This article would more accurately be captioned "100 Interesting Things". Perusing the entire list, there are more than a few factoids therein that I did know.
Come to think of it, the name "100 Things That Some People Might Not Know" would be even more accurate.
During the operational life of solar cells, and of nuclear power plants, the environmental effects of each type of energy production are fairly insignificant. The environmental costs of each must be based on the production costs of the solar cells, and of the nuclear fuel, and the disposal costs of the nuclear fuel AND the disposal of broken solar cells (and the chemicals solar cells are toxic too).
If you want to evaluate the relative environmental costs of various power generation methods, you have to include everything. If you want to get picky about it, you can include the cost of factories, transportation, etc, but those are probably comparable for most.
Tsunami stations are all well and good, but will they continue to operate after the mega ice storms freeze the entire ocean solid the Day After Tomorrow?
Perhaps the money would better be spent installing giant space heaters, especially along the northern border states.
How many readers here have actually followed up and read the text of the bill involved?
First, the bill only addresses access to the Internet from schools. Of course, if the law were applied at the HS or University level, I think it would be over the top. At the Elementary level, I'd have to think about it. But it can be taken as an example of the dumbing down of America.
Second point, the solution must be able be disabled when there is adult supervision, or if its an educational situation. This almost means that it has to be a software solution... and not just IP filtering.
Why should this come as a surprise to anyone? Just check out the number of cable/satellite channels that are Geek oriented: Discover, National Geographic, Science, etc. There has to be a reasonable market for that kind of programming to support this.
The major problem that I have with one of the on-line calendars is that your information is stored on someone else's server. Although it is unlikely that anyone would use this information, the potential is there. Not that I'm worried if someone finds out that I'm going to a baseball game next week, but the principal of the thing; I don't want anyone... not some hacker, and not the government... having access to my schedule.
Instead, I am using Portable Sunbird (Portable Sunbird) on a UBS Drive that goes everywhere I do. I plug the drive into any UBS port, and have instant access to my calendar (not to mention Email and Browser Bookmarks using Portable Thunderbird and Portable Firefox)... all without leaving my personal information on the computer I am using at the time.
Ebooks are pretty good right now, except for the media that you view them on. When I bought a Cassiopea a few years ago, I found it really convenient to have a number of books with me (MS Reader fomat). But I found it really inconvenient when the darn screen cracked (and its nigh on impossible to buy parts for that kind of thing!)
When you can buy a reader that looks, feels, and wears like a paper book, that isn't going to break from rough handling; when you can load new content easily on said reader; THAT is when EBOOKS will really take off.
Haven't followed the space colonization subject very closely for the last 20 years or so, but the subject was discussed in detail as early as the late 1960's.
The L4 & L5 points are 60 degrees plus and minus along the moons orbit around the sun. Due to the perturbations caused by the sun and other objects, the precise points are not stable. However, they forces on an object there would be fairly regular, so that it would fall in a kidney shaped orbit on the order of 80,000 miles long around the point.
"the CEV 'needs to be safe, it needs to be simple, it needs to be soon.'"
Any bets on whether a NASA produced CEV will meet even two of these criteria? As for all three, I only will expect it when there isn't any government involvement.
Decorate sugar cookies. Have kids give instructions. Do EXACTLY what they say. Gets the point across quickly how you have to be exact when you tell a computer what you want it to do.
In West Virginia, where the issue came up last summer, industry lawyers warned a legislative advisory council away from proposing such action on patents, claiming it would be unconstitutional.
With good reason, since the concept of eminent domain is not actually part of the constitution. Not that it will stop political bodies from trying it.
Of course, the "huge profits" that phamaceutical companies get from selling a drug under patent are not all that great. Not after paying for the cost of creating the drug... not to mention a dozon other drugs that don't make it through the FDA approval process.
This is not an example of linguistic evolution. Evolution is a continuous process that proceeds in incremental steps. This portrays an example of radical mutation. Whether any of the mutilations displayed in this article eventually survive to become part of the language remain for future scholars to determine.
Didn't I hear a news report about Mt. Saint Helens just the other day... something about it putting out more C02 than all human civilization? Surely that has no influence on the atmosphere...
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Maybe this will offset all the Global Warming.
Everyone knows that there won't be any IT by the end of 2007, between Global Warming, Nuclear Winter, and the end of culture in America.
This article would more accurately be captioned "100 Interesting Things". Perusing the entire list, there are more than a few factoids therein that I did know.
Come to think of it, the name "100 Things That Some People Might Not Know" would be even more accurate.
Let's see... .5C for 15% extension of life... so 150C decrease in temperature should yeild a 3000% extension....
Freeze me!
During the operational life of solar cells, and of nuclear power plants, the environmental effects of each type of energy production are fairly insignificant. The environmental costs of each must be based on the production costs of the solar cells, and of the nuclear fuel, and the disposal costs of the nuclear fuel AND the disposal of broken solar cells (and the chemicals solar cells are toxic too).
If you want to evaluate the relative environmental costs of various power generation methods, you have to include everything. If you want to get picky about it, you can include the cost of factories, transportation, etc, but those are probably comparable for most.
This format may also be useful for showing the often missing moon landing movies.
Tsunami stations are all well and good, but will they continue to operate after the mega ice storms freeze the entire ocean solid the Day After Tomorrow?
Perhaps the money would better be spent installing giant space heaters, especially along the northern border states.
How many readers here have actually followed up and read the text of the bill involved?
First, the bill only addresses access to the Internet from schools. Of course, if the law were applied at the HS or University level, I think it would be over the top. At the Elementary level, I'd have to think about it. But it can be taken as an example of the dumbing down of America.
Second point, the solution must be able be disabled when there is adult supervision, or if its an educational situation. This almost means that it has to be a software solution... and not just IP filtering.
Why should this come as a surprise to anyone? Just check out the number of cable/satellite channels that are Geek oriented: Discover, National Geographic, Science, etc. There has to be a reasonable market for that kind of programming to support this.
The major problem that I have with one of the on-line calendars is that your information is stored on someone else's server. Although it is unlikely that anyone would use this information, the potential is there. Not that I'm worried if someone finds out that I'm going to a baseball game next week, but the principal of the thing; I don't want anyone... not some hacker, and not the government... having access to my schedule.
Instead, I am using Portable Sunbird (Portable Sunbird) on a UBS Drive that goes everywhere I do. I plug the drive into any UBS port, and have instant access to my calendar (not to mention Email and Browser Bookmarks using Portable Thunderbird and Portable Firefox)... all without leaving my personal information on the computer I am using at the time.
I don't know about Amazon... I think that Google will put up a better launch vehicle.
Ebooks are pretty good right now, except for the media that you view them on. When I bought a Cassiopea a few years ago, I found it really convenient to have a number of books with me (MS Reader fomat). But I found it really inconvenient when the darn screen cracked (and its nigh on impossible to buy parts for that kind of thing!)
When you can buy a reader that looks, feels, and wears like a paper book, that isn't going to break from rough handling; when you can load new content easily on said reader; THAT is when EBOOKS will really take off.
The company that changed it--bringing us into the Internet age--was a brilliant flash in the pan called Netscape.
How about Mosaic? I admit that Netscape was a big step forward, but it was evolutionary, rather than revolutionary.
Haven't followed the space colonization subject very closely for the last 20 years or so, but the subject was discussed in detail as early as the late 1960's.
The L4 & L5 points are 60 degrees plus and minus along the moons orbit around the sun. Due to the perturbations caused by the sun and other objects, the precise points are not stable. However, they forces on an object there would be fairly regular, so that it would fall in a kidney shaped orbit on the order of 80,000 miles long around the point.
"the CEV 'needs to be safe, it needs to be simple, it needs to be soon.'"
Any bets on whether a NASA produced CEV will meet even two of these criteria? As for all three, I only will expect it when there isn't any government involvement.
This was written about in Piers Anthony's "Kilobyte" 20 years ago.
Here's one that my wife uses (she's also a geek):
Decorate sugar cookies. Have kids give instructions. Do EXACTLY what they say. Gets the point across quickly how you have to be exact when you tell a computer what you want it to do.
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In West Virginia, where the issue came up last summer, industry lawyers warned a legislative advisory council away from proposing such action on patents, claiming it would be unconstitutional.
With good reason, since the concept of eminent domain is not actually part of the constitution. Not that it will stop political bodies from trying it.
Of course, the "huge profits" that phamaceutical companies get from selling a drug under patent are not all that great. Not after paying for the cost of creating the drug... not to mention a dozon other drugs that don't make it through the FDA approval process.
With my luck, the parallel universe that I escaped into would be even closer to ending than this one...
Wouldn't the MS product have an unfair advantage... after all, isn't the Redmond crew responsible for a lot of that stuff anyway?
Now I can start offering moon flights aboard this giant cannon I've built in the back yard...
This is not an example of linguistic evolution. Evolution is a continuous process that proceeds in incremental steps. This portrays an example of radical mutation. Whether any of the mutilations displayed in this article eventually survive to become part of the language remain for future scholars to determine.
I first looked at the download directory and thought I saw a bunch of Orcs...
Didn't I hear a news report about Mt. Saint Helens just the other day... something about it putting out more C02 than all human civilization? Surely that has no influence on the atmosphere...