"What about the huge catalogue of win32 applications?"
They'll probably create an x86-to-ARM JIT-compiler. Like Alpha did with Windows NT during 90-s. So for a brief period Windows NT on Alpha was the fastest way to run x86 applications.
And it's not like they need to emulate the whole API like Wine has to do, they just need to translate x86 calling conventions to ARM calling convention, which can be done by a fairly simple shim layer.
UHI effect is known and real, and it's compensated against in all datasets using statistical methods.
So it doesn't matter if it's deemed small and insignificant (which it is, because most of meteo stations are in rural areas), it's automatically compensated against.
Also, other measurements not susceptible for UHI are in complete agreement (satellite data, water temperature data, etc.).
"To refute Keenan's claims of scientific fraud would have only required the release of documentary information about the Chinese weather stations in question which Wang has long claimed to possess."
Don't you think China and US are a bit different countries?
Yuan is already inflating, to the point that China has started to directly control the price of some goods (food and fuel). That's the direct result of their currency controls, all in accordance with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
However, QE2 won't do much because its amount is not significant to the total dollar amount. And most certainly it won't cause any massive inflation.
Hell, the US is on the brink _deflation_ right now. Why the fuck people talk about risks of inflation?
"Sorry but that's strawman arguements, it's not a question of UHI, but the physical siting of the weather stations and their proximity to factors cause erroneous measurement."
Read my link, please. Exactly because some stations produce erroneous data, the raw data is processed to remove these stations.
Funny enough, the procedure to filter out some stations usually draws ire from deniers.
And never mind the satellite data which is in agreement with the ground-based observations.
"However, QE2 is designed to do that for us. It will shake China lose, or they will suffer massive inflation."
No, it isn't. QE2 will do exactly nothing to make China float the yuan. Trade barriers would be effective in this case, but nobody in the US government has the guts to do it.
Ultimately, China will have to float the yuan, because of internal pressure to do this (due to unsustainable capital controls and internal inflation).
I'm sorry, but QE2 won't have any effect on dollar. It's far too small to affect currency rates. Also, if you believe in massive inflation, then you are idiot. Right-wing 'thinkers' have been predicting high inflation since the first bailout.
There'll be no inflation until recovery is complete.
"That the global data from the 1940s-70's was new, and not accurate enough to be trusted. That extrapolating a 50 year trend was not a good idea."
Fair enough. But what about reliable data from 70-2010? It's already statistically significant and it's accurate enough.
"We have the 2nd coldest peek for temp. in the last 500k years, but one of the longest running."
So? Vostok Lake data shows Milankovich cycles, which are not really affected by anything. And in any case, significant changes caused by these cycles require _thousands_ of years to cause visible changes. Nothing compared to our current rapid temperature increase.
Mars has a LOT of hydrogen, in the form of good old H2O.
Venus is a dead end. Sure, you can make floating cities, but HOW would you do this? Venus has no satellites to mine and conditions on the surface are waay too extreme.
Otherwise, if you can't manage a switch to a different VCS then you have some problems (either with developers or with organization). Which nicely proves Joel's point.
Of course, there can be exceptions, like working with large amounts of unmergeable content (CAD drawings, images, etc.) where DVCSes do not work well.
There was active and free non-commercial FidoNET network at that time, so we can use it for case study. It rapidly grew outside of the USA in a very anarchistic fashion. Because it was a store-and-forward network, it could run over almost anything (I know a case where monitoring system in gas pipelines was used to transfer FidoNET traffic).
There were designs for online FidoNET, but they never were pursued because the nascent Internet made it moot. But if Internet was not available, it's conceivable that it could be built over the FidoNET.
"The period of greatest economic growth at all levels of society occurred during a time when we were on a real hard currency, and neither republican nor democrat congresscritters could give away money that wasn't theirs by asking the Fed to print it. During those times, prices went down while wages went up."
That was before 30-s. Ended with the Depression when currency supply became inadequate.
"Certainly not for lack of trying. Also nice job trying to equate the two sides- most if not all Palestinians are killed trying to commit acts of terror (or are unfortunately nearby)"
Lie. Most Palestinian victims are now 'collateral damage'. During the last war with HAMAS, about 2/3 of killed were civilians, many of them children.
Total killed: 1,417 (PCHR),[29] 1,166 (IDF)[30] Militants and police officers: 491* (PCHR),[29] 709 (IDF)[30] 700(Hamas)[31] Civilians: 926 (PCHR),[29] 295 (IDF)[30][30] Total wounded: 5,303(PCHR)[29]
"while most Israelis killed were civilians who were hit randomly by snipers, or victims of random shelling of civilian areas."
Total killed: 13 Soldiers: 10(friendly fire: 4[27]) Civilians: 3
So you see, HAMAS actually seems to inflict far less collateral damage.
"There are plenty of 'Palestinians' who are citizens of Israel- living in Israel. Are the Israelis supposed to give citizenship to people who don't live in Israel?"
When what the fuck Israel does in Palestine?
"If the Palestinians want their own country, they need to stop attacking Israel, and elect better leaders. Those two just might be connected..."
And who are you to judge which leader is better for their nation? Would it be OK if Israel was occupied by the League of Arab Nations and Arabs told you that you'll have your own country when you learn to elect good leaders?
"OK, show me a civilized country where you can build a house without permits? Arab houses build with permits are not demolished. The Israeli construction has the permission of the local government, which again is usually considered sufficient."
Aha, sure. Have you tried to do this?
"Israeli buildings without permits are also demolished."
Yes? So all these illegal settlements are being built with permissions from the Palestine Autonomy?
"Israel sabotages the peace talks?"
Yes, that's what it looks like.
"Are those actions (btw, wtf are you talking about, please provide reference) really more damaging than, say, shooting mortars and missiles randomly into civilian areas like the Palestinians have been doing for years?"
"That's very much the fault of the paliestinians. Instead of spending their money improving hteir own country, creating businesses, and educating their population, they purchase munitions and try to "throw israel into the sea"."
When was the last time Palestine was not blocked from sea by Israel?
About businesses - quite a lot of them went down since the wall was built. Before that, there were a lot of small Palestinian businesses working with Israeli customers.
"Again, their own decision. The palestinians do not *want* to be israelis."
No. There's no easy way for a Palestinian to become a citizen of Israel even if they want it.
"As if the Palestinians aren't killing (and attempting to kill) Israelis?"
Yes, they do. Though they kill about 100 times less civilians than Israel.
"Please, do apply the same standard to them."
Of course. Palestinian terror should be stopped.
"They have no plans to commit genocide on Palestinians, either, and if you think they do, you're a fucking moron."
Who knows? Israeli army might have these plans and is just waiting for a good moment to enact them (say, for a nuclear strike on Israel by someone).
Right now Palestine is living under apartheid conditions. Citizens of Palestine are not allowed to have their own country, foreign trade (even though they have access to seaports), etc. And yet they are also not citizens of Israel.
Or how about recent demolitions of Arab houses in Jerusalem (because they don't have permissions) while at the same time building settlements (without any permissions - which is A-OK).
Or the way Israel is sabotaging peace talks - every time there's at least a hope for a good result, Israel does something to disrupt it. Like shooting rockets at wheelchairs, changing pledge of allegiance, etc.
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In my country I can get unlocked iPhone from any of the GSM network providers. I can even buy one in a Mac shop and just use my SIM card with it.
So far, situation is the same - Androids outsell the iPhones.
And your post proves that you don't understand what 'scientific method' is and why Creation Museum has nothing resembling science.
Oh, and also all your other assertions are wrong.
"What about the huge catalogue of win32 applications?"
They'll probably create an x86-to-ARM JIT-compiler. Like Alpha did with Windows NT during 90-s. So for a brief period Windows NT on Alpha was the fastest way to run x86 applications.
And it's not like they need to emulate the whole API like Wine has to do, they just need to translate x86 calling conventions to ARM calling convention, which can be done by a fairly simple shim layer.
Ubuntu in about 6 months, 2.6.37 should be in the 11.04 release.
In Debian Stable - in about 2 years (in the next release).
Nope.
UHI effect is known and real, and it's compensated against in all datasets using statistical methods.
So it doesn't matter if it's deemed small and insignificant (which it is, because most of meteo stations are in rural areas), it's automatically compensated against.
Also, other measurements not susceptible for UHI are in complete agreement (satellite data, water temperature data, etc.).
"To refute Keenan's claims of scientific fraud would have only required the release of documentary information about the Chinese weather stations in question which Wang has long claimed to possess."
Don't you think China and US are a bit different countries?
Yuan is already inflating, to the point that China has started to directly control the price of some goods (food and fuel). That's the direct result of their currency controls, all in accordance with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
However, QE2 won't do much because its amount is not significant to the total dollar amount. And most certainly it won't cause any massive inflation.
Hell, the US is on the brink _deflation_ right now. Why the fuck people talk about risks of inflation?
No, I'm saying that the effect of urban heat islands and imprecise data is very well known to climate researchers and is compensated against.
So this link: http://www.surfacestations.org/ is a strawman.
PS: I was a climate scientist as a grad student.
"Sorry but that's strawman arguements, it's not a question of UHI, but the physical siting of the weather stations and their proximity to factors cause erroneous measurement."
Read my link, please. Exactly because some stations produce erroneous data, the raw data is processed to remove these stations.
Funny enough, the procedure to filter out some stations usually draws ire from deniers.
And never mind the satellite data which is in agreement with the ground-based observations.
"However, QE2 is designed to do that for us. It will shake China lose, or they will suffer massive inflation."
No, it isn't. QE2 will do exactly nothing to make China float the yuan. Trade barriers would be effective in this case, but nobody in the US government has the guts to do it.
Ultimately, China will have to float the yuan, because of internal pressure to do this (due to unsustainable capital controls and internal inflation).
I'm sorry, but QE2 won't have any effect on dollar. It's far too small to affect currency rates. Also, if you believe in massive inflation, then you are idiot. Right-wing 'thinkers' have been predicting high inflation since the first bailout.
There'll be no inflation until recovery is complete.
Sorry, but this site is misinformation mixed with a little bit of truth.
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/global_warming/global_warming_misinformation_urban_heat_island.html
"That the global data from the 1940s-70's was new, and not accurate enough to be trusted.
That extrapolating a 50 year trend was not a good idea."
Fair enough. But what about reliable data from 70-2010? It's already statistically significant and it's accurate enough.
"We have the 2nd coldest peek for temp. in the last 500k years, but one of the longest running."
So? Vostok Lake data shows Milankovich cycles, which are not really affected by anything. And in any case, significant changes caused by these cycles require _thousands_ of years to cause visible changes. Nothing compared to our current rapid temperature increase.
Why would you need to mine water from vapor on Mars?
There are freaking ice caps (yes, they mostly consist of frozen CO2, but there's plenty of water there too).
Mars has a LOT of hydrogen, in the form of good old H2O.
Venus is a dead end. Sure, you can make floating cities, but HOW would you do this? Venus has no satellites to mine and conditions on the surface are waay too extreme.
"Really, what's on Mars that can't be done more cheaply by building near earth orbital environments?"
Not having to haul up EVERYTHING from a deep gravity well.
That's why Britain has sky-high crime rates compared to execution-happy Texas.
Oh wait....
Only automation support is a sticking point.
Otherwise, if you can't manage a switch to a different VCS then you have some problems (either with developers or with organization). Which nicely proves Joel's point.
Of course, there can be exceptions, like working with large amounts of unmergeable content (CAD drawings, images, etc.) where DVCSes do not work well.
"Now it is. What about in its infancy?"
There was active and free non-commercial FidoNET network at that time, so we can use it for case study. It rapidly grew outside of the USA in a very anarchistic fashion. Because it was a store-and-forward network, it could run over almost anything (I know a case where monitoring system in gas pipelines was used to transfer FidoNET traffic).
There were designs for online FidoNET, but they never were pursued because the nascent Internet made it moot. But if Internet was not available, it's conceivable that it could be built over the FidoNET.
"Auto-allocated addresses include the host's MAC address."
Unless privacy extensions are used.
"Look at the rest of history."
Looking.
"The period of greatest economic growth at all levels of society occurred during a time when we were on a real hard currency, and neither republican nor democrat congresscritters could give away money that wasn't theirs by asking the Fed to print it. During those times, prices went down while wages went up."
That was before 30-s. Ended with the Depression when currency supply became inadequate.
"Certainly not for lack of trying. Also nice job trying to equate the two sides- most if not all Palestinians are killed trying to commit acts of terror (or are unfortunately nearby)"
Lie. Most Palestinian victims are now 'collateral damage'. During the last war with HAMAS, about 2/3 of killed were civilians, many of them children.
Total killed: 1,417 (PCHR),[29] 1,166 (IDF)[30]
Militants and police officers:
491* (PCHR),[29] 709 (IDF)[30]
700(Hamas)[31]
Civilians: 926 (PCHR),[29] 295 (IDF)[30][30]
Total wounded: 5,303(PCHR)[29]
"while most Israelis killed were civilians who were hit randomly by snipers, or victims of random shelling of civilian areas."
Total killed: 13
Soldiers: 10(friendly fire: 4[27])
Civilians: 3
So you see, HAMAS actually seems to inflict far less collateral damage.
"There are plenty of 'Palestinians' who are citizens of Israel- living in Israel. Are the Israelis supposed to give citizenship to people who don't live in Israel?"
When what the fuck Israel does in Palestine?
"If the Palestinians want their own country, they need to stop attacking Israel, and elect better leaders. Those two just might be connected..."
And who are you to judge which leader is better for their nation? Would it be OK if Israel was occupied by the League of Arab Nations and Arabs told you that you'll have your own country when you learn to elect good leaders?
"OK, show me a civilized country where you can build a house without permits? Arab houses build with permits are not demolished. The Israeli construction has the permission of the local government, which again is usually considered sufficient."
Aha, sure. Have you tried to do this?
"Israeli buildings without permits are also demolished."
Yes? So all these illegal settlements are being built with permissions from the Palestine Autonomy?
"Israel sabotages the peace talks?"
Yes, that's what it looks like.
"Are those actions (btw, wtf are you talking about, please provide reference) really more damaging than, say, shooting mortars and missiles randomly into civilian areas like the Palestinians have been doing for years?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7794577.stm
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/hamas-declares-end-to-cease-fire-israeli-gov-t-sources-fear-violence-is-unavoidable-1.259846
etc.
"That's very much the fault of the paliestinians. Instead of spending their money improving hteir own country, creating businesses, and educating their population, they purchase munitions and try to "throw israel into the sea"."
When was the last time Palestine was not blocked from sea by Israel?
About businesses - quite a lot of them went down since the wall was built. Before that, there were a lot of small Palestinian businesses working with Israeli customers.
"Again, their own decision. The palestinians do not *want* to be israelis."
No. There's no easy way for a Palestinian to become a citizen of Israel even if they want it.
The full quote is even more badass: "Oil shouldn't be used burned, one can burn paper money just as well".
"As if the Palestinians aren't killing (and attempting to kill) Israelis?"
Yes, they do. Though they kill about 100 times less civilians than Israel.
"Please, do apply the same standard to them."
Of course. Palestinian terror should be stopped.
"They have no plans to commit genocide on Palestinians, either, and if you think they do, you're a fucking moron."
Who knows? Israeli army might have these plans and is just waiting for a good moment to enact them (say, for a nuclear strike on Israel by someone).
Right now Palestine is living under apartheid conditions. Citizens of Palestine are not allowed to have their own country, foreign trade (even though they have access to seaports), etc. And yet they are also not citizens of Israel.
Or how about recent demolitions of Arab houses in Jerusalem (because they don't have permissions) while at the same time building settlements (without any permissions - which is A-OK).
Or the way Israel is sabotaging peace talks - every time there's at least a hope for a good result, Israel does something to disrupt it. Like shooting rockets at wheelchairs, changing pledge of allegiance, etc.