Recent content by oldtobor

There many be many different kinds of singularities. The first assumption is that science and technology haven't peaked and can continue to progress. This is iffy. We may actually be at the end of progress in that what we have is the most that we can obtain, like a billion transistor chip (...

Actually to be even more precise the name of the document should be: PROGRAM EXPLANATION DOCUMENT so as to pinpoint down exactly what is really needed to understand and eventually change a program written previously by another group. I find it very primitive that the knowledge embedded in...

In software maintenance, I have noticed that very few organizations and companies publish a precise well written Software Explanation Document to explain exactly and in a very well written way how thousand lines program work. It is amazing that of all the documents that are written, none of...

This is another example of psychologically repressing the more unfortunate. Many people have studied all their lives, but didn't become wealthy, many people all over the world have a very high degree of knowledge and aren't wealthy. Oh but they had to work "14 hours a day" for years. Why ...

This in fact is the ideology of success that represses people psychologically; you can never do enough: 1) work ethic can mean 80 hours a week, but if the boss wants 100 hours and you don't deliver, well you don't have the work ethic, it is always your fault, no matter how hard you worked in...

Sorry, in reference to that about walking. It is true that sometimes when I do talk strolls in suburbs sometimes it doesn't feel comfortable, or is it just my impression. Maybe ...

So if I want to take a walk around any American suburb, I will be labeled as bad or poor or dangerous ? People will judge me badly simply because I want to take a walk around some blocks of the suburb, with no destination in mind, but simply to take a breath of fresh air ? Is this what America...

Found a great article that deals with these issues: http://www.free-times.com/index.php?cat=1992912064227409&ShowArticle_ID=11461610070683149

Thanks for the clues. Anyways anyone know what technology will the Chinese and Indians use, since they will surely be building millions of new homes given their current growth ? I think they mostly live in concrete - steel multilevel apartments, but not sure. Does anyone know, or know these...

Another question for anyone that knows these things: millions of old, weak homes in the US will be torn down in the following years, a lot seem semi-abandoned, many don't seem to have had any maintenance in years, I am thinking of many old subdivisions, small towns, inner cities, rural (those...

Anyone know what technology will the Chinese and Indians use, since they will surely be building millions of new homes given their current growth ? I think they mostly live in concrete - steel multilevel apartments, but not sure. Does anyone know, or know these countries ? Also what is the...

Whichever is cheaper locally ? In the US woodframe is cheaper than concrete , steel but in the long run they may last a much shorter time, need more maintenance and need more energy to heat and cool since the walls are much thiner. But since millions of homes are old and will be torn down...

I was noticing that in most of Europe or South America the hones are mostly concrete, brick, steel. US homes are wood, woodframe. Which are more environmentally freindly from the standpoint of construction materials, energy needs to build and operate, time of duration ? Many homes will be built...

Fred, what area more or less are you in ? west, south, east and near big cities ? Why do you think the bus ventures failed ? I was thinking of a scenario like anyone in a suburb needs to get to point B from point A(his home) at a given time. He enters the request on a local web page, the bus...

All these answers seem black or white, somehow ideological. It doesn't have to be overnight, it doesn't have to be no cars, it could be gradual and sized appropriately for each subdivision. It should size itself automatically according to demand and according to private competition amongst bus...