I agree, if the government take the subside money, it would never reach the objective.
A better solution would be to enforce fossil fuel producers to collect an amount of the co2 their product generates as externalities. Using the same logic that is used to tires and batteries in some contries: if my product pollutes, I am duty to clean.
Would be nice a more democratic comment voting system like reddit/facebook instead of the current moderation points model. And lighter comment boxes could lessen eye fatigue.
You are right! I'm not new here, but I take the work of read TFA and i can't saw any news on it, just the same thing others researchers are saying: corn isn't suited for ethanol, sugar cane is.
Now, it might require a computer the size of a small planet to run the estimated 10^42 ops/second that modeling our universe may require, but it is not totally unbelievable that 200-500 years from now we, as a species, will harness this type of computer power.
Considering that the "hosting universe" is very like ours. Probably it would be completely different.
In a few months this will be a mandatory update. I think that is a strategic move too: 1) the embedded search engine is the live.com, they will try to get market share from google. 2) it's a way to familiarize people with new vista/office 2007 interface and reduce the resistance to change.
They are missing the point, another windowing system is useless, but file sharing and placeless files has some uses.
If we don't talk about hardware interfacing, the OS give to the average user just file storage, networking. A large number of people spend 100% of they computer time on email and browser, if they have an connected hardware and a browser they will don't want to know if there are an OS inside the computer. Thus, in this sense I think Google already have an 'GoogleOS' with email and an "office suite" which dismisses the need of file storaging and some office apps.
Here in Brazil, the ethanol comes from 80'. A former boss had an mercedes car and a wife called Mercedes who liked to drink, in office the joke was that he had 2 mercedes one gas-powered and other alchool-powered.
I don't know about US Senate, but I received an SPAM from a senator from my country and the email came from the senate.gov domain. Then I searched for a place to complain in the senate website I found an 'ethics commission' and I did a formal complain about that spam. Some time later the senator wrote to me telling it was not spam because was not commercial.
Funny! Every time has discussion about global warming, sorry, climate change here in/. I remember the Monty Python's Erik the Viking, the part where they are in a island who is sinking and inhabitants begin a discussion trying to prove that the island wasn't sinking.
Since 80's in Brasil we are using ethanol from sugar cane in cars and I ever have sympathy with the idea of changing the use of petroil by ethanol. At the beggining there was a byproduct which was a big polluter but new techniques now can control it. After, I never heard about environmental problems of alchool use or production.
To use ethanol, the engine require some adaptation. The use of ethanol is very common here in Brasil since mid 80's when 100% of new cars sold are ethanol. Today, a lot of new cars are using a "flex" fuel technology which is a eletronic device who controls the combustion.
Here in Brasil almost all new cars can use a mixture of ethanol and gasoline in any percentage, they are called "flex" motors. It's just a eletronic device who controls the combustion. The price is almost the same of a unique fuel motor.
And, with all this doubts in mind, what you think we must do? Either just sit down and wait to see what will occour in the next 100 years or work to reduce environmental pollution?
Good point.
The article started with a good point too, but it don't prove anything with these numbers and falls apart in just another "write to get visibility marketing scheme".
The arguments are weaks and common sense smelling like the marketing man inside Joel is dominating the programmer.
From my teaching experience, there are a line dividing those who could be a programmer and who coudn't.
From those who could there is an gaussian curve where the mostly are the average programmer.
The few excepcional need an environment where they can be productive, like google, otherwise they could be worst in productivity than the bad programmers. When the environment is favorable, excepcional programmers do excepcional work... linus, gamma et all?
Then my point is which like in other areas, the sucess of a project is that the most part of work is made by the invisible average and the management is a important part too and not only by the existence of brilliant minds working on it.
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I agree, if the government take the subside money, it would never reach the objective. A better solution would be to enforce fossil fuel producers to collect an amount of the co2 their product generates as externalities. Using the same logic that is used to tires and batteries in some contries: if my product pollutes, I am duty to clean.
For me, it looks like an old KDE skin.
Would be nice a more democratic comment voting system like reddit/facebook instead of the current moderation points model. And lighter comment boxes could lessen eye fatigue.
You are right! I'm not new here, but I take the work of read TFA and i can't saw any news on it, just the same thing others researchers are saying: corn isn't suited for ethanol, sugar cane is.
Now, it might require a computer the size of a small planet to run the estimated 10^42 ops/second that modeling our universe may require, but it is not totally unbelievable that 200-500 years from now we, as a species, will harness this type of computer power.
Considering that the "hosting universe" is very like ours. Probably it would be completely different.
In a few months this will be a mandatory update. I think that is a strategic move too: 1) the embedded search engine is the live.com, they will try to get market share from google. 2) it's a way to familiarize people with new vista/office 2007 interface and reduce the resistance to change.
Google maps are not free: http://www.google.com/enterprise/maps/index.html
How much cost to Walmart a retail copy? Volume discount are a common practice to any industry, the same rule should applies to stores.
I agree, but these are much more flexible and less restrictive than a framework.
You can just not follow conventions, but it's just adding another pile of problems that defeat the point of using Rails.
That is very true for any framework. A simple 'tool' like plain PHP or javascript don't impose these conventions.
Of course! They first objective is to take advantage of low gravity to do better karate movies.
They will do an plugin for Google Earth?
They are missing the point, another windowing system is useless, but file sharing and placeless files has some uses. If we don't talk about hardware interfacing, the OS give to the average user just file storage, networking. A large number of people spend 100% of they computer time on email and browser, if they have an connected hardware and a browser they will don't want to know if there are an OS inside the computer. Thus, in this sense I think Google already have an 'GoogleOS' with email and an "office suite" which dismisses the need of file storaging and some office apps.
And in just 3 days they get 20k emails to its mailing.
Here in Brazil, the ethanol comes from 80'. A former boss had an mercedes car and a wife called Mercedes who liked to drink, in office the joke was that he had 2 mercedes one gas-powered and other alchool-powered.
American football is played with the hands throwing an inflated egg shaped... thing.
Why troll? It's funny...
I don't know about US Senate, but I received an SPAM from a senator from my country and the email came from the senate.gov domain. Then I searched for a place to complain in the senate website I found an 'ethics commission' and I did a formal complain about that spam. Some time later the senator wrote to me telling it was not spam because was not commercial.
Thank you, I ever thought it was from Monty Python.
Heaven forbid we let experts make policy!
/. I remember the Monty Python's Erik the Viking, the part where they are in a island who is sinking and inhabitants begin a discussion trying to prove that the island wasn't sinking.
Funny! Every time has discussion about global warming, sorry, climate change here in
Since 80's in Brasil we are using ethanol from sugar cane in cars and I ever have sympathy with the idea of changing the use of petroil by ethanol. At the beggining there was a byproduct which was a big polluter but new techniques now can control it. After, I never heard about environmental problems of alchool use or production.
To use ethanol, the engine require some adaptation. The use of ethanol is very common here in Brasil since mid 80's when 100% of new cars sold are ethanol. Today, a lot of new cars are using a "flex" fuel technology which is a eletronic device who controls the combustion.
Here in Brasil almost all new cars can use a mixture of ethanol and gasoline in any percentage, they are called "flex" motors. It's just a eletronic device who controls the combustion. The price is almost the same of a unique fuel motor.
I use the opensource Clamwin (http://www.clamwin.org/).
And, with all this doubts in mind, what you think we must do? Either just sit down and wait to see what will occour in the next 100 years or work to reduce environmental pollution?
Good point.
The article started with a good point too, but it don't prove anything with these numbers and falls apart in just another "write to get visibility marketing scheme".
The arguments are weaks and common sense smelling like the marketing man inside Joel is dominating the programmer.
From my teaching experience, there are a line dividing those who could be a programmer and who coudn't.
From those who could there is an gaussian curve where the mostly are the average programmer. The few excepcional need an environment where they can be productive, like google, otherwise they could be worst in productivity than the bad programmers. When the environment is favorable, excepcional programmers do excepcional work... linus, gamma et all?
Then my point is which like in other areas, the sucess of a project is that the most part of work is made by the invisible average and the management is a important part too and not only by the existence of brilliant minds working on it.
Sorry my bad english.