I don't know what will happen, but oil is a very different commodity than any other. Our entire industrial society is based on oil, as prices prices creep up, everything will get more expensive. Machinery, food (9 out of 15 calories on your plate come from oil), labour costs, etc. This could have a multiplier effect we can't really predict.
There's also the fact that once demand outstrips supply, someone is not getting oil. If that someone,say, has a population of over a billion people, that could cause some other economic stresses.
There's also another way to look at the oil economy; In the early 1900's it took one barrel of oils worth of energy to get 50 barrels of oil. That energy went into exploration, drilling, refining, and transporting the oil. We now get much less, estimates vary, but it's somewhere around 5 barrels for every 1 spent, maybe lower. When it's a one to one ratio, it doesn't matter if oil is $1,000,000 a barrel, it's staying in the ground.
I really think we, as a society, should be thinking really hard about this one. Maybe market forces will find a replacement for fossil fuels. But if they can't, guess what? YOU AND ALL YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE IRON AGE FARMERS FOREVER.
Here's a fun exercise for the inquisitive reader; Get the US Geological Service's future oil estimates. Observe how the world will somehow exponentially increase oil production. Witness the USGS predicting that Chinas oil use will grow at 1.2% a year, when it was 12% last year. Discuss the wisdom of basing energy policy on such numbers, and the social, political, and economical pressures that might lead to such a thing.
"Computing" can be thought of as a local reduction in entropy. It is impossible to do (non quantum) computing without generating heat. Erasing information is a thermodynamically irreversible process that increases the entropy of a system.
99. a whole lotta nines efficient, then. The remainder is sound, EMR (most re emitted as IR), and most interestingly, the bits of information that reach the outside world through your brain or network. See Maxwell's demon.
In its 1993 paper, the C.D.C. said no clinical trials had ever proved malaria treatment worked and anecdotal reports on syphilis patients called it unpredictable.
Dr. Lurie said malarial cures had been ''relegated to the status of leeches.''
Although I hear leeches are making a comeback.....
I'll second this. Some pro-MS comments seem straight out of a brochure, and I have a really hard time imagining someone with technical knowledge actually saying what they say.
"Microsoft is inevitably going to release a version of Windows for the Cell Processors"
Regardless of the fact that the NT kernel runs on PowerPC (XBox360), this is a long way from releasing an OS for the Cell. Given the endless delays in Longhorn and WinFS, I doubt they can do it in time to be competitive.
Yes, but it looks like they will not be cheap, at least to start. Sony has announced that the first Cell workstations will be targeted at content produceres and PS3 developers, traditionally a high-end market. Hopefully, the rest of us will be able to get linux running on the PS3.
None of this, of course, stops another company from marketing their own.
What are you? A MS Encarta plant? Repeated AC comments snikering at wikipedia like it was worthless. Do me a favour; go find the many mistakes in the wiki link above.
News for you; nothing is a "reliable source" such that it shouldn't be questioned. Wikipedia provides the best starting point for research on the web.
The prosecution said, and I assume no evidence was introduced to show otherwise, that there was no evidence that the EB had been pulled. Most strange, the passenger was found "moments later" with fatal head and heart injuries, with his hands in his pockets. The defence argues that he put them in his pockets to keep warm. Not likely. With a blood alcohol level of.16, if your passenger dies, your guilty of something.
"The little plugin thingies are going to be one of the first places where lots of people cut their teeth on programming."
You are so right. As a programmer, Dashboard is one of the biggest things drawing me toward a Mac. As an interface paradigm (sorry), it has great potential for an endless stream of tiny, functional apps.
The way I see it, my computer time is 80% 'big', meaning 'productivity' apps, surfing, coding etc, and 20% 'little', things like doing a calculation, CLI stuff, changing the music, checking buddy list, etc. Having the little things in a conceptually separate UI makes sense to me.
Anyone know what words UI designer types use to describe this?
Wrong! Why don't you do a little research on the milk, steel, softwood lumber and aerospace industries before you spout of about how 'hands off' the US is.
You're an idiot. The goal is to produce neutrons. This research, while expanding our knoledge of fusion and giving more researchers a fusion source, will never result in power generation.
"Status" increases a males chance of passing on genes, in many, many species. The vast bulk of human evolution ocured in a tribal (or even pack) setting. It's not likely that inovations in personal hygine (or any other field) occured very often. As life expectancy was low, the greater pressure was survival.
Almost every player gets physical when they get immersed in a game. I know I do.
If it delivers six degrees of freedom, and accuracy (which I think it will), it could have a huge impact on gaming. Thinking about how the controller will work makes a 3D projections system seem more likely, also.
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There's also the fact that once demand outstrips supply, someone is not getting oil. If that someone ,say, has a population of over a billion people, that could cause some other economic stresses.
There's also another way to look at the oil economy; In the early 1900's it took one barrel of oils worth of energy to get 50 barrels of oil. That energy went into exploration, drilling, refining, and transporting the oil. We now get much less, estimates vary, but it's somewhere around 5 barrels for every 1 spent, maybe lower. When it's a one to one ratio, it doesn't matter if oil is $1,000,000 a barrel, it's staying in the ground.
I really think we, as a society, should be thinking really hard about this one. Maybe market forces will find a replacement for fossil fuels. But if they can't, guess what? YOU AND ALL YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE IRON AGE FARMERS FOREVER. Here's a fun exercise for the inquisitive reader; Get the US Geological Service's future oil estimates. Observe how the world will somehow exponentially increase oil production. Witness the USGS predicting that Chinas oil use will grow at 1.2% a year, when it was 12% last year. Discuss the wisdom of basing energy policy on such numbers, and the social, political, and economical pressures that might lead to such a thing.
Maxwell's demon. Deep.
In its 1993 paper, the C.D.C. said no clinical trials had ever proved malaria treatment worked and anecdotal reports on syphilis patients called it unpredictable.
Dr. Lurie said malarial cures had been ''relegated to the status of leeches.''
Although I hear leeches are making a comeback.....
I'll second this. Some pro-MS comments seem straight out of a brochure, and I have a really hard time imagining someone with technical knowledge actually saying what they say.
Regardless of the fact that the NT kernel runs on PowerPC (XBox360), this is a long way from releasing an OS for the Cell. Given the endless delays in Longhorn and WinFS, I doubt they can do it in time to be competitive.
None of this, of course, stops another company from marketing their own.
News for you; nothing is a "reliable source" such that it shouldn't be questioned. Wikipedia provides the best starting point for research on the web.
The PNG support seems to have been done by one guy, in a few months. Not exactly a 'deep' problem for a company with Microsofts resources.
I think the reason they didn't support it years ago is because they simply don't care.
The prosecution said, and I assume no evidence was introduced to show otherwise, that there was no evidence that the EB had been pulled. Most strange, the passenger was found "moments later" with fatal head and heart injuries, with his hands in his pockets. The defence argues that he put them in his pockets to keep warm. Not likely. With a blood alcohol level of .16, if your passenger dies, your guilty of something.
You are so right. As a programmer, Dashboard is one of the biggest things drawing me toward a Mac. As an interface paradigm (sorry), it has great potential for an endless stream of tiny, functional apps.
The way I see it, my computer time is 80% 'big', meaning 'productivity' apps, surfing, coding etc, and 20% 'little', things like doing a calculation, CLI stuff, changing the music, checking buddy list, etc. Having the little things in a conceptually separate UI makes sense to me.
Anyone know what words UI designer types use to describe this?
Seeing that they are done with CSS+scripting language (as I understand it), they should be pretty easy to verify.
Wrong! Why don't you do a little research on the milk, steel, softwood lumber and aerospace industries before you spout of about how 'hands off' the US is.
You're an idiot. The goal is to produce neutrons. This research, while expanding our knoledge of fusion and giving more researchers a fusion source, will never result in power generation.
Have you considered suing your "school"?
"Status" increases a males chance of passing on genes, in many, many species. The vast bulk of human evolution ocured in a tribal (or even pack) setting. It's not likely that inovations in personal hygine (or any other field) occured very often. As life expectancy was low, the greater pressure was survival.
If it delivers six degrees of freedom, and accuracy (which I think it will), it could have a huge impact on gaming. Thinking about how the controller will work makes a 3D projections system seem more likely, also.
Google is free.
Well, this might make you happy; Two exploding whales
Electromagnetic radiation in a vacum travels at 1.8026175 × 10^12 furlongs per fortnight, always.
Time is not the same for everyone, and bends to make the above possible.
Same thing to a kernel.
You do a lot of work with 4 gig images in photoshop?
Or something like that.