This is a professor who claimed that global warming stopped in 1998 when it turns out that 2005 was the hottest year on record (since we began tracking such things).
Uh, okay...let's look at Bob Carter's article. He says:
"Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero)."
Now, you say 2005 had the hottest year on record, yet the official temperature record of the Climate Research Unit shows otherwise. He was pointing this out. Are you going to ignore the official temperature record of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia?
A lot of the "scientists" that I've seen taking a position on this are clearly hucksters working for the likes of Exxon Mobile, etc.
If they were "clearly" hucksters, where is your evidence to prove it? I discussed global warming with a guy on IRC a while back, and every time I quoted any scientific opposition to the idea we're headed to a global warming apocalypse, he said it was "petrol-funded" and acted as though that magically meant he had offered a valid counterpoint.
Show me one peer reviewed scientific paper that says anything other than global warming is happening and it's caused by human emissions of CO2. To my knowledge, this does not exist.
Aside the fact that many scientific journals are blinded by groupthink and won't publish alternative viewpoints on global warming (just look at your attitude toward Bob Carter for referencing the official temperature record!), there is growing concern that many young scientists today have examined the evidence and don't believe we're headed toward a human-created cataclysm, but do not want to risk their careers expressing that viewpoint because of the politics involved.
I have little doubt that there are some scientists who are legitimate who don't buy into the common thinking, but that doesn't mean the common thinking is wrong.
It does mean there is not an official, unquestioned consensus. In the 1970s, there was also a consensus that we were all going to be in a new Ice Age by now.
They need to back up their beliefs with sound evidence and method. But they don't.
They do! Bob Carter cited the official temperature record. Hell, one guy even put out a book called The Skeptical Environmentalist that cited several facts and figures, and got trashed by angry liberals for it.
I'd like to summarize Michael Crichton's point about environmentalism--it has become an urban religion. Hard-wired into human brains is the idea that there was a pristine world that was sullied by the sins of man, and through ritual worship, an apocalypse can be averted or else we will all be judged by our actions. It sounds just like Christianity, and it sounds just like environmentalism. It also sounds just like political parties. Even OSS advocates who hate proprietary software. Everybody adopts a belief system that believes in a pristine past marred by human behavior leading toward a crisis that must be rebelled against.
Actually, O'Reilly is a common critic of Bush policies, particular when it comes to national security. But I understand that people who disagree with other people's politics need to pigeonhole them into an absolutist viewpoint in order to dismiss them.:P Not directed at you specifically, though it may apply.
My housemate appears to have lost all her music because iTunes has decided that she's copied it too many times.
You're incredibly vague, so chances are she simply ran out of her five computer authorizations. That's as simple as going into iTunes, going to your account, and removing the existing authorizations. Then re-authorize the computer she's on.
iTunes would never, ever just magically delete your music because you copied it somewhere. You can copy your iTunes music ANYWHERE.
Like cell phones and the PSP? Not to mention Winamp and all the other software players?
AAC is MP4, the official successor to MP3. They probably should have just always referred to it as "MP4" so everyone would get that, but Apple wanted to differentiate between audio and video, so MPEG-4 audio is M4A and MPE4-4 video is M4V or in Quicktime's MOV container format.
As for FairPlay, it's the #1 most liberal DRM in existence. You never even notice it's there. Every single time someone complains about FairPlay, it's instant proof that they've never even bought anything from the iTunes Store and actually used it.
How am I "locked in" because I can't compile the Darwin kernel? You would never, ever even have a need to do that. You're putting ideals over common sense needs.
Did you need specific examples? I suppose you could ask him what he rattled off but it is very clear that he did give apple names of people that had contacted him.
He didn't give examples of people contacting him, he gave random examples (no specific names) of people he thought were recompiling the OS X kernel.
Instead, they charge a full $300 for Windows XP Professional in 2006, require activation, require WGA, and phone home about you and your computer.
Apple keeps OS X releases updated throughout their life cycle, until they reach 10.x.9. Then a new major version is released for only $120. No activation, no WGA. Not even a serial number.
And I'm not really worried about that. You sound like those screaming security software ad banners warning me that my computer is broadcasting an IP address. I don't care that much if Google scripts sitting on a Linux machine somewhere parse my content to display an ad when I load the page.
Google's main business model is ad impressions. Google serves ads using its search technology. Having people running a spreadsheet with context-sensitive ads at the top is part of the search-based business model they described.
No, it means they know how to count the number of accounts on their MSDN blogs site.:P
As for Mini-MSFT giving up the towel (forgive the pun), he(she?)'s not. He clearly wrote that he's simply taking a break to see how things turn out given the recent internal changes at Microsoft. He said he'd continue to post interesting links and allow people to voice their concerns in the comments discussions, which is the real heart of the site, and that he'd return to full writing sometime in the future.
What a flawed argument! I just explained how Apple's DRM wasn't like handcuffs at all, and how you don't come across any restrictions in normal use.
You kind of have to prove that they're as restrictive as handcuffs first for your remark to be valid. You guys are just anti-DRM because Slashdot runs constant headlines telling you to think that way, so you take an absolutist viewpoint that any and all copy protection is 100% wrong. Absolutist mindsets are the real handcuffs in this debate.
1993 - Word 6 for Windows (renumbered "6" to bring Windows version numbering in line with that of DOS version, Macintosh version and also WordPerfect, the main competing word processor at the time)
I think you've have to be pretty naive to ignore what was going on with the version jump.
Microsoft's goal is to use Internet Explorer to deliver apps through the browser, so having client-side.NET installed will be a requirement in the future. They want to tie the web to Windows and Internet Explorer by making it a Windows application delivery platform (Avalon and other technologies can run right in an Internet Explorer window). You're talking only about web pages, not full web apps. The push will happen, just wait and see.
Personally, I'm not really excited about anything Microsoft is doing anymore, especially with.NET which is far too slow compared to speedy native frameworks like Cocoa.
You're right; independent benchmarks show the Core 2 chips beating the pants off AMD's latest offerings. Even hardware analysts are now saying AMD will lose its edge in the server and desktop markets and will fall behind. However, don't expect anyone to listen around here--years of anti-Intel articles have shaped a certain viewpoint that only AMD is good, because they're the underdog. But that underdog is about to be beaten with, frankly, superior technology. The anti-Intel trolls can continue their rhetoric, but when the Core 2 chips are everywhere, AMD will just plain be behind in both performance and power usage. The Core 2 chips can even easily be overclocked to over 4Ghz, while AMD's latest struggles to reach 3Ghz. They're not even on 65nm yet. So it's pretty clear Intel will be ending the year with a definite lead.
Hardware analysts are saying AMD will lose its edge when Core 2 comes out, which beats AMD on speed and power consumption. It will be interesting to read opinions around here since there's a definite anti-Intel slant.
I think Rosen's position is interesting considering that even Slashdot back in 2000 was very adamant that the RIAA should go after infringers (mostly because everyone thought it couldn't be done, so it was a safe position to take).
As for Apple's DRM being "a pain," I don't know how she could possibly think that. I've never even hit a limitation with it, and I forget it's there. It's the most liberal DRM in existence.
We'll see lots of defensiveness over this study in the comments, although if the conclusions were different, it would be cheered. Why not accept it and fix the documentation issue?
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Whose fault is it if you've lost your save data? If you don't want to spend 500 hours, and the content you unlocked was that important, maybe you should have backed up your save game files.
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Uh, okay...let's look at Bob Carter's article. He says:
"Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero)."
Now, you say 2005 had the hottest year on record, yet the official temperature record of the Climate Research Unit shows otherwise. He was pointing this out. Are you going to ignore the official temperature record of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia?
If they were "clearly" hucksters, where is your evidence to prove it? I discussed global warming with a guy on IRC a while back, and every time I quoted any scientific opposition to the idea we're headed to a global warming apocalypse, he said it was "petrol-funded" and acted as though that magically meant he had offered a valid counterpoint.
Aside the fact that many scientific journals are blinded by groupthink and won't publish alternative viewpoints on global warming (just look at your attitude toward Bob Carter for referencing the official temperature record!), there is growing concern that many young scientists today have examined the evidence and don't believe we're headed toward a human-created cataclysm, but do not want to risk their careers expressing that viewpoint because of the politics involved.
It does mean there is not an official, unquestioned consensus. In the 1970s, there was also a consensus that we were all going to be in a new Ice Age by now.
They do! Bob Carter cited the official temperature record. Hell, one guy even put out a book called The Skeptical Environmentalist that cited several facts and figures, and got trashed by angry liberals for it.
I'd like to summarize Michael Crichton's point about environmentalism--it has become an urban religion. Hard-wired into human brains is the idea that there was a pristine world that was sullied by the sins of man, and through ritual worship, an apocalypse can be averted or else we will all be judged by our actions. It sounds just like Christianity, and it sounds just like environmentalism. It also sounds just like political parties. Even OSS advocates who hate proprietary software. Everybody adopts a belief system that believes in a pristine past marred by human behavior leading toward a crisis that must be rebelled against.
Actually, O'Reilly is a common critic of Bush policies, particular when it comes to national security. But I understand that people who disagree with other people's politics need to pigeonhole them into an absolutist viewpoint in order to dismiss them. :P Not directed at you specifically, though it may apply.
You're incredibly vague, so chances are she simply ran out of her five computer authorizations. That's as simple as going into iTunes, going to your account, and removing the existing authorizations. Then re-authorize the computer she's on.
iTunes would never, ever just magically delete your music because you copied it somewhere. You can copy your iTunes music ANYWHERE.
Like cell phones and the PSP? Not to mention Winamp and all the other software players?
AAC is MP4, the official successor to MP3. They probably should have just always referred to it as "MP4" so everyone would get that, but Apple wanted to differentiate between audio and video, so MPEG-4 audio is M4A and MPE4-4 video is M4V or in Quicktime's MOV container format.
AAC, the MPEG-4 the audio standard?
As for FairPlay, it's the #1 most liberal DRM in existence. You never even notice it's there. Every single time someone complains about FairPlay, it's instant proof that they've never even bought anything from the iTunes Store and actually used it.
Right, MPEG-4 (AAC), WAV, AU, MP3, MOV, and AIFF are crazy lock-in formats that nobody else uses.
Next.
How am I "locked in" because I can't compile the Darwin kernel? You would never, ever even have a need to do that. You're putting ideals over common sense needs.
He didn't give examples of people contacting him, he gave random examples (no specific names) of people he thought were recompiling the OS X kernel.
You have to buy a PC to run Windows, too.
Instead, they charge a full $300 for Windows XP Professional in 2006, require activation, require WGA, and phone home about you and your computer.
Apple keeps OS X releases updated throughout their life cycle, until they reach 10.x.9. Then a new major version is released for only $120. No activation, no WGA. Not even a serial number.
And I'm not really worried about that. You sound like those screaming security software ad banners warning me that my computer is broadcasting an IP address. I don't care that much if Google scripts sitting on a Linux machine somewhere parse my content to display an ad when I load the page.
Google's main business model is ad impressions. Google serves ads using its search technology. Having people running a spreadsheet with context-sensitive ads at the top is part of the search-based business model they described.
No, it means they know how to count the number of accounts on their MSDN blogs site. :P
As for Mini-MSFT giving up the towel (forgive the pun), he(she?)'s not. He clearly wrote that he's simply taking a break to see how things turn out given the recent internal changes at Microsoft. He said he'd continue to post interesting links and allow people to voice their concerns in the comments discussions, which is the real heart of the site, and that he'd return to full writing sometime in the future.
What a flawed argument! I just explained how Apple's DRM wasn't like handcuffs at all, and how you don't come across any restrictions in normal use.
You kind of have to prove that they're as restrictive as handcuffs first for your remark to be valid. You guys are just anti-DRM because Slashdot runs constant headlines telling you to think that way, so you take an absolutist viewpoint that any and all copy protection is 100% wrong. Absolutist mindsets are the real handcuffs in this debate.
I think you've have to be pretty naive to ignore what was going on with the version jump.
Doesn't seem like it if they never used it, and you could do the same thing through other alternatives.
It's not like Microsoft invented the idea of a client-side dynamic web page before anyone else.
Microsoft's goal is to use Internet Explorer to deliver apps through the browser, so having client-side .NET installed will be a requirement in the future. They want to tie the web to Windows and Internet Explorer by making it a Windows application delivery platform (Avalon and other technologies can run right in an Internet Explorer window). You're talking only about web pages, not full web apps. The push will happen, just wait and see.
.NET which is far too slow compared to speedy native frameworks like Cocoa.
Personally, I'm not really excited about anything Microsoft is doing anymore, especially with
You're right; independent benchmarks show the Core 2 chips beating the pants off AMD's latest offerings. Even hardware analysts are now saying AMD will lose its edge in the server and desktop markets and will fall behind. However, don't expect anyone to listen around here--years of anti-Intel articles have shaped a certain viewpoint that only AMD is good, because they're the underdog. But that underdog is about to be beaten with, frankly, superior technology. The anti-Intel trolls can continue their rhetoric, but when the Core 2 chips are everywhere, AMD will just plain be behind in both performance and power usage. The Core 2 chips can even easily be overclocked to over 4Ghz, while AMD's latest struggles to reach 3Ghz. They're not even on 65nm yet. So it's pretty clear Intel will be ending the year with a definite lead.
Hardware analysts are saying AMD will lose its edge when Core 2 comes out, which beats AMD on speed and power consumption. It will be interesting to read opinions around here since there's a definite anti-Intel slant.
I think Rosen's position is interesting considering that even Slashdot back in 2000 was very adamant that the RIAA should go after infringers (mostly because everyone thought it couldn't be done, so it was a safe position to take).
As for Apple's DRM being "a pain," I don't know how she could possibly think that. I've never even hit a limitation with it, and I forget it's there. It's the most liberal DRM in existence.
For all I know, you've got two heads and seven titties. For all I know, Slashdot is run by Steve Jobs. For all I know...
Demand drives pricing, not ROM file sizes. Legend of Zelda 1 is still valuable to a lot of people, and therefore to Nintendo.
We'll see lots of defensiveness over this study in the comments, although if the conclusions were different, it would be cheered. Why not accept it and fix the documentation issue?
Jack Thompson's research assistant?
Whose fault is it if you've lost your save data? If you don't want to spend 500 hours, and the content you unlocked was that important, maybe you should have backed up your save game files.