Even when half your 'friends' no longer come out to play anymore.
I noticed the same thing and I wondered how many dead/.rs there were. I realised, one day, that I've been interacting with some people for more than 10 years here, exchanging some pretty heated and deep ideas. That was the day I decided to tame my inner troll to people and be a little more grateful that I was in a forum with smart people I could learn off, maybe share something with.
I miss some of those friends, even some of the enemies, keeping my mind sharp.
I can't remember any time when Slashdot was pro-Microsoft,
Remember
twitter, I mean before twitter. His post were so full of vehemence for Microsoft that, even though he was right mostly, I'd kinda go 'Wow, this guy *really* hates Microsoft'.
These political announcements are so sad because every time there is talk about manned space exploration it doesn't go any further than the ISS, 450Kms up. I mean, isn't there more useful science 2000Kms up? and if we're not willing to face the challenges of a space station that high up, what real chance have we got of going back to the moon?
Consider this. Manned space programs have zero political capital past an issue of national prestige. However that sort of political capital has a limited life span so the reason to go back is to demonstrate industrial capability, the same way hitting Nagasaki with an atomic bomb after Hiroshima was to say "this was on purpose, and we can do it again if we want", the development of nuclear weapons continued, just like every other technology platform like aircraft, ships, computers, cars. How many times has the light globe been re-invented? Did people stop climbing Mt Everest because someone else had been there, done that.
NASA hasn't been back to the moon in 45 years of talking about it and the reasons haven't changed, not in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and the 20teens, the US hasn't demonstrated the industrial capacity to put a man on the moon because it can't do it any more or it won't do it anymore. This will go on until we all start believing that the whole thing was a hoax in the first place and the politicians can shift the discussion onto why we can't.
Not that I believe that the moon landings were a hoax but because I reason that whatever the astronauts found up there profoundly changes the nature of our reality as a species, otherwise all of this wouldn't be rated as higher than nuclear weapons in terms of secrecy and the US would have demonstrated her industrial capability so that the world knows it was deliberate.
You can flail your arms yelling conspiracy theorist all you damn please, I know when I am being lied to and my bullshit meter just goes crazy when I hear politicians talk about going back to the moon. Start removing National Security obligations and the threat of the death penalty for treason from NASA employees and we can talk about what is or isn't a conspiracy.
This is why I don't think the US will be sending men back to the moon anymore, ever. We can check back here in the next 2, 5, 10 years and see if I'm right.
Isn't that the *non*-fatal kind of Star Trek exceptions? I thought you were usually in more trouble when something happened and you *didn't* dump the core.
I've always wondered how they would get far enough away from an exploding warp core for it too make any difference!?
The Federation runs Hollywood OS. It's so advanced that it can run legacy code of the 20th century in a bio-quantum context.
That maybe so however it is a little to obvious to just presume that Data is running Android, it's more likely that he is running a Beowulf cluster of Rasberry Pis. It's a potentially embarrassing plural but Data won't get offended.
It maybe fine for you, but dilithium is a rare source of plot devices in Starfleet, Mister! And the last thing you want is windows update to happen while the ships AI is drawing entropy from quantum fluctuation to randomly rotate shield frequencies to protect from the Borg who use a proprietary GUI over an Operating Systems technology they assimilated.
You might think this is funny however you most certainly DO NOT want Anti-Virus software to start while you are in a transporter and the last thing I want to see before the last thing I see is a blue screen of death while I'm trying to launch a photon torpedo because then we will need the help from those green blooded nerds from Vulcan who all use "Open Source Software" in their "Star Ships" because it's more "logical".
If I was there and I had a gun, I would have stopped this after 6 people died.
Shortly after you would be shot by the police and then your name would be on the front page of every website about how this anonymous nobody, who spent too much time masturbating, suddenly snapped and killed 7 people.
I like to watch them hunt and fight. They're magnificent when they hunt, circling up really high, you can see the feathers off the tip of their wings like fingers feeling the air and when they see their moment they pull their wings in close and fall from the sky like they are pulling every bit of speed they can out of their momentum. I can't really express what it looks like in words adequately and video doesn't really convey the amount of height they strike from or how quickly they descend. You can see how and why jet fighters are designed they way they are.
They also have a sense of humour. I saw a tree full of parrots all squawking and carrying on, they generally leave the tree all at once in one direction as a group. Well, this eagle wasn't having any of that and flew up to this tree and you could almost hear the parrots squawking HOLY SHIT ITS AN EAGLE and scatter, to which the eagle just kind of tilted and kept going, just reminding them.
They get harassed by magpies, crows and other birds, to which they barely respond, just a beat or two of their wings that the other birds cannot match in power.
Once, I saw two of them fighting, way up in the sky. They locked talons and fell, tumbling and rolling over each other closer and closer to the ground. I think the loser is the one breaking from the other first.
Anyway, they are the wedge tailed eagle moments that stick out in my mind that I could share. I saw one up close on the ground once and was a little surprised at just how big it was, the talons, the beak, standing just over a metre high and as I looked into those calm, unconcerned avian eyes I realised it wasn't threatened by me at all, so I'm not surprised they smash drones.
You write as if civilization wouldn't have advanced without religion.
There was a time, when we were evolving, that we told each other stories to pass on lessons about the human condition. One day, someone figured out a way to write them down and that became religion. The story of the human condition.
You can criticize religion all you want however what you are forgetting is what it is. Humanity had to tell it's story to itself so it could understand itself and manifest enough order to generate science, and everything else, from the intellect. You have to consider that we went through long periods of time in remote areas without law to bring that order so belief systems are inevitable to help society function.
So what I am saying is if you reason out the amount of time humans have been around it is inevitable that humanity evolved some social system so that it could interact. Religion was that system.
Is there something unreasonable about that as an observation?
Many of history's bloodiest events were in the name of something nobody could prove existed.
By men of power seeking power, this is the story religion tells of humanity. The story tells you men of power use the name of god it to seek power, the idea of not mixing church and state come from a story of what happens when you mix clay and iron.
I'm not interested in selling anyone religion either. What I am saying there is incredible amount of lessons about human behavior in these works if you are capable of reading them and can decode them, because they are incredibly difficult and dense to parse.
It something to confront the full horror of the human condition that is in all of us and know it is in you. Have you confronted it in yourself. How have you tried to evolve? That's what exists.
Remind me again how civilized and rational religion is?
Religion confronts us with a history of our behavior as brutal and blood thirsty as the mammalian part of every human being on the planet capable of manifesting any number of psychopaths at any time can produce. That's what it is reminding us of, the flaws in out nature we need to overcome. How else would you expect to convey a message about the human condition through generations?
Frankly I've no interest in 'mastering my culture' when it's filled with charlatans and hypocrites. Western society is shit.
Because you don't participate and you are apathetic. You've never voted and you certainly haven't done anything to make your community better. You've never written to a politician and expressed your will, never use the democracy put there so you could make things better, you just complain so you can feel entitled. You didn't take personal responsibility.
You stayed anonymous and unknown, you did nothing.
Which religion would that be? Let me guess: The only true one! How did you figure that out? Did you compare all the world's religions when you were a kid or did you just pick the one of the people who raised you or that you happened to interact with.
Of course it is the one you are exposed to as a child, that what culture IS, packaged messily as religion so you have a framework to build a personal morality from by taking responsibility for you're own shitty behavior. Here, read this book to discover how ugly and cruel humanity can be and figure out how to not to do that.
I've never got why people compare science and religion when they are two different fields of knowledge, one deals with the nature of the universe, the other the nature of humanity.
All religions are bullshit and no rational person should put up with any of them!
Is this from your study of religion? Isn't it also possible you simply lack the imagination and intellect to read the texts that created your culture? That brought forth the morality that crafted the laws that allow you to roam the streets at night in relative safety? That despite it's thousands of years of messy hypocrisy manifested enough civil behavior to lay the foundations for science so you could sit on your computer and criticize it as irrational, which it is, but what does that say about us?
Is it rational to trash someone else's culture because you can?
Rational, as if our society is rational. No, it is not rational because people are not rational and that's why a planet full of crazy primates evolved religion in several flavors so we have a framework for how to behave like a person that other people want to be around and not kill. Anyone who take religions as literal truth is not rational however anyone who cannot take the lessons from religion as archetypical truths about subjective behavior of human beings has little chance of mastering their own culture because they don't know the difference between intelligence and wisdom.
Solandri, justifications sound pretty slimey, it's why people hate this shit. This apparent and ongoing decadence is exactly what was going on in Nazi Germany before WW2 and there were justifications there too.
When salaries and wages don't increase for over a decade it's natural for people to start asking why these people get so much more in relation to the sacrifices they are making. That's when people who do this don't get punished for their lack of competence reading the present. They come across as selfish leeches and parasites extracting everything they can for themselves.
When you make those sorts of justifications they come across as an aspiration.
Reality is flamebait, even when you're just making an observation. However I was hungover, so I may have been abrasive and maybe people take that personally.
" VMware dropped development of ESX at version 4.1, and now uses ESXi, which does not include a Linux kernel." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The paragraph before say ESX runs on bare metal (without running an operating system)[6] unlike other VMware products.[7] It includes its own kernel: A Linux kernel is started first,[8] and is then used to load a variety of specialized virtualization components, including ESX, which is otherwise known as the vmkernel component.[9] The Linux kernel is the primary virtual machine; it is invoked by the service console. At normal run-time, the vmkernel is running on the bare computer, and the Linux-based service console runs as the first virtual machine.
It has been seven years since VMWare dropped the Linux kernel.
which makes no difference to the point. Does VMware trounce Azure functionality yes. Thanks for letting me know they've transitioned off the Linux Kernel.
Wow, it hasn't even been 10 minutes and something that is not even critical of MS and just paints their reality has been down-modded?
Looks like there is some power shilling going on here or are you so sensitive to some non existent ad-homiem attack? Concerned about my spelling, I did say that I post post hungover, occasionally. Go ahead, mod me down, it just shows how much more credible my argument is and that the truth really hurts.
Look if it makes you feel better, I thing the MS Server line has come a long way, finally a decent file system and I like the MS is taking a stand on some issues even if it is noise. Microsoft added WSL and because of that I gave Win 10 a chance when I finally got to the point that I realized I didn't need MS anywhere anymore. If you don't get it that I'm not being critical and just pointing to how things have changed then how do you expect to adapt to reality?
That's what the technology industry is and that is what MS is doing.
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That's what I thought too. Still, theres no party like a six digit party
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
Even when half your 'friends' no longer come out to play anymore.
I noticed the same thing and I wondered how many dead /.rs there were. I realised, one day, that I've been interacting with some people for more than 10 years here, exchanging some pretty heated and deep ideas. That was the day I decided to tame my inner troll to people and be a little more grateful that I was in a forum with smart people I could learn off, maybe share something with.
I miss some of those friends, even some of the enemies, keeping my mind sharp.
I can't remember any time when Slashdot was pro-Microsoft,
Remember twitter, I mean before twitter. His post were so full of vehemence for Microsoft that, even though he was right mostly, I'd kinda go 'Wow, this guy *really* hates Microsoft'.
It's important that it be there to repel the norms from coming to the site.
If the Sheeple knew,, what we know...
Same here, I try from time to time to get my old uid, but it was a good lesson on how not to fuck up with usernames and passwords.
These political announcements are so sad because every time there is talk about manned space exploration it doesn't go any further than the ISS, 450Kms up. I mean, isn't there more useful science 2000Kms up? and if we're not willing to face the challenges of a space station that high up, what real chance have we got of going back to the moon?
Consider this. Manned space programs have zero political capital past an issue of national prestige. However that sort of political capital has a limited life span so the reason to go back is to demonstrate industrial capability, the same way hitting Nagasaki with an atomic bomb after Hiroshima was to say "this was on purpose, and we can do it again if we want", the development of nuclear weapons continued, just like every other technology platform like aircraft, ships, computers, cars. How many times has the light globe been re-invented? Did people stop climbing Mt Everest because someone else had been there, done that.
NASA hasn't been back to the moon in 45 years of talking about it and the reasons haven't changed, not in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and the 20teens, the US hasn't demonstrated the industrial capacity to put a man on the moon because it can't do it any more or it won't do it anymore. This will go on until we all start believing that the whole thing was a hoax in the first place and the politicians can shift the discussion onto why we can't.
Not that I believe that the moon landings were a hoax but because I reason that whatever the astronauts found up there profoundly changes the nature of our reality as a species, otherwise all of this wouldn't be rated as higher than nuclear weapons in terms of secrecy and the US would have demonstrated her industrial capability so that the world knows it was deliberate.
You can flail your arms yelling conspiracy theorist all you damn please, I know when I am being lied to and my bullshit meter just goes crazy when I hear politicians talk about going back to the moon. Start removing National Security obligations and the threat of the death penalty for treason from NASA employees and we can talk about what is or isn't a conspiracy.
This is why I don't think the US will be sending men back to the moon anymore, ever. We can check back here in the next 2, 5, 10 years and see if I'm right.
FATAL EXCEPTION: Warp core dumped!
Isn't that the *non*-fatal kind of Star Trek exceptions? I thought you were usually in more trouble when something happened and you *didn't* dump the core.
I've always wondered how they would get far enough away from an exploding warp core for it too make any difference!?
please, just one topic without this, please. can we just have some fun, please?
I'm disappointed that there's not been more evolution in programming to be honest.
CBS would DRM the shit out of it!
The Federation runs Hollywood OS. It's so advanced that it can run legacy code of the 20th century in a bio-quantum context.
That maybe so however it is a little to obvious to just presume that Data is running Android, it's more likely that he is running a Beowulf cluster of Rasberry Pis. It's a potentially embarrassing plural but Data won't get offended.
It maybe fine for you, but dilithium is a rare source of plot devices in Starfleet, Mister! And the last thing you want is windows update to happen while the ships AI is drawing entropy from quantum fluctuation to randomly rotate shield frequencies to protect from the Borg who use a proprietary GUI over an Operating Systems technology they assimilated.
You might think this is funny however you most certainly DO NOT want Anti-Virus software to start while you are in a transporter and the last thing I want to see before the last thing I see is a blue screen of death while I'm trying to launch a photon torpedo because then we will need the help from those green blooded nerds from Vulcan who all use "Open Source Software" in their "Star Ships" because it's more "logical".
Press START to STOP engines.
FATAL EXCEPTION: Warp core dumped!
If I was there and I had a gun, I would have stopped this after 6 people died.
Shortly after you would be shot by the police and then your name would be on the front page of every website about how this anonymous nobody, who spent too much time masturbating, suddenly snapped and killed 7 people.
Apparantly you don't know how eagles mate, that wasn't fighting, that was dating.
I'm not sure whether to feel embarrassed or privileged for watching two eagles getting nasty, thanks for letting me know.
I like to watch them hunt and fight. They're magnificent when they hunt, circling up really high, you can see the feathers off the tip of their wings like fingers feeling the air and when they see their moment they pull their wings in close and fall from the sky like they are pulling every bit of speed they can out of their momentum. I can't really express what it looks like in words adequately and video doesn't really convey the amount of height they strike from or how quickly they descend. You can see how and why jet fighters are designed they way they are.
They also have a sense of humour. I saw a tree full of parrots all squawking and carrying on, they generally leave the tree all at once in one direction as a group. Well, this eagle wasn't having any of that and flew up to this tree and you could almost hear the parrots squawking HOLY SHIT ITS AN EAGLE and scatter, to which the eagle just kind of tilted and kept going, just reminding them.
They get harassed by magpies, crows and other birds, to which they barely respond, just a beat or two of their wings that the other birds cannot match in power.
Once, I saw two of them fighting, way up in the sky. They locked talons and fell, tumbling and rolling over each other closer and closer to the ground. I think the loser is the one breaking from the other first.
Anyway, they are the wedge tailed eagle moments that stick out in my mind that I could share. I saw one up close on the ground once and was a little surprised at just how big it was, the talons, the beak, standing just over a metre high and as I looked into those calm, unconcerned avian eyes I realised it wasn't threatened by me at all, so I'm not surprised they smash drones.
You write as if civilization wouldn't have advanced without religion.
There was a time, when we were evolving, that we told each other stories to pass on lessons about the human condition. One day, someone figured out a way to write them down and that became religion. The story of the human condition.
You can criticize religion all you want however what you are forgetting is what it is. Humanity had to tell it's story to itself so it could understand itself and manifest enough order to generate science, and everything else, from the intellect. You have to consider that we went through long periods of time in remote areas without law to bring that order so belief systems are inevitable to help society function.
So what I am saying is if you reason out the amount of time humans have been around it is inevitable that humanity evolved some social system so that it could interact. Religion was that system.
Is there something unreasonable about that as an observation?
Many of history's bloodiest events were in the name of something nobody could prove existed.
By men of power seeking power, this is the story religion tells of humanity. The story tells you men of power use the name of god it to seek power, the idea of not mixing church and state come from a story of what happens when you mix clay and iron.
I'm not interested in selling anyone religion either. What I am saying there is incredible amount of lessons about human behavior in these works if you are capable of reading them and can decode them, because they are incredibly difficult and dense to parse.
It something to confront the full horror of the human condition that is in all of us and know it is in you. Have you confronted it in yourself. How have you tried to evolve? That's what exists.
Remind me again how civilized and rational religion is?
Religion confronts us with a history of our behavior as brutal and blood thirsty as the mammalian part of every human being on the planet capable of manifesting any number of psychopaths at any time can produce. That's what it is reminding us of, the flaws in out nature we need to overcome. How else would you expect to convey a message about the human condition through generations?
Frankly I've no interest in 'mastering my culture' when it's filled with charlatans and hypocrites. Western society is shit.
Because you don't participate and you are apathetic. You've never voted and you certainly haven't done anything to make your community better. You've never written to a politician and expressed your will, never use the democracy put there so you could make things better, you just complain so you can feel entitled. You didn't take personal responsibility.
You stayed anonymous and unknown, you did nothing.
Which religion would that be? Let me guess: The only true one! How did you figure that out? Did you compare all the world's religions when you were a kid or did you just pick the one of the people who raised you or that you happened to interact with.
Of course it is the one you are exposed to as a child, that what culture IS, packaged messily as religion so you have a framework to build a personal morality from by taking responsibility for you're own shitty behavior. Here, read this book to discover how ugly and cruel humanity can be and figure out how to not to do that.
I've never got why people compare science and religion when they are two different fields of knowledge, one deals with the nature of the universe, the other the nature of humanity.
All religions are bullshit and no rational person should put up with any of them!
Is this from your study of religion? Isn't it also possible you simply lack the imagination and intellect to read the texts that created your culture? That brought forth the morality that crafted the laws that allow you to roam the streets at night in relative safety? That despite it's thousands of years of messy hypocrisy manifested enough civil behavior to lay the foundations for science so you could sit on your computer and criticize it as irrational, which it is, but what does that say about us?
Is it rational to trash someone else's culture because you can?
Rational, as if our society is rational. No, it is not rational because people are not rational and that's why a planet full of crazy primates evolved religion in several flavors so we have a framework for how to behave like a person that other people want to be around and not kill. Anyone who take religions as literal truth is not rational however anyone who cannot take the lessons from religion as archetypical truths about subjective behavior of human beings has little chance of mastering their own culture because they don't know the difference between intelligence and wisdom.
Thank you, that was a very interesting article.
If someone gets what they worked for everyone is happy, however not so if it is at everyone else's expense.
Solandri, justifications sound pretty slimey, it's why people hate this shit. This apparent and ongoing decadence is exactly what was going on in Nazi Germany before WW2 and there were justifications there too.
When salaries and wages don't increase for over a decade it's natural for people to start asking why these people get so much more in relation to the sacrifices they are making. That's when people who do this don't get punished for their lack of competence reading the present. They come across as selfish leeches and parasites extracting everything they can for themselves.
When you make those sorts of justifications they come across as an aspiration.
Reality is flamebait, even when you're just making an observation. However I was hungover, so I may have been abrasive and maybe people take that personally.
Oh Sweetie, look at you trying to quell the doubt in your mind. The possibility you can't deny.
And then there was systemd
" VMware dropped development of ESX at version 4.1, and now uses ESXi, which does not include a Linux kernel." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The paragraph before say ESX runs on bare metal (without running an operating system)[6] unlike other VMware products.[7] It includes its own kernel: A Linux kernel is started first,[8] and is then used to load a variety of specialized virtualization components, including ESX, which is otherwise known as the vmkernel component.[9] The Linux kernel is the primary virtual machine; it is invoked by the service console. At normal run-time, the vmkernel is running on the bare computer, and the Linux-based service console runs as the first virtual machine.
It has been seven years since VMWare dropped the Linux kernel.
which makes no difference to the point. Does VMware trounce Azure functionality yes. Thanks for letting me know they've transitioned off the Linux Kernel.
Wow, it hasn't even been 10 minutes and something that is not even critical of MS and just paints their reality has been down-modded?
Looks like there is some power shilling going on here or are you so sensitive to some non existent ad-homiem attack? Concerned about my spelling, I did say that I post post hungover, occasionally. Go ahead, mod me down, it just shows how much more credible my argument is and that the truth really hurts.
Look if it makes you feel better, I thing the MS Server line has come a long way, finally a decent file system and I like the MS is taking a stand on some issues even if it is noise. Microsoft added WSL and because of that I gave Win 10 a chance when I finally got to the point that I realized I didn't need MS anywhere anymore. If you don't get it that I'm not being critical and just pointing to how things have changed then how do you expect to adapt to reality?
That's what the technology industry is and that is what MS is doing.