All I'm trying to say is that we should examine the methods used to determine this "climate change"...that it is probably heating up more due to effects from the sun and the ever-changing distance between the sun and the Earth than from what we're doing down here
Solar variation is (mostly) a remnant of the typical denialist agenda: deny phenomenon exists, then when it can't be, attribute it to something *other* than mainstream scientific consensus. Greenhouse emissions are causing climate change: there is no two ways about it.
Indeed, I once heard (though I don't remember where) that when the industrial age began and there was incredible pollution (much more than today with all the regulations we have), it took several decades for the climate to respond, and several more decades to respond after changes were introduced.
How is that an argument against? All it argues is that climate change is slow. Do consider, on a related note, that all of this started happening when the industrial age _began_.
Also, then you'd have a very difficult time finding an Intel motherboard that supports Crossfire. I don't want the PXX line to die;_; - although the fact that any PCI-E 2.0 lane _can't_ support SLi is nVidia's fault.
Read TFA, googled a little. It seems like I'm missing something. It seems they simply charge outrageous markup on generic, mediocre Intel systems. Throw in a moderately cheap-looking case and charge $155 for the OS installation. What's new here?
If this was back when Apple was using PowerPC processors, maybe they'd have a point. But I don't see this as being a "clone" of a Mac, because clone implies hardware and this (and the Mac's) hardware is the same as everyone else's.
Or should I say $29, because the $399 computer won't play the $59 titles, for that you'll need a $1500 computer, and a $799 graphic card.
I realize this wasn't really your point, I agree with the rest of what you're saying, and you might be using hyperbole, but can you please please please not perpetuate this utterly baseless myth? Graphics cards that run everything on the market now exist at less than $120, and the rest of the computer can be gotten at less than $700. I'm tired of arguing with people that think they need new everything at more than a grand to do PC gaming when my pushing-two-years 8800GTS 320MB runs Call of Duty 4 at over the vertical sync locked limit (60fps), and a 9600GT (which is $90) runs these titles even better.
They may not use copy protection, but they use DRM. They recently removed standalone patches, which means all users are subjected to lock-in via Impulse.
When did I say anything about thinness or environmentalism? If someone does CAD, rendering, etc they will be at a workstation. If someone does digital art they have no use for a Quadro/FireGL and a quad-core processor, a Wacom with something that can run Photoshop is good enough. They will not tolerate hauling a laptop around and running out of batteries every two hours.
My automotive parallel was only to illustrate the fact that people are quickly coming to the realization that more efficient, lighter machines allow a user to do the most common use of a laptop (surfing the web, typing up things in Word) without mediocre power that falls short of usefulness for high-performance apps (gaming, rendering, encoding) yet carries severe performance and heat disadvantages.
Other machines may be out there, from Lenovo or whoever, embracing that attitude. I don't care, because that's completely irrelevant. They are looking for a market that doesn't exist in this one.
High performance notebooks are going the way of the SUV - people are realizing being able to play Call of Duty 4 is largely useless when their laptop lasts an hour before dying. While there always will be people that "plug in", if you have the time to sit down and have a physical power socket nearby, a lot of the time you have the time to truck at the LEAST a monitor and a matx system there too (for only about twice the weight and half the price).
This is why the EEE and mininotebook segment is succeeding, just like hybrids are succeeding. There is a realization among consumers that in most situations a laptop's role is going to be efficient on-the-go browsing and light office work, which does not require a barely-shrunk desktop processor and a massive screen.
Factor in the fact that nobody's going to do serious modeling/CAD work on a laptop (the only real reason for a quad-core processor and a bloody Quadro), and this is quite the solution to a problem that doesn't exist. The addition of DDR3 RAM and RAID 0 almost makes it comical, like they're trying to throw every 'too much money/too little sense' hardware choice at the wall and see what sticks.
saying something is "alive" or "not alive" holds about as much weight as saying it's a "froodle doo". if the definition is standardized it should be easy to define: if not, what does it matter what we call it as long as we know what it does? attempting to apply terms that apply well to one group, from species to kingdom, to another group almost always ends in failure for this reason.
shame on the virologist for perpetuating this craziness. the real cool part about this finding is its possible medical applications.
turn off the cooling pumps. Bye Bye! to thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people,
Um..no. Any fatalities would be limited to those working inside the plant and would be primarily of radiation poisoning.
A "cyber-terrorism" event that affected the US economically, if large enough, could create a situation where recession leads to poverty which leads to riots or crime or hunger. But no, even if a "hacker" got into the control systems of a nuclear plant the worst case scenario (assuming everyone's incompetent) is the shutdown of that plant.
Buckcherry has released an official statement regarding the song's unscheduled arrival, declaring, "Honestly, we hate it when this s*** happens, because we want our FANS to have any new songs first."
So basically, either none of their fans use the internet, their definition of "first" is different than mine, or they inhabit some sort of crazy universe with non-linear time.
I think they were "Too Drunk...." when they wrote this press release.
If you mislead someone, you're a troll. If you disrupt something online, you're a troll. If you disrupt something _offline_, you're a troll. If you post something against the community's status quo knowingly, you're a troll. If you post something against the community's status quo unwittingly, you're a troll. If you're a dumbass and post something that's wrong, then you get called out on it and can't backtrack, you can just say you were trolling.
The problem is that "trolling" has gone from the prankish "haha, I just pretended to be a newbie and that guy fell for it, high-five" sort of fraternistic groupieism ("only idiots wouldn't see through that post!") to something that's occasionally a badge of honor, used to reference not just manipulative actions but deliberately disruptive or destructive actions. It doesn't help that the term is thrown around by nearly everyone as an insult to brush off warranted criticism. And so now we're seeing the effects - I don't think the term is misused only by print, at least if you frequent any "new" forums.
Vimeo is the only video service on the web that can do HD video worth a damn. I tried Veoh and other related sites, and they flagged my video as containing copyrighted material (ironic because all of it was material I had worked ~3 months to create from scratch), had problems with uploads not appearing or processing, or were grainy low-resolution trash like YouTube. I know a lot of people are using it for game mod videos, for example.
A new one to add to the nuclear power fearmongering checklist: concerns about a span of future time over twice that of the beginning of recorded human history, coupled (as not to be too revolutionary: if 50-year-old technology is too newfangled for these guys, just think what'll happen when they start bringing out completely original arguments) with ignorance of basic knowledge about radioactivity.
But what if in one hundred trillion thousand quadrillion years, insect aliens from the planet Poopazoid become sentient and discover hazardous left-over CT tracer fluid?!?! WILL THEIR SPACEFARING MINDS BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE DETECTION OF BASIC ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES?
Ergh, that should be "not hosting". As in, the agreement simply means ISPs will go after those using their resources, server-side, for this material. This would seem to mean newsgroups might get hit, but websites (I'm thinking 4chan here for the fact it's blocked by Google for apparently being on this list) should be still accessible and immune.
I see nothing here about blocking websites that are not being hosted by or affiliated with the ISPs in question. If you're hosting this material on webspace given to you by your ISP or on a home server, you technically shouldn't have anything to worry about.
However, when the line between upload/download is blurred (such as on P2P) it's a little scary of a precedent.
...while I'm running Firefox 2 now, all it's attempted to do (both automatically and manually) is update me to 2.0.1.1 or whatever. The one-click easyness of the update seems to be lost when it won't download the really big new version the same way as everything else.
If this is not an isolated deal, and if FF3 is counted as the most 'up to date' browser (which is kind of silly because it was just released), it's plausible that this could account for some of the numbers.
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They have. Repeatedly.
It's not.
Solar variation is (mostly) a remnant of the typical denialist agenda: deny phenomenon exists, then when it can't be, attribute it to something *other* than mainstream scientific consensus. Greenhouse emissions are causing climate change: there is no two ways about it.
How is that an argument against? All it argues is that climate change is slow. Do consider, on a related note, that all of this started happening when the industrial age _began_.
Who modded this trash insightful? "Global cooling" was never accepted by any serious scientific body, it was *public* hysteria.
Because they've been having a stupid, annoying catfight for a while now. This precedes Larrabee, to be sure, but it's definitely more pronounced now.
Also, then you'd have a very difficult time finding an Intel motherboard that supports Crossfire. I don't want the PXX line to die ;_; - although the fact that any PCI-E 2.0 lane _can't_ support SLi is nVidia's fault.
Are they manbabies or just babies? How many have you saved (5? 555?).
Read TFA, googled a little. It seems like I'm missing something. It seems they simply charge outrageous markup on generic, mediocre Intel systems. Throw in a moderately cheap-looking case and charge $155 for the OS installation. What's new here?
If this was back when Apple was using PowerPC processors, maybe they'd have a point. But I don't see this as being a "clone" of a Mac, because clone implies hardware and this (and the Mac's) hardware is the same as everyone else's.
I realize this wasn't really your point, I agree with the rest of what you're saying, and you might be using hyperbole, but can you please please please not perpetuate this utterly baseless myth? Graphics cards that run everything on the market now exist at less than $120, and the rest of the computer can be gotten at less than $700. I'm tired of arguing with people that think they need new everything at more than a grand to do PC gaming when my pushing-two-years 8800GTS 320MB runs Call of Duty 4 at over the vertical sync locked limit (60fps), and a 9600GT (which is $90) runs these titles even better.
They may not use copy protection, but they use DRM. They recently removed standalone patches, which means all users are subjected to lock-in via Impulse.
When did I say anything about thinness or environmentalism? If someone does CAD, rendering, etc they will be at a workstation. If someone does digital art they have no use for a Quadro/FireGL and a quad-core processor, a Wacom with something that can run Photoshop is good enough. They will not tolerate hauling a laptop around and running out of batteries every two hours.
My automotive parallel was only to illustrate the fact that people are quickly coming to the realization that more efficient, lighter machines allow a user to do the most common use of a laptop (surfing the web, typing up things in Word) without mediocre power that falls short of usefulness for high-performance apps (gaming, rendering, encoding) yet carries severe performance and heat disadvantages.
Other machines may be out there, from Lenovo or whoever, embracing that attitude. I don't care, because that's completely irrelevant. They are looking for a market that doesn't exist in this one.
High performance notebooks are going the way of the SUV - people are realizing being able to play Call of Duty 4 is largely useless when their laptop lasts an hour before dying. While there always will be people that "plug in", if you have the time to sit down and have a physical power socket nearby, a lot of the time you have the time to truck at the LEAST a monitor and a matx system there too (for only about twice the weight and half the price).
This is why the EEE and mininotebook segment is succeeding, just like hybrids are succeeding. There is a realization among consumers that in most situations a laptop's role is going to be efficient on-the-go browsing and light office work, which does not require a barely-shrunk desktop processor and a massive screen.
Factor in the fact that nobody's going to do serious modeling/CAD work on a laptop (the only real reason for a quad-core processor and a bloody Quadro), and this is quite the solution to a problem that doesn't exist. The addition of DDR3 RAM and RAID 0 almost makes it comical, like they're trying to throw every 'too much money/too little sense' hardware choice at the wall and see what sticks.
I didn't know Haruhi Suzumiya posted on /.
saying something is "alive" or "not alive" holds about as much weight as saying it's a "froodle doo". if the definition is standardized it should be easy to define: if not, what does it matter what we call it as long as we know what it does? attempting to apply terms that apply well to one group, from species to kingdom, to another group almost always ends in failure for this reason.
shame on the virologist for perpetuating this craziness. the real cool part about this finding is its possible medical applications.
Um..no. Any fatalities would be limited to those working inside the plant and would be primarily of radiation poisoning. A "cyber-terrorism" event that affected the US economically, if large enough, could create a situation where recession leads to poverty which leads to riots or crime or hunger. But no, even if a "hacker" got into the control systems of a nuclear plant the worst case scenario (assuming everyone's incompetent) is the shutdown of that plant.
"I'm getting some pretty severe packet loss."
"Oh, that's just the wind."
So basically, either none of their fans use the internet, their definition of "first" is different than mine, or they inhabit some sort of crazy universe with non-linear time.
I think they were "Too Drunk...." when they wrote this press release.
If you mislead someone, you're a troll.
If you disrupt something online, you're a troll.
If you disrupt something _offline_, you're a troll.
If you post something against the community's status quo knowingly, you're a troll.
If you post something against the community's status quo unwittingly, you're a troll.
If you're a dumbass and post something that's wrong, then you get called out on it and can't backtrack, you can just say you were trolling.
The problem is that "trolling" has gone from the prankish "haha, I just pretended to be a newbie and that guy fell for it, high-five" sort of fraternistic groupieism ("only idiots wouldn't see through that post!") to something that's occasionally a badge of honor, used to reference not just manipulative actions but deliberately disruptive or destructive actions. It doesn't help that the term is thrown around by nearly everyone as an insult to brush off warranted criticism. And so now we're seeing the effects - I don't think the term is misused only by print, at least if you frequent any "new" forums.
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Close all the shades! Oh no! There's EM EVERYWHERE!
Vimeo is the only video service on the web that can do HD video worth a damn. I tried Veoh and other related sites, and they flagged my video as containing copyrighted material (ironic because all of it was material I had worked ~3 months to create from scratch), had problems with uploads not appearing or processing, or were grainy low-resolution trash like YouTube. I know a lot of people are using it for game mod videos, for example.
They're hardly irrelevant.
to do way instain mothers who kill thier babbys because these babby can't frihgt back?
CLOSE THE PORTS
Shame on you, Ubisoft! This kind of rampant IP theft is what is killing the PC game pirating industry!
A new one to add to the nuclear power fearmongering checklist: concerns about a span of future time over twice that of the beginning of recorded human history, coupled (as not to be too revolutionary: if 50-year-old technology is too newfangled for these guys, just think what'll happen when they start bringing out completely original arguments) with ignorance of basic knowledge about radioactivity.
But what if in one hundred trillion thousand quadrillion years, insect aliens from the planet Poopazoid become sentient and discover hazardous left-over CT tracer fluid?!?! WILL THEIR SPACEFARING MINDS BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE DETECTION OF BASIC ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES?
Ergh, that should be "not hosting". As in, the agreement simply means ISPs will go after those using their resources, server-side, for this material. This would seem to mean newsgroups might get hit, but websites (I'm thinking 4chan here for the fact it's blocked by Google for apparently being on this list) should be still accessible and immune.
I see nothing here about blocking websites that are not being hosted by or affiliated with the ISPs in question. If you're hosting this material on webspace given to you by your ISP or on a home server, you technically shouldn't have anything to worry about.
However, when the line between upload/download is blurred (such as on P2P) it's a little scary of a precedent.
...while I'm running Firefox 2 now, all it's attempted to do (both automatically and manually) is update me to 2.0.1.1 or whatever. The one-click easyness of the update seems to be lost when it won't download the really big new version the same way as everything else.
If this is not an isolated deal, and if FF3 is counted as the most 'up to date' browser (which is kind of silly because it was just released), it's plausible that this could account for some of the numbers.
Those charged particles sound just like the new Dark Knight trailer!