"This proposal is a prime example of people who don't know jack about how the technology" + raising kids to be well functioning adults + "works trying to legislate it."
Funny how the global warming kooks can't tell the difference between someone that is denying something, and someone that simply has not been convinced one way or the other. Your comment makes you sound like the religious kooks that say "Prove god doesn't exists!" If you want someone to believe an incredible story, you need incredible evidence to back it up.
I have been convinced for a long time that software bloat is not a problem. You touch on the reason. For the last decade, it has been cheaper to throw more hardware at a problem than it has been to optimize code. At some point in time, there will likely be a stall in speeding up hardware. When that happens we have a many years of continuing our computer speed ups via software optimizations. Heck, I know that I write inefficient code all the time. It is a simple cost/benefit choice. My clients do not want to pay tens of thousands of dollars to solve a problem that can be solved with $1000 worth of hardware. It's not that I couldn't optimize my code, and it's not that I wouldn't love to optimize my code. It's just the most companies don't want to pay for it.
A large part of the problem is that even if you wanted to, you couldn't get good facts on the subject. It seems that every time the subject comes up, the global warming skeptics will throw out a hypothesis (whether good or bad is irrelevant), and the global warming crowd will respond with arrogance, anger, and often name calling. During every debate, someone in the global warming crowd pops up with the obviously false statement that "There is no debate on global warming. It's a fact."
So, if you are not an expert on a subject, and you are faced with two disagreeing parties, who do you believe... The person who is calmly discussing the subject, or the guy that is trying to brow beat you into agreeing with them. If the global warming supporters want to convince reasonable people who have not done the research themselves, they need to weed out the kooks and bullies from their ranks.
As for the Scientific Communities consensus... I don't know if there is a consensus or not. There are too many people claiming to be experts to tell. Add to that, the fact that research costs money, and you don't get money if you don't get the results your benefactor wants. There are many subject the 'experts' are just plain wrong on. I see it most often in subjects like nutrition, medicine, and child development. I don't think that our understanding of weather prediction is any better refined than any these.
Perhaps all of these people that are advocating using only coins for $1 and $5 bills are really just good samaritans who see this as a kind of minimum wage increase for strippers.
The now defunct ReplayTV had a bug in the commercial skip software, that could make it get confused as to whether it was on a commercial, or on content. This lead the the unofficial 'Content Advance' feature. For many of us that still have Replays, it is very popular during the Superbowl.
Girlfriends that get mad because your on your computer need to be dealt with when you first start dating them. The first time they complain, you simply need to remind them that if you keep the computer time, you can always get more girlfriends. If you keep the girlfriend, you don't get more computer time. It will drive off a lot of women, but when you find one that gets it, you've solved a major headache that could follow you for the rest of your life. If you think there won't be other women, just keep in mind that I am fat, ugly, and just plain creepy (not in the good way). If I can find a good woman, so can you.
I lived for 3 years without ever starting the crappy car I did own. I walked to work. I walked to the grociery store. I walked for everything I did. Guess what? I was still fat. Being fat has a lot more to do with genetics than with exercise. This is well known. Those that come from lean genetic lines, like to pay the 'your fat because your a bad person card', but it is utter BS.
How could teenagers who don't get a choice in where they live, have higher rates of obesity than those in the city? Easy. The fat parents move to the suburbs and pass along their fat genes when they get there.
As for time. In most places, taking public transportation will take 2x to 5x longer for any given trip from doorstep to doorstep.
I think suburbs are great. Heavily populated cities are for the most part incredibly bad places to live. You don't need to do any tracing to find the problems with living there. Yes, in CA they keep cramming the houses closer and closer together. Why? Because they make more money per acre, and they get less grief because they are reducing 'urban sprawl'. It is the move away from 'sprawl' that is the problem. Not the other way around. Who wants to live in a rat cage, and send their kids to play a casual game of touch football where they will use the crack dealer as one goal marker, and a bum as the other.
The same could be said for most fiction written about past life on earth. That doesn't mean that the books should be moved to the non-fiction part of the library.
To follow your logic, Hawking could write a scientific book about physics, and right in the middle put in "I Stephen Hawking am supreme ruler of the universe. All life must obey me." This would instantaneously make it true.
And in fact, the ID folks specifically chose to use the words they did specifically to illicit responses just like yours. They hoped that they could use the choice of words to create confusion and hopefully trick people so they couldn't tell the difference between science and fairy tales.
You must have mis-understood that the 680x0 emulation is just that... an emulator, not for the OS itself, or for native applications. Either that or your comment must include Windows and Linux, since they both also have emulators for the 680x0.
Uhhh... IBS is irritable bowel syndrome. Syndrome is a group of symptoms. So Irritable bowel syndrome is just the doctor saying, yeah, your bowels hurt, and I don't want to, or can't figure out why. It's a little like calling something a UFO. It is admitting that they don't now what it is. So, lactose intolerance IS a form of IBS.
My wife accidentally cured her IBS when she went on the Atkins diet. After a few weeks, it was gone. When she quit the diet, the IBS never came back. We are pretty sure that the problem was that she wasn't getting enough fat in her diet.
Unless they send copies of the distro to the producers of the hardware, and show them that there is an OS tailor made for their hardware and their customers, just waiting for them to make the drivers. In other words, Ubuntu may be trying to offer up a chicken to get the hardware manufacturers egg.
I'm not convinced that the Wii signals the end of the game pad. I suspect that we will see the game pad as the primary interface for the Wii before it comes to an end. Physical interaction with the video game is a neat idea, but I'm not convinced that it will hold players attention enough to be the dominate interface in the long run. I really suspect it will be a little like DDR pads. Popular, having long term popularities, but definitely not the interface you would want to use for every game, or even most games.
I could be wrong, as I didn't expect the game pad to kill the joystick either. One thing is for sure though... over the next few years, I will find out.
Except, by town would just be a small utility company, and would lead to corruption and inefficiencies. By neighborhood would mean that they are controlled by an HOA or equivalent. I definitely don't want my electricity controlled by an HOA, and I don't want to live near the a housing division that has their power run by an HOA. While there may be some good HOAs out there, they seem to be pretty few and far between. Sharing a generator has the same problems as sharing walls, only magnified by 100.
Yeah, we could use them just on criminals and the military, just like fingerprints. Of course, it won't be more than a few years before schools start offering to tag your kids "for their protection", you know... just like fingerprints. Of course, a few years later, we can start requiring them for getting a drivers license, you know... just like finger prints. After all, 'driving is a privilege', right? You don't have to get a drivers license. You can just use all the really good public transportation system. And, there is no way that once 90% of the population has been chipped, that you would start to be excluded from other parts of society. After all, we just discussed how driving a car was totally voluntary with viable alternatives.
"Although you're right about the reversal in predictions, your conclusion (they were wrong before, so they're always wrong!) is flippant and ignores the real science being done in the field."
That comment shows why there are so many people that discount global warming. The parent poster did not say they were wrong before, so they are always wrong. He said, they were wrong before, so, I'm going to be more skeptical this time. There is a huge difference, and when he gets accused of being flippant for a very reasonable response, he gets pushed in exactly the opposite direction you want.
If the scientific community that believes in global warming wants to bring the more skeptical part of society over to their way of thinking, they need to expunge the radicals, and kooks from their camp. When you stand side by side with a raving lunatic, and together try to convince someone of your point of view, you don't get far.
That is why I have not seen, 'An Incontinent Truth', and would likely discount what it has to say if I do eventually get it off of Netflix. The way it was advertised, and the people who have said it is a great film, make it look like it is as honest a film as '30 Days' and 'Bowling for Columbine'. Which is to say not very honest.
Have you ever heard the saying 'The most dangerous man is the one who has nothing to lose'? Do you really suggest that parents start making sure their children have nothing? When people have no property, they do not respect the ownership of property.
Yeah, yeah, I know that what I said contradicts the prevalent "men suck!" attitude in society, but there are even more employers that do hare women specifically because they are trying to even out the genders in their company. The days of employers not hiring women because they might bet pregnant are pretty much over. There may be a strangler or two, but they are rare at this point.
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I call BS. There is no way that you know what every piece of software on your system does.
"This proposal is a prime example of people who don't know jack about how the technology" + raising kids to be well functioning adults + "works trying to legislate it."
Funny how the global warming kooks can't tell the difference between someone that is denying something, and someone that simply has not been convinced one way or the other. Your comment makes you sound like the religious kooks that say "Prove god doesn't exists!" If you want someone to believe an incredible story, you need incredible evidence to back it up.
I have been convinced for a long time that software bloat is not a problem. You touch on the reason. For the last decade, it has been cheaper to throw more hardware at a problem than it has been to optimize code. At some point in time, there will likely be a stall in speeding up hardware. When that happens we have a many years of continuing our computer speed ups via software optimizations. Heck, I know that I write inefficient code all the time. It is a simple cost/benefit choice. My clients do not want to pay tens of thousands of dollars to solve a problem that can be solved with $1000 worth of hardware. It's not that I couldn't optimize my code, and it's not that I wouldn't love to optimize my code. It's just the most companies don't want to pay for it.
A large part of the problem is that even if you wanted to, you couldn't get good facts on the subject. It seems that every time the subject comes up, the global warming skeptics will throw out a hypothesis (whether good or bad is irrelevant), and the global warming crowd will respond with arrogance, anger, and often name calling. During every debate, someone in the global warming crowd pops up with the obviously false statement that "There is no debate on global warming. It's a fact."
So, if you are not an expert on a subject, and you are faced with two disagreeing parties, who do you believe... The person who is calmly discussing the subject, or the guy that is trying to brow beat you into agreeing with them. If the global warming supporters want to convince reasonable people who have not done the research themselves, they need to weed out the kooks and bullies from their ranks.
As for the Scientific Communities consensus... I don't know if there is a consensus or not. There are too many people claiming to be experts to tell. Add to that, the fact that research costs money, and you don't get money if you don't get the results your benefactor wants. There are many subject the 'experts' are just plain wrong on. I see it most often in subjects like nutrition, medicine, and child development. I don't think that our understanding of weather prediction is any better refined than any these.
Perhaps all of these people that are advocating using only coins for $1 and $5 bills are really just good samaritans who see this as a kind of minimum wage increase for strippers.
The now defunct ReplayTV had a bug in the commercial skip software, that could make it get confused as to whether it was on a commercial, or on content. This lead the the unofficial 'Content Advance' feature. For many of us that still have Replays, it is very popular during the Superbowl.
Girlfriends that get mad because your on your computer need to be dealt with when you first start dating them. The first time they complain, you simply need to remind them that if you keep the computer time, you can always get more girlfriends. If you keep the girlfriend, you don't get more computer time. It will drive off a lot of women, but when you find one that gets it, you've solved a major headache that could follow you for the rest of your life. If you think there won't be other women, just keep in mind that I am fat, ugly, and just plain creepy (not in the good way). If I can find a good woman, so can you.
I lived for 3 years without ever starting the crappy car I did own. I walked to work. I walked to the grociery store. I walked for everything I did. Guess what? I was still fat. Being fat has a lot more to do with genetics than with exercise. This is well known. Those that come from lean genetic lines, like to pay the 'your fat because your a bad person card', but it is utter BS.
How could teenagers who don't get a choice in where they live, have higher rates of obesity than those in the city? Easy. The fat parents move to the suburbs and pass along their fat genes when they get there.
As for time. In most places, taking public transportation will take 2x to 5x longer for any given trip from doorstep to doorstep.
I think suburbs are great. Heavily populated cities are for the most part incredibly bad places to live. You don't need to do any tracing to find the problems with living there. Yes, in CA they keep cramming the houses closer and closer together. Why? Because they make more money per acre, and they get less grief because they are reducing 'urban sprawl'. It is the move away from 'sprawl' that is the problem. Not the other way around. Who wants to live in a rat cage, and send their kids to play a casual game of touch football where they will use the crack dealer as one goal marker, and a bum as the other.
I was pretty sure the order was supposed to go:
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The same could be said for most fiction written about past life on earth. That doesn't mean that the books should be moved to the non-fiction part of the library.
To follow your logic, Hawking could write a scientific book about physics, and right in the middle put in "I Stephen Hawking am supreme ruler of the universe. All life must obey me." This would instantaneously make it true.
And in fact, the ID folks specifically chose to use the words they did specifically to illicit responses just like yours. They hoped that they could use the choice of words to create confusion and hopefully trick people so they couldn't tell the difference between science and fairy tales.
You must have mis-understood that the 680x0 emulation is just that... an emulator, not for the OS itself, or for native applications. Either that or your comment must include Windows and Linux, since they both also have emulators for the 680x0.
Uhhh... IBS is irritable bowel syndrome. Syndrome is a group of symptoms. So Irritable bowel syndrome is just the doctor saying, yeah, your bowels hurt, and I don't want to, or can't figure out why. It's a little like calling something a UFO. It is admitting that they don't now what it is. So, lactose intolerance IS a form of IBS.
My wife accidentally cured her IBS when she went on the Atkins diet. After a few weeks, it was gone. When she quit the diet, the IBS never came back. We are pretty sure that the problem was that she wasn't getting enough fat in her diet.
Unless they send copies of the distro to the producers of the hardware, and show them that there is an OS tailor made for their hardware and their customers, just waiting for them to make the drivers. In other words, Ubuntu may be trying to offer up a chicken to get the hardware manufacturers egg.
I'm not convinced that the Wii signals the end of the game pad. I suspect that we will see the game pad as the primary interface for the Wii before it comes to an end. Physical interaction with the video game is a neat idea, but I'm not convinced that it will hold players attention enough to be the dominate interface in the long run. I really suspect it will be a little like DDR pads. Popular, having long term popularities, but definitely not the interface you would want to use for every game, or even most games.
I could be wrong, as I didn't expect the game pad to kill the joystick either. One thing is for sure though... over the next few years, I will find out.
Except, by town would just be a small utility company, and would lead to corruption and inefficiencies. By neighborhood would mean that they are controlled by an HOA or equivalent. I definitely don't want my electricity controlled by an HOA, and I don't want to live near the a housing division that has their power run by an HOA. While there may be some good HOAs out there, they seem to be pretty few and far between. Sharing a generator has the same problems as sharing walls, only magnified by 100.
Don't move to California then... Unless you don't mind.
Yeah, we could use them just on criminals and the military, just like fingerprints. Of course, it won't be more than a few years before schools start offering to tag your kids "for their protection", you know... just like fingerprints. Of course, a few years later, we can start requiring them for getting a drivers license, you know... just like finger prints. After all, 'driving is a privilege', right? You don't have to get a drivers license. You can just use all the really good public transportation system. And, there is no way that once 90% of the population has been chipped, that you would start to be excluded from other parts of society. After all, we just discussed how driving a car was totally voluntary with viable alternatives.
"something like this 1/10 c number is reasonable because if it were higher we'd likely have made contact by now."
That logic makes the original argument, we cannot have met them because we would have met them if we did.
"Although you're right about the reversal in predictions, your conclusion (they were wrong before, so they're always wrong!) is flippant and ignores the real science being done in the field."
That comment shows why there are so many people that discount global warming. The parent poster did not say they were wrong before, so they are always wrong. He said, they were wrong before, so, I'm going to be more skeptical this time. There is a huge difference, and when he gets accused of being flippant for a very reasonable response, he gets pushed in exactly the opposite direction you want.
If the scientific community that believes in global warming wants to bring the more skeptical part of society over to their way of thinking, they need to expunge the radicals, and kooks from their camp. When you stand side by side with a raving lunatic, and together try to convince someone of your point of view, you don't get far.
That is why I have not seen, 'An Incontinent Truth', and would likely discount what it has to say if I do eventually get it off of Netflix. The way it was advertised, and the people who have said it is a great film, make it look like it is as honest a film as '30 Days' and 'Bowling for Columbine'. Which is to say not very honest.
Have you ever heard the saying 'The most dangerous man is the one who has nothing to lose'? Do you really suggest that parents start making sure their children have nothing? When people have no property, they do not respect the ownership of property.
Not to mention using the phrase 'Jump the shark' is in itself 'jumping the shark'.
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Yeah, yeah, I know that what I said contradicts the prevalent "men suck!" attitude in society, but there are even more employers that do hare women specifically because they are trying to even out the genders in their company. The days of employers not hiring women because they might bet pregnant are pretty much over. There may be a strangler or two, but they are rare at this point.