Hmmm... I'm usually a big skeptic, not so much of climate change, but just of shoddy science, but if I had mod points, you need a score of 10... though I would have picked "Informative" myself...
It sort of irk's me that this is even posted to slashdot, and I know it is because the editors know it will be a big troll and start a firestorm of climate change he said/she said postings, getting their "post quota" up (if there is such a thing).
What a steaming pile of garbage. I don't even need to read into the fine detail to know that this isn't worth reading.
A) Chart is worthless. I have never see a more ambiguous meaningless chart in my life. They might as well not bother to label things. B) Lets do a reliability study on SSD's that they don't have any long term data on past 2 years, yet compare it to HDD that typically at least have a 3 year warranty. By that I only mean, I'll go out on a limb and guess that the average failure rate of HDD is > 3 years, if only for economic self preservation. C) Results in either case depend highly on specific device model and configuration.
Somehow I seriously doubt that more American women are being enrolled in CS. It is far more likely that with the increase of foreign students studying abroad that do not share the same cultural bias are enrolling in CS. Considering sample size and moderate increase, this is a plausible explanation.
Step 2: Figure out how many Americans there are! Google! 307 Million
Step 3: Do some complicated math! 1st assume a population of 300 and an unemployment rate of 10%! 30 Million people!
Step 4: Buy 30 Million exercise bikes and hook them up with dynamos and connect them to the grid! You might possibly need an inverter or something fancy.
Step 5: Hire 10 Million people at minimum wage for each of 3 shifts.
Step 6: PROFIT!!!:)
Now you have all the power you need, no unemployment, and as a bonus I solved all your obesity problems you have in the US as well!
I'll take my Nobel peace prize!
You're on your own with that whole debt thing though, I'm not touching that one!
Seriously. I saw a motherboard years ago that was supposed to target the audiophile audience. It had vacuum tubes on it. Seriously. Installed on a modern integrated chip/circuit board... vacuum tubes... awesome. I recall they were not cheap, something like 400$ for what is normally a 150-200$ piece. Still pretty cool. They probably only sold 4 of them. Be interesting to know how many are out there.
My favorite, is people that buy high end stuff and then mix it.
Like wine, sure there are some subtle differences between "normal" and "high end". However all that is lost when you mix it with coke, juice, or whatever you favorite is. If you don't like to drink straight up, then don't bother wasting you money making Grey Goose Screwdrivers or Patron Margaritas...
That's right. You have to be willing to spend the big bucks on those platinum tipped, reverse osmosis, gold wired, double ferrite shielded, blessed with holy water from sister Mary's tears, counter twisted pairs, with composite shielding sleeves made from ground unicorn horn and faeries wing dust.
Now at WorstBuy for only 599.99$/ft
Alternatively you can get the exact same cable in 100 ft lengths from China for 50 cents.
Funny enough it was 2 cents an acre at the time or 7.2$ million in 1876.
My trusty inflation calculator says that 7.2$ from 1876 to 2010 dollars is approximately 110$ Million dollars.
As the official Canadian representative I hereby offer the United States of America, in their time of financial need, 110$ million dollars for Alaska (-Palin).
Oddly enough, the Russians sold it because they were hurting for cash also (and they though the British would take it anyway)...
Tragically I had to edit batch files just months ago, to fix a cobbled together Frankenstein of a solution... the horror. Problem is managers faced with "it costs X and will take Y to do this properly", or "I can rig something together with small pieces of twine, batch files, and the last pieces of my soul", they usually pick the soul option.
I know I personally learned batch files trying to make crappy games play on my 286 when I was a teen. XMS was just wonderful stuff.
Stick 'em to the ISS and slowly move towards deep space. All they require are power really, and its got plenty of solar panels. If you need a bit more oomph, send up one of those small nuclear generators (radioisotope thermoelectric generators) that last 80 years (been mounted on several satellites already including Voyager I). You could even slap on a few bits of newer sensors etc...
Anyway just seems like a colossal waste after spending billions beating the gravity well, to simply let the whole thing just fall back in. Spend a bit of cash and salvage and send it off someplace.
I would argue that plenty of people in government understand how science works. In fact I would argue that likely a pretty large population of Canada's scientists work for the government in one Ministry or Department.
If your saying that the politicians don't get it, well then you might be onto something...
Stewardship requires active management. It also requires some sort of centralized organization. Like Government.
Conservatives I think would somehow like to believe if left to private industry and innovation, that the invisible hand of the market will solve all the problems. Corporate interests will see the long term ramifications of this and act decisively!
To be fair all political parties are like that to a certain extent, in that they don't like bad stuff to come out that is at odds with their political ideals...
Its just that the Conservatives are particularly bad... This is probably a result of so many of their ideals, being at odds with science...
or what I would describe as wrong. However if you think the Liberals wouldn't do the exact same thing on an issue, or change their ideal in light of science, you are on crack. They would spin it, and bury it as fast as they can just like the Conservatives. As I said, they just have to do it more because their dogma doesn't quite match reality as much.
35% of the sample population has or has a friend that has an older generation iPhone. Having not been disappointed in the past, by said product, they can say that they will likely want the new iPhone after their current mobile contract is up. If that is the iPhone 5 then so be it.
I know I fit into that category. I bought the 3GS a while back and have to say I have been very happy with it. Do I want an iPhone 5? Hell yes. Will that stop me from looking at alternatives? No. But will my positive history with the device add to my purchasing decision? Definitely. If when released, the iPhone is a dog, will I still get it? Likely not. Depending on when my contract ends, hopefully I won't be a first adopter, and can find out from someone else if it had problems.
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Hmmm... I'm usually a big skeptic, not so much of climate change, but just of shoddy science, but if I had mod points, you need a score of 10... though I would have picked "Informative" myself...
It sort of irk's me that this is even posted to slashdot, and I know it is because the editors know it will be a big troll and start a firestorm of climate change he said/she said postings, getting their "post quota" up (if there is such a thing).
What a steaming pile of garbage. I don't even need to read into the fine detail to know that this isn't worth reading.
Let me summarize:
A) Chart is worthless. I have never see a more ambiguous meaningless chart in my life. They might as well not bother to label things.
B) Lets do a reliability study on SSD's that they don't have any long term data on past 2 years, yet compare it to HDD that typically at least have a 3 year warranty. By that I only mean, I'll go out on a limb and guess that the average failure rate of HDD is > 3 years, if only for economic self preservation.
C) Results in either case depend highly on specific device model and configuration.
Somehow I seriously doubt that more American women are being enrolled in CS. It is far more likely that with the increase of foreign students studying abroad that do not share the same cultural bias are enrolling in CS. Considering sample size and moderate increase, this is a plausible explanation.
Is it just me, or shouldn't this be standard fscking procedure for companies dealing with sensitive information such as medical and financial records?
Ya, but only because they're not unemployed!
I suppose your going to exclude the elderly and infirm eh? Liberal!
Well they were all about the decimal system really...
Now with the "I'm Feeling Lucky Eh" button!
Don't we want less jobs per energy?
I can beat Solar easily, and solve both the energy crisis as well as the US unemployment problem.
Step 1: Figure out how many unemployed people there are in the US!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_unemployment_rate
9.2 Hooray!
Step 2: Figure out how many Americans there are!
Google!
307 Million
Step 3: Do some complicated math!
1st assume a population of 300 and an unemployment rate of 10%!
30 Million people!
Step 4: Buy 30 Million exercise bikes and hook them up with dynamos and connect them to the grid!
You might possibly need an inverter or something fancy.
Step 5: Hire 10 Million people at minimum wage for each of 3 shifts.
Step 6: PROFIT!!! :)
Now you have all the power you need, no unemployment, and as a bonus I solved all your obesity problems you have in the US as well!
I'll take my Nobel peace prize!
You're on your own with that whole debt thing though, I'm not touching that one!
Seriously. I saw a motherboard years ago that was supposed to target the audiophile audience. It had vacuum tubes on it. Seriously. Installed on a modern integrated chip/circuit board... vacuum tubes... awesome. I recall they were not cheap, something like 400$ for what is normally a 150-200$ piece. Still pretty cool. They probably only sold 4 of them. Be interesting to know how many are out there.
My favorite, is people that buy high end stuff and then mix it.
Like wine, sure there are some subtle differences between "normal" and "high end". However all that is lost when you mix it with coke, juice, or whatever you favorite is. If you don't like to drink straight up, then don't bother wasting you money making Grey Goose Screwdrivers or Patron Margaritas...
That's right. You have to be willing to spend the big bucks on those platinum tipped, reverse osmosis, gold wired, double ferrite shielded, blessed with holy water from sister Mary's tears, counter twisted pairs, with composite shielding sleeves made from ground unicorn horn and faeries wing dust.
Now at WorstBuy for only 599.99$ /ft
Alternatively you can get the exact same cable in 100 ft lengths from China for 50 cents.
Call it what it is, Greed.
Well British, but true.
Funny enough it was 2 cents an acre at the time or 7.2$ million in 1876.
My trusty inflation calculator says that 7.2$ from 1876 to 2010 dollars is approximately 110$ Million dollars.
As the official Canadian representative I hereby offer the United States of America, in their time of financial need, 110$ million dollars for Alaska (-Palin).
Oddly enough, the Russians sold it because they were hurting for cash also (and they though the British would take it anyway)...
Tragically I had to edit batch files just months ago, to fix a cobbled together Frankenstein of a solution... the horror. Problem is managers faced with "it costs X and will take Y to do this properly", or "I can rig something together with small pieces of twine, batch files, and the last pieces of my soul", they usually pick the soul option.
I know I personally learned batch files trying to make crappy games play on my 286 when I was a teen. XMS was just wonderful stuff.
Oh that's right, we suck. We were on one, but got bumped... by Spain. Spain!
I know that's all I got from this story.
The invisible hand of the market has spoken and proclaimed men 10x better than women!
Twin Ion Engines!
Stick 'em to the ISS and slowly move towards deep space. All they require are power really, and its got plenty of solar panels. If you need a bit more oomph, send up one of those small nuclear generators (radioisotope thermoelectric generators) that last 80 years (been mounted on several satellites already including Voyager I). You could even slap on a few bits of newer sensors etc...
Anyway just seems like a colossal waste after spending billions beating the gravity well, to simply let the whole thing just fall back in. Spend a bit of cash and salvage and send it off someplace.
eagerly await mass production of star wars storm trooper costumes!
No more shall fans have to buy off some some dude on ebay with a vacuum press!
Sell Canada back Alaska!
We'll even let you keep Palin!
I would argue that plenty of people in government understand how science works. In fact I would argue that likely a pretty large population of Canada's scientists work for the government in one Ministry or Department.
If your saying that the politicians don't get it, well then you might be onto something...
Stewardship requires active management. It also requires some sort of centralized organization. Like Government.
Conservatives I think would somehow like to believe if left to private industry and innovation, that the invisible hand of the market will solve all the problems. Corporate interests will see the long term ramifications of this and act decisively!
To be fair all political parties are like that to a certain extent, in that they don't like bad stuff to come out that is at odds with their political ideals...
Its just that the Conservatives are particularly bad... This is probably a result of so many of their ideals, being at odds with science...
or what I would describe as wrong. However if you think the Liberals wouldn't do the exact same thing on an issue, or change their ideal in light of science, you are on crack. They would spin it, and bury it as fast as they can just like the Conservatives. As I said, they just have to do it more because their dogma doesn't quite match reality as much.
They are all Putin clones. Soon all Russians will be Putin clones!
35% of the sample population has or has a friend that has an older generation iPhone. Having not been disappointed in the past, by said product, they can say that they will likely want the new iPhone after their current mobile contract is up. If that is the iPhone 5 then so be it.
I know I fit into that category. I bought the 3GS a while back and have to say I have been very happy with it. Do I want an iPhone 5? Hell yes. Will that stop me from looking at alternatives? No. But will my positive history with the device add to my purchasing decision? Definitely. If when released, the iPhone is a dog, will I still get it? Likely not. Depending on when my contract ends, hopefully I won't be a first adopter, and can find out from someone else if it had problems.
I am sure some skin head parents home schooled taught jimmy that something was wrong with jews and blacks.
Doesn't mean jimmy is dumb. Only that with the incorrect upbringing and teaching, potential intelligence can be wasted.
Which is why it is important to teach evolution and not intelligent design in schools.
Which is why this announcement is a good thing.