I've been kicking myself for years because I read Slashdot for about 6 months before I bothered to register an account. At least I got a palindrome instead of just a regular, run of the mill UID.
Close enough. I could install a PCI version of an Nvidia card on an Alpha workstation. While it's true that there was a version of Windows ported to Alpha architecture that version of Windows isn't sold anymore and Nvidia doesn't make drivers for it.
It's not just a matter of money. I might want to use a reasonably modern graphics card on an older workstation that doesn't have AGP. There's plenty of hardware out there that works just fine even though you can't install Windows 7 on it.
Aluminum is the third most abundent element on the planet and makes up 8% of the earth's crust, which is enough to ensure that we will never run out of the metal for electrical or structural uses.
We just need an ample supply of energy in order to refine it.
Is there really a vast scientific conspiracy here and NASA is afraid if they release their data it will prove the conspiracy's existence?
There doesn't need to be a conspiracy.
Did all the large banks in the world conspire to crash the world economy or did they all just get greedy and do basically the same thing in order to make more money?
Plenty of people believe that the resistance of the Federal Reserve to being audited is evidence that they've got something to hide. This doesn't necessarily imply a conspiracy, just widespread corruption.
It's not one lab now. New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research won't release the raw data to prove that their adjustments are valid. (adjustments that add a warming trend to otherwise constant temperatures over the last 150 years).
NASA is fighting tooth and nail against a FOIA request to release some of its raw data. What are they afraid of?
There has been much hoo-hah about this "throwing out" of data when really it is the instrumental data that matters, not the proxy data. If temperature is what you are after, thermometers are the gold standard
You might have a point if the leaked file only demonstrated a single case of data tampering, but it's all over the place. Anyone with a copy of FOI2009.zip and grep can verify this.
The real smoking gun isn't the emails - it's the source code.
They keep talking about those emails in the hopes that no one will call them out on the "VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline"s applied liberally to the raw data.
Really take a look at the graphs in the link above. Plot that array yourself if you don't believe it. No amount of handwaving will explain away blatant lying.
Control. The same thing that has been going on for as long as humans have recorded history. There's always a small group of people who believe that they alone are fit to rule and will do whatever it takes to gain power. The most virulent form this impulse has taken over the last century is called "progressivism".
In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions of intellectual and character education fade from their minds, and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people, or any of their children, into philosophers, or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen -- of whom we have an ample supply. The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way. --John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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So the population of the world = 0? No wonder it's frictionless.
The editors and the original readers are getting older, having children and paying more attention to politics.
I've been kicking myself for years because I read Slashdot for about 6 months before I bothered to register an account. At least I got a palindrome instead of just a regular, run of the mill UID.
Funny that slashdot trolls have existed long enough to be a source of nostalgia. Somebody should post the "nullo" troll for old time's sake.
That is an awesome book. I should have remembered that one.
Swiss army knife
Magnifying glass.
Soldering iron.
Close enough. I could install a PCI version of an Nvidia card on an Alpha workstation. While it's true that there was a version of Windows ported to Alpha architecture that version of Windows isn't sold anymore and Nvidia doesn't make drivers for it.
It's not just a matter of money. I might want to use a reasonably modern graphics card on an older workstation that doesn't have AGP. There's plenty of hardware out there that works just fine even though you can't install Windows 7 on it.
Not all architectures have PCIe, but some people still have PCI video cards that they'd like to use.
Because Nouveau works on a more architectures than Windows has ever been ported to.
So we need to build a long pipeline to pump seawater from the Gulf of California to Arizona and start building oil farms.
That's what all that ocean biomass is, basically.
This technology just makes it easier to convert into something useful for us.
Do they grow in salt water? Because if they do there is plenty of desert land close enough to the ocean that we can pump as much water as we need.
Aluminum is the third most abundent element on the planet and makes up 8% of the earth's crust, which is enough to ensure that we will never run out of the metal for electrical or structural uses.
We just need an ample supply of energy in order to refine it.
There's so little gold in the entire world that even if we spun all of it unto wires the contribution would be negligible.
There doesn't need to be a conspiracy.
Did all the large banks in the world conspire to crash the world economy or did they all just get greedy and do basically the same thing in order to make more money?
Plenty of people believe that the resistance of the Federal Reserve to being audited is evidence that they've got something to hide. This doesn't necessarily imply a conspiracy, just widespread corruption.
It's not one lab now. New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research won't release the raw data to prove that their adjustments are valid. (adjustments that add a warming trend to otherwise constant temperatures over the last 150 years).
NASA is fighting tooth and nail against a FOIA request to release some of its raw data. What are they afraid of?
You might have a point if the leaked file only demonstrated a single case of data tampering, but it's all over the place. Anyone with a copy of FOI2009.zip and grep can verify this.
If data that all those millions of man-hours of research is based on is bogus then the conclusions are worthless.
The real smoking gun isn't the emails - it's the source code.
They keep talking about those emails in the hopes that no one will call them out on the "VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline"s applied liberally to the raw data.
Really take a look at the graphs in the link above. Plot that array yourself if you don't believe it. No amount of handwaving will explain away blatant lying.
They'll get over it (eventually).
Don't forget China
In reality an ATM doesn't need any decimal point. Unless there's some ATM out there that dispenses anything coins.
I've never understood why every ATM that I've ever used that dispensed $20 bills made me type in the 00 cents each and every time.
aren't yet, you mean
Control. The same thing that has been going on for as long as humans have recorded history. There's always a small group of people who believe that they alone are fit to rule and will do whatever it takes to gain power. The most virulent form this impulse has taken over the last century is called "progressivism" .