don't worry about the earth getting destroyed, in four or five hundred million years the sun will have expanded sufficiently to heat the earth such that all but some bacteria will be dead. But to human beings, is there really any difference between a million years from now or a billion? a million years ago the only human-like creatures looked more ape than what we'd call human.
no, they finished laying off all the good engineers over a year ago, they're going down the crapper. still pushing technology customers don't need and don't want, like itanium2 and freakin' ethernet NFS/CFS NAS appliances in front of fibre SAN for "high performance databases" to protect the customer "from having to deal with complexity of fibre SAN and disk arrays".
funny, my thunderbird still fetches, reads and moves mail, and will continue to do so for a couple more years or more, and likely development will continue on it too. but you just threw up your hands and ran out and bought macs on the assumption that thunderbird would immediately explode. wow, if the manufacturer of your car laid off its chief engineer, would you immediately have it crushed and buy some competitor's car that only could take 98 octane gas sold at two stations within 100 miles?
well, it's easy to see the source of your confusion, what with the similarities between SCO and Novell, taking money from Microsoft to make FUD based "fear of IP infringement" attacks on Linux.
the "letters" of Tolkien have many musings, contradictions, alternative sequences of action. sorry, can't accept that as "proof", and furthermore even the author of that post acknowledges the Eye was the will of Sauron felt by the person who was the object of His thoughts.
maybe your app did its job so completely and well no one thought about extending it or thought it had need for any fixing -- I do look at code when it doesn't quite do what I want or when certain conditions make it act weird.
lightspeed delays? just bring a credit check computer along which synchronizes with earth a couple times a day or whatever. That's one thing that doesn't need to be up to the minute, places today still use imprinting machines which is essentially a monthly sync with credit card company. overrun the account somewhat so what, maybe they hit you with a fee or just increase your credit limit. folk who can afford the space trip generally will have outstanding credit!
It doesn't matter whether or not there are 10, 100, or 1000 year solar cycles. The attribution of ozone hole depletion to non-solar causes has nothing to do with that: it does not rely on historical correlation between solar and ozone trends
Proof you are wrong, the 30% reduction in the hole this year doesn't correlate with solar output but with weather. end of argument. you obviously aren't a scientist, that's an absurd absolute claim you've made with no evidence to back it up.
these idiots think there will be need or even possiblity for anonymous money transactions in the next 50 years in space? In space, everyone will know who you are, because you'll be one of less than a hundred there at an enormous expense! If anything in the range of $0 to $1,000 is bought or sold out there, simple biometric check and existing credit system on earth is sufficient. But really, someone is going to pay hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of USD to go to a "space hotel" and then have to buy a pop in the lobby vending machine or a tampon in from a bathroom dispenser? give me a fucking break already
the main problem with the space wire transfers is that every three to four days the wires get all wound up around the equator and if someone forgets to unwind and untangle them and fling the slack back out sometimes they'll even yank out the other end at the space stations.
But there's another invention in the pipe called "space wireless" that'll help alot, traffic congestion can be avoided as long as everyone remembers to not just leave the defaults at "space lynksys" and "galactic channel 6".
there are multiple overlapping solar cycles, with periods from decades to centuries and more. your 12 years of data are nothing and lead one to believe you only know of the so-called "11-year cycle", when there is, for example, a roughly 22 year cycle of dipole reversal, and many, many others that are quite long and NOT a harmonic multiple of the roughly 11 years. And the data we have focuses mostly on electromagnetic output of sun, when considering levels of particles other than photons (which are KNOWN to affect upper atmosphere) from the sun there a great lack of data for the last 30+ years.
but you can force the choice of good passwords in most linux distros. just like you can monitor for most of the signs of an owned machine that people are mentioning in other threads.
Sun rays create and destroy ozone at a given, constant rates.
Gotcha! the sun's output is variable, so any action on earth due to the sun must be also. No simple diffy q for U, it's a time dependent partial integro-diffy-q, and those are a bitch.
Now of course, I'm just playing devils advocate today, for shits and grins!
but Dupont and some other chemical giants have made big bucks coming up with new coolants and fire suppressants and foam blowers in the name of The Hole Scare, so how could it be a bad thing?
how about this: " the ozone hole is due to solar action just as 30-70% of global warming is"
I'm in the mood to troll today, and slashdot exists for my amusement as does its readers. So let the sparks of trolldom fly into the fuel-air bomb of the eco-religious' beliefs.
be embarrassing if the hole was just the result of variations in various decades long solar cycles, after all we haven't been observing it for very long. we may have gone environmentally apeshit for no reason with regards to FHCs.
all the choices listed are distinctly different tools for different jobs. Whether that job is run in one SMP system, or one NUMA coupled system, or many networked system...whether mutual exclusion is needed (and whether referenced frequently or rarely), whether IPC needs complex message queue management or just a single semaphore....anyone who thinks the number of choices is an issue doesn't know much about the subject
I didn't attend public school. Those scholastic foundations stagnated western civilization for a thousand years. Humanism in spite of the church is what caused science and technology to explode, and the more the roman catholic church was left behind the better things got.
the rise of science in the arab world came along side of islam, from 800 AD to 1500. Islam started in the 600s. in history books you'll find both the phrase "islamic science" and "arab science", referring to this golden age of science.
Now Roman Catholic christianity is another matter, that *did* stagnate science and human development in the west.
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don't worry about the earth getting destroyed, in four or five hundred million years the sun will have expanded sufficiently to heat the earth such that all but some bacteria will be dead. But to human beings, is there really any difference between a million years from now or a billion? a million years ago the only human-like creatures looked more ape than what we'd call human.
your chances of getting some tail are better at the funny farm
no, they finished laying off all the good engineers over a year ago, they're going down the crapper. still pushing technology customers don't need and don't want, like itanium2 and freakin' ethernet NFS/CFS NAS appliances in front of fibre SAN for "high performance databases" to protect the customer "from having to deal with complexity of fibre SAN and disk arrays".
that is one ugly and evil-radiating bitch to put on camera, drive away viewers for sure.
funny, my thunderbird still fetches, reads and moves mail, and will continue to do so for a couple more years or more, and likely development will continue on it too. but you just threw up your hands and ran out and bought macs on the assumption that thunderbird would immediately explode. wow, if the manufacturer of your car laid off its chief engineer, would you immediately have it crushed and buy some competitor's car that only could take 98 octane gas sold at two stations within 100 miles?
well, it's easy to see the source of your confusion, what with the similarities between SCO and Novell, taking money from Microsoft to make FUD based "fear of IP infringement" attacks on Linux.
so you want to count that half-baked Aero beta that crashed so many people's pc on startup? Vista was *released* a year after xgl and compiz
the "letters" of Tolkien have many musings, contradictions, alternative sequences of action. sorry, can't accept that as "proof", and furthermore even the author of that post acknowledges the Eye was the will of Sauron felt by the person who was the object of His thoughts.
your reply looked like it would never end
now that was some funny shit when reading the book I never thought the Eye was visible physically, just something one felt searing the mind
that's ok as long as it's homegrown bio-kerosene, I won't have any part of book burning with foreign and/or fossil fuels.
maybe your app did its job so completely and well no one thought about extending it or thought it had need for any fixing -- I do look at code when it doesn't quite do what I want or when certain conditions make it act weird.
lightspeed delays? just bring a credit check computer along which synchronizes with earth a couple times a day or whatever. That's one thing that doesn't need to be up to the minute, places today still use imprinting machines which is essentially a monthly sync with credit card company. overrun the account somewhat so what, maybe they hit you with a fee or just increase your credit limit. folk who can afford the space trip generally will have outstanding credit!
It doesn't matter whether or not there are 10, 100, or 1000 year solar cycles. The attribution of ozone hole depletion to non-solar causes has nothing to do with that: it does not rely on historical correlation between solar and ozone trends
Proof you are wrong, the 30% reduction in the hole this year doesn't correlate with solar output but with weather. end of argument. you obviously aren't a scientist, that's an absurd absolute claim you've made with no evidence to back it up.
these idiots think there will be need or even possiblity for anonymous money transactions in the next 50 years in space? In space, everyone will know who you are, because you'll be one of less than a hundred there at an enormous expense! If anything in the range of $0 to $1,000 is bought or sold out there, simple biometric check and existing credit system on earth is sufficient. But really, someone is going to pay hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of USD to go to a "space hotel" and then have to buy a pop in the lobby vending machine or a tampon in from a bathroom dispenser? give me a fucking break already
the main problem with the space wire transfers is that every three to four days the wires get all wound up around the equator and if someone forgets to unwind and untangle them and fling the slack back out sometimes they'll even yank out the other end at the space stations. But there's another invention in the pipe called "space wireless" that'll help alot, traffic congestion can be avoided as long as everyone remembers to not just leave the defaults at "space lynksys" and "galactic channel 6".
there are multiple overlapping solar cycles, with periods from decades to centuries and more. your 12 years of data are nothing and lead one to believe you only know of the so-called "11-year cycle", when there is, for example, a roughly 22 year cycle of dipole reversal, and many, many others that are quite long and NOT a harmonic multiple of the roughly 11 years. And the data we have focuses mostly on electromagnetic output of sun, when considering levels of particles other than photons (which are KNOWN to affect upper atmosphere) from the sun there a great lack of data for the last 30+ years.
but you can force the choice of good passwords in most linux distros. just like you can monitor for most of the signs of an owned machine that people are mentioning in other threads.
Sun rays create and destroy ozone at a given, constant rates.
Gotcha! the sun's output is variable, so any action on earth due to the sun must be also. No simple diffy q for U, it's a time dependent partial integro-diffy-q, and those are a bitch.
Now of course, I'm just playing devils advocate today, for shits and grins!
but Dupont and some other chemical giants have made big bucks coming up with new coolants and fire suppressants and foam blowers in the name of The Hole Scare, so how could it be a bad thing?
how about this: " the ozone hole is due to solar action just as 30-70% of global warming is" I'm in the mood to troll today, and slashdot exists for my amusement as does its readers. So let the sparks of trolldom fly into the fuel-air bomb of the eco-religious' beliefs.
be embarrassing if the hole was just the result of variations in various decades long solar cycles, after all we haven't been observing it for very long. we may have gone environmentally apeshit for no reason with regards to FHCs.
all the choices listed are distinctly different tools for different jobs. Whether that job is run in one SMP system, or one NUMA coupled system, or many networked system...whether mutual exclusion is needed (and whether referenced frequently or rarely), whether IPC needs complex message queue management or just a single semaphore....anyone who thinks the number of choices is an issue doesn't know much about the subject
I didn't attend public school. Those scholastic foundations stagnated western civilization for a thousand years. Humanism in spite of the church is what caused science and technology to explode, and the more the roman catholic church was left behind the better things got.
the rise of science in the arab world came along side of islam, from 800 AD to 1500. Islam started in the 600s. in history books you'll find both the phrase "islamic science" and "arab science", referring to this golden age of science. Now Roman Catholic christianity is another matter, that *did* stagnate science and human development in the west.