one application might not scale, but Eclipse plus Firefox plus a couple of virtualboxed windows-es running various versions of IE plus a web server plus a db, GIMP, file manager, YM client, Skype and a couple of other applications running at the same time scale nicely...
why don't you try a Windows distribution from 1991, or whenever Linux came out, and see how you manage... My copy of XP was stamped by Microsoft two years ago, and Debian was easier to install on a Fujitsu laptop... and I get about the same battery time, too, not that I bothered to benchmark.
In Siebel's view, far larger opportunities are to be found in businesses that address needs in food, water, health care and energy.
... which will all need hardware and software to run...
In 1800 it was a great time to be able to build steam engines, in 1850 it was great if you could build railway steam engines, in the 1920s it was great if you could build reliable gasoline engines etc.
Before 2000 you could get away with knowing how to build static web pages or designing logos in Paint Shop Pro, and the growth started from 0. Now it's a bit more demanding, but I think that as long as companies and people will need to organize information the demand for IT services will grow at least as fast as the economy in general, and some niches will grow a lot faster (NLP, data mining, physical simulations maybe).
If you had any idea how many of the items you use are made of recycled materials "extracted" from garbage, you would be most probably eating with your hands out of a pot you made yourself from bog iron... supposing you belong to a culture that cares about clean/unclean stuff.
Another example: a lot more land was cultivated a hundred years ago than it is now, and there were fewer forests.
In an ideal world where all resources are extracted from pristine sources, all waste is dumped and there are no economies of scale you would be right. Fortunately for us metals were recycled for thousands of years, we recycle a larger percentage of our waste than our ancestors did, and the economies of scale are amplified by technological advance.
No need for population control: prosperous populations have fewer children. Without immigration even US population would go down. Teach people they can have fun and they won't have time for toddlers.
Not funny... I am sitting on ten years' worth of backups, would not want to have the dogs barking at my door then the police browse each CD or DVD to try find copyrighted material.
Let it to the army... imagine hordes of grumpy old senile gramps walking through walls in their armored ('cause you'll need armor with muscle strength * 32) power suits, squishing unruly babies and going to vote...
From what I can gather from free online sources, it's not the NASA that's doing most for space projects, but the Air Force: engines, launch systems, fuels etc.
They did not date the rock the tool was made off, but the rock in the strata the tool was found in.
The bit about being "a type of rock formed by meteorites" quite probably means that the surrounding rock had bits of glass resulting from a meteorite impact. As with cooled magma, it is possible to measure the products of radioactive decay that are trapped in the rock, such as radon, who would have been freed while the rock was still hot, and determine the approximate date at which the rock cooled off. Of course, the precision is not great.
The chipped stones used by Homo Erectus don't look much like instruments, anyway. The answer is: if the rock has marks it was used as a tool (for example, tiny but characteristic scratches along the "blade": sometimes it is even possible to tell what kind of material a stone tool was used to cut by looking at those scratches), or if it is associated (in the same strata and close by) with items that are indubitably made by humans.
There are rocks that look very much like tools early hominids would have used, rocks that were found in strata some 70 million years old: still, no wear on those rocks that would make one think they were ever used as "tools".
In other news, people tell consistent lies: if they lie about their TV-viewing habits, they will lie about working out, reading, recycling, voting the Green Party, not bribing their way out of speeding tickets etc.
Basically, you are right. Still, there is more about forking than going on on your own, at least if you expect your fork will be used by somebody else. If you'll attempt to fork Linux (only an example, no suggestion you might want it:-) ), either you'll have to delegate the management of the project or of parts of it to somebody else, or persuade your partners in that attempt to delegate the management to you. Then you'll have to either delegate, or trust that somebody else will take care of a lot of stuff, from distribution to PR or recruitment of new developers. Even if you'll fork Frozen Bubble you'll have to do some politicking to have your version be used by an audience larger than yourself.
Elections do not mean giving control to "one of the small number of choice candidates". No politician in any country is in control: even the most oppressive regime needs either an army of robot warriors and bureaucrats, or the active support, the cooperation or the indifference of a majority of it's subjects. Nobody is IN CONTROL in politics: everybody trades some control for some cooperation, very much like in any project run by volunteers.
As far as elections are concerned, you GIVE up control only if you don't participate.
As I see it, a more fitting analogy for forking is starting your own political party.
Of course it's easy to fork the government: it's called elections.
For example:
Everyone with the right to vote that cares to vote chooses what code base they want, then the project managers share the server partitions and the maintenance bill according to the ballots that were cast. Of course, you can't start with a clean slate because there are legacy applications that need to be kept running, and you'll get everybody to agree on an issue only in a very few instances, so most of the time everybody will have to compromise. Of course, if you can separate your own hardware from that of the people you don't agree with, you can partition the floor, get your own power meters and your own contracts with the landlord and the power company. If you really, but really do not agree how the server room is run, you can move to a different datacenter, provided the people that run it agree to host you.
Representative democracy is not about good government, honesty, equity or any other uplifting blabber. Democracy is about avoiding civil war.
Second, it's not "Mother" Nature, it is "Father" Nature, and he is an evil abusive moron who never stopped trying to kill us all. Fortunately, soon we'll be able not only leave home, but also retire him to a "natural preserve" and let him play with himself.
Third, I wish the neo-Malthusians would get an education: no species of "animal" can over-multiply, because it's population will grow until it will fill it's ecological niche, then it will stop growing.
Before the oil scarcity, I dread more parking space scarcity: that already gets people in trouble, and with a modern city block having as much population as a medieval Italian republic, wars are certain to erupt.
If I understand it right, it's those with wealth and power that want their _dependants_ tracked.
In other news: kidnappers don't bother with the implants, just strip their victims naked to make sure the GPS device is removed, and since the implants don't work without them...
Huntington was a bloody crook. He took the "yellow fear" stereotypes and put them in "civilization" clothes.
The "clash of civilizations" never happened, not before, and not after he wrote his pathetic article: even now, the most vicious conflicts take place between people that have almost everything in common (ex. Shia and Sunni Muslims).
As to the "genetic map of Europe", I call it a bunch of crap: how come the Fins are so far apart ? Did they select out all the Swedish, the Russians and the Suomi when they took the samples ? There should be a huge overlap between Sweden, Finland and Germany...
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one application might not scale, but Eclipse plus Firefox plus a couple of virtualboxed windows-es running various versions of IE plus a web server plus a db, GIMP, file manager, YM client, Skype and a couple of other applications running at the same time scale nicely ...
easy ... stop fixing their windows-es for free.
why don't you try a Windows distribution from 1991, or whenever Linux came out, and see how you manage ... My copy of XP was stamped by Microsoft two years ago, and Debian was easier to install on a Fujitsu laptop ... and I get about the same battery time, too, not that I bothered to benchmark.
In Siebel's view, far larger opportunities are to be found in businesses that address needs in food, water, health care and energy.
... which will all need hardware and software to run ...
In 1800 it was a great time to be able to build steam engines, in 1850 it was great if you could build railway steam engines, in the 1920s it was great if you could build reliable gasoline engines etc.
Before 2000 you could get away with knowing how to build static web pages or designing logos in Paint Shop Pro, and the growth started from 0. Now it's a bit more demanding, but I think that as long as companies and people will need to organize information the demand for IT services will grow at least as fast as the economy in general, and some niches will grow a lot faster (NLP, data mining, physical simulations maybe).
If you had any idea how many of the items you use are made of recycled materials "extracted" from garbage, you would be most probably eating with your hands out of a pot you made yourself from bog iron ... supposing you belong to a culture that cares about clean/unclean stuff.
Another example: a lot more land was cultivated a hundred years ago than it is now, and there were fewer forests.
In an ideal world where all resources are extracted from pristine sources, all waste is dumped and there are no economies of scale you would be right. Fortunately for us metals were recycled for thousands of years, we recycle a larger percentage of our waste than our ancestors did, and the economies of scale are amplified by technological advance.
No need for population control: prosperous populations have fewer children. Without immigration even US population would go down. Teach people they can have fun and they won't have time for toddlers.
Not funny ... I am sitting on ten years' worth of backups, would not want to have the dogs barking at my door then the police browse each CD or DVD to try find copyrighted material.
Let it to the army ... imagine hordes of grumpy old senile gramps walking through walls in their armored ('cause you'll need armor with muscle strength * 32) power suits, squishing unruly babies and going to vote ...
From what I can gather from free online sources, it's not the NASA that's doing most for space projects, but the Air Force: engines, launch systems, fuels etc.
They did not date the rock the tool was made off, but the rock in the strata the tool was found in.
The bit about being "a type of rock formed by meteorites" quite probably means that the surrounding rock had bits of glass resulting from a meteorite impact. As with cooled magma, it is possible to measure the products of radioactive decay that are trapped in the rock, such as radon, who would have been freed while the rock was still hot, and determine the approximate date at which the rock cooled off. Of course, the precision is not great.
informative +1
The chipped stones used by Homo Erectus don't look much like instruments, anyway. The answer is: if the rock has marks it was used as a tool (for example, tiny but characteristic scratches along the "blade": sometimes it is even possible to tell what kind of material a stone tool was used to cut by looking at those scratches), or if it is associated (in the same strata and close by) with items that are indubitably made by humans.
There are rocks that look very much like tools early hominids would have used, rocks that were found in strata some 70 million years old: still, no wear on those rocks that would make one think they were ever used as "tools".
In other news, people tell consistent lies: if they lie about their TV-viewing habits, they will lie about working out, reading, recycling, voting the Green Party, not bribing their way out of speeding tickets etc.
Basically, you are right. Still, there is more about forking than going on on your own, at least if you expect your fork will be used by somebody else. If you'll attempt to fork Linux (only an example, no suggestion you might want it :-) ), either you'll have to delegate the management of the project or of parts of it to somebody else, or persuade your partners in that attempt to delegate the management to you. Then you'll have to either delegate, or trust that somebody else will take care of a lot of stuff, from distribution to PR or recruitment of new developers. Even if you'll fork Frozen Bubble you'll have to do some politicking to have your version be used by an audience larger than yourself.
Elections do not mean giving control to "one of the small number of choice candidates". No politician in any country is in control: even the most oppressive regime needs either an army of robot warriors and bureaucrats, or the active support, the cooperation or the indifference of a majority of it's subjects. Nobody is IN CONTROL in politics: everybody trades some control for some cooperation, very much like in any project run by volunteers.
As far as elections are concerned, you GIVE up control only if you don't participate.
As I see it, a more fitting analogy for forking is starting your own political party.
you don't need a license to sell or produce food products
How are things in Luna City ?
Of course it's easy to fork the government: it's called elections.
For example:
Everyone with the right to vote that cares to vote chooses what code base they want, then the project managers share the server partitions and the maintenance bill according to the ballots that were cast. Of course, you can't start with a clean slate because there are legacy applications that need to be kept running, and you'll get everybody to agree on an issue only in a very few instances, so most of the time everybody will have to compromise. Of course, if you can separate your own hardware from that of the people you don't agree with, you can partition the floor, get your own power meters and your own contracts with the landlord and the power company. If you really, but really do not agree how the server room is run, you can move to a different datacenter, provided the people that run it agree to host you.
Representative democracy is not about good government, honesty, equity or any other uplifting blabber. Democracy is about avoiding civil war.
First, US has about 300 mil.
Second, it's not "Mother" Nature, it is "Father" Nature, and he is an evil abusive moron who never stopped trying to kill us all. Fortunately, soon we'll be able not only leave home, but also retire him to a "natural preserve" and let him play with himself.
Third, I wish the neo-Malthusians would get an education: no species of "animal" can over-multiply, because it's population will grow until it will fill it's ecological niche, then it will stop growing.
Before the oil scarcity, I dread more parking space scarcity: that already gets people in trouble, and with a modern city block having as much population as a medieval Italian republic, wars are certain to erupt.
They are already working on it ... it's called "Burnout Warrior 1" and is powered by hot air.
If I understand it right, it's those with wealth and power that want their _dependants_ tracked.
In other news: kidnappers don't bother with the implants, just strip their victims naked to make sure the GPS device is removed, and since the implants don't work without them ...
I wonder why not just carry the GPS device ...
I see, lots of stuck jars, crawling bugs and poor roads in your area ... and stores seem to be closing awfully early, too.
Do you need a job ? ...
Oh ... don't bother ... I checked out the requirements for visa and work permit and you need to be a mix of Bill Gates and Randal Schwartz to get in ...
what are you going to to when you need a hash of arrays of hashes ? Or a sorted (or sortable) hash of anything ?
Perl allows you to be as strict as you want, and as lax as you want. Anything else is just project management.
real Perl programmers would not laugh at readable code ... most of the CPAN modules are quite readable.
what's not obvious in that line ?
Huntington was a bloody crook. He took the "yellow fear" stereotypes and put them in "civilization" clothes.
The "clash of civilizations" never happened, not before, and not after he wrote his pathetic article: even now, the most vicious conflicts take place between people that have almost everything in common (ex. Shia and Sunni Muslims).
As to the "genetic map of Europe", I call it a bunch of crap: how come the Fins are so far apart ? Did they select out all the Swedish, the Russians and the Suomi when they took the samples ? There should be a huge overlap between Sweden, Finland and Germany ...