It is the way of things, the old ways die off (or are forgotten and persist regardless like usenet) and are replaced with new things, whether or not the new things are better will be determined by the users, or dumb luck.
I lived literally across the street from one of those fucking things and was working second shift. Every single fucking "test" Wednesday, I would wake up at 10 am in sheer fucking terror and try to hide under a desk thanks to the duck and cover indoctrination I was given as a child.
Awww, it went off when you were awake? My tiny violin laughs in your general direction.
Until the trapdoor opens and you fall through it and the rope actually breaks your neck, the building of the scaffold, the hanging of the rope, the tying of the noose, the marching you up on to the platform, putting a hood over your head and putting the noose around your neck is all just smoke.
Fusion will obviously replace fission if us monkeys can figure it out.
The cost of a dyson ring would beggar the entire planet for at least a milllion years. It is simply infeasible until energy to matter and matter to energy conversions hit 95% efficiency.
Renewables will easily replace fossil fuels, and can already economically do that in some cases.
As to fission/fusion, You seem to be unaware that the sun is a giant fucking fusion bomb, only the distance we have from it's multi-billion year continuous explosion and our atmosphere keeps us alive.
The technology to gather the solar fusion energy impinging on our planet improves daily, it's a race between the gathering tech people and the local fusion tech people, and so far, the gathering tech people are winning.
The future may well be different, but right now the best fusion generator we have is exactly 1 au away and we need to (and are, continuously) improve the tech we useing to capture that energy.
You really need to take a look at the harm all the other energy sources actually do, Nuclear Power is far far safer for people AND the environment than coal, oil or gas.
'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'
Apparently the devs are too young to remember proven to be real internal Microsoft policy of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... From that article... >The variation, "embrace, extend and extinguish", was first introduced in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust trial when a vice president of Intel, Steven >McGeady, testified[8] that Microsoft vice president Paul Maritz used the phrase in a 1995 meeting with Intel to describe Microsoft's strategy toward >Netscape, Java, and the Internet.[9][10]
That point being that not everything needs a full GUI interfaced OS to do it's job. More often than not monitoring and controlling 4 or 8 variables is made harder by trying to do it with a desktop/laptop/tablet OS.
It will stop phone calls & texts but sadly candy crush will work just fine.
Net effect, I can't find out why my mate / girl / droogs are late or even going to show up AND they can't call me to tell me, but I can still ignore everyone else playing games.
When my customers wonder why so many internet sites are broken I explain that we don't allow java or javascript and any site that needs it needs to be looked at with a jaundiced eye.
Between noscript, requestblocker and adblock plus, I have not has a single customer fall victim to any of these web based malware packages.
The distance between what we know and what we don't is jagged and uneven across all of physics.
For Instance, Can we explain how the "single photon at a time" version of the dual slit experiment still manages to produce interference patterns? They are being interfered with by _something_ and it's not photons we produced or can account for.
This is a perfect example of the extremists view that their firmly held and fervently believed ignorance is just as valid as scientific facts and reality.
Can we just stop listening to then yet? Yes they ARE entitled to their beliefs, what they are NOT entitled to do is force their ignorance into governance, science, or the health and welfare of the nations people.
I still don't understand how anyone can possibly think that every device from cellphones to servers can possibly be used to their own full potential with the same damn user interface.
Either servers are going to be dumbed down or cellphones are going to be missing features, there simply is no way around that. And neither one is acceptable.
Any rational being would recognize that cellphones and servers have such different roles that differing interfaces on them would only help people to realize that there is more (or less) to this device than they know, and to rtfm before they get into real trouble,
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It is the way of things, the old ways die off (or are forgotten and persist regardless like usenet) and are replaced with new things, whether or not the new things are better will be determined by the users, or dumb luck.
I lived literally across the street from one of those fucking things and was working second shift. Every single fucking "test" Wednesday, I would wake up at 10 am in sheer fucking terror and try to hide under a desk thanks to the duck and cover indoctrination I was given as a child.
Awww, it went off when you were awake? My tiny violin laughs in your general direction.
Until the trapdoor opens and you fall through it and the rope actually breaks your neck, the building of the scaffold, the hanging of the rope, the tying of the noose, the marching you up on to the platform, putting a hood over your head and putting the noose around your neck is all just smoke.
Got it.
not an opposing view as much as "look, it's worse over there!!!1!" which actually has nothing at all to do with the subject at hand.
Let me applexplain !
It's all for the consumer, reduced battery life is a boon to users! And no one at apple ever used that sd card slot anyway.
Fusion will obviously replace fission if us monkeys can figure it out.
The cost of a dyson ring would beggar the entire planet for at least a milllion years. It is simply infeasible until energy to matter and matter to energy conversions hit 95% efficiency.
Renewables will easily replace fossil fuels, and can already economically do that in some cases.
As to fission/fusion, You seem to be unaware that the sun is a giant fucking fusion bomb, only the distance we have from it's multi-billion year continuous explosion and our atmosphere keeps us alive.
The technology to gather the solar fusion energy impinging on our planet improves daily, it's a race between the gathering tech people and the local fusion tech people, and so far, the gathering tech people are winning.
The future may well be different, but right now the best fusion generator we have is exactly 1 au away and we need to (and are, continuously) improve the tech we useing to capture that energy.
we don need no analog audio!
You really need to take a look at the harm all the other energy sources actually do, Nuclear Power is far far safer for people AND the environment than coal, oil or gas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Being kneejerk against nuclear power just shows you haven't studied the facts.
And YES we DO need to develop renewables to replace fossil AND nuclear, but nuclear is in fact the safest of all our current options.
heck it's easy if the "pitcher" is a computer controlled servo system that keeps the beam on point.
There aren't many "internet" programs that don't understand proxies, so you are pretty much wrong there, that will work for 99.7% of everything.
The real problem is it takes extra hardware and the real question is why the fuck should we have to?
'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'
Apparently the devs are too young to remember proven to be real internal Microsoft policy of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
From that article...
>The variation, "embrace, extend and extinguish", was first introduced in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust trial when a vice president of Intel, Steven
>McGeady, testified[8] that Microsoft vice president Paul Maritz used the phrase in a 1995 meeting with Intel to describe Microsoft's strategy toward
>Netscape, Java, and the Internet.[9][10]
That point being that not everything needs a full GUI interfaced OS to do it's job. More often than not monitoring and controlling 4 or 8 variables is made harder by trying to do it with a desktop/laptop/tablet OS.
So now you can reach your data cap in 40 seconds! WOW!
This sounds like the same "strategy" that MS is using for win10, the question remains, how are they going to monetize you, oops, sorry, I mean it.
That's Ok I have my windows 10 running in a sandboxed virtual machine under debian.
It will stop phone calls & texts but sadly candy crush will work just fine.
Net effect, I can't find out why my mate / girl / droogs are late or even going to show up AND they can't call me to tell me, but I can still ignore everyone else playing games.
Oops.
When my customers wonder why so many internet sites are broken I explain that we don't allow java or javascript and any site that needs it needs to be looked at with a jaundiced eye.
Between noscript, requestblocker and adblock plus, I have not has a single customer fall victim to any of these web based malware packages.
The distance between what we know and what we don't is jagged and uneven across all of physics.
For Instance,
Can we explain how the "single photon at a time" version of the dual slit experiment still manages to produce interference patterns? They are being interfered with by _something_ and it's not photons we produced or can account for.
They really are getting desperate to find reasons to get corp clients to "upgrade" to 10 from 7.
This slippery slope is as old as the written word although it got much more widely cried when photography was invented
I don't think she reads anything, at all. That book lernin is just a tool of the devil anyways dontcha know
This is a perfect example of the extremists view that their firmly held and fervently believed ignorance is just as valid as scientific facts and reality.
Can we just stop listening to then yet? Yes they ARE entitled to their beliefs, what they are NOT entitled to do is force their ignorance into governance, science, or the health and welfare of the nations people.
Says the guy posting as Anonymous Coward, on a site that dosen't verify any identity you care to assume.
You have been unintentionally hilarious. And done a good deal towards MAKING his point.
I still don't understand how anyone can possibly think that every device from cellphones to servers can possibly be used to their own full potential with the same damn user interface.
Either servers are going to be dumbed down or cellphones are going to be missing features, there simply is no way around that. And neither one is acceptable.
Any rational being would recognize that cellphones and servers have such different roles that differing interfaces on them would only help people to realize that there is more (or less) to this device than they know, and to rtfm before they get into real trouble,
Or even the slightest chance of actually being in the presence of a vagina before he dies.