For some it will be good. For some bad. The diversity of life has historically increased with warming. Coastal cities won't like a sea level rise though.
Fixing a broken hard drive is quite easy. Simply restore from your backup to a new working drive. While you're at it, get a higher capacity drive as the prices will have dropped and the capacities will have improved....ah, you do keep daily backups, right? If not then you're one of those people who hires people like me to recover your data. It's expensive. Making backups is a lot cheaper.
"The lesson of the Facebook fiasco for Silicon Valley is clear. Start-up entrepreneurs cannot evade the discipline of the capital markets any more than can the prime ministers of Spain and Italy."
Wrong. Start-up entrepreneurs can just avoid the whole capital markets and stock market. Stay private. Focus on producing a service or product. Make a profit. Keep what the government doesn't take. Invest some back in the business. Grow slowly.
If you want to make money the best thing to do is do not buy stock but instead buy tools such as a computer, etc. Get raw materials, or make your own, and create product or service. This will return your investment orders of magnitude greater than if you buy stock.
My stock is grazing my other asset. When I want to sell some I harvest it and deliver it to customers. Inventory stays on the hoof, growing, until needed.
I hate the text of photos. People should post the actual text and have a photo with it if necessary. But the text over photo is awful for a whole lot of reasons.
No, you're completely missunderstanding the science. There is ice that was there 100,000 years ago. But there were also much larger areas that were farmable for a long period of time in recorded human history. Just because there was ice up in the mountains does not change the fact that there were large areas that were settled and farmable and then became uninhabitable with the cold spell that came about six hundred years ago.
"the 13 warmest years for the entire planet have all occurred since 1998"
False. It is a shame that people who write lies like the above failed science and history. Our planet has had much warmer periods and life thrived then with more biodiversity than we have now. Today is a relatively cool period. There have also been much colder times. The problem is some people are afraid of change. The reality is, life is filled with change. The Earth has been both warmer and cooler in the past. The current temperature and sea levels are just what modern people are used to living at.
Which is why one does real research. I need non-corroding reinforcing for a bit of concrete I'm pouring in a USDA meat processing facility. Rather than just reading surface reviews I read deeply, I talk with people in the industry that I know, I read the science reports, I get samples, I test... Advertising plays no part in it.
Greenland used to be farm land. It was called, "Green" land for a reason. But then about 600 years ago the planet cooled and Greenland farmers had to abandon their land. Harsh, and no, it wasn't because of humans causing climate change. Rather climate change has happened on a regular basis in cycles over the last several billion years. Now it is warming up and can be farms again.
The reality is that during periods of warming there was greater diversity. People need to stop focusing on climate change and focus instead on the real problems like toxic pollution and war. Global Warming is a just a distraction.
The problem is I never buy X or Y. Ever. I go for W or Z which I research and find are what really fit my needs. So the advertising dollars spent on X and Y are wasted when the ads are presented to me. You want to believe otherwise but you're simply off base.
The advertisers scream and rant and rave. Pretty soon we filter them out both with automatic filtering done at the software level and and mental filtering done at the wetware level.
If I want something I go looking for it. Advertising doesn't make me buy. Thus advertising is a waste of money. It just jacks up the costs. In tight markets that extra cost makes or breaks.
This is a great idea but it is not all that hard. I have lots of stuff that is in my attic which has been sitting for over a quarter century and it is fine. I would agree with the concern about CD-R dyes however there are some disks that are advertised as being archival quality and good for over 100 years. I buy those and I make multiple copies.
The biggest issue is format changes and lack of support for old software, hardware and data formats. Companies like Apple should be ashamed at their abandonment of compatibility with the old in their relentless drive for new, new, new.
Let's say one accepted your proposal - it still needs a tweak.
1) The original patent creator must be able to implement and sell the product with the patent for three years before this 'mechanical license' is implemented for other holders.
2) No government entity can be on the board of the standards group.
3) No person associated with any company involved can be on the standards group nor can they go to work for nor accept any payment or benefit from any company who would benefit for a period of ten years.
This still leaves the problem that patents are being granted too easily for way too many obvious things.
Gee. I think a bit of warming would be a good thing. But it has nothing to do with politics. I simply live in the cold north lands. Warming would open up more of our season to being able to grow things. City folk and southern folk don't understand this aspect. Not surprisingly, most liberals come from urban areas.
I'm pro-Global Warming. Think about it. The greatest biodiversity has been during periods of warming. The greatest die offs, not caused by things like astroids, was during ice ages. Warming is good.
"restricting access to whole regions of the human genome will stifle scientific progress."
Not in the slightest. Eliminating patents on genes, software and most other things would greatly enhance scientific progress. Patents are dampening both science and commerce.
I don't have the exact numbers now because I did it well over a decade ago but it was under $1,500 and about 500'. The primary cost was the optical to ethernet connectors and the hubs. The fiber wasn't all that much. I had it custom fabbed for the lengths I needed - e.g., the company put the end connectors on so it was all just plug and play. Very nice. Now prices should be even lower. Google price search something like this and you'll get more meaningful modern prices:
This fall I may install the copper cable that goes down the mountain from me to the phone company but perhaps I'll replace it with fiber. The copper cable has suffered badly from the lightning strikes/EMPs in the over 20 years it has been there. Even the best grounding and surge suppression in the world doesn't do much to protect against that. But, fiber is immune to EMP/Lightning.
The people trying to legislate it don't get it. You can't legislate what happens in someone else's country. If you want what is in that country then you may need to move there.
Actually, tax payers usually don't own the rights of way. Rather the rights of way is over land owned by private people and leased or taken by easement either voluntarily or involuntarily by government for utilities. Tax payers have little to do with it.
I know a little bit (re-read "lot") about this as I own a a fair bit of land with rights of way for the utilities over it. The joke is, for much of it, most of it, I'm the only one it serves since I'm the last mile and a half.
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...is global warming good or bad.
For some it will be good. For some bad. The diversity of life has historically increased with warming. Coastal cities won't like a sea level rise though.
Fixing a broken hard drive is quite easy. Simply restore from your backup to a new working drive. While you're at it, get a higher capacity drive as the prices will have dropped and the capacities will have improved. ...ah, you do keep daily backups, right? If not then you're one of those people who hires people like me to recover your data. It's expensive. Making backups is a lot cheaper.
"The government also argued that it could keep Megaupload in legal limbo indefinitely."
Translation: We're big so we can do what ever we please and damn the courts, the people and what is right.
"The lesson of the Facebook fiasco for Silicon Valley is clear. Start-up entrepreneurs cannot evade the discipline of the capital markets any more than can the prime ministers of Spain and Italy."
Wrong. Start-up entrepreneurs can just avoid the whole capital markets and stock market. Stay private. Focus on producing a service or product. Make a profit. Keep what the government doesn't take. Invest some back in the business. Grow slowly.
If you want to make money the best thing to do is do not buy stock but instead buy tools such as a computer, etc. Get raw materials, or make your own, and create product or service. This will return your investment orders of magnitude greater than if you buy stock.
My stock is grazing my other asset. When I want to sell some I harvest it and deliver it to customers. Inventory stays on the hoof, growing, until needed.
"$75/mo just for internet seems steep for most people."
We pay more than that per month for internet for much slower speeds than that. Local telco has a monopoly and they use it.
No, that would by hypocritical.
I hate the text of photos. People should post the actual text and have a photo with it if necessary. But the text over photo is awful for a whole lot of reasons.
No, you're completely missunderstanding the science. There is ice that was there 100,000 years ago. But there were also much larger areas that were farmable for a long period of time in recorded human history. Just because there was ice up in the mountains does not change the fact that there were large areas that were settled and farmable and then became uninhabitable with the cold spell that came about six hundred years ago.
"the 13 warmest years for the entire planet have all occurred since 1998"
False. It is a shame that people who write lies like the above failed science and history. Our planet has had much warmer periods and life thrived then with more biodiversity than we have now. Today is a relatively cool period. There have also been much colder times. The problem is some people are afraid of change. The reality is, life is filled with change. The Earth has been both warmer and cooler in the past. The current temperature and sea levels are just what modern people are used to living at.
Which is why one does real research. I need non-corroding reinforcing for a bit of concrete I'm pouring in a USDA meat processing facility. Rather than just reading surface reviews I read deeply, I talk with people in the industry that I know, I read the science reports, I get samples, I test... Advertising plays no part in it.
Greenland used to be farm land. It was called, "Green" land for a reason. But then about 600 years ago the planet cooled and Greenland farmers had to abandon their land. Harsh, and no, it wasn't because of humans causing climate change. Rather climate change has happened on a regular basis in cycles over the last several billion years. Now it is warming up and can be farms again.
The reality is that during periods of warming there was greater diversity. People need to stop focusing on climate change and focus instead on the real problems like toxic pollution and war. Global Warming is a just a distraction.
In other words he's jealous.
The problem is I never buy X or Y. Ever. I go for W or Z which I research and find are what really fit my needs. So the advertising dollars spent on X and Y are wasted when the ads are presented to me. You want to believe otherwise but you're simply off base.
The advertisers scream and rant and rave. Pretty soon we filter them out both with automatic filtering done at the software level and and mental filtering done at the wetware level.
If I want something I go looking for it. Advertising doesn't make me buy. Thus advertising is a waste of money. It just jacks up the costs. In tight markets that extra cost makes or breaks.
WYSIWYG write awful code. Hand coding is much better.
*sigh* Such a pity people don't read (understand?) posts before replying. Or was that humor?
This is a great idea but it is not all that hard. I have lots of stuff that is in my attic which has been sitting for over a quarter century and it is fine. I would agree with the concern about CD-R dyes however there are some disks that are advertised as being archival quality and good for over 100 years. I buy those and I make multiple copies.
The biggest issue is format changes and lack of support for old software, hardware and data formats. Companies like Apple should be ashamed at their abandonment of compatibility with the old in their relentless drive for new, new, new.
Let's say one accepted your proposal - it still needs a tweak.
1) The original patent creator must be able to implement and sell the product with the patent for three years before this 'mechanical license' is implemented for other holders.
2) No government entity can be on the board of the standards group.
3) No person associated with any company involved can be on the standards group nor can they go to work for nor accept any payment or benefit from any company who would benefit for a period of ten years.
This still leaves the problem that patents are being granted too easily for way too many obvious things.
Gee. I think a bit of warming would be a good thing. But it has nothing to do with politics. I simply live in the cold north lands. Warming would open up more of our season to being able to grow things. City folk and southern folk don't understand this aspect. Not surprisingly, most liberals come from urban areas.
I'm pro-Global Warming. Think about it. The greatest biodiversity has been during periods of warming. The greatest die offs, not caused by things like astroids, was during ice ages. Warming is good.
Oh, and no, I'm not a political conservative.
"restricting access to whole regions of the human genome will stifle scientific progress."
Not in the slightest. Eliminating patents on genes, software and most other things would greatly enhance scientific progress. Patents are dampening both science and commerce.
When I do replace the cable I'll probably write about it on my blog. Watch:
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/
Probably fall-ish. If it doesn't happen before we freeze in for winter then it will have to wait until 2013.
I don't have the exact numbers now because I did it well over a decade ago but it was under $1,500 and about 500'. The primary cost was the optical to ethernet connectors and the hubs. The fiber wasn't all that much. I had it custom fabbed for the lengths I needed - e.g., the company put the end connectors on so it was all just plug and play. Very nice. Now prices should be even lower. Google price search something like this and you'll get more meaningful modern prices:
http://www.google.com/search?tbm=shop&q=fiber+optic+cable&tbs=p_ord:p
This fall I may install the copper cable that goes down the mountain from me to the phone company but perhaps I'll replace it with fiber. The copper cable has suffered badly from the lightning strikes/EMPs in the over 20 years it has been there. Even the best grounding and surge suppression in the world doesn't do much to protect against that. But, fiber is immune to EMP/Lightning.
The people trying to legislate it don't get it. You can't legislate what happens in someone else's country. If you want what is in that country then you may need to move there.
The USPTO has a long history of making bad decisions. Don't confuse clerks with intelligence.
Actually, tax payers usually don't own the rights of way. Rather the rights of way is over land owned by private people and leased or taken by easement either voluntarily or involuntarily by government for utilities. Tax payers have little to do with it.
I know a little bit (re-read "lot") about this as I own a a fair bit of land with rights of way for the utilities over it. The joke is, for much of it, most of it, I'm the only one it serves since I'm the last mile and a half.