Just delete an important file or directory on a RAID1 and see how much that "backup" protected you. Or install a virus. Or have data corruption on a disk.
That's OK. Just take into account that a child born into the developed world will consume at least 10 times more energy than a child born in central Africa so if their average fertility is about 5 children per woman we should have about 0.5.
You may want to learn more about climate science. The models are about answering details like ocean currents, precipitation patterns and the like. The big picture (average temperature and ocean heat content versus CO2 concentration) is basic physics and so trivial to solve that nobody bothers any more. Those things are the "settled science" part that was solved 30 years ago. See Hansen's study from 1982 which has pretty much come true (except that the warming slightly exceeded his worst case preditcions.)
Denier is a perfectly apt name for the people who refuse to admit reality for political reasons. It's the exact same thing as Holocaust deniers, as unpalatable as it may be.
The biosphere is mostly carbon neutral. Carbon that gets scrubbed out by plants is released back into the atmosphere by burning or rotting except for the small fraction that is buried (and forms fossil fuel in the long term.) Growing trees does not make a difference. Actively burying carbon would (biochar for example) but that takes more energy than you want to think of, so it's more efficient to not burn the carbon in the first place.
What does a crazy like Lovelock have to do with serious climate science? If you choose to listen to the crazies then climate science looks crazy to you. You may want to start listening to sober scientists.
Wind is now cheaper than even bog standard nuclear, let alone newfangled variants, even after accounting for its intermittency. So why build new nukes?
Do you think climatologists haven't heard or the Panama strait closing and the effect it had on global ocean circulation? Also fail for lack of basic physics on the greenhouse effect and thermal expansion of water.
Fail for not including stdio.h. main is supposed to return an int. There's no substitution in the string so puts would be way more efficient and would save you precious microseconds in your quest for First Post.
We store CSV in XML fields in some cases. And we also store XML in MySQL. We're now porting SQL from an older DB to MySQL. Porting the stored procedures is a pain of course. And some of them output XML and some CSV. Every now and then the application breaks because somebody forgot to run xmllint after a change. It's called job security. Except for the people who designed that crap, most of them are long gone.
Don't forget sexual selection and how it can work against survival (e.g. excessively large antlers.) Geoffrey Miller has a couple interesting things to say about that. His theory is that our excessively large brain developed as a sexual ornament, basically for complex mating rituals (music, poetry and other useless stuff that chicks like.) It seems that the brain started to grow way earlier than there is evidence of any effects like the use of fire or hunting weapons.
You haven't lived until you troubleshoot a site with a couple 100TB in FC RAIDs that weren't accessed in months and that had media scan turned off due to a FW bug:)
You're being way too rational for the Telegraph. The methane emission numbers they compare with get their long term greeenhouse effect from conversion to CO2. The effect from CH4 is short term because methane is oxidized quickly. And since the biosphere is mostly carbon neutral this is mostly a canard.
There is evidence of sea level rise by several meters over only a decade or a few. If Hansen is right (and he was always right so far) we'll see that kind of speed towards the end of the century. Too bad I won't be around to watch that. It's going to be epic.
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That's what removable media and rotation schemes are for.
Yeah, like zfs or btrfs with checksumming of all [meta]data and built-in RAID.
Hee hee. If there's grub in the MBR it runs first.
Gotta write some code defending against this...
Just delete an important file or directory on a RAID1 and see how much that "backup" protected you. Or install a virus. Or have data corruption on a disk.
Yeah, yeah. Standard denialist tactics by distracting from the facts that matter.
That's OK.
Just take into account that a child born into the developed world will consume at least 10 times more energy than a child born in central Africa so if their average fertility is about 5 children per woman we should have about 0.5.
You may want to learn more about climate science.
The models are about answering details like ocean currents, precipitation patterns and the like.
The big picture (average temperature and ocean heat content versus CO2 concentration) is basic physics and so trivial to solve that nobody bothers any more. Those things are the "settled science" part that was solved 30 years ago. See Hansen's study from 1982 which has pretty much come true (except that the warming slightly exceeded his worst case preditcions.)
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/03/space-based-solar-power/
Denier is a perfectly apt name for the people who refuse to admit reality for political reasons. It's the exact same thing as Holocaust deniers, as unpalatable as it may be.
The biosphere is mostly carbon neutral. Carbon that gets scrubbed out by plants is released back into the atmosphere by burning or rotting except for the small fraction that is buried (and forms fossil fuel in the long term.)
Growing trees does not make a difference. Actively burying carbon would (biochar for example) but that takes more energy than you want to think of, so it's more efficient to not burn the carbon in the first place.
What does a crazy like Lovelock have to do with serious climate science?
If you choose to listen to the crazies then climate science looks crazy to you.
You may want to start listening to sober scientists.
Wind is now cheaper than even bog standard nuclear, let alone newfangled variants, even after accounting for its intermittency.
So why build new nukes?
You sir are full of excrement.
Do you think climatologists haven't heard or the Panama strait closing and the effect it had on global ocean circulation?
Also fail for lack of basic physics on the greenhouse effect and thermal expansion of water.
Fail for not including stdio.h.
main is supposed to return an int.
There's no substitution in the string so puts would be way more efficient and would save you precious microseconds in your quest for First Post.
We store CSV in XML fields in some cases. And we also store XML in MySQL. We're now porting SQL from an older DB to MySQL. Porting the stored procedures is a pain of course. And some of them output XML and some CSV.
Every now and then the application breaks because somebody forgot to run xmllint after a change.
It's called job security. Except for the people who designed that crap, most of them are long gone.
Because there's no money to be made for voting machine manufacturers.
The hard part it making it look like a malfunctioning machine.
I can write a program to do so in a couple of minutes. Just tell me which way you want the errors to go.
Each stanza had 4 "developers." Jeez, you don't even know your Ballmer, the greatest poet evar.
Sounds like we need more 4 year olds in office.
Don't forget sexual selection and how it can work against survival (e.g. excessively large antlers.)
Geoffrey Miller has a couple interesting things to say about that. His theory is that our excessively large brain developed as a sexual ornament, basically for complex mating rituals (music, poetry and other useless stuff that chicks like.) It seems that the brain started to grow way earlier than there is evidence of any effects like the use of fire or hunting weapons.
You haven't lived until you troubleshoot a site with a couple 100TB in FC RAIDs that weren't accessed in months and that had media scan turned off due to a FW bug :)
You're being way too rational for the Telegraph.
The methane emission numbers they compare with get their long term greeenhouse effect from conversion to CO2. The effect from CH4 is short term because methane is oxidized quickly.
And since the biosphere is mostly carbon neutral this is mostly a canard.
There is evidence of sea level rise by several meters over only a decade or a few. If Hansen is right (and he was always right so far) we'll see that kind of speed towards the end of the century. Too bad I won't be around to watch that. It's going to be epic.
And a meter is *exactly* the length from one of my nipples to the tip of the middle finger on the same side.
So SI wins again.