There are big error bars on every argument on the subject, except maybe the redneck's digest of the executive's digest that you hear in 30s news clips.
Should we reorder our society in ways almost certain to bring us to ruin?
I agree with most of what you wrote except the above. Why are you so certain it would bring ruin ?!? You agree that less fuel and more nuke would be better; you don't need to change society for that. If there's a major societal change it'll be gradual as usual when various taxes / incentives start to change the behavior of individuals and companies and better tech becomes available. Except that if you don't force GM to produce better cars they won't have any incentive to do so and have and will fight tooth and nails against any perceived change to their bottom line.
Personally I'd be really happy if some dumbfuck CEO gets only half his 10B$ bonus because his company has been blocked from producing gasoline cars.
By self-identifying as a scientist you are not stating you are knowledgeable about the subject and thus worth listening to, your opinion backed by research "proving" it to be true. All you've done is declare yourself a politician. A liar.
I did no such thing. I'm no scientist, just a geek who did work on the data acquisition part on the field and as such maybe I can claim neutrality by your definition. Also I don't work in that field anymore, some you can't claim I have vested interests. But since your post ends in insults... I'm really offended to be called a politician.
If you are going to cry wolf on such a biblical scale as the AGW theory does, you really should make every attempt to be open and above reproach.
You can't because it's been brewing for some decades, with newer models and hard facts (like antarctic cores) trickling in slowly. At a certain point you are able to say that you have enough data to conclude, but if you wait until you have perfect data, it'll be FAR TOO LATE. We need to act now.
Put the full raw data, the adjustments with detailed explanations
That's exabytes of data and tens of thousands of publications and it's already out there for who wants it. What are opponents (who can't even understand basic statistics) going to do with it that scientists haven't already done anyway, except nitpick that there's a comma missing in a sentence and therefore the whole thing must be wrong like they did in this email fiasco ?!?
What inaccuracies ?!? I've actually seen the list compiled by some right-wing group and they are extremely minor [disclaimer, I've worked 15 years in climate research, acquiring hard data]. On the other hand you have some so-called opponents to climate change who spout lies after lies on FOX news but hardly get any comments from scientists.
Free speech is one thing, but when talk-radio (just one example) come out with completely made up 'facts' and statistics on the fly to please their listeners, they ought to be fined hard if the study they pretend their stats come from doesn't exist in peer-reviewed form. I've listened to them 'debate' the current climate problems, and it would have been a good laugh if it hadn't made me cry first.
I just wonder what has changed, causing this devolution from arguably the most scholarly place in the world today to the anarchy and chaos of today.
The mongol invasion caused it. When they conquered Baghdad, then the main and most scholarly city, they razed the libraries. Their culture never recovered afterward.
Well, I don't care much about the compression war, but what always drove me crazy about vinyl is the regular 'tick', 'tick' of the scrape that goes round and round every 2 or 3 seconds. I couldn't stand the sound of vinyl even when it was the only thing around (I would only buy tapes at the time). To each his own.
"I refill my 4-color printer with Blood, Sweat and Tears"
Not that far-fetched, some biologists have built replacement organs by putting cells in inkjets and 'printing' them in layers to form 3D. There's been a bunch of/. posts on the subject.
Am I the only one coming in defense of inkjets ? All the arguments against them I read above are indeed valid, but one thing that you can't do with a laser or dye-sub printer is print on artsy paper: glossy, matte, pearl, canvas, satin, high-gloss, luster, metallic, fiber, rag transparency, cardboard...
And in all cases for good photo prints, it's necessary to calibrate it...
It's exactly how I read the story title: "Brain of patient H.M. being sliced, steamed alive". And my first thought was, why, it's so much better fried after being rolled in bread crumbs... That was 1st thing in the morning, before coffee.
You're free to talk all you want but it's not going to change anything. Discussing it online is nothing but a waste of time unless your intentions are to embarrass Linus.
Well, I certainly hope that my various posts and talks against Diana whatever contributed somehow to her not getting it. Everybody likes baby seals and nobody likes land mines, but being a rich idiot bitch princess who likes the former and not the latter doesn't entitle her to the prize. I remember getting into a rabbid frenzy whenever I heard idiots discussing her chances at the time. Well, this being said I still think the Obama prize is some kind of joke and I'm waiting for the punchline. Linus deserves it more than anybody I can think of.
I like kate too, but there are many features I miss from my fav Win editor, NoteTabPro. For instance, how do you sort a selected block of text in kate ?
I DO NOT want semantic tags. The reason is simple: they are LOST when you copy or do anything with the files. If you have important info about the file: put it in the filename. Or inside the file (exif tags for images, ID3 tags for mp3s, etc). Or in a txt file with the same name next to it. The rest is no better than putting varnish on a turd: it works only as long as you don't get too close.
If (and that's a big if) they revive you, I'm pretty sure there'll be a business of lawyers awaiting your awakening to set in motion the whole legal apparatus to get you your money back. After all, if there's no hope of getting your money back, why would they wake up a potential homeless person. That is, if were aren't in a post-scarcity society, which while still utopian, still seems a lot more plausible than reviving the dead.
They explained that all prices and fees can be changed at any time during the contract
How can it be a contract then ?!? Why don't we loosen some rabid lawyers onto them just for that reason ? Oh, actually I'm pretty sure the the PDF you are supposed to download which contains your bill also has a tiny bottom line with monthly 'changes' and just receiving it is considered accepting the new contract.
no technical background aside from surfing the internet. Sounds like a perfect audience for an OS with fewer security flaws.
In the same situation, let me relate my story: Over at my parents' for the WE almost a year ago I had yet again to reinstall the whole shebang after a hardware improvement was 'refused' by XP. After a day and a half installing XP, downloading SPs and updates, downloading all apps, configuring them, etc, it crashed during the XP3 install. Wouldn't boot. I had 2 hours left.
As an experiment and a last minute move, I installed Kubuntu. 10 minutes for the install, 20 minutes to configure custom icons on the desktop links to firefox, kmail, dolphin, Xsane and a SD card image transfer script. I didn't even show them the result, just as an experiment. And I left. They called only once after 2 weeks: "Yeah it works fine, but we don't have skype anymore", which I promptly remotely installed. I consider this experiment a great success.
On the other hand, in order to escape Linux, my sister bought a Mac.
I've long noticed that pure science articles don't attract many comments and even fewer intelligent one. It's simply that few except a passing astronomer would have anything significant to contribute. While many people have a xbox and feel the pain that something might break their toy. Not really depressing but close.
Templates is one of C++'s advantage over any other language (except D that implements them). Without templates, type safe containers and reusable algorithms cannot be implemented.
Templates are nice... but do they really provide anything at all you couldn't get in C ? #define MYTYPE int Define all your structures and algo with MYTYPE. Then just use #define MYTYPE float or whatever you want in a new implementation. It is even type-safe.
If you ARE a language inventor and reading my comment, answer this: can you write a cache/MMU interface or an interrupt handler in your language? If the answer is no, go back to the drawing board.
Well, easy solution: make sure your new language interfaces easily with C and write the interrupt handler in C. Why would you want to use C++ in an interrupt handler anyway ?!?
Can't you purchase your 'droid on the grey market and plug your Verizon SIM card in it and use whatever program you want with it, including tethering ? It's not like they are going to run deep packet analysis to figure out if you have a NAT running. Or is there something I don't know ?
If I were a legislator I'd ban telecom providers from selling / giving away phones with their contracts. Who am I kidding. If I were a legislator, I'd take the yatch and the house in Aspen and shut the fuck up. Just like they all do.
it sure beats having snow build up on your habidome until the whole mess comes crashing down.
My thoughts exactly. I was in Fort Collins a couple years back when it snowed 1.5m in one night. More than a hundred large buildings had the roofs cave in with the load. Now if it accumulates on a dome, imagine over a ton per square meter falling from the sky... Crunch goes the city !
also known as the World's Largest Open Air Mental Institution.
I believe you are referring to Jerusalem and they even have a name for that mental disease: the Jerusalem syndrome. Although I tend to nickname it 'religion'.
A couple years ago while looking at my apache logs, I noticed some ridiculous searches. And indeed, after doing a quick grep "^who|^what|^when|^how" I was able to compile a pretty damning selection of searches. I should do it again.
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Should we reorder our society in ways almost certain to bring us to ruin?
I agree with most of what you wrote except the above. Why are you so certain it would bring ruin ?!? You agree that less fuel and more nuke would be better; you don't need to change society for that. If there's a major societal change it'll be gradual as usual when various taxes / incentives start to change the behavior of individuals and companies and better tech becomes available. Except that if you don't force GM to produce better cars they won't have any incentive to do so and have and will fight tooth and nails against any perceived change to their bottom line.
Personally I'd be really happy if some dumbfuck CEO gets only half his 10B$ bonus because his company has been blocked from producing gasoline cars.
By self-identifying as a scientist you are not stating you are knowledgeable about the subject and thus worth listening to, your opinion backed by research "proving" it to be true. All you've done is declare yourself a politician. A liar.
I did no such thing. I'm no scientist, just a geek who did work on the data acquisition part on the field and as such maybe I can claim neutrality by your definition. Also I don't work in that field anymore, some you can't claim I have vested interests. But since your post ends in insults... I'm really offended to be called a politician.
The Mongol Invasion took place in Eastern Europe, not the Middle East. You of course meant the Crusades, more specifically the Third Crusades.
For the anonymous idiots out there too lazy to look it up.
If you are going to cry wolf on such a biblical scale as the AGW theory does, you really should make every attempt to be open and above reproach.
You can't because it's been brewing for some decades, with newer models and hard facts (like antarctic cores) trickling in slowly. At a certain point you are able to say that you have enough data to conclude, but if you wait until you have perfect data, it'll be FAR TOO LATE. We need to act now.
Put the full raw data, the adjustments with detailed explanations
That's exabytes of data and tens of thousands of publications and it's already out there for who wants it. What are opponents (who can't even understand basic statistics) going to do with it that scientists haven't already done anyway, except nitpick that there's a comma missing in a sentence and therefore the whole thing must be wrong like they did in this email fiasco ?!?
Free speech is one thing, but when talk-radio (just one example) come out with completely made up 'facts' and statistics on the fly to please their listeners, they ought to be fined hard if the study they pretend their stats come from doesn't exist in peer-reviewed form. I've listened to them 'debate' the current climate problems, and it would have been a good laugh if it hadn't made me cry first.
I just wonder what has changed, causing this devolution from arguably the most scholarly place in the world today to the anarchy and chaos of today.
The mongol invasion caused it. When they conquered Baghdad, then the main and most scholarly city, they razed the libraries. Their culture never recovered afterward.
Any scrape on a vinyl, and there are always plenty, gets heard at each rotation of the disc. Don't claim you don't hear them, it's just so obvious.
Well, I don't care much about the compression war, but what always drove me crazy about vinyl is the regular 'tick', 'tick' of the scrape that goes round and round every 2 or 3 seconds. I couldn't stand the sound of vinyl even when it was the only thing around (I would only buy tapes at the time). To each his own.
"I refill my 4-color printer with Blood, Sweat and Tears"
Not that far-fetched, some biologists have built replacement organs by putting cells in inkjets and 'printing' them in layers to form 3D. There's been a bunch of /. posts on the subject.
And in all cases for good photo prints, it's necessary to calibrate it...
It's exactly how I read the story title: "Brain of patient H.M. being sliced, steamed alive". And my first thought was, why, it's so much better fried after being rolled in bread crumbs... That was 1st thing in the morning, before coffee.
You're free to talk all you want but it's not going to change anything. Discussing it online is nothing but a waste of time unless your intentions are to embarrass Linus.
Well, I certainly hope that my various posts and talks against Diana whatever contributed somehow to her not getting it. Everybody likes baby seals and nobody likes land mines, but being a rich idiot bitch princess who likes the former and not the latter doesn't entitle her to the prize. I remember getting into a rabbid frenzy whenever I heard idiots discussing her chances at the time. Well, this being said I still think the Obama prize is some kind of joke and I'm waiting for the punchline. Linus deserves it more than anybody I can think of.
For a same screen size an LCD will consume less than a CRT, but most people who change their TV go for a much bigger screen that negates any benefit.
I like kate too, but there are many features I miss from my fav Win editor, NoteTabPro. For instance, how do you sort a selected block of text in kate ?
I DO NOT want semantic tags. The reason is simple: they are LOST when you copy or do anything with the files. If you have important info about the file: put it in the filename. Or inside the file (exif tags for images, ID3 tags for mp3s, etc). Or in a txt file with the same name next to it. The rest is no better than putting varnish on a turd: it works only as long as you don't get too close.
If (and that's a big if) they revive you, I'm pretty sure there'll be a business of lawyers awaiting your awakening to set in motion the whole legal apparatus to get you your money back. After all, if there's no hope of getting your money back, why would they wake up a potential homeless person. That is, if were aren't in a post-scarcity society, which while still utopian, still seems a lot more plausible than reviving the dead.
They explained that all prices and fees can be changed at any time during the contract
How can it be a contract then ?!? Why don't we loosen some rabid lawyers onto them just for that reason ? Oh, actually I'm pretty sure the the PDF you are supposed to download which contains your bill also has a tiny bottom line with monthly 'changes' and just receiving it is considered accepting the new contract.
no technical background aside from surfing the internet. Sounds like a perfect audience for an OS with fewer security flaws.
In the same situation, let me relate my story: Over at my parents' for the WE almost a year ago I had yet again to reinstall the whole shebang after a hardware improvement was 'refused' by XP. After a day and a half installing XP, downloading SPs and updates, downloading all apps, configuring them, etc, it crashed during the XP3 install. Wouldn't boot. I had 2 hours left.
As an experiment and a last minute move, I installed Kubuntu. 10 minutes for the install, 20 minutes to configure custom icons on the desktop links to firefox, kmail, dolphin, Xsane and a SD card image transfer script. I didn't even show them the result, just as an experiment. And I left. They called only once after 2 weeks: "Yeah it works fine, but we don't have skype anymore", which I promptly remotely installed. I consider this experiment a great success.
On the other hand, in order to escape Linux, my sister bought a Mac.
I've long noticed that pure science articles don't attract many comments and even fewer intelligent one. It's simply that few except a passing astronomer would have anything significant to contribute. While many people have a xbox and feel the pain that something might break their toy. Not really depressing but close.
Templates is one of C++'s advantage over any other language (except D that implements them). Without templates, type safe containers and reusable algorithms cannot be implemented.
Templates are nice... but do they really provide anything at all you couldn't get in C ?
#define MYTYPE int
Define all your structures and algo with MYTYPE. Then just use #define MYTYPE float or whatever you want in a new implementation. It is even type-safe.
If you ARE a language inventor and reading my comment, answer this: can you write a cache/MMU interface or an interrupt handler in your language? If the answer is no, go back to the drawing board.
Well, easy solution: make sure your new language interfaces easily with C and write the interrupt handler in C. Why would you want to use C++ in an interrupt handler anyway ?!?
If I were a legislator I'd ban telecom providers from selling / giving away phones with their contracts. Who am I kidding. If I were a legislator, I'd take the yatch and the house in Aspen and shut the fuck up. Just like they all do.
it sure beats having snow build up on your habidome until the whole mess comes crashing down.
My thoughts exactly. I was in Fort Collins a couple years back when it snowed 1.5m in one night. More than a hundred large buildings had the roofs cave in with the load. Now if it accumulates on a dome, imagine over a ton per square meter falling from the sky... Crunch goes the city !
also known as the World's Largest Open Air Mental Institution.
I believe you are referring to Jerusalem and they even have a name for that mental disease: the Jerusalem syndrome. Although I tend to nickname it 'religion'.
A couple years ago while looking at my apache logs, I noticed some ridiculous searches. And indeed, after doing a quick grep "^who|^what|^when|^how" I was able to compile a pretty damning selection of searches. I should do it again.