Tell that to the people that live around Florida's phosphate mines (you know, the ones that provide the fertilizer for "modern farming methods"). Consequences include radioactive pilings (radon and uranium), toxic processing water, ruined watersheds, depleted groundwater, sinkholes, and a ravaged landscape. The Earth as a system is far more complex and interdependent that you seem to imagine.
Nothing new under the sun. Check out any old pulp magazine from the 20s or 30s, or a modern Reader's Digest or Analog. Ad-supported, just like your local newspaper. Most paperbacks have adverts in the back for other books from that publishing house.
Iron is a limiting nutrient. If you add iron to seawater, all other things being equal (e.g. phosphate), you will probably enable more "stuff" to live in that region, cf. "Importance of iron for plankton blooms and carbon dioxide drawdown in the Southern Ocean HJW De Baar, JTM de Jong, DCE Bakker - 1995 - nature.com"
You aren't considering the importance of lap/desktop computers in business. Corporations are big spenders in that sector. A smart phone is great, but not for manipulating 10,000 line spreadsheets, complex modeling, or typing up five page reports.
"t's not but it is sufficient for about 95% of real world users."
Personally, I'd say it is sufficient 95% of the time for real world users. The problem is the other 5% of time. MSO, on the other hand, is sufficient more like 99.9% of the time.
The branch of the federal government that I work for has no problem with employees using government equipment to check personal emails (as long as it isn't abused). Porn, logging into personal financial sites, and trading stocks are about the only things specifically proscribed. Web-use at work is logged but not reviewed (there's too much of it and, being a research center, the sites accessed can be a bit eclectic), but there isn't anybody reading over my shoulder if I use my laptop at home. Of course there isn't a time-clock here and most of us happily work more than 40 hours a week (science research), so my situation may be an anomaly. That said, one of my buddies is an Army Major and he uses his laptop for personal stuff too, so maybe not. I guess it's kind of like a fringe benefit. I've worked in the private sector and things weren't any different there; people use the internet throughout the day for a variety of purposes, private and business.
A company that has a policy against its employees using assigned laptops for personal internet use (especially after hours) is out of touch with reality. Most people are working more than 40 hours, so it isn't reasonable to expect them not to take care of personal business periodically during the work day.
You may have been thinking about this...
Submarine flatulence along the Hikurangi margin of New Zealand: Linking geochemical methane anomalies in the water column with hydroacoustic evidence of bubble transport, Geophysical Research Abstracts,Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-04390, 2008SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2008-A-04390 EGU General Assembly 2008 Author(s) 2008 K. Faure et al.
My personal favorite:
"A possible role of social activity to explain differences in publication output among ecologists"
by T. Grim in Oikos
From the Abstract:.... I show that increasing per capita beer consumption is associated with lower numbers of papers,
total citations, and citations per paper (a surrogate measure of paper quality)... leisure time social
activities might influence the quality and quantity of scientific work and may be potential sources of publication and
citation biases.
Douglas Adams had an English degree. What the hell did he know about psychology and information science? He wrote one somewhat-funny book series. Why quote him? What did Leary say about this? Jung? Meade? Wilson? Just because DA said it doesn't make it so. I see plenty of old professors that are far more tuned into to technology and information processing than the twenty-year old students that sit in their classes. It's an overgeneralized stereotype, and a poor one at that.
The initial analogy is idiotic in any event. There's a world of difference between the time it takes to assimilate information from a library full of books (ala Gessner; serial-processing - one at a time) and juggling email, a cell phone, tv, the radio, books, journal articles, textbooks, facebook, twitter, podcasts...
At public universities in Florida you simply get an FF (not just an F) for the course. Doesn't look to good on the resume - kind of like a dishonorable discharge - yes, you served, but you don't want to broadcast it. I've only had to give a couple, always in the large first or second year lectures, never in upperclass coursework.
It isn't that simple. Plants don't just convert co2 into o2 through photosynthesis, they also respire, which releases co2. Besides, the fluxes involved will not significantly be affected by "thriving plantlife" (sic), especially seeing that we (humans) are currently cutting down biota faster than it grows (deforestation). Temperature is a moot point anyway; the real problem, to me, is ocean acidification i.e. the largest scale titration of the oceans. Sea water pH is decreasing, and will continue to decrease. The oceans are the cradle of life as well as the planet's lungs. Carbon, and especially carbon dioxide, chemistry is complex and counter-intuitive, especially on global scales. Trying to apply common sense without a solid background (textbook, not Discovery Channel) in the science will lead you astray.
http://www.vernier.com/ makes some outstanding equipment at assorted prices. The Loggerpro software (free 30-day demo, 190 bucks for an unlimited site license), combined with a data logger and a couple instruments (e.g. thermometer and ph meter), total cost maybe...400 dollars...would allow you to run a demonstration experiment, gather the data, distribute it to the students, and then have them analyze it on their own copies of the software (which includes a variety of analysis/graphing/statistical tools). They have a bunch of lesson plans on-line, too.
Slashdot Mirror
A voxel is a 3D (volumetric) pixel.
Line of big screen TVs in a store window.
How do you know this? They are just as likely to plexiglass a trainer as a real shuttle. You can touch a piece of lunar rock (or at least the grime and grease of millions of fingers coating it) in Houston and Florida, I imagine they'll let people "touch a tile" or something like that. Alternately, you could just just buy yourself a chunk of meteorite for less than the cost of a family pass to KSC http://compare.ebay.com/like/230209530807?var=binlv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&rvr_id=224679782523&crlp=1_263602_324952&UA=WXF%3F&GUID=49f3655312f0a026824779e7ff56401d&itemid=230209530807&ff4=263602_324952 . Besides, every astronaut has also bought gas at the Hess station just south of KSC, but they aren't putting the gas pumps in a museum. (Most) people want the real thing, not a "trainer".
It isn't the frame rate that's going to be the problem with The Hobbit, it's Peter Jackson's altering Tolkien's story and characters.
What does your company's legal department prefer?
Tell that to the people that live around Florida's phosphate mines (you know, the ones that provide the fertilizer for "modern farming methods"). Consequences include radioactive pilings (radon and uranium), toxic processing water, ruined watersheds, depleted groundwater, sinkholes, and a ravaged landscape. The Earth as a system is far more complex and interdependent that you seem to imagine.
Nothing new under the sun. Check out any old pulp magazine from the 20s or 30s, or a modern Reader's Digest or Analog. Ad-supported, just like your local newspaper. Most paperbacks have adverts in the back for other books from that publishing house.
Will it support PnP wireless?
What will Dan Brown write about now?
Iron is a limiting nutrient. If you add iron to seawater, all other things being equal (e.g. phosphate), you will probably enable more "stuff" to live in that region, cf. "Importance of iron for plankton blooms and carbon dioxide drawdown in the Southern Ocean HJW De Baar, JTM de Jong, DCE Bakker - 1995 - nature.com"
You aren't considering the importance of lap/desktop computers in business. Corporations are big spenders in that sector. A smart phone is great, but not for manipulating 10,000 line spreadsheets, complex modeling, or typing up five page reports.
"t's not but it is sufficient for about 95% of real world users." Personally, I'd say it is sufficient 95% of the time for real world users. The problem is the other 5% of time. MSO, on the other hand, is sufficient more like 99.9% of the time.
The branch of the federal government that I work for has no problem with employees using government equipment to check personal emails (as long as it isn't abused). Porn, logging into personal financial sites, and trading stocks are about the only things specifically proscribed. Web-use at work is logged but not reviewed (there's too much of it and, being a research center, the sites accessed can be a bit eclectic), but there isn't anybody reading over my shoulder if I use my laptop at home. Of course there isn't a time-clock here and most of us happily work more than 40 hours a week (science research), so my situation may be an anomaly. That said, one of my buddies is an Army Major and he uses his laptop for personal stuff too, so maybe not. I guess it's kind of like a fringe benefit. I've worked in the private sector and things weren't any different there; people use the internet throughout the day for a variety of purposes, private and business. A company that has a policy against its employees using assigned laptops for personal internet use (especially after hours) is out of touch with reality. Most people are working more than 40 hours, so it isn't reasonable to expect them not to take care of personal business periodically during the work day.
...pretty much, yes.
I don't know...is the iPhone really a gaming platform?
You may have been thinking about this... Submarine flatulence along the Hikurangi margin of New Zealand: Linking geochemical methane anomalies in the water column with hydroacoustic evidence of bubble transport, Geophysical Research Abstracts,Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-04390, 2008SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2008-A-04390 EGU General Assembly 2008 Author(s) 2008 K. Faure et al.
My personal favorite: "A possible role of social activity to explain differences in publication output among ecologists" by T. Grim in Oikos From the Abstract: .... I show that increasing per capita beer consumption is associated with lower numbers of papers,
total citations, and citations per paper (a surrogate measure of paper quality) ... leisure time social
activities might influence the quality and quantity of scientific work and may be potential sources of publication and
citation biases.
Douglas Adams had an English degree. What the hell did he know about psychology and information science? He wrote one somewhat-funny book series. Why quote him? What did Leary say about this? Jung? Meade? Wilson? Just because DA said it doesn't make it so. I see plenty of old professors that are far more tuned into to technology and information processing than the twenty-year old students that sit in their classes. It's an overgeneralized stereotype, and a poor one at that. The initial analogy is idiotic in any event. There's a world of difference between the time it takes to assimilate information from a library full of books (ala Gessner; serial-processing - one at a time) and juggling email, a cell phone, tv, the radio, books, journal articles, textbooks, facebook, twitter, podcasts...
At public universities in Florida you simply get an FF (not just an F) for the course. Doesn't look to good on the resume - kind of like a dishonorable discharge - yes, you served, but you don't want to broadcast it. I've only had to give a couple, always in the large first or second year lectures, never in upperclass coursework.
Maybe you sent her the wrong body part. She might have been looking for a pair of something.
Kind of like nailing a mobile home to your nice brick house...it'll give Cousin Eddie someplace *real nice* to stay while visiting.
Dead battery during critical lecture.
I thought it was a contraction of "Go ogle" as a nod to the amount of porn viewed on the internet each day.
It isn't that simple. Plants don't just convert co2 into o2 through photosynthesis, they also respire, which releases co2. Besides, the fluxes involved will not significantly be affected by "thriving plantlife" (sic), especially seeing that we (humans) are currently cutting down biota faster than it grows (deforestation). Temperature is a moot point anyway; the real problem, to me, is ocean acidification i.e. the largest scale titration of the oceans. Sea water pH is decreasing, and will continue to decrease. The oceans are the cradle of life as well as the planet's lungs. Carbon, and especially carbon dioxide, chemistry is complex and counter-intuitive, especially on global scales. Trying to apply common sense without a solid background (textbook, not Discovery Channel) in the science will lead you astray.
http://www.vernier.com/ makes some outstanding equipment at assorted prices. The Loggerpro software (free 30-day demo, 190 bucks for an unlimited site license), combined with a data logger and a couple instruments (e.g. thermometer and ph meter), total cost maybe...400 dollars...would allow you to run a demonstration experiment, gather the data, distribute it to the students, and then have them analyze it on their own copies of the software (which includes a variety of analysis/graphing/statistical tools). They have a bunch of lesson plans on-line, too.