The temperature change over the last 30-50 years is of comparable magnitude to the shift from the medieval warm period to the little ice age (the two greatest temperature extremes of the last 2000 years), a change that took more than 10 times as long to occur. Perhaps if you look further back you can find natural cycles that match the volatility of the current one, but the examples given above certainly don't cut it.
There hasn't been an increase in the last 10 years primarily because of a particularly strong la nina. Short term cyclical events generally have a greater magnitude than the overall warming trend. If you take ~11 year moving averages to hide the known cyclical variations, the warming trend is very much still there.
"Hide the decline" refers to the fact that temperatures inferred from tree ring sizes in the last couple decades haven't matched actual temperature readings (possibly because of other human influence on tree growth). When presenting tree ring data, they replace very recent data with actual temps, usually using a different color or something to indicate that it has been swapped out.
There are legitimate criticisms of the AGW argument, but you haven't put forth any of them. <ad hominem> This clearly indicates that you don't seek the truth, just the promotion of a personal agenda. That or you're not very smart, and it's usually wrong to attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. </ad hominem>
Most Americans know that the common stereotypes about hillbillies, trailer trash, and Christians are inaccurate. The same can't be said for Americans knowing about foreign religions and cultures.
The sensors wouldn't be picking up anything interesting if they weren't automatically being pointed at interesting things. There aren't enough astronomers to do the pointing manually.
It's a perfect analogy. "Just because a lot of people are breaking a law, doesn't necessarily mean the law must be changed." He's not saying it doesn't need to be changed, just that you can't use that fact that people break the law a lot as evidence that it's flawed. The reasons they're breaking the laws, the way the laws are enforced, and the severity of the punishments can all be looked at, as I'm sure they were with traffic laws, but the analogy definitely holds.
I have never had a problem caused by the presence of DRM when I buy or play games on steam. If it's that unobtrusive, I don't see how it compares to being run over by a car.
Not in university, but I would assume it’s still the same old “if you use something other than windows or maybe mac, you are free to do so however you are on your own to figure it out and resolve any issues!” attitude. Which really I think is fair.
This, and there's a very good reason. Universities should be spending money on educating students, and for a select few, doing research. It's just a waste of money to hire or train a new IT guy to provide tech support for 5% of the the student population.
Defense in depth. By your line of reasoning, there's no problem storing passwords in cleartext. Although a particular line of defense shouldn't be necessary, doesn't mean you shouldn't worry if it's quickly losing potency. There will always be security vulnerabilities, so for someone, somewhere, it matters, e.g. PSN.
A person capable of being a full university professor could be making literally millions in the private sector. The less you pay, the lower the overall quality of our universities as more students chose industry over academia.
Programming something I'm not particularly fond of is better than spending 35 hours/week I'm probably even less interested in. Obviously you have to put in those hours in order to make a living, and the point of this article is "if you didn't have to do it for a living (i.e. you already have more money than you need), what would you be programming?", not "what would you do with a tons of money?"
The slashdot post makes it sound worse than it is. It seems there are 150 firefighters on Mount Wilson the observatory as their highest priority. While mother nature is always unpredictable, we have a large group of skilled people fighting very hard to save it.
We're moving to project constellation with the Ares series of rockets and the Orion space capsule. A 5 year delay doesn't mean we're dropping NASA like a ton of bricks, it just means we're not wasting money keeping the shuttle fleet running when there's a private sector version available. Hopefully it'll be cheaper, but even if it isn't giving the private sector a boost isn't all bad.
Wow, you're an idiot. It costs much more money to copy a book or a shirt than to just buy a mass produced one. Videogames, and all other non-DRM'd digital media, can be copied in seconds at nearly zero cost.
So the fact is, all that's been shown is that people in the know aren't willing to pay for software designed to fuck with their property.
Yeah, but the vast majority of people who download aren't 'in the know', they just want free games. I happen to be both, so even if they removed DRM I'd probably continue pirating games. Realistically, the only way they would be able to stop this majority would be extreme DRM (call home every 5 minutes, requiring internet even for single player games). Removing bad DRM may get a few customers back, but it would get games up on thepiratebay faster, and probably lead to even more people downloading.
Are you being serious? They can put anything they want in the software they're selling, and it's the consumer's choice whether or not to purchase it. There are no parallels with the boston tea party, because nobody is forcing you to buy these games, whereas the unfair taxes were mandatory.
You're a protesting customer when you refuse to buy a game. You become a pirate and a thief when you torrent the game, regardless of your reasoning. Once you do that, corporations have no reason to have faith that you'll go back to lawfully buying their games if they were to remove DRM. Instead, you've shown that you'll go to any length to get the game, and that if they can create secure enough anti-piracy measures they'll get your money.
Yeah, battle.net and an mmo server have very, very little in common. The closest you get currently is FPS games where there server software comes with every copy of the game, some of which can host up to 64 players. That's hardly 'massively multiplayer' though.
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The temperature change over the last 30-50 years is of comparable magnitude to the shift from the medieval warm period to the little ice age (the two greatest temperature extremes of the last 2000 years), a change that took more than 10 times as long to occur. Perhaps if you look further back you can find natural cycles that match the volatility of the current one, but the examples given above certainly don't cut it.
There hasn't been an increase in the last 10 years primarily because of a particularly strong la nina. Short term cyclical events generally have a greater magnitude than the overall warming trend. If you take ~11 year moving averages to hide the known cyclical variations, the warming trend is very much still there.
"Hide the decline" refers to the fact that temperatures inferred from tree ring sizes in the last couple decades haven't matched actual temperature readings (possibly because of other human influence on tree growth). When presenting tree ring data, they replace very recent data with actual temps, usually using a different color or something to indicate that it has been swapped out.
There are legitimate criticisms of the AGW argument, but you haven't put forth any of them. <ad hominem> This clearly indicates that you don't seek the truth, just the promotion of a personal agenda. That or you're not very smart, and it's usually wrong to attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. </ad hominem>
RTFA, you can use a computer to come up with a better move than you would have on your own.
Yep, all science done with computers should be tossed out. OH WAIT THAT'S ALL OF IT
Most Americans know that the common stereotypes about hillbillies, trailer trash, and Christians are inaccurate. The same can't be said for Americans knowing about foreign religions and cultures.
The sensors wouldn't be picking up anything interesting if they weren't automatically being pointed at interesting things. There aren't enough astronomers to do the pointing manually.
It's a perfect analogy. "Just because a lot of people are breaking a law, doesn't necessarily mean the law must be changed." He's not saying it doesn't need to be changed, just that you can't use that fact that people break the law a lot as evidence that it's flawed. The reasons they're breaking the laws, the way the laws are enforced, and the severity of the punishments can all be looked at, as I'm sure they were with traffic laws, but the analogy definitely holds.
I have never had a problem caused by the presence of DRM when I buy or play games on steam. If it's that unobtrusive, I don't see how it compares to being run over by a car.
Not in university, but I would assume it’s still the same old “if you use something other than windows or maybe mac, you are free to do so however you are on your own to figure it out and resolve any issues!” attitude. Which really I think is fair.
This, and there's a very good reason. Universities should be spending money on educating students, and for a select few, doing research. It's just a waste of money to hire or train a new IT guy to provide tech support for 5% of the the student population.
Defense in depth. By your line of reasoning, there's no problem storing passwords in cleartext. Although a particular line of defense shouldn't be necessary, doesn't mean you shouldn't worry if it's quickly losing potency. There will always be security vulnerabilities, so for someone, somewhere, it matters, e.g. PSN.
A person capable of being a full university professor could be making literally millions in the private sector. The less you pay, the lower the overall quality of our universities as more students chose industry over academia.
Programming something I'm not particularly fond of is better than spending 35 hours/week I'm probably even less interested in. Obviously you have to put in those hours in order to make a living, and the point of this article is "if you didn't have to do it for a living (i.e. you already have more money than you need), what would you be programming?", not "what would you do with a tons of money?"
You'd even copy and resell it on a mass scale? No, you obviously can't do whatever you want.
Daily Productivity Loss I hate you, but not as much as I hate myself.
The slashdot post makes it sound worse than it is. It seems there are 150 firefighters on Mount Wilson the observatory as their highest priority. While mother nature is always unpredictable, we have a large group of skilled people fighting very hard to save it.
We're moving to project constellation with the Ares series of rockets and the Orion space capsule. A 5 year delay doesn't mean we're dropping NASA like a ton of bricks, it just means we're not wasting money keeping the shuttle fleet running when there's a private sector version available. Hopefully it'll be cheaper, but even if it isn't giving the private sector a boost isn't all bad.
Yeah, it's something most Slashdotters haven't heard of called "socializing."
They're not stealing money, they're just asking for it. You guys are the idiots giving to them. I keep my money in my mattress.
Statistically, it's more dangerous to let kids play at a house with a pool than at a house with a gun.
Wow, you're an idiot. It costs much more money to copy a book or a shirt than to just buy a mass produced one. Videogames, and all other non-DRM'd digital media, can be copied in seconds at nearly zero cost.
You have two options: 1) No DRM 2) Ability to return games You can choose only one, and it should be obvious why.
So the fact is, all that's been shown is that people in the know aren't willing to pay for software designed to fuck with their property.
Yeah, but the vast majority of people who download aren't 'in the know', they just want free games. I happen to be both, so even if they removed DRM I'd probably continue pirating games. Realistically, the only way they would be able to stop this majority would be extreme DRM (call home every 5 minutes, requiring internet even for single player games). Removing bad DRM may get a few customers back, but it would get games up on thepiratebay faster, and probably lead to even more people downloading.
Are you being serious? They can put anything they want in the software they're selling, and it's the consumer's choice whether or not to purchase it. There are no parallels with the boston tea party, because nobody is forcing you to buy these games, whereas the unfair taxes were mandatory.
You're a protesting customer when you refuse to buy a game. You become a pirate and a thief when you torrent the game, regardless of your reasoning. Once you do that, corporations have no reason to have faith that you'll go back to lawfully buying their games if they were to remove DRM. Instead, you've shown that you'll go to any length to get the game, and that if they can create secure enough anti-piracy measures they'll get your money.
Because digging a well is obviously much more convenient.
Yeah, battle.net and an mmo server have very, very little in common. The closest you get currently is FPS games where there server software comes with every copy of the game, some of which can host up to 64 players. That's hardly 'massively multiplayer' though.