http://greenbureau.wcc.govt.nz/infosheets/global wa rming.html
"In the past 40 years increased demand for the meat and dairy products has doubled the number of cows."
(I've no idea how valid that page is, it was just the first one I fund on google, but it seems to be from the govement of new zealand)
Other then that I've found it nearly impossible to discuss energy policy with Americans. They simply do not understand that it is possible to use less energy and think/worry about the future of the planet without being a commie bastard. Probably rooted in the sick relationship a lot of Americans has with the idea of Freedom.
This doesn't apply to the majority of/. readers ofcourse, way to informed and well educated... oh, yes.
(I know this could be considered flamebait. Could be as much fun as that time when I said "guncontrol" in a newsgroup full of Heinlein fans). --
It's the same size as a Palm V. They don't tell the screen size but it seems to be the same as the V. So what you get is a Vx that will take Springboards, has a metal flipcover and a USB cradle. Both the Vx and the Edge are us$ 399.
Another thing that could be interesting is the battery life, I wonder how it compare with the Vx. --
I'm sad to hear that you book isn't doing better. It (and you) deserve better.
I'm get offered review copies of self-published books more and more often (yours was one of the first) and where I said "yes, please" to most of them in the beginning, I now started to be more selective, simple because of the simple fact that a lot of these books aren't worth reading.
I've read about 170 books, since I started my book review page five year ago. In that time I've given up on about five books, three of them where self published books (the other two was Earth by Brin and Feersum Endjinn by Banks).
My point is that cheap publishing is worthless if the books arent edited and (peer-) reviewed, by somebody who knows what they are doing (no, not your friends).
You may be satisfied with a badly formatted online manual with bad sentense structure and even worse spelling, but this simply whon't work if you want people to pay fifteen or twenty us$ for your book. --
Genetic "engineering" is not a bit of fun, it is the greatest threat to humanity we have ever faced
If you change that to "humanity as we know it today", I would say that you are just about right.
We need to change end evolve - speeding up the process will probably make us stumble a couple of times, but...well, you cant splice a gene with out cracking a few hardheads. Or something. --
Last I heard most psychologists work width five or six kinds of intelligens (mathematical, social, creative, etc).
My guess would be that something like the GAP enhancement would enhance you intelligences proportionally to what you where already propositioned to.
As for the evolution bit: The problem is that the only ways to make evolution work faster are nasty (lots of people dying before they have children), unless we take matters (genetics) into our own hands.
As what we should evolve into: We do need more brains to solve the problems of today, not "rocket scientists", but people who can understand and solve group problems. Later we'll need real rocket scientists to get some of these fragile eggs out of this basket.
Sound good, but the socket 462 vs socket 370 aspect is about as funny as the "Duron, Duron" jokes.
It's expensive to develop chips of this size and I can understand that both Intel and AMD want to protect their IP, but we really need an OpenSocket (or maybe a slot variety, but I'm not going to write that).
That would be for the good of all, more fair competition and I would be able to use the newest CPU with my one year old motherboard.
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Acording to this homepage:
l wa rming.html
/. readers ofcourse, way to informed and well educated... oh, yes.
http://greenbureau.wcc.govt.nz/infosheets/globa
"In the past 40 years increased demand for the meat and dairy products has doubled the number of cows."
(I've no idea how valid that page is, it was just the first one I fund on google, but it seems to be from the govement of new zealand)
Other then that I've found it nearly impossible to discuss energy policy with Americans. They simply do not understand that it is possible to use less energy and think/worry about the future of the planet without being a commie bastard. Probably rooted in the sick relationship a lot of Americans has with the idea of Freedom.
This doesn't apply to the majority of
(I know this could be considered flamebait. Could be as much fun as that time when I said "guncontrol" in a newsgroup full of Heinlein fans).
--
It's the same size as a Palm V. They don't tell the screen size but it seems to be the same as the V. So what you get is a Vx that will take Springboards, has a metal flipcover and a USB cradle. Both the Vx and the Edge are us$ 399.
Another thing that could be interesting is the battery life, I wonder how it compare with the Vx.
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I'm sad to hear that you book isn't doing better. It (and you) deserve better.
I'm get offered review copies of self-published books more and more often (yours was one of the first) and where I said "yes, please" to most of them in the beginning, I now started to be more selective, simple because of the simple fact that a lot of these books aren't worth reading.
I've read about 170 books, since I started my book review page five year ago. In that time I've given up on about five books, three of them where self published books (the other two was Earth by Brin and Feersum Endjinn by Banks).
My point is that cheap publishing is worthless if the books arent edited and (peer-) reviewed, by somebody who knows what they are doing (no, not your friends).
You may be satisfied with a badly formatted online manual with bad sentense structure and even worse spelling, but this simply whon't work if you want people to pay fifteen or twenty us$ for your book.
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The only player I've tried that doesn't support VBR is my standalone DVD/SVCD/VCD/MP3 player from Nintaus (N9901). :-(
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Sure:
Upcoming ages as they will be called by the media:
The Linux Age.
The Information Age II.
The IT age.
The VR age.
The Robotic age.
The Genetic age.
The Microsoft Age.
The Age of Media.
And now for 2002....
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But can you print it on a t-shirt?
"One microsoft-bug-list-T-shirt, please. Size Hindenburg[1], please."
[1] large object was choosen by random - the final fate of the Hindenburg, didn't have anything to do with it...
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Loved the book by the way, not the funniest nor grimmest, but overall the best Culture novel in my mind.
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So, who got it right (where it actually mattered to the story)?
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We need to change end evolve - speeding up the process will probably make us stumble a couple of times, but ...well, you cant splice a gene with out cracking a few hardheads. Or something.
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I can only see three answers to this question
a) You program in and for Linux when your customers ask you to do it and pay you for it.
b) You don't need more money and want to do your bit in the fight agains The Evil Empire.
c) You need to run something on hardware that whon't run Windows.
I know that some people dont like reason a) but this is the world that most of us live in.
TC - SFBook.com
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Last I heard most psychologists work width five or six kinds of intelligens (mathematical, social, creative, etc).
My guess would be that something like the GAP enhancement would enhance you intelligences proportionally to what you where already propositioned to.
As for the evolution bit: The problem is that the only ways to make evolution work faster are nasty (lots of people dying before they have children), unless we take matters (genetics) into our own hands.
As what we should evolve into: We do need more brains to solve the problems of today, not "rocket scientists", but people who can understand and solve group problems. Later we'll need real rocket scientists to get some of these fragile eggs out of this basket.
Sound good, but the socket 462 vs socket 370 aspect is about as funny as the "Duron, Duron" jokes.
It's expensive to develop chips of this size and I can understand that both Intel and AMD want to protect their IP, but we really need an OpenSocket (or maybe a slot variety, but I'm not going to write that).
That would be for the good of all, more fair competition and I would be able to use the newest CPU with my one year old motherboard.
Not really /.'ed, the url for Vicarious Visions os just wrong, it's: http://www.vvisions.com/terminus/
I've been waiting for this game for to long. Now I'm afraid to download it.