It's shit like this that has people ignoring all this crap. Civilization has been around for a few thousand years. There is history of extreme and far spread droughts, some of which wiped out entire flourishing civilizations.
I guess it was because they had too much of an industrial base 4,000 yrs ago.
Actually, a lot of artists never got to sign for digital.
For example, with web/digital radio. RIAA bought off Congress so that they could collect royalties for all music played over webcasts. Guess what, my friend's band whom I'm the manager for...never got to negotiate.
Um....as you described it, you are witnessing first hand "cooling" how the hell do you know if it's tied to global warming or not. Let alone whether said warming (or in your case, cooling) is due to man's activities or fluctuations of the sun (which have been recorded for millenia)
You're just seeing the truths that many a young 12 yr old discovered after dishing out $100 for SONY Walkmans that died 4 months later. Just in time for the poor little kids to discover that the warranty had expired!
So let me get this straight. They are getting ready to release a new version when they're just finally getting Windows Mobile 2005 phones to market. They haven't even fixed the bugs.
I swear...they're !@#$% morons.
- Saj
PS - Slashdot is a moron too.
a) a few symbols as alternative to swearing != ascii art b) 5 symbols != lame.:P
I live in New Haven, CT. Our postal service SUCKS!!!!
Consider that a letter mailed across town took the same number of days for delivery as a letter mailed from London, U.K. That says something about our local inefficiency in our postal system. And I agree, everyone talks about throttling but I've not really experienced, except with a few hit movies. However, Netflix has stated openly that when it comes to hit movies. New members get first dibs. And I am fine with that. I understand that sometimes when a movie is released the initial demand exceeds stock. (The same is common for Blockbuster stores...in fact, in their case all the new hit movies tend to be empy shelves of placards.) With Netflix, in choosing who is first to receive, they've decided to give precedence to the new members in the queue. Understandable...what company wouldn't?
That said, I am an avid fan of Netflix. So much so, a year ago when everyone was saying they were going to go under in the face of Blockbuster, Amazon and Walmart....I actually BOUGHT stock!
I received a $10 gift card to Blockbuster. It took me over an hour find two movies. Essentially, every movie I wanted to see was out of stock. In the end, I didn't rent anything. Rather, I bought two used movies "I Robot" and I forget what else.
So, I don't think I'd find those in store rentals of much use. Sure, there may be a film that me and a bunch of friends might want to watch right this moment...and be willing to run out to the rental store to get it. But I'd wager all the copies of said film will be rented out. At least that last few times I went to Blockbuster that was always the case.
At least with Netflix I have a steady flow. I also get to watch a lot of TV shows I miss. I've got the 5 disc program and seldom do I not have something to watch. With 5 discs it's pretty good. Just make sure you mix you queue up so you always have something lighthearted, something action and something dramatic. Plus your series filler (currently ST:DS9 for me) *lol*
For 2006 I've kept a log of my movie rentals to track turn-around-times. I recorded when a movie is sent, est. arrival, actual arrival and when I I recorded when I return the movie and how long until they log it received. It's about a 1.3 days on avg to receive a movie and 2.2 days on average for Netflix to record it received. A total turn-around time of 3.5 days per film. Not too bad, consider they're utilizing the postal service. (Which in my area is notoriously poor in performance. A letter mailed 2 hours away can take 4 days + to be delivered.)
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An image of 144,000 Jehovah Witnesses leaping for joy.
And anyone who denies... well...thank you for just confirming yourself a member of the arrogant elitist 'nix users.
But you know, denying the fact is not going to help Linux move toward the general desktop market any. And yes, I would state that the above is one of the top 5 reasons Linux has less general desktop market saturation than it really should.
Um...could that be because DishNetworks DVRs only worked on Dish systems and few people had multiple lines to one device at the time. I don't see that as anything substantial. And as it can be done with a personal computer. I see any appliance device thus equally able to do such.
6,847,778 - Multimedia Visual Progress Indication System [available in Quicktime and RealPlayer for over a decade]
6,850,691 - Automatic playback overshoot correction system [this is unclear to me, is this to handle synching? there's been such corrections for year otherwise what the heck are they talking about?]
6,792,195 - Method and Apparatus Implementing Random Access and Time-Based Functions on a Continuous Stream of Formatted Digital Data (continuation of 6,327,418)
[Wasn't this done for digital data access years before hand. Does the fact that the digital data contains "media" invalidate such random access methods?
6,757,906 - Television Viewer Interface System [I believe they created their own interface]
5,241,428 - Variable-Delay Video Recorder [ Don't see this being much bigger than the video/audio delays used in broadcast TV & radio ]
3615486 - Multimedia Time Warping System [ Oh this is !@#$ing great. Now when some guy invents a time machine that lets you travel back in time as an observer he's going to get sued for violating this royally !@#$% vague patent.
ZL 00805987.X - Data Storage Management and Scheduling System [ It's called a "timed backup" and has been done for decades ]
Because the number one factor in warming in both cases is the sun. And it could point to a possible affect and parallel trend. Second, because there is so much dismissal of any facts that put into question the global warming theorum that it acts a very good reflection of the lack of science involved.
If science were involved instead of rhetoric and dogma, people would weigh and consider. There'd be some who would say, "that's interesting...we definitely need to look into that possibility".
Hey, what if we're all worried about global warming and totally missing a change in the sun. That could be way way way worse than global warming. Now, I'm not saying I think such is happening. But heck, if we're going to claim science we need to consider such possibilities, we also need to expand the scope historically. A 150 yr, 2,000 yr or 10,000 yr reference is not adequate in this sort of analysis. And needs to be take in a much greater scope.
I just think a lot of the arguments I've heard for global warming are very foolish, poor science, and more rhetoric...and the abuse against anyone who disagrees is excessive. And if it proves to be false, it will only be harder to win over the minds of people in the future. Don't think so....realize one of the major reasons of doubt is that we were told we were heading toward an ice age and everything was getting colder a few decades ago. Now, the same records are interpreted differently and we're told that was all wrong it's the opposite problem.
And people are just sick of the fearism of this crap.
All that said, the difference between a 20mpg and 50mpg vehicle is going to make very little difference overall. Damning everyone who drives an SUV with insults only hurts the cause and makes all of the people crying such rhetoric look like ignorant arrogant assholes.
The irony I am an avid supporter of hybrids, fuel cells, and advanced technologies because regardless of global warming I believe we need to reduce pollution, toxicity, and waste and increase efficiency while minimalizing environmental impact. I just think scaring people with poor and misleading data is not of any benefit.
"In short - you can't use Mars as proof/disproof of global warming on Earth."
That's about how I feel regarding much of the evidence global warming theorists put forth...even when they expand to 4,000 yrs. It's such a small sliver. And part of the problem is I grew up reading about dinosaurs and how much hotter it used to be. I am quite inclined to know why such was acceptable in various periods of time and now when we look at an extremely small sliver. Most of the data being 150 yrs. More expansive data not really breaching the 10,000 yrs mark. All of which barely even shows up on a graph compared to 100 million years?
"Very well, if you can first explain to me how a situation involving a sublimating solid in low atmospheric pressure with solar input orders of magnitude lower than earth's applies to this discussion, I will explain to your heart's content."
Funny, right in your own words I am inclined to see an answer. You've already stated that Mars receives less solar input by orders of a magnitude. So, any fluctuation should be greatly mitigated as compared to the effect on the Earth. So a deviance of 0.1%, based on earth would be only 0.01%-0.001% according to your words. And yet, we are seeing an effect. As such, would not a deviance in solar output equate to much more dramatic affects on earth?
Well, if I recall correctly, there were many greater (hotter and colder) fluctuations in those 650,000+ years. Which is one of the reasons many scientists are quick to advise caution on this rhetoric.
Solar output may be very easy to measure....but scientists are still pretty frickin clueless regarding it's total effect on a environmental system like a planet's atmosphere.
And sorry, please don't tell me they're not. I have the weather man to prove without a doubt that scientists are still pretty frickin clueless. Don't tell me they can accurately predict such with their computer models and can't get me correct weather predictions 5-10 days out.
*lol*
Sure, pigs may glow...but scientists still haven't gotten them to fly!
Um...no, and I've been on the internet since 1992/1992 thank you.
BTW... the horseshit is that you seem quite incapable of reading. My apologies, public school system is rather poor these days so I will clarify for your benefit.
The sun emits energy and said energy is not emitted at a constant level. It undergoes fluctuations and variance. Though, thankfully, it is pretty consistent. That said, variance and fluctuation does occur, in fact according to most scientists our sun will eventual alter as it ages. The result of such will likely be the burning of the earth followed by cooling. Thankfully, I don't believe we are at that extreme level of change. But we could be experiencing a small fluctuation.
That said, said fluctuation does not mean that I am arguing for the entire universe to be warming. Just potentially the immediate solar system.
By the way.... good luck finding the internet again...
99.9% yeah, I remember hearing about the big report touted by the U.N.
Then I remember reading the details and the controversy, that numerous scientists exclaimed they were mis-represented. That larger scores said they're analysis seemed to indicate a global warming trend but they were not assured such was due to man nor abnormal.
Funny, as I recall, we were supposed to currently be plunging into an ice age due to all our pollution. And I believe we had the same debate.
"So whatever happens on Mars is bat-shit irrelevant to what's happening here."
Typical liberal, dismiss the facts, read only the sentences out of context that support your argument. Bitch about people ignoring science but dismiss anything contradictory.
"Therefore, the argument we should do nothing because solar output may be increasing is invalid."
Funny, I've never made that argument. I've always made the argument we should reduce pollution, contaminents, and our environmental impact regardless. I'm just sick of all this crap with pushing what is absolutely questionable and poor science and often conflicting with hysteria, ridicule, insult and attack. When there are many questions and variables.
That said, I am a big supporter of hybrids, fuel cell, funding for advanced energy development, etc.
Just not lying or running around like a chicken with our head cut off "The World is Doooommmmeeed!" to scare people into acting. Because, when you are proved wrong or minimized, you make it much much harder the next time when there is a real issue.
I forgot that man's understanding was full and complete.
I mean, didn't we give one man a nobel prize for proving that the photon or electron was a particle. And later gave his son a nobel prize for proving it was a wave.
As I recall, a lot of those effects were believed to occur from cementification (or the process of removing forests and replacing them with dry fields and/or cement pavement.
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That 400 years or so ago it may have been hotter?
It's shit like this that has people ignoring all this crap. Civilization has been around for a few thousand years. There is history of extreme and far spread droughts, some of which wiped out entire flourishing civilizations.
I guess it was because they had too much of an industrial base 4,000 yrs ago.
Actually, a lot of artists never got to sign for digital.
For example, with web/digital radio. RIAA bought off Congress so that they could collect royalties for all music played over webcasts. Guess what, my friend's band whom I'm the manager for...never got to negotiate.
RIAA is !@#$% up....
Um....as you described it, you are witnessing first hand "cooling" how the hell do you know if it's tied to global warming or not. Let alone whether said warming (or in your case, cooling) is due to man's activities or fluctuations of the sun (which have been recorded for millenia)
SONY has always SUCKed!
You're just seeing the truths that many a young 12 yr old discovered after dishing out $100 for SONY Walkmans that died 4 months later. Just in time for the poor little kids to discover that the warranty had expired!
They're only for the rich and wealthy, the mega-conglomerates. The little guy gets no protection.
So why should we care....
So let me get this straight. They are getting ready to release a new version when they're just finally getting Windows Mobile 2005 phones to market. They haven't even fixed the bugs.
:P
I swear...they're !@#$% morons.
- Saj
PS - Slashdot is a moron too.
a) a few symbols as alternative to swearing != ascii art
b) 5 symbols != lame.
I live in New Haven, CT. Our postal service SUCKS!!!!
;)
Consider that a letter mailed across town took the same number of days for delivery as a letter mailed from London, U.K. That says something about our local inefficiency in our postal system. And I agree, everyone talks about throttling but I've not really experienced, except with a few hit movies. However, Netflix has stated openly that when it comes to hit movies. New members get first dibs. And I am fine with that. I understand that sometimes when a movie is released the initial demand exceeds stock. (The same is common for Blockbuster stores...in fact, in their case all the new hit movies tend to be empy shelves of placards.) With Netflix, in choosing who is first to receive, they've decided to give precedence to the new members in the queue. Understandable...what company wouldn't?
That said, I am an avid fan of Netflix. So much so, a year ago when everyone was saying they were going to go under in the face of Blockbuster, Amazon and Walmart....I actually BOUGHT stock!
It about doubled in value too....
I received a $10 gift card to Blockbuster. It took me over an hour find two movies. Essentially, every movie I wanted to see was out of stock. In the end, I didn't rent anything. Rather, I bought two used movies "I Robot" and I forget what else.
So, I don't think I'd find those in store rentals of much use. Sure, there may be a film that me and a bunch of friends might want to watch right this moment...and be willing to run out to the rental store to get it. But I'd wager all the copies of said film will be rented out. At least that last few times I went to Blockbuster that was always the case.
At least with Netflix I have a steady flow. I also get to watch a lot of TV shows I miss. I've got the 5 disc program and seldom do I not have something to watch. With 5 discs it's pretty good. Just make sure you mix you queue up so you always have something lighthearted, something action and something dramatic. Plus your series filler (currently ST:DS9 for me) *lol*
For 2006 I've kept a log of my movie rentals to track turn-around-times. I recorded when a movie is sent, est. arrival, actual arrival and when I I recorded when I return the movie and how long until they log it received. It's about a 1.3 days on avg to receive a movie and 2.2 days on average for Netflix to record it received. A total turn-around time of 3.5 days per film. Not too bad, consider they're utilizing the postal service. (Which in my area is notoriously poor in performance. A letter mailed 2 hours away can take 4 days + to be delivered.)
An image of 144,000 Jehovah Witnesses leaping for joy.
*lol*
Certification during installation. So why the hell do all my Microsoft PocketPC applications tell me they are from an unknown publisher. WTF M$ ???
Can't you at least perform your own tasks!!!!
And anyone who denies... well...thank you for just confirming yourself a member of the arrogant elitist 'nix users.
But you know, denying the fact is not going to help Linux move toward the general desktop market any. And yes, I would state that the above is one of the top 5 reasons Linux has less general desktop market saturation than it really should.
- Saj
Um...could that be because DishNetworks DVRs only worked on Dish systems and few people had multiple lines to one device at the time. I don't see that as anything substantial. And as it can be done with a personal computer. I see any appliance device thus equally able to do such.
Hey, you ever fly on a Wright Brothers, Inc. jumbo jet?
Nope...
6,847,778 - Multimedia Visual Progress Indication System
[available in Quicktime and RealPlayer for over a decade]
6,850,691 - Automatic playback overshoot correction system
[this is unclear to me, is this to handle synching? there's been such corrections for year otherwise what the heck are they talking about?]
6,792,195 - Method and Apparatus Implementing Random Access and Time-Based Functions on a Continuous Stream of Formatted Digital Data (continuation of 6,327,418)
[Wasn't this done for digital data access years before hand. Does the fact that the digital data contains "media" invalidate such random access methods?
6,757,906 - Television Viewer Interface System
[I believe they created their own interface]
5,241,428 - Variable-Delay Video Recorder
[ Don't see this being much bigger than the video/audio delays used in broadcast TV & radio ]
3615486 - Multimedia Time Warping System
[ Oh this is !@#$ing great. Now when some guy invents a time machine that lets you travel back in time as an observer he's going to get sued for violating this royally !@#$% vague patent.
ZL 00805987.X - Data Storage Management and Scheduling System
[ It's called a "timed backup" and has been done for decades ]
Everyone talks about TiVo being vastly superior....can someone please tell me how/why?
Because the number one factor in warming in both cases is the sun. And it could point to a possible affect and parallel trend. Second, because there is so much dismissal of any facts that put into question the global warming theorum that it acts a very good reflection of the lack of science involved.
If science were involved instead of rhetoric and dogma, people would weigh and consider. There'd be some who would say, "that's interesting...we definitely need to look into that possibility".
Hey, what if we're all worried about global warming and totally missing a change in the sun. That could be way way way worse than global warming. Now, I'm not saying I think such is happening. But heck, if we're going to claim science we need to consider such possibilities, we also need to expand the scope historically. A 150 yr, 2,000 yr or 10,000 yr reference is not adequate in this sort of analysis. And needs to be take in a much greater scope.
I just think a lot of the arguments I've heard for global warming are very foolish, poor science, and more rhetoric...and the abuse against anyone who disagrees is excessive. And if it proves to be false, it will only be harder to win over the minds of people in the future. Don't think so....realize one of the major reasons of doubt is that we were told we were heading toward an ice age and everything was getting colder a few decades ago. Now, the same records are interpreted differently and we're told that was all wrong it's the opposite problem.
And people are just sick of the fearism of this crap.
All that said, the difference between a 20mpg and 50mpg vehicle is going to make very little difference overall. Damning everyone who drives an SUV with insults only hurts the cause and makes all of the people crying such rhetoric look like ignorant arrogant assholes.
The irony I am an avid supporter of hybrids, fuel cells, and advanced technologies because regardless of global warming I believe we need to reduce pollution, toxicity, and waste and increase efficiency while minimalizing environmental impact. I just think scaring people with poor and misleading data is not of any benefit.
"In short - you can't use Mars as proof/disproof of global warming on Earth."
That's about how I feel regarding much of the evidence global warming theorists put forth...even when they expand to 4,000 yrs. It's such a small sliver. And part of the problem is I grew up reading about dinosaurs and how much hotter it used to be. I am quite inclined to know why such was acceptable in various periods of time and now when we look at an extremely small sliver. Most of the data being 150 yrs. More expansive data not really breaching the 10,000 yrs mark. All of which barely even shows up on a graph compared to 100 million years?
Yes, definition III, no...don't really care too.
"Very well, if you can first explain to me how a situation involving a sublimating solid in low atmospheric pressure with solar input orders of magnitude lower than earth's applies to this discussion, I will explain to your heart's content."
Funny, right in your own words I am inclined to see an answer. You've already stated that Mars receives less solar input by orders of a magnitude. So, any fluctuation should be greatly mitigated as compared to the effect on the Earth. So a deviance of 0.1%, based on earth would be only 0.01%-0.001% according to your words. And yet, we are seeing an effect. As such, would not a deviance in solar output equate to much more dramatic affects on earth?
Hmmm...
Well, I've explained...now it's your turn!
Well, if I recall correctly, there were many greater (hotter and colder) fluctuations in those 650,000+ years. Which is one of the reasons many scientists are quick to advise caution on this rhetoric.
Solar output may be very easy to measure....but scientists are still pretty frickin clueless regarding it's total effect on a environmental system like a planet's atmosphere.
And sorry, please don't tell me they're not. I have the weather man to prove without a doubt that scientists are still pretty frickin clueless. Don't tell me they can accurately predict such with their computer models and can't get me correct weather predictions 5-10 days out.
*lol*
Sure, pigs may glow...but scientists still haven't gotten them to fly!
Um...no, and I've been on the internet since 1992/1992 thank you.
BTW... the horseshit is that you seem quite incapable of reading. My apologies, public school system is rather poor these days so I will clarify for your benefit.
The sun emits energy and said energy is not emitted at a constant level. It undergoes fluctuations and variance. Though, thankfully, it is pretty consistent. That said, variance and fluctuation does occur, in fact according to most scientists our sun will eventual alter as it ages. The result of such will likely be the burning of the earth followed by cooling. Thankfully, I don't believe we are at that extreme level of change. But we could be experiencing a small fluctuation.
That said, said fluctuation does not mean that I am arguing for the entire universe to be warming. Just potentially the immediate solar system.
By the way.... good luck finding the internet again...
*wave* ~~~
99.9% yeah, I remember hearing about the big report touted by the U.N.
Then I remember reading the details and the controversy, that numerous scientists exclaimed they were mis-represented. That larger scores said they're analysis seemed to indicate a global warming trend but they were not assured such was due to man nor abnormal.
Funny, as I recall, we were supposed to currently be plunging into an ice age due to all our pollution. And I believe we had the same debate.
"So whatever happens on Mars is bat-shit irrelevant to what's happening here."
Typical liberal, dismiss the facts, read only the sentences out of context that support your argument. Bitch about people ignoring science but dismiss anything contradictory.
"Therefore, the argument we should do nothing because solar output may be increasing is invalid."
Funny, I've never made that argument. I've always made the argument we should reduce pollution, contaminents, and our environmental impact regardless. I'm just sick of all this crap with pushing what is absolutely questionable and poor science and often conflicting with hysteria, ridicule, insult and attack. When there are many questions and variables.
That said, I am a big supporter of hybrids, fuel cell, funding for advanced energy development, etc.
Just not lying or running around like a chicken with our head cut off "The World is Doooommmmeeed!" to scare people into acting. Because, when you are proved wrong or minimized, you make it much much harder the next time when there is a real issue.
I forgot that man's understanding was full and complete.
I mean, didn't we give one man a nobel prize for proving that the photon or electron was a particle. And later gave his son a nobel prize for proving it was a wave.
As I recall, a lot of those effects were believed to occur from cementification (or the process of removing forests and replacing them with dry fields and/or cement pavement.