So, you are saying we should calmly accept the death of possibly billions of people No. We should take steps to prevent it. because we can't get our act together on consumption and birth control? Ockham's razor. How do you know the problems are caused by overpopulation? It may be. It may be caused by something completely different. Volcanos produce so much CO2 that what humans produce theoretically should be negligible. Maybe the problem lies not in increased production of CO2 but in reduced removal by shrinking forests? Maybe by something yet completely different and overlooked?
Your reaction reminds this: If somebody yells "Fire", you want to unload whole fire extinguisher charge at your ashtray with a single lit cigarette inside, without looking at the neighbour's house being of fire.
I personally support the idea of birth control with my whole heart, and I believe it would solve many problems, but I don't believe this particular issue could help against global warming the least bit.
If you see a truck coming your way at high speed, you don't try to find out whether the driver is drunk, a psycho, hired pro killer or government agent who is out to get you. You just try to dodge the truck and try to find out why it was going right at you later. We have the fact: Global temperature is rising. Now if finding the original cause of this will help stopping it or dealing with it in responsible manner, go, do it. But if the only reason is so that some scientist in his lab, immersed to his neck in water already could yell "I knew it! It's not humans' fault! It's a completely natural process! Now let's start thinking what to do about it...", sorry. If a ship is sinking, you try to save the passengers, not seek who's responsible.
Yes, antarctic is several million years old. But actually it shrunk to maybe 20% of its size from its biggest times. Water turns to ice when it's cold, and on the North Pole it's sub-zero all year round so water turns to ice there always, and ice will always grow there. It's how fast it melts on the edges that makes the difference. Warming speeds up the process, making the ice retreat, cooling the climate makes antarctic ice cap grow. Antarctic had a lot of time to grow shortly after dinosaurs to start shrinking.
1) By analyzing fossil layer contents we can quite accurately estimate temperatures of given year. Some plants grow better if it's warmer, so you'll find more seeds, more remains etc. Of course there are accidents - fires, epidemies etc that change the results a lot. But examine the data from several places around the globe and you'll come up with quite decent estimates.
2) I won't. It did. The results were catastrophic. Human/industry fault or just natural order of things, we face it and should prepare to it.
3) Tell me scientists who claim the opposite aren't getting grants from government?
4) It may create some inhabitable land in some areas. It will make some currently inhabitable areas uninhabitable (deserts, dry steppes, flooded areas). It will also send most of the most inhabitated land under water. Think both US coasts, mediterran sea, Holland and quite a bit of European shores, most heavily inhabited areas of India, pacific islands, quite a bit of Japan...) - I hope profit of gaining new places to live will outweight the necessity for some 60% of Earth population to migrate and find new homes?
Nowhere except the "north". Actually the ice on the north melting wouldn't change a thing as it's immersed and would just replace its own volume with water. But the southern cap is completely different. It lies on top of a huge landmass and is helluva big. Melt it and it will raise ocean levels.
4 years of research, not study on 4 years worth of data. Studying data of much longer period, i.e. by examining deeper layers of ice, historical sources, geological data... That's like asking what can we learn about dinosaurs if we study them less for less than 200 years and they were extinct millions years ago?
...and we should accept it. Is it fault of humans? Maybe, maybe not. But remember there were times where glacier covered half the Europe, there were times when Sahara was a green country, when what today is mediterran sea was a valley of a huge river... It just happens. Now just be wise and prepare to face it instead of looking who is to blame.
Note 150C on surface of the radiator turns into reasonable 50C maybe 1cm away from the CPU.
I wonder why won't they start producing cases and motherboards with built-in water cooling, safe CPU socket including all the water plumbing, then some water channels THROUGH the core. Don't transfer the heat to surface of the CPU, just receive it inside. Most of the "on-chip plumbing circuitry" is already there - in inkjet printer heads, which are in fact quite sophisticated ICs with ink channels driven through them.
Peltier increases temperature difference. Difference helps dissipation.
What is easier: In environment of 30C, to get a plate of metal down from 50C to 40C or from 120C to 100C?
If you watch heat dissipation curves you'll notice heat dissipation drops rapidly when temperature is getting close to ambient. So in your basic case keeping the CPU at 70C using plain CPU fan is way harder than keeping the CPU at 40C using Peltier module while keeping the other side of the module at 150C using a plain fan. Now of course you need decent way to dispose of the extra heat produced by the module itself, but you don't have to worry about keeping the absolute temperature way low - water cooling, liquid nitrogen etc to get extra kick from lowering the threshold towards which you drag the temperature, "lowering the ambient level" - difference between inside of the PC and temperature of the radiator is enough to keep the heat flowing way faster than normally. Just dispose of the heated air fast enough... And of course since the dissipation curves are exponential, adding stuff like water cooling gives it some real kick:)
Excuse me! Online games isolate you! You can cry, kick and cheer, then reply to the email in ballanced, calm words. But if they call and ask you for a face to face meeting, where's your computer-trained poker face?
...printing the downloaded images on their "anti-counterfeiting printer"? And then scanning them back with their "anti-counterfeiting scanner" into their "anti-counterfeiting software"?
Unless you're laid out bleeding to death, a quick and modern rescue arrives and you find yourself without money to pay for the service, and are left bleeding to death. Cheap doesn't sound attractive as long as you can afford the quality. The moment you must face losing your beloved one because even selling all your property won't be enough to pay the bill, you start looking for cheaper options and complaining it's all too expensive. Usually, it's too late then, especially while many jackasses around opt for "faster and better, no matter the price".
Too bad I need to take my transatlantic to get to the neighbour island. Dude! Get '95 or 98SE at worst and forget the XP overhead crap! Now, after nearly 10 years of hardware development, Windows 95 running on Athlon 2400XP, 1GB RAM, 100GB HDD and some such, finally runs FAST! Why replace it with a system that will be fast in another 10 years?!
"Yes, Mozilla's increased, but at the expense of old IE5 installations only."
So you assume the IE6 number didn't change, but people upgrade from IE5 straight to Mozilla? Sorry, but this poll doesn't include "transition stats". What I imagine is that about the same number of people run Windows Update and have IE6 installed as a result (or get XP instead of 98SE) as those who change from IE6 to Mozilla. That should be the reason why the IE6 stats don't change much - it gains from one side just as much as it loses from the other, but it gains and loses a lot simultaneously.
Mangle/damage your data. Use ranges like the other poster said (maybe a closer range), part of your address... anything that will possibly bring up false positives (to be analyzed "manually") and won't provide enough info to obtain -your- data when intercepted but enough to hint the search engine that it's you.
I guess lots of managers who knew what was going on, just checking that they left by their own request, not were made redundant. The engineers of SCO are quite reasonable. It's the management/marketing/legal bandwagon that stinks.
My question is, who will hire these managers with SCOX on their resume:)
I worry even more the lawsuits will be settled. SCOX will stop at some $2, and will start climbing its way back up from slow UNIX sales, everything will be forgotten and SCOX will back out of it, weakened but safe, never taking the final blow. We need SCO dead, as a warning to everyone who would want to mess with Linux again.
On the wall above me... Stepper motor from a floppy drive (pretty!), Socket to Slot CPU adapter, and a harddrive - nice gallery:)
I actually took an optical encoder from an inkjet printer and used it in my thesis work. (you see, it pays better to buy 2 printers and take them apart to remove the encoders than to purchase one such encoder from a distributor...) - same about sliding axis of the CD-rom head (try to order a REALLY hard 3mm diameter axis somewhere! Good luck!)
Diodes from the power supply work well somewhere in the car electronics. Floppies... Really nice plastic! So many uses!
But usually I take things apart and use them in other computer related stuff. You know, 486 can be really quiet if you detach the original cooler and radiator and attach an athlon radiator -without- any cooler instead...:) Logitech mice have that nice balls that collect dirt without letting it get to the rolls... so my new A4tech mouse rides on Logitech ball from a dead Logitech mouse. get a nice battery of fans taken from old power supplies, place them on your desk, power them up, really handy on the hot days. Amiga joystick? On parport interface. Etc, etc...
Price the same, looks the same, functionality the same, brand - uncool. Most people buy iPod because it's The iPod, not some obscure unknown mp3 player. (yes, there are cheaper, lighter, more robust, better players. It's just the great marketing hype and iTunes that make iPod "cool".) Why would anyone choose the "iPod copy" if they can get "iPod original" from the "cool" Apple at the same cost?
It isn't P2P web proxy, it's just "big pipe"-based distributed one. Supposedly a great way to prevent slashdoting (just use http://freecache.org/http://mytinysite.com instead of http://mytinysite.com and everything goes from the cache, tiny site receiving only header requests to chceck if the document hasn't changed in the meantime) it's hardly known, way too quiet as for a project that useful. P2P may be faster and cheaper but certainly less reliable...
...a system that would cheat at cards. Some game, 3 cards, poker, blackjack, whatever. A cam that tracks head AND EYEBALL movement of the player, and when the player is not looking the game attempts cheats. Not replacing card values it dealt to "its own hand" in RAM, just displaying all the tricks, like sneaking an ace out of the screen etc, so all the tricks would be visible to everyone watching the game, but the player:) Very entertaining if it could be done right, so really you don't notice but others do:)
1) Linux translations are primarily handled by volunteers who are native speakers AND natives to given regions. I've seen some bad translations to Polish, but not because of wrong usage of Polish, just because of poor knowledge of English and/or translated program by the translation authors (the name of the function can be translated in two ways, from which both are correct translation but one describes the actual function much better than the other, translator being clueless about the function picks the more obvious but worse matching word). There has been some colloquialisms, but I don't think anyone would use any bad language or something generally not approved in their own country.
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So, you are saying we should calmly accept the death of possibly billions of people
No. We should take steps to prevent it.
because we can't get our act together on consumption and birth control?
Ockham's razor. How do you know the problems are caused by overpopulation?
It may be. It may be caused by something completely different. Volcanos produce so much CO2 that what humans produce theoretically should be negligible. Maybe the problem lies not in increased production of CO2 but in reduced removal by shrinking forests? Maybe by something yet completely different and overlooked?
Your reaction reminds this: If somebody yells "Fire", you want to unload whole fire extinguisher charge at your ashtray with a single lit cigarette inside, without looking at the neighbour's house being of fire.
I personally support the idea of birth control with my whole heart, and I believe it would solve many problems, but I don't believe this particular issue could help against global warming the least bit.
That's right. I'm gonna wear steel underwear and never care who kicks my ass.
If you see a truck coming your way at high speed, you don't try to find out whether the driver is drunk, a psycho, hired pro killer or government agent who is out to get you. You just try to dodge the truck and try to find out why it was going right at you later.
We have the fact: Global temperature is rising. Now if finding the original cause of this will help stopping it or dealing with it in responsible manner, go, do it. But if the only reason is so that some scientist in his lab, immersed to his neck in water already could yell "I knew it! It's not humans' fault! It's a completely natural process! Now let's start thinking what to do about it...", sorry. If a ship is sinking, you try to save the passengers, not seek who's responsible.
So... [1], [3], [4] and then eventually [2].
Yes, antarctic is several million years old. But actually it shrunk to maybe 20% of its size from its biggest times. Water turns to ice when it's cold, and on the North Pole it's sub-zero all year round so water turns to ice there always, and ice will always grow there. It's how fast it melts on the edges that makes the difference. Warming speeds up the process, making the ice retreat, cooling the climate makes antarctic ice cap grow. Antarctic had a lot of time to grow shortly after dinosaurs to start shrinking.
1) By analyzing fossil layer contents we can quite accurately estimate temperatures of given year. Some plants grow better if it's warmer, so you'll find more seeds, more remains etc. Of course there are accidents - fires, epidemies etc that change the results a lot. But examine the data from several places around the globe and you'll come up with quite decent estimates.
2) I won't. It did. The results were catastrophic. Human/industry fault or just natural order of things, we face it and should prepare to it.
3) Tell me scientists who claim the opposite aren't getting grants from government?
4) It may create some inhabitable land in some areas. It will make some currently inhabitable areas uninhabitable (deserts, dry steppes, flooded areas). It will also send most of the most inhabitated land under water. Think both US coasts, mediterran sea, Holland and quite a bit of European shores, most heavily inhabited areas of India, pacific islands, quite a bit of Japan...) - I hope profit of gaining new places to live will outweight the necessity for some 60% of Earth population to migrate and find new homes?
Nowhere except the "north". Actually the ice on the north melting wouldn't change a thing as it's immersed and would just replace its own volume with water. But the southern cap is completely different. It lies on top of a huge landmass and is helluva big. Melt it and it will raise ocean levels.
4 years of research, not study on 4 years worth of data. Studying data of much longer period, i.e. by examining deeper layers of ice, historical sources, geological data...
That's like asking what can we learn about dinosaurs if we study them less for less than 200 years and they were extinct millions years ago?
...and we should accept it. Is it fault of humans? Maybe, maybe not. But remember there were times where glacier covered half the Europe, there were times when Sahara was a green country, when what today is mediterran sea was a valley of a huge river... It just happens. Now just be wise and prepare to face it instead of looking who is to blame.
One trully astonishing person!
Note 150C on surface of the radiator turns into reasonable 50C maybe 1cm away from the CPU.
I wonder why won't they start producing cases and motherboards with built-in water cooling, safe CPU socket including all the water plumbing, then some water channels THROUGH the core. Don't transfer the heat to surface of the CPU, just receive it inside. Most of the "on-chip plumbing circuitry" is already there - in inkjet printer heads, which are in fact quite sophisticated ICs with ink channels driven through them.
Wrong.
:)
Peltier increases temperature difference. Difference helps dissipation.
What is easier: In environment of 30C, to get a plate of metal down from 50C to 40C or from 120C to 100C?
If you watch heat dissipation curves you'll notice heat dissipation drops rapidly when temperature is getting close to ambient. So in your basic case keeping the CPU at 70C using plain CPU fan is way harder than keeping the CPU at 40C using Peltier module while keeping the other side of the module at 150C using a plain fan. Now of course you need decent way to dispose of the extra heat produced by the module itself, but you don't have to worry about keeping the absolute temperature way low - water cooling, liquid nitrogen etc to get extra kick from lowering the threshold towards which you drag the temperature, "lowering the ambient level" - difference between inside of the PC and temperature of the radiator is enough to keep the heat flowing way faster than normally. Just dispose of the heated air fast enough...
And of course since the dissipation curves are exponential, adding stuff like water cooling gives it some real kick
Excuse me! Online games isolate you! You can cry, kick and cheer, then reply to the email in ballanced, calm words. But if they call and ask you for a face to face meeting, where's your computer-trained poker face?
Chernobyl was a human error too.
...printing the downloaded images on their "anti-counterfeiting printer"? And then scanning them back with their "anti-counterfeiting scanner" into their "anti-counterfeiting software"?
Unless you're laid out bleeding to death, a quick and modern rescue arrives and you find yourself without money to pay for the service, and are left bleeding to death.
Cheap doesn't sound attractive as long as you can afford the quality. The moment you must face losing your beloved one because even selling all your property won't be enough to pay the bill, you start looking for cheaper options and complaining it's all too expensive. Usually, it's too late then, especially while many jackasses around opt for "faster and better, no matter the price".
Too bad I have to go back to XP for the games.
Too bad I need to take my transatlantic to get to the neighbour island.
Dude! Get '95 or 98SE at worst and forget the XP overhead crap!
Now, after nearly 10 years of hardware development, Windows 95 running on Athlon 2400XP, 1GB RAM, 100GB HDD and some such, finally runs FAST! Why replace it with a system that will be fast in another 10 years?!
"Yes, Mozilla's increased, but at the expense of old IE5 installations only."
So you assume the IE6 number didn't change, but people upgrade from IE5 straight to Mozilla?
Sorry, but this poll doesn't include "transition stats". What I imagine is that about the same number of people run Windows Update and have IE6 installed as a result (or get XP instead of 98SE) as those who change from IE6 to Mozilla. That should be the reason why the IE6 stats don't change much - it gains from one side just as much as it loses from the other, but it gains and loses a lot simultaneously.
Mangle/damage your data. Use ranges like the other poster said (maybe a closer range), part of your address... anything that will possibly bring up false positives (to be analyzed "manually") and won't provide enough info to obtain -your- data when intercepted but enough to hint the search engine that it's you.
I guess lots of managers who knew what was going on, just checking that they left by their own request, not were made redundant.
:)
The engineers of SCO are quite reasonable. It's the management/marketing/legal bandwagon that stinks.
My question is, who will hire these managers with SCOX on their resume
I worry even more the lawsuits will be settled. SCOX will stop at some $2, and will start climbing its way back up from slow UNIX sales, everything will be forgotten and SCOX will back out of it, weakened but safe, never taking the final blow.
We need SCO dead, as a warning to everyone who would want to mess with Linux again.
On the wall above me... Stepper motor from a floppy drive (pretty!), Socket to Slot CPU adapter, and a harddrive - nice gallery :)
:) Logitech mice have that nice balls that collect dirt without letting it get to the rolls... so my new A4tech mouse rides on Logitech ball from a dead Logitech mouse. get a nice battery of fans taken from old power supplies, place them on your desk, power them up, really handy on the hot days. Amiga joystick? On parport interface. Etc, etc...
I actually took an optical encoder from an inkjet printer and used it in my thesis work. (you see, it pays better to buy 2 printers and take them apart to remove the encoders than to purchase one such encoder from a distributor...) - same about sliding axis of the CD-rom head (try to order a REALLY hard 3mm diameter axis somewhere! Good luck!)
Diodes from the power supply work well somewhere in the car electronics.
Floppies... Really nice plastic! So many uses!
But usually I take things apart and use them in other computer related stuff. You know, 486 can be really quiet if you detach the original cooler and radiator and attach an athlon radiator -without- any cooler instead...
Price the same, looks the same, functionality the same, brand - uncool. Most people buy iPod because it's The iPod, not some obscure unknown mp3 player. (yes, there are cheaper, lighter, more robust, better players. It's just the great marketing hype and iTunes that make iPod "cool".) Why would anyone choose the "iPod copy" if they can get "iPod original" from the "cool" Apple at the same cost?
http://www.archive.org/web/freecache.php
It isn't P2P web proxy, it's just "big pipe"-based distributed one. Supposedly a great way to prevent slashdoting (just use http://freecache.org/http://mytinysite.com instead of http://mytinysite.com and everything goes from the cache, tiny site receiving only header requests to chceck if the document hasn't changed in the meantime) it's hardly known, way too quiet as for a project that useful. P2P may be faster and cheaper but certainly less reliable...
...a system that would cheat at cards. :) Very entertaining if it could be done right, so really you don't notice but others do :)
Some game, 3 cards, poker, blackjack, whatever. A cam that tracks head AND EYEBALL movement of the player, and when the player is not looking the game attempts cheats. Not replacing card values it dealt to "its own hand" in RAM, just displaying all the tricks, like sneaking an ace out of the screen etc, so all the tricks would be visible to everyone watching the game, but the player
1) Linux translations are primarily handled by volunteers who are native speakers AND natives to given regions. I've seen some bad translations to Polish, but not because of wrong usage of Polish, just because of poor knowledge of English and/or translated program by the translation authors (the name of the function can be translated in two ways, from which both are correct translation but one describes the actual function much better than the other, translator being clueless about the function picks the more obvious but worse matching word). There has been some colloquialisms, but I don't think anyone would use any bad language or something generally not approved in their own country.