Unfortunately, the answer to that is why software business is so difficult. Why do people use Borland Delphi when there is Lazarus, why do they use Windows when there is ReactOS/Wine, why do people use MS DOS when there is FreeDOS, why do people use Maple when there is Maxima - this last case illustrates that software used to be not a business, when Macsyma was developed, same when Unix was developed in its early stages, and FreeBSD/Linux were maintained free competition to the commercial overpriced and gargantuan licensed Unices. This core issue is why DRM is a must from the point of view of people who put the daily bread on the table by coding. I for one used to like Adobe Acrobat 3 and 4, and even 5 was decent, but starting with 6 it was yuckkk, and my favorite version now is Foxit Reader 2.3 (as newer versions of this one suck too.) But with DRM'd pdf's you only have one choice - Adobe Digital Editions 2.0, written in dotnet, crawling painfully beyond belief on a 5 watt 7 hr battery life HP Mini 210 Intel Atom chipset netbook, compared to the same stuff without DRM read in Foxit Reader 2.3. The amount of pdf readers out there is huge, but with DRM there is only one: Adobe, whether it sucks or not.
I don't see why not. DOS runs fine on modern machines. At some point he may have to switch to emulation, but IA32 emulators should be around for a very very long time.
The electrolytic capacitors will eventually dry out and fail, that's why.
I don't see why not. DOS runs fine on modern machines. At some point he may have to switch to emulation, but IA32 emulators should be around for a very very long time.
The electrolytic capacitors will eventually dry out and fail, that's why.
I wish some chip companies produced oldschool chips, oldschool motherboards, without all the oldschool electrolytic capacitors. Wait a minute - in fact ebay is full of such stuff, but the problem with these new capacitorless pci soundcards, pci USB 2 cards, etc, is that they also may have built in wifi, and snoop on you. A lot of SD cards store info till a wifi comes nearby, then send your info off to the snoopers. So if you can get oldschool PCI cards or motherboards with lots of capacitors, you might be safer, but even those could be fake, and not truly old, or antique, just patina applied and appearances created to deceive you and obtain your money, and all your data too. Spyware in the form of hardware chips. In fact a lot of the time when my computer says you might have a security risk, I'm like aha, it might have a virus, or a trojan horse attacker, and the simplest explanation is that remote access and remote control to your computer by the manufacturer might be a feature of the hardware, and has nothing to do with software security risks - the computer says on it things like "Intel or AMD inside", and I'm guessing a Pentium 2 was still relatively safe, but later stuff, you never know when your computer is remotely accessed, infected, files erased or modified, to frame you, you might have a virus, backdoor, spyware, and you bow your head saying you agree, it might be built into the chips themselves. As chips are impossible to dissect, and examine for functionality, whoever made them would be an idiot not to put such things in there, if it's guaranteed that they'll never get caught. If they didn't put it in there, then I'd say it's people and life lived with principles. But it's so friggin obvious that that's not the case, and remote control to your computer from the hardware CPU manufacturers.or someone like them, might be responsible. . When stuff goes wrong with your computer, it's not a software virus because it goes wrong in Linux and Windows both, under very different circumstance,, and then you say well, both could be messed up on the software front, Linux X-windows and Micro shaft Windows, and both snooping on you hiding in all that bloat. See it is software! Well you say that it does it even with DOS or oldschool Linux, like Slackware 4. I swear it's gotta be not in the software, the source of the problem is rooted deeper than that, it must be the hardware.
I've been collecting a lot of oldschool software on Ebay bracing for impact for when the Internet must be completely abandoned, because you will have your hands fully tied by DRM, and the whole thing is gonna suck major ass. Then you can create your idillic little own isolated network and run things the way they used to be, in the good old days. We still got a few more days left of the good old days.
I also don't like automatic transmissions, for the same reason. I know how to do the shifting myself, even if it gets boring, but I can save a ton of gas by coasting on flat terrain, but especially on mild downhills, or I can take steep uphill intelligently by revving up the rpm and shifting into lower gear - kinder on the car than an automatic transmission that has to guess what the heck is going on, oh we must be going uphill, let's rev up when it's kinda too late, or rev up and down can't make up its mind, because the tranny don't have eyes and a brain to make that intelligent decision, like I do. For every grade and speed there is an appropriate cruising rpm, but sometimes I like to coast in neutral, to save gas, as follows: If there is little traffic around, and the speed limit is near 50 mph, I accelerate semi-hard with 1800-2200 rpm to 55 mph, then switch to neutral, and let the car coast til it droops to 45 mph, then speed up again, coast, and this way you can minimize engine friction, the viscous drag from the motor oil that happens at high rpms, because the engine spends most of its time in the neutral position around 800 rpm, barely using any gas, and you eliminate gear frictions too. If you got a mild downhill, it's party! The car runs forever in neutral, near constant speed. If you got a steep downhill, without a corresponding uphill on the other side, then you're consuming brakes inevitably. On flat terrain you can't maintain constant speed, and the up and down speed thing only works during non-rush hour on relatively lonely roads, because it annoys the heck out of fellow commuters, so the game is to assess the situation to see how much you can push the envelope, how many times you can allow your speed to droop to 45 in a 50 mph zone. I found that even if the speed limit is 60 or 65, 45-50 mph is a hell of a lot more fuel efficient because of much lower aerodynamic drag, aerodynamic drag goes up like the square of the speed. So the other game to play is to go slower than the speed limit on a highway, instead of 65 posted 50 minimum go only 55 coast to 45, back up to 55 coast to 45.. as long as you don't have anyone nearby, or they have another lane they can pass you, as such and idiot who can't drive, by. This whole livin on the edge of being annoying to others while maximizing fuel efficiency kinda makes driving a stickshift a lot of fun, it's like a diplomacy game on the road, and everyone think's you're an idiot, but you know better who the real idiot is - the guy honking his horns on the huge manly unaerodynamic pickup truck, the manliness image for which he has to pay for dearly at the pump. I love aerodynamic stick shift modest cars. I have never tried running an automatic transmission car in drive, then back to neutral, back to drive, back to neutral, I think it'd mess up the tranny pretty bad. So an automatic running at 50 mph always has to spend on high rpm engine friction, and cannot accelerate with high rpm, then coast at really low rpm. I loooove stick shift. Oldschool simplicity. Like Wordperfect for DOS.
I remember when Linux was good/decent too. Windows always had more stuff written for it, because it was a standard, and it was always difficult to find equivalent stuff for Linux for a lot of stuff. But nowadays Linux suffers from the same ills that plague the rest of the software world - bloat. Like Winzip 15 is 110 MB. For a friggin zipper prog. Basic Linux 3 comes on 2 floppies, and includes tar gz as a tiny fraction. What the hell is Winzip 15 doing that takes 77 floppies?
You can opt not to use DRM in the future. I for one never ever watched a DVD, because of the DRM it contains. Except a few minutes one of my friends played and I watched it by accident. But I abstain from DRM. I also bought a book on google books just to find out what I bought came with DRM. Yuckkk! Oh well, but they should have told me in advance, and then I would not have purchased. I'm also a halfass vegetarian, I don't eat meat at home all year except some Chinese takeout on like on Good Friday, or when I pass E-check emissions testing, or I get hungry at work and the vending machine if full of meat-sandwiches, and candybars don't really cut it for the price - have you seen how expensive vending machine things are compared to what you get? Vending machine stuff keeps shrinking in size and going up in price.
So anyway, DRM is coming, DRM lockdown is coming. Grab your downloads while you can from the web, and don't ditch XP/Win2k/Win95 because you got grandfathered rights with those. Hopefully. You might have to bury your old computers in your backyard, to hide them from gov't raids, when they become illegal because it's possible to use nonDRM stuff on them, like it used to be in the good old days.
Well put, G. For ammonia you need hydrogen, and there are other ways to produce hydrogen from water than electrolysis, such as sulfur-iodine cycle, for direct conversion of heat to hydrogen skipping a heat-engine electric generator, and there may be other better tuned ones depending on your available high and low temperatures. The high temperatures might come from nuclear or solar-thermal, but with a windmill or photo voltaic solar it's pretty much just electrolysis.
Car bodies are made of carbon steel not aluminum, because it's the cheapest high strength material available. The problem with steel is rust. Rust is our eternal enemy. A great way to fix it is to use stainless steel. Stainless steel requires chromium, and if we can't find enough of it on this planet, we might in the future import it from places like the Moon. But for now, with an average crustal abundance of 100 ppm, there's plenty of chromium around for stainless steel, even if it has to come from difficult places, such as Southern Africa countries, Kazakhstan, India and Russia. The problem with making cars out of stainless is high initial cost, and that they'd last forever, at least on the body part, and especially staying in business, because people wouldn't buy the latest and greatest high tech cars that cannot be sold for 10 grand, because of all the high tech "jingle bells and whistles" implemented in them. Such as automatic transmission, that's a totally useless feature, what a fucking waste! My last 4 cars have been manual transmission, then I had 2 automatics, then 1 manual, then my first one was an automatic. The automatics weren't 'free market" cars I went out into the wild to find, but came from people I knew speaking a different tongue selling their old cars. Otherwise I would have never ever ever bought automatics. In fact my radio doesn't work, and it hasn't worked in the last 3 cars, and it used to go out in the 4th. There you go, there are two unnecessary features when it comes to a car - radio, and automatic transmission. I need a car to get me from point A to point B, on 4 stable wheels on ice or rain and heat compared to a motorcycle, which is still better than a bicycle, you get extremely tired on a bicycle if you go long distances, uphill. But at least a bicycle I can kinda fix, a car with a fuel injection computer in it - good luck with chips. The only chip you can trust is the one that you make, the rest you have no clue what they do, or how they work, even if you read the documentation, because the documentation may not be telling "all" the features, like remote control, remote snooping and monitoring, etc, etc. Chips.
The brain exhibits electric waves in the extremely low frequency region 5-10-15 Hz, and there have been experiments where submitting someone to such stimuli interferes with normal thought, even such simple things as motor vibration sounds inside a factory, which are inaudible, but create pressure sensations on the skin or chest hairs and other body hairs, or even creating a "beat frequency" between 2 audible sounds, such a 300 and 310 Hz, which will create a 10 Hz beat, and affect the brain. It is strange that these researchers would find 40 Hz affecting the brain, because that seems high. The brain seems like a low 6-10 Hz frequency massively parallel CPU, with much more processing power than a 2 GHz (or 2 billion Hz) regular CPU. By the way back in 2001-2005 I had a bed where there was constant hum from a nearby hospital-like building, and kind of a resonance zone, and unless I moved my head into an unnaturally edge position, I could feel my skull vibrate from the hums, and I was unable to fall asleep at all. I was aware of the ELF(extremely low frequency) stimulus effect on the brain (my high school physics professor taught me about it), but it didn't bother me that much, as the rent was really cheap, and all you had to do was to physically move your head away from the low frequency noise. Especially the russians put a lot of effort into mind control experiments through ELF, but it didn't seem to work or even have any effect back in 2005, other than just plain nuisance from your head vibrating. I can't say that anymore, in 2014, whatever way they figured out telepathy, it does not seem to have anything to do with ELF.
By the way gorillas have small testicles and are highly monogamous, but chimps are very promiscuous and have large testicles to keep up with production. Of course in absence of a disease like AIDS or other STD's like syphilis, the promiscuous ones may quickly overtake the population compared to the self restrained ones, and drive the self restrained extinct very quickly, so there is always a balance in how non-promiscuous you should get, to adapt to the circumstances. Life adapts. Of course it's possible to have a lot of kids(that you may not be able to support but somehow, through poverty, they can reach adulthood) through a non-promiscuous monogamous relationship, and overtake the population like that, playing chicken with everybody else as to how far we can drive overpopulation issues before we stop. But promiscuity usually correlates with how many kids you have, especially for the men, that get around, a man can have 100 kids by 100 females within 3 months, while a woman has to wait 9 months before having a 2nd child. So the promiscuity struggle for dominating the population is controlled by the males a whole lot more than the females. A female usually wishes a man to stick around, but sometimes he values a man that lies to her to seduce her, then dumps her to go on to the next female, because the males she'll rear this way will also have a higher chance of survival, higher chance of promiscuous behavior. So a female is guilty for choosing the promiscuous men, too, as ultimately life and death is in the female's hands. She controls abortions, she controls upbringings, she controls what the son is going to be like in sexual behavior, while the father controls, has the most influence on what the daughter is gonna be like in sexual behavior. But regardless how his mother raised him, a man can choose to control his own behavior. There is this concept of personal responsibility.
One way the internet porn can help is that you can see so many mindblowingly hot women on it, that you can get your senses dulled, you can get yourself jaded, to better control yourself with the women in your life around you. There are two sides to everything though, as the women around you will suffer greatly from not getting the attention they feel they deserve, but it's usually a man's duty to control sexual behavior, as a man can rape or force sex with an unwilling and unaroused woman, but it's not impossible, but a lot more difficult the other way around. All he gotta do is control his mind and try to keep his penis limp, and orgasm and ejaculation is almost a mental thing too, it may be possible to control your thoughts and never orgasm even if she's mindblowingly hot, even if you're tied up and she's jerking you or sucking you forever, so sexual intercourse is controlled by the male, and because of that he's the one fully responsible for promiscuous behavior, not the female. All he gotta do is not react, she may feel terribly depressed over not being able to seduce him, but sometimes that's a small price to pay, because promiscuosity can kill you, or sometimes it can. I'm not saying you shouldn't have any promiscuosity, but there are different degrees, and monogamy may be too difficult to adhere to, but like doing it with 2 other people for a full year or many years in a row, one of them doing it with another 2, so even if not fully monogamous, the promiscuosity or disease spreading stops at 2 couples, and doesn't spread all over the frigging population. I fully put the blame on the males in the spread of AIDS in Africa, and absolve the females from any blame. The females have a biological clock ticking, they can't just sit and wait patiently, the hormones and emotions are raging in every woman, but a man has no such issues, so he should be the one to control himself, and control the spread of AIDS.
Abstinence, masturbation, internet porn (yeah, fight the spread of AIDS by giving people access to the "internet is for porn"), and monogamous relationships are the biggest things you can do the prevent spreading AIDS, assuming there are still some uninfected individuals. Listening to the preachings of the catholic church, and even entering nun-hood or monk-hood for a few individuals could drastically reduce the spread of AIDS. The key to reducing AIDS is adhering to strict religious practices, pick any religion, be it catholic, anglican (like Desmond Tutu is), muslim, buddhist, hindu - they all work. Well maybe not hindu, because of the Kama Sutra, and India is on it's way to be the most populous country in the world, but even they have ascetic self-denying. And the Hindi complain that it's the Muslims in India that keep having too many kids they can't support and can't control themselves. There are lots of issues all over teh world.
PS. Some Southern Baptist preachers from the US could help out a lot, at least it'd be a start, even if the level of ascetism, self denial, and monk hood is not as prevalent in the Southern Baptist church, like it is in Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu religions. There is a Mad TV episode with Snoop Dogg and Reverend Bishop Rump Shaker Robinson that illustrates the issues.
For whatever reason the plant seems to accumulate it. However I always maintain some skepticism, I don't just believe everything I read on the first read without duplicated literature backing it up. Even then it may be under special circumstances that it accumulates that much. Like I can dunk some dry hay into nickel sulfate, and do an analysis on it, and show that look, there is lots of nickel absorbed by the plant. Or even into a piece of paper towel. There are may ways to make mistakes and come up with hype like this.
Have you seen pictures of japanese people at public pools? Try google images, or, e.g. http://gmtristan.com/i-hope-yo... They feel overcrowded, and smart people when they are overcrowded they pop less kids, to adjust to comfortable levels, to what they can sense their resources - energy, food, room/space will comfortably accomodate tomorrow. Trying to predict tomorrow and adapting it to it today.
As far as I can tell anyone can come on/. and say anything they want, in any way they want, they won't get banned, just modded way down for saying anything inappropriate. They may need to go lower though, like -5, or -15 on the modding.
I came up with all that crap as I was typing it, had no idea it'd be that long when I typed the first letter. If I weren't lazy then I'd make it less verbose, but it would lose some element of spontaneity. It's like jazz. You can't ask for paragraphs in jazz, I mean you can but you may not get it.
Maybe it seems like it failed because it has been actively undermined by the pre WWI Old World Order nobility, to show that only monarchies function properly, and they want to bring back the New World Order with privileges, and aristocracy. During the formation of the US the Federalists were pro-aristocracy, but they've been relegated only to the Supreme Court from the beginning when Jefferson and his utopian yeoman farmer democracy took over Congress and the House of Representatives. Going back to aristocracy will happen regardless of what the law says, as it does not have to be erected into law, all you need is a secret society that agrees on rules of treatment amongst its members, and everybody else does not get consulted on these private agreements, or even a non secret society, or not even a society at all, just a buddy system and connections, and the rest of the world can be in disarray, anarchy. The greater the economic demise and harsher the life, the greater the disarray and anarchy, the easier nobility with skill to manufacture, talent to create, mercenary bodyguards and castlelike villas to defend, will thrive. Even if politicians want to enforce things like nondiscrimination based on birthrights or whatnot, saying there are all these valuable talented people who're external to the buddy system, and they should be internalized, or employed, what can they do? Like stipulate discrimination charges and take over a business, whose customers, part of the whole secret society or just the buddy system, just disappear, so the business goes out of business anyway, while the guy just forced out of business or someone similar restarts the same thing somewhere else, and his old buddies and customers go buy from him anyway, under a different name, and the whole show goes on as before anyway? Politicians are subject to the rules of the real world, they have to eat, they have to feed their kids, they have to earn money, and if only the nobility has money, then politicians have to bow and submit to the nobility. Even if nobility is not codified, or formally agreed on amongst its members, there can be a de facto nobility, or upper class, and a de facto slavery, or serfdom, or capitalist bourgeoisie exploited proletariat working lower class, an it's a matter of degree, the gap between the rich and the poor, the degree of stratification of society is a measure of how nondemocratic things are. Jefferson created a tax system with a mild redistribution of wealth, and we're still living with it, we call it Social Security, and it's about to collapse under the weight of the "tragedy of the commons". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... Social Security was created after the great depression proved that Americans are not rugged and regardless of the circumstances they cannot stand on their own to feet and create a better tomorrow out of raw dirt. Especially when they are not free like in an anarchy, but have to sink or swim with a stone tied in their necks dragging them underwater, in the form of income taxes, property taxes irregardless of any income, mandatory insurance to ensure economic safety, mandatory building codes to ensure physical safety, etc. It's sad to see that such a rich country as this, with lush vegetation, plenty of game, a sort of paradise, is not able to make it, because of some stupid rules we tell ourselves to live by, with the consequences, with the mental conclusion, that we're unable, that we can't. It proves that what we lack is a nobility, a people who can, we lack some good masters that we can be slaves to, because our self elected masters have been sabotaged gradually into the mess we're in. At least that's the intention of the nobility, but for now, we still are more on top of the World than say, Great Britain, who has maintained a milder style of monarchy, but which is going to a full police state as we speak. The reign has begun, and the social experiments of communism failed miserably, because nobody cared about the collective as much a
That's why you never resist an arrest. Cops will often go on fishing expeditions, to see if you have anything to hide, or a reason to run and evade them. Just routine type checks. Such as going through a yellow light, that's turning red too soon. It's not really a big deal, but it's enough for the cop to stop you, and if you attempt to flee, then he will chase you down for not stopping, but if you stop, he'll let you go, over something that even he thinks is minor. Then when he chases you down and you resist arrest, you keep escalating the severity of the crimes, from running a yellow to not stopping (where you could say your radio was loud and you couldn't see/hear) to resisting arrest. So a lot of these resisting arrest cases have probably a pretty weak and insignificant probing issue to begin with, just to test reactions. In the game of go the strategy is called yosu-miru, a probe, usually an insignificant and sacrifice stone, but one that has to be answered, an answer which delivers sophisticated information about either intentions, or if there are no intentions, it forces picking an intention and settling unknowns. Maintaining open options in go is paramount, as they allow you to use sente, initiative in moves, more efficiently somewhere else, where it's more urgent, and being forced to settle open options is a loss. The officials need very small excuses to begin with, and there is probably a roster of standard excuses of why a probe is made, and then an overreaction of those probed can ultimately land them in jail, while proper reaction to the probe would have left them alone. In the future there might be some specific law about not abusing such probes, as in freedom of the public from constantly being probed by the government over minor excuses to see if anyone would overreact and then need arrest, and then resist arrest. I think the 4th amendment already covers such topics, or it's in the spirit of the 4th amendment, and the government needs self restraint in how paranoid it gets in harassing its own subjects.
I try not to use crypto, but I can see a future, such as an invasion of this land, or total banning of knowledge from the hands of anyone and full intellectual property dictatorship, where you have to pay 2 cents for every word uttered etc, where it would be necessary to use encryption, together with burying your computer/disks in the backyard, and only digging it out once in a while for updates, or to get some really important knowledge off of them that you forgot, and even then encryption may not be such a great idea. There are some files on this very computer that I didn't put there nor do I want there, and there is something keeps churning my harddrive, but because it came with an official brand name recovery CD, I assume it's not hackers but the powers that be doing it, and every time I erase it from the disk, I have to reinstall the computer system, as in, they really hate it when they can't monitor me. So one attitude against this is to let the fed monitor you, at least a little bit. I hate being monitored, I hate traffic cameras, I hate warrantless entries, as a default stance, who doesn't. But we live in the real world. Ultimately, I think newer chips themselves have monitoring built into them, and there is nothing you can do in software, that won't let them remotely log on to your computer, and download files to you and change settings, or even simply erase everything, or worse, just modify everything to your disadvantage, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes obvious. If you want secure computing where the hardware does not monitor you, I suggest an authentic 386sx running DOS, and make sure it's not a fake chip pretending to be a 386sx. Or even a 486. My guess is near Pentium 2 to Pentium 3 transition is when the hardware snooping was fully implemented, as in the P2 days they were still struggling with performance, like slot1 off-chip caches, and competition, and only lately do they have performance to burn, and they can focus on other ways of power grubbing. So a P2 may be safe but not a P3. I have no clue. Even a 386sx that you found in an ancient abandoned factory with proven cobwebs and dust on it free from tampering, could be snooping on you, and remotely logonable. Is that a word, logonable?
Existentialism is deeply frowned upon by religions, which claim there is a morality that's correct, and it's their version that's correct. But it can be an aid to a warning that the Asimov rules regarding to the ethics of a robot may lead to cases where it's impossible to apply those rules, and then if the robot can get into situations where he is not forced to apply the rules, then what's holding him back in situations where he should apply them. If it thinks about it, he may abandon the rules altogether in all cases. That is the problem, assuming that it's possible to enforce ethics with robots. That's what Star Trek was great about - the Prime Directive stated noninterference in the internal affairs of new life and new civilizations encountered, but your very presence there is already an interference, and every episode was pretty much about meddling in the affairs of such lives and civilizations. Otherwise there is no storyline, no plot, absolutely nothing to do. Other than maybe voyeurism, where you hide and the observed don't even know they are observed, but Star Trek never had a voyeuristic tone to it, unlike a lot of great jungle and nature documentary tv series.
The market is down the west coast, Vancouver,Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego. Not that much market up in Alaska or Canada. Alaska is the largest US state at 663,268 sq miles but 47th in population at 735,132. A train route going through the rugged terrain of North East Siberia and North West North America would cost huge amounts of money through very rugged terrain, often with iced/snowed over tracks, maintenance of the tracks and expensive tunnels would be extremely expensive, and it would take more fuel and to get from Shanghai to San Francisco than directly by a humongous cargo ship, per container load. Granted, even cargo ships go a bit up north on their tracks, as the geodesics, the shortest distances, on a sphere go that way. If you had a cheap way to blast vacuum tunnels through any kind of terrain, or at least near 0% longterm interest rates, you could have a vacuum tain transportation means that beats anything in speed and fuel cost, but that would be first constructed from NY to Boston, San Francisco to LA, Beijing to Shanghai. But Beijing to LA vacuum train would have to go through the Behring strait. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We should build an underground train near the South Pole, 100 miles away on each side from it, and watch the terrorists show up. They'll be like, where are all the passengers? Why are these trains so empty? Because only morons would build them in the middle of fucking nowhere, like the South Pole, or the Behring Strait.
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Unfortunately, the answer to that is why software business is so difficult. Why do people use Borland Delphi when there is Lazarus, why do they use Windows when there is ReactOS/Wine, why do people use MS DOS when there is FreeDOS, why do people use Maple when there is Maxima - this last case illustrates that software used to be not a business, when Macsyma was developed, same when Unix was developed in its early stages, and FreeBSD/Linux were maintained free competition to the commercial overpriced and gargantuan licensed Unices. This core issue is why DRM is a must from the point of view of people who put the daily bread on the table by coding. I for one used to like Adobe Acrobat 3 and 4, and even 5 was decent, but starting with 6 it was yuckkk, and my favorite version now is Foxit Reader 2.3 (as newer versions of this one suck too.) But with DRM'd pdf's you only have one choice - Adobe Digital Editions 2.0, written in dotnet, crawling painfully beyond belief on a 5 watt 7 hr battery life HP Mini 210 Intel Atom chipset netbook, compared to the same stuff without DRM read in Foxit Reader 2.3. The amount of pdf readers out there is huge, but with DRM there is only one: Adobe, whether it sucks or not.
Yes and no.
I don't see why not. DOS runs fine on modern machines. At some point he may have to switch to emulation, but IA32 emulators should be around for a very very long time.
The electrolytic capacitors will eventually dry out and fail, that's why.
I don't see why not. DOS runs fine on modern machines. At some point he may have to switch to emulation, but IA32 emulators should be around for a very very long time.
The electrolytic capacitors will eventually dry out and fail, that's why.
I wish some chip companies produced oldschool chips, oldschool motherboards, without all the oldschool electrolytic capacitors. Wait a minute - in fact ebay is full of such stuff, but the problem with these new capacitorless pci soundcards, pci USB 2 cards, etc, is that they also may have built in wifi, and snoop on you. A lot of SD cards store info till a wifi comes nearby, then send your info off to the snoopers. So if you can get oldschool PCI cards or motherboards with lots of capacitors, you might be safer, but even those could be fake, and not truly old, or antique, just patina applied and appearances created to deceive you and obtain your money, and all your data too. Spyware in the form of hardware chips. In fact a lot of the time when my computer says you might have a security risk, I'm like aha, it might have a virus, or a trojan horse attacker, and the simplest explanation is that remote access and remote control to your computer by the manufacturer might be a feature of the hardware, and has nothing to do with software security risks - the computer says on it things like "Intel or AMD inside", and I'm guessing a Pentium 2 was still relatively safe, but later stuff, you never know when your computer is remotely accessed, infected, files erased or modified, to frame you, you might have a virus, backdoor, spyware, and you bow your head saying you agree, it might be built into the chips themselves. As chips are impossible to dissect, and examine for functionality, whoever made them would be an idiot not to put such things in there, if it's guaranteed that they'll never get caught. If they didn't put it in there, then I'd say it's people and life lived with principles. But it's so friggin obvious that that's not the case, and remote control to your computer from the hardware CPU manufacturers.or someone like them, might be responsible. . When stuff goes wrong with your computer, it's not a software virus because it goes wrong in Linux and Windows both, under very different circumstance,, and then you say well, both could be messed up on the software front, Linux X-windows and Micro shaft Windows, and both snooping on you hiding in all that bloat. See it is software! Well you say that it does it even with DOS or oldschool Linux, like Slackware 4. I swear it's gotta be not in the software, the source of the problem is rooted deeper than that, it must be the hardware.
I've been collecting a lot of oldschool software on Ebay bracing for impact for when the Internet must be completely abandoned, because you will have your hands fully tied by DRM, and the whole thing is gonna suck major ass. Then you can create your idillic little own isolated network and run things the way they used to be, in the good old days. We still got a few more days left of the good old days.
Oh, "65 posted 50 mph minimum", typo, I meant to say 40 mph minimum - that is the standard minimum speed I see posted on all the freeways I drive.
I also don't like automatic transmissions, for the same reason. I know how to do the shifting myself, even if it gets boring, but I can save a ton of gas by coasting on flat terrain, but especially on mild downhills, or I can take steep uphill intelligently by revving up the rpm and shifting into lower gear - kinder on the car than an automatic transmission that has to guess what the heck is going on, oh we must be going uphill, let's rev up when it's kinda too late, or rev up and down can't make up its mind, because the tranny don't have eyes and a brain to make that intelligent decision, like I do. For every grade and speed there is an appropriate cruising rpm, but sometimes I like to coast in neutral, to save gas, as follows: If there is little traffic around, and the speed limit is near 50 mph, I accelerate semi-hard with 1800-2200 rpm to 55 mph, then switch to neutral, and let the car coast til it droops to 45 mph, then speed up again, coast, and this way you can minimize engine friction, the viscous drag from the motor oil that happens at high rpms, because the engine spends most of its time in the neutral position around 800 rpm, barely using any gas, and you eliminate gear frictions too. If you got a mild downhill, it's party! The car runs forever in neutral, near constant speed. If you got a steep downhill, without a corresponding uphill on the other side, then you're consuming brakes inevitably. On flat terrain you can't maintain constant speed, and the up and down speed thing only works during non-rush hour on relatively lonely roads, because it annoys the heck out of fellow commuters, so the game is to assess the situation to see how much you can push the envelope, how many times you can allow your speed to droop to 45 in a 50 mph zone. I found that even if the speed limit is 60 or 65, 45-50 mph is a hell of a lot more fuel efficient because of much lower aerodynamic drag, aerodynamic drag goes up like the square of the speed. So the other game to play is to go slower than the speed limit on a highway, instead of 65 posted 50 minimum go only 55 coast to 45, back up to 55 coast to 45.. as long as you don't have anyone nearby, or they have another lane they can pass you, as such and idiot who can't drive, by. This whole livin on the edge of being annoying to others while maximizing fuel efficiency kinda makes driving a stickshift a lot of fun, it's like a diplomacy game on the road, and everyone think's you're an idiot, but you know better who the real idiot is - the guy honking his horns on the huge manly unaerodynamic pickup truck, the manliness image for which he has to pay for dearly at the pump. I love aerodynamic stick shift modest cars. I have never tried running an automatic transmission car in drive, then back to neutral, back to drive, back to neutral, I think it'd mess up the tranny pretty bad. So an automatic running at 50 mph always has to spend on high rpm engine friction, and cannot accelerate with high rpm, then coast at really low rpm. I loooove stick shift. Oldschool simplicity. Like Wordperfect for DOS.
I remember when Linux was good/decent too. Windows always had more stuff written for it, because it was a standard, and it was always difficult to find equivalent stuff for Linux for a lot of stuff. But nowadays Linux suffers from the same ills that plague the rest of the software world - bloat. Like Winzip 15 is 110 MB. For a friggin zipper prog. Basic Linux 3 comes on 2 floppies, and includes tar gz as a tiny fraction. What the hell is Winzip 15 doing that takes 77 floppies?
You can opt not to use DRM in the future. I for one never ever watched a DVD, because of the DRM it contains. Except a few minutes one of my friends played and I watched it by accident. But I abstain from DRM. I also bought a book on google books just to find out what I bought came with DRM. Yuckkk! Oh well, but they should have told me in advance, and then I would not have purchased. I'm also a halfass vegetarian, I don't eat meat at home all year except some Chinese takeout on like on Good Friday, or when I pass E-check emissions testing, or I get hungry at work and the vending machine if full of meat-sandwiches, and candybars don't really cut it for the price - have you seen how expensive vending machine things are compared to what you get? Vending machine stuff keeps shrinking in size and going up in price.
So anyway, DRM is coming, DRM lockdown is coming. Grab your downloads while you can from the web, and don't ditch XP/Win2k/Win95 because you got grandfathered rights with those. Hopefully. You might have to bury your old computers in your backyard, to hide them from gov't raids, when they become illegal because it's possible to use nonDRM stuff on them, like it used to be in the good old days.
Well put, G. For ammonia you need hydrogen, and there are other ways to produce hydrogen from water than electrolysis, such as sulfur-iodine cycle, for direct conversion of heat to hydrogen skipping a heat-engine electric generator, and there may be other better tuned ones depending on your available high and low temperatures. The high temperatures might come from nuclear or solar-thermal, but with a windmill or photo voltaic solar it's pretty much just electrolysis.
Car bodies are made of carbon steel not aluminum, because it's the cheapest high strength material available. The problem with steel is rust. Rust is our eternal enemy. A great way to fix it is to use stainless steel. Stainless steel requires chromium, and if we can't find enough of it on this planet, we might in the future import it from places like the Moon. But for now, with an average crustal abundance of 100 ppm, there's plenty of chromium around for stainless steel, even if it has to come from difficult places, such as Southern Africa countries, Kazakhstan, India and Russia. The problem with making cars out of stainless is high initial cost, and that they'd last forever, at least on the body part, and especially staying in business, because people wouldn't buy the latest and greatest high tech cars that cannot be sold for 10 grand, because of all the high tech "jingle bells and whistles" implemented in them. Such as automatic transmission, that's a totally useless feature, what a fucking waste! My last 4 cars have been manual transmission, then I had 2 automatics, then 1 manual, then my first one was an automatic. The automatics weren't 'free market" cars I went out into the wild to find, but came from people I knew speaking a different tongue selling their old cars. Otherwise I would have never ever ever bought automatics. In fact my radio doesn't work, and it hasn't worked in the last 3 cars, and it used to go out in the 4th. There you go, there are two unnecessary features when it comes to a car - radio, and automatic transmission. I need a car to get me from point A to point B, on 4 stable wheels on ice or rain and heat compared to a motorcycle, which is still better than a bicycle, you get extremely tired on a bicycle if you go long distances, uphill. But at least a bicycle I can kinda fix, a car with a fuel injection computer in it - good luck with chips. The only chip you can trust is the one that you make, the rest you have no clue what they do, or how they work, even if you read the documentation, because the documentation may not be telling "all" the features, like remote control, remote snooping and monitoring, etc, etc. Chips.
My slashdot user number is lower than yours, 668,960 vs. 1,284,916, neener neener.
The brain exhibits electric waves in the extremely low frequency region 5-10-15 Hz, and there have been experiments where submitting someone to such stimuli interferes with normal thought, even such simple things as motor vibration sounds inside a factory, which are inaudible, but create pressure sensations on the skin or chest hairs and other body hairs, or even creating a "beat frequency" between 2 audible sounds, such a 300 and 310 Hz, which will create a 10 Hz beat, and affect the brain. It is strange that these researchers would find 40 Hz affecting the brain, because that seems high. The brain seems like a low 6-10 Hz frequency massively parallel CPU, with much more processing power than a 2 GHz (or 2 billion Hz) regular CPU. By the way back in 2001-2005 I had a bed where there was constant hum from a nearby hospital-like building, and kind of a resonance zone, and unless I moved my head into an unnaturally edge position, I could feel my skull vibrate from the hums, and I was unable to fall asleep at all. I was aware of the ELF(extremely low frequency) stimulus effect on the brain (my high school physics professor taught me about it), but it didn't bother me that much, as the rent was really cheap, and all you had to do was to physically move your head away from the low frequency noise. Especially the russians put a lot of effort into mind control experiments through ELF, but it didn't seem to work or even have any effect back in 2005, other than just plain nuisance from your head vibrating. I can't say that anymore, in 2014, whatever way they figured out telepathy, it does not seem to have anything to do with ELF.
By the way gorillas have small testicles and are highly monogamous, but chimps are very promiscuous and have large testicles to keep up with production. Of course in absence of a disease like AIDS or other STD's like syphilis, the promiscuous ones may quickly overtake the population compared to the self restrained ones, and drive the self restrained extinct very quickly, so there is always a balance in how non-promiscuous you should get, to adapt to the circumstances. Life adapts. Of course it's possible to have a lot of kids(that you may not be able to support but somehow, through poverty, they can reach adulthood) through a non-promiscuous monogamous relationship, and overtake the population like that, playing chicken with everybody else as to how far we can drive overpopulation issues before we stop. But promiscuity usually correlates with how many kids you have, especially for the men, that get around, a man can have 100 kids by 100 females within 3 months, while a woman has to wait 9 months before having a 2nd child. So the promiscuity struggle for dominating the population is controlled by the males a whole lot more than the females. A female usually wishes a man to stick around, but sometimes he values a man that lies to her to seduce her, then dumps her to go on to the next female, because the males she'll rear this way will also have a higher chance of survival, higher chance of promiscuous behavior. So a female is guilty for choosing the promiscuous men, too, as ultimately life and death is in the female's hands. She controls abortions, she controls upbringings, she controls what the son is going to be like in sexual behavior, while the father controls, has the most influence on what the daughter is gonna be like in sexual behavior. But regardless how his mother raised him, a man can choose to control his own behavior. There is this concept of personal responsibility.
One way the internet porn can help is that you can see so many mindblowingly hot women on it, that you can get your senses dulled, you can get yourself jaded, to better control yourself with the women in your life around you. There are two sides to everything though, as the women around you will suffer greatly from not getting the attention they feel they deserve, but it's usually a man's duty to control sexual behavior, as a man can rape or force sex with an unwilling and unaroused woman, but it's not impossible, but a lot more difficult the other way around. All he gotta do is control his mind and try to keep his penis limp, and orgasm and ejaculation is almost a mental thing too, it may be possible to control your thoughts and never orgasm even if she's mindblowingly hot, even if you're tied up and she's jerking you or sucking you forever, so sexual intercourse is controlled by the male, and because of that he's the one fully responsible for promiscuous behavior, not the female. All he gotta do is not react, she may feel terribly depressed over not being able to seduce him, but sometimes that's a small price to pay, because promiscuosity can kill you, or sometimes it can. I'm not saying you shouldn't have any promiscuosity, but there are different degrees, and monogamy may be too difficult to adhere to, but like doing it with 2 other people for a full year or many years in a row, one of them doing it with another 2, so even if not fully monogamous, the promiscuosity or disease spreading stops at 2 couples, and doesn't spread all over the frigging population. I fully put the blame on the males in the spread of AIDS in Africa, and absolve the females from any blame. The females have a biological clock ticking, they can't just sit and wait patiently, the hormones and emotions are raging in every woman, but a man has no such issues, so he should be the one to control himself, and control the spread of AIDS.
Abstinence, masturbation, internet porn (yeah, fight the spread of AIDS by giving people access to the "internet is for porn"), and monogamous relationships are the biggest things you can do the prevent spreading AIDS, assuming there are still some uninfected individuals. Listening to the preachings of the catholic church, and even entering nun-hood or monk-hood for a few individuals could drastically reduce the spread of AIDS. The key to reducing AIDS is adhering to strict religious practices, pick any religion, be it catholic, anglican (like Desmond Tutu is), muslim, buddhist, hindu - they all work. Well maybe not hindu, because of the Kama Sutra, and India is on it's way to be the most populous country in the world, but even they have ascetic self-denying. And the Hindi complain that it's the Muslims in India that keep having too many kids they can't support and can't control themselves. There are lots of issues all over teh world.
PS. Some Southern Baptist preachers from the US could help out a lot, at least it'd be a start, even if the level of ascetism, self denial, and monk hood is not as prevalent in the Southern Baptist church, like it is in Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu religions. There is a Mad TV episode with Snoop Dogg and Reverend Bishop Rump Shaker Robinson that illustrates the issues.
For whatever reason the plant seems to accumulate it. However I always maintain some skepticism, I don't just believe everything I read on the first read without duplicated literature backing it up. Even then it may be under special circumstances that it accumulates that much. Like I can dunk some dry hay into nickel sulfate, and do an analysis on it, and show that look, there is lots of nickel absorbed by the plant. Or even into a piece of paper towel. There are may ways to make mistakes and come up with hype like this.
Have you seen pictures of japanese people at public pools? Try google images, or, e.g. http://gmtristan.com/i-hope-yo... They feel overcrowded, and smart people when they are overcrowded they pop less kids, to adjust to comfortable levels, to what they can sense their resources - energy, food, room/space will comfortably accomodate tomorrow. Trying to predict tomorrow and adapting it to it today.
As far as I can tell anyone can come on /. and say anything they want, in any way they want, they won't get banned, just modded way down for saying anything inappropriate. They may need to go lower though, like -5, or -15 on the modding.
I came up with all that crap as I was typing it, had no idea it'd be that long when I typed the first letter. If I weren't lazy then I'd make it less verbose, but it would lose some element of spontaneity. It's like jazz. You can't ask for paragraphs in jazz, I mean you can but you may not get it.
Maybe it seems like it failed because it has been actively undermined by the pre WWI Old World Order nobility, to show that only monarchies function properly, and they want to bring back the New World Order with privileges, and aristocracy. During the formation of the US the Federalists were pro-aristocracy, but they've been relegated only to the Supreme Court from the beginning when Jefferson and his utopian yeoman farmer democracy took over Congress and the House of Representatives. Going back to aristocracy will happen regardless of what the law says, as it does not have to be erected into law, all you need is a secret society that agrees on rules of treatment amongst its members, and everybody else does not get consulted on these private agreements, or even a non secret society, or not even a society at all, just a buddy system and connections, and the rest of the world can be in disarray, anarchy. The greater the economic demise and harsher the life, the greater the disarray and anarchy, the easier nobility with skill to manufacture, talent to create, mercenary bodyguards and castlelike villas to defend, will thrive. Even if politicians want to enforce things like nondiscrimination based on birthrights or whatnot, saying there are all these valuable talented people who're external to the buddy system, and they should be internalized, or employed, what can they do? Like stipulate discrimination charges and take over a business, whose customers, part of the whole secret society or just the buddy system, just disappear, so the business goes out of business anyway, while the guy just forced out of business or someone similar restarts the same thing somewhere else, and his old buddies and customers go buy from him anyway, under a different name, and the whole show goes on as before anyway? Politicians are subject to the rules of the real world, they have to eat, they have to feed their kids, they have to earn money, and if only the nobility has money, then politicians have to bow and submit to the nobility. Even if nobility is not codified, or formally agreed on amongst its members, there can be a de facto nobility, or upper class, and a de facto slavery, or serfdom, or capitalist bourgeoisie exploited proletariat working lower class, an it's a matter of degree, the gap between the rich and the poor, the degree of stratification of society is a measure of how nondemocratic things are. Jefferson created a tax system with a mild redistribution of wealth, and we're still living with it, we call it Social Security, and it's about to collapse under the weight of the "tragedy of the commons". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... Social Security was created after the great depression proved that Americans are not rugged and regardless of the circumstances they cannot stand on their own to feet and create a better tomorrow out of raw dirt. Especially when they are not free like in an anarchy, but have to sink or swim with a stone tied in their necks dragging them underwater, in the form of income taxes, property taxes irregardless of any income, mandatory insurance to ensure economic safety, mandatory building codes to ensure physical safety, etc. It's sad to see that such a rich country as this, with lush vegetation, plenty of game, a sort of paradise, is not able to make it, because of some stupid rules we tell ourselves to live by, with the consequences, with the mental conclusion, that we're unable, that we can't. It proves that what we lack is a nobility, a people who can, we lack some good masters that we can be slaves to, because our self elected masters have been sabotaged gradually into the mess we're in. At least that's the intention of the nobility, but for now, we still are more on top of the World than say, Great Britain, who has maintained a milder style of monarchy, but which is going to a full police state as we speak. The reign has begun, and the social experiments of communism failed miserably, because nobody cared about the collective as much a
That's why you never resist an arrest. Cops will often go on fishing expeditions, to see if you have anything to hide, or a reason to run and evade them. Just routine type checks. Such as going through a yellow light, that's turning red too soon. It's not really a big deal, but it's enough for the cop to stop you, and if you attempt to flee, then he will chase you down for not stopping, but if you stop, he'll let you go, over something that even he thinks is minor. Then when he chases you down and you resist arrest, you keep escalating the severity of the crimes, from running a yellow to not stopping (where you could say your radio was loud and you couldn't see/hear) to resisting arrest. So a lot of these resisting arrest cases have probably a pretty weak and insignificant probing issue to begin with, just to test reactions. In the game of go the strategy is called yosu-miru, a probe, usually an insignificant and sacrifice stone, but one that has to be answered, an answer which delivers sophisticated information about either intentions, or if there are no intentions, it forces picking an intention and settling unknowns. Maintaining open options in go is paramount, as they allow you to use sente, initiative in moves, more efficiently somewhere else, where it's more urgent, and being forced to settle open options is a loss. The officials need very small excuses to begin with, and there is probably a roster of standard excuses of why a probe is made, and then an overreaction of those probed can ultimately land them in jail, while proper reaction to the probe would have left them alone. In the future there might be some specific law about not abusing such probes, as in freedom of the public from constantly being probed by the government over minor excuses to see if anyone would overreact and then need arrest, and then resist arrest. I think the 4th amendment already covers such topics, or it's in the spirit of the 4th amendment, and the government needs self restraint in how paranoid it gets in harassing its own subjects.
I try not to use crypto, but I can see a future, such as an invasion of this land, or total banning of knowledge from the hands of anyone and full intellectual property dictatorship, where you have to pay 2 cents for every word uttered etc, where it would be necessary to use encryption, together with burying your computer/disks in the backyard, and only digging it out once in a while for updates, or to get some really important knowledge off of them that you forgot, and even then encryption may not be such a great idea. There are some files on this very computer that I didn't put there nor do I want there, and there is something keeps churning my harddrive, but because it came with an official brand name recovery CD, I assume it's not hackers but the powers that be doing it, and every time I erase it from the disk, I have to reinstall the computer system, as in, they really hate it when they can't monitor me. So one attitude against this is to let the fed monitor you, at least a little bit. I hate being monitored, I hate traffic cameras, I hate warrantless entries, as a default stance, who doesn't. But we live in the real world. Ultimately, I think newer chips themselves have monitoring built into them, and there is nothing you can do in software, that won't let them remotely log on to your computer, and download files to you and change settings, or even simply erase everything, or worse, just modify everything to your disadvantage, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes obvious. If you want secure computing where the hardware does not monitor you, I suggest an authentic 386sx running DOS, and make sure it's not a fake chip pretending to be a 386sx. Or even a 486. My guess is near Pentium 2 to Pentium 3 transition is when the hardware snooping was fully implemented, as in the P2 days they were still struggling with performance, like slot1 off-chip caches, and competition, and only lately do they have performance to burn, and they can focus on other ways of power grubbing. So a P2 may be safe but not a P3. I have no clue. Even a 386sx that you found in an ancient abandoned factory with proven cobwebs and dust on it free from tampering, could be snooping on you, and remotely logonable. Is that a word, logonable?
Existentialism is deeply frowned upon by religions, which claim there is a morality that's correct, and it's their version that's correct. But it can be an aid to a warning that the Asimov rules regarding to the ethics of a robot may lead to cases where it's impossible to apply those rules, and then if the robot can get into situations where he is not forced to apply the rules, then what's holding him back in situations where he should apply them. If it thinks about it, he may abandon the rules altogether in all cases. That is the problem, assuming that it's possible to enforce ethics with robots. That's what Star Trek was great about - the Prime Directive stated noninterference in the internal affairs of new life and new civilizations encountered, but your very presence there is already an interference, and every episode was pretty much about meddling in the affairs of such lives and civilizations. Otherwise there is no storyline, no plot, absolutely nothing to do. Other than maybe voyeurism, where you hide and the observed don't even know they are observed, but Star Trek never had a voyeuristic tone to it, unlike a lot of great jungle and nature documentary tv series.
The market is down the west coast, Vancouver,Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego. Not that much market up in Alaska or Canada. Alaska is the largest US state at 663,268 sq miles but 47th in population at 735,132. A train route going through the rugged terrain of North East Siberia and North West North America would cost huge amounts of money through very rugged terrain, often with iced/snowed over tracks, maintenance of the tracks and expensive tunnels would be extremely expensive, and it would take more fuel and to get from Shanghai to San Francisco than directly by a humongous cargo ship, per container load. Granted, even cargo ships go a bit up north on their tracks, as the geodesics, the shortest distances, on a sphere go that way. If you had a cheap way to blast vacuum tunnels through any kind of terrain, or at least near 0% longterm interest rates, you could have a vacuum tain transportation means that beats anything in speed and fuel cost, but that would be first constructed from NY to Boston, San Francisco to LA, Beijing to Shanghai. But Beijing to LA vacuum train would have to go through the Behring strait. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The free market value of real estate - back then that's how much people were willing to pay for it.
We should build an underground train near the South Pole, 100 miles away on each side from it, and watch the terrorists show up. They'll be like, where are all the passengers? Why are these trains so empty? Because only morons would build them in the middle of fucking nowhere, like the South Pole, or the Behring Strait.