1. An army of morally removed individuals, everyone gets an electromagnet attached with a mora-meter, the computer adjusts the necessary dose based on the current situation. So now we see a woman and a child on the battlefield, mora-meter is reading 7.8 on the M-Scale, there is the target of opportunity right behind them and no time to react. Increasing the field strength. Mora-meter is at 1.89. Directive: shoot through the civilians. Outcome: 1 target down, 2 civilian casualties.
2. Cchecking the computer, the audience is reading a collective 6.5. Increasing the m-field strength. The meter is at 2. And god said: stone the homosexuals.... Increase the m-field. Pass the collection plate.
This is really idiotic, what is it, the 'survival of the slowest' law? Here is what I see on roads in Baden Baden, Germany. There are many narrow mountain roads here, you'd think people would slow down, many drive very quickly right through the turns, the twists, whatever. The autobahn is amazing, no matter how fast you are going, there will be someone zooming right past you. In the city there are limits that are a bit lower than what I am used to from North America, but those are normally very short stretches of the road where they don't want you to make too much noise, people really mostly follow the speed limits very closely. There is a very well developed public transit system here, and this is not including the railroads. There are many roundabouts and they are wonderful, you have to slow down but often you can go through it without any stop, and it is an intersection, there are no lights there. Seems intuitive and friendly enough, however in the city core the streets are often so narrow between two very close buildings that you just can't go fast, but you don't expect to. But this would not work for a large city, it would be completely stuck, there are only a few tens of thousands of people living here. It would not work for Toronto for example (which was just named as the city with the worst traffic ever, it takes people more than 80 minutes on average to commute both ways and the public transportation is not growing.)
No no no, if you want people to slow down, you are doing it wrong. You need to get people into public transportation system, then there will be fewer people driving and there would be more space on the road, yes people would go faster, but there would be fewer fatalities still, if fewer people are behind the wheel.
Yes, but creating an alternative appealing universe experience takes imagination, ingenuity, creativity, sometimes requires radical approach to ideas and expects thinking outside of the box.
Doing any of that increases the risk that the outcome will not be popular enough and will not succeed in terms of sales, this is serious business and money we are talking about here, what do you think this is, a game?
I am not a 'NoSQL' proponent in any way, but an RDBMS is not the only way to control ACID properties and to be transactional. I am certain there are databases that are not RDBMS and are transactional and ACID compliant.
RDBMS is mainly about relationships between table columns, foreign references and such.
There was a story on/. about 4chan moving into the 'web2' territory or something, I went to see what the site was about and it is a something of a forum where people are posting images, one of the 'rooms' has rapidshare links on it, it's all rapidshare. I think this is already a business with this service, maybe that's one way 4chan makes money, by providing customers to rapidshare?
If someone can get hurt and even die because of a piece of software can be executed in a way that will cause that, then it is a bug of the most severe kind, no matter how unlikely that situation is.
Will not miss Flash, eventually all of its capabilities will be replaced with open standard / open implementation efforts. Really waiting for that time.
Some of my projects with BellTV were about removing Flash components from the site, everything that was done in Flash was changed to Javascript + DOM manipulation + some images.
Once Youtube is in HTML5, I will never have to use Flash again ever in my life.
Except that Glenn Beck works for Fox, and Fox is the mouthpiece of the Republican party and at this point you actually have to wonder whether Fox exists to push forward Republican agenda or whether Republicans exist to push forward Fox's agenda. It is irrelevant what the laws say, Fox is above all of that.
How do we know there was no excavation of minerals? How do we know that the current state of minerals is not from some ancient culture who dug them up or extracted them somehow?
- simply because we have dug out so much off the easy to access mines almost without digging too much, it is not possible that an advanced civilization capable of global changes would have missed all of these easy to get minerals.
Maybe the oil is the result of their doings? Perhaps they had a culture whose main technology was biology rather then minerals? Maybe the oil deposits are the remnants of their cities.
- we know what oil, gas and coal came from because we find the remains of the ancient animals in it. Unless you are saying that dinosaurs were that advanced civilization, but we know that dinosaurs did not have such a civilization for many reasons. Brains were too small, they were too powerful to need advanced brain functionality to use tools, they were too powerful to need tools to live. If dinosaurs did change the climate around them it was not with a civilization.
Humans are doing quite well at changing the environment with minimal transmutation of heavy metals. Perhaps the uranium we are finding now was not accessible to creature of old, perhaps due to sea levels being different or the minerals being deep underground only to have surfaced in the past million or so years.
- how many thousands of nuclear explosions did we cause so far? How old is old in your estimation? If this 'civilization' existed 3-4 billion years ago (not possible, given the fossil records of the early creatures, they were too primitive at that time) then yes, geology could change, but if we are talking about the last 50-500 million years, then no, you do not have a point. Heavy metals we are extracting today are the result of various volcanic eruptions and magma movement, most of the movement was over by about 1.7 billion years ago, most of the Uranium we find today was deposited to the upper crust by that time.
If all of us were gone tomorrow, a civilization hundreds of millions years from now would notice our shadows at LEAST by a layer of deposits that would have corresponded to the past 100 years of our activity - increase in CO2 + increase in radioactive material in the air causes this material to deposit in ways that it was never deposited before.
We have exhausted the easy to mine sites of metals, heavy metals, coals, natural gas and oil. The easy to get ones are gone. Just 150 years ago, oil was basically sipping through pores of top soil in places like Texas, today, you won't find almost any of that there.
Arguing while 'Anonymous Coward' means you have no argument at all, how about that rhetoric?
China has a growing economy. Bubble is when there is pressure applied forcefully that causes a sector or more than one sector to concentrate resources that in reality will produce no economic outcome and eventually collapse. Bubbles are produced mostly by debt based consumption and money printing.
Growing economy is the kind of economy that produces not the one that consumes. China is a producer first, but now it is also becoming a consumer.
A bubble? Wake me up when they start printing money away, wake me up when their trade balance shifts in favor of other countries.
It did not happen before the way that you are implying.
For a civilization to start creating a change in the global climate, the civilization has to be numerous and it has to possess various technologies.
We would have noticed the following:
1. Previous excavations of various Earth minerals starting with metals: iron, nickel, copper, uranium, gold, cadmium.
2. Previous energy production attempts: the oil would have been much smaller if they were pumped before, we know of the exact mass extinctions and time periods where coal, oil and gas were created. So during those times it would not be possible for such a civilization to exist, because it's nearly impossible to coexist with giant lizards and the lizards wouldn't dominate the planet to deposit all those carcasses that formed the oil, gas and coal stores.
3. Our excavations at various rocky mountain sites would have shown this age and we would have found similar excavations from those past civilizations.
4. Certainly some structures would have been found preserved, some machinery, roads, after all, we find skeletons of dinosaurs, so why not tools of the long gone civilizations?
5. Uranium probably would have been gone as well as some other heavy metals, converted to other forms by those energy users, who would have had to use various types of energy to achieve climate level shifts.
China is in a leading position, but not in the G8 but has UNSC seat, economic power sure, but with problems just like or worse than the US has, but its bubble hasn't burst.
- so you think that China has a bubble economy then? The country where most of the worlds manufacturing capacity is concentrated? The country that is actively buying assets in forms of commodities, lands, mines, all over the world? Country with the fastest growing consumer population?
Wow, I wonder what constitutes a growing success in your book?
The actual bill. It is hard to read, but go to the page 1869 and read it. You'll see it. But you can also read around it. Apparently all kinds patents are going to be extended, by half a year here, by seven years there, various interesting stuff.
Also look at Obama killing the bill, that would have allowed cheap drug imports from Canada or other countries.
/.'s stuff that matters is also about the matter that stuffs.
This matter we produce, stuffs us, we don't know what to do with it. Futurama of-course tackled this problem, all that is needed is a giant rocket to take every piece of garbage off this rock and dump it into the space. Later, when more garbage is created, all we do is throw the second pile at the first. One of them will fly into the Sun.
On the other hand it looks like soon enough there will be a huge opportunity for new ways of recycling this shit by turning it into energy by applying various types of bacteria that eat it and burp or poop up carbons.
- person has everything he needs, he is happy. Is that childish and odd? I wonder, I envy his childish oddity then.
No. But why is he so stand-offish? Why not try to change what you don't like from a position of authority? Perelmen could do it if he wanted to, but it's like he's given up. That's what bothers me.
- and what a waste of time that would be for him. Instead of taking off and going to pick up some mushrooms and prepare a dish, instead of working out details of some math problem you want him to become a social activist? He is happy doing what he is doing. He is happy living the life he is living. He lived in the USA for a year, he was mostly eating rye brad and fermented milk (kefir) and he was wearing the same pants and a jacket. Then he went back to Russia, because he did not fit in.
I doubt it's because he "does not need the crowd". I think perhaps there is something more underlying his entire attitude.
- he specifically said he did not want to be awarded by a group of people who award those, that are not worthy, people who take other people accomplishments and pass them for their own. He specifically said he does not want to deal with the mathematics crowd because it is a corrupt crowd, though he said some people in it are not, but they are complacent.
He does not want to waste his time on people, vast majority of who are the real selfish people.
You call him SELFISH? He solved Poincare, he did not even need to show the solution to anybody, but he did anyway. He taught people an entire multitude of lessons:
1. Poincare. 2. New approach to the solution, his solution used an observation from a physical event this time in math, not the other way around. 3. How to have principles.
Sure, you are free to do whatever, except here is the difference:
Your whatever means NOTHING.
You did not prove Poincare conjecture, you did not win a million dollars, you also probably did not donate anything much to the children, you love so much.
So whatever, sit in your basement and type away, see if people pay attention to you, you, you.
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Implications are interesting:
1. An army of morally removed individuals, everyone gets an electromagnet attached with a mora-meter, the computer adjusts the necessary dose based on the current situation. So now we see a woman and a child on the battlefield, mora-meter is reading 7.8 on the M-Scale, there is the target of opportunity right behind them and no time to react. Increasing the field strength. Mora-meter is at 1.89. Directive: shoot through the civilians. Outcome: 1 target down, 2 civilian casualties.
2. Cchecking the computer, the audience is reading a collective 6.5. Increasing the m-field strength. The meter is at 2. And god said: stone the homosexuals.... Increase the m-field. Pass the collection plate.
and that stopped someone from driving?
This is really idiotic, what is it, the 'survival of the slowest' law? Here is what I see on roads in Baden Baden, Germany. There are many narrow mountain roads here, you'd think people would slow down, many drive very quickly right through the turns, the twists, whatever. The autobahn is amazing, no matter how fast you are going, there will be someone zooming right past you. In the city there are limits that are a bit lower than what I am used to from North America, but those are normally very short stretches of the road where they don't want you to make too much noise, people really mostly follow the speed limits very closely. There is a very well developed public transit system here, and this is not including the railroads. There are many roundabouts and they are wonderful, you have to slow down but often you can go through it without any stop, and it is an intersection, there are no lights there. Seems intuitive and friendly enough, however in the city core the streets are often so narrow between two very close buildings that you just can't go fast, but you don't expect to. But this would not work for a large city, it would be completely stuck, there are only a few tens of thousands of people living here. It would not work for Toronto for example (which was just named as the city with the worst traffic ever, it takes people more than 80 minutes on average to commute both ways and the public transportation is not growing.)
No no no, if you want people to slow down, you are doing it wrong. You need to get people into public transportation system, then there will be fewer people driving and there would be more space on the road, yes people would go faster, but there would be fewer fatalities still, if fewer people are behind the wheel.
That is really cute. I would just stop caring and go through the red.
is there some reason why a camera cannot be flexible to face whatever direction the user wants?
A rotating camera inside a transparent sphere or maybe a system of mirrors and a software switch between directions?
Not that I care about an iphone or a camera on a mobile, it's just a strange 'improvement'.
Yes, but creating an alternative appealing universe experience takes imagination, ingenuity, creativity, sometimes requires radical approach to ideas and expects thinking outside of the box.
Doing any of that increases the risk that the outcome will not be popular enough and will not succeed in terms of sales, this is serious business and money we are talking about here, what do you think this is, a game?
twice the fun?
Don't worry about it, people with real talent mostly die relatively young.
I use FF and Opera.
I am not a 'NoSQL' proponent in any way, but an RDBMS is not the only way to control ACID properties and to be transactional. I am certain there are databases that are not RDBMS and are transactional and ACID compliant.
RDBMS is mainly about relationships between table columns, foreign references and such.
There was a story on /. about 4chan moving into the 'web2' territory or something, I went to see what the site was about and it is a something of a forum where people are posting images, one of the 'rooms' has rapidshare links on it, it's all rapidshare. I think this is already a business with this service, maybe that's one way 4chan makes money, by providing customers to rapidshare?
If someone can get hurt and even die because of a piece of software can be executed in a way that will cause that, then it is a bug of the most severe kind, no matter how unlikely that situation is.
Will not miss Flash, eventually all of its capabilities will be replaced with open standard / open implementation efforts. Really waiting for that time.
Some of my projects with BellTV were about removing Flash components from the site, everything that was done in Flash was changed to Javascript + DOM manipulation + some images.
Once Youtube is in HTML5, I will never have to use Flash again ever in my life.
Except that Glenn Beck works for Fox, and Fox is the mouthpiece of the Republican party and at this point you actually have to wonder whether Fox exists to push forward Republican agenda or whether Republicans exist to push forward Fox's agenda. It is irrelevant what the laws say, Fox is above all of that.
How do we know there was no excavation of minerals? How do we know that the current state of minerals is not from some ancient culture who dug them up or extracted them somehow?
- simply because we have dug out so much off the easy to access mines almost without digging too much, it is not possible that an advanced civilization capable of global changes would have missed all of these easy to get minerals.
Maybe the oil is the result of their doings? Perhaps they had a culture whose main technology was biology rather then minerals? Maybe the oil deposits are the remnants of their cities.
- we know what oil, gas and coal came from because we find the remains of the ancient animals in it. Unless you are saying that dinosaurs were that advanced civilization, but we know that dinosaurs did not have such a civilization for many reasons. Brains were too small, they were too powerful to need advanced brain functionality to use tools, they were too powerful to need tools to live. If dinosaurs did change the climate around them it was not with a civilization.
Humans are doing quite well at changing the environment with minimal transmutation of heavy metals. Perhaps the uranium we are finding now was not accessible to creature of old, perhaps due to sea levels being different or the minerals being deep underground only to have surfaced in the past million or so years.
- how many thousands of nuclear explosions did we cause so far? How old is old in your estimation? If this 'civilization' existed 3-4 billion years ago (not possible, given the fossil records of the early creatures, they were too primitive at that time) then yes, geology could change, but if we are talking about the last 50-500 million years, then no, you do not have a point. Heavy metals we are extracting today are the result of various volcanic eruptions and magma movement, most of the movement was over by about 1.7 billion years ago, most of the Uranium we find today was deposited to the upper crust by that time.
If all of us were gone tomorrow, a civilization hundreds of millions years from now would notice our shadows at LEAST by a layer of deposits that would have corresponded to the past 100 years of our activity - increase in CO2 + increase in radioactive material in the air causes this material to deposit in ways that it was never deposited before.
We have exhausted the easy to mine sites of metals, heavy metals, coals, natural gas and oil. The easy to get ones are gone. Just 150 years ago, oil was basically sipping through pores of top soil in places like Texas, today, you won't find almost any of that there.
Let's put it this way: Rupert Murdoch is not Grigori Perelman.
Agree / Disagree?
Arguing while 'Anonymous Coward' means you have no argument at all, how about that rhetoric?
China has a growing economy. Bubble is when there is pressure applied forcefully that causes a sector or more than one sector to concentrate resources that in reality will produce no economic outcome and eventually collapse. Bubbles are produced mostly by debt based consumption and money printing.
Growing economy is the kind of economy that produces not the one that consumes. China is a producer first, but now it is also becoming a consumer.
A bubble? Wake me up when they start printing money away, wake me up when their trade balance shifts in favor of other countries.
It did not happen before the way that you are implying.
For a civilization to start creating a change in the global climate, the civilization has to be numerous and it has to possess various technologies.
We would have noticed the following:
1. Previous excavations of various Earth minerals starting with metals: iron, nickel, copper, uranium, gold, cadmium.
2. Previous energy production attempts: the oil would have been much smaller if they were pumped before, we know of the exact mass extinctions and time periods where coal, oil and gas were created. So during those times it would not be possible for such a civilization to exist, because it's nearly impossible to coexist with giant lizards and the lizards wouldn't dominate the planet to deposit all those carcasses that formed the oil, gas and coal stores.
3. Our excavations at various rocky mountain sites would have shown this age and we would have found similar excavations from those past civilizations.
4. Certainly some structures would have been found preserved, some machinery, roads, after all, we find skeletons of dinosaurs, so why not tools of the long gone civilizations?
5. Uranium probably would have been gone as well as some other heavy metals, converted to other forms by those energy users, who would have had to use various types of energy to achieve climate level shifts.
China is in a leading position, but not in the G8 but has UNSC seat, economic power sure, but with problems just like or worse than the US has, but its bubble hasn't burst.
- so you think that China has a bubble economy then? The country where most of the worlds manufacturing capacity is concentrated? The country that is actively buying assets in forms of commodities, lands, mines, all over the world? Country with the fastest growing consumer population?
Wow, I wonder what constitutes a growing success in your book?
On extending the patents from 5 to 12 years:
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/14/us/house-debates-bill-to-extend-drug-patent-term-by-7-years.html
http://www.milliman.com/expertise/healthcare/publications/newsletters/pa/pdfs/president-obama-pharmaceutical-industry-PA-03-31-09.pdf
The actual bill. It is hard to read, but go to the page 1869 and read it. You'll see it. But you can also read around it. Apparently all kinds patents are going to be extended, by half a year here, by seven years there, various interesting stuff.
Also look at Obama killing the bill, that would have allowed cheap drug imports from Canada or other countries.
Dorgan introduced the bill
You will find shadows of this information in the news:
how the White-house killed this bill.
Dorgan had 30 or more Senators supporting this on his side, it still ended up dead.
Obama is nobody to love.
/.'s stuff that matters is also about the matter that stuffs.
This matter we produce, stuffs us, we don't know what to do with it. Futurama of-course tackled this problem, all that is needed is a giant rocket to take every piece of garbage off this rock and dump it into the space. Later, when more garbage is created, all we do is throw the second pile at the first. One of them will fly into the Sun.
On the other hand it looks like soon enough there will be a huge opportunity for new ways of recycling this shit by turning it into energy by applying various types of bacteria that eat it and burp or poop up carbons.
No. I find it rather childish and odd.
- person has everything he needs, he is happy. Is that childish and odd? I wonder, I envy his childish oddity then.
No. But why is he so stand-offish? Why not try to change what you don't like from a position of authority? Perelmen could do it if he wanted to, but it's like he's given up. That's what bothers me.
- and what a waste of time that would be for him. Instead of taking off and going to pick up some mushrooms and prepare a dish, instead of working out details of some math problem you want him to become a social activist? He is happy doing what he is doing. He is happy living the life he is living. He lived in the USA for a year, he was mostly eating rye brad and fermented milk (kefir) and he was wearing the same pants and a jacket. Then he went back to Russia, because he did not fit in.
I doubt it's because he "does not need the crowd". I think perhaps there is something more underlying his entire attitude.
- he specifically said he did not want to be awarded by a group of people who award those, that are not worthy, people who take other people accomplishments and pass them for their own. He specifically said he does not want to deal with the mathematics crowd because it is a corrupt crowd, though he said some people in it are not, but they are complacent.
He does not want to waste his time on people, vast majority of who are the real selfish people.
You call him SELFISH? He solved Poincare, he did not even need to show the solution to anybody, but he did anyway. He taught people an entire multitude of lessons:
1. Poincare.
2. New approach to the solution, his solution used an observation from a physical event this time in math, not the other way around.
3. How to have principles.
You don't understand? Good.
Sure, you are free to do whatever, except here is the difference:
Your whatever means NOTHING.
You did not prove Poincare conjecture, you did not win a million dollars, you also probably did not donate anything much to the children, you love so much.
So whatever, sit in your basement and type away, see if people pay attention to you, you, you.
Ha ha ha ha, you know what, talk to the people who are awarding him the money.
He does not have to do anything, he is not going to do it.
You want 'the starving children' to benefit, go right ahead, talk to those guys who are prepared to give away that million.