Nas4free is about as low maintenance as you can get. Put the embedded version on some USB stick, boot, setup through the web server, and pretty much forget. Use ZFS on all the disks.
Were you robbed for a lot of money? Are you quite sure that by pulling out your own gun next time, the criminals will just turn tail and flee? what if they are dumb enough and crazy enough to try and shoot first? Are you fully prepared to go down that route?
OK, so the US government has been recently shown conclusively to lie and spy on its own citizens, not to mention sending them to die on useless faraway wars, overtaxing them and maintaining a worrisome inequality regime for the benefit of only a few rich citizen. Clearly the US gov seems to be evil. Where are the righteous citizens taking up arms and bringing down that evil government?
How much is a death worth according to you, even in pure monetary terms? Conservative estimates are that a life is worth about 7 million dollars. 91 million dollars vs 800000 recalls. If the part is worth less than 100 dollars, which it sounds like it is, it is worth it.
We've had the technical capacity to make durable metal items with numerical lathes for a long time, however it remains a skilled job. For the time being home 3D printing is more or less limited to making fragile plastic stuff. I can't see how that will soon start a revolution.
You will not find any fossil fuel on Mars or the Moon no matter how hard you look. Mars has very little atmosphere or indeed Sun energy input. It is difficult to think of a less hospitable world than the Moon. At this stage seeding either with people is not a sustainable solution and would not help Earth. So what use is it exactly?
No, resources on Earth and even the entire solar system including the Sun definitely are finite. We are not even talking about a very long time in the future. According to your theory at some point coal could become more expensive than diamond. But you cannot run a civilization on diamond.
Most economists would say that Western capitalism requires a growth rate of about 3% per year to keep everyone happy (low unemployment, funding, etc). At a sustained growth rate of 3% per year, we would be using the entire energy output of the Sun in 1000 years. Do the math. Civilization is a lot older than 1000 years. From this, two conclusions
1- Even the entire energy output of the Sun is a finite resource 2- Western capitalism will fail even in the not so distant future.
For those who would say "but we can make a lot of progress in 1000 years", I would like to point out that contrary to popular opinion, we haven't made that much progress since the 11th century.
Plus 5 degrees of global warming everywhere due to all these coal-operated power plants to conduct the artificial and useless computation called mining.
Sadly, your personal sacrifice is of very little import. Mennonites and Amish are pretty much self-reliant, so their impact is not as great as you think.
Please do the actual math. The energy required to move a sizable portion (say 10%) of mankind off this planet is tremendous. Just off, not going anywhere. It is currently not economically feasible and physically very hard.
Also notice that when energy is spent, it stays spent most of the time. At 3% annual growth, which is the amount politicians like to think is a minimum to guarantee such things as employment rates, it will take about 1000 years to utilize the entire energy output of the Sun.
Total power used by mankind today: 10^13 W Total solar power striking the Earth: 10^17 W Total solar power output: 10^26 W
3% compounded over 1000 years: 10^13
Who knows where humankind will be in 1000 years but my guess is that we are unlikely to achieve a Dyson sphere.
The advantages are several, here are a few I can think of (not that I practice them myself !)
1- You can use your Windows installation in both a real and a virtual machine. Some VM engines allow you to run off a physical disk, like VMWare. If you dual-boot from Linux or OSX, sometime you want to use your windows installation to check out some software and you do not want to reboot and lose your current work. With the DRM version of Windows, you would need two licenses, even though you are never using both at the same time.
2- You can change your hardware anyway you want. The DRM version will unregister itself if you change the CPU, the motherboard, too many disks, the graphics card, and whatnot. You have to re-register by telephone, which is a huge hassle and may stop working if you do it too often.
3- You can carry over your installation of Windows to your new computer (same issue as #2, really).
4- Why do you need as many licenses of Windows if you have say 3 computers but only ever use one at any given time ? Say one at work, one at your SO, and one at home, if you are self-employed?
Basically Windows is behind the time. Linux is free and good, and OSX is becoming more and more gratis (not libre, unfortunately).
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Nas4free is about as low maintenance as you can get. Put the embedded version on some USB stick, boot, setup through the web server, and pretty much forget. Use ZFS on all the disks.
Were you robbed for a lot of money? Are you quite sure that by pulling out your own gun next time, the criminals will just turn tail and flee? what if they are dumb enough and crazy enough to try and shoot first? Are you fully prepared to go down that route?
No it wasn't.
Hello, anything more substantial than this nice summary one can read somewhere ?
OK, so the US government has been recently shown conclusively to lie and spy on its own citizens, not to mention sending them to die on useless faraway wars, overtaxing them and maintaining a worrisome inequality regime for the benefit of only a few rich citizen. Clearly the US gov seems to be evil. Where are the righteous citizens taking up arms and bringing down that evil government?
Which well-armed milicia do you belong to?
Self-driving cars will achieve this. Can't wait.
Amazingly, it is illegal not to know the law. More specifically, not knowing the law is never a defense.
How much is a death worth according to you, even in pure monetary terms? Conservative estimates are that a life is worth about 7 million dollars. 91 million dollars vs 800000 recalls. If the part is worth less than 100 dollars, which it sounds like it is, it is worth it.
Exactly. In spite of AC, please mod up.
We've had the technical capacity to make durable metal items with numerical lathes for a long time, however it remains a skilled job. For the time being home 3D printing is more or less limited to making fragile plastic stuff. I can't see how that will soon start a revolution.
Bill Spitzak is a well-known developer, particularly in the film industry. Among other things he created FLTK. Here's to you, Bill.
If a drug like that exists and is safe, can't we all benefit and start living 1000 year+ normal lives?
Criminals can be denied this drug, this would be harrowing to be limited to a short few years, boring ones to boot.
If you believe you can make power tools with some dirt and a 3D printer, many would have a bridge to sell you.
You will not find any fossil fuel on Mars or the Moon no matter how hard you look. Mars has very little atmosphere or indeed Sun energy input. It is difficult to think of a less hospitable world than the Moon. At this stage seeding either with people is not a sustainable solution and would not help Earth. So what use is it exactly?
No, resources on Earth and even the entire solar system including the Sun definitely are finite. We are not even talking about a very long time in the future. According to your theory at some point coal could become more expensive than diamond. But you cannot run a civilization on diamond.
Most economists would say that Western capitalism requires a growth rate of about 3% per year to keep everyone happy (low unemployment, funding, etc). At a sustained growth rate of 3% per year, we would be using the entire energy output of the Sun in 1000 years. Do the math. Civilization is a lot older than 1000 years. From this, two conclusions
1- Even the entire energy output of the Sun is a finite resource
2- Western capitalism will fail even in the not so distant future.
For those who would say "but we can make a lot of progress in 1000 years", I would like to point out that contrary to popular opinion, we haven't made that much progress since the 11th century.
Plus 5 degrees of global warming everywhere due to all these coal-operated power plants to conduct the artificial and useless computation called mining.
Fantastic video. Thanks.
Sadly, your personal sacrifice is of very little import. Mennonites and Amish are pretty much self-reliant, so their impact is not as great as you think.
Please do the actual math. The energy required to move a sizable portion (say 10%) of mankind off this planet is tremendous. Just off, not going anywhere. It is currently not economically feasible and physically very hard.
Also notice that when energy is spent, it stays spent most of the time. At 3% annual growth, which is the amount politicians like to think is a minimum to guarantee such things as employment rates, it will take about 1000 years to utilize the entire energy output of the Sun.
Total power used by mankind today: 10^13 W
Total solar power striking the Earth: 10^17 W
Total solar power output: 10^26 W
3% compounded over 1000 years: 10^13
Who knows where humankind will be in 1000 years but my guess is that we are unlikely to achieve a Dyson sphere.
Best.
The advantages are several, here are a few I can think of (not that I practice them myself !)
1- You can use your Windows installation in both a real and a virtual machine. Some VM engines allow you to run off a physical disk, like VMWare. If you dual-boot from Linux or OSX, sometime you want to use your windows installation to check out some software and you do not want to reboot and lose your current work. With the DRM version of Windows, you would need two licenses, even though you are never using both at the same time.
2- You can change your hardware anyway you want. The DRM version will unregister itself if you change the CPU, the motherboard, too many disks, the graphics card, and whatnot. You have to re-register by telephone, which is a huge hassle and may stop working if you do it too often.
3- You can carry over your installation of Windows to your new computer (same issue as #2, really).
4- Why do you need as many licenses of Windows if you have say 3 computers but only ever use one at any given time ? Say one at work, one at your SO, and one at home, if you are self-employed?
Basically Windows is behind the time. Linux is free and good, and OSX is becoming more and more gratis (not libre, unfortunately).
This, exactly.
Ornamental subjects like dentistry? Please read the article before making such comments. Cheers.
Very well played, sir.