You can disable caching on Linux with -o sync. There ought to be a safe middle ground between no cache at all and a cache that expects the drive will always be there. Something that keeps IO from blocking, but doesn't spread out writes so far that the user has a chance to conclude the drive is idle and safe to pull.
There's no way to prove that we're not living in a simulation, because for every test you come up with, some weeny can say, "well, of course you get that result, it's part of the simulation!" Not really. It's possible to conceive a testable theory of a virtual reality simulation where a negative result would actually falsify the theory. I think a key requirement for any such theory is the assumption that humanity is not special. The incredible vastness of the universe would suggest to me that the creators are not particularly interested in life as a subject of study, least of all life on Earth. Otherwise there would be little reason to simulate anything beyond the solar system.
As a result, even if we assume the universe is a giant VR simulation, we have no reason to believe that the creators of the simulation would deliberately manipulate it for our benefit. We must reject any theory that relies on active manipulation of the evidence, because frankly we have no choice. On the other hand, we can't immediately discount the possibility that the evidence will lead us to the conclusion that the universe is a simulation.
Lack of natural selection.... Open-source projects don't depend on sales. But they do depend on volunteer developers. Natural selection is quite obviously in effect among OSS projects, only the criteria for success is the ability to attract developers rather than users. This can lead OSS in a different direction compared to closed source. In the long run though, the difference is not that great since most developers prefer to work on projects that people actually use.
Wait, you mean that a store that lets people freely do whatever they wish to do with little restrictions is more successful than a store in which you can just buy and leave? Who'da thunked it! If by "successful" you mean consistently profitable with a good margin, then actually I don't think the conclusion was so straight-forward. I can imagine plenty of scenarios where getting customers in and out not only makes better business sense but may even be what customers want.
If going to college didn't affect your career prospects, how many people do you think would bother? Many liberal arts students do go to college thinking that they will end up being a novelist or film director or something. Some really do want to become professional poets. Of course most people just go to college in response to pressure from their parents, but that's because their parents are convinced it will improve their career prospects.
So then you agree that some articles, from time to time, ought to be removed from Wikipedia. Do you think it might be a good idea to decide on some minimum requirements and write them down? Do you think it's possible that if you tried to enforce those minimum requirements, someone else might call you "snobby"?
So there's the line. Can I present the "facts" about a short story I just wrote on the back of a napkin? How about the "fact" that the President Bush is an evil dictator? That the elephant population has tripled? That Charles Riley of Wichita, KS won 1st place in the school science fair? That sleeping under a pyramid will extend your life? That Super Reformulated Tide(tm) is the best detergent ever? That hot, sexy, housewives are available 24x7 at 976-...?
People have tried to add things just like that to Wikipedia and worse. If you there's *any* of that you don't believe belongs on Wikipedia, someone else thinks you're a jackass.
As for having different "levels" of appropriateness, inevitably what will happen is that the cruft will just get ignored by the vast majority of editors, even though it still carries the name of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Instead of recreating the Google PageRank algorithm, why not just use the original? There you'll find the version that meets Wikipedia's standards as well as all the fancruft you could ask for.
Should everyone and anyone be allowed to use Wikipedia as free hosting service for whatever they want? Obviously, the line has to be drawn somewhere. Even if you drew the line wherever you think it should be, there will always someone else who would call you the jackass.
Personally, I don't draw a distinction between vocational training and college. College is a sort of vocational training for most people. So if you were to ask me if 100% of people should engage in some sort of post-secondary career education, I would say yes. Maybe that means grad school. Maybe that means an apprenticeship in the pipe-fitters' union. Society as a whole is better off when everyone is better educated in their field.
Their scale was 94-100 was an A, 85 to 93 was a B, 70 to 85 was a C, 63 to 70 was a D and everything else was an F. That's a waste of time and possibly counter-productive. Teachers will end up adjusting how they arrive at the percentage figure so the students get the same letter grade. One way they'll do that is by making tests and assignments easier. Surely that was not the intent.
Why shouldn't you be able to have ex co-workers on your "friends" list? Perhaps thinking of them as friends is the problem. They may not be your friends, but they're social contacts. They're people you might want to maintain some level of relationship with, in case your new job doesn't work out, or you're dealing with your old company professionally, or you just want someone to hang out with when you're back in town, or...
Someone else posted a satirical story about Facebook implementing multiple profiles for different facets of your life. In the grand tradition of satirical stories that later prove true, this is a feature that Facebook desperately needs to implement, to secure their own viability going forward if nothing else.
Either that or he's young enough to have played Guitar Hero.
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If checked the "Post Anonymously" button at the bottom, then ended my post by signing my name, then it's my own damn fault that my communication is no longer anonymous.
Could someone please tell me how TPB is somehow offering some new business model for the people who make the music? If they don't have a business model that works, it's up to them and them alone to find one. I don't work for them. I don't see any benefit if their business is or isn't successful. I have no interest in doing their job for them.
Technology routinely renders old business models obsolete and doesn't necessarily replace them. There may not be a viable business model for selling music anymore. Forcing the issue and banning technology to keep them in business amounts to a government subsidy.
I suppose you could read the book to find out, but one plausible explanation that comes to me is that he might not have fine control over how long he kept his eye shut.
"Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd, utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr."
There's an interesting article on Wikipedia called Jainism and non-creationism that you may be interested in. And again "none of the above" is always an option.
Also, if you take a moment to consider the demonstrably infinitessimal probability of abiogenesis, I argue that is IS impossible. It is proven improbable, and has yet to even be proven possible. I submit that it is, in fact, impossible. First off, until something is proven impossible, it is necessarily possible, just by what it means to be "possible". Secondly, it's quite likely that there is some piece to the puzzle still missing from our understanding of how life formed. The current theories may be wrong, but the logical argument for abiogenesis (that life had to come from somewhere) remains. Just because we don't fully understand how abiogenesis happened doesn't mean it didn't happen.
But, abiogenesis IS a prerequisite to rejecting creationism, and therein lies my point. No it's not. There are other theories. Maybe I don't accept creationism or abiogenesis. I might even say I have no idea how life started without accepting any explanation.
If, however, you assert that creationists must believe the Creator to be a mortal creation Himself Just to nitpick, it's not necessary for God to be mortal. As long as you consider God to be a form of "life", by whatever definition of that term you choose, then creationism is not a satisfactory explanation for the origin of life. If you stipulate that God is not a form of life but is eternal without beginning or end, then God is in some sense part of the natural order of the universe like, say, gravity.
So, as I understand it, the non-creationism standpoint relies on the improbable concept of abiogenesis. Again, "non-creationism" != abiogenesis. Regardless, the improbability of abiogenesis doesn't mean it's not true. "When you have eliminated the impossible..." and all that jazz.
I could be talking out of my hat here, but it strikes me that the video signal could be used to trigger a transistor type relay circuit. Right, if they could do that, it might be a significant improvement. I'm not really familiar with the DVI or VGA specs, but I'm guessing that there's probably not enough energy available on the line to do that, considering no one has done it before.
The power to drive the mechanical relay (switching on the mains power) would come from the capacitor, which would remain charged for an extended period while there was no video signal. There's got to be a switch that flips on to discharge the capacitor in that scenario. Flipping that switch presumably requires just as much power (either as a constant low current draw if it's a transistor, or a high one-time draw if it's a relay) as flipping the mains switch. So if you might as well just hook that up the mains and skip the capacitors.
So if the capacitors are only necessary when the "trap" gets triggered, why not just connect to the power line at that moment, instead of the capacitors? You could think of the power line as a sort of giant capacitor with infinite storage. It doesn't really matter which energy source you draw from if you're drawing the same amount.
If there is some benefit to this system it's in the little plate the cheese rests on, not the spring. In a real system detecting an incoming video signal requires something to monitor the line, which takes energy. It seems they tried to address that with the solar array, but not quite since the capacitors still drain after 5 days.
To be clear, you're talking about abiogenesis, not evolution. Evolution merely describes the natural processes that are known to occur in living organisms here on Earth and doesn't make any claims to how that life got here in the first place.
There's not much direct evidence in support of abiogenesis. It's more of a logical argument that life had to come from somewhere, at some point. Even if you accept that God created the Earth and all the life on it, God himself is a living being so the creation of Earth was not the beginning of life. Unless you don't consider God to be a living being, in which case creationism is abiogenesis.
These are your standard network suits who hate Science Fiction (especially "space opera") because it costs a lot to produce and only targets a narrow audience. They much prefer reality shows and sitcoms, which are cheap and popular. As much as I liked Firefly and science fiction in general (especially space opera), I can't really argue with the suits' logic here. Being expensive and having a small audience is a pretty good reason to "hate" a show, whatever genre. Truth be told, making a sci-fi show good enough to appease hardcore fans is typically mutually exclusive with making it popular among the general audience. And if the suits thought the show couldn't grow beyond the hardcore fans, it would never make it to air at all.
Your entire post is based on the mistaken premise that Colbert actually wants to compete. He doesn't. In the rare out of character interviews he gives, he's always very clear that he is a comedian. Everything he does is for laughs. Playing a pundit gets him laughs, so he does it. It has nothing to do with his personal politics.
In that vein, the bid was always a big stunt for ratings. He has handled this perfectly for that aim. All of the "flubs" about campaign finance just keep his name in the news and keep people watching the show to pick up the latest gossip. Getting bounced from the Democratic ballot just gives him an opportunity to scream mock outrage on TV tonight. Maybe this would be a setback for a politician, but it's perfect for a comedian.
AFAIK, he's still going to be on the Republican ballot, which will give him plenty of opportunities to insert himself into the process going forward. Even if that doesn't work out, he could probably stage a run as an independent.
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As a result, even if we assume the universe is a giant VR simulation, we have no reason to believe that the creators of the simulation would deliberately manipulate it for our benefit. We must reject any theory that relies on active manipulation of the evidence, because frankly we have no choice. On the other hand, we can't immediately discount the possibility that the evidence will lead us to the conclusion that the universe is a simulation.
If going to college didn't affect your career prospects, how many people do you think would bother? Many liberal arts students do go to college thinking that they will end up being a novelist or film director or something. Some really do want to become professional poets. Of course most people just go to college in response to pressure from their parents, but that's because their parents are convinced it will improve their career prospects.
So then you agree that some articles, from time to time, ought to be removed from Wikipedia. Do you think it might be a good idea to decide on some minimum requirements and write them down? Do you think it's possible that if you tried to enforce those minimum requirements, someone else might call you "snobby"?
> As long as they're presenting facts, why not?
So there's the line. Can I present the "facts" about a short story I just wrote on the back of a napkin? How about the "fact" that the President Bush is an evil dictator? That the elephant population has tripled? That Charles Riley of Wichita, KS won 1st place in the school science fair? That sleeping under a pyramid will extend your life? That Super Reformulated Tide(tm) is the best detergent ever? That hot, sexy, housewives are available 24x7 at 976-...?
People have tried to add things just like that to Wikipedia and worse. If you there's *any* of that you don't believe belongs on Wikipedia, someone else thinks you're a jackass.
As for having different "levels" of appropriateness, inevitably what will happen is that the cruft will just get ignored by the vast majority of editors, even though it still carries the name of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Instead of recreating the Google PageRank algorithm, why not just use the original? There you'll find the version that meets Wikipedia's standards as well as all the fancruft you could ask for.
Should everyone and anyone be allowed to use Wikipedia as free hosting service for whatever they want? Obviously, the line has to be drawn somewhere. Even if you drew the line wherever you think it should be, there will always someone else who would call you the jackass.
Personally, I don't draw a distinction between vocational training and college. College is a sort of vocational training for most people. So if you were to ask me if 100% of people should engage in some sort of post-secondary career education, I would say yes. Maybe that means grad school. Maybe that means an apprenticeship in the pipe-fitters' union. Society as a whole is better off when everyone is better educated in their field.
Why shouldn't you be able to have ex co-workers on your "friends" list? Perhaps thinking of them as friends is the problem. They may not be your friends, but they're social contacts. They're people you might want to maintain some level of relationship with, in case your new job doesn't work out, or you're dealing with your old company professionally, or you just want someone to hang out with when you're back in town, or ...
Someone else posted a satirical story about Facebook implementing multiple profiles for different facets of your life. In the grand tradition of satirical stories that later prove true, this is a feature that Facebook desperately needs to implement, to secure their own viability going forward if nothing else.
And to think I was about to stop smoking! Ha, I'll just quit violent video games and call it even.
Either that or he's young enough to have played Guitar Hero.
If checked the "Post Anonymously" button at the bottom, then ended my post by signing my name, then it's my own damn fault that my communication is no longer anonymous.
Technology routinely renders old business models obsolete and doesn't necessarily replace them. There may not be a viable business model for selling music anymore. Forcing the issue and banning technology to keep them in business amounts to a government subsidy.
I suppose you could read the book to find out, but one plausible explanation that comes to me is that he might not have fine control over how long he kept his eye shut.
Shakespeare's works were copied by unscrupulous book dealers in his time and he took them to court over it.
"Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd, utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr."
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So if the capacitors are only necessary when the "trap" gets triggered, why not just connect to the power line at that moment, instead of the capacitors? You could think of the power line as a sort of giant capacitor with infinite storage. It doesn't really matter which energy source you draw from if you're drawing the same amount.
If there is some benefit to this system it's in the little plate the cheese rests on, not the spring. In a real system detecting an incoming video signal requires something to monitor the line, which takes energy. It seems they tried to address that with the solar array, but not quite since the capacitors still drain after 5 days.
To be clear, you're talking about abiogenesis, not evolution. Evolution merely describes the natural processes that are known to occur in living organisms here on Earth and doesn't make any claims to how that life got here in the first place.
There's not much direct evidence in support of abiogenesis. It's more of a logical argument that life had to come from somewhere, at some point. Even if you accept that God created the Earth and all the life on it, God himself is a living being so the creation of Earth was not the beginning of life. Unless you don't consider God to be a living being, in which case creationism is abiogenesis.
Your entire post is based on the mistaken premise that Colbert actually wants to compete. He doesn't. In the rare out of character interviews he gives, he's always very clear that he is a comedian. Everything he does is for laughs. Playing a pundit gets him laughs, so he does it. It has nothing to do with his personal politics.
In that vein, the bid was always a big stunt for ratings. He has handled this perfectly for that aim. All of the "flubs" about campaign finance just keep his name in the news and keep people watching the show to pick up the latest gossip. Getting bounced from the Democratic ballot just gives him an opportunity to scream mock outrage on TV tonight. Maybe this would be a setback for a politician, but it's perfect for a comedian.
AFAIK, he's still going to be on the Republican ballot, which will give him plenty of opportunities to insert himself into the process going forward. Even if that doesn't work out, he could probably stage a run as an independent.