Do better on the benchmarks and it would be a smaller problem. People believe Intel is a performance winner, so AMD has to provide concrete evidence of equivalent or better performance. Easier said than done, but that's what can bring investment funding and sales.
The problem with not having much time to prepare, is the need to take action now rather than having more evidence which eventuality will occur. Even if the burst will miss from the source in question, there is always a chance another source will fry us if we're not doing anything.
Put them out about a light year away
Reflectors and deflectors, not detectors, should be placed in line with earth and the gamma ray source. If what they is true about goaltending being the difference between winning and losing the Stanley Cup, let's award the Stanley Cup to whoever places a deflector that stops the burst from reaching us.
One of the big problems is distance - the deflector has to be far away from us in order to cover the earth. A deflector can be launched to make a beeline for the star system, but the deflector wouldn't be any use in this case until it's far enough to cover the solar system in it's path across the galaxy. A deflector that works earlier would have to track the line between us and the Death Star, assuming the gamma rays can't be curved by some unknown gravitation source. Perhaps it would work to fire a series of deflectors that overlap in coverage as the earth orbits, with redundancy in case of a space collision with some fast moving thing.
May I also suggest we start building underground and ozone plants, with drone balloons to replenish the atmosphere?
When I lived in a state with daylight savings I always found it annoying because one day I'm getting up after the sun is up then suddenly the next day I'm getting up and it's still dark
Isn't that the whole point? Otherwise you would never get up before the sun, you lazy little bum.
How can energy records actually prove Daylight Savings Time wastes energy? If people use more energy, perhaps they are producing more while taking advantage of extra sunlight - making hay while the sun shines, as the saying goes. Do other states that do not have DST have unchanged economies? Also, there may be particular seasonal industries in the state that either involve more consumption or less consumption, whatever the case may be. As well, the heat of the summer and the whims and tastes of the people determine how much air conditioning is used.
Some people forget to change their clocks or forget the time is changed and make mistakes, which have a cost. However, there is also the benefit of the additional sunlight in which a lot of activity can be done, rather than having a nation sleep.
Odd to have a computer of this magnitude only in use for four years, though that might speak of its power inefficiency perhaps in light of new technology in 2012.
BUT
The year 2012 is the end of the Mayan calendar. This computer may have been actually assigned to find out what is going to happen in 2012. So it better have the answer in 4 years.
I just hope that they don't try to kill off DVD now. I'm perfectly happy with DVD
I don't miss this "war". Clearly, both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD both hold much less than a regular size hard disk you can buy for $100, and that kind of money buys very few Blu-Ray recordable disks. That only means there should be an even better recordable disk technology to come and the war might have existed only long enough to deter people from throwing their money at a technology that is going the way of the 8-track.
DVD is much more affordable, especially when you make a bad burn. By the time Blu-Ray attains even 1/4 of this affordability, a better offline medium is likely to appear.
Economically, it's more affordable to watch movies on DVDs and store data on external hard drives. Any nonvolatile storage new tech should rival this combination to make sense to the consumer.
Learning the language of large scale of computing is kind of interesting. So far, someone has informed us that an ABEND is an 'abnormal end' Which is mainframespeak for when something dies:)
And now,... The system goes on-line February 26, 2008. It begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, February 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug
So... what is the cute word for "abnormal life" in mainframe world? Even a link to a page of mainframe phrases would be nice, if someone could be so kind.
one tank of air and, say, 8 gal. of either conventional petrol, ethanol or biofuel could hit between 800 and 1000 miles
Mathematically it's at least 100 MPG, but that's assuming the air is free.
If the air isn't free, then a rating like miles per $ would be more informative.
Air could be compressed with the energy used in braking. The scary thing about compressed air is what could happen in an accident. Lugging around an explosion-proof thick walled vehicle might negate the fuel savings. Trains are heavy and run on metal rails--perhaps we should have the option for rails instead of asphalt.
You ISP can prove that you communicated with a bank using SSL.
So encrypt to the point no one can tell if there's even a proper protocol. Special hardware would be required to pass the signal around, routing to unknown branches - but surely this kind of protection will be needed anyways due to the rampant spying, wiretapping, identity theft.
Traffic would be huge (O(n^m)), and response times may be bad, though request-responses could be queued. It sure would exceed my bandwidth limit if I was ever listening for responses. Maybe this kind of technology exists already, though in use only by a few that are aware. Be interesting to know since my Internet has been slow for the last couple of days.
The impulsiveness of purchases is highest in low income categories
Further note that impulse items are low-priced items. A person who impulsively buys a car, but can't pay for it, doesn't help the seller who has to go find it. An impulse item may be stupid rather than it's-ok-to-have-extra, like batteries or tissues, but it has to be affordable to appeal to many people.
Tasteful ads that don't need clicking but still get the message across ought to still create some business. The buyer may have to be reminded a large number of times that s/he still has yet to make that purchase. It actually is not that hard to interest a buyer who is in the market--for the most part, follow the buyer's line of desire and counteract any objections like "burns too much gas", "too hard to see in daylight," whatever. Also to consider for web ad success--buyers are used to getting satisfaction from bricks-and-mortars stores, and the same completeness of service needs to be apparent the instant a banner ad is displayed.
There are many things that I want to know about a product/service, but I see very few everyday items advertised on the Internet on popular web sites. And ads resembling the fearful popup just scream "fear this product" and "fear the Internet", or at the very least they say "we don't appreciate the paranoia". Would there not be an automatic distrust of banner ads if useful items like power saws, eminently sellable from a manufacturer, don't appear in online ads? If only weird things are sold on the Internet, then only weird people will even consider looking at an online ad.
Clicking on an ad has been stigmatized, but the ad could do better if it displays an actual URL. After the user goes to the company site, there has to be a "tell me what I don't know" presentation. The user with money is typically sitting with a fancy computer with a number of cool features--this user doesn't want a few silly words and primitive line drawings. This user expects the business to expose itself on the record, in depth and detail. And it has to be easy or else there are a million other web sites begging to be seen.
Consumer confidence needs to be maintained. McDonald's shows part of the kitchen to people placing orders. Online purchasers may feel better, and may well be attracted, with visual monitoring and presentation of factories, packaging, delivery, as well as features and how-to. Big stores present the I-invested-a-lot-of-money-so-I-have-to-serve-you-well feeling, and online ads have to get away from the I-couldn't-have-spent-much-to-make-this-cheesy-ad-so-what-the-heck-if-you-don't-care idea. If clicking an ad takes a user somewhere fantastic, the Internet will make the ad renowned. The point might not be spreading advertising money over a large number of web sites but instead concentrating more on developing a company image while having the ad appear on a few sites.
Many television ads are well-produced because television time is expensive, and the ad has to be a good seller in order to justify its existence. Web sites should charge big bucks and provide a powerful reason to captivate the audience. That would be a good thing for us who are tired of seeing weird, ugly crap littering web pages, all the reason to buy larger screens so that scrolling down won't be necessary--and of course that's why screens are wide but very short, ostensibly to show movies full screen, right? Not!
Although businesses will save anywhere and use cheap advertising where they can get as much exposure as possible. This may be detrimental to web ads as a whole, but improving technology may be making it possible for web ads to sell better, for consumers to learn more about products and services, and for transactions to be less risky. In the end, web advertising ought to evolve to the next generation while purchasing becomes less running-around. Revival of the Internet sales idea would work out as long as good service is assured in every detail.
Burning our current carbon reserves is probably enough to get us all killed in a huge greenhouse. I would be completely against the idea unless we could make the excess carbon to be fixated in, say, more trees
Quite.
The printing industry had better take note.
Trees = paper.
People carry around little electronic gadgets and think they are better informed, but if they would only carry around more books and papers too, where the real knowledge still is.
Rather than only OLPC (one laptop per child) how about one set of DVDs per child, containing a set of textbooks holding the knowledge that can be gained from public school, any mainstream baccalaureate university degree, and any mainstream technical diploma, plus other reference materials such as encyclopedias, software, industry and academic references.
I venture it would be more economical to sink carbon into "value added trees", being hard copies of knowledge, rather than raw trees due to the need that poor people have of clearcutting forests for agricultural land. If we let the tendencies of the market to occur based on popular thinking in the population, we may rely on the hope an educated community would develop energy supplies that cause less pollution.
well Exxon mobile cleared enough profit last year alone to buy yahoo in cash, where as MSFT will have to resort to 50% cash and 50% stock.
Like stars, Yahoo is way overpriced. Buying with stock makes sense, if you are a company like Microsoft and able to turn Yahoo into something. If Exxon bought Yahoo with cash, it would take quite some time to realize a return on investment, about as much time as it takes to generate ROI on money paid for a star, from the star itself. BTW, if anyone wants to pay someone for a star, I'll take the deposit.
DFS - Distributed File System. Just create a share with each of these and POOL IT with a DFS system
It sounds useful, but really it's more trouble than it is worth to treat separate computer drives as one volume, in a large office. DFS would be useful for a network of computers in one place isolated from other meddling people, like a rack of servers.
Notwithstanding the low price of just buying a terabyte disk should you need the space, trying to make a hundred computers serve up a lot of bitty disk space is really silly in terms of the cost-benefit. The first problem is someone power cycling their computer or disconnecting it. Then there's the slow access over a long cable. Already that's cause for lots of running around making sure the computers are up. Then there's the problem of someone just moving a computer somewhere else, and you could spend days trying to find out what happened, especially if that somewhere else happened to be out-of-town, or just into storage when an upgrade is obtained. Further keep in mind that the small drives are getting to be old drives and liable to zonk out.
So, if your environment is lots of small files, just share the drives to use for redundant backups of files that are small yet important, and don't lose sleep looking for data in a suddenly unavailable drive. Also encrypt because you may well lose track of where the file went or what file exists. If you need to handle larger files and need more space surely the company will be able to afford larger capacity drives, as they are already using so many computers.
At the centre the floating rock would be in equilibrium gravitationally so it would not be moved. However, if you drill a hole in Jupiter through and through, put the same earthly rock into the centre, the gravitational forces will rip apart said rock. Why? The planet surrounding the rock pulls at the rock so one part of the rock wants to go south and the other part wants to go east and the other part wants to go north and so on. Rock explodes and becomes part of wall.
In the sun stuff at the centre is similarly pulled about by gravity, even bigger than Jupiter gravity. Stuff above the centre is pulled to the centre though and it keeps piling on.
I can't help feeling sorry for the poor devils working in unsafe conditions making things for pennies while the corporates sell them for hundreds of dollars. One may say that progress would be unattainable without the cheap help. Yet, decades ago when shipping was more expensive and risky, there was a sustainable local industry, albeit with lower standards and less propensity to sue for every little work injury, as well as lower wages.
Automation and technology will likely eliminate the exploitability of many countries. Then there'll be a fairer interaction, like the "cooperation" of space programs rather than sending third world astronauts to far off planets.
What will happen to business? Many startups can get a foothold in the increasingly competitive world by exploitation, but treating different countries as equals will mean more costs and scarcer resources. It may well be time to ramp up the drive to visit other heavenly bodies.
Unless a person is a complete moron, a gene isn't going to stop learning. Consequences tell a person what is wrong. Learning the right way can still be inhibited by other factors such as not having enough time or not having a good teacher.
Learning in sports is classic. A person can lose point after point by failing to do something, and may well know there is a problem. That doesn't mean the person knows what is right. Instruction or time to think is needed, and these elements are usually unavailable until after the game is lost.
Hasn't digital art been practically free for at least an entire generation already? It feels like it anyways. So far, artists haven't stopped wanting to create though it would be fair to ensure that they get some recompense. There's no going back to the old days, though.
Let's make sure that we continue to enjoy high quality digital art no matter what happens to the industry. There are many reasons. Copyrights will expire, corporates are rapists, new content always marginalizes old content anyways, etc. I propose that we start open source art content that everyone can contribute to modifying or improving until it's something really good. Someone may be good at one part of making a work, but doesn't have the talent in another part - no problem if different talent can be used to fix it up. Currently, we have some adventurous souls on YouTube, etc. to show that the desire for fame and glory exists with no need for pay. So if some of this energy is channeled into collaborative and edited output, who knows what may result.
The warning about too many cooks must be heeded, but that's what version control is for!
Slot loaders look voracious, and what keeps them from scratching the disk when it slides in and out? If the ejector fails perhaps on a bad disk, it's surgery time for the entire drive. Ask for trouble, and ye shall find it.
Not knowing much about how SETI is designed, I know that we're a moving solar system so if an alien on another moving planet received a signal from a certain broadcast direction and just reflected the beam in the direction of greatest strength, perhaps in the direction of a mobile gravitationally lensing black hole, even just ten light years in round trip time, the signal would miss us completely.
Of course atheism is a religion, it is a system of belief about the supernatural nature (or lack there of) of this universe. It's the null religion. Do you believe that zero is not a number? Or perhaps that a null pointer isn't a pointer at all? Come on now. If it isn't a relgion is it a taco?
Although Webster's Dictionary has a definition of religion as belief in a particular ultimate reality, in the common logical viewpoint of null membership, can one say null religion? Suppose there is a radical cult or social belief. If I don't subscribe to the bizarre, the wanton, or the ugly am I still a null and obnoxious skinhead by default? Is a Windows user a null Linux wannabe? Probably so, probably so.
I can use software that watches me. For one, I would know that something in this universe actually loves me, and if it knows what kind of help I need, that's more than I know.
Slashdot Mirror
Ooooh. That's a lot of potatoes.
- difficult for AMD to catch up
Do better on the benchmarks and it would be a smaller problem. People believe Intel is a performance winner, so AMD has to provide concrete evidence of equivalent or better performance. Easier said than done, but that's what can bring investment funding and sales.
They saw a DESK? WTF!
And a spy satellite looking at us would see how much then? Can they look into office buildings? What about a camera in a building 10 blocks away?
prepare
The problem with not having much time to prepare, is the need to take action now rather than having more evidence which eventuality will occur. Even if the burst will miss from the source in question, there is always a chance another source will fry us if we're not doing anything.
Put them out about a light year away
Reflectors and deflectors, not detectors, should be placed in line with earth and the gamma ray source. If what they is true about goaltending being the difference between winning and losing the Stanley Cup, let's award the Stanley Cup to whoever places a deflector that stops the burst from reaching us.
One of the big problems is distance - the deflector has to be far away from us in order to cover the earth. A deflector can be launched to make a beeline for the star system, but the deflector wouldn't be any use in this case until it's far enough to cover the solar system in it's path across the galaxy. A deflector that works earlier would have to track the line between us and the Death Star, assuming the gamma rays can't be curved by some unknown gravitation source. Perhaps it would work to fire a series of deflectors that overlap in coverage as the earth orbits, with redundancy in case of a space collision with some fast moving thing.
May I also suggest we start building underground and ozone plants, with drone balloons to replenish the atmosphere?
When I lived in a state with daylight savings I always found it annoying because one day I'm getting up after the sun is up then suddenly the next day I'm getting up and it's still dark
Isn't that the whole point? Otherwise you would never get up before the sun, you lazy little bum.
How can energy records actually prove Daylight Savings Time wastes energy? If people use more energy, perhaps they are producing more while taking advantage of extra sunlight - making hay while the sun shines, as the saying goes. Do other states that do not have DST have unchanged economies? Also, there may be particular seasonal industries in the state that either involve more consumption or less consumption, whatever the case may be. As well, the heat of the summer and the whims and tastes of the people determine how much air conditioning is used.
Some people forget to change their clocks or forget the time is changed and make mistakes, which have a cost. However, there is also the benefit of the additional sunlight in which a lot of activity can be done, rather than having a nation sleep.
Odd to have a computer of this magnitude only in use for four years, though that might speak of its power inefficiency perhaps in light of new technology in 2012.
BUT
The year 2012 is the end of the Mayan calendar. This computer may have been actually assigned to find out what is going to happen in 2012. So it better have the answer in 4 years.
I just hope that they don't try to kill off DVD now. I'm perfectly happy with DVD
I don't miss this "war". Clearly, both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD both hold much less than a regular size hard disk you can buy for $100, and that kind of money buys very few Blu-Ray recordable disks. That only means there should be an even better recordable disk technology to come and the war might have existed only long enough to deter people from throwing their money at a technology that is going the way of the 8-track.
DVD is much more affordable, especially when you make a bad burn. By the time Blu-Ray attains even 1/4 of this affordability, a better offline medium is likely to appear.
Economically, it's more affordable to watch movies on DVDs and store data on external hard drives. Any nonvolatile storage new tech should rival this combination to make sense to the consumer.
Learning the language of large scale of computing is kind of interesting. So far, someone has informed us that an ABEND is an 'abnormal end' Which is mainframespeak for when something dies :)
... The system goes on-line February 26, 2008. It begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, February 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug
... what is the cute word for "abnormal life" in mainframe world? Even a link to a page of mainframe phrases would be nice, if someone could be so kind.
And now,
So
one tank of air and, say, 8 gal. of either conventional petrol, ethanol or biofuel could hit between 800 and 1000 miles
Mathematically it's at least 100 MPG, but that's assuming the air is free.
If the air isn't free, then a rating like miles per $ would be more informative.
Air could be compressed with the energy used in braking. The scary thing about compressed air is what could happen in an accident. Lugging around an explosion-proof thick walled vehicle might negate the fuel savings. Trains are heavy and run on metal rails--perhaps we should have the option for rails instead of asphalt.
You ISP can prove that you communicated with a bank using SSL.
So encrypt to the point no one can tell if there's even a proper protocol. Special hardware would be required to pass the signal around, routing to unknown branches - but surely this kind of protection will be needed anyways due to the rampant spying, wiretapping, identity theft.
Traffic would be huge (O(n^m)), and response times may be bad, though request-responses could be queued. It sure would exceed my bandwidth limit if I was ever listening for responses. Maybe this kind of technology exists already, though in use only by a few that are aware. Be interesting to know since my Internet has been slow for the last couple of days.
The impulsiveness of purchases is highest in low income categories
Further note that impulse items are low-priced items. A person who impulsively buys a car, but can't pay for it, doesn't help the seller who has to go find it. An impulse item may be stupid rather than it's-ok-to-have-extra, like batteries or tissues, but it has to be affordable to appeal to many people.
Tasteful ads that don't need clicking but still get the message across ought to still create some business. The buyer may have to be reminded a large number of times that s/he still has yet to make that purchase. It actually is not that hard to interest a buyer who is in the market--for the most part, follow the buyer's line of desire and counteract any objections like "burns too much gas", "too hard to see in daylight," whatever. Also to consider for web ad success--buyers are used to getting satisfaction from bricks-and-mortars stores, and the same completeness of service needs to be apparent the instant a banner ad is displayed.
There are many things that I want to know about a product/service, but I see very few everyday items advertised on the Internet on popular web sites. And ads resembling the fearful popup just scream "fear this product" and "fear the Internet", or at the very least they say "we don't appreciate the paranoia". Would there not be an automatic distrust of banner ads if useful items like power saws, eminently sellable from a manufacturer, don't appear in online ads? If only weird things are sold on the Internet, then only weird people will even consider looking at an online ad.
Clicking on an ad has been stigmatized, but the ad could do better if it displays an actual URL. After the user goes to the company site, there has to be a "tell me what I don't know" presentation. The user with money is typically sitting with a fancy computer with a number of cool features--this user doesn't want a few silly words and primitive line drawings. This user expects the business to expose itself on the record, in depth and detail. And it has to be easy or else there are a million other web sites begging to be seen.
Consumer confidence needs to be maintained. McDonald's shows part of the kitchen to people placing orders. Online purchasers may feel better, and may well be attracted, with visual monitoring and presentation of factories, packaging, delivery, as well as features and how-to. Big stores present the I-invested-a-lot-of-money-so-I-have-to-serve-you-well feeling, and online ads have to get away from the I-couldn't-have-spent-much-to-make-this-cheesy-ad-so-what-the-heck-if-you-don't-care idea. If clicking an ad takes a user somewhere fantastic, the Internet will make the ad renowned. The point might not be spreading advertising money over a large number of web sites but instead concentrating more on developing a company image while having the ad appear on a few sites.
Many television ads are well-produced because television time is expensive, and the ad has to be a good seller in order to justify its existence. Web sites should charge big bucks and provide a powerful reason to captivate the audience. That would be a good thing for us who are tired of seeing weird, ugly crap littering web pages, all the reason to buy larger screens so that scrolling down won't be necessary--and of course that's why screens are wide but very short, ostensibly to show movies full screen, right? Not!
Although businesses will save anywhere and use cheap advertising where they can get as much exposure as possible. This may be detrimental to web ads as a whole, but improving technology may be making it possible for web ads to sell better, for consumers to learn more about products and services, and for transactions to be less risky. In the end, web advertising ought to evolve to the next generation while purchasing becomes less running-around. Revival of the Internet sales idea would work out as long as good service is assured in every detail.
Burning our current carbon reserves is probably enough to get us all killed in a huge greenhouse. I would be completely against the idea unless we could make the excess carbon to be fixated in, say, more trees
Quite.
The printing industry had better take note.
Trees = paper.
People carry around little electronic gadgets and think they are better informed, but if they would only carry around more books and papers too, where the real knowledge still is.
Rather than only OLPC (one laptop per child) how about one set of DVDs per child, containing a set of textbooks holding the knowledge that can be gained from public school, any mainstream baccalaureate university degree, and any mainstream technical diploma, plus other reference materials such as encyclopedias, software, industry and academic references.
I venture it would be more economical to sink carbon into "value added trees", being hard copies of knowledge, rather than raw trees due to the need that poor people have of clearcutting forests for agricultural land. If we let the tendencies of the market to occur based on popular thinking in the population, we may rely on the hope an educated community would develop energy supplies that cause less pollution.
A planet-forming cloud ... to a star, that kind of weather is hail.
well Exxon mobile cleared enough profit last year alone to buy yahoo in cash, where as MSFT will have to resort to 50% cash and 50% stock.
Like stars, Yahoo is way overpriced. Buying with stock makes sense, if you are a company like Microsoft and able to turn Yahoo into something. If Exxon bought Yahoo with cash, it would take quite some time to realize a return on investment, about as much time as it takes to generate ROI on money paid for a star, from the star itself. BTW, if anyone wants to pay someone for a star, I'll take the deposit.
DFS - Distributed File System. Just create a share with each of these and POOL IT with a DFS system
It sounds useful, but really it's more trouble than it is worth to treat separate computer drives as one volume, in a large office. DFS would be useful for a network of computers in one place isolated from other meddling people, like a rack of servers.
Notwithstanding the low price of just buying a terabyte disk should you need the space, trying to make a hundred computers serve up a lot of bitty disk space is really silly in terms of the cost-benefit. The first problem is someone power cycling their computer or disconnecting it. Then there's the slow access over a long cable. Already that's cause for lots of running around making sure the computers are up. Then there's the problem of someone just moving a computer somewhere else, and you could spend days trying to find out what happened, especially if that somewhere else happened to be out-of-town, or just into storage when an upgrade is obtained. Further keep in mind that the small drives are getting to be old drives and liable to zonk out.
So, if your environment is lots of small files, just share the drives to use for redundant backups of files that are small yet important, and don't lose sleep looking for data in a suddenly unavailable drive. Also encrypt because you may well lose track of where the file went or what file exists. If you need to handle larger files and need more space surely the company will be able to afford larger capacity drives, as they are already using so many computers.
zero gravity at the centre and the sun can't fuse
At the centre the floating rock would be in equilibrium gravitationally so it would not be moved. However, if you drill a hole in Jupiter through and through, put the same earthly rock into the centre, the gravitational forces will rip apart said rock. Why? The planet surrounding the rock pulls at the rock so one part of the rock wants to go south and the other part wants to go east and the other part wants to go north and so on. Rock explodes and becomes part of wall.
In the sun stuff at the centre is similarly pulled about by gravity, even bigger than Jupiter gravity. Stuff above the centre is pulled to the centre though and it keeps piling on.
anti-corporate
I can't help feeling sorry for the poor devils working in unsafe conditions making things for pennies while the corporates sell them for hundreds of dollars. One may say that progress would be unattainable without the cheap help. Yet, decades ago when shipping was more expensive and risky, there was a sustainable local industry, albeit with lower standards and less propensity to sue for every little work injury, as well as lower wages.
Automation and technology will likely eliminate the exploitability of many countries. Then there'll be a fairer interaction, like the "cooperation" of space programs rather than sending third world astronauts to far off planets.
What will happen to business? Many startups can get a foothold in the increasingly competitive world by exploitation, but treating different countries as equals will mean more costs and scarcer resources. It may well be time to ramp up the drive to visit other heavenly bodies.
how to get around them, so they are no longer annoying
That might be too optimistic, but I'll assume the glass is half full.
Unless a person is a complete moron, a gene isn't going to stop learning. Consequences tell a person what is wrong. Learning the right way can still be inhibited by other factors such as not having enough time or not having a good teacher.
Learning in sports is classic. A person can lose point after point by failing to do something, and may well know there is a problem. That doesn't mean the person knows what is right. Instruction or time to think is needed, and these elements are usually unavailable until after the game is lost.
Hasn't digital art been practically free for at least an entire generation already? It feels like it anyways. So far, artists haven't stopped wanting to create though it would be fair to ensure that they get some recompense. There's no going back to the old days, though.
Let's make sure that we continue to enjoy high quality digital art no matter what happens to the industry. There are many reasons. Copyrights will expire, corporates are rapists, new content always marginalizes old content anyways, etc. I propose that we start open source art content that everyone can contribute to modifying or improving until it's something really good. Someone may be good at one part of making a work, but doesn't have the talent in another part - no problem if different talent can be used to fix it up. Currently, we have some adventurous souls on YouTube, etc. to show that the desire for fame and glory exists with no need for pay. So if some of this energy is channeled into collaborative and edited output, who knows what may result.
The warning about too many cooks must be heeded, but that's what version control is for!
Slot loaders look voracious, and what keeps them from scratching the disk when it slides in and out? If the ejector fails perhaps on a bad disk, it's surgery time for the entire drive. Ask for trouble, and ye shall find it.
Not knowing much about how SETI is designed, I know that we're a moving solar system so if an alien on another moving planet received a signal from a certain broadcast direction and just reflected the beam in the direction of greatest strength, perhaps in the direction of a mobile gravitationally lensing black hole, even just ten light years in round trip time, the signal would miss us completely.
Of course atheism is a religion, it is a system of belief about the supernatural nature (or lack there of) of this universe. It's the null religion. Do you believe that zero is not a number? Or perhaps that a null pointer isn't a pointer at all? Come on now. If it isn't a relgion is it a taco?
Although Webster's Dictionary has a definition of religion as belief in a particular ultimate reality, in the common logical viewpoint of null membership, can one say null religion? Suppose there is a radical cult or social belief. If I don't subscribe to the bizarre, the wanton, or the ugly am I still a null and obnoxious skinhead by default? Is a Windows user a null Linux wannabe? Probably so, probably so.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of virgins
I can't see the trees for the forests.
I, for one, do not welcome our papal overlords.
I can use software that watches me. For one, I would know that something in this universe actually loves me, and if it knows what kind of help I need, that's more than I know.