climate sceptics are either paid shills, or nutters. That's not name-calling, that's just stating facts. Anyone who doesn't get that pumping the air full of greenhouse gases is going to warm the planet, (and yes the planet is warming, despite what some shills would have people believe,) and that warming the planet will change the climate (hence global warming is a driver of climate change — they are not the same thing, so no, people have not just switched from saying 'global warming' to 'climate change', refuting one of the many climate-denier lies) simply fails to understand basic physics. Or maths. Indeed it's a wonder such people can even read long words like 'anthropomorphic'.
If the sceptics are right, then what is their explanation for global warming? Just saying "it's not happening" is not enough here when it very clearly is happening. I am all ears for a theory that explains global warming better than the "it's the increase in GHGs released by burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of old-growth forests"
"blows" as in will get down on its knees and put the penises of strangers in its mouth, and not even ask for money. It's another way of saying "sucks", proving yet again the versatility of the English language
The upgrade from 2.8x to 5.x sucks because it's a dreadful update that take up vastly more screen space with its UI, disables some of the old skype's cooler features like being able to screen share only parts of your screen — we use this a lot at work — and a lot of the old drop-and -drag funtionality is no gone, making it much harder to do common things. It's one of the very very few times I have ever downgraded a piece of software (yay for time machine) and, while it does ask me about once per week (starting pre the MS takeover, alas for the conspiracy theorists out there) if I want to upgrade, it doesn't force me to, it lets me tell it to remind me again later.
Skype started to jump the shark a long time ago imho, and I am keen to replace it, but what else does such cheap calls to land-lines internationally?
Steve officially re-dubbed it OS X some years back. Before he went back to Apple, SJ told Wired the first thing he'd do if we were do go back to Apple would be to eliminate the Macintosh. Flash forward a year and hello iMac and the rest is history.
What I don't get is what is the real difference between data used by my phone when, say, streaming some video from YouTube, or data that's being used by my phone to provide net access to my laptop? Assuming the phone company simply bills for the data, or has a plan with some sort of cap, as is normal here in Australia anyway, surely they'd want to encourage more use of that data so as to increase their billing? I really don't understand why tethering isn't just another always-available function of the phone, rather than something you are expected to arrange specially with your phone company.
Here my iPhone and iPad are both on Telstra but I can only tether with my phone, but not my iPad. It's just annoying, and I can't see it's any of Telstra's business what I do with my data, so long as I pay my bill and am not breaking the law.
The main reason I want the GPS is to geotag my photos when I take them. I travel a lot and I'd find it handy when using Google Maps too, but for me the attraction is in knowing where the hell I was when i took that photo...
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You mean like Australia... which is about as sparse as you get (same size as the continental USA and 20mil people) but has had 3g and Edge and etc for ages. Sure the coverage sure can suck at times but we've had all this for ages in the major population centres. What has slowed iPhone adoption here in oz is the fact you have to go to China and buy a 'chipped' one because the darn thing has not formally been released down-under. People I know who bought black market un-sim-locked ones (and apparently unlocked iPhones make about 30% of total iPhone sales) are very very happy with them, 3G or no.
Come to think of it the Sony Erricsson phone I have is Edge only and I have not noticed the difference between that and my old 3G phone when using apps like Google Maps, or web browsing.
Still i'll be holding off for the official 'enterprise' version to be released in oz.
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oh come on! who doesn't know how to light a fire! Sheesh. What self-respecting reader has not burned down some sort of structure in their time. mmm burny...
I was into D&D in school, as were lots of us, but then in university I discovered RuneQuest, then the awesome Call of Cthulhu. Please someone turn that into an online MMORG.
There there was Paranoia, Aftermath, that Toon one whose name escapes me for the moment, Villians and Vigilanties, Champions, Stormbringer, the one about being a muskateer. Then I found Steve Jackson games and still love a good game of Illuminati and Car Wars. My goodness I must be so damn old now! Ahh memories.
I got a new laptop about a week ago, a Toshiba A200-AH7 for the record. Nice system, I must add; rather inexpensive, and, to be brutally honest with the Mac fandom crowd, a hell of a lot more inexpensive than the Macbook (2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Core Duo 2.0GHz, etc. etc.).
Cheaper eh? What's your time worth these days? I'd much rather pay a couple of hundred measly more dollars and have a machine that works properly.
I, for one, would be interested in finding Al Gore's home phone number and leaking that.
I, for one, want to know what it is you have against Al Gore that you'd take such such action against him, over the hundreds of millions of others you could have targetted. I mean really, is Al Gore a worse person than George Bush, or Bill Clinton, or Anne Coulter or Michael Moore? Or Henry Kissinger? Or the Pope? I figure if you want to start sending crank calls to people there are lots more deserving than big Al who seems like a pretty decent guy to me. I mean he actually did open the way for the internet to blossom, he genuinely cares about the fate of the world, and he's on the board of Apple. How bad can he be? He's not Donald Rumsfeld after all, he actually comes across as a human being.
In any case, I think that a 100% solar earth is unlikely:
Much of the time it is night,
Hahaha - only if you consider that the USA is the whole world. I know you merkins make that mistake a lot. But, and this may shock you, at any one time the sun is shining somewhere on the earth.
It might be nice if someone in the area would contact him about setting up a controlled experiment where a router he is exposed to for a full day is turned on and off at random without his knowledge, and each day he records how he feels.
The trouble with this suggestion is, as far as i know, there are laws against doing such experiments on human subjects.
Isn't this just obvious to anyone? James Bamford, in his excellent book Body of Secrets makes the explicit claim that senior NSA officials sit in key positions within Cisco, so why should anyone be surprised that Google provide special, specific portals for the US intelligence services. If I were running the CIA that's the first and most obvious thing I'd do too. This is a no-brainer. But I'm still happy to use Google Earth, GMail, Google Search, AdSense, etc etc ect. Why not? Like the DK's said, give me convenience or give me death.
Dave
My company buys forestry based carbon credits from the New South Wales Government in the form of NGACs (New South Wales Greenhouse gas Abatement Certificates). They use the money to both maintain the forests already in place and to fund planting and maintinence of new forests. Trees, especially hard-wood trees are magnificent carbon sequestration machines when they are growing. Their value as carbon absorbers rounds off when they stop growing but as long as the tree is alive it is storing that carbon. The NGAC scheme mandates that the carbon be removed from the air and stored for 100 years minimum. Properly managed, the forests become self-sustaining over time as they are as close as possible to the original native forests of the area, and well suited to being grown there. Forests NSW, the division of the Dept of Primary Industries that manages these carbon pools really knows what it is doing here and we are proud of the quiality of the carbon credits we buy off them as they come with a host of ancillary environmental benifits. Australia, like the USA, has no shortage of land that was cleared before 1990 (part of the NGAC rules) and is open for revegetation. As you so succinctly put it, "Trees capture the energy for free." Its in fact terribly efficient to fund reforestation in this manner.
It is going to take a variety of strategies to avert disaster, and reforestation has a significant part to play. Cutting back on your energy use and relocalising your food supply is the key really. And you can easily offset emissions you can't otherwise reduce with behavioural changes. We know how to save the world, it's just a question of do we want to?
Funny, that is exactly how I feel after a nice game of Global Thermonuclear War.
Was that the boardgame where you got to ask "do you have change for 25,000 lives?" I loved that game. That and Illuminatus the card gameby Steve Jackson games - Car Wars too!
dave
Thanks for posting the link to the actual legislation. My concern with this is that I have lived all over the world and wn DVDs from at least 4 different regions, so having a region-free player (I bought mine from a Sony shop in Amsterdam) is essential if I want to watch them. So, all issues of stupid free trade agreements (hey here in Oz macs are 20% cheaper than in Europe so it can't be all bad) aside, it's interesting that all this hooplah is a little overblown: The legislation clearly states:
TPMs must be connected with copyright infringement
The scope of the scheme is limited to preventing circumvention of TPMs designed to stop copyright piracy. The scheme will not cover TPMs which are not designed to prevent or inhibit people from infringing copyright. The scheme will not apply to TPMs solely designed for other purposes, such as market segmentation (eg region coding) or the protection against competition in aftermarket goods (eg spare parts) where the TPM does not have a connection with copyright.
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I fail to see how changing the wires can possibly increase the energy density of the battery. Sorry but I'm calling BS on this one.
If they could show some actual examples of their tech in action I'd be more willing to overcome my scepticism.
Okay you sold me.
It's not just "eerily familiar" it's the very same people. see for example http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/sep/19/ethicalliving.g2
climate sceptics are either paid shills, or nutters. That's not name-calling, that's just stating facts. Anyone who doesn't get that pumping the air full of greenhouse gases is going to warm the planet, (and yes the planet is warming, despite what some shills would have people believe,) and that warming the planet will change the climate (hence global warming is a driver of climate change — they are not the same thing, so no, people have not just switched from saying 'global warming' to 'climate change', refuting one of the many climate-denier lies) simply fails to understand basic physics. Or maths. Indeed it's a wonder such people can even read long words like 'anthropomorphic'.
If the sceptics are right, then what is their explanation for global warming? Just saying "it's not happening" is not enough here when it very clearly is happening. I am all ears for a theory that explains global warming better than the "it's the increase in GHGs released by burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of old-growth forests"
cough — bullshit. Sorry mate but you have just swallowed a massive dose of crap. Try not to spit it out in public, there's a good fellow.
"blows" as in will get down on its knees and put the penises of strangers in its mouth, and not even ask for money. It's another way of saying "sucks", proving yet again the versatility of the English language
The upgrade from 2.8x to 5.x sucks because it's a dreadful update that take up vastly more screen space with its UI, disables some of the old skype's cooler features like being able to screen share only parts of your screen — we use this a lot at work — and a lot of the old drop-and -drag funtionality is no gone, making it much harder to do common things. It's one of the very very few times I have ever downgraded a piece of software (yay for time machine) and, while it does ask me about once per week (starting pre the MS takeover, alas for the conspiracy theorists out there) if I want to upgrade, it doesn't force me to, it lets me tell it to remind me again later.
Skype started to jump the shark a long time ago imho, and I am keen to replace it, but what else does such cheap calls to land-lines internationally?
Steve officially re-dubbed it OS X some years back. Before he went back to Apple, SJ told Wired the first thing he'd do if we were do go back to Apple would be to eliminate the Macintosh. Flash forward a year and hello iMac and the rest is history.
More importantly, can I run Duke Nukem Forever on it?
What I don't get is what is the real difference between data used by my phone when, say, streaming some video from YouTube, or data that's being used by my phone to provide net access to my laptop? Assuming the phone company simply bills for the data, or has a plan with some sort of cap, as is normal here in Australia anyway, surely they'd want to encourage more use of that data so as to increase their billing? I really don't understand why tethering isn't just another always-available function of the phone, rather than something you are expected to arrange specially with your phone company.
Here my iPhone and iPad are both on Telstra but I can only tether with my phone, but not my iPad. It's just annoying, and I can't see it's any of Telstra's business what I do with my data, so long as I pay my bill and am not breaking the law.
Liquid cooled, not water cooled. They cool it in an inert liquid, rather than water.
But didn't Starship Troopers rock though?
add a mail app that supports filters and smime encryption, a way to copy and paste, a way to search your calendar and phone book, skype and ichat.
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The main reason I want the GPS is to geotag my photos when I take them. I travel a lot and I'd find it handy when using Google Maps too, but for me the attraction is in knowing where the hell I was when i took that photo... d
You mean like Australia... which is about as sparse as you get (same size as the continental USA and 20mil people) but has had 3g and Edge and etc for ages. Sure the coverage sure can suck at times but we've had all this for ages in the major population centres. What has slowed iPhone adoption here in oz is the fact you have to go to China and buy a 'chipped' one because the darn thing has not formally been released down-under. People I know who bought black market un-sim-locked ones (and apparently unlocked iPhones make about 30% of total iPhone sales) are very very happy with them, 3G or no. Come to think of it the Sony Erricsson phone I have is Edge only and I have not noticed the difference between that and my old 3G phone when using apps like Google Maps, or web browsing. Still i'll be holding off for the official 'enterprise' version to be released in oz. d
I was into D&D in school, as were lots of us, but then in university I discovered RuneQuest, then the awesome Call of Cthulhu. Please someone turn that into an online MMORG. There there was Paranoia, Aftermath, that Toon one whose name escapes me for the moment, Villians and Vigilanties, Champions, Stormbringer, the one about being a muskateer. Then I found Steve Jackson games and still love a good game of Illuminati and Car Wars. My goodness I must be so damn old now! Ahh memories.
Isn't this just obvious to anyone? James Bamford, in his excellent book Body of Secrets makes the explicit claim that senior NSA officials sit in key positions within Cisco, so why should anyone be surprised that Google provide special, specific portals for the US intelligence services. If I were running the CIA that's the first and most obvious thing I'd do too. This is a no-brainer. But I'm still happy to use Google Earth, GMail, Google Search, AdSense, etc etc ect. Why not? Like the DK's said, give me convenience or give me death. Dave
My company buys forestry based carbon credits from the New South Wales Government in the form of NGACs (New South Wales Greenhouse gas Abatement Certificates). They use the money to both maintain the forests already in place and to fund planting and maintinence of new forests. Trees, especially hard-wood trees are magnificent carbon sequestration machines when they are growing. Their value as carbon absorbers rounds off when they stop growing but as long as the tree is alive it is storing that carbon. The NGAC scheme mandates that the carbon be removed from the air and stored for 100 years minimum. Properly managed, the forests become self-sustaining over time as they are as close as possible to the original native forests of the area, and well suited to being grown there. Forests NSW, the division of the Dept of Primary Industries that manages these carbon pools really knows what it is doing here and we are proud of the quiality of the carbon credits we buy off them as they come with a host of ancillary environmental benifits. Australia, like the USA, has no shortage of land that was cleared before 1990 (part of the NGAC rules) and is open for revegetation. As you so succinctly put it, "Trees capture the energy for free." Its in fact terribly efficient to fund reforestation in this manner.
It is going to take a variety of strategies to avert disaster, and reforestation has a significant part to play. Cutting back on your energy use and relocalising your food supply is the key really. And you can easily offset emissions you can't otherwise reduce with behavioural changes. We know how to save the world, it's just a question of do we want to?
- Mario Karts on my trusty 10 year old N64
- World of Warcraft on my new 24" iMac
- Wizardry - Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on Virtual ][ on any of my macs
- Spaceward Ho! on my powerbook
- Golden Eye on the N64
I bought Doom 3 recently just to try out the graphoics card in my new iMac but it's not really a fave - yet...