with Ethernet over ATM you end up with a total overhead somewhere around 15% which means the upstream speed you'd end up seeing would be somewhere around 640 kbps
North America has a population density of 32 people per square mile. Europe has a population density of 134 people per square mile. I didn't read TFA of course but it seems if we are comparing continents...
Businesses that will succeed in the future will do so without requiring unsustainable, endless growth. I don't know how to do that, but the first guy to figure it out is going to be really, really rich.
Step 1. Go to Google
Step 2. Search for 'purchase arm netbooks;
Step 3. Click on shopping results
Step 4. Skip steps 1-3 and click here
Step 5. Perform steps backwards
This is why the Drake equation never did seem to make much sense to me.
The equation or one of it's variables?
The Drake equation always seem to me to require the presupposition that a far advanced extraterrestrial civilization would be using the equivalent of.. cosmic flag semaphore, or smoke signals.
To me it just seemed to take into account some kind of communications window. Are you just disagreeing with the size of that window? As our own technology increases do you think SETI will stop looking for 'old tech' signals?
It does give a robot instant access to all of our tools, modes of transportation, and infrastructure. Robots that are backwards compatible with their makers.
I'm using the daily builds of chromium so I don't know how it differs from the beta but...
3. I really dislike that I cannot associate a downloaded filetype to a program to launch (ex: can't click on a network music service playlist and have it launch/send it to the program. FF, IE, Konqueror, etc will let me do it, instead it merely downloads it to the download folder and I have to manually tell it to open the file)
This annoyed me too. But it seems that when it's downloading you can click the arrow next to it and tell it to always open files of that type. Then it uses whatever programs you have associated.
4. it would be nice to be able to see webpage titles better
Under options you can choose to use the GTK+ Theme, that will show a normal title bar and the full webpage title.
Overall still more work to do but the speed makes it hard to open another browser unless I just have to. I'm on a 1.3 ghz AMD Athlon with 1.5 gigs of memory and the speed difference between Chromium and Firefox or even Opera is very noticeable.
If you leave it alone and a natural disaster happens, you can't really sue God. If you drill and make mini-quakes and someone's windows break, you can definitely sue the driller.
Makes me wonder. This is not the first time it's been believed that drilling triggered an earthquake. How long until you can sue because the city didn't pay for drillers to relieve pressure and major earthquake occurs.
It's their property. That's what makes it ok for them to search it.
If I lend you my car are you going to deny me the right to search it and see what you are doing with it?
Maybe if you say "Here's my car, I'm not going to search it or ask you what you're doing with it." Why the police station didn't think to make a policy that allowed them full access to the taxpayer purchased equipment is an interesting question in and of itself.
More liberal regulation. Doesn't everyone know that capitalism is best for us? Those that control the energy industry seek money and that in America is a worthwhile goal in and of itself. Money fixes everything. After all our money says 'In God We Trust'. It's practically blessed. The golden calf is god.
I haven't been modded troll or flamebait in a long time, just thought I'd try it out.
I'm not suggesting people learn how to program or even know the difference between their cpu and computer case. I'm not suggesting developing safeguards are worthless. I'm only saying relying *completely* on safe guards is naive. Very simple things like not downloading free screen savers/games or clicking on links in emails from 2342@235ja.com would go a long way. I'm not suggesting anyone needs a license to get a computer.
Unless things have changed since I took the test to get a driver's license it doesn't ask how often you should change the oil in your car. But somehow most (not all) people figure that out. There are however still people who ignore their check engine light until their car dies and there will always be people who run shady software no matter how many times you make them enter in a password. Education is still important.
I use Windows and Linux and I trash them both because I know how to fix it. I don't know much about my car so I change my oil when the speedometer matches the number on the little sticker on my windshield and get maintenance when the manual says to.
Too sum up, all of the education and safegaurds in the world will not prevent sheer stupidity. However, education and safeguards are still worthwhile pursuits. There is an area between expert and completely ignorant.
it's certainly appropriate to debate the effectiveness of these methods
I completely agree, but some people seem to think security software is going to prevent anything from happening to their computer. I don't think a seat belt, crumple zones etc are going to prevent anything from happening to me regardless of what I do. Or for that matter what another driver does. Why should I refuse to learn anything about using a computer?
People still have to learn how drive. It doesn't just work. I can go into oncoming traffic and head end a semi. Cars don't 'just work'. The best security product is never going to keep someone from running something stupid.
they "just want it to work"
My mom used to say 'Want in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up faster.'
While it sounds good in theory a stagnate or declining population is also an aging population which brings about it's own problems. Pretty much all successful species will populate to the limits of their resources. For us, the only necessary resource is energy. It's use and abundance is perhaps the only thing that will ever limit our growth.
I seem to recall something like 2/3 of the Earth's land cannot currently be used for crops because of salt. Enter desalination(plenty of water on the Earth) and genetic engineering.
If that problem is solved we could theoretically reach 18 billion people or more. We could also cultivate and utilize the oceans better. I do not think we are anywhere near shaping the Earth's ecosystem to completely benefit us.
After that, on to the stars!
PS Ant's global biomass is between 900 million and 9 billion tonnes. Human's global biomass is a mere 100 million tonnes. That's a lot of ants and I don't think they're worried. source
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Your argument is false
What argument would that be?
Wow I didn't state anything except that Europe has a greater population density and look at all the responses. Man makes me wish I intended to troll.
FWIW I think the U.S. should and could be doing a much better job.
with Ethernet over ATM you end up with a total overhead somewhere around 15% which means the upstream speed you'd end up seeing would be somewhere around 640 kbps
That should be enough for anybody.
North America has a population density of 32 people per square mile. Europe has a population density of 134 people per square mile. I didn't read TFA of course but it seems if we are comparing continents...
Businesses that will succeed in the future will do so without requiring unsustainable, endless growth. I don't know how to do that, but the first guy to figure it out is going to be really, really rich.
I think he'll be reasonably rich.
damnit click here
Step 1. Go to Google
Step 2. Search for 'purchase arm netbooks;
Step 3. Click on shopping results
Step 4. Skip steps 1-3 and click here
Step 5. Perform steps backwards
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This is why the Drake equation never did seem to make much sense to me.
The equation or one of it's variables?
The Drake equation always seem to me to require the presupposition that a far advanced extraterrestrial civilization would be using the equivalent of.. cosmic flag semaphore, or smoke signals.
To me it just seemed to take into account some kind of communications window. Are you just disagreeing with the size of that window? As our own technology increases do you think SETI will stop looking for 'old tech' signals?
I certainly wouldn't start with a humanoid layout
It does give a robot instant access to all of our tools, modes of transportation, and infrastructure. Robots that are backwards compatible with their makers.
3. I really dislike that I cannot associate a downloaded filetype to a program to launch (ex: can't click on a network music service playlist and have it launch/send it to the program. FF, IE, Konqueror, etc will let me do it, instead it merely downloads it to the download folder and I have to manually tell it to open the file)
This annoyed me too. But it seems that when it's downloading you can click the arrow next to it and tell it to always open files of that type. Then it uses whatever programs you have associated.
4. it would be nice to be able to see webpage titles better
Under options you can choose to use the GTK+ Theme, that will show a normal title bar and the full webpage title.
Overall still more work to do but the speed makes it hard to open another browser unless I just have to. I'm on a 1.3 ghz AMD Athlon with 1.5 gigs of memory and the speed difference between Chromium and Firefox or even Opera is very noticeable.
If you leave it alone and a natural disaster happens, you can't really sue God. If you drill and make mini-quakes and someone's windows break, you can definitely sue the driller.
Makes me wonder. This is not the first time it's been believed that drilling triggered an earthquake. How long until you can sue because the city didn't pay for drillers to relieve pressure and major earthquake occurs.
Which is why I find it interesting that the police department had no formal policy to the contrary.
It's their property. That's what makes it ok for them to search it. If I lend you my car are you going to deny me the right to search it and see what you are doing with it?
Maybe if you say "Here's my car, I'm not going to search it or ask you what you're doing with it."
Why the police station didn't think to make a policy that allowed them full access to the taxpayer purchased equipment is an interesting question in and of itself.
On one hand the GPL violations are not so great...however action like this isn't going to encourage people to pirate open source...
FTFY
alt-space,x(to un-maximise), return then
alt-space,m(move)
use arrow keys to move window to wherever on your desktop you want it.
FTFY
More liberal regulation. Doesn't everyone know that capitalism is best for us? Those that control the energy industry seek money and that in America is a worthwhile goal in and of itself. Money fixes everything. After all our money says 'In God We Trust'. It's practically blessed. The golden calf is god.
I haven't been modded troll or flamebait in a long time, just thought I'd try it out.
I'm not suggesting people learn how to program or even know the difference between their cpu and computer case. I'm not suggesting developing safeguards are worthless. I'm only saying relying *completely* on safe guards is naive. Very simple things like not downloading free screen savers/games or clicking on links in emails from 2342@235ja.com would go a long way. I'm not suggesting anyone needs a license to get a computer.
Unless things have changed since I took the test to get a driver's license it doesn't ask how often you should change the oil in your car. But somehow most (not all) people figure that out. There are however still people who ignore their check engine light until their car dies and there will always be people who run shady software no matter how many times you make them enter in a password. Education is still important.
I use Windows and Linux and I trash them both because I know how to fix it. I don't know much about my car so I change my oil when the speedometer matches the number on the little sticker on my windshield and get maintenance when the manual says to.
Too sum up, all of the education and safegaurds in the world will not prevent sheer stupidity. However, education and safeguards are still worthwhile pursuits. There is an area between expert and completely ignorant.
it's certainly appropriate to debate the effectiveness of these methods
I completely agree, but some people seem to think security software is going to prevent anything from happening to their computer. I don't think a seat belt, crumple zones etc are going to prevent anything from happening to me regardless of what I do. Or for that matter what another driver does. Why should I refuse to learn anything about using a computer?
they "just want it to work"
My mom used to say 'Want in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up faster.'
I really wonder if the /. audience believes something as complex as music appreciation can be captured in a program....
It's not like music can be represented mathematically or anything. A computer would never understand that.
This crisis could have been prevented in 2005, via Republican-led
If only Republicans had controlled Congress and the White House in 2005.
source
While it sounds good in theory a stagnate or declining population is also an aging population which brings about it's own problems. Pretty much all successful species will populate to the limits of their resources. For us, the only necessary resource is energy. It's use and abundance is perhaps the only thing that will ever limit our growth.
I seem to recall something like 2/3 of the Earth's land cannot currently be used for crops because of salt. Enter desalination(plenty of water on the Earth) and genetic engineering.
If that problem is solved we could theoretically reach 18 billion people or more. We could also cultivate and utilize the oceans better. I do not think we are anywhere near shaping the Earth's ecosystem to completely benefit us.
After that, on to the stars!
PS Ant's global biomass is between 900 million and 9 billion tonnes. Human's global biomass is a mere 100 million tonnes. That's a lot of ants and I don't think they're worried. source
I know some people think pencil and paper but that is just too high tech for my blood. I'd go with a good ol' sandbox.
Or you could go for an etch a sketch if you still want the cool high tech look.