I agree that this story is an opinion presented as fact, but as to the sciency parts of your post... science makes it possible to know things. Sometimes those things are very simple to discover, like whether pumping carbon into a volume of air will cause it to retain additional heat from sunlight travelling through it. Or whether vaccines cause autism. A simple study of kids with and without vaccines, with a tiny bit of statistical analysis is all that's needed. Very very simple things.
And yet, a huge number of people disagree with these findings. It's a conspiracy by left-wing types pushing their hidden agendas, and they explain that if we reduce carbon emissions then left-wing types will benefit at the expense of right-wing types, because only left-wing types build hippy electric cars and renewable bullshit. And also the scientists make millions by fooling us in some way. And we'll lose jobs and life will suck and the other side will -win-. Also, vaccines fit in there somehow now.
As an outside observer who could care less about the left vs right political struggle in the US, (I assume you're from the US?) I'm amazed at this mental thrashing about. Otherwise intelligent people are unable to see that, in spite of everything else, and all of the scandals and conspiracies and scientists making bad predictions, that adding carbon to air causes it to retain more heat from sunlight. And we are adding carbon to our air, and therefore... what? What will happen? This is not a trick question.
All of the bickering over climate models and jobs and whatever else is just a distraction. It's irrelevant. It doesn't change the physics of very simple experiments like this one. Measuring the carbon in the athmosphere, also not that hard to do: https://commons.wikimedia.org/...
But enough of this. I think we can both agree on one thing: Apple products are overpriced and overrated, and minor improvements to smartphones aren't real news.
It was called "The Hindenburg", and it completely killed the entire zeppelin industry. No surprise that Fukushima has had a similar effect, human nature hasn't changed in the last 100 years.
Disregarding the completely inappropriate expression of partisan views in the workplace, the video claims that "history is our side." These executives appear to have forgotten the incredible tumult in the distant past of the U.S. The last election was not an electoral tie that was thrown into the house of representatives (as was the election of 1800). The last election did not open a civil war as happened in 1861 when Lincoln took office. The last election did not open war with Great Britain, and will likely not precipitate a new set of proposed constitutional amendments to curb presidential power as did either of James Madison's terms in office (War of 1812, Hartford Convention). There may be a time for tears, and a time for hugs, but that time cannot be in the workplace./p>
Why? Is he saying that that those things were caused by discussing election results in the workplace? At least part of it seems to be addressing people's fears about their future in the company, as per the same-sex benefits and immigration status. And of course, net neutrality has a huge impact on Google's operations.
"People are very seldom concerned with some kind of universal model of capital T Truth; they're almost always concerned with creating models that help them get their job done. This is inevitable, and it creates problems when you try to glue data from different sources together. The *unnecessary* problems that arise come from people who don't accept that their useful domain-specific models don't describe all of objective reality." -- Matt Leo
It seems we are undertaking a selective breeding experiment on a massive scale. It used to mean that sex = kids. Now, irresponsible sex or actually wanting to have kids = kids. I'll wager in 200 years not having children will seem very strange, much like living as a hermit now. Because people who don't want kids will have been bred out of the gene pool, over and over again.
We will breed a different kind of man, one who wants commitment, family, and one-night stands without protection.
In terms of process, it is historically important to observe that the ozone hole was declared an emergency before a full solar cycle was observed with satellite.
Indeed. It shows that environmental scientists were able to rapidly and accurately identify a looming environmental disaster that was being caused by human activity. It resulted in policy makers around the world agreeing to ban CFCs through the Montreal Protocol.
From the wikipedia:
The ban came into effect in 1989. Ozone levels stabilized by the mid-1990s and began to recover in the 2000s. Recovery is projected to continue over the next century, and the ozone hole is expected to reach pre-1980 levels by around 2075.[4] The Montreal Protocol is considered the most successful international environmental agreement to date.
Are you truly suggesting that we shouldn't have banned CFCs because of... solar cycles? I think you may have gotten your talking points mixed up.
Exactly, women in general are less likely to be interested in tech than men and therefore less likely to get into tech roles. It has nothing to do with inequality and everything to do with personal preference.
I used to think that way. Now, I'm not so sure. When I was in high school in the 90s, only boys were likely to play video games. The girls just weren't interested. Maybe you'd find a girl who played one game because her brothers played it or something.
Fast forward to today. Girls are playing video games left and right. And it's not just dating sims or Barbie Adventure or whatever, they're fragging people online. My point is that we thought there was an inherent difference in preferences between the genders, and it turned out we were mostly wrong. Games makers catered to boys because there was overwhelming evidence that there was almost no female interest in gaming. It's amazing how people conform to the way society expects them to be.
Conversely, if IT support became known as a "girl thing", I bet the number of men trying to get in would plummet. And they would be genuinely disinterested, not just faking it to fit in.
Perhaps they could factor out some of the libraries, and store them in some convenient place on the filesystem. Then each snap app would only need to list its required libraries, and the OS would provide the corresponding files. A dependency list, if you will.
I used Windows Vista with 1.5 gigs of RAM, and found that it continually wrote to its page file. The hard drive was always grinding away, and load times were abysmal. Everything was slow and terrible. And yet, my actual memory usage was always under 1 GB, according to taskmgr. So I created a 400 MB ram drive and put the page file there. Load times back to normal, performance problems gone, and I was still using less than 1 GB of memory.
That is such a poor design that to this day I simply can't even.
I understand that Point Hope will relay all incoming traffic to every outbound link. This will produce extra congestion, but makes Point Hope simpler and cheaper to maintain.
Me too, but the graphics looked bad when compared to running on Windows, and I got significantly more CPU usage. That was with NVidia's proprietary drivers. Also on Debian, during Burning Crusade. It was then that I decided Wine wasn't worth using for games - even the highest-rated titles suffered from performance and graphics problems. I just kept a Windows partition around for games, and used Linux for work.
Fast forward to the present, when there are enough native Linux games on Steam to keep me happy. I keep an old laptop with Windows around in case I ever want to run Windows software, but it's just collecting dust.
Maybe it's supposed to be a helicopter replacement instead of a motorcycle replacement? Imagine the dust that thing would kick up in a 20 meter radius...
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I agree that this story is an opinion presented as fact, but as to the sciency parts of your post... science makes it possible to know things. Sometimes those things are very simple to discover, like whether pumping carbon into a volume of air will cause it to retain additional heat from sunlight travelling through it. Or whether vaccines cause autism. A simple study of kids with and without vaccines, with a tiny bit of statistical analysis is all that's needed. Very very simple things.
And yet, a huge number of people disagree with these findings. It's a conspiracy by left-wing types pushing their hidden agendas, and they explain that if we reduce carbon emissions then left-wing types will benefit at the expense of right-wing types, because only left-wing types build hippy electric cars and renewable bullshit. And also the scientists make millions by fooling us in some way. And we'll lose jobs and life will suck and the other side will -win-. Also, vaccines fit in there somehow now.
As an outside observer who could care less about the left vs right political struggle in the US, (I assume you're from the US?) I'm amazed at this mental thrashing about. Otherwise intelligent people are unable to see that, in spite of everything else, and all of the scandals and conspiracies and scientists making bad predictions, that adding carbon to air causes it to retain more heat from sunlight. And we are adding carbon to our air, and therefore... what? What will happen? This is not a trick question.
All of the bickering over climate models and jobs and whatever else is just a distraction. It's irrelevant. It doesn't change the physics of very simple experiments like this one. Measuring the carbon in the athmosphere, also not that hard to do: https://commons.wikimedia.org/...
But enough of this. I think we can both agree on one thing: Apple products are overpriced and overrated, and minor improvements to smartphones aren't real news.
It was called "The Hindenburg", and it completely killed the entire zeppelin industry. No surprise that Fukushima has had a similar effect, human nature hasn't changed in the last 100 years.
Archangel Michael: I also know that human kindness is so much more prevalent and way more powerful.
You would say that.
How can you do that when they self-censor their internet?
I also don't follow the case for censorship here.
Disregarding the completely inappropriate expression of partisan views in the workplace, the video claims that "history is our side." These executives appear to have forgotten the incredible tumult in the distant past of the U.S. The last election was not an electoral tie that was thrown into the house of representatives (as was the election of 1800). The last election did not open a civil war as happened in 1861 when Lincoln took office. The last election did not open war with Great Britain, and will likely not precipitate a new set of proposed constitutional amendments to curb presidential power as did either of James Madison's terms in office (War of 1812, Hartford Convention). There may be a time for tears, and a time for hugs, but that time cannot be in the workplace./p>
Why? Is he saying that that those things were caused by discussing election results in the workplace? At least part of it seems to be addressing people's fears about their future in the company, as per the same-sex benefits and immigration status. And of course, net neutrality has a huge impact on Google's operations.
Hum, I had always read that as "Miss Mash". Live and learn!
Agreed.
"People are very seldom concerned with some kind of universal model of capital T Truth; they're almost always concerned with creating models that help them get their job done. This is inevitable, and it creates problems when you try to glue data from different sources together. The *unnecessary* problems that arise come from people who don't accept that their useful domain-specific models don't describe all of objective reality." -- Matt Leo
It seems we are undertaking a selective breeding experiment on a massive scale. It used to mean that sex = kids. Now, irresponsible sex or actually wanting to have kids = kids. I'll wager in 200 years not having children will seem very strange, much like living as a hermit now. Because people who don't want kids will have been bred out of the gene pool, over and over again.
We will breed a different kind of man, one who wants commitment, family, and one-night stands without protection.
That's too bad. My company requires a minimum of 20 moths per unit.
Look what popped up on my Windows 10 machine when I opened Visual Studio this week: Sideload Apps
Installing your own software is now called "Side Loading". I await the day when Side Loading will be disabled by default...
Google Wave for the win!
In terms of process, it is historically important to observe that the ozone hole was declared an emergency before a full solar cycle was observed with satellite.
Indeed. It shows that environmental scientists were able to rapidly and accurately identify a looming environmental disaster that was being caused by human activity. It resulted in policy makers around the world agreeing to ban CFCs through the Montreal Protocol.
From the wikipedia:
The ban came into effect in 1989. Ozone levels stabilized by the mid-1990s and began to recover in the 2000s. Recovery is projected to continue over the next century, and the ozone hole is expected to reach pre-1980 levels by around 2075.[4] The Montreal Protocol is considered the most successful international environmental agreement to date.
Are you truly suggesting that we shouldn't have banned CFCs because of... solar cycles? I think you may have gotten your talking points mixed up.
Exactly, women in general are less likely to be interested in tech than men and therefore less likely to get into tech roles. It has nothing to do with inequality and everything to do with personal preference.
I used to think that way. Now, I'm not so sure. When I was in high school in the 90s, only boys were likely to play video games. The girls just weren't interested. Maybe you'd find a girl who played one game because her brothers played it or something.
Fast forward to today. Girls are playing video games left and right. And it's not just dating sims or Barbie Adventure or whatever, they're fragging people online. My point is that we thought there was an inherent difference in preferences between the genders, and it turned out we were mostly wrong. Games makers catered to boys because there was overwhelming evidence that there was almost no female interest in gaming. It's amazing how people conform to the way society expects them to be.
Conversely, if IT support became known as a "girl thing", I bet the number of men trying to get in would plummet. And they would be genuinely disinterested, not just faking it to fit in.
Did you like them?
If no, you should opt in to more tracking so they can tell what kind of games you like.
Perhaps they could factor out some of the libraries, and store them in some convenient place on the filesystem. Then each snap app would only need to list its required libraries, and the OS would provide the corresponding files. A dependency list, if you will.
So keep your eyes out they have been working g on tech like this for 9 years plus.
I see what you did there.
I used Windows Vista with 1.5 gigs of RAM, and found that it continually wrote to its page file. The hard drive was always grinding away, and load times were abysmal. Everything was slow and terrible. And yet, my actual memory usage was always under 1 GB, according to taskmgr. So I created a 400 MB ram drive and put the page file there. Load times back to normal, performance problems gone, and I was still using less than 1 GB of memory.
That is such a poor design that to this day I simply can't even.
I understand that Point Hope will relay all incoming traffic to every outbound link. This will produce extra congestion, but makes Point Hope simpler and cheaper to maintain.
I'll be jealous when it's a switch or router.
Me too, but the graphics looked bad when compared to running on Windows, and I got significantly more CPU usage. That was with NVidia's proprietary drivers. Also on Debian, during Burning Crusade. It was then that I decided Wine wasn't worth using for games - even the highest-rated titles suffered from performance and graphics problems. I just kept a Windows partition around for games, and used Linux for work.
Fast forward to the present, when there are enough native Linux games on Steam to keep me happy. I keep an old laptop with Windows around in case I ever want to run Windows software, but it's just collecting dust.
I was going to get this game, but now I think I'll wait for Star Wars Battlefront II.
I played Star Wars Battlefront II like, 10 years ago. What happened? Did they run out of numbers? Or is it just twos all the way down?
Bespoke means custom, and typeface means font. "Custom font".
One of the few things I'm sure of is that I'm frequently wrong.
I'm not so sure you're right about that...
Xfce has stagnated.
Good. Or maybe they should change it for the sake of change? The answer, is no.
KDE is too bloated.
Too bloated for what? They aren't running this on a Raspberry Pi.
GNOME 3 has been a colossal disaster.
*Crickets*
Maybe it's supposed to be a helicopter replacement instead of a motorcycle replacement? Imagine the dust that thing would kick up in a 20 meter radius...