Since datacenters always pack a lot of value per sq-foot, they would be a cool way to to finance the tallest skyscraper.
I've always wondered how cold it is at the top of the Empire State Building, Sears Tower, etc, but I figure it must be a lot colder than street level. That would make for better cooling than a regular building, all other things being equal.
Furthermore, it would be a nice way to integrate data processing and communications, which are both vital for the data center. Instead of having separate communication towers, if the data center is built into a skyscraper then you'll already have plenty of height for your communication antennae.
Perhaps that data-center-skyscraper could also sport lots of solar panels to reduce its carbon footprint.
Or we could do what Kirk did and destroy all the critical computer systems, thus forcing the cyber-attackers to build real bombs to wage real war rather than their current cyber-war.
Then we could invite the cyber-attackers to a peace conference, since they'd now be afraid of real pain and suffering.
If someone's making crank calls or is cyber-hacking, then you trace them and prosecute them. But that's if they're a common criminal.
If they're part of an enemy state, then that state is obviously not going to hand them over, or even be identified. I say that you hold the enemy state responsible. If necessary, you cut off communication with that enemy state, so that they can't wage attacks from their soil against you.
Of course hackers working for a particular country can do so from outside that country, using the infrastructure of another country. So you need to create a "secure club" of countries which will offer the necessary cyber-safeguards (detection, audit trail, credible/effective policing and legal penalties). Such a secure club would then become a no-go zone for malicious hackers, whether state-sponsored or independent criminals.
So eventually you'll have to separate the internet into a "responsible internet" that's different from the regular internet where anything goes.
I like the Russian idea of building a Robot Base first. Robots are the ideal approach to pave the way for an eventual permanent manned presence. Robots don't need air, or special care, and can be made to withstand the harsh lunar environment without any adverse effects. Nobody cares whether robots "live or die".
Robots should become the "local native" staff over there, so that visiting humans can easily drop in unannounced, without a lot of extensive planning beforehand.
Why not just find some caves or lava tubes to set up a base in? If caves were good enough for our early ancestors to start off in here on Earth, then why not do the same for early living on the Moon? At least caves will give you much better shielding from solar and cosmic rays as well as meteoroid strikes.
Once you're in the cave, then you can start off with whatever hab is convenient, and then gradually expand it until you've converted the entire cavern or lava tube into one giant living space. Just be sure to include internal bulkheads or compartments, so that one leak doesn't kill everybody.
But I thought Carmack was recently demoing a prototype version of Oculus Rift at some gaming con. Has he opted out of this tech? Why, and for what alternative?
Strangely, I don't see any dearth of people trying to immigrate to the military-industrial complex-run America. Looks like people voted with their feet.
I'm waiting with anticipation for this next generation of wearable computing devices like Google Glass. I just don't want to be stuck with this stupid voice command interface, however. I'd prefer for these glasses-style devices to simply be display peripherals tethered to a handheld smartphone. Then you could just use the touchscreen as your "mouse" and perhaps even your keyboard (although I'd prefer more thought to go into how to replace the crucial keyboard functionality as well).
The problem is that everyone now thinks that all technology is IT-related. IT has become the ultimate Groupthink. Everyone just wants to do the same old dotcom crap. And dotcoms have now become to IT what plastic dogshit became to manufacturing. IT has sucked away bright minds from every other field. Nobody wants to do anything difficult and risky anymore, because they're more comfortable settling into the same old IT slog.
Well, that's what people have said about the Mach-Woodward experiments, but an opposed piston design is now being tried out to isolate any noise-producing effects for remediation:
Here ya go, Prof Chomsky - here are some pictures of statues built in homage to Shivaji, India's own Robin Hood, who fought for the weak and the oppressed - a real actual person from history, and not a fictional multi-limbed mythological deity:
Shivaji Bhosle was a local freedom fighter from Maratha history, akin to Robin Hood. He fought to protect the rights of local Marathas, waging hit-and-run battles against the Moghul Empire and standing up for the local people against the tyranny of Moghul invaders from the north over his native Maharashtra.
Bal Thakre and his supporters are also Maharashtrians, and Thakre formed the Shiva Sena ("Army of Shivaji") to stand up for the rights of his local Maharashtrian ethnic group, who were being bullied and pushed around by all the carpetbaggers flooding into his local area from across the country.
You see, the ruling Congress One Party State has been in power for 53 out of 65 years in New Delhi, ruling the country like an Emperor, caring very little for development of the local people. The Congress Party were basically founded by North Indians and are centred around their ethnic group, and they look down upon non-northern ethnic groups including Maharashtrians, insisting that everyone else assimilate into North Indian culture. The Congress Party has only been interested in hanging onto power and never cared to really foster development around the country, so what few big cities India has have then turned into dumping grounds for people from all over, who then flood into these sole few overcrowded localities, like India's largest city of Mumbai. All this does is keep compressing the people who already live there.
I'm a North Indian myself, but I have enough decency to at least be self-aware of how shabbily my ethnic group treats others in India, since we are in fact the dominant ethnic group in the country. Of course, most of the Indian media are from my ethnic group, and my Hindi language is also the dominant language of the country, so nautrally we always get to tell the story from our viewpoint, while conveniently glossing over the views of others. Our narrative is therefore the dominant narrative, while others are quickly labeled "extremists", etc to delegitimize their viewpoint. That's the mutual admiration society and the fool's paradise we like to foster for ourselves.
The Shiv Sena is not a theological organization, but simply born out of a backlash against the massive influx of people from outside the region. We Northies just like to say they're fundamentalists -- it's much easier to dismiss your antagonist as a "fundamentalist redneck" than to actually try to take a closer at their grievances, because nobody likes to see their own warts by holding up a mirror to themselves.
We get ample help from ignorant people like yourself, who'd ignorantly and uncritically parrot anything sensationalist claims they read or hear, without having any actual familiarity with the local politics.
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Okay, somebody ban this guy, or if you can't do that, then impose a maximum length restriction for postings.
And yet somebody's farm was foreclosed on to pay for this crappy video
Some data centers have to be near their users. It's called latency.
Since datacenters always pack a lot of value per sq-foot, they would be a cool way to to finance the tallest skyscraper.
I've always wondered how cold it is at the top of the Empire State Building, Sears Tower, etc, but I figure it must be a lot colder than street level. That would make for better cooling than a regular building, all other things being equal.
Furthermore, it would be a nice way to integrate data processing and communications, which are both vital for the data center. Instead of having separate communication towers, if the data center is built into a skyscraper then you'll already have plenty of height for your communication antennae.
Perhaps that data-center-skyscraper could also sport lots of solar panels to reduce its carbon footprint.
Quick! Break out the gender-reversed Donkey Kong!
Or we could do what Kirk did and destroy all the critical computer systems, thus forcing the cyber-attackers to build real bombs to wage real war rather than their current cyber-war.
Then we could invite the cyber-attackers to a peace conference, since they'd now be afraid of real pain and suffering.
Then we could kill them all at that conference.
If someone's making crank calls or is cyber-hacking, then you trace them and prosecute them. But that's if they're a common criminal.
If they're part of an enemy state, then that state is obviously not going to hand them over, or even be identified. I say that you hold the enemy state responsible. If necessary, you cut off communication with that enemy state, so that they can't wage attacks from their soil against you.
Of course hackers working for a particular country can do so from outside that country, using the infrastructure of another country. So you need to create a "secure club" of countries which will offer the necessary cyber-safeguards (detection, audit trail, credible/effective policing and legal penalties). Such a secure club would then become a no-go zone for malicious hackers, whether state-sponsored or independent criminals.
So eventually you'll have to separate the internet into a "responsible internet" that's different from the regular internet where anything goes.
Don't forget you need a base for the Interceptors and Moon Mobiles.
Screw that - I want Eagles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAt60HrSkzI
I like the Russian idea of building a Robot Base first. Robots are the ideal approach to pave the way for an eventual permanent manned presence. Robots don't need air, or special care, and can be made to withstand the harsh lunar environment without any adverse effects. Nobody cares whether robots "live or die".
Robots should become the "local native" staff over there, so that visiting humans can easily drop in unannounced, without a lot of extensive planning beforehand.
Why not just find some caves or lava tubes to set up a base in? If caves were good enough for our early ancestors to start off in here on Earth, then why not do the same for early living on the Moon? At least caves will give you much better shielding from solar and cosmic rays as well as meteoroid strikes.
Once you're in the cave, then you can start off with whatever hab is convenient, and then gradually expand it until you've converted the entire cavern or lava tube into one giant living space. Just be sure to include internal bulkheads or compartments, so that one leak doesn't kill everybody.
But I thought Carmack was recently demoing a prototype version of Oculus Rift at some gaming con. Has he opted out of this tech? Why, and for what alternative?
you know what they say about neanderthals with big eyes...
Is beer in the denominator, because then the limit of $ as beer approaches infinity is zero, which is contradicted by reality.
That idiot Hagel won't be upto the task. He's going to flub things badly.
Millions of people regularly resorting to eating grass to ward off starvation is socialism at its finest?
It's socialism at its most typical. Orwell was really on target in pointing that out.
Strangely, I don't see any dearth of people trying to immigrate to the military-industrial complex-run America. Looks like people voted with their feet.
I'm waiting with anticipation for this next generation of wearable computing devices like Google Glass. I just don't want to be stuck with this stupid voice command interface, however. I'd prefer for these glasses-style devices to simply be display peripherals tethered to a handheld smartphone. Then you could just use the touchscreen as your "mouse" and perhaps even your keyboard (although I'd prefer more thought to go into how to replace the crucial keyboard functionality as well).
The problem is that everyone now thinks that all technology is IT-related. IT has become the ultimate Groupthink. Everyone just wants to do the same old dotcom crap. And dotcoms have now become to IT what plastic dogshit became to manufacturing. IT has sucked away bright minds from every other field. Nobody wants to do anything difficult and risky anymore, because they're more comfortable settling into the same old IT slog.
who wants to look at ugly regular people nekkid?
actually, this would require tethering to handheld touchscreen device, since you don't want to be shouting "Next Porn Vid!" during a meeting.
Well, that's what people have said about the Mach-Woodward experiments, but an opposed piston design is now being tried out to isolate any noise-producing effects for remediation:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6178
Here ya go, Prof Chomsky - here are some pictures of statues built in homage to Shivaji, India's own Robin Hood, who fought for the weak and the oppressed - a real actual person from history, and not a fictional multi-limbed mythological deity:
http://www.indialine.com/travel/maharashtra/shivajiheritage.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/subratomitra/6073279079/
http://500px.com/photo/5242560
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shivaji_Statue_Apollo_Bunder_Front_View.jpg
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/27769369
Shivaji's dog:
http://amitkulkarni.info/pics/raigad-fort/picture-gallery/Statue-of-Shivaji-pet-dog-Waghya.php
Yes, he even made it to California:
http://ekmarathimanoos.blogspot.ca/2011/11/american-shivaji.html
Just please don't go around telling people that Jesus Montero was a central figure in the Bible, rather than a baseball player.
Here, get an education - you ignorant gringo tourist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji
Shivaji Bhosle was a local freedom fighter from Maratha history, akin to Robin Hood. He fought to protect the rights of local Marathas, waging hit-and-run battles against the Moghul Empire and standing up for the local people against the tyranny of Moghul invaders from the north over his native Maharashtra.
Bal Thakre and his supporters are also Maharashtrians, and Thakre formed the Shiva Sena ("Army of Shivaji") to stand up for the rights of his local Maharashtrian ethnic group, who were being bullied and pushed around by all the carpetbaggers flooding into his local area from across the country.
You see, the ruling Congress One Party State has been in power for 53 out of 65 years in New Delhi, ruling the country like an Emperor, caring very little for development of the local people. The Congress Party were basically founded by North Indians and are centred around their ethnic group, and they look down upon non-northern ethnic groups including Maharashtrians, insisting that everyone else assimilate into North Indian culture. The Congress Party has only been interested in hanging onto power and never cared to really foster development around the country, so what few big cities India has have then turned into dumping grounds for people from all over, who then flood into these sole few overcrowded localities, like India's largest city of Mumbai. All this does is keep compressing the people who already live there.
I'm a North Indian myself, but I have enough decency to at least be self-aware of how shabbily my ethnic group treats others in India, since we are in fact the dominant ethnic group in the country. Of course, most of the Indian media are from my ethnic group, and my Hindi language is also the dominant language of the country, so nautrally we always get to tell the story from our viewpoint, while conveniently glossing over the views of others. Our narrative is therefore the dominant narrative, while others are quickly labeled "extremists", etc to delegitimize their viewpoint. That's the mutual admiration society and the fool's paradise we like to foster for ourselves.
The Shiv Sena is not a theological organization, but simply born out of a backlash against the massive influx of people from outside the region. We Northies just like to say they're fundamentalists -- it's much easier to dismiss your antagonist as a "fundamentalist redneck" than to actually try to take a closer at their grievances, because nobody likes to see their own warts by holding up a mirror to themselves.
We get ample help from ignorant people like yourself, who'd ignorantly and uncritically parrot anything sensationalist claims they read or hear, without having any actual familiarity with the local politics.
They were all glued to the boob tube back in the 80s, soaking up inspiration for future products:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytJDJ96Es8Y
What if the "simulation" is simply programmed to deceive this test?
Then what do you do?
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