They are not "my superior interpretations", they are mainstream paleoclimatology. Sea levels have risen by 120m over the last 20000 years, 60m over the last 10000 years. Large parts of North America and Europe were covered in huge ice sheets. Humans walked to the Americas because of it. Human civilization probably started during the Younger Dryas because of massive climate change. There have been eight glaciations in the past 800000 years. These glaciation cycles are regular as clockwork. You can see the evidence everywhere in Europe and the US. And these cycles are getting colder overall, not warmer.
Anybody who thinks that by reducing CO2 we can keep the climate "stable" has about the same level of knowledge and understanding of earth's recent history as a young earth creationist. The idea is just totally absurd.
We should be so lucky as to be able to cause runaway global warming and escape these glaciation cycles. Instead, the next couple of centuries are likely going to be the warmest it's going to be for the next 80000 years... that is, if we're lucky. If we're unlucky, the next glaciation cycle could start today.
You might want to check the facts before claiming that Apple products are "way more expensive".
I did.
The price difference between the 16 gig sony, blackberry, and ipad is $20. Even the Asus is only $120 difference.
Therefore, the iPad is a lot more expensive than the Asus. (Sony and Blackberry both make shitty, overpriced hardware, so they are not good reference points.)
The 11" macbook air is within a dollar of the hp, but the hp uses a hard drive.
And the 11" Macbook Air is about twice as expensive as a functionally equivalent netbook.
The fact is that once you get out of the bargain basement, they're very price competitive. Why do you think people run linux on apple gear?
Because Linux geeks often have money to burn and like shiny things. I was tempted to get a Macbook to run Linux myself. I would have been willing to pay somewhat of a premium, but concluded Apple hardware was just way too overpriced.
anything that relies on remote control has to do everything e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y s-l-o-w-l-y.
But that doesn't matter. For the cost of sending a single astronaut, we can send tens of thousands of robotic probes. Even if they weren't autonomous at all and needed to creep along with remote control, we'd still get tons more data every hour than the human would give us. But autonomous probes actually are working better and better anyway, so they can explore quickly.
And, of course, long-term human space missions are technologically impossible with current technology anyway. We need advances in robotics and propulsion to make them happen, and we need a much better understanding of our solar system.
So, if you want manned exploration eventually (as I do), we need to focus our resources on robotic exploration right now.
Rovers cannot procreate and ensure the longevity of the human species
Human settlements on other planets are a great idea. But human settlements on other planets will require much more robotics and science than we currently have, and if we waste our scarce space funding on sending astronauts on joy rides, people will tire of space exploration long before we settle elsewhere.
Amerindians walk across Bering Strait Marsupials frolic in Antarctica Sea levels rise, sea levels fall. Only a fool thinks he can control the motions of the heavens and earth
I actually used to believe the global warming story, until I looked at the science; then I concluded that it was incoherent bullshit. It's not the "anthropogenic warming" that's wrong--humans probably have cause the climate to get slightly warmer--it's the interpretation of those results where global warming proponents lose all connection with reality. Global warming is the left wing analog of "creation science" and "pro-life medicine".
First, note that the last warm periods were considerably warmer than our current warm period. Second, if we follow the normal pattern, sooner or later we are going to experience an 8C drop in temperature, with ice sheets covering most of Europe and NA. Third, nobody has any idea why these curves look the way they do.
So, yeah, there is "no know non-anthropogenic reason" because nobody has a clue at all.
Mars may be fairly dry, but it clearly has liquid water, some organics, and reasonably high temperatures.
I don't see why this needs to be an either/or scenario. If we stop wasting money on sending people into orbit, we can send a fleet of advanced robotic probes to all of these destinations.
The iPad 2 copied features from the Samsung Galaxy Tab, like the front-facing camera and the rear facing camera. If Apple can keep Samsung from selling rectangular tablets, then Samsung should be able to keep Apple from selling tablets with front and rear cameras.
You're obviously someone who has way too much money to waste and doesn't need to bother checking the facts. Apple's phones, tablets, and laptops continue to be way more expensive than functional equivalents from other companies. They are luxury niche products. And they only thing disruptive about Apple these days is their lawsuits; iOS 5 and iCloud are not even catching up with Android and Google.
Standards traditionally are based on enlightened self-interest: I follow the C standard and you follow the C standard so that we can exchange code.
The very fact that Oracle needs to pressure people into following their "standard" tells you that there is something wrong with it.
Otherwise they were perfectly free to roll their own language and VM.
They did roll their own VM and libraries, and Oracle has no legitimate claims to the Java language itself.
Apple did not "give Java the boot". They simply stops working on ports THEMSELVES
In different words, they gave Java the boot: they kicked it out of their company.
XCode still supports Java and the JVM is kept up to date by Oracle, which is as it should be
Maybe in the twisted, proprietary world of Apple the idea that a "standard" consists of a single vendor maintaining all the implementations of that standard is "as it should be", but in the real world, that's ridiculous. And of course Oracle's implementation for Apple is piss-poor.
in the same way that Apple now lets Adobe keep Flash up to date on the platform
Oh, wow, Apple allows Adobe to deliver software on "their" platform. How magnanimous of Apple! Apple's management is rediscovering the marketing and management insights of such companies as Compuserve, AOL, and Ma Bell: "keep it proprietary and closed, control everything, and remain eternally successful".
I'm really glad that Apple is going to crash and burn within a half dozen years.
The problem is that people *think* there is an absolute objective out there, and their views are that one
Why are you implying that I believe that there is an "absolute objective [view]" when I just said that there isn't? And do you simply not understand the difference between posting Palestinian kids as stone throwers? Are you unable to reconcile the notions that (1) there is a continuum of biases and choices, (2) not everybody draws the line between what is acceptable and what is not in the same place, and (3) nevertheless, there is biased reporting that is clearly unacceptable no matter what?
And I'm a Christian and think this post-modernism deconstruction thing leads one nowhere.
It doesn't lead *you* anywhere because what's being deconstructed is your church and your beliefs. For other people, deconstruction of the claptrap your religion has foisted upon the world for the past two thousand years actually leads to more clarity and moral certainty. In different words, there are absolute standards of right and wrong, Christianity just happens to be on the "wrong" side.
I think they aren't changing this because they can't: their systems are hugely complex, intricately coupled, and optimized for speed. Rapid prototyping of easy-to-use user interfaces is kind of hard to do in that kind of system.
Forget about the lack of APIs, Google+ has major privacy and usability issues.
I think the fact that a Google employee and geek got confused and accidentally posted a private flame publicly speaks for itself: Google+'s circles and privacy settings are a failure.
Oh, don't you worry about consequences for Stallman: he's been at this longer than you have likely been alive.
Worry instead about the long term reputation of your favorite company and the legacy of your favorite monopolist. People may say nice things about Jobs out of politeness right now, but that's going to wear off. And the company is in already trouble for the same reasons it was in trouble 10 years ago: it's all marketing flash and no substance.
I totally agree: there is room for both open and closed source, but that's not what this is about at all. Steve Jobs didn't just produce closed source software, he moved the industry towards censorship and business models that enormously restrict choice and freedom, as well as towards a model of "innovation" that relies on stealing other people's ideas instead of investing in new ideas. Jobs didn't have to do that; other companies have shown that they can make money with innovation and openness.
L. Ron Hubbard is an excellent analogy... for Steve Jobs. It describes exactly what Jobs did: he created a religion based on ridiculous premises and promises that sucks large amounts of money out of people's pockets, and he even managed to manipulate them to rush to his defense; and like L. Ron Hubbard, Jobs misused intellectual property rights to support his scheme.
As for Stallman, nobody gives a shit whether you like him or what you think about him. Apple has a billion dollar marketing budget to spread their propaganda and lies. Stallman is an activist with almost no money. The only way he is going to be heard is by being controversial.
It doesn't matter who the error is with. The court hasn't been impeached and it's not bloody likely that it will be. If you want to change this, you need to pass a law.
Objectivity isn't an all-or-nothing proposition. Personal biases are to be expected and people try to account for them. Manipulation, deception, and propaganda, on the other hand, are unacceptable in a journalist. Every single one of the photo journalists in this pictures should get fired. They don't just fail to be objective, their images are inflaming war and getting people killed.
Nonsense. Passing a new law is the right thing in these situations.
The error here is clearly with the governor. And the people of California have an easy way of getting rid of him come next election. Let's not forget this next time around.
Alleging retaliation for whistle blowing? What whistle blowing? Talking about "The Company"? What company? Denying a second opinion? And after months of recovering from a stroke, what difference do a few days make? Low air pressure, don't they have hyperbaric chambers?
The whole thing makes little sense to me. I hope she will take her allegations to court so that we can get clarity about this. Her allegations are very serious, and the public should find out whether she is off her rocker or whether there is a serious problem with research management.
First of all, you can't set any rules you like on your own private property; there are limits. Second, malls are private property, but they are also public spaces. As public spaces, rules apply to them that don't apply to your home.
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They are not "my superior interpretations", they are mainstream paleoclimatology. Sea levels have risen by 120m over the last 20000 years, 60m over the last 10000 years. Large parts of North America and Europe were covered in huge ice sheets. Humans walked to the Americas because of it. Human civilization probably started during the Younger Dryas because of massive climate change. There have been eight glaciations in the past 800000 years. These glaciation cycles are regular as clockwork. You can see the evidence everywhere in Europe and the US. And these cycles are getting colder overall, not warmer.
Anybody who thinks that by reducing CO2 we can keep the climate "stable" has about the same level of knowledge and understanding of earth's recent history as a young earth creationist. The idea is just totally absurd.
We should be so lucky as to be able to cause runaway global warming and escape these glaciation cycles. Instead, the next couple of centuries are likely going to be the warmest it's going to be for the next 80000 years... that is, if we're lucky. If we're unlucky, the next glaciation cycle could start today.
I did.
Therefore, the iPad is a lot more expensive than the Asus. (Sony and Blackberry both make shitty, overpriced hardware, so they are not good reference points.)
And the 11" Macbook Air is about twice as expensive as a functionally equivalent netbook.
Because Linux geeks often have money to burn and like shiny things. I was tempted to get a Macbook to run Linux myself. I would have been willing to pay somewhat of a premium, but concluded Apple hardware was just way too overpriced.
Are you trying to be funny? I can't tell.
But that doesn't matter. For the cost of sending a single astronaut, we can send tens of thousands of robotic probes. Even if they weren't autonomous at all and needed to creep along with remote control, we'd still get tons more data every hour than the human would give us. But autonomous probes actually are working better and better anyway, so they can explore quickly.
And, of course, long-term human space missions are technologically impossible with current technology anyway. We need advances in robotics and propulsion to make them happen, and we need a much better understanding of our solar system.
So, if you want manned exploration eventually (as I do), we need to focus our resources on robotic exploration right now.
Human settlements on other planets are a great idea. But human settlements on other planets will require much more robotics and science than we currently have, and if we waste our scarce space funding on sending astronauts on joy rides, people will tire of space exploration long before we settle elsewhere.
Wonderful. So you persuade your elected representatives to redirect money from Iraq to manned space exploration.
Until you succeed, however, NASA should focus on cost-effective and rational space exploration, which means unmanned space exploration.
Amerindians walk across Bering Strait
Marsupials frolic in Antarctica
Sea levels rise,
sea levels fall.
Only a fool thinks
he can control the motions of the heavens and earth
I actually used to believe the global warming story, until I looked at the science; then I concluded that it was incoherent bullshit. It's not the "anthropogenic warming" that's wrong--humans probably have cause the climate to get slightly warmer--it's the interpretation of those results where global warming proponents lose all connection with reality. Global warming is the left wing analog of "creation science" and "pro-life medicine".
Here is a temperature record over the last 500k years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vostok_Petit_data.svg
First, note that the last warm periods were considerably warmer than our current warm period. Second, if we follow the normal pattern, sooner or later we are going to experience an 8C drop in temperature, with ice sheets covering most of Europe and NA. Third, nobody has any idea why these curves look the way they do.
So, yeah, there is "no know non-anthropogenic reason" because nobody has a clue at all.
Mars may be fairly dry, but it clearly has liquid water, some organics, and reasonably high temperatures.
I don't see why this needs to be an either/or scenario. If we stop wasting money on sending people into orbit, we can send a fleet of advanced robotic probes to all of these destinations.
There is no point in sending people to Mars; people can't do anything that a rover can't do cheaper and better.
The iPad 2 copied features from the Samsung Galaxy Tab, like the front-facing camera and the rear facing camera. If Apple can keep Samsung from selling rectangular tablets, then Samsung should be able to keep Apple from selling tablets with front and rear cameras.
You're obviously someone who has way too much money to waste and doesn't need to bother checking the facts. Apple's phones, tablets, and laptops continue to be way more expensive than functional equivalents from other companies. They are luxury niche products. And they only thing disruptive about Apple these days is their lawsuits; iOS 5 and iCloud are not even catching up with Android and Google.
Standards traditionally are based on enlightened self-interest: I follow the C standard and you follow the C standard so that we can exchange code.
The very fact that Oracle needs to pressure people into following their "standard" tells you that there is something wrong with it.
They did roll their own VM and libraries, and Oracle has no legitimate claims to the Java language itself.
In different words, they gave Java the boot: they kicked it out of their company.
Maybe in the twisted, proprietary world of Apple the idea that a "standard" consists of a single vendor maintaining all the implementations of that standard is "as it should be", but in the real world, that's ridiculous. And of course Oracle's implementation for Apple is piss-poor.
Oh, wow, Apple allows Adobe to deliver software on "their" platform. How magnanimous of Apple! Apple's management is rediscovering the marketing and management insights of such companies as Compuserve, AOL, and Ma Bell: "keep it proprietary and closed, control everything, and remain eternally successful".
I'm really glad that Apple is going to crash and burn within a half dozen years.
Why are you implying that I believe that there is an "absolute objective [view]" when I just said that there isn't? And do you simply not understand the difference between posting Palestinian kids as stone throwers? Are you unable to reconcile the notions that (1) there is a continuum of biases and choices, (2) not everybody draws the line between what is acceptable and what is not in the same place, and (3) nevertheless, there is biased reporting that is clearly unacceptable no matter what?
It doesn't lead *you* anywhere because what's being deconstructed is your church and your beliefs. For other people, deconstruction of the claptrap your religion has foisted upon the world for the past two thousand years actually leads to more clarity and moral certainty. In different words, there are absolute standards of right and wrong, Christianity just happens to be on the "wrong" side.
I think they aren't changing this because they can't: their systems are hugely complex, intricately coupled, and optimized for speed. Rapid prototyping of easy-to-use user interfaces is kind of hard to do in that kind of system.
Forget about the lack of APIs, Google+ has major privacy and usability issues.
I think the fact that a Google employee and geek got confused and accidentally posted a private flame publicly speaks for itself: Google+'s circles and privacy settings are a failure.
Oh, don't you worry about consequences for Stallman: he's been at this longer than you have likely been alive.
Worry instead about the long term reputation of your favorite company and the legacy of your favorite monopolist. People may say nice things about Jobs out of politeness right now, but that's going to wear off. And the company is in already trouble for the same reasons it was in trouble 10 years ago: it's all marketing flash and no substance.
Voter turnout in the California primaries was 25% in 2010. Californians really shouldn't complain if Brown isn't working out the way they want.
I totally agree: there is room for both open and closed source, but that's not what this is about at all. Steve Jobs didn't just produce closed source software, he moved the industry towards censorship and business models that enormously restrict choice and freedom, as well as towards a model of "innovation" that relies on stealing other people's ideas instead of investing in new ideas. Jobs didn't have to do that; other companies have shown that they can make money with innovation and openness.
L. Ron Hubbard is an excellent analogy... for Steve Jobs. It describes exactly what Jobs did: he created a religion based on ridiculous premises and promises that sucks large amounts of money out of people's pockets, and he even managed to manipulate them to rush to his defense; and like L. Ron Hubbard, Jobs misused intellectual property rights to support his scheme.
As for Stallman, nobody gives a shit whether you like him or what you think about him. Apple has a billion dollar marketing budget to spread their propaganda and lies. Stallman is an activist with almost no money. The only way he is going to be heard is by being controversial.
It doesn't matter who the error is with. The court hasn't been impeached and it's not bloody likely that it will be. If you want to change this, you need to pass a law.
Objectivity isn't an all-or-nothing proposition. Personal biases are to be expected and people try to account for them. Manipulation, deception, and propaganda, on the other hand, are unacceptable in a journalist. Every single one of the photo journalists in this pictures should get fired. They don't just fail to be objective, their images are inflaming war and getting people killed.
Nonsense. Passing a new law is the right thing in these situations.
The error here is clearly with the governor. And the people of California have an easy way of getting rid of him come next election. Let's not forget this next time around.
Alleging retaliation for whistle blowing? What whistle blowing? Talking about "The Company"? What company? Denying a second opinion? And after months of recovering from a stroke, what difference do a few days make? Low air pressure, don't they have hyperbaric chambers?
The whole thing makes little sense to me. I hope she will take her allegations to court so that we can get clarity about this. Her allegations are very serious, and the public should find out whether she is off her rocker or whether there is a serious problem with research management.
First of all, you can't set any rules you like on your own private property; there are limits. Second, malls are private property, but they are also public spaces. As public spaces, rules apply to them that don't apply to your home.