" It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, it's as relevant today as the day it was published. Forster has several prescient notions including instant messages (email!) and cinematophoes (machines that project visual images)."
If you want someone else to do the research for then it has already been done. You reject their conclusions so why would my input be any different? If independent verification is what you require then get to work boring your own trees and analyzing the rings. Gather your own weather data and crunch the numbers. Write it up for the world to read and critique. Until then you are armchair quaterbacking. Me, I have a job and it isnt as a statistician, mathematician, or climatologist. So when those people talk about their field of expertise I listen up and ask them dumb questions. I hope they would do the same if they had questions relevant to my field. relevant Mr Show quote (NSFW)
It is very similar to the Music scene that way. It is very cool to be in the know of some awesome local band, but as soon as they get airplay and make a record all the cool wears off for the hipsters. "I used to go see them at all the local shows, but then they sold out." Same mentality.
I look at the graph on the Realclimate page and see the line labeled "Oerlemans-2005" showing a roughly.2 degree increase and the "instuments Data" showing around a.7 degree increase. The NASA graphs show temperature ranges between -.2 and +.4 degree changes with the "Tglobal" coming in at about.2 degree increase. Sure a,5 degree difference is pretty big, but since, as you say, the Realclimate graph does not provide the data, can we even be sure that they are using the same data sets? This is only a "smoking gun" if they are using the same data. If it is from different sets then all you have here are different graphs of different data.
I will second this. I used this to encode all of my Kid DVDs so that the original copies are never ruined. My movies too, but for reasons of convenience rather than worries about damage. Combine this with a Popcorn Hour(my choice), MythTV, etc and you have your entire movie library at your fingertips.
I have to disagree with you on this point. I replaced an Athlon64 3800+ machine with a Popcorn Hour because the Athlon simply did not have the power to play back 1080p content. It could manage 720p no problem, but would stutter on 1080p enough to make it unwatchable. It was also far harder to setup and use MythTV then it is the PH. Sure the PH has it flaws, but it works out of the box with a remote and plays nearly any media you stream at it. Also, if you are starting from scratch, it is cheaper. -mrsalty
ARGH! Flashback Horror. I was on the Lost Vikings QA team. There is no more sure way to make a game unfun than to play the same sequence over and over for 8 hours/day. Sounds like one of the regular complaints about WOW.
My wife used to work with alzheimer patients and described it like this: Alzheimer's is not forgetting where your keys are, that is being ascent minded. Alzheimer's is forgetting what you keys are and what they do.
These reports come out every couple of years and really piss me off to no end. I would like to kick that researchers ass, but instead i will have to settle for playing Resident Evil 4.
There are a number of comments on this story that seem to have missed the whole denial portion. Let me point it out : "Just like many people who have been drinking, the cell phone users did not believe themselves to be affected, the researchers found."
You may think you are driving just fine, after all you have never been in an accident, but to an objecive observer you are no better than a drunk. I am sure there are plenty of people who have driven home after a few too many beers who have never crashed wither. Does that prove they are safe?
I too am a good multi-tasker, it is what i do but when one task is 1000X more important than the other it is just common sense to focus on it. The other tasks can wait til later. Piloting a car *is* that much more important than making plans with your SO, telling some story, or discussing the latest events in WC Football. You endanger other people when you are not focused on your driving, and that is why it matters.
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as for exactly what this means is up for debate. -me
It aint free, but it is a non-violent community type atmosphere you could meet and chat in. As a game i didnt find it very interesting but it would serve your purpose well.
I worked in the QA dept of Interplay for about a year and a half and it is not all fun and games. It seems like tons of fun until you are 'playing' the same terrible game over and over aging for weeks on end. Often times you are only playing the same portion of the game becuase it crashes before the next level. I dont care how fun a game is the first time you go through it, it aint fun the 1000th time. Keep in mind also that even unfun, uninteresting games have to be tested by someone. Take a quick look at all the crap on shelves and make a quick calculation of your odds. If i hadnt got out when i did and into IT i prob would have set my desk on fire and run screaming from the state.
If i could get full-screen video delivered over a 56k modem line then imagine what i could get accross my DSL line. This is like saying i will never fill up that new 40GB HDD i just got. Bullshit. I will just find more crap to stream accross it.
not at unheard of as as you might think. NAFTA has made it possible for for corporations to sue entities including governments over lost (potential) profit. things in the americas are only going to get crazier if/when the FTA passes into law. corporate republic, here we come.
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" It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, it's as relevant today as the day it was published. Forster has several prescient notions including instant messages (email!) and cinematophoes (machines that project visual images)."
http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
If you want someone else to do the research for then it has already been done. You reject their conclusions so why would my input be any different? If independent verification is what you require then get to work boring your own trees and analyzing the rings. Gather your own weather data and crunch the numbers. Write it up for the world to read and critique. Until then you are armchair quaterbacking.
Me, I have a job and it isnt as a statistician, mathematician, or climatologist. So when those people talk about their field of expertise I listen up and ask them dumb questions. I hope they would do the same if they had questions relevant to my field.
relevant Mr Show quote (NSFW)
If you had actually read up on the subject you would know the answers to your questions. It is much easier to cast unfounded doubt though.
It is very similar to the Music scene that way. It is very cool to be in the know of some awesome local band, but as soon as they get airplay and make a record all the cool wears off for the hipsters. "I used to go see them at all the local shows, but then they sold out."
Same mentality.
I look at the graph on the Realclimate page and see the line labeled "Oerlemans-2005" showing a roughly .2 degree increase and the "instuments Data" showing around a .7 degree increase. The NASA graphs show temperature ranges between -.2 and +.4 degree changes with the "Tglobal" coming in at about .2 degree increase. Sure a ,5 degree difference is pretty big, but since, as you say, the Realclimate graph does not provide the data, can we even be sure that they are using the same data sets? This is only a "smoking gun" if they are using the same data. If it is from different sets then all you have here are different graphs of different data.
I will second this. I used this to encode all of my Kid DVDs so that the original copies are never ruined. My movies too, but for reasons of convenience rather than worries about damage. Combine this with a Popcorn Hour(my choice), MythTV, etc and you have your entire movie library at your fingertips.
Get ready to belly up to the gravel bar because some kooks answered this question in the 70s!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants
I have to disagree with you on this point. I replaced an Athlon64 3800+ machine with a Popcorn Hour because the Athlon simply did not have the power to play back 1080p content. It could manage 720p no problem, but would stutter on 1080p enough to make it unwatchable. It was also far harder to setup and use MythTV then it is the PH. Sure the PH has it flaws, but it works out of the box with a remote and plays nearly any media you stream at it. Also, if you are starting from scratch, it is cheaper.
-mrsalty
keeping their All Seeing Eye on things.
ARGH! Flashback Horror.
I was on the Lost Vikings QA team.
There is no more sure way to make a game unfun than to play the same sequence over and over for 8 hours/day.
Sounds like one of the regular complaints about WOW.
Muhammad
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people the world over need to take themselves less seriously.
My wife used to work with alzheimer patients and described it like this:
Alzheimer's is not forgetting where your keys are, that is being ascent minded.
Alzheimer's is forgetting what you keys are and what they do.
These reports come out every couple of years and really piss me off to no end. I would like to kick that researchers ass, but instead i will have to settle for playing Resident Evil 4.
There are a number of comments on this story that seem to have missed the whole denial portion. Let me point it out :
"Just like many people who have been drinking, the cell phone users did not believe themselves to be affected, the researchers found."
You may think you are driving just fine, after all you have never been in an accident, but to an objecive observer you are no better than a drunk. I am sure there are plenty of people who have driven home after a few too many beers who have never crashed wither. Does that prove they are safe?
I too am a good multi-tasker, it is what i do but when one task is 1000X more important than the other it is just common sense to focus on it. The other tasks can wait til later. Piloting a car *is* that much more important than making plans with your SO, telling some story, or discussing the latest events in WC Football. You endanger other people when you are not focused on your driving, and that is why it matters.
Nonesevent is a perfectly cromulent word.
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as for exactly what this means is up for debate.
-me
It aint free, but it is a non-violent community type atmosphere you could meet and chat in. As a game i didnt find it very interesting but it would serve your purpose well.
I worked in the QA dept of Interplay for about a year and a half and it is not all fun and games. It seems like tons of fun until you are 'playing' the same terrible game over and over aging for weeks on end. Often times you are only playing the same portion of the game becuase it crashes before the next level. I dont care how fun a game is the first time you go through it, it aint fun the 1000th time. Keep in mind also that even unfun, uninteresting games have to be tested by someone. Take a quick look at all the crap on shelves and make a quick calculation of your odds. If i hadnt got out when i did and into IT i prob would have set my desk on fire and run screaming from the state.
because OSX cost about $1500 more when you figure in the new hardware.
I must say that notepad and Wordpad are the most usable products microsoft ever released. just my 2bits
Your experiance is the opposite of mine. I purchased a Jukebox6000 in March and have never had any problems. perhaps i am the fluke?
sadly most vodka's are grain alcohol, not potato. real potato vodka is pricey (here in the US)and mostly from poland.
If i could get full-screen video delivered over a 56k modem line then imagine what i could get accross my DSL line. This is like saying i will never fill up that new 40GB HDD i just got. Bullshit. I will just find more crap to stream accross it.
not at unheard of as as you might think. NAFTA has made it possible for for corporations to sue entities including governments over lost (potential) profit. things in the americas are only going to get crazier if/when the FTA passes into law. corporate republic, here we come.