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A Hidden Loop In the Carbon Cycle Discovered
Googlesaysmysiteisdangerousanditisn't! writes "A recent article in Science says that researchers in China and the US have found massive carbon uptake in the world's deserts. The effects of this are huge. 35% of the Earth's land surface is desert, and the uptake equates to 5.2 billion tons of carbon sequestered each year. This is more than half of the carbon released by humans. In these 'dry oceans,' the grains of sand allow the carbon dioxide to enter and react with alkaline soil to become carbonates. Another scientist suspects that biotic desert crusts, alkaline soils, and increased precipitation may be driving the uptake."
What are you using to render PDFs? My Nokia 770 with a 200MHz ARM chip and 64MB of RAM handles them fine.
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On the 486, nothing. It just opens a page in some binary format that locks the computer up until it's done or the something crashes. Of course I'm not sure if you realize that a 486 is generally 75MHz or less. This one happens to jump in at around 45 or 50 with it being overclocked and in turbo mode.
The palm, I'm not sure about the name of the program. Whatever came stock with the Linux on my palm. I bought it at a yard sale and really know little more then whatever is running is a variant on Debian. I has an older version of Mozilla on it and works quite well. I has always done anything I needed. But it will display PDFs, it takes forever and a day with a reboot usually following shortly afterwards.