I'm not talking about ownership of the content. That's likely to stay with the individuals who wrote it. I'm talking about the ability to mirror the entire site, in case it goes down, is cancelled due to lack of profit, or is twisted to some corporate agenda that the writers find themselves at odds with.
Inviting slashdot onto an ark? Aren't you kind of missing the whole repopulate the earth thing? Or were you hoping they'd get laid in close quarters, where the opposite sex has no where to hide?
Can anybody explain the commercial benefit to space travel?
Well, it means you can go space-shopping with all your space-buddies.
Seriously though... since when has space been about (immediate) commercial benefit? Some of us are still interested in the science way more. That science will (and does) lead to commercial benefits.
Seriously - any developer writing modern desktop or server applications that doesn't know how to do multi-threaded programming
Tell 2005 to get off the phone FFS, and let 1984 get a word in;)
Actually, programmers have been doing multitasking for decades. One could argue that it's taken hardware a long time to catch up. There are very few applications that really need to max out 2 cores, never mind 8, 256, or 4096. Take a look at the number of processes running on any modern OS though; multiple processes are pretty commonplace, even just for what would normally be considered core "kernel" stuff.
Much more importantly, this is going to be owned by Google. They're highly unlikely to let everyone download their article database in the way that wikipedia does. Publically created information on the scale of wikipedia should not be owned by private organisations.
if it wasn't for war, just think how far we could be with space", when in fact, the opposite is likely true. Not trying to be rude, but war brings us many neet things, some of them faster than without war, some are only a result of war
This is pure fallacy, although I appreciate that you used the word "likely" rather than speaking in absolutes. Generally, good education comes in peace time. Sharing of ideas comes from openness and trade with other tribes/cultures. Rockets are probably based on fireworks (and aerodynamics), which are based on so-called gunpowder -- something that was not used destructively for for many years after its creation. Radar came about in war, yes, but all of the technology leading up to it was developed in peacetime. That the first need to make the next leap came about because of war is irrelevant; the technology was there, the progress was ready to be made, and if the technique was needed, someone would have made that leap.
As someone once said, "the tradegy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst". War is destructive, not creative. Those involved in war often claim credit for things either through delusion, or power. That does not mean that the warlike people, warlike ideals, or even warlike circumstances are the reasons such things exist. I'm sure da vinci would've preferred to work on less lethal things, if less lethal people had held the money and power.
KDE also has more integration (DCOP sharing components like HTML, widespread kio use, etc.), so it's more resource efficient once you start actually loading apps for that desktop, too.
I'm a big KDE fan, after having long since given up my preference for GNOME (and hostility to KDE). I'm really looking forward to KDE4, and I've seen a lot of changelogs during the transition that make me believe this might well be true.
That said, I'm not sure what they're measuring here. I don't consider KDE4 to (yet!) provide equivalent functionality to KDE3.5, so it's hard to see what they could realistically compare.
That's an IT problem, not a user problem. It should NOT give passwords to active directory, even to the company president. In a fortune 500, that's for the head of IT's off-site safe. No, not the safe with the mission-critical backups; the SMALL, discrete, more secure safe. The head of IT should also have been shielding you from that kind of BS, via laying down his own law at board level.
Actually, that's a very good point. I think the probability of good mutations leading to actual disability are fairly low, but I have heard that the human genome is pretty much maxed out, in the sense that most genes are overloaded, and so changes to them will affect more than one thing. What's interesting to me is the smaller "disabilities" -- inability to socialise, inability to survive 9-5, but a contrasting ability to survive as a night-owl artist, etc.
Change is not evolution. Otherwise, it would just be called change.
Evolution has two major factors: changes, and selection of those changes based on fitness for whatever purpose --- usually for survival. Without that, you just have random noise, not progress toward anything. What's the use in one member of the species having the ability to survive a disease, when everyone else can get that same ability with a shot? What's the use in someone being able to make a living in a cut-throat business world, if everyone else is employed by that person and gets a living anyway?
We've made great progress, but evolution, it's not. No, I haven't RTFA, but I'm about to now. I'll be very interested to see if their article can possibly argue against that.
Precisely. Corporations were invented to serve the public, not the other way around.
That said, this does raise important privacy issues for individuals. Nothing that GPG + secure deletion can't solve though, if anyone could make a decent email client that took the donkey work out of using GPG.
Slashdot Mirror
I've heard that story before, except then, the SD memory was a flute, and the keyboard was... well... at band camp.
I'm not talking about ownership of the content. That's likely to stay with the individuals who wrote it. I'm talking about the ability to mirror the entire site, in case it goes down, is cancelled due to lack of profit, or is twisted to some corporate agenda that the writers find themselves at odds with.
Inviting slashdot onto an ark? Aren't you kind of missing the whole repopulate the earth thing? Or were you hoping they'd get laid in close quarters, where the opposite sex has no where to hide?
I don't think any two things in human society are truly orthogonal. It's only a question of how deeply you follow the connections.
Well, it means you can go space-shopping with all your space-buddies.
Seriously though... since when has space been about (immediate) commercial benefit? Some of us are still interested in the science way more. That science will (and does) lead to commercial benefits.
It basically was, until a big cock was elected.
Tell 2005 to get off the phone FFS, and let 1984 get a word in
Actually, programmers have been doing multitasking for decades. One could argue that it's taken hardware a long time to catch up. There are very few applications that really need to max out 2 cores, never mind 8, 256, or 4096. Take a look at the number of processes running on any modern OS though; multiple processes are pretty commonplace, even just for what would normally be considered core "kernel" stuff.
Much more importantly, this is going to be owned by Google. They're highly unlikely to let everyone download their article database in the way that wikipedia does. Publically created information on the scale of wikipedia should not be owned by
private organisations.
You're quite right; I was thinking of the president having superuser access when he shouldn't.
Yep, in that case all you can really do is relax security a bit to make a better compromise, offer better training, or separate roles better.
This is pure fallacy, although I appreciate that you used the word "likely" rather than speaking in absolutes. Generally, good education comes in peace time. Sharing of ideas comes from openness and trade with other tribes/cultures. Rockets are probably based on fireworks (and aerodynamics), which are based on so-called gunpowder -- something that was not used destructively for for many years after its creation. Radar came about in war, yes, but all of the technology leading up to it was developed in peacetime. That the first need to make the next leap came about because of war is irrelevant; the technology was there, the progress was ready to be made, and if the technique was needed, someone would have made that leap.
As someone once said, "the tradegy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst". War is destructive, not creative. Those involved in war often claim credit for things either through delusion, or power. That does not mean that the warlike people, warlike ideals, or even warlike circumstances are the reasons such things exist. I'm sure da vinci would've preferred to work on less lethal things, if less lethal people had held the money and power.
But would you change yourself at all?
KDE also has more integration (DCOP sharing components like HTML, widespread kio use, etc.), so it's more resource efficient once you start actually loading apps for that desktop, too.
I'm a big KDE fan, after having long since given up my preference for GNOME (and hostility to KDE). I'm really looking forward to KDE4, and I've seen a lot of changelogs during the transition that make me believe this might well be true.
That said, I'm not sure what they're measuring here. I don't consider KDE4 to (yet!) provide equivalent functionality to KDE3.5, so it's hard to see what they could realistically compare.
Please tell me your uncle is Bill Gates.
That's an IT problem, not a user problem. It should NOT give passwords to active directory, even to the company president. In a fortune 500, that's for the head of IT's off-site safe. No, not the safe with the mission-critical backups; the SMALL, discrete, more secure safe. The head of IT should also have been shielding you from that kind of BS, via laying down his own law at board level.
And associate with microsoft.
Actually, that's a very good point. I think the probability of good mutations leading to actual disability are fairly low, but I have heard that the human genome is pretty much maxed out, in the sense that most genes are overloaded, and so changes to them will affect more than one thing. What's interesting to me is the smaller "disabilities" -- inability to socialise, inability to survive 9-5, but a contrasting ability to survive as a night-owl artist, etc.
Change is not evolution. Otherwise, it would just be called change.
Evolution has two major factors: changes, and selection of those changes based on fitness for whatever purpose --- usually for survival. Without that, you just have random noise, not progress toward anything. What's the use in one member of the species having the ability to survive a disease, when everyone else can get that same ability with a shot? What's the use in someone being able to make a living in a cut-throat business world, if everyone else is employed by that person and gets a living anyway?
We've made great progress, but evolution, it's not. No, I haven't RTFA, but I'm about to now. I'll be very interested to see if their article can possibly argue against that.
You should read some Robin Hobb. Fantasy for sure, but none of the cliches you'd expect. Very good stuff :)
Hydro = water, electric = well, electric. That includes wavepower, for the arrogant (and wrong).
And no one's saying you can't do anything. That's just pure fallacy.
Actually, I do live in Europe. But I never said it was any better here :)
You must have been on vacation for the last few years :(
I think you just made my point for me ;)
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.", as Sinclair Lewis said.
Pfft. You must be still on web 1.0.
Precisely. Corporations were invented to serve the public, not the other way around.
That said, this does raise important privacy issues for individuals. Nothing that GPG + secure deletion can't solve though, if anyone could make a decent email client that took the donkey work out of using GPG.