Science still out? That's exactly what the tobacco companies say about cancer (because it benefits them to do so).
Nobody can CONCLUSIVELY PROVE that smoking causes cancer, but it's a pretty safe bet.
What I believe is we shouldn't start making drastic changes and legislation
Is anybody asking you to? Cars can be much more economical without affecting how you travel. The only people really affected will be the oil barons who are running the country - the exact same people who are deliberately writing those "science is still out" speeches which you seem to enjoy.
...or just a well known speech made by somebody who was deliberately trying to cover up the truth? (aka: "Lying"). The guy responsible for that has a name, "Frank Luntz", and has since admitted he made it all up (under orders from Bush).
This sort of information (ie. concrete names, references, etc.) is what we call "pesky facts". Try it sometime.
> "Remember the global cooling scares in the 70's?"
Remember how accurate the weather forecasts were in the 1970s? They were a complete joke, right?
These days we have new toys like very accurate weather satellites which can measure *global* temperatures (the 70's scares were caused by lack of *global* temperature measurements and what's called the "island" effect). We also have big machines to process and visualize the data instead of slide rules.
IOW, the 1970's beliefs on climate are about as useful today as flared trousers and 8-track cartridges.
"I have never heard a skeptic making that ridiculous claim. It seems you are putting up a straw man in order to be able to kick it. The skeptics are not that dumb."
We don't ask that you read the articles but what kind of drooling idiot can't even get to the end of the summary before being overwhelmed by a feverish desire to post something, anything, on Slashdot ?
Microsoft can afford to sell Windows for $10-$25 a copy, or even less if they need to. At the moment they're making 85% profit on it (according to GIS for "windows profit margin").
What this means is that the gravy days are over for Microsoft.
Shall we point out that India is also a nuclear power and has three times the population of the USA?
Hopefully this is all prelude to an effort to find/extract He3 from the moon. As such the USA, India, China, Russia, etc. should be working as a team, not against each other. Energy/climate problems are global and don't stop at national boundaries.
I have a string with 128 chars pre-allocated inside it, if this buffer overflows it switches to dynamic allocation.
The speed-up this gives when parsing text files (or anything else which requires a lot of temporary strings) is very noticable.
Similarly, C++ file functions are designed around text, not binary data. If you read/write a lot of binary files you're far better writing some classes which are designed for the job.
DAOs are a common use of this type of programming but it can be applied to much bigger things:
eg. A GUI layer could switch between Win32 and X11.
A 3D graphics layer could switch between OpenGL and Direct3D....etc.
Stuff like this isn't for beginner but I find this is the real key to program portability, rather then "use Java" or whatever (which will usually run into huge obstacles in long-term projects which don't fit the Java mentality).
Yep. Don't re-implement basic stuff but write wrappers around it. That way you can change the underlying technology and the intermediate layer will save you from most of the pain.
The intermediate layer also means you're writing to your own ideal API.
caveat: This methodology isn't applicable to all types of programs.
PS: For a couple of reasons I wrote my own string class but it's compatible with std::string so I can switch between them using a typedef.
If you're prepare to add a few millimeters to the thickness of your laptop then you could make the battery bigger. I'm sure the gain would be much more useful than adding solar panels.
The amount of charge you'll get will be tiny, far too small to be really useful*. Any ideas of leaving it on a windowsill for an hour to charge it are laughable.
[*] Unless you happen live in the desert, a long way from any electricity and only need to use it for 20 minutes per day.
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Even Mythbusters have done the "does CO2 cause warming" experiment.
(Episode 118, April 26, 2008)
The greenhouse effect is real and has been known for centuries.
Science still out? That's exactly what the tobacco companies say about cancer (because it benefits them to do so).
Nobody can CONCLUSIVELY PROVE that smoking causes cancer, but it's a pretty safe bet.
What I believe is we shouldn't start making drastic changes and legislation
Is anybody asking you to? Cars can be much more economical without affecting how you travel. The only people really affected will be the oil barons who are running the country - the exact same people who are deliberately writing those "science is still out" speeches which you seem to enjoy.
Everyone just needs to chill out and wait
Um, the sea is rising today.
Now.
...or just a well known speech made by somebody who was deliberately trying to cover up the truth? (aka: "Lying"). The guy responsible for that has a name, "Frank Luntz", and has since admitted he made it all up (under orders from Bush).
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/06/frank_luntz_acc.php
This sort of information (ie. concrete names, references, etc.) is what we call "pesky facts". Try it sometime.
> "Remember the global cooling scares in the 70's?"
Remember how accurate the weather forecasts were in the 1970s? They were a complete joke, right?
These days we have new toys like very accurate weather satellites which can measure *global* temperatures (the 70's scares were caused by lack of *global* temperature measurements and what's called the "island" effect). We also have big machines to process and visualize the data instead of slide rules.
IOW, the 1970's beliefs on climate are about as useful today as flared trousers and 8-track cartridges.
Again, google would have saved you from embarrassing yourself in public: http://www.google.es/search?q=1970s+climate+scare
Do you know what an SQL injection attack is?
Clue: It's not something an antivirus can ever protect people from.
"(American Geophysical Union) notes that human-made CO2 are dwarfed the estimated global release of CO2 from volcanoes by at least 150 times."
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/climate_effects.html
This page has a good quote:
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/12/17/223957/72
"I have never heard a skeptic making that ridiculous claim. It seems you are putting up a straw man in order to be able to kick it. The skeptics are not that dumb."
I guess you just proved them wrong, eh?
Research isn't hard, it takes all of two seconds to type "CO2 volcanoes" into google: http://www.google.es/search?q=co2+volcanoes
Try it sometime.
This is taxpayer money, all bidding on IT contracts should be open. How else can we ensure the best deal for the taxpayer?
We don't ask that you read the articles but what kind of drooling idiot can't even get to the end of the summary before being overwhelmed by a feverish desire to post something, anything, on Slashdot ?
I've got nothing against a biometric card which shows my name/date of birth when inserted into a machine.
But does the machine need to be networked and have a massive database behind it?
The problem is the feature creep, not the card.
And that's what most of the world is saying today.
Right after they allowed software patents.
Microsoft can afford to sell Windows for $10-$25 a copy, or even less if they need to. At the moment they're making 85% profit on it (according to GIS for "windows profit margin").
What this means is that the gravy days are over for Microsoft.
Shall we point out that India is also a nuclear power and has three times the population of the USA?
Hopefully this is all prelude to an effort to find/extract He3 from the moon. As such the USA, India, China, Russia, etc. should be working as a team, not against each other. Energy/climate problems are global and don't stop at national boundaries.
It's just little plastic models and Photoshop!
This just makes me even more determined to never say "yes" to online banking. No good can come of it....
We need software which sends trigger words between peers, 24/7/365.
After all the runaround with drivers for Vista, they completely changed the driver model again?
What kind of idiots are they employing?
I have a string with 128 chars pre-allocated inside it, if this buffer overflows it switches to dynamic allocation.
The speed-up this gives when parsing text files (or anything else which requires a lot of temporary strings) is very noticable.
Similarly, C++ file functions are designed around text, not binary data. If you read/write a lot of binary files you're far better writing some classes which are designed for the job.
What does Win3.1 have to offer compared to, well, anything else.
The development tools, the 16-bit memory model, the limited sound and video... who could they pay enough money to develop for it?
What possible advantage does it have over the zillion alternatives?
DAOs are a common use of this type of programming but it can be applied to much bigger things:
eg. A GUI layer could switch between Win32 and X11.
A 3D graphics layer could switch between OpenGL and Direct3D. ...etc.
Stuff like this isn't for beginner but I find this is the real key to program portability, rather then "use Java" or whatever (which will usually run into huge obstacles in long-term projects which don't fit the Java mentality).
Yep. Don't re-implement basic stuff but write wrappers around it. That way you can change the underlying technology and the intermediate layer will save you from most of the pain.
The intermediate layer also means you're writing to your own ideal API.
caveat: This methodology isn't applicable to all types of programs.
PS: For a couple of reasons I wrote my own string class but it's compatible with std::string so I can switch between them using a typedef.
...or you could make the battery bigger.
If you're prepare to add a few millimeters to the thickness of your laptop then you could make the battery bigger. I'm sure the gain would be much more useful than adding solar panels.
The amount of charge you'll get will be tiny, far too small to be really useful*. Any ideas of leaving it on a windowsill for an hour to charge it are laughable.
[*] Unless you happen live in the desert, a long way from any electricity and only need to use it for 20 minutes per day.
The CO2 produced by making those things is more than you'll ever get back from using them.
Make one car journey less (eg. the one needed to go and buy the solar charger) and you'll probably achieve more green credit.
I couldn't see a wattage anywhere and that makes me very wary.
If you have to leave it a whole day to get ten minutes of power then it's not much use (and expensive!)
You'd think so but nobody is watching the watchers.