But that doesn't mean that some of the predictions of disaster that seem wild on face value aren't based in science or that real science isn't being done to test them. It's all about signal to noise ratio and doing the scientific leg work to sort out the chaff.
For example, talking about the raising sea level putting population centers under water is a wild claim of disaster that on face value is both hysterical and propagandistic. But there is a scientific basis for it and we can empirically test whether the ice is melting and the sea level is being effected by it.
If by "wild conjecture" you mean "hypothesis which can be supported by performing experiments and observations to gather empirical evidence to support or disprove it", yes!
Actually, it's the hottest month on record by mean temperature and there's actually a prediction made by climate scientists in Australia that Darwin would have the greatest increase in mean temperature of Australian capital cities in the hot months, meaning that Darwin, instead of Perth, would have the most days per year over 35C within a few years (and if you look at the article, it actually makes a note of the number of days over 35).
In other words, they made a prediction based on the science and that prediction is proving to be correct.
Putting ideological misgivings about Keynesian economics and government control aside; it's nothing like a Ponzi scheme, just like all interest bearing loans that are invested wisely aren't Ponzi schemes.
In a properly designed fiscal stimulus, there is an aggregate return on the investment (value is created) in the form of increased aggregate demand (greater growth now) as well as long term infrastructure and R&D that will provide future growth and benefit (i.e tangibles that provide value over time). In a Ponzi scheme there can't be an aggregate return on investment, because there is nothing of value produced and the net amount of value is the same.
No negative effect on the environment? Do you think they acquire Uranium by magic? It may not have a negative environmental effect at the place where power is generated, but it sure as hell has one where it is mined.
It's only traditional on very particular workloads that are very parallel, use a lot of floating point and has a largely coherent execution pattern/memory access. The CPU is still the king of general computing tasks that have lots of incoherent branches, indirection and that require serialized execution.
The force doesn't have to come from Psyler's direction (meaning the reaction doesn't need to be directed at Psyler) and he could easily be in charge of some other energy source. If we take some science fiction staples and recent inventions: Why not fusion powered nano-bots controlled via a wireless EEG controller. In fact, the controller could be other nano-bots on Psyler's skin.
It doesn't scale whole GDI Windows as bitmaps, no. However, a DPI aware application does scale all your controls, including some bitmaps on XP (like image boxes), if the application is setup correctly (also, WinForms makes this a fair bit easier). Note that you need to set a few properties here and there for this to happen however.
There are also registry settings that allow you to adjust various image scalings for the system, like the scale of the task bar icons.
Actually, even XP will do this as long as the application programmer hasn't specifically chosen for this not to happen and has designed the layout properly. The only real problem with setting a higher DPI on XP is the start bar (etc) icons and that can be fixed with registry tweaks.
Yeah, what we need is a good term for people who "define themselves by the position they're in because they have a damaged identity and can only value themselves because of the worth placed on their position by others and because of this believe that only position is truly important".
Sociopaths (that is, people with a brand of Antisocial Personality Disorder that have a pathological failure at true interaction with society) is probably not the correct term for the people at the top. What these people actually have is more likely Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
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And if you are Bruce Perens, it's creepy to talk about yourself in the 3rd person.
If you are not Bruce Perens or one of his close friends or immediate family, then that's some A-grade stalking right there
But that doesn't mean that some of the predictions of disaster that seem wild on face value aren't based in science or that real science isn't being done to test them. It's all about signal to noise ratio and doing the scientific leg work to sort out the chaff.
For example, talking about the raising sea level putting population centers under water is a wild claim of disaster that on face value is both hysterical and propagandistic. But there is a scientific basis for it and we can empirically test whether the ice is melting and the sea level is being effected by it.
Were humans among the living things that were thriving at that time?
If by "wild conjecture" you mean "hypothesis which can be supported by performing experiments and observations to gather empirical evidence to support or disprove it", yes!
Actually, it's the hottest month on record by mean temperature and there's actually a prediction made by climate scientists in Australia that Darwin would have the greatest increase in mean temperature of Australian capital cities in the hot months, meaning that Darwin, instead of Perth, would have the most days per year over 35C within a few years (and if you look at the article, it actually makes a note of the number of days over 35).
In other words, they made a prediction based on the science and that prediction is proving to be correct.
You're not the guy buying all the advertising space for "I got ripped in 1 day" are you?
Putting ideological misgivings about Keynesian economics and government control aside; it's nothing like a Ponzi scheme, just like all interest bearing loans that are invested wisely aren't Ponzi schemes.
In a properly designed fiscal stimulus, there is an aggregate return on the investment (value is created) in the form of increased aggregate demand (greater growth now) as well as long term infrastructure and R&D that will provide future growth and benefit (i.e tangibles that provide value over time). In a Ponzi scheme there can't be an aggregate return on investment, because there is nothing of value produced and the net amount of value is the same.
Not at all, without dancing to entertain the masses, everyone in his time was forced to become a swinger to pass the time.
Hey, he didn't say there was no divine syntax!
Then we probably shouldn't compound the issue with CO2?
But he doesn't have an English degree, he studied commerce and has an MBA!
No negative effect on the environment? Do you think they acquire Uranium by magic? It may not have a negative environmental effect at the place where power is generated, but it sure as hell has one where it is mined.
But it doesn't have to be both writable and executable at the same time, unless the generated code is self modifying.
Wait, you can get rich creating products that circumvent Chinese censorship and then shutting the loop hole? Sounds like a new business model!
*only more powerful than traditional...
It's only traditional on very particular workloads that are very parallel, use a lot of floating point and has a largely coherent execution pattern/memory access. The CPU is still the king of general computing tasks that have lots of incoherent branches, indirection and that require serialized execution.
The force doesn't have to come from Psyler's direction (meaning the reaction doesn't need to be directed at Psyler) and he could easily be in charge of some other energy source. If we take some science fiction staples and recent inventions: Why not fusion powered nano-bots controlled via a wireless EEG controller. In fact, the controller could be other nano-bots on Psyler's skin.
Low-level? You only need one button and a good sense of rhythm.
It doesn't scale whole GDI Windows as bitmaps, no. However, a DPI aware application does scale all your controls, including some bitmaps on XP (like image boxes), if the application is setup correctly (also, WinForms makes this a fair bit easier). Note that you need to set a few properties here and there for this to happen however.
There are also registry settings that allow you to adjust various image scalings for the system, like the scale of the task bar icons.
Actually, even XP will do this as long as the application programmer hasn't specifically chosen for this not to happen and has designed the layout properly. The only real problem with setting a higher DPI on XP is the start bar (etc) icons and that can be fixed with registry tweaks.
These particular fractals remind me of things I hope never to see in nature.
Yes, in so many ways yes.
Yeah, what we need is a good term for people who "define themselves by the position they're in because they have a damaged identity and can only value themselves because of the worth placed on their position by others and because of this believe that only position is truly important".
Sociopaths (that is, people with a brand of Antisocial Personality Disorder that have a pathological failure at true interaction with society) is probably not the correct term for the people at the top. What these people actually have is more likely Narcissistic Personality Disorder.