Speak for yourself. My free time is worth more than what I'd ordinarily get paid for on the job. I think a lot of people feel the same way. That's why people generally get paid more for "overtime". He may value his home time closer to $75/hour.
Or Osama will release an audio tape stating he loves this new product and even was able to find an image of himself mowing his lawn.
Government agencies around the world will spend a few years going through Active X installations and configuration screens before they even start their "Where's Waldo" hunt giving bin Laden plenty of time to plan his next attack.
I'd mostly agree with you but why do you say it's too early to grade the xbox360? It's out. It has a decent number of games. It has announced a bunch more. You said you're judging them all "for the time" when you talk about the dreamcast. Can't you consider the 360 for its time in its lifespan?
It's not just that the article goes through several studies and papers pointing out poor methodology. Bad science is often done by mistakes and may sometimes slip through the peer review process. But this talks about UN claims and people actively trying to cover up information. FTA: "A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said: 'We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.' "
To me this article isn't so much about whether global warming is occurring or not but how politics has gotten involved in this field and has affected the science that gets reported in places like the UN where policy decisions are made.
Here are the main claims from the article I'd like to see people counter:
the UN implies that carbon dioxide ended the last four ice ages. It displays two 450,000-year graphs: a sawtooth curve of temperature and a sawtooth of airborne CO2 that's scaled to look similar. Usually, similar curves are superimposed for comparison. The UN didn't do that. If it had, the truth would have shown: the changes in temperature preceded the changes in CO2 levels.
Is this true? Even if it is, does it matter?
the UN abolished the medieval warm period (the global warming at the end of the First Millennium AD). In 1995, David Deming, a geoscientist at the University of Oklahoma, had written an article reconstructing 150 years of North American temperatures from borehole data. He later wrote: "With the publication of the article in Science, I gained significant credibility in the community of scientists working on climate change. They thought I was one of them, someone who would pervert science in the service of social and political causes. One of them let his guard down. A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said: 'We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.' "
So they did. The UN's second assessment report, in 1996, showed a 1,000-year graph demonstrating that temperature in the Middle Ages was warmer than today. But the 2001 report contained a new graph showing no medieval warm period.
He then goes on to explain how they did it.
They gave one technique for reconstructing pre-thermometer temperature 390 times more weight than any other (but didn't say so).
The technique they overweighted was one which the UN's 1996 report had said was unsafe: measurement of tree-rings from bristlecone pines. Tree-rings are wider in warmer years, but pine-rings are also wider when there's more carbon dioxide in the air: it's plant food. This carbon dioxide fertilisation distorts the calculations.
They said they had included 24 data sets going back to 1400. Without saying so, they left out the set showing the medieval warm period, tucking it into a folder marked "Censored Data".
They used a computer model to draw the graph from the data, but scientists later found that the model almost always drew hockey-sticks even if they fed in random, electronic "red noise".
The article goes on with another broad claim:
Even after the "hockey stick" graph was exposed, scientific papers apparently confirming its abolition of the medieval warm period appeared. The US Senate asked independent statisticians to investigate. They found that the graph was meretricious, and that known associates of the scientists who had compiled it had written many of the papers supporting its conclusion.
Any truth to this?
In some places it was also warmer than now in the Bronze Age and in Roman times. It wasn't CO2 that caused those warm periods. It was the sun. So the UN adjusted the maths and all but extinguished the sun's role in today's warming. Here's how:
The UN dated its list of "forcings" (influences on temperature) from 1750, when the sun, and consequently air temperature, was almost as warm as now. But its start-date for the increase in world temperature was 1900, when the sun, and temperature, were much cooler.
Every "forcing" produces "climate feedbacks" making temperature rise faster. For instance, as temperature rises in response to a forcing, the air carries more water vapour, the most important greenhouse gas; and polar ice melts, increasing heat absorption. Up goes the temperature again. The UN more than doubled the base forcings from greenhouse gases to allow for climate feedbacks. It didn't do the same for the base solar forcing.
Two centuries ago, the astronomer William Herschel was reading Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations when he noticed that quoted grai
It's just a summary of the first article, not "another perspective" as the slashdot summary suggests. If you don't want to be bothered with as many pages (and ads) but want to get each grade and a short explanation, read the second article. It even says at the end, "That wraps it up. Total credit for this article goes to GameDaily."
If they find a small company that does something well but is not well known, then they are helping that niche to be filled by giving it notoriety. This can be just as good as creating the software itself. Why reinvent the wheel? Buy it...maybe make a tweak or two...but no reason to start from scratch.
Also, as always, we continue to find that a large number of reported problems are due to different extensions and plugins; while we can try (and are trying) to work with some extension authors to fix this, ultimately this is code that is out of our hands.
Not that it's a huge deal but it might be helpful to paste a note by the extensions and plugins that are known sources of problems warning us that there are known unresolved issues with the plugin. That might also be an additional incentive for the authors to fix it.
Often in the US, Halloween parties are planned for the nearest Friday or Saturday to Halloween rather than on Halloween itself. Halloween is mostly for trick or treating.
I've tried out the software and it was fun for some laughs. I'm not sure how it works exactly but I can tell that the angle of the face makes a difference. When I put one picture of myself in where I'm looking ever so slightly to the right, I'm matched with celebrities photos looking in that direction. When I put in a similar photo facing the other direction, I get a different set of celebrities looking in the other direction. There's a few overlaps and those are the ones I think I look the most like (although it's a stretch to say I have anything that could pass as a celebrity look).
The next week is Black Friday. After the system sellout the opening day, retailers will want to advertise the VERY LATEST PS3 game for sale. Lots of free advertising for the biggest shopping day of the year. Do you think all 20 launch games are going to be listed in Walmart/Target/ToysRUs/etc. for the next few weeks after launch?
Besides, most PS3 "end-users" are going to be getting their PS3 through ebay a week later. Why buy the games before the system?
I agree completely. It's one thing to update the online component of the system and quite another to update the OS in order for games to play properly. The former is understandable and acceptable. I don't know if Microsoft periodically updates their xbox live system but it wouldn't bother me if they did. But if I buy a wii and don't happen to have it hooked up to the internet on day one, I'd be ticked if I couldn't play a game I bought.
I could see this potentially happening sooner than the 4-6 years you guess at but even if it happens sooner I don't think Nintendo would find it too difficult to make the switch with a WiiHD if they already made a killing on the regular Wii. As it is, Wii is set to be backward-compatible with gamecube games. It could end up like the shift to a color gameboy.
What attracted me to this book was the obvious title which makes no bones about the fact that this book is targeted at non-geeks.
The book is divided into 18 chapters and 3 appendices spanning over 300 pages.
I've seen similar 300 page books to teach windows to non-geeks. I'm sure there are people who feel lost and buy the book thinking they'll learn. I have serious doubts that many actually make it through the book. They'll make it through the first chapter and, at best, pull it out occasionally to search for some answer (and probably not find it).
A lot of people have moments when they feel ambitious and decide they will learn linux. How many of the non-geeks actually do, though? Of those that do, I doubt it's from books like these but actually from geek friends walking them through it.
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Speak for yourself. My free time is worth more than what I'd ordinarily get paid for on the job. I think a lot of people feel the same way. That's why people generally get paid more for "overtime". He may value his home time closer to $75/hour.
Works? Sure. Buy Vista and Office together and we'll sell Microsoft Works to you for half price!
What benefits outweigh an exponential increase in spam?
Or Osama will release an audio tape stating he loves this new product and even was able to find an image of himself mowing his lawn. Government agencies around the world will spend a few years going through Active X installations and configuration screens before they even start their "Where's Waldo" hunt giving bin Laden plenty of time to plan his next attack.
I'd mostly agree with you but why do you say it's too early to grade the xbox360? It's out. It has a decent number of games. It has announced a bunch more. You said you're judging them all "for the time" when you talk about the dreamcast. Can't you consider the 360 for its time in its lifespan?
It's not just that the article goes through several studies and papers pointing out poor methodology. Bad science is often done by mistakes and may sometimes slip through the peer review process. But this talks about UN claims and people actively trying to cover up information. FTA: "A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said: 'We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.' "
To me this article isn't so much about whether global warming is occurring or not but how politics has gotten involved in this field and has affected the science that gets reported in places like the UN where policy decisions are made.
Is this true? Even if it is, does it matter?
He then goes on to explain how they did it.
The article goes on with another broad claim:
Any truth to this?
It's just a summary of the first article, not "another perspective" as the slashdot summary suggests. If you don't want to be bothered with as many pages (and ads) but want to get each grade and a short explanation, read the second article. It even says at the end, "That wraps it up. Total credit for this article goes to GameDaily."
and it probably came with a game or two...or three.
If they find a small company that does something well but is not well known, then they are helping that niche to be filled by giving it notoriety. This can be just as good as creating the software itself. Why reinvent the wheel? Buy it...maybe make a tweak or two...but no reason to start from scratch.
Often in the US, Halloween parties are planned for the nearest Friday or Saturday to Halloween rather than on Halloween itself. Halloween is mostly for trick or treating.
From the article: "The company's games division reported a ¥43.5 billion ($366.6m) loss, from a ¥8.2 million ($69,000) profit in 2005,"
Or better yet, smile when you get your mug shot. Then when you escape from prison as long as you never smile they'll never find you.
I've tried out the software and it was fun for some laughs. I'm not sure how it works exactly but I can tell that the angle of the face makes a difference. When I put one picture of myself in where I'm looking ever so slightly to the right, I'm matched with celebrities photos looking in that direction. When I put in a similar photo facing the other direction, I get a different set of celebrities looking in the other direction. There's a few overlaps and those are the ones I think I look the most like (although it's a stretch to say I have anything that could pass as a celebrity look).
The next week is Black Friday. After the system sellout the opening day, retailers will want to advertise the VERY LATEST PS3 game for sale. Lots of free advertising for the biggest shopping day of the year. Do you think all 20 launch games are going to be listed in Walmart/Target/ToysRUs/etc. for the next few weeks after launch?
Besides, most PS3 "end-users" are going to be getting their PS3 through ebay a week later. Why buy the games before the system?
Europeans invented slavery?
Unless lobbyists find a way to get lawmakers to extend the patent before then.
While useful in the game, I'd avoid eating the mushrooms at this theme park.
Yes, the difference between Sony and Nintendo is that Nintendo is better at marketing the same exact features.
I agree completely. It's one thing to update the online component of the system and quite another to update the OS in order for games to play properly. The former is understandable and acceptable. I don't know if Microsoft periodically updates their xbox live system but it wouldn't bother me if they did. But if I buy a wii and don't happen to have it hooked up to the internet on day one, I'd be ticked if I couldn't play a game I bought.
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Save yourself a couple bucks.
I could see this potentially happening sooner than the 4-6 years you guess at but even if it happens sooner I don't think Nintendo would find it too difficult to make the switch with a WiiHD if they already made a killing on the regular Wii. As it is, Wii is set to be backward-compatible with gamecube games. It could end up like the shift to a color gameboy.
I've seen similar 300 page books to teach windows to non-geeks. I'm sure there are people who feel lost and buy the book thinking they'll learn. I have serious doubts that many actually make it through the book. They'll make it through the first chapter and, at best, pull it out occasionally to search for some answer (and probably not find it).
A lot of people have moments when they feel ambitious and decide they will learn linux. How many of the non-geeks actually do, though? Of those that do, I doubt it's from books like these but actually from geek friends walking them through it.