I cannot remember that Twitter was ever used for insightful communication. Now, the typical message might change from three (abbreviated) words plus a hundred repetitive Emoji to three words plus two hundred repetitive Emoji. Sounds still as useful as the communication promoted by the "Yo" app.
It's funny how obsessed those who currently explore space are with "not contaminating planets/moons with microbes from earth", but at the same time plan for settling on Mars.
Quite obviously, once you bring humans to Mars, you bring trillions of microbes along with them. And chances are that those microbes have a better chance of adapting to and pro-creating in their new environment than their hosts.
To me, it would seem much more reasonable to _first_ bring microbes to Mars, help them to get settled, and only then try settling with humans, once we know that at least microbes can survive for a reasonable time.
There does not seem to be any significant discussion of potential human reactions on the climate change other than
(a) denying its existence
(b) trying to stop it at whatever the cost may be
That is really tragic. I'm pretty sure if the extremal positions where not that fixed for political reasons, it might well be possible to find better / more efficient approaches - such as international cpmtracts on how to adapt to the changing climate in ways that allow people to live and thrive under the new conditions - if necessary, in locations elsewhere on the planet than they currently are.
I wonder what the climate effects of chemical weapons are. Maybe more Sarin in the air helps cooling the atmosphere? Only the Syrians seem to be willing to explore this possibility at the moment.
The question here is not whether you want to follow others jumping off a cliff. If there is a cliff, then everybody is going to jump, regardless of his opinion. If there is no cliff, then those who now warn about approaching it will first become silent and then be ridiculed a few decades later. If there is a cliff, then we'll see who's better off: Those who tried to stop approaching it, or those who prepared for a softer landing or some improvised flying device.
Ah, and if some supervulcano erupts, it might be we'll hit a high wall rather than a cliff.
And while Oracle may have meanwhile passed the corpse on to somebody else, it still has Oracle's foul stench of pure corporate evil on it. I don't think anyone who worked with or on LibreOffice wants to smell that stench ever again.
That might be because "Autonomous sensory meridian response" is not experienced by the vast majority of people, and has little scientific evidence to indicate its existence as a specific phenomenon. And those who claim to experience ASMR are certainly even less present amongst Slashdot readers.
The situation might differ according to region, but where I live, Amazon almost never provides the cheapest offer on any product, and this didn't change as long as I know Amazon.
I do still visit Amazon's web page to lookup customer reviews and alike, which seem to be just more abundant there than elsewhere. Buy buying there? Rather not.
Just last week, I ordered two items: One printed image calendar and one piece of sport supplies. Both where signicantly cheaper at online shops other than Amazon, the calendar at -20% (including shipping and gift wrapping), the sports supply at about -30%.
The one category where I find Amazon to be price competitive is with tiny, seldom traded items that one can find to be sold only by either some "Amazon market" partner, or by very specialized shops that just don't sell anything cheaply, even if it's just some special-sized screw.
... that every organization promoting technology that Karen Sandler becomes involved in happens to spend its money on totally technology-unrelated topics soon thereafter.
If all the hyped AI research reaches its ultimate goal - true, super-human intelligence - then it is not a problem that there's a "lost generation" in academia. Because once the machines are better an humans at thinking, they will do the research stuff and tell the puny humans how to slave away in order to retain their right to exist.
And if the AI research does not succeed, much less research in that area will be on demand / financed anyway.
If stealing cigarette lighters could be automated, such that your effort to steal 500 millions of them is not higher than stealing 1, I would bet that some thieves would try this, if only for their personal entertainment.
If people still knew how to write HTML, almost no web site would need to use any "JavaScript" or other "active content"
How would, say, a web-based front-end to an IRC server work without script?
There are plenty of native IRC clients available for basically every operating system. They waste less resources, and you can get them from sources that are probably much more trustworthy than some arbitrary web page.
For example, if you need an IRC client for Android, you can get various, including source code, cryptographically signed by the repository maintainers, from https://f-droid.org/packages/#... for free.
This might remind people how weird it is that they run software automatically downloaded from arbitrary foreign sources all the time on their personal computer.
If people still knew how to write HTML, almost no web site would need to use any "JavaScript" or other "active content", with all the security issues this implies.
Yeah, but only those 2 of them can now buy Windows phones who are not yet in jail or beheaded because Blackberry squealed on them to their totalitarian government.
Your proposal is fine only if you also pass laws that running over people looking at their phone is fine, and educate them to not suddenly break or take evasive maneuvers to avoid them - since otherwise there's still a lot at stake for those who just drive and do not stare into their phone while doing so.
... into investing their fortune into some pot of gold that waits at the end of the rainbow.
And BTW: If such a method actually worked well, people would rather not make this public, but use it in seclusion, knowing well that otherwise they would soon compete with way too many eternal-living people for resources on this planet.
Or would you think that somebody who's able to live for 1000 years would still want to work for others after the first 100?
What do you expect from an industry that lives off gambling? That they play fair, and thus are likely not to be the only consistent winner amongst the thousands of gamblers they call "customers"?
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I cannot remember that Twitter was ever used for insightful communication. Now, the typical message might change from three (abbreviated) words plus a hundred repetitive Emoji to three words plus two hundred repetitive Emoji. Sounds still as useful as the communication promoted by the "Yo" app.
It's funny how obsessed those who currently explore space are with "not contaminating planets/moons with microbes from earth", but at the same time plan for settling on Mars.
Quite obviously, once you bring humans to Mars, you bring trillions of microbes along with them. And chances are that those microbes have a better chance of adapting to and pro-creating in their new environment than their hosts.
To me, it would seem much more reasonable to _first_ bring microbes to Mars, help them to get settled, and only then try settling with humans, once we know that at least microbes can survive for a reasonable time.
There does not seem to be any significant discussion of potential human reactions on the climate change other than
(a) denying its existence
(b) trying to stop it at whatever the cost may be
That is really tragic. I'm pretty sure if the extremal positions where not that fixed for political reasons, it might well be possible to find better / more efficient approaches - such as international cpmtracts on how to adapt to the changing climate in ways that allow people to live and thrive under the new conditions - if necessary, in locations elsewhere on the planet than they currently are.
I wonder what the climate effects of chemical weapons are. Maybe more Sarin in the air helps cooling the atmosphere? Only the Syrians seem to be willing to explore this possibility at the moment.
The question here is not whether you want to follow others jumping off a cliff. If there is a cliff, then everybody is going to jump, regardless of his opinion. If there is no cliff, then those who now warn about approaching it will first become silent and then be ridiculed a few decades later. If there is a cliff, then we'll see who's better off: Those who tried to stop approaching it, or those who prepared for a softer landing or some improvised flying device.
Ah, and if some supervulcano erupts, it might be we'll hit a high wall rather than a cliff.
And while Oracle may have meanwhile passed the corpse on to somebody else, it still has Oracle's foul stench of pure corporate evil on it. I don't think anyone who worked with or on LibreOffice wants to smell that stench ever again.
Please tell us: What free / open source cross-platform mail client has recently overtaken Thunderbird in terms of feature-completeness and usability?
(I do of course know some, like mutt or Evolution, but did not notice any significant shift in their respective differences.)
That might be because "Autonomous sensory meridian response" is not experienced by the vast majority of people, and has little scientific evidence to indicate its existence as a specific phenomenon. And those who claim to experience ASMR are certainly even less present amongst Slashdot readers.
... only to watch all those traumatizing genitalia in their movies? http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pic... :-)
If that is what happened, then please tell me the URLs, it was one of my favourite shows!
(Here is some older example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... )
The situation might differ according to region, but where I live, Amazon almost never provides the cheapest offer on any product, and this didn't change as long as I know Amazon.
I do still visit Amazon's web page to lookup customer reviews and alike, which seem to be just more abundant there than elsewhere. Buy buying there? Rather not.
Just last week, I ordered two items: One printed image calendar and one piece of sport supplies. Both where signicantly cheaper at online shops other than Amazon, the calendar at -20% (including shipping and gift wrapping), the sports supply at about -30%.
The one category where I find Amazon to be price competitive is with tiny, seldom traded items that one can find to be sold only by either some "Amazon market" partner, or by very specialized shops that just don't sell anything cheaply, even if it's just some special-sized screw.
from either side. I mean, this is lawyers versus lawyers, and who would need/pay them if there wasn't some law suit going on?
- then people would not have to read such poor, failed attempts on pro-Microsoft propaganda from anonymous cowards.
... that every organization promoting technology that Karen Sandler becomes involved in happens to spend its money on totally technology-unrelated topics soon thereafter.
... no longer pays for the electricity bill?
Given that you are happy with the Model S, why would you want to exchange it for the smaller, more primitive Model 3?
If all the hyped AI research reaches its ultimate goal - true, super-human intelligence - then it is not a problem that there's a "lost generation" in academia. Because once the machines are better an humans at thinking, they will do the research stuff and tell the puny humans how to slave away in order to retain their right to exist.
And if the AI research does not succeed, much less research in that area will be on demand / financed anyway.
If stealing cigarette lighters could be automated, such that your effort to steal 500 millions of them is not higher than stealing 1, I would bet that some thieves would try this, if only for their personal entertainment.
If people still knew how to write HTML, almost no web site would need to use any "JavaScript" or other "active content"
How would, say, a web-based front-end to an IRC server work without script?
There are plenty of native IRC clients available for basically every operating system. They waste less resources, and you can get them from sources that are probably much more trustworthy than some arbitrary web page.
For example, if you need an IRC client for Android, you can get various, including source code, cryptographically signed by the repository maintainers, from https://f-droid.org/packages/#... for free.
This might remind people how weird it is that they run software automatically downloaded from arbitrary foreign sources all the time on their personal computer.
If people still knew how to write HTML, almost no web site would need to use any "JavaScript" or other "active content", with all the security issues this implies.
Yeah, but only those 2 of them can now buy Windows phones who are not yet in jail or beheaded because Blackberry squealed on them to their totalitarian government.
... in return: Irrelevance.
Your proposal is fine only if you also pass laws that running over people looking at their phone is fine, and educate them to not suddenly break or take evasive maneuvers to avoid them - since otherwise there's still a lot at stake for those who just drive and do not stare into their phone while doing so.
... into investing their fortune into some pot of gold that waits at the end of the rainbow.
And BTW: If such a method actually worked well, people would rather not make this public, but use it in seclusion, knowing well that otherwise they would soon compete with way too many eternal-living people for resources on this planet.
Or would you think that somebody who's able to live for 1000 years would still want to work for others after the first 100?
What do you expect from an industry that lives off gambling?
That they play fair, and thus are likely not to be the only consistent winner amongst the thousands of gamblers they call "customers"?