Many of us still have 286 PCs. This is Slashdot. Welcome. I still have a working Commodore 64, too. When the parts fail, I drop them at an electronics recycling facility. That's pretty green, I think.
Perhaps intentionally helping someone launder their money that you know is dirty should be a crime, since it's conspiracy to cover the trail of the original crime. Having a few people use your service who have dirty money without your knowledge probably shouldn't be.
Well, let me rephrase that last sentence. I don't know of a species with a better record of managing their climate, but we haven't done everything we can to be conscious of our possible impacts on ours.
I don't really think an apology is necessary. You voiced legitimate concerns and I agree that even good ideas can have negative consequences if acted upon too quickly. I don't think your digression is that big of one. It's pretty relevant, I think, to a discussion of gas level management and climate science to mention that we haven't as a species had the best record so far.
The easiest way to get lime (or any perticulate solid) dispersed evenly into a large body of water is to add it as a solution in which the particles are already dissolved. Perhaps we could pipe water to the desert, make lime water, and pump it back out. Better yet, perhaps we could dig canals into limestone deserts and turn them into shallow, lime-rich seas that intermingle waters with the open coeans.
Nitrogen fertilizer and calcium-rich deposits of limestone have little to do with one another, other than that the fertilizer goes on top of the ground and the limestone is under it.
According to the link you provided, the dead zone is caused by nitrogen fertilizers growing algal blooms to massive sizes which then collapse and decay. They produce a lot of oxygen at first, bringing in extra animal life. Then the blooms die and give off CO2 as they rot, leaving too little oxygen (hypoxia).
Most nitrogen compounds used as fertilizers also lower the pH of soil over the long term. Limestone (calcium carbonate, not simple lime) is then applied to raise the pH back towards neutral.
I'm not a chemist or an environmentalist, so I won't pretend to know what nitrogen fertilizers do for the pH in the long term around oceanic algal blooms. I do know, though, that if the problem is too much CO2 being taken in by plants which then die and release the CO2 and you then take a bunch of the initial CO2 out of that water, the blooms won't grow so large in the first place.
Coral growth depends on enough calcium in the water and enough oxygen for the coral to breath. Right now, they are suffering from acidic water (largely caused by CO2), a lack of calcium (because it's reacting with the acidic water), dead zones with not enough oxygen, and no way put more CO2 into the water through respiration because it's saturated. Giving them calcium to absorb, raising the pH of the water, and lowering the CO2 levels will help the coral so long as it's not overdone and doesn't kill off some other important part of the food chain.
Lime and water is currently used to take the CO2 out of the smokestacks at factories. The process certainly works.
Since the limestone that's present in places like the US Midwest and the Australian outback are thought to be sediment from the oceans (or large seas that since drained into the oceans) then the presence of so much calcium in some form or another in the oceans must have precedent. Fresh water lakes made from old quarries support life very well.
One of the most popular sources of calcium in the world until recent decades has been coral reefs. Right now, coral reefs are dying out because of acidic water and lack of oxygen. Hopefully this could help that situation.
Of course, we can't know the full effects of a particular amount of lime being added to the oceans without doing it. There's simply no way to make a scale model of the oceans that's complete enough in a lab. We can't even do it with computer models, because we simply don't know everything about what's in the oceans.
The hope would be to do the most good with the least harm, and lime is probably much safer for most marine life than many of the other suggestions I've read. I just hope they're right.
The bicycle production uses the same amount of energy to produce as driving the car how far? If the bicycle's parts used that much energy to mine, smelt, cast, assemble, and transport then how much more did the parts of the 1,200 kg car take?
Pure lime put directly against the skin in moist conditions will indeed burn the skin, but not so badly as lye.
In Micronesia, the locals use a small bit of lime on the inside of the cheek to irritate the skin enough that the betel nut's juices when chewed (bit and held, really), get into the blood stream faster. According to Wikipedia, it's done much the same way in India and elsewhere.
Well, if they could successfully scale down the Phenom to TSMC's 32nm process and skip the 45nm node altogether, that would be a start. The clock speeds and power usage that would allow would be really nice. They could probably scale their CPUS to 6 or 8 cores pretty easily at that size, too, and add a whole load of cache.
Well, I'm not a broker but I know that you'll pay fees for the buying and selling, and usually dividends on the borrowed stock if they are paid while you hold the shares.
The guy buying from you hopes you're wrong and that the shares will actually go up.
The guy who's letting you borrow the shares is in a more complex situation. If the stock rises before you cover your position, then he makes money. If the stock does go down, it would have gone down anyway. He wasn't planning to sell it, or he wouldn't have let you borrow it. Therefore, if it really does go down he's no more hurt than otherwise. If it's going down for a while, he'll want you to cover quickly though so he can sell what he gets back before it falls more.
It's older than that. A specially crafted JPEG file used to smash the stack (or was it a buffer overrun ?) on a couple of DOS-based image viewing programs and execute arbitrary code.
Well, that trojan has a bug. When you sell short, you sell a stock then buy it. Yes, really.
That's what "short" means -- you don't have all the shares you need to cover the sale, so you're short. A "naked short" means you also don't have the funds set aside to buy and deliver the shares you sold or enough shares of the company in your portfolio to make up the difference.
The idea is that you sell at or just below the current price, expecting the stock to tank. Then you buy the shares before the agreed-upon transfer time for less than you're getting. Basically you're selling borrowed shares for more money than you're paying the guy you borrowed them from, if it works out as planned. If the stock goes up, you end up paying more for the shares than what you sold them for.
Theoretically there's a limit on what you can make and no limit on what you can lose. It's a useful tool in the market, though, if it's used correctly.
I know the explanation is overkill in response to your joke, but it seems many people do get confused with what the term means. I figured now was a teachable moment for people reading your post.
If the fab tech is the biggest issue, TSMC or Chartered would be a natural match. They do contract chip fab for everything from DRAM to CPUs, including the XBox CPUs and some AMD CPUs (Chartered) and some of AMD's ATI GPUs and chipsets (TSMC).
It'd make sense that if you're keeping your equipment busy making stuff for a customer, you'd want to keep that revenue. The best way to ensure that is to start making the same products for yourself.
Actually, buying a graphics and chipset vendor was a great idea. They just bought the wrong one. Via was the obvious choice, but probably wouldn't sell for what AMD could pay.
With Via they'd have gained S3 graphics, Via chipsets, and Via and Cyrix CPU tech, and Via's low-power CPU tech. That'd be a bigger win than when they bought NexGen.
If AMD does sell instead of coming back or folding, don't expect the FTC, the SEC, and the DoJ to allow Intel to be the buyer. IBM, perhaps. Via, too. Freescale, TI, Sun, Siemens, Fujitsu, Sony, or HP wouldn't be out of the question. Even Apple or SGI could make a strategic move to stave off Intel price increases that would surely happen if AMD were to fold.
Core Distro doesn't offer tech support and doesn't hold your hand, but it's a lean, mean, fast CLI Linux.
eComStation is an update to IBM's OS/2. It will run all the commercial OS/2 applications. There are ports of lots of BSD, GNU, and other open source software for it. That includes OpenOffice. It comes with Firefox and a Java system. It also runs Windows 3.1 software, and has a WINE-like clone of 32-bit Windows APIs that runs some applications for newer Windows versions.
eComStation runs on a Pentium 133 or a dual-core Athlon. The minimum RAM for a CD installer is 48MB, but the installed system will run with as little as 32MB, with 64MB a recommended minimum. It'll support up to 4GB. As little as 500MB of hard drive will store the system, with 1GB recommended for a full installation. You can get a 20GB drive dirt cheap these days. There's no Bluetooth support and not all hardware has drivers, but a well-supported machine with this runs like wild cheetahs.
At $259 per seat for a non-upgrade version, though, it's cheaper to build a bargain basement new PC and put a free OS on it. There's a free eComStation demo CD, but it requires 160MB of RAM as it's a live CD.
You can always try turning off any motherboard features you don't use in the BIOS, disabling keyboard and video checks, disabling the memory tests, and switching to whatever your systems call "fast POST" or "quick POST". That'll cut down on the hardware's portion of the boot time.
If multitasking is the reason for not using DOS and you're developing your own applications, there are a few multitasking libraries out there for DOS applications. The OS doesn't offer multitasking support, but it doesn't get in the way of it either. There are also a number of alternative DOS versions which offer everything from multitasking and multiple users to built-in memory extenders and support for filesystems other than FAT.
Well, if you're willing to give up some whiz-bang features you can browse with Dillo or Links. The newer Links variants have a graphical mode for those who can't stand downloading the pictures to see them. Either browser should be much faster than full-size ones.
I'd recommend links over lynx for a browser. It understands several newer HTML and CSS issues better and has JavaScript. With links, vim/joe/emacs/pico/nano (not getting into that war right now), screen, mutt, and a few other apps I don't really need X most of the time.
Maybe they've swallowed the Java Flavor-Aid saying that the OS doesn't matter as long as there's a Java system on it.
Actually, several languages do offer a chance at platform portability if you write the applications with care. Perl, Python, PHP, Lisp, Scheme, newLisp, JavaScript, HaXe, and maybe even Java really can have portable applications written in them. I'm sure there are more. I move Perl applications from Linux to OS X to FreeBSD to Windows all the time, and I move PHP and HaXe stuff from time to time.
Not all businesses are run with a gross income goal. Some are still concerned with the actual return per dollar invested. GM is a volume business, and they still sell quite a few more units than Ferrari. I'd rather be making a nice profit on fewer units than exposing myself to huge cost overruns that kill my company when the middle class isn't buying. There's my reasoning, complete with a car (sales and marketing) analogy.
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Many of us still have 286 PCs. This is Slashdot. Welcome. I still have a working Commodore 64, too. When the parts fail, I drop them at an electronics recycling facility. That's pretty green, I think.
That's an interesting theory since the CherryPal cloud strange and applications are free with purchase of the hardware. They're ad-supported.
Perhaps intentionally helping someone launder their money that you know is dirty should be a crime, since it's conspiracy to cover the trail of the original crime. Having a few people use your service who have dirty money without your knowledge probably shouldn't be.
Wait... I'm an asshat for pointing out the same thing to which you just agreed? Maybe you'd like to read the thread, asshat. ;-)
Well, let me rephrase that last sentence. I don't know of a species with a better record of managing their climate, but we haven't done everything we can to be conscious of our possible impacts on ours.
I don't really think an apology is necessary. You voiced legitimate concerns and I agree that even good ideas can have negative consequences if acted upon too quickly. I don't think your digression is that big of one. It's pretty relevant, I think, to a discussion of gas level management and climate science to mention that we haven't as a species had the best record so far.
The easiest way to get lime (or any perticulate solid) dispersed evenly into a large body of water is to add it as a solution in which the particles are already dissolved. Perhaps we could pipe water to the desert, make lime water, and pump it back out. Better yet, perhaps we could dig canals into limestone deserts and turn them into shallow, lime-rich seas that intermingle waters with the open coeans.
Nitrogen fertilizer and calcium-rich deposits of limestone have little to do with one another, other than that the fertilizer goes on top of the ground and the limestone is under it.
According to the link you provided, the dead zone is caused by nitrogen fertilizers growing algal blooms to massive sizes which then collapse and decay. They produce a lot of oxygen at first, bringing in extra animal life. Then the blooms die and give off CO2 as they rot, leaving too little oxygen (hypoxia).
Most nitrogen compounds used as fertilizers also lower the pH of soil over the long term. Limestone (calcium carbonate, not simple lime) is then applied to raise the pH back towards neutral.
I'm not a chemist or an environmentalist, so I won't pretend to know what nitrogen fertilizers do for the pH in the long term around oceanic algal blooms. I do know, though, that if the problem is too much CO2 being taken in by plants which then die and release the CO2 and you then take a bunch of the initial CO2 out of that water, the blooms won't grow so large in the first place.
Coral growth depends on enough calcium in the water and enough oxygen for the coral to breath. Right now, they are suffering from acidic water (largely caused by CO2), a lack of calcium (because it's reacting with the acidic water), dead zones with not enough oxygen, and no way put more CO2 into the water through respiration because it's saturated. Giving them calcium to absorb, raising the pH of the water, and lowering the CO2 levels will help the coral so long as it's not overdone and doesn't kill off some other important part of the food chain.
Lime and water is currently used to take the CO2 out of the smokestacks at factories. The process certainly works.
Since the limestone that's present in places like the US Midwest and the Australian outback are thought to be sediment from the oceans (or large seas that since drained into the oceans) then the presence of so much calcium in some form or another in the oceans must have precedent. Fresh water lakes made from old quarries support life very well.
One of the most popular sources of calcium in the world until recent decades has been coral reefs. Right now, coral reefs are dying out because of acidic water and lack of oxygen. Hopefully this could help that situation.
Of course, we can't know the full effects of a particular amount of lime being added to the oceans without doing it. There's simply no way to make a scale model of the oceans that's complete enough in a lab. We can't even do it with computer models, because we simply don't know everything about what's in the oceans.
The hope would be to do the most good with the least harm, and lime is probably much safer for most marine life than many of the other suggestions I've read. I just hope they're right.
The bicycle production uses the same amount of energy to produce as driving the car how far? If the bicycle's parts used that much energy to mine, smelt, cast, assemble, and transport then how much more did the parts of the 1,200 kg car take?
Pure lime put directly against the skin in moist conditions will indeed burn the skin, but not so badly as lye.
In Micronesia, the locals use a small bit of lime on the inside of the cheek to irritate the skin enough that the betel nut's juices when chewed (bit and held, really), get into the blood stream faster. According to Wikipedia, it's done much the same way in India and elsewhere.
Well, if they could successfully scale down the Phenom to TSMC's 32nm process and skip the 45nm node altogether, that would be a start. The clock speeds and power usage that would allow would be really nice. They could probably scale their CPUS to 6 or 8 cores pretty easily at that size, too, and add a whole load of cache.
Well, I'm not a broker but I know that you'll pay fees for the buying and selling, and usually dividends on the borrowed stock if they are paid while you hold the shares.
The guy buying from you hopes you're wrong and that the shares will actually go up.
The guy who's letting you borrow the shares is in a more complex situation. If the stock rises before you cover your position, then he makes money. If the stock does go down, it would have gone down anyway. He wasn't planning to sell it, or he wouldn't have let you borrow it. Therefore, if it really does go down he's no more hurt than otherwise. If it's going down for a while, he'll want you to cover quickly though so he can sell what he gets back before it falls more.
Well, it wouldn't effect the market, but it sure as hell could negatively effect the guy who's signed in and shorting Google without knowing it.
It's older than that. A specially crafted JPEG file used to smash the stack (or was it a buffer overrun ?) on a couple of DOS-based image viewing programs and execute arbitrary code.
angry sea bass: $55 each ... for everything else, there's MasterCard.
head-mounted lasers: $7500 each
giant aquarium: $37,499
Well, that trojan has a bug. When you sell short, you sell a stock then buy it. Yes, really.
That's what "short" means -- you don't have all the shares you need to cover the sale, so you're short. A "naked short" means you also don't have the funds set aside to buy and deliver the shares you sold or enough shares of the company in your portfolio to make up the difference.
The idea is that you sell at or just below the current price, expecting the stock to tank. Then you buy the shares before the agreed-upon transfer time for less than you're getting. Basically you're selling borrowed shares for more money than you're paying the guy you borrowed them from, if it works out as planned. If the stock goes up, you end up paying more for the shares than what you sold them for.
Theoretically there's a limit on what you can make and no limit on what you can lose. It's a useful tool in the market, though, if it's used correctly.
I know the explanation is overkill in response to your joke, but it seems many people do get confused with what the term means. I figured now was a teachable moment for people reading your post.
If the fab tech is the biggest issue, TSMC or Chartered would be a natural match. They do contract chip fab for everything from DRAM to CPUs, including the XBox CPUs and some AMD CPUs (Chartered) and some of AMD's ATI GPUs and chipsets (TSMC).
It'd make sense that if you're keeping your equipment busy making stuff for a customer, you'd want to keep that revenue. The best way to ensure that is to start making the same products for yourself.
Actually, buying a graphics and chipset vendor was a great idea. They just bought the wrong one. Via was the obvious choice, but probably wouldn't sell for what AMD could pay.
With Via they'd have gained S3 graphics, Via chipsets, and Via and Cyrix CPU tech, and Via's low-power CPU tech. That'd be a bigger win than when they bought NexGen.
If AMD does sell instead of coming back or folding, don't expect the FTC, the SEC, and the DoJ to allow Intel to be the buyer. IBM, perhaps. Via, too. Freescale, TI, Sun, Siemens, Fujitsu, Sony, or HP wouldn't be out of the question. Even Apple or SGI could make a strategic move to stave off Intel price increases that would surely happen if AMD were to fold.
Core Distro doesn't offer tech support and doesn't hold your hand, but it's a lean, mean, fast CLI Linux.
eComStation is an update to IBM's OS/2. It will run all the commercial OS/2 applications. There are ports of lots of BSD, GNU, and other open source software for it. That includes OpenOffice. It comes with Firefox and a Java system. It also runs Windows 3.1 software, and has a WINE-like clone of 32-bit Windows APIs that runs some applications for newer Windows versions.
eComStation runs on a Pentium 133 or a dual-core Athlon. The minimum RAM for a CD installer is 48MB, but the installed system will run with as little as 32MB, with 64MB a recommended minimum. It'll support up to 4GB. As little as 500MB of hard drive will store the system, with 1GB recommended for a full installation. You can get a 20GB drive dirt cheap these days. There's no Bluetooth support and not all hardware has drivers, but a well-supported machine with this runs like wild cheetahs.
At $259 per seat for a non-upgrade version, though, it's cheaper to build a bargain basement new PC and put a free OS on it. There's a free eComStation demo CD, but it requires 160MB of RAM as it's a live CD.
You can always try turning off any motherboard features you don't use in the BIOS, disabling keyboard and video checks, disabling the memory tests, and switching to whatever your systems call "fast POST" or "quick POST". That'll cut down on the hardware's portion of the boot time.
If multitasking is the reason for not using DOS and you're developing your own applications, there are a few multitasking libraries out there for DOS applications. The OS doesn't offer multitasking support, but it doesn't get in the way of it either. There are also a number of alternative DOS versions which offer everything from multitasking and multiple users to built-in memory extenders and support for filesystems other than FAT.
Well, if you're willing to give up some whiz-bang features you can browse with Dillo or Links. The newer Links variants have a graphical mode for those who can't stand downloading the pictures to see them. Either browser should be much faster than full-size ones.
I'd recommend links over lynx for a browser. It understands several newer HTML and CSS issues better and has JavaScript. With links, vim/joe/emacs/pico/nano (not getting into that war right now), screen, mutt, and a few other apps I don't really need X most of the time.
Maybe they've swallowed the Java Flavor-Aid saying that the OS doesn't matter as long as there's a Java system on it.
Actually, several languages do offer a chance at platform portability if you write the applications with care. Perl, Python, PHP, Lisp, Scheme, newLisp, JavaScript, HaXe, and maybe even Java really can have portable applications written in them. I'm sure there are more. I move Perl applications from Linux to OS X to FreeBSD to Windows all the time, and I move PHP and HaXe stuff from time to time.
Not all businesses are run with a gross income goal. Some are still concerned with the actual return per dollar invested. GM is a volume business, and they still sell quite a few more units than Ferrari. I'd rather be making a nice profit on fewer units than exposing myself to huge cost overruns that kill my company when the middle class isn't buying. There's my reasoning, complete with a car (sales and marketing) analogy.