yeah, I've seen seedlings six inches apart to saplings on plantations 3 feet apart in rows 5 feet apart, to mature trees in managed woods eight to ten feet apart (they're ten to thirty years old at this point), to old growth 20-40 feet apart. As they get bigger they get harder to move so they're simply culled. But you can tell the sprout managed woods, because they're still in military-perfect rows. I manage rabbit populations in a ten acre ornamental wood plantation among other sites, the trees in there are saplings to 15 years old and even the older trees are still packed that close together you can't actually walk between them.
The problem and the biggest reason for these huge wildfires that're hitting the news lately is the fact that the new growth managed woodlands are single species firs and pines with no hardwood stands. Conifers are fuel ladders and bloody efficient at it. Even though they're fast growing (for trees), they carry that risk that with dense planting (anything more than two hundred trees per acre and you're asking for trouble) and no track-width breaks (10-30 feet wide down to mineral soil layer or even hardcore trackbeds or roads) to slow the spread of fires, what you get is what we see: entire counties going up.
wild boar were exterminated in Britain around 700 years ago, and accidentally reintroduced from Western European stock about twenty years ago. They're not doing too well, given that their old habitats are completely changed. They're woodland creatures, most of the woodland in Britain is now managed, what little is left, most of the rest of the land not given over to urban growth is now given to growing crops for food for humans and animals, and biodiesel. Inevitably the small herds are finding their way onto farmland, digging it up and meeting the business end of shotguns.
hemp grows practically everywhere. That's one reason the paper lobby came out with "Reefer Madness" as part of the propaganda campaign to turn public attention to the wonders of tree fibre (which is actually inferior in nearly every respect: it takes a LONG time to cultivate as opposed hemp, which grows relatively quickly, has medicinal as well and many and varied industrial uses like rope, paper and cloth, it's also useful as food).
I dunno, B-roads from Nottingham to Hereford (and back) via Stafford in 2010 and again in 2011 and 2012, never had to double back on myself or ask directions, isn't bad going on a bicycle.:) Even did Cardiff via Merthyr Tydfil once. That was fun in a blizzard...
If it weren't for the fact that occasionally I have to actually make a call or send a text, the only requirement for a carrier to maintain a number is that it receives a call once every six months. My GO phone hasn't been topped up in nine years, it's still got £48.85 credit on it out of the £50 I put on in 2006 and the SIM is still live because I give it a squirt charge every 4 weeks and dropcall it while it's doing that..
My phone does everything I want it to, it's five years old and is probably due a replacement battery since standby time is down to just shy of 100 hours.
(in case you don't want to click: it's an F930 that cost me £32.99 new on Three PAYG, it's still on Three and since they stopped doing all-you-can-eat data packages on PAYG last month, will probably get topped up by £10 a year now. The phone has an unspecified processor, quad band/HSPA (which means 3G@7Mbps yeah baby! Rare in 2010 for ANY phone), QVGA screen@167ppi (320x240, 2.4"), Bluetooth, MicroSDHC, standard headphone socket(!), standard MicroUSB charging/data/tether port (it will also tether over Bluetooth but 2MBit with lots of packet retransmission makes lag a pig to deal with) and that factory 1000mA battery which originally lasted a week and a half on standby).
it is when you consider that Samsung make components for Apple phones. They sell components and assemblies (eg memory and CPU packages, boards, camera sensors, what-have-you) to Apple: profit for Samsung. Apple put the phones together and sell the hardware on: profit for Apple.
my first cellphone (a BT-badged CMH400 which was actually a Maxon LX-5) ran on AA batteries. Didn't need to carry spares, just about every newsagent, petrol station and offlicence on the planet carries them.
because a heavily-cycled battery doesn't last long. Particularly in a smart phone where you might find yourself hunting for a socket at lunchtime, and faster as it ages. Smartphones are power hogs, yet batteries are getting smaller. Feature phones are where you want to be looking if you want the battery to last all day in a phone you're actually making calls on for more than an hour or two per day, because those batteries aren't pumping through a quad core processor. This is where the ZTEs come in, as their feature phone batteries last for fucking ever. Mine's five years old, still has the original battery which lasts three days between charges, down to a day and a half if I'm using it a lot (which I have been over this past week - burned through £30 worth of call credit and taken about eleven hours worth of calls on top). That joke about the Nokia 3310 lasting two days before it drops 1%? It's almost not a joke. It's a phone and that's pretty much the limit of its functionality, and that's really all you need in a phone. Still got mine, it's in my GO bag and it gets a boost charge ONCE a MONTH.
I just recently got my hands on a Nokia N73, which has a better camera than my ZTE - 3.2MP as opposed 3.0. I'm testing the battery, so far it's done 3 days and hasn't dropped a bar yet.
less than that, even. The camera sensors in hte iPhone 5 and the Galaxy 6 are identical, and retail at $4 a unit. They even use the same SMD edge connector.
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yeah, I've seen seedlings six inches apart to saplings on plantations 3 feet apart in rows 5 feet apart, to mature trees in managed woods eight to ten feet apart (they're ten to thirty years old at this point), to old growth 20-40 feet apart. As they get bigger they get harder to move so they're simply culled. But you can tell the sprout managed woods, because they're still in military-perfect rows. I manage rabbit populations in a ten acre ornamental wood plantation among other sites, the trees in there are saplings to 15 years old and even the older trees are still packed that close together you can't actually walk between them.
the rest of the world is populated by ragheads running around large oil-rich deserts shagging camels and drinking their own piss.
True story. ~
French cattle are fed meal containing bovine bone.
Yup, French cows are cannibals.
The problem and the biggest reason for these huge wildfires that're hitting the news lately is the fact that the new growth managed woodlands are single species firs and pines with no hardwood stands. Conifers are fuel ladders and bloody efficient at it. Even though they're fast growing (for trees), they carry that risk that with dense planting (anything more than two hundred trees per acre and you're asking for trouble) and no track-width breaks (10-30 feet wide down to mineral soil layer or even hardcore trackbeds or roads) to slow the spread of fires, what you get is what we see: entire counties going up.
are you referring to firebreaks, by any chance?
wild boar were exterminated in Britain around 700 years ago, and accidentally reintroduced from Western European stock about twenty years ago. They're not doing too well, given that their old habitats are completely changed. They're woodland creatures, most of the woodland in Britain is now managed, what little is left, most of the rest of the land not given over to urban growth is now given to growing crops for food for humans and animals, and biodiesel. Inevitably the small herds are finding their way onto farmland, digging it up and meeting the business end of shotguns.
hemp grows practically everywhere. That's one reason the paper lobby came out with "Reefer Madness" as part of the propaganda campaign to turn public attention to the wonders of tree fibre (which is actually inferior in nearly every respect: it takes a LONG time to cultivate as opposed hemp, which grows relatively quickly, has medicinal as well and many and varied industrial uses like rope, paper and cloth, it's also useful as food).
virtual sex is already in the bag.
Redtube.
I dunno, B-roads from Nottingham to Hereford (and back) via Stafford in 2010 and again in 2011 and 2012, never had to double back on myself or ask directions, isn't bad going on a bicycle. :) Even did Cardiff via Merthyr Tydfil once. That was fun in a blizzard...
share it with the even redder NSA instead. Got it.
it's a switch, isn't it? Long have we been promised the year of the linux destop, instead it has the phone market.
people buy three hundred dollar pcs because some of their facebook games won't run on a six hundred dollar phone.
I'd rather buy a thirty dollar phone and spend eight seventy on a pc.
Who's the winner?
am I the only one who navigates by the end of his nose, yet never gets lost??
o.0
don't be getting chased down by Jack Bauer if you do that. He'll just whip out his mango knife and open you up to retrieve the card.
I spend £10 a year.
If it weren't for the fact that occasionally I have to actually make a call or send a text, the only requirement for a carrier to maintain a number is that it receives a call once every six months. My GO phone hasn't been topped up in nine years, it's still got £48.85 credit on it out of the £50 I put on in 2006 and the SIM is still live because I give it a squirt charge every 4 weeks and dropcall it while it's doing that..
the S6 does have an amazing camera tho, my brother has one (he found it lying in the road, the lucky sod!)
My phone does everything I want it to, it's five years old and is probably due a replacement battery since standby time is down to just shy of 100 hours.
(in case you don't want to click: it's an F930 that cost me £32.99 new on Three PAYG, it's still on Three and since they stopped doing all-you-can-eat data packages on PAYG last month, will probably get topped up by £10 a year now. The phone has an unspecified processor, quad band/HSPA (which means 3G@7Mbps yeah baby! Rare in 2010 for ANY phone), QVGA screen@167ppi (320x240, 2.4"), Bluetooth, MicroSDHC, standard headphone socket(!), standard MicroUSB charging/data/tether port (it will also tether over Bluetooth but 2MBit with lots of packet retransmission makes lag a pig to deal with) and that factory 1000mA battery which originally lasted a week and a half on standby).
it is when you consider that Samsung make components for Apple phones. They sell components and assemblies (eg memory and CPU packages, boards, camera sensors, what-have-you) to Apple: profit for Samsung. Apple put the phones together and sell the hardware on: profit for Apple.
Thank you, come again.
buy a Dell with an Intel processor and lob OSX on it. Done.
good luck with that. I tried it that way, it fucking came back.
my first cellphone (a BT-badged CMH400 which was actually a Maxon LX-5) ran on AA batteries. Didn't need to carry spares, just about every newsagent, petrol station and offlicence on the planet carries them.
because a heavily-cycled battery doesn't last long. Particularly in a smart phone where you might find yourself hunting for a socket at lunchtime, and faster as it ages. Smartphones are power hogs, yet batteries are getting smaller. Feature phones are where you want to be looking if you want the battery to last all day in a phone you're actually making calls on for more than an hour or two per day, because those batteries aren't pumping through a quad core processor. This is where the ZTEs come in, as their feature phone batteries last for fucking ever. Mine's five years old, still has the original battery which lasts three days between charges, down to a day and a half if I'm using it a lot (which I have been over this past week - burned through £30 worth of call credit and taken about eleven hours worth of calls on top). That joke about the Nokia 3310 lasting two days before it drops 1%? It's almost not a joke. It's a phone and that's pretty much the limit of its functionality, and that's really all you need in a phone. Still got mine, it's in my GO bag and it gets a boost charge ONCE a MONTH.
I just recently got my hands on a Nokia N73, which has a better camera than my ZTE - 3.2MP as opposed 3.0. I'm testing the battery, so far it's done 3 days and hasn't dropped a bar yet.
less than that, even. The camera sensors in hte iPhone 5 and the Galaxy 6 are identical, and retail at $4 a unit. They even use the same SMD edge connector.
why would I do that, when I have a perfectly serviceable ZTE F930?