You can make long chain hydrocarbons from gas and once you have them then you can use them in the same way as oil for manufacturing. Unfortunately its highly energy inefficient.
If it does then stopping isn't really an option. Though I suspect Alan Cox has got a few pennies saved up by now so I hope he enjoys his time off but I suspect he'll get itchy fingers beforelong and be back in front of some kernel source - at least in an informal manner - before the year is out.
Went off for a few years to learn Welsh and commune with sheep or something. But he came back then and he'll come back again. You can't keep a hacker (in the old sense of the word) like Cox away from a compiler for long!
"a story will come out saying men and women at nightclubs perform complex trig to find mates."
Hey , you've obviously never tried to look cool in front of some babes at a club while carrying a load of beers and having to carefully avoid all the drunks and druggies swaying about by calculating the optimal path across the dancefloor cross referenced in the time domain against the beat of the music!
No mature adults equates file sharing with the future of mankind. That type of hyperbolic exaggeration is strictly the province of lunatics and squawking adolescents.
"Yelling "Grow up!" is something teenagers do or at least something people without other arguments do."
Actually its something parents do to kids. I've done it quite a few times. No reason not to use it on here when I see the same sort of rubbish being spouted.
"that you are paid by them is something you yourself said."
Err, care to cut and paste where I said that?
"I'm probably more "grown up" than you (think) both physically and mentally,"
Boasting about physical prowess is something teenagers tend to do. Well done on proving my point.
"I'm for the artists, inventors and a free society and against the media maffia, copyright trolls/abusers and people who want's to create a repressive society. Simple as that."
If you had a clue what copyright actually was I might listen to your arguments. You clearly don't, so I won't.
"Or maybe they are already mature enough to realise it's not about downloading music and video for free but rather about mankinds future."
LOL:o) Oh please, spare me the feeble self justifying party line that people like you spout
"You know, minor things like freedom, innovation and mankinds future survival in the long run."
Didn't you just say that? Or have you run out of argument already?
"All our progress so far has been dependant on refining things already done,"
Not everything , and whats that got to do with no paying for content that someone else took time to create? You can dress it up as some magnanimous gift for mankind that you're selflessly endowing upon The People(tm) if you like but you're not fooling anyone.
"and when the patent system stops"
The patent system in the USA. The rest of the world doesn't give a shit.
"Show me one single thing that is purely original and does not consist in 99.999% of public knowledge."
Were you born yesterday or what?
Telegraph, Radio, Photography, babbages difference engine, penicillin, probably the fucking wheel were all original ideas in their time with almost NO prior art. And do you seriously think the industrial revolution was purely a linear evolution from horses and carts?
As the OP said, one day you might have an original thought but I won't be holding my breath.
Yeah , and the only thing that sucks more is pathetic coalition politics that happens in a lot of europe which means nothing radical or important ever gets done because the governing parties can't agree.
Remember - nothing innovative was ever designed by a committee.
... the kids running it might realise that adults who have to work for a living have more important things to worry about than whether they can download music and video for free. You know, minor things like healthcare, education, the economy etc etc...
Is the really the best counter argument you could come up with? You seem to be confusing flash features for their own sake with usability. Are you part of the Gnome team by any chance? They have the same blinkered approach to GUI design.
So why on earth do these guys think people want/need it when they're trying to write a document or surf the web? If the in-window content was rendered in 3D then it might have some vague 5 minute novelty value but it isn't, its simply the desktop furniture. So what the hell is the point other than to waste CPU/GPU cycles?
... of what extracting a lot of energy from the wind will do to local weather patterns? A the moment its inconsequential but if wind power really becomes a big time method of power generation for a lot of countries then this might become an issue especially during hot summer months when a breeze is needed to keep temperatures down by mixing the air layers.
"A simple extension to v4 to expand the address space should have been adopted"
Indeed. All they needed was another 2 bytes to be used as address space in the IP4 packet - perhaps in the options or padding section - since 65K times the current address space is more than enough (and don't anyone quote me Bill gates 640K remark as a lame repost) and to update the IP version number in the packet. Sorted.
Now criminals and social workers can add this to their pathetic excuse list which includes upbringing , enviroment , education , right-on-isms, basically anything except their own half witted feckless personalities.
I grew up in london in the 1970s which had millions of cars running on leaded vehicles. Yet strangely I didn't go out mugging old ladies or robbing banks or rioting.
"If they can't setup BIND on a test box for their test environment, they shouldn't be writing code."
Don't be an ass all your life. Coders have enough to do without spending an hour reading a manual for some server app they don't need to use. Sounds to me like you've got an issue with coders - you're probably one of those network admins who wasn't good enough to do programming so you've had a chip on your shoulder about it ever since and make a big deal out of the small tasks you manage.
"Over 30 years with computers, and my college was me teaching myself IPX."
IPX? Is that it in 30 years? So what have you done with the other 29 years and 364 days?
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You can make long chain hydrocarbons from gas and once you have them then you can use them in the same way as oil for manufacturing. Unfortunately its highly energy inefficient.
"He went off to do an MBA."
Commune with sheep - MBA, whats the difference?
If it does then stopping isn't really an option. Though I suspect Alan Cox has got a few pennies saved up by now so I hope he enjoys his time off but I suspect he'll get itchy fingers beforelong and be back in front of some kernel source - at least in an informal manner - before the year is out.
Went off for a few years to learn Welsh and commune with sheep or something. But he came back then and he'll come back again. You can't keep a hacker (in the old sense of the word) like Cox away from a compiler for long!
I said not easy , I didn't say impossible.
"it's quite hard to make rubber from uranium,"
Its not particularly easy to make it from methane.
"a story will come out saying men and women at nightclubs perform complex trig to find mates."
Hey , you've obviously never tried to look cool in front of some babes at a club while carrying a load of beers and having to carefully avoid all the drunks and druggies swaying about by calculating the optimal path across the dancefloor cross referenced in the time domain against the beat of the music!
"There you go."
Google "sarcasm".
"but in years and mentally. "
No mature adults equates file sharing with the future of mankind. That type of hyperbolic exaggeration is strictly the province of lunatics and squawking adolescents.
"Yelling "Grow up!" is something teenagers do or at least something people without other arguments do."
Actually its something parents do to kids. I've done it quite a few times. No reason not to use it on here when I see the same sort of rubbish being spouted.
"you can lead a horse to water "
You couldn't lead a dog to a bone.
"that you are paid by them is something you yourself said."
Err, care to cut and paste where I said that?
"I'm probably more "grown up" than you (think) both physically and mentally,"
Boasting about physical prowess is something teenagers tend to do. Well done on proving my point.
"I'm for the artists, inventors and a free society and against the media maffia, copyright trolls/abusers and people who want's to create a repressive society. Simple as that."
If you had a clue what copyright actually was I might listen to your arguments. You clearly don't, so I won't.
"and it's much much more important than the media maffios wallets you seem to be protecting."
Oh right, I disagree with your point of view so obviously I must be working for The Man.
Grow up.
"Or maybe they are already mature enough to realise it's not about downloading music and video for free but rather about mankinds future."
LOL :o) Oh please, spare me the feeble self justifying party line that people like you spout
"You know, minor things like freedom, innovation and mankinds future survival in the long run."
Didn't you just say that? Or have you run out of argument already?
"All our progress so far has been dependant on refining things already done,"
Not everything , and whats that got to do with no paying for content that someone else took time to create? You can dress it up as some magnanimous gift for mankind that you're selflessly endowing upon The People(tm) if you like but you're not fooling anyone.
"and when the patent system stops"
The patent system in the USA. The rest of the world doesn't give a shit.
"Show me one single thing that is purely original and does not consist in 99.999% of public knowledge."
Were you born yesterday or what?
Telegraph, Radio, Photography, babbages difference engine, penicillin, probably the fucking wheel were all original ideas in their time with almost NO prior art. And do you seriously think the industrial revolution was purely a linear evolution from horses and carts?
As the OP said, one day you might have an original thought but I won't be holding my breath.
Someone can't spot sarcasm.
Yeah , and the only thing that sucks more is pathetic coalition politics that happens in a lot of europe which means nothing radical or important ever gets done because the governing parties can't agree.
Remember - nothing innovative was ever designed by a committee.
... the kids running it might realise that adults who have to work for a living have more important things to worry about than whether they can download music and video for free. You know, minor things like healthcare, education, the economy etc etc...
Is the really the best counter argument you could come up with? You seem to be confusing flash features for their own sake with usability. Are you part of the Gnome team by any chance? They have the same blinkered approach to GUI design.
So why on earth do these guys think people want/need it when they're trying to write a document or surf the web? If the in-window content was rendered in 3D then it might have some vague 5 minute novelty value but it isn't, its simply the desktop furniture. So what the hell is the point other than to waste CPU/GPU cycles?
When you find some 100 metre high trees growing out of the sea get back to us.
"Because people can only get cancer once"
Eh? Wtf are you talking about?? Plenty of cancers are curable now but that doesn't mean you can't get it (or a different cancer) later on!
... of what extracting a lot of energy from the wind will do to local weather patterns? A the moment its inconsequential but if wind power really becomes a big time method of power generation for a lot of countries then this might become an issue especially during hot summer months when a breeze is needed to keep temperatures down by mixing the air layers.
So do some normal electronic components, especially capacitors.
Seconded.
"A simple extension to v4 to expand the address space should have been adopted"
Indeed. All they needed was another 2 bytes to be used as address space in the IP4 packet - perhaps in the options or padding section - since 65K times the current address space is more than enough (and don't anyone quote me Bill gates 640K remark as a lame repost) and to update the IP version number in the packet. Sorted.
"Talking of the genocides and the rampant insecurity in most parts of Africa."
Hmm , lets see what Africa and somewhere like the Bronx or south central LA has in common... now what could it be...
Now criminals and social workers can add this to their pathetic excuse list which includes upbringing , enviroment , education , right-on-isms, basically anything except their own half witted feckless personalities.
I grew up in london in the 1970s which had millions of cars running on leaded vehicles. Yet strangely I didn't go out mugging old ladies or robbing banks or rioting.
"If they can't setup BIND on a test box for their test environment, they shouldn't be writing code."
Don't be an ass all your life. Coders have enough to do without spending an hour reading a manual for some server app they don't need to use. Sounds to me like you've got an issue with coders - you're probably one of those network admins who wasn't good enough to do programming so you've had a chip on your shoulder about it ever since and make a big deal out of the small tasks you manage.
"Over 30 years with computers, and my college was me teaching myself IPX."
IPX? Is that it in 30 years? So what have you done with the other 29 years and 364 days?