1 Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. German Marshall Fund of the U.S., Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy Institute. 2 Agricultural Conservation Economics, Laurel, MD, USA. 3 Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA. 4 Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
My little cousin (well she is almost out of high-school now) was talking (and also understanding) some perfectly understandable and grammatically correct English at around 5 or 6 years of age. She had learned it all by watching Cartoon Network every day. She passively picked up a foreign language from TV before she learned to read or write.
Besides the fact that kids enjoy cartoons more than say... movies or sit-coms, cartoon voice actors usually speak a much more grammatically correct language then the one you can pick up on the other TV shows or even news.
Oh and yeah... Both me and my cousin are Bosnians from Bosnia with no direct family or neighborhood ties to any language other than Bosnian. Damn do I wish we had satellite TV back when I was growing up.
And boy are we in for some great tunes if these "ideas" become reality.
I mean... it sure is funny to see life imitating art, but life imitating Stallone SF action movies? Cause if this takes hold, how long till the radio jingles become a more popular form of entertainment then "popular" music?
Yet neither title or summary bother to mention that. And its not very explicit if its mentioned in only two lines of, somewhere towards the bottom of the text.
Seeing Linux in the headline makes one wonder - "If they didn't switch from TinyOS, what would happen? Would the story ever make it to/.?". Or is BSD and TinyOs just doomed by not having enough Xs in the name? You know... like detergents.
You are clearly not geek or nerd. You don't care HOW your gadgets work. What are you doing on slashdot if you aren't interested in what is preented here? Now... The preferred response to such a statement+question would be to waive my/. ID number in your face and say something like "You don't have the permission to address me yet, young one." But I guess I never did pick that up, so..
Usually, when I want to see how gadget works I get a screwdriver. In this case - I read the (T)FA. Which explains that it uses GPS and WiFi technology in combination with SQL-based application and some fine algorithms. Only reasons they used Linux is - driver support and the fact that their developers are more used to it than to TinyOS.
So in this case... With developers-developers-developers and driver support - it could just as well run on Vista. Platform it runs on is just the desk you put it on. Gadget is the application + the tech it uses. Both are mentioned in the TFA, but the Linux bit got into the headline.
Why? Because Linux is a bigger buzzword to the/. crowd and also more and more to the non-geek crowd.
And TFA is clearly on topic with slashdot (because it mentions linux), if everyone has your way, what will remain from slashdot? It mentions Linux, despite it being irrelevant to the way and why it works. I guess saying "MIT Researchers Fight Gridlock with SQL and/or GPS" is not as good and "Linux succeeds where TinyOS fails" is a bit flame-boyant? Both being more relevant to the TFA than Linux.
Reading the summary and article can't but wonder - what if it didn't run Linux but something else? Would it still be news worthy?
Recently I've been noticing this trend of news about "stuff" doing "things" they were designed to do and the punch line being - it runs Linux. Now... I know its a time honored tradition at/. to ask if it runs Linux, but really - who cares? '90s are long gone. Linux is a common thing these days. Also... If it works - it works. Does my GPS or stereo run on Linux? Who cares? It works.
If this keeps up I am guessing its only days before local mobile-phone connoisseur (that's idiot in English) informs me of the fact that his brand new communication device has "A Linux" and that its battery runs on kernels.
The shoulder is also powered and can accomplish the never-before-seen feat of reaching up as if to pick an apple off a tree. Not certain if nose-picker is installed. Would apple picking suffice?
You go out of your way to present people with a plan how to get rid off politicians and someone comes along with an XXL ego and an S brain and starts shouting "It won't work! It won't work! They only go up!"
Of course they don't drop down. Ceiling drops down.
Sheeesh! Do I have to tell you how to do EVERYTHING?
While it sounds noble to talk about space travel, and at once level you're right, comparing what we did as a species 40 years ago and what we'd need to do to really utilize those resources on Earth is like saying getting into orbit is easy because the Chinese invented rockets two thousand years ago. Who mentioned utilizing resources? GP was displaying a remarkable level of short-mindedness saying that we are running out of resources - period. Not misusing them - running out.
Do take a stroll by any of your local industrial plants -- doesn't matter what it is. Steel, say. Or a gas liquification plant. Now figure out how you're going to get all of that into space. Not orbit, you need it orbiting the sun, not the Earth because the stuff you're talking about what we want isn't floating around around the earth. Sooo... Moon is not orbitin' the Earth? Which Earth are you on exactly? And why the hell should one go to space to mine for raw resources? You go there for free energy. Just beam it down.
And why send humans if robots will do the work without food or special conditions? Hundreds of employees? With thousands of hours of training, millions of dollars in paychecks and benefits and etc, and you still have to keep them alive and happy? So they could... what? Dig some holes on the Moon?
Half a dozen humans at best and hundreds of worker and repair robots. Let them make and repair themselves and do all the hard work. 24/7/366. All that solar power on the moon and we used it for what exactly so far? Couple of poems and country songs.
As for raw materials... Don't send them down. Build the f-in orbital elevator from BOTH sides of the ladder. And what was it we lacked for that so far?
Right! Technology. Exactly the thing GP said "will not fix problems".
Your statement may be intellectually correct, but its about as realistic as sitting in the jungles of central america 12,000 years ago and taking solice in the availability of some resource you need, buried a mile inside of Everest and nowhere else. Thing is... there is 6.5 billion of me now. In a year or two there will be 10 billion. We can either "each take a sword and kill the man next to us" or get of our asses and into space.
Given unlimited energy and resources, perhaps this is true, but we don't live in a world where there are unlimited resources. You mean like... umm... I don't know... this entire universe of resources out there?
What time is it where you are now? If it is dark enough, with few clouds, you might see a giant fuckin' chunk of those resources right up there in the sky. Its kinda hard to miss. Its big and shiny. People call it "The Moon".
You do know that humans went there 40 years ago? Using f-in slide rules for calculation.
Doesn't this mean that there were a lot of people smooching the US national helium reserve for a long time? Yeah... there is always at least one jerk at every party who still thinks that is funny.
Let me get this straight... You keep the shitty food and the shitty weather and we get the Great Barrier Reef and lobsters the size of canoes?... . . . I'm Jack the Ripper! --No, I'M Jack the Ripper! We're all Jackthefuckingripper!
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Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land Use Change
Timothy Searchinger 1*, Ralph Heimlich 2, R. A. Houghton 3, Fengxia Dong 4, Amani Elobeid 4, Jacinto Fabiosa 4, Simla Tokgoz 4, Dermot Hayes 4, Tun-Hsiang Yu 4
1 Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. German Marshall Fund of the U.S., Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy Institute.
2 Agricultural Conservation Economics, Laurel, MD, USA.
3 Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA.
4 Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
How Green Are Biofuels?
Jörn P. W. Scharlemann and William F. Laurance
People forget that they have forgotten to remember stuff.
...have problems either reading or comprehending English language?
Either that, or you live under a bridge somewhere.
Do you even know that Europe is made up of multiple countries?
It would LEVITATE!
...and then imagine child services and FBI knocking at your door.
My little cousin (well she is almost out of high-school now) was talking (and also understanding) some perfectly understandable and grammatically correct English at around 5 or 6 years of age.
She had learned it all by watching Cartoon Network every day. She passively picked up a foreign language from TV before she learned to read or write.
Besides the fact that kids enjoy cartoons more than say... movies or sit-coms, cartoon voice actors usually speak a much more grammatically correct language then the one you can pick up on the other TV shows or even news.
Oh and yeah... Both me and my cousin are Bosnians from Bosnia with no direct family or neighborhood ties to any language other than Bosnian.
Damn do I wish we had satellite TV back when I was growing up.
And boy are we in for some great tunes if these "ideas" become reality.
I mean... it sure is funny to see life imitating art, but life imitating Stallone SF action movies?
Cause if this takes hold, how long till the radio jingles become a more popular form of entertainment then "popular" music?
Yet neither title or summary bother to mention that.
/.?".
And its not very explicit if its mentioned in only two lines of, somewhere towards the bottom of the text.
Seeing Linux in the headline makes one wonder - "If they didn't switch from TinyOS, what would happen? Would the story ever make it to
Or is BSD and TinyOs just doomed by not having enough Xs in the name?
You know... like detergents.
But I guess I never did pick that up, so..
Usually, when I want to see how gadget works I get a screwdriver.
In this case - I read the (T)FA.
Which explains that it uses GPS and WiFi technology in combination with SQL-based application and some fine algorithms.
Only reasons they used Linux is - driver support and the fact that their developers are more used to it than to TinyOS.
So in this case... With developers-developers-developers and driver support - it could just as well run on Vista.
Platform it runs on is just the desk you put it on. Gadget is the application + the tech it uses.
Both are mentioned in the TFA, but the Linux bit got into the headline.
Why? Because Linux is a bigger buzzword to the
I guess saying "MIT Researchers Fight Gridlock with SQL and/or GPS" is not as good and "Linux succeeds where TinyOS fails" is a bit flame-boyant?
Both being more relevant to the TFA than Linux.
Reading the summary and article can't but wonder - what if it didn't run Linux but something else? Would it still be news worthy?
/. to ask if it runs Linux, but really - who cares? '90s are long gone. Linux is a common thing these days.
Recently I've been noticing this trend of news about "stuff" doing "things" they were designed to do and the punch line being - it runs Linux.
Now... I know its a time honored tradition at
Also... If it works - it works. Does my GPS or stereo run on Linux? Who cares? It works.
If this keeps up I am guessing its only days before local mobile-phone connoisseur (that's idiot in English) informs me of the fact that his brand new communication device has "A Linux" and that its battery runs on kernels.
...That there are advantages in being the first and only person who gets to jerk your chain.
Not sure if its worth an arm though...
Her name is Emma Thompson.
Anyone?
Or is it just me that went "ZOMG! Its a message from Alita!"
Yeah.. I know. It IS just me. (^_^)'''
You would be eating soylent green.
Can you fire her based on that?
Or at least recommended her for psychiatric observation?
Willingness to pay extra for hardware's color does imply some kind of mental defect.
0.76" to 0.16" thick, nickel and dime processor...
How much is that in REAL measurements?
You know... like Libraries of Congress (LoCs) and Lengths of Football Fields (LoFFs)?
Every laptop includes iHandjob. As long as you have hands that is.
Its the Handjob2-Me4M-HR technology that is non-standard. And no.. it does not come with it.
You go out of your way to present people with a plan how to get rid off politicians and someone comes along with an XXL ego and an S brain and starts shouting "It won't work! It won't work! They only go up!"
Of course they don't drop down. Ceiling drops down.
Sheeesh! Do I have to tell you how to do EVERYTHING?
GP was displaying a remarkable level of short-mindedness saying that we are running out of resources - period. Not misusing them - running out. Do take a stroll by any of your local industrial plants -- doesn't matter what it is. Steel, say. Or a gas liquification plant. Now figure out how you're going to get all of that into space. Not orbit, you need it orbiting the sun, not the Earth because the stuff you're talking about what we want isn't floating around around the earth. Sooo... Moon is not orbitin' the Earth? Which Earth are you on exactly?
And why the hell should one go to space to mine for raw resources? You go there for free energy. Just beam it down.
And why send humans if robots will do the work without food or special conditions?
Hundreds of employees? With thousands of hours of training, millions of dollars in paychecks and benefits and etc, and you still have to keep them alive and happy?
So they could... what? Dig some holes on the Moon?
Half a dozen humans at best and hundreds of worker and repair robots. Let them make and repair themselves and do all the hard work. 24/7/366.
All that solar power on the moon and we used it for what exactly so far? Couple of poems and country songs.
As for raw materials... Don't send them down. Build the f-in orbital elevator from BOTH sides of the ladder.
And what was it we lacked for that so far?
Right! Technology.
Exactly the thing GP said "will not fix problems". Your statement may be intellectually correct, but its about as realistic as sitting in the jungles of central america 12,000 years ago and taking solice in the availability of some resource you need, buried a mile inside of Everest and nowhere else. Thing is... there is 6.5 billion of me now. In a year or two there will be 10 billion.
We can either "each take a sword and kill the man next to us" or get of our asses and into space.
I could use the exercise either way.
What time is it where you are now?
If it is dark enough, with few clouds, you might see a giant fuckin' chunk of those resources right up there in the sky.
Its kinda hard to miss. Its big and shiny. People call it "The Moon".
You do know that humans went there 40 years ago?
Using f-in slide rules for calculation.
At least it will be easier to get rid of politicians in the future.
Just toss a lighted cigarette in the room. Let the balloons do the rest.
Let me get this straight...
You keep the shitty food and the shitty weather and we get the Great Barrier Reef and lobsters the size of canoes?...
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I'm Jack the Ripper! --No, I'M Jack the Ripper! We're all Jackthefuckingripper!