All my systems are Linux, why should I have to pay even one cent because Micro$oft can't get their F'ing act together and J. Sixpack McPornbrowser is an idiot?
While the OP may be off base in the "energy" regard they do have a point, if we stop using antibiotics then germs not resistant have a chance to survive and displace those with resistance.
Here is something to think about, an infection/parasite that kills its host is a failure, since its genetic line does not continue unless it can find a new host within its window of survival time after the original host dies. So these "super germs" may kill off their host but they also ensure that their specific genetic line, plus any little tricks/resistances they may have developed in the current host are most likely lost.
Meanwhile the non-resistant germs would continue to exist and may, through the sharing of genetic information that sometimes occurs between bacteria end up reducing or even eliminating the current levels of resistance.
I may be wrong as I am not a micro biologist but what I can remember from biology class indicates that what I've described is possible.
Unfortunatly it also means that some other way has to be found to keep these bugs from killing people, maybe through the use of bacteriophage based treatments or other methods, I don't know since I'm not a doctor either.
4 times the yield per acre than trees, only takes one season while trees take years, needs no fertilizers or insecticides, very low THC levels.
I leave the Googling to those interested in knowing more, those not interested wouldn't follow the link anyway having bought into the fear mongering media hype about it.
cue lame jokes about getting high smoking it, tho industrial hemp will only give you a head ache if you do.
There's no reason that a Foundation movie (to stay in-genre) shouldn't be at least as thought provoking as, say, Blade Runner.
That is so true. And just like Blade Runner what would matter was the story and characters. The FX in Blade Runner was just to show a dis-Utopian future in the background, not to blow the audience out of there seats.
IMNSHO, The Foundation could be a movie of Blade Runner caliber, the kind that people still talk about 20 years after release.
Unfortunatly what we are more likely to get is another Starship Trouper type where the story and its message was thrown out to make room for CGI bugs, space ships getting blown in half and bodies hitting the window of the shuttle, ALL IN GLORIOUS 3D!!.
If its the latter I think I'll save my money for something else.
The great part about this move is that the more MS inconveniences people the more people will start looking for alternatives. The more people looking for alternatives the more likely that software/hardware companies will start supporting those alternatives as potential markets.
From your comment it seems that if your conditions were met you would ditch MS for an affordable alternative.
My 2 Yen, MS is killing itself with this kind of behavior, it won't die anytime soon but it will loose its dominance in the market. Thats how it always is with nations/corporations/celebrities, they rise, they dominate their market, they decline/fall.
Egypt, Rome, The Persian Empire, Buggy whip makers, Railroads, Laural and Hardy, Valentino, Hulk Hogan, all had their time, then faded into memory.
Superior or not it doesn't change the fact that its not free.
MPEG LA can start charging as much as they think they can get away with in 2016, or sooner if they choose, as they can likely change their license when and as the choose.
This guy wants to disrupt, discredit and distract chat groups, message boards and blogs dealing with stuff like 9/11 being an inside job and other "conspiracy theory's".
"The problem may be that you are trying to apply GR behind the event horizon." Exactly, GR doesn't work. Thats why a re-think is needed.
"...the fact that I can't grok them after months of study implies to me that they are nothing but red herrings." So if you don't get something it doesn't exist? Sounds similar to the mind set that came up with dark matter so GR would match observations, because GR can't be wrong.
"Who cares if black holes destroy information?" Your right, Steven Hawking and many of the greatest minds in cosmology have wasted the last 15+ years working on the information loss issue.
Yep, I read an article about the Casimir Effect back in the mid 80's and it also talked about the "push/shadow" gravity concept. Funny thing is I hadn't really spent much time thinking about it until recently when I started hearing about dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation being bandied about to explain the discrepancies between what GR says we should see/measure and what is actually being seen/measured.
Started me thinking about it all again and the more I thought the more push/shadow made sense.
I've come across several re-thinks of the current theory that gravity, currently believed to be a distortion of space/time caused by mass, is wrong. The current theory has some glitches in it, like black holes, dark matter and dark energy.
To get black holes to work you have to twiddle with general relativity and accept that values in a solution can by infinite in value, ie, density and gravity at the singularity. I think it was Einstein himself who said that if your math give you an infinite in your solution then there is something wrong in your math. Add in to that the issues about entropy and information loss, its ugly.
Dark matter is a kludge to get the math to match the observations. I think the reasoning goes something like this "The stuff around that galaxy acts like the galaxy is more massive than it looks according to how how gravity works, and since we KNOW EXACTLY how gravity works there must by something there that can't be detected, doesn't affect propagation of light or interact with anything else except through it's gravity. I know!! Dark Matter!!. I'll believe it when they detect it.
Then there is "Dark Energy", which has properties that are the exact opposite of dark matter, where dark matter has gravity and pulls dark energy is pushing everything away from everything else. Even Einstein ditched adding a "cosmological constant" into his equations, and the observations show that not only is it there but its not a constant, it has changing over time.
What makes more sense to me is if the force we call "gravity" is caused by tiny shock waves caused by some form of quantum event that acts just like a ripple on a pond, that is it imparts momentum to an object that is parallel to and with the same vector as its propagation, like a wave that pushes you in the direction it is traveling. On a macroscopic scale the field would appear smooth and continuous, sort of how dark energy is supposed to behave.
Since the events that cause the ripples occur everywhere if you are floating in space away from any mass then the total perceived effect would be zero since the waves coming from one direction would cancel out the force of waves from the opposite direction. But if you have a mass near you it would shield you from some of the waves on that side and the waves coming from the side without the mass would be a little stronger and push you towards the mass, the more mass the more it shields.
Looking at gravity this way might clear up some of the conundrums.
And a final point, the physics that got us to the moon and mars was mostly classic Newtonian. The math for Newtonian gravity works on a human scale, then we need Einsteinian gravity to explain the really big structures of the Universe but neither of them work at the quantum scale, which means that none of the equations are "The Answer", the Grand Unified Theory will be a step closer.
Try googling about the acceleration anomalies of Pioneer 10 and Allais effect, intersting reading.
Lets hope the bad guys don't watch "Invasion USA".
for those who have not seen it; lots of mercenaries sneak in the US, Start blowing up ferris wheels, little league fields,suburban homes, etc.,etc., Dress up as cops and shoot up a party in the Latin part of town, blow up a church in a black neighborhood and leave evidence pointing at white supremacists, etc.,etc., Chuck Norris saves the day.
IIRCC the magnetic poles of the Earth are sort of "weak spots" in the magnetosphere's protection against cosmic rays and charged particles from the sun, evidenced by the Auroras. If the pole moved over Russia won't that cause possible radiation/EMI issues?
Interesting site, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
However, it looks like its based on WINE and despite all the progress the WINE project has made in the last few years there are still applications and games that will not run, or run poorly, under WINE.
Until game/application companies start to provide versions of their games/apps that work natively on Linux this area will continue to be one of the holds up mass adoption of Linux.
FYI, I've been Linux only for over 3 years. Desktop, laptop and firewall all run Debian. I use WINE for some of my games, the rest run native and several I have wanted I do without because they will not work with Linux no mater what I do. And I send them emails letting them know why they have lost a sale.
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"... if the charges were discounted ..."
Fsck that, no charge or even better, a credit.
All my systems are Linux, why should I have to pay even one cent because Micro$oft can't get their F'ing act together and J. Sixpack McPornbrowser is an idiot?
"War of Terror"
Fixed that for you.
Both sides justify their dirty tactics by the existence of the other.
While the OP may be off base in the "energy" regard they do have a point, if we stop using antibiotics then germs not resistant have a chance to survive and displace those with resistance.
Here is something to think about, an infection/parasite that kills its host is a failure, since its genetic line does not continue unless it can find a new host within its window of survival time after the original host dies. So these "super germs" may kill off their host but they also ensure that their specific genetic line, plus any little tricks/resistances they may have developed in the current host are most likely lost.
Meanwhile the non-resistant germs would continue to exist and may, through the sharing of genetic information that sometimes occurs between bacteria end up reducing or even eliminating the current levels of resistance.
I may be wrong as I am not a micro biologist but what I can remember from biology class indicates that what I've described is possible.
Unfortunatly it also means that some other way has to be found to keep these bugs from killing people, maybe through the use of bacteriophage based treatments or other methods, I don't know since I'm not a doctor either.
Not all are Evil, most are just Chaotic Neutral.
Industrial Hemp.
4 times the yield per acre than trees, only takes one season while trees take years, needs no fertilizers or insecticides, very low THC levels.
I leave the Googling to those interested in knowing more, those not interested wouldn't follow the link anyway having bought into the fear mongering media hype about it.
cue lame jokes about getting high smoking it, tho industrial hemp will only give you a head ache if you do.
There's no reason that a Foundation movie (to stay in-genre) shouldn't be at least as thought provoking as, say, Blade Runner.
That is so true. And just like Blade Runner what would matter was the story and characters. The FX in Blade Runner was just to show a dis-Utopian future in the background, not to blow the audience out of there seats.
IMNSHO, The Foundation could be a movie of Blade Runner caliber, the kind that people still talk about 20 years after release.
Unfortunatly what we are more likely to get is another Starship Trouper type where the story and its message was thrown out to make room for CGI bugs, space ships getting blown in half and bodies hitting the window of the shuttle, ALL IN GLORIOUS 3D!!.
If its the latter I think I'll save my money for something else.
The great part about this move is that the more MS inconveniences people the more people will start looking for alternatives. The more people looking for alternatives the more likely that software/hardware companies will start supporting those alternatives as potential markets.
From your comment it seems that if your conditions were met you would ditch MS for an affordable alternative.
My 2 Yen, MS is killing itself with this kind of behavior, it won't die anytime soon but it will loose its dominance in the market. Thats how it always is with nations/corporations/celebrities, they rise, they dominate their market, they decline/fall.
Egypt, Rome, The Persian Empire, Buggy whip makers, Railroads, Laural and Hardy, Valentino, Hulk Hogan, all had their time, then faded into memory.
Its just a matter of time.
For now.
Superior or not it doesn't change the fact that its not free.
MPEG LA can start charging as much as they think they can get away with in 2016, or sooner if they choose, as they can likely change their license when and as the choose.
This guy wants to disrupt, discredit and distract chat groups, message boards and blogs dealing with stuff like 9/11 being an inside job and other "conspiracy theory's".
...
Makes me wonder what they are trying to hide
"The problem may be that you are trying to apply GR behind the event horizon."
Exactly, GR doesn't work. Thats why a re-think is needed.
"...the fact that I can't grok them after months of study implies to me that they are nothing but red herrings."
So if you don't get something it doesn't exist? Sounds similar to the mind set that came up with dark matter so GR would match observations, because GR can't be wrong.
"Who cares if black holes destroy information?"
Your right, Steven Hawking and many of the greatest minds in cosmology have wasted the last 15+ years working on the information loss issue.
Yep, I read an article about the Casimir Effect back in the mid 80's and it also talked about the "push/shadow" gravity concept. Funny thing is I hadn't really spent much time thinking about it until recently when I started hearing about dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation being bandied about to explain the discrepancies between what GR says we should see/measure and what is actually being seen/measured.
Started me thinking about it all again and the more I thought the more push/shadow made sense.
I've come across several re-thinks of the current theory that gravity, currently believed to be a distortion of space/time caused by mass, is wrong. The current theory has some glitches in it, like black holes, dark matter and dark energy.
To get black holes to work you have to twiddle with general relativity and accept that values in a solution can by infinite in value, ie, density and gravity at the singularity. I think it was Einstein himself who said that if your math give you an infinite in your solution then there is something wrong in your math. Add in to that the issues about entropy and information loss, its ugly.
Dark matter is a kludge to get the math to match the observations. I think the reasoning goes something like this "The stuff around that galaxy acts like the galaxy is more massive than it looks according to how how gravity works, and since we KNOW EXACTLY how gravity works there must by something there that can't be detected, doesn't affect propagation of light or interact with anything else except through it's gravity. I know!! Dark Matter!!. I'll believe it when they detect it.
Then there is "Dark Energy", which has properties that are the exact opposite of dark matter, where dark matter has gravity and pulls dark energy is pushing everything away from everything else. Even Einstein ditched adding a "cosmological constant" into his equations, and the observations show that not only is it there but its not a constant, it has changing over time.
What makes more sense to me is if the force we call "gravity" is caused by tiny shock waves caused by some form of quantum event that acts just like a ripple on a pond, that is it imparts momentum to an object that is parallel to and with the same vector as its propagation, like a wave that pushes you in the direction it is traveling. On a macroscopic scale the field would appear smooth and continuous, sort of how dark energy is supposed to behave.
Since the events that cause the ripples occur everywhere if you are floating in space away from any mass then the total perceived effect would be zero since the waves coming from one direction would cancel out the force of waves from the opposite direction. But if you have a mass near you it would shield you from some of the waves on that side and the waves coming from the side without the mass would be a little stronger and push you towards the mass, the more mass the more it shields.
Looking at gravity this way might clear up some of the conundrums.
And a final point, the physics that got us to the moon and mars was mostly classic Newtonian. The math for Newtonian gravity works on a human scale, then we need Einsteinian gravity to explain the really big structures of the Universe but neither of them work at the quantum scale, which means that none of the equations are "The Answer", the Grand Unified Theory will be a step closer.
Try googling about the acceleration anomalies of Pioneer 10 and Allais effect, intersting reading.
IIRCC some EULAs give the "authorized representatives" the authority to check your computers.
Good argument for GPL'd software.
An answer is a reply but a reply is not always an answer.
Unfortunately the people who need the wake up calls are not listening.
Lets hope the bad guys don't watch "Invasion USA".
for those who have not seen it;
lots of mercenaries sneak in the US,
Start blowing up ferris wheels, little league fields,suburban homes, etc.,etc.,
Dress up as cops and shoot up a party in the Latin part of town, blow up a church in a black neighborhood and leave evidence pointing at white supremacists, etc.,etc.,
Chuck Norris saves the day.
Only I don't think even Chuck could save us now.
Terrorism is the use of fear to bring about a social, political, or economic change.
Fixed that for ya.
Of course looked from that point of view most of the governments of the world are terrorists.
IIRCC the magnetic poles of the Earth are sort of "weak spots" in the magnetosphere's protection against cosmic rays and charged particles from the sun, evidenced by the Auroras. If the pole moved over Russia won't that cause possible radiation/EMI issues?
Interesting site, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
However, it looks like its based on WINE and despite all the progress the WINE project has made in the last few years there are still applications and games that will not run, or run poorly, under WINE.
Until game/application companies start to provide versions of their games/apps that work natively on Linux this area will continue to be one of the holds up mass adoption of Linux.
FYI, I've been Linux only for over 3 years.
Desktop, laptop and firewall all run Debian. I use WINE for some of my games, the rest run native and several I have wanted I do without because they will not work with Linux no mater what I do. And I send them emails letting them know why they have lost a sale.
so true.
Funny how in an effort to "protect" some people we prevent them from knowing of the dangers they face.
Still need the applications and games.
You do know that in the original version of Little Red Ridding hood there was no hunter/woodsman?
Also, this is one of the few times I would like /. to have a +10 insightful.
Dead on!!
I have been saying the same thing since 9/12/01.