They were stopped in France too. Granted it was at the far end of the country and by the English channel, but the line was held! ; ) The one issue not in dispute is that the cheese-eating surrender monkeys didn't win the war.
Where are you? Surely there must be one soul willing to stand up in this sea of apparent unanimity and shout down the hoardes of unrepentant pirates. No takers huh? Even among the hundreds of programmers there is not one of you who feels that software piracy has taken away the bread to feed their children? No takers? OK let's check the list.
Pirates - Check!
FOSS - Check
Skeptics - Check
Tin foil hat loonies - Check
Canucks - Check
Could we hear from the land of Oz, the EU, Obama lovers and bashers, AGW proponents and deniers, MS and Apple fanbois (by the way its 4:05 PM Central and I haven't seen an Apple Story yet - not complaining mind you), and someone with an "in Soviet Russia... " comment so we can call this unanimous?
Copied/Distributed? If we use the RIAA's and Business Software Alliance's theories on that one and conclude that you can't run or compile the software without doing these, we must then conclude that the GPL is always applicable to any changes in the software.
Remember this is a dynamic equilibrium like a partially submerged bucket with a hole in it, if you remove water from the bucket, it will fill until the water level is the same as the surrounding water as your source demonstrated in his GCM experiment. If you pour water into the bucket the water level rises until there is sufficient head pressure to cause the bucket to empty at the same rate it is being filled and the level in the bucket will be higher than the surrounding water level. The atmospheric equilibrium point would likewise be shifted upward if man were constantly pumping water into the atmosphere. Man's direct activity to put more water into the atmosphere than would otherwise be there makes it a forcing function added to the feedback function already in play. Stating that man cannot increase the water vapor directly is very much like stating that man cannot increase the CO2 level - a widely held view a few years ago which is generally discredited.
A climate forcing is an imposed perturbation of the Earth's energy balance. If man act to increase the vapor level directly, as in this scenario, it is a forcing. The naturally occurring increase due to the loop is feedback.
I would prefer we continue burning fossil fuel at ever increasing rates rather than blunder about aimlessly - at least we can die with lots of shiny. If we could magically reduce the CO2 why would we need to experiment?
We would not have evolved were it not for changes in the environment, but if we have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo if we do not wish to see a substantial impact on agriculture, economics and finally population. Please note that while I did not say negative impact, it is the more probable direction.
As the temperature of the atmosphere increases, so does the amount of water vapor that it can hold so if the atmospheric temperature is rising as data trends suggest, then it becomes a forcing factor. Secondly I don't believe that the plan is to build a system, run it for a couple of days, and shut it down - the vapor will be continually renewed. Blanket pronouncements like yours are what got us to the predicament we are in.
I am sure the misplaced end parenthesis is responsible for your misunderstanding of the math: 76% + 1/3*76% is greater than 100% we can safely assume that 1/3 is an approximate figure and that CO2 is something closer to 23% than 25.3%.
You cannot make clouds without significant water vapor creation unless the air starts out nearly saturated. The creation of water vapor would be an unintended consequence. The air surrounding the clouds must be saturated or the cloud dissipates, regardless of what they mentioned. When the air temperature or pressure changes, the cloud can turn to rain or dissipate. so the effect can be extremely short-lived. As for the energy cost, it borders on trivial to calculate since this is a simple gravitational potential energy calculation, and the energy is not insignificant. The task is done in the atmosphere, not deep in the ocean. How far the salt carries is only partly a function of how high the original clouds are formed, you should keep in mind that sand from the Sahara regularly falls in the Bahamas, and all that sand starts out at ground level.
Further tests are not necessary, this is a nice little scheme to separate Bill from his dollar bills. As a mechanical engineer, I can assure you that the energy balance is not favorable - in engineering there are unintended consequences, but no free rides.
Au Contraire. I have a iBook from Taiwan, it has a Chinese character keyboard, the labels on the product indicate compliance with the regulatory requirements of Taiwan, the manuals are in both Chinese and English. The Airport Card defaults to work only on the frequencies allowed in Taiwan. The OS is very different - localized and it does not include all the functionality of the US version.
T-Mobile might have an issue with your statements about Carriers, particularly since they are more of a world carrier than AT&T.
If there is any truth in the old adage "no such thing as bad publicity", then you may consider yourself a shill for Apple. If you want it to go away, stop poking it with a stick.
Bill Gates talked about Information Fatigue years ago when Microsoft was trying to bring together disparate information systems with their backend server tools.
Obama is a Socialist, Bush was the Fascist. I am sorry I could not resist. I am sure that it seems that the left has all but won to those on the far right as well.
Knee jerk reactions are encouraged by the very toys about which Mr. Obama spoke. "First Post" is far more important than "5, Insightful" around here and the equivalent distortion of priorities is pervasive elsewhere.
Mm, very interesting point. As an honest discussion-starting question, what are ways these new technologies could be used to promote democracy and involvement? As another post in this story says (and I totally agree), one of the biggest problems in our current form of government is a lack of involvement in and lack of importance placed on our democracy.
The ability to spread information so quickly and so ubiquitously could definitely be a useful tool for this, methinks.
Why would anyone in power wish to promote democracy and involvement? What you see as a problem, those in power see as a blessing.
The ability to spread disinformation so quickly and so ubiquitously could definitely be a far more useful tool, methinks.
The fact that Adobe is likely to make these things worse by not fully supporting the iPhone or by not keeping up with new features makes it worse.
Adobe will only be hurt if they are too lazy, too timid, or too slow to agressively develop their product for selected other phones and make the user experience equal that of the iPhone. If they try to support the entire gammut of phones, their product will never be better than lowest common denominator and they will succeed only in the short run and help Apple in the process.
The Apple/Adobe fight is about money and control. Apple wants to wall people into their garden and Flash is an impedance to that. Apples banking on their customer loyalty (accept that owning an iPhone/iPad == no Flash) and that HTML5 will replace Flash for video.
How many times has Apple been wrong about X replacing Y? Regardless of their motivation, I tend to believe Apple when they make such predictions.
I respectfully disagree. Those books were seminal in the childhood development of Voldemort, Bellatrix Lestrange, Lucius Malfoy, Wormtail, Tom M Riddle, Professor Umbridge, Draco Malfoy, and Narcissa Malfoy.
Oh, do you want Michael Mann's (the hockey stick guy) data specifically? Here's the data behind one of his most recent papers. Note that he's included his Matlab code.
MatLab? Well it must be a conspiracy if he didn't use FOSS.
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They were stopped in France too. Granted it was at the far end of the country and by the English channel, but the line was held! ; ) The one issue not in dispute is that the cheese-eating surrender monkeys didn't win the war.
...it's that any and all natural disasters can be stopped by the liberal use of nuclear weapons.
And the most likely side effect to the use of nuclear weapons is that some geek gets laid.
Those geeks are never members of this community.
Where are you? Surely there must be one soul willing to stand up in this sea of apparent unanimity and shout down the hoardes of unrepentant pirates. No takers huh? Even among the hundreds of programmers there is not one of you who feels that software piracy has taken away the bread to feed their children? No takers? OK let's check the list.
Pirates - Check!
FOSS - Check
Skeptics - Check
Tin foil hat loonies - Check
Canucks - Check
Could we hear from the land of Oz, the EU, Obama lovers and bashers, AGW proponents and deniers, MS and Apple fanbois (by the way its 4:05 PM Central and I haven't seen an Apple Story yet - not complaining mind you), and someone with an "in Soviet Russia ... " comment so we can call this unanimous?
Copied/Distributed? If we use the RIAA's and Business Software Alliance's theories on that one and conclude that you can't run or compile the software without doing these, we must then conclude that the GPL is always applicable to any changes in the software.
Remember this is a dynamic equilibrium like a partially submerged bucket with a hole in it, if you remove water from the bucket, it will fill until the water level is the same as the surrounding water as your source demonstrated in his GCM experiment. If you pour water into the bucket the water level rises until there is sufficient head pressure to cause the bucket to empty at the same rate it is being filled and the level in the bucket will be higher than the surrounding water level. The atmospheric equilibrium point would likewise be shifted upward if man were constantly pumping water into the atmosphere. Man's direct activity to put more water into the atmosphere than would otherwise be there makes it a forcing function added to the feedback function already in play. Stating that man cannot increase the water vapor directly is very much like stating that man cannot increase the CO2 level - a widely held view a few years ago which is generally discredited.
A climate forcing is an imposed perturbation of the Earth's energy balance. If man act to increase the vapor level directly, as in this scenario, it is a forcing. The naturally occurring increase due to the loop is feedback.
I would prefer we continue burning fossil fuel at ever increasing rates rather than blunder about aimlessly - at least we can die with lots of shiny. If we could magically reduce the CO2 why would we need to experiment?
We would not have evolved were it not for changes in the environment, but if we have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo if we do not wish to see a substantial impact on agriculture, economics and finally population. Please note that while I did not say negative impact, it is the more probable direction.
As the temperature of the atmosphere increases, so does the amount of water vapor that it can hold so if the atmospheric temperature is rising as data trends suggest, then it becomes a forcing factor. Secondly I don't believe that the plan is to build a system, run it for a couple of days, and shut it down - the vapor will be continually renewed. Blanket pronouncements like yours are what got us to the predicament we are in.
I am sure the misplaced end parenthesis is responsible for your misunderstanding of the math: 76% + 1/3*76% is greater than 100% we can safely assume that 1/3 is an approximate figure and that CO2 is something closer to 23% than 25.3%.
You cannot make clouds without significant water vapor creation unless the air starts out nearly saturated. The creation of water vapor would be an unintended consequence. The air surrounding the clouds must be saturated or the cloud dissipates, regardless of what they mentioned. When the air temperature or pressure changes, the cloud can turn to rain or dissipate. so the effect can be extremely short-lived. As for the energy cost, it borders on trivial to calculate since this is a simple gravitational potential energy calculation, and the energy is not insignificant. The task is done in the atmosphere, not deep in the ocean. How far the salt carries is only partly a function of how high the original clouds are formed, you should keep in mind that sand from the Sahara regularly falls in the Bahamas, and all that sand starts out at ground level.
Further tests are not necessary, this is a nice little scheme to separate Bill from his dollar bills. As a mechanical engineer, I can assure you that the energy balance is not favorable - in engineering there are unintended consequences, but no free rides.
Make it oneself? $25.00? How declasse!
Instant Gratification! It's not just for Americans anymore!
T-Mobile might have an issue with your statements about Carriers, particularly since they are more of a world carrier than AT&T.
If there is any truth in the old adage "no such thing as bad publicity", then you may consider yourself a shill for Apple. If you want it to go away, stop poking it with a stick.
One can't get "I am Rich" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich for Android! What is one to do?
Bill Gates talked about Information Fatigue years ago when Microsoft was trying to bring together disparate information systems with their backend server tools.
So is Bing the result or the solution?
Obama is a Socialist, Bush was the Fascist. I am sorry I could not resist. I am sure that it seems that the left has all but won to those on the far right as well.
Knee jerk reactions are encouraged by the very toys about which Mr. Obama spoke. "First Post" is far more important than "5, Insightful" around here and the equivalent distortion of priorities is pervasive elsewhere.
Mm, very interesting point. As an honest discussion-starting question, what are ways these new technologies could be used to promote democracy and involvement? As another post in this story says (and I totally agree), one of the biggest problems in our current form of government is a lack of involvement in and lack of importance placed on our democracy. The ability to spread information so quickly and so ubiquitously could definitely be a useful tool for this, methinks.
Why would anyone in power wish to promote democracy and involvement? What you see as a problem, those in power see as a blessing.
The ability to spread disinformation so quickly and so ubiquitously could definitely be a far more useful tool, methinks.
Never start.
The fact that Adobe is likely to make these things worse by not fully supporting the iPhone or by not keeping up with new features makes it worse.
Adobe will only be hurt if they are too lazy, too timid, or too slow to agressively develop their product for selected other phones and make the user experience equal that of the iPhone. If they try to support the entire gammut of phones, their product will never be better than lowest common denominator and they will succeed only in the short run and help Apple in the process.
The Apple/Adobe fight is about money and control. Apple wants to wall people into their garden and Flash is an impedance to that. Apples banking on their customer loyalty (accept that owning an iPhone/iPad == no Flash) and that HTML5 will replace Flash for video.
How many times has Apple been wrong about X replacing Y? Regardless of their motivation, I tend to believe Apple when they make such predictions.
"Cat" and "Mouse"
Nobody calls you paranoid, you just think they do.
I respectfully disagree. Those books were seminal in the childhood development of Voldemort, Bellatrix Lestrange, Lucius Malfoy, Wormtail, Tom M Riddle, Professor Umbridge, Draco Malfoy, and Narcissa Malfoy.
Oh, do you want Michael Mann's (the hockey stick guy) data specifically? Here's the data behind one of his most recent papers. Note that he's included his Matlab code.
MatLab? Well it must be a conspiracy if he didn't use FOSS.