Really it takes 20 to 50 years for pollution to affect the global climate. What we are now seeing is the effects of 1970-1980.
The problem obviously is we don't have the facts now, cause
a) The absoulte pollution has risen since 1970.
b) The climate is too complex to accurately predict it.
c) All the time new parameters are found, new data gets added.
So what should we do?
Option 1) Ignore those pesky green left wing scientist?
or
Option 2) Do what ever we can against pollution?
(Obvously I've taken the extremes.)
Let's evaluate:
Option 1 means maybe we will find out in 20 years, Global Warming exist. (If it exists the efffects will be BAD, (If you don't understand that, sorry jump to the end, and come back later)
Or maybe it doesn't exist and we had a wonderfull prosperous time.
Option 2 means shutting down serious parts of the industry, like getting rid of most coal power stations, getting rid of gasoline powered cars...
This would surely prevent global warming, but it has severe effects on the industry, not something you will want.
Or should we choose Option 3, the option europe takes: Reducing the total pollution without relevant reduction of comfort. (You don't believe that's possible? Why does the typical American use a multiply of the energy an European uses? Why needs a typical American car more gasoline than comparable European cars?
Easily America would be able to reduce it's pollution significantly without any comfort reduction! The Kyoto treaty uses relative numbers for the reduction, so the if the USA would be maintaining Kyoto they would be nowhere the level of "CO2 production per person" Europe is.
Is Global Warming bad?
Without any doubt YES.
Present me a proof that Global Warming isn't bad, or that it isn't happening and I would be happy to not care, else I AM CARING.
Heise has a article online at http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/cp-03.10.00-00 0/.
I'll try to translate the key points:
- Microsoft buys 25% of Corel for 135 Millionen US-Dollar
- These shares are non-voting but can be converted(?) into voting shares. (Yeah, crappy english...)
- Corel will make software for the.NET iniative
- Corel will drop some legal threats against Microsoft.
Once you learned all the basic constructs of procedural programming like loops, conditions ans so on, there are basically two ways: Learn OO or learn Scheme. While Scheme may not seem useful, it will teach them functional programming, they will gain a second way to attack problems: Divide every big problem in small problems, solve them recursively. Once they get it, it will lead to a deeper understanding how to solve a problem, which seems to be overwhelming because they can't divide it.
Oh, they have made several additions to their API. IE is one, Direct X is another. DirectX is supported on Win9x and Win2000. They can just add some nifty features to it and some parts of the game industry will follow. Same with IE, while not many depend on it (aoart from MS products Office...) some use the additional features. (In-Programm Preview for HTML, Edit Control for HTML...)
I can't find even one that does reviews of cell phones! Now, I've tried Google, of course,
I couldn't believe that the mighty google may have failed... So I tried the search 'review of cell phone' (subtracting the plural s, and google ignoring the of) and guess what the fourth link is to http://www.point.com, which was mentioned here as a good ressource.
http://www.google.com/search?q=review+of+cell+phon e
Actually you can buy Mein Kampf in Germany. Yes you cannot buy it on Amazon, because the german goverment requires that the reader must be over 18 years old.
And the Nazi part of our German history is the biggest part in our history lessons. (And every pupil has to take history lessons, there is NO way around them.)
And I think we in German have a greater knowledge of our faults in the past than other countries of their faults.
Hmm looked at preview WTH did it cut my first paragraph.
Ok here we go: Here in Germany youths aren't allowed to buy brutal games, videos. The reason I accept it is that a list of censored games, videos is published and why they are considered harmful.
So acceptable filtering for me means that you can access the filter list and check for yourself if it isn't filtering the wrong things, like websites about filtering software going mad. As far as I know none of the anti-porn software has released their filtering list
Another approach: I would suggest that the local adminstrator at the libary is responsible for the filter list. Sounds like a lot of work? Not if you have a proxy. At my school every night the proxy-cache of that day is searched for xxx, sex... so we have employed the best people for finding porn we could find. The list gets automatically mailed to our admin, so he can look at the sites, and which of them should be blocked. If I think one site has been blocked without reason, I can complain to our admin. The best think is that if you are smart enough to find new porn sites every day, you can access them.
Sorry Bruce, but learn some maths. Assume that daytrader loses half a percent of his portfolio to the spread on every buy and every sell, thus he loses 1% per day to spread. There is a spread between sell and buy price, but according to you if the spread is 0.5 % so that you can buy stocks worth 99.5 $ for 100$, when you sell you must subtract another 0.5 % which is roughly 99$. Actually you caculate the spread once per buy and sell. 1 % per day to spread. His loss per year is 300% Two wrongs here: 1) To the best of my knowledge the stock market is open on ~260 days. And to calculate the loss over this periode you have to must caulate 0.99^260 = 0.073... daniel Teske
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/24134.html
0 001/0827_hacker.html Byte's take on the bootloader issue.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21410.html The register's summary of this Byte article:
http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1115/byt20010824s
daniel teske
Because 1984 is becoming more real with every year.
d.t
and then it'll be too late.
Really it takes 20 to 50 years for pollution to affect the global climate. What we are now seeing is the effects of 1970-1980.
The problem obviously is we don't have the facts now, cause
a) The absoulte pollution has risen since 1970.
b) The climate is too complex to accurately predict it.
c) All the time new parameters are found, new data gets added.
So what should we do?
Option 1) Ignore those pesky green left wing scientist?
or
Option 2) Do what ever we can against pollution?
(Obvously I've taken the extremes.)
Let's evaluate:
Option 1 means maybe we will find out in 20 years, Global Warming exist. (If it exists the efffects will be BAD, (If you don't understand that, sorry jump to the end, and come back later)
Or maybe it doesn't exist and we had a wonderfull prosperous time.
Option 2 means shutting down serious parts of the industry, like getting rid of most coal power stations, getting rid of gasoline powered cars...
This would surely prevent global warming, but it has severe effects on the industry, not something you will want.
Or should we choose Option 3, the option europe takes: Reducing the total pollution without relevant reduction of comfort. (You don't believe that's possible? Why does the typical American use a multiply of the energy an European uses? Why needs a typical American car more gasoline than comparable European cars?
Easily America would be able to reduce it's pollution significantly without any comfort reduction! The Kyoto treaty uses relative numbers for the reduction, so the if the USA would be maintaining Kyoto they would be nowhere the level of "CO2 production per person" Europe is.
Is Global Warming bad?
Without any doubt YES.
Present me a proof that Global Warming isn't bad, or that it isn't happening and I would be happy to not care, else I AM CARING.
daniel teske
Heise has a article online at http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/cp-03.10.00-00 0/.
I'll try to translate the key points: .NET iniative
- Microsoft buys 25% of Corel for 135 Millionen US-Dollar
- These shares are non-voting but can be converted(?) into voting shares. (Yeah, crappy english...)
- Corel will make software for the
- Corel will drop some legal threats against Microsoft.
daniel
Once you learned all the basic constructs of procedural programming like loops, conditions ans so on, there are basically two ways:
Learn OO or learn Scheme. While Scheme may not seem useful, it will teach them functional programming, they will gain a second way to attack problems: Divide every big problem in small problems, solve them recursively.
Once they get it, it will lead to a deeper understanding how to solve a problem, which seems to be overwhelming because they can't divide it.
daniel TESKE
Oh, they have made several additions to their API. IE is one, Direct X is another. DirectX is supported on Win9x and Win2000. They can just add some nifty features to it and some parts of the game industry will follow. Same with IE, while not many depend on it (aoart from MS products Office...) some use the additional features. (In-Programm Preview for HTML, Edit Control for HTML...)
daniel
I can't find even one that does reviews of cell phones! Now, I've tried Google, of course,
I couldn't believe that the mighty google may have failed... So I tried the search 'review of cell phone' (subtracting the plural s, and google ignoring the of) and guess what the fourth link is to http://www.point.com, which was mentioned here as a good ressource.
http://www.google.com/search?q=review+of+cell+phon e
daniel
Actually you can buy Mein Kampf in Germany.
Yes you cannot buy it on Amazon, because the german goverment requires that the reader must be over 18 years old.
And the Nazi part of our German history is the biggest part in our history lessons. (And every pupil has to take history lessons, there is NO way around them.)
And I think we in German have a greater knowledge of our faults in the past than other countries of their faults.
daniel
uups forgot the URL http://www.ginac.de/ daniel
GiNaC 0.5.3
An open framework for symbolic computation within the C++ programming language.
License: GPL
While i haven't checked it out, from the webpage it is what you need.
daniel
Hmm looked at preview WTH did it cut my first paragraph.
Ok here we go:
Here in Germany youths aren't allowed to buy brutal games, videos. The reason I accept it is that a list of censored games, videos is published and why they are considered harmful.
daniel
Here in Germany youths (age
So acceptable filtering for me means that you can access the filter list and check for yourself if it isn't filtering the wrong things, like websites about filtering software going mad.
As far as I know none of the anti-porn software has released their filtering list
Another approach: I would suggest that the local adminstrator at the libary is responsible for the filter list. Sounds like a lot of work? Not if you have a proxy. At my school every night the proxy-cache of that day is searched for xxx, sex... so we have employed the best people for finding porn we could find. The list gets automatically mailed to our admin, so he can look at the sites, and which of them should be blocked. If I think one site has been blocked without reason, I can complain to our admin.
The best think is that if you are smart enough to find new porn sites every day, you can access them.
Daniel
Sorry Bruce, but learn some maths. Assume that daytrader loses half a percent of his portfolio to the spread on every buy and every sell, thus he loses 1% per day to spread. There is a spread between sell and buy price, but according to you if the spread is 0.5 % so that you can buy stocks worth 99.5 $ for 100$, when you sell you must subtract another 0.5 % which is roughly 99$. Actually you caculate the spread once per buy and sell. 1 % per day to spread. His loss per year is 300% Two wrongs here: 1) To the best of my knowledge the stock market is open on ~260 days. And to calculate the loss over this periode you have to must caulate 0.99^260 = 0.073... daniel Teske