It is amazing the amount of nonsense. The Maldives example is a good one. Someone posts some alarmist nonsense making this claim-- completely unsicentific, or a single paper presenting the hypthesis-- and the whole religion accepts it as Absolute Truth. For years people will be using the maldives as an example, and presenting the fact that the sea level isn't going up doesn't do anything to pursuade them.
Fear and panic and nonsense sells. Scientific fact does not.
The scientific facts are: mars was getting warmer while we were, yet mars has no oil industry, this points to a typical solar cycle as being the root of this hysteria. The planet is actually getting cooler, as is typical when the cycle ends. CO2 is not a threat and is a tiny fraction of the atmosphere and thus irrelevant to the planets climate.
Really, from a scientific basis, the entire global warming thing is a complete joke. It would be funny, maybe, if it were a deliberate hoax, but it is actually an insidious manipulation scheme to get people to go along with tyranny and global control.
The scientific facts are easy to come by, but warmists are absolutely resolute in keeping their minds closed. This is why global warming is best described as a religion.
The IPCC is a political institution and its reports have no scientific validity. If you want to know the facts about this stuff, look into the IR absorbtion of CO2, and the planets history of temperature and CO2 levels. If you do this, you'll find that the entire global warming movement is operating from a fallacious basis, and that in the past the planet has been warmer, and later, as a result of being warmer, had higher CO2 levels than are projected. Or, in short, the planet has a propensity for ice ages, and these warm periods are to be appreciated.
If you belonged to a global anti-science religious cult that was predicting a coming ice age and you were quoting political reports from agencies who want a global tyrannical control over the planet... well, at least then you'd be consistent with history, and predicting something that is likely.
The thing is, once you have drunk the global warming koolaide there is little that can be said to pursuade you. You believe what you believe because you want to believe it, and you will accept any "evidence" that you can rationalize to defend your belief.
Meanwhile, the science is against you. As the person you're responding to said, this is pure bunk. Pulled out of their asses.
Think that most glaciers are receding due to global warming? You're not the only one. There is a lot of propaganda along those lines.
Reality -- there are far more glaciers on the planet than have ever been counted, nobody is watching even a fraction of a percentage of them, and thus nobody can say whether they are receding or expanding. It is a bunch of anecdotal BS that gets spread around using pictures of a few glaciers that are receding and then all the anti-science warmist religious nuts start claiming that the glaciers are receding.
The most amazing symptom of the surge in popularity of macs is all these windows people showing up thinking they should be running anti-virus software!
You don't need it, and you can now relax. Just have software update set to run and install all the security updates it suggests, and you're good.
While I appreciate you calling me a troll and then saying "to be fair" your response is still argument to the person, and thus you are an example of why hacker news is a place where intelligent discussion is difficult. You are a detriment to this site.
Of course, you are so wrapped up in your bigotry that you will never see it. You must project your own failures on others, and call them "Trolls".
You are an Apple hater because you are not a hacker, you are a poser, of the kind that has come to infest sites like this, bringing down the level of discussion to the point where no actual hacker discussion goes on.
In fact, last one I saw, you came in and attacked the questioner and pissed your ignorance all over the thread managing to successfully derail it.
If that is not the definition of a troll, I don't know what is.
Argument to the person, therefore, you concede the point. Your argument to the person, rather than to the issue at hand is why hacker news is a place where proper discussion is rare when it comes to apple products.
No, but most people from both political parties support the laws that prevent people from hiring kids his age. I think he was only able to get the $3,000 because it was a bounty or a "Contest", and not a "job" or "employment".
I think bug bounties shouldn't be the only way this kid is allowed to earn money. He's proven himself to have discipline and some responsibility. He should be allowed to go work for a startup, if he wants (at least during the summers when he's off from school, anyway.)
Neither is chillingo or the other iPhone publishers. Or at least, in most cases they don't. If you've had a hit with them, then maybe they will front cash.
But the old model where the publisher pays for development is no longer present. The publishers are looking for teams that can develop the title themselves.
This is a common perspective, but it is worth noting that it is not a foregone conclusion that the publisher will actually do any marketing.
I've been a developer on several games that were published by a major publisher, in the majority of cases, the games did not get the marketing promised and in most of those cases, got essentially no marketing. We ended up doing the marketing ourselves. We may not have been as good as the publisher could have been, but we had far more effect.
I'm sorry, but I can't help but see this and think of all the kids around this age who are prevented from earning money by child labor laws, and the idea that this kid is a "Slave" because he's "too young to make decisions for himself. It may sound like this is a ridiculous thing to say, but just yesterday someone was making this claim in another forum.
I was busy writing a game at that age with the intent to sell it. Unfortunately, at that time there were no good distribution methods for independant games.
But I think the desire of some people who are well meaning but narrow in their worldview to "protect" children really prevents a lot of children from achieving as much as they would like, and are capable of.
When I finally was allowed to work, I remember several years where I had to work part time, even during the summers, because of these laws. One of my first jobs was a programming job, and I learned a whole lot from a senior programmer. I was 14 or 15, he was mid 20s. I wonder how much more I would have learned if I hadn't been prevented from working as much as I wanted because of state mandated limits on the number of hours. I can recall many times when he was explaining something to me, and it was getting really good, but I had to leave.
Actually, you can't. People who "hate apple's policies" are people who hate apple for ideological reasons and are attempting to rationalize it.
If you understand apple's policies you'll realize that all of them are designed to produce the best user experience for consumers.
I've never seen apple do something malicious, like I have Dell and Microsoft, nor betray their customers, like I have seen Microsoft, Google and Facebook do.
These "policies" that people hate generally amount to nothing more than failing to march according to some rigid stallmanesque ideology.
And browsing can be a pretty CPU heavy thing, these days. Not on the scale of video encoding, but enough to bring an ARM or Atom processor to its knees.
The article underplayed the importance of thermal design envelope to the situation, and your summary completely left it out.
I think that many people- especially consumers who know enough to reach the wrong conlcusions- don't understand the impact and importance of dealing with heat from CPUs and GPUS. IF you look closely at the inside-the-case view of the Air, you'll notice that the motherboard is at one level, in a plane with the keyboard, and then above it (toward the camera) is space that exists over the CPU board but not over the batteries (because this is where the case gets thicker). On the left, this extra space is taken up with an SSD card that is attached on top of the motherboard... on the right, it is taken up with a heat-pipe that hits the CPU and GPU and goes to the fan.
See how much space the fan takes with the heat pipe? The heat pipe alone doubles the thickness of the machine (assuming some battery space could be given up to fit the SSD in elsewhere.) But you can't go without it and you can't put it in plane with the motherboard.
Laptops are all about power, heat and heat management.
Fear and panic and nonsense sells. Scientific fact does not.
The scientific facts are: mars was getting warmer while we were, yet mars has no oil industry, this points to a typical solar cycle as being the root of this hysteria. The planet is actually getting cooler, as is typical when the cycle ends. CO2 is not a threat and is a tiny fraction of the atmosphere and thus irrelevant to the planets climate.
Really, from a scientific basis, the entire global warming thing is a complete joke. It would be funny, maybe, if it were a deliberate hoax, but it is actually an insidious manipulation scheme to get people to go along with tyranny and global control.
The scientific facts are easy to come by, but warmists are absolutely resolute in keeping their minds closed. This is why global warming is best described as a religion.