I do pretty much. The film isn't doom and gloom really - have you seen it? The levels of CO2 are real, the data verified. The links between CO2 and global temperature are well correlated for hundreds of thousands of years. Plenty of people watch films where everything's ok - feel good movies will always be popular. I'm not a political supporter of Gore (or anyone else for that matter) but he doesn't strike me as a doomer. He's trying to say that it would be possible to start changing the situation and that all is not lost.
I just read in 'Revenge of Gaia' that this period of warming may take 100,000 years to subside. R'uh-oh.
A critical fact in Al Gore's film: after compiling the results of 1,100 serious scientific papers about GW not one suggests that it is anything but man's fault. The percentage of journalistic articles suggesting that it may not be man's fault: 53%.
That's where this argument stems from I think. That and big oil sponsored research. Additionally It's very hard for a/.er to see past the techno-fix as this is the general mindset here.
I think the RFD is overstated in this case. Steve knew that laptops would be the big market and performance per watt is v important there. Also don't forget it made possible the bootcamp bridge to entice switchers.
Yeh, what JL really means is that amongst the people she knows and hangs around with the big C is making a big impression. She's about the right age to see that, that's all.
I'm downloading the OSX version right now and the progress is so slow. Getting 5k/s on my 8Mbps connection. Surely they should have torrented the thing???
Yes, seconded. It's almost total disinfo or bad science as far as I know. I read a proper scientific report on the effects of passive smoking, the main conlusion was that banning smoking in a bar saved the 40hour bar worker 6 cigarettes intake over a period of 12 months. It's an easy enough experiment to do and those were the results. If you smoked one cigarette every two months I don't think you'd be at any risk at all. There is no proven link to rising asthma rates and smoking either. My hunch is that the reason lies somewhere between vaccines damaging the immune system (also giving rise to increasing rates of allergies found in children) or exhaust pollution from cars. I worry that a scientifically illiterate populous can be so easily lead.
I had to fix a family member's Ipod mini on Xmas day and found that the ipod software updates were overwhelmed too. I wonder if many of the new pods were downloading updates too - it was nearly 20Mb I think. Seems like they come through the store now. Got it in the end though.
I have a real problem with this. I'm going to write some more about this tomorrow when I'll be more in the mood to do it. Take it from me though, it's going to be a great post and well worth waiting for. It's either that or I stay up all night getting it just right but I'm soooo tired right now. I'll RTFA tomorrow aswell.
Ok, hipcat, you may remember a phrase 'brown is the new black' - came around by the end of nineties. We've done brown for 5 years and are now going back to black. At least that's the case in London where I am. That's what makes MS Brown so additionally funny - it was hip - but that was a while ago. Also as someone else it more applies to sofas, jackets, handbags, etc but NOT plastics. To me, the brown Zune just looks, well, Russian.
Slashdot Mirror
I do pretty much. The film isn't doom and gloom really - have you seen it? The levels of CO2 are real, the data verified. The links between CO2 and global temperature are well correlated for hundreds of thousands of years. Plenty of people watch films where everything's ok - feel good movies will always be popular. I'm not a political supporter of Gore (or anyone else for that matter) but he doesn't strike me as a doomer. He's trying to say that it would be possible to start changing the situation and that all is not lost.
Well said, refreshing to read that.
/.er to see past the techno-fix as this is the general mindset here.
I just read in 'Revenge of Gaia' that this period of warming may take 100,000 years to subside. R'uh-oh.
A critical fact in Al Gore's film: after compiling the results of 1,100 serious scientific papers about GW not one suggests that it is anything but man's fault. The percentage of journalistic articles suggesting that it may not be man's fault: 53%.
That's where this argument stems from I think. That and big oil sponsored research. Additionally It's very hard for a
No, that's a kibimeter and a kibigram respectively.
:-p)
Someone was going to say it . . . (and it had to be me
I think the RFD is overstated in this case. Steve knew that laptops would be the big market and performance per watt is v important there. Also don't forget it made possible the bootcamp bridge to entice switchers.
Yeh, what JL really means is that amongst the people she knows and hangs around with the big C is making a big impression. She's about the right age to see that, that's all.
thanks!!
another update: it just trickled away to nothing and failed.
Slashdotted I presume so I'll wait.
I'm probably wrong on this, but doesn't the tracker keep a verified copy of the u/d stats? Probably just wishful thinking on my apart I accept.
as an update: It's now running at about 2.4ks-1.
No one know of a torrent for it?
I'm downloading the OSX version right now and the progress is so slow. Getting 5k/s on my 8Mbps connection. Surely they should have torrented the thing???
yes, me too. It was only a joke guys.
PS: I love your John Foxx themed name!
you meant 'cackpot' didn't you ;-p
Yes, seconded. It's almost total disinfo or bad science as far as I know. I read a proper scientific report on the effects of passive smoking, the main conlusion was that banning smoking in a bar saved the 40hour bar worker 6 cigarettes intake over a period of 12 months. It's an easy enough experiment to do and those were the results. If you smoked one cigarette every two months I don't think you'd be at any risk at all. There is no proven link to rising asthma rates and smoking either. My hunch is that the reason lies somewhere between vaccines damaging the immune system (also giving rise to increasing rates of allergies found in children) or exhaust pollution from cars. I worry that a scientifically illiterate populous can be so easily lead.
http://badscience.net/
This is a site I really enjoy and I recommend a read to see how much of this stuff is about.
Regards
no mod points but that is GOOD!
heh heh. Well certainly the polar bears are dieing if that counts . . .
No, the only reason to invade and kill hundreds of thousands of people is to spread freedom and democracy. There is no better cause.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RcKLAo62Ro
No, they're definitely not lying are they? Are they?
I had to fix a family member's Ipod mini on Xmas day and found that the ipod software updates were overwhelmed too. I wonder if many of the new pods were downloading updates too - it was nearly 20Mb I think. Seems like they come through the store now. Got it in the end though.
What you can buy them now?
No that was the new version of Star Trek ;-?
I have a real problem with this. I'm going to write some more about this tomorrow when I'll be more in the mood to do it. Take it from me though, it's going to be a great post and well worth waiting for. It's either that or I stay up all night getting it just right but I'm soooo tired right now. I'll RTFA tomorrow aswell.
heh. And I'm still looking forward to the new version of TOS.
Ok, hipcat, you may remember a phrase 'brown is the new black' - came around by the end of nineties. We've done brown for 5 years and are now going back to black. At least that's the case in London where I am. That's what makes MS Brown so additionally funny - it was hip - but that was a while ago. Also as someone else it more applies to sofas, jackets, handbags, etc but NOT plastics. To me, the brown Zune just looks, well, Russian.
I'm sure that if I were to use Linix or Apple (*dons protective flame suit*) I would encounter just as many problems as Windows.
How about trying them and finding out? You will, I think, find out you are wrong.
BTW your title is one-hundreth of 2 cents which seems to be about right valuation of your comment.
Sorry to bitch but you're just defending your own ignorance.
Strangely enough Ben Dover is big in Torrentland too.