The real question is whether human activities and human activities which humans are WILLING to curtail are the source of a significant part of the warming?
After all, the Earth has been warming globally for over WELL OVER 10,000 years during the time the last Ice Age receeded until the present.
Framing arguments with an improper word to skew things is NOT good science.
Science classes are supposed to discuss hypothesis, theory, measurements, conclusions and verification or lack thereof for measurable events in our physical universe.
Will the school board or someone explain what can be measured in the field of creationism...other than the number of pages in some edition of a bible in some language?
Is all news local for a community to be interested in it enough to make it pay somehow, with a combination of advertising, subscription, referrals with local search services, etc.?
Think about it a minute. Will there be 12 or 20 major news organizations in the U.S. trying to report the national news every day? Or is it going to compress to 3-4 outlets, with the rest going back local? If you "go where the customers are", then local markets are BIG, but distributed and can't be targeted universally.
Maybe some of the prior Slashdotters have it right in that only small focused groups of people targeting local businesses, city & county government & users will have a chance of surviving easily where their topics have RELEVANCE to their local population.
iPhone, iPad & computers mean that a local source has inherent value to all the local users, but not necessarily the next town down the road.
News has to match readers with suppliers in broad terms.
I have the HP41cx on my iPhone and it is great. All my old programs work just fine.
I haven't given a thought to creating elaborate programs or operating systems to go on it, but given the dramatic shift to touch screens with iPhone & now iPad, the days of dedicated hardware seem gone.
If we are going to advance students capabilities, it is going to take open systems that lets students create crap, fail and try again.
Patents are public! End of story. Now if you use a patented item without a license or approval of the patent holder or worse yet you sell it, then you have a problem. Distributing a copy of the patent or how it works does NOT violate the patent.
Trade Secrets are secret only if the company keeps it a secret.
If you or any other 3rd party can figure out what the trade secret is without getting the information from the company, then it is NO LONGER A TRADE SECRET.
The minute I found that 100% CPU load with long operations didn't generate heat along with crunching speeds that were doubled from my prior hard drive, it convinced me that I had just become far more productive for my 3D work.
It didn't take me long to understand that more speed made me a lot more productive.
It was so good, I put 2 SSDs in my i7 Mac Book Pro using MCE's Optibay so I could get the 2nd SSD in the CD/DVD bay (which I never use on the road).
x 5 because Assange may have U.S., British, Canadian, Australian and others looking to do a Mossad action on him as a warning to the others who have anything whatsover to do with Wikileaks.
Play in the bear cage? Better be the biggest bear.
But only if it stays trained on one spot for enough time and is close to the laser as opposed to 50 feet where the energy per square centimeter is less. Of course, some jerk will try it on his arm.
I accidentally found out what a 25 watt CO2 laser will do to the palm of your hand when a coworker left one on with no warning signs up and it burnt a branding iron across my palm as my hand quickly went into the beam. When I heard the sizzling, instead of keeping my hand moving through the beam, I pulled back and in the tens of milliseconds stopped before pulling back it vaporized (not burned) a hole about 1/8" deep in my hand.
Don't screw with this stuff you are not trained and careful or you'll wind up paying doctors and lawyers.
"Run Windows 7. Its a hell of a lot better. MS finally got something right."
Indeed, I agree. I have been using Win7 64 bit for nearly a month now and not crashed it once.
I tend to agree that the earlier note about Windows facing FUD is also correct.
Microsoft's history with ME and Vista has given a lot of reason for users to be skeptical about new Windows versions.
I actually found Win7 an easy thing to get used to in coming directly from XP Pro.
In the end I guess I should have asked when Microsoft will give its next major OS a new name other than Windows. Windows implies and has had to date a lot of negative legacy.
Degrees/100k Population of those cities would reveal a different figure that give Education to Population density, which when considered with the prior figures of the author might indeed suggest where "the action is".
This would make some small areas stand out by looking at a different "concentration". Something like "Bankers per city" in Connecticut.
The book is as irrelevant as Bill Gates and I suspect Bill understood and that is why he left for something he was fully qualified to do: give away money.
The big issue in science and engineering is ALWAYS reduction to practice. The inventor acknowledges this and is working with an engineering firm to make a practical pseudo-production testing model. When you have no clutches, the lack of shock loading means the size of gears and the housing can be substantially reduced, since there won't be an engine load shock issue. There can be issues of loads when parked, though, when another car bumps yours. The other issue is how do you tow such a car when the engine fails or you want to tow it behind a motor home? There may still need to be a "cog" connection for towing.
Issues involved in getting it into a small, produceable and cost effective prototype will tax the engineers. If they can do it, there will be applications in many different fields.
Given that the gear ration can be set by controlling the small electric motor speed, it can be integrated with other electronic control systems easily.
I have to hand it to the guy for coming up with a very clever implementation. This is why we need to support the math, science and physics departments everywhere, because in the end, the world is a physical place and the countries who prosper the most will be the ones with the most technologically up-to-date innovators.
The larger issue of network reliability is a bit Off Topic, but it is still relevant if you are going to prepare a scenario for your company to handle your customers in the best possible manner for the coming 20 years. This is even more true if you are Google. Naseem Taleb has written about such things in The Black Swan.
Is your device completely worthless if the internet goes down, and you can't retrieve ANY data? We have had good times for electronic network reliability for 40 years, BUT...
We have had no major wars, no major gamma ray burst or Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun that hit the Earth directly (last one around the civil war, approx 150 years ago before electronics).
We have not had a high atmospheric Nuclear blast which would fry most connected electronic devices plus lots of other susceptible devices.
We have had not one truly mega 9.0 earthquake, volcano, large asteroid nor a major Tsunami in a major metro area since the Renaissance.
Who is going to believe those things are not possible because those known events occur at repeatable, though long intervals?
Conclusion: a Web OS, Applications & Data is not a keeper for the long run.
No matter what is patented several things can occur and do in the arena of Patents:
1. All patents cease to have proprietary ownership 20 years after their filing date. Thus some will easily go out of date in the next 5-10 years.
2. Patents are ONLY valid in the countries that the patent is issued in. Thus if it is only a U.S. patent and you are producing software in Germany, the creator of the software may not be liable for infringement, but an actual U.S. user might be (Just what I want to have happen: being sued by my idol S. Jobs).
3. ANY patent may be challenged by showing prior art that is demonstrable from a date prior to the patent filing and paying a small nominal fee for reexamination. This is the "silent patent killer" that every patent holder fears. This can come from a published piece of information from ANYWHERE in the world. It can come from privately developed and non-public sources, too, if it can be substantiated, if I remember right (such as in an invenstion documentation book).
4. A successful patent challenge may cause only one or a few claims in an existing patent to be thrown out, though sometimes they all get tossed.
5. The whole arena is so fraught with uncertainty that any group putting together an "open source" software tool, had better be filing its own patents so they have bargaining chips when the legal eagles fly.
6. Any open source creator for something like a video codec better have one heck of a good patent attorney firm that can give real world advice on patents from day one. "Open Source" software can easily be an "Open invitation" to suits over patent infringement and it typically takes many millions to litigate a single patent. It is better to be able to cross license when the threats arise.
1. they are hard to get to: no, they drive trucks into those types of caves, if I am not mistaken (or have HUGE elevators)
2. they are hard to get supplies to and build in: Not with a roadway, and you don't have to build "buildings" as such.
3. they flood: If they did, Quincy wouldn't put up the choice to Google.
4. they have air quality issues: Dust control is needed on the surface for data centers, too, if you haven't noticed.
5. and they ARE cool... until you put a bunch of servers in them: Heat exchanger systems are used in every data center and a specific system would be designed for the caves. My guess is they would dump heat to pipes drilled in the limestone to take heat to distant distributed parts of the limestone bed.
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The real question is whether human activities and human activities which humans are WILLING to curtail are the source of a significant part of the warming?
After all, the Earth has been warming globally for over WELL OVER 10,000 years during the time the last Ice Age receeded until the present.
Framing arguments with an improper word to skew things is NOT good science.
Science classes are supposed to discuss hypothesis, theory, measurements, conclusions and verification or lack thereof for measurable events in our physical universe.
Will the school board or someone explain what can be measured in the field of creationism...other than the number of pages in some edition of a bible in some language?
Is all news local for a community to be interested in it enough to make it pay somehow, with a combination of advertising, subscription, referrals with local search services, etc.?
Think about it a minute. Will there be 12 or 20 major news organizations in the U.S. trying to report the national news every day? Or is it going to compress to 3-4 outlets, with the rest going back local? If you "go where the customers are", then local markets are BIG, but distributed and can't be targeted universally.
Maybe some of the prior Slashdotters have it right in that only small focused groups of people targeting local businesses, city & county government & users will have a chance of surviving easily where their topics have RELEVANCE to their local population.
iPhone, iPad & computers mean that a local source has inherent value to all the local users, but not necessarily the next town down the road.
News has to match readers with suppliers in broad terms.
Yeah, I know about school, but...
I have the HP41cx on my iPhone and it is great. All my old programs work just fine.
I haven't given a thought to creating elaborate programs or operating systems to go on it, but given the dramatic shift to touch screens with iPhone & now iPad, the days of dedicated hardware seem gone.
If we are going to advance students capabilities, it is going to take open systems that lets students create crap, fail and try again.
That is the ONLY WAY YOU LEARN!
"Reasonable people listen to scientific consensus."
There are two types of scientific results:
1. FACT: data and calculations that are verifiable
2. THEORY: hypothesis which allows people to take data and come up with answers based on the theory.
"Consensus" seems to be a % vote on the results of THEORY, where 51% is allowed to be defined as calling THEORY = FACT.
Something is HORRIBLY wrong with "consensus".
It is your patent!
Patents are public! End of story. Now if you use a patented item without a license or approval of the patent holder or worse yet you sell it, then you have a problem. Distributing a copy of the patent or how it works does NOT violate the patent.
Trade Secrets are secret only if the company keeps it a secret.
If you or any other 3rd party can figure out what the trade secret is without getting the information from the company, then it is NO LONGER A TRADE SECRET.
The minute I found that 100% CPU load with long operations didn't generate heat along with crunching speeds that were doubled from my prior hard drive, it convinced me that I had just become far more productive for my 3D work. It didn't take me long to understand that more speed made me a lot more productive. It was so good, I put 2 SSDs in my i7 Mac Book Pro using MCE's Optibay so I could get the 2nd SSD in the CD/DVD bay (which I never use on the road).
x 5 because Assange may have U.S., British, Canadian, Australian and others looking to do a Mossad action on him as a warning to the others who have anything whatsover to do with Wikileaks.
Play in the bear cage? Better be the biggest bear.
But only if it stays trained on one spot for enough time and is close to the laser as opposed to 50 feet where the energy per square centimeter is less. Of course, some jerk will try it on his arm.
I accidentally found out what a 25 watt CO2 laser will do to the palm of your hand when a coworker left one on with no warning signs up and it burnt a branding iron across my palm as my hand quickly went into the beam. When I heard the sizzling, instead of keeping my hand moving through the beam, I pulled back and in the tens of milliseconds stopped before pulling back it vaporized (not burned) a hole about 1/8" deep in my hand.
Don't screw with this stuff you are not trained and careful or you'll wind up paying doctors and lawyers.
Hmm, now who else has had such a system?
Ahh...open source cell phones give me that wonderful, fuzzy, anti-establishment, broke ex-husband living in a 1 room apartment feeling.
But when you get a cold or flu and feel like s___ and can't hack hardly anything in the stomach, there comes a problem in less than 24 hours.
The excruciating, debilitating migraine like headache. After half a day of it, I realized I hadn't had any coffee in 35 hours or so.
Decided right then and there to give it up for other people who really need it.
"Run Windows 7. Its a hell of a lot better. MS finally got something right."
Indeed, I agree. I have been using Win7 64 bit for nearly a month now and not crashed it once.
I tend to agree that the earlier note about Windows facing FUD is also correct.
Microsoft's history with ME and Vista has given a lot of reason for users to be skeptical about new Windows versions.
I actually found Win7 an easy thing to get used to in coming directly from XP Pro.
In the end I guess I should have asked when Microsoft will give its next major OS a new name other than Windows. Windows implies and has had to date a lot of negative legacy.
Every OS reaches an end point, not necessarily driven by only one thing.
Apple reached the end with the Apple II, Mac OS9, and moved to UNIX.
How is Microsoft going to break the legacy trail?
They are going to throw a chair through all the Windows, maybe?
How do you get rid of entrenched dispersed foe that attacks everything you do from inside your own OS?
How many tens of millions of user hours are wasted every year on WinPCs just with the security stuff, which still is NEVER enough?
My Guess: Never. They will Bleed Windows until competitors take their market share as users make the choice to abandon Windows.
It is truly a strange situation where the dominant player is also the most attacked and yet in the last 5 years nothing in security seems to change.
Degrees/100k Population of those cities would reveal a different figure that give Education to Population density, which when considered with the prior figures of the author might indeed suggest where "the action is".
This would make some small areas stand out by looking at a different "concentration". Something like "Bankers per city" in Connecticut.
The book is as irrelevant as Bill Gates and I suspect Bill understood and that is why he left for something he was fully qualified to do: give away money.
Hmmm, it already works.
The question is how well when optimized.
It works as a demo very well I , as an ME agree.
The big issue in science and engineering is ALWAYS reduction to practice. The inventor acknowledges this and is working with an engineering firm to make a practical pseudo-production testing model. When you have no clutches, the lack of shock loading means the size of gears and the housing can be substantially reduced, since there won't be an engine load shock issue. There can be issues of loads when parked, though, when another car bumps yours. The other issue is how do you tow such a car when the engine fails or you want to tow it behind a motor home? There may still need to be a "cog" connection for towing.
Issues involved in getting it into a small, produceable and cost effective prototype will tax the engineers. If they can do it, there will be applications in many different fields.
Given that the gear ration can be set by controlling the small electric motor speed, it can be integrated with other electronic control systems easily.
I have to hand it to the guy for coming up with a very clever implementation. This is why we need to support the math, science and physics departments everywhere, because in the end, the world is a physical place and the countries who prosper the most will be the ones with the most technologically up-to-date innovators.
The larger issue of network reliability is a bit Off Topic, but it is still relevant if you are going to prepare a scenario for your company to handle your customers in the best possible manner for the coming 20 years. This is even more true if you are Google. Naseem Taleb has written about such things in The Black Swan.
Is your device completely worthless if the internet goes down, and you can't retrieve ANY data? We have had good times for electronic network reliability for 40 years, BUT...
We have had no major wars, no major gamma ray burst or Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun that hit the Earth directly (last one around the civil war, approx 150 years ago before electronics).
We have not had a high atmospheric Nuclear blast which would fry most connected electronic devices plus lots of other susceptible devices.
We have had not one truly mega 9.0 earthquake, volcano, large asteroid nor a major Tsunami in a major metro area since the Renaissance.
Who is going to believe those things are not possible because those known events occur at repeatable, though long intervals?
Conclusion: a Web OS, Applications & Data is not a keeper for the long run.
No matter what is patented several things can occur and do in the arena of Patents:
1. All patents cease to have proprietary ownership 20 years after their filing date. Thus some will easily go out of date in the next 5-10 years.
2. Patents are ONLY valid in the countries that the patent is issued in. Thus if it is only a U.S. patent and you are producing software in Germany, the creator of the software may not be liable for infringement, but an actual U.S. user might be (Just what I want to have happen: being sued by my idol S. Jobs).
3. ANY patent may be challenged by showing prior art that is demonstrable from a date prior to the patent filing and paying a small nominal fee for reexamination. This is the "silent patent killer" that every patent holder fears. This can come from a published piece of information from ANYWHERE in the world. It can come from privately developed and non-public sources, too, if it can be substantiated, if I remember right (such as in an invenstion documentation book).
4. A successful patent challenge may cause only one or a few claims in an existing patent to be thrown out, though sometimes they all get tossed.
5. The whole arena is so fraught with uncertainty that any group putting together an "open source" software tool, had better be filing its own patents so they have bargaining chips when the legal eagles fly.
6. Any open source creator for something like a video codec better have one heck of a good patent attorney firm that can give real world advice on patents from day one. "Open Source" software can easily be an "Open invitation" to suits over patent infringement and it typically takes many millions to litigate a single patent. It is better to be able to cross license when the threats arise.
Palm will be sold only for the brand name, though the patents, WebOS & such will go with it.
It takes years to establish a new brand and a buyer like Lenovo could launch an Android based Palm in short order.
When your Anti-Virus software bombs you out.
1. they are hard to get to: no, they drive trucks into those types of caves, if I am not mistaken (or have HUGE elevators)
2. they are hard to get supplies to and build in: Not with a roadway, and you don't have to build "buildings" as such.
3. they flood: If they did, Quincy wouldn't put up the choice to Google.
4. they have air quality issues: Dust control is needed on the surface for data centers, too, if you haven't noticed.
5. and they ARE cool... until you put a bunch of servers in them: Heat exchanger systems are used in every data center and a specific system would be designed for the caves. My guess is they would dump heat to pipes drilled in the limestone to take heat to distant distributed parts of the limestone bed.
You need all the volume you can get to remain a significant player long term.
Jump!