably 95% of the users of MS Word could do everything they normally need on Open Office software. That doesn't bode well for MS long term.
Trying to convince me that you examined and investigated a target with your top notch professional team and then did the deal and you bitch about it is an ADMISSION OF FAILURE.
The CEO and the entire due diligence team should be canned along with board members who were involved in the deal.
You can do all sorts of improvements both on land, under the streets and on the bulkheads and with infill outside the bulkheads, but you can't stop the eventual storm that overfloods everything with 30 foot hurricane waves which will come sooner or later. The 1938 hurricane which hit Rhode Island was proof if you need to have reason to believe.
The simple truth is that building on waterfront barely above sea level is not rational for the long term. Eventually the costs exceed the value of the buildings and people in Texas and Arkansas don't want to pay for Manhattan's folly.
Sea level has risen 150 feet in the last 20,000 years or so. What God given rule says it will not go up another mere 5 feet regardless of man?
What happens if man's efforts consuming 10% of the productive output of the nations of the world produce no effective change? What happens if the national effort causes the US to go into a depression that causes a population die off & collapse of average incomes? What if changes the bureaucrats (who always know the right thing to do) make the climate change worse? How long will it take to make significant change? Can the developed nations change and overcome the effect of underdeveloped nations? What happens when the United Nations tries to tell every country what to do? Does everyone lose their national sovereignty?
Wild weather and climate changes have occurred on regular long term glaciation cycles for over 2.5 million years and somehow species adapted and survived. Coffee plants didn't arise spontaneously after the last ice age, so they must have survived somehow through wild climate changes.
This article is just more alarmist propaganda by what I know from paleogeologist's work.
"No, the Republicans will spend the next four years obstructing anything and everything..."
If you are trying to obstruct a train wreck that is plainly visible heading your way, it is a good thing, unless everyone else is blind.
When Carter era inflation comes back @ 20% per year or more & ruins the value of your savings, your income, your retirement and home, you will rue the day you voted for someone who thinks he can spend our country to success. Every country which has tried this method has absolutely decimated its lowest income and lowest wealth citizens.
I think Microsoft is just too little, too late, too lazy to keep up and they won't have more than a minor impact. App developers would have to be working overtime to support it and I don't hear anything about that occurring.
So cyclonic storms are in the October just past are stronger than the average over a short 30 year time period. Notable, but not surprising, as all weather is cyclical.
It could suggest a more active season or it could be an outlier month. Since we have solar cycles that indeed control the total energy into the surface of the planet, I would suspect that plays the dominant role, but a single data set on only one item, the hurricanes and their strength, is not very significant.
In other words, is this worth a "story", or just more hype of recent data points.
I personally think this is the answer for all cloud storage. You encrypt data before it leaves and the server, God only knows where, stores your stuff. You can access it or your friends you give access to can get the data. Big deal. If Kim doesn't do it, who else does?
Thus if Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and a lot of other big companies can offer cloud storage, what is different about Me.ga except that Kim doesn't have lobbyists in Washington, DC?
The holding of encrypted data on a server is just anonymous data.
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"The free market is pretty crap at research." I disagree based on the discussions of innovations here on Slashdot and similar sites.
VCs are funding all sorts of new ground breaking technologies. "Research" can be actually categorized into theoretical and practical and then the practical gets to single function innovations versus large system innovations. It is a wild world out there in research/innovations.
Ah, but you are being to rational in asking for a better battery charging source, from say a Thorium reactor or Tri Alpha Energy's Boron-Gas Plasma fusion generator.
That would be too easy when we could just pile hundreds of millions a year into what existing university and corporations are already spending in 100s of places worldwide already.
Wow, now we know how to do scientific and engineering advances. Just pile all the money from the extra taxes we will pay into the government's idea of what should work. Now that is going to be efficient use of capital, right?
Just as an aside. If you get a battery that is 5 times as powerful, you start to get to the point of having a nice little bomb in your pocket when something goes wrong. Ultra high energy densities is what makes batteries dangerous today when something goes wrong with a lithium ion and they smoke and ruin things.
With 5 times as much energy density, when they go poof, it might literally be a bang up mess.
It's got everything. You can do everything with it. A proverbial Swiss Army Knife. It's got it all. It's gonna be cool...unless you turn it on.
This format of a heat engine isn't "going" anywhere as it would work only on a stationary position where the sun loading could be high with steerable mirrors. You could use molten oil, water or any material you chose to act as a heat source for a heat expansion engine.
For mobile uses, it all comes down to kilocalories stored per kilogram. This solution "won't go anywhere" mobile.
He couldn't understand the long term viability of a software only business!
Some studies have shown if you "get" music you do better with math and that today is needed almost no matter what occupation you have.
No batteries, no internet connection, small, portable, not too loud, pleasant once they learn a bit, nothing be reeds as accessories to buy. What could go wrong?
Warren Buffett in the late 90s as a traveling buddy of Bill Gates was asked if he invested in Microsoft and Warren replied that he didn't invest in things in which he didn't understand the long term profitability.
Warren in retrospect was entirely 100% right. If you can't come up with good reasons for people to buy your products at what is attractive to them, they will figure another product to buy.
Probably 95% of the users of MS Word could do everything they normally need on Open Office software. That doesn't bode well for MS long term.
Trying to convince me that you examined and investigated a target with your top notch professional team and then did the deal and you bitch about it is an ADMISSION OF FAILURE.
The CEO and the entire due diligence team should be canned along with board members who were involved in the deal.
It is easy to come up with lots of "new" products.
It is NOT easy to come up with a single new better product that people want to grab out of your hands.
I heard a luminary with profoundly huge self-importance just turned off the lights and left.
If Sinofsky had been around for over 2 decades with 'team player deficiencies', what does that say about Microsoft's management methods.
Nokia is too late to the table to grab the most delicious morsels; the easily picked fruit.
If everything is encrypted, how can Mega.co.nz be anything but a storage container of unknown files?
Hey, my Sony remote for the Sony TV I bought failed within 18 months, but Sony said "We don't make that remote anymore!"
Sony is a Dinosaur; headed for quick extinction.
You can do all sorts of improvements both on land, under the streets and on the bulkheads and with infill outside the bulkheads, but you can't stop the eventual storm that overfloods everything with 30 foot hurricane waves which will come sooner or later. The 1938 hurricane which hit Rhode Island was proof if you need to have reason to believe.
The simple truth is that building on waterfront barely above sea level is not rational for the long term. Eventually the costs exceed the value of the buildings and people in Texas and Arkansas don't want to pay for Manhattan's folly.
Sea level has risen 150 feet in the last 20,000 years or so. What God given rule says it will not go up another mere 5 feet regardless of man?
What happens if man's efforts consuming 10% of the productive output of the nations of the world produce no effective change?
What happens if the national effort causes the US to go into a depression that causes a population die off & collapse of average incomes?
What if changes the bureaucrats (who always know the right thing to do) make the climate change worse?
How long will it take to make significant change?
Can the developed nations change and overcome the effect of underdeveloped nations?
What happens when the United Nations tries to tell every country what to do? Does everyone lose their national sovereignty?
Wild weather and climate changes have occurred on regular long term glaciation cycles for over 2.5 million years and somehow species adapted and survived. Coffee plants didn't arise spontaneously after the last ice age, so they must have survived somehow through wild climate changes.
This article is just more alarmist propaganda by what I know from paleogeologist's work.
"No, the Republicans will spend the next four years obstructing anything and everything..."
If you are trying to obstruct a train wreck that is plainly visible heading your way, it is a good thing, unless everyone else is blind.
When Carter era inflation comes back @ 20% per year or more & ruins the value of your savings, your income, your retirement and home, you will rue the day you voted for someone who thinks he can spend our country to success. Every country which has tried this method has absolutely decimated its lowest income and lowest wealth citizens.
I think Microsoft is just too little, too late, too lazy to keep up and they won't have more than a minor impact. App developers would have to be working overtime to support it and I don't hear anything about that occurring.
So put up a mirror at 45 degrees and a photo of a person above the box and it will always see 1 person (or however many you want).
This will simply kill a lot of cloud use.
Here all the time I thought Qwerty keyboard layout was designed for computer use of for quick Close, Save Select All, Cut, Copy & Paste commands.
So cyclonic storms are in the October just past are stronger than the average over a short 30 year time period. Notable, but not surprising, as all weather is cyclical.
It could suggest a more active season or it could be an outlier month. Since we have solar cycles that indeed control the total energy into the surface of the planet, I would suspect that plays the dominant role, but a single data set on only one item, the hurricanes and their strength, is not very significant.
In other words, is this worth a "story", or just more hype of recent data points.
I personally think this is the answer for all cloud storage. You encrypt data before it leaves and the server, God only knows where, stores your stuff. You can access it or your friends you give access to can get the data. Big deal. If Kim doesn't do it, who else does?
Thus if Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and a lot of other big companies can offer cloud storage, what is different about Me.ga except that Kim doesn't have lobbyists in Washington, DC?
The holding of encrypted data on a server is just anonymous data.