Is nice to finally meet someone that never saw Back to the Future. The MrFusion (and others in my message) reference is right from there, Sometimes culture matter more than hard science, because hard science probably would put as pretty hard in practice to seriously think on going to other stars in 100 years.
...or Tizen were my first ideas. But maybe there are smaller alternatives if you plan to run only your frontend, some olf then not being even linux based (bsds, qnx, others?)
In 1985 was tought that we would have by now in every home fusion reactors, antigrav vehicles, and even fax machines under each tv set. And internet was somewhat absent. To have starships in 100 years not just must be practical (like in "not requiring the energy output of our entire planet for a year to get to other star") but also the culture (as in "is profitable to build and investigate with that goal") should go in the same direction.
Shorter term goals, like developing self-sustained colonies in space (not city sized, but for a somewhat small crew to do somewhat interesting space tasks like investigation, asteroid mining or moving, space labs/factories, etc) are more feasible and could make enough profit to have in 100 years something in the middle scale up there
Staying here, keeping it habitable, limiting our growing and being more efficient using resources and territory definately is cheaper (at least, for now) than going to space. But there could be situation where staying here will not be an option, and not having developed space by then will leave us as rich corpses.
The process so far of going into space, solving the hard problem of going up there and stay, had left us so far a bunch of great technologies that are very important in our current way of life. In the future, if we keep trying and solve the very hard problem of i.e. having self-sustainable space stations or terraforming other planets, we should develop things that surely will be very helpful to improve this planet, and we will have an option if shit happens down here.
Time passes, civilizations and cultures come and go with enough time, we know that we are able to try to do that now, but who knows what will come next, maybe will be easier, or maybe we will run out of time
My toughts exactly. Android is nice, have a lot of apps, but for the OS itself WebOS should be better (and probably the available apps are enough for your needs).
For alternate OSs for that device, would go to Meego, or another linux distro (ubuntu?), or maybe in some time, Tizen.
In the plus side, cellphone like devices will be even more obiquitous. In the minus side, a tinfoil hat won't be enough anymore, you could get implanted tracking devices for the rest of your life, that not just tell where you are.
For what percent of population, the top 1%? For the rest, don't matter a lot raising or not the retirement age, even if you could surpass 100, you wouldnt want to. More lifetime for that top 1% will mean even wider gap between top and the rest.
Look a bit closer. Even getting into orbit could had the very same reasoning behind. Even today we aren't having our colony vacations in orbit, and probably won't for decades if ever. But how much it changed the world getting there for something else, and developing the associated technologies for getting there and taking advantage of that fact? A lot of the consequences of getting there wasnt even imagined by the time the race started. Not sure if we will ever terraform Mars, or even put self sustainable colonies up there. But all that we should develop to get that goal will give us a lot of benefits down here.
Also, that kind of reasoning will delay that forever, always should be a better use of money in the present instead of betting on having a future. Earth history is full of events that could make all saved pennies worthless, our time here could be running out, no matter if that will be next year, next millenium, or a millon years later, and we can do something about it now, not sure later.
Regarding the "top 1%", if an incoming disaster threaten us in the middle/short term, if its the solution their assets will finance a colony on mars... and they will be the ones that will be saved. We've seen that so many times in movies that will not surprise anyone if it ever happens.
That he died is something serious, not a popularity contest party like was Jobs death. All the ones that claim to be giants now (dead or alive), are mostly dwarfs standing over Ritchie's shoulders.
The world as we know it must be close to an end in the short term, and those in power should know about it. How else you explain promoting everything that gives no future for anyone (ok, maybe except for the few very rich ones) in the middle term? After them, the deluge.
Oil is not just for energy, it used to make i.e. plastics. Burning it as fuel solves the energy problem in the very short term, problem for what we have alternate solutions. But we have alternate solutions for all the products made from it?
You have Opera, Chrome and Firefox for most current desktop platforms, could be interesting to see how much of this keeps being valid in most of them. Also to see how this holds under Mac OS X in the Safari front.
If you handle them a bit of plutonium maybe they could install on it batteries that hold 1.2gigawatts, and you'll never get late to work, in fact, you can get there too early.
It could be Octarine. Not sure if being able to do or at least see magic is considered superpower, but it could have interesting applications. In any case, is better than seeing infra-black.
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The nice thing about platforms not tied to particular hardware is that can be installed in other (older or newer) devices. I can install meego in my N900, and probably will be able to install Tizen on it. And wouldnt be so surprised if Tizen can be installed in current netbooks/tablets bundled with Meego, or android devices could be rooted to install it too.
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I don't see Meego as dead or failed (neither Moblin or Maemo) as dead or failing, but evolving, as experiments that needed a bit of extra thinking and making new iterations with the learned experience.
Not sure how much coffee qualifies as food (even if i can't live without it) compared with i.e. corn. But regarding coal, or even oil, i remember in Pohl's Heechee saga where people in that future used them as food source in the CHON factories.
What about sites where users/visitors can put content? What if because a comment or link of an (potentially anonymous) user you get sued somewhere or your domain confiscated?
You should try the (2 year old by now) N900 for good multitasking, it is still better in hardware than a lot of newly announced android and w7 phones, and had been optimized and stabilized a lot with the fixes that came all this time.
Would be nice if one of the next community updates includes this method to save battery as an OS patch.
Seismologists (and alarmists) had been saying since long time ago that in some moment a big quake will hit San Francisco area, and the city hasnt even tried to be evaquated. Had been predicted that in some moment could be a big tsunami generated by a volcano in the Canary Islands that could kill a lot of people in the caribbean and eastern north america, yet nothing had been done about it. And somewhere in a (probably long, but last year raised concerns) future the yellowstone caldera could blow, and still North America is populated, wasnt evaquated because that incoming predicted disaster. In fact, this cities are predicted to be somehow destroyed in a not very far future, and still people live there.
Even predicting that something will happen don't mean that it really will, or when, or with a strenght enough to worry about, or that authorities will do something, or that people, even warned, will do anything. If some of those predictions become true, lots of people will die, should the people predicting those things be treated as mass murderers if their predictions ever become true?
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Is nice to finally meet someone that never saw Back to the Future. The MrFusion (and others in my message) reference is right from there, Sometimes culture matter more than hard science, because hard science probably would put as pretty hard in practice to seriously think on going to other stars in 100 years.
...or Tizen were my first ideas. But maybe there are smaller alternatives if you plan to run only your frontend, some olf then not being even linux based (bsds, qnx, others?)
In 1985 was tought that we would have by now in every home fusion reactors, antigrav vehicles, and even fax machines under each tv set. And internet was somewhat absent. To have starships in 100 years not just must be practical (like in "not requiring the energy output of our entire planet for a year to get to other star") but also the culture (as in "is profitable to build and investigate with that goal") should go in the same direction.
Shorter term goals, like developing self-sustained colonies in space (not city sized, but for a somewhat small crew to do somewhat interesting space tasks like investigation, asteroid mining or moving, space labs/factories, etc) are more feasible and could make enough profit to have in 100 years something in the middle scale up there
Staying here, keeping it habitable, limiting our growing and being more efficient using resources and territory definately is cheaper (at least, for now) than going to space. But there could be situation where staying here will not be an option, and not having developed space by then will leave us as rich corpses.
The process so far of going into space, solving the hard problem of going up there and stay, had left us so far a bunch of great technologies that are very important in our current way of life. In the future, if we keep trying and solve the very hard problem of i.e. having self-sustainable space stations or terraforming other planets, we should develop things that surely will be very helpful to improve this planet, and we will have an option if shit happens down here.
Time passes, civilizations and cultures come and go with enough time, we know that we are able to try to do that now, but who knows what will come next, maybe will be easier, or maybe we will run out of time
My toughts exactly. Android is nice, have a lot of apps, but for the OS itself WebOS should be better (and probably the available apps are enough for your needs).
For alternate OSs for that device, would go to Meego, or another linux distro (ubuntu?), or maybe in some time, Tizen.
Oblig xkcd.
In the plus side, cellphone like devices will be even more obiquitous. In the minus side, a tinfoil hat won't be enough anymore, you could get implanted tracking devices for the rest of your life, that not just tell where you are.
For what percent of population, the top 1%? For the rest, don't matter a lot raising or not the retirement age, even if you could surpass 100, you wouldnt want to. More lifetime for that top 1% will mean even wider gap between top and the rest.
Look a bit closer. Even getting into orbit could had the very same reasoning behind. Even today we aren't having our colony vacations in orbit, and probably won't for decades if ever. But how much it changed the world getting there for something else, and developing the associated technologies for getting there and taking advantage of that fact? A lot of the consequences of getting there wasnt even imagined by the time the race started. Not sure if we will ever terraform Mars, or even put self sustainable colonies up there. But all that we should develop to get that goal will give us a lot of benefits down here.
Also, that kind of reasoning will delay that forever, always should be a better use of money in the present instead of betting on having a future. Earth history is full of events that could make all saved pennies worthless, our time here could be running out, no matter if that will be next year, next millenium, or a millon years later, and we can do something about it now, not sure later.
Regarding the "top 1%", if an incoming disaster threaten us in the middle/short term, if its the solution their assets will finance a colony on mars... and they will be the ones that will be saved. We've seen that so many times in movies that will not surprise anyone if it ever happens.
That he died is something serious, not a popularity contest party like was Jobs death. All the ones that claim to be giants now (dead or alive), are mostly dwarfs standing over Ritchie's shoulders.
but having security problems adds another layer of compatibility with windows.
The world as we know it must be close to an end in the short term, and those in power should know about it. How else you explain promoting everything that gives no future for anyone (ok, maybe except for the few very rich ones) in the middle term? After them, the deluge.
Oil is not just for energy, it used to make i.e. plastics. Burning it as fuel solves the energy problem in the very short term, problem for what we have alternate solutions. But we have alternate solutions for all the products made from it?
This scale give some hints, like it being between 10 and 25 years away.
You have Opera, Chrome and Firefox for most current desktop platforms, could be interesting to see how much of this keeps being valid in most of them. Also to see how this holds under Mac OS X in the Safari front.
If you handle them a bit of plutonium maybe they could install on it batteries that hold 1.2gigawatts, and you'll never get late to work, in fact, you can get there too early.
It could be Octarine. Not sure if being able to do or at least see magic is considered superpower, but it could have interesting applications. In any case, is better than seeing infra-black.
The nice thing about platforms not tied to particular hardware is that can be installed in other (older or newer) devices. I can install meego in my N900, and probably will be able to install Tizen on it. And wouldnt be so surprised if Tizen can be installed in current netbooks/tablets bundled with Meego, or android devices could be rooted to install it too.
I don't see Meego as dead or failed (neither Moblin or Maemo) as dead or failing, but evolving, as experiments that needed a bit of extra thinking and making new iterations with the learned experience.
Not sure how much coffee qualifies as food (even if i can't live without it) compared with i.e. corn. But regarding coal, or even oil, i remember in Pohl's Heechee saga where people in that future used them as food source in the CHON factories.
What about sites where users/visitors can put content? What if because a comment or link of an (potentially anonymous) user you get sued somewhere or your domain confiscated?
You should try the (2 year old by now) N900 for good multitasking, it is still better in hardware than a lot of newly announced android and w7 phones, and had been optimized and stabilized a lot with the fixes that came all this time.
Would be nice if one of the next community updates includes this method to save battery as an OS patch.
Seismologists (and alarmists) had been saying since long time ago that in some moment a big quake will hit San Francisco area, and the city hasnt even tried to be evaquated. Had been predicted that in some moment could be a big tsunami generated by a volcano in the Canary Islands that could kill a lot of people in the caribbean and eastern north america, yet nothing had been done about it. And somewhere in a (probably long, but last year raised concerns) future the yellowstone caldera could blow, and still North America is populated, wasnt evaquated because that incoming predicted disaster. In fact, this cities are predicted to be somehow destroyed in a not very far future, and still people live there.
Even predicting that something will happen don't mean that it really will, or when, or with a strenght enough to worry about, or that authorities will do something, or that people, even warned, will do anything. If some of those predictions become true, lots of people will die, should the people predicting those things be treated as mass murderers if their predictions ever become true?
No more blue screen of death!
They prefer to call their own planets "Krypton"
Stealing things that are public domain to make them their property? This explain it better.