High methane from cows is a symptom of the problem, which is that most beef is from feedlots. Not only is the huge amount of waste produced by the feedlots a large methane source, but also the fields that are used to grow the feed (mostly corn). This article (print version: http://www.motherearthnews.com/print-article.aspx?id=150244) explains that conventional feedlot agriculture emits carbon dioxide and methane both on the fields and the feedlots, while rotational intensive grazing sequesters carbon and emits much less methane.
Needing a computer with 1gb of ram, and especially a 120-160 GB hard disk (I assumed you meant GB for hard disks) is exactly what the economist is cautioning against, treating a netbook as a general laptop, and not a machine designed to do a small set of specific tasks.
In 1918, the United States passed the Sedition act, accidentally breaking democracy. That act made it illegal to write/say anything against the U.S. government.
See what I mean? Ultimately, I think the *only* sensible metric is figuring out which option costs you, the consumer, the least to go with.
Whoa, is seems as if you are saying that since a decision is complicated, we should stick with whatever we have been doing and is therefore cheaper. Isn't that a bit of a surrender?
Most people won't be able/willing to install an operating system on their computer. Especially since it is often more difficult to set a windows system than a Linux one (Linux almost certainly will already have many of your drivers, you have to download much more for Windows). So, the only way your argument to be complete is if each and every person who buys a linux computer does it exclusively for the purpose of putting XP on it.
Facial Expressions to control people? Does this mean that I will point at spots on my computer by glaring at them? Will angry or distressed facial expressions cancel dialog boxes? Will inquisitive or happy expressions answer dialogs positively? Will dismissive glances close windows?
And most importantly of all, will this be a disability for people with damage that relates to the expression of emotions? What use are computers for expression by autistic people if they can't use the computer.
I am a HS Senior going through the college admissions process. The schools that have the best M/F ratio are the most selective ones, the ones with the most choice of applicants. (For example, MIT is 47-53, and RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) is more like 70-30). The most helpful thing for a student looking at an engineering major is to be female. All a quota would do for undergraduate education is to dilute the students for less prestigious schools.
Why are you so quick to call it FUD? Isn't it much more effective to simply correct the people who claim that "piracy/bootlegging/copyright violation is killing the video game industry". If correlation is the same as causation, then piracy is helping the video game industry.
I am typing on a cherry ML4100 mini-keyboard. Being slightly narrower than my macbook's keyboard, it is not quiet as efficient as my IBM model M, but it has cherry ML keyswitches, which are essentially tactile laptop sized switches. The das keyboard probably uses the full sized cherry keyswitches because the buckling spring switches seem to be only Unicomp's domain and the ALPS keyswitches that other old keyboards are made of are no longer being produced. Note: tactile is not loud, these are fairly quiet. Also, since it is laptop sized, and not made of metal, I can take it to school/work and not look or sound that weird.
It can be had for 25 on ebay, and with more money, you can get one with windows keys. The main disadvantages are that being a mini keyboard, there is only one control key, and the keys around the arrow keys are cramped. Also, it doesn't have a separate numpad.
Isn't the violent crime in GTA at least as violent as drunk driving. If drunk driving is equal to violent crime, why should one be removed while the other remains.
I think that Gates defines innovate as extend with proprietary technology. In that sense, the GPL software can not be built upon. So, Gates doesn't like the GPL because he can't embrace, extend, and extinguish. The GPL puts a stop to that. It only allows free extension of software.
The other side of this is, for anything more advanced than text-- given that you can get at the data, what do you open it with? File types die over time and it's basically impossible to find programs to open certain files nowadays, much less such programs that will run on a modern OS. I think the answer to this has to be virtualization. Store the data *and* programs that can open the filetypes you need opened inside a portable virtual machine (e.g., a Windows vmware image). Over time, you may have to layer virtual machines inside virtual machines as OSes grow obsolete. But that's okay- virtualization is only going to become more elegant, and the end result is that you'd have your data in its original environment, completely accessible by native programs.
Current virtualization doesn't really do graphics intensive things, so video still needs to be dealt with some other way
I can't wait until Microsoft starts losing patent lawsuits because there is a precedent of them promising an implementation of a feature, and failing to deliver.
At the end of the night, the results are printed (from the diebold machines) in paper. Also, you get a paper copy of that allows you to vote, and I don't think that anything significant happens if you ask a second to be printed. I worked the primaries, and as far as I can tell, the only difference between those and the general election is that party affiliation is not asked.
In order for traditional media to be crowded out, Wikipedia has to be either equal to or better than traditional media, or teachers have to stop noticing the difference. In the first case, the entire issue is void: Wikipedia is better. In the second case, the teachers are lazy and failing to check sources.
This is the "every pirated copy is a lost sale" theory. Which has been completly debunked. Quite simply the vast majority of the people involved are not "potential customers" in the first place.It's also very possible that the "pirate" version, which tends to be "Available worldwide and DRM free", will be the only version available to people. Possibly for months/years even forever. Actually, that theory is true. I use my linux server running 20 separate bittorrent configurations to pirate. Each one downloads two movies per day (for speed, they seed to each other, and each download two movies per day. By the end of the day, I have $20 per movie * 20 copies * 2 movies = $800 per day. I put the movies on a dvd at the end of the day (20 copies of the same thing have very good compression) and put it under my pillow. The piracy fairy brings me my $800 of disposable income straight from the pockets of the producers and actors and the movie industry.
We don't neuter people, because doing so would make us a fascist dictatorship. If you can control reproduction, then you can control the vote. Any intelligent person would refrain from trying to play god. And, not to break Godwin's law or anything, Hitler did the same thing, with his unqualified, devolved minorities.
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High methane from cows is a symptom of the problem, which is that most beef is from feedlots. Not only is the huge amount of waste produced by the feedlots a large methane source, but also the fields that are used to grow the feed (mostly corn). This article (print version: http://www.motherearthnews.com/print-article.aspx?id=150244) explains that conventional feedlot agriculture emits carbon dioxide and methane both on the fields and the feedlots, while rotational intensive grazing sequesters carbon and emits much less methane.
Yes. People are not capable of actually describing or predicting what makes them happy.
Here's an example about food: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce.html. This gets into how ineffective people are at predicting happiness http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html.
Well, actually... I have a friend who has a Beatles music book for piano training. So, it has happened, now we are just debating market penetration.
Slowly through V for Ventetta? I didn't so much work, as procrastinate directly through all of V for Vendetta in a matter of days.
You DON'T want to know what death does when you get him in bed...
Needing a computer with 1gb of ram, and especially a 120-160 GB hard disk (I assumed you meant GB for hard disks) is exactly what the economist is cautioning against, treating a netbook as a general laptop, and not a machine designed to do a small set of specific tasks.
If you just finished a massive research paper, wouldn't you want to dance?
I think that these are happy people eager to show their hard work to others.
No, your light bulb will spam you with morse code.
In 1918, the United States passed the Sedition act, accidentally breaking democracy. That act made it illegal to write/say anything against the U.S. government.
See what I mean? Ultimately, I think the *only* sensible metric is figuring out which option costs you, the consumer, the least to go with.
Whoa, is seems as if you are saying that since a decision is complicated, we should stick with whatever we have been doing and is therefore cheaper. Isn't that a bit of a surrender?
Most people won't be able/willing to install an operating system on their computer. Especially since it is often more difficult to set a windows system than a Linux one (Linux almost certainly will already have many of your drivers, you have to download much more for Windows). So, the only way your argument to be complete is if each and every person who buys a linux computer does it exclusively for the purpose of putting XP on it.
My history teacher bribed me with 500 BILLION Yugoslavian dollars (Jugoslavija) to stay at my school.
Facial Expressions to control people? Does this mean that I will point at spots on my computer by glaring at them? Will angry or distressed facial expressions cancel dialog boxes? Will inquisitive or happy expressions answer dialogs positively? Will dismissive glances close windows?
And most importantly of all, will this be a disability for people with damage that relates to the expression of emotions? What use are computers for expression by autistic people if they can't use the computer.
I am a HS Senior going through the college admissions process. The schools that have the best M/F ratio are the most selective ones, the ones with the most choice of applicants. (For example, MIT is 47-53, and RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) is more like 70-30). The most helpful thing for a student looking at an engineering major is to be female. All a quota would do for undergraduate education is to dilute the students for less prestigious schools.
Why are you so quick to call it FUD? Isn't it much more effective to simply correct the people who claim that "piracy/bootlegging/copyright violation is killing the video game industry". If correlation is the same as causation, then piracy is helping the video game industry.
I am typing on a cherry ML4100 mini-keyboard. Being slightly narrower than my macbook's keyboard, it is not quiet as efficient as my IBM model M, but it has cherry ML keyswitches, which are essentially tactile laptop sized switches. The das keyboard probably uses the full sized cherry keyswitches because the buckling spring switches seem to be only Unicomp's domain and the ALPS keyswitches that other old keyboards are made of are no longer being produced. Note: tactile is not loud, these are fairly quiet. Also, since it is laptop sized, and not made of metal, I can take it to school/work and not look or sound that weird.
It can be had for 25 on ebay, and with more money, you can get one with windows keys. The main disadvantages are that being a mini keyboard, there is only one control key, and the keys around the arrow keys are cramped. Also, it doesn't have a separate numpad.
Isn't the violent crime in GTA at least as violent as drunk driving. If drunk driving is equal to violent crime, why should one be removed while the other remains.
I think that Gates defines innovate as extend with proprietary technology. In that sense, the GPL software can not be built upon. So, Gates doesn't like the GPL because he can't embrace, extend, and extinguish. The GPL puts a stop to that. It only allows free extension of software.
Current virtualization doesn't really do graphics intensive things, so video still needs to be dealt with some other way
Be Careful! We wouldn't want to start an undead apocalypse because we jumped in the tub with our electronics.
I can't wait until Microsoft starts losing patent lawsuits because there is a precedent of them promising an implementation of a feature, and failing to deliver.
At the end of the night, the results are printed (from the diebold machines) in paper. Also, you get a paper copy of that allows you to vote, and I don't think that anything significant happens if you ask a second to be printed. I worked the primaries, and as far as I can tell, the only difference between those and the general election is that party affiliation is not asked.
In order for traditional media to be crowded out, Wikipedia has to be either equal to or better than traditional media, or teachers have to stop noticing the difference. In the first case, the entire issue is void: Wikipedia is better. In the second case, the teachers are lazy and failing to check sources.
This is the "every pirated copy is a lost sale" theory. Which has been completly debunked. Quite simply the vast majority of the people involved are not "potential customers" in the first place.It's also very possible that the "pirate" version, which tends to be "Available worldwide and DRM free", will be the only version available to people. Possibly for months/years even forever. Actually, that theory is true. I use my linux server running 20 separate bittorrent configurations to pirate. Each one downloads two movies per day (for speed, they seed to each other, and each download two movies per day. By the end of the day, I have $20 per movie * 20 copies * 2 movies = $800 per day. I put the movies on a dvd at the end of the day (20 copies of the same thing have very good compression) and put it under my pillow. The piracy fairy brings me my $800 of disposable income straight from the pockets of the producers and actors and the movie industry.
We don't neuter people, because doing so would make us a fascist dictatorship. If you can control reproduction, then you can control the vote. Any intelligent person would refrain from trying to play god. And, not to break Godwin's law or anything, Hitler did the same thing, with his unqualified, devolved minorities.