It's not just IT but any field, think of a plumber or project manager. Long gone are the days of apprenticeships, they would have been create combined with a solid course work foundation.
More likely, they're using this as a very public way to try and force a change in the security laws that they don't like. "Sorry rich-guys-with-political-pull, you can't get any of this action until that law goes away..."
I appreciate your sentiment, but it's a press release, not a scientific paper. It's meant to drum up interest in those who don't have a grand education (forced or self-taught) in these areas. Sometimes we just have to leave our high-dork-horse at home and appreciate the coolness of the development.
but then how would social networking work?
The functionality behind the smart-phone drives the lack of privacy. The motivation of the supplier is not to give us privacy, quite the opposite.
Bottom-line, we can only buy what they decide to sell and they will sell what makes them money. The true question is are we the driving revenue or is the collected information the biggest revenue? Then you can figure out who is the true customer and who are the cattle.
That is so not flock of seagulls, sheeeesh. Get your hair styles right (http://www.mamapop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/mike-score-flock-of-seagulls.jpg)
I know of Better Place. The system needs a lot of work, but it does have merit. The batteries are heavy and robots need to replace them. The biggest problem is the the lag of the car companies. They are typically 7-10 years behind new technology, and this is new technology. A car is so tightly designed now and has to fit around so many specifications that unless the Feds ease some restrictions, we'll not see battery swapping for many many years, no matter how well developed.
On top of that we need to look at the geopolitical issues of batteries. Over 2 years ago I was harping on about transferring energy reliance from the middle east to China and Russia due to the need for metals for batteries. Unless we focus on the zinc air battery, which has it's own difficulty, we will be beholden to those countries. A few weeks ago China made sure we all knew that IT knew that.
Personally I say batteries in vehicles are an intermediate step and learning point, so keep them for communing and forget long range. If we want a leap in electrical storage for passenger vehicles we should be looking into ultra capacitors. Give the inertia in the system it's not going to add that much more time on in the grand scheme. I'm also an advocate of hydrogen/fuel cells as the end game, unless we start getting serious about nuke powered electricity, but H2 production and FC's have a lot of work to be done yet.
It's highly unlikely that batteries will ever work for Class-8 semi-truck or rail, and they consume 23% of the US transportation fuel. The best move with them is something along H2/FC. In the meantime we may just need to play teh carbon accounting game and go for the 'carbon neutral' biomass derived bio-diesel. (Bio-ethanol needs to just go away, it always was a terrible idea from a resource point)
According to the American Petroleum Institute, the heating value, or energy stored in a gallon of gasoline, is approximately 131,760,000 Joules. Therefore, a 20 gallon tank in a typical passenger car holds around 2.64 billion Joules of energy. Given the well-known “tank to wheel” inefficiency of vehicles powered by IC engines and if one (unrealistically) assumes that the “battery to wheel” efficiency of a future battery powered EV is 100% and the total vehicle weight is unchanged, then the EV would need to store somewhere on the order of 1/4th of this energy, or 659 megajoules, to have comparable driving range. Even if advances in battery or capacitor technology make this possible at reasonable cost and with more or less the same overall volume and weight, the issue of “refueling” or recharging the system is governed by simple physics that cannot be avoided. For example, to deliver 659 megajoules of electricity to a vehicle in 10 minutes requires a power of 1.1 megawatts. At a standard household maximum voltage of 220V, the current required is just under 5000 amps, much higher than the electrical current typically found in even very large-scale industrial equipment. Modern homes typically have electrical service rated at around 250 amps at 220 volts, and therefore if 100% of the electrical power available in the typical US home was directed toward the vehicle, recharging with the energy equivalent of a 20 gallon tank of gasoline would take about 3.3 hours. If the vehicle charger was designed to deliver a somewhat more realistic 50 amps of current at 220V (thus making it easily the most powerful electrical device in the typical home) the charging time would be more than 16 hours. Current could be lowered and charging times reduced somewhat by using higher voltages. However, the prospect of changing the basic electrical supply infrastructure to millions of homes in the US to enable vehicle charging is unrealistic, at best.
Thus, given physical limitations on charging, there simply is no possible way that purely electrically powered vehicles can ever achieve a range of more than a few hundred miles per day unless some system for rapid swapping of battery packs is devised. However, given the current and projected future cost of batteries, a scenario whereby at least two separate battery systems are required for each vehicle is even more unrealistic. Although electrically powered vehicles may occupy a significant niche in the future US vehicle market, the fundamental physics of recharging will restrict them to relatively short-range and local usage only, regardless of future advances in battery technology. Therefore, most individuals who own a single car will not choose an EV because it eliminates the option of longer trips. In the most optimistic scenario, the EV will very likely always be the “second” car a family owns.
I say make more people MBAs! We need more MBAs!!
(What do MBAs actually do? Cause at my work all they seem to do is regurgitate things I say and make very boring power point presentations with the same clip art and generic percentage data about general stuff)
Wasn't this the same complaint that record stores had when MP3's became prevalent? So STEAM would be akin to iTunes or eMusic etc. Reflective arguments? be interesting to watch
In follow up news:
TSA announces it's intentions to ban passengers from flights. "We need to make sure that we're 100% certain that air travel is safe" said one TSA Chief decision-maker, "People shouldn't feel targeted, we're currently reviewing whether it's absolutely necessary to have a flight crew on board"
Sorry don't have any, got out of the academic environments a decade and a half ago. Even then I wrote my dissertation in Word and it was perfectly fine, quick and did what I needed it to do. (The subject was analytical chemistry and it contained math equations, although nothing majorly complex, and a lot of chemistry). I currently write all my reports (very large and small) up in Word and then convert them to PDF. Never had any complaints.
But surely, you going through the store with personal knowledge of the value of books and buying the best ones, take away my ability to have the opportunity to own that book by purchasing it through his online store?
So it's okay for you to reap the benefit of finding the book, but not him and therefore me?
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It's not just IT but any field, think of a plumber or project manager. Long gone are the days of apprenticeships, they would have been create combined with a solid course work foundation.
Can they censor misspellings? "While I was reading Tolkin..."
but it went down by $30K, it's news again!!
It's mostly harmless
More likely, they're using this as a very public way to try and force a change in the security laws that they don't like. "Sorry rich-guys-with-political-pull, you can't get any of this action until that law goes away..."
I appreciate your sentiment, but it's a press release, not a scientific paper. It's meant to drum up interest in those who don't have a grand education (forced or self-taught) in these areas. Sometimes we just have to leave our high-dork-horse at home and appreciate the coolness of the development.
but then how would social networking work? The functionality behind the smart-phone drives the lack of privacy. The motivation of the supplier is not to give us privacy, quite the opposite. Bottom-line, we can only buy what they decide to sell and they will sell what makes them money. The true question is are we the driving revenue or is the collected information the biggest revenue? Then you can figure out who is the true customer and who are the cattle.
That is so not flock of seagulls, sheeeesh. Get your hair styles right (http://www.mamapop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/mike-score-flock-of-seagulls.jpg)
And I thought Macs ran on Hot Air, not Steam
Perhaps he was only a CTO, but hasn't this already happened? http://www.intellectualventures.com/WhoWeAre/Bio/Nathan_Myhrvold.aspx
Natural attenuation
Obviously, Tilburg University for Law = Hollywood Upstairs University - doctoral degrees for $6K, no exams to take
I know of Better Place. The system needs a lot of work, but it does have merit. The batteries are heavy and robots need to replace them. The biggest problem is the the lag of the car companies. They are typically 7-10 years behind new technology, and this is new technology. A car is so tightly designed now and has to fit around so many specifications that unless the Feds ease some restrictions, we'll not see battery swapping for many many years, no matter how well developed. On top of that we need to look at the geopolitical issues of batteries. Over 2 years ago I was harping on about transferring energy reliance from the middle east to China and Russia due to the need for metals for batteries. Unless we focus on the zinc air battery, which has it's own difficulty, we will be beholden to those countries. A few weeks ago China made sure we all knew that IT knew that. Personally I say batteries in vehicles are an intermediate step and learning point, so keep them for communing and forget long range. If we want a leap in electrical storage for passenger vehicles we should be looking into ultra capacitors. Give the inertia in the system it's not going to add that much more time on in the grand scheme. I'm also an advocate of hydrogen/fuel cells as the end game, unless we start getting serious about nuke powered electricity, but H2 production and FC's have a lot of work to be done yet. It's highly unlikely that batteries will ever work for Class-8 semi-truck or rail, and they consume 23% of the US transportation fuel. The best move with them is something along H2/FC. In the meantime we may just need to play teh carbon accounting game and go for the 'carbon neutral' biomass derived bio-diesel. (Bio-ethanol needs to just go away, it always was a terrible idea from a resource point)
Well they are free to direct advertise zit cream, condoms Billabong clothing to my teenage son. He needs some style
According to the American Petroleum Institute, the heating value, or energy stored in a gallon of gasoline, is approximately 131,760,000 Joules. Therefore, a 20 gallon tank in a typical passenger car holds around 2.64 billion Joules of energy. Given the well-known “tank to wheel” inefficiency of vehicles powered by IC engines and if one (unrealistically) assumes that the “battery to wheel” efficiency of a future battery powered EV is 100% and the total vehicle weight is unchanged, then the EV would need to store somewhere on the order of 1/4th of this energy, or 659 megajoules, to have comparable driving range. Even if advances in battery or capacitor technology make this possible at reasonable cost and with more or less the same overall volume and weight, the issue of “refueling” or recharging the system is governed by simple physics that cannot be avoided. For example, to deliver 659 megajoules of electricity to a vehicle in 10 minutes requires a power of 1.1 megawatts. At a standard household maximum voltage of 220V, the current required is just under 5000 amps, much higher than the electrical current typically found in even very large-scale industrial equipment. Modern homes typically have electrical service rated at around 250 amps at 220 volts, and therefore if 100% of the electrical power available in the typical US home was directed toward the vehicle, recharging with the energy equivalent of a 20 gallon tank of gasoline would take about 3.3 hours. If the vehicle charger was designed to deliver a somewhat more realistic 50 amps of current at 220V (thus making it easily the most powerful electrical device in the typical home) the charging time would be more than 16 hours. Current could be lowered and charging times reduced somewhat by using higher voltages. However, the prospect of changing the basic electrical supply infrastructure to millions of homes in the US to enable vehicle charging is unrealistic, at best. Thus, given physical limitations on charging, there simply is no possible way that purely electrically powered vehicles can ever achieve a range of more than a few hundred miles per day unless some system for rapid swapping of battery packs is devised. However, given the current and projected future cost of batteries, a scenario whereby at least two separate battery systems are required for each vehicle is even more unrealistic. Although electrically powered vehicles may occupy a significant niche in the future US vehicle market, the fundamental physics of recharging will restrict them to relatively short-range and local usage only, regardless of future advances in battery technology. Therefore, most individuals who own a single car will not choose an EV because it eliminates the option of longer trips. In the most optimistic scenario, the EV will very likely always be the “second” car a family owns.
I say make more people MBAs! We need more MBAs!! (What do MBAs actually do? Cause at my work all they seem to do is regurgitate things I say and make very boring power point presentations with the same clip art and generic percentage data about general stuff)
Interesting, converting from 1976 to current dollar the price is $2847.23. This is around the same as a quad core Mac Pro.
Wasn't this the same complaint that record stores had when MP3's became prevalent? So STEAM would be akin to iTunes or eMusic etc. Reflective arguments? be interesting to watch
In follow up news: TSA announces it's intentions to ban passengers from flights. "We need to make sure that we're 100% certain that air travel is safe" said one TSA Chief decision-maker, "People shouldn't feel targeted, we're currently reviewing whether it's absolutely necessary to have a flight crew on board"
I was being sarcastic to the poster who found it easy to throw the term "commie pinko" around...read the thread and use context... you red-neck MORON
My 1985 hover car idles at 125 mph, while I ignore this story to brag about how cool I am
Unions, ideal yet infested with the human nature of entitlement, especially at the upper level of the Union. Sounds like Communism to me...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/164659/mozilla_to_finetune_firefox_for_multicore_cpus.html
invest some time
Sorry don't have any, got out of the academic environments a decade and a half ago. Even then I wrote my dissertation in Word and it was perfectly fine, quick and did what I needed it to do. (The subject was analytical chemistry and it contained math equations, although nothing majorly complex, and a lot of chemistry). I currently write all my reports (very large and small) up in Word and then convert them to PDF. Never had any complaints.
But surely, you going through the store with personal knowledge of the value of books and buying the best ones, take away my ability to have the opportunity to own that book by purchasing it through his online store? So it's okay for you to reap the benefit of finding the book, but not him and therefore me?