Over the past few decades, Mexico City has seen an enormous population boom. Though the steady influx of people is great, the city center is in desperate need of more office, retail, and living space. However, because of Mexico City’s historical significance, federal and local law prohibit the destruction of historical buildings (which is nearly everything) and have placed strict height regulations on new structures, keeping them shorter than eight stories. Thus, with nowhere to go, BNKR decided to invert a massive building design that digs deep into the heart of the city.
The first 10 stories of the structure will be a Pre-Columbian museum. The glass ceiling will allow people walking through the plaza to enjoy the artifacts below as well. The next 10 stories will be for retail and housing. These floors were put below the museum so people would have to travel through it and explore the history of the city they would perhaps otherwise ignore. The following 35 floors will be office spaces.
The whole design boasts a massive central void that allows natural light and ventilation to flow through every single floor. The “Earth Lobbies” on every 10th level also helps keep the building air fresh and clean, with enormous plant beds and vertical gardens filtering air toxins and producing more oxygen. These lobbies also serve as an open and clean communal area to break up and brighten the structure.
The very bottom floors of the Earthscraper are for all of the technical parts of the building. A water turbine generator pushes water into the exterior wall pumps and recycles used and clean water for the building’s facilities while also powering most of the electricity.
Named the Zocalo, the 190,000 square foot city center plaza is the ideal spot for an earthscraper. Surrounded by monuments like the Metropolitan Cathedral, National Palace, and Constitution Square, as well as a massive underground subway station, it is one of the most heavily trafficked sites of the city. BNKR’s design allows for the historical aesthetics of the plaza to remain while a bustling eco-center hums underground.
What you are describing there is people wanting to learn while getting paid. Sure that would be great, but I think we need to wait till the next boom for that to return. Its not an IQ issue its a work ethic issue that is made worse by a sense of entitlement instilled early in the free education system we have here.
I don't agree with your opportunities assessment however. Somehow, people who come here from other countries manage to find these mystical non-existent opportunities all the time... It's not the land of milk and honey, but it sure as hell is better job wise than 80% of the rest of the world (talking EU here).
The problem in EU is completely the opposite, people get general degrees like "Business Studies" or "Computer Sciences" and a sense of entitlement. Then they usually make the classic mistake of behaving like a student after leaving university (i.e. bumming around and living of their parents) while pretending to look for a job and claiming job-seekers allowance.
The big issue is that there are not enough plumbers, electricians and builders. No one wants to do that work any more. Also hardly anyone getting a degree in engineering (all the work is going to India where they are mass producing engineers). All the while the locals are winging that the work is outsourced.
So China has the right idea, I wish they would do something like that here, of course for that politicians will have to grow a backbone first.
Back on topic, we dont know what past this guy had. Maybe he needed to get away from someone else he hacked into back in Hungary....
Yes, but you forgot that the Camaro will emit a lot more aerosols thus contributing to global cooling and offsetting the global warming. This surely makes it more efficient than a Prius!
Yet they cant predict that I'm abroad even when a Visa credit card does not need notification and is used, but a Visa debit card in the same name and the same bank is blocked for trying to take money out of an ATM.
Visa is collecting data on your purchases, thats your statements, but they dont have anyone to make it into information with any degree of accuracy.
I'd agree with you 2 years ago, but needs have grown. Now cloud services are being advertised, prepare fro things like "I want to backup my entire RAW photo library (300gb+) on my favourite cloud".
Then chrome books will become popular and people will slowly abandon local storage for backup purposes...
Big providers like BT and Virgin are behind the times, they give you big speeds, but throttle you after an invisible cap is reached. Then they wonder why people dont want to buy faster speeds. Capping plus extremely bad customer service do not a happy customer make.
I'm with OP, I'd be happy with no upgrades. Who would pay for it? How about someone who knows anything about how to run a business. Dont make me pay for others upgrades! Does McDonalds come to your door and ask for money if they want to build a branch on your street??
As Kevin once put it, "If you build it, they will come".
I don't want some overpriced 50mb connection that will have to be throttled because they didn't realise people will actually (gasp!) want to use it to full capacity! The only reason I would want one is to download my 10gb Steam game in the time it takes to make a cup of tea, I don't want to have to pay 3 times the cost of the game for it to then have it throttled to 5mbs at 7gb in because its P2P and I am now an evil pirate.
It is because the current rate of consumption is growing that I have hope for methods mentioned above. You would not believe the amount of money wasted by the energy business (think on the same levels as warfare). When oil becomes too expensive to extract these companies are not going to sit quietly and wait for the end.
However, oil/coal will not become too expensive to extract for quite some time. We might end up paying double or triple at the pump over the next several decades, but it will still be cheaper than alternatives.
And 50 or so years will do wonders for research. I'd wager most of these companies are quietly researching alternatives and stashing them away for this purpose.
As for having access to more accurate numbers, how would I? Everybody lies.
And more often than not, this "population correction" involves war and genocide. People will chose invading their neighbor or eliminating the "undesirables" of their own society over starving. They have for millenia.
You might also be shocked to know that every country lies about their oil reserves to speculate on the rising prices. There are new oil fields being worked on right now that have enough capacity to last for years at current rate of consumption and some are kept secret for future development.
I've worked in the oil & gas industry for a while now, its second in corruption only to governments, if you think "peak oil" has come and gone it what they want you to think so that you are happy shelling out at the fuel pump. Even if you drive electric and have solar panels on your roof you still bought the electricity from a coal power plant and had your panels manufactured out of plastics made from oil.
Lots of other "Mega" projects on the drawing board. Stuff that takes 15 years to plan and another 30 years to finish building. They are increasing oil processing capacity with a look-ahead of 50 years, this would not be happening if we were in peak oil.
1. Population tends to correct itself when there is not enough food, so I would argue that there is enough food. 2. There is plenty of oil and you can make more, the only boundaries are money and corruption.
Solution to both is to reduce waist/corruption, which is by no means a simple matter, but research is being done in both areas.
Although this is not politically correct to say, the fewer humans there are the better off the rest of the biosphere will be.
I agree that "The Planet" does not need saving, however if we use your solution the problem solves itself so we need only do nothing. I.e. We screw the environment, this causes population decline, environment stabilises, we screw it again etc. etc. until the sun blows up or we screw environment in such a way that it causes our own extinction.
Either way we don't need to do anything.
The ultimate solution here is to maintain our own habitat in such a way that allows us humans to go on reproducing without restrictions (or do what we want within relative comfort) while we continue to figure out the meaning of life, the universe and everything...
Surely we need a Darwin icon here, not Einstein... Unless of course the horses were the result of some nuclear testing done by time travellers from the 24th century.
That's not a very good analogy. It only takes 1 armed attacker getting through to make the guard useless. Sitting outside with a shotgun? Is that not why Americans have the right to bear arms? And how would that apply to smartphones?
The same with the flies, I would argue that Google gives you a screen and its up to you to put it up while Apple comes to your house and puts screens on everything without your permission. Now putting a DIY screen might let a few more bugs though than one fitted by a pro, but I doubt you would be so incompetent that they would be crawling over your dinner every day.
After saying all of that I never got any malware on my phone just by not downloading anything that looks useless or dodgy. Also, please provide source for these numbers you speak of so we can all have a look, I'm genuinely curious.
In many respects, despite having a technical profession, and being a "geek" in many areas which interest me, I'm actually just a typical consumer. I buy stuff from brands which have made stuff I like in the past.
Most consumers recognise brands, not technical specifications
Consumers do recognise brands and Android is a brand just like iOS. My point is, I may not know all of my wife's shoe brands, but it does not make them any less important. To some people the Android brand is more important than the phone it runs on.
Also, advertising exists to get you out of buying stuff you liked in the past and go for something else entirely. So good/better advertising for Android phones will make more iPhone users switch, but it means marketing departments need to target the iPhone market (i.e. people who didn't know that Android runs on more than one phone)
I think they are hinting that co-op missions will be totaly separate from regular single player missions and do not have to be completed to complete single player, but will afftec some story elements.
I'm guessing the outcomes of these missions are decided for you at certain points in the game if you didnt play them (bit like the outcome of ME1 is decided if you didnt play it)
As a programmer I see this having no effect on the main single player experience because id wager they are coded by separate teams. The co-op team is given a scenario to play out (bit like addons in ME2) that looly slot in to the pain plot, but not guide it. If that is the case, they probably written the game engine and level designer and gave it to another team to create some co-op addons while the main team finishes the game.
Assuming no resources were pulled from the main plot dev team it shouldn't be affected...
"multi-player will have a direct impact on the outcome of the single player campaign" this could be lead one to suspect that victory conditions will be calculated on a point based system, since you dont have to use co-op but it will affect outcome, hence the same number of arbitary points can be collected in single player via other means. Maybe you get more time in certain timed missions when the support team is better. Think ME1 and Vermire, you could have a co-op mission attacking the main gate of the complex buying Sheperd more time to go around back. Making single player harder if you do not play co-op either way.
What I'd really like to hear is the following: "We realised that planet scanning was incredibly boring and it's gone. Also, while we were at it, we went back to the first game's heat based system for weapons, rather than the ammo system from the second".
That and "Biotic powers now affect shielded and armoured enemies and some inanimate objects"
I was always cheesed off with the fact that while you can see in Jacks escape her take on 3 heavy mechs, and then see her get knocked out by one heavy mech becayse I didnt assign her to run 100 meters in the opposite direction fast enough.
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Far enough to be able to evolve from monkeys by the time the light gets here?
This seems to provide more information: http://inhabitat.com/bnkr-arquitectura-reveals-plans-for-an-incredible-underground-skyscraper-in-mexico-city/bnrk-earthscraper11/?extend=1
Over the past few decades, Mexico City has seen an enormous population boom. Though the steady influx of people is great, the city center is in desperate need of more office, retail, and living space. However, because of Mexico City’s historical significance, federal and local law prohibit the destruction of historical buildings (which is nearly everything) and have placed strict height regulations on new structures, keeping them shorter than eight stories. Thus, with nowhere to go, BNKR decided to invert a massive building design that digs deep into the heart of the city.
The first 10 stories of the structure will be a Pre-Columbian museum. The glass ceiling will allow people walking through the plaza to enjoy the artifacts below as well. The next 10 stories will be for retail and housing. These floors were put below the museum so people would have to travel through it and explore the history of the city they would perhaps otherwise ignore. The following 35 floors will be office spaces.
The whole design boasts a massive central void that allows natural light and ventilation to flow through every single floor. The “Earth Lobbies” on every 10th level also helps keep the building air fresh and clean, with enormous plant beds and vertical gardens filtering air toxins and producing more oxygen. These lobbies also serve as an open and clean communal area to break up and brighten the structure.
The very bottom floors of the Earthscraper are for all of the technical parts of the building. A water turbine generator pushes water into the exterior wall pumps and recycles used and clean water for the building’s facilities while also powering most of the electricity.
Named the Zocalo, the 190,000 square foot city center plaza is the ideal spot for an earthscraper. Surrounded by monuments like the Metropolitan Cathedral, National Palace, and Constitution Square, as well as a massive underground subway station, it is one of the most heavily trafficked sites of the city. BNKR’s design allows for the historical aesthetics of the plaza to remain while a bustling eco-center hums underground.
What you are describing there is people wanting to learn while getting paid. Sure that would be great, but I think we need to wait till the next boom for that to return. Its not an IQ issue its a work ethic issue that is made worse by a sense of entitlement instilled early in the free education system we have here.
I don't agree with your opportunities assessment however. Somehow, people who come here from other countries manage to find these mystical non-existent opportunities all the time... It's not the land of milk and honey, but it sure as hell is better job wise than 80% of the rest of the world (talking EU here).
The only people who don't doubt it are those who don't understand it (the majority) or those who completely understand it (minority).
If only the same argument was understood by those engaged in the climate debate...
The problem in EU is completely the opposite, people get general degrees like "Business Studies" or "Computer Sciences" and a sense of entitlement. Then they usually make the classic mistake of behaving like a student after leaving university (i.e. bumming around and living of their parents) while pretending to look for a job and claiming job-seekers allowance.
The big issue is that there are not enough plumbers, electricians and builders. No one wants to do that work any more. Also hardly anyone getting a degree in engineering (all the work is going to India where they are mass producing engineers). All the while the locals are winging that the work is outsourced.
So China has the right idea, I wish they would do something like that here, of course for that politicians will have to grow a backbone first.
Back on topic, we dont know what past this guy had. Maybe he needed to get away from someone else he hacked into back in Hungary....
Yes, but you forgot that the Camaro will emit a lot more aerosols thus contributing to global cooling and offsetting the global warming. This surely makes it more efficient than a Prius!
That's right! Every evil idiot knows that there is no such thing as a free lunch. ... And in this house we obey the laws of Thermodynamics.
If you really want a legal way get yourself a VPN and enjoy : proxpn.com
Yet they cant predict that I'm abroad even when a Visa credit card does not need notification and is used, but a Visa debit card in the same name and the same bank is blocked for trying to take money out of an ATM.
Visa is collecting data on your purchases, thats your statements, but they dont have anyone to make it into information with any degree of accuracy.
By the way, in the article is 90%...
I'd agree with you 2 years ago, but needs have grown. Now cloud services are being advertised, prepare fro things like "I want to backup my entire RAW photo library (300gb+) on my favourite cloud".
Then chrome books will become popular and people will slowly abandon local storage for backup purposes...
Big providers like BT and Virgin are behind the times, they give you big speeds, but throttle you after an invisible cap is reached. Then they wonder why people dont want to buy faster speeds. Capping plus extremely bad customer service do not a happy customer make.
BT is just as bad I hear.
You should try https://www.bethere.co.uk/group/beportal/homepage
Are you seriously suggesting that they use their paid of broadband from 9PM - 10AM? Because you cant use p2p for any reasonable amount any other time.
When I go and buy a really nice car, I don't expect the dealer to tell me I can only drive it above 20MPH between 9PM - 10AM...
I'm with OP, I'd be happy with no upgrades. Who would pay for it? How about someone who knows anything about how to run a business. Dont make me pay for others upgrades! Does McDonalds come to your door and ask for money if they want to build a branch on your street??
As Kevin once put it, "If you build it, they will come".
I don't want some overpriced 50mb connection that will have to be throttled because they didn't realise people will actually (gasp!) want to use it to full capacity! The only reason I would want one is to download my 10gb Steam game in the time it takes to make a cup of tea, I don't want to have to pay 3 times the cost of the game for it to then have it throttled to 5mbs at 7gb in because its P2P and I am now an evil pirate.
Virgin does throttle... In fact they are very throttle happy. If you use P2P forget it, they will throttle you back to 56k era.
Also if you decide to download any moves/songs from a torrent they will report you at a drop of a hat.
It is because the current rate of consumption is growing that I have hope for methods mentioned above. You would not believe the amount of money wasted by the energy business (think on the same levels as warfare). When oil becomes too expensive to extract these companies are not going to sit quietly and wait for the end.
However, oil/coal will not become too expensive to extract for quite some time. We might end up paying double or triple at the pump over the next several decades, but it will still be cheaper than alternatives.
And 50 or so years will do wonders for research. I'd wager most of these companies are quietly researching alternatives and stashing them away for this purpose.
As for having access to more accurate numbers, how would I? Everybody lies.
And more often than not, this "population correction" involves war and genocide. People will chose invading their neighbor or eliminating the "undesirables" of their own society over starving. They have for millenia.
What is your solution?
ORLY?
Yes, really.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028136.200-renewable-oil-ancient-bacteria-could-fuel-modern-life.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028135.100-prepare-for-the-renewable-oil-gush.html
http://www.321energy.com/editorials/bainerman/bainerman083105.html
http://news.discovery.com/earth/bacteria-turn-coal-and-oil-into-renewable-energy.html
http://www.drfriendly.tv/PDFs/Huntley+Redalje200611.pdf
You might also be shocked to know that every country lies about their oil reserves to speculate on the rising prices. There are new oil fields being worked on right now that have enough capacity to last for years at current rate of consumption and some are kept secret for future development.
I've worked in the oil & gas industry for a while now, its second in corruption only to governments, if you think "peak oil" has come and gone it what they want you to think so that you are happy shelling out at the fuel pump. Even if you drive electric and have solar panels on your roof you still bought the electricity from a coal power plant and had your panels manufactured out of plastics made from oil.
There is a huge plastics plant being designed right now to cope with the extra oil... http://www.chemaweyaat.com/home/
Lots of other "Mega" projects on the drawing board. Stuff that takes 15 years to plan and another 30 years to finish building. They are increasing oil processing capacity with a look-ahead of 50 years, this would not be happening if we were in peak oil.
1. Population tends to correct itself when there is not enough food, so I would argue that there is enough food.
2. There is plenty of oil and you can make more, the only boundaries are money and corruption.
Solution to both is to reduce waist/corruption, which is by no means a simple matter, but research is being done in both areas.
Although this is not politically correct to say, the fewer humans there are the better off the rest of the biosphere will be.
I agree that "The Planet" does not need saving, however if we use your solution the problem solves itself so we need only do nothing. I.e. We screw the environment, this causes population decline, environment stabilises, we screw it again etc. etc. until the sun blows up or we screw environment in such a way that it causes our own extinction.
Either way we don't need to do anything.
The ultimate solution here is to maintain our own habitat in such a way that allows us humans to go on reproducing without restrictions (or do what we want within relative comfort) while we continue to figure out the meaning of life, the universe and everything...
Surely we need a Darwin icon here, not Einstein... Unless of course the horses were the result of some nuclear testing done by time travellers from the 24th century.
Agreed, he should have notified Apple quietly. However, he might have actually done that and was ignored, we do not know...
I think by coming here you insured that you are talking to the 5% that do care....
Here is another made up statistic: 90% of Android users dont care/know about app security and 99% of them dont have malware on their phones.
That's not a very good analogy. It only takes 1 armed attacker getting through to make the guard useless. Sitting outside with a shotgun? Is that not why Americans have the right to bear arms? And how would that apply to smartphones?
The same with the flies, I would argue that Google gives you a screen and its up to you to put it up while Apple comes to your house and puts screens on everything without your permission. Now putting a DIY screen might let a few more bugs though than one fitted by a pro, but I doubt you would be so incompetent that they would be crawling over your dinner every day.
After saying all of that I never got any malware on my phone just by not downloading anything that looks useless or dodgy. Also, please provide source for these numbers you speak of so we can all have a look, I'm genuinely curious.
In many respects, despite having a technical profession, and being a "geek" in many areas which interest me, I'm actually just a typical consumer. I buy stuff from brands which have made stuff I like in the past.
Most consumers recognise brands, not technical specifications
Consumers do recognise brands and Android is a brand just like iOS. My point is, I may not know all of my wife's shoe brands, but it does not make them any less important. To some people the Android brand is more important than the phone it runs on.
Also, advertising exists to get you out of buying stuff you liked in the past and go for something else entirely. So good/better advertising for Android phones will make more iPhone users switch, but it means marketing departments need to target the iPhone market (i.e. people who didn't know that Android runs on more than one phone)
I think they are hinting that co-op missions will be totaly separate from regular single player missions and do not have to be completed to complete single player, but will afftec some story elements.
I'm guessing the outcomes of these missions are decided for you at certain points in the game if you didnt play them (bit like the outcome of ME1 is decided if you didnt play it)
As a programmer I see this having no effect on the main single player experience because id wager they are coded by separate teams. The co-op team is given a scenario to play out (bit like addons in ME2) that looly slot in to the pain plot, but not guide it. If that is the case, they probably written the game engine and level designer and gave it to another team to create some co-op addons while the main team finishes the game.
Assuming no resources were pulled from the main plot dev team it shouldn't be affected...
"multi-player will have a direct impact on the outcome of the single player campaign" this could be lead one to suspect that victory conditions will be calculated on a point based system, since you dont have to use co-op but it will affect outcome, hence the same number of arbitary points can be collected in single player via other means. Maybe you get more time in certain timed missions when the support team is better. Think ME1 and Vermire, you could have a co-op mission attacking the main gate of the complex buying Sheperd more time to go around back. Making single player harder if you do not play co-op either way.
What I'd really like to hear is the following: "We realised that planet scanning was incredibly boring and it's gone. Also, while we were at it, we went back to the first game's heat based system for weapons, rather than the ammo system from the second".
That and "Biotic powers now affect shielded and armoured enemies and some inanimate objects"
I was always cheesed off with the fact that while you can see in Jacks escape her take on 3 heavy mechs, and then see her get knocked out by one heavy mech becayse I didnt assign her to run 100 meters in the opposite direction fast enough.