Remember they now ship with hypervisor. So the new version can run the software on the older versions of the OS if their are compatibility problems. There is no reason enterprises can't move towards a rapid upgrade strategy when every desktop has full virtualization, as long as they make sure they all have enough RAM, Disk...
a) Plants eat up all the excess CO2 we put in the environment. I'm not claiming this. b) Plantes given lots of CO2 will grow faster and thus farming will be more productive. I am claiming this.
In the case of a farm: water is plentiful, plants aren't competing and the soil is fertilized so I don't see how the greenhouse variables don't apply.
GP's claim was that increased CO2 was bad for C4 plants. Drought is an irrigation issue as long as the amount of fresh water increases (that's being discussed below). We know plants love it hot and wet. Look at any rainforest.
Large increases in mean total precipitation are projected for large parts of the Northern Hemisphere, East Africa, and South and Southeast Asia, as well as Antarctica, while changes are amplified in high northern and southern latitudes for scenarios in which global mean warming exceeds 4C....Significant increases in extreme precipitation are projected to be more widespread. The strongest increases of 20–30 percent precipitation during the annually wettest days were found for South Asia, Southeast Asia, western Africa, eastern Africa, Alaska, Greenland, northern Europe, Tibet, and North Asia. The projected increases in extreme precipitation seem to be concentrated in the Northern Hemisphere winter season (December, January, and February) over the Amazon Basin, southern South America, western North America, central North America, northern Europe, and Central Asia.
What appears to the case is we are going to have a cycle of flooding -> growth -> drying every year. Which is fine. That's the weather cycle you have in North African agriculture where the human race evolved. That's the cycle you see in places like North Mexico which are huge food producing regions. We know how to handle that cycle, we literally have known how to handle that cycle for tens of thousands of years and have been very skilled at it for 6000 years. You can get really high quality grains out of that cycle that just won't grow in Kansas now. So, yes Kansas might have to adopt Egyptian agricultural methods and trying to use Kansas' style agriculture in 2100 may be impossible.
Pretty much as long as water is hitting the environment semi regularly, we can do agriculture well. More water, more CO2 and more heat are net / net good for plants. Take this report. You heat the US up in the winter, , more CO2 and throw in lots of water: Nevada, desert areas of California, Colorado... all come on line with 2 growing seasons a year. That's huge. Then you have regular typhoons dropping massive of fresh water in aquifers multiple times per year. I'm having a tough time seeing how this isn't farming heaven.
I appreciate you considering me reasonable but I honestly don't see the problem.
There isn't enough CO2 to go around. The way you can tell is that is you CO2 to the environment in a greenhouse plant growth speeds up considerably: 33 and 25%, respectively, for C3 and C4 plants. Nitrogen rich is mainly an issue of fertilization. Sunlight we can't do much about. Water is irrigation.
"On average, they found photosynthetic enhancements of 33 and 25%, respectively, for C3 and C4 plants, along with biomass enhancements of 44 and 33%, respectively, for a doubling of the air's CO2 concentration." They also noted increased CO2 helps C4 plants in uptake of nutrients. So I stand by my original comment.
I agree. But in general hot moist environments with lots of CO2 are great for plants. The more earth becomes like a rain forest the more plants (on average) will like it. I suspect we can find plants that would like it even hotter if we could keep humidity high.
What plants don't do well with is high heat / low humidity.
a) That's like asking why there is still sand if we use sandbags. We are putting CO2 faster than plants need it. Increased CO2 assists plant growth by about 30%.
b) Of course wanter won't remain on the same spot. A lot will migrate from ocean to dry land.
a) Plants love CO2. b) Heat puts water in the air. Putting more water in the air on average will result in less not more drought. Moreover for about 6000 years have been rather good at moving fresh water around for agriculture.
Humans are excellent at adaption, that's why we successfully exist in so many climates. The sort of exaggeration you are engaging in is precisely how climate change theories got discredited to begin with.
I always find the web usage statistics for Android phones fascinating. I'd love to figure out what it is that people on Android phones are doing with their smart phone that justifies the data plan expense.
As for Windows 8 being DOA I've been a big supporter. I think Metro is the right thing to do, on the right hardware. But as for post-PC its hard to argue with either the sales numbers of the 10 years of exponential growth vs. the flat falling we've been seeing on PC for now several years running.
As for Windows Server and profits. Linux owns the low and the very high end. In the middle range it generally is the lower cost option. Sort of like its positioning on phones. The argument that no one would use it / buy it is false. The argument that people who use it (excepting supercomputing customers I gather) do so for cost reasons is quite true.
Signature existed for Windows 7. Further Signature is just a tuned version of the OS without the OEM crapware, all the non-existent Microsoft crapware is in signature machines.
I generally don't do support but when it comes to friend and family, I've been supporting people on OSX for a dozen years now. Most of the time it is "open up terminal and type". On Windows I have to use cmd.exe quite often when I'm on the system. And when it comes to support heck yeah I send them a regini and the commands to load it.
That's up to the state. They can take as long as they like to prepare for trial providing they don't attempt to hold people. If they are holding too many people for all the courts to handle, then they are holding too many people.
You will get no argument from me that the lack of a strong well funded public defender system is a huge problem in the US. You can't have a fair adversarial system when only one side has weapons.
So when the U.S government hacks into foreign government servers and causes damage it's patriotic but a u.s citizen it's criminal.
Yes. The state is empowered to do many things you aren't. For example if you hold people against their will that's kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment, they get to openly run a prison system.
The hacker was held for that long with no bond or speedy trial, decision made by the judge,
That's not true. The hacker waived his right to a speedy trial. That right rests with the defense not the judge.
There are fixed time limits. And yes people get released all the time when the prosecution isn't ready to move forward. Generally it is the defense that wants more time. Just to pick a famous example Donny Rogers who was arrested and held on a murder charge had to be released because he went for the speedy trial and the state couldn't process the evidence in time.
The right to a speedy trial rests with the defendant. He was denied bail, but not a speedy trial. To the best of my knowledge it is the defense that is asking for the delay. And of course the state can still charge him, they just can't hold him while awaiting trial if they it were the prosecution that wasn't ready to move forward.
One thing that is worth mentioning here is that Apple in court, during the Samsung hearings, indicated they believed MeeGo was independently developed and thus didn't infringe on their patents. So one of the advantages of Sailfish will be that it doesn't carry with it all the patent issues that Android had from the Apple side. Microsoft might still sue like they did with Android, but given Microsoft's problems in Europe from a PR perspective going after European handset makers could be totally not worth the backlash. hard to tell.
At the very least Apple's comments would do a lot to help indemnify this OS, "Even Apple has statements made under penalty of perjury that this OS was developed independently..."
Latest quarter was $8.67 share vs. $7.05 a year ago. This quarter they've been supply constrained on many products. I can see the concern since margins are very high but so far the earnings looks good.
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Remember they now ship with hypervisor. So the new version can run the software on the older versions of the OS if their are compatibility problems. There is no reason enterprises can't move towards a rapid upgrade strategy when every desktop has full virtualization, as long as they make sure they all have enough RAM, Disk...
You are confusing two very different things:
a) Plants eat up all the excess CO2 we put in the environment. I'm not claiming this.
b) Plantes given lots of CO2 will grow faster and thus farming will be more productive. I am claiming this.
In the case of a farm: water is plentiful, plants aren't competing and the soil is fertilized so I don't see how the greenhouse variables don't apply.
Read up in the chain. There has been research on the C4 plants those are the ones with the 25% growth enhancement.
And of course it is in a controlled environment we don't have an open atmosphere with lots of CO2.
GP's claim was that increased CO2 was bad for C4 plants. Drought is an irrigation issue as long as the amount of fresh water increases (that's being discussed below). We know plants love it hot and wet. Look at any rainforest.
Let me just quote that report:
What appears to the case is we are going to have a cycle of flooding -> growth -> drying every year. Which is fine. That's the weather cycle you have in North African agriculture where the human race evolved. That's the cycle you see in places like North Mexico which are huge food producing regions. We know how to handle that cycle, we literally have known how to handle that cycle for tens of thousands of years and have been very skilled at it for 6000 years. You can get really high quality grains out of that cycle that just won't grow in Kansas now. So, yes Kansas might have to adopt Egyptian agricultural methods and trying to use Kansas' style agriculture in 2100 may be impossible.
Pretty much as long as water is hitting the environment semi regularly, we can do agriculture well. More water, more CO2 and more heat are net / net good for plants. Take this report. You heat the US up in the winter, , more CO2 and throw in lots of water: Nevada, desert areas of California, Colorado... all come on line with 2 growing seasons a year. That's huge. Then you have regular typhoons dropping massive of fresh water in aquifers multiple times per year. I'm having a tough time seeing how this isn't farming heaven.
I appreciate you considering me reasonable but I honestly don't see the problem.
There isn't enough CO2 to go around. The way you can tell is that is you CO2 to the environment in a greenhouse plant growth speeds up considerably: 33 and 25%, respectively, for C3 and C4 plants. Nitrogen rich is mainly an issue of fertilization. Sunlight we can't do much about. Water is irrigation.
"On average, they found photosynthetic enhancements of 33 and 25%, respectively, for C3 and C4 plants, along with biomass enhancements of 44 and 33%, respectively, for a doubling of the air's CO2 concentration." They also noted increased CO2 helps C4 plants in uptake of nutrients. So I stand by my original comment.
I agree. But in general hot moist environments with lots of CO2 are great for plants. The more earth becomes like a rain forest the more plants (on average) will like it. I suspect we can find plants that would like it even hotter if we could keep humidity high.
What plants don't do well with is high heat / low humidity.
a) That's like asking why there is still sand if we use sandbags. We are putting CO2 faster than plants need it. Increased CO2 assists plant growth by about 30%.
b) Of course wanter won't remain on the same spot. A lot will migrate from ocean to dry land.
Please get a grip.
a) Plants love CO2.
b) Heat puts water in the air. Putting more water in the air on average will result in less not more drought. Moreover for about 6000 years have been rather good at moving fresh water around for agriculture.
Humans are excellent at adaption, that's why we successfully exist in so many climates. The sort of exaggeration you are engaging in is precisely how climate change theories got discredited to begin with.
I always find the web usage statistics for Android phones fascinating. I'd love to figure out what it is that people on Android phones are doing with their smart phone that justifies the data plan expense.
As for Windows 8 being DOA I've been a big supporter. I think Metro is the right thing to do, on the right hardware. But as for post-PC its hard to argue with either the sales numbers of the 10 years of exponential growth vs. the flat falling we've been seeing on PC for now several years running.
As for Windows Server and profits. Linux owns the low and the very high end. In the middle range it generally is the lower cost option. Sort of like its positioning on phones. The argument that no one would use it / buy it is false. The argument that people who use it (excepting supercomputing customers I gather) do so for cost reasons is quite true.
Signature existed for Windows 7. Further Signature is just a tuned version of the OS without the OEM crapware, all the non-existent Microsoft crapware is in signature machines.
The .NET compiler.
I generally don't do support but when it comes to friend and family, I've been supporting people on OSX for a dozen years now. Most of the time it is "open up terminal and type". On Windows I have to use cmd.exe quite often when I'm on the system. And when it comes to support heck yeah I send them a regini and the commands to load it.
With Android sales this year Linux now outsells Windows. Just like in server.
You can't upgrade the OS by itself. You need to run Windows 8 on Windows 8 hardware especially a touch screen.
Yep I hadn't heard it was nearly that bad, 2%. Wow. That being said I hope the federal government steps in and forces more funding.
That's up to the state. They can take as long as they like to prepare for trial providing they don't attempt to hold people. If they are holding too many people for all the courts to handle, then they are holding too many people.
You will get no argument from me that the lack of a strong well funded public defender system is a huge problem in the US. You can't have a fair adversarial system when only one side has weapons.
So when the U.S government hacks into foreign government servers and causes damage it's patriotic but a u.s citizen it's criminal.
Yes. The state is empowered to do many things you aren't. For example if you hold people against their will that's kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment, they get to openly run a prison system.
The hacker was held for that long with no bond or speedy trial, decision made by the judge,
That's not true. The hacker waived his right to a speedy trial. That right rests with the defense not the judge.
There are fixed time limits. And yes people get released all the time when the prosecution isn't ready to move forward. Generally it is the defense that wants more time. Just to pick a famous example Donny Rogers who was arrested and held on a murder charge had to be released because he went for the speedy trial and the state couldn't process the evidence in time.
The right to a speedy trial rests with the defendant. He was denied bail, but not a speedy trial. To the best of my knowledge it is the defense that is asking for the delay. And of course the state can still charge him, they just can't hold him while awaiting trial if they it were the prosecution that wasn't ready to move forward.
The Nokia patents that were spun off AFAIK are mainly for the phone portion, that would mainly be a hardware issue.
And yeah I'd assume lots of evil dudes will step forward. But one won't be Apple and being able to site Apple in their defense...
One thing that is worth mentioning here is that Apple in court, during the Samsung hearings, indicated they believed MeeGo was independently developed and thus didn't infringe on their patents. So one of the advantages of Sailfish will be that it doesn't carry with it all the patent issues that Android had from the Apple side. Microsoft might still sue like they did with Android, but given Microsoft's problems in Europe from a PR perspective going after European handset makers could be totally not worth the backlash. hard to tell.
At the very least Apple's comments would do a lot to help indemnify this OS, "Even Apple has statements made under penalty of perjury that this OS was developed independently..."
Latest quarter was $8.67 share vs. $7.05 a year ago. This quarter they've been supply constrained on many products. I can see the concern since margins are very high but so far the earnings looks good.