I personally think the key thing is transportation. Never before has large-scale transportation been practical as it is today. You can jump on a plane and be practically anywhere in the world within a few hours. This is a massive boon to any sort of infectious disease, be it AIDS, flu, or even the common cold.
Another factor to consider is the population and relatedly, population density. Over the past century, and particularly over the past few decades, the population and the density of said population have been growing at a completely unprecedented rate. Over the past 50 years, the world population has doubled. Over the past 100 years, it has roughly quadrupled. Again, this is yet another boon for infectious disease.
While your circumstances are likely contributors, I think they are far overshadowed by rapid, long distance transportation and greatly increased population density.
HIV/AIDS simply requires certain circumstances (which didn't exist until relatively recently) to thrive effectively due to its specific limitations, such as its means of transmission.
A fire in a desert will not spread effectively, as there's nothing for it to burn and spread via, but a fire in a drought-ridden forest will thrive.
I don't know what this has to do with the subject at hand, but I agree with you to some extent. I don't agree that it has to do with people addicted to their jobs, although there are certainly people who are. There are also people addicted to the Internet, or addicted to TV viewing or going to those bars you mentioned.
The important difference in those is that the former addiction would appear to be actively endorsed by society in general, or could even be considered indirectly enforced.
Only a lot more efficient. An average tree will use roughly 22kg of CO2 per year. These things are estimated to remove 20 tonnes per year per square metre, so it's in excess of 1000 times more effective. Even after you factor in the CO2 produced to provide the power needed for these things, you're still likely coming out way ahead.
Good comparison. A relatively small island nation (75th largest/122nd most populous) in effectively the middle of nowhere so you have to run massive, long, expensive, vulnerable, capacity-limited under sea cables to, compared to the world's 4th/3rd largest country, which is bordered by the world's 2nd/36th and 15th/11th largest countries, not to mention the country that invented the entire thing.
Because their business model is heavily reliant on people who buy a large connection and then proceed to barely use it. This allows them to oversell on a massive scale, which is extremely profitable. Now technologies that take advantage of all that bandwidth (on-demand content, P2P, streaming video, etc.) are coming into the mainstream and generally screwing up all their lovely profitable assumptions.
Hmph. $60/month 2m/256k wireless here, uncapped as far as I've found. No DSL or cable either, though the phone line will pull 44.6k or 48k on a good day, which is useful as a backup.
Well, * is generally a multi-character wildcard, so F** would return the same as F* or F***, which would be every word starting with "F". If you wanted to confine the search to four letter words, you would use F___, F???, or possibly F... depending on the environment.
1. No. Wimax has nothing to do with wifi. Wimax is a last-mile type connection, much like DSL, cable, etc, with the capability to act like cellular broadband in the sense it does not necessarily require a fixed antenna and thus can be mobile.
2. Maybe. I've heard thoughts of cellular service along the lines of VOIP-over-wimax, though I imagine this is several years away, if it even pans out.
3. Provided it uses actual wimax and not a similar non-standard, it would act like a modem and connect via ethernet/wifi in a fixed mode and usb/pcmcia/expresscard/built-in/etc. when used in a mobile mode.
My 8800GTS 640 just recently gave it up after barely a year, though I'm fairly sure it was the memory that was bad, judging by the funky graphical corruption (it was applying the wrong texture to everything, like replacing an armour texture with a skin texture and such. Never seen anything like it.) before it went completely dead. Yay for eVGA's warranty, though I wish they would cross-ship so I didn't have to wait so long for stuff to ship to/from California.
1. I think your figure for the PC is high. My gaming desktop draws 240W at idle, including CRT monitor (about 360W going full-out) and it packs significantly hardware than your commonplace office PC.
2. A laser only draws that much when actively printing. It draws very little (10s of Watts) when idle.
I wonder what grade of gas that trick requires to get those numbers, as I can't see it being that effective with regular 87. Putting ethanol with its ridiculous octane rating (116 for E100 or 105 for E85) in that might give really nice results though.
Pretty much. Between forced induction (Practically every diesel is turbocharged and turbocharging a diesel is easier than with a gas engine) and the fact that diesel inherently is more resistant to knocking, so you can push the compression significantly higher.
Diesels are about 45-50% efficient, compared to gas engines which are about 25-30% efficient.
In terms of their GDP, yes, their debt is massive (nearly double their GDP, compared to ~60% in the US's case), but their current accounts (effectively trade balance) is in much better shape than the US, sitting at about 200 billion (2nd highest only after China) in the positive, compared to the US which is over 7 trillion in the negative.
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I personally think the key thing is transportation. Never before has large-scale transportation been practical as it is today. You can jump on a plane and be practically anywhere in the world within a few hours. This is a massive boon to any sort of infectious disease, be it AIDS, flu, or even the common cold.
Another factor to consider is the population and relatedly, population density. Over the past century, and particularly over the past few decades, the population and the density of said population have been growing at a completely unprecedented rate. Over the past 50 years, the world population has doubled. Over the past 100 years, it has roughly quadrupled. Again, this is yet another boon for infectious disease.
While your circumstances are likely contributors, I think they are far overshadowed by rapid, long distance transportation and greatly increased population density.
HIV/AIDS simply requires certain circumstances (which didn't exist until relatively recently) to thrive effectively due to its specific limitations, such as its means of transmission.
A fire in a desert will not spread effectively, as there's nothing for it to burn and spread via, but a fire in a drought-ridden forest will thrive.
I don't know what this has to do with the subject at hand, but I agree with you to some extent. I don't agree that it has to do with people addicted to their jobs, although there are certainly people who are. There are also people addicted to the Internet, or addicted to TV viewing or going to those bars you mentioned.
The important difference in those is that the former addiction would appear to be actively endorsed by society in general, or could even be considered indirectly enforced.
R-Perl may fit your needs.
http://www.omegahat.org/RSPerl/
I'd say a good majority of GNU projects either start with a g, are acronyms that start with GNU, or start with GNU.
GNOME - GNU Object Model Environment
Gnash
GCJ - GNU Compiler for Java
GNU Classpath
GCC - GNU Compiler Collection
I don't see it anywhere in the release notes, though the potential for CMYK support was one of the reasons for the move to GEGL.
There is a plugin called seperate+, though I'm not sure if that still works properly with the new version.
There's also a potentially useful article on this on the Arch Linux wiki.
Only a lot more efficient. An average tree will use roughly 22kg of CO2 per year. These things are estimated to remove 20 tonnes per year per square metre, so it's in excess of 1000 times more effective. Even after you factor in the CO2 produced to provide the power needed for these things, you're still likely coming out way ahead.
The MAD principle argues otherwise.
Why don't we follow the Roman method and crucify the surviver, a la Spartacus.
Good comparison. A relatively small island nation (75th largest/122nd most populous) in effectively the middle of nowhere so you have to run massive, long, expensive, vulnerable, capacity-limited under sea cables to, compared to the world's 4th/3rd largest country, which is bordered by the world's 2nd/36th and 15th/11th largest countries, not to mention the country that invented the entire thing.
Because their business model is heavily reliant on people who buy a large connection and then proceed to barely use it. This allows them to oversell on a massive scale, which is extremely profitable. Now technologies that take advantage of all that bandwidth (on-demand content, P2P, streaming video, etc.) are coming into the mainstream and generally screwing up all their lovely profitable assumptions.
Hmph. $60/month 2m/256k wireless here, uncapped as far as I've found. No DSL or cable either, though the phone line will pull 44.6k or 48k on a good day, which is useful as a backup.
Well, * is generally a multi-character wildcard, so F** would return the same as F* or F***, which would be every word starting with "F". If you wanted to confine the search to four letter words, you would use F___, F???, or possibly F... depending on the environment.
Yes, geographically small dense areas like New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, etc.
They're getting tired of the legal threat hanging over their heads, so they're starting the fight on their own terms.
1. No. Wimax has nothing to do with wifi. Wimax is a last-mile type connection, much like DSL, cable, etc, with the capability to act like cellular broadband in the sense it does not necessarily require a fixed antenna and thus can be mobile.
2. Maybe. I've heard thoughts of cellular service along the lines of VOIP-over-wimax, though I imagine this is several years away, if it even pans out.
3. Provided it uses actual wimax and not a similar non-standard, it would act like a modem and connect via ethernet/wifi in a fixed mode and usb/pcmcia/expresscard/built-in/etc. when used in a mobile mode.
My 8800GTS 640 just recently gave it up after barely a year, though I'm fairly sure it was the memory that was bad, judging by the funky graphical corruption (it was applying the wrong texture to everything, like replacing an armour texture with a skin texture and such. Never seen anything like it.) before it went completely dead. Yay for eVGA's warranty, though I wish they would cross-ship so I didn't have to wait so long for stuff to ship to/from California.
1. I think your figure for the PC is high. My gaming desktop draws 240W at idle, including CRT monitor (about 360W going full-out) and it packs significantly hardware than your commonplace office PC.
2. A laser only draws that much when actively printing. It draws very little (10s of Watts) when idle.
I wonder what grade of gas that trick requires to get those numbers, as I can't see it being that effective with regular 87. Putting ethanol with its ridiculous octane rating (116 for E100 or 105 for E85) in that might give really nice results though.
The rest of the ashes were already scatted terrestrially, namely over Puget Sound in Washington.
How so? Higher compression?
Pretty much. Between forced induction (Practically every diesel is turbocharged and turbocharging a diesel is easier than with a gas engine) and the fact that diesel inherently is more resistant to knocking, so you can push the compression significantly higher.
Diesels are about 45-50% efficient, compared to gas engines which are about 25-30% efficient.
I have yet to discover any cap on my Sasktel connection.
try qdb.us
Examine the population density of various major US and Japanese cities. They're surprisingly comparable.
In terms of their GDP, yes, their debt is massive (nearly double their GDP, compared to ~60% in the US's case), but their current accounts (effectively trade balance) is in much better shape than the US, sitting at about 200 billion (2nd highest only after China) in the positive, compared to the US which is over 7 trillion in the negative.