Comment Re:once we get back to the Moon.... (Score 1) 157
he economy will likely collapse again before the end of the decade. There won't be the money or the resources.
That's an interesting prediction.......based on what?
he economy will likely collapse again before the end of the decade. There won't be the money or the resources.
That's an interesting prediction.......based on what?
Depressed kids can always find outlets. I drew, listened to music, taught myself 68k assembly language for my calculator, read a lot, and lifted weights.
That's not normal depression........
Still the initial cost of a 100 mile range battery is so high, it does not break even for a long time. That is the major hurdle.
That's what Elon Musk is betting on. We'll see if he is right.
But the idea that book reading will become marginal enough that it's cultural significance will essentially be irrelevant. i.e. like poetry
Well, that's different; people don't read poetry now because no one is writing good poetry anymore. At best you'll get something on level of Longfellow's Hiawatha, but I can't think of any recent poetry that even reaches that level.
The reason poetry is dead is because of writers, not because people aren't willing to read it.
I'm not in marketing, but I got some insider information from people who are, and they all say that about 50% of all the money put into advertisement has basically the same effect on sales as burning it would have.
In other words, advertising actually does work.
IMO, if ads stopped across all internet sites, or the online advertising industry completely collapsed. The internet as we know it, would be gone
Then everyone would be trying SEO, even more than they are now.
They are the canary in the coal mine regarding confidence in make nothing/print money western economies.
Why
How has this being a global economy made it easier for Americans to go to Western Europe for example to work? Not a damn bit.
To be fair, it's not always easy for a Western European to find work in Western Europe either......
Other countries are just waiting for it all to collapse and pick our bones.
Other countries are all copying with their own deficit spending.
we had enough regulation already, look where it got us.
To the most economically, technologically and military powerful nation the planet?
We also had plenty of immigration. America is a nation of immigrants, it's ok.
That is, the person you're communicating the concepts with presumably knows enough about what you're talking about to be able to resolve the ambiguity.
Yes, humans are much, much better at resolving ambiguities. Compared to computers.
TFA tries to make the case (poorly) that Math involves ambiguities and Programming does not.
I've been trying to think of how this could be, and the only thing I can think of is the syntax of math is less formal than the syntax of programming. In programming, each command is clearly defined, whereas in English there's some ambiguity about the meaning of the word 'is.'
I don't think this has any real practical effect on math.
If anything it's slackened off significantly since MS lost their complete dominance of consumer computing.
And since Windows has become less painful to use. Remember when threats like Nimda and Code Red spread around the internet freely, without any user interaction? In those days, Windows was an open door to malware, when it didn't crash on its own.
As much as I prefer Linux, I recognize that Windows has improved a lot.
What really matters is who did it and why.
What, exactly, do you expect that to accomplish?
Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated.
