The truth is probably more troublesome, in that we simply don't know.
And until we do know, we should be careful about greenhouse gas emissions. Or do the "better safe than sorry" not mean much to people?
This is a logic I haven't really understood in this debate -- people go on about "we don't know if it's much about us!" like it was going to help.
That's actually an even worse scenario, where we need to be extra careful until we do know the extent of our responsibility for the detected dramatic changes in atmosphere composition as for CO2 lately (yes, it seems to be going far above the former natural cycles the past hundred of thousands of years).
"The bottom line is that the climate is still warming while our greenhouse gas emissions have accelerated, so we are storing up problems for ourselves in the future."
It warns that carbon dioxide emissions have risen during the past five years by three per cent, well above the 0.4 per cent a year average of the previous two decades. The authors also state that the climate is almost certain to warm by at least 1.5 C during the next 100 years.
Britain can expect more storms of similar ferocity to those that wreaked havoc across the country last week, even bringing a tornado to north-west London.
He said: "The oceans have been acting like giant storage heaters by trapping heat and carbon dioxide. They might be bit of a time-bomb as they have been masking the real effects of the carbon dioxide we have been releasing into the atmosphere.
"People are very worried about what will happen in 2030 to 2050, as we think that at that point the oceans will no longer be able to absorb the carbon dioxide being emitted. It will be a tipping point and that is why it is now critical to act to counter any acceleration that will occur when this happens."
Sorry if I'm not feeling overwhelmingly optimistic about our influences after reading this.:-)
It's out for business customers, but in unreleased according to many driver developers.;-) (these consider January 2007 to be the official launch) So then you get these sort of problems I guess. This article is jumping way too quick to conclusions. Heck, this feature even works just fine here, so Vista is not at fault anyway, but it has to be some external source.
Oh, and also note that many vendors consider January to be the launch date of Vista, such as Creative Labs and NVIDIA, and aren't focusing much on high performance and stable drivers for the RTM yet. With hibernation, at least three factors are essential: motherboard/BIOS support, correct BIOS settings, proper drivers. Many systems are lacking at least one of those, breaking the whole thing, causing e.g auto-reboots instead of power downs, etc. One could argue if MS shouldn't have used this feature so extensively with such poor support among manufacturers, but that's still an entirely different issue than a mythical "bug" in Vista.
This feature works just great here, making it quite impossible it's due to Vista (unless my Vista is magic), but rather due to hardware drivers after all.
While this may bypass activation, which is the Big Thing, what about WGA?
I'm only aware of cracks for XP so far, but maybe these work for Vista as well?
The thing is that MS has ramped up the effects from WGA authenticity failure a lot in Vista to make it hardly usable, contrary to before when you'd just miss out on a few extras from Microsoft Update.
An interesting twist from this is that the most feature-rich Vista Ultimate Edition may not be the most warezed one after all. Because these aren't supporting KMS activation, unlike Enterprise and Business who were both intended for this use. However, for a pirate, that may not matter much, as the benefits of Vista Home Basic/Ultimate (= home/entertainment-oriented software) is probably quite easily outweighed by already available software, often free.
requiring software developers to absorb 6,000 pages of specifications, compared with 700 pages for OpenDocument
OK then. Well, since neither of these documents seem to be intended to be read by mortals, I'm personally feeling more than a little "emotionally detached" from these news...:-p
it designed the software in such a manner as to create a shared files folder and make that folder available to anyone using Kazaa, while at the same time failing to make the user aware that it had done so
If my memory doesn't fail me, Kazaa indeed guided the user through a wizard at the first run, where among other things you configured network settings, and which folders to share. And with a "shared files" folder activated by default, while showing that fact to the user as well.
They had permission from their equivalent to the RIAA (= ROMS) though.
I wonder... If iTunes would distribute shadily licensed work from Russian artists, would Russia be able to shut down the entire iTunes via the World Trade Organization?
What you call "luck" would others call "timing", and that's often not a part of luck, but rather good management. Yes, managers are important and have their use, contrary to what so many believe.:-)
With the large number of companies in general merging as part of their profit formula, I don't really see why these would do the opposite. Google has always tried to let their employees work quite freely and in the past let ideas from them turn into financed projects, so I really don't see what big gains there would be for them to split up.
Yes, so they could use a much smaller area for just the US instead, and have the cells a bit better distributed. I don't see how that would be a bad thing though. Sure, perhaps for underdeveloped countries (who're going to spend all the money to build for them?), but not really elsewhere. 40% efficiency would have enormous benefits, let's hope we get their in production cells soon enough.
The Windows site appears to be http://preview.local.live.com/, although since I use a Mac it didn't work properly. I'm not sure I want my neighborhood viewable on the Web from ground level. And are they going to edit all the people out? I don't see how they could
Well, it works in Firefox, so chances are it works on a Mac after all, just not on Safari, if that was the one you had problems with. And yes, the people captured seem to actually be left in.
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I agree, it's interesting to watch the furious hunt for a cure for cancer, when it's pretty obvious why it's so frequent in the societies of today.
What we're looking for is probably for another cure for cancer than an improved environment.
And until we do know, we should be careful about greenhouse gas emissions.
Or do the "better safe than sorry" not mean much to people?
This is a logic I haven't really understood in this debate -- people go on about "we don't know if it's much about us!" like it was going to help.
That's actually an even worse scenario, where we need to be extra careful until we do know the extent of our responsibility for the detected dramatic changes in atmosphere composition as for CO2 lately (yes, it seems to be going far above the former natural cycles the past hundred of thousands of years).
I can only say it wasn't very "calming" to me:
Sorry if I'm not feeling overwhelmingly optimistic about our influences after reading this.
I assume "Google's web services are way beyond Microsoft's".
VBA is a curse from Microsoft causing all sorts of trojan risks, until it's dropped. Then it's a serious problem. Figures.
It's out for business customers, but in unreleased according to many driver developers. ;-) (these consider January 2007 to be the official launch) So then you get these sort of problems I guess. This article is jumping way too quick to conclusions. Heck, this feature even works just fine here, so Vista is not at fault anyway, but it has to be some external source.
Oh, and also note that many vendors consider January to be the launch date of Vista, such as Creative Labs and NVIDIA, and aren't focusing much on high performance and stable drivers for the RTM yet. With hibernation, at least three factors are essential: motherboard/BIOS support, correct BIOS settings, proper drivers. Many systems are lacking at least one of those, breaking the whole thing, causing e.g auto-reboots instead of power downs, etc. One could argue if MS shouldn't have used this feature so extensively with such poor support among manufacturers, but that's still an entirely different issue than a mythical "bug" in Vista.
This feature works just great here, making it quite impossible it's due to Vista (unless my Vista is magic), but rather due to hardware drivers after all.
While this may bypass activation, which is the Big Thing, what about WGA?
I'm only aware of cracks for XP so far, but maybe these work for Vista as well?
The thing is that MS has ramped up the effects from WGA authenticity failure a lot in Vista to make it hardly usable, contrary to before when you'd just miss out on a few extras from Microsoft Update.
Hehe, was that post an attempt at "recruitment by fear"? ;-)
And once again, before it's widely available. (I don't consider MSDN for their subscribers wide availability, really)
You'd think this sent a message...
Now, all that's left is an even more annoying activation system for legit customers.
An interesting twist from this is that the most feature-rich Vista Ultimate Edition may not be the most warezed one after all. Because these aren't supporting KMS activation, unlike Enterprise and Business who were both intended for this use. However, for a pirate, that may not matter much, as the benefits of Vista Home Basic/Ultimate (= home/entertainment-oriented software) is probably quite easily outweighed by already available software, often free.
That company's lawyers sure were trigger happy.
:-p
*cough*
requiring software developers to absorb 6,000 pages of specifications, compared with 700 pages for OpenDocument
:-p
OK then. Well, since neither of these documents seem to be intended to be read by mortals, I'm personally feeling more than a little "emotionally detached" from these news...
I haven't heard of anyone not believing in the concept of birth actually being born, so maybe you're right.
Was that one named for ESA being envious of another space organization? Or others successes in launching Mars vehicles?
:-)
Hmm... I wonder which that could be.
(note: I'm European too; this isn't a cocky American.. just found the name funny)
it designed the software in such a manner as to create a shared files folder and make that folder available to anyone using Kazaa, while at the same time failing to make the user aware that it had done so
If my memory doesn't fail me, Kazaa indeed guided the user through a wizard at the first run, where among other things you configured network settings, and which folders to share. And with a "shared files" folder activated by default, while showing that fact to the user as well.
They had permission from their equivalent to the RIAA (= ROMS) though.
I wonder... If iTunes would distribute shadily licensed work from Russian artists, would Russia be able to shut down the entire iTunes via the World Trade Organization?
Or am I not understand this issue fully?
I think I'm going to tag this article "assimilation".
What you call "luck" would others call "timing", and that's often not a part of luck, but rather good management. :-)
Yes, managers are important and have their use, contrary to what so many believe.
With the large number of companies in general merging as part of their profit formula, I don't really see why these would do the opposite. Google has always tried to let their employees work quite freely and in the past let ideas from them turn into financed projects, so I really don't see what big gains there would be for them to split up.
On the other hand, deserts are expanding very quickly today, and it's quite a difference in their sizes compared to e.g. the early 1900's now.
Yes, so they could use a much smaller area for just the US instead, and have the cells a bit better distributed. I don't see how that would be a bad thing though. Sure, perhaps for underdeveloped countries (who're going to spend all the money to build for them?), but not really elsewhere. 40% efficiency would have enormous benefits, let's hope we get their in production cells soon enough.
When I was a kid in the 80's, I thought we would actually get to Mars in my lifetime, but it doesn't look like it. :-(
Well, it works in Firefox, so chances are it works on a Mac after all, just not on Safari, if that was the one you had problems with.
And yes, the people captured seem to actually be left in.