This is why you should flood wire fibre to the desktop in any building you're planning to stay for more than a decade. Then you just upgrade the switches and cards, no need to rewire every 3 years.
Earth is increasingly short of fresh water.... space has unlimited comets with fresh water, just catch one
Minerals? -- space has more than one can imagine
Sure, of course it has. The question though is would it be cheaper to kill a few million people in a neighbouring country or to go searching through space for water and minerals.
The Hubbert peak. The end of the era of cheap energy. Oil won't run out, it'll just get more and more expensive to produce, taking up a larger and larger proportion of the economy.
There will have to be something very valuable in space to justify the energy required to get there. Probably the military domination required to ensure access to the remaining oil supplies. The Outer Space Treaty? Not worth the paper it's written on.
Hmm, perhaps the memories of the members of parliament, senators, congressmen and women should have their memories refreshed.
In fact, it's the pirates who benefit the economy most, they produce the goods at a far lower cost, the benefit is far and wide, what is saved on music and videos can be spent on more important items.
Philosophy is a word used in the english language. Defined in and by encyclopedia and dictionaries. Feel free to point to an authorative source which disputes the definitions I have highlighted.
Your other answers are mental masturbation, I've already pointed out that I'm right and you're wrong. Now go away.
Philosophy is a field of study that includes diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics, in which people ask questions such as whether God exists, what is the nature of reality, whether knowledge is possible, and what makes actions right or wrong. The fundamental method of philosophy is the use of reasoning to evaluate arguments concerning these questions. However, the exact scope and methodology of philosophy is not rigid. What counts as philosophy is itself debated and varies across philosophical traditions.
From Wikipedia.
Main Entry: philosophy Pronunciation: f&-'lä-s(&-)fE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -phies Etymology: Middle English philosophie, from Anglo-French, from Latin philosophia, from Greek, from philosophos philosopher 1 a (1) : all learning exclusive of technical precepts and practical arts (2) : the sciences and liberal arts exclusive of medicine, law, and theology (3) : the 4-year college course of a major seminary b (1) archaic : PHYSICAL SCIENCE (2) : ETHICS c : a discipline comprising as its core logic, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology 2 a : pursuit of wisdom b : a search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means c : an analysis of the grounds of and concepts expressing fundamental beliefs 3 a : a system of philosophical concepts b : a theory underlying or regarding a sphere of activity or thought 4 a : the most basic beliefs, concepts, and attitudes of an individual or group b : calmness of temper and judgment befitting a philosopher
Parents bring up a psychopath, psychopath kills parents. Sounds like problem solved to me. The fact that the rest of the "family" are taking advantage of the situation to sue a game producer speaks volumes.
320mb/sec peak rate? nice, but not very usefull for most applications.
Most? Most applications don't come close to requiring a sustained transfer from disk, sure there are specialist cases but the general case is small random reads/writes, hence the big buffers on filesystems and disks.
5M write cycles is a real issue with the flash disk you suggest, you really don't want to have your page file or swap partition on that.
Please... The Pentagon was probably running simulations of this situation back in the 1950s.
The US separates their civilian economic and military force, the Chinese apply a more holistic view. I doubt very much that the pentagon have bothered to simulate the economic war which is currently underway, it isn't within their remit, and the US government and the US people have a 5 year or less political horizon. That's a tactical timeframe, not a strategic one. The people running the economic simulations and making the decisions for the US are more likely organisations like the Rand corporation and most likely at the moment, the Project for the New American Century.
Part of being human is not to think like that but to apply reason.
I'm the one applying reason, you're applying emotion.
The fact that someone else can take it away does not mean you don't still own it.
If you don't have a way to stop them then you don't own it. All of the ways of stopping them involve the use of force, from the police and the law to doing it yourself. Ownership which cannot be enforced is delusion, not ownership at all.
You and your neighbours agree to abide by a set of rules governing ownership, and delegate their enforcement to a government.
I agree with most of what you say but this. We are forced to agree to a set of rules by men with sticks and guns. Take them away and the rules of ownership go out of the window with the TV during the resulting riots, looting and killing.
It's the threat of force and retaliation which maintains the status quo. Oh and annexing a large proportion of the world would be a bit more difficult than you suggest.
Disabling and blinding are forms of attack. A quick martial arts hint, always attack your opponent's weaknesses, in terms of the human body that means the eyes, throat and groin. The Chinese are now attacking two of the three, they're attacking the eyes through the satellites and also the US economy through the exchange rate.
It's a fascinating war to watch, especially considering that the US doesn't even realise it's at war and has been for decades.
"Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
Ownership is all about force. If you can stop someone taking something then you own it. Whether that force is exercised through the police, law, by rolling in tanks or standing there yourself with a pointy stick.
If the chinese can stop the americans flying spy satelites overhead then they own the space. If they can't, they don't own it.
An attempt to get people to change their system on a yearly (or less) basis. It's all about selling more chips. Why do you think they made mobile phones into fashion items?
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This is why you should flood wire fibre to the desktop in any building you're planning to stay for more than a decade. Then you just upgrade the switches and cards, no need to rewire every 3 years.
Sure, of course it has. The question though is would it be cheaper to kill a few million people in a neighbouring country or to go searching through space for water and minerals.
The Hubbert peak. The end of the era of cheap energy. Oil won't run out, it'll just get more and more expensive to produce, taking up a larger and larger proportion of the economy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
There will have to be something very valuable in space to justify the energy required to get there. Probably the military domination required to ensure access to the remaining oil supplies. The Outer Space Treaty? Not worth the paper it's written on.
Hmm, perhaps the memories of the members of parliament, senators, congressmen and women should have their memories refreshed.
In fact, it's the pirates who benefit the economy most, they produce the goods at a far lower cost, the benefit is far and wide, what is saved on music and videos can be spent on more important items.
Which can predict the future rather than just simulate the past. Economically, militarily, socially. That would be a masterpiece.
Philosophy is a word used in the english language. Defined in and by encyclopedia and dictionaries. Feel free to point to an authorative source which disputes the definitions I have highlighted.
Your other answers are mental masturbation, I've already pointed out that I'm right and you're wrong. Now go away.
Bullshit.
From Wikipedia.
From Merriam-Webster.
It's philosophy.
String theory is at the moment, philosophy. As soon as someone comes up with a way of testing it, it will become science.
Parents bring up a psychopath, psychopath kills parents. Sounds like problem solved to me. The fact that the rest of the "family" are taking advantage of the situation to sue a game producer speaks volumes.
Most? Most applications don't come close to requiring a sustained transfer from disk, sure there are specialist cases but the general case is small random reads/writes, hence the big buffers on filesystems and disks.
True, easily fixed.
No RAM, just a BFO RAMdisk and a big on CPU cache.
It hasn't been for ages... Yup, decades I believe.
C SIFFD/IDESCSIFFD/Products_/SCSI_Products/FFD_Ultra 320_SCSI.htm
The performance bottleneck is the disk and it has been forever. You want a really fast system today? This is what you need:
http://www.m-systems.com/site/en-US/Products/IDES
320Mb/sec burst rate, 40Mb/sec sustained and key... 0.02ms access time. It's the biggest performance upgrade you can make to a computer.
My question is where are the dual minigun mounts?
No? You'd think nobody would bother making SATA flash disks then...
http://www.m-systems.com/site/en-US/Products/IDES
If it was a big issue, you'd be using SCSI.
I'd like to see how the current crop of flash disks compare, in SATA, ATA and SCSI format.
Give me voice recognition, autolocation and a bit of AI. "Find me a local pub within 10 mins walking distance". That is what I want.
Feed the output back up to a set of screen glasses which need to be significantly less geeky than these: http://tinyurl.com/mzx9n
And engineering pales into insignificance compared to the amount spent blowing things up. And hey, what if they discover the anti-graviton?
The US separates their civilian economic and military force, the Chinese apply a more holistic view. I doubt very much that the pentagon have bothered to simulate the economic war which is currently underway, it isn't within their remit, and the US government and the US people have a 5 year or less political horizon. That's a tactical timeframe, not a strategic one. The people running the economic simulations and making the decisions for the US are more likely organisations like the Rand corporation and most likely at the moment, the Project for the New American Century.
I'm the one applying reason, you're applying emotion.
If you don't have a way to stop them then you don't own it. All of the ways of stopping them involve the use of force, from the police and the law to doing it yourself. Ownership which cannot be enforced is delusion, not ownership at all.
I agree with most of what you say but this. We are forced to agree to a set of rules by men with sticks and guns. Take them away and the rules of ownership go out of the window with the TV during the resulting riots, looting and killing.
It's the threat of force and retaliation which maintains the status quo. Oh and annexing a large proportion of the world would be a bit more difficult than you suggest.
They're not, they're trying to control the natural resources required by the world economies to operate.
Disabling and blinding are forms of attack. A quick martial arts hint, always attack your opponent's weaknesses, in terms of the human body that means the eyes, throat and groin. The Chinese are now attacking two of the three, they're attacking the eyes through the satellites and also the US economy through the exchange rate.
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It's a fascinating war to watch, especially considering that the US doesn't even realise it's at war and has been for decades.
Read Sun Tzu (Something the US government would do well to read)
http://www.gutenberg.org.nyud.net:8090/etext/1740
Attack by Stratagem...
"Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
Ownership is all about force. If you can stop someone taking something then you own it. Whether that force is exercised through the police, law, by rolling in tanks or standing there yourself with a pointy stick.
If the chinese can stop the americans flying spy satelites overhead then they own the space. If they can't, they don't own it.
An attempt to get people to change their system on a yearly (or less) basis. It's all about selling more chips. Why do you think they made mobile phones into fashion items?