If I paid money based on the device having a certain functionality and the company takes that functionality away that is fraud. If I sold you an MP3 player and 60 days later it would no longer play MP3s would you say so what?
Why is it you never have mod points when you need them.
This is absolutely right. I know there are companies out there that have gone down the MySQL road and it will be a hassle to migrate to some thing else. But they have the choice to keep running what they have now until the end of time which is a better choice than the Solaris guys get. Or they have the choice to move to one of the MySQL forks or another open source database or if they really want they can poney up the dough and go proprietary. If MySQL truely goes away I think you will see some action around looking at what the next generation of database should rally look like and I don't mean Nosql. In some ways I see MySQL in it's current form as a bit of an anchor. But then again there are already stories out that Oracle is about to announce a cash transfusion and pump up the clustering for MySQL so who knows what will come of it.
You make it sound like all proprietary software comes just ready to run which every one with enterprise experience knows is bunk. SAP, People Soft, any thing BMC/SMC etc, etc, etc are hardly plug and play.
I don't know if IBM would have been a better home. For the hardware side I am sure they would have. But as to the question of whether Oracle is more evil that IBM? By a long shot.
Actually you do get engineering transferring from F1 to the real world. Honda's VTEC came from their F1 engines and one of the Ferrari road cars are using the KERS system from their F1 cars. The paddle shifting system came from their F1 cars. The Carbon brakes found on some Vettes were originally optimised for auto use in F1. etc, etc.
Paging Rube Goldberg. Please call the front desk Mr. Goldberg. Or maybe they are trying to win the code obfuscation award. Wouldn't there effort be better spent creating some thing that isn't broken by design?
I don't have the EULA to read but it smells like TurboHercules is trying to encourage IBMs customers to violate if not the word, at least the spirit of the EULA they agreed to. If that is the case then I am not surprised that IBM broke out every weapon they had and went to war. That's how those boys roll. It makes more sense to make it clear that they aren't going to win right off the bat than it does to go through a SCO style plague of law suites. The two patents are definitely an issue but I am very sure you will see them back down from those shortly. If that happens then until we have more info I don't see a reason to go to war with IBM.
I thought the previous story said the new Cisco router was only 3 times faster than the previous model. Hardly game changing if so. Further as the upgrade cost will probably be on par to upgrading from a Saturn 5 rocket to the Space Shuttle I doubt every one will jump on it at once.
No Canadian can grow up to be the leader of their country because the leader of the country is the head of the Church of England who must by definition be born in England. While I do like to bash to the south that doesn't mean we don't have things to work on up here.
Both are humans and both are faced with something they don't want to believe, so is it really so surprising that both would resort to similar tactics?
Non sense. I don't believe in gods at all. Period. I believe the climate is changing as it has done since this planet first formed. Are you denying that the climate has always been in flux? I believe that man has probably had a very minor effect on the earth's temperature in the order of less than one degree and it won't ever bee more than one degree. I believe that because the the science around CO2 trapping heat is pretty solid and it says that warming due to this amount of CO2 increase will be on that order. I also believe that sea levels have changed for as long as there has been water on this planet as has snow cover, ice cover, tidal patterns, wind patterns etc. Link
What I don't believe is the the storey that the earth has stayed the exact same for the last 1,000 years as climatologists have told us. Why because those same scientists are now starting to admit that they were wrong.
I believe the vast majority of the data they want to base their theories on doesn't pass muster for scientific research because they are now starting to admit that it doesn't and are asking for a do over. link BTW if they want us to believe they need to release the code as well. It is going to be pretty hard to sell the idea that programmers are infallible on/.
I don't believe in the hockey stick because the scientists now admit that the proxy data doesn't match the reality of the last 50 years. But rather than admit that their method may be flawed they are looking for new ways to try and make the data match the theory rather than find a theory that matches the data. link . I believe that William Ockham would have a thought or two on this new theory. From wikipedia this line seems so spot on.The term razor refers to the act of shaving away unnecessary assumptions to get to the simplest explanation. What is simpler that new undiscovered scientific principals are at work or that the methodology is wrong? I also believe in the hockey stick because it has been fraudulently presented.
I also don't believe that the stories of the "end of days" as a result of climate change that climate scientists are schlocking. Why, because they are all so easily proven wrong. I won't even bother making a list because there are so many. Also because they depend on positive feed backs would make the world far to unstable to have lasted in a habbitable for up to this point. Every volcanic eruption would be an extinction event if we were to believe some of he feed back theories being pushed by climate scientists.
If environmentalists want to start making believers of people then they have to change some things about their methods. First stop relating people who question their infallibility to the tobacco industry, oil companies, various religions etc. People who don't have evidence fall back on name calling and insults. Next you need to follow standard accepted scientific methods. That includes providing your raw data. Providing the reasons and methods including formulas of how the data has been manipulated. As well document what are assumptions and what is proven fact. Finally publish and do not scheme to prevent alternative views from being presented.
Yes the world would be so much better if I had to have one connection to AOL and use their proprietary application to read the information on there and then I had to have another account with another provider to read the information on their system because AOL didn't have access to it etc, etc. Thank god all that free software didn't get in the way and and mess it up with some kind of open networking system that would allow every thing to work together. Thank god Microsoft was at the fore front of making all the information we have available today available. Thank god free open standards lost.
You are assuming that the iphone will be the king of all phones world wide forever. Since the vast majority of the world can't afford iphone prices that isn't a very wise assumption.
ACTA isn't just about copy rights it is about patents as well. So patent insanity may be coming to a country near you soon courtesy of the US. Of course if the SCotUS comes back with a ruling in re: Bilski that says "knock it off" before ACTA gets implemented maybe it gets better in the US. In any case it isn't wise to just hope that every thing will turn out OK.
For me the proper solution to the piracy concerns from the US is to stop the import of all movies, music, tv shows and any thing else they are so worried about people stealing at the border. If other countries did it as well then production would move from the US to other locations. Problem solved they wouldn't have to worry about people stealing their content any more. I swear, I try not to hate Americans, but when they start demanding that we abandon our laws and customs and adopt theirs I just loose it. How long till the next secret treaty is about making every one, every where abandon their gun control laws because that is how it is in the US?
Some one mod this poster up for having the right answer. It is the blocking chip that is killing it not the display so much. That is why it is still for sale in a few other places. Going after smaller display sizes right now makes sense because it can be done with existing tech and they can charge a higher premium per square inch of display sold. That money and what they learn will get funneled back into larger displays. OLED isn't going any where.
H - If you agree that there were similar periods of warming since 1850 to the current period, and that the MWP is under debate, what factors convince you that recent warming has been largely man-made?
The fact that we can't explain the warming from the 1950s by solar and volcanic forcing - see my answer to your question D.
So the only two ways that the climate can possibly be effected is by solar or volcanic forcing. If it isn't one of those two then the only possible answer is then man made CO2. There are absolutely no other factors that effect climate period. And they expect us to take this seriously?
Mean while another 1/3 of the GHCN stations just get dropped. We are supposed to trust these temperature analysis when you can just add and remove a third of the weather stations at whim? Come on mod me down some more for trolling.
You better read that again. He admits that warming trends like this have happened in the past, that the earth is not currently warming, that the Medieval Warm Period did happen and so the hockey stick is dead, their data is suspect and the CO2 thing is a guess. He also basically cops to not really being climatologist.
The dumbing down of Americans has been going on for a long time now. Seems pointless to try and stop it. If Americans don't care I don't see why any one else should either.
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If I paid money based on the device having a certain functionality and the company takes that functionality away that is fraud. If I sold you an MP3 player and 60 days later it would no longer play MP3s would you say so what?
When your enemies are fighting. Don't interrupt them.
You mean there isn't an iPhone app for that?
Why is it you never have mod points when you need them.
This is absolutely right. I know there are companies out there that have gone down the MySQL road and it will be a hassle to migrate to some thing else. But they have the choice to keep running what they have now until the end of time which is a better choice than the Solaris guys get. Or they have the choice to move to one of the MySQL forks or another open source database or if they really want they can poney up the dough and go proprietary. If MySQL truely goes away I think you will see some action around looking at what the next generation of database should rally look like and I don't mean Nosql. In some ways I see MySQL in it's current form as a bit of an anchor. But then again there are already stories out that Oracle is about to announce a cash transfusion and pump up the clustering for MySQL so who knows what will come of it.
You make it sound like all proprietary software comes just ready to run which every one with enterprise experience knows is bunk. SAP, People Soft, any thing BMC/SMC etc, etc, etc are hardly plug and play.
I don't know if IBM would have been a better home. For the hardware side I am sure they would have. But as to the question of whether Oracle is more evil that IBM? By a long shot.
Actually you do get engineering transferring from F1 to the real world. Honda's VTEC came from their F1 engines and one of the Ferrari road cars are using the KERS system from their F1 cars. The paddle shifting system came from their F1 cars. The Carbon brakes found on some Vettes were originally optimised for auto use in F1. etc, etc.
Paging Rube Goldberg. Please call the front desk Mr. Goldberg. Or maybe they are trying to win the code obfuscation award. Wouldn't there effort be better spent creating some thing that isn't broken by design?
I don't have the EULA to read but it smells like TurboHercules is trying to encourage IBMs customers to violate if not the word, at least the spirit of the EULA they agreed to. If that is the case then I am not surprised that IBM broke out every weapon they had and went to war. That's how those boys roll. It makes more sense to make it clear that they aren't going to win right off the bat than it does to go through a SCO style plague of law suites. The two patents are definitely an issue but I am very sure you will see them back down from those shortly. If that happens then until we have more info I don't see a reason to go to war with IBM.
Wow. People with guns in the middle east. Who would have thought it. It's not like Iraq is a gun controlled country like Canada.
I thought the previous story said the new Cisco router was only 3 times faster than the previous model. Hardly game changing if so. Further as the upgrade cost will probably be on par to upgrading from a Saturn 5 rocket to the Space Shuttle I doubt every one will jump on it at once.
No Canadian can grow up to be the leader of their country because the leader of the country is the head of the Church of England who must by definition be born in England. While I do like to bash to the south that doesn't mean we don't have things to work on up here.
Here it comes "The Great Firewall of America".
I fully agree. Bad title.
Non sense. I don't believe in gods at all. Period. I believe the climate is changing as it has done since this planet first formed. Are you denying that the climate has always been in flux? I believe that man has probably had a very minor effect on the earth's temperature in the order of less than one degree and it won't ever bee more than one degree. I believe that because the the science around CO2 trapping heat is pretty solid and it says that warming due to this amount of CO2 increase will be on that order. I also believe that sea levels have changed for as long as there has been water on this planet as has snow cover, ice cover, tidal patterns, wind patterns etc. Link
What I don't believe is the the storey that the earth has stayed the exact same for the last 1,000 years as climatologists have told us. Why because those same scientists are now starting to admit that they were wrong. I believe the vast majority of the data they want to base their theories on doesn't pass muster for scientific research because they are now starting to admit that it doesn't and are asking for a do over. link BTW if they want us to believe they need to release the code as well. It is going to be pretty hard to sell the idea that programmers are infallible on /.
I don't believe in the hockey stick because the scientists now admit that the proxy data doesn't match the reality of the last 50 years. But rather than admit that their method may be flawed they are looking for new ways to try and make the data match the theory rather than find a theory that matches the data. link . I believe that William Ockham would have a thought or two on this new theory. From wikipedia this line seems so spot on.The term razor refers to the act of shaving away unnecessary assumptions to get to the simplest explanation. What is simpler that new undiscovered scientific principals are at work or that the methodology is wrong? I also believe in the hockey stick because it has been fraudulently presented.
I also don't believe that the stories of the "end of days" as a result of climate change that climate scientists are schlocking. Why, because they are all so easily proven wrong. I won't even bother making a list because there are so many. Also because they depend on positive feed backs would make the world far to unstable to have lasted in a habbitable for up to this point. Every volcanic eruption would be an extinction event if we were to believe some of he feed back theories being pushed by climate scientists.
If environmentalists want to start making believers of people then they have to change some things about their methods. First stop relating people who question their infallibility to the tobacco industry, oil companies, various religions etc. People who don't have evidence fall back on name calling and insults. Next you need to follow standard accepted scientific methods. That includes providing your raw data. Providing the reasons and methods including formulas of how the data has been manipulated. As well document what are assumptions and what is proven fact. Finally publish and do not scheme to prevent alternative views from being presented.
Yes the world would be so much better if I had to have one connection to AOL and use their proprietary application to read the information on there and then I had to have another account with another provider to read the information on their system because AOL didn't have access to it etc, etc. Thank god all that free software didn't get in the way and and mess it up with some kind of open networking system that would allow every thing to work together. Thank god Microsoft was at the fore front of making all the information we have available today available. Thank god free open standards lost.
You are assuming that the iphone will be the king of all phones world wide forever. Since the vast majority of the world can't afford iphone prices that isn't a very wise assumption.
ACTA isn't just about copy rights it is about patents as well. So patent insanity may be coming to a country near you soon courtesy of the US. Of course if the SCotUS comes back with a ruling in re: Bilski that says "knock it off" before ACTA gets implemented maybe it gets better in the US. In any case it isn't wise to just hope that every thing will turn out OK.
For me the proper solution to the piracy concerns from the US is to stop the import of all movies, music, tv shows and any thing else they are so worried about people stealing at the border. If other countries did it as well then production would move from the US to other locations. Problem solved they wouldn't have to worry about people stealing their content any more. I swear, I try not to hate Americans, but when they start demanding that we abandon our laws and customs and adopt theirs I just loose it. How long till the next secret treaty is about making every one, every where abandon their gun control laws because that is how it is in the US?
Some one mod this poster up for having the right answer. It is the blocking chip that is killing it not the display so much. That is why it is still for sale in a few other places. Going after smaller display sizes right now makes sense because it can be done with existing tech and they can charge a higher premium per square inch of display sold. That money and what they learn will get funneled back into larger displays. OLED isn't going any where.
You mean like snow cover, cloud cover, particulates in the atmosphere, ocean currents etc?
My favorite is this.
H - If you agree that there were similar periods of warming since 1850 to the current period, and that the MWP is under debate, what factors convince you that recent warming has been largely man-made?
The fact that we can't explain the warming from the 1950s by solar and volcanic forcing - see my answer to your question D.
So the only two ways that the climate can possibly be effected is by solar or volcanic forcing. If it isn't one of those two then the only possible answer is then man made CO2. There are absolutely no other factors that effect climate period. And they expect us to take this seriously?
Mean while another 1/3 of the GHCN stations just get dropped. We are supposed to trust these temperature analysis when you can just add and remove a third of the weather stations at whim? Come on mod me down some more for trolling.
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You better read that again. He admits that warming trends like this have happened in the past, that the earth is not currently warming, that the Medieval Warm Period did happen and so the hockey stick is dead, their data is suspect and the CO2 thing is a guess. He also basically cops to not really being climatologist.
Well Phil Jones just threw most of the man made climate warming story under the bus.
The dumbing down of Americans has been going on for a long time now. Seems pointless to try and stop it. If Americans don't care I don't see why any one else should either.