Another issue: why is "orbiting a fusor" even a requirement? Two identical balls of rock, with same atmosphere and what not, one orbiting the star directly, one orbiting a big chunk of gas, makes one a "planet" and the other one a mere "moon". Same for a freestanding planet going through the galaxy or even outside.
I don't think our knowledge of physics is likely to be that much off where it comes to relativity. On the other hand, with a lot of non-fundamental research we can get to a nearby star system within a few tens thousands year. Yeah, we can make a flyby in a tiny fraction of that time, but having to decelerate at the destination makes the whole affair enormously harder. This might sound like needing generational ships which would require a large population to stave off degeneration, but I think we can defeat aging within 50-100 years then get rid of yet-unknown maladies that happen once you're 200 or 1000 years old (which might need a few iterations, so real immortality is a few thousands years away). Once we're there, taking tens of thousands years to travel a single hop is not a show-stopper -- just remember to take a pack of cards to spend time during the journey.
Another option is hard AI which can be considered a form of earthlings. In that case, after sending a receiver the slow way you can transfer "people" at the speed of light.
it took them 20 years to add mp3 support, how long do you think it takes to fix the init system which was taken in 5 years ago? Hint: do not hold your breath while waiting.
I don't expect systemd to be fixed, ever, but in 5 years you can expect the CADT team to invent a yet another init scheme, with even more regressions, and force everyone to transition to it.
Why would you use FLAC if OPUS is fully transparent at 128kbps, and for real-world use 96kbps is fine (as opposed to MP3 which even at its max, 320kbps, has artefacts recognizable by ordinary people on cheap gear)? For stuff that's going to be further processed, perhaps, but not for music you're going to only listen to.
Use a real keyboard or an emulation and wifi won't be required. The side channel will be audio, easy to distinguish by an unaided human ear, from the next building.
It's the wrong layer to do "stream reservations" or any such kind of prioritising. Ethernet is supposed to deliver bits and frames as-is, managing buffers or the order of packets belongs to a higher layer. Such a layering violation results in no end of bloat and complexity. Complexity = errors.
char string[MAX_PATH]; What can possibly go wrong? Especially before MAX_PATH was invented.
Start your path with \\?\ and see how MAX_PATH/PATH_MAX works.
That's why Hurd guys had the right idea to remove these whatsoever, causing lots of buggy software to fail to build instead of having crashes, often exploitable, at runtime.
in a democracy, departing leaders are allowed off the stage and permitted to, like Cincinnatus, go back to tilling their fields
Cincinnatus was a total opposite of miscreants I hope will meet justice. He's done no crimes whatsoever, and, once the crisis he was granted dictatorship to deal with was over, immediately relinquished his power. Obama's cronies on the other hand used all legal and especially illegal means to claw at staying at power. That some of these means (like a much lesser amount of illegal domestic spying) was already in place by Bush is no reason to forgive Obama but to prosecute both bastards together.
Letting what is no mere mistakes but outright serious crimes is not "peaceful transition of power", it's what's euphemistically called "an old boys club" and what's nothing but corruption of the worst degree. By extending this "courtesy" a new leader ensures he himself will be above the law.
You mean, GNAA hasn't run you away years ago? It's rare to see an article without an AC shitpost, I don't understand your sudden outrage. Just either don't read at -1 or be prepared to see the noise. The moderation system works.
3) Trey Gowdy might actually have enough integrity to prosecute criminals from both sides of the Ruling Party. Obama gave Bush's minions a walk as a professional courtesy.
This. Please, oh so please, do include both head honchos -- Bush and Obama's felonies start at FISA violations and go further. Trump doesn't have a shred of integrity himself but he's so opposed to the establishment that he may let some honest men do their work and put both bastards in the same cell.
Dear Director of the FBI: Thank you for possibly breaking the law by dropping an election bombshell and tanking Clinton's poll numbers over absolutely nothing.
You mean, certainly breaking the law by declaring that Clinton is all-ok twice despite her obviously and knowingly disregarding secrecy rules, for a self-serving and illegal goal (avoiding scrutiny), that allowed multiple foreign intelligencies and even script kiddies to get access to Top Secret and higher classified data?
In this election she was the worse of two evils (she, not Obama, caused one or possibly two (depending how you count) wars). On the other hand, they both are so bad that voting for Cthulhu would be choosing a lesser evil.
They should try to shoot peace treaties and diplomatic efforts through that gun barrel. They are a lot cheaper and the area of effect usually covers one or more countries with one single round.
Let's see how well Ukraine fared by trading their nukes for a defense pact that Russia, the US and UK will come defend it from attacks. Or, one of your potential Dear Leaders (at least having the decency to say this beforehand!) declaring that Nato Shmato, Lithuania and co are free for Matushka Rossiya back for taking.
The difference between synthetic vs natural diamonds is exactly the same as between ice you get from putting water into your freezer vs that hauled from far-away mountains. The latter is expensive and dirty. If you want, you can put dirt into your synthetic diamonds too!
M-dwarves last for a trillion years while a sun-class star is good only for a few billions (ours is 4.5ba old and in a billion years Earth will be uninhabitable). Which matters exactly zilch when the whole Universe is only 13.8ba old, and you need a few star lifetime iterations to produce enough "metals" (for astronomers anything above hellium is a metal) for life to be viable.
There's indeed more dwarves than any other kind of stars, but then, their habitable zones are much smaller and they have other problems that are harmful to life in our sense, so they don't have any advantage. Wake me up in a trillion years or two, then life will be strongly biased to dwarf stars.
Well, it's mostly people who don't know any better (ie, the vast majority). If you need a relational database, you want real SQL like Postgres. If you're happy with a flat store, there are more efficient solutions that don't pretend to be SQL.
Debian archive rebuilds plus off-site backups. A "consumer" fast-download-slow-upload connection is fine for such a task; if shit hits the fan and my upload speed is not enough to restore the entire backup I can drive with a disk.
but CentOS 5 is not supported and I have no plan to reinstall the entire server
Sorry but you'll need to do that very soon as CentOS 5 is supported only until March 2017, and in releases that ancient they didn't provide a reasonable way of upgrades. And if you accrued that much technical debt, it might be faster to just nuke and reinstall anyway.
You're assuming negligence where malice is obvious. She did it to hide her illegal actions from possible prosecution. The US isn't Russia, yet -- she can't assassinate, spy on and otherwise abuse government agencies against her political opponents in the open yet. She does deeply envy Putin, though, and does everything she can do turn most of the western world into a Russia-like hellhole. Her and her buddies' tentacles reach far beyond borders of the US.
Her opponent is merely an incompetent buffoon, quite a step down from the Second Coming of Adolf. And I'm not joking here -- take a look at Eich, Thiel, Snowden, Assange -- the rhetoric and actions of Hillary's supporters are dangerously close to what Jews of 1933 faced.
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People are stupid.
Yeah - usually the people who think they are smarter than everyone else.
If you think believing people are stupid implies the believer thinking he's exempt, I'd invite you to meet a fellow named Socrates.
Another issue: why is "orbiting a fusor" even a requirement? Two identical balls of rock, with same atmosphere and what not, one orbiting the star directly, one orbiting a big chunk of gas, makes one a "planet" and the other one a mere "moon". Same for a freestanding planet going through the galaxy or even outside.
I don't think our knowledge of physics is likely to be that much off where it comes to relativity. On the other hand, with a lot of non-fundamental research we can get to a nearby star system within a few tens thousands year. Yeah, we can make a flyby in a tiny fraction of that time, but having to decelerate at the destination makes the whole affair enormously harder. This might sound like needing generational ships which would require a large population to stave off degeneration, but I think we can defeat aging within 50-100 years then get rid of yet-unknown maladies that happen once you're 200 or 1000 years old (which might need a few iterations, so real immortality is a few thousands years away). Once we're there, taking tens of thousands years to travel a single hop is not a show-stopper -- just remember to take a pack of cards to spend time during the journey.
Another option is hard AI which can be considered a form of earthlings. In that case, after sending a receiver the slow way you can transfer "people" at the speed of light.
it took them 20 years to add mp3 support, how long do you think it takes to fix the init system which was taken in 5 years ago? Hint: do not hold your breath while waiting.
I don't expect systemd to be fixed, ever, but in 5 years you can expect the CADT team to invent a yet another init scheme, with even more regressions, and force everyone to transition to it.
Why would you use FLAC if OPUS is fully transparent at 128kbps, and for real-world use 96kbps is fine (as opposed to MP3 which even at its max, 320kbps, has artefacts recognizable by ordinary people on cheap gear)? For stuff that's going to be further processed, perhaps, but not for music you're going to only listen to.
Use a real keyboard or an emulation and wifi won't be required. The side channel will be audio, easy to distinguish by an unaided human ear, from the next building.
It's the wrong layer to do "stream reservations" or any such kind of prioritising. Ethernet is supposed to deliver bits and frames as-is, managing buffers or the order of packets belongs to a higher layer. Such a layering violation results in no end of bloat and complexity. Complexity = errors.
char string[MAX_PATH];
What can possibly go wrong? Especially before MAX_PATH was invented.
Start your path with \\?\ and see how MAX_PATH/PATH_MAX works.
That's why Hurd guys had the right idea to remove these whatsoever, causing lots of buggy software to fail to build instead of having crashes, often exploitable, at runtime.
in a democracy, departing leaders are allowed off the stage and permitted to, like Cincinnatus, go back to tilling their fields
Cincinnatus was a total opposite of miscreants I hope will meet justice. He's done no crimes whatsoever, and, once the crisis he was granted dictatorship to deal with was over, immediately relinquished his power. Obama's cronies on the other hand used all legal and especially illegal means to claw at staying at power. That some of these means (like a much lesser amount of illegal domestic spying) was already in place by Bush is no reason to forgive Obama but to prosecute both bastards together.
Letting what is no mere mistakes but outright serious crimes is not "peaceful transition of power", it's what's euphemistically called "an old boys club" and what's nothing but corruption of the worst degree. By extending this "courtesy" a new leader ensures he himself will be above the law.
You mean, GNAA hasn't run you away years ago? It's rare to see an article without an AC shitpost, I don't understand your sudden outrage. Just either don't read at -1 or be prepared to see the noise. The moderation system works.
3) Trey Gowdy might actually have enough integrity to prosecute criminals from both sides of the Ruling Party. Obama gave Bush's minions a walk as a professional courtesy.
This. Please, oh so please, do include both head honchos -- Bush and Obama's felonies start at FISA violations and go further. Trump doesn't have a shred of integrity himself but he's so opposed to the establishment that he may let some honest men do their work and put both bastards in the same cell.
Turkey? Member of NATO (thus "the west") yet with a regime with policies pretty close to those of Putin.
Dear Director of the FBI: Thank you for possibly breaking the law by dropping an election bombshell and tanking Clinton's poll numbers over absolutely nothing.
You mean, certainly breaking the law by declaring that Clinton is all-ok twice despite her obviously and knowingly disregarding secrecy rules, for a self-serving and illegal goal (avoiding scrutiny), that allowed multiple foreign intelligencies and even script kiddies to get access to Top Secret and higher classified data?
In this election she was the worse of two evils (she, not Obama, caused one or possibly two (depending how you count) wars). On the other hand, they both are so bad that voting for Cthulhu would be choosing a lesser evil.
What exactly R&D costs does a 50 years old drug have? Beside costs of bribing officials at all levels to get rid of generics, that is.
for Grandma, her meds
Actually, for pharma companies selling drugs for 1000x times or more it takes to produce them.
They should try to shoot peace treaties and diplomatic efforts through that gun barrel. They are a lot cheaper and the area of effect usually covers one or more countries with one single round.
Let's see how well Ukraine fared by trading their nukes for a defense pact that Russia, the US and UK will come defend it from attacks. Or, one of your potential Dear Leaders (at least having the decency to say this beforehand!) declaring that Nato Shmato, Lithuania and co are free for Matushka Rossiya back for taking.
The difference between synthetic vs natural diamonds is exactly the same as between ice you get from putting water into your freezer vs that hauled from far-away mountains. The latter is expensive and dirty. If you want, you can put dirt into your synthetic diamonds too!
M-dwarves last for a trillion years while a sun-class star is good only for a few billions (ours is 4.5ba old and in a billion years Earth will be uninhabitable). Which matters exactly zilch when the whole Universe is only 13.8ba old, and you need a few star lifetime iterations to produce enough "metals" (for astronomers anything above hellium is a metal) for life to be viable.
There's indeed more dwarves than any other kind of stars, but then, their habitable zones are much smaller and they have other problems that are harmful to life in our sense, so they don't have any advantage. Wake me up in a trillion years or two, then life will be strongly biased to dwarf stars.
On slashdot everything is Windows 10's fault. Obamacare is actually just a rebranded Windows10care, [...]
You mean both Hitlary and Drumpf are related to Windows 10? You americans are truly fucked...
What kind of kindergarten shit is this?
Well, it's mostly people who don't know any better (ie, the vast majority). If you need a relational database, you want real SQL like Postgres. If you're happy with a flat store, there are more efficient solutions that don't pretend to be SQL.
Debian archive rebuilds plus off-site backups. A "consumer" fast-download-slow-upload connection is fine for such a task; if shit hits the fan and my upload speed is not enough to restore the entire backup I can drive with a disk.
but CentOS 5 is not supported and I have no plan to reinstall the entire server
Sorry but you'll need to do that very soon as CentOS 5 is supported only until March 2017, and in releases that ancient they didn't provide a reasonable way of upgrades. And if you accrued that much technical debt, it might be faster to just nuke and reinstall anyway.
much of Trump's rhetoric is similar to Hitler's
Newsflash: it's not Trump who's acts like Hitler.
You're assuming negligence where malice is obvious. She did it to hide her illegal actions from possible prosecution. The US isn't Russia, yet -- she can't assassinate, spy on and otherwise abuse government agencies against her political opponents in the open yet. She does deeply envy Putin, though, and does everything she can do turn most of the western world into a Russia-like hellhole. Her and her buddies' tentacles reach far beyond borders of the US.
Her opponent is merely an incompetent buffoon, quite a step down from the Second Coming of Adolf. And I'm not joking here -- take a look at Eich, Thiel, Snowden, Assange -- the rhetoric and actions of Hillary's supporters are dangerously close to what Jews of 1933 faced.