Yeah, but the registries are still stupid. If you're so uncertain of their ability to avoid committing the crime again that you brand a scarlet P on their chests and ban them from living within a thousand feet of (schools, concerned parents, hyper phobic egotists, anyone who owns a board-with-a-nail...), you shouldn't have released them from psychological care in the first place.
What I don't understand is, the MATrix LABoratory should've been one of the first to take advantage of multiple cores. I could've sworn I'd seen a cluster version a few years ago when I was looking into that sort of thing.
By now, I'd have expected them to have a GPU-MATLAB to take advantage of the massively parallel matrix-oriented hardware sitting just inches from the CPU.
Well you're talking to a group of people who probably think it's reasonable to have a holster for a cell phone. So, no, I don't think the a leatherman would make any slashdotters look any more nerdy.
Ok, but if the banks invest in polluting industries in OTHER COUNTRIES, who gets nailed with the lowered average? It seems that countries with mostly banking-related industry would have yet another tool to use against other nations: by specifically investing in the worst polluting industries in those countries, then, i don't know, lapping up the carbon credit transfer tax or something.
Please stop mixing global communism into the discussion. Equitable distribution of wealth and reduction of CO2 emissions are two separate issues, and muddying the waters by linking the two only makes you seem less serious about one or the other.
The issue at hand isn't "fairness." It's whether or not human-made CO2 emissions are are a problem, or are going to be a problem for humanity, and if so, what should be done to limit or reduce them on a global scale. You don't get any points for coming up with a fair solution which either nobody agrees to or nobody follows. The best solution is the one that everyone agrees to, actually enacts, and is willing to deal with the consequences of.
Yes, they'll agree to limits which they'll ignore. Whereas we simply don't agree to limits we don't intend to keep. I guess we should follow their example.
At equilibrium, the energy absorbed by the earth, and that given off by the earth are equal. If the earth's temperature is rising, then it is emitting/reflecting less light than if it is constant. You could therefore use the temperature of the moon as a proxy for the rate of change of the temperature of the earth.
The greenhouse effect isn't causing radiation to be reflected back to earth. It is a result of lowering the overall emissivity of the earth, while increasing the overall absorptivity (though to a much smaller degree, given the difference between the spectrum received and that emitted).
OK, but how much of Switzerland's GDP depends on, for instance, Banking, an industry notoriously devoid of any inherent CO2 needs. The table needs some refinement, because a large industry of shifting signatures around is going to affect the GDP without increasing emissions and without necessarily increasing the real wealth either.
Those rules need some clarification. Otherwise, creative tyrants will realize that getting 100% of ten people to do something is a lot easier than 100% of six billion people. Clearly, the fastest way to 100% "working" is to reduce the total number of people significantly, and quickly.
You can cook a lot more burgers at once if you don't insist squeezing them while they're cooking. 'Cause what everyone wants is a flat, tough, tasteless burger, right?
I wonder what using olive oil as lighter fluid would do to the taste. hmm..
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Yes, but the car doesn't consume ANY twinkies when it's in the garage. Did you account for that?
If you want flavor-from-your-fuel, I suggest wood chips. Like hickory or mesquite. I would certainly not suggest cooking your food over petro-carbon infused, partially burned, glued-together bits of industrial waste.
The handy thing about charcoal is that it's handy. It is better than wood in terms of heat-to-weight and heat-to-volume ratios. Also it's fairly easy to light. But it tastes terrible, especially if you use lighter fluid to get it going.
Or a university with some bored students and an advisor. It's not like it requires any equipment which wouldn't be readily available to students in a university setting.
"Battery powered" RFID chips? Don't they mean, "small radios?" At the point that they're adding batteries, they should have considered that the students are already carrying around GPS-enabled battery powered radio trackers, and forgone designing the thing altogether.
The students could just sign up for the tracking program with their cell phone numbers, and the university could get the data from the cell companies. No triangulation necessary.
He is propping up the original sale price. By having a secondary market for the used CDs, people who buy new CDs and then resell them when they're tired of them are able to free up money to buy additional new CDs.
The downloading part is sketchy, but there is an effect from the secondary purchase. I would submit, however, that the value of the used CD is partly based on how beat up it is, so your friend should be purchasing CDs that are at least of sufficient quality to actually read, otherwise he's really just pretending.
I don't get this "they don't count tivo & dvr" If you use those, you still have to tune the channel, right? And isn't nielson a journal-based rating system anyway?
I do agree that nielson is backwards technology in today's environment though. You only sample a population when you can't measure the whole thing, and you only take a small sample when a large one is impractical. But cable and satellite use is something like over 50% of households, and every one of 'em has a networked computer by definition. So there's no reason why that can't be the sample. Heck, I'd switch to a cable company that aggregated my viewing habits, since that would mean that my opinion on shows would actually count.
You crazy dutch freaks. With your strange parochial cosmopolitanism and your silly phrases like, "I waited online for an hour to get those tickets" when you mean that you waited IN line and didn't use the internet at all...
Yes, but Lucas pretty much invented the phrase, "space opera" to describe the genre he was joining. It was deliberately supposed to be very much reminiscent of the old flash gordon serials and other mythologies.
Get your head out of your arse. The films (IV..VI that is) were fun adventure films, and the special effects were just good enough to look realistic, without being too ambitious. (i.e., big scary space station? Show it from very far away so we don't have to model much, then show it from really close up so we can use a matte painting. Mwa hahah) Everything doesn't have to be some kind of great work of literature. In fact, great works of literature tend to make pretty lousy movies.
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Yeah, but the registries are still stupid. If you're so uncertain of their ability to avoid committing the crime again that you brand a scarlet P on their chests and ban them from living within a thousand feet of (schools, concerned parents, hyper phobic egotists, anyone who owns a board-with-a-nail...), you shouldn't have released them from psychological care in the first place.
What're you talking about? Their whining has literally doubled their free advertising over the past week.
A more cynical person than me would conclude that they manufactured the entire scandal specifically for the press.
I'm sure its developers will be interested in avoiding examination of the core dump.
What I don't understand is, the MATrix LABoratory should've been one of the first to take advantage of multiple cores. I could've sworn I'd seen a cluster version a few years ago when I was looking into that sort of thing.
By now, I'd have expected them to have a GPU-MATLAB to take advantage of the massively parallel matrix-oriented hardware sitting just inches from the CPU.
Well you're talking to a group of people who probably think it's reasonable to have a holster for a cell phone. So, no, I don't think the a leatherman would make any slashdotters look any more nerdy.
The leatherman should be in it's provide leather holster on your belt.
Ok, but if the banks invest in polluting industries in OTHER COUNTRIES, who gets nailed with the lowered average? It seems that countries with mostly banking-related industry would have yet another tool to use against other nations: by specifically investing in the worst polluting industries in those countries, then, i don't know, lapping up the carbon credit transfer tax or something.
Please stop mixing global communism into the discussion. Equitable distribution of wealth and reduction of CO2 emissions are two separate issues, and muddying the waters by linking the two only makes you seem less serious about one or the other.
The issue at hand isn't "fairness." It's whether or not human-made CO2 emissions are are a problem, or are going to be a problem for humanity, and if so, what should be done to limit or reduce them on a global scale. You don't get any points for coming up with a fair solution which either nobody agrees to or nobody follows. The best solution is the one that everyone agrees to, actually enacts, and is willing to deal with the consequences of.
Yes, they'll agree to limits which they'll ignore. Whereas we simply don't agree to limits we don't intend to keep. I guess we should follow their example.
At equilibrium, the energy absorbed by the earth, and that given off by the earth are equal. If the earth's temperature is rising, then it is emitting/reflecting less light than if it is constant. You could therefore use the temperature of the moon as a proxy for the rate of change of the temperature of the earth.
The greenhouse effect isn't causing radiation to be reflected back to earth. It is a result of lowering the overall emissivity of the earth, while increasing the overall absorptivity (though to a much smaller degree, given the difference between the spectrum received and that emitted).
OK, but how much of Switzerland's GDP depends on, for instance, Banking, an industry notoriously devoid of any inherent CO2 needs. The table needs some refinement, because a large industry of shifting signatures around is going to affect the GDP without increasing emissions and without necessarily increasing the real wealth either.
Those rules need some clarification. Otherwise, creative tyrants will realize that getting 100% of ten people to do something is a lot easier than 100% of six billion people. Clearly, the fastest way to 100% "working" is to reduce the total number of people significantly, and quickly.
You can cook a lot more burgers at once if you don't insist squeezing them while they're cooking. 'Cause what everyone wants is a flat, tough, tasteless burger, right?
I wonder what using olive oil as lighter fluid would do to the taste. hmm..
Yes, but the car doesn't consume ANY twinkies when it's in the garage. Did you account for that?
Whatever you throw on your fire, you're going to taste on the food. So.. technically it's up to you.
If you want flavor-from-your-fuel, I suggest wood chips. Like hickory or mesquite. I would certainly not suggest cooking your food over petro-carbon infused, partially burned, glued-together bits of industrial waste.
The handy thing about charcoal is that it's handy. It is better than wood in terms of heat-to-weight and heat-to-volume ratios. Also it's fairly easy to light. But it tastes terrible, especially if you use lighter fluid to get it going.
Or a university with some bored students and an advisor. It's not like it requires any equipment which wouldn't be readily available to students in a university setting.
Don't be silly, they live in Lancaster, PA and eschew modern technology.
"Battery powered" RFID chips? Don't they mean, "small radios?" At the point that they're adding batteries, they should have considered that the students are already carrying around GPS-enabled battery powered radio trackers, and forgone designing the thing altogether.
The students could just sign up for the tracking program with their cell phone numbers, and the university could get the data from the cell companies. No triangulation necessary.
He is propping up the original sale price. By having a secondary market for the used CDs, people who buy new CDs and then resell them when they're tired of them are able to free up money to buy additional new CDs.
The downloading part is sketchy, but there is an effect from the secondary purchase. I would submit, however, that the value of the used CD is partly based on how beat up it is, so your friend should be purchasing CDs that are at least of sufficient quality to actually read, otherwise he's really just pretending.
The article you linked says he basically rejected catholicism, so what was your point really?
I don't get this "they don't count tivo & dvr" If you use those, you still have to tune the channel, right? And isn't nielson a journal-based rating system anyway?
I do agree that nielson is backwards technology in today's environment though. You only sample a population when you can't measure the whole thing, and you only take a small sample when a large one is impractical. But cable and satellite use is something like over 50% of households, and every one of 'em has a networked computer by definition. So there's no reason why that can't be the sample. Heck, I'd switch to a cable company that aggregated my viewing habits, since that would mean that my opinion on shows would actually count.
You crazy dutch freaks. With your strange parochial cosmopolitanism and your silly phrases like, "I waited online for an hour to get those tickets" when you mean that you waited IN line and didn't use the internet at all...
Well, duh. You can't trick people out of their money if they don't trust you.
Yes, but Lucas pretty much invented the phrase, "space opera" to describe the genre he was joining. It was deliberately supposed to be very much reminiscent of the old flash gordon serials and other mythologies.
Get your head out of your arse. The films (IV..VI that is) were fun adventure films, and the special effects were just good enough to look realistic, without being too ambitious. (i.e., big scary space station? Show it from very far away so we don't have to model much, then show it from really close up so we can use a matte painting. Mwa hahah) Everything doesn't have to be some kind of great work of literature. In fact, great works of literature tend to make pretty lousy movies.