Won't pollution and deforestation will kill and harm us a whole lot more than a few simple degree changes in our atmosphere?
Climate change is a threat to the infrastructure of the economy. If the sea level rises, the shore will move, and the ports built at great expense where the shores currently are will be lost. If greater fluctuations in extreme weather occurs, the economic impacts due to disruption, damage and insurance payoffs will increase.
I'm sorry, but isn't getting sick with dieases like cancer from a contaminated environment deserving more funding for research than climate research? Why are they getting all that attention and research dollars?
Because economic impact is more important to the people holding the purse strings than a bunch of nobodies getting sick.
"Thought is language, language is thought" is what your trying to say. It's why a large vocabulary is an important measure of intelligence; because if you lack the words to think with, you lack the very thought.
I had that argument in philosophy class. I do not think exclusively in language: I also think in shapes, and images, and directions, and sequences, without any verbal context. When I think about where my house is, I don't think "south by southwest" or "three streets west, two blocks south", I think 'thataway', and then translate that thought in language if I need to share it.
Babies have no words, but they have have thoughts. They want to see the flashing lights even if they have no words for lights, for flashing, or for "stop turning me around to make faces at me and point to the flashing lights". They'll squirm ad cry to compensate for the lack of words, because nonverbal communication is the only power they have.
You think the place got worthless when they lost the boobies link? Popular opinion, that.
If Politico or the New Republic or the Huffington Post said that, they might have a point.
Appeal to authority is a fallacy of defective induction, where it is argued that a statement is correct because the statement is made by a person or source that is commonly regarded as authoritative. The most general structure of this argument is:
1. Source A says that p is true.
2. Source A is authoritative.
3. Therefore, p is true.
This is a fallacy because the truth or falsity of the claim is not necessarily related to the personal qualities of the claimant, and because the premises can be true, and the conclusion false (an authoritative claim can turn out to be false). It is also known as argumentum ad verecundiam (Latin: argument to respect)
Both sides of are equally stupid. When you go Far RIght you are hindering all progress. If you go to the far Left you are trying to fix things that doesn't need to be fixed, or with solutions that just makes them worse.
When you open the gates for public opinion you are going to get the Crazies from both sides. And because they feel so insanely strong about their opinion they will be the most vocal... Drowning out the ideas of the more sane people.
How about a dynamic site moderation system based on polarity? Each extreme sees mostly their side being the most vocal, reducing the inverse-polarity feedback that drives them to a frenzy, and the people ranked close to neutral see few messages from the extremes.
The weak point is how each post gets classified. I guess tracking who likes or dislikes what would create natural grouping.
Conservapedia. Because the true believers and the mocking liberal cynics were indistinguishable, the site got bogged down in a series of purges based almost entirely on personality and loyalty to Dear Leader, rather than actual helpfulness
I'm going to call "correlation != causation" on that chain of events.
The point of the exercise was to show that one person could make choices faster but as a group you made better choices. [...] The professor was really kind of upset with that result because it sort of messed up her point since I had gotten the best answers correctly and quickly on my own. The professor asked me why I thought that was.
It was because her exercise was designed by committee.
linked to a page saying 'this is not available in your country'.
Is there an organized resistance against this? Some kid of international grassroots organization? I want the first W of www back, dammit:( Can we get the w3c to ban the use of region locking with the www prefix at least? "Use country-wide-web instead"? No?
I suspect you're thinking of MOD files and other tracker formats - which don't actually have anything at all to do with audio compression.:D *Some* people would make MOD files of *some* songs which sounded *something* like the original, but not exactly.
That's the one! Thanks! Yeah, it was useless on most songs, but for techno stuff like Axle's Theme from that funny 80's cop movie, it worked well. I thought of it as a kind of audio compression because of the file size difference. Wow, took a side road down memory lane in this html5 thread:)
Also worth mentioning, is that Google acquired YouTube in 2006, and Google is a supporter of Open Source with an open source operating system. If they did look at this from an outside, objective perspective, I trust Google will do anything they can to speed up HTML5 video support.
But Google has sided with Adobe in their spat against Apple, and YouTube has a lot invested in DRM, at the behest of the media cartel. That DRM is included in Adobe products, and not in the html5 spec. That's an internal conflict for Google, and in the "principles VS revenue" conflicts, the principles rarely win.
He's generalizing, but there were no other formats that could do 12:1 compression like MP3 did when it came out. Few people remember that if you wanted to rip a CD it was a 50 megabyte file. I still remember playing back a small little file with a.MP2 extension on a Dell 486 running Windows 3.1 and going WOW - thats amazing!
I never used mp2 for audio... I remember being very fond of a rip of the Dune theme song (oh, Toto, you outdid yourselves) which was in either.aiff or.au (I remember having a few files in those formats), and I even had a few files encoded in Real audio, but the file format I was really into before mp3s... I can't even remember what it was called, but it wasn't a direct rip, it would... replicate a song by breaking it down in elements that it then recombined... Argh, any geeks reading this with a better memory of defunct audio compression schemes? early to Mid-90s, it was the big new thing on BBSs back then.
Anyway, like you said, nothing else was doing rips at 12:1, so mp3s were a big step up, and although they aren't big-F Free, their license was ubiquitous. The point was that there was way more going then than wav-vs-mp3.
He knew it was basically wav vs mp3, but wanted to make himself sound smart by bringing up obscure shit
I deny that it was a simple dichotomy and I call on geeks to bring forth their knowledge of obscure shit. Come on, nerds, bring forth the little-known details!
Trolls pollute our thread with insults and ad-hominems, and should be modded down, not up.
I thought the point of paying for a service like this was to avoid the ad's.
The point is to squeeze you for as much money as they can. They had managed to game the system enough to get you to pay for cable content full of advertising breaks and in-story product placement, and that's how they liked it. They want that back. They already started applying region-locking to the internet (Hulu is only available within the U.S. AFAIK), so they can keep overcharging the places that are already used to pay more than others, and now they're moving over to the "you pay over and over again for the same thing" phase, again. But hey, did you see that cop car burn at the G20? Those protesters sure have nothing to say! Lets grab some bread and go to the circus...
ask what other people think you should get. You'll end up with something that they want and it may be cool now but years down the road it won't mean anything to you.
It'll remind you of when you were younger and cared a lot about what other people thought and how you really wanted to be cool.
What happens when we explain dark matter and dark energy? Physics is all subject to change, since it tries to approximate a set of rules that we aren't really sure about.
It's the Ether! Michelson and Morley didn't get a null result, they got a one-third result, which makes sense if the ether is a fluid, not a crystal. </heresy>
Wikileaks itself is rapidly becoming a distraction from the real stories that it ostensibly exists to publish.
Wikileaks is becoming one of its own valid stories: They're harassed at the international level by a government that keeps stating publicly that it supports freedom of press. The leaks they have are only half the story, what people are willing to do to stop the leaks is the other half.
Slashdot Mirror
Won't pollution and deforestation will kill and harm us a whole lot more than a few simple degree changes in our atmosphere?
Climate change is a threat to the infrastructure of the economy. If the sea level rises, the shore will move, and the ports built at great expense where the shores currently are will be lost. If greater fluctuations in extreme weather occurs, the economic impacts due to disruption, damage and insurance payoffs will increase.
I'm sorry, but isn't getting sick with dieases like cancer from a contaminated environment deserving more funding for research than climate research? Why are they getting all that attention and research dollars?
Because economic impact is more important to the people holding the purse strings than a bunch of nobodies getting sick.
If you have a Medieval Warming Period (MWP) -- then temperatures *aren't* unprecedented
Despite substantial uncertainties, especially for the period prior to 1600 when data are scarce, the warmest period prior to the 20th century very likely occurred between 950 and 1100, but temperatures were probably between 0.1C and 0.2C below the 1961 to 1990 mean and significantly below the level shown by instrumental data after 1980 .
A challenge to the geeks at slashdot -- read "HARRY_README.txt".
Did you mean: HARRY_READ_ME.txt
You stickler for strict fact checking, you.
this literal mountain of evidence
Can we have a literal picnic on that mountain? Any literal mountain goats on it? Where is it physically located?
P.S. Those were rhetorical questions mocking your misuse of the word "literal"when you clearly mean "metaphorical".
"Thought is language, language is thought" is what your trying to say. It's why a large vocabulary is an important measure of intelligence; because if you lack the words to think with, you lack the very thought.
I had that argument in philosophy class. I do not think exclusively in language: I also think in shapes, and images, and directions, and sequences, without any verbal context.
When I think about where my house is, I don't think "south by southwest" or "three streets west, two blocks south", I think 'thataway', and then translate that thought in language if I need to share it.
Babies have no words, but they have have thoughts. They want to see the flashing lights even if they have no words for lights, for flashing, or for "stop turning me around to make faces at me and point to the flashing lights". They'll squirm ad cry to compensate for the lack of words, because nonverbal communication is the only power they have.
I hadn't heard that site mentioned in years.
You think the place got worthless when they lost the boobies link? Popular opinion, that.
If Politico or the New Republic or the Huffington Post said that, they might have a point.
Appeal to authority is a fallacy of defective induction, where it is argued that a statement is correct because the statement is made by a person or source that is commonly regarded as authoritative. The most general structure of this argument is:
1. Source A says that p is true.
2. Source A is authoritative.
3. Therefore, p is true.
This is a fallacy because the truth or falsity of the claim is not necessarily related to the personal qualities of the claimant, and because the premises can be true, and the conclusion false (an authoritative claim can turn out to be false). It is also known as argumentum ad verecundiam (Latin: argument to respect)
you can't take anything on the internet to be 100% seriously
Nor on tv, in news papers or books or anything. Even your own memories are suspect.
Trust no one.
Both sides of are equally stupid. When you go Far RIght you are hindering all progress. If you go to the far Left you are trying to fix things that doesn't need to be fixed, or with solutions that just makes them worse.
When you open the gates for public opinion you are going to get the Crazies from both sides. And because they feel so insanely strong about their opinion they will be the most vocal... Drowning out the ideas of the more sane people.
How about a dynamic site moderation system based on polarity? Each extreme sees mostly their side being the most vocal, reducing the inverse-polarity feedback that drives them to a frenzy, and the people ranked close to neutral see few messages from the extremes.
The weak point is how each post gets classified. I guess tracking who likes or dislikes what would create natural grouping.
Conservapedia. Because the true believers and the mocking liberal cynics were indistinguishable, the site got bogged down in a series of purges based almost entirely on personality and loyalty to Dear Leader, rather than actual helpfulness
I'm going to call "correlation != causation" on that chain of events.
The point of the exercise was to show that one person could make choices faster but as a group you made better choices. [...] The professor was really kind of upset with that result because it sort of messed up her point since I had gotten the best answers correctly and quickly on my own.
The professor asked me why I thought that was.
It was because her exercise was designed by committee.
recently, America has been turned from a democracy to a plutocracy
Recently? Dude, how old are you?
The moderate Democrats are the ones who shot it down.
That use of "moderate" reminds me of Inigo Montoya.
linked to a page saying 'this is not available in your country'.
Is there an organized resistance against this? Some kid of international grassroots organization? I want the first W of www back, dammit :(
Can we get the w3c to ban the use of region locking with the www prefix at least? "Use country-wide-web instead"? No?
I suspect you're thinking of MOD files and other tracker formats - which don't actually have anything at all to do with audio compression. :D *Some* people would make MOD files of *some* songs which sounded *something* like the original, but not exactly.
That's the one! Thanks! :)
Yeah, it was useless on most songs, but for techno stuff like Axle's Theme from that funny 80's cop movie, it worked well. I thought of it as a kind of audio compression because of the file size difference. Wow, took a side road down memory lane in this html5 thread
Also worth mentioning, is that Google acquired YouTube in 2006, and Google is a supporter of Open Source with an open source operating system. If they did look at this from an outside, objective perspective, I trust Google will do anything they can to speed up HTML5 video support.
But Google has sided with Adobe in their spat against Apple, and YouTube has a lot invested in DRM, at the behest of the media cartel. That DRM is included in Adobe products, and not in the html5 spec. That's an internal conflict for Google, and in the "principles VS revenue" conflicts, the principles rarely win.
He's generalizing, but there were no other formats that could do 12:1 compression like MP3 did when it came out. Few people remember that if you wanted to rip a CD it was a 50 megabyte file. I still remember playing back a small little file with a .MP2 extension on a Dell 486 running Windows 3.1 and going WOW - thats amazing!
I never used mp2 for audio... I remember being very fond of a rip of the Dune theme song (oh, Toto, you outdid yourselves) which was in either .aiff or .au (I remember having a few files in those formats), and I even had a few files encoded in Real audio, but the file format I was really into before mp3s... I can't even remember what it was called, but it wasn't a direct rip, it would... replicate a song by breaking it down in elements that it then recombined... Argh, any geeks reading this with a better memory of defunct audio compression schemes? early to Mid-90s, it was the big new thing on BBSs back then.
Anyway, like you said, nothing else was doing rips at 12:1, so mp3s were a big step up, and although they aren't big-F Free, their license was ubiquitous. The point was that there was way more going then than wav-vs-mp3.
He knew it was basically wav vs mp3, but wanted to make himself sound smart by bringing up obscure shit
I deny that it was a simple dichotomy and I call on geeks to bring forth their knowledge of obscure shit. Come on, nerds, bring forth the little-known details!
Trolls pollute our thread with insults and ad-hominems, and should be modded down, not up.
1-when MP3 first started being widely used (I started using it extensively in 1997) it was competing with WAV files. There were no better formats.
You don't remember .aiff? And all those other file formats? Oh, and atrct (or whatever Sony called it)?
It was never wav-vs-mp3.
Without content protection, we would not be able to offer videos like this.
"This rental is currently unavailable in your country. "
I miss the WORLD-wide web :(
I thought the point of paying for a service like this was to avoid the ad's.
The point is to squeeze you for as much money as they can. They had managed to game the system enough to get you to pay for cable content full of advertising breaks and in-story product placement, and that's how they liked it. They want that back.
They already started applying region-locking to the internet (Hulu is only available within the U.S. AFAIK), so they can keep overcharging the places that are already used to pay more than others, and now they're moving over to the "you pay over and over again for the same thing" phase, again.
But hey, did you see that cop car burn at the G20? Those protesters sure have nothing to say! Lets grab some bread and go to the circus...
Tattoos aren't in and of themselves lame. People get all sort of lame tattoos, however. There's an awful lot of really beautiful stuff out there too.
90% of everything is crud. I wish haters would understand that.
ask what other people think you should get. You'll end up with something that they want and it may be cool now but years down the road it won't mean anything to you.
It'll remind you of when you were younger and cared a lot about what other people thought and how you really wanted to be cool.
What happens when we explain dark matter and dark energy? Physics is all subject to change, since it tries to approximate a set of rules that we aren't really sure about.
It's the Ether! Michelson and Morley didn't get a null result, they got a one-third result, which makes sense if the ether is a fluid, not a crystal. </heresy>
That's a good amputee-cat video, but there is no running. There's accelerated walking, call it scampering if you want, but it's not running.
Wikileaks itself is rapidly becoming a distraction from the real stories that it ostensibly exists to publish.
Wikileaks is becoming one of its own valid stories: They're harassed at the international level by a government that keeps stating publicly that it supports freedom of press.
The leaks they have are only half the story, what people are willing to do to stop the leaks is the other half.
I don't recall hearing of them ever doing anything to benefit the users.
They used to send me free floppies in the mail, that was cool.
Then they started sending useless plastic discs, that wasn't cool.