An important milestone is something like definitively switching to systemd and excluding any alternatives but 25 years is merely an arbitrary slice of time.
Holy smoke that's a scary graph.
If our issue open / closed list looked like that for that long, we'd be out on our ear and the client moved on to something / someone else!
World standards do not follow US standards. All vehicle makers have to conform to worldwide standards, not just the US. Besides, California standards are not the most strict when compared to international standards. Also California standards have been ratified by 12 other states. Since this is a proposed bill, it will not get out of committee without providing states the ability to set their own limits.
Serious question (because I don't know): It really works as simply as that? All this grand posturing can be undone by a committee?
I get that things like the wall get stopped because of the funding requirements. But a simply regulatory change? Wow!
A 5 year old computer is slower than a new one? I' m shocked.
Ok, fair point. I'm stunned at the magnitude of the speed difference, though. My work laptop also has SSDs, and it doesn't install Windows 10 into a VM that fast - and it's a Lenovo W530; not exactly a slouch.
My old Toshiba laptop is nearing the end of it's life. Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop are hamstrung by the IO in this 5 yo machine. So I decided to leap back to Macs...
Oh. My. Fucking. God. This MacBook Pro screams! This is the 15" with 2.6GHz i7 and 500 GB flash drives. Setting up a Windows 10 in VMWare Fusion took something stupid like 5 minutes. MS Office installations went fast and smooth.
It's way too early to see how this keeps working when I have a ton of files on there, but so far the computer feels worth the (hefty) price tag!
Ocean currents are not generally been part of the climate models... sigh this is not the place to debate science anymore.
Dude, you are so wrong; wrong enough that I've wasted quite a few mod points to post this.
5 seconds with Bing and the search term 'gcm that includes ocean currents' had Evaluation of the GISS GCM ModelE in the top few results. This article is dated 2002 and talked about how ocean currents are included in the GISS GCM. Ocean currents have been part of GCMs (General Circulation Models) for at least that amount of time.
Well my solution is that I only answer if I recognise the incoming number (family, friends, co-workers and the office). If I don't recognise the number, I let it go to voicemail; if it's important the caller will leave a message and I'll call them back promptly. This way I talk to the people that are important and filter out the rest.
This. 100% this. If you're in my phone's contact list and your name appears on the screen, I'll answer if I can.
If you leave voicemail, I'll listen.
If neither of these are true and I have time enough to be curious, the number goes into google to see if it's a hit on any of the "who called me" sites. Otherwise, I use the "block caller" function and I never hear from that number again.
Because they are Microsoft and they live and die by NIH. That is why they have strangled so may other projects they acquired.
Yeah... about that. So go back in time to 2003 (or so) when a small company called Navision up and sold their ERP solution Axapta to Microsoft. Fast-forward to today, and Axapta 3 has morphed into the Azure-hosted Dynamics 365. The original codebase is still there, but it's a vastly superior product and expanded product.
If you make a condition of the bet to not allow NOAA to modify the data, I'll take the bet any time. If you allow NOAA to make adjustments, its not gambling, its just handing over money because you know the outcome.
All current increases in temperature match NOAA adjustments 100%. Warmest year without adjustments is 1936.
So here's the thing, and please keep in mind I'm a human-induced climate-change skeptic: NOAA absolutely need to adjust the data, otherwise it will always show a warming trend.
The Urban Heat Island effect is well known. As urban areas expand and the amount of concrete (and other structured) increase, nearby weather stations become contaminated with these changes. To counter this, the readings are modified by a series of "known good" stations that are (relatively) nearby. The effectiveness of that particular process is disputed by AGW skeptics; but the need for it is well-established.
I don't know where you get 1936 from; the unadjusted global mean clearly shows 1998 was the warmest year ever.
Obesity, for example, is a much greater threat to Americans, than climate change
Obesity is something you mostly do to yourself. Maybe there are "reasons" (you're a kid and your parents feed you foolishly, or maybe you have disadvantageous genetics, or whatever) but seriously, a lot of it has to do with the obese person eating when they ought to stop, never getting off their ass and instead staring at a screen all day, etc. We don't need government to fix that. Obesity isn't something that people are doing to each other. People taking responsibility for themselves is the #1 very best solution to obesity.
Dear god. Whilst I'm sure there are people who fit the causes for obesity that you said, they seem to be the minority.
Obesity specifically, and eating disorders in general, is a maladaptive behaviour where something that can be controlled (eg. food intake) is substituted as a response to something that can't be controlled (eg. sexual abuse).
How many people actually want to be obese? The answer is close to zero. But when a sexual predator says to a young child "you would look better if you lost a few pounds", the child learns that eating to gain a few pounds makes the pain stop. Then this behaviour carries into teen years / adulthood as a maladaptive behaviour: have emotional pain, eat to make pain go away.
The sooner obesity is recognized as a response to pain, rather than a problem in itself, the sooner this "crisis" can be resolved.
The Clean Water Act would be a good place to start... Anything on the banned list is, well, banned. And it's often true that discharged wastewater is actually cleaner than the original intake water.
Ask the residents of Flint, Michigan how those EPA rules worked out, and how well they were enforced.
My first coding was on ZX81, there was one in town in some technical high school...ca. 1983..When the ZX Spectrum come in later, I could only watch others having fun with it. Nostalgia...
Apparently ebay still has ZX81 stuff
Ditto; six ZX-81s were purchased at my high school in a rural town in Australia. It changed my life. My interest was electronics; this forces an abrupt change and now I'm living in the US and working as a principle technical consultant for Dynamics AX at a big consulting company.
That machine literally changed the direction of my life.
I know Rick designed the case and not the computer or BASIC. But he played a part; and for that I'm grateful towards Rick and sad at his all-to-young passing.
I backed the ZX Spectrum Next on Kickstarter. Rick again designed the case, taking his ZX Spectrum 128 design and moving it forwards 35 years. It's beautiful. The case went into production last week, I believe. It's a shame he didn't live to see the project completed.
Foreign nations don't own all the US debt. Most of the debt is actually borrowed against the future value of social security, or some such financial nonsense.
Honestly I don't understand how it works but as of February only $6trillion or so is owed to foreign countries.
Considering that the 2017 annual US tax revenue is $1.9 trillion, calling 6 trillion dollars of debt means big problems for the US.
Why do they insist on making every other article something with "...a report says" followed by a bunch of clickbait?
Because "... a random guy without a clue says" simply doesn't carry the same weight as "a report".
Imagine the proper headline from earlier today: " 'Increasingly, People in Silicon Valley Are Losing Touch With Reality', says random guy without evidence".
I've followed this project on-and-off for years, in much the same way I've followed AROS.
But what the heck; I downloaded the ISO and set up a VMWare VM for it to install into.
The install was painless and fast; much better that Windows in that respect.
Once the desktop was up, it struggled with some device drivers. No biggie; it can run without sound.
The big problem came when installing software. This is supposed to be Windows XP compatible, so I dug out my VB6 disks. I loaded disk 1, double-clicked Setup, and instant bluescreen. Ok, not good... I rebooted, and the system would get to "Loading personal settings" and that was it: frozen. I could now not get past this screen ever.
ReactOS is interesting and I'm sure the developers are having a blast. But as a piece of functional software and a WIndows replacement: not so much.
Having read the article, the summary misses a crucial point: this drug is being given to people who are very, very sick. The drug manufacturer is in close contact with the families of the people taking this drug. Given that the people taking the drug literally have zero other options, it's honestly not surprising that there is a huge number of people dying whilst on this drug.
The key question is: would they have died anyway?
Yes, the FDA was concerned about rushing this drug to market. Yes, a significant number of the population dies when taking the drug. But there is also zero evidence that the drug caused the deaths.
It's incredibly sad when a loved one dies. Seeing my dad slip away (eg. getting lost in a supermarket he had gone to for 40+ years, talk about me as if I was someone who he had just met) was heartbreaking. I can get a sense of the pain of families who though they were doing the best by getting their loved on on this drug. But life is finite and new treatments carry risk. We learn as much as we can from this and move forwards.
we never saw K die. He was just resting on some snowy stairs.
Oh come on... This is the protagonist of the movie who has been stabbed deeply, with his last shot being of him lying down, eyes closing with a dramatic pullback. No, we didn't get the "Hollywood" death like Miles Dyson had in Terminator 2... but we didn't need it. It had far more subtly than that - and was, frankly, a relief.
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An important milestone is something like definitively switching to systemd and excluding any alternatives but 25 years is merely an arbitrary slice of time.
Holy smoke that's a scary graph.
If our issue open / closed list looked like that for that long, we'd be out on our ear and the client moved on to something / someone else!
World standards do not follow US standards. All vehicle makers have to conform to worldwide standards, not just the US. Besides, California standards are not the most strict when compared to international standards. Also California standards have been ratified by 12 other states. Since this is a proposed bill, it will not get out of committee without providing states the ability to set their own limits.
Serious question (because I don't know): It really works as simply as that? All this grand posturing can be undone by a committee?
I get that things like the wall get stopped because of the funding requirements. But a simply regulatory change? Wow!
... when lawn mowers, leaf blowers, construction vehicles, etc, all spew out a lot more pollutants per minute than the hugest SUV or pickup truck.
True... but how long do you run your leaf blower for? Purely in terms of hours per week, most cars run longer than the leaf blower by a huge factor.
It has now been definitively proven that Apple understands technology better than all the Apple-critics on Slashdot (and around the world).
Actually, it proves that Apple understand stock market valuations and the processes that drive them better than anyone else.
A 5 year old computer is slower than a new one? I' m shocked.
Ok, fair point. I'm stunned at the magnitude of the speed difference, though. My work laptop also has SSDs, and it doesn't install Windows 10 into a VM that fast - and it's a Lenovo W530; not exactly a slouch.
It's one hell of a display, though... I'm looking at it now, and it beats the crap out of any other laptop display I've seen.
My old Toshiba laptop is nearing the end of it's life. Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop are hamstrung by the IO in this 5 yo machine. So I decided to leap back to Macs...
Oh. My. Fucking. God. This MacBook Pro screams! This is the 15" with 2.6GHz i7 and 500 GB flash drives. Setting up a Windows 10 in VMWare Fusion took something stupid like 5 minutes. MS Office installations went fast and smooth.
It's way too early to see how this keeps working when I have a ton of files on there, but so far the computer feels worth the (hefty) price tag!
Try switching your DNS to Google or OpenDNS
For IPv4: 8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4.
For IPv6: 2001:4860:4860::8888 and/or 2001:4860:4860::8844.
OpenDNS server addresses, 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220; Pv6 2620:0:ccc::2 and 2620:0:ccd::2
My service was funky, but setting these DNS values sorted it out.
Rally weird how some sites were working but others not.
Ocean currents are not generally been part of the climate models... sigh this is not the place to debate science anymore.
Dude, you are so wrong; wrong enough that I've wasted quite a few mod points to post this.
5 seconds with Bing and the search term 'gcm that includes ocean currents' had Evaluation of the GISS GCM ModelE in the top few results. This article is dated 2002 and talked about how ocean currents are included in the GISS GCM. Ocean currents have been part of GCMs (General Circulation Models) for at least that amount of time.
Now, I am skeptical of the robustness of GCMs. Their predictive power appears to be weak over time (look at how accurate the CFSV2 is over a three month period, for example); and probably because their resolution is quite low; GCMs typically having a horizontal resolution of between 250 and 600 km, 10 to 20 vertical layers in the atmosphere and sometimes as many as 30 layers in the oceans. But that will change as computers get faster or more massively paralleled.
Disagree with GCSs all you want. But at least try and do some rudimentary research on why you disagree with them..
Well my solution is that I only answer if I recognise the incoming number (family, friends, co-workers and the office). If I don't recognise the number, I let it go to voicemail; if it's important the caller will leave a message and I'll call them back promptly. This way I talk to the people that are important and filter out the rest.
This. 100% this. If you're in my phone's contact list and your name appears on the screen, I'll answer if I can.
If you leave voicemail, I'll listen.
If neither of these are true and I have time enough to be curious, the number goes into google to see if it's a hit on any of the "who called me" sites. Otherwise, I use the "block caller" function and I never hear from that number again.
"why would they do that?"
Because they are Microsoft and they live and die by NIH. That is why they have strangled so may other projects they acquired.
Yeah... about that. So go back in time to 2003 (or so) when a small company called Navision up and sold their ERP solution Axapta to Microsoft. Fast-forward to today, and Axapta 3 has morphed into the Azure-hosted Dynamics 365. The original codebase is still there, but it's a vastly superior product and expanded product.
They acquired it; they improved it out of sight!
For the last 18 years, the Argo oceanic system has been collecting huge amounts of data. I can't see what this project adds to that body of knowledge.
If you make a condition of the bet to not allow NOAA to modify the data, I'll take the bet any time.
If you allow NOAA to make adjustments, its not gambling, its just handing over money because you know the outcome.
All current increases in temperature match NOAA adjustments 100%. Warmest year without adjustments is 1936.
So here's the thing, and please keep in mind I'm a human-induced climate-change skeptic: NOAA absolutely need to adjust the data, otherwise it will always show a warming trend.
The Urban Heat Island effect is well known. As urban areas expand and the amount of concrete (and other structured) increase, nearby weather stations become contaminated with these changes. To counter this, the readings are modified by a series of "known good" stations that are (relatively) nearby. The effectiveness of that particular process is disputed by AGW skeptics; but the need for it is well-established.
I don't know where you get 1936 from; the unadjusted global mean clearly shows 1998 was the warmest year ever.
Obesity is something you mostly do to yourself. Maybe there are "reasons" (you're a kid and your parents feed you foolishly, or maybe you have disadvantageous genetics, or whatever) but seriously, a lot of it has to do with the obese person eating when they ought to stop, never getting off their ass and instead staring at a screen all day, etc. We don't need government to fix that. Obesity isn't something that people are doing to each other. People taking responsibility for themselves is the #1 very best solution to obesity.
Dear god. Whilst I'm sure there are people who fit the causes for obesity that you said, they seem to be the minority.
Obesity specifically, and eating disorders in general, is a maladaptive behaviour where something that can be controlled (eg. food intake) is substituted as a response to something that can't be controlled (eg. sexual abuse).
How many people actually want to be obese? The answer is close to zero. But when a sexual predator says to a young child "you would look better if you lost a few pounds", the child learns that eating to gain a few pounds makes the pain stop. Then this behaviour carries into teen years / adulthood as a maladaptive behaviour: have emotional pain, eat to make pain go away.
The sooner obesity is recognized as a response to pain, rather than a problem in itself, the sooner this "crisis" can be resolved.
The Clean Water Act would be a good place to start... Anything on the banned list is, well, banned. And it's often true that discharged wastewater is actually cleaner than the original intake water.
Ask the residents of Flint, Michigan how those EPA rules worked out, and how well they were enforced.
My first coding was on ZX81, there was one in town in some technical high school...ca. 1983..When the ZX Spectrum come in later, I could only watch others having fun with it. Nostalgia...
Apparently ebay still has ZX81 stuff
Ditto; six ZX-81s were purchased at my high school in a rural town in Australia. It changed my life. My interest was electronics; this forces an abrupt change and now I'm living in the US and working as a principle technical consultant for Dynamics AX at a big consulting company.
That machine literally changed the direction of my life.
I know Rick designed the case and not the computer or BASIC. But he played a part; and for that I'm grateful towards Rick and sad at his all-to-young passing.
I backed the ZX Spectrum Next on Kickstarter. Rick again designed the case, taking his ZX Spectrum 128 design and moving it forwards 35 years. It's beautiful. The case went into production last week, I believe. It's a shame he didn't live to see the project completed.
Foreign nations don't own all the US debt. Most of the debt is actually borrowed against the future value of social security, or some such financial nonsense.
Honestly I don't understand how it works but as of February only $6trillion or so is owed to foreign countries.
Considering that the 2017 annual US tax revenue is $1.9 trillion, calling 6 trillion dollars of debt means big problems for the US.
So...20 days late? Not bad.
It was coming earlier, but a blue screen was affecting some users. Hence the delay.
Why do they insist on making every other article something with "...a report says" followed by a bunch of clickbait?
Because "... a random guy without a clue says" simply doesn't carry the same weight as "a report".
Imagine the proper headline from earlier today: " 'Increasingly, People in Silicon Valley Are Losing Touch With Reality', says random guy without evidence".
I've followed this project on-and-off for years, in much the same way I've followed AROS.
But what the heck; I downloaded the ISO and set up a VMWare VM for it to install into.
The install was painless and fast; much better that Windows in that respect.
Once the desktop was up, it struggled with some device drivers. No biggie; it can run without sound.
The big problem came when installing software. This is supposed to be Windows XP compatible, so I dug out my VB6 disks. I loaded disk 1, double-clicked Setup, and instant bluescreen. Ok, not good... I rebooted, and the system would get to "Loading personal settings" and that was it: frozen. I could now not get past this screen ever.
ReactOS is interesting and I'm sure the developers are having a blast. But as a piece of functional software and a WIndows replacement: not so much.
Pass.
Having read the article, the summary misses a crucial point: this drug is being given to people who are very, very sick. The drug manufacturer is in close contact with the families of the people taking this drug. Given that the people taking the drug literally have zero other options, it's honestly not surprising that there is a huge number of people dying whilst on this drug.
The key question is: would they have died anyway?
Yes, the FDA was concerned about rushing this drug to market. Yes, a significant number of the population dies when taking the drug. But there is also zero evidence that the drug caused the deaths.
It's incredibly sad when a loved one dies. Seeing my dad slip away (eg. getting lost in a supermarket he had gone to for 40+ years, talk about me as if I was someone who he had just met) was heartbreaking. I can get a sense of the pain of families who though they were doing the best by getting their loved on on this drug. But life is finite and new treatments carry risk. We learn as much as we can from this and move forwards.
And cry. But that's normal, too.
they're retard-coins, they will never be "a thing"
cointards?
we never saw K die. He was just resting on some snowy stairs.
Oh come on... This is the protagonist of the movie who has been stabbed deeply, with his last shot being of him lying down, eyes closing with a dramatic pullback. No, we didn't get the "Hollywood" death like Miles Dyson had in Terminator 2... but we didn't need it. It had far more subtly than that - and was, frankly, a relief.
Likewise. My main issue with 2049 was that it was too loud.
I loved the menace of the Tuvan throat singing... I hated that it blasted me into my seat.