Just out of curiosity whats your argument for or against coal + algae systems? The cleanest coal burning systems can stop putting out pretty much everything but the co2 which is exactly what increases the yield in an algae farm. Seeing as how the US has a huge stockpile of coal and lots of land that isn't usable for farming or easily returned to nature due to contamination it looks like a good solution until fusion can take over.
See the main problem I see between your example and most of the others is... the people coming to you are asking for help and they know they don't have the exact information. So helping them is fairly easy, they don't think they're experts. Most others are giving examples that are dealing with those higher up the food chain or are from people sure of their own knowledge and simply need the tech to implement their grand plan.
Now while there are diplomatic ways to go about this sort of thing that isn't confrontational most folks drawn to this industry from my experience aren't all that fond of diplomacy. If we were more socially skilled we'd be more interested in social events with the rest of humanity, instead we stick to our own because we're understood without having to do a stupid dance. So, yes, telling someone they're asking the wrong question doesn't necessarily always have to be "your wrong, heres why" it usually is pretty close to that. Personally I usually answer with "no and yes" when the way the question is currently phrased is wrong but what they really mean to be asking is right. This usually then opens up the conversation to what they really need or they get frustrated and leave me alone which is fine with me.
It isn't the chlorine that makes LA tap water taste bad. I lived 30 miles east of LA for years. While the tap water wasn't as good as the northern bits of the USA, such as Seattle as others have mentioned, it was acceptable and didn't make food you cooked with it taste funny. The stuff that comes out of LA taps if left to dry will leave almost a chalk like residue and not trace amounts either.
I know I'm not alone in this but... who the heck drinks from their tap? I'm directly in downtown LA and the water that comes out of the tap is not fit for human consumption, heck I wouldn't give it to a dog I liked. I need to use filtered water otherwise anything I cook will taste horrible. If we can't get it right in one of our major cities how can we point at China and go "Your water quality is crap!". China has the excuse that its undergoing a major growth spurt and uplifting their citizenry to 1st world status so if every i isn't dotted and every t isn't slashed thats understandable. Whats our excuse? We went through our industrial revolution over a hundred years ago and still can't get our water right.
I'd disagree. It's a daily thing for humans to do things that were 'impossible' even a few years ago. Someone may discover the queues a fetus uses someone else may figure out a way to restrict those queues to only be received by specific tissues. Those two discoveries would get around your scenario. I personally believe it will be very complex and I don't think it'll be anytime soon, but there is nothing about the procedure of growing specific tissues at specific locations that I'd call impossible. This isn't scientists talking about other dimensions that only exist in the realm of mathematics. This is a real physical thing that we *know* occurs in nature. Multiple creatures experience regenerative qualities which are exactly what we're talking about here. Nature does it every day, we just need to find that method or an alternative one to accomplish the same task. Its only a question of time.
Well problem with that is if your willing to kill someone to extend your potential 77 years to a potential 177 years you might just bring yourself to not even making it to 30 since you'll die in the attempt. But imagine a world where if you worked your ass off until 65 you could extend your working years until 135, yeah your working for another 70 years but you'll have over 40 years of retirement almost guaranteed with good investing vs people today retiring at 65 and keeling over at 75. Plus you'll still get vacation time during those extra work years and actually *see* your grandchildren grow up and have children of their own instead of dying of old age while they're teenagers.
And as the GP mentioned, that whole ban on research isn't helping. So instead of taking a decade or three it'll probably take a century before Gattaca like options exist, which btw several things already exist that touch on it fairly strongly. Regardless though by 2100 if any of the projections are accurate their lives will look as much like ours as ours do our great great grandparents.
Tangent, just picked up "The Unincorporated Man" since I had to head to the DMV.. made my 3 hour wait livable. Lots of technological changes with fairly massive social changes, 80 pages in and I'd recommend this to anyone who loves this genre.
No, we rent access to their server. The software is ours, that copy at least. If we want our software to connect to a different server that is our right. The fact that they have the ability to lock it down doesn't make it right even if its legal, for now. I don't think the Supreme Court has made a ruling on this sort of thing just yet.
Nope, no troll, just my honest opinion. I see no purpose to type of news Murdoch is promoting. I don't mean as an entire category, simply the for sensational profit type that Murdoch is complaining he isn't paid for. Folks into gaming who subscribe to a gaming magazine filled with gaming adverts is fine. Those interested in the world subscribing to something like national geographic is also perfectly fine. The news caster who is making a sensational spectacle of a hostage situation at a 7-11 or whatever is what I'd gladly never hear about again. We have no need for that sort of news.
I personally wouldn't care if news went away. Do you seriously need it in your life? In what way does sensational news improve your life? Important things in life can be handled by crowd sourcing. Man has been doing it for ages but used a slower media called messengers or letters. Today a kid can record something on their phone and upload it, much less an interested and concerned adult. The news the media corps give us isn't really relevant to our lives. If it was they wouldn't do stupid things like "Do you know one of your childrens toys might come alive and eat them!? Stay tuned until we get back!" If they gave a damn they'd tell you, but its all about money. So yes. Let them go broke. I couldn't care less.
So your solution is to pawn off the problem to someone else? Either your an ancient tech near retirement who is bored to tears with what he does or you never really loved this stuff to begin with. Unless I take glee in the idea that a particular individuals machine is broken because I despise them I'll help utter strangers fix their stuff just because its *fun* to figure out a problem. Helping the other guy and gaining their gratitude is a bonus. And yes I've been doing this for long enough that it isn't something I'll "grow out of".
That works awesome for the corporate world. But last I checked friends and family dont have a pool to draw from and if you at least read the first couple words of the summary.
"Over the years I have repaired my own, family, and friends' PCs many, many times".
I know RTFA is too much to ask on other articles but RTFS's first sentence on askslashdot can't be THAT much... can it?
It'll trickle down, slowly, but it will. The carrier hotels will be upgrading to this eventually so the USA ISP's wont have much excuse except being cheap bastards... pretty much the same as now except it'll be extremely obvious when a small ISP no one ever heard of offers 100mbps both ways to the home and comcast is still offering their measly 768k.
10% isn't a big deal? There are people who go to crazy extremes just to tweak out an extra 1-3% with entire sub markets dedicated to them, so yeah 10% is worth it.
If the iPhone were open like a normal PC, you would have the same problem with it
I think you just pissed off the whole OSX segment of home pc users by saying that, plus all the *nix users in general. Several people can attest to the fact that just because you have an open platform doesn't mean you suddenly get viruses and malware, the possibility does not guarantee the result, after all its possible even now. Apple has proven to not be the brightest bulb when it comes to app reviews. Again, I'm not against Apple restricting the iPhone App Store to official apps if people could legally choose to jailbreak, but they can't. That is why I'm against it, they currently have a monopoly. If IBM had the DMCA back in the day we'd all be using apple or ibm pcs only because reverse engineering the bios would have been illegal and no commercial entity would have taken it up.
Apparently, the vast majority of the users of these devices disagree with you in that they are quite happy to have a safe gadget that is not infested with crap such as a PC often is.
Now your using the popularity of the device to validate the devices restrictive features? That's just plain bad logic there. The popularity of the devices is due to its above average to excellent quality level, that does not in any way mean the restrictions are appreciated or wanted. So no, popularity of devices != support of restrictions.
Security and openness are opposites.
Well now you just pissed off every single security expert on the planet. Windows is constantly held up as the end all be all of systems as far as getting infected. Yet many of us have absolutely no issue with malware or viruses and use the systems regularly. An open platform does not mean instant infection. It does raise the probability but it also raises the probability of the device exceeding the imagination of the developer to become something they never imagined possible. That's worth having to hard reboot your device back to stock settings in the event of an infection.
I guess I live on the side of the street that believes that "Walled Garden" shouldn't be legal. Its no different than saying that replacing your stock muffler with an aftermarket isn't acceptable and if you want that different tip you should buy a car that comes with it, yay car analogies. In any case, its bullshit. That "Walled Garden" should not exist, its artificial with no valid reason for existing other than to keep competitors away from their devices.
To summarize my view, the iphone is a handheld computer, computers run OS's, accessing that OS or hardware at a low level should not be illegal as it currently is. I wouldn't be so hard against Apple restricting their official OS to only official programs if people could legally and commercially hack the devices. But they can't, so Apple should be forced to open the product up or someone needs to finally whack the DMCA provision that prevents places like Tmobile from providing it as a professional service to woo customers.
Bringing a cricket bat to boxing match sounds like a brilliant idea to me. That point aside it is not only against the TOS to jailbreak an iphone, everything about that smacks of being against the DMCA. The DMCA has basically removed users rights to do with their devices as they see fit. As such Apple now has a semi-illegal monopoly on their iphones. So now users cannot *legally* have alternatives. This sounds like something the anti-trust laws were created to deal with. For comparison Microsoft got the shit kicked out of it because it included *IE*, not because it didn't allow Netscape/Opera/Firefox to install, but just because it *included* a piece of software. Apple is doing something a thousand times worse here by not even allowing competitors to install software in their OS. Even Micro$oft at their most Borg like Evil-Incarnate moments were never that ballsy.
Not a single GSM carrier who is in competition with AT&T has a professional service to jailbreak an iphone and bring it into their network. If their lawyers would allow it you know there is a sales manager out there that would love to get more customers and charge X dollars to make the iphone work with their network.
Yes, the fact that they didn't put it in effect on your rx2 doesn't mean its a bad idea. We use to not require seat belts either and most folks think those are a good idea, specially if they've ever been in an accident without them. I've bounced around in a car so I'm in that camp.
Umm no. I don't know about you but I can distinguish the difference between a car slowing down and one gunning it even if I'm blasting music over headphones. How often do you see a pedestrian look straight at you when their about to get the walk signal to make sure your not going to plow right over them, a blind person can't do that.
LASIK, Dr Tooma out in Irvine, CA. The implants sound like an interesting idea but I stuck with the lasers. I'm not one who blogs often but I wrote down my experience so I wouldn't forget it and perhaps help friends/family who were on the fence.
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Just out of curiosity whats your argument for or against coal + algae systems? The cleanest coal burning systems can stop putting out pretty much everything but the co2 which is exactly what increases the yield in an algae farm. Seeing as how the US has a huge stockpile of coal and lots of land that isn't usable for farming or easily returned to nature due to contamination it looks like a good solution until fusion can take over.
Well humans always complain ... but I'd rather complain about that then never knowing their names to begin with. :)
See the main problem I see between your example and most of the others is ... the people coming to you are asking for help and they know they don't have the exact information. So helping them is fairly easy, they don't think they're experts. Most others are giving examples that are dealing with those higher up the food chain or are from people sure of their own knowledge and simply need the tech to implement their grand plan.
Now while there are diplomatic ways to go about this sort of thing that isn't confrontational most folks drawn to this industry from my experience aren't all that fond of diplomacy. If we were more socially skilled we'd be more interested in social events with the rest of humanity, instead we stick to our own because we're understood without having to do a stupid dance. So, yes, telling someone they're asking the wrong question doesn't necessarily always have to be "your wrong, heres why" it usually is pretty close to that. Personally I usually answer with "no and yes" when the way the question is currently phrased is wrong but what they really mean to be asking is right. This usually then opens up the conversation to what they really need or they get frustrated and leave me alone which is fine with me.
Can I get you some ketchup or coke?
It isn't the chlorine that makes LA tap water taste bad. I lived 30 miles east of LA for years. While the tap water wasn't as good as the northern bits of the USA, such as Seattle as others have mentioned, it was acceptable and didn't make food you cooked with it taste funny. The stuff that comes out of LA taps if left to dry will leave almost a chalk like residue and not trace amounts either.
I know I'm not alone in this but ... who the heck drinks from their tap? I'm directly in downtown LA and the water that comes out of the tap is not fit for human consumption, heck I wouldn't give it to a dog I liked. I need to use filtered water otherwise anything I cook will taste horrible. If we can't get it right in one of our major cities how can we point at China and go "Your water quality is crap!". China has the excuse that its undergoing a major growth spurt and uplifting their citizenry to 1st world status so if every i isn't dotted and every t isn't slashed thats understandable. Whats our excuse? We went through our industrial revolution over a hundred years ago and still can't get our water right.
I'd disagree. It's a daily thing for humans to do things that were 'impossible' even a few years ago. Someone may discover the queues a fetus uses someone else may figure out a way to restrict those queues to only be received by specific tissues. Those two discoveries would get around your scenario. I personally believe it will be very complex and I don't think it'll be anytime soon, but there is nothing about the procedure of growing specific tissues at specific locations that I'd call impossible. This isn't scientists talking about other dimensions that only exist in the realm of mathematics. This is a real physical thing that we *know* occurs in nature. Multiple creatures experience regenerative qualities which are exactly what we're talking about here. Nature does it every day, we just need to find that method or an alternative one to accomplish the same task. Its only a question of time.
Well problem with that is if your willing to kill someone to extend your potential 77 years to a potential 177 years you might just bring yourself to not even making it to 30 since you'll die in the attempt. But imagine a world where if you worked your ass off until 65 you could extend your working years until 135, yeah your working for another 70 years but you'll have over 40 years of retirement almost guaranteed with good investing vs people today retiring at 65 and keeling over at 75. Plus you'll still get vacation time during those extra work years and actually *see* your grandchildren grow up and have children of their own instead of dying of old age while they're teenagers.
And as the GP mentioned, that whole ban on research isn't helping. So instead of taking a decade or three it'll probably take a century before Gattaca like options exist, which btw several things already exist that touch on it fairly strongly. Regardless though by 2100 if any of the projections are accurate their lives will look as much like ours as ours do our great great grandparents.
.. made my 3 hour wait livable. Lots of technological changes with fairly massive social changes, 80 pages in and I'd recommend this to anyone who loves this genre.
Tangent, just picked up "The Unincorporated Man" since I had to head to the DMV
No, we rent access to their server. The software is ours, that copy at least. If we want our software to connect to a different server that is our right. The fact that they have the ability to lock it down doesn't make it right even if its legal, for now. I don't think the Supreme Court has made a ruling on this sort of thing just yet.
Nope, no troll, just my honest opinion. I see no purpose to type of news Murdoch is promoting. I don't mean as an entire category, simply the for sensational profit type that Murdoch is complaining he isn't paid for. Folks into gaming who subscribe to a gaming magazine filled with gaming adverts is fine. Those interested in the world subscribing to something like national geographic is also perfectly fine. The news caster who is making a sensational spectacle of a hostage situation at a 7-11 or whatever is what I'd gladly never hear about again. We have no need for that sort of news.
I personally wouldn't care if news went away. Do you seriously need it in your life? In what way does sensational news improve your life? Important things in life can be handled by crowd sourcing. Man has been doing it for ages but used a slower media called messengers or letters. Today a kid can record something on their phone and upload it, much less an interested and concerned adult. The news the media corps give us isn't really relevant to our lives. If it was they wouldn't do stupid things like "Do you know one of your childrens toys might come alive and eat them!? Stay tuned until we get back!" If they gave a damn they'd tell you, but its all about money. So yes. Let them go broke. I couldn't care less.
So your solution is to pawn off the problem to someone else? Either your an ancient tech near retirement who is bored to tears with what he does or you never really loved this stuff to begin with. Unless I take glee in the idea that a particular individuals machine is broken because I despise them I'll help utter strangers fix their stuff just because its *fun* to figure out a problem. Helping the other guy and gaining their gratitude is a bonus. And yes I've been doing this for long enough that it isn't something I'll "grow out of".
"Over the years I have repaired my own, family, and friends' PCs many, many times".
I know RTFA is too much to ask on other articles but RTFS's first sentence on askslashdot can't be THAT much ... can it?
We haven't evolved from modern monkeys but we do share a common ancestor ... or do you think we went straight from amino acids to dropping acid?
It'll trickle down, slowly, but it will. The carrier hotels will be upgrading to this eventually so the USA ISP's wont have much excuse except being cheap bastards... pretty much the same as now except it'll be extremely obvious when a small ISP no one ever heard of offers 100mbps both ways to the home and comcast is still offering their measly 768k.
Naw no worries, anyone who buys one gets a free entry into the NSA/FBI/DHS/CIA/INS/ABC/CNN/CBS/PBS/NBC and even Fox databases.
10% isn't a big deal? There are people who go to crazy extremes just to tweak out an extra 1-3% with entire sub markets dedicated to them, so yeah 10% is worth it.
If the iPhone were open like a normal PC, you would have the same problem with it
I think you just pissed off the whole OSX segment of home pc users by saying that, plus all the *nix users in general. Several people can attest to the fact that just because you have an open platform doesn't mean you suddenly get viruses and malware, the possibility does not guarantee the result, after all its possible even now. Apple has proven to not be the brightest bulb when it comes to app reviews. Again, I'm not against Apple restricting the iPhone App Store to official apps if people could legally choose to jailbreak, but they can't. That is why I'm against it, they currently have a monopoly. If IBM had the DMCA back in the day we'd all be using apple or ibm pcs only because reverse engineering the bios would have been illegal and no commercial entity would have taken it up.
Apparently, the vast majority of the users of these devices disagree with you in that they are quite happy to have a safe gadget that is not infested with crap such as a PC often is.
Now your using the popularity of the device to validate the devices restrictive features? That's just plain bad logic there. The popularity of the devices is due to its above average to excellent quality level, that does not in any way mean the restrictions are appreciated or wanted. So no, popularity of devices != support of restrictions.
Security and openness are opposites.
Well now you just pissed off every single security expert on the planet. Windows is constantly held up as the end all be all of systems as far as getting infected. Yet many of us have absolutely no issue with malware or viruses and use the systems regularly. An open platform does not mean instant infection. It does raise the probability but it also raises the probability of the device exceeding the imagination of the developer to become something they never imagined possible. That's worth having to hard reboot your device back to stock settings in the event of an infection.
I guess I live on the side of the street that believes that "Walled Garden" shouldn't be legal. Its no different than saying that replacing your stock muffler with an aftermarket isn't acceptable and if you want that different tip you should buy a car that comes with it, yay car analogies. In any case, its bullshit. That "Walled Garden" should not exist, its artificial with no valid reason for existing other than to keep competitors away from their devices.
To summarize my view, the iphone is a handheld computer, computers run OS's, accessing that OS or hardware at a low level should not be illegal as it currently is. I wouldn't be so hard against Apple restricting their official OS to only official programs if people could legally and commercially hack the devices. But they can't, so Apple should be forced to open the product up or someone needs to finally whack the DMCA provision that prevents places like Tmobile from providing it as a professional service to woo customers.
Oh yeah, that whole AT&T thing must have been some bad pizza. My bad.
Bringing a cricket bat to boxing match sounds like a brilliant idea to me. That point aside it is not only against the TOS to jailbreak an iphone, everything about that smacks of being against the DMCA. The DMCA has basically removed users rights to do with their devices as they see fit. As such Apple now has a semi-illegal monopoly on their iphones. So now users cannot *legally* have alternatives. This sounds like something the anti-trust laws were created to deal with. For comparison Microsoft got the shit kicked out of it because it included *IE*, not because it didn't allow Netscape/Opera/Firefox to install, but just because it *included* a piece of software. Apple is doing something a thousand times worse here by not even allowing competitors to install software in their OS. Even Micro$oft at their most Borg like Evil-Incarnate moments were never that ballsy.
Not a single GSM carrier who is in competition with AT&T has a professional service to jailbreak an iphone and bring it into their network. If their lawyers would allow it you know there is a sales manager out there that would love to get more customers and charge X dollars to make the iphone work with their network.
Yes, the fact that they didn't put it in effect on your rx2 doesn't mean its a bad idea. We use to not require seat belts either and most folks think those are a good idea, specially if they've ever been in an accident without them. I've bounced around in a car so I'm in that camp.
Umm no. I don't know about you but I can distinguish the difference between a car slowing down and one gunning it even if I'm blasting music over headphones. How often do you see a pedestrian look straight at you when their about to get the walk signal to make sure your not going to plow right over them, a blind person can't do that.
LASIK, Dr Tooma out in Irvine, CA. The implants sound like an interesting idea but I stuck with the lasers. I'm not one who blogs often but I wrote down my experience so I wouldn't forget it and perhaps help friends/family who were on the fence.