The name "Google" has itself been verbed in a way that has never really happened to the names Apple and Microsoft (although some Apple and Microsoft products have been verbed).
Having a powerful brand directly means you are able to sell ads for higher prices. Time magazine surely sells ad space more easily than [brand new vaguely french-woman name magazine]. The brand power is probably more important to Google than it is to Apple or Microsoft (but of course it's important to all of them).
So what exactly happened to googleing that Google's brand value rose 40% over the last year?
Personally I think this kind of bullshit is driving customers (like the one in the lawsuit) to android. You can only be abusive while your on top, and Apple peaked last year with market share; its devices are behind the competitors...they are the little overpriced phones, and they need to buy a headphone company to remain cool.
Yeah, Google not making it hard is quite one explanation why more people switch from Android to iPhone than the other way.
Microsoft got slammed not for making it free but for claiming it was so integrated into the operating system that it could not be removed.
More precisely, they got slammed for violating the 1994 consent decree in wich they agreed not to tie other Microsoft products to Windows. The claim that it was integrated was a try to convince the judge it wasn't a separate product, but a feature of Windows.
While Bengtsson is wrong on this, he's no crackpot. This paper was rejected, but most of his previous ones were published and he is (was?) a respected scientist in the field.
Which field? Climatology? He's a meteorologist (note that many "sceptics" are), and specifically said "we need to be practical and focus on the time scales that are relevant to our policy decisions, namely "a couple of decades"".
Steve Jobs was a terrible person. He setup a deal with a local car dealership to switch cars on a regular basis for the sole purpose of never having to get a license plate so he could park in handicap spaces without getting a ticket.
I think you're confusing your Steve Jobs abuses, as those are two different issues. He just parked in the handicapped spots where he worked because he knew no one would tow him.
And because the spots are mostly empty anyway. Just look on Google Maps.
You'll get such things in any old red noise, which plenty of aspects of climate are.
So in spite of the fact that everybody else says climate changes in cycles, and most other "sceptics" only in cycles - you claim all climate data is just noise. Bye.
Similarly, Jimmy Carter is quite possibly the best human being ever to become a US President. Nobody claims he was a particularly good President.
Okay, name one from the last ten that was actually better. The reason why people think he was a bad president is because he told them the bitter truth - and Americans don't like that.
Because the GP said "When EVERYBODY in the company goes to jail for criminal behavior, companies will make very sure that the company is not being a big fat criminal."
Jesus Christ, people, at least look at what was answered before following the urge to comment - or admit you are trolling. And claiming that facility management would be outsourced anyway is a lame cop-out
With only 52% of our (US) GDP our besty friend green revolution China is now burning almost as much coal as the rest of the planet combined. Since the graph ends with 2012 the lines may have crossed by now.
Of course Chinas GDP has actually been growing much faster than you claim. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d79ffff8-cfb7-11e3-9b2b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz312W8T5tk "the research placed China’s GDP at 87 per cent of the US in 2011. " - and don't even get to the fact that a lot of the US GDP is generated by moving imaginary moneys to and from, or selling stuff made in China.
I don't see any particular upward trend there.
I'd guess that 2014 isn't going to be that dramatic.
The ACE is obviously governed by a cycle almost as long as the graph. Of course there is no true trend visible. Yet. Comparing the minima around 1975 and 2011 however...
look at the graph. look at the slope at 4,000 years ago, rise *rate* greater than today. end of argument, you lose.
Buy a new pair of eyes, loser. And let somebody read the fucking text to you: "The strong sea level rise at the end of the last ice age is still visible on the left hand side, slowing down 7000 years ago and even more so 4000 years ago. Until recently: Current sea level rise represents a clear increase."
you're very confused, I've studied the 1920s (above average wetness) and the 1930s extensively in geophysics courses. The root causes were not man.
Gee, then what is all the fuzz about "man made urban heat island effect" you "sceptics" keep talking about? The supposed reason for the "only apparently" rising temperatures? Apart from that theory being debunked, I mean.
I again politely ask the next door scientists to consider naming the new element for the castle ruin just south of Darmstadt. Frankensteinium has such a nice ring to it.
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The name "Google" has itself been verbed in a way that has never really happened to the names Apple and Microsoft (although some Apple and Microsoft products have been verbed).
Having a powerful brand directly means you are able to sell ads for higher prices. Time magazine surely sells ad space more easily than [brand new vaguely french-woman name magazine]. The brand power is probably more important to Google than it is to Apple or Microsoft (but of course it's important to all of them).
So what exactly happened to googleing that Google's brand value rose 40% over the last year?
Personally I think this kind of bullshit is driving customers (like the one in the lawsuit) to android. You can only be abusive while your on top, and Apple peaked last year with market share; its devices are behind the competitors...they are the little overpriced phones, and they need to buy a headphone company to remain cool.
Yeah, Google not making it hard is quite one explanation why more people switch from Android to iPhone than the other way.
Microsoft got slammed not for making it free but for claiming it was so integrated into the operating system that it could not be removed.
More precisely, they got slammed for violating the 1994 consent decree in wich they agreed not to tie other Microsoft products to Windows. The claim that it was integrated was a try to convince the judge it wasn't a separate product, but a feature of Windows.
Need to explicitly add -Wunreachable-code. Annoyingly, "-Wall" doesn't catch this particular error (at least on the versions of gcc I've used).
Not only that: "later" versions of gcc (like 4.5.2 & 4.7.3) have removed support for -Wunreachable-code without warning that the flag isn't supported. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2011-05/msg00360.html
The point is that the claim of consensus is meaningless.
Just like it was when the denialists first brought up the issue - that AGW wan't proven because there was no consensus.
Thanks for providing an example for "Step 1" done by the deniers.
While Bengtsson is wrong on this, he's no crackpot. This paper was rejected, but most of his previous ones were published and he is (was?) a respected scientist in the field.
Which field? Climatology? He's a meteorologist (note that many "sceptics" are), and specifically said "we need to be practical and focus on the time scales that are relevant to our policy decisions, namely "a couple of decades"".
Did the GDR ever "offer" free one-way tickets for people to immigrate?
Yes
Wasn't there something just published about that claiming it had to do with underwater currents getting warmer and not the air temp or Co2?
Ohh, so Global Warming is real only if it only concerns the atmosphere and not the rest of the globe?
The "Wichhunter General" would probably have found himself out of a job if he turned around and said "Nope, there ain't no witches"
Continuing to cry Witch! didn't work for Ken Cuccinelli.
Steve Jobs was a terrible person. He setup a deal with a local car dealership to switch cars on a regular basis for the sole purpose of never having to get a license plate so he could park in handicap spaces without getting a ticket.
I think you're confusing your Steve Jobs abuses, as those are two different issues. He just parked in the handicapped spots where he worked because he knew no one would tow him.
And because the spots are mostly empty anyway. Just look on Google Maps.
Of course there is the much easier explanation that the article is simply full of shit.
Am I the only one thinking Brainstorm ?
Nope. But Oculus Rift won't give you indefinite orgasms.
It would do me as much good as it did 99.99% of OpenSSL users.
Actually 100% of OpenSSL users, for several years.
Well, at least the NSA quickly found it, so not quite 100%.
You'll get such things in any old red noise, which plenty of aspects of climate are.
So in spite of the fact that everybody else says climate changes in cycles, and most other "sceptics" only in cycles - you claim all climate data is just noise. Bye.
let's talk about crippling our economy to attempt to control the climate.
Yeah, let's talk about alarmism.
Huh. What cycle?
The cycle where it goes down, then up, then down, then up. Are you claiming there isn't a cycle in ACE? Unlike in any other climate relate data?
Similarly, Jimmy Carter is quite possibly the best human being ever to become a US President. Nobody claims he was a particularly good President.
Okay, name one from the last ten that was actually better. The reason why people think he was a bad president is because he told them the bitter truth - and Americans don't like that.
Why would a janitor get punished?
Because the GP said "When EVERYBODY in the company goes to jail for criminal behavior, companies will make very sure that the company is not being a big fat criminal."
Jesus Christ, people, at least look at what was answered before following the urge to comment - or admit you are trolling. And claiming that facility management would be outsourced anyway is a lame cop-out
With only 52% of our (US) GDP our besty friend green revolution China is now burning almost as much coal as the rest of the planet combined. Since the graph ends with 2012 the lines may have crossed by now.
Of course Chinas GDP has actually been growing much faster than you claim. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d79ffff8-cfb7-11e3-9b2b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz312W8T5tk "the research placed China’s GDP at 87 per cent of the US in 2011. " - and don't even get to the fact that a lot of the US GDP is generated by moving imaginary moneys to and from, or selling stuff made in China.
Hum. I did a quick google for "accumulated cyclone energy" http://policlimate.com/tropica...
I don't see any particular upward trend there. I'd guess that 2014 isn't going to be that dramatic.
The ACE is obviously governed by a cycle almost as long as the graph. Of course there is no true trend visible. Yet. Comparing the minima around 1975 and 2011 however ...
look at the graph. look at the slope at 4,000 years ago, rise *rate* greater than today. end of argument, you lose.
Buy a new pair of eyes, loser. And let somebody read the fucking text to you: "The strong sea level rise at the end of the last ice age is still visible on the left hand side, slowing down 7000 years ago and even more so 4000 years ago. Until recently: Current sea level rise represents a clear increase."
you're very confused, I've studied the 1920s (above average wetness) and the 1930s extensively in geophysics courses. The root causes were not man.
Gee, then what is all the fuzz about "man made urban heat island effect" you "sceptics" keep talking about? The supposed reason for the "only apparently" rising temperatures? Apart from that theory being debunked, I mean.
instead of showing me the damn peripherals for Android devices
There were gamepads for Android devices, using the USB and Bluetooth input device specs, long before Apple introduced gamepad support in iOS 7.
Do you mean build in gamepads (that basically aren't made anymore), or external keyboards with very few keys?
I again politely ask the next door scientists to consider naming the new element for the castle ruin just south of Darmstadt. Frankensteinium has such a nice ring to it.