Hope everyone has burned all their photo albums with the pictures of themselves or children in the tub as infants. Because if you have not, then you are next.
This points out a big problem with child porn laws and child porn charges. Several years ago in a photography class I took in college this came up. A parent had taken photos of their child(ren) taking a bath, heck my mom had photos of this in our family album, and turned the film in for development. Some worker at the lab saw the photos and called police. If people have a problem with that, I wonder what they thought of the movie "Three Men and a Baby".
When the Mac GCR was released, the ST could run Mac software faster than any currently available Mac but for half the price.
So did the Amiga. I saw one running Workbench, Mac OS, and DOS all at the same tyme. Next to it was a new Mac and the Amiga ran Mac OS faster. I don't recall the price for each though. As Macs were expensive back then if pressed I'd say I thought the Mac cost more even with the Amiga being fully loaded, er configured to run DOS and Mac OS as well.
So right you are ! If there's one thing we've all learned from the financial crisis is that industry is fully capable of regulating itself without any government oversight.
Under President Bush government increased regulations more than LBJ or Nixon. There was no deregulation under Bush, though there was under Clinton.
I'd rather be fertilizing the oceans with treated sewage and land runoff - iron powder gets expensive after a while.
That can have negative impacts. All that runoff and sewage creates Dead Zones where fish can not live. The Dead Zone created by the runoff from the Mississippi River is 6,000-7,000 square miles and is growing. Runoff may also create red tide.
Might the increased amount of biomass serve to improve fisheries?
..But it is (1) not economical compared to fish farming
The thing is is if it's not economical to improve fisheries it's not economical to fish farm either. First is the feed, what farmed fish eat. Carnivorous fish is what's farmed yet for every pound of yield can take several pounds to produce. Another problem is because of the packed conditions farmed fish require large amounts of antibiotics which among other things reduces the effectiveness of those antibiotics. A third problem with fish farming is that it creates dead zones. All of these together means it takes more to farm fish than it does to catch wild fish.
Yeap! That's what science is supposed to do. Make a hypothesis and test it. If it doesn't work, as in this case, modify it and test again. Keep doing that until it doesn't fail, if it keeps on failing then start with a new hypothesis.
Do whales evaporate when they die? I am failing to identify why a whale dying and a plankton dying would yield a different result regarding their sequestered carbon...?
When plankton die and sink carbon is removed from the system. When a whale dies only some of the carbon may be removed from the system.
do squid (and whatever eats squid) and whales sink to the bottom when the die?
Yes. Yes they do. And the carcasses are eaten by bottom-feeding animals, which generally remain at the sea floor. It's a different path through the food chain than they were expecting, but the carbon ends up on the seabed in the end.
Some sinks to the ocean floor. Carcases can also float to the surface.
Just to clarify - only earlier emulators needed a physical chip, later ones such as Shapeshifter and Fusion only needed a ROM image that could be loaded from disk.
Thanks for the correction, I wasn't sure about the details.
If you don't know science it may be a failure but if you do know science it's not. The researchers had a hypothesis they wanted to test and when they did they got results they did expect so now they know they need to adjust the hypothesis.
Granted, the carbon didn't sink to the bottom of the ocean, but it was still removed from the water
Carbon was only temporarily removed from water, when the plankton dies it releases some carbon back into water. The only effective way for carbon to be removed is if it is taken out of the system and that's what sinking does. A question arises though with what happens to the seafloor when carbon builds up there?
We aren't planting 10 trees each per year for carbon storage because trees are not a long-term storage place. Yes, trees absorb carbon as they grow, but when they reach maturity they become carbon-neutral. When the tree dies it releases all that stored carbon as it decomposes.
What some want to do is chop down and bury mature trees then grow new ones.
Dude whales aren't internal combustion engines! Yes the whales etc exhale CO2, but they are also carbon based lifeforms so clearly something has been held onto.
The thing is is that when the whales die they will release the carbon again, so carbon is still in the system. If plankton sinks to the ocean floor though it is effectively being removed from the system.
I'd like to see Sun paired with a company that has experience with consumers and consumer products like Apple
I read an article some years ago in a business magazine on how the writer envisioned the marriage of Apple, Redhat, and Sun. He thought it was a good idea. Here's one by IEEE on the same theme.
Hmmm. I'd have to research a little to answer that accurately.
Thanks.
I DO KNOW that VMWare Fusion will enable you to run Ubuntu as a guest on the Mac host.
Yea, so does Parallels. I was thinking of using VMWare Fusion myself though. However I don't know how to do the opposite, run Leopard in a VM while booted into Ubuntu. I ran across something about it but didn't find it in my bookmarks.
it seems that keeping your Mac as the host OS might be wiser.
I could probably get away with just running Ubuntu in VM while booted into Leopard and not need to run Leopard while booted into Ubuntu. Two reason I've been thinking of doing it is to run CinePaint in Ubuntu and to test programs and scripts in both.
An institution that backs almost all the loans in the world is; becasue if it fails* the loans stop, and many large industries can't get the loans they needs and production stops..pretty much globally.
The problem with this was that even after the financial institutions were bought out they still weren't lending much money. Instead they used the money from the bailout to buy each other making themselves bigger. They should have been made to split into smaller businesses while continuing to loan money. Or they should have been made to declare bankruptcy leaving the businesses who did not take part in BS in business.
How much have you used Virtual Box? I'm typing this on a Mac I've been thinking about installing Ubuntu on to make it dualboot. If I do I want to be able to boot into one OS and use the other OS in a VM. It's not clear to me Virtual Box can do this. In the forums I read it might be possible or it might be added but I couldn't find anything on how to actually setup a system to do it.
companies grows bigger and bigger and devour all competition and suddenly they are big enough to collapse and the cycle starts over again.
Unless you're a financial services business, a bank or something. Then you're allowed to get so big failure is not an option.
And I for one can just consider that Visual Studio sucks compared to Eclipse when it comes to how user-friendly the tool is.
I haven't seen Visual Studio but Eclipse Rocks.
Falcon
Neither article mentions Coherent, a clone of Unix
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Windows NT 4.0
Windows NT 4.0 is the only version of MS Windows I've used I did not have trouble with. That could be because I haven't used my NT4 PC much. Because the CPU is a DEC Alpha I wasn't able to install all the software I wanted to use.
Saying "people do love operating systems" is like saying people love water.
People do love OSes. Look at the flame wars that start when someone says one OS is better than another. You've got your Linux fanboys, OS X fanboys, and your Windows fanboys.
People need an operating to run applications like they need water to continue living. How else are they going to live/interact with their data most of the time?
I try to keep in mind that an OS is just a tool and you should use the best tool for a job but I'm guilty of supporting one OS over another too.
The worst thing about ST fanboys was that they distracted Commodore (a company not very bright to begin with) from the real enemy, the PC. Atari's design sucked from the get go and it was never going to lead anywhere. From the first day of launch the Amiga should have went after the PC market and left ST users behind to rot.
Actually the Amiga could run MS/PC DOS, as well as the Mac OS. Of course it required a third party board to run DOS and a board as well as Mac memory chips to run Mac OS. I was amazed the first tyme I saw an Amiga running Workbench, Mac software, and Windows at the same tyme.
I think the problem is more than just what you say though it's part of it. Commodore sucked at marketing the Amiga period. I didn't see the Escom deal as any better, but when Gateway bought it I was hoping they'd resurrect the Amiga.
Most middle-age people I know do worship at the altar of "Stairway to Heaven"
Okay. Myself I didn't particularly care about the song or Pink Floyd.
I'd love to buy some vinyl, but the main problem I have with it is the inherent degradation of the physical medium that you get just from playing it.
When, if, I get a new turntable I'll do what I used to do. When I had a stereo and turntable I also had a reel-to-reel tape deck. When I bought a new record and played it for the first tyme I'd record it on the tape deck then put it away. I would then play the tape and if the tape ever wore out I still had the record in good shape to record again.
If I had amazing equipment then I'd love to take every record as soon as I bought it, and rip it to a 24/192.wav file, but that's not too feasible.
Well, I have Walkman CD player so I could burn my tapes to CD but I don't plan on getting a flash player. I haven't even used the CD player in years, I basically only used it when I Rollerbladed or rode my bike but I haven't skated in years and don't ride my bike much. I want to start skating this year but I don't know if I will, I stopped because the Rollerblades started killing my feet.
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Hope everyone has burned all their photo albums with the pictures of themselves or children in the tub as infants. Because if you have not, then you are next.
This points out a big problem with child porn laws and child porn charges. Several years ago in a photography class I took in college this came up. A parent had taken photos of their child(ren) taking a bath, heck my mom had photos of this in our family album, and turned the film in for development. Some worker at the lab saw the photos and called police. If people have a problem with that, I wonder what they thought of the movie "Three Men and a Baby".
Falcon
When the Mac GCR was released, the ST could run Mac software faster than any currently available Mac but for half the price.
So did the Amiga. I saw one running Workbench, Mac OS, and DOS all at the same tyme. Next to it was a new Mac and the Amiga ran Mac OS faster. I don't recall the price for each though. As Macs were expensive back then if pressed I'd say I thought the Mac cost more even with the Amiga being fully loaded, er configured to run DOS and Mac OS as well.
Falcon
So right you are ! If there's one thing we've all learned from the financial crisis is that industry is fully capable of regulating itself without any government oversight.
Under President Bush government increased regulations more than LBJ or Nixon. There was no deregulation under Bush, though there was under Clinton.
Falcon
I'd rather be fertilizing the oceans with treated sewage and land runoff - iron powder gets expensive after a while.
That can have negative impacts. All that runoff and sewage creates Dead Zones where fish can not live. The Dead Zone created by the runoff from the Mississippi River is 6,000-7,000 square miles and is growing. Runoff may also create red tide.
Falcon
Might the increased amount of biomass serve to improve fisheries?
..But it is (1) not economical compared to fish farming
The thing is is if it's not economical to improve fisheries it's not economical to fish farm either. First is the feed, what farmed fish eat. Carnivorous fish is what's farmed yet for every pound of yield can take several pounds to produce. Another problem is because of the packed conditions farmed fish require large amounts of antibiotics which among other things reduces the effectiveness of those antibiotics. A third problem with fish farming is that it creates dead zones. All of these together means it takes more to farm fish than it does to catch wild fish.
Falcon
It's less than clear that carbon on the ocean's floor is just removed from the system.
At a big enough scale carbon isn't removed from the system but at lower scales, such as the surface of the oceans, it is removed.
we know we have a lot of knowledge gaps about deep ocean-floor ecology
Elsewhere I brought this up.
So, we try the next experiment
Yeap! That's what science is supposed to do. Make a hypothesis and test it. If it doesn't work, as in this case, modify it and test again. Keep doing that until it doesn't fail, if it keeps on failing then start with a new hypothesis.
Falcon
Do whales evaporate when they die? I am failing to identify why a whale dying and a plankton dying would yield a different result regarding their sequestered carbon...?
When plankton die and sink carbon is removed from the system. When a whale dies only some of the carbon may be removed from the system.
Falcon
do squid (and whatever eats squid) and whales sink to the bottom when the die?
Yes. Yes they do. And the carcasses are eaten by bottom-feeding animals, which generally remain at the sea floor. It's a different path through the food chain than they were expecting, but the carbon ends up on the seabed in the end.
Some sinks to the ocean floor. Carcases can also float to the surface.
Falcon
You can't be allowed to "hack" the planet, the risks are too great.
Isn't that in effect what we're doing now pumping CO2 into the atmosphere?
Falcon
as well as Mac memory chips to run Mac OS.
Just to clarify - only earlier emulators needed a physical chip, later ones such as Shapeshifter and Fusion only needed a ROM image that could be loaded from disk.
Thanks for the correction, I wasn't sure about the details.
Falcon
If you don't know science it may be a failure but if you do know science it's not. The researchers had a hypothesis they wanted to test and when they did they got results they did expect so now they know they need to adjust the hypothesis.
Granted, the carbon didn't sink to the bottom of the ocean, but it was still removed from the water
Carbon was only temporarily removed from water, when the plankton dies it releases some carbon back into water. The only effective way for carbon to be removed is if it is taken out of the system and that's what sinking does. A question arises though with what happens to the seafloor when carbon builds up there?
Falcon
We aren't planting 10 trees each per year for carbon storage because trees are not a long-term storage place. Yes, trees absorb carbon as they grow, but when they reach maturity they become carbon-neutral. When the tree dies it releases all that stored carbon as it decomposes.
What some want to do is chop down and bury mature trees then grow new ones.
Falcon
Dude whales aren't internal combustion engines! Yes the whales etc exhale CO2, but they are also carbon based lifeforms so clearly something has been held onto.
The thing is is that when the whales die they will release the carbon again, so carbon is still in the system. If plankton sinks to the ocean floor though it is effectively being removed from the system.
I'd like to see more experiments like this.
Falcon
I'd like to see Sun paired with a company that has experience with consumers and consumer products like Apple
I read an article some years ago in a business magazine on how the writer envisioned the marriage of Apple, Redhat, and Sun. He thought it was a good idea. Here's one by IEEE on the same theme.
Falcon
Hmmm. I'd have to research a little to answer that accurately.
Thanks.
I DO KNOW that VMWare Fusion will enable you to run Ubuntu as a guest on the Mac host.
Yea, so does Parallels. I was thinking of using VMWare Fusion myself though. However I don't know how to do the opposite, run Leopard in a VM while booted into Ubuntu. I ran across something about it but didn't find it in my bookmarks.
it seems that keeping your Mac as the host OS might be wiser.
I could probably get away with just running Ubuntu in VM while booted into Leopard and not need to run Leopard while booted into Ubuntu. Two reason I've been thinking of doing it is to run CinePaint in Ubuntu and to test programs and scripts in both.
Good luck!
Thanks!
Falcon
An institution that backs almost all the loans in the world is; becasue if it fails* the loans stop, and many large industries can't get the loans they needs and production stops..pretty much globally.
The problem with this was that even after the financial institutions were bought out they still weren't lending much money. Instead they used the money from the bailout to buy each other making themselves bigger. They should have been made to split into smaller businesses while continuing to loan money. Or they should have been made to declare bankruptcy leaving the businesses who did not take part in BS in business.
Falcon
How much have you used Virtual Box? I'm typing this on a Mac I've been thinking about installing Ubuntu on to make it dualboot. If I do I want to be able to boot into one OS and use the other OS in a VM. It's not clear to me Virtual Box can do this. In the forums I read it might be possible or it might be added but I couldn't find anything on how to actually setup a system to do it.
Falcon
I ran MS-DOS emulation on my ST in software.
If I recall right DOS ran in an '86 on the board which made it faster than running in emulation.
Falcon
Well, I was actually hoping the whole "capitalism" idea would spread to America, but that's cool too. ;)
I wouldn't say Denmark is more capitalistic than the US. Actually it's more socialistic. Not that the US isn't socialistic as well, it is.
Falcon
companies grows bigger and bigger and devour all competition and suddenly they are big enough to collapse and the cycle starts over again.
Unless you're a financial services business, a bank or something. Then you're allowed to get so big failure is not an option.
And I for one can just consider that Visual Studio sucks compared to Eclipse when it comes to how user-friendly the tool is.
I haven't seen Visual Studio but Eclipse Rocks.
Falcon
I took a class in Linux but the computers in class didn't have Linux installed. Instead they had Coherent.
Falcon
Windows NT 4.0
Windows NT 4.0 is the only version of MS Windows I've used I did not have trouble with. That could be because I haven't used my NT4 PC much. Because the CPU is a DEC Alpha I wasn't able to install all the software I wanted to use.
Falcon
Saying "people do love operating systems" is like saying people love water.
People do love OSes. Look at the flame wars that start when someone says one OS is better than another. You've got your Linux fanboys, OS X fanboys, and your Windows fanboys.
People need an operating to run applications like they need water to continue living. How else are they going to live/interact with their data most of the time?
I try to keep in mind that an OS is just a tool and you should use the best tool for a job but I'm guilty of supporting one OS over another too.
Falcon
The worst thing about ST fanboys was that they distracted Commodore (a company not very bright to begin with) from the real enemy, the PC. Atari's design sucked from the get go and it was never going to lead anywhere. From the first day of launch the Amiga should have went after the PC market and left ST users behind to rot.
Actually the Amiga could run MS/PC DOS, as well as the Mac OS. Of course it required a third party board to run DOS and a board as well as Mac memory chips to run Mac OS. I was amazed the first tyme I saw an Amiga running Workbench, Mac software, and Windows at the same tyme.
I think the problem is more than just what you say though it's part of it. Commodore sucked at marketing the Amiga period. I didn't see the Escom deal as any better, but when Gateway bought it I was hoping they'd resurrect the Amiga.
Falcon
Most middle-age people I know do worship at the altar of "Stairway to Heaven"
Okay. Myself I didn't particularly care about the song or Pink Floyd.
I'd love to buy some vinyl, but the main problem I have with it is the inherent degradation of the physical medium that you get just from playing it.
When, if, I get a new turntable I'll do what I used to do. When I had a stereo and turntable I also had a reel-to-reel tape deck. When I bought a new record and played it for the first tyme I'd record it on the tape deck then put it away. I would then play the tape and if the tape ever wore out I still had the record in good shape to record again.
If I had amazing equipment then I'd love to take every record as soon as I bought it, and rip it to a 24/192 .wav file, but that's not too feasible.
Well, I have Walkman CD player so I could burn my tapes to CD but I don't plan on getting a flash player. I haven't even used the CD player in years, I basically only used it when I Rollerbladed or rode my bike but I haven't skated in years and don't ride my bike much. I want to start skating this year but I don't know if I will, I stopped because the Rollerblades started killing my feet.