Female fertility will still end at the same age... Once the eggs gone, its gone, game over. Male fertility never really ends, although it declines some. So there will be 150 year old rich guys marrying women born when he was 130.
Thanks for reminding me of Internet Rule #34 . Though also according to Internet Rule #34, that kind of hookup is possibly already happening somewhere... <shudder/>
Hmm, it is an interesting thought... I think it was in the 1960s or something when people stopped dying of "old age" simply because the AMA started classifying them going to various forms of heart disease / cancer / etc.
But as medicine might allow people to start living indefinitely, we might get more interesting trends. At some point, it may be statistically likely that everyone dies from horrible traffic accidents because there's simply no other way to go;-)
Don't really care to work out the math for that, though...
I'm not really sure there is a solution for this, or whether there should be one. After all, if compared to the population in the rest of the world, a lot of these protesters probably are also in the top 1% . And I'd threaten to suggest that most of the ultra-rich did manage to get there legally, albeit by gaming the system. But that means there's not terribly much we could do to right things within the legal confines of the system. And I don't really mind having a few mega-rich people banging around, even if all they do is remind people why they don't like them, the same way we have some ultra-poor people around so we can show our kids what happens if they don't stay in school and keep off drugs. Oh, and I suppose without the ultra-rich, we wouldn't have luxury toys like Bugatti Veyrons and stuff to drool over. So I wouldn't advocate a system that simply redistributes the wealth so that no one can stay wealthy.
So that said, here's what I'd characterize as the main problem: unemployment and finance.
If everyone had jobs, they wouldn't really have time or energy to complain. But thanks to productivity increases, the world no longer needs so many workers to support the basic needs of the entire population. So I don't think we can rely on the corporations to provide jobs, social contract or no. It would be up to the government to provide things for people to do, even if it was just camping out digging holes and moving rocks like the Civilian Conservation Corps. So I'm a bit dismayed that there's nothing like this being proposed in any of the current solutions.
Finance... I am not an economist, but to the best of my understanding, the purpose of the finance sector is to provide a multiplicative effect on available currency. Put simply, by people storing money in banks, banks can use that money to lend out to people's mortgages and businesses, and more than double the available apparent money in an economy. So if 1000 people put $1000 in the bank so it can go and loan $100k to someone to buy a house, on paper, the bank "has" both $100k of people's savings accounts, plus a house worth $100k, for a total of $200k (not even including interest and fees). Then banks can turn around and do that sort of stuff with each other too, until they have that multiplier up to 15x or so. Then some regulation that had been holding that multiplier around 15x had expired, the financial sector quickly allowed it to balloon to 30x, then of course the slightest disturbance brought the house of cards crashing down. Spurred by low interest rates artificially brought down to spur the economy, people could no longer make money off of interest and started putting all of their money into the real estate bubble (whether they actually needed a house to live in, just to make a "safe" investment, or particularly to participate in loan fraud rings), which of course also crashed even more spectacularly. For some reason, no one could cope with having only half the money (corresponding to a 15x financial multiplier instead of the 30x) that they thought they had, and we tried to "stabilize" everything with these massive bailouts, that was unfortunately sold as a "do or die" proposition. I think all of these measures are just prolonging the inevitable and putting off a real recovery.
So I agree that the problems are entirely the financial sector's fault, and they should be forced to just eat it. It wasn't really much of a loss since it was all imaginary anyway... they became no longer able to convince others that they were worth 30x their actual currency, when 15x was a more believable number. The real crime was convincing people to throw actual bailout money at them to "fix" that discre
Just whitelist any email that has a verified digital signature. Everything else you can't trust.
Good luck getting anyone to actually set up and use digital signatures/encryption, though:-P But if you make it a matter of policy and give them the tools to use it, there's no better way.
4GB of RAM is more than enough for "mom". Hell, even 2GB is more than enough for "mom".
Meh, I'm with GP on this... For most casual use I'd rather use money to buy enough cheap RAM to fit all of my OS and apps in memory paired with a cheap 1TB disk, rather than plunk money on even a small SSD (that would just get cached to RAM anyway).
16GB is a bit overkill, but maybe she doesn't like to close tabs or something.:-P
Conversion efficiency is low (an engineer can only eat so much pizza) and there's some leakage (most of the toys an an engineer is tempted by are made overseas).
Nope, it's mostly a PR circus for the masses - just like those F22 fighters, etc.
Word... a good engineer could maybe make a product cost 10% less to manufacture. On the other hand, a good PR/marketing flack could simply get people to pay 2x more for the goods. Which is a better investment for a company?:-P
A good lawyer could.... well, I'd come up with something, but it would be pointless since you'd have to be able to find a good laywer first >;-D
Plus, the old stuff I'm comparing to is often too old to be listed on any of the more modern benchmarks listed review sites. But I'm a cheapskate like that;-D
Well, malls are pretty much the temples of modern day capitalism. I mean, look at how Vegas is about to take its place up there with the Great Pyramid at Gaza and the Taj Mahal and the Hagia Sophia as one of the wonders of the world... and Vegas is pretty much the biggest mall of them all.
You're walking on hallowed ground! Kowtow low! And respect the powers that have provided you with all that is good upon this mortal earth!
I use Twitter (which crossposts to Facebook) when I have public announcements / spam to contribute and want maximum eyeballs.
I use Google+ for more directed messages towards certain people. To me it's a benefit that I'm not (yet) connected to all my coworkers and friends-of-friends' grandmothers. I'm sure this feeling of "knowing who my intended audience is" will fade in the future, and we'll move to yet something else, hopefully more hushmail-inspired.
Can we just collect them with their peer group? There should be enough prodigies in the area to collect in a class or something. So we weren't exactly prodigies, but the "Nerds by Choice" group at our local magnet school probably helped a lot with the alienation from a country that otherwise despises people who are more focused on academic pursuits than trying to figure out the complex social protocol adhered to by your typical adolescent. And it certainly is both humbling and engaging to spend time with people who are better than you in some things, which is healthy if you're accustomed to being way ahead of the pack most of your life.
And I know there's a rush to try to "get all we can" out of the guy, but don't rob them of their childhood either. Playing games with other kids on the playground is important. They do need to figure out how to cope with being super-competitive or super-wimpy in a supervised environment where a mature adult can hopefully help them figure out a safe way of dealing with social interactions without getting discouraged and/or becoming a sociopath >:-D
I did have the opportunity to tutor some of these kids at a summer program at Jon's Hopkins way back when. I wish I could have done a better job at it... my educator skills are nowhere near what my wife can do. But these kids certainly do need a lot of quality encouragement, reinforcement, guidance, and stimulation, and I certainly appreciate how difficult it must be for the parents to try to keep up their support at the right pace.
Yep, first thing you do with one of those phones is disable email notifications.
Then just check email at your own leisure every once in a while. You know you're a junkie when you start self-checking so often that you don't have any new email. Then you know it's time to chill the fuck out.
Not to mention that my projects tend to start overlapping eventually as things get woven together, or maybe someone else is on both project teams and sends me one email with a little bit about each.
I do use folders to "weed out" a few big categories using mail filters, such as "lists", the mostly useless corporate "newsletters", maybe one for automated alerts/notifications. Everything else that I might possibly need to look up later just goes into one big searchable Inbox.
What I really need to do is stop treating my normal Inbox like a "To Do"/"To Sort" folder, and making a dedicated TODO folder so things that don't get prioritized there can automatically be put into the archived inbox after a first pass. For now I can usually keep up, but if I got busier I'd certainly need to start doing this.
Maybe this also has something to do with email retention policies, so someone who is suing your company can subpoena email evidence from three years back on their servers or something.
I mean, sure it's botched, in that the users might make their own backups of mail going waaaay back. But botched is kinda the name of the game.
Looks pretty cool... I've used partimage lots for Linux machines, but it certainly is not ideal (needs better support for resizing on the fly, and stuff like that).
The last time I needed something to clone Windows machines, I DID have pretty good results remastering a knoppix LiveCD that could run Ghost within FreeDOS. It had most of the benefits of PING (such as being able to backup and restore to a network share, which was the main reason I created it). The main limitation was that I still needed to use dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr.dd.img bs=512k count=1 to backup and restore the MBR/partition table, since the FreeDOS of the time didn't allow wholedisk access. But aside from that it was very fast and worked well.
I used lredir withing FreeDOS to map the network share to a drive letter within FreeDOS. I didn't have much luck trying to get Ghost to read/write directly to a shared partition, e.g. a locally connected USB drive.
Of course, this doesn't exactly help the OP, unless they have a bunch of Norton Ghost licenses lying around for some reason:-P But I would advocate simply distributing a rescue DVD that boots off a linux-based LiveCD as opposed to a rescue partition.
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Female fertility will still end at the same age... Once the eggs gone, its gone, game over. Male fertility never really ends, although it declines some. So there will be 150 year old rich guys marrying women born when he was 130.
Thanks for reminding me of Internet Rule #34 . Though also according to Internet Rule #34, that kind of hookup is possibly already happening somewhere... <shudder />
Hmm, it is an interesting thought... I think it was in the 1960s or something when people stopped dying of "old age" simply because the AMA started classifying them going to various forms of heart disease / cancer / etc.
But as medicine might allow people to start living indefinitely, we might get more interesting trends. At some point, it may be statistically likely that everyone dies from horrible traffic accidents because there's simply no other way to go ;-)
Don't really care to work out the math for that, though...
Well, you can't have such a sysyem without legalized euthanasia. Or you need a lot of homeless shelter.
More likely people will just finally cozy up to the idea of death panels >:-D
Good points! I think the overall message is actually pretty clear, they're just protesting that the growing income gap is unfair.
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1
I'm not really sure there is a solution for this, or whether there should be one. After all, if compared to the population in the rest of the world, a lot of these protesters probably are also in the top 1% . And I'd threaten to suggest that most of the ultra-rich did manage to get there legally, albeit by gaming the system. But that means there's not terribly much we could do to right things within the legal confines of the system. And I don't really mind having a few mega-rich people banging around, even if all they do is remind people why they don't like them, the same way we have some ultra-poor people around so we can show our kids what happens if they don't stay in school and keep off drugs. Oh, and I suppose without the ultra-rich, we wouldn't have luxury toys like Bugatti Veyrons and stuff to drool over. So I wouldn't advocate a system that simply redistributes the wealth so that no one can stay wealthy.
So that said, here's what I'd characterize as the main problem: unemployment and finance.
If everyone had jobs, they wouldn't really have time or energy to complain. But thanks to productivity increases, the world no longer needs so many workers to support the basic needs of the entire population. So I don't think we can rely on the corporations to provide jobs, social contract or no. It would be up to the government to provide things for people to do, even if it was just camping out digging holes and moving rocks like the Civilian Conservation Corps. So I'm a bit dismayed that there's nothing like this being proposed in any of the current solutions.
Finance... I am not an economist, but to the best of my understanding, the purpose of the finance sector is to provide a multiplicative effect on available currency. Put simply, by people storing money in banks, banks can use that money to lend out to people's mortgages and businesses, and more than double the available apparent money in an economy. So if 1000 people put $1000 in the bank so it can go and loan $100k to someone to buy a house, on paper, the bank "has" both $100k of people's savings accounts, plus a house worth $100k, for a total of $200k (not even including interest and fees). Then banks can turn around and do that sort of stuff with each other too, until they have that multiplier up to 15x or so. Then some regulation that had been holding that multiplier around 15x had expired, the financial sector quickly allowed it to balloon to 30x, then of course the slightest disturbance brought the house of cards crashing down. Spurred by low interest rates artificially brought down to spur the economy, people could no longer make money off of interest and started putting all of their money into the real estate bubble (whether they actually needed a house to live in, just to make a "safe" investment, or particularly to participate in loan fraud rings), which of course also crashed even more spectacularly. For some reason, no one could cope with having only half the money (corresponding to a 15x financial multiplier instead of the 30x) that they thought they had, and we tried to "stabilize" everything with these massive bailouts, that was unfortunately sold as a "do or die" proposition. I think all of these measures are just prolonging the inevitable and putting off a real recovery.
So I agree that the problems are entirely the financial sector's fault, and they should be forced to just eat it. It wasn't really much of a loss since it was all imaginary anyway... they became no longer able to convince others that they were worth 30x their actual currency, when 15x was a more believable number. The real crime was convincing people to throw actual bailout money at them to "fix" that discre
When is sshd in html5 coming, then?
It's been out for a while...
http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/ajaxterm/
Unfortunately, it's still blocked by work; grrr :-P
Or POOR IMPULSE CONTROL
Heh, first I was thinking of getting an e-ink bumper sticker, but now you really have me wanting to put that on my 1701-D Federation Starship.
I've seen exactly one use of e-ink in the wild: ebooks.
Actually, a pretty cool use I've seen is a little capacity meter on USB thumb drives:
http://www.lexar.com/products/lexar-echo-mx-backup-drive?category=207
My wife (of all people) has one of these things, I thought it was pretty neat.
Just whitelist any email that has a verified digital signature. Everything else you can't trust.
Good luck getting anyone to actually set up and use digital signatures/encryption, though :-P But if you make it a matter of policy and give them the tools to use it, there's no better way.
16GB of RAM? Are you stupid or something?
4GB of RAM is more than enough for "mom". Hell, even 2GB is more than enough for "mom".
Meh, I'm with GP on this... For most casual use I'd rather use money to buy enough cheap RAM to fit all of my OS and apps in memory paired with a cheap 1TB disk, rather than plunk money on even a small SSD (that would just get cached to RAM anyway).
16GB is a bit overkill, but maybe she doesn't like to close tabs or something. :-P
Conversion efficiency is low (an engineer can only eat so much pizza) and there's some leakage (most of the toys an an engineer is tempted by are made overseas).
Nope, it's mostly a PR circus for the masses - just like those F22 fighters, etc.
Word... a good engineer could maybe make a product cost 10% less to manufacture. On the other hand, a good PR/marketing flack could simply get people to pay 2x more for the goods. Which is a better investment for a company? :-P
A good lawyer could.... well, I'd come up with something, but it would be pointless since you'd have to be able to find a good laywer first >;-D
Too lazy... I just generally grep http://www.cpubenchmark.net/ and/or http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/index.php to see where things fall... roughly.
Plus, the old stuff I'm comparing to is often too old to be listed on any of the more modern benchmarks listed review sites. But I'm a cheapskate like that ;-D
lolGizafail
http://xkcd.com/520/
lol, even better typo in TFA: "Kraken of kegend" [sic]
Mrr, it's kinda sad, but I sort of rely on ArsTechnica more than /. for my gaming news for nerds nowadays.
Binding of Isaac
Well, malls are pretty much the temples of modern day capitalism. I mean, look at how Vegas is about to take its place up there with the Great Pyramid at Gaza and the Taj Mahal and the Hagia Sophia as one of the wonders of the world... and Vegas is pretty much the biggest mall of them all.
You're walking on hallowed ground! Kowtow low! And respect the powers that have provided you with all that is good upon this mortal earth!
I think Google+ is doing all right.
I use Twitter (which crossposts to Facebook) when I have public announcements / spam to contribute and want maximum eyeballs.
I use Google+ for more directed messages towards certain people. To me it's a benefit that I'm not (yet) connected to all my coworkers and friends-of-friends' grandmothers. I'm sure this feeling of "knowing who my intended audience is" will fade in the future, and we'll move to yet something else, hopefully more hushmail-inspired.
It is called the "Network Effect" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect . It is the same reason why so many people use eBay.
... instead of ... ?
Amazon? Craiglist?
I would have attributed it to marketing / social consciousness penetration ("eBay" being the reference or punchline of jokes and the like).
Can we just collect them with their peer group? There should be enough prodigies in the area to collect in a class or something. So we weren't exactly prodigies, but the "Nerds by Choice" group at our local magnet school probably helped a lot with the alienation from a country that otherwise despises people who are more focused on academic pursuits than trying to figure out the complex social protocol adhered to by your typical adolescent. And it certainly is both humbling and engaging to spend time with people who are better than you in some things, which is healthy if you're accustomed to being way ahead of the pack most of your life.
And I know there's a rush to try to "get all we can" out of the guy, but don't rob them of their childhood either. Playing games with other kids on the playground is important. They do need to figure out how to cope with being super-competitive or super-wimpy in a supervised environment where a mature adult can hopefully help them figure out a safe way of dealing with social interactions without getting discouraged and/or becoming a sociopath >:-D
I did have the opportunity to tutor some of these kids at a summer program at Jon's Hopkins way back when. I wish I could have done a better job at it... my educator skills are nowhere near what my wife can do. But these kids certainly do need a lot of quality encouragement, reinforcement, guidance, and stimulation, and I certainly appreciate how difficult it must be for the parents to try to keep up their support at the right pace.
Still no confirmation whether the object declaration will go something like:
objet d'art(foobar) { }
Yep, first thing you do with one of those phones is disable email notifications.
Then just check email at your own leisure every once in a while. You know you're a junkie when you start self-checking so often that you don't have any new email. Then you know it's time to chill the fuck out.
Not to mention that my projects tend to start overlapping eventually as things get woven together, or maybe someone else is on both project teams and sends me one email with a little bit about each.
I do use folders to "weed out" a few big categories using mail filters, such as "lists", the mostly useless corporate "newsletters", maybe one for automated alerts/notifications. Everything else that I might possibly need to look up later just goes into one big searchable Inbox.
What I really need to do is stop treating my normal Inbox like a "To Do"/"To Sort" folder, and making a dedicated TODO folder so things that don't get prioritized there can automatically be put into the archived inbox after a first pass. For now I can usually keep up, but if I got busier I'd certainly need to start doing this.
My work put Google search on our Outlook client, maybe you could talk yours into it...
Now if only OWA didn't feel so 1999...
Maybe this also has something to do with email retention policies, so someone who is suing your company can subpoena email evidence from three years back on their servers or something.
I mean, sure it's botched, in that the users might make their own backups of mail going waaaay back. But botched is kinda the name of the game.
Looks pretty cool... I've used partimage lots for Linux machines, but it certainly is not ideal (needs better support for resizing on the fly, and stuff like that).
The last time I needed something to clone Windows machines, I DID have pretty good results remastering a knoppix LiveCD that could run Ghost within FreeDOS. It had most of the benefits of PING (such as being able to backup and restore to a network share, which was the main reason I created it). The main limitation was that I still needed to use dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr.dd.img bs=512k count=1 to backup and restore the MBR/partition table, since the FreeDOS of the time didn't allow wholedisk access. But aside from that it was very fast and worked well.
I used lredir withing FreeDOS to map the network share to a drive letter within FreeDOS. I didn't have much luck trying to get Ghost to read/write directly to a shared partition, e.g. a locally connected USB drive.
Of course, this doesn't exactly help the OP, unless they have a bunch of Norton Ghost licenses lying around for some reason :-P But I would advocate simply distributing a rescue DVD that boots off a linux-based LiveCD as opposed to a rescue partition.