Ok, but what does this have to do with Global Warming? Are you saying that increasing the efficiency of energy consuming devices will have a significant impact on carbon emmisions? We may be able to slow the increase in CO2 through better efficiency, but in a world were economies must continue to grow and more and more people are enjoying a better quality of life there is no way that increased efficiency is going to reduce energy consumption. I am not saying that we should not strive for more efficient devices, it's just not going to fix increased CO2 in the atmosphere.
Where did you come up with the idea that global warming is about energy efficiency? Cap and trade has nothing to do with efficiency. Solar power and wind power are about 20% efficient while a coal powered generating plant is about 30%. Efficiency has nothing to do with it.
They won't let your kid in because you told him to make a scene to announce that he "didn't believe in thier "supreme being"".
It's a private organization that has a very small religous aspect to it. I am proud to be a den leader in the cub scout program. I do not believe in God, but I just keep that private. I and my other son's den leader just ask the parents to do that very small section themselves. Apart from the religion the cub scouts is a very good program for boys.
It wasn't your kids belief that kept him out of scouts, it was his being an asshole during signup that kept him out.
"warming temperatures will mean that in 2050 there will be about 40,000 fewer deaths in Germany attributable to cold-related illnesses like the flu"
Last time I checked the death rate from being born is 100%. So while there may be 40,000 fewer deaths in Germany attributable to cold-related illnesses, there will be 40,000 more deaths attributable to something else.
You are not talking about Sys Admins, you are talking about desktop support people.
Sys Admins don't give a rip what is installed on your workstation since they don't have to support it.
I have worked with many a developer that could not code thier way out of a paper bag.
They produce worthless crap for applications and then get pissed off because the admin wont let them implement an app with hardcoded URLs or server names.
I have dealt with many developers that got the job because they were good with spreadsheets, and have little formal or informal education.
I am and know many a sys admin with formal Computer Science degree's. To say that the problem with admins is that they "are pulled in from all walks of life and often have little formal or informal education" is bullshit. The same can be said of developers.
This is shipped products. Specifically LMS (Learning Management System), Websphere (in the old days, better now), and Web Commerce Suite.
Tivoli and Lotus products are much better, but the stuff IBM comes out with is crap.
I work for a very large IBM business partner, and we use IBM products almost exclusively.
Anything IBM has developed themselves is a piece of shit. IBM has done the following to us:
Released software that would not work. After struggling with it for weeks they will finally admit it does not work.
They constantly reintroduce bugs when they release new versions. The have no version control.
They provide horrable customer support. Often it seems like we pay for the privilidge of reporting bugs to them.
They will throw you under the bus as soon as they get an oppertunity. When the customer gets upset for the poor quality of software they will blame thier business partners for poor implementation.
Thier release cycle is 100% based on getting stuff out the door on time. This is why they release garbage that does not work.
What a dumb question. There are more humans on the earth than ever before. Our life expectancy has never been higher. Our quality of life has never been higher. There is nothing to indicate that we are in danger. Only a whacked out liberal pessimist would ask something so stupid.
For ease of collaboration nothing beats Lotus QuickPlace (which runs on Lotus Notes) We switched from QuickPlace to SharePoint, and it completely sucked.
The Lotus Notes client completely blows but the Lotus Notes server kicks ass.
You shouldn't expect anyone to see it your way.
Even if you accept your ridicules premise that the deaths of 2,752 people, the approximately $40 billion worth of insurance claims, the shutting down of all private sector aviation for a number of days, and the economic impact arising from this single act of terrorism is inconsequential, the results of 9/11 have no affect on the threat. It has an effect on the results of terrorism to date.
The threat includes the detonation of a nuclear bomb in a major metropolitan area, the destruction of major portions of our government, the poisoning of our water or food supply, and a hundred other things terrorists are trying to accomplish that I doubt even you would consider inconsequential.
Only a naive fool would consider the threat of terrorism as inconsequential.
Jamie's bio on the MythBusters website says that he is a wilderness survival expert, captain, diver, linguist, animal wrangler, machinist, chef and, of course, model-maker. Adam has made reference to Jamie being torture by guerillas in Central America on the show.
How did Jamie become an expert in all of these subjects? At the risk of starting a new myth was Jamie ever a Navy SEAL, a CIA operative or even in the military at all?
You are confused. It is not a fact that the prequels (and Jedi) aren't particularly good movies. That is what is called an opinion. Here is another opinion: TheoGB is an over pretentious prick who thinks so much of his opinions he labels them as facts. Clearly you are dumb.
Microsoft is going to die because there is better technology out there? That's a newsflash. There has always been better technology. DOS and Windows were never better than Mac OS. DEC had great technology. That didn't stop them from dieing. If technology was the driver for a company's success we would all be running Xerox software.
What was so hard about high school that you feel the need for "time off"? My 4 years in college were some of the best of my life. It's a win win situation. You get to have fun and you get a jump start on your career.
Let's say that this is all correct and humans are causing global warming. That does not mean it is bad. It could just as easily be a good thing. Perhaps we are preventing a new ice age which would cause mass extinction.
Life forms have been shaping the environment of the earth for billions of years. The only difference is that we are the first life forms that know it.
It's not about where people are doing the jobs. It's about paying people enough money so they can afford the products you are selling. If companies keep paying a substandard wage eventually no one will be able to afford what they are selling and they will go out of business.
Henry Ford was smart, people who are outsourcing to save money are shortsighted and dumb.
Seems to me this speaks more to the inefficiency of the natural process to convert plant material to crude oil than it does to the inefficiency of automobiles.
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Ok, but what does this have to do with Global Warming? Are you saying that increasing the efficiency of energy consuming devices will have a significant impact on carbon emmisions? We may be able to slow the increase in CO2 through better efficiency, but in a world were economies must continue to grow and more and more people are enjoying a better quality of life there is no way that increased efficiency is going to reduce energy consumption. I am not saying that we should not strive for more efficient devices, it's just not going to fix increased CO2 in the atmosphere.
Where did you come up with the idea that global warming is about energy efficiency? Cap and trade has nothing to do with efficiency. Solar power and wind power are about 20% efficient while a coal powered generating plant is about 30%. Efficiency has nothing to do with it.
They won't let your kid in because you told him to make a scene to announce that he "didn't believe in thier "supreme being"". It's a private organization that has a very small religous aspect to it. I am proud to be a den leader in the cub scout program. I do not believe in God, but I just keep that private. I and my other son's den leader just ask the parents to do that very small section themselves. Apart from the religion the cub scouts is a very good program for boys. It wasn't your kids belief that kept him out of scouts, it was his being an asshole during signup that kept him out.
"warming temperatures will mean that in 2050 there will be about 40,000 fewer deaths in Germany attributable to cold-related illnesses like the flu" Last time I checked the death rate from being born is 100%. So while there may be 40,000 fewer deaths in Germany attributable to cold-related illnesses, there will be 40,000 more deaths attributable to something else.
You are not talking about Sys Admins, you are talking about desktop support people. Sys Admins don't give a rip what is installed on your workstation since they don't have to support it.
I have worked with many a developer that could not code thier way out of a paper bag. They produce worthless crap for applications and then get pissed off because the admin wont let them implement an app with hardcoded URLs or server names. I have dealt with many developers that got the job because they were good with spreadsheets, and have little formal or informal education. I am and know many a sys admin with formal Computer Science degree's. To say that the problem with admins is that they "are pulled in from all walks of life and often have little formal or informal education" is bullshit. The same can be said of developers.
This is shipped products. Specifically LMS (Learning Management System), Websphere (in the old days, better now), and Web Commerce Suite. Tivoli and Lotus products are much better, but the stuff IBM comes out with is crap.
I work for a very large IBM business partner, and we use IBM products almost exclusively. Anything IBM has developed themselves is a piece of shit. IBM has done the following to us: Released software that would not work. After struggling with it for weeks they will finally admit it does not work. They constantly reintroduce bugs when they release new versions. The have no version control. They provide horrable customer support. Often it seems like we pay for the privilidge of reporting bugs to them. They will throw you under the bus as soon as they get an oppertunity. When the customer gets upset for the poor quality of software they will blame thier business partners for poor implementation. Thier release cycle is 100% based on getting stuff out the door on time. This is why they release garbage that does not work.
It was just announced that former president Ford died of injuries sustained from falling down a flight of stairs and breaking his neck.
The accident happened at a local golf course shortly after striking several golfers in the head on the 5th hole.
What a dumb question. There are more humans on the earth than ever before. Our life expectancy has never been higher. Our quality of life has never been higher. There is nothing to indicate that we are in danger. Only a whacked out liberal pessimist would ask something so stupid.
For ease of collaboration nothing beats Lotus QuickPlace (which runs on Lotus Notes) We switched from QuickPlace to SharePoint, and it completely sucked. The Lotus Notes client completely blows but the Lotus Notes server kicks ass.
You shouldn't expect anyone to see it your way. Even if you accept your ridicules premise that the deaths of 2,752 people, the approximately $40 billion worth of insurance claims, the shutting down of all private sector aviation for a number of days, and the economic impact arising from this single act of terrorism is inconsequential, the results of 9/11 have no affect on the threat. It has an effect on the results of terrorism to date. The threat includes the detonation of a nuclear bomb in a major metropolitan area, the destruction of major portions of our government, the poisoning of our water or food supply, and a hundred other things terrorists are trying to accomplish that I doubt even you would consider inconsequential. Only a naive fool would consider the threat of terrorism as inconsequential.
Terrorism is an inconsiquential threat? Tell that to the families of the 2,752 people that died on 9/11.
Jamie's bio on the MythBusters website says that he is a wilderness survival expert, captain, diver, linguist, animal wrangler, machinist, chef and, of course, model-maker. Adam has made reference to Jamie being torture by guerillas in Central America on the show. How did Jamie become an expert in all of these subjects? At the risk of starting a new myth was Jamie ever a Navy SEAL, a CIA operative or even in the military at all?
I am calm, I am not retarded and I have never been to digg.com. With wit like that it's no wonder you posted anonymously.
You are confused. It is not a fact that the prequels (and Jedi) aren't particularly good movies. That is what is called an opinion. Here is another opinion: TheoGB is an over pretentious prick who thinks so much of his opinions he labels them as facts. Clearly you are dumb.
Microsoft is going to die because there is better technology out there? That's a newsflash. There has always been better technology. DOS and Windows were never better than Mac OS. DEC had great technology. That didn't stop them from dieing. If technology was the driver for a company's success we would all be running Xerox software.
What was so hard about high school that you feel the need for "time off"? My 4 years in college were some of the best of my life. It's a win win situation. You get to have fun and you get a jump start on your career.
Let's say that this is all correct and humans are causing global warming. That does not mean it is bad. It could just as easily be a good thing. Perhaps we are preventing a new ice age which would cause mass extinction. Life forms have been shaping the environment of the earth for billions of years. The only difference is that we are the first life forms that know it.
It's not about where people are doing the jobs. It's about paying people enough money so they can afford the products you are selling. If companies keep paying a substandard wage eventually no one will be able to afford what they are selling and they will go out of business. Henry Ford was smart, people who are outsourcing to save money are shortsighted and dumb.
Seems to me this speaks more to the inefficiency of the natural process to convert plant material to crude oil than it does to the inefficiency of automobiles.