Global warming has nothing to do with how much snow is in your driveway, the snow in your driveway this year is "weather", not "climate". Measure it over the next decade, then get back to us.
In the Eastern USA, ther eis a region known as "The Snow Belt". Interestingly enough, it is to the south of my location, and does indeed tend to have warmer weather than we do here. But they usually get a lot more snow. How is this possible? Warm water laden air tries to work it's way up north, form the Gulf of Mexico. It usually gets met by a cold front, and although the Snow Belt is warmer than my location, it is still cold enough to turn into snow. Some times a lot of snow.
Now with a general warming trend, the snow belt might be moving northward, which probably caused the "big" snowstorm that hit eastern PA, New Jersey and New York this year. However, west of the affected area, the winter has been freaky anomalous. I've only had my snowblower out once this winter, and we only had one cold spell, but did not get below zero the entire winter. But we've had a lot of rain, the creeks and rivers are quite high. The wife and I had a nice barbecue on the patio in 70 some degree temps today, and I have the weird situation of having my motorcycle out of the garage sitting beside the snowblower.
This anomaly is not proof of global warming, but the past couple decades are.
How to you make a vacuum 200 years ago?
What do you write with? Where do you measure it?
You see, even science can be falsified.
Allow me my dear coward. We'll assume that since you are talking about the Celsius system, there is a very specific water to use, at a standard pressure for both freezing and boiling points.
Note that the standard pressures are slightly dfferent for different establishing entities, but all are easy to compare. Let's use NIST Standard Pressure, which is 101.325 kPa which corresponds to 1 bar, or 14.504 psi, or.98692 atm.
In the Celsius temperature standard, Water freezes at 0 degrees, and boils at 100 degrees - although more on that below.
The standard water source is the misleadingly named Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water. It is actually not ocean water, but very carefully distilled and very pure water. Given the better resolution of todays temperature measurements, and the more accurate standard of using the triple point of VSMOW, the boiling point of water is actually 99.9839 C. That is rather close, but is correlatable to earlier measurements regardless. In real life the difference is negligible, since the boiling point is very sensitive to atmospheric pressure.
And triple point at standard pressure is a very specific thing, so boiling is not a factor at all any more.
And scientists of earlier times calibrated their instruments to the accuracy of earlier times, as well as the methods used in making those measurements. So we can correlate the different measurements. Are those earlier measurements accurate to four digits to the right of the decimal point? Nope. But that doesn't disprove them. Just introduces a tiny bit of "fuzz".
And this is the sort of thing that I think stands at ground zero of the AGW debate. People who simply have no idea of how basic measurements are made today, are trying to disprove them with ancient definitions, and inaccurate ideas of how the measurements are made. Better to learnhow things are done before condemning them based on inaccurate ideas of how they are done.
Write your congress critter and tell him we want more mild winters.
As soon as the Republicans take over the sente and we have a new Republican president, we'll repeal the laws of physics, and usher in a great new age. Nothing will stand in the way of our ideology..
Mac OS X does *not* have a walled garden. A user is free to install any app downloaded from the internet. Mac OS X will warn them and ask if they really want to do this and then proceed as the user says.
Hey! Stop screwing with hater's memes. I've got dozens of non app store programs on mine.
I'm tired of this shit (see what I did there?) where everyone thinks that hand sanitizer is some magical device that sterilizes everything within a 5 mile radius. Hand washing is of limited use as well. Helpful... but limited.
And they are of no use against hard gamma either. That's sarcasm, or irony,or something.
No, they aren't perfect. But for a lot of things like e coli, they aren't all that shabby.
Then it would be more friendly to leave out a bottle of gin
And it is ethanol in the hand cleaners. The gas station across the street sold a lot of small unscented hand cleaning gel. I think that some college kids did shots of it. Ick
Given that the challenge was specifically to come up with *space* efficient inverter designs, it's dead certain that the 'astoundingly efficient' comment refers to *that*, not conversion efficiency. (Given that the designs are required to be 95%+ efficient on the conversion metric, and that isn't atypical for less space-efficient designs, that's a further indicator that 'astoundingly efficient' refers to space requirements.)
Go ask an EE what they think of when dealing with efficiency in inverter circuitry. Given that I'm not the only one noticing the headline was misleading, I'm not alone at all in my response.
Ah, I didn't look that closely to see that. On the other hand, I still wouldn't consider them 'astoundingly efficient' as the headline claims. This article discusses a design for a 97.09% efficient inverter. (I admit at this point I'm beginning to be argumentative, but I still think the headline should have been astoundingly dense inverters, though my theory is that slashdot injects in intentional errors to drive comments and traffics from those who like to nitpick submissions).
I disagree that you're being argumentive. While efficiency can mean a lot of things, it's a dead lock given that in a story about electric inverters, that efficiency would mean conversion efficiency.
Because the "efficiency" they were actually referring to was efficiency in th enature of efficiency apartments.
I certainly don't want to disparage what they did, because it was very impressive. This was more an issue with the person who wrote the original article.
It's important that you go after back wages because it does two things. First, It puts the employer on notice that this behavior is illegal and unacceptable. Second, it gives awareness to your replacement so they can be informed and watch for the same behavior.
That's nice and all, but you usually destroy yourself when going into whistleblower mode.
But you presented the situation as if you remained there long term hoping you could get the bonus eventually. That is stupid.
And you accuse me of not following a thought?
Under this sentence, I cut and paste my text on bold and italic from my first response to you.It is the single sentence where I described my reaction to their cheating:
Now of course, I scaled the sales back and got another job pretty quickly.
So I have no idea where you got the idea that I remained there long term trying to eventually get the bonus. The only ambiguity in that statement is "pretty quickly", which in that case was a couple weeks.
It's only a success if you count criminal behavior and a failure to act by the employee a success.
Even at the age of 19, I knew where the bear shit in the buckwheat. Your choosing to make this an indictment of me based on me working a couple more weeks, waiting until I had another jobe to go to and was not enemployed for even a day, is pretty bizarre.
Hell, I even made thousands more a year, although that was sorta lucky. But still.
What a fuckheaded stupid person I was. Left a job where I was getting screwed over, while a man of impeccable principlies such as yourself, would have quit on the spot, marked into a lawyers office, and (presumably successfully) sued these people and for what? Maybe a hundred dollars in missed wages?
Yup, I'm stupid, and your plan was the only intelligent option.
I only say this to a few people because it usually pisses them off big time:
I'm sorry to say but you are or were kind of stupid. If an employer refused to pay me when I follow their own rules, I move on to another job and likely take them to court for back wages.
So what is your plan, you a breatharian, and can exist on nothing or something like that? Have such resources that you can at any time quit without notice, then have the additional resources to fully prosecute these people? And me at the tender age of 19? Sorry, I don't jump ship until I know another one is coming. Even back then. I simply got a new job in a couple weeks, and the problem was solved for me.
Perhaps you are independently wealthy, have a sugar daddy or mommy, or can simply move back in withyour own mommy and daddy, which in my world, shows a sure sign of failure on both their and your parents.
What you wrote was intended to be funny? My condolences.
Actually, my condolences are with you. If you don't like the joke, fine. But the trouble you have taken to first take it seriously, then feeling compelled to throw in a gratuitous and untrue "my condolences"? Seriously. I mean Poe's law wasn't even in effect. Pee not on mine Wheaties, cold fjord.
Huh? I'm not sure I follow what you are saying here. Do you actually think that expecting a days pay for a days worth of work is socialism or that keeping the pay is some sort of socialism? The former is free market capitalism, the later is criminal behavior plain and simple. I'm not sure where socialism or any political ideology comes into play here other than a lot of the workers are illegals which is the only real reason people can get away with robbing their wages and underpaying them. It's not like they can complain to any authorities without fear of legal consequences for themselves.
It was a throwaway sarcasm/joke. Not even all that good of one. Kinda like how the job creators need as much money as possible to create jobs, and how employees are viewd as the enemy.
But if I might, since you've decided to take my lame joke seriously - years and years ago, I had a job selling auto stuff, like oil, batteries and tires. I was pretty good at it. The owners set up a bonus system for the salesmen. For sales above X amount, we'd get a percentage. So I set out and sold, sold, sold. In a few weeks I was into the bonus sales. The first time, I got there, they said that it wasn't completely set up yet. Okay, no problem. The second time, it was "Those things you sold were lower profit items." I was a little annoyed. The third time, I asked about it and they told me they had to change the dollar figure for getting bonus. Upward, of course.
They didn't consider it criminal behavior at all, they considered it good, sound business practice. And what was I going to do about it? Nothing much, so it was indeed good, sound business practice. Do you even think for a minute that this behavior isn't going on for citizens as well? With the same results?
Now of course, I scaled the sales back and got another job pretty quickly. But they carried on for a number of years, probably screwing other employees over.
Yeah, talking about moving goal posts to the level of stupidity.
The purpose of the flight was to deliver a communications satellite to geo-synchronous orbit. Your analogy here is sort of suggesting that actual objective wasn't accomplished.
So if landing one of these candles isn't an objective, why are they trying to do it?
After the Win 8 mess, I'm sure Microsoft is hugely focused on reliability, and yet a series of errors with updates like this happen. Are they hitting a wall of unmanageable complexity? I ask this seriously - not as a Msft hater or as a troll, but I really wonder how/why it seems 10 is struggling. I no longer use Windows so maybe I'm missing out on something obvious to people more knowledgeable.
Windows has always screwed up people's computers with updates. Maybe if you only used the Office suite, it didn't happen as often. But if you used a lot of programs, it happened as often as not. We got to the point of not having meetings the day after updates. Settings changed, removal of software, it could be a mess.
And a lot of people simply turned off updates.
So when Microsoft came out with the Bohica, no choice updating, it was inevitable that unless something changed radically, that a mess would ensue. Nothing changed. The interesting thing is Slashdot is only noteing a small number of the screwups.
But then again, that old BSOD just gives a nice sense of nostalgia, doesn't it?
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Global warming has nothing to do with how much snow is in your driveway, the snow in your driveway this year is "weather", not "climate". Measure it over the next decade, then get back to us.
In the Eastern USA, ther eis a region known as "The Snow Belt". Interestingly enough, it is to the south of my location, and does indeed tend to have warmer weather than we do here. But they usually get a lot more snow. How is this possible? Warm water laden air tries to work it's way up north, form the Gulf of Mexico. It usually gets met by a cold front, and although the Snow Belt is warmer than my location, it is still cold enough to turn into snow. Some times a lot of snow.
Now with a general warming trend, the snow belt might be moving northward, which probably caused the "big" snowstorm that hit eastern PA, New Jersey and New York this year. However, west of the affected area, the winter has been freaky anomalous. I've only had my snowblower out once this winter, and we only had one cold spell, but did not get below zero the entire winter. But we've had a lot of rain, the creeks and rivers are quite high. The wife and I had a nice barbecue on the patio in 70 some degree temps today, and I have the weird situation of having my motorcycle out of the garage sitting beside the snowblower.
This anomaly is not proof of global warming, but the past couple decades are.
What kind of water?
Sea water? Filtered water?
Fully frozen or starting to freeze?
Fast boil? Slow boil?
How to you make a vacuum 200 years ago? What do you write with? Where do you measure it?
You see, even science can be falsified.
Allow me my dear coward. We'll assume that since you are talking about the Celsius system, there is a very specific water to use, at a standard pressure for both freezing and boiling points.
Note that the standard pressures are slightly dfferent for different establishing entities, but all are easy to compare. Let's use NIST Standard Pressure, which is 101.325 kPa which corresponds to 1 bar, or 14.504 psi, or .98692 atm.
In the Celsius temperature standard, Water freezes at 0 degrees, and boils at 100 degrees - although more on that below. The standard water source is the misleadingly named Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water. It is actually not ocean water, but very carefully distilled and very pure water. Given the better resolution of todays temperature measurements, and the more accurate standard of using the triple point of VSMOW, the boiling point of water is actually 99.9839 C. That is rather close, but is correlatable to earlier measurements regardless. In real life the difference is negligible, since the boiling point is very sensitive to atmospheric pressure.
And triple point at standard pressure is a very specific thing, so boiling is not a factor at all any more.
And scientists of earlier times calibrated their instruments to the accuracy of earlier times, as well as the methods used in making those measurements. So we can correlate the different measurements. Are those earlier measurements accurate to four digits to the right of the decimal point? Nope. But that doesn't disprove them. Just introduces a tiny bit of "fuzz". And this is the sort of thing that I think stands at ground zero of the AGW debate. People who simply have no idea of how basic measurements are made today, are trying to disprove them with ancient definitions, and inaccurate ideas of how the measurements are made. Better to learnhow things are done before condemning them based on inaccurate ideas of how they are done.
Much better to use the Kelvin scale anyhow.
Write your congress critter and tell him we want more mild winters.
As soon as the Republicans take over the sente and we have a new Republican president, we'll repeal the laws of physics, and usher in a great new age. Nothing will stand in the way of our ideology..
And good luck to Poole, whoever he is. Never heard of 4Chan, well "heard" of it in that it could have been a web camera for all I knew.
Grandma! What did I tell you about coming to places like Slashdot!
I'm more curious about the unexplained description of it as a "baked" format.
Today, that means stoned, or to be quaint about it. High on Mary-joo-wanna.
I'm pretty surprised anyone would used that term other than for that or making a cake.
Of the time I ate too many prunes and had to skip to my loo.
Mac OS X does *not* have a walled garden. A user is free to install any app downloaded from the internet. Mac OS X will warn them and ask if they really want to do this and then proceed as the user says.
Hey! Stop screwing with hater's memes. I've got dozens of non app store programs on mine.
Yes, I'm sure most home Apple users take weekly backups and drop them in their safety deposit boxes.
I'm sure PC users do as well.
I'm working with a guy who had a windows 10 update bitch his computer up. No backup at all. We'll probably use Linux to retreive his data.
At least Apple users don't have their number one enemy be their OS provider.
I'm tired of this shit (see what I did there?) where everyone thinks that hand sanitizer is some magical device that sterilizes everything within a 5 mile radius. Hand washing is of limited use as well. Helpful... but limited.
And they are of no use against hard gamma either. That's sarcasm, or irony,or something.
No, they aren't perfect. But for a lot of things like e coli, they aren't all that shabby.
Then it would be more friendly to leave out a bottle of gin
And it is ethanol in the hand cleaners. The gas station across the street sold a lot of small unscented hand cleaning gel. I think that some college kids did shots of it. Ick
No, but you might want to avoid that egg salad sandwich from the vending machine in the spaceport men's room...
Especially with the homemade mayo on it.
Given that the challenge was specifically to come up with *space* efficient inverter designs, it's dead certain that the 'astoundingly efficient' comment refers to *that*, not conversion efficiency. (Given that the designs are required to be 95%+ efficient on the conversion metric, and that isn't atypical for less space-efficient designs, that's a further indicator that 'astoundingly efficient' refers to space requirements.)
Go ask an EE what they think of when dealing with efficiency in inverter circuitry. Given that I'm not the only one noticing the headline was misleading, I'm not alone at all in my response.
Ah, I didn't look that closely to see that. On the other hand, I still wouldn't consider them 'astoundingly efficient' as the headline claims. This article discusses a design for a 97.09% efficient inverter. (I admit at this point I'm beginning to be argumentative, but I still think the headline should have been astoundingly dense inverters, though my theory is that slashdot injects in intentional errors to drive comments and traffics from those who like to nitpick submissions).
I disagree that you're being argumentive. While efficiency can mean a lot of things, it's a dead lock given that in a story about electric inverters, that efficiency would mean conversion efficiency.
Because the "efficiency" they were actually referring to was efficiency in th enature of efficiency apartments.
I certainly don't want to disparage what they did, because it was very impressive. This was more an issue with the person who wrote the original article.
It's important that you go after back wages because it does two things. First, It puts the employer on notice that this behavior is illegal and unacceptable. Second, it gives awareness to your replacement so they can be informed and watch for the same behavior.
That's nice and all, but you usually destroy yourself when going into whistleblower mode.
But you presented the situation as if you remained there long term hoping you could get the bonus eventually. That is stupid.
And you accuse me of not following a thought?
Under this sentence, I cut and paste my text on bold and italic from my first response to you.It is the single sentence where I described my reaction to their cheating:
Now of course, I scaled the sales back and got another job pretty quickly.
So I have no idea where you got the idea that I remained there long term trying to eventually get the bonus. The only ambiguity in that statement is "pretty quickly", which in that case was a couple weeks.
It's only a success if you count criminal behavior and a failure to act by the employee a success.
Even at the age of 19, I knew where the bear shit in the buckwheat. Your choosing to make this an indictment of me based on me working a couple more weeks, waiting until I had another jobe to go to and was not enemployed for even a day, is pretty bizarre.
Hell, I even made thousands more a year, although that was sorta lucky. But still.
What a fuckheaded stupid person I was. Left a job where I was getting screwed over, while a man of impeccable principlies such as yourself, would have quit on the spot, marked into a lawyers office, and (presumably successfully) sued these people and for what? Maybe a hundred dollars in missed wages?
Yup, I'm stupid, and your plan was the only intelligent option.
I only say this to a few people because it usually pisses them off big time:
Bitch? Please!
I'm sorry to say but you are or were kind of stupid. If an employer refused to pay me when I follow their own rules, I move on to another job and likely take them to court for back wages.
So what is your plan, you a breatharian, and can exist on nothing or something like that? Have such resources that you can at any time quit without notice, then have the additional resources to fully prosecute these people? And me at the tender age of 19? Sorry, I don't jump ship until I know another one is coming. Even back then. I simply got a new job in a couple weeks, and the problem was solved for me.
Perhaps you are independently wealthy, have a sugar daddy or mommy, or can simply move back in withyour own mommy and daddy, which in my world, shows a sure sign of failure on both their and your parents.
What you wrote was intended to be funny? My condolences.
Actually, my condolences are with you. If you don't like the joke, fine. But the trouble you have taken to first take it seriously, then feeling compelled to throw in a gratuitous and untrue "my condolences"? Seriously. I mean Poe's law wasn't even in effect. Pee not on mine Wheaties, cold fjord.
Huh? I'm not sure I follow what you are saying here. Do you actually think that expecting a days pay for a days worth of work is socialism or that keeping the pay is some sort of socialism? The former is free market capitalism, the later is criminal behavior plain and simple. I'm not sure where socialism or any political ideology comes into play here other than a lot of the workers are illegals which is the only real reason people can get away with robbing their wages and underpaying them. It's not like they can complain to any authorities without fear of legal consequences for themselves.
It was a throwaway sarcasm/joke. Not even all that good of one. Kinda like how the job creators need as much money as possible to create jobs, and how employees are viewd as the enemy.
But if I might, since you've decided to take my lame joke seriously - years and years ago, I had a job selling auto stuff, like oil, batteries and tires. I was pretty good at it. The owners set up a bonus system for the salesmen. For sales above X amount, we'd get a percentage. So I set out and sold, sold, sold. In a few weeks I was into the bonus sales. The first time, I got there, they said that it wasn't completely set up yet. Okay, no problem. The second time, it was "Those things you sold were lower profit items." I was a little annoyed. The third time, I asked about it and they told me they had to change the dollar figure for getting bonus. Upward, of course.
They didn't consider it criminal behavior at all, they considered it good, sound business practice. And what was I going to do about it? Nothing much, so it was indeed good, sound business practice. Do you even think for a minute that this behavior isn't going on for citizens as well? With the same results?
Now of course, I scaled the sales back and got another job pretty quickly. But they carried on for a number of years, probably screwing other employees over.
Those damn takers are at it again. The Job creators need your wages. Goddamned socialists!
Yeah, talking about moving goal posts to the level of stupidity.
The purpose of the flight was to deliver a communications satellite to geo-synchronous orbit. Your analogy here is sort of suggesting that actual objective wasn't accomplished.
So if landing one of these candles isn't an objective, why are they trying to do it?
How's that barge landing thing working out?
I like a good stable OS. Windows 8.1 works fine and doesn't have problems with updates breaking drivers like Linux and Windows 10 do
Which drivers does linux break? I must not be using any of them.
Actually with a start menu replacement WIndows 8.1 is a very fine desktop OS.
Oh yes. And Windows Vista and ME were actually the best operating systems they ever put out.
After I got the better half a new laptop with W8, then 8.1 on it to replace her W7 notebook, she used it for a month and refused to use it any longer.
After the Win 8 mess, I'm sure Microsoft is hugely focused on reliability, and yet a series of errors with updates like this happen. Are they hitting a wall of unmanageable complexity? I ask this seriously - not as a Msft hater or as a troll, but I really wonder how/why it seems 10 is struggling. I no longer use Windows so maybe I'm missing out on something obvious to people more knowledgeable.
Windows has always screwed up people's computers with updates. Maybe if you only used the Office suite, it didn't happen as often. But if you used a lot of programs, it happened as often as not. We got to the point of not having meetings the day after updates. Settings changed, removal of software, it could be a mess. And a lot of people simply turned off updates.
So when Microsoft came out with the Bohica, no choice updating, it was inevitable that unless something changed radically, that a mess would ensue. Nothing changed. The interesting thing is Slashdot is only noteing a small number of the screwups.
But then again, that old BSOD just gives a nice sense of nostalgia, doesn't it?
The Amiga never got it's proper due.
Damn straight it didn't. but just like VHS, Windows won.