Well the Romans certainly did that. They had hot-water baths in all their cities, and of course that required lots of wood-burning to sustain. I suppose it's possible that centuries of massive woodburning led to a CO2-caused increase in temperature from circa 400 to 1000 A.D., but it does not seem likely.
Neither does some stupid article that doesn't have any frakking citations. I was THERE. I know what was being talked-about on television, in magazines, and in my school classroom. It was global cooling.
Then you need to get their company name and location, and file a complaint in small claims. You can get $500 per call if they violate your "do not call" rights.
Or you can complain on the do-not-call website, which is easier, but won't net you any money.
>>>He just doesn't get that some people do things not for the money.
On the other hand, it's difficult to "do things" like update OpenOffice, if your electric company just pulled the plug, or you lose your house to the bank. If the next decade becomes a Depression-Lite economy, then there will be a lot fewer engineers with the ability to update software. They'll be busy just trying to survive, with little spare time or cash to continue their open-source "hobby".
>>>Just go to Openoffice.org and click the tab that says 'download'. It's a full version and it's free."
>>>"But... isn't downloading illegal?" This, my friends, is why Linux and Open Office haven't taken over the desktop. The non-nerd media (and I daresay, quite a bit of the nerd media) have non-geeks thinking that "downloading is illegal". >>>
Good grief. Surely people are not THAT dumb. Surely they must realize downloading is okay if the owner voluntarily gives it away (like Itunes or Winamp or VLC player). I suspect this is the intent of RIAA and MPAA - to make people think nothing is free, and therefore you have to Buy everything (from them of course).
>>>Just go to Openoffice.org and click the tab that says 'download'. It's a full version and it's free."
>>>"But... isn't downloading illegal?" This, my friends, is why Linux and Open Office haven't taken over the desktop. The non-nerd media (and I daresay, quite a bit of the nerd media) have non-geeks thinking that "downloading is illegal". >>>
Good grief. Surely people are not THAT dumb. Surely they must realize downloading is okay if the owner voluntarily gives it away (like Itunes or Winamp or VLC player). I suspect this is the intent of RIAA and MPAA - to make people think nothing is free, and therefore you have to Buy from legal sources (theirs).
Yeah I installed my copy of Office 97 on my brother's computer. Even though he asked for it, I know he's never going to use it (he barely even knows how to turn-on his computer), so for him to spend $200 buying the official version would be a waste of cash.
I doubt my brother even knows how to start MS Office, much less use it. Microsoft and other corporations make a lot of money bilking barely-literate computer users. These users buy tools and then they either never use them, or don't know how.
- I still have the original Star Trek on VHS, and don't see any reason to upgrade to DVD. The additional features don't make it worthwhile for me to spend another ~$200.
- Similarly I don't see any reason to upgrade from Office 97.
- And finally I didn't "pirate" SG Atlantis season 4. I erased the episodes immediately after determining they were mostly crap. Nobody lost any money.
"Unrecoverable" is a misused word by the original article. "Unreadable" is the correct terminology, and all that means is that the read sensor failed to read that bit. Pass the read sensor over that same area a second time, and it should work just fine.
Yep. Giving people what they want, which is "easy" to understand programming. I guess if you want intelligent shows you have to watch that other channel government socialism sponsors. Um, darn, I forget what it's called.
It shows lots of things that less than 1/4% of America tunes-in to watch (even fewer than the number watching CW). Let me think. Oh yeah, PBS.
History Channel is a lot better than it used to be. People used to call it "the Hitler Channel" because it was constantly replaying old WW2 film. It became BORING.
Fortunately over the last five years the channel has expanded its programming to Ancient Civilizations and Middle Ages. It's one of the few channels that has actually improved its coverage of its central topic.
So what caused the global warming during the mid-Egyptian period (circa 3000 B.C.) or the late Roman Empire? Was it Caesar and his buddies riding around in cars? Maybe it was the air-conditioned villas, or the oil burner-heated homes in Gaul? And what caused the sudden chill from 1350 to 1850? Come on!
To presume global warming is man-made is to (1) commit hubris and (2) ignore the previous cycles which has nothing to do with man.
One more final thing to think about: *We are in the middle of a glacial age.* As long as there is ice on the poles, earth is cooler than its normal condition, which would be tropical. We are currently 3 degrees below the earth's average temperature. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:65_Myr_Climate_Change.png
Global warming happened twice before (during the period of the Ancient Egyptians, circa 3000 B.C.) (and again from the mid-Roman Empire through the Dark Ages), but it certainly wasn't caused by cars, or air conditioners, or oil burners.
Unless those Egyptians and Romans had some secret technology we have not yet discovered.
Maybe it was the city of Atlantis (cue Stargate music).
I read the article, but I was also ALIVE at that time. I remember folks like Carl Sagan rallying the troops to stop the cooling of the planet (from suspended pollution). No article can erase the memory of the people watching their televisions during the 70s and early 80s.
Yeah but they've toned-down those shows. The Hitler Channel..... er, I mean the History Channel is now showing more programs about the Romans, the Barbarians, or the Middle Ages. Their documentary about the 300 Spartans was more-entertaining (and informative) than the actual movie.
>>>As early as 1965, a panel of distinguished environmental scientists warned CO2 emissions...
In 1965 and through the 1970s and early 80s, virtually all scientists were Not discussing global warming. They were discussing Global Cooling. I remember sitting in elementary school while the teacher made us read a scary article about "the darkening of the earth" due to increased clouds.
The scientists later admitting they were wrong.
Don't be surprised if in another twenty years scientists again admit they were wrong about global warming. "It's not humans; it's just a natural process. We will now start cooling again."
Sci-Fi Channel - yet another channel that was dumbed down. I remember when they had "talk shows" that visited conventions to meet the fans, discussed new technologies that were emerging, and interviewed authors about their latest books. Now the channel fills its primetime slots with "Scared Stupid", "Dishonest Seances", and other hokey nonsense.
MUD also has an alternative title "Multi User Zork" since it was originally inspired by the Zork text-adventure. However due to copyright restrictions, the named was changed to Dungeon.
Wikipedia says, "The popularity of MUDs escalated during the 1980s when affordable personal computers with 0.3 to 2 kbit/s modems enabled role-players to log into multi-line Bulletin Board Systems."
Pretty soon they'll just use robots (nanites) and won't need a surgeon at all, except to act as a kind of "general" giving orders to the tiny machines.
If credit cards are so secure, why was some idiot on the *other side of the continent* able to get my number and buy $3500 worth of stuff in Walmart? (Presumably with his own fake card.)
Credit numbers are stolen all of the time. Thousands per day. A voting machines need to be far more secure that that, because even one "stolen" vote per machine is enough to change a statewide election.
Or as Chaucer stated so eloquently: "Whan that Aprill, with his showers soote, the drought of March hath perced to the roote. And bathed every vein in sweet licour of which vertu engendered is the flour. Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breath, inspired hath in every holt and heeth. The tender croppes, and the younge sonne hath in the Ram his halfe cours run, and smalle fowles maken melody."
>>>As the RAID controller is busily reading through those 6 disks to reconstruct the data from the failed drive, it is almost certain it will see an [unrecoverable read error]. >>>
This is a load of crap. The computer wouldn't just give up. It would make a second attempt to read that bit, and do so successfully. One bad read does not necessarily mean that spot on the disc is permanently damaged.
Furthermore even if that bit is lost, it depends-upon what kind of data was damaged. If it's an MP3 or MPEG or JPEG, one lost bit is not going to visible to the viewer. The human ear and eye are not sensitive enough to detect that small an error, especially with lossy-compressed sounds and images. ----- If it's a word doc, then you might get the word "progrbm" instead of program. The document is still usable even with that mis-spelling. I would hope RAID controllers are intelligent enough to not throw away 99.999999999999% of the data and declare it "unrecoverable" just because of one lost bit.
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Well the Romans certainly did that. They had hot-water baths in all their cities, and of course that required lots of wood-burning to sustain. I suppose it's possible that centuries of massive woodburning led to a CO2-caused increase in temperature from circa 400 to 1000 A.D., but it does not seem likely.
Neither does some stupid article that doesn't have any frakking citations. I was THERE. I know what was being talked-about on television, in magazines, and in my school classroom. It was global cooling.
Then you need to get their company name and location, and file a complaint in small claims. You can get $500 per call if they violate your "do not call" rights.
Or you can complain on the do-not-call website, which is easier, but won't net you any money.
>>>He just doesn't get that some people do things not for the money.
On the other hand, it's difficult to "do things" like update OpenOffice, if your electric company just pulled the plug, or you lose your house to the bank. If the next decade becomes a Depression-Lite economy, then there will be a lot fewer engineers with the ability to update software. They'll be busy just trying to survive, with little spare time or cash to continue their open-source "hobby".
>>>Just go to Openoffice.org and click the tab that says 'download'. It's a full version and it's free."
>>>"But... isn't downloading illegal?" This, my friends, is why Linux and Open Office haven't taken over the desktop. The non-nerd media (and I daresay, quite a bit of the nerd media) have non-geeks thinking that "downloading is illegal".
>>>
Good grief. Surely people are not THAT dumb. Surely they must realize downloading is okay if the owner voluntarily gives it away (like Itunes or Winamp or VLC player). I suspect this is the intent of RIAA and MPAA - to make people think nothing is free, and therefore you have to Buy everything (from them of course).
>>>Just go to Openoffice.org and click the tab that says 'download'. It's a full version and it's free."
>>>"But... isn't downloading illegal?" This, my friends, is why Linux and Open Office haven't taken over the desktop. The non-nerd media (and I daresay, quite a bit of the nerd media) have non-geeks thinking that "downloading is illegal".
>>>
Good grief. Surely people are not THAT dumb. Surely they must realize downloading is okay if the owner voluntarily gives it away (like Itunes or Winamp or VLC player). I suspect this is the intent of RIAA and MPAA - to make people think nothing is free, and therefore you have to Buy from legal sources (theirs).
Yeah I installed my copy of Office 97 on my brother's computer. Even though he asked for it, I know he's never going to use it (he barely even knows how to turn-on his computer), so for him to spend $200 buying the official version would be a waste of cash.
I doubt my brother even knows how to start MS Office, much less use it. Microsoft and other corporations make a lot of money bilking barely-literate computer users. These users buy tools and then they either never use them, or don't know how.
Well look at it this way:
- I still have the original Star Trek on VHS, and don't see any reason to upgrade to DVD. The additional features don't make it worthwhile for me to spend another ~$200.
- Similarly I don't see any reason to upgrade from Office 97.
- And finally I didn't "pirate" SG Atlantis season 4. I erased the episodes immediately after determining they were mostly crap. Nobody lost any money.
I live in the swing state of Pennsylvania and have not noticed a barrage of calls. Actually just one from McCain and that's it.
"Unrecoverable" is a misused word by the original article. "Unreadable" is the correct terminology, and all that means is that the read sensor failed to read that bit. Pass the read sensor over that same area a second time, and it should work just fine.
Yep. Giving people what they want, which is "easy" to understand programming. I guess if you want intelligent shows you have to watch that other channel government socialism sponsors. Um, darn, I forget what it's called.
It shows lots of things that less than 1/4% of America tunes-in to watch (even fewer than the number watching CW). Let me think. Oh yeah, PBS.
History Channel is a lot better than it used to be. People used to call it "the Hitler Channel" because it was constantly replaying old WW2 film. It became BORING.
Fortunately over the last five years the channel has expanded its programming to Ancient Civilizations and Middle Ages. It's one of the few channels that has actually improved its coverage of its central topic.
It's a lot easier to just put your name on a Do Not Call list. Since I've done that I've had virtually zero telemarketer calls.
So what caused the global warming during the mid-Egyptian period (circa 3000 B.C.) or the late Roman Empire? Was it Caesar and his buddies riding around in cars? Maybe it was the air-conditioned villas, or the oil burner-heated homes in Gaul? And what caused the sudden chill from 1350 to 1850? Come on!
To presume global warming is man-made is to (1) commit hubris and (2) ignore the previous cycles which has nothing to do with man.
One more final thing to think about: *We are in the middle of a glacial age.* As long as there is ice on the poles, earth is cooler than its normal condition, which would be tropical. We are currently 3 degrees below the earth's average temperature. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:65_Myr_Climate_Change.png
Global warming happened twice before (during the period of the Ancient Egyptians, circa 3000 B.C.) (and again from the mid-Roman Empire through the Dark Ages), but it certainly wasn't caused by cars, or air conditioners, or oil burners.
Unless those Egyptians and Romans had some secret technology we have not yet discovered.
Maybe it was the city of Atlantis (cue Stargate music).
I read the article, but I was also ALIVE at that time. I remember folks like Carl Sagan rallying the troops to stop the cooling of the planet (from suspended pollution). No article can erase the memory of the people watching their televisions during the 70s and early 80s.
>>>They also have programming about Nazis.
Yeah but they've toned-down those shows. The Hitler Channel..... er, I mean the History Channel is now showing more programs about the Romans, the Barbarians, or the Middle Ages. Their documentary about the 300 Spartans was more-entertaining (and informative) than the actual movie.
>>>As early as 1965, a panel of distinguished environmental scientists warned CO2 emissions...
In 1965 and through the 1970s and early 80s, virtually all scientists were Not discussing global warming. They were discussing Global Cooling. I remember sitting in elementary school while the teacher made us read a scary article about "the darkening of the earth" due to increased clouds.
The scientists later admitting they were wrong.
Don't be surprised if in another twenty years scientists again admit they were wrong about global warming. "It's not humans; it's just a natural process. We will now start cooling again."
Sci-Fi Channel - yet another channel that was dumbed down. I remember when they had "talk shows" that visited conventions to meet the fans, discussed new technologies that were emerging, and interviewed authors about their latest books. Now the channel fills its primetime slots with "Scared Stupid", "Dishonest Seances", and other hokey nonsense.
MUD also has an alternative title "Multi User Zork" since it was originally inspired by the Zork text-adventure. However due to copyright restrictions, the named was changed to Dungeon.
Wikipedia says, "The popularity of MUDs escalated during the 1980s when affordable personal computers with 0.3 to 2 kbit/s modems enabled role-players to log into multi-line Bulletin Board Systems."
Wow. 0.3 k modems. That sounds so sloooooow.
Pretty soon they'll just use robots (nanites) and won't need a surgeon at all, except to act as a kind of "general" giving orders to the tiny machines.
If credit cards are so secure, why was some idiot on the *other side of the continent* able to get my number and buy $3500 worth of stuff in Walmart? (Presumably with his own fake card.)
Credit numbers are stolen all of the time. Thousands per day. A voting machines need to be far more secure that that, because even one "stolen" vote per machine is enough to change a statewide election.
Or as Chaucer stated so eloquently: "Whan that Aprill, with his showers soote, the drought of March hath perced to the roote. And bathed every vein in sweet licour of which vertu engendered is the flour. Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breath, inspired hath in every holt and heeth. The tender croppes, and the younge sonne hath in the Ram his halfe cours run, and smalle fowles maken melody."
>>>As the RAID controller is busily reading through those 6 disks to reconstruct the data from the failed drive, it is almost certain it will see an [unrecoverable read error].
>>>
This is a load of crap. The computer wouldn't just give up. It would make a second attempt to read that bit, and do so successfully. One bad read does not necessarily mean that spot on the disc is permanently damaged.
Furthermore even if that bit is lost, it depends-upon what kind of data was damaged. If it's an MP3 or MPEG or JPEG, one lost bit is not going to visible to the viewer. The human ear and eye are not sensitive enough to detect that small an error, especially with lossy-compressed sounds and images. ----- If it's a word doc, then you might get the word "progrbm" instead of program. The document is still usable even with that mis-spelling. I would hope RAID controllers are intelligent enough to not throw away 99.999999999999% of the data and declare it "unrecoverable" just because of one lost bit.
What if you are an actual Mongol? Are you going to be arrested again-and-again?