Yep, some plant-based liquid fuels and a lot of wind generators. Building those, at least basic ones, is low-tech and easy. After a while we could reboot the PV manufacturing, but that would take a while. Solar based on focusing sunlight and boiling some fluid might catch on pretty quickly. Any way you slice it, there won't be nearly the transportation levels we have now for a long time. Hydroelectric could make a lot of power fairly quickly. There are serious downsides to damming up more waterways, but it doesn't require fossil fuels.
Yes, that would be more convenient. He didn't want to back up to "the cloud". It's more expensive to set up a machine somewhere else to receive stuff than just to drop off a flash drive every once in a while. So the low-tech approach seemed to fit his wants and needs.
I know this isn't what you asked, and I'm interested in hearing the answer to your question as well. But offsite is really the only safe alternative. Put copies on whatever media, then store them somewhere away from your house. If you have a place you feel is relatively secure at the office, put it there. Send it home with a trusted friend. Store it in your mom's basement (if you live elsewhere). Encrypt with a phrase you won't forget. Only a thermonuclear strike is likely to destroy all your copies, and if it does, I suspect you won't much care.
The real underlying problem is the energy source. There's no economic source now nor on the 20 year horizon for H2. Techies like to tinker with it, just like anything else, and I can certainly understand that. But it's really serves oil companies in two ways: 1) the most economic source is fossil fuels, and 2) it's not going to displace much fossil fuel anytime in the foreseeable future, so it serves to distract from technologies that might.
Do you expect the largest market share by type to be battery-only electric, or will some sort of series hybrid (electric with onboard generator, whatever you wish to call it) become the most popular?
Ideally a Windows / Ubuntu dual-boot (or maybe VM) with at least 1 TB and 8 GB. There's a significant amount of physics-related free/cheap applications written only for Windows. Don't spend more than necessary unless there's just a glut of money.
I suppose it depends on how you define "failed". In my book, no way was Google Glass a failure. If you think they meant to make megabucks by selling a product, sure... but I can't imagine that that's what they expected to occur. It was a big experiment, and a lot of data was collected from it.
...that pushes cryptocurrencies into truly anonymous exchanges. Up to now, most that demanded anonymous exchanges were trying to hide something. A few were Libertarians who just wanted privacy on principle. The rest just wanted to try it or to use it for convenience. But if the state tries to control all usage of it, that will drive most uses to demand anonymity, and solid means of achieving that will appear.
Good point. But they've spent billions on brands and convincing the public that everything in their liquids is good and necessary. However, I'm betting it's more the distributors and retailers that don't want it. They're comfortable with what they have. There probably won't be a big increase in overall alcohol sales, so anything that sells instead of traditional spirits might not go through their channels. Why take a chance? Just get the buddies in the legislature to nip it in the bud, as Barney would say. There's not yet an big organized resistance to the powder by parties worried about health or social consequences, so there's got to be some reason for legislators to move on it. Follow the money.
If the use of all antibiotics were subject to rules from under the same roof (FDA), I seriously doubt we'd have such outrageous misuse of them on livestock. Get control out of the hands of the Ag Dept. Developing new antibiotics is a must, but the rate at which they become ineffective has got to be slowed.
It's not that typical users don't understand how anything works and aren't willing to find out (though that annoys many of us). It's that they're busy salivating over the latest hyped product ("can't way for 6!") instead of demanding decent security and demanding that things be done right. When did parents stop teaching their kids to not take candy from a stranger? Everyone's eating apples with razor blades and only complaining when they nearly bleed to death.
TFA lists short run arguments against autonomous robot killers, but a long run argument is that with them, the arms race will get so out-of-control that it will entirely consume the worlds' economies. Once both "sides" have them, they'll just fight amongst themselves, and both sides will have to deploy better and more numerous bots. Since no humans will be dying, there'll be much less pressure to restrict the scale of the wars. With R/C killers, there's still some limit on how many killers can operate per human (necessary to make the kill decision). Even if they do everything autonomously except kill, that still imposes some kind of limit.
What happens when all the world is destitute? Chaos, unrestricted warfare, etc. So banning these things isn't a bad idea.
The biggest problem I see with enforcing a ban is discerning between R/C killers and fully autonomous killers. R/Cs will become so sophisticated that they'll do everything themselves up to the point of pulling the trigger. From an outside observer, would it be clear whether a human ordered it to execute or an additional single line of code did it?
"Today there are no victims of fully autonomous weapons..." Really? How do you know? Author should have said "...as far as I know."
8 years, this year. But when the people whose 401ks are worth 1/2 what they were 8 years ago still don't recover this year, you're going to have to start saying "9 years". There was a permanent loss of wealth, or at least the value on paper of it, and it's not coming back. Gains since then are gains since then, not restoration of what was lost. 401ks and the current "retirement system" are deeply flawed, because they were designed to supplant pensions, not to sufficiently support the retirees.
Exactly. And after the cabin's warm, for most of us within 10 minutes, most of that heat is again wasted because we don't really want the interior to stay above 80F.
So no blaming Apple for applying for the patent to protect themselves in case it gets granted to someone else. But as usual, definitely blaming PTO for granting a patent for something so obvious. Don't they even read their own basic rule?
This is neither the time nor the place for pragmatism and logic. If you can't bring an inflexible ideology based on fear and ignorance to the table, nobody's going to listen to you.
Yep. The proper response is "the OSs that have run up to now on the RPi ARE the industry standard, as well as the applications that work on them. Windows and Windows applications on lightweight devices have never been "the industry standard". It is unlikely that the majority of future lightweight and/or IoT devices will be running Windows or Windows applications, so it makes no sense to educate students using those, even if they function as claimed.
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Yep, some plant-based liquid fuels and a lot of wind generators. Building those, at least basic ones, is low-tech and easy. After a while we could reboot the PV manufacturing, but that would take a while. Solar based on focusing sunlight and boiling some fluid might catch on pretty quickly. Any way you slice it, there won't be nearly the transportation levels we have now for a long time. Hydroelectric could make a lot of power fairly quickly. There are serious downsides to damming up more waterways, but it doesn't require fossil fuels.
Yes, that would be more convenient. He didn't want to back up to "the cloud". It's more expensive to set up a machine somewhere else to receive stuff than just to drop off a flash drive every once in a while. So the low-tech approach seemed to fit his wants and needs.
I know this isn't what you asked, and I'm interested in hearing the answer to your question as well. But offsite is really the only safe alternative. Put copies on whatever media, then store them somewhere away from your house. If you have a place you feel is relatively secure at the office, put it there. Send it home with a trusted friend. Store it in your mom's basement (if you live elsewhere). Encrypt with a phrase you won't forget. Only a thermonuclear strike is likely to destroy all your copies, and if it does, I suspect you won't much care.
Not only convinced them so, but now using them in an attempt to gain sympathy from the public
This is pretty elaborate for an April Fool's joke, having previously planted all that stuff all over the net.
Let's go ahead and make using this while driving illegal before it becomes popular.
Elegance.
The real underlying problem is the energy source. There's no economic source now nor on the 20 year horizon for H2. Techies like to tinker with it, just like anything else, and I can certainly understand that. But it's really serves oil companies in two ways: 1) the most economic source is fossil fuels, and 2) it's not going to displace much fossil fuel anytime in the foreseeable future, so it serves to distract from technologies that might.
How do you expect to provide extended range (for long trips, for battery-only electric cars)? Very quick recharge? Battery swap? Something else?
Do you expect the largest market share by type to be battery-only electric, or will some sort of series hybrid (electric with onboard generator, whatever you wish to call it) become the most popular?
Ideally a Windows / Ubuntu dual-boot (or maybe VM) with at least 1 TB and 8 GB. There's a significant amount of physics-related free/cheap applications written only for Windows. Don't spend more than necessary unless there's just a glut of money.
I suppose it depends on how you define "failed". In my book, no way was Google Glass a failure. If you think they meant to make megabucks by selling a product, sure... but I can't imagine that that's what they expected to occur. It was a big experiment, and a lot of data was collected from it.
...that pushes cryptocurrencies into truly anonymous exchanges. Up to now, most that demanded anonymous exchanges were trying to hide something. A few were Libertarians who just wanted privacy on principle. The rest just wanted to try it or to use it for convenience. But if the state tries to control all usage of it, that will drive most uses to demand anonymity, and solid means of achieving that will appear.
Good point. But they've spent billions on brands and convincing the public that everything in their liquids is good and necessary. However, I'm betting it's more the distributors and retailers that don't want it. They're comfortable with what they have. There probably won't be a big increase in overall alcohol sales, so anything that sells instead of traditional spirits might not go through their channels. Why take a chance? Just get the buddies in the legislature to nip it in the bud, as Barney would say. There's not yet an big organized resistance to the powder by parties worried about health or social consequences, so there's got to be some reason for legislators to move on it. Follow the money.
If the use of all antibiotics were subject to rules from under the same roof (FDA), I seriously doubt we'd have such outrageous misuse of them on livestock. Get control out of the hands of the Ag Dept. Developing new antibiotics is a must, but the rate at which they become ineffective has got to be slowed.
It's not that typical users don't understand how anything works and aren't willing to find out (though that annoys many of us). It's that they're busy salivating over the latest hyped product ("can't way for 6!") instead of demanding decent security and demanding that things be done right. When did parents stop teaching their kids to not take candy from a stranger? Everyone's eating apples with razor blades and only complaining when they nearly bleed to death.
TFA lists short run arguments against autonomous robot killers, but a long run argument is that with them, the arms race will get so out-of-control that it will entirely consume the worlds' economies. Once both "sides" have them, they'll just fight amongst themselves, and both sides will have to deploy better and more numerous bots. Since no humans will be dying, there'll be much less pressure to restrict the scale of the wars. With R/C killers, there's still some limit on how many killers can operate per human (necessary to make the kill decision). Even if they do everything autonomously except kill, that still imposes some kind of limit. What happens when all the world is destitute? Chaos, unrestricted warfare, etc. So banning these things isn't a bad idea. The biggest problem I see with enforcing a ban is discerning between R/C killers and fully autonomous killers. R/Cs will become so sophisticated that they'll do everything themselves up to the point of pulling the trigger. From an outside observer, would it be clear whether a human ordered it to execute or an additional single line of code did it? "Today there are no victims of fully autonomous weapons..." Really? How do you know? Author should have said "...as far as I know."
8 years, this year. But when the people whose 401ks are worth 1/2 what they were 8 years ago still don't recover this year, you're going to have to start saying "9 years". There was a permanent loss of wealth, or at least the value on paper of it, and it's not coming back. Gains since then are gains since then, not restoration of what was lost. 401ks and the current "retirement system" are deeply flawed, because they were designed to supplant pensions, not to sufficiently support the retirees.
Exactly. And after the cabin's warm, for most of us within 10 minutes, most of that heat is again wasted because we don't really want the interior to stay above 80F.
So no blaming Apple for applying for the patent to protect themselves in case it gets granted to someone else. But as usual, definitely blaming PTO for granting a patent for something so obvious. Don't they even read their own basic rule?
If only we had the Betamax Sony instead of the Sony we've had since the 90s. You must've wanted us to come out from under our 1/2" rocks.
This is neither the time nor the place for pragmatism and logic. If you can't bring an inflexible ideology based on fear and ignorance to the table, nobody's going to listen to you.
Just put a bunch of menus in the computer, have it randomly choose one each day to serve up on the internet, and make whatever it chooses.
Gee whiz. Just put the menu on the inside of the door.
Yep. The proper response is "the OSs that have run up to now on the RPi ARE the industry standard, as well as the applications that work on them. Windows and Windows applications on lightweight devices have never been "the industry standard". It is unlikely that the majority of future lightweight and/or IoT devices will be running Windows or Windows applications, so it makes no sense to educate students using those, even if they function as claimed.