Yes it is a hostile environment but three things drive expansion -

1. economics
2. technology
3. discontent

The technology and economics still don't work. Those are the current limiting factors. When we get a an economic model that matches available technology to potential resources we WILL start sending large numbers of people into space. There are too many potential resources not to.

At that point it comes down to WHO will be willing to go out to the new frontier - based on history it's going to be those who are unhappy with the societal limitations here on Earth. They are probably NOT going to go out with the intent of starting a family but that will come unless there is some reason pregnancy is not viable in space.

The next big question - does it make more sense to gown down a gravity well like Mars or mine asteroids and build in space?

  Once people CAN get into space cheaply they WILL go into space if they can find the freedom economic/political/societal that they can't find on earth.

The missing mass...

Be honest...
It's all AOL CDROMs, isn't it?

I'd be surprised if you could demonstrate the same thing for embedded devices not designed to be modified or updated by users -- no matter their complexity.

I was personally very upset when Motorola refused to provide me a software update for a device, designed for both long-term and short-term use!

It was an SN74LS139N Motorola Dual Decoder 2-4 Line Plastic TTL chip.

How dare they deny me software updates for this chip containing two inverters and four AND gates!

I don't give a damn that they designed it for embedded use, I should be able to update the software running on it!

Right?

I quote Rush too:

A modern day warrior
Mean, mean stride
Today's Tom Sawyer
Mean, mean pride

Obviously the band has other songs, but Tom Sawyer is just a classic.

I blame increasing dental visits.

The NHS just had an anniversary that was highly publicized, and it's clear people are finally doing something about their manibles, maxilla, and teeth, all of which would throw this sort of thing off.

We have 64 bits virtual.

Just don't put processes in intersecting address spaces; we already slide them arounbd with ASLR; adding negaffinity is not that hard a modification.

No TLB intersections, no issues.

Yes, performance will be reduced due to not having any page sharing whatsoever.

Alternate fix: stop using hypervisors.

Missing the "..."?
lol, punctuation n00b.

Now if only they'd cut off Windows 10 support for newer computers...

Not unless they fix ...

Their notoriously bad memory bandwidth in the redesign.

Subcategories include...

Leeroy Jenkins syndrome

Ganking

Camping respawn points ...

How about freeing up some of that $7.5B?

That's what Microsoft paid for GitHub.

No.

Provide a better system, and then charge the government to enroll people.

Poor people are poor. They aren't going to pay for infrastructure of any kind.

So emigrate to Europe, China, and elsewhere.

Why the hell do you have to go to the U.S.?

If your education system sucks so badly in your country -- that looks like a business opportunity for someone (to me).

Start your own DeVry or University Of Phoenix.

I keep pointing out that Uber could fix this.

It would cost about $12 million for every Uber contractor to incorporate into a contracting company, and then contract their employees services to Uber.

They all become employees... of the contracting company that they own, not of Uber.