Note that he doesn't claim that changes in the Sun's energy output have caused most of the observed global warming, just that such changes could explain global warming.
What does that even mean? If the changes in the Sun's energy output could explain global warming, then it must follow that the changes in the Sun's energy output have caused global warming. If Sun energy change hasn't caused global warming, then it can't also explain it.
Unless I'm missing something, you've just said, "Note that he doesn't claim A is true, just that A is true."
DSL is definitely not for novices. I am running DSL on an old Dell laptop right now, installed because this machine will only barely run Win2K. I've got plenty of MS experience, and a general knack apart from that. DSL was difficult to deal with, particularly on the audio and WLAN fronts. If you're an existing Linux user, or willing to get dirty learning it, rock on with DSL. If you're just a Windows user (not an admin), you'd be better off with a more full-featured distribution.
Whenever there's a subpoena or an investigation or an audit of some kind, the requestor wants your documents in hardcopy. If you present the information to them digitally, it had better damn well be in a format that can be printed out. I imagine this has something to do with the fact that they want a static, unchangeable document, not one that could even be suspect to having been modified.
Can you modify paper records? Sure. Can you prevent digital records from being changed (or at least provide for a trail of evidence to show that they had been changed and when)? Sure. Do auditors and lawyers and gov't officials understand any of that? Nope. So paper it is.
Maybe - just maybe - providing an interface to digital information that more closely resembles the paper they're used to dealing with will help to drag them into the digital age. But probably not.
When I was a kid, we would gather phone numbers off of pay phones at the mall, then go home and call those numbers. Once, a teenage girl answered. Somehow, my group of friends and her group of friends managed to exchange all sorts of personal information (though we never actually met, because my group of friends was a bunch of losers). Honestly, it would be easy enough to do the same kind of thing by calling cell phones today.
Notice the difference in the "Sponsored Links"? Top of the list on the manual scan is "Mortgages at Countrywide," which is not even displayed at all on the usgov search side. Also, the manual scan reports 37.5 million results, while the usgov side reports only 31.8 million.
There's a definite difference between the two searches. I wonder what the basis for that difference is. One might jump to the conclusion that there's some kind of censorship going on, were one fully outfitted with a TFH.
Right off the top - there are always some people who are going to screw you, no matter how you treat them.
But for most employees, instilling loyalty and pride in the company is the best disincentive to theft. It's also the best way to increase productivity.
How does a company do that? Pay employees what they're worth, don't overwork people, be ethical in your business operations. Basically, it's the golden rule. Treat your employees the way you want them to treat your company. Your employees will take care of the rest, and the money will roll in.
It's too bad that most companies are only in business to line the pockets of the top execs this quarter, and damn the next financial period; we'll figure that out later.
I saw "Netscape" in the article title, and began to wax nostalgic.
Does anyone remember when Netscape was the browser of choice? Then the moment that AOL bought Netscape, it went straight to crap, and I don't know anyone who uses Netscape as their web browser anymore.
Based on that (via an admitted quantum leap), I can't see how a Netscape link-aggregation site can possibly succeed in the face of very popular existing sites in the same vein.
Not that I'd use it, but the point is that Joe Average doesn't have to go looking for the right extension to do what he wants. Here's a pre-packaged bunch of them, all configured, all supported, all well tested. Joe Average just wants to do stuff, without spending at least an evening figuring out how to do that stuff first.
No kidding, my living expenses (meaning, the money I have to spend each month to stay housed, fed, taxed, insured, and transported...no luxuries) come up to about 75% of my income.
My living expenses (meaning the money I have to spend each month to stay housed, fed, taxed, insured, transported, entertained, intoxicated, comfortable, washed, educated, informed, complacent, medicated, and uB3r 1337) comes up to way over 100% of my income.
The artificiality of the object should be irrelevant.
Fair enough. It was kind of an afterthought anyway.
Second, I see no merit in restricting allowed orbits.
It sounds as though you have more background in astronomy than I do. (I had to look up 'aphelion' in particular.) My thought for restricting orbits was in consideration of the difference between a planet and a gigantic comet, should a gigantic comet ever exist. But I'm willing to concede that point.
I think mass is a better criteria than volume.
I was torn between using mass or volume as well. I suppose I chose to use volume for no real reason; mass it is.
So that makes it two criteria:
A planet revolves around a star. (This is pretty much a given.) A planet has at least n mass. Define n.
So what we're really looking at then, unless the scientific community has something interesting to spring on us, is the arbitrary answer to the question, "What is the minimum mass a body can have and still be considered a planet?"
Yesrs ago, I sold auto parts at car dealerships, mainly to body shops. A good-sized local body shop chain was buying parts from us for 5% over cost, delivered. They came to us and said that they were going to switch to someone who would sell them parts at 3% over cost, delivered, unless we could match it. We let them go.
About 18 months later, they came back: "We want to come back to you." Why? Because my company could provide better service. The 3% over company would deliver parts once a day, that's it. If something was missing or wrong or broken, they wouldn't try to find it someplace else and do a second trip that day, they'd just order another one and deliver it when it came in.
So when this body shop chain came back to us, we said, "Okay, but it's 10% over cost now." They agreed.
The moral of this story? Maybe in five or ten years, when US industry figures out that the front-end savings they're getting on offshored labor translates to a higher "total cost of operation," they'll come back to the US labor market. And when that happens, salaries for US tech jobs will rise.
Revolve around a star
within a certain maximum aphelion
having a maximum elliptic Be large enough in volume Not be artificial in nature (this provides that any intelligence in this universe creating an object that would fit the prior criteria would not be allowed to call it a planet)
Define maximum aphelion and maximum elliptic and minimum volume. What else is there?
Back in 1996, Packard Bell computers came with this thing installed, called navigator. It was a picture of an office, with a desk and shelves and books and things. Clicking on the items would take you to different applications, file system browsers, etc.
Considering that Windows 2000 was released before Windows ME, isn't this tantamount to Microsoft admitting what we all already knew: that releasing WinME at all was a mistake?
Interestingly, the "you know everything they did and everyone they associated with, that it's for ever attached to their file somewhere, and they don't know how or when you'll use it" thing sounds very much like the reason why people adhere to religious faiths (well, at least Catholicism). "God knows everything about you, everything you do, and your eternal fate will be determined by this."
That person who's behaving in an "ungodly" fashion, trying to get you to go along - that's the devil at work.
Of course, in the parent's scenario, "God" and "the devil" are one and the same. I'm not a terribly religious person, but logic dictates to me that you can't be both at once, and if you're part devil, then you're not part God.
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Note that he doesn't claim that changes in the Sun's energy output have caused most of the observed global warming, just that such changes could explain global warming.
What does that even mean? If the changes in the Sun's energy output could explain global warming, then it must follow that the changes in the Sun's energy output have caused global warming. If Sun energy change hasn't caused global warming, then it can't also explain it.
Unless I'm missing something, you've just said, "Note that he doesn't claim A is true, just that A is true."
I don't like The Man tracking my activities
The Man is only interested in collecting the convenience fee, and could give two craps about where you parked your car - just as long as you pay.
Unless you happened to bid your entire economy on an item, ...
Why, when I read that line, did I think: "Kind of like how the US has bid its entire economy on crude oil?"
DSL is definitely not for novices. I am running DSL on an old Dell laptop right now, installed because this machine will only barely run Win2K. I've got plenty of MS experience, and a general knack apart from that. DSL was difficult to deal with, particularly on the audio and WLAN fronts. If you're an existing Linux user, or willing to get dirty learning it, rock on with DSL. If you're just a Windows user (not an admin), you'd be better off with a more full-featured distribution.
Whenever there's a subpoena or an investigation or an audit of some kind, the requestor wants your documents in hardcopy. If you present the information to them digitally, it had better damn well be in a format that can be printed out. I imagine this has something to do with the fact that they want a static, unchangeable document, not one that could even be suspect to having been modified.
Can you modify paper records? Sure. Can you prevent digital records from being changed (or at least provide for a trail of evidence to show that they had been changed and when)? Sure. Do auditors and lawyers and gov't officials understand any of that? Nope. So paper it is.
Maybe - just maybe - providing an interface to digital information that more closely resembles the paper they're used to dealing with will help to drag them into the digital age. But probably not.
When I was a kid, we would gather phone numbers off of pay phones at the mall, then go home and call those numbers. Once, a teenage girl answered. Somehow, my group of friends and her group of friends managed to exchange all sorts of personal information (though we never actually met, because my group of friends was a bunch of losers). Honestly, it would be easy enough to do the same kind of thing by calling cell phones today.
Were I a patent attorney, I would argue that that is prior art for a shouldertop. He might have something on wearable computers, though.
Notice the difference in the "Sponsored Links"? Top of the list on the manual scan is "Mortgages at Countrywide," which is not even displayed at all on the usgov search side. Also, the manual scan reports 37.5 million results, while the usgov side reports only 31.8 million.
There's a definite difference between the two searches. I wonder what the basis for that difference is. One might jump to the conclusion that there's some kind of censorship going on, were one fully outfitted with a TFH.
Others claim that global warming is a "direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s."
Right off the top - there are always some people who are going to screw you, no matter how you treat them.
But for most employees, instilling loyalty and pride in the company is the best disincentive to theft. It's also the best way to increase productivity.
How does a company do that? Pay employees what they're worth, don't overwork people, be ethical in your business operations. Basically, it's the golden rule. Treat your employees the way you want them to treat your company. Your employees will take care of the rest, and the money will roll in.
It's too bad that most companies are only in business to line the pockets of the top execs this quarter, and damn the next financial period; we'll figure that out later.
I saw "Netscape" in the article title, and began to wax nostalgic.
Does anyone remember when Netscape was the browser of choice? Then the moment that AOL bought Netscape, it went straight to crap, and I don't know anyone who uses Netscape as their web browser anymore.
Based on that (via an admitted quantum leap), I can't see how a Netscape link-aggregation site can possibly succeed in the face of very popular existing sites in the same vein.
Not that I'd use it, but the point is that Joe Average doesn't have to go looking for the right extension to do what he wants. Here's a pre-packaged bunch of them, all configured, all supported, all well tested. Joe Average just wants to do stuff, without spending at least an evening figuring out how to do that stuff first.
Stephen, I always thought your music was more compelling than your science.
No kidding, my living expenses (meaning, the money I have to spend each month to stay housed, fed, taxed, insured, and transported...no luxuries) come up to about 75% of my income.
My living expenses (meaning the money I have to spend each month to stay housed, fed, taxed, insured, transported, entertained, intoxicated, comfortable, washed, educated, informed, complacent, medicated, and uB3r 1337) comes up to way over 100% of my income.
Best. Mechanism. Evar.
The artificiality of the object should be irrelevant.
Fair enough. It was kind of an afterthought anyway.
Second, I see no merit in restricting allowed orbits.
It sounds as though you have more background in astronomy than I do. (I had to look up 'aphelion' in particular.) My thought for restricting orbits was in consideration of the difference between a planet and a gigantic comet, should a gigantic comet ever exist. But I'm willing to concede that point.
I think mass is a better criteria than volume.
I was torn between using mass or volume as well. I suppose I chose to use volume for no real reason; mass it is.
So that makes it two criteria:
A planet revolves around a star. (This is pretty much a given.)
A planet has at least n mass.
Define n.
So what we're really looking at then, unless the scientific community has something interesting to spring on us, is the arbitrary answer to the question, "What is the minimum mass a body can have and still be considered a planet?"
I'm not exactly new, here or otherwise. But apparently new enough to know that your comment is funny, but not understand why.
I worked in the auto industry for ten or so years before IT, so I've got all kinds of car analogies. Just wait.
Every time I forget the or tags, someone has to misunderstand.
I have an apt analogy.
Yesrs ago, I sold auto parts at car dealerships, mainly to body shops. A good-sized local body shop chain was buying parts from us for 5% over cost, delivered. They came to us and said that they were going to switch to someone who would sell them parts at 3% over cost, delivered, unless we could match it. We let them go.
About 18 months later, they came back: "We want to come back to you." Why? Because my company could provide better service. The 3% over company would deliver parts once a day, that's it. If something was missing or wrong or broken, they wouldn't try to find it someplace else and do a second trip that day, they'd just order another one and deliver it when it came in.
So when this body shop chain came back to us, we said, "Okay, but it's 10% over cost now." They agreed.
The moral of this story? Maybe in five or ten years, when US industry figures out that the front-end savings they're getting on offshored labor translates to a higher "total cost of operation," they'll come back to the US labor market. And when that happens, salaries for US tech jobs will rise.
I'm prepared to ride it out.
A planet must:
Revolve around a star
within a certain maximum aphelion
having a maximum elliptic
Be large enough in volume
Not be artificial in nature (this provides that any intelligence in this universe creating an object that would fit the prior criteria would not be allowed to call it a planet)
Define maximum aphelion and maximum elliptic and minimum volume. What else is there?
Back in 1996, Packard Bell computers came with this thing installed, called navigator. It was a picture of an office, with a desk and shelves and books and things. Clicking on the items would take you to different applications, file system browsers, etc.
It was stupid then, and it's stupid now.
Considering that Windows 2000 was released before Windows ME, isn't this tantamount to Microsoft admitting what we all already knew: that releasing WinME at all was a mistake?
Interestingly, the "you know everything they did and everyone they associated with, that it's for ever attached to their file somewhere, and they don't know how or when you'll use it" thing sounds very much like the reason why people adhere to religious faiths (well, at least Catholicism). "God knows everything about you, everything you do, and your eternal fate will be determined by this."
That person who's behaving in an "ungodly" fashion, trying to get you to go along - that's the devil at work.
Of course, in the parent's scenario, "God" and "the devil" are one and the same. I'm not a terribly religious person, but logic dictates to me that you can't be both at once, and if you're part devil, then you're not part God.
I am not a JAG, ... ... grammar and spelling Nazis ...
I shall heretofore cease my references to "$BEHAVIOR Nazis." From this day forth, I shall only refer to "$BEHAVIOR JAGs."
... than to procreate some inter-species Google-China love child.