Why does the President need a bigger plane, anyway?
Why, so that we can appreciate the magnificence of the federal government of the USA, of course. It takes a 747 to contain a sufficient quantity of underlings and sycophants to enable the president to believe that he's capable of ruling the world.
A mature ecosystem, like an old-growth forest, is in equilibrium - the carbon absorbed by the growing plants is balanced by that released by the dead, decaying ones.
Not quite. You're leaving out the effect of accumulation of soil, which consists in large part of organic matter from those dead trees as well as other plants and the organisms that feed on them. Soil accumulates over time, and a lot of it is carbon compounds.
Plants consume CO2 during the day, and release CO2 at night, in a process called respiration.
They are truly carbon neutral : )
Nope. They don't release as much as they take in. The carbon they absorb from the air gets combined with water and nitrogen and ends up as sugars and proteins.
I've been signing off my posts on all manner of forums since around 1982. Sometime last year, a couple of kids on digg suddenly decided to get bent out of shape about it, and I've never been one to comply with arbitrary demands. Go cope.
The best and the worst keyboards I ever used were both around that time. The PCjr's chicklets were the worst. The best was on an HP 9840 terminal. These days, I'm using a NeXT ADB keyboard, which is my all-time favorite for key layout, and second best for quality of the keyswitches.
One of these years, I'm going to see how much of a market there is for the ultimate keyboard: ebony keys, switches that will last for decades, proper steel springs...
I realize that Apple going more mainstream would mean that Apple would no longer be "cool" or "hip"
More like, Apple going more "mainstream" would mean that they'd be selling really crappy products and trying to live on unsustainably narrow profit margins. Microsoft make the lion's share of the profit in the PC business, not the Dells and Gateways of the world.
The billions of dollars spent on the security theater we put up with at airports would buy a hell of a lot of good old-fashioned counterintelligence work, infiltrating organizations that mean to do us harm. The idea that a perp won't go through with an attack if you just suck down a couple more terabytes of data and feel up every woman in the security line is nothing but fantasy.
A couple of years after having a tooth extracted, a new one came in, and his dentist was going over his older x-rays to make sure that the tooth coming in hadn't been there all along. Apparently it's a very rare thing, but not completely unheard of, and we all grow teeth at least once in our lives.
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Why does the President need a bigger plane, anyway?
Why, so that we can appreciate the magnificence of the federal government of the USA, of course. It takes a 747 to contain a sufficient quantity of underlings and sycophants to enable the president to believe that he's capable of ruling the world.
-jcr
A mature ecosystem, like an old-growth forest, is in equilibrium - the carbon absorbed by the growing plants is balanced by that released by the dead, decaying ones.
Not quite. You're leaving out the effect of accumulation of soil, which consists in large part of organic matter from those dead trees as well as other plants and the organisms that feed on them. Soil accumulates over time, and a lot of it is carbon compounds.
-jcr
If I'd known that a low UID was going to have some significance someday, I wouldn't have spent my first year on /. posting AC.
-jcr
Nah, it was all downhill after DOS 2.0
-jcr
I'll tell him to get the hell off my lawn, too.
-jcr
Interestingly, Japanese Mac keyboards still use that very layout.
Yeah, I've got one of those around here somewhere. I prefer my NeXT keyboard because of the command bar, though.
-jcr
Pre-historic hunter-gatherers caused the extinction of thousands of species and, for example, all the mega-fauna in the Americas.
They also routinely set fires in forests and grasslands. As it turns out, that's not a bad idea if you want healthy forests or prairies.
-jcr
Plants consume CO2 during the day, and release CO2 at night, in a process called respiration.
They are truly carbon neutral : )
Nope. They don't release as much as they take in. The carbon they absorb from the air gets combined with water and nitrogen and ends up as sugars and proteins.
-jcr
When did CO2, which is an absolute necessity for the foliage that covers this planet, become a pollutant?
When Al Gore found it convenient to do so.
-jcr
Newb,
I've been signing off my posts on all manner of forums since around 1982. Sometime last year, a couple of kids on digg suddenly decided to get bent out of shape about it, and I've never been one to comply with arbitrary demands. Go cope.
-jcr
Were you trying to make some kind of point, or just tossing out a non-sequitur for fun?
-jcr
I second the HP terminal keyboard as one of the best ever.
Back when a keyboard cost upwards of a grand, they could really afford to pull out all the stops, quality-wise.
-jcr
The best and the worst keyboards I ever used were both around that time. The PCjr's chicklets were the worst. The best was on an HP 9840 terminal. These days, I'm using a NeXT ADB keyboard, which is my all-time favorite for key layout, and second best for quality of the keyswitches.
One of these years, I'm going to see how much of a market there is for the ultimate keyboard: ebony keys, switches that will last for decades, proper steel springs...
-jcr
If it weren't for his grating voice, they could sell that video as a sleep aid.
-jcr
Why in the hell do all the keyboards made today have the caps lock key where the control key belongs?
-jcr
I realize that Apple going more mainstream would mean that Apple would no longer be "cool" or "hip"
More like, Apple going more "mainstream" would mean that they'd be selling really crappy products and trying to live on unsustainably narrow profit margins. Microsoft make the lion's share of the profit in the PC business, not the Dells and Gateways of the world.
-jcr
But a less charismatic person could make different decisions that get Apple way more into the main stream.
Like Dell or Gateway?
No, thanks.
-jcr
The billions of dollars spent on the security theater we put up with at airports would buy a hell of a lot of good old-fashioned counterintelligence work, infiltrating organizations that mean to do us harm. The idea that a perp won't go through with an attack if you just suck down a couple more terabytes of data and feel up every woman in the security line is nothing but fantasy.
-jcr
Oops, wrong link. Here it is from Apple's support pages.
-jcr
I might have to do it, I'm out of iTunes installs, and can't deauthorize anything since all those computers are dead/recycled.
Yes you can.
IIRC, you can only do this once a year or so.
-jcr
was really hoping to see an updated Mac Mini.
I'm sure you will, but it's not surprising that it's not exciting enough for the MWSF keynote. Probably just a CPU/GPU/Memory/Disk upgrade.
-jcr
Was this posted by a python script that generates paranoid fantasies?
-jcr
Most people grow them twice! :)
No, you usually grow them once. After that, it's just a matter of them moving into place.
-jcr
A couple of years after having a tooth extracted, a new one came in, and his dentist was going over his older x-rays to make sure that the tooth coming in hadn't been there all along. Apparently it's a very rare thing, but not completely unheard of, and we all grow teeth at least once in our lives.
-jcr
Slowing down everybody's code by checking every array access is not better that requiring programmers to be disciplined.
Subscribe to Bugtraq for a couple of years, and see if you still believe that.
-jcr