The increased temperatures of west Antarctica are more than compensated by decreased temperatures elsewhere in Antartctica. It is especially interesting that there is so much growth inland of Greenland.
Ah, how I loathe the politics that drives the global warming debate. Just imagine, just as the planet cools, the Obama administration timely releases pictures of the north pole just to keep us from looking at the thermometer or talking about the south pole for that matter.
Remember, NEWS is something somebody is trying to KEEP FROM YOU. Everything else is plain ADVERTISING.
There's lot of BS going on about Sweden here today. Swedens debt used to be exactly the same as the USA relative GDP, 80%. That was some time ago. We have been paying for that quite some time and the debt is down to 40% of GDP though it is rising, but so is USAs. We pay the highest taxes, some public services work, many (such as law enforcement) do not. We have practically not created a single new enterprise for the last 50 years. It's all pre-war and disappearing one by one (please understand that I'm not talking seven-eleven or McDonald's here). The lack of privately held venture capital makes all capital institutionalized and there's really no risk taking going on. Brilliant Swedes go abroad, to the US for example (figure that).
The UN is working hard toward its complete irrelevance. You can kill millions of Africans without much more than a yawn from the UN but if you try to quote the quran to show that this book contains verses used to motivate oppression and violence, then you become a criminal in the eye of the UN.
The exotic "refractive fluid" in question is deionized pure water, for those who wonder. However, make no mistake, this is really a small wonder. In the early 2000, few people believed immersion lithography at 45nm would ever become mainstream. However, 157nm became toooooo expensive and none of the problems anticipated with immersion lithography appeared. It is almost, as with the bike, to be considered a discovery. Hence, a full node thanks to the refractive index of water (1.44 at 193nm)
Obviously, Saudi Arabia are feeling the pressure and have decided to use super-computer to find the peaceful verses in the quran, just to prove the so called islamists wrong. I wish them success.
I'm running linux/Ubuntu and watching youtube and other flash videos every day. And now, slashdot is telling me that in the real world, that does not happen. It is an amazing feeling I must tell you.
because we can be quite sure that the energy saved during the lifetime of this device will not add up to the energy required to make it. At 1W, the energy saved would amount to 8.8kWh per year or somewhere in the vicinity of $1-$2 (I guess, since I don't live in the US).
My own solution to this is to share my drive with a friend and he shares a part of his. The backup goes by rsync of selected directories. Sensitive data is automatically encrypted. Currently, we store 30GB for each other. He lives on the other side of town. I also do a system backup locally where I test upgrades and so on. If something fails, I just go back to the old system and let the rsync-based local take back things to normal. If the upgrade (or whatever) is to my liking. I switch to the new disk with grub and have the new system copy over to the old. This has saved my ass so many times. I have set up my mothers computer (windows 2000) to do a remote (rsync) backup to mine (which is Linux/Ubuntu). That will make her very happy one day.
Roger Penrose writes that, indeed, a black hole of 1.5 (or so) solar masses would disintegrate a human through tidal forces before he reaches the Schwarzschild radius, thereby preventing any successful dive into it. However, the tidal forces at the Schwarzschild radius of 1 mega solar masses black hole would be quite manageable, hence it's should be quite possible to "experience" it though sharing with your buddies will still be a problem.
When Einsteins introduced the general theory of relativity, the universe was believed to be static. Hence, Einstein introduced a constant to make it so. The expansion of space is inherent to the original formulation. Later when Hubble presented his findings that the universe was in fact not static, Einstein realized that he made, what he called, the blunder of his life.
That is nothing new. Linus fills that position for the kernel. Mark has the potential to be that for the whole Linux OS. Lets hope he is into Ubuntu for the long haul.
It is not the number of heads you hire that makes the difference, it's the creativity of each individual that counts. Common view by CEO's is that a certain problem requires so and so many people wich have a given set of buzz words on their CV. If fact, what you need is to identify the creative (and unique) individuals and it does not matter how many people you have hired unless there is process in place in the company that identifies those individuals and gives them the lead.
Dell in Sweden allready ships laptops with no OS installed. We recently bought two. I only asked the sales rep which laptops works best with linux. They suggested a model (latitude D610) and shipped. I actually expected there would be some MS stuff installed but when I powered them up they turned out to be empty. Quite lovely. They both now run Ubuntu. I had to work a few minutes to get native screen resolution though./jarek
No, he has a point, but he's not right. The problem that he airs is not exclusive to US schools. It too attended a school with a large drop out rate, in Sweden. There is a fundamental problem with higher level studies as you say but thats because the teachers are 100% dedicated to one particular field of science and there is no time pick up teaching skills (some get it anyway, some don't). His story about getting low grades in math and physics when he used to get stars ( or whatever ) is only an effect of selection (and a touch of reality). He's now compared only with students like him who only got top scores too. The university needs a scale for its students. I went through the same thing myself. Barey making the exams in the beginning. Pick up my tempo the follwing years and completed the education year and a half before schedule. In the end, I don't think I was more intelligent than anybody else. I just had more of something that he lacked, passion. I loved the average 60h/week. There was so much to know, so much to learn. If you do what you love, the hours don't matter. You have to be true to yourself and he probably wasn't. "My accomplishments all pointed towards a more verbal course of study" he says. That probably means something. Obviously, he was a straight A's student but his hart was not into engineering./jarek
Zyxel stuff supports a lot of technology -- if you include the "future software upgrade" -- and lot less out of the box. Don't count too much on the "future software upgrade" though, or be prepared to wait a long time.
Though I hope you may be right, I'm not so sure. The good economical return for those working with finance and sales comes, to a large degree, from being close to the money (in a manner of speaking). It puts you into position in negotiations that no engineer can ever dream of, unless he is working in a very small company and is the only person with some key knowledge. Another aspect of this may be that engineers are engineers because of the passion the feel for creating stuff. Money is in a way secondary to the possibility of doing the fun stuff. The process of say, inventing something and follow through to make it work is in it self very rewarding but quite often, it doesn't buy you a better car or house.
I have to say, I don't believe much in China. Sure, there are going to get better, much better, but with the current regime, they will take the third place (perhars) behind India and (perhaps) Japan. The sings are allready there (like underperforming stock markets). Right now the economy rides on the backs of the poor. When they are no longer so poor, the lack of economic efficiency (lacking a better word) will show up in terms of inflation and perhaps even an economic crash. India looks so much more promising. If they can come to terms with the corruption, I belive they will fly indeed.
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The increased temperatures of west Antarctica are more than compensated by decreased temperatures elsewhere in Antartctica. It is especially interesting that there is so much growth inland of Greenland.
Ah, how I loathe the politics that drives the global warming debate. Just imagine, just as the planet cools, the Obama administration timely releases pictures of the north pole just to keep us from looking at the thermometer or talking about the south pole for that matter.
Remember, NEWS is something somebody is trying to KEEP FROM YOU. Everything else is plain ADVERTISING.
There's lot of BS going on about Sweden here today. Swedens debt used to be exactly the same as the USA relative GDP, 80%. That was some time ago. We have been paying for that quite some time and the debt is down to 40% of GDP though it is rising, but so is USAs. We pay the highest taxes, some public services work, many (such as law enforcement) do not. We have practically not created a single new enterprise for the last 50 years. It's all pre-war and disappearing one by one (please understand that I'm not talking seven-eleven or McDonald's here). The lack of privately held venture capital makes all capital institutionalized and there's really no risk taking going on. Brilliant Swedes go abroad, to the US for example (figure that).
The UN is working hard toward its complete irrelevance. You can kill millions of Africans without much more than a yawn from the UN but if you try to quote the quran to show that this book contains verses used to motivate oppression and violence, then you become a criminal in the eye of the UN.
The exotic "refractive fluid" in question is deionized pure water, for those who wonder. However, make no mistake, this is really a small wonder. In the early 2000, few people believed immersion lithography at 45nm would ever become mainstream. However, 157nm became toooooo expensive and none of the problems anticipated with immersion lithography appeared. It is almost, as with the bike, to be considered a discovery. Hence, a full node thanks to the refractive index of water (1.44 at 193nm)
Obviously, Saudi Arabia are feeling the pressure and have decided to use super-computer to find the peaceful verses in the quran, just to prove the so called islamists wrong. I wish them success.
they intended to bring him back? I mean, its a fair question considering how much value Iran puts on a human life after all,
I'm running linux/Ubuntu and watching youtube and other flash videos every day. And now, slashdot is telling me that in the real world, that does not happen. It is an amazing feeling I must tell you.
because we can be quite sure that the energy saved during the lifetime of this device will not add up to the energy required to make it.
At 1W, the energy saved would amount to 8.8kWh per year or somewhere in the vicinity of $1-$2 (I guess, since I don't live in the US).
My own solution to this is to share my drive with a friend and he shares a part of his. The backup goes by rsync of selected directories. Sensitive data is automatically encrypted. Currently, we store 30GB for each other. He lives on the other side of town. I also do a system backup locally where I test upgrades and so on. If something fails, I just go back to the old system and let the rsync-based local take back things to normal. If the upgrade (or whatever) is to my liking. I switch to the new disk with grub and have the new system copy over to the old. This has saved my ass so many times.
I have set up my mothers computer (windows 2000) to do a remote (rsync) backup to mine (which is Linux/Ubuntu). That will make her very happy one day.
Roger Penrose writes that, indeed, a black hole of 1.5 (or so) solar masses would disintegrate a human through tidal forces before he reaches the Schwarzschild radius, thereby preventing any successful dive into it. However, the tidal forces at the Schwarzschild radius of 1 mega solar masses black hole would be quite manageable, hence it's should be quite possible to "experience" it though sharing with your buddies will still be a problem.
It seems we have a winner. Really nice looking one too.
When Einsteins introduced the general theory of relativity, the universe was believed to be static. Hence, Einstein introduced a constant to make it so. The expansion of space is inherent to the original formulation. Later when Hubble presented his findings that the universe was in fact not static, Einstein realized that he made, what he called, the blunder of his life.
That is nothing new. Linus fills that position for the kernel. Mark has the potential to be that for the whole Linux OS. Lets hope he is into Ubuntu for the long haul.
It does seem like an advantage but there are still no benchmarks to be found although the hardware has been out there for more than a month.
It is not the number of heads you hire that makes the difference, it's the creativity of each individual that counts. Common view by CEO's is that a certain problem requires so and so many people wich have a given set of buzz words on their CV.
If fact, what you need is to identify the creative (and unique) individuals and it does not matter how many people you have hired unless there is process in place in the company that identifies those individuals and gives them the lead.
Rogue, hack, nethack. Started to play it '83. First ascend in 2004. That was pure magic. /jarek
Dell in Sweden allready ships laptops with no OS installed. We recently bought two. I only asked the sales rep which laptops works best with linux. They suggested a model (latitude D610) and shipped. I actually expected there would be some MS stuff installed but when I powered them up they turned out to be empty. Quite lovely. They both now run Ubuntu. I had to work a few minutes to get native screen resolution though. /jarek
That was really funny. Thanks for the link. Lots of laughs.
Thanks,
Jarek
No, he has a point, but he's not right. The problem that he airs is not exclusive to US schools. It too attended a school with a large drop out rate, in Sweden. There is a fundamental problem with higher level studies as you say but thats because the teachers are 100% dedicated to one particular field of science and there is no time pick up teaching skills (some get it anyway, some don't). /jarek
His story about getting low grades in math and physics when he used to get stars ( or whatever ) is only an effect of selection (and a touch of reality). He's now compared only with students like him who only got top scores too. The university needs a scale for its students. I went through the same thing myself. Barey making the exams in the beginning. Pick up my tempo the follwing years and completed the education year and a half before schedule. In the end, I don't think I was more intelligent than anybody else. I just had more of something that he lacked, passion. I loved the average 60h/week. There was so much to know, so much to learn. If you do what you love, the hours don't matter. You have to be true to yourself and he probably wasn't. "My accomplishments all pointed towards a more verbal course of study" he says. That probably means something. Obviously, he was a straight A's student but his hart was not into engineering.
Or more importantly, who is going to set the building on fire...
Zyxel stuff supports a lot of technology -- if you include the "future software upgrade" -- and lot less out of the box. Don't count too much on the "future software upgrade" though, or be prepared to wait a long time.
Though I hope you may be right, I'm not so sure. The good economical return for those working with finance and sales comes, to a large degree, from being close to the money (in a manner of speaking). It puts you into position in negotiations that no engineer can ever dream of, unless he is working in a very small company and is the only person with some key knowledge.
Another aspect of this may be that engineers are engineers because of the passion the feel for creating stuff. Money is in a way secondary to the possibility of doing the fun stuff. The process of say, inventing something and follow through to make it work is in it self very rewarding but quite often, it doesn't buy you a better car or house.
I have to say, I don't believe much in China. Sure, there are going to get better, much better, but with the current regime, they will take the third place (perhars) behind India and (perhaps) Japan. The sings are allready there (like underperforming stock markets). Right now the economy rides on the backs of the poor. When they are no longer so poor, the lack of economic efficiency (lacking a better word) will show up in terms of inflation and perhaps even an economic crash. India looks so much more promising. If they can come to terms with the corruption, I belive they will fly indeed.
I completely agree on Memento. It was the first film I looked for in this list.