In the Brighton Run, there are pre-1905 cars that are fully electric. There are also cars that run off steam power. Neither is technically using any gas.
I dunno. I'd have said anything running in the Shell Fuel Economy races in Europe would be better, and you can technically buy those. Just not off an assembly line.
The sooner they pedestrianize California and replace the road network with a FUNCTIONAL mass transit system (where "functional" includes useful thinks like not having trains in opposite directions on the same line, 125-175MPH inter-city, 75MPH local - y'know, the stuff Europe's been doing since the 40s), the sooner we can eliminate several major sources of pollution:
Traffic
Traffic cops
Traffic courts that end up throwing the tickets out 'cos everyone knows the lights are rigged
The problem is that a lot of tree planting exercises involve slim, fast-growing trees that absorb little CO2 but do absorb excessive soil nutrients. These trees have a short life-expectancy and usually end up getting dumped in land-fills where they replenish the CO2 in the air.
You have to use much slower-growing trees. The bulkier the better, the longer-living the better. I've found Californian Redwoods grow great even in the north of England (which is no great surprise, as prior to the Ice Age that was part of their territory) and it was fine to take them into the country when I last checked (no parasites and no known conflicts with native species - or, since it's a re-introduction, other native species).
Also in England, I would strongly advise planting English Oaks. They're getting rare as it is, but they are also one of the more long-lived of the oak family and again should be excellent carbon sinks.
In the US, as bristlecone pines operate best in areas most other species cannot survive in, I would imagine that it would be possible to increase their range without causing too much of an environmental problem.
Wollemi Pines might also be a good bet, as there is no risk of them getting out of control (they can't compete with flowering trees or plants) and again there should be an extremely low risk of problematic parasites.
If you like getting real christmas trees, get one with roots. Even if only one in a hundred make it through christmas intact, that would still be a massive cut in the CO2 injected back into the atmosphere. (Some places dump trees in lakes, but that acidifies the lakes and probably causes all kinds of other environmental problems.)
I dunno about less exciting. Since it boosts the food supply from the bottom of the chain, it might be quite a helpful way to repair the damage to sea populations due to serious mismanagement in the past. A temporary boost to the food chain might be exactly what is required.
Unless you've dedicated CPUs on the peripherals and one primary CPU core per process thread, you are fundamentally running on serial hardware and will have non-zero latency as one task switches out. OS/2 (half an OS?) is no different. You can't overcome the limitations of a fundamentally stupid hardware design.
If you mean "obvious to the user" halt, then OS/2 is still no better than many other OS'. You may remember a difference, but then PS/2 systems were not exactly running multi-megabyte web browsers, RDBMS' and 128 KHz 5.1 audio at the same time. Software has grown faster than mainstream hardware. If you were to run modern loads on an old Warp system, you'd kill it.
Primitive technology. What you really wanted was to build a ballista (the field artillery version of a crossbow). 40' yew trees for the two arms should give you a respectable range.
I'd consider the Archimedes RISC OS to have been more significant than something like GEOS. 386BSD was the first true Open Source UNIX-like OS for the PC, yet never gets a mention. MSX was trashy, but was the first effort to get a truly cross-vendor platform. Back when Windows 3.x had no notion of preemption, there were OS' for the PC (Desqview and GEM) that were at least going in the right direction.
Although GNU's HURD gets a brief mention, MACH is more than HURD and the fate of the original HURD cannot be understood without understanding the fate of MACH. Plan 9's fate is also unmentioned, although it likely had a major influence on the way people imagine clusters and cloud computing today.
As is common with arbitrary top 10 lists, it shows far more about the prejudice of the one doing the selection than it does about the products being selected. There are no criteria for the list that I can see, other than the author knew how to spell the name.
It doesn't give credible coverage of the OS' that have died over the years, nor credible coverage of the reasons. In fact, I'm not even sure you can give credible coverage of the entire OS domain in a mere 10 entries. A list of 100 OS' might just about give a feel for the experiments and ambitions of developers, the path evolution has taken, but ten? And most of those being derivatives of each other, rather than independent lines of thinking!
Ceramic certainly is, glass is one of those weird cases where the state of matter is not definitively in either the category of solid or liquid but if you were to use conventional classifications, glass could be considered an igneous rock.
One method of suspend-to-disk is to do a freeze/thaw. It has taken Hell over 16 billion years to do just the freeze. Two millibits per second should be able to do both in less than half the time.
When you get right down to it, any hard-coded data on silicon is just data on a stone slab. Since you can compile SystemC into a hardware spec, you can write stone slabs as fast as you can generate C.
The laws apply in Government, just not the Constitution. However, even when the laws do apply, there are many exemptions. So the answer is "quite possibly". There have been cases of teachers being prosecuted for such crimes, but I am unaware of any where the teacher made any reference to the protections afforded Government employees. Certainly there ARE positions in Government where it would not be a crime.
(I forget which US President is claimed to have "invited" 14- and 15-year old females into the Oval Office, but it's fairly certain it wouldn't have been for a cup of iced tea and a chat about the weather.)
According to the website, around 3 seconds. Now, some embedded systems have Flash cards large enough to take a mini distro. The Arcom card I used a while back could do this. This is unlikely to be the case for the laptop as-is, but I can't see why you couldn't ultimately have a memory image placed into Flash which is booted into via coreboot.
Only if the Constitution and the law applies. The Constitution doesn't apply on Government work-grounds to those employed by or contracted by the Government, so schools may be exempt.
As demonstrated by drugs cases in Universities, schools are largely considered exempt from the law.
Teachers are now being actively encouraged to be armed. Kids can do a lot of damage, but rather less with a 0.45 pointing between the eyes. "Accidents happen", as they say, and with the number of false reports by kids when they were "listened to" saturating the system, who is going to listen to a kid who says they've been threatened?
The system is a total mess and everyone from the Government to the kids has made it that way. It needs to be ripped apart, ripped open and replaced. What isn't cruft is borked.
The Constitution is a document that regulates the Federal Government and has been hacked to include State government. It does not apply to private organizations at all.
The question is, does the Constitutions apply to schools? Well, arguably if you need to back-engineer State coverage, then anything not explicitly regulated by the Constitution is considered outside of the Constitution.
For that matter, the Government declared a long time ago that insofar as its employees were concerned, it WAS a private employer, not the Government, which is why soldiers and Government contractors can be punished for things that would normally be protected speech.
In this case, the school essentially is the "place of work" of the students and may therefore be in the same category, as a private entity and not a public concern, even in the case of Government-run schools. (Of course, it's not altogether from the summary that this IS a Government-run school.)
Personally, I'd argue the reverse should hold true, that private entities comparable in size to a major Government should be subject to the Constitution. In which case, the Government (since it is by definition the size of a Government) would always be subject and have no exemptions.
This, however, would mean major employers (the Microsofts and IBMs of the world) would have to play by the same rules. I don't think this is such a bad thing. Outsourcing means that such entities are essentially doing the work of Government. It seems to me that outsourcing to bypass the Constitution is about as fishy as corporations putting money in overseas tax havens, as it's all done for the same reason - an attempt to bypass the rules and regulations by being powerful.
If this approach were followed, then schools would have to comply with the 1st and 4th Amendments and there would be no problems.
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In the Brighton Run, there are pre-1905 cars that are fully electric. There are also cars that run off steam power. Neither is technically using any gas.
I dunno. I'd have said anything running in the Shell Fuel Economy races in Europe would be better, and you can technically buy those. Just not off an assembly line.
The sooner they pedestrianize California and replace the road network with a FUNCTIONAL mass transit system (where "functional" includes useful thinks like not having trains in opposite directions on the same line, 125-175MPH inter-city, 75MPH local - y'know, the stuff Europe's been doing since the 40s), the sooner we can eliminate several major sources of pollution:
Ah! Must be another Beebug subscriber.
Cue Holy Grail "I'm Not Dead Yet" quotes.
The problem is that a lot of tree planting exercises involve slim, fast-growing trees that absorb little CO2 but do absorb excessive soil nutrients. These trees have a short life-expectancy and usually end up getting dumped in land-fills where they replenish the CO2 in the air.
You have to use much slower-growing trees. The bulkier the better, the longer-living the better. I've found Californian Redwoods grow great even in the north of England (which is no great surprise, as prior to the Ice Age that was part of their territory) and it was fine to take them into the country when I last checked (no parasites and no known conflicts with native species - or, since it's a re-introduction, other native species).
Also in England, I would strongly advise planting English Oaks. They're getting rare as it is, but they are also one of the more long-lived of the oak family and again should be excellent carbon sinks.
In the US, as bristlecone pines operate best in areas most other species cannot survive in, I would imagine that it would be possible to increase their range without causing too much of an environmental problem.
Wollemi Pines might also be a good bet, as there is no risk of them getting out of control (they can't compete with flowering trees or plants) and again there should be an extremely low risk of problematic parasites.
If you like getting real christmas trees, get one with roots. Even if only one in a hundred make it through christmas intact, that would still be a massive cut in the CO2 injected back into the atmosphere. (Some places dump trees in lakes, but that acidifies the lakes and probably causes all kinds of other environmental problems.)
I dunno about less exciting. Since it boosts the food supply from the bottom of the chain, it might be quite a helpful way to repair the damage to sea populations due to serious mismanagement in the past. A temporary boost to the food chain might be exactly what is required.
Unless you've dedicated CPUs on the peripherals and one primary CPU core per process thread, you are fundamentally running on serial hardware and will have non-zero latency as one task switches out. OS/2 (half an OS?) is no different. You can't overcome the limitations of a fundamentally stupid hardware design.
If you mean "obvious to the user" halt, then OS/2 is still no better than many other OS'. You may remember a difference, but then PS/2 systems were not exactly running multi-megabyte web browsers, RDBMS' and 128 KHz 5.1 audio at the same time. Software has grown faster than mainstream hardware. If you were to run modern loads on an old Warp system, you'd kill it.
My ears don't hurt quite as badly as in the days of teletype interfaces, and the backspace works a bit better.
Primitive technology. What you really wanted was to build a ballista (the field artillery version of a crossbow). 40' yew trees for the two arms should give you a respectable range.
I prefer Commodore's SYS 65520. Or, for any BBC B fan out there, there's always: 10 DIM A%(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1)
I'd consider the Archimedes RISC OS to have been more significant than something like GEOS. 386BSD was the first true Open Source UNIX-like OS for the PC, yet never gets a mention. MSX was trashy, but was the first effort to get a truly cross-vendor platform. Back when Windows 3.x had no notion of preemption, there were OS' for the PC (Desqview and GEM) that were at least going in the right direction.
Although GNU's HURD gets a brief mention, MACH is more than HURD and the fate of the original HURD cannot be understood without understanding the fate of MACH. Plan 9's fate is also unmentioned, although it likely had a major influence on the way people imagine clusters and cloud computing today.
As is common with arbitrary top 10 lists, it shows far more about the prejudice of the one doing the selection than it does about the products being selected. There are no criteria for the list that I can see, other than the author knew how to spell the name.
It doesn't give credible coverage of the OS' that have died over the years, nor credible coverage of the reasons. In fact, I'm not even sure you can give credible coverage of the entire OS domain in a mere 10 entries. A list of 100 OS' might just about give a feel for the experiments and ambitions of developers, the path evolution has taken, but ten? And most of those being derivatives of each other, rather than independent lines of thinking!
Ceramic certainly is, glass is one of those weird cases where the state of matter is not definitively in either the category of solid or liquid but if you were to use conventional classifications, glass could be considered an igneous rock.
One method of suspend-to-disk is to do a freeze/thaw. It has taken Hell over 16 billion years to do just the freeze. Two millibits per second should be able to do both in less than half the time.
Easy. Ribbon's only good for short-distance parallel links. If they've got backups in Egypt, they must be using serial cables.
Fortunately, Hell has now been upgraded to 2 mb/s, thanks to British Telecom.
When you get right down to it, any hard-coded data on silicon is just data on a stone slab. Since you can compile SystemC into a hardware spec, you can write stone slabs as fast as you can generate C.
Oh, come off it. MediaWiki is not enterprise-scale. It works just fine on FAR bigger deployments.
Your ISP still allows breathing?
Somehow I don't think it was the howitzer that was at risk of being leveled. Now, the RIAA, on the other hand...
The laws apply in Government, just not the Constitution. However, even when the laws do apply, there are many exemptions. So the answer is "quite possibly". There have been cases of teachers being prosecuted for such crimes, but I am unaware of any where the teacher made any reference to the protections afforded Government employees. Certainly there ARE positions in Government where it would not be a crime.
(I forget which US President is claimed to have "invited" 14- and 15-year old females into the Oval Office, but it's fairly certain it wouldn't have been for a cup of iced tea and a chat about the weather.)
According to the website, around 3 seconds. Now, some embedded systems have Flash cards large enough to take a mini distro. The Arcom card I used a while back could do this. This is unlikely to be the case for the laptop as-is, but I can't see why you couldn't ultimately have a memory image placed into Flash which is booted into via coreboot.
Only if the Constitution and the law applies. The Constitution doesn't apply on Government work-grounds to those employed by or contracted by the Government, so schools may be exempt.
As demonstrated by drugs cases in Universities, schools are largely considered exempt from the law.
Teachers are now being actively encouraged to be armed. Kids can do a lot of damage, but rather less with a 0.45 pointing between the eyes. "Accidents happen", as they say, and with the number of false reports by kids when they were "listened to" saturating the system, who is going to listen to a kid who says they've been threatened?
The system is a total mess and everyone from the Government to the kids has made it that way. It needs to be ripped apart, ripped open and replaced. What isn't cruft is borked.
The Constitution is a document that regulates the Federal Government and has been hacked to include State government. It does not apply to private organizations at all.
The question is, does the Constitutions apply to schools? Well, arguably if you need to back-engineer State coverage, then anything not explicitly regulated by the Constitution is considered outside of the Constitution.
For that matter, the Government declared a long time ago that insofar as its employees were concerned, it WAS a private employer, not the Government, which is why soldiers and Government contractors can be punished for things that would normally be protected speech.
In this case, the school essentially is the "place of work" of the students and may therefore be in the same category, as a private entity and not a public concern, even in the case of Government-run schools. (Of course, it's not altogether from the summary that this IS a Government-run school.)
Personally, I'd argue the reverse should hold true, that private entities comparable in size to a major Government should be subject to the Constitution. In which case, the Government (since it is by definition the size of a Government) would always be subject and have no exemptions.
This, however, would mean major employers (the Microsofts and IBMs of the world) would have to play by the same rules. I don't think this is such a bad thing. Outsourcing means that such entities are essentially doing the work of Government. It seems to me that outsourcing to bypass the Constitution is about as fishy as corporations putting money in overseas tax havens, as it's all done for the same reason - an attempt to bypass the rules and regulations by being powerful.
If this approach were followed, then schools would have to comply with the 1st and 4th Amendments and there would be no problems.