Actually, we're teaching farmers how to focus on renewable crops that don't immediately bleed the soil dry, while also massively increasing productivity. Not bleeding the soil dry is a big part of long-term productivity. And using genetically altered seeds is a big part of increased crop yields.
There are real concerns about feeding a growing population, but we are addressing those. We're teaching farmers around the globe how to triple crop yields, and again, we're ahead of the growth curve as demonstrated by the fact that malnourishment is actually decreasing as the population increases.
The real problem will be a lack of safe, clean drinking water. Water reclamation will greatly help.
That wasn't his prediction though. He predicted that we wouldn't be able to keep up with food demand, and that we'd all starve to death. The exact opposite happened and a lower percentage of the population is undernourished, even though the population has doubled since his predictions. And he predicted almost immediate problems that didn't come to pass.
It wasn't like he was a single voice that no one payed attention to. That book was widely praised and cited.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be reasonable concern. But we're looking at a very complex problem. For what it is worth, I don't think food will be the issue. We have a handful of farmers who are vastly more efficient than others and people are just starting to catch on.
And we've got programs where agriculture experts have been travelling to Africa, Haiti, etc. and doubling/tripling their crop yields by teaching them to farm smarter.
So I think we have considerable room to grow when it comes to agricultural efficiency. And it isn't like we're currently using every available inch of available land for farming.
The big concern is safe, drinkable water. Because alarmists have been so busy screaming that the world is all going to starve and that we'd all die, it seems like we weren't really prepared for the population to keep growing. Fewer people are starving today. People are living longer. The alarmists were all completely wrong. So we haven't invested in the infrastructure to process drinking water for the exploding population. Thankfully, that is a manageable, if expensive crisis.
- People are dying from eating organic foods because organic foods have much higher rates of e.coli - Non-chlorinated pools are also bacteria farms. - Most studies have shown life expectancy is higher in urban areas than rural areas, though I don't think we understand why currently - Chiropractors have really come under fire in recent years as charlatans with little to no medical evidence of their claims - Drug companies certainly have their faults, but avoiding medicine is a good way to die young.
Your five points of advice are absolutely fantastic.
Back in 1968, this book was published talking about how there was going to mass starvation across the globe and everyone would die because the globe couldn't handle the population of the 1970s. Obviously, there is always hunger around the globe and that shouldn't be discounted, but the UN report notes that the percentage of the world's population who qualify as "undernourished" has fallen by more than half, from 33 percent to about 16 percent, since Ehrlich published The Population Bomb. That was when the population was around 3.5 billion, or half of what we're about to hit.
You gain more fame for hacking a system than you do for discovering the same vulnerability and quietly patching it. I know companies like Google offer bug bounties, but what if they gave awards and more public recognition?
I'd contend that you're betting running anti-virus on Windows servers than running without it, but at the same time I think far too many people see it as a crutch.
Most anti-virus software scans files already in your system against a list of known infections. It is far too easy to fuzz past detection, not to mention that it can't protect against the latest unknown infections.
The best protection is proper sandboxing and security policies. Don't let anything in unless you have to. Don't trust anything.
And honestly, I'm pretty disappointed that a company that signs certs was running Windows servers in the first place.
Does CBS even own a Star Trek trademark? Isn't that owned by Paramount/Viacom?
And I get that you need to defend trademarks, but I don't know that a tricorder app violates that. JJ Abrams is in no hurry on the next Star Trek movie. There is no TV show on the air. Keeping fans thinking about Star Trek with little things like this only adds value to the property on the whole.
What panel applets do you use in Gnome that aren't available in KDE? KDE has the ability to pull new applets/plasmoids from the web. So if it isn't there out of the box, it may still exist.
It isn't the same. The Metro shell still runs, with the Windows Desktop as a tile inside that shell. So application switching is still handled by Metro for instance.
Windows Server 2008 has a head-less version, but I haven't tried it yet. Apparently you need to do everything with Powershell, and I haven't bothered learning it yet.
This is the problem. We're being asked to take one more step to achieve the same task, and this is called progress. People still have Windows 7 as a massively better UI than XP, and while I love Aero Peek and the Task Bar, most of the Vista regressions remain. For so many tasks in Windows I'm expected to perform an extra step or two.
Their UI keeps getting less and less efficient, though it looks better. And yet people praise it.
And from what I'm hearing, Alt-Tab has been changed significantly in Windows 8 because of the Metro interface, making it harder to switch between Windows in the Desktop Tile.
Microsoft doesn't get it, and sadly Apple is screwing this up as well now. Microsoft had tablets, and a mobile OS that both failed because they tried putting forcing a desktop paradigm on small handheld devices. Apple created a mobile OS designed for mobile form factors, and touch interface. Since that is massively popular, both Apple and Microsoft are trying to force mobile/touch concepts into the desktop where they don't belong.
Make the design appropriate for the form factor and interface.
Linux gets this right, where the same OS can just swap graphical shells for the task.
My understanding was the printers, gamepads and the like got moved into UMDF, but most hardware wasn't. UMDF is the only option for non-signed drivers, and I've had trouble getting some to work properly (such as the PS3 controller in Windows). You still need to reboot to reload or change a driver.
Wikileaks has been more about calling out what they see as government abuse than traditional whistle-blowing as well.
Amnesty International has never released a huge leak with unprotected civilian names, like Wikileaks has. Amnesty International has been calling out government corruption and human rights violations for years. I feel that they're overlooked in this conversation while everyone is donating money to Wikileaks.
Amnesty International has also called out Wikileaks for being irresponsible in leaking civilian names, which led to those civilian volunteers getting death threats. To that, Assange responded that people should give him more money if they want civilian names redacted. In all fairness, they have redacted more names since then, but that is a pretty deplorable response.
I'm all for exposing government corruption and human rights abuses. I just trust Amnesty International more when it comes to that goal.
There is plenty of data showing this correlation, but this is precisely the type of unedited data that is hidden because it could cast doubt on the notion that CO2 is primarily responsible for climate change. Partisan spin is getting in the way of actual science.
I'd rather we get to bottom of what is really going on. But instead, we need to defend theories politically even if the data doesn't always support them.
I would kill for a Super Mario 64-like modern update of Commander Keen. Indie platformers are all the rage right now. Someone please make this happen, and make it happen well!
Many city Doom as the first FPS, when Wolfenstein 3D clearly predated it. And Ultima Underworld was released before either of them, with a more advanced engine than ran on even weaker hardware (including its RPG elements).
Doom was more popular and for many people, it was the first they played, so it is seen as the first overall. Just the same as many people have said Goldeneye 64 or Halo was the first time they ever played a FPS game in multiplayer, so thusly that inherently makes it the greatest game of all time, even if others did it better before hand (like Half Life or Quake).
I didn't claim that we've proven the opposite. I'm saying we seem to have conflicting data with no explanation for the discrepancy. All I've claimed is that we don't seem to fully understand the situation.
And isn't one time that CO2 went up and temperatures went down. It is a correlation of data over time.
You're also arguing in one moment that there are far more variables than can really be accounted for, and then two seconds later state that is simply comes down to CO2 trapping energy.
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Actually, we're teaching farmers how to focus on renewable crops that don't immediately bleed the soil dry, while also massively increasing productivity. Not bleeding the soil dry is a big part of long-term productivity. And using genetically altered seeds is a big part of increased crop yields.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=ageconfacpub
http://haitirewired.wired.com/profiles/blogs/sri-taught-to-haitian-farmers
Chemistry to the rescue!
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/17-01/mf_extreme_farming
We don't need solutions for imaginary problems.
There are real concerns about feeding a growing population, but we are addressing those. We're teaching farmers around the globe how to triple crop yields, and again, we're ahead of the growth curve as demonstrated by the fact that malnourishment is actually decreasing as the population increases.
The real problem will be a lack of safe, clean drinking water. Water reclamation will greatly help.
That wasn't his prediction though. He predicted that we wouldn't be able to keep up with food demand, and that we'd all starve to death. The exact opposite happened and a lower percentage of the population is undernourished, even though the population has doubled since his predictions. And he predicted almost immediate problems that didn't come to pass.
It wasn't like he was a single voice that no one payed attention to. That book was widely praised and cited.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be reasonable concern. But we're looking at a very complex problem. For what it is worth, I don't think food will be the issue. We have a handful of farmers who are vastly more efficient than others and people are just starting to catch on.
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/17-01/mf_extreme_farming
And we've got programs where agriculture experts have been travelling to Africa, Haiti, etc. and doubling/tripling their crop yields by teaching them to farm smarter.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=ageconfacpub
http://haitirewired.wired.com/profiles/blogs/sri-taught-to-haitian-farmers
So I think we have considerable room to grow when it comes to agricultural efficiency. And it isn't like we're currently using every available inch of available land for farming.
The big concern is safe, drinkable water. Because alarmists have been so busy screaming that the world is all going to starve and that we'd all die, it seems like we weren't really prepared for the population to keep growing. Fewer people are starving today. People are living longer. The alarmists were all completely wrong. So we haven't invested in the infrastructure to process drinking water for the exploding population. Thankfully, that is a manageable, if expensive crisis.
- People are dying from eating organic foods because organic foods have much higher rates of e.coli
- Non-chlorinated pools are also bacteria farms.
- Most studies have shown life expectancy is higher in urban areas than rural areas, though I don't think we understand why currently
- Chiropractors have really come under fire in recent years as charlatans with little to no medical evidence of their claims
- Drug companies certainly have their faults, but avoiding medicine is a good way to die young.
Your five points of advice are absolutely fantastic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb
Back in 1968, this book was published talking about how there was going to mass starvation across the globe and everyone would die because the globe couldn't handle the population of the 1970s. Obviously, there is always hunger around the globe and that shouldn't be discounted, but the UN report notes that the percentage of the world's population who qualify as "undernourished" has fallen by more than half, from 33 percent to about 16 percent, since Ehrlich published The Population Bomb. That was when the population was around 3.5 billion, or half of what we're about to hit.
So I'm skeptical of alarmism.
Admiration is the problem.
You gain more fame for hacking a system than you do for discovering the same vulnerability and quietly patching it. I know companies like Google offer bug bounties, but what if they gave awards and more public recognition?
I'd contend that you're betting running anti-virus on Windows servers than running without it, but at the same time I think far too many people see it as a crutch.
Most anti-virus software scans files already in your system against a list of known infections. It is far too easy to fuzz past detection, not to mention that it can't protect against the latest unknown infections.
The best protection is proper sandboxing and security policies. Don't let anything in unless you have to. Don't trust anything.
And honestly, I'm pretty disappointed that a company that signs certs was running Windows servers in the first place.
Does CBS even own a Star Trek trademark? Isn't that owned by Paramount/Viacom?
And I get that you need to defend trademarks, but I don't know that a tricorder app violates that. JJ Abrams is in no hurry on the next Star Trek movie. There is no TV show on the air. Keeping fans thinking about Star Trek with little things like this only adds value to the property on the whole.
Most states and cities have laws against impersonating a police officer.
Gnome 2 might get forked.
What panel applets do you use in Gnome that aren't available in KDE? KDE has the ability to pull new applets/plasmoids from the web. So if it isn't there out of the box, it may still exist.
The KDE devs have made it trivial to change shells for different interfaces or different tasks.
You can run a netbook shell on a netbook, a tablet shell on your tablet, a desktop shell on your desktop, etc.
It isn't the same. The Metro shell still runs, with the Windows Desktop as a tile inside that shell. So application switching is still handled by Metro for instance.
Windows Server 2008 has a head-less version, but I haven't tried it yet. Apparently you need to do everything with Powershell, and I haven't bothered learning it yet.
No, you don't have a choice. The desktop is now a tile inside the Metro interface.
This is the problem. We're being asked to take one more step to achieve the same task, and this is called progress. People still have Windows 7 as a massively better UI than XP, and while I love Aero Peek and the Task Bar, most of the Vista regressions remain. For so many tasks in Windows I'm expected to perform an extra step or two.
Their UI keeps getting less and less efficient, though it looks better. And yet people praise it.
And from what I'm hearing, Alt-Tab has been changed significantly in Windows 8 because of the Metro interface, making it harder to switch between Windows in the Desktop Tile.
Microsoft doesn't get it, and sadly Apple is screwing this up as well now. Microsoft had tablets, and a mobile OS that both failed because they tried putting forcing a desktop paradigm on small handheld devices. Apple created a mobile OS designed for mobile form factors, and touch interface. Since that is massively popular, both Apple and Microsoft are trying to force mobile/touch concepts into the desktop where they don't belong.
Make the design appropriate for the form factor and interface.
Linux gets this right, where the same OS can just swap graphical shells for the task.
My understanding was the printers, gamepads and the like got moved into UMDF, but most hardware wasn't. UMDF is the only option for non-signed drivers, and I've had trouble getting some to work properly (such as the PS3 controller in Windows). You still need to reboot to reload or change a driver.
Wikileaks has been more about calling out what they see as government abuse than traditional whistle-blowing as well.
Amnesty International has never released a huge leak with unprotected civilian names, like Wikileaks has. Amnesty International has been calling out government corruption and human rights violations for years. I feel that they're overlooked in this conversation while everyone is donating money to Wikileaks.
Amnesty International has also called out Wikileaks for being irresponsible in leaking civilian names, which led to those civilian volunteers getting death threats. To that, Assange responded that people should give him more money if they want civilian names redacted. In all fairness, they have redacted more names since then, but that is a pretty deplorable response.
I'm all for exposing government corruption and human rights abuses. I just trust Amnesty International more when it comes to that goal.
There is this thing called Google. It's pretty cool. You should try it out one of these days.
http://www.amnesty.org/
Amnesty International
http://www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk/gw/paleo/400000yearslarge.gif
There is plenty of data showing this correlation, but this is precisely the type of unedited data that is hidden because it could cast doubt on the notion that CO2 is primarily responsible for climate change. Partisan spin is getting in the way of actual science.
I'd rather we get to bottom of what is really going on. But instead, we need to defend theories politically even if the data doesn't always support them.
I would kill for a Super Mario 64-like modern update of Commander Keen. Indie platformers are all the rage right now. Someone please make this happen, and make it happen well!
Many city Doom as the first FPS, when Wolfenstein 3D clearly predated it. And Ultima Underworld was released before either of them, with a more advanced engine than ran on even weaker hardware (including its RPG elements).
Doom was more popular and for many people, it was the first they played, so it is seen as the first overall. Just the same as many people have said Goldeneye 64 or Halo was the first time they ever played a FPS game in multiplayer, so thusly that inherently makes it the greatest game of all time, even if others did it better before hand (like Half Life or Quake).
I didn't claim that we've proven the opposite. I'm saying we seem to have conflicting data with no explanation for the discrepancy. All I've claimed is that we don't seem to fully understand the situation.
And isn't one time that CO2 went up and temperatures went down. It is a correlation of data over time.
You're also arguing in one moment that there are far more variables than can really be accounted for, and then two seconds later state that is simply comes down to CO2 trapping energy.
Except it isn't a quick dip that leads to an increase shortly there after. We see large swathes of lowering temperatures when CO2 increases.
Frankly, I don't think we fully understand what is going on here.