From TFA (or we could go to the Stern Report): "A device with an opening of one square meter can extract about 10 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. If a single device were to measure 10 meters by 10 meters it could extract 1,000 tons each year. On this scale, one million devices would be required to remove one billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. According to the U.K. Treasury's Stern Review on climate change, the world will need to reduce carbon emissions by 11 billion tons by 2025 in order to maintain a concentration of carbon dioxide at twice pre-industrial levels. "
So we need to absorb 11,000,000,000 tonnes per year.
Assume a tree planted today will weigh 50tonnes in 20 years time. So 1 tree absorbs 50/20 = 2.5tonnes/year. So we need 11,000,000,000 / 2.5 = 4,400,000,000 or 4 billion trees.
1 tree needs say a square of sides 3 meters, or 9 meters square.
A total land area of 4x9 billion square meters = 36billion square meters = 14,000 square miles, or just over one Belgium in old money.
Seems doable, we don't need Belgium, and the US can chip in a Wales to make up the shortfall.
I crossed KDE and QT off my list because of some confusion on the licensing and availability of QT on windows. It seemed that you had to buy a licence or make your produce GPL. Also, if targetting Linux, KDE would be a better choice.
KDE4 may be a good choice in the future, but I guess the choice would still be GTK or wxWidgets for an application that doesnt need fancypants integration with the desktop.
When I did some (about 1 hours worth) research into this, I came to the conclusion that the only 2 obvious choices were wxWidgets and GTK (perhaps SDL if we are talking games).
Seeing as both are available on windows/mac/linux, its really hard to understand why you are saying that there are too many choices. There are two, and they port to all linux distros as well as Win/Mac.
Whitney. OK, but considering that Europe was inventing nitroglycerine and the computer at this time, yet another mechanical agricultural device is hardly revolutionary.
John Fitch stole his idea from English and French inventors.
Oliver Evans invented yet another 'tool driven with steam'. Very much in the current mould of 'Something that exists, only on a computer' kind of "invention" that goes on today.
More to the point, they are going to sell DRM-free at a premium, and only a limited catalogue. Seems like its designed to fail in the marketplace to justify DRM. Nothing will change because of this.
Meanwhile, new bands will continue doing thier promotion via sites like Myspace, and eventually the labels will have to tout themselves to artists, instead of the other way around.
More to the point, an SUV still has to obey the laws of physics: twice the weight, heigher center of gravity to unload the rear wheels under braking, and the usual palmsized area of rubber on the road. Its harder to steer and thus more likly to leave the road, and its got alot more energy to dissipate when it hits that bridge support.
I would pick the Sinclair spectrum over the C64, they were ubiquitous in the UK. The BBC micro might also get a mention.
They also seem to have picked the cameras almost at random, those models would never have been on my short list when buying a camera. I'd look to the Cannon digital SLRs or the Nikon coolpix range for models that changed the market.
They missed the Space Invaders machine, and the digital watch.
Business hardware has been left out, wheres the Xerox machine, fax machine, mainframe, or printer?
I do think they have a pretty good list, though. Particularly the older stuff.
I think just as long as it ships with a decent distro, it doesnt matter. Just supporting one distro should maen that drivers are available for all of the hardware.
Just as long as the drivers are freely downloadable from somewhere, other distros can come along and check thier releases against your hardware.
Please note how the author quote lots of scientists reporting measurements, but all of the rampant speculation is being done by the journalist himself. Its pretty common for journalists with deadlines to spice up any science story with unsubstantiated speculation from scientists being interviewed over the phone. 10 years ago the genome project was about to give us genetic perfection, twenty years ago everybody was about to cure AIDS, the 1970's it was all moon bases, and the 1960's had Nuclear Power about to make electricity too cheap to meter.
But if you look away from the journalists output and to the published papers on the subject, we find.... zip, nada, diddly squat.
Peter Gwynne appears to have been still writing in 2000, maybe you could write and ask him his opinion.
So a corporation (Real) acted evil. Kind of proves the point.
Although I've no doubt the if Real had played it straight on this, they would soon have been embraced, extended, and extinguished. After all, why would a user install realplayer if the Windows bundled Media Player played real just fine.
Looks like Real got out alive on this one. Ironic that it was their dodgy underhanded tactics that saved them.
With hindsight, I realised that, but looking at the search results it was obviously a shop website and not the manufactures specsheet, so I assumed it was a reseller, ignored it, and started using url-fu to locate a manufacturers site.
You can repeat this for other items where the manufacturers website is a bit obscure, e.g. "iaudio 5" links to cowon systems (who make the iaudio range, but a casual shopper may not realise that).
Turns out its http://www.konaworld.com/ but the site is just a shop with no more details than other shops.
And that, folks, is how parking works. It relies on all the chaff generated by online sellers causing searchers to try more direct methods of getting at the information.
No, its a small, contained right-wing conspiracy, emanating from a small handful of think tanks (E.g. the Cato and Hudson institutes) and financed along the same sort of lines that the pro-tobacco campaigns of the 70's and 80's were.
Welcome to the latest round of FUD from the petro-chemical/creationist/right-wing cabal.
Recently they've been taking quotes from articles on milankovitch cycles wildly out of context. They are also now 'finding' evidence for milankovitch cycles in the fossil record, and presenting them as new evidence of past non-anthropogenic global warming.
We know there have been past episodes of warming and cooling. We also have evidence that periods marked by a rapid tripling of CO2 levels are associated with mass extinctions (but I dont think Ive seen anything concrete on whether the die-off caused the CO2 rise or vice versa).
Hey everybody! I've just installed a browser extension from a site I've never seen before, based on a recommendation on a website! Would you like my credit card numbers?
Seriously. I've just installed it, seems OK. I hope the annoying reporting of bugs that don't exist when using window.open() is gone.
Just re-read his opening comment. I was imagining a class of physics students licking butter off of bread, and it may have led me astray.
As for the CS/Physics thing, I find physics grads (me, BTW) have a big weakness when it comes to 'correctness', and being able to simplify algorithms. If they can fix those weaknesses, they become better than ordinary CS grads. The same for CS grads not being able to break out of problems, if they can broaden their narrow focus on 'code elegance', they to can do great things.
See the original Netscape browser for an example of the awfulness of Physicist code, and regexp for an example of CS theory beating usability.
Of course, neither class of programmer have anything on an MBA implementing the company payroll as an Excel macro.
Theres "Uncontrolled change" and theres "I dont use JCL SET symbols because they didnt teach it on my JCL course, in 1985".
Similarly, I cant get anyone to use Literate Programming (even just header comments), Dialog Tag Language is new and strange (despite being functionally stable since last century), tell people to seperate the interface code from the logic code and they look at me like I'm from Mars.
And dont get me started on getting people to use a Wiki, instead of pysically printing a Word document and handing it to me.
They probably got the performance benefits by effectively sidelining a bunch of mainframe luddites who haven't moved their skill sets forwards since 1985.
Seriously, the problem with mainframes has always been the mindset of the MF development staff, who resist change no matter what.
CDE predates win95, and was based on the many desktop WIMP environments around in the late 1980s, such as HPs VUE.
A lot of the things you imagine are Windows interface paradigms are actually basic HCI stuff (Fitts law, Roman language left-right convention, and whatnot) that pretty much dictate colour schemes, icon size, icon behaviour, left to right conventions, etc.
The only thing I can think of that is a Windows thing is the position of a main menu button in the bottom left, its easier to mouse to the top of the screen than to the bottom because of the way the muscles in the hand/arm work. In truth the KDE button can be located anywhere, its just the default themes that just happen to position it there, cos that's where most computer users look to find a central control.
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I thought Visual Studio was supposed to be so easy you had loads of time left? And you are cash strapped too? Maybe you need to use some free tools.
But then I use ISPF, development environment of the gods.
back of envelope maths:
From TFA (or we could go to the Stern Report):
"A device with an opening of one square meter can extract about 10 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. If a single device were to measure 10 meters by 10 meters it could extract 1,000 tons each year. On this scale, one million devices would be required to remove one billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. According to the U.K. Treasury's Stern Review on climate change, the world will need to reduce carbon emissions by 11 billion tons by 2025 in order to maintain a concentration of carbon dioxide at twice pre-industrial levels. "
So we need to absorb 11,000,000,000 tonnes per year.
Assume a tree planted today will weigh 50tonnes in 20 years time.
So 1 tree absorbs 50/20 = 2.5tonnes/year.
So we need 11,000,000,000 / 2.5 = 4,400,000,000 or 4 billion trees.
1 tree needs say a square of sides 3 meters, or 9 meters square.
A total land area of 4x9 billion square meters = 36billion square meters = 14,000 square miles, or just over one Belgium in old money.
Seems doable, we don't need Belgium, and the US can chip in a Wales to make up the shortfall.
I crossed KDE and QT off my list because of some confusion on the licensing and availability of QT on windows. It seemed that you had to buy a licence or make your produce GPL. Also, if targetting Linux, KDE would be a better choice.
KDE4 may be a good choice in the future, but I guess the choice would still be GTK or wxWidgets for an application that doesnt need fancypants integration with the desktop.
When I did some (about 1 hours worth) research into this, I came to the conclusion that the only 2 obvious choices were wxWidgets and GTK (perhaps SDL if we are talking games).
Seeing as both are available on windows/mac/linux, its really hard to understand why you are saying that there are too many choices. There are two, and they port to all linux distros as well as Win/Mac.
Colt took existing designs and improved them.
McCormick appears to have been beaten to it by the Romans.
Singer. Nope (ignoring minor inventions).
Whitney. OK, but considering that Europe was inventing nitroglycerine and the computer at this time, yet another mechanical agricultural device is hardly revolutionary.
John Fitch stole his idea from English and French inventors.
Oliver Evans invented yet another 'tool driven with steam'. Very much in the current mould of 'Something that exists, only on a computer' kind of "invention" that goes on today.
Edwin Drake. Poland had a well and refinery 4 years earlier.
And lets not forget the stealing of:
But dont worry. The Romans were much the same. Everything was stolen from the Greeks, Carthage or someone else.
More to the point, they are going to sell DRM-free at a premium, and only a limited catalogue. Seems like its designed to fail in the marketplace to justify DRM. Nothing will change because of this.
Meanwhile, new bands will continue doing thier promotion via sites like Myspace, and eventually the labels will have to tout themselves to artists, instead of the other way around.
More to the point, an SUV still has to obey the laws of physics: twice the weight, heigher center of gravity to unload the rear wheels under braking, and the usual palmsized area of rubber on the road. Its harder to steer and thus more likly to leave the road, and its got alot more energy to dissipate when it hits that bridge support.
I would pick the Sinclair spectrum over the C64, they were ubiquitous in the UK. The BBC micro might also get a mention.
They also seem to have picked the cameras almost at random, those models would never have been on my short list when buying a camera. I'd look to the Cannon digital SLRs or the Nikon coolpix range for models that changed the market.
They missed the Space Invaders machine, and the digital watch.
Business hardware has been left out, wheres the Xerox machine, fax machine, mainframe, or printer?
I do think they have a pretty good list, though. Particularly the older stuff.
I think just as long as it ships with a decent distro, it doesnt matter. Just supporting one distro should maen that drivers are available for all of the hardware.
Just as long as the drivers are freely downloadable from somewhere, other distros can come along and check thier releases against your hardware.
Known as ring species.
Seems an appropriate name seeing as Tolkien kicked off the whole 'elf fancying' thing.
Please note how the author quote lots of scientists reporting measurements, but all of the rampant speculation is being done by the journalist himself. Its pretty common for journalists with deadlines to spice up any science story with unsubstantiated speculation from scientists being interviewed over the phone. 10 years ago the genome project was about to give us genetic perfection, twenty years ago everybody was about to cure AIDS, the 1970's it was all moon bases, and the 1960's had Nuclear Power about to make electricity too cheap to meter.
.... zip, nada, diddly squat.
6 /10/global-cooling-again/
But if you look away from the journalists output and to the published papers on the subject, we find
Peter Gwynne appears to have been still writing in 2000, maybe you could write and ask him his opinion.
More at http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/200
So a corporation (Real) acted evil. Kind of proves the point.
Although I've no doubt the if Real had played it straight on this, they would soon have been embraced, extended, and extinguished. After all, why would a user install realplayer if the Windows bundled Media Player played real just fine.
Looks like Real got out alive on this one. Ironic that it was their dodgy underhanded tactics that saved them.
I like to go for 100% myself.
I like to vary the loop amongst APF authorised tasks, a TSO user, CICS regions, batch, and occasionally a non-swappable system task.
Its been some years since I've taken down a running mainframe, though.
With hindsight, I realised that, but looking at the search results it was obviously a shop website and not the manufactures specsheet, so I assumed it was a reseller, ignored it, and started using url-fu to locate a manufacturers site.
You can repeat this for other items where the manufacturers website is a bit obscure, e.g. "iaudio 5" links to cowon systems (who make the iaudio range, but a casual shopper may not realise that).
Ive just been looking for a bike. Decided Kona Cladera looked OK, of off to the maufacturer website for specs:
Searching for "Kona Caldera" just pulls what appears to be an infinite number of shops
http://www.kona.com/ - Hawian island.
http://www.konabikes.com/ - parked, knows Kona are a cycle manufacturer and hosts loads on links, but none to Kona's site.
http://www.konacycles.com/ - parked with adsense links of no specific type.
Turns out its http://www.konaworld.com/ but the site is just a shop with no more details than other shops.
And that, folks, is how parking works. It relies on all the chaff generated by online sellers causing searchers to try more direct methods of getting at the information.
Nope, there is an indefinate supply of the gullible. Scams like this have been going for as long as there have been stock markets.
Look up "Boiler Room" scams for a just as lucrative non-spam version.
No, its a small, contained right-wing conspiracy, emanating from a small handful of think tanks (E.g. the Cato and Hudson institutes) and financed along the same sort of lines that the pro-tobacco campaigns of the 70's and 80's were.
Bullshit
Welcome to the latest round of FUD from the petro-chemical/creationist/right-wing cabal.
Recently they've been taking quotes from articles on milankovitch cycles wildly out of context. They are also now 'finding' evidence for milankovitch cycles in the fossil record, and presenting them as new evidence of past non-anthropogenic global warming.
We know there have been past episodes of warming and cooling. We also have evidence that periods marked by a rapid tripling of CO2 levels are associated with mass extinctions (but I dont think Ive seen anything concrete on whether the die-off caused the CO2 rise or vice versa).
Hey everybody! I've just installed a browser extension from a site I've never seen before, based on a recommendation on a website! Would you like my credit card numbers?
Seriously. I've just installed it, seems OK. I hope the annoying reporting of bugs that don't exist when using window.open() is gone.
Just re-read his opening comment. I was imagining a class of physics students licking butter off of bread, and it may have led me astray.
As for the CS/Physics thing, I find physics grads (me, BTW) have a big weakness when it comes to 'correctness', and being able to simplify algorithms. If they can fix those weaknesses, they become better than ordinary CS grads. The same for CS grads not being able to break out of problems, if they can broaden their narrow focus on 'code elegance', they to can do great things.
See the original Netscape browser for an example of the awfulness of Physicist code, and regexp for an example of CS theory beating usability.
Of course, neither class of programmer have anything on an MBA implementing the company payroll as an Excel macro.
When he started out stating that all physics grads are stupid. If I wanted stupid name calling, I'd go eavesdrop on next doors kids.
Theres "Uncontrolled change" and theres "I dont use JCL SET symbols because they didnt teach it on my JCL course, in 1985".
Similarly, I cant get anyone to use Literate Programming (even just header comments), Dialog Tag Language is new and strange (despite being functionally stable since last century), tell people to seperate the interface code from the logic code and they look at me like I'm from Mars.
And dont get me started on getting people to use a Wiki, instead of pysically printing a Word document and handing it to me.
Thats pretty much what they do, only not quite that literally, and they use pound sterling in the UK.
They probably got the performance benefits by effectively sidelining a bunch of mainframe luddites who haven't moved their skill sets forwards since 1985.
Seriously, the problem with mainframes has always been the mindset of the MF development staff, who resist change no matter what.
Actually its a CDE ripoff.
CDE predates win95, and was based on the many desktop WIMP environments around in the late 1980s, such as HPs VUE.
A lot of the things you imagine are Windows interface paradigms are actually basic HCI stuff (Fitts law, Roman language left-right convention, and whatnot) that pretty much dictate colour schemes, icon size, icon behaviour, left to right conventions, etc.
The only thing I can think of that is a Windows thing is the position of a main menu button in the bottom left, its easier to mouse to the top of the screen than to the bottom because of the way the muscles in the hand/arm work. In truth the KDE button can be located anywhere, its just the default themes that just happen to position it there, cos that's where most computer users look to find a central control.