You're right about controls. The current smart phones have poor controls. Buttons are heaps better. The on screen joysticks for smartphones don't cut it.
With blue tooth you can have dedicated controls as an add on. The n900 can use the wiimote.
The iphone is a fine device. But your statement wildly overstates impact and improvements of the iphone over other phones.
In 1997 a reasonable phone looked like the 1997 Nokia 3110. By 2007 Nokia had the N95
In the 10 years till 2007 mobile phones, before the iphone had the following improvements:
But yeah, other than that, there hadn't been that much improvement....
Kilimanjaro has been retreating since the 1800s.
C02 in the atmosphere has only been shooting up since the 1950s. Pre-industrial C02 levels were about 2.8 parts per 10 000. As opposed to 4 or so now.
If these things pre-date C02's big increase this indicates a large role for natural climate variations.
This is what many skeptic say.
Below is an exact answer to part of the question of 3 reputable climate scientists who disagree with the consensus. The original was moderated to -1. If you are moderating and moderate views that you disagree with down even when they explicitly answer the question posed you are a lousy moderator.
So here again. 4 reputable climate scientists who disagree with what is above:
Richard Lindzen
Pat Michaels
Roy Spencer
Roger Pielke Snr
Look at the list of those who disagree on wikipedia and check the Senate Minority list for hundreds more.
here are 4 reputable scientists who disagree with the consensus:
Richard Lindzen
Pat Michaels
Roy Spencer
Roger Pielke Snr
There is a whole page of them on that most hidden of sites, wikipedia. The page of scientists who oppose the consensus is worth looking at for getting some names. Then go and see what they say, wikipedia falls over on this because there is an edit war that is dominated by alarmists, so it can be difficult to see what they actually say themselves.
There is also a list of 650 or so scientists who disagree with global warming alarmism, the Senate Minority list has them.
They may be wrong, but there are way more than 3 scientists who are prepared to go on the record and speak out against global warming alarmism.
True, part of it probably is the way I read. However it seems to be the way quite a few people are.
That's true about some jokes working better in print. Douglas Adam's books have great jokes about ideas and words that work better in print than in other media.
But, in general, the devices available live appeal more. The big point is that the parent post was unfairly marked as a troll when the guy was probably was expressing his point of view and a point of view that is probably held by quite a few people here.
Yeah, thanks, I have tried Pratchett and didn't like it. I keep meaning to read some more again and give it another chance.
Spaced is great. As are Black Books, The IT Crowd and The Inbetweeners.
This is no troll. Humour in books doesn't work as well as it does on film, TV or live.
There are few books I've found to be really funny, and I read 30+ books a year. Douglas Adams' books along with say Catch-22 and maybe Running with Scissors are about the only ones that come to mind.
Humour works better when you can have the jokes delivered with timing. I've found audio books make some books much funnier when it's done well.
Even film has it's weaknesses for humour. Film tends to want a narrative to drive things and there often isn't enough time for character development. TV is better. I'd prefer The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Yes Prime Minister, Drop the Dead Donkey, Faulty Towers and Monty Python to most comedy films any day.
Spot on.
And what's really great about slashdot is that it is also classic slashdot for people like you and others to come in with figures and good information and very correctly point out that the claim is BS.
That's why people stick around.
Exactly. The US is spending 2.6% of GDP on R & D. It is number two in the G7. Obama has said he wants to bring the spending up to 3.0%.
So the Europeans and the US governments say they are firmly convinced of dangerous anthropogenic global warming but they won't spend 15 Bn over 10 years to speed this up?
If fusion could be made to work for 2-3 times the cost of coal electricity massively reducing C02 emissions without massively cutting energy usage would be possible. It's worth spending money to find this out. Bjorn Lomborg, who is loathed by most environmentalists recommends spending more on alternative energy research. Anthorny Watts would probably approve spending more on this kind of fusion research.
Surely if the US and the Europe, that would collectively spend about 700 Bn a YEAR on defence are serious about alternative energy this should be funded more.
Steven Chu where are you?
We as Chinese will feel unsafe until our technology is superior to yours. We cannot yet sleep safely at night.
As your economy, due to shocking mis-management and two unwise wars is already effectively depends on our savings we don't think that overtaking your military technology will be too tough in the next 50 years.
We believe that we must be ready for any contingency. With 4 times as many people and sustained 7 percent plus growth rates we will approach, catch and overtake you.
You may not be able to sleep safely in future.
Or we could work out ways to get along.
SGI didn't commit suicide. The market just ate them.
Around 1999 the Octane were about 50K, at the time NT machines (think Ingergraph) appeared that were, for many, many purposes, just as capable. They were 10K.
In addition the MIPS chip was considerably worse than a dual proc x86 machine of the same vintage. I was working at a company where there was a C++ API. Compilation time on the SGI was 3 hours. It was 10 minutes on the Intergraph.
When cards like the Nvidia Quadro and FireGL cards came they were better than SGI machines and cost a few thousand dollars.
SGI's model of a proprietary in house system just stopped working as x86 and graphics cards just got better and better.
Even the high end Onyx graphics setups became obsolete a few years later when clusters of PCs started to kick in.
SGI's engineers have gone to places like ATI & Nvidia. While it's sad to see that the company is pretty much worth nothing, it's not the end of the world. SGI did great stuff but their time has passed.
It's surprising that no one here on slashdot has pointed out that a major difference between the html and gopher was that gopher services had to get a licence from the University of Minnesota while http servers could be constructed without a licence.
Free open software with free open standards is what got the web going.
Tiobe maintains a list that is updated every month that tells a different story.
For January 2009, rounded; Java, 19%; C, 16%; C++, 10%; VB, 9%; PHP, 10%.
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