Indeed. It's not hard to find Groupwise haters, even now, but they never seem to explain why. Groupwise was essentially the first modern groupware. Even on Windows 3.1, while Microsoft was putting out a bare bones mail program, Groupwise had a 99% complete calendaring system. The only thing that everyone uses that it didn't have yet was busy searches.. and that came with v5 in 1997. Outlook was pretty much still crapping in its diapers, in multiple ways, and Notes was a database design program disguised as a horrible groupware.
This is similar to how politicians and teachers' unions insist that the way to produce better results in our public schools is to throw more money at them. Meanwhile, the performance of European schools (and even American private schools) do better with less.
Is your car's speedometer an "accurate scientific instrument"? How about the gas pedal, and its linkage? How about your foot: the bones, tendons, and muscles?
Expecting a driver to maintain an exact speed to the MPH, much less the km/h, is stupid.
Pancreatic cancer is no joke, but can be survived. My dad did, and one of the factors his doctor attributed it to was his good overall health despite being in his 60s. Jobs was health conscious from early in his life, and should have been able to beat this.
Perhaps if they had experienced whatever similar changes occurred in the USA to cause crime to fall every year since 1993-- despite the fact that the assault weapons ban was in effect from 93-2003 and not in effect from 2003 until now.
These are also the geniuses that mandated seat belt interlocks, and a year later had to repeal the regulation and allow people to disable them because they were universally impractical. People's cars were dead in the water because a sensor stuck, or it was too cold, or they had a package on the seat. More and more people were using their seatbelts even without this regulation. Meanwhile, the rest just buckled their belts behind them anyway.
These same geniuses mandated passive restraints, which (since airbags were initially too expensive for an average car) resulted in everyone being strangled by automatic seatbelts.
When auto manufacturers started putting airbags in everything, in a big to make themselves useful the NHTSA uselessly MANDATED them. Of course, they mandated that the bags work on a 180 pound male, which had the unfortunate consequence of injuring or killing people who were much smaller.
These are the geniuses who held back aerodynamic engineering because they insisted headlights had to be round, because... ???
So will total prohibition. Neither is acceptable. Drunk driving is deadly, but this is a step too far when even the government admits a limit this low this is de facto prohibition. Unless we also want to outlaw other distractions, like screens, radios, cupholders, pets, and passengers, we're just choosing what rights we're OK with giving up.
We may make ourselves into cyborgs, and not the ghoulish, creepy Borg of STNG, but more like various comic superheroes such as Wolverine.
I don't think many people set out with the idea of being evil for evil's sake. If we become the compliant automatons that the world's governments demand, we'll be much more like the Borg.
If you really think it's important, you would do what it takes to prove that your drone won't be used for nefarious purposes. You must know that it would take only one subpoena from one cop signed by one judge to have you and your drone commandeered in some "emergency" to monitor a "person of interest" and you wouldn't be allowed to talk about it. Propose a local regulation that outlaws the use of privately-held drones for law enforcement.
They did, but Kent State pretty much was the last straw. "Less than lethal" weapons are a godsend for them, because now they can abuse the public with impunity since, hey, at least you aren't dead! And if you weren't doing something wrong, the cops wouldn't have attacked you, right?
So you're expecting the media to report that a drone actually crashed into a bus, and not that the bus (with a sketchy maintenance record) didn't just burst into flame spontaneously? The cops are the guys with the guns.
The problem is that those rules have to be enforced by the same people who would be breaking them. Who can I turn to, as a private citizen, when I catch a police drone circling my property to spy on me, or follow me when I leave?
Sorry, but people like the average Slashdotter let the government take all means to defend ourselves from a simple robber, much less a despotic government. Good luck with that.
Insurance companies attempt to predict future events based on past events. They don't perform analysis of the environment, and they certainly don't presume to describe the cause. They work with the expectation that is something is happening more often, it will continue to do so in the future until evidence is found pointing in the other direction. Regardless, even if insurance companies expect more disasters in the future, that doesn't mean that AGW is causing them. Insurance companies don't care why something is happening unless they can affect it, like how they give discounts for air bags and passive security systems in cars. So until you see insurance companies seriously begin to lobby for government intervention in AGW, we'll know they are just executing business as usual. BTW, you really don't want to see these guys lobbying our government any more than they do. We'll be living in cells in megacity skyscrapers like the Chinese.
Sorry, but this is a problem the likes of which science and engineering have never had to face.
The ozone issue had actually been faced before. The main industries using CFCs were for propellants and refrigeration. We already had other propellants, and for applications that they weren't suitable pump-bottles were substituted. For refrigeration, we'd had to replace the refrigerants before because the first ones were toxic! The replacements for the replacements weren't as efficient-- which creates another problem-- but engineering took care of that over the phaseout interval.
What's happening with global warming is that we're being asked to change our entire lifestyles, and give up our human rights. We're basically being told to let governments and their corporate owners to decide where and how we live. That seems to be science's answer to the really tough problems: let government take over. Please excuse me if I'm not impressed.
Consider this: CO2 lasts 1000s of years in the atmosphere
Yes, because it's stable and nonreactive. Fortunately, there are many organisms that can use it, so claiming that the only answer is to not release any is just dumb. I'd rather spend billions learning how to terraform our deserts than have some quacks allow government to make us live in cells in fascist mega-cities.
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There's a spring on the hammer. I could imagine that being replaced with a pneumatic strut that could be printed, though.
Indeed. It's not hard to find Groupwise haters, even now, but they never seem to explain why. Groupwise was essentially the first modern groupware. Even on Windows 3.1, while Microsoft was putting out a bare bones mail program, Groupwise had a 99% complete calendaring system. The only thing that everyone uses that it didn't have yet was busy searches.. and that came with v5 in 1997. Outlook was pretty much still crapping in its diapers, in multiple ways, and Notes was a database design program disguised as a horrible groupware.
This is similar to how politicians and teachers' unions insist that the way to produce better results in our public schools is to throw more money at them. Meanwhile, the performance of European schools (and even American private schools) do better with less.
Is your car's speedometer an "accurate scientific instrument"? How about the gas pedal, and its linkage? How about your foot: the bones, tendons, and muscles?
Expecting a driver to maintain an exact speed to the MPH, much less the km/h, is stupid.
Pancreatic cancer is no joke, but can be survived. My dad did, and one of the factors his doctor attributed it to was his good overall health despite being in his 60s. Jobs was health conscious from early in his life, and should have been able to beat this.
It was a pretty lousy one. It was basically like criticizing Apple for releasing the inferior Apple I, II, IIe, and III before the Macintosh.
Perhaps if they had experienced whatever similar changes occurred in the USA to cause crime to fall every year since 1993-- despite the fact that the assault weapons ban was in effect from 93-2003 and not in effect from 2003 until now.
During WWI, you were convicted of sedition if you criticized the US's entry into the war. Apparently that is OK, because it was the law.
0.05 is unreasonable. It is de facto prohibition, and unconstitutional.
These are also the geniuses that mandated seat belt interlocks, and a year later had to repeal the regulation and allow people to disable them because they were universally impractical. People's cars were dead in the water because a sensor stuck, or it was too cold, or they had a package on the seat. More and more people were using their seatbelts even without this regulation. Meanwhile, the rest just buckled their belts behind them anyway.
These same geniuses mandated passive restraints, which (since airbags were initially too expensive for an average car) resulted in everyone being strangled by automatic seatbelts.
When auto manufacturers started putting airbags in everything, in a big to make themselves useful the NHTSA uselessly MANDATED them. Of course, they mandated that the bags work on a 180 pound male, which had the unfortunate consequence of injuring or killing people who were much smaller.
These are the geniuses who held back aerodynamic engineering because they insisted headlights had to be round, because... ???
So will total prohibition. Neither is acceptable. Drunk driving is deadly, but this is a step too far when even the government admits a limit this low this is de facto prohibition. Unless we also want to outlaw other distractions, like screens, radios, cupholders, pets, and passengers, we're just choosing what rights we're OK with giving up.
I don't think many people set out with the idea of being evil for evil's sake. If we become the compliant automatons that the world's governments demand, we'll be much more like the Borg.
If you really think it's important, you would do what it takes to prove that your drone won't be used for nefarious purposes. You must know that it would take only one subpoena from one cop signed by one judge to have you and your drone commandeered in some "emergency" to monitor a "person of interest" and you wouldn't be allowed to talk about it. Propose a local regulation that outlaws the use of privately-held drones for law enforcement.
They did, but Kent State pretty much was the last straw. "Less than lethal" weapons are a godsend for them, because now they can abuse the public with impunity since, hey, at least you aren't dead! And if you weren't doing something wrong, the cops wouldn't have attacked you, right?
So you're expecting the media to report that a drone actually crashed into a bus, and not that the bus (with a sketchy maintenance record) didn't just burst into flame spontaneously? The cops are the guys with the guns.
The problem is that those rules have to be enforced by the same people who would be breaking them. Who can I turn to, as a private citizen, when I catch a police drone circling my property to spy on me, or follow me when I leave?
Sorry, but people like the average Slashdotter let the government take all means to defend ourselves from a simple robber, much less a despotic government. Good luck with that.
Insurance companies attempt to predict future events based on past events. They don't perform analysis of the environment, and they certainly don't presume to describe the cause. They work with the expectation that is something is happening more often, it will continue to do so in the future until evidence is found pointing in the other direction. Regardless, even if insurance companies expect more disasters in the future, that doesn't mean that AGW is causing them. Insurance companies don't care why something is happening unless they can affect it, like how they give discounts for air bags and passive security systems in cars. So until you see insurance companies seriously begin to lobby for government intervention in AGW, we'll know they are just executing business as usual. BTW, you really don't want to see these guys lobbying our government any more than they do. We'll be living in cells in megacity skyscrapers like the Chinese.
How accurate have they been in the past?
You're on the internet, genius.
Sorry, but this is a problem the likes of which science and engineering have never had to face.
The ozone issue had actually been faced before. The main industries using CFCs were for propellants and refrigeration. We already had other propellants, and for applications that they weren't suitable pump-bottles were substituted. For refrigeration, we'd had to replace the refrigerants before because the first ones were toxic! The replacements for the replacements weren't as efficient-- which creates another problem-- but engineering took care of that over the phaseout interval.
What's happening with global warming is that we're being asked to change our entire lifestyles, and give up our human rights. We're basically being told to let governments and their corporate owners to decide where and how we live. That seems to be science's answer to the really tough problems: let government take over. Please excuse me if I'm not impressed.
Yes, because it's stable and nonreactive. Fortunately, there are many organisms that can use it, so claiming that the only answer is to not release any is just dumb. I'd rather spend billions learning how to terraform our deserts than have some quacks allow government to make us live in cells in fascist mega-cities.
People truly concerned about the earth wouldn't be wasting time and energy posting on Slashdot.
Thanks for your contentless, scolding post.
Because they don't have Whole Foods stores whence to get their environmentally-conscious tofu.
In case you didn't notice, agriculture is difficult in these countries that are ruled by warlords and have intemperate climates.
People get upset about Westboro Baptist. I wonder how much they would enjoy being a Coptic Christian right now.