Attack the cruise phase, not the terminal phase. The world is huge compared to the blinding effect of one explosion, so there is plenty of room and time on both sides of any cloud.
It's easy to destroy all the warheads, decoys, and chaff. This is a trivial problem, really. None of those can deviate far from any of the others, and in space there is no place to hide. One ABM warhead can take out the whole bunch. Yep, nothing says an ABM system can't also be nuclear. Not that North Korea or Iran will be deploying advanced end-of-cold-war ICBMs any time soon of course, but the solution is trivial if they ever do.
I'm building a house, and obviously I want a modest network built-in.
No, it's not obvious. This is Slashdot. If anything, it's obvious that you want a completely immodest network for completely immodest uses.
Let's start by assuming you want to steam uncompressed 36-bit 400 FPS 8K 3D video from multiple angles in every room. You want it streaming in too, to giant displays covering every surface. Don't forget to display video on the ceiling, floor, doors, toilet tank, toilet lid, exterior roof, and driveway.
Each room will thus require about 15 Tb/s symmetric. You can get this by using wavelength-division multiplexing on your fiber with a few dozen colors of light. Alternately, a fat bundle of 100 Gb/s Ethernet should do the job. It'll be as thick as your arm. Maybe you'll want to do that for each room, saving the wavelength-division multiplexing for the links to your peering points.
RATIONAL AND PLANNING intelligence is a poor survival trait IN THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT
Other types of thinking, such as recognition of social cues, are most likely still survival traits. Rational and planning intelligence are great survival traits in certain other environments, such as Finland a few centuries ago.
Evolution doesn't have a value system that prefers education, a comfortable life, or the ability to exist without government help. Personifying the inherently unthinking force of evolution, we might say that evolution cares about exactly one thing: the number of creatures in the Nth generation with similar DNA. Adapting to the environment is key, and note that our current environment does include government services. Fit organisms take full advantage of the environment to maximize reproduction.
Fitness can mean screwing up the birth control or deciding that God would disapprove. Fitness can mean a non-reproducing individual (gay, elderly, too ugly, whatever...) finding dates for siblings and cousins. Fitness can mean getting the kids taken away by the government (they'll survive) so that time can be focused on activities that might produce more.
It's only in a difficult environment, like Finland a few centuries ago, that fitness means the traits that most of us respect: hard work, planning ahead, faithfulness, etc. We have changed the environment, and now it will change us.
How much would they have accomplished if it was a nice clean codebase?
If it would be more, then I'm glad they have a mess. The whole point here is to STOP SCREWING WITH THINGS. It's not broken and it doesn't need fixing. GNOME 2 wouldn't need any changes at all except for the fact that GNOME 3 has claimed the "gnome" name and thus forced a name change.
Really, it's OK to go decades without significant changes. It ought to be infinity, but security holes pop up and sometimes an idiot breaks the underlying platform.
I had xfce save it's session without the window manager. (so no window borders, all windows in the top left corner, and unable to change the stacking order) I never asked for the session to be saved, certainly not in some crazy state, and I don't see why the window manager should be a forgettable item in the first place. I had to start the window manager from the command prompt, then go into the session part of the settings tool and tell it to save the session. Note: all non-hackers would have had to reinstall the OS. (hit this on Debian)
I had the desktop switcher decide I only get to have 1 desktop. This bug is absolutely maddening. I can switch it back, but the setting won't stick. Every time I restart, I get only 1 desktop, just like Windows. Arrrrrgh! Hate, hate, hate! Multiple desktops are **extremely** important to me. I found the XML file where xfce fucks up, writing a bad config for itself, and used chattr to set the immutable bit. Somehow, xfce is still able to fuck up. (hit this on Mint mainly, but also Ubuntu and Fedora and Debian)
So, does this mean I can go hiking next week? (without causing my death)
How about the paths up Mount Moosilauke and Mount Jefferson? How about the trails up to the ridges of Franconia Notch? Ice all melted? Slush gone yet? What kind of temperatures would I get ON TOP (not in the valley) at those locations?
Provides comprehensive day care / early childhood education starting at 8 months
This is wrong. An 8 month old child should be with mom. Even the Soviets figured this out: in Soviet Russia, mom loves you. Also, an 8 month old ought to be breastfeeding. (for real, not pumped)
You assume that the goal is to maximize tax revenue. That does not serve Republican interests. I don't think it even serves Democrat interests. Check with one of the genuine socialist parties, and you might find people who truly want to maximize tax revenue.
It's exactly the same process which occurs naturally in a growing animal.
Exactly, except that the "blood" will be mostly corn syrup. The fat and amino acids in the "blood" will probably come from soy. Just like soy burger, this won't be available without coloring and flavoring added. I have no doubt that vat meat in theory could be way better than animal meat, and no doubt that in practice it will be worse.
You can see in the article that they are now trying to grow fat cells, then make a burger. Yuck. I'd much rather stir fry it with some coconut oil and mushrooms, but no they'll never offer that option.
So put both names on the title to the motorcycle. What is so hard about that? If you don't intend to share, don't get married. If you want to do things without asking a spouse for consent, don't get married.
I'm married. If I lived in those states, I'd have to create a holding company for the vehicle, with my wife and I each getting an ownership share. WTF! That is way too much work for something that should be simple and obvious.
If you are married, ideally you should not even be able to get title with just one name on it. At the very least it should require notarized consent of the party being left out.
If you prepare for a divorce right from the start, you're more likely to get one. The feeling of depending on each other and being tied to each other is important. Without that you are more like roommates.
The same goes for anything and everything you share, including kids. The more tied together you are, the harder it is to split. Splitting becomes less likely, but of course a bigger disaster if it does happen.
Your choice... but if you're going to live like roommates then you might as well just stay roommates.
If you couch your language in the uncertainty inherent in research, they take from it that there's an obvious danger,
Well, that's the honest truth.
and there's a conspiracy to keep the research results quiet, or to spin them to the advantage of Big Pharma.
If you fail to couch your language in the uncertainty inherent in research, then this is also true.
Show some numbers. Explain the horror of the disease. Be honest about the chances of catching it, particularly regarding circumstances: rural, suburban, urban, more or less isolated, country, state, socioeconomic background, etc. Be honest about the chances of adverse reactions... and no, the 24-hour cut-off is not honest.
This is the elephant in the kitchen. It's hard enough finding Americans who will put the US first. Imagining that foreigners will put the US first is insane.
I'm not sure if you should even make an exception for somebody who claims to be an orphan who fled religious persecution by running through a minefield while being shot at.
If your secrets are on a network that connects to a foreign land or can otherwise be accessed by anybody with ties to a foreign land, you're in trouble.
Also a good opportunity to get an international standard outlet (please, not the parallel pins)
I demand a proper smiley face. I want round eyes and a cheerful mouth. Mouth width can indicate how many amps the socket can handle. If we need a neutral line distinct from ground or a 3rd phase, add a nose.
My only problem so far is that I had to make Nautilus my default file manager again
That does sound like a problem.:-) Back when I had GNOME, I was always trying to get rid of Nautilus. I didn't want the clutter on my desktop, I didn't want the pointless memory usage, and I didn't want the ridiculous package dependencies. Uninstalling Nautilus felt SO GOOD. Die fucker, die die DIE!!!
Don't ignore Fitts' Law-- the menu bar at the top of the screen has an effectively infinite height, so even though you have to move your mouse farther, you can just slam it to the top of the screen and only have to aim horizontally.
That doesn't work. I assume Fitt really loved his trackball. If I do that, I'll need to pick my mouse up off the desk before it works it's way under the monitor and off of the back of the desk. Worse yet, hitting the top of the screen destroys my mental sense of the mouse-to-screen mapping. I can't click multiple things in rapid succession if ever I bump the edge of the screen.
Mouse wraparound would be nice. Hmmm, it's probably an option...
How common do you think it is for users to want a second instance of an application, rather than just another window?
They implicitly want it whenever an app crash takes out **all** the windows. They implicitly want it whenever they have undesired cross-site web interactions that would be stopped by having separate browser sessions.
the bar being at the top of the screen provides an infinite targeting area. You just have to push your mouse up until the pointer will no longer move
You do that, and you'll need to pick your mouse up off the desk to move it closer to you. Every time you hit that top edge, your mouse's desk-to-screen relation gets all fucked up. No, I'm not going to buy a trackball.
Huh? I guess my xterm launcher button would be an action, and my clock would be status? That's just two items. The more you add, the more CPU and RAM you lose. Surely you'd benefit from ditching most of whatever is taking up all that space. Those pixels are probably more valuable elsewhere. You're also wasting electrical power, causing fan noise and sucking dirt into your computer.
still wants to see the list of windows on all his desktops
Wait, you mean you have a task bar that includes buttons for things that aren't on the current desktop? That pretty much defeats the point of having virtual desktops. Normally you should only see buttons for things running on the current desktop. (in XFCE this is an option that I can't imagine anybody would ever want)
Note that you can get two rows of taskbar buttons if you adjust the height to 50 pixels. At this height, it becomes reasonable to make the desktop switcher have two rows as well. There is plenty of room for taskbar buttons. I have 23 right now, and I can still see text on the buttons.
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She is worth way more than some damn lab mouse. She needs this treatment NOW so that it can have maximum effect.
Attack the cruise phase, not the terminal phase. The world is huge compared to the blinding effect of one explosion, so there is plenty of room and time on both sides of any cloud.
It's easy to destroy all the warheads, decoys, and chaff. This is a trivial problem, really. None of those can deviate far from any of the others, and in space there is no place to hide. One ABM warhead can take out the whole bunch. Yep, nothing says an ABM system can't also be nuclear. Not that North Korea or Iran will be deploying advanced end-of-cold-war ICBMs any time soon of course, but the solution is trivial if they ever do.
I'm building a house, and obviously I want a modest network built-in.
No, it's not obvious. This is Slashdot. If anything, it's obvious that you want a completely immodest network for completely immodest uses.
Let's start by assuming you want to steam uncompressed 36-bit 400 FPS 8K 3D video from multiple angles in every room. You want it streaming in too, to giant displays covering every surface. Don't forget to display video on the ceiling, floor, doors, toilet tank, toilet lid, exterior roof, and driveway.
Each room will thus require about 15 Tb/s symmetric. You can get this by using wavelength-division multiplexing on your fiber with a few dozen colors of light. Alternately, a fat bundle of 100 Gb/s Ethernet should do the job. It'll be as thick as your arm. Maybe you'll want to do that for each room, saving the wavelength-division multiplexing for the links to your peering points.
Biased article on Slashdot? No, never! Hmmm, the Related Links for this story include...
RATIONAL AND PLANNING intelligence is a poor survival trait IN THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT
Other types of thinking, such as recognition of social cues, are most likely still survival traits. Rational and planning intelligence are great survival traits in certain other environments, such as Finland a few centuries ago.
Evolution doesn't have a value system that prefers education, a comfortable life, or the ability to exist without government help. Personifying the inherently unthinking force of evolution, we might say that evolution cares about exactly one thing: the number of creatures in the Nth generation with similar DNA. Adapting to the environment is key, and note that our current environment does include government services. Fit organisms take full advantage of the environment to maximize reproduction.
Fitness can mean screwing up the birth control or deciding that God would disapprove. Fitness can mean a non-reproducing individual (gay, elderly, too ugly, whatever...) finding dates for siblings and cousins. Fitness can mean getting the kids taken away by the government (they'll survive) so that time can be focused on activities that might produce more.
It's only in a difficult environment, like Finland a few centuries ago, that fitness means the traits that most of us respect: hard work, planning ahead, faithfulness, etc. We have changed the environment, and now it will change us.
How much would they have accomplished if it was a nice clean codebase?
If it would be more, then I'm glad they have a mess. The whole point here is to STOP SCREWING WITH THINGS. It's not broken and it doesn't need fixing. GNOME 2 wouldn't need any changes at all except for the fact that GNOME 3 has claimed the "gnome" name and thus forced a name change.
Really, it's OK to go decades without significant changes. It ought to be infinity, but security holes pop up and sometimes an idiot breaks the underlying platform.
So far I've hit two xfce bugs.
I had xfce save it's session without the window manager. (so no window borders, all windows in the top left corner, and unable to change the stacking order) I never asked for the session to be saved, certainly not in some crazy state, and I don't see why the window manager should be a forgettable item in the first place. I had to start the window manager from the command prompt, then go into the session part of the settings tool and tell it to save the session. Note: all non-hackers would have had to reinstall the OS. (hit this on Debian)
I had the desktop switcher decide I only get to have 1 desktop. This bug is absolutely maddening. I can switch it back, but the setting won't stick. Every time I restart, I get only 1 desktop, just like Windows. Arrrrrgh! Hate, hate, hate! Multiple desktops are **extremely** important to me. I found the XML file where xfce fucks up, writing a bad config for itself, and used chattr to set the immutable bit. Somehow, xfce is still able to fuck up. (hit this on Mint mainly, but also Ubuntu and Fedora and Debian)
I miss GNOME 2.
So, does this mean I can go hiking next week? (without causing my death)
How about the paths up Mount Moosilauke and Mount Jefferson? How about the trails up to the ridges of Franconia Notch? Ice all melted? Slush gone yet? What kind of temperatures would I get ON TOP (not in the valley) at those locations?
Provides comprehensive day care / early childhood education starting at 8 months
This is wrong. An 8 month old child should be with mom. Even the Soviets figured this out: in Soviet Russia, mom loves you. Also, an 8 month old ought to be breastfeeding. (for real, not pumped)
receive periodic visits to ensure child safety.
...and if they don't want intrusive monitoring?
You assume that the goal is to maximize tax revenue. That does not serve Republican interests. I don't think it even serves Democrat interests. Check with one of the genuine socialist parties, and you might find people who truly want to maximize tax revenue.
It's exactly the same process which occurs naturally in a growing animal.
Exactly, except that the "blood" will be mostly corn syrup. The fat and amino acids in the "blood" will probably come from soy. Just like soy burger, this won't be available without coloring and flavoring added. I have no doubt that vat meat in theory could be way better than animal meat, and no doubt that in practice it will be worse.
You can see in the article that they are now trying to grow fat cells, then make a burger. Yuck. I'd much rather stir fry it with some coconut oil and mushrooms, but no they'll never offer that option.
So put both names on the title to the motorcycle. What is so hard about that? If you don't intend to share, don't get married. If you want to do things without asking a spouse for consent, don't get married.
The banana is to keep the kid from dying of colon cancer.
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/so-i-married-a-kernel-programmer
I'm married. If I lived in those states, I'd have to create a holding company for the vehicle, with my wife and I each getting an ownership share. WTF! That is way too much work for something that should be simple and obvious.
If you are married, ideally you should not even be able to get title with just one name on it. At the very least it should require notarized consent of the party being left out.
The same goes for anything and everything you share, including kids. The more tied together you are, the harder it is to split. Splitting becomes less likely, but of course a bigger disaster if it does happen.
Your choice... but if you're going to live like roommates then you might as well just stay roommates.
If you couch your language in the uncertainty inherent in research, they take from it that there's an obvious danger,
Well, that's the honest truth.
and there's a conspiracy to keep the research results quiet, or to spin them to the advantage of Big Pharma.
If you fail to couch your language in the uncertainty inherent in research, then this is also true.
Show some numbers. Explain the horror of the disease. Be honest about the chances of catching it, particularly regarding circumstances: rural, suburban, urban, more or less isolated, country, state, socioeconomic background, etc. Be honest about the chances of adverse reactions... and no, the 24-hour cut-off is not honest.
This is the elephant in the kitchen. It's hard enough finding Americans who will put the US first. Imagining that foreigners will put the US first is insane.
I'm not sure if you should even make an exception for somebody who claims to be an orphan who fled religious persecution by running through a minefield while being shot at.
If your secrets are on a network that connects to a foreign land or can otherwise be accessed by anybody with ties to a foreign land, you're in trouble.
Also a good opportunity to get an international standard outlet (please, not the parallel pins)
I demand a proper smiley face. I want round eyes and a cheerful mouth. Mouth width can indicate how many amps the socket can handle. If we need a neutral line distinct from ground or a 3rd phase, add a nose.
My only problem so far is that I had to make Nautilus my default file manager again
That does sound like a problem. :-) Back when I had GNOME, I was always trying to get rid of Nautilus. I didn't want the clutter on my desktop, I didn't want the pointless memory usage, and I didn't want the ridiculous package dependencies. Uninstalling Nautilus felt SO GOOD. Die fucker, die die DIE!!!
Don't ignore Fitts' Law-- the menu bar at the top of the screen has an effectively infinite height, so even though you have to move your mouse farther, you can just slam it to the top of the screen and only have to aim horizontally.
That doesn't work. I assume Fitt really loved his trackball. If I do that, I'll need to pick my mouse up off the desk before it works it's way under the monitor and off of the back of the desk. Worse yet, hitting the top of the screen destroys my mental sense of the mouse-to-screen mapping. I can't click multiple things in rapid succession if ever I bump the edge of the screen.
Mouse wraparound would be nice. Hmmm, it's probably an option...
How common do you think it is for users to want a second instance of an application, rather than just another window?
They implicitly want it whenever an app crash takes out **all** the windows. They implicitly want it whenever they have undesired cross-site web interactions that would be stopped by having separate browser sessions.
the bar being at the top of the screen provides an infinite targeting area. You just have to push your mouse up until the pointer will no longer move
You do that, and you'll need to pick your mouse up off the desk to move it closer to you. Every time you hit that top edge, your mouse's desk-to-screen relation gets all fucked up. No, I'm not going to buy a trackball.
Top: Actions and status.
Huh? I guess my xterm launcher button would be an action, and my clock would be status? That's just two items. The more you add, the more CPU and RAM you lose. Surely you'd benefit from ditching most of whatever is taking up all that space. Those pixels are probably more valuable elsewhere. You're also wasting electrical power, causing fan noise and sucking dirt into your computer.
still wants to see the list of windows on all his desktops
Wait, you mean you have a task bar that includes buttons for things that aren't on the current desktop? That pretty much defeats the point of having virtual desktops. Normally you should only see buttons for things running on the current desktop. (in XFCE this is an option that I can't imagine anybody would ever want)
Note that you can get two rows of taskbar buttons if you adjust the height to 50 pixels. At this height, it becomes reasonable to make the desktop switcher have two rows as well. There is plenty of room for taskbar buttons. I have 23 right now, and I can still see text on the buttons.