"I have yet to find a scientist (I mean a real one with a science degree, not a PR person or a journalist) who would disagree that adding CO2 to the atmosphere is increasing the greenhouse effect."
To show why I assert that there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and chlorofluorocarbons, I shall briefly review the science associated with those predictions.
Richard S. Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a consultant to the Global Modeling and Simulation Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Ph.D., '64, S.M., '61, A.B., '60, Harvard University)
"I'd like to see a simple system where I get 30 minutes free with a drink. Not sure how that would work, but it would keep the free loaders out."
It could work the same way that gas stations sell car washes. When you make a purchase over $X it would print a code on the receipt that can be used within Y hours/days.
Good article about the Stanford and Cyberrider teams, with video.
The project is based on a partnership of several companies. Volkswagen provides the vehicle, a diesel-based Touareg R5 TDI with an automatic transmission, and the automotive know-how. Intel is supplying the Pentium-M chips (Dothan core) as well as the platform consisting of several 855GM-based mini-ATX boards. Then there is MDV (Mohr Davidow), a company that invests in start-up firms. Android, Honeywell, Tyzx and Coverity are among the other sponsors. Tyzx has specialized in image recognition software, which is especially important for AI (artificial intelligence) systems.
It goes without saying that the power hungry P4 processors and the corresponding platform would have made a bad choice. After all, the power dissipation loss of these seven systems would easily have exceeded 1200 Watts! This would have required special modifications to be made to the alternator and several other components. Instead, Intel has supplied the project with its tried and tested Pentium M notebook processors. These use the Dothan core with its 2MB of cache, are clocked at 1.6GHz and run on an 855GM platform. As a result, the overall power requirements of all seven systems together are only 280 Watts. The individual nodes are linked using a Gigabit Ethernet network.
(P.S. Anyone else getting stuff like "Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 26 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment"? Any idea what might be up?)
"I can't believe this made it to +4 interesting. Do you have any evidence for your preposterous claim? Everything I have heard has indicated that violent crime is at an all time low in Australia."
For this purpose, we can examine statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, as compiled and reported by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC). It is interesting to note that the AIC has many ''stakeholders'' from the Australian national and state governments. (4)
Here are some key findings about Australian crime trends for the period of 1995 (pre-ban) to 2001 (post-ban) (5):
The rate of assault has increased steadily from 563 victims per 100,000 people in 1995 to 779 per 100,000 people in 2001.
In 2001 the rate for robbery peaked at 136 per 100,000 people--the highest recorded since 1995.
The rate of sexual assault was 86 per 100,000 people, which is higher than any previous year.
The Australian per capita crime rates from 1996-2001: Homocide: -11% Assault: +39% Rape: +19% Robbery: +70%
The USA figures during that same period: Homocide: -32% Assault: -24% Rape: -14% Robbery: -33%
The route will be no more than 175 miles over desert terrain featuring natural and man-made obstacles. The exact route will not be revealed until two hours before the event begins.
Laptops accounted for 54.2 percent of the $500 million in revenue generated by U.S. retail computer sales in May, the first time portables have surpassed their desktop counterparts in that category, according to research by the NPD Group Inc. of Port Washington, N.Y.
The average price in May 2003 was $1,300 for a laptop compared with $757 for a desktop.
And 60 percent of all computers sold in May were desktops. However, the percentage of laptop units sold has risen from 30.5 percent in May 2002 to 40 percent in May 2003.
As and arm of Aviation Technical Services--which also provides air-traffic control for the U.S. Antarctic Program--Mac Weather's(McMurdo weather office) main task is to issue forecasts for aviation.
Jeff Prucinsky of Mac Weather reports, "I do not believe that there has ever been a recorded case of lightning in the Antarctic."
The reason is that lightning requires clouds that are tall enough to have large areas of positive and negative charge. Because Antarctica is so flat and white, there is little convective activity, and no chance for clouds to form high enough, Prucinsky said. With no tall clouds, there is no lightning.
You do not need to be a rich snob to purchase books. Look who the largest percentage of smokers are, people in the lowest quartile of income. If 38% of the people in that income quartile can afford $8/day for fags they can certainly afford books as well. They simply choose to fund their drug addiction instead.
Of course you still can argue which is the cause and which the effect. Do they make this senseless choice because they are poor and uneducated or are they poor and uneducated because of this type of choice...
"Sane people will not appreciate the library holding their dough unless they credit a decent amount of interest."
If they have $50 for an entire month how much interest have you lost? At 4% APR it is a whopping $0.16. I don't think "sane people" spend much time worrying about $0.16.
How does the FairTax protect low-income families and individuals and retirees on fixed incomes?
Under the FairTax plan, poor people pay no net FairTax at all up to the poverty level! Every household receives a rebate that is equal to the FairTax paid on essential goods and services, and wage earners are no longer subject to the most regressive and burdensome tax of all, the payroll tax.
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http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg15n2g.html
https://games.dev.java.net/
Part of the fun of a LAN party is file sharing. 802.11g is nowhere near enough bandwidth to replace GigE in this regard.
"I hope that they will soon develop a power efficient chip for laptops."
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http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/hardware/notebooks/0
BAPCo MobileMark2002 battery life (in minutes)
P-M 2.0GHz: 203
Turion64 2.0GHz: 197
"I'd like to see a simple system where I get 30 minutes free with a drink. Not sure how that would work, but it would keep the free loaders out."
It could work the same way that gas stations sell car washes. When you make a purchase over $X it would print a code on the receipt that can be used within Y hours/days.
Here is a head to head test with laptops.
http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/hardware/notebooks/0
BAPCo MobileMark2002 battery life (in minutes)
Turion 2.0GHz: 197
P-M 2.0GHz: 203
3% battery life = "lot less"?
Check out these results from 64-player servers.
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?cati
Memory usage:
Good article about the Stanford and Cyberrider teams, with video.
Gran Turismo 4 and Forza have both of those.
"None of the seats are super comfortable and none are worse than others"
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Not quite: http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Northwest_Airlin
This is the same nonsense we heard when Clinton put V-Chips in every TV.
External HDTV tuners are $50 today so what will the price be when they produce them by the millions? $20? $2?
Here: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/ 11/007207
(P.S. Anyone else getting stuff like "Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 26 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment"? Any idea what might be up?)
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The Australian per capita crime rates from 1996-2001:
Homocide: -11%
Assault: +39%
Rape: +19%
Robbery: +70%
The USA figures during that same period:
Homocide: -32%
Assault: -24%
Rape: -14%
Robbery: -33%
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.
142 miles, sorry.
Last year's route was 148 miles so I would expect something similar this year.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chron
http://www.polar.org/antsun/oldissues99-2000/99_1
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/background/N
You do not need to be a rich snob to purchase books. Look who the largest percentage of smokers are, people in the lowest quartile of income. If 38% of the people in that income quartile can afford $8/day for fags they can certainly afford books as well. They simply choose to fund their drug addiction instead.
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http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ccdpc-cpcmc/cancer/pub
Of course you still can argue which is the cause and which the effect. Do they make this senseless choice because they are poor and uneducated or are they poor and uneducated because of this type of choice...
"Sane people will not appreciate the library holding their dough unless they credit a decent amount of interest."
If they have $50 for an entire month how much interest have you lost? At 4% APR it is a whopping $0.16. I don't think "sane people" spend much time worrying about $0.16.
"They should offer a paid service for stories over 2 months old"
They already do.
From WSJ.com
"Articles dating back up to 30 days are free; older articles are $2.95 each. "
Apple's strategy - where the OS and a bunch of software is basically thrown in for free - is the trend of the future.
$100/yr for OSX updates is your definition of 'free'?
"A national sales tax would hurt low wage earners the most as they would be using the majority of their wages on food & basic necessities."
http://www.fairtax.org/
How does the FairTax protect low-income families and individuals and retirees on fixed incomes?
Under the FairTax plan, poor people pay no net FairTax at all up to the poverty level! Every household receives a rebate that is equal to the FairTax paid on essential goods and services, and wage earners are no longer subject to the most regressive and burdensome tax of all, the payroll tax.
It was the Nov episode of Fifth Gear. Tottent avaialable here
http://gear.viper007bond.com/downloads.php