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Comment falsification (Score 1) 703

Honest question. .3 to 4.6C over a long time predicted. What would falsify the prediction? What IS the prediction?

is this for the time between now and 2114?
if you measure the global temperature right now what are the error bounds?
In the above what does "now" mean with respect to climate? Are we looking at a ten year average or what? If we look at an average of .003C a year increase this is not very impressive and need not be attributed to AWG. Similarly the sea rise prediction seems less than the average sea rise over the last 10k years. I pull a 100 m out of some old archeology.

There is something particularly sad about lying when the truth is better. I suppose the sad is more about your audience but still.

Comment Re: Precisely how... (Score 1) 147

Yah. But ARM has the little bit of cpu ram. Thus you start out without having to knowi anything about the busses like to the regular RAM. But there are specialized compilers for say AMD64 that produce programs that do not use RAM. But ...
Grub2 just will not fit in the usual sized BIOS ROM. Mostly everything is easy quantity 1 plus some sort of trade offs in money and skill and time. Now go fix it quantity G this calendar year with everyone trying to stop you.

Comment Re: Alibaba and the thieves (Score 1) 93

I have an account on alibaba. You can order quantity 1. You can have it dropped shipped. Delivery time is reasonable. Your own logos if you want on box and carton. Preloaded software images. But suppose the manufacturer decides you are not going to be a repeat customer? Your product get picked from the floor sweepings. That way in the US also sometimes. Let us think a bit.

Comment How to store a YB (Score 1) 983

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...

YBs are an active element of public policy. A YM is sort of the size of the universe and at that size the cosmologist types have multiple definitions of distance. But a TM is about the size of the solar system. Pluto is about .6 TM out and Voyager 1 is about 18 TM out. The next star is about a PM out.

If i buy high end SD cards and load them up with a YB then they will fit very comfortably in the space shuttle assembly building.

i notice that people are talking about TB USB sticks.

Comment Re: Makers and takers (Score 1) 676

How nice for you that definitions are so very real and you still get to chose the best one per the current dominate view. And you get to use the time period that you like some you like I guess you did not notice I specified a month rather than a year.

  As far as M1 a traditional view on inflation involves currency and M1 is currency and it went up 2.5% last week which I thought unexpected. This is actually the most interesting number round here because we have a convenient fiction of about 1.5% annual inflation and the two numbers conflict. We all know what is happening there if we open our eyes.
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Comment Re: Makers and takers (Score 1) 676

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation isÂof the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

-- Ernest Hemingway

Wolfram says you are wrong. Try 19.02% in April 1947.

I know of four nice inflation rate definitions all repectable. Why do you cite to the lowest of the set? Aside from being wrong even then so it does not matter

my initial assertion was because under Volcker the prime was above 20%. My designation was then rather common socially.

But take a look at M1 change last week.

For a bit of sanity:

Comment Re: Will we still talk ethernet over it? (Score 1) 101

Yah. I can have 100Mbs to my house right now off the shelf. Since the fiber is there I expect that if I am needy with deep pockets I can get 1Gbs. And I am sure there are lots of dark Fibre at the road so I can get 100Gbs with lots and lots of money and lots of lead time. So I need the right corporate configuration to get Internet2 to be friendly but that is more just more money plus mission commitment. But my desktop OS does not support ATM/SONET. :-)

But let us have a little fun here. There are some little arty local nonprofits in my rural area. If the current tech was accessible the local kids could jam with people in Afghanistan and Argentina and with the associated video walls and sound systems the local audience would feel like everyone was in the same room.

Do you want this?

Comment Re: You don't get how it works... (Score 1) 89

Pooh. I was being fairly serious but a little too cryptic I suppose. I get tired of people running warfare using shills and trolls so everyone can know that my neighbor is more terrible that I am. The last straw was the "taken care of" threat in a parent.

Looking harmless can be safe. Being the most terrible around can be safe. We have not decided which works better.

Comment Re: You don't get how it works... (Score 1) 89

I enjoy the Mormons and i enjoyed Ender's Game. Oh. If I am inclined I can enjoy being more poly the thou. And I admire the author of Ender's game. Yah.

Let us think for a bit. I think a bit of good sense is to be as nice to your OTHER as you can afford to be. Then your OTHER can maybe do something similar without worrying so much about being "dealt with".

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