This is silly. Those who restrict themselves will simply be selected against, soon being replaced by future generations who have no qualms about selfishly grabbing as much of the Earth as they can. You might as well be one of them, allowing your descendents to be part of our future.
Evolution selects for successful reproduction. For humans in the modern environment, the main cause of reproductive failure is birth control. We are most likely to overcome this via mental changes, though don't be surprised to see a bit of a hormone level arms race against the birth control pill as well. In the short term, expect stupidity. It's a fitness trait if it helps reproduction (which it does), and the trait is not exactly uncommon. In the long term you can expect more effective adaptations, such as a burning desire to raise lots of children.
We will fill the Earth. If you resist, other people will fill it. (see above) Evolution demands that we fill the Earth.
Life will be a difficult struggle in a world packed with humans. Our future can not be any other way.
The obvious answer: one need not use just one single laser
Using multiple lasers also lets you spread them out better, so they aren't good targets.
Make little units. Rent space on rooftops for them. I'm thinking of devices in the 200-pound to 1500-pound range, with a size range from large microwave oven to small car.
Put a few thousand beams on the incoming projectile.
Why would you want teachers to waste time (their time, student's time, money, etc.) on stuff that is not of use?
Perhaps you believe that the test doesn't cover things? If so, then place your blame on the test **content** rather than on the **usage** of tests. The tests **must** cover all the stuff we expect students to learn, no more and no less. (of course, on test day one may get some random sample of the total test questions, such as 200 out of a million possible questions)
No Child Left Behind is good. Even if you have a cold-hearted disdain for the stupid kids, you must admit that providing them with some minimal education will help to keep them from being criminals. This is good for them, good for the economy, and good for our personal safety.
Sysadmins must apply patches IF AND ONLY IF they are army approved.
Sounds decent so far, hmmm?
The army has some committee that regularly decides which patches to approve.
Still not too bad, hmmm?
The committee approves patches for things that are being actively exploited.
Ponder that one for a moment. It means that every security hole will be exploitable on the army networks. Every security hole gets a chance, since "not exploited yet" means "not a problem".
That almost certainly means I'm not living in central Africa, so AIDS is pretty damn unlikely. It also probably means that I'm well-off even for a person in my own country, reducing the risk of AIDS even more. A zillion other things are more likely to doom my child. (assasination, kidnapping, extreme sports, crashed Ferrari, crashed yacht, etc.)
Now, what would I like...
Let's add a set of hormone-triggered genes to give the boys big muscles and a few inches extra height, while giving the girls great big tits. (must be hormone-triggered because it gets passed on) Let's add a few brain-related genes to make the kids smart. I want the average IQ to be 180. Don't forget the part of the brain that relates to social ability, because I want my kid to have a chance at political office and corporate ladder climbing. Let me choose attractive noses.
There were several articles. One was interview-like, one was a listing of the best new features, etc.
FreeBSD didn't beat Linux to a shipping kernel for SCTP. There are more Linux distributions than you can count. Also, let me introduce you to Gentoo and Linux From Scratch.
I used quotation marks for a direct quote. The article's author thought that 8+ was large. For some time now, you could get 8 CPUs in an totally standard consumer-targeted Apple machine.
I read over more than one article. One was more interview-like, one was a listing of FreeBSD 7 highlights, etc.
Performance monitoring in this case means taking advantage of CPU-specific monitoring ability. (the Pentium 4 needs a different driver from the Core architecture, which in turn needs a different one from AMD's stuff) It's nice, but old hat to Linux. (with oprofile being the standard Linux interface and perfmon being an alternate)
"Wow" is an expression of amazement. The author was happy to announce that FreeBSD was getting a feature found on Solaris, but preferred to avoid mentioning that Linux also had the feature. Prior to Linux the feature was uncommon, though it did exist on DG-UX and IRIX and it was part of an unratified POSIX standardization attempt. Outside of the UNIX world, NT had it. I've seen this odd behavior before; it seems that many FreeBSD fans adore commercial UNIX in some odd way and have a strange disrespect for Linux. I guess I can try to return the favor!
A number of changes are merely fixes, starting off with network performance.
I'm shocked to see FreeBSD claiming to be the reference implementation of SCTP. It's been in Linux for years.
Performance monitoring is of course old hat.
Heh. A "large number of CPUs" is 8+ to you. Linux is struggling to handle 16384. (yes, SMP-style NUMA with 1 OS image)
Tmpfs is way old.
ARM architecture is of course way old. Niagra is old too.
Wow, "(as seen in Solaris & others)" for the fine-grained permissions stuff. Can't mention Linux by name?
Of course Linux does high-definition audio.
SATA is old. (how have you been able to run FreeBSD without this???)
iSCSI is old.
MSI is old.
The libthr behavior (1:1) has been standard in Linux from the start. Linus never wandered off into the thicket of thorns that is N:M and scheduler activations.
deliberately deaf dumb blind and stupid insisting that that an exact fingerpint match and an exact DNA match sperm sample taken from inside a rape victim are "open to interpretation". She consented. He did a bad job, insulted her, and then admitted to cheating with her adult daughter. She got really pissed off and filed a false report.
It appears to be a backwards step in Evolution -- a conscious, reasoning multi-cellular organism becomes a petri dish full of single-cell organisms. No, there really isn't a "backwards" in evolution. We can certainly make a judgement call that something is yucky or undesirable, but there is no "backwards".
Sometimes simple organisms are better than fancy ones.
A petri dish is an ecosystem. (a trivial one if it has less than 2 organisms, but an ecosystem none the less)
Since HeLa can survive in a petri dish but you can't survive there, HeLa is more fit than you. Remember, it's survival of the fittest. HeLa wins, you lose. HeLa is more evolved, assuming your family hasn't had any significant changes.
Simply look at the selection pressures, and consider the least-exotic ways we might change.
The main selection pressure is birth control. I don't see much chance that the reproductive system can defeat birth control, though there could be a hormone quantity arms race against the pill. Mental changes can trivially defeat birth control.
The lamentable change would be increased stupidity, impulsiveness, irresponsibility, and fanatical religeous behavior. In the short term, this is likely to be the primary change.
Another possible change is attitude towards childbearing. In former times, a strong desire for sex was essentially equivalent to a strong desire for offspring. Now that the connection is mostly broken, we are likely to be selected for having a more direct desire for children. Producing kids will be at least as desirable as sex.
Another big selection pressure is diet. If you can live on french fries and Coke without dying, you have an advantage.
Other pressures include addictive drugs, child support laws, a different disease load, less need for menopause, etc.
The above is what I remember from reading the DOCSIS standard.
It probably was version 3. There was the suggestion that numerous channels would be in use for each purpose: shared download, shared upload, unshared upload. There was the suggestion that unshared upload channels would be allocated according to some vendor-specific policy, generally according to some idea of demand and/or fairness.
A provider could of course choose to make the upload channels be 100% shared or 100% not.
I guess one could also do an unshared download channel, but that doesn't make very much sense.
I think there was also a distinct channel for doing the allocations of channels and time slots, and maybe another for unknown modems to register.
You can be allocated a whole channel to yourself, or just timeslots on a shared channel.
Channels are allocated on demand. If you don't use your channel, it is given to some other user. When you start to need it again, a channel is given to you. There is some latency in granting a channel, and some latency in waiting for a timeslot on a shared channel.
As long as you have a dedicated channel, your connection is fast and low-latency.
If I had them, I couldn't pay to keep them. Storage probably involves liquid nitrogen. Given that there is a small chance I'd need the cells and a 100% change I'd be paying big bucks to keep them, it just doesn't make sense.
I sure don't want cells from somebody else.
I want my own cells. This does the job. In other words, this is the perfect answer. Embryonic stem cells just do not fit the problem and never did.
If I wanted to get all URLs out of a document, I'd grab anything that looked like one. I'd not care if it was in an HTML comment, in body text, in some weird tag (img, a, object, embed, frame... and whatever some drunk browser developer concocted this morning), or wherever.
Simply put, I can not hope to correctly parse the mess in the same way as IE 7 or even Firefox 3. Why burn myself out trying, only to miss lots of stuff? To be really correct I'd probably need to execute everything from ActionScript to VBscript. Sorry, but NO FUCKING WAY.
The only way I'm going to avoid loading the DTD crap as a URL is with a URL blacklist.
Look, we actually kill people. (and, BTW, they often try to kill us) A little harmless torture is nothing by comparison.
Waterboarding is just some temporary misery. There is no injury. It doesn't even occupy much time.
I think you greatly underestimate the impact of things like cold mush. Stuff like that can lead to depression and ultimately suicide.
All this stuff is rather wimpy. It's that way for an American public that is too squeamish to do what needs to be done. I'd have the bastards getting giant syringes of pig blood, botfly larvae placed in or near the ear, bukkake, needless dentistry, whatever... and if it kills them I don't care. If they survive, burn them alive.
BTW, I'm not terribly unusual. About 2/3 of republicans and 3/4 of Catholics support torture.
We routinely waterboard our own special forces as part of training.
Gee, it can't be that bad. I'm damn sick of these ideas that waterboarding mentally ruins a person for life, that waterboarding is pure evil, etc.
Sure, it's not nice treatment. It's a little more severe than changing a prisoner's diet to cold mush, maybe. (is that torture?)
Keeping people in prison is not nice treatment. Is that torture? Personally, if I got to choose between that and waterboarding, I'd go for the waterboarding.
Better might be to allow unlimited terms, none consecutive.
Maybe even: office holders may not run for any office (the difference being whether or not they can go from one office to a different office)
Include immediate family members, of course.
The office holders supposedly have jobs to perform. If we do in fact want them doing their jobs (not true if they make things worse, but...) then we certainly don't want them running around trying to get votes.
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I guess if you like hot dogs and broth-injected meat with a bit of a corn flavor, OK.
Industry won't be producing anything like an all-natural roast.
This is silly. Those who restrict themselves will simply be selected against, soon being replaced by future generations who have no qualms about selfishly grabbing as much of the Earth as they can. You might as well be one of them, allowing your descendents to be part of our future.
We are not free from natural selection and such.
Evolution selects for successful reproduction. For humans in the modern environment, the main cause of reproductive failure is birth control. We are most likely to overcome this via mental changes, though don't be surprised to see a bit of a hormone level arms race against the birth control pill as well. In the short term, expect stupidity. It's a fitness trait if it helps reproduction (which it does), and the trait is not exactly uncommon. In the long term you can expect more effective adaptations, such as a burning desire to raise lots of children.
We will fill the Earth. If you resist, other people will fill it. (see above) Evolution demands that we fill the Earth.
Life will be a difficult struggle in a world packed with humans. Our future can not be any other way.
Q: What is the meaning of life?
A: Reproduction.
The obvious answer: one need not use just one single laser
Using multiple lasers also lets you spread them out better, so they aren't good targets.
Make little units. Rent space on rooftops for them. I'm thinking of devices in the 200-pound to 1500-pound range, with a size range from large microwave oven to small car.
Put a few thousand beams on the incoming projectile.
Why would you want teachers to waste time (their time, student's time, money, etc.) on stuff that is not of use?
Perhaps you believe that the test doesn't cover things? If so, then place your blame on the test **content** rather than on the **usage** of tests. The tests **must** cover all the stuff we expect students to learn, no more and no less. (of course, on test day one may get some random sample of the total test questions, such as 200 out of a million possible questions)
No Child Left Behind is good. Even if you have a cold-hearted disdain for the stupid kids, you must admit that providing them with some minimal education will help to keep them from being criminals. This is good for them, good for the economy, and good for our personal safety.
Sysadmins must apply patches IF AND ONLY IF they are army approved.
Sounds decent so far, hmmm?
The army has some committee that regularly decides which patches to approve.
Still not too bad, hmmm?
The committee approves patches for things that are being actively exploited.
Ponder that one for a moment. It means that every security hole will be exploitable on the army networks. Every security hole gets a chance, since "not exploited yet" means "not a problem".
I just want my own children to average to 180. As for the rest of you, please remain at a disadvantage.
Not that it is necessary to renormalize IQ as people change; that hides population changes.
Assume I can afford this tech.
That almost certainly means I'm not living in central Africa, so AIDS is pretty damn unlikely. It also probably means that I'm well-off even for a person in my own country, reducing the risk of AIDS even more. A zillion other things are more likely to doom my child. (assasination, kidnapping, extreme sports, crashed Ferrari, crashed yacht, etc.)
Now, what would I like...
Let's add a set of hormone-triggered genes to give the boys big muscles and a few inches extra height, while giving the girls great big tits. (must be hormone-triggered because it gets passed on) Let's add a few brain-related genes to make the kids smart. I want the average IQ to be 180. Don't forget the part of the brain that relates to social ability, because I want my kid to have a chance at political office and corporate ladder climbing. Let me choose attractive noses.
All of that is worth more to my child.
They got burned by the move toward Java, .net, and similar stuff.
For running regular old app code, the Crusoe wasn't all that bad.
(considering the power usage, and considering the competition
of the day)
There were several articles. One was interview-like, one was a listing of the best new features, etc.
FreeBSD didn't beat Linux to a shipping kernel for SCTP. There are more Linux distributions than you can count. Also, let me introduce you to Gentoo and Linux From Scratch.
I used quotation marks for a direct quote. The article's author thought that 8+ was large. For some time now, you could get 8 CPUs in an totally standard consumer-targeted Apple machine.
I read over more than one article. One was more interview-like, one was a listing of FreeBSD 7 highlights, etc.
Performance monitoring in this case means taking advantage of CPU-specific monitoring ability. (the Pentium 4 needs a different driver from the Core architecture, which in turn needs a different one from AMD's stuff) It's nice, but old hat to Linux. (with oprofile being the standard Linux interface and perfmon being an alternate)
"Wow" is an expression of amazement. The author was happy to announce that FreeBSD was getting a feature found on Solaris, but preferred to avoid mentioning that Linux also had the feature. Prior to Linux the feature was uncommon, though it did exist on DG-UX and IRIX and it was part of an unratified POSIX standardization attempt. Outside of the UNIX world, NT had it. I've seen this odd behavior before; it seems that many FreeBSD fans adore commercial UNIX in some odd way and have a strange disrespect for Linux. I guess I can try to return the favor!
A great big resistor (could be just an arc) should do the job. You could store the heat by melting salt.
A number of changes are merely fixes, starting off with network performance.
I'm shocked to see FreeBSD claiming to be the reference implementation of SCTP. It's been in Linux for years.
Performance monitoring is of course old hat.
Heh. A "large number of CPUs" is 8+ to you. Linux is struggling to handle 16384. (yes, SMP-style NUMA with 1 OS image)
Tmpfs is way old.
ARM architecture is of course way old. Niagra is old too.
Wow, "(as seen in Solaris & others)" for the fine-grained permissions stuff. Can't mention Linux by name?
Of course Linux does high-definition audio.
SATA is old. (how have you been able to run FreeBSD without this???)
iSCSI is old.
MSI is old.
The libthr behavior (1:1) has been standard in Linux from the start. Linus never wandered off into the thicket of thorns that is N:M and scheduler activations.
Sometimes simple organisms are better than fancy ones.
A petri dish is an ecosystem. (a trivial one if it has less than 2 organisms, but an ecosystem none the less)
Since HeLa can survive in a petri dish but you can't survive there, HeLa is more fit than you. Remember, it's survival of the fittest. HeLa wins, you lose. HeLa is more evolved, assuming your family hasn't had any significant changes.
Simply look at the selection pressures, and consider the least-exotic ways we might change.
The main selection pressure is birth control. I don't see much chance that the reproductive system can defeat birth control, though there could be a hormone quantity arms race against the pill. Mental changes can trivially defeat birth control.
The lamentable change would be increased stupidity, impulsiveness, irresponsibility, and fanatical religeous behavior. In the short term, this is likely to be the primary change.
Another possible change is attitude towards childbearing. In former times, a strong desire for sex was essentially equivalent to a strong desire for offspring. Now that the connection is mostly broken, we are likely to be selected for having a more direct desire for children. Producing kids will be at least as desirable as sex.
Another big selection pressure is diet. If you can live on french fries and Coke without dying, you have an advantage.
Other pressures include addictive drugs, child support laws, a different disease load, less need for menopause, etc.
AMD happens to place the north bridge on the CPU die.
The above is what I remember from reading the DOCSIS standard.
It probably was version 3. There was the suggestion that numerous channels would be in use for each purpose: shared download, shared upload, unshared upload. There was the suggestion that unshared upload channels would be allocated according to some vendor-specific policy, generally according to some idea of demand and/or fairness.
A provider could of course choose to make the upload channels be 100% shared or 100% not.
I guess one could also do an unshared download channel, but that doesn't make very much sense.
I think there was also a distinct channel for doing the allocations of channels and time slots, and maybe another for unknown modems to register.
Cable allocates TV channels for data.
You can be allocated a whole channel to yourself, or just timeslots on a shared channel.
Channels are allocated on demand. If you don't use your channel, it is given to some other user. When you start to need it again, a channel is given to you. There is some latency in granting a channel, and some latency in waiting for a timeslot on a shared channel.
As long as you have a dedicated channel, your connection is fast and low-latency.
I don't have cells from when I was an embryo.
If I had them, I couldn't pay to keep them. Storage probably involves liquid nitrogen. Given that there is a small chance I'd need the cells and a 100% change I'd be paying big bucks to keep them, it just doesn't make sense.
I sure don't want cells from somebody else.
I want my own cells. This does the job. In other words, this is the perfect answer. Embryonic stem cells just do not fit the problem and never did.
If I wanted to get all URLs out of a document, I'd grab anything that looked like one. I'd not care if it was in an HTML comment, in body text, in some weird tag (img, a, object, embed, frame... and whatever some drunk browser developer concocted this morning), or wherever.
Simply put, I can not hope to correctly parse the mess in the same way as IE 7 or even Firefox 3. Why burn myself out trying, only to miss lots of stuff? To be really correct I'd probably need to execute everything from ActionScript to VBscript. Sorry, but NO FUCKING WAY.
The only way I'm going to avoid loading the DTD crap as a URL is with a URL blacklist.
Look, we actually kill people. (and, BTW, they often try to kill us) A little harmless torture is nothing by comparison.
Waterboarding is just some temporary misery. There is no injury. It doesn't even occupy much time.
I think you greatly underestimate the impact of things like cold mush. Stuff like that can lead to depression and ultimately suicide.
All this stuff is rather wimpy. It's that way for an American public that is too squeamish to do what needs to be done. I'd have the bastards getting giant syringes of pig blood, botfly larvae placed in or near the ear, bukkake, needless dentistry, whatever... and if it kills them I don't care. If they survive, burn them alive.
BTW, I'm not terribly unusual. About 2/3 of republicans and 3/4 of Catholics support torture.
We routinely waterboard our own special forces as part of training.
Gee, it can't be that bad. I'm damn sick of these ideas that waterboarding mentally ruins a person for life, that waterboarding is pure evil, etc.
Sure, it's not nice treatment. It's a little more severe than changing a prisoner's diet to cold mush, maybe. (is that torture?)
Keeping people in prison is not nice treatment. Is that torture? Personally, if I got to choose between that and waterboarding, I'd go for the waterboarding.
Better might be to allow unlimited terms, none consecutive.
Maybe even: office holders may not run for any office (the difference being whether or not they can go from one office to a different office)
Include immediate family members, of course.
The office holders supposedly have jobs to perform. If we do in fact want them doing their jobs (not true if they make things worse, but...) then we certainly don't want them running around trying to get votes.