USB1,2,3 are pretty compatible. In one way only for USB3, but not totally different.
FW400,800 are also compatible enough.
eSATA is probably more of a niche product. Probably no one has this on their must-have!!1! list. It's marginally faster than USB2 for external drives only and few drives can steadily saturate a USB2 link at all. Until I'm not saying 480Mbps are enough for everyone, but enough to stop caring *that* much until SSDs become cheap enough to be an external commodity drive.
VGA is simply kept in a zombie state by ignorant users and overcautious companies. Use cases are respectively "I don't see any difference between analog and digital video and that VGA-only TFT was 0,10 EUR cheaper" and "My laptop must work with the most ancient projectors, the most ancient of cabling and the most ancient of users. Therefore VGA is a must".
DVI and HDMI are interchangeabled with an adapter available at 1000 eBay shops for less than 5 EUR incl. shipping. They're still gold plated, though.
DisplayPort are electrically incompatible to DVI and HDMI, but no one notices, since the video cards adapt to it. Apple fans will probably mod me down to hell, but DisplayPort is the reinvention of the wheel. A sleek and stylish wheel of course, and we totally, absolutely needed another connector for digital video that is electrically incompatible with DVI and HDMI. Since we only had 2 digital video standards to choose from. Maybe one of our Appolytes can enlighten me, but to me, it has no substantial advantages over HDMI.
Looking at the rest of the connectors on this Thinkpad, I spot 1 probably required Gb Ethernet port, 1 zombie Modem port that, since 3G internet, is probably never be used or needed again and 2 analog audio connectors in and out, that are as of yet indispensable.
Ethernet will probably survive for several decades, since no one will want to replace all those hectoparsecs of wiring or carry around a USB-Ethernet dongle. Paranoid companies will not switch to even terabit WiFi, ever, since it's all so terribly insecure even with 16kB long keys.
VGA will die in methusalem companies out 1 decade AFTER Internet Explorer 6. Since, you know, you could on one day meet the first data projector ever built and must connect to it lest the company be damned.
FireWire is dying. Zealots are drawing their knives now, but it adds nothing to USB2 or 3.
Same for eSATA.
DisplayPort, Mini-DisplayPort, Micro-DisplayPort and DisplayPort9000 will probably survive with Apple hardware because of reason no. 1337.
HTC, Apple or Sony could go on to invent anther standard for micro-, mini- and pico-USB, And micro-, mini- and pico-HDMI, maybe each in two versions called A and B.
The MAFIAA will come up with a new copy protection scheme and cabling somewhere in the next decade, but that cannot stop the unification wave. They have HDMI with Gigabit Ethernet now, which is probably more versatile than sliced bread, but it still will have to compete with USB video.
But in the end, the future has fewer connectors. One for power, one for everything else. USB is as Turing-complete as connectors go, if you excuse this analogy. Everything can then easier be adapted to use them instead of inventing a new format. With mass production lowering marginal costs to fractions of a cent, nothing exists that cannot be connected by some protocol driven over USB.
Well, then charge a capacitor for a frickken laser beam.
Anything that can propel cars to highway speeds can propel small metal pieces far beyond the sound barrier. It's only a matter of energy density: Wh per kg or per m and a reasonable discharge rate - everything else is minor technicalities.
Then it's time some currently unemployed, enterprisey wireless technician starts a small company that resolves these conflicts.
Provided the FCC *will* act if someone provided them with tanglible and independently verified proof that a certain household or device is causing intereference, there's a business opportunity for someone with skills and interest in doing that.
I'm sure there's a lot of small to middle businesses out there that would love to have someone point out interference sources to their wireless infrastructure, since they more and more depend on all that DECT, WiFi and other stuff to properly work. Barcode readers, POS card terminals, RFID scanners, employee paging services - all those work in the same unlicensed 2.4 and 5GHz band and depend on all other equipment and operators to behave themselves.
One rogue AP operator illegally boosting a cheap home router to reach the edge of his yard can seriously hamper businesses half a kilometer around. Someone will pay money to pinpoint the source and resolve that issue, either by friendly negotiations or technician-approved notices to the FCC. The offender can then be sued for compensation, incl. the cost of the wireless tracking technician.
Maybe someone here gets an old van, puts cheap triangulating equipment inside and starts that business. The equipment costs about 10.000 bucks, this could repay itself in a few months....
All countries have a right to be founded on ethnical heritage. Except people of European heritage. They need to accept any number immigrants from any origin.
The White Man is responsible for all evil in the world. Didn't you get the memo?
It was on telly only yesterday:
Nigeria: all other religions are slowly extinguished, entire provinces convert to Islam, complete with Sharia law and beheadings, stonings and all the other things we've learned to expect from an Islamic state.
Yet, the documentary (done by White Men) blamed the White Man, notably the British, to be responsible for religious warfare in 2010 because of something they did prior to Nigerian independence - what was back in 1950s.
Nigeria is independent since Oct. 1st, 1960, and religious warfare 50 years later is still attributed to White Man even by White Men's documentaries.
I have much respect for the impact that history has on current events, but it's getting increasingly ridiculous.
Founding countries on the basis of a common ethnicity was not a great idea either, was it? Maybe the idea on ownership of production equipment is? Multi-ethnic, multi-religious, large-terroritory-encompassing states didn't fare too well either so far, and neither did stateless societies with unenforced borders and free-for-all non-rule.
We've pretty much tried everything. All failed, but Western democracy failed less spectacularly so far, but that, too, will change when it finally succeeds in allowing Muslim immigrants to reach a 50% population share in Western Europe somewhere around 2040.
Now what *should* be the defining and founding criterion for a state?
Forum posts under a pseudonym are hardly more reliable than Wikipedia.
I suggest to edit and correct the respective Wikipedia article if you have proof and source instead. It is much easier for you than trying to correct wrong forum posts all around the Internet.
Yes, and they battled for decades over the topic eminent domain and continue to do so every time it is invoked.
Seizing private property for public use is probably unavoidable sometimes, but generally allowing it on a day-to-day basis is equal to real, old-school, hard-core Communism or Fascism.
And no, that's no slippery slope argument: The State removing private property from its rightful owner to give it to The People is what Communism is all about.
Compensation paid is the only thing that makes this oppressive move halfway acceptable in some cases where it is unavoidable, or airports or highways could not be build, nowhere, never. The discussions will not end there, since the amount of compensation that is deemed fair is usually wildly differing between the owner and the state trying to seize it. I'm glad I don't have to decide what amount of fair compensation is added to a seized real-estate for "owner was born there" or "owners family lived there for ten generations", and I highly doubt anyone can put a number on that.
Think about it: Private property free to nationalize at the whim of whoever currently has executive authority. It can hardly get anymore Communist than that at all. Short of wife sharing and forced meals in the communal mess hall, this is the real deal, live and in true color 3d.
Evicting people from their homes to build a much-needed airport is one thing. Seizing property in other countries to somehow magically and unquantifiably "ease" law enforcement is out of the question.
ICQ has millions of users in the former eastern bloc. ICQ is for Russia and most of its Slavic neighbors pretty much the same as QQ is for China and their neighbors.
People with these ethnic backgrounds living abroad have usually the same preference for their IM networks, of course, to reach the rest of the family back home. Now no one would ever dare to suggest that emigrants from the Eastern Bloc - those that use ICQ - have a high involvement in crime, but I'm sure there's some people who have more than a hunch on that. I wonder where all these new AK47s used in street crime from Belgium to California come from anyway...
Trojans need a way in, and that can be a human operator tricked into using admin rights to install it or a security hole allowing it to gain admin rights itself.
There have been trojans hidden in drive-by downloads, web banners, PDF files, remember?
I want a system, where the unthinkable - if it happens - is prepared for. And if that happens, I want system owners/vendors/operators to admit it.
Hiding security patches does the opposite: even those technical people reading the release notes will be unaware that a danger exists or existed. They can take no countermeasures or prepare themselves - which they must, as now seems to be the time when Macs become so close to the mainstream that malware writers start to put their sights on them.
(My GP was modded overrated 3 times now, so that tells me I've hit a weak spot with the zealots, so they like to slip past meta-moderation)
A fertilized egg is fundamentally different from a newborn, healthy baby.
It IS a potential, a chance, a probability, a flipped coin. The emotions felt waiting for that spinning coin to land doesn't change its - on the contrary, this probability is the very REASON for the emotional roller coaster.
If it wasn't a potential life, if the probability was 100%, it wouldn't make any emotional stress during IVF - and we would not have this discussion, since an egg would have a human status.
But it isn't. It's still only a cell.
The fundamental discussion of the ethics behind it are hard enough, the actual reality looks even worse:
For most IVF procedures, several eggs are fertilized, the fittest selected, the others frozen as "backup", probably to never be used, in other words discarded. With many IVFs performed at any hospital, the stored, frozen, fertilized eggs accumulate.
What should we do in light of this reality?
A) Discard "unused" fertilized eggs after x years in storage? B) Regularly expand liquid nitrogen-cooled storage and keep the coolers online all the time, for all eternity? C) Don't produce any excess fertilized eggs, instead repeating this exhausting and dangerous procedure several times for the women trying to get pregnant? D) Never perform any IVF at all? E) Use the "unused" fertilized eggs for stem cell research, so they can cure someone from a fatal disease?
I don't know if there's other options available, but E) certainly looks the most ethical way to go.
Re-phrasing Churchill: Using fertilized eggs for stem cell research is the worst possible option, except for all others.
So assume for a while that having sex without the aim of reproducing is a sin. The sin of Onan and all that.
You said it was the intent to "not reproduce" that make it a sin:
"having sex without intent to reproduce is a sin"
When one knows that one lacks the means to reproduce, is temporarily or permanently infertile, any sex performed in spite of it is by definition not aimed at reproducing.
So we have another subset:
"having sex knowing full well that one is without the MEANS to reproduce"
Which means it is a sin to - have sex when a known pregnant woman is involved - have sex during the menstruation period - have sex after menopause = basically have any male orgasm outside a fertile vagina
If sex without intent is a sin, both partners cannot simply ignore their fertility status without being complicit if they accidentally have infertile sex. Failing to check fertility would be tantamount to "sinful negligence".
So it is also a sin to have even vaginally receptive sex between a married man and woman, if it is - outside the fertile days of the period. - without being absolutely sure the woman is not pregnant - without being sure with reasonable certainty that one is indeed fertile
A couple that has not produced a pregnancy despite having sex for several years would need to re-evaluate their fertility and stop having sex if unsure or never let down the straight expectation of producing offspring.
If they had sex even a single time where they expected it would NOT produce a pregnancy would be a sin as well.
In short: Strictly Catholic marriages must be blast. And they're probably still sinning all the time.
Nah, people don't have a value associated with them. No life is worth any price, right?
Airplanes and cars could be made 10% safer if the customers paid triple prices. We have more sick people than expensive doctors. People are allowed to drive motorcycles and endanger their lives for lousy adrenaline kicks. Speed limits for public roads can always be set lower to save a few more children. Think of the children! We usually don't give expensive pacemakers to 90-year-old heavy smokers with a lung tumor, knowing full well they would live a little longer with it.
even worse: We usually don't produce more babies if we cannot feed the existing ones. (Except for some regions and cultures on this planet, where people don't care about it)
We don't constantly impregnate all non-pregnant woman, because it would bankrupt, ruin and destroy our society.
We place prices on lives. And it's not only the buxom young blonde that marries the 90-year-old billionaire.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless all standard connectors can glow in a different Trademark Brand Color, Apple will oppose it.
USB1,2,3 are pretty compatible. In one way only for USB3, but not totally different.
FW400,800 are also compatible enough.
eSATA is probably more of a niche product. Probably no one has this on their must-have!!1! list. It's marginally faster than USB2 for external drives only and few drives can steadily saturate a USB2 link at all. Until I'm not saying 480Mbps are enough for everyone, but enough to stop caring *that* much until SSDs become cheap enough to be an external commodity drive.
VGA is simply kept in a zombie state by ignorant users and overcautious companies. Use cases are respectively "I don't see any difference between analog and digital video and that VGA-only TFT was 0,10 EUR cheaper" and "My laptop must work with the most ancient projectors, the most ancient of cabling and the most ancient of users. Therefore VGA is a must".
DVI and HDMI are interchangeabled with an adapter available at 1000 eBay shops for less than 5 EUR incl. shipping. They're still gold plated, though.
DisplayPort are electrically incompatible to DVI and HDMI, but no one notices, since the video cards adapt to it. Apple fans will probably mod me down to hell, but DisplayPort is the reinvention of the wheel. A sleek and stylish wheel of course, and we totally, absolutely needed another connector for digital video that is electrically incompatible with DVI and HDMI. Since we only had 2 digital video standards to choose from. Maybe one of our Appolytes can enlighten me, but to me, it has no substantial advantages over HDMI.
Looking at the rest of the connectors on this Thinkpad, I spot 1 probably required Gb Ethernet port, 1 zombie Modem port that, since 3G internet, is probably never be used or needed again and 2 analog audio connectors in and out, that are as of yet indispensable.
Ethernet will probably survive for several decades, since no one will want to replace all those hectoparsecs of wiring or carry around a USB-Ethernet dongle. Paranoid companies will not switch to even terabit WiFi, ever, since it's all so terribly insecure even with 16kB long keys.
VGA will die in methusalem companies out 1 decade AFTER Internet Explorer 6. Since, you know, you could on one day meet the first data projector ever built and must connect to it lest the company be damned.
FireWire is dying. Zealots are drawing their knives now, but it adds nothing to USB2 or 3.
Same for eSATA.
DisplayPort, Mini-DisplayPort, Micro-DisplayPort and DisplayPort9000 will probably survive with Apple hardware because of reason no. 1337.
HTC, Apple or Sony could go on to invent anther standard for micro-, mini- and pico-USB, And micro-, mini- and pico-HDMI, maybe each in two versions called A and B.
The MAFIAA will come up with a new copy protection scheme and cabling somewhere in the next decade, but that cannot stop the unification wave. They have HDMI with Gigabit Ethernet now, which is probably more versatile than sliced bread, but it still will have to compete with USB video.
But in the end, the future has fewer connectors. One for power, one for everything else. USB is as Turing-complete as connectors go, if you excuse this analogy. Everything can then easier be adapted to use them instead of inventing a new format. With mass production lowering marginal costs to fractions of a cent, nothing exists that cannot be connected by some protocol driven over USB.
Well, then charge a capacitor for a frickken laser beam.
Anything that can propel cars to highway speeds can propel small metal pieces far beyond the sound barrier. It's only a matter of energy density: Wh per kg or per m and a reasonable discharge rate - everything else is minor technicalities.
"What if 4chan hadn't gotten a hold of it though? What if some scammers/spammers did?"
What tells you they didn't?
Then it's time some currently unemployed, enterprisey wireless technician starts a small company that resolves these conflicts.
Provided the FCC *will* act if someone provided them with tanglible and independently verified proof that a certain household or device is causing intereference, there's a business opportunity for someone with skills and interest in doing that.
I'm sure there's a lot of small to middle businesses out there that would love to have someone point out interference sources to their wireless infrastructure, since they more and more depend on all that DECT, WiFi and other stuff to properly work. Barcode readers, POS card terminals, RFID scanners, employee paging services - all those work in the same unlicensed 2.4 and 5GHz band and depend on all other equipment and operators to behave themselves.
One rogue AP operator illegally boosting a cheap home router to reach the edge of his yard can seriously hamper businesses half a kilometer around. Someone will pay money to pinpoint the source and resolve that issue, either by friendly negotiations or technician-approved notices to the FCC. The offender can then be sued for compensation, incl. the cost of the wireless tracking technician.
Maybe someone here gets an old van, puts cheap triangulating equipment inside and starts that business. The equipment costs about 10.000 bucks, this could repay itself in a few months....
Your computer is broadcasting an IP address. Click here to fix it.
[citation needed]
[dubious - discuss]
All countries have a right to be founded on ethnical heritage. Except people of European heritage. They need to accept any number immigrants from any origin.
The White Man is responsible for all evil in the world. Didn't you get the memo?
It was on telly only yesterday:
Nigeria: all other religions are slowly extinguished, entire provinces convert to Islam, complete with Sharia law and beheadings, stonings and all the other things we've learned to expect from an Islamic state.
Yet, the documentary (done by White Men) blamed the White Man, notably the British, to be responsible for religious warfare in 2010 because of something they did prior to Nigerian independence - what was back in 1950s.
Nigeria is independent since Oct. 1st, 1960, and religious warfare 50 years later is still attributed to White Man even by White Men's documentaries.
I have much respect for the impact that history has on current events, but it's getting increasingly ridiculous.
Founding countries on the basis of a common ethnicity was not a great idea either, was it?
Maybe the idea on ownership of production equipment is?
Multi-ethnic, multi-religious, large-terroritory-encompassing states didn't fare too well either so far, and neither did stateless societies with unenforced borders and free-for-all non-rule.
We've pretty much tried everything. All failed, but Western democracy failed less spectacularly so far, but that, too, will change when it finally succeeds in allowing Muslim immigrants to reach a 50% population share in Western Europe somewhere around 2040.
Now what *should* be the defining and founding criterion for a state?
[citation needed]
[dubious - discuss]
Forum posts under a pseudonym are hardly more reliable than Wikipedia.
I suggest to edit and correct the respective Wikipedia article if you have proof and source instead. It is much easier for you than trying to correct wrong forum posts all around the Internet.
Yes, and they battled for decades over the topic eminent domain and continue to do so every time it is invoked.
Seizing private property for public use is probably unavoidable sometimes, but generally allowing it on a day-to-day basis is equal to real, old-school, hard-core Communism or Fascism.
And no, that's no slippery slope argument: The State removing private property from its rightful owner to give it to The People is what Communism is all about.
Compensation paid is the only thing that makes this oppressive move halfway acceptable in some cases where it is unavoidable, or airports or highways could not be build, nowhere, never. The discussions will not end there, since the amount of compensation that is deemed fair is usually wildly differing between the owner and the state trying to seize it. I'm glad I don't have to decide what amount of fair compensation is added to a seized real-estate for "owner was born there" or "owners family lived there for ten generations", and I highly doubt anyone can put a number on that.
Think about it: Private property free to nationalize at the whim of whoever currently has executive authority. It can hardly get anymore Communist than that at all. Short of wife sharing and forced meals in the communal mess hall, this is the real deal, live and in true color 3d.
Evicting people from their homes to build a much-needed airport is one thing. Seizing property in other countries to somehow magically and unquantifiably "ease" law enforcement is out of the question.
ICQ has millions of users in the former eastern bloc. ICQ is for Russia and most of its Slavic neighbors pretty much the same as QQ is for China and their neighbors.
People with these ethnic backgrounds living abroad have usually the same preference for their IM networks, of course, to reach the rest of the family back home. Now no one would ever dare to suggest that emigrants from the Eastern Bloc - those that use ICQ - have a high involvement in crime, but I'm sure there's some people who have more than a hunch on that. I wonder where all these new AK47s used in street crime from Belgium to California come from anyway...
Incorrect:
On the ground, you have limited options to avoid random drivers. But you can STOP, in fact, everyone involved can. Try that in midair.
Trojans need a way in, and that can be a human operator tricked into using admin rights to install it or a security hole allowing it to gain admin rights itself.
There have been trojans hidden in drive-by downloads, web banners, PDF files, remember?
I want a system, where the unthinkable - if it happens - is prepared for. And if that happens, I want system owners/vendors/operators to admit it.
Hiding security patches does the opposite: even those technical people reading the release notes will be unaware that a danger exists or existed. They can take no countermeasures or prepare themselves - which they must, as now seems to be the time when Macs become so close to the mainstream that malware writers start to put their sights on them.
(My GP was modded overrated 3 times now, so that tells me I've hit a weak spot with the zealots, so they like to slip past meta-moderation)
Being open about one's shortcomings is a prerequisite for trust.
I'd rather drive a car that underwent several public recalls instead of a car with defects that the manufacturer kept silent about.
Don't malware writers turned over to writing malware for profit AND mischief instead of just mischief?
Do non-trojan viruses even exist anymore? Isn't all malware today some kind of trojan?
What would you choose?
"Unsinkable" modern passenger ship with no lifeboats or worn African ferryboat with more lifeboats than seats?
A fertilized egg is fundamentally different from a newborn, healthy baby.
It IS a potential, a chance, a probability, a flipped coin. The emotions felt waiting for that spinning coin to land doesn't change its - on the contrary, this probability is the very REASON for the emotional roller coaster.
If it wasn't a potential life, if the probability was 100%, it wouldn't make any emotional stress during IVF - and we would not have this discussion, since an egg would have a human status.
But it isn't. It's still only a cell.
The fundamental discussion of the ethics behind it are hard enough, the actual reality looks even worse:
For most IVF procedures, several eggs are fertilized, the fittest selected, the others frozen as "backup", probably to never be used, in other words discarded. With many IVFs performed at any hospital, the stored, frozen, fertilized eggs accumulate.
What should we do in light of this reality?
A) Discard "unused" fertilized eggs after x years in storage?
B) Regularly expand liquid nitrogen-cooled storage and keep the coolers online all the time, for all eternity?
C) Don't produce any excess fertilized eggs, instead repeating this exhausting and dangerous procedure several times for the women trying to get pregnant?
D) Never perform any IVF at all?
E) Use the "unused" fertilized eggs for stem cell research, so they can cure someone from a fatal disease?
I don't know if there's other options available, but E) certainly looks the most ethical way to go.
Re-phrasing Churchill:
Using fertilized eggs for stem cell research is the worst possible option, except for all others.
My post somehow went in the wrong thread, I'm sorry.
So assume for a while that having sex without the aim of reproducing is a sin. The sin of Onan and all that.
You said it was the intent to "not reproduce" that make it a sin:
"having sex without intent to reproduce is a sin"
When one knows that one lacks the means to reproduce, is temporarily or permanently infertile, any sex performed in spite of it is by definition not aimed at reproducing.
So we have another subset:
"having sex knowing full well that one is without the MEANS to reproduce"
Which means it is a sin to
- have sex when a known pregnant woman is involved
- have sex during the menstruation period
- have sex after menopause
= basically have any male orgasm outside a fertile vagina
If sex without intent is a sin, both partners cannot simply ignore their fertility status without being complicit if they accidentally have infertile sex. Failing to check fertility would be tantamount to "sinful negligence".
So it is also a sin to have even vaginally receptive sex between a married man and woman, if it is
- outside the fertile days of the period.
- without being absolutely sure the woman is not pregnant
- without being sure with reasonable certainty that one is indeed fertile
A couple that has not produced a pregnancy despite having sex for several years would need to re-evaluate their fertility and stop having sex if unsure or never let down the straight expectation of producing offspring.
If they had sex even a single time where they expected it would NOT produce a pregnancy would be a sin as well.
In short: Strictly Catholic marriages must be blast. And they're probably still sinning all the time.
Actual life forms are harvested for tissue daily, as other posters noted: namely for food.
Potential life forms can be harvested for all they're worth. That's what makes them "potential", ie. "not guaranteed".
If "harvesting" potential life forms were an issue, oral sex - fellatio - would need to be a capital offense.
Nah, people don't have a value associated with them. No life is worth any price, right?
Airplanes and cars could be made 10% safer if the customers paid triple prices.
We have more sick people than expensive doctors.
People are allowed to drive motorcycles and endanger their lives for lousy adrenaline kicks.
Speed limits for public roads can always be set lower to save a few more children. Think of the children!
We usually don't give expensive pacemakers to 90-year-old heavy smokers with a lung tumor, knowing full well they would live a little longer with it.
even worse:
We usually don't produce more babies if we cannot feed the existing ones. (Except for some regions and cultures on this planet, where people don't care about it)
We don't constantly impregnate all non-pregnant woman, because it would bankrupt, ruin and destroy our society.
We place prices on lives. And it's not only the buxom young blonde that marries the 90-year-old billionaire.
At what point do genetically unique cells start to head in the direction of birth?
Is a cell headed into the direction of birth equal to a newborn baby?
Will religion now please give each menstruation cycle of every woman a child's name and a tombstone?