Before Bernard could answer, the lift came to a standstill.
"Roof!" called a creaking voice.
The liftman was a small simian creature, dressed in the black tunic of an Epsilon-Minus Semi-Moron.
"Roof!"
He flung open the gates. The warm glory of afternoon sunlight made him start and blink his eyes. "Oh, roof!" he repeated in a voice of rapture. He was as though suddenly and joyfully awakened from a dark annihilating stupor. "Roof!"
He smiled up with a kind of doggily expectant adoration into the faces of his passengers. Talking and laughing together, they stepped out into the light. The liftman looked after them.
"Roof?" he said once more, questioningly.
Then a bell rang, and from the ceiling of the lift a loud speaker began, very softly and yet very imperiously, to issue its commands.
(Aldous Huxley: Brave New World)
Water (DHMO:-) is indeed one of the most important "greenhouse gases", along with N2 and O2 and so on. But in the spectral range where water absorbs is largely "black", I mean, precious little light of that colour does _not_ get scattered as it goes through the atmosphere. Incidentally that makes the sky blue and the setting sun red. And if it were not for the greenhouse effect it would be _very_ cold here.
The thing is because the H20 absorption spectral range is largely saturated, adding more H2O has little effect. CO2 is present at a few % in the air and that makes it also fairly saturated, but adding more still gives us a hotter atmosphere, so the experts tell us.
Other gases that are produced by human activity only, albeit in a much lower quantity, can still make a significant contribution to the greenhouse effect since they may darken out a frequency window that was previously transperent and the equilibrium of our global climate relies on it to be transperent to get rid of some heat.
El Reg recently reported that computers make kids dumb.
I wonder if that applies in a lesser way to FOS-equipped software, because the incentive to "hack" (as in "use computers creatively") makes for mor intelligent use patterns?
BTW: can someone explain that "Borg-esque" icon to me? I have trawled/. faqs and such to no avail. I cannot contain my curiosity any longer as to what those red and black blurs in Bill's face are supposed to depict. Please help!
AFAIK the germans developed something like this in the last century, they called it the drug of heroes, or HEROIN. It didn't turn out to be awefully useful but still is a commercial success.
Another one to have a look at is GNUEnterprise (www.gnuenterprise.org). It's under heavy development, uses XML and Python, and ties in nicely with GNU Bayonne, which does everything to do with telephony. Check it out!
That really surprises noone, since both The Sun and The Sunday Times (As well as a lot of other press rubbish in this (UK that is) and other counties are owned by the Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch. This guy's got a political agenda to push.
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"Roof!" called a creaking voice.
The liftman was a small simian creature, dressed in the black tunic of an Epsilon-Minus Semi-Moron.
"Roof!"
He flung open the gates. The warm glory of afternoon sunlight made him start and blink his eyes. "Oh, roof!" he repeated in a voice of rapture. He was as though suddenly and joyfully awakened from a dark annihilating stupor. "Roof!"
He smiled up with a kind of doggily expectant adoration into the faces of his passengers. Talking and laughing together, they stepped out into the light. The liftman looked after them.
"Roof?" he said once more, questioningly.
Then a bell rang, and from the ceiling of the lift a loud speaker began, very softly and yet very imperiously, to issue its commands. (Aldous Huxley: Brave New World)
The thing is because the H20 absorption spectral range is largely saturated, adding more H2O has little effect. CO2 is present at a few % in the air and that makes it also fairly saturated, but adding more still gives us a hotter atmosphere, so the experts tell us.
Other gases that are produced by human activity only, albeit in a much lower quantity, can still make a significant contribution to the greenhouse effect since they may darken out a frequency window that was previously transperent and the equilibrium of our global climate relies on it to be transperent to get rid of some heat.
write code or change the world?
I wonder if that applies in a lesser way to FOS-equipped software, because the incentive to "hack" (as in "use computers creatively") makes for mor intelligent use patterns?
BTW: can someone explain that "Borg-esque" icon to me? I have trawled /. faqs and such to no avail. I cannot contain my curiosity any longer as to what those red and black blurs in Bill's face are supposed to depict. Please help!
I can't try it out because my pII-233 is a bit weak...
AFAIK the germans developed something like this in the last century, they called it the drug of heroes, or HEROIN. It didn't turn out to be awefully useful but still is a commercial success.
Another one to have a look at is GNUEnterprise (www.gnuenterprise.org). It's under heavy development, uses XML and Python, and ties in nicely with GNU Bayonne, which does everything to do with telephony. Check it out!
That really surprises noone, since both The Sun and The Sunday Times (As well as a lot of other press rubbish in this (UK that is) and other counties are owned by the Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch. This guy's got a political agenda to push.