GNOME was written by some FSF fans at Red Hat, and the "G" fit the acronym better than an "R". The GNU label also nicely distracted attention from Red Hat, allowing other Linux vendors to package the desktop. No other vendor is going to ship a Red Hat branded desktop!
The compiler and C library aren't much better. The FSF wrote toy versions long ago. Since then, Red Hat and Cygnus (since purchased by Red Hat) have done most of the work. The FSF is just a way to make things look more vendor-neutral than reality.
Heck, I have a project that the FSF tried to get joined up. It seems the FSF has some sort of marketing group that goes around to various software projects trying to get the GNU name added. WTF? Anybody else get approached like that? (obviously, I told them in detail exactly how they could go to Hell for trying to rewrite history by renaming everything)
Given two people who do not desire kids, the stupid one is much more likely to have lots of surviving offspring.
Given two people who strongly desire kids, the smart one is more likely to have lots of surviving offspring.
Given two people of equal intelligence, the one who most desires kids will be more likely to have lots of surviving offspring.
So we have a situation where intelligence is an advantage for people who strongly desire kids, but a grave disadvantage for people who do not strongly desire kids. Desire for having kids is strongly selected for, no matter what the intelligence. Intelligence will thus drop in the short term, but recover far into the future when the not-wanting-kids trait goes extinct.
1. must be first to invent 2. must be first to file 3. must file within a year of invention 4. every day from invention to granting of the patent cuts the life by a week 5. if you mess up a date, you lose the patent and pay triple damages to any licence holders 6. if you mess up a date willfully, you go to jail
I think that would totally wipe out delaying tactics and many other forms of cheating.
Your point implies mine, given the current environment. Nearly all kids survive.
Having a larger family does not significantly increase the chance of any individual child dying, being homosexual, or being a monk. (BTW, note that advanced education has a negative effect on reproduction)
Having a larger family obviously means more children to live and reproduce.
With modern medicine, it's even good to have twins and triplets. Chances are very good that all will survive.
The countries with the highest tech development are the ones where the birth rate is the lowest because people have not adapted yet.
This is selection pressure. People are poorly adapted to living in advanced countries. The failure to reproduce is clear evidence of this.
In time, we will adapt to our new environment. The evolutionary survivors are those who desire huge families. People without this desire will mostly fail to pass on their genes. After a few centuries of life with birth control and abortion, life will be back to normal.
You say the car should play MP3, but what about: wav, ogg, flac, aac, and unknown future formats?
I may keep a car for more than 10 years. Can you tell me what sort of tech we'll be using then? It's bad enough to take a bet on USB, but it's either that or Ethernet.
One could offer both connections of course. If both are used, the added USB storage is visible to the added computer.
Make the car look like USB speakers. Make the radio controls look like a joystick with lots of buttons. Make the radio receiver look like a USB tuner.
When no computer is connected, it's all like a normal car. Add a computer (iPod, Mac Mini, Linux SBC, etc.) and the computer gets to operate everything.
Today, human evolutionary fitness means a burning desire to have children. Abortion and birth control will soon be defeated. People who use such things are being strongly selected against.
Evolution is moving fast on this one. We'll be back to having double-digit families in a few centuries at most. Eventually, people will be demanding high-tech help so that they can have several dozen kids per woman.
Those weapons aren't enough. People are too spread out. Think about all the little islands out in the oceans. There are people everywhere, with only those at the poles being completely unable to survive without outside help.
People have survived within several hundred feet of a nuclear explosion. Some of the Chernobyl reactor workers even survived. Chemical stuff doesn't cover much area at all.
Nothing short of major planetary impact is going to wipe us out.
Our environmental conditions changed drasticly about 40 years ago: birth control pills, abortion, and other baby-prevention mechanisms
We will evolve to defeat this. Formerly, the sex drive ensured reproduction. Sex drive is no longer enough. Those most fit to survive are those who really desire children. Faster but less-effective adaptations include stupidity (unable to properly use birth control) and a tendency toward fanatical religeon (Catholic or Islam).
Not many generations from now, today's low-birthrate areas will be back to having a dozen kids per woman. I think we could notice after several generations if we pay attention. I'll guess 300 to 400 years for full effect.
She feeds them by the dozen or worse. She provides blankets, selecting perfectly unwrinkled ones in soothing colors to ensure the cats will be happy. She pays to have shelters built.
Even the less-crazy people are totally enslaved by crop plants. We built elaborate irrigation systems, protect the plants from disease, spread the seeds around the world...
These cards have processors, ROMs, etc. Yes, they run code, and they control DMA engines.
Think for a moment here. Suppose an out-of-spec packet lets the attacker control the DMA engine. The attacker could write to any location in physical memory.
Not even OpenBSD is immune to such an attack, no matter how perfect the code may be.
Just where in the kernel source tree is this binary blob?
Right, it's not there. You can gloat about having a driver, but not about being more secure. If anything, Linux is more secure. You might have a vulnerable driver, but Linux certainly does not!
Put essentially all of the structural support outside of the living areas, like an exoskeleton.
This keeps fuel from sitting on the support structure. A few floors get burned, and perhaps collapse, but the structure remains sound.
With the right density of verticals, an airplane could be pretty well broken up. This causes the bulk of the fuel to go up in a quick fireball, which will dissipate most of the heat via a great big fireball.
A wider structure also spreads out the load-bearing structure. The width of an airplane then impacts a smaller proportion of the total.
You can see the logic by looking at things like 9/11. We commonly skip the year, especially in speech. The ordering is thus like ISO and Japanese as long as we don't care about the year.
Notation follows speech. Saying "9th August" means something entirely different from "August 9th". It would be counting 9 months called August... in other words, 8 to 9 years ending on an August.
Sometimes we do want the year though. We're not about to put it on the front or stuff it in the middle. Thus, sadly, it gets tacked onto the end. Oh well.
I'd probably fly a plane to visit another state. Crossing an ocean is just out of the question.
Remember: in the US we get 2 weeks of vacation per year if we are lucky. (very rarely, old dudes get as much as 5 -- it's mostly theoretical)
No time, no money, no travel. It's that simple.
The USA is big enough that normal people really don't have to care about the outside world. They'll never see it unless they join the military. European life is about as real as hobbit life.
They throw out places with income below 90% of the state median. As long as I can do fine, low income is sort of good. Crime is counted elsewhere, so that is taken care of. Low income makes my own income do better when I want to buy services. The same goes for education, unless I'm single.
They assume you care about public schools. Even if you do have kids, you might not use the public schools.
A lot of stuff relates to state averages. A bad school in New Hampshire probably beats a good one in Mississippi, but they don't consider that.
Leisure and culture is quite silly. You can't just trade a golf course for a museum.
Weather is one to argue over. I like it 80 and overcast. They consider overcast to be a negative.
Unbelievably, they count the money spent on vacation. I think they count it positively. Vacation is trying to escape the place!
The defective kid rate is 3%. The normal defective kid rate is 1.5%. Not good, but not hopeless either.
You can keep property in the family this way. You already know the in-laws. There are fewer screwy traditions to deal with, since you already share some grandparents. In general, bad surprises are unlikely.
I'm sure it's not difficult right now. Only the truly insane can't keep a marriage together for a few years at least. Most people manage to keep it happy for a few years, then fairly decent for a few more.
See if you last a decade.
Supposing you do, see how you feel about the work/leisure split after 4 or 5 decades.
I never heard anybody old say "I wish I'd spent less time with my family." Think you'll say that?
One of the saddest things I ever saw was a coworker receiving his kids for the weekend.
BTW, separate anything (cars, bank accounts, secrets, etc.) makes a split even more likely. The easier it is to split, the less you have to make you reconsider.
Actually, my wife (then girlfriend) volunteered after spending lots of time visiting a few of her friends who are happy stay-at-home moms. I'd never push someone into that; I'd try my best to avoid them in the first place. I've seen enough fractured families to see how it goes.
Both are capable.
You could swap roles. That can work, though you'll have difficulty breastfeeding. It's not a given that the lady has to be the homemaker, though most people find this to be more natural. In two out of three cases I'm familiar with, the lady showed quite some resentment. I don't think the males were all that happy either, to put it mildly.
Split things evenly, and you won't need each other. If you don't need each other...
There is little free time with only two tasks (career+home) for two people. You're going for three tasks (career*2+home) without adding a third person. That's more work per person.
Free time is time to spend together or just relaxing. Free time means less stress.
You get higher taxes, higher costs for commuting, higher costs for ready-made foods, and maybe you even pay to dump some kids in a daycare center staffed by the not-so-bright.
The only time you'll see her you'll both be tired, stressed, and busy with housework.
Money doesn't make up for the lost time.
BTW, it's really gross that you use the words "indentured servitude". If anyone is the indentured servant, it's the person who has to earn the money. It is proper to value and respect both roles. If you demean the homemaker role, it's little wonder that neither of you wants to take on that role. Somebody has to do it though. You might as well show some appreciation for the person who does it -- and it WILL be one person, with plenty of fighting if that's not the expectation, because you won't have the exact same standards as she does.
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GNOME was written by some FSF fans at Red Hat, and the "G" fit the acronym better than an "R". The GNU label also nicely distracted attention from Red Hat, allowing other Linux vendors to package the desktop. No other vendor is going to ship a Red Hat branded desktop!
The compiler and C library aren't much better. The FSF wrote toy versions long ago. Since then, Red Hat and Cygnus (since purchased by Red Hat) have done most of the work. The FSF is just a way to make things look more vendor-neutral than reality.
Heck, I have a project that the FSF tried to get joined up. It seems the FSF has some sort of marketing group that goes around to various software projects trying to get the GNU name added. WTF? Anybody else get approached like that? (obviously, I told them in detail exactly how they could go to Hell for trying to rewrite history by renaming everything)
tcc -- much faster than gcc, though little optimization
icc -- from Intel
??? -- something from IBM for Power chips
Given two people who do not desire kids, the stupid one is much more likely to have lots of surviving offspring.
Given two people who strongly desire kids, the smart one is more likely to have lots of surviving offspring.
Given two people of equal intelligence, the one who most desires kids will be more likely to have lots of surviving offspring.
So we have a situation where intelligence is an advantage for people who strongly desire kids, but a grave disadvantage for people who do not strongly desire kids. Desire for having kids is strongly selected for, no matter what the intelligence. Intelligence will thus drop in the short term, but recover far into the future when the not-wanting-kids trait goes extinct.
1. must be first to invent
2. must be first to file
3. must file within a year of invention
4. every day from invention to granting of the patent cuts the life by a week
5. if you mess up a date, you lose the patent and pay triple damages to any licence holders
6. if you mess up a date willfully, you go to jail
I think that would totally wipe out delaying tactics and many other forms of cheating.
Your point implies mine, given the current environment. Nearly all kids survive.
Having a larger family does not significantly increase the chance of any individual child dying, being homosexual, or being a monk. (BTW, note that advanced education has a negative effect on reproduction)
Having a larger family obviously means more children to live and reproduce.
With modern medicine, it's even good to have twins and triplets. Chances are very good that all will survive.
This is selection pressure. People are poorly adapted to living in advanced countries. The failure to reproduce is clear evidence of this.
In time, we will adapt to our new environment. The evolutionary survivors are those who desire huge families. People without this desire will mostly fail to pass on their genes. After a few centuries of life with birth control and abortion, life will be back to normal.
You say the car should play MP3, but what about: wav, ogg, flac, aac, and unknown future formats?
I may keep a car for more than 10 years. Can you tell me what sort of tech we'll be using then? It's bad enough to take a bet on USB, but it's either that or Ethernet.
One could offer both connections of course. If both are used, the added USB storage is visible to the added computer.
Make the car look like USB speakers. Make the radio controls look like a joystick with lots of buttons. Make the radio receiver look like a USB tuner.
When no computer is connected, it's all like a normal car. Add a computer (iPod, Mac Mini, Linux SBC, etc.) and the computer gets to operate everything.
Remember: survival of the fittest
Today, human evolutionary fitness means a burning desire to have children. Abortion and birth control will soon be defeated. People who use such things are being strongly selected against.
Evolution is moving fast on this one. We'll be back to having double-digit families in a few centuries at most. Eventually, people will be demanding high-tech help so that they can have several dozen kids per woman.
He's clearly right.
Those weapons aren't enough. People are too spread out. Think about all the little islands out in the oceans. There are people everywhere, with only those at the poles being completely unable to survive without outside help.
People have survived within several hundred feet of a nuclear explosion. Some of the Chernobyl reactor workers even survived. Chemical stuff doesn't cover much area at all.
Nothing short of major planetary impact is going to wipe us out.
Our environmental conditions changed drasticly about 40 years ago: birth control pills, abortion, and other baby-prevention mechanisms
We will evolve to defeat this. Formerly, the sex drive ensured reproduction. Sex drive is no longer enough. Those most fit to survive are those who really desire children. Faster but less-effective adaptations include stupidity (unable to properly use birth control) and a tendency toward fanatical religeon (Catholic or Islam).
Not many generations from now, today's low-birthrate areas will be back to having a dozen kids per woman. I think we could notice after several generations if we pay attention. I'll guess 300 to 400 years for full effect.
Haven't you ever seen a cat lady?
She feeds them by the dozen or worse. She provides blankets, selecting perfectly unwrinkled ones in soothing colors to ensure the cats will be happy. She pays to have shelters built.
Even the less-crazy people are totally enslaved by crop plants. We built elaborate irrigation systems, protect the plants from disease, spread the seeds around the world...
NASA does something in every state, if not every congressional district.
(see also: Joint Strike Fighter, and -- lest the Europeans gloat -- anything made by Airbus)
These cards have processors, ROMs, etc. Yes, they run code, and they control DMA engines.
Think for a moment here. Suppose an out-of-spec packet lets the attacker control the DMA engine. The attacker could write to any location in physical memory.
Not even OpenBSD is immune to such an attack, no matter how perfect the code may be.
Quit spewing shit.
Just where in the kernel source tree is this binary blob?
Right, it's not there. You can gloat about having a driver, but not about being more secure. If anything, Linux is more secure. You might have a vulnerable driver, but Linux certainly does not!
Put essentially all of the structural support outside of the living areas, like an exoskeleton.
This keeps fuel from sitting on the support structure. A few floors get burned, and perhaps collapse, but the structure remains sound.
With the right density of verticals, an airplane could be pretty well broken up. This causes the bulk of the fuel to go up in a quick fireball, which will dissipate most of the heat via a great big fireball.
A wider structure also spreads out the load-bearing structure. The width of an airplane then impacts a smaller proportion of the total.
You can see the logic by looking at things like 9/11. We commonly skip the year, especially in speech. The ordering is thus like ISO and Japanese as long as we don't care about the year.
Notation follows speech. Saying "9th August" means something entirely different from "August 9th". It would be counting 9 months called August... in other words, 8 to 9 years ending on an August.
Sometimes we do want the year though. We're not about to put it on the front or stuff it in the middle. Thus, sadly, it gets tacked onto the end. Oh well.
Being a Mac user, your day will never come.
Europeans buy groceries in other countries.
I'd probably fly a plane to visit another state. Crossing an ocean is just out of the question.
Remember: in the US we get 2 weeks of vacation per year if we are lucky. (very rarely, old dudes get as much as 5 -- it's mostly theoretical)
No time, no money, no travel. It's that simple.
The USA is big enough that normal people really don't have to care about the outside world. They'll never see it unless they join the military. European life is about as real as hobbit life.
If you can't lets your kids play outside unsupervized because of crime, it's rather uncivilized.
(either that, or "civilization" isn't all it's cracked up to be)
The same goes for angry commuters, panhandlers, not knowing the people on your street by name or even recognizing them...
They throw out places with income below 90% of the state median. As long as I can do fine, low income is sort of good. Crime is counted elsewhere, so that is taken care of. Low income makes my own income do better when I want to buy services. The same goes for education, unless I'm single.
They assume you care about public schools. Even if you do have kids, you might not use the public schools.
A lot of stuff relates to state averages. A bad school in New Hampshire probably beats a good one in Mississippi, but they don't consider that.
Leisure and culture is quite silly. You can't just trade a golf course for a museum.
Weather is one to argue over. I like it 80 and overcast. They consider overcast to be a negative.
Unbelievably, they count the money spent on vacation. I think they count it positively. Vacation is trying to escape the place!
You don't need to use euphemisms on Slashdot.
I'll translate: an atheist, unamerican, queer type
They are damn fine though.
The defective kid rate is 3%. The normal defective kid rate is 1.5%. Not good, but not hopeless either.
You can keep property in the family this way. You already know the in-laws. There are fewer screwy traditions to deal with, since you already share some grandparents. In general, bad surprises are unlikely.
I'm sure it's not difficult right now. Only the truly insane can't keep a marriage together for a few years at least. Most people manage to keep it happy for a few years, then fairly decent for a few more.
See if you last a decade.
Supposing you do, see how you feel about the work/leisure split after 4 or 5 decades.
I never heard anybody old say "I wish I'd spent less time with my family." Think you'll say that?
One of the saddest things I ever saw was a coworker receiving his kids for the weekend.
BTW, separate anything (cars, bank accounts, secrets, etc.) makes a split even more likely. The easier it is to split, the less you have to make you reconsider.
Actually, my wife (then girlfriend) volunteered after spending lots of time visiting a few of her friends who are happy stay-at-home moms. I'd never push someone into that; I'd try my best to avoid them in the first place. I've seen enough fractured families to see how it goes.
Both are capable.
You could swap roles. That can work, though you'll have difficulty breastfeeding. It's not a given that the lady has to be the homemaker, though most people find this to be more natural. In two out of three cases I'm familiar with, the lady showed quite some resentment. I don't think the males were all that happy either, to put it mildly.
Split things evenly, and you won't need each other. If you don't need each other...
There is little free time with only two tasks (career+home) for two people. You're going for three tasks (career*2+home) without adding a third person. That's more work per person.
Free time is time to spend together or just relaxing. Free time means less stress.
You get higher taxes, higher costs for commuting, higher costs for ready-made foods, and maybe you even pay to dump some kids in a daycare center staffed by the not-so-bright.
The only time you'll see her you'll both be tired, stressed, and busy with housework.
Money doesn't make up for the lost time.
BTW, it's really gross that you use the words "indentured servitude". If anyone is the indentured servant, it's the person who has to earn the money. It is proper to value and respect both roles. If you demean the homemaker role, it's little wonder that neither of you wants to take on that role. Somebody has to do it though. You might as well show some appreciation for the person who does it -- and it WILL be one person, with plenty of fighting if that's not the expectation, because you won't have the exact same standards as she does.