Aside from making the USA completely dependent on Chinese hardware, and giving away every single military secret or giving the Chinese the power to put in electronic backdoors in everything so as to neutralize any digital device depending on radio...
But corporations, and those who run them have no "country" other than money, and that country keeps them comfortable anywhere. They don't even care who wins the wars, as long at the profits keep rolling in.
Oh, I complained about google! I must be suffering from a mental disorder. Because those are always so easy to define ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ).
If you used mirrors, heat and some sort of fluid medium to run pumps and a generator, the size of the installations would be unlimited. Of course, this would require moving parts and therefore, more maintenance. The solution to that might be to make thousands of small fluid medium solar units and assume that they will eventually fail and be replaced.
1) Implemented a new automated web testing framework. Next year, I'll do the same thing for Android and Apple phones.
2) Migrated some of my control system apps to C#. Three months ago, I didn't know C#.
3) Migrated more system control software than I care to think about from VBScript (awful) to Powershell (slightly less awful).
Four years ago, I didn't know what virtualization was. Today, I'm in charge of the VMWare servers and couldn't do without it.
I have no idea why I can still do this. Like the other commenters here, however, I do regularly cringe at the latest business/software/process fad. They're inevitably retreads of something older and few add any actual improvement. Powershell, for example, although it packs more functionality into fewer characters than VBScript, made the skill set of thousands of system administrators obsolete. No thought was given to the human side of the system. A more useful solution would have been a rewrite of VBScript and the addition of useful function libraries and easier access to the net framework. It was yet another typically wrong Microsoft decision, but it says something about an industry that doesn't have enough of a balanced view to consider the cold, hard neurological facts of their user base.
If the Supreme Court was still interested in upholding the constitution, I'd be pretty sure that this would never make the first court challenge, but these are the guys that made sure civil forfeiture was legal ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/we... ) and that money is speech ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) so all bets on anything resembling valid legal judgments are off.
Tell me again why it matters where you live to write system code? I hear there's this new fangled stuff called "The internet" that really kind of does away with the need to physically hand your 3. inch floppy disks to CM guys.
The ability to create self consistent mathematical models is not science. Science requires rigorous comparison of such models (a.k.a. "theories") against REALITY for verification. Most textbook economics would fail this test miserably. While certainly difficult, this is not impossible, particularly as computer systems dealing with complex systems have been available for decades. What's required is the will to do so - something that isn't present in our overpriced, overbribed, higher "education" system.
1) Functional, humanlike, scalable AI (e.g. the Doctor) 2) Unlimited power (i.e. matter/anitmatter generators) 3) Instant replication of virtually any legal object (replicators which can produce replicators at the behest of AIs or humans) 4) Holodecks as an outlet for all unacceptable behaviors. 5) Inexpensive FTL travel for a myriad of colonies which serves as an outlet for those who want to live under governments like constitutional monarchies and/or anarcho-syndicalist collectives.
So, TNG would have worked. TOS, not as well, or maybe not at all.
That they were "encouraged" to do this by some marketing division head who talked (but never electronically) to some dev lead and strongly implied that both he and his development department would rapidly be shipped to lower Slobbovia if he didn't cooperate?
In every company I've ever seen, IT is underfunded and under resourced. Networks fail. Security becomes heavy handed and unreasonable (i.e. My job's not done until you can't do yours). IT is forced to centralize and standardize everything in a world where a cookie cutter approach is doomed to failure from the beginning.
What happens? Employees, who are bonused on getting actual work done, take matters into their own hands, figure out different ways of accessing company networks when the official VPN fails, figure out ways of connecting phones and pads to the network without official sanction, start sharing logins and passwords... All just to keep working day to day.
Unfortunately, this is all easy to hide from clueless CFOs/CEOs and upper management, who really don't care anyway until there's a major data breach, at which point they can only dance around in circles and yell, "Fix it!"
The problems are fixable. Plan IT from scratch. Spend realistic amounts of money on the system. Solicit user feedback continuously to pinpoint trouble spots. Force IT management to communicate relevant issues with users and system administrators.
Really? Please explain how the absence of a year long trip, close proximity to air and water shipments, a single gravity well, a large planet to shield one from those pesky solar radiation bursts, and close proximity to Earth in case of emergency count as impediments.
All Mars has is gravity, which an orbiting environment has if it's large enough and you spin it.
I ask again, what advantages does Mars have for extraterrestrial colonization? Specifically.
To be frank, Mars is pointless right now. When we get to the point where we have a few orbiting colonies with sustainable closed ecologies (which we can't even do on Earth now), we can push two off to Mars to arrive at leisure. One can go down as living quarters and the other can stay in orbit to provide space based power plant maintenance and emergency transportation.
Instead, of course, we'll just throw some bodies at Mars so we can grab our collective genitalia while grunting "First!"
...and this problem stops. Immediately. The pharmaceutical grifters wouldn't have a clue as to how to operate in an unprotected, global, competitive environment.
And sending people to Mars is just plain dumb...
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Seriously, you want to run before you learn to walk?
What we need are near Earth space stations - closed ecologies that are sustainable. Once we've gotten those down, we can push one or two off to Mars at our leisure, send one down as a living environment and keep the other up for emergencies.
I might point out that we can't even get an artificial closed ecology capable of supporting humans on Earth working yet. Boisphere I and II were informative, but not successful.
We've got some time. No hurry. Mars isn't going anywhere for a while yet. Let's start with achievable, useful goals, like creating a satellite based internet service with manned maintenance and repair stations, or a manned orbiting power stations, or some asteroid capture and mining facilities. Something that pays for itself first.
...We have enough to feed, clothe, house, etc. the population, even as it increases.
Yes, for a little while, until the cheap (emphasis on cheap) hydrocarbons run out (They will always exist). Until the mined phosphates run out. Until enough major aquifers in major agricultural areas run dry. Until some whackjob with a nuke or two decides that the problem of resource scarcity can be solved by nuking their neighbors.
2100 is going to be the start of an interesting era. I'm grateful that I won't be here for the show. Starvation doesn't suit me.
End of story. In the next decade or two, we'll be printing self driving cars, houses, appliances and possibly replacement organs. AI will increasingly replace nurses, security guards, clerks, and others. As time goes by, you're either the person doing the automating, managing the automation or you're unemployed.
It's not a great message for people with no skills, but it's true, nonetheless. There are still service jobs, but there's a limit to these as well.
A guaranteed basic income in exchange for sterilization is an unpopular idea. I know. Got a better one?
And a design that makes sense without real world testing from the get go. Good luck with that.
This idea sounds like it was formed by a newly minted MBA with no experience in real world sofware development. It's looks like it's designed to churn out cheap untested and untestable crap that might just be good enough to sell. Once. Which is workable (financially) from the the MBA scum's point of view.
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...while civilian operators wait for electric propulsion to become practical
I expect they'll have a long, long wait.
Aside from making the USA completely dependent on Chinese hardware, and giving away every single military secret or giving the Chinese the power to put in electronic backdoors in everything so as to neutralize any digital device depending on radio...
But corporations, and those who run them have no "country" other than money, and that country keeps them comfortable anywhere. They don't even care who wins the wars, as long at the profits keep rolling in.
Oh, I complained about google! I must be suffering from a mental disorder. Because those are always so easy to define ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ).
If you used mirrors, heat and some sort of fluid medium to run pumps and a generator, the size of the installations would be unlimited. Of course, this would require moving parts and therefore, more maintenance. The solution to that might be to make thousands of small fluid medium solar units and assume that they will eventually fail and be replaced.
1) Implemented a new automated web testing framework. Next year, I'll do the same thing for Android and Apple phones.
2) Migrated some of my control system apps to C#. Three months ago, I didn't know C#.
3) Migrated more system control software than I care to think about from VBScript (awful) to Powershell (slightly less awful).
Four years ago, I didn't know what virtualization was. Today, I'm in charge of the VMWare servers and couldn't do without it.
I have no idea why I can still do this. Like the other commenters here, however, I do regularly cringe at the latest business/software/process fad. They're inevitably retreads of something older and few add any actual improvement. Powershell, for example, although it packs more functionality into fewer characters than VBScript, made the skill set of thousands of system administrators obsolete. No thought was given to the human side of the system. A more useful solution would have been a rewrite of VBScript and the addition of useful function libraries and easier access to the net framework. It was yet another typically wrong Microsoft decision, but it says something about an industry that doesn't have enough of a balanced view to consider the cold, hard neurological facts of their user base.
THIS! Oh, so much this.....
Quack therapies and activities abound. F'rinstance:
1) Chiropractors
2) Homeopaths
3) Aromatherapists
4) Psychoanalysts
5) Congress
6) Quantitative Easing
7) Astrology
8) Classical economics
9) Trickle down economics
And the list goes on and on and on....
Here's how it goes:
1) Give stingray technology to multiple agencies.
2) Reduce the number of stingrays your agency operates to avoid those pesky congressional investigations AND reduce your yearly operating budget.
3) Get data from other agencies on request.
4) Profit!
If the Supreme Court was still interested in upholding the constitution, I'd be pretty sure that this would never make the first court challenge, but these are the guys that made sure civil forfeiture was legal ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/we... ) and that money is speech ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) so all bets on anything resembling valid legal judgments are off.
Tell me again why it matters where you live to write system code? I hear there's this new fangled stuff called "The internet" that really kind of does away with the need to physically hand your 3. inch floppy disks to CM guys.
I mean, coding is coding. You do it right, or wrong. I'm a little unclear about how gender relates here.
I've had my yahoo email since 1997, back when Yahoo didn't suck. Time to go. I'll now have no reason to visit yahoo ever again.
NOT!
The ability to create self consistent mathematical models is not science. Science requires rigorous comparison of such models (a.k.a. "theories") against REALITY for verification. Most textbook economics would fail this test miserably. While certainly difficult, this is not impossible, particularly as computer systems dealing with complex systems have been available for decades. What's required is the will to do so - something that isn't present in our overpriced, overbribed, higher "education" system.
1) Functional, humanlike, scalable AI (e.g. the Doctor)
2) Unlimited power (i.e. matter/anitmatter generators)
3) Instant replication of virtually any legal object (replicators which can produce replicators at the behest of AIs or humans)
4) Holodecks as an outlet for all unacceptable behaviors.
5) Inexpensive FTL travel for a myriad of colonies which serves as an outlet for those who want to live under governments like constitutional monarchies and/or anarcho-syndicalist collectives.
So, TNG would have worked. TOS, not as well, or maybe not at all.
That they were "encouraged" to do this by some marketing division head who talked (but never electronically) to some dev lead and strongly implied that both he and his development department would rapidly be shipped to lower Slobbovia if he didn't cooperate?
I will personally do my very best to get Yelp sued into oblivion.
In every company I've ever seen, IT is underfunded and under resourced. Networks fail. Security becomes heavy handed and unreasonable (i.e. My job's not done until you can't do yours). IT is forced to centralize and standardize everything in a world where a cookie cutter approach is doomed to failure from the beginning.
What happens? Employees, who are bonused on getting actual work done, take matters into their own hands, figure out different ways of accessing company networks when the official VPN fails, figure out ways of connecting phones and pads to the network without official sanction, start sharing logins and passwords... All just to keep working day to day.
Unfortunately, this is all easy to hide from clueless CFOs/CEOs and upper management, who really don't care anyway until there's a major data breach, at which point they can only dance around in circles and yell, "Fix it!"
The problems are fixable. Plan IT from scratch. Spend realistic amounts of money on the system. Solicit user feedback continuously to pinpoint trouble spots. Force IT management to communicate relevant issues with users and system administrators.
Really? Please explain how the absence of a year long trip, close proximity to air and water shipments, a single gravity well, a large planet to shield one from those pesky solar radiation bursts, and close proximity to Earth in case of emergency count as impediments.
All Mars has is gravity, which an orbiting environment has if it's large enough and you spin it.
I ask again, what advantages does Mars have for extraterrestrial colonization? Specifically.
To be frank, Mars is pointless right now. When we get to the point where we have a few orbiting colonies with sustainable closed ecologies (which we can't even do on Earth now), we can push two off to Mars to arrive at leisure. One can go down as living quarters and the other can stay in orbit to provide space based power plant maintenance and emergency transportation.
Instead, of course, we'll just throw some bodies at Mars so we can grab our collective genitalia while grunting "First!"
...and this problem stops. Immediately. The pharmaceutical grifters wouldn't have a clue as to how to operate in an unprotected, global, competitive environment.
Seriously, you want to run before you learn to walk?
What we need are near Earth space stations - closed ecologies that are sustainable. Once we've gotten those down, we can push one or two off to Mars at our leisure, send one down as a living environment and keep the other up for emergencies.
I might point out that we can't even get an artificial closed ecology capable of supporting humans on Earth working yet. Boisphere I and II were informative, but not successful.
We've got some time. No hurry. Mars isn't going anywhere for a while yet. Let's start with achievable, useful goals, like creating a satellite based internet service with manned maintenance and repair stations, or a manned orbiting power stations, or some asteroid capture and mining facilities. Something that pays for itself first.
...We have enough to feed, clothe, house, etc. the population, even as it increases.
Yes, for a little while, until the cheap (emphasis on cheap) hydrocarbons run out (They will always exist).
Until the mined phosphates run out.
Until enough major aquifers in major agricultural areas run dry.
Until some whackjob with a nuke or two decides that the problem of resource scarcity can be solved by nuking their neighbors.
2100 is going to be the start of an interesting era. I'm grateful that I won't be here for the show. Starvation doesn't suit me.
With user messages in English that describe the actual problem instead of misleading the user entirely. One that actually works consistently?
But that's just crazy talk...
End of story. In the next decade or two, we'll be printing self driving cars, houses, appliances and possibly replacement organs. AI will increasingly replace nurses, security guards, clerks, and others. As time goes by, you're either the person doing the automating, managing the automation or you're unemployed.
It's not a great message for people with no skills, but it's true, nonetheless. There are still service jobs, but there's a limit to these as well.
A guaranteed basic income in exchange for sterilization is an unpopular idea. I know. Got a better one?
And a design that makes sense without real world testing from the get go. Good luck with that.
This idea sounds like it was formed by a newly minted MBA with no experience in real world sofware development. It's looks like it's designed to churn out cheap untested and untestable crap that might just be good enough to sell. Once. Which is workable (financially) from the the MBA scum's point of view.