It's not crash prevention so much, although that would be nice. What I want is proper memory management of tabs. It's very silly for a browser to slowly drift towards being an operating system in its own right and re-implementing things that are incredibly well refined in the kernel. Firefox's memory management got a lot better in version 3 but it is still far from good, let alone perfect.
Thus causing massive confusion for people who had no indication that their password has been changed from what they typed. You can't also trim the string a user is remembering.
You joke about it, but I would dearly love to see the projects merged somehow. When I started using the Chrome beta a few days after it was announced I started compiling a list in my head of features that would need to be added before I would be happy using it instead of firefox. Skins, about:config, adblocking, generic addons preferably similar in implementation to firefox so that existing ones can be converted... After a while contemplating the list, I realised that it would be a lot simpler just to say that I wanted firefox with the seperated thread handling.
They won't. If they are releasing a tool to turn steam format encrypted games into freely usable games, you can just copy the freely usable end product. If the Steam business model fails so thoroughly that they can't even afford to keep their main moneymaking servers around, piracy is the least of their problems.
I'm not concerned about the safety of my games in the event that the company implodes, what I worry about is the drift of their old games into being abandonware. I've long been hoping that the original half life would eventually become a free download on steam. There's no sign of it happening yet.
Anybody trying to run a second hand shuttle would probably be told that it had to be recertified safe for human use. I can't say for sure, but I bet there's a rule somewhere for precisely this that allows man-rating to be removed if maintanence, storage environment, launch facilities, booster refitting... etc. are changed.
Refuelling the shuttle isn't as simple as just hooking up the cryotanks and shoving a load of liquid hydrogen into it, the solid fuel boosters are incredibly complicated despite being overgrown fireworks. Half of the vehicle needs to be rebuilt almost from scratch after each flight.
Are those US statistics? I can believe it would be true there because the states have drifted into a situation where no force on Earth could get rid of the arms black market and so many people are armed that criminals are forced to be so that they are on an equal footing. Neither of those things are universally true for other countries.
I would really like to see (preferably from a safe distance) that approach tried in a large city, but only because years of action films have desensetised me to violence and I think it would be hilarious.
Can you really not see possibilities for resolving corporate censorship that don't involve murder? Public ridicule via channels they don't control, for example. Public image is important to companies. If you choose to go through the legal route and fail in court, that's not the end of it. If the law is against you, campaign to get the law changed.
If you shoot somebody without having overwhelming popular support for your actions, you'll only make things worse and get locked up. If you do happen to have overwhelming popular support, you don't need violence anyway.
The most important result we've got from it so far is practical experience in keeping people alive in a closed microgravity environment in the long term. That's not enough to justify the cost, but it shouldn't be forgotten.
I'm also hopeful that the talk of an orbit change for it towards the end of the construction phase turn out to be true. One of the major reasons why it's just a science platform rather than the practical orbital staging area for more ambitious projects that sci-fi always told us space stations would be is its silly orbit. It's very low and at a high inclination, partly so that Soyuz flights can reach it, which makes it useless for holding components of multi-launch assembled-in-space missions. To go from the ISS's current orbit to a transfer orbit to any of the fun places in the solar system would take a significant fraction of the fuel needed to launch in the first place.
I can't find a freely available reference. The abstract of this one demonstrates the principle though article
The reason why nobody will fake a result is because light measurement experiments are far too easy to replicate with cheap equipment. Being caught would be a near certainty.
"My opinion: even if this is bullshit, every good lie has a kernel of truth in it."
The only thing with even a ghost of truth in that is that you can measure the sun's contribution to global warming by looking at temperatures and/or reflected light from other worlds. This has been done. The sun's output is very close to constant.
My thought as I watched it was that they had taken a good but lengthy film and then edited it to remove absolutely every single frame that wasn't delivering the efficiency quota of units of awesome/time. A film needs some connecting material, you can't just skip directly to the good bits of every scene because if you try nobody has time to appreciate that they are the good bits.
Vague guesswork and wikipedia backed up with a previous knowledge of the right order of magnitude. The article on the sun claims that within one billion years Earth will be too hot for liquid water to exist on the surface. I am assuming that halfway there is going to be too hot for current slow evolving macroscopic life to do anything exciting like learning tool use.
It depends how bad the disaster is. For a more optimistic example, you could say that if the human race had become extinct two million years ago then not much would have changed because Neanderthals would have taken our place almost seamlessly.
Depending on how you want to define complexity, it took between one and two billion years to go from complex multicellular life to an intelligent species. Even if we assume you need a fairly high power metabolism for it, there have certainly been plenty of candidates for technological intelligence over the last 300 million years, but only one species actually managed it. Given that we've got about 500 million years of useful life left in this planet, the chances of another civilisation rising on Earth before the sun swells up and kills us is pretty slim.
You can leave the radiation in the picture. Australia is the most active Uranium mining country in the world, and early British nuclear weaponry was tested there.
Most of the drug treatments seemed like a viable strategy at one point. HIV mutates extremely rapidly though, and it seems able to bypass almost anything we can throw at it. If the new types of drugs can reduce the virus's ability to replicate effectively enough that it doesn't get an opportunity evolve a way round then in theory it could work. The problem with that is that you would need to administer the drug reliably on schedule for every infected person all the time and that doesn't happen. The treatments are expensive, and even worse, enough people see HIV/AIDS as some sort of punishment for promiscuity that some people are denied treatments intermittently because people don't feel comfortable giving it to them.
That's how some of the new drug treatments for HIV work. The article mentions them. Are you suggesting a form of genetic treatment where you don't remove the surface protein from existing cells but add more cells that produce blocking drugs?
Unfortunately all that monitoring software can do is make a guess and then ask the user whether something should be allowed. The click-happy average user is even easier to fool than software.
There's no way around it, if you want complete confidence in the security of your system, you have to understand what everything running on it should or should not be doing. A security product based on whitelists of known software would be interesting and probably quite effective, but I suspect not very popular.
How much memory do you have? I've mostly seen X crash while something is hogging all the memory and paging is slowing everything down. It's not common even with limited memory, but it does happen.
You don't need to store everything to allow historians in the far future to understand us, nor even any deliberate attempt to store a representative sample. However tiny a fraction of the data we currently consider to be useless survives, it will still be a vast amount, easily enough to fill in gaps in what you might call the official record of stuff we recognise today as being valuable.
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It's not crash prevention so much, although that would be nice. What I want is proper memory management of tabs. It's very silly for a browser to slowly drift towards being an operating system in its own right and re-implementing things that are incredibly well refined in the kernel. Firefox's memory management got a lot better in version 3 but it is still far from good, let alone perfect.
Thus causing massive confusion for people who had no indication that their password has been changed from what they typed. You can't also trim the string a user is remembering.
You joke about it, but I would dearly love to see the projects merged somehow. When I started using the Chrome beta a few days after it was announced I started compiling a list in my head of features that would need to be added before I would be happy using it instead of firefox. Skins, about:config, adblocking, generic addons preferably similar in implementation to firefox so that existing ones can be converted... After a while contemplating the list, I realised that it would be a lot simpler just to say that I wanted firefox with the seperated thread handling.
They won't. If they are releasing a tool to turn steam format encrypted games into freely usable games, you can just copy the freely usable end product. If the Steam business model fails so thoroughly that they can't even afford to keep their main moneymaking servers around, piracy is the least of their problems.
I'm not concerned about the safety of my games in the event that the company implodes, what I worry about is the drift of their old games into being abandonware. I've long been hoping that the original half life would eventually become a free download on steam. There's no sign of it happening yet.
Anybody trying to run a second hand shuttle would probably be told that it had to be recertified safe for human use. I can't say for sure, but I bet there's a rule somewhere for precisely this that allows man-rating to be removed if maintanence, storage environment, launch facilities, booster refitting... etc. are changed.
Refuelling the shuttle isn't as simple as just hooking up the cryotanks and shoving a load of liquid hydrogen into it, the solid fuel boosters are incredibly complicated despite being overgrown fireworks. Half of the vehicle needs to be rebuilt almost from scratch after each flight.
Are those US statistics? I can believe it would be true there because the states have drifted into a situation where no force on Earth could get rid of the arms black market and so many people are armed that criminals are forced to be so that they are on an equal footing. Neither of those things are universally true for other countries.
I would really like to see (preferably from a safe distance) that approach tried in a large city, but only because years of action films have desensetised me to violence and I think it would be hilarious.
Can you really not see possibilities for resolving corporate censorship that don't involve murder? Public ridicule via channels they don't control, for example. Public image is important to companies. If you choose to go through the legal route and fail in court, that's not the end of it. If the law is against you, campaign to get the law changed.
If you shoot somebody without having overwhelming popular support for your actions, you'll only make things worse and get locked up. If you do happen to have overwhelming popular support, you don't need violence anyway.
There do exist forms of justice more subtle than the lynch mob.
The most important result we've got from it so far is practical experience in keeping people alive in a closed microgravity environment in the long term. That's not enough to justify the cost, but it shouldn't be forgotten.
I'm also hopeful that the talk of an orbit change for it towards the end of the construction phase turn out to be true. One of the major reasons why it's just a science platform rather than the practical orbital staging area for more ambitious projects that sci-fi always told us space stations would be is its silly orbit. It's very low and at a high inclination, partly so that Soyuz flights can reach it, which makes it useless for holding components of multi-launch assembled-in-space missions. To go from the ISS's current orbit to a transfer orbit to any of the fun places in the solar system would take a significant fraction of the fuel needed to launch in the first place.
I can't find a freely available reference. The abstract of this one demonstrates the principle though article
The reason why nobody will fake a result is because light measurement experiments are far too easy to replicate with cheap equipment. Being caught would be a near certainty.
"My opinion: even if this is bullshit, every good lie has a kernel of truth in it." The only thing with even a ghost of truth in that is that you can measure the sun's contribution to global warming by looking at temperatures and/or reflected light from other worlds. This has been done. The sun's output is very close to constant.
My thought as I watched it was that they had taken a good but lengthy film and then edited it to remove absolutely every single frame that wasn't delivering the efficiency quota of units of awesome/time. A film needs some connecting material, you can't just skip directly to the good bits of every scene because if you try nobody has time to appreciate that they are the good bits.
You must have missed the memo. The new term is "nuked the fridge".
Vague guesswork and wikipedia backed up with a previous knowledge of the right order of magnitude. The article on the sun claims that within one billion years Earth will be too hot for liquid water to exist on the surface. I am assuming that halfway there is going to be too hot for current slow evolving macroscopic life to do anything exciting like learning tool use.
It depends how bad the disaster is. For a more optimistic example, you could say that if the human race had become extinct two million years ago then not much would have changed because Neanderthals would have taken our place almost seamlessly.
Depending on how you want to define complexity, it took between one and two billion years to go from complex multicellular life to an intelligent species. Even if we assume you need a fairly high power metabolism for it, there have certainly been plenty of candidates for technological intelligence over the last 300 million years, but only one species actually managed it. Given that we've got about 500 million years of useful life left in this planet, the chances of another civilisation rising on Earth before the sun swells up and kills us is pretty slim.
You can leave the radiation in the picture. Australia is the most active Uranium mining country in the world, and early British nuclear weaponry was tested there.
Most of the drug treatments seemed like a viable strategy at one point. HIV mutates extremely rapidly though, and it seems able to bypass almost anything we can throw at it. If the new types of drugs can reduce the virus's ability to replicate effectively enough that it doesn't get an opportunity evolve a way round then in theory it could work. The problem with that is that you would need to administer the drug reliably on schedule for every infected person all the time and that doesn't happen. The treatments are expensive, and even worse, enough people see HIV/AIDS as some sort of punishment for promiscuity that some people are denied treatments intermittently because people don't feel comfortable giving it to them.
That's how some of the new drug treatments for HIV work. The article mentions them. Are you suggesting a form of genetic treatment where you don't remove the surface protein from existing cells but add more cells that produce blocking drugs?
Unfortunately all that monitoring software can do is make a guess and then ask the user whether something should be allowed. The click-happy average user is even easier to fool than software. There's no way around it, if you want complete confidence in the security of your system, you have to understand what everything running on it should or should not be doing. A security product based on whitelists of known software would be interesting and probably quite effective, but I suspect not very popular.
How much memory do you have? I've mostly seen X crash while something is hogging all the memory and paging is slowing everything down. It's not common even with limited memory, but it does happen.
If banks had to hand out a copy of their vault and it's contents to all their customers, they would be very silly to use them.
Construction of the rustbelt is far ahead of schedule then. They've made incredible progress.
You don't need to store everything to allow historians in the far future to understand us, nor even any deliberate attempt to store a representative sample. However tiny a fraction of the data we currently consider to be useless survives, it will still be a vast amount, easily enough to fill in gaps in what you might call the official record of stuff we recognise today as being valuable.