the cold hard truth is that science is a very lopsided mistress, and when you have 99.9 percent of all climatologists saying that extreme temperature variations are very likely to have a very high probability of accellerating (what you call Global Warming), the 0.1 percent who disagree because they get their funding from Exxon-Mobil get their feelings hurt.
Hmm where did you get these numbers from? I have come across many articles from _many_ scientist who have shown that global warming is a perfectly natural phenomenon. In fact, good old Wikipedia states: "A small minority of qualified scientists contest the view that humanity's actions have played a significant role in increasing recent temperatures."
a. Global warming (accelerated rapid change) is happening now;
b. Global warming (arc) is speeding up, tenfold in just the last five years; and
c. Anyone with their heads still stuck in the sounds will be ten feet under water within ten years.
This is mostly true. The Earth is heating up, the controversy never had to do with that since it is easily proven with what we have gathered in the past few decades. The controversy surrounds the question of how much (if at all) are humans contributing and what the future will look like (i.e. will it keep getting hotter or will it start cooling down).
It is too bad that the media gives those minority of scientists all the spotlight made the public believe something that is still quite debated.
Doug Beason (scientist):... but for the Airborne Laser, because you're broadcasting this beam over up to many hundreds of kilometers, you have to have a way to stabilize that beam.
Journalist interpretation:... fully loaded test flight of its Airborne Laser, a jumbo jet packed with gear designed to shoot down enemy missiles half a world away, at the speed of light.
So hundreds of kilometers = thousands (half a world) kilometers? Don't you love sensationalism?
Hmm I just tried it with Konqueror and it actually displayed the google.ca website. I guess that Konqueror is also vulnerable to this attack. I'm using Konqueror 3.5.2. (Good thing I actually use Firefox for my web browsing).
And no, the elected Republicans are not indistinguishable from socialists, which is why more and more americans are finding themselves below the poverty line
Hmm I wasn't aware that when socialists are in power there are less people below the poverty line. Perhaps you should take a trip to Cuba, or any Easter European country to take a look at what socialism really does or did. I find it mind boggling how so many people are so ignorant about our past. Stupid people are those that can't learn from other people's mistakes, and socialism was a mistake. Keep in mind that having having a balanced government, i.e. with some socialist principles, _is_ good.
Actually I don't think it will be possible to ever phase out fossil fuels in the near future. Here is why. Nuclear power, Hydro, Wind and Solar are none controllable (i.e. increase or decrease) sources of energy (Nuclear is but takes a long time to increase (if possible) or decrease power). Therefore, these energies can form a basis for your energy grid but can't help you under peak hours. The great thing about fossil fuels is that you can just burn more of it to meet peak demand hours.
One alternative is to have a base that's greater than demand all the time and use the extra energy to create hydrogen through electrolysis. However, this is current economically infeasible.
One more point about Wind and Solar. The problem with these energy sources is the unpredictability, both in the lack of energy that they can produce and the excess energy that they can produce. AFAIK in Norway they have a lot of wind power but when it really gets windy they have to unload the excess energy off of their grid into surrounding countries for a fractions of the cost. But these two problems can again be solved with hydrogen and one could use the hydrogen for peak hours or when the wind and solar fail. But again, this method is currently economically infeasible.
Just to add to that. People like the person mentioned by GP make up less than 1% of society. They may take up as much energy as 10 regular people but that would still be nothing compared to the amount of energy that the regular people use.
An easy solution to the pink is to go grab the Slashdotter firefox extension. It allows you to change the scheme of every slashdot page. I never actually used that feature until they put up the pink theme and my eyes started to bleed. I'm using the Linux theme.
Just a note, there is still a little bit of pink left on the site since I guess the extension doesn't change everything.
An easy solution to the pink is to go grab the Slashdotter firefox extension. It allows you to change the scheme of every slashdot page. I never actually used that feature until they put up the pink theme and my eyes started to bleed. I'm using the Linux theme.
Just a note, there is still a little bit of pink left on the site since I guess the extension doesn't change everything.
I seem to recall there was a catch though....Didn't you need to actually be able to "do" the thing you were going to patent? I seem to recall that was part of the test, that it actually needed to be possible at the time you were patenting something, not just a crack-pipe dream....
Unfortunately no. Here is an excellent example of such a case. I believe there was also some patents on hyper drives but I can't find the link. Anyways, I fully agree with you, let them patent away. Hopefully we will have a patent free future for nano tech.
Actually the Moon does have an atmosphere. The atmospheric pressure is 3 × 10^-13 kPa so essentially a very small one. It consists of Helium 25%, Neon 25%, Hydrogen 23%, and Argon 20%.
More info on the Moon here
I don't want to be a troll but living in Toronto I find it frustrating to have people around me who can barely speak English and who have already been in this country for 5+ years. One of my friends parents came to Canada from China 16 or so years ago and still find it hard to speak English. I find that a lot of people come to Canada, settle into a community that has people speaking their native language, and never really bother to learn English. I think people should be encouraged to learn and speak English more rather than less.
However, I can see this being useful for newly landed immigrants or people visiting the country.
From what I have read so far it seems that Xgl only really works with proprietary drivers (ATi and Nvidia). I have also heard people have problems with this, but personally I could care less. If it works well and gives me the beautiful eye candy I desire, it doesn't matter what drivers I'm using.
As for being included with Gnome and KDE, it is already based on Cairo and thus works with Gnome (which is what the demonstrating was using). I believe that it works with KDE as well, but I'm not sure. However, it is said that SuSE 10.2 will come with KDE 4.0 and Xgl so I assume it should work in KDE by then (I sure hope so since I use KDE).
I've been following this for the past week and having seen tons of videos and I must say that I am nothing but impressed. I recently upgrade my computer with an Nvidia 6800 GS and was hoping to try out composite (since I had an ATi card before). Although it was pretty stable, I found it to be rather buggy and even sometimes slow (even with this video card and an AMD 3000 with 1GB OCZ Premier, etc, etc). I really hope that Xgl will prove to be more powerful, more efficient and less buggy. Kudos to Novell.
Did they by any chance fix the non-transparent icon bug for KDE system tray? I love GAIM, but the icon (even though a PNG with no background) appears with a white background on my transparent system tray. Thus, I am forced to use Kopete (which isn't that bad either, but I prefer GAIM).
I think that you misunderstood most of the skeptics. I don't think anyone is doubting that the globe _is_ getting warmer. You can't really argue with hard facts. However, that being said, the majority of skeptics take the stance that the world goes through cycles of increasing global temperature and decreasing global temperature. Therefore, the belief is that with a mere 150 or so years of data, it is _impossible_ to lay the blame our feet (although we might be contributing a little bit).
While I know that we have core samples from certain times in the past, it has already been show that the temperature and CO2 levels have been much higher in the past. Just a quick link [bbc.co.uk], you can scroll down to the middle and see the quote: "It was significantly warmer so people could move north without adaptation." This was about Britain and 700,000 years ago. It says that Elephants and other tropical animals lived there. AFAIK, there were no SUVs 700,000 years ago.
I think that you misunderstood most of the skeptics. I don't think anyone is doubting that the globe _is_ getting warmer. You can't really argue with hard facts. However, that being said, the majority of skeptics take the stance that the world goes through cycles of increasing global temperature and decreasing global temperature. Therefore, the belief is that with a mere 150 or so years of data, it is _impossible_ to lay the blame our feet (although we might be contributing a little bit).
While I know that we have core samples from certain times in the past, it has already been show that the temperature and CO2 levels have been much higher in the past. Just a quick link, you can scroll down to the middle and see the quote: "It was significantly warmer so people could move north without adaptation." This was about Britain and 700,000 years ago. It says that Elephants and other tropical animals lived there. AFAIK, there were no SUVs 700,000 years ago.
It might be under the agent's "watch" list because it is deemed to be extremist perhaps? I'm not sure since I have not read the book, but it seems that a lot of people in the Middle East are using just a *book* to push their extremist agendas (even though from what I am told the Koran does not contain any of this extremist material).
Yes, but I read about that news on BBC, CNN, etc. Any political news always ends up with Bush bashing and one sided leftist views, with right views being modded to hell, like this one will be.
My question is, why is this even on Slashdot? Just like the many previous stories about the elections, etc, all this turns into is a massive Bush bashing session...
I don't really see what the problem is. The results of Google searchs are going to be the same as they were before just that the first result will contain this new stuff. As for the web clippings, you can just turn them off in your settings.
I've been playing it with a P4 1.8, a gig of ram and an ATi 9600 Pro and being in the modern era (1950s) it's unbearibly slow, even when I just launch my saved game. I assumed that this has something to do with the large amount of objects on the map, but I still have a bit better than the recommended specs and it crawls.
Hopefully this will change once I put together my new rig with a 6800 gs.
I suggest you take a look at this, and the rest of that page. Look, allofmp3.com is legal in Russia. Furthermore, under the US code: "importation, for the private use of the importer and not for distribution, by any person with respect to no more than one copy or phonorecord of any one work at any one time, or by any person arriving from outside the United States with respect to copies or phonorecords forming part of such person's personal baggage" is one of the exceptions to "Importation into the United States, without the authority of the owner of copyright under this title, of copies or phonorecords of a work that have been acquired outside the United States is an infringement of the exclusive right to distribute copies or phonorecords under section 106, actionable under section 501."
So allofmp3.com is fully legal. As for the artists getting their share: "Allofmp3 has signed agreements for this with Russian Organization for Multimedia & Digital Systems (ROMS). According to license --02-36 the Internet-project www.allofmp3.com, has the right to use musical compositions by providing downloads. Under the license agreement Allofmp3 pays out fees to ROMS for downloaded materials that are subject to the Russian Federation Copyright And Related Rights Law.
ROMS is a member of CISAC (www.cisac.org) - the International confederation of authors and composers societies. ROMS manages intellectual rights in the Russian Federation. All third party distributors licensed by ROMS are required to pay a portion of the revenue to the ROMS. ROMS in turn, is obligated to pay most of that money (aside from small portion it needs for operating expenses) to artists. Both Russian and foreign."
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the cold hard truth is that science is a very lopsided mistress, and when you have 99.9 percent of all climatologists saying that extreme temperature variations are very likely to have a very high probability of accellerating (what you call Global Warming), the 0.1 percent who disagree because they get their funding from Exxon-Mobil get their feelings hurt.
Hmm where did you get these numbers from? I have come across many articles from _many_ scientist who have shown that global warming is a perfectly natural phenomenon. In fact, good old Wikipedia states: "A small minority of qualified scientists contest the view that humanity's actions have played a significant role in increasing recent temperatures."
a. Global warming (accelerated rapid change) is happening now;
b. Global warming (arc) is speeding up, tenfold in just the last five years; and
c. Anyone with their heads still stuck in the sounds will be ten feet under water within ten years.
This is mostly true. The Earth is heating up, the controversy never had to do with that since it is easily proven with what we have gathered in the past few decades. The controversy surrounds the question of how much (if at all) are humans contributing and what the future will look like (i.e. will it keep getting hotter or will it start cooling down).
It is too bad that the media gives those minority of scientists all the spotlight made the public believe something that is still quite debated.
Doug Beason (scientist): ... but for the Airborne Laser, because you're broadcasting this beam over up to many hundreds of kilometers, you have to have a way to stabilize that beam.
Journalist interpretation: ... fully loaded test flight of its Airborne Laser, a jumbo jet packed with gear designed to shoot down enemy missiles half a world away, at the speed of light.
So hundreds of kilometers = thousands (half a world) kilometers? Don't you love sensationalism?
Hmm I just tried it with Konqueror and it actually displayed the google.ca website. I guess that Konqueror is also vulnerable to this attack. I'm using Konqueror 3.5.2. (Good thing I actually use Firefox for my web browsing).
Hmm I wasn't aware that when socialists are in power there are less people below the poverty line. Perhaps you should take a trip to Cuba, or any Easter European country to take a look at what socialism really does or did. I find it mind boggling how so many people are so ignorant about our past. Stupid people are those that can't learn from other people's mistakes, and socialism was a mistake. Keep in mind that having having a balanced government, i.e. with some socialist principles, _is_ good.
One alternative is to have a base that's greater than demand all the time and use the extra energy to create hydrogen through electrolysis. However, this is current economically infeasible.
One more point about Wind and Solar. The problem with these energy sources is the unpredictability, both in the lack of energy that they can produce and the excess energy that they can produce. AFAIK in Norway they have a lot of wind power but when it really gets windy they have to unload the excess energy off of their grid into surrounding countries for a fractions of the cost. But these two problems can again be solved with hydrogen and one could use the hydrogen for peak hours or when the wind and solar fail. But again, this method is currently economically infeasible.
Just to add to that. People like the person mentioned by GP make up less than 1% of society. They may take up as much energy as 10 regular people but that would still be nothing compared to the amount of energy that the regular people use.
An easy solution to the pink is to go grab the Slashdotter firefox extension. It allows you to change the scheme of every slashdot page. I never actually used that feature until they put up the pink theme and my eyes started to bleed. I'm using the Linux theme. Just a note, there is still a little bit of pink left on the site since I guess the extension doesn't change everything.
Just a note, there is still a little bit of pink left on the site since I guess the extension doesn't change everything.
Unfortunately no. Here is an excellent example of such a case. I believe there was also some patents on hyper drives but I can't find the link. Anyways, I fully agree with you, let them patent away. Hopefully we will have a patent free future for nano tech.
Actually the Moon does have an atmosphere. The atmospheric pressure is 3 × 10^-13 kPa so essentially a very small one. It consists of Helium 25%, Neon 25%, Hydrogen 23%, and Argon 20%. More info on the Moon here
However, I can see this being useful for newly landed immigrants or people visiting the country.
From what I have read so far it seems that Xgl only really works with proprietary drivers (ATi and Nvidia). I have also heard people have problems with this, but personally I could care less. If it works well and gives me the beautiful eye candy I desire, it doesn't matter what drivers I'm using.
As for being included with Gnome and KDE, it is already based on Cairo and thus works with Gnome (which is what the demonstrating was using). I believe that it works with KDE as well, but I'm not sure. However, it is said that SuSE 10.2 will come with KDE 4.0 and Xgl so I assume it should work in KDE by then (I sure hope so since I use KDE).
I've been following this for the past week and having seen tons of videos and I must say that I am nothing but impressed. I recently upgrade my computer with an Nvidia 6800 GS and was hoping to try out composite (since I had an ATi card before). Although it was pretty stable, I found it to be rather buggy and even sometimes slow (even with this video card and an AMD 3000 with 1GB OCZ Premier, etc, etc). I really hope that Xgl will prove to be more powerful, more efficient and less buggy. Kudos to Novell.
Don't get me wrong, Kopete isn't bad, it's actually very nice, but I prefer GAIM. Sure it's not a crippling bug, but I want my desktop to look good.
Did they by any chance fix the non-transparent icon bug for KDE system tray? I love GAIM, but the icon (even though a PNG with no background) appears with a white background on my transparent system tray. Thus, I am forced to use Kopete (which isn't that bad either, but I prefer GAIM).
I think that you misunderstood most of the skeptics. I don't think anyone is doubting that the globe _is_ getting warmer. You can't really argue with hard facts. However, that being said, the majority of skeptics take the stance that the world goes through cycles of increasing global temperature and decreasing global temperature. Therefore, the belief is that with a mere 150 or so years of data, it is _impossible_ to lay the blame our feet (although we might be contributing a little bit). While I know that we have core samples from certain times in the past, it has already been show that the temperature and CO2 levels have been much higher in the past. Just a quick link [bbc.co.uk], you can scroll down to the middle and see the quote: "It was significantly warmer so people could move north without adaptation." This was about Britain and 700,000 years ago. It says that Elephants and other tropical animals lived there. AFAIK, there were no SUVs 700,000 years ago.
While I know that we have core samples from certain times in the past, it has already been show that the temperature and CO2 levels have been much higher in the past. Just a quick link, you can scroll down to the middle and see the quote: "It was significantly warmer so people could move north without adaptation." This was about Britain and 700,000 years ago. It says that Elephants and other tropical animals lived there. AFAIK, there were no SUVs 700,000 years ago.
It might be under the agent's "watch" list because it is deemed to be extremist perhaps? I'm not sure since I have not read the book, but it seems that a lot of people in the Middle East are using just a *book* to push their extremist agendas (even though from what I am told the Koran does not contain any of this extremist material).
Yes, but I read about that news on BBC, CNN, etc. Any political news always ends up with Bush bashing and one sided leftist views, with right views being modded to hell, like this one will be.
I'm sure that a website by the name of "Capitol Hill Blue" is going to be a very reputable source for news to do with Republicans.
My question is, why is this even on Slashdot? Just like the many previous stories about the elections, etc, all this turns into is a massive Bush bashing session...
I don't really see what the problem is. The results of Google searchs are going to be the same as they were before just that the first result will contain this new stuff. As for the web clippings, you can just turn them off in your settings.
I've been playing it with a P4 1.8, a gig of ram and an ATi 9600 Pro and being in the modern era (1950s) it's unbearibly slow, even when I just launch my saved game. I assumed that this has something to do with the large amount of objects on the map, but I still have a bit better than the recommended specs and it crawls. Hopefully this will change once I put together my new rig with a 6800 gs.
Isn't that all of Korea?
So allofmp3.com is fully legal. As for the artists getting their share: "Allofmp3 has signed agreements for this with Russian Organization for Multimedia & Digital Systems (ROMS). According to license --02-36 the Internet-project www.allofmp3.com, has the right to use musical compositions by providing downloads. Under the license agreement Allofmp3 pays out fees to ROMS for downloaded materials that are subject to the Russian Federation Copyright And Related Rights Law.
ROMS is a member of CISAC (www.cisac.org) - the International confederation of authors and composers societies. ROMS manages intellectual rights in the Russian Federation. All third party distributors licensed by ROMS are required to pay a portion of the revenue to the ROMS. ROMS in turn, is obligated to pay most of that money (aside from small portion it needs for operating expenses) to artists. Both Russian and foreign."
So stop worrying and enjoy cheap legal music :)