I fully agree with you and find that there's only _one_ acceptable way to increase humanity's lifespan: get women to have babies when they are older.
The first consequence is that it will slowly increase the average lifespan by simple genetic selection: those stupid enough or too sick to die young won't have the time to transfer those genes to the next generation.
But it also has a more profound consequence: older women will also chose (on average) better mates than the average stupid teenager banging the local football team (who will end up as used car salesmen 15 years hence).
I agree with you that it would basically end progress, but I'd go farther and claim that it would end civilization: eternal stagnation, everybody so entrenched and afraid to loose life or social position that nothing would ever happen.
For a simple analogy, remember that when a cell becomes immortal, it gives the body cancer and it dies of it. When the bodies becomes immortal, I'm pretty sure that civilization dies of it.
I'm a Windows programmer who recently started making all my new apps dual Windows/Linux apps through some compiler feng shui. I tried to use WINE as a user long ago without much success, but I had never heard of the WINE API. So, as an already Win/Lin programmer, is there a point to using it ? How does that differ from the usual windows.h API ?
I can't figure out their storage calculator. If I want to store 1Tb for long term backup, is that 1000Gb/Month ? And do I need to add 1000Gb of In Transfer ? Then the bill of $281 per MONTH is way too high.
its amazing people actually fall for that bulls*** Well, I'm not. One of my customers who I webmin for received it and I had to read it several times before I even guessed it was a scam: it knew all our DNS info (of course pulled from WHOIS), but also claimed to be our registrar (only the address was different but i wouldn't have known that). What tipped me off was the price.
Moka is something in between Espresso and $EVERYOTHERPARTOFTHEWORLD-coffee I don't drink coffee so I can claim neutrality here, but I think turkish coffee is off your scale here since they leave a lot of coffee 'dust' at the bottom of the cup.
OK, there are apps that work in Wine, for others there's VMware... There are a few critical apps that keep me partly in the Windows realm (I'm a Linux device driver developer in other circumstances). One of them is photo-quality printers such as the Epson R1800 which only has Win/Mac drivers. Sure, CUPS can print on it. Text. No profiled pictures. Is there a solution to this ? Can a printer driver work in Wine ? Can it work in some virtualized windows config ? Last time I checked, a virtual Windows under Linux couldn't access USB/firewire devices.
And if I'm stuck driving closely behind someone... ...then you shouldn't. There are legal safety distances for a reason, respect them or you'll end up in a pile of steaming metal. Yup, that's our car during our honeymoon, thanks to the asshole behind us.
We also had this discussion long ago. We are a research lab and all our projects are for our own use. It was gradual, but all the developers started developing for Linux. We do device drivers, databases, user interfaces, everything. Just not Windows anymore.
I think that we are talking a lot about the users rejecting Vista, but not enough about the developers adopting Linux. When your next generation of applications is going to be Linux only, it won't even matter what the users want!
There's also the case of changing a few bytes inside an existing file using fseek/fwrite. You don't want the file duplicated, but you have to if the operation needs to be atomic, haven't you ? I guess it's similar to the database case.
pretty much the only thing not taxed is taxes I beg to differ. THere are plenty of taxes on taxes in Europe. Case in point, years ago I ordered one of the first GPSes from the US. When I arrived, I had to pay customs for the VAT (33%, considered a 'luxury item') and then an additional 39% 'import tax' on the total, bringing it to a whooping 85% total tax!
If you read closely your stipend check you'll find plenty of such nuggets.
That right there has always boggled my mind. Why the hell should drugs need to be marketed? "This is what our drug can treat, this is when you would prescribe it and these are the contraindications" seems to me to be the extent of the "marketing" that should be required for prescription drugs. And indeed there are countries (cough France cough) when it's simply illegal to advertise medical drugs.
Nobody is going to run photoshop on a $300 Acer laptop Dead wrong. It's actually the main reason why I consider buying such a cheap laptop: travel light to exotic land for photographic assignment. Upload the images from camera to PC daily for a quick PS check and minor adjusts, satellite or internet transmit when available. You can't do that off an iPhone and I don't want 7kg of Dell Latitude and associated cables, to say nothing of the risk of having it stolen, broken or swamped by the monsoon.
I can save a MP3 in linux and play it at the same time. I can also delete it WHILE playing and nothing bad happens (until I hit the beginning again). That's a function of how the applications are written and has nothing to do with the OS whatsoever. Hmmm, no, that's a function of the filesystem where the old file and the new file both have different inodes even if they have the same name, and the first inode gets unlinked off the system only once nothing uses it anymore.
Hmmm, I'm not even quite sure about that. Since vacuum contains virtual particles, which have a mass, I'm pretty sure you can compute the mass density of a block of vacuum. I'm not quite up to date on my quantum mechanics (although I implement it in software !) to give you a number.
100,000 T is instantly lethal to organic life (corrected). What is it that makes a strong magnetic field lethal ? Some molecules separate ? Differential motion of diamagnetic / ferromagnetic body components ? Other ? I'm just surprised it happens at such incredibly strong intensities.
Linux has a Visio Clone: Kvivio. Import the Cisco Symbols from DIA and you are all set. Is that a foreign language ? There are more words I don't know than words I understand in the above sentence.
One time pads need to be at least the size of the data you want to encrypt as you cannot use it twice. So you'd need a lot of storage if you plan on encrypting digital phone conversations. And conversations would have limited duration.
mistakes of the adaptation of Fight Club What mistakes? The movie is very close to the book, only more fleshed out as the book is quite short and glosses over details. The ending is not too far off (you think he's gonna be okay as he says in the movie ?!?)
Huh ?!? Foundation is one of the most boring book series ever. Totally unrealistic at several levels. As soon as I passed puberty my interest in Asimov vaned. It's in the same overrated and pseudo-important category as Heinlein. I can't see anything good coming out of it: a bunch of psychologists claiming to know the future? How exciting... and so easy to disprove at the cost of a single bullet.
Caps lock is removed off my keyboard and so is [Scroll lock]. I have a stupid Belkin wireless where they put the [Scroll lock] right above the [home] key and I kept getting it wrong, so 'pop' goes the key...
...And then in a newly updated Konsole I couldn't get Ctrl-S Ctrl-Q to pause the scrolling text. Off to google I go and to my surprise I discover the first ever use of the [Scroll lock] key in my 29 years of computing !
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Now even weather forecast websites are considered terrorists ?!? Bush HAS got to be stopped !!! C;-)
The first consequence is that it will slowly increase the average lifespan by simple genetic selection: those stupid enough or too sick to die young won't have the time to transfer those genes to the next generation.
But it also has a more profound consequence: older women will also chose (on average) better mates than the average stupid teenager banging the local football team (who will end up as used car salesmen 15 years hence).
Enforcement is left as an exercise to the reader.
For a simple analogy, remember that when a cell becomes immortal, it gives the body cancer and it dies of it. When the bodies becomes immortal, I'm pretty sure that civilization dies of it.
So, what are your plans for Wine 2.0?
But a release in 2023 of course.
I'm a Windows programmer who recently started making all my new apps dual Windows/Linux apps through some compiler feng shui. I tried to use WINE as a user long ago without much success, but I had never heard of the WINE API. So, as an already Win/Lin programmer, is there a point to using it ? How does that differ from the usual windows.h API ?
I can't figure out their storage calculator. If I want to store 1Tb for long term backup, is that 1000Gb/Month ? And do I need to add 1000Gb of In Transfer ? Then the bill of $281 per MONTH is way too high.
Exactly what I'll be doing: first it looks too much like IE7 for my taste, and also I'll let others find the bugs in it during the first days !
'OK enough for most use' is certainly not good enough for printing pictures on glossy paper using calibrated profiles.
OK, there are apps that work in Wine, for others there's VMware... There are a few critical apps that keep me partly in the Windows realm (I'm a Linux device driver developer in other circumstances). One of them is photo-quality printers such as the Epson R1800 which only has Win/Mac drivers. Sure, CUPS can print on it. Text. No profiled pictures. Is there a solution to this ? Can a printer driver work in Wine ? Can it work in some virtualized windows config ? Last time I checked, a virtual Windows under Linux couldn't access USB /firewire devices.
I think that we are talking a lot about the users rejecting Vista, but not enough about the developers adopting Linux. When your next generation of applications is going to be Linux only, it won't even matter what the users want!
There's also the case of changing a few bytes inside an existing file using fseek/fwrite. You don't want the file duplicated, but you have to if the operation needs to be atomic, haven't you ? I guess it's similar to the database case.
If you read closely your stipend check you'll find plenty of such nuggets.
Hmmm, I'm not even quite sure about that. Since vacuum contains virtual particles, which have a mass, I'm pretty sure you can compute the mass density of a block of vacuum. I'm not quite up to date on my quantum mechanics (although I implement it in software !) to give you a number.
One time pads need to be at least the size of the data you want to encrypt as you cannot use it twice. So you'd need a lot of storage if you plan on encrypting digital phone conversations. And conversations would have limited duration.
Huh ?!? Foundation is one of the most boring book series ever. Totally unrealistic at several levels. As soon as I passed puberty my interest in Asimov vaned. It's in the same overrated and pseudo-important category as Heinlein. I can't see anything good coming out of it: a bunch of psychologists claiming to know the future? How exciting... and so easy to disprove at the cost of a single bullet.