This is something all the Jobs-worshipping Apple fanboys overlook. He was a notorious asshole boss, known to berate employees until they were reduced to tears or fire employees at the end of an elevator-ride chat if they shared an idea he didn't like. These sudden firings were known to Apple employees as "being Jobs'd."
And the guy bought a new Mercedes every 6 months so that he wouldn't have to put plates on it under California law, and then parked in handicap spots everywhere he went. That tells you a lot about him.
I have even less respect for Jobs than Thomas Edison. Both exploitative businessmen with negative contributions to society that overshadow the positive, but Edison at least had more tech skill and actually did some inventing himself, and his negative influence didn't have such long-lasting effects.
Also I think that Jobs wasn't even a great businessman any more than George Lucas is a great filmmaker. Like Lucas, he needed to be surrounded by critical peers to keep his crazier ideas in check, and without this moderating influence things went all to hell (see: NeXT, a lot of early Apple projects). Another example of poor business skill is his quest to destroy Android at all costs because he thought it was a "stolen product." He was an artist and not a techie, when another product showed any hint of influence from one of his own he didn't see it as normal tech evolution, he saw it as plagiarism.
Not to mention that he accidentally stumbled into history's greatest moneymaker, the App Store. Originally he was going to release the iPhone with no ability to run 3rd-party apps whatsoever (apart from web apps which was and still is more of a punchline than a solution as a replacement for all native apps - even ChromeOS has full offline capability), which would have made it nothing more than another quirky footnote in tech history, but then he caved to overwhelming developer pressure to allow 3rd-party apps on the device. This also led to the popularization of curated computing, the most damaging event in computing history.
Cross the channel from the UK to France, fly to Caribbean or South America, then fly to Canada (and crossing the Canada/US border illegally is a relative cake walk, even with the increased security).
It's a total bullshit situation but it's currently avoidable.
CO2 is currently under 0.04% of the atmosphere and according to the historic record is the effect, not the cause, of warming (Temperature has always increased before CO2 levels).
I assume you're talking about the ice age CO2/heat lag? In those cases the warming cycles weren't initiated by CO2 but that doesn't mean CO2 can't initiate or be directly responsible for warming:
Now I understand that it has been shown that CO2 can help increase temperature... but by what amount? Where is the equation that shows that X increase in CO2 increases temperature by Y? If we doubled the CO2 amount from 0.04% to 0.08%, which may not even be possible if we wanted too, how much would that warm the planet?
The equation's pretty complicated and always being refined, that's basically the main purpose of a climate simulator.
If humans are in the vast minority of the forces that create climate change then you are going to have a really hard time explaining why everyone needs to live beneath their means so we can get our hand in a wrestling match between titans.
We're responsible for the vast majority of fossil CO2 release and a very meaningful chunk of the warming overall. Now who said anything about living beneath their means? Your car will go weeng instead of vroom and your electricity will come from different sources that probably won't cost any more, what's the big deal?
I wish I could handle all my money with the swipe of a card too, but that would mean sacrificing all anonymity of transactions (you think any government is going to allow yet another form of payment that can be laundered?), so I'll gladly continue to handle annoying, stinky physical money.
Even more ironically, it was probably done in the quest to maintain a church-like, "absolute certainty" image of science to people who think science is just a religion.
I couldn't point to any handful that made a big difference, it's mostly been gradual confirmation of the basic theory and disproof of alternates. The recent studies on the CO2 output of volcanoes were a pretty big deal, that was a guesstimated factor for a long time and a major "skeptic" talking point. The BEST study was also a pretty big deal in terms of additional confirmation.
Well the global warming theory has been solid from day one, the anthropogenic part I'd say was pretty well-established by the early/mid 2000s. I've been somewhat keeping up with new developments since the late '90s.
If you believe that nowadays, you're just a denialist. At least try to keep up, most other denialists have moved onto "global warming's not bad" or "you're totally right but I refuse to participate in a solution, I'd rather live in a biodome."
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Looks like a pretty standard kit-gyro. I'd fly it, why not?
A roadable aircraft. A flying car needs VTOL capability.
And until it's legal to take off and land anywhere, even a true flying car could still only be used like a roadable aircraft.
What package curation has been done in Linux? Protip: If you say repos, you'll make yourself look like an idiot.
Sure and every factory should be like Foxconn.
Oh that makes it all okay, he forces the best out of people in the process of mistreating them, so it's not bad.
The airlines are probably placing pre-orders as we speak.
This is something all the Jobs-worshipping Apple fanboys overlook. He was a notorious asshole boss, known to berate employees until they were reduced to tears or fire employees at the end of an elevator-ride chat if they shared an idea he didn't like. These sudden firings were known to Apple employees as "being Jobs'd."
And the guy bought a new Mercedes every 6 months so that he wouldn't have to put plates on it under California law, and then parked in handicap spots everywhere he went. That tells you a lot about him.
I have even less respect for Jobs than Thomas Edison. Both exploitative businessmen with negative contributions to society that overshadow the positive, but Edison at least had more tech skill and actually did some inventing himself, and his negative influence didn't have such long-lasting effects.
Also I think that Jobs wasn't even a great businessman any more than George Lucas is a great filmmaker. Like Lucas, he needed to be surrounded by critical peers to keep his crazier ideas in check, and without this moderating influence things went all to hell (see: NeXT, a lot of early Apple projects). Another example of poor business skill is his quest to destroy Android at all costs because he thought it was a "stolen product." He was an artist and not a techie, when another product showed any hint of influence from one of his own he didn't see it as normal tech evolution, he saw it as plagiarism.
Not to mention that he accidentally stumbled into history's greatest moneymaker, the App Store. Originally he was going to release the iPhone with no ability to run 3rd-party apps whatsoever (apart from web apps which was and still is more of a punchline than a solution as a replacement for all native apps - even ChromeOS has full offline capability), which would have made it nothing more than another quirky footnote in tech history, but then he caved to overwhelming developer pressure to allow 3rd-party apps on the device. This also led to the popularization of curated computing, the most damaging event in computing history.
You probably copypasta'd this but it gave me a good laugh in the morning regardless XD
Cross the channel from the UK to France, fly to Caribbean or South America, then fly to Canada (and crossing the Canada/US border illegally is a relative cake walk, even with the increased security).
It's a total bullshit situation but it's currently avoidable.
Linux machines rsync to an encrypted & normally unmounted backup drive on the home server, that one backs up to an encrypted external drive.
Windows gaming machine backs up to an external drive using vshadow and robocopy.
If you had a good ol' fashioned mechanical care drive you could just put some sand on your care clutch to get 'er running in a pinch.
CO2 is currently under 0.04% of the atmosphere and according to the historic record is the effect, not the cause, of warming (Temperature has always increased before CO2 levels).
I assume you're talking about the ice age CO2/heat lag? In those cases the warming cycles weren't initiated by CO2 but that doesn't mean CO2 can't initiate or be directly responsible for warming:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature-intermediate.htm
Now I understand that it has been shown that CO2 can help increase temperature ... but by what amount? Where is the equation that shows that X increase in CO2 increases temperature by Y? If we doubled the CO2 amount from 0.04% to 0.08%, which may not even be possible if we wanted too, how much would that warm the planet?
The equation's pretty complicated and always being refined, that's basically the main purpose of a climate simulator.
If humans are in the vast minority of the forces that create climate change then you are going to have a really hard time explaining why everyone needs to live beneath their means so we can get our hand in a wrestling match between titans.
We're responsible for the vast majority of fossil CO2 release and a very meaningful chunk of the warming overall. Now who said anything about living beneath their means? Your car will go weeng instead of vroom and your electricity will come from different sources that probably won't cost any more, what's the big deal?
It's good that he didn't live to see this day.
"JUST THIRTY DOLLARS! THAT'S RIGHT AN EVEN THIRTY!"
"Cut! That's a wrap"
"YOU BASTARDS DON'T PAY ME ENOUGH YOU KNOW! I'M GONNA GO CRY IN A CORNER :-( "
Hey, well, you know Canada has government-run health care...
I wish I could handle all my money with the swipe of a card too, but that would mean sacrificing all anonymity of transactions (you think any government is going to allow yet another form of payment that can be laundered?), so I'll gladly continue to handle annoying, stinky physical money.
Even more ironically, it was probably done in the quest to maintain a church-like, "absolute certainty" image of science to people who think science is just a religion.
I couldn't point to any handful that made a big difference, it's mostly been gradual confirmation of the basic theory and disproof of alternates. The recent studies on the CO2 output of volcanoes were a pretty big deal, that was a guesstimated factor for a long time and a major "skeptic" talking point. The BEST study was also a pretty big deal in terms of additional confirmation.
But how much space and time does this need vs. trees? That's the problem with biofuels, maybe this could make them more practical on a large scale.
Well the global warming theory has been solid from day one, the anthropogenic part I'd say was pretty well-established by the early/mid 2000s. I've been somewhat keeping up with new developments since the late '90s.
If you believe that nowadays, you're just a denialist. At least try to keep up, most other denialists have moved onto "global warming's not bad" or "you're totally right but I refuse to participate in a solution, I'd rather live in a biodome."
Could be the volcano-load of fossil CO2 that human civilization is spewing into the atmosphere every 3 days or so. Just an idea.
Jalopnik should be liberated as well. The journalistic value has gone downhill from the early days but at least it's entertaining.
Didn't you read TFS?
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