Are you crazy?!? Do you _seriously_ believe in this liberal myth about the so-called "rotation of the Earth"? It is quite evident that Earth stands solidly still under my feet, as God created it 5000 years ago. Or was it 500?
While this is still at an early stage of development, the planning and decision process involved is surely too long and complex to downplay this decision as a mere ploy to recapture the hearts of the public. Talk about overpromising! You don't make a U-turn on everything you did in the last 20 years just to raise some empathy!
I recall reading a book by an authoritative writer (who also happens to be a doctor, so he must be right) about these nanoparticles. Apparently, they can evolve some form of complex behaviour, fly around in swarms and prey on human beings, turning them into food or subservient zombies!
Ah, by the way, global warming is just a huge scam by politicized scientists who want to gain power and raise funds.
Well, I don't panic. But I live in Venice (Venezia, Italy, not California). I'm sure I personally can survive global warming and move to some other place, but it would be very very very sad to see such a unique city die. And it doesn't take many more centimeters of high tide to make it happen.
DDT was highly effective at injuring people, too. Even if you have a dislike for falcons, this may be of concern.
Maybe the war on mosquitos should swich from DDT to TNT. As they say: if you can't solve a problem with explosives, use more explosives!
I agree: the surface small-scale smoothness, sharp lines where crater walls collapsed, the angle of slopes, everything suggests a snow landscape. Add sublimation to explain lowered areas of terrain and thus the distorted shape of most craters. In my armchair-planetologist opinion, the moon's low density is more easily explained by the material itself rather than by vast cave systems underground, as I've read somewhere.
Our data suggests that there's nothing to fear for the Canadian Recording Industry. Global temperatures are rising, and it is a well-known fact that this trend points to a fall in the number of pirates. Less pirates lead to less pirated music, it's so simple! Plus, you get warmer winters. A double win for CRIA!
Don't want to sound like a troll, but I'm a bit tired of this American fixation on killing things (and persons!). In my (probably outdated) English vocabulary "to kill" and "to prevail" have different meaning. It seems that in too many minds you can't be satisfied about your achievements if you don't destroy any competition. You are Number One or you are nothing. "Loser" is an insult, "killer" is a compliment. In my own language "loser" is not a compliment, too, but it doesn't imply a total despise for the person, just a recognition of a particular failing that at most should move to compassion, not to further offense. Offending the weak is coward, in my opinion, not strong.
Moreover, accepting nothing less than total obliteration of any competition is childish and leads to psychological inability to manage the many situations in real life when this turns out to be impossible.
Sorry for the OffTopic, but this kind of mindset is too frequent and springs out in a lot of disparate places.
I had the same first impression. Who knows, maybe after all they will merge both their code base and their datasets. The result would be impressive: easy navigation of detailed global maps (with elevation!) and extensible data overlays! I'm sure Google would have few objections in making Earth opensource. Google Earth, I mean, the application, not the planet...
Ok, I surrender! It's not fault of human activities, like burning fossil fuels in huge amounts. The warming is caused by a natural cycle in our sun's life. It even happens on Mars.
First of all, let me say that I'm glad to hear even some right wing capitalism-can't-be-wrong fans admit that the warming EXIST at all! It was not ever so. I still keep hearing about an impending ice age, in the face of all evidence. Let's forget this embarassing crap, and agree that Earth IS getting warmer. A good starting point.
Now what? Do we sit here waiting to be flooded, devastated by hurricanes, frozen (even this may happen, on a local scale) or starved by drought, all happy that "it's not our fault"? Or do we try to counterbalance the effect of increased solar output (which we cannot influence at all) with our influence on what we can control? Do we know a mechanism influencing atmospheric temperature on a global scale? Yes, it's well understood (from physics and from what we see on other planets like Venus and Mars) that a high amount of greenhouse gases (water vapor, methane, CO2 and others) raises the temperature, while low levels make the atmosphere cooler. The water cycle is probably too powerful to be controlled in any significant amount. Methane is already scarce. CO2 is relatively abundant, and increasing. Declare war on CO2 to lower its level and counterbalance the evil Sun effect! If reducing it turns out too difficult, at least try not to increase it too much, as it provenly contributes to raise temperatures.
When it finally comes out, under which license will it be released? Will you be free to modify the license and redistribute it? What about license forking? What if releasing something under GPL 3 makes all your other releases GPL 3 too? We need a metalincense to answer to all these concerns!
Expect IE to support a new and improved MSXSVG format, which will be easily produced using the company's Acrylic product. The advantage? All XML tags will have random and mixed case, making the files unreadable with any other standard-but-not-de-facto software.
I see a big marketing debacle by AMD, if even part of a supposedly technical oriented public like the Slashdot crowd never heard about the Turion 64 processor! Its power consumption goes as low as 27W, with performance slightly better than Pentium M on a clock-by-clock basis. You can already buy some laptops, and the reviews are good so far.
Are you sure we are at the top of the Food Chain? We evolved in a niche where being eaten by lions, crocodiles and other animals was the norm. Now we refuse to play by these rules, and stepped out of the Food Chain by refusing to die for feeding other creatures. We mainly breed our meat instead of hunting for it. It's a totally different set of rules that allowed us to grow a population of six billions, much more than any other big vertebrate. We already changed the rules and can change them again at any moment, if that is needed to perpetuate our species in the long term.
Ok, now that we've been informed that 1 Grizzly amounts to 646 pounds, could someone PLEASE translate this to European units? How many VW Beetles is this? Sorry, wrong unit. I forgot what is the official mass unit. St. Paul's Dome full of water, maybe?
There's a helluvalot of filthy rich people in this world who are good people, who worked hard for their money and worked themselves up from the bottom of the economic food chain
Sorry for my poor understanding of English. Is "helluvalot" a synonym for "scarcity"?
While I now regret selling my trusted old ZX Spectrum many years ago, I regret even more waiting 20 years before trying to convert old tapes. Not commercial software that was sold in many copies and must still exist somewhere, but my first baby steps into programming. Truly irreplaceable! Now half of the files are corrupted and I lost a small but significant part of my personal history. Don't feel obliged to care, please.
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Are you crazy?!? Do you _seriously_ believe in this liberal myth about the so-called "rotation of the Earth"? It is quite evident that Earth stands solidly still under my feet, as God created it 5000 years ago. Or was it 500?
While this is still at an early stage of development, the planning and decision process involved is surely too long and complex to downplay this decision as a mere ploy to recapture the hearts of the public. Talk about overpromising! You don't make a U-turn on everything you did in the last 20 years just to raise some empathy!
I recall reading a book by an authoritative writer (who also happens to be a doctor, so he must be right) about these nanoparticles. Apparently, they can evolve some form of complex behaviour, fly around in swarms and prey on human beings, turning them into food or subservient zombies! Ah, by the way, global warming is just a huge scam by politicized scientists who want to gain power and raise funds.
Well, I don't panic. But I live in Venice (Venezia, Italy, not California). I'm sure I personally can survive global warming and move to some other place, but it would be very very very sad to see such a unique city die. And it doesn't take many more centimeters of high tide to make it happen.
DDT was highly effective at injuring people, too. Even if you have a dislike for falcons, this may be of concern. Maybe the war on mosquitos should swich from DDT to TNT. As they say: if you can't solve a problem with explosives, use more explosives!
I agree: the surface small-scale smoothness, sharp lines where crater walls collapsed, the angle of slopes, everything suggests a snow landscape. Add sublimation to explain lowered areas of terrain and thus the distorted shape of most craters. In my armchair-planetologist opinion, the moon's low density is more easily explained by the material itself rather than by vast cave systems underground, as I've read somewhere.
Our data suggests that there's nothing to fear for the Canadian Recording Industry. Global temperatures are rising, and it is a well-known fact that this trend points to a fall in the number of pirates. Less pirates lead to less pirated music, it's so simple! Plus, you get warmer winters. A double win for CRIA!
Moreover, accepting nothing less than total obliteration of any competition is childish and leads to psychological inability to manage the many situations in real life when this turns out to be impossible.
Sorry for the OffTopic, but this kind of mindset is too frequent and springs out in a lot of disparate places.
I had the same first impression. Who knows, maybe after all they will merge both their code base and their datasets. The result would be impressive: easy navigation of detailed global maps (with elevation!) and extensible data overlays! I'm sure Google would have few objections in making Earth opensource. Google Earth, I mean, the application, not the planet...
Ok, I surrender! It's not fault of human activities, like burning fossil fuels in huge amounts. The warming is caused by a natural cycle in our sun's life. It even happens on Mars.
First of all, let me say that I'm glad to hear even some right wing capitalism-can't-be-wrong fans admit that the warming EXIST at all! It was not ever so. I still keep hearing about an impending ice age, in the face of all evidence. Let's forget this embarassing crap, and agree that Earth IS getting warmer. A good starting point.
Now what? Do we sit here waiting to be flooded, devastated by hurricanes, frozen (even this may happen, on a local scale) or starved by drought, all happy that "it's not our fault"? Or do we try to counterbalance the effect of increased solar output (which we cannot influence at all) with our influence on what we can control? Do we know a mechanism influencing atmospheric temperature on a global scale? Yes, it's well understood (from physics and from what we see on other planets like Venus and Mars) that a high amount of greenhouse gases (water vapor, methane, CO2 and others) raises the temperature, while low levels make the atmosphere cooler. The water cycle is probably too powerful to be controlled in any significant amount. Methane is already scarce. CO2 is relatively abundant, and increasing. Declare war on CO2 to lower its level and counterbalance the evil Sun effect! If reducing it turns out too difficult, at least try not to increase it too much, as it provenly contributes to raise temperatures.
I, for one, would be very happy to be able to ignore such bit of information. What I want to know is: what the hell is a pygmy doing in the amazon?
When it finally comes out, under which license will it be released? Will you be free to modify the license and redistribute it? What about license forking? What if releasing something under GPL 3 makes all your other releases GPL 3 too? We need a metalincense to answer to all these concerns!
Expect IE to support a new and improved MSXSVG format, which will be easily produced using the company's Acrylic product. The advantage? All XML tags will have random and mixed case, making the files unreadable with any other standard-but-not-de-facto software.
I see a big marketing debacle by AMD, if even part of a supposedly technical oriented public like the Slashdot crowd never heard about the Turion 64 processor! Its power consumption goes as low as 27W, with performance slightly better than Pentium M on a clock-by-clock basis. You can already buy some laptops, and the reviews are good so far.
At least, he didn't live to see what they did to "I, Robot"...
Are you sure we are at the top of the Food Chain? We evolved in a niche where being eaten by lions, crocodiles and other animals was the norm. Now we refuse to play by these rules, and stepped out of the Food Chain by refusing to die for feeding other creatures. We mainly breed our meat instead of hunting for it. It's a totally different set of rules that allowed us to grow a population of six billions, much more than any other big vertebrate. We already changed the rules and can change them again at any moment, if that is needed to perpetuate our species in the long term.
The insane belief that most Americans in this NG espouse...
This is not a newsgroup, this is Slashdot. You pasted into the wrong window.
You are saying this is NOT The Year Of Linux On The Fcking Desktop?!?
Ok, now that we've been informed that 1 Grizzly amounts to 646 pounds, could someone PLEASE translate this to European units? How many VW Beetles is this? Sorry, wrong unit. I forgot what is the official mass unit. St. Paul's Dome full of water, maybe?
Only if you buy a ruler.
No, no, they were totally different! My name is not Jimicus...
While I now regret selling my trusted old ZX Spectrum many years ago, I regret even more waiting 20 years before trying to convert old tapes. Not commercial software that was sold in many copies and must still exist somewhere, but my first baby steps into programming. Truly irreplaceable! Now half of the files are corrupted and I lost a small but significant part of my personal history. Don't feel obliged to care, please.
Now, I understand someone could miss Kodak white photo paper, but what is one supposed to do with black paper? Nobody will miss that!