If you do just a little bit of research, you will very quickly find scientific evidence that the earth is warming at an alarming rate.
This is either a completely absurd claim, or else some kind of application of scientific method to hyperbole that I have yet to master. (In other words, since "an alarming rate" is not a quantifiable standard, how can you claim scientific evidence that shows that the earth is warming at that rate?)
My underlying point is that the statements you make regarding global warming are coming from a completely uninformed standpoint. Do some research, then form your opinions. For the anal retentive out there, "If you do just 2-3 hours of research, you will find scientific evidence showing an exponentially increasing rate at which the earth is warming. This rate is often found to be alarming by the majority of people."
Actually, this hurricane season was so calm because of El Nino, which is ironically much of the cause of the warm winter we've been having. The article never stated that global warming was the entire cause of the warm weather this year, but it certainly factors into it...
A simplistic summary is that El Nino increased the amount of wind shear in the Atlantic starting late this past summer. Wind shear is one of the worst enemies of a hurricane, and it will just tear storms apart. If you actually look at all the ingredients needed to form a hurricane, taking El Nino out of the picture this past year would have resulted in a very active hurricane season. Not as active as 2005, but still well above normal.
But no research has shown a link between global warming and the number of hurricanes. Many believe that increased global warming will result in more strong (category 4 & 5) hurricanes forming, but nothing has been proven yet. So just because hurricane seasons aren't as strong does not prove that global warming doesn't exist. If you do just a little bit of research, you will very quickly find scientific evidence that the earth is warming at an alarming rate.
You are correct, in this blog posting, "ever" refers to the time during and after the 1860s. Furthermore, the blog posting I believe is only averaging temperature for the U.S.
However, you are incorrect in stating that during the medieval warm period, we had a higher average global temperature than we do today. The medieval warm period definitely brought warmer temperatures to Greenland and Europe, but if you take into account other measurements (ice cores) taken in different parts of the world, that time period was nowhere near as warm as the average global temperature today.
Agreed. The key here is that the black on the screen can only be as dark as the color of the screen before you turn on the projector. If you always watch with the lights off and shades down, then this will be fine, but in a normal living area where light comes through the windows and other things are happening while watching TV/movies, this is less than ideal.
Now that's a good idea...If Apple would have just switched endian modes on the CPU when it started including PCI slots in it's machines. Of course, then they would have to rewrite countless lines of already established machine code to get the OS to work on the CPU again, but that's not a big deal, is it? And since when does a company have to switch their way of designing hardware just so it can be compatible with another platform?
Currently on my TiBook 667, I'm dual-booting between MacOS X and Yellowdog Linux and so far it's been working great. It was a bit of a pain to get things installed because the latest version of Yellowdog (2.2) has a problem when installing the bootloader. To fix it, I installed 2.1 first, then upgraded to 2.2. There is XFree86 support for the 16Mb Radeon Mobility, but I'm not sure if the 32Mb Radeon chip in the new ones is supported yet. It probably is since the chip is fairly common.
One thing I recommend is to get a USB 3-button mouse. The single button trackpad just doesn't cut it for X.
Bad support? Apple ended up extending the warrantee on the Powerbook 5300 for a total of 7 years from the date of purchase. They realized that people were having problems and that it was a bum machine, so they tried to make up for it. I would hardly call that bad support.
I had my 5300 for 5 years and after sending it in once to get the outer plastics replaced (for free), I never had a problem with it.
I'm surprised that I've been reading through here and nothing has been said about Apple's old OpenDoc technology. They created it with the idea that each piece of software would be modular and you could create your own custom application from the modules you have installed.
Obviously, OpenDoc never really took off. It was pretty slow, even on the fastest machines at the time, and it used a lot of RAM. I thought the concept was good though. It would be cool if it could be tried again today, when speed probably wouldn't be an issue, and see what comes of it.
Apple still has their developer documentation on OpenDoc here.
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Actually, this hurricane season was so calm because of El Nino, which is ironically much of the cause of the warm winter we've been having. The article never stated that global warming was the entire cause of the warm weather this year, but it certainly factors into it...
A simplistic summary is that El Nino increased the amount of wind shear in the Atlantic starting late this past summer. Wind shear is one of the worst enemies of a hurricane, and it will just tear storms apart. If you actually look at all the ingredients needed to form a hurricane, taking El Nino out of the picture this past year would have resulted in a very active hurricane season. Not as active as 2005, but still well above normal.
But no research has shown a link between global warming and the number of hurricanes. Many believe that increased global warming will result in more strong (category 4 & 5) hurricanes forming, but nothing has been proven yet. So just because hurricane seasons aren't as strong does not prove that global warming doesn't exist. If you do just a little bit of research, you will very quickly find scientific evidence that the earth is warming at an alarming rate.
You are correct, in this blog posting, "ever" refers to the time during and after the 1860s. Furthermore, the blog posting I believe is only averaging temperature for the U.S.
However, you are incorrect in stating that during the medieval warm period, we had a higher average global temperature than we do today. The medieval warm period definitely brought warmer temperatures to Greenland and Europe, but if you take into account other measurements (ice cores) taken in different parts of the world, that time period was nowhere near as warm as the average global temperature today.
Agreed. The key here is that the black on the screen can only be as dark as the color of the screen before you turn on the projector. If you always watch with the lights off and shades down, then this will be fine, but in a normal living area where light comes through the windows and other things are happening while watching TV/movies, this is less than ideal.
Mike
One thing I recommend is to get a USB 3-button mouse. The single button trackpad just doesn't cut it for X.
Bad support? Apple ended up extending the warrantee on the Powerbook 5300 for a total of 7 years from the date of purchase. They realized that people were having problems and that it was a bum machine, so they tried to make up for it. I would hardly call that bad support.
I had my 5300 for 5 years and after sending it in once to get the outer plastics replaced (for free), I never had a problem with it.
I guess you're dAMD if you do and dAMD if you don't.
I'm surprised that I've been reading through here and nothing has been said about Apple's old OpenDoc technology. They created it with the idea that each piece of software would be modular and you could create your own custom application from the modules you have installed.
Obviously, OpenDoc never really took off. It was pretty slow, even on the fastest machines at the time, and it used a lot of RAM. I thought the concept was good though. It would be cool if it could be tried again today, when speed probably wouldn't be an issue, and see what comes of it.
Apple still has their developer documentation on OpenDoc here.