I believe we consume 20% of the fuel and provide 25% of the economy. That's quite efficient. For a place like the PRC which produces only $1 for every $7 produced in the US on the same quantity of fuel, we should be working very hard to get their efficiency up instead of hadnicapping efficient producers in the US and shipping more work over to the PRC. Yeah, lets ignore Purchasing Power Parity, not to mention all other problems with using GDP as a measure for economy - like pretending that increased government spending equals economic growth for example.
US Citizens paid for it, US citizens own the data, and if global warming is happening, it affects ALL of us. We should have unfettered access to the raw data and all algorithms used to reach their conclusions. Errm, sorry, but why then should a Canadian get the right to complain he doesn't get access to the data (whether true or not)?
Can we let the Mars thing drop? It's totally irrelevant.
Right so a planet near earth and earth both have rising temperatures. They have the same sun, the same solar winds and about the same exposure to gamma burst... Completely irrelevant..
Well, the temperature on Earth has been rising for over a century - what are your results for Mars in that timeframe?
Actually, the real problem here is why isn't Slashdot up in arms about closed sourced climate modeling and data correction algorithms? Sorry, couldn't resist.
Maybe because this has nothing to do with climate modeling?
The USA is the top emitter of Greenhouse gasses. We will soon be surpassed by China, but China has 4x the population of the USA, so the USA is still 4x China on a per-capita basis. Of course that doesn't even acknowledge that some of the CO2 China produces comes from making stuff that gets exported to and was previously made in - the US.
That fact that temperatures back then were so close to what they are now still convinces me to doubt Global Warming's extreme danger on this planet. You are comparing two years, 1934 and 1998, to get this conclusion. Why not use two not so different years, 1935 and 1999? What? Because then you'ld have 0.89C difference instead of 0.02C? Now that would be unfair.
But 5 of the 10 hottest years of the last century (in the US at least) were before WW2, right? So how many of the 10 coldest years of the were before WW2? 8? That can't be true.
If you can read or see a bunch of Shakespeare's works and get nothing relevant or educational out of them, you probably live in a small, opaque metal box with breathing holes and no possibility of human contact. Fictional works in general can be extremely educational, and very much relevant to life. Their value doesn't simply come from the accuracy of the science, that's really not the point. The question isn't what you can learn from Shakespear, but what you should not learn from him.
In the Stargate series they expanded the god names from just Egyptian ones.
Names like Odin, Thor and Loki should be a dead giveaway. Actually, in the movie there was only one "god" mentioned at all - and Ra was assumed to be the only (or rather last) one, just like it was thought there was only one Stargate apart from the one on Earth.
Did you even read the link? In it, the findings indicate that cirrus clouds behave in the opposite manner as they are modeled.
Ermm, no that's false. What the link says it there would be less cirrus clouds, not more as is supposedly the " widely accepted (albeit unproven) theory". However, why this is supposed to be news is a mystery to me, that was already known 6 years ago: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_10_ 159/ai_71843754 Note that it was brought forward by none less than Richard S. Lindzen then.
Would you please find a reference that todays models don't yet take this into effect? And don't try one of the sources that pretend this is "news".
"if you'd bothered to follow the news, happen to search for new data for verifying the models"
ahem, didn't we just go through this today, with proof that the current accepted models had a y2k bug, and that 1998 AREN't the hottest years on record, but the 1930's are? i suggest you stop talking about models right now good sir.
First of all, that "proof" had nothing to do with any prediction model, but with a switch between two differnt sets of meassured temperature data.
Second, that's only for US temperatures, not global.
Third, while 1934 now is seen as the hottest year of the last century in the US> , it was only warmer by 0.02C than 1998 - way within the margin of error. Globally it was colder more than 0.6C - way outside margin of error.
That's great. What I want to know though is, how much energy does it take to produce the liquid hydrogen. That's the real key here. I want to know if there's any real net energy savings by using this. There's a lot more too it than simply how far your car goes per kg. Odd thing you don't want to know how much energy it costs to get the CO2 back out of the atmosphere that your oil-burning car produces.
If there are no capitalists in a nation you can change the laws all you want. But people will still highly prefer to trust their income to their employer or to the government. There are always "capitalists" in a nation - where else would corruption and criminality (for money) come from?
Looks like to me it only supports old creative players (the Rio brand has been discontinued). So iTunes does sync with some mp3 players but if you were to buy a new MP3 player today it shouldn't work (according to the list) "Date Modified: September 26, 2005"
Anyway, select songs (even from an intelligent playlist that limits storage size) and drag to mounted player. How much easier can it get - apart from using an iPod?
Yeah, but not unconditionally surrender. Blah-blah. Why do you guys keep ignoring that there was one change made to the conditions of the surrender? Just about the only one the Japanese insisted upon?
Like he says, the iPhone is a cool toy, but how exactly has it revolutionized the cell phone world? That's right, it hasn't. Sure, but then neither has any other phone in the last 20 years.
Now will Apple disable "Open Safe Files after Downloading" in Safari, or at the very least stop treating SOFTWARE INSTALLERS, ZIP ARCHIVES, and DISK IMAGES as "Safe" files? OK, this isn't a Mack Truck sized hole like ActiveX (you can only drive *small* trucks through it) but it's still vastly dumb. So what exactly does "Open Safe Files after Downloading" have to do with this?
I'm not opposed to temporarily disabling functionality to fix something potentially disastorous. However, I do hope Apple doesn't make it a practice of just turning things off once exploits are found. Turn it off, patch it, then re-enable it is fine by me. The power of Open Source: go write the patch yourself. http://developer.apple.com/opensource/internet/bon jour.html
Slashdot keeps everyone from reposting too often by checking IP-addresses, I think. So in order to accomplish this, the troll has to have control of a number of machines (not behind the same NAT, either!) equal to the number of posts in the sequence.
Impressive - but unless they were iPhones, it is off-topic;-)
And yet, you're not forced to send it to Apple for replacement. So obviously Apple isn't blocking third-parties from selling products and services for their gadgets.
That's laughable and you know it. Good luck getting your iPod repaired or replaced under warranty when its nicely obvious, due to the ding or otherwise, or, y'know, the third party battery that's in it.
So why would this happen? Why would anybody replace their iPod battery with a third party one when it's still under warranty? That is laughable, and you know it.
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Right so a planet near earth and earth both have rising temperatures. They have the same sun, the same solar winds and about the same exposure to gamma burst... Completely irrelevant..
Well, the temperature on Earth has been rising for over a century - what are your results for Mars in that timeframe?Actually, the real problem here is why isn't Slashdot up in arms about closed sourced climate modeling and data correction algorithms? Sorry, couldn't resist.
Maybe because this has nothing to do with climate modeling?But 5 of the 10 hottest years of the last century (in the US at least) were before WW2, right? So how many of the 10 coldest years of the were before WW2? 8? That can't be true.
Names like Odin, Thor and Loki should be a dead giveaway.
Actually, in the movie there was only one "god" mentioned at all - and Ra was assumed to be the only (or rather last) one, just like it was thought there was only one Stargate apart from the one on Earth.
And the "Norse gods" are all Asgard.
Mira Romain was more into Scotty anyway.
Ermm, no that's false. What the link says it there would be less cirrus clouds, not more as is supposedly the " widely accepted (albeit unproven) theory". However, why this is supposed to be news is a mystery to me, that was already known 6 years ago: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_10_ 159/ai_71843754 Note that it was brought forward by none less than Richard S. Lindzen then.
Would you please find a reference that todays models don't yet take this into effect? And don't try one of the sources that pretend this is "news".
ahem, didn't we just go through this today, with proof that the current accepted models had a y2k bug, and that 1998 AREN't the hottest years on record, but the 1930's are? i suggest you stop talking about models right now good sir.
First of all, that "proof" had nothing to do with any prediction model, but with a switch between two differnt sets of meassured temperature data.Second, that's only for US temperatures, not global.
Third, while 1934 now is seen as the hottest year of the last century in the US> , it was only warmer by 0.02C than 1998 - way within the margin of error. Globally it was colder more than 0.6C - way outside margin of error.
"or if your TV doesn't have an HDMI port, you can connect to Apple TV via component video and audio."
Anyway, select songs (even from an intelligent playlist that limits storage size) and drag to mounted player. How much easier can it get - apart from using an iPod?
Sure they do, but how many do on the Mac?
Try: It doesn't need replacing this year and replacing it will cost.
Slashdot keeps everyone from reposting too often by checking IP-addresses, I think. So in order to accomplish this, the troll has to have control of a number of machines (not behind the same NAT, either!) equal to the number of posts in the sequence.
Impressive - but unless they were iPhones, it is off-topicNot to mention that some people just love to open and close battery covers out of boredom until it breaks and has to be taped back on.
That's laughable and you know it. Good luck getting your iPod repaired or replaced under warranty when its nicely obvious, due to the ding or otherwise, or, y'know, the third party battery that's in it.
So why would this happen? Why would anybody replace their iPod battery with a third party one when it's still under warranty? That is laughable, and you know it.So your argument is that the average American consumer is stupid. Maybe Apple should also tell them not to feed the iPhone to their pet hampster.