Does the following sound anything like a promise, or more like a vague prediction?
"We expect initial market deployment of standards-based UWB solutions to be sometime in the 2005-2006 timeframe," said Ben Manny, director of wireless technology development at Intel Research and Development.
In Beyond The Limits the authors Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jorgen Randers explain why and how humanity is rapidly overshooting its limits. Finite resources are being used up at an exponentially growing rate. Pollution, population, industrial output, food supply, etc. will all shoot beyond the sustainable carrying capacity of the environment. What this means is that sooner or later resources will be exhausted, pollution will be everywhere, food supplies will drop, populations will decline, in short - the world as we know it will collapse resulting in less food&services per person, reduced health, less consumer goods per person, and a lower life expectancy.
In order to prevent this we must eventually stop physical growth and come up with a _sustainable_ plan for humanity. The sooner this is done, the less drastic the collapse will be, the longer mankind can survive on planet earth.
Technology might help us, but it cannot save us unless we help ourselves.
If elected President, what specifically (if anything) would you do to help contribute in making the global system sustainable, in dampening an inevitable collapse?
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There's a lot of worthless spite in this article, but if you can look past that, you might see something worth thinking about.
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Coincidentally I've developed my "looking past worthless spite" ability significantly since the day I first pointed my browser to
Don't Copy That Floppy
You engineer software for Transmeta, but what the hell, we'll just give you credit for creating their processors too!
(Saying thanks Linus is about as absurd as thanking your local mechanic for the sleek body styling on your new BMW.)
Does the following sound anything like a promise, or more like a vague prediction?
"We expect initial market deployment of standards-based UWB solutions to be sometime in the 2005-2006 timeframe," said Ben Manny, director of wireless technology development at Intel Research and Development.
Contrary to popular belief the Andes are not in the USA (and therefore a call to 911 might be somewhat problematic.)
Just post your address. No Spam, I swear!
That wasn't censorship, just poor web design.
In Beyond The Limits the authors Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jorgen Randers explain why and how humanity is rapidly overshooting its limits. Finite resources are being used up at an exponentially growing rate. Pollution, population, industrial output, food supply, etc. will all shoot beyond the sustainable carrying capacity of the environment. What this means is that sooner or later resources will be exhausted, pollution will be everywhere, food supplies will drop, populations will decline, in short - the world as we know it will collapse resulting in less food&services per person, reduced health, less consumer goods per person, and a lower life expectancy. In order to prevent this we must eventually stop physical growth and come up with a _sustainable_ plan for humanity. The sooner this is done, the less drastic the collapse will be, the longer mankind can survive on planet earth. Technology might help us, but it cannot save us unless we help ourselves. If elected President, what specifically (if anything) would you do to help contribute in making the global system sustainable, in dampening an inevitable collapse?
Dustin Laverick
to the moon!
This is gonna make Yahoo! stock skyrocket. BUY NOW!
Lol, I don't think it'll become cheap that quick! However, I wonder what the price of titanium/aluminum is now, per oz/gram or whatnot.
Drink the can first, jeeze! They didn't teach you anything in college.
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In this case it means "more specifically".