The amount Bush declared would be spent on attempting a Mars mission was said to be enough to stop half of world poverty.
I'm not sure whether this information is correct, but the source was reliable, and considering the sort of project it would be, I can believe it.
Unfortunately, I reckon 'tis a little early to be setting for other planets.
Think of all the problems we have on this world. Pollution, poverty, terrorism, corporate greed, war, famine... Then think of what the money going into space projects that will likely not provide a great deal of benifit, and how big a dent it could make in world poverty.
We could be using this money to sow crops in third world countries, to re-seed the rainforest and to eliminate AIDS. When compared to these, what, other than PR, is the point in going to mars?
Do you really think that the technology advances will outweigh the fact that we could've solved half of world poverty?
Technically the computer is an analog system, as the voltage in the transistors goes up and then back down again, rather than switching to on then back to off again.
Due to tiny innacuracies, nothing in a computer will be exactly "0" or "1" so be excessive nitpicking, Gates will be crushed!
Actually, he'll probably win by saying that the zero is 0.00124974...
Wow... GB has its very own measurement... how sad!
I'm guessing, then, that you US pips don't use stones? What do you measure people in? (In england, stones are like feet - person = 6 foot, 1 and 8 stone 9... Wow.
We're trying to convince people to use real weights, although my mum insists on asking for weight in "old money." Besides, lbs, oz and stones are all the same system. Better say metric/imperial.
Back to the point. You'd have to shell it first, otherwise you get unneeded stuff like ls and cp...
Send out your payload to the contents of a particular book, along with anything gleaned from the harddrive, then sit monitoring/portscanning on the network/internet for a while, before completely melting the system.
Sitting for another year won't make much difference if its already spread nicely.
Of course, a much better way of doing things would be to rearrange the hardware to give itself more capacity while cutting off the rest of the computer.
Think about it: Virus needs a limited number of instructions to run, so why not ditch the floating point unit, excess graphics space and other extraneous parts, converting them into duplicates of instructions the virus requires. This allows it to do multiple mailings/whatever, simultaneously.
...Bugger!
This ignores the opportunities of mutating the CPU into AI entities that get you while you sleep!
Trillian had a brilliant UI. The default skin for non-pro had that little globe on it, which had access to all the features.
I personally don't use gaim, as the interface is clunky, and I only really use the MSN protocol. Consequently, I use aMSN, which hopefully will be getting a GTK makeover and support of voice/video chat, along with multi-protocol.
It has a UI basically like MSN's, but it is skinnable, uses TCL/TK, and can be configured to make it more space efficient. One thing I hated about the regular MSN was the sidebar in the chat-window - it took up far too much space whilst serving no purpose, and there is none in either trillian or aMSN:)
I wasn't quoting - just using quotation marks... Sorry for the misunderstanding, but 'tis a common technique.
Anyway, I was not talking about the number of cities/people involved, but the horrific, painful and slow deaths the populations had to go through.
What I meant was that perhaps it was necessary to destroy two cities utterly to stop the war, but that the method used caused an incredible amount of suffering, perhaps more in that sense than would have come about had the war continued.
"with the possible exception that atomic bombs mean a quicker death."
Excuse me? A quicker death my ass! If you were dying of radiation sickness right now, or were a child with one and a half arms, soon to die from cancer I don't think you'd be so keen to drop nuclear bombs.
I do not know whether it was "economical" (although using that word in references to human lives disgusts me) to drop the bombs, but doing something such as that was definitely an atrocity. Perhaps it was the lesser of two evils, but it was still damn evil - and everyone should recognise that.
When it comes to a falloutesque situation, I hope it was, at least, "economical."
I can parse because I know the punctuation and that nouns start with capitals, but I still can't understand it all:)
And by "Uncommon Knowledge" would History up to year 9 be good enough? I knew about the Treaty at that point (at 13/14) and its effects and (lack of) success.
However, if we hadn't been gentle at that point, then being strict later would probably have put down Hitler. The problem being that we ourselves barely had the arms to fight Hitler, even with his crippled army. Showing some spine, though, or having help from the US, could've convinced Hitler that we were going to crush him before he started - barely need for fighting.
Mass spectrometers can work out from which oil field a few molecules of the stuff came from - I think that if they used them, then we can be pretty sure of accurate data.
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Actually, on the 14th, Manchester got the most sunshine in Britain - 9 hours.
This happened to be the day we left for London...
You can customize bookmarks to be "quick searches." Basically, you assign a keyword to the bookmark, and typing that keyword takes you to the site.
Then, you stick %s in the URL where the search query goes, and what you put after the keyword is used as the query.
This means you can quick-search anything - dictionary.com, thesaurus... you name it, if it uses CGI, it can be done.
Socialism and democracy and working together are actually good things and make life better to live. I 'd be happy to have a debate about this - it's your turn to put a point forward:)
Where is the difference between this and the current method? (Apart from the obfscatory capital letters)
Were this to be implemented, you have to tell everyone who you want to e-mail you your key. You already tell people your e-mail address. If you want any old joe to e-mail you, you put up your key, and then you get spammed.
Since you can already use an ISP e-mail adress where you decide what comes AFTER the "@," you can already do this, should you wish to.
So if you'd kindly explain the difference between this and the current solution...
Unfortunately, because they can afford to spend more than the prize money, the UK's team (StarChaser) cannot really compete. We are, apparently, in second place behind Scaled Composites.
The X-Prize cannot be entered by groups that have government funding to ensure that this doesn't happen, but unfortunately for us, there're people out there with lots and lots of cash. In the meantime we have to wait until someone gives us some:D
unscrupulous scientists routinely steal important discoveries and fame.
And therein lies the game. What should be happening is for scientists to be working together and cooperating to achieve a common goal, not competing and impeding one another for their own betterment.
If your goal as a scientists is personal fame then you deserve no help whatsoever. If on the other hand you're trying to obtain the meaning of life for the people of the world's enjoyment, you should receive full cooperation.
From my experience, the main difference in this area is that in Windows, things rarely go badly wrong. If they go a little askew, then windows will generally be able to fix them without much hassle.
In Linux, these things such as setting up networks and installing large bits of software often go nastily awry and require a large dredge through the requirements tree, or a dive into the kernel. However, were something such as this to go wrong with windows, you would often have no such things to turn to - you are not told what's going wrong (generally) when a program won't start, or a device won't work. You cannot, therefore, fix it.
So, although these problems are more frequent in Linux, there is almost always a way to fix one, albeit often an obscure and time-consuming one. Without much more experience I cannot say whether, in the end, the Linux method is easier, but for me at least, it is definitely not worse.
However, I believe that there is a misconception that it is incredibly difficult to do these basic tasks on a Linux system. Since Aunt Tillie doesn't need to set up a network or install vast quantities of software (She may need to set up a printer), it's worth noting the results of this.
DOS is an abbreviation of MS-DOS, which is an acronym of "Disk Operating System." There was also Q-DOS and G-DOS and problem several other DOSs, so simply containing dos within the name will have no effect.
Of course, you weren't being serious, so this is all irrelevant, but it was fun, so hey.
I think the word was "neutralised" Which could mean anything.
I believe that s/he (You can never tell with Farscape - episode 1.12 "The Flax") labeled them invaders, so I came up with my idea. I reckon that they natives of the planet have neutralised the threat, and are then going to take them away somewhere and perhaps un-neutralise them. Well, we shall see!
I wonder whether it'll be aired on the BBC again - I don't have access to the SF Channel:-(
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The difference of course being that there're still many different distros for you to choose from, so you're not trapped into a monopoly's software.
Fedora is still RedHat in essence, so there's no point complaining about how evil RedHat is for long - you can just nestle happily into Fedora.
The problem comes, however, in a commercial environment - those which need the support and for whom this will introduce a huge increase in costing. In this case, it's probably better to go for a less commercial distro, who's less likely to suddenly introduce new costs.
Hopefully we won't end up with the entirety of Linux being swallowed up by the corporate machine.
I think your post rather supports my point - if money waste is large enough to through away a few billion, why aren't we throwing away a few billion to help solve poverty? Sure, it won't completely solve it, by a long stretch, but a little wealth redistribution can't be a bad thing.
Corruption in governments does put a big barrier in the way of helping the countries concerned, but since half the time we attack them anyway, surely our leaders wouldn't have qualms violating their airspace with aid helicopters? (Wait, that should be "shouldn't...")
I think that research into new stuff is important and good for the planet, but if millions of people could be saved from dying instead of it, I personally would opt to save those millions. Heck, we have enough poverty in developing countries - it could easily go to helping them out.
Scene one: Starving child from [insert famine stricken country here] with distended belly, sticks for arms and flies sucking at eyes.
Scene two: government officials hurling around billions to get someone to step on a piece of red rock
The only thing to add to that is ":-("
You here imply that all terrorists are from ethnic minorities who hate Americans because they're American and that their God told them so.
Do you really believe this? My point is that the way the west acts (I'm including my corner of the west in this) - i.e. walking into countries, announcing new governments and taking the oil, destroying the planet with pollution and being more concerned over "conquering" mars than solving world poverty, is what causes people to hate it, not that someone randomly pointed at the West and said "let's kill them."
"We're obviously not killing enough of the people that kill people to stop them killing people!"
Could this sum up the way we're acting?
The problem being that terrorists aren't out to destroy all that is good and happy and free - no, they actually have something to fight about!
People attack the west because of its philosophies - not necessarily those of its population, but perhaps those of certain presidents whose names begin with George W. Bush.
With this in your minds, do you think that labelling them as bad bad men and trying to kill them will help? Terrorism is being used as a (bad) way of communication - we should try communicating back, in a non-violent way, and show them that Ghandi was wrong when he said that Western Civilisation "would be a good idea."
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The amount Bush declared would be spent on attempting a Mars mission was said to be enough to stop half of world poverty.
I'm not sure whether this information is correct, but the source was reliable, and considering the sort of project it would be, I can believe it.
Think of all the problems we have on this world. Pollution, poverty, terrorism, corporate greed, war, famine... Then think of what the money going into space projects that will likely not provide a great deal of benifit, and how big a dent it could make in world poverty.
We could be using this money to sow crops in third world countries, to re-seed the rainforest and to eliminate AIDS. When compared to these, what, other than PR, is the point in going to mars?
Do you really think that the technology advances will outweigh the fact that we could've solved half of world poverty?
I sure don't.
Due to tiny innacuracies, nothing in a computer will be exactly "0" or "1" so be excessive nitpicking, Gates will be crushed!
Actually, he'll probably win by saying that the zero is 0.00124974...
I'm guessing, then, that you US pips don't use stones? What do you measure people in? (In england, stones are like feet - person = 6 foot, 1 and 8 stone 9... Wow.
We're trying to convince people to use real weights, although my mum insists on asking for weight in "old money." Besides, lbs, oz and stones are all the same system. Better say metric/imperial.
Back to the point. You'd have to shell it first, otherwise you get unneeded stuff like ls and cp...
Sitting for another year won't make much difference if its already spread nicely.
Of course, a much better way of doing things would be to rearrange the hardware to give itself more capacity while cutting off the rest of the computer.
Think about it: Virus needs a limited number of instructions to run, so why not ditch the floating point unit, excess graphics space and other extraneous parts, converting them into duplicates of instructions the virus requires. This allows it to do multiple mailings/whatever, simultaneously.
This ignores the opportunities of mutating the CPU into AI entities that get you while you sleep!
I personally don't use gaim, as the interface is clunky, and I only really use the MSN protocol. Consequently, I use aMSN, which hopefully will be getting a GTK makeover and support of voice/video chat, along with multi-protocol. :)
It has a UI basically like MSN's, but it is skinnable, uses TCL/TK, and can be configured to make it more space efficient. One thing I hated about the regular MSN was the sidebar in the chat-window - it took up far too much space whilst serving no purpose, and there is none in either trillian or aMSN
Anyway, I was not talking about the number of cities/people involved, but the horrific, painful and slow deaths the populations had to go through.
What I meant was that perhaps it was necessary to destroy two cities utterly to stop the war, but that the method used caused an incredible amount of suffering, perhaps more in that sense than would have come about had the war continued.
Excuse me? A quicker death my ass! If you were dying of radiation sickness right now, or were a child with one and a half arms, soon to die from cancer I don't think you'd be so keen to drop nuclear bombs.
I do not know whether it was "economical" (although using that word in references to human lives disgusts me) to drop the bombs, but doing something such as that was definitely an atrocity. Perhaps it was the lesser of two evils, but it was still damn evil - and everyone should recognise that.
When it comes to a falloutesque situation, I hope it was, at least, "economical."
I can parse because I know the punctuation and that nouns start with capitals, but I still can't understand it all :)
And by "Uncommon Knowledge" would History up to year 9 be good enough? I knew about the Treaty at that point (at 13/14) and its effects and (lack of) success.
However, if we hadn't been gentle at that point, then being strict later would probably have put down Hitler. The problem being that we ourselves barely had the arms to fight Hitler, even with his crippled army. Showing some spine, though, or having help from the US, could've convinced Hitler that we were going to crush him before he started - barely need for fighting.
Mass spectrometers can work out from which oil field a few molecules of the stuff came from - I think that if they used them, then we can be pretty sure of accurate data.
Actually, on the 14th, Manchester got the most sunshine in Britain - 9 hours. This happened to be the day we left for London...
You can customize bookmarks to be "quick searches." Basically, you assign a keyword to the bookmark, and typing that keyword takes you to the site.
Then, you stick %s in the URL where the search query goes, and what you put after the keyword is used as the query.
This means you can quick-search anything - dictionary.com, thesaurus... you name it, if it uses CGI, it can be done.
Socialism and democracy and working together are actually good things and make life better to live. I 'd be happy to have a debate about this - it's your turn to put a point forward :)
Were this to be implemented, you have to tell everyone who you want to e-mail you your key. You already tell people your e-mail address. If you want any old joe to e-mail you, you put up your key, and then you get spammed. Since you can already use an ISP e-mail adress where you decide what comes AFTER the "@," you can already do this, should you wish to.
So if you'd kindly explain the difference between this and the current solution...
Unfortunately, because they can afford to spend more than the prize money, the UK's team (StarChaser) cannot really compete. We are, apparently, in second place behind Scaled Composites. :D
The X-Prize cannot be entered by groups that have government funding to ensure that this doesn't happen, but unfortunately for us, there're people out there with lots and lots of cash. In the meantime we have to wait until someone gives us some
And therein lies the game. What should be happening is for scientists to be working together and cooperating to achieve a common goal, not competing and impeding one another for their own betterment.
If your goal as a scientists is personal fame then you deserve no help whatsoever. If on the other hand you're trying to obtain the meaning of life for the people of the world's enjoyment, you should receive full cooperation.
In Linux, these things such as setting up networks and installing large bits of software often go nastily awry and require a large dredge through the requirements tree, or a dive into the kernel. However, were something such as this to go wrong with windows, you would often have no such things to turn to - you are not told what's going wrong (generally) when a program won't start, or a device won't work. You cannot, therefore, fix it.
So, although these problems are more frequent in Linux, there is almost always a way to fix one, albeit often an obscure and time-consuming one. Without much more experience I cannot say whether, in the end, the Linux method is easier, but for me at least, it is definitely not worse.
However, I believe that there is a misconception that it is incredibly difficult to do these basic tasks on a Linux system. Since Aunt Tillie doesn't need to set up a network or install vast quantities of software (She may need to set up a printer), it's worth noting the results of this.
Of course, you weren't being serious, so this is all irrelevant, but it was fun, so hey.
I believe that s/he (You can never tell with Farscape - episode 1.12 "The Flax") labeled them invaders, so I came up with my idea. I reckon that they natives of the planet have neutralised the threat, and are then going to take them away somewhere and perhaps un-neutralise them. Well, we shall see!
I wonder whether it'll be aired on the BBC again - I don't have access to the SF Channel :-(
Fedora is still RedHat in essence, so there's no point complaining about how evil RedHat is for long - you can just nestle happily into Fedora.
The problem comes, however, in a commercial environment - those which need the support and for whom this will introduce a huge increase in costing. In this case, it's probably better to go for a less commercial distro, who's less likely to suddenly introduce new costs.
Hopefully we won't end up with the entirety of Linux being swallowed up by the corporate machine.
Corruption in governments does put a big barrier in the way of helping the countries concerned, but since half the time we attack them anyway, surely our leaders wouldn't have qualms violating their airspace with aid helicopters? (Wait, that should be "shouldn't...")
I think that research into new stuff is important and good for the planet, but if millions of people could be saved from dying instead of it, I personally would opt to save those millions. Heck, we have enough poverty in developing countries - it could easily go to helping them out.
Scene one: Starving child from [insert famine stricken country here] with distended belly, sticks for arms and flies sucking at eyes. Scene two: government officials hurling around billions to get someone to step on a piece of red rock The only thing to add to that is ":-("
Do you really believe this? My point is that the way the west acts (I'm including my corner of the west in this) - i.e. walking into countries, announcing new governments and taking the oil, destroying the planet with pollution and being more concerned over "conquering" mars than solving world poverty, is what causes people to hate it, not that someone randomly pointed at the West and said "let's kill them."
"We're obviously not killing enough of the people that kill people to stop them killing people!"
Could this sum up the way we're acting?
The problem being that terrorists aren't out to destroy all that is good and happy and free - no, they actually have something to fight about! People attack the west because of its philosophies - not necessarily those of its population, but perhaps those of certain presidents whose names begin with George W. Bush. With this in your minds, do you think that labelling them as bad bad men and trying to kill them will help? Terrorism is being used as a (bad) way of communication - we should try communicating back, in a non-violent way, and show them that Ghandi was wrong when he said that Western Civilisation "would be a good idea."