Not particularly. Most applications I write don't require much in the way of speed or close proximity to hardware layer. It has been significantly easier to write apps in.Net than what I experienced with Win32 and C++.
Adult stem cells have been found to be more effective (your own stem cells work better for you than someone else's). So the roadblocks sent research in better directions.
There are many reasons for being skeptical on climate change models. Climate is a complex open system and we can only model closed systems.
You are assuming that the "cycles" are constant, so there is no way for it to be anything other than man caused. How do we know the temperature 10000 years ago, or longer? All from various second hand sources at the best, or third or fourth hand sources. All of which require assumptions. I'm not going to hold tightly to any of these assumptions myself. I doubt we have influenced the climate all that much, but we should take care of our planet.
I agree, and I believe this should apply across all differences (race, gender, etc.). If you are capable and have interest, then you should be free to do CS or anything else. We are moving towards this which might explain the ups and downs in percentages.
then grow "woods" and rain forests rather than rotting plants. Plants produce O2 and Carbon from CO2. It is considerably better to have more Oxygen and Carbon than the two combined. So growing more plants, trees, whatever, is a good idea and a helpful start. It is also much better than just sitting around yelling that we are destroying the planet, there is something that each of us can actually do, rather than merely trying to get others to do something.
Except that the increase in H2O creates increased cloud cover and results in cooling. The problem I see is that it is extremely difficult to truly know which direction temperatures will change, much less how much with such a large number of variables that can't be controlled. Increasing the temperature will increase the amount of water vapor, thus increasing the clouds, thus reducing the sunlight reaching the ground, etc. If we are really concerned about CO2 increases, we will each grow more plants.
The idea is similar to trying to create a perpetual motion machine. We have to continuously add more stuff to back into the waste so that we have something that has actual nutrients in it.
Maybe there are some who want control and enforcement of their beliefs. Not everyone is of the same mind though. And not wearing a condom leaves you more vulnerable to STDs.
"Run with those scissors, why would you fall over? If you can pull of resisting temptation then bully for you, but to use is a as a policy to protect everyone? That's just ignorant"
So why does anyone bother to tell kids to not run with scissors? Some kids will anyway. So we make a plastic cover to go over the scissors and tell kids to always put the plastic cover on when they are going to run with scissors. The plastic cover reduces the possibility of them stabbing themselves if they fall, but not if it stabs their eye out. There is a way to not get hurt, don't run with scissors.
So to compare abstinence with running with scissors is the wrong comparison. To abstain from the things that will bring you pain is not a bad policy--it should be the main policy. Learning self control and discipline is easier when you are younger, but it is something that would benefit everyone and in all areas of life.
Abstinence before marriage is their point. So you don't get a car until it is appropiate, and then you should slow down a bit and wear seatbelts. Until we all learn some self-control, we'll continue creating more problems for ourselves.
I agree, this doesn't solve anything and is more likely to introduce problems. We pass stuff out because we can't process it, or it was excess, so if we take it in again, more of it will be passed out than used by the body.
why do any of us think we can figure out this complicated system? Climate is just the average of Weather and I have yet to find a reliable source of weather predictions for next week. We've finally gotten down the next hour or so and mostly the next day's weather. The longer cycles of the Sun, the moon, volcanic activity, forest fires, human activity, animal activity, meteors, etc. And more than half the things cause both colder and warmer temperatures. Warmer temperatures cause more water evaporation. More water in the atmosphere can cause more cloud cover, reducing sun light making it to earth. The whole in the ozone causes more sun light to come in, but lets more back out. And all of these things cause more interactions with everything else, making a complex maze that is difficult to even measure. Even when we get a controlled environment and can finally figure out the net result of any particular item, the interactions were lost in the lab. And we still didn't get to the politics, the human factors of pride, ego, jealousy, hatred, etc.
So get back to me when we have data and know all the variables involved.
Why limit to Earth? Actually we should work on collecting greenhouse gases and sending them to Mars, it needs more atmosphere and it needs to be warmer. Then we can start colonizing Mars.
H20 is a stronger green house gas and more prevalent than CO2.
(as per Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas)
Water vapor H2O 36 – 72 %
Carbon dioxide CO2 9 – 26 %
Methane CH4 4 – 9 %
Ozone O3 3 – 7 %
So CO2 isn't the dominant greenhouse gas. We really don't know the impact of either the sun cycles or man-made CO2 increases. Every interaction causes all kinds of changes. A whole in the ozone causes more radiation coming in, but also lets more out. Until the politics is removed from the global climate change, we won't get any closer to actual answers.
The existing models cannot take all factors into account, because it is nearly impossible to even define all possible factors in relation to climate. Hence the whole debate around global warming/cooling/change will never be over, regardless of the current temperature. Someone will create a new model that includes some other factors, but ignores some others, therefore producing lots of data that probably doesn't mean as much as they interpret.
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exactly, +1
Not particularly. Most applications I write don't require much in the way of speed or close proximity to hardware layer. It has been significantly easier to write apps in .Net than what I experienced with Win32 and C++.
Adult stem cells have been found to be more effective (your own stem cells work better for you than someone else's). So the roadblocks sent research in better directions. There are many reasons for being skeptical on climate change models. Climate is a complex open system and we can only model closed systems.
You are assuming that the "cycles" are constant, so there is no way for it to be anything other than man caused. How do we know the temperature 10000 years ago, or longer? All from various second hand sources at the best, or third or fourth hand sources. All of which require assumptions. I'm not going to hold tightly to any of these assumptions myself. I doubt we have influenced the climate all that much, but we should take care of our planet.
I agree, and I believe this should apply across all differences (race, gender, etc.). If you are capable and have interest, then you should be free to do CS or anything else. We are moving towards this which might explain the ups and downs in percentages.
It was His idea, not that he liked it. He would have preferred another method, but there was no other way to redeem humankind.
then grow "woods" and rain forests rather than rotting plants. Plants produce O2 and Carbon from CO2. It is considerably better to have more Oxygen and Carbon than the two combined. So growing more plants, trees, whatever, is a good idea and a helpful start. It is also much better than just sitting around yelling that we are destroying the planet, there is something that each of us can actually do, rather than merely trying to get others to do something.
maybe someone has a time machine, or maybe there are some ancient cameras that have been keeping close watch
Except that the increase in H2O creates increased cloud cover and results in cooling. The problem I see is that it is extremely difficult to truly know which direction temperatures will change, much less how much with such a large number of variables that can't be controlled. Increasing the temperature will increase the amount of water vapor, thus increasing the clouds, thus reducing the sunlight reaching the ground, etc. If we are really concerned about CO2 increases, we will each grow more plants.
The idea is similar to trying to create a perpetual motion machine. We have to continuously add more stuff to back into the waste so that we have something that has actual nutrients in it.
Maybe there are some who want control and enforcement of their beliefs. Not everyone is of the same mind though. And not wearing a condom leaves you more vulnerable to STDs.
So why does anyone bother to tell kids to not run with scissors? Some kids will anyway. So we make a plastic cover to go over the scissors and tell kids to always put the plastic cover on when they are going to run with scissors. The plastic cover reduces the possibility of them stabbing themselves if they fall, but not if it stabs their eye out. There is a way to not get hurt, don't run with scissors.
So to compare abstinence with running with scissors is the wrong comparison. To abstain from the things that will bring you pain is not a bad policy--it should be the main policy. Learning self control and discipline is easier when you are younger, but it is something that would benefit everyone and in all areas of life.
for sure
Studios need for DRM is probably a larger hurdle than MS/Netflix relationship.
+1, that's funny
Silverlight is on Windows Phone 7
that's what I'm thinking, though I don't think they can pay me enough to eat that shit
Abstinence before marriage is their point. So you don't get a car until it is appropiate, and then you should slow down a bit and wear seatbelts. Until we all learn some self-control, we'll continue creating more problems for ourselves.
there are plenty of cheaper, easier sources of food than human waste. Grains are much easier to transport & store and are considerably cheaper.
I agree, this doesn't solve anything and is more likely to introduce problems. We pass stuff out because we can't process it, or it was excess, so if we take it in again, more of it will be passed out than used by the body.
why do any of us think we can figure out this complicated system? Climate is just the average of Weather and I have yet to find a reliable source of weather predictions for next week. We've finally gotten down the next hour or so and mostly the next day's weather. The longer cycles of the Sun, the moon, volcanic activity, forest fires, human activity, animal activity, meteors, etc. And more than half the things cause both colder and warmer temperatures. Warmer temperatures cause more water evaporation. More water in the atmosphere can cause more cloud cover, reducing sun light making it to earth. The whole in the ozone causes more sun light to come in, but lets more back out. And all of these things cause more interactions with everything else, making a complex maze that is difficult to even measure. Even when we get a controlled environment and can finally figure out the net result of any particular item, the interactions were lost in the lab. And we still didn't get to the politics, the human factors of pride, ego, jealousy, hatred, etc. So get back to me when we have data and know all the variables involved.
Why limit to Earth? Actually we should work on collecting greenhouse gases and sending them to Mars, it needs more atmosphere and it needs to be warmer. Then we can start colonizing Mars.
H20 is a stronger green house gas and more prevalent than CO2. (as per Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas) Water vapor H2O 36 – 72 % Carbon dioxide CO2 9 – 26 % Methane CH4 4 – 9 % Ozone O3 3 – 7 % So CO2 isn't the dominant greenhouse gas. We really don't know the impact of either the sun cycles or man-made CO2 increases. Every interaction causes all kinds of changes. A whole in the ozone causes more radiation coming in, but also lets more out. Until the politics is removed from the global climate change, we won't get any closer to actual answers.
I'm sure it is a factor, though probably not in many climate models.
The existing models cannot take all factors into account, because it is nearly impossible to even define all possible factors in relation to climate. Hence the whole debate around global warming/cooling/change will never be over, regardless of the current temperature. Someone will create a new model that includes some other factors, but ignores some others, therefore producing lots of data that probably doesn't mean as much as they interpret.