As for the levels in the water, they appear to have gone done quite quickly . Personally, I trust these guys because they give strict facts and no speculation. I have yet to see any reports of Hong Kong vegetables, but I admit I'm too lazy to google. That said, my (again, admittedly) knee-jerk reaction is to point out all the sketchy stuff in the past with China and other food products and ask if it might not be something else.
Things are slowly getting better. It wasn't the best two weeks, but life in Japan goes on as normal. That said, I'm down in Kyoto, which is pretty far from it all.
Personally, I like the zune interface. In my opinion it's better than the "cluttered desktop" UI that apple used and others have been copying. I like the UI in OS X, but thought apple could come up with something more clean for their touch-screen products.
Zune's UI is slick. Well, I have a Zune "HD". I really like navigating through the device. Anecdotal as this may be.
I find most interfaces are only "intuitive" because they're just like every one that's come before, so it's different and people don't like it. Microsoft's been using that to their advantage in the OS market, and get criticized. They do something different on their mobile devices, and get criticized. Developing a good UI is not as easy as it seems...
When the data, methods, and code for analysis being used to make multi-billion dollar legislation world-wide is released publicly, so people can verify and repeat their analysis, I can say at least I will be convinced. That's really all I want. If I can run their simulations and get the same result, if scientists can go out and retrieve similar data with the same methods, then I'm good. I've done enough research work in my life to know that numbers and simulations are often run until a "good" result comes up so they can get published. Bad science, yes, but it happens.
I completely agree, however, that reducing our environmental impact is a great idea, AGW, GW, or whatever else we're talking about. It just makes sense. I'm just skeptical of things politicians say will kill us all. Governments have used fear to control people in the past. I just want to know that 2 + 2 still = 4, and not 5.
Gaming is actually helping fuel a lot of research by driving down prices on things that are normally quite expensive. For example, the robotics lab I work at is filled with Kinects just because, compared to the price of the laser range-finders we use, it's quite cheap considering its precision. Wii-motes as well. Granted, I too am surprised by the new PSP in the hospital. Goes to show that make a highly functional general purpose tool available for cheap, and people will use it in creative ways!
I don't know why the hell we let people who hate the idea of a good time dictate what's socially acceptable
Though I agree with you that it's difficult to put a number on "moderate" when the population differs so much, I would really like to point out that people who don't drink/drink lightly all "hate the idea of a good time".
Though Facebook does need to step up on privacy, not posting information, or even not signing up for the service does not make you immune. People are, as always, the real security leak. I haven't signed up for Facebook, but my friends still tag pictures of me with my full name. Whether I like it or not, I'm still "on" Facebook. Now, all of their "friends", who I may not even know, can now know my name and face, which is a good start to the beginning of identity theft.
The only real way to hide from the internet these days is to hole yourself up in your house and never sign up or purchase any service. Eventually, the data hits the 'net.
No it's not "JUST like smoking". Smoking is not all about the disruptiveness to the surrounding people, but that it impacts the actual HEALTH of the people around them. People talking on their cell phones in public only endangers their own health, because sooner or later someone's going to snap. If someone is yapping on their cell phone, I put on my headphones. If someone is smoking around me, I can't very well stop breathing.
To view the parent's words in another way that might hit home for/.'ers is that we always complain that tech decisions are usually made by uninformed, technically illiterate people. By the same logic, let the business decisions be made by business people.
That said, the world isn't so simple, and these decisions really need the input of several viewpoints.
Climate change is not a myth. That is not the matter at hand. I think most people will agree climate does change: the earth is not static. The argument is whether or not humans are really the cause and if it is really as bad as certain "closed source" researchers have claimed.
Do you think that all the hundreds of people who hold Ph.D's on this stuff wouldn't notice the big, hot ball in the sky, or haven't done core extractions?
Without giving my stance on the issue at hand, I would like to point out that people with Ph.D's also notice where the grant money is. Just because they've spent a lot of time in school does not make them saints. A Ph.D does not mean you automatically get to have your opinion respected.
Even if WMO agrees, I will still not pass on the data. We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.
Thanks for the quote! What immediately struck me here is how it seems almost word for word a classic example of Appeal to Pity. The whole "I've worked so hard so blah blah blah you're all mean" is not fit for science.
Small rings, slow growth, cooler temperatures.) The fact that tree ring sizes are dependent on temperature has been a long established fact.
Indeed, it is quite easy to imagine that you could have drought for five years where the temp in summer never drops below 25 Celcius. Plenty warm enough? I'm sure those tree rings will be pretty thin.
Music is art and art is subjective. Let's all just stop arguing and listen to what we think sounds best. If I like my speaker system or 120$ headphones, and you're fine with 5$ earbuds, that's okay too. Let's spend more time enjoying our music, in whatever way is best for each of us.
I don't think you have any right to comment on culture and English when you think you are too important to even observe the simple laws of grammar. There is something called a shift key, I suggest you use it.
Secondly, this entire comment is arrogant. Preserving culture is important! In the US you wouldn't know, seeing as you have no culture. Counting back to even before the "United States of America", in the New World, there is no more than a few centuries, while any European country can count double that without thinking.
Also, if you looked past my fellow Canucks' ability to make you laugh, you would see the most multi-national country in the world, in which hundreds of different cultures exist and live together, (mostly) in harmony. I would also bring to your attention to the many hundreds of festivals that celebrate culture diversity and preservation such as Folklorama (www.folklorama.ca/).
If America has such a "cultural shadow", then I can only imagine that, to continue your metaphor, Europe would cast the world in darknesss. Never mind Europe's Eastern neighbours who could say the same. If you're so culturally monolithic, please enlighten me as to how, while pointing out how it is greater than most European countries.
I'm sorry America, but you are not the only people in the world whose "culture" and opinions matter. Canadians probably seem funny to you because we have the humility to know others may be greater, that others came before us, and that the memory of them is worth preserving, teaching, and respecting.
And I also apologize to those Americans who understand this and constantly take a beating from the rest of the world in posts like these.
Though it's a small stretch, a lot of slashdotters sit at work, on company time, using company property to post and read slashdot. It's not your property, and I'm assuming MOST people aren't paid to read slashdot, so we're guilty too.
Does that make it right? No. Does this mean our role-models of justice should play a suspect under warrant's consoles? No. But should you be here reading this?
I understand that they are breaking a LAW, while viewing/. at work may only be breaking a POLICY, but both still have potentially serious ramifications.
Slashdot Mirror
As for the levels in the water, they appear to have gone done quite quickly . Personally, I trust these guys because they give strict facts and no speculation. I have yet to see any reports of Hong Kong vegetables, but I admit I'm too lazy to google. That said, my (again, admittedly) knee-jerk reaction is to point out all the sketchy stuff in the past with China and other food products and ask if it might not be something else.
Things are slowly getting better. It wasn't the best two weeks, but life in Japan goes on as normal. That said, I'm down in Kyoto, which is pretty far from it all.
Personally, I like the zune interface. In my opinion it's better than the "cluttered desktop" UI that apple used and others have been copying. I like the UI in OS X, but thought apple could come up with something more clean for their touch-screen products.
Zune's UI is slick. Well, I have a Zune "HD". I really like navigating through the device. Anecdotal as this may be.
I find most interfaces are only "intuitive" because they're just like every one that's come before, so it's different and people don't like it. Microsoft's been using that to their advantage in the OS market, and get criticized. They do something different on their mobile devices, and get criticized. Developing a good UI is not as easy as it seems...
How much evidence will be enough?
When the data, methods, and code for analysis being used to make multi-billion dollar legislation world-wide is released publicly, so people can verify and repeat their analysis, I can say at least I will be convinced. That's really all I want. If I can run their simulations and get the same result, if scientists can go out and retrieve similar data with the same methods, then I'm good. I've done enough research work in my life to know that numbers and simulations are often run until a "good" result comes up so they can get published. Bad science, yes, but it happens.
I completely agree, however, that reducing our environmental impact is a great idea, AGW, GW, or whatever else we're talking about. It just makes sense. I'm just skeptical of things politicians say will kill us all. Governments have used fear to control people in the past. I just want to know that 2 + 2 still = 4, and not 5.
Gaming is actually helping fuel a lot of research by driving down prices on things that are normally quite expensive. For example, the robotics lab I work at is filled with Kinects just because, compared to the price of the laser range-finders we use, it's quite cheap considering its precision. Wii-motes as well. Granted, I too am surprised by the new PSP in the hospital. Goes to show that make a highly functional general purpose tool available for cheap, and people will use it in creative ways!
I don't know why the hell we let people who hate the idea of a good time dictate what's socially acceptable
Though I agree with you that it's difficult to put a number on "moderate" when the population differs so much, I would really like to point out that people who don't drink/drink lightly all "hate the idea of a good time".
Can we not get nice European bank transfers as well as keep cheques? I use cheques and online banking about the same amount, and find both useful.
Though Facebook does need to step up on privacy, not posting information, or even not signing up for the service does not make you immune. People are, as always, the real security leak. I haven't signed up for Facebook, but my friends still tag pictures of me with my full name. Whether I like it or not, I'm still "on" Facebook. Now, all of their "friends", who I may not even know, can now know my name and face, which is a good start to the beginning of identity theft.
The only real way to hide from the internet these days is to hole yourself up in your house and never sign up or purchase any service. Eventually, the data hits the 'net.
No it's not "JUST like smoking". Smoking is not all about the disruptiveness to the surrounding people, but that it impacts the actual HEALTH of the people around them. People talking on their cell phones in public only endangers their own health, because sooner or later someone's going to snap. If someone is yapping on their cell phone, I put on my headphones. If someone is smoking around me, I can't very well stop breathing.
To view the parent's words in another way that might hit home for /.'ers is that we always complain that tech decisions are usually made by uninformed, technically illiterate people. By the same logic, let the business decisions be made by business people.
That said, the world isn't so simple, and these decisions really need the input of several viewpoints.
Climate change is not a myth. That is not the matter at hand. I think most people will agree climate does change: the earth is not static. The argument is whether or not humans are really the cause and if it is really as bad as certain "closed source" researchers have claimed.
Do you think that all the hundreds of people who hold Ph.D's on this stuff wouldn't notice the big, hot ball in the sky, or haven't done core extractions?
Without giving my stance on the issue at hand, I would like to point out that people with Ph.D's also notice where the grant money is. Just because they've spent a lot of time in school does not make them saints. A Ph.D does not mean you automatically get to have your opinion respected.
Even if WMO agrees, I will still not pass on the data. We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.
Thanks for the quote! What immediately struck me here is how it seems almost word for word a classic example of Appeal to Pity. The whole "I've worked so hard so blah blah blah you're all mean" is not fit for science.
Small rings, slow growth, cooler temperatures.) The fact that tree ring sizes are dependent on temperature has been a long established fact.
Indeed, it is quite easy to imagine that you could have drought for five years where the temp in summer never drops below 25 Celcius. Plenty warm enough? I'm sure those tree rings will be pretty thin.
Music is art and art is subjective. Let's all just stop arguing and listen to what we think sounds best. If I like my speaker system or 120$ headphones, and you're fine with 5$ earbuds, that's okay too. Let's spend more time enjoying our music, in whatever way is best for each of us.
When you speak in sentence fragments and use semicolons improperly;
I don't think you have any right to comment on culture and English when you think you are too important to even observe the simple laws of grammar. There is something called a shift key, I suggest you use it.
Secondly, this entire comment is arrogant. Preserving culture is important! In the US you wouldn't know, seeing as you have no culture. Counting back to even before the "United States of America", in the New World, there is no more than a few centuries, while any European country can count double that without thinking.
Also, if you looked past my fellow Canucks' ability to make you laugh, you would see the most multi-national country in the world, in which hundreds of different cultures exist and live together, (mostly) in harmony. I would also bring to your attention to the many hundreds of festivals that celebrate culture diversity and preservation such as Folklorama (www.folklorama.ca/).
If America has such a "cultural shadow", then I can only imagine that, to continue your metaphor, Europe would cast the world in darknesss. Never mind Europe's Eastern neighbours who could say the same. If you're so culturally monolithic, please enlighten me as to how, while pointing out how it is greater than most European countries.
I'm sorry America, but you are not the only people in the world whose "culture" and opinions matter. Canadians probably seem funny to you because we have the humility to know others may be greater, that others came before us, and that the memory of them is worth preserving, teaching, and respecting.
And I also apologize to those Americans who understand this and constantly take a beating from the rest of the world in posts like these.
Though it's a small stretch, a lot of slashdotters sit at work, on company time, using company property to post and read slashdot. It's not your property, and I'm assuming MOST people aren't paid to read slashdot, so we're guilty too.
/. at work may only be breaking a POLICY, but both still have potentially serious ramifications.
Does that make it right? No. Does this mean our role-models of justice should play a suspect under warrant's consoles? No. But should you be here reading this?
I understand that they are breaking a LAW, while viewing