One more thing. One of those people interviewed in the great global warming swindle was one of the founding members of Green peace. And those people who are quoted in that movie were all scientists who didn't agree. Did you watch the whole thing? On YouTube its put in multiple parts. Its a very long movie.
There is more evidence in those two documentaries then in the Inconvenient truth by Gore sir. So in this case much more rock solid. Notice that those to documentaries show the Medieval warming period is much more pronounced then in Gores movie. They actually indicate that the temperatures were much higher during that period then they were today.
Most of the evidence done that the IPCC goes by are climate models. Computer simulations where they change variables to see what happens. Its hardly what is really going on in the real world. One thing I can remember when taking my Computer Science classes about computer simulations of weather is that we can't simulate Precipitation very well. If we could the weather man would always be right all the time. Instead of criticizing my sources how about disproving those sources. Those videos seem to make a very logical argument. But if you have proof disproving it, please, I'd like to see it. There doesn't seem to be any. No one has ever presented to me any proof. Just allot of speculation and fear mongering. Which doesn't seem to correlate with the real picture.
HERE HERE!!! Bravo I totally agree. I think CO2 is not even much of an issue personally. The earth has mechanisms in place to deal with this chemical. Either through plant growth or oceans cooling. But the other toxins are much more of a problem. I think habitat reduction is a big issue for wild life and in some areas like in western Canada and Eastern Canada habitat loss has been responsible for the loss of two fisheries. There are no more boughs left in the world because we have drained them all. This is a huge issue for wild life and dealing with toxins in the environment because boughs are known to break down harmful chemicals. Where is the environmental movement there. I'll tell you where they are. Lobbying government on CO2 reduction.
That statement isn't true. The earth isn't getting warmer any faster then it did in the past. The climate models are skewed to indicate what would happen if we had a 1 degree change in temperature. But the temperature change isn't 1 degree. Its.04 degrees. and that is not catastrophic.
There is a little known fact that no one in the climate community has ever addressed in all the years I've heard about global warming. And that is when water freezes it expands due to the Crystallization of the water. The water actually takes up a greater volume for this fact. If you don't believe me put some water in a glass jar cover it and put it in your freezer. The mess in your freezer afterward will prove this little fact. Fact is the climate scientists never bring that up. 12 cubic meters of ice doesn't equal 12 cubic meters of water for this fact. Could it be that the increased evaporation and the smaller volume would actually prevent the catastrophic events that those so called climate scientists have been predicting.
Those people who talk about ice melting and water logging the cities of the world haven't taken into consideration the increased evaporation in the Oceans. The Indian ocean for example is 30cm lower then what gravity says it should be due to an increased evaporation. The oceans haven't been going up in fact due to such evaporation. Water evaporates from the ocean and gets deposited elsewhere Like in the east antarctic where the ice sheet is actually growing not shrinking. That is the balance of the globe.
I think the growing number of scientists are wrong about global warming. Its not caused by humans. Sure its happening but these things happen in cycles. Anyone who doubts it go on to YouTube and watch The Global Warming Swindle and another video I found on there called Global Warming Doomsday Called off. Those films actually present real evidence its not caused by humans not just fear mongering like the people who are saying it is man made.
You appear to be saying that closed source is better because you get technical support. In reality however the technical support you get from those companies is limited to what most people call in about. If you have a real problem and not one that is common your SOL anyways. As for Liability, thats an over rated argument. No one has ever sued Microsoft for making flaky OS's. And if you count the billions that people have lost because Windows is insecure and crashes often it would be good grounds for a class action suit. Besides I'm sure Microsoft has something in their EULA that will prevent you from suing them for that sort of thing. In the contrary in open source I've found that having access to the Source code to be the BEST form of technical assistance. I find it less frustrating then pouring through Microsofts lousy documentation.
I have a question. When did all the windows trolls invade Slashdot.
The author of this article doesn't realize that Linux was created by a Community not companies. If companies were actually listening Linux wouldn't be so popular. Businesses decided to push one OS Microsoft Windows and as a result Open Source got its wings. It was a rebellion from companies that didn't listen to people when they said we want something more reliable then what your offering.
Whats the point? Why are they doing this to me. I thought when I moved over I'd never have to deal with VB apps again. Now they've done this. What are they trying to achieve by this? The complete destabilization of perfectly good OS. This is NOT a good thing. Please stop.
I don't believe a company should have the right to audit another company. Thats bull. They aren't the government or the police. They have no legal right to go into another persons place of business and start demanding people show them whats on their computer. What happened to the privacy laws here?
I don't get it. Why don't those guys just shut up and fix their dumb software. Why do we the consumer have to deal with their inferior products because they have bad software engineering practices and bad quality control. Thats my opinion of Microsoft. I'm going to continue to use Linux over windows because Microsoft software sucks. Its that simple. They aren't able to do the job but they are trying to stop the people who are. This patent garbage is the latest. I have a suggestion to Steve Ballmer. Try filing your patent suite here in Canada. We'll see how far it gets then. This may fly in the US but it won't up here. If he thinks he is going to gain my support of his products by threatening my software suppliers and the technologies that makes me most productive he has another thing coming.
hmmm..... I'd say the best way to deal with HD DVD is at the consumer level. If you don't buy it they can't thwart DVD's. They won't thwart regular DVD's if no one recomends it no one will buy it. Consumer back lash is the best way to go about it. That could be a hack too. I personally have to intention to buy an HD DVD player any time soon. The movie industry should understand the hacker community are the early adopters. They are the people who adopt a technology and then get other people to use it. If the hackers don't adopt the technology no one will ever hear about it.
Hmmm.... I have no pitty for people who use MS software. You've chosen to use that software. You've insisted on it. There are pleanty of open source altrenatives at your fingertips now. So I don't think microsoft should be sued over this. Its their choice as to what they put in their software. If you don't like the updates that microsoft decides to put in their software you have choices. Those choices are turn off windows updates, switch to linux, or buy a Mac. I'm sick of people whining about what microsoft does. Really if you don't like the software don't use it. You'll probably save yourself allot of agrivation and money by doing so. Linux has come a long way. Its not the hard to use OS it once was. In fact its easier to use then ever. It just takes getting use to. But in the end it will do everything windows will do.
I don't know about all of you but I find windows useless so I don't use it. Other people may not agree with me. But its useless to me. I think what people on this site and in the open source community. You don't get market leadership by just copying your competitors. You get market leadership by creating something that most people really want and that your competitor cannot readily reproduce.
Reliability and ease of use need to be engrained in the heads of the open source community. Making the product more reliable, making it ever easier to use. These are the things that will drop the market share of the monopoly. Not whining and griping on how much windows sucks.
I tell the people I work with everyday that I have no need for windows at all. Linux does everything I'm going to need. They look at me funny. They wonder how do I get along without being able to use office. I tell them I have an office suite I can use. I don't need office. They ask how do you get along without playing games. I say well I play the games that work with the wine project. I research the software and hardware before I buy it. Usually that practice gets me better equipment then I would normally buy anyways. So I don't mind doing such research.
The damn OS requires a gig of ram and a dual core processor to run properly. I just want to know what person in their right mind would equip there computer with this OS. This isn't an improvement its a step back.
I'm going to stay with Linux. These people are allot more sane then the microsoft camp. Whats the point in continuing to upgrade your OS only to make your computer obsolete. TO MICROSOFT MY SINGLE CORE ATHELON 64 WITH A GIG OF RAM SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO RUN ANY OS. As for security I'm already secure enough with LINUX.
If skype wants to improve there offering then why don't they improve the Linux client so that it doesn't crash my sound driver on my sound card. I've tried to get the problem fixed by talking the the Alsa developers and the kernel developers but it seems its a problem with skype. Open Source programs don't have this problem. It prevents me from using the software all together sometimes.
Thats not a guarantee of not not spotting phishing. What if the phishing email uses an ssl apache server. Most people I talk to on the phone don't know what an address bar is let alone what a phishing email is. The email system needs to be replaced period.
I think the problem isn't the OS its misguided expectations on the part of this individual user. Linux community should stress its a different way of doing things. In most cases it works better but there are bound to be hickups when it comes to things like interoperability. I mean there are solutions for everything anyone will ever want to do but they may not work with the solutions that are available in windows. Thats the difference.
I don't think 100% interoperability will ever be possible. If people aren't willing at some point to bite the bullet when they switch they will never realize that potential of this system. Its a different system and there is a learning curve. What people tend to do when they switch is that the solutions in Linux will automatically work with Windows solutions. That usually doesn't happen. What Linux provides is a good way to replace apps in windows completely not create an alternative that will work 100% with windows apps. The apps to replace windows apps are there. There is some interoperability with Office but its definitely not 100%.
Part of the problem is that windows people automatically think that Linux developers will automatically cater to their whims. That doesn't happen when it comes to interoperability. The new Linux app may not work with your windows app. So make a choice and go with it. If you don't want to switch don't. But don't say the different solution is bad because it doesn't work for you your wrong too.
You know its funny. Post the same argument to the wine project and they will argue no the Linux platform is more secure then windows and therefore wine will be more secure. Excuse me not when you can run all the same programs with an emulator.
In MHO I think that any project that allows programs to run the same binary code on different platforms will have that effect no matter what. The security system in Mac OS or Linux may reduce the impact that such viruses will have on the system. It won't prevent the virus from spreading. And since spreading viruses is also a problem on the Internet. I think some work shouldn't be done.
Actually correction on that. OS X is based on Next Step. Its similar to BSD yes but its a different OS. 100% apple owned due to the fact that Apple owns Next.
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One more thing. One of those people interviewed in the great global warming swindle was one of the founding members of Green peace. And those people who are quoted in that movie were all scientists who didn't agree. Did you watch the whole thing? On YouTube its put in multiple parts. Its a very long movie.
well ok then this problem is our own damn fault for building cities near the ocean and not because of too much CO2.
There is more evidence in those two documentaries then in the Inconvenient truth by Gore sir. So in this case much more rock solid. Notice that those to documentaries show the Medieval warming period is much more pronounced then in Gores movie. They actually indicate that the temperatures were much higher during that period then they were today.
Most of the evidence done that the IPCC goes by are climate models. Computer simulations where they change variables to see what happens. Its hardly what is really going on in the real world. One thing I can remember when taking my Computer Science classes about computer simulations of weather is that we can't simulate Precipitation very well. If we could the weather man would always be right all the time. Instead of criticizing my sources how about disproving those sources. Those videos seem to make a very logical argument. But if you have proof disproving it, please, I'd like to see it. There doesn't seem to be any. No one has ever presented to me any proof. Just allot of speculation and fear mongering. Which doesn't seem to correlate with the real picture.
HERE HERE!!! Bravo I totally agree. I think CO2 is not even much of an issue personally. The earth has mechanisms in place to deal with this chemical. Either through plant growth or oceans cooling. But the other toxins are much more of a problem. I think habitat reduction is a big issue for wild life and in some areas like in western Canada and Eastern Canada habitat loss has been responsible for the loss of two fisheries. There are no more boughs left in the world because we have drained them all. This is a huge issue for wild life and dealing with toxins in the environment because boughs are known to break down harmful chemicals. Where is the environmental movement there. I'll tell you where they are. Lobbying government on CO2 reduction.
That statement isn't true. The earth isn't getting warmer any faster then it did in the past. The climate models are skewed to indicate what would happen if we had a 1 degree change in temperature. But the temperature change isn't 1 degree. Its .04 degrees. and that is not catastrophic.
There is a little known fact that no one in the climate community has ever addressed in all the years I've heard about global warming. And that is when water freezes it expands due to the Crystallization of the water. The water actually takes up a greater volume for this fact. If you don't believe me put some water in a glass jar cover it and put it in your freezer. The mess in your freezer afterward will prove this little fact. Fact is the climate scientists never bring that up. 12 cubic meters of ice doesn't equal 12 cubic meters of water for this fact. Could it be that the increased evaporation and the smaller volume would actually prevent the catastrophic events that those so called climate scientists have been predicting.
Those people who talk about ice melting and water logging the cities of the world haven't taken into consideration the increased evaporation in the Oceans. The Indian ocean for example is 30cm lower then what gravity says it should be due to an increased evaporation. The oceans haven't been going up in fact due to such evaporation. Water evaporates from the ocean and gets deposited elsewhere Like in the east antarctic where the ice sheet is actually growing not shrinking. That is the balance of the globe.
I think the growing number of scientists are wrong about global warming. Its not caused by humans. Sure its happening but these things happen in cycles. Anyone who doubts it go on to YouTube and watch The Global Warming Swindle and another video I found on there called Global Warming Doomsday Called off. Those films actually present real evidence its not caused by humans not just fear mongering like the people who are saying it is man made.
You appear to be saying that closed source is better because you get technical support. In reality however the technical support you get from those companies is limited to what most people call in about. If you have a real problem and not one that is common your SOL anyways. As for Liability, thats an over rated argument. No one has ever sued Microsoft for making flaky OS's. And if you count the billions that people have lost because Windows is insecure and crashes often it would be good grounds for a class action suit. Besides I'm sure Microsoft has something in their EULA that will prevent you from suing them for that sort of thing. In the contrary in open source I've found that having access to the Source code to be the BEST form of technical assistance. I find it less frustrating then pouring through Microsofts lousy documentation.
I have a question. When did all the windows trolls invade Slashdot.
The author of this article doesn't realize that Linux was created by a Community not companies. If companies were actually listening Linux wouldn't be so popular. Businesses decided to push one OS Microsoft Windows and as a result Open Source got its wings. It was a rebellion from companies that didn't listen to people when they said we want something more reliable then what your offering.
Huh? I thought that telnet was obsolete.
Whats the point? Why are they doing this to me. I thought when I moved over I'd never have to deal with VB apps again. Now they've done this. What are they trying to achieve by this? The complete destabilization of perfectly good OS. This is NOT a good thing. Please stop.
I don't believe a company should have the right to audit another company. Thats bull. They aren't the government or the police. They have no legal right to go into another persons place of business and start demanding people show them whats on their computer. What happened to the privacy laws here?
I don't get it. Why don't those guys just shut up and fix their dumb software. Why do we the consumer have to deal with their inferior products because they have bad software engineering practices and bad quality control. Thats my opinion of Microsoft. I'm going to continue to use Linux over windows because Microsoft software sucks. Its that simple. They aren't able to do the job but they are trying to stop the people who are. This patent garbage is the latest. I have a suggestion to Steve Ballmer. Try filing your patent suite here in Canada. We'll see how far it gets then. This may fly in the US but it won't up here. If he thinks he is going to gain my support of his products by threatening my software suppliers and the technologies that makes me most productive he has another thing coming.
hmmm..... I'd say the best way to deal with HD DVD is at the consumer level. If you don't buy it they can't thwart DVD's. They won't thwart regular DVD's if no one recomends it no one will buy it. Consumer back lash is the best way to go about it. That could be a hack too. I personally have to intention to buy an HD DVD player any time soon. The movie industry should understand the hacker community are the early adopters. They are the people who adopt a technology and then get other people to use it. If the hackers don't adopt the technology no one will ever hear about it.
Hmmm.... I have no pitty for people who use MS software. You've chosen to use that software. You've insisted on it. There are pleanty of open source altrenatives at your fingertips now. So I don't think microsoft should be sued over this. Its their choice as to what they put in their software. If you don't like the updates that microsoft decides to put in their software you have choices. Those choices are turn off windows updates, switch to linux, or buy a Mac. I'm sick of people whining about what microsoft does. Really if you don't like the software don't use it. You'll probably save yourself allot of agrivation and money by doing so. Linux has come a long way. Its not the hard to use OS it once was. In fact its easier to use then ever. It just takes getting use to. But in the end it will do everything windows will do.
I don't know about all of you but I find windows useless so I don't use it. Other people may not agree with me. But its useless to me. I think what people on this site and in the open source community. You don't get market leadership by just copying your competitors. You get market leadership by creating something that most people really want and that your competitor cannot readily reproduce.
Reliability and ease of use need to be engrained in the heads of the open source community. Making the product more reliable, making it ever easier to use. These are the things that will drop the market share of the monopoly. Not whining and griping on how much windows sucks.
I tell the people I work with everyday that I have no need for windows at all. Linux does everything I'm going to need. They look at me funny. They wonder how do I get along without being able to use office. I tell them I have an office suite I can use. I don't need office. They ask how do you get along without playing games. I say well I play the games that work with the wine project. I research the software and hardware before I buy it. Usually that practice gets me better equipment then I would normally buy anyways. So I don't mind doing such research.
Oh cool now we can send billboard sized picture of cats.
The damn OS requires a gig of ram and a dual core processor to run properly. I just want to know what person in their right mind would equip there computer with this OS. This isn't an improvement its a step back.
I'm going to stay with Linux. These people are allot more sane then the microsoft camp. Whats the point in continuing to upgrade your OS only to make your computer obsolete. TO MICROSOFT MY SINGLE CORE ATHELON 64 WITH A GIG OF RAM SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO RUN ANY OS. As for security I'm already secure enough with LINUX.
If skype wants to improve there offering then why don't they improve the Linux client so that it doesn't crash my sound driver on my sound card. I've tried to get the problem fixed by talking the the Alsa developers and the kernel developers but it seems its a problem with skype. Open Source programs don't have this problem. It prevents me from using the software all together sometimes.
Thats not a guarantee of not not spotting phishing. What if the phishing email uses an ssl apache server. Most people I talk to on the phone don't know what an address bar is let alone what a phishing email is. The email system needs to be replaced period.
I think the problem isn't the OS its misguided expectations on the part of this individual user. Linux community should stress its a different way of doing things. In most cases it works better but there are bound to be hickups when it comes to things like interoperability. I mean there are solutions for everything anyone will ever want to do but they may not work with the solutions that are available in windows. Thats the difference.
I don't think 100% interoperability will ever be possible. If people aren't willing at some point to bite the bullet when they switch they will never realize that potential of this system. Its a different system and there is a learning curve. What people tend to do when they switch is that the solutions in Linux will automatically work with Windows solutions. That usually doesn't happen. What Linux provides is a good way to replace apps in windows completely not create an alternative that will work 100% with windows apps. The apps to replace windows apps are there. There is some interoperability with Office but its definitely not 100%.
Part of the problem is that windows people automatically think that Linux developers will automatically cater to their whims. That doesn't happen when it comes to interoperability. The new Linux app may not work with your windows app. So make a choice and go with it. If you don't want to switch don't. But don't say the different solution is bad because it doesn't work for you your wrong too.
You know its funny. Post the same argument to the wine project and they will argue no the Linux platform is more secure then windows and therefore wine will be more secure. Excuse me not when you can run all the same programs with an emulator.
In MHO I think that any project that allows programs to run the same binary code on different platforms will have that effect no matter what. The security system in Mac OS or Linux may reduce the impact that such viruses will have on the system. It won't prevent the virus from spreading. And since spreading viruses is also a problem on the Internet. I think some work shouldn't be done.
Actually correction on that. OS X is based on Next Step. Its similar to BSD yes but its a different OS. 100% apple owned due to the fact that Apple owns Next.
Here here. I totally agree. Only a very good computer scientist can accomplish that.