We all die permanently, even species, though cockroaches have had a pretty good run.
There are deep water corals, and some of the shallow water corals on the GBR will migrate south to cooler waters as the climate changes, life will go on.
But, yeah, it's going to suck bigtime for a dozen to a hundred human generations if we don't get our shit together pronto.
And, about the horse shit dust - not everybody could afford a horse, far less per capita than actually own and drive cars in the US today. And, all in all, I'd much rather raise my children in a house covered in horse shit dust than coal-borne mercury ash, diesel soot, PCBs, and all the other hallmarks of "modern progress."
You believe the shit they show on CSI, too, don't you? Can you enhance that image of the future for me?
Yes, the next 100 years _should_ result in greater progress than the last 100, if we don't backslide into some stagnant pool of true conservatism. The thing about future progress is: it's unpredictable. Dolly the sheep was "cloned" (depending on what you accept as a definition of cloning) in 1996. 20 years later we've made tremendous progress in genome sequencing, gene splicing, identification of genetic sources of diseases and other traits, but, we're still a long long way from Jurassic Park, even with living specimens to work from. How long? Nobody really knows, but practical, full capability cloning seems to be sharing the "progress" list with cold fusion and artificial intelligence, always at least 5 to 10 years away from serious application.
Some of the areas of the GBR that are experiencing widespread bleaching are literally hundreds of miles offshore, and a lot of those shorelines are not urban. It's not runoff, it's not industrial pollution, it's a global phenomenon that's making this happen.
It's not just rust belters, a common saying among red party boaters in Florida is that we should find a really great specimen of a Manatee, shoot it, stuff it, put it in a museum, and then get rid of all the god damned speed limits for boats in coastal manatee habitat, because f- these giant cow things that have been here for millions of years, I've got twin 250s on my new open fisherman and I damn well want to open the throttle straight out of the marina instead of putzing out to open water before I can throw a wake.
Yeah, boomers don't give a shit what the place will look like when they're gone.
Depends on where you start from, a couple of college kids in Miami could afford to go SCUBA diving on weekends for about the same money other college kids would blow on booze at the strip in Ft. Lauderdale (in the 1980s).
These days, video programs and documentaries make the world's oceans more accessible to the rust belt, grain belt, bible belt, and every other belt you can name than ever before. The presentations tend to be a bit biased, and it's nothing like being there in person, but if we all went in person, there would be nothing left to see.
As for divestment, he still has time, whether or not he complies by inauguration day will be an interesting test.
As for the elector, he's making a weaker statement than defiance of tradition, but stronger than just going with the will of the people he represents... that is his choice, like all of us who voted made at the ballot box - we could vote quietly, or scream to the world who we support / don't want.
It was obviously some other country that caused this - maybe the Philippines, haven't they been hard on their coral reefs with fishing or blasting or something? They're a lot closer to the Great Barrier Reef than the US, or even China, much more likely some spillover from the Philippines. Not our problem, clean up your own backyard before you come crying to us with wild theories.
Bleaching is a simplification, and basically means the presence of large swaths of long-dead corals, usually corals that died together in a short period of time.
It's like the forests of trees hundreds of years old that have been clearcut - all we have to do is leave them alone for a few thousand years and they will repopulate to something approximately like what they were before we started messing with them.
Maybe it's placebo effect - placebo can be stronger than this. (FWIW, if placebo effect can cure me, I'll take it.)
It could be that since optune users had to go through some sort of regimen, they disciplined themselves to look after themselves better in other ways too.
One of the (many) hidden benefits of sham treatment.
F'ing amazing - integrating 1996 internet communication tech into a Linux app in 2016... how long do you think it will take them to make their own OS shut down and start up reliably?
I seriously doubt that "cancer has a harmonic frequency" in the traditional sense of the Tacoma Narrows bridge's harmonic frequency.
There may be a range of frequencies that have some effect, with a statistical peak somewhere in there. It may also be simple placebo effect, which I'd like to point out does not make those not-dead people dead, placebo effect is real, it is strong, and if it's the most effective treatment available, I'd take it. (Side effects also tend to be minimal...)
I used Atari ST Internals to code a horizontal smooth scrolling display, it was buggy - flickery on my 800 that I coded it on, but when the GTIA II came out in the 1200 the same code ran perfectly. I don't think there was ever any publication about that, other than, yeah, the GTIA I had some bugs.
You can fully simulate a 6502 (running full speed) in your phone... who really cares if you can dig the minerals from the earth, grow your own silicon wafers and do lithography in your garage or not? I mean, if you set your mind to it and had a couple of million to blow, I'm sure it's possible in a less than 1000 square foot space, but you'd be better off acquiring used foundry gear and buying components from suppliers, like the real chip fabs do. And then, what's the point? Are you going to make anything that can't be emulated in your phone, or done by a sub $100 Raspberry-Pi-like device? If you do it in Android and/or iOS, your idea can spread over the network to millions of devices in hours - if you build your own silicon, you'll be making a handful of devices that cost more than a phone a-piece, not counting the capital investment.
Apples and Ataris - they had schematics, but the really interesting bits, graphics and sound processors, were still closed source, proprietary, and a little buggy in the first couple of generations.
Last time an FPGA design was getting me down, it was due to power consumption issues. We could get 4x the battery life with an ARM design as compared to the on-FPGA NEON processor cores we were using.
FPGA was super flexible, but what we really needed was a couple of ARMs and a tiny bit of programmable silicon for the actual custom bits.
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Cloning dolly is many orders of magnitude easier than cloning a wooly mammoth, or sabre tooth tiger - even when cost is no object.
We all die permanently, even species, though cockroaches have had a pretty good run.
There are deep water corals, and some of the shallow water corals on the GBR will migrate south to cooler waters as the climate changes, life will go on.
But, yeah, it's going to suck bigtime for a dozen to a hundred human generations if we don't get our shit together pronto.
And, about the horse shit dust - not everybody could afford a horse, far less per capita than actually own and drive cars in the US today. And, all in all, I'd much rather raise my children in a house covered in horse shit dust than coal-borne mercury ash, diesel soot, PCBs, and all the other hallmarks of "modern progress."
You believe the shit they show on CSI, too, don't you? Can you enhance that image of the future for me?
Yes, the next 100 years _should_ result in greater progress than the last 100, if we don't backslide into some stagnant pool of true conservatism. The thing about future progress is: it's unpredictable. Dolly the sheep was "cloned" (depending on what you accept as a definition of cloning) in 1996. 20 years later we've made tremendous progress in genome sequencing, gene splicing, identification of genetic sources of diseases and other traits, but, we're still a long long way from Jurassic Park, even with living specimens to work from. How long? Nobody really knows, but practical, full capability cloning seems to be sharing the "progress" list with cold fusion and artificial intelligence, always at least 5 to 10 years away from serious application.
Some of the areas of the GBR that are experiencing widespread bleaching are literally hundreds of miles offshore, and a lot of those shorelines are not urban. It's not runoff, it's not industrial pollution, it's a global phenomenon that's making this happen.
It's not just rust belters, a common saying among red party boaters in Florida is that we should find a really great specimen of a Manatee, shoot it, stuff it, put it in a museum, and then get rid of all the god damned speed limits for boats in coastal manatee habitat, because f- these giant cow things that have been here for millions of years, I've got twin 250s on my new open fisherman and I damn well want to open the throttle straight out of the marina instead of putzing out to open water before I can throw a wake.
Yeah, boomers don't give a shit what the place will look like when they're gone.
Depends on where you start from, a couple of college kids in Miami could afford to go SCUBA diving on weekends for about the same money other college kids would blow on booze at the strip in Ft. Lauderdale (in the 1980s).
These days, video programs and documentaries make the world's oceans more accessible to the rust belt, grain belt, bible belt, and every other belt you can name than ever before. The presentations tend to be a bit biased, and it's nothing like being there in person, but if we all went in person, there would be nothing left to see.
Depends on where you dive - the reefs off Key Largo, Florida have been crappy since the 70s, at least compared to the ones further down in the Keys.
The anecdotes from professionals who have been diving all over the world from virtually the first days of SCUBA match yours:
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As a voter, I'd rather be heeded than headed.
As for divestment, he still has time, whether or not he complies by inauguration day will be an interesting test.
As for the elector, he's making a weaker statement than defiance of tradition, but stronger than just going with the will of the people he represents... that is his choice, like all of us who voted made at the ballot box - we could vote quietly, or scream to the world who we support / don't want.
It was obviously some other country that caused this - maybe the Philippines, haven't they been hard on their coral reefs with fishing or blasting or something? They're a lot closer to the Great Barrier Reef than the US, or even China, much more likely some spillover from the Philippines. Not our problem, clean up your own backyard before you come crying to us with wild theories.
Dead coral, skeletons, are white.
Bleaching is a simplification, and basically means the presence of large swaths of long-dead corals, usually corals that died together in a short period of time.
It's like the forests of trees hundreds of years old that have been clearcut - all we have to do is leave them alone for a few thousand years and they will repopulate to something approximately like what they were before we started messing with them.
Maybe it's placebo effect - placebo can be stronger than this. (FWIW, if placebo effect can cure me, I'll take it.)
It could be that since optune users had to go through some sort of regimen, they disciplined themselves to look after themselves better in other ways too.
One of the (many) hidden benefits of sham treatment.
F'ing amazing - integrating 1996 internet communication tech into a Linux app in 2016... how long do you think it will take them to make their own OS shut down and start up reliably?
No actual evidence backing it... sounds like GWII to me.
I seriously doubt that "cancer has a harmonic frequency" in the traditional sense of the Tacoma Narrows bridge's harmonic frequency.
There may be a range of frequencies that have some effect, with a statistical peak somewhere in there. It may also be simple placebo effect, which I'd like to point out does not make those not-dead people dead, placebo effect is real, it is strong, and if it's the most effective treatment available, I'd take it. (Side effects also tend to be minimal...)
Maybe it's placebo effect - placebo can be stronger than this. (FWIW, if placebo effect can cure me, I'll take it.)
Direct contact electrodes aren't putting in an EM field, they're putting in an electric current.
True - it was a guided missile chip - small was a virtue.
I'd bet that by now, some sod somewhere has put together a 4004 with discrete transistors on breadboards.
I used Atari ST Internals to code a horizontal smooth scrolling display, it was buggy - flickery on my 800 that I coded it on, but when the GTIA II came out in the 1200 the same code ran perfectly. I don't think there was ever any publication about that, other than, yeah, the GTIA I had some bugs.
So, could the guys on the tube computer get a firing solution any faster, or more accurately, than the guys with the slide rules?
Didn't they make 4004s with tape and etchant at the "real" factory?
You can fully simulate a 6502 (running full speed) in your phone... who really cares if you can dig the minerals from the earth, grow your own silicon wafers and do lithography in your garage or not? I mean, if you set your mind to it and had a couple of million to blow, I'm sure it's possible in a less than 1000 square foot space, but you'd be better off acquiring used foundry gear and buying components from suppliers, like the real chip fabs do. And then, what's the point? Are you going to make anything that can't be emulated in your phone, or done by a sub $100 Raspberry-Pi-like device? If you do it in Android and/or iOS, your idea can spread over the network to millions of devices in hours - if you build your own silicon, you'll be making a handful of devices that cost more than a phone a-piece, not counting the capital investment.
Apples and Ataris - they had schematics, but the really interesting bits, graphics and sound processors, were still closed source, proprietary, and a little buggy in the first couple of generations.
Last time an FPGA design was getting me down, it was due to power consumption issues. We could get 4x the battery life with an ARM design as compared to the on-FPGA NEON processor cores we were using.
FPGA was super flexible, but what we really needed was a couple of ARMs and a tiny bit of programmable silicon for the actual custom bits.
So, I was going to make a crack that it's a RISC instruction set, so there's not really that much to open, is there?
How's the compiler support - got a decent gcc optimizer for it yet?