Yes, but in this part of the world, the "funerary brigade" is the family. There is no other. So you are requiring the entire nation not just to have, but to understand how to use, a bunny suit. If they could afford one, they would probably instead use the money to feed the family who will otherwise starve to death, or to get the hell out - taking Ebola with them.
Western societies generally don't touch the dead, unless required to do so.
No, but you touch a lot of people who may have been sick for up to 20 days with no visible symptoms. (Shake hands and then touch your own eyes, nose or mouth is the problem). Big sports events could be a major killer.
If the model is right within +/- 50%, then another 4 months and its 5 billion or so infected. As there are only 10 million in the affected area, that means it will have a good foothold in Europe and America.
So far all suggestions for containment have taken more than 6 weeks to implement, by which time, even the viable ideas are only 25% of the scale required.
Its time to sent in Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee and "the great white Ninja".
In the middle ages, the answer was to build enormous stone churches and pray like mad. "To be sure it won't make a #@!! of a lot of difference, but nor will anything else, don't ya see".
Of course the data and the maths are probably wrong, the question is are they wrong enough to make a gnats piss of a difference?
block the roads and shoot anyone trying to escape a contaminated area.
Novels with that kind of approach are written by people who have never left Holywood.
Fiven the nature of the areathe roads barely work in good times, and more people "trek through the bush" than use the roads even when there are no checkpoints - the checkpoints that are there are probably keener to extort money than stop people, and probably are only issued three bullets a day.
Certainly not the way the PC did it. The standard practice at the time was to do I/O space down from the top, and memory up from the bottom, so that when you got more address space, and Moore's law was well established by then - so you know it would ahppen pretty quick, you added the extra memory in the middle.
Also, most machines too cheap to have proper memory management supported memory banking, where the same address space addressed different memory based on a a "bank select register". Obviousy, if you were in banked memory when you flipped the switch, you went into hyper-space. but you knew that, didn't you (if your hardware was half-way decent, it didn't let you do it anyway).
The truth was, IBM did not want the PC to compete with "proper" computers, and did not put the effort into designing it properly. Hence the complete fail of an interrupt structure.
Besides which, even Bill Gates could not afford 640k at the time.
The crux of the matter is that some people think clicking icons is "as simple as possible" while others think "picking from a hierarchical list structure" is. Only a complete ignoramous would suggest users do not need to be able to choose either of these according to their preferences.
I'd much rather pick one thing I like from a list of ten than make ten binary decisions about ingredients.
However, the ten choices we get will never include the ten I want, or the ten you want - they will be what get offered by the Gnome dev team this release, and once we have got used to them, a completely different ten.
Granted being able to choose (unlike in Unity) is good, and if the options exist, someone will want every possible combination. (2^10 is only 1024 combinations, and you gotta hope more than 1 million people will use your GUI).
Best bet is to have both an easy way to pick a "skin" from popular choices (with a high contrast default that works regardless of LCD, CRT, or whatever is next, no matter how ugly - not that ugly should be the design objective) and a more complex "fix the feature that bugs you" - clearly marked "advanced users only" and with a way to save your choices and export them to other machines (by email?).
The worst possible is to pretend your desktop is a 2011 smartphone. Hell, I want Gnome-fallback-shell on my Samsung Note 4. Dropdown menus worked on 320x240 (as well as anything could on a Crap Graphic Array).
I definitely want to have multiple desktops, resizeable windows, and hierarchical menus on my Android phone. Icons are all very well for ten choices, but a complete failure for 1024 choices.
Hierarchically structured words big enough to read no mattter how many there are, are way better than, tiny, meaningless pictures you can't recognise no matter how few.
Here in the UK, hunter-gatherers would have to leave in the winter, and would probably have the good sense not to come back, or else they died*. Farmers might manage to store food to last them through the winter.
* This was before the Romans brought chimneys and window glass.
You have obviously never been to west africa. People there can and do ignore the governments, which are mostly irrelevant to every day life on a scale American libertines and European anarchists cannot imagine. The whole concept of "they should do X" is laughable. There is no one who can or will do "X". Life is not like that.
at least in the UK. Mistakes made before the age of 27
Maybe, but crimes committed under the age of 21 are dragged up in the Criminal Records Check even when you are in your 60's and have to be explained away on a regular basis if you want your job even with no military connection.
Which part of your banking data do you not want to be consistent?
Which transations do you not want atomic?
Personally, I like the idea of my banking data being durable, and I sure dont wat to bank with anyone who sees it otherwise (might feel different if the buggers would give me an overdraft, but I cant see the shareholders or tax man agreeing to it).
and not isolating the transactions? How will that not end in tears
I can understand that maybe you had too much LSD, but we stopped using pounds, shillings and pence years ago, and the other kind messes with your brain...P.
oh, wait...
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Yes, but in this part of the world, the "funerary brigade" is the family. There is no other. So you are requiring the entire nation not just to have, but to understand how to use, a bunny suit. If they could afford one, they would probably instead use the money to feed the family who will otherwise starve to death, or to get the hell out - taking Ebola with them.
No, but you touch a lot of people who may have been sick for up to 20 days with no visible symptoms. (Shake hands and then touch your own eyes, nose or mouth is the problem). Big sports events could be a major killer.
So far all suggestions for containment have taken more than 6 weeks to implement, by which time, even the viable ideas are only 25% of the scale required.
Its time to sent in Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee and "the great white Ninja".
In the middle ages, the answer was to build enormous stone churches and pray like mad. "To be sure it won't make a #@!! of a lot of difference, but nor will anything else, don't ya see".
Of course the data and the maths are probably wrong, the question is are they wrong enough to make a gnats piss of a difference?
Novels with that kind of approach are written by people who have never left Holywood.
Fiven the nature of the areathe roads barely work in good times, and more people "trek through the bush" than use the roads even when there are no checkpoints - the checkpoints that are there are probably keener to extort money than stop people, and probably are only issued three bullets a day.
Imagine trying to isolate Mexico ...
Certainly not the way the PC did it. The standard practice at the time was to do I/O space down from the top, and memory up from the bottom, so that when you got more address space, and Moore's law was well established by then - so you know it would ahppen pretty quick, you added the extra memory in the middle.
Also, most machines too cheap to have proper memory management supported memory banking, where the same address space addressed different memory based on a a "bank select register". Obviousy, if you were in banked memory when you flipped the switch, you went into hyper-space. but you knew that, didn't you (if your hardware was half-way decent, it didn't let you do it anyway).
The truth was, IBM did not want the PC to compete with "proper" computers, and did not put the effort into designing it properly. Hence the complete fail of an interrupt structure.
Besides which, even Bill Gates could not afford 640k at the time.
Only because it means 80% of America and Europe will die too.
I did not realise /. predated the internet!
That is roughly how the Stratisys (named in the article) works.
The crux of the matter is that some people think clicking icons is "as simple as possible" while others think "picking from a hierarchical list structure" is. Only a complete ignoramous would suggest users do not need to be able to choose either of these according to their preferences.
However, the ten choices we get will never include the ten I want, or the ten you want - they will be what get offered by the Gnome dev team this release, and once we have got used to them, a completely different ten.
Granted being able to choose (unlike in Unity) is good, and if the options exist, someone will want every possible combination. (2^10 is only 1024 combinations, and you gotta hope more than 1 million people will use your GUI).
Best bet is to have both an easy way to pick a "skin" from popular choices (with a high contrast default that works regardless of LCD, CRT, or whatever is next, no matter how ugly - not that ugly should be the design objective) and a more complex "fix the feature that bugs you" - clearly marked "advanced users only" and with a way to save your choices and export them to other machines (by email?).
The worst possible is to pretend your desktop is a 2011 smartphone. Hell, I want Gnome-fallback-shell on my Samsung Note 4. Dropdown menus worked on 320x240 (as well as anything could on a Crap Graphic Array).
I definitely want to have multiple desktops, resizeable windows, and hierarchical menus on my Android phone. Icons are all very well for ten choices, but a complete failure for 1024 choices.
Hierarchically structured words big enough to read no mattter how many there are, are way better than, tiny, meaningless pictures you can't recognise no matter how few.
Ok maybe there is still work to do
* This was before the Romans brought chimneys and window glass.
Wot no LA36? How do you do your core dumps? (ASCII Pron).
Do you have videos of the blood on the carpet?
Please, when can we have a hack that makes these printers print in Linux?
Or *BSD support?
Or Android support?
Of course its rejected. Bacon is the only way! (Sausage is for Emacs users).
You have obviously never been to west africa. People there can and do ignore the governments, which are mostly irrelevant to every day life on a scale American libertines and European anarchists cannot imagine. The whole concept of "they should do X" is laughable. There is no one who can or will do "X". Life is not like that.
If they do their own distro, they can call it Tunix, unless Asterix and Obilisk got there first!
If he knew what a Macbook was, he would not have said that.
"Lumia" is Latin for "burned out deck" - you missed the benefits of public school education ;-)
Maybe, but crimes committed under the age of 21 are dragged up in the Criminal Records Check even when you are in your 60's and have to be explained away on a regular basis if you want your job even with no military connection.
I assume you have never had a 16yo girlfriend. Seriously, they are Very Bad News (tm). Even if you are 16. Probably even more so!
You might also want to stop sending them invitations for a health check every year. I expect that feature not to work in the NoSQL version.
Which part of your banking data do you not want to be consistent?
Which transations do you not want atomic?
Personally, I like the idea of my banking data being durable, and I sure dont wat to bank with anyone who sees it otherwise (might feel different if the buggers would give me an overdraft, but I cant see the shareholders or tax man agreeing to it).
and not isolating the transactions? How will that not end in tears
I can understand that maybe you had too much LSD, but we stopped using pounds, shillings and pence years ago, and the other kind messes with your brain...P. oh, wait ...
Yes, but if the UK Government is involved, it can be simplified by the assumption that the real part is guaranteed to be Zero!