I think you have a major problem when you can post half of the source story in the story preview panel. This article tells little and says nothing. *goes back to sleep*
I didn't say that creationists were eco-alarmists. I said your side was. Creationism in no way necessitates the existence of a static universe. I don't think you understand your own arguments, if you misunderstand your opponents.
I assume you mean global warming, not climate change, which no one I know of disputes.
Robert Balling, Robert M. Carter, William M. Gray, Sherwood B. Idso, Richard Lindzen, Patrick Michaels, S. Fred Singer, Frederick Seitz, Roy Spencer and Henrik Svensmark. Come on, being lazy, I easily found that on Wikipedia. As the idea of a scientist that opposes global warming is such an alien idea to you, I'm led to think you haven't bothered to study the issue one bit, therefore have no knowledge of the arguments for and against global warming, and are just parroting what scant and uninformative detritus you pull in from the newswires. Not going to go further with you on this. You need to go out and do some groundwork before coming up with an opinion.
Once again, Slashdot evinces its scientific illiteracy by placing scientists in a monolithic block of true believers. Not even climate scientists, either. Just "scientists."
For my "Game of the Year," I choose DEFCON. It's the only game that I've found interesting enough to actually buy all year. Yes, it's a bit of a buggy mess, but also an addictive buggy mess. You can get a demo off of Steam or Introversion's website http://www.everybody-dies.com/. I'd recommend purchasing it off of Steam, as it's cheaper. Don't bother posting in the Introversion DEFCON forums, though, it's run by a small clique of anti-social types.
Aside from the mythical status of that statement, no. The logistical difficulties in threading that many cores and using them efficiently, especially in personal computing, is extreme. I have no doubt that at some point this will be done, but a number of breakthroughs in computer science and a paradigm shift in programming techniques is required first.
The article text is not well-written. It makes mention of a "Sans," without bothering to identify what Sans is. I assume they don't mean the SANS Institute? Just rubbish, not at all well-edited.
This is warmed over Marxist nonsense. An economy of "sharing," placed in direct opposition to the right of ownership, is a round about way of endorsing Communism. OSS is not Communist. It is capitalist, in that it places the right of how to dispose of the owner's property to the property owners. Who, if they so decide, can give it away. The only, only way to help the world's poor is to support the birth and growth of institutions of liberal democracy, which will set the ground for a freely democratic and capitalistic society. Trying to prevent the "other" from achieving the success that we have is a form of imperialist violence, that will only mire future millions in poverty and an early death.
I'm unsure where Cringley is going with this. I moved back to Earthlink a couple weeks ago, and have lost zero e-mails. The problem is that the spam filters don't catch all of the spam, and I don't want to use whitelisting agains.
The fact that the only "serious" anti-global warming alarmism that Amtiskaw has heard of is only indicative of his ignorance on the subject, not an indictment against his non-scientifically politicized opponents. That he is also completely ignorant and only parroting what he reads in the non-science literature (i.e. newspapers and the like) about an imagined "vast body of evidence" in his favor only serves to stifle the scientific debate, which is much of what science is about, and forward his own favored worldview.
Well, ok, so all it does is do stuff I can do myself in the same amount of time. It's also likely that having a fridge telling me what it "needs," and clothes with RFID tags (what happens if you toss cold clothes in with hots?), this will take even longer. What I need is a home that can dust, vacuum and mop for itself. Along with cooking nearly any meal I can come up with. Also, must clean toilet and get rid of those weird stains in the bathtub and sink.
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I think you have a major problem when you can post half of the source story in the story preview panel. This article tells little and says nothing. *goes back to sleep*
I didn't say that creationists were eco-alarmists. I said your side was. Creationism in no way necessitates the existence of a static universe. I don't think you understand your own arguments, if you misunderstand your opponents.
Oops, I got confused on the HTML. Too many forums use brackets instead.
What makes you think that a significant number of eco-alarmism skeptics are creationists?
I assume you mean global warming, not climate change, which no one I know of disputes. Robert Balling, Robert M. Carter, William M. Gray, Sherwood B. Idso, Richard Lindzen, Patrick Michaels, S. Fred Singer, Frederick Seitz, Roy Spencer and Henrik Svensmark. Come on, being lazy, I easily found that on Wikipedia. As the idea of a scientist that opposes global warming is such an alien idea to you, I'm led to think you haven't bothered to study the issue one bit, therefore have no knowledge of the arguments for and against global warming, and are just parroting what scant and uninformative detritus you pull in from the newswires. Not going to go further with you on this. You need to go out and do some groundwork before coming up with an opinion.
Of course that's not true. Does make it easier to create such straw men, though, less cognitive dissonance.
Once again, Slashdot evinces its scientific illiteracy by placing scientists in a monolithic block of true believers. Not even climate scientists, either. Just "scientists."
FF3 best game of all time for the SNES (or Secret of Mana). Or at least best FF of all time.
For my "Game of the Year," I choose DEFCON. It's the only game that I've found interesting enough to actually buy all year. Yes, it's a bit of a buggy mess, but also an addictive buggy mess. You can get a demo off of Steam or Introversion's website http://www.everybody-dies.com/. I'd recommend purchasing it off of Steam, as it's cheaper. Don't bother posting in the Introversion DEFCON forums, though, it's run by a small clique of anti-social types.
Are you posting via a 6502-based computer with 32K of RAM?
Well, it was already dead, but yeah.
Aside from the mythical status of that statement, no. The logistical difficulties in threading that many cores and using them efficiently, especially in personal computing, is extreme. I have no doubt that at some point this will be done, but a number of breakthroughs in computer science and a paradigm shift in programming techniques is required first.
I'd like to know how and with what form of computer science 100 CPU cores will be useful for.
You think Rolex is anything special? Stupid, ignorant shill.
Why are people, shocked, shocked, when they find that government-funded science is censored or altered, one way or the other?
Save the economy from what? I don't see "government" anywhere mentioned.
The article text is not well-written. It makes mention of a "Sans," without bothering to identify what Sans is. I assume they don't mean the SANS Institute? Just rubbish, not at all well-edited.
I think we should be clear here, what they are discussing is natural variation within a single species, not an evolution from one species to another.
A synthetic gecko, or synthetic gecko-derived adhesives?
This is warmed over Marxist nonsense. An economy of "sharing," placed in direct opposition to the right of ownership, is a round about way of endorsing Communism. OSS is not Communist. It is capitalist, in that it places the right of how to dispose of the owner's property to the property owners. Who, if they so decide, can give it away. The only, only way to help the world's poor is to support the birth and growth of institutions of liberal democracy, which will set the ground for a freely democratic and capitalistic society. Trying to prevent the "other" from achieving the success that we have is a form of imperialist violence, that will only mire future millions in poverty and an early death.
I'm unsure where Cringley is going with this. I moved back to Earthlink a couple weeks ago, and have lost zero e-mails. The problem is that the spam filters don't catch all of the spam, and I don't want to use whitelisting agains.
The fact that the only "serious" anti-global warming alarmism that Amtiskaw has heard of is only indicative of his ignorance on the subject, not an indictment against his non-scientifically politicized opponents. That he is also completely ignorant and only parroting what he reads in the non-science literature (i.e. newspapers and the like) about an imagined "vast body of evidence" in his favor only serves to stifle the scientific debate, which is much of what science is about, and forward his own favored worldview.
Well, ok, so all it does is do stuff I can do myself in the same amount of time. It's also likely that having a fridge telling me what it "needs," and clothes with RFID tags (what happens if you toss cold clothes in with hots?), this will take even longer. What I need is a home that can dust, vacuum and mop for itself. Along with cooking nearly any meal I can come up with. Also, must clean toilet and get rid of those weird stains in the bathtub and sink.
2. I'm a Jew.
3. Being an atheist Jew doesn't make me stupid or immune to reality. I surely do not want to live next door to a Muslim.
After all, the hardware half of a Macintosh is just a PC.