It doesn't feel to you like you're paying protection money to the mob buying those services from your bank? A bank that is part of the problem because like every bank, they'll gladly loan money in your name with little or no verification?
If they wanted to protect your identity, they'd make it harder to steal. Companies losing personal information aren't the problem, companies who casually take action based on very little information that will impact you when that information is lost is the real problem.
Cloning Clyde (in the XBox 360 Marketplace) is a blast, a great side scrolling platform game. I wouldn't call it 2-D in the Super Mario Brothers sense... its sort of 2.5D. You're definitely looking at narrow depth 3-D space, but you can only move in 2-D.
Its got good 2-player action, too!
I think the XBLA games are good proof that you can have a lot of fun HD next-gen gaming without 1st or 3rd person 3D photorealistic mega-rendering.
Tell that to the landlocked countries who get their water sources via rivers coming from potentially hostile neighbors or snow melt that is rapidly disappearing because of global warming.
You think wars are nasty over oil? Go look at a globe and take a peek at how many countries in unstable parts of the world have limited or no ocean access and primary water sources outside their borders.
We already have states battling over water rights in the US. Imagine when that happens with two countries with a history of hostility, armed to the teeth facing water shortages that are killing their people. Then add the need for the water for energy supply on top of it.
If I'm bleeding to death, the fact that the knife wounds are bleeding out faster than the gunshot wounds, and the fact that in the past I've gotten nosebleeds, so its not unusual for blood to be coming out of my body isn't really all that important. Dealing with the blood loss is.
Solar storms do not travel at the speed of light. A few hours or few days warning is a BIG deal. Large flares can knock out (and physically damage) power grids for example.
I think you have it backwards, just based on experience selling software into those sort of companies.
I've got a lot of customers who have a near zero cost going to Vista and Office 2007 as far as licensing is concerned, but they're all talking a year or more to do it and some are saying they may never switch. Why? Enormous retraining and help desk costs associated with the new ribbon UI in Office (which personally I *really* like), and the OS cost is minimal when compared to the new hardware cost and the cost of replacing hardware "in the field".
The place I personally have concern about Vista support very quickly is the exact opposite of what you said -- its the small companies. When you get below 20-30 people, most companies buy whatever computers they can get for the lowest price. They don't have enterprise licenses and will take whatever OS comes on that system... and those systems are going to come with Vista by default. My girlfriend, for example, works at a company of 50 people or so... and when they need a new PC, the IT guy goes down to Best Buy and gets whatever is on sale.
Our 2007 release planning is only targeting Vista for those very small customers (and as such, we're not spending much time looking at it or qualifying it on products that a small customer wouldn't use).
But you make an important point -- small companies (and a lot of big companies) NEVER upgrade OS's. They are still running Windows 98 on systems that haven't died or been replaced for functional reasons... and there's not many functional reasons to replace a 2ghz XP machine for a few years at least.
The rate of change is the problem. There have been warmer and colder times, but never a time things have shifted at the rate they have in the last 100 years.
I am not a climatologist, but one of my mother is, so I've got a bit more than a passing understanding of the field...
* If it is real, is it permanent and not just an earth/solar cycle?
Thats the wrong question. Is it permanent is "no", unquestionably. Its known it is not a solar cycle, because there are pretty good records of solar output. Ice core samples show pretty definitively that if its a natural earth cycle it is a VERY long cycle. And from the standpoint of us dealing with the problem, it really doesn't matter. Reducing carbon in the atmosphere WILL cool things, even if it wasn't what originally started heating things up. It also will help prevent really disastrous scenarios like thawing of methane ice fields.
If it is real (whether or not it is caused by us), is it due to greenhouse gases? (i.e. not deforestation, urban heat islands, the hole in the ozone, or other causes or even a combination of these causes)
There is no debate about this. Its known that greenhouses gases are what is causing the heating. Even among people who are publishing against the establishment purely to get notice in the field, that is not a debated point. UHIs for example can cause localized climatic changes, but aren't changing ocean temperatures. It takes a lot more energy than we're producing to make a change in a sink the size of the ocean.
If it is real (whether or not it is caused by us), what is the real impact if nothing is done? (Even if the cause is greenhouse gases, it may make more sense to grow the necessary number of forests to absorb the gas as our gas output increases or find some other way to solidify/trap greenhouse gases.)
Get rid of the first clause there. Its real, there really is no debate. The second question is a good one, however. In my opinion, the point has come that climate models need to be run in fields other than climatology. How will it really impact water sources, farming, disease spread, species distribution, etc. This sort of research is starting to really pick up.
* If it is real (whether or not it is caused by us), can anything be done to reverse it? (If not, then while it's common sense to try to reduce the impact, it makes a lot of sense to either invest in technologies to either live with it or leave earth).
And thats the key question. It is real, and it doesn't matter if we caused it when it comes to answering THIS question. We know CO levels are too high and growing higher. Its pretty damn likely that we're doing it, but it sort of doesn't matter since we don't have a way to really stop people from emitting them at this point in time.
I think you're being a bit too dramatic for the sake of being modded up, though. Dropping the word dogma tends to work well on here. That said, the important points ARE being debated and researched. The politicization and debate is a media thing, it is NOT happening in the field. Even what the BBC is doing stinks more of a readership move than anything truly scientific. These questions were all basically answered years ago and the field really is focused more on the "what do we do now" questions than "what is going on" questions.
I don't think a lot of people really think about how bad and biased the media really is. If you're not a climatologist, think about a field you are an expert in. Say, technology, since its Slashdot. Do the "experts" on TV know what they're talking about? No. Its the same in every other field, climatology included. The people on TV are there because they're pushing an agenda, trying to push themselves up, trying to get laid, whatever. Its never about really presenting an expert's real position.
That one was ahead of its time, since most of the networks I worked with back then were 10Base2, chugging along at 10Mbps. NAS at that speed would be all but useless for anything but small Word docs.
Computers were awfully slow back then. We ran NFS mounted root drives over Ethernet all the time. The system wasn't impacted that greatly because drives weren't a whole lot faster anyway. You could run dozens of machines without local storage booted off an ethernet segment without major problems.
Make each bill smell like something else. Make a five smell like coffee, since thats what a coffee at starbucks costs. Ten smells like pizza. Twenty smells like chinese food, and a hundred smells like fine leather.
The one doesn't smell like a damn thing, since you can't do much with it anyway.
That shows a distinct lack of planning. I ensured I had enough leftovers to stuff myself with obscene amounts of food for lunch on Saturday and dinner last night as well!
Now, if anyone needs me today, I'll be in stall #2.
While dropping the monopoly word in here is a sure fire way to get modded up, it just amazes me that a community of people who run two, three, or more different OS's, on different hardware platforms cry monopoly at every chance with Microsoft but do not when they are complaining about being stuck with a 3mbit cable modem, or unable to get bare copper lines for DSL back in the day, or even able to get FIOS TV because their town granted a monopoly to the local cable company.
There are REAL monopolies impacting people in the US vastly more than the anti-Microsoft brigade seems to understand.
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No, its a way of saying he's looked at Ebay today and realized they're selling under list and no one is going to be using them.
If no one is using them, no one can ever use all its power.
It doesn't feel to you like you're paying protection money to the mob buying those services from your bank? A bank that is part of the problem because like every bank, they'll gladly loan money in your name with little or no verification?
If they wanted to protect your identity, they'd make it harder to steal. Companies losing personal information aren't the problem, companies who casually take action based on very little information that will impact you when that information is lost is the real problem.
This is a double feature. Its a "Slashdot Editors Suck" article AND a "Someone Doesn't Like Vista" article!
Its like Christmas a week early!
I didn't notice when I clicked on it, was it Zonk?
*drool*
Oh dawg gammit...
Mental note: check if anyone else has used a bad joke before using a bad joke.
*sigh*
This strategy worked for me and landed me a job in the upper 80's!
But what has it done for you in the last 20 years?
*hopes someone gets it*
Cloning Clyde (in the XBox 360 Marketplace) is a blast, a great side scrolling platform game. I wouldn't call it 2-D in the Super Mario Brothers sense... its sort of 2.5D. You're definitely looking at narrow depth 3-D space, but you can only move in 2-D.
Its got good 2-player action, too!
I think the XBLA games are good proof that you can have a lot of fun HD next-gen gaming without 1st or 3rd person 3D photorealistic mega-rendering.
Tell that to the landlocked countries who get their water sources via rivers coming from potentially hostile neighbors or snow melt that is rapidly disappearing because of global warming.
You think wars are nasty over oil? Go look at a globe and take a peek at how many countries in unstable parts of the world have limited or no ocean access and primary water sources outside their borders.
We already have states battling over water rights in the US. Imagine when that happens with two countries with a history of hostility, armed to the teeth facing water shortages that are killing their people. Then add the need for the water for energy supply on top of it.
What does that have to do with it?
If I'm bleeding to death, the fact that the knife wounds are bleeding out faster than the gunshot wounds, and the fact that in the past I've gotten nosebleeds, so its not unusual for blood to be coming out of my body isn't really all that important. Dealing with the blood loss is.
Solar storms do not travel at the speed of light. A few hours or few days warning is a BIG deal. Large flares can knock out (and physically damage) power grids for example.
Warnings can save lives and a LOT of money.
I just don't have time to read it, I have meetings to go to.
This may be much easier to use than a squirt bottle when the cats are being bad.
Those little sh%ts know I won't squirt towards the TV, so they fight and do bad things right in front of it all the time.
I think you have it backwards, just based on experience selling software into those sort of companies.
I've got a lot of customers who have a near zero cost going to Vista and Office 2007 as far as licensing is concerned, but they're all talking a year or more to do it and some are saying they may never switch. Why? Enormous retraining and help desk costs associated with the new ribbon UI in Office (which personally I *really* like), and the OS cost is minimal when compared to the new hardware cost and the cost of replacing hardware "in the field".
The place I personally have concern about Vista support very quickly is the exact opposite of what you said -- its the small companies. When you get below 20-30 people, most companies buy whatever computers they can get for the lowest price. They don't have enterprise licenses and will take whatever OS comes on that system... and those systems are going to come with Vista by default. My girlfriend, for example, works at a company of 50 people or so... and when they need a new PC, the IT guy goes down to Best Buy and gets whatever is on sale.
Our 2007 release planning is only targeting Vista for those very small customers (and as such, we're not spending much time looking at it or qualifying it on products that a small customer wouldn't use).
But you make an important point -- small companies (and a lot of big companies) NEVER upgrade OS's. They are still running Windows 98 on systems that haven't died or been replaced for functional reasons... and there's not many functional reasons to replace a 2ghz XP machine for a few years at least.
The rate of change is the problem. There have been warmer and colder times, but never a time things have shifted at the rate they have in the last 100 years.
Typo. Originally it said one of my parents, then I decided to get specific, but I'm drugged up today so I left a few other words.
Actually, all things considered, its a pretty coherent reply. I approve (of myself)!
I am not a climatologist, but one of my mother is, so I've got a bit more than a passing understanding of the field...
* If it is real, is it permanent and not just an earth/solar cycle?
Thats the wrong question. Is it permanent is "no", unquestionably. Its known it is not a solar cycle, because there are pretty good records of solar output. Ice core samples show pretty definitively that if its a natural earth cycle it is a VERY long cycle. And from the standpoint of us dealing with the problem, it really doesn't matter. Reducing carbon in the atmosphere WILL cool things, even if it wasn't what originally started heating things up. It also will help prevent really disastrous scenarios like thawing of methane ice fields.
If it is real (whether or not it is caused by us), is it due to greenhouse gases? (i.e. not deforestation, urban heat islands, the hole in the ozone, or other causes or even a combination of these causes)
There is no debate about this. Its known that greenhouses gases are what is causing the heating. Even among people who are publishing against the establishment purely to get notice in the field, that is not a debated point. UHIs for example can cause localized climatic changes, but aren't changing ocean temperatures. It takes a lot more energy than we're producing to make a change in a sink the size of the ocean.
If it is real (whether or not it is caused by us), what is the real impact if nothing is done? (Even if the cause is greenhouse gases, it may make more sense to grow the necessary number of forests to absorb the gas as our gas output increases or find some other way to solidify/trap greenhouse gases.)
Get rid of the first clause there. Its real, there really is no debate. The second question is a good one, however. In my opinion, the point has come that climate models need to be run in fields other than climatology. How will it really impact water sources, farming, disease spread, species distribution, etc. This sort of research is starting to really pick up.
* If it is real (whether or not it is caused by us), can anything be done to reverse it? (If not, then while it's common sense to try to reduce the impact, it makes a lot of sense to either invest in technologies to either live with it or leave earth).
And thats the key question. It is real, and it doesn't matter if we caused it when it comes to answering THIS question. We know CO levels are too high and growing higher. Its pretty damn likely that we're doing it, but it sort of doesn't matter since we don't have a way to really stop people from emitting them at this point in time.
I think you're being a bit too dramatic for the sake of being modded up, though. Dropping the word dogma tends to work well on here. That said, the important points ARE being debated and researched. The politicization and debate is a media thing, it is NOT happening in the field. Even what the BBC is doing stinks more of a readership move than anything truly scientific. These questions were all basically answered years ago and the field really is focused more on the "what do we do now" questions than "what is going on" questions.
I don't think a lot of people really think about how bad and biased the media really is. If you're not a climatologist, think about a field you are an expert in. Say, technology, since its Slashdot. Do the "experts" on TV know what they're talking about? No. Its the same in every other field, climatology included. The people on TV are there because they're pushing an agenda, trying to push themselves up, trying to get laid, whatever. Its never about really presenting an expert's real position.
That one was ahead of its time, since most of the networks I worked with back then were 10Base2, chugging along at 10Mbps. NAS at that speed would be all but useless for anything but small Word docs.
Computers were awfully slow back then. We ran NFS mounted root drives over Ethernet all the time. The system wasn't impacted that greatly because drives weren't a whole lot faster anyway. You could run dozens of machines without local storage booted off an ethernet segment without major problems.
I was just about to post that.
Scratch and sniff.
Make each bill smell like something else. Make a five smell like coffee, since thats what a coffee at starbucks costs. Ten smells like pizza. Twenty smells like chinese food, and a hundred smells like fine leather.
The one doesn't smell like a damn thing, since you can't do much with it anyway.
Last Thursday?
That shows a distinct lack of planning. I ensured I had enough leftovers to stuff myself with obscene amounts of food for lunch on Saturday and dinner last night as well!
Now, if anyone needs me today, I'll be in stall #2.
No, they haven't.
The GP is just a moron.
How does one play a game enough to give a review and not know that you're Delta squad FINDING Alpha squad in the game?
Plus, I'd swear I read nearly the identical review somewhere else...
Insulting Slashdot is a good way to get modded up, but pointing out the lack of girlfriends is going to swing the moderators the other direction!
N00b mistake...
You always comment on the staleness of news, then insult Zonk, make a side quip about dupes and leave the girlfriend angle out.
Thats the secret to high karma!
While dropping the monopoly word in here is a sure fire way to get modded up, it just amazes me that a community of people who run two, three, or more different OS's, on different hardware platforms cry monopoly at every chance with Microsoft but do not when they are complaining about being stuck with a 3mbit cable modem, or unable to get bare copper lines for DSL back in the day, or even able to get FIOS TV because their town granted a monopoly to the local cable company.
There are REAL monopolies impacting people in the US vastly more than the anti-Microsoft brigade seems to understand.
Its a very myopic view of things.
Now just dupe your post.