When you decide to get a phone that does what you want instead of what you provider wants go and buy a freerunner
No he's right. I used the FreeRunner for 5 months on a daily basis and it's a crappy phone. Damn cool handheld touch screen linux machine with WiFi, BlueTooth and GPS though.
Even if C02 does what you say, are there feedback loops that mitigate the warming? Cloud cover, stuff like that. We don't know.
Exactly... we don't know. We're modifying our atmosphere and we don't know what it will do. All the reputable science indicates it's either a little bad or VERY VERY bad.
Of course those who are making money from this will tell you it's all hokum... but the problem is that by the time we actually understand what all this CO2 (and others) is doing we will be about 50 years too late to do anything about it.
I used mine daily for 5 months. Honestly, it was a cool idea, a cool toy, but a godawful cell phone. (I switched to a BlackBerry Bold in January...)
However the FreeRunner is the best damn hand held touchscreen PC I've seen. As an appliance with GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi it's actually a very nice package. This thing is actually more powerful than most of the computers I owned 15 years ago.
I currently have the third Koolu beta of Android installed right now and it makes a really nice web browser and eBook reader... if anyone is looking for a portable and open platform the FreeRunner is actually pretty sweet. Just don't tell anyone it's also the worst GSM phone ever marketed.
because English people are physically incapable of chain smoking, drinking wine, being obnoxiously rude and highly insecure of their culture, all at the same time.
As a Canadian, I would like to make it very, very clear that the rest of Canada, especially here in BC, have absolutely no patience, concern, or otherwise good will towards anyone who would consider them "Quebecois".
As an Brit who has lived in Quebec for 20 years, my only response to BC is: Your father was a hamster, and your mother smelled of elderberries. *turns around* LANCEZ LA VACHE!
Wyoming was once a leader in wind energy but we've really fallen off in the past decade.
Eight years of which involved a President and V.P. who has vested interests in the oil industry... not that I'm suggesting that there may be any kind of conflict of interest mind you. Not me... nope...
It noted that "strong wind resources also exist offshore California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii, but it appears that the majority of this resource lies in deep waters where technology constraints are potentially significant" -- a sentiment Salazar echoed when asked about Pacific wind potential.
Right so, English is a virus. Cmp. Ireland, they still stick to the colonial language.
English won out through centuries of systematic cultural repression, not by superiority of language. (Disclaimer, my Catholic ancestors moved from Ireland to Scotland during the famine and never went back.)
Man, I miss people asking for VRML galleries and stores. The same way I miss getting kicked in the head repeatedly.
I had the same reaction. And it was just SOOOOO successful last time we went down this road.
That being said, the hardware is about two orders of magnitude more powerful than it was in the 90s. I can now do 3D visualizations in Java that would have been difficult in C on dedicated hardware back then.
A good programmer know how to be correct form of lazy: do not reinvent the wheel.
YES. Good lazy is "I shouldn't have to do all this work, either use someone else's, or make the computer to it for me." Bad lazy is "whine, I don't want to figure anything out, I just want to get it done." The difference is crucial; the first is willing to spend time learning to save unnecessary labor, the latter is willing to do unnecessary labor to save learning. The former is laziness, the latter is stupidity.
True laziness lies in recognizing that for over 30 years really smart people have build this wonderful transactional, distributed, multi-user technology that it is far easier to adopt than to reinvent badly.
That's logical but incomplete. Just because something cannot be detected does not prove it does not exist. Your argument is a form of Black Swan Fallacy.
For the record I'm a raving atheist. But trying to prove the existence or non-existence of somebody's myths is a giant waste of time and effort.
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Acrobat utterly takes the biscuit when it comes to being the most execrably awful, arrogant, bloated, buggy, piece of software ever made, ever.
Clearly you have not used anything Lotus has shipped in the past decade.
First you find a bunch of clowns, steal their underwear, and show it to the judge.
Which you'll notice, is exactly what happened to the RIAA here.
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And they get paid for it... I am SOOOO in the wrong business.
You missed a step. The original Ghandi quote was thus (except for the bulleted list format):
But I agree, we're on stage 2-3 now.
You are correct sir! I thought I was missing something...
We have achieved stage two, they have learned to fear us...
Will it create jobs? Absolutely..
NOT.
Pork barrel schemes don't create jobs, they only move them from the wealth-creating part of the economy to the wealth-destroying part.
-jcr
I tried to come up with a lucid response... but I've failed... your argument is simply pure rightwing bullshit and there's just no way to counter it.
When you decide to get a phone that does what you want instead of what you provider wants go and buy a freerunner
No he's right. I used the FreeRunner for 5 months on a daily basis and it's a crappy phone. Damn cool handheld touch screen linux machine with WiFi, BlueTooth and GPS though.
Even if C02 does what you say, are there feedback loops that mitigate the warming? Cloud cover, stuff like that. We don't know.
Exactly... we don't know. We're modifying our atmosphere and we don't know what it will do. All the reputable science indicates it's either a little bad or VERY VERY bad.
Of course those who are making money from this will tell you it's all hokum... but the problem is that by the time we actually understand what all this CO2 (and others) is doing we will be about 50 years too late to do anything about it.
I used mine daily for 5 months. Honestly, it was a cool idea, a cool toy, but a godawful cell phone. (I switched to a BlackBerry Bold in January...)
However the FreeRunner is the best damn hand held touchscreen PC I've seen. As an appliance with GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi it's actually a very nice package. This thing is actually more powerful than most of the computers I owned 15 years ago.
I currently have the third Koolu beta of Android installed right now and it makes a really nice web browser and eBook reader... if anyone is looking for a portable and open platform the FreeRunner is actually pretty sweet. Just don't tell anyone it's also the worst GSM phone ever marketed.
Damn... where are my mod points when I need them. MOD PARENT UP
N.B. His working title was 1948, the publisher didn't like it.
because English people are physically incapable of chain smoking, drinking wine, being obnoxiously rude and highly insecure of their culture, all at the same time.
I guess you've never been to Toronto.
As a Canadian, I would like to make it very, very clear that the rest of Canada, especially here in BC, have absolutely no patience, concern, or otherwise good will towards anyone who would consider them "Quebecois".
As an Brit who has lived in Quebec for 20 years, my only response to BC is:
Your father was a hamster, and your mother smelled of elderberries.
*turns around*
LANCEZ LA VACHE!
(... and I'd never suggest that Iraq was about Oil and revenge for Daddy ... it was Terrorists dammit...)
Wyoming was once a leader in wind energy but we've really fallen off in the past decade.
Eight years of which involved a President and V.P. who has vested interests in the oil industry... not that I'm suggesting that there may be any kind of conflict of interest mind you. Not me... nope...
I'm a long, long time RedHat user. (Since Red Hat Linux 5.1, if you're curious)
I suddenly feel very, very old.
Something like a 1/4 of the state is ideal for wind farming... It could even co-exist with the ranches! http://www.windpowermaps.org/windmaps/images/WYwindpower50_highres.jpg
If my memory serves me correctly, the Oregon coast has amazing ONSHORE wind resources along the coast. (http://www.bergey.com/Maps/USA.Wind.Lg.htm
It kind of boggles my mind that we're worrying about deep-water offshore wind when that kind of potential lies untapped.
Right so, English is a virus. Cmp. Ireland, they still stick to the colonial language.
English won out through centuries of systematic cultural repression, not by superiority of language. (Disclaimer, my Catholic ancestors moved from Ireland to Scotland during the famine and never went back.)
Why are you all still in the '90s?
http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/Constellation/
if you work for anything approaching a decent company, they will pay for your grad school when you figure out what you want to study.
I'm not sure that's great advice with the job market the way it is this year. It might we wiser to hide in grad school...
I don't completely disagree but I think that is only one issue.
I would argue that it failed because:
Even today there is no single overriding standard for distributing interactive 3D visualizations on the web or otherwise.
Man, I miss people asking for VRML galleries and stores. The same way I miss getting kicked in the head repeatedly.
I had the same reaction. And it was just SOOOOO successful last time we went down this road.
That being said, the hardware is about two orders of magnitude more powerful than it was in the 90s. I can now do 3D visualizations in Java that would have been difficult in C on dedicated hardware back then.
YES. Good lazy is "I shouldn't have to do all this work, either use someone else's, or make the computer to it for me." Bad lazy is "whine, I don't want to figure anything out, I just want to get it done." The difference is crucial; the first is willing to spend time learning to save unnecessary labor, the latter is willing to do unnecessary labor to save learning. The former is laziness, the latter is stupidity.
True laziness lies in recognizing that for over 30 years really smart people have build this wonderful transactional, distributed, multi-user technology that it is far easier to adopt than to reinvent badly.
Damien Katz, CouchDB's creator, worked at MySQL prior to writing CouchDB, and worked on Lotus Notes prior to that...
So many jokes, so little time.
the theory of evolution does not, ipso facto, rule out the possibility of a supernatural creator.
Not ipso facto, true, but for all practical purposes, it does. I've outlined the reasoning before.
That's logical but incomplete. Just because something cannot be detected does not prove it does not exist. Your argument is a form of Black Swan Fallacy.
For the record I'm a raving atheist. But trying to prove the existence or non-existence of somebody's myths is a giant waste of time and effort.