Last November people said: I'm voting for Obama because he's anti-war and wants to see peace!
A key insight: when Americans say they are anti-war, they mean they don't want to see American soldiers coming home in body bags.
Regarding deaths of anonymous foreigners, the bar is set quite a bit lower. The difference between Bush and Obama is that Bush sent thousands of US soldiers overseas, and Obama (so far) has not.
Not being familiar with the Amiga OS at all, could you explain what made it so good?
It had extremely efficient and lightweight pre-emptive multitasking, such that multiple programs could run simultaneously and respond to the user very quickly even on very modest hardware (e.g. 7MHz 68000 CPU, 512KB RAM).
The downside of that was that there was no memory protection -- all programs ran in the same memory space. While that made efficient data sharing trivial (any program could just get a pointer to any system data it needed to access, and read it), it also made things very insecure -- one buggy program could (and often did) crash the entire OS.
Is there anything about it that is better than what we have today?
For today's users, no. Given today's vastly more powerful hardware, modern OS's do a better job of meeting the user's needs, especially in the aspects of stability and security. (OTOH if you for some reason needed an embedded OS to run a snappy GUI on a very lightweight CPU, AmigaOS wouldn't be a bad way to go, if it had the appropriate hardware support)
Already done. Search slashdot for it. It'll be used to power small implants and uses sugar from the blood.
That's somewhat useful, but what we Americans really need is a device that runs on the energy stored in body fat. People could connect their home gaming rig to their beer belly's AC socket, and emerge at the end of their 8-hour Skyrim session significantly slimmer than when they started.
This Liu Yang is surely a good astronaut, but as the news about this launch is more than half about having a woman on boars, makes me wonder what the real reason is to chose her over one of the other candidates they have.
This is one of the burdens pioneering women have placed on them: people are always second-guessing them, wondering whether they got their position on the merits or if are being given special treatment because they are women. Minorities often get a similar response ("oh s/he only got the job because of affirmative action"). Hence the saying "you've got to be at least twice as good as anyone else to be accepted as equal".
But expensive to buy for sure. And will only be slightly cheaper when the next superior tech is at the door. Rinse and repeat...
Well, yes, that's how capitalism works. Someone invents something useful, and then they try to maximize the profit from their labor by selling it for as much as the market will bear. Eventually the price comes down due to competition. You can either pay top dollar for the new hotness now, or wait a while for the price to come down, your choice.
It's a feature. Note that you can buy a $99 LCD display at Walmart today that performs better in all respects than the $9,000 LCD display of the same size you could buy in 1995.
Doesn't work for me without an explanation of what happened to all the equal and opposite.
Obvious fix for the movie: the gun shoots a projectile in the opposite direction simultaneously. (it might make the device difficult to operate safely, but then that was already the case and it didn't stop anybody...;))
Then it wouldn't matter how fast or slow the hard drive is, because there'd be no need for treating it like memory.
Except during boot, of course. It doesn't matter how much RAM you have then, it's all empty and so you still have to pull in your OS and apps from the (slowish) hard drive.
It seems to be aimed at Amiga enthusiasts/nostalgists who no longer have any actual Amiga hardware, but do happen to have some old PowerPC Mac hardware around, and want to run their old Amiga software on that rather than under UAE, and are willing to shell out a fair amount of cash to do so.
Climate change can't kill us, but it will cause serious problems.
Agreed that it's unlikely to make humans go extinct, but it's not so far-fetched to imagine famine (and/or war caused by competition for exhausted resources) resulting in the unnatural/early deaths of 75% or more of Earth's human population.
Well, in Saudi Arabia it would be pretty much all of it.
Other than obvious instances of crimes that are being visually recorded just what do you feel should be made illegal?
This isn't an issue of what the previous poster thinks should be illegal, it's an issue of what the law says is illegal. If you live in a country where porn is illegal, then you have to deal with that reality, regardless of how you (or anyone) think things ought to be.
make one of these that informs people to instruct government on what and where the taxes they pay are to be spent.
How would that be different from the status quo?
Everyone already "instructs their government" that taxes spent on things that primarily benefit them (or their community) is "vital and necessary investment", and anything that primarily benefits other people is "wasteful government spending".
I doubt malware is going to give anyone a broader perspective.
As far as the police and the courts are concerned, that's (hopefully) the case. As far as your job, marriage, and social life are concerned, it can be more like "innocent until accused, and then forever after assumed guilty, even if you're later acquitted".:^(
Just let me leave. It might take another 10,000 years to get there... who knows. But we're leaving this mud ball and you're f'ing welcome to it.
Get where, exactly?
How many days in space (or even on a different planet, if you insist) would it take before the "I'm in Space!" novelty wore off and you spent the short remainder of your cramped, miserable life wishing you could be somehow teleported back to the planet your body and psyche were groomed for countless generations to live on?
In the movies, space is made to look like a grand adventure -- in real life, you'd quickly realize it's permanent exile from almost all of the things that make life worth living. Imagine the tiniest, most Godforsaken shit-hole backwater town you could possibly have, the kind that teenagers run away from the day they get bus fare to the city -- but there's no way to leave it. Ever. Also, you can't breathe the air, or ever even go outside without a space suit.
I would like to see an analysis of the names compared to the frequency of unauthorized access attempts. What names are likely to generate indifference?
One of the WiFi SSIDs around my building is "ClickHereForIdentifyTheft". I nominate that one.
when the crap goes south in a year, after the warranty is gone, you won't be as heart broken
I think this is setting your sights too low. Having a computer "go south" after a year (or even two or three years) isn't acceptable. Never mind the cost of the actual hardware: the cost of losing some or all of your data, and/or the use of your computer at what could be a crucial time, simply isn't worth it. Better to pay a bit more up front and get something sturdy and reliable, and save yourself a lot of stress and heartache.
Germany has a long term plan to eliminate the long winter problem: Global Warming.
I'm not sure that's going to pan out. Solar panels generate power from light, not heat. (adding heat actually reduces the amount of power they can generate)
even if the solar at peak could meet all your needs, you still can't retire any of the old plants, because the solar capacity is useless when the sun isn't shining.
True, but you could keep the old plants mostly idle on sunny days, and save fuel and/or reduce pollution that way.
I agree that in the long run we need a efficient energy-storage solution, though.
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Last November people said: I'm voting for Obama because he's anti-war and wants to see peace!
A key insight: when Americans say they are anti-war, they mean they don't want to see American soldiers coming home in body bags.
Regarding deaths of anonymous foreigners, the bar is set quite a bit lower. The difference between Bush and Obama is that Bush sent thousands of US soldiers overseas, and Obama (so far) has not.
Not being familiar with the Amiga OS at all, could you explain what made it so good?
It had extremely efficient and lightweight pre-emptive multitasking, such that multiple programs could run simultaneously and respond to the user very quickly even on very modest hardware (e.g. 7MHz 68000 CPU, 512KB RAM).
The downside of that was that there was no memory protection -- all programs ran in the same memory space. While that made efficient data sharing trivial (any program could just get a pointer to any system data it needed to access, and read it), it also made things very insecure -- one buggy program could (and often did) crash the entire OS.
Is there anything about it that is better than what we have today?
For today's users, no. Given today's vastly more powerful hardware, modern OS's do a better job of meeting the user's needs, especially in the aspects of stability and security. (OTOH if you for some reason needed an embedded OS to run a snappy GUI on a very lightweight CPU, AmigaOS wouldn't be a bad way to go, if it had the appropriate hardware support)
Already done. Search slashdot for it. It'll be used to power small implants and uses sugar from the blood.
That's somewhat useful, but what we Americans really need is a device that runs on the energy stored in body fat. People could connect their home gaming rig to their beer belly's AC socket, and emerge at the end of their 8-hour Skyrim session significantly slimmer than when they started.
you mean besides the monthly "make no sense, freak everyone out" day? no, i don't think there's any difference.
If you think men's behavior isn't influenced by hormones, you are wrong:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2012/06/13/why-male-hormones-may-drive-the-stock-market-and-override-investors-ability-to-think-rationally/
This Liu Yang is surely a good astronaut, but as the news about this launch is more than half about having a woman on boars, makes me wonder what the real reason is to chose her over one of the other candidates they have.
This is one of the burdens pioneering women have placed on them: people are always second-guessing them, wondering whether they got their position on the merits or if are being given special treatment because they are women. Minorities often get a similar response ("oh s/he only got the job because of affirmative action"). Hence the saying "you've got to be at least twice as good as anyone else to be accepted as equal".
But expensive to buy for sure. And will only be slightly cheaper when the next superior tech is at the door. Rinse and repeat...
Well, yes, that's how capitalism works. Someone invents something useful, and then they try to maximize the profit from their labor by selling it for as much as the market will bear. Eventually the price comes down due to competition. You can either pay top dollar for the new hotness now, or wait a while for the price to come down, your choice.
It's a feature. Note that you can buy a $99 LCD display at Walmart today that performs better in all respects than the $9,000 LCD display of the same size you could buy in 1995.
I fucking hate pre-teen sudo-insults.
A: you're a loser!
B: I know you are, but what am I?
A: sudo you're a loser!
A: Oh God, you're right! I've wasted my life! <sob>
Doesn't work for me without an explanation of what happened to all the equal and opposite.
Obvious fix for the movie: the gun shoots a projectile in the opposite direction simultaneously. (it might make the device difficult to operate safely, but then that was already the case and it didn't stop anybody... ;))
Then it wouldn't matter how fast or slow the hard drive is, because there'd be no need for treating it like memory.
Except during boot, of course. It doesn't matter how much RAM you have then, it's all empty and so you still have to pull in your OS and apps from the (slowish) hard drive.
I've been able to recovery data from plenty of drives before they totally failed but when an SSD decides to fail you're basically fucked.
Is that so? My understanding was that when an SSD finally fails, it effectively becomes a read-only drive.
It seems to be aimed at Amiga enthusiasts/nostalgists who no longer have any actual Amiga hardware, but do happen to have some old PowerPC Mac hardware around, and want to run their old Amiga software on that rather than under UAE, and are willing to shell out a fair amount of cash to do so.
Seems likely to be a rather small market.
Climate change can't kill us, but it will cause serious problems.
Agreed that it's unlikely to make humans go extinct, but it's not so far-fetched to imagine famine (and/or war caused by competition for exhausted resources) resulting in the unnatural/early deaths of 75% or more of Earth's human population.
why people think it's OK to break the law, so long as you're doing it with tax dollars.
Because, you know, 9/11. <sarcasm>
Yes, I'm sure Slashdot's readership is a highly sought-after market for $70,000 water purifiers.
Uhhhh... what is illegal porn again?
Well, in Saudi Arabia it would be pretty much all of it.
Other than obvious instances of crimes that are being visually recorded just what do you feel should be made illegal?
This isn't an issue of what the previous poster thinks should be illegal, it's an issue of what the law says is illegal. If you live in a country where porn is illegal, then you have to deal with that reality, regardless of how you (or anyone) think things ought to be.
make one of these that informs people to instruct government on what and where the taxes they pay are to be spent.
How would that be different from the status quo?
Everyone already "instructs their government" that taxes spent on things that primarily benefit them (or their community) is "vital and necessary investment", and anything that primarily benefits other people is "wasteful government spending".
I doubt malware is going to give anyone a broader perspective.
Innocent until proven guilty and all that.
As far as the police and the courts are concerned, that's (hopefully) the case. As far as your job, marriage, and social life are concerned, it can be more like "innocent until accused, and then forever after assumed guilty, even if you're later acquitted". :^(
Just let me leave. It might take another 10,000 years to get there... who knows. But we're leaving this mud ball and you're f'ing welcome to it.
Get where, exactly?
How many days in space (or even on a different planet, if you insist) would it take before the "I'm in Space!" novelty wore off and you spent the short remainder of your cramped, miserable life wishing you could be somehow teleported back to the planet your body and psyche were groomed for countless generations to live on?
In the movies, space is made to look like a grand adventure -- in real life, you'd quickly realize it's permanent exile from almost all of the things that make life worth living. Imagine the tiniest, most Godforsaken shit-hole backwater town you could possibly have, the kind that teenagers run away from the day they get bus fare to the city -- but there's no way to leave it. Ever. Also, you can't breathe the air, or ever even go outside without a space suit.
I would like to see an analysis of the names compared to the frequency of unauthorized access attempts. What names are likely to generate indifference?
One of the WiFi SSIDs around my building is "ClickHereForIdentifyTheft". I nominate that one.
Hopefully it says "security through obscurity does not work" in big block letters on the first page.
Of course, in the cases where it did work, you'd never hear about it.
when the crap goes south in a year, after the warranty is gone, you won't be as heart broken
I think this is setting your sights too low. Having a computer "go south" after a year (or even two or three years) isn't acceptable. Never mind the cost of the actual hardware: the cost of losing some or all of your data, and/or the use of your computer at what could be a crucial time, simply isn't worth it. Better to pay a bit more up front and get something sturdy and reliable, and save yourself a lot of stress and heartache.
. A tinkerer will fare better with a win; and a coder/ sys admin with a *nix machine.
Shouldn't a computer running MacOS/X count as a *nix machine? It's running a variant of BSD after all...
That's assuming there's a convenient tree, wall, rock etc. to brace my butt/feet against.
Of course then you are no longer 'on ice' so much as 'on tree'.
Germany has a long term plan to eliminate the long winter problem: Global Warming.
I'm not sure that's going to pan out. Solar panels generate power from light, not heat. (adding heat actually reduces the amount of power they can generate)
even if the solar at peak could meet all your needs, you still can't retire any of the old plants, because the solar capacity is useless when the sun isn't shining.
True, but you could keep the old plants mostly idle on sunny days, and save fuel and/or reduce pollution that way.
I agree that in the long run we need a efficient energy-storage solution, though.