I just helped my elderly brother with his older core 2 duo iMac. Can't run chrome at all and Safari won't bring up many sites because it only supports TLS1.0. The OS cannot be upgraded past 10.6.3. Firefox seems to work barely, but this computer is essentially unusable for basic home computer tasks.
All because Apple won't allow a newer OS to be installed. You could run Linux on a computer 25 years old.The latest Windows 10 runs OK on core 2 duo era computers.
As a former fanboy, I have piles of Apple products that are prematurely made useless by corporate choice.
Our model s is coming up on 6 years and it has been amazing. I'll buy another Tesla when this one hits 8 years. I still recommend the extended warranty though for the peace of mind. Electric cars are way more reliable, but when something goes wrong it can be pricey to fix. So far I would be ahead without the extended warranty but I'm glad I have it. My $.02
Our Honda Civic Hybrid was a dog. Lots of transmission trouble and other weird issues. I've owned Nissans and Toyotas and after 5 or 6 years they start falling apart and turn into beaters.
Our 2008 Mercury Mariner has been trouble free for over 10 years. Our 2013 Tesla Model S has also been pretty much trouble free.
In my experience, the supremacy of Japanese cars is a myth. They are not more reliable. Don't get me started on Jaguar and Volkswagon... If you wisely select the right models, American cars are better.
>Sounds like a business opportunity to make PC cases in the US so Americans aren't 'forced' to buy Chinese shit.
A business opportunity for higher cost domestic products - maybe. The tariffs are a poorly disguised inflationary consumption tax needed to make up for the tax cuts to the corporations and wealthy.
I recommend a driving vacation from Chicago to San Francisco; go through Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada and California.
I find it laughable when people think out world is overpopulated. You can drive exceeding the speed limit for hours without seeing another soul. If that's not enough - look at the sky, the universe is big enough for everyone.
e=mc2 tells us energy should certainly not be an issue. This is all a big engineering problem.
I hope everyone can roll up their sleeves and get to work instead of taking the lazy fatalistic way out.
If we curtail immigration and want a growing economy, we need elders to work longer. We should encourage a society that welcomes them into the workplace and values their experience. Elders should also respect the ambition and energy of youth and willingly step aside and assume mentor roles to allow younger people to fill senior roles. (Politicians are you listening?)
Medical advances and knowledge (primarily the emphasis on diet and exercise) are allowing many people to be productive well past traditional retirement age. Many of these older people have the time and resources to build businesses and are job creators.
Look at the story of Ely Callaway. After a successful career and retiring as an executive from a major textile company, he decided to start a second career by building one of the first major successful wineries in Temecula California. While most people would be proud of two successful careers, Callaway loved golf and founded the Callaway Golf company, one of the biggest names in golf. Two tremendous careers built after "retirement".
People would sell their votes. Money corrupts politics:-(
BTW, I go on the local bar association to get judge info and recommendations. It honestly takes me about 10 minutes. Usually there are only a handful of bad judges and I either print a sheet or remember to name to vote no on retention.
Here are some possible outcomes:
They are dangerous and if they come here they have better technology than we do - we're screwed.
They are nice beings, but correctly conclude we are not. They decide its better to eradicate us before we become the scourge of the galaxy - we're screwed.
They are curious but see no benefit in engaging with us directly
They are not curious and correctly conclude we have nothing to offer their more advanced society. The universe is a big empty place and there is space enough for everyone.
My personal favorite - faster than light travel is fantasy and they will never bother to come.
In any case, the likelihood that they are wondrous benevolent beings who want to give us all kinds of nice stuff without unintended consequences is basically zero. No need to attract attention. Do something useful instead.
A bit of research yields some additional information. Lithium (and to some extent all light elements) exhibit KIE (kinetic isotope effect). The weight differences are enough to have some effect on the different isotopes chemical behavior. I read that their static chemical behavior at equilibrium are the same but in a dynamic system are different.
Its fascinating that something this subtle can have such a profound effect on the brain. Brain chemistry is very complex.
The Turing test has led us down a rocky road and we have a very long way to go. Artificial human-like intelligence IMHO is still a long way away. Most people make shoot from the hip assumptions about how the brain works and after doing some basic math about Moore's law assume super intelligence is right around the corner.
The brain is way more complicated than we know.
For example: there are two stable isotopes of lithium. Chemically they are identical, but they do not have the same effect on the brain. One is useful as a drug to treat mental illness and the other is not. This means there is something more subtle about how our brain works than interconnections and electrochemistry.
It is however a worthy challenge because the journey will teach us much about who we really are and how we work.
Every time I point out that crypto currency is a colossal waste of energy often generated by fossil fuel, I get attacked by hordes of guilty miners.
Privacy and low friction international transactions are the big advantages to crypto currency, but there are other ways to accomplish those goals without destroying the ecosystem and making the fossil fuel industry rich..
If all you know about a candidate is what you see on TV or read online, then they really look like the worst people in the world.
Try actually meeting some of these people. Many are not as bad as they are portrayed. That said, some of them are truly psychopathic megalomaniacs. You will know those by their actions.
As long as people choose not to vote, they will get politicians picked by others - generally those supported by the greedy.
>Not relevant. If you have somebody's public key, a large enough quantum computer
Explain how a quantum computer would be used to break into my Gmail account
Slashdot Mirror
Anecdotally speaking, I have had great experience with my Super Micro servers for more than 15 years.
Apple devices are designed to go "vintage"
I just helped my elderly brother with his older core 2 duo iMac. Can't run chrome at all and Safari won't bring up many sites because it only supports TLS1.0. The OS cannot be upgraded past 10.6.3. Firefox seems to work barely, but this computer is essentially unusable for basic home computer tasks.
All because Apple won't allow a newer OS to be installed. You could run Linux on a computer 25 years old.The latest Windows 10 runs OK on core 2 duo era computers.
As a former fanboy, I have piles of Apple products that are prematurely made useless by corporate choice.
Our model s is coming up on 6 years and it has been amazing. I'll buy another Tesla when this one hits 8 years. I still recommend the extended warranty though for the peace of mind. Electric cars are way more reliable, but when something goes wrong it can be pricey to fix. So far I would be ahead without the extended warranty but I'm glad I have it. My $.02
Could be luck of the draw. Maybe I just picked the wrong models...
Our Honda Civic Hybrid was a dog. Lots of transmission trouble and other weird issues. I've owned Nissans and Toyotas and after 5 or 6 years they start falling apart and turn into beaters.
Our 2008 Mercury Mariner has been trouble free for over 10 years. Our 2013 Tesla Model S has also been pretty much trouble free.
In my experience, the supremacy of Japanese cars is a myth. They are not more reliable. Don't get me started on Jaguar and Volkswagon... If you wisely select the right models, American cars are better.
What harsh realities? That people are greedy and stupid? That big money plays people for suckers and buys off politicians?
It would be even worse if somebody hadn't been building "huge numbers of wind turbines and installing huge amounts of solar"
That's why we need two more people to reinvent your wheel so we can have a minority report.
Unfortunately, we will likely always get three different answers and the world becomes a penal colony.
I took a driving trip through North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada and was stunned to see how much land is uninhabited.
I'll see your telegraph and raise you an onion.
Nice :-) I fold. The pot is yours.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/me...
I got sick of having to update I don't know how many sites in the last five years to support new APIs and requirements with Google Maps.
I use Open Street Maps and Leaflet for most things now. Gets the job done for a lot less hassle and money.
Can you believe they still make chain saws? Think of all the children who will be maimed!
Why can't everyone use plastic knives which are of course so much cheaper and safer? You don't need to be a lumberjack to know this.
We need to pass laws to regulate these irresponsible people.
Why not start with something we can all agree on, e.g. Cyber Attack and Election Meddling.
>Sounds like a business opportunity to make PC cases in the US so Americans aren't 'forced' to buy Chinese shit.
A business opportunity for higher cost domestic products - maybe. The tariffs are a poorly disguised inflationary consumption tax needed to make up for the tax cuts to the corporations and wealthy.
I recommend a driving vacation from Chicago to San Francisco; go through Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada and California.
I find it laughable when people think out world is overpopulated. You can drive exceeding the speed limit for hours without seeing another soul. If that's not enough - look at the sky, the universe is big enough for everyone.
e=mc2 tells us energy should certainly not be an issue. This is all a big engineering problem.
I hope everyone can roll up their sleeves and get to work instead of taking the lazy fatalistic way out.
If we curtail immigration and want a growing economy, we need elders to work longer. We should encourage a society that welcomes them into the workplace and values their experience. Elders should also respect the ambition and energy of youth and willingly step aside and assume mentor roles to allow younger people to fill senior roles. (Politicians are you listening?)
Medical advances and knowledge (primarily the emphasis on diet and exercise) are allowing many people to be productive well past traditional retirement age. Many of these older people have the time and resources to build businesses and are job creators.
Look at the story of Ely Callaway. After a successful career and retiring as an executive from a major textile company, he decided to start a second career by building one of the first major successful wineries in Temecula California. While most people would be proud of two successful careers, Callaway loved golf and founded the Callaway Golf company, one of the biggest names in golf. Two tremendous careers built after "retirement".
Ageism is just plain ignorant.
People would sell their votes. Money corrupts politics :-(
BTW, I go on the local bar association to get judge info and recommendations. It honestly takes me about 10 minutes. Usually there are only a handful of bad judges and I either print a sheet or remember to name to vote no on retention.
We are not ready for ET.
Here are some possible outcomes:
They are dangerous and if they come here they have better technology than we do - we're screwed.
They are nice beings, but correctly conclude we are not. They decide its better to eradicate us before we become the scourge of the galaxy - we're screwed.
They are curious but see no benefit in engaging with us directly
They are not curious and correctly conclude we have nothing to offer their more advanced society. The universe is a big empty place and there is space enough for everyone.
My personal favorite - faster than light travel is fantasy and they will never bother to come.
In any case, the likelihood that they are wondrous benevolent beings who want to give us all kinds of nice stuff without unintended consequences is basically zero. No need to attract attention. Do something useful instead.
A bit of research yields some additional information. Lithium (and to some extent all light elements) exhibit KIE (kinetic isotope effect). The weight differences are enough to have some effect on the different isotopes chemical behavior. I read that their static chemical behavior at equilibrium are the same but in a dynamic system are different.
Its fascinating that something this subtle can have such a profound effect on the brain. Brain chemistry is very complex.
The Turing test has led us down a rocky road and we have a very long way to go. Artificial human-like intelligence IMHO is still a long way away. Most people make shoot from the hip assumptions about how the brain works and after doing some basic math about Moore's law assume super intelligence is right around the corner.
The brain is way more complicated than we know.
For example: there are two stable isotopes of lithium. Chemically they are identical, but they do not have the same effect on the brain. One is useful as a drug to treat mental illness and the other is not. This means there is something more subtle about how our brain works than interconnections and electrochemistry.
It is however a worthy challenge because the journey will teach us much about who we really are and how we work.
Every time I point out that crypto currency is a colossal waste of energy often generated by fossil fuel, I get attacked by hordes of guilty miners.
Privacy and low friction international transactions are the big advantages to crypto currency, but there are other ways to accomplish those goals without destroying the ecosystem and making the fossil fuel industry rich..
If all you know about a candidate is what you see on TV or read online, then they really look like the worst people in the world.
Try actually meeting some of these people. Many are not as bad as they are portrayed. That said, some of them are truly psychopathic megalomaniacs. You will know those by their actions.
As long as people choose not to vote, they will get politicians picked by others - generally those supported by the greedy.
>Not relevant. If you have somebody's public key, a large enough quantum computer
Explain how a quantum computer would be used to break into my Gmail account
After X tries, password lockout kicks in.
Every time something gets encrypted, there's a new key for the next one, like what your chip credit card does.
Don't talk to systems you don't trust and don't assume trust for the ones you talk to.
There are numerous methods of encrypting data that are considered quantum safe.
There are definitely concerns about something magical that can break cryptography, but most risks can easily or already are mitigated.
People like to say in the fusion business - fusion is always 30 years into the future until one day it isn't.