In Denmark they plan to introduce battery switch stations, where you replace your depleted battery recharged one. The batteries are owned by the recharging company, and they are charged at night when electricity is cheap. I believe that an electric car can drive aroung 60 kilometers on a battery, so a day will require a series of battery switches.
http://www.betterplace.com/the-solution
They probably tested the same criminal case with several choices of accompanying picture. That allowed them to examine if the suggested punishment for a given case was independent of the accompanying picture.
Most microorganisms from earth cannot survive outdoors on Mars, so hopefully the (hypothetical) Martian native life will not be contaminated.
But frankly I don't think that any country on earth will delay colonization of Mars to save its native life.
An average freight ship sails at a speed between 20 and 40 kilometers per hour so the train is ten times faster. On the other hand train transport must be more expensive and more polluting. After all you need a lot of trains to replace a single container vessel.
Lomborg does not deny that the green house effect exists. His point is that it is very costly to avoid raising the temperature, and therefore he suggests that we ignore the green house effect and spend our money elsewhere. I think that is fair enough to make such a cost benifit analysis. After all there is lots of evil in this world and somehow we have to choose.
The problem is that Lomborg as a person has a bad reputation for cheating with the numbers. Therefore is probably not be the right person to perform this cost benifit analysis.
I once had a Motorola razor phone, and the user interface was horrible. The menu tree was too deep, and it was often difficult to guess which submenu contained which menu item.
I am for one not surprised that the company ended up in trouble.
The alternative is to reach out to a lot of schools and make sure that each school has a few working second hand stationary computers. It is better to have a cheap solution for the many than an expensive solution for the few. When I worked in India, I heard a talk by a guy from the Shikshana foundation, and I was really impressed by the way they worked. It sounded like they could achieve a lot with fairly small means http://www.sikshana.org/
In northern Europe we have a long history of using taxes on water and energy to guide the industry. We have a capitalist system, but we use taxes to punish polluting companies.
This works well for a single country, but it is hard to make several countries align their tax systems, because each country has different interests.
Wikipedia has a nice graph of population growth. It seems to level off 0% somewhere between 2050 and 2100. The levelling off is mostly caused by better education and social security. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth
The problem with this specific study is that it doesn't contribute anything new. Tim Garrett basically states that the polution is related to the size of the economy. I would be surprised if that was news to the economists. Here is a link to the article
http://www.springerlink.com/content/9476j57g1t07vhn2/fulltext.pdf
In the appendix he tries to relate economy to thermodynamics, but that part doesn't really contribute to the conclussion of the article. Furthermore the relations between mass transfer and money transfer is so vague that they are fairly useless.
It looks like the pen and paper RPG-market is plummeting right now. That is bad new for me as a customer, because I really enjoy playing D&D. and I want to be able to buy new and exiting products in the future..
I personally hope that Hasbro makes enough money to keep making new D&D products, and I don't support sharing their stuff illegally over the internet.
In this essay, I argue that human play is fundamentally
selfish. Characteristics of individual and selfish play are
observed and described within pve and pvp contexts of the
MMORPG City of Heroes/Villains (Cryptic Studios).
Analysis of player behaviors demonstrates the degree to
which groups within MMORPGs attempt to restrict and
transform individual and selfish play. In general, social
play within MMORPGs tends to reduce the diversity of
individual play; this undermines the ability of oppositional
play to explore and value game components and processes.
Conclusions recommend conceptualizing online social play
as a form of social control.
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~cpearce3/DiGRA07/Proceedings/030.pdf
According to another chart on the site, 50% of all the active WOW subscriptions are asian, but I don't know how Bruce Woodcock defines an active subscription.
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart11.html
A rough summary is:
30% asian WOW subscriptions.
30% non-asian WOW-subscriptions
40% subscriptons to other games
This article is a weird. Prof. Gerlich doesn't even discuss the formulas that you will find in the first chapter of a book on athmospheric physics. How can he be a professor of physics?
I am getting curious here. Do you have a link to a webpage where NASA instructs people to use g95 instead of gfortran? I would like to read that.
BTW: I also had problems with early versions of gfortran, but I believe that the compiler has improved.
How is this consistent with the US supporting the UN chemical weapons convention?
http://www.cwc.gov/http://www.un.org/Depts/dda/WMD/cwc/
"The Convention prohibits all development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, transfer, and use of chemical weapons. It requires each State Party to destroy chemical weapons and chemical weapons production facilities it possesses, as well as any chemical weapons it may have abandoned on the territory of another State Party"
That is an interesting story.
I just don't understand why it is difficult to get this kind of research published. If journals are ready to publish this kind of articles with LD50 values of all sorts of chemicals, why don't they accept an article about a kind of nano-particles?
Are the scentific journals really controlled that directly by the mass media? That surprises me.
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In Denmark they plan to introduce battery switch stations, where you replace your depleted battery recharged one. The batteries are owned by the recharging company, and they are charged at night when electricity is cheap. I believe that an electric car can drive aroung 60 kilometers on a battery, so a day will require a series of battery switches. http://www.betterplace.com/the-solution
They opensourced the engine, but not the data. Unless somebody creates alternative data, then this is a non-story. http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/06/Aquaria-goes-open-source#disqus_thread
They probably tested the same criminal case with several choices of accompanying picture. That allowed them to examine if the suggested punishment for a given case was independent of the accompanying picture.
I think that the article describes which language that students learn during their first year of study. They can learn C afterwards.
Is anybody working on a book about scipy? I would buy it.
Most microorganisms from earth cannot survive outdoors on Mars, so hopefully the (hypothetical) Martian native life will not be contaminated. But frankly I don't think that any country on earth will delay colonization of Mars to save its native life.
An average freight ship sails at a speed between 20 and 40 kilometers per hour so the train is ten times faster. On the other hand train transport must be more expensive and more polluting. After all you need a lot of trains to replace a single container vessel.
Lomborg does not deny that the green house effect exists. His point is that it is very costly to avoid raising the temperature, and therefore he suggests that we ignore the green house effect and spend our money elsewhere. I think that is fair enough to make such a cost benifit analysis. After all there is lots of evil in this world and somehow we have to choose. The problem is that Lomborg as a person has a bad reputation for cheating with the numbers. Therefore is probably not be the right person to perform this cost benifit analysis.
I am not sure which version I had. I bought the phone on e-bay, and it didn't live long.
I once had a Motorola razor phone, and the user interface was horrible. The menu tree was too deep, and it was often difficult to guess which submenu contained which menu item.
I am for one not surprised that the company ended up in trouble.
The alternative is to reach out to a lot of schools and make sure that each school has a few working second hand stationary computers. It is better to have a cheap solution for the many than an expensive solution for the few. When I worked in India, I heard a talk by a guy from the Shikshana foundation, and I was really impressed by the way they worked. It sounded like they could achieve a lot with fairly small means http://www.sikshana.org/
This works well for a single country, but it is hard to make several countries align their tax systems, because each country has different interests.
Wikipedia has a nice graph of population growth. It seems to level off 0% somewhere between 2050 and 2100. The levelling off is mostly caused by better education and social security. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth
The problem with this specific study is that it doesn't contribute anything new. Tim Garrett basically states that the polution is related to the size of the economy. I would be surprised if that was news to the economists. Here is a link to the article http://www.springerlink.com/content/9476j57g1t07vhn2/fulltext.pdf In the appendix he tries to relate economy to thermodynamics, but that part doesn't really contribute to the conclussion of the article. Furthermore the relations between mass transfer and money transfer is so vague that they are fairly useless.
I s there any open source software that can generate a 3D model from photos? As far as I can see the source code of proforma is closed. http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~qp202/my_papers/BMVC09/
It looks like the pen and paper RPG-market is plummeting right now. That is bad new for me as a customer, because I really enjoy playing D&D. and I want to be able to buy new and exiting products in the future..
I personally hope that Hasbro makes enough money to keep making new D&D products, and I don't support sharing their stuff illegally over the internet.
Here is a better article http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/grad/681/mpoles_physicstoday.pdf
It seems that he wrote it in 2006.
According to another chart on the site, 50% of all the active WOW subscriptions are asian, but I don't know how Bruce Woodcock defines an active subscription. http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart11.html A rough summary is: 30% asian WOW subscriptions. 30% non-asian WOW-subscriptions 40% subscriptons to other games
Apparently WOW had 60% of the world market in april 2008. I think this number was meassured in players.
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart7.html
http://www.mmogchart.com/charts/
But I don't know if they have peaked now.
This article is a weird. Prof. Gerlich doesn't even discuss the formulas that you will find in the first chapter of a book on athmospheric physics. How can he be a professor of physics?
I am getting curious here. Do you have a link to a webpage where NASA instructs people to use g95 instead of gfortran? I would like to read that. BTW: I also had problems with early versions of gfortran, but I believe that the compiler has improved.
How is this consistent with the US supporting the UN chemical weapons convention? http://www.cwc.gov/ http://www.un.org/Depts/dda/WMD/cwc/ "The Convention prohibits all development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, transfer, and use of chemical weapons. It requires each State Party to destroy chemical weapons and chemical weapons production facilities it possesses, as well as any chemical weapons it may have abandoned on the territory of another State Party"
That is an interesting story. I just don't understand why it is difficult to get this kind of research published. If journals are ready to publish this kind of articles with LD50 values of all sorts of chemicals, why don't they accept an article about a kind of nano-particles? Are the scentific journals really controlled that directly by the mass media? That surprises me.
They already have that. Just go to preferences->homepage and disable him. http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome