Upgrade to the HD version. In all the time that I have had KPBS-HD, I have never had to deal with that. But then, a portion of my subscription goes to pay for their programming. So no, they don't do telethons in HighDef. Oh yeah, the programming is better too. Unfortunately, no Nova, though.. but I do love getting live music every Friday night!:D
I'd love to. Unfortunately, I'm behind a hill, so I don't get signal coverage OTA. No real good idea how to get around that either, short of building a 200ft high antenna.
I'm guessing you like stupid specials as opposed to things like Nova, Charlie Rose, Now, the American Experience, their reality shows or the various BBC shows they have on. Well, too bad for you.
I'm guessing you're a stupid arrogant ass.
The shows I'm talking about are Blackadder and Red Dwarf, which the local PBS station (KCTS) only shows when they want money.
OK, very interesting report on "ONE PLAUSIBLE OUTCOME" (see begining of report). I also agree that the probablility is not negligible and, as I mentioned earlier, should be considered.
I still wish that the "New Scientist" article had also admitted that there were other possibilities.
Do you have references for the other possibilities too, or is your interest in the future of artic ice lopsided the same way as the article?
I trust the US Navy not to waste money by only considering one point of view; I assume that they will be after the most accurate information possible.
While more studies would be nice, this is the best information available regarding polar ice cap changes, and is a synthesis of lots of information from various sources.
By the way, your phrase "One Plausible Outcome" appears NOWHERE in the report.
You are reading Appendix A-1 of the final report from 2001, right?
I personally wish I could get the BBC in the states. They consistently air interesting things, and I would definitely pay for it. PBS plays second fiddle to the BBC.
You can get some of it - although they show other UK programming as well as BBC shows.
What moronic PBS station are you burdened with? Also, what programs are you looking for? Specials? Otherwise, it sounds like your PBS station doesn't have a very strict schedule...
KCTS. The only time they show Red Dwarf or Blackadder is when they want money.
the only tv shows that ever have or ever will make me surrender money are on PBS.
I won't give money to PBS.
The local station only shows the shows I want to watch when they're doing a beg-a-thon. And they interrupt those shows every 15 minutes to beg some more.
If they showed them outside of the beg-a-thon, I might consider it, but they don't. So screw 'em.
All shining hope for the future with lots of fuzzy inexactness like "could allow" and "in as little as." There was more than ample consideration for the arguments that favored their hope, and only those arguments in favor, but there was no actual research quoted or referenced.
You lie. Sorry.
These predictions come in a recently declassified report of a meeting of American, British and Canadian Arctic and naval experts in April 2001, organised by Dennis Conlon of the US Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Virginia.
Entitled Naval Operations in an Ice-Free Arctic, the report reveals that standard naval operations could be close to impossible in Arctic waters. The biggest problem is that communications satellites do not cover the area well, says Conlon.
Quote: "There are shipping companies now planning on using new routes which are being opened up by melting sea ice."
There are people planning to play Duke Nukem Forever, too.
Any shipping company that would get an advantage by using such new routs would have to be bonkers not to make plans for such a contingency. Just as bonkers as they would have to be to bank the whole business on such routs being commercially viable in the near future.
Yeah, you're right. Global warming isn't real. But a lot of us liberals know it, too.
Extensive information about global warming, particularly why it is not a threat, is explained very nicely in Michael Crichton's State of Fear. It's a great read.
Long story short: climates changes are cyclical, we just finished a period of warming, now we're in a period of cooling.
If that's the case, then please explain why the polar ice caps are melting. There are shipping companies now planning on using new routes which are being opened up by melting sea ice.
Did I write in an inflammatory way? Yes. But what I said is true, even though almost every person who responded to me misread what I wrote ("almost" - some responses were informative and cool). It used to be that if you pointed out Microsoft was capable of dirty deeds and not to be trusted, everyone knew what you were talking about. Now you get shouted down and modded "Off topic" and "Flame bait."
How on earth would you know what Slashdot "used to be"? You have a 6 digit user ID for god's sake.
This is the man that said many times that technology was going foreward, and tablet pc's were the future.
yet he does not carry one everywhere nor use one in important places like debates.
this tells me that even the MAN himself finds the technology he publically says is the future to sucess is too cumbersome compared to a pencil/pen and paper.
This one thing says a HUGE amount to me.
Microsoft "one note" is supposedly the killer app for tablet's. Yet the uber micrsoftie himself does not use it.
hell, I have never once seen the man hold or use a PocketPC device.
You ever think that for security reasons they might just want everyone to use the notepads + pencils provided, and not use a laptop which can record conversations, has network communications capabilities, etc?
Red Hat takes reponsibility for their distro in the same way Evian takes reponsibility for the safety of the water they sell. But neither take responsibility for all instances of the raw materials they package and sell.
However, Evian do take responsibility for everything that they sell - that is, the water, the packaging materials, everything.
Are you saying that Red Hat aren't responsible for the Linux Kernel that they package and sell? If not, why not? It's part of their distro.
It's a funny irony that as Linux has grown, simply because of Microsofts attitude, that Billy and Steve have become almost obsessed with Linux. that they have in my eyes ended up looking like silly cartoon villians.
They only appear obsessed if Slashdot and The Register are your only news sources.
Perhaps you should broaden your reading selections.
As we all know, Open Source Software development is structurally similar to the scientific method and evolution in terms of how "new things" are created by the these systems. Similarly, what Microsoft is claiming is that software can't be created well "at random" through emergent means (we know that's a crock) but needs "the Hand of an intelligent Creator" to control everything (Microsoft == God, apparently). Ergo: Microsoft is claiming that only "Creationist Software" is good software - "Evolutionary Software" is evil software.
This is the most stupid troll post I've ever read.
Clue for you: OSS software developers do not develop "at random" through emergent means. They develop the same damn way CSS software developers do - using their brains, sitting at a keyboard.
But hey, nice try at completely twisting the debate to something it's not.
What are you going to do next? Compare Microsoft to muslim terrorists? Or Nazis? Or don't those FUD phrases work so well for you any more?
Who is accountable for the safety of drinking water? Does Evian, for example, take responsibility? It cannot, as it does not produce water. It packages one distribution of water.
Yes, Evian does take responsibility. As the producer of the food product - namely, bottled water - it is held responsible for its quality and safety to the consumer by the Food and Drug Administration.
But hey - way to go trying to make a lame analogy. And by the way, raising your hands and saying "who knows who is responsible" and passing the buck really isn't a good long term strategy.
To be fair to Microsoft (yeah, I know), as of SP2 OEMs or anyone else are free to decide what media player, office suite, browser, etc. they bundle. Oh its true you can't actually get rid of the MS programs (except office, which has always been a "choice"). But if you select alternatives via the framework MS added in SP2, you never hear a peep from the offending programs again.
As much as I'm disappointed in the antitrust settlement, getting this functionality in Windows is a decent bonus. Its made it very easy for me to convert family members seamlessly over to Firefox/Thunderbird.
As of Windows 2000 SP2, you mean. That "Set Program Access and Defaults" thing has been around for a very long time.
A company I worked for in 1997 bought a packard bell system for me to use. It came with a 3rd party media player (namely, Real Player). I'm not sure what the big deal is.
Gimp sucks compared to MS Paint, (lets leave out photoshop cause there's no point comparing a free tool to something of professional level. It's like comparing a shovel to a backhoe in terms of digging ability.)
Gimp also sucks compared to Paint Shop Pro.
Nice to see you agreeing with the previous poster though. As he said, the free versions suck shit compared to the professional ones.
The silly thing is... nothing in that memo actually gives any benefits for replacing the NT kernel with the Linux kernel.
Reason being, there aren't any. Windows may have plenty of other problems - but the kernel isn't one of them.
Running Windows on top of the Linux kernel would be a pointless geeky exercise in masturbation - great for the penguinistas out there, but ultimately providing zero benefit. About all it would do would be to suck a lot of money into the void - something that Microsoft as a whole seems pretty good at recently. At least some people are complaining about it though.
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You're talking about something which happened 5 years ago.
Upgrade to the HD version. In all the time that I have had KPBS-HD, I have never had to deal with that. But then, a portion of my subscription goes to pay for their programming. So no, they don't do telethons in HighDef. Oh yeah, the programming is better too. Unfortunately, no Nova, though.. but I do love getting live music every Friday night! :D
I'd love to. Unfortunately, I'm behind a hill, so I don't get signal coverage OTA. No real good idea how to get around that either, short of building a 200ft high antenna.
I'm guessing you like stupid specials as opposed to things like Nova, Charlie Rose, Now, the American Experience, their reality shows or the various BBC shows they have on. Well, too bad for you.
I'm guessing you're a stupid arrogant ass.
The shows I'm talking about are Blackadder and Red Dwarf, which the local PBS station (KCTS) only shows when they want money.
OK, very interesting report on "ONE PLAUSIBLE OUTCOME" (see begining of report). I also agree that the probablility is not negligible and, as I mentioned earlier, should be considered.
I still wish that the "New Scientist" article had also admitted that there were other possibilities.
Do you have references for the other possibilities too, or is your interest in the future of artic ice lopsided the same way as the article?
I trust the US Navy not to waste money by only considering one point of view; I assume that they will be after the most accurate information possible.
While more studies would be nice, this is the best information available regarding polar ice cap changes, and is a synthesis of lots of information from various sources.
By the way, your phrase "One Plausible Outcome" appears NOWHERE in the report.
You are reading Appendix A-1 of the final report from 2001, right?
I personally wish I could get the BBC in the states. They consistently air interesting things, and I would definitely pay for it. PBS plays second fiddle to the BBC.
You can get some of it - although they show other UK programming as well as BBC shows.
www.bbcamerica.com
What moronic PBS station are you burdened with? Also, what programs are you looking for? Specials? Otherwise, it sounds like your PBS station doesn't have a very strict schedule...
KCTS. The only time they show Red Dwarf or Blackadder is when they want money.
Oh, and for more information, you might want to read the US Government's reports:
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/icefree/
the only tv shows that ever have or ever will make me surrender money are on PBS.
I won't give money to PBS.
The local station only shows the shows I want to watch when they're doing a beg-a-thon. And they interrupt those shows every 15 minutes to beg some more.
If they showed them outside of the beg-a-thon, I might consider it, but they don't. So screw 'em.
All shining hope for the future with lots of fuzzy inexactness like "could allow" and "in as little as." There was more than ample consideration for the arguments that favored their hope, and only those arguments in favor, but there was no actual research quoted or referenced.
You lie. Sorry.
These predictions come in a recently declassified report of a meeting of American, British and Canadian Arctic and naval experts in April 2001, organised by Dennis Conlon of the US Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Virginia.
Entitled Naval Operations in an Ice-Free Arctic, the report reveals that standard naval operations could be close to impossible in Arctic waters. The biggest problem is that communications satellites do not cover the area well, says Conlon.
There you go. One huge reference.
New Scientist is widely known as a biased and highly politicized magazine.
Since when?
Quote: "There are shipping companies now planning on using new routes which are being opened up by melting sea ice."
There are people planning to play Duke Nukem Forever, too.
Any shipping company that would get an advantage by using such new routs would have to be bonkers not to make plans for such a contingency. Just as bonkers as they would have to be to bank the whole business on such routs being commercially viable in the near future.
Perhaps you should read the article
We can make Mars like Earth when we're done making Earth like Venus.
Let's try to focus here, people.
Yeah, you're right. Global warming isn't real. But a lot of us liberals know it, too.
Extensive information about global warming, particularly why it is not a threat, is explained very nicely in Michael Crichton's State of Fear. It's a great read.
Long story short: climates changes are cyclical, we just finished a period of warming, now we're in a period of cooling.
If that's the case, then please explain why the polar ice caps are melting. There are shipping companies now planning on using new routes which are being opened up by melting sea ice.
Then how come M$ not keen on using open standards?
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Take Outlook for instance.
Works great with M$Exchange, but how about the support for SyncML, iCal, vCard and so on?...
This was moderated insightful?
vCard and vCalendar support in Outlook:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;287
iCal support in Outlook:
http://www.scheduleworld.com/outlookInt
About the only thing I can't find a link for is SyncML support, but there are plenty of other people who provide plugins for that.
Did I write in an inflammatory way? Yes. But what I said is true, even though almost every person who responded to me misread what I wrote ("almost" - some responses were informative and cool). It used to be that if you pointed out Microsoft was capable of dirty deeds and not to be trusted, everyone knew what you were talking about. Now you get shouted down and modded "Off topic" and "Flame bait."
How on earth would you know what Slashdot "used to be"? You have a 6 digit user ID for god's sake.
you are wrong.
the doodles do not say anything to me.
the fact they were on paper does.
This is the man that said many times that technology was going foreward, and tablet pc's were the future.
yet he does not carry one everywhere nor use one in important places like debates.
this tells me that even the MAN himself finds the technology he publically says is the future to sucess is too cumbersome compared to a pencil/pen and paper.
This one thing says a HUGE amount to me.
Microsoft "one note" is supposedly the killer app for tablet's. Yet the uber micrsoftie himself does not use it.
hell, I have never once seen the man hold or use a PocketPC device.
You ever think that for security reasons they might just want everyone to use the notepads + pencils provided, and not use a laptop which can record conversations, has network communications capabilities, etc?
It's not open source, so how the hell do you know?
Look at the API, for a start. It's completely alien.
Red Hat takes reponsibility for their distro in the same way Evian takes reponsibility for the safety of the water they sell. But neither take responsibility for all instances of the raw materials they package and sell.
However, Evian do take responsibility for everything that they sell - that is, the water, the packaging materials, everything.
Are you saying that Red Hat aren't responsible for the Linux Kernel that they package and sell? If not, why not? It's part of their distro.
It's a funny irony that as Linux has grown, simply because of Microsofts attitude, that Billy and Steve have become almost obsessed with Linux. that they have in my eyes ended up looking like silly cartoon villians.
They only appear obsessed if Slashdot and The Register are your only news sources.
Perhaps you should broaden your reading selections.
As we all know, Open Source Software development is structurally similar to the scientific method and evolution in terms of how "new things" are created by the these systems. Similarly, what Microsoft is claiming is that software can't be created well "at random" through emergent means (we know that's a crock) but needs "the Hand of an intelligent Creator" to control everything (Microsoft == God, apparently). Ergo: Microsoft is claiming that only "Creationist Software" is good software - "Evolutionary Software" is evil software.
This is the most stupid troll post I've ever read.
Clue for you:
OSS software developers do not develop "at random" through emergent means. They develop the same damn way CSS software developers do - using their brains, sitting at a keyboard.
But hey, nice try at completely twisting the debate to something it's not.
What are you going to do next? Compare Microsoft to muslim terrorists? Or Nazis? Or don't those FUD phrases work so well for you any more?
Who is accountable for the safety of drinking water? Does Evian, for example, take responsibility? It cannot, as it does not produce water. It packages one distribution of water.
Yes, Evian does take responsibility. As the producer of the food product - namely, bottled water - it is held responsible for its quality and safety to the consumer by the Food and Drug Administration.
But hey - way to go trying to make a lame analogy. And by the way, raising your hands and saying "who knows who is responsible" and passing the buck really isn't a good long term strategy.
To be fair to Microsoft (yeah, I know), as of SP2 OEMs or anyone else are free to decide what media player, office suite, browser, etc. they bundle. Oh its true you can't actually get rid of the MS programs (except office, which has always been a "choice"). But if you select alternatives via the framework MS added in SP2, you never hear a peep from the offending programs again.
As much as I'm disappointed in the antitrust settlement, getting this functionality in Windows is a decent bonus. Its made it very easy for me to convert family members seamlessly over to Firefox/Thunderbird.
As of Windows 2000 SP2, you mean. That "Set Program Access and Defaults" thing has been around for a very long time.
A company I worked for in 1997 bought a packard bell system for me to use. It came with a 3rd party media player (namely, Real Player). I'm not sure what the big deal is.
Gimp sucks compared to MS Paint, (lets leave out photoshop cause there's no point comparing a free tool to something of professional level. It's like comparing a shovel to a backhoe in terms of digging ability.)
Gimp also sucks compared to Paint Shop Pro.
Nice to see you agreeing with the previous poster though. As he said, the free versions suck shit compared to the professional ones.
The silly thing is... nothing in that memo actually gives any benefits for replacing the NT kernel with the Linux kernel.
Reason being, there aren't any. Windows may have plenty of other problems - but the kernel isn't one of them.
Running Windows on top of the Linux kernel would be a pointless geeky exercise in masturbation - great for the penguinistas out there, but ultimately providing zero benefit. About all it would do would be to suck a lot of money into the void - something that Microsoft as a whole seems pretty good at recently. At least some people are complaining about it though.
Everyone! Look the other way! It's really Microsoft's fault that we're doing all this to you really - don't blame us. We've got nothing to do with it.