Then in Gen 6: "1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
Then after that was the flood and the tower of babel, and the lifespans declined (Gen 11).
Though 120 years was stated to be the max - a number of people in the Bible did live a bit longer than that (even post-Flood).
It is interesting that 120 years appears to still be the current max for modern humans.
BTW you can probably breed for longer lifespan if each generation of creatures were only allowed to reproduce later and later in their life spans. But there could be trade-offs especially if you are not careful and just breed for lifespan.
Maybe you could live to 1000 years with some future tech, but I wonder what the cost would be.
Previously even if you were rich, you'd die not that long after the poorer folk (excluding the really really poor). Whereas, if the tech costs a fair bit, the rich could live to 1000 years, but the poor to 90 max. If you think unbridled capitalism creates imbalances and polarization, this would be even more so.
Also the evil could rule for millenia... Sure the good could too, but what are the odds... AFAIK most of the good people don't really have such a strong drive to _rule_ over their fellow people. Once in a while you do get benevolent dictators, but...
Yeah and Caveman Ogg came up with this idea tens of thousands of years ago. Unfortunately for various reasons it wasn't implemented.
Douglas Engelbart and his team's systems/technologies were way way before their time. Hardly anybody else "got it", or even if they did, they couldn't really make full use of it.
Decades later, people came up with the same ideas but this time the market was ready for their adoption.
Original and interesting ideas are nice, but it can feel like a curse if you have them way too early or lack the resources to implement them.
Forcing people to watch advertisements gets close.
Making laws that forbid skipping of bypassing of ads is evil (there are plenty of better laws to make, and plenty of far crappier laws to repeal- so they should just get on with those).
Oh well, it'll be a shame if Google goes belly up, just because a bunch of people piss on their business model.
If you ask me, I think the NSA or someone like them could sponsor/start an Internet search engine, secretly or otherwise - I'm sure they _could_ do a pretty good job of it. Good way to track people if you ask me, and figure out what the various groups of people are up to and other similar info.
Plus if you do things right you can make money by figuring out what stocks the dumb sheep are going or about to go bullish on and buy em before most of the sheep do.
My guess is PageRank has got less and less effective/useful as an algorithm. More sites are using intra/inter links etc to boost their ranks.
This is not surprising. It shouldn't be too difficult to break PageRank. There's just so much current AI can do. And there're just too many sites for humans to do.
Also, there are tons of blog style sites linking to each other, and there are like web archives of mailing list/usenet sites with tons of self links - these seem to pop up a lot nowadays for my queries.
If the job has far more than 4x the responsibility (if you screw up the consequences are more than 4x worse compared to a 1x job) then being paid 4x isn't such a bad thing. Of course there shouldn't be a linear correlation, but there should be a correlation.
And so 50Hz is not good enough at least for one person.
Because it means having the video at 25Hz could have a 50% chance of not displaying the error at all - the frame just goes undisplayed. Whereas with the video at at least 50Hz he might perhaps notice the error 90% of the time - especially if he's paying attention.
It's probably even uglier if you have the FPS intermodulated with the monitor refresh rate.
So I'd say it'd be best to have the monitor refresh rate as high as possible and the FPS the same or a integer multiple faster than the monitor refresh rate.
I don't know what the upper limit for human eyes is, but it DEFINITELY is much faster than 24Hz or even 50Hz (at least more my eyes).
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HIV isn't very contagious. So what you need is widespread education and then (in general - there'll be exceptions of course) the stupid ones will go kill themselves off. Who knows, the next few generations might even be smarter as a result (or have better self control over their sex drives - which isn't such a bad thing if you ask me). Heck it's probably unlikely the typical Slashdotter would contract HIV;).
I'm more worried about the next killer flu pandemic. Even if the typical slashdotter doesn't leave his basement he could catch it from the pizza delivery boy!:)
We should ban this "shaking hands" custom and switch to the Thai-style hands-together greeting, or the Japanese-style bows.
If you're talking about realism, if you have pretty good body armour, you might actually survive being shot by bullets.
Coz you'd be reasonably fine as long as the bullets don't penetrate your body and cause bleeding. Just some bruising I suppose.
The actual momentum of a bullet fired from a gun isn't very much (otherwise the person shooting the gun will have to deal with a lot of recoil and flying backwards).
But you're definitely going to feel a filing cabinet slamming into you, unless your body armour is one of those mechas... Or that "anti-grizzly" suit that crazy canadian made.
IMO copying could be arguably not theft, but this sure is theft. The real thieves are the ones who keep preventing works from entering the public domain, decade after decade.
It's stealing from the public - the public no longer have full access to the works.
The people involved in supporting and making such laws are the real thieves.
I like taskbar buttons for every window. And I regularly have 20+ of them. Why should I have to click a button, then click another button/tab when I can just directly click one of the 20? I find the grouping buttons together a big annoyance and my colleague seems to agree too - he was happy when I told him you could make WindowsXP do it the old Win2K way - ungrouped.
Just clean up your taskbar - remove those shortcuts AND stretch the taskbar a bit to double the space for more buttons, works fine. Of course you know you have too many windows open when you have to scroll to see the taskbar button you want.
After a certain limit, Windows stops you from opening any new windows. I dunno why it does, but it stops well before 100 windows, even though I have enough RAM.
The attacker takes control of your RC truck, and drives it over to the bomb disposal squad's area and dets the C4 charge.
Bwahahaha..
Not likely of course, but it's always something to consider. If they ever figure out the frequencies you are using they could just blow it up ASAP, which makes it deadlier.
Workaround is to have a mechanism to prevent detonation for at least 1 minute after the unit is deployed, or requiring the unit to be immobile for 1 minute, before the detonation can be triggered (then at least you have 1 minute to destroy/disarm the bot before the attacker detonates it).
I find the following on topic:)
Captain: What happen? Operator: Somebody set up us the bomb. Operator: We get signal. Captain: What! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It's You!! Cats: How are you gentlemen!! Cats: All your base are belong to us. Cats: You are on the way to destruction. Captain: What you say!! Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time. Cats: Ha Ha Ha Ha …. Captain: Take off every "zig." Captain: You know what you doing. Captain: Move "zig". Captain: For great justice.
"Can the employees I pay 40k a year afford to find housing in the area?"
Someone said it'd be USD400K for 900 square feet of residential space. How much would the payments+interest on that be?
What if they live in the office or rent office space to live in? USD0.90 per square foot doesn't sound that bad. 900 square feet = USD810/mth = USD9720/year.
Facilities don't sound bad either - pool, cafe etc.
Well, you better be careful then - maybe you should have posted anonymously and taken the necessary precautions (proxies etc).
After all your country might decide to put you in jail since you are providing information about them just like your fellow countryman who's going to prison for 10 months.
Unless there is PROOF he is supporting those terrorist organizations, I don't see how he deserves to be jailed for 10 months.
If there isn't any evidence, then your government is fascist, and by defending their actions you are supporting them.
Thanks. Is it true that dd on linux doesn't get the last byte in some cases? Was this true at one point? Fixed now? Seen it mentioned somewhere - something to do with odd bytes on some drive sizes?
Do you have any comments/opinions on EnCase? http://www.guidancesoftware.com/
Expensive stuff. Just wondering whether it'd be worth it, and if so, for what situations?
They've got stuff that does hardware write blocking. Using that might look better in court when making copies of evidence. I dunno how well "Your Honour/M'lord, I swear I used knoppix 2 noswap" holds up in court.
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Uh not exactly.
It's more like this (Gen 5).
Then in Gen 6: "1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
Then after that was the flood and the tower of babel, and the lifespans declined (Gen 11).
Though 120 years was stated to be the max - a number of people in the Bible did live a bit longer than that (even post-Flood).
It is interesting that 120 years appears to still be the current max for modern humans.
BTW you can probably breed for longer lifespan if each generation of creatures were only allowed to reproduce later and later in their life spans. But there could be trade-offs especially if you are not careful and just breed for lifespan.
Maybe you could live to 1000 years with some future tech, but I wonder what the cost would be.
Previously even if you were rich, you'd die not that long after the poorer folk (excluding the really really poor). Whereas, if the tech costs a fair bit, the rich could live to 1000 years, but the poor to 90 max. If you think unbridled capitalism creates imbalances and polarization, this would be even more so.
Also the evil could rule for millenia... Sure the good could too, but what are the odds... AFAIK most of the good people don't really have such a strong drive to _rule_ over their fellow people. Once in a while you do get benevolent dictators, but...
Yeah and Caveman Ogg came up with this idea tens of thousands of years ago. Unfortunately for various reasons it wasn't implemented.
Douglas Engelbart and his team's systems/technologies were way way before their time. Hardly anybody else "got it", or even if they did, they couldn't really make full use of it.
Decades later, people came up with the same ideas but this time the market was ready for their adoption.
Original and interesting ideas are nice, but it can feel like a curse if you have them way too early or lack the resources to implement them.
Google does pay some people for some clicks.
But the MAIN problem is if the abuse continues, legit advertisers would stop advertising with Google, and then Google doesn't get money.
Forcing people to watch advertisements gets close.
Making laws that forbid skipping of bypassing of ads is evil (there are plenty of better laws to make, and plenty of far crappier laws to repeal- so they should just get on with those).
Oh well, it'll be a shame if Google goes belly up, just because a bunch of people piss on their business model.
If you ask me, I think the NSA or someone like them could sponsor/start an Internet search engine, secretly or otherwise - I'm sure they _could_ do a pretty good job of it. Good way to track people if you ask me, and figure out what the various groups of people are up to and other similar info.
Plus if you do things right you can make money by figuring out what stocks the dumb sheep are going or about to go bullish on and buy em before most of the sheep do.
I doubt the NSA has a "do no evil" mantra...
I think they can still calculate PageRank.
My guess is PageRank has got less and less effective/useful as an algorithm. More sites are using intra/inter links etc to boost their ranks.
This is not surprising. It shouldn't be too difficult to break PageRank. There's just so much current AI can do. And there're just too many sites for humans to do.
Also, there are tons of blog style sites linking to each other, and there are like web archives of mailing list/usenet sites with tons of self links - these seem to pop up a lot nowadays for my queries.
Yeah, remember to demand a jury of your BT peers :).
Hey is there an equivalent of a Knoppix for little kids?
Don't want it super watered down, but something that doesn't involve too much typing would be good.
4x more? What's wrong with that?
If the job has far more than 4x the responsibility (if you screw up the consequences are more than 4x worse compared to a 1x job) then being paid 4x isn't such a bad thing. Of course there shouldn't be a linear correlation, but there should be a correlation.
And so 50Hz is not good enough at least for one person.
Because it means having the video at 25Hz could have a 50% chance of not displaying the error at all - the frame just goes undisplayed. Whereas with the video at at least 50Hz he might perhaps notice the error 90% of the time - especially if he's paying attention.
It's probably even uglier if you have the FPS intermodulated with the monitor refresh rate.
So I'd say it'd be best to have the monitor refresh rate as high as possible and the FPS the same or a integer multiple faster than the monitor refresh rate.
I don't know what the upper limit for human eyes is, but it DEFINITELY is much faster than 24Hz or even 50Hz (at least more my eyes).
HIV isn't very contagious. So what you need is widespread education and then (in general - there'll be exceptions of course) the stupid ones will go kill themselves off. Who knows, the next few generations might even be smarter as a result (or have better self control over their sex drives - which isn't such a bad thing if you ask me). Heck it's probably unlikely the typical Slashdotter would contract HIV ;).
:)
I'm more worried about the next killer flu pandemic. Even if the typical slashdotter doesn't leave his basement he could catch it from the pizza delivery boy!
We should ban this "shaking hands" custom and switch to the Thai-style hands-together greeting, or the Japanese-style bows.
So it's not only me who noticed that. It looked a bit like "tearing" - picture was flowing down the screen or something like that.
;).
I was going - wow nice res, lighting and texturemaps, pity about the FPS
I doubt our eyes are above average.
If you're talking about realism, if you have pretty good body armour, you might actually survive being shot by bullets.
Coz you'd be reasonably fine as long as the bullets don't penetrate your body and cause bleeding. Just some bruising I suppose.
The actual momentum of a bullet fired from a gun isn't very much (otherwise the person shooting the gun will have to deal with a lot of recoil and flying backwards).
But you're definitely going to feel a filing cabinet slamming into you, unless your body armour is one of those mechas... Or that "anti-grizzly" suit that crazy canadian made.
A beowulf cluster of old people for encoding movies of Natalie Portman (petrified)..
That might be true in the USA. And only since everyone in the US started getting brainwashed by the ??AA. But it's not necessarily true elsewhere.
Why would lakes freezing solid prevent life?
bacteria survive far harsher environments. Thrive even.
Why don't you just make it a fileserver?
If you are getting a cheap mobo, you'd be limited by PCI bandwidth anyway, unless you're serving stuff from RAM.
IMO copying could be arguably not theft, but this sure is theft. The real thieves are the ones who keep preventing works from entering the public domain, decade after decade.
It's stealing from the public - the public no longer have full access to the works.
The people involved in supporting and making such laws are the real thieves.
Just because Lycos does something wrong does not justify them being hacked either.. :)
I like taskbar buttons for every window. And I regularly have 20+ of them. Why should I have to click a button, then click another button/tab when I can just directly click one of the 20? I find the grouping buttons together a big annoyance and my colleague seems to agree too - he was happy when I told him you could make WindowsXP do it the old Win2K way - ungrouped.
:)
Just clean up your taskbar - remove those shortcuts AND stretch the taskbar a bit to double the space for more buttons, works fine. Of course you know you have too many windows open when you have to scroll to see the taskbar button you want.
After a certain limit, Windows stops you from opening any new windows. I dunno why it does, but it stops well before 100 windows, even though I have enough RAM.
Oh well
What's progressive?
There's one potential problem:
:)
The attacker takes control of your RC truck, and drives it over to the bomb disposal squad's area and dets the C4 charge.
Bwahahaha..
Not likely of course, but it's always something to consider. If they ever figure out the frequencies you are using they could just blow it up ASAP, which makes it deadlier.
Workaround is to have a mechanism to prevent detonation for at least 1 minute after the unit is deployed, or requiring the unit to be immobile for 1 minute, before the detonation can be triggered (then at least you have 1 minute to destroy/disarm the bot before the attacker detonates it).
I find the following on topic
Captain: What happen?
Operator: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You!!
Cats: How are you gentlemen!!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say!!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: Ha Ha Ha Ha ….
Captain: Take off every "zig."
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move "zig".
Captain: For great justice.
"Can the employees I pay 40k a year afford to find housing in the area?"
Someone said it'd be USD400K for 900 square feet of residential space. How much would the payments+interest on that be?
What if they live in the office or rent office space to live in? USD0.90 per square foot doesn't sound that bad. 900 square feet = USD810/mth = USD9720/year.
Facilities don't sound bad either - pool, cafe etc.
Well, you better be careful then - maybe you should have posted anonymously and taken the necessary precautions (proxies etc).
After all your country might decide to put you in jail since you are providing information about them just like your fellow countryman who's going to prison for 10 months.
Unless there is PROOF he is supporting those terrorist organizations, I don't see how he deserves to be jailed for 10 months.
If there isn't any evidence, then your government is fascist, and by defending their actions you are supporting them.
Thanks. Is it true that dd on linux doesn't get the last byte in some cases? Was this true at one point? Fixed now? Seen it mentioned somewhere - something to do with odd bytes on some drive sizes?
Do you have any comments/opinions on EnCase? http://www.guidancesoftware.com/
Expensive stuff. Just wondering whether it'd be worth it, and if so, for what situations?
They've got stuff that does hardware write blocking. Using that might look better in court when making copies of evidence. I dunno how well "Your Honour/M'lord, I swear I used knoppix 2 noswap" holds up in court.