I am sure you read that somewhere, but wherever you read that, I would not trust them as a source anymore. What phone can get past the bootloader, have a custom ROM installed, and then can't use the radio?
All of those ARM chips (in Android) use GCC, an open compiler, so it isn't the chip that's causing problems. Most of the drivers are all open-sourced (the kernels is GPL, so they more-or-less have to), so it's not the hardware that's a problem.
The main problem is locked boot-loaders. If you can't install a custom ROM on a phone, that's probably the reason.
Yeah, they have - renewables have surpassed coal or nuclear [wikipedia.org] in Germany in generating capacity.
If you could even point to a single state in Germany that has managed to survive entirely on solar, then that would be impressive. I don't expect that to happen for a decade or so, though.
There's nowhere in the world that AGW has caused rainfall to change significantly. You'd be best looking at other options.
(Of course, if you want to start with the AGW hypothesis, that's fine to. But investigate it, don't go around unscientifically blaming things. That's how you get lynched).
You make a very emotional argument. Look, can you go somewhere else with all the angst? On slashdot there are at least some people who can understand statistics, we don't need to be scared into action through theoretical scare scenarios.
Insects aren't going to disappear. At this point it's still in the stage of preliminary studies, and worth looking at more deeply, studying more. It's not worth the hyperbole and panic.
You're missing the humor. That guy wasn't actually saying that all intelligent conversation would be done by xkcd comics ever. It was kind of a wish moment. He was joking around and you took it seriously. It's OK, we all do it.
It's reasonably well understood because in essence it's just basic thermodynamics. You add energy to a weather system and there's some things could happen
1) thermal: ocean warm up
2) thermal: atmosphere warms up
3) weather and tidal behaviour gets more kinetic.
4) some combination of the above
This is a reasonable hypothesis. How would you test that hypothesis? What would you do?
Nah, they haven't. They still rely on nuclear, of all things. And coal. And when they say they have wind power, they back that up with natural gas.
but you're still going to spend $20 billion on a new nuclear power plant.
Nah, I don't really care. I don't believe that AGW is going to cause many problems, so I am happy to wait for solar to become mature. By 2030 I expect battery technology to be good/cheap enough to buffer solar on the grid.
But I've already seen long-term rainfall decline dramatically here, due to climate shift
Oh yeah? The two degrees difference in temperature changed your rainfall? Where is that? It sounds interesting, let's dig deeper into the data, if you have some.
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I am sure you read that somewhere, but wherever you read that, I would not trust them as a source anymore. What phone can get past the bootloader, have a custom ROM installed, and then can't use the radio?
I hope you learn science.
All of those ARM chips (in Android) use GCC, an open compiler, so it isn't the chip that's causing problems. Most of the drivers are all open-sourced (the kernels is GPL, so they more-or-less have to), so it's not the hardware that's a problem.
The main problem is locked boot-loaders. If you can't install a custom ROM on a phone, that's probably the reason.
To be fair, privilege escalation exploits are rather common on all OSes. That's not something we've figured out how to solve.
A seal-level rise greater than a meter is unlikely by the end of the century, according to the IPCC.
Yeah, they have - renewables have surpassed coal or nuclear [wikipedia.org] in Germany in generating capacity.
If you could even point to a single state in Germany that has managed to survive entirely on solar, then that would be impressive. I don't expect that to happen for a decade or so, though.
That's true, I'd rather kick them in the shin. A personality defect, it is.
I don't need a participation ribbon for not being gullible. As I said it's really easy not to get tricked by fake quotes,
Nah, it's incredibly more likely that you have a low sense of self-awareness.
There's nowhere in the world that AGW has caused rainfall to change significantly. You'd be best looking at other options.
(Of course, if you want to start with the AGW hypothesis, that's fine to. But investigate it, don't go around unscientifically blaming things. That's how you get lynched).
One of the main reasons we use chemicals is because.....mountains of morons
The primary reason we use chemicals is because everything is chemicals. There's no other option.
Your post is clear and readable though, thanks.
You mean, because it's extrapolating at the end of that graph? Or.......
I understand statistics very well, thanks.
Good job, I'm proud of you.
Do you think they will?
If you're not scared it's because you don't know enough about the level of destruction going on.
If I'm not scared it's because I'm an adult and somewhere along the way learned to face reality. Time to grow up, Mr Logic.
You make a very emotional argument. Look, can you go somewhere else with all the angst? On slashdot there are at least some people who can understand statistics, we don't need to be scared into action through theoretical scare scenarios.
That's a bad analogy because we don't know if it will hurt a lot. The bad effects of global warming are largely hypothetical still.
Insects aren't going to disappear. At this point it's still in the stage of preliminary studies, and worth looking at more deeply, studying more. It's not worth the hyperbole and panic.
You're missing the humor. That guy wasn't actually saying that all intelligent conversation would be done by xkcd comics ever. It was kind of a wish moment. He was joking around and you took it seriously. It's OK, we all do it.
It's reasonably well understood because in essence it's just basic thermodynamics. You add energy to a weather system and there's some things could happen
1) thermal: ocean warm up
2) thermal: atmosphere warms up
3) weather and tidal behaviour gets more kinetic.
4) some combination of the above
This is a reasonable hypothesis. How would you test that hypothesis? What would you do?
This is a problem humanity is causing that it could fix.
How would it be fixed?
Germany has been proving it for years now,
Nah, they haven't. They still rely on nuclear, of all things. And coal. And when they say they have wind power, they back that up with natural gas.
but you're still going to spend $20 billion on a new nuclear power plant.
Nah, I don't really care. I don't believe that AGW is going to cause many problems, so I am happy to wait for solar to become mature. By 2030 I expect battery technology to be good/cheap enough to buffer solar on the grid.
Is it really necessary to talk about extrapolation?
But I've already seen long-term rainfall decline dramatically here, due to climate shift
Oh yeah? The two degrees difference in temperature changed your rainfall? Where is that? It sounds interesting, let's dig deeper into the data, if you have some.
Nuclear can replace baseload now, and it has. Solar hasn't.
I don't oppose solar, I think it's sweet. It's just unproven.
He said "traffic is going to be bad." He wasn't talking about during a hurricane.