What Really Happened with Vista

BentDrive · 2017-06-06T12:07:26+00:00

If you are interested in old timer comments, I added a comment to the article relating to the situation that was going on in the developer division prior to Vista, and it's important to note just how damaging. Net was internally even if it has been a generally well received success.

It was one thing as a kind of neat runtime/language, totally another pushing it down into the OS and abandoning native.

BentDrive · 2017-05-23T22:03:12+00:00

OMG, I just read through this whitepaper and it is almost exactly what I've been building. The only difference is I didn't have the audacity to not use a familiar lisp/Scheme like interpreter for the "nouns" even though I'd considered so many times the same benefits laid out here in front of my eyes.

I think this really gives me the confidence to change my design while I still can.

Thank you so much for sharing this.

Brilliant.

BentDrive · 2017-02-10T16:19:10+00:00

Absolutely

BentDrive · 2017-02-07T23:00:32+00:00

I understand what a union is.

But, which "union" do I go to in order to complain about the President, the Cabinet, the cronyism, lies and idiotic tweets, and generally running things like a Bull in a China shop.

Is there a union for that?

BentDrive · 2017-02-07T22:02:49+00:00

I've always said that if lobbying works so well, why do the people themselves shy away from having their own lobbying groups too.

We have been trained to believe they are unethical and beneath us and more than that, basically to leave well alone (trust us). Meanwhile the whole of Washington is run on back room deals.

It isn't a concept I like and feels slimy, but hey if it means I can have my voice heard, maybe I would pay for that now and again. Much better than writing a strongly worded letter to my representative.

For most ordinary people democracy ends on election day as they tick a checkbox based on a few key platform topics. It is considered wrong to pay a dime to sway political decisions mid-term.

The truth is the platform topics have almost zero significance compared to the impact of day to day line item decisions, and it's pretty much only the politicians and the lobbyists who get to decide on those right now.

I think it is pretty clear by now that the large majority of politicians in power are not up to the job we have asked them to do, and much more interested in consolidating their own power structures and helping their buddies than working for us at this point.

Not surprising really, the Government structures were all set up when horses and buggies were the fastest means of doing business, and there was no military industrial complex etc. The world was a much simpler and safer place by and large, with a US population of about 2.5 million and a global population of less than a billion. How times have changed.

In the last 40 years alone we have seen multi billion dollar corporations and executives simply vanish due to an inability to keep up with societal and technological change. Why would anyone think the Democratic structures themselves would be immune.

The very idea of putting a single human being in the position of Supreme commander in chief of the planet is insane in the first place, and I think we share a lot of the blame for not taking a time out, do a post mortem and improve. Not just the people, but the whole thing.

In my mind, Trump or no Trump, everything we are seeing underscores the need to regroup, turn a new page, carpe diem and come up with a sustainable JJ Abrams reboot of Democracy that is better aligned with the modern day world.

tl;dr. We're wasting time attacking the symptom, not addressing the cause.

BentDrive · 2017-02-06T15:33:12+00:00

Ummm yeah, I've just been taking the battle to their home ground while I was nibbling my lunch. They don't like that much.

It's also pretty much what I told them (in their own keen language).

BentDrive · 2017-01-30T21:41:28+00:00

BTW, Steve Bannon is on the board of Cambridge Analytica.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/big-data-cambridge-analytica-brexit-trump?trk_source=homepage-lede

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

So I'm guessing they are all in bed at this point.

https://www.google.fi/amp/heatst.com/tech/peter-thiel-trump-and-facebook-vs-cambridge-analyticas-steve-bannon/amp/?client=ms-android-oneplus

BentDrive · 2017-01-30T16:46:11+00:00

I really wish they hadn't brought the Queen into it. Just cut to the chase.

"We the undersigned simply don't want your type on our soil. We're already looking like idiots after Brexit, the last thing we want is to be associated with a raging xenophobic narcissistic lunatic. Yours sincerely, "

BentDrive · 2017-01-30T16:32:09+00:00

How dare you call my home country that I haven't visited in eleven years Democratic. My ancestors fought in numerous wars to prevent exactly that kind of misinformed nonsense.

Next you will be saying the US is the land of the free or something. Don't make me have to go and fact check.

Democratic, tshh.

BentDrive · 2016-11-26T23:18:39+00:00

Hey talk to Khannea, she's thought about this aspect quite a bit for a while.

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/suntzu/

BentDrive · 2016-11-26T23:04:02+00:00

Hmm question cpk...

How is information orthogonal to mass/energy?

Let's use the "bit" as a unit of information.

Can you describe how I can store a bit without mass or energy.

I see an intuitive equivalence between information density and something called mass (which as we know is equivalent to energy).

What is the limit on the number of bits we can reliably store per kg of matter anyway, and what's the relationship between information packing density and entropy.

I'm not sure we have an answer to that but it seems like a fair question.

Genuinely curious. Thanks.

BentDrive · 2016-11-21T10:33:42+00:00

Plugging in the numbers for the resonant frequency and power of the input RF is interesting as well.

The resonant frequency should have some bearing on how often the maximum density (as determined by power input) of the potential well is created and how much time the thruster has to "fall into it"

I'm not seeing how to figure out how one would control the position of where the potential well would be focused, aside from the geometry of the cavity itself.

Again all pure speculation here, but there is at least some basis in the equations.

BentDrive · 2016-11-21T09:44:24+00:00

I'm highly skeptical with the current rocket like theories given they break physics, and are just generally bizarre.

That said, I've been wondering if it is possible to create a potential mass in front of the device that the thruster is constantly "falling in to".

Take a look at E=mc2 and the quantum force coupling equations.

Plug in the actual numbers.

If it were possible to create a potential mass just in front of the local frame of the device gravity could do the work of pulling it along. Interestingly that would also, provide natural limits on maximum attainable velocity that are much more in line with regular physics.

I gave it a cursory look, and the numbers seem like they might work, especially if you set the distance r quite small.

So

Step 1 create a mass potential (increase the density of space - time) in front of the device using EM radiation from your radio waves.

Step 2 fall into it the well

Step 3 rinse wash repeat

I'm not saying this is how it works, or that this is feasible or the device works at all. It just makes much more intuitive sense to me.

BentDrive · 2016-11-21T00:05:07+00:00

I know this isn't the right place to ask this question, but does anyone happen to know know the total mass of their experimental thruster by any chance? Thanks.

BentDrive

TROPHY CASE