A rare and exotic animal. Turtleneck computers weasel their way into school districts and the IT savvy of network admins in your average school district is woefully inadequate, even if they have the savvy the teachers unions will force them to allow trivial passwords and universal access to all resources (by hardcoded P address of course, because neither side of the IT gap really grasp the enterprise utility of DNS or DHCP and rarely have the skills to administrate it) which includes admin passwords. Welcome to the real world of supporting Cyberdiots.
Both match well with your critical reasoning skills, though. It is, however, a quite apt example of relentless propaganda creating a core of "unshakable believers" on the denialist side,
My critical reasoning skills are far better than those of name-calling zealots pointing a finger and chorus to Sir Bedevere: "She's a witch! Burn her! Burn! Burn her!" at those who identify the reality of the basis of their poorly substantiated claims:
[We have NO] agreement on a model for generating a single figure of merit for "earth temperature" it is absurd to discuss changes in fractions of a degree. There are too many parameters in the definition, and it's easy to get any result you want by playing with the definition of "temperature." There are no continuous measures from 1880 to 2000; all have to have "adjustments" and the adjustments are often larger than the error margins.
[other post}
You can prove anything if you can make up your data, and just about anything if you can select your data. But it isn't science. - Jerry Pournelle
Also, how can we trust computer models when the models can't and don't account for Medieval Warm and the Little Ice Age, we have little data from the Southern Hemisphere prior to the Voyages of Discovery. If the hypothesis cant even be corroborated with the historical data we DO have with the tools used, how dependable are they for prediction?
AGW is is the antithesis of "the progress of science", it is a hypothesis at best, and we lack sufficient data to even falsify it, let alone promote it as a forgone conclusion.
How about something with a more climatic timespan:
http://www.longrangeweather.com/global_temperatures.htm If the data are correct, it looks like:
A) consecutive cold periods and warm periods appear to be getting closer together.
B) cold cycles look to be trending cooler.
C) warm cycles also appear to trend slightly cooler and terminating more abruptly.
See also previous discussion on the absurdity of their claims: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1629458&cid=31961726 Please educate us lowly "deniers", oh blond cheerleader, what do your priests say is the "proper" "global temperature" for which we should be striving with their demanded herculean efforts and trillions in expenditures to be put forth on this hand-waving of smoke in front of their carefully placed mirrors.?
All you have to do is convince 10% of your peers that your missing raw data, suspect collection methodology and flawed hockeystick data representation are actually scientifically valid and the grant dollars will flow will flow.
turn in your geek card - spice is not grown. no more than i grew some shit earlier today.
just kidding - im not the geek police: i just take out my aggressions on the internet when i'm having a bad day. but no really... spice is worm shit
Actually its sandtrout shit, spice is refined from a "spice blow" when the pressures become too much for the sandtrout encapsulating the water and creating the melange. Sheesh, talk about geek ignorance.
Awesome Dune reference. Frank Herbert would be proud.
Not really. An apropos reference would be "for training Fremen". The planet Arrakis IS/WAS the desert planet DUNE inhabited by the desert Freman and city folk such as the Arakeen (possibly the population group he was trying to reference, incorrectly as it was not the city folk that Liet-Kynes was educating to be his stewards of the land)
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A competently administered Mac network
A rare and exotic animal. Turtleneck computers weasel their way into school districts and the IT savvy of network admins in your average school district is woefully inadequate, even if they have the savvy the teachers unions will force them to allow trivial passwords and universal access to all resources (by hardcoded P address of course, because neither side of the IT gap really grasp the enterprise utility of DNS or DHCP and rarely have the skills to administrate it) which includes admin passwords. Welcome to the real world of supporting Cyberdiots.
Isn't that server RAM?
Indeed, ECC ("ChipKill") at $300/midule, ykes.
So we can populate 4 slot motherboards to their full 32GB capacity and I'll buy 'em,.
A mediocre juggler can make 6 figures.
Ayup, it's really tough to keep 3 mediocres in the air at the same time.
chin of trust
That would be Dudley Doright's.
Crap, did I just post that online?
Yes, and don't call me Crap!
I predict that this will be as successful as Microsoft's "ipod killer". What was that thing called again?
Xenu?
recognize Mohammed, when it sees him.
It's pinin' for the fjords.
I'm a doctor not UFOLOGIST, dammit! But, I'm pretty sure it's dead.
Theres old IKEA furniture and there's bold IKEA furniture, but there's no OLD, BOLD IKEA furniture.
When reactors are outlawed, only off-the-path lunar outlaws will have reactors.
Well, Mr Jobs, you can stick your technology where the sun don't shine.
Under the neck of a black turtleneck?
Am I the only one thinking of that song from Blazing Saddles here?
Yep, I think so.
Both match well with your critical reasoning skills, though. It is, however, a quite apt example of relentless propaganda creating a core of "unshakable believers" on the denialist side,
My critical reasoning skills are far better than those of name-calling zealots pointing a finger and chorus to Sir Bedevere: "She's a witch! Burn her! Burn! Burn her!" at those who identify the reality of the basis of their poorly substantiated claims:
[We have NO] agreement on a model for generating a single figure of merit for "earth temperature" it is absurd to discuss changes in fractions of a degree. There are too many parameters in the definition, and it's easy to get any result you want by playing with the definition of "temperature." There are no continuous measures from 1880 to 2000; all have to have "adjustments" and the adjustments are often larger than the error margins.
[other post}
You can prove anything if you can make up your data, and just about anything if you can select your data. But it isn't science. - Jerry Pournelle
Also, how can we trust computer models when the models can't and don't account for Medieval Warm and the Little Ice Age, we have little data from the Southern Hemisphere prior to the Voyages of Discovery. If the hypothesis cant even be corroborated with the historical data we DO have with the tools used, how dependable are they for prediction? AGW is is the antithesis of "the progress of science", it is a hypothesis at best, and we lack sufficient data to even falsify it, let alone promote it as a forgone conclusion. How about something with a more climatic timespan: http://www.longrangeweather.com/global_temperatures.htm If the data are correct, it looks like:
A) consecutive cold periods and warm periods appear to be getting closer together.
B) cold cycles look to be trending cooler.
C) warm cycles also appear to trend slightly cooler and terminating more abruptly.
See also previous discussion on the absurdity of their claims: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1629458&cid=31961726
Please educate us lowly "deniers", oh blond cheerleader, what do your priests say is the "proper" "global temperature" for which we should be striving with their demanded herculean efforts and trillions in expenditures to be put forth on this hand-waving of smoke in front of their carefully placed mirrors.?
popularity it appears my preview skills are at the same level of ineptitude as my typing skills.
All you have to do is convince 10% of your peers that your missing raw data, suspect collection methodology and flawed hockeystick data representation are actually scientifically valid and the grant dollars will flow will flow.
You just need to properly orient your pringles can.
If you cant crack a WEP key, you are not really qualified to have an /. account.
Don't be ridiculous.
It's an Australian based company erecting this thing.
That's not an erection ... now THIS is an erection (apologies to Paul Hogan)
turn in your geek card - spice is not grown. no more than i grew some shit earlier today. just kidding - im not the geek police: i just take out my aggressions on the internet when i'm having a bad day. but no really... spice is worm shit
Actually its sandtrout shit, spice is refined from a "spice blow" when the pressures become too much for the sandtrout encapsulating the water and creating the melange. Sheesh, talk about geek ignorance.
Awesome Dune reference. Frank Herbert would be proud.
Not really. An apropos reference would be "for training Fremen". The planet Arrakis IS/WAS the desert planet DUNE inhabited by the desert Freman and city folk such as the Arakeen (possibly the population group he was trying to reference, incorrectly as it was not the city folk that Liet-Kynes was educating to be his stewards of the land)
Steve will just put higher walls around his garden.
you've lost your mental faculties.
They probably fell out of his pocket while skydiving from13,500 ft (~4114 meters).
whistles past him
To the tune of "Dixie":
I wish I was in Jobs walled garden
Ol' times dere am not forgotten
Lookee down, lookee down, lookee down
Crappple fanboi!