Amen. More and more RAM, more and faster CPUs and in return with a new upgrade... you will be asked to buy something even faster to keep the same experience. Linux Gnome used to work on 1G, now 4G is not enough, and it's not like anything useful happened, so I switched to XFCE and everything is as smooth as it used to be.
Will not even start about browsing experience, tons of JS, which whole purpose is to spy on your activity adding no value to the content. In mobile realm the apps sizes lost any common sense.
My company threw away perfectly good hardware (desktops and laptops with P2 duo and 4GB) because there is not much one can do with it, so I took some of the notebooks - Xubuntu or Lubuntu are just fine.
Do other people get to use the road, too? Can I come and use your Model 3 about 15% of the time, to cover the $7500 tax subsidy you get? Do you have to let others use your car 15% of the time?
Taxes deductions is a very old concept, you're extremely biased here.
How about deductions for mortgages, are you saying someone not having a house can live in someone else's house for some time for free just because they can deduct they mortgage interests from payed taxes and the former cannot?
Since the 1600s, the wobbly foundations of ancient astronomy, cosmology etc. have been thoroughly replaced with *actual* understanding.
Agree with merit of this statement, however the knowledge is a continuum, without ancient astronomy there would be no modern "actual" understanding.
Hae? What exactly did we understand more than Sumerians 3000 BC?
Oh, we know since the 1800s or so that suns are powered by fusion, and that basically is what we know more than the ancients.
You're joking I assume, at first I wanted to write down a list, but after typing for some time I got bored, and reflected and decided you must be joking.
Just the presence of nowadays technology and astronomical instruments guarantees magnitudes of more knowledge. The shier time spent on observing and reflecting on what we see guarantees deeper understanding of virtually every aspect, not to mention about discovering features and things ancient people could not even have a slightest idea they existed, so Instead of writing down a long list to prove my point I just need one example (right?), so I will give you 2:
Please find me a Sumerian script, where they explain:
- why the Universe has about 75% of hydrogen, about 25% of helium, traces of depleting lithium and minuscule traces of the remaining elements
- why the cosmic microwave background is about 2.7K
In that case you don't publicize that you're swarming around the area, you send a single computer geek to the observatory to plant fake data for the equipment to sniff, then see where it ends up.
I think in such a case FBI would be justified, and due to press freedom ("still") the word would spread, however evacuation is pointless in case of spying.
Evacuation indicates some bio-hazard, however the question would remain "why there", there is nothing significant about it, except science equipment.
The FBI silence is fueling speculation, however as unnerving it is, I guess it is a standard protocol for FBI - they don't say anything because they do not have to.
Yeah...I"m wondering who is the judge of what is extremist and must be removed?
From the article snippet: "The EU's executive body said "propaganda that prepares, incites or glorifies acts of terrorism" - so seems like it's limited to direct terrorist acts indoctrination and not ideology.
Exactly, so I will keep being poisoned by my neighbors smoking normal cigarettes because vaping is too unhealthy?
I personally welcomed e-cigarettes as a way for people addicted to smoking, who cannot or do not want to give up their habit not affecting bystanders.
However:
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verb: expand; 3rd person present: expands; past tense: expanded; past participle: expanded; gerund or present participle: expanding
* become or make larger or more extensive
* give a fuller version or account of.
Not arguing with what you have said I just would like you to remember that there were many countries in the same situation as Russia, going through the same transition as Russia, which did not end up this way (practically the whole eastern block).
Russia has so vast resources of almost everything (including know-how and highly educated people) that blaming US for its situation is little bit extreme.
He was fired for engendering lives of astronauts by damaging the capsule, not reporting it and covering his mistake by improperly "repairing" it.
The choice he had was:
- report: get punished, possibly fired, but maybe just losing bonus
- not report: possibly causing crew to die
In this case it is even worse, the guy just glued the hole (really?), the glue dried and fell off when docked.
It's truly a remarkable invention, everything relies on wireless transmission nowadays. From this brief description it suggests that this new antenna is not only very wide band but also very sensitive (not to mention the size). I hope it will get into market soon, it will revolutionize communication not only on Earth but also between satellites. I also wonder an impact on radio astronomy, instead of huge heavy collector dishes one might imagine a field of these sensors (depending on its price and sensitivity though).
Thanks for this info.
BTW, sadly, some comments suggest that the/. is not so geeky anymore.
Damn - considering that every single major tech provider from Google through Facebook through...relies fundamentally on open-source software, the idea that our elections rely on - essentially - DOS-based, closed-source systems for every step from voting through counting is beyond bizarre!
Agree, elections after all is not a daily thing, I would say that for the sake of protecting this essential democratic tool it is worth to just manually count the ballots by representatives of major parties (on local level of course) and compare the results. Are we so lazy?
Regarding the closed software issue: some time ago I heard a podcast about software to guide judges whether to allow bailout or not - the software is closed source, and when the redactor asked why not open source ALL the experts in the discussion expressed opinion that "no no no, closed software is good" - I heard ka-ching sound in background (not literally, and it is just my assumption, that the researchers were sponsored). Anyway, personally it baffles me to have this not only a proprietary closed software, but also without any whatsoever review by an independent entity.
Around here, we have early voting where polls are opened up for a couple of weekends before the election.
I understand it is convenient for people, however it is quite insecure. The voting seems to be done with great trust that nobody would cheat - easiness and convenience always wins against security. I understand that it's to attract more citizens to participate, just hope that some proper verification is implemented, after all voting is the backbone of democracy.
Sorry but to be fair, some "private" industry engineers had warned of what might happen prior to the launch but NASA pressured them to give the go ahead anyway, even excluding those "private" industry engineers from the talks regarding the go/no-go decision..
Sorry but to be fair, some "private" industry engineers had warned of what might happen prior to the launch but NASA pressured them to give the go ahead anyway, even excluding those "private" industry engineers from the talks regarding the go/no-go decision..
Exactly, not to mention that Shuttles (as marvelous as they were):
- had no escape system whatsoever, whilst all the capsules do - such a system would have saved Challenger crew
- had exposed all its heat shield during launch, whilst all the capsules do not, so the event as with Columbia, when an isolation foam hit its heat shield on the wing is not possible with capsules like the ones being developed (Orion, CST-100 and Dragon2)
As with any controversial topic it is always one extreme vs the other: either we let all robbers lose or we have a police state. I cannot stress enough that there is a middle ground, a situation when the police has tools to effectively catch criminals and citizens have enough freedom to not be oppressed by the government.
People mostly do not realize how much government oversight they take for granted nowadays vs ancient times and still not ending up with a police state (e.g. there was time, when people were free to travel to any country with only restriction to report at the destination to a local duke). On the other hand technology did change reality for both police and criminals, the latter use it freely, let the police also have a chance - the point is to make enough check and balances to keep a free society.
I think a key to a free society is not police stripped of modern tools, but a healthy (being exercised by educated and informed society) democracy with police having tools but being kept accountable for its actions. Technology will keep changing the reality we live, we have to adapt, otherwise the free society many of us enjoy might perish - aka cyber-warfare dangers to democratic elections.
I agree that SRM just seems like a bad idea from all the research on potential side effects. But we can power the CO2 sequestration infrastructure from renewable energy, so the CO2 cost there can be negligible.
I hope so, there is abundance of clean energy and hopefully some breakthrough in fusion will happen. I also wish for CO2 sequestration instead of spreading reflective substances in the atmosphere as a solution for rising temperatures. Most importantly I hope for any solution to be modeled first and taken only when there are no negative outcomes even with a huge margin of error.
The trouble is that trees store carbon far, far slower than we dig it up. You cannot stabilize CO2 levels on human-relevant timescales with trees alone, artificial CO2 sequestration is absolutely necessary.
Yes, I agree, the only problem is that whenever I hear about "solutions" by artificial sequestration of CO2 I rarely hear how much CO2 will be produced by manufacturing and deploying these "solutions" or impact on other human activities (e.g. food production in case of distributing reflective substances in upper atmosphere).
Car ownership is one thing and public transport is another. I have a benefit of living in both countries for extended time and getting around in Germany using public transport is easy, pleasant and safe (at least used to be), I have not heard of public bus or tram robberies or groping (there are some incidents reported in news recently though). In general, if I had to compare:
- ownership of a car in Europe in general is much more expensive then in the US due to taxes
- getting around using public transportation in the US cities is not that bad either, just people usually drive
Most importantly to contribute to this discussion I have to say that vast majority of the critical opinions in the US about Europe is from people, who have never been there and vice-versa.
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Amen. More and more RAM, more and faster CPUs and in return with a new upgrade ... you will be asked to buy something even faster to keep the same experience. Linux Gnome used to work on 1G, now 4G is not enough, and it's not like anything useful happened, so I switched to XFCE and everything is as smooth as it used to be.
Will not even start about browsing experience, tons of JS, which whole purpose is to spy on your activity adding no value to the content. In mobile realm the apps sizes lost any common sense.
My company threw away perfectly good hardware (desktops and laptops with P2 duo and 4GB) because there is not much one can do with it, so I took some of the notebooks - Xubuntu or Lubuntu are just fine.
Do other people get to use the road, too? Can I come and use your Model 3 about 15% of the time, to cover the $7500 tax subsidy you get? Do you have to let others use your car 15% of the time?
Taxes deductions is a very old concept, you're extremely biased here.
How about deductions for mortgages, are you saying someone not having a house can live in someone else's house for some time for free just because they can deduct they mortgage interests from payed taxes and the former cannot?
I see your point now, we do not understand any more then the ancient people in the realm of what they did understand correctly.
Since the 1600s, the wobbly foundations of ancient astronomy, cosmology etc. have been thoroughly replaced with *actual* understanding.
Agree with merit of this statement, however the knowledge is a continuum, without ancient astronomy there would be no modern "actual" understanding.
Hae? What exactly did we understand more than Sumerians 3000 BC? Oh, we know since the 1800s or so that suns are powered by fusion, and that basically is what we know more than the ancients.
You're joking I assume, at first I wanted to write down a list, but after typing for some time I got bored, and reflected and decided you must be joking.
Just the presence of nowadays technology and astronomical instruments guarantees magnitudes of more knowledge. The shier time spent on observing and reflecting on what we see guarantees deeper understanding of virtually every aspect, not to mention about discovering features and things ancient people could not even have a slightest idea they existed, so Instead of writing down a long list to prove my point I just need one example (right?), so I will give you 2:
Please find me a Sumerian script, where they explain:
- why the Universe has about 75% of hydrogen, about 25% of helium, traces of depleting lithium and minuscule traces of the remaining elements
- why the cosmic microwave background is about 2.7K
Lock down and evacuation helps to prevent erasing any evidence. Why not a Blackhawk, how else efficiently and quickly to get there?
In that case you don't publicize that you're swarming around the area, you send a single computer geek to the observatory to plant fake data for the equipment to sniff, then see where it ends up.
I think in such a case FBI would be justified, and due to press freedom ("still") the word would spread, however evacuation is pointless in case of spying.
Evacuation indicates some bio-hazard, however the question would remain "why there", there is nothing significant about it, except science equipment.
The FBI silence is fueling speculation, however as unnerving it is, I guess it is a standard protocol for FBI - they don't say anything because they do not have to.
Enemies self identify.
By EU requiring deletion of extremist's posts, they are aiding the criminals and terrorists by destroying evidence.
The article mentioned "removing" not "erasing". I do not think it's a valid concern.
Yeah...I"m wondering who is the judge of what is extremist and must be removed?
From the article snippet: "The EU's executive body said "propaganda that prepares, incites or glorifies acts of terrorism" - so seems like it's limited to direct terrorist acts indoctrination and not ideology.
Exactly, so I will keep being poisoned by my neighbors smoking normal cigarettes because vaping is too unhealthy?
I personally welcomed e-cigarettes as a way for people addicted to smoking, who cannot or do not want to give up their habit not affecting bystanders.
However:
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verb
verb: expand; 3rd person present: expands; past tense: expanded; past participle: expanded; gerund or present participle: expanding
* become or make larger or more extensive
* give a fuller version or account of.
Why?
Politics of course..
Could you please expand?
Engendering eh? I think that means pretty much the opposite of what you intended.
yes, should be "endangering" , sorry for my misspelling and thanks for pointing it out
Not arguing with what you have said I just would like you to remember that there were many countries in the same situation as Russia, going through the same transition as Russia, which did not end up this way (practically the whole eastern block).
Russia has so vast resources of almost everything (including know-how and highly educated people) that blaming US for its situation is little bit extreme.
Well, I think it's the best comment about the issue.
He was fired for engendering lives of astronauts by damaging the capsule, not reporting it and covering his mistake by improperly "repairing" it.
The choice he had was:
- report: get punished, possibly fired, but maybe just losing bonus
- not report: possibly causing crew to die
In this case it is even worse, the guy just glued the hole (really?), the glue dried and fell off when docked.
It's truly a remarkable invention, everything relies on wireless transmission nowadays. From this brief description it suggests that this new antenna is not only very wide band but also very sensitive (not to mention the size). I hope it will get into market soon, it will revolutionize communication not only on Earth but also between satellites. I also wonder an impact on radio astronomy, instead of huge heavy collector dishes one might imagine a field of these sensors (depending on its price and sensitivity though).
Thanks for this info.
BTW, sadly, some comments suggest that the /. is not so geeky anymore.
Damn - considering that every single major tech provider from Google through Facebook through...relies fundamentally on open-source software, the idea that our elections rely on - essentially - DOS-based, closed-source systems for every step from voting through counting is beyond bizarre!
Agree, elections after all is not a daily thing, I would say that for the sake of protecting this essential democratic tool it is worth to just manually count the ballots by representatives of major parties (on local level of course) and compare the results. Are we so lazy?
Regarding the closed software issue: some time ago I heard a podcast about software to guide judges whether to allow bailout or not - the software is closed source, and when the redactor asked why not open source ALL the experts in the discussion expressed opinion that "no no no, closed software is good" - I heard ka-ching sound in background (not literally, and it is just my assumption, that the researchers were sponsored). Anyway, personally it baffles me to have this not only a proprietary closed software, but also without any whatsoever review by an independent entity.
Agree, not to mention quantum wave teleporters (aka improbability drive) ;-)
Around here, we have early voting where polls are opened up for a couple of weekends before the election.
I understand it is convenient for people, however it is quite insecure. The voting seems to be done with great trust that nobody would cheat - easiness and convenience always wins against security. I understand that it's to attract more citizens to participate, just hope that some proper verification is implemented, after all voting is the backbone of democracy.
Sorry but to be fair, some "private" industry engineers had warned of what might happen prior to the launch but NASA pressured them to give the go ahead anyway, even excluding those "private" industry engineers from the talks regarding the go/no-go decision..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Forgotten to mention that such a procedure is only slightly less safe for the crew, whilst being much, much safer for the ground support team.
Sorry but to be fair, some "private" industry engineers had warned of what might happen prior to the launch but NASA pressured them to give the go ahead anyway, even excluding those "private" industry engineers from the talks regarding the go/no-go decision..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Exactly, not to mention that Shuttles (as marvelous as they were):
- had no escape system whatsoever, whilst all the capsules do - such a system would have saved Challenger crew
- had exposed all its heat shield during launch, whilst all the capsules do not, so the event as with Columbia, when an isolation foam hit its heat shield on the wing is not possible with capsules like the ones being developed (Orion, CST-100 and Dragon2)
As with any controversial topic it is always one extreme vs the other: either we let all robbers lose or we have a police state. I cannot stress enough that there is a middle ground, a situation when the police has tools to effectively catch criminals and citizens have enough freedom to not be oppressed by the government.
People mostly do not realize how much government oversight they take for granted nowadays vs ancient times and still not ending up with a police state (e.g. there was time, when people were free to travel to any country with only restriction to report at the destination to a local duke). On the other hand technology did change reality for both police and criminals, the latter use it freely, let the police also have a chance - the point is to make enough check and balances to keep a free society.
I think a key to a free society is not police stripped of modern tools, but a healthy (being exercised by educated and informed society) democracy with police having tools but being kept accountable for its actions. Technology will keep changing the reality we live, we have to adapt, otherwise the free society many of us enjoy might perish - aka cyber-warfare dangers to democratic elections.
I agree that SRM just seems like a bad idea from all the research on potential side effects. But we can power the CO2 sequestration infrastructure from renewable energy, so the CO2 cost there can be negligible.
I hope so, there is abundance of clean energy and hopefully some breakthrough in fusion will happen. I also wish for CO2 sequestration instead of spreading reflective substances in the atmosphere as a solution for rising temperatures. Most importantly I hope for any solution to be modeled first and taken only when there are no negative outcomes even with a huge margin of error.
The trouble is that trees store carbon far, far slower than we dig it up. You cannot stabilize CO2 levels on human-relevant timescales with trees alone, artificial CO2 sequestration is absolutely necessary.
Yes, I agree, the only problem is that whenever I hear about "solutions" by artificial sequestration of CO2 I rarely hear how much CO2 will be produced by manufacturing and deploying these "solutions" or impact on other human activities (e.g. food production in case of distributing reflective substances in upper atmosphere).
Car ownership is one thing and public transport is another. I have a benefit of living in both countries for extended time and getting around in Germany using public transport is easy, pleasant and safe (at least used to be), I have not heard of public bus or tram robberies or groping (there are some incidents reported in news recently though). In general, if I had to compare:
- ownership of a car in Europe in general is much more expensive then in the US due to taxes
- getting around using public transportation in the US cities is not that bad either, just people usually drive
Most importantly to contribute to this discussion I have to say that vast majority of the critical opinions in the US about Europe is from people, who have never been there and vice-versa.