I agree. And the vast majority of sat navs I see are in a womans car. I can drive from one end of the country to another, with no map or sat nav, and it doesn't phase me a bit (Orlando to a friends house in Seattle and back). I don't know what my friends addresses are, but I know where they live. But I forget, girlintraining is engaged to Shrek.
Back when win95 was new, I must have reinstalled that sucker 2000 times in 2 or 3 years. Every time after the first was "unwillingly". Same again with win98. I've never had to reinstall XP, and I've never used vista. But I had learned my lessons by the time XP came about and I didn't even install it once until SP2 came out. A laptop came with it on in 2001, but that was my only exposure for about 3 years. I now keep a legacy machine running XP (AMD 2200XP) (plus the laptop still works) but everything else is linux. In fact I was running linux before I ever installed XP, come to think of it. (SuSe 5.3 -on a Cyrix 333, 384MB RAM. You had to write your own modem init strings and my modem used the same IRQ as my mouse - great fun:( My phone has a faster processor now, and more storage. Not bad in 10 or 11 years)
There are no Atoms in phones because they're way too hungry for a phone cpu. ARM have stuff that runs at around 85mW per GHz. Compare that to the lowest Atom at 0.65W for 800MHz.
Humans do NOT have an innate conscience. It is learned the same as everything else. You develop it by assimilating what you experience and making unconscious connections between perceived good and bad outcomes. You only think something is bad because when you were young, somebody told you it was bad, or you saw a bad result. If you grew up in a house of axe murderers, you would see nothing wrong with axe murdering. If you grow up in a single disinterested parent family, you will learn your behaviour from others like you (maybe a street gang) because nobody ever says it's wrong. All children get imprinted with certain social standards at a very early age and that is what becomes their conscience. Sure it may develop in an individual way, but it does not appear straight from the womb. Perhaps you were thinking of a soul ?
Psychopaths differ in that their brains never accept or retain the initial imprinting and so have nothing to develop. This is a physiological condition. They don't even realise they are missing it. They also famously cannot relate to another persons circumstances, cannot see a similarity between themselves and others. They are completely isolated mentally. I'm sure there are young kids in Mexico City who will gun you down for your backpack - are they lacking a conscience, morals, or are they psychopaths ? Morals are dictated, like the 10 commandments. They are a list of things which society expects you to comply with. That's why they are known as standards. You must not steal is a moral demand, but your conscience might never forgive you if your brother dies because you didn't steal the money to pay for his $emergency. A psychopath wouldn't care about his brother.
Yeah right. What actually happens is you get in the lifeboat with your suitcase full of cash, row over to the yacht, press the red button and both you and the ship full of waste go boom. No honour amongst thieves - remember that, it's quite important. Do you really want to live your life as a "loose end" ?
That is peer pressure. You think you have to know an individual to be influenced by them ? Peers are people in the same social grouping, not social group. i.e. all 16 year olds who like certain types of music, all retired people who buy at certain stores. They do not have to personally know all the other members of the group. In your example, I doubt that the 2 guys were doing their act in front of a group of pensioners. They were doing it to impress members of their age / peer group who they wanted to attract.
Are you being deliberately ignorant ? The point is not just that they last 40 times as long, but they also use much less electricity. The result is NOT "par for the course". The result is $40 < $480 [1* led = $40 is less than (20 * incandescents @$1) + (20 * $23/year)]. Even if the incandescents lasted the same time, you're are still paying $23/year more by using them.
As for the post you replied to, well he's just an idiot. It's not an either / or situation. Of course a system that is designed to heat a whole house will save more money/carbon than a device intended to light one room. Does that mean unless the savings are greater than X we should ignore them, even though the number of lightbulbs vastly outnumbers the number of boilers ? Judging by that and previous posts, I imagine that lots of people save money on heating by huddling around a 60W light bulb. Unlikely. And the heating bill savings by using incandescents really are negligible, unless you are one of those fools who has 10 100W bulbs burning all the time, even in empty rooms.
I say this speaking as someone who has no heating other than a small server, and no light other than 1 fluorescent bulb. I found my biggest saving on electricity came from buying a new fridge. Cost £250, savings per day £0.50
fucking iphone ! So you're saying that my HTC 3600 which I had before the iphone was produced, had a touch screen because.... Or my Palm Tungsten which I also had before the iphone existed, had a touch screen because...
The iphone is popular because they spent millions on tv advertising, and made things move using the accelerometer. Plus it's a toy for consumers, not people with large amounts of brain power.
Without wading thigh deep in troll shit, I'll make my point and leave. There is no need to make science popular. It is not a religion. Science is the method. That is all. People like the benefits of science very much, thank you for asking, they just don't care how it's done. Just like most of you don't care how your car works, or your washing machine. But without science you would have none of those convenient devices. So stop trying to force people to choose a side, and just use science as it is supposed to be used, conjecture, experiment, observe, record results and then measure your results against your conjecture. Make changes as needed. All this fuss is making science out to be something it isn't. I don't see any campaigns designed to bring common sense to the masses, but that's really is all that science is. Just a bit more formalised. Science doesn't have anything to say about God, scientists are just people who try things out in a methodical fashion. I'm sick of news reports saying "Scientists blah blah blah...". They make it seem like they are a peculiar race of people. Fucking cooking is science, pottery is science, motor racing is science, but you never hear the news saying "Scientists have discovered a particularly nice type of bread", or "scientists have just won the LeMans 24 hour".
So just stop trying to impress people with the word "Science". If you want to encourage people to learn more methodical practices, get them to research things they are already interested in, don't just say "now we'll do some science !" Take an ipod to pieces and conduct experiments on it, rebuild a car engine, bake a cake, throw a fucking pot ! If the people are interested, they will want to know more. Until then you're just fostering ill-will and a new kind of class divide.
How much of an ignorant wanker do you have to be to take words out of context, make up your own meaning then flame the OP ?
NASA has failed "to live up to expectations". Maybe your expectations are just a lot lower than the people who were alive and paying attention back when those expectations were raised. Also, (Let's move forward) !eq (Interorbital are going to move forward). NASA had plenty of good ideas in the 70s, manned Mars missions and the like. Have they achieved those aims ?
Oh, they haven't. Better let you get on with equivocating then. Don't forget to mention how companies like Boeing actually build most of NASAs hardware, thereby annihilating your private enterprise jibe.
It's really quite simple. NASA does not stand for National Aeronautical and Space Vehicle Manufacturers. They are supposed to be Administrating, not running the whole shebang. Let them work out orbits, telemetry, landing sites, launch windows and such like. Let others build the craft without interference from the fucking PHBs.
I'd not be so quick to dismiss edutainment, especially when it is in the pursuit of re-enacting one of the most important non-hard scientific studies of all time.
But the original voyage was a hard scientific study. The Beagle was on a mission to verify chronometer readings and thereby confirm readings of longitude around S. America. Darwin did his other stuff on his own time. And he hadn't developed any theory on natural selection at that time, he was just a keen naturalist who took the opportunity to gather samples and make drawings. It was only after seeing all those different forms of life that he started to develop his theory. So he didn't make the facts fit the theory, his theory was based on observable evidence.
Claim is not the same as takes. Several people can claim first prize, but only one can take it. I can claim I didn't go to the pub last night, does that make it true ?
Can you make that any more dismissive and supercilious ? Maybe we should mention the US version of democracy, where you persist in believing everybody is free to do anything they want within the law, meanwhile the national pastime consists of forcing the lawmakers to redefine the law to be tighter and more specific every minute of every day. Boiling frogs anybody ?
Here's a thought, it just occurred to me that I was thinking of you USAians as being in the west. But I live in the east,relative to you. So when you tout your western technology, and modern ways of doing business, I would appreciate it if you didn't judge the "western" world by your own standards. I have more in common, and am physically closer to what you call the East, than I am to you. Speaking as a white 40 something year old British male any way.
I think they should rename the ISS to the USS, because it should be united, but the USA bogarted the 'USS' so we are stuck. Any chance of renaming earth and taking back our culture ? I don't want to wait 'till the earth dies and copyright expires. </inebriated and honest>
Apparently it took about 57 minutes to get the data off the card onto the recipient computer. So it was hardly a trivial amount of data. Maybe they confused mega bits with mega bytes like so many other ignorant lusers.
In a (very) rough calculation I worked out that if they sent an 8GB card, then their net connection was a little over 43Kbps. I don't think even SA has stuck to modem implemented internet, so I would say they were probably sending more than 8GB.
You must also take into account the massive mechanisation of farming since WW2. We simply do not have enough trained people to farm manually anymore. Can you imagine farming massive corn fields using only horses for ploughing and harvesting ? A lot of farmland can only be made useful by machines due to heavy soils and/or poor drainage.
As for your first point - he IS emitting CO2. Whether it is a net addition to the atmosphere is not mentioned, so you cannot deny the fact.
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I agree. And the vast majority of sat navs I see are in a womans car. I can drive from one end of the country to another, with no map or sat nav, and it doesn't phase me a bit (Orlando to a friends house in Seattle and back). I don't know what my friends addresses are, but I know where they live. But I forget, girlintraining is engaged to Shrek.
Yet windows doesn't run on ARM. Your point is ?
Somebody really should mod you funny. It's all about the drivers.
Back when win95 was new, I must have reinstalled that sucker 2000 times in 2 or 3 years. Every time after the first was "unwillingly". Same again with win98. I've never had to reinstall XP, and I've never used vista. But I had learned my lessons by the time XP came about and I didn't even install it once until SP2 came out. A laptop came with it on in 2001, but that was my only exposure for about 3 years. I now keep a legacy machine running XP (AMD 2200XP) (plus the laptop still works) but everything else is linux. In fact I was running linux before I ever installed XP, come to think of it. (SuSe 5.3 -on a Cyrix 333, 384MB RAM. You had to write your own modem init strings and my modem used the same IRQ as my mouse - great fun :( My phone has a faster processor now, and more storage. Not bad in 10 or 11 years)
There are no Atoms in phones because they're way too hungry for a phone cpu. ARM have stuff that runs at around 85mW per GHz. Compare that to the lowest Atom at 0.65W for 800MHz.
Psychopaths differ in that their brains never accept or retain the initial imprinting and so have nothing to develop. This is a physiological condition. They don't even realise they are missing it. They also famously cannot relate to another persons circumstances, cannot see a similarity between themselves and others. They are completely isolated mentally. I'm sure there are young kids in Mexico City who will gun you down for your backpack - are they lacking a conscience, morals, or are they psychopaths ? Morals are dictated, like the 10 commandments. They are a list of things which society expects you to comply with. That's why they are known as standards. You must not steal is a moral demand, but your conscience might never forgive you if your brother dies because you didn't steal the money to pay for his $emergency. A psychopath wouldn't care about his brother.
Yeah right. What actually happens is you get in the lifeboat with your suitcase full of cash, row over to the yacht, press the red button and both you and the ship full of waste go boom. No honour amongst thieves - remember that, it's quite important. Do you really want to live your life as a "loose end" ?
Try putting a zero in front of your decimals, then we can see it's a decimal. Just because you say "point 2 c", doesn't mean you write it like that.
That is peer pressure. You think you have to know an individual to be influenced by them ? Peers are people in the same social grouping, not social group. i.e. all 16 year olds who like certain types of music, all retired people who buy at certain stores. They do not have to personally know all the other members of the group. In your example, I doubt that the 2 guys were doing their act in front of a group of pensioners. They were doing it to impress members of their age / peer group who they wanted to attract.
According to this they still offer subsidies to ALL.
As for the post you replied to, well he's just an idiot. It's not an either / or situation. Of course a system that is designed to heat a whole house will save more money/carbon than a device intended to light one room. Does that mean unless the savings are greater than X we should ignore them, even though the number of lightbulbs vastly outnumbers the number of boilers ? Judging by that and previous posts, I imagine that lots of people save money on heating by huddling around a 60W light bulb. Unlikely. And the heating bill savings by using incandescents really are negligible, unless you are one of those fools who has 10 100W bulbs burning all the time, even in empty rooms.
I say this speaking as someone who has no heating other than a small server, and no light other than 1 fluorescent bulb. I found my biggest saving on electricity came from buying a new fridge. Cost £250, savings per day £0.50
The iphone is popular because they spent millions on tv advertising, and made things move using the accelerometer. Plus it's a toy for consumers, not people with large amounts of brain power.
From those according to their ability - to those according to their need.
Do you bitch about disabled access too ? You end up paying for that through higher prices as well.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/04/2021228
http://www.mcmaster.ca/opr/html/opr/media/main/NewsReleases/2005/NR_bunce.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3044.shtml
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524812.300-giant-eagle-evolved-in-record-time.html
Without wading thigh deep in troll shit, I'll make my point and leave. There is no need to make science popular. It is not a religion. Science is the method. That is all. People like the benefits of science very much, thank you for asking, they just don't care how it's done. Just like most of you don't care how your car works, or your washing machine. But without science you would have none of those convenient devices. So stop trying to force people to choose a side, and just use science as it is supposed to be used, conjecture, experiment, observe, record results and then measure your results against your conjecture. Make changes as needed. All this fuss is making science out to be something it isn't. I don't see any campaigns designed to bring common sense to the masses, but that's really is all that science is. Just a bit more formalised. Science doesn't have anything to say about God, scientists are just people who try things out in a methodical fashion. I'm sick of news reports saying "Scientists blah blah blah ...". They make it seem like they are a peculiar race of people. Fucking cooking is science, pottery is science, motor racing is science, but you never hear the news saying "Scientists have discovered a particularly nice type of bread", or "scientists have just won the LeMans 24 hour".
So just stop trying to impress people with the word "Science". If you want to encourage people to learn more methodical practices, get them to research things they are already interested in, don't just say "now we'll do some science !" Take an ipod to pieces and conduct experiments on it, rebuild a car engine, bake a cake, throw a fucking pot ! If the people are interested, they will want to know more. Until then you're just fostering ill-will and a new kind of class divide.
NASA has failed "to live up to expectations". Maybe your expectations are just a lot lower than the people who were alive and paying attention back when those expectations were raised.
Also, (Let's move forward) !eq (Interorbital are going to move forward).
NASA had plenty of good ideas in the 70s, manned Mars missions and the like. Have they achieved those aims ?
Oh, they haven't. Better let you get on with equivocating then. Don't forget to mention how companies like Boeing actually build most of NASAs hardware, thereby annihilating your private enterprise jibe.
It's really quite simple. NASA does not stand for National Aeronautical and Space Vehicle Manufacturers. They are supposed to be Administrating, not running the whole shebang. Let them work out orbits, telemetry, landing sites, launch windows and such like. Let others build the craft without interference from the fucking PHBs.
Programs > Internet Sharing (either usb or Bluetooth)
Nice straw man yourself.
But the original voyage was a hard scientific study. The Beagle was on a mission to verify chronometer readings and thereby confirm readings of longitude around S. America. Darwin did his other stuff on his own time. And he hadn't developed any theory on natural selection at that time, he was just a keen naturalist who took the opportunity to gather samples and make drawings. It was only after seeing all those different forms of life that he started to develop his theory. So he didn't make the facts fit the theory, his theory was based on observable evidence.
Claim is not the same as takes. Several people can claim first prize, but only one can take it. I can claim I didn't go to the pub last night, does that make it true ?
And who will that inconvenience ? </ Deep Thought >
Can you make that any more dismissive and supercilious ? Maybe we should mention the US version of democracy, where you persist in believing everybody is free to do anything they want within the law, meanwhile the national pastime consists of forcing the lawmakers to redefine the law to be tighter and more specific every minute of every day. Boiling frogs anybody ?
Here's a thought, it just occurred to me that I was thinking of you USAians as being in the west. But I live in the east,relative to you. So when you tout your western technology, and modern ways of doing business, I would appreciate it if you didn't judge the "western" world by your own standards. I have more in common, and am physically closer to what you call the East, than I am to you. Speaking as a white 40 something year old British male any way.
I think they should rename the ISS to the USS, because it should be united, but the USA bogarted the 'USS' so we are stuck. Any chance of renaming earth and taking back our culture ? I don't want to wait 'till the earth dies and copyright expires.
</inebriated and honest>
In a (very) rough calculation I worked out that if they sent an 8GB card, then their net connection was a little over 43Kbps. I don't think even SA has stuck to modem implemented internet, so I would say they were probably sending more than 8GB.
As for your first point - he IS emitting CO2. Whether it is a net addition to the atmosphere is not mentioned, so you cannot deny the fact.
So you don't use hot water at all in the summer then ? Explains a lot.
Pro-tip - central heating uses radiators which can be turned off !