See, the problem with using "modern farming methods" is that they end up causing an upward cycle of utilization. It gets to a point that you end up spending more to produce than you are getting back.
But modern farming methods include crop rotation and the practice of leaving land fallow for a cycle to allow it to regenerate.
The problem with your statement is that you are assuming that the only way a modern farmer can increase crop yields is by increasing the levels of fertilizer. Simple practices like crop rotation and leaving land fallow have been show to 'recharge' the land. Google for details. It has also been show to reduce weeds.
Funny, how a scientific publication uses 11 pages in attacking the book but only allows a one page rebuttal. This is what convinced me to cancel my subscription to sciam.
The arresting thing about Scientific American's coverage, however, was not this barrage of ineffective rejoinders but the editor's notion of what was going on: "Science defends itself against the Skeptical Environmentalist," he announced.
That is amazing. Mr Lomborg's targets are green scare-mongers and their credulous servants in the media. He uses the findings of scientists to press his case. How can using science to criticise the Kyoto agreement, to show that the world's forests are not disappearing, to demonstrate that the planet's supplies of energy and food will suffice indefinitely, and the rest, constitute an attack on science? If that is so, the scholars whose work supports those positions are presumably attacking science too, and had better stand in line for a pie in the face.
-- Karma to spare...
What!? You mean <i></i> is not an irony tag?
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Easy to see how this could happen:
Class a{ public boolean equals(Object o){ if( this == o) return true;// ignore nulls }}
Class b{ public boolean equals(Object o){ return false;//I am Unique!!! }}
Probably loose karma for this, but I can't let this slide:
You said:
>So why are there fossillized sea creatures on top of Mt. Everest?
You don't need a flood to put fossils on top of Mt. Everest.
Mt. Everest formed when the Indian continental plate rammed into the Asian continental plate. That collision raised the sea-bed to the height it is now.
In fact, Mt Everest is still growing (at about 2 cm/year).
>Just from the earth's magnetic field rate of decrease alone, >there is ample evidence for a very young (~6000 years) earth indeed.
Federal and state police legally intercepted approximately 2.3 million conversations and pager communications in 2001, spending about $72 million in the process, the federal court system's annual report says.
The true number of authorized wiretaps is likely to be far greater. This week's figures do not include all U.S. Customs surveillance -- some of their records were lost in the destruction of the World Trade Center -- or those super-secret investigations done under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
The total number of wiretaps jumped 25 percent from 2000. Drug-related crimes were the cause of 78 percent of them.
And this is the interesting bit:
Only court-authorized wiretaps appear in the report, not illegal ones performed in violation of state and federal law. In 1999, the Los Angeles County Public Defender's office estimated that the local police illegally under-reported actual wiretaps by a factor of ten.
Exactly.
And at some point, if you decide you want a GUI, take a look at IBM's SWT instead of AWT and Swing. Programs written with SWT are indistinguishable from native programs on Windows, Linux and Solaris (That's all I've tested BTW, and in addition SWT has bindings for Photon so you can run it on QNX!).
Eclipse has already been mentioned as a Java IDE, but I thought I should add that Eclipse has plugins available for other languages. Initially starting with C and C++, the plans are to extend it to other languages.
We are using the IBM MQ series in a large financial institution with clients publishing and subscribing from global locations.
I've found that it handles the load pretty well (just an informal test right now gives about five 10K messages/sec on a 100Mbps network).
The advantages of this solution are that you are not restricted to JMS clients. IBM MQ Series can deliver messages to non-JMS clients too. Admittedly, this is a non-issue if you are tossing Java objects around. In our case, we use it to pass XML data as queries and responses. I've generally found a near instantaneous response rate from the time the publish happens to when the subscriber is notified of a new message.
Just my $0.02c
http://www.taxact.com/ allows you to print and file your federal return for free. The e-file option costs $7.95 which meets the OP requirement of costing below $10.
The software can be downloaded or used over the web.
Isn't it eerie how science fiction is turning into reality? I read this and immediately thought of "The Mote in God's Eye" - Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle.
Now how long before we have regular colonies on the planets and FTL travel?
There's another factor to consider: MSDN shipments. You can get copies of all MS OSes at the MSDN professional level ($500 per year). Are these shipments included in the NT numbers? If so, then the NT numbers could be inflated quite a bit.
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You mean that none of the top executives of the WWF make any money? Wow, you could have fooled me!
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But modern farming methods include crop rotation and the practice of leaving land fallow for a cycle to allow it to regenerate.
The problem with your statement is that you are assuming that the only way a modern farmer can increase crop yields is by increasing the levels of fertilizer. Simple practices like crop rotation and leaving land fallow have been show to 'recharge' the land. Google for details.
It has also been show to reduce weeds.
Naughty, naughty.E 0-157B-1CD4-B4A8809EC588EEDF
See Lombords rebuttal at: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000001
Funny, how a scientific publication uses 11 pages in attacking the book but only allows a one page rebuttal.
This is what convinced me to cancel my subscription to sciam.
Also see the Economists' review: http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID =965718
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What!? You mean <i></i> is not an irony tag?
You don't need a flood to put fossils on top of Mt. Everest. Mt. Everest formed when the Indian continental plate rammed into the Asian continental plate. That collision raised the sea-bed to the height it is now.
In fact, Mt Everest is still growing (at about 2 cm/year).
You do know that the earth's magnetic field periodically reverses itself don't you? see http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/amag.html for more information.
Mmm, maybe because it is *not* hard or scientific? See: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/po-halos/gentry.ht ml
for more information.
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Nothing to see here, move along now.
Quite right. Loud calculators tend to disturb the teachers & neighbouring students.
Offsite for Tower one means Tower two and vice-versa right? :)
And this is the interesting bit:
Exactly.
And at some point, if you decide you want a GUI, take a look at IBM's SWT instead of AWT and Swing. Programs written with SWT are indistinguishable from native programs on Windows, Linux and Solaris (That's all I've tested BTW, and in addition SWT has bindings for Photon so you can run it on QNX!).
Use Fn + Left shift for control keys
Use Fn + Right shift for alt keys
RTFM for the rest :)
Eclipse has already been mentioned as a Java IDE, but I thought I should add that Eclipse has plugins available for other languages. Initially starting with C and C++, the plans are to extend it to other languages.
I've found that it handles the load pretty well (just an informal test right now gives about five 10K messages/sec on a 100Mbps network).
The advantages of this solution are that you are not restricted to JMS clients. IBM MQ Series can deliver messages to non-JMS clients too. Admittedly, this is a non-issue if you are tossing Java objects around. In our case, we use it to pass XML data as queries and responses. I've generally found a near instantaneous response rate from the time the publish happens to when the subscriber is notified of a new message. Just my $0.02c
The software can be downloaded or used over the web.
Isn't it eerie how science fiction is turning into reality? I read this and immediately thought of "The Mote in God's Eye" - Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle. Now how long before we have regular colonies on the planets and FTL travel?
There's another factor to consider: MSDN shipments.
You can get copies of all MS OSes at the MSDN professional level ($500 per year). Are these shipments included in the NT numbers? If so, then the NT numbers could be inflated quite a bit.
I don't get it!
Am I the only one who plays Thief?
Find a demo here.
My favourite:
VW beetle here in Silicon Valley, CA with the plate 'FEATURE'