I'm assuming you're talking about desalination. That requires a lot of energy, and there's no way short of a revolution in fusion technology that you could use that to produce enough water for irrigation of any significant amount of stable land. And you're still left with the problem may users of aquifers are suffering; way to much salt.
A succinct change in rain patterns will almost certainly turn land now under cultivation into semi arid lands, without sufficient fresh water to reverse the problem.
Yup, an SSH proxy or other VPN is your bestest friend. I don't access public WiFi without it. That being said, I expect if more people do that, eventually the sociopaths that run the major ISPs will begin using deep packet inspection to shut down anyone using VPNs. Remember, the MBAs that run the world are evil monsters who would, if they weren't trying to find ways to extort money from us, would probably be finding ways of eating human flesh and killing elderly people for fun.
The real lesson here is that we should be banning all sociopaths and anyone with any significant narcissistic personality disorders from holding any position where they have any authority over anyone else. I would have a law that would ban such individuals from even being shift manager at a McDonald's. They wouldn't be allowed to become lawyers, doctors, accountants or engineers. All professions of any significant importance would be forbidden them.
There was a "licensed professional" going around making claims about MMR vaccine. You can find a "licensed professional" to agree with any position you care to take. I'm sure there are probably dozens of GPs in the Continental US who will declare WiFi signals are poisonous. Hell, there are probably dozens of GPs in the Continental United States who will swear on a bible that common weeds cure cancer.
This has been a process that has been ongoing since the earliest days of general use computers.
I recall when my office moved from Wordperfect 5 to the first Windows version pf MS-Word. It was a fucking nightmare. Despite the obvious advantages WYSIWYG, there were months worth of bitching and moaning, and a few people who pretty much convinced management to let them keep using Wordperfect in a DOS window.
What it turns out people needed was training. Even a two or three sessions to familiarize people with the interface, and they had at least the rudiments down. I think some of the older staff never got it fully, but as Wordperfect faded into oblivion, they either made do as best they could.
The complaints being reported here suggest that where Munich has fallen down is in training. People literally have no idea how to use their computers.
No one said Einstein couldn't be wrong. But parsimony would suggest the simplest explanation is simply matter that's awfully hard to observe, rather than completely tearing the heart out of modern physics.
Unless you think General Relativity is completely false, Dark Matter is some form of matter that acts upon visible objects in the universe. So take your pick, is Einstein wrong, or is there just a class of matter we haven't detected yet.
It's short hand. Scientists haven't thought of it literally as junk in many years. It's like "black hole" and "god particle", funny little shorthand references that don't necessarily reflect what researchers think at all.
Scientists haven't thought "junk" DNA as junk for years. It's a shorthand expression for genes that have no obvious expression, though they've known for a long time that junk DNA may have regulatory functions, and that most certainly junk DNA is a potential seed bed of evolution because the likelihood of deleterious mutations in junk DNA sequences is much lower.
What is heretical about novel new genes arising out of junk DNA? Molecular biologists have known for many years that so-called "junk" DNA played a number of roles; regulatory, and that most certainly novel genes could arise.
Oh, I get it, this is the idiotss otherwise known as "scientific journalists" hyping up a rather unremarkable finding, and fixating on the word "junk" much as they, in ignorance and the need to sex up stories, concentrated on the word "God" in the "God particle"
Still, writing to hard disk or even to SSD or flash is going to eat just as much, if not more battery than compressing stale pages.
A lot of this depends on the algorithms used. I don't think they would be using a high compression ratio, because that would eat a lot of cycles, but there's probably a sweet spot so far as compression ratio vs CPU and bus utilization that probably would be more efficient.
Actuaries are just statisticians. While I agree that insurance policies shouldn't just be purely driven by statistics, the fact remains that actuaries only agenda is to calculate risk.
Swapping to virtual memory is more IO intensive. I suppose if you had a moderate compression algorithm, if you preferentially compressed pages, at least for a certain amount of time, rather than pushing them to swap, it might be worth whatever extra CPU and memory channel time it took compress and decompress the page.
More to the point, if you keep getting fined for the same offenses, those fines are going to increase, and stronger measures may eventually be used to, if not assure compliance, then so damage the company that compliance ceases to be an issue.
What that means is their actuaries have figured out that climate change is going to increase claims in certain classes.
You really have no idea about anything, do you? Anyone whose first response to a statement of fact is to declare some vast conspiracy is either mentally ill or retarded.
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Christ will this lying meme ever fucking die?
I'm assuming you're talking about desalination. That requires a lot of energy, and there's no way short of a revolution in fusion technology that you could use that to produce enough water for irrigation of any significant amount of stable land. And you're still left with the problem may users of aquifers are suffering; way to much salt.
A succinct change in rain patterns will almost certainly turn land now under cultivation into semi arid lands, without sufficient fresh water to reverse the problem.
Since it's HBO, the better answer is "If you don't like it, don't buy it."
That could take some time...
Oh fuck off with wrapping yourself in the flag to justify your weird peeping tom fetishism.
A better solution, admittedly, would be to permit the wsnton destruction of these toya.
How about this; keep your fucking toys away from my property, you twisted pervert.
Yup, an SSH proxy or other VPN is your bestest friend. I don't access public WiFi without it. That being said, I expect if more people do that, eventually the sociopaths that run the major ISPs will begin using deep packet inspection to shut down anyone using VPNs. Remember, the MBAs that run the world are evil monsters who would, if they weren't trying to find ways to extort money from us, would probably be finding ways of eating human flesh and killing elderly people for fun.
The real lesson here is that we should be banning all sociopaths and anyone with any significant narcissistic personality disorders from holding any position where they have any authority over anyone else. I would have a law that would ban such individuals from even being shift manager at a McDonald's. They wouldn't be allowed to become lawyers, doctors, accountants or engineers. All professions of any significant importance would be forbidden them.
There was a "licensed professional" going around making claims about MMR vaccine. You can find a "licensed professional" to agree with any position you care to take. I'm sure there are probably dozens of GPs in the Continental US who will declare WiFi signals are poisonous. Hell, there are probably dozens of GPs in the Continental United States who will swear on a bible that common weeds cure cancer.
You mean like extended attributes, which have been around for decades.
This has been a process that has been ongoing since the earliest days of general use computers.
I recall when my office moved from Wordperfect 5 to the first Windows version pf MS-Word. It was a fucking nightmare. Despite the obvious advantages WYSIWYG, there were months worth of bitching and moaning, and a few people who pretty much convinced management to let them keep using Wordperfect in a DOS window.
What it turns out people needed was training. Even a two or three sessions to familiarize people with the interface, and they had at least the rudiments down. I think some of the older staff never got it fully, but as Wordperfect faded into oblivion, they either made do as best they could.
The complaints being reported here suggest that where Munich has fallen down is in training. People literally have no idea how to use their computers.
Uh, no. There is nothing fundamentally incompatible between GR and QM, other than the piece that's missing that joins the two together.
No one said Einstein couldn't be wrong. But parsimony would suggest the simplest explanation is simply matter that's awfully hard to observe, rather than completely tearing the heart out of modern physics.
Unless you think General Relativity is completely false, Dark Matter is some form of matter that acts upon visible objects in the universe. So take your pick, is Einstein wrong, or is there just a class of matter we haven't detected yet.
As I said, it's a fairly unremarkable finding. I remember references to junk DNA sequences having the potential to be expressed in the early 1990s.
It's short hand. Scientists haven't thought of it literally as junk in many years. It's like "black hole" and "god particle", funny little shorthand references that don't necessarily reflect what researchers think at all.
Scientists haven't thought "junk" DNA as junk for years. It's a shorthand expression for genes that have no obvious expression, though they've known for a long time that junk DNA may have regulatory functions, and that most certainly junk DNA is a potential seed bed of evolution because the likelihood of deleterious mutations in junk DNA sequences is much lower.
What is heretical about novel new genes arising out of junk DNA? Molecular biologists have known for many years that so-called "junk" DNA played a number of roles; regulatory, and that most certainly novel genes could arise.
Oh, I get it, this is the idiotss otherwise known as "scientific journalists" hyping up a rather unremarkable finding, and fixating on the word "junk" much as they, in ignorance and the need to sex up stories, concentrated on the word "God" in the "God particle"
It also may not be all that practical on mobile devices. Operating systems like Windows are running on a lot more than just desktops these days.
What is the first law of unlicensed bandwidth; THOU SHALT NOT INTERFERE
Fucking assholes.
Still, writing to hard disk or even to SSD or flash is going to eat just as much, if not more battery than compressing stale pages.
A lot of this depends on the algorithms used. I don't think they would be using a high compression ratio, because that would eat a lot of cycles, but there's probably a sweet spot so far as compression ratio vs CPU and bus utilization that probably would be more efficient.
Actuaries are just statisticians. While I agree that insurance policies shouldn't just be purely driven by statistics, the fact remains that actuaries only agenda is to calculate risk.
Swapping to virtual memory is more IO intensive. I suppose if you had a moderate compression algorithm, if you preferentially compressed pages, at least for a certain amount of time, rather than pushing them to swap, it might be worth whatever extra CPU and memory channel time it took compress and decompress the page.
More to the point, if you keep getting fined for the same offenses, those fines are going to increase, and stronger measures may eventually be used to, if not assure compliance, then so damage the company that compliance ceases to be an issue.
What that means is their actuaries have figured out that climate change is going to increase claims in certain classes.
You really have no idea about anything, do you? Anyone whose first response to a statement of fact is to declare some vast conspiracy is either mentally ill or retarded.
A theory does not have to be complete to have utility, and the insurance industry accepted AGW years ago.