You are correct. But the problem is that to grow the economy, we will need *more* energy. Not oil, but energy.
The US spent $200 billion in Iraq. But only a fraction of that is required to build the first working (producing energy) fusion test reactor. Europe/Japan/China are now investing in research, but it is not enough. At current rate we will have the fusion reactor by 2020 and working power plants by 2040s. That is way too late for Keyoto and global warming.
Fusion power would also put a stop to nuclear proliferation. Countries like Iran and NK and others would have no excluse to have Uranium power plants.
Energy efficiency is ok, but this will not solve anything without using a much more abundant energy source than fosil fuels. After all, the other 5 billion people might want to use more energy than they currently do (computers, air conditioning, transportation, etc. etc.).
That is why climatic models are no good as a proof of global warming. The proof is in current and past observations. You can correlate temparature and atmosheric CO2 levels (weather stations and ice core samples). And you can correlate CO2 with human activity/population http://faculty.washington.edu/blewis/papers/co2/co 2b.html.
These models are just an icing on the cake. And I understand that errors cannot be calculated propertly for these models, partly because the errors will take a long time and partly because the models are not exactly thus errors cannot be shown to be correct. But one should never say that data from ice core samples is not as reliable just because they said so. That plain ignorant and stupid.
Ice core samples tell you hell of a lot more than how much CO2 (not C02) there is in the atmospehere. They tell you average *temperatures* in the region thoughout the year (provided some of the ice melts).
And I would not put data collected from ice cores on par with data recorded from weather stations in recent years.
Why are people so stupid? When *real* scientists take data, it is always data point+error in the data. No body gives a damn what *you* think of the data. You measure the errors, not your faith in the samples. Samples are crap, the errors increase and the data is weighted less than more reliable data. Samples are better, the errors decrease.
Real science measurements are less about the absolute value. They are about the errors. Measurements takes without errors are useless to the extreme.
For example, measurement of mass of 20kg is comepletely useless to scientists by itself. There *always* has to be an error and how that error was measured/deduced. Why? Because there is a difference between a measurement of 20.00000000+-0.00000001kg and 20+-5kg.
1st year physics is there so people at least understand *how* to take measurements. Of course, the parent and most other people don't.
Conclusion: Ice core sample data has a much larger error in temperature determination than a weather station. Hence, it has taken a few decades to finally determine conclusively what the temperature was at a given site.
People that think otherwise should prove it (by showing errors in the science) and not dick around stating their conclusions without any facts.
"Canada, one of the treaty's first signatories, has no clear plan for reaching its target emission cuts. Far from cutting back, its emissions have increased by 20% since 1990."
Canada is one of the largest CO2 sinks in the world. There are also talks now in Canada to require cars to reduce CO2 emissions by a significant factor (25%? forgot exact number) by 2010.
As to countries like China or India, well, in the future there could be a polution tax imposed on goods imported from those countries. Furthermore, didn't China announce that they are switching to nuclear power?
Anyway, it is about time that polution is finally starting to become part of the cost to the consumer/producer. As soon as you impose the cost of the waste to the producer/consumer, they tend to make environmentally and economically sound decisions.
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What about what OpenBSD is doing? Have multiple hashes per file (MD5, SHA1, etc..) for a given signature.
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Of course you can make
SHA1(data1) == SHA2(data2) where data1!=data2
because SHA1 maps from a large space to 160bits. There WILL be collisions for any maping like that. The question is can you make,
Of course I would! I really don't understand those who fear GM food. It's not like the cows, or even the corn we eat now, is "natural."
Bullshit. You can selectively breed humans to be stronger, or whatever. You cannot selectively breed humans to grow 10 arms and be green.
Selective breeding is "natural". In many ways that's what nature does as well with natural selection. In many species only the most suited do breed.
Sticking spider genes in people so they piss cobwebs is not natural and only attainable by GM.
Do you now see the difference? No? ok. Selective breeding and selection is like writing user level software. GM is akin to rewiring your motherboard like on Cray computers and hoping your box will run Longhorn better.
People move to country and way out to suburbs to be "closer to nature". Then they destroy it.
So you have a website running on Access and you post it to slashdot? Hoping it lasts more than 2s is like laying down in a middle of a 1/4 mile wide highway and hoping on not getting run over.
AMD Athlon XP 2200 - Best AMD to date. Runs very hot (55-60c)...A few times I've approached 80c
Something is broken with either your installation, motherboard, fan or air circulation in the case. My Athlong *never* goes above 50. Most of the time, it runs under 40. Stock heatsink/fan.
What should I do, in order to get my own program relicensed? Reprogram it from scratch with a commercial-License? As a matter of facts, that is so stupid.
This is correct. You would have to scrap the GPL code, unless you were given explicit permission by Trolltech to do otherwise.
You could also get a commercial version in the first place and then you can release under GPL,closed license,BSD,whatever you want.
You could also write a version of Qt yourself, then you can use that version with your relicensed GPL code as well:)
There are choices in life. Make the ones you will not regret.
Do you even read their license? They cannot forbid you from relicensing your software, but they will forbid you from using their commercial license if you do.
So, if you write GPL code, OK. You want to relicense, OK. But the commercial version of Qt states,
NOTE: Qt Free Edition is licensed under the terms of the GPL and not
under this Agreement. If Licensee has, at any time, developed all (or
any portions of) the Application(s) using Trolltech's publicly
licensed Qt Free Edition, Licensee must comply with Trolltech's
requirements (see
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/download/qt-x11.html) and license
such Application(s) (or any portions derived there from) under the
terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License
version 2 (the "GPL") a copy of which is located at
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html#SEC1 (i.e., any Product(s) and/or
parts, components, portions thereof developed using GPL licensed
software, including Qt Free Edition, must be licensed under the terms
of the GPL, and the GPL-based source code must be made available upon
request).
They will NOT license you a commercial version if you try to do it. They will withdraw your commercial license if you do this. See? You do this, you are left with only a GPL distributable. They also said in their email release that they will enfore their license. So please, don't try to pull a fast one on Trolltech.
You have your rights to relicense software. They have their rights to license their software to you.
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The US spent $200 billion in Iraq. But only a fraction of that is required to build the first working (producing energy) fusion test reactor. Europe/Japan/China are now investing in research, but it is not enough. At current rate we will have the fusion reactor by 2020 and working power plants by 2040s. That is way too late for Keyoto and global warming.
Fusion power would also put a stop to nuclear proliferation. Countries like Iran and NK and others would have no excluse to have Uranium power plants.
Energy efficiency is ok, but this will not solve anything without using a much more abundant energy source than fosil fuels. After all, the other 5 billion people might want to use more energy than they currently do (computers, air conditioning, transportation, etc. etc.).
The stock is not great. The volume is going up while stock is going down. People are starting to bail on this stock, but not on mass, yes.
When we start seeing lawsuits and criminal investigations into CPS, then the stock could nosedive.
Lol.
These models are just an icing on the cake. And I understand that errors cannot be calculated propertly for these models, partly because the errors will take a long time and partly because the models are not exactly thus errors cannot be shown to be correct. But one should never say that data from ice core samples is not as reliable just because they said so. That plain ignorant and stupid.
And I would not put data collected from ice cores on par with data recorded from weather stations in recent years.
Why are people so stupid? When *real* scientists take data, it is always data point+error in the data. No body gives a damn what *you* think of the data. You measure the errors, not your faith in the samples. Samples are crap, the errors increase and the data is weighted less than more reliable data. Samples are better, the errors decrease.
Real science measurements are less about the absolute value. They are about the errors. Measurements takes without errors are useless to the extreme.
For example, measurement of mass of 20kg is comepletely useless to scientists by itself. There *always* has to be an error and how that error was measured/deduced. Why? Because there is a difference between a measurement of 20.00000000+-0.00000001kg and 20+-5kg.
1st year physics is there so people at least understand *how* to take measurements. Of course, the parent and most other people don't.
Conclusion: Ice core sample data has a much larger error in temperature determination than a weather station. Hence, it has taken a few decades to finally determine conclusively what the temperature was at a given site.
People that think otherwise should prove it (by showing errors in the science) and not dick around stating their conclusions without any facts.
Canada is one of the largest CO2 sinks in the world. There are also talks now in Canada to require cars to reduce CO2 emissions by a significant factor (25%? forgot exact number) by 2010.
As to countries like China or India, well, in the future there could be a polution tax imposed on goods imported from those countries. Furthermore, didn't China announce that they are switching to nuclear power?
Anyway, it is about time that polution is finally starting to become part of the cost to the consumer/producer. As soon as you impose the cost of the waste to the producer/consumer, they tend to make environmentally and economically sound decisions.
What about what OpenBSD is doing? Have multiple hashes per file (MD5, SHA1, etc..) for a given signature.
SHA1(data1) == SHA2(data2) where data1!=data2
because SHA1 maps from a large space to 160bits. There WILL be collisions for any maping like that. The question is can you make,
SHA1(data1)==SHA2(data2) && data1.length==data2.length) ?
Can you make the length of the hashed data to be equal?
If you cannot, then most of the signed hashes cannot be compromised anyway.
Where Y is the sum of the number of patent applications you filed and number of patents that were granted to you.
And carbs are better for you than fat. Yet, loook at the "carbs are bad for you, eat grilled crap" diet.
So people will move to competition if the competition is more cost effective for them.
Bullshit. You can selectively breed humans to be stronger, or whatever. You cannot selectively breed humans to grow 10 arms and be green.
Selective breeding is "natural". In many ways that's what nature does as well with natural selection. In many species only the most suited do breed.
Sticking spider genes in people so they piss cobwebs is not natural and only attainable by GM.
Do you now see the difference? No? ok. Selective breeding and selection is like writing user level software. GM is akin to rewiring your motherboard like on Cray computers and hoping your box will run Longhorn better.
People move to country and way out to suburbs to be "closer to nature". Then they destroy it.
So you have a website running on Access and you post it to slashdot? Hoping it lasts more than 2s is like laying down in a middle of a 1/4 mile wide highway and hoping on not getting run over.
It should be, "What's strange amount using coherent photons diffracted by a semi-opaque membrane to create holographic reconstruction?".
In which case, it would be correct.
Sparke Power, Thermaltake, Enermax.
Let me think on this........hmmm.....no.
Something is broken with either your installation, motherboard, fan or air circulation in the case. My Athlong *never* goes above 50. Most of the time, it runs under 40. Stock heatsink/fan.
Your setup is messed up.
It'd have to find water first.
And implant itself into Mars like Beagle did. The water is subsurface.
Oh, putting the UI in the kernel, are we? I think people just don't learn from mistakes of Windows...
Buggy X is one thing, buggy kernel is another.
No, that what Itaniums are for.
This is correct. You would have to scrap the GPL code, unless you were given explicit permission by Trolltech to do otherwise.
You could also get a commercial version in the first place and then you can release under GPL,closed license,BSD,whatever you want.
You could also write a version of Qt yourself, then you can use that version with your relicensed GPL code as well :)
There are choices in life. Make the ones you will not regret.
GPL, not free-beer. Your application does NOT have to be a freebe.
So, if you write GPL code, OK. You want to relicense, OK. But the commercial version of Qt states,
NOTE: Qt Free Edition is licensed under the terms of the GPL and not under this Agreement. If Licensee has, at any time, developed all (or any portions of) the Application(s) using Trolltech's publicly licensed Qt Free Edition, Licensee must comply with Trolltech's requirements (see http://www.trolltech.com/developer/download/qt-x11 .html) and license
such Application(s) (or any portions derived there from) under the
terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License
version 2 (the "GPL") a copy of which is located at
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html#SEC1 (i.e., any Product(s) and/or
parts, components, portions thereof developed using GPL licensed
software, including Qt Free Edition, must be licensed under the terms
of the GPL, and the GPL-based source code must be made available upon
request).
They will NOT license you a commercial version if you try to do it. They will withdraw your commercial license if you do this. See? You do this, you are left with only a GPL distributable. They also said in their email release that they will enfore their license. So please, don't try to pull a fast one on Trolltech.
You have your rights to relicense software. They have their rights to license their software to you.
I think you are too opimistic. It is about $300b/2 years => $150b/year.
WWI and Vietnam cost the US $600b each in today's dolars, so I'm guessing the US will be out of Iraq by mid 2007 (at the latest).
Of course that could be out of Iraq and into Iran and then the real shit would start flying.