I've had Windows 8 since it was released and I haven't been to the windows store once. Bought quite a few games on Steam and Origin since then, though. Spent 100% of my time at the desktop, just like I did with 7.
Only corporations, small business, medium sized business, large business, government, home users (especially gamers). Apart from these people, it's dying, yes.
Yes, the thing you don't understand, or perhaps can't, is that the job of the security services is to steal secrets. They've been making use of signals intelligence ever since people started sending signals to each other. That this has come as a shock to you is something I find quite bemusing.
Ever heard of the phrase, "Noble Cause Corruption"? I have no problem trusting my government more than I'd trust vainglorious fools like Assange and Snowden.
"Activists"? You mean the kind of people who want to give succour to regimes like those of Russia and China? The kind of people who resent the fact that their world view was decisively destroyed when the Berlin Wall came down? They aren't "activists"; they're bloody fools.
Don't expect to get much sympathy here. Most of the commenters think that people like Snowden and Assange have the right to decide what's in the national interest and what isn't, on your behalf. Forget your pesky politicians and spooks. Assange and Snowden know best, apparently.
It wouldn't surprise me one tiny bit if the ozone hole is mostly caused by cosmic rays, and the current science is a pile of utter bilge. We've been studying it for too short a period of time to know either way. There are cycles in nature that are longer than research scientist grant funding rounds, that when they show themselves usually shift the paradigm.
With respect to CO2, it isn't clear to me what "climate change" actually means, especially as there hasn't been any for 15 years. Given that we're half way through the 30 years to be statistically significant according to climate scientists, it's going to have to get a lot warmer a lot faster over the next 15 to make up the difference. Personally, I don't think it's going to happen because I think the current science on climate is also a massive pile of utter bilge.
Rather than a war on "climate change", it would be better for the President to start a war on Bad Science.
Hmmmmm. As a BT customer for 7 years, I can honestly say they're always given me great service. My broadband has never been down. I can't get cable but had Infinity installed a few months back and it's brilliant. Whenever I've spoken to people on the phone they've always been courteous, efficient and solved my issues more or less right away.
As a customer, I'm very happy with them. Don't know this guy personally and to be honest, I couldn't care less if he's an UTTER UTTER (whatever). As long as I get a service I'm happy with, it's all good.
Some people are speculating it's to do with TEST Alliance, as they're under a bit of pressure at the moment. It wouldn't surprise me if Eve played host to the kind of idiots who'd be able to do something like this. Certain aspects of the game are attractive to sociopaths. Then again I'm not a conspiracy theorist, so I'm thinking it's just a re-run of the last one, given that some of Lulzsec guys were jailed a few weeks ago for doing it some time ago.
Guess what, surgeons are more likely to schedule difficult cases on a Friday, so the patients get longer in intensive care with the surgeon on call, as he isn't in surgery at the weekend so can be on hand to help out. More dying is purely a result of their cases being more difficult. Also, we're talking about 0.6% here.
The guidelines for rating [the] abstracts show only the highest rating value blames the majority of global warming on humans. No other rating says how much humans contribute to global warming. The only time an abstract is rated as saying how much humans contribute to global warming is if it mentions:
that human activity is a dominant influence or has caused most of recent climate change (>50%).
If we use the system’s search feature for abstracts that meet this requirement, we get 65 results. That is 65, out of the 12,000+ examined abstracts. Not only is that value incredibly small, it is smaller than another value listed in the paper:
Reject AGW 0.7% (78)
Remembering AGW stands for anthropogenic global warming, or global warming caused by humans, take a minute to let that sink in. This study done by John Cook and others, praised by the President of the United States, found more scientific publications whose abstracts reject global warming than say humans are primarily to blame for it.
The paper is a lie. Here’s the genesis of the lie: When you take a result of 32.6% of all papers that accept AGW, ignoring the 66% that don’t, and twist that into 97%, excluding any mention of that original value in your media reports, there’s nothing else to call it.
Worse, even if it were true, what is wrong with this statement: "97% of scientists accept that an element called phlogiston causes materials to combust".
Absolutely. But even some dude standing on screen with a galaxy in the background talking about the "mysteries of the cosmos" is good TV. I love all that stuff.
There's also been quite a lot of new physics and cosmology since 1980. We have Hubble. We have the CMB. We have all kinds of other interesting things...! Tyson is perfect for this. His enthusiasm is infectious (if you've listened to any of his audio books).
On the contrary, the intellectual laziness is on those who uncritically accept the hypothesis. It takes effort and energy to object to it. Far easier to support the paradigm. You're more likely to get tenure (and grant funding).
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I think that this kind of hyperbole just diminishes any argument you were trying to make. In fact, it's pretty much destroyed it.
I've had Windows 8 since it was released and I haven't been to the windows store once. Bought quite a few games on Steam and Origin since then, though. Spent 100% of my time at the desktop, just like I did with 7.
Only corporations, small business, medium sized business, large business, government, home users (especially gamers). Apart from these people, it's dying, yes.
Ah. The tyranny of the discontinuous mind...
No, I don't think they are "working against me". That's just paranoid drivel.
Yes, the thing you don't understand, or perhaps can't, is that the job of the security services is to steal secrets. They've been making use of signals intelligence ever since people started sending signals to each other. That this has come as a shock to you is something I find quite bemusing.
Ever heard of the phrase, "Noble Cause Corruption"? I have no problem trusting my government more than I'd trust vainglorious fools like Assange and Snowden.
"Activists"? You mean the kind of people who want to give succour to regimes like those of Russia and China? The kind of people who resent the fact that their world view was decisively destroyed when the Berlin Wall came down? They aren't "activists"; they're bloody fools.
Don't expect to get much sympathy here. Most of the commenters think that people like Snowden and Assange have the right to decide what's in the national interest and what isn't, on your behalf. Forget your pesky politicians and spooks. Assange and Snowden know best, apparently.
It wouldn't surprise me one tiny bit if the ozone hole is mostly caused by cosmic rays, and the current science is a pile of utter bilge. We've been studying it for too short a period of time to know either way. There are cycles in nature that are longer than research scientist grant funding rounds, that when they show themselves usually shift the paradigm.
With respect to CO2, it isn't clear to me what "climate change" actually means, especially as there hasn't been any for 15 years. Given that we're half way through the 30 years to be statistically significant according to climate scientists, it's going to have to get a lot warmer a lot faster over the next 15 to make up the difference. Personally, I don't think it's going to happen because I think the current science on climate is also a massive pile of utter bilge.
Rather than a war on "climate change", it would be better for the President to start a war on Bad Science.
Hmmmmm. As a BT customer for 7 years, I can honestly say they're always given me great service. My broadband has never been down. I can't get cable but had Infinity installed a few months back and it's brilliant. Whenever I've spoken to people on the phone they've always been courteous, efficient and solved my issues more or less right away.
As a customer, I'm very happy with them. Don't know this guy personally and to be honest, I couldn't care less if he's an UTTER UTTER (whatever). As long as I get a service I'm happy with, it's all good.
I do actually have a spreadsheet for Eve. Only for manufacturing costs of certain things though.
No, more likely it's because the idiots who DDOS'd them last time went to jail a few weeks ago.
Haha. ^ mod up.
Some people are speculating it's to do with TEST Alliance, as they're under a bit of pressure at the moment. It wouldn't surprise me if Eve played host to the kind of idiots who'd be able to do something like this. Certain aspects of the game are attractive to sociopaths. Then again I'm not a conspiracy theorist, so I'm thinking it's just a re-run of the last one, given that some of Lulzsec guys were jailed a few weeks ago for doing it some time ago.
Yea me too. My manufacturing jobs have finished cooking! (Although obviously with the cluster offline I've got nobody to sell them to).
Guess what, surgeons are more likely to schedule difficult cases on a Friday, so the patients get longer in intensive care with the surgeon on call, as he isn't in surgery at the weekend so can be on hand to help out. More dying is purely a result of their cases being more difficult. Also, we're talking about 0.6% here.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
I don't think you understand what he did. If you read Marcel Crok's comment, all becomes clear.
Perhaps you should read the analysis of Cook's idiotic paper before you accuse me of making things up!
The paper is a lie. Here’s the genesis of the lie: When you take a result of 32.6% of all papers that accept AGW, ignoring the 66% that don’t, and twist that into 97%, excluding any mention of that original value in your media reports, there’s nothing else to call it.
Worse, even if it were true, what is wrong with this statement: "97% of scientists accept that an element called phlogiston causes materials to combust".
Can you spot the error in the logic?
Absolutely. But even some dude standing on screen with a galaxy in the background talking about the "mysteries of the cosmos" is good TV. I love all that stuff.
Yes, this is my experience with it too. Something is wrong with the OP's configuration. I've never had a problem with this service.
There's also been quite a lot of new physics and cosmology since 1980. We have Hubble. We have the CMB. We have all kinds of other interesting things...! Tyson is perfect for this. His enthusiasm is infectious (if you've listened to any of his audio books).
On the contrary, the intellectual laziness is on those who uncritically accept the hypothesis. It takes effort and energy to object to it. Far easier to support the paradigm. You're more likely to get tenure (and grant funding).