Well the wonderful thing about hydrogen air ships and bad PR is that anyone alive at the time to consume news relating to the diesel fire on the hydrogen airship are now dead or close enough. People are being unnecessarily wary of a most excellent means of very efficiently moving goods and people from point A to B. I also think that this is recognized and not the real reason.
The more influential reasons are probably related to the existing paradigms for transporting goods and people. The specific challenges regard competition and infrastructure. Over land we have the trucking industry and to a lesser extent the airline industry. Over sea we have the cargo ships and again to a lesser extent the airline industry.
Regarding competition we can exclude the airline industry since their service wouldn't be directly challenged. Air ships are not fast and that is the main reason for the existence of present day airlines. Ships, both ocean going cargo and inland barges as well as long-haul trucking however would be very much threatened. Each of which are very much the established, "old money" industries and certainly not about to cede their territory to dirigible upstarts.
Next we have infrastructure. Obviously there's abundant existing infrastructure set up to service both ships as well as trucks and jets. Dirigibles on the other hand have more or less nothing. There's simply no place for these vehicles to set down, drop and/or load cargo especially in any economically necessary volume. Beyond that there's basically no regulatory infrastructure.
In the past obvious and substantial financial incentives unfortunately simply haven't been sufficient to motivate anyone to attempt to overcome all these obstacles nor the far simpler engineering problems mentioned elsewhere. Given today's and the prospective future's fuel costs the incentive may be becoming tempting enough to attract small upstarts. However, I think it highly unlikely we will be seeing dirigibles or derivative air ships moving any kind of substantial amount of cargo for many decades.
I don't care who but one (or both) of you should really cite references. Otherwise you two just sound like a couple of ignorant folk spewing opinions held while not having any basis in reality.
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As I understand it it is a specialization of the Meissner effect wherein by introduction of defects magnetic fields may penetrate the superconductor but only at these defect points. These magnetic fields able to penetrate act as control rods of a sort which provides the "stiffness." BTW: you wouldn't happen to mind providing said links would you?
Not exactly new, but it is an application of the physics behind the Meissner effect. Something that aside from floating a cube above a dish of liquid nitrogen I've not really heard of anyone bothering with, or at least demonstrating in such a jaw dropping manner.
To be fair, although there's no actual description of the damn technology--kudos CNN--the picture appears to be showing actual 3D projection (spinning mirrors perhaps?) rather than those obnoxious stereographic displays or the old-school anaglyphs. This might actually be the proper 3D holographic display we've been dreaming about since Star Wars gave us a glimpse.
Please elucidate this "hidden cost" for me, for us. Please tell me why I should deal with pretentious owners; with 80% of shelf space devoted to bored house wives, retired women and anyone else avidly following Oprah's booklist; shelves stocked with books they think I should read rather than those I want to read; a technical book section whose titles overwhelmingly end in "for Dummies"; two to three week turn around for books they need to order; cover price; etc. What is so worthy of me abandoning next day deliver if I need it? Why should I give up a selection whose only rival is the Library of Congress? Please explain to us lowly imbeciles who don't get what you in your infinite wisdom do.
The average person is ignorant (stupid?), short-sighted, and primarily interested in personal enjoyment/amusement. If you cannot market science to this audience you will never get funding to do science.
You can get rid of level one support desks. The Rolodex flippers are easily replaced with automated systems since they are barely less brain dead than the 90% call volume making use of them. Indeed a Watson style system would be ideal. However, on occasion the other 10% of us need an answer. We need an answer that requires analytic skills and strong subject matter expertise to derive and we don't have the time to do our own research. Of that 10% perhaps another 1% of us need an answer requiring engineering/expert level skills and subject matter expertise. A Watson system might handle level two but never last line of support.
Ordinarily I would be hesitant to come to the support of a DBA but in this case I think it's appropriate. This is a PHP developer being talked about which is almost exclusively synonymous with dumba**, sweatshop code monkey. A breed too incompetent and uncomprehending for anything but script kiddie copy/paste hackery.
Don't worry, I've read a few sci-fi books and learned where we're all headed. The basic idea is that national governments collapse/implode and operate as merely the glue binding the military industrial complex now serving as the outsourced departments of government. Occasionally national governments are dissolved all together after being sold to a corporation after being unable to afford its services. Citizenry are officially or otherwise relegated to the role of cattle. In all cases the mega-corporations now no longer bound to a legal system are free to conduct corporate competition in much the same way as their government predecessors, through armed conflict. Potentially humanity becomes space faring and colonization is performed by the mega-corporations. The colonists tend to be indentured servants set with the task of building a profit center revolving around resource extraction, manufacture or both on the new world. Their debt obligation to the corporation either requiring their indentured service or is the price of passage to the new world. In the event that humanity does not become space faring, indentured service to a corporation is still a near certainty due to a society setup to ensure indebtedness to the corporations.
That's not funny. But if I had the money I probably would. I'd also include "wearable computer," "biological computer," "with rounded corners," "with square corners," "with direct neural interface," "with indirect neural interface," "with direct neural interface having rounded corners," "..."
Actually it was our "founding fathers'" disaster. Specifically James Madison and Charles Pinckney, but of course adopted and enshrined by the whole cabal. It was a good intentioned but very naive notion that never considered possibilities such as the mess we're facing presently. Ultimately I suspect it unlikely that our technological progress would have been hindered though the actors probably different. More than likely we would have progressed even further since monies wouldn't have been sunk into the legal system nor lost due to hampered innovation. Companies would have had to pursue the novel idea of competing on the merits of their products rather than the merits of their patent portfolio and lawyers. The USPTO is just trying to "do its job" while being raped of funding by a congress that doesn't care whose cookie jar their hands are in when it comes to funding their pork.
Evidently you either had a first generation RX-7 or your perceptions do not match reality as the numbers certainly don't back up your claims. However I would point out that if you are concerned about gas being $4/gallon you likely aren't going to be a customer for a ~$30,000 sports car. We also weren't discussing used cars from the 80's and 90's.
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That's not funny. True, but certainly not funny...
Well the wonderful thing about hydrogen air ships and bad PR is that anyone alive at the time to consume news relating to the diesel fire on the hydrogen airship are now dead or close enough. People are being unnecessarily wary of a most excellent means of very efficiently moving goods and people from point A to B. I also think that this is recognized and not the real reason.
The more influential reasons are probably related to the existing paradigms for transporting goods and people. The specific challenges regard competition and infrastructure. Over land we have the trucking industry and to a lesser extent the airline industry. Over sea we have the cargo ships and again to a lesser extent the airline industry.
Regarding competition we can exclude the airline industry since their service wouldn't be directly challenged. Air ships are not fast and that is the main reason for the existence of present day airlines. Ships, both ocean going cargo and inland barges as well as long-haul trucking however would be very much threatened. Each of which are very much the established, "old money" industries and certainly not about to cede their territory to dirigible upstarts.
Next we have infrastructure. Obviously there's abundant existing infrastructure set up to service both ships as well as trucks and jets. Dirigibles on the other hand have more or less nothing. There's simply no place for these vehicles to set down, drop and/or load cargo especially in any economically necessary volume. Beyond that there's basically no regulatory infrastructure.
In the past obvious and substantial financial incentives unfortunately simply haven't been sufficient to motivate anyone to attempt to overcome all these obstacles nor the far simpler engineering problems mentioned elsewhere. Given today's and the prospective future's fuel costs the incentive may be becoming tempting enough to attract small upstarts. However, I think it highly unlikely we will be seeing dirigibles or derivative air ships moving any kind of substantial amount of cargo for many decades.
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I don't care who but one (or both) of you should really cite references. Otherwise you two just sound like a couple of ignorant folk spewing opinions held while not having any basis in reality.
when i feel high post don't you click me close just Digg 'em smack
a get you back and i'll hit with a dose of Gulftown power
and charge you by the hour i'm LinkedIn like a quake and funks
get devoured i choose to abuse, misuse and confuse
trademarks patents and copyrights makin up all the tools, fools
in the game lame and insane it's a shame i gotta do this but
i remain the same unchanged gettin better never known
as a sweater kickin it at the top cause i got myself together
so roll with a guy who's digital and nerdy knows the time
and too legit to quit...sang!
As I understand it it is a specialization of the Meissner effect wherein by introduction of defects magnetic fields may penetrate the superconductor but only at these defect points. These magnetic fields able to penetrate act as control rods of a sort which provides the "stiffness." BTW: you wouldn't happen to mind providing said links would you?
Not exactly new, but it is an application of the physics behind the Meissner effect. Something that aside from floating a cube above a dish of liquid nitrogen I've not really heard of anyone bothering with, or at least demonstrating in such a jaw dropping manner.
that I can say someone showed me something that makes my jaw drop. But this most certainly did. Wow, this absolutely floored me. Good work guys.
Don Draper: People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.
To be fair, although there's no actual description of the damn technology--kudos CNN--the picture appears to be showing actual 3D projection (spinning mirrors perhaps?) rather than those obnoxious stereographic displays or the old-school anaglyphs. This might actually be the proper 3D holographic display we've been dreaming about since Star Wars gave us a glimpse.
Please elucidate this "hidden cost" for me, for us. Please tell me why I should deal with pretentious owners; with 80% of shelf space devoted to bored house wives, retired women and anyone else avidly following Oprah's booklist; shelves stocked with books they think I should read rather than those I want to read; a technical book section whose titles overwhelmingly end in "for Dummies"; two to three week turn around for books they need to order; cover price; etc. What is so worthy of me abandoning next day deliver if I need it? Why should I give up a selection whose only rival is the Library of Congress? Please explain to us lowly imbeciles who don't get what you in your infinite wisdom do.
The average person is ignorant (stupid?), short-sighted, and primarily interested in personal enjoyment/amusement. If you cannot market science to this audience you will never get funding to do science.
Which explains why they can be cracked open by a 12 year old and a handful of scripts they downloaded last night...
You can get rid of level one support desks. The Rolodex flippers are easily replaced with automated systems since they are barely less brain dead than the 90% call volume making use of them. Indeed a Watson style system would be ideal. However, on occasion the other 10% of us need an answer. We need an answer that requires analytic skills and strong subject matter expertise to derive and we don't have the time to do our own research. Of that 10% perhaps another 1% of us need an answer requiring engineering/expert level skills and subject matter expertise. A Watson system might handle level two but never last line of support.
Are you certain? What's been your experience with regards to the administrator to lecturer ratio?
I feel a bit better for supporting you then... ;)
Ordinarily I would be hesitant to come to the support of a DBA but in this case I think it's appropriate. This is a PHP developer being talked about which is almost exclusively synonymous with dumba**, sweatshop code monkey. A breed too incompetent and uncomprehending for anything but script kiddie copy/paste hackery.
I have my doubts that they could get away with "inflating" an extra ~100HP and ~100ft/lb of torque.
No but I hear that Darl McBride is presently being groomed to step in as CEO.
My personal preference is toward Samsung printers. They publish their own Linux drivers and haven't let me down in terms of reliability/performance.
Don't worry, I've read a few sci-fi books and learned where we're all headed. The basic idea is that national governments collapse/implode and operate as merely the glue binding the military industrial complex now serving as the outsourced departments of government. Occasionally national governments are dissolved all together after being sold to a corporation after being unable to afford its services. Citizenry are officially or otherwise relegated to the role of cattle. In all cases the mega-corporations now no longer bound to a legal system are free to conduct corporate competition in much the same way as their government predecessors, through armed conflict. Potentially humanity becomes space faring and colonization is performed by the mega-corporations. The colonists tend to be indentured servants set with the task of building a profit center revolving around resource extraction, manufacture or both on the new world. Their debt obligation to the corporation either requiring their indentured service or is the price of passage to the new world. In the event that humanity does not become space faring, indentured service to a corporation is still a near certainty due to a society setup to ensure indebtedness to the corporations.
That's not funny. But if I had the money I probably would. I'd also include "wearable computer," "biological computer," "with rounded corners," "with square corners," "with direct neural interface," "with indirect neural interface," "with direct neural interface having rounded corners," "..."
Actually it was our "founding fathers'" disaster. Specifically James Madison and Charles Pinckney, but of course adopted and enshrined by the whole cabal. It was a good intentioned but very naive notion that never considered possibilities such as the mess we're facing presently. Ultimately I suspect it unlikely that our technological progress would have been hindered though the actors probably different. More than likely we would have progressed even further since monies wouldn't have been sunk into the legal system nor lost due to hampered innovation. Companies would have had to pursue the novel idea of competing on the merits of their products rather than the merits of their patent portfolio and lawyers. The USPTO is just trying to "do its job" while being raped of funding by a congress that doesn't care whose cookie jar their hands are in when it comes to funding their pork.
That's actually pretty impressive. Of course it should be since when new it cost about twice as much...
Evidently you either had a first generation RX-7 or your perceptions do not match reality as the numbers certainly don't back up your claims. However I would point out that if you are concerned about gas being $4/gallon you likely aren't going to be a customer for a ~$30,000 sports car. We also weren't discussing used cars from the 80's and 90's.