What a bunch of political bullshit. For fuck sake people, it's a Linux distribution, not the United Nations. During the many years I spent at the University of Queensland I ran into Anthony Towns a bunch of times. Back then he was a fun loving geek, and I doubt much has changed. We both attended HUMBUG semi-regularly, and had a few laughs. The politics at HUMBUG were annoying too. For a bunch of geeks sitting in a lecture theatre playing around with Linux and ignoring whoever was giving a "presentation" that month, there was a heck of a lot bureaucracy, what with voting held annually for president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary and librarian. There's such a thing as too much organisation. Especially when people lose sight of the big picture and get bogged down in administrivity.
Allow me to rephrase. Who, existing in a demographic that actually matters to the sale of Intel chips, gives a shit? There's a reason why Apple has only 10% of the market share.
Similarly, if you are locked in anyway, what motivation is there for Microsoft to fix anything? If you can't even threaten to jump ship then what are you? A galley slave. That oar you're chained to, it's called Windows.
Unless you're a student of design, who cares what your computer looks like? It'd be nice if it made slightly less noise, but then I'd just complain about the volume of the air conditioner.
Again, your failure to study history betrays you. Antibiotics were discovered by Alexander Fleming, a doctor, who tested the drug on himself to ensure that it was harmless before giving it to patients because he was restricted by ethics from testing it on volunteers.
All of those technologies were developed on volunteers who had no viable alternative. If a doctor believes a patient has a better chance of recovering/surviving an existing procedure than they do from a new experimental procedure, then it is malpractice to apply the experimental procedure, regardless of whether or not the patient volunteers. This is different in other professions, where researchers are free to seek out volunteers who are willing to do things not in their own best interest, but doctors are held to a higher standard than other researchers.
Excuse me, but it doesn't matter whether or not the guy volunteered. If there is a risk to his life and there is it is unethical for the doctor to do the surgery in anything but the best possible conditions. Compare it to, say, volunteering to have surgery done at home so as not to take up a hospital bed that someone else could use. The benefit to others is great. The patient has volunteered to be worked on at home, fully knowing the risk of infection. It's still not ethical. The doctor must refuse to perform the operation. I hope these bozos lose their licenses.
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--help and man are the problem. I've got 7 chunks in mind, I need to write a command to use them, shit, what's the name of that option again? man foo. Ahh, I see, now what was it was I doing again? Oh yeah, did I write that down? No, damn, better go back and find it. When you use the command line you actually learn not to keep 7 things in mind. You keep about 4 or 5 in mind and write the rest down cause you know you're gunna need 2 or 3 slots just to get the commands to work. GUIs eliminate that. And before you start scream "that's not true" or "I don't do that", scientific usability studies have shown this to be the case, go do some research.
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How about just not having to remember commands. My brain has 7 slots of active memory, I'd prefer to use all 7 instead of having to swap shit out so I can remember a command, or the options that command takes.
The actual engineering involved isn't that important. What's important is that researchers no longer consider aging to be just something we have to live with, and consider it their goal to increase the human lifespan. Note, this isn't all researchers. Many people still believe that humans should always grow old and die and to perform research into indefinitely extending human lifetimes is wrong.
ahh, so you're saying this system could be no more effective than a magnatron by itself because, as you say, a magnatron must have momentum as it emits light which has momentum.
Jesus, when are people going to figure out that the money received for damages can fund open source development? They broke the license, you have a right to damages, seek them and use the money to sue more people. It's basic guerilla tactics!
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So the concept of diminishing returns means nothing to you. Fine.
What do you people not get? The home market is miniscule compared to the corporate market.
Why mod me down? You know it is true.
What a bunch of political bullshit. For fuck sake people, it's a Linux distribution, not the United Nations. During the many years I spent at the University of Queensland I ran into Anthony Towns a bunch of times. Back then he was a fun loving geek, and I doubt much has changed. We both attended HUMBUG semi-regularly, and had a few laughs. The politics at HUMBUG were annoying too. For a bunch of geeks sitting in a lecture theatre playing around with Linux and ignoring whoever was giving a "presentation" that month, there was a heck of a lot bureaucracy, what with voting held annually for president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary and librarian. There's such a thing as too much organisation. Especially when people lose sight of the big picture and get bogged down in administrivity.
Allow me to rephrase. Who, existing in a demographic that actually matters to the sale of Intel chips, gives a shit? There's a reason why Apple has only 10% of the market share.
Similarly, if you are locked in anyway, what motivation is there for Microsoft to fix anything? If you can't even threaten to jump ship then what are you? A galley slave. That oar you're chained to, it's called Windows.
Unless you're a student of design, who cares what your computer looks like? It'd be nice if it made slightly less noise, but then I'd just complain about the volume of the air conditioner.
Now you can look up the documents you can't get a copy of because they're still classified.
Again, your failure to study history betrays you. Antibiotics were discovered by Alexander Fleming, a doctor, who tested the drug on himself to ensure that it was harmless before giving it to patients because he was restricted by ethics from testing it on volunteers.
All of those technologies were developed on volunteers who had no viable alternative. If a doctor believes a patient has a better chance of recovering/surviving an existing procedure than they do from a new experimental procedure, then it is malpractice to apply the experimental procedure, regardless of whether or not the patient volunteers. This is different in other professions, where researchers are free to seek out volunteers who are willing to do things not in their own best interest, but doctors are held to a higher standard than other researchers.
Excuse me, but it doesn't matter whether or not the guy volunteered. If there is a risk to his life and there is it is unethical for the doctor to do the surgery in anything but the best possible conditions. Compare it to, say, volunteering to have surgery done at home so as not to take up a hospital bed that someone else could use. The benefit to others is great. The patient has volunteered to be worked on at home, fully knowing the risk of infection. It's still not ethical. The doctor must refuse to perform the operation. I hope these bozos lose their licenses.
Sorry, it's still unethical. Doctors are held to a higher standard than other researchers.
What next? First Nazi death camp in Zero-G?
--help and man are the problem. I've got 7 chunks in mind, I need to write a command to use them, shit, what's the name of that option again? man foo. Ahh, I see, now what was it was I doing again? Oh yeah, did I write that down? No, damn, better go back and find it. When you use the command line you actually learn not to keep 7 things in mind. You keep about 4 or 5 in mind and write the rest down cause you know you're gunna need 2 or 3 slots just to get the commands to work. GUIs eliminate that. And before you start scream "that's not true" or "I don't do that", scientific usability studies have shown this to be the case, go do some research.
How about just not having to remember commands. My brain has 7 slots of active memory, I'd prefer to use all 7 instead of having to swap shit out so I can remember a command, or the options that command takes.
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Yes, cause that's an apt analogy.
It's a stretch to claim that you're the same person as you were yesterday (assuming you slept).
If you havn't already, have a read of Peter F. Hamilton's "Pandora's Star" for a description of a society where death is all but eliminated.
Except, ya know, people at sea, but screw them.
Sorry, you have to had family here for 40,000 years to be considered a native. We're all white invaders.
I agree with your assessment of War Games. If you havn't seen it, try to get a copy of Takedown for a, slightly, more modern hacker film.
Fuck native animals.
As a matter of fact, kill em all, this is our world now.
The actual engineering involved isn't that important. What's important is that researchers no longer consider aging to be just something we have to live with, and consider it their goal to increase the human lifespan. Note, this isn't all researchers. Many people still believe that humans should always grow old and die and to perform research into indefinitely extending human lifetimes is wrong.
ahh, so you're saying this system could be no more effective than a magnatron by itself because, as you say, a magnatron must have momentum as it emits light which has momentum.
I'm trying to eat lunch here.
Jesus, when are people going to figure out that the money received for damages can fund open source development? They broke the license, you have a right to damages, seek them and use the money to sue more people. It's basic guerilla tactics!