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Re:Bullshit
Well, I don't believe Jobs. It would be simple enough for iTunes to offer unDRMed downloads alongside the DRMed ones. A different download protocol could be used (say, simple HTTP), so there would be no danger of the unlocked download mechanism being used to help reverse engineer the locked one.
The UI could be really simple. I even posted a suggestion on Flickr.
If Jobs is really against DRM, he'll do it. Personally, I'm betting it's just posturing to try and defend against charges of monopoly. -
Re:Absolute SillinessI don't care if the tax is no more than 10$ like the article says, it's an additional grievance that I certainly don't want to deal with. Either they have the means to recycle the sorts of material that are in electronics, in which case the fees I already pay for recycling can cover that, or they don't have the means to recycle this stuff. Recycling electronics is more difficult than other recycling, thus it costs more, and isn't generally done. Therefore to pay for recycling of electronics more money is required. If you like this money could be levied by raising the fees you already pay for recycling, or by putting a tax directly on electronics. That is, the means to recycle electronics exist in theory, but aren't running in practice because there isn't enough money to pay to run them. Right now electronics waste is a negative externality that we happily sweep under the carpet by shipping it to towns in China and India, where it degrades or is broken down in an unsafe manner, and the toxic materials leach into the water table. All the resulting suffering and human cost is in the back-blocks of China, however, which the Chinese government certainly doesn't care about and you can safely ignore. One way or another, however, those costs have to be paid. All this proposal is doing is making you pay the costs (or at least some of them) up front. So take your choice - higher recycling fees, a tax on electronics, or misery and suffering in far away countries. The easy option is clear; the right option on the other hand...
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Re:Absolute SillinessI don't care if the tax is no more than 10$ like the article says, it's an additional grievance that I certainly don't want to deal with. Either they have the means to recycle the sorts of material that are in electronics, in which case the fees I already pay for recycling can cover that, or they don't have the means to recycle this stuff. Recycling electronics is more difficult than other recycling, thus it costs more, and isn't generally done. Therefore to pay for recycling of electronics more money is required. If you like this money could be levied by raising the fees you already pay for recycling, or by putting a tax directly on electronics. That is, the means to recycle electronics exist in theory, but aren't running in practice because there isn't enough money to pay to run them. Right now electronics waste is a negative externality that we happily sweep under the carpet by shipping it to towns in China and India, where it degrades or is broken down in an unsafe manner, and the toxic materials leach into the water table. All the resulting suffering and human cost is in the back-blocks of China, however, which the Chinese government certainly doesn't care about and you can safely ignore. One way or another, however, those costs have to be paid. All this proposal is doing is making you pay the costs (or at least some of them) up front. So take your choice - higher recycling fees, a tax on electronics, or misery and suffering in far away countries. The easy option is clear; the right option on the other hand...
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Re:Absolute SillinessI don't care if the tax is no more than 10$ like the article says, it's an additional grievance that I certainly don't want to deal with. Either they have the means to recycle the sorts of material that are in electronics, in which case the fees I already pay for recycling can cover that, or they don't have the means to recycle this stuff. Recycling electronics is more difficult than other recycling, thus it costs more, and isn't generally done. Therefore to pay for recycling of electronics more money is required. If you like this money could be levied by raising the fees you already pay for recycling, or by putting a tax directly on electronics. That is, the means to recycle electronics exist in theory, but aren't running in practice because there isn't enough money to pay to run them. Right now electronics waste is a negative externality that we happily sweep under the carpet by shipping it to towns in China and India, where it degrades or is broken down in an unsafe manner, and the toxic materials leach into the water table. All the resulting suffering and human cost is in the back-blocks of China, however, which the Chinese government certainly doesn't care about and you can safely ignore. One way or another, however, those costs have to be paid. All this proposal is doing is making you pay the costs (or at least some of them) up front. So take your choice - higher recycling fees, a tax on electronics, or misery and suffering in far away countries. The easy option is clear; the right option on the other hand...
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The real conference action is always in the halls
...and so I sent an imaginary reporter to the Digital Music Forum East conference to take pictures and note down what was happening in the halls. The results documented here.
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Who needs Photoshop...
When you've got a body like this.
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Obama's Flickr Feed
Nobody has mentioned Barack Obama's flickr feed.
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scan your kids, & family
put little busts on your desktop? in full color?
take a look at the ability of
http://zcorp.com/products/printersdetail.asp?ID=2
or this
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Re:Approval versus authentication dialogsThat's an authentication dialog. It's making sure you're you and not someone who has walked up to your keyboard while you're getting a cup of coffee.
It's the approval dialogs in Windows that are insane. WTF are you on about?
Ubuntu authentication prompt when running as a standard user
Vista authentication prompt when running as a standard user
The only difference between them is that Vista tells you which program it is that wants privelage elevation. In all other respects, they're functionally identical. Hell, they even both darken your screen in the same way!
And no, permissions were not invented purely as a method to, err, protect against "someone who has walked up to your keyboard while you're getting a cup of coffee". Apart from anything else, *no* permissioning system that doesn't also implement encryption can protect against someone dedicated who's got unrestricted physical access to your computer. Permissions were mainly originally to prevent users from doing anything they shouldn't be in a multi-user system (e.g. deleting things from someone else's userspace). Preventing either badly-written or rouge programs from affecting things they shouldn't is a more common modern use for them. Whilst they do provide weak protection from someone with physical access, that is not their main purpose. And all the above applies equally to Vista as to Unix-like systems. -
Another Islamic math-art mystery
The recent documentary by Oxford historian Brittany Hughes, When the Moors Ruled in Europe , revealed (among many other very surprising findings) that the strikingly gorgeous Alhambra Palace also contains a very interesting mathematical curiousity within the design of all of its walls and floor patterns. (I won't spoil it for people who want to watch the documentary, which is available in its entirety on Google Video.) Also, many more Islamic patterns from throughout the Muslim world are available on flickr's Muslim Cultures group for those intrigued by the sort of artwork mentioned in the article.
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Another Islamic math-art mystery
The recent documentary by Oxford historian Brittany Hughes, When the Moors Ruled in Europe , revealed (among many other very surprising findings) that the strikingly gorgeous Alhambra Palace also contains a very interesting mathematical curiousity within the design of all of its walls and floor patterns. (I won't spoil it for people who want to watch the documentary, which is available in its entirety on Google Video.) Also, many more Islamic patterns from throughout the Muslim world are available on flickr's Muslim Cultures group for those intrigued by the sort of artwork mentioned in the article.
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Re:That need is overblown.
I have not checked this in version 1.0 yet but this actually led to problems in the beta. When adjusting exposure for instance, any change to the exposure slider in lightroom instantly reduced the resolution by 4x or so (so the image looked very blocky at 100%).
Interesting. I saw this as a feature. It made it very clear when subtle transitions had been completed. Some operations, like slightly changing the luminance of a particular hue, are sometimes difficult to perceive. Without this visual cue, I sometimes find myself moving too far and then backtracking.
I've found that hovering the mouse (in my case, the stylus) over the control and using arrow keys to increase/decrease values in known increments, I get decent control. I just wait for the image to resolve itself again, and adjust further if required. FTR, I run Lightroom in a virtual machine, so performance and responsiveness are an issue for me.
I find Lightroom to be a vast improvement over what I used before (i.e. Photoshop). In just a month or so of using it, my photos have improved significantly. For reference, here's an example from shortly before Christmas, and here's one from just last weekend. Lighting conditions, location and time of day for both were more or less identical for both.
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Re:That need is overblown.
I have not checked this in version 1.0 yet but this actually led to problems in the beta. When adjusting exposure for instance, any change to the exposure slider in lightroom instantly reduced the resolution by 4x or so (so the image looked very blocky at 100%).
Interesting. I saw this as a feature. It made it very clear when subtle transitions had been completed. Some operations, like slightly changing the luminance of a particular hue, are sometimes difficult to perceive. Without this visual cue, I sometimes find myself moving too far and then backtracking.
I've found that hovering the mouse (in my case, the stylus) over the control and using arrow keys to increase/decrease values in known increments, I get decent control. I just wait for the image to resolve itself again, and adjust further if required. FTR, I run Lightroom in a virtual machine, so performance and responsiveness are an issue for me.
I find Lightroom to be a vast improvement over what I used before (i.e. Photoshop). In just a month or so of using it, my photos have improved significantly. For reference, here's an example from shortly before Christmas, and here's one from just last weekend. Lighting conditions, location and time of day for both were more or less identical for both.
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siebel logs
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Re:Yeah tell me about it ....
As you can see here, some IFE systems run Linux and they crash too.
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Thoughts on the purpose of recording/sharing life
This area is my passion, so it's great to see it getting some attention on
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Re:Muscles are attractive
Get back to me when men aren't interested in breasts.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kasiaczek/63958709/in /set-954706/
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Renting out stuff ...As an Indian from a relatively unconnected neck of woods, I love the OLPC project and what it might do to the future students of this world - and I've even played around with an OLPC for thirty minutes. But this particular feature annoys me a bit. I quote from the article.
the system allows countries to optionally establish a "license" period for the laptops, such as 21 days.
When laptops are connected to the Internet, they will synchronize with an NTP server to obtain the correct
time and date, and then obtain a license which must be renewed in the time specified. Laptops which are not
renewed within the timeframe will lock.As I mentioned before, the whole concept of an unconnected laptop or one with minimal internet access (i.e wireless mesh) goes for a toss with this feature. The worst of the activation features which windows has, negating the real advantage of having a laptop you could take literally anywhere. Locking out someone just because they couldn't hook their PC into the network for twenty days is no way to make OLPC work. The real way to keep them off the black market is to reward those who keep their machines intact - just like the way to get kids to come to school has been a free lunch programme (and I sit in an Indian state with 99% literacy rates).
Or if you're really interested in reducing the utility of the machines, send an access code to the school master every month - for the laptops to get on the internet. You need to go pick up the coupon to get back on the internet and just kick the ones which are reported missing in audits - rather than go in for an active licensing scheme as mentioned in the document.
But in general, technical solutions for social (as well as economic) problems hardly work out, by themselves.
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flickr's API
On a semi-related note, I just made a tool that scrapes flickr to extract flickr notes as an HTML imagemap. I started it as an HTML screenscraper but then saw there didn't seem to be support for this in the flickr api.
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Re:You call that an AMP stack?
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Pic from article
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What?
So let me get this straight... deleting a shortcut brings up a pile of popups, but installing something doesn't?! Who's trading security for annoyance here?
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Clippy - Lite Bright
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Get out of speakeasy, and fast.
I did. http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/tags/speake
a sy -- read the chat. Thrown out for going >100G a month. "Unlimited" my ass. Do not do business with SpeakEasy; they provide inaccurate information during presales! -
Re:Slashdot is a funny place
Maybe you'd care to clue us in to which bomb-squad you work in that will qualify a device as non-explosive based entirely on a visual inspection?
Well... it's simple logic really. A PC board attached to something flat with double stick tape sugests that there is no real payload under. The only bulk of the device would seem to be 4 D cells.
But usually one is in doubt, one would ask the dog.
Every example you have here is shaped like a tube. Luckily, four D-Cells covered in electrical tape looks nothing like a tube. What says a bomb has to be a good bomb?
Tube shaped exposives are very common. But what says a bomb has to be a good bomb? For it to actually DO damage, for it to actually present a clear danager. We could assume the 4 d-cells are a pipebomb, or we could take our handy dandy VM and see if it at least adds up.
Yes, because all bombs have externally visible electronics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/xjohnpaulx/366631017/
Oh cool, those suckers did have photo electric cells on them, great. I clearly didn't flip through those images enough (there were 300+)
But if you'll notice the ground strap where does it go?
If something looks suspicious, it should be treated like a bomb until it can be proven otherwise (not assumed). The all the blame bad press should be placed where it rightfully belongs: With the people who handled the situation after it was properly determined it was not a bomb.
Techincaly it was only Boston AFAIK who thought *BOMB*. Others employed common sense. The city of Boston over reacted. -
Re:Slashdot is a funny place
A bomb would contain some form of explosive. These make shift readerboard signs didn't have anything on them that looked like they had anything to do with bombs as they had NO INCENDIARIES.
Ok- I'm no demolitions expert, but I was always under the impression that the x-ray glasses advertized in the back of the comics were fake. Maybe you'd care to clue us in to which bomb-squad you work in that will qualify a device as non-explosive based entirely on a visual inspection?Bombs are designed to go boom, but their shape affects how they go boom. For example, a firecracker is chaped in such a way that it makes a loud noise. A bottle rocket is shaped so that it gets propelled. Other rockets contain a payload of balls of power. If you take the contents of a firecracker and ignite it, you get a flash not a boom sound.
Every example you have here is shaped like a tube. Luckily, four D-Cells covered in electrical tape looks nothing like a tube. What says a bomb has to be a good bomb?These things looked like reader boards. Near as I can see, they had no timmer circuits on them, no connection to a primer or payload. I couldn't even spy a photoelectric cell, would would have been handy to keep them lit at night only. I.E. not bomb like in the slightest.
Yes, because all bombs have externally visible electronics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/xjohnpaulx/366631017/
If something looks suspicious, it should be treated like a bomb until it can be proven otherwise (not assumed). The all the blame bad press should be placed where it rightfully belongs: With the people who handled the situation after it was properly determined it was not a bomb. -
Re:What comes in mind when making this ad?Bruce Schneier posted about this a couple of days ago. You should read it for an excellent (and depressing) collection of stupid quotes from the authorities.
Governor Deval Patrick told the Associated Press: "It's a hoax -- and it's not funny."
It was not a hoax (they weren't trying to make them look like bombs), and it is funny. It's interesting how these signs were around in 10 cities for two weeks (including Boston) in very public places, and only in Boston and only now did someone decide to freak out and bring traffic to a halt. Someone joked:"It's almost too easy to be a terrorist these days," said Jennifer Mason, 26. "You stick a box on a corner and you can shut down a city."
I also like this parody picture. -
blur THIS!
Oh yeah? Then blur this! -- SIGFING. Except on BSD where it's SIGBIRD.
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Oh, you mean like these two locations?
http://flickr.com/photos/russnelson/369951380/
and
http://flickr.com/photos/russnelson/369951376
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Oh, you mean like these two locations?
http://flickr.com/photos/russnelson/369951380/
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http://flickr.com/photos/russnelson/369951376
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Understandable really...
He's been acting a little strange since he failed the screen test for Brokeback Mountain... cLive
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Re: Hell NO to Picasa (NGQ ~ not quite right)
> Now check this out from Yahoo:
NQR. Check this post where wii.yahoo.com had to pull images from flickr where they ignored the licensing ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/378171483/ -
And here is some info about our complainer
Her name is Whitney Rearick, she is 37, a "political activist".
This is her Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitnuld/
These are her Delicio bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/whitnuld
A yahoo profile (with a picture): http://profiles.yahoo.com/whitnuld
She writes reviews of music for boise weekly: http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oi d%3A102639
She works for Boise state university and her contact info there is:
Whitney Rearick - University Planner
whitneyrearick@boisestate.edu
Phone 208.426.4180
Now thats a power of Google.
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Re:Is this a surprise to you, or are you just joki
Lars, if you'd use more than sentence fragments to get your points across, I'd understand them better and give you clearer answers.
You seem to be misreading the curves or something.
Looking at MY chart (thank you for mentioning that, I am rather pleased with it), according to the red Antarctic curve, at 1050 there was a reduction in sunspots--from a peak (950) to a valley (1050) to another rise starting at 1100 AD.
Now, looking at the blue Moberg et al 2005 temp curve, what we see is a peak in temperature at 950, followed by a drop in temps (1050) that corresponds pretty well with the dip in sunspot activity, followed by another rise at 1100 AD.
Where is the problem? Bearing in mind that we're comparing two different processes (sunspot activity vs. global temperatures), defined by different sets of data (ice core Beryllium-10 concentration vs. tree-ring data and low-resolution proxies), that happened at different places around the globe, I think its striking how well the curves track.
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You're blatantly lying.
I'm a happy post-Yahoo Flickr Pro user. I'm sorry, but you're just making shit up:
Few features have been added, and those that have are of a blatantly revenue-generating nature
Geotagging? A complete redesign of the batch editing tool? Massively scaling the servers to accommodate the huge growth in traffic?
And can you honestly say that some of the printing services they have partnered with don't offer an extremely interesting range of services?
and the whole idea is to develop Flickr users into users of Yahoo's other (ad-laden) services
Oh please. The single link to Yahoo on Flickr is the tiny logo on the bottom-right of the site. If anything, it's enabled Yahoo users to use Flickr instead of Yahoo Photos. Like the Flickr badges on Yahoo 360, for example.
FYI, it's a deliberate choice for Yahoo to keep their old Yahoo Photos service separate - it's a completely different audience.
It would be trivial to allow users to create a hidden photo album with an obscure URL, and then only distribute that to people they want to see the photos, but this request has been ignored for upwards of a year or more now.
This was implemented last year. But don't let that stop you lying about it having not been implemented.
You have obviously not been paying attention to Flickr. To the point that I doubt you're a user. But, as is the Way Of The Moron - you decided to complain about it anyway. -
You're blatantly lying.
I'm a happy post-Yahoo Flickr Pro user. I'm sorry, but you're just making shit up:
Few features have been added, and those that have are of a blatantly revenue-generating nature
Geotagging? A complete redesign of the batch editing tool? Massively scaling the servers to accommodate the huge growth in traffic?
And can you honestly say that some of the printing services they have partnered with don't offer an extremely interesting range of services?
and the whole idea is to develop Flickr users into users of Yahoo's other (ad-laden) services
Oh please. The single link to Yahoo on Flickr is the tiny logo on the bottom-right of the site. If anything, it's enabled Yahoo users to use Flickr instead of Yahoo Photos. Like the Flickr badges on Yahoo 360, for example.
FYI, it's a deliberate choice for Yahoo to keep their old Yahoo Photos service separate - it's a completely different audience.
It would be trivial to allow users to create a hidden photo album with an obscure URL, and then only distribute that to people they want to see the photos, but this request has been ignored for upwards of a year or more now.
This was implemented last year. But don't let that stop you lying about it having not been implemented.
You have obviously not been paying attention to Flickr. To the point that I doubt you're a user. But, as is the Way Of The Moron - you decided to complain about it anyway. -
You're blatantly lying.
I'm a happy post-Yahoo Flickr Pro user. I'm sorry, but you're just making shit up:
Few features have been added, and those that have are of a blatantly revenue-generating nature
Geotagging? A complete redesign of the batch editing tool? Massively scaling the servers to accommodate the huge growth in traffic?
And can you honestly say that some of the printing services they have partnered with don't offer an extremely interesting range of services?
and the whole idea is to develop Flickr users into users of Yahoo's other (ad-laden) services
Oh please. The single link to Yahoo on Flickr is the tiny logo on the bottom-right of the site. If anything, it's enabled Yahoo users to use Flickr instead of Yahoo Photos. Like the Flickr badges on Yahoo 360, for example.
FYI, it's a deliberate choice for Yahoo to keep their old Yahoo Photos service separate - it's a completely different audience.
It would be trivial to allow users to create a hidden photo album with an obscure URL, and then only distribute that to people they want to see the photos, but this request has been ignored for upwards of a year or more now.
This was implemented last year. But don't let that stop you lying about it having not been implemented.
You have obviously not been paying attention to Flickr. To the point that I doubt you're a user. But, as is the Way Of The Moron - you decided to complain about it anyway. -
You're blatantly lying.
I'm a happy post-Yahoo Flickr Pro user. I'm sorry, but you're just making shit up:
Few features have been added, and those that have are of a blatantly revenue-generating nature
Geotagging? A complete redesign of the batch editing tool? Massively scaling the servers to accommodate the huge growth in traffic?
And can you honestly say that some of the printing services they have partnered with don't offer an extremely interesting range of services?
and the whole idea is to develop Flickr users into users of Yahoo's other (ad-laden) services
Oh please. The single link to Yahoo on Flickr is the tiny logo on the bottom-right of the site. If anything, it's enabled Yahoo users to use Flickr instead of Yahoo Photos. Like the Flickr badges on Yahoo 360, for example.
FYI, it's a deliberate choice for Yahoo to keep their old Yahoo Photos service separate - it's a completely different audience.
It would be trivial to allow users to create a hidden photo album with an obscure URL, and then only distribute that to people they want to see the photos, but this request has been ignored for upwards of a year or more now.
This was implemented last year. But don't let that stop you lying about it having not been implemented.
You have obviously not been paying attention to Flickr. To the point that I doubt you're a user. But, as is the Way Of The Moron - you decided to complain about it anyway. -
Re:Is this a surprise to you, or are you just joki
So why was the GW deniers favourite Medieval Warming Period during a minimum of sun-spot activity? Ooopsy.
Not really. Using the red Antarctic curve for comparison (neither the Greenland or GRL curves go back far enough), the sunspot activity does show an MWP, it just starts a little before the MWP begins (using the Moberg curve for comparison) at about 950, dips for a bit at 1050 (notice how the Moberg curve's temps also dip), and picks up again at 1100 or thereabouts. Pretty close match, considering the MWP is supposed to have happened between 800-1300 AD.
N.B.: Don't use the Mann et al 1999 curve for comparison, it doesn't work as well because his MBH team smoothed out the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age. But that's another story...
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Re:Is this a surprise to you, or are you just joki
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Re:Is this a surprise to you, or are you just joki
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Re:Where are they?
There are tons of PS3s in Texas. Took a couple of pictures in Fry's on Monday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/meta404/375546686/
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Re:Is this a surprise to you, or are you just joki
I suggest you read the two papers I referenced.
I was already familiar with the Wikipedia cite, what other papers did you refer to?
You say the CO2 emissions correlate with global temp curves, did they cause the Medieval Warming Period or Holocene?
No.
Other than solar activity, the only explanation for the extraordinary Holocene warming is a recent (1999) theory that the Earth's tilt may have changed for a couple thousand years. That theory is based on a model, there's no evidence as of yet. But it could be that the change in tilt and unusual sunspot activity caused the warming.
So maybe it's manmade CO2 and sunspots together causing the current warm spell?? Possibly, except that the Earth's history shows the global climate has little sensitivity to CO2 levels. For example, over the last 600 million years:
- CO2 levels have dropped from 7000 ppm to approx 400 ppm
- Average global temps have remained steadily within a 72F (22C) to 54F (12C) range while CO2 levels have plunged to current levels These fact alone show that the Earth's climate is not as sensitive to changes in CO2 levels as the models indicate
Finally, there have only been three periods during which temps have been as low as they are today, and the other two took place during mass extinctions (Ordovician and Permian). Also, the Permian extinction period is the only other time when CO2 levels have been as low. Just another coincidence? Or proof that we're in an unstable period of cooling and the Earth's climate is eventually going to get warmer no matter what we do.
So there you have it: wide swings in CO2 levels have occurred at the same time temps have remained relatively stable; certainly there haven't been runaway greenhouse effects that the current models would lead us to expect. In short, I question your science.
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It was out in the open
There was a sidewalk going right under the bridge girder in question, it was also on the outermost girder of the bridge, facing out. Anyone walking or driving down that street would have seen it; I have seen traffic lights mounted in less conspicuous locations.
There were plenty of pictures on zebbler.com but their site seems to be buckling under the traffic.
There are some pictures here: http://flickr.com/photos/vanderlin/358742603/ that aren't as good as the ones on zebbler, and there is a video embedded in this article that was made by the people at zebbler showing the instalation of the mooninite signs.
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Re:So?
Actually, it is a little more complex than that.
The problem is that Yahoo! has a nasty habit of deleting accounts for a number of reasons, and there have been several instances of this happening.
I've had my Yahoo! account disappearing, my mails disappearing etc. I guess when you've paid for the service (some of us Pro users) and have put in several years of effort uploading thousands of photographs (a lot of the pro users in Flickr are professional photographers), you are a little worried about your photos disappearing overnight.
I wrote a detailed rant about it, The Flickr Fiasco - Why Yahoo! Should Learn to Listen to Its Customers.
I guess it boils down to the fact that as paying customers, we thought our opinions would have a say in the matter. But it turns out that it does not, and they are going to go ahead and do something that almost the entire Old Skool userbase of Flickr is against. I do not know, I guess maybe I am being naive in some ways.
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Alternatives?
I am an old skool member (as Flickr likes to call us) and I'm serriously considering ditching my Flickr account for something else, even though just last week I paid for a 1 year Pro account. I was considering doing this before I saw anything by Thomas Hawk. I have a number of reasons.
The problem is finding something else.
I've looked at Zooomr. I found it a bit slugish and unpolished. I don't mind that, but I wasn't encouraged when I could find no obvious way to contact someone with suggestions or questions, even after creating an account and logging in. One thing is what appears to be somewhat soft IE7 support (notes on photos don't work properly, for example). Whether you like IE or not, it does hold a very large part of the browser market and should be supported on any site that is even thinking about competing with the 800-lb gorillas.
What else is out there? I know Flickr is the biggest, but what other site has the community, ease of navigation and browsing (another thing a bit lacking on Zooomr, but that shouldn't be hard for them to tweak), and quality (I know no one has the quantity) of content that Flickr has?
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Alternatives?
I am an old skool member (as Flickr likes to call us) and I'm serriously considering ditching my Flickr account for something else, even though just last week I paid for a 1 year Pro account. I was considering doing this before I saw anything by Thomas Hawk. I have a number of reasons.
The problem is finding something else.
I've looked at Zooomr. I found it a bit slugish and unpolished. I don't mind that, but I wasn't encouraged when I could find no obvious way to contact someone with suggestions or questions, even after creating an account and logging in. One thing is what appears to be somewhat soft IE7 support (notes on photos don't work properly, for example). Whether you like IE or not, it does hold a very large part of the browser market and should be supported on any site that is even thinking about competing with the 800-lb gorillas.
What else is out there? I know Flickr is the biggest, but what other site has the community, ease of navigation and browsing (another thing a bit lacking on Zooomr, but that shouldn't be hard for them to tweak), and quality (I know no one has the quantity) of content that Flickr has?
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Alternatives?
I am an old skool member (as Flickr likes to call us) and I'm serriously considering ditching my Flickr account for something else, even though just last week I paid for a 1 year Pro account. I was considering doing this before I saw anything by Thomas Hawk. I have a number of reasons.
The problem is finding something else.
I've looked at Zooomr. I found it a bit slugish and unpolished. I don't mind that, but I wasn't encouraged when I could find no obvious way to contact someone with suggestions or questions, even after creating an account and logging in. One thing is what appears to be somewhat soft IE7 support (notes on photos don't work properly, for example). Whether you like IE or not, it does hold a very large part of the browser market and should be supported on any site that is even thinking about competing with the 800-lb gorillas.
What else is out there? I know Flickr is the biggest, but what other site has the community, ease of navigation and browsing (another thing a bit lacking on Zooomr, but that shouldn't be hard for them to tweak), and quality (I know no one has the quantity) of content that Flickr has?
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Because you have to create a new user id / account? So you could have to abandon your old flickr account?
That's almost entirely wrong. You do have to create a new Yahoo ID (if you don't have one already), but you can then merge your old Flickr account with it, so you don't lose any of your settings, photos, etc. You even keep the old e-mail address, so you are not forced to use the Yahoo Mail one.
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Re:An in-depth discussion of Usoskin et al.
We've currently just passed through a solar minimum (in the 11-year cycle), yet we are still setting record highs.
Take a close look at this black GRL line in these curves, it does shows a drop in activity around 1950 (but even the low was still much higher than the average over the last 1000 years) and it's since bounced back up again.
