And how do you think this is going to help in the slightest? If all Internet traffic in and out of Iran is being slowed down, running through a proxy outside of Iran won't help because traffic to and from it will be affected just as much as everything else.
How long do the authorities in Iran think they can keep this Internet slowdown going? Sooner or later, they'll have to let up, and when they do, there's going to be a flood of blog posts and website updates about the latest protests. Unless they cut off all Internet access forever, they can't stop it from happening, they can only delay it, and the longer they do, the worse it looks.
Well, in that case the CRU could have responded to the FOIA requests by explaining that they don't own the data and aren't entitled to give it away, along with a pointer to National Meteorological Services and a polite suggestion that they get their own copy from the people who do own it. Instead, AFAICT, they simply stonewalled.
And then there's the lack of archaeological evidence of a large group of people "wandering" the deserts for 40 years
Just a minor nitpick here: the Hebrews didn't wander in the desert, they wandered in the wilderness, that area between the settled lands and the desert.
Mainstream Jewish though is that the first chapters of Genesis aren't intended to be taken literally. Their importance is that they remind us of who is responsible for Creation, not how it happened.
Exactly. If the AGW fanatics were as sure of their position as they claim to be, they'd publish their raw data and the source code to their programs so that everything can be reviewed, recompiled and verified. The fact that they've done everything they can including, apparently, deleting the raw data speaks volumes about their lack of confidence.
Vikings build villages in Greenland 1,000 years ago. Those same villages got covered in ice and snow 900 years ago and the viking left cause it was cold as heck, nothing would grow and their animals starved.
To be more accurate, the villages were founded around 650 AD or so, and lasted for roughly five hundred years before the climate changed enough to make the area uninhabitable to pre-industrial Europeans who wouldn't adapt the way of life of the natives.
Consider this: warmer weather means longer growing seasons, meaning larger crops. It also means that areas in and near the Arctic that aren't warm enough now for agriculture can be farmed, with crops growing now just south of the arctic. (That means that food crops that work best in those short, cool summers won't go away, they'll just move to a different location.) Warmer weather means more food; colder weather means less. And, as far as the sea level rising, I gather that it's been doing that for about 12,000 years without much effect, so we can probably manage a little more.
Well, it's run by scientists who know more than any of us, which is why it is useful to link to them.
Correction: it's run by advocates who are only interested in presenting one side of the argument and suppressing any evidence that doesn't point the way they want it to. It's only useful to link to them if you're more interested in advocacy than facts.
I was told that ALL CHANGES had to go on the CEO change calendar and that we would become very familiar with the assistant that scheduled the CEO change meetings.
Sounds to me like somebody in your company has a micro-management fetish. BTDTGTTS. You have my sympathy!
Linux commands on their own can look very cryptic to the uninitiated.
My sister uses Ubuntu, and I'm her tech support. Sometimes, I need distro-specific advice (I use Fedora.) and ask on ubuntuforums.org. I've glanced at some of the forum rules, both there and at the Fedora fourm I use for my own system and they both specifically forbids suggesting certain commands as "solutions" to problems, even as a joke, because they're so destructive.
From a developer standpoint, DirectX is a no-brainer when it's available.
Thank you, but that's not what I was asking,although the comparison is both interesting and informative. (to me, at least) What I wanted to know is why Linux devs don't feel the need for a Linux version of Direct-X. However, it occurs to me that you have answered my question, indirectly: OpenGL may not do everything Direct-X does, but it does enough so that Linux devs don't feel the need for a more comprehensive solution. Thank you again.
No. It's pure speculation on my part, but seems (to me, at least) reasonable. Most animals have a natural pace that they use whenever possible because it's the most energy efficient, and I'd expect it to be the same for ants. I find it hard to believe without proof that ants have the understanding to change their pace depending on the length of their legs, as that would take more reasoning power than they've been shown to have.
I'm not saying that ants are aware of the passing of time, or judge their trips by it, only that from where I sit, the experiment as described doesn't rule out the possibility.
There are times I am forced to, like if I'm doing gaming video, I have to do it using the Direct-X toolkit.
I mean, there is no other way around, since some users are using ATI cards and CUDA is useless on ATI GPUs.
And yet, the people doing graphics and gaming programming for Linux seem to do just fine without it. This isn't intended to knock Windows, please don't misunderstand me. It's just a statement of fact, and a question. Why is Direct-X so vital for such things on Windows and so irrelevant on Linux that it doesn't exist? The answer may be obvious to you, but I'm not a graphics or gaming programmer and I don't normally need to know these things. If you have a good explanation, I'd be interested in learning something new.
A timing mechanism would not exhibit this property.
I beg to differ. If they find their way home by walking for a fixed length of time, the experiment would have come out exactly the same. That's because ants take a fixed number of steps per minute, whether their legs have been lengthened, shortened or left alone. Thus, there's no way that you can tell (from the experiment as described) if the ants are counting their steps (as the researchers claim) or walking for a fixed length of time.
This generation and future ones deserve better than just a high school education, and they deserve better than to be simple repetition of their parents.
We don't live at Lake Woebegone and our children don't all have above average intelligence. No matter how much you argue you can't change the fact that not everybody can handle a university education. Trying to force it down children's throats when they're on the wrong side of the bell curve just waste their time and their parent's (or more likely the governments) money.
If you respond, please address this issue instead of just pretending it doesn't exist as you've been doing so far.
There simply is not time to understand what one needs to be a good citizen by the time one finishes high school.
There's more than enough time if it's taught properly. I'm sure your parents and grand parents all learned enough to be good citizens by the time they were out of high school. I know mine did. If schools went back to teaching students what they're going to need as adults instead of trying to force a college prep education down the throats of children who aren't capable of understanding it (at least half) they'd be doing a better job than they are now.
...and the one-size fits all philosophy of punishing those who are struggling the most to benefit the already advantaged.
If you're going to go for Bush bashing, get your facts straight. The inevitable result of No Child Left Behind was No Child Gets Ahead. Teachers were forced to ignore the best and the brightest because they were spending all their time trying to drag the worst students up to an acceptable standard.
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If they really want a decentralized, low-bandwidth protocol, they already have it. It's called "Usenet."
And how do you think this is going to help in the slightest? If all Internet traffic in and out of Iran is being slowed down, running through a proxy outside of Iran won't help because traffic to and from it will be affected just as much as everything else.
How long do the authorities in Iran think they can keep this Internet slowdown going? Sooner or later, they'll have to let up, and when they do, there's going to be a flood of blog posts and website updates about the latest protests. Unless they cut off all Internet access forever, they can't stop it from happening, they can only delay it, and the longer they do, the worse it looks.
I'd love to, but none of the schools around here have courses in fucking for me to teach.
Well, in that case the CRU could have responded to the FOIA requests by explaining that they don't own the data and aren't entitled to give it away, along with a pointer to National Meteorological Services and a polite suggestion that they get their own copy from the people who do own it. Instead, AFAICT, they simply stonewalled.
Just a minor nitpick here: the Hebrews didn't wander in the desert, they wandered in the wilderness, that area between the settled lands and the desert.
Mainstream Jewish though is that the first chapters of Genesis aren't intended to be taken literally. Their importance is that they remind us of who is responsible for Creation, not how it happened.
Exactly. If the AGW fanatics were as sure of their position as they claim to be, they'd publish their raw data and the source code to their programs so that everything can be reviewed, recompiled and verified. The fact that they've done everything they can including, apparently, deleting the raw data speaks volumes about their lack of confidence.
To be more accurate, the villages were founded around 650 AD or so, and lasted for roughly five hundred years before the climate changed enough to make the area uninhabitable to pre-industrial Europeans who wouldn't adapt the way of life of the natives.
Consider this: warmer weather means longer growing seasons, meaning larger crops. It also means that areas in and near the Arctic that aren't warm enough now for agriculture can be farmed, with crops growing now just south of the arctic. (That means that food crops that work best in those short, cool summers won't go away, they'll just move to a different location.) Warmer weather means more food; colder weather means less. And, as far as the sea level rising, I gather that it's been doing that for about 12,000 years without much effect, so we can probably manage a little more.
Correction: it's run by advocates who are only interested in presenting one side of the argument and suppressing any evidence that doesn't point the way they want it to. It's only useful to link to them if you're more interested in advocacy than facts.
And, I might add, they ought to be able to hang onto that clean data so that other people can examine it and see if they can duplicate the results.
Sounds to me like somebody in your company has a micro-management fetish. BTDTGTTS. You have my sympathy!
My sister uses Ubuntu, and I'm her tech support. Sometimes, I need distro-specific advice (I use Fedora.) and ask on ubuntuforums.org. I've glanced at some of the forum rules, both there and at the Fedora fourm I use for my own system and they both specifically forbids suggesting certain commands as "solutions" to problems, even as a joke, because they're so destructive.
Of course not. It's pure speculation.
Thank you, but that's not what I was asking,although the comparison is both interesting and informative. (to me, at least) What I wanted to know is why Linux devs don't feel the need for a Linux version of Direct-X. However, it occurs to me that you have answered my question, indirectly: OpenGL may not do everything Direct-X does, but it does enough so that Linux devs don't feel the need for a more comprehensive solution. Thank you again.
No. It's pure speculation on my part, but seems (to me, at least) reasonable. Most animals have a natural pace that they use whenever possible because it's the most energy efficient, and I'd expect it to be the same for ants. I find it hard to believe without proof that ants have the understanding to change their pace depending on the length of their legs, as that would take more reasoning power than they've been shown to have.
I'm not saying that ants are aware of the passing of time, or judge their trips by it, only that from where I sit, the experiment as described doesn't rule out the possibility.
And yet, the people doing graphics and gaming programming for Linux seem to do just fine without it. This isn't intended to knock Windows, please don't misunderstand me. It's just a statement of fact, and a question. Why is Direct-X so vital for such things on Windows and so irrelevant on Linux that it doesn't exist? The answer may be obvious to you, but I'm not a graphics or gaming programmer and I don't normally need to know these things. If you have a good explanation, I'd be interested in learning something new.
You might, but not everybody does. Some people are more concerned with what will work.
I beg to differ. If they find their way home by walking for a fixed length of time, the experiment would have come out exactly the same. That's because ants take a fixed number of steps per minute, whether their legs have been lengthened, shortened or left alone. Thus, there's no way that you can tell (from the experiment as described) if the ants are counting their steps (as the researchers claim) or walking for a fixed length of time.
More to the point, his slogan was "Change you can believe in," not "Change you're going to like."
I think that the best possible answer to that is in your signature.
We don't live at Lake Woebegone and our children don't all have above average intelligence. No matter how much you argue you can't change the fact that not everybody can handle a university education. Trying to force it down children's throats when they're on the wrong side of the bell curve just waste their time and their parent's (or more likely the governments) money.
If you respond, please address this issue instead of just pretending it doesn't exist as you've been doing so far.
There's more than enough time if it's taught properly. I'm sure your parents and grand parents all learned enough to be good citizens by the time they were out of high school. I know mine did. If schools went back to teaching students what they're going to need as adults instead of trying to force a college prep education down the throats of children who aren't capable of understanding it (at least half) they'd be doing a better job than they are now.
If you're going to go for Bush bashing, get your facts straight. The inevitable result of No Child Left Behind was No Child Gets Ahead. Teachers were forced to ignore the best and the brightest because they were spending all their time trying to drag the worst students up to an acceptable standard.