In its 2007 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast a sea level rise of between 19 and 59 centimetres by 2100, but this excluded "future rapid dynamical changes in ice flow".
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If this trend continues, Rignot thinks sea level rise will exceed 1 metre by 2100. So understanding why Greenland and Antarctica are already losing ice faster than predicted is crucial to improving our predictions. The main reason for the increase is the speeding up of glaciers that drain the ice sheets into the sea.
If so, then it will also save emery for everyone, resulting in cheaper energy bills, as well as reducing carbon-dioxide emissions and associated costs.
Charging with normal household connectors is convenient but slow. But the EU has adopted a standard for charging electric cars. It is a 3 phase connector for 400 Volt and up to 63 Amps. The idea is that charging will be much faster. Also the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) has a group working on an international standard for an electric car connector.
Mozilla's Electrolysis project aims to change that. The first bootstrapping step was completed 15-July-2009.
"The Mozilla platform will use separate processes to display the browser UI, web content, and plugins. The working name for this project is Electrolysis. "
For a serious discussion about "An Inconvenient Truth" and judges ruling see this article att realclimate.org. Here is an excerpt from the article by Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann
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There are a number of points to be brought out here. First of all, "An Inconvenient Truth" was a movie and people expecting the same depth from a movie as from a scientific paper are setting an impossible standard. Secondly, the judge's characterisation of the 9 points is substantially flawed. He appears to have put words in Gore's mouth that would indeed have been wrong had they been said (but they weren't).
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Overall, our verdict is that the 9 points are not âoeerrorsâ at all (with possibly one unwise choice of tense on the island evacuation point).
You can override this manually, but why would anyone do that for other purposes than debugging...?
For at least two reasons, incompatibility between various browsers, or missing functionality in some browser. Firefox doesn't support SVG defined fonts yet, for example. Hopefully this is just a passing phase.
Yes rendering is done by Flash. But since Flash is installed in about 95% of computers that is not much of a problem. Not that I'm a big fan of Flash though.
As others have noted the placement of light bulbs are not ideal for heating, but this is basically true during the winter period when your house requires heating. At least if you have good thermometers in your electric radiators. But during approximately half of the year, when your house doesn't require heating, heat emitted by all electronic devices is pure waste. Also your house might be heated by something different than electric radiators and then the comparison gets more complicated. The production of electricity is itself somewhat wasteful, so using electricity, a high quality energy, just to heat your house is usually not ideal.
In a word, no. At least I have never seen a "hit piece" and I'm a daily reader. Of cause one man's fact might appear to be propaganda by someone else. A math example involving interest rate will just appear to be math to you and me, but someone from the Arab Wold might interpret it as propaganda. There might well have been a clearly labeled opinion piece published taking sides with "the industry", but the main newspaper is just factual. Here is a recent article containing an interview with a musician who is critical of "the industry" and copyright.
Why was this moderated flamebait? It's true. Here is a link to an article on DN.se, the larges daily newspaper in Sweden. And here is another one. The text is in Swedish though, so you might need to use google to translate.
Rather interestingly one the founders of the Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, registered a site for selling the drug GBL. GBL is converted by the body into GHB, sometimes referred to as "the date rape drug". Svartholm also registered a site for selling the drug Fenazepam. When asked about this he replied (roughly translated): "We register domains for customers who don't wish to be visible and we protect their anonymity".
SCI FI Pronounced 'sky fi' or 'si fi', an abbreviation for 'science fiction', said to have been introduced by Forrest J. Ackerman, a prominent fan fond of wordplay, in the 1950s, when the term 'hi-fi' was becoming popular. Never much used within the sf community, the term became very popular with journalists and media people generally, until by the 1970s it was the most common abbreviation used by non-readers of sf to refer to the genre, often with an implied sneer. Some critics within the genre, Terry Carr and Damon Knight among them, decided that, since the term was derogatory, it might be critically useful in distinguishing sf hackwork - particularly ill written, lurid adventure stories - from sf of a more intellectually demanding kind. Around 1978 the critic Susan Wood and others began pronouncing the term 'skiffy'. In 1980s-90s usage 'skiffy', which sounds friendlier than 'sci fi', has perhaps for that reason come to be less condemnatory. Skiffy is colourful, sometimes entertaining, junk. Star Wars is skiffy.
-- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2nd edn, 1993), ed. Clute and Nicholls
SF Pronounced "esseff", the preferred abbreviation of "science fiction" within the community of writers and readers, as opposed to the journalistic SCI FI. In this volume - as often elsewhere - it is rendered in lower-case letters.
-- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2nd edn, 1993), ed. Clute and Nicholls
Here is an entertaining discussion of the terms sf and sci-fi with Damon Knight and others.
Update: Mike Beltzner, Firefox product lead, clarifies that despite what the meeting notes may have suggested, the version bump is not a final decision at this point.
The somewhat inaccurately called "Y2k bug" that he is referring was a very specific bug, and has been discussed on slashdot before. Climate change skeptics were making a big thing about some tiny correcting to Nasa's tempatures. The changes effected the temperature curve for the US a tiny but, but was nearly completely negligible for the world. Here is is an article, and a blog entry about it.
LundstrÃm was convicted in 1986 for, together with a group skinheads,
beating up a Chilean man and threatening to tear the beard of an
American. Since 2008 he risks being charged for undeclared assets in
the Lichtenstein based bank LGT. You are right that these are separate
legal cases and that his political view are not on tial. However I do
think this is of interest for reader of Slashdot och users of TPB.
Slashdot Mirror
That New Scientist article is from 2007. Here is one from July 2009: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.300-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html?page=1 .
In its 2007 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast a sea level rise of between 19 and 59 centimetres by 2100, but this excluded "future rapid dynamical changes in ice flow".
If this trend continues, Rignot thinks sea level rise will exceed 1 metre by 2100. So understanding why Greenland and Antarctica are already losing ice faster than predicted is crucial to improving our predictions. The main reason for the increase is the speeding up of glaciers that drain the ice sheets into the sea.
It would have been more useful to cover new features and things that would interest the end-user.
Here you go. It's for beta 1, so it's a bit old though.
If so, then it will also save emery for everyone, resulting in cheaper energy bills, as well as reducing carbon-dioxide emissions and associated costs.
Charging with normal household connectors is convenient but slow. But the EU has adopted a standard for charging electric cars. It is a 3 phase connector for 400 Volt and up to 63 Amps. The idea is that charging will be much faster. Also the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) has a group working on an international standard for an electric car connector.
Mozilla's Electrolysis project aims to change that. The first bootstrapping step was completed 15-July-2009.
"The Mozilla platform will use separate processes to display the browser UI, web content, and plugins. The working name for this project is Electrolysis. "
For a serious discussion about "An Inconvenient Truth" and judges ruling see this article att realclimate.org. Here is an excerpt from the article by Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann
:
There are a number of points to be brought out here. First of all, "An Inconvenient Truth" was a movie and people expecting the same depth from a movie as from a scientific paper are setting an impossible standard. Secondly, the judge's characterisation of the 9 points is substantially flawed. He appears to have put words in Gore's mouth that would indeed have been wrong had they been said (but they weren't).
Overall, our verdict is that the 9 points are not âoeerrorsâ at all (with possibly one unwise choice of tense on the island evacuation point).
You can override this manually, but why would anyone do that for other purposes than debugging...?
For at least two reasons, incompatibility between various browsers, or missing functionality in some browser. Firefox doesn't support SVG defined fonts yet, for example. Hopefully this is just a passing phase.
Yes rendering is done by Flash. But since Flash is installed in about 95% of computers that is not much of a problem. Not that I'm a big fan of Flash though.
For those curious about judge Jackson decision you can read his findings of facts here.
Furthermore LTE is not expected to be 4G That is in the realm of LTE-Advanced
Yes, but LTE Advanced might turn out to be just a software upgrade of the LTE networks.
As others have noted the placement of light bulbs are not ideal for heating, but this is basically true during the winter period when your house requires heating. At least if you have good thermometers in your electric radiators. But during approximately half of the year, when your house doesn't require heating, heat emitted by all electronic devices is pure waste. Also your house might be heated by something different than electric radiators and then the comparison gets more complicated. The production of electricity is itself somewhat wasteful, so using electricity, a high quality energy, just to heat your house is usually not ideal.
but it definitely isn't the only or best one in long term.
Unless we go with breeder reactors, I don't even think you can call it a long term option since there is a limited amount of uranium.
Seam does appear to be much nicer than Spring, with state management och avoidance of XML configuration, etc. But what does Guice bring to the table?
IMDB has a movie based on the novel High Rise listed as coming out in 2011.
Excellent post.
In a word, no. At least I have never seen a "hit piece" and I'm a daily reader. Of cause one man's fact might appear to be propaganda by someone else. A math example involving interest rate will just appear to be math to you and me, but someone from the Arab Wold might interpret it as propaganda. There might well have been a clearly labeled opinion piece published taking sides with "the industry", but the main newspaper is just factual. Here is a recent article containing an interview with a musician who is critical of "the industry" and copyright.
Not in my opinion, and I'm a subscriber. Here is the Wikipedia article on the paper.
Why was this moderated flamebait? It's true. Here is a link to an article on DN.se, the larges daily newspaper in Sweden. And here is another one. The text is in Swedish though, so you might need to use google to translate.
Rather interestingly one the founders of the Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, registered a site for selling the drug GBL. GBL is converted by the body into GHB, sometimes referred to as "the date rape drug". Svartholm also registered a site for selling the drug Fenazepam. When asked about this he replied (roughly translated): "We register domains for customers who don't wish to be visible and we protect their anonymity".
SCI FI Pronounced 'sky fi' or 'si fi', an abbreviation for 'science fiction', said to have been introduced by Forrest J. Ackerman, a prominent fan fond of wordplay, in the 1950s, when the term 'hi-fi' was becoming popular. Never much used within the sf community, the term became very popular with journalists and media people generally, until by the 1970s it was the most common abbreviation used by non-readers of sf to refer to the genre, often with an implied sneer. Some critics within the genre, Terry Carr and Damon Knight among them, decided that, since the term was derogatory, it might be critically useful in distinguishing sf hackwork - particularly ill written, lurid adventure stories - from sf of a more intellectually demanding kind. Around 1978 the critic Susan Wood and others began pronouncing the term 'skiffy'. In 1980s-90s usage 'skiffy', which sounds friendlier than 'sci fi', has perhaps for that reason come to be less condemnatory. Skiffy is colourful, sometimes entertaining, junk. Star Wars is skiffy.
-- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2nd edn, 1993), ed. Clute and Nicholls
SF Pronounced "esseff", the preferred abbreviation of "science fiction" within the community of writers and readers, as opposed to the journalistic SCI FI. In this volume - as often elsewhere - it is rendered in lower-case letters.
-- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2nd edn, 1993), ed. Clute and Nicholls
Here is an entertaining discussion of the terms sf and sci-fi with Damon Knight and others.
Update: Mike Beltzner, Firefox product lead, clarifies that despite what the meeting notes may have suggested, the version bump is not a final decision at this point.
The next Firefox release will be called 3.5 not 3.1 according to Mozillalinks.
The somewhat inaccurately called "Y2k bug" that he is referring was a very specific bug, and has been discussed on slashdot before. Climate change skeptics were making a big thing about some tiny correcting to Nasa's tempatures. The changes effected the temperature curve for the US a tiny but, but was nearly completely negligible for the world. Here is is an article, and a blog entry about it.
You are either a troll or missing the point. They BSS was a racist organization, with slogans about people with African heritage that I won't repeat.
LundstrÃm was convicted in 1986 for, together with a group skinheads, beating up a Chilean man and threatening to tear the beard of an American. Since 2008 he risks being charged for undeclared assets in the Lichtenstein based bank LGT. You are right that these are separate legal cases and that his political view are not on tial. However I do think this is of interest for reader of Slashdot och users of TPB.