It sounds like EXT4 is fully compatible with 2 and 3, so even an EXT2 drive can be mounted as EXT4, which means the chances for failure are seriously reduced.
But I totally hear what you're saying. Whenever you upgrade Anything, nothing is SUPPOSED to go wrong.
Of course it is. Don't you find it just a LITTLE bit odd that if you convert "don't be evil" to Hexidecimal, move some of the numbers and letters around, and do a few arithmatic operations on some of the numbers, you can get the Hex for "osama bin laden"! Seriously sheeple, wake up!
It all started years ago with King Henry the 8th and his second wife Anne Bolyn. They had a plan for a new world order under the Church of England (Anglican) but too few of the populace wanted to convert away from Catholicism. Later they started turning Lutheran which kind of pissed him off. So he went back in time and told his ancestors (Like King Richard the Lionheart) to go and Crusade Jerusalem which was and still is one of the worlds religious centers. Using the power of Religion he was able to pull the hood over everyones eyes and secretly worship the Pagan Gods, because that is somehow important, but I'm not sure how, I heard it on Zeitgeist. And then while banging his 5th or 6th wife (evidence isn't sure which) King Henry drafted up a plan to assassinate whatever political leader of the new world had the most power, a hundred years or so later. Using his time machine he was able to get to America and pick off JFK from the Grassy Knoll.
He has now gone into hiding, using nefarious agents to do his bidding. Rumour has it that it was HE who convinced Ronald Reagan to go into acting, thus ruining the lives of many people across the globe. This severe depression mutated into a heireditory trait, which started the spawn of Emo kids. This is also part of Henry's plan, as he is training the youth of tomorrow to where lots of black clothing and makeup - both male and female, making them more difficult to see as assassins. Secret schematics have discovered that tight pants have been introduced to help reduce the noise created while moving stealthily.
Up until recently, everything was going according to plan. Little did King Henry expect that computer technology would be such a huge influence on the world of tomorrow. With the free flow of information it was highly likely that someone would stumble across his plans. He sent his emo-assassins after Steve Ballmer, who failed. With this failure he visitted Ballmer at a conference, who was shocked and dismayed. Ballmer was so shaken up that the only word he could say was "Developers". Ballmer rushed on stage to warn everyone about this nefarious plan, but couldn't deliver the message. He was brainwashed shortly after.
With Microsoft under control King Henry then targetted Google. Employing a new strategy he tried corrupting them by posting links to a Michelle Obama Monkey picture on his blog, forcing them to censor images. When Google went into China, Henry didn't like the idea of Google becoming more powerful then his pawn Microsoft. As such, he hired hackers to infiltrate the Chinese government and then attempt to Hack Google, thus removing any suspicion of an American company attacking Google, as well as forcing Google out of China.
And here we are in the present day, STILL with the hood pulled over our eyes, because all of the media outlets are controlled by the worlds greatest ruler, King Henry the 8th.
That... or they'll just blame it on their status as a "developing nation" and that they shouldn't be held to the same standards as everyone else.
No, you see that works for things like terrible environmental practices, hostile work environments, and building up military strength. All those things help development, no matter how harsh they are.
Hacking Google does not help China develop its industries.
It'd be like saying "Sorry I read your email, Its because I'm a starving college student".
Who didn't see that one coming from a mile away? I called it the moment I read that there was a sophisticated attack on Google.
Whether its all fabricated or not, I like the idea of Google pulling out of China. Google is one of the leading innovators in the western world - and by keeping their services out of China it sends a message to the government: Stop Oppression.
I saw one of those annoying pop up ads saying that Bill Gates would pay you x amount of dollars to do Data Entry for Microsoft from home.
I just kind of sighed and went "Really? REALLY?"
He hasn't been the CEO of Microsoft for a decade now. Ask all of the people you know "Who runs Microsoft" and I am willing to bet a fair share of those not in the computer industry will still say Bill Gates.
Sadly - neither of these have any relevance at all to Human Males evolving faster than females. You've basically shown why Male sperm are more likely to contribute to evolution to female eggs. However a Female or Male baby have a roughly equal chance of being formed.
You two have misunderstood the article. We are not evolving faster because of rapid sperm production - but rather the parts that are experiencing the most evolution right now are our sperm producing facilities. Since Women don't have testicles, they can't benefit from this evolution, and thus, it would appear males are evolving faster.
When you've seen 50-ish women, you've got a decent statistical sample.
Those would only be the places YOU walk around. He is applying this to the whole country of England. In order to get a decent sample size he must do 50 women in random parts of the country, urban, suburban, rural, wherever there is a population.
Perhaps he'll find the women in the North more attractive than the women in the south. Either this news article is to point out that Drakes Equation is flawed or the guys methods are.
One of the reasons he can't find a girlfriend is because he is one of those people who USE the Drake equation. But seriously, look at his Criteria.
Backus found that of the 30 million women in the UK, only 26 would be suitable girlfriends for him. His equation looked at the total number of women in the country, then narrowed it down using relevant factors including the number of women in London; the number of "age-appropriate" women (those aged between 24-34); women with a college degree; and those who Backus would find physically attractive.
Okay - so how do you POSSIBLY apply a statistical analysis on something as subjective as a womans physical attractiveness?
There were some pretty epic facepalms in all of 2009, but I think THIS one trumps all of them. Off to a good start in 2010 I see.
Who are these "The National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind"?
We have the CNIB (Canadian National Institute For The Blind) but they mostly just do fundraising to help research things like Optical implants (which they have successfuly created, I might add). Can just anyone start an minority interest group and complain to the government?
And I think the DOJ should be impeached for doing this. This is worse then "Crabs in a Bucket" mentality. I mean, anything that was designed to be looked at is essentially "Discriminating against the blind". Movies, Books, Watches, Make up, stylish clothing, traffic ilghts, etc. Is the DOJ saying that all of the United States should impair itself to accomodate the blind? What about Parapalegics? Should they get their arms and legs amputated? And the mute? Sew the mouth shut.
I'm sure the answer to the economic recession is to make as many US Citizens as useless as possible.
Imagine what could be gained by giving Kindles to MORE universities instead of less.
While true that it wasn't interception - I am sure the recent involvement with the Chinese security issues has simply brought into focus how much Google is being attacked, also knowing that they are dealing with some relatively skilled hackers. Whether the attacks were designed to sniff out people not using HTTPS or not - better to just remove that option altogether.
Yes but the mouse does offer some things that an eye-controlled cursor would not, for example, if I'm playing Duke Nukem Forever and I want to be able to turn left (usually just moving my mouse left) WHILE looking at my health (bottom right of the screen).
But I could easily see a look and blink interface replacing the mouse for simple things like Web Browsing. But if I'm working on a spreadsheet, I need to be able to objectively look at the entire entire table. If I want to highlight the entire table, I don't want to have to look at the top left cell, blink, look at the bottom right. I may not be entirely sure I have the entire section I want, or I might have too much, depending on the scenario.
There are just too many little situations where you aren't actually looking where you're clicking.
I don't disagree the mouse will disappear, just that Eye-tracking won't be the thing to do it. I believe Multi-touch will be, go google some of Jeff Hans videos (or look it up on TED.com) and you will see some amazing applicatons he's made with Touch Screens, or even sophistaced smart boards and projection techniques using relatively affordable hardware.
I just watched this and I agree - even the keyboard will probably be phased out once accurate Touch screen technology gets better amongst the big players. The great thing about all of Jeff Hans' items is that they are Open Source, if I put the money down for the hardware* I can duplicate EVERYTHING he demos, even contribute to his projects.
I might fire off an email and just ask him if he has any research going on with Eye tracking technology, and if he does, how much it would cost to set something like that up.
I think ultimately by the time I reach 80, some of the tech in Minority Report should be existant. We will have cool interfaces that change with multiple inputs from the user. And that Ads can essentially read my retinas from far away, and annoy the hell out of me.
*In fact, the first video of his that I saw he was demoing how a Wiimote and an Infra red Diode (Approximately 50 dollars) could produce a smart board (several hundred dollars). I am still considering doing this with just to play around with it.
'What better flourish to a career that began with the popularisation of windows, icons, mouse and pointer than to usurp them all?'"
Eye tracking technology doesn't usurp ANY of that. If anything, eyetracking technology makes windows and icons more useful, since those are designed to hold your attention for the short span that you need them.
And don't think that this technology would ever replace the mouse. You need a mouse for gaming, amongst many things. One such annoying technology around today is rollover ads. Our eyes often make tiny glances at colours and items that grab our attention.
Point is, they aren't changing the existing system, merely adding onto it.
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It sounds like EXT4 is fully compatible with 2 and 3, so even an EXT2 drive can be mounted as EXT4, which means the chances for failure are seriously reduced.
But I totally hear what you're saying. Whenever you upgrade Anything, nothing is SUPPOSED to go wrong.
However, It always does.
Of course it is. Don't you find it just a LITTLE bit odd that if you convert "don't be evil" to Hexidecimal, move some of the numbers and letters around, and do a few arithmatic operations on some of the numbers, you can get the Hex for "osama bin laden"! Seriously sheeple, wake up!
It all started years ago with King Henry the 8th and his second wife Anne Bolyn. They had a plan for a new world order under the Church of England (Anglican) but too few of the populace wanted to convert away from Catholicism. Later they started turning Lutheran which kind of pissed him off. So he went back in time and told his ancestors (Like King Richard the Lionheart) to go and Crusade Jerusalem which was and still is one of the worlds religious centers. Using the power of Religion he was able to pull the hood over everyones eyes and secretly worship the Pagan Gods, because that is somehow important, but I'm not sure how, I heard it on Zeitgeist. And then while banging his 5th or 6th wife (evidence isn't sure which) King Henry drafted up a plan to assassinate whatever political leader of the new world had the most power, a hundred years or so later. Using his time machine he was able to get to America and pick off JFK from the Grassy Knoll.
He has now gone into hiding, using nefarious agents to do his bidding. Rumour has it that it was HE who convinced Ronald Reagan to go into acting, thus ruining the lives of many people across the globe. This severe depression mutated into a heireditory trait, which started the spawn of Emo kids. This is also part of Henry's plan, as he is training the youth of tomorrow to where lots of black clothing and makeup - both male and female, making them more difficult to see as assassins. Secret schematics have discovered that tight pants have been introduced to help reduce the noise created while moving stealthily.
Up until recently, everything was going according to plan. Little did King Henry expect that computer technology would be such a huge influence on the world of tomorrow. With the free flow of information it was highly likely that someone would stumble across his plans. He sent his emo-assassins after Steve Ballmer, who failed. With this failure he visitted Ballmer at a conference, who was shocked and dismayed. Ballmer was so shaken up that the only word he could say was "Developers". Ballmer rushed on stage to warn everyone about this nefarious plan, but couldn't deliver the message. He was brainwashed shortly after.
With Microsoft under control King Henry then targetted Google. Employing a new strategy he tried corrupting them by posting links to a Michelle Obama Monkey picture on his blog, forcing them to censor images. When Google went into China, Henry didn't like the idea of Google becoming more powerful then his pawn Microsoft. As such, he hired hackers to infiltrate the Chinese government and then attempt to Hack Google, thus removing any suspicion of an American company attacking Google, as well as forcing Google out of China.
And here we are in the present day, STILL with the hood pulled over our eyes, because all of the media outlets are controlled by the worlds greatest ruler, King Henry the 8th.
I guess the only ones who didn't know were the people investigating the case.
That... or they'll just blame it on their status as a "developing nation" and that they shouldn't be held to the same standards as everyone else.
No, you see that works for things like terrible environmental practices, hostile work environments, and building up military strength. All those things help development, no matter how harsh they are.
Hacking Google does not help China develop its industries.
It'd be like saying "Sorry I read your email, Its because I'm a starving college student".
Who didn't see that one coming from a mile away? I called it the moment I read that there was a sophisticated attack on Google.
Whether its all fabricated or not, I like the idea of Google pulling out of China. Google is one of the leading innovators in the western world - and by keeping their services out of China it sends a message to the government: Stop Oppression.
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I saw one of those annoying pop up ads saying that Bill Gates would pay you x amount of dollars to do Data Entry for Microsoft from home.
I just kind of sighed and went "Really? REALLY?"
He hasn't been the CEO of Microsoft for a decade now. Ask all of the people you know "Who runs Microsoft" and I am willing to bet a fair share of those not in the computer industry will still say Bill Gates.
Sadly - neither of these have any relevance at all to Human Males evolving faster than females. You've basically shown why Male sperm are more likely to contribute to evolution to female eggs. However a Female or Male baby have a roughly equal chance of being formed.
You two have misunderstood the article. We are not evolving faster because of rapid sperm production - but rather the parts that are experiencing the most evolution right now are our sperm producing facilities. Since Women don't have testicles, they can't benefit from this evolution, and thus, it would appear males are evolving faster.
When you've seen 50-ish women, you've got a decent statistical sample.
Those would only be the places YOU walk around. He is applying this to the whole country of England. In order to get a decent sample size he must do 50 women in random parts of the country, urban, suburban, rural, wherever there is a population.
Perhaps he'll find the women in the North more attractive than the women in the south. Either this news article is to point out that Drakes Equation is flawed or the guys methods are.
He assumes he finds 1 in 20 women attractive. That sounds like a number he is pulling out of the air.
Basically what he's saying is that given 20 Women standing in front of him, he would only find ONE of them not-repulsive enough to date.
I know its the UK and they are the home of messed up teeth, but that is SUPER high standards.
Maybe thats why he has trouble finding a girl. If the 19 girls he sees on a regular basis disgust him so much...
It should be noted that any use of the Drake Equation does not make you intelligent - at all.
He mentions Physical Attraction, but I don't know how on Earth he would arrive at a number.
To put it in perspective, there are expected about 169 Million internet subscribers in the states, versus the expected 106 Million in China.
So its not like they are the dominating market that everyone makes them out to be.
One of the reasons he can't find a girlfriend is because he is one of those people who USE the Drake equation. But seriously, look at his Criteria.
Backus found that of the 30 million women in the UK, only 26 would be suitable girlfriends for him. His equation looked at the total number of women in the country, then narrowed it down using relevant factors including the number of women in London; the number of "age-appropriate" women (those aged between 24-34); women with a college degree; and those who Backus would find physically attractive.
Okay - so how do you POSSIBLY apply a statistical analysis on something as subjective as a womans physical attractiveness?
There were some pretty epic facepalms in all of 2009, but I think THIS one trumps all of them. Off to a good start in 2010 I see.
Who are these "The National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind"?
We have the CNIB (Canadian National Institute For The Blind) but they mostly just do fundraising to help research things like Optical implants (which they have successfuly created, I might add). Can just anyone start an minority interest group and complain to the government?
And I think the DOJ should be impeached for doing this. This is worse then "Crabs in a Bucket" mentality. I mean, anything that was designed to be looked at is essentially "Discriminating against the blind". Movies, Books, Watches, Make up, stylish clothing, traffic ilghts, etc. Is the DOJ saying that all of the United States should impair itself to accomodate the blind? What about Parapalegics? Should they get their arms and legs amputated? And the mute? Sew the mouth shut.
I'm sure the answer to the economic recession is to make as many US Citizens as useless as possible.
Imagine what could be gained by giving Kindles to MORE universities instead of less.
While true that it wasn't interception - I am sure the recent involvement with the Chinese security issues has simply brought into focus how much Google is being attacked, also knowing that they are dealing with some relatively skilled hackers. Whether the attacks were designed to sniff out people not using HTTPS or not - better to just remove that option altogether.
*Roll my eyes*
(Pun intended)
Point of View.
Is this spin on the "touch yourself and go blind" myth?
If so its pretty clever.
Who in their right mind would go see a movie that required you to wear glasses while viewing? That's absurd.
Wait - how many people went to go see Avatar? I lost count.
In POV porn.
Yes but the mouse does offer some things that an eye-controlled cursor would not, for example, if I'm playing Duke Nukem Forever and I want to be able to turn left (usually just moving my mouse left) WHILE looking at my health (bottom right of the screen).
But I could easily see a look and blink interface replacing the mouse for simple things like Web Browsing. But if I'm working on a spreadsheet, I need to be able to objectively look at the entire entire table. If I want to highlight the entire table, I don't want to have to look at the top left cell, blink, look at the bottom right. I may not be entirely sure I have the entire section I want, or I might have too much, depending on the scenario.
There are just too many little situations where you aren't actually looking where you're clicking.
I don't disagree the mouse will disappear, just that Eye-tracking won't be the thing to do it. I believe Multi-touch will be, go google some of Jeff Hans videos (or look it up on TED.com) and you will see some amazing applicatons he's made with Touch Screens, or even sophistaced smart boards and projection techniques using relatively affordable hardware.
I just watched this and I agree - even the keyboard will probably be phased out once accurate Touch screen technology gets better amongst the big players. The great thing about all of Jeff Hans' items is that they are Open Source, if I put the money down for the hardware* I can duplicate EVERYTHING he demos, even contribute to his projects.
I might fire off an email and just ask him if he has any research going on with Eye tracking technology, and if he does, how much it would cost to set something like that up.
I think ultimately by the time I reach 80, some of the tech in Minority Report should be existant. We will have cool interfaces that change with multiple inputs from the user. And that Ads can essentially read my retinas from far away, and annoy the hell out of me.
*In fact, the first video of his that I saw he was demoing how a Wiimote and an Infra red Diode (Approximately 50 dollars) could produce a smart board (several hundred dollars). I am still considering doing this with just to play around with it.
'What better flourish to a career that began with the popularisation of windows, icons, mouse and pointer than to usurp them all?'"
Eye tracking technology doesn't usurp ANY of that. If anything, eyetracking technology makes windows and icons more useful, since those are designed to hold your attention for the short span that you need them.
And don't think that this technology would ever replace the mouse. You need a mouse for gaming, amongst many things. One such annoying technology around today is rollover ads. Our eyes often make tiny glances at colours and items that grab our attention.
Point is, they aren't changing the existing system, merely adding onto it.
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Please rephrase your comment in the form of something helpful.
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