Come on, they're never going to be able to make it to a park, never mind play an actual game of anything. And then, even if they did, they'd have to like actually talk to a real person, like in front of them. We're busy cultivating a generation of shut ins.
I pretty much agree with you that the human race as a whole is going to do just fine thank you, but how do you make sure that your family is one of the survivors if things do get bad?
Well, you have a family for a start, that's the obvious bit, then you accumulate enough wealth so that future generations have plenty of resources to bring up their own children.
Life always comes down to survival of the fittest, not survival of the nicest or survival of the most concerned about others, but down to the creatures that are willing to do whatever it takes to pass those genes on to the next generation.
Oh my god talk about hyperbole and idiotic moderators. The human race isn't going to die out. I mean come on. There may well be a few billion deaths, but there are billions more humans on the planet so lets face it, we're not facing a global extinction event...
The question you should be asking is how do I make sure that my family are the survivors in the coming tough times... Make sure the genes continue.
There are dozens of auction web sites/companies, there are even more payment processing web sites. If you don't like their charges or business practices, then bugger off to one of the others. They'll be happy to have your business and you'll have done your bit to reduce eBay's market share.
They're making sure that when you do want that chocolate bar or cup of coffee, it's the one advertised that you'll recognise in the store. Then you buy the advertised one because it's already familiar to you, you already know about it. It becomes the safe option, the others are unknown and therefore risky.
uhuh, which is fine, if the interest rate you're getting is higher than inflation. Except most inflation happens in bursts. You get periods of low inflation, it hangs round a couple of percent, everything is rosey then there's a "crisis" and it jumps 10% and over just a few years 30% of the value of your savings/pension is gone.
You might be better off switching to something which has some intrinsic value. Gold or silver for instance.
It seems that there are a lot of people out there switching out of the dollar as it loses it's value. A US dollar is only worth today, 1/20th of what it was worth 80 years ago, in real terms. It doesn't really make a lot of sense to hold all your savings in Dollars for long periods.
You're making the mistaken assumption that most of the cost of computing is the hardware... Or that it's CPU cycles that are being sold... That isn't even close to the truth.
I'd have to use social engineering methods via e-mail or IM, and the majority of people in both mediums won't be using Macs.
There you go. The reason sex exist at all and why monocultures are dumb. Diversity and variation makes life very difficult for diseases.
In fact the security advantage of OSX isn't likely to dissipate all that much, a monoculture will always be more likely to spread diseases, all it takes is a single flaw and there are going to be plenty of flaws in millions of lines of code.
Your processing power won't be taken away, you'll just be able to buy a $30 VNC set top box, which is what 90% of the population will do and will be quite happy with. Hell, no virus worries, no CDs, no license keys, it'll just work. Actually, no, the computer will most likely be free with a $5/month service charge... It'll do most of the stuff your PC will do.
We're getting to nearly 10mbps adsl rates, I don't think it'll be much longer, X and VNC work fine over those speeds.
Mostly the bandwidth of X, the bigger issue being network latency. VNC is slightly better, but you're basically right, a virtual machine running on a cluster of thousands of machines, making use of the least loaded of them. I can be done now. I've actually built such a system, with tens/hundreds of servers rather than thousands, able to support hundreds -> thousands of concurrent users. It is simple and effective.
What's happening is exactly the same process which made factories economically viable during the industrial revolution... That, is the bandwidth of the transport system. We're at the point where it's far far cheaper to have the computing in a BFO data centre and decent bandwidth to the home.
How many weavers, potters, carpenters do you know? Well, today's equivalents are programmers, system administrators etc.
... That the written language "should" reflect the spoken language. We make the unconscious (but unsupportable) connection that "written English" and "spoken English" are the same language, but they're not. They just happen to have easy mappings
Of course the written language should be a written representation of the spoken language. That's it's primary purpose. The pronunciation it represents should be an "official" pronunciation. For example Received Pronunciation.
The spelling for the English language was set almost completely by a single person; Samuel Johnson. He created the first really comprehensive dictionary and fixed the spelling of the spoken word at that point in time.
Choose European pronunciation when deciding the spelling. It's a pain in the arse when letters are pronounced differently in english and most of the european languages. Not only do you have a different language, you have a different pronunciation for the same letters.
It's really been standard practice on even minimally secure systems for decades. So I doubt the system concerned can be very important.
What the contractor should have done is to increase his rates when waiting around for permissions. You may well hate the bureaucracy but at least you're then being well paid for it.
If you're going to vandalise a political web page what you do is carefully insert and delete words like "do", "not", "does", "doesn't", "will", "won't". and so on. The result is far more subtle, far funnier and probably won't be discovered, ever.
This is patently untrue, and a ridiculous thing to posit.
You missed my point entirely. Why on earth are there even rules for software? Why are they checking? Who's business is it but the team's? The idea that they're even checking software is ridiculous in the first place.
Think of it like redirecting a river. It'll allow good ideas and politics to grow and flourish in the absence of the rotting quagmire that is popular opinion.
Slashdot Mirror
and my point is that subconsciously you're buying what's being advertised whether you pay attention to the advert or not.
Come on, they're never going to be able to make it to a park, never mind play an actual game of anything. And then, even if they did, they'd have to like actually talk to a real person, like in front of them. We're busy cultivating a generation of shut ins.
ok sure, it's flamebait, but true, nevertheless.
I pretty much agree with you that the human race as a whole is going to do just fine thank you, but how do you make sure that your family is one of the survivors if things do get bad?
Well, you have a family for a start, that's the obvious bit, then you accumulate enough wealth so that future generations have plenty of resources to bring up their own children.
Life always comes down to survival of the fittest, not survival of the nicest or survival of the most concerned about others, but down to the creatures that are willing to do whatever it takes to pass those genes on to the next generation.
I'll finally be able to actually crush some kids ribs and tear his elbow ligaments before giving him concussion?
Obviously. So that excludes many /. readers.
Oh my god talk about hyperbole and idiotic moderators. The human race isn't going to die out. I mean come on. There may well be a few billion deaths, but there are billions more humans on the planet so lets face it, we're not facing a global extinction event...
The question you should be asking is how do I make sure that my family are the survivors in the coming tough times... Make sure the genes continue.
Not even close.
There are dozens of auction web sites/companies, there are even more payment processing web sites. If you don't like their charges or business practices, then bugger off to one of the others. They'll be happy to have your business and you'll have done your bit to reduce eBay's market share.
They're making sure that when you do want that chocolate bar or cup of coffee, it's the one advertised that you'll recognise in the store. Then you buy the advertised one because it's already familiar to you, you already know about it. It becomes the safe option, the others are unknown and therefore risky.
uhuh, which is fine, if the interest rate you're getting is higher than inflation. Except most inflation happens in bursts. You get periods of low inflation, it hangs round a couple of percent, everything is rosey then there's a "crisis" and it jumps 10% and over just a few years 30% of the value of your savings/pension is gone.
You might be better off switching to something which has some intrinsic value. Gold or silver for instance.
It seems that there are a lot of people out there switching out of the dollar as it loses it's value. A US dollar is only worth today, 1/20th of what it was worth 80 years ago, in real terms. It doesn't really make a lot of sense to hold all your savings in Dollars for long periods.
You're making the mistaken assumption that most of the cost of computing is the hardware... Or that it's CPU cycles that are being sold... That isn't even close to the truth.
Ebay isn't the only auction site in the world.
Auction sites:
http://auctions.nettop20.com/
e-gold, worldpay, protx, google checkout. ok there's millions of them.
You're not stuck with ebay and paypal, you never have been.
Mainframes have been using virtualisation for decades. It's not going away, it's simply too useful.
There you go. The reason sex exist at all and why monocultures are dumb. Diversity and variation makes life very difficult for diseases.
In fact the security advantage of OSX isn't likely to dissipate all that much, a monoculture will always be more likely to spread diseases, all it takes is a single flaw and there are going to be plenty of flaws in millions of lines of code.
PlayStation V or Xbox 720 or whatever for games.
Your processing power won't be taken away, you'll just be able to buy a $30 VNC set top box, which is what 90% of the population will do and will be quite happy with. Hell, no virus worries, no CDs, no license keys, it'll just work. Actually, no, the computer will most likely be free with a $5/month service charge... It'll do most of the stuff your PC will do.
We're getting to nearly 10mbps adsl rates, I don't think it'll be much longer, X and VNC work fine over those speeds.
and ebay and slashdot. Any application based web site.
Mostly the bandwidth of X, the bigger issue being network latency. VNC is slightly better, but you're basically right, a virtual machine running on a cluster of thousands of machines, making use of the least loaded of them. I can be done now. I've actually built such a system, with tens/hundreds of servers rather than thousands, able to support hundreds -> thousands of concurrent users. It is simple and effective.
What's happening is exactly the same process which made factories economically viable during the industrial revolution... That, is the bandwidth of the transport system. We're at the point where it's far far cheaper to have the computing in a BFO data centre and decent bandwidth to the home.
How many weavers, potters, carpenters do you know? Well, today's equivalents are programmers, system administrators etc.
Things like VNC just make it easy.
Of course the written language should be a written representation of the spoken language. That's it's primary purpose. The pronunciation it represents should be an "official" pronunciation. For example Received Pronunciation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_pronunciati
The spelling for the English language was set almost completely by a single person; Samuel Johnson. He created the first really comprehensive dictionary and fixed the spelling of the spoken word at that point in time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson
Choose European pronunciation when deciding the spelling. It's a pain in the arse when letters are pronounced differently in english and most of the european languages. Not only do you have a different language, you have a different pronunciation for the same letters.
It's really been standard practice on even minimally secure systems for decades. So I doubt the system concerned can be very important.
What the contractor should have done is to increase his rates when waiting around for permissions. You may well hate the bureaucracy but at least you're then being well paid for it.
I don't remember the last time I got spam... Yup, couple of weeks ago. It's hardly the problem it was.
If you're going to vandalise a political web page what you do is carefully insert and delete words like "do", "not", "does", "doesn't", "will", "won't". and so on. The result is far more subtle, far funnier and probably won't be discovered, ever.
See, that's how adults do it.
You missed my point entirely. Why on earth are there even rules for software? Why are they checking? Who's business is it but the team's? The idea that they're even checking software is ridiculous in the first place.
Think of it like redirecting a river. It'll allow good ideas and politics to grow and flourish in the absence of the rotting quagmire that is popular opinion.
What email side? You've blocked everything but http and https. POP, IMAP, SMB, NFS etc etc etc etc etc are all blocked.