So the kernel version is *always* going to start with "2.6."
What if a new development model is adopted ? What if a completely new software architecture is used (think Erlang for 800-core machines instead of C) ? Even if the change can be gradual, maybe the day boot.c is rewritten from scratch it ought to change number, no ?
Because the seek speed is 40x + than an HDD, data access is blazing fast on even the cheaper SSDs. The hangup is in the slow read/write speeds and problems with random access.
Does the operating system knows about this ? I mean, can the OS adjust its internal parameters to optimize the global speed. I'd guess with a slow write you'd want to avoid swapping or saving temp files as much as possible. If the read is fast, you don't need to pre-fetch files/programs in memory. Is there some kind of load balancing between memory speed/size, HDD speed/size, SSD, etc...?
Well, that and the moderation. I remember several attempts at moderating Usenet in the early 90s, either by changing the protocol or by having custom clients, but none of those worked out. I still like Usenet better than any mailing list or web 2.0 thingy.
Why C ? I thought Ada was supposed to be the language of choice in the aerospace industry ? Don't get me wrong, I'm a C developer by trade, by I know how unsafe it can be...
I second both the need for better backups and the Robocopy recommendation, I've been using it for all my Windows backups for a good 15 years... but... First it cannot do remote backups via ssh (okay rsync on cygwin can do that). Then it cannot snapshot the filesystem like other Linux or Mac utilities can. That file you modified and then backed-up last month ? Well, it was the version before that which was needed... Then it cannot easily do incremental backups. And also it won't deal with the fact that your target (DVD) has less space than your source (1Tb HD)
Silly me, when I read the title of the article, I assumed it was about some new open source replacement for Posix make tool, which wouldn't be a bad thing too.
I have a practical joke that relates to this article. While I was in Antarctica 15 years ago, one of the geologists was planning a field trip and telling us what he planned/hoped on finding, even showing us some types of rocks. The chopper pilots were scheduled to go near his field area before on an unrelated mission, so they took a large 'interesting' rock out of his accumulated stash and put it in a very visible flat area.
A few days later, the first thing the geologist sees when he reaches the area is of course this rock. He aborts his trip, comes back to the main base all excited about some revolutionary theory or other and starts writing feverishly about it. It took us a bit of courage to tell him the truth and deflate him... He was able to go back to his advanced camp, but it proves that it can be too easy to fake/mistake data in some cases.
The odds against the irreducible complexity of a cell with all the DNA, membranes, self-replicating instructions encoded and autonomous self-protection mechanisms springing spontaneously into existence, are the same as rolling sixes in dice, 60,000 times in a row.
Yes. That's why it didn't 'spring' into existence. And why the very first life forms were not complex and hardly qualify as 'life'.
Mutations have repeatedly proven only to corrupt DNA and cellular function, introducing errors and genetic dead-ends
Yes. And that's why natural selection comes into play to weed out the unadapted ones, leaving only those that are either beneficial (very rare) or neutral (common, but may have cumulative effects in the long run, leading to massive phenotype changes).
You don't have to believe in God to grasp that Darwinism as a theory of origins has been thoroughly discredited
And I don't have to believe in much in order to see that you are an idiot only spewing forth a few big words heard on the news, with no idea how the big pieces of the puzzle connect together. Evolution is a lot more than just 'we came from monkeys'.
Just pointing out the rather obvious fact that open source software isn't going to come crippled for my "protection"
Oh yeah ? Try to print or extract images from a PDF file marked as 'read-only' from xpdf or kpdf. It won't let you. I downloaded the source and found the comments in the right spots, something like "Adobe would be onto us if we did this". Unfortunately I couldn't get it to compile under cygwin.
Personally, I think it's incredibly rude to let a phone call interrupt a conversation.
One example, slightly off topic. Couple month ago I go (during work hours) to my local photo shop to purchase a lens. 3 salespersons, 3 customers already there. I think, good, this will be a short wait. One phone rings, a salesman answers it and talks in it for 5 minutes before resuming his dealings with the previous customer. Repeat. Repeat.... After 1/2 hour finally one of the customers is finished and leaves. I open my mouth to say what I want when the phone rings. I tell the guy: "either you take care of the guy in front of you with real money in the pocket or you answer the phone". He answered: "but I _have_ to answer the phone", so I just replied: "well, I guess I'll order my lens by phone too" and left, fuming.
And then stores complain that internet is giving them unfair competition, hah!
Have you considered that aging [...] may not be a "disorder" but rather a biological adaptation, important for evolution? At the level of populations, where a lot of evolution occurs, it may be advantageous to limit the number of previous generations with which new ones have to compete. Useful new mutations will also be more likely to gain penetrance [...]
Most insightful post in this thread so far.
Increasing lifespan effectively negates evolution, particularly if reproduction can only be achieved during the first 4 decades, leaving it exposed to all the usual consequences. Like I said in a recent similar thread: immortality of the cells leads to cancer and death of the body; immortality of the bodies will lead to death of the specie.
Another question I would see addressed is one that already crops up in intensive medicine: what is the cutoff price ? Say you have a magical pill/process that costs 1b$ and that can double the lifespan. Should it be allowed for BillG and the handful of others who can afford it? But then again if it costs 1M$ and maybe 1/10 of the population can now afford it if they pour all their resources into it, what are the economic/social consequences ? At what point do you say 'no'?
In contrast to the French, Germans are actually welcoming, friendly and understanding towards people you don't speak their language fluently.
[sic]
I beg to differ. Two examples:
I've traveled a lot. Germany is the only place where I've asked a question in english to someone off the street and have the person turn around and walk away. Sure the french may berate you, but I'd rather like that. Choose your poison.
I've had very sociable friends live for a year in France and a year in Germany. They came back from Germany depressed from not having made a single friend. Came back from France with a string of lovers and life friends.
Anyway, that's just anecdotal evidence and it's too easy to fall into flamebait territory. I was in Germany last week and people were quite nice (but the food was awful as always).
There are lots of other ways to buy and sell things
Which ones ? From the very beginning I never liked eBay much and Paypal even less, with them having access to my bank account and all. I used Amazon buy/sell system for a while but it was (at the time) only geared for books. Where's the competition for personal web auctions ?
I know the dog-lick is a jest, but I find it useful to remind people that dog licks are not harmless. There are dog owners who go as far as claim that dog saliva is sterile. It's not, and not only that, but you can catch some really nasty things by letting a dog lick your hands or face while the dog stays unaffected.
How nasty ? Nasty as in 'it's a lot of fun before your liver falls out of you and you die in convulsions". And the basically incurable Echinococosis is only one example.
People who french kiss their dog make me throw up. OK, I'll get off my soapbox now.
Well, it doesn't mean that the lens sees it, but that the lens can see the effect it has on the things you _can_ see. For instance you look at a galaxy field and you notice that some are distorted in certain ways, you can infer that there's a hidden mass between you and those galaxies. The LSST project on which I work has a similar goal.
I've never heard of anyone actually losing anything because of credit card fraud
Well, try to remember my name then. Happened while on long vacation. Noticed the charge 45 days later when looking at empty bank account. CC company pointed at policy: "you must notify us within 30 days". Raised a stink with police report and all. CC company eventually paid back 2% of total because the thieves had managed to withdraw even more than credit limit allowed. Sat down and cried.
I'm no chemist, but I think one potential problem is the more difficult separation. When dealing with ore, you have only a few components, usually associated in the same way, requiring already several complex steps to separate. In a landfill you'll have 30 main chemical elements with 40 or 80 rare and minor ones. The separation process will require an AI to work out !
But why isn't it easier to grow a crystal with a cubic symmetry slowly, checking regularly with a scanning tunnelling microscope to ensure that there aren't any atomic defects ? This way you know your angles are 90Â, and you count the numbers of atoms on each side with the microscope.
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If Florida weren't such a politically important state and the Floridians that held positions of privilege under Batista weren't so vocal
Aren't they all dead yet ? I mean, that was 60 years ago !
So the kernel version is *always* going to start with "2.6."
What if a new development model is adopted ? What if a completely new software architecture is used (think Erlang for 800-core machines instead of C) ? Even if the change can be gradual, maybe the day boot.c is rewritten from scratch it ought to change number, no ?
Because the seek speed is 40x + than an HDD, data access is blazing fast on even the cheaper SSDs. The hangup is in the slow read/write speeds and problems with random access.
Does the operating system knows about this ? I mean, can the OS adjust its internal parameters to optimize the global speed. I'd guess with a slow write you'd want to avoid swapping or saving temp files as much as possible. If the read is fast, you don't need to pre-fetch files/programs in memory. Is there some kind of load balancing between memory speed/size, HDD speed/size, SSD, etc...?
Why not take a page from all those sci-fi books and put it in a Lagrange Point?
Because we'll be there first with our satellite within 6 months !
Usenet and Slashdot are somewhat different
Well, that and the moderation. I remember several attempts at moderating Usenet in the early 90s, either by changing the protocol or by having custom clients, but none of those worked out. I still like Usenet better than any mailing list or web 2.0 thingy.
Why C ? I thought Ada was supposed to be the language of choice in the aerospace industry ? Don't get me wrong, I'm a C developer by trade, by I know how unsafe it can be...
You mention uBid. I remember using it as a buyer years ago, but only businesses could register as sellers at the time. Has this changed ?
I second both the need for better backups and the Robocopy recommendation, I've been using it for all my Windows backups for a good 15 years... but... First it cannot do remote backups via ssh (okay rsync on cygwin can do that). Then it cannot snapshot the filesystem like other Linux or Mac utilities can. That file you modified and then backed-up last month ? Well, it was the version before that which was needed... Then it cannot easily do incremental backups. And also it won't deal with the fact that your target (DVD) has less space than your source (1Tb HD)
Silly me, when I read the title of the article, I assumed it was about some new open source replacement for Posix make tool, which wouldn't be a bad thing too.
A few days later, the first thing the geologist sees when he reaches the area is of course this rock. He aborts his trip, comes back to the main base all excited about some revolutionary theory or other and starts writing feverishly about it. It took us a bit of courage to tell him the truth and deflate him... He was able to go back to his advanced camp, but it proves that it can be too easy to fake/mistake data in some cases.
Yes. That's why it didn't 'spring' into existence. And why the very first life forms were not complex and hardly qualify as 'life'.
Mutations have repeatedly proven only to corrupt DNA and cellular function, introducing errors and genetic dead-ends
Yes. And that's why natural selection comes into play to weed out the unadapted ones, leaving only those that are either beneficial (very rare) or neutral (common, but may have cumulative effects in the long run, leading to massive phenotype changes).
You don't have to believe in God to grasp that Darwinism as a theory of origins has been thoroughly discredited
And I don't have to believe in much in order to see that you are an idiot only spewing forth a few big words heard on the news, with no idea how the big pieces of the puzzle connect together. Evolution is a lot more than just 'we came from monkeys'.
Just pointing out the rather obvious fact that open source software isn't going to come crippled for my "protection"
Oh yeah ? Try to print or extract images from a PDF file marked as 'read-only' from xpdf or kpdf. It won't let you. I downloaded the source and found the comments in the right spots, something like "Adobe would be onto us if we did this". Unfortunately I couldn't get it to compile under cygwin.
Personally, I think it's incredibly rude to let a phone call interrupt a conversation.
One example, slightly off topic. Couple month ago I go (during work hours) to my local photo shop to purchase a lens. 3 salespersons, 3 customers already there. I think, good, this will be a short wait. One phone rings, a salesman answers it and talks in it for 5 minutes before resuming his dealings with the previous customer. Repeat. Repeat.... After 1/2 hour finally one of the customers is finished and leaves. I open my mouth to say what I want when the phone rings. I tell the guy: "either you take care of the guy in front of you with real money in the pocket or you answer the phone". He answered: "but I _have_ to answer the phone", so I just replied: "well, I guess I'll order my lens by phone too" and left, fuming.
And then stores complain that internet is giving them unfair competition, hah!
Have you considered that aging [...] may not be a "disorder" but rather a biological adaptation, important for evolution? At the level of populations, where a lot of evolution occurs, it may be advantageous to limit the number of previous generations with which new ones have to compete. Useful new mutations will also be more likely to gain penetrance [...]
Most insightful post in this thread so far.
Increasing lifespan effectively negates evolution, particularly if reproduction can only be achieved during the first 4 decades, leaving it exposed to all the usual consequences. Like I said in a recent similar thread: immortality of the cells leads to cancer and death of the body; immortality of the bodies will lead to death of the specie.
Another question I would see addressed is one that already crops up in intensive medicine: what is the cutoff price ? Say you have a magical pill /process that costs 1b$ and that can double the lifespan. Should it be allowed for BillG and the handful of others who can afford it? But then again if it costs 1M$ and maybe 1/10 of the population can now afford it if they pour all their resources into it, what are the economic/social consequences ? At what point do you say 'no'?
It also forgets mountain guide: one third of a promotion dies while working.
In contrast to the French, Germans are actually welcoming, friendly and understanding towards people you don't speak their language fluently.
[sic] I beg to differ. Two examples:
Anyway, that's just anecdotal evidence and it's too easy to fall into flamebait territory. I was in Germany last week and people were quite nice (but the food was awful as always).
It feels great to be an Australian.
Why, isn't it like that every day ?!?
There are lots of other ways to buy and sell things
Which ones ? From the very beginning I never liked eBay much and Paypal even less, with them having access to my bank account and all. I used Amazon buy/sell system for a while but it was (at the time) only geared for books. Where's the competition for personal web auctions ?
How nasty ? Nasty as in 'it's a lot of fun before your liver falls out of you and you die in convulsions". And the basically incurable Echinococosis is only one example.
People who french kiss their dog make me throw up. OK, I'll get off my soapbox now.
Well, it doesn't mean that the lens sees it, but that the lens can see the effect it has on the things you _can_ see. For instance you look at a galaxy field and you notice that some are distorted in certain ways, you can infer that there's a hidden mass between you and those galaxies. The LSST project on which I work has a similar goal.
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HTTP/1.1" 200 445 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
I've never heard of anyone actually losing anything because of credit card fraud
Well, try to remember my name then. Happened while on long vacation. Noticed the charge 45 days later when looking at empty bank account. CC company pointed at policy: "you must notify us within 30 days". Raised a stink with police report and all. CC company eventually paid back 2% of total because the thieves had managed to withdraw even more than credit limit allowed. Sat down and cried.
I'm no chemist, but I think one potential problem is the more difficult separation. When dealing with ore, you have only a few components, usually associated in the same way, requiring already several complex steps to separate. In a landfill you'll have 30 main chemical elements with 40 or 80 rare and minor ones. The separation process will require an AI to work out !
/me never enabled flashblock before
You're kidding me! That's the very first thing I do on every computer I touch, even before I install AdBlock Plus.
But why isn't it easier to grow a crystal with a cubic symmetry slowly, checking regularly with a scanning tunnelling microscope to ensure that there aren't any atomic defects ? This way you know your angles are 90Â, and you count the numbers of atoms on each side with the microscope.