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I quit reading this comment pretty quickly. CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas. I am slightly worried.
Methane, water and CFCs are all greenhouse gases (CFCs also eat ozone). CO2 emissions have risen along with the temperature, and burning fossil fuel is reintroducing carbon that was originally taken out of circulation.
To argue that our CO2 does not account for much, is folly. If you take a finely balanced old-fashioned weight with a few thousand pounds on it, and add just a few ounces, you'll see what we're doing right now.
Currently, UN is rather ineffective, as far as I can tell. Part of the reason for this lack of results may be the current administration's dislike for UN.
Part of the reason why I think the UN needs reform is that theere is too much voting going on. Frankly, I think some more leadership may very well be the way to go. If you elect a leader, you get leadership. If you elect a representative, you get someone to represent you. Too many representatives is not necessarily a good thing, if no clear coalition holds the majority.
The EU is also struggling with some of the same issues. Respecting the national identities and rights of the members while also being an efficient international body that can lead when needed is a very difficult undertaking. Can you think of any international political body that truly works?
The reason why it is important to establish effective international organizations is that the big corporations are already quite effective at working internationally, and we as consumers stand to lose ground against the corporations unless we make sure the international trade is properly monitored.
And, please, don't argue that corporations are benevolent bodies that seek to serve us as efficiently as possible. Corporations are money-making entities. However, most of them would rip you off without blinking given the chance. We as consumers must be educated. If we are not educated, we will never have a true market economy since competition will not be based upon merit, but rather upon presentation.
If someone ever got Natalie Portman to post a message on Slashdot, then I bet the site would plain kneel, both emotionally and performance-wise.
Maybe it would be possible to get her to do a slashdot interview, if prodded correctly? After all, nerds constitute a large portion of her revenue stream. She owes us that.
They're only trying to maximize US control of the internet. If you consider the history of the current administration on international matters, you could argue that they certainly do not represent the world opinion any more than the ICANN does.
If we really want a good ICANN, reform UN and then put ICANN under their control. That way, the rest of us won't be f*cked if the next administration decides only US Citizens can control.com,.net and.org domains.
When one of those first IIS worms hit (was it Code Red? It said "hacked by the chinese"), windowsupdate.microsoft.com was compromized. Upload a backdoored version of some critical updates, and voila! You've got yourself several thousand backdoored computers for you to further compromise.
I believe Netscape 7 implements AIM & ICQ. The implementation is prolly proprietary, and that's why it's not in moz. Or maybe they wanted to exclude it from moz since having IM in moz would remove the final reason to go with NS7 rather than moz1.
But I believe we have something like that in Norway. Rakfisk. There is a risk it will develop botulism in the rotting process. Nasty, nasty stuff, too.
Anyhow, this is all sad, sad stuff. People were starving, had some rotten fish or a sheep's head after a (bear|pack of wolves) ate the rest, and made the best of it. I just don't understand why well off people feel the need to eat these leftovers from historical lows in order to feel "Swedish" or "Norwegian". Christ, we're even corresponding in English;)
Lutefisk is for wussies. The hard eat-their-own-shorts-for-breakfast type of norwegian eat Smalahovud for dinner every day.
Take one sheep's head. Stick it in the oven, roast it until the wool is singed, take it out, and eat it. Preferably, start with the eyeballs. Extra bonus tough-guy points for sucking them out of their sockets.
Slightly exaggerated, it's not far from the truth. They do stick sheep's heads in the oven to bake them, and eat brains, cheeks and eyes indistrimatingly. We are your allies. Be very afraid.
If Einstein is right, then there is no hope for a loophole in physics that would allow cool stuff like bullet time and rocket jumping to be carried out in real life.
If someone thought Einstein was wrong, and attempted these moves, then the precision of the theory of relativety would truly become deadly.
Can you imagine the jocks with the lame gopher mascot getting back after years of abuse from the Mountain Lions: "My mascot is more powerful than yours. It will rape your browser!".
I've asked this elsewhere. Ruby was designed with respect to perl, but all the same keeping to the principle of least surprise (which perl does not adhere to). Now, with Perl starting to look like a grown-up, mature language, what will the major differences between Ruby and Perl be?
I dunno about the history of the name of "ottar", though I know it's widely used in the germanic world. Think Otto.
However, 'Grepstad' is a surname derived from the name of a farm. 'stad' means place, so his last name would mean something like 'place of grep'. 'Grep' means several things in norwegian. I believe some farming implement goes by 'grep', but also it could mean to grasp (physically, mainly). Besides, those farm names stem from archaic norwegian, so 'grep' might have meant something else in the past.
If you can produce a 1ghz processor cheaply, why bitch about it being too powerful? You can run advanced handwriting recognition and speech recognition software. You might be able to make games. The stylus could make sniping an even more intuitive activity.
This is quite interesting. People generally buy cheap technology. Those that don't, buy sophisticated, cutting edge technology. Both cutting edge and cheap technology is riddled with poor quality. Will people ever learn?
If you spend those extra bucks on upgrading your gigahertz celeron from 128 megs of ram to 512 megs of ram, it will last performance-wise for one or two more years. But Mr. Salesman doesn't tell Mr. Doe that. He just smiles when Mr. Doe opts for the cheaper system, and says "Come back soon" with a diabolical grin as Mr. Doe leaves.
Frankly, selling a gigahertz computer with 128 megs of ram is disgraceful. Really. It will just barely perform well enough when the customer tries it in the store. When the customer comes home, runs ICQ and an email client in addition to a web browser and Microsoft Office, it will kneel. Had the customer spent an extra hundred or so dollars on more RAM, things would be much smoother. Until the computer business cleans this up, I would advocate that some standard benchmarks be developed and mandated to be displayed with price, so that the customer can themselves see how much oomph they get for their buck.
That was a bit of a sidetrack.
The point is that you have big corporations with really smart people, little accountability and large resources attempting to make money. They do so by selling products. Do you really expect the average buyer to fully understand the pros and cons of the complex products we develop?
I personally don't. It's about time we developed standards for QA, along with ethical guidelines for the stuff we sell. Basic things like "is this useful?" and "does it work?" are forgotten in the rush for dough. In addition to listening to customer feedback (both in cash and writing), we should ourselves figure out the premises we compete on. By cutting quality, and giving the cost cut to the customer, you're doing the customer a huge disservice. Please stop.
That way, she can truly be a subversive, mp3 & divx-sharing commie spawn. Alternatively, if she's strapped for cash, she can burn adult dvds of herself. I bet your friend would love you for giving his daughter that opportunity!
If you make the return trip "a possiblity", I'm afraid you'd have trouble finding sane, balanced people wanting to go. Sure, you could find off-center and/or extremist people that would be willing to leave planet earth forever, but I'm worried about how these people would endure hardships and if they would keep their cool in crisis.
Rather than just whining, he should make sure that cvs is improved. File renaming, deletion, conflict resolution, IDE integration. The list of needed improvements is long.
Hmm. I wonder if it's possible to write a revision control system in perl?
I haven't read the novel yet. I saw the movie, though. I actually bought the DVD. The movie is excellent. Hilarious and outrageous, just plain good story-tellin' - all qualities Jon Katz that claims are important in a movie.
Before you go, you should figure out if he received money from any special interest group or corporation. If he's been bought, a good followup question could be "Do you feel that there is a conflict of interest in making a statement on this issue, when you received $xx.xxx from yyyyyyy inc?".
Pretending for the sake of an argument that no smaller transistors were possible, our smallest CPU is 1 cm^2. Moving to 2-way SMP requires 2 cm^2, plus whatever additional logic and hardware you need on the board in order to make the chips work together. Now we're talking. Consider the fact that cooling the 8ghz processor could require 16 cm^2 worth of real estate for the required liquid cooling system, while you might get away with the same amount of real estate (or less) if you had 8 smaller, more efficient processors. So, if the processors start to disspate one kilowatt of thermal energy (that's as much as some electrical heaters), the amount of power and space needed to cool this down might pave way for the desktop SMP.
However, we're ignoring the fact that our computers might be rather dumb in the future. If we're all fiber-connected, I can see a point where processing power is part of the internet connection deal.
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I quit reading this comment pretty quickly. CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas. I am slightly worried.
Methane, water and CFCs are all greenhouse gases (CFCs also eat ozone). CO2 emissions have risen along with the temperature, and burning fossil fuel is reintroducing carbon that was originally taken out of circulation.
To argue that our CO2 does not account for much, is folly. If you take a finely balanced old-fashioned weight with a few thousand pounds on it, and add just a few ounces, you'll see what we're doing right now.
Currently, UN is rather ineffective, as far as I can tell. Part of the reason for this lack of results may be the current administration's dislike for UN.
Part of the reason why I think the UN needs reform is that theere is too much voting going on. Frankly, I think some more leadership may very well be the way to go. If you elect a leader, you get leadership. If you elect a representative, you get someone to represent you. Too many representatives is not necessarily a good thing, if no clear coalition holds the majority.
The EU is also struggling with some of the same issues. Respecting the national identities and rights of the members while also being an efficient international body that can lead when needed is a very difficult undertaking. Can you think of any international political body that truly works?
The reason why it is important to establish effective international organizations is that the big corporations are already quite effective at working internationally, and we as consumers stand to lose ground against the corporations unless we make sure the international trade is properly monitored.
And, please, don't argue that corporations are benevolent bodies that seek to serve us as efficiently as possible. Corporations are money-making entities. However, most of them would rip you off without blinking given the chance. We as consumers must be educated. If we are not educated, we will never have a true market economy since competition will not be based upon merit, but rather upon presentation.
If someone ever got Natalie Portman to post a message on Slashdot, then I bet the site would plain kneel, both emotionally and performance-wise.
Maybe it would be possible to get her to do a slashdot interview, if prodded correctly? After all, nerds constitute a large portion of her revenue stream. She owes us that.
They're only trying to maximize US control of the internet. If you consider the history of the current administration on international matters, you could argue that they certainly do not represent the world opinion any more than the ICANN does.
.com, .net and .org domains.
If we really want a good ICANN, reform UN and then put ICANN under their control. That way, the rest of us won't be f*cked if the next administration decides only US Citizens can control
When one of those first IIS worms hit (was it Code Red? It said "hacked by the chinese"), windowsupdate.microsoft.com was compromized. Upload a backdoored version of some critical updates, and voila! You've got yourself several thousand backdoored computers for you to further compromise.
I believe Netscape 7 implements AIM & ICQ. The implementation is prolly proprietary, and that's why it's not in moz. Or maybe they wanted to exclude it from moz since having IM in moz would remove the final reason to go with NS7 rather than moz1.
Man. We need to write sci-fi movie scripts, at least you.
But I believe we have something like that in Norway. Rakfisk. There is a risk it will develop botulism in the rotting process. Nasty, nasty stuff, too.
;)
Anyhow, this is all sad, sad stuff. People were starving, had some rotten fish or a sheep's head after a (bear|pack of wolves) ate the rest, and made the best of it. I just don't understand why well off people feel the need to eat these leftovers from historical lows in order to feel "Swedish" or "Norwegian". Christ, we're even corresponding in English
Lutefisk is for wussies. The hard eat-their-own-shorts-for-breakfast type of norwegian eat Smalahovud for dinner every day.
Take one sheep's head. Stick it in the oven, roast it until the wool is singed, take it out, and eat it. Preferably, start with the eyeballs. Extra bonus tough-guy points for sucking them out of their sockets.
Slightly exaggerated, it's not far from the truth. They do stick sheep's heads in the oven to bake them, and eat brains, cheeks and eyes indistrimatingly. We are your allies. Be very afraid.
I just wish they could reduce the memory footprint more. Then, we could have Mozilla on embedded devices and PS2.
Hrmph. Can't have it all, I guess.
If Einstein is right, then there is no hope for a loophole in physics that would allow cool stuff like bullet time and rocket jumping to be carried out in real life.
If someone thought Einstein was wrong, and attempted these moves, then the precision of the theory of relativety would truly become deadly.
I know. The logic doesn't hold...
In windows terminology, isn't this known as "access level escalation"?
Can you imagine the jocks with the lame gopher mascot getting back after years of abuse from the Mountain Lions: "My mascot is more powerful than yours. It will rape your browser!".
I've asked this elsewhere. Ruby was designed with respect to perl, but all the same keeping to the principle of least surprise (which perl does not adhere to). Now, with Perl starting to look like a grown-up, mature language, what will the major differences between Ruby and Perl be?
I dunno about the history of the name of "ottar", though I know it's widely used in the germanic world. Think Otto.
However, 'Grepstad' is a surname derived from the name of a farm. 'stad' means place, so his last name would mean something like 'place of grep'. 'Grep' means several things in norwegian. I believe some farming implement goes by 'grep', but also it could mean to grasp (physically, mainly). Besides, those farm names stem from archaic norwegian, so 'grep' might have meant something else in the past.
But that would put in violation of rules that you're not allowed to store cardnumbers.
Sound cards need to have digital output, so that we can hook our computer into our THX-compliant monster system.
Seriously, though, an external DAC unifies the sound from your DVD, MD and PC.
If you can produce a 1ghz processor cheaply, why bitch about it being too powerful? You can run advanced handwriting recognition and speech recognition software. You might be able to make games. The stylus could make sniping an even more intuitive activity.
Look at the opportunities, man.
This is quite interesting. People generally buy cheap technology. Those that don't, buy sophisticated, cutting edge technology. Both cutting edge and cheap technology is riddled with poor quality. Will people ever learn?
If you spend those extra bucks on upgrading your gigahertz celeron from 128 megs of ram to 512 megs of ram, it will last performance-wise for one or two more years. But Mr. Salesman doesn't tell Mr. Doe that. He just smiles when Mr. Doe opts for the cheaper system, and says "Come back soon" with a diabolical grin as Mr. Doe leaves.
Frankly, selling a gigahertz computer with 128 megs of ram is disgraceful. Really. It will just barely perform well enough when the customer tries it in the store. When the customer comes home, runs ICQ and an email client in addition to a web browser and Microsoft Office, it will kneel. Had the customer spent an extra hundred or so dollars on more RAM, things would be much smoother. Until the computer business cleans this up, I would advocate that some standard benchmarks be developed and mandated to be displayed with price, so that the customer can themselves see how much oomph they get for their buck.
That was a bit of a sidetrack.
The point is that you have big corporations with really smart people, little accountability and large resources attempting to make money. They do so by selling products. Do you really expect the average buyer to fully understand the pros and cons of the complex products we develop?
I personally don't. It's about time we developed standards for QA, along with ethical guidelines for the stuff we sell. Basic things like "is this useful?" and "does it work?" are forgotten in the rush for dough. In addition to listening to customer feedback (both in cash and writing), we should ourselves figure out the premises we compete on. By cutting quality, and giving the cost cut to the customer, you're doing the customer a huge disservice. Please stop.
That way, she can truly be a subversive, mp3 & divx-sharing commie spawn. Alternatively, if she's strapped for cash, she can burn adult dvds of herself. I bet your friend would love you for giving his daughter that opportunity!
If you make the return trip "a possiblity", I'm afraid you'd have trouble finding sane, balanced people wanting to go. Sure, you could find off-center and/or extremist people that would be willing to leave planet earth forever, but I'm worried about how these people would endure hardships and if they would keep their cool in crisis.
Rather than just whining, he should make sure that cvs is improved. File renaming, deletion, conflict resolution, IDE integration. The list of needed improvements is long.
Hmm. I wonder if it's possible to write a revision control system in perl?
I haven't read the novel yet. I saw the movie, though. I actually bought the DVD. The movie is excellent. Hilarious and outrageous, just plain good story-tellin' - all qualities Jon Katz that claims are important in a movie.
Before you go, you should figure out if he received money from any special interest group or corporation. If he's been bought, a good followup question could be "Do you feel that there is a conflict of interest in making a statement on this issue, when you received $xx.xxx from yyyyyyy inc?".
However, we're ignoring the fact that our computers might be rather dumb in the future. If we're all fiber-connected, I can see a point where processing power is part of the internet connection deal.