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Those are not what I would call very old :-)
The first computer I learned to program was originally built in 1966 and later donated to our university in the mid '70s http://2eo.blogspot.ie/2007/12...

I found an old printout among some old maths books. Our school was close to the NUIG university engineering building and the professor had invited our maths class to learn how to program the IBM 1800 computer. This was one of my first programs. http://2eo.blogspot.ie/2014/04...

I don't have so many desktop applications that anyhting is more than a few clicks away in my organized XFCE doc though on Linux or the old start menu wasn't pretty efficient with the mouse.

Thing is keyboard shortcuts really are probably better and the search function saves the steps of actually defining all those shortcuts.

You can use the "type to run" dialog in XFCE to via Whiskermenu Plugin

You can also easily hotkey it to whatever you like

I had only just last week found one of the first programs that I wrote in 1972. We were lucky that our engineering school had a reconditioned IBM1800 with only a small cadre of us who knew how to use it so we got plenty of hands-on machine time in the late evenings when the official jobs had finished. You can see a printout of it on http://2eo.blogspot.ie/2014/04...

The problem with pain scales is that sometimes they don't include all the numbers.

Why not make it?
http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.ie/2007/11/314-peak-oil-and-fertilizer-no-problem.html

There's an abundance of everything we need in space, although I can see stations being a far more convenient platform for future exploration than planetary colonisation. Even the best candidate, Mars, is terrible - where it's warm there is no water, where there's water it's in the -30s at least, an atmosphere as close to vacuum as makes no odds and while it does have gravity I doubt it's enough to stop bone weakening.

Venus now, if we could fix the atmospherre there it could be earth 2 pretty easily. And I suppose add water.

But really for the short to mid term I can't see many valid reasons beyond science that we'd want to colonise nearby worlds. Ultimately I guess we'll be producing most of our food and manufactured goods on space stations, earth will be the place where people live, with much of it returned to virgin wilderness.

You are an example of why it shouldn't happen.

Oh okay. I haven't made a laughing stock of a malthusian all week and although it's only Tuesday, there seem to be fewer and fewer of you halfheads roaming the internet lately so I guess I'll take it where I find it.

Most humans are too stupid to realize the implications of longer life.

Good thing we have superior master race philosopher-princes such as yourself to show the way then, eh?

We are ALREADY over populated and unsustainable.

No, we aren't. Nowhere near. There is ample food and fresh water for the entire human race right now and plenty to spare. Where there are shortages the problems are invariably political.

We use energy from the planet faster than it is stored. We REQUIRE this energy to support the population of humans on the planet that is WAY past the point of natural balance.

Energy from the planet? What is that? You want energy it's raining on us from all sides and on high. If you covered a single digit percentage of the unused portions of the Sahara with old fashioned PV cells you could easily supply enough energy for all of Europe. And although I'm sure that a superior intellect such as yourself doesn't need this pointed out, that's not a recommended course of action but an illustration of the universe of insane abundance we live in. NO we do not require oil for transportation, NO we do not require oil for plastics, NO we do not require oil for fucking fertiliser, google the reasons yourself.

What exactly do you think will happen when people live twice as long?

We already know what's going to happen when people start living longer healthier lives, einstein, they have fewer children. Half of the countries in the developed world are already at below replacement birthrates. People stop having children or start having them later.

Do you think some other magical solution is going to pop up when lets us cram even more people into the same space.

We can not feed ourselves now, without oil, and the oil is being used ridiculously faster than its being created.

Oil, oil, oil. Try a little science instead. http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.ie/2007/11/314-peak-oil-and-fertilizer-no-problem.html Boom, headshot.

Hopefully this shock therapy has rattled your teeth enough that you'll think twice before unloading another bladderload on the internet.

Really? Solar energy can create 1) plastics, 2) fertilizers, 3) pesticides, 4) fuel for ships and trains, 5) medicines, etc. There isn't a replacement for cheap petroleum,

Yes there is. Read: http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.ie/2007/11/314-peak-oil-and-fertilizer-no-problem.html

Before the 'but that's only fertiliser' comeback kicks in, I want you to close your eyes and try to extrapolate.

Energy is not the only bottleneck, just the most visible. Around a sixth of the world's population lives for under $1/day. Trying to bring them up to the standard of living that is associated with reducing their birth rate is impossible. Not difficult, impossible. There isn't enough farmland to grow the cotton and wool to give them all sheets, mattresses, curtains, blankets, and half a dozen changes of clothing, for example.

Bullshit. Entertaining that you've focused on clothing since everything else was preemptively dealt with though.

We're like rabbits on an island that is overrunning their environment's carrying capacity. No other large (>20 kilos) mammal has ever had the population numbers that humans have today.

Like everything else you're coming out with, you have no evidence to support this. Not to mention that it's irrelevant anyway since we have the advantage of using our brains rather than having to browse off the savannah.

The worldwide population of wildebeest or caribou is smaller than the human population of Shanghai. We have to reduce our population or Ma Nature is going to do it for us, and she's a bitch.

You are a moron, and I don't mean that in a kindly joking manner, malthusians are generally in the lower 30%, and I'm not talking about earnings.

Possibly you imagine this will be the start of a long exchange of posts whereby you walk away if not triumphant then at least with enough wear and tear on your keyboard to feel as though you've represented whatever backward political viewpoint fills your afternoons successfully, and hey maybe someone will be suckered in making it all worthwhile. But in reality almost everyone has better things to do than read such an exchange, and I know I certainly have more important things to do than waste my time indulging in it. So let me know when the first major die offs occur due to resource depletion, and I will merrily eat my hat.

Have yourself a good day now.

Grow up

Post from: Anonymous Coward
User ID: 36001255
New Zealand
04/16/2013 10:12 PM

"I work on a security commission and I’ve just received word to start on a campaign we’ve been working on for the last two months and now it all makes sense.

I’ll keep it as short can I can

They’re going to pin this event on a male late teens to early 20s and say he did it because he’s unstable.

They are going to find firearms and a NRA book in his home. They are going to to say he used reloading powder for the explosion and that reloading powder shouldn’t be for sale to the public. They are then going to say that because the powder in ammunition can be used for explosions that the number of rounds you can buy should be limited and taxed to help pay for these events.

I can’t do anything or I’ll lose my job and possibly face criminals charges. Please don’t let them get away with it. They won’t find the suspect till later this week and the raid is issued to occur on Friday. This was a staged event. The people hurt are real but the event was planned. Don’t let them hurt our rights."

From here: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2206469/pg1

Other stuff: here
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You can make plastic from potatoes, ref also bioplastics: http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Potato-Plastic!/

Fertiliser and more: http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.ie/2007/11/314-peak-oil-and-fertilizer-no-problem.html

A hypothetical civilisation that didn't bother with oil would have had little difficulty finding substitutes, in my opinion.

http://googleblog.blogspot.ie/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html

You can get a flavour of the pain by reading what Google suggests to make apps run on the Nexus 7.

Apple has the advantage of owning the hardware and the software so there are a fix number of resolutions to support. I think if they start producing half-way house designs like larger iPhones or smaller iPads that they'll run into the same problem.