There are quite a lot of scientists who say that the ozone hole over antrarctica has nothing to do with CFC emissions. They claim that volcanos emit 600 times more ozone-killing chlorine into the atmosphere per year than the entire CFC production of mankind at its peak.
You seem to disagree. Do you have any evidence of our Destructive forces? Why do American and European destructive CFC's "destroy" the ozone over the South Pole? Why does it show a HUGE concentration of ozone just to one Side of the South Pole? It looks to me like the Ozone for some reason just isn't GETTING to the South Pole.
I really feel like the idea that we Humans are so powerful that we can ACCIDENTALLY destroy the earth is foolish. I'm not against being careful, or against being responsible for our actions.
***WARNING*** The following is very full of opinion and low on statistics. If you are easilly offended by honest to the point comments, read no further.
The problem is that people are just too big headed and arrogant as a whole. No matter what your world view is, you didn't create yourself. You aren't the reason that you came into existance, and you aren't powerful enough to do what has already happened. (Meaning Recreate another Continent, Planet, Solar System, Galaxy, Universe) Whether you believe in an all-powerful God, or a random chance over billions of years, you are rather Insignificant when it comes to most factors. The Earth, whether it be highly intelligently designed, or long in the coming, is not so easilly destroyed. It is a violent and rapidly changing place.
The bottom line is that while CFC's may be bad, and they may harm Ozone in general, our use of them most likely contributed little to nothing of the decline or proposed recovery of the ozone.
Domino/Notes R5 is a very very mature Calendaring, Email, Application, etc. Platform. You can run it on almost everything (Solaris, NT, Linux, and IBM's line of Machines (Now i, x, z, and p series)(AS/400 = iSeries, Netfinity = xSeries, RS/6000 = pSeries, and the S/390 = zSeries))
Of course the Solaris is of particular interest since you already have those machines available. Domino is a very powerful setup, but of course the negatives include the fact that it's not ubiquitous. Most people haven't used it.
I currently have to support users in a Notes environment, and while you have all the general clueless users that just panic and need some handholding, it is still an intuitive interface and is quite easy to learn.
Compare your costs. If your Current hardware will run Domino, (and beleive me, Domino will do anything Exchange will) then that may be a significant advantage. Separately, you will still have to hire on some Domino Technicians if you want any of the advanced functionality. The Exchange group will have the advantage of having tons of people out there with "certification" whether they be capable or not is another story.
Well I'm sure this is not the most organized argument, but noone had seemed to bring up this direction so I figured I'd pose it.
Ok, Please do some investigation into this more closely. Just because the fungus was first noticed on a Porthole doesn't mean it was found on the *OUT*side of the porthole. This is a completely internal Fungus. It's all fungus that's gotten there from the visitors to the Station, and probably from it's original launch. This is not an Outside fungus so powerful that it lives in space. It's all just fungus we TOOK up there. The only reason it's a problem is because all the equipment can't be TAKEN apart and cleaned up while it's still in space. To get all the Fungus cleaned out they'd have to dissasemble the thing. In fact, the most dangerous funguses are probably the ones that are in components that are mostly sealed and won't allow any disinfectants into them. The funguses will grow and corrode the whole component if nothing can be done.
Read the Space.com article:
"They consume organic stuff which consists of skin epithelia, lipids and other products of human activity," Novikova said. "These products get into the station atmosphere from human breath, sweat etc....and stick to the station's surfaces."
"Bacteria and fungi eat this stuff and generate products of metabolism, particularly organic acids which can corrode steel, glass and plastic."
The only reason it's called Space Fungus is because the station is in Space, and therefore subject to a more direct amount of radiation than when on earth.
I don't know if I even qualify for my own subject, but It's surprising that there aren't more witty comments about this hilarious little story.
Then again, it's probably not likely that most of you even play The Sims. Maybe wives and children are interested in it. I played it a bit, and it makes it funnier, the more you know about Sims.
My wife plays it quite a bit, and we thought it was hilarious.
I went to college in Missouri. Even a laptop repelled female attention. Only the true geeks were at all interested. Most guys were insecure enough to try to side with the gals on the technology issue.. (thinking they'd score points with them by being repelled.)
Hmmm.. I just took a tape measure from my Monitor to my Eye, and measured out 26", ok that's 4" short of 2.5 feet, but you guys must have been sitting too close all your lives and damaged your eyesight... I can read everything on the Slashdot page at 1600x1200... Even the little fine print at the bottom:
"All trademarks and copyrights ".... etc etc..
And my Monitor is 19". 2.5' is a pretty nice distance. Especially since it's "only" 800x600. That'll make everything comfortably big.
PS. I generally keep it at 1024x768 because even though I CAN read it at 1600, it's a little bit of a strain to do it all the time. Plus I got the value 19" monitor so the refresh at that res is a little abusive.
Yes I know some of the replies already mentioned this, but I agree with the editorial's opinion that making this console NOT be anything but a game playing machine is a good thing too. It allowed them to reduce the cost of the machine itself by not having to conform it to any standards. (according to them, it'll be approximately $100 cheaper than PSX2) Plus the fact that Nintendo always follows this pattern. They have always been the last out to market for each generation, but always put out a Technologically superior product. The thing they MUST get going this time around is the Game developers. In my memory, the PSX had tons more titles than the N64. Nintendo needs to make huge incentives to the developers to make more games.
That article never mentioned exactly what Transmeta had to offer AMD. It just said what Transmeta was interested in. How in the world could Transmeta rate anything well enough to aquire a patent from AMD?
Do they plan to offer them Bloated IPO Stock? heheheh:)
1) Their stock is in the toilet and the 4Q00 and 1Q01 projections are not very good.
Am I wrong, or have they even IPO'd yet? Still the same, I do agree.. It seems like rumors in this manner can do nothing but push the IPO harder..
It sounds amazing though that they have put all this together. Reaching GHz speeds? I used to think that was something only Intel and AMD were into. heheh:)
Are you sure? They have released the 1000, and 1133 PIII chips, but not their mobile versions. Transmeta (from what I understand) is not specifically targetting the Desktop with any of it's processors. They are in the laptop market as their highest end processors. The Mobile PIII is not out as 1 GHz yet.
I didn't see any real responses that indicated interest in the primary focus of this Press Release. It seems that their true target for this is the Liscensing out to Game companies (it said on a Per Title basis) of a Customizable product. Companies such as ID could liscense this gMax version of 3D Studio, customize it, and include it in their next title release on the CD. Their customizations could bring the power of 3D Studio (skinning and other modelling features) right into the hands of everyone that purchases the game. I don't think this has anything to do with "Acknowledging that people pirate their software". Try reading the actual Press Release. I don't think the people that wrote that article saw what was written. I didn't see anything in the press release that said anything about releasing the source code. I reserve the right to be wrong though, it's just that I didn't see it in the Press Release from Discreet.
This apparently cannot be attained from normal operations of a Nuclear Power Plant? If it would I guess it would be in abundant supply. Hmmm. I'm not even studied enough to remember if Plutonium is even USED in Nuclear Reactors. Oh well.
I agree. They are on their way to building the International Space station. I see many more opportunities for further growth that would launch from funding that project. Eventually you'd hope they'd start being able to collect materials from space itself. Maybe scoop some minerals from the Asteroid belt. Use the moon as a Materials recovery and assembly station. If we could get materials from space, and assemble space flight vehicles out there, they would never have to spend the money to get it accurately launched through the Earth's Atmosphere. I could be wrong here, but that is a major cost isn't it?
Speaking on the Porting of Office applications to Non-mainstream OS's, look at the application repertoire of a Macintosh. There are quite a few available and widely used Office applications on Mac. Of course they will port their Office suite over to other platforms because they can then sell it to anyone. They will no longer be able to maintain their Vertical Monopoly (meaning that they wanted to do EVERYTHING for one type of PC), so they will go after the Horizontal Monopolies (trying to make their software be used ubiquitously on EVERY platform).
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You seem to disagree. Do you have any evidence of our Destructive forces? Why do American and European destructive CFC's "destroy" the ozone over the South Pole? Why does it show a HUGE concentration of ozone just to one Side of the South Pole? It looks to me like the Ozone for some reason just isn't GETTING to the South Pole.
I really feel like the idea that we Humans are so powerful that we can ACCIDENTALLY destroy the earth is foolish. I'm not against being careful, or against being responsible for our actions.
***WARNING***
The following is very full of opinion and low on statistics. If you are easilly offended by honest to the point comments, read no further.
The problem is that people are just too big headed and arrogant as a whole. No matter what your world view is, you didn't create yourself. You aren't the reason that you came into existance, and you aren't powerful enough to do what has already happened. (Meaning Recreate another Continent, Planet, Solar System, Galaxy, Universe) Whether you believe in an all-powerful God, or a random chance over billions of years, you are rather Insignificant when it comes to most factors. The Earth, whether it be highly intelligently designed, or long in the coming, is not so easilly destroyed. It is a violent and rapidly changing place.
The bottom line is that while CFC's may be bad, and they may harm Ozone in general, our use of them most likely contributed little to nothing of the decline or proposed recovery of the ozone.
Elijah
Domino/Notes R5 is a very very mature Calendaring, Email, Application, etc. Platform. You can run it on almost everything (Solaris, NT, Linux, and IBM's line of Machines (Now i, x, z, and p series)(AS/400 = iSeries, Netfinity = xSeries, RS/6000 = pSeries, and the S/390 = zSeries))
Of course the Solaris is of particular interest since you already have those machines available. Domino is a very powerful setup, but of course the negatives include the fact that it's not ubiquitous. Most people haven't used it.
I currently have to support users in a Notes environment, and while you have all the general clueless users that just panic and need some handholding, it is still an intuitive interface and is quite easy to learn.
Compare your costs. If your Current hardware will run Domino, (and beleive me, Domino will do anything Exchange will) then that may be a significant advantage. Separately, you will still have to hire on some Domino Technicians if you want any of the advanced functionality. The Exchange group will have the advantage of having tons of people out there with "certification" whether they be capable or not is another story.
Well I'm sure this is not the most organized argument, but noone had seemed to bring up this direction so I figured I'd pose it.
Ok, Please do some investigation into this more closely. Just because the fungus was first noticed on a Porthole doesn't mean it was found on the *OUT*side of the porthole. This is a completely internal Fungus. It's all fungus that's gotten there from the visitors to the Station, and probably from it's original launch. This is not an Outside fungus so powerful that it lives in space. It's all just fungus we TOOK up there. The only reason it's a problem is because all the equipment can't be TAKEN apart and cleaned up while it's still in space. To get all the Fungus cleaned out they'd have to dissasemble the thing. In fact, the most dangerous funguses are probably the ones that are in components that are mostly sealed and won't allow any disinfectants into them. The funguses will grow and corrode the whole component if nothing can be done.
Read the Space.com article:
"They consume organic stuff which consists of skin epithelia, lipids and other products of human activity," Novikova said. "These products get into the station atmosphere from human breath, sweat etc....and stick to the station's surfaces."
"Bacteria and fungi eat this stuff and generate products of metabolism, particularly organic acids which can corrode steel, glass and plastic."
The only reason it's called Space Fungus is because the station is in Space, and therefore subject to a more direct amount of radiation than when on earth.
I don't know if I even qualify for my own subject, but It's surprising that there aren't more witty comments about this hilarious little story.
Then again, it's probably not likely that most of you even play The Sims. Maybe wives and children are interested in it. I played it a bit, and it makes it funnier, the more you know about Sims.
My wife plays it quite a bit, and we thought it was hilarious.
I went to college in Missouri. Even a laptop repelled female attention. Only the true geeks were at all interested. Most guys were insecure enough to try to side with the gals on the technology issue.. (thinking they'd score points with them by being repelled.)
Hmmm.. I just took a tape measure from my Monitor to my Eye, and measured out 26", ok that's 4" short of 2.5 feet, but you guys must have been sitting too close all your lives and damaged your eyesight... I can read everything on the Slashdot page at 1600x1200... Even the little fine print at the bottom:
"All trademarks and copyrights ".... etc etc..
And my Monitor is 19". 2.5' is a pretty nice distance. Especially since it's "only" 800x600. That'll make everything comfortably big.
PS. I generally keep it at 1024x768 because even though I CAN read it at 1600, it's a little bit of a strain to do it all the time. Plus I got the value 19" monitor so the refresh at that res is a little abusive.
Yes I know some of the replies already mentioned this, but I agree with the editorial's opinion that making this console NOT be anything but a game playing machine is a good thing too. It allowed them to reduce the cost of the machine itself by not having to conform it to any standards. (according to them, it'll be approximately $100 cheaper than PSX2) Plus the fact that Nintendo always follows this pattern. They have always been the last out to market for each generation, but always put out a Technologically superior product. The thing they MUST get going this time around is the Game developers. In my memory, the PSX had tons more titles than the N64. Nintendo needs to make huge incentives to the developers to make more games.
That article never mentioned exactly what Transmeta had to offer AMD. It just said what Transmeta was interested in. How in the world could Transmeta rate anything well enough to aquire a patent from AMD?
:)
Do they plan to offer them Bloated IPO Stock? heheheh
Am I wrong, or have they even IPO'd yet? Still the same, I do agree.. It seems like rumors in this manner can do nothing but push the IPO harder..
It sounds amazing though that they have put all this together. Reaching GHz speeds? I used to think that was something only Intel and AMD were into. heheh
Are you sure? They have released the 1000, and 1133 PIII chips, but not their mobile versions. Transmeta (from what I understand) is not specifically targetting the Desktop with any of it's processors. They are in the laptop market as their highest end processors. The Mobile PIII is not out as 1 GHz yet.
I didn't see any real responses that indicated interest in the primary focus of this Press Release. It seems that their true target for this is the Liscensing out to Game companies (it said on a Per Title basis) of a Customizable product. Companies such as ID could liscense this gMax version of 3D Studio, customize it, and include it in their next title release on the CD. Their customizations could bring the power of 3D Studio (skinning and other modelling features) right into the hands of everyone that purchases the game. I don't think this has anything to do with "Acknowledging that people pirate their software". Try reading the actual Press Release. I don't think the people that wrote that article saw what was written. I didn't see anything in the press release that said anything about releasing the source code. I reserve the right to be wrong though, it's just that I didn't see it in the Press Release from Discreet.
Happy Gaming!
Wait Wait.. Isn't PLUTO going to be the ULTIMATE Source of PLUTOnium!!???
Ok Bad joke.. Be kind!
This apparently cannot be attained from normal operations of a Nuclear Power Plant? If it would I guess it would be in abundant supply. Hmmm. I'm not even studied enough to remember if Plutonium is even USED in Nuclear Reactors. Oh well.
I agree. They are on their way to building the International Space station. I see many more opportunities for further growth that would launch from funding that project. Eventually you'd hope they'd start being able to collect materials from space itself. Maybe scoop some minerals from the Asteroid belt. Use the moon as a Materials recovery and assembly station. If we could get materials from space, and assemble space flight vehicles out there, they would never have to spend the money to get it accurately launched through the Earth's Atmosphere. I could be wrong here, but that is a major cost isn't it?
Speaking on the Porting of Office applications to Non-mainstream OS's, look at the application repertoire of a Macintosh. There are quite a few available and widely used Office applications on Mac. Of course they will port their Office suite over to other platforms because they can then sell it to anyone. They will no longer be able to maintain their Vertical Monopoly (meaning that they wanted to do EVERYTHING for one type of PC), so they will go after the Horizontal Monopolies (trying to make their software be used ubiquitously on EVERY platform).