Sorry about the 1 typo. Articles The Carbon Dioxide Thermometer and the Cause of Global Warming; Nigel Calder,-- Presented at a seminar SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, Brighton, England, October 6, 1998.
Or, try just about anything by Lindzen, Richard S. in regards to climate change. He is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT. You can see a list of his publications online if you do a Google search.
I am very dubious about a study that reports 100% consensus among scientists in regards to any theory, especially global warming and then foregoes publishing the methodology and the media review upon which the conclusions are based.
Along the lines of the old./ joke, "In Soviet Russia..." even when Stalin and Lenin held elections they only "won" by a reported 98%. The were smart enough to manufacture a number that was not 100% as they new there existed dissenting voices. This study claims that among scientist there is no dissension on this topic.
As to the personal attack..... very adult. I do read a number of scientific journals and have even been published...... have you?
There are many articles in peer reviewd journals, by scientist who do not agree with the idea that humanity is causing global warming. That the author, in her report, can not find, nor report on any of these dissenting view brings the credibility of the study into question. As she did not publish her methodology, nor include sources further casts a shadow over the validity of this report.
I opperate a small outfitting company on the Provo river. When I was laid off last summer (2003) I paid the bills by guiding. I average about $30.00 an hour when guiding..... but it can be several days between trips.
a lot of game companies schedule the production cycle with crunch time built in. They plan on exploiting the coders. They know how week the job market is currently. It is an easy way to lower production costs. Buying dinner for a team of 40 every night is a lot cheaper than paying them for 6 extra hour of time per day.
Where I worked we were told that the over time hours were "mandatory". It did not matter if you were on track with your personal chunk of coding. You were to be in the office during the mandatory hours. As you can imagine morale was pretty poor.
After they closed down a lot of my co-workers went to EA, a few went to Lucas, and a couple to another studio of the same company. The guys at Lucas have been laid off, as have the guys who went to the other studio (as the co. went bankrupt).
But you want to hear horror stories.... just talk to an ex Saffire employee about how the company (Saffire) wanted them to all work without pay. There are still several hundreds of thousands of $$$$ of back pay from that fiasco that will never be paid.
I have played computer games since I was 5 years old. I had an Atari 2600, 5200, inellivision, appleII, nintendo... etc. etc.
My dream was always to work in the game industry. So I got a BS and an MS in computer Science with an emphasis in 3D rendering techniques. It was my dream and my passion.
After working the industry, I don't think I would go back. Long hours are the norm not the exception. Every shop I know will deatmarch at some point. Some are worse than others. They beat the enthusiasm right out of me. Now I hardly play any games.
In the industry there used to be a reason for crunch. In the old days you received royalties from sale one of the product. I worked with several old timers who had made quite a bit of money back in the 80s and 90s from royalties. The ends justified the work. Now all the companies do a return on investment bonus. Ie you only get extra money if the games sells through enough units to exceed a certain profit margin and then you may see some bonus. Of course clever accounting will always show a loss on development.... I talked to lots of veterans of the industry who had worked for various studis. None had ever seen an extra dime on a ROI based bonus system. One even caught the president of the copmpany in a lie on the numbers of units sold. He was stating one figure to employees on why they had not seen a bonus and another figure to the game mags boasting of the title popularity.
I now work cyber security. Nice 40 hour work weeks, and a bigger pay check. My benefits are nt quite as good but the time with my family more than makes up for that.
In my case, after working 75 hour weeks for a year and 1/2. 3 weeks after finishing the second title they (the management) fired every one and shut down the whole studio.
I worked in the game industry for a year and 1/2. In that time I worked on 3 projects, and was always in cruch. I averaged over 75 hours a week for that year and 1/2 period. Some weeks I spent over 120 hours in the office.
Bad management, unrealistic schedules, artificial deadlines, I've seen it all while deathmarching. And the end product was always rushed out the door before it was ready..... so it was junk. The company killed a lot of previosly sucessful franchises by pushing junk, in order to meet financial obligations. There were controlled by their debt, not by any desire to produce a quality game.
Thankfully the company I worked for is now bankrupt, and hopefully dead.
We are also forgetting the vast reserves of methane hydrate sitting off the costal shelves.
US Geological surverys estimate that the reserves of methane hydrate contain about twice the usable carbon of all known: coal, oil, and natural gas reserves combines.
But emissions are still an issue with mehtane hydrates and they can contribute to green house gasees.
Sorry, but that is just not true for all cases. Yes your example is correct for exisitng, established processes, but it does not apply for new, emerging technologies. As new technologies emerge third world sweat shops do not have the technology nor the experience/education to be competitive. On the other hand the first world can not be competitive in fields that require unskilled labor. Each economy/market can, however focus on those things which it can do best and be profitable in.
Yes, it is impossible for US industry to be competitive cost wise in industries like steel, shoes, textiles. etc.... but there are plenty of industries where there is not sufficient technical experience in cheaper economies for them to be competitive like aerospace, chemical engineering, most engineering fields in general.
Not all american industries are competinng with 52 cent an hour labor.....
As a Game Programmer who was laid off over a year ago in a round of corporate down sizing, and as a die hard capitalist I say..... if you can not compete in a market you need to change markets.
If a company can save 60% of their development costs by over seas outsourcing more the power to them. It is a world market. Government can not protect jobs from globalization (it just doesn't work as technology and the world progress and change) but must be a force for creating new jobs developing new technologies, and help people transition and retrain.
I now program as a contractor at night (in the gaming industry making about 50% of what I used to make.... unless you compare it to what I would make an hour while deathmarching to get a product out), and work as a fly fishing guide during the day.
I realized that I had to change...... yes I could bitch and moan and complain and say why isn't the governemnt doing anything... but that would be akin to protecting the horsewhip industry in the advent of the automobile. I just changed.
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There was a mad scientist ( a mad...social... scientist ) who kidnapped three colleagues, an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician, and locked each of them in seperate cells with plenty of canned food and water but no can opener.
A month later, returning, the mad scientist went to the engineer's cell and found it long empty. The engineer had constructed a can opener from pocket trash, used aluminum shavings and dried sugar to make an explosive, and escaped.
The physicist had worked out the angle necessary to knock the lids off the tin cans by throwing them against the wall. She was developing a good pitching arm and a new quantum theory.
The mathematician had stacked the unopened cans into a surprising solution to the kissing problem; his desiccated corpse was propped calmly against a wall, and this was inscribed on the floor in blood:
Not always so. The Russians are using a SS-N-18 naval launch vehicle as the basis for their Volna launch vehicle (which is launched from a submarine).
With this package the Russians are putting comercial satelites into orbit, at a fairly cheap price. I have read that thet are also testing other systems based on old solid fuel ICBM motors.
I shouldn't feed the trolls but...... Have you ever been in a forest? Timber is one of the few sustenable resources that most countries have. You cut it down (don't clear cut) replant and thirty years later.. viola new full size trees. There is a lot of private land held by the timber industry that is cut and replant and recut land. A good chunk of it is in rough terrain.
Now forest floors may be rough terrain for a number of reasons. Geography and topography is the major one, but a creeper like this could just step over deadfall, boulders and bramble without having to remove them. Thus minimizing environmnetal impact.
Timber is a resource that is renewable when managed correctly.
In scanning through the postings, I didn't see anything on macroscope..... which is a great piece of sci-fi. Interesting idea, good character development. It is a good read.
You think environmentalist scream when you talk about burrying the stuff in the ground.... you should really hear them scream when you talk about launching it into space.
gets 24 mpg has 210 bhp accelerates like at bat out of hell (will beat a lot of sport sedans in a 1/4 mile). Stops real quick 4 wheel disc brakes and abs.
Inspite of the above post appearing to be a raving troll, I will respond with:
Lets see..... why do we like AMD
1 Dollar for dollar they kick Intel's hiney for performance. IE you get more bang for your buck.
2 A 800 mhz AMD is as fast as a 1600 mhz Intel. That is just plain cool.... It has geek cool factor all over it.
3 As to the last statement about an Opteron 800 being twice what a P4 1600.... some how I doubt it. AMD has consistently underpriced Intel for the same level of performance. If it is more expensive it will only be at initial release and soon will be cheaper than a comparable Intel.
4 As geeks we get tired of a market dominated by inferior products... IE Windows is the dominat operating system, and Intel is the dominant chip. Sometimes we just like to root for the underdog. If AMD can beat Intel at their own game, more the power to them.
Build your own. I have a friend who has done this. He is using an old computer with linux and a 120 gig hard drive. It has a video in/out card. He sets up chron jobs that automatically record the shows that he wants. I imagine that it would be possible to write or find something to remove the comercials.
Uma cabaca, um arame, um pedaco de pau!
How to be a HiTech Entrepenuer
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I don't need a book for this... I know the secret recipe!
"Go to Menlo Park. Shake a tree. A venture capitalist will fall out.
Wave your hands and say these high-tech buz words. "Online comerce. B2B. Wireless Internet!"
The VC will give you $4Million dollars.
Hire 20 people, publish lots of hype, stir for six months, and go public.
Your IPO stock will inflate rapidly, and you'll become Mozillionaires.
Your share is $30M dollars. Go to Menlo Park. Climb a tree.
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And as I rarely proofread my ramblings on slashot before I post them... yes there are typos in the above post.
Sorry about the 1 typo.
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./ joke, "In Soviet Russia..." even when Stalin and Lenin held elections they only "won" by a reported 98%. The were smart enough to manufacture a number that was not 100% as they new there existed dissenting voices. This study claims that among scientist there is no dissension on this topic.
Articles
The Carbon Dioxide Thermometer and the Cause of Global Warming; Nigel Calder,-- Presented at a seminar SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, Brighton, England, October 6, 1998.
Or, try just about anything by Lindzen, Richard S. in regards to climate change. He is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT
You can see a list of his publications online if you do a Google search.
I am very dubious about a study that reports 100% consensus among scientists in regards to any theory, especially global warming and then foregoes publishing the methodology and the media review upon which the conclusions are based.
Along the lines of the old
As to the personal attack..... very adult. I do read a number of scientific journals and have even been published...... have you?
There are many articles in peer reviewd journals, by scientist who do not agree with the idea that humanity is causing global warming. That the author, in her report, can not find, nor report on any of these dissenting view brings the credibility of the study into question. As she did not publish her methodology, nor include sources further casts a shadow over the validity of this report.
I opperate a small outfitting company on the Provo river. When I was laid off last summer (2003) I paid the bills by guiding. I average about $30.00 an hour when guiding..... but it can be several days between trips.
a lot of game companies schedule the production cycle with crunch time built in. They plan on exploiting the coders. They know how week the job market is currently. It is an easy way to lower production costs. Buying dinner for a team of 40 every night is a lot cheaper than paying them for 6 extra hour of time per day.
Where I worked we were told that the over time hours were "mandatory". It did not matter if you were on track with your personal chunk of coding. You were to be in the office during the mandatory hours. As you can imagine morale was pretty poor.
After they closed down a lot of my co-workers went to EA, a few went to Lucas, and a couple to another studio of the same company. The guys at Lucas have been laid off, as have the guys who went to the other studio (as the co. went bankrupt).
But you want to hear horror stories.... just talk to an ex Saffire employee about how the company (Saffire) wanted them to all work without pay. There are still several hundreds of thousands of $$$$ of back pay from that fiasco that will never be paid.
I have played computer games since I was 5 years old. I had an Atari 2600, 5200, inellivision, appleII, nintendo... etc. etc.
My dream was always to work in the game industry. So I got a BS and an MS in computer Science with an emphasis in 3D rendering techniques. It was my dream and my passion.
After working the industry, I don't think I would go back. Long hours are the norm not the exception. Every shop I know will deatmarch at some point. Some are worse than others. They beat the enthusiasm right out of me. Now I hardly play any games.
In the industry there used to be a reason for crunch. In the old days you received royalties from sale one of the product. I worked with several old timers who had made quite a bit of money back in the 80s and 90s from royalties. The ends justified the work. Now all the companies do a return on investment bonus. Ie you only get extra money if the games sells through enough units to exceed a certain profit margin and then you may see some bonus. Of course clever accounting will always show a loss on development.... I talked to lots of veterans of the industry who had worked for various studis. None had ever seen an extra dime on a ROI based bonus system. One even caught the president of the copmpany in a lie on the numbers of units sold. He was stating one figure to employees on why they had not seen a bonus and another figure to the game mags boasting of the title popularity.
I now work cyber security. Nice 40 hour work weeks, and a bigger pay check. My benefits are nt quite as good but the time with my family more than makes up for that.
Ain't it the truth.
In my case, after working 75 hour weeks for a year and 1/2. 3 weeks after finishing the second title they (the management) fired every one and shut down the whole studio.
Of course the company is now bankrupt.....
I worked in the game industry for a year and 1/2. In that time I worked on 3 projects, and was always in cruch. I averaged over 75 hours a week for that year and 1/2 period. Some weeks I spent over 120 hours in the office.
Bad management, unrealistic schedules, artificial deadlines, I've seen it all while deathmarching. And the end product was always rushed out the door before it was ready..... so it was junk. The company killed a lot of previosly sucessful franchises by pushing junk, in order to meet financial obligations. There were controlled by their debt, not by any desire to produce a quality game.
Thankfully the company I worked for is now bankrupt, and hopefully dead.
Forgot to add see this link for more info.
We are also forgetting the vast reserves of methane hydrate sitting off the costal shelves.
US Geological surverys estimate that the reserves of methane hydrate contain about twice the usable carbon of all known: coal, oil, and natural gas reserves combines.
But emissions are still an issue with mehtane hydrates and they can contribute to green house gasees.
Sorry, but that is just not true for all cases. Yes your example is correct for exisitng, established processes, but it does not apply for new, emerging technologies. As new technologies emerge third world sweat shops do not have the technology nor the experience/education to be competitive. On the other hand the first world can not be competitive in fields that require unskilled labor. Each economy/market can, however focus on those things which it can do best and be profitable in.
Yes, it is impossible for US industry to be competitive cost wise in industries like steel, shoes, textiles. etc.... but there are plenty of industries where there is not sufficient technical experience in cheaper economies for them to be competitive like aerospace, chemical engineering, most engineering fields in general.
Not all american industries are competinng with 52 cent an hour labor.....
As a Game Programmer who was laid off over a year ago in a round of corporate down sizing, and as a die hard capitalist I say..... if you can not compete in a market you need to change markets.
If a company can save 60% of their development costs by over seas outsourcing more the power to them. It is a world market. Government can not protect jobs from globalization (it just doesn't work as technology and the world progress and change) but must be a force for creating new jobs developing new technologies, and help people transition and retrain.
I now program as a contractor at night (in the gaming industry making about 50% of what I used to make.... unless you compare it to what I would make an hour while deathmarching to get a product out), and work as a fly fishing guide during the day.
I realized that I had to change...... yes I could bitch and moan and complain and say why isn't the governemnt doing anything... but that would be akin to protecting the horsewhip industry in the advent of the automobile. I just changed.
There was a mad scientist ( a mad ...social... scientist ) who kidnapped three colleagues, an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician, and locked each of them in seperate cells with plenty
of canned food and water but no can opener.
A month later, returning, the mad scientist went to the engineer's cell and found it long empty. The engineer had constructed a can opener from pocket trash, used aluminum shavings and dried sugar to make an explosive, and escaped.
The physicist had worked out the angle necessary to knock the lids off the tin cans by throwing them against the wall. She was developing a good pitching arm and a new quantum theory.
The mathematician had stacked the unopened cans into a surprising solution to the kissing problem; his desiccated corpse was propped calmly against a wall, and this was inscribed on the floor in blood:
Theorem: If I can't open these cans, I'll die.
Proof: assume the opposite...
Cell phone already emit radiation..... what do you think microwaves are????
the average cable that you pay around $15.00 for at the 'puter store cost them less than $2.00
How's that for mark-up?
Not always so.
The Russians are using a SS-N-18 naval launch vehicle as the basis for their Volna launch vehicle (which is launched from a submarine).
With this package the Russians are putting comercial satelites into orbit, at a fairly cheap price. I have read that thet are also testing other systems based on old solid fuel ICBM motors.
I shouldn't feed the trolls but......
Have you ever been in a forest? Timber is one of the few sustenable resources that most countries have. You cut it down (don't clear cut) replant and thirty years later.. viola new full size trees. There is a lot of private land held by the timber industry that is cut and replant and recut land. A good chunk of it is in rough terrain.
Now forest floors may be rough terrain for a number of reasons. Geography and topography is the major one, but a creeper like this could just step over deadfall, boulders and bramble without having to remove them. Thus minimizing environmnetal impact.
Timber is a resource that is renewable when managed correctly.
In scanning through the postings, I didn't see anything on macroscope..... which is a great piece of sci-fi. Interesting idea, good character development. It is a good read.
You think environmentalist scream when you talk about burrying the stuff in the ground.... you should really hear them scream when you talk about launching it into space.
gets 24 mpg
has 210 bhp
accelerates like at bat out of hell (will beat a lot of sport sedans in a 1/4 mile).
Stops real quick 4 wheel disc brakes and abs.
Do you know what you are talking about?
I believe the original qutoe from which you are taking your sig is "Nuke a gay whale for Christ!
Teacher: For show and tell today Oliver Wendell Jones is going to show us a model of an atomic bomb.
Oliver: Oh it's not a modle it's real.
Teacher: Where did you get the radioactive material?
Oliver: I scraped the glow in the dark material off of 10,000 watch hands.
Teacher: You mean...?
Oliver: Yep... KABOOM!!!
Teacher: OK everyone... fire drill!
Inspite of the above post appearing to be a raving troll, I will respond with:
.... some how I doubt it. AMD has consistently underpriced Intel for the same level of performance. If it is more expensive it will only be at initial release and soon will be cheaper than a comparable Intel.
Lets see..... why do we like AMD
1 Dollar for dollar they kick Intel's hiney for performance. IE you get more bang for your buck.
2 A 800 mhz AMD is as fast as a 1600 mhz Intel. That is just plain cool.... It has geek cool factor all over it.
3 As to the last statement about an Opteron 800 being twice what a P4 1600
4 As geeks we get tired of a market dominated by inferior products... IE Windows is the dominat operating system, and Intel is the dominant chip. Sometimes we just like to root for the underdog. If AMD can beat Intel at their own game, more the power to them.
Build your own. I have a friend who has done this. He is using an old computer with linux and a 120 gig hard drive. It has a video in/out card. He sets up chron jobs that automatically record the shows that he wants. I imagine that it would be possible to write or find something to remove the comercials.
Uma cabaca, um arame, um pedaco de pau!
I don't need a book for this... I know the secret recipe!
"Go to Menlo Park. Shake a tree. A venture capitalist will fall out.
Wave your hands and say these high-tech buz words.
"Online comerce. B2B. Wireless Internet!"
The VC will give you $4Million dollars.
Hire 20 people, publish lots of hype, stir for six months, and go public.
Your IPO stock will inflate rapidly, and you'll become Mozillionaires.
Your share is $30M dollars. Go to Menlo Park. Climb a tree.
Uma cabaca, um arame, um pedaco de pau!