I dunno about your conspiracy (I don't know if that lineup could "conspiracy" their way out of a wet paper bag), still, the situation probably says more about marketing than it does about the climate.
Holywood knows even a crappy movie will sell if you show the Statue of Liberty freezing into a solid hunk of ice.
Likewise, scientists know that telling amazing tales gets their grants renewed. "My research shows that the weather is normal." vs. "My research shows it is URGENT that if we don't control the amount of foobaz in the enviornment NOW, volcanoes, tsunamis, and all manor of gloom and doom will happen!!!" Who would you renew if you were a NSF bureaucrat seeking to cover your political butt?
That's my take on the matter. This is a prime example of a "Post Hoc" logical fallacy, that is, saying A caused B soley because B happened after A. (If this summer had been the coldest in 500 years somewhere in the world, I'm sure we could say global warming melted some ice caps or something, ala The Day After Tomorrow)
I mean, yeah, reducing pollution is a good thing. Go for it. But the fact is, as you said, we don't know enough about the climate to accurately predict the week's weather, much less how a single Honda getting 27MPG vs one getting only 25 impacts the macro-global climate as a whole!
One more rant before I sit down. According to the initial post this -- whateveritis caused the hottest day Europe has seen in "the last 500 years". So... what happened 500 years ago? Call it a hunch, but I don't think it was a bunch of frilly old tights-wearin' Elizabethans in SUV's.
Good point. This technology would be nearly useless for terrestrial communications.
1) Laser easily obstructed by atmosphere
2) Why? Traditional sattelite dishes are able to focus the signal enough to cover the Earth, and not much else.
3) Maybe useful for single-point uplinks, but for mass subscriptions like DSS, you'd need a beam for every subscriber.
However to communicate with a deep space vehicle it would work great... Except how would you aim the thing??? I'm really curious to know that. Its a bit like perfectly lining up a slngle grain of sand in New York and one in Fl, while are both moving!
One more random observation. From the article, is it just me, or did the phrase "growing fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles" worry anyone else? (I'm thinking... Terminator?)
Okay, so I woke up on the paranoid side of the bed.
I say that borg dude in the./ header hired him to steal it as part of their "CODENAME: Embrace And Extend" project. The idea is simple. Someone "steals" the source code to the OS, then every new open-source innovation is dragged through years of costly litigation since "they obviously stole it from us". In the end, the poor little programmer is either found guilty or more likely lost in a legal labyrinth until all his Taco Bell money is spent on lawyers fees and he has to declare bankruptcy.
But I don't fear them. I'm afraid of marsupials... because they're fasssssst.
Seriously, who really even knows the philosopy is even out there? Who, among people you'd talk to on the street even know what OSI stands for, much less the principle behind it?
I mean, its the same reason Crapdows XP is so big... becuse you mention "Linux" and people just give you a glazed look like you're talking about some strange vegetable from Madagascar.
Seriously, if most people knew there was a treasure trove of some of the best software in the world... available 100% free! Who wouldn't mooch in on that action??
You can blame politics, you can blame Holywood, you can blame my grandma for all I care, but what it really comes down to is advertising. We have a hands-down superior product, and for the most part, nobody has ever heard of it.
I mean, no it doesn't absolve them of one ounce of being freaks, but to say media has no effect on the way we think is a massive and dangerous understatement.
Think about it, your brain only contains the stuff you fill it with. (well "duh" right) Like in Supersize Me, you reap the rammifications of what you decide (emphasis on "you decide") to take into your body. Its that whole garbage-in-garbage-out scenereo played out on a biological host.
Even so, who decided what went in to their deranged little minds to start with? They did! So again, even on that level, they are still responsible.
All in all, not a good scapegoat. For my screwups, I'll stick to blaming cosmic rays!
Hey, this can be our next great scapegoat! I mean, we've tried blaming our idiotic screwups on "I wasn't hugged as a child", video games, and people who think different from us... but that's all old-hat.
For a new millenium, we need a new, bright and shining excuse... cosmic rays! "Your honor, my client is innocent of all wrondoing... cosmic rays made him do it". With that one I think we can avoid taking personal responsibility for what? like at least another couple decades or so.
Before: Went to deadend job, came home, watched McGyver, ate burrito, did a little coding, went to bed.
After: Went to deadend job, came home, watched McGyver, ate burrito, did a little coding, went to bed.
A possible PATRIOT crackdown on a McGyver/Osama connection had me worried for a bit, but turned out to be a figment of my own paranoid imagination.:) Otherwise, its business as usual.
As a scientist, I must say "no", on the grounds that this is the poster child of a Clustering Illusion(driven by Wishful Thinking). Mathematically speaking, that is the statistical problem that occours when you plot a small dataset against another small dataset and try to regress a line out of it.
I mean, you've got all these futurists predicting all this amazing stuff...
Remember the book "1984"... I must've missed it when communism took over the world. Or the future in "Back to the Future" was supposedly 1999. Where's my flying car, 20x PiP tv, robot assisted clothes, pizza rehydrator. Even Star Trek and The Jetsons had let me down. (If you can beleive that).
Of course, you could justify that away saying "those are all fictional". For a real belly laugh sometime try picking up a Popular Science or Omni or something that's over a decade old. If anything, most movies were on the conservative side of what people were predicting at that time.
That's the problem with the future. It's got an ugly habit of becomming the present.
Most e-voting problems, they insist, are [l]user issues, where people who don't know how to deal with the new technology cause delays as they seek assistance.
That's what happens when you beta test in Florida.
(Can I calll you Chad, you've got such cute dimples.):)-
No, they're just testing their boundries. They wanna see if the DoJ has the guts to back up what they say.
My advice to the Dept. is they need to come down hard and fast on this as contept of court, or M$ is gonna walk all over them.
"If you give a mouse a cookie..."
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Anyone at level 50 would be more concerned about stealing The Armor of Thor from the Evil Elf king, than trying to blow anything** up.
MUD junkies are so predictable.
(**Anything IRL, that is.)
*sip* *sip* mmmmmm... calcium-oxidey.
I dunno about your conspiracy (I don't know if that lineup could "conspiracy" their way out of a wet paper bag), still, the situation probably says more about marketing than it does about the climate.
Holywood knows even a crappy movie will sell if you show the Statue of Liberty freezing into a solid hunk of ice.
Likewise, scientists know that telling amazing tales gets their grants renewed. "My research shows that the weather is normal." vs. "My research shows it is URGENT that if we don't control the amount of foobaz in the enviornment NOW, volcanoes, tsunamis, and all manor of gloom and doom will happen!!!" Who would you renew if you were a NSF bureaucrat seeking to cover your political butt?
That's my take on the matter. This is a prime example of a "Post Hoc" logical fallacy, that is, saying A caused B soley because B happened after A. (If this summer had been the coldest in 500 years somewhere in the world, I'm sure we could say global warming melted some ice caps or something, ala The Day After Tomorrow)
I mean, yeah, reducing pollution is a good thing. Go for it. But the fact is, as you said, we don't know enough about the climate to accurately predict the week's weather, much less how a single Honda getting 27MPG vs one getting only 25 impacts the macro-global climate as a whole!
One more rant before I sit down. According to the initial post this -- whateveritis caused the hottest day Europe has seen in "the last 500 years". So... what happened 500 years ago? Call it a hunch, but I don't think it was a bunch of frilly old tights-wearin' Elizabethans in SUV's.
Oh, this is definately an utterly secure and definitive way from keeping people from ever printing anything illegal.
BTW, I need to run to Kinko's a minuite... Anybody want anything?
Good point. This technology would be nearly useless for terrestrial communications.
1) Laser easily obstructed by atmosphere
2) Why? Traditional sattelite dishes are able to focus the signal enough to cover the Earth, and not much else.
3) Maybe useful for single-point uplinks, but for mass subscriptions like DSS, you'd need a beam for every subscriber.
However to communicate with a deep space vehicle it would work great... Except how would you aim the thing??? I'm really curious to know that. Its a bit like perfectly lining up a slngle grain of sand in New York and one in Fl, while are both moving!
One more random observation. From the article, is it just me, or did the phrase "growing fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles" worry anyone else? (I'm thinking... Terminator?)
I'll hook ye up with one. What distro 'ya like?
(Can't have Susees and Mandrakes interbreeding, now can we? Imagine the mutants!)
Okay, so I woke up on the paranoid side of the bed.
./ header hired him to steal it as part of their "CODENAME: Embrace And Extend" project. The idea is simple. Someone "steals" the source code to the OS, then every new open-source innovation is dragged through years of costly litigation since "they obviously stole it from us". In the end, the poor little programmer is either found guilty or more likely lost in a legal labyrinth until all his Taco Bell money is spent on lawyers fees and he has to declare bankruptcy.
I say that borg dude in the
But I don't fear them. I'm afraid of marsupials... because they're fasssssst.
I sense much hatred in you, young Jedi.
Seriously, who really even knows the philosopy is even out there? Who, among people you'd talk to on the street even know what OSI stands for, much less the principle behind it?
I mean, its the same reason Crapdows XP is so big... becuse you mention "Linux" and people just give you a glazed look like you're talking about some strange vegetable from Madagascar.
Seriously, if most people knew there was a treasure trove of some of the best software in the world... available 100% free! Who wouldn't mooch in on that action??
You can blame politics, you can blame Holywood, you can blame my grandma for all I care, but what it really comes down to is advertising. We have a hands-down superior product, and for the most part, nobody has ever heard of it.
Time to return to my pagan roots.
Something notable happened in the heavens, therefore time for drunken hedonism followed by human sacrifice...
Or, at least a nice pizza sacrifice.
I mean, no it doesn't absolve them of one ounce of being freaks, but to say media has no effect on the way we think is a massive and dangerous understatement.
Think about it, your brain only contains the stuff you fill it with. (well "duh" right) Like in Supersize Me, you reap the rammifications of what you decide (emphasis on "you decide") to take into your body. Its that whole garbage-in-garbage-out scenereo played out on a biological host.
Even so, who decided what went in to their deranged little minds to start with? They did! So again, even on that level, they are still responsible.
All in all, not a good scapegoat. For my screwups, I'll stick to blaming cosmic rays!
Hey, this can be our next great scapegoat! I mean, we've tried blaming our idiotic screwups on "I wasn't hugged as a child", video games, and people who think different from us... but that's all old-hat.
For a new millenium, we need a new, bright and shining excuse... cosmic rays! "Your honor, my client is innocent of all wrondoing... cosmic rays made him do it". With that one I think we can avoid taking personal responsibility for what? like at least another couple decades or so.
Well. I have a new personal hero. :)
I could totally see this becomming a usenet joke... "EPA reg 1-48975-45987-8934-B:The Proper Handling and Disposal of Toxic Code"...
You know, go on to mention use of the "volitile" keyword and so forth.
If anybody does this, let me know.
They should have a waiting period or something before you can use the "kill -9" command.
It has effected in the following ways...
:) Otherwise, its business as usual.
Before: Went to deadend job, came home, watched McGyver, ate burrito, did a little coding, went to bed.
After: Went to deadend job, came home, watched McGyver, ate burrito, did a little coding, went to bed.
A possible PATRIOT crackdown on a McGyver/Osama connection had me worried for a bit, but turned out to be a figment of my own paranoid imagination.
As a scientist, I must say "no", on the grounds that this is the poster child of a Clustering Illusion(driven by Wishful Thinking). Mathematically speaking, that is the statistical problem that occours when you plot a small dataset against another small dataset and try to regress a line out of it.
...There may be more truth behind Win2k's galactic pinball game than scientists first thought...
You may be right. I was basing my info off the "Back In Time" song off the sountrack: "Is this the fifties, or 1999?"
Perhaps there's still hope. Don't let me down Mr. Fusion!
That's my attitude on it.
I mean, you've got all these futurists predicting all this amazing stuff...
Remember the book "1984"... I must've missed it when communism took over the world. Or the future in "Back to the Future" was supposedly 1999. Where's my flying car, 20x PiP tv, robot assisted clothes, pizza rehydrator. Even Star Trek and The Jetsons had let me down. (If you can beleive that).
Of course, you could justify that away saying "those are all fictional". For a real belly laugh sometime try picking up a Popular Science or Omni or something that's over a decade old. If anything, most movies were on the conservative side of what people were predicting at that time.
That's the problem with the future. It's got an ugly habit of becomming the present.
Most e-voting problems, they insist, are [l]user issues, where people who don't know how to deal with the new technology cause delays as they seek assistance.
:)-
That's what happens when you beta test in Florida.
(Can I calll you Chad, you've got such cute dimples.)
You make a good point. People are assuming here that just because something crashed it is a buffer overrun.
I, personally would rather that a browser Assert(x); on something it can't handle than keep going and tap dance through memory -- Ala the JPEG bug.
No, they're just testing their boundries. They wanna see if the DoJ has the guts to back up what they say. My advice to the Dept. is they need to come down hard and fast on this as contept of court, or M$ is gonna walk all over them. "If you give a mouse a cookie..."
Great info. Thnaks!