"Too hot"?! We still have an entire continent that is uninhabitable because it is too cold.
I knew the "buy real estate in Antarctica!" argument will show up, after all the regular talking points denying the climate change, human causation of it, or possibilities for the humanity to do anything about it have been responded to.
So, Rei allowed a small possibility that some of the citations in WG1 reports were not peer-reviewed. Now, how about exposing the 'bad science' by pointing out any such occurrences? It's a bit harder than trolling on Slashdot, but then you won't simply get modded down for creating useless noise, like you are now.
Sure, the scientists who are busy researching the matter, as opposed to creating phony "doubter" websites, use only those faulty stations that said doubters managed to find and photograph, and never cross-check these data with other sources.
The front page of surfacestations.org has a funny image: a location photo made in 2000s with a parking lot, a cell tower and its AC exhaust ducts near where the temperature sensor is supposedly hosted, superimposed with the graph from the same sensor that shows a steady rising trend since about 1950s. So all those asphalt coatings over the years, the cell tower installation and so on all conspired to create a neat smooth trend that keeps rising. The asphalt must have been aging without renewal, cars radiate ever more heat, and the ACs are dutifully cranked up a notch every few years. Finally, some solid debunking of climate change.
And I wrote the above even before I did a two-minute Google search that gave me morethanenough information as to why surfacestations.org is full of shit.
The application start time is a few seconds slower than the Micro browser that ships with the N900
That's because it is not "pre-started" like the MicroB browser. You can enable it for fennec by adding a field X-Maemo-Prestarted=always in the file/usr/share/applications/hildon/fennec.desktop. You can switch off the MicroB, too.
However, the Firefox has a major deal-breaker for me, it's broken ZOOM function. You're only limited to a "maximum zoom in" or "maximum zoom out" by doubletapping the screen, you can't pick your desired level of zoom by doing a clockwise/counterclockwise drag movement like in Micro.
I guess many people enjoy it, but I find it simpler and quicker to double-tap at an element and have the view zoomed to exacty its block width. I have discovered another great feature: the form navigation mode. Tap into a form element to enable it.
So it turns out that in the case of prof. Hasnain, the scientist was at rest while the more ordinary human, concerned about his employment and possible repercussions out of challenging the politically-charged establishment, prevailed *. And maybe, that a bunch of Asian scientists had been making shit up (knowing how pitiful the Russian scientific community is, and having heard some stories about job interviews with computer science "PhDs" from India, I have my doubts that every society's metric of scientific rigor is the same). This does not mean that the general scientific consensus about anthropogenic climate change has been undermined. That will have to come out by solid data-backed arguments that withstand a peer review.
* In hindsight, it wasn't even a street-smart move for Hasnain. Had he spoken up, his reputation would have been boosted by this correction. Instead, he's been exposed as incompetent and the media is now hounding him for possible conflict of interests.
But the CO2 was in the air before, and putting it back into the air won't make the Earth any worse off than it was when that same CO2 was in the air before.
Oh sure, the trilobites did not complain. The homo sapiens was not around, so we'll be in for it for the first time, but who cares when all we need is a bit of self-reassuring to keep doing whatever we were doing with gay abandon.
There is a difference. The militaristic societies of Germany and Japan were bombed back to the medieval, so everybody got the idea that something in the way they did things just didn't fucking work (not to mention all the millions of murders that somebody's got to be punished for). Once the führer/emperor were out of action, the populations by and large quickly snapped to reason, there were no significant factions for infighting, and aid started flowing in by much the same channels that were ramped up to smother the U-boats by the sheer amount of ships sent.
In Iraq, the US/British military neutered the regime with point strikes and put up bases trying not to get too lost in the biomass. There are religious factions that were only held in line by Hussein from lurching at each other's throats, and they hate the West coming in their backyard. The islamists shipped themselves in. The end result is a bloody quagmire.
Note that I'm not suggesting that saturation bombing is a better way to fix societies. Iraq clearly hadn't been asking for it.
I was thinking along these lines, too: now it'd be only logical for them to switch to radium, to give Rudolph's nose a warm glow. You know, the way Mme Curie did it and early pilot chronographs actually had it.
That's because of the vowel harmony: if a (simple) word has front vowels, that is ä, ö, or y (pity it's not ü), this means all vowels have to be front or neutral. So words tend to be either umlaut-rich or without umlauts at all.
But really, Linus's native language is Swedish, even though he most likely knew Finnish very well.
The point, if I understood it correctly, was that the N900 does not cost significantly more as compared to other smartphones sold on the same market. Yes, Finland sucks prices-wise.
To think of it, a display like this could be normal for some upper stages (unpublicized ICBM test launches?), if the engine is still burning after the stage has been ejected from the payload, which is invisible at this distance.
... about 20 years ago, over Syktyvkar, Russia. That was clearly a rocket (I saw rocket launches before, living downrange of Plesetsk), but at some point the thing has "stopped" in the sky and started rolling out a spiral. The rotating object and the spiral quickly faded away, but the gaseous afterglow along the ascent trajectory remained, as it usually does.
I can buy a cellphone and an Eee PC and the combined price will still be about half that of an N900 (if not less). What exactly justifies the pricing in the N900?
Nothing, if you don't mind carrying a netbook around anyway, or woult have to do it because the smartphone is not convenient enough. But as you have modified your value comparison in the middle of the argument, your point have become much clearer.
I'm tired of the Linux kernel; it's really not that great. Everyone seems obsessed with C, going as far as to spawn these kind of monstrosities just to force modern features into a traditional platform.
So the United Nations established under Western ideals
They weren't. And as long as they represent pretty much the entire world, they will try to avoid unneeded controversy, rather than getting bogged down in minor squabbles. I mean, bogged down even more than they are.
I was disappointed that there's no Ekiga for Maemo on the N800. If you don't particularly care about using the branded Ekiga client, SIP support is shipped with device software images. However, it (and any other implementation based on Sofia-SIP) does not work with the SIP proxy at ekiga.net, because the proxy imposes restrictions on certain SIP header contents, which: 1) go beyond what's actually specified in SIP RFCs; 2) if followed, break NAT traversal with other, perfectly good SIP proxies. The reason is, the Ekiga client does not work if the proxy does not enforce these restrictions.
That leaves three modern sound servers (Jack, Pulse, and GStreamer) and two low-level APIs (Alsa and OSS). This is still a bit of an unfortunate mess IMO but nowhere near the rat's nest implied by the diagram.
Move GStreamer higher up: it's a set of audio application building blocks that work on top of PCM audio interfaces. And it can abstract away, to some extent, dealings with both PulseAudio or Jack, or directly with ALSA or OSS.
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Then perhaps programming was not a good choice for you to begin with.
For some of us, it's a passion for life.
"Too hot"?! We still have an entire continent that is uninhabitable because it is too cold.
I knew the "buy real estate in Antarctica!" argument will show up, after all the regular talking points denying the climate change, human causation of it, or possibilities for the humanity to do anything about it have been responded to.
I bring the entire combined ignorance of the world that says "We don't know, we haven't tested it yet. LoL!" which nullifies your point.
Fixed that for you.
So, Rei allowed a small possibility that some of the citations in WG1 reports were not peer-reviewed. Now, how about exposing the 'bad science' by pointing out any such occurrences? It's a bit harder than trolling on Slashdot, but then you won't simply get modded down for creating useless noise, like you are now.
Sure, the scientists who are busy researching the matter, as opposed to creating phony "doubter" websites, use only those faulty stations that said doubters managed to find and photograph, and never cross-check these data with other sources.
The front page of surfacestations.org has a funny image: a location photo made in 2000s with a parking lot, a cell tower and its AC exhaust ducts near where the temperature sensor is supposedly hosted, superimposed with the graph from the same sensor that shows a steady rising trend since about 1950s. So all those asphalt coatings over the years, the cell tower installation and so on all conspired to create a neat smooth trend that keeps rising. The asphalt must have been aging without renewal, cars radiate ever more heat, and the ACs are dutifully cranked up a notch every few years. Finally, some solid debunking of climate change.
And I wrote the above even before I did a two-minute Google search that gave me more than enough information as to why surfacestations.org is full of shit.
Oh yes, better lock it down. Also, change the root password from 'rootme'.
The application start time is a few seconds slower than the Micro browser that ships with the N900
That's because it is not "pre-started" like the MicroB browser. You can enable it for fennec by adding a field X-Maemo-Prestarted=always in the file /usr/share/applications/hildon/fennec.desktop. You can switch off the MicroB, too.
However, the Firefox has a major deal-breaker for me, it's broken ZOOM function. You're only limited to a "maximum zoom in" or "maximum zoom out" by doubletapping the screen, you can't pick your desired level of zoom by doing a clockwise/counterclockwise drag movement like in Micro.
I guess many people enjoy it, but I find it simpler and quicker to double-tap at an element and have the view zoomed to exacty its block width.
I have discovered another great feature: the form navigation mode. Tap into a form element to enable it.
OK, so that statement should read ... 'were called "crackpot" by Pachauri'.
So it turns out that in the case of prof. Hasnain, the scientist was at rest while the more ordinary human, concerned about his employment and possible repercussions out of challenging the politically-charged establishment, prevailed *. And maybe, that a bunch of Asian scientists had been making shit up (knowing how pitiful the Russian scientific community is, and having heard some stories about job interviews with computer science "PhDs" from India, I have my doubts that every society's metric of scientific rigor is the same). This does not mean that the general scientific consensus about anthropogenic climate change has been undermined. That will have to come out by solid data-backed arguments that withstand a peer review.
* In hindsight, it wasn't even a street-smart move for Hasnain. Had he spoken up, his reputation would have been boosted by this correction. Instead, he's been exposed as incompetent and the media is now hounding him for possible conflict of interests.
So you allow faithful warmistas to use 1998 as a reference point
Care to cite a scientist doing so?
Oh sure, the trilobites did not complain. The homo sapiens was not around, so we'll be in for it for the first time, but who cares when all we need is a bit of self-reassuring to keep doing whatever we were doing with gay abandon.
Well actually anyone questioning these claims when first produced were called "crackpot" by the IPCC.
Care to offer some references?
There is a difference. The militaristic societies of Germany and Japan were bombed back to the medieval, so everybody got the idea that something in the way they did things just didn't fucking work (not to mention all the millions of murders that somebody's got to be punished for). Once the führer/emperor were out of action, the populations by and large quickly snapped to reason, there were no significant factions for infighting, and aid started flowing in by much the same channels that were ramped up to smother the U-boats by the sheer amount of ships sent.
In Iraq, the US/British military neutered the regime with point strikes and put up bases trying not to get too lost in the biomass. There are religious factions that were only held in line by Hussein from lurching at each other's throats, and they hate the West coming in their backyard. The islamists shipped themselves in. The end result is a bloody quagmire.
Note that I'm not suggesting that saturation bombing is a better way to fix societies. Iraq clearly hadn't been asking for it.
I was thinking along these lines, too: now it'd be only logical for them to switch to radium, to give Rudolph's nose a warm glow. You know, the way Mme Curie did it and early pilot chronographs actually had it.
That's because of the vowel harmony: if a (simple) word has front vowels, that is ä, ö, or y (pity it's not ü), this means all vowels have to be front or neutral. So words tend to be either umlaut-rich or without umlauts at all.
But really, Linus's native language is Swedish, even though he most likely knew Finnish very well.
The point, if I understood it correctly, was that the N900 does not cost significantly more as compared to other smartphones sold on the same market. Yes, Finland sucks prices-wise.
There still exists no foreseeable need for each node in the network to communicate with every other node
One word: VoIP.
To think of it, a display like this could be normal for some upper stages (unpublicized ICBM test launches?), if the engine is still burning after the stage has been ejected from the payload, which is invisible at this distance.
... about 20 years ago, over Syktyvkar, Russia.
That was clearly a rocket (I saw rocket launches before, living downrange of Plesetsk), but at some point the thing has "stopped" in the sky and started rolling out a spiral. The rotating object and the spiral quickly faded away, but the gaseous afterglow along the ascent trajectory remained, as it usually does.
I can buy a cellphone and an Eee PC and the combined price will still be about half that of an N900 (if not less). What exactly justifies the pricing in the N900?
Nothing, if you don't mind carrying a netbook around anyway, or woult have to do it because the smartphone is not convenient enough. But as you have modified your value comparison in the middle of the argument, your point have become much clearer.
This is like saying "I can buy something like three Ford Transits for a Porsche".
I'm tired of the Linux kernel; it's really not that great. Everyone seems obsessed with C, going as far as to spawn these kind of monstrosities just to force modern features into a traditional platform.
What, has GObject made it into the kernel?..
Ahh, IHBT.
So the United Nations established under Western ideals
They weren't. And as long as they represent pretty much the entire world, they will try to avoid unneeded controversy, rather than getting bogged down in minor squabbles. I mean, bogged down even more than they are.
I was disappointed that there's no Ekiga for Maemo on the N800.
If you don't particularly care about using the branded Ekiga client, SIP support is shipped with device software images. However, it (and any other implementation based on Sofia-SIP) does not work with the SIP proxy at ekiga.net, because the proxy imposes restrictions on certain SIP header contents, which: 1) go beyond what's actually specified in SIP RFCs; 2) if followed, break NAT traversal with other, perfectly good SIP proxies. The reason is, the Ekiga client does not work if the proxy does not enforce these restrictions.
That leaves three modern sound servers (Jack, Pulse, and GStreamer) and two low-level APIs (Alsa and OSS). This is still a bit of an unfortunate mess IMO but nowhere near the rat's nest implied by the diagram.
Move GStreamer higher up: it's a set of audio application building blocks that work on top of PCM audio interfaces. And it can abstract away, to some extent, dealings with both PulseAudio or Jack, or directly with ALSA or OSS.