Ground surface temperature data (GISS, HadCRUT3, and most of NOAA's data) is extremely problematic as the landscape around them has changed considerably in the 100+ years of instrument measurement (ie: cities/towns have been built around or close to most of them). The most reliable are the ones in rural locations that haven't changed much in 100 years, but those are few and far between.
100 years is extremely short-term in the perspective of Earth's varying temperatures. However if you want reliable short-term data, make sure you're looking at satellite data (UAH, RSS) rather than ground. It has its problems too, but it's much more accurate as it takes into account wider areas and other spheres of the atmosphere. We have 30+ years of data now.
The famous hockey-stick you mention used tree rings as it's proxy. Tree rings are one of the most problematic proxies, as millions of other factors besides temperature could contribute to their sizes. It's a good place to start if you have nothing else to go on, but... there is much better data out there.
For long-term data, ice cores are the most accurate proxies we have (such as Vostok), as their layers haven't moved in centuries.
It's the 21st century here in Japan. Any shoji screens still in houses are usually decorative or a just to give a little visual privacy. We use real walls.
Following the Fukushima quake, all phone networks were down to allow for emergency traffic only (I live in Tokyo). Internet was the only way to get a message out for a while. I sent a quick email to family who hadn't woken up in the states yet, because I was sure it would be on the news networks when they woke up.
However, the following few days, people I barely knew or hadn't spoken to in ages, started coming out the woodwork, asking if I was okay. This feature is not a bad idea. It sure beats my mother plastering messages all over my wall, trying to tell people I'm okay.
a judge will just rule the damages you're asking for aren't reasonable and reduce them.
This.
The reason proprietary copyright cases get money is because they claim lost sales (damages).
It's hard to claim lost money when you're giving GPL'd code away.
I live in Tokyo. No one is being evacuated. No one has ever been evacuated from here as far as I know, even during the crisis. The blog post you linked, as well as the Al Jazeera broadcast within it, talks about a citizens' group who is trying to tell the government that we need to evacuate.
During the crisis, many other countries "suggested" that their nationals fly back. And some countries had their embassies fly their people out, free of charge. If that's the "evacuation of Tokyo" you're talking about, it's a bit disingenuous.
Anyone could tell that the official reports were downplaying the severity because all of the real hard numbers we got went against what they were saying.
Actually, anyone can measure the background radiation in their area with fairly cheap devices. And many independent people post their findings on aggregated maps. I watched a number of these fairly carefully for a while after the crisis. To put it into perspective, Rome has much higher background radiation than Tokyo, because the granite buildings give off a slight amount.
The news broadcast talked about average people testing the dirt. It's fairly easy. I'd imagine the actual results are similar to the background radiation, but there are no specifics in your linked article about where and how they got their numbers. The soil near the plant is bad, no doubt. But I'd like you to cite a more reliable source for the Tokyo numbers.
There's radiation everywhere in the world. It's the amount and type you have to look at. The "small amount" that can cause illness or cancer that they mention on the Al Jazeera piece is actually one particle. You are being bombarded with multiple particles of radiation every second that you're out on a sunny day or flying in an airplane. Yet one particle, at any time, may hit a part of DNA and screw up the cell's ability to inhibit cancer.
The Al Jazeera segment also shows a borderline abusive mother who won't allow her child to go outside because of her fear. Yet she claims she can't move away from Tokyo (the most expensive place to live in Japan) for financial reasons. And the size of the rooms shown in the news segment suggest a fairly expensive house/apartment in Tokyo. She's probably using the idea of losing her or her husbands job as the excuse. It's cognitive dissonance. If she wanted to, she could easily find a low paying job anywhere outside of Tokyo, live in a slightly smaller place, and live fairly well (because the cost of living would be so much less).
The mother looks like a borderline case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Children like her child are the true casualties, but not in the way your blog posting suggests.
Medical treatment varies greatly from disease to disease, from country to country.
If you're looking for a general overview of the quality of care in a country, look at the survival rates of the widespread ones within a group.
Multiples of 12 are almost always more convenient mathematically then multiples of of 10, as they're already divisible 4 ways (2, 3, 4, 6) from 3 prime factors (2 x 2 x 3) rather than 2 ways (2, 5) from 2 prime factors (2 x 5).
But it's doubtful humans would switch unless we get 12 fingers.
Libreoffice-- well it's different (not necessarily better- it does some new things OO doesn't- OO does some new things LO doesn't.)
This is wrong as far as I know. Libreoffice is the latest OpenOffice with Go-OO fixes and some plug-ins merged in. Go-OO was made during a time when developers were getting frustrated that OO development was stagnating and they weren't being allowed to include improvements and fixes. So they made them available elsewhere, at go-oo.org
LO will continue to fork, but for now, it's OO with bug fixes and improvements. They even used the same version number, 3.3, because "The Document Foundation and most of the software's developers saw LibreOffice as being a direct continuation of OpenOffice.org"
So I'm curious what you mean when you say OO does something LO doesn't, as I can't think of anything. LO is currently the same product (plus a few fixes/addons).
Tying one's career to ideology isn't always a smart thing to do.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Tying one's career to ideology is one of the smartest moves any person can make. Money is a means to help survival, then happiness. Once survival is attained, it's stupid to sacrifice happiness for more money. If someone goes against their ideals to boost their career, that's exactly what they're doing.
This is *why* I don't go to cons anymore, as it's now for vapid teenagers
It's always started with vapid teenagers (or younger). The original Star Wars movies (4, 5, 6) were making 3 times as much on toys as they were on the movies. The good stories operate on an adult level and hold our interests as we grow. Others lack longevity. And many are infused with longevity through more adult oriented remakes (Batman Begins?).
How old were WE when we first got into sci-fi, fantasy, etc?
My understanding is that US citizens must pay taxes in the USA even if they work abroad
As a US citizen that works abroad, I have to FILE taxes, but pay nothing. I basically declare that I made a certain amount working abroad and was taxed in that country. I declare I made 0 in the US, and I owe 0 US taxes. Apparently making rather large sums of money overseas is different, according to the H&R Block person who helps me file.
Also, bringing over 10K back into the US is taxed.
Note: I live in a 1st world country that the US is quite friendly with. It may be different in Afghanistan.
This is great news because this could help wipe out Afghanistan's poverty, the actual biggest obstacle to a functioning government.
That's exactly what happened everywhere oil or minerals have been discovered around the world. Middle East currently enjoys highest standard of living than the rest of the world thanks to half a century of massive oil extraction. Oh wait...
The United Arab Emirates has a fairly high standard of living because of the discovery of oil there. Before discovering it, they were scraping by on fishing.
automating many parts of its business, a move which could see 800,000 workers lose their jobs.
Why is there always a focus on the negative side of automation? It really means less work, same productivity. Humans no longer need to work as hard to produce the same quality of life.
The difficulty with these stories lies in the fact that it's a redistribution of wealth from the workers to the owners of the company, until those owners redistribute the wealth again by investing the savings. So it's difficult for the people who lose their jobs, as they now have to fight to get new ones. It's sad. But for humanity as a whole, extra efficiency means greater wealth, since we are now creating the same product with less work invested.
It raises everybody up in the long run. Compare medieval kings to lower middle class people of today and we find the kings did not have the amount of entertainment to choose from, the durable clothes, the variety of food available, the health care quality, perks like temperature control of their rooms, etc.
That's the overall and long term effect, the greater positive side, and something that is too often ignored.
"von" in German denoted nobility at the time. The Dutch "van" in Beethoven's name did not, however he tricked the Austrian courts during his custody battle for his nephew, Karl, into thinking he was born from nobility and tried the case in a court for noblemen.
He later let it slip that he wasn't nobly born and the case was transferred.
To offer some perspective, here in the UK we have monthly limits that are most commonly in the 15-30Gb range, with a premium limit of 50Gb being offered by a minority of service providers.
To offer some perspective, here in Japan we have numerous internet service providers all competing for the same turf, and so we have a number of fairly cheap ISPs to choose from, all offering very quick uncapped service.
Yet if Diablo 2 had the same sort of activation as SC2, and Blizzard stopped running BattleNet, you wouldn't be able to play it today, because when you upgraded your computer (I'm assuming you've upgraded since you bought D2) you wouldn't have been able to activate it again.
The US also counts "infant mortality" as showing any signs of life while outside the womb. Many other countries have less strict standards, and count similar deaths as not having been born.
While there's a lot to criticize about governmental policies in China, Russia, and... Canada?... at least they're not wasting millions of man hours trying to enforce the copy restrictions of other countries.
Trademarks exist to help the public distinguish the original source of something. If it's possible that people may be confused and think this fan site is actually made by people at Warhammer, then they may have a trademark infringement case.
I strongly disagree with trying to turn a "Public Good" into a "Club Good". I do not believe innovation on public goods (such as artistic endeavors) will stop if the artificial scarcity created by IP law is lifted. Others may disagree with me, but the experiment is being done on the internet right now with movies, music, literature, and software. Quality work is being done by people that are not given monetary incentives. The easier it gets to create and distribute, the less current IP law can be justified (since its purpose is to give incentives to create and distribute by restricting what other people can do with the work).
I think the misconception comes from being able to distinguish between things that require maintenance (ex: internet lines) and things which do not (ex: the patterns being transmitted by the internet lines).
Because the man can do the same exercises without the Wii, without the game.
Wii Fit is like a cheap personal trainer/motivator. No competent doctor is going to recommend it as a full replacement for a rehabilitation therapist. But they may recommend it as healthy, daily exercise. The same thing can be accomplished by handing the man a pamphlet, except Wii Fit motivates better.
Yes, Wii Fit should be recommended to motivate patients. No, a government shouldn't pay for this "extra motivation".
Interesting to think that with the information on that video, there is an extremely good chance of life on Saturn's Enceladus, at least in the form of these simple vesicles. Enceladus has the water, carbon, nitrogen, and heat that is all that's needed to make these vesicles form spontaneously.
Whether they have evolved into anything more complex depends on the stability under the ice (do these vesicles continuously get eradicated or have they been given time to "compete" with one another).
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Ground surface temperature data (GISS, HadCRUT3, and most of NOAA's data) is extremely problematic as the landscape around them has changed considerably in the 100+ years of instrument measurement (ie: cities/towns have been built around or close to most of them). The most reliable are the ones in rural locations that haven't changed much in 100 years, but those are few and far between.
100 years is extremely short-term in the perspective of Earth's varying temperatures. However if you want reliable short-term data, make sure you're looking at satellite data (UAH, RSS) rather than ground. It has its problems too, but it's much more accurate as it takes into account wider areas and other spheres of the atmosphere. We have 30+ years of data now.
The famous hockey-stick you mention used tree rings as it's proxy. Tree rings are one of the most problematic proxies, as millions of other factors besides temperature could contribute to their sizes. It's a good place to start if you have nothing else to go on, but... there is much better data out there.
For long-term data, ice cores are the most accurate proxies we have (such as Vostok), as their layers haven't moved in centuries.
It's the 21st century here in Japan. Any shoji screens still in houses are usually decorative or a just to give a little visual privacy.
We use real walls.
Following the Fukushima quake, all phone networks were down to allow for emergency traffic only (I live in Tokyo). Internet was the only way to get a message out for a while. I sent a quick email to family who hadn't woken up in the states yet, because I was sure it would be on the news networks when they woke up.
However, the following few days, people I barely knew or hadn't spoken to in ages, started coming out the woodwork, asking if I was okay. This feature is not a bad idea. It sure beats my mother plastering messages all over my wall, trying to tell people I'm okay.
Try DuckDuckGo
a judge will just rule the damages you're asking for aren't reasonable and reduce them.
This.
The reason proprietary copyright cases get money is because they claim lost sales (damages).
It's hard to claim lost money when you're giving GPL'd code away.
Tokyo is being evacuated also.
I live in Tokyo. No one is being evacuated. No one has ever been evacuated from here as far as I know, even during the crisis. The blog post you linked, as well as the Al Jazeera broadcast within it, talks about a citizens' group who is trying to tell the government that we need to evacuate.
During the crisis, many other countries "suggested" that their nationals fly back. And some countries had their embassies fly their people out, free of charge. If that's the "evacuation of Tokyo" you're talking about, it's a bit disingenuous.
Anyone could tell that the official reports were downplaying the severity because all of the real hard numbers we got went against what they were saying.
Actually, anyone can measure the background radiation in their area with fairly cheap devices. And many independent people post their findings on aggregated maps. I watched a number of these fairly carefully for a while after the crisis. To put it into perspective, Rome has much higher background radiation than Tokyo, because the granite buildings give off a slight amount.
The news broadcast talked about average people testing the dirt. It's fairly easy. I'd imagine the actual results are similar to the background radiation, but there are no specifics in your linked article about where and how they got their numbers. The soil near the plant is bad, no doubt. But I'd like you to cite a more reliable source for the Tokyo numbers.
There's radiation everywhere in the world. It's the amount and type you have to look at. The "small amount" that can cause illness or cancer that they mention on the Al Jazeera piece is actually one particle. You are being bombarded with multiple particles of radiation every second that you're out on a sunny day or flying in an airplane. Yet one particle, at any time, may hit a part of DNA and screw up the cell's ability to inhibit cancer.
The Al Jazeera segment also shows a borderline abusive mother who won't allow her child to go outside because of her fear. Yet she claims she can't move away from Tokyo (the most expensive place to live in Japan) for financial reasons. And the size of the rooms shown in the news segment suggest a fairly expensive house/apartment in Tokyo. She's probably using the idea of losing her or her husbands job as the excuse. It's cognitive dissonance. If she wanted to, she could easily find a low paying job anywhere outside of Tokyo, live in a slightly smaller place, and live fairly well (because the cost of living would be so much less).
The mother looks like a borderline case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Children like her child are the true casualties, but not in the way your blog posting suggests.
Medical treatment varies greatly from disease to disease, from country to country.
If you're looking for a general overview of the quality of care in a country, look at the survival rates of the widespread ones within a group.
For example, if judging cancer survival, you might look at prostate, breast, colon, and rectal.
"The highest survival rates were found in the U.S. for breast and prostate cancer, in Japan for colon and rectal cancers in men, and in France for colon and rectal cancers in women, Coleman's team reports."
Currently alpha.
It hasn't been released yet.
Can we call it born?
Another headline
might be more appropriate.
Perhaps we can say:
"The Haiku OS,
has been in prenatal care,
40 trimesters."
If it looks like there is a free lunch, think again. You're losing something worth more than cash up front.
Which is an argument I've heard against GNU/Linux or F/OSS in general by people who are ignorant of it. It all depends on the situation.
Multiples of 12 are almost always more convenient mathematically then multiples of of 10, as they're already divisible 4 ways (2, 3, 4, 6) from 3 prime factors (2 x 2 x 3) rather than 2 ways (2, 5) from 2 prime factors (2 x 5).
But it's doubtful humans would switch unless we get 12 fingers.
Libreoffice-- well it's different (not necessarily better- it does some new things OO doesn't- OO does some new things LO doesn't.)
This is wrong as far as I know. Libreoffice is the latest OpenOffice with Go-OO fixes and some plug-ins merged in. Go-OO was made during a time when developers were getting frustrated that OO development was stagnating and they weren't being allowed to include improvements and fixes. So they made them available elsewhere, at go-oo.org
LO will continue to fork, but for now, it's OO with bug fixes and improvements. They even used the same version number, 3.3, because "The Document Foundation and most of the software's developers saw LibreOffice as being a direct continuation of OpenOffice.org"
So I'm curious what you mean when you say OO does something LO doesn't, as I can't think of anything. LO is currently the same product (plus a few fixes/addons).
Tying one's career to ideology isn't always a smart thing to do.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Tying one's career to ideology is one of the smartest moves any person can make. Money is a means to help survival, then happiness. Once survival is attained, it's stupid to sacrifice happiness for more money. If someone goes against their ideals to boost their career, that's exactly what they're doing.
This is *why* I don't go to cons anymore, as it's now for vapid teenagers
It's always started with vapid teenagers (or younger). The original Star Wars movies (4, 5, 6) were making 3 times as much on toys as they were on the movies. The good stories operate on an adult level and hold our interests as we grow. Others lack longevity. And many are infused with longevity through more adult oriented remakes (Batman Begins?).
How old were WE when we first got into sci-fi, fantasy, etc?
My understanding is that US citizens must pay taxes in the USA even if they work abroad
As a US citizen that works abroad, I have to FILE taxes, but pay nothing. I basically declare that I made a certain amount working abroad and was taxed in that country. I declare I made 0 in the US, and I owe 0 US taxes. Apparently making rather large sums of money overseas is different, according to the H&R Block person who helps me file.
Also, bringing over 10K back into the US is taxed.
Note: I live in a 1st world country that the US is quite friendly with. It may be different in Afghanistan.
This is great news because this could help wipe out Afghanistan's poverty, the actual biggest obstacle to a functioning government.
That's exactly what happened everywhere oil or minerals have been discovered around the world. Middle East currently enjoys highest standard of living than the rest of the world thanks to half a century of massive oil extraction. Oh wait...
The United Arab Emirates has a fairly high standard of living because of the discovery of oil there. Before discovering it, they were scraping by on fishing.
... president of the UAE at its inception, ... directed oil revenues into healthcare, education and the national infrastructure."
However, it's not a 1 step process. The 2nd step has a lot to do with it: "The late Sheikh Zayed,
automating many parts of its business, a move which could see 800,000 workers lose their jobs.
Why is there always a focus on the negative side of automation? It really means less work, same productivity. Humans no longer need to work as hard to produce the same quality of life.
The difficulty with these stories lies in the fact that it's a redistribution of wealth from the workers to the owners of the company, until those owners redistribute the wealth again by investing the savings. So it's difficult for the people who lose their jobs, as they now have to fight to get new ones. It's sad. But for humanity as a whole, extra efficiency means greater wealth, since we are now creating the same product with less work invested.
It raises everybody up in the long run. Compare medieval kings to lower middle class people of today and we find the kings did not have the amount of entertainment to choose from, the durable clothes, the variety of food available, the health care quality, perks like temperature control of their rooms, etc.
That's the overall and long term effect, the greater positive side, and something that is too often ignored.
Ludwig "van"
"von" in German denoted nobility at the time. The Dutch "van" in Beethoven's name did not, however he tricked the Austrian courts during his custody battle for his nephew, Karl, into thinking he was born from nobility and tried the case in a court for noblemen.
He later let it slip that he wasn't nobly born and the case was transferred.
To offer some perspective, here in the UK we have monthly limits that are most commonly in the 15-30Gb range, with a premium limit of 50Gb being offered by a minority of service providers.
To offer some perspective, here in Japan we have numerous internet service providers all competing for the same turf, and so we have a number of fairly cheap ISPs to choose from, all offering very quick uncapped service.
Yet if Diablo 2 had the same sort of activation as SC2, and Blizzard stopped running BattleNet, you wouldn't be able to play it today, because when you upgraded your computer (I'm assuming you've upgraded since you bought D2) you wouldn't have been able to activate it again.
The US also counts "infant mortality" as showing any signs of life while outside the womb. Many other countries have less strict standards, and count similar deaths as not having been born.
Comparing Infant Mortality Rates
All "value" is speculation.
While there's a lot to criticize about governmental policies in China, Russia, and... Canada?... at least they're not wasting millions of man hours trying to enforce the copy restrictions of other countries.
Trademarks exist to help the public distinguish the original source of something. If it's possible that people may be confused and think this fan site is actually made by people at Warhammer, then they may have a trademark infringement case.
I strongly disagree with trying to turn a "Public Good" into a "Club Good". I do not believe innovation on public goods (such as artistic endeavors) will stop if the artificial scarcity created by IP law is lifted. Others may disagree with me, but the experiment is being done on the internet right now with movies, music, literature, and software. Quality work is being done by people that are not given monetary incentives. The easier it gets to create and distribute, the less current IP law can be justified (since its purpose is to give incentives to create and distribute by restricting what other people can do with the work).
I think the misconception comes from being able to distinguish between things that require maintenance (ex: internet lines) and things which do not (ex: the patterns being transmitted by the internet lines).
Because the man can do the same exercises without the Wii, without the game.
Wii Fit is like a cheap personal trainer/motivator. No competent doctor is going to recommend it as a full replacement for a rehabilitation therapist. But they may recommend it as healthy, daily exercise. The same thing can be accomplished by handing the man a pamphlet, except Wii Fit motivates better.
Yes, Wii Fit should be recommended to motivate patients. No, a government shouldn't pay for this "extra motivation".
Interesting to think that with the information on that video, there is an extremely good chance of life on Saturn's Enceladus, at least in the form of these simple vesicles. Enceladus has the water, carbon, nitrogen, and heat that is all that's needed to make these vesicles form spontaneously.
Whether they have evolved into anything more complex depends on the stability under the ice (do these vesicles continuously get eradicated or have they been given time to "compete" with one another).