But there's one thing Amiga enthusiasts don't seem to be able to comprehend: as anything but a purely hobbyist platform, Amiga is dead. Amiga is gaining zero new users annually, no one is switching to Amiga anymore.
Whoa, hold your horses.
AOS4 is running, although still beta, it is released to developers (or did I miss something?). When/(if) publicly released, I will seriously consider buying a copy and a box capable of running it. I haven't used Amigas since OS3.0.
Not that I would have switched, I would probably still be using Windows/Linux, but one doesn't exclude the other, does it?
That was actually one the most interesting posts (subjectively) I have read on slashdot in several months.
You really should write this stuff down, in a more structured way, maybe an nostalgia article for OSNews or such? (Why can't I do this stuff with my *** times more powerful (HW) computer today?)
Too bad you posted anonymously, otherwise I'd mark you for "friend" in an instant.
How many percent actually die from old age, even if we including cancer (as the article mentioned), heart disease and such as symptoms of old age?
My uninformed guess would be something like 80 - 90% (depending on where you live), the rest falling victim to accidents, violence, suicide and medical problems not related to aging.
The catch, though, is that those numbers (or whatever the correct ones may be) is only valid for a population with our current lifespan. My uneducated theory is that the number of people falling to accidents, violence, suicide and medical problems not related to aging would increase drastically, based on statistics alone.
"Of course these courses of death will increase", some might say, "these will be the only causes of death!", and he/she would be right. In one way. But the catch/point is that the point where people start dying from these things may not be as far away as some might hope.
Statistically, I would guess, the risk of accidents, violence and possibly both suicide and medical problems unrelated to aging, would increase drastically if a persons active life were extended to the double, the triple or quadruple of a normal lifespan. My vague understandings of statistics indicate that you probably would be dead due to one of the factors I mentioned before your second or third lifespan was at an end. Unless you spend it supervised in a bed somewhere safe, but then the risk of factor 3 and 4 would probably be extended to replace the ones you would avoid.
If anyone with better knowledge of statistics would like to point out why I am right or correct me where I am wrong, please do.
Well, given that Airbus has gambled it's future as a company on this project alone, my hope is that their analysis of what aircraft models is needed for the next 10 to 20 years is a little bit more in depth than your personal speculations.
Perhaps decreased sales of 747s is only due to it being a 35 year old concept even though it has been modernized over time? There might be a limit for how long you can keep remodernizing a plane before new constructions make them obsolete. That would be my (highly uninformed) opinion, as most data I have read indicate that A380 outperforms B747 in almost every single aspect.
"Guns found to be used in the commission of crime...are not the ones being entered into" the system.
All unauthorized guns originate somewhere, possibly most were "legal" at some point in time. If you could cut off the source of new illegal guns by securly attaching new guns to a single (or a few) user(s) gun related crime would over time diminish to the point where most guns involved in shotings are in the database.
Then we have the issue Steve B mentioned:
The ballistics signature of a gun can be completely removed in a few minutes with a rat-tail file (this makes the gun less accurate at range, but that's not an issue for most criminals).
This would effectivly make ballistic tests useless, which by no means news and other sources of such information indicate.
A nation wide database with authorized users of available guns linked with an mandatory index of bullet mark charachteristics from every gun sold would be very helpful to police investigations of shootings. If and only if smart guns were the only ones legal.
Even though soft bullets, shotguns and illegal weapons in general would prevent identification, it would be a gigant leap in forensic managment. No longer could ballistics only tell what gun fired the shots but also who might have held the gun when it was fired.
Also, it opens a whole new black market for unlocking guns and reauthorizing them for framing innocents.
Of course it will recognize someone trying to help the owner. Otherwise they wouldn't call them smart guns, would they?
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A desktop box with Linux installed with the corresponding functionality of Windows (Gnome/KDE) is not much faster than Windows, in my experience. I have been running Redhat, Gentoo, Mandrake and SuSE, none of these were much faster than Windows on the same box, running either KDE or Gnome.
Talking server performance specifically, your points would be more accurate. Windows is not a server OS, it's a desktop OS modified for running server tasks.
Looking for an OS with best (desktop) performance possible, Amiga, BeOS, AtheOS (Syllable) is where I would start.
Exactly, my own not very scientific idea is that it is almost impossible teaching the average student matemathics as long as beeing good at maths is not cool. Which brings me to your final point:
We need to make being a geek *fun* for kids.
Imho, we need to make science/math/knowledge less connected with the term geek, as long as geek is synonymous with lowest social status imaginable in any education lower than college/university.
Seems like your facts and mine are on collision course. I hope that yours are the correct ones, since some hundred years of fisson power would be exactly what we need while developing other sustainable sources of energy. But, how many of these metric tonnes you are speaking of is easily mined?
(Yes, I am pro fission, but as far as I could tell it is not much of a long time solution.)
I read somewhere that also uranium will be depleted at 60 - 80 years from now, at current rate. More fission reactors in use will bring that day even closer.
That is obviously why fusion research is so very important, if/when the breakthrough is achieved we'll have almost unlimited amounts of fuel.
Never mind my previous reply, I figured it out. Python shell rocks!
>>> help(time.strftime) Help on built-in function strftime:
strftime(...)
strftime(format[, tuple]) -> string
Convert a time tuple to a string according to a format specification.
See the library reference manual for formatting codes. When the time tuple
is not present, current time as returned by localtime() is used.
Thanks, but as far as I can tell, most functions don't have any "help()" included. Or is it my Python installation that has the docs messed up somehow?
>>> import time >>> help(strftime)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in -toplevel-
help(strftime) NameError: name 'strftime' is not defined
>>> help('strftime') no Python documentation found for 'strftime'
Yes, the library reference is really nice, would be even nicer to have it all included in the shell though.:)
I would say you are repeating obvious conclusions. Obviously wrong conclusions.
My guess would be that your only gateway onto the Net is very expensive, and you miss many important postings. Hint, piling up sourceless arguments without countering the arguments of the opposition isn't going to get you very far. It might win you a flock of mindless followers, but no one else will take you very seriously.
Given your attitude/ideology, I think "Alliance for defence" or "Death to vermin" would be a more fitting user name. I might give you the fact that Twirlip didn't add much of value to the discussion, but I never read any of their postings as very imperialistic or aggressive.
We have the strongest army in the world, so when dealing with rational people we should NOT have to use it. They should realize they cant win against us, and scrap the nukes. We arent asking them to raise a US flag or start eating hot dogs. We are simply assuring that those countries who openly hate us do not have the capacity to kill us. Its harder in the case of Jihadists, but I think in North Korea diplomacy could work.
The same argument could be used by Iran or North Korea in defense of producing nuclear weapons. Almost.
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Don't forget how he owned as Wild Bill Wharton in The green mile.
But as a patent lawyer
Ok, you belong to one of the very few groups who would benefit from sw-patents.
You are of course entitled to your opinion, but don't expect me to listen.
But there's one thing Amiga enthusiasts don't seem to be able to comprehend: as anything but a purely hobbyist platform, Amiga is dead. Amiga is gaining zero new users annually, no one is switching to Amiga anymore.
Whoa, hold your horses.
AOS4 is running, although still beta, it is released to developers (or did I miss something?). When/(if) publicly released, I will seriously consider buying a copy and a box capable of running it. I haven't used Amigas since OS3.0.
Not that I would have switched, I would probably still be using Windows/Linux, but one doesn't exclude the other, does it?
That was actually one the most interesting posts (subjectively) I have read on slashdot in several months.
You really should write this stuff down, in a more structured way, maybe an nostalgia article for OSNews or such? (Why can't I do this stuff with my *** times more powerful (HW) computer today?)
Too bad you posted anonymously, otherwise I'd mark you for "friend" in an instant.
Lesson to learn: Never visit a secure military place.
How are they to now you don't have a photographic memory and require you to leave your brain on the way out?
What is the point of visiting a top secret DoD building if you can't take photos proving you were there? :-)
Indeed if suddenly people did start living forever (or even just to 200 years old) the program would ie a very ugly death.
Unless you made people work until they are 160 years old (200 year life expectacy) or something like 0.8 * eternity (infinite life expectancy).
Might be, but he brought up a good point.
How many percent actually die from old age, even if we including cancer (as the article mentioned), heart disease and such as symptoms of old age?
My uninformed guess would be something like 80 - 90% (depending on where you live), the rest falling victim to accidents, violence, suicide and medical problems not related to aging.
The catch, though, is that those numbers (or whatever the correct ones may be) is only valid for a population with our current lifespan. My uneducated theory is that the number of people falling to accidents, violence, suicide and medical problems not related to aging would increase drastically, based on statistics alone.
"Of course these courses of death will increase", some might say, "these will be the only causes of death!", and he/she would be right. In one way. But the catch/point is that the point where people start dying from these things may not be as far away as some might hope.
Statistically, I would guess, the risk of accidents, violence and possibly both suicide and medical problems unrelated to aging, would increase drastically if a persons active life were extended to the double, the triple or quadruple of a normal lifespan. My vague understandings of statistics indicate that you probably would be dead due to one of the factors I mentioned before your second or third lifespan was at an end. Unless you spend it supervised in a bed somewhere safe, but then the risk of factor 3 and 4 would probably be extended to replace the ones you would avoid.
If anyone with better knowledge of statistics would like to point out why I am right or correct me where I am wrong, please do.
you would no longer have to try and use the cramped toilet cubicle for sexual congresses.
Wouldn't that defeat the whole idea? There is no joining the 35,000 Feet High Club when travelling by airships.
Well, given that Airbus has gambled it's future as a company on this project alone, my hope is that their analysis of what aircraft models is needed for the next 10 to 20 years is a little bit more in depth than your personal speculations.
Perhaps decreased sales of 747s is only due to it being a 35 year old concept even though it has been modernized over time? There might be a limit for how long you can keep remodernizing a plane before new constructions make them obsolete. That would be my (highly uninformed) opinion, as most data I have read indicate that A380 outperforms B747 in almost every single aspect.
Yes, it would:
"Guns found to be used in the commission of crime...are not the ones being entered into" the system.
All unauthorized guns originate somewhere, possibly most were "legal" at some point in time. If you could cut off the source of new illegal guns by securly attaching new guns to a single (or a few) user(s) gun related crime would over time diminish to the point where most guns involved in shotings are in the database.
Then we have the issue Steve B mentioned:
The ballistics signature of a gun can be completely removed in a few minutes with a rat-tail file (this makes the gun less accurate at range, but that's not an issue for most criminals).
This would effectivly make ballistic tests useless, which by no means news and other sources of such information indicate.
A nation wide database with authorized users of available guns linked with an mandatory index of bullet mark charachteristics from every gun sold would be very helpful to police investigations of shootings. If and only if smart guns were the only ones legal.
Even though soft bullets, shotguns and illegal weapons in general would prevent identification, it would be a gigant leap in forensic managment. No longer could ballistics only tell what gun fired the shots but also who might have held the gun when it was fired.
Also, it opens a whole new black market for unlocking guns and reauthorizing them for framing innocents.
Of course it will recognize someone trying to help the owner. Otherwise they wouldn't call them smart guns, would they?
A desktop box with Linux installed with the corresponding functionality of Windows (Gnome/KDE) is not much faster than Windows, in my experience. I have been running Redhat, Gentoo, Mandrake and SuSE, none of these were much faster than Windows on the same box, running either KDE or Gnome.
Talking server performance specifically, your points would be more accurate. Windows is not a server OS, it's a desktop OS modified for running server tasks.
Looking for an OS with best (desktop) performance possible, Amiga, BeOS, AtheOS (Syllable) is where I would start.
Exactly, my own not very scientific idea is that it is almost impossible teaching the average student matemathics as long as beeing good at maths is not cool. Which brings me to your final point:
We need to make being a geek *fun* for kids.
Imho, we need to make science/math/knowledge less connected with the term geek, as long as geek is synonymous with lowest social status imaginable in any education lower than college/university.
Seems like your facts and mine are on collision course. I hope that yours are the correct ones, since some hundred years of fisson power would be exactly what we need while developing other sustainable sources of energy. But, how many of these metric tonnes you are speaking of is easily mined?
(Yes, I am pro fission, but as far as I could tell it is not much of a long time solution.)
Well, compared to building rockets, building fusion reactors is like... rocket science.
I read somewhere that also uranium will be depleted at 60 - 80 years from now, at current rate. More fission reactors in use will bring that day even closer.
That is obviously why fusion research is so very important, if/when the breakthrough is achieved we'll have almost unlimited amounts of fuel.
I am just starting out with Python and things like this helps a lot.
Is there any similar way to find out what these classes and functions do from within the python shell?
Example:Ok, now I know the time module contains a "strftime" class or function. Is there any easy way to find out how that specific class/function works?
I would say you are repeating obvious conclusions. Obviously wrong conclusions.
My guess would be that your only gateway onto the Net is very expensive, and you miss many important postings. Hint, piling up sourceless arguments without countering the arguments of the opposition isn't going to get you very far. It might win you a flock of mindless followers, but no one else will take you very seriously.
Given your attitude/ideology, I think "Alliance for defence" or "Death to vermin" would be a more fitting user name. I might give you the fact that Twirlip didn't add much of value to the discussion, but I never read any of their postings as very imperialistic or aggressive.
We have the strongest army in the world, so when dealing with rational people we should NOT have to use it. They should realize they cant win against us, and scrap the nukes. We arent asking them to raise a US flag or start eating hot dogs. We are simply assuring that those countries who openly hate us do not have the capacity to kill us. Its harder in the case of Jihadists, but I think in North Korea diplomacy could work.
The same argument could be used by Iran or North Korea in defense of producing nuclear weapons. Almost.
Ah, thanks.
In Blade runner they where placed on top of scared scientist now that I think about it.
I think what Pat wants, if you actually READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE, is ideas on what this could be.
As far as I can tell he has a pretty good idea what is wrong with him.
What he really wants is, afaict:
1. Directions to a good specialist doctor.
2. Lot's of antibiotics for self medication(!?).