No, I'm not suggesting that they are born like that, but that they may build up these emotions via constant input and lack moderate judgement. It is certainly not the one point information out of the internet that suddenly turns s.o. into a murder, while that s.o was a fine balanced personality, who happily discussed all disagreements he had before in an objective manner. What I wanted to point out, was the simplicity of the argument, that one cause (here the internet) is to blame for an outbreak of lethal violance.
and communicated to rational free thinking individuals.
When they participate in an atrocity, I don't belive that their thinking is in any way rational.
Great argument! Sure the one that kills somebody from a minority does so only because he saw sth on the internet. Not that he had some prejustice before, not that he was full of hatred before, not that he stepped over a line by even thinking of killing somebody, no matter whether that somebody belongs to a minority.
Blame that tube thingi aaahh, intranet or what's it called again?
I'm not sure if I really understand the topic, may be it's related solely to software development training where I can't say very much to, as I'm working in life science. But isn't the quality of most training and teaching heavily dependent on the trainer/teacher and the better he/she is the better the lesson/training is.
If you really believe that the people you train will take over your job, than what is it, that makes you a good trainer? Just the material you provided? Shoudn't you have methods to transmit your knowledge that goes beyond a powerpoint presentation and a flip chart? When I remember my university career, the lectures or practica that where given with enthusiasm and that tried to create an interest in the subject were the ones that sticked in your mind, so to say.
When I give a lecture and the people ask me for my presentation, what should I be afraid of? Did they worked in this field as long as I did? Do they want to become a trainer or teacher? Well, it takes an effort to be a good trainer and who cares about the bad ones?
Ok, slight misunderstanding, but as you used the IPv4 to IPv6 transition as an example, look how fast the transition from "normal" HTML to active content was. Once there is the technology to transfer your sides into a new form, guess how long it will take for a transition.
IPv4 to IPv6 is something behind the scences, in which nobody is interested, or do you believe your grandma will use an operating system, because it uses IPv6 addressing internally?
Sure the content will not go away, but the way it's going to be presented will change and it is changing every moment (Flash anybody?)
Yes, but obviously you're very young. The older ones may remember Wiliam Gibsons Neuromancer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer and we are still waiting for the plug to fight black ICE...
Yes, it will. When there is enough marketing behind it and you can make money out of it, it sure will. Aside, it's not that difficult to change something 2d to 3d (look at xgl under linux). Wether it is useable is not a point, after all we have 95% of all computers running windows...
I like it, yes it may have memory leaks, some browsers may be faster, but overall it is very stable (os x, linux and win versions in use), in an easy way extendable and at least for me , fast enough. The new version doesn't have that many changes, but what is it that you can change? Afterall it is a webbrowser and not an armed flying container ship on a red cross mission.
The restore session thingi works really nicely and the "list all tabs" button is a big help, as I have always >15 tabs open.
Their body is dead, the question is now, what is it that continues to exist and worse, what if there exist multiple copies of this "backup"? I would still argue, that your personality sits in your brain, so yes, I think this backup would be me, who else?
Not to mention, mutation accumulation is just one part of aging.
Glad that you said this. More important is the fact that you have to deal with a lot of cells, that don't divide at all anymore, guess who? Yep, you're right; the cells of the central nervous system, called brain. So, if you get a body that can renew, albeit from cells that accumulate mutations as they continue to divide, you still have the problem with the aging brain. Now, researcher have found that there are probably adult stem cells in the brain, but these ones don't get better by every division; while you may solve the problem with the telomerases, you can't exclude all natural sources of mutations:; alcohol, obesity, drugs, Xrays, gamma rays from the sun, natural radioactivity from soil and air and more...
Conclusion? Improve information technology, such that you can do sooner or later a "brain dump" and have a backup you can transfer to your newly grown body. Oh, and don't open source it:-)
1) A single huge textbox for entering search criteria. Preferably filling the whole screen.
2) Text slowly appearing on screen, preferably one letter at a time with a blipping noise.
3) As the search is being performed, all records must flash by the screen.
4) If no match, the words NO MATCH must fill the screen, preferably on a multicolored flashing background.
5) A records must fill exactly one screen. No scrolling or paging allowed.
Yes, and what is it that you find unrealistic?
1) the inability of police officers to type, unless they see what they are doing on the screen?
2) the police computer equipment being overaged?
3) see 2)
4) reading capabilities that match the equipment?
5)scrolling, what's scrolling (see 2) )
Independence War and Unreal Tournament, the last one because of the assault mode. Those were the games that had a great game play and also either fast paced action or a fantastic atmosphere (Independence War and System Shock)
Most of the people think, that CO2 just rises the average temerature and even this is doubted. Spare me your arguments whether this is the case and if it is man made.
When I was studying, we had a course in plant physiology discussing CO2 levels and the impact on plant growth and how they can cope with changing CO2 levels. While in general it has been shown, that the amount of biomass per area increases up to 40% with doubled CO2 levels it has also been shown, that the ratio between carbohydrates and other nutrients in the plants changes as well and as expected. In other words; insects,animals and humans have to eat a lot more of these plans to get the same amount of e.g. selenium, chromium and others. While humans can supplement their food with vitamins and trace elements( at least in the western world) animals haven't developed these capabilities so far and may not even know about this problem.
Another impact on plant physiology is the number of stomata with which the plants exchange gas, heat and water with the environment. Increasing CO2 levels lead to the reduction of the numbers of stomata, which in turn makes the plants more sensitiv for "rapid" climate change.
Just two examples, but if you look, you can certainly find a lot more on these issues. There is a lot of fun coming up and most important, if one doesn't understand what is possibly changing or doesn't care, because we can easily solve the problems we create, it will cost lots of money...
... who got older and dropped the free software principles in exchange for the usual "let's get rich coding something obvious" philosophy.
I couldn't find that in the article, is this your personal inside information, did you talk to him or are you just asuming it, as it is so easy to interpret decisions in a way that fulfills your own prejudices.
No, that shouldn't be trolling. If you define a certain amount of RAM, as the available RAM, but keep the remaining as "swap", you circumvent the copy to the hard drive, but you still have a buffer (know to the system as swap). If you start a new application, that would demand most of the "physical" RAM.
Sure you need a lot of RAM, but that's cheap right?
If RAM is so cheap, why not buy twice the amount you need, set up a virtual drive and use this as a swap partition. Not really sure whether linux allows it, but it would combine the advantages of both worlds, right?
And it shouldn't be a data safety issue, as swap isn't considered written to the hard drive, right?
Thanks for the numbers, that was exactly what I was asking myself, how far is Jupiter weight off from the limit. Now, what's the difference between a brown dwarf and a massive Planet? Just the way the became into existence or is every massive object close to a star considered as a planet and if it is by its own a brown dwarf?
It might be handy to have a microbiologist on hand if mold gets out of control at the base or somesuch
Show me a microbiologist who can help if sth. is out of control, aside that's for the testrun in the arctic as far as I understood and there is plenty of life, so you don't know whether you introduced some or if it was there beforehand. Of cause you could use genetically modified organism and trace them, but if they get loose you may get into trouble here on earth as well...
Psychologists are always a part of the mission team but are usually kept planetside. (i.e. they do their job from "Houston.")
Fine, but if they are going to mars it would be handy to have somebody there, you know transmission delay, transmission interrupt, personal contact, these kind of stuff.
It is a Mars exploration, so far there isn't any life found, may be there was some several million years ago, but as a biologist I don't see any reason for any biologist be it molecular-, micro-, or Neurobiologist.
I do believe that the kids should learn about Scientist and how they work, however in todays world there is far too much emphasis on their personal life and their fame, than about their scientific work and what it made so special.
Rather then give them biographies to read, teach them how to do science and show this by explaining why a certain scientist became so famous, what was his methology, why was it such a big advance in his time.
What does a kid learn, if you give him a biography which is 90 % about the private life of this person and doesn't give any insight into the science the person did? If you read slashdot, you get the feeling that quite a lot of people don't know the difference between a theory and a theorem, why you should falsify and not verify a hypothesis, what a proof is and so on.
Tell them what it is, to become a scientist, that you have to devote your life to it, that this is the big difference between an outstanding scientist (apart from an outstanding intelligence) and the average worker. You need passion to do it...and you do it your whole life! It is not talent, it is hard work that often started in their early life.
...I throw away all my wired devices. I had one wireless mouse and it was completely useless. Either you had to recharge it every second day or you had to use AA batteries, nonsense.
So if all your devices by just being in a certain room getting charged wireless, I am willing to change to wireless connection between them. But, only if we get one and only one standard and hopefully it doesn't have a stupid name like greentow or rednail or something similar...
Slashdot Mirror
No, no, we use these words so often, because we see all this american films in original language and without any beeping noise...
:-)
Example? Blue Velvet...Sin City... and every film with Bruce Willis
How about this side: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Buckethead
When they participate in an atrocity, I don't belive that their thinking is in any way rational.
Great argument! Sure the one that kills somebody from a minority does so only because he saw sth on the internet. Not that he had some prejustice before, not that he was full of hatred before, not that he stepped over a line by even thinking of killing somebody, no matter whether that somebody belongs to a minority.
Blame that tube thingi aaahh, intranet or what's it called again?
I'm not sure if I really understand the topic, may be it's related solely to software development training where I can't say very much to, as I'm working in life science. But isn't the quality of most training and teaching heavily dependent on the trainer/teacher and the better he/she is the better the lesson/training is.
If you really believe that the people you train will take over your job, than what is it, that makes you a good trainer? Just the material you provided? Shoudn't you have methods to transmit your knowledge that goes beyond a powerpoint presentation and a flip chart? When I remember my university career, the lectures or practica that where given with enthusiasm and that tried to create an interest in the subject were the ones that sticked in your mind, so to say.
When I give a lecture and the people ask me for my presentation, what should I be afraid of? Did they worked in this field as long as I did? Do they want to become a trainer or teacher? Well, it takes an effort to be a good trainer and who cares about the bad ones?
Ok, slight misunderstanding, but as you used the IPv4 to IPv6 transition as an example, look how fast the transition from "normal" HTML to active content was. Once there is the technology to transfer your sides into a new form, guess how long it will take for a transition.
IPv4 to IPv6 is something behind the scences, in which nobody is interested, or do you believe your grandma will use an operating system, because it uses IPv6 addressing internally?
Sure the content will not go away, but the way it's going to be presented will change and it is changing every moment (Flash anybody?)
Yes, but obviously you're very young. The older ones may remember Wiliam Gibsons Neuromancer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer and we are still waiting for the plug to fight black ICE...
Yes, it will. When there is enough marketing behind it and you can make money out of it, it sure will. Aside, it's not that difficult to change something 2d to 3d (look at xgl under linux). Wether it is useable is not a point, after all we have 95% of all computers running windows...
I like it, yes it may have memory leaks, some browsers may be faster, but overall it is very stable (os x, linux and win versions in use), in an easy way extendable and at least for me , fast enough. The new version doesn't have that many changes, but what is it that you can change? Afterall it is a webbrowser and not an armed flying container ship on a red cross mission.
The restore session thingi works really nicely and the "list all tabs" button is a big help, as I have always >15 tabs open.
So, thanks a lot, whoever has worked on it
Their body is dead, the question is now, what is it that continues to exist and worse, what if there exist multiple copies of this "backup"? I would still argue, that your personality sits in your brain, so yes, I think this backup would be me, who else?
"Brave New World", already partially implemented
Glad that you said this. More important is the fact that you have to deal with a lot of cells, that don't divide at all anymore, guess who? Yep, you're right; the cells of the central nervous system, called brain. So, if you get a body that can renew, albeit from cells that accumulate mutations as they continue to divide, you still have the problem with the aging brain. Now, researcher have found that there are probably adult stem cells in the brain, but these ones don't get better by every division; while you may solve the problem with the telomerases, you can't exclude all natural sources of mutations:; alcohol, obesity, drugs, Xrays, gamma rays from the sun, natural radioactivity from soil and air and more...
Conclusion? Improve information technology, such that you can do sooner or later a "brain dump" and have a backup you can transfer to your newly grown body. Oh, and don't open source it
Yes, and what is it that you find unrealistic?
1) the inability of police officers to type, unless they see what they are doing on the screen?
2) the police computer equipment being overaged?
3) see 2)
4) reading capabilities that match the equipment?
5)scrolling, what's scrolling (see 2) )
I'm not sure if you're just trolling or haven't followed *nix desktop development. But there is a really cool 3d-desktop called xgl based on opengl
See here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgl
Independence War and Unreal Tournament, the last one because of the assault mode. Those were the games that had a great game play and also either fast paced action or a fantastic atmosphere (Independence War and System Shock)
Most of the people think, that CO2 just rises the average temerature and even this is doubted. Spare me your arguments whether this is the case and if it is man made.
e rer-plantchem/
When I was studying, we had a course in plant physiology discussing CO2 levels and the impact on plant growth and how they can cope with changing CO2 levels. While in general it has been shown, that the amount of biomass per area increases up to 40% with doubled CO2 levels it has also been shown, that the ratio between carbohydrates and other nutrients in the plants changes as well and as expected. In other words; insects,animals and humans have to eat a lot more of these plans to get the same amount of e.g. selenium, chromium and others. While humans can supplement their food with vitamins and trace elements( at least in the western world) animals haven't developed these capabilities so far and may not even know about this problem.
See here: http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/07/12/sch
Another impact on plant physiology is the number of stomata with which the plants exchange gas, heat and water with the environment. Increasing CO2 levels lead to the reduction of the numbers of stomata, which in turn makes the plants more sensitiv for "rapid" climate change.
See here: http://www.ucd.ie/cabinets/exhibit1.html/
Just two examples, but if you look, you can certainly find a lot more on these issues. There is a lot of fun coming up and most important, if one doesn't understand what is possibly changing or doesn't care, because we can easily solve the problems we create, it will cost lots of money...
I couldn't find that in the article, is this your personal inside information, did you talk to him or are you just asuming it, as it is so easy to interpret decisions in a way that fulfills your own prejudices.
No, that shouldn't be trolling. If you define a certain amount of RAM, as the available RAM, but keep the remaining as "swap", you circumvent the copy to the hard drive, but you still have a buffer (know to the system as swap). If you start a new application, that would demand most of the "physical" RAM.
Sure you need a lot of RAM, but that's cheap right?
If RAM is so cheap, why not buy twice the amount you need, set up a virtual drive and use this as a swap partition. Not really sure whether linux allows it, but it would combine the advantages of both worlds, right?
And it shouldn't be a data safety issue, as swap isn't considered written to the hard drive, right?
Any objections?
Thanks for the numbers, that was exactly what I was asking myself, how far is Jupiter weight off from the limit. Now, what's the difference between a brown dwarf and a massive Planet? Just the way the became into existence or is every massive object close to a star considered as a planet and if it is by its own a brown dwarf?
Show me a microbiologist who can help if sth. is out of control, aside that's for the testrun in the arctic as far as I understood and there is plenty of life, so you don't know whether you introduced some or if it was there beforehand. Of cause you could use genetically modified organism and trace them, but if they get loose you may get into trouble here on earth as well...
Fine, but if they are going to mars it would be handy to have somebody there, you know transmission delay, transmission interrupt, personal contact, these kind of stuff.
It is a Mars exploration, so far there isn't any life found, may be there was some several million years ago, but as a biologist I don't see any reason for any biologist be it molecular-, micro-, or Neurobiologist.
Certainly a psychologist would be more helpful...
I do believe that the kids should learn about Scientist and how they work, however in todays world there is far too much emphasis on their personal life and their fame, than about their scientific work and what it made so special. Rather then give them biographies to read, teach them how to do science and show this by explaining why a certain scientist became so famous, what was his methology, why was it such a big advance in his time.
What does a kid learn, if you give him a biography which is 90 % about the private life of this person and doesn't give any insight into the science the person did? If you read slashdot, you get the feeling that quite a lot of people don't know the difference between a theory and a theorem, why you should falsify and not verify a hypothesis, what a proof is and so on.
Tell them what it is, to become a scientist, that you have to devote your life to it, that this is the big difference between an outstanding scientist (apart from an outstanding intelligence) and the average worker. You need passion to do it...and you do it your whole life! It is not talent, it is hard work that often started in their early life.
...I throw away all my wired devices. I had one wireless mouse and it was completely useless. Either you had to recharge it every second day or you had to use AA batteries, nonsense.
So if all your devices by just being in a certain room getting charged wireless, I am willing to change to wireless connection between them. But, only if we get one and only one standard and hopefully it doesn't have a stupid name like greentow or rednail or something similar...
You do realize, that this is slashdot, not MyTube...