Its cool if you don't know how this impacts any nations security. The event that would get everyone worried about unsecured networks hasn't happened. And hopefully it doesn't happen. I'd tell you what the event is, but I don't want to give anyone ideas. Some things are best not spoken.
Many roads, sidewalks, and boardwalks have specifically legalized it on the roads of the US. So if you wanted to make say... a robot that advertises for you, it would be legal if you used a Segway as the chassis. I'm not sure if similar devices are legal, but I'm sure you'd probably get by law with one.
When you invest in solar, you can very likely get your money back and then some(if you invest in profitable solar companies). The key is solar is great to be corporate because corporations have a way to pushing things to their saturation point. Solar has no saturation point as long as there are stars in the universe. But for right now, we should at least be looking to capitalize on Earth's potential.
Once we have abundant energy on Earth through Solar, we can use it in electric or hydrogen vehicles. With electric vehicles, we can transport the energy from one plant or another with only using human labor or electric trains. Once you have "free energy" powering vehicles, the cost of transportation gets less. When the cost of transportation gets less, the cost of food and water gets less. Also "free energy" by the coast can turn salt water into drinking water then vehicles can transport them inland.
Right there, you just made an impact on many poor peoples' lives without actually donating any money. I think any geek who wants to use technology to solve the world's problems should look inward into conserving money so they can buy stock in profitable solar. I think you should do your research into different companies. I've found mine: nanosolar.com. The only problem is that they haven't gone public yet. So I save money. I'm pretty much broke, but at least I got the spirit of it all.
Hopefully the guy making the decisions weighed espionage. You can really shoot yourself in the foot if you find a counter to your own missle defense and then someone publishes the counter. Do you really need an anti missle defense technology so bad that it is worth endangering your own missle defense?
Maybe we'll use geothermal as a temporary fix like we use oil now. I don't have the vision to see us doing it, but it is possible. The key is that when we run low on heat from the Earth's core in the distant future, things like the earth's magnetic field may no longer shield us from cosmic radiation. So there if humanity lasts that long, we'll probably have to reheat the Earth's core from another energy source. Its no real big deal, but you explained that coal or oil running out. I just wanted to explain that the heat in the Earth's core is not unlimited either. It is similar to the argument that we can take energy off the Earth's velocity to catapult spacecraft. We can't just keep doing that forever either unless we don't mind taking the plunge into the Sun... even though it could conveniently heat the Earth's core back up.
I firmly believe that solar is going to boom in the next few years and start covering every piece of cheap land on the globe. I feel that there is a lot of money to be made in energy in the short run when solar supplements the grid. And there is money to be made in energy in the long run as we phase into plugin hybrids and the demand on the grid gets huge. Of course like most nerds, I have a "not in my lifetime" long run view of an eventual Dyson Sphere of solar power in space which probably doesn't start out trying to be one, but instead starts out as Sim City microwave power plants. On a reverse note, people think the innermost planets cannot be habitable due to their temperatures from the sun, but can't we just pull a Mr. Burns and block out the sun? We could then send energy through focused beams to collectors.
And CRPGS are watered down PNP RPGS. How can you have a huge quest in front of you, but instead end up terrorizing the towns people and never get on to the actual quest in a CRPG? Maybe that was just indicative of my play group, but we hardly ever found the actual quest, but still had fun.
You'll love the superconducting lines that can actually get that energy out of the desert. Conventional lines do not have the capacity to go extremely long distances.
Maybe you like stuff to be open sourced, well not everyone shares your opinion. Sometimes closed source is better for many reasons. GPL is like trying to force your philosophy of open source on everyone. LGPL gives people the liberty to choose if they want to open source or close source what they build on your code.
However you need to get some perspective. Do musicians, professional athletes, artists and moviestars for example really help the world or could we live without them?
And who needs the telephone booth cleaners anyway?
Make that hundreds of hours, not thousands. You know what I concluded from playing a lot of Poker? It is a waste of time even if you make money. You haven't helped the world out by doing anything. You just took the right to use more resources.
I play good enough Poker that I can take down money off of regulars at online poker sites(I've trained for thousands of hours), and I've toyed with programming poker bots. Even with a program that plays "perfect" Poker, it isn't guaranteed to even finish in the money. Look at this obvious situation: Poker bot gets "AA" in the beginning of the tournament, Joe Blow gets "KK", they both raise and re-raise each other until they're both all in. The pokerbot made the right play, and Joe Blow can't be faulted much either. The board is 2h 5d 7d Kc Qc. The kings beat out the AA. The perfect Poker bot lost. The only way to know that the Poker Bot made the right play was that a Poker veteran confirmed it.
When you play advanced Poker, you can get into situations where you're playing the odds that your opponent does not have a hand. In this style of Poker, you're sometimes playing with weaker hands than Poker books suggest you start with. You can make the right play in advanced Poker, but other Poker vets wouldn't agree with you because they're not advanced enough to understand your play.
In advanced poker it is sometimes hard to figure out who made the right play because there is no mathematical basis for it. Are you going to compute someone's algorithm in their brain to determine what strength of hand their betting pattern is on? People can do this, but there is no hard and fast rules for getting reads. A computer can get reads better than a human because it can memorize everything perfectly, but to code something that handled all those reads would take a lot of time... And who is gonna code that? A professional poker player? The programmer is probably going to be a random dude.
So I'd say it isn't trivial to program a "perfect" Poker player. How are you going to judge which poker bot is the best? Are you going to pit bots against each other over millions of games? Are you going to pit bots vs humans? Anyone can claim they have a perfect poker bot, but I sincerely doubt it. And if you leak your source code, anyone who knows they're playing against your bot will have a huge advantage.
I know we're at a point where solar is looking like a good investment. Still... Isn't it easier for a solar contractor to just make large solar power plants to supplement the grid than worrying about the specifics of installing home to home?
I'm all for the day when I can offset my electricity bills a small amount because I have my house decked out in solar material... I'd rather just have cheaper electricity though especially in the near future. Plugin, hybrid cars are going to start sucking on the power grid. If we don't add more solar or nuclear plants to the grid, we could see an electric shortage in the form of higher prices for one.
Oh and I'm still bummed about the study the government is doing to make sure solar is environmentally friendly. I mean, isn't the waste output from coal plants harmful to the environment? If we had the option to cut that waste back, aren't we helping the environment?
Anyway, the future looks bright to me. The US economy is holding even though it has taken some hits. If we can just get to a new era in surplus solar energy, we can get into some really interesting solutions to getting off oil. Some people think it will be hydrogen. Some people think it will be electric cars. I'm not sure which is going to take off in the long run. I think it is going to be hybrids that make the most initial impact because they don't have the limitations of the electric car's maximum range. For electric cars to have a long range, gas stations will have to be refitted with a tool to swap out battery arrays. Hydrogen faces a similar challenge in that it'd need special fill up stations too. Plug in hybrids work off traditional gas stations.
I like Nanosolar's approach because it is so high tech and also economically feasable. Still low tech solar options such as parabolic mirrors to focus sunlight and run steam turbines could be good at first. I think we have a lot of unused land on Earth, and the faster we can cover it, the faster we can have surplus energy. Surplus energy makes transportation costs go down so you can travel all that you want even if you're poor. And even more interesting is that surplus energy lowers the cost of transporting food, so impoverished people can be supplied better. Oh yeah, and surplus energy also means that everything is cheaper so people have more disposable income which incidentally, also helps poor people.
If someone gets some sort of hard to cure disease, just let the internet controlled nano bot pilots fix it manually. All they need to do is fly around and shoot the bad cells.
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Its cool if you don't know how this impacts any nations security. The event that would get everyone worried about unsecured networks hasn't happened. And hopefully it doesn't happen. I'd tell you what the event is, but I don't want to give anyone ideas. Some things are best not spoken.
Cracking the best antivirus software is tough when you consider you have to write a completely new virus to do it. Oh wait that's easy.
Many roads, sidewalks, and boardwalks have specifically legalized it on the roads of the US. So if you wanted to make say... a robot that advertises for you, it would be legal if you used a Segway as the chassis. I'm not sure if similar devices are legal, but I'm sure you'd probably get by law with one.
When you invest in solar, you can very likely get your money back and then some(if you invest in profitable solar companies). The key is solar is great to be corporate because corporations have a way to pushing things to their saturation point. Solar has no saturation point as long as there are stars in the universe. But for right now, we should at least be looking to capitalize on Earth's potential.
Once we have abundant energy on Earth through Solar, we can use it in electric or hydrogen vehicles. With electric vehicles, we can transport the energy from one plant or another with only using human labor or electric trains. Once you have "free energy" powering vehicles, the cost of transportation gets less. When the cost of transportation gets less, the cost of food and water gets less. Also "free energy" by the coast can turn salt water into drinking water then vehicles can transport them inland.
Right there, you just made an impact on many poor peoples' lives without actually donating any money. I think any geek who wants to use technology to solve the world's problems should look inward into conserving money so they can buy stock in profitable solar. I think you should do your research into different companies. I've found mine: nanosolar.com. The only problem is that they haven't gone public yet. So I save money. I'm pretty much broke, but at least I got the spirit of it all.
Sure he's a rockstar and astrophyics scientist... But is no neurosurgeon, race car driver, nor comic book hero. He gotta ways to go.
Hopefully the guy making the decisions weighed espionage. You can really shoot yourself in the foot if you find a counter to your own missle defense and then someone publishes the counter. Do you really need an anti missle defense technology so bad that it is worth endangering your own missle defense?
Maybe we'll use geothermal as a temporary fix like we use oil now. I don't have the vision to see us doing it, but it is possible. The key is that when we run low on heat from the Earth's core in the distant future, things like the earth's magnetic field may no longer shield us from cosmic radiation. So there if humanity lasts that long, we'll probably have to reheat the Earth's core from another energy source. Its no real big deal, but you explained that coal or oil running out. I just wanted to explain that the heat in the Earth's core is not unlimited either. It is similar to the argument that we can take energy off the Earth's velocity to catapult spacecraft. We can't just keep doing that forever either unless we don't mind taking the plunge into the Sun... even though it could conveniently heat the Earth's core back up.
I firmly believe that solar is going to boom in the next few years and start covering every piece of cheap land on the globe. I feel that there is a lot of money to be made in energy in the short run when solar supplements the grid. And there is money to be made in energy in the long run as we phase into plugin hybrids and the demand on the grid gets huge. Of course like most nerds, I have a "not in my lifetime" long run view of an eventual Dyson Sphere of solar power in space which probably doesn't start out trying to be one, but instead starts out as Sim City microwave power plants. On a reverse note, people think the innermost planets cannot be habitable due to their temperatures from the sun, but can't we just pull a Mr. Burns and block out the sun? We could then send energy through focused beams to collectors.
What are they gonna do, shoot down your satellites? Doubtful. They have NO AA.
Couldn't get in, but at least this lecture talks about the brick walls. This lecture is pretty inspiring. It woulda been nice to have known the guy.
Or even better, don't tell them that they're banned. Just let them keep posting, but they're the only ones who sees their posts.
And CRPGS are watered down PNP RPGS. How can you have a huge quest in front of you, but instead end up terrorizing the towns people and never get on to the actual quest in a CRPG? Maybe that was just indicative of my play group, but we hardly ever found the actual quest, but still had fun.
Just paypal $1 to Chunkylover53@aol.com
You'll love the superconducting lines that can actually get that energy out of the desert. Conventional lines do not have the capacity to go extremely long distances.
I'm looking forward to the Mechwarrior action MMOG
Maybe you like stuff to be open sourced, well not everyone shares your opinion. Sometimes closed source is better for many reasons. GPL is like trying to force your philosophy of open source on everyone. LGPL gives people the liberty to choose if they want to open source or close source what they build on your code.
Don't forget we're slowing the moon's orbit around the Earth which inevitably will lead to the moon falling into the Earth.
We're not sure if the sites are already dead, or if the observers changed the outcome.
Do you want to keep your space vacation or trade it for what is in the box?
However you need to get some perspective. Do musicians, professional athletes, artists and moviestars for example really help the world or could we live without them? And who needs the telephone booth cleaners anyway?
Make that hundreds of hours, not thousands. You know what I concluded from playing a lot of Poker? It is a waste of time even if you make money. You haven't helped the world out by doing anything. You just took the right to use more resources.
I play good enough Poker that I can take down money off of regulars at online poker sites(I've trained for thousands of hours), and I've toyed with programming poker bots. Even with a program that plays "perfect" Poker, it isn't guaranteed to even finish in the money. Look at this obvious situation: Poker bot gets "AA" in the beginning of the tournament, Joe Blow gets "KK", they both raise and re-raise each other until they're both all in. The pokerbot made the right play, and Joe Blow can't be faulted much either. The board is 2h 5d 7d Kc Qc. The kings beat out the AA. The perfect Poker bot lost. The only way to know that the Poker Bot made the right play was that a Poker veteran confirmed it.
When you play advanced Poker, you can get into situations where you're playing the odds that your opponent does not have a hand. In this style of Poker, you're sometimes playing with weaker hands than Poker books suggest you start with. You can make the right play in advanced Poker, but other Poker vets wouldn't agree with you because they're not advanced enough to understand your play.
In advanced poker it is sometimes hard to figure out who made the right play because there is no mathematical basis for it. Are you going to compute someone's algorithm in their brain to determine what strength of hand their betting pattern is on? People can do this, but there is no hard and fast rules for getting reads. A computer can get reads better than a human because it can memorize everything perfectly, but to code something that handled all those reads would take a lot of time... And who is gonna code that? A professional poker player? The programmer is probably going to be a random dude.
So I'd say it isn't trivial to program a "perfect" Poker player. How are you going to judge which poker bot is the best? Are you going to pit bots against each other over millions of games? Are you going to pit bots vs humans? Anyone can claim they have a perfect poker bot, but I sincerely doubt it. And if you leak your source code, anyone who knows they're playing against your bot will have a huge advantage.
I know we're at a point where solar is looking like a good investment. Still... Isn't it easier for a solar contractor to just make large solar power plants to supplement the grid than worrying about the specifics of installing home to home?
I'm all for the day when I can offset my electricity bills a small amount because I have my house decked out in solar material... I'd rather just have cheaper electricity though especially in the near future. Plugin, hybrid cars are going to start sucking on the power grid. If we don't add more solar or nuclear plants to the grid, we could see an electric shortage in the form of higher prices for one.
Oh and I'm still bummed about the study the government is doing to make sure solar is environmentally friendly. I mean, isn't the waste output from coal plants harmful to the environment? If we had the option to cut that waste back, aren't we helping the environment?
Anyway, the future looks bright to me. The US economy is holding even though it has taken some hits. If we can just get to a new era in surplus solar energy, we can get into some really interesting solutions to getting off oil. Some people think it will be hydrogen. Some people think it will be electric cars. I'm not sure which is going to take off in the long run. I think it is going to be hybrids that make the most initial impact because they don't have the limitations of the electric car's maximum range. For electric cars to have a long range, gas stations will have to be refitted with a tool to swap out battery arrays. Hydrogen faces a similar challenge in that it'd need special fill up stations too. Plug in hybrids work off traditional gas stations.
I like Nanosolar's approach because it is so high tech and also economically feasable. Still low tech solar options such as parabolic mirrors to focus sunlight and run steam turbines could be good at first. I think we have a lot of unused land on Earth, and the faster we can cover it, the faster we can have surplus energy. Surplus energy makes transportation costs go down so you can travel all that you want even if you're poor. And even more interesting is that surplus energy lowers the cost of transporting food, so impoverished people can be supplied better. Oh yeah, and surplus energy also means that everything is cheaper so people have more disposable income which incidentally, also helps poor people.
and when they accidentally shoot the good ones?
Accidentally?
If someone gets some sort of hard to cure disease, just let the internet controlled nano bot pilots fix it manually. All they need to do is fly around and shoot the bad cells.