Poor people are desperate to feed their families. They don't care about the environment. Once they become more affluent, they have disposable income and extra time to dedicate to things "saving the environment". The sooner we increase the wealth of the world's poor, the sooner they will care about a clean environment. See China, for example.
But even if Cheney is getting deferred compensation for work he already did, is it not in his financial interest (as VP) to ensure that Halliburton does well financially?
Microsoft initially developed what was to become Windows NT on internally-designed i860-based workstations (codenamed Dazzle), only porting NT to the Intel 386 and other processors later. It is often rumoured that the original meanings of the 'N' and 'T' in Windows NT was for "N-Ten", after the working name for the i860 core.
How is a common API going to reserve the differences in user interface? GNOME keeps things simple, a little too so for many users, why KDE is known for making more options available.
The Portland API will have an option to turn on more options.
I absolutely concur. I have a Creative Zen Vision:M and its "shuffle" sucks. If I add songs to my playlist in batches (e.g. one album at a time), the Creative Zen "seems" to shuffle the new batch, but then just append it to the end of the existing, shuffled list.
I own a car but rarely drive since public transportation gets me where I want to go. I spend roughly $20 / month on gas. In Ohio, $20 might last a week driving from one mall to another to do my shopping.
So you only spend $5/week on gas in SF instead of $20/week on gas in Ohio. But how much do you spend per week on public transportation in SF? I pay about $5+ to BART every weekday. That's $100+/month.
Environmental benefits in comparison to petroleum based fuels include:
* Biodiesel reduces emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) by approximately 50 % and carbon dioxide by 78 % on a net lifecycle basis because the carbon in biodiesel emissions is recycled from carbon that was already in the atmosphere, rather than being new carbon from petroleum that was sequestered in the earth's crust. (Sheehan, 1998)
* Biodiesel contains fewer aromatic hydrocarbons: benzofluoranthene: 56 % reduction; Benzopyrenes: 71 % reduction.
* It also eliminates sulfur emissions (SO2), because biodiesel does not contain sulfur.
* Biodiesel reduces by as much as 65 % the emission of particulates, small particles of solid combustion products. This reduces cancer risks by up to 94 % according to testing sponsored by the Department of Energy.
* Biodiesel does produce more NOx emissions than petrodiesel, but these emissions can be reduced through the use of catalytic converters. The increase in NOx emissions may also be due to the higher cetane rating of biodiesel. Properly designed and tuned engines may eliminate this increase.
* Biodiesel has higher cetane rating than petrodiesel, and therefore ignites more rapidly when injected into the engine. It also has the highest BTU content of any alternative fuel in its pure form (B100).
* Biodiesel is biodegradable and non-toxic - tests sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture confirm biodiesel is less toxic than table salt and biodegrades as quickly as sugar.
* In the United States, biodiesel is the only alternative fuel to have successfully completed the Health Effects Testing requirements (Tier I and Tier II) of the Clean Air Act (1990).
The grandparent post was not suggesting that Canada was ignoring Kyoto. It was suggesting that the US could ratify Kyoto to get people off its back and then ignore it (thus producing the same results as Canada).
Really irritating use of the word 'we'. About 9.5 million people voted Labour in the 2005 general election. That's about 16% of the population. 16%. That means 84% didn't vote for them.
84% not voting for id cards is not the same as 84% voting against them.
Offering health insurance as a job benefit was a clever workaround for salary caps enforced in the mid-20th century. Thank the gub'mint for "fixing" the market for us.
That is only partly true. The XNJB release notes say:
"Richard drew on open source code from the Linux community which had already been developed to work with the Zen players prior to the Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) based devices.... Richard was able to find an implementation of PTP on Linux to add to the current XNJB library to build upon. "
it would suck to have to re-rip all of my 300-400 CDs again.
Too bad you didn't rip your CDs to a lossless format like FLAC or Apple Lossless. Then you can write a script to transcode your lossless backups to whatever lossy format is the flavor of the month.:D
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Poor people are desperate to feed their families. They don't care about the environment. Once they become more affluent, they have disposable income and extra time to dedicate to things "saving the environment". The sooner we increase the wealth of the world's poor, the sooner they will care about a clean environment. See China, for example.
Swatch Beats are the solution to time zones!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Just as long as you don't eat any of the 15% part. Ask your butcher to remove it.
STM has its own problems: http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2007/02/misguided -road-not-to-be-travelled.html
But even if Cheney is getting deferred compensation for work he already did, is it not in his financial interest (as VP) to ensure that Halliburton does well financially?
In fact, there is some CS research in creating domain-specific languages (DSLs) for contracts that can test for correctness and ambiguities:
* Smart Contracts
* Composing contracts: an adventure in financial engineering
Google needs 20,000 employees to type in all those search results pages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860
Microsoft initially developed what was to become Windows NT on internally-designed i860-based workstations (codenamed Dazzle), only porting NT to the Intel 386 and other processors later. It is often rumoured that the original meanings of the 'N' and 'T' in Windows NT was for "N-Ten", after the working name for the i860 core.
* photographing child abuse (creating child porn) --> a child is hurt
* viewing of a photograph of child abuse --> no one is hurt
* photographing a murder --> someone is killed
* viewing of a photograph of a murder --> no one is hurt
Should possession of a "snuff" film be illegal?
MP3 is the only real "Plays For Sure" audio format.
The Portland API will have an option to turn on more options.
I absolutely concur. I have a Creative Zen Vision:M and its "shuffle" sucks. If I add songs to my playlist in batches (e.g. one album at a time), the Creative Zen "seems" to shuffle the new batch, but then just append it to the end of the existing, shuffled list.
I own a car but rarely drive since public transportation gets me where I want to go. I spend roughly $20 / month on gas. In Ohio, $20 might last a week driving from one mall to another to do my shopping.
So you only spend $5/week on gas in SF instead of $20/week on gas in Ohio. But how much do you spend per week on public transportation in SF? I pay about $5+ to BART every weekday. That's $100+/month.
Slashdots look : Beautiful redesign
Shouldn't that be: Beautiful redesign : Slashdots look
Environmental benefits in comparison to petroleum based fuels include:
* Biodiesel reduces emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) by approximately 50 % and carbon dioxide by 78 % on a net lifecycle basis because the carbon in biodiesel emissions is recycled from carbon that was already in the atmosphere, rather than being new carbon from petroleum that was sequestered in the earth's crust. (Sheehan, 1998)
* Biodiesel contains fewer aromatic hydrocarbons: benzofluoranthene: 56 % reduction; Benzopyrenes: 71 % reduction.
* It also eliminates sulfur emissions (SO2), because biodiesel does not contain sulfur.
* Biodiesel reduces by as much as 65 % the emission of particulates, small particles of solid combustion products. This reduces cancer risks by up to 94 % according to testing sponsored by the Department of Energy.
* Biodiesel does produce more NOx emissions than petrodiesel, but these emissions can be reduced through the use of catalytic converters. The increase in NOx emissions may also be due to the higher cetane rating of biodiesel. Properly designed and tuned engines may eliminate this increase.
* Biodiesel has higher cetane rating than petrodiesel, and therefore ignites more rapidly when injected into the engine. It also has the highest BTU content of any alternative fuel in its pure form (B100).
* Biodiesel is biodegradable and non-toxic - tests sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture confirm biodiesel is less toxic than table salt and biodegrades as quickly as sugar.
* In the United States, biodiesel is the only alternative fuel to have successfully completed the Health Effects Testing requirements (Tier I and Tier II) of the Clean Air Act (1990).
The grandparent post was not suggesting that Canada was ignoring Kyoto. It was suggesting that the US could ratify Kyoto to get people off its back and then ignore it (thus producing the same results as Canada).
Pork comes from pigs. Steak comes from cows.
Gender?!? Why does anybody not intending to have sex with you have a need to know your gender?
How do people know whether they intend to have sex with you if they don't know your gender? Besides bisexuals, I mean.
Really irritating use of the word 'we'. About 9.5 million people voted Labour in the 2005 general election. That's about 16% of the population. 16%. That means 84% didn't vote for them.
84% not voting for id cards is not the same as 84% voting against them.
Offering health insurance as a job benefit was a clever workaround for salary caps enforced in the mid-20th century. Thank the gub'mint for "fixing" the market for us.
I think php usually returns a bunch of bogus results.
This is so true.
And yet, News Corps still paid $580M for MySpace.
OS/X has it, but not linux.
That is only partly true. The XNJB release notes say:
"Richard drew on open source code from the Linux community which had already been developed to work with the Zen players prior to the Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) based devices.
it would suck to have to re-rip all of my 300-400 CDs again.
Too bad you didn't rip your CDs to a lossless format like FLAC or Apple Lossless. Then you can write a script to transcode your lossless backups to whatever lossy format is the flavor of the month.