"The sun has the same activity that it has had for eons and you think that it is enough to change the temp? Look, every so often some american republican pulls an interesting piece of evidence out of their ass and says that it shows the planet is not warming, or that it is not mans fault. A good example was satellite data that was being used for the longest time. Now it has been shown that the group that was using it was selecting bad data. In fact, using the real data shows that things are worse than thought."
You really shouldn't speak out about think you are ignorant about.
it is well known that solar output, and hence to some degree, activity, has increased by 30% the last 5 billion years.
What the Co2-doomsayers also neglect to mention is that during the last 150 years, where temperature increases have been recorded, the terran magnetic field has declined 10% in strength, thus weakining the planets shield against cosmic radiation, and thus letting more energi into the atmosphere.
The atmosphere is a chaotic system with many factors that plays in, and to claim that humans are responsible for any change recorded is preposterous.
"Does this guy know how much energy that goes into mining the Uranium? (Clue: Quite alot) We have to forget all the nonsense in mining our energy from the ground, and start putting some research into renewable stuff like plant-oils, wave and wind energy."
Out of curiosity, do YOu know how much energy goes into uranium mining ?
And FYI, James Lovelock is not mister anybody. Check up on his credentials before you berate him for alleged ignorance.
"And the person who came up with this idea was a genius. This is far far better than what most other operating systems do (refuse to mount the volume.)"
That's Apple in a nutshell. Attention to the little details that makes you computer more user friendly and intuitive to use.
"Mr. Soto routinely comes home to some 150 e-mail pitches, and he loves getting them all. The 45-year-old grandfather opens most of them. He answers spam questionnaires. And he buys stuff pitched in spam e-mail -- again and again. "Everyday people call it spam," says Mr. Soto, who prefers calling it "unsolicited" e-mail. "But I'm open to everything.""
Yeah, your ass will be open to just about anything once Bubba here is done with you.
You make unsolicited mail profitable. You are a reason I'm having unsolicited junk mail. How about you get some unsolicited pound-me-in-the-ass ? Like that, punk ?
"Look, I'm not some puissant little audiophile that pretends there is a difference in "warmth" amongst optical cables, but if you can't her the difference between 128kbps and 160kbps (and on up), you are either using a terrible testing environment, poor equipment (sub $50 headphones), simply do not have the capacity to compare two sounds well, or any combination of the three. Also, 96kbps is unacceptable for anything other than speech, it sounds like a keychain full of keys is constantly jingling in front of the speaker."
That is clearly incorrect. I dont know what codec you used, but it is clearly inferior or outdated.
My test is publicly avaiable at macnyt.dk, look in articles around 8th of May.
And FYI I used equipment including headphones with a value of almost 2000 US$.
"Why are they (Apple|RIAA) so intent on DRM anyways?"
APPLE is "intent" on DRM because RIAA would pull the plug on iTunes Music Store if they weren't.
RIAA has a gun pointed at the temple of any small to medium-sized music resellers. That's why. You can't play nice when you're under the thumb of a gangster syndicate.
"I have used both and studied the design of both in several University courses. The design is sound. Some of the *default settings* are not made with security foremost in mind, but that's understandable due to the priority given to legacy support.
As Linux becomes more popular, the average skill level of its user base will drop and it will be exploited more. Deal with it. The most common weak link isn't the software, it's the user. "
Ah, tell me how the user is to blame for say, Blaster infections ? How about the latest worms that infect the PC if you merely SELECT the infected file in your mailbox ?
In a user environment on a Linux box, a virus would be stopped dead when it has to ask for root access to the OS core outside active user directories. You may lose your own files, but the OS will be unharmed by a rogue virus.
But the numbers should tell all: 50000+ virii for Windows, almost none for Linux. I havent heard of any Linux virii yet, at least.
I'm at a loss to explain how a man claiming to have university experience in CS don't know this.
"if the worm writer is caught, can he be held at least partially responsible for any deaths that occured during this outage?"
Replace "outage" with "outrage".
There is no way in hell an important insitution should put up with shit like this. If any arbitrary piece of code that gets sent around could bring my companys systems (as often as it is the case about WIndows XXX) to its knees I'd start seeing red about what the software manufacturer was spending its time on.
"Given that a Dual 2Ghz G5 can't even resize windows smoothly under OS X, I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to be smug about..."
I'm sorry to offend thy mighty wisdom, but window resizing is not a useful way of benchmarking. My current G4 1,25 Ghz resizes a window full of my illustrator files quite well, but as you say, not smoothly.
However, seeing the difference in Windows XP and Mac OS X's screen drawing models i wouldn't be surprised, and neither should you.
Smoother window resizing doesn't make me more productive, and not happier about my computer unless I'm a diehard OS fanatic for platform X.
They have got to be fucking kidding (pardon my french). What on earth can they load into Windows that will make it that demanding ? Office + Web browser + movie maker + musik player & encoder + solitaire + xbox simulator all loaded into memory and running in the background per default ?
or else they're just anticipating the usual code bloat... =)
Anyway. I just gave my trusty Mac a pat. 4-6 Ghz just to run it.... Linux will sure seem like a useful alternative to many when Longhorn strikes... if all of you readers will do your to make sure people "out there" KNOWS THE ALTERNATRIVE TO WINDOWS!
Why are eveybody so touchy-felly about sites that may or may not (actually in this case i have yet to see a racist 419-baiter web page) be racist?
You take a trip to Zimbabwe og South Africa, or even Sudan, live there for two years, if you survive, come back and tell me how you like the acism you will encounter there.
Chances are that you wioll learn that "racism" in the west is zilch compared to what you find in Africa.
Slashdot Mirror
"The sun has the same activity that it has had for eons and you think that it is enough to change the temp? Look, every so often some american republican pulls an interesting piece of evidence out of their ass and says that it shows the planet is not warming, or that it is not mans fault. A good example was satellite data that was being used for the longest time. Now it has been shown that the group that was using it was selecting bad data. In fact, using the real data shows that things are worse than thought."
You really shouldn't speak out about think you are ignorant about.
it is well known that solar output, and hence to some degree, activity, has increased by 30% the last 5 billion years.
What the Co2-doomsayers also neglect to mention is that during the last 150 years, where temperature increases have been recorded, the terran magnetic field has declined 10% in strength, thus weakining the planets shield against cosmic radiation, and thus letting more energi into the atmosphere.
The atmosphere is a chaotic system with many factors that plays in, and to claim that humans are responsible for any change recorded is preposterous.
"Does this guy know how much energy that goes into mining the Uranium? (Clue: Quite alot) We have to forget all the nonsense in mining our energy from the ground, and start putting some research into renewable stuff like plant-oils, wave and wind energy."
Out of curiosity, do YOu know how much energy goes into uranium mining ?
And FYI, James Lovelock is not mister anybody. Check up on his credentials before you berate him for alleged ignorance.
"It's been a whole 20 minutes and we don't have aerial photos of this guy's house and his home address for our snail-mail DDOS attack yet."
Snailmail ? Loser. I have a cruise missile i bought in the army surplus store, and i'm going to use it to do some GOOD!
The US imports roughly 20 million 42-gallon barrels of crude oil every day.
500 barrels/day is a drop in the bucket. Not to say that it isn't a good piece of news, but...
"And the person who came up with this idea was a genius. This is far far better than what most other operating systems do (refuse to mount the volume.)"
That's Apple in a nutshell. Attention to the little details that makes you computer more user friendly and intuitive to use.
"Um.. looking at porn wouldn't clutter either."
Yes, it will. Ever heard of browser cache ?
"The new findings support the theory that the universe will expand forever, provided there is enough dark matter. "
More dark matter = higher gravitational attraction = less expansion.
"Mr. Soto routinely comes home to some 150 e-mail pitches, and he loves getting them all. The 45-year-old grandfather opens most of them. He answers spam questionnaires. And he buys stuff pitched in spam e-mail -- again and again. "Everyday people call it spam," says Mr. Soto, who prefers calling it "unsolicited" e-mail. "But I'm open to everything.""
Yeah, your ass will be open to just about anything once Bubba here is done with you.
You make unsolicited mail profitable. You are a reason I'm having unsolicited junk mail. How about you get some unsolicited pound-me-in-the-ass ? Like that, punk ?
You need some heavy fire support ? =)
.44 it can blow you face CLEAN off. Do you feel lucky ? Well do you... SPAMMER ?
This is a magnum
Personally i prefer a blow torch and a pair of pliers.
My bad. I was thinking leptons.
"First off, the author can't keep straight the difference between a photon (a boson) and a proton (fermion)."
Sorry to be bitching, but a proton is a Baryon, not Fermion.
"Look, I'm not some puissant little audiophile that pretends there is a difference in "warmth" amongst optical cables, but if you can't her the difference between 128kbps and 160kbps (and on up), you are either using a terrible testing environment, poor equipment (sub $50 headphones), simply do not have the capacity to compare two sounds well, or any combination of the three. Also, 96kbps is unacceptable for anything other than speech, it sounds like a keychain full of keys is constantly jingling in front of the speaker."
That is clearly incorrect. I dont know what codec you used, but it is clearly inferior or outdated.
My test is publicly avaiable at macnyt.dk, look in articles around 8th of May.
And FYI I used equipment including headphones with a value of almost 2000 US$.
Not double blind, 8 vraiationsin samples, no other participants.
I did a listening test for the danish Mac news source macnyt.dk a week ago.
My conclusion is that for (iTunes encoded) MP3 and AAC, you dont need anything above 128 kbps. Casual users may even make do with 96 kbps AAC.
I simply couldn't tell the difference between 128 and 160 in any of the formats.
With apologies to ogg fans =)
"Why are they (Apple|RIAA) so intent on DRM anyways?"
APPLE is "intent" on DRM because RIAA would pull the plug on iTunes Music Store if they weren't.
RIAA has a gun pointed at the temple of any small to medium-sized music resellers. That's why. You can't play nice when you're under the thumb of a gangster syndicate.
Agree - i overlooked that it is xpumped.
Save your money. Even a 2 MB Level2 cache at core speed wont amend that bottleneck.
"I have used both and studied the design of both in several University courses. The design is sound. Some of the *default settings* are not made with security foremost in mind, but that's understandable due to the priority given to legacy support.
As Linux becomes more popular, the average skill level of its user base will drop and it will be exploited more. Deal with it. The most common weak link isn't the software, it's the user.
"
Ah, tell me how the user is to blame for say, Blaster infections ? How about the latest worms that infect the PC if you merely SELECT the infected file in your mailbox ?
In a user environment on a Linux box, a virus would be stopped dead when it has to ask for root access to the OS core outside active user directories. You may lose your own files, but the OS will be unharmed by a rogue virus.
But the numbers should tell all: 50000+ virii for Windows, almost none for Linux. I havent heard of any Linux virii yet, at least.
I'm at a loss to explain how a man claiming to have university experience in CS don't know this.
"If linux was more widespread, you'd get more stuff written for it. It's been pointed out countless times before.
"
Nonsense. It has been CLAIMED many times before, but the claim fail to take into account that Linux by design is much more secure than Windows.
How that is the case should be obvious to anyone who has used both systems.
How about choosing a system that didn't need to be patched in the first place ?
"if the worm writer is caught, can he be held at least partially responsible for any deaths that occured during this outage?"
Replace "outage" with "outrage".
There is no way in hell an important insitution should put up with shit like this. If any arbitrary piece of code that gets sent around could bring my companys systems (as often as it is the case about WIndows XXX) to its knees I'd start seeing red about what the software manufacturer was spending its time on.
And choose a different supplier.
"Given that a Dual 2Ghz G5 can't even resize windows smoothly under OS X, I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to be smug about..."
I'm sorry to offend thy mighty wisdom, but window resizing is not a useful way of benchmarking. My current G4 1,25 Ghz resizes a window full of my illustrator files quite well, but as you say, not smoothly.
However, seeing the difference in Windows XP and Mac OS X's screen drawing models i wouldn't be surprised, and neither should you.
Smoother window resizing doesn't make me more productive, and not happier about my computer unless I'm a diehard OS fanatic for platform X.
They have got to be fucking kidding (pardon my french). What on earth can they load into Windows that will make it that demanding ? Office + Web browser + movie maker + musik player & encoder + solitaire + xbox simulator all loaded into memory and running in the background per default ?
or else they're just anticipating the usual code bloat... =)
Anyway. I just gave my trusty Mac a pat. 4-6 Ghz just to run it.... Linux will sure seem like a useful alternative to many when Longhorn strikes... if all of you readers will do your to make sure people "out there" KNOWS THE ALTERNATRIVE TO WINDOWS!
Get to it, folks.
Why are eveybody so touchy-felly about sites that may or may not (actually in this case i have yet to see a racist 419-baiter web page) be racist?
You take a trip to Zimbabwe og South Africa, or even Sudan, live there for two years, if you survive, come back and tell me how you like the acism you will encounter there.
Chances are that you wioll learn that "racism" in the west is zilch compared to what you find in Africa.