(And then there's the lovely network transparency of course, is it really worth throwing that away..)
Reading the project page, it seems Wayland defines a network protocol with a display server and client libraries too. So you should still have network transparency.
I wouldn't go as far as to say writing a port forwarding rule is difficult. A minor one time annoyance at best.
..as long as you're the one running the NAT. When your ISP runs the NAT for you (as is the case with mobiles, and will be the case with cable/DSL connections in the future as public IPv4 address availability drops even more), good luck talking your ISP (even via NAT-PMP or whatnot) into forwarding ports for you.
According to everything I've read, this is *not* an attempt to achieve "broader Internet wiretap authority" but rather to force providers to put systems in place so that they can easily and quickly comply with *existing* authority. You can argue that the existing authority is overreaching, but that's a separate matter.
Except it doesn't work. The makers of this proposal don't understand that, contrary to the telephone system, encryption on the internet is implemented at the endpoints of a connection, not in the middle. It may well be that that reduces the government's ability to decrypt such communication, but the ISPs are the wrong party to address this bill to, because, generally speaking, they're not the ones who do the encryption. They're just the ones who deliver the bits. The people (the end users) are the ones who do the encryption, so they would be the right addressees for this law, and if this were implemented, it *would* amount to an "attempt to achieve broader wiretap authority" -- of truly Orwellian proportions.
And the laws of thermodynamics would like to hit you over the head. Not an energy source, won't scale, etc. etc. been there, argued that...
Have you crunched the numbers? It may not be a problem per se that you need more energy to produce oil from coal than you could later extract by burning the oil. The value of oil doesn't just lie in its energy content, it's also in its specific chemical composition and properties, which enable you to produce petroleum-based goods (like plastics etc.) from it (you can't produce plastics from "energy") or e.g. to run ships or airplanes on it (you can't practically run airplanes on electricity or nuclear fuel).
The biggest consumers of oil by far are cars, which can be run on electricity (all uses of oil that do not involve burning it amount to 10% or so of the total consumption). If you just convert car transportation to use electricity, and produce oil from coal, you might at the same time reduce the oil demand and increase oil supply so much that you shift the "peak" far, far into the future -- even if you produced all the newly required electricity by burning additional coal (which wouldn't be necessary). Burning oil in cars is very inefficient -- I remember some numbers for Germany that say that if you completely convert all automobiles to run on electricity, the demand in electricity would increase by some 20%. In general, it might be good to convert as many consumers as possible to directly or indirectly use electricity as their energy source because it is much more flexible in how it can be produced and transported (albeit less flexible in how it can be stored). To summarize, the best way forward might be to invest heavily into researching and refining methods of producing electricity in large quantities from non-fossil sources, and in methods of producing oil or oil replacements (this may also include hydrogen) from electricity.
Almost every product is in some way petroleum-based, so that "prices will rise" period may very well amount to an economic crisis that might later be called the mother of all economic crises.
Sperm on their own are not potential human beings. A fertilized egg is. When is it an actual person
It doesn't matter as long as there is a state which clearly isn't an actual person, and you only use the blob of cells in that state. The fact that the boundary isn't clear cut doesn't imply that there are no areas that are clearly on one or the other side of the boundary.
If there is a fire in a hospital and you must choose between saving an incubator with 5 newborns in it or a refrigerator with 50 million blobs of cells in it, your choice is clear. If it's one newborn against 5 billion blobs of cells, your choice is equally clear. There's no non-zero newborns:embryos ratio at which you would start thinking for just one second. The non-monetary "value" of a blob of cells is nil. Equating it in any way with a human being is pure nonsense.
It depends on what rocket and what stage of it you're looking at. The Saturn V first stage did run with a somewhat refined kind of kerosene, iirc. In any case, what fraction of the total launch cost goes into actually producing the fuel? I'd be surprised if it's even one percent.
A computer is a fixed system. If you tell it to do A (via software), you know you will get B, based upon knowledge of how the circuits are hardwired. The same can not be said of the human brain, because it has the ability to change its hardware (via growing new connections between neurons).
You can simulate any hardware in software to reproduce the "ability to change" of the original hardware in software. So that argument isn't particularly valid. There's little doubt that the brain can be simulated in principle, it's just that Kurzweil's timescale is ridiculous and his reasoning on why he thinks it can be done with, uh, 6 billion bits, is downright insane.
The company that a friend of mine joined is upfront. You get 5 gigabytes high speed, after which point the service is throttled.
Then why do they still whine about the likes of Youtube clogging up all their bandwidth? Why do they still want to prioritize traffic based on "traffic type" or whatever? If there is an upper limit after which everything gets slower, they don't need to look into packets to treat video and HTML differently. The user will notice that if he watches videos all day, his connection will get slow at some point, while if he reads mail and browses static content all day, it won't. The carrier should just stick to his part of the contract and route the first 5 GiB of packets rapidly and the rest slowly, and no evil high-bandwidth content provider will have a chance of bringing the carrier's network to a halt.
WTF is with spelling Amerika with a 'k'? I'm confused--on one hand you bash America, but on the other hand you spell like you are a byproduct of it's public school system...
They must be much less fuel/energy efficient than a real (RC) plane though. These things would have to use their engines all the time just to stay aloft, while an RC plane can essentially glide and use the engines mostly for forward propulsion. A plane can't stop or fly very slowly, so it would be harder to obtain very detailed photographs, but it could probably cover five times the area with the same amount of energy.
Yes actually... I have a right to get healthcare, if I want it. I can choose to not have healthcare and die in a ditch if I want. Mandatory is the opposite of personal freedom.
I'm not an American, so my information may be outdated, but isn't Obama's new legislation granting you exactly this right? Until now, if you had a serious pre-existing condition and no money to pay for your treatment, you didn't really have a "right" to die in a ditch. It was your only option (or, well, if somebody found you in the ditch still alive, you'd be treated without insurance, which would likely be more expensive than if the illness had been treated continuously for years before). My understanding is that under the new law, you do have the right to get healthcare. You can still opt out though, so I really don't see where your personal freedom is being restricted.
So it seems that by now the public infrastructure in NYC (and elsewhere in the US?) has deteriorated to the point where they've given up on fixing it, instead resorting to using computer models to predict when and where it will literally blow up.
Many people who don't write shrink-wrapped end user applications for the mass market, but things like specialized UIs for corporate desktops and workstations.
Hey, I know -- after the final flight has finished successfully, they could take the unlaunched rescue shuttle and launch it with the sound suppression water system turned off and let the sound waves shake the shuttle and the tower to pieces -- that would be very loud, totally awesome and a grand finale indeed.
That's like saying basketball is more interesting to watch because there are more goals. In basketball, the game consists of an endless string of attack, defense, counter-attack. That's it. In football (soccer), you have a midfield that drives the game. You can have huge open spaces, accurate 50-meter passes, and crowded penalty areas and tightly-packed action the next moment. There can be "chess on grass" for an hour, or both teams attacking relentlessly. Goals are rare, so games tend to be thrilling and unpredictable to the end. In a way, Football reflects life. There can be great athlethism in many sports, but football is more than that!
Allow me to introduce you to the concept of "context". This is a US-based, and US-centric site. Surely you can understand this.
The fact that Slashdot is a US-centric site is obviously totally unrelated to the question of why Google opened Google Voice to US internet users only.
Nowadays, your computer only uses the BIOS for input/output during startup,
It is also used for reprogramming or reparameterizing various features of the chipset, which may be a very chipset-specific, inherently non-portable task. The new chipset state after the reprogramming outlives the runtime of the BIOS setup program and influences the operation of whatever operating system is started afterwards.
The correct term is "IDE host adapter" or "IDE host bridge". The IDE controller sits on the device, where the BIOS can't reprogram or otherwise influence it in any way...
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(And then there's the lovely network transparency of course, is it really worth throwing that away..)
Reading the project page, it seems Wayland defines a network protocol with a display server and client libraries too. So you should still have network transparency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_energy#Mass_deficit
I wouldn't go as far as to say writing a port forwarding rule is difficult. A minor one time annoyance at best.
..as long as you're the one running the NAT. When your ISP runs the NAT for you (as is the case with mobiles, and will be the case with cable/DSL connections in the future as public IPv4 address availability drops even more), good luck talking your ISP (even via NAT-PMP or whatnot) into forwarding ports for you.
According to everything I've read, this is *not* an attempt to achieve "broader Internet wiretap authority" but rather to force providers to put systems in place so that they can easily and quickly comply with *existing* authority. You can argue that the existing authority is overreaching, but that's a separate matter.
Except it doesn't work. The makers of this proposal don't understand that, contrary to the telephone system, encryption on the internet is implemented at the endpoints of a connection, not in the middle. It may well be that that reduces the government's ability to decrypt such communication, but the ISPs are the wrong party to address this bill to, because, generally speaking, they're not the ones who do the encryption. They're just the ones who deliver the bits. The people (the end users) are the ones who do the encryption, so they would be the right addressees for this law, and if this were implemented, it *would* amount to an "attempt to achieve broader wiretap authority" -- of truly Orwellian proportions.
The 1920s would like to have a talk with you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process
And the laws of thermodynamics would like to hit you over the head. Not an energy source, won't scale, etc. etc. been there, argued that...
Have you crunched the numbers? It may not be a problem per se that you need more energy to produce oil from coal than you could later extract by burning the oil. The value of oil doesn't just lie in its energy content, it's also in its specific chemical composition and properties, which enable you to produce petroleum-based goods (like plastics etc.) from it (you can't produce plastics from "energy") or e.g. to run ships or airplanes on it (you can't practically run airplanes on electricity or nuclear fuel).
The biggest consumers of oil by far are cars, which can be run on electricity (all uses of oil that do not involve burning it amount to 10% or so of the total consumption). If you just convert car transportation to use electricity, and produce oil from coal, you might at the same time reduce the oil demand and increase oil supply so much that you shift the "peak" far, far into the future -- even if you produced all the newly required electricity by burning additional coal (which wouldn't be necessary). Burning oil in cars is very inefficient -- I remember some numbers for Germany that say that if you completely convert all automobiles to run on electricity, the demand in electricity would increase by some 20%. In general, it might be good to convert as many consumers as possible to directly or indirectly use electricity as their energy source because it is much more flexible in how it can be produced and transported (albeit less flexible in how it can be stored). To summarize, the best way forward might be to invest heavily into researching and refining methods of producing electricity in large quantities from non-fossil sources, and in methods of producing oil or oil replacements (this may also include hydrogen) from electricity.
Almost every product is in some way petroleum-based, so that "prices will rise" period may very well amount to an economic crisis that might later be called the mother of all economic crises.
It doesn't matter as long as there is a state which clearly isn't an actual person, and you only use the blob of cells in that state. The fact that the boundary isn't clear cut doesn't imply that there are no areas that are clearly on one or the other side of the boundary.
If there is a fire in a hospital and you must choose between saving an incubator with 5 newborns in it or a refrigerator with 50 million blobs of cells in it, your choice is clear. If it's one newborn against 5 billion blobs of cells, your choice is equally clear. There's no non-zero newborns:embryos ratio at which you would start thinking for just one second. The non-monetary "value" of a blob of cells is nil. Equating it in any way with a human being is pure nonsense.
It depends on what rocket and what stage of it you're looking at. The Saturn V first stage did run with a somewhat refined kind of kerosene, iirc. In any case, what fraction of the total launch cost goes into actually producing the fuel? I'd be surprised if it's even one percent.
There's something wrong with her ribcage it seems. What's that strange bulge on the left there? Looks like she has a 50 lb. liver tumor or something.
Whoosh!
No not really.
A computer is a fixed system. If you tell it to do A (via software), you know you will get B, based upon knowledge of how the circuits are hardwired. The same can not be said of the human brain, because it has the ability to change its hardware (via growing new connections between neurons).
You can simulate any hardware in software to reproduce the "ability to change" of the original hardware in software. So that argument isn't particularly valid. There's little doubt that the brain can be simulated in principle, it's just that Kurzweil's timescale is ridiculous and his reasoning on why he thinks it can be done with, uh, 6 billion bits, is downright insane.
Then why do they still whine about the likes of Youtube clogging up all their bandwidth? Why do they still want to prioritize traffic based on "traffic type" or whatever? If there is an upper limit after which everything gets slower, they don't need to look into packets to treat video and HTML differently. The user will notice that if he watches videos all day, his connection will get slow at some point, while if he reads mail and browses static content all day, it won't. The carrier should just stick to his part of the contract and route the first 5 GiB of packets rapidly and the rest slowly, and no evil high-bandwidth content provider will have a chance of bringing the carrier's network to a halt.
WTF is with spelling Amerika with a 'k'? I'm confused--on one hand you bash America, but on the other hand you spell like you are a byproduct of it's public school system...
It's "its", not "it's".
They must be much less fuel/energy efficient than a real (RC) plane though. These things would have to use their engines all the time just to stay aloft, while an RC plane can essentially glide and use the engines mostly for forward propulsion. A plane can't stop or fly very slowly, so it would be harder to obtain very detailed photographs, but it could probably cover five times the area with the same amount of energy.
I'm not an American, so my information may be outdated, but isn't Obama's new legislation granting you exactly this right? Until now, if you had a serious pre-existing condition and no money to pay for your treatment, you didn't really have a "right" to die in a ditch. It was your only option (or, well, if somebody found you in the ditch still alive, you'd be treated without insurance, which would likely be more expensive than if the illness had been treated continuously for years before). My understanding is that under the new law, you do have the right to get healthcare. You can still opt out though, so I really don't see where your personal freedom is being restricted.
Finding out whether the user has clicked the left or middle mouse button.
sudo can run processes under any other user account (if so configured), not just "root".
So it seems that by now the public infrastructure in NYC (and elsewhere in the US?) has deteriorated to the point where they've given up on fixing it, instead resorting to using computer models to predict when and where it will literally blow up.
Who really actually cares Java on the desktop?
Many people who don't write shrink-wrapped end user applications for the mass market, but things like specialized UIs for corporate desktops and workstations.
Thank you, Sigmund.
Hey, I know -- after the final flight has finished successfully, they could take the unlaunched rescue shuttle and launch it with the sound suppression water system turned off and let the sound waves shake the shuttle and the tower to pieces -- that would be very loud, totally awesome and a grand finale indeed.
That's like saying basketball is more interesting to watch because there are more goals. In basketball, the game consists of an endless string of attack, defense, counter-attack. That's it. In football (soccer), you have a midfield that drives the game. You can have huge open spaces, accurate 50-meter passes, and crowded penalty areas and tightly-packed action the next moment. There can be "chess on grass" for an hour, or both teams attacking relentlessly. Goals are rare, so games tend to be thrilling and unpredictable to the end. In a way, Football reflects life. There can be great athlethism in many sports, but football is more than that!
Allow me to introduce you to the concept of "context". This is a US-based, and US-centric site. Surely you can understand this.
The fact that Slashdot is a US-centric site is obviously totally unrelated to the question of why Google opened Google Voice to US internet users only.
Nowadays, your computer only uses the BIOS for input/output during startup,
It is also used for reprogramming or reparameterizing various features of the chipset, which may be a very chipset-specific, inherently non-portable task. The new chipset state after the reprogramming outlives the runtime of the BIOS setup program and influences the operation of whatever operating system is started afterwards.
"IDE Controller,"
The correct term is "IDE host adapter" or "IDE host bridge". The IDE controller sits on the device, where the BIOS can't reprogram or otherwise influence it in any way...