Finding the weak points in various temperature proxies and using that knowledge to improve the overall accuracy of the temperature record is a good thing, and a normal part of the scientific process. Sensationalist reporting of the type The Register engages in just serves to inflame the debate without adding anything useful to the discussion.
Interestingly, you omit the sentence directly preceding the one you quoted:
Also Siberia is one of the worst places to look at homogeneity, as the stations aren't that close together (as they are in Fennoscandia and most of Canada) and also the temperature varies an awful lot from year to year.
It appears to me that they know the Siberian data is junk and they are trying to discourage people from using it. The entire email up to that point is a discussion of why Siberian data is poor, and how trends reflected in other disparate areas of the globe are not always evident there.
Also, I'm not entirely convinced that your standard of evidence (a simple statement that collapses the works of thousands of scientists using huge data sets and millions of hours of computer time, into an elevator pitch) is entirely reasonable. I think its fairly well established that CO2 traps heat in the atmosphere, and we have increased its concentration to a level unprecedented in human history. Is there is an above average chance that there is a tipping point in the global climate system that can be reached and will end up setting a new stable point with a vastly different climate than we currently enjoy? The literature would seem to point to this conclusion.
I'm sure you could start from first principles and do all of the math by yourself, starting from the raw climate records. It would be a massive undertaking, but since you seem ready to dismiss the opinions of the majority of climate researchers because you yourself don't understand what they are doing, this seems like a fair compromise. Should only take 15 or 20 years, lemme know how that works out for you.
If you think welding is "unskilled", you haven't done much of it. Welding is a trade, like plumbing or carpentry, that takes years to master, and $20 seems pretty fair (possibly even on the low end) for compensation.
Actually, it looks like they replaced 1300 Sun machines with an unspecified number of HP Linux boxes. They are also converted their existing IBM mainframe to run Linux instead of whatever proprietary OS it had before. The article is a little ambiguous there.
Reminds me of the first Family Guy episode after they got cancelled:
Peter: Everybody, I've got bad news. We've been cancelled.
Lois: Oh, no! Peter, how could they do that?
Peter: Well, unfortunately, Lois, there's just no more room on the schedule. We've just got to accept the fact that Fox has to make room for terrific shows like Dark Angel, Titus, Undeclared, Action, That 80's Show, Wonderfalls, Fastlane, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Skin, Girls Club, Cracking Up, The Pitts, Firefly, Get Real, FreakyLinks, Wanda at Large, Costello, The Lone Gunmen, A Minute With Stan Hooper, Normal, Ohio, Pasadena, Harsh Realm, Keen Eddie, The $treet, American Embassy, Cedric The Entertainer, The Tick, Luis and Greg the Bunny.
Lois: Is there no hope?
Peter: Well, I suppose if all those shows go down the tubes, we might have a shot.
Aside from the stupid name, it seems to be a decent workout, and the 14 minute strategy is pure genius. Given the number of people claiming success on the forums, it might be worth a shot.
Worst case,at least you end up owning a sledgehammer.
Microsoft has not released the media codecs yet (In the pipeline as we speak), but otherwise you should be able to look at any Silverlight site you want.
Thank goodness for all the security. I mean, Israel doesn't have any problems with terrorism now, do they?
Wait...
Israel is a tiny little country and they cant keep terrorists from bombing seemingly at will. We have thousands of miles of essentially unprotected borders, unlimited movement within them, and you would suggest that we could in any meaningful sense prevent someone from planting a bomb?
We simply cannot, and should not give up our way of life. That would be a larger crime than any bombing.
...the fools who took Woodworking instead of Computer Science
I happen to enjoy carpentry. I find it just as rewarding as coding, in many respects, and it allows me to create things that are of immediate use in the real world, such as, oh, holding up my computer. Also, if you know any professional woodworkers, they tend to be intelligent and imaginative people, not to mention artisans.
Be careful with the insults, there.
and/or users installing stuff like AudioGalaxy or Comet Cursor, etc. on their machines.
I have made it a crusade to get rid of comet cursor on every machine I come across. It is perhaps the most evil app I have run in to.
I spent three hours once trying to get a Windows machine to show up on a network. We went so far as to delete and reinstall all of the networking protocols on the machine. and then, we deleted comet cursor. Bingo.
What is the obsession with flashy cursors? I used to think that sysadmins that blocked users from installing any programs were draconian, but Comet Cursor has made me re-evaluate my views..
This article ignores one of the findamental differences between software and other types of products: it can be copied at no cost. When I give you a copy of free software that I've written, I lost nothing.
It depends. If you write software and expect to charge for it, your loss is equivalent to what you would have charged for it. In the case of free software, this is moot, but in a for profit endeavour, this is money that you need to pay your rent with.
The "software pirates" are attempting to find a moral justification for their actions, instead of just admiting, that, like everybody else, they're sticking it to the man. Its a Robin Hood view of things.
The GPL is an excellent license if one doesnt wish to charge for their code. Me, id rather not run a "support" company. Im not really interested in helping the world by releasing my code, and indeed it would be incredibly arrogant of me to suggest that a couple thousand lines of code will somehow benifit all but a tiny subset of humanity.
Frankly, I want to be the next Bill Gates. I want to write a wildly succesful piece of software, and charge a lot for it. And the only way I can see to do that does not involve the GPL, or the BSD license. Course, i could be wrong.
I dunno about you, but I have written an AVL tree in Java, and it ran quite well.
The simple fact of the matter is, even on my P2 400, Java is fast enough for just about everything I need to do. Im sure if I got uppity, I could duplicate all of my most used apps in Java and not notice much in the way of a speed hit.
Yes, it is slow, when compared to C when doing pure number crunching, but im willing to give up a couple of mHz for things like automatic garbage collection, a really slick cross platform GUI toolkit, and built in cross platform networking. And if you really need the speed, use JINI.
Badly written code is badly written code in any language. Dont knock Java without at least giving a bit of consideration to its strengths.
The problem here is not intrinsically that they know what state you are in. It is that e-tailers and web sites now have the power to find out, without any input on your part, where you are from. This is like, say, giving Best Buy the permission to fingerprint you every time you walk into, or even just glance in, the store.
Now, if all of us were still on dial ups, this wouldn't be such a big deal, but with the increasing number of fixed, or even semi fixed IP's, this becomes a huge privacy concern.
And how long, honestly, do you belive it will be before this company makes the leap into matching IP's to addresses. Or even to actual people. Then a web site operator will know who you are, where your from, etc, with no permission given on your part. If my viewing a web site is interpreted as tacit permission to collect personal data on me, the anonymous internet goes the way of the dodo.
The jump from there to say, someone in a black suit knocking on your door because the server logs show that you looked at...questionable information is, unfortunately, not a big one. This will happen in steps, but if we are not careful, it will happen.
In the words of Cake:
Yeah, excess ain't rebellion.
You're drinking what they're selling.
This isnt proving anything. DONT BUY DVD PLAYERS! If the social ramifications of the MPAA's activities offend you, dont buy ANY of their products, regardless of the capabilities. Do you think they make any less money off of a region free player? Nope. Watch VHS. Or, read a book. But dont waste your time searching for an illegal product to watch trite movies on overpriced media.
This strikes me as a really bad idea. The problem is that, in any system as complex as an airplane, it is diificult enough to keep track of local airspace, much less the "big picture". What happens when an air traffic controller tells a pilot to do something, and the pilot disagrees based on what he believes to be "superior information". Perhaps keeping the pilots a little in the dark makes it a lot easier to make sure they are where they need to be. for some things, centralized control works better.
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Real Climate has a much more interesting take on the paper:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/07/tree-rings-and-climate-some-recent-developments/
Finding the weak points in various temperature proxies and using that knowledge to improve the overall accuracy of the temperature record is a good thing, and a normal part of the scientific process. Sensationalist reporting of the type The Register engages in just serves to inflame the debate without adding anything useful to the discussion.
How long until I can buy one at Harbor Freight?
It appears to me that they know the Siberian data is junk and they are trying to discourage people from using it. The entire email up to that point is a discussion of why Siberian data is poor, and how trends reflected in other disparate areas of the globe are not always evident there.
Also, I'm not entirely convinced that your standard of evidence (a simple statement that collapses the works of thousands of scientists using huge data sets and millions of hours of computer time, into an elevator pitch) is entirely reasonable. I think its fairly well established that CO2 traps heat in the atmosphere, and we have increased its concentration to a level unprecedented in human history. Is there is an above average chance that there is a tipping point in the global climate system that can be reached and will end up setting a new stable point with a vastly different climate than we currently enjoy? The literature would seem to point to this conclusion.
I'm sure you could start from first principles and do all of the math by yourself, starting from the raw climate records. It would be a massive undertaking, but since you seem ready to dismiss the opinions of the majority of climate researchers because you yourself don't understand what they are doing, this seems like a fair compromise. Should only take 15 or 20 years, lemme know how that works out for you.
If you think welding is "unskilled", you haven't done much of it. Welding is a trade, like plumbing or carpentry, that takes years to master, and $20 seems pretty fair (possibly even on the low end) for compensation.
Actually, it looks like they replaced 1300 Sun machines with an unspecified number of HP Linux boxes. They are also converted their existing IBM mainframe to run Linux instead of whatever proprietary OS it had before. The article is a little ambiguous there.
The glow of their web server melting down probably isn't helping...
Reminds me of the first Family Guy episode after they got cancelled:
Peter: Everybody, I've got bad news. We've been cancelled.
Lois: Oh, no! Peter, how could they do that?
Peter: Well, unfortunately, Lois, there's just no more room on the schedule. We've just got to accept the fact that Fox has to make room for terrific shows like Dark Angel, Titus, Undeclared, Action, That 80's Show, Wonderfalls, Fastlane, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Skin, Girls Club, Cracking Up, The Pitts, Firefly, Get Real, FreakyLinks, Wanda at Large, Costello, The Lone Gunmen, A Minute With Stan Hooper, Normal, Ohio, Pasadena, Harsh Realm, Keen Eddie, The $treet, American Embassy, Cedric The Entertainer, The Tick, Luis and Greg the Bunny.
Lois: Is there no hope?
Peter: Well, I suppose if all those shows go down the tubes, we might have a shot.
I think that MM's claims have been shown to be wrong.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=8
Aside from the stupid name, it seems to be a decent workout, and the 14 minute strategy is pure genius. Given the number of people claiming success on the forums, it might be worth a shot.
Worst case,at least you end up owning a sledgehammer.
The Economist is not a bad starting point.
The Linux Beta can be downloaded here:
http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/
Microsoft has not released the media codecs yet (In the pipeline as we speak), but otherwise you should be able to look at any Silverlight site you want.
Are hogs known for their overclocking potential? Have I missed something?
Its surprising how uncommon common sense is.
Wait...
Israel is a tiny little country and they cant keep terrorists from bombing seemingly at will. We have thousands of miles of essentially unprotected borders, unlimited movement within them, and you would suggest that we could in any meaningful sense prevent someone from planting a bomb?
We simply cannot, and should not give up our way of life. That would be a larger crime than any bombing.
I happen to enjoy carpentry. I find it just as rewarding as coding, in many respects, and it allows me to create things that are of immediate use in the real world, such as, oh, holding up my computer. Also, if you know any professional woodworkers, they tend to be intelligent and imaginative people, not to mention artisans. Be careful with the insults, there.
and/or users installing stuff like AudioGalaxy or Comet Cursor, etc. on their machines.
I have made it a crusade to get rid of comet cursor on every machine I come across. It is perhaps the most evil app I have run in to.
I spent three hours once trying to get a Windows machine to show up on a network. We went so far as to delete and reinstall all of the networking protocols on the machine. and then, we deleted comet cursor. Bingo.
What is the obsession with flashy cursors? I used to think that sysadmins that blocked users from installing any programs were draconian, but Comet Cursor has made me re-evaluate my views..
This article ignores one of the findamental differences between software and other types of products: it can be copied at no cost. When I give you a copy of free software that I've written, I lost nothing.
It depends. If you write software and expect to charge for it, your loss is equivalent to what you would have charged for it. In the case of free software, this is moot, but in a for profit endeavour, this is money that you need to pay your rent with.
The "software pirates" are attempting to find a moral justification for their actions, instead of just admiting, that, like everybody else, they're sticking it to the man. Its a Robin Hood view of things.
The GPL is an excellent license if one doesnt wish to charge for their code. Me, id rather not run a "support" company. Im not really interested in helping the world by releasing my code, and indeed it would be incredibly arrogant of me to suggest that a couple thousand lines of code will somehow benifit all but a tiny subset of humanity.
Frankly, I want to be the next Bill Gates. I want to write a wildly succesful piece of software, and charge a lot for it. And the only way I can see to do that does not involve the GPL, or the BSD license. Course, i could be wrong.
I dunno about you, but I have written an AVL tree in Java, and it ran quite well.
The simple fact of the matter is, even on my P2 400, Java is fast enough for just about everything I need to do. Im sure if I got uppity, I could duplicate all of my most used apps in Java and not notice much in the way of a speed hit.
Yes, it is slow, when compared to C when doing pure number crunching, but im willing to give up a couple of mHz for things like automatic garbage collection, a really slick cross platform GUI toolkit, and built in cross platform networking. And if you really need the speed, use JINI.
Badly written code is badly written code in any language. Dont knock Java without at least giving a bit of consideration to its strengths.
The problem here is not intrinsically that they know what state you are in. It is that e-tailers and web sites now have the power to find out, without any input on your part, where you are from. This is like, say, giving Best Buy the permission to fingerprint you every time you walk into, or even just glance in, the store.
Now, if all of us were still on dial ups, this wouldn't be such a big deal, but with the increasing number of fixed, or even semi fixed IP's, this becomes a huge privacy concern.
And how long, honestly, do you belive it will be before this company makes the leap into matching IP's to addresses. Or even to actual people. Then a web site operator will know who you are, where your from, etc, with no permission given on your part. If my viewing a web site is interpreted as tacit permission to collect personal data on me, the anonymous internet goes the way of the dodo.
The jump from there to say, someone in a black suit knocking on your door because the server logs show that you looked at...questionable information is, unfortunately, not a big one. This will happen in steps, but if we are not careful, it will happen.
In the words of Cake:
Yeah, excess ain't rebellion. You're drinking what they're selling.
This isnt proving anything. DONT BUY DVD PLAYERS! If the social ramifications of the MPAA's activities offend you, dont buy ANY of their products, regardless of the capabilities. Do you think they make any less money off of a region free player? Nope. Watch VHS. Or, read a book. But dont waste your time searching for an illegal product to watch trite movies on overpriced media.
This strikes me as a really bad idea. The problem is that, in any system as complex as an airplane, it is diificult enough to keep track of local airspace, much less the "big picture". What happens when an air traffic controller tells a pilot to do something, and the pilot disagrees based on what he believes to be "superior information". Perhaps keeping the pilots a little in the dark makes it a lot easier to make sure they are where they need to be. for some things, centralized control works better.