I was just thinking about this the other day. If I'm still mentally capable but unable to communicate or move, I think I still want to live.
I like to think and contemplate, which if I was still capable of doing so, I'd like to continue that rather than die. It'd be great if I could 'think' and then tell people, but I'd rather think and not tell people that to just be gone.
Its possible a solution could come in the future, and either way I have time to work on ascension.;)
You're really look at it from the perspective of people surrounding the person on life support. Making it easier on everyone else, under the guise of being for the PVS person. This is clear from your lack of sympathy for those that may have been wrongly diagnosed. I understand being selfish, its natural, which is why I'd rather be kept alive. I'm selfish and want every opportunity I can possibly get to resolve the issue some way other than my death, even if its hard on my family.
The problem isn't that 'the world is a bad place' its the exact opposite. People today, participating in studies like this have almost no reason to be depressed, life isn't hard anymore. As such, without anything to focus on and any problems to work through, our brains create problems to deal with.
The brain has evolved to deal with dangers, we've taken those dangers away and the brain isn't used to dealing with it, so it creates problems for itself.
Previously it didn't have time to sit around and be moppy, it was more concerned with finding food or not getting killed by something that was actually bad.
The idea that the world is some how worse today than even a hundred years ago shows a complete disconnection from reality. Life expectancies are longer, not shorter, which completely contradicts the 'the world is bad' idea.
NT ran on multiple architectures in the past, and I've personally ran old PowerPC software on x86 and x86 software on the Alpha processor without ever seeing the source. Thats just my experience, and certainly not the only examples.
Its not something new, its been done multiple times by multiple vendors over several different types of hardware. Apple and Microsoft have both done it. Saying that MS can't do it now is silly, they've already done it in the past.
Yea, its not like anyone else recently has moved their entire OS and application set to another processor architecture and provided backwards compatibility...
If only there was a reference model of someone else doing it...
It can be done, Apple did it, without recompiling 3rd party software. They weren't the first. NT ran on other architectures before, and there was a time when running x86 on an Alpha was as simply as starting the software and letting the system software handle porting it to the new processor architecture.
In short, your reason for it not happening is bogus and there are examples to show its bogus. Some old examples and some recent.
Uhm, to you and the GP... you do realize MS already has software that runs on ARM processors... RIGHT?
Win7 isn't running on ARM because THAT WOULD BE FREAKING RETARDED. They have a compact/embedded OS for this, just like all the other people who are successful at using ARM processors for end users.
Only an idiot would want their desktop OS ported to a device that is clearly NOT a desktop device.
Put any WinCE handheld side to side to n900. The WinCE looks like a kids-play fisher-price laptop, it is a joke.
I've seen several WinCE devices in the wild, never seen an n900 outside of a store. CE may look childish, but its still a hell of a lot more popular, theres a reason.
WinCE is a very reduced Win32 API (so we are not considering the huge collection of Win32 apps here) while GNU/Linux on ARM runs everything designed to be cross-platform.
The API isn't THAT much smaller, and a full API isn't needed on a compact device. In case you haven't noticed, the devices that are owning the market right now are reduced versions of their desktop brothers. Doesn't seem that the majority of people prefer the full thing over the reduced version
Given a powerful ARM machine with plenty of RAM, you can literally compile all your GNU/Linux desktop software for ARM.
Because thats what makes a hardware/software package useful... that you can compile a bunch of desktop software for a device that isn't a desktop. Just recompiling an app isn't all there is to it, regardless of what you think. A desktop app running on a small device, even a netbook, starts to get shitty since the screen real estate isn't the same.
The fundamental problem here is not what is already available or supported for ARM-Linux but the fact that ARM devices are mostly associated with new Human Interface paradigms which current software can't answer. But this is changing fast with the increasing interest of the community and companies like Nokia pushing Maemo.
The fundamental problem here is that the people using Linux in their smaller offerings are using it because they are cheaping out. Its not Linux's fault, but its a side effect of being free. They are trying to piggy back on everyone elses work to increase their profit margin, which in general is fine. The problem is that they are cheaping out everywhere. Half ass hacks or recompiles of full desktop applications aren't that good on tiny displays like a netbook or phone, yet thats what they keep trying to do. Most Linux based devices on the market are 'we put in as absolutely little investment of money and time into the product as possible and expect it to rule the world, even beating out other devices where have much more energy and thought put into them./me waits for the troll mod since I didn't paint Linux as the end all solution to everything.
Battered Wife Syndrome is a problem on both sides, not one.
Bullying can certainly be one way as the kid has no escape path. He/She is forced to go to school by parents/law/whatever.
A battered wife has several methods to get out if she wants to. It has nothing to do with being female either, there are battered husbands.
Sometimes the 'victim' is the one at fault, even if it doesn't appear that way at first glance. You can whine, bitch and moan and tell everyone how wrong it is all day long, whatever you need to do to make yourself sleep at night, but sometimes thats just the way it is.
So you're claiming you punched him hard enough to break your hand, but you describe it as pushing the knuckle back... sorry, not buying it. You'd have known it was broken when the pain didn't go away and had described it as such.
Interestingly enough, I think my dad told me that exact same story after getting bullied myself.
You can make applications not work, make it so that you can't remove this config file. At the very least, you can make someone's day miserable.
Right up until they old down the power and home button for a few seconds and wipe the device. Plug it in to the PC, restore, done.
This isn't a vulnerability in the phone, it is be design.
You can argue that its a design flaw, but its a direct result of features requested by users. Everything about this exploit is a direct result of requests from businesses and users. If Apple 'locked it down' to make it safer, we'd end up with everyone bitching about it being closed and under apples control like the AppStore whining.
It has EVERYTHING to do with SSL. It points out the weakness in the system. Root certificate authorities are part of the SSL ecosystem, without root CAs SSL is effectively useless.
With shitty root authorities, like VeriSign, SSL is effectively worthless.
Someone needs to wipe them and network solutions off the face of the Earth.
Port it. All the required tools are free, I'm pretty sure the Windows DDK is free as well. I get it from an MSDN subscription so I haven't actually tried to find it without one, but I seem to remember it being there if you look for it.
You have the source for a Linux driver, shouldn't be that hard to port it for someone who understands the WDDM model, or hell the 2000/XP model since the this driver isn't accelerated anyway.
I supported ATI for a good while, but the quality of their drivers is so horrible that I refuse to have anything to do with them anymore. I'd rather use a crappy intel integrated chip with stable drivers than the crap ATI pedals.
At least the OSS driver may be more stable since others can contribute fixes.
I'd bet the OSS driver is more useful to ATI for bug fixes than anything else, and wouldn't be entirely surprised if it became the base for their internal closed drivers as well.
Yet another shining example of why changing the UI for no actual reason is a retarded idea. Theres no reason to not use a key and keeping the same traditional operations as the key has always had.
The only way to over-rev most cars these days is have a standard transmission and miss a shift coming down.
And that generally requires an excessive amount of force which most drivers won't apply. Transmissions now days are pretty good at preventing themselves from being damaged just by their design. Mine for instances simply will not sync up when the RPMs are too high for the gear I'm trying to go into. I can not push it into that gear regardless of the amount of pressure I apply.
Off and Lock are generally two different positions, even if you aren't aware of it, you can turn the car off without reaching the lock position, which is where you can remove the key and engage the steering wheel lock. Some cars even have measures in place to prevent the lock from engaging until the car is placed in park so even if you turn the key to lock, it won't lock while in drive/reverse/neutral, only park.
You won't loose brakes as long as the engine is turning over, which it will as long as its in gear even with an automatic transmission above about 20mph, and even then you'll still have some built up braking boost, generally more than enough to stop from even a high speed.
Yyou turn the engine off, and use the lowest gear possible. You'll still have every other powered system in your car working because they all derive power from the engine turning over or from the battery power itself. Power brakes are vacuum assisted from crank case pressure differential that exists as long as the crackshaft is turning and you have intact pistons. Power steering is directly powered by belt/gear/chain connected to the drive shaft. Battery is still there to power all electrical options.
Please don't give advice about things you aren't actually all that knowledgeable about.
What you were experiencing was the engine down shifting to try and accelerate to the speed you had told it to go to. When in the higher gear it couldn't accelerate fast enough so you kept hitting the button, so it was set to a much higher speed than you actually wanted. Then it changed gears and had the additional power and accelerated quickly towards its target speed.
Your problem was a user issue. The same problem still exists in cars today.
This is PR nightmare time for Toyota. It will make the Ford-Firestone debacle look like simple times.
Interestingly enough, the Firestore issue wasn't really a problem. The tires were rated for a specific speed, and the drivers went long distances well above that speed in harsh conditions.
The were driven out of spec by idiots in large SUVs who had no business driving in the first place.
They made changes to the tires used anyway, but it doesn't change the fact that the problem was the driver running the tire well outside its spec'd rating, not just poor quality tires.
That ordeal is roughly the same as blaming AMD because you overclocked/overvolted your CPU by 50% on both and it went up in a small puff of smoke.
I have a really hard time believing this story. 97 in a Prius? Was he being pushed by another car? Falling off a cliff? Have a 200mph tail wind in a hurricane?
He'd run out of gas before he got to 97 in a Prius under normal means.
Not everyone agrees with your idea of useful, and it is their store.
Do you bitch that walmart doesn't sell music with explicit lyrics? Are you even aware of that?
Of course they aren't the only place to buy music, but they were until recently the largest source.
The reason no one cares about that little app being rejected is well... it had no significant value.
The percentage of rejected apps for any reason is so small its hardly worth noting that apps get rejected. As long as it stays that way, no one is going to give a shit in general.
You call it rationalizing, which is entirely correct. When you look at it from a rational point of view, its really not a big deal like you make it out to be.
you can blame Apple for HTML5 video never going to happen - they're pushing hard towards H.264, which is never going to be reality for Firefox because it can't be distributed in the source code.
Yea, its not like they can just opt to make a closed source plugin or anything... this is a bullshit excuse, and considering how little momentum Firefox has at the moment, I wouldn't even worry if its not supported.
If your licensing model prevents you from working with other software then its your problem. If everyone else can play by those rules and you can't, its your problem, not theirs.
The only reason you've given is 'its not open source'. I don't recall anything anywhere in Mozilla's licensing that prevents you from joining it with closed source software. I know for a fact that there isn't any such restriction as I and many other software developers use Gecko in closed source software, Mozilla even has a nice list of some rather well known closed source software packages that use Gecko.
If you require OSS and can't make an exception then it sounds like you have a problem, not everyone else.
I prefer OSS if all other things are equal, but I don't let some retarded philosophy rule me. I use the right tool for the job, if its open source, AWESOME. If its not, well that sucks, but lets be realistic, 99.9999999999999999999% of the people using open source get no value from the 'open' part of it. VERY VERY few people actually bother to make patches or add features themselves, most people just use it and the OSS part is just a battle cry for what they really mean as 'free' as in no cost.
You realize that NASA works with lots of people to do what it does. It works with lots of universities and contractors at private companies...
They basically do what you say they should do already. They manage things for the most part, and do some stuff in house because they are the center point to it all and farming it out wouldn't be nearly as cost effective.
The current NASA is a government organization, not military. They work closely with the military, sure, but they do more civilian work than military.
Putting it all in one big pot allows for all the knowledge and experience to be shared rather than counting on a bunch of competing companies or individual universities fighting with each other to be the first. They help organize the effort and keep things from being tucked away at only one organization so everyone benefits from everyone elses work as much as possible.
We have rules governing the things you talk about... and NASA is the division with the knowledge to understand, implement and guide those rules.
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Save them from the end, death.
I was just thinking about this the other day. If I'm still mentally capable but unable to communicate or move, I think I still want to live.
I like to think and contemplate, which if I was still capable of doing so, I'd like to continue that rather than die. It'd be great if I could 'think' and then tell people, but I'd rather think and not tell people that to just be gone.
Its possible a solution could come in the future, and either way I have time to work on ascension. ;)
You're really look at it from the perspective of people surrounding the person on life support. Making it easier on everyone else, under the guise of being for the PVS person. This is clear from your lack of sympathy for those that may have been wrongly diagnosed. I understand being selfish, its natural, which is why I'd rather be kept alive. I'm selfish and want every opportunity I can possibly get to resolve the issue some way other than my death, even if its hard on my family.
Yes, the universities are wrong for trying to uphold the law.
WTF
Don't like the law? CHANGE IT, don't bitch at people following the rules.
The problem isn't that 'the world is a bad place' its the exact opposite. People today, participating in studies like this have almost no reason to be depressed, life isn't hard anymore. As such, without anything to focus on and any problems to work through, our brains create problems to deal with.
The brain has evolved to deal with dangers, we've taken those dangers away and the brain isn't used to dealing with it, so it creates problems for itself.
Previously it didn't have time to sit around and be moppy, it was more concerned with finding food or not getting killed by something that was actually bad.
The idea that the world is some how worse today than even a hundred years ago shows a complete disconnection from reality. Life expectancies are longer, not shorter, which completely contradicts the 'the world is bad' idea.
NT ran on multiple architectures in the past, and I've personally ran old PowerPC software on x86 and x86 software on the Alpha processor without ever seeing the source. Thats just my experience, and certainly not the only examples.
Its not something new, its been done multiple times by multiple vendors over several different types of hardware. Apple and Microsoft have both done it. Saying that MS can't do it now is silly, they've already done it in the past.
Yea, its not like anyone else recently has moved their entire OS and application set to another processor architecture and provided backwards compatibility ...
If only there was a reference model of someone else doing it ...
It can be done, Apple did it, without recompiling 3rd party software. They weren't the first. NT ran on other architectures before, and there was a time when running x86 on an Alpha was as simply as starting the software and letting the system software handle porting it to the new processor architecture.
In short, your reason for it not happening is bogus and there are examples to show its bogus. Some old examples and some recent.
Uhm, to you and the GP ... you do realize MS already has software that runs on ARM processors ... RIGHT?
Win7 isn't running on ARM because THAT WOULD BE FREAKING RETARDED. They have a compact/embedded OS for this, just like all the other people who are successful at using ARM processors for end users.
Only an idiot would want their desktop OS ported to a device that is clearly NOT a desktop device.
I've seen several WinCE devices in the wild, never seen an n900 outside of a store. CE may look childish, but its still a hell of a lot more popular, theres a reason.
The API isn't THAT much smaller, and a full API isn't needed on a compact device. In case you haven't noticed, the devices that are owning the market right now are reduced versions of their desktop brothers. Doesn't seem that the majority of people prefer the full thing over the reduced version
Because thats what makes a hardware/software package useful ... that you can compile a bunch of desktop software for a device that isn't a desktop. Just recompiling an app isn't all there is to it, regardless of what you think. A desktop app running on a small device, even a netbook, starts to get shitty since the screen real estate isn't the same.
The fundamental problem here is that the people using Linux in their smaller offerings are using it because they are cheaping out. Its not Linux's fault, but its a side effect of being free. They are trying to piggy back on everyone elses work to increase their profit margin, which in general is fine. The problem is that they are cheaping out everywhere. Half ass hacks or recompiles of full desktop applications aren't that good on tiny displays like a netbook or phone, yet thats what they keep trying to do. Most Linux based devices on the market are 'we put in as absolutely little investment of money and time into the product as possible and expect it to rule the world, even beating out other devices where have much more energy and thought put into them. /me waits for the troll mod since I didn't paint Linux as the end all solution to everything.
The battery in your old laptop isn't working well anymore? NO FREAKING WAY?!
Its entirely possible that your battery failed, they do that sometimes, and a lot of times act just like you're describing ...
Battered Wife Syndrome is a problem on both sides, not one.
Bullying can certainly be one way as the kid has no escape path. He/She is forced to go to school by parents/law/whatever.
A battered wife has several methods to get out if she wants to. It has nothing to do with being female either, there are battered husbands.
Sometimes the 'victim' is the one at fault, even if it doesn't appear that way at first glance. You can whine, bitch and moan and tell everyone how wrong it is all day long, whatever you need to do to make yourself sleep at night, but sometimes thats just the way it is.
So you're claiming you punched him hard enough to break your hand, but you describe it as pushing the knuckle back ... sorry, not buying it. You'd have known it was broken when the pain didn't go away and had described it as such.
Interestingly enough, I think my dad told me that exact same story after getting bullied myself.
You got beat up a lot when you were a kid, didn't you?
The part you quoted is rather untrue.
Right up until they old down the power and home button for a few seconds and wipe the device. Plug it in to the PC, restore, done.
This isn't a vulnerability in the phone, it is be design.
You can argue that its a design flaw, but its a direct result of features requested by users. Everything about this exploit is a direct result of requests from businesses and users. If Apple 'locked it down' to make it safer, we'd end up with everyone bitching about it being closed and under apples control like the AppStore whining.
It has EVERYTHING to do with SSL. It points out the weakness in the system. Root certificate authorities are part of the SSL ecosystem, without root CAs SSL is effectively useless.
With shitty root authorities, like VeriSign, SSL is effectively worthless.
Someone needs to wipe them and network solutions off the face of the Earth.
Port it. All the required tools are free, I'm pretty sure the Windows DDK is free as well. I get it from an MSDN subscription so I haven't actually tried to find it without one, but I seem to remember it being there if you look for it.
You have the source for a Linux driver, shouldn't be that hard to port it for someone who understands the WDDM model, or hell the 2000/XP model since the this driver isn't accelerated anyway.
The windows drivers are shit too.
I supported ATI for a good while, but the quality of their drivers is so horrible that I refuse to have anything to do with them anymore. I'd rather use a crappy intel integrated chip with stable drivers than the crap ATI pedals.
At least the OSS driver may be more stable since others can contribute fixes.
I'd bet the OSS driver is more useful to ATI for bug fixes than anything else, and wouldn't be entirely surprised if it became the base for their internal closed drivers as well.
Yet another shining example of why changing the UI for no actual reason is a retarded idea. Theres no reason to not use a key and keeping the same traditional operations as the key has always had.
And that generally requires an excessive amount of force which most drivers won't apply. Transmissions now days are pretty good at preventing themselves from being damaged just by their design. Mine for instances simply will not sync up when the RPMs are too high for the gear I'm trying to go into. I can not push it into that gear regardless of the amount of pressure I apply.
Off and Lock are generally two different positions, even if you aren't aware of it, you can turn the car off without reaching the lock position, which is where you can remove the key and engage the steering wheel lock. Some cars even have measures in place to prevent the lock from engaging until the car is placed in park so even if you turn the key to lock, it won't lock while in drive/reverse/neutral, only park.
You won't loose brakes as long as the engine is turning over, which it will as long as its in gear even with an automatic transmission above about 20mph, and even then you'll still have some built up braking boost, generally more than enough to stop from even a high speed.
Yyou turn the engine off, and use the lowest gear possible. You'll still have every other powered system in your car working because they all derive power from the engine turning over or from the battery power itself. Power brakes are vacuum assisted from crank case pressure differential that exists as long as the crackshaft is turning and you have intact pistons. Power steering is directly powered by belt/gear/chain connected to the drive shaft. Battery is still there to power all electrical options.
Please don't give advice about things you aren't actually all that knowledgeable about.
What you were experiencing was the engine down shifting to try and accelerate to the speed you had told it to go to. When in the higher gear it couldn't accelerate fast enough so you kept hitting the button, so it was set to a much higher speed than you actually wanted. Then it changed gears and had the additional power and accelerated quickly towards its target speed.
Your problem was a user issue. The same problem still exists in cars today.
Interestingly enough, the Firestore issue wasn't really a problem. The tires were rated for a specific speed, and the drivers went long distances well above that speed in harsh conditions.
The were driven out of spec by idiots in large SUVs who had no business driving in the first place.
They made changes to the tires used anyway, but it doesn't change the fact that the problem was the driver running the tire well outside its spec'd rating, not just poor quality tires.
That ordeal is roughly the same as blaming AMD because you overclocked/overvolted your CPU by 50% on both and it went up in a small puff of smoke.
I have a really hard time believing this story. 97 in a Prius? Was he being pushed by another car? Falling off a cliff? Have a 200mph tail wind in a hurricane?
He'd run out of gas before he got to 97 in a Prius under normal means.
Its not that no one knows, its that no one cares.
Not everyone agrees with your idea of useful, and it is their store.
Do you bitch that walmart doesn't sell music with explicit lyrics? Are you even aware of that?
Of course they aren't the only place to buy music, but they were until recently the largest source.
The reason no one cares about that little app being rejected is well ... it had no significant value.
The percentage of rejected apps for any reason is so small its hardly worth noting that apps get rejected. As long as it stays that way, no one is going to give a shit in general.
You call it rationalizing, which is entirely correct. When you look at it from a rational point of view, its really not a big deal like you make it out to be.
Yea, its not like they can just opt to make a closed source plugin or anything ... this is a bullshit excuse, and considering how little momentum Firefox has at the moment, I wouldn't even worry if its not supported.
If your licensing model prevents you from working with other software then its your problem. If everyone else can play by those rules and you can't, its your problem, not theirs.
The only reason you've given is 'its not open source'. I don't recall anything anywhere in Mozilla's licensing that prevents you from joining it with closed source software. I know for a fact that there isn't any such restriction as I and many other software developers use Gecko in closed source software, Mozilla even has a nice list of some rather well known closed source software packages that use Gecko.
If you require OSS and can't make an exception then it sounds like you have a problem, not everyone else.
I prefer OSS if all other things are equal, but I don't let some retarded philosophy rule me. I use the right tool for the job, if its open source, AWESOME. If its not, well that sucks, but lets be realistic, 99.9999999999999999999% of the people using open source get no value from the 'open' part of it. VERY VERY few people actually bother to make patches or add features themselves, most people just use it and the OSS part is just a battle cry for what they really mean as 'free' as in no cost.
You realize that NASA works with lots of people to do what it does. It works with lots of universities and contractors at private companies ...
They basically do what you say they should do already. They manage things for the most part, and do some stuff in house because they are the center point to it all and farming it out wouldn't be nearly as cost effective.
The current NASA is a government organization, not military. They work closely with the military, sure, but they do more civilian work than military.
Putting it all in one big pot allows for all the knowledge and experience to be shared rather than counting on a bunch of competing companies or individual universities fighting with each other to be the first. They help organize the effort and keep things from being tucked away at only one organization so everyone benefits from everyone elses work as much as possible.
We have rules governing the things you talk about ... and NASA is the division with the knowledge to understand, implement and guide those rules.