Good post but I would also add that Australia suffers from the same problem of having the records manipulated upward for no apparent reason.
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Because we don't have air temperature sensors at sea we rely on land sensors and then extrapolate to cover the 7/10 of the world that is ocean. Australia due to it's location has an effect far in excess of it's size. Combine that with the US measurements and the two of them point to some thing very wrong. You can't have two regions where the world doesn't heat as much as the rest of the world over long periods and blame the whole thing on CO2. The physics doesn't work that way.
I'm sorry I can't hear you right now over the exhaust from the jet engine that is blowing this way. But when I read your post I had to go to the weather station located on the tarmac by the run way and see for my self if it is truly warmer and the indeed it is. Almost 2C warmer than it was when this property was part of a swamp in a forest back in 1880. Global warming is now proven.
Go buy a HD7xxx based Southern Islands card and lets see if you still tell the same story. The last few generations have made it look like AMD was doing well by the open source community. But that was because what they opened up for the early cards mostly worked for later generations. But with Southern Islands it looks like we are SOL. Don't count on any documentation coming from AMD for their hardware going forward.
Or they will do like they do with Formula 1. You get the practice on Speed, some of the races on TSN, some of the races on TSN 2, and some of the races on the CTV network. 4 channels to watch Formula1 at say $15 a pop.
What ala cart should do, but I am not saying will do, is allow some channels to die. If some of the cruft is allowed to die then the content providers costs should drop allowing them to reduce their prices.
Canada has two Satellite operators. Bell and Shaw. Some Dish programming uses the transponders on one of the Bell satellites. The satellites are in geosynchronous orbit which puts them above the equator. So Canadians all point their dishes south.
Dish and Direct don't operate in Canada for two reasons. First they don't own the rights to brodcast the programming they carry into Canada. Second Canadian law requires the owners of a telecom company to be at least 50% Canadian.
Canada sufferes from much of the same non-sense. The Supreme Court of Canada recently released a large decision on copy rights in Canada which included technology neutrality. Beyond Users Rights: Supreme Court Entrenches Technological Neutrality as a New Copyright Principle I have to wonder if this decision can be applied in this case. If a book is sold in Canada in it's hard form for example can it be blocked in it 'E' form? If I can walk across the border and bring back a movie can I be stopped from bringing it across over the internet? Many possibilities.
Every one is cutting back on every thing. Once every one especially buisnesses start buying again PC salews will be on the up tick. They are just to useful for people who actually need to get work done.
I remember when the slammer worm came out. We were all excited that we were finally going to be able to see a real piece of malware on linux. We opened up the apropriate port to a number of test machies to try and get inffected so we could disassemble it. Within a couple of hours there was a patch available for Linux. Every one upgraded (patch fast patch often) and it died out before we could get infected. Open source software is a horrible platform to attack because there are hordes of people who can provide a patch if we know what the problem is.
It is currently essential for developer to obtain a starter pack, because within it contains the necessary closed source library files required to communicate to the MintChip MicroSD.
Awe some. Security through obscurity. What's to go wrong?
Only available on Windows, Android and Blackberry. Well Blackberry is over. I wouldn't trust a payment system on my cell phone and I am never ever going to use Windows again. Besides as the MPAA proved with Blu-ray there is no better platform to lose you security with than Windows. Not to mention that this mean the mint is out sourcing control of the money supply to the US as there will be no Canadian companies involved.
What if Microsoft was to... oh I don't know... make a radical change to their OS and... say no one liked it and didn't go trudging out to buy new hardware with Windows installed. I suspect the companies that would take the biggest hit in that case would be the ones with their lips farthest up Balmers butt. The ones that would do best would be the ones that had already started to cater to the other users out there. Just sayin' .
You can get a distro with 10 year stability if you want it. But that leaves you frozen in time. Linux has made hellacious progress compared to all other OS's because it is willing to ditch the bad and move forward. I remember one year where we were all fretting about having no journalled file system. 6 months later Linux had 5. How many can you run now? Telecom companies and others run their Linux machines with 5 nines of uptime. Maybe the problem isn't actually the ABI.
Ever? Patents last how long? A LOT of the stuff they are doing has been around for a very long time. Please tell us what hardware interface specs they don't have ownership of. I am willing to bet they could easily document more than 50% which is 50+% more than they are doing currently. The problem right now is far more about just having a shitty attitude than it is about ownership of interfaces.
So I should screw my self and use a 3 year old kernel so I can use the blob, I should undo all the work the open source community has done in creating an open OS by supporting these guys because they are thieves and they just might get caught? My moral compass is swinging like I'm at the North Pole.
I guess we missed the part where 100% of their technology is licensed from some one else and NOTHING is developed in house. Maybe thinking about how licensing some thing will effect your ability to document you hardware would be a good idea. A lot of patents can be easily worked around. One of the problems is every time there is a standard the hordes come from far and wide to get as many patents into it as possible to help jack up the profits. The price gets passed onto the consumer and because it is a standard there is no competition to push back against IP bloat.
I guarantee some one in Asia has seen this brouhaha and is trying to figure out how to make a buck selling video cards to Linux users with proper documentation for the interfaces. They don't think like Americans there. They don't just sit on their arses and wait for the government to pass another law so they don't have to compete. Truth is soon Intel hardware with the open source driver will be more powerful than the NVidia card with the open source driver. But doesn't cost as much. Obviously Intel has learned the power of doing the right thing.
BTW we aren't asking them to open up the HW. We are asking them to document the interfaces to the hardware. Just like the PCI interface they use has been documented and like the entire PC spec they have been leeching off of and almost every thing else in the world of computing has opened up. This attitude just isn't acceptable any more. Period. Even Microsoft is starting to wake up to that fact.
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I guess this means you can't find any problems with the actual data or science then if this is what you have resulted to.
Because we don't have air temperature sensors at sea we rely on land sensors and then extrapolate to cover the 7/10 of the world that is ocean. Australia due to it's location has an effect far in excess of it's size. Combine that with the US measurements and the two of them point to some thing very wrong. You can't have two regions where the world doesn't heat as much as the rest of the world over long periods and blame the whole thing on CO2. The physics doesn't work that way.
I'm sorry I can't hear you right now over the exhaust from the jet engine that is blowing this way. But when I read your post I had to go to the weather station located on the tarmac by the run way and see for my self if it is truly warmer and the indeed it is. Almost 2C warmer than it was when this property was part of a swamp in a forest back in 1880. Global warming is now proven.
Might I suggest you use that as your tag line? Sorry I had mod points yesterday but not today. Great line though.
Go buy a HD7xxx based Southern Islands card and lets see if you still tell the same story. The last few generations have made it look like AMD was doing well by the open source community. But that was because what they opened up for the early cards mostly worked for later generations. But with Southern Islands it looks like we are SOL. Don't count on any documentation coming from AMD for their hardware going forward.
Or they will do like they do with Formula 1. You get the practice on Speed, some of the races on TSN, some of the races on TSN 2, and some of the races on the CTV network. 4 channels to watch Formula1 at say $15 a pop.
What ala cart should do, but I am not saying will do, is allow some channels to die. If some of the cruft is allowed to die then the content providers costs should drop allowing them to reduce their prices.
Canada has two Satellite operators. Bell and Shaw. Some Dish programming uses the transponders on one of the Bell satellites. The satellites are in geosynchronous orbit which puts them above the equator. So Canadians all point their dishes south.
Dish and Direct don't operate in Canada for two reasons. First they don't own the rights to brodcast the programming they carry into Canada. Second Canadian law requires the owners of a telecom company to be at least 50% Canadian.
Canada sufferes from much of the same non-sense. The Supreme Court of Canada recently released a large decision on copy rights in Canada which included technology neutrality. Beyond Users Rights: Supreme Court Entrenches Technological Neutrality as a New Copyright Principle I have to wonder if this decision can be applied in this case. If a book is sold in Canada in it's hard form for example can it be blocked in it 'E' form? If I can walk across the border and bring back a movie can I be stopped from bringing it across over the internet? Many possibilities.
Couldn't agree more. Wouldn't be great if this made it into the TPP rather than the crap we are going to get.
No but if they can keep Cisco from becomming irrelevant they have done their part.
Every one is cutting back on every thing. Once every one especially buisnesses start buying again PC salews will be on the up tick. They are just to useful for people who actually need to get work done.
I remember when the slammer worm came out. We were all excited that we were finally going to be able to see a real piece of malware on linux. We opened up the apropriate port to a number of test machies to try and get inffected so we could disassemble it. Within a couple of hours there was a patch available for Linux. Every one upgraded (patch fast patch often) and it died out before we could get infected. Open source software is a horrible platform to attack because there are hordes of people who can provide a patch if we know what the problem is.
Poll after poll shows that the people have wised up to the alarmism. So there is no mileage in it for politicians any more.
Awe some. Security through obscurity. What's to go wrong?
Only available on Windows, Android and Blackberry. Well Blackberry is over. I wouldn't trust a payment system on my cell phone and I am never ever going to use Windows again. Besides as the MPAA proved with Blu-ray there is no better platform to lose you security with than Windows. Not to mention that this mean the mint is out sourcing control of the money supply to the US as there will be no Canadian companies involved.
Well 64 bit flash on Linux is now incredibly stable since they dropped it. It's like it isn't even there.
What if Microsoft was to ... oh I don't know ... make a radical change to their OS and ... say no one liked it and didn't go trudging out to buy new hardware with Windows installed. I suspect the companies that would take the biggest hit in that case would be the ones with their lips farthest up Balmers butt. The ones that would do best would be the ones that had already started to cater to the other users out there. Just sayin' .
You can get a distro with 10 year stability if you want it. But that leaves you frozen in time. Linux has made hellacious progress compared to all other OS's because it is willing to ditch the bad and move forward. I remember one year where we were all fretting about having no journalled file system. 6 months later Linux had 5. How many can you run now? Telecom companies and others run their Linux machines with 5 nines of uptime. Maybe the problem isn't actually the ABI.
Ever? Patents last how long? A LOT of the stuff they are doing has been around for a very long time. Please tell us what hardware interface specs they don't have ownership of. I am willing to bet they could easily document more than 50% which is 50+% more than they are doing currently. The problem right now is far more about just having a shitty attitude than it is about ownership of interfaces.
So I should screw my self and use a 3 year old kernel so I can use the blob, I should undo all the work the open source community has done in creating an open OS by supporting these guys because they are thieves and they just might get caught? My moral compass is swinging like I'm at the North Pole.
I have to agree. What ever else people want to say,the man does get results.
I guess we missed the part where 100% of their technology is licensed from some one else and NOTHING is developed in house. Maybe thinking about how licensing some thing will effect your ability to document you hardware would be a good idea. A lot of patents can be easily worked around. One of the problems is every time there is a standard the hordes come from far and wide to get as many patents into it as possible to help jack up the profits. The price gets passed onto the consumer and because it is a standard there is no competition to push back against IP bloat.
I guarantee some one in Asia has seen this brouhaha and is trying to figure out how to make a buck selling video cards to Linux users with proper documentation for the interfaces. They don't think like Americans there. They don't just sit on their arses and wait for the government to pass another law so they don't have to compete. Truth is soon Intel hardware with the open source driver will be more powerful than the NVidia card with the open source driver. But doesn't cost as much. Obviously Intel has learned the power of doing the right thing.
BTW we aren't asking them to open up the HW. We are asking them to document the interfaces to the hardware. Just like the PCI interface they use has been documented and like the entire PC spec they have been leeching off of and almost every thing else in the world of computing has opened up. This attitude just isn't acceptable any more. Period. Even Microsoft is starting to wake up to that fact.