Twitter/FB is unlikely to allow you to keep your postings up once they have determined that you're dead because you're taking up server resources that would be better spent on active people that generate more ad revenue. (How many people visit FB pages of dead people after a few weeks? My guess is 0).
If nobody visits the pages, they take no server resources save hard disk space, which is ridiculously cheap - a terabyte disk costs about a hundred dollars, which means that a megabyte-sized account takes up 0.01 cents worth of space. Even when you factor in backups and such, it's much better to simply keep them all for data mining purposes - after all, a dead person's profile might have valuable information about other living consumers, and a better algorithm that comes out next year might find it.
Now I've got a serious jones to reactivate my FB account just so I can do this 30-40 years from now!
You are making the assumption that you'll die before Facebook will. I sincerely doubt that. 30-40 years from now we'll be using a combination of P2P, artificial intelligence and embedded (in your brains) communication devices to do this social networking thing, not the clumsy and unreliable monolithic providers.
So... if I fail to find males sexually arousing, I'm a homophobic?
The grandparent said "The majority of men I know considers physical contact (as in sex) with other men as creepy and a total abomination" which sounds a bit more extreme than merely not being interested in such contact.
That's just the stupidest thing I've read this week, and I read slashdot daily.
Chimps might appear to be more primitive than humans, but they are just as evolutionarily distant from our common ancestor as we are.
Of course, modern-day bacteria are also just as evolutionarily distant from our common ancestor as we are, yet I'd say they are quite a bit more primitive than us.
There are many, many other issues to consider, such as environmental pressure or the lack thereof, and the difficulty of abstract thought before there were any abstractions - the bootstrap problem.
All animals with some kind of nervous system have abstractions. The whole point of a nervous system is summarize sensory input and decide on a course of action. What humans have is a means to communicate abstractions of arbitrary level from one to other; in other words, a symbolic language.
It's a weird relationship, but the end result is that the US still has the most advanced military, while China owns all the money and production capacity.
Which means China will have the most advanced military, while US's will fall behind and deteriorate. Military costs a lot to upkeep, especially if you rely on technological superiority instead of raw manpower.
Which would likely greatly reduce the likelihood of the very disaster that is otherwise inevitable, as well as greatly mitigating the consequences of that disaster.
Actually it will increase the likelihood of a disaster. Each habitat's chances of disaster are independent of each other, so the chance of disaster in a given time interval in at least one of them increases as their number goes up.
However, the consequences to the human race are indeed mitigated.
That's not a claim to Hawking-like intelligence on my behalf, but more a claim that neither of us are quite such dribbling idiots as a depressingly high proportion of the population.
Well you certainly didn't demonstrate it here, Dribble.
Microsoft added that for Vista. PulseAudio was close-behind, but I'm pretty sure Microsoft got the feature out the door first-- and definitely in a more stable form, considering how buggy PA was until recently.
For example, on my work computer my default configuration is email and browser in one workspace, IDE and other dev tools in another, testing environment in a third and a fourth workspace that gets used for whatever tasks I don't want cluttering up the other workspaces but aren't big enough things to create a new dedicated workspace for.
I see your 4 workspaces and rise to 12. All of which I'll have as soon as Linux has a native (FOSS) Radeon 9550 driver...
Yeah, Windows 7, you don't have any native multiple desktop support, now do you? Just a pathetic window grouping support. I dream of being free of you, just for that, I really do...
Or your distributor can plug in the best backend on your OS (yeah, they really might be different on Solaris, BSD, Linux, Windows and Mac) so that you can get sound from your speakers.
In other words, Linux and BSD are going to have different audio backends. Until BSD adopts ALSA, at least.
Not that any of this matters on modern processors. Sorry, Creative Labs, but the time of separate sound cards is long past, and Winamp seems to be taking 0 percent on my 4-core Intel i5. And, in fact, Ubuntu Linux works just fine through VirtualBox and Windows 7.
You don't see value in thinking about the consequences of various courses of action?
Theory without data is masturbation.
I always base my theories on data when possible, now matter how painful it might be. After all, if I don't, I'm simply deluding myself. Also, not thinking "what are the consequences if I do this" is just vile.
Mind you, I have no way of knowing if US army did this in either Iraq or Afghanistan. All I'm saying is that you should always take what-if scenarios into account in your plans, to the best of your ability. That's what planning means, after all.
Dunno what you're saying here if you don't agree, so I assume you do and simply assume I'm one of those Saddam-backers (who is probably be burning in some version of Hell right now, on the account of being a horrible human being - ousting him is the one good thing the US invasion of Iraq certainly did, if no other).
It's not like he's going to convince the Amnesty rep that what he's asking is entirely counter to their cause.
From what I've understood, what he's asking is manpower to remove names from the documents, so they could be published without endangering civilians.
You don't call a meeting so you can get someone to change your mind.
You might, if you have no special interests in the subject. For example, I might be willing to change my position that Java automatic memory management is far superior to C++ manual one in most cases, given sufficient evidence, since I own stock in neither.
Pragmatism isn't a positive, it's an unfortunate compromise with reality (not a perfect place to live).
Um... No. Pragmatism is the stance that stresses the utility of a solution over adherence to any particular ideology. A pragmatic solution is one that actually works; a pragmatic attitude is one which produces the best results. There's nothing unfortunate with that; if anything, it's the unpragmatic attitude that is unfortunate, since it tends to produce worse results (by definition).
Pragmatism is about getting the best possible result in the real world, as opposed to any hypothetical fantasy world. As such it's about how to get the best possible result, period, and should be encouraged, not condemned as "unfortunate compromise".
I'm sorry if I wondered off-topic, but it really annoys me when people - libertarians, I'm looking at you - make claims about the real world yet base their arguments on ideological fantasy worlds.
I laughed and explained to the two that the detainees have plumbing and a clean water supply, they also received 16x 40lb bags of ice each morning that they put into provided water coolers. I had neither of those things, i had a palette of bottled water dropped off by a forklift each week that sat in the sun.
Really? Your prisoners have plumbing yet you are relying on pre-bottled water? Either your supply officer is an idiot or you are lying.
I have more ICRC stories, if anyone is interested in hearing about people so blinded by the idea that the entire US Army was made up of those idiots in that Abu Ghraib travesty.
Well, you certainly make it seem so. That you're all idiots, I mean. Not necessarily malicious idiots, but idiots nonetheless: running plumbing to prison camp yet not extending it to the guards? Come on!
It seems that 1st world countries, the US in particular, hamstrings itself by trying to be nice while going to war. Now overall, I think that's a good thing, but it puts us at a disadvantage when fighting an enemy that has no such reservations.
On the contrary, it gives you the advantage, you just have to know how to make it work for you. Basically, you must make both your own people and the civilians in the war zone believe that you have the moral high ground. And the only way to do so is to actually have the moral high ground: no torture, no massive civilian casualties, good treatment of captured enemy troops, etc.
Basically, make it really obvious that you're the good guys, and you increase your own troops morale while decimating that of your enemies, and win the civilian population as an added bonus.
Who the heck watches happily, while government people cut off your wife's nose?
Muslims.
You know, try as I might, it's very, very difficult to not notice that nobody else does this kind of sick shit: not Christians, not Hindus, not Buddhists, not Shintoists, not Wiccans, not Jews, not Atheists, not Voodoo priests; Hell, not even Satanists do things like this. Always, always when you hear of such matters, it's Allah's fan club who's the culprit. Why is that? Any muslims here care to explain?
I'm trying very, very hard here to avoid racism, especially since I know a few Muslims who are apparently sane and simply want to rise their families in peace, so please, tell me: why are these things always associated with Islam? Is it that the sane ones are simply the ones who don't take their religion seriously? Or is it simply that good people interpret everything differently than bad people?
There is absolutely no benefit in knowing how to apply a finite state machine before you need to implement one.
Except, of course, that both the CPU and the GPU are finite-state machines. So are programs, for that matter. Finally, how do you know you need to implement a FSM if you don't know what one is?
The information is out there, and it is easily accessible at the exact moment you need it.
The information is out there, but finding it - and knowing you've found what you need - requires having a mental framework of the subject. You can find the details if you have a general idea of what you're doing, but if you don't...
However, the Internet can and will replicate all of this as soon as we perfect either direct neural interface virtual reality or remote-controlled robots.
Of coruse, since one of the functions of University is to help young people leave the nest, I'm not sure this is desirable.
But does it compress to an XML-based video format? Enterprise readiness requires mandatory methodical database, multi-tiered hybrid approach and total impactful emulation. And XML! Lots and lots and lots of XML! <THIS><[CDATA[!]]><IS><[CDATA[!]]><XML><[CDATA[!]]> </XML> </IS></THIS>
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If nobody visits the pages, they take no server resources save hard disk space, which is ridiculously cheap - a terabyte disk costs about a hundred dollars, which means that a megabyte-sized account takes up 0.01 cents worth of space. Even when you factor in backups and such, it's much better to simply keep them all for data mining purposes - after all, a dead person's profile might have valuable information about other living consumers, and a better algorithm that comes out next year might find it.
You are making the assumption that you'll die before Facebook will. I sincerely doubt that. 30-40 years from now we'll be using a combination of P2P, artificial intelligence and embedded (in your brains) communication devices to do this social networking thing, not the clumsy and unreliable monolithic providers.
No, I mean automatically assuming that anyone accused of sexual discrimination/harassment/rape/whatever is guilty without evidence. That is awful.
Yes, it's almost but not quite as stupid as your comment about buying a slave.
The grandparent said "The majority of men I know considers physical contact (as in sex) with other men as creepy and a total abomination" which sounds a bit more extreme than merely not being interested in such contact.
Try reading Fundies Say The Darndest Things and weep for humanity. WEEP!
That gives the Blue Screen of Death a whole new meaning.
Of course, modern-day bacteria are also just as evolutionarily distant from our common ancestor as we are, yet I'd say they are quite a bit more primitive than us.
All animals with some kind of nervous system have abstractions. The whole point of a nervous system is summarize sensory input and decide on a course of action. What humans have is a means to communicate abstractions of arbitrary level from one to other; in other words, a symbolic language.
Let me guess: You're a Libertarian?
It does. General relativity is pretty wild stuff.
Which means China will have the most advanced military, while US's will fall behind and deteriorate. Military costs a lot to upkeep, especially if you rely on technological superiority instead of raw manpower.
Actually it will increase the likelihood of a disaster. Each habitat's chances of disaster are independent of each other, so the chance of disaster in a given time interval in at least one of them increases as their number goes up.
However, the consequences to the human race are indeed mitigated.
Well you certainly didn't demonstrate it here, Dribble.
PulseAudio was worse than Vista? That's harsh!
I see your 4 workspaces and rise to 12. All of which I'll have as soon as Linux has a native (FOSS) Radeon 9550 driver...
Yeah, Windows 7, you don't have any native multiple desktop support, now do you? Just a pathetic window grouping support. I dream of being free of you, just for that, I really do...
In other words, Linux and BSD are going to have different audio backends. Until BSD adopts ALSA, at least.
Not that any of this matters on modern processors. Sorry, Creative Labs, but the time of separate sound cards is long past, and Winamp seems to be taking 0 percent on my 4-core Intel i5. And, in fact, Ubuntu Linux works just fine through VirtualBox and Windows 7.
I always base my theories on data when possible, now matter how painful it might be. After all, if I don't, I'm simply deluding myself. Also, not thinking "what are the consequences if I do this" is just vile.
Mind you, I have no way of knowing if US army did this in either Iraq or Afghanistan. All I'm saying is that you should always take what-if scenarios into account in your plans, to the best of your ability. That's what planning means, after all.
Dunno what you're saying here if you don't agree, so I assume you do and simply assume I'm one of those Saddam-backers (who is probably be burning in some version of Hell right now, on the account of being a horrible human being - ousting him is the one good thing the US invasion of Iraq certainly did, if no other).
From what I've understood, what he's asking is manpower to remove names from the documents, so they could be published without endangering civilians.
You might, if you have no special interests in the subject. For example, I might be willing to change my position that Java automatic memory management is far superior to C++ manual one in most cases, given sufficient evidence, since I own stock in neither.
Um... No. Pragmatism is the stance that stresses the utility of a solution over adherence to any particular ideology. A pragmatic solution is one that actually works; a pragmatic attitude is one which produces the best results. There's nothing unfortunate with that; if anything, it's the unpragmatic attitude that is unfortunate, since it tends to produce worse results (by definition).
Pragmatism is about getting the best possible result in the real world, as opposed to any hypothetical fantasy world. As such it's about how to get the best possible result, period, and should be encouraged, not condemned as "unfortunate compromise".
I'm sorry if I wondered off-topic, but it really annoys me when people - libertarians, I'm looking at you - make claims about the real world yet base their arguments on ideological fantasy worlds.
Really? Your prisoners have plumbing yet you are relying on pre-bottled water? Either your supply officer is an idiot or you are lying.
Well, you certainly make it seem so. That you're all idiots, I mean. Not necessarily malicious idiots, but idiots nonetheless: running plumbing to prison camp yet not extending it to the guards? Come on!
On the contrary, it gives you the advantage, you just have to know how to make it work for you. Basically, you must make both your own people and the civilians in the war zone believe that you have the moral high ground. And the only way to do so is to actually have the moral high ground: no torture, no massive civilian casualties, good treatment of captured enemy troops, etc.
Basically, make it really obvious that you're the good guys, and you increase your own troops morale while decimating that of your enemies, and win the civilian population as an added bonus.
Muslims.
You know, try as I might, it's very, very difficult to not notice that nobody else does this kind of sick shit: not Christians, not Hindus, not Buddhists, not Shintoists, not Wiccans, not Jews, not Atheists, not Voodoo priests; Hell, not even Satanists do things like this. Always, always when you hear of such matters, it's Allah's fan club who's the culprit. Why is that? Any muslims here care to explain?
I'm trying very, very hard here to avoid racism, especially since I know a few Muslims who are apparently sane and simply want to rise their families in peace, so please, tell me: why are these things always associated with Islam? Is it that the sane ones are simply the ones who don't take their religion seriously? Or is it simply that good people interpret everything differently than bad people?
Yes. Interesting...
You don't see value in thinking about the consequences of various courses of action?
These are questions that should be asked. In fact they must be asked, because the alternative is doing shit at random.
Except, of course, that both the CPU and the GPU are finite-state machines. So are programs, for that matter. Finally, how do you know you need to implement a FSM if you don't know what one is?
The information is out there, but finding it - and knowing you've found what you need - requires having a mental framework of the subject. You can find the details if you have a general idea of what you're doing, but if you don't...
However, the Internet can and will replicate all of this as soon as we perfect either direct neural interface virtual reality or remote-controlled robots.
Of coruse, since one of the functions of University is to help young people leave the nest, I'm not sure this is desirable.
But does it compress to an XML-based video format? Enterprise readiness requires mandatory methodical database, multi-tiered hybrid approach and total impactful emulation. And XML! Lots and lots and lots of XML! <THIS><[CDATA[!]]><IS><[CDATA[!]]><XML><[CDATA[!]]> </XML> </IS></THIS>