This is retarded, there are no other places where those temperature graphs appear, and you want to turn a 5-year local trend into a failing for the large predictive models, which are successfull.
You know, the very same Guardian newspaper which she links to admits that she exaggerates (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/27/global-warming-ipcc-report-humans) (http://www.skepticalscience.com/certainty-monster-vs-uncertainty-ewok.html) the level of uncertainty.
In essence, what you say is totally irrelevant to the larger trend.
"Does some QA" and "distributing" have been the most innovative contributions from Canonical to the FOSS world and one of the reasons why Linux is reaching the consumer mainstream.
Maintaining support channels, distribution, testing, QA, and infrastructure are very costly and time-consuming things, but they're the sort of stuff that separate enthusiast products from turnkey and consumer products. This distinction is not at all trivial, and I fill is underestimated by most FOSS enthusiasts since, well, they've never been on the other side of the supply chain.
Basically, commercialization, distribution, integration and support are the most costly parts in most products, more costly than actual development. But it's boring tedious, and standardized, so not deemed to be of interest.
In the 1960s and 70s there were no minicomputers that could do scientific computing effectively. Centralized systems today are far cheaper than having your own setup. Times change.
You think anyone in Europe or the US can just start throwing fiber without submitting to regulatory practices to be an ISP?
ISPs are held to many legal standards in data retention and privacy and whatnot.
But the things is, predictive models, while imperfect, have had a signifcant enough degree of precision to merit warning.
You know, I'm surprised that laymen have no ability to distinguish between significant errors, insignificant errors, and acceptable margins of error. For AGW, being in the proper ballpark of the order of magnitude is a significant enough datum for systems which may have exponential behavior (or much worse, like the realities of the difficulty modeling climate). Considering how hard it is to make these models, and considering that the impact is still absolutely massive, it is intellectually dishonest to disregard these results.
In construction, materials are made to withstand their recommended pressures and load values 30% above what the expected usage will be. It doesn't matter for all practical purposes wether it will stand 30% more or 200% more; what matters is that it goes above 20%. Most constructions could stand double the load they have. Well, in AGW, even 10% of the estimated damage is so great that it merits taking care of it.
Engineers frequently make estimation errors in the order of magnitude, using incredibly precise measuremente tools, and nobody complains. Let's not be fools about this either.
It is a small error in the grand scheme of things. Some measurements need only be precise to the order of magnitude to be significant. In this case, the fact that such a large amount of land can be underwater is still relevant even if they're off by a factor of 10.
The professional grade alternative is that you drop the half the superfluous bullshit J2EE seems to support and build and honest-to-God web architecture like God intended: shared-nothing workers on the web server and scale out on the database, use job queues that go to a compute farm if you need that. A decent web framework has transactions built-in so I don't even have to think about the problem, SSO is handled with a cookie and a generic backend that plugs to whatever you want, you don't need special clustering techniques because there are no hard dependencies between nodes.
Sorry, but J2EE has absolutely nothing a modern Perl/Python/Ruby framework doesn't have today, except mechanism for managing the inherent complexity of a crappy language with a shitty object model that needs overly complex architecture to make up for its fundamental lack of programming constructs.
You're not going to find equivalents to @Stateless beans, Message-driven beans or any of that bullshit because decent frameworks make managing state something absolutely trivial, not an exercise in frustration that requires configuring 5 XML files and implementing two interfaces just to save an object to a database. Nobody cares about RMI or "messages" because you can make a restful web service with 2 regular expressions and a 15-line Ruby file. Nobody cares about monstrous ORMs that can barely handle programmatic queries when SQLAlchemy does that and with a 20-minute tutorial you're already up and running.
Oh, and just for the record, most people dn't even need to check for memory leaks because they use a language VM that consumes at most 20% of your runtime's resources and does the hard work with C plugins.
Let the scourge of J2EE and "entrerprise" frameworks burn in the underworld.
Well, which un-regulated, unsubsidized utility that uses public space ever succeeded? You simply can't have phones, internet, or wireless without regulation. The space for putting land lines is public and the government must regulate to allow its use. Same thing with wireless spectrum.
Because knowing OS theory doesn't make you an OS specialist dedicated to implementing good practices on production systems. Even a kernel dev might not know how to install and deploy a production system and implement all backup, user, and processing policies.
Apparently those brilliant people who understand statistics can't be bothered to refute AGW. Might it be perhaps because some of them HAVE looked at the process, consider it sound, and don't find it worthy of their time to add an "I agree" to the endless posting of much more valid scientific work?
You're confusing a variety of unrelated things here. Javascript works fine in every browser that implements standards accordingly (that is, every browser with the exception of IE 6, 7 and 8). The language is not only consistent across browser, it's actually implementing some really interesting features such as list comprehension, generators, and block scoping.
And I don't know where you get the idea that debugging Javascript is any more difficult than any other scripting language. You can't claim to be a professional JS dev and not have heard of sometools.
Oh, and as a scripting language, it is one of the fastest dynamically typed languages available, in the same league as SmallTalk and Lua. The fact that Palm developers obviously used the wrong tool for the wrong job does not in any way detract from the qualities of the language.
Methinks there's a lot of people that talk crap about Javascript but have never bothered to get the proper documentation and tools. Newsflash for everyone: anyone who does professional Python and Ruby development uses debuggers and text editors specifically for that job. Just because JS runs on the browser doesn't mean it doesn't need the same level of attention.
What are you talking about? Javascript's only similarity with Java and C comes in the form of its syntax, made to appease Java a C++ programmers. NOTHING else in the language is even remotely similar, and its developers have made that clear from day one.
Does Java have support for closures and first-class functions?
No, I would say it's because economics is nowhere close to being a hard science, and the work of the most important economists in this decade has been shown to be completely fraudulent in their incapacity to foresee the financial crises that we face today.
Late 1990s: everyone was all rah-rah about the economic upturn of the dot-coms. A few people in the industry do note that it won't last forever since nothing of value was actually being created and companies were being made with no business plan. The economist's response? ignore the criticsa dn talk about how the Dow will go on better than ever.
Early 2000s: housing prices begin to rise beyond what is easily within the reach of the average consumer. A few people note that a housing market can't be sustained on purchases considered "investements" with no intention of being used a living spaces. Mainstream economists disregard this little fact until we have a housing bubble.
It doesn't really matter in the web as 90% of the time is spent hitting the database.
Youtube runs pretty much 100% on Python, Facebook runs on Erlang and PHP. Erlang has the benefit of being highly scalable, yet it is relatively slow.
Speen in the web doesn'trelly matter much. What's important is scalability, and today's shared-nothing approach pretty mucha guarantees that at the language level.
Guess you've never had a Windows install crap out of the blue or become noxiously saturated with garbage at book.
I admit that the quality of releases in Ubuntu hasn't been as good as Windows during the timeframe I've used it. Nontheless, I've always been able to fix stuff in Linux, while I've had to reinstall Windows from scratch many more times.
I disagree with this. Already there's a substantial bunch of iPhone users that are dissatisfied with either the phone or the carrier and have plans for switching. I'm sure Apple is already moving to counter this, but the iPhone has locked itself into a corner with their development policies and single-tasking OS.
Where you see integration, I see a disgusting bloated mess of a mega-proprietary, slow app that wants to do crap I don't want it to (I really, really, hate having to load my music collection into iTunes to load into an iPod Touch) and tries to plug in products I have no interest in getting, not to mention an interface that has nothing to do with the OS I've used it in.
God I hate iTunes. I might consider getting an iPhone if it weren't for the fact that it's chained and encumbered to iTunes.
How many times does it have to be mentioned? FOSS applications use exclusively what's under the safe stack + GTK# and other components not shipped in.NET.
At any rate, that sort of attitude is borderline paranoid. Some sections of Microsoft ARE out to get Linux and FOSS, but.NET is not one of them. It is in their interest that.NET be an ubiquitous platform. We actually do them a favor by promoting a platform where they are the primary vendor, since they're the ones most capable of profiting from that.
Besides, the case they have against noncompliant.NET APIs is far weaker than what they have against SAMBA and users and consumers of many other Microsoft protocols. If they were to start a direct patent war (which probably going to happen in, well, never) there are much easier and controversial targets.
That is not correct. The sections of.NET that are standardized under ECMA are under no dangerous provision that might go against their use. The "dangerous" technologies are the reimplementations of Microsoft libraries that do not fall under the standard, such as Windows Forms and ADO.NET.
Using the standardized section of.NET puts you at the same risk of patent litigation as using Java or any large framework where some patent troll could come from below and throw a few lawsuits.
Do note, however, that due to the Open Invention Network, waging a patent war against Mono is the equivalent of a patent nuclear war. Among the OIN members are IBM and several large corporations with massive patent portfolios.
Right, how many of those applications are used on a daily basis by the average user? Visual studio and Active Directory may be the only applications from that list that stand out, but let's look at what the real average users uses on a daily basis:
Web browser - The FOSS solutions are clearly way superior here. I doubt there's any argument about this.
Office - On 99% of the cases you're covered by OpenOffice. Some might say it's not as pretty/lacks features/etc. I have yet to see someone complain that they're not able to do their job with it.
Mail client - Most people have already switched to web clients. For corporate users some might still use Outlook, but in my professional experience most don't use its enterprise features, so they might as well use Thunderbird or any other client.
Music player - Considering most users take the default the OS offers, I'd say even the worst media player on Linux is better to WMP.
If you use SQL Server of Visual Studio for your daily work you're smart enough and knowledgeable to make the appropiate choice for a system (supposedly). But SQL Server is on the same class as Postgres and DB2 for most tasks.
Besider, there's no way in hell you're running Visual Studio, Outlook, or SQL Server or a netbook unless you're into masochism.
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Holy crap since when did /. get overrun by denialist trolls that just don't read articles, and obviously fail to even read the IPCC reports?
This is retarded, there are no other places where those temperature graphs appear, and you want to turn a 5-year local trend into a failing for the large predictive models, which are successfull. You know, the very same Guardian newspaper which she links to admits that she exaggerates (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/27/global-warming-ipcc-report-humans) (http://www.skepticalscience.com/certainty-monster-vs-uncertainty-ewok.html) the level of uncertainty. In essence, what you say is totally irrelevant to the larger trend.
"Does some QA" and "distributing" have been the most innovative contributions from Canonical to the FOSS world and one of the reasons why Linux is reaching the consumer mainstream.
Maintaining support channels, distribution, testing, QA, and infrastructure are very costly and time-consuming things, but they're the sort of stuff that separate enthusiast products from turnkey and consumer products. This distinction is not at all trivial, and I fill is underestimated by most FOSS enthusiasts since, well, they've never been on the other side of the supply chain.
Basically, commercialization, distribution, integration and support are the most costly parts in most products, more costly than actual development. But it's boring tedious, and standardized, so not deemed to be of interest.
In the 1960s and 70s there were no minicomputers that could do scientific computing effectively. Centralized systems today are far cheaper than having your own setup. Times change.
Agreed. It seems like the issue is "big enough" only now that other people are catching up.
You think anyone in Europe or the US can just start throwing fiber without submitting to regulatory practices to be an ISP? ISPs are held to many legal standards in data retention and privacy and whatnot.
You know, I'm surprised that laymen have no ability to distinguish between significant errors, insignificant errors, and acceptable margins of error. For AGW, being in the proper ballpark of the order of magnitude is a significant enough datum for systems which may have exponential behavior (or much worse, like the realities of the difficulty modeling climate). Considering how hard it is to make these models, and considering that the impact is still absolutely massive, it is intellectually dishonest to disregard these results.
In construction, materials are made to withstand their recommended pressures and load values 30% above what the expected usage will be. It doesn't matter for all practical purposes wether it will stand 30% more or 200% more; what matters is that it goes above 20%. Most constructions could stand double the load they have. Well, in AGW, even 10% of the estimated damage is so great that it merits taking care of it.
Engineers frequently make estimation errors in the order of magnitude, using incredibly precise measuremente tools, and nobody complains. Let's not be fools about this either.
It is a small error in the grand scheme of things. Some measurements need only be precise to the order of magnitude to be significant. In this case, the fact that such a large amount of land can be underwater is still relevant even if they're off by a factor of 10.
The professional grade alternative is that you drop the half the superfluous bullshit J2EE seems to support and build and honest-to-God web architecture like God intended: shared-nothing workers on the web server and scale out on the database, use job queues that go to a compute farm if you need that. A decent web framework has transactions built-in so I don't even have to think about the problem, SSO is handled with a cookie and a generic backend that plugs to whatever you want, you don't need special clustering techniques because there are no hard dependencies between nodes.
Sorry, but J2EE has absolutely nothing a modern Perl/Python/Ruby framework doesn't have today, except mechanism for managing the inherent complexity of a crappy language with a shitty object model that needs overly complex architecture to make up for its fundamental lack of programming constructs.
You're not going to find equivalents to @Stateless beans, Message-driven beans or any of that bullshit because decent frameworks make managing state something absolutely trivial, not an exercise in frustration that requires configuring 5 XML files and implementing two interfaces just to save an object to a database. Nobody cares about RMI or "messages" because you can make a restful web service with 2 regular expressions and a 15-line Ruby file. Nobody cares about monstrous ORMs that can barely handle programmatic queries when SQLAlchemy does that and with a 20-minute tutorial you're already up and running.
Oh, and just for the record, most people dn't even need to check for memory leaks because they use a language VM that consumes at most 20% of your runtime's resources and does the hard work with C plugins.
Let the scourge of J2EE and "entrerprise" frameworks burn in the underworld.
The fact that you even NEED an add() or increment() method shows the idiocy of the programming language.
Well, which un-regulated, unsubsidized utility that uses public space ever succeeded? You simply can't have phones, internet, or wireless without regulation. The space for putting land lines is public and the government must regulate to allow its use. Same thing with wireless spectrum.
Because knowing OS theory doesn't make you an OS specialist dedicated to implementing good practices on production systems. Even a kernel dev might not know how to install and deploy a production system and implement all backup, user, and processing policies.
Apparently those brilliant people who understand statistics can't be bothered to refute AGW. Might it be perhaps because some of them HAVE looked at the process, consider it sound, and don't find it worthy of their time to add an "I agree" to the endless posting of much more valid scientific work?
You're confusing a variety of unrelated things here. Javascript works fine in every browser that implements standards accordingly (that is, every browser with the exception of IE 6, 7 and 8). The language is not only consistent across browser, it's actually implementing some really interesting features such as list comprehension, generators, and block scoping.
And I don't know where you get the idea that debugging Javascript is any more difficult than any other scripting language. You can't claim to be a professional JS dev and not have heard of some tools.
Oh, and as a scripting language, it is one of the fastest dynamically typed languages available, in the same league as SmallTalk and Lua. The fact that Palm developers obviously used the wrong tool for the wrong job does not in any way detract from the qualities of the language.
Methinks there's a lot of people that talk crap about Javascript but have never bothered to get the proper documentation and tools. Newsflash for everyone: anyone who does professional Python and Ruby development uses debuggers and text editors specifically for that job. Just because JS runs on the browser doesn't mean it doesn't need the same level of attention.
What are you talking about? Javascript's only similarity with Java and C comes in the form of its syntax, made to appease Java a C++ programmers. NOTHING else in the language is even remotely similar, and its developers have made that clear from day one.
Does Java have support for closures and first-class functions?
Does Javascript have support for namespaces?
Does Java support prototypical object orientation
Can Java use hashtables as objects?
Dude, if you're putting anything else in your meat that's not salt, you're doing it wrong.
High quality meat doesn't require any additives aside from salt and should have a soft texture on its own.
No, I would say it's because economics is nowhere close to being a hard science, and the work of the most important economists in this decade has been shown to be completely fraudulent in their incapacity to foresee the financial crises that we face today.
Late 1990s: everyone was all rah-rah about the economic upturn of the dot-coms. A few people in the industry do note that it won't last forever since nothing of value was actually being created and companies were being made with no business plan. The economist's response? ignore the criticsa dn talk about how the Dow will go on better than ever.
Early 2000s: housing prices begin to rise beyond what is easily within the reach of the average consumer. A few people note that a housing market can't be sustained on purchases considered "investements" with no intention of being used a living spaces. Mainstream economists disregard this little fact until we have a housing bubble.
It doesn't really matter in the web as 90% of the time is spent hitting the database.
Youtube runs pretty much 100% on Python, Facebook runs on Erlang and PHP. Erlang has the benefit of being highly scalable, yet it is relatively slow.
Speen in the web doesn'trelly matter much. What's important is scalability, and today's shared-nothing approach pretty mucha guarantees that at the language level.
This may be an indirect hint from Canonical to the GIMP devs that their package needs a lot of work still.
It just might work.
Guess you've never had a Windows install crap out of the blue or become noxiously saturated with garbage at book. I admit that the quality of releases in Ubuntu hasn't been as good as Windows during the timeframe I've used it. Nontheless, I've always been able to fix stuff in Linux, while I've had to reinstall Windows from scratch many more times.
I disagree with this. Already there's a substantial bunch of iPhone users that are dissatisfied with either the phone or the carrier and have plans for switching. I'm sure Apple is already moving to counter this, but the iPhone has locked itself into a corner with their development policies and single-tasking OS.
God I hate iTunes. I might consider getting an iPhone if it weren't for the fact that it's chained and encumbered to iTunes.
How many times does it have to be mentioned? FOSS applications use exclusively what's under the safe stack + GTK# and other components not shipped in .NET.
At any rate, that sort of attitude is borderline paranoid. Some sections of Microsoft ARE out to get Linux and FOSS, but .NET is not one of them. It is in their interest that .NET be an ubiquitous platform. We actually do them a favor by promoting a platform where they are the primary vendor, since they're the ones most capable of profiting from that.
Besides, the case they have against noncompliant .NET APIs is far weaker than what they have against SAMBA and users and consumers of many other Microsoft protocols. If they were to start a direct patent war (which probably going to happen in, well, never) there are much easier and controversial targets.
That is not correct. The sections of .NET that are standardized under ECMA are under no dangerous provision that might go against their use. The "dangerous" technologies are the reimplementations of Microsoft libraries that do not fall under the standard, such as Windows Forms and ADO.NET.
Using the standardized section of .NET puts you at the same risk of patent litigation as using Java or any large framework where some patent troll could come from below and throw a few lawsuits.
Do note, however, that due to the Open Invention Network, waging a patent war against Mono is the equivalent of a patent nuclear war. Among the OIN members are IBM and several large corporations with massive patent portfolios.
Web browser - The FOSS solutions are clearly way superior here. I doubt there's any argument about this.
Office - On 99% of the cases you're covered by OpenOffice. Some might say it's not as pretty/lacks features/etc. I have yet to see someone complain that they're not able to do their job with it.
Mail client - Most people have already switched to web clients. For corporate users some might still use Outlook, but in my professional experience most don't use its enterprise features, so they might as well use Thunderbird or any other client.
Music player - Considering most users take the default the OS offers, I'd say even the worst media player on Linux is better to WMP.
If you use SQL Server of Visual Studio for your daily work you're smart enough and knowledgeable to make the appropiate choice for a system (supposedly). But SQL Server is on the same class as Postgres and DB2 for most tasks. Besider, there's no way in hell you're running Visual Studio, Outlook, or SQL Server or a netbook unless you're into masochism.