We will almost certainly be needing to modify out world such that the glaciers stay back, and it is my pick that elevated CO2 levels will be an important tool; but, right now, (& quite possibly with some degree of emergency) we need to introduce controls, both technological and political, that will then enable us to effectively terraform. Without the information, as yet, we are just gambling that we are not about to trigger any critical enviromential tipping points [this is where hope plays its role].
Just musing about stabilization on gun sights; why not? So you presently have this image of the "cross hair" stable and all other information [the target & surroundings] jumping around. Wouldn't it be more usable to have a stable scene [smoothly scrolling] with the [more than normally] prominent cross hair doing the jumping around [unstabilized obviously]. This would allow better pattern recognition in the way the barrel is actually veering, hence better information to enable the shooter in controlling it [by hand].
Quite so, they are testing the wet etc.; the inappropriate response to this tactic is to immediately start the process to remove him from office, anything less is an eventual victory to them.
No, No, you've missed the point. Using ordinary old spatulas spread over a couple of human hands you could hold 40kg (Dr. Kellar Autumn. Associate Professor Department of Biology 227 BioPsych Lewis & Clark College from BBC Sci/Tech 7 June 2000). Now lets go multiplying that gripiness by 200 times and I think we can call this dude Spiderman. Now wouldn't that stuff, as a nice big splat, at the end of a nice long nano tube rope make a lovely web swing; with the added bonus of being able to turn all those little guys at the end flaccid on command; so, attach on contact, detach on command. Now who's not interested.
What better way to highlight that your government is censoring it's citizens more intently that almost any other country does, than to have the largest and most widely excepted search engine (as used by all but one of your Asian neighbours [I'm guessing NK blocks google internily] as well as the West etc.) on the planet not available to you. They would not be able to deny the existence of Google nor why it was absent. It is my belief that you would be helping the citizens of China more by showing them this one truth than the giving them access to all those billions of little efficiency gains they may or may not gain by using google instead of some other less ethical search engine (read: almost any other engine). I fear it was the desire for global dominun that drove the decision, over-riding there desire to not be evil. I wish they hadn't. Google, given the choose between doing good or becoming god, has gambled on the later!
Was he the first with concept? I'd go for that. And after all, he was a main character in a drama, (where he was an animated TV host), he was not the actual show host so we were never being conned; unless you think that the long line of Dr Who's are all Time Lords. Loved that show.
I saved a significant portion of my property from being burnt out by a fire that had already covered towards 100 acres, by lighting a large series of fires; small, controlled, specifically positioned to provide an area of burnt ground, that the otherwise out of control fire front could not cross; standard open country fire fighting technique.
You could google it too... but since I just have...
The "Journel of Tribology " covers: Friction and Wear, Fluid Film Lubrication, Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication, Surface Properties and Characterization, Contact Mechanics, Magnetic Recordings, Tribological Systems, Seals, Bearing Design and Technology, Gears, Metalworking, Lubricants, and Artificial Joints. Friction and Wear, Fluid Film Lubrication, Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication, Surface Properties and Characterization, Contact Mechanics, Magnetic Recordings, Tribological Systems, Seals, Bearing Design and Technology, Gears, Metalworking, Lubricants, and Artificial Joints.
I would really like to know what steps you take to ensure that no-one with an opposing ethical background can use you as their tutor. I am thinking of ethics that will allow them to take what you can teach from your code [and your thoughts] and begin the work required to produce this "non-intuitive" evolving virus. Such a person is likely to hide well there true intentions.
I personally think this scenario is actually unlikely, but still very important for the stakes are so high.
"Mankind also had a glacial period and it finally sent a probe to Titan"
It has saddened, but not suprised me to hear of the demise of 'Mankind'. I had long suspected they would reach the stage of 'bloody big rockets' and then not survive much passed it. I would be interested to read sometime just which technology they eventually tripped on.
Xandros 3.0 uses Mozilla 1.7.3 as its' default browser.
Xandros OCE 2.0 (free to download version) uses Opera 7.5 (the "extra tool bar with google style adds" based version).
They have just announced the upcoming release of Firefox & Thunderbird to their 'One click' download|install site.
But if you so choose you can easily install your own copy of IE (not supplied) using the installed wine variant CrossOverOffice which comes standard with the Deluxe (the edition reviewed).
To add my comment: the version reviewed (2.5) was replaced a couple of months ago by 3.0, which happily burns DVDs, simple click-&-dragging in the File Manager, it works even better than XPs' version.
Personally, I am now recomending this distro to local newbees and Win98 upgraders...
This is 'Linux on the Desktop for the Masses'; it's here now!
I agree. But that doesn't stop me from having a guess.
My Guess: Inland South Otago, South Island, southern New Zealand. Not safe, but safest.
Because:
Southern hemisphere > Lower population & industrialization density due to more sea water, less habitable land has left us with a lower residual pollution.
Mid latitude > 1. Avoiding the worst of the tropical storms; present count over the last 100 years = 0. 2. Avoiding the worst polar storms; sub zero temperatures lasting longer than 3 days, present count over the last 100 years = 1. 3. Yet having consistent winds. {The Roaring 40's anyone} 4. Enough of a Winter to not have all-year-round growth, not enough to have ski fields [the nearest of each is 12 & 4 hours by car respectively]. The advantage of a winter is to reduce the worse excesses of "life", maleria, locusts, that sort of thing.
Surrounded by relatively vast oceanic expanses > 1. Temperature variations limited. 2. Combined with mid latitude air currents brings consistent rains. This helps to maintain the reduced population density as many humans wish to live under continuously clear skies. 3. Own ecosystem lacking any land snakes; only one large land based predator [Harst Eagle], now extinct; and only 2land based creatures with enough venom to kill a small child [both small & uncommon spiders bearing appropriately recognizable single bright stripes down their back]
South Pacific location > 1. Last significant land mass populated by humans [about 1000 AD] and low migration numbers exacerbating low population density. 2. Not in the physical path of any current or foreseeable war.
Rolling terrain > 1. Any flooding confined to narrow well defined paths. 2. Large percentage of easily worked farmland. 3. Sufficient elevation to instigate rainfall from passing air masses.
Enough distance from the coast > 1. Sufficient elevation above MSL to nullify tsunami and global sea level issues 2. Avoid the harshest blast of salt ladden sea air
Sufficient distance from geologic faults and volcanism to only [in recorded history & predicted future(NZGS)] be shaken, not stirred.
NZ's Politically middle ground > 1. Long-time stable Westminster style democracy. 2. No visible governmental corruption. 3. No international enemies. 4. Cradle to grave social welfare safety net. 5. No known terrorists have threatened NZ.
The kicker:
A policed immigration policy > keeping it that way by keeping most people out!
"That India/China et al have been left out the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change"
There is a fundamental unfairness to the climate change problem that chafes at the already uneasy relations between the rich and poor nations of the world. Countries with high standards of living are mostly (if unwittingly) responsible for the rise in greenhouse gases. These early industrialisers -- Europe, North America, Japan, and a few others -- created their wealth in part by pumping into the atmosphere vast amounts of greenhouse gases long before the likely consequences were understood. Developing countries now fear being told that they should curtail their own fledgling industrial activities -- that the atmosphere's safety margin is all used up.
It starts slowly. It doesn't make too many demands (or requests) for the time being. But stay tuned. The Framework Convention on Climate Change is a general treaty with just a few specific requirements. More and bigger requirements will come later, in the form of amendments and protocols and the requests for additional signitories. This will happen as scientific understanding of climate change becomes clearer and as the countries of the world, already suffering from a case of "disaster fatigue", adjust to the idea that they have yet another crisis to face and pay for.
Remember that Kyoto is just the name of Round ONE of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and we are starting at the only place possible, THE START .
This company is expecting that they can earn a living, paying real wages, converting Window users to Linux. They want an income stream to do this. They will provide a product that holds your hand & does all the thinking (selecting which of the programmes of that type to have you use, single mouse click to install, right down to renaming it in the menu if they think that would help) for you. You swap money for effort, this is the deal that many people are looking for. Indeed many people want to pay for stuff [although not too much] as it comes with a whole lot of normal expectations of consumer satisfaction.
Well at least it works for me, 2 1/2 years on Xandros, and happy to just not be on Windows.
It's the old saying... "padlocks are only there to keep the honest people honest" And it works. Most padlocks are only a temporay impediment for anyone who actually sets out steal stuff but they help the vast majority of us who might be, on occasions, tempted if the stuff was just sitting there.
Slashdot Mirror
We will almost certainly be needing to modify out world such that the glaciers stay back, and it is my pick that elevated CO2 levels will be an important tool; but, right now, (& quite possibly with some degree of emergency) we need to introduce controls, both technological and political, that will then enable us to effectively terraform. Without the information, as yet, we are just gambling that we are not about to trigger any critical enviromential tipping points [this is where hope plays its role].
This is a Good Point (tm).
Can't help with the smell, but for the goat lice I can definately recomend Zap, a pour-on to use at 1ml/kg live weight.
Just musing about stabilization on gun sights; why not?
So you presently have this image of the "cross hair" stable and all other information [the target & surroundings] jumping around. Wouldn't it be more usable to have a stable scene [smoothly scrolling] with the [more than normally] prominent cross hair doing the jumping around [unstabilized obviously].
This would allow better pattern recognition in the way the barrel is actually veering, hence better information to enable the shooter in controlling it [by hand].
Why not?
We've SlashDoted a google service, how many times are we going to be able to say that!
Quite so, they are testing the wet etc.; the inappropriate response to this tactic is to immediately start the process to remove him from office, anything less is an eventual victory to them.
No, No, you've missed the point.
Using ordinary old spatulas spread over a couple of human hands you could hold 40kg (Dr. Kellar Autumn. Associate Professor Department of Biology 227 BioPsych Lewis & Clark College from BBC Sci/Tech 7 June 2000). Now lets go multiplying that gripiness by 200 times and I think we can call this dude Spiderman.
Now wouldn't that stuff, as a nice big splat, at the end of a nice long nano tube rope make a lovely web swing; with the added bonus of being able to turn all those little guys at the end flaccid on command; so, attach on contact, detach on command.
Now who's not interested.
What better way to highlight that your government is censoring it's citizens more intently that almost any other country does, than to have the largest and most widely excepted search engine (as used by all but one of your Asian neighbours [I'm guessing NK blocks google internily] as well as the West etc.) on the planet not available to you.
They would not be able to deny the existence of Google nor why it was absent.
It is my belief that you would be helping the citizens of China more by showing them this one truth than the giving them access to all those billions of little efficiency gains they may or may not gain by using google instead of some other less ethical search engine (read: almost any other engine).
I fear it was the desire for global dominun that drove the decision, over-riding there desire to not be evil.
I wish they hadn't.
Google, given the choose between doing good or becoming god, has gambled on the later!
Was he the first with concept? I'd go for that.
And after all, he was a main character in a drama, (where he was an animated TV host), he was not the actual show host so we were never being conned; unless you think that the long line of Dr Who's are all Time Lords.
Loved that show.
Life is never as simple as a Slogan...
I saved a significant portion of my property from being burnt out by a fire that had already covered towards 100 acres, by lighting a large series of fires; small, controlled, specifically positioned to provide an area of burnt ground, that the otherwise out of control fire front could not cross; standard open country fire fighting technique.
No, sign of intentional designer having fun with her pawns in a spare moment.
You could google it too... but since I just have...
The "Journel of Tribology " covers: Friction and Wear, Fluid Film Lubrication, Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication, Surface Properties and Characterization, Contact Mechanics, Magnetic Recordings, Tribological Systems, Seals, Bearing Design and Technology, Gears, Metalworking, Lubricants, and Artificial Joints. Friction and Wear, Fluid Film Lubrication, Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication, Surface Properties and Characterization, Contact Mechanics, Magnetic Recordings, Tribological Systems, Seals, Bearing Design and Technology, Gears, Metalworking, Lubricants, and Artificial Joints.
ID 871104 ... does that qualify as "Welcome to our newest member" John?
I hope you find enough here of interest to keep you sticking around awhile.
Warwick.
I would really like to know what steps you take to ensure that no-one with an opposing ethical background can use you as their tutor. I am thinking of ethics that will allow them to take what you can teach from your code [and your thoughts] and begin the work required to produce this "non-intuitive" evolving virus. Such a person is likely to hide well there true intentions.
I personally think this scenario is actually unlikely, but still very important for the stakes are so high.
"Mankind also had a glacial period and it finally sent a probe to Titan"
It has saddened, but not suprised me to hear of the demise of 'Mankind'. I had long suspected they would reach the stage of 'bloody big rockets' and then not survive much passed it.
I would be interested to read sometime just which technology they eventually tripped on.
Xandros 3.0 uses Mozilla 1.7.3 as its' default browser.
Xandros OCE 2.0 (free to download version) uses Opera 7.5 (the "extra tool bar with google style adds" based version).
They have just announced the upcoming release of Firefox & Thunderbird to their 'One click' download|install site.
But if you so choose you can easily install your own copy of IE (not supplied) using the installed wine variant CrossOverOffice which comes standard with the Deluxe (the edition reviewed).
To add my comment: the version reviewed (2.5) was replaced a couple of months ago by 3.0, which happily burns DVDs, simple click-&-dragging in the File Manager, it works even better than XPs' version.
Personally, I am now recomending this distro to local newbees and Win98 upgraders...
This is 'Linux on the Desktop for the Masses'; it's here now!
I agree. But that doesn't stop me from having a guess.
My Guess: Inland South Otago, South Island, southern New Zealand. Not safe, but safest.
Because:
Southern hemisphere > Lower population & industrialization density due to more sea water, less habitable land has left us with a lower residual pollution.
Mid latitude >
1. Avoiding the worst of the tropical storms; present count over the last 100 years = 0.
2. Avoiding the worst polar storms; sub zero temperatures lasting longer than 3 days, present count over the last 100 years = 1.
3. Yet having consistent winds. {The Roaring 40's anyone}
4. Enough of a Winter to not have all-year-round growth, not enough to have ski fields [the nearest of each is 12 & 4 hours by car respectively]. The advantage of a winter is to reduce the worse excesses of "life", maleria, locusts, that sort of thing.
Surrounded by relatively vast oceanic expanses >
1. Temperature variations limited.
2. Combined with mid latitude air currents brings consistent rains. This helps to maintain the reduced population density as many humans wish to live under continuously clear skies.
3. Own ecosystem lacking any land snakes; only one large land based predator [Harst Eagle], now extinct; and only 2land based creatures with enough venom to kill a small child [both small & uncommon spiders bearing appropriately recognizable single bright stripes down their back]
South Pacific location >
1. Last significant land mass populated by humans [about 1000 AD] and low migration numbers exacerbating low population density.
2. Not in the physical path of any current or foreseeable war.
Rolling terrain >
1. Any flooding confined to narrow well defined paths.
2. Large percentage of easily worked farmland.
3. Sufficient elevation to instigate rainfall from passing air masses.
Enough distance from the coast >
1. Sufficient elevation above MSL to nullify tsunami and global sea level issues
2. Avoid the harshest blast of salt ladden sea air
Sufficient distance from geologic faults and volcanism to only [in recorded history & predicted future(NZGS)] be shaken, not stirred.
NZ's Politically middle ground >
1. Long-time stable Westminster style democracy.
2. No visible governmental corruption.
3. No international enemies.
4. Cradle to grave social welfare safety net.
5. No known terrorists have threatened NZ.
The kicker:
A policed immigration policy > keeping it that way by keeping most people out!
So do you read without posting...
or just visit infrequently?
I'm a reader.
That might make a good a couple of good Poles:
Reading to Posting|Voting frequency
Read your AP sites, Ukraine starting widespread election investigation today.
KYOTO Myth
"That India/China et al have been left out the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change"
There is a fundamental unfairness to the climate change problem that chafes at the already uneasy relations between the rich and poor nations of the world. Countries with high standards of living are mostly (if unwittingly) responsible for the rise in greenhouse gases. These early industrialisers -- Europe, North America, Japan, and a few others -- created their wealth in part by pumping into the atmosphere vast amounts of greenhouse gases long before the likely consequences were understood. Developing countries now fear being told that they should curtail their own fledgling industrial activities -- that the atmosphere's safety margin is all used up.
It starts slowly. It doesn't make too many demands (or requests) for the time being. But stay tuned. The Framework Convention on Climate Change is a general treaty with just a few specific requirements. More and bigger requirements will come later, in the form of amendments and protocols and the requests for additional signitories. This will happen as scientific understanding of climate change becomes clearer and as the countries of the world, already suffering from a case of "disaster fatigue", adjust to the idea that they have yet another crisis to face and pay for.
Remember that Kyoto is just the name of Round ONE of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and we are starting at the only place possible, THE START .
Looks like this is the third one gone...
WF_NA_Taylor@xtra.co.nz
I am now in your debt, so next time you think "Gosh I wish I knew a farmer in South Otago to help me out!" you need not wish in vane.
Yuri your home page is 404'ing.
This company is expecting that they can earn a living, paying real wages, converting Window users to Linux. They want an income stream to do this. They will provide a product that holds your hand & does all the thinking (selecting which of the programmes of that type to have you use, single mouse click to install, right down to renaming it in the menu if they think that would help) for you.
You swap money for effort, this is the deal that many people are looking for.
Indeed many people want to pay for stuff [although not too much] as it comes with a whole lot of normal expectations of consumer satisfaction.
Well at least it works for me, 2 1/2 years on Xandros, and happy to just not be on Windows.
It's the old saying... "padlocks are only there to keep the honest people honest"
And it works.
Most padlocks are only a temporay impediment for anyone who actually sets out steal stuff but they help the vast majority of us who might be, on occasions, tempted if the stuff was just sitting there.
So it is with bank notes and copiers.
No....
No snakes here.