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« on: August 11, 2013, 04:37 »
We've had some of these warnings triggered by agency payments coming in. In the IPN setup screen at Paypal you can get to the log of IPN messages and see which have failed.
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« on: August 07, 2013, 14:00 »
The reason the advocates switched from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change" is it wasn't warming up enough, and as fast as predicted. What 2 degrees C in the last century? Hardly a runaway climb. The whole politics of climate is loaded and biased - Both Sides! There's a reasonable middle, but like everything in politics, people get polarized and fail to see that both sides have some good points, and the middle is the right answer, not the extremes of left and right.
The Vikings settled Greenland and Iceland and it was much like it is now. People don't answer that point, they just flap around about disputed charts. The glaciers were much further inland. Is the truth so fearful, that people have to make up lies to support their pseudoscience? Big Lies. Hey wait, what was the movie by Al Gore that was Swiss cheese science, invented doom and gloom, fabricated statistics and the opening was CGI not real? Yeah, get a Nobel for that rubbish? Would one of you believers chime in about those facts and history?
Scientists were actually using 'Climate Change' before 'Global Warming' became the layman's term. The international body on the subject is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Republican strategist Frank Luntz recommended that politicians and lobbyists should switch to using 'Climate Change' when trying to discredit science. Why do you think that the Viking settlement in Greenland is important in terms of global climate? The Medieval Warm Period was a localised feature which didn't affect most of the world, and allowed the Greenland settlement to scrape along at barely subsistence level for 500 years or so, never even being able to grow grain for bread. Quoting 'An Inconvenient Truth' is a tactical mistake, because every denier attack on it has been thoroughly trounced; nobody has ever been able to document a single factual error in terms of the knowledge available when it was made. Come on, Uncle Pete, your tagline is 'Empirical Data and Evidence please...' That's what you're not bringing to the discussion, and this mirrors the whole controversy. It's Empirical Data and Evidence against vague handwaving, distortion, and outright shameless lies.
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« on: August 06, 2013, 19:48 »
I have attached screen dumps from pc and laptop. The laptop has a huge list of categories. I dont know how to remove them. to move the rotating banner up that you can see on the desktop pc
That lower one looks like the mobile menu, activated. Do you have the mobile menu widget installed somewhere?
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« on: August 06, 2013, 19:35 »
Found it:
Who's to blame for these changes? Or maybe it's a message that the Vikings will be making a comeback and we should watch out? Followed by another ice age? And the last one scares me even more, but I needn't worry too much it's not for 600 years.
Wow! A golden oldie of science denial from 2008! The changes in the graph are down to Craig Loehle and Roy Spencer, two of the least reliable names in the business. Loehle's paper was published in Energy and Environment, a home for otherwise unpublishable pseudoscience, As for Roy Spencer, he produces good peer-reviewed science on the satellite temperature record, but he also works for the George Marshall Institute, a major anti-science think tank, and this graph is part of his non-academic output. It was produced in 2007-8 to feed denialist bloggers, but was laughed out of contention in short order. More on Loehle's paper here: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/12/past-reconstructions/Come on Uncle Pete, you can do better than that!
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« on: August 06, 2013, 01:22 »
Just did that, & it went through OK, appears under purchases in Cart Manager. Most odd!
If the IPN was being blocked, it wouldn't delete the cart, would it? That's the funny bit.
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« on: August 06, 2013, 00:56 »
I just did a sandbox purchase from my own account and that went through OK with no changes to any other settings.
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« on: August 06, 2013, 00:45 »
Symbiostock 2.5.6
Plugins:
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All up to date.
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« on: August 06, 2013, 00:18 »
The good news was a sale of 3 large files for $42. The bad news was that after Paypal went through the cart disappeared! I had seen the user registration email and checked to see if there was a live cart - there was. But after the Paypal email came through, there was no cart and no purchase! Fortunately the customer was in NZ and rang up. We sent the files by email, I checked Paypal and the IPN message had been sent.
Just updated to WP 3.6 today, and everything had seemed OK... Any ideas?
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« on: August 05, 2013, 21:13 »
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« on: August 05, 2013, 20:31 »
If you want to claim that the current warming is natural, you're going to have to come up with a cause which tens of thousands of dedicated scientists have overlooked.
The providence of God.
Got a peer-reviewed ref for that?
The Lord Answers Job
38 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Dress for action like a man;
I will question you, and you make it known to me.
4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you have understanding.
5 Who determined its measurementssurely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
6 On what were its bases sunk,
or who laid its cornerstone,
...
OK, so instead of 40 days and nights, it's going to be more like 40 years to wipe humanity out this time?
You'll have to ask Him, he has an open door policy and a very detailed answer to all your questions.
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« on: August 05, 2013, 19:39 »
If you want to claim that the current warming is natural, you're going to have to come up with a cause which tens of thousands of dedicated scientists have overlooked.
The providence of God.
Got a peer-reviewed ref for that?
The Lord Answers Job
38 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Dress for action like a man;
I will question you, and you make it known to me.
4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you have understanding.
5 Who determined its measurementssurely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
6 On what were its bases sunk,
or who laid its cornerstone,
...
OK, so instead of 40 days and nights, it's going to be more like 40 years to wipe humanity out this time?
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« on: August 05, 2013, 19:17 »
If you want to claim that the current warming is natural, you're going to have to come up with a cause which tens of thousands of dedicated scientists have overlooked.
The providence of God.
Got a peer-reviewed ref for that?
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« on: August 05, 2013, 18:51 »
1) It is getting warmer. Data indicates that is a fact.
2) This is a natural cycle and it has been warmer before. It has also been colder before. It has been dryer before and wetter before. Things change.
3) We don't know why the climate changes, as it has been doing so for millions of years, before the politically correct people decided that humans were the cause and the problem.
4) Nothing I wrote in the previous post or this one, is false. Is that correct?
So the evidence doesn't really support the THEORIES or conclusions for global warming caused by CFCs or Climate change caused by humans. And the computer simulations with hypothetical future data... are based on imaginary human scenarios. Is that correct?
It's all about politics and you say you are against the controlled medial and propaganda, yet you have been programmed to believe this pseudoscience and defend it? How strange.
1) OK so far. 2) If it's a natural cycle what is the initiating forcing? We know what the forcings were which were the initial causes of many of the previous changes. The biggest influence over the past few million years has been Milankovitch forcings, caused by changes in the Earth's orbit and tilt. These have been causing a cooling effect for the past 5000 years or so, and would lead to a full-blown ice age in another 15000 years if we hadn't pumped so much CO2 and methane into the atmosphere. These forcings were first properly understood in the 70's and were one cause of ice age predictions. The other was industrial air pollution, working over a shorter timescale, but this was eliminated over most of the developed world by regulation of emissions. If you want to claim that the current warming is natural, you're going to have to come up with a cause which tens of thousands of dedicated scientists have overlooked. Not even Exxon-Mobil or the Koch Brothers, with all their resources, have been able to find one. 3) We do know very largely why the climate changes, most of the forcings and feedbacks are reasonably well understood. You are obviously unaware that anthropogenic climate change was predicted in 1896 by Svante Arrhenius, building on the earlier work of Fourier and Tyndall, long before the effect was actually measured. Using terms like 'politically correct' is characteristic of those who would never let reality interfere with ideology. The term is an invention of the reactionary right wing. 4) No it's not correct. You cherry-picked some correct but irrelevant items from the other website to give a distorted impression of what it says. When you mentioned record cold spells in the central US in July, why didn't you mention the number of record highs? Not that a month's weather in a small area is any indicator of climate - climate is defined as weather averaged at global or regional scale over a 30-year period, although 25 years is often long enough for statistical significance. Also see 2 and 3. A theory in science is something that is so well supported that everyone working in the field takes it as established fact. Every survey of actual working climate scientists over the last few years has produced results of over 95% agreeing that the climate change over the last 200+ years is caused by human activity. It's not about politics for me.
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« on: August 05, 2013, 02:47 »
I am afraid that's not all. Wordpress database contains many urls leading to your old site (for example home and siteurl addresses in wp_options, column guid in wp_posts.
You have to change them in phpmyadmin.
In wp_options you can change this manually, but for wp_posts
you will need something like
update wp_posts set guid = replace(guid, 'picbreeze', 'picturebreeze');
Now your images links to your old site, for example this image:
picturebreeze.com/stock/photos/image/group-of-children-preparing-livestock-animals-for-stock-show-2/
has picture from here (after right-click on show image):
picbreeze.com/wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content/4213-group-of-children-preparing-livestock-animals-for-stock-show.jpg
Inevitably, there's a plugin for this! We used Velvet Blues Update URLs, very successfully.
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« on: August 04, 2013, 23:17 »
Unseasonably cold for the last two weeks. Middle United States.
Forecasters say at least twelve cities in central and eastern Wisconsin broke records for their lowest daytime high temperatures for July 27th.
Some smashing records in place for nearly a century!
So much for global warming.
Let me help. Weather changes, and finding something in one month or ten years, isn't proof of anything. Even the "save the planet" climatologists say it's takes centuries. What we have now is models and guesses.
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7x.html
Climatologists have used various techniques and evidence to reconstruct a history of the Earth's past climate. From this data, they have found that during most of the Earth's history global temperatures were probably 8 to 15 degrees Celsius warmer than today. In the last billion years of climatic history, warmer conditions were broken by glacial periods starting at 925, 800, 680, 450, 330, and 2 million years before present.
Also: Western Europe experienced a general cooling of the climate between the years 1150 and 1460 and a very cold climate between 1560 and 1850 that brought dire consequences to its peoples. The colder weather impacted agriculture, health, economics, social strife, emigration, and even art and literature. Increased glaciation and storms also had a devastating affect on those that lived near glaciers and the sea.
We are coming out of the little ice age, it's getting warmer. We are below the average "normal" Earth temperatures for billions of years. Also Volcanic eruptions cause climate change, because the the dust and spewing gasses into the atmosphere.
Hope that's helpful as part of a balanced answer to look at science for history and evidence as well as politics with an agenda.
Nice cherry pick there, Uncle Pete! At least you admit your nonsense is politically motivated. Of course, it only sounds convincing as long as people don't follow your link and they don't see the GISS global temperature plot on the page and actually read the rest of the article, which doesn't support you at all.
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« on: August 03, 2013, 12:35 »
I save my images in Adobe RGB 1998 and I've primarily been using Firefox to view my website. I would imagine that most browsers (firefox included) don't read color profiles. I've always supplied my macro agents with Adobe RGB because that's what they require and then they handle any conversions for viewing thumbs etc. on the web. Not sure what's best in this case as I want the images to look good on the site but want the customer to have the widest colorspace to work with. Any thoughts?
Firefox is colour managed. At the moment, AdobeRGB images are not tagged in Symbiostock thumbs and previews so they look dull and flat on the site. What we do to fix that is download the thumbs and previews, apply AdobeRGB profiles (using EXIFtoolGUI) and re-upload. However, Leo is working on colourspace conversion for thumbs and previews, so this should be unnecessary in future. This only works if the customers are using properly colour managed browsers (IE not included), but that's a fair bet for serious users.
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« on: August 02, 2013, 02:53 »
if there's interest I can make the search specific to a site to make it easier for searches like 'food' where there are many sites
Interest here, Steve. It would be useful to generate quick link pages, and we have some underemployed domains to park them on, including a wordpress.com blog with good Google-juice.
ok, i'll add that shortly. meanwhile, the current display mostly keeps images from each site together, so it's relatively easy to delete all the other images when you cut the table from 'view source'
ok, you can now do a search for a specific site...
Very good! Thanks, Steve. Example just made and posted here: http://picturemojo.wordpress.com/indian-food-images/By the way, your code isn't closing the tr and td tags; easy to put them in with a search and replace in Dreamweaver, though.
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« on: August 01, 2013, 19:47 »
Has there been a consensus regarding a compatible, reliable and affordable hosting provider. I am very interested in building a site but do not currently have a hosting provider.
I looked at a few of the threads but there does not seem to be much info about providers yet. What is your experience now that you have your sites up for a while? Are you happy or not happy with your provider?
Most people on Bluehost seem reasonably happy. The base package is cheap and flexible, no memory problems, ImageMagic readily available. The downside is occasional short-lived downtime, usually because of noisy neighbours on the same box. More solid options are available at extra cost if business grows to need it. The live chat support has been good the couple of times I've used it.
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« on: August 01, 2013, 17:04 »
if there's interest I can make the search specific to a site to make it easier for searches like 'food' where there are many sites
Interest here, Steve. It would be useful to generate quick link pages, and we have some underemployed domains to park them on, including a wordpress.com blog with good Google-juice.
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« on: August 01, 2013, 14:33 »
We just had a BME on DT, but 75% of our earnings came from 25% of our sales, with nice amounts coming from our rising numbers of higher level images.
It would be a pity if those credit buyers changed to the new subs packages. We'll wait and see what happens.
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« on: July 31, 2013, 18:41 »
We also had our last batch 100% rejected - 21 files, all lighting. The funny thing is, had noticed similar files were selling well, so thought we'd give them a few more  In spite of that, we're ATM cents from a BME, so can't complain too much.
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« on: July 26, 2013, 17:42 »
The microsites are telling us that they don't want those low selling, niche images, and they don't want a lot of similars. We know what to do
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« on: July 25, 2013, 13:10 »
Google Analytics shows I have had 13 people add an image to the sales cart, but abandoned as soon as they found out they had to register. I'll let you draw your own conclusions, but I made it pretty clear initially how I felt forced registration would badly hurt sales.
Dan, how can you tell if someone has done this? Thanks!
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« on: July 21, 2013, 21:21 »
If everyone stopped uploading to the the low earners and put new files only on the big 3 and Sym, it would start to make a difference.
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