What exactly do you mean by "technical intelligence" of our species? Do you mean the combined achievements of the human race? We've created the atom bomb, but 99.999% of people have no idea how it works and likely never will..
Yes that's pretty much what I mean; I used the word species because I was referring to the species, not the individuals.
As far as common sense goes, the scenario is the excact opposite. The individual person has lots of common sense, but humans as a race have (almost) none.
Again, that's exactly what I mean.
I don't think it will be the "real loonies" that destroy humanity, but rather a few fundamentalists with nothing to loose (see: terrorist organizations).
You start to disagree with me, then you say exactly what I said, but with a slightly different choice of words. Why are you arguing with me when we agree so much?
Why? So we can then proceed to destroy other worlds in the same way as we have ours?
I understand your sentiment. My reason is to introduce diversity (to give us an evolutionary chance) and to reduce our population density (so there's less chance of there being capable loonies (a.k.a. fundamentalists) wherever everyone else is.
I like that "your" leaders comment, nice way to shift responsibility. They're our leaders. We've set up the political systems that they've manipulated to get where they are today.
What? I'm a Scotsman. We, with the English, Welsh and Northern Irish, elected Tony Blair. He signed Kyoto. The citizens of the US elected Bush, who wouldn't. So they're your leaders, presuming you're in the US.
I thought "You seem very optimistic! This is slashdot, for crying out loud." Then I realised how negative I was being.
I'm no psychologist, but a futurist is anyone with an opinion about tomorrow, so here goes.
In a world where everyone has the power to destroy everyone else, we're already dead. There is no time to solve and understand mental illness. It only takes a handful of real loonies with access to total destruction weapons before we're all totally destroyed.
So in my opinion, if a cheap, discrete, total destruction weapon becomes generally available, then we're finished, no question.
As a species, our technical intelligence far exceeds our common sense and mental stability. Evolutionary dead-end.
How to mitigate this? We need to get off this Earth as fast as we can so our eggs are not all in one basket. We need to start this understanding and solving mental illness, of which you speak, right now instead of waiting till it's too late.
But when the most powerful nation on earth is so comfortable in its habits that Kyoto goes by it's wayside, what chance in hell is there of your leaders taking this scenario seriously? Or maybe it's just far out enough that they would pay attention. Hmmm...
you may benefit from a combination of heartbeat and DRBD, which respectively provide IP address/service failover and a network (no special hardware required) data replication solution.
If you have appropriate hardware you might also appreciate Stonith, which provides forced-shutdown of a failed node (in the case that the failed node won't release the IP address, and hence you would otherwise have problems switching service).
If you're in the UK then give me a shout and I'll set it up for you (for a reasonable fee)! My contact details are available on my web site.
I'm in the UK, I've ordered stuff from the states before, been told it would be a week, then waited a month.
So drop the xenophobia. I'm sorry you had a problem with your order from Tux games but one data point doesn't mean we have a different concept of time.
You're almost exactly right (no need to hit delete in between).
And this shows that this "bug" is actually a feature! If this were windows, everyone would be doing ctrl+c, ctrl+v quite happily, and this WORKS in X. Only because people have their metaphors confused is there a problem.
OK so shift-insert is paste (I'm sure this was an early dos/windows shortcut too) but what's cut/copy? shift-delete did this in windows 3.1 or something... but won't work for me in X.
I'm half-joking, of course, but I do have superscroll installed in Firefox which lets me use hjkl for scrolling, I have 1 and G set to top and bottom of the page. Moving from browser to a real man's editor has never been more lovely.
What the industry should be doing more is co-operating on the development of Linux and GNU to bring it up to par with the proprietary unices in terms of enterprise features.
As it's a co-operative effort, HP, Sun, IBM etc could put a fraction of their software engineering resource into Linux (assuming they end-of-line their proprietary systems sharpish).
What they save they should throw into hardware engineering, competing either in or against the x86 marketplace.
That's what Free Software is about - making efficiencies by sharing the work. It's a fairly basic principle of economics - the benefits of scale.
Then GNU/Linux, by virtue of the GPL's mandatory-co-operation license, get's to be what Unix failed to be - a true industry standard.
(I'm simplifying some things here, please don't bait me pedantically about the details of the GPL, or the enterprise-readiness of Free Sofware).
In the UK phone rental used to be around five pounds a quarter.
Seeing as basic phones cost about 10 pounds, the new model is definitely in the customer's favour.
Actually sounds like a money spinner for the phone companies! Surprising this doesn't happen any more... perhaps people just wanted better phones and weren't taking up the rental option.
If you think that you can judge how healthy something is just by the number of calories it contains
I didn't say that...
If you are avoiding fruit (juice)
and I didn't say that!
What I did say is that:
* Fruit juice is actually quite high in calories * So is yogurt
my thesis, if you will, being:
* even healthy foods can be fattening if consumed in excess (which is what I was doing)
but
* some foods, namely salad vegetables like lettuce, cucumber, etc, are both healthy and unfattening even in large quantities
Your stomach would probably explode before you gained weight eating those foods!
And no, I'm not recommending you eat them till your stomach explodes...
You explained over and over what foods you are eating, and the only reason you gave was calories
Because the post was about foods and weight control, not foods and general health. But at the same time, I said nothing intended to discourage healthy eating.
That's all!
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plugged into lamp timers so they cycled power every night.
That's a great idea! I have a couple of NT boxes I could use that trick with until they get replaced with W2k. Thanks!
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Well, I've had both Linksys and D-Link wireless routers and access points and never had any problems with them, and Netgear switches have never let me down.
However, I suppose inconsistently good is nearly as bad as consistently bad!
Thanks, you've confirmed that you are indeed an uncivilised moron.
I will now shut the fuck up, not because you have won the argument, but because I see you are incapable of admitting you made a mistake. I generously put this down to the frustrated high testosterone levels of the 15 year old you probably are.
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What exactly do you mean by "technical intelligence" of our species? Do you mean the combined achievements of the human race? We've created the atom bomb, but 99.999% of people have no idea how it works and likely never will ..
Yes that's pretty much what I mean; I used the word species because I was referring to the species, not the individuals.
As far as common sense goes, the scenario is the excact opposite. The individual person has lots of common sense, but humans as a race have (almost) none.
Again, that's exactly what I mean.
I don't think it will be the "real loonies" that destroy humanity, but rather a few fundamentalists with nothing to loose (see: terrorist organizations).
You start to disagree with me, then you say exactly what I said, but with a slightly different choice of words. Why are you arguing with me when we agree so much?
Why? So we can then proceed to destroy other worlds in the same way as we have ours?
I understand your sentiment. My reason is to introduce diversity (to give us an evolutionary chance) and to reduce our population density (so there's less chance of there being capable loonies (a.k.a. fundamentalists) wherever everyone else is.
I like that "your" leaders comment, nice way to shift responsibility. They're our leaders. We've set up the political systems that they've manipulated to get where they are today.
What? I'm a Scotsman. We, with the English, Welsh and Northern Irish, elected Tony Blair. He signed Kyoto. The citizens of the US elected Bush, who wouldn't. So they're your leaders, presuming you're in the US.
Let's have some thoughts folks!
I thought "You seem very optimistic! This is slashdot, for crying out loud." Then I realised how negative I was being.
I'm no psychologist, but a futurist is anyone with an opinion about tomorrow, so here goes.
In a world where everyone has the power to destroy everyone else, we're already dead. There is no time to solve and understand mental illness. It only takes a handful of real loonies with access to total destruction weapons before we're all totally destroyed.
So in my opinion, if a cheap, discrete, total destruction weapon becomes generally available, then we're finished, no question.
As a species, our technical intelligence far exceeds our common sense and mental stability. Evolutionary dead-end.
How to mitigate this? We need to get off this Earth as fast as we can so our eggs are not all in one basket. We need to start this understanding and solving mental illness, of which you speak, right now instead of waiting till it's too late.
But when the most powerful nation on earth is so comfortable in its habits that Kyoto goes by it's wayside, what chance in hell is there of your leaders taking this scenario seriously? Or maybe it's just far out enough that they would pay attention. Hmmm...
in satin we trust
Personally I place my faith in silk.
VHS took off when camcorders allowed folks to tape themselves... ... shagging!
of course, it requires a linux dude to get it all to work.
I'm a linux dude, I'll do it (I already have for a company's mail servers). But I'm in the UK...
you may benefit from a combination of heartbeat and DRBD, which respectively provide IP address/service failover and a network (no special hardware required) data replication solution.
If you have appropriate hardware you might also appreciate Stonith, which provides forced-shutdown of a failed node (in the case that the failed node won't release the IP address, and hence you would otherwise have problems switching service).
If you're in the UK then give me a shout and I'll set it up for you (for a reasonable fee)! My contact details are available on my web site.
Why's everyone in a pissy mood today? It's Friday, the weekend is almost here...be happy! =)
Hmmm, maybe but I'm on 24-hour call out for a week as of now, so I can't enjoy my weekend as much as I'd like!
Yeah, sorry for being ratty! Not enough sleep.
I'm in the UK, I've ordered stuff from the states before, been told it would be a week, then waited a month.
So drop the xenophobia. I'm sorry you had a problem with your order from Tux games but one data point doesn't mean we have a different concept of time.
me for one.
You're almost exactly right (no need to hit delete in between).
And this shows that this "bug" is actually a feature! If this were windows, everyone would be doing ctrl+c, ctrl+v quite happily, and this WORKS in X. Only because people have their metaphors confused is there a problem.
OK so shift-insert is paste (I'm sure this was an early dos/windows shortcut too) but what's cut/copy? shift-delete did this in windows 3.1 or something... but won't work for me in X.
OK so how do I get my URL field into vi mode?
I'm half-joking, of course, but I do have superscroll installed in Firefox which lets me use hjkl for scrolling, I have 1 and G set to top and bottom of the page. Moving from browser to a real man's editor has never been more lovely.
Absolutely.
What the industry should be doing more is co-operating on the development of Linux and GNU to bring it up to par with the proprietary unices in terms of enterprise features.
As it's a co-operative effort, HP, Sun, IBM etc could put a fraction of their software engineering resource into Linux (assuming they end-of-line their proprietary systems sharpish).
What they save they should throw into hardware engineering, competing either in or against the x86 marketplace.
That's what Free Software is about - making efficiencies by sharing the work. It's a fairly basic principle of economics - the benefits of scale.
Then GNU/Linux, by virtue of the GPL's mandatory-co-operation license, get's to be what Unix failed to be - a true industry standard.
(I'm simplifying some things here, please don't bait me pedantically about the details of the GPL, or the enterprise-readiness of Free Sofware).
In the UK phone rental used to be around five pounds a quarter.
Seeing as basic phones cost about 10 pounds, the new model is definitely in the customer's favour.
Actually sounds like a money spinner for the phone companies! Surprising this doesn't happen any more... perhaps people just wanted better phones and weren't taking up the rental option.
And now you're on Slashdot! Success!
I don't think anyone "in free software" thinks development has no cost. I think they are keenly aware what the cost is - usually their time.
It's only a few idiots who equate Free with free.
However I think your charaterisation of open source development is either naive or trollish.
ha! Cool but watch the salt (I don't use salt on anything except eggs...) Also, S&P will get boring after a while...
;-)
Try the chilli flakes! You can pretend your munching on a spicy pizza
If you think that you can judge how healthy something is just by the number of calories it contains
I didn't say that...
If you are avoiding fruit (juice)
and I didn't say that!
What I did say is that:
* Fruit juice is actually quite high in calories
* So is yogurt
my thesis, if you will, being:
* even healthy foods can be fattening if consumed in excess (which is what I was doing)
but
* some foods, namely salad vegetables like lettuce, cucumber, etc, are both healthy and unfattening even in large quantities
Your stomach would probably explode before you gained weight eating those foods!
And no, I'm not recommending you eat them till your stomach explodes...
You explained over and over what foods you are eating, and the only reason you gave was calories
Because the post was about foods and weight control, not foods and general health. But at the same time, I said nothing intended to discourage healthy eating.
That's all!
plugged into lamp timers so they cycled power every night.
That's a great idea! I have a couple of NT boxes I could use that trick with until they get replaced with W2k. Thanks!
Well, I've had both Linksys and D-Link wireless routers and access points and never had any problems with them, and Netgear switches have never let me down.
However, I suppose inconsistently good is nearly as bad as consistently bad!
You're probably eating the wrong kind of lettuce. Let me guess - iceberg?
Thanks, you've confirmed that you are indeed an uncivilised moron.
I will now shut the fuck up, not because you have won the argument, but because I see you are incapable of admitting you made a mistake. I generously put this down to the frustrated high testosterone levels of the 15 year old you probably are.
Cheerio!
It's amazing how much you have misread into my words.
they'd have done one already
This. This is the part of the concept I don't get.
Go on, explain how they could have done it already, i.e. in the past, based on present demand.
Please.
Then i will shut the fuck up.
Thanks for your insight.