stop eating meat - stop driving everywhere - stop flying in planes, stop consuming useless shit. No one - even global warming believers - seems to be willing to do this.
I'm doing it. Haven't flown in 7 years, stopped using the car, walk and bike everywhere, work from home.
I thought your ilk says that high oil prices are only the result of speculation, not economics. But seriously, you have to distinguish between different markets. While there is no alternative to oil for transportation fuels (except electric for light vehicles), for electricity production decentralized solar and (centralized) wind power are competitive with fossil fuels today to within a couple percent, and if you factor in externalities like pollution from coal plants it's a no-brainer. Given the rising cost of fossil fuels there is no reason to stick with them but inertia and existing investments.
The data says otherwise. The collapse of the Soviet Union put a large dent into fossil fuel use and global warming and the collapse of the Western economy will too.
"The sun did it!" is standard denier lore. Anybody with half an eduction knows that 1. The sun's output varies by about 0.1% over its 11 year cycle 2. The long term change (once the 11 year cycle is averaged out) is several orders of magnitude less (so low that it's hard to measure.)
For years, there have been scientists who only presented the data and warned of the consequences. There were also non-scientists who whined about it and tried to exploit it for political gains. The problem is simply that you chose to listen to the latter and not the former.
I once test drove a turbo Saab on the autobahn. Went to top speed until forced to brake hard due to slowpoke or a truck. Repeat. After the 4th time doing that the brakes started to feel mushy.
This. I learned about turning the key one click and stomping hard on the brake in driving school, but the first time I drove a car with a stupid start button I had to RTFM to figure it out. Having to RTFM before getting started in a car does not sound like a promising approach to handling a machine that can easily kill people. How about a gun with a complicated newfangled mechanism to engage the safety?
Meh, assembler. My first computer was an IMS6100 SBC with an 12-key octal keyboard and a 6 digit seven segment LED. It has 256 words of RAM. I think starting with a simple system is the important part here. I know only a small subset of the functionality of the box that I'm typing this on. That sucks. My PET and C64 I knew inside out.
C is easy if you start with K&R. I've never read a gentler yet very effective intro to a language. Everything more modern is so verbose that you fall asleep at least once before you have your first program running.
As long as you can't draw little boxes representing memory locations with arrows between them (and show that you're correct via the debugger) you haven't grok'd how your particular language does it.
And there are thought experiments about powering oil shale extraction with a nuclear plant in Canada.
In the past all estimates of global warming were conservative (they were technically correct but CO2 emissions were larger than anticipated, except for short negative blips from the collapse of the Soviet Union and the recent recession.) Today the realistic consensus (under BAU) is 4-6C by 2100 and I think that's lowballed too. My mental state is cynical acceptance now. Watching the weather is like a thriller, but in slo-mo. I can't wait for the next disaster.
The big issue is whether or not a significant fraction of the human (and since we're an apex predator, everybody else's) population is at risk for near term major perturbations in the population's health and well being due to changes in climate that are in part due to rapidly rising CO2 levels which are most likely man made.
Sorry that's way too long a sentence. Is CO2 good or bad? I can only handle black or white.
AMD uses HT and Intel has its ring bus, both of which use point-to-point links. Buses have serious trouble with the impedance jumps at the taps and clock skew between the lines, that's why nobody is using them in high speed applications any more. Even the venerable SCSI and ATA buses went the way of the dodo. The only bus I can see in my system is DDR3 (and I think that will go away with DDR4 due do the same problems.)
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stop eating meat - stop driving everywhere - stop flying in planes, stop consuming useless shit. No one - even global warming believers - seems to be willing to do this.
I'm doing it. Haven't flown in 7 years, stopped using the car, walk and bike everywhere, work from home.
I thought your ilk says that high oil prices are only the result of speculation, not economics.
But seriously, you have to distinguish between different markets. While there is no alternative to oil for transportation fuels (except electric for light vehicles), for electricity production decentralized solar and (centralized) wind power are competitive with fossil fuels today to within a couple percent, and if you factor in externalities like pollution from coal plants it's a no-brainer. Given the rising cost of fossil fuels there is no reason to stick with them but inertia and existing investments.
The data says otherwise. The collapse of the Soviet Union put a large dent into fossil fuel use and global warming and the collapse of the Western economy will too.
If you rewind 10-15 years they where saying the Statue of Liberty would be underwater by now.
Who? Scientists or headline grabbing journalists who said that a new ice age is coming 5 minutes earlier?
"The sun did it!" is standard denier lore.
Anybody with half an eduction knows that
1. The sun's output varies by about 0.1% over its 11 year cycle
2. The long term change (once the 11 year cycle is averaged out) is several orders of magnitude less (so low that it's hard to measure.)
For years, there have been scientists who only presented the data and warned of the consequences. There were also non-scientists who whined about it and tried to exploit it for political gains.
The problem is simply that you chose to listen to the latter and not the former.
Clearly you need a software controlled Floormat Removal Pedal override.
I once test drove a turbo Saab on the autobahn. Went to top speed until forced to brake hard due to slowpoke or a truck. Repeat. After the 4th time doing that the brakes started to feel mushy.
That's why you have driving schools. Too bad they aren't mandatory.
Who drives automatic anyway? It is way more costly, less reliable and burns more gas than manual.
You may want to distinguish between NASA scientists and NASA bigwigs.
This.
I learned about turning the key one click and stomping hard on the brake in driving school, but the first time I drove a car with a stupid start button I had to RTFM to figure it out.
Having to RTFM before getting started in a car does not sound like a promising approach to handling a machine that can easily kill people.
How about a gun with a complicated newfangled mechanism to engage the safety?
They're just a little higher on the Kardashev scale than astronomers can imagine.
Meh, I've read about stuff like this since I was a kid.
Meh, assembler. My first computer was an IMS6100 SBC with an 12-key octal keyboard and a 6 digit seven segment LED. It has 256 words of RAM.
I think starting with a simple system is the important part here. I know only a small subset of the functionality of the box that I'm typing this on. That sucks. My PET and C64 I knew inside out.
C is easy if you start with K&R. I've never read a gentler yet very effective intro to a language. Everything more modern is so verbose that you fall asleep at least once before you have your first program running.
As long as you can't draw little boxes representing memory locations with arrows between them (and show that you're correct via the debugger) you haven't grok'd how your particular language does it.
Ha ha. Fossil fuel companies are even looking at how to convert solar into CO2:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=solar-steam-for-enhanced-oil-recovery
And there are thought experiments about powering oil shale extraction with a nuclear plant in Canada.
In the past all estimates of global warming were conservative (they were technically correct but CO2 emissions were larger than anticipated, except for short negative blips from the collapse of the Soviet Union and the recent recession.) Today the realistic consensus (under BAU) is 4-6C by 2100 and I think that's lowballed too.
My mental state is cynical acceptance now. Watching the weather is like a thriller, but in slo-mo. I can't wait for the next disaster.
The big issue is whether or not a significant fraction of the human (and since we're an apex predator, everybody else's) population is at risk for near term major perturbations in the population's health and well being due to changes in climate that are in part due to rapidly rising CO2 levels which are most likely man made.
Sorry that's way too long a sentence.
Is CO2 good or bad? I can only handle black or white.
New netbooks with XP were sold until 2010:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/pc-makers-no-longer-allowed-to-preinstall-windows-xp-on-new-netbooks-as-of-october/6507
So can I shoot samzenpus now?
AMD uses HT and Intel has its ring bus, both of which use point-to-point links. Buses have serious trouble with the impedance jumps at the taps and clock skew between the lines, that's why nobody is using them in high speed applications any more. Even the venerable SCSI and ATA buses went the way of the dodo. The only bus I can see in my system is DDR3 (and I think that will go away with DDR4 due do the same problems.)
Well Jesus wouldn't do as a long haired Middle Eastern socialist.
I suspect he's going to keep fighting certain urges that make him a homophobe.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=homophobes-might-be-hidden-homosexuals
Oh great, so we can finally have Santorum/Bachmann? My dream team.
Ah, the old guy with outdated ideology and a racist past?
Great choice.