First melting permafrost is a huge problem. Whole landscapes will change. Large trees that have been growing for centuries will simply fall down. Cities built on permafrost will end up in a marsh.
Please elaborate:
1) Which large trees actually grow where there is permafrost? (stolen from wikipedia: The word "tundra" usually refers only to the areas where the subsoil is permafrost, or permanently frozen soil. The term "tundra" comes from Kildin Sami tndâr 'uplands, tundra, treeless mountain tract'. )
isn't is conceivable that the fact we're burning so much stuff, and putting out so much heat is a factor in global warming?
No it's not conceivable. The earth gets hit by far more heat from the sun than anything we could produce. And the earth seems to have NO trouble radiating all that solar heat away. What's a dozen or so Joules of heat/m3, compared to the over 1000 Joules/m3 the earth gets every second from the sun?
Hey we're talking 510,065,600 km of surface area here - each km2 is 1 million square meters. So let's pretend we add 1 joule/m2 (one THOUSANDTH of what the earth gets from the sun every second). That's 510,065,600 million joules every second, or 510,065,600 MEGAWATTS. That's a lot of energy...
Um can we humans really produce enough energy to even heat the earth one thousandth of what the sun can do? And is a 0.1% increase in heat enough to send the earth into an apocalyptic heat spiral? I doubt that very much.
Funny, I thought "salchicha" was Spanish for sausage, and chorizo was a special type of sausage...
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with hardware stated to work with Vista by the manufacturer.
Not only do you not read the article, it seems you don't read people's posts either. Why do you bother then?
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linux... it is almost certain to run on the next. Unless it's 15 year old hardware.
I'd say "especially" if it's 15 year old hardware;)
I wonder what Microsoft has to say about "Total Cost of Ownership" now...
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Honestly, who does an OS upgrade and not check for hardware compatibility?
If you RTFA, you'll see that he a) used a Microsoft app that checks your system for Vista compatibility before installing; b) replaced his incompatible hardware before the install with hardware stated to work with Vista by the manufacturer.
Short of having someone lend him the hardware to try it out with Vista, I don't really see what else he could have done to avoid problems...
I guess nowadays you are supposed to do everything with ICs.
That's sort of the whole point of technology and progress, isn't it? I mean I guess they COULD sell a kit that ran with a water-wheel and belts but it's just so out of fashion now;)
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Once it becomes software, you can transfer this DATA. Once you are there, human minds can travel via laser transmissions at the speed of light
Sorry to rain on your parade, but that would be a violation of the DMCA. You ain't going nowhere;)
OK, there's no doubt that Turner is pretty incompetent for not fixing this hole with a patch that's been out for most of a year.
Personally I'm surprised that he hasn't broadcast it on the news as a terrorist attack and recruited the Boston police and bomb squad to deal with this threat...
I have to wonder how much of it is simply astroturfing by disgruntled former employees?
Work for Symantec, do you?
I'm not a symantec employee. Their programs have the following annoying features: 1) Bloat 2) they don't necessarily protect your PC as advertised 3) the popups are designed to make you feel the program is doing its job however the program is only mediocre at doing its job - the "firewall" is a JOKE 4) it's IMPOSSIBLE for the average user to uninstall that program completely - despite activating an icon called "uninstall" 5) Heaven forbid you have to reinstall because your activation key is toast, and because you must be a dirty pirate, you're not getting another one. Unless you want to pay $50 again 6) did I mention bloat? the program is huge, slow, clunky but not only that, it does NOT behave well and affects the whole system. I've had windows throw many exceptions with Norton running, and none when it's (completely) uninstalled and the best: 7) they got into bed with Dell and managed to slow down tens of thousands of PC's right from the factory floor. Just think of all those wasted CPU cycles...
Hmm, but heaven forget anyone say anything "bad" about Norton. You know, the big anti-virus software co's (Norton, McCaffee, etc)used to be GREAT - before Windows 95... nowadays you can find much better on the internet, for less (and even free).
Researchers have found that depressed people performed poorly on the video game compared, suggesting that their hippocampi (where spatial memory is based) were not working properly."
Hello??? People with depression perform poorly at JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING. I call BS...
I feel that I must point out that the quality of the music distributed by your members has sunk to such depths that if I have to listen to any more of it, I might just gnaw my own leg off in desperation. Of course such a situation would be grounds for an inmediate lawsuit by myself against your members for the sum of $3,000,000 US. I ask that you kindly desist from producing such self-mutilation inspiring music and, failing that, I am willing to settle for ten percent ($300,000 US) in advance in order not to pursue the lawsuit in the event of my loss of a leg. Thank you.
it's probably still along the same lines the old indicator of a murderer killing and mistreating animals as a boy.
Please provide links to prospective clinical studies that prove this?
That claim is a neat chunk of misinformation possibly of the same magnitude as Linus Pauling's (completely false) claim 30 years ago that Vitamin C cures the common cold...
MOST children are cruel to/kill animals in their childhood. Not all of them turn out to be anti-socials.
a lack of ethical concerns here on subjects like these.
Don't worry, the pigeons have all signed informed consent forms - see the peck-marks? Our lawyers also told them that eating the birdseed we provided implied their agreement to the experiment. And they ate it.
The chinese opened their heads and stuck wires into them. NO big deal and nothing really scientific.
Right, I mean, I read your articles about how the pigeon brain works. This was a totally unneccesary experiment, since we had that knowledge already. Why do we need more "proof"?
If I'd be in charge these scientists would lose their funding, their job and their accreditation all at once
I wouldn't be so fast to cut the funding of a group who can control animals remotely. Have you never seen the movie "The Birds"? Maybe one morning you'll be pecked to death by 2000 angry pigeons...
not very far from what the Nazi KZ Doctors did to the people captured in the camps
Umm, sticking electrodes into the brains of birds, with proper aseptic and anaesthetic techniques (after all, you want a functional bird at the end of it in order to get useful data), is not quite the same as dunking people in ice water just to see how long the average survival time is...
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Current human energy consumption is about 13 terawatt-years per year
510,065,600 MW = 510,065 GW = 510 Terawatts, uhh, we're not there yet... not counting the fact that we're assuming ALL of it turns to heat.
First melting permafrost is a huge problem. Whole landscapes will change. Large trees that have been growing for centuries will simply fall down. Cities built on permafrost will end up in a marsh.
Please elaborate:
1) Which large trees actually grow where there is permafrost? (stolen from wikipedia: The word "tundra" usually refers only to the areas where the subsoil is permafrost, or permanently frozen soil. The term "tundra" comes from Kildin Sami tndâr 'uplands, tundra, treeless mountain tract'. )
2) How many "cities" are built on permafrost?
Have you actually BEEN to northern Canada?
After we're done dealing with Islam, it's gonna be the eco-terrorists' turn.
Judging by the way you're "dealing" with Islam, the "eco-terrorists" have nothing to fear, then...
Gaia is in menopause and is experiencing hot flushes. Give old Mother Earth a break...
Gaia is a MILF.... (Mother I'd Like to Farm?)
It's like saying "every time I pee, I make the oceans bigger".
And forgetting the quintessential "every time I drink, I make the oceans smaller"...
isn't is conceivable that the fact we're burning so much stuff, and putting out so much heat is a factor in global warming?
No it's not conceivable. The earth gets hit by far more heat from the sun than anything we could produce. And the earth seems to have NO trouble radiating all that solar heat away. What's a dozen or so Joules of heat/m3, compared to the over 1000 Joules/m3 the earth gets every second from the sun?
Hey we're talking 510,065,600 km of surface area here - each km2 is 1 million square meters. So let's pretend we add 1 joule/m2 (one THOUSANDTH of what the earth gets from the sun every second). That's 510,065,600 million joules every second, or 510,065,600 MEGAWATTS. That's a lot of energy...
Um can we humans really produce enough energy to even heat the earth one thousandth of what the sun can do? And is a 0.1% increase in heat enough to send the earth into an apocalyptic heat spiral? I doubt that very much.
The music industry are the MacDonalds of music, pretending junk music is the only music there is.
Lol. Britney Spears herself is proof that this "junk music" causes obesity...
Chorizo is Spanish for Sausage.
Funny, I thought "salchicha" was Spanish for sausage, and chorizo was a special type of sausage...
with hardware stated to work with Vista by the manufacturer.
Not only do you not read the article, it seems you don't read people's posts either. Why do you bother then?
linux... it is almost certain to run on the next. Unless it's 15 year old hardware.
;)
I'd say "especially" if it's 15 year old hardware
I wonder what Microsoft has to say about "Total Cost of Ownership" now...
Honestly, who does an OS upgrade and not check for hardware compatibility?
If you RTFA, you'll see that he a) used a Microsoft app that checks your system for Vista compatibility before installing; b) replaced his incompatible hardware before the install with hardware stated to work with Vista by the manufacturer.
Short of having someone lend him the hardware to try it out with Vista, I don't really see what else he could have done to avoid problems...
I guess nowadays you are supposed to do everything with ICs.
;)
That's sort of the whole point of technology and progress, isn't it? I mean I guess they COULD sell a kit that ran with a water-wheel and belts but it's just so out of fashion now
Once it becomes software, you can transfer this DATA. Once you are there, human minds can travel via laser transmissions at the speed of light
;)
Sorry to rain on your parade, but that would be a violation of the DMCA. You ain't going nowhere
anyone can answer shakespears ultimate question with 0xFF
;-)
I don't get it. What does End of File have to do with anything? To be, or not to be - end of file. Sounds lame and makes for a rather short play
OK, there's no doubt that Turner is pretty incompetent for not fixing this hole with a patch that's been out for most of a year.
Personally I'm surprised that he hasn't broadcast it on the news as a terrorist attack and recruited the Boston police and bomb squad to deal with this threat...
I have to wonder how much of it is simply astroturfing by disgruntled former employees?
Work for Symantec, do you?
I'm not a symantec employee. Their programs have the following annoying features:
1) Bloat
2) they don't necessarily protect your PC as advertised
3) the popups are designed to make you feel the program is doing its job however the program is only mediocre at doing its job - the "firewall" is a JOKE
4) it's IMPOSSIBLE for the average user to uninstall that program completely - despite activating an icon called "uninstall"
5) Heaven forbid you have to reinstall because your activation key is toast, and because you must be a dirty pirate, you're not getting another one. Unless you want to pay $50 again
6) did I mention bloat? the program is huge, slow, clunky but not only that, it does NOT behave well and affects the whole system. I've had windows throw many exceptions with Norton running, and none when it's (completely) uninstalled and the best:
7) they got into bed with Dell and managed to slow down tens of thousands of PC's right from the factory floor. Just think of all those wasted CPU cycles...
Hmm, but heaven forget anyone say anything "bad" about Norton. You know, the big anti-virus software co's (Norton, McCaffee, etc)used to be GREAT - before Windows 95... nowadays you can find much better on the internet, for less (and even free).
I'm damn good at it and I would consider my spacial thinking skills to be above average.
:-)
Says the Devil's advocate: Ahh, but just think how good you would be if you weren't depressed!
Ha ha. You just posted on Slashdot proving you're clueless.
Then I guess that makes three of us?
That's because in space, nobody can hear you scream.
But look on the bright side: In space, you can't hear anybody scream...
Researchers have found that depressed people performed poorly on the video game compared, suggesting that their hippocampi (where spatial memory is based) were not working properly."
Hello??? People with depression perform poorly at JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING. I call BS...
Dear RIAA,
I feel that I must point out that the quality of the music distributed by your members has sunk to such depths that if I have to listen to any more of it, I might just gnaw my own leg off in desperation. Of course such a situation would be grounds for an inmediate lawsuit by myself against your members for the sum of $3,000,000 US. I ask that you kindly desist from producing such self-mutilation inspiring music and, failing that, I am willing to settle for ten percent ($300,000 US) in advance in order not to pursue the lawsuit in the event of my loss of a leg. Thank you.
Sincerely...
[Graphene....]nanometer-scale silicon lasers... Our current tech will look like molasses when these are coupled.
Just wait till you see what happens when they start adding the sharks...
it's probably still along the same lines the old indicator of a murderer killing and mistreating animals as a boy.
Please provide links to prospective clinical studies that prove this?
That claim is a neat chunk of misinformation possibly of the same magnitude as Linus Pauling's (completely false) claim 30 years ago that Vitamin C cures the common cold...
MOST children are cruel to/kill animals in their childhood. Not all of them turn out to be anti-socials.
a lack of ethical concerns here on subjects like these.
Don't worry, the pigeons have all signed informed consent forms - see the peck-marks? Our lawyers also told them that eating the birdseed we provided implied their agreement to the experiment. And they ate it.
The chinese opened their heads and stuck wires into them. NO big deal and nothing really scientific.
Right, I mean, I read your articles about how the pigeon brain works. This was a totally unneccesary experiment, since we had that knowledge already. Why do we need more "proof"?
If I'd be in charge these scientists would lose their funding, their job and their accreditation all at once
I wouldn't be so fast to cut the funding of a group who can control animals remotely. Have you never seen the movie "The Birds"? Maybe one morning you'll be pecked to death by 2000 angry pigeons...
not very far from what the Nazi KZ Doctors did to the people captured in the camps
Umm, sticking electrodes into the brains of birds, with proper aseptic and anaesthetic techniques (after all, you want a functional bird at the end of it in order to get useful data), is not quite the same as dunking people in ice water just to see how long the average survival time is...
of course, we took major hits at the stockmarket, but hey
I sold short, you insensitive clod!