Ahh, yes. I remember the brief period in time when Connectix sold a PS2 emulator (Connectix Virtual Game Station). They even withstood the lawsuit Sony threw at them. But then they sold it to.... Sony.
Oh well, there were a few months when my Mac was a kick-ass game machine.
That's where I am right now. I was probably going to get a new PS2 at the beginning of May anyway simply because no matter how many times I clean it, the old one is reading fewer and fewer disks. And you can completely forget about the PS1 disks and the "blue" PS2 disks. Not to mention it doesn't play video DVDs any more either.
Yep, I'm due.... Of course I'll probably blow the $20 on an accessory or new game anyway.
Hopefully now global warming can take its place next to DDT, killer bees, and acid rain on the list of scientific catastrophies that never materialized.
You mean like the imminant ice age we averted in the 70's?
Its not like there haven't been mass extinctions in the past, or there haven't been times when the glaciers haven't receded to a greater extent than they are currently.
All the imerical data I've seen indicates the global climate has been changing ever since there was a global climate. It also seems to suggest that climate change is one of the major driving factors in both extinction and evolution.
The question isn't wether or not the climate is changing (it always has), the question is, do we think we know enough to "freeze" the climate near current conditions? That doesn't even begin to address the question of wether or not that's a wise thing to do.
And lets also not forget that all kinds of activities cause short-term changes in physical states (like blood pressure) and psychologica states (like attitudes). Including "healthy" ones like exercise, or "normal" ones like driving in heavy traffic.
This study still does not address long-term changes, at least based on the little bits available.
It is common sense. The more engaging (the bigger the adrenaline rush) the higher your blood pressure is going to be. All the outcomes mentioned are in line with any activity that raises the "excitability" level. You want to talk high bp and a tendency towards violence, let's compare this to say, a similar group of men who just watched their favorite sports team lose a close game.
Unfortunately, after reading your comment I read this page.
Where I learned that blue rings were associated with small moons. And "The outer ring of Saturn is blue and has Enceladus right smack at its brightest spot, and Uranus is strikingly similar, with its blue ring right on top of Mab's orbit,".
In the fraction of those atoms in the center plane who ARE exactly blanced
Then you hit a problem when the electron moves to a different position, throwing off the balance. Or maybe in this position, the electron gets ripped off in one direction and the nucleus goes another -or part of the nucleus goes one way and part goes the other...
However, if you were a 2d entity, you might be able to pull this off... But I'm not sure how a 2d entity can survive in a 3d world much less transport itself between two black holes.
Let me know when that happens, because it hasnt' happened yet. Did you not RTFA? Here are the last three paragraphs,
he conclusions presented here present two major challenges to the research community.
One is to find ways of extending experimental investigations into the oceans and the developing world.
The second is to integrate them into computer models of climate, something which is only just beginning to happen.
IOW we haven't yet successfully modeled it, and predictions are modified every time the model is. Seriously, the global climate models are superb tools for research, helping us understand what we do and don't know. When we get to the point where we aren't having to integrate factors that have a huge effect several times a year, then maybe they're stable enough, accurate enough and reliable enough to start making predictions with some certainty. If you don't believe me, next time you see a prediction, look to see if any measure of reliability in included. Without that, the prediction is meaningless.
Thank God, I can start using my cell phone again! Man, I'm glad someone criticized that study or I'd be in trouble.
Of course we see this in all manner of studies.
One decade, bacon and eggs is a good, healthy breakfast. Next decade, cholesterol is bad, that means bacon and eggs are bad. The next decade, obesity is bad, eat bacon and eggs to lose weight and be healthier. Next decade -yes people with high cholesterol have higher rate of cardiac trouble, years of changing diet and cholesterol lowering drugs work to lower cholesterol, but they still have a higher rate of cardiac trouble....
A single study by itself is not scientific proof. It does often take decades to figure out exactly what's happening. In the mean time, inquiry is good, overreaction to every article published is silly.
Next up : cell phone use doesn't increase risk of brain cancer on side of use, it reduces risk of brain cancer on the opposite side of the brain. In other news, cancer gene linked to motor mouth.
To be followed by..., the risks of second-hand cell phone use -is that guy on the cell phone slowly killing you?
Why is there never any retaliation against the companies that produce this software?
Or it could be in the cases you cited, what was done was done very publicly, so the person responsible was easy to find. Now if you know who is responsible for the malware in question, why don't you let the FBI know and see what happens?
Its no odder than the fact that I got a speeding ticket when I sped past an unmarked police car, but they haven't found the person who broke several windshields in the neighborhood a while back.
Can't get the right combination of keywords on Google to pull up the article about the large number of people actually doing that rather than try to fix the computer they have. Maybe someone else can find it.
For those who didn't follow the link, the infamous quote above was uttered by Thomas Hesse, President of Sony's Global Digital Business WRT the Sony rootkit debacle.
"With regard to scientific equipment: my experience (in a biotech firm) has been quite similar."
Mine too. Too often once the software's written for a piece of equipment a company wants to sell, the software unit gets disbanded (what, you wanted support?). So then you're stuck with whatever OS was current at the time for the lifetime of the equipment. So we have setups costing 10's to 100's of thousands of dollars controlled by PCs running Win 95/98. It would be nice to have these connected to the network to facilitate transferring data, but who wants to risk that?
OTOH, we have some old Mac 8100's running OS 9 controlling some equipment. Those have been connected to the network for years, and we haven't had a problem yet (as long as we can find mouse, keyboard and monitor replacements).
Yes, there have been stories like this for years. Its not like this is the first time "Cyberwarfare" has been funded in the US or other countries -but don't tell anyone else that. It better to think only the big, bad USA would/could do such a thing.
OTOH, how many stories have we seen of online businesses (usually gambling) coughing up millions to avert DNS attacks? Attacks via the internet that can't be readily defended are already happening. Its just that for now, money is the object.
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I'd expect some emulator engines
Ahh, yes. I remember the brief period in time when Connectix sold a PS2 emulator (Connectix Virtual Game Station). They even withstood the lawsuit Sony threw at them. But then they sold it to.... Sony.
Oh well, there were a few months when my Mac was a kick-ass game machine.
That's where I am right now. I was probably going to get a new PS2 at the beginning of May anyway simply because no matter how many times I clean it, the old one is reading fewer and fewer disks. And you can completely forget about the PS1 disks and the "blue" PS2 disks. Not to mention it doesn't play video DVDs any more either.
Yep, I'm due.... Of course I'll probably blow the $20 on an accessory or new game anyway.
If you'd rather believe science fiction writers than real scientists about science... how long have you been a Republican?
And we see right here what the author of TFA was talking about. The debate soon turns from science to name calling and politics.
Hopefully now global warming can take its place next to DDT, killer bees, and acid rain on the list of scientific catastrophies that never materialized.
You mean like the imminant ice age we averted in the 70's?
Its not like there haven't been mass extinctions in the past, or there haven't been times when the glaciers haven't receded to a greater extent than they are currently.
All the imerical data I've seen indicates the global climate has been changing ever since there was a global climate. It also seems to suggest that climate change is one of the major driving factors in both extinction and evolution.
The question isn't wether or not the climate is changing (it always has), the question is, do we think we know enough to "freeze" the climate near current conditions? That doesn't even begin to address the question of wether or not that's a wise thing to do.
And lets also not forget that all kinds of activities cause short-term changes in physical states (like blood pressure) and psychologica states (like attitudes). Including "healthy" ones like exercise, or "normal" ones like driving in heavy traffic.
This study still does not address long-term changes, at least based on the little bits available.
It is common sense. The more engaging (the bigger the adrenaline rush) the higher your blood pressure is going to be. All the outcomes mentioned are in line with any activity that raises the "excitability" level. You want to talk high bp and a tendency towards violence, let's compare this to say, a similar group of men who just watched their favorite sports team lose a close game.
Unfortunately, after reading your comment I read this page.
Where I learned that blue rings were associated with small moons. And "The outer ring of Saturn is blue and has Enceladus right smack at its brightest spot, and Uranus is strikingly similar, with its blue ring right on top of Mab's orbit,".
In the fraction of those atoms in the center plane who ARE exactly blanced
Then you hit a problem when the electron moves to a different position, throwing off the balance. Or maybe in this position, the electron gets ripped off in one direction and the nucleus goes another -or part of the nucleus goes one way and part goes the other...
However, if you were a 2d entity, you might be able to pull this off... But I'm not sure how a 2d entity can survive in a 3d world much less transport itself between two black holes.
Wasn't that covered in a ST:TNG episode?
Let me know when that happens, because it hasnt' happened yet. Did you not RTFA? Here are the last three paragraphs,
he conclusions presented here present two major challenges to the research community.
One is to find ways of extending experimental investigations into the oceans and the developing world.
The second is to integrate them into computer models of climate, something which is only just beginning to happen.
IOW we haven't yet successfully modeled it, and predictions are modified every time the model is. Seriously, the global climate models are superb tools for research, helping us understand what we do and don't know. When we get to the point where we aren't having to integrate factors that have a huge effect several times a year, then maybe they're stable enough, accurate enough and reliable enough to start making predictions with some certainty. If you don't believe me, next time you see a prediction, look to see if any measure of reliability in included. Without that, the prediction is meaningless.
Wouldn't it be a whole lot cleaner to build a bunch of nuclear power plants?
Thank God, I can start using my cell phone again! Man, I'm glad someone criticized that study or I'd be in trouble.
Of course we see this in all manner of studies.
One decade, bacon and eggs is a good, healthy breakfast.
Next decade, cholesterol is bad, that means bacon and eggs are bad.
The next decade, obesity is bad, eat bacon and eggs to lose weight and be healthier.
Next decade -yes people with high cholesterol have higher rate of cardiac trouble, years of changing diet and cholesterol lowering drugs work to lower cholesterol, but they still have a higher rate of cardiac trouble....
A single study by itself is not scientific proof. It does often take decades to figure out exactly what's happening. In the mean time, inquiry is good, overreaction to every article published is silly.
Next up : cell phone use doesn't increase risk of brain cancer on side of use, it reduces risk of brain cancer on the opposite side of the brain. In other news, cancer gene linked to motor mouth.
To be followed by..., the risks of second-hand cell phone use -is that guy on the cell phone slowly killing you?
A big payday, or maybe a sweet cross-licensing deal for some MS goodies? Only Lucent knows.
Here we go again is right. This whole "naked PC = piracy" thing is soo last millenium!
Then again, so it their OS. (Did I just say that?)
Why is there never any retaliation against the companies that produce this software?
Or it could be in the cases you cited, what was done was done very publicly, so the person responsible was easy to find. Now if you know who is responsible for the malware in question, why don't you let the FBI know and see what happens?
Its no odder than the fact that I got a speeding ticket when I sped past an unmarked police car, but they haven't found the person who broke several windshields in the neighborhood a while back.
Of course the news is that MS finally made an intelligent post on the subject, and admitted a rebuild is sometimes the only solution.
OTOH, that always seems to be the first solution MS tech support gives out for fixing a problem, so maybe it isn't news.
No, that was Disney, and it was only Kapten Hook.
But... ...but... they have SP2! And all the security updates! This kind of thing can't happen...
At least that's what the PHB and the beancounter decided when the subject of a disaster recovery plan came up.
Or maybe that was the taxpayers and appropriations committees who decided that.
Please tell what such an "alternative operating system" is?
Vista, of course. It has Trusted Computing, so I know I'll never have to worry about security again.
Can't get the right combination of keywords on Google to pull up the article about the large number of people actually doing that rather than try to fix the computer they have. Maybe someone else can find it.
For those who didn't follow the link, the infamous quote above was uttered by Thomas Hesse, President of Sony's Global Digital Business WRT the Sony rootkit debacle.
"With regard to scientific equipment: my experience (in a biotech firm) has been quite similar."
Mine too. Too often once the software's written for a piece of equipment a company wants to sell, the software unit gets disbanded (what, you wanted support?). So then you're stuck with whatever OS was current at the time for the lifetime of the equipment. So we have setups costing 10's to 100's of thousands of dollars controlled by PCs running Win 95/98. It would be nice to have these connected to the network to facilitate transferring data, but who wants to risk that?
OTOH, we have some old Mac 8100's running OS 9 controlling some equipment. Those have been connected to the network for years, and we haven't had a problem yet (as long as we can find mouse, keyboard and monitor replacements).
Yes, there have been stories like this for years. Its not like this is the first time "Cyberwarfare" has been funded in the US or other countries -but don't tell anyone else that. It better to think only the big, bad USA would/could do such a thing.
OTOH, how many stories have we seen of online businesses (usually gambling) coughing up millions to avert DNS attacks? Attacks via the internet that can't be readily defended are already happening. Its just that for now, money is the object.