Slash&burn farming has nothing to do with "primitives" and everything with population pressure and poverty. As for logging, I'll believe your statements when I see some figures on that which have not been released by those companies themselves.
That's relatively meaningless metric. What counts in the end is the total pollution created, so it's not really interesting that some countries create more pollution per "unit of stuff" when they produce far, far fewer stuff.
In addition to that, we produce carbon dioxide thru processes like, say, breathing. Carbon dioxide is what plants breathe with.
More C02 means more plants! Oh no!!!
Or rather, it could mean more plans if twe let them, but we're busily destroying the earth's forests far quicker than they can grow, Sherlock.
serious question. Uranium is a mineral, it's found in the Earth. It's naturally occuring. And when it is used in a reactor, it's still
uranium afterwards.
Um, no. Those are fission reactors, remember? The uranium is turned into other elements that are far more radioactive.
Why is burying it back in the ground from whence it came a problem?
A lot of the most nasty toxic substances are also naturally occurring, so what's the problem with just dumping them somewhere?
Yeah, but the point is that in those countries perhaps one out of 5000 people has a car, while the US has probably more cars than people. Fact is, the US is the world's biggest polluter and energy waster by a LARGE margin.
Unfortunately, the fluctuation we're seeing now is more massive and happening more quickly than ever before... Is it really that smart to bet on "Oh well, it's probably not our fault" in the face of such catastrophic consequences?
Of course it can't be a substitute for a real keyboard. But I imaginge it would be much better than the handwriting recognition, onscreen keyboards or super-tiny keyboards you find on PDAs, or the horrid 9-key text input system that cell phones use. Those are both unergonomic and slow.
Better yet, how about combining the "slack space" concept with that of a steganographic filesystem? In fact, the two concepts fit together very well...
I wouldn't have lasted 3 seconds if we'd really played the game. Especially since there's some bug that disables firing after switching to full-screen mode (which in itself is quite tricky). It was really just a test to see if it would work.
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It's a challenge. People have done far stupider things just to prove that they're better at something than everyone else. Just take a look into the Guinness Book of Records...
Theoreticall, it is already possible right now. I've run Quake on my IPaq, in two-player over Ethernet (with the partner using a PC). It should work the same using Infrared and possibly Bluetooth.
Of course, the playability is very low. What we need for this to be really worth the bother is games that are designed for the small display and limited input ability of PDAs.
If you check it, you forsake the +1 bonus you get with sufficient Karma. You're encouraged to use it except when you think the posting you've just written actually is exceptionally useful (or funny, or whatever). It also increases your potential of being modded up by others.
It would of course have to be a custom distro, stripped of anything not necessary for the base functionality and prone to create expensive help desk calls, but instead with a powerful auto-configuring installer.
It's probably a misrepresentation of the method. The way I heard it, you first take the result of a general webcrawl and then run an algorithm on the resulting graph that discovers the communities. Then you classify the resulting communities using keyword methods.
Once again: Maybe you think that the light just "blinks" when recieving or sending data, but how can you tell that it's not actually blinking once for each bit (assuming Manchester encoding) and thus broadcasting your entire data?
Actually, it's quite likely; in fact, most LEDs can do that. Visible light and IR diodes don't really differ in their response time and can reproduce bandwidths of up to 10 MBit/s
The light blinks ON when data is going, OFF when it's not.
In most devices, but not all. Apparently most dialup modems and some routers indicate every bit recieved. Are you sure that your light is constantly on when recieving data and not actually flashing a full copy of your data? Your eyes sure can't tell the difference.
Well, the concept has beein applied in other countries for years. The German Verfassungsschutz ("constitution protection") is an agency that tracks organizations with anti-constitutional goals, and they get they get the vast majority of their intelligence from public sources.
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The appliance is not the first or only way Google sold its technology to companies.
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The speed - or the direction. And both ARE changing.
Slash&burn farming has nothing to do with "primitives" and everything with population pressure and poverty. As for logging, I'll believe your statements when I see some figures on that which have not been released by those companies themselves.
That's relatively meaningless metric. What counts in the end is the total pollution created, so it's not really interesting that some countries create more pollution per "unit of stuff" when they produce far, far fewer stuff.
More C02 means more plants! Oh no!!!
Or rather, it could mean more plans if twe let them, but we're busily destroying the earth's forests far quicker than they can grow, Sherlock.
uranium afterwards.
Um, no. Those are fission reactors, remember? The uranium is turned into other elements that are far more radioactive.
Why is burying it back in the ground from whence it came a problem?
A lot of the most nasty toxic substances are also naturally occurring, so what's the problem with just dumping them somewhere?
Yeah, but the point is that in those countries perhaps one out of 5000 people has a car, while the US has probably more cars than people. Fact is, the US is the world's biggest polluter and energy waster by a LARGE margin.
Unfortunately, the fluctuation we're seeing now is more massive and happening more quickly than ever before... Is it really that smart to bet on "Oh well, it's probably not our fault" in the face of such catastrophic consequences?
Of course it can't be a substitute for a real keyboard. But I imaginge it would be much better than the handwriting recognition, onscreen keyboards or super-tiny keyboards you find on PDAs, or the horrid 9-key text input system that cell phones use. Those are both unergonomic and slow.
Better yet, how about combining the "slack space" concept with that of a steganographic filesystem? In fact, the two concepts fit together very well...
It's not encryption and laughably easy to find - the agencies would probably quite happy to have everyone use it instead of real encryption.
I wouldn't have lasted 3 seconds if we'd really played the game. Especially since there's some bug that disables firing after switching to full-screen mode (which in itself is quite tricky). It was really just a test to see if it would work.
It's a challenge. People have done far stupider things just to prove that they're better at something than everyone else. Just take a look into the Guinness Book of Records...
Of course, the playability is very low. What we need for this to be really worth the bother is games that are designed for the small display and limited input ability of PDAs.
If you check it, you forsake the +1 bonus you get with sufficient Karma. You're encouraged to use it except when you think the posting you've just written actually is exceptionally useful (or funny, or whatever). It also increases your potential of being modded up by others.
"bring down"??? DBZ is exactly on the level of 10 year olds.
It would of course have to be a custom distro, stripped of anything not necessary for the base functionality and prone to create expensive help desk calls, but instead with a powerful auto-configuring installer.
Copyright is NOT lost if not enforced. It's trademarks you're thinking of.
It's probably a misrepresentation of the method. The way I heard it, you first take the result of a general webcrawl and then run an algorithm on the resulting graph that discovers the communities. Then you classify the resulting communities using keyword methods.
Sites that have too many links, or are linked to too often, are discarded before running the algorithm for this reason.
I saw a presentation about this method (or one with the same result) about half a year ago on a CS conference.
Once again: Maybe you think that the light just "blinks" when recieving or sending data, but how can you tell that it's not actually blinking once for each bit (assuming Manchester encoding) and thus broadcasting your entire data?
Actually, it's quite likely; in fact, most LEDs can do that. Visible light and IR diodes don't really differ in their response time and can reproduce bandwidths of up to 10 MBit/s
In most devices, but not all. Apparently most dialup modems and some routers indicate every bit recieved. Are you sure that your light is constantly on when recieving data and not actually flashing a full copy of your data? Your eyes sure can't tell the difference.
Well, the concept has beein applied in other countries for years. The German Verfassungsschutz ("constitution protection") is an agency that tracks organizations with anti-constitutional goals, and they get they get the vast majority of their intelligence from public sources.
The appliance is not the first or only way Google sold its technology to companies.