You are quite right, and the reality is that since the global warming has been proven beyond reasonable doubt under current scientific knowledge the proof should be accepted and acted upon. One cannot assume that past theory is any better than current theory, or that future proven theory will be significantly different from current theory. Therefore it is important to acknowledge current facts, research more and find alternative explanations (if any) to the phenomenon.
It is matter of opinion whether current global warming theory is the "truth" that counters the common belief or is the current global warming theory the common belief that should be rethought. For me personally the common belief was/is that humans are not capable in changing the atmosphere dramatically and global warming theory actually shows that human activity has significant impact on our atmosphere.
Well put, however there are 3x more people agreeing with the original post rather than looking up the facts. Additionally groundless conspiracy theory got +5, Insightful for just being -1, Ignorant.
I have no idea where you got the idea of Arctic ice growing? Maybe it doesn't get as small as last year, but still second smallest in the measured history. You know there are natural variations in the ice formation. Besides melting season is not over, it can still shrink to lowest ever.
One thing I can think of is that at least in Finland many home owners associations have taken a role in providing internet capability for everyone, similar to the trash pickup, water, electricity and cable. Of course for electricity and cable you can choose the provider but the infrastructure is already done inside the house. In my current apartment 1/1M connection is "free" (about 10EUR on HOA fee), 10/10M connection is 20 EUR/month extra and 100/10M connection is 30 EUR/month extra. All set up and ready to go, just plug in network cable to the wall. This cuts costs on all sides (no boxes to support) and allows lower maintenance fees as each individual won't be bothering the service provider. This also skews the charts as now everyone in the apartment has 1/1M connection even they might not use it.
Let's make this simple for you. Compare speeds in New York to the ones in whole Finland. Surely New York would have 10x faster speeds due to the density and customer availability.
The other point about subsidizing the network, I believe in Finland government does not significantly subsidize the network building for consumers. Backbone on the other hand is managed and built by government organizations, although I think that company is profitable as well. Main reason for the price drop and speed increase are the regulations that don't allow localized monopolies.
This confuses people sometimes, having GDP stated in nominal value or adjusted according to purchasing power. Many of the EURO countries have nominal GDP higher than US, the purchasing power adjusted GDP is almost always lower.
So you are right about US being ahead in GDP, mainly because the dollar (even less in value) has more purchasing power. The ratio is somewhere around 45kUSD (US) vs. 35kUSD (EURO).
You forget that US has much bigger stake in the ISS than any other country. This mean US also takes bigger responsibility of the expenses, gets more research time, more astronaut days, and so on. All the benefits are related to the expenses paid in creating the space station. You cannot pin these agreed expenses on some other country just because you feel the other country is also getting benefits out of the trip, whole reason of the joint venture is that everyone benefits based on their investment in the venture. If NASA really wanted someone to take responsibility of some part of its duties I'm sure it could be arranged, it would just mean that NASA would need to trade in some of the ISS benefits (astronaut time, research time) against that.
In case you read these two examples you notice they are quite level headed and stress the uncertainty of the future. When people let terms like "fucktards" get into scientific discussion it basically ruins it.
Main reason for such a dramatic change is the advancements in computer modeling. Climate science has progressed significantly during past 30 years. The tools available in measuring have been there, but models to actually get results and better predictions from the measurements have just emerged in recent years.
What gets me is that jail sentence should be about punishment and self reflection/ repenting during the time in prison. Eventual goal should be to have people who are capable in functioning in our society after the sentence. In case we as society would like to give weekly rape as punishment it should be said so during sentencing, not as side effect of failing prison system. In any case weekly rape is unfair method of punishment as half of the prison population enjoys and other half dislikes.
I believe the sustainable business model is to keep speeches around the world about how bad the closed source is and charge for that. Surely speech cannot be free. Stallman can stay on his agenda just because he is the forerunner of a huge open source group. This reminds me of those cults where followers worked 12+ hour days and sent their money to the cult leader. Surely this way the cult leader afforded nice living and was able to teach of the virtues and sacrifices in this life to his followers.
I don't think Stallman is evil, he is just a bit narrow and uncompromising in his world view. We just need to let time sort out the business models regarding open source and take reality more into account when making those models. There are several companies that are making their living in utilizing and even contributing in open source movement. Business models don't come around fast and current barriers with technologies (such as DRM) and other industry standards that are forced upon all companies needs to be solved.
There has been noticeable changes in solar radiation that reaches earth. Reasons behind this are changes in sun activity or difference in earth atmosphere's reflectivity. In general solar radiation is taken into account when talking about climate models and it has some effect but is not alone able to explain the measured effects of global warming.
I would be surprised if slashdot or any other internet forum were able to figure out some new and important overlooked forcing in global warming that would explain it all. There is hard science behind global warming models and debunking the studies by providing one wild guess of "unaccounted" forcing is plain stupid.
I do think Nokia gets it. There is no other mobile phone company that does as much as Nokia does on Open Source platforms. Additionally most of Nokia phones can be purchased directly from Nokia site without SIM locks or operator limitations. Problem is that then current business models (SIM locks, DRM) are widely spread and Nokia cannot work with it's partners without having these technologies implemented.
I'm amazed to see how hostile this reaction was towards a company that does contribute quite a lot to Open Source community and tries to work out a working solution for the conflicts that are currently present. I would imagine other companies won't dare to venture into Open Source realm because of the hostility and uncompromising attitude. Taking reality into account might help sometimes.
Bottom line is that Nokia won't be using Open Source Software as much as it would like to due to these restrictions. In my opinion this is not only loss on Nokia's part but also on OSS community is losing it's breakthrough to wider market and crucial steps towards general openness. The demand to meet every and all OSS requirement is not currently possible now and OSS community alone cannot figure out steps that would bring society as a whole closer to the ultimate openness target. What Nokia (and Ari Jaaksi) in my understanding is trying to suggest here is that OSS would relax a bit on some deal breakers on manufacturers side and allow them to embrace OSS more. Alternatively we will end up completely closed source solutions and this opportunity to change society in large scale is lost for now.
Well, shouldn't you go through your analogy a bit better? In case my car engine blows up when I'm having the required 12,000 mile oil change I wouldn't be happy.
I have thought about same problem and came into conclusion that what I need on the road is following things: * Ability to write diary * Ability to browse internet (search for next hostel/sight info) * Ability to upload pictures to gmail or some other site (send to yourself) * Travel light (this is most important)
I did my travel around the world with 17kg package without computer or mobile phone back in 2001, even then backpack was heavy and troublesome in some occasions. Take 2kg + all the accessories more and it will take space from far more important items. In case you go for N810 it has small keyboard (not for great stories, USB keyboard for stories), GPS, WIFI, Skype (installable), webcam, and browser. Weight is about one fifth of what small laptop will be. The price is around 400 USD and best thing is that it runs Linux. Here is link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N810
What you need to make sure is that your camera/video camera has the USB drivers and you are able to transfer pictures to your N810. I bet your pictures will be much safer if you upload them while in some internet bar or hostel, if unsure there are plenty of places where they can burn DVD for you. Most of the cities these days have working internet connections and transferring several hundred megabytes shouldn't be a problem. Meanwhile buy as many memory cards as you think you will need and then empty them (over night if needed) when you get to a good connection.
No mail just don't get lost, that is very very rare. Post office gets too much bad press because of these shady practises in rebate. It's like blaming the ISPs when half of the PUG group gets DC in WOW once second boss is down and looted.
Blogging Whiners are whining because they paid a premium to be an early adopter? Well, duh. I had no illusions that it wouldn't be substantially cheaper by EU launch or the holidays.
That is the key to frustrations, everyone assumed it will be discounted by EU launch or the holidays (I would have guessed by $100), which would give good 4-5 months time. Now the discount happend in 2 month time and it was significantly more than expected. Society has certain unwritten rules on how prices can be dropped without getting backslash, and this price drop was definitely too soon and too big.
To be honest I believe Apple got some sort of revenue share deal with AT&T (similar to what they got from European carriers) and it suddenly made financial sense for AT&T and Apple to discount the phone price. In Europe Apple gets 10% of the revenue iPhone generates, if same was done with AT&T then it would mean about $240 extra income for Apple during the lifetime of the contract, assuming $100 per month spending. Suddenly Apple has incentive to finance the price drop and get huge step closer to that 10 million iPhones sold mark.
Bottom line with the discount is that suddenly the mechanics how iPhone price is calculated got twisted and people before this overhaul were left paying substantially more than what the price should have been. iPhone should have started with $399 price and drop to $349 or $299 by Christmas, thats how the phone prices behave normally.
It's not so much about how many features there are but the quality and design of the radio chip. Most of the power goes to constantly poll and communicate with the base station, unless you really call a lot each day. Sony Ericsson has been traditionally best in battery life, Japanese and Korean manufacturers have been worst, especially bad battery life is on Samsungs.
This case is unfortunately different, because we are talking about monopoly. Microsoft's product is also comparable to electricity and water because there is really no viable alternative because of the restrictions Microsoft has put on their protocols and interfaces. What I have understood is that Microsoft has developed families of protocols and systems based on the patents they have acquired instead of going with unpatentable alternatives that would be as innovative and suitable as the ones with Microsoft patents. The real problem EU is having is not let Microsoft charge for its innovation, but the fact that as being monopoly Microsoft has "innovated" existing protocols to be covered under Microsoft patents and now charging premium for that.
Hmm... Hitachi is somewhere around top50, Toshiba is in top100 and Microsoft is staying somewhere around top150 among companies in the world. Apple is smaller, but other two Japanese companies are much larger than Microsoft.
Since you change the "blowjob" into "prejury" so smoothly I think it's appropriate to change "fireing" into "cover-up". In case the administration had been straight forward, and told everyone why they fired the attorneys and process behind it then nobody would have anything to say. Since this has become cover-up where emails has to be deleted I wouldn't count it as plain fireing of attorneys.
Maybe this has been answered, but why did the President of United States have to go under oath about a blowjob? That has puzzled me always, there are certain things should be kept between parties involved, and blowjob is certainly in this category. Blowjob does not hinder anyones ability to run a country, and it should not be questioned.
Or rather that the FM stereo radio actually plays mono, because your car has only one speaker. I don't see anything wrong with such a deal. With Vista there are clear hardware requirements for it and Microsoft has never hidden them. If there is someone to blame it is the hardware manufacturer or the shop that sold the computer.
Besides all the advertisements that I have seen from Microsoft are basically image creation advertisements without any specific feature promised or any price shown for the software.
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You are quite right, and the reality is that since the global warming has been proven beyond reasonable doubt under current scientific knowledge the proof should be accepted and acted upon. One cannot assume that past theory is any better than current theory, or that future proven theory will be significantly different from current theory. Therefore it is important to acknowledge current facts, research more and find alternative explanations (if any) to the phenomenon.
It is matter of opinion whether current global warming theory is the "truth" that counters the common belief or is the current global warming theory the common belief that should be rethought. For me personally the common belief was/is that humans are not capable in changing the atmosphere dramatically and global warming theory actually shows that human activity has significant impact on our atmosphere.
Well put, however there are 3x more people agreeing with the original post rather than looking up the facts. Additionally groundless conspiracy theory got +5, Insightful for just being -1, Ignorant.
I have no idea where you got the idea of Arctic ice growing? Maybe it doesn't get as small as last year, but still second smallest in the measured history. You know there are natural variations in the ice formation. Besides melting season is not over, it can still shrink to lowest ever.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7585645.stm
They work on 1900MHz, as well as 900MHz, 1800MHz and 2.4GHz. Not all, but most of the 3G phones do.
One thing I can think of is that at least in Finland many home owners associations have taken a role in providing internet capability for everyone, similar to the trash pickup, water, electricity and cable. Of course for electricity and cable you can choose the provider but the infrastructure is already done inside the house. In my current apartment 1/1M connection is "free" (about 10EUR on HOA fee), 10/10M connection is 20 EUR/month extra and 100/10M connection is 30 EUR/month extra. All set up and ready to go, just plug in network cable to the wall. This cuts costs on all sides (no boxes to support) and allows lower maintenance fees as each individual won't be bothering the service provider. This also skews the charts as now everyone in the apartment has 1/1M connection even they might not use it.
Let's make this simple for you. Compare speeds in New York to the ones in whole Finland. Surely New York would have 10x faster speeds due to the density and customer availability.
The other point about subsidizing the network, I believe in Finland government does not significantly subsidize the network building for consumers. Backbone on the other hand is managed and built by government organizations, although I think that company is profitable as well. Main reason for the price drop and speed increase are the regulations that don't allow localized monopolies.
This confuses people sometimes, having GDP stated in nominal value or adjusted according to purchasing power. Many of the EURO countries have nominal GDP higher than US, the purchasing power adjusted GDP is almost always lower.
So you are right about US being ahead in GDP, mainly because the dollar (even less in value) has more purchasing power. The ratio is somewhere around 45kUSD (US) vs. 35kUSD (EURO).
You forget that US has much bigger stake in the ISS than any other country. This mean US also takes bigger responsibility of the expenses, gets more research time, more astronaut days, and so on. All the benefits are related to the expenses paid in creating the space station. You cannot pin these agreed expenses on some other country just because you feel the other country is also getting benefits out of the trip, whole reason of the joint venture is that everyone benefits based on their investment in the venture. If NASA really wanted someone to take responsibility of some part of its duties I'm sure it could be arranged, it would just mean that NASA would need to trade in some of the ISS benefits (astronaut time, research time) against that.
Remember it's not copying if you type it over and over again. That's the way I avoid my code copy issues, works like a charm!
In case you read these two examples you notice they are quite level headed and stress the uncertainty of the future. When people let terms like "fucktards" get into scientific discussion it basically ruins it.
Main reason for such a dramatic change is the advancements in computer modeling. Climate science has progressed significantly during past 30 years. The tools available in measuring have been there, but models to actually get results and better predictions from the measurements have just emerged in recent years.
What gets me is that jail sentence should be about punishment and self reflection/ repenting during the time in prison. Eventual goal should be to have people who are capable in functioning in our society after the sentence. In case we as society would like to give weekly rape as punishment it should be said so during sentencing, not as side effect of failing prison system. In any case weekly rape is unfair method of punishment as half of the prison population enjoys and other half dislikes.
I believe the sustainable business model is to keep speeches around the world about how bad the closed source is and charge for that. Surely speech cannot be free. Stallman can stay on his agenda just because he is the forerunner of a huge open source group. This reminds me of those cults where followers worked 12+ hour days and sent their money to the cult leader. Surely this way the cult leader afforded nice living and was able to teach of the virtues and sacrifices in this life to his followers.
I don't think Stallman is evil, he is just a bit narrow and uncompromising in his world view. We just need to let time sort out the business models regarding open source and take reality more into account when making those models. There are several companies that are making their living in utilizing and even contributing in open source movement. Business models don't come around fast and current barriers with technologies (such as DRM) and other industry standards that are forced upon all companies needs to be solved.
That's counted as game time with multiple accounts. Average WoW addict is capable of playing with at least two simultaneous clients.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt8ocQNj7l0&feature=related
There has been noticeable changes in solar radiation that reaches earth. Reasons behind this are changes in sun activity or difference in earth atmosphere's reflectivity. In general solar radiation is taken into account when talking about climate models and it has some effect but is not alone able to explain the measured effects of global warming.
I would be surprised if slashdot or any other internet forum were able to figure out some new and important overlooked forcing in global warming that would explain it all. There is hard science behind global warming models and debunking the studies by providing one wild guess of "unaccounted" forcing is plain stupid.
I do think Nokia gets it. There is no other mobile phone company that does as much as Nokia does on Open Source platforms. Additionally most of Nokia phones can be purchased directly from Nokia site without SIM locks or operator limitations. Problem is that then current business models (SIM locks, DRM) are widely spread and Nokia cannot work with it's partners without having these technologies implemented.
I'm amazed to see how hostile this reaction was towards a company that does contribute quite a lot to Open Source community and tries to work out a working solution for the conflicts that are currently present. I would imagine other companies won't dare to venture into Open Source realm because of the hostility and uncompromising attitude. Taking reality into account might help sometimes.
Bottom line is that Nokia won't be using Open Source Software as much as it would like to due to these restrictions. In my opinion this is not only loss on Nokia's part but also on OSS community is losing it's breakthrough to wider market and crucial steps towards general openness. The demand to meet every and all OSS requirement is not currently possible now and OSS community alone cannot figure out steps that would bring society as a whole closer to the ultimate openness target. What Nokia (and Ari Jaaksi) in my understanding is trying to suggest here is that OSS would relax a bit on some deal breakers on manufacturers side and allow them to embrace OSS more. Alternatively we will end up completely closed source solutions and this opportunity to change society in large scale is lost for now.
Well, shouldn't you go through your analogy a bit better? In case my car engine blows up when I'm having the required 12,000 mile oil change I wouldn't be happy.
I have thought about same problem and came into conclusion that what I need on the road is following things:
* Ability to write diary
* Ability to browse internet (search for next hostel/sight info)
* Ability to upload pictures to gmail or some other site (send to yourself)
* Travel light (this is most important)
I did my travel around the world with 17kg package without computer or mobile phone back in 2001, even then backpack was heavy and troublesome in some occasions. Take 2kg + all the accessories more and it will take space from far more important items. In case you go for N810 it has small keyboard (not for great stories, USB keyboard for stories), GPS, WIFI, Skype (installable), webcam, and browser. Weight is about one fifth of what small laptop will be. The price is around 400 USD and best thing is that it runs Linux. Here is link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N810
What you need to make sure is that your camera/video camera has the USB drivers and you are able to transfer pictures to your N810. I bet your pictures will be much safer if you upload them while in some internet bar or hostel, if unsure there are plenty of places where they can burn DVD for you. Most of the cities these days have working internet connections and transferring several hundred megabytes shouldn't be a problem. Meanwhile buy as many memory cards as you think you will need and then empty them (over night if needed) when you get to a good connection.
Well, at least Aunt Tillie was able to install Application Enhancer. Don't underestimate the power of Mrs. Tillie!
No mail just don't get lost, that is very very rare. Post office gets too much bad press because of these shady practises in rebate. It's like blaming the ISPs when half of the PUG group gets DC in WOW once second boss is down and looted.
Blogging Whiners are whining because they paid a premium to be an early adopter? Well, duh. I had no illusions that it wouldn't be substantially cheaper by EU launch or the holidays.
That is the key to frustrations, everyone assumed it will be discounted by EU launch or the holidays (I would have guessed by $100), which would give good 4-5 months time. Now the discount happend in 2 month time and it was significantly more than expected. Society has certain unwritten rules on how prices can be dropped without getting backslash, and this price drop was definitely too soon and too big.
To be honest I believe Apple got some sort of revenue share deal with AT&T (similar to what they got from European carriers) and it suddenly made financial sense for AT&T and Apple to discount the phone price. In Europe Apple gets 10% of the revenue iPhone generates, if same was done with AT&T then it would mean about $240 extra income for Apple during the lifetime of the contract, assuming $100 per month spending. Suddenly Apple has incentive to finance the price drop and get huge step closer to that 10 million iPhones sold mark.
Bottom line with the discount is that suddenly the mechanics how iPhone price is calculated got twisted and people before this overhaul were left paying substantially more than what the price should have been. iPhone should have started with $399 price and drop to $349 or $299 by Christmas, thats how the phone prices behave normally.
It's not so much about how many features there are but the quality and design of the radio chip. Most of the power goes to constantly poll and communicate with the base station, unless you really call a lot each day. Sony Ericsson has been traditionally best in battery life, Japanese and Korean manufacturers have been worst, especially bad battery life is on Samsungs.
This case is unfortunately different, because we are talking about monopoly. Microsoft's product is also comparable to electricity and water because there is really no viable alternative because of the restrictions Microsoft has put on their protocols and interfaces. What I have understood is that Microsoft has developed families of protocols and systems based on the patents they have acquired instead of going with unpatentable alternatives that would be as innovative and suitable as the ones with Microsoft patents. The real problem EU is having is not let Microsoft charge for its innovation, but the fact that as being monopoly Microsoft has "innovated" existing protocols to be covered under Microsoft patents and now charging premium for that.
Hmm... Hitachi is somewhere around top50, Toshiba is in top100 and Microsoft is staying somewhere around top150 among companies in the world. Apple is smaller, but other two Japanese companies are much larger than Microsoft.
Since you change the "blowjob" into "prejury" so smoothly I think it's appropriate to change "fireing" into "cover-up". In case the administration had been straight forward, and told everyone why they fired the attorneys and process behind it then nobody would have anything to say. Since this has become cover-up where emails has to be deleted I wouldn't count it as plain fireing of attorneys.
Maybe this has been answered, but why did the President of United States have to go under oath about a blowjob? That has puzzled me always, there are certain things should be kept between parties involved, and blowjob is certainly in this category. Blowjob does not hinder anyones ability to run a country, and it should not be questioned.
Or rather that the FM stereo radio actually plays mono, because your car has only one speaker. I don't see anything wrong with such a deal. With Vista there are clear hardware requirements for it and Microsoft has never hidden them. If there is someone to blame it is the hardware manufacturer or the shop that sold the computer.
Besides all the advertisements that I have seen from Microsoft are basically image creation advertisements without any specific feature promised or any price shown for the software.