So the only way to save oil by switching to solar or wind is to use electric cars, which in general are not popular enough to be a heavy drain on the power grid.
However, generating electricity with less fossil fuels removes one excuse for not getting an electric car. (What does it matter if my car is electric, if that electricity is generated by burning coal?)
It's a chicken-egg problem, and someone has to start changing things. Since an average individual won't, starting from big electricity production is the right (and only, I'm afraid) way to go.
1. Keep burning more fossil fuels to fill the atmosphere with CO2
2. Observe warming, keep arguing whether it's due to CO2 or not
3. Start a company selling AC units
4. Profit!
... I got distracted somewhere along the way, but it sounds like a plan to me.
Maybe they noticed the success of casual gaming (Wii mostly), and figured that better profits await if they can sell equipment to wider audience. That instead of pushing expensive bleeding-edge hardware to small group of hardcore gamers.
Hopefully a break in hardware race forces the game publishers to move from "my effect-bling is better than yours" mode to actually compete in gameplay and quality content.
What's with all the three links having same URL?
Maybe it's the new government program for decreasing unemployment. Look, we've tripled the amount of open positions!
For sure the PRML that HDDs use is the coolest and the most voodoo. It really seems like the kind of shit that should work. I mean taking samples (PCM style) of an analogue wave and comparing it to what it is likely to be? GTFO...
Actually, if you look at what your cell phone does all the time to get the bits out of the air... that is comparable at least, probably even worse. There is some particularly nasty stuff in carrier frequency + phase estimation (w/ noise present!) before you even get to calculate any likelyhoods on your actual payload. Whatever the case, there is a strong math basis behind that voodoo.
It's still an embarrassment for open source though.
Talk about generalisation.
One project getting rooted isn't representative to the rest of them in any way.
Also, FTFA:
CVS is also not affected.
This was a case of distribution packages on their mirror site being replaced with malicious version, not a breakage of the development process. It's also something that happens all the time with closed source SW too, which is why you don't want to download installers from suspicious sites.
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So the only way to save oil by switching to solar or wind is to use electric cars, which in general are not popular enough to be a heavy drain on the power grid.
However, generating electricity with less fossil fuels removes one excuse for not getting an electric car. (What does it matter if my car is electric, if that electricity is generated by burning coal?)
It's a chicken-egg problem, and someone has to start changing things. Since an average individual won't, starting from big electricity production is the right (and only, I'm afraid) way to go.
3. The person to whom the arm is attached to will lose any ability to jump.
So, lets do following to get convincing evidence:
1. Keep burning more fossil fuels to fill the atmosphere with CO2
2. Observe warming, keep arguing whether it's due to CO2 or not
3. Start a company selling AC units
4. Profit!
... I got distracted somewhere along the way, but it sounds like a plan to me.
Maybe they noticed the success of casual gaming (Wii mostly), and figured that better profits await if they can sell equipment to wider audience. That instead of pushing expensive bleeding-edge hardware to small group of hardcore gamers.
Hopefully a break in hardware race forces the game publishers to move from "my effect-bling is better than yours" mode to actually compete in gameplay and quality content.
So what would you use that "human female reproductive system" for?
Parent's point being, there's no period when you're pregnant.
Unless the links really did go to the same URL at the time of your posting, that is.
They did, it seems to be fixed now.
What's with all the three links having same URL? Maybe it's the new government program for decreasing unemployment. Look, we've tripled the amount of open positions!
For sure the PRML that HDDs use is the coolest and the most voodoo. It really seems like the kind of shit that should work. I mean taking samples (PCM style) of an analogue wave and comparing it to what it is likely to be? GTFO...
Actually, if you look at what your cell phone does all the time to get the bits out of the air... that is comparable at least, probably even worse. There is some particularly nasty stuff in carrier frequency + phase estimation (w/ noise present!) before you even get to calculate any likelyhoods on your actual payload. Whatever the case, there is a strong math basis behind that voodoo.
It's still an embarrassment for open source though.
Talk about generalisation. One project getting rooted isn't representative to the rest of them in any way. Also, FTFA:
CVS is also not affected.
This was a case of distribution packages on their mirror site being replaced with malicious version, not a breakage of the development process. It's also something that happens all the time with closed source SW too, which is why you don't want to download installers from suspicious sites.