The hole in the Ozone Layer was very real, yes we did cause it, and yes we took international measures to fix it that worked. If you don't believe that you are either daft, very young, trolling, or all three.
I'm fine with calling it any of those things. But it would be better to settle on globally unified measures to do something about it like we did with the hole in the Ozone Layer (remember that?), or else we may eventually have to call it a fourth option: Global Suicide.
This "sociologist of technology" (self proclaimed?) might want to go back to school. As far as I am aware, even if you use TOR and gift cards, and have you stuff shipped to a po box, you still need a legit account with a name, in which case off goes your private data.
One of the selling points of SSDs are that they take up far less space than a traditional HDD. This is great for many reasons, especially in the data center. Since SSD's first appeared in laptops, they may have simply retained the form factor (in an exclusive manner) since it's each cheaper to make a literal one size fits all drive than many sizes. Think economies of scale. In fact, now that I have paused from my reply to Google it, this does appear to be the case.
Jerry Pournelle co-wrote "The Mote in God's Eye." I am not trying to troll your post, but credit should be given where it's due. They also both wrote "The Gripping Hand." While Pournelle's daughter went solo writing "Outies."
This would be great for security camera applications. The number one reason resolution sucks on security camera recordings is due to a lack of storage. Rather than seeing a indecipherable black and white (color is even worse) video of a suspect robbing a store, we would get it in HD. Have a few cameras on the inside, and on the outside to capture the getaway car, this could actually discourage some crimes.
Read this book Sudo Mastery And wean your new hire on to the access he or she needs while weaning yourself off. The information in this book also comes in handy when it comes to pointing fingers when something administrative goes very wrong. It's only 144 pages, but worth every page.
This is assuming you run *nix based systems, you did not specify your infrastructure.
Tofu is wonderful stuff, especially when you cook with it. It will take on the flavor of anything. If your cooking with many ingredients, you get all the flavor in one bite. Don't think I'm limited to eating red meat. At most I eat it once a week. Mostly vegetarian, but I do eat eggs and fish. I am always open to trying new foods.
Or you can make it half-assed and try to make it cheaper than real meat. Then you can replace all meat in the fast food industry.
I was thinking about that after I posted and I completely agree. Fast food "meat" barely qualifies as it is, and fast food in general is a major part of the health crisis here in the United States.
It's not all about flavor, it's also about presentation. A steak has to look and cut exactly like a steak to be a stake, and it must have the varying consistencies you get from everything between rare to well done. If they can pull that off, fine - but it has to be exact. Besides, it's not like we have a food shortage, the problem is distribution. If you're taking the ethical route, fine for you, but it's not for me.
Perhaps someone can pick apart a speed reading idea I've had for awhile and tell me what's wrong with it:
I envision a system where you have a physical book and an audio book. You would read the book while listening to the audio book. Slowly, you would increase the speaking rate of the audio book and work to match your reading speed. Double re-enforcement. Ultimately you would no longer need an accompanying audio book.
This is effectively how we learn to read as toddlers.
I address most of that in my replies to other replies to my post in this thread. Rather than quoting myself on all of it, I will simply quote this from my last reply: All human problems have constructive solutions.
If that's not enough then read the all of my replies.
Over population? Space, the final frontier...with humans genetically and technologically augmented to live off world in varied conditions. I put forward that many would take this to task. It is not often said here that we need to move a lot of the population off world for the species to survive. That has to happen somehow and sometime or we will die.
Also, at the pace that the science of super-longevity is unfolding, it is in parallel to, if not in tandem with, technologies that will allow ourselves to be freed from our biological and most importantly, cognitive limitations. We have reached a point where we can scarcely guess at scientific and technological advancements and achievements a few years in advance. In a matter of decades, it will no longer makes sense to bother guessing at a point we will not be able to see past. All human problems have constructive solutions.
Google sure as hell is building infrastructure here. They are running cable all over the place. Am I missing something in your comment? The only existing infrastructure I see them utilizing are the power line poles where they are hanging it.
I'm sure the limit to life for a standard human involves a lot more factors, but this gives us one significant wall to smash down.
Only reading the summary of an article and not the article itself is one thing. Only reading half of a one line post is a new low. Further, I see a lot of pessimism on Slashdot regarding super-longevity. I don't get it.
Through science, humans excel at overcoming limits. I'm sure the limit to life for a standard human involves a lot more factors, but this gives us one significant wall to smash down.
Better is an intelligent species that can survive it's evolutionary infancy. Better is a species that develops technology that ultimately knocks down silly borders in a welcomed way. Better is a species that uses technology to establish persistent, world-wide dialog. Better is getting along. Better is the ability to use technology to augment ourselves as individuals however we see fit, without regulation or constraint, where this ability develops in parallel with aforementioned points. Better is the right to get old and die only if you want to. So on and so forth...
You cannot deny that something has got to give if we are ever to stop hating and killing each other as a past-time, which is an evolutionary endowment.
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We banned chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone depleting chemicals.
The hole in the Ozone Layer was very real, yes we did cause it, and yes we took international measures to fix it that worked. If you don't believe that you are either daft, very young, trolling, or all three.
I'm fine with calling it any of those things. But it would be better to settle on globally unified measures to do something about it like we did with the hole in the Ozone Layer (remember that?), or else we may eventually have to call it a fourth option: Global Suicide.
This "sociologist of technology" (self proclaimed?) might want to go back to school. As far as I am aware, even if you use TOR and gift cards, and have you stuff shipped to a po box, you still need a legit account with a name, in which case off goes your private data.
One of the selling points of SSDs are that they take up far less space than a traditional HDD. This is great for many reasons, especially in the data center. Since SSD's first appeared in laptops, they may have simply retained the form factor (in an exclusive manner) since it's each cheaper to make a literal one size fits all drive than many sizes. Think economies of scale. In fact, now that I have paused from my reply to Google it, this does appear to be the case.
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Jerry Pournelle co-wrote "The Mote in God's Eye." I am not trying to troll your post, but credit should be given where it's due. They also both wrote "The Gripping Hand." While Pournelle's daughter went solo writing "Outies."
This would be great for security camera applications. The number one reason resolution sucks on security camera recordings is due to a lack of storage. Rather than seeing a indecipherable black and white (color is even worse) video of a suspect robbing a store, we would get it in HD. Have a few cameras on the inside, and on the outside to capture the getaway car, this could actually discourage some crimes.
Read this book Sudo Mastery And wean your new hire on to the access he or she needs while weaning yourself off. The information in this book also comes in handy when it comes to pointing fingers when something administrative goes very wrong. It's only 144 pages, but worth every page.
This is assuming you run *nix based systems, you did not specify your infrastructure.
Tofu is wonderful stuff, especially when you cook with it. It will take on the flavor of anything. If your cooking with many ingredients, you get all the flavor in one bite. Don't think I'm limited to eating red meat. At most I eat it once a week. Mostly vegetarian, but I do eat eggs and fish. I am always open to trying new foods.
Perhaps not quite the same, but things have changed since 1997. The basic idea is applicable.
Why Shouldn't I Work for the NSA? (Good Will Hunting)
I was thinking about that after I posted and I completely agree. Fast food "meat" barely qualifies as it is, and fast food in general is a major part of the health crisis here in the United States.
It's not all about flavor, it's also about presentation. A steak has to look and cut exactly like a steak to be a stake, and it must have the varying consistencies you get from everything between rare to well done. If they can pull that off, fine - but it has to be exact. Besides, it's not like we have a food shortage, the problem is distribution. If you're taking the ethical route, fine for you, but it's not for me.
My imagination is struggling to fathom a timeline where Steve Jobs became CEO of Google. Anyone care to hazard a guess?
60??? Who is your provider? I though ATTs 120 GB cap was criminal. Yours is an abomination. I feel bad for you.
Perhaps someone can pick apart a speed reading idea I've had for awhile and tell me what's wrong with it:
I envision a system where you have a physical book and an audio book. You would read the book while listening to the audio book. Slowly, you would increase the speaking rate of the audio book and work to match your reading speed. Double re-enforcement. Ultimately you would no longer need an accompanying audio book.
This is effectively how we learn to read as toddlers.
That's fair. Point taken.
I address most of that in my replies to other replies to my post in this thread. Rather than quoting myself on all of it, I will simply quote this from my last reply: All human problems have constructive solutions.
If that's not enough then read the all of my replies.
Over population? Space, the final frontier...with humans genetically and technologically augmented to live off world in varied conditions. I put forward that many would take this to task. It is not often said here that we need to move a lot of the population off world for the species to survive. That has to happen somehow and sometime or we will die.
Also, at the pace that the science of super-longevity is unfolding, it is in parallel to, if not in tandem with, technologies that will allow ourselves to be freed from our biological and most importantly, cognitive limitations. We have reached a point where we can scarcely guess at scientific and technological advancements and achievements a few years in advance. In a matter of decades, it will no longer makes sense to bother guessing at a point we will not be able to see past. All human problems have constructive solutions.
Google sure as hell is building infrastructure here. They are running cable all over the place. Am I missing something in your comment? The only existing infrastructure I see them utilizing are the power line poles where they are hanging it.
Only reading the summary of an article and not the article itself is one thing. Only reading half of a one line post is a new low. Further, I see a lot of pessimism on Slashdot regarding super-longevity. I don't get it.
Through science, humans excel at overcoming limits. I'm sure the limit to life for a standard human involves a lot more factors, but this gives us one significant wall to smash down.
Better is an intelligent species that can survive it's evolutionary infancy. Better is a species that develops technology that ultimately knocks down silly borders in a welcomed way. Better is a species that uses technology to establish persistent, world-wide dialog. Better is getting along. Better is the ability to use technology to augment ourselves as individuals however we see fit, without regulation or constraint, where this ability develops in parallel with aforementioned points. Better is the right to get old and die only if you want to. So on and so forth...
You cannot deny that something has got to give if we are ever to stop hating and killing each other as a past-time, which is an evolutionary endowment.
So now Slashdot is some weird cult with rules to thinking that everyone agrees on? And you say I must be new here.
Nice!
Nope! Everyday since 1997, under one ID or another.
Yup!