There is a good reason for using blue: blue is calming and generally appealing. Darker shades are rich and warm.
Not exactly true. Blue is a higher frequency color than red and therefore has more energy. Blue can be overstimulating for many people (particularly myself).
Ever heard of the phrase "looking at the world through rose-colored glasses"? Reddish tintted glasses filter out blue light and has been shown to have a positive effect (affect?) upon a person's mood.
I argue that the Google results are better than the Bing results because Google provided a better variety of possible matches to the word "Tequiia", while Bing seemed to be focused on results that are only drink-related.
Please do keep separate those who wants to claim every little thing is related to global warming, and those who actually examine the evidence and study the impact of global warming upon weather patterns. In general, claims that some weather event was caused and/or made worse by global warming is completely unfounded.
I was just in a clothing store the other day because they had a sale on jeans. Prominently displayed were the jeans that had purposely placed wear-holes and slightly worn colors. I had to ask for where the regular, unadulterated jeans were. They were in the back corner of the store.
The point is that companies are stupidly trying to compete with Goodwill by creating a crapier product and charge the same price. Fairly standard operating procedure. You give them too much credit.
And your statement also applies to anybody else that produces a product for consumers in the market. Look at video game consols that are sold as a loss-leader. They hope to modify the consumer's behavior for the company's future benefit.
I don't see how this is not capitalism. It is only a question of degrees of behavior modification. It is still capitalism because the consumer *chooses* what he wants based on the merits of the product (hopefully) and whatever works best for them.
If open source is a bad gift for you, then feel free to drop it. I choose to accept it.
Actually, I have not had much issues with installing Matlab onto various distributions. Sure, there are some minor issues with SELinux and sometimes you need to install a compatibility package for libc, but the error messages will tell you that explicitly.
Seems to me that Lomborg should have cite two sources, one for the WHO estimate of the population of Europe and then another for the source how to estimate the number of heat/cold deaths. When one does references, you typically don't want to rely upon a citation of a citation.
Wider implication: Never trust the results in any discipline that is subject to a reputation cascade. (I.e, disciplines where even mild dissenters are ostracized)
There is a logical fallacy here. While the above statement is absolutely true, and I have personally railed against this in my own works, you assume that this is the case in the field of climate studies. This is simply not the case. I have seen very healthy discussions in journals. One of the best things you can do in science is to realize an error in a previously held perception and improve the knowledge.
Yes, there is "politics" in science and sometimes one wants to be careful how you phrase things because some people get upset easily (or want to avoid possiblly upsetting others), but that's politics and not science.
I don't know who has been talking to you, but every skeptic I have encountered I have treated with respect and have had fruitful discussions with them. Most people I have talked to haven't made up their minds and are merely curious. Others have their minds made up, but at least our discussions do eliminate some of the more obvious misconceptions.
Heh, I remember going to Boston and being told to look up "Wor-ster" on the map. You can imagine my disbelief when -- having asked for the spelling -- beiing shown a road sign with it spelled out.
There are two major possibilities for your issue. The first was a bug for some people when they upgraded to Karmic. For whatever reason, many people were not booting into the correct kernel. Therefore the kernel drivers would not work properly. The second possibility was that the PA-compatible kernel drivers had yet to be made for your hardware by the time of Karmic release. However, you can install 'linux-modules-backports-alsa-karmic-generic' package to obtain the backports of the absolute latest kernel modules that are being made for PA in Lucid. It is possible that your hardware has been addressed in the backports.
I agree whole-heartedly and this is the primary advantage of open-source software. The "many eyes" are not necessarily developers, but users who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty. There have been a number of bugs I have encountered that would have been considered minor or inconsequential by most others, but were important for me. I then figure out what is wrong and send a patch to the developer. Now, everyone can enjoy a slightly more "hassle-free" software.
The same bugs in closed-source software would often be ignored and I would be stuck without a solution.
And let's not forget that they didn't just crawl into the advertising realm - their first major ad on TV airing during the Super Bowl? That's pretty significant. And besides, it suggests that Google is starting to acknowledge some competition from Bing. They never had any reason to advertise much before, but it shows that they acknowledge that things are starting to change.
What I was particularly surprised about was that MS *didn't* advertise Bing during the Super Bowl. Given how much effort MS has put into the Bing marketing campaign, for them to not make an appearance while Google does speaks volumes.
What do you mean by "standard"? If you mean "standard across devices of similar type", then different companies have different expectation for what the OS is responsible for and what the device is responsible for.
If you mean "standard for a particular hardware", the driver still has to interface with the OS, and OSs change over time. Drivers need to be recompiled and modified over time to allow them to continue functioning.
It gives a basis for the community to work around. The entire issue with NVidia has been that developers have been asking for at least some sort of documentation so that they don't have to reverse-engineer everything. Companies have said that they don't want to support Linux or handle bugs, and we reply "you don't have to!". With documentation and a core set of code to work around, AMD has done exactly what we have asked for. Now, it is up to us to take that code and build it up to be a full-fledge graphic driver.
AMD/ATI has nothing but my fullest appreciation for what they have done.
I once forgot to release the parking brake of a Toyota Camary and still managed to drive about a mile. I finally realized the parking brake was on when I tried to parallel park and needed slower speeds.
So, yes, on some cars, it is very much possible to overcome the brakes.
While watching the State of the Union address, my jaw dropped when I heard Obama was supporting the idea of building new reactors. I thought that that one statement was going to be talked about continuously (or at least discussed side-by-side with job creation and health care). I was thoroughly disappointed when watching commentary afterwards that all they could talk about was "how" he delivered his speech, and almost nothing of substance on policy. Certainly no mention at all of the nuclear power statement.
Maybe I am just getting out of touch with reality...
I would agree with this, but with a caveat. I was recently in a reversed situation where a website could not recognize my developer's version of Firefox 3.5 and forced me into a reduced features mode. For a fellow worker who was using a up-to-date version of Firefox 2.x (I forget which version), it absolutely refused to let him onto the website because the browser was "not compatible". I then noticed that it refused other "browsers" like elinks (as opposed to offering a compatibility mode).
They told me that they don't support official versions and that Firefox 2.x was "horribly outdated" (note that they still supported IE6 in reduced mode). And also that they wouldn't support "obscure" browsers.
The lesson is to not outright *prevent* users from entering the website in whichever mode they liked. It is impossible to maintain a complete list of supported browsers and false identification of custom browsers is a bitch. If anything, if yo have a list of browsers that you know works fine, then for any browser that doesn't match that list, make a notice that the browser is not officially supported and that the user may experience issues (or *recommend* that the user go into reduced mode).
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You never did any design work for Virginia Tech, did you?
There is a good reason for using blue: blue is calming and generally appealing. Darker shades are rich and warm.
Not exactly true. Blue is a higher frequency color than red and therefore has more energy. Blue can be overstimulating for many people (particularly myself).
Ever heard of the phrase "looking at the world through rose-colored glasses"? Reddish tintted glasses filter out blue light and has been shown to have a positive effect (affect?) upon a person's mood.
I argue that the Google results are better than the Bing results because Google provided a better variety of possible matches to the word "Tequiia", while Bing seemed to be focused on results that are only drink-related.
Please do keep separate those who wants to claim every little thing is related to global warming, and those who actually examine the evidence and study the impact of global warming upon weather patterns. In general, claims that some weather event was caused and/or made worse by global warming is completely unfounded.
ah, sweet irony!
I was just in a clothing store the other day because they had a sale on jeans. Prominently displayed were the jeans that had purposely placed wear-holes and slightly worn colors. I had to ask for where the regular, unadulterated jeans were. They were in the back corner of the store.
The point is that companies are stupidly trying to compete with Goodwill by creating a crapier product and charge the same price. Fairly standard operating procedure. You give them too much credit.
And your statement also applies to anybody else that produces a product for consumers in the market. Look at video game consols that are sold as a loss-leader. They hope to modify the consumer's behavior for the company's future benefit.
I don't see how this is not capitalism. It is only a question of degrees of behavior modification. It is still capitalism because the consumer *chooses* what he wants based on the merits of the product (hopefully) and whatever works best for them.
If open source is a bad gift for you, then feel free to drop it. I choose to accept it.
Nitpick, Pu is element 94.
Actually, I have not had much issues with installing Matlab onto various distributions. Sure, there are some minor issues with SELinux and sometimes you need to install a compatibility package for libc, but the error messages will tell you that explicitly.
Seems to me that Lomborg should have cite two sources, one for the WHO estimate of the population of Europe and then another for the source how to estimate the number of heat/cold deaths. When one does references, you typically don't want to rely upon a citation of a citation.
Wider implication: Never trust the results in any discipline that is subject to a reputation cascade. (I.e, disciplines where even mild dissenters are ostracized)
There is a logical fallacy here. While the above statement is absolutely true, and I have personally railed against this in my own works, you assume that this is the case in the field of climate studies. This is simply not the case. I have seen very healthy discussions in journals. One of the best things you can do in science is to realize an error in a previously held perception and improve the knowledge.
Yes, there is "politics" in science and sometimes one wants to be careful how you phrase things because some people get upset easily (or want to avoid possiblly upsetting others), but that's politics and not science.
You do not "debunk", you ostracize.
I don't know who has been talking to you, but every skeptic I have encountered I have treated with respect and have had fruitful discussions with them. Most people I have talked to haven't made up their minds and are merely curious. Others have their minds made up, but at least our discussions do eliminate some of the more obvious misconceptions.
And I *gasp* enjoy these discussions!
ah, that must have been messing me up all that time!
Heh, I remember going to Boston and being told to look up "Wor-ster" on the map. You can imagine my disbelief when -- having asked for the spelling -- beiing shown a road sign with it spelled out.
Actually, I like it. I think it works great with a sunset (sunrise?) photo I have for my background.
To each their own. Don't assume that it is the worse possible color scheme because there have been worse.
There are two major possibilities for your issue. The first was a bug for some people when they upgraded to Karmic. For whatever reason, many people were not booting into the correct kernel. Therefore the kernel drivers would not work properly. The second possibility was that the PA-compatible kernel drivers had yet to be made for your hardware by the time of Karmic release. However, you can install 'linux-modules-backports-alsa-karmic-generic' package to obtain the backports of the absolute latest kernel modules that are being made for PA in Lucid. It is possible that your hardware has been addressed in the backports.
Of course, YMMV...
I agree whole-heartedly and this is the primary advantage of open-source software. The "many eyes" are not necessarily developers, but users who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty. There have been a number of bugs I have encountered that would have been considered minor or inconsequential by most others, but were important for me. I then figure out what is wrong and send a patch to the developer. Now, everyone can enjoy a slightly more "hassle-free" software.
The same bugs in closed-source software would often be ignored and I would be stuck without a solution.
And let's not forget that they didn't just crawl into the advertising realm - their first major ad on TV airing during the Super Bowl? That's pretty significant. And besides, it suggests that Google is starting to acknowledge some competition from Bing. They never had any reason to advertise much before, but it shows that they acknowledge that things are starting to change.
What I was particularly surprised about was that MS *didn't* advertise Bing during the Super Bowl. Given how much effort MS has put into the Bing marketing campaign, for them to not make an appearance while Google does speaks volumes.
What do you mean by "standard"? If you mean "standard across devices of similar type", then different companies have different expectation for what the OS is responsible for and what the device is responsible for.
If you mean "standard for a particular hardware", the driver still has to interface with the OS, and OSs change over time. Drivers need to be recompiled and modified over time to allow them to continue functioning.
It gives a basis for the community to work around. The entire issue with NVidia has been that developers have been asking for at least some sort of documentation so that they don't have to reverse-engineer everything. Companies have said that they don't want to support Linux or handle bugs, and we reply "you don't have to!". With documentation and a core set of code to work around, AMD has done exactly what we have asked for. Now, it is up to us to take that code and build it up to be a full-fledge graphic driver.
AMD/ATI has nothing but my fullest appreciation for what they have done.
I once forgot to release the parking brake of a Toyota Camary and still managed to drive about a mile. I finally realized the parking brake was on when I tried to parallel park and needed slower speeds.
So, yes, on some cars, it is very much possible to overcome the brakes.
While watching the State of the Union address, my jaw dropped when I heard Obama was supporting the idea of building new reactors. I thought that that one statement was going to be talked about continuously (or at least discussed side-by-side with job creation and health care). I was thoroughly disappointed when watching commentary afterwards that all they could talk about was "how" he delivered his speech, and almost nothing of substance on policy. Certainly no mention at all of the nuclear power statement.
Maybe I am just getting out of touch with reality...
It is still a symptom of the same problem. Distributors want to exact control over content. Be it DRM or regional agreements.
s/support official versions/support unofficial versions/
I would agree with this, but with a caveat. I was recently in a reversed situation where a website could not recognize my developer's version of Firefox 3.5 and forced me into a reduced features mode. For a fellow worker who was using a up-to-date version of Firefox 2.x (I forget which version), it absolutely refused to let him onto the website because the browser was "not compatible". I then noticed that it refused other "browsers" like elinks (as opposed to offering a compatibility mode).
They told me that they don't support official versions and that Firefox 2.x was "horribly outdated" (note that they still supported IE6 in reduced mode). And also that they wouldn't support "obscure" browsers.
The lesson is to not outright *prevent* users from entering the website in whichever mode they liked. It is impossible to maintain a complete list of supported browsers and false identification of custom browsers is a bitch. If anything, if yo have a list of browsers that you know works fine, then for any browser that doesn't match that list, make a notice that the browser is not officially supported and that the user may experience issues (or *recommend* that the user go into reduced mode).