Of course the USA is falling behind. Only a small fraction of the global population lives there. If the USA is dominant, this means a scary large portion of talent on this world is simply wasted. So, this just sounds like the post-WW2 period in which talent in other parts of the world was hampered, is coming to an end.
Clear evidence? I do not see any clear evidence. Gray doesn't say one of his 13 proposals would've proven global warming isn't anthropogenic. If one was, he would have mentioned it and then you would have a smoking gun. Getting money for 30 years is something not many scientists are blessed with. It's surely possible the Clinton administration needed the money for something else. It's also possible Gray had become lazy in writing his proposals, because he always got the money, and an new staff at NOAA looked more critical at it. Or he is just another scientist complaining about science funding.
Anyways, all that was hampered was hurricane science and not research challenging the anthropogenic global warming consensus.
Lomborg is not a 'serious opposition researcher'. He is a sociologist, most of his opposition is based on economics. He has no expertise in natural science.
"Warmer" is a code word for "distorted". You may like the effect of the distortion -- but it's still distortion, and not the way the sound is intended to be heard. See also: tube amps.
No, it's not. Every sound system has distortion. The problem is to find out which kind of distortion is important for the human ear. Some distortions can be very large without being heard (see: audio compression), others are almost impossible to measure, but a pain to the ear. For instance, there is the strange effect that the human ear responds totally different to even-order harmonic distortion than to odd-order distortions.
Decent vinyl record systems do very well, whether they measure well or not. The distortion of CD-players might be smaller, but is simply more relevant to the human ear. For tubes, same story. Tube amplifiers may have bigger distortions at high output levels than semi-conductor amplifiers, but smaller at very low levels. And alas, the low level is much more important to the human ear.
From my experience, a fine systems with a record player and a tube amp tend to have a more clear sound, with the different instruments better defined in space, than a digital system with semi-conductor amp. I didn't believe it either, but my ears tell a different story.
It really depends on how long the building is supposed to last. If you plan to maintain the building, screws will become attractive, because it will be so much easyer to replace wooden parts.
I've worked many hours on a wooden ship which was built using nails (real big ones, no sissy patent-machine-extruded wire nails, but forged by hand in the 19th century by real men). These are hell if you need to replace a wooden part, even if most of the wood is wasted. We use (carefully hidden) screws and bolts whenever a part of the ship is restored, although it costs much more time and money. You'll get it 3x back if you have to do maintenance somewhere in the future.
It killed more than 25% of Europe, probably something between 30% en 50%. But it also killed 2/3 of China's population, as well other parts of Asia and the Middle East. Eurasia was at that time far more dense populated than Africa or the America's. A third of humanity could be a good approximation.
That said, the Little Ice Age started before the Black Death.
It doesn't really transmit radio signals. The little LED screen gives some EM noise which can be detected using a radio. When the screen shows a non-standard character (like à or ë) it has to acces another part of it's memory, and that changes the frequency of the noise. You can hear this difference.
Unfortunately, there is only one party which has a non-standard character in it's full name (an 'è'), so when the noise frequency changes, you know the voter chose that particular party.
i'm afraid. The difference between experts and so-called power users is the former know how the system works, and the latter have a vast amount of Pavlov-reactions which enables them to get many things done on one specific system.
The problem is, these pavlov-reactions do not work on a different system. For a system to be better, it has to be different. And without being better, there is no reason to switch. So, these power users are either too hooked on their set of pavlov-reactions to switch, or they have no reason to switch. In other words, these people are seriously screwed:)
For a beginner, switching is no problem because you need to change only a few pavlov-reactions. After this, it's very easy to become a power user. And then, using a windows-box doesn't mean many small annoyances. It means many large annoyances. "Why the f*ck do i have to close the doc before i can move it? Where's the software manager and why doesn't it just show me everything that's available? How can i set the number of desktops higher than 1?" etc.
Well, i don't have a telephone or an PDA, but i do have a camera, two musicplayers, an external HDD and USBsticks etc. Connecting the device to the computer with a cable has always been te way to go.
The EU's memberstates desire to get the EU to regulate every little aspect of a person's life in order to postpone the faith of their lagging domestic industries.
It's not the EU. The EU doesn't work like that. Definitely it's the government of a mememberstate trying to protect their own television industry.
Obviously most people will be getting their software OEM, but seeing those sticker prices on the retail packs is going to make your average shopper think twice about what that beige box might cost them without the predatory pricing.
No. It will make them think they've got a bargain, because the box with comes with very expensive sofware.
* Is it possible now to rename, move or delete a document when it's in use by an application?
* Is disk-defragmentation history?
* Does Vista provide a software manager connected to massive software-libraries on the internet, so we can install and update applications en masse?
* Does Vista have multiple desktops?
* Can we choose between different desktop environments?
When you take free time into account, the picture is getting different. In Western Europe, people work less hours a week and have more holidays then people in the US. This is a much appreciated form of richness, often left out of econometric equations.
1. A pleasant semi-transparent overlay that asks them to reboot their machine (in their native language) 2. A solid blue screen reading "KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED" followed by 30 rows of random-like numbers
Which one?
It's perfectly possible for a bsod to have a part that tells the user "Hey, sorry, but you need to restart your computer.", and have a second part that says: "Technical information: blablabla, you can look at www.yourdistro.com/kernelpanic or use Google for more detailed info..."
- remove safety belt from drivers seat; - replace airbag from steering wheel by a 200 mm long, 15 mm thick stainless steel rod; - sharpen the outer edge of the rod.
You've got a quite creepy definition of 'solution' and an even more scary definition of 'problem'. Especially when it comes to american history. Problem: people live over there, but we want the country and don't like to share it. Solution: kill 'm all.
Not to mention the cases where the people on the wrong side of the solution, tend to remember and keep on looking for a new 'solution', one in which they are the winners. So the problem persists, because violence breeds violence.
When it comes to European history: the problem of endless wars in Europe was solved because the countries learned their lesson, and started to open their boundaries. WW2 was not the solution: it was what finally teached european leaders that war is NOT the solution.
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Of course the USA is falling behind. Only a small fraction of the global population lives there. If the USA is dominant, this means a scary large portion of talent on this world is simply wasted. So, this just sounds like the post-WW2 period in which talent in other parts of the world was hampered, is coming to an end.
Clear evidence? I do not see any clear evidence. Gray doesn't say one of his 13 proposals would've proven global warming isn't anthropogenic. If one was, he would have mentioned it and then you would have a smoking gun. Getting money for 30 years is something not many scientists are blessed with. It's surely possible the Clinton administration needed the money for something else. It's also possible Gray had become lazy in writing his proposals, because he always got the money, and an new staff at NOAA looked more critical at it. Or he is just another scientist complaining about science funding.
Anyways, all that was hampered was hurricane science and not research challenging the anthropogenic global warming consensus.
Lomborg is not a 'serious opposition researcher'. He is a sociologist, most of his opposition is based on economics. He has no expertise in natural science.
MUCH warmer.
"Warmer" is a code word for "distorted". You may like the effect of the distortion -- but it's still distortion, and not the way the sound is intended to be heard. See also: tube amps.
No, it's not. Every sound system has distortion. The problem is to find out which kind of distortion is important for the human ear. Some distortions can be very large without being heard (see: audio compression), others are almost impossible to measure, but a pain to the ear. For instance, there is the strange effect that the human ear responds totally different to even-order harmonic distortion than to odd-order distortions.Decent vinyl record systems do very well, whether they measure well or not. The distortion of CD-players might be smaller, but is simply more relevant to the human ear. For tubes, same story. Tube amplifiers may have bigger distortions at high output levels than semi-conductor amplifiers, but smaller at very low levels. And alas, the low level is much more important to the human ear.
From my experience, a fine systems with a record player and a tube amp tend to have a more clear sound, with the different instruments better defined in space, than a digital system with semi-conductor amp. I didn't believe it either, but my ears tell a different story.
Like Man d'Riva?
It really depends on how long the building is supposed to last. If you plan to maintain the building, screws will become attractive, because it will be so much easyer to replace wooden parts.
I've worked many hours on a wooden ship which was built using nails (real big ones, no sissy patent-machine-extruded wire nails, but forged by hand in the 19th century by real men). These are hell if you need to replace a wooden part, even if most of the wood is wasted. We use (carefully hidden) screws and bolts whenever a part of the ship is restored, although it costs much more time and money. You'll get it 3x back if you have to do maintenance somewhere in the future.
What do the hangover and the ex-wife have to do with this?
At least i found the number one: http://www.research.ibm.com/atomic/nano/roomtemp.h tml
It killed more than 25% of Europe, probably something between 30% en 50%. But it also killed 2/3 of China's population, as well other parts of Asia and the Middle East. Eurasia was at that time far more dense populated than Africa or the America's. A third of humanity could be a good approximation.
That said, the Little Ice Age started before the Black Death.
...I live in 2006.
It doesn't really transmit radio signals. The little LED screen gives some EM noise which can be detected using a radio. When the screen shows a non-standard character (like à or ë) it has to acces another part of it's memory, and that changes the frequency of the noise. You can hear this difference.
Unfortunately, there is only one party which has a non-standard character in it's full name (an 'è'), so when the noise frequency changes, you know the voter chose that particular party.
i'm afraid. The difference between experts and so-called power users is the former know how the system works, and the latter have a vast amount of Pavlov-reactions which enables them to get many things done on one specific system.
:)
The problem is, these pavlov-reactions do not work on a different system. For a system to be better, it has to be different. And without being better, there is no reason to switch. So, these power users are either too hooked on their set of pavlov-reactions to switch, or they have no reason to switch. In other words, these people are seriously screwed
For a beginner, switching is no problem because you need to change only a few pavlov-reactions. After this, it's very easy to become a power user. And then, using a windows-box doesn't mean many small annoyances. It means many large annoyances. "Why the f*ck do i have to close the doc before i can move it? Where's the software manager and why doesn't it just show me everything that's available? How can i set the number of desktops higher than 1?" etc.
Well, i don't have a telephone or an PDA, but i do have a camera, two musicplayers, an external HDD and USBsticks etc. Connecting the device to the computer with a cable has always been te way to go.
The EU's memberstates desire to get the EU to regulate every little aspect of a person's life in order to postpone the faith of their lagging domestic industries.
It's not the EU. The EU doesn't work like that. Definitely it's the government of a mememberstate trying to protect their own television industry.
Obviously most people will be getting their software OEM, but seeing those sticker prices on the retail packs is going to make your average shopper think twice about what that beige box might cost them without the predatory pricing.
No. It will make them think they've got a bargain, because the box with comes with very expensive sofware.
Obsolesence is a good reason to stick with W98. Modern malware is not compatible with it.
* Is it possible now to rename, move or delete a document when it's in use by an application?
* Is disk-defragmentation history?
* Does Vista provide a software manager connected to massive software-libraries on the internet, so we can install and update applications en masse?
* Does Vista have multiple desktops?
* Can we choose between different desktop environments?
I also use a LOT of OSS and while the information isn't cnetralized, [...]
Actually, this information is quite centralised, at http://www.google.com/ . I seldom have to look at the third page.
When you take free time into account, the picture is getting different. In Western Europe, people work less hours a week and have more holidays then people in the US. This is a much appreciated form of richness, often left out of econometric equations.
why we have to choose?
1. A pleasant semi-transparent overlay that asks them to reboot their machine (in their native language)
2. A solid blue screen reading "KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED" followed by 30 rows of random-like numbers
Which one?
It's perfectly possible for a bsod to have a part that tells the user "Hey, sorry, but you need to restart your computer.", and have a second part that says: "Technical information: blablabla, you can look at www.yourdistro.com/kernelpanic or use Google for more detailed info..."
...in being the only force defending the free market against monopolisation. Just like in Europe, with the software patents.
- remove safety belt from drivers seat;
- replace airbag from steering wheel by a 200 mm long, 15 mm thick stainless steel rod;
- sharpen the outer edge of the rod.
Illegal in the US, that is.
You can get them in India, in a place called Nanda Devi. http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr252004 /fp2.asp
You've got a quite creepy definition of 'solution' and an even more scary definition of 'problem'. Especially when it comes to american history. Problem: people live over there, but we want the country and don't like to share it. Solution: kill 'm all.
Not to mention the cases where the people on the wrong side of the solution, tend to remember and keep on looking for a new 'solution', one in which they are the winners. So the problem persists, because violence breeds violence.
When it comes to European history: the problem of endless wars in Europe was solved because the countries learned their lesson, and started to open their boundaries. WW2 was not the solution: it was what finally teached european leaders that war is NOT the solution.