I think that simplest way to explain it is that they see gravitational lensing where normal matter is absent (the areas they colored in blue). The blue mass would have to have the properties of dark matter (and not baryonic matter) because a) it is seperating from the glowing baryonic region and b) did not itself start to glow when the clusters colided.
The sun and the biosphere drives the world you and I are familiar with. Economics are just a pale, fetid shadow of dominant physical processes that hasn't yet learned to cope with the laws of thermodynamics and conservation. Economics says that BMW products have an exhaust pipe to "dispense waste"; The science of ecology accounts for that emission plus all other inputs and outputs as well over their complete physical lifecycles.
Economics is numerate only insofar as a clique of well-connected humans thinks that accounting for a particular physical process is "nice" and represents "value" within their small social sphere. Otherwise, it is mostly innumerate (even if its main adherents wish that air itself could be priced, bottled-up or metered to us by the breath) and what passes for copious metrics are really more of a method for drowning out truly important information that can be measured in the lab and on the dinner table. Economics is a way to consume oneself into a stupor to avoid grapling with the inevitable.
There is absolutely no reason why the price of food should reflect their environment cost. Rather, it should reflect their supply and demand.
That arrogance is precisely how economists have become discredited in light of ecology.
A hypereconomic rationale (incubated within an empire gorging itself on the resources of its client states) that dismisses the most fundamental factors of our existence as "externialities and whatnot" when it defines "supply", begs to be picked apart and packed away with its own post mortem... in the dustbin, if you will.
Um, are you saying that poorer countries are wasting their money on a mostly-veg diet?
My supermarket has top-quality veggieburgers (in small 9 oz cartons) for $4.40/lb while the 93% lean ground beef is $4.30/lb in bulk. When comparing cheaper veggieburgers with cheaper meats, the veggieburgers are less expensive.
Of course the object isn't to imitate meat, so removing the trouble of bending over backwards to create a meat-like product results in veg protein being significantly less expensive (monetarily as well as wrt resources).
The more expensive fossil fuels become, the more people will start cooking like their great-grandparents with more local food and less meat. Ideally, we should heavily tax fossil fuels all-around) incl. for agriculture, and provide rebates on the proportion of product that reaches retail in veg form. There's no reason why the price of various foods should not reflect their environmental cost.
I understand, however I think what your statement indicates most of all is that not all regions can sustain the same amount of people.
Also I am not implying that we ought to return to primitive agriculture wholesale. There are many modern and developing techniques that are still applicable when you take excessive livestock and pesticides out of the equation. A country like Norway could probably do very well these days. If Scandanavian countries can grow canola for fuel today, then I don't see why shifting towards veg in their diets would bring about hardship.
Poorer societies eat less meat because vegetables are a far more efficient use of resources. And like it or not, sustainability in agriculture points strongly to reducing meat consumption. So I am afraid you have this notion of dietary "luxury" completely backwards.
BBC is not taxpayer-funded either. They are funded by license payers. This is an important distinction, since it greatly reduces conflict of interest (and increases their independance) when politicians cannot dictate their budget year-in, year-out.
The BBC is a public corporation (not 'publicly traded' or 'publicly held') with the right to collect license fees from all licenseholders (people with broadcast TV tuners) independant of the tax revenue system.
Contrast this with the CPB (government beneficiary of PBS, NPR etc) where politicians almost constantly threaten the public broadcasting budget via taxpayer funds. Hence, the news reporting of PBS and NPR are mere shadows of the BBC, in terms of their timidity and limited scope. The BBC often breaks news stories... whereas PBS/NPR rarely ever do except when they introduce new information into the US market via their reliance on the BBC for foreign coverage.
Interesting bit of history there. It really disturbs me that Miguel is leading a column of FOSS enthusiasts into the maw of MS patent enforcement, especially when he could have used his talent on something unencumbered like Parrot.
There IS no Linux at the PC-user level. There is NO standard for high-level functionality. There is no personal computing platform that includes the Linux kernel.
And you can't write attractive user-facing apps and games using just the kernel.
Creative software engineers and tech support departments are repelled by what we call "Linux"... a confusing pile of kinda-sorta-compatible seperate operating systems. This results in potential authors feeling profoundly insecure about whether their work will run successfully on any other "Linux" machine. And no default development environment like Apple Xcode+ADC means that budding talent will cut their teeth on Apple and MS systems (and probably stay there).
Even Michael Dell would like to try a FOSS OS in the consumer market. Problem is, there's just no standard available for the level of functionality (PC) that he needs to deliver, and that would translate into intractible problems in support.
I think the folks at Xandros Forums would take exception to that remark. The people there tend to be extremely helpful. Granted, Xandros does more out-of-the-box than Ubuntu so the former has a smaller Howto section, but overall I'd say that fewer questions go unanswered at Xandros.
They already have my hardware details on file for a long time now. They already have many thousands of Radeon 7000 users with 17" Viewsonic displays, for instance. But the result is not so much a 'bug' as negligence... Why is my equipment being mapped to 'generic'?
I do file reports for bugs like forgetting the NIC IP address right after clicking Apply. But I am NOT going to get into a whining match with YET another Linux vendor over hardware they are DELIBERATELY ignoring. It is now Two-thousand-Friggin-Six and I've given them enough years to 'catch up' with my 5-year-old equipment.
Look, I have equipment from top-volume producers (ATI, MSI, etc.) and they can't even manage that. I've already helped Xandros, who actually seems to listen BTW, but while fixes in common components percolate to other distros eventually, configuration scripts and panels do not because distros rarely share them. So... Do I owe my time to each and every distro out there to help them fix the same problems over-and-over again?
BAH! Ubuntu LTS is a big disappointment. Xandros is better [i]by far.[/i]
Only suse come close to this, but everyone else seems reticent to copy their approach.
FYI, Xandros aced this back in version 3. Their wlan setup is excellent, even if the kernel suffers from some of the driver shortages that are common on Linux. At least you get ndiswrapper with it, unlike Suse.
With Xandros 4, you can monitor interface status, enable/disable and reconfigure right from the systray icon.
I can't even set a WEP/WPA key with it without manually putting iwconfig into rclocal.
What's with the general lack of security? On Xandros I've got what I need for laptop security: Private home folders by default, Encrypted home, firewall control, VPN client. On Ubuntu, its all "install/configure it yourself" and "use the HOWTOs n00b".
The display detection is about the worst I've seen from the current crop of distros. Heading into xorg.conf is almost a forgone conclusion even with mundane graphics cards.
(I wondered if the alpha had addressed any of these problems, so I installed edgy for a look: Default would not boot at all, and selecting "safe video" mode put me into a fully-accelerated hires desktop! So I will probably stay away from it until beta2.)
Ubuntu is elegant and uncluttered, but it isn't very functional beyond office apps and ethernet connectivity; Not if you take its GUI-centered mission seriously. Ubuntu is morphing into another distro/community that tries to whip desktop users into hackers.
Back in the 1980s the Supreme Court ruled that "secular humanism" is a "religion" and therefore cannot be taught in public schools. Humanism is the philosophical basis for ethics, so that explains a lot. Incorporate more than a sprinkle of ethical viewpoints in your curriculum, and get attacked by fundies.
Neither religious morals nor humanistic ethics are officially teachable here.
I boycotted Amazon when their managers started firing people for being gay, against their own corporate policy. Their excuse: 'Oh, we only follow that policy when local laws demand it.'
While I support the FSF, it is my hope that the tension will resolve in a way that respects the spectrum of motives driving human use of use technology.
That is just what the FSF is trying to do, by offering the anti-DRM GPLv3 license alongside GPLv2. Slagging them for adding this choice is IMO very uncool of Linus. He already has what he wants and no one is going to take it away from him.
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I think that simplest way to explain it is that they see gravitational lensing where normal matter is absent (the areas they colored in blue). The blue mass would have to have the properties of dark matter (and not baryonic matter) because a) it is seperating from the glowing baryonic region and b) did not itself start to glow when the clusters colided.
Few Studies On GM Food
GM crops created superweed, say scientists
Have a looksee! http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2201
I too would like to know why only 500 quality children are being tested by the laptops.
Signed,
Emily Latella
economics are driving the world, period.
The sun and the biosphere drives the world you and I are familiar with. Economics are just a pale, fetid shadow of dominant physical processes that hasn't yet learned to cope with the laws of thermodynamics and conservation. Economics says that BMW products have an exhaust pipe to "dispense waste"; The science of ecology accounts for that emission plus all other inputs and outputs as well over their complete physical lifecycles.
Economics is numerate only insofar as a clique of well-connected humans thinks that accounting for a particular physical process is "nice" and represents "value" within their small social sphere. Otherwise, it is mostly innumerate (even if its main adherents wish that air itself could be priced, bottled-up or metered to us by the breath) and what passes for copious metrics are really more of a method for drowning out truly important information that can be measured in the lab and on the dinner table. Economics is a way to consume oneself into a stupor to avoid grapling with the inevitable.
...on Sun to make the imminent open-sourcing of Java as free as possible.
I think this statement from an IBMer is much less about OpenSolaris than it is about Java.
And yes, Java is a huge matter for IBM (unlike Solaris).
I recommend Seed as well.
A few more are World Science and EROEI.com and Physorg.
There is absolutely no reason why the price of food should reflect their environment cost. Rather, it should reflect their supply and demand.
That arrogance is precisely how economists have become discredited in light of ecology.
A hypereconomic rationale (incubated within an empire gorging itself on the resources of its client states) that dismisses the most fundamental factors of our existence as "externialities and whatnot" when it defines "supply", begs to be picked apart and packed away with its own post mortem... in the dustbin, if you will.
Eeep! Looks like my last post was off the mark, sorry. Quantrix 2.x is now based on Java and Eclipse, whereas the original used NextStep.
A current application with similar UI and capabilities is Quantrix.
Supposedly it is written for an OpenStep-compatible framework, which seems likely since the MacOS download is significantly smaller.
Um, are you saying that poorer countries are wasting their money on a mostly-veg diet?
/lb while the 93% lean ground beef is $4.30 /lb in bulk. When comparing cheaper veggieburgers with cheaper meats, the veggieburgers are less expensive.
My supermarket has top-quality veggieburgers (in small 9 oz cartons) for $4.40
Of course the object isn't to imitate meat, so removing the trouble of bending over backwards to create a meat-like product results in veg protein being significantly less expensive (monetarily as well as wrt resources).
The more expensive fossil fuels become, the more people will start cooking like their great-grandparents with more local food and less meat. Ideally, we should heavily tax fossil fuels all-around) incl. for agriculture, and provide rebates on the proportion of product that reaches retail in veg form. There's no reason why the price of various foods should not reflect their environmental cost.
I understand, however I think what your statement indicates most of all is that not all regions can sustain the same amount of people.
Also I am not implying that we ought to return to primitive agriculture wholesale. There are many modern and developing techniques that are still applicable when you take excessive livestock and pesticides out of the equation. A country like Norway could probably do very well these days. If Scandanavian countries can grow canola for fuel today, then I don't see why shifting towards veg in their diets would bring about hardship.
Doubly so with the onset of over-fishing.
Poorer societies eat less meat because vegetables are a far more efficient use of resources. And like it or not, sustainability in agriculture points strongly to reducing meat consumption. So I am afraid you have this notion of dietary "luxury" completely backwards.
r ianism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_vegeta
(And please note the article is well-referenced.)
Yes, you are absolutely right IMO.
GNUStep is definately one of those frameworks where on several occasions I've looked at it and thought "Oh, what could have been."
Qt4 has drawn my interest, but I fell flat on my behind trying to get it compiled on OS X.
BBC is not taxpayer-funded either. They are funded by license payers. This is an important distinction, since it greatly reduces conflict of interest (and increases their independance) when politicians cannot dictate their budget year-in, year-out.
The BBC is a public corporation (not 'publicly traded' or 'publicly held') with the right to collect license fees from all licenseholders (people with broadcast TV tuners) independant of the tax revenue system.
Contrast this with the CPB (government beneficiary of PBS, NPR etc) where politicians almost constantly threaten the public broadcasting budget via taxpayer funds. Hence, the news reporting of PBS and NPR are mere shadows of the BBC, in terms of their timidity and limited scope. The BBC often breaks news stories... whereas PBS/NPR rarely ever do except when they introduce new information into the US market via their reliance on the BBC for foreign coverage.
And he takes abuse from MS too:
http://linux.sys-con.com/read/124218.htm
Interesting bit of history there. It really disturbs me that Miguel is leading a column of FOSS enthusiasts into the maw of MS patent enforcement, especially when he could have used his talent on something unencumbered like Parrot.
There IS no Linux at the PC-user level. There is NO standard for high-level functionality. There is no personal computing platform that includes the Linux kernel.
And you can't write attractive user-facing apps and games using just the kernel.
Creative software engineers and tech support departments are repelled by what we call "Linux"... a confusing pile of kinda-sorta-compatible seperate operating systems. This results in potential authors feeling profoundly insecure about whether their work will run successfully on any other "Linux" machine. And no default development environment like Apple Xcode+ADC means that budding talent will cut their teeth on Apple and MS systems (and probably stay there).
Even Michael Dell would like to try a FOSS OS in the consumer market. Problem is, there's just no standard available for the level of functionality (PC) that he needs to deliver, and that would translate into intractible problems in support.
I think the folks at Xandros Forums would take exception to that remark. The people there tend to be extremely helpful. Granted, Xandros does more out-of-the-box than Ubuntu so the former has a smaller Howto section, but overall I'd say that fewer questions go unanswered at Xandros.
The ATI driver works fine, thanks. It's not ATI's job to configure /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
The failure lies somewhere between Ubuntu and Xorg.
They already have my hardware details on file for a long time now. They already have many thousands of Radeon 7000 users with 17" Viewsonic displays, for instance. But the result is not so much a 'bug' as negligence... Why is my equipment being mapped to 'generic'?
I do file reports for bugs like forgetting the NIC IP address right after clicking Apply. But I am NOT going to get into a whining match with YET another Linux vendor over hardware they are DELIBERATELY ignoring. It is now Two-thousand-Friggin-Six and I've given them enough years to 'catch up' with my 5-year-old equipment.
Look, I have equipment from top-volume producers (ATI, MSI, etc.) and they can't even manage that. I've already helped Xandros, who actually seems to listen BTW, but while fixes in common components percolate to other distros eventually, configuration scripts and panels do not because distros rarely share them. So... Do I owe my time to each and every distro out there to help them fix the same problems over-and-over again?
BAH! Ubuntu LTS is a big disappointment. Xandros is better [i]by far.[/i]
Only suse come close to this, but everyone else seems reticent to copy their approach.
FYI, Xandros aced this back in version 3. Their wlan setup is excellent, even if the kernel suffers from some of the driver shortages that are common on Linux. At least you get ndiswrapper with it, unlike Suse.
With Xandros 4, you can monitor interface status, enable/disable and reconfigure right from the systray icon.
I can't even set a WEP/WPA key with it without manually putting iwconfig into rclocal.
What's with the general lack of security? On Xandros I've got what I need for laptop security: Private home folders by default, Encrypted home, firewall control, VPN client. On Ubuntu, its all "install/configure it yourself" and "use the HOWTOs n00b".
The display detection is about the worst I've seen from the current crop of distros. Heading into xorg.conf is almost a forgone conclusion even with mundane graphics cards.
(I wondered if the alpha had addressed any of these problems, so I installed edgy for a look: Default would not boot at all, and selecting "safe video" mode put me into a fully-accelerated hires desktop! So I will probably stay away from it until beta2.)
Ubuntu is elegant and uncluttered, but it isn't very functional beyond office apps and ethernet connectivity; Not if you take its GUI-centered mission seriously. Ubuntu is morphing into another distro/community that tries to whip desktop users into hackers.
...in public schools.
Back in the 1980s the Supreme Court ruled that "secular humanism" is a "religion" and therefore cannot be taught in public schools. Humanism is the philosophical basis for ethics, so that explains a lot. Incorporate more than a sprinkle of ethical viewpoints in your curriculum, and get attacked by fundies.
Neither religious morals nor humanistic ethics are officially teachable here.
I boycotted Amazon when their managers started firing people for being gay, against their own corporate policy. Their excuse: 'Oh, we only follow that policy when local laws demand it.'
What do they call that? 'Bait-n-Sack'?
While I support the FSF, it is my hope that the tension will resolve in a way that respects the spectrum of motives driving human use of use technology.
That is just what the FSF is trying to do, by offering the anti-DRM GPLv3 license alongside GPLv2. Slagging them for adding this choice is IMO very uncool of Linus. He already has what he wants and no one is going to take it away from him.