The topic in question here is whether or not the Arctic ice cap melting will bring the level up, not the Antarctic. As has been said before, Antarctic ice is on a land mass, therefore it takes up no mass in the ocean. The north pole, however, has glaciers floating in seawater, so the displacement is already present. The north pole is the one experiencing controversial warming, not the south pole.
Contrary to your belief, warm water does not expand. Frozen water, however, does. Ever wonder how gigantic rocks get huge cracks in them? Water will run down into tiny crevices when it's warm, then freeze and when the ice forms and expands, the rock will crack open.
Try this for a funtime science experiment. Get a bottle of water, empty milk jug, whatever, and fill it to the absolute top. Screw on the lid. Now, shove it in the freezer. In a few hours, the ice will remove the lid. Why? Because water expands as it freezes. Voila.
I'm sure some of you have accidentally left beer bottles in the freezer and opened it up hours later to find a nice, frozen beery mess. It's happened to me at least twice.
Well part of the equation you're missing has to do with the salinity (i.e. salt content) of seawater. If you ever pour salt on ice, you'll see the ice melt. Why? Because the salt's freezing point is much lower than fresh water's. Now, consider adding equal volumes of salt and water together to form very salty water. First of all the density is higher than that of fresh water, secondly the freezing point will be much lower. You can take a nap on the Dead Sea it's so dense.
So, your density point for water needs to be adjusted by the salinity. Even if the polar ice cap up north melts, it will have very little impact on the overall salinity of the world's oceans.
Alot of this 'oceans will rise' speculation is just plain bad science.
Come on now, everyone's picked up a brown-tagged magazine at least once in their life. You're there on the toilet, nothing to do but stare at a blank wall and wait. It's probably one of the most boring things humans do. So, you spot a magazine or newspaper in the stall, grab it and start reading. Even if you're just flipping pages, it keeps your brain occupied until your posterior is finished.
So don't look too harshly upon brown-tagged periodicals. They have their place in the media food chain.
The editors were much too busy rejecting interesting, informative, stimulating posts from it's non-paying members and hunting for the Next Big Dupe.
Editors aside, articles like this one are written for one thing and one thing only: to generate hits. Why do you think fuckin' Dvorak is still writing a column this late in the game? Because his flamebait, trolling articles generate hits. I'm sure he gets absolutely pounded by email each time he takes the wrong side of a hard line on issues, and that pays the bills. His expertise in the industry is quickly fading into irrelevance. An old man in an industry moving this quickly has a very hard time making insightful observations, but drive-by criticisms and fanciful, pulled-out-of-his-ass predictions are a no brainer.
To avoid calling the kettle black, I'll state for the record that my post just might be stupid, redundant, and uninformative.:)
It'd be better to take it one step further and setup your IDS or whatever security you have in place to send up big red flags when those false passwords are entered. You'd know immediately that someone has physical access and you could go bust some heads.
Dude, rather than percentages, consider the numbers and the level of poverty.
You have a country with 1 billion people living in it.
25% of them, as of 2002, were living in extreme poverty. This means no place to live, nothing to eat, maybe a plastic makeshift tent on the sidewalk adjacent to the new Microsoft complex. Due to the caste system nobody wants to look at you or even touch you, let alone feed you. There were, as of 2002, 250 MILLION people living in this condition. Go take a long hard look at the CIA worldbook or any other source to get an idea of how life can be in India.
Before you polish that turd anymore, consider that the poor in India comprise just a little under the ENTIRE POPULATION of the United States. Let's hear about how great your version of India is from the 250 million homeless, jobless, starving people there.
A billion inhabitants does not a great country make.
Consider India. It's still a third world country. The strict caste system guarantees that if you're born into poverty, you're fucked for life. You can NEVER improve yourself or your social standing. 25% of the population of India lives in extreme poverty, the kind of poverty that's nearly unimaginable in any first world country. India has alot of brilliant people, but they rarely get educated in India. They travel to the US or Europe to get degrees then return home or stay overseas and start businesses. This leads to brain-drain and makes India's home tech grow at a slower rate.
Consider China. It's first world, but the government is hell bent on controlling every aspect of Chinese life. What's more orwellian than being told you can only have one child, and being forced to murder your newborn daughter because she cannot carry on your name and legacy? Social issues aside, China is an economic powerhouse, and they're buying US consumer debt at a record pace. This is killing the US as far as national debt and trade deficit is concerned, and the Chinese don't want to revalue the Yuan any more than they already have to relieve the debt.
Your last point holds water though. If you look at any country whose government is tied strictly to religion, you'll find a gigantic sloppy mess with plenty of oppression for all. Religious freedom is one thing the US constitution guarantees and is one reason we're popular with immigrants. Separation of church and state is another constitutional guarantee but powerful lobbyists are seeking to make an end-run around it.
Just like always, in every country, you can proudly say 'this country is going to hell in a handbasket'.
Your point about the military missions is 100% valid. The great methamphetamine problem we have today is the direct result of government research and distribution to soldiers beginning in WW2. It was used for exactly what you mentioned: pilots and snipers, people that had to be up at all hours of the day and functioning within acceptable limits.
Sure, if this drug hits widespread release, we'll see yet another backlash of domestic problems springing from it's abuse. What's really shameful is the social underpinnings that lead to abuse, not the drug itself.
The coke and pepsi together thing is kinda flawed. This kind of deal you normally see with giant corporate chains (discounts, etc.), BUT if you own a restaurant, you can sell whatever you want, including from a fountain drink machine.
While I respect your low user number, you have got to be kidding me.
You get your choice of ATI or Nvidia, PCI-X if you have a newer G5. There really aren't any other choices worth mentioning unless you don't play games...even then..
We seem to live in a dualistic world. Male or Female. Left or Right. Up or Down, Mac or PC, ATI or Nvidia, Intel or AMD. Linux and the BSD's are an affront to this order.:)
You make a good point, and the points are validated by the popularity of cremation in many countries now.
In the US it's becoming vogue to have a vase with the dearly departed's cremated remains 'on site' or even wearing a locket with a small amount of cremated material sealed inside. This way, the person is with you forever, literally.
In other countries, with limited space concerns and high population densities, it just makes sense to do it this way. Strangely enough, religion plays into this as well. Orthodox Judaism and Islam forbid cremation along with a handful of fringe religions.
I, for one, welcome our crack smoking moderator overlords.
You're right, there's something we're missing to this story, namely the defendant's side. If they really wanted to punish this guy, rather than jail time, they should have put him in an AOL forced labor camp i.e. AOL tech support. He'd get a pathetic wage, get treated like a number, work unreasonable shifts, and be bored out of his skull. Prison is a vacation compared to an AOL call center.
I appreciate your comment. I had no idea the moderators would react the way they did to my devil's advocate post.
This is a typical story of the little guy getting the shaft.
TFA said he made a third of the 86k the judge ended up fining him. A third. So his salary was somewhere in the ballpark of 28 to 30k per year.
Dude was poor. Particularly for a software engineer. Why else do you think he made a grab at all those screen names for a measly 28k? So he could come up a little bit or pay off his student loans (assuming he had any). Maybe his grandpa had cancer and he was trying to help. You never know about people's motives in harmless crimes like this.
So the poor underpaid "engineer" (and I bet the article uses that word liberally) sells screen names, ends up in a shitstorm, and doesn't have the money to hire a great lawyer to bail himself out. This REALLY suggests that he was poor. What did he do with the money he received? Spent it all? I know AOL's lawyers are rabid attack dogs but still, he should've fenced his crime a little or covered his tracks.
At the end of the day, it's just a damn shame that this is considered justice. That guy was just a gear in the machine, and the spammers themselves (Mr. Dunaway of Las Vegas) just have charges 'pending'. You all know what that means. The lawyers already stepped in to protect Dunaway.
"Microsoft's Windows speech recognition subsystem refuses to run on any 64 bit architecture unless all of the OS and applications are strapped to 32 bit mode."
Boy, what a disappointment that is. All 3 people that currently make use of this feature are pretty disappointed. Thanks for reminding them that 64 bits isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Your latency is good because 1. you're close to the AP and have a good signal and 2. there aren't too many devices using it.
Now, let's take a look at the corporate world outside of your parent's basement where commercial wireless applications are found.
When you start adding alot of wireless clients, you end up with, as the grandparent mentioned, high latency. Notice how there aren't too many wireless VOIP routers on the market (that are unwired)? Not too many wireless handsets that work with a wireless VOIP router? It's not because the tech is impossible, it's because it's not good enough.
Trust me when I say that we'd love to deploy a wireless voip system, and alot of companies would, but nobody has provided us with a feasible path. The closest you can get and have it reliable is to add an IAXY (wired) with a standard cordless phone plugged into the fxs port.
Well, the first few sentences exposed the BS factor. Read carefully:
Why spend 10 bucks on a burger at Moscone when you can have a slice on Microsoft?
What's the big deal here? Next sentence down...
Come join the Microsoft Embedded group at Moscone Pizza...
Ok..so they ask why spend $10 on a burger at Moscone PIZZA. Well, the answer should be obvious. Nobody in their right mind would buy a burger at a good pizza joint, it just defeats the purpose. Unless you're the kind of genius that walks into China Wok and demands the 1971 vintage Cabernet Sauvignon to go with the grilled halibut. In which case...someone probably saw another person that thinks like you at the Microsoft CE-ME-NT hoedown at Moscone Pizza.
This is exactly what struck me after I read article upon article from 'outraged parents' and others regarding the Hot Coffee mod. Each article had detailed accounts of parents speaking out against 'this type of activity in a game' etc. The most glaring omission from every article was the fact that their kids, ranging in age from 8 to 15, were playing a game RATED for ADULTS that the parents bought for them!
What it comes down to is that these parents are fucking morons. You can't be taken seriously if you buy your kids 2 tickets to an R-rated movie and hear them saying shit and fuck for 2 hours afterwards, mimicking the movie, then complain about the movie itself. YOU bought the tickets. YOU saw the rating. It was YOUR decision to expose your children to that type of media. Don't blame anyone but yourself!
If every parent got a clue and spent the 5 seconds required to read the gigantic MA or Adult label on these games/products, we wouldn't have a problem, would we? The companies can only do so much to protect you from yourself. I can read about my Playstation2, where in the Sony manual it explicitly says, don't drop this in the bathtub with you if it's plugged in. If I choose to ignore the warning and bathe with a powered PS2 and get fried, do I still have the right to whine and complain?
Yeah, but using sheep for mine detectors is much more fun than a bird in a cage.
If the bird dies, you get nothing.
If the sheep dies, you get a new pair of Napoleon Dynamite sheepskin boots!
I bet the guys back then were hunkered down, saying, "come on...just a little further...sniff it out buddy...that's right", meanwhile they were placing bets on how far the sheep would go. It sounds like a fun win-win situation!
My friends and I drove 90 minutes to see one of their shows. The band seemed cool at first..until my friend brought out her camera. This was in their bus outside before they went onstage. All she wanted was a lousy picture of her with the band and what did they say?
"Fuck no, our label doesn't allow independent, non-PR photographs."
So without their PR manager present, a goddamn fan can't take a single picture of them. What a bunch of lamers. I reiterate, Epitaph sucks.
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The topic in question here is whether or not the Arctic ice cap melting will bring the level up, not the Antarctic. As has been said before, Antarctic ice is on a land mass, therefore it takes up no mass in the ocean. The north pole, however, has glaciers floating in seawater, so the displacement is already present. The north pole is the one experiencing controversial warming, not the south pole.
Contrary to your belief, warm water does not expand. Frozen water, however, does. Ever wonder how gigantic rocks get huge cracks in them? Water will run down into tiny crevices when it's warm, then freeze and when the ice forms and expands, the rock will crack open.
Try this for a funtime science experiment. Get a bottle of water, empty milk jug, whatever, and fill it to the absolute top. Screw on the lid. Now, shove it in the freezer. In a few hours, the ice will remove the lid. Why? Because water expands as it freezes. Voila.
I'm sure some of you have accidentally left beer bottles in the freezer and opened it up hours later to find a nice, frozen beery mess. It's happened to me at least twice.
Dude...this is the whole point behind cappuccino vs. espresso. If you're worried about your calcium levels, you just pick the cappuccino. :)
Well part of the equation you're missing has to do with the salinity (i.e. salt content) of seawater. If you ever pour salt on ice, you'll see the ice melt. Why? Because the salt's freezing point is much lower than fresh water's. Now, consider adding equal volumes of salt and water together to form very salty water. First of all the density is higher than that of fresh water, secondly the freezing point will be much lower. You can take a nap on the Dead Sea it's so dense.
So, your density point for water needs to be adjusted by the salinity. Even if the polar ice cap up north melts, it will have very little impact on the overall salinity of the world's oceans.
Alot of this 'oceans will rise' speculation is just plain bad science.
Come on now, everyone's picked up a brown-tagged magazine at least once in their life. You're there on the toilet, nothing to do but stare at a blank wall and wait. It's probably one of the most boring things humans do. So, you spot a magazine or newspaper in the stall, grab it and start reading. Even if you're just flipping pages, it keeps your brain occupied until your posterior is finished.
So don't look too harshly upon brown-tagged periodicals. They have their place in the media food chain.
The editors were much too busy rejecting interesting, informative, stimulating posts from it's non-paying members and hunting for the Next Big Dupe.
:)
Editors aside, articles like this one are written for one thing and one thing only: to generate hits. Why do you think fuckin' Dvorak is still writing a column this late in the game? Because his flamebait, trolling articles generate hits. I'm sure he gets absolutely pounded by email each time he takes the wrong side of a hard line on issues, and that pays the bills. His expertise in the industry is quickly fading into irrelevance. An old man in an industry moving this quickly has a very hard time making insightful observations, but drive-by criticisms and fanciful, pulled-out-of-his-ass predictions are a no brainer.
To avoid calling the kettle black, I'll state for the record that my post just might be stupid, redundant, and uninformative.
Ironically enough, it gets their attention a little too late.
Durka durka jihad kaboom!
Try LSHINEN
Laughing So Hard Instant Noodles Ejected from Nostrils.
It'd be better to take it one step further and setup your IDS or whatever security you have in place to send up big red flags when those false passwords are entered. You'd know immediately that someone has physical access and you could go bust some heads.
So, according to an earlier post, VI then IV is interpreted properly as the same number, which is 6 6.
I imagine for the upgrade they'll be selling the VIIVIV or the IVIVIV or even the VIIVVI.
666 for the slow ones out there.
Dude, rather than percentages, consider the numbers and the level of poverty.
You have a country with 1 billion people living in it.
25% of them, as of 2002, were living in extreme poverty. This means no place to live, nothing to eat, maybe a plastic makeshift tent on the sidewalk adjacent to the new Microsoft complex. Due to the caste system nobody wants to look at you or even touch you, let alone feed you. There were, as of 2002, 250 MILLION people living in this condition. Go take a long hard look at the CIA worldbook or any other source to get an idea of how life can be in India.
Before you polish that turd anymore, consider that the poor in India comprise just a little under the ENTIRE POPULATION of the United States. Let's hear about how great your version of India is from the 250 million homeless, jobless, starving people there.
A billion inhabitants does not a great country make.
Consider India. It's still a third world country. The strict caste system guarantees that if you're born into poverty, you're fucked for life. You can NEVER improve yourself or your social standing. 25% of the population of India lives in extreme poverty, the kind of poverty that's nearly unimaginable in any first world country. India has alot of brilliant people, but they rarely get educated in India. They travel to the US or Europe to get degrees then return home or stay overseas and start businesses. This leads to brain-drain and makes India's home tech grow at a slower rate.
Consider China. It's first world, but the government is hell bent on controlling every aspect of Chinese life. What's more orwellian than being told you can only have one child, and being forced to murder your newborn daughter because she cannot carry on your name and legacy? Social issues aside, China is an economic powerhouse, and they're buying US consumer debt at a record pace. This is killing the US as far as national debt and trade deficit is concerned, and the Chinese don't want to revalue the Yuan any more than they already have to relieve the debt.
Your last point holds water though. If you look at any country whose government is tied strictly to religion, you'll find a gigantic sloppy mess with plenty of oppression for all. Religious freedom is one thing the US constitution guarantees and is one reason we're popular with immigrants. Separation of church and state is another constitutional guarantee but powerful lobbyists are seeking to make an end-run around it.
Just like always, in every country, you can proudly say 'this country is going to hell in a handbasket'.
Your point about the military missions is 100% valid. The great methamphetamine problem we have today is the direct result of government research and distribution to soldiers beginning in WW2. It was used for exactly what you mentioned: pilots and snipers, people that had to be up at all hours of the day and functioning within acceptable limits.
Sure, if this drug hits widespread release, we'll see yet another backlash of domestic problems springing from it's abuse. What's really shameful is the social underpinnings that lead to abuse, not the drug itself.
The coke and pepsi together thing is kinda flawed. This kind of deal you normally see with giant corporate chains (discounts, etc.), BUT if you own a restaurant, you can sell whatever you want, including from a fountain drink machine.
Thanks for missing the point completely. I was talking about the heart of the cards, hence the comparison to CPU's, etc.
While I respect your low user number, you have got to be kidding me.
:)
You get your choice of ATI or Nvidia, PCI-X if you have a newer G5. There really aren't any other choices worth mentioning unless you don't play games...even then..
We seem to live in a dualistic world. Male or Female. Left or Right. Up or Down, Mac or PC, ATI or Nvidia, Intel or AMD. Linux and the BSD's are an affront to this order.
You make a good point, and the points are validated by the popularity of cremation in many countries now.
In the US it's becoming vogue to have a vase with the dearly departed's cremated remains 'on site' or even wearing a locket with a small amount of cremated material sealed inside. This way, the person is with you forever, literally.
In other countries, with limited space concerns and high population densities, it just makes sense to do it this way. Strangely enough, religion plays into this as well. Orthodox Judaism and Islam forbid cremation along with a handful of fringe religions.
I, for one, welcome our crack smoking moderator overlords.
You're right, there's something we're missing to this story, namely the defendant's side. If they really wanted to punish this guy, rather than jail time, they should have put him in an AOL forced labor camp i.e. AOL tech support. He'd get a pathetic wage, get treated like a number, work unreasonable shifts, and be bored out of his skull. Prison is a vacation compared to an AOL call center.
I appreciate your comment. I had no idea the moderators would react the way they did to my devil's advocate post.
This is a typical story of the little guy getting the shaft.
TFA said he made a third of the 86k the judge ended up fining him. A third. So his salary was somewhere in the ballpark of 28 to 30k per year.
Dude was poor. Particularly for a software engineer. Why else do you think he made a grab at all those screen names for a measly 28k? So he could come up a little bit or pay off his student loans (assuming he had any). Maybe his grandpa had cancer and he was trying to help. You never know about people's motives in harmless crimes like this.
So the poor underpaid "engineer" (and I bet the article uses that word liberally) sells screen names, ends up in a shitstorm, and doesn't have the money to hire a great lawyer to bail himself out. This REALLY suggests that he was poor. What did he do with the money he received? Spent it all? I know AOL's lawyers are rabid attack dogs but still, he should've fenced his crime a little or covered his tracks.
At the end of the day, it's just a damn shame that this is considered justice. That guy was just a gear in the machine, and the spammers themselves (Mr. Dunaway of Las Vegas) just have charges 'pending'. You all know what that means. The lawyers already stepped in to protect Dunaway.
"Microsoft's Windows speech recognition subsystem refuses to run on any 64 bit architecture unless all of the OS and applications are strapped to 32 bit mode."
Boy, what a disappointment that is. All 3 people that currently make use of this feature are pretty disappointed. Thanks for reminding them that 64 bits isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Your latency is good because 1. you're close to the AP and have a good signal and 2. there aren't too many devices using it.
Now, let's take a look at the corporate world outside of your parent's basement where commercial wireless applications are found.
When you start adding alot of wireless clients, you end up with, as the grandparent mentioned, high latency. Notice how there aren't too many wireless VOIP routers on the market (that are unwired)? Not too many wireless handsets that work with a wireless VOIP router? It's not because the tech is impossible, it's because it's not good enough.
Trust me when I say that we'd love to deploy a wireless voip system, and alot of companies would, but nobody has provided us with a feasible path. The closest you can get and have it reliable is to add an IAXY (wired) with a standard cordless phone plugged into the fxs port.
Hey, that looks like the poster child for Don't Sleep On Your Stomach When Entering Puberty.
Well, the first few sentences exposed the BS factor. Read carefully:
Why spend 10 bucks on a burger at Moscone when you can have a slice on Microsoft?
What's the big deal here? Next sentence down...
Come join the Microsoft Embedded group at Moscone Pizza...
Ok..so they ask why spend $10 on a burger at Moscone PIZZA. Well, the answer should be obvious. Nobody in their right mind would buy a burger at a good pizza joint, it just defeats the purpose. Unless you're the kind of genius that walks into China Wok and demands the 1971 vintage Cabernet Sauvignon to go with the grilled halibut. In which case...someone probably saw another person that thinks like you at the Microsoft CE-ME-NT hoedown at Moscone Pizza.
This is exactly what struck me after I read article upon article from 'outraged parents' and others regarding the Hot Coffee mod. Each article had detailed accounts of parents speaking out against 'this type of activity in a game' etc. The most glaring omission from every article was the fact that their kids, ranging in age from 8 to 15, were playing a game RATED for ADULTS that the parents bought for them!
What it comes down to is that these parents are fucking morons. You can't be taken seriously if you buy your kids 2 tickets to an R-rated movie and hear them saying shit and fuck for 2 hours afterwards, mimicking the movie, then complain about the movie itself. YOU bought the tickets. YOU saw the rating. It was YOUR decision to expose your children to that type of media. Don't blame anyone but yourself!
If every parent got a clue and spent the 5 seconds required to read the gigantic MA or Adult label on these games/products, we wouldn't have a problem, would we? The companies can only do so much to protect you from yourself. I can read about my Playstation2, where in the Sony manual it explicitly says, don't drop this in the bathtub with you if it's plugged in. If I choose to ignore the warning and bathe with a powered PS2 and get fried, do I still have the right to whine and complain?
No.
Yeah, but using sheep for mine detectors is much more fun than a bird in a cage.
If the bird dies, you get nothing.
If the sheep dies, you get a new pair of Napoleon Dynamite sheepskin boots!
I bet the guys back then were hunkered down, saying, "come on...just a little further...sniff it out buddy...that's right", meanwhile they were placing bets on how far the sheep would go. It sounds like a fun win-win situation!
Epitaph sucks and by extension, so does Rancid.
My friends and I drove 90 minutes to see one of their shows. The band seemed cool at first..until my friend brought out her camera. This was in their bus outside before they went onstage. All she wanted was a lousy picture of her with the band and what did they say?
"Fuck no, our label doesn't allow independent, non-PR photographs."
So without their PR manager present, a goddamn fan can't take a single picture of them. What a bunch of lamers. I reiterate, Epitaph sucks.