From the data he posted, it doesn't look like the 2000s, or even any multiyear period between 1980-2010 was exceptionally warm in the majority of the measurement sites with a reasonable amount of historical data. That doesn't say anything about globlal warming, but it would seem to suggest that a big iceberg calving in Greenland might not be global warming related. A bigger one calving in 1962 also supports that.
Right. Apple provides installed access to the UNIX terminal underlying the OS, includes an X server on the install DVD so you can run most (free) UNIX software with a simple recompile, and also puts their development suite, including full documentation, on the install DVD so you can do that recompile, or write some apps of your own.
Gluten is a major component in several grains. Grain has formed a major portion of most humans' diet since the dawn of agriculture. It's not surprising you find gluten in almost everything.
The naturopaths already have a cheap, quick test for gluten intolerance. A friend of mine described it as a machine that you're hooked up to that "measures your levels." It's really sensitive too - it seems to detect gluten intolerance in everyone it's used on.
Actually, no. There is some evidence to support that position. Including both epidemiological and biochemical data. I'm not going to look it up for you, but there was a story on Slashdot a while ago.
1) No, every authenticated net user would have to have a passport. And many things won't work unless you're authenticated. Such as the ISP actually passing on your packets in countries that implement this policy.
2) Your ID could easily be a smart card (you need a cheap card reader) or an RSID type fob that gives you a number you type in - no hardware necessary beyond your ID, just like a VPN today.
3) See #1.
4) See #1.
5) There are already lots of identifying databases that are kept up to date.
6) See #1. There are plenty of ID cards that are already used. Drivers licenses, passports, whatever. Why does it have to be national?
Anyway, it doesn't matter. You're probably not really anonymous online anyway. Your ISP knows who you are. And if you're holed up at a cybercafe chances are you can be identified from fingerprints, surveillance cameras or just talking to the clerk you paid, if someone in authority really wants to. The only really anonymous access is open wifi, but that's fast disappearing.
Civilization has had climate zones for a long time. Have you not noticed there's more desert towards the middle and more tundra and eventually ice to the north and south?
The two space thing makes sense, especially with TeX. TeX doesn't care if you use two spaces or not - it'll make the between sentence spacing whatever it wants in the rendered copy. But if you want to count or automatically identify sentences, the two spaces makes it a lot easier.
With the heavy lift capability of a blimp, armouring a little crew compartment wouldn't be very hard at all. Besides, the military ones will be autonomous.
There are lots of places where boats, trains and trucks can't go. Places that are becoming more and more interesting. For example, a lot of the northern oil exploration has to be done in a hurry, in the least desirable season (winter) so that trucks can bring the equipment in on ice roads. In other cases flying everything in using giant Russian helicopters is the only option. And pretty much anything is cheaper than that.
Personally I don't think "all the comforts of a cruise ship with a slightly faster method of travel" sounds that bad anyway. Particularly as air travel gets more expensive due to fuel costs and environmental concerns, and more restricted due to paranoia.
You just have to play against the computer on an easier level, or against people who don't care so much about victory. There's nothing more fun than parking an aircraft carrier off the coast of a bronze age Australia and letting them have it.
Why shouldn't citations count? I happened to write et. al. no less than four times today, in a formal document (that is, not on Slashdot).
"Etc." is used very commonly anyway, and illustrates the point nicely. Depending on what exactly you're writing there are many other abbreviations that are commonly used in formal writing.
I have. Apple makes both a high end and a low end machine that doesn't have an integrated monitor. On the other hand, I've generally sold monitors with computers anyway. Again, it's much easier to sell a whole machine rather than pieces of one.
If you can't upgrade the hard drive in a Mac it's very likely you're the kind of person who never would anyway. For something you MIGHT do a couple of times over several years, I find twenty minutes with a screwdriver well worth having the hard drive more secure and saving the extra space and problems associated with an easily removable drive.
Yeah, I kept one case for ages. A big steel monster that weighed a tonne but was far superior to the paper thin sheet metal deals they started making. It was a pain though, because it's tough to sell a computer without a case, so I usually ended up buying a new case whenever I "upgraded" anyway.
It always was far easier, and frequently cheaper, just to sell the whole thing and buy another. Macs doubly so because they seem to hold their resale value better than a generic PC.
How's that? This thing is basically a VOIP app that uses Facebook as an address book. Facebook IS an address book, except that it lets your contacts update their entries and decorate them with pictures, videos and assorted crap.
For ages I avoided Macs and built my own machines with upgrades specifically in mind. Turns out I rarely ever actually upgraded any of them anyway, except occasionally the video card and, more often, hard drives and memory. It was usually more economical to sell the old machine to someone and buy or build another.
When I started grad school the lab used all Macs. I've never missed the ability to upgrade.
Perhaps you mean contractions. Many abbreviations are standard in formal writing. While almost everyone probably knows what "etcetera" means, even if they may never have seen it written out, how many people even know what "et alii," "et aliae," and "et alia" mean? You'd certainly never actually type any of those in English.
A decent typesetting system should ignore your double spaces and do what it thinks is right anyway (LaTeX does that, I believe). So the choice of double or single spaces becomes a matter of personal choice and, as someone else mentioned, double spaces make for a handy way to identify sentences.
Even if I could, it would be meaningless. Mathematics, like any logical structure, rests upon a set of axioms that we must assume.
Causality is like one of our axioms for reality. There's no particular reason why causes should precede effects, but we feel strongly that they should, and if the principle is routinely violated then the universe will be much more difficult to understand. Causality may one day be abandoned, but it's a much more basic assumption than the inviolability of the speed of light.
BTW - that the rules of logic apply to the universe is also an axiom.
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From the data he posted, it doesn't look like the 2000s, or even any multiyear period between 1980-2010 was exceptionally warm in the majority of the measurement sites with a reasonable amount of historical data. That doesn't say anything about globlal warming, but it would seem to suggest that a big iceberg calving in Greenland might not be global warming related. A bigger one calving in 1962 also supports that.
Right. Apple provides installed access to the UNIX terminal underlying the OS, includes an X server on the install DVD so you can run most (free) UNIX software with a simple recompile, and also puts their development suite, including full documentation, on the install DVD so you can do that recompile, or write some apps of your own.
Very locked down.
Gluten is a major component in several grains. Grain has formed a major portion of most humans' diet since the dawn of agriculture. It's not surprising you find gluten in almost everything.
The naturopaths already have a cheap, quick test for gluten intolerance. A friend of mine described it as a machine that you're hooked up to that "measures your levels." It's really sensitive too - it seems to detect gluten intolerance in everyone it's used on.
Actually, no. There is some evidence to support that position. Including both epidemiological and biochemical data. I'm not going to look it up for you, but there was a story on Slashdot a while ago.
1) No, every authenticated net user would have to have a passport. And many things won't work unless you're authenticated. Such as the ISP actually passing on your packets in countries that implement this policy.
2) Your ID could easily be a smart card (you need a cheap card reader) or an RSID type fob that gives you a number you type in - no hardware necessary beyond your ID, just like a VPN today.
3) See #1.
4) See #1.
5) There are already lots of identifying databases that are kept up to date.
6) See #1. There are plenty of ID cards that are already used. Drivers licenses, passports, whatever. Why does it have to be national?
Anyway, it doesn't matter. You're probably not really anonymous online anyway. Your ISP knows who you are. And if you're holed up at a cybercafe chances are you can be identified from fingerprints, surveillance cameras or just talking to the clerk you paid, if someone in authority really wants to. The only really anonymous access is open wifi, but that's fast disappearing.
You'd think, hey? What they don't know is that there are subs surrounding it.
Civilization has had climate zones for a long time. Have you not noticed there's more desert towards the middle and more tundra and eventually ice to the north and south?
The two space thing makes sense, especially with TeX. TeX doesn't care if you use two spaces or not - it'll make the between sentence spacing whatever it wants in the rendered copy. But if you want to count or automatically identify sentences, the two spaces makes it a lot easier.
With the heavy lift capability of a blimp, armouring a little crew compartment wouldn't be very hard at all. Besides, the military ones will be autonomous.
If you're going to build a rail to run your engines on, why in the world would you want to make the cars fly?
Really? You go through the acrobatics necessarily to link "hybrid air vehicle" with HIV and you ask if he's serious?
There are lots of places where boats, trains and trucks can't go. Places that are becoming more and more interesting. For example, a lot of the northern oil exploration has to be done in a hurry, in the least desirable season (winter) so that trucks can bring the equipment in on ice roads. In other cases flying everything in using giant Russian helicopters is the only option. And pretty much anything is cheaper than that.
Personally I don't think "all the comforts of a cruise ship with a slightly faster method of travel" sounds that bad anyway. Particularly as air travel gets more expensive due to fuel costs and environmental concerns, and more restricted due to paranoia.
You just have to play against the computer on an easier level, or against people who don't care so much about victory. There's nothing more fun than parking an aircraft carrier off the coast of a bronze age Australia and letting them have it.
Why shouldn't citations count? I happened to write et. al. no less than four times today, in a formal document (that is, not on Slashdot).
"Etc." is used very commonly anyway, and illustrates the point nicely. Depending on what exactly you're writing there are many other abbreviations that are commonly used in formal writing.
I have. Apple makes both a high end and a low end machine that doesn't have an integrated monitor. On the other hand, I've generally sold monitors with computers anyway. Again, it's much easier to sell a whole machine rather than pieces of one.
If you can't upgrade the hard drive in a Mac it's very likely you're the kind of person who never would anyway. For something you MIGHT do a couple of times over several years, I find twenty minutes with a screwdriver well worth having the hard drive more secure and saving the extra space and problems associated with an easily removable drive.
Yeah, I kept one case for ages. A big steel monster that weighed a tonne but was far superior to the paper thin sheet metal deals they started making. It was a pain though, because it's tough to sell a computer without a case, so I usually ended up buying a new case whenever I "upgraded" anyway.
It always was far easier, and frequently cheaper, just to sell the whole thing and buy another. Macs doubly so because they seem to hold their resale value better than a generic PC.
How's that? This thing is basically a VOIP app that uses Facebook as an address book. Facebook IS an address book, except that it lets your contacts update their entries and decorate them with pictures, videos and assorted crap.
For ages I avoided Macs and built my own machines with upgrades specifically in mind. Turns out I rarely ever actually upgraded any of them anyway, except occasionally the video card and, more often, hard drives and memory. It was usually more economical to sell the old machine to someone and buy or build another.
When I started grad school the lab used all Macs. I've never missed the ability to upgrade.
Perhaps you mean contractions. Many abbreviations are standard in formal writing. While almost everyone probably knows what "etcetera" means, even if they may never have seen it written out, how many people even know what "et alii," "et aliae," and "et alia" mean? You'd certainly never actually type any of those in English.
No wonder some people haven't admitted that tabs are the only real option. They must all use emacs.
A decent typesetting system should ignore your double spaces and do what it thinks is right anyway (LaTeX does that, I believe). So the choice of double or single spaces becomes a matter of personal choice and, as someone else mentioned, double spaces make for a handy way to identify sentences.
Even if I could, it would be meaningless. Mathematics, like any logical structure, rests upon a set of axioms that we must assume.
Causality is like one of our axioms for reality. There's no particular reason why causes should precede effects, but we feel strongly that they should, and if the principle is routinely violated then the universe will be much more difficult to understand. Causality may one day be abandoned, but it's a much more basic assumption than the inviolability of the speed of light.
BTW - that the rules of logic apply to the universe is also an axiom.
There's a big difference between "it's a bit of a pain" and "it's impossible." The latter is what the post I replied to claimed.
In that case it's good to see Connecticut protecting the rights of corporations to maximally screw their customers.