Have you not read any Shatner? The TekWar stuff with Ron Goulart was an entertaining diversion and if you haven't read it, I think you're missing out on a fairly decent experience.
Since the Hugo is based on fan votes (you have to pay to join and vote, nothing else), the defining criteria is popular interest. Given that, and given the fact that the TekWar books gave rise to a comic book series, a video game and a TV series, I'd say that the fans have spoken louder than Gernsback imagines.
I consider myself a fan of science fiction and I've probably seen every episode of ST, STNG, and Enterprise, yet I've only read one book by Stross, "The Jennifer Morgue". I wouldn't walk across the road to speak with him about his opinion on Science Fiction. If Roddenberry were still alive, I'd go considerably further.
Heck, I've read more Shatner than Stross!
The guy is either full of himself or this story was submitted by kdawson...
The question isn't "Is Windows 7 better than Vista"?, it is "Is Windows 7 better than XP"?
When first starting to build a new PC, I used to install my Windows NT 4.0 license (purchased in '97 or so) on it, and wiped and installed Linux on the old hardware. In '02 I purchased a license for XP and continued doing the same thing. I'll buy the next MS operating system when a better one comes out.
Real story? 35/175,000,000ths of the systems were reported as overheating and that was without a technical evaluation to determine if the device did indeed overheat and a root cause analysis...and you accuse ME of trolling? Your attempt to make a mountain out of a molehill qualifies as trolling, but outlining the gist of the article is hardly such. There's nothing to cover up 'cause there's no systemic problem.
Please at least attempt to understand the issue before replying, kthxbye.
According to the article (you DID read the article, didn't you?) there has been no serious injuries. The article details how, after 7 months of investigation, the reporter has found bloggers blogging about overheating iPods, but the number reported in the article is about... 35. That's out of the 175 million devices out there...
Hardly a product flaw. Perhaps some rare individual and isolated parts are flawed, but this isn't a systemic problem.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission conducted its own preliminary investigation and determined that, with more than 175 million iPods sold, âoethe number of incidents is extremely small in relation to the number of products produced, making the risk of injury very low.â
Nothing to see here, move along. kdawson, queue the apple haters. Oh, and start posting real stories or find another job.
Spending on tech that doesn't deliver and ignoring real causes of real effects we can do something about is foolish.
I would guess (and it's totally a guess) that spending the cash that's now going into the "global warming" bucket on something that would provide clean drinking water for folks would be a much better bang for the buck, and desalination tech is a better use of funds than carbon chits.
It's my opinion that when politicians get involved, everyone should realize that a wrong turn has been made. "Politicians" and "solutions" in the same sentence? Nope, not too likely. "Politicians" and "boondoggle"... and "corruption"... THAT'S more like it.
To achieve a balance between good stewardship and knee jerk "reactionism", we are required to hold off doing anything until more is known......if we don't, that'll be as bad as when rabbits were introduced in australia, termites in hawaii, zebra mussels in the great lakes, etc, etc, etc.
Folks just want to "do something" about the "issue", and that is a rallying cry to politicians... which are, in their own way, another bane to out existence we introduced out of ignorance.
Put the drawings or whatever on a web page and link to it here. Not only will it get exposure, it'll generate discussion on the merits of the design.
As an aside, this reminds me of the crap article posted here not too long ago, with the only difference being that guy didn't want to share his great and wonderful idea.
SO, in conclusion, more info is necessary for those that want a better understanding of the natural process of temperature cycles. Note that more information isn't needed by those that claim irreversible HIGW afects.
I don't have a date, and I don't have a date when the US will put a man on Mars, either, but the inability to forecast isn't cause by any cultural bias. The reason you were wrong is simple - you didn't provide evidence to support your claim, and in fact you changed the goal posts and switched the argument from cultural bias to economic trade barriers.
Also, I'm not challenging the assertion of cultural bias, I'm pointing out that as the one who made the assertion, the monkey is on your back to provide validation when challenged.
When you make a case and you're called on it, you have to make that case. The monkey's on your back, not the other way 'round. You did nothing other than try to shift the burden to someone else.
"why is the Libertarian party so marginalized in America?"
'Cause they take this kind of thing totally out of context and run with it 'till they drop.
There's no bill, there's a guy making a proposal. This requirement will never be pushed down to a home network router, yet all the Libertarians are grabbing their soapboxes and calling for the next war of independence.
They're a joke 'cause they respond with overwhelming stupidity as their knee jerk reaction.
reading that, it becomes clear that the problem is that the Quebec system uses DC power transmission instead of the AC usually used. Reading even more in to the source material for that wiki entry, you find this:
"the currents are never very powerful; the one that raced through Hydro-Quebec's lines added only a few hundred kilowatts to a 21,000-megawatt grid"
So, after looking up what happened in Quebec, I'm left with the question - Why was only Quebec affected this way? I mean, what about the rest of the freaking globe... why didn't the "whole power system" of Alaska, for instance, go down? They're about the same size, about the same latitude, etc. Even so, the outage was only 8-9 hours.
You posit "if that happened now..." with totally unsupported assertions...
The only way you can be taken advantage of, is if you allow it. Keep your skills current and your resume brushed up and put the crap behind you. Just sure you you identify the reason you are leaving so the industry as a whole wises up.
You just lost credibility. Instead of riding around on a bike running scripts you ripped off the internet and feeling all 1337 and shit, you should read more about how to program.
A "hard-coded" configurable parameter.. heh, you one funny script kiddie!
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Have you not read any Shatner? The TekWar stuff with Ron Goulart was an entertaining diversion and if you haven't read it, I think you're missing out on a fairly decent experience.
Since the Hugo is based on fan votes (you have to pay to join and vote, nothing else), the defining criteria is popular interest. Given that, and given the fact that the TekWar books gave rise to a comic book series, a video game and a TV series, I'd say that the fans have spoken louder than Gernsback imagines.
I don't see similar interest in Stross's work.
I consider myself a fan of science fiction and I've probably seen every episode of ST, STNG, and Enterprise, yet I've only read one book by Stross, "The Jennifer Morgue". I wouldn't walk across the road to speak with him about his opinion on Science Fiction. If Roddenberry were still alive, I'd go considerably further.
Heck, I've read more Shatner than Stross!
The guy is either full of himself or this story was submitted by kdawson...
oh.
The question isn't "Is Windows 7 better than Vista"?, it is "Is Windows 7 better than XP"?
When first starting to build a new PC, I used to install my Windows NT 4.0 license (purchased in '97 or so) on it, and wiped and installed Linux on the old hardware. In '02 I purchased a license for XP and continued doing the same thing. I'll buy the next MS operating system when a better one comes out.
So I guess it's not a consolation prize for not getting the Olympics, either?
Damn.
The only requirement is that all references to whatever particular measurable quantity is consistent.
The whole 1k = 1024 bits - for consumers - just because 1024 = 2^10 thing was foolish from the beginning.
Is a father computer anything like a mother board?
Real story? 35/175,000,000ths of the systems were reported as overheating and that was without a technical evaluation to determine if the device did indeed overheat and a root cause analysis...and you accuse ME of trolling? Your attempt to make a mountain out of a molehill qualifies as trolling, but outlining the gist of the article is hardly such. There's nothing to cover up 'cause there's no systemic problem.
Please at least attempt to understand the issue before replying, kthxbye.
According to the article (you DID read the article, didn't you?) there has been no serious injuries. The article details how, after 7 months of investigation, the reporter has found bloggers blogging about overheating iPods, but the number reported in the article is about ... 35. That's out of the 175 million devices out there...
Hardly a product flaw. Perhaps some rare individual and isolated parts are flawed, but this isn't a systemic problem.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission conducted its own preliminary investigation and determined that, with more than 175 million iPods sold, âoethe number of incidents is extremely small in relation to the number of products produced, making the risk of injury very low.â
Nothing to see here, move along. kdawson, queue the apple haters. Oh, and start posting real stories or find another job.
...OR, you're just not playing with a full deck.
Guess which one I'm inclined to believe?
Spending on tech that doesn't deliver and ignoring real causes of real effects we can do something about is foolish.
I would guess (and it's totally a guess) that spending the cash that's now going into the "global warming" bucket on something that would provide clean drinking water for folks would be a much better bang for the buck, and desalination tech is a better use of funds than carbon chits.
It's my opinion that when politicians get involved, everyone should realize that a wrong turn has been made. "Politicians" and "solutions" in the same sentence? Nope, not too likely. "Politicians" and "boondoggle"... and "corruption"... THAT'S more like it.
To achieve a balance between good stewardship and knee jerk "reactionism", we are required to hold off doing anything until more is known... ...if we don't, that'll be as bad as when rabbits were introduced in australia, termites in hawaii, zebra mussels in the great lakes, etc, etc, etc.
Folks just want to "do something" about the "issue", and that is a rallying cry to politicians... which are, in their own way, another bane to out existence we introduced out of ignorance.
Put the drawings or whatever on a web page and link to it here. Not only will it get exposure, it'll generate discussion on the merits of the design.
As an aside, this reminds me of the crap article posted here not too long ago, with the only difference being that guy didn't want to share his great and wonderful idea.
NOAA studies suggest that there is evidence dust causes a much greater ocean warming effect than anything mankind can cause.
http://www.oceanconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=122714
And, link suggests that the effect isn't a "new" revelation
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/pr96/dec96/noaa96-78.html
AND... the effect of dust on atmospheric temperature estimates suggest warming might not be as affected as once believed.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=21574
SO, in conclusion, more info is necessary for those that want a better understanding of the natural process of temperature cycles. Note that more information isn't needed by those that claim irreversible HIGW afects.
"nobody forced me to *choose* them"
Once you realized that, how can you continue to delude yourself that you're being forced?
You don't really have a valid argument once the premise is proven illogical, and buddy, yours is illogical.
I don't have a date, and I don't have a date when the US will put a man on Mars, either, but the inability to forecast isn't cause by any cultural bias. The reason you were wrong is simple - you didn't provide evidence to support your claim, and in fact you changed the goal posts and switched the argument from cultural bias to economic trade barriers.
Also, I'm not challenging the assertion of cultural bias, I'm pointing out that as the one who made the assertion, the monkey is on your back to provide validation when challenged.
When you make a case and you're called on it, you have to make that case. The monkey's on your back, not the other way 'round. You did nothing other than try to shift the burden to someone else.
"Look, if you don't know how to use Google, then, I really don't need to rationalize anything for you, do I?"
tjstork, the person making the claims is the one needing to substantiate those claims, not the one challenging them.
You were wrong when you identified a trade barrier as a cultural one, now you're trying to avoid responsibility for making unsubstantiated assertions.
As of this moment, you've shown no basis for your opinion. Someone telling you "Put up or shut up" would be entirely justified in doing so.
"why is the Libertarian party so marginalized in America?"
'Cause they take this kind of thing totally out of context and run with it 'till they drop.
There's no bill, there's a guy making a proposal. This requirement will never be pushed down to a home network router, yet all the Libertarians are grabbing their soapboxes and calling for the next war of independence.
They're a joke 'cause they respond with overwhelming stupidity as their knee jerk reaction.
reading that, it becomes clear that the problem is that the Quebec system uses DC power transmission instead of the AC usually used. Reading even more in to the source material for that wiki entry, you find this:
"the currents are never very powerful; the one that raced through Hydro-Quebec's lines added only a few hundred kilowatts to a 21,000-megawatt grid"
That's just a piffle, really.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n8_v16/ai_17253896/pg_1
So, after looking up what happened in Quebec, I'm left with the question - Why was only Quebec affected this way? I mean, what about the rest of the freaking globe... why didn't the "whole power system" of Alaska, for instance, go down? They're about the same size, about the same latitude, etc. Even so, the outage was only 8-9 hours.
You posit "if that happened now..." with totally unsupported assertions...
I bet you believe in higw, don't you.
The only way you can be taken advantage of, is if you allow it. Keep your skills current and your resume brushed up and put the crap behind you. Just sure you you identify the reason you are leaving so the industry as a whole wises up.
"Talking right out of your ass" is what people do when they try to pass off a confirmation dialog box as a blocking mechanism.
Then who should the warrant be served to? The fbi agent is a public citizen too...
http://www.forrestmims.com/
This guy writes and creates stuff that's simply great fun and really good, educationally.
I give him a 10 out of 10. When you graduate from his stuff, move on to the stuff by Steve Ciarcia.
"hard-coded"?
You just lost credibility. Instead of riding around on a bike running scripts you ripped off the internet and feeling all 1337 and shit, you should read more about how to program.
A "hard-coded" configurable parameter.. heh, you one funny script kiddie!
Sure, and you will then be denied the privilege of driving on the road that has the sensor that reads your tire pressure.
By George, I think you've got it!