This is very interesting, however it isn't the most "Earthlike" planet found yet. There are three planets generally ignored by scientists because they are dead and orbit a neutron star. However they are Earth sized and there is a possibility that in the distant past they may have harbored life.
It would be monumental to find evidence that life on Earth isn't a singleton freak accident, even if we found it on worlds that could never harbor life again.
Don't always sit on a chair. Sit on an excercise ball for a while. Sit on a kneeling chair for a while. Shift positions a lot. Get a headset so you don't have to hold a phone to your head.
Do back exercises every morning and every night. Sit ups, "superman"s (extensions).
"The accident released about as much radiation as one atmospheric nuclear test," Jackson notes. "Think of Chernobyl, which exuded hundreds of thousands of square meters of radioactive gas into the atmosphere. Think of all the hundreds of atmospheric tests, and think about the next breath you inhale. How many bits of Hiroshima, and Chernobyl, and Nagasaki you are inhaling each time you breathe in."
> If you have one point, you can draw any line you'd like. With two, you can draw any curve you like.
And that's the underlying pattern behind most humor. Draw two points, pause while the listener assumes the third point in a straight line, then conclude with a third point out on a curve. Hence the term "a curveball" meaning a joke.
Go ahead, try it. Look at any joke or listen to any comedian.
I will not deploy any software that requires me to start tweaking obscure registry values that change my server's basic TCP behavior. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
I don't know what you are planning to do with this project, ie: sell it to the masses, make it open source, use it in house. Just keep this in mind.
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> It's only a prototype - we're not going to deploy it in production.
Oh... this brings back painfull memories. Years ago I was working at a mid-sized systems integrator (several hundred staff).
My manager told three of us to 'whip up a demo' of what a document imaging system might look like to show the company owner. So we read a few IT magazines about document imaging, and cobbled together a program WRITTEN IN A SPREADSHEET, that had three buttons:
Button 1, 'Scan', would scan an image and display it. Button 2, 'Save', would save it to disk with a title and page number. Button 3, 'Workflow', would throw up a spreadsheet of the documents with a column where you could enter a staff persons name.
It took us a day or two and then we showed it to the manager. He loved the concept and showed it to the owner. He loved our hot new product and showed it to sales. Sales loved our new strategic direction and showed it to clients.
A big power utility bought it for mega-bucks. As the designers who built the thing, of course we had to install it on site and do the training. They were expecting a full blown document imaging system with complex workflow paths etc etc.
I'm sure if any of the other guys on that team are reading this they will recognize this story at once.
american people (who only have one word to represent the concept of Indians and Native Americans) were presented people from India and Native Americans. As language shapes the mind, American people were unsurprisingly unable to make any difference.
In a related story, Americans who use the words "white" and "minority" to categorize people were unable to distinguish between any brown people regardless of their ethnic heritage.
> Typically you don't pay taxes on stock options until you exercise them
This was related to the fact that I left the company in December and sold the stock in next calendar year. I had two different accountants go over it all to be sure.
> And not the IRS didn't steal any money from you.
No, they just "borrowed" it until I can make $120,000 in capital gains in order to use up the capital losses they granted me to offset the taxes I paid on money I never got.
I live in the same county of the same state I was born in and I certainly knew Kashmir is a disputed region between India and Pakistan, and I certainly knew China refuses to acknowledge Taiwan exists as a separate entity from China.
These aren't esoteric things. It's not that big a world. I mean... don't any of you play RISK?!
> I still have a batch of worthless (for now) options
Count your blessings. When I left a dot-com I was granted $120,000 worth of options. A couple of months later, in the next calendar year they were worth a fraction of that. The IRS made me pay income tax on the phantom $120,000 that I never got. Of course in order to PAY those taxes I had to sell all the stock at a fraction of "what the company gave me". In return "to be fair" the IRS gave me an equivelant amount of 'capital losses' I can write off in the future. Now if I ever make $120,000 in capital gains in the future I will get back the money the IRS stole from me.
> technology advance is not limited by (lack of) intelligence. It's rather limited by resources > expensive and time-consuming
Yes, I agree 100%. I don't believe that "the singularity" will happen all at once overnight and we will wake up one morning to greet our new AI overlords. I believe, as your post implies, that the singularity describes a point in time at which technological advances will increase exponentially perhaps without direct human guidance. That does not imply that the beginning of that curve will be very fast, just that it will increase over time. Perhaps we have already crossed the singularity, when we started to augment our intelligence with tools such as higher math, scientific method, and computers. Just witness the speed of technological and social upheaval in the last 50 years. It's like nothing before in history. The pace of change is growing beyond the ability of one individual to comprehend. Certainly no one individual today understands all of the cause and effect cycles underlying our society.
> As for what the singularity could be, there are plenty of options. Development of a working nano assembler might do it...
No, the "singularity" does not refer to ANY technological advance that changes everything. It specifically refers to the instant in time when we develop an AI that is capable of developing better AI's faster and better than we human beings could. The inevitable result of this is that AI development ("evolution") spirals at exponentially increasing speeds faster than human beings can comprehend. The AIs themselves may not change all that much for our daily lives, but the technology they can develop will. The eventual result, as Arthur C. Clark said, is a technology that is indistinguishable from magic. Since by definition these AIs are (or will eventually be) smarter than we are, we cannot predict or anticipate what the world will be like beyond that single moment in time. Hence the name 'singularity' like the event-horizon around a black hole singularity, beyond which nothing can be known.
> covers Pulp's "Common People" with Joe Jackson that you can listen to here: http://www.shoutfactory.com/av/common_people.mov As with anything Shatner...it is fantastic in its monotone delivery:)
All of these comments are irrelevant. These predictions of PHP's future may come true or may not. But if you don't like the direction PHP takes, fork the project, take the source code, remove the parts you don't like, grow it in a direction you do like.
See that's why Open Source is different than proprietary software. It's not just another choice, it's fundamentally DIFFERENT. Nobody can take the software and force it down a direction you don't like because you and like-minded individuals can take it in the direction you like.
If my description doesn't describe you, then I wasn't referring to you, thus no offense should be taken.
If my description perfectly captures the chew-drool running down your chin, then I accurately described you, as you apparently want to be. Again no offense should be taken.
> do a nightly "rsync" mirror to a "yesterday" partition > advantages of the nightly rsync over RAID are
Instead of only keeping a "yesterday" partition, use rsync to keep EVERY daily backup.
Rsync has lots of great options to make copies as hard links if they haven't changed and only copy changed files. That allows you to make daily full backups that only use the space of daily incrementals. Do that to a backup partition, then RAID-1 the whole drive over to a mirror. That gets you full protection from hardware failure on a drive and user failure on your files.
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> gene therapy cocktail that will make your penis glow in the dark
Ummmm, where can I get some of that? I think it would impress the ladies.
This is very interesting, however it isn't the most "Earthlike" planet found yet. There are three planets generally ignored by scientists because they are dead and orbit a neutron star. However they are Earth sized and there is a possibility that in the distant past they may have harbored life.
It would be monumental to find evidence that life on Earth isn't a singleton freak accident, even if we found it on worlds that could never harbor life again.
Don't always sit on a chair.
Sit on an excercise ball for a while.
Sit on a kneeling chair for a while.
Shift positions a lot.
Get a headset so you don't have to hold a phone to your head.
Do back exercises every morning and every night. Sit ups, "superman"s (extensions).
And of course, get up and walk around every hour.
"The accident released about as much radiation as one atmospheric nuclear test," Jackson notes. "Think of Chernobyl, which exuded hundreds of thousands of square meters of radioactive gas into the atmosphere. Think of all the hundreds of atmospheric tests, and think about the next breath you inhale. How many bits of Hiroshima, and Chernobyl, and Nagasaki you are inhaling each time you breathe in."
Itanium Retreats To Multis, Opteron Presses Attack.
In related news, Megatron Retreats to Cybertron, Optimus Prime Presses Attack.
> If you have one point, you can draw any line you'd like. With two, you can draw any curve you like.
And that's the underlying pattern behind most humor. Draw two points, pause while the listener assumes the third point in a straight line, then conclude with a third point out on a curve. Hence the term "a curveball" meaning a joke.
Go ahead, try it. Look at any joke or listen to any comedian.
I will not deploy any software that requires me to start tweaking obscure registry values that change my server's basic TCP behavior. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
I don't know what you are planning to do with this project, ie: sell it to the masses, make it open source, use it in house. Just keep this in mind.
> It's only a prototype - we're not going to deploy it in production.
Oh... this brings back painfull memories.
Years ago I was working at a mid-sized systems integrator (several hundred staff).
My manager told three of us to 'whip up a demo' of what a document imaging system might look like to show the company owner. So we read a few IT magazines about document imaging, and cobbled together a program WRITTEN IN A SPREADSHEET, that had three buttons:
Button 1, 'Scan', would scan an image and display it.
Button 2, 'Save', would save it to disk with a title and page number.
Button 3, 'Workflow', would throw up a spreadsheet of the documents with a column where you could enter a staff persons name.
It took us a day or two and then we showed it to the manager. He loved the concept and showed it to the owner. He loved our hot new product and showed it to sales. Sales loved our new strategic direction and showed it to clients.
A big power utility bought it for mega-bucks.
As the designers who built the thing, of course we had to install it on site and do the training.
They were expecting a full blown document imaging system with complex workflow paths etc etc.
I'm sure if any of the other guys on that team are reading this they will recognize this story at once.
american people (who only have one word to represent the concept of Indians and Native Americans) were presented people from India and Native Americans. As language shapes the mind, American people were unsurprisingly unable to make any difference.
In a related story, Americans who use the words "white" and "minority" to categorize people were unable to distinguish between any brown people regardless of their ethnic heritage.
> Typically you don't pay taxes on stock options until you exercise them
This was related to the fact that I left the company in December and sold the stock in next calendar year. I had two different accountants go over it all to be sure.
> And not the IRS didn't steal any money from you.
No, they just "borrowed" it until I can make $120,000 in capital gains in order to use up the capital losses they granted me to offset the taxes I paid on money I never got.
> hedging your position. Buy put options or get creative with another derivative contract that will protect your interests
:-(
Where were you in 2002?
> without some pretty thorough investigation
You mean like READING?
I live in the same county of the same state I was born in and I certainly knew Kashmir is a disputed region between India and Pakistan, and I certainly knew China refuses to acknowledge Taiwan exists as a separate entity from China.
These aren't esoteric things. It's not that big a world.
I mean... don't any of you play RISK?!
> I still have a batch of worthless (for now) options
Count your blessings. When I left a dot-com I was granted $120,000 worth of options. A couple of months later, in the next calendar year they were worth a fraction of that. The IRS made me pay income tax on the phantom $120,000 that I never got. Of course in order to PAY those taxes I had to sell all the stock at a fraction of "what the company gave me". In return "to be fair" the IRS gave me an equivelant amount of 'capital losses' I can write off in the future. Now if I ever make $120,000 in capital gains in the future I will get back the money the IRS stole from me.
> Like, most shares trade at about 15-20 times earnings.
Rought, Roh, Shaggy!
> technology advance is not limited by (lack of) intelligence. It's rather limited by resources
> expensive and time-consuming
Yes, I agree 100%. I don't believe that "the singularity" will happen all at once overnight and we will wake up one morning to greet our new AI overlords. I believe, as your post implies, that the singularity describes a point in time at which technological advances will increase exponentially perhaps without direct human guidance. That does not imply that the beginning of that curve will be very fast, just that it will increase over time. Perhaps we have already crossed the singularity, when we started to augment our intelligence with tools such as higher math, scientific method, and computers. Just witness the speed of technological and social upheaval in the last 50 years. It's like nothing before in history. The pace of change is growing beyond the ability of one individual to comprehend. Certainly no one individual today understands all of the cause and effect cycles underlying our society.
>> just under $1K/G, a 30G model
> most peoples cars are worth much less than $30,000
> Are you trying to brag about your wheels?
Actually, my fingers typed before my brain read the sentence. I was responding to a non-existant $1K product, not the actual $30K product.
Not that there's anything wrong with a $1K car. My first car was $200 and was missing a door.
> As for what the singularity could be, there are plenty of options. Development of a working nano assembler might do it...
No, the "singularity" does not refer to ANY technological advance that changes everything. It specifically refers to the instant in time when we develop an AI that is capable of developing better AI's faster and better than we human beings could. The inevitable result of this is that AI development ("evolution") spirals at exponentially increasing speeds faster than human beings can comprehend. The AIs themselves may not change all that much for our daily lives, but the technology they can develop will. The eventual result, as Arthur C. Clark said, is a technology that is indistinguishable from magic. Since by definition these AIs are (or will eventually be) smarter than we are, we cannot predict or anticipate what the world will be like beyond that single moment in time. Hence the name 'singularity' like the event-horizon around a black hole singularity, beyond which nothing can be known.
> just under $1K/G, a 30G model I recently held in my hand was worth much more than my car.
I don't think this is so much a problem with the price of the Flash disk drive, as it is a problem with your car.
> evil board members from a parallel universe (with goatees of course)
*cough* *sputter* oh... oh thank goodness... at first I thought you said:
evil board members from a parallel universe (with goatce of course)
> covers Pulp's "Common People" with Joe Jackson that you can listen to here: http://www.shoutfactory.com/av/common_people.mov As with anything Shatner...it is fantastic in its monotone delivery :)
Oh god help me.... I kind'a like it...
All of these comments are irrelevant. These predictions of PHP's future may come true or may not. But if you don't like the direction PHP takes, fork the project, take the source code, remove the parts you don't like, grow it in a direction you do like.
See that's why Open Source is different than proprietary software. It's not just another choice, it's fundamentally DIFFERENT. Nobody can take the software and force it down a direction you don't like because you and like-minded individuals can take it in the direction you like.
>> I didn't RTFA, but ... [summary of unread article follows]
> STFA
HAHA!
Nice going.
I think you meant 'STFU'.
> Thanks Asshole
If my description doesn't describe you, then I wasn't referring to you, thus no offense should be taken.
If my description perfectly captures the chew-drool running down your chin, then I accurately described you, as you apparently want to be. Again no offense should be taken.
Methinks thou doth protest too much.
need I say more?
well, actually, according to Slashdot I do. So here:
darn.
> do a nightly "rsync" mirror to a "yesterday" partition
> advantages of the nightly rsync over RAID are
Instead of only keeping a "yesterday" partition, use rsync to keep EVERY daily backup.
Rsync has lots of great options to make copies as hard links if they haven't changed and only copy changed files. That allows you to make daily full backups that only use the space of daily incrementals. Do that to a backup partition, then RAID-1 the whole drive over to a mirror.
That gets you full protection from hardware failure on a drive and user failure on your files.
Google for more details