- The spaceship is crowded captain ! Maybe we ought to limit demographic growth ?
- Never !
That is how all the resources on spaceship Earth were devoted to sustain a demographic growth that served only vague ideological goals instead of bettering the life of each member of the crew.
Hello, the year is 2009. If you gave every people on Earth a space of 50 cm x 50 cm to stand on, the whole population of the planet could stand on the island of Zanzibar. See ? There is room for everyone...
It looks like it would be easier to create the return fuel on site from water ice than to bring enough things to kick start a colony. This whole idea seems immoral and unpractical.
So all these things were just more expensive in 1956 ?
* cell phones
* orbital launch service
* (half the medical drugs you are currently using)
* organ transplantation
* internet connection
* direct flights to Austalia or China
* Nuclear electricity
These are more than incremental changes, they are completely new possibilities. The process of research has been streamlined so we don't perceive innovations as breakthrough, but they are done constantly and probably at a higher pace than before.
There arer flying cars. They cost 500 000 $ and require a pilot license but they do exist. They just don't have any sort of commercial success. Now that airplane tickets are less than double the price of a bus ticket, could we please stop saying that we are waiting for flying cars ?
Maybe the difference is that science fiction is far more popular today than it used to be. What was so surprising in 1956 that wasn't envisioned by Jules Verne ? Space travel, satellites, submarines, airplanes, all of this was predicted. Since 1956 what happened ? Well, walking on the moon is one thing, the computer revolution is another. Medicine has done tremendous progresses as well and nuclear energy became a reality. Cell phones were a thing nobody anticipated and internet brings so many things to humanity that it is mind boggling.
I feel like I am hearing a IE user complaining about missing shortcuts... When you change a major software you use, especially if you are willing to use a "not for your mom" browser, you'll have to accept little changes in your workflow.
To the general public. For letting die (or killing, depending on your point of view) one important brillant mind that, if nothing else, was a very valuable asset for United Kingdoms, and the world.
I remember the first glorious days of file sharing. Categoryzing, tagging, all was done by the community and worked fairly well. Torrents are a mess because they are illegal. Make it legal and expect dozens of website to propose huge online librairies correctly sorted.
but the individual states in the US do have more autonomy than EU countries.
I'll need clarification on that. The only limits to a country's sovereignty in the EU are the European laws and the European Court of Justice. How is it different from US federal laws and US Supreme Court ? There is no federal police like the FBI and the scope of the European Court is, from my understanding, very narrow. There is also no central authority that can engage EU in a war. All military operations are decided on an individual basis. If you remember correctly, during the Iraq war, UK and Poland helped US while other European countries chose not to. I am not sure that California for instance could have opted out of Iraq...
You are right. It is currently a scientific problem and the people initiating this request are probably well aware of it and anticipate the court decision : if humanity is presented as a suspect of the "global climate change crime", it will probably be relaxed based on reasonable doubt. This is a way transforming the "80% of probability of being the cause" to "Could not be. So, release the suspect."
There are European laws, there is a European Court of Justice and there are European financial institution. This alone makes Europe something more than a loose alliance of country. I know, there are no European spirit in the same way that there is an American spirit and that is a shame. Yeah, I'm from Dauphiné, France, Europe. I'd like to call myself a citizen of the world, but see the criticism you get when you even dare call yourself "European" ?
I was born in France, which is a place I like. I also like many things from English and German culture, with who we share a lot. I feel I am part of their history as well as France's. I consider that the Belgian political crisis is a problem in the country where I live. I consider that when the EU president is the euro-sceptic Czech president, it is a failure of my country. My country is the area chere I can drive without meeting any border control, where I can pay with my money (this is a work in progress), where I can rent a flat easily, where I am recognized as a citizen, not a foreigner.
Americans usually think of Europe like USA. They imagine something more integrated than it already is. This is erroneous but this is a very useful image that they reflect upon us. The main thing that Europe lacks to be considered a country, is the very notion in its citizens' mind that it is indeed a country. (Oh, and an army also, right)
I used to think this is a ideal solution. Then I learned here more about BIOS. Having a key-logger installed in the BIOS could overcome this whole procedure. No, the only possible way seems to not get infected in the first place. And that, is only possible when you assume your PC ships clean.
I would also add that Poland is often seen in Europe as our Texas : they are fervently catholic, anti-gay, anti-abortion, and in favor of death penalty (despite it being abolished on all EU). Sorry AC, I know all Poles are not like that, but your leadership really doesn't make Poland the most sexy country to be in when you don't obey the Pope's commands.
I hope it is considered to be buried in a air-tight capsule. I think that a motor failure on both HDs have a low probability of happening. Good HDs can last that long while being used intensively, I doubt that not using them would make them last less.
Good point about IP, but IPv4 is almost 30 years old and continues to be widely used. I doubt that IPv6 would be obsolete in 16 years. My point on using ethernet, however, was on the physical interface. If you have an ethernet plug on your quantum-DNA-optical computer, and an IP-ish protocol, at the very worse, you will be able to use an emulator to boot an old version of Ubuntu 15, the last one before support to IPv4 was dropped, transfer your files, and convert them in something usable. I think the big problem is the hardware, not the software. And ethernet plugs are probably still here for a long time.
Have the reader inside. Put inside the capsule a small webserver with ethernet and wifi capabilities, to be connected on regular AC 110V. Ethernet is 30 years old and shows no sign of weakness. I bet that wifi will still work as well in 16 years. Make it a simple web/http/ftp server that allows connection, vizualization and download of the data. In 16 years, I don't know if you will use a laptop, a watch, a cell phone or a brain-plug to connect to it, but I am fairly sure that it will be able to connect with ethernet and/or wifi.
16 years seem short enough to me that one can use either hard disks or (good) optical discs to store the data. I would like to recommend SSD, but let's face it : we are not sure how well it ages.
I would personally go with two copies of the data stored on two different model, good quality HDs. That way, if one version gets corrupted, the other will work fine.
I don't know if that still is the case but opium and its derivatives (heroin and morphin, notably) are the main export of Afghanistan and a reason why powerful local warlords do not want to see a democratic government there, fearing it would be subject to international pressure on their traffic.
That.
I would also use this occasion to state my amusement to see these sports officials embarrassed about someone having a clear advantage that can not be put on special training, drugs, equipment or techniques. At a high level, performances in sports like athletics will show differences that can have a clear genetic cause (that's okay. That is, after all, a feature of evolution, that some individual will outperform others on specific tasks) yet refuse to acknowledge it and emphasize on the training and work of athletes.
Athletes keep talking about sports' spirit, about how it is all about fairness and balance. I am happy to see some reminders that top competitions are mostly about unfair genetic advantage. This focus on the top 1st, the gold medal, the world champion, is a bit insane. The most respectable difference I see in sport is between amateur and well-trained. Between these two levels, the difference is clear and is mostly about efforts. But it is not very convenient or spectacular to build a mediafest around.
Slashdot Mirror
In Europe, the business language is still English. Sure you can't sell a product to grandma, but for companies it may work just fine.
Please do it if you need it. It is open source.
- The spaceship is crowded captain ! Maybe we ought to limit demographic growth ?
- Never !
That is how all the resources on spaceship Earth were devoted to sustain a demographic growth that served only vague ideological goals instead of bettering the life of each member of the crew.
Hello, the year is 2009. If you gave every people on Earth a space of 50 cm x 50 cm to stand on, the whole population of the planet could stand on the island of Zanzibar. See ? There is room for everyone...
It looks like it would be easier to create the return fuel on site from water ice than to bring enough things to kick start a colony. This whole idea seems immoral and unpractical.
So all these things were just more expensive in 1956 ?
* cell phones
* orbital launch service
* (half the medical drugs you are currently using)
* organ transplantation
* internet connection
* direct flights to Austalia or China
* Nuclear electricity
These are more than incremental changes, they are completely new possibilities. The process of research has been streamlined so we don't perceive innovations as breakthrough, but they are done constantly and probably at a higher pace than before.
There arer flying cars. They cost 500 000 $ and require a pilot license but they do exist. They just don't have any sort of commercial success. Now that airplane tickets are less than double the price of a bus ticket, could we please stop saying that we are waiting for flying cars ?
Maybe the difference is that science fiction is far more popular today than it used to be. What was so surprising in 1956 that wasn't envisioned by Jules Verne ? Space travel, satellites, submarines, airplanes, all of this was predicted. Since 1956 what happened ? Well, walking on the moon is one thing, the computer revolution is another. Medicine has done tremendous progresses as well and nuclear energy became a reality. Cell phones were a thing nobody anticipated and internet brings so many things to humanity that it is mind boggling.
I feel like I am hearing a IE user complaining about missing shortcuts... When you change a major software you use, especially if you are willing to use a "not for your mom" browser, you'll have to accept little changes in your workflow.
To the general public. For letting die (or killing, depending on your point of view) one important brillant mind that, if nothing else, was a very valuable asset for United Kingdoms, and the world.
I remember the first glorious days of file sharing. Categoryzing, tagging, all was done by the community and worked fairly well. Torrents are a mess because they are illegal. Make it legal and expect dozens of website to propose huge online librairies correctly sorted.
Or, maybe, we could get over this notion that guilt is hereditary
The Head of State is the same. It makes sense for her to apologize (or not).
Exactly, private mirrors, torrents, friends sharing to friends, all that are good cures to this deficiency in privacy.
Ever heards about the concept of the Technological Singularity ? ;-)
My point exactly : what makes you a top class athlete is hard work. What makes you #1 is unfair genetic advantages.
Is there anything preventing a random Obama supporter to make a fake DMCA takedown ?
but the individual states in the US do have more autonomy than EU countries.
I'll need clarification on that. The only limits to a country's sovereignty in the EU are the European laws and the European Court of Justice. How is it different from US federal laws and US Supreme Court ? There is no federal police like the FBI and the scope of the European Court is, from my understanding, very narrow. There is also no central authority that can engage EU in a war. All military operations are decided on an individual basis. If you remember correctly, during the Iraq war, UK and Poland helped US while other European countries chose not to. I am not sure that California for instance could have opted out of Iraq...
You are right. It is currently a scientific problem and the people initiating this request are probably well aware of it and anticipate the court decision : if humanity is presented as a suspect of the "global climate change crime", it will probably be relaxed based on reasonable doubt. This is a way transforming the "80% of probability of being the cause" to "Could not be. So, release the suspect."
There are European laws, there is a European Court of Justice and there are European financial institution. This alone makes Europe something more than a loose alliance of country. I know, there are no European spirit in the same way that there is an American spirit and that is a shame. Yeah, I'm from Dauphiné, France, Europe. I'd like to call myself a citizen of the world, but see the criticism you get when you even dare call yourself "European" ?
I was born in France, which is a place I like. I also like many things from English and German culture, with who we share a lot. I feel I am part of their history as well as France's. I consider that the Belgian political crisis is a problem in the country where I live. I consider that when the EU president is the euro-sceptic Czech president, it is a failure of my country. My country is the area chere I can drive without meeting any border control, where I can pay with my money (this is a work in progress), where I can rent a flat easily, where I am recognized as a citizen, not a foreigner.
Americans usually think of Europe like USA. They imagine something more integrated than it already is. This is erroneous but this is a very useful image that they reflect upon us. The main thing that Europe lacks to be considered a country, is the very notion in its citizens' mind that it is indeed a country. (Oh, and an army also, right)
I used to think this is a ideal solution. Then I learned here more about BIOS. Having a key-logger installed in the BIOS could overcome this whole procedure. No, the only possible way seems to not get infected in the first place. And that, is only possible when you assume your PC ships clean.
I would also add that Poland is often seen in Europe as our Texas : they are fervently catholic, anti-gay, anti-abortion, and in favor of death penalty (despite it being abolished on all EU). Sorry AC, I know all Poles are not like that, but your leadership really doesn't make Poland the most sexy country to be in when you don't obey the Pope's commands.
I hope it is considered to be buried in a air-tight capsule. I think that a motor failure on both HDs have a low probability of happening. Good HDs can last that long while being used intensively, I doubt that not using them would make them last less.
Good point about IP, but IPv4 is almost 30 years old and continues to be widely used. I doubt that IPv6 would be obsolete in 16 years. My point on using ethernet, however, was on the physical interface. If you have an ethernet plug on your quantum-DNA-optical computer, and an IP-ish protocol, at the very worse, you will be able to use an emulator to boot an old version of Ubuntu 15, the last one before support to IPv4 was dropped, transfer your files, and convert them in something usable. I think the big problem is the hardware, not the software. And ethernet plugs are probably still here for a long time.
Have the reader inside. Put inside the capsule a small webserver with ethernet and wifi capabilities, to be connected on regular AC 110V. Ethernet is 30 years old and shows no sign of weakness. I bet that wifi will still work as well in 16 years. Make it a simple web/http/ftp server that allows connection, vizualization and download of the data. In 16 years, I don't know if you will use a laptop, a watch, a cell phone or a brain-plug to connect to it, but I am fairly sure that it will be able to connect with ethernet and/or wifi.
16 years seem short enough to me that one can use either hard disks or (good) optical discs to store the data. I would like to recommend SSD, but let's face it : we are not sure how well it ages.
I would personally go with two copies of the data stored on two different model, good quality HDs. That way, if one version gets corrupted, the other will work fine.
I approve of this. Drug users should only be authorized to live in parts of the country where alcohol and tobacco is authorized.
I don't know if that still is the case but opium and its derivatives (heroin and morphin, notably) are the main export of Afghanistan and a reason why powerful local warlords do not want to see a democratic government there, fearing it would be subject to international pressure on their traffic.
That.
I would also use this occasion to state my amusement to see these sports officials embarrassed about someone having a clear advantage that can not be put on special training, drugs, equipment or techniques. At a high level, performances in sports like athletics will show differences that can have a clear genetic cause (that's okay. That is, after all, a feature of evolution, that some individual will outperform others on specific tasks) yet refuse to acknowledge it and emphasize on the training and work of athletes.
Athletes keep talking about sports' spirit, about how it is all about fairness and balance. I am happy to see some reminders that top competitions are mostly about unfair genetic advantage. This focus on the top 1st, the gold medal, the world champion, is a bit insane. The most respectable difference I see in sport is between amateur and well-trained. Between these two levels, the difference is clear and is mostly about efforts. But it is not very convenient or spectacular to build a mediafest around.