He's talking about the red-headed step child of the Mac line: the Mac Pro. Mac Pro is still stuck in USB2 land. I think it's outrageous they're marketing it as "new". It's 3+ year old technology at $2500 base price for 4 cores.
Solar power... in Ontario??? I'm glad to know you have messed up pricing there (or rather, you said, "used to," which implies you don't any more), but in most places the power company pays you a lot less for solar power than what you pay them.
Tell me about it. Totally nuts. I heard they reduced pricing last fall (when they found themselves in a couple of billion dollar hole) so I double checked. Well, now it's $0.549/kWh. And they cranked up the pricing when you buy from them in the mean time (no real surprises there). Colour me skeptical, but do you have an example where residential feed-in is paid less than they sell for? As per this page, the minimum paid is in Hawaii at $0.224. That's still well above what anyone pays for power.
He also is something of a crackpot. He also isn't a climate researcher.
OK, I'm just looking over the awards and accolades he received in his Wikipedia page. Fellow of the Royal Society, CBE, Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for the Environment, RGS Discovery Lifetime award, Wollaston Medal,... I'm counting some 10 books published. Some crackpot.
#2 Solar panels work great. I have em, and they cut my bill in half.
You cut your bill in half by dipping into your neighbours' pockets. Over here in Ontario, the provincial power company used to pay you $0.80/kWh for any power produced by your solar panels that you feed into the grid. At the same time they charged you only $0.06/kWh for the power from the grid. Guess how they make up the difference. Solar panels, unfortunately, can't stand on their own right now. When they do, it'll be great.
Seriously, I'd love to hear a good argument about a) why AGW isn't real, and b) why we shouldn't worry.
You didn't bother much reading the article. Here are a couple of quotes from a staunch AGW proponent, Mr. Lovelock, from the summary:
There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now, The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising — carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that...
I can't tell apart my toaster from my neighbour's at any distance. I don't think the fact that Samsung blatantly copied the look of the iPad package is illegal. It speaks of a total lack of imagination and flattery but is it really illegal? A look isn't patentable, AFAIK. The Galaxy doesn't say "iPad" and "Designed by Apple in California" on the back. That would be a trademark violation.
Maybe if we have a lawyer or two here, they can chime in on this?
I generated a unique e-mail address for Bioware forums way back when NWN first came out. I started getting spam on that address in the last couple of weeks. So it's likely this didn't happen in the last couple of days.
I got the e-mail from Bioware about the breach only yesterday.
There are no less than 3 versions of the 2 GB WD Green: 3, 4 & 5 platter. The latest version (3 platter) is pretty quick. I'm guessing they were testing against the 5 platter.
The best way to deal with alignment is to manually partition (if you use Linux) and use 4K filesystem block size as well. But I think the newest Linux distros will work with 4K drives now (I know Fedora 14 and RHEL 6 do).
Nihal de Silva of Direct2Drive UK said his company hasn't noticed any sales patterns indicating customers are avoiding games with DRM.
That should read: Nihal de Silva of Direct2Drive UK, whose business model is resale of DRM-laden games, said his company hasn't noticed any sales patterns indicating customers are avoiding games with DRM, because the opposite would promptly put Direct2Drive out of business.
I buy games (wish I had more time to actually play all of them). I will not buy a DRM-ed game though because DRM is annoying and it isn't really a purchase but a rental.
DRM isn't about piracy in any industry, gaming included. Pirates will pirate, DRM or not. Publishers are trying to kill the second hand game market with internet checks and they're succeeding. They have no issues with annoying their paying customers by loading viruses on their computers and performing internet checks in the process of making an extra buck.
Is that a journal where the hockey team review each others papers anonymously? No surprise that they won't investigate anything.
I think open source is the answer here. Open source the data, methodologies, any programs used. Anybody else should be able to reproduce the results by themselves. All that research is paid for by the public dime anyway and it's used to set public policy so it shouldn't be kept secret. Oh, and no anonymous peer "reviewing" would be really nice.
Bing did have 'climategate' as the top suggestion until today. In fact, just typing 'cli' would have netted you climategate as the top suggestion on Bing until today. Yes, it's disappeared completely today. See here and here for more details.
Do no evil, huh? At least MS isn't making any pretences...
I was a huge fan of the Baldur's Gate (got both PC and Mac versions of all of them) series so I'll be getting this. It also helps to know that there's no DRM other than the disk check. So Bioware have come to their senses after the excursion into the DRM land with Mass Effect (that was using the dreaded SecurROM).
But that's exactly the point. Receipts are what government actually collects, not what it borrows/prints and collects. I think it's misleading to compare military spending to the outlays in 2008/2009 since they include some huge bailouts. Military spending is pretty static, year to year, and bailouts should go away, eventually.
Just to second what the parent is saying. HardOCP monitor forum is a the place to get good reviews. There's a sticky on top that explains what each technology is good at. I'm just going to add that PVA/MVA are the only ones that lag, are expensive and also have bad viewing angles so stay away. SIPS is what you want, if you can afford it (that's what I ended up with based on recommendations from the forum and I'm not sorry 1 bit). TN is cheap, good for gaming or general home use but not for professional colour reproduction.
None of the online review sites ever mention input lag and on some monitors, it's a huge problem. Three years ago I bought a Dell 2405FPW based on excellent reviews from a number of sites. The monitor lagged badly and as I was using it, more issues became apparent (incendiary backlight, bad viewing angles), none of which were mentioned by any of the review sites.
So beware online reviews of monitors. Better look for user reviews.
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He's talking about the red-headed step child of the Mac line: the Mac Pro. Mac Pro is still stuck in USB2 land. I think it's outrageous they're marketing it as "new". It's 3+ year old technology at $2500 base price for 4 cores.
Solar power... in Ontario??? I'm glad to know you have messed up pricing there (or rather, you said, "used to," which implies you don't any more), but in most places the power company pays you a lot less for solar power than what you pay them.
Tell me about it. Totally nuts. I heard they reduced pricing last fall (when they found themselves in a couple of billion dollar hole) so I double checked. Well, now it's $0.549/kWh. And they cranked up the pricing when you buy from them in the mean time (no real surprises there). Colour me skeptical, but do you have an example where residential feed-in is paid less than they sell for? As per this page, the minimum paid is in Hawaii at $0.224. That's still well above what anyone pays for power.
He also is something of a crackpot. He also isn't a climate researcher.
OK, I'm just looking over the awards and accolades he received in his Wikipedia page. Fellow of the Royal Society, CBE, Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for the Environment, RGS Discovery Lifetime award, Wollaston Medal, ... I'm counting some 10 books published. Some crackpot.
#2 Solar panels work great. I have em, and they cut my bill in half.
You cut your bill in half by dipping into your neighbours' pockets. Over here in Ontario, the provincial power company used to pay you $0.80/kWh for any power produced by your solar panels that you feed into the grid. At the same time they charged you only $0.06/kWh for the power from the grid. Guess how they make up the difference. Solar panels, unfortunately, can't stand on their own right now. When they do, it'll be great.
Seriously, I'd love to hear a good argument about a) why AGW isn't real, and b) why we shouldn't worry.
You didn't bother much reading the article. Here are a couple of quotes from a staunch AGW proponent, Mr. Lovelock, from the summary:
There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now, The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising — carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that...
I mean like, totally, dude.
I can't tell apart my toaster from my neighbour's at any distance. I don't think the fact that Samsung blatantly copied the look of the iPad package is illegal. It speaks of a total lack of imagination and flattery but is it really illegal? A look isn't patentable, AFAIK. The Galaxy doesn't say "iPad" and "Designed by Apple in California" on the back. That would be a trademark violation.
Maybe if we have a lawyer or two here, they can chime in on this?
You're off. That 440TWh number is huge. In 2009, US generated 314 GW from coal. That works out to about 2.75 TWh for the whole of 2009 from coal.
2.75 TWh * 15 deaths/TWh = ~41 deaths.
So the original poster's figure sounds reasonable.
I *never* click on links in email that imply they take me to a login or support page.
Excellent idea. I cut and paste the link and checked that it came from EA mail servers. But you're right, it's unprofessional of them.
I generated a unique e-mail address for Bioware forums way back when NWN first came out. I started getting spam on that address in the last couple of weeks. So it's likely this didn't happen in the last couple of days.
I got the e-mail from Bioware about the breach only yesterday.
There are no less than 3 versions of the 2 GB WD Green: 3, 4 & 5 platter. The latest version (3 platter) is pretty quick. I'm guessing they were testing against the 5 platter.
The best way to deal with alignment is to manually partition (if you use Linux) and use 4K filesystem block size as well. But I think the newest Linux distros will work with 4K drives now (I know Fedora 14 and RHEL 6 do).
Ciataion? You have to be kidding. Glenn Greenwald over at Salon talks about it very often. Dig in.
And IPCCs predictions (even from the end of 80-s) are by now statistically significant enough and if anything they are too conservative.
Care to back this up? Probably not because the exact opposite is true: IPCC 1990 report predictions wrong.
Chairmans Mao and Stalin would be proud.
Nihal de Silva of Direct2Drive UK said his company hasn't noticed any sales patterns indicating customers are avoiding games with DRM.
That should read:
Nihal de Silva of Direct2Drive UK, whose business model is resale of DRM-laden games, said his company hasn't noticed any sales patterns indicating customers are avoiding games with DRM, because the opposite would promptly put Direct2Drive out of business.
I buy games (wish I had more time to actually play all of them). I will not buy a DRM-ed game though because DRM is annoying and it isn't really a purchase but a rental.
DRM isn't about piracy in any industry, gaming included. Pirates will pirate, DRM or not. Publishers are trying to kill the second hand game market with internet checks and they're succeeding. They have no issues with annoying their paying customers by loading viruses on their computers and performing internet checks in the process of making an extra buck.
So past accomplishments (not denying Nature has had more than a few) pretty much make you permanently infallible, is that what you're saying?
I don't think there should be anything above scrutiny. That's how I understand science.
Is that a journal where the hockey team review each others papers anonymously? No surprise that they won't investigate anything.
I think open source is the answer here. Open source the data, methodologies, any programs used. Anybody else should be able to reproduce the results by themselves. All that research is paid for by the public dime anyway and it's used to set public policy so it shouldn't be kept secret. Oh, and no anonymous peer "reviewing" would be really nice.
Bing did have 'climategate' as the top suggestion until today. In fact, just typing 'cli' would have netted you climategate as the top suggestion on Bing until today. Yes, it's disappeared completely today. See here and here for more details.
Do no evil, huh? At least MS isn't making any pretences...
I was a huge fan of the Baldur's Gate (got both PC and Mac versions of all of them) series so I'll be getting this. It also helps to know that there's no DRM other than the disk check. So Bioware have come to their senses after the excursion into the DRM land with Mass Effect (that was using the dreaded SecurROM).
But that's exactly the point. Receipts are what government actually collects, not what it borrows/prints and collects. I think it's misleading to compare military spending to the outlays in 2008/2009 since they include some huge bailouts. Military spending is pretty static, year to year, and bailouts should go away, eventually.
Also from Wikipedia:
During FY 2008, the U.S. government spent nearly $800 billion on defense and homeland security, approximately 32% of tax receipts of $2.5 trillion.
Hm, I bought a Mac Pro when they first came out 3 years ago. I don't understand how yours came to age twice as fast as mine...
They'll just get bailed out.
It gets restarted automatically. Check system.log.
You're still using a Mystique 220. How about the original Millenium? This is from lspci -v:
00:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W [Millennium] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Flags: stepping, medium devsel, IRQ 12
Memory at d2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at d3000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M]
Expansion ROM at [disabled] [size=64K]
This is in a server though but still, the card is 15 years old now. I got my money's worth on that one, that's for sure.
Just to second what the parent is saying. HardOCP monitor forum is a the place to get good reviews. There's a sticky on top that explains what each technology is good at. I'm just going to add that PVA/MVA are the only ones that lag, are expensive and also have bad viewing angles so stay away. SIPS is what you want, if you can afford it (that's what I ended up with based on recommendations from the forum and I'm not sorry 1 bit). TN is cheap, good for gaming or general home use but not for professional colour reproduction.
None of the online review sites ever mention input lag and on some monitors, it's a huge problem. Three years ago I bought a Dell 2405FPW based on excellent reviews from a number of sites. The monitor lagged badly and as I was using it, more issues became apparent (incendiary backlight, bad viewing angles), none of which were mentioned by any of the review sites.
So beware online reviews of monitors. Better look for user reviews.