Quite frankly, even if human activities are COMPLETELY blameless for global warming changes, which I highly doubt, our actions may well have harmed the ability of many ecosystems to cope with significant changes.
Quite frankly, the US only follows strict emission standards because of the effort of concerned environmentalists. And, those standards are NOT nearly or usually the world's strictest.
But, even when
they are, the standards were adopted from other countries, most of whom are working to further reduce pollution whereas America, under the Bush administration, roll back the hard-won victories of those who give a damn.
By the way, junk science can be found on both sides of ANY issue. I don't hold the rising Third World Nations blameless and am well aware of the repercussions of their rapid growth but that doesn't absolve North Americans of their own responsibilities - the fact that my neighbor doesn't properly dispose of his garbage doesn't entitle me to dump mine wherever I please. And don't drag the Constitution into this - the right to freedom applies to all so if your freedom contravenes mine, what then?
Poor Microsoft; they're forced to make subpar tools of all kinds - recovery, defrag, etc, because if the
"world's greatest programmers" were to make kickass tools, they could be sued by third-party software vendors, no doubt.
My heart bleeds for them - I've spent the last several days helping diehard Windows users deal with
XP problems so don't expect me to be charitable towards the Gates Gang until I catch up with the work I was supposed to be doing instead of playing Windows Fix-it.
Byte once rocked. I used to spend hours at the Toronto Metro Reference library reading back issues - they had about 15 years worth. Hope they haven't consigned those to oblivion due to budget cuts.
Well, I can see a whole host of patents coming out of this one. Netcaptor, for putting tabs on browsers - although that may be usurped by the tabs on spreadsheets that came before it.
Opera for its flexible MDI interface that allowed layered, side by side or cascaded browser windows inside of another. Oh how about awarding them a patent for allowing users to switch back and forth between MDI or SDI windows at any time.
Then one to Mozilla for the multiple windows with tabs inside that allowed the attention-deficient to organize their major topics of browsing interest in separate windows which each having multiple tabs within.
Now is there already a patent on stupid patents or does that fall under prior art?
Are you sure? Both IBM and Motorola manufacture Power PC chips - I'm sure they could meet demand. In any case, the demand won't suddenly jump to equal that of the Wintel market so they'd have time to ramp up. The fact that the PPC production isn't the equal of x86 doesn't mean that it isn't feasible. How long did it take AMD to gain a foothold. Or the clone manufacturers, back in the early days of the x86 PC?
After realizing that the errors kept changing, I reasoned that it was either the CPU or the RAM that was to blame. Further testing found that the RAM couldn't perform at its rated speed so I changed the CAS latency which fixed the problem. Now, I have to take the machine back to the store to convince them to give me a new memory module. This should be fun.
The 75 hours are usually put in by the IT admin NOT the manager. Trust me, I'm speaking from personal experience here. It's true that the managers had to be kept informed but, sometimes, that meant calling them at the golf course (I'm not joking) to give a status report.
That article refers to the "thoughtful" book "The Skeptical Environmentalist". A better adjective would be controversial - I think that, in the scientific community, Bjorn Lomborg has done more to provoke argument than the Kyoto Protocol. We'll see if this turns out to be a good thing.
As far as the opinion of John Charles, author of the Portland Tribune article, on CO2, I have some reservations. He claims that a rise in global temperatures "may" be beneficial due to increased agricultural output and biological diversity. That is an extremely simplistic outlook, since the warming that has occurred to date has led to some intolerably hot summers in many parts of the world. Have we already forgotten the tens of thousands who died in Europe in 2003 from the heat?
There are already huge areas of deserts and dry fields. A sudden increase in warming will only exacerbate this already unmanageable problem - and most of these areas are in countries where the poorest of the world already reside - exactly the ones suffer most, according to Mr. Charles. As far as his "biological diversity" theory goes, the most likely outcome will be even greater swarms of insects. The city of Toronto, here in Canada, suffered a month-long plague of aphids or plant lice during a heat wave in 2000. Fortunately, those bugs are more of a nuisance than a problem, although walking through a swarm of them for several minutes trying not to breathe any in wasn't fun - in 33 degree heat, no less.
Unless I invent a miracle pesticide, I don't relish the advance of global warming one bit.
Hey, that's good! Wish I thought of it - and it's quite appropriate, considering my current predicament. I'm posting this from a brand new Athlon XP 2600+ that, for some reason, refuses to run Windows. I've tried Win XP sp1 (slipstreamed), WinXP pro, Win 2K Adv. Server and, even if I can get one of them installed, it's BSOD, lockups and weird-ass error messages in a very short time - PFN_LIST_CORRUPT, BAD_POOL_HEADER, IRQL_LESS_OR_EQUAL, and others. A couple of these occurred while trying a clean installed on a newly formatted disk.
Trying to install updates either failed or didn't help. Memtest86+ reports no problems with the RAM, the hard drive passed all tests that the Western Digital utility threw at it and the Asus A7V8X-X has the latest BIOS and I haven't found anything that points to the Radeon 9200 being at fault.
So, out of desperation, I installed Mandrake 10 Community and, so far, it's just dandy. Problem is, this is a friend's computer and they are Windows-dependent and I don't have so much as an explanation for them as to why the new toy won't run the only OS they're familiar with.
Maybe AMD has created a CPU capable of artificial intelligence?;)
You're probably right. I've seen ( and posted ) opinions on a variety of subjects that have either been ignored or modded up that were much more inflammatory than what I posted on this topic.
However, anything I've recently written about Microsoft has been modded Troll or Flamebait, very quickly. I suspect that there are shills doing searches on well-known nicknames like M$ or Micro$shit - I only ever use the former although I have referred to posters who have bashed non-MS OSes unfairly as Micro$ofties, or, if they have been posting untruths, as Bill-lickers. However, I do my best to shoot down posters who bash Windows or other OSes undeservedly.
I get modded Troll twice in as many posts for questioning Microsoft's motives and for using M$ as a nickname.
After so many complaints about Slashdot being a Linux-lovers-only site? It looks like people can change, after all.
But, here my position - like it or not. I call it the way I see it and I've devoted far too many hours to scrutinizing M$ tactics over the last 9 years. I've also reasearched their company history , going back to their early days, although I'm not claiming expert knowledge. When I see real change, I'll point it out - I was quite effusive in my praise of the vast improvement of Windows 2000 over the unstable crap that was NT 4. And, as far as I'm concerned, M$ is a perfectly good nickname for them, as appropriate as Big Blue is/was for IBM. If you want to keep modding me Troll for this, knock yourselves out. I've been a Slashdotter since its first few months and,as always, I'll put my $0.02 in as I see fit.
But, in any case, I would switch. For one thing, if MacOS came to x86, I think that a lot of companies who were abandoning the Mac and are reluctant to embrace Linux, would quickly reconsider.
How could they possibly think that Open Source is a failure? The average Joe may think that Open Source is the hot new thing but lots of BIG companies have embraced it in the last few years.
Besides, M$ doesn't really give a damn about embracing Open Source - what they care about is if it is possible to look like they're playing nice with their perceived biggest and keep on making money at the same time. All MySQL's use of this does is allow them to point and say "Look, we're good guys now - if we weren't why would they use our stuff?!"
I have some reservations about SUN but I admit to being impressed when they released the source for Solaris 8 under their Sun Community Source License - I downloaded a copy of the entire code myself when it was first announced - and now they claim to be actively trying to release Solaris under a full Open Source License. Sorry, but as things stand ( especially with Blusterin' Ballmer running around the world trying to shout down any opposing technology). the most you get out of me is admiration for M$ marketing savvy, their toughness and some of their tech. As far as their motives go, I'll wait for some real evidence of change - this ain't it.
but that's their call. Surely, there must be other alternatives than using something from M$. It's an installer - can't they use Nullsoft or something else?
Hey, we read your post fine the first time. No need to post it again;) Seriously, though, my own experience with fingerprint scanning has been just awful. A friend and I were going to do a work-from-home call center gig which required that we purchase a fingerprint scanner which would be used to log us on to the customer database. On average, it took up to 15 min to get the fucking thing to work. We quickly ditched that company but ended up several hundred bucks in the red.
Hey, that's funny. Much more so than a lot of the posts I've seen modded as funny for the last few weeks. It should probably be modded Insightful as well.
In that case, I wish she would use the "Moderated down" method used by Eugenia on Osnews.com. She doesn't have to classify it; just make it disappear off the main page but still accessible. It's no more difficult to do that than to delete an objectionable post.
Apparently not. Clicking through the majority of the archived pages brings up a fine collection of "Domain under construction" pages and nothing else. Whatever content they might have had, it wasn't linked to from the front page.
Indeed. This calls for sanctions against the FCC.
Will you sanction them?
From www.dictionary.com
sanction n.
5. A penalty, specified or in the form of moral pressure, that acts to ensure compliance or conformity.
tr.v. sanctioned, sanctioning, sanctions
1. To give official authorization or approval to: "The president, we are told, has sanctioned greed at the cost of compassion" (David Rankin).
2. To encourage or tolerate by indicating approval
Words like these are called contronyms.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll look that up. So, what would that say about the
claims of the BSA and RIAA?
Hmmm, I couldn't get to your site; you must have been Slashdotted.
Quite frankly, even if human activities are COMPLETELY blameless for global warming changes, which I highly doubt, our actions may well have harmed the ability of many ecosystems to cope with significant changes.
Quite frankly, the US only follows strict emission standards because of the effort of concerned environmentalists.
And, those standards are NOT nearly or usually the world's strictest.
But, even when they are, the standards were adopted from other countries, most of whom are working to further reduce pollution whereas America, under the Bush administration, roll back the hard-won victories of those who give a damn. By the way, junk science can be found on both sides of ANY issue. I don't hold the rising Third World Nations blameless and am well aware of the repercussions of their rapid growth but that doesn't absolve North Americans of their own responsibilities - the fact that my neighbor doesn't properly dispose of his garbage doesn't entitle me to dump mine wherever I please.
And don't drag the Constitution into this - the right to freedom applies to all so if your freedom contravenes mine, what then?
Poor Microsoft; they're forced to make subpar tools of all kinds - recovery, defrag, etc, because if the "world's greatest programmers" were to make kickass tools, they could be sued by third-party software vendors, no doubt. My heart bleeds for them - I've spent the last several days helping diehard Windows users deal with XP problems so don't expect me to be charitable towards the Gates Gang until I catch up with the work I was supposed to be doing instead of playing Windows Fix-it.
Byte once rocked. I used to spend hours at the Toronto Metro Reference library reading back issues - they had about 15 years worth. Hope they haven't consigned those to oblivion due to budget cuts.
Well, I can see a whole host of patents coming out of this one.
Netcaptor, for putting tabs on browsers - although that may be usurped by the tabs on spreadsheets that
came before it.
Opera for its flexible MDI interface that allowed layered, side by side or cascaded browser windows inside of another. Oh how about awarding them a patent for allowing users to switch back and forth between MDI or SDI windows at any time.
Then one to Mozilla for the multiple windows with
tabs inside that allowed the attention-deficient to organize their major topics of browsing interest in separate windows which each having multiple tabs within.
Now is there already a patent on stupid patents or does that fall under prior art?
Are you sure? Both IBM and Motorola manufacture Power PC chips - I'm sure they could meet demand.
In any case, the demand won't suddenly jump to equal that of the Wintel market so they'd have time to ramp up.
The fact that the PPC production isn't the equal of x86 doesn't mean that it isn't feasible. How long did it take AMD to gain a foothold. Or the clone manufacturers, back in the early days of the x86 PC?
If the US really wants to stamp out Muslim terrorists, shouldn't they invade Saudi Arabia instead?
After realizing that the errors kept changing, I reasoned that it was either the CPU or the RAM that was to blame.
Further testing found that the RAM couldn't perform at its rated speed so I changed the CAS latency which fixed the problem.
Now, I have to take the machine back to the store to convince them to give me a new memory module.
This should be fun.
The 75 hours are usually put in by the IT admin NOT the manager. Trust me, I'm speaking from personal experience here. It's true that the managers had to be kept informed but, sometimes, that meant calling them at the golf course (I'm not joking) to give a status report.
That article refers to the "thoughtful" book "The Skeptical Environmentalist". A better adjective would be controversial - I think that, in the scientific community, Bjorn Lomborg has done more to
provoke argument than the Kyoto Protocol. We'll see if this turns out to be a good thing.
As far as the opinion of John Charles, author of the Portland Tribune article, on CO2, I have some reservations. He claims that a rise in global temperatures "may" be beneficial due to increased agricultural output and biological diversity.
That is an extremely simplistic outlook, since the warming that has occurred to date has led to some intolerably hot summers in many parts of the world.
Have we already forgotten the tens of thousands who died in Europe in 2003 from the heat?
There are already huge areas of deserts and dry fields.
A sudden increase in warming will only exacerbate this already unmanageable problem - and most of these areas are in countries where the poorest of the world already reside - exactly the ones suffer most, according to Mr. Charles. As far as his "biological diversity" theory goes, the most likely outcome will be even greater swarms of insects. The city of Toronto, here in Canada, suffered a month-long plague of aphids or plant lice during a heat wave in 2000. Fortunately, those bugs are more of a nuisance than a problem, although walking through a swarm of them for several minutes trying not to breathe any in wasn't fun - in 33 degree heat, no less.
Unless I invent a miracle pesticide, I don't relish the advance of global warming one bit.
Hey, that's good! Wish I thought of it - and it's quite appropriate, considering my current predicament.
;)
I'm posting this from a brand new Athlon XP 2600+ that, for some reason, refuses to run Windows.
I've tried Win XP sp1 (slipstreamed), WinXP pro, Win
2K Adv. Server and, even if I can get one of them installed, it's BSOD, lockups and weird-ass error messages in a very short time - PFN_LIST_CORRUPT,
BAD_POOL_HEADER, IRQL_LESS_OR_EQUAL, and others.
A couple of these occurred while trying a clean installed on a newly formatted disk.
Trying to install updates either failed or didn't help. Memtest86+ reports no problems with the RAM, the hard drive passed all tests that the Western Digital utility threw at it and the Asus A7V8X-X has the latest BIOS and I haven't found anything that points to the Radeon 9200 being at fault.
So, out of desperation, I installed Mandrake 10 Community and, so far, it's just dandy. Problem is, this is a friend's computer and they are Windows-dependent and I don't have so much as an explanation for them as to why the new toy won't run the only OS they're familiar with.
Maybe AMD has created a CPU capable of artificial
intelligence?
You're probably right. I've seen ( and posted ) opinions on a variety of subjects that have either been ignored or modded up that were much more inflammatory than what I posted on this topic.
However, anything I've recently written about Microsoft has been modded Troll or Flamebait, very quickly. I suspect that there are shills doing searches on well-known nicknames like M$ or Micro$shit - I only ever use the former although I have referred to posters who have bashed non-MS OSes unfairly as Micro$ofties, or, if they have been posting untruths, as Bill-lickers.
However, I do my best to shoot down posters who bash Windows or other OSes undeservedly.
I get modded Troll twice in as many posts for questioning Microsoft's motives and for using M$ as a nickname.
After so many complaints about Slashdot being a Linux-lovers-only site? It looks like people can change, after all.
But, here my position - like it or not. I call it the way I see it and I've devoted far too many hours to scrutinizing M$ tactics over the last 9 years. I've also reasearched their company history , going back to their early days, although I'm not claiming expert knowledge.
When I see real change, I'll point it out - I was quite effusive in my praise of the vast improvement of Windows 2000 over the unstable crap that was NT 4.
And, as far as I'm concerned, M$ is a perfectly good nickname for them, as appropriate as Big Blue
is/was for IBM.
If you want to keep modding me Troll for this, knock yourselves out. I've been a Slashdotter since its first few months and
I don't agree with your opinion but at least I'm not
an Anonymous Coward.
Whoopee - one counter-example? So what? A party is made up of more than one person, be they saints or sinners.
But, in any case, I would switch. For one thing, if
MacOS came to x86, I think that a lot of companies
who were abandoning the Mac and are reluctant to embrace Linux, would quickly reconsider.
How could they possibly think that Open Source is a failure? The average Joe may think that Open Source is the hot new thing but lots of BIG companies have embraced it in the last few years.
Besides, M$ doesn't really give a damn about embracing Open Source - what they care about is if it is possible to look like they're playing nice with their perceived biggest and keep on making money at the same time.
All MySQL's use of this does is allow them to point and say "Look, we're good guys now - if we weren't why would they use our stuff?!"
I have some reservations about SUN but I admit to being impressed when they released the source for Solaris 8 under their Sun Community Source License - I downloaded a copy of the entire code myself when it was first announced - and now they claim to be actively trying to release Solaris under a full Open Source License.
Sorry, but as things stand ( especially with Blusterin' Ballmer running around the world trying to shout down any opposing technology). the most you get out of me is admiration for M$ marketing savvy, their toughness and some of their tech.
As far as their motives go, I'll wait for some real evidence of change - this ain't it.
but that's their call. Surely, there must be other alternatives than using something from M$. It's an installer - can't they use Nullsoft or something else?
Hey, we read your post fine the first time. No need to post it again ;) Seriously, though, my own experience with fingerprint scanning has been just awful. A friend and I were going to do a work-from-home call center gig which required that we purchase a fingerprint scanner which would be used to log us on to the customer database.
On average, it took up to 15 min to get the fucking thing to work.
We quickly ditched that company but ended up several
hundred bucks in the red.
Hey, that's funny. Much more so than a lot of the posts I've seen modded as funny for the last few weeks.
It should probably be modded Insightful as well.
In that case, I wish she would use the "Moderated down" method used by Eugenia on Osnews.com.
She doesn't have to classify it; just make it disappear off the main page but still accessible.
It's no more difficult to do that than to delete an objectionable post.
Apparently not. Clicking through the majority of the
archived pages brings up a fine collection of "Domain under construction" pages and nothing else.
Whatever content they might have had, it wasn't linked to from the front page.
Indeed. This calls for sanctions against the FCC.
Will you sanction them?
From www.dictionary.com
sanction
n.
5. A penalty, specified or in the form of moral pressure, that acts to ensure compliance or conformity.
tr.v. sanctioned, sanctioning, sanctions
1. To give official authorization or approval to: "The president, we are told, has sanctioned greed at the cost of compassion" (David Rankin).
2. To encourage or tolerate by indicating approval
Words like these are called contronyms.
Why isn't this modded informative?