Last time I saw real player was when I installed google pack on a windows machine years ago. I love picasa and google earth, and at the time a few of the other packages seemed like nice things to get all in 1 install. Real player was the deal killer- I never could figure out what good it was. It seems like it spent more of my time and CPU cycles trying to sell me on an upgrade than doing anything useful. What was/is google thinking on that one?
The version I am familiar with is an acre of hemp producing as much as 4 acres of trees. My question is always: are we talking about the same acre of land? Or are we comparing Ohio farmland with Oregon forest land? What kind of trees? A lot of forest production in the western U.S. is on land too steep or rocky to be cultivated and planted with an annual crop. Even in your hybrid poplar production systems proposed for riparian areas, we are talking about land that we don't want to be tilling every year for the production of an annual crop. From a physiological basis, I doubt that a C3 plant like hemp could outyield a c4 plant like corn or switchgrass (panicum spp.) in a favorable environment
From 1978 to 1996, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fuels Development funded a program to
develop renewable transportation fuels from algae. The main focus of the program, know as the Aquatic
Species Program (or ASP) was the production of biodiesel from high lipid-content algae grown in ponds,
utilizing waste CO2 from coal fired power plants. Over the almost two decades of this program,
tremendous advances were made in the science of manipulating the metabolism of algae and the
engineering of microalgae algae production systems. Technical highlights of the program are summarized
below: A major conclusion from these analyses is that there is
little prospect for any alternatives to the open pond designs, given the low cost
requirements associated with fuel production. The factors that most influence cost
are biological, and not engineering-related. These analyses point to the need for
highly productive organisms capable of near-theoretical levels of conversion of
sunlight to biomass. Even with aggressive assumptions about biological
productivity, we project costs for biodiesel which are two times higher than current
petroleum diesel fuel costs.
You owe me $.15 for all 3 members of my MS (ecology) committee & another nickle for my PhD (agronomy) advisor. The rest of my committee isn't formed yet, but 1 potential member, a tenured professor with dozens of journal pubs and a book chapter, looked at me funny the other day when I complained about people who don't use styles in MS Word. Styles??? what's that?
The Journals published by the American Society of Agronomy specifically forbid "typeset" formats such as.tex and require either word or word perfect.
My advisor still prefers wordperfect, but deals with.doc as he needs to. I sent him an.odf recently and he refused to even consider yet another program.
I'm tempted to offer to install lyx on his windows machine? We do need to have "track changes" type functionality(as well as table formatting) and Open Office is NOT compatible with Word at that level.
Our department is just about falling apart over this.docx baloney... My IT person told me "you might not like it, but it is just the way things are going and you have to use it" regarding office 2007 on the windows machine I use occasionally.
What to do?
Yeah- that deb installs Picasa & wine together and everything works OK. But it's far from perfect.
From the Picasa FAQ:
Q: Will more Google applications be ported to Linux under Wine?
A: If Picasa for Linux is successful, then other Google applications (and future versions of Picasa) may also be ported using Wine. (Google Earth won't be one of them, though; it will be a native Linux application.) For more info on Wine, please visit http://winehq.org./
I am an ex-windows-power-user, using exclusively Ubuntu on the desktop for about 6 months now for academic, home, and media center purposes. I might be in the market for a new Dell laptop with Ubuntu- except Ubuntu runs great on my old Pentium M laptop. Even compiz runs great on an intel 915. The only app I have ever successfully run under wine is Picasa, and someone else did all the work to make that fairly painless. It still sucks (colors, themes, file paths...)- Linux is not windows and should not try to be windows.
With Ubuntu all the apps I've needed are there under System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager: OpenOffice, Bibus, Inkscape, Scribus GIMP, Gnumeric, R... it all works and it is so refreshingly free of crass commercialism. No free trial versions with upgrade-offer popups, no ads, no need for spyware/virus software, my printer/camera/scanner software doesn't interrupt presentations asking for upgrades anymore. I can plug in an external hard drive and not wait while windows scans the whole thing for media files. The user is in control and that is the way it should be.
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against the earth's rotation...
And then we do it in gnumeric...
Last time I saw real player was when I installed google pack on a windows machine years ago. I love picasa and google earth, and at the time a few of the other packages seemed like nice things to get all in 1 install. Real player was the deal killer- I never could figure out what good it was. It seems like it spent more of my time and CPU cycles trying to sell me on an upgrade than doing anything useful. What was/is google thinking on that one?
Google can map 200 million galaxies in 3-D but can't come up with a road map of Mexico? What's up?
The version I am familiar with is an acre of hemp producing as much as 4 acres of trees. My question is always: are we talking about the same acre of land? Or are we comparing Ohio farmland with Oregon forest land? What kind of trees? A lot of forest production in the western U.S. is on land too steep or rocky to be cultivated and planted with an annual crop. Even in your hybrid poplar production systems proposed for riparian areas, we are talking about land that we don't want to be tilling every year for the production of an annual crop. From a physiological basis, I doubt that a C3 plant like hemp could outyield a c4 plant like corn or switchgrass (panicum spp.) in a favorable environment
You owe me $.15 for all 3 members of my MS (ecology) committee & another nickle for my PhD (agronomy) advisor. The rest of my committee isn't formed yet, but 1 potential member, a tenured professor with dozens of journal pubs and a book chapter, looked at me funny the other day when I complained about people who don't use styles in MS Word. Styles??? what's that? The Journals published by the American Society of Agronomy specifically forbid "typeset" formats such as .tex and require either word or word perfect.
My advisor still prefers wordperfect, but deals with .doc as he needs to. I sent him an .odf recently and he refused to even consider yet another program.
I'm tempted to offer to install lyx on his windows machine? We do need to have "track changes" type functionality(as well as table formatting) and Open Office is NOT compatible with Word at that level.
Our department is just about falling apart over this .docx baloney... My IT person told me "you might not like it, but it is just the way things are going and you have to use it" regarding office 2007 on the windows machine I use occasionally.
What to do?
From the Picasa FAQ:
Q: Will more Google applications be ported to Linux under Wine?A: If Picasa for Linux is successful, then other Google applications (and future versions of Picasa) may also be ported using Wine. (Google Earth won't be one of them, though; it will be a native Linux application.) For more info on Wine, please visit http://winehq.org./
I am an ex-windows-power-user, using exclusively Ubuntu on the desktop for about 6 months now for academic, home, and media center purposes. I might be in the market for a new Dell laptop with Ubuntu- except Ubuntu runs great on my old Pentium M laptop. Even compiz runs great on an intel 915. The only app I have ever successfully run under wine is Picasa, and someone else did all the work to make that fairly painless. It still sucks (colors, themes, file paths...)- Linux is not windows and should not try to be windows. With Ubuntu all the apps I've needed are there under System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager: OpenOffice, Bibus, Inkscape, Scribus GIMP, Gnumeric, R... it all works and it is so refreshingly free of crass commercialism. No free trial versions with upgrade-offer popups, no ads, no need for spyware/virus software, my printer/camera/scanner software doesn't interrupt presentations asking for upgrades anymore. I can plug in an external hard drive and not wait while windows scans the whole thing for media files. The user is in control and that is the way it should be.