After playing quake freeze tag with my wife last night, we played a round of Total Annihilation-Absolute Annihilation. All in wine as well so i don't have to boot my windows partions.
But this is a good thing. There are a lot of people in the world. A top ten from any one fan will leave at many from someone else's top ten.
Costs vers benefits. Thats exactly what we should be talking about. "cleaning" up CO2 emissions is *not* free. But then *not* cleaning up emissions isn't either. Unfortunately this topic is much more about ranting than informative discussion. Even from people who should know better.
Personally however, our climate models need to be a lot better before we go dumping Gigajoules of perturbations into the system.
Once you try it you never want to go back. I have used GIT for a year now and i dread the day that i have to work with svn again. I always recommend a distributed SCM systems now.
Even if OS did produce a line up of great games (which at this point, it hasn't IMO). They could not be made available for the Xbox. You have to pay and sign a license agreement just to be allowed to develop games for the platform. One of the conditions is that M$ is the distributer, and although I'm sure they won't object to you giving it to M$ for free, they won't be passing on the favor.
I have used blender in a 16 processor machine without problems. If you have big renders it should not be a problem since there is not really any interprocess communication.
I have brought phone/SIM card packs without need for ID, in Austria, Czech, Slovakia, Poland, Germany and France. Here in Austria almost any handy shop will unlock any phone too for a prepaid sim. I doubt even if it was law that many places would bother much.
I generally feel this way about *anything* in Nature and Science. The work in them is so brief and so pumped up for sex appeal that there is no content. The big physicist frauds published almost exclusively in nature and science.
How did we get here? The impact factor game. Nature do not want articles that won't get a lot of citations, so they only want sensationalist science. Scientist can keep there funding groups happy with impact factors so are willing to do more to get published in these journals.
And who sets the impact factor of a journal? Thompson Scientific. A freaking company, not some science board. We need to put impact factor into the toilet where it belongs.
ps with authors suggesting a reviewer. In a lot of cases if not all, you will perhaps only get one of them reviewing you paper, and the editor will choose someone else entirely.
I take your point, but you missed my main point, which is that we don't need paleoclimate data to support the manmade influence on the climate; modern observations are sufficient..
You keep saying this and its plainly wrong. If we have 200 years of data (which we only kinda have) we can't know anything about how often this type of shift happened in the past. Perhaps its all just one 400 year cycle? Without historic trends you cannot say a dam thing about current trends. Really this is science 101.
If we look at history, the opposite would seem to be true. The little ice age was a disaster and cooling prevents crops from growing, while warming increases crop production.
Sorry but your comment is at odds with all the current literature on Global Warming. In fact there are almost no climatologist that claim all the warming is man made. Its quite widely accepted that at least some is very natural warming. The is also a general view that future warming will also be part natural and part man made. CO2 levels account for *some* things via models with *estimated* parameters. This is not hard pure science (you can't repeat the experiment to verify the models), and so there is a bit of slop in the results. Read more than news papers please.
I think the point is that we don't trust the police to make sensible decision about context. And the Muslim bit is perhaps not really all that justifiable either. When I was 15 i had heavy metal extremist slogans all over my bag and some chemistry books that would have been very useful for making explosives.
Well 64bit is a bit of a misnomer really. In all my test it was never slower and for some of my work, quite a bit faster (>=2x). More registers makes a bigger difference than you think, because the x86 series was always so short on the dam things.
But yes YMMV and i do a lot of high end science simulation stuff. Not your everyday computer work. I would not go 64bit if it cost be stability, but i have not found that a problem.
I had no problems at all. On the laptop and 2 desktops running slam64, firefox locks up no more than normal (about once a week). At work its all SuSE 10.3 64bit and we watch flash stuff (meaning youtube mainly really) at with no problems. I only need to restart firefox at work perhaps once every 5 days regardless of my flash usage.
Compare that to Vista were I still can't get flash to work at all.
Yes, which is what tells us that the late 20th century warming is faster than natural.
It does not. Perhaps you should look at the data. Its warming. But the rate is faster than natural... we think, we suspect, we guess. But we don't really know.
We may not need 4 billion years of data, but more than 40 (aka satellites and ocean buoys etc) years of good data would be a start. Also ice cores have evidence of faster changes than we are experiencing. There is *nothing* unprecedented with current weather trends. The problem is how much is our influence. Read the scientific papers rather than the news papers and you will get a very different view on the confidence we should place in our current models.
When ever i even say something like that about the "facts" or data methods of AGW i will often get flamed into the stone age. After all what is the algorithm used to calculate the average temperature of the earth?
Do you show the same level of skepticism when its something you already agree with?
Why do they need laptops to learn to think? If you are not good at math without a computer you won't be any good at with one either. The same goes for reading, writing etc. Computers are about as useful to education now as TV were to education in the 60's and 70's.
A good example is a drafting company i worked for once. They stopped hiring people that didn't learn pencil and paper drafting. The computer only folk suxed. They couldn't do jack outside the box they were taught to click in.
Intuitive for *anything* is really just what you learnt *first* when it comes to computers and 3D apps. I have used dozens of CAD apps and quite a few graphics apps (like blender) and I really don't think the criticizim that folk from the other "way" give is all that valid. Its like the DOS/windows wars, or worse Mac/PC crap. Each method/system/gui/workflow has strong points and weak points.
These things are Tools and gui are so far away from "intuitive" that UI experiment design should not be bogged down to some default standard. 3D is hard for most people and I have not found any one program all that much better or worse than another (but then I did do old fashion draughting for a while).
I find blender to be the best for mesh editing out there for the work I do. But at the same time IIRC there is work on customizable UI that will allow for a "mayer like" UI plugin. I think this is the future of UI for many apps: customization. That way it does not need to be a one size fits all. It can be the fast UI with non overlapping windows that I really like and find very fast. And it can be a familiar UI to mayer users (note that I am not claiming that one is better than the other.. Thats subjective).
I think you kidding yourself here. First there is a lot of nurture vers nature that determines our behavior so you not going to get them with genetics anyway. Secondly, what makes you think you would be better? You just said that a genetic test should be used to band people from doing things. Do you decide which tests should be used? If so, its you that is now the tyrant.
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After playing quake freeze tag with my wife last night, we played a round of Total Annihilation-Absolute Annihilation. All in wine as well so i don't have to boot my windows partions.
But this is a good thing. There are a lot of people in the world. A top ten from any one fan will leave at many from someone else's top ten.
Costs vers benefits. Thats exactly what we should be talking about. "cleaning" up CO2 emissions is *not* free. But then *not* cleaning up emissions isn't either. Unfortunately this topic is much more about ranting than informative discussion. Even from people who should know better.
Personally however, our climate models need to be a lot better before we go dumping Gigajoules of perturbations into the system.
Once you try it you never want to go back. I have used GIT for a year now and i dread the day that i have to work with svn again. I always recommend a distributed SCM systems now.
My point was more about a closed propriety system and software rather than games per say. Its like the ultra opposite of OSS ideals.
Even if OS did produce a line up of great games (which at this point, it hasn't IMO). They could not be made available for the Xbox. You have to pay and sign a license agreement just to be allowed to develop games for the platform. One of the conditions is that M$ is the distributer, and although I'm sure they won't object to you giving it to M$ for free, they won't be passing on the favor.
I have used blender in a 16 processor machine without problems. If you have big renders it should not be a problem since there is not really any interprocess communication.
I have brought phone/SIM card packs without need for ID, in Austria, Czech, Slovakia, Poland, Germany and France. Here in Austria almost any handy shop will unlock any phone too for a prepaid sim. I doubt even if it was law that many places would bother much.
Modern revolutions won't start with the populace's but from the army. If the army revolts, then we have "interesting times" to say the least.
I generally feel this way about *anything* in Nature and Science. The work in them is so brief and so pumped up for sex appeal that there is no content. The big physicist frauds published almost exclusively in nature and science.
How did we get here? The impact factor game. Nature do not want articles that won't get a lot of citations, so they only want sensationalist science. Scientist can keep there funding groups happy with impact factors so are willing to do more to get published in these journals.
And who sets the impact factor of a journal? Thompson Scientific. A freaking company, not some science board. We need to put impact factor into the toilet where it belongs.
ps with authors suggesting a reviewer. In a lot of cases if not all, you will perhaps only get one of them reviewing you paper, and the editor will choose someone else entirely.
I take your point, but you missed my main point, which is that we don't need paleoclimate data to support the manmade influence on the climate; modern observations are sufficient..
You keep saying this and its plainly wrong. If we have 200 years of data (which we only kinda have) we can't know anything about how often this type of shift happened in the past. Perhaps its all just one 400 year cycle? Without historic trends you cannot say a dam thing about current trends. Really this is science 101.
If we look at history, the opposite would seem to be true. The little ice age was a disaster and cooling prevents crops from growing, while warming increases crop production.
Sorry but your comment is at odds with all the current literature on Global Warming. In fact there are almost no climatologist that claim all the warming is man made. Its quite widely accepted that at least some is very natural warming. The is also a general view that future warming will also be part natural and part man made. CO2 levels account for *some* things via models with *estimated* parameters. This is not hard pure science (you can't repeat the experiment to verify the models), and so there is a bit of slop in the results. Read more than news papers please.
I think the point is that we don't trust the police to make sensible decision about context. And the Muslim bit is perhaps not really all that justifiable either. When I was 15 i had heavy metal extremist slogans all over my bag and some chemistry books that would have been very useful for making explosives.
Well 64bit is a bit of a misnomer really. In all my test it was never slower and for some of my work, quite a bit faster (>=2x). More registers makes a bigger difference than you think, because the x86 series was always so short on the dam things.
But yes YMMV and i do a lot of high end science simulation stuff. Not your everyday computer work. I would not go 64bit if it cost be stability, but i have not found that a problem.
I had no problems at all. On the laptop and 2 desktops running slam64, firefox locks up no more than normal (about once a week). At work its all SuSE 10.3 64bit and we watch flash stuff (meaning youtube mainly really) at with no problems. I only need to restart firefox at work perhaps once every 5 days regardless of my flash usage.
Compare that to Vista were I still can't get flash to work at all.
Yes, which is what tells us that the late 20th century warming is faster than natural.
It does not. Perhaps you should look at the data. Its warming. But the rate is faster than natural... we think, we suspect, we guess. But we don't really know.
We may not need 4 billion years of data, but more than 40 (aka satellites and ocean buoys etc) years of good data would be a start. Also ice cores have evidence of faster changes than we are experiencing. There is *nothing* unprecedented with current weather trends. The problem is how much is our influence. Read the scientific papers rather than the news papers and you will get a very different view on the confidence we should place in our current models.
When ever i even say something like that about the "facts" or data methods of AGW i will often get flamed into the stone age. After all what is the algorithm used to calculate the average temperature of the earth?
Do you show the same level of skepticism when its something you already agree with?
Why do they need laptops to learn to think? If you are not good at math without a computer you won't be any good at with one either. The same goes for reading, writing etc. Computers are about as useful to education now as TV were to education in the 60's and 70's.
A good example is a drafting company i worked for once. They stopped hiring people that didn't learn pencil and paper drafting. The computer only folk suxed. They couldn't do jack outside the box they were taught to click in.
Quite a lot of games have had this. Its just another way to do a story.
Good verse bad is subjective. There is also a lot of people with a different option than yourself.
Are you going to pay the license fees for Firefox? It would be about 3-5Million! Perhaps you can get one of those cheap US loans..
We get this a lot on /.
Intuitive for *anything* is really just what you learnt *first* when it comes to computers and 3D apps. I have used dozens of CAD apps and quite a few graphics apps (like blender) and I really don't think the criticizim that folk from the other "way" give is all that valid. Its like the DOS/windows wars, or worse Mac/PC crap. Each method/system/gui/workflow has strong points and weak points.
These things are Tools and gui are so far away from "intuitive" that UI experiment design should not be bogged down to some default standard. 3D is hard for most people and I have not found any one program all that much better or worse than another (but then I did do old fashion draughting for a while).
I find blender to be the best for mesh editing out there for the work I do. But at the same time IIRC there is work on customizable UI that will allow for a "mayer like" UI plugin. I think this is the future of UI for many apps: customization. That way it does not need to be a one size fits all. It can be the fast UI with non overlapping windows that I really like and find very fast. And it can be a familiar UI to mayer users (note that I am not claiming that one is better than the other.. Thats subjective).
Wow, I paid 4000 NZD or about 2000US per year and thought I was getting a bad deal. My father paid $200.
Yet you assert that many of the people in power have these conditions?
My in-laws have mental illnesses and one of them even tried to kill me once. I know about the *true* conditions you are talking about.
If anyone needs a "test", its you.
I think you kidding yourself here. First there is a lot of nurture vers nature that determines our behavior so you not going to get them with genetics anyway. Secondly, what makes you think you would be better? You just said that a genetic test should be used to band people from doing things. Do you decide which tests should be used? If so, its you that is now the tyrant.