5 gig a month??? I seriously hope it's a Verizon branch in Congo or whereabouts. I'm not a heavy user, I don't even watch any movies or even YouTube, yet let's see: RX bytes:255463019699 (237.9 GiB) TX bytes:20164409761 (18.7 GiB) up 7 days, 12:43 Ie, 34GB per day. And I live in a small town in a Poland (a second-world country recently well on its way to fourty-second world).
The government had no right to promise something it's not up to them to decide. They were authorized to conduct a non-binding referendum, any promises above that are theirs. If anything should fall, it's the government not the Parliament.
They removed the power button and replaced it with a software button. There is apparently no longer any way to manually turn the new MacBook Pros off and on.
Just pull the battery. Oh, wait...
Seriously, a CrapOS X (or any OS, really) machine without a hardware switch off is akin to those "Designed for Windows 95" boxes where you needed a needle to press the reset button.
[...]How do we expect to issue this kit to the world that hasnt embraced "bravery" and thrown away every still entirely functional USB device they own?
Case in point: I currently have 9 USB-A cables connected to my desktop, and recently had to get a hub to plug in more. I have yet to put my hands on a single USB-C device.
At least here, a woman needs to be married to be allowed in vitro. On the other hand, our current theocratic national socialist government wants to forbid in vitro completely, with prison terms for both the woman and the doctor; they've already scrapped all refundation and availability in taxpayer-paid hospitals (ie, almost all of healthcare in Poland).
Not quite - historically the entire area was almost in confederation with Polish-Lithuania against Russia.
The name "Polish-Lithuania" is wrong, the country was named "Rzeczypospolita Obojga Narodów" ("The Republic/Commonweath of Both Nations"), which consisted of two parts in an union: "Lithuania" (hardly any connection with present-day "Lithuania" that's Samogitia with a sliver of old Lithuania's territory (which was mostly Belarus) and speaks renamed Samogitian instead of old Lithuanian) and "Korona" which the "Russian" voivodship (aka Ukraine -- barbarians from the east later stolen even the name) was in the middle of. Poland geographically was only a small part of Korona (albeit economically dominant).
So Iceland is green, and Greenland is full of ice? What depraved times do we live in!
Actually, the naming of Greenland was an intentional lie by Erik the Red to make it sound better for settlers he tried to recruit. He lived in 10th century.
the only absolute way of preventing pregnancy is abstinence (although you can probably find a counter-example)
If you mean the cases of Marduk, Buddha, Qi, Lao-Tse, Abaoji, Jesus, Horus, Mithra, Mithras, Krishna, Huitzilopochtli, Quetzalcoatl, Alan Gua, Momotaro and Deganawida, their claims are about as believable as words of an US presidential candidate.
rampant overpopulation because no one enforced this rule: if you want to be immortal you can have no kids, no not even one.
And why do you assume the poor will be immortal? At least initially, the cost of life prolonging measures will be enormous -- and the rich are the ones to set the rules. Do you expect them to make rules that hurt only themselves?
You and Asimov are forgetting that diversity of humans is going to increase rather than decrease. Even in a natural ecosystem with abundant contact, speciation occurs at time frames less than 100k years. Interstellar travel implies delays of thousands years even between nearest star systems, and you can't expect a big enough fraction of population to counteract speciation to go back and forth for no reason.
And we don't even need interstellar travel for that. While in western countries genetical engineering on humans is forbidden for "moral" reasons, I expect non-experimental modifications to humans in less than 20 years in China and in secret US programs.
You mean, other than than Girkin bragging about the shootdown on VKontakte? Or the photo of the BUK battery with one missile missing.
Ukraine banned commercial only from flying low (below 32000 ft) because there was no suspicion Russia would provide their troops with weaponry useful only against planes with no direct combat roles, as those troops were thinly disguised as "not active duty soldiers".
I don't think anyone would do something as suicidal as today's driving: operating a dangerous machine for hour or more every day while tired/distracted/etc, when a fraction of second of inattention often means death. Heck, even that is going to be reduced by 1-2 orders of magnitude with technology that is almost ready for use. Likewise with planes: we are able to make them a heck more safer, but no one bothers because current rate of accidents is deemed cost-acceptable as you're likely to die soon for other reasons anyway.
Thus, our descendants will die either because they decided to do so or because someone else decided so.
20th century SF thought it'd be cryonegenics, but I believe biological immortality will be the answer. While stopping aging is, like the cure a cancer, still vapourware despite people promising over and over that "it's close", it's safe to assume it'll be done in no more than 50-100 years. Then, we'll discover some new health conditions that appear only at the age of 200+ and kill people, these will need to be dealt with. Then, a new generation will have similar problems at the age of 1000+. But fast forward a few such iterations and humans will really live forever, accidents, murder and heat death of the Universe notwithstanding.
Then there's hard AI, which can also be considered a form of earthlings...
I mean C. A language that, while quite old, people use for stuff like kernels that actually need to be reliable. And somehow, WebAssembly is supposed to replace all that newfangled JavaScript with good plain C (they plan to maybe add garbage collection primitives to allow languages which need that, but it's nowhere near priority).
2. So they're losing Esc, but they're keeping the Caps Lock key? Even Google has the design sense to lose that.
Try programming in a real language and the loss of Caps Lock is rather infuriating. And Google replaced Caps with an utterly worthless "Search" key which is an anti-ergonomic marketing gimmick, even more useless than a dedicated search box in a browser.
This depends if you still have another working terminal or can spawn one. If you do, no problems, "killall vi" or an equivalent will help. If not, you're probably fucked as no way to spawn terminals implies you're in a rescue shell/over a serial line/etc. The amount of line noise required to exit vi is long enough that the chances of finding it on your own are rather unlikely.
Good: no, drinkable if you're pressed: yes; if you follow the 1516 german beer purity law you'd need to be grossly incompetent to produce unpalatable swill. Thus, no rice additions and, especially, no urine.
I'm talking about actual Budweiser rather than the toxic liquid from AnB InBev, of course.
If you're looking for good beer, though, you need to look elsewhere.
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they're on Verizon's 5gig a month plan
5 gig a month??? I seriously hope it's a Verizon branch in Congo or whereabouts. I'm not a heavy user, I don't even watch any movies or even YouTube, yet let's see:
RX bytes:255463019699 (237.9 GiB) TX bytes:20164409761 (18.7 GiB)
up 7 days, 12:43
Ie, 34GB per day.
And I live in a small town in a Poland (a second-world country recently well on its way to fourty-second world).
The government had no right to promise something it's not up to them to decide. They were authorized to conduct a non-binding referendum, any promises above that are theirs. If anything should fall, it's the government not the Parliament.
They removed the power button and replaced it with a software button. There is apparently no longer any way to manually turn the new MacBook Pros off and on.
Just pull the battery. Oh, wait...
Seriously, a CrapOS X (or any OS, really) machine without a hardware switch off is akin to those "Designed for Windows 95" boxes where you needed a needle to press the reset button.
Having four USB-C ports is awesome.
[...]How do we expect to issue this kit to the world that hasnt embraced "bravery" and thrown away every still entirely functional USB device they own?
Case in point: I currently have 9 USB-A cables connected to my desktop, and recently had to get a hub to plug in more. I have yet to put my hands on a single USB-C device.
What part of the word non-binding is hard to understand? Despite what Farage and May want, the referendum was from the beginning purely advisory.
His company was destroyed because he ignored the law. Let's all feel sorry for him.
Well, let's see how ignoring the law works for, let's say, Clinton. Hmm... perhaps some animals are more equal than others?
An enumeration such as { Full | Sufficient | Low | Critical } would have solved the privacy issue
Except that the primary reason for this change was not tracking but Uber jacking prices up if your battery is low.
Because of the cold and dry, almost non-existent atmosphere, tea actually has a chance to stay unspoiled on the crash site.
Uh, why would anyone even consider that single window mode when not on a crap OS without virtual desktops? Its usability seems abysmal to me.
Explaining an unexpected child as god's progeny is a clever way for a priest to ease the simpleton husband's fears and doubts
So you say the whole story was just Mary's excuse for her infidelity to Joseph? Who wuda thunk it!
At least here, a woman needs to be married to be allowed in vitro. On the other hand, our current theocratic national socialist government wants to forbid in vitro completely, with prison terms for both the woman and the doctor; they've already scrapped all refundation and availability in taxpayer-paid hospitals (ie, almost all of healthcare in Poland).
Not quite - historically the entire area was almost in confederation with Polish-Lithuania against Russia.
The name "Polish-Lithuania" is wrong, the country was named "Rzeczypospolita Obojga Narodów" ("The Republic/Commonweath of Both Nations"), which consisted of two parts in an union: "Lithuania" (hardly any connection with present-day "Lithuania" that's Samogitia with a sliver of old Lithuania's territory (which was mostly Belarus) and speaks renamed Samogitian instead of old Lithuanian) and "Korona" which the "Russian" voivodship (aka Ukraine -- barbarians from the east later stolen even the name) was in the middle of. Poland geographically was only a small part of Korona (albeit economically dominant).
So Iceland is green, and Greenland is full of ice? What depraved times do we live in!
Actually, the naming of Greenland was an intentional lie by Erik the Red to make it sound better for settlers he tried to recruit. He lived in 10th century.
the only absolute way of preventing pregnancy is abstinence (although you can probably find a counter-example)
If you mean the cases of Marduk, Buddha, Qi, Lao-Tse, Abaoji, Jesus, Horus, Mithra, Mithras, Krishna, Huitzilopochtli, Quetzalcoatl, Alan Gua, Momotaro and Deganawida, their claims are about as believable as words of an US presidential candidate.
rampant overpopulation because no one enforced this rule: if you want to be immortal you can have no kids, no not even one.
And why do you assume the poor will be immortal? At least initially, the cost of life prolonging measures will be enormous -- and the rich are the ones to set the rules. Do you expect them to make rules that hurt only themselves?
You and Asimov are forgetting that diversity of humans is going to increase rather than decrease. Even in a natural ecosystem with abundant contact, speciation occurs at time frames less than 100k years. Interstellar travel implies delays of thousands years even between nearest star systems, and you can't expect a big enough fraction of population to counteract speciation to go back and forth for no reason.
And we don't even need interstellar travel for that. While in western countries genetical engineering on humans is forbidden for "moral" reasons, I expect non-experimental modifications to humans in less than 20 years in China and in secret US programs.
You mean, other than than Girkin bragging about the shootdown on VKontakte? Or the photo of the BUK battery with one missile missing.
Ukraine banned commercial only from flying low (below 32000 ft) because there was no suspicion Russia would provide their troops with weaponry useful only against planes with no direct combat roles, as those troops were thinly disguised as "not active duty soldiers".
I don't think anyone would do something as suicidal as today's driving: operating a dangerous machine for hour or more every day while tired/distracted/etc, when a fraction of second of inattention often means death. Heck, even that is going to be reduced by 1-2 orders of magnitude with technology that is almost ready for use. Likewise with planes: we are able to make them a heck more safer, but no one bothers because current rate of accidents is deemed cost-acceptable as you're likely to die soon for other reasons anyway.
Thus, our descendants will die either because they decided to do so or because someone else decided so.
20th century SF thought it'd be cryonegenics, but I believe biological immortality will be the answer. While stopping aging is, like the cure a cancer, still vapourware despite people promising over and over that "it's close", it's safe to assume it'll be done in no more than 50-100 years. Then, we'll discover some new health conditions that appear only at the age of 200+ and kill people, these will need to be dealt with. Then, a new generation will have similar problems at the age of 1000+. But fast forward a few such iterations and humans will really live forever, accidents, murder and heat death of the Universe notwithstanding.
Then there's hard AI, which can also be considered a form of earthlings...
Actually, these improvements are not so much complications as they are an act of war against users.
So Windows users will find Gnome3 just at home.
Especially since it won't be just payment (pretty minor thus easy to turn down), but loss of a job, social ostracism and so on.
I mean C. A language that, while quite old, people use for stuff like kernels that actually need to be reliable. And somehow, WebAssembly is supposed to replace all that newfangled JavaScript with good plain C (they plan to maybe add garbage collection primitives to allow languages which need that, but it's nowhere near priority).
2. So they're losing Esc, but they're keeping the Caps Lock key? Even Google has the design sense to lose that.
Try programming in a real language and the loss of Caps Lock is rather infuriating. And Google replaced Caps with an utterly worthless "Search" key which is an anti-ergonomic marketing gimmick, even more useless than a dedicated search box in a browser.
Open a file with vi and see.
This depends if you still have another working terminal or can spawn one. If you do, no problems, "killall vi" or an equivalent will help. If not, you're probably fucked as no way to spawn terminals implies you're in a rescue shell/over a serial line/etc. The amount of line noise required to exit vi is long enough that the chances of finding it on your own are rather unlikely.
Budweiser is a good beer.
Good: no, drinkable if you're pressed: yes; if you follow the 1516 german beer purity law you'd need to be grossly incompetent to produce unpalatable swill. Thus, no rice additions and, especially, no urine.
I'm talking about actual Budweiser rather than the toxic liquid from AnB InBev, of course.
If you're looking for good beer, though, you need to look elsewhere.