How would you explain the obvious temperature "adjustments" NASA makes to it's data to fit global warming theory (linked in my original post).

Go Bush, it was about time someone stood up for people instead of the environment for once. We're natural too.

The inaccuracies and tampering being done by some folks at NASA and elsewhere is not only dangerous to freedom, but undermining the credibility of good scientists and shouldn't be tolerated.

You are implied they are biased. The folks claiming global warming are financed by their respective governments. Governments seem to be always looking for new ways to raise revenues. Why can't government be biased? What evidence do you have that supports the idea that government agencies are neutral?

It's too bad the Global Warming debate is being hijacked by politicians. Al Gore recently described the new climate bill out of the US Congress as 'helping to bring about global governance'

The problem with the folks not buying into this global warming crap isn't so much the science it's the new taxes and other restrictions of freedom it will impose combined with other countries smart enough not to get involved.

I think there is building evidence that the scientists that believe it is happening are wrong. No one can explain why global temperatures have flat-lined. The models aren't working. It seems some agencies are adjusting data to agree with their models, when in reality we aren't experiencing the warming we've been warned about. Here is an article that illustrates this problem.

The debate isn't over and the folks understand that, especially considering the burden that will be imposed on them if they go along with it.

You don't have to be computer scientist to use a computer. Likewise, folks know they don't have to be scientists to understand that it is very unlikely that we have the power to affect the climate of the earth. Additionally they are seeing the data and they are seeing that reality isn't agreeing with scientists models.

Satellite data is starting to show a bunch of negative numbers. The (false) notion that this planet is warming is starting to give way to reality , and the regular folks understand that.

Kevin

Hmmm...so they've figured out that storing hydrogen with carbon is actually a great idea.

Funny, the earth has being doing that for billions of years. Man, it sure takes us awhile to catch on.

What if the earth was making hydrocarbons in abundance? I think it is referred to as a-biotic production. There is a TON of heat, and pressure below the crust of the earth. It makes sense to me that this could be occurring. What going to happen when we figure out that we aren't going to run out of oil? I think there was a paper published by Western WA University Spokane, but I'm not sure where to find it today. Kevin

Why have temperatures since 2001 basically flalined? And why is there so many adjustments and modifications made to the data resulting in so much disparity between the pretty graphs 'proving' we're warming?

I mention it in a previous post here

I reject the premise that the world is broken to the point that we need to leave it.

This earth has an amazing ability to fix itself. Take a look at Chernobyl, life is flourishing there where there was massive radiation at one point. Humans have to get over themselves. Life has been here long before we were and it will be here long after we're gone.

We have to get over the CO2 thing too, we exhale the stuff for crying out loud. Most plants love the stuff, have you noticed?

If the flash drive fails, yes you can continue to read from it, but you also have to consider what is meant by reading.

You can always read the raw data from the device, that will never change. There is nothing that prevents the electrical signals from forming a proper read transaction on the IO pins of the flash IC chip.

However, when you consider the software that is on top of the raw data (a file system for example), this is where you will have the trouble.

With older CF cards, the concept of wear leveling was not implemented, I don't know about newer ones. This being the case, the directory structure for a file would more than likely reside in the same physical location on the flash. Opening, writing, closing a file with the same name would no doubt wear that space out as the directory entry gets hammered. Once that has "worn out", data is lost because the file system can no longer track it (even though the actual data may be viable).

Also consider the device that does support wear leveling. At some point it will run out of places to wear. Some large files will remain static and won't move (they are only read), some files will be moved all over the device by the device's ASIC as the data in the file is updated or changed. At some point, the flash will run out of cells. This could happen as some critical directory entry is being updated, and the whole file system could be corrupted because there are no more viable flash cells to use.

Your data might still be there is all its binary glory, but w/o a viable file system data structure to access it, well, you're toast. Unlike a harddrive that burped and lost a few bytes, a worn out flash drive has no recordable medium available to do any file system data structure repairs.

Kevin

I found a link to raw NOAA satellite data

There are a number of places where it has been graphed, just google "t2lt" or dump it in excel.
My big question is that I've seen NASA graphs that look far more damaging than what the raw data shows. This has been of concern to me as I do not understand why there is such a difference. In looking around, I found this article that discusses this point.

I'm very concerned that the whole global warming argument is really about money, not protecting the planet. Like the above article says, taking the temperature of the planet isn't rocket science.
I remain unconvinced, I would like to see what happens to global temperatures for the next couple of years.

If the climatologists are correct and we don't do anything, the consequences will be hard to bear.
If the climatologists are wrong and we act like they are right, the consequences will be hard to bear.

We have to this right...let's keep the debate going, it's very important.
Kevin

Very glad they are doing this. It sends a message to those who spend a lot of time creating something that they have recourse if someone tries to steal their ideas.

It sends a strong message to those who would steal something that is not theirs that they better think twice.

We have to have consequences or economic progress is stifled.

Now if we could only recognize that taxes are a form of theft, not only do non-producers approve, they legitimize using guns and force to collect them.

That, my friends, is what should concern you.

Kevin

...just over 50% of Americans believe so-called global warming is a problem.

The 47% that got things right falls nicely with the 41% who have figured out that global warming is a scam.

Hopefully as Americans get more educated, they'll recognize another financial scam when they see one.

Kevin

Yes, it made computing platforms more ubiquitous, but you could also say they would have been a lot less frustrating to use if a single vendor supported one incarnation really well. I believe the PC platform would have been better if it wasn't so ubiquitous and common, there would have been more demand for an easier to use machine, instead of a cheap one.

Take for instance the Macintosh brand. Very tightly controlled and proprietary, yet it is a great brand because they just work. Apple has worked hard to control it and I think the results have helped them (along with other well designed and carefully controlled products) be competitive and made them a very recognizable brand.

I can't tell you how many times a feature or other useful incarnation of an idea was plummeted by some standard that wouldn't allow it to happen because it's not 'standard behavior'

Standardization comes at a steep cost. I would rather see companies hold on to their designs and make them work and compete against other designs and ideas. Let consumers and users of a product decide, not a standards committee.

DVD and blue ray are another example. An industry (that means consumers, in my view) picked the winner, not a standards committee.

Kevin

>Standardization isn't good for innovators, perhaps. But the lack of it is very very bad for everyone else.

Is it bad to serve someone who worked hard to create something useful? The innovator served by creating and innovating, and now the public has to serve the innovator if they want to use what the innovator created.

Don't you believe that we should serve one another? I can't think of a better way than putting cash in someone's pocket who was really clever and really benefited my life.

Kevin

They don't give the cameras away, they sell them. And I'm sure they may have some unique innovation that they have tried or will protect.

Yes, simple economics.

It's unfortunate that folks have given their time away for some else to benefit, you've made my point. Some software sucker worked his butt off in order for Elphel to save a bunch of time and to make money that the software developer(s) never saw.

That was smart.

Don't you get it? These business people love you for giving your best efforts for nothing. You are only hurting your ability to make a buck down the road, you are destroying value in software. How can this be good?

Kevin

I've seen a couple of posts that bemoan that RAMBUS has won this suit. Have you seen their memory technologies? I've done DDR and DDR2 memory implementations and their technology is far superior to any 'standard'.
I'm all for helping folks understand how to implement technology. But I wonder sometimes if standardization doesn't actually rob innovation as it seems to require that innovators give up that which is of value to them. There is no incentive in that. Proprietary technology can be far superior to non-proprietary work. I agree that it isn't always true, but for the most part, it is.
You can't make a buck giving stuff away. I'm really don't like the open source model. It waters down our field and sets expectations such that business types don't appreciate the hard work it takes to make good software, they begin to expect software work to be free.
As far as I'm concerned...Go RAMBUS!
*ducks* :)
Kevin