I really wish the pro-AGW side wouldn't focus on these events so much. It's pretty much irrelevant whether a month or quarter were "the warmest on record" and only leads to deniers pointing out all the "coldest on record" events as they happen.
FWIW I moved to Feedly / Beyondpod from Reader / Listen. Beyondpod can import feeds from Feedly too. It's not quite as seamless as Reader/Listen but it works out pretty well. I don't add new feeds terribly often though.
That's an awful argument. By that definition nothing can ever be copyrighted (which may be your point). Music is, after all, just a unique set of sounds the instruments could already make - the already existed.
One of the beauties of X11 has been the fact that the application programmer typically does not even have to/plan/ for network transparency
That's simply not true. It's very easy to write an application using X11 that works reasonably well with a local view but performs *terribly* when running remotely. You definitely need to take these cases into consideration when developing your application.
Sure - you don't need to make special calls in order to get network transparency - but these days nobody does. RDP and other OS-level remote desktoping things will do that for any application - and often better.
I remember the glory days of X and showing coworkers how cool it was that I could work remotely from a machine with ease. But these days X11 just sucks compared to other remote desktop offerings - especially over high-latency connections.
And you buy that without evidence? What other glass-based material has grit and grime just "brush off?" Nevermind "doesn't scratch overtime by being worn down by grit and rocks."
It's *barely* cost effective for companies to line rooftops with solar panels which have clear glass, are tilted towards the south, and are maintained. And these folks think it will be worth the cost to bury them in roads and compete with asphalt for price? There's just no way. It's a really stupid idea. Line the side of the roads with solar panels if you want to generate electricity. Plant them in the ground with pretty blinkenlights if you want to cheat thousands of people out of money on indiegogo.
And it will work after grime, dirt, leaves, etc. all seap into things too right? Or are the roads where you live a *lot* cleaner than the ones I drive on?
"Designed to" does not mean "will work as planned." These two seem waaaay over-optimistic in their approach. I love the idea of these for parks and such though. But for roads I think they're just tilting at windmills. Not only do they have to solve all of the problems that having a tiled-roadway entails (uneven stresses, rocking back and forth, etc.) but they also need to keep these things optically clear otherwise the "solar freaking roadway" will just be a "glass roadway." Solar panels aren't great under the best of circumstances and these two have decided to put them in the *worst* of circumstances for some reason...
This is what I don't understand - how is that not the obvious solution to their problem? Why take solar panels and try to bury the things under a road and spend $$$ figuring out how to make that work "at all" when it would cost a fraction of the price to put up cheap wood scaffolding along-side the roads that could be angled toward the Sun?
I have a hard time taking anybody serious who thinks you need to be a meteorological modeling scientist to know that solar panels don't work when it's dark...
There's also a very good reason roads aren't made from tiles of hard materials. The rocking back and forth as the weight moves over the surface is going to very likely cause seams to break where ice/water can get in. Not to mention the crazy amount of stresses on the material over its lifetime.
Sad to say - this is likely going to turn out to be a very stupid idea.
They address it - but they're naively assuming that the glass won't wear down over time to a nice sheen by all the grit that will be constantly grinding away at it. And that it will apparently remain optically transparent while doing so.
Working on day 1 is easy. Working several years later is a much trickier problem that I don't believe they've even come *close* to addressing. Not to mention that replacing these tiles is going to cost orders of magnitude more than cheap asphalt.
No form of chiropractic (the bits involving subluxations and the like) has ever been shown to "work" more than placebo. And any of the "manipulation" they do that does "work" is better done by a properly trained physical therapist.
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Does the fact that the guy was 24 have any bearing on the story what-so-ever? Why not say "scam artist" or something more generic?
And this is my point - we're giving false legitimacy to the "look how cold this winter is!" every time we point out "look how hot this summer is!"
I really wish the pro-AGW side wouldn't focus on these events so much. It's pretty much irrelevant whether a month or quarter were "the warmest on record" and only leads to deniers pointing out all the "coldest on record" events as they happen.
AGW is about long-term trends. Focus on that.
You call that good TV???
FWIW I moved to Feedly / Beyondpod from Reader / Listen. Beyondpod can import feeds from Feedly too. It's not quite as seamless as Reader/Listen but it works out pretty well. I don't add new feeds terribly often though.
Because all Slashdot is these days is bitching about which programming languages suck the most.
It isn't...
NVM - I misread things (and confused copyright with patent).
That's an awful argument. By that definition nothing can ever be copyrighted (which may be your point). Music is, after all, just a unique set of sounds the instruments could already make - the already existed.
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Is there evidence to support any of these assertions? Just because it's less "unlikely" doesn't mean it's "true."
One of the beauties of X11 has been the fact that the application programmer typically does not even have to /plan/ for network transparency
That's simply not true. It's very easy to write an application using X11 that works reasonably well with a local view but performs *terribly* when running remotely. You definitely need to take these cases into consideration when developing your application.
Sure - you don't need to make special calls in order to get network transparency - but these days nobody does. RDP and other OS-level remote desktoping things will do that for any application - and often better.
I remember the glory days of X and showing coworkers how cool it was that I could work remotely from a machine with ease. But these days X11 just sucks compared to other remote desktop offerings - especially over high-latency connections.
Obviously it wasn't a REAL Linux distro then.
"Getting money our of politics" is the first step that needs to be taken before any other reforms have a realistic chance of succeeding.
This is not an end - it's a beginning.
A compiled binary doesn't care how well-written your C is if you are running it on the wrong platform.
They still do - particularly motorcycle cops.
And you buy that without evidence? What other glass-based material has grit and grime just "brush off?" Nevermind "doesn't scratch overtime by being worn down by grit and rocks."
It's *barely* cost effective for companies to line rooftops with solar panels which have clear glass, are tilted towards the south, and are maintained. And these folks think it will be worth the cost to bury them in roads and compete with asphalt for price? There's just no way. It's a really stupid idea. Line the side of the roads with solar panels if you want to generate electricity. Plant them in the ground with pretty blinkenlights if you want to cheat thousands of people out of money on indiegogo.
You're serious? Your retort to actual problems is "don't be so negative!"
I'm gonna go ahead and guess you're one of the rubes who've sponsored this moronic idea...
And it will work after grime, dirt, leaves, etc. all seap into things too right? Or are the roads where you live a *lot* cleaner than the ones I drive on?
"Designed to" does not mean "will work as planned." These two seem waaaay over-optimistic in their approach. I love the idea of these for parks and such though. But for roads I think they're just tilting at windmills. Not only do they have to solve all of the problems that having a tiled-roadway entails (uneven stresses, rocking back and forth, etc.) but they also need to keep these things optically clear otherwise the "solar freaking roadway" will just be a "glass roadway." Solar panels aren't great under the best of circumstances and these two have decided to put them in the *worst* of circumstances for some reason...
Does reporting it make it not bribery?
This is what I don't understand - how is that not the obvious solution to their problem? Why take solar panels and try to bury the things under a road and spend $$$ figuring out how to make that work "at all" when it would cost a fraction of the price to put up cheap wood scaffolding along-side the roads that could be angled toward the Sun?
This is just a monumentally stupid idea...
I have a hard time taking anybody serious who thinks you need to be a meteorological modeling scientist to know that solar panels don't work when it's dark...
Man we could just get that monorail that is going to solve all of our problems then!
There's also a very good reason roads aren't made from tiles of hard materials. The rocking back and forth as the weight moves over the surface is going to very likely cause seams to break where ice/water can get in. Not to mention the crazy amount of stresses on the material over its lifetime.
Sad to say - this is likely going to turn out to be a very stupid idea.
They address it - but they're naively assuming that the glass won't wear down over time to a nice sheen by all the grit that will be constantly grinding away at it. And that it will apparently remain optically transparent while doing so.
Working on day 1 is easy. Working several years later is a much trickier problem that I don't believe they've even come *close* to addressing. Not to mention that replacing these tiles is going to cost orders of magnitude more than cheap asphalt.
No form of chiropractic (the bits involving subluxations and the like) has ever been shown to "work" more than placebo. And any of the "manipulation" they do that does "work" is better done by a properly trained physical therapist.