Indeed, but you're ignoring all the negative feedback elements. Put it this way: if positive feedback was the only factor here, then there would have been run away warming from, lets say, volcanic activity.
Furthermore, CO2 is actively soaked up by the oceans forming calcium carbonate, that is why the level of CO2 in the atmosphere has been decreasing over the last 100 million or so years (though, this is obviously a MUCH slower process than our immediate concern, which is the next 100-200 years).
What is being argued in the scientific field is the correlation between an increase of CO2 and the increase in temperature. Using the green house model this will have a logarithmic relationship, where a lighter initial concentration of CO2 has a great slope.
The climate is very very complicated, I would go as far as to say, as complicated as a biological entity. I'm willing to bet that research on it will still be very active a hundred years from now, if we haven't destroyed ourselves until then.
How does it feel like to be mod'ed -1 Troll? LOL. Judging by the comments I'm reading, it's over for your AGW-religion. I suggest finding out what the other hipsters are all into now. Apparently Nitrogen Dioxide is all the rage.
Insulting people are outright lying won't get you anywhere.
In science you've gotta state your assumptions clearly and be prepared for people to disagree with you. You can't harass people into _believing_ you.
In a way, you may or may not need a publisher depending on what you're developing.
A lot of the generic titles that the "industry" keeps pumping out require a publisher for marketing such a mediocre game. But then you get the unconventional games whose development is actually hampered by having a publisher breathe down your neck and make games easier for the general public.
I see one issue that is not covered by posters here: Job Hype.
Every so often Engineering Bodies come out stating that there is a "shortage of engineers" in the market. Then they use that premise to hire workers from other (cheaper) countries. Finally after 5 years of study, the new Engineer faces a shortage of jobs.
This said, you cannot blame the university for your life decision. In my opinion, you shouldn't go to a University purely for a job. If its a job you want, there are often other ways around it (unless it is a Professional job, of course). I don't regret my University education at all and this student will come to regret her action when she matures enough to realise that the ultimate decision was made by her. Influenced by the university propoganda for sure, but still ultimately done by her own hands.
Perfect 4.0 GPA student here. I'm one of a kind at my university in.au which does not utilise any tricks leading to grade inflation. You don't need to score 100% in every test, though I have scored plenty of 100%s. You just have to score an A or A+ on every course you take.
I don't think its possible for me to have obtained a GPA of 4.0 in a humanities course though, for the exact reason you have stated.
Your information is outdated, this was true up to 2005, but now the currencies are no longer pegged.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume you're confusing pegging with the fact that the RMB is not convertible to the USD.
They're going to regret removing LAN play and turning single player into a trilogy. I was looking forward to SC2, now I can't be stuffed. No sale.
What a shame...
I must say, low-end or not, that was a great game!:) It would take a lot of work to top the amusement one can receive from playing SG. It is a shame it died down after the beta was over...
Your write a piece of code for an operating system. Someone pays for a license of said program. Your OS suddenly gets a "backwards compatible upgrade" which breaks said program.
Who's fault is this? Seems you're blaming the people who wrote the code (perfectly compatible with many previous versions of the OS, all the way up to Win95SE) or the people who bought it long ago.
I think you're being far far too light handed on Microsoft. They bundle their OS with almost every computer sold in retail stores, so its not like people can choose not to use it. Most people simply don't have the time nor the skills to "upgrade" to XP and get all their old programs working again.
I was helping my dad who wanted to purchase a laptop. Now I'm not anti-Microsoft, but from all I had read about Vista, I didn't have a positive opinion of it. I told him to find a laptop with XP on it, but upon entering many major stores, we discovered there weren't any.
To cut a long story short, despite all my advice he decided to acquire a machine that came with Vista. The machine itself was quite "beefy", 1.8GHz core duo, 1 gig of ram, etc. but it still took it about 4 minutes to boot up Vista the first time. I was a little worried and so was he. But the second time took "only" around 2 minutes so he was happy.
He used throughout all of the next day with no problems, even though he was wondering why it was so "sluggish" for "such a powerful computer" in his perspective. Then, on the 3rd fateful day he decided to install AutoCAD. Though it installed fine, it refused to run. I consulted many online forums and the problem seemed repeatable with no known solution. By this time my dad decided to wipe Vista and use XP instead.
It took two hours and a half to wipe Vista, install XP, find all the relevant drivers and install them. As soon as we "upgraded" to XP, he was very happy with his cheap laptop. It was a "very powerful" computer indeed.
Finally, some advice for readers with parents considering the purchase of a Vista machine: attempt to convince them not to. Even if you like Vista, you will have to clean up the mess...
Well not quite, as well as the square power-law there's also an exponential attenuation factor due to absorption by the atmosphere. It is far greater at 60GHz than at 2.4GHz.
Guys come out confusing group velocity with the speed of light, from the very first equation I am beginning to suspect that it is the case. I have read the paper, and must question their conclusion as their setup is not entirely clear. This said, everybody loves surprises. Yes, IAAP.
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Indeed, but you're ignoring all the negative feedback elements. Put it this way: if positive feedback was the only factor here, then there would have been run away warming from, lets say, volcanic activity.
Furthermore, CO2 is actively soaked up by the oceans forming calcium carbonate, that is why the level of CO2 in the atmosphere has been decreasing over the last 100 million or so years (though, this is obviously a MUCH slower process than our immediate concern, which is the next 100-200 years).
What is being argued in the scientific field is the correlation between an increase of CO2 and the increase in temperature. Using the green house model this will have a logarithmic relationship, where a lighter initial concentration of CO2 has a great slope.
The climate is very very complicated, I would go as far as to say, as complicated as a biological entity. I'm willing to bet that research on it will still be very active a hundred years from now, if we haven't destroyed ourselves until then.
This is not good news as CO2 begets more temp which begets more CO2 and so on.
It doesn't work like that. What have you been reading?
I don't care "Neutron Cowboy", you're not even capable of having a discussion with me. Go preach to the choir, I don't have time for laymen.
The entire range of Subaru Imprezas.
Don't know about the models after 2007.
You're right!
It's climate when it's warming and it's weather when it's cooling.
>difference between global climate and local weather
Care to tell us? Tread lightly, you're now talking to a physicist.
>This stuff really isn't that complicated.
LOL, ok, don't bother telling us. I've heard enough.
And your post proves that it only takes 1 idiot to subtract 1 from 5.
Is that with or without the Siberian stations? :P
You guys are a bit slow.
How does it feel like to be mod'ed -1 Troll? LOL. Judging by the comments I'm reading, it's over for your AGW-religion. I suggest finding out what the other hipsters are all into now. Apparently Nitrogen Dioxide is all the rage.
Insulting people are outright lying won't get you anywhere.
In science you've gotta state your assumptions clearly and be prepared for people to disagree with you. You can't harass people into _believing_ you.
You'll need a publisher to sell your game that's true, but its not necessarily an exclusive relationship. Which is what the article describes.
>"If you're trying to make a risky game with new ideas, it's best to wrap the concepts in the familiar. Making new IP is always going to be a battle."
*Shudder* making something new is now "Making new IP".
In a way, you may or may not need a publisher depending on what you're developing. A lot of the generic titles that the "industry" keeps pumping out require a publisher for marketing such a mediocre game. But then you get the unconventional games whose development is actually hampered by having a publisher breathe down your neck and make games easier for the general public.
I see one issue that is not covered by posters here: Job Hype. Every so often Engineering Bodies come out stating that there is a "shortage of engineers" in the market. Then they use that premise to hire workers from other (cheaper) countries. Finally after 5 years of study, the new Engineer faces a shortage of jobs. This said, you cannot blame the university for your life decision. In my opinion, you shouldn't go to a University purely for a job. If its a job you want, there are often other ways around it (unless it is a Professional job, of course). I don't regret my University education at all and this student will come to regret her action when she matures enough to realise that the ultimate decision was made by her. Influenced by the university propoganda for sure, but still ultimately done by her own hands.
I might add, I only scored 4.0 in my Science degree :) My Engineering degree wasn't so perfect ... :P
Perfect 4.0 GPA student here. I'm one of a kind at my university in .au which does not utilise any tricks leading to grade inflation. You don't need to score 100% in every test, though I have scored plenty of 100%s. You just have to score an A or A+ on every course you take.
I don't think its possible for me to have obtained a GPA of 4.0 in a humanities course though, for the exact reason you have stated.
You're still not completely understanding what a Peg means.
Your information is outdated, this was true up to 2005, but now the currencies are no longer pegged. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume you're confusing pegging with the fact that the RMB is not convertible to the USD.
They're going to regret removing LAN play and turning single player into a trilogy. I was looking forward to SC2, now I can't be stuffed. No sale. What a shame...
I must say, low-end or not, that was a great game! :) It would take a lot of work to top the amusement one can receive from playing SG. It is a shame it died down after the beta was over...
Well... its funny that you say that because a total of 3 cables have been cut now. So much for triple redundancy.
:)
If anything it should be tagged "fishy".
You do realise that 4GB isn't even fully addressable by Vista without some hardware "dirty hacks" right?
1GB is a *lot* of memory, just because its cheap and the software is bloated doesn't mean much. (See post above)
Let me get this straight.
Your write a piece of code for an operating system. Someone pays for a license of said program. Your OS suddenly gets a "backwards compatible upgrade" which breaks said program.
Who's fault is this? Seems you're blaming the people who wrote the code (perfectly compatible with many previous versions of the OS, all the way up to Win95SE) or the people who bought it long ago.
I think you're being far far too light handed on Microsoft. They bundle their OS with almost every computer sold in retail stores, so its not like people can choose not to use it. Most people simply don't have the time nor the skills to "upgrade" to XP and get all their old programs working again.
Here's my "Vista experience".
I was helping my dad who wanted to purchase a laptop. Now I'm not anti-Microsoft, but from all I had read about Vista, I didn't have a positive opinion of it. I told him to find a laptop with XP on it, but upon entering many major stores, we discovered there weren't any.
To cut a long story short, despite all my advice he decided to acquire a machine that came with Vista. The machine itself was quite "beefy", 1.8GHz core duo, 1 gig of ram, etc. but it still took it about 4 minutes to boot up Vista the first time. I was a little worried and so was he. But the second time took "only" around 2 minutes so he was happy.
He used throughout all of the next day with no problems, even though he was wondering why it was so "sluggish" for "such a powerful computer" in his perspective. Then, on the 3rd fateful day he decided to install AutoCAD. Though it installed fine, it refused to run. I consulted many online forums and the problem seemed repeatable with no known solution. By this time my dad decided to wipe Vista and use XP instead.
It took two hours and a half to wipe Vista, install XP, find all the relevant drivers and install them. As soon as we "upgraded" to XP, he was very happy with his cheap laptop. It was a "very powerful" computer indeed.
Finally, some advice for readers with parents considering the purchase of a Vista machine: attempt to convince them not to. Even if you like Vista, you will have to clean up the mess...
I'd like to correct you, even though your post was of high quality.
"Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main greenhouse gas".
No. Please, don't get your education from the popular media. The main greenhouse gas is water vapor -- e.g. clouds.
Other than that, excellent post.
Yes IAAS, mod at your own behest.
Well not quite, as well as the square power-law there's also an exponential attenuation factor due to absorption by the atmosphere. It is far greater at 60GHz than at 2.4GHz.
http://www.everythingweather.com/atmospheric-radiation/absorption.shtml (60GHz ~5mm)
Guys come out confusing group velocity with the speed of light, from the very first equation I am beginning to suspect that it is the case. I have read the paper, and must question their conclusion as their setup is not entirely clear. This said, everybody loves surprises. Yes, IAAP.