I was buying my parts from Allied Radio when Tandy was a leather shop selling moccasin kits. When Tandy bought Allied Radio and rebranded it as Allied Radio Shack it was all downhill from there.
Which is why you are wrong. All of these replies about "never" and "we heard that 50 years ago" are due to you (and the naive researchers 50 years ago) deciding that you are intelligent, and that that's what intelligence is. Yet many of you watched the Super Bowl.
The CPU in our heads contains portions that originated with mud slime. There is no need to duplicate that, nor is intelligence involved in most of the things that our brains do. A space alien could never pass a Turing test, and it's a stupid conceit on our parts to torture a computer into trying to, like Dr. Frankenstein making his monster.
Maybe there never will be a software simulacrum fit for a freak show, but software constantly becomes more "intelligent" in a more objective sense.
If by "dude", you mean me, then here are some relevant facts that you should consider:
NASA satellites have been tracking global temperatures since the 70s and NASA has determined that within statistical significance, no years in this century have been warmer than the last century ().
Temperatures around the world (actual measured ones) over the last couple of hundred years are difficult to integrate with satellite and other measurements because:
The measuring technology changed frequently over time
The measuring stations moved over time
The location of the stations changed from rural to urban as populations shifted
Many stations have been closed since the 70s
The official meter reader, a drunk named Earl, was supposed to read the thermometer at noon but didn't come out of his stupor until dinner time
Temperatures around the world prior to that do not come from instruments in place at the time, but instead from an interpretation of measurements of other phenomena such as the width of tree rings, or the relative concentrations of trapped gasses in ice and ocean sediment cores. These are referred to as "proxies".
A source of contention in climate science has been the difficulty in amalgamating data from these disparate sources. There have been accusations of "bending" the data to support some people's point of view.
But, as anyone should be able to see from arguments like this, anthropogenic global warming has passed into the domain of religion and politics. Everyone talks past each other. The best idea for anyone is to take a look at both sides rather than jumping on a bandwagon. Do some research.
Let's take for instance where deniers are saying we're in a cooling trend. If fact the 2000s were the hottest decade on record.
The problem with the brainwashed children of the Church Of Global Warming is the same as with any other religion. They will not admit to any possibilities outside their adopted dogmas.
So, it's usually a waste of time to point out the truth, but if you're interested you could look into the proxy temperature record of the Holocene period. Maybe Wikipedia would be an easy place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene
"Holocene" is the name of the period in which we've been living since the end of the last glacial period. "Inter-glacials" such as the Holocene are few and far apart compared to the periods of glaciation. In other words, for the last several million years, ice is normal; these brief warm periods are what has allowed civilization.
Of course, with their resources, they could be 100% compliant if they wanted to be so.
If they wanted to be so; if it was in their financial best interest. If it fit their business model; which it does not.
Apparently it is difficult to be standards compliant, and yet provide a different experience from the other browsers when the user is accessing Outlook Web Access, or other M$ web applications.
Except that corporations (from Latin corpus meaning "body") enjoy a legal status as an entity, like a person. It should be possible for this legal entity ("body") to have a conscience. Some seem too, via the actions of their bosses. Maybe Google actually does.
M$ has shown time and time again that it does not.
The Bhopal disaster was an industrial catastrophe that took place at a pesticide plant owned and operated by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India on December 3, 1984. Around 12 AM, the plant released methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxins, resulting in the exposure of over 500,000 people. Estimates vary on the death toll. The official immediate death toll was 2259 and the government of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed a total of 3787 deaths related to the gas release. Other government agencies estimate 15,000 deaths. Others estimate 8000 to 10,000 died within 72 hours and 25,000 have since died from gas-related diseases.
Some 25 years after the gas leak, 390 tonnes of toxic chemicals abandoned at the UCIL plant continue to leak and pollute the groundwater in the region and affect thousands of Bhopal residents who depend on it, though there is some dispute as to whether the chemicals still stored at the site pose any continuing health hazard. There are currently civil and criminal cases related to the disaster ongoing in the United States District Court, Manhattan and the District Court of Bhopal, India against Union Carbide, now owned by Dow Chemical Company, with an Indian arrest warrant pending against Warren Anderson, CEO of Union Carbide at the time of the disaster. No one has yet been prosecuted.
How about inventing something of your own instead of stealing ideas from others!
Joking is all well and good, but be careful what you say because there are a lot of people in the world that actually think that M$ innovates and invents rather than copying, buying, or stealing.
Which part of the OPEN SOURCE Chrome OS do you consider to be proprietary?
I'd use my moderator points, but the mod dropdown doesn't have a "dumbass" selection.
"Dordain says that no one partner in the ISS project could unilaterally call an end to the platform and that a meeting would be held in Japan later in the year where he hoped the partners could get some clarity."
"Dordain says that no one partner in the ISS project could unilaterally call an end to the platform and that a meeting would be held in Japan later in the year where he hoped the partners could get some clarity going forward."
That seems a little rash considering how new and undeveloped all of the ideas about quantum gravity are, especially some recent quantum gravity work such as Causal dynamical triangulation and newer work. Some of these ideas indicate that the third spatial dimension, time, and the linearity of quantum mechanics are emergent at the Plank scale.
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So the problem is they used microsoft?
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All the nuts need somewhere to go.
I was buying my parts from Allied Radio when Tandy was a leather shop selling moccasin kits. When Tandy bought Allied Radio and rebranded it as Allied Radio Shack it was all downhill from there.
Maybe we'll be as knowledgable as you when you supply the citation. It's not that I doubt, but I can't accept such a bald statement on it's face.
Asshole; he said he's new to this.
Teacher: DO NOT let the kids look at the sun.
Which is why you are wrong. All of these replies about "never" and "we heard that 50 years ago" are due to you (and the naive researchers 50 years ago) deciding that you are intelligent, and that that's what intelligence is. Yet many of you watched the Super Bowl.
The CPU in our heads contains portions that originated with mud slime. There is no need to duplicate that, nor is intelligence involved in most of the things that our brains do. A space alien could never pass a Turing test, and it's a stupid conceit on our parts to torture a computer into trying to, like Dr. Frankenstein making his monster.
Maybe there never will be a software simulacrum fit for a freak show, but software constantly becomes more "intelligent" in a more objective sense.
A source of contention in climate science has been the difficulty in amalgamating data from these disparate sources. There have been accusations of "bending" the data to support some people's point of view.
But, as anyone should be able to see from arguments like this, anthropogenic global warming has passed into the domain of religion and politics. Everyone talks past each other. The best idea for anyone is to take a look at both sides rather than jumping on a bandwagon. Do some research.
Yours truly,
Dude
Let's take for instance where deniers are saying we're in a cooling trend. If fact the 2000s were the hottest decade on record.
The problem with the brainwashed children of the Church Of Global Warming is the same as with any other religion. They will not admit to any possibilities outside their adopted dogmas.
So, it's usually a waste of time to point out the truth, but if you're interested you could look into the proxy temperature record of the Holocene period. Maybe Wikipedia would be an easy place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene
"Holocene" is the name of the period in which we've been living since the end of the last glacial period. "Inter-glacials" such as the Holocene are few and far apart compared to the periods of glaciation. In other words, for the last several million years, ice is normal; these brief warm periods are what has allowed civilization.
Once we came out of the ice 12,000 years ago, we warmed up to a peak temperature about 8,000 years ago. Since then the temperature has been falling (see the graph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png [Note: Now is on the left]).
PS. "Deniers" is a reference to holocaust deniers. You can do better than to resort to Godwin.
Give him anal probes for 70 years, then inject him into Uranus.
Even better for life on Earth is if they would go back in time and do it 30 years ago.
I have, and it's robbery.
Around 1985 I bought my fourth computer: an 8086 based system running Xenix, Microsoft's Unix.
Windows 3.1 was vastly inferior. They're back sliders.
Of course, with their resources, they could be 100% compliant if they wanted to be so.
If they wanted to be so; if it was in their financial best interest. If it fit their business model; which it does not.
Apparently it is difficult to be standards compliant, and yet provide a different experience from the other browsers when the user is accessing Outlook Web Access, or other M$ web applications.
What's wrong with real books?
Used bookstores are great. Can you re-sell your used "eBook"? Can you buy used "eBooks".
This consumer toy horseshit is a way to funnel money from you to them.
Content will be more tightly controlled and the whole thing only means higher prices to read anything.
People are stupid if they fall for this bullshit.
M$ says: "Give us the dollars; fuck the people".
OK, fine. That's business.
Except that corporations (from Latin corpus meaning "body") enjoy a legal status as an entity, like a person. It should be possible for this legal entity ("body") to have a conscience. Some seem too, via the actions of their bosses. Maybe Google actually does.
M$ has shown time and time again that it does not.
I want to make an anology with Union Carbide. This is from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster:
The Bhopal disaster was an industrial catastrophe that took place at a pesticide plant owned and operated by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India on December 3, 1984. Around 12 AM, the plant released methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxins, resulting in the exposure of over 500,000 people. Estimates vary on the death toll. The official immediate death toll was 2259 and the government of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed a total of 3787 deaths related to the gas release. Other government agencies estimate 15,000 deaths. Others estimate 8000 to 10,000 died within 72 hours and 25,000 have since died from gas-related diseases.
Some 25 years after the gas leak, 390 tonnes of toxic chemicals abandoned at the UCIL plant continue to leak and pollute the groundwater in the region and affect thousands of Bhopal residents who depend on it, though there is some dispute as to whether the chemicals still stored at the site pose any continuing health hazard. There are currently civil and criminal cases related to the disaster ongoing in the United States District Court, Manhattan and the District Court of Bhopal, India against Union Carbide, now owned by Dow Chemical Company, with an Indian arrest warrant pending against Warren Anderson, CEO of Union Carbide at the time of the disaster. No one has yet been prosecuted.
Wikipedia also has an article on "corporate social responsibility": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility
Excellent. +5.
TFS is a nice apology for politicaly and economically motivated bureaucrats who are keen to exagerate to sew fear.
How about inventing something of your own instead of stealing ideas from others!
Joking is all well and good, but be careful what you say because there are a lot of people in the world that actually think that M$ innovates and invents rather than copying, buying, or stealing.
Some people are outraged by injustice. That doesn't make them immature.
Don't buy from Sony
Which part of the OPEN SOURCE Chrome OS do you consider to be proprietary?
I'd use my moderator points, but the mod dropdown doesn't have a "dumbass" selection.
How is requiring faster hardware an improvement?
ufraw allows you to speicify color profiles.
http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Colors.html
Cinepaint is a fork of gimp that supports 16 bit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinePaint
Is there a difference in meaning?
which is certainly not the case
That seems a little rash considering how new and undeveloped all of the ideas about quantum gravity are, especially some recent quantum gravity work such as Causal dynamical triangulation and newer work. Some of these ideas indicate that the third spatial dimension, time, and the linearity of quantum mechanics are emergent at the Plank scale.
Here's a ref.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_dynamical_triangulation