Anyway all of this seems moot to me. We can already freeze human beings for long periods of time. It's called 'embryo freezing' and it's commonly used.
You can freeze the embrios, but you still need a mother that will give birth to the babies. At the very least you need some kind of matrix.
FreeBSD is not only Unix in one of it's most faithful implementations - it's also a damn fine Unix, too. I used to like Solaris as well, but am not in touch with the OS and the community since after Solaris 9, so I am not sure about it anymore. FreeBSD, on the other hand, hasn't skipped a beat and it's still king, at least among the open-source operating systems.
I don't have to "believe it" - it's a matter of scale and commitment, not state of technology. Our current technology allows it, albeit at elevated expenses.
As a staunch atheist, I make sure I don't point my finger at people, only at religion, but I know full well that my posts irritate some people. My posts generate a lot of cognitive dissonance in religious, so I'm perceived as dangerous, even "hateful". Just see the reaction to #exMuslimBecause to see the kind of silly over-reaction and bluster that such posts can produce by the detractors.
If those morons think that a small increase in temperature is worse than living on a barren empty planet with no air, water, or infrastructure... maybe we should send them there first so they can see what it's like.
Musk and the like don't think that. They are investing in space exploration and settling Mars because it's a frontier and a challenge, not because it's easy.
It is Kevin Maney, the writer of the Newsweek article, who falsely attributes this belief and motivation to Musk and others. It's what's known as a straw man argument, and in this case one that brands its author as scientifically illiterate and generally a moron.
Incidentally, it is likely that the author, Kevin Maney, himself is a part of "the 1%", given his consulting work with major CEOs and his portfolio of publications. So it's not clear whether his class warfare writing is just a cynical way of getting more coverage or whether he is really is so dumb that he doesn't even understand that he is talking about himself.
Good thing that the Jide isn't running plain Android, but a desktop-oriented fork called Remix OS. The review itself does not find severe issues with using the OS or the apps in desktop mode. Maybe you should, you know, read the review?
You are right - partial pressure in the atmosphere is extremely low, so the helium will leak out. The seals have to be made to much more stringent standards in order to keep He in the drive, but that won't help for long. It will, however, keep nitrogen, oxygen and CO2 from entering the drive. Essentially, you will end up with a drive filled with very low pressure helium - essentially, vacuum, and the heads will have crashed against the surface of the platters long before that.
The problem with SSDs, for me personally, is their catastrophic failure mode. It has to do with the controllers rather than the storage technology, but all the same, when an SSD fails your data is gone - all of it, and you can't retrieve it in any way unless you are a three-letter agency.
All of those countries have better education system than any state in the US, because all of them have free, or essentially free higher education!
Since I grew up in one of those European countries with free education, I can tell you from first hand experience that you are wrong.
Having free higher education is by default a huge advantage compared to the US. You have not provided any argument against my claim. Just "you are wrong".
Better than what? I was under the impression that we'd put schools and infrastructure in place post WWII.
Per capita GDP in the Marshall Islands is $2900, compared to Arkansas's $31000. Arkansas, while near the bottom among US states, is better off even compared to EU members like the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, and Croatia.
All of those countries have better education system than any state in the US, because all of them have free, or essentially free higher education! It just happens that I have lived in or visited Croatia, Slovenia, Estonia, Czech Republic and Hungary (long story why) and can also tell you that their primary and high schools are top-notch. Notice my command of the English language? Thanks to the education system of a couple of the abovementioned countries. I speak three more languages, again thanks to those education systems that you think are poorer than the one in Arkansas (based on your flawed and entirely idiotic metric of GDP).
It's aggravating that a post so obviously devoid of any intelligence or correct information, would get modded up.
Rob Malda (AKA CmdrTaco) was far, far worse with dupes. CmdrTaco really didn't give a shit and about 1/3rd of his posts were dupes. One time he actually posted two dupes of the same story (something about Google publishing open APIs to their services). Strangely, CmdrTaco didn't get as much heat for his dupes at Timothy does these days.
U.S., Iran, Turkey, Assad, Russia. All hate ISIS. All have an interest in destroying the ISIS "caliphate."
Can't stop fighting among themselves for even a minute to even consider an alliance.
Meanwhile, ISIS just slips across some other border that the side who happens to be fighting them at that moment can't cross.
Bullshit - Turkey has been supporting ISIS in many ways, including logistics, since the beginning. This includes free passage for ISIS fighters while blocking the passage of anti-ISIS forces. Turkey is also acting as a de-facto air force for ISIS, by bombing their most successful adversary, the Kurdish forces in Syria.
As a materials scientist, I think they squeezed the last bit of potential out of silicon. Well, they could perhaps go for isotopycally pure silicon, but the gain would be relatively modest for a high price. III-V semiconductors such as GaAs, InGaAs etc. are expensive mostly because it's hard to grow large crystals, but it is worth it due to the far higher mobilities of electrons in them.
The few times I need a terminal emulator, I fire up my VT220. Yes, I do it for shits and giggles - though it does work wonderfully well and has a very comfortable "UI".
From this you can conclude that I don't do computers as a job, since a VT220 would not be exactly ultra-portable;)
It would be wonderful if, on an internet forum, we could have a discussion about a topic such as this without virtue signaling. For whatever reason, it seems impossible.
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I strongly suggest you read Stephen Baxter's short story Mayflower II
You'll enjoy it, I promise.
1. Generation ships
2. Nuclear propulsion, antimatter propulsion
3. Science fiction (warp drives, transporters, etc.)
Anyway all of this seems moot to me. We can already freeze human beings for long periods of time. It's called 'embryo freezing' and it's commonly used.
You can freeze the embrios, but you still need a mother that will give birth to the babies. At the very least you need some kind of matrix.
FreeBSD is not only Unix in one of it's most faithful implementations - it's also a damn fine Unix, too. I used to like Solaris as well, but am not in touch with the OS and the community since after Solaris 9, so I am not sure about it anymore. FreeBSD, on the other hand, hasn't skipped a beat and it's still king, at least among the open-source operating systems.
I don't have to "believe it" - it's a matter of scale and commitment, not state of technology. Our current technology allows it, albeit at elevated expenses.
As a staunch atheist, I make sure I don't point my finger at people, only at religion, but I know full well that my posts irritate some people. My posts generate a lot of cognitive dissonance in religious, so I'm perceived as dangerous, even "hateful". Just see the reaction to #exMuslimBecause to see the kind of silly over-reaction and bluster that such posts can produce by the detractors.
Musk and the like don't think that. They are investing in space exploration and settling Mars because it's a frontier and a challenge, not because it's easy.
It is Kevin Maney, the writer of the Newsweek article, who falsely attributes this belief and motivation to Musk and others. It's what's known as a straw man argument, and in this case one that brands its author as scientifically illiterate and generally a moron.
Incidentally, it is likely that the author, Kevin Maney, himself is a part of "the 1%", given his consulting work with major CEOs and his portfolio of publications. So it's not clear whether his class warfare writing is just a cynical way of getting more coverage or whether he is really is so dumb that he doesn't even understand that he is talking about himself.
Perfectly valid points, all three of them.
Colonizing Mars is doable with current tech.
The only way we could make a colony work, even if we could magically transport millions of tons of material, is to tunnel deep underground.
Which is entirely achievable with current technology. So basically you proved the GP's point, but are still arguing with him/her for some odd reason.
If we are honest, it's worth noting also that Star Wars has nothing much to do with Sci-Fi.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
Good thing that the Jide isn't running plain Android, but a desktop-oriented fork called Remix OS. The review itself does not find severe issues with using the OS or the apps in desktop mode. Maybe you should, you know, read the review?
I use comments very sparingly in Python because it reads so beautifully.
Not if you have Nystagmus
You are right - partial pressure in the atmosphere is extremely low, so the helium will leak out. The seals have to be made to much more stringent standards in order to keep He in the drive, but that won't help for long. It will, however, keep nitrogen, oxygen and CO2 from entering the drive. Essentially, you will end up with a drive filled with very low pressure helium - essentially, vacuum, and the heads will have crashed against the surface of the platters long before that.
The problem with SSDs, for me personally, is their catastrophic failure mode. It has to do with the controllers rather than the storage technology, but all the same, when an SSD fails your data is gone - all of it, and you can't retrieve it in any way unless you are a three-letter agency.
Since I grew up in one of those European countries with free education, I can tell you from first hand experience that you are wrong.
Having free higher education is by default a huge advantage compared to the US. You have not provided any argument against my claim. Just "you are wrong".
The claim about a correlation between per capita GDP and education system quality was not made by me, but by the GP. Take that issue up with him/her.
Per capita GDP in the Marshall Islands is $2900, compared to Arkansas's $31000. Arkansas, while near the bottom among US states, is better off even compared to EU members like the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, and Croatia.
All of those countries have better education system than any state in the US, because all of them have free, or essentially free higher education!
It just happens that I have lived in or visited Croatia, Slovenia, Estonia, Czech Republic and Hungary (long story why) and can also tell you that their primary and high schools are top-notch. Notice my command of the English language? Thanks to the education system of a couple of the abovementioned countries. I speak three more languages, again thanks to those education systems that you think are poorer than the one in Arkansas (based on your flawed and entirely idiotic metric of GDP).
It's aggravating that a post so obviously devoid of any intelligence or correct information, would get modded up.
This is one of the most hardware-informative posts I've read the whole year (and the year is almost over). What I've learned:
There is a motherboard I can buy that comes with as many as FOUR serial ports!
It's a very cheap motherboard, too!
It can be used as a console server.
Thank you!
Rob Malda (AKA CmdrTaco) was far, far worse with dupes. CmdrTaco really didn't give a shit and about 1/3rd of his posts were dupes. One time he actually posted two dupes of the same story (something about Google publishing open APIs to their services). Strangely, CmdrTaco didn't get as much heat for his dupes at Timothy does these days.
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Seems like WD Black hard drives have some quality issues.
U.S., Iran, Turkey, Assad, Russia. All hate ISIS. All have an interest in destroying the ISIS "caliphate."
Can't stop fighting among themselves for even a minute to even consider an alliance.
Meanwhile, ISIS just slips across some other border that the side who happens to be fighting them at that moment can't cross.
Bullshit - Turkey has been supporting ISIS in many ways, including logistics, since the beginning. This includes free passage for ISIS fighters while blocking the passage of anti-ISIS forces. Turkey is also acting as a de-facto air force for ISIS, by bombing their most successful adversary, the Kurdish forces in Syria.
and I see no reason to stay behind when the update was free. Windows 10
I can see at least a few reasons for staying with Windows 7 vs. going to Windows 10. Can't you?
As a materials scientist, I think they squeezed the last bit of potential out of silicon. Well, they could perhaps go for isotopycally pure silicon, but the gain would be relatively modest for a high price. III-V semiconductors such as GaAs, InGaAs etc. are expensive mostly because it's hard to grow large crystals, but it is worth it due to the far higher mobilities of electrons in them.
The few times I need a terminal emulator, I fire up my VT220. Yes, I do it for shits and giggles - though it does work wonderfully well and has a very comfortable "UI".
From this you can conclude that I don't do computers as a job, since a VT220 would not be exactly ultra-portable ;)
It would be wonderful if, on an internet forum, we could have a discussion about a topic such as this without virtue signaling. For whatever reason, it seems impossible.