Einstein would've thought poorly of you. Science isn't some vacuum of discovery, it's products have massive effects on the world around you and the context in which science is advanced very much has moral weight.
Hard disks use ECC to allow the disk to reach the capacities it does. It is not designed for anything other then making the hard disk perform well. It doesn't protect you against hard disks which write incorrect data to start with, or have faulty cables etc.
You're arguing that the mass extinctions favored things which had the precursors for intelligence and berating for any criticism to the contrary. Both are equally unsupported viewpoints.
My point is, since starting conditions are random, on another planet, separate from Earth, it's entirely possible that the random walk of evolution leads to precursor intelligent species right away. Since we know roughly how long complex multicellular life took to arise, and how long we took to arise from single celled precursors, we can know that it doesn't take 4 billion years of planet and biosphere evolution to get to "intelligent life".
Yes, but the mass extinction of the dinosaurs was not necessary, nor were some of the ones since then.
Then there's other events, like ice-ages, which would've held back technological progress, and also the issue that any time in the past 10,000 years had human history gone a little differently we'd be, well, thousands of years more advanced then we currently are.
Had the Greeks and Romans grok'd a few key bits of mathematics, the renaissance might have started within their empires and they would've avoided some of the downsides due to the technological boom it would've provided (crucially, without coordinate geometry the calculus results they were looking at didn't generalize to other pursuits. Get calculus and you do optics, get optics and you've got microscopes, steam engines, metallurgy and all the tools needed to understand modern science).
200 is too short a time. Such a species would have clinical immortality a few generations in. Even accounting for outliers, how many kids do you want to raise in your infinity (that if you keep having have to eventually ship offworld forever ro avoid overpopulation)?
People with auto-immune diseases aren't less susceptible to being killed by regular infections. That's usually what kills them.
Autoimmune diseases are an interesting problem where for some reason the chemical self/not-self signalling gets messed up, and the immune system starts attacking a host of identified "not self" cells. Other ones - like asthma - are a hypersensitivity of the primary (non-specific) immune response.
Cancer is the exact opposite problem: cancer is when you get a specific series of mutations which do not result in the normal cellular apoptosis mechanism destroying a body cell. The immune system doesn't target cancer because it doesn't target "self" cells. Cancer is immune-invisible, and the holy grail of cancer therapy has always been to find something unique about cancer cells that the immune system can be sensitized to to attack.
None of this is caused by some weird idea of "balance" of the immune system, and the way you used the phrase to start with was a weird thing to do with antibiotics and nature or something.
I suggest thinking hard about your positions before you start advocating withholding treatment from patients and letting people die, which is what you were trying to circumspectively say without sounding like a monster (also looking up the actual causes of antibiotic resistance and how drug-resistance evolves - it's really not what you seem to think).
Backlight strobing and low persistence is related to this. You can't scroll the view around a monitor in a lively fashion without making it impossible to read at the moment.
The problem with being unintelligent and a virus is that you die when the host dies, and so you can only ever kill everyone in a small geographically specific area. Global pandemic only became possible with the rise of trading civilizations, but any organism which kills a large % of the population will burn itself out before it can kill all of them.
We worry about disease today because we are trying to do a lot better then middle % survival rates through adulthood.
We weren't the first complicated life here. It took several mass extinctions, but then humanity as we know it took around 300,000 years to evolve from the ancestor primates, give or take a few million to get from the single-cell stage.
So sans a few mass extinctions, someone would've been here are a lot sooner - and the Earth is 4 billion years old and we know planet formation doesn't seem to take that long.
So given the size of the universe, we know from just here that there's definitely been life and intelligent life favorable conditions elsewhere just from the limited sample set we've collected. What we don't know is what happens to it - what's the "main sequence" behavior of technological civilizations like ours? What do they become?
Of course, it's also entirely possible we actually are in particularly well governed galaxy and everyone is staying out of our way till we reach out and make first contact. Then we'll find out that Galactic Resolution 8A prohibited the international broadcasting of luminal RF in our direction or something.
Exactly this. Cheap bastards torrent (understandable if you're broke), but if you have money? You rip the physical media.
For $DIETY's sake why? I've already paid for the disk, I've already paid for the player. I have the money, but it makes no dammed sense whatsoever to pay a third time for more (potential failure points) storage media and the electricity to run it. You and the OP ("Tech-savvy folks rip physical media") should speak for yourselves.
Because disks get scratched when you play them and destroyed once people other then you start using them. Because I have to store them in some accessible part of my house and can't just scroll down the list on XBMC and pick what I want to watch that night. Because my rips are backups for my disks, and my disks backups for my rips.
I don't want physical media. What I want is Blu-Ray quality video. I would be perfectly happy to download this, but you can't download Blu-Ray quality video from anywhere, and you can't easily break the encryption on downloaded streams anyway and they cost as much as the physical disk a lot of the time.
And thanks to XBMC, I only need the one Blu-Ray drive. Everything else can be a thin-client which boots from my server, or one of those Android boxes (don't like those though - driver support is spotty and Android is not a great HTPC OS - plus having all my XBMCs share the same preferences and extensions automagically is wonderful).
This is actually the use case I'm more interested in.
Oculus pushing up the resolution of VR means we are creeping closer and closer to this being reality, and that's honestly more interesting to me then any amount of immersive gaming. Right now I'm typing this on a system with 3 monitors - when I'm coding something, I usually end up completely filling all those monitors - I have a preview/IRC on one, 3 text editors in the middle, debugging and project navigation on the other plus however many miscellaneous console windows.
I could keep adding monitors, but it would never be enough (as my brother discovered when he got up to 5 while developing a web app). What I'd like to do is just put on a headset, and make a 360 degree, 6 DOF bubble which would be 1 giant virtual monitor. Dispense with my desk and just have a chair with a keyboard and mouse support in my study.
Uh, because RSA was falling at a rather predictable if accelerating pace, and it was obvious "just use longer keys" wasn't really going to scale?
This wasn't a surprise. RSA is computationally expensive for the level of security provided, and the computing power to break shorter keys was becoming more and more available.
Naturally he means it's totally unfair that a union, with hundreds of thousands of members, can tell all those members that they think it would be really great to donate to party X.
And then all those members can go and donate up to the individual maximum, and tend to do so because they actually like their union.
And it's totally unfair that the CEO of the company they all work for, can't use the profits of their labor, to unilaterally decide to give an unlimited amount of money from the company's coffers to the opposing party, and call it a business expense, that also just so happens to align to his personal interests as well.
I mean, how is that democracy? When the masses of people can popularly choose to support a politician and not be completely overridden by individual capital interests?
There's also the magic of budgeting where if you don't spend it all you don't get an increase the next year (and no one believes you when you say "well this year we do need more - but look at our previous savings!")
It's illegal to have all sorts of property. The quickest answer is that you're definitely not allowed to have certain types and quantities of radioactive materials. Same thing goes for all sorts of chemicals - some because they're precursors, some because they're flat out dangerous if improperly used or stored and some because they just smell terrible.
So tell us again oh so succinctly how there's no precedent for it being illegal for private citizens to own property?
And then I'll tell you how I find it outrageous I can't just buy surplus plutonium from Russia...
There should be a place that a man and his family don't have to retreat from. This what makes you a man rather than a peasant. This is what makes you something other than property.
The idea that you aren't allowed to defend your family is what is really abhorent here.
You're perfectly allowed to defend yourself/family. A gun isn't the only means of doing so.
Also apparently no place in this fantasy for women who aren't the property of men apparently.
Of course the statistics on this indicate that actual self-defense cases like this essentially never happen - and disproportionately involve cases where mysteriously both parties have been previously convicted of crimes.
Queue being linked to some article about some guy who totally defended his home with his gun, but then be told that we should just consider that (vanishingly rare instance) as being totally worth the hundreds of victims of mass shootings per year.
Bingo. He was using a quota which said 'you can use X many nodes for this'. If he hadn't been using them, then they would've been allocated to finish other queued jobs faster (and its not like we're running out of protein folding work anytime soon).
Last couple of transitions have been pretty smooth for me. I've been running a mix of Cinnamon-git builds, Ubuntu trusty packages and Mint stuff without issue at all.
You only really get problems when configuration file syntax or layout changes.
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Dress it up in whatever fancy prose you want. Your desire, and policy result, will be to let people die in the gutters.
Fortunately, we've got a whole system of largely good people who keep amoral scumbags like you out of power.
The fact you think any of the personal qualities of your actions redeem demanding a transparently monstrous policy, speaks volumes.
What part of my comment sounds like I'm saying it's not worth doing error recovery?
Well we could call you an amoral scumbag who literally wants to order doctors to let people die in the gutters outside hospitals.
Does that sound better? Because that's exactly what you're proposing.
Einstein would've thought poorly of you. Science isn't some vacuum of discovery, it's products have massive effects on the world around you and the context in which science is advanced very much has moral weight.
Scratched CDs can be recovered by polishing them with Brasso.
The trick is it polishes the scratches out flat so they don't mess with reflections of the reader.
Hard disks use ECC to allow the disk to reach the capacities it does. It is not designed for anything other then making the hard disk perform well. It doesn't protect you against hard disks which write incorrect data to start with, or have faulty cables etc.
You're arguing that the mass extinctions favored things which had the precursors for intelligence and berating for any criticism to the contrary. Both are equally unsupported viewpoints.
My point is, since starting conditions are random, on another planet, separate from Earth, it's entirely possible that the random walk of evolution leads to precursor intelligent species right away. Since we know roughly how long complex multicellular life took to arise, and how long we took to arise from single celled precursors, we can know that it doesn't take 4 billion years of planet and biosphere evolution to get to "intelligent life".
Yes, but the mass extinction of the dinosaurs was not necessary, nor were some of the ones since then.
Then there's other events, like ice-ages, which would've held back technological progress, and also the issue that any time in the past 10,000 years had human history gone a little differently we'd be, well, thousands of years more advanced then we currently are.
Had the Greeks and Romans grok'd a few key bits of mathematics, the renaissance might have started within their empires and they would've avoided some of the downsides due to the technological boom it would've provided (crucially, without coordinate geometry the calculus results they were looking at didn't generalize to other pursuits. Get calculus and you do optics, get optics and you've got microscopes, steam engines, metallurgy and all the tools needed to understand modern science).
200 is too short a time. Such a species would have clinical immortality a few generations in. Even accounting for outliers, how many kids do you want to raise in your infinity (that if you keep having have to eventually ship offworld forever ro avoid overpopulation)?
People with auto-immune diseases aren't less susceptible to being killed by regular infections. That's usually what kills them.
Autoimmune diseases are an interesting problem where for some reason the chemical self/not-self signalling gets messed up, and the immune system starts attacking a host of identified "not self" cells. Other ones - like asthma - are a hypersensitivity of the primary (non-specific) immune response.
Cancer is the exact opposite problem: cancer is when you get a specific series of mutations which do not result in the normal cellular apoptosis mechanism destroying a body cell. The immune system doesn't target cancer because it doesn't target "self" cells. Cancer is immune-invisible, and the holy grail of cancer therapy has always been to find something unique about cancer cells that the immune system can be sensitized to to attack.
None of this is caused by some weird idea of "balance" of the immune system, and the way you used the phrase to start with was a weird thing to do with antibiotics and nature or something.
I suggest thinking hard about your positions before you start advocating withholding treatment from patients and letting people die, which is what you were trying to circumspectively say without sounding like a monster (also looking up the actual causes of antibiotic resistance and how drug-resistance evolves - it's really not what you seem to think).
Backlight strobing and low persistence is related to this. You can't scroll the view around a monitor in a lively fashion without making it impossible to read at the moment.
Actually it isn't. And also what balance?
The problem with being unintelligent and a virus is that you die when the host dies, and so you can only ever kill everyone in a small geographically specific area. Global pandemic only became possible with the rise of trading civilizations, but any organism which kills a large % of the population will burn itself out before it can kill all of them.
We worry about disease today because we are trying to do a lot better then middle % survival rates through adulthood.
We can't be.
We weren't the first complicated life here. It took several mass extinctions, but then humanity as we know it took around 300,000 years to evolve from the ancestor primates, give or take a few million to get from the single-cell stage.
So sans a few mass extinctions, someone would've been here are a lot sooner - and the Earth is 4 billion years old and we know planet formation doesn't seem to take that long.
So given the size of the universe, we know from just here that there's definitely been life and intelligent life favorable conditions elsewhere just from the limited sample set we've collected. What we don't know is what happens to it - what's the "main sequence" behavior of technological civilizations like ours? What do they become?
Of course, it's also entirely possible we actually are in particularly well governed galaxy and everyone is staying out of our way till we reach out and make first contact. Then we'll find out that Galactic Resolution 8A prohibited the international broadcasting of luminal RF in our direction or something.
Older burned CDs are actually much more stable then newer ones. Dye quality.
For $DIETY's sake why? I've already paid for the disk, I've already paid for the player. I have the money, but it makes no dammed sense whatsoever to pay a third time for more (potential failure points) storage media and the electricity to run it. You and the OP ("Tech-savvy folks rip physical media") should speak for yourselves.
Because disks get scratched when you play them and destroyed once people other then you start using them. Because I have to store them in some accessible part of my house and can't just scroll down the list on XBMC and pick what I want to watch that night. Because my rips are backups for my disks, and my disks backups for my rips.
I don't want physical media. What I want is Blu-Ray quality video. I would be perfectly happy to download this, but you can't download Blu-Ray quality video from anywhere, and you can't easily break the encryption on downloaded streams anyway and they cost as much as the physical disk a lot of the time.
And thanks to XBMC, I only need the one Blu-Ray drive. Everything else can be a thin-client which boots from my server, or one of those Android boxes (don't like those though - driver support is spotty and Android is not a great HTPC OS - plus having all my XBMCs share the same preferences and extensions automagically is wonderful).
This is actually the use case I'm more interested in.
Oculus pushing up the resolution of VR means we are creeping closer and closer to this being reality, and that's honestly more interesting to me then any amount of immersive gaming. Right now I'm typing this on a system with 3 monitors - when I'm coding something, I usually end up completely filling all those monitors - I have a preview/IRC on one, 3 text editors in the middle, debugging and project navigation on the other plus however many miscellaneous console windows.
I could keep adding monitors, but it would never be enough (as my brother discovered when he got up to 5 while developing a web app). What I'd like to do is just put on a headset, and make a 360 degree, 6 DOF bubble which would be 1 giant virtual monitor. Dispense with my desk and just have a chair with a keyboard and mouse support in my study.
Uh, because RSA was falling at a rather predictable if accelerating pace, and it was obvious "just use longer keys" wasn't really going to scale?
This wasn't a surprise. RSA is computationally expensive for the level of security provided, and the computing power to break shorter keys was becoming more and more available.
Naturally he means it's totally unfair that a union, with hundreds of thousands of members, can tell all those members that they think it would be really great to donate to party X.
And then all those members can go and donate up to the individual maximum, and tend to do so because they actually like their union.
And it's totally unfair that the CEO of the company they all work for, can't use the profits of their labor, to unilaterally decide to give an unlimited amount of money from the company's coffers to the opposing party, and call it a business expense, that also just so happens to align to his personal interests as well.
I mean, how is that democracy? When the masses of people can popularly choose to support a politician and not be completely overridden by individual capital interests?
There's also the magic of budgeting where if you don't spend it all you don't get an increase the next year (and no one believes you when you say "well this year we do need more - but look at our previous savings!")
It's illegal to have all sorts of property. The quickest answer is that you're definitely not allowed to have certain types and quantities of radioactive materials. Same thing goes for all sorts of chemicals - some because they're precursors, some because they're flat out dangerous if improperly used or stored and some because they just smell terrible.
So tell us again oh so succinctly how there's no precedent for it being illegal for private citizens to own property?
And then I'll tell you how I find it outrageous I can't just buy surplus plutonium from Russia...
There is nothing wrong with the attitude.
There should be a place that a man and his family don't have to retreat from. This what makes you a man rather than a peasant. This is what makes you something other than property.
The idea that you aren't allowed to defend your family is what is really abhorent here.
You're perfectly allowed to defend yourself/family. A gun isn't the only means of doing so.
Also apparently no place in this fantasy for women who aren't the property of men apparently.
Of course the statistics on this indicate that actual self-defense cases like this essentially never happen - and disproportionately involve cases where mysteriously both parties have been previously convicted of crimes.
Queue being linked to some article about some guy who totally defended his home with his gun, but then be told that we should just consider that (vanishingly rare instance) as being totally worth the hundreds of victims of mass shootings per year.
Bingo. He was using a quota which said 'you can use X many nodes for this'. If he hadn't been using them, then they would've been allocated to finish other queued jobs faster (and its not like we're running out of protein folding work anytime soon).
Last couple of transitions have been pretty smooth for me. I've been running a mix of Cinnamon-git builds, Ubuntu trusty packages and Mint stuff without issue at all.
You only really get problems when configuration file syntax or layout changes.
People have had sex in an MRI machine. Though not while doing brain scans (they were fMRI ing the abdominal area).