Thanks, you really summed up my response to the submitter, which would have been along the lines of, "What makes you think that we will ever NOT have nuclear weapons?"
Maybe the tipping point that Bill Gates worries about is when enough people are out of work, they notice who has all of the money and have the skills and motivation to do something about it
In the old 'world of the future' exhibits they prophecized that we would have machines doing the work for us and that all humans would enjoy more leisure time
We end up with is the masses being commoditized out of jobs and the wealthy reaping all of the benefits
What happened to get us all to sell ourselves out so cheaply and willingly accept the idea that a few bastards should end up with the bulk of the nations wealth while our children are faced with a future with no jobs and parents whose retirement funds cannot pay to take care of them?
In 'Brewster's Millions', Richard Pryor runs for office to waste a lot of money and has his election motto be, 'Vote for none of the above', but he throws the election because the major plot point is that he needs to be penniless to inherit his fortune and the salary of office would blow it
Then there was 'Dave' where an actor is a stand in for a President who dies, then finally fakes his own death to get eh right person into office.
There still seems to be something out there that is closer to what you are mentioning but it isn't ringing a bell right now. If we are not careful Adam Sandler will use it as a plot for a movie
If I wanted to put forward a game that pushed the limits of home gaming (at the time) it would have to be Commander Keen, followed quickly by Wolfenstein
More likely, somebody's "thesis on impact of biological factors of equine performance" was not as substantial as they may have thought
What is that Scientific Method again? Form hypothesis, test, prove/disprove, reconsider...
I think that they are at the reconsider step in regards to their hypothesis, but the scientific method works just fine as long as nobody assumes that a hypothesis is some unalterable biblical truth
For all of their 'science' and use of terms like centrifugal, their thesis was ultimately flawed, then they go and try and blame 'science' as being flawed when, in fact, it was the author of the article that seems to have failed to understand the variables involved
Sure it is part of popular culture, and certainly it is an awesome accomplishment, but linking to some article where an imbecile demonstrates their complete lack of understanding of the scientific method, or has the gumption to recognize their flawed thesis...
Nice summary, but beyond the intention that all Java implementations be 100% compatible, Sun released much of Java under GNU GPL in 2006. I will admit up front that I tried to read the GNU licensing back in the early 90's and I found it to be such a tar-pit-trap of self referencing and whole creation of terminology that I have felt ill towards Stallman ever since
I believe that this litigation may be the ultimate dissection of the GNU GPL and I am more than interested in seeing how the Supreme Court parses it all out. While I totally agree with you that the intent of Oracle may be for compatibility, the intent of the GPL certainly supports modification as long as the modified code continues to support the GPL
President Carter moved the US away from using breeder reactor technology because the US had an abundant supply of coal
This reflected a failure to recognize the need to sequester the carbon from the CO2 emissions, which made coal power seem to cost less than nuclear
The continued failure to recognize the true cost of coal, as well as any fossil fuel, is the only reason that business has not supported nuclear power
If we recognize the true costs of fossil fuels, nuclear power becomes the clear winner, at least for the next 100 years during which we can develop power sources with even less impact
We cannot afford the impact to climate that another 100 years of fossil fuel use would cause
...and I have read that we cannot clone mastodons because the 10,000 years that the DNA has sat in a frozen dry environment has caused too many data errors
a millions years... good luck. You are either expecting very long telomeres to be fixing it during replication or having it stored near absolute zero
I live surrounded by hundreds of miles of desert, I could drive until my tank is dry and still see nothing but desert
If everything goes to shit I would want to be able to gain access to information about how to survive better, how to make antibiotics, where to get drinkable water, what plants to eat, how to mine and refine metals, maybe even how to operate a small number of electronic devices and repair them
What people's opinions were, what deities they worshiped and why they went to war could be used for heat on a cold night if it was in a format that could be used that way.
Eventually, my descendents or myself may want to learn calculus, perform surgery and generate power from the sun or radioactive fuels. It would be really handy to have a durable means to store that information that I could retrieve without having to completely rebuild an advanced technological society first
Fossil fuels have certainly powered our advancement into a complex industrial society However, staying on them to the point that it alters the climate that we depend on is not beneficial We need to get off of the teat so to speak and step up to sources of power that have less negative impact on ourselves
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Thanks, you really summed up my response to the submitter, which would have been along the lines of, "What makes you think that we will ever NOT have nuclear weapons?"
For the very reasons that you mention
Trust, it takes a long time to build and just a few seconds to destroy
Maybe the tipping point that Bill Gates worries about is when enough people are out of work, they notice who has all of the money and have the skills and motivation to do something about it
In the old 'world of the future' exhibits they prophecized that we would have machines doing the work for us and that all humans would enjoy more leisure time
We end up with is the masses being commoditized out of jobs and the wealthy reaping all of the benefits
What happened to get us all to sell ourselves out so cheaply and willingly accept the idea that a few bastards should end up with the bulk of the nations wealth while our children are faced with a future with no jobs and parents whose retirement funds cannot pay to take care of them?
Dystopia? We are living it and don't even see it
I wonder what effect it would have had in recent cases where posters were held liable for making threats towards sitting judiciary
You should see the 'preening' that goes on in the Discus forums. The EU would be pleased
That seems like a stretch
Either the demographic of /. has changed dramatically or simply clickbait
I have not read InfoWorld in a while, but I was kinda surprised that they would be the source of such a, *ahem*, mundane article
In 'Brewster's Millions', Richard Pryor runs for office to waste a lot of money and has his election motto be, 'Vote for none of the above', but he throws the election because the major plot point is that he needs to be penniless to inherit his fortune and the salary of office would blow it
Then there was 'Dave' where an actor is a stand in for a President who dies, then finally fakes his own death to get eh right person into office.
There still seems to be something out there that is closer to what you are mentioning but it isn't ringing a bell right now. If we are not careful Adam Sandler will use it as a plot for a movie
Rollerball
It brought it to common desktop computers
If I wanted to put forward a game that pushed the limits of home gaming (at the time) it would have to be Commander Keen, followed quickly by Wolfenstein
More likely, somebody's "thesis on impact of biological factors of equine performance" was not as substantial as they may have thought
What is that Scientific Method again? Form hypothesis, test, prove/disprove, reconsider...
I think that they are at the reconsider step in regards to their hypothesis, but the scientific method works just fine as long as nobody assumes that a hypothesis is some unalterable biblical truth
Just irritated that some lame-o blames having a poor thesis on 'science' being wrong
Yeah, but...
For all of their 'science' and use of terms like centrifugal, their thesis was ultimately flawed, then they go and try and blame 'science' as being flawed when, in fact, it was the author of the article that seems to have failed to understand the variables involved
Sure it is part of popular culture, and certainly it is an awesome accomplishment, but linking to some article where an imbecile demonstrates their complete lack of understanding of the scientific method, or has the gumption to recognize their flawed thesis...
lame
but, but... Science!
... delicious jelly or Boston creme?
I dunno, could it be expressed in patterns of camouflage or foliage?
Nice summary, but beyond the intention that all Java implementations be 100% compatible, Sun released much of Java under GNU GPL in 2006.
I will admit up front that I tried to read the GNU licensing back in the early 90's and I found it to be such a tar-pit-trap of self referencing and whole creation of terminology that I have felt ill towards Stallman ever since
I believe that this litigation may be the ultimate dissection of the GNU GPL and I am more than interested in seeing how the Supreme Court parses it all out.
While I totally agree with you that the intent of Oracle may be for compatibility, the intent of the GPL certainly supports modification as long as the modified code continues to support the GPL
President Carter moved the US away from using breeder reactor technology because the US had an abundant supply of coal
This reflected a failure to recognize the need to sequester the carbon from the CO2 emissions, which made coal power seem to cost less than nuclear
The continued failure to recognize the true cost of coal, as well as any fossil fuel, is the only reason that business has not supported nuclear power
If we recognize the true costs of fossil fuels, nuclear power becomes the clear winner, at least for the next 100 years during which we can develop power sources with even less impact
We cannot afford the impact to climate that another 100 years of fossil fuel use would cause
...and I have read that we cannot clone mastodons because the 10,000 years that the DNA has sat in a frozen dry environment has caused too many data errors
a millions years... good luck. You are either expecting very long telomeres to be fixing it during replication or having it stored near absolute zero
I live surrounded by hundreds of miles of desert, I could drive until my tank is dry and still see nothing but desert
If everything goes to shit I would want to be able to gain access to information about how to survive better, how to make antibiotics, where to get drinkable water, what plants to eat, how to mine and refine metals, maybe even how to operate a small number of electronic devices and repair them
What people's opinions were, what deities they worshiped and why they went to war could be used for heat on a cold night if it was in a format that could be used that way.
Eventually, my descendents or myself may want to learn calculus, perform surgery and generate power from the sun or radioactive fuels. It would be really handy to have a durable means to store that information that I could retrieve without having to completely rebuild an advanced technological society first
Yeah, I saw it on Futurama
http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki...
http://longnow.org/
DNA mutates when alive and degrades when dead, there have to be other options
Fossil fuels have certainly powered our advancement into a complex industrial society
However, staying on them to the point that it alters the climate that we depend on is not beneficial
We need to get off of the teat so to speak and step up to sources of power that have less negative impact on ourselves