" The GCMs really do not seem to work."
why do you think that? they work very well. They have even lead us to make new discoveries about the climate.
" They clearly run way too hot. "
no, they doi not. Another baseless statement I suspect you have no clue how models work. in general, much less in any specific field.
When I keep seeing graphics like this and and this which all show the majority of computer climate models over-prediction the current temperatures.
Hint: stop looking at graphics faked by "sceptics".
What I do not understand about Germany - indeed this whole region of Europe (I'm in Switzerland) is this: We have excellent rail systems, why not put long-distance cargo on the trains? There are various initiatives to do exactly this, but they meet with a wide range of passive and active resistance. Fact is, given the existing rail system, using trucks for long-distance freight makes no sense at all.
Most major rail lines in Western Europe are running at full capacity.
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Well, too bad you didn't RTFA - and that the summary forgot to mention that the truck still has a driver, just that he doesn't do much for most of the drive.
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Look at what happened on one existing self-driving train system:
Even in the simplest possible scenario (closed and tightly controlled metro system), the biggest self-driving train system in North America (not sure about the rest of the world) STILL wasn't able to avoid a fatal accident. This accident makes me wonder if it's simply beyond the capability of humanity to engineer a complex, self-driving train system that won't malfunction and cause fatal accidents.
So how many fatal accidents in manned trains? Let's cut this line of argument short and go straight to the obvious solution: abandon all technology. You go first.
Apple hires somebody who worked for high-end fashion house Yves Saint Laurent? Let's ignore that YSL hired somebody formerly working at Apple and didn't go into making computers or smartphones - coincidently the same guy.
Apple hires anybody: pundits say its a replacement for Tim Cook.
I believe you are referring to the wi-fi data picked up promiscuously by Google fleet of camera vehicles while taking street view pictures. Their excuses about that were pretty thin as I remember.
Not as thin as their excuses for not deleting all of it. After saying they had deleted it.
From the picture it looks like it takes just as much space as a regular parking garage,
That's pretty much the point: the system is intended to be added to existing regular parking garages, to add comfort to the drivers as well as increase number of parked cars.
The problem with parking garages today is that they were all designed when cars were 8 inches narrower.
A member of Germany's foreign intelligence agency has been detained for possibly spying for the U.S. The 31-year-old is suspected of giving a U.S. spy agency information about a parliamentary inquiry of NSA activities.
So the investigation into the NSA's secret spying activities, is itself being conducted in secret under penalty of espionage charges should any German violate that secrecy?
We seem to be forgetting why people object to the NSA's activities. Something about governments being open and transparent in their operation so the public can be assured their actions are trustworthy. Any investigation into the NSA's activities should be done publicly and openly, to demonstrate a contrast with how the NSA operated.
Unless that is the German government has something it wants to keep secret from its own people. But in that case they become the pot calling the kettle black.
So when is the NSA going to publish all the data it liberates from foreign governments?
Hi did you get the newsletter that Woz left Apple like 20 years ago and has nothing to do with the company anymore? And that he's a huge tech/gadget geek and doesn't care if the device is not Apple? And has even publicly spoken out against Apple?
Well now you do.
Not to mention that every time he says something remotely bad about Apple or an Apple product, you can be sure to find a Slashdot story about it.
If you upgrade your OS. Which brings you a lot more than RAW support. It also beings you massive incompatibility, new bugs, unfixed old bugs, aberrant behavior by programs that stuck to Apple's own dev guidelines like glue, and most recently, the world's most drag-assed USB support ever.
You were already better off finding another way than Aperture, this just puts the icing on the cake.
Do yourself (and more importantly us) a favor and switch to Windows. Then go someplace else to whine about the consequences.
We'll obviously learn details soon enough, but for now, we are left to wonder whether it'll be Apple or Google that ends up owning the automotive market.
Oh, yes; I'm sure Apple will cover the entire market, all the way from your average Bugatti down to economy cars like Audi and even BMW!
Windows XP was officially supported for over 12 years after release. Apple usually supports its hardware until up to 4 years after release. Android support is usually only offered *before* release date and a few months after.
XP was supported for so long because its "successor" was delivered 4 years late - and then didn't include all the features promised for it before XP was even released.
And if the US government would pay Apple even remotely as much to support ancient hardware as they do pay Microsoft to keep XP afloat, you wouldn't write that.
Something we can finally agree on, the fact that Apples brand is shrinking and Beats is growing in an Apple area dominates does not really matter. the whole point is Apple is relying on past glories...and those under Jobs.
Because in one out a dozen brand charts, Google beats Apple.Coincidently "The credibility of the Interbrand and BrandZ league tables have been cast into doubt by an article written in Marketing Week by Mark Ritson.[4] The lack of clear definitions and valuation dates in the both companies methodology raise questions about the subjectivity involved in brand valuations. Being part of multinational advertising groups, Interbrand and Millward Brown also suffer from the risk of objectivity. Transparency and objectivity are two of the requirements of the ISO 10668 standard of monetary brand valuations."
One of the current political issues over Mr Junker is that he is one of these federalists.
No, one of the current political issues is that Cameron is crapping his pants over the UKIP. So much that he attacks the more democratic election of the president of the European Council now after the election instead of back when Juncker was nominated as candidate by the European People's Party - which either means he doesn't understand how democracy works, or was betting everything on the Party of European Socialists winning.
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" The GCMs really do not seem to work." why do you think that? they work very well. They have even lead us to make new discoveries about the climate.
" They clearly run way too hot. " no, they doi not. Another baseless statement I suspect you have no clue how models work. in general, much less in any specific field.
When I keep seeing graphics like this and and this which all show the majority of computer climate models over-prediction the current temperatures.
Hint: stop looking at graphics faked by "sceptics".
This article motivated me to take a picture of my manhood, just in case i decide to sell my phone some day.
What makes you think anybody would be interested in either?
What I do not understand about Germany - indeed this whole region of Europe (I'm in Switzerland) is this: We have excellent rail systems, why not put long-distance cargo on the trains? There are various initiatives to do exactly this, but they meet with a wide range of passive and active resistance. Fact is, given the existing rail system, using trucks for long-distance freight makes no sense at all.
Most major rail lines in Western Europe are running at full capacity.
Well, too bad you didn't RTFA - and that the summary forgot to mention that the truck still has a driver, just that he doesn't do much for most of the drive.
Look at what happened on one existing self-driving train system:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2009_Washington_Metro_train_collision
Even in the simplest possible scenario (closed and tightly controlled metro system), the biggest self-driving train system in North America (not sure about the rest of the world) STILL wasn't able to avoid a fatal accident. This accident makes me wonder if it's simply beyond the capability of humanity to engineer a complex, self-driving train system that won't malfunction and cause fatal accidents.
So how many fatal accidents in manned trains? Let's cut this line of argument short and go straight to the obvious solution: abandon all technology. You go first.
Hiring a non-computer executive? What's next, will they hire one from a soft drink company?
More importantly: Apple hiring anybody? Must be about iWatch. Apple on medical tech hiring spree, a possible hint of iWatch plans.
Apple hires somebody who worked for high-end fashion house Yves Saint Laurent? Let's ignore that YSL hired somebody formerly working at Apple and didn't go into making computers or smartphones - coincidently the same guy.
Apple hires anybody: pundits say its a replacement for Tim Cook.
Much of the tech is designed by other companies, which sometimes they buy. It isn't a product of their own long term r&d as such.
Again, what has DELL ever designed themselves?
This. I have been saying this for years.
Apple is, and day by day, more and more - a boutique brand.
http://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-adds-swarovski-bling-and-bedazzle-to-its-galaxy-s5/ - Samsung is the boutique-meister.
I believe you are referring to the wi-fi data picked up promiscuously by Google fleet of camera vehicles while taking street view pictures. Their excuses about that were pretty thin as I remember.
Not as thin as their excuses for not deleting all of it. After saying they had deleted it.
From the picture it looks like it takes just as much space as a regular parking garage,
That's pretty much the point: the system is intended to be added to existing regular parking garages, to add comfort to the drivers as well as increase number of parked cars.
The problem with parking garages today is that they were all designed when cars were 8 inches narrower.
in 15-20 years Europe will pass America for Fatness.
Because most fat Americans will have exploded by then.
So the investigation into the NSA's secret spying activities, is itself being conducted in secret under penalty of espionage charges should any German violate that secrecy? We seem to be forgetting why people object to the NSA's activities. Something about governments being open and transparent in their operation so the public can be assured their actions are trustworthy. Any investigation into the NSA's activities should be done publicly and openly, to demonstrate a contrast with how the NSA operated. Unless that is the German government has something it wants to keep secret from its own people. But in that case they become the pot calling the kettle black.
So when is the NSA going to publish all the data it liberates from foreign governments?
You idiots! This is all happening because you insist on spying on your fellow citizens.
Err, no - this is all because the NSA spies on Germans.
Apple does I'm sure...
Yeah, Apple will give a blabber-mouth like Woz unreleased hardware. Sure.
Hi did you get the newsletter that Woz left Apple like 20 years ago and has nothing to do with the company anymore? And that he's a huge tech/gadget geek and doesn't care if the device is not Apple? And has even publicly spoken out against Apple?
Well now you do.
Not to mention that every time he says something remotely bad about Apple or an Apple product, you can be sure to find a Slashdot story about it.
If you upgrade your OS. Which brings you a lot more than RAW support. It also beings you massive incompatibility, new bugs, unfixed old bugs, aberrant behavior by programs that stuck to Apple's own dev guidelines like glue, and most recently, the world's most drag-assed USB support ever.
You were already better off finding another way than Aperture, this just puts the icing on the cake.
Do yourself (and more importantly us) a favor and switch to Windows. Then go someplace else to whine about the consequences.
It might on newer versions of OS X. Microsoft is spending a lot of effort on backwards compatibility
So why does my company have to update software when we finally settle on a new Windows version? Especially professional software costing several $k?
Oh, yes; I'm sure Apple will cover the entire market, all the way from your average Bugatti down to economy cars like Audi and even BMW!
Do you want something cheaper than a Kia?
Windows XP was officially supported for over 12 years after release. Apple usually supports its hardware until up to 4 years after release. Android support is usually only offered *before* release date and a few months after.
XP was supported for so long because its "successor" was delivered 4 years late - and then didn't include all the features promised for it before XP was even released.
And if the US government would pay Apple even remotely as much to support ancient hardware as they do pay Microsoft to keep XP afloat, you wouldn't write that.
SERIOUSLY??? Troll? I would LOVE to see you use the entire function set of an iphone 5 on a 4s. Apple fragments more elegantly, but they DO fragment.
So your point is that the Samsung Galaxy S line has more fragmentation than Apple.
OK, Apple is number 2
Something we can finally agree on, the fact that Apples brand is shrinking and Beats is growing in an Apple area dominates does not really matter. the whole point is Apple is relying on past glories...and those under Jobs.
Because in one out a dozen brand charts, Google beats Apple.Coincidently "The credibility of the Interbrand and BrandZ league tables have been cast into doubt by an article written in Marketing Week by Mark Ritson.[4] The lack of clear definitions and valuation dates in the both companies methodology raise questions about the subjectivity involved in brand valuations. Being part of multinational advertising groups, Interbrand and Millward Brown also suffer from the risk of objectivity. Transparency and objectivity are two of the requirements of the ISO 10668 standard of monetary brand valuations."
You don't even know whether there will be a watch.
Except it is already a proven market, with large companies and some great products.
There were some exceptionally dumb statements in this discussion, but this takes the cake.
I guess someone had to type your response in because you obviously can't read.
So who typed this for you? And what took you so long to find him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_Trust_Center_(CT_Corporation)
One of the current political issues over Mr Junker is that he is one of these federalists.
No, one of the current political issues is that Cameron is crapping his pants over the UKIP. So much that he attacks the more democratic election of the president of the European Council now after the election instead of back when Juncker was nominated as candidate by the European People's Party - which either means he doesn't understand how democracy works, or was betting everything on the Party of European Socialists winning.