My understanding was that the part of our genes that are race specific is actually smaller than those which simply vary from individual to individual. If that is true then I would think that any death is some reduction of diversity.
Batteries are just horribly inefficient boxes of future environmental contamination. The better ones also include hefty portions of strip-mined rare earth metals. I do hope that someday batteries are better but a lot of very smart people have been working on the problem for over a century. There is still a long way to go before it's solved and given the law of diminishing returns I'm not convinced it even can be.
Deaths per terawatt? You think there are actually statistics for that?
Well.. when there is an accident at a nuclear power plant everybody knows it and somebody will count the bodies. When millions of people get cancer and die some years earlier than they otherwise might have without coal exhaust nobody can identify any one specific carcinogen source that made it happen. And lets not get the increased suffering for asthmatics.
Or were you planning on moving the entire population into the desert where cloudy days are rare and we can actually rely on solar? I guess we will have to get used to drinking unicorn piss since that will be more plentiful than water for us.
How much natural old growth forest is left in the US*? How much of that is getting cut down to make toilet paper or even timber for that matter? How much of that natural old growth isn't currently protected as part of a national forrest?
I've seen woods that were cut down to make paper in northern Michigan. They already were exactly the same monocultures you are talking about. The land being cleared was land that had been cleared many times before! Maybe that land held an old growth forrest 100 or more years ago. Then again it could have been a swamp which has since been drained or prairie that started growing trees because people wouldn't let it burn naturally. At this point I cannot tell.
Whatever the case is there really much old growth forest getting cut down in the US today?
* - grandparent post was US-centric thus this one is too
Don't worry, that's the ultimate outcome from his suggestion. It's psychology, most people wouldn't take the head banging advice. But.. to the unitiated 'just use Windows' sounds so much less intimidating. Ultimately it gets them to the same destination though.
I think this would be a perfect new home for Leonart Poetering. It's a place were he could be productive and apreciated and the rest of us could be rid of him.
Why do we need new codecs? I'm genuinely confused and would like to understand.
Is it an issue of patents and royalties? I know I've been watching videos on my computer since about 1995. The patents on those codecs should be expired. Also, I use a lot of Linux and open source and have since about 1998. I can still play videos. If those codecs are patented and closed then who paid the royalties to make that open source software possible? Is patent violating software being openly distributed while nobody does anything about it? And if so then why do the patents even matter?
Is it about quality? Can't pretty much any codec support arbritary resolution, color pallets, frame rates and compression levels? i would think that the same old codecs would keep working and content providers would just tweak those parameters as computers become faster, storage larger and user's internet connection bandwidth greater.
Is it that different mathematical algorithms can compress the same quality of data into a tighter package? If so then how do we even know that? If such algorithms are already known then doesn't that define our new format already? If not then have mathmeticians via information theory have somehow shown that better compression is possible but the current task is to figure out how?
The only problem I have ever had playing a video is DRM. I don't see new formats somehow convincing the industry to drop DRM though. Without answers to these questions all I see is that old XKCD comic about standards.
"I'm sick and bloody well tired of the NIMBYs, environmentalists, and whoever else that gets their panties in a twist over anything with the word 'nuclear' in it."
We have a whole bunch of 1970s era nuclear power plants out there. A few have leaked stuff. Those particular incidents can be tied to either mismanagement, poor maintenance, the fact that they were built near fault lines or some combination of the above. But surely that doesn't mean anything.
Clearly since some plants have failed, under the above conditions that means that there is no way that nuclear power could be done safely and we should scrap that whole area of technology and science.
"All the things you mention are features, not qualities, or quality."
I quoted the part of your post that I was replying to. "The only advantage is low cost."
A feature.. if you use it IS an advantage.
I wrote another big TLDR reply, mostly about how I believe that for remote adminitration Android does have the highest quality of any solution that is available. But.. that was never my point in my original reply to you. I simply pointed out a bunch of things where Android has the advantage for me!
Features are kind of personal. You might have no need for a feautre that I can't live without. Or.. you might prefer how some other solution solves that particular problem. But... someone else's opinion can be totally valid for their own lives. I don't need everything you need and you don't need everything I need. Even where we have the same needs we might have different preferences.
If a device does not have the features that I want then for me it certainly has no advantage. The whole concept of buying something specifically because it does not have feautres.. why?
But.. I'll tell you what. I think I can easily out-Apple Apple. I can get you the lowest-feature phone possible. Clearly that implies it will be of higher quality right?
So....
If you promise to buy it from me then tonight I will go for a walk and find you a phone-shaped rock!
"The multi-tool is a best useful to keep for an emergency when you have nothing else. Because it's not actually very good at anything."
That's what Apple says. For their own users they prove it with their own products by crippling them. Of course a device without a mouse is at best an emergency last resort!
I don't need to clutter my life with 1000 computer tools, one for every situation. I've owned laptops and an iPad. I know how to compare them and I chose what works best for me.
For remote administration an Android phone with a Lapdock is in my opinion is the best tool available. I cycle with 3 other coworkers as being the on-call developer support for my work.
If you don't want to use a 'multi-tool' then I suppose you go for a laptop. They are expensive, short lived and require constant updating just like any other computer. I prefer not to own a laptop if I don't have to. I settled with what worked best for me.
Comparing the Lapdock with a laptop, it's the same form factor. There really is no physical advantage to the laptop! I'll be honest, a laptop has one advantage due to Motorolla or Google's software choices. The escape button is mapped to the phone's search feature so you can't use it to send to the remote computer. That can be worked around. Also, that does nothing to prove the multi-tools are bad theory. It's a poor programming decision that could have easily been the other way.
Anyway, my Lapdock beats a laptop because the data connection is built in. I do not require Wifi to work. I'm not dicking around with tethering apps that my phone carrier wants to try to block. Nor am I paying for my data twice by paying them for their official tethering service. I am definitely not paying for a whole second data service to activate some breakable USB dongle or a GSM modem that is built in to the laptop.
It's also superior to any iOS solution (short of Jailbreaking) because it supports a mouse. Like I said, I have used VNC and RDP on an iPad. Having some sort of floating touch mouse that covers part of the screen that you are working on... people pay for that shit really?!?!
As for the IDE.. you got me. I'm still learning Android development. I haven't built a large project on it yet. If.. when I do I find it's annoyingly slow that isn't going to stop me. I'll just use it's arguably superior VNC capabilities and use Android Studio on my desktop!
Even then the IDE would still be useful to me. It's compatible with Android Studio. Once I need to test on a real device I can use it with Subversion, Git or Dropbox to bring it local for a final build and test. Slow isn't so bad if I only have to do it once or twice at the end.
Of course that says nothing about the things you didn't reply to. What should I do for an SDR? Buy and lug around a laptop just for that? Or.. you did say you don't like multitools. I guess I need a standalone radio with the same capabilities as my Android plus SDR stick. Too bad that costs about as much as a new car!
Finally, for iOS devices to have those features it would make some of us happy without doing anything to harm users who don't want them. I simply cannot believe that enabling mouse support would break anything or make the device run any differently when a user does not even attach a mouse! Also, allowing side-loading would do nothing to harm the security of a user who does not chose to side load. It would allow anyone who wants a feature Apple does not approve of to have it. It doesn't matter if you don't find it something yourself. Just don't install it!
>>Targets in Baghdad were bombed, Baghdad as a whole wasn't. Would you have wanted to be anywhere in Baghdad during that?
>> Citing Haliburton doesn't make the case stronger. You seem to be ignoring all the close ties Haliburton has with government officials esepecially including vice president at the time.. Dick Cheney. The war in Iraq made a lot of money for many government officials. Corruption and greed are a far more likely explanation for that war than the extremely dubious looking inteligence regarding WMDs that were cited.
So most of these guys whose lives are now ruined never even got any out of it in the first place? Or was that a very busy few women? Oh, man, and I already thought it was a stupid thing to sign up for!
We prevented that problem from the start by putting a lid on the sandbox.
Yes, I know, we shouldn't have to do that. Cat owners shouldn't let their cats do that in our yard. How do you solve that though? Surveil your yard and then follow and identify any cat that ever comes by? Then go argue with each of those cat's owners? What do you do about stray cats? Catch them all yourself?
It's far more practical to just put a lid on it and be done.
Meh.. it's just another telecom offering for a monthly fee what any good maker could provide themselves.
You just need a Raspi set up as a car computer with ODBC reader. Add a GSM modem for those emergency calling features. I suppose you could use that for tracking too. Better yet though.. get a ham license and track the car via APRS. It's free! Saves minutes on your sim card.
Total price if you are a good scrounger.. less than a years worth of Verizon's service. After that it's basically free so long as you aren't using you aren't actually making calls and your prepaid SIM card doesn't expire. You can even transfer it all to your next car.
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My understanding was that the part of our genes that are race specific is actually smaller than those which simply vary from individual to individual. If that is true then I would think that any death is some reduction of diversity.
And that would be different from today how? The only difference I see is that more people currently do eat meat.
Don't worry, Fapping@Home is hard at work looking for the cure!
All that and he had a bear? Oh, man, I never knew that Putin was such a copycat!
Batteries are just horribly inefficient boxes of future environmental contamination. The better ones also include hefty portions of strip-mined rare earth metals. I do hope that someday batteries are better but a lot of very smart people have been working on the problem for over a century. There is still a long way to go before it's solved and given the law of diminishing returns I'm not convinced it even can be.
Aparently you have no idea what a filter is. Just reverse the flow and all the filtered material comes back out.
Whooo Spooky Magic!
I RTFS and RTFA. I see no mention of the images being unsolicited. What is your connection to the case?
Deaths per terawatt? You think there are actually statistics for that?
Well.. when there is an accident at a nuclear power plant everybody knows it and somebody will count the bodies. When millions of people get cancer and die some years earlier than they otherwise might have without coal exhaust nobody can identify any one specific carcinogen source that made it happen. And lets not get the increased suffering for asthmatics.
Or were you planning on moving the entire population into the desert where cloudy days are rare and we can actually rely on solar? I guess we will have to get used to drinking unicorn piss since that will be more plentiful than water for us.
"There are many ways to get water up your nose such as... laughing at posts on slashdot while drinking,..."
Those are going to be some poor, hungry Amoebas!
How much natural old growth forest is left in the US*?
How much of that is getting cut down to make toilet paper or even timber for that matter?
How much of that natural old growth isn't currently protected as part of a national forrest?
I've seen woods that were cut down to make paper in northern Michigan. They already were exactly the same monocultures you are talking about. The land being cleared was land that had been cleared many times before! Maybe that land held an old growth forrest 100 or more years ago. Then again it could have been a swamp which has since been drained or prairie that started growing trees because people wouldn't let it burn naturally. At this point I cannot tell.
Whatever the case is there really much old growth forest getting cut down in the US today?
* - grandparent post was US-centric thus this one is too
And what would a 4-billion cullig do to our genetic diversity?
Don't worry, that's the ultimate outcome from his suggestion. It's psychology, most people wouldn't take the head banging advice. But.. to the unitiated 'just use Windows' sounds so much less intimidating. Ultimately it gets them to the same destination though.
I think this would be a perfect new home for Leonart Poetering. It's a place were he could be productive and apreciated and the rest of us could be rid of him.
Why do you say that hey my wife Eliza is hot?
Why do we need new codecs? I'm genuinely confused and would like to understand.
Is it an issue of patents and royalties? I know I've been watching videos on my computer since about 1995. The patents on those codecs should be expired. Also, I use a lot of Linux and open source and have since about 1998. I can still play videos. If those codecs are patented and closed then who paid the royalties to make that open source software possible? Is patent violating software being openly distributed while nobody does anything about it? And if so then why do the patents even matter?
Is it about quality? Can't pretty much any codec support arbritary resolution, color pallets, frame rates and compression levels? i would think that the same old codecs would keep working and content providers would just tweak those parameters as computers become faster, storage larger and user's internet connection bandwidth greater.
Is it that different mathematical algorithms can compress the same quality of data into a tighter package? If so then how do we even know that? If such algorithms are already known then doesn't that define our new format already? If not then have mathmeticians via information theory have somehow shown that better compression is possible but the current task is to figure out how?
The only problem I have ever had playing a video is DRM. I don't see new formats somehow convincing the industry to drop DRM though. Without answers to these questions all I see is that old XKCD comic about standards.
Thanks for any thoughtful answers!
Where will all those miners go to get their tumors?
"I'm sick and bloody well tired of the NIMBYs, environmentalists, and whoever else that gets their panties in a twist over anything with the word 'nuclear' in it."
We have a whole bunch of 1970s era nuclear power plants out there. A few have leaked stuff. Those particular incidents can be tied to either mismanagement, poor maintenance, the fact that they were built near fault lines or some combination of the above. But surely that doesn't mean anything.
Clearly since some plants have failed, under the above conditions that means that there is no way that nuclear power could be done safely and we should scrap that whole area of technology and science.
Right?
Worst case it goes to the soup kitchen. Waste not want not.
"All the things you mention are features, not qualities, or quality."
I quoted the part of your post that I was replying to.
"The only advantage is low cost."
A feature.. if you use it IS an advantage.
I wrote another big TLDR reply, mostly about how I believe that for remote adminitration Android does have the highest quality of any solution that is available. But.. that was never my point in my original reply to you. I simply pointed out a bunch of things where Android has the advantage for me!
Features are kind of personal. You might have no need for a feautre that I can't live without. Or.. you might prefer how some other solution solves that particular problem. But... someone else's opinion can be totally valid for their own lives. I don't need everything you need and you don't need everything I need. Even where we have the same needs we might have different preferences.
If a device does not have the features that I want then for me it certainly has no advantage. The whole concept of buying something specifically because it does not have feautres.. why?
But.. I'll tell you what. I think I can easily out-Apple Apple. I can get you the lowest-feature phone possible. Clearly that implies it will be of higher quality right?
So....
If you promise to buy it from me then tonight I will go for a walk and find you a phone-shaped rock!
"The multi-tool is a best useful to keep for an emergency when you have nothing else. Because it's not actually very good at anything."
That's what Apple says. For their own users they prove it with their own products by crippling them. Of course a device without a mouse is at best an emergency last resort!
I don't need to clutter my life with 1000 computer tools, one for every situation. I've owned laptops and an iPad. I know how to compare them and I chose what works best for me.
For remote administration an Android phone with a Lapdock is in my opinion is the best tool available. I cycle with 3 other coworkers as being the on-call developer support for my work.
If you don't want to use a 'multi-tool' then I suppose you go for a laptop. They are expensive, short lived and require constant updating just like any other computer. I prefer not to own a laptop if I don't have to. I settled with what worked best for me.
Comparing the Lapdock with a laptop, it's the same form factor. There really is no physical advantage to the laptop! I'll be honest, a laptop has one advantage due to Motorolla or Google's software choices. The escape button is mapped to the phone's search feature so you can't use it to send to the remote computer. That can be worked around. Also, that does nothing to prove the multi-tools are bad theory. It's a poor programming decision that could have easily been the other way.
Anyway, my Lapdock beats a laptop because the data connection is built in. I do not require Wifi to work. I'm not dicking around with tethering apps that my phone carrier wants to try to block. Nor am I paying for my data twice by paying them for their official tethering service. I am definitely not paying for a whole second data service to activate some breakable USB dongle or a GSM modem that is built in to the laptop.
It's also superior to any iOS solution (short of Jailbreaking) because it supports a mouse. Like I said, I have used VNC and RDP on an iPad. Having some sort of floating touch mouse that covers part of the screen that you are working on... people pay for that shit really?!?!
As for the IDE.. you got me. I'm still learning Android development. I haven't built a large project on it yet. If.. when I do I find it's annoyingly slow that isn't going to stop me. I'll just use it's arguably superior VNC capabilities and use Android Studio on my desktop!
Even then the IDE would still be useful to me. It's compatible with Android Studio. Once I need to test on a real device I can use it with Subversion, Git or Dropbox to bring it local for a final build and test. Slow isn't so bad if I only have to do it once or twice at the end.
Of course that says nothing about the things you didn't reply to. What should I do for an SDR? Buy and lug around a laptop just for that? Or.. you did say you don't like multitools. I guess I need a standalone radio with the same capabilities as my Android plus SDR stick. Too bad that costs about as much as a new car!
Finally, for iOS devices to have those features it would make some of us happy without doing anything to harm users who don't want them. I simply cannot believe that enabling mouse support would break anything or make the device run any differently when a user does not even attach a mouse! Also, allowing side-loading would do nothing to harm the security of a user who does not chose to side load. It would allow anyone who wants a feature Apple does not approve of to have it. It doesn't matter if you don't find it something yourself. Just don't install it!
>>Targets in Baghdad were bombed, Baghdad as a whole wasn't.
Would you have wanted to be anywhere in Baghdad during that?
>> Citing Haliburton doesn't make the case stronger.
You seem to be ignoring all the close ties Haliburton has with government officials esepecially including vice president at the time.. Dick Cheney. The war in Iraq made a lot of money for many government officials. Corruption and greed are a far more likely explanation for that war than the extremely dubious looking inteligence regarding WMDs that were cited.
How many times can you read "I have this great idea for an online and it will make me a lot of money. Go write it for me." before you stop bothering.
is something random thing that has existed for years.
So most of these guys whose lives are now ruined never even got any out of it in the first place? Or was that a very busy few women? Oh, man, and I already thought it was a stupid thing to sign up for!
We prevented that problem from the start by putting a lid on the sandbox.
Yes, I know, we shouldn't have to do that. Cat owners shouldn't let their cats do that in our yard. How do you solve that though? Surveil your yard and then follow and identify any cat that ever comes by? Then go argue with each of those cat's owners? What do you do about stray cats? Catch them all yourself?
It's far more practical to just put a lid on it and be done.
Meh.. it's just another telecom offering for a monthly fee what any good maker could provide themselves.
You just need a Raspi set up as a car computer with ODBC reader. Add a GSM modem for those emergency calling features. I suppose you could use that for tracking too. Better yet though.. get a ham license and track the car via APRS. It's free! Saves minutes on your sim card.
Total price if you are a good scrounger.. less than a years worth of Verizon's service. After that it's basically free so long as you aren't using you aren't actually making calls and your prepaid SIM card doesn't expire. You can even transfer it all to your next car.