You might as well say we can do nothing about Hitler, and the Earth is just a ball of molten iron so let's kill all the Jews, Earth doesn't care about them.
Melting ice means the land glaciers melt away too, hence you lose natural water storage that builds up in the winter and flows downstream the rest of the year. A staggering number of people rely on these snowy and icy mountains, when they aren't icy and snowy anymore bad things will happen.
Then, in already semi-arid areas, hotter weather probably means they dry out more easily by evaporation. Higher evaporation from seas means global precipitation should increase and maybe some areas will receive much more rain but that doesn't mean China or e.g. semi-desertic regions of Spain won't get fucked.
This is just a silly wording of the usual argument from so-called conservatives that was earth was warmer 250 million years ago so there's nothing wrong if it rapidly warms today and "earth will recover anyway". This should be modded "+5 Troll". Besides, why wouldn't "conservatives" want to conserve Earth's climate?
1000+ ppm was so many eons ago that the sun didn't shine as strong as today, I think. Even days were quite shorter because the earth was spinning faster back then. These high past CO2 concentrations were possibly the outcome of the biopshere regulating it that way, and many millions years later the biosphere regulates it much lower giving us conditions still supporting life.
I guess you'll have to wait for ARMv8 server hardware. Else there are 17W Celeron motherboards such as the Gigabyte GA-C847N, it's not really low power but may come close enough and has a fuck ton of connectors. (dual ethernet, e-sata, rs232, lpt header, IDE, one PCI etc.)
I finally upgraded from 2GB to 3GB ram and Chromium just ate all of it so I'm back to grind fest if I want to do something else or with Chrome alone. It's just too damn heavy past a few dozen tabs. I even do a killall -9 chromium-browser to kill all tabs (but it keeps them around so I can reload them). If I quit and reload Chrome, it can't even load all the tabs I have. I have to kill them before it eats all 3GB mem + 1GB swap and crash. Firefox can handle hundreds tabs and has consistently got more stable/less leaky over time. The difference is it becomes sluggish while executing some pointless javascript and Chrome doesn't do that - because it's currently running 42 processes on my PC.
lol, adblock plus is DRM. It digital manages restrictions about not showing content. Besides, where can I buy an Intel graphics card, you holier-than-thou nut?
I like yahoo, it's maybe not the greatest thing, or maybe it is, but at least it doesn't nag you and always works (always worked everytime every day in the last 12 years). One day the web interface changed to web 2.0 and I didn't like it.. But I got to keep the web 1.0 interface, just by visiting it with Lynx. It also has a very, very useful feature : a "notepad" which lets you paste or write text just for yourself, always accessible from everywhere. So I've put all my important numbers and identifiers/password related to taxes, power bill, phone and ISP etc. as well as a manual back up of my phone's directory and stuff important or not or potentially useful a few years down the road.
The Windows vs Linux difference there is you can spend a few minutes downloading that Ethernet driver, probably from Realtek and probably a 100KB.exe, copy it on the target computer then double click it and it's done. No way you can do that on linux.
everything is wrong with government "providing" a lot of employment and spending. Somebody has to pay for it, government does not provide anything to anybody that it did not originally take from somebody else, government can take existing wealth and shift it around to different people, but it can't create new wealth.
Down with your bullshit, magical thinking! What if I replaced "government" by "company" in your gambling? Afterall all, a company only takes and shifts money.
"Everything is wrong with companies "providing" a lot of employment and spending. Somebody has to pay for it, a company does not provide anything to anybody that it did not originally take from somebody else, companies can take existing wealth and shift it around to different people, but they can't create new wealth." Funnily, this is what the kleptocrat elites (that you are supporting) happen to think anyway! Gutting companies's employment and spending so they can walk away with the money and keep it to themselves is what they do all the time, now they'd rather attack governments so the farce can go on.
What you went on writing later is incredible but I won't bother. You say Japan needs deflation?, rofl, didn't they have quite some deflation already, long ago, becoming a zombie in the process?
The problem is voters and ideologues who give away the store every time some shyster promises whatever they want to hear. Free high speed internet installed everywhere in the country? You got my vote!
If I were French, the first question I'd be asking is it really worth 20 billion euro to connect all of France via high speed broadband to the internet? Second, could we get the same result for less?
No offense, but I just don't see that much value to hooking up society completely to the internet. Plus anyone who really wants to get on the internet in a developed country can find a way. My take is that most of the value of the internet is already here. Making it a little faster on the user side or adding a few more users, just isn't that valuable.
Cost-wise, I gather you're spending something like a thousand euro per household to connect up. That seems rather pricey especially given that a good fraction of those households are already connected.
Saying that it's just about getting a little faster is very short-sighted, switching from DSL to fiber means an immediate and minimum 100x increase in upload bandwith or more, for the same monthly ISP payment (going from 15M/1M to 100M/100M). Latency is slightly lower. This is pretty useful if you're running a business or something, probably! Now you can do video-conferencing, offsite back ups, media upload without thinking about it twice nor having to blow a shit ton money on aggregating four SDSL lines to get less than 10% the performance. The bigger implications of such a level of affordable, ubiquitous network connectivity aren't really known but for a start more stuff can be done without requiring physical trips ; some other stuff will be possible that wasn't before (need to upload 10GB of video rushes in less than a hour?)
Now what about some more rural (or even unlucky suburban) place that gets 512Kbps down, 128Kbps up on DSL : if switched to fiber, it technically can get symetrical gigabit. That's a 2000x increase one way, and a 8000x increase the other way. In fact it's more than the difference between DSL and dial-up, even if you consider commercial offerings will be 100Mb/100Mb at first, rather than gigabit.
I do think a 20 billion euro plan to help deployment of that thing is very worth it, actually 20 billions aren't that much for the task at hand.
While I'm usually not fond of "web apps", the Firefox OS way of doing web only means you never deal with native apps. Many posts seem to lament this but this lack of a native ecosystem actually is something good for me : I don't want to maintain yet another computer, and be "forced" to carry it 24/7, and I don't want to lock myself into either existing "app" ecosystem. Even if a lock-in to e.g. the Android platform is not a very strong one, it's still a lock-in and has its own complexities (Android 2.x vs 4.x, ARM vs x86, Google app store vs sideloaded apps).
I actually have no smartphone, If I get a Firefox one it would be my first one. And who cares if I check mail or take text notes etc. in some web interface instead of a native application? I've only ever used webmail anyway, since about 2001. I wouldn't have any strong performance requirements (I am not interested in 3D games on a device that doesn't even have suitable controls) and I think low end smartphones will at least have a single core 1.x GHz CPU, be it MIPS, ARM or x86 and those will be enough to deal with the inefficiencies of running a card game on javascript and showing me pictures and maps in a web browser.
It's the exact same software as Ubuntu 12.04, whose usable version is called Linux Mint 13 Mate or Linux Mint 13 Xfce. Debian stable when released will allow to install a slight variant, more vanilla looking of the same thing, with its highs and lows - e.g. what bullshit do I need to type on the prompt to install all non free firmware.
I wouldn't install anything else on a friend's computer, a public computer, for a relative I barely know at all etc., all situations where it's nice that the computer still works, still works the same and still gets updates many years later. And at least it's more up to date than Ubuntu 8.04, Squeeze or Ubuntu 10.04.
No, that's the standard working week, many jobs are 35 hours but overtime still exists (some jobs are still 39 hours) as well as jobs where you basically don't count your hours (working as a cook in a restaurant, some executives, some researcher scientists, entrepreneurs, some people exploited on the labor black market etc.) Suggesting 35 hours is the legal maximum is uninformed bullshit.
Try Linux Mint 13 or 14 Xfce if you want an easy, well supported OS without the bullshit. Except for the bullshit about graphics drivers and needing a recent enough graphics (geforce 8 on the nvidia side, and Radeon 5000 series on the AMD side to be safe)
Wrong, I'm decently linux savvy, but I don't know about these linux games beside a few (such as World of Goo and Minecraft). Having gone linux-only for two or three years, I've been out of gaming so I don't actively try to find those rare linux games which might work or not work at all.
There were the Humble Bundle games, which I heard of only on Slashdot, I tried to buy such bundle once, giving $1 and got a set of PDF books out of it. It turns out the bundles are "time limited", that is they're sold for a short period then become permanently unavailable. This is amazing, and so I never played any Humble Bundle game at all. What's more, there were reports of games that are incompatible, anyway. Linux is so made that software breaks after some time, or won't work if you do'nt have library-foo 1.2.15.
Who is Broder, and who is Elon Musk, and why would some guy publicly accuse another of driving in a parking lot? I guess it is nice to be informed of something, but as a reader who didn't follow the other, very recent piece of news, I would have liked a few more words or sentences to give me context. Including what function does Mr Elon Musk occupy in the company.
This isn't Twitter, and we don't pay more for the Internet if we get a more complete summary, do we?
And optical drives fail or merely become incapable of burning a usable disc. And they don't fit in a pocket (a 3.5 floppy does) and need to be contained in cardboard or plastic or paper. And in my country, they're taxed because of the RIAA equivalent.
So, you've never heard of the cos phi? Or a complex impedance? Electricity is reasonably dead simple if you're only dealing with DC voltages or currents but once you're dealing with AC you'd better have a basic understanding of trig, complex numbers and exponentials.
I should add that a non-AM2+, AM2 motherboard also lacks the split voltage for the memory controller. This means an AM3 CPU will use slightly more power than usual and using one of the more hungry models like a Phenom II X4 955 or 965 is out. An Athlon II X3 450 should work fine, except maybe if your mobo is a bottom of the barrel micro ATX one.
I run an X2 245 on a Gigabyte nforce 520LE AM2 mobo, the mobo limits me actually (ddr2, two failed memory slots, overclocking doesn't work anymore) so I plan to upgrade the mobo when I can afford it.. and I've found there's still one nforce 720d mobo around, the Asrock M3N78D FX. It's both decent and cheaper than a mobo with 970 chipset and still has an IDE port. I would also trust it to be stable, my current PC never crashes at all.
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You might as well say we can do nothing about Hitler, and the Earth is just a ball of molten iron so let's kill all the Jews, Earth doesn't care about them.
Melting ice means the land glaciers melt away too, hence you lose natural water storage that builds up in the winter and flows downstream the rest of the year. A staggering number of people rely on these snowy and icy mountains, when they aren't icy and snowy anymore bad things will happen.
Then, in already semi-arid areas, hotter weather probably means they dry out more easily by evaporation. Higher evaporation from seas means global precipitation should increase and maybe some areas will receive much more rain but that doesn't mean China or e.g. semi-desertic regions of Spain won't get fucked.
Followed by some thinly-veiled xenophobia.
Can you blame them for wanting to distance themselves from that kind of crazy?
Can you try to write something more ridiculous and disgusting please?
This is just a silly wording of the usual argument from so-called conservatives that was earth was warmer 250 million years ago so there's nothing wrong if it rapidly warms today and "earth will recover anyway". This should be modded "+5 Troll".
Besides, why wouldn't "conservatives" want to conserve Earth's climate?
1000+ ppm was so many eons ago that the sun didn't shine as strong as today, I think. Even days were quite shorter because the earth was spinning faster back then. These high past CO2 concentrations were possibly the outcome of the biopshere regulating it that way, and many millions years later the biosphere regulates it much lower giving us conditions still supporting life.
I guess you'll have to wait for ARMv8 server hardware. Else there are 17W Celeron motherboards such as the Gigabyte GA-C847N, it's not really low power but may come close enough and has a fuck ton of connectors. (dual ethernet, e-sata, rs232, lpt header, IDE, one PCI etc.)
I finally upgraded from 2GB to 3GB ram and Chromium just ate all of it so I'm back to grind fest if I want to do something else or with Chrome alone.
It's just too damn heavy past a few dozen tabs. I even do a killall -9 chromium-browser to kill all tabs (but it keeps them around so I can reload them). If I quit and reload Chrome, it can't even load all the tabs I have. I have to kill them before it eats all 3GB mem + 1GB swap and crash. Firefox can handle hundreds tabs and has consistently got more stable/less leaky over time. The difference is it becomes sluggish while executing some pointless javascript and Chrome doesn't do that - because it's currently running 42 processes on my PC.
lol, adblock plus is DRM. It digital manages restrictions about not showing content.
Besides, where can I buy an Intel graphics card, you holier-than-thou nut?
I like yahoo, it's maybe not the greatest thing, or maybe it is, but at least it doesn't nag you and always works (always worked everytime every day in the last 12 years).
One day the web interface changed to web 2.0 and I didn't like it.. But I got to keep the web 1.0 interface, just by visiting it with Lynx. It also has a very, very useful feature : a "notepad" which lets you paste or write text just for yourself, always accessible from everywhere. So I've put all my important numbers and identifiers/password related to taxes, power bill, phone and ISP etc. as well as a manual back up of my phone's directory and stuff important or not or potentially useful a few years down the road.
The Windows vs Linux difference there is you can spend a few minutes downloading that Ethernet driver, probably from Realtek and probably a 100KB .exe, copy it on the target computer then double click it and it's done. No way you can do that on linux.
everything is wrong with government "providing" a lot of employment and spending. Somebody has to pay for it, government does not provide anything to anybody that it did not originally take from somebody else, government can take existing wealth and shift it around to different people, but it can't create new wealth.
Down with your bullshit, magical thinking! What if I replaced "government" by "company" in your gambling? Afterall all, a company only takes and shifts money.
"Everything is wrong with companies "providing" a lot of employment and spending. Somebody has to pay for it, a company does not provide anything to anybody that it did not originally take from somebody else, companies can take existing wealth and shift it around to different people, but they can't create new wealth."
Funnily, this is what the kleptocrat elites (that you are supporting) happen to think anyway! Gutting companies's employment and spending so they can walk away with the money and keep it to themselves is what they do all the time, now they'd rather attack governments so the farce can go on.
What you went on writing later is incredible but I won't bother. You say Japan needs deflation?, rofl, didn't they have quite some deflation already, long ago, becoming a zombie in the process?
The problem is voters and ideologues who give away the store every time some shyster promises whatever they want to hear. Free high speed internet installed everywhere in the country? You got my vote!
If I were French, the first question I'd be asking is it really worth 20 billion euro to connect all of France via high speed broadband to the internet? Second, could we get the same result for less?
No offense, but I just don't see that much value to hooking up society completely to the internet. Plus anyone who really wants to get on the internet in a developed country can find a way. My take is that most of the value of the internet is already here. Making it a little faster on the user side or adding a few more users, just isn't that valuable.
Cost-wise, I gather you're spending something like a thousand euro per household to connect up. That seems rather pricey especially given that a good fraction of those households are already connected.
Saying that it's just about getting a little faster is very short-sighted, switching from DSL to fiber means an immediate and minimum 100x increase in upload bandwith or more, for the same monthly ISP payment (going from 15M/1M to 100M/100M). Latency is slightly lower. This is pretty useful if you're running a business or something, probably! Now you can do video-conferencing, offsite back ups, media upload without thinking about it twice nor having to blow a shit ton money on aggregating four SDSL lines to get less than 10% the performance.
The bigger implications of such a level of affordable, ubiquitous network connectivity aren't really known but for a start more stuff can be done without requiring physical trips ; some other stuff will be possible that wasn't before (need to upload 10GB of video rushes in less than a hour?)
Now what about some more rural (or even unlucky suburban) place that gets 512Kbps down, 128Kbps up on DSL : if switched to fiber, it technically can get symetrical gigabit. That's a 2000x increase one way, and a 8000x increase the other way. In fact it's more than the difference between DSL and dial-up, even if you consider commercial offerings will be 100Mb/100Mb at first, rather than gigabit.
I do think a 20 billion euro plan to help deployment of that thing is very worth it, actually 20 billions aren't that much for the task at hand.
While I'm usually not fond of "web apps", the Firefox OS way of doing web only means you never deal with native apps. Many posts seem to lament this but this lack of a native ecosystem actually is something good for me : I don't want to maintain yet another computer, and be "forced" to carry it 24/7, and I don't want to lock myself into either existing "app" ecosystem. Even if a lock-in to e.g. the Android platform is not a very strong one, it's still a lock-in and has its own complexities (Android 2.x vs 4.x, ARM vs x86, Google app store vs sideloaded apps).
I actually have no smartphone, If I get a Firefox one it would be my first one. And who cares if I check mail or take text notes etc. in some web interface instead of a native application? I've only ever used webmail anyway, since about 2001. I wouldn't have any strong performance requirements (I am not interested in 3D games on a device that doesn't even have suitable controls) and I think low end smartphones will at least have a single core 1.x GHz CPU, be it MIPS, ARM or x86 and those will be enough to deal with the inefficiencies of running a card game on javascript and showing me pictures and maps in a web browser.
It's the exact same software as Ubuntu 12.04, whose usable version is called Linux Mint 13 Mate or Linux Mint 13 Xfce.
Debian stable when released will allow to install a slight variant, more vanilla looking of the same thing, with its highs and lows - e.g. what bullshit do I need to type on the prompt to install all non free firmware.
I wouldn't install anything else on a friend's computer, a public computer, for a relative I barely know at all etc., all situations where it's nice that the computer still works, still works the same and still gets updates many years later.
And at least it's more up to date than Ubuntu 8.04, Squeeze or Ubuntu 10.04.
No, that's the standard working week, many jobs are 35 hours but overtime still exists (some jobs are still 39 hours) as well as jobs where you basically don't count your hours (working as a cook in a restaurant, some executives, some researcher scientists, entrepreneurs, some people exploited on the labor black market etc.)
Suggesting 35 hours is the legal maximum is uninformed bullshit.
Lol, the C language is just BASIC with pointers. == vs =, and string handling functions moved to a separate library.
get either Mate or Xfce if you don't want to deal with crap.
Try Linux Mint 13 or 14 Xfce if you want an easy, well supported OS without the bullshit. Except for the bullshit about graphics drivers and needing a recent enough graphics (geforce 8 on the nvidia side, and Radeon 5000 series on the AMD side to be safe)
Wrong, I'm decently linux savvy, but I don't know about these linux games beside a few (such as World of Goo and Minecraft). Having gone linux-only for two or three years, I've been out of gaming so I don't actively try to find those rare linux games which might work or not work at all.
There were the Humble Bundle games, which I heard of only on Slashdot, I tried to buy such bundle once, giving $1 and got a set of PDF books out of it. It turns out the bundles are "time limited", that is they're sold for a short period then become permanently unavailable. This is amazing, and so I never played any Humble Bundle game at all. What's more, there were reports of games that are incompatible, anyway. Linux is so made that software breaks after some time, or won't work if you do'nt have library-foo 1.2.15.
Who is Broder, and who is Elon Musk, and why would some guy publicly accuse another of driving in a parking lot?
I guess it is nice to be informed of something, but as a reader who didn't follow the other, very recent piece of news, I would have liked a few more words or sentences to give me context. Including what function does Mr Elon Musk occupy in the company.
This isn't Twitter, and we don't pay more for the Internet if we get a more complete summary, do we?
It sounds like a serious comittee and companies got an inspiration from the Evil Bit proposal, even though that one was an april fools joke.
And optical drives fail or merely become incapable of burning a usable disc. And they don't fit in a pocket (a 3.5 floppy does) and need to be contained in cardboard or plastic or paper. And in my country, they're taxed because of the RIAA equivalent.
So, you've never heard of the cos phi? Or a complex impedance? Electricity is reasonably dead simple if you're only dealing with DC voltages or currents but once you're dealing with AC you'd better have a basic understanding of trig, complex numbers and exponentials.
read what he wrote again
I should add that a non-AM2+, AM2 motherboard also lacks the split voltage for the memory controller. This means an AM3 CPU will use slightly more power than usual and using one of the more hungry models like a Phenom II X4 955 or 965 is out. An Athlon II X3 450 should work fine, except maybe if your mobo is a bottom of the barrel micro ATX one.
I run an X2 245 on a Gigabyte nforce 520LE AM2 mobo, the mobo limits me actually (ddr2, two failed memory slots, overclocking doesn't work anymore) so I plan to upgrade the mobo when I can afford it.. and I've found there's still one nforce 720d mobo around, the Asrock M3N78D FX. It's both decent and cheaper than a mobo with 970 chipset and still has an IDE port. I would also trust it to be stable, my current PC never crashes at all.