I don't normally call people morons, but you qualify. Do you even know what the Conservative party is proposing?
Capture and sequestration program that is being proposed is to stick a pipe on top of coal/gas/oil power plants and other large emitters, transport the CO2 in pipelines and then stuff it in the ground. That's the purpose of it and that's how it works. No one is going to emit it and then recapture it which in my opinion is a retarded idea in itself.
And no, I never voted Conservative or PC in my life. I have no idea *how* you could have even be modded insightful!!
The purpose of ITER is not to produce power. It is to work out any kinks in the theory so it can be fixed and applied to a commercial power plant. And then there is the material research that needs to be done such that you do not replace $100m pieces of the power plant every 2 years but every 20 years.
ITER will produce enough power to sustain itself. But that power output will not be used to sustain containment. Why? because it adds unnecessary costs to the experiment.
It is like trying to figure out a more efficient jet engine. Would you build a plane around it or test it in a wind tunnel?
Gates is right. Sooner or later HW consolidation will be that the CPU will run everything and have everything. Just see the world of microcontrollers. You've got your entire bus, memory, peripherals right on the chip. It is just a matter if time before Intel or AMD start to ship a CPU with
* CPU
* RAM
* all of south bridge.
We have already seen the consolidation of the memory controller into the CPU by AMD. And current trend of putting a GPU as part of the CPU as well (ie. specialized cores).
Just add a HD. For network computers, like MS and Google and probably Uncle Sam are drooling over, just plug it in and you are done.
A computer will just be the size of the current USB network adapter where on one side you plug in the monitor and USB hub and on the other, the power adapter and RJ45/fiber. Laptop will continue to look like a laptop because you need the keyboard and monitor in one unit.
I'll give this 10-20 years, but it will be the reality.
What is even more important is that Linux will work better with the older hardware as drivers are fixed.
I just got a $600 box to run Vista. It runs but Linux screams! (ok, not literally). Sure, I could add compiz to Gnome and have the weird 3D desktop experience, but that novelty wore off after 30 minutes. I prefer snappy Gnome than a jiggly, spazzing and refocusing Gnome. So, turned off compiz.
Vista, well, the great 3D effects are more annoying than productive. The only thing that is not a real problem is the title bar, the mini-windows in the task bar and windows switching (Alt-Tab). The 3D shuffle is next to useless - why not just have multiple desktops? If OS X comes out with similar, it is a great mistake.
And the programming API is screwed up (see Virtualized Registry and File System). Software designed and misdesigned for Windows 95 works fine. Software designed for Windows 2k and XP will NOT work properly. I don't know what MS was thinking of. All modern software now needs to be updated with their undocumented.manifest files. Manifest files that cause a BSOD on XP. Oy!
Anyway, Linux is a more productive environment than Windows, especially Vista. The 3D effects are distracting!!
But you need concentrated power for many real world applications. Things like,
* mine smelter,
* cities - especially high density cities that are more environmentally friendly than giant suburbs,
* internet server hosts
All of these require a large energy source in a small area *and* that is reliable. Solar is not reliable because of clouds and transmission costs.
Now I'm not 100% nuclear. There are environmentally friendly ways of generating power like hydro (see Manitoba, Canada) and solar and even wind (but solar is better, though a pipe dream at this point in the game).
Until solar is comparable to cost of electricity it produces for 5-10 years and installation costs are not a lot more than installing shingles, it will not really be a good solution. When solar power is cheap enough to put on top of every house, then we are talking a lot of power. But we will still need nuclear as a backup and as energy source for large users although that means 100s not 10,000s of power stations.
But you must admit that nuclear is better than coal/oil/gas power stations, right? After all, nuclear allows us to handle ALL of the costs directly in power production (transmission, waste management/processing, etc.) unlike the fossil fuels alternative where pollution just goes *poof* and affects all of us.
And don't point to Chernobyl. I was actually within 500km of there and exposed to some radiation due to the cover up BS. But now that entire no-go area and its contamination is a huge win for the wildlife in the region [1]. Sad but true - the only way to save the Amazon and other ecologically important areas of the planet is to spread all the nuclear waste there. We, not nuclear power, are our biggest threat.:)
You know, that QM equation you are quoting, is just another way of writing,
Kinetic Energy + Potential Energy = Total Energy
The U and E are just operators (like that derivative thingy) on the wave function. The wave function is actually the important part of QM because that is what interacts with other waves and thus explains interactions between things.
Anyway, I don't think QM is not logical. It actually makes a lot of sense. It is just people that confuse things by thinking their "observations" are important and moving QM into the realm of "if a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound". Well, duh!! Of course it does. And QM does NOT need an "observer" at all to function perfectly. And no, it will not cause the universe to fall apart.
Long story short, QM is an attempt to understand the universe. Our interpretation of it is wrong, but it is much closer than the string theory. The string theory (I think) is probably nothing more than a figment of our imagination. The reason is that the theory is derived from first principles to try to replicate the universe - very ambitious and very nearly impossible. We can't even predict mass of elements, yet we try for a theory of everything? Make it predict the mass of H, O, and U first.. QM is at least from the more real end, an attempt to predict an *observed* phenomenon and extrapolate from it. Thus we can progress forward from QM, but string theory is extremely likely to turn out to be just a pipe dream.
Ditto. Recently I bought an AMD 3800 X2 processor with nVidia onboard video (6150) - DVI connection on mobo:). But I *only* chose AMD because they were
1. cheap, AND
2. nVidia video
I would have settled for Intel graphics as well, but *never* for ATI crappoware. I learn my lesson back when with ATI and 7200 cards were top of the line. Linux forums advocated ATI because they were even helping some people write OSS drivers for Linux. We saw how that worked out - half baked drivers, never with 3D support. I still have that card in a box somewhere - replaced it with nVidia 6200 cheap card for $30 so I could get DVI output and proper video support. The $300 ATI card was a waste of money.
nVidia has good drivers. Intel has good drivers. ATI has crap drivers that do not work. I need to see the display to be able to use the computer. Sorry AMD, *very* bad choice to acquire ATI. nVidia would have been a much better choice!
Nuclear is concentrated power that we need if we do not have a superconducting power grid. See transmission losses. Plus it is really concentrated. GW+ of power.
Intel CPU is faster but AMD has faster bus speeds. I just got a cheap $500 box that beats a Dell's $3000 latest, greatest Intel laptop in memory bandwidth as measured in Vista. Same memory (DDR-667). CPU speed slower, but that's not as important.
CPU *speed* is not that important if it can't access the memory and just spins there idle..
The only way to ship electricity over huge distances is to use superconductors. No direct loses. Loses in cooling the thing... So they'd have to send over GW of power all the time.
How about data mining? You need access to the data. Developers are NOT the only people with access to the database. If they are, why the hell use SQL? There are much faster databases.
The problem is that all this extra money is going to China (made in China!) hence their GDP growth. Inflation is deferred because of that, but how long? I guess until China and Japan start selling USD (ie. buying stuff with it)
Anyway, regarding the perceived value and real value, I know that everything is perceived value. I do not propose that fiat currencies be backed by gold or something like that (problems with that, like value of money reflecting supply of gold and not economy). The problem is that people do not understand that gov't can just print money on demand if they want to. There are consequences of doing so, but they can just print money as was done in Greenspan years. (again, see 2nd graph).
This is the "haha" factor for you! Government *prints* money. As much as they want. And US is probably one of the worst countries in that regard. IT just hasn't cought up with them yet.
Money is viewed as a money supply. M1, M2 and M3. US doesn't even publish M3 money supply!!!
Regardless, money supply is increasing now faster than before. How? Gov't is printing money. It is preferable that the money supply is representative of some real value, but it is not. US has been running a huge trade deficit now for a number of years, yet the currency has not devalued as much as needed. The reason is that other countries like China and Japan are storing their USD and not buying stuff with it. So it should be clear that money just represents a perceived value, not a real value.
When gov't "borrows" money, it may mean A LOT of things. In the US, they just transfered the money from the retirement plan (whatever it is called - social security?) which is currently overpaid, and spend the money. Now that they'll need to dip into the retirement funds, well, there's nothing in that "account" so they'll just move it from elsewhere. To get money you can issue bonds, increase taxes or just print money. The problem with printing money is inflation (devaluation of the fiat (or paper only, like USD) currency). They more you print, the less a single unit is worth. So essentially inflation caused by money printing is exactly the same as a flat tax.. Right now the inflation in the US could be lowered by slowing down of the money printing. *But* US can't do that because they have to pay for the deficits. So instead of increasing taxes, they just print money. The result is exactly the same (less purchasing power for people), but when you increase taxes the politicians get blamed, but when they print money the "economy" gets blamed. Another problem with printing money is that countries that hold huge amount of USD will start to see their stockpile decrease in value. So they will start to spend. And this will drive inflation in the US.
The US economy may be nearing a tipping point where the USD will be devalued by as much as 50%. For example, USD lost 30% with respect to CND (Canadian $) in the last 2 or 3 years. It used to be 1.6 CND/USD, but now it is 1.12 CND/USD. If a US person got a CND savings account that got them NO return at all (0% interest rate) they would have gained 43% in 2-3 years. An investment of 100,000 USD to canadian currency would result in 160,000 CND. Today, 160,000 CND is worth about 143,000 USD. This is all because of devaluation of USD due to US trade deficit. And the US trade deficit is NOT yet accounted for because China and Japan hold over 1 trillion USD!! They spend that, and USD is devalued further.
The GP probably described the tax system as best as one possibly can. You are just a little ignorant that the value of fiat currencies is arbitrary.
PS. Gov't does actually need to *print* money. They just punch in a number and that's how much money is lend out. It only takes a fraction of a second to create another billion and thereby decrease the value of current money.
Saudis are already using Euros *and* USD for oil. Virtually all of Europe is using Euros only to get their oil. Russia is selling their gas to Europe in EUR as well.
I can't believe that Iran switched 100% to using EUR for oil. China is their biggest customer and they have tons of USD to spend. They probably have tons of EUR as well, but they probably have more USD at this point.
It does NOT have to be genetic at all. Nurture not nature is what makes you different from someone else. But nurture is your parents and if they are "fscked in the head", well, it is a big hurdle to jump over.
See the movie where Hitler grew up to be a perfectly normal and tolerant adult if brought up in a non-anti-semitic family. Hitler did not occur because of genes. Hitler occurred because of his upbringing AND later because of society.
This is why we are seeing more religious freaks out there. They are brought up by other religious freaks.
Al oxydises (Al2O3 I think) instantly so it is never "pure". Yes, it builds up in your system so people learn of aluminum pots and stuff. But metals are not dangerous to dispose because they are just returned to the environment where they came from. The problem is in man made chemicals and atoms (ie. nuclear waste) that probably should not be dumped into the environment. We do not know the long term consequences of these man made chemicals, yet we are using them.
For example, the good old Roundup herbicide. It was suppose to kill all plants except the special genetically modified ones and disintegrate instantly in soil. Unfortunately, it does neither any more. Now we have "weeds" that are resistant just as plants and Roundup ends up in people's water supply and water bodies. Herbicide is toxic to aquatic life, so having it in water is not a good idea.
Regardless, the 1/2 life is up to 172 days in soil and 7 days in water. Enough to pollute water supplies.
Long term effects in humans? Unknown because never tested (how could it be?). I guess it is being tested now.
Anyway, that is the problem with man made stuff. We do not know what it does or how it will propagate in the environment. We do not know so we assume it is ok? At least that's the current idea. And then it ends up on our plates and then we panic as it is not suppose to be there. I guess ignorance is bliss after all.
The new thing in the current news is that it is not the brain, but immune system that causes problems with blood flow in the brain which causes the brain to increase pressure to fix the flow.
No, customers would not go for the unrestricted one. All you need is catchphrases like "AMD, now with DRM technology powering the future of streaming video". You just have to spin it right. Customers are clueless and they think anything that is advertised must be good.
For references, see Skype vs. other SIP VoIP providers. Who has the market share? The DRM stuff because of advertising. Even when one can get better hardware for SIP providers (see Grandstream phones for example).
Or in real life, see politicians. All you have to do is spin your position on something. Like George W. with his promise on cutting spending and living within one's means. The ballooning deficits (trade and fiscal) say otherwise, but still most people would trust George to do a better job than those spend, spend democrats like Clinton.
This guy also had the transistor before dying in Leningrad during the siege of 1940s.
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Really? I can hook into the Windows Update Services and Windows Update Agent? Where? All I can find on MSDN is ability to check for windows updates and such. All programs that are updated with WUA are MS applications like Office or Visual Studio.
Where is the API to hook into the Windows Update to check for my own updates??
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I don't normally call people morons, but you qualify. Do you even know what the Conservative party is proposing?
Capture and sequestration program that is being proposed is to stick a pipe on top of coal/gas/oil power plants and other large emitters, transport the CO2 in pipelines and then stuff it in the ground. That's the purpose of it and that's how it works. No one is going to emit it and then recapture it which in my opinion is a retarded idea in itself.
And no, I never voted Conservative or PC in my life. I have no idea *how* you could have even be modded insightful!!
The purpose of ITER is not to produce power. It is to work out any kinks in the theory so it can be fixed and applied to a commercial power plant. And then there is the material research that needs to be done such that you do not replace $100m pieces of the power plant every 2 years but every 20 years.
ITER will produce enough power to sustain itself. But that power output will not be used to sustain containment. Why? because it adds unnecessary costs to the experiment.
It is like trying to figure out a more efficient jet engine. Would you build a plane around it or test it in a wind tunnel?
Gates is right. Sooner or later HW consolidation will be that the CPU will run everything and have everything. Just see the world of microcontrollers. You've got your entire bus, memory, peripherals right on the chip. It is just a matter if time before Intel or AMD start to ship a CPU with
* CPU
* RAM
* all of south bridge.
We have already seen the consolidation of the memory controller into the CPU by AMD. And current trend of putting a GPU as part of the CPU as well (ie. specialized cores).
Just add a HD. For network computers, like MS and Google and probably Uncle Sam are drooling over, just plug it in and you are done.
A computer will just be the size of the current USB network adapter where on one side you plug in the monitor and USB hub and on the other, the power adapter and RJ45/fiber. Laptop will continue to look like a laptop because you need the keyboard and monitor in one unit.
I'll give this 10-20 years, but it will be the reality.
What is even more important is that Linux will work better with the older hardware as drivers are fixed.
.manifest files. Manifest files that cause a BSOD on XP. Oy!
I just got a $600 box to run Vista. It runs but Linux screams! (ok, not literally). Sure, I could add compiz to Gnome and have the weird 3D desktop experience, but that novelty wore off after 30 minutes. I prefer snappy Gnome than a jiggly, spazzing and refocusing Gnome. So, turned off compiz.
Vista, well, the great 3D effects are more annoying than productive. The only thing that is not a real problem is the title bar, the mini-windows in the task bar and windows switching (Alt-Tab). The 3D shuffle is next to useless - why not just have multiple desktops? If OS X comes out with similar, it is a great mistake.
And the programming API is screwed up (see Virtualized Registry and File System). Software designed and misdesigned for Windows 95 works fine. Software designed for Windows 2k and XP will NOT work properly. I don't know what MS was thinking of. All modern software now needs to be updated with their undocumented
Anyway, Linux is a more productive environment than Windows, especially Vista. The 3D effects are distracting!!
But you need concentrated power for many real world applications. Things like,
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* mine smelter,
* cities - especially high density cities that are more environmentally friendly than giant suburbs,
* internet server hosts
All of these require a large energy source in a small area *and* that is reliable. Solar is not reliable because of clouds and transmission costs.
Now I'm not 100% nuclear. There are environmentally friendly ways of generating power like hydro (see Manitoba, Canada) and solar and even wind (but solar is better, though a pipe dream at this point in the game).
Until solar is comparable to cost of electricity it produces for 5-10 years and installation costs are not a lot more than installing shingles, it will not really be a good solution. When solar power is cheap enough to put on top of every house, then we are talking a lot of power. But we will still need nuclear as a backup and as energy source for large users although that means 100s not 10,000s of power stations.
But you must admit that nuclear is better than coal/oil/gas power stations, right? After all, nuclear allows us to handle ALL of the costs directly in power production (transmission, waste management/processing, etc.) unlike the fossil fuels alternative where pollution just goes *poof* and affects all of us.
And don't point to Chernobyl. I was actually within 500km of there and exposed to some radiation due to the cover up BS. But now that entire no-go area and its contamination is a huge win for the wildlife in the region [1]. Sad but true - the only way to save the Amazon and other ecologically important areas of the planet is to spread all the nuclear waste there. We, not nuclear power, are our biggest threat.
[1] - http://animal.discovery.com/news/afp/20060417/che
It doesn't work...
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wget http://xxx.lanl.gov/ftp/quant-ph/papers/9906/9906
--12:56:04-- http://xxx.lanl.gov/ftp/quant-ph/papers/9906/9906
=> `9906007.pdf'
Resolving proxy... 192.168.53.42
Connecting to proxy|192.168.53.42|:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
12:56:06 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
You know, that QM equation you are quoting, is just another way of writing,
Kinetic Energy + Potential Energy = Total Energy
The U and E are just operators (like that derivative thingy) on the wave function. The wave function is actually the important part of QM because that is what interacts with other waves and thus explains interactions between things.
Anyway, I don't think QM is not logical. It actually makes a lot of sense. It is just people that confuse things by thinking their "observations" are important and moving QM into the realm of "if a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound". Well, duh!! Of course it does. And QM does NOT need an "observer" at all to function perfectly. And no, it will not cause the universe to fall apart.
Long story short, QM is an attempt to understand the universe. Our interpretation of it is wrong, but it is much closer than the string theory. The string theory (I think) is probably nothing more than a figment of our imagination. The reason is that the theory is derived from first principles to try to replicate the universe - very ambitious and very nearly impossible. We can't even predict mass of elements, yet we try for a theory of everything? Make it predict the mass of H, O, and U first.. QM is at least from the more real end, an attempt to predict an *observed* phenomenon and extrapolate from it. Thus we can progress forward from QM, but string theory is extremely likely to turn out to be just a pipe dream.
Ditto. Recently I bought an AMD 3800 X2 processor with nVidia onboard video (6150) - DVI connection on mobo :). But I *only* chose AMD because they were
1. cheap, AND
2. nVidia video
I would have settled for Intel graphics as well, but *never* for ATI crappoware. I learn my lesson back when with ATI and 7200 cards were top of the line. Linux forums advocated ATI because they were even helping some people write OSS drivers for Linux. We saw how that worked out - half baked drivers, never with 3D support. I still have that card in a box somewhere - replaced it with nVidia 6200 cheap card for $30 so I could get DVI output and proper video support. The $300 ATI card was a waste of money.
nVidia has good drivers. Intel has good drivers. ATI has crap drivers that do not work. I need to see the display to be able to use the computer. Sorry AMD, *very* bad choice to acquire ATI. nVidia would have been a much better choice!
Nuclear is concentrated power that we need if we do not have a superconducting power grid. See transmission losses. Plus it is really concentrated. GW+ of power.
Intel CPU is faster but AMD has faster bus speeds. I just got a cheap $500 box that beats a Dell's $3000 latest, greatest Intel laptop in memory bandwidth as measured in Vista. Same memory (DDR-667). CPU speed slower, but that's not as important.
CPU *speed* is not that important if it can't access the memory and just spins there idle..
64-bit Intel processors are AMD compatible, not the other way around. It is the AMD instruction set that forms 64-bit K8.
;)
Does that mean Intel will go boom?
Go to HP - the largest computer seller. :)
You can get boxes without an OS (ie. FreeDOS), Linux or with XP no problem.
I doubt that XP is cheaper to OEMs like Dell than Vista. MS wants to push Vista and stop selling XP. Price is one of the incentives.
The only way to ship electricity over huge distances is to use superconductors. No direct loses. Loses in cooling the thing... So they'd have to send over GW of power all the time.
How about data mining? You need access to the data. Developers are NOT the only people with access to the database. If they are, why the hell use SQL? There are much faster databases.
Try PostgreSQL. The command in psql (CLI for Postgres) is a nice,
\d [table name]
or \l to list all tables in database.
Very handy and fast.
I already provided you the links. But in case you need a more graphical view, look at the great wikipedia,
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Mon
Even looking at M3 vs. GDP, you can probably guess that M3 is now highest ever. Huge amount of money injected into economy to stimulate it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Us_proportiona
The problem is that all this extra money is going to China (made in China!) hence their GDP growth. Inflation is deferred because of that, but how long? I guess until China and Japan start selling USD (ie. buying stuff with it)
Anyway, regarding the perceived value and real value, I know that everything is perceived value. I do not propose that fiat currencies be backed by gold or something like that (problems with that, like value of money reflecting supply of gold and not economy). The problem is that people do not understand that gov't can just print money on demand if they want to. There are consequences of doing so, but they can just print money as was done in Greenspan years. (again, see 2nd graph).
This is the "haha" factor for you! Government *prints* money. As much as they want. And US is probably one of the worst countries in that regard. IT just hasn't cought up with them yet.
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Money is viewed as a money supply. M1, M2 and M3. US doesn't even publish M3 money supply!!!
For more information about M1,M2 and M3 money supplies,
http://economics.about.com/cs/money/a/money_suppl
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/M3SL.tx
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/M2SL.tx
http://research.stlouisfed.org/
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2
Regardless, money supply is increasing now faster than before. How? Gov't is printing money. It is preferable that the money supply is representative of some real value, but it is not. US has been running a huge trade deficit now for a number of years, yet the currency has not devalued as much as needed. The reason is that other countries like China and Japan are storing their USD and not buying stuff with it. So it should be clear that money just represents a perceived value, not a real value.
When gov't "borrows" money, it may mean A LOT of things. In the US, they just transfered the money from the retirement plan (whatever it is called - social security?) which is currently overpaid, and spend the money. Now that they'll need to dip into the retirement funds, well, there's nothing in that "account" so they'll just move it from elsewhere. To get money you can issue bonds, increase taxes or just print money. The problem with printing money is inflation (devaluation of the fiat (or paper only, like USD) currency). They more you print, the less a single unit is worth. So essentially inflation caused by money printing is exactly the same as a flat tax.. Right now the inflation in the US could be lowered by slowing down of the money printing. *But* US can't do that because they have to pay for the deficits. So instead of increasing taxes, they just print money. The result is exactly the same (less purchasing power for people), but when you increase taxes the politicians get blamed, but when they print money the "economy" gets blamed. Another problem with printing money is that countries that hold huge amount of USD will start to see their stockpile decrease in value. So they will start to spend. And this will drive inflation in the US.
The US economy may be nearing a tipping point where the USD will be devalued by as much as 50%. For example, USD lost 30% with respect to CND (Canadian $) in the last 2 or 3 years. It used to be 1.6 CND/USD, but now it is 1.12 CND/USD. If a US person got a CND savings account that got them NO return at all (0% interest rate) they would have gained 43% in 2-3 years. An investment of 100,000 USD to canadian currency would result in 160,000 CND. Today, 160,000 CND is worth about 143,000 USD. This is all because of devaluation of USD due to US trade deficit. And the US trade deficit is NOT yet accounted for because China and Japan hold over 1 trillion USD!! They spend that, and USD is devalued further.
The GP probably described the tax system as best as one possibly can. You are just a little ignorant that the value of fiat currencies is arbitrary.
PS. Gov't does actually need to *print* money. They just punch in a number and that's how much money is lend out. It only takes a fraction of a second to create another billion and thereby decrease the value of current money.
Saudis are already using Euros *and* USD for oil. Virtually all of Europe is using Euros only to get their oil. Russia is selling their gas to Europe in EUR as well.
I can't believe that Iran switched 100% to using EUR for oil. China is their biggest customer and they have tons of USD to spend. They probably have tons of EUR as well, but they probably have more USD at this point.
It does NOT have to be genetic at all. Nurture not nature is what makes you different from someone else. But nurture is your parents and if they are "fscked in the head", well, it is a big hurdle to jump over.
See the movie where Hitler grew up to be a perfectly normal and tolerant adult if brought up in a non-anti-semitic family. Hitler did not occur because of genes. Hitler occurred because of his upbringing AND later because of society.
This is why we are seeing more religious freaks out there. They are brought up by other religious freaks.
Al oxydises (Al2O3 I think) instantly so it is never "pure". Yes, it builds up in your system so people learn of aluminum pots and stuff. But metals are not dangerous to dispose because they are just returned to the environment where they came from. The problem is in man made chemicals and atoms (ie. nuclear waste) that probably should not be dumped into the environment. We do not know the long term consequences of these man made chemicals, yet we are using them.
u p-MSDS-Docs7072.htmo p_pro/msds/roundup_orig_max.pdf
For example, the good old Roundup herbicide. It was suppose to kill all plants except the special genetically modified ones and disintegrate instantly in soil. Unfortunately, it does neither any more. Now we have "weeds" that are resistant just as plants and Roundup ends up in people's water supply and water bodies. Herbicide is toxic to aquatic life, so having it in water is not a good idea.
Although Monsanto MSDS disagrees:
http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Monsanto-Round
http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/us_ag/content/cr
Regardless, the 1/2 life is up to 172 days in soil and 7 days in water. Enough to pollute water supplies.
Long term effects in humans? Unknown because never tested (how could it be?). I guess it is being tested now.
Anyway, that is the problem with man made stuff. We do not know what it does or how it will propagate in the environment. We do not know so we assume it is ok? At least that's the current idea. And then it ends up on our plates and then we panic as it is not suppose to be there. I guess ignorance is bliss after all.
"Old" news then - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4361802.stm
The new thing in the current news is that it is not the brain, but immune system that causes problems with blood flow in the brain which causes the brain to increase pressure to fix the flow.
No, customers would not go for the unrestricted one. All you need is catchphrases like "AMD, now with DRM technology powering the future of streaming video". You just have to spin it right. Customers are clueless and they think anything that is advertised must be good.
For references, see Skype vs. other SIP VoIP providers. Who has the market share? The DRM stuff because of advertising. Even when one can get better hardware for SIP providers (see Grandstream phones for example).
Or in real life, see politicians. All you have to do is spin your position on something. Like George W. with his promise on cutting spending and living within one's means. The ballooning deficits (trade and fiscal) say otherwise, but still most people would trust George to do a better job than those spend, spend democrats like Clinton.
Spin is where you win customers, not openness.
Didn't you read slashdot recently?
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04
This guy also had the transistor before dying in Leningrad during the siege of 1940s.
Really? I can hook into the Windows Update Services and Windows Update Agent? Where? All I can find on MSDN is ability to check for windows updates and such. All programs that are updated with WUA are MS applications like Office or Visual Studio.
Where is the API to hook into the Windows Update to check for my own updates??