This page does not address the relative amounts of natural and human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.
The 2% figure occurs in the pie diagram showing different types of greenhouse gases, all of them expelled into the atmosphere by human activities, of which the hydrofluorocarbons (HFC's) and related synthetic compounds make up 2%. The 2% figure is repeated below figure 4 for "human-made gases", but this appears to be a rather ill-chosen way of indicated that these compounds do not occur naturally at all, while the other greenhouse gases in the pie chart also have natural sources. But again, the entire page only talks about the composition of man-made greenhouse emissions, and does not make any claims how big these are compared to gases emitted by natural processes.
Here's a video of a german teenager messing up with road information panels. Apparently, he got a copy of the software used by authorities to change those displays. It seems that anyone in the possession of that software and a wireless card can do it. Maybe someone who knows german can give more details.
s/German/Dutch/g
He doesn't actually say anything that isn't obvious from the images, but he is really pleased with himself:-) . The final text he puts on the display translates as "Max is king;-) Huge traffic jam, go home."
They too are part of the Linux movement, in their own weird sort of way.
Certainly. Unfortunately, the "SCO Developers' Room" sign appears to have ended up posted on the toilet doors. (Sorry, I don't have pictures.) I wonder how that could have happened.
Didn't they get the ESR memo that Java isn't popular in open source projects?
Well, they were handing out flyers titled "Escape the Java trap". They are promoting the free/open alternatives (SableVM, GNU Classpath, , Kaffe, et cetera).
"Sonic hedgehog, a member of a family of putative signaling molecules, is implicated in the regulation of CNS polarity."
Cell. 1993 Dec 31;75(7):1417-30.
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When I read the first instance of the word "portable" I thought "How hard could it be to port this kind of code to another platform?" It was only on reading the second instance that I realized they meant the good old-fashioned real-world lugging-things-about portability:-).
Spending time in specialized fields really tends to change the meaning of common words.
Using one formula to produce shapes will make graphics programs much more efficient,
Ah, but is this necessarily true? Using a single representation may be more elegant or more convenient, in the sense that it allows the creation of programs that allow you to manipulate shapes in "natural" or "intuitive" ways. For the highest performance, it may however be preferable to use an optimized equation for the specific shape that you are drawing.
Besides the biologist's own
homepage, there is also the Genicap homepage,
featuring a link to a PDF whitepaper. It describes the superformula as a "generalized superellipse equation". The 3D version is based on superquadrics.
The Optimoz mouse gestures include
a gesture to scale an image by a factor of 2 (move down and to the right, starting
over the image you want to resize).
Copyright law is a little bit viral, but the GPL is ebola viral.
Actually, ebola virus is not all that infectious. Sure, the consequences of an infection are pretty disastrous, but it's not that easy to pick up. Airborne viruses such as influenza and the common cold virus are much more infectious.
If I remember correctly OO's doc format is a bunch of ZIPPED xml files...
In recent versions, yes.
You got more compression by ZIPing it again?
The OpenOffice document went from 68 to 64 kilobytes. This is hardly any additional compression and not unheard of if you compress twice, especially if you use two different programs with different approaches.
The Microsoft document went from 605 to 50K, indicating that a) it is not compressed by default and b) it contains far more redundant information. Some of this redundancy is probably editing/undo/revision information.
At any rate, claims that OpenOffice's XML formats are too verbose seem to be unfounded.
Slashdot Mirror
Kind of like the Slashdot staff and the "Most Discussed" sidebar. Anybody notice that it hasn't changed in a week?
As far as I can tell, none of the slashboxes has updated in two weeks. Must be a beta thing.
This is an animated synthesis of global CO2 measurements, with some historical records added afterwards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA7tfz3k_9A
CO2 levels are monitored all over the globe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA7tfz3k_9A
and they are trending up everywhere. And they're much higher than they have been for at least 800,000 years.
Glaciologists appear to disagree: http://climatecrocks.com/2012/11/08/new-video-antarctic-versus-arctic-ice-apples-and-oranges/.
Humans contribute 2% of greenhouse gas emissions globally.*
* http://www.eia.gov/oiaf/1605/ggccebro/chapter1.html
This page does not address the relative amounts of natural and human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.
The 2% figure occurs in the pie diagram showing different types of greenhouse gases, all of them expelled into the atmosphere by human activities, of which the hydrofluorocarbons (HFC's) and related synthetic compounds make up 2%. The 2% figure is repeated below figure 4 for "human-made gases", but this appears to be a rather ill-chosen way of indicated that these compounds do not occur naturally at all, while the other greenhouse gases in the pie chart also have natural sources. But again, the entire page only talks about the composition of man-made greenhouse emissions, and does not make any claims how big these are compared to gases emitted by natural processes.
I have been looking for more information on the relative contributions of natural and artificial CO2 emissions. So far the most succinct description I found is this: "How do human CO2 emissions compare to natural CO2 emissions?".
s/German/Dutch/g
He doesn't actually say anything that isn't obvious from the images, but he is really pleased with himself
There's a Belgian comic book author who has prior art on this: cover picture ! It was a pretty daft idea back then too, though :-) .
Darl McBride? Blake Stowell, Ralph Yarro?
They too are part of the Linux movement, in their own weird sort of way.
Certainly. Unfortunately, the "SCO Developers' Room" sign appears to have ended up posted on the toilet doors. (Sorry, I don't have pictures.) I wonder how that could have happened.
Didn't they get the ESR memo that Java isn't popular in open source projects?
Well, they were handing out flyers titled "Escape the Java trap". They are promoting the free/open alternatives (SableVM, GNU Classpath, , Kaffe, et cetera).
... The Matrix 6, Charlies Angles 3, Scooby Doo 2, ...
... Ocean's Twelve!
X is good, but, it still lacks a lot of features that make it unsuitable for the desktop.
:-).
I'd have thought that would be a good thing
Stringfellow Hawke is at it again!
"[...] proposes that we develop robots to assist in the construction of a lunar solar array[...]
Well, in my opinion, a lunar solar array beats a solar lunar array any day! Bring it on!
Actually, reports on the gene go back to Jan '97!
The oldest reference I can find in the MedLine database is from 1993:
"Sonic hedgehog, a member of a family of putative signaling molecules, is implicated in the regulation of CNS polarity."
Cell. 1993 Dec 31;75(7):1417-30. "
KDE takes 20 seconds to start up and each application takes a couple of seconds to load.
Prelinking the libraries and applications is supposed to help in this area. See the Gentoo guide to prelinking for more details.
No, I'm fairly certain that 'l' is the 0th character.....
And so it is, but the second index is also
the first character that is not included in the slice.
When I read the first instance of the word "portable" I thought "How hard could it be to port this kind of code to another platform?" It was only on reading the second instance that I realized they meant the good old-fashioned real-world lugging-things-about portability :-).
Spending time in specialized fields really tends to change the meaning of common words.
I just used LavaRnd's Lotto Number Generator with default values and it returned:
:-)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Well, in a truly random sequence, this combination is just as likely as any other...
Using one formula to produce shapes will make graphics programs much more efficient,
Ah, but is this necessarily true? Using a single representation may be more elegant or more convenient, in the sense that it allows the creation of programs that allow you to manipulate shapes in "natural" or "intuitive" ways. For the highest performance, it may however be preferable to use an optimized equation for the specific shape that you are drawing.
Besides the biologist's own homepage, there is also the Genicap homepage, featuring a link to a PDF whitepaper.
It describes the superformula as a "generalized superellipse equation". The 3D version is based on superquadrics.
Homepage describing the discovery (which I am still a little skeptical about): Geniaal.be (translated: "brilliant.be")
:-)
P.S.: I find it somewhat amusing that the fortune quote at the bottom of the SlashDot page I'm using to engter this happens to be
"Confound these ancestors.... They've stolen our best ideas!" - Ben Jonson
The Optimoz mouse gestures include a gesture to scale an image by a factor of 2 (move down and to the right, starting over the image you want to resize).
Copyright law is a little bit viral, but the GPL is ebola viral.
Actually, ebola virus is not all that infectious. Sure, the consequences of an infection are pretty disastrous, but it's not that easy to pick up. Airborne viruses such as influenza and the common cold virus are much more infectious.
If I remember correctly OO's doc format is a bunch of ZIPPED xml files...
In recent versions, yes.
You got more compression by ZIPing it again?
The OpenOffice document went from 68 to 64 kilobytes. This is hardly any additional compression and not unheard of if you compress twice, especially if you use two different programs with different approaches.
The Microsoft document went from 605 to 50K, indicating that a) it is not compressed by default and b) it contains far more redundant information. Some of this redundancy is probably editing/undo/revision information.
At any rate, claims that OpenOffice's XML formats are too verbose seem to be unfounded.
I am not a chemist either, but I think it was dihydrogen monoxide.