1. How can tiny amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere affect the global temperature ? There is only 0.039% CO2. CO2 must then have some enormous heating mechanism. Has this heating been confirmed in the lab and/or is there a physical explanation ?
2. The weather-forecasters doesn't seem to be able to predict how much rain there will be in, say, 2 days, with high accuracy. Yet, they claim there will be 30% more rain in 30 years. Why is the accuracy higher for long-term forecasts ? The same goes for temperature.
If we know what causes the warming, we will be more capable of predicting how it will evolve in the future. So of course it matters if it's anthropogenic or not.
6 TeraFlops is not much, it will not be close to even a 500th place at top500.org. I realize it's new technology, but it is a bit too early to call it a supercomputer.
I wouldn't use the word fascinating. We should worry if the climate gets colder. Historically that has meant a lot of suffering for humans. Warm climate is good.
"Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time. Climate can be contrasted to weather, which is the present condition of these same elements over periods up to two weeks." Wikipedia.
You are saying the the complexity of weather is far too complex for our super-computers. This is evidently right since they can't accurately predict temperature for next days weather.
How is it possible to predict that the temperature will rise globally with 2 degrees celsius in the next 50 years ? There should be some huge error bars rendering the results useless.
Yeah, and *none* of these being even remotely qualified or even sane enough for the job. Who's willing to throw his very existence away for a few weeks or months on Mars just has no idea what he's actually talking about and very probably has many other illusions as well. You're not really thinking that you can successfully train someone to do the year-long transfer flight to Mars just to die there? You'd risk that they would be *begging* to do just a fly-around and come back instead after they've been through this. Everyone sane enough to manage that task would be too sane to do a one-way mission.
Once I drove from Thisted to Aarhus ( about 2 1/2 hours drive) and used the 6220 for navigation.
It worked perfectly, also in the city. I just put it in the passenger seat and had the device voice navigate me.
It's all hardware. To be smarter than you it
also needs software, preferably emulation of the human brain.
It will be many years before we can do that.
1. when they have built in wireless internet.
2. cheap.
3. You can use it in the sun (Sony's ereader).
4. Long batteri life (Sony's ereader).
Why 1. ? You can subscribe to a newspaper, and
every morning it will automatically download
the newest version.
More and more hotspots are turning up so when
you are outside you can get the latest news (like
the movie Minority Report).
Looks legit to me. The story has been reported
in the danish media today. 5 scientists from
DTU (the danish technical university) have patented
the hydrogen pills. They will talk about the find at
a conference today in Chicago.
From Ritzau (Danish news agency):
Statsministeren afviser, at Microsoft skulle have truet med at lukke Navision og flytte 800 arbejdspladser til USA.
Statsminister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (V) afviser, at stifteren af verdens største softwarevirksomhed, Bill Gates, skulle have truet ham med at lukke Navision i Danmark og flytte de knap 800 udviklere bag Danmarks største software-succes til USA.
- Det har han ikke gjort på noget møde med mig. Jeg kan slet ikke bekræfte den udlægning, slet ikke. Det har vi slet ikke været inde på. Nej, siger Anders Fogh Rasmussen til Ritzau.
Statsministerens afvisning kommer, efter Børsen tirsdag kunne berette om Bill Gates' trussel, som skulle være kommet på et møde i november med Anders Fogh Rasmussen samt økonomi- og erhvervsminister Bendt Bendtsen (K) og videnskabsminister Helge Sander (V).
Anders Fogh is saying that Bill Gates has not
told him about any plans of moving Navision to
the USA.
"Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in MPlayer by iDEFENSE, and more were found by us while reviewing the code"
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
"New xine-lib released. This version adress multiple security vulnerabilites on PNM and Real RTSP clients. All users are advised to upgrade to 1-rc8. The release also includes several bug fixes and new features" http://xinehq.de/
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He wouldn't leave the Kindle with the kids.
You are an idiot
1. How can tiny amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere affect the global temperature ?
There is only 0.039% CO2. CO2 must then have some enormous heating mechanism.
Has this heating been confirmed in the lab and/or is there a physical explanation ?
2. The weather-forecasters doesn't seem to be able to predict how much rain there
will be in, say, 2 days, with high accuracy. Yet, they claim there will be 30% more rain in
30 years. Why is the accuracy higher for long-term forecasts ? The same goes for
temperature.
If we know what causes the warming, we will be more capable of predicting how it will
evolve in the future. So of course it matters if it's anthropogenic or not.
6 TeraFlops is not much, it will not be close to even a 500th place at top500.org.
I realize it's new technology, but it is a bit too early to call it a supercomputer.
I wouldn't use the word fascinating. We should worry if the climate gets colder. Historically that has meant
a lot of suffering for humans. Warm climate is good.
That's very well said Mashdar, thanks for this :-)
Why not hold the release until the bug is fixed ?
"Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time. Climate can be contrasted to weather, which is the present condition of these same elements over periods up to two weeks." Wikipedia.
You are saying the the complexity of weather is far too complex for our super-computers. This is evidently right since they can't accurately predict temperature for
next days weather.
How is it possible to predict that the temperature will rise globally with 2 degrees celsius in the next 50 years ? There should be some huge error
bars rendering the results useless.
Yeah, and *none* of these being even remotely qualified or even sane enough for the job. Who's willing to throw his very existence away for a few weeks or months on Mars just has no idea what he's actually talking about and very probably has many other illusions as well. You're not really thinking that you can successfully train someone to do the year-long transfer flight to Mars just to die there? You'd risk that they would be *begging* to do just a fly-around and come back instead after they've been through this. Everyone sane enough to manage that task would be too sane to do a one-way mission.
These tough guys from the US army want to go on a one-way mission: http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/26/one-way-mission-to-mars-us-soldiers-will-go/
Once I drove from Thisted to Aarhus ( about 2 1/2 hours drive) and used the 6220 for navigation. It worked perfectly, also in the city. I just put it in the passenger seat and had the device voice navigate me.
Decades ? We will know in 4 years how many earth-like planets there are in our part of the galaxy, due to the Kepler space mission.
It's not that simple. Earth has experienced warm climate many times, without there being any humans to pollute.
It's all hardware. To be smarter than you it also needs software, preferably emulation of the human brain. It will be many years before we can do that.
1. when they have built in wireless internet.
2. cheap.
3. You can use it in the sun (Sony's ereader).
4. Long batteri life (Sony's ereader).
Why 1. ? You can subscribe to a newspaper, and every morning it will automatically download the newest version.
More and more hotspots are turning up so when you are outside you can get the latest news (like the movie Minority Report).
I guess it will go mainstream in 3-4 years.
Looks legit to me. The story has been reported in the danish media today. 5 scientists from DTU (the danish technical university) have patented the hydrogen pills. They will talk about the find at a conference today in Chicago.
A very nice read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming
with more details:n 2005/tc2005066_6414_tc024.htm
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/ju
Why go to a distant galaxy when we have 200 billion stars in our own ?
Heh, I found a link to a NYTimes article. So I was wrong, sorry.
Actually, the New York Times website is not among the 4500 sources at news.google.com. NyTimes doesn't allow it.
From Ritzau (Danish news agency): Statsministeren afviser, at Microsoft skulle have truet med at lukke Navision og flytte 800 arbejdspladser til USA. Statsminister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (V) afviser, at stifteren af verdens største softwarevirksomhed, Bill Gates, skulle have truet ham med at lukke Navision i Danmark og flytte de knap 800 udviklere bag Danmarks største software-succes til USA. - Det har han ikke gjort på noget møde med mig. Jeg kan slet ikke bekræfte den udlægning, slet ikke. Det har vi slet ikke været inde på. Nej, siger Anders Fogh Rasmussen til Ritzau. Statsministerens afvisning kommer, efter Børsen tirsdag kunne berette om Bill Gates' trussel, som skulle være kommet på et møde i november med Anders Fogh Rasmussen samt økonomi- og erhvervsminister Bendt Bendtsen (K) og videnskabsminister Helge Sander (V).
Anders Fogh is saying that Bill Gates has not told him about any plans of moving Navision to the USA.
Have you asked your children if they want a camera in their face ? Do you even care want they think ?
"It makes an end of year list but that is realy all that it is."
Yes, it's suppose to be an end of year list.
"Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in MPlayer by iDEFENSE, and more were found by us while reviewing the code"
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
"New xine-lib released. This version adress multiple security vulnerabilites on PNM and Real RTSP clients. All users are advised to upgrade to 1-rc8. The release also includes several bug fixes and new features"
http://xinehq.de/