Suppose we leave the planet, but would like to leave a message. Where should we put it, and in what form? I can think of no place on the planet that would be safe from erosion, and any satellite orbit would decay long before 5 million years had passed.... Where could we look for evidence? If they left a message for us; assuming that they want it found, where would it be?
You've made me sad. Almost all my music is now 30 years old or more in origin - the last 30 years have been mostly bad followed by worse. Very few notable new artists have come out in that 30 year period. Most of those in your list that I listen to were already performing by the early 80s..... Or rather the number post 80s and pre 80s is hugely skewed to pre 80s, even if they are still releasing records now. We beed another CBGBs or the like.
...and it makes a lot of code so much more elegant than e.g. java, where you spent half your time and lines of code working around limitations of the type system.
If half your code and time is spent there, perhaps your approach and design are wrong?
it's not the player, I had Netflix until they started charging - it wasn't worth it. Hulu still has issues, but had better quality and that had not dropped. It still, at high use times, has additional artifacts not visible during low use times. I'm on fiber - I don't think it's the ISP, unless it's the peering issue.
You can record whatever happens in the public domain. Making that available to the public at large is a different issue. The government keeping that data is illegal.
I have 18 Mbps down with low-latency, I used to have Netflix - the content stream in general was terrible, as far as quality of the picture went. Many compression artifacts, some streaming packet drops leading to hiccups in the picture, etc. If your TV is bigger than 40", then Netflix quality is abysmal, the bigger it is the more obvious all the problems. Sound comes through usually fine. I also have Hulu Plus currently, I'll be giving it another try soon.
The biggest piece of humor here is that I have absolutely 0 issues capturing any video stream, no matter the DRM, even off a tablet. Neither does anyone else. If you can accept the terrible quality of streaming video, then a camcorder version wouldn't upset you at all either. This is why BD sales are increasing, but not stellar. As bigger TVs become standard, the picture quality becomes far more important. And having ripped BDs on your media server is the only way to enjoy them, even for a single viewing - skip all the commercial intro nonsense. Just the movie please.
Because it's one thing to have an identification item on your car, it's another to track where you are when and store that data. It's no different than the NSA keeping tabs of everyone you know and when you talked to them. If that's not clear, please prep yourself for an anal implant that will collect all data on your person at all times, for the public record.
I read your link - I don't know why you're surprised. The article itself states 500K years as the oldest known successful extraction and reading of DNA.
Furthermore, all the assumptions and theories are based on the analysis of 3000-8000 year old bird bones. The most significant factors in DNA degradation are stated to be exposure to water, followed by oxygen and micro-organism activity. Enzymes will only take you so far, and are listed as the starting point. I'd say that this particular theory will undergo quite a bit scrutiny in the coming years, and will at best be a rule of thumb since there are far more variables to account for than they have so far.
There is also an anonymously queryable subset of the records in the report. I haven't read the full report yet to see what that entails. Not saying it's super-duper, but it's not quite that bad.
Centralized means centralized control. It's hard to charge fees, disable access, or censor data on a decentralized data store. And I'm not sure what problem they're trying to solve that whois addresses. I've had 0 issues finding out who owns what, although I might have to dig a little occasionally. And that's fine. They are free to query them all too.
and yet the only way I'd touch anything that even hinted of COBOL is to migrate it to any modern language. Even Perl is more maintainable than the general COBOL program. (OK, maybe not, but at least it'd be more concise)
That was interesting enough to look up - some brief skimming reveals that the saying appears to be of recent British origin, although they were in China, and probably mistranslated something. Learn something new and interesting everyday. It still sounds good though I'll now have to refer to it as a British curse instead.:)
A patent tax seems the most reasonable course to patent reform today, and an escalating cost per year will also make them less likely to be held if they're non-profitable. A second clause - a patent that is used to sue without having created anything is immediately void. This would significantly reduce patent trolls. The justification for this one is that no harm was done as you did not lose any potential sales.
I think the most interesting part of this is that yes, we are not yet out of revolutions. Interesting times, while an ancient Chinese curse, is certainly more fun than living without these new innovations. Bring them on!
And I agree, getting older these days means you may have greater insight. The worst waste of time I see in programming is the "re-invention" cycle that occurs every 5-7 years with the latest new language or methodology. And after the newness wears off, the same old approaches are gravitated towards, because they work.
Because a previous post was already linked to WHO information and was referenced. Also, this is slashdot - those were the first 3 results in a google search on "death heart disease rank". I wasn't making a full argument, merely posting a secondary link the GGP might find more palatable, given the apparent anti-establishment viewpoint they exhibited. A WHO link probably would not have made any impact on them. Shockingly enough, those types of people trust wikipedia more than government backed studies. And, as you point out, the WHO link is on the Wikipedia page - along with others. So what's your point?
I did not look up the disease trends through time, but I did note the increasing lifespan from 1900 onwards, a gain of about 20 years. If you knock out all those things that kill you earlier, you're going to be left with age increasing diseases like heart disease and diabetes, the latter of which, Type II, generally starts around 45, and with a peak diagnosis around 55-60. If you die before that, as in earlier days, then obviously as the lifespan increases the incidents will also increase. It's not as black and white as you make it out to be. I'm also not arguing that the US doesn't have a few unhealthy eating habits. Just that your statements are on the extreme side.
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But wow that was SO clear.
Suppose we leave the planet, but would like to leave a message. Where should we put it, and in what form? I can think of no place on the planet that would be safe from erosion, and any satellite orbit would decay long before 5 million years had passed.... Where could we look for evidence? If they left a message for us; assuming that they want it found, where would it be?
On the moon.
You've made me sad. Almost all my music is now 30 years old or more in origin - the last 30 years have been mostly bad followed by worse. Very few notable new artists have come out in that 30 year period. Most of those in your list that I listen to were already performing by the early 80s..... Or rather the number post 80s and pre 80s is hugely skewed to pre 80s, even if they are still releasing records now. We beed another CBGBs or the like.
I believe violating the Constitution might be considered a traitorous act.....
Run TOR on various occassions, do it randomly - you'll add to your traffic pattern and help others stay anonymous.
Until the first crash....
The funny part is that the switch from XP to Vista+ was enough enough to start looking at alternatives.
It's a great way to keep contracts renewing.
...and it makes a lot of code so much more elegant than e.g. java, where you spent half your time and lines of code working around limitations of the type system.
If half your code and time is spent there, perhaps your approach and design are wrong?
it's not the player, I had Netflix until they started charging - it wasn't worth it. Hulu still has issues, but had better quality and that had not dropped. It still, at high use times, has additional artifacts not visible during low use times. I'm on fiber - I don't think it's the ISP, unless it's the peering issue.
You can record whatever happens in the public domain. Making that available to the public at large is a different issue. The government keeping that data is illegal.
I have 18 Mbps down with low-latency, I used to have Netflix - the content stream in general was terrible, as far as quality of the picture went. Many compression artifacts, some streaming packet drops leading to hiccups in the picture, etc. If your TV is bigger than 40", then Netflix quality is abysmal, the bigger it is the more obvious all the problems. Sound comes through usually fine. I also have Hulu Plus currently, I'll be giving it another try soon.
The biggest piece of humor here is that I have absolutely 0 issues capturing any video stream, no matter the DRM, even off a tablet. Neither does anyone else. If you can accept the terrible quality of streaming video, then a camcorder version wouldn't upset you at all either. This is why BD sales are increasing, but not stellar. As bigger TVs become standard, the picture quality becomes far more important. And having ripped BDs on your media server is the only way to enjoy them, even for a single viewing - skip all the commercial intro nonsense. Just the movie please.
Because it's one thing to have an identification item on your car, it's another to track where you are when and store that data. It's no different than the NSA keeping tabs of everyone you know and when you talked to them. If that's not clear, please prep yourself for an anal implant that will collect all data on your person at all times, for the public record.
I read your link - I don't know why you're surprised. The article itself states 500K years as the oldest known successful extraction and reading of DNA.
Furthermore, all the assumptions and theories are based on the analysis of 3000-8000 year old bird bones. The most significant factors in DNA degradation are stated to be exposure to water, followed by oxygen and micro-organism activity. Enzymes will only take you so far, and are listed as the starting point. I'd say that this particular theory will undergo quite a bit scrutiny in the coming years, and will at best be a rule of thumb since there are far more variables to account for than they have so far.
Not until it shows potential to damage the amp....
There is also an anonymously queryable subset of the records in the report. I haven't read the full report yet to see what that entails. Not saying it's super-duper, but it's not quite that bad.
give it a year and it will be.
Centralized means centralized control. It's hard to charge fees, disable access, or censor data on a decentralized data store. And I'm not sure what problem they're trying to solve that whois addresses. I've had 0 issues finding out who owns what, although I might have to dig a little occasionally. And that's fine. They are free to query them all too.
Check out the Orion program, from the 50s
and yet the only way I'd touch anything that even hinted of COBOL is to migrate it to any modern language. Even Perl is more maintainable than the general COBOL program. (OK, maybe not, but at least it'd be more concise)
That was interesting enough to look up - some brief skimming reveals that the saying appears to be of recent British origin, although they were in China, and probably mistranslated something. Learn something new and interesting everyday. It still sounds good though I'll now have to refer to it as a British curse instead. :)
A patent tax seems the most reasonable course to patent reform today, and an escalating cost per year will also make them less likely to be held if they're non-profitable. A second clause - a patent that is used to sue without having created anything is immediately void. This would significantly reduce patent trolls. The justification for this one is that no harm was done as you did not lose any potential sales.
I think the most interesting part of this is that yes, we are not yet out of revolutions. Interesting times, while an ancient Chinese curse, is certainly more fun than living without these new innovations. Bring them on!
And I agree, getting older these days means you may have greater insight. The worst waste of time I see in programming is the "re-invention" cycle that occurs every 5-7 years with the latest new language or methodology. And after the newness wears off, the same old approaches are gravitated towards, because they work.
Because a previous post was already linked to WHO information and was referenced. Also, this is slashdot - those were the first 3 results in a google search on "death heart disease rank". I wasn't making a full argument, merely posting a secondary link the GGP might find more palatable, given the apparent anti-establishment viewpoint they exhibited. A WHO link probably would not have made any impact on them. Shockingly enough, those types of people trust wikipedia more than government backed studies. And, as you point out, the WHO link is on the Wikipedia page - along with others. So what's your point?
I did not look up the disease trends through time, but I did note the increasing lifespan from 1900 onwards, a gain of about 20 years. If you knock out all those things that kill you earlier, you're going to be left with age increasing diseases like heart disease and diabetes, the latter of which, Type II, generally starts around 45, and with a peak diagnosis around 55-60. If you die before that, as in earlier days, then obviously as the lifespan increases the incidents will also increase. It's not as black and white as you make it out to be. I'm also not arguing that the US doesn't have a few unhealthy eating habits. Just that your statements are on the extreme side.
Wikipedia is hardly a source of trusted information. I'd rather go to WHO directly thank you.