Do the math, folks. The scientists definitely are not:
"Sea ice, for example, has diminished an average 8 percent each year for the past 30 years, totaling nearly 390,000 square miles." -from http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/n ews/local/10136245.htm
So, 240% of the sea ice is, uh, gone!
You heard it here first. I am officially coining the term "sco-bag". Google shows no instance of its use in the wild.
The definition:
sco-bag \'sko-bag\ n 1: A cheater 2: A ne'er-do-well that attempts to deprive the public of a common good in order to enrich him or her self 3: A foul, filmy pouch pretending to be a legitimate collection of intellectual property
SPSS has been around since 1968. Check out the very fascinating history of this program here. BTW, I still have a card deck with the original Fortran source code, from 1971, when I ran it on an IBM 1130 minicomputer.
Kermit was born c. 1980, and in contrast is "just a kid."
Possibly the truly oldest continuously supported software -- which is open source -- is the Fortran IV Scientific Subroutine Library (I have a copy dating back to 1962, which was based on the Fortran II library, which is presumably older but no longer supported). The library was eventually codified as an ANSI standard in 1977. A capsule history is at fit.edu. You can access an archive of the Fortran source code at Harwell's..
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Good, then we'll never run out. What's the fuss all about?
Do the math, folks. The scientists definitely are not: "Sea ice, for example, has diminished an average 8 percent each year for the past 30 years, totaling nearly 390,000 square miles." -from http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/n ews/local/10136245.htm
So, 240% of the sea ice is, uh, gone!
The definition:
sco-bag \'sko-bag\ n 1: A cheater 2: A ne'er-do-well that attempts to deprive the public of a common good in order to enrich him or her self 3: A foul, filmy pouch pretending to be a legitimate collection of intellectual property
SPSS has been around since 1968. Check out the very fascinating history of this program here. BTW, I still have a card deck with the original Fortran source code, from 1971, when I ran it on an IBM 1130 minicomputer. Kermit was born c. 1980, and in contrast is "just a kid." Possibly the truly oldest continuously supported software -- which is open source -- is the Fortran IV Scientific Subroutine Library (I have a copy dating back to 1962, which was based on the Fortran II library, which is presumably older but no longer supported). The library was eventually codified as an ANSI standard in 1977. A capsule history is at fit.edu. You can access an archive of the Fortran source code at Harwell's..