One must also ask, and this is something I rarely see in the general debate : "What about all the nitrogen?"
Even back in 1994 the global warming potential of fertilizers were known :
"In wet soils, denitrifying bacteria convert nitrate to nitrous oxide and gaseous nitrogen. The former is a greenhouse gas that has an energy reflectivity per mole 180-fold higher than that of carbon dioxide."
On a slightly different tack nitrogen's role in reducing carbon fixing was documented in 1996
and thus warning against adding nitrogen to the ecosystem because it reduces the ability to fix the dreaded carbon, ignoring N's own contribution.
Methane is responsible for nearly as much global warming as all other non-CO2 greenhouse gases put together. Methane is 21 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2. While atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have risen by about 31% since pre-industrial times, methane concentrations have more than doubled. Whereas human sources of CO2 amount to just 3% of natural emissions, human sources produce one and a half times as much methane as all natural sources. In fact, the effect of our methane emissions may be compounded as methane-induced warming in turn stimulates microbial decay of organic matter in wetlands--the primary natural source of methane.
What conclusions? My conclusion is that reducing one's carbon footprint will not suffice. The way to fix more nitrogen is to grow more pulses and legumes which is good because you're going to need something to replace the cows you're eating now. Stop pouring nitrogen on to the fields and start eating more organic produce.
As we've been saying for a while : "think globally, act locally"
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One must also ask, and this is something I rarely see in the general debate : "What about all the nitrogen?"
Even back in 1994 the global warming potential of fertilizers were known :
"In wet soils, denitrifying bacteria convert nitrate to nitrous oxide and gaseous nitrogen. The former is a greenhouse gas that has an energy reflectivity per mole 180-fold higher than that of carbon dioxide."
I came across the notion in an MIT courseware video lecture (16 or 17 I think)
On a slightly different tack nitrogen's role in reducing carbon fixing was documented in 1996
and thus warning against adding nitrogen to the ecosystem because it reduces the ability to fix the dreaded carbon, ignoring N's own contribution.
Yet here we have Nasa saying that carbon fixing is nitrogen limited and we should add more nitrogen to the system.
Not that all modern thinking is pro-nitrogen.
Add into the mix the world's estimated 1,300,000,000 cattle belching out 400 litres of methane each per day : 520,000,000,000 litres
Here's more on methane
Methane is responsible for nearly as much global warming as all other non-CO2 greenhouse gases put together. Methane is 21 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2. While atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have risen by about 31% since pre-industrial times, methane concentrations have more than doubled. Whereas human sources of CO2 amount to just 3% of natural emissions, human sources produce one and a half times as much methane as all natural sources. In fact, the effect of our methane emissions may be compounded as methane-induced warming in turn stimulates microbial decay of organic matter in wetlands--the primary natural source of methane.
and more
What conclusions?
My conclusion is that reducing one's carbon footprint will not suffice. The way to fix more nitrogen is to grow more pulses and legumes which is good because you're going to need something to replace the cows you're eating now. Stop pouring nitrogen on to the fields and start eating more organic produce.
As we've been saying for a while : "think globally, act locally"
Another Windows in two years, why bother upgrading?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
heh oh yeah
mind you, Free is almost dead to me, I'm switchng this laptop over to Open when I can be arsed, 4.0 rocks
and them I get Opera with flash so I can stop moaning, not that I will.
I think my geek card is well and truly stamped and in no fear of being returned.
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firefox 1.5.0.3 on :
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=221580&cid=17
because plan9 doesn't have a web browser to speak of
I ended up with a barren rock inhabited by robots !
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=221580&cid=179 56004
Gaming doesn't stop when families start, it's not one or the other.
You might even actually play games with your kids !
% dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Wed May 31 23:23:31 BST 2006
drskwid@fork:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1133MHz (1132.37-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6b1 Stepping = 1
Features=0x383f9ff
real memory = 401997824 (383 MB)
avail memory = 383934464 (366 MB)
hear hear
besides, I have no choice :
You may not have everything you need to view certain sections of Adobe.com. Please see our site requirements.
Adobe Flash Player Download Center
We are unable to locate a Web player that matches your platform and browser.
Please visit our table of recommended Web players .
1fps is not "impressive"
Adobe Flash Player Download Center
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> Okami has a better art style then Twilight Princess.
So Twilight Princess took the lead in art style from Okami ?
That doesn't sound right to me.
You mean something where the manufacturer has total control over the hardware such as the Xbox and Xbox 360 ?
cracked and cracked
Encryption is only any good if it can withstand it's algorithm being revealed.
Anything else and it's eventually screwed.
this glass was clear ?
how about writing it down & holding it up
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/fork
RFCNAMEG If set, the new process starts with a clean name space. A new name space must be built from a mount of an open file descriptor.
Real techies use bare wires and a screwdriver to open ground, remove the screwdriver and the socket holds the wires in place.
:)
people usually freak out a bit a first but just ignore them
not all operating systems are the same
the upgrade pusher will not work for some, and neither should it
% cat /usr/ports/net/skype/pkg-plist
bin/skype
bin/skype_bin
%%DATADIR%%/icons/skype_16_32.png
%%DATADIR%%/icons/skype_32_32.png
%%DATADIR%%/icons/skype_48_32.png
@dirrm %%DATADIR%%/icons
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_da.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_de.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_el.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_en.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_es.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_es_AR.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_et.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_fi.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_fr.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_it.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_iw.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_ja.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_ko.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_nl.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_no.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_pl.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_pt_BR.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_ro.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_ru.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_sv.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_zh_CN.qm
%%DATADIR%%/lang/skype_zh_TW.qm
@dirrm %%DATADIR%%/lang
%%DATADIR%%/sound/busy4.wav
%%DATADIR%%/sound/call_in.wav
%%DATADIR%%/sound/call_out.wav
%%DATADIR%%/sound/hangup.wav
%%DATADIR%%/sound/im.wav
@dirrm %%DATADIR%%/sound
%%DATADIR%%/LICENSE
@dirrm %%DATADIR%%
%%GNOME%%share/gnome/applications/skype.desktop
%%GNOME%%share/gnome/pixmaps/skype.png
%
A breach of privacy you say, and you read that somewhere, thanks, I'll make a note of that.
Quick call the world police and get them in a flying ship to wherever you live.
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Image you have a box that says on it "West Side Story", that's your file.
Open the box and inside might be a DVD of the film, CD of the soundtrack, tickets to the theatre or a book of the script.
If you don't have the CD Player "Codec", you can't play the CD.
yeah, real hard.
get some people with a clue to work for you, there are literally hundres of devices that will fulfill your meagre requirements.
or are they painting themselves into a corner ?
I'm with your assumption.
Why port the (braindead) dual MACH/BSD kernel hybrid to a phone ?
It's just not needed if it's even technically feasable / possible.
IMAP on my n80 is good and the only difference I can see from my 6600 is that it even supports SSL connections now.
I haven't worked out how to add self-signed certs yet so I have to click on equivalent of "accept for this session" each time I connect.