Re: uhuh

Yeah, the chinese knockoff has been a tradition for a few millennia now.

Re: Evolution?

"where did RNA come from"

Nucleotides form spontaneously from inorganic molecules (e.g. formamide) under heat and UV.

Re: Processing power?

"Yes, Siri shifts much of the work off your handheld and onto Apple, but let's not forget that even so the present Jesus mobe has a secondary processor just for cleaning up and compressing your voice and that Apple can't supply enough power on the server side to give you proper answers. So we're still going to need significant power in your eyeglasses."

Google's handsets and servers aren't nearly so woefully underpowered as Apple's, though.

Re: RE: Whuh? or Latency != graphics or frame rate

Yeah, agreed - hadn't even considered audio.

My point was mostly that 100ms is an absurd latency time... things aren't THAT bad right now, at least not on my 18-month-old Android phone. Maybe it was a typo in the original article? ¯\(°_o)/¯

30-10ms is more realistic. I get the distinction you're making between input latency and output latency and you're definitely right, but the article was talking about a hyper-responsive graphical interface, and I just don't see how you do that without a much higher refresh rate. I suppose the trick is to draw that very first frame as soon as possible after the touch event, but now you're talking about synchronizing the asynchronous...

Re: Guide?

http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html

Re: Parallels to be drawn

"...Siri either did not understand what Plaintiff was asking, or, after a very long wait time, responded with the wrong answer."

Waaaaait a minute... they never mentioned this before, but her full name is Siri Palin.

Re: Whuh?

On the other hand, getting the lag time down to 1 ms would be pretty impressive, but when was the last time you saw a 1000hz display, even without a touchscreen?

Re: destroying the climate change doubters

Also, does anyone else ever get the feeling that, someday, even when we're all cruising around on fusion-powered hoverboards, the Cult of Fuck You Hippies will be doggedly digging things out of the ground to set on fire out of spite?

Re: Scheme

Scheme!

(cons barf (cons puke (cons vomit)))

Re: And on cue...

"Sea level varies by more than a meter between different points, and is rising in some areas and falling in others all the time, changes which are masked in the "global average"."

Do you seriously think that no scientist ever thought to take the fucking TIDES into account?

Seriously?

Re: His remarks were offensive and uncalled-for

She was expecting her *friend* to not lose an ovary.

Apparently the Catholic college had their heads so far up its ass that it couldn't bother preventing organ damage to one of their students, because baby Jesus would have cried.

Heckuva job, Bishops.

Re: Permissions

Like I said in another thread: share buttons. You wanna tell your friends about the app? Well, it needs to know who your friends are. And how do you wanna tell them?

SMS? That's a permission.

Facebook? That's a permission.

Email? That's a permission.

Seriously, The Moron Test is not rifling through your text messages. It just needs to be able to send one.

Re: Stick this in your god damn greenietard pipe and smoke it!

Amazing. The less-than-100-years that mankind has the capability to measure the world climate just happens to be the coldest 100 out of the past 300 million. A 1 in 3 million probability.

What crappy luck...

Re: Re: Announcement now published - 10k chars are back

Test result: 10k limit is non-inclusive. Real limit is 9,999.

Re: Announcement now published - 10k chars are back

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Re: Someone's spiced up the animation with a gratuitous fly-over

It's cool. I mean, if it turns out to be the real deal, we can just suck that water up with a straw or something. We need at least another 200 years to decide.

Re: "WP7 is no experiment, it's here, so deal with it."

If MS gives up on WP7, all they have left in mobile is patent-trolling Android handset manufacturers, and that's kinda ignominious. So they have their Potemkin mobile OS that nobody would be caught dead using, and then Android brings in the Real Money. For now, anyway.

Re: Sadly, you're right

Lolwut? W7 is a dream.

I mean maybe if your hardware sucks balls, W7 might also suck, but I've been running W7 for two years and have not had a single hard crash. Not one BSOD. Ever.

It's their first decent OS.

Paranoia

None of the people I've texted in the past month are in my Facebook chat list.

Re: What puzzles me

In a word, share buttons. "Tell your friends!"

Share via SMS? "Read and send text messages" permission.

Share via Facebook? "Full internet access" permission.

Share via Gmail? Google account permission.

Share via other email? Email account permission.

You might think there's some built-in ShareButton class that lets every app do all these ubiquitous tasks without special permissions. Nope.

Haha

There's always three phases of spin.

1) You can't prove anything.

2) <leak occurs>

3) Everyone already knew that.

Re: I was just wondering...

Obviously these scientists are abject retards who have no idea what seasons are. And obviously there are no multi-year climate cycles or anything. Great post, Cletus.

Re: Re: You *are* biased

And these new species come individually wrapped from the vending machine, or something?

I believe the term you're ignoring is adaptive radiation.

Public services

Yeah, they're really vital.

"We are pursuing a proposal from Dr. David Wojick to produce a global warming curriculum for K-12 schools. Dr. Wojick is a consultant with the Office of Scientific and Technical Information at the U.S. Department of Energy in the area of information and communication science. His effort will focus on providing curriculum that shows that the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain - two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science."

We have far too many teachers teaching science, that's a big problem.

"Heartland plays an important role in climate communications, especially through our in-house experts (e.g., [James] Taylor) through his Forbes blog and related high profile outlets, our conferences, and through coordination with external networks (such as WUWT ['Watt's Up With That' Anthony Watt's 'public service' blog] and other groups capable of rapidly mobilizing responses to new scientific findings, news stories, or unfavorable blog posts)."

Is there any public need that CAN'T be met by an astroturf-funded blogswarm?

Who says America has lost its work ethic?

That's the point

http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/(1-15-2012)%202012%20Fundraising%20Plan.pdf

If you read through that one, pages 13-14 discuss their astroturf tactics - paid blog commenters as well as entire blogs created by their staff solely to push their agenda.

You're not supposed to know who they are.