Dual booting isn't that easy. Personally I don't reboot more than every month or two because I don't like having to go through making sure everything is saved in the programs that won't fully restore, and then waste a few more minutes waiting for the reboot process to finish and opening up whichever items again and entering my password a few times for things. Rebooting is simply unpleasant. And when you dual boot, you suddenly remember something you wanted to do in the other OS. That's why I've only booted to my Windows partition once. (Virtualization would be more palatable but I don't have a real purpose for Windows so haven't bothered yet. And for games virtualization would be bad.)
I seriously doubt that the Universe has multiple personalities asking the same question.
Good point, it would be absurd for more than one intelligent being to exist. I exist, therefore you don't. Nor are there any other kinds of intelligences on Earth like dolphins or birds or elephants, nor do any of the googols of habitable planets out there have any kind of intelligent life on them.
The big difference is that anything sent by aliens would be meant for us to understand. The problem with ancient human languages is we only have fragments and they weren't talking to us so they didn't try to leave us any clues. Also all we have is written words of ancient humans, whereas aliens would likely send us video, which makes the rest of the learning pretty easy (once you figure out how they encoded the video, which they will attempt to convey).
I'd suppose they're tracking whether there's network connectivity during the installation process (to make decisions about building options that require it), which can be remembered and reported later on once connectivity has been established hours or days later. Also the type of connectivity (wired vs. wifi vs. cellular) could be relevant.
That's why, according to wikipedia, "it will be linked to flat user terminals the size of a pizza box, which will have phased array antennas and track the satellites." And there are also ground stations involved.
Project Loon was intended as a semi-charitable venture. Any purely commercial project like SpaceX's will be sure to cover the countries where the money is, like the USA. There's zero chance that the USA will not have access to this. And there's zero chance of it being priced like a Tesla, because there's obviously zero market for satellite internet that's more expensive than existing geostationary satellite internet. Also the whole design of the system is meant to make it cheaper than current satellite internet, for the purpose of competing with wired internet providers.
The FCC, despite their bias, cannot and does not simply reject projects with no reason.
I've been using synaptic with kubuntu for many years, it's my primary package manager. Installation of it went quick on my slow connection when I set up my new PC a couple months ago, so it can't have many dependencies.
I liked kmail for a while, until it went insane and eventually broke irrecoverably in progressive updates. Went back to Thunderbird because Thunderbird is reliably static. In other words, I use Thunderbird because it's abandoned. Please don't revive it, that'll lead to a strong chance of it being ruined, and email is too important to risk.
I can't help noticing that these are nearly all the same things that have been popular for a decade or more. How many differences are there from the 2008 survey, if there was a 2008 survey?
Seems like a better way to prevent abuse of sick days would be to let people cash out unused sick days at the end of each year for equivalent days of pay.
If the mob pays you $83,000 to run messages about planned robberies and murders between people, then yes you will be arrested for your mere mentions of the crimes.
Clearly making money off of the illegal thing is enough. Courts are allowed to employ the common sense eyeball test, obfuscations don't get you out of trouble.
Spectre and Meldown essentially make existing vulnerabilities more dangerous. If you run into a javascript exploit -- any past or future javascript exploit that your web browser hasn't patched -- then this allows the exploit to potentially own your whole system instead of just the browser or just the browser's sandbox for that tab. If your browser has no javascript vulnerabilities then it's not in danger... but of course it's inevitable that there will be more javascript vulnerabilities discovered in the future.
Even if you won't be paying, you'll spend the rest of your life being hounded by the debt you can't pay or at least a few years dealing with bankruptcy troubles. At any rate, suicidal people aren't usually in the most rational frame of mind and will tend not to choose an option so expensive that it appears to remove any hope for their financial future. They'll see it simply as another reason to give up on the future and escape life.
You have a partially valid point about American insurance, but you miss the complications of applying (there are plenty of people who qualify for medicaid but don't have it because they haven't been sick yet and can't be bothered). And you miss the middle class and the wealthy -- some people have plenty of money, but still choose not to seek treatment because they don't want to spend money (and many die because of that).
However, your belief that therapy is all useless story time is grossly ignorant. It is in fact the best treatment we have for suicidal depression. Drugs are usually useless unless accompanied by therapy.
PS. Euthanasia is legal in our country. But I guess people just want to avoid the red tape.
I don't think there's any country where euthanasia is legal as a treatment for mental illness -- only for physical illness, usually only the terminal kind.
The problem is that we're a measured society. Media outlets know exactly how much more money they'll make by publicizing salacious details that may be harmful, which makes it very hard for them to resist doing so.
As a practical matter, ALL operating systems (including Linux) ordinarily need to connect to the internet during boot.
I have a Linux (kubuntu) machine in the other room that has no internet access. It boots and does everything else just fine. It doesn't get security updates, but who needs those when not exposed to the internet?
Colonizing Mars could potentially do a lot of good for people living on Earth. What better way to learn how to manipulate the environment and test geoengineering techniques than on a barren planet where you can't do any harm? Even if there's nothing of that sort, a Mars colony is certain to teach us a lot about living with limited resources and should lead to more inventions than the moon missions.
You're vastly understanding things. Saturn V was about $1.2B per launch in actual costs (or $2B with an Apollo capsule). Falcon Heavy is $90M per launch in retail price (presumably cheaper in actual cost to SpaceX). You could launch 13 Falcon Heavy missions for the price of one Saturn V -- and 11 or 12 for the price of one launch of the in-development SLS, if it ever gets built.
Space Shuttle booster recovery was about recovering scrap metal. It's not remotely comparable to recovering something that you could (if you wanted to) refuel and send back upward in 10 minutes.
The re-usability of the Dragon spacecraft, on the other hand, is much less novel.
That kind of coverage makes a mockery of Science and insults anyone involved in the flight. Since when does vibration knock out video for minutes?
Since they started landing rockets on barges. It has happened many, many times before on Falcon 9 landings. Turns out connectivity in the middle of the ocean is flaky. At any rate, what makes a mockery of science is shooting off your mouth with conspiracy ramblings anytime you don't understand something and haven't bothered to take a minute to look it up despite living in the 21st century with the internet in your pocket.
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Dual booting isn't that easy. Personally I don't reboot more than every month or two because I don't like having to go through making sure everything is saved in the programs that won't fully restore, and then waste a few more minutes waiting for the reboot process to finish and opening up whichever items again and entering my password a few times for things. Rebooting is simply unpleasant. And when you dual boot, you suddenly remember something you wanted to do in the other OS. That's why I've only booted to my Windows partition once. (Virtualization would be more palatable but I don't have a real purpose for Windows so haven't bothered yet. And for games virtualization would be bad.)
Good point, it would be absurd for more than one intelligent being to exist. I exist, therefore you don't. Nor are there any other kinds of intelligences on Earth like dolphins or birds or elephants, nor do any of the googols of habitable planets out there have any kind of intelligent life on them.
The big difference is that anything sent by aliens would be meant for us to understand. The problem with ancient human languages is we only have fragments and they weren't talking to us so they didn't try to leave us any clues. Also all we have is written words of ancient humans, whereas aliens would likely send us video, which makes the rest of the learning pretty easy (once you figure out how they encoded the video, which they will attempt to convey).
I'd suppose they're tracking whether there's network connectivity during the installation process (to make decisions about building options that require it), which can be remembered and reported later on once connectivity has been established hours or days later. Also the type of connectivity (wired vs. wifi vs. cellular) could be relevant.
That's why, according to wikipedia, "it will be linked to flat user terminals the size of a pizza box, which will have phased array antennas and track the satellites." And there are also ground stations involved.
Project Loon was intended as a semi-charitable venture. Any purely commercial project like SpaceX's will be sure to cover the countries where the money is, like the USA. There's zero chance that the USA will not have access to this. And there's zero chance of it being priced like a Tesla, because there's obviously zero market for satellite internet that's more expensive than existing geostationary satellite internet. Also the whole design of the system is meant to make it cheaper than current satellite internet, for the purpose of competing with wired internet providers.
The FCC, despite their bias, cannot and does not simply reject projects with no reason.
It runs great on my 6 year old low-end PC. Are you trying to install KDE on a 386?
I've been using synaptic with kubuntu for many years, it's my primary package manager. Installation of it went quick on my slow connection when I set up my new PC a couple months ago, so it can't have many dependencies.
I liked kmail for a while, until it went insane and eventually broke irrecoverably in progressive updates. Went back to Thunderbird because Thunderbird is reliably static. In other words, I use Thunderbird because it's abandoned. Please don't revive it, that'll lead to a strong chance of it being ruined, and email is too important to risk.
I can't help noticing that these are nearly all the same things that have been popular for a decade or more. How many differences are there from the 2008 survey, if there was a 2008 survey?
Seems like a better way to prevent abuse of sick days would be to let people cash out unused sick days at the end of each year for equivalent days of pay.
If the mob pays you $83,000 to run messages about planned robberies and murders between people, then yes you will be arrested for your mere mentions of the crimes.
Clearly making money off of the illegal thing is enough. Courts are allowed to employ the common sense eyeball test, obfuscations don't get you out of trouble.
Spectre and Meldown essentially make existing vulnerabilities more dangerous. If you run into a javascript exploit -- any past or future javascript exploit that your web browser hasn't patched -- then this allows the exploit to potentially own your whole system instead of just the browser or just the browser's sandbox for that tab. If your browser has no javascript vulnerabilities then it's not in danger... but of course it's inevitable that there will be more javascript vulnerabilities discovered in the future.
Even if you won't be paying, you'll spend the rest of your life being hounded by the debt you can't pay or at least a few years dealing with bankruptcy troubles. At any rate, suicidal people aren't usually in the most rational frame of mind and will tend not to choose an option so expensive that it appears to remove any hope for their financial future. They'll see it simply as another reason to give up on the future and escape life.
You have a partially valid point about American insurance, but you miss the complications of applying (there are plenty of people who qualify for medicaid but don't have it because they haven't been sick yet and can't be bothered). And you miss the middle class and the wealthy -- some people have plenty of money, but still choose not to seek treatment because they don't want to spend money (and many die because of that).
However, your belief that therapy is all useless story time is grossly ignorant. It is in fact the best treatment we have for suicidal depression. Drugs are usually useless unless accompanied by therapy.
I don't think there's any country where euthanasia is legal as a treatment for mental illness -- only for physical illness, usually only the terminal kind.
The problem is that we're a measured society. Media outlets know exactly how much more money they'll make by publicizing salacious details that may be harmful, which makes it very hard for them to resist doing so.
I have a Linux (kubuntu) machine in the other room that has no internet access. It boots and does everything else just fine. It doesn't get security updates, but who needs those when not exposed to the internet?
Colonizing Mars could potentially do a lot of good for people living on Earth. What better way to learn how to manipulate the environment and test geoengineering techniques than on a barren planet where you can't do any harm? Even if there's nothing of that sort, a Mars colony is certain to teach us a lot about living with limited resources and should lead to more inventions than the moon missions.
You're vastly understanding things. Saturn V was about $1.2B per launch in actual costs (or $2B with an Apollo capsule). Falcon Heavy is $90M per launch in retail price (presumably cheaper in actual cost to SpaceX). You could launch 13 Falcon Heavy missions for the price of one Saturn V -- and 11 or 12 for the price of one launch of the in-development SLS, if it ever gets built.
Space Shuttle booster recovery was about recovering scrap metal. It's not remotely comparable to recovering something that you could (if you wanted to) refuel and send back upward in 10 minutes.
The re-usability of the Dragon spacecraft, on the other hand, is much less novel.
Since they started landing rockets on barges. It has happened many, many times before on Falcon 9 landings. Turns out connectivity in the middle of the ocean is flaky. At any rate, what makes a mockery of science is shooting off your mouth with conspiracy ramblings anytime you don't understand something and haven't bothered to take a minute to look it up despite living in the 21st century with the internet in your pocket.
The existence of the AC's mind is purely theoretical and highly doubtful.
Your friend wrote last.fm?