The real truth is that there are enough people on this planet with the power and money to deny the undeniable, who think they can lead a full long happy life without having to worry about the consequences of global warming, as it will not be a problem for their generation, but the generations to follow. If you're not rich and in your mid to late 60's you're unwittingly allowing an older generation to completely hoodwink you.
One of the reasons why climate scientists are off in their predictions is that the sun has been behaving in an odd way and the whole planet for the last few years has been getting far less energy from the sun that it normally does. The fact that the planet has remained in a warming trend during this period only backs up climatologists claims that we're in deep sh*t.
Climate science should be studied, it's fundamentally important to everyone on the planet. Hackus = TROLL
Richard Dawkins is just another evangelist, evangelising his own beliefs and making a good buck out of it. There's no difference between Richard Dawkins and any other religious leader, they're all just peddling their own ideas about the nature of things, when in actual fact they have nothing but faith and belief that they are right, without any empirical evidence support their claims.
How would Richard Dawkins know if there is a god or not? How would he know if spirituality is a real tangible force in this universe or not? He should know better (and probably does).
There's nothing more dangerous than a driver in a car with their head pinned to a mobile phone.
I've seen them change lanes without head checks, miss stop signs, drive through red lights.
It's sheer f'in luck they survive and for my own survival I stay well a truly away from a car when I can see the driver is completely distracted and on a phone.
And yet when someone with hearing problems presents themselves to an expert on human hearing they'll tell you the human ear is an incredibly delicate part of the body that they don't fully understand,
I think of digital music and lossy codecs in the same way I think of GM foods. Yea sure, they're probably OK, but maybe they're not. When someone speaks with absolute certainty about a subject no one understands absolutely I have to raise an eyebrow.
People have ideas, ideas that are derivatives of other ideas. When it comes to user interface design these ideas have to be derivative as otherwise people wouldn't find them intuitive, communication is all about expressing things in terms people understand, e.g. alphabets, left to right writing systems, touch, gestures.
You change the paradigm too much and no one will understand it, this doesn't leave a whole lot of options, repetition in amongst people trying to create an incremental shift in a communication paradigm is going to happen all the time, we should just get use to this and stop being surprised/suspicious of plagiary whenever two things like this look remarkably similar.
I guess you've never been to the UAE or Abu Dhabi.
Well... firstly, they live in a waste land. You can't grow crops there, the soil is no good. Currently all their food is imported from overseas. If there's ever an energy crisis due to peak oil, big populations in these countries will quickly become unsustainable.
Secondly, these projects are all 4 years out of date property boom hype, like this...
I think the answer to that question would reveal that the people whose quality of life is being raised already have pretty damn fabulous life and have no need for an easier higher quality of life whatsoever.
In an idealistic (communist) society the benefits of these advancements would be shared amongst all, but that's not how it is.
The problem is not the technology, it's the floored system in which it's being deployed.
I've always thought if the US and China ever entered an armed conflict the first indication of this would be our computers and cell phones would all spontaneously brick themselves.
Anyone seen the opening episodes of Battle Star Gallactica?
There are people out there who know, without having to work another day in their life, that they will always have more money than they'll ever be able to spend and so will their children and their grand children and... etc etc etc. Should I have said relatively care free?
Most people don't even understand they are slaves... To quote Goethe "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
Heh.... funny, heard of the expression "Curiosity killed the cat?".
2. Chance to develop a better understanding of infectious diseases.
I don't understand how this sort of research helps our understanding of infectious diseases, I've read nothing to indicate it does.
3. Ability to study highly-virulent strains creates an opportunity to develop new control measures.
Great! Create solutions for problems you've invented, the best kind of marketing there is.
I think your point of view isn't shared by a large portion of the scientific community who as stated in the article have major concerns about this type of research.
You are kidding yourself if you think the 1% need more than half of the remaining 99% to keep living a blissful care free life. Technology is rapidly advancing beyond the need for serfs. I laugh at the fools who call themselves right wing/republican, most of them are in no way served by the interests of the right.
Or does anyone out there think the likelihood of a extremely contagious flu virus going into the wild would escalate somewhat if the occupy protests escalated into a popular uprising that could overthrow the capitalistic system?
You want to occupy hey? This will keep you occupied !
Anyone have the feeling that if the US and China ever went to war, half the computer systems in the US and other allied nations would act in a similar to the colonial computer systems in the initial cylon attack in battlestar gallactica?
The cost of this system would be in the thousands.
How much do you need to pay that nurse annually? How many jobs would these systems eliminate?
Even if it fucks up once a year, do you think a hospital is going to ignore a system that allows them to eliminate the need for that highly payed nurse in the OR?
Technology always has and always will be used to reduce costs by eliminating the need for human resources. When technology like this is introduced, nearly always the complaint is the technology isn't as good or reliable as the human being it replaced, but the bottom line always wins.
Anyone who thinks they can pirate software these days with impunity is extremely technically ignorant. You'd have to be a complete moron to run a system on a pirated server system live on the net.
And the slashdot reporting of this story seems to be a little off.... it does not say they halting support for 32bit, just that they are supporting 64 for all their server products, which they have been doing for the majority of their server systems for quite some time.
The thing thats really changed is as of.NET 2.0 we now have 64bit CLR.
The internet is a self configuring network, designed to withstand nuclear strikes. I think it can survive anything big business tries to throw at it. It doesn't rely on any particular means of transport, it'll go over optic fibre, down telephone and power lines, over satellite, wireless radio frequencies and probably quantum wahwah's within a few years. These blow hard's refered to in this article are living in the 90's if they really believe they're sitting on a gold mine with their network of cables.
Even if they could put pressure on the "Free Loaders", it wouldn't work, it's already been tried several times where a free internet service has built up a huge subscriber base only to be taken over and turned into a paid service.... guess what happens, everyone leaves and goes somewhere else. The technology is out there, the horse has already bolted, it can't be undone. I think the smart business men out there have already come to terms with this. Google's success is proof of it, it has constructed business model's that assume that the information services it offers to the public will never generate revenue for them directly, they rely on indirect means of earning income.
Slashdot Mirror
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/15/the-met-office-responds-to-global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago/
The real truth is that there are enough people on this planet with the power and money to deny the undeniable, who think they can lead a full long happy life without having to worry about the consequences of global warming, as it will not be a problem for their generation, but the generations to follow. If you're not rich and in your mid to late 60's you're unwittingly allowing an older generation to completely hoodwink you.
HEAR HEAR !
It's truly shocking and quite dismaying
The fact you're being modded up for this completely ignorant/delusional statement is quite sad.
Absolutely, it's also not just about our proximity to the sun, it is also about cycles of sun activity....
http://www.universetoday.com/103803/solar-cycle-24-on-track-to-be-the-weakest-in-100-years/
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/images/solar_irradiance.jpg
One of the reasons why climate scientists are off in their predictions is that the sun has been behaving in an odd way and the whole planet for the last few years has been getting far less energy from the sun that it normally does. The fact that the planet has remained in a warming trend during this period only backs up climatologists claims that we're in deep sh*t.
Climate science should be studied, it's fundamentally important to everyone on the planet. Hackus = TROLL
Why post at all?
I think incapability stopped you from posting an intelligent response, not time constraints.
Richard Dawkins is just another evangelist, evangelising his own beliefs and making a good buck out of it. There's no difference between Richard Dawkins and any other religious leader, they're all just peddling their own ideas about the nature of things, when in actual fact they have nothing but faith and belief that they are right, without any empirical evidence support their claims.
How would Richard Dawkins know if there is a god or not? How would he know if spirituality is a real tangible force in this universe or not? He should know better (and probably does).
I call complete bullshit on this one.
There's nothing more dangerous than a driver in a car with their head pinned to a mobile phone.
I've seen them change lanes without head checks, miss stop signs, drive through red lights.
It's sheer f'in luck they survive and for my own survival I stay well a truly away from a car when I can see the driver is completely distracted and on a phone.
And yet when someone with hearing problems presents themselves to an expert on human hearing they'll tell you the human ear is an incredibly delicate part of the body that they don't fully understand,
I think of digital music and lossy codecs in the same way I think of GM foods. Yea sure, they're probably OK, but maybe they're not. When someone speaks with absolute certainty about a subject no one understands absolutely I have to raise an eyebrow.
Who copied who arguments....
Really how boring is this argument?
People have ideas, ideas that are derivatives of other ideas. When it comes to user interface design these ideas have to be derivative as otherwise people wouldn't find them intuitive, communication is all about expressing things in terms people understand, e.g. alphabets, left to right writing systems, touch, gestures.
You change the paradigm too much and no one will understand it, this doesn't leave a whole lot of options, repetition in amongst people trying to create an incremental shift in a communication paradigm is going to happen all the time, we should just get use to this and stop being surprised/suspicious of plagiary whenever two things like this look remarkably similar.
You mean slave labour shortage.
By official accounts they were paid less than a dollar an hour, I'm betting many weren't paid at all.
Students are much easier to take advantage of than normal workers.
Enjoy your iPhones Apple fan boys.... and the bad karma they come with.
Comparisons to Amazon EC2: 9
Comparisons to MS Azure: 0
I think the first few sentences of a news article are significant because most people only read the first few lines of the majority of news articles.
This is a good move as journalism needs to have a revenue stream in order for it to stay alive and healthy.
Who the hell wants to live on a planet in which no real journalism takes place?
Out freedoms and personal liberties are at stake here.
I guess you've never been to the UAE or Abu Dhabi.
Well... firstly, they live in a waste land. You can't grow crops there, the soil is no good. Currently all their food is imported from overseas. If there's ever an energy crisis due to peak oil, big populations in these countries will quickly become unsustainable.
Secondly, these projects are all 4 years out of date property boom hype, like this...
http://gizmodo.com/5065406/the-plans-for-the-155+mile+high-skyscraper-in-you-guessed-it-dubai ...the eco city is just yet another pie in the sky property development, all of which after some research you'll find are probably already canned. The only one of these super projects ever to see the light of day is a massive flop...
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/occupancy-levels-rise-as-burj-khalifa-celebrates-first-birthday-371164.html
Raising whose quality of life?
I think the answer to that question would reveal that the people whose quality of life is being raised already have pretty damn fabulous life and have no need for an easier higher quality of life whatsoever.
In an idealistic (communist) society the benefits of these advancements would be shared amongst all, but that's not how it is.
The problem is not the technology, it's the floored system in which it's being deployed.
I've always thought if the US and China ever entered an armed conflict the first indication of this would be our computers and cell phones would all spontaneously brick themselves.
Anyone seen the opening episodes of Battle Star Gallactica?
There are people out there who know, without having to work another day in their life, that they will always have more money than they'll ever be able to spend and so will their children and their grand children and... etc etc etc. Should I have said relatively care free?
Most people don't even understand they are slaves... To quote Goethe "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
1. Curiosity.
Heh.... funny, heard of the expression "Curiosity killed the cat?".
2. Chance to develop a better understanding of infectious diseases.
I don't understand how this sort of research helps our understanding of infectious diseases, I've read nothing to indicate it does.
3. Ability to study highly-virulent strains creates an opportunity to develop new control measures.
Great! Create solutions for problems you've invented, the best kind of marketing there is.
I think your point of view isn't shared by a large portion of the scientific community who as stated in the article have major concerns about this type of research.
You are kidding yourself if you think the 1% need more than half of the remaining 99% to keep living a blissful care free life. Technology is rapidly advancing beyond the need for serfs. I laugh at the fools who call themselves right wing/republican, most of them are in no way served by the interests of the right.
Create a list of all the valid reasons for engineering a virus designed to kill billions of people, how many of the top 10 get rated as paranoid?
Or does anyone out there think the likelihood of a extremely contagious flu virus going into the wild would escalate somewhat if the occupy protests escalated into a popular uprising that could overthrow the capitalistic system?
You want to occupy hey? This will keep you occupied !
Anyone have the feeling that if the US and China ever went to war, half the computer systems in the US and other allied nations would act in a similar to the colonial computer systems in the initial cylon attack in battlestar gallactica?
The cost of this system would be in the thousands.
How much do you need to pay that nurse annually?
How many jobs would these systems eliminate?
Even if it fucks up once a year, do you think a hospital is going to ignore a system that allows them to eliminate the need for that highly payed nurse in the OR?
Technology always has and always will be used to reduce costs by eliminating the need for human resources. When technology like this is introduced, nearly always the complaint is the technology isn't as good or reliable as the human being it replaced, but the bottom line always wins.
This wouldn't be a factor in their motivation.
.NET 2.0 we now have 64bit CLR.
Have you heard of windows activation ?
Anyone who thinks they can pirate software these days with impunity is extremely technically ignorant. You'd have to be a complete moron to run a system on a pirated server system live on the net.
And the slashdot reporting of this story seems to be a little off.... it does not say they halting support for 32bit, just that they are supporting 64 for all their server products, which they have been doing for the majority of their server systems for quite some time.
The thing thats really changed is as of
Sorry but this is just a load of bullocks...
The internet is a self configuring network, designed to withstand nuclear strikes. I think it can survive anything big business tries to throw at it. It doesn't rely on any particular means of transport, it'll go over optic fibre, down telephone and power lines, over satellite, wireless radio frequencies and probably quantum wahwah's within a few years. These blow hard's refered to in this article are living in the 90's if they really believe they're sitting on a gold mine with their network of cables.
Even if they could put pressure on the "Free Loaders", it wouldn't work, it's already been tried several times where a free internet service has built up a huge subscriber base only to be taken over and turned into a paid service.... guess what happens, everyone leaves and goes somewhere else. The technology is out there, the horse has already bolted, it can't be undone. I think the smart business men out there have already come to terms with this. Google's success is proof of it, it has constructed business model's that assume that the information services it offers to the public will never generate revenue for them directly, they rely on indirect means of earning income.
From the crock of Sh*t department..... the definitive answer is .....
x*42
where x = How long is a piece of string?