I used to move my optical mouse too fast in games and lose control. Then I realized that with enough sensitivity, you can turn 180 pretty much instantly anyway. I don't claim to be a great gamer, but to my knowledge better gamers generally use higher sensitivity.
In western Europe there is actually a negative population growth. In the United States there is a very small population growth. Basically when countries become richer, their population growth declines. Since only the rich could afford such technology (rich being a relative term), overpopulation would not be such a problem. Besides, nanotech could be applied to other areas like argiculture and water purification. The amount of resources on Earth isn't the amount of raw materials, it's the amount of usuable raw materials. Hence, when technology improves, often the amount of resources increases.
We already screw up natural selection with things like education and clothing and toothbrushes and wheelchairs. That is, most of the time our chances of reproducing are not really dependent on our genes. (On a side note, the funny thing about Social Darwinism is that even if Darwinism could be applied to society, the poor would be the most fit since in general there in an inverse relation between a person's wealth and the amount of offspring they produce.)
This is not to say that natural selection does not still affect humans. Perhaps the most obvious case of this is the prevalence of sickle cell anemia in Africans and people of African descent. Even though sickle cell anemia makes it harder to survive and hence reproduce, being a carrier for it gives on resistance to malaria. Of course, for a group like African-Americans, the odds of getting malaria are much, much less than the odds of being born with sickle cell anemia.
I suppose I'm rambling a bit, but my point is that not to "screw up" natural selection in humans, you either have to eliminate anything that gives people advantages they weren't born with, or bring bad good ol' eugenics (even in the US there used to be forced sterilizations). Of course, in the future we'll be able to improve our genes, and use that darned adaption called intelligence to improve ourselves through things like nanotechnology.
Could be as simple as an rm -rf / shell script with a word icon.
From the sound of it, more like an rm -rf ~ script. At least Apple is smart enough not to enable root by default. Then again, they do give all admins ALL sudo privileges, and since real installers need an admin password, it wouldn't be that much harder to make a fake installer to wipe out the whole volume.
A wheel is more than just a "rim", so why call it that?
It's called synecdoche, like when Ovid refers to Apollo's bow as "horns" in Apollo et Daphne. We all know how much car people love obscure rhetorical devices.
I always considered the word geek to have a more pejorative connatation than nerd. Personally, I've been calling myself a proud nerd for some time now.
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Now IANAL and IANAC, but I thought that music downloading (though not sharing) was legal in Canada.
That's odd, even typing £ or £ doesn't work.
I must admit that this is the most amuzing troll I've seen to date.
Safari may be insecure, but thanks to the wonders of Cocoa it at least has spell check :)
I used to move my optical mouse too fast in games and lose control. Then I realized that with enough sensitivity, you can turn 180 pretty much instantly anyway. I don't claim to be a great gamer, but to my knowledge better gamers generally use higher sensitivity.
I'm sure that many slashdotters would be happy to organize a kulturkampf against the RIAA.
Actually OS X is based on a Mach microkernel, just like NeXTSTEP was.
In western Europe there is actually a negative population growth. In the United States there is a very small population growth. Basically when countries become richer, their population growth declines. Since only the rich could afford such technology (rich being a relative term), overpopulation would not be such a problem. Besides, nanotech could be applied to other areas like argiculture and water purification. The amount of resources on Earth isn't the amount of raw materials, it's the amount of usuable raw materials. Hence, when technology improves, often the amount of resources increases.
This is not to say that natural selection does not still affect humans. Perhaps the most obvious case of this is the prevalence of sickle cell anemia in Africans and people of African descent. Even though sickle cell anemia makes it harder to survive and hence reproduce, being a carrier for it gives on resistance to malaria. Of course, for a group like African-Americans, the odds of getting malaria are much, much less than the odds of being born with sickle cell anemia.
I suppose I'm rambling a bit, but my point is that not to "screw up" natural selection in humans, you either have to eliminate anything that gives people advantages they weren't born with, or bring bad good ol' eugenics (even in the US there used to be forced sterilizations). Of course, in the future we'll be able to improve our genes, and use that darned adaption called intelligence to improve ourselves through things like nanotechnology.
That's only because emacs uses more resources than an N-Gage game :)
From the sound of it, more like an rm -rf ~ script. At least Apple is smart enough not to enable root by default. Then again, they do give all admins ALL sudo privileges, and since real installers need an admin password, it wouldn't be that much harder to make a fake installer to wipe out the whole volume.
It's called synecdoche, like when Ovid refers to Apollo's bow as "horns" in Apollo et Daphne. We all know how much car people love obscure rhetorical devices.
/. itself does use the loaded term "Your Rights Online."
I always considered the word geek to have a more pejorative connatation than nerd. Personally, I've been calling myself a proud nerd for some time now.