World concesus also used to say that the world is flat, people spontaneously combusted and worms could spontaneously generate from hairs on the ground.
In the short amount of time that we have been able to accurately gather climatic data we can definitely say that the average temperature on the Earth has risen by x amount.
The interesting thing about accurate data is I remember a story on my local weather station that stated that a lot of the record highs and lows record in our area in the past were caused by improperly placed (e.g. in full time shade, in full time sun, on metal roofs, in wells, etc...) and inaccurately calibrated thermometers caused by among other things poor manufacturing techniques, and such.
3) Einstein was only right to a point just like Newton was. It could be that things act very differently from what Einsteinian or Quantum physics allows us to describe right now.
Do you believe that you could come up with a truly unique idea that is in no way derivative or a copy of what has been done before?
I would love to here one. After all aren't their only "...7 stories to be told, everything else is in the variation"
Actually do you trully believe it would be any less polluted. If you want to use that statement then it was truly a shame that prior hominid species left Africa, after all look what they did with Europe and Asia...what a pity.
Why does it have to remain so? It is not a virgin environment, it is a sterile enivornment.
When Mankind can prove it can live in equilibrium oni Earth, then it can spread elsewhere.
How do we know what "equilibrium" is? We are just as likely now to be living in "equilibrium" as we are to not be living in "equilibrium". Every creature (and plant) on this planet has an impact on the environment. Some more so than others and everytime one creature or plant becomes dominant or has a larger effect that others a new steady-state is eventually reached.
Anyone interested in terraforming Mars should read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars).
Privatizing Social Security does not mean that the corporations get to stop paying their matching contributions. It just means that the individual can direct where the money goes.
This suit seems to trigger a reminder in my head of the type worn by the explorers in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars nover from the early 90's.
I find it interesting how it seems that so many ideas in science today are first appeared in science fiction novels from the past. I wonder if this is because the authors of these novels forsee problems that will occur in the future that must be solved or are these new creations a result of the creators being inspired by the novels they read in the past.
If we see a clear path to fixing a problem that could save millions of lives, shouldn't we do that?
It is possible that if we tried to stop this change it may cause greater misery from our perspective in the end. We do not really understand why Earth goes through the periods of climatic change it does or what triggers them. It is possible that these periods of climatic change are required for Earth to "renew" itself (maybe it's Earth's own "Cyrcadian Rythm".
Maybe we shouldn't try to stop any of this. If global warming (or global cooling) is real and we are causing it whose to say that the new steady state that may be achieved will not be better than the current one?
In the short term you may see mass displacement of populations or even war but in the long term there will just be a new status quo that people will just have to live with. This new status quo may be better than our current one or worse (from our perspective) but I bet that after humans have lived in it for a 1000 years that they would rather keep it than the one we currently have, just like we want to keep the one we are used too.
The problem is Earth has never been static in its climate. It has had many localized times of climate stability but they have always ended. To think that we should try to maintain the current climate in perpetuity seems to be both arrogant and selfish.
Maybe we shouldn't try to stop any of this. If global warming (or global cooling) is real and we are causing it whose to say that the new steady state that may be achieved will not be better than the current one?
In the short term you may see mass displacement of populations or even war but in the long term there will just be a new status quo that people will just have to live with. This new status quo may be better than our current one or worse (from our perspective) but I bet that after humans have lived in it for a 1000 years that they would rather keep it than the one we currently have, just like we want to keep the one we are used too.
The problem is Earth has never been static in its climate. It has had many localized times of climate stability but they have always ended. To think that we should try to maintain the current climate in perpetuity seems to be both arrogant and selfish.
Doesn't this article and many peoples postings here lend credence to the "Violent Games Generate Violent People" so called theory. It seems very strange to me that someone could become so disconnected from reality. It seems to me if you are really that susceptible to becoming disconnected from reality then you should probably not play the games. Like the guy's girlfriend who tried shaking the tree in the park.
I swear the the/. crowd are the first to say that their is no connection between violent games and violent behavior yet many of the posters here are saying that their behavior IS influenced by their gameplay experience.
After reading this article it seemed obvious that something like this would eventually occur (hindsite 20/20). Afterall the GameBoy Advance and GameBoy DS have had small card type form factors for their games for years (wrt GameBoy Advance).
I worked with PC cards way back in the early 90's using DAQ cards from various companies like Analog Devices (similar to these). I wonder if these Express cards will have the proper form factor to allow for construction of DAQ cards with multichannel inputs on the outside when inserted into the reader/drive. If they cannot do this then the PC card will probably always have a nitch that it can fit into.
I would replace Bard's Tale with the Might & Magic series. I thought that was the greatest series of all time. I always liked the way there progression system worked and also there weapons.
I will always remember finding my first coral sword and wondering if it was better than a wooden axe.
Also they had a couple of decent ports to the Genesis game console that were fun to play.
Considering all of the rules and regulations from the FAA that MUST be followed in order to assign a crew member, this IS beyond the ability of people to manage using paper and pencil. If then only had 10 planes and 15 flight crews maybe they could have done this but the rules and complex and have all kinds of dependencies (including circular dependencies) on other rules. If they did this using paper and pencil and an ineligible flight crew actually flew the plane and crashed the resulting fines from the FAA and civil suits would put them out of business.
It would also be possible to run the application in DOSBox.
This would allow them to keep their existing application and run it on newer hardware if/when the old hardware finally dies.
I did some intensive PL/I programming for about a year. I found the language to be very flexible. I found it to be much more capable than Fortran 77.
The only problem I had with the language was finding any documentation, user groups, or helpful usenet groups when I had any questions.
I remember asking what I thought was a simple question about string (I even prefaced the question with the fact that I was a newbie to the language) and I remember getting flamed for asking such a stupid question. Not very good if you want to promote a healthy user community.
I finally got the answer when I was able to find an email address for someone at IBM. This gentelman proved to be very helpful and even fixed a bug in their threading library that I found.
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In the short amount of time that we have been able to accurately gather climatic data we can definitely say that the average temperature on the Earth has risen by x amount.
The interesting thing about accurate data is I remember a story on my local weather station that stated that a lot of the record highs and lows record in our area in the past were caused by improperly placed (e.g. in full time shade, in full time sun, on metal roofs, in wells, etc...) and inaccurately calibrated thermometers caused by among other things poor manufacturing techniques, and such.
Isn't this what you would hope your father would say if you asked him that question?
Isn't that what any loving parent would say in that situation even if their eventual actions would differ?
He also said "...quantum physics can't be true because God wouldn't play games with the Universe...".
Or
3) Einstein was only right to a point just like Newton was. It could be that things act very differently from what Einsteinian or Quantum physics allows us to describe right now.
Also The Boat of a Million Years by Pohl Anderson. An interesting read on how immortality would affect humanity.
Kind of funny but understandable given the fact that they had no way of communicating across such distances and anything resembling real time.
Science doesn't trump religion. Science is itself a religion.
I'm not sure I completely Grok you.
Do you believe that you could come up with a truly unique idea that is in no way derivative or a copy of what has been done before? I would love to here one. After all aren't their only "...7 stories to be told, everything else is in the variation"
Actually do you trully believe it would be any less polluted. If you want to use that statement then it was truly a shame that prior hominid species left Africa, after all look what they did with Europe and Asia...what a pity.
Why does it have to remain so? It is not a virgin environment, it is a sterile enivornment.
When Mankind can prove it can live in equilibrium oni Earth, then it can spread elsewhere.
How do we know what "equilibrium" is? We are just as likely now to be living in "equilibrium" as we are to not be living in "equilibrium". Every creature (and plant) on this planet has an impact on the environment. Some more so than others and everytime one creature or plant becomes dominant or has a larger effect that others a new steady-state is eventually reached.
Anyone interested in terraforming Mars should read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars).
Privatizing Social Security does not mean that the corporations get to stop paying their matching contributions. It just means that the individual can direct where the money goes.
I guess your still bitter and disgruntled.
I find it interesting how it seems that so many ideas in science today are first appeared in science fiction novels from the past. I wonder if this is because the authors of these novels forsee problems that will occur in the future that must be solved or are these new creations a result of the creators being inspired by the novels they read in the past.
Has anyone noticed that it seems like we are getting an abnormally large number of posts regarding global warming on /. lately?
Actually the people most likely to benefit from the lack of CO2 emission restrictions are Wen Jiabao and the PRC.
If we see a clear path to fixing a problem that could save millions of lives, shouldn't we do that?
It is possible that if we tried to stop this change it may cause greater misery from our perspective in the end. We do not really understand why Earth goes through the periods of climatic change it does or what triggers them. It is possible that these periods of climatic change are required for Earth to "renew" itself (maybe it's Earth's own "Cyrcadian Rythm".
Maybe we shouldn't try to stop any of this. If global warming (or global cooling) is real and we are causing it whose to say that the new steady state that may be achieved will not be better than the current one?
In the short term you may see mass displacement of populations or even war but in the long term there will just be a new status quo that people will just have to live with. This new status quo may be better than our current one or worse (from our perspective) but I bet that after humans have lived in it for a 1000 years that they would rather keep it than the one we currently have, just like we want to keep the one we are used too.
The problem is Earth has never been static in its climate. It has had many localized times of climate stability but they have always ended. To think that we should try to maintain the current climate in perpetuity seems to be both arrogant and selfish.
Maybe we shouldn't try to stop any of this. If global warming (or global cooling) is real and we are causing it whose to say that the new steady state that may be achieved will not be better than the current one?
In the short term you may see mass displacement of populations or even war but in the long term there will just be a new status quo that people will just have to live with. This new status quo may be better than our current one or worse (from our perspective) but I bet that after humans have lived in it for a 1000 years that they would rather keep it than the one we currently have, just like we want to keep the one we are used too.
The problem is Earth has never been static in its climate. It has had many localized times of climate stability but they have always ended. To think that we should try to maintain the current climate in perpetuity seems to be both arrogant and selfish.
Doesn't this article and many peoples postings here lend credence to the "Violent Games Generate Violent People" so called theory. It seems very strange to me that someone could become so disconnected from reality. It seems to me if you are really that susceptible to becoming disconnected from reality then you should probably not play the games. Like the guy's girlfriend who tried shaking the tree in the park.
/. crowd are the first to say that their is no connection between violent games and violent behavior yet many of the posters here are saying that their behavior IS influenced by their gameplay experience.
I swear the the
Which is it?
I worked with PC cards way back in the early 90's using DAQ cards from various companies like Analog Devices (similar to these). I wonder if these Express cards will have the proper form factor to allow for construction of DAQ cards with multichannel inputs on the outside when inserted into the reader/drive. If they cannot do this then the PC card will probably always have a nitch that it can fit into.
I would replace Bard's Tale with the Might & Magic series. I thought that was the greatest series of all time. I always liked the way there progression system worked and also there weapons.
I will always remember finding my first coral sword and wondering if it was better than a wooden axe.
Also they had a couple of decent ports to the Genesis game console that were fun to play.
Considering all of the rules and regulations from the FAA that MUST be followed in order to assign a crew member, this IS beyond the ability of people to manage using paper and pencil. If then only had 10 planes and 15 flight crews maybe they could have done this but the rules and complex and have all kinds of dependencies (including circular dependencies) on other rules. If they did this using paper and pencil and an ineligible flight crew actually flew the plane and crashed the resulting fines from the FAA and civil suits would put them out of business.
It would also be possible to run the application in DOSBox. This would allow them to keep their existing application and run it on newer hardware if/when the old hardware finally dies.
I did some intensive PL/I programming for about a year. I found the language to be very flexible. I found it to be much more capable than Fortran 77.
The only problem I had with the language was finding any documentation, user groups, or helpful usenet groups when I had any questions.
I remember asking what I thought was a simple question about string (I even prefaced the question with the fact that I was a newbie to the language) and I remember getting flamed for asking such a stupid question. Not very good if you want to promote a healthy user community.
I finally got the answer when I was able to find an email address for someone at IBM. This gentelman proved to be very helpful and even fixed a bug in their threading library that I found.