Could you tell this to the majority of China's population who all enjoy a poverty free lifestyle... oh sorry they have about the same impovorished state as the people of Tibet do now and always have done, both have a population largely consisting of subsistence farmers who are only poor in relation to the west, the only thing they lack is good medical care?
The religion of Tibet meant that people were obliged to help their neighbour (and give to the church), now the Chinese state fills that role (and expects it's cut) - not much change there
The main thing that they are doing is trying to surpress the main religion of the country and so take away the peoples right to freedom of religion?
This would be the same Mark Russinovich who set up his own company to sell the tools he wrote to find out why windows was so bad and to fix the holes and mistakes in Windows, and so he could write books telling people how to work around the flaws in windows (sysinternals)
And when Microsoft found out people were listening to him... they bought it and hired him to be a Microsoft Advocate, but don't seem to have listened to him ?
The Windows kernel (NT Kernel) was designed by Dave Cutler (ex of DEC) who designed a quite nice kernel then was promoted out of the way while Microsoft ruined his design...
This is a bit of hype he was not arrested by the CyperPolice he was spotted by an ordinary policeman who saw him acting suspiciously outside a shop and so questioned him and found he was illegaly using the shops broadband and so they arrested him
Note they were not targeting illegal surfing, they were not "Cracking Down on Broadband Theft" this is one isolated case
Lynx - After finding a build that did work I found the browser too complicated to use = Unacceptable. - In my opinion text only browsing is a complete waste of time with modern web pages.
He obviously isn't in the target audience of blind, or partially sighted people with a screen reader
There are many opensource licenses out there why do Microsoft feel they need to create 5 more ?
So they don't want to use the GPL... fine use another licence there are loads already certified as opensource..... people are suspicious because they want their version to be certified? and people quite reasonably are suspecting a trap
the problem with CVS is it has the wrong design and is clunky SVN is CVS done right i.e. it removed the clunky aspects of CVS Git uses a better design (but is still not cross-platform)
Linus actually said that the main problem with CVS and SVN that he fixed in Git is merging branches is a pain in CVS and no better in SVN, and as a bonus you can do distributed projects. He seems to go on about the distributed part more than just the fact that merges actually work and are easy...
Columbus thought the world was round - so did all the people who thought he was mad to try and sail west to get to the indies, they just thought it was a lot further away than he did, and they were right!
It's a myth (and a relatively modern one) that anyone who was educated ever thought that the world was flat, Columbus's crew nearly mutinied not because they thought they were about to sail over the edge of the world, but because they were running out of supplies and would die if they didn't turn back.
Einstein didn't like the parts of Quantum theory that a) disagreed with relativity or b) displayed randomness/nonlocality etc..
He was right in not trusting a theory that did not mesh with relativity, in that one or the other (or both) must be wrong (at least in part), but he seems (so far) to be incorrect in not trusting the odder parts of quantum theory?
This appears to be a crossover between relativity and Quantum theory - Which is in that middle ground and so we should expect the two theories to creak and it's exactly this kind of experiment that will show the weaknesses in the two theories and hopefully move us onto a unified theory?
Photons do not have a "Rest mass"...... Mainly because they cannot be at rest they always travel at the speed of light and anything with mass cannot travel at the speed of light.. But they do have momentum
or in other words they don't have mass by definition but if you could stop them they would have... Isn't physics wonderful
If the computer simulation is accurate
and If these structures actually exist
and If they really can reproduce
they might be life
The biggest "if" is the accuracy of the computer simulation, can they really model accurately particles, without a TOE (theory of everything) the model will always have some assumptions
When they show they can make these in the real world - then they *might* occur in nature, but it's still a might
I agree Computerised voting cannot work since it is a black box that does not allow the people to see what is going on and does not allow any checking by non-technical people
However a system that really only prints what you want to vote clearly and can be counted quickly is an advantage, a system in which any information is hidden from the voter is a failure since it will not be trusted
The old fashioned system of "put a cross in a box next to who you want to vote for" works on all levels except it is hard to count accurately, but if it could be printed in a form that both humans and a machine could read then it would make the "spoilt papers" be zero and the count fast... this is the problem with mechanical voting machines "hanging chad" anyone?
Good customer support is still good customer support even if you can't speak to a human...
Voice menu's work if there is an escape for people who don't like them or don't want to use them
If they are used as a filter to speed up assistance they work, when used to block people they don't
Queuing systems say you don't have enough staff (or you product/service is broken), and don't care
Non-native English speakers says you couldn't be bothered to train them or hire the right people
If they speak English as their third language, and are based in Malaysia, but are helpful, and sort the problem.. who cares!
Most people will say that the two best types of support are...
the one they never have to use because the product "just works"
the one they contact (in whatever way) and they get a quick, helpful, polite, and *correct* response
The main problem is the answer to "how did life start" is "nobody knows" what is also unknown are the right elements and conditions for it to start...
So we have,
if comets have the right elements for life to start
if comets have the right conditions for life to start
if comets have the right conditions for life to survive in space
if comets have the right conditions to transport it to earth
if life in comets can survive on the early earth...then life could have started in comets or
Life started on Earth (which might also have had the right conditions...) or
Panspermia is right but life started elsewhere and was only transported on comets or
Panspermia is right but life started elsewhere and got here by another method or
Panspermia is right but life started here independently anyway
So Abiogenisys on Earth has one problem accoriding to some theories there has not been enough time
but since no-one knows how long it takes this is a bit of a red herring?
Panspermia has two problems it has to get life going (which it does not even attempt to explain) and then get it to Earth
since comets were formed as part of the solar system they are the same age as the earth - so this does not help?
some comets are ejected from our solar system (and so can be from others) so now they are relying on, not the chances of a comet hitting the earth (and life contained within surviving), but a comet from another, older solar system where life has arisen (or panspermia has got there already), and has got itself into that comet hitting the earth
and they thing that life arising on earth is unlikely?
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The ultimate tool to solve crimes - monitor everyone all the time.. any crime is instantly solved?
The base of our legal system is Innocent until proved guilty, any monitoring system assumes you are about to commit a crime and is simply waiting for to do it
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So if DNA matching yours is found at a crime scene is found then you did the crime even if you were not there?
and the if a car with the same number plate as yours is involved in a crime you will happily go to jail?
The problem with these systems is they are not perfect but are held up to be... and so you have real trouble arguing against them...
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Could you tell this to the majority of China's population who all enjoy a poverty free lifestyle ... oh sorry they have about the same impovorished state as the people of Tibet do now and always have done, both have a population largely consisting of subsistence farmers who are only poor in relation to the west, the only thing they lack is good medical care?
The religion of Tibet meant that people were obliged to help their neighbour (and give to the church), now the Chinese state fills that role (and expects it's cut) - not much change there
The main thing that they are doing is trying to surpress the main religion of the country and so take away the peoples right to freedom of religion?
This would be the same Mark Russinovich who set up his own company to sell the tools he wrote to find out why windows was so bad and to fix the holes and mistakes in Windows, and so he could write books telling people how to work around the flaws in windows (sysinternals)
And when Microsoft found out people were listening to him... they bought it and hired him to be a Microsoft Advocate, but don't seem to have listened to him ?
The Windows kernel (NT Kernel) was designed by Dave Cutler (ex of DEC) who designed a quite nice kernel then was promoted out of the way while Microsoft ruined his design...
As those windows advocates would say ... It's a application that is failing not the operating system
....
Looks like a Console running a script that is failing
The operating system is running just fine and a restarting will fix it (like it said it did)
Looks like they need to ask the person who wrote this script/app to do better error checking?
The usual problem here is the Internet is not in the USA it is global - so which Police, which Government should have access to this information?
This is a bit of hype he was not arrested by the CyperPolice he was spotted by an ordinary policeman who saw him acting suspiciously outside a shop and so questioned him and found he was illegaly using the shops broadband and so they arrested him
Note they were not targeting illegal surfing, they were not "Cracking Down on Broadband Theft" this is one isolated case
The actual quote from TFA is "...is unusual for such flagrant crackpottery"
... What is there to sue
So he didn't like the book but did not say anything about the character of the author
Betamax was Sony - VHS was licensed by Sony ....
....
Blu-Ray is partially Sony - HD-DVD is partially Sony
So pick one of the Sony products every time
This is the Classic part of his site ...
Lynx
- After finding a build that did work I found the browser too complicated to use = Unacceptable.
- In my opinion text only browsing is a complete waste of time with modern web pages.
He obviously isn't in the target audience of blind, or partially sighted people with a screen reader
I too don't think of PDF as a web technology ... It's a document format ...
Want to send someone a document to read send it as HTML/Plain Text
Want to include layout, send it as PDF
I would never send it as PostScript - most people would not know what to do with it? Or have a program to open it with...
There are many opensource licenses out there why do Microsoft feel they need to create 5 more ?
.. people are suspicious because they want their version to be certified? and people quite reasonably are suspecting a trap
So they don't want to use the GPL... fine use another licence there are loads already certified as opensource...
the problem with CVS is it has the wrong design and is clunky
SVN is CVS done right i.e. it removed the clunky aspects of CVS
Git uses a better design (but is still not cross-platform)
Linus actually said that the main problem with CVS and SVN that he fixed in Git is merging branches is a pain in CVS and no better in SVN, and as a bonus you can do distributed projects. He seems to go on about the distributed part more than just the fact that merges actually work and are easy...
Columbus thought the world was round - so did all the people who thought he was mad to try and sail west to get to the indies, they just thought it was a lot further away than he did, and they were right!
It's a myth (and a relatively modern one) that anyone who was educated ever thought that the world was flat, Columbus's crew nearly mutinied not because they thought they were about to sail over the edge of the world, but because they were running out of supplies and would die if they didn't turn back.
Slashdot has ads.... ? I must say I've never noticed - That's the type of ads I like
.... (Or use ad block if I must!)
My TV apparently has ads - I can't say I've ever noticed?
Some websites do have ads those annoying flashing scrolling or popup ones but I don't use those
So Tachyons must be C#
Einstein didn't like the parts of Quantum theory that a) disagreed with relativity or b) displayed randomness/nonlocality etc..
He was right in not trusting a theory that did not mesh with relativity, in that one or the other (or both) must be wrong (at least in part), but he seems (so far) to be incorrect in not trusting the odder parts of quantum theory?
This appears to be a crossover between relativity and Quantum theory - Which is in that middle ground and so we should expect the two theories to creak and it's exactly this kind of experiment that will show the weaknesses in the two theories and hopefully move us onto a unified theory?
Photons do not have a "Rest mass" ... ... Mainly because they cannot be at rest they always travel at the speed of light and anything with mass cannot travel at the speed of light .. But they do have momentum
... Isn't physics wonderful
or in other words they don't have mass by definition but if you could stop them they would have
Nice idea, but ....
If the computer simulation is accurate
and If these structures actually exist
and If they really can reproduce
they might be life
The biggest "if" is the accuracy of the computer simulation, can they really model accurately particles, without a TOE (theory of everything) the model will always have some assumptions
When they show they can make these in the real world - then they *might* occur in nature, but it's still a might
I agree Computerised voting cannot work since it is a black box that does not allow the people to see what is going on and does not allow any checking by non-technical people
... this is the problem with mechanical voting machines "hanging chad" anyone?
However a system that really only prints what you want to vote clearly and can be counted quickly is an advantage, a system in which any information is hidden from the voter is a failure since it will not be trusted
The old fashioned system of "put a cross in a box next to who you want to vote for" works on all levels except it is hard to count accurately, but if it could be printed in a form that both humans and a machine could read then it would make the "spoilt papers" be zero and the count fast
Good customer support is still good customer support even if you can't speak to a human...
Voice menu's work if there is an escape for people who don't like them or don't want to use them
If they are used as a filter to speed up assistance they work, when used to block people they don't
Queuing systems say you don't have enough staff (or you product/service is broken), and don't care
Non-native English speakers says you couldn't be bothered to train them or hire the right people
If they speak English as their third language, and are based in Malaysia, but are helpful, and sort the problem.. who cares!
Most people will say that the two best types of support are...
the one they never have to use because the product "just works"
the one they contact (in whatever way) and they get a quick, helpful, polite, and *correct* response
Put a boxing glove on a robot tank and run it over Mike Tyson ...
The main problem is the answer to "how did life start" is "nobody knows" what is also unknown are the right elements and conditions for it to start...
...then life could have started in comets
So we have,
if comets have the right elements for life to start
if comets have the right conditions for life to start
if comets have the right conditions for life to survive in space
if comets have the right conditions to transport it to earth
if life in comets can survive on the early earth
or
Life started on Earth (which might also have had the right conditions...)
or
Panspermia is right but life started elsewhere and was only transported on comets
or
Panspermia is right but life started elsewhere and got here by another method
or
Panspermia is right but life started here independently anyway
Oh and getting started in the first place ...
Amount of life on Earth - Loads
Amount of life (not precursors to life) found elsewhere (so far) - NONE!
So Abiogenisys on Earth has one problem accoriding to some theories there has not been enough time
but since no-one knows how long it takes this is a bit of a red herring?
Panspermia has two problems it has to get life going (which it does not even attempt to explain) and then get it to Earth
since comets were formed as part of the solar system they are the same age as the earth - so this does not help?
some comets are ejected from our solar system (and so can be from others) so now they are relying on, not the chances of a comet hitting the earth (and life contained within surviving), but a comet from another, older solar system where life has arisen (or panspermia has got there already), and has got itself into that comet hitting the earth
and they thing that life arising on earth is unlikely?
The ultimate tool to solve crimes - monitor everyone all the time .. any crime is instantly solved?
The base of our legal system is Innocent until proved guilty, any monitoring system assumes you are about to commit a crime and is simply waiting for to do it
So if DNA matching yours is found at a crime scene is found then you did the crime even if you were not there?
... and so you have real trouble arguing against them ...
and the if a car with the same number plate as yours is involved in a crime you will happily go to jail?
The problem with these systems is they are not perfect but are held up to be