Why can't life evolve inside a star? Stars are very big, so if after billions of years, something inside a star reproduces and evolves to become "more fit", would it still be life, even if it is some sort of self-organizing pattern of plasma and electromagnetic fields?
$$$ or not it's still the choice (and responsibility) of the voters.
If you choose to vote for someone because they have a lot of campaign money, that's your choice as a voter. Nobody is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to vote that way.
You think there won't be similar problems if those users were using GNOME/KDE on Linux/BSD?
It'll probably be worse - imagine business apps written by outsourced Indians that would only work on GNOME 2 maybe even only a specific version of the distro, so that you really could not update/upgrade stuff without breaking the apps.
Meanwhile the OSS bunch will be merrily breaking backward compatibility (whether at program or UI level) and saying "with open source you can fix it yourself". The frigging thing they don't seem to get is most people don't want to have to keep fixing or recompiling stuff.
So the OP would just be posting this instead: "the same Desktop Linux machines, year after year, as the problems can't truly be fixed."
You might be able to recover some of the data. You must not make any changes to any of the drives.
If the failure is not bad - you don't hear weird noises from the drive, and you can still read most of the sectors from the drive, then you can make a clone of the drive to a new drive. Then put it into the array and try to copy the most precious stuff to you, especially stuff that cannot be easily recreated again to somewhere else.
If the failure is bad, you may have to spend $$$$ to get help from data recovery experts.
Hope you guys are enjoying the invisible hand of the ingrown corrupt super-capitalist market which you worship. It's more like an invisible phallus raping you in your sleep.
The IT hard drive industry is definitely not the industry that's doing most of the "raping" and profiteering.
Fact is hard drives were a bargain for what you get - a high tech device with powerful rare-earth magnets, high precision moving parts, 7200 rpm platters, store 2TB of data and _typically_ work for 3 years without failing. All for less than USD100. And sometimes with a 3 or even 5 year warranty.
In contrast it's difficult to get a cheap, comfortable, adjustable and long-lasting chair. Despite the fact that we've been making chairs for thousands of years. And it's only in 2006 people actually bothered to find out that sitting up straight is bad for your back: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6187080.stm So what were the chair makers doing all these years?
If the "just-in-time fad" and other similar "fads" made chairs (or other similar stuff- clothes?) cheaper and _better_ year by year, and only more expensive after a once in a 50 year massive flood hits Thailand, I'd be all for it.
Heh, in my opinion having an MCSE counts against you, you'd have to convince me you were forced into getting one by someone else. Worse if you actually paid to sit for it:).
Don't waste time and money on crappy certifications that "anyone" can get. An MCSE is not as bad as a "Doctorate" from one of those online "universities", but it's still crap. Microsoft has better certifications to get.
Cisco too, if you're CCIE it still counts for something.
the old Mac interface was so easy to learn and, for some purposes, to use
The "hold down mouse button" on menu, drag and release on desired menu item, was a pretty crap idea though. I remember seeing many users struggling with that.
Double-clicking is also hard for most people to learn. Steve Jobs/Apple only wanted one mouse button. It's ridiculous to assume people will have difficulty figuring out multiple buttons but not have difficulty figuring out whether to single click, double click, or hold-drag-release. People who drive cars have two or three "buttons" at their feet, so they can certainly learn about buttons. But many people have never learned the differences between single-click and double-click, they double-click for everything, or try various combinations of it, every time.
Most people find it easier to change distros/OSes than it is to figure out how to customize GNOME till it works the way they want.
When the developers keep picking defaults you don't like for most things, you should realize the direction they are heading is not the direction you want to go, and stop wasting your time with their stuff (assuming there are better options:) ).
After all the earth's core might have a really tiny blackhole or more - apparently it's not a foregone conclusion that a mini blackhole will swallow everything in a short time - could actually take billions of years.:)
Using this sort of drugs for space trips is silly. If you want to _stay_ in space, build space stations or space craft that have artificial "gravity", not mess about with crap like this.
Artificial gravity is not an impossible problem - tethers and counterweights, docking at centre of mass. Plenty of options.
The big problem I see is adequate and cost effective radiation shielding. Once you solve radiation shielding and artificial gravity, you no longer need to "rush" to Mars before you rot or get irradiated to death.
If you don't solve these two problems first, trying to go to Mars or having long space trips is like a baby trying to jump before it is able to stand or walk. A waste of time and resources, and a bad idea.
The only place documentation is good, is if it is meaningful, and in the code, where it is readily findable and far less likely to get lost, short of some fool deleting it.
If the organization is that bad that it loses its version control (or doesn't have one), you might consider not having the documentation as comments in the code, but rather as strings (that are not optimized away by the compiler). That way some poor bugger going through the executable years later can read them despite the complete lack of source code.
"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country."
China has too few of those to go to the mat with the USA.
How many cities can the USA afford to be nuked? If drugs, people and other stuff can be smuggled past US borders, I don't see why nukes can't. Of course you'd have to be way more careful since you cannot get caught even once, but given the same sort of resources it takes to build ICBMs, I don't see it impossible to get nukes into a USA that's still trading massive amounts of goods and services with the whole world.
China still needs the USA around, so they are unlikely to nuke the USA first - it's bad for business after all. From the POV of many other countries the USA is more dangerous.
There are also other places outside the USA that if nuked could cause the USA great harm too.
There's a big difference between your deadbeat uncle Sam, and Uncle Sam.
When your deadbeat uncle Sam goes to buy groceries and gas, he has to pay in money that he cannot create.
When the USA buys stuff from the rest of the world, they often only have to pay in US dollars whether it's for toys, petroleum, or CPUs. And they certainly can and have created trillions of US dollars.
Being able to create more US dollars means being able to tax everyone else in the world that holds or is owed net positive amounts of US dollars.
Think of it like Zimbabwe. Mugabe creates Zimbabwe dollars, keeps most/some of it, gives the rest to his cronies and everyone else in Zimbabwe using Zimbabwe dollars becomes poorer.
The big problem for the US people is the Federal Reserve has created trillions of US dollars and only a few got a cut. This means that the US citizens should wake up and realize they are no longer the "cronies" and should consider whether they should continue supporting their Mugabe.
Of course I'm no economist, so I may be wrong about all this fancy financial stuff:).
As for elsewhere, who (other than car collectors like Jay Leno) would buy an Aptera? And why? If I had USD20K to spend on a vehicle I'd certainly buy something else. More range, more seating capacity.
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I think the first problem is to define life :).
Why can't life evolve inside a star? Stars are very big, so if after billions of years, something inside a star reproduces and evolves to become "more fit", would it still be life, even if it is some sort of self-organizing pattern of plasma and electromagnetic fields?
Is Adderall a good substitute for cocaine? It might be for speed but cocaine?
$$$ or not it's still the choice (and responsibility) of the voters.
If you choose to vote for someone because they have a lot of campaign money, that's your choice as a voter. Nobody is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to vote that way.
You think there won't be similar problems if those users were using GNOME/KDE on Linux/BSD?
It'll probably be worse - imagine business apps written by outsourced Indians that would only work on GNOME 2 maybe even only a specific version of the distro, so that you really could not update/upgrade stuff without breaking the apps.
Meanwhile the OSS bunch will be merrily breaking backward compatibility (whether at program or UI level) and saying "with open source you can fix it yourself". The frigging thing they don't seem to get is most people don't want to have to keep fixing or recompiling stuff.
So the OP would just be posting this instead: "the same Desktop Linux machines, year after year, as the problems can't truly be fixed."
You might be able to recover some of the data. You must not make any changes to any of the drives.
If the failure is not bad - you don't hear weird noises from the drive, and you can still read most of the sectors from the drive, then you can make a clone of the drive to a new drive. Then put it into the array and try to copy the most precious stuff to you, especially stuff that cannot be easily recreated again to somewhere else.
If the failure is bad, you may have to spend $$$$ to get help from data recovery experts.
Hope you guys are enjoying the invisible hand of the ingrown corrupt super-capitalist market which you worship. It's more like an invisible phallus raping you in your sleep.
The IT hard drive industry is definitely not the industry that's doing most of the "raping" and profiteering.
Fact is hard drives were a bargain for what you get - a high tech device with powerful rare-earth magnets, high precision moving parts, 7200 rpm platters, store 2TB of data and _typically_ work for 3 years without failing. All for less than USD100. And sometimes with a 3 or even 5 year warranty.
In contrast it's difficult to get a cheap, comfortable, adjustable and long-lasting chair. Despite the fact that we've been making chairs for thousands of years. And it's only in 2006 people actually bothered to find out that sitting up straight is bad for your back: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6187080.stm
So what were the chair makers doing all these years?
If the "just-in-time fad" and other similar "fads" made chairs (or other similar stuff- clothes?) cheaper and _better_ year by year, and only more expensive after a once in a 50 year massive flood hits Thailand, I'd be all for it.
Heh, in my opinion having an MCSE counts against you, you'd have to convince me you were forced into getting one by someone else. Worse if you actually paid to sit for it :).
Don't waste time and money on crappy certifications that "anyone" can get. An MCSE is not as bad as a "Doctorate" from one of those online "universities", but it's still crap. Microsoft has better certifications to get.
Cisco too, if you're CCIE it still counts for something.
The trouble is the ones doing the most strangling[1] are usually the next king or priest ;).
It is better to have leaders selected by "most votes", than "most firepower".
[1] With or without entrails.
the old Mac interface was so easy to learn and, for some purposes, to use
The "hold down mouse button" on menu, drag and release on desired menu item, was a pretty crap idea though. I remember seeing many users struggling with that.
Double-clicking is also hard for most people to learn. Steve Jobs/Apple only wanted one mouse button. It's ridiculous to assume people will have difficulty figuring out multiple buttons but not have difficulty figuring out whether to single click, double click, or hold-drag-release. People who drive cars have two or three "buttons" at their feet, so they can certainly learn about buttons. But many people have never learned the differences between single-click and double-click, they double-click for everything, or try various combinations of it, every time.
Most people find it easier to change distros/OSes than it is to figure out how to customize GNOME till it works the way they want.
:) ).
When the developers keep picking defaults you don't like for most things, you should realize the direction they are heading is not the direction you want to go, and stop wasting your time with their stuff (assuming there are better options
Can you provide an example of what you mean by that?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111025122615.htm
Does not the Earth also experience gravity in primarily one direction?
The physical model will have its weight pulling in one direction. The real (and simulated) core won't since it's in the center.
Yep.
:)
After all the earth's core might have a really tiny blackhole or more - apparently it's not a foregone conclusion that a mini blackhole will swallow everything in a short time - could actually take billions of years.
I believe the physical model will experience gravity in one direction, whereas the simulated model doesn't have to?
China?
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/designer-replica-handbags.html
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/quality-replica-handbags.html
Using this sort of drugs for space trips is silly. If you want to _stay_ in space, build space stations or space craft that have artificial "gravity", not mess about with crap like this.
Artificial gravity is not an impossible problem - tethers and counterweights, docking at centre of mass. Plenty of options.
The big problem I see is adequate and cost effective radiation shielding. Once you solve radiation shielding and artificial gravity, you no longer need to "rush" to Mars before you rot or get irradiated to death.
If you don't solve these two problems first, trying to go to Mars or having long space trips is like a baby trying to jump before it is able to stand or walk. A waste of time and resources, and a bad idea.
Maybe some companies need a Historian or two.
;).
An important task for Historians is to regularly remind the bosses what Historians are for so they don't get sacked
The only place documentation is good, is if it is meaningful, and in the code, where it is readily findable and far less likely to get lost, short of some fool deleting it.
If the organization is that bad that it loses its version control (or doesn't have one), you might consider not having the documentation as comments in the code, but rather as strings (that are not optimized away by the compiler). That way some poor bugger going through the executable years later can read them despite the complete lack of source code.
I'm kidding of course. ;)
See also:
"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country."
From the movie Patton.
China has too few of those to go to the mat with the USA.
How many cities can the USA afford to be nuked? If drugs, people and other stuff can be smuggled past US borders, I don't see why nukes can't. Of course you'd have to be way more careful since you cannot get caught even once, but given the same sort of resources it takes to build ICBMs, I don't see it impossible to get nukes into a USA that's still trading massive amounts of goods and services with the whole world.
China still needs the USA around, so they are unlikely to nuke the USA first - it's bad for business after all. From the POV of many other countries the USA is more dangerous.
There are also other places outside the USA that if nuked could cause the USA great harm too.
Iran coughs it up to a recognized 3rd party, like the UN for example
If I were them I'd sell it to China.
There's a big difference between your deadbeat uncle Sam, and Uncle Sam.
:).
When your deadbeat uncle Sam goes to buy groceries and gas, he has to pay in money that he cannot create.
When the USA buys stuff from the rest of the world, they often only have to pay in US dollars whether it's for toys, petroleum, or CPUs. And they certainly can and have created trillions of US dollars.
Being able to create more US dollars means being able to tax everyone else in the world that holds or is owed net positive amounts of US dollars.
Think of it like Zimbabwe. Mugabe creates Zimbabwe dollars, keeps most/some of it, gives the rest to his cronies and everyone else in Zimbabwe using Zimbabwe dollars becomes poorer.
The big problem for the US people is the Federal Reserve has created trillions of US dollars and only a few got a cut. This means that the US citizens should wake up and realize they are no longer the "cronies" and should consider whether they should continue supporting their Mugabe.
Of course I'm no economist, so I may be wrong about all this fancy financial stuff
I doubt anyone in China who wants a car would buy the Aptera. This is what they buy:
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/01/chinas-best-selling-cars-of-2010/
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1909818,00.html
As for elsewhere, who (other than car collectors like Jay Leno) would buy an Aptera? And why? If I had USD20K to spend on a vehicle I'd certainly buy something else. More range, more seating capacity.
If I was rich and was going to buy an electric vehicle just for "cool factor", I'd buy something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5xf1zWSuWc :)
The Chinese use electric powered bikes. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1904334,00.html
I doubt they'd spend tens of kilobux they don't have on an electric powered trike