This move by the danish ministry of science is hardly surprising, considering that one of the first actions of the current government was to shut down a large number of environmental agencies and institutions, replacing them with the "Environmental Assessment Institute", of which they appointed Lomborg the Leader.
This was very much a way for the government to replace the skeptics of their environmental policy (or lack thereof) with their own supporters, such as Lomborg.
This clearing of Lomborg is not about the procedure of the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty - it's all about the government needing to keep Lomborg in his position of power.
Sure thing. Generally less civilians are killed using modern weapons, but the whole "pinpoint accuracy super weapon" thing is still a propaganda lie, made up to silence critical voices. And that sort of lie is A Bad Thing when thousands of civilian lives are at stake.
Actually Martyn is right. The actual evolution of microchip technology might (and probably will) eventually reach a physical limitation, which could be described as an asymptote.
Moore's Law, on the other hand, is merely a mathematical function, made to predict the evolution of microchip technology, and being an exponential one, it, per definition, does not have an asymptote.
You're falsely assuming that Moore's Law is an absolute reflection of the actual evolution of mcrochips, when it is in fact just a predition (although so far a pretty good one IMHO).
I'm aware of this, but my point is that it is not really an option unless you are filthy rich (which I, and most of the/. crowd are not, I presume).
That's why the "If you dont like it..buy stock" approach is totally ridiculous. Sure it'll work - if you're Bill Gates - but for you, me and 99.9% of the Worlds population, it really isn't an option.
That's kindda like Microsoft, I don't like their crappy programs and I don't like the way they use their market dominance to crush all competition. But hey - that allright, I'll just buy stock, and everything will be fine.
"The only downside is it will take a while to build X, or any other large package(Gnome, KDE, etc)."
Uhm, sure that is ONE downside, but to claim that it is the ONLY one is quite a stretch. I recently converted from Debian to Gentoo, and although I am aware that one of Gentoo's main strenghs compared to Debian, is that it is as bleeding edge as it gets, but this is also quite a weakness.
Let me just describe my install process to illustrate: During my install, the bootstrap failed 3 times because of various bugs. As each try took about 3 hours not counting the time it took to find the solution, I already began to understand the seriousness of what I had gotten myself into.
Very well, not being that easily scared off, I finally got the barebones install done, rebooted and got ready to install additional stuff. The first thing I tried to emerge was xfree, which failed horribly to compile. It took me 2 more tries before I finally (and btw with great help from various mailing lists and IRC channels) found out which bug was causing the error. It turns out that Gentoo's ebuild of xfree REALLY didn't like my Voodoo3 graphic card (but then again, neither do I, so I hardly blame it:) ).
Anyway, the good thing was that the bug report included a workaround, the bad thing that this workaround would require two more compiles of xfree, making it a total of 5. 5 time the 3 hours each try took makes quite a while - so man was I a happy puppy when it finally worked!
I'm not trying to say that Gentoo sux and Debian rulz (I am in fact quite happy with Gentoo). I just think people should think twice before switching, and consider if they are really prepared to go through all the troubles and frustrations it includes to get a bleeding edge system, that is taylored exactly to your needs. I know I do, but I doubt this applies to all people.
Unlike you, the main reason, except of course the size, I would want one these is the processor.
I'm not looking for a laptop to replace my workstation, but I am looking for a small laptop with long battery life.
Sure, you would have a considerably faster machine if you slabbed in one of those new PIVs, but the battery would probably last about one tenth as long. Its great to have a fast computer, but if it means that you can only use it for like an hour between recharges, it makes it pretty much useless to me.
I think people are generally too obsessed with processor speed, specifically when it comes to the laptop market, where speed is often bought at the expense of usability in the form of long battery life.
(But then again, I'm probably not too representative of the geek crowd in that aspect, considering that I'm writing this on my PIII 500 workstation, which I consider faster than I will ever need.)
As for the *DEFINITION*, as you put it, you might want to lookitup, some other time before you troll.
As for the rest of your nonsense, you should consider the possibility that some people might disagree with the Israeli oppression of the palestineans as well as the palestinean terror.
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This move by the danish ministry of science is hardly surprising, considering that one of the first actions of the current government was to shut down a large number of environmental agencies and institutions, replacing them with the "Environmental Assessment Institute", of which they appointed Lomborg the Leader.
This was very much a way for the government to replace the skeptics of their environmental policy (or lack thereof) with their own supporters, such as Lomborg.
This clearing of Lomborg is not about the procedure of the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty - it's all about the government needing to keep Lomborg in his position of power.
Sure thing. Generally less civilians are killed using modern weapons, but the whole "pinpoint accuracy super weapon" thing is still a propaganda lie, made up to silence critical voices. And that sort of lie is A Bad Thing when thousands of civilian lives are at stake.
Try exercising your trolling skills a bit less obviously...
And check out this for a (very conservative) estimate of the number of civilian Iraqi caualties, or this for a less conservative one.
focusing to such hair-splitting accuracy that it could avoid civilians
Uhm, sure - that's what they say everytime they develop a new weapon. Didn't do the thousands of dead Iraqi civilians much good though...
...the terrorists will have won.
Just because it's a cliche doesn't mean it can't be true...
Actually Martyn is right. The actual evolution of microchip technology might (and probably will) eventually reach a physical limitation, which could be described as an asymptote.
Moore's Law, on the other hand, is merely a mathematical function, made to predict the evolution of microchip technology, and being an exponential one, it, per definition, does not have an asymptote.
You're falsely assuming that Moore's Law is an absolute reflection of the actual evolution of mcrochips, when it is in fact just a predition (although so far a pretty good one IMHO).
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I'm aware of this, but my point is that it is not really an option unless you are filthy rich (which I, and most of the /. crowd are not, I presume).
That's why the "If you dont like it..buy stock" approach is totally ridiculous. Sure it'll work - if you're Bill Gates - but for you, me and 99.9% of the Worlds population, it really isn't an option.
Yeah, that'll do it.
That's kindda like Microsoft, I don't like their crappy programs and I don't like the way they use their market dominance to crush all competition. But hey - that allright, I'll just buy stock, and everything will be fine.
"The only downside is it will take a while to build X, or any other large package(Gnome, KDE, etc)."
:) ).
;)
Uhm, sure that is ONE downside, but to claim that it is the ONLY one is quite a stretch.
I recently converted from Debian to Gentoo, and although I am aware that one of Gentoo's main strenghs compared to Debian, is that it is as bleeding edge as it gets, but this is also quite a weakness.
Let me just describe my install process to illustrate:
During my install, the bootstrap failed 3 times because of various bugs. As each try took about 3 hours not counting the time it took to find the solution, I already began to understand the seriousness of what I had gotten myself into.
Very well, not being that easily scared off, I finally got the barebones install done, rebooted and got ready to install additional stuff. The first thing I tried to emerge was xfree, which failed horribly to compile. It took me 2 more tries before I finally (and btw with great help from various mailing lists and IRC channels) found out which bug was causing the error. It turns out that Gentoo's ebuild of xfree REALLY didn't like my Voodoo3 graphic card (but then again, neither do I, so I hardly blame it
Anyway, the good thing was that the bug report included a workaround, the bad thing that this workaround would require two more compiles of xfree, making it a total of 5. 5 time the 3 hours each try took makes quite a while - so man was I a happy puppy when it finally worked!
I'm not trying to say that Gentoo sux and Debian rulz (I am in fact quite happy with Gentoo). I just think people should think twice before switching, and consider if they are really prepared to go through all the troubles and frustrations it includes to get a bleeding edge system, that is taylored exactly to your needs. I know I do, but I doubt this applies to all people.
Anyway, thats my $0.02, and I'm just crazy
Unlike you, the main reason, except of course the size, I would want one these is the processor.
I'm not looking for a laptop to replace my workstation, but I am looking for a small laptop with long battery life.
Sure, you would have a considerably faster machine if you slabbed in one of those new PIVs, but the battery would probably last about one tenth as long. Its great to have a fast computer, but if it means that you can only use it for like an hour between recharges, it makes it pretty much useless to me.
I think people are generally too obsessed with processor speed, specifically when it comes to the laptop market, where speed is often bought at the expense of usability in the form of long battery life.
(But then again, I'm probably not too representative of the geek crowd in that aspect, considering that I'm writing this on my PIII 500 workstation, which I consider faster than I will ever need.)
Well, that's just my $ 0.02 anyway
As for the *DEFINITION*, as you put it, you might want to look it up, some other time before you troll.
As for the rest of your nonsense, you should consider the possibility that some people might disagree with the Israeli oppression of the palestineans as well as the palestinean terror.