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Comment Model errors (Score 5, Insightful) 525

...It's a well-kept secret, but 95 per cent of the climate models ... have been found ... to be in error....

Yes, most, if not all, of the climate are in error. They do not forecast the global climate with 100% accuracy.

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They never will forecast the global climate with 100% accuracy. So they will always be in error.

However, they currently are accurate enough to forecast a future climate that has problems, and time is running out to prevent those problems from growing so large that they are all but irreversible.

The question is, do we start to address global warming now? Or do we wait until the models have 100% accuracy, at which time it will be too late to do anything about the problem.

Comment Huh? (Score 1) 227

..."We believe that every child should have access to an exceptional, personalized education that enables them to be happy and successful in an ever-changing world," reads AltSchool's mission statement. For $28,750-a-year, your kid can be one of them...

So for more money per year than a significant portion of the US families bring home in a year, a family can send one child to school.

Comment Firefox - the new UI is killing marketshare (Score 4, Insightful) 240

Firefox's market share has been dropping ever since the new UI was introduced.

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One would think that the Mozilla developers would take their heads out of their collective arse and look at the reality --- the new UI is little more than a Chrome clone, and a poor one at that. If people wanted the new UI, they'd move to the better implementation of it, i.e., Chrome.

Oh wait, they are moving to Chrome....

Comment Re:They forgot the best feature.... (Score 4, Insightful) 80

BSD is a major commodity ecosystem for end-consumer products. I'd wager that there are more MacBooks and iPods out there running OSX and iOS flavors of BSD than there are Linux ones. They just suck in the server space, though, and that's where Linux cannot at the moment be questioned, let alone defeated.

My FreeBSD servers run just fine, thank-you. I moved those servers from Linux to FreeBSD a number of years ago, and never had the need to look back.

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