* Posts by Simian60

5 publicly visible posts • joined 24 May 2010

SpaceShipOne man, Nobel boffins: Don't panic on global warming

Simian60
FAIL

"I would normally agree that the debate amongst experts is good and hopefully takes us to the right answer. Unfortunately, as the people with money have largely lined up in the 'warmists' camp, no scientist who wants his research grants etc. to continue can do anything but support this argument."

The people with money (oil companies, car manufacturers, power generation corps, industry in general) have largely lined up with, and funded, the 'denialists'.

If a reputable scientist went to Exxon, and said "I can prove* global warming is rubbish, all I need is the cash", then I'm sure the bucks would be rolling in, and the resulting papers would be filling the climate science journals.

As that has not happened, one has to accept that the 'warmists' who _have_ provided mountains of evidence, are probably correct lest one appear a moron.

"That's why they have surpressed evidence to the contrary and refuse to show the last decade (ish) on graphs."

What, like this you mean?

http://climate.nasa.gov/keyIndicators/index.cfm#globalTemp

* for sciency values of prove, obviously.

Twitter (officially) buys TweetDeck

Simian60
Unhappy

oh well...

Will they:

(a) Turn it into useless 'feature' laden bloatware?

(b) Stop supporting the non-twitter feeds?

(c) Transform the UI into a hideous remake of their terrible website?

(d) Stuff it full of ads?

(e) All of the above?

Place bets...

People have no bloody idea about saving energy

Simian60

...if everyone did that

"If everyone did that... 20 millions homes using 25% less power... I can't even figure out the savings they're so huge."

Energy usage by sector:

Transport - 34%

Domestic Gas - 25%

Industry - 22%

Services - 14%

Domestic Electricity - 4%

Other - 1%

So we'd reduce our energy use by about 1%, i.e. fuck all.

UK set for eBook pricing showdown

Simian60
Unhappy

Ebooks are great, until you actually try and buy an ebook in the UK.

E.g. author: Dan Simmons, number of books: Kobo 1; Waterstones 3; WHSmith 5.

for comparison:

US Sony Bookstore 17; US Amazon 15; bittorrent 15.

'Steve Jobs' switches to Android

Simian60
Headmaster

i vs A

Moot, you donkey, moot. Not "mute".