It isn't an opinion. That isn't how (real) science works. It is an educated guess based on the data they have so far. Not all of the data is in yet. We will know for sure in a few weeks/months. But it would be surprising if the remaining data to be collated brought the temperature down enough for it to be not the hottest.
Besides, does it really matter? If it wasn't the hottest, then for sure it was the second hottest, the most hottest being 1998, IIRC.
Yes, there is a real crisis, and no the article doesn't get to the bottom of it.
The fields of science affected by patents are worst affected, but all fields of science are today in at least some form of crisis. "Publish or perish", and a bureacratic/accountancy driven push for quantity of publications over quality, has caused an explosion in the number of published articles and an equally dramatic drop in the substance of said articles.
The result is that even in a small sub-field, there are too many publications for an indiviual to keep track of. Actually reading other people's articles takes a lot of time, often only to discover that the reported research is superficial and the time spent understanding the paper was wasted anyway. This results in people not bothering to read the literature, and instead just repeating work some other group has already published. This contributes to the explosion of publications, and thereby keeps the bureacrats happy. But the effect on science is overwhelmingly negative.
An associated effect is that the real interest in the research is often obsfucated in the publication. If it was clear from a cursory reading how superficial the research was, the journal referee's might reject it. And if some other research group can figure out exactly what you did, they might be able to reproduce your work and scoop your future researches.
Fields subject to commercial interests suffer extremely badly from this, to the extent that in drug research, much of the interesting research is never published publically at all.
Order of magnitude estimates are the bread & butter of most fields of science. For a test as to whether heating due to energy consumption has a potentially significant impact on global warming, an order of magnitude estimate would be just fine.
My suspicion is that it is virtually irrelevant. Any data suggesting it was within an order of magnitude or so of the effect of atmospheric greenhouse gas levels, I would treat as significant. That is what I was hoping you (or someone else) would provide. Can you do it?
Isn't it just the heat equivalent of the total energy consumed by society? Sum fossil fuel use + solar + wind + other alternitives + energy consumed by people themselves + others I have no doubt forgotten.... what makes this so difficult?
Err, wouldn't the amount of heat produced by society be quite an easy quantity to estimate? Why do you think climatologists would have forgotten to include it in their models?
No, Windows doesn't have a coherent process model. There simply isn't a direct equivalent to kill -9 in Windows. Process Explorer just does a slightly better job of approximating it than (Microsoft's own!) Task Manager.
I wonder really how easy it is to tack this sort of feature onto an existing system?
Even with current Windows OS's, the number of "reboot your machine for this change to take effect" messages isn't enough: the first piece of advice on any trouble is "reboot and see if the problem still occurs". All I can see the Restart Manager changing, is the advice line. Now it will be "I know the Restart Manager said you don't need to reboot, but try it anyway, OK!".
It was the current US DoC that was opposed to he creation of the.xxx TLD. It was other countries (read Canadians) that wanted it.
Yes, but I dont think they wanted it just for the purpose of regulating the hell out of it. Or at least, not for sites outside their own jurisdiction.
By the way, did you really intend your audience to substitute "Canadians" for "other countries" ? If so, why not just write it that way in the first place? The way it is now, it looks like you are equating two concepts that are contradictory.
But who would enforce it? Isn't this kind of content management exactly the thing that the US has been accusing others of wanting to do?
I have no objections if the US rules that porn sites hosted in their own country have to be under.xxx, but any kind of global enforcement (especially since the question of exactly what constitutes porn has a very different answer in differnt parts of the world) is just not on!
X might crash, leaving your screen frozen and your computer inaccessible (unless you can login via ssh and kill X). I have had, on rare occasion, the taskbar/panel ('kicker') crash. No prob, switch to a terminal and just restart it ("kicker& ENTER") - I would like to see THAT on Windows, or OS X!
The only possibility I can think of is the window manager crashing. But then, that is only because I have never seen it happen, so for all I know that makes it look like 'KDE crashed';) Other than that, it just isn't possible. There isn't such an application as 'KDE'. It is a window manager + taskbar + communication layer + a bunch of applications, all essentially independent. I leave my KDE desktop at work logged in for months at a time, and never have a problem with it.
Right. I mean, it isn't as if Sony doesn't have anyone in its employ that has the technical expertise to judge the technical merits.
My guess is, some guy in marketing/IP protection/SLAPP department came up with that plan, and of course that trumps what some loser computer science dick would say, any day of the week.
I am saying that the recording industry needs to be brought down to erect a new business model where the recording artist are the profit center, not the recording industry.
Precisely! All heil the coming Socialist Revolution!
The wording on the sign might be funny, but the message it is trying to convey is certainly not!
Assuming you cannot read Korean, why are you apparantly pre-judging that the text on the Korean sign has no humor value, without knowing what it actually says? In fact, my bet is that it is humorous to Koreans;) If I am right, would that suddenly make you not disturbed by it? What does the humor value of the text have to do with whether it is disturbing or not?
Interesting. First time I ever heard this. Can you give a link to someone else (preferably with some scientific training;-) who also subscribes to this theory?
Ok, it is perhaps plausible that the eventual equilibrium level would be that of pre-industrial revolution. But you didn't explain why this process would be so fast. The time scale for the original carbon sequestration was millions of years!
The mass of carbon is quite large, ie. the volume of the oil and coal we have extracted from the ground is big. To get back to a pre-industrial revolution level of carbon, A similar volume of material needs to be despoited somewhere. Since you are suggesting photosynthesis as the basic mechanism, presumably you also mean that this large amount of material will be in the form of plant matter. Can you elaborate on the mechanism for this? Where would all this plant matter actually be located?
Why would this mechanism result in an equilibrium level the same as that of the pre-industrial revolution? Wouldn't that take a time scale of much longer than hundreds of years? Do you have any links to a supporting calculation? In short, I call bullshit.
And besides, we're going to run out of oil in the next 100 years anyway, and the earth will balance itself out and go back to equilibrium, and everyone will be happy (except for the oil companaies).
Why would carbon levels go back to equilibrium? What time scale are you expecting for this?
But ICANN is ultimately subject to the US department of commerce. And of course ICANN is also subject to US law. So there are a multitude of ways the USA could inferfere, if they so wanted.
They are too easy to counterfeit; A stolen passport can be used by someone who looks similar; positive identification of the carrying individual takes too long. Australia has ePassports which have a chip with biometric data which can be used to identify whether the passport carrier is indeed the person to which the passport was issued.
How? From the DFAT site, The chip embedded in the centre pages stores your digitised photograph, name, gender, date of birth, nationality, passport number, and the passport expiry date. This is the same information that appears on the printed information page of every passport.
So, it contains nothing new, and all of the information except for the digitised photo is already in the machine readable section, so this adds.... facial recognition? LOL, if you don't know how unreliable that is, you havn't been around much;)
ARGH, this was supposed to be a link to the Halloween Documents. Apparantly they have been moved to ESR's personal site (why?), but I cant find them (and I find ESR to be annoying enough that I really dont want to troll through his personal site much).
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Besides, does it really matter? If it wasn't the hottest, then for sure it was the second hottest, the most hottest being 1998, IIRC.
The fields of science affected by patents are worst affected, but all fields of science are today in at least some form of crisis. "Publish or perish", and a bureacratic/accountancy driven push for quantity of publications over quality, has caused an explosion in the number of published articles and an equally dramatic drop in the substance of said articles.
The result is that even in a small sub-field, there are too many publications for an indiviual to keep track of. Actually reading other people's articles takes a lot of time, often only to discover that the reported research is superficial and the time spent understanding the paper was wasted anyway. This results in people not bothering to read the literature, and instead just repeating work some other group has already published. This contributes to the explosion of publications, and thereby keeps the bureacrats happy. But the effect on science is overwhelmingly negative.
An associated effect is that the real interest in the research is often obsfucated in the publication. If it was clear from a cursory reading how superficial the research was, the journal referee's might reject it. And if some other research group can figure out exactly what you did, they might be able to reproduce your work and scoop your future researches.
Fields subject to commercial interests suffer extremely badly from this, to the extent that in drug research, much of the interesting research is never published publically at all.
Order of magnitude estimates are the bread & butter of most fields of science. For a test as to whether heating due to energy consumption has a potentially significant impact on global warming, an order of magnitude estimate would be just fine.
My suspicion is that it is virtually irrelevant. Any data suggesting it was within an order of magnitude or so of the effect of atmospheric greenhouse gas levels, I would treat as significant. That is what I was hoping you (or someone else) would provide. Can you do it?
Isn't it just the heat equivalent of the total energy consumed by society? Sum fossil fuel use + solar + wind + other alternitives + energy consumed by people themselves + others I have no doubt forgotten .... what makes this so difficult?
Err, wouldn't the amount of heat produced by society be quite an easy quantity to estimate? Why do you think climatologists would have forgotten to include it in their models?
No, Windows doesn't have a coherent process model. There simply isn't a direct equivalent to kill -9 in Windows. Process Explorer just does a slightly better job of approximating it than (Microsoft's own!) Task Manager.
LOL, this is interesting? Exactly how is causing a crash when killing a service, not a limitation of windows?
Even with current Windows OS's, the number of "reboot your machine for this change to take effect" messages isn't enough: the first piece of advice on any trouble is "reboot and see if the problem still occurs". All I can see the Restart Manager changing, is the advice line. Now it will be "I know the Restart Manager said you don't need to reboot, but try it anyway, OK!".
Yes, but I dont think they wanted it just for the purpose of regulating the hell out of it. Or at least, not for sites outside their own jurisdiction.
By the way, did you really intend your audience to substitute "Canadians" for "other countries" ? If so, why not just write it that way in the first place? The way it is now, it looks like you are equating two concepts that are contradictory.
I have no objections if the US rules that porn sites hosted in their own country have to be under .xxx, but any kind of global enforcement (especially since the question of exactly what constitutes porn has a very different answer in differnt parts of the world) is just not on!
X might crash, leaving your screen frozen and your computer inaccessible (unless you can login via ssh and kill X). I have had, on rare occasion, the taskbar/panel ('kicker') crash. No prob, switch to a terminal and just restart it ("kicker& ENTER") - I would like to see THAT on Windows, or OS X!
The only possibility I can think of is the window manager crashing. But then, that is only because I have never seen it happen, so for all I know that makes it look like 'KDE crashed' ;) Other than that, it just isn't possible. There isn't such an application as 'KDE'. It is a window manager + taskbar + communication layer + a bunch of applications, all essentially independent. I leave my KDE desktop at work logged in for months at a time, and never have a problem with it.
My guess is, some guy in marketing/IP protection/SLAPP department came up with that plan, and of course that trumps what some loser computer science dick would say, any day of the week.
Right. GO AUSTRALIA! But ... what does Australia have to do with the domain name system ??
I can't see any UN involement here, so I guess we can safely be against ICANN?
Precisely! All heil the coming Socialist Revolution!
Assuming you cannot read Korean, why are you apparantly pre-judging that the text on the Korean sign has no humor value, without knowing what it actually says? In fact, my bet is that it is humorous to Koreans ;) If I am right, would that suddenly make you not disturbed by it? What does the humor value of the text have to do with whether it is disturbing or not?
Interesting. First time I ever heard this. Can you give a link to someone else (preferably with some scientific training ;-) who also subscribes to this theory?
Heh. So you really think a photo of that sign, posted to a Korean discussion site, wouldn't appear equally disturbing??
The mass of carbon is quite large, ie. the volume of the oil and coal we have extracted from the ground is big. To get back to a pre-industrial revolution level of carbon, A similar volume of material needs to be despoited somewhere. Since you are suggesting photosynthesis as the basic mechanism, presumably you also mean that this large amount of material will be in the form of plant matter. Can you elaborate on the mechanism for this? Where would all this plant matter actually be located?
Why would this mechanism result in an equilibrium level the same as that of the pre-industrial revolution? Wouldn't that take a time scale of much longer than hundreds of years? Do you have any links to a supporting calculation? In short, I call bullshit.
Why would carbon levels go back to equilibrium? What time scale are you expecting for this?
But ICANN is ultimately subject to the US department of commerce. And of course ICANN is also subject to US law. So there are a multitude of ways the USA could inferfere, if they so wanted.
You should do some research. Most of the DNS servers are located outside the USA and have been for quite a while now.
How? From the DFAT site, The chip embedded in the centre pages stores your digitised photograph, name, gender, date of birth, nationality, passport number, and the passport expiry date. This is the same information that appears on the printed information page of every passport.
So, it contains nothing new, and all of the information except for the digitised photo is already in the machine readable section, so this adds .... facial recognition? LOL, if you don't know how unreliable that is, you havn't been around much ;)
ARGH, this was supposed to be a link to the Halloween Documents. Apparantly they have been moved to ESR's personal site (why?), but I cant find them (and I find ESR to be annoying enough that I really dont want to troll through his personal site much).