True, but I can't see how this relates to the argument.
I'm so sorry. I wasn't paying attention. I really shouldn't post here when I'm tired:)
Your argument was of course that caring for people genetically related to you also confers an evolutionary advantage. That's certainly true.
However, I think that makes it important to look at the genetic differences. Consider for example someone who ends up caring for his brother's offspring and not procreating himself. He's basically a kind person, but due to some obscure genetic mutation his brother is a selfish prick.
Caring for his brother's offspring would confer an evolutionary advantage for most of his genes, but not all of them, since his brother's selfish personality traits get passed on instead of his kindness.
So regarding passing on genetic material, breeding is always preferrable I guess. Nature favours the selfish.
By SigILL's logic, nobody should ever willingly decide to not have children since the "tendency" to not want to reproduce should have been "bred out" of the genepool by now. Clearly that is not the case.
Perhaps I should have added "given a long enough time scale". Evolution is a long-term process. You can't seriously expect our 50 to 100 years of secular society to have influenced our genetics already (prior to that, having offspring was just the "done" thing, like going to church). Wait a couple of thousand years and I think you'll see marked differences based on memetic susceptibility.
Well, there's quite a lot that's determined by genetics. Like a large part of your personality. This personality determines your outlook in life, and thus your susceptibility to certain memes. Things like ego and self-image probably play a role in this; that's clearly genetic (just look at your siblings, if any).
This is a very good point that quite a lot of people don't seem to get. Anything that causes a person not to reproduce is (eventually) selected against. For example, being sensitive to the meme "there are too many people on this world" is an evolutionary disadvantage and will eventually be removed from the genepool. The same goes for high intelligence (being that intelligent people often don't reproduce).
That's probably also why religion is so prevalent in human populations: the evolutionary advantage it gives should not be underestimated.
So if you consider people like you to be a good addition to the human gene pool, breed!:)
What's interesting about this is that in king Tut's days wounds like that generally were lethal. How privileged we are living in this modern age (and having access to anti-biotics)!
Really impressive. Some numbers to put all this into perspective.
If you just want to stream some pre-rendered data to your text-mode screen buffer at full-motion (25+ fps) speeds, you only need 4000 * 25 = 100 kbyte/sec. Even for a 4,77 MHz (about 1 MIPS?) 8088 that's not a lot. And if the CPU can't pull it there's always the DMA controller.
However, the full demo is about 2 minutes long. If no compression was involved the video data file should be about 12 megabytes. That's larger than the mentioned disk-space requirements, so there's probably some simple motion compression involved.
The trouble with using expensive hardware like dedicated RAID controllers is that if/when they break, you'll have to replace them (ie. buy a new one of the exact same brand/type/firmware rev.) to get at your data. Not something to recommend for a home-setup. You're better off with commodity hardware and software RAID.
Also, it's probably not a good idea to set up a big NFS server with your data and have all your other boxes mount their filesystems there, since that leaves you with a nice big single-point-of-failure. Power-supplies will blow, motherboards will fry; stuff like that is inevitable. Not being able to get at your data will become a major nuisance then.
I'm currently using unison to keep my homedirectories on both my boxes synchronised. That works quite nicely. I'm not sure if it scales to multi-machine setups though.
Please note that the voltage your car delivers through its cigarette lighter is about 14VDC while the engine is running instead of the 12VDC that you might expect.
That's quite a bit out of spec for the average hardware.
So how hard would it be to get DNA to link up in microgravity? Sure, there's more radiation around to blast things apart, but that might be a good thing -- you could get molecules you might not get otherwise without the blowing apart. Also, in microgravity, molecules can float around in 3 dimensions.
They can do the same in water. However, one of the problems with trying to get organic chemicals in microgravity is that the cloud in which they're supposed to originate is very sparse. Thus, spontaneous creation of many of the chemicals we consider important to life simply takes longer than in a gravity well.
Secondly, after having gone through all that trouble you have a big chance of them simply burning up on athmospheric entry.
I run my own mail server. Will I be asked to log my own email usage? Or will my ISP simply be forced to snoop all the SMTP traffic I generate? And what if I start using TLS for SMTP connections? I really wonder (and dread) how this is going to be enforced.
I thought you guys in the US had it bad, but it looks like the EU is the current record holder in totalitarian tendencies.
I've always wondered how you actually go about understanding a file system with absolutely no documentation.
Well, you know the contents of the files as well as their names, right? So you can use a simple text search to figure out where on the disk the contents are placed. Then you look for structures on the disk that appear to point to these contents.
You can for example figure out the size of a directory entry by looking for the amount of characters between successive file names. After that, things like file size and other metadata can usually be readily detected.
There's admittedly some guesswork involved. That's why official documentation is always preferrable to something that's reverse engineered.
No seriously. Update whatever documentation you have, so you at least get something done. As a side effect, it will probably make you see the whole picture again. --
No seriously. As far as I can tell, many european countries have had something like the DMCA for ages. In the Netherlands for example, an ISP is regarded as a publisher, and just as "ordinary" publishers, it's responsible for what it's publishing.
Besides, it wouldn't be censorship. These messages contain copyrighted information, not opinions (at least not the opinions of those who submitted them).
Who's next? The university of berkerly, for writing one of the first FTP programs, which allows you (among other things) to transfer mp3's? The IETF, for designing TCP/IP and FTP? --
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Get your facts right before ranting, please. There's no such thing as a LZW-77, or a.GIF patent.
LZW (without the -77 posfix), is LZ78 made usefull. This was patented by some big bossy corporation whose name we all know and I don't feel like repeating here.
The GIF file format uses LZW for compression. But as LZW is patented, the patent-owner started sueing users of the GIF format.
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OMG, it's full of tighpo's.
Aargh! The horror!
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s/Psylon/Cylon/; s/Odama/Adama/ please
True, but I can't see how this relates to the argument.
:)
I'm so sorry. I wasn't paying attention. I really shouldn't post here when I'm tired
Your argument was of course that caring for people genetically related to you also confers an evolutionary advantage. That's certainly true.
However, I think that makes it important to look at the genetic differences. Consider for example someone who ends up caring for his brother's offspring and not procreating himself. He's basically a kind person, but due to some obscure genetic mutation his brother is a selfish prick.
Caring for his brother's offspring would confer an evolutionary advantage for most of his genes, but not all of them, since his brother's selfish personality traits get passed on instead of his kindness.
So regarding passing on genetic material, breeding is always preferrable I guess. Nature favours the selfish.
By SigILL's logic, nobody should ever willingly decide to not have children since the "tendency" to not want to reproduce should have been "bred out" of the genepool by now. Clearly that is not the case.
Perhaps I should have added "given a long enough time scale". Evolution is a long-term process. You can't seriously expect our 50 to 100 years of secular society to have influenced our genetics already (prior to that, having offspring was just the "done" thing, like going to church). Wait a couple of thousand years and I think you'll see marked differences based on memetic susceptibility.
Evolution is based on genes, not people.
Well, there's quite a lot that's determined by genetics. Like a large part of your personality. This personality determines your outlook in life, and thus your susceptibility to certain memes. Things like ego and self-image probably play a role in this; that's clearly genetic (just look at your siblings, if any).
This is a very good point that quite a lot of people don't seem to get. Anything that causes a person not to reproduce is (eventually) selected against. For example, being sensitive to the meme "there are too many people on this world" is an evolutionary disadvantage and will eventually be removed from the genepool. The same goes for high intelligence (being that intelligent people often don't reproduce).
:)
That's probably also why religion is so prevalent in human populations: the evolutionary advantage it gives should not be underestimated.
So if you consider people like you to be a good addition to the human gene pool, breed!
What's interesting about this is that in king Tut's days wounds like that generally were lethal. How privileged we are living in this modern age (and having access to anti-biotics)!
Really impressive. Some numbers to put all this into perspective.
If you just want to stream some pre-rendered data to your text-mode screen buffer at full-motion (25+ fps) speeds, you only need 4000 * 25 = 100 kbyte/sec. Even for a 4,77 MHz (about 1 MIPS?) 8088 that's not a lot. And if the CPU can't pull it there's always the DMA controller.
However, the full demo is about 2 minutes long. If no compression was involved the video data file should be about 12 megabytes. That's larger than the mentioned disk-space requirements, so there's probably some simple motion compression involved.
The trouble with using expensive hardware like dedicated RAID controllers is that if/when they break, you'll have to replace them (ie. buy a new one of the exact same brand/type/firmware rev.) to get at your data. Not something to recommend for a home-setup. You're better off with commodity hardware and software RAID.
Also, it's probably not a good idea to set up a big NFS server with your data and have all your other boxes mount their filesystems there, since that leaves you with a nice big single-point-of-failure. Power-supplies will blow, motherboards will fry; stuff like that is inevitable. Not being able to get at your data will become a major nuisance then.
I'm currently using unison to keep my homedirectories on both my boxes synchronised. That works quite nicely. I'm not sure if it scales to multi-machine setups though.
Please note that the voltage your car delivers through its cigarette lighter is about 14VDC while the engine is running instead of the 12VDC that you might expect.
That's quite a bit out of spec for the average hardware.
They can do the same in water. However, one of the problems with trying to get organic chemicals in microgravity is that the cloud in which they're supposed to originate is very sparse. Thus, spontaneous creation of many of the chemicals we consider important to life simply takes longer than in a gravity well.
Secondly, after having gone through all that trouble you have a big chance of them simply burning up on athmospheric entry.
I run my own mail server. Will I be asked to log my own email usage? Or will my ISP simply be forced to snoop all the SMTP traffic I generate? And what if I start using TLS for SMTP connections? I really wonder (and dread) how this is going to be enforced.
I thought you guys in the US had it bad, but it looks like the EU is the current record holder in totalitarian tendencies.
From TFA I understood that that was already the case. But if it isn't, then yeah, sure, why not?
Well, you know the contents of the files as well as their names, right? So you can use a simple text search to figure out where on the disk the contents are placed. Then you look for structures on the disk that appear to point to these contents.
You can for example figure out the size of a directory entry by looking for the amount of characters between successive file names. After that, things like file size and other metadata can usually be readily detected.
There's admittedly some guesswork involved. That's why official documentation is always preferrable to something that's reverse engineered.
Wow, that one was obvious..
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Naw.. that was some spam organisation.
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Ok, now that you've named my country undemocratic, please name these 'democratic deficits'.
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No seriously. Update whatever documentation you have, so you at least get something done. As a side effect, it will probably make you see the whole picture again.
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Sounds good, but something's missing: what about kernel modules or Linux-specific code?
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How 'bout XOR?
It's free and unencumbered, it feels secure (resulting text looks like garbage to me), and it's the fastest of all algorithms.
Who'd want more?
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It's just a pity it was based on an operating system design of (then) 20 years old, which should have been obsoleted by then.
If anything, Linux is a pretty ugly UN*X implementation.
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No seriously. As far as I can tell, many european countries have had something like the DMCA for ages. In the Netherlands for example, an ISP is regarded as a publisher, and just as "ordinary" publishers, it's responsible for what it's publishing.
Besides, it wouldn't be censorship. These messages contain copyrighted information, not opinions (at least not the opinions of those who submitted them).
Just my $.2
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Who's next? The university of berkerly, for writing one of the first FTP programs, which allows you (among other things) to transfer mp3's? The IETF, for designing TCP/IP and FTP?
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Get your facts right before ranting, please. There's no such thing as a LZW-77, or a .GIF patent.
LZW (without the -77 posfix), is LZ78 made usefull. This was patented by some big bossy corporation whose name we all know and I don't feel like repeating here.
The GIF file format uses LZW for compression. But as LZW is patented, the patent-owner started sueing users of the GIF format.
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...is all you need...