The question is: Do you want to live to be 150? But the OP leaves open the question of whether you have normal function, or whether it is "a prolonged period of dementia and physical decline." So how can you answer? No rational person would want 50 more years of dementia. And most rational people would want 50 more years of normal function.
Also, don't believe any article that says a new drug is 5-10 years away. What this means is that it hasn't started clinical trials yet. So maybe it has been shown to be efficacious in animal models. At this stage it has maybe a 5% chance of ever making it to market.
That being said, I fully expect there will one day be a miracle drug that lets you live for thousands of years--just as soon as I'm dead.
Look, isn't it obvious that.NET is simply transitioning from early mainstream to late mainstream? You can only conceivably call it a "dying" platform if your perspective is 100% early adopter, which is 100% not the perspective of business customers.
He's already answered this several times in interviews. Basically, the deal on the set of Star Trek was that in most episodes, he had twenty pages of dialog to memorize. Other than Nimoy, nobody else was on screen for more than a few pages. So once they were all done they started cutting up, and he refused to join in - not because he's an ass but because he had work to do.
Of course, this might be somewhat self-serving, but it makes sense to me. I don't recall Shatner ever seeming like he didn't have a good sense of humor, even way back in the day.
The Win32 API is, and always was, too hard to use. Simple operations often take a dozen function calls, with a lot of frictional code that just translates one kind of handle to another. Error checking every returned value is a real pain. You get used to it, in the same way you get used to living with a mildly abusive spouse.
The.NET API is much easier to use. It is object-oriented with a good, well-thought-out conventions for the applications programmer to use. Borland Delphi was once popular precisely because the Delphi API (called the VCL) provided a full encapsulation of the native Win32 API but was much easier to use. This is not a coincidence: The improvement to the Microsoft APIs got easier right when Microsoft hired Anders Hejlsberg away from Borland. Or to put it another way, you no longer have to pay Borland a premium to get a good Anders Hejlsberg-designed API, because now you can get it straight from Microsoft. This is an uncomplicatedly good thing.
Nearly unrelatedly, it was also decided to have.NET compile applications to a managed instruction set and execute them in a virtual machine. This design desicion was made at a time when x86 seemed threatened, x86-64 was a second-class citizen that Intel had sworn never to support, and the world thought we might someday all wind up running on Itanium or PowerPC or some other as-yet-unknown 64-bit instruction set resulting from an Intel purchase of AMD, or something. So it kind of made sense to give.NET applications the potential to maybe run OK on a non-x86 platform. As things turned out, it wasn't very helpful, but nobody could have known that at the time.
So even if "managed code" turned out to be a lot of work for no purpose, the.NET Framework is still a much more usable API than raw-Win32, MFC, ATL, etc. ever were.
Fascism is defined as the simultaneous presence of authoritarianism, racism and corporatism. That's exactly what we've got here.
If you had a totalitarian socialist regime in the US, there would be people's committees deciding how much output each factory or business should produce and who should or shouldn't work there. From where I sit, that is entirely, 100%, absent.
The form of post-9/11 authoritarianism embodied by the TSA is fascism, just as a matter of dictionary definition.
There's no magic content to Algebra II that makes you smarter. If you were smarter to begin with, you're more likely to want to take Algebra II.
Algebra II is the first math class you can take that you don't *have* to take to graduate. Therefore, the choice to take Algebra II demonstrates a desire for accomplishment beyond the minimum. It is hardly surprising that people with this desire go on to achieve things in later life.
If you make Algebra II mandatory, this differentiation will be lost. Algebra II will lose its predictive power of future success, and Algebra III or Precalculus or whatever will become predicive.
Not that I'm against making algebra mandatory for high school students. Personally, I think trigonometry and introductory calculus should be mandatory for high school students. But even if the conclusion is right, the method of arriving at it is wrong.
How could Amazon lawyer up? They're already as lawyered as it is possible to be. If you added one more lawyer to Amazon, they would achieve some sort of singularity and collapse into an infinite void of invention disclosure memos.
With current technology or any plausible extension of current technology, it will remain impossible for an automated system to troubleshoot its own failure. So these future computers will certainly be able to perform many tasks related to design, engineering, production and QA. But if anything goes wrong, you will still have to bring in humans....barring an as-yet-unknown breakthrough in AI technology, of course.
So, let me get this straight. We're perfectly happy to have the ITU (which is a UN agency) in charge of international telephone calls, and we freak out when the US or any corporation tries to take control. But we're also perfectly happy to have ICANN (an unaccountable private corporation based in the US) in charge of domain names, and we freak out when the UN tries to take control.
Huh? Is it just a matter of knee-jerk response and "all change is bad," or is there something more to it than that?
For what it's worth, I think ICANN has been a disaster and something like ITU, or a new UN-sponsored agency, would be much better. We need a negotiated Internet equivalent of the ITRs, rather than the ad-hoc mess we have now.
Well, you're comparing now with 50 or 100 years ago, which is the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms. There's no reason to suppose that industrial age factory workers slept particularly well, or any better than we do now.
Hunter/gatherers on the African savannah no doubt slept like babies, on the nights they didn't get eaten by a leopard.
This is equivalent to your dad having named the house Dadland, and then you suing your neighbor because they use the name Dadland when referring to the house.
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Got one for an older Hyundai? No, the GLS. No, the 2012 GLS. You sure it's eighteen volts? I'm not gonna blow up a mile from here, am I?
Set them up for bank stability. Who needs all four wheels to touch the ground in a corner?
But they weren't that far off. The first 100 mph race car was in 1919.
Sure there is. Charge time.
What the hell is a blister agent?
"Half of the 20 people who took part in the challenge dropped out after witnessing the first diners vomiting, collapsing, sweating and panting."
WHO THE HELL ARE THESE OTHER TEN PEOPLE?
The question is: Do you want to live to be 150? But the OP leaves open the question of whether you have normal function, or whether it is "a prolonged period of dementia and physical decline." So how can you answer? No rational person would want 50 more years of dementia. And most rational people would want 50 more years of normal function.
Also, don't believe any article that says a new drug is 5-10 years away. What this means is that it hasn't started clinical trials yet. So maybe it has been shown to be efficacious in animal models. At this stage it has maybe a 5% chance of ever making it to market.
That being said, I fully expect there will one day be a miracle drug that lets you live for thousands of years--just as soon as I'm dead.
Look, isn't it obvious that .NET is simply transitioning from early mainstream to late mainstream? You can only conceivably call it a "dying" platform if your perspective is 100% early adopter, which is 100% not the perspective of business customers.
He's already answered this several times in interviews. Basically, the deal on the set of Star Trek was that in most episodes, he had twenty pages of dialog to memorize. Other than Nimoy, nobody else was on screen for more than a few pages. So once they were all done they started cutting up, and he refused to join in - not because he's an ass but because he had work to do.
Of course, this might be somewhat self-serving, but it makes sense to me. I don't recall Shatner ever seeming like he didn't have a good sense of humor, even way back in the day.
Not necessarily, if the money you spent trying to defend against all possible attacks means that you can no longer have seat belts.
The Win32 API is, and always was, too hard to use. Simple operations often take a dozen function calls, with a lot of frictional code that just translates one kind of handle to another. Error checking every returned value is a real pain. You get used to it, in the same way you get used to living with a mildly abusive spouse.
The .NET API is much easier to use. It is object-oriented with a good, well-thought-out conventions for the applications programmer to use. Borland Delphi was once popular precisely because the Delphi API (called the VCL) provided a full encapsulation of the native Win32 API but was much easier to use. This is not a coincidence: The improvement to the Microsoft APIs got easier right when Microsoft hired Anders Hejlsberg away from Borland. Or to put it another way, you no longer have to pay Borland a premium to get a good Anders Hejlsberg-designed API, because now you can get it straight from Microsoft. This is an uncomplicatedly good thing.
Nearly unrelatedly, it was also decided to have .NET compile applications to a managed instruction set and execute them in a virtual machine. This design desicion was made at a time when x86 seemed threatened, x86-64 was a second-class citizen that Intel had sworn never to support, and the world thought we might someday all wind up running on Itanium or PowerPC or some other as-yet-unknown 64-bit instruction set resulting from an Intel purchase of AMD, or something. So it kind of made sense to give .NET applications the potential to maybe run OK on a non-x86 platform. As things turned out, it wasn't very helpful, but nobody could have known that at the time.
So even if "managed code" turned out to be a lot of work for no purpose, the .NET Framework is still a much more usable API than raw-Win32, MFC, ATL, etc. ever were.
Well, storing the passwords in plaintext rather than hashed seems to me like a fundamental breach of any rational standard of care.
Unless you look like a Muslim.
Fascism is defined as the simultaneous presence of authoritarianism, racism and corporatism. That's exactly what we've got here.
If you had a totalitarian socialist regime in the US, there would be people's committees deciding how much output each factory or business should produce and who should or shouldn't work there. From where I sit, that is entirely, 100%, absent.
The form of post-9/11 authoritarianism embodied by the TSA is fascism, just as a matter of dictionary definition.
There's no magic content to Algebra II that makes you smarter. If you were smarter to begin with, you're more likely to want to take Algebra II.
Algebra II is the first math class you can take that you don't *have* to take to graduate. Therefore, the choice to take Algebra II demonstrates a desire for accomplishment beyond the minimum. It is hardly surprising that people with this desire go on to achieve things in later life.
If you make Algebra II mandatory, this differentiation will be lost. Algebra II will lose its predictive power of future success, and Algebra III or Precalculus or whatever will become predicive.
Not that I'm against making algebra mandatory for high school students. Personally, I think trigonometry and introductory calculus should be mandatory for high school students. But even if the conclusion is right, the method of arriving at it is wrong.
How could Amazon lawyer up? They're already as lawyered as it is possible to be. If you added one more lawyer to Amazon, they would achieve some sort of singularity and collapse into an infinite void of invention disclosure memos.
You access it through the highly creditworthy asset-holding company.
The company with the assets has a side business of extending credit to the company with the liabilities, at an extremely high interest rate.
Sure. Because guns and ammunition aren't manufactured goods that depend on a complex supply chain that will break down along with the rest of society.
With current technology or any plausible extension of current technology, it will remain impossible for an automated system to troubleshoot its own failure. So these future computers will certainly be able to perform many tasks related to design, engineering, production and QA. But if anything goes wrong, you will still have to bring in humans. ...barring an as-yet-unknown breakthrough in AI technology, of course.
So, let me get this straight. We're perfectly happy to have the ITU (which is a UN agency) in charge of international telephone calls, and we freak out when the US or any corporation tries to take control. But we're also perfectly happy to have ICANN (an unaccountable private corporation based in the US) in charge of domain names, and we freak out when the UN tries to take control.
Huh? Is it just a matter of knee-jerk response and "all change is bad," or is there something more to it than that?
For what it's worth, I think ICANN has been a disaster and something like ITU, or a new UN-sponsored agency, would be much better. We need a negotiated Internet equivalent of the ITRs, rather than the ad-hoc mess we have now.
I don't see why we ever upgraded from four course radios.
Well, you're comparing now with 50 or 100 years ago, which is the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms. There's no reason to suppose that industrial age factory workers slept particularly well, or any better than we do now. Hunter/gatherers on the African savannah no doubt slept like babies, on the nights they didn't get eaten by a leopard.
This is equivalent to your dad having named the house Dadland, and then you suing your neighbor because they use the name Dadland when referring to the house.
What about 'I have one but I only use it to untag photos of me that my idiot family posts to Facebook'?