Recently signed up for Comcast. I wondered why the on screen guide, and the On Demand features were so clumsy to navigate (and just plain ugly to boot) - now I know why.
Maybe it's a geek thing you guys have goin on, but I have no flippin' idea what kinda mileage my non-hybrid car gets. I mean, seriously - who the heck cares? I get regular maintenance, make sure the tires are inflated, and fill it up when its low on gas. What exactly would I do with this mileage number if I took the time and effort to log my miles at every fillup? Brag about it? Post it on slashdot? Worry about why it is 5mpg below what was on the sticker? I have better things to do with my time.
I am sure MS will offer a very cheap, slimmed down OS for this machine. The kids who get these laptops won't have to pay for it at all. They will however have access to the largest pool of free software available - free software that runs on windows. Almost all of the major OSS projects have windows versions, and there is a wealth of free/shareware that's available only on windows.
Yes, it's quite clear that the purchasers of these laptops (foreign governments) just aren't all that interested in their children learning a dumbed down academic interface. They want their children to be able to work for multi-nationals that use windows. They want their children to be able run programs from the largest pool of available software - and that means windows.
This is exactly what my company does. We write custom front ends in flex to visualize data. Flex has extensive support for accessing server side data via various remoting APIs.
Actually, the brain needs about 100g of glucose a day to function properly. The body however, is perfectly capable of synthesizing this amount of glucose from protein intake via a process call "gluconeogenesis". Thus your brain can function quite well with zero carb intake.
The link I provided debunks this argument as well.
The simple fact of the matter is that no court in the US will take these arguments seriously. If you don't pay taxes, and are caught, you will pay the consequences. There is not a single example of any person who has successfully applied one of these frivolous arguments to avoid prosecution and or conviction under US tax law.
Distributed between two data centers, that they control, Linden Labs can't manage better than about 95%-98% uptime. Inventory items and sometimes even portions of entire sims regularly go into the bit bucket when the data centers have connectivity issues.
And to this mix we will add a heterogeneous server base, geographically dispersed, with network connections of unknown reliability?
Get ready for a Second Life experience akin to IRC in the 90s.
It would indeed be odd for someone to publish a paper about a novel way of speeding up downloads if in fact Bitorrent, or any other file sharing protocol already worked that way. Thanks for pointing out that they don't.
Well, it's certainly not a Vista issue, as my Vista desktop is running at my LCD panel's native 1680x1050 - and my Vista laptop auto-detects my TV's screwy resolution just fine.
Sure, it wastes space, but that amount of space is pretty much fixed. It was the same in the days of the P6, as it is in the present day with the Core 2 Duo. As transistor counts have mushroomed, the relatively percentage of space dedicated to x86 decoding has fallen dramatically, to the the point there it's just not a big deal any longer. On modern silicon, the x86 decoding components are not a significant waste of space, power, or performance.
RTFC - Article II, Section 2, "He [The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur"
So, you see, you are incorrect, as you apparently failed to read your own reference. The President can negotiate a treaty, but a 2/3rds vote of the Senate is required to ratify.
Actually, AdHUD, implemented inside Second Life, pays users to watch ads that are attached to their viewport. http://www.adhud.com/ . No, it's not a Linden Labs product, but it pays thousands of users each week to watch ads and hopefully visit the advertiser's builds.
"The answer is that an increase of CO2 did preede a temperature increase. CO2 increased, and temperature increased. "
This contradicts the actual data from the Vostok cores. CO2 level increases lagged the temperature increase by 200-1000 years.
"We know CO2 causes warming (its been tested in the lab and is a result of pretty basic physics regarding absorption spectra), and lo, the CO2 feedback caused by warming is enough to produce the extra warming that occurs during the interglacials. You seem to want to live in a world of black and white: either CO2 is entirely responsible for warming, or it has nothing to do with warming. The reality is that a lot of complex interactions are responsible for warming, but everything we do currently know points to CO2 having a significant effect."
Yes, and none of those lab experiments can come anywhere close to replicating real world climate conditions. Neither can any of the computer models. But when we look at the real climate record we see that for significant periods of time, global temperature trends seem to ignore the supposedly large influence CO2 should be exerting.
Then please explain why it's possible that even as CO2 levels remain high, glaciation can set in? According to the study, high CO2 levels can persist for quite some time into a glacial period. And yet there seems to be no 'positive impact' on temperature.
"I would guess that the CO2 is more an indicator of what the life on the planet was doing as the ice age ended, rather than the cause of the warming."
Agreed. It gets warmer, growing seasons increase, plant habitat expands dramatically. The planet blooms. Over time, layers of dead plant matter build up and rot, releasing CO2. Thus CO2 increase trails temperature increase.
"For one, nobody but but the strawmen you GW deniers burn claim that CO2 is is the only thing that influences climate."
Odd. Please point me to a current example of global warming alarmism that accurately reports that methane and water vapor have a larger influence on climate variation. It's all CO2, all the time out there.
"But anyway, thanks for pointing out that as soon as CO2 levels rise after coming out of an ice age, so does the temperature increase."
No, the temperature increase proceeds the CO2 increase, and likewise, after glaciation begins, CO2 remains at levels close to the interglacial maximum for quite some time. CO2 and temperature are indeed closely correlated, but in a way that quite clearly rules out a direct CO2->temperature causal link.
Sorry yes, it is 200-1000 years, but still, the CO2 increase trails the increase in temperature. How exactly does this change the point I was trying to make? Would you like to find another nitpicky reason to dodge the question?
"High-resolution records from Antarctic ice cores show that carbon dioxide concentrations increased by 80 to 100 parts per million by volume 600 +/- 400 years after the warming of the last three deglaciations."
You get that? CO2 increased 400-600 years AFTER the glaciers receded.
This is why when certain scientists graph the CO2 data from the Vostok ice cores, they never overlay temperature on the same graph: http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/pale oclimate.htm. It would be too obvious that the temperature changes proceeded changes in CO2 concentration.
I think some of the recent genetic testing backs this idea up. Many waves of migrating, at different times, possibly even from Europe, and most certainly before Clovis.
I don't know why our default scientific assumptions in such matters always err on the simplistic side. We have the same problem with 'out of Africa'. No there was not one single monolithic migration out of Africa. The actual history of human migration is probably very complex, and certainly not subject to the simplifying assumptions of scientists.
Why? Population pressure. The human population has done nothing but grow exponentially since time immemorial. In hunter-gather times this forced excess population to migrate to unpopulated areas. Once we'd covered the entire planet it forced the development of much more productive ways of getting food - agriculture and animal husbandry.
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Where the heck do you live? I've never seen anywhere (except for Germany) where pedestrians obey walk signals.
Actually, it seems that the MS version is used in Washington only. I am in IL, so I guess I don't have MS to blame for my poor user experience.
Recently signed up for Comcast. I wondered why the on screen guide, and the On Demand features were so clumsy to navigate (and just plain ugly to boot) - now I know why.
Maybe it's a geek thing you guys have goin on, but I have no flippin' idea what kinda mileage my non-hybrid car gets. I mean, seriously - who the heck cares? I get regular maintenance, make sure the tires are inflated, and fill it up when its low on gas. What exactly would I do with this mileage number if I took the time and effort to log my miles at every fillup? Brag about it? Post it on slashdot? Worry about why it is 5mpg below what was on the sticker? I have better things to do with my time.
I am sure MS will offer a very cheap, slimmed down OS for this machine. The kids who get these laptops won't have to pay for it at all. They will however have access to the largest pool of free software available - free software that runs on windows. Almost all of the major OSS projects have windows versions, and there is a wealth of free/shareware that's available only on windows.
Yes, it's quite clear that the purchasers of these laptops (foreign governments) just aren't all that interested in their children learning a dumbed down academic interface. They want their children to be able to work for multi-nationals that use windows. They want their children to be able run programs from the largest pool of available software - and that means windows.
This is exactly what my company does. We write custom front ends in flex to visualize data. Flex has extensive support for accessing server side data via various remoting APIs.
Actually, the brain needs about 100g of glucose a day to function properly. The body however, is perfectly capable of synthesizing this amount of glucose from protein intake via a process call "gluconeogenesis". Thus your brain can function quite well with zero carb intake.
The link I provided debunks this argument as well.
The simple fact of the matter is that no court in the US will take these arguments seriously. If you don't pay taxes, and are caught, you will pay the consequences. There is not a single example of any person who has successfully applied one of these frivolous arguments to avoid prosecution and or conviction under US tax law.
You are incorrect. The IRS has a section of their website dedicated to debunking these sorts of claims:
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http://www.irs.gov/taxpros/article/0,,id=159932,0
I believe you will find reference to 5 different cases that disprove your assertion.
Distributed between two data centers, that they control, Linden Labs can't manage better than about 95%-98% uptime. Inventory items and sometimes even portions of entire sims regularly go into the bit bucket when the data centers have connectivity issues.
And to this mix we will add a heterogeneous server base, geographically dispersed, with network connections of unknown reliability?
Get ready for a Second Life experience akin to IRC in the 90s.
Disappearance of wisdom teeth? Mine exited my mouth only under general anesthesia.
It would indeed be odd for someone to publish a paper about a novel way of speeding up downloads if in fact Bitorrent, or any other file sharing protocol already worked that way. Thanks for pointing out that they don't.
Well, it's certainly not a Vista issue, as my Vista desktop is running at my LCD panel's native 1680x1050 - and my Vista laptop auto-detects my TV's screwy resolution just fine.
Sure, it wastes space, but that amount of space is pretty much fixed. It was the same in the days of the P6, as it is in the present day with the Core 2 Duo. As transistor counts have mushroomed, the relatively percentage of space dedicated to x86 decoding has fallen dramatically, to the the point there it's just not a big deal any longer. On modern silicon, the x86 decoding components are not a significant waste of space, power, or performance.
RTFC - Article II, Section 2, "He [The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur"
So, you see, you are incorrect, as you apparently failed to read your own reference. The President can negotiate a treaty, but a 2/3rds vote of the Senate is required to ratify.
Actually, AdHUD, implemented inside Second Life, pays users to watch ads that are attached to their viewport. http://www.adhud.com/ . No, it's not a Linden Labs product, but it pays thousands of users each week to watch ads and hopefully visit the advertiser's builds.
"The answer is that an increase of CO2 did preede a temperature increase. CO2 increased, and temperature increased. "
This contradicts the actual data from the Vostok cores. CO2 level increases lagged the temperature increase by 200-1000 years.
"We know CO2 causes warming (its been tested in the lab and is a result of pretty basic physics regarding absorption spectra), and lo, the CO2 feedback caused by warming is enough to produce the extra warming that occurs during the interglacials. You seem to want to live in a world of black and white: either CO2 is entirely responsible for warming, or it has nothing to do with warming. The reality is that a lot of complex interactions are responsible for warming, but everything we do currently know points to CO2 having a significant effect."
Yes, and none of those lab experiments can come anywhere close to replicating real world climate conditions. Neither can any of the computer models. But when we look at the real climate record we see that for significant periods of time, global temperature trends seem to ignore the supposedly large influence CO2 should be exerting.
Then please explain why it's possible that even as CO2 levels remain high, glaciation can set in? According to the study, high CO2 levels can persist for quite some time into a glacial period. And yet there seems to be no 'positive impact' on temperature.
"I would guess that the CO2 is more an indicator of what the life on the planet was doing as the ice age ended, rather than the cause of the warming."
Agreed. It gets warmer, growing seasons increase, plant habitat expands dramatically. The planet blooms. Over time, layers of dead plant matter build up and rot, releasing CO2. Thus CO2 increase trails temperature increase.
"For one, nobody but but the strawmen you GW deniers burn claim that CO2 is is the only thing that influences climate."
Odd. Please point me to a current example of global warming alarmism that accurately reports that methane and water vapor have a larger influence on climate variation. It's all CO2, all the time out there.
"But anyway, thanks for pointing out that as soon as CO2 levels rise after coming out of an ice age, so does the temperature increase."
No, the temperature increase proceeds the CO2 increase, and likewise, after glaciation begins, CO2 remains at levels close to the interglacial maximum for quite some time. CO2 and temperature are indeed closely correlated, but in a way that quite clearly rules out a direct CO2->temperature causal link.
Sorry yes, it is 200-1000 years, but still, the CO2 increase trails the increase in temperature. How exactly does this change the point I was trying to make? Would you like to find another nitpicky reason to dodge the question?
If there is causation then why do paleo climate records show increases in temperature proceeding increases in CO2 levels?
e oclimate.htm. It would be too obvious that the temperature changes proceeded changes in CO2 concentration.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/vostokco2.html
From the abstract:
"High-resolution records from Antarctic ice cores show that carbon dioxide concentrations increased by 80 to 100 parts per million by volume 600 +/- 400 years after the warming of the last three deglaciations."
You get that? CO2 increased 400-600 years AFTER the glaciers receded.
This is why when certain scientists graph the CO2 data from the Vostok ice cores, they never overlay temperature on the same graph: http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/pal
I think some of the recent genetic testing backs this idea up. Many waves of migrating, at different times, possibly even from Europe, and most certainly before Clovis.
I don't know why our default scientific assumptions in such matters always err on the simplistic side. We have the same problem with 'out of Africa'. No there was not one single monolithic migration out of Africa. The actual history of human migration is probably very complex, and certainly not subject to the simplifying assumptions of scientists.
Why? Population pressure. The human population has done nothing but grow exponentially since time immemorial. In hunter-gather times this forced excess population to migrate to unpopulated areas. Once we'd covered the entire planet it forced the development of much more productive ways of getting food - agriculture and animal husbandry.