I mean the esteemed and brilliant Al Gore did leave out the fact that the rise in CO2 follows temperature change by 8 centuries, but it is a minor over sight, it is just 800 years, not long at all !
Read "Limits to Growth" by some of the school children from the Club of Rome for a look at your future.
Well all the virtual hosting went full gear after XP was made, so you cannot really expect them to include support for something in XP that was not in use at the time.
Virtual server hosting didn't take off til the last few years.
M$ could patch it into IE, but you can just load Firefox 2.0 or newer and it works.
Microsoft impedes liberty and uses monopoly business practices.
It was proven repeatedly in the DOJ cases here in the US even thou they tried to buy a different result.
The same and additional evidence was presented in Europe and the results were the same.
So even from a legal standpoint of corrupt and paid off governments Microsoft is too corrupt and monopolistic to be allowed to continue as they have in the past.
The facts are simple if you merely read the case info.
Once we get to L5 position we can build a space station that doesn't need boosts back into higher orbit like ISS.
Form there we can use robots to collect all the space junk in orbit and we can recycle what is usable or de-orbit it into the pacific like what was done with Skylab.
Once at L5 we can build a star ship hopefully with Fusion power system or something better that we have yet to discover or has not been yet released by the governments of the world.
Ion drive would be one system, beyond that I do not know.
Fuel propellants is not really practical over the long haul.
It would be best to man the starship as much as possible with robots to cut down on the need for O2, food, medical care, etc.
If we need to get materials up there we can railgun them from the high balloon platform or have solar powered robots similar to the pathfinder series mine them on the moon.
mining the moon is not popular with all crowds so it may just come from earth to save the bickering.
Ballooning and rocketing more than 200,000 ppl per day would be a herculean task, and until we had a colony to sustain them not very viable.
Also to be honest at some point it is going to be hard to beat a robot at physical labor in a harsh environment.
The early colonies in space will be best served by very durable robots that at some point have the ability to repair robots like them.
The moon is the best 1st colony because it is close, and emergencies can be dealt with all 12 months of the year.
With mars you get an approach vector to that planet MUCH less often and thus you are on your own if something goes wrong.
They would also need the ability to gather raw materials and make more robots ( que terminator fears here )
They could setup the place for the humans with robots only needing solar power.
Fragile humans would need food, water, medical care, and several other things to make it on a remote colony.
Once you have a working colony that has undergone testing by the robots then you can bring some humans to beta test it on a small scale, then gear it up later.
Once a few large reactors were setup on the moon, then mars, full scale colonization of qualified humans could begin.
What I mean by qualified is, you are mentally and physically capable of benefiting the further mission.
If you are of reduced ability, you stay on earth until we can get to a level where the robots do almost all the work and fusion or better systems is providing limitless power.
Some ppl have a gravy train of money pouring into their coffers and have disinfo ppl troll the various msg boards trying to debunk what is obvious and has been obvious for awhile.
Fossil fuels will hit their peaks, it happened for oil in 2005.
Yeah we know to grow algae for bio diesel with vertical hydroponics at a rate of 100,000 gal per acre but the government will not get behind the program even thou it aired on CNN.
Corn is only 20 - 30 gal per acre, and this algae process is in the desert and does not displace food crops.
They can use sewer waste, animal waste, etc etc and the sun and algae does the rest.
You may be paying for your government, but "We the sheeple" have little say in how it is run you will find if you look at some of legislation coming out of DC over the last 8 years.
The cost of free trade will be playing out over the next few years, but was started years ago.
It is really about a race to the bottom via who will work for less, and who will work sweatshop hours for ppl that run the companies that make idiotic decisions like they did during the DOT COM daze.
These new to the game ppl in India will also suffer once the US companies have canned all the US workers who WERE the #1 customers of these US companies.
They will see what a tangled web has been woven, much like the tangled threads of the international finance thieves that sent trillions into oblivion.
Customers with no job tend to spend less, holy cow who would have thought !
The US was the largest economy in the world, but then it sold out most of it textiles and manufacturing jobs to 3rd world countries like India.
Companies in India do not follow our labor laws, but yet they are attached to US companies as proxies and do work for customers within the US, so that is a loophole.
If India had to pay the same licenses, fees, taxes, ad naseum that US corps did things would be a bit different.
With an unlevel playing field these talking heads can spout their rhetoric, but once it all comes falling down due to 100's of trillions in derivatives tanking then his high and mighty attitude will have to descend down to the mere mortal's world.
Buffett warned of this 7 years ago, and other sane folks tried bu have been ignored by the same empty suits that make statements like this bozo in India.
Poof the magic fairies ran off with it and now the american tax payer is in debt for it even though we forgot to write it down, aren't you glad we are not your accountant ?
The payroll system could prolly be replaced with a canned solution by numerous vendors, or an open source one that is already available could be scaled up with the help of some post grad students.
Like the giant ponzimonium that is about to be unleashed it is is just another of the many thefts thru corruption that are running amok.
There are modular open source payroll systems available, and as they are open source you got the code to make the changes you need.
Ppl said moodle would not work as well, and well we know how that is turning out.
If you Co-op this with a few other universities that are in the same boat, or can see that boat on the horizon you can split the costs, and give some post grad students something to turn in as a group project.
$40 million dollars for a payroll program reminds me of the $1 million USD oracle patches.
It makes me think, does this comes with complementary vaseline ?
The law is made by the ppl for the ppl, the current system is being warped and abused for various things for benefit of corporations and ppl that contribute to get ppl their postions.
When the ppl cannot get justice as accorded under their constitution, they will take these steps.
The government are those who represent the ppl and are beholden to them, not the other way around.
The thing is if this continues to work well expect it to take a step up.
Take it a step further, college classes are being done online, and kids who do well get the option to do school work from home at their own pace instead of listening to some teacher monotonously read from the book.
The problem is, then they will need less teachers.
Potentially a LOT less teachers, and that will cause a $h1tstorm.
After awhile of this you could close half the physical schools as well, saving huge amounts of money.
The physical schools would be attended by those who cannot do well on their own, and need face 2 face assistance from a teacher, or whose parents insist on the state providing school as a daycare.
Imagine doing your home work at the pool, listening to your mp3 player, with something like a kindle at your pace instead of waiting for the class clown to interrupt 5 times, or worrying if the 1,000+ kids in your school have the latest SARS, SWINE, BIRD flu....
NASA has had balloons make it to 171,000 feet with a 11,000 lb payload.
So if they had this tower tethered to some balloons in the right manner they could alleviate some of the weight up to at least 30 miles up, maybe higher.
I think wind shear could be a serious issue, winds aloft are over 100 mph, and much worse of the jet stream is nearby.
From there you could mass driver some stuff into orbit as NASA had planned to do from the moon in the past.
A magnetic slingshot could get non living payload into space pretty cheap.
I still say terra forming the moon is best left to robots that don't need food, don't need air, and don't need medical attention.
By terra forming I mean make a underground moon base as it would be your best protection against radiation and extremes of space.
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Oh come on sure CO2 is a pollutant, that is why we need to kill off 6.2 billion CO2 creation creatures to make a better world.
http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm
I mean the esteemed and brilliant Al Gore did leave out the fact that the rise in CO2 follows temperature change by 8 centuries,
but it is a minor over sight, it is just 800 years, not long at all !
Read "Limits to Growth" by some of the school children from the Club of Rome for a look at your future.
Well all the virtual hosting went full gear after XP was made, so you
cannot really expect them to include support for something in XP
that was not in use at the time.
Virtual server hosting didn't take off til the last few years.
M$ could patch it into IE, but you can just load Firefox 2.0 or newer and it works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Browsers
Microsoft impedes liberty and uses monopoly business practices.
It was proven repeatedly in the DOJ cases here in the US even thou
they tried to buy a different result.
The same and additional evidence was presented in Europe and the
results were the same.
So even from a legal standpoint of corrupt and paid off governments
Microsoft is too corrupt and monopolistic to be allowed to continue
as they have in the past.
The facts are simple if you merely read the case info.
Well NASA has had balloons take multi-ton payloads to 171,000 ft.
So at that extreme altitude we could rail gun materials into space.
As for ppl we can't rail gun them into space as it would kill them past
a certain rate of acceleration.
From that height though we could launch something like the rumored
Blackstar rocket plane to reach space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstar_(spaceplane)
To fuel the rocket planes we could use hydrogen, also as lift for the balloons.
Biological hydrogen production would need some refinement but it
would be a semi low cost fuel via the new production method.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hydrogen_production
Once we get to L5 position we can build a space station that doesn't
need boosts back into higher orbit like ISS.
Form there we can use robots to collect all the space junk in orbit
and we can recycle what is usable or de-orbit it into the pacific
like what was done with Skylab.
Once at L5 we can build a star ship hopefully with Fusion power system
or something better that we have yet to discover or has not been yet
released by the governments of the world.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216200272
Ion drive would be one system, beyond that I do not know.
Fuel propellants is not really practical over the long haul.
It would be best to man the starship as much as possible with
robots to cut down on the need for O2, food, medical care, etc.
If we need to get materials up there we can railgun them from the
high balloon platform or have solar powered robots similar to the
pathfinder series mine them on the moon.
mining the moon is not popular with all crowds so it may
just come from earth to save the bickering.
Ballooning and rocketing more than 200,000 ppl per day
would be a herculean task, and until we had a colony to
sustain them not very viable.
Also to be honest at some point it is going to be hard to
beat a robot at physical labor in a harsh environment.
The early colonies in space will be best served by very
durable robots that at some point have the ability to repair
robots like them.
The moon is the best 1st colony because it is close,
and emergencies can be dealt with all 12 months of the year.
With mars you get an approach vector to that planet MUCH
less often and thus you are on your own if something goes wrong.
They would also need the ability to gather raw materials
and make more robots ( que terminator fears here )
They could setup the place for the humans with robots only
needing solar power.
Fragile humans would need food, water, medical care,
and several other things to make it on a remote colony.
Once you have a working colony that has undergone
testing by the robots then you can bring some humans
to beta test it on a small scale, then gear it up later.
Once a few large reactors were setup on the moon,
then mars, full scale colonization of qualified humans
could begin.
What I mean by qualified is, you are mentally and physically
capable of benefiting the further mission.
If you are of reduced ability, you stay on earth until we
can get to a level where the robots do almost all the work
and fusion or better systems is providing limitless power.
Its worse than that, he just copied some Phds work off youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hioZ7C6HLs
web-sights....
I think we are done here...
This is 100% correct, nuclear reactors add heat to the world.
Thus in the past when droughts took rivers too low, we found out
those rivers were used to cool the reactors, and we saw reactor
shutdowns.
We have enough power from Solar, Wind, Geothermal,
and potentially Jet Stream power, and Ocean current power
to power hundreds of Earths.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream#Future_power_generation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_circumpolar_current
Some ppl have a gravy train of money pouring into their coffers
and have disinfo ppl troll the various msg boards trying to
debunk what is obvious and has been obvious for awhile.
Fossil fuels will hit their peaks, it happened for oil in 2005.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil#Peak_oil_for_individual_nations
We have enough natural gas and coal to last us awhile but
it is taking a heavy toll on the oceans as 20% of ocean reefs
are now dead.
We currently burn 1 billion tons of coal per year and that is
set to rise with China and India gearing up.
It too will hit its peak a few generations from now at the
current rate of use, we will go thru it faster if we use it as
a replacement for oil.
Nuclear energy will also eventually run out of uranium and the
the one running production thorium reactor was shutdown.
Yeah we know to grow algae for bio diesel with vertical hydroponics
at a rate of 100,000 gal per acre but the government will not get
behind the program even thou it aired on CNN.
Corn is only 20 - 30 gal per acre, and this algae process is
in the desert and does not displace food crops.
They can use sewer waste, animal waste, etc etc and the
sun and algae does the rest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hioZ7C6HLs
Peak oil has already been reached, peak gas and coal is a ways off,
but the issue will arrive someday.
The ocean is acting like a massive CO2 sink and large sections
of the sea are seeing huge die offs of coral and that is the habitat
for the fish.
http://www.supereco.com/news/2009/03/11/coral-dying-a-fifth-already-gone/
So we can start to move towards something else or the Earth is going
to make some adjustments in our food supply we might not find real
pleasant.
You remove all saltwater fish from the world and the food problem we
have now is going to look like small potatoes.
Yeah, they hate the coal, they hate wind power, they hate solar power,
but they offer no other solutions.
Part of me thinks some of them are disinfo agents on the fossil fuel payrolls.
Some sound devices can warn the birds away. [ pdf in link ]
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=icwdmbirdcontrol
Some of the frequencies are ultrasonic so humans won't here it.
Thou its negative effects on other wildlife that can hear ultrasonic might be needed
unless you can focus it primarily in the air.
You may be paying for your government, but "We the sheeple" have little say
in how it is run you will find if you look at some of legislation coming out of DC
over the last 8 years.
The cost of free trade will be playing out over the next few years, but was started years ago.
It is really about a race to the bottom via who will work for less, and who will work sweatshop
hours for ppl that run the companies that make idiotic decisions like they did during the DOT COM daze.
These new to the game ppl in India will also suffer once the US companies have canned all the
US workers who WERE the #1 customers of these US companies.
They will see what a tangled web has been woven, much like the tangled
threads of the international finance thieves that sent trillions into oblivion.
Customers with no job tend to spend less, holy cow who would have thought !
The US was the largest economy in the world, but then it sold out most of it textiles
and manufacturing jobs to 3rd world countries like India.
Companies in India do not follow our labor laws, but yet they are attached to US companies
as proxies and do work for customers within the US, so that is a loophole.
If India had to pay the same licenses, fees, taxes, ad naseum that US corps did
things would be a bit different.
With an unlevel playing field these talking heads can spout their rhetoric, but once
it all comes falling down due to 100's of trillions in derivatives tanking then his
high and mighty attitude will have to descend down to the mere mortal's world.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/derivatives-are-the-new-ticking-time-bomb
Buffett warned of this 7 years ago, and other sane folks tried bu have been
ignored by the same empty suits that make statements like this bozo in India.
While you wait for them to figure it out, enjoy the Flashblock plugin.
I guess you were not around for the DOT COM daze, it was all the craze.
An upgrade can cost as much as nepotism will allow in a
system that is filled with cronyism and corruption.
What we have is a race to loot as much as can be looted
while the ship has not yet sank beneath the waves.
We have several 100 trillion in derivatives looming in
the distance that damn few will even write about in the media.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/derivatives-are-the-new-ticking-time-bomb
We have The Fed printing 9 Trillion and handing it out, but when
asked where it went they respond "I don't know".
http://www.drudge.com/news/121850/fed-inspector-general-claims-9-trillion
Poof the magic fairies ran off with it and now the american
tax payer is in debt for it even though we forgot to write
it down, aren't you glad we are not your accountant ?
The payroll system could prolly be replaced with a canned solution
by numerous vendors, or an open source one that is already available
could be scaled up with the help of some post grad students.
Like the giant ponzimonium that is about to be unleashed it is
is just another of the many thefts thru corruption that are
running amok.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/20/news/economy/fraud_ponzi.reut/index.htm
We have yet to see this mess really unspool.
There are modular open source payroll systems available, and as
they are open source you got the code to make the changes you need.
Ppl said moodle would not work as well, and well we know how
that is turning out.
If you Co-op this with a few other universities that are in the same boat, or can see that boat on the horizon you can split the costs, and give some post grad students something to turn in as a group project.
$40 million dollars for a payroll program reminds me of the $1 million USD oracle patches.
It makes me think, does this comes with complementary vaseline ?
The law is made by the ppl for the ppl, the current system is being warped and abused for various things
for benefit of corporations and ppl that contribute to get ppl their postions.
When the ppl cannot get justice as accorded under their constitution, they will take these steps.
The government are those who represent the ppl and are beholden to them, not the other way around.
The thing is if this continues to work well expect it to take a step up.
Take it a step further, college classes are being done online, and kids who do well
get the option to do school work from home at their own pace instead of listening
to some teacher monotonously read from the book.
The problem is, then they will need less teachers.
Potentially a LOT less teachers, and that will cause a $h1tstorm.
After awhile of this you could close half the physical schools as well, saving huge amounts of money.
The physical schools would be attended by those who cannot do well on their own,
and need face 2 face assistance from a teacher, or whose parents insist on the
state providing school as a daycare.
Imagine doing your home work at the pool, listening to your mp3 player,
with something like a kindle at your pace instead of waiting for the class
clown to interrupt 5 times, or worrying if the 1,000+ kids in your school
have the latest SARS, SWINE, BIRD flu....
I so wish I had this in my high school days.
NASA has had balloons make it to 171,000 feet with a 11,000 lb payload.
So if they had this tower tethered to some balloons in the right manner
they could alleviate some of the weight up to at least 30 miles up, maybe higher.
I think wind shear could be a serious issue, winds aloft are over 100 mph,
and much worse of the jet stream is nearby.
From there you could mass driver some stuff into orbit as NASA had planned
to do from the moon in the past.
A magnetic slingshot could get non living payload into space pretty cheap.
I still say terra forming the moon is best left to robots that don't need food,
don't need air, and don't need medical attention.
By terra forming I mean make a underground moon base as it would be your
best protection against radiation and extremes of space.
Just my 2 cents.
Actually there are methods for password management that
does have them written down and stored in a vault.
There are also digital varieties that I do not trust
as much as the physical ones.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/13/1621225
True corn is not the best way to do this.
Cellulosic Ethanol with some kind of process
like Coskata's is the way to go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coskata
I imagine the Flash drive would work fine on another OS.
Vista has been known to have other problems as well.
Well as weird as it seems some doctors in Mexico are claiming
they are under reporting the death toll to prevent panic.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/8018428.stm
They are saying over 200 at this point, and if that is true
that would put this more on par with the 1918 pandemic.
Let's hope it is not true...
Well it is more than Botnets.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1661861/cyberspies_hack_computers_in_103_countries/
Some respected ppl in Canada have seen things
that make it appears its not as minor as one
might think.
To make matters worse counterfeit chips were
made to put into Cisco gear and used to
penetrate the pentagon among other places.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/24/1819200
So any one piece looks mildly nefarious, but
when you dig deeper than what I have here
you start to see a pattern for concern.
Just my 2 cents.