How ironic that the paper titled No Silver Bullet" was written by no other than Fred Brooks. Yes, the same guy who wrote the famed The Mythical Man Month, which was about his experience as a manager for software development at IBM.
I would argue that fossil fuel is not the only determinant...
The hard part is that we have become almost dependent on integrated circuits. This goes for any computer device, all control devices in manufacturing, and much more...
If civilization collapses, how can we get back the IC fabs going with specialized material?
I want to echo what the parent said. LG TVs are decent in general. The voice feature is just a gimmick added to make the company/product look cool. Perhaps it gains some WOWs when demoed in store. But in real life, its voice recognition is subpar, and the feature does not get used much. And yes, you have to press a button on the remote for the TV to listen (via a mic in the remote in my case).
I can't talk about Ukraine because I am not fully informed about it as I am about the other countries I listed. But from a cursory look, Russia accepted an independent vote from the Crimean penninsula, and annexed it based on that. If it is good for Crimea, then it is good for the rest of Ukraine.
But as I said, Ukraine is not what I can/want to discuss. I am specifically astonished to you characterizing these three Arab countries as having 'legitimately elected government" while the facts completely contradict this. These are dictatorships, and not legitimate at all. They were a brutal police states.
Moreover, the role of the USA in removing or trying to remove the dictators was minimal to non-existent.
At some point in the future, genetic analysis will be messed up because the lineage fo the mtDNA is not from the same mother that gave the nuclear DNA.
Will be a serious puzzle when this is done without any accompanying documentation that person X had this done, or a marker is present to indicate it was.
As an Egyptian, I have to take issue with India claiming they were flying first. The Egyptians indeed had helicopters, submarines and spaceships thousands of years ago. And not in oral myth. We have real carvings on the temple of Abydos showing them clearly.
For the sarcastically challenged, they indeed look today live those vehicles, but the cause is recarving the new pharoah's name on top of the old one, hence this artifact.
I did install Ubuntu 14.04 Server edition on newer (2014) PCs that require UEFI, and it works fine.
But you have options: kubuntu (KDE desktop, which I am using now), xubuntu (XFCE desktop) or lubuntu (LXDE desktop). If you use the 14.04 from any of those, then you probably wouldn't have any issues compared to older versions.
Things were easy until the mid to late 19th century. Anything could be produced in a carpenter, blacksmith or watchmaker's workshop. Lenses were ground, metals were machined,...etc.
Then in the early 20th century things started to get far more specialized. By the mid 20th century, we had the transistor then the integrated circuit.
Now, everthing from ubiquitous phones to home appliances to street lights have complicated integrated circuits, CPUs, RAM,...etc. that can only be designed by specialized teams, and fabricated in very high tech fabs.
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They already make money from Linux! By collecting dubious licensing fees from Android phone manufacturers, including Samsung.
This amounts to over $2bn, as of over a year ago.
Granted, they are not writing apps for it (yet), but they are making money from a Linux platform.
Other manufacturers are doing away with physical buttons as well.
For example, my first Sony, an Xperia X10, had 3 physical buttons at the bottom. So did my next Sony, Xperia Arc.
Then my current Xperia ZL has no buttons on the front, just capacitive ones.
You get used to it though, and never miss them after a few weeks of adjusting.
How ironic that the paper titled No Silver Bullet" was written by no other than Fred Brooks. Yes, the same guy who wrote the famed The Mythical Man Month, which was about his experience as a manager for software development at IBM.
I would argue that fossil fuel is not the only determinant ...
The hard part is that we have become almost dependent on integrated circuits. This goes for any computer device, all control devices in manufacturing, and much more ...
If civilization collapses, how can we get back the IC fabs going with specialized material?
I wrote about it in a previous comment: 19th century technology vs. mid 20th century.
And expanded a bit on it in information readability and longevity in the digital age.
Look at how much JK Rawlings borrowed themes and story lines from JRR Tolkien.
Another LG TV owner here ...
I want to echo what the parent said. LG TVs are decent in general. The voice feature is just a gimmick added to make the company/product look cool. Perhaps it gains some WOWs when demoed in store. But in real life, its voice recognition is subpar, and the feature does not get used much. And yes, you have to press a button on the remote for the TV to listen (via a mic in the remote in my case).
That the earth was round, was known from the time of the Ancient Greeks.
In fact, the circumference of the earth was measured by Eratosthenes in the 3rd century BC, with considerable accuracy, using very simple means.
Here is Carl Sagan in Cosmos, on Eratosthenes measurement of the earth's circumference.
I can't talk about Ukraine because I am not fully informed about it as I am about the other countries I listed. But from a cursory look, Russia accepted an independent vote from the Crimean penninsula, and annexed it based on that. If it is good for Crimea, then it is good for the rest of Ukraine.
But as I said, Ukraine is not what I can/want to discuss. I am specifically astonished to you characterizing these three Arab countries as having 'legitimately elected government" while the facts completely contradict this. These are dictatorships, and not legitimate at all. They were a brutal police states.
Moreover, the role of the USA in removing or trying to remove the dictators was minimal to non-existent.
Mubarak was legitimately elected?
Gaddafi was legitimately elected?
Assad was legitimately elected?
If you are not joking, you have to be in an alternate universe, or out of your mind.
[I am Egyptian by the way, and know what I am talking about]
What? Legitimately elected? Syria, Egypt, Libya? Really?
Is this Vodka or pot overdose?
At some point in the future, genetic analysis will be messed up because the lineage fo the mtDNA is not from the same mother that gave the nuclear DNA.
Will be a serious puzzle when this is done without any accompanying documentation that person X had this done, or a marker is present to indicate it was.
No kidding ...
For many years, I have been returning HTTP return code 418 (I'm a teapot) to obnoxious crawlers.
For example: Dealing with resource wasting crawlers in Drupal. Also here and here.
The last time I commented about the continued posting of Bennet's rants, some idiot moderators marked it as flamebait.
I am posting it again below. This is serious, not a troll, nor funny:
As an Egyptian, I have to take issue with India claiming they were flying first. The Egyptians indeed had helicopters, submarines and spaceships thousands of years ago. And not in oral myth. We have real carvings on the temple of Abydos showing them clearly.
Don't believe me? See for yourself.
For the sarcastically challenged, they indeed look today live those vehicles, but the cause is recarving the new pharoah's name on top of the old one, hence this artifact.
Mod this informative, not funny!
You are not alone in your dislike for Unity.
I did install Ubuntu 14.04 Server edition on newer (2014) PCs that require UEFI, and it works fine.
But you have options: kubuntu (KDE desktop, which I am using now), xubuntu (XFCE desktop) or lubuntu (LXDE desktop). If you use the 14.04 from any of those, then you probably wouldn't have any issues compared to older versions.
Flamebait? Idiot mods! I am serious! The only sarcasm is the very last sentence. The rest of it is what has been happening for over a year.
Slashdot's editor team knows that the "audience" here hate Bennet Hasleton's continued long winded drivel, yet they keep posting his stuff regularly.
This yet another clear sign that Dice and Slashdot do not care about their "audience", continuing off from the Beta debacle.
Just keep ignoring your "audience" while expecting viewership to increase. Yeah, that will happen alright ...
A local business prof says this is a "desperate" move.
In my area, there is $50 a month for 30Mbps download, 5Mbps upload, unlimited cap.
See this plan
I had similar issues, though on a machine hosted outside my home network.
The solution was to implement SPF, pointing to the PTR of machine (i.e. what a reverse IP lookup will resolve to), and DKIM.
In your case, doing a PTR will be hard, since dynamic DHCP may change what the PTR is, but the rest does apply.
I wrote the following detailing what I did: Setting up SPF and DKIM on Postfix.
I had lots of mails bounce after Yahoo implemented DMARC.
However, with a bit of patience, I was able to implement DKIM and SPF for my domain, and now all the mails get delivered to Yahoo addresses.
I wrote about how ot configure SPF and DKIM in this article: Setting up SPF and DKIM for Postfix.
Things were easy until the mid to late 19th century. Anything could be produced in a carpenter, blacksmith or watchmaker's workshop. Lenses were ground, metals were machined, ...etc.
Then in the early 20th century things started to get far more specialized. By the mid 20th century, we had the transistor then the integrated circuit.
Now, everthing from ubiquitous phones to home appliances to street lights have complicated integrated circuits, CPUs, RAM, ...etc. that can only be designed by specialized teams, and fabricated in very high tech fabs.
I wrote about it here : Information readability and longevity in the digital age.
Contrary to all the speculative guesses in the comments, the researchers do have a hypothesis for this.
From the linked PLOS article:
Not on Debian/Ubuntu. On those, /bin/sh is symlinked to dash, which is not vulnerable to Shellshock.
To test this, I created a small PHP script, as follows:
I run the php script, and do an strace following children:
In the output I find this:
And here is what /bin/sh links to ...
In August 2009, a boy was hit by lightning and later died in hospital. Witnesses said the sky was blue above them, and there was no thunder or rain.
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