"CO2 is not a fertiliser, so pumping into the ground will not help plant grow. it will infact KILL your plants as a plants root zone requires O2 to breath and take up nutrients."
This is untrue. In fact it has been found that low atmospheric levels of CO2 will cause plants to start seeking out carbon in the root zone. I've tested this many times myself in my own hydroponics plants. I've purposely sealed them up and starved them of CO2, and found that they just go to extracting carbon from the ground (or reservoir in my case) to make up for the lack of it in the air. The roots even have carbon receptors on the semi-permeable membrane. I tested this by getting pure carbon and getting it suspended in a nutrient solution, then using that solution on plants in sealed chambers. Then I had spectrometry performed on the remaining solution to see the levels of carbon remaining. Most of the carbon in the solute was gone, but a large portion of other essential macronutrients were present.
"Third, you can do video OR audio OR text OR images with plain HTML and CGI, but you cannot blend it all together into anything like the average Flash application."
Audio, video, text, and images, in a VIDEO FILE, use the EMBED tag. What the fuck are you smoking?
Did you miss the part where I stated "HTML AND CGI SCRIPTING? With those two alone you can do about 99% of what Flash and Java do"
As in I didn't fucking say that those two things alone could do EVERYTHING Flash does. Learn to read, moron.
The rest of your post isn't even worth responding to - I stopped reading after that, because it shows your total lack of reading comprehension.
"Obligatory disclaimer: I do *NOT* think that withdrawing from Afghanistan or Iraq would be a good idea right now. The damage is done, and if you tried to leave now, there'd be a hell of a shitstorm that could end up putting somebody worse than the last government in power when the dust settles"
Ahh, someone that's never heard of the CIA. Don't you think that type of situation would be more advantageous to us in the long run? After all, it would give us even more excuse to step in and really fuck shit up, and then we'd OWN the land, the oil, and all of that silicon-rich sand.
Rumor is the CIA funded the Taliban. A few decades of slow destabilization, plus a quick war, then remove the Taliban and put yourself in as the ruling party.
Not that I advocate it, but seriously, can't you see the past events, take in the current ones, and see that most likely this is where it's headed?
I've run several POP3 servers - but then again I'm smart enough to whitelist sites I want to receive e-mail.
And I've written a pure mail delivery system using CGI scripting with an HTML frontend. Are you so crappy a programmer (and I know jack shit about programming) that you can't use simple standards to achieve your goal?
With GIMP I can do most anything and add plugins to compensate for that which I do not have but need for some reason
And still maintain a faster leaner machine that won't crash as much or eat up as many resources.
Adobe is not a goddamned thing but BLOAT. They took Cool Edit Pro, and turned it into the biggest steaming laggy pile of shit I've ever laid eyes on. I get better recording sync with Old Cool Edit 2000 on a 400MHz CELERON with 224MB of PC-133 and onboard sound than I do with the real version of Audition on a dual-core 64-bit system and 4GB of RAM and a dedicated recording sound card. I also get faster results, just FYI, on the Celeron. Oh, the Celeron runs Windows 98. The Dual-core XP Professional.
"What's it cost to train and employ a planet's worth of email admins to deal with the shite he's peddling?"
What's it cost to train someone to code their shit properly and not leave holes to be exploited in the first fucking place? What's it cost to keep such fresh untested technology off the damned internet until such a time as it has proven pretty solid, like gee, I dunno, HTML AND CGI SCRIPTING? With those two alone you can do about 99% of what Flash and Java do (minus vector animation, but video, audio, text, images, chats, etc, can all be done) and it's pretty goddamned secure.
Wrong. A calculator is a personal computer. If it handles any form of numerical data, it's a computer, and if you own it, it's personal. In fact that definition has not changed SINCE ITS INCEPTION.
"A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator."
Sometimes I wonder if you people with 7-digit UIDs are even out of high school.
Routers do not contain special RAM or a special EEPROM. In fact, most routers are using either SDRAM or DDR1 RAM. They're using an ARM processor usually. Older Linksys routers can have custom firmware OS installed, some routers alow you to load your own custom firmware/OS on them.
A router is still a personal computing device, though you do not directly use it. Ithas a processor it has RAM, some have USB ports for downloading, some even have the ability to have networked storage.
Just because it doesn't run windows or a cisco OS doesn't mean it's not a computer. Try again.
Yes Ford LTD is what I meant. The old Chevy BelAir could probably do better, but my friend from high schol got into many wrecks while driving his LTD. SUVs, Utility Trucks, and the worst he's ever had was the front bumper knocked off and a dent in the driver side door, and the windshield wipers were permanently stuck in the On position.
Those other vehicles? Totaled. LTD still running strong.
Sorry, I've tested both. Internal wifi/bluetooth ~71mW. For those phones that are powered by the laptop while pluged in, the USB port delivers up to ~500mW.
Even with wifi on both sides, half the available power gets used. Also, with USB tethering, that means you have to use the USB, which drains more power and ads CPU overhead.
Wireless tethering is better. Sure you might get a tiny bit of extra lag but unless you're gaming, no need to worry.
"you keep it from being too integrated with the PC and therefore vulnerable"
It's not 'secure' no matter how you look at it. Putting it outside the computer doesn't help. I can still run aircrack and pwn your system just as quickly.
Added benefit - less power consumption by having an extra wart on your wall converting power. If you're already running your 360 and tivo wireless, it's not going to matter very much if the box is next to them or not. Again, less wires. The computer case could even act as an antenna to help provide better signal reception/transmission.
Yes they have an incentive to do this for free - otherwise publishers won't come near them and move to places where security is a default inclusion. I know of two start ups that failed precisely because they charged for DRM when the publishers thought it should have been included in the deal.
You also eliminate the wires strung everywhere, only having one cable go into your computer and then serving up wifi to the rest of the systems in the house, or car, or whatever. Upgrades can be handled most likely by a firmware update, no need to open the computer. Also, being in a computer, you can grant it access to a hard disk partition for keeping logs, whitelists/blacklists, banlists, etc. Most regular consumer boxes are absolutely crap for log keeping without customized firmware, and even then the lack of memory in them makes the logfile pretty short.
And it's not like you're going to instal a gigabit router inside your computer today only to have it be obsolete in the next few years. Current hard drives today can barely saturate a 1Gb connection without some serious tricks, of course wireles is a totally different story. It's doubtful you're going to get an internet connection or network stream that'll eat up all that bandwidth for the most part. At least with current n routers. I haven't maxed one out yet streaming three lightly-compressed HD movies to different computers.
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and you're an idiot that didn't read my last sentence.
"CO2 is not a fertiliser, so pumping into the ground will not help plant grow. it will infact KILL your plants as a plants root zone requires O2 to breath and take up nutrients."
This is untrue. In fact it has been found that low atmospheric levels of CO2 will cause plants to start seeking out carbon in the root zone. I've tested this many times myself in my own hydroponics plants. I've purposely sealed them up and starved them of CO2, and found that they just go to extracting carbon from the ground (or reservoir in my case) to make up for the lack of it in the air. The roots even have carbon receptors on the semi-permeable membrane. I tested this by getting pure carbon and getting it suspended in a nutrient solution, then using that solution on plants in sealed chambers. Then I had spectrometry performed on the remaining solution to see the levels of carbon remaining. Most of the carbon in the solute was gone, but a large portion of other essential macronutrients were present.
Ooops, should note that I made this post.
Ah, another that either never had a horticultural science class or didn't pay attention to high school biology.
Learn about semi-permeable membranes in the root systems, learn about suberification, learn about ion transport.
*points down to signature*
Jesus, pretty sad that I seem to be the only person here that took agricultural science in high school.
Let's talk about nitrogen fixers:
Lightning
chemical reactions between acidic rain and basic soil creating nitrate salts.
bacteria
Also, in areas with poor atmospheric CO2 levels, plants will attempt to draw it from the soil if present.
And most people with an SSN also have a driver's license attached to that SSN - thus providing easy photo verification of ownership of said SSN.
"Third, you can do video OR audio OR text OR images with plain HTML and CGI, but you cannot blend it all together into anything like the average Flash application."
Audio, video, text, and images, in a VIDEO FILE, use the EMBED tag. What the fuck are you smoking?
Did you miss the part where I stated "HTML AND CGI SCRIPTING? With those two alone you can do about 99% of what Flash and Java do"
As in I didn't fucking say that those two things alone could do EVERYTHING Flash does. Learn to read, moron.
The rest of your post isn't even worth responding to - I stopped reading after that, because it shows your total lack of reading comprehension.
Even if we're in debt we're still the 4th or 5th largest economy on the planet.
So what does that tel you about the rest of the states, let alone the rest of the world?
Hope that crow's tasty.
it is well that war is so terrible lest we should grow too fond of it.
There is no 'right' there is only the fact.
"Obligatory disclaimer: I do *NOT* think that withdrawing from Afghanistan or Iraq would be a good idea right now. The damage is done, and if you tried to leave now, there'd be a hell of a shitstorm that could end up putting somebody worse than the last government in power when the dust settles"
Ahh, someone that's never heard of the CIA. Don't you think that type of situation would be more advantageous to us in the long run? After all, it would give us even more excuse to step in and really fuck shit up, and then we'd OWN the land, the oil, and all of that silicon-rich sand.
Rumor is the CIA funded the Taliban. A few decades of slow destabilization, plus a quick war, then remove the Taliban and put yourself in as the ruling party.
Not that I advocate it, but seriously, can't you see the past events, take in the current ones, and see that most likely this is where it's headed?
I've run several POP3 servers - but then again I'm smart enough to whitelist sites I want to receive e-mail.
And I've written a pure mail delivery system using CGI scripting with an HTML frontend. Are you so crappy a programmer (and I know jack shit about programming) that you can't use simple standards to achieve your goal?
I feel sorry for you.
"Adobe Flash player is not crap ware it is need for most of the web sites out there."
Only because people are to stupid and lazy to write real HTML and conform to real standards.
When Google moves to HTML5, Youtube will probably ditch Flash as Google reconverts everything into OGG.
No more need for flash!
Usefulness?
With GIMP I can do most anything and add plugins to compensate for that which I do not have but need for some reason
And still maintain a faster leaner machine that won't crash as much or eat up as many resources.
Adobe is not a goddamned thing but BLOAT. They took Cool Edit Pro, and turned it into the biggest steaming laggy pile of shit I've ever laid eyes on. I get better recording sync with Old Cool Edit 2000 on a 400MHz CELERON with 224MB of PC-133 and onboard sound than I do with the real version of Audition on a dual-core 64-bit system and 4GB of RAM and a dedicated recording sound card. I also get faster results, just FYI, on the Celeron. Oh, the Celeron runs Windows 98. The Dual-core XP Professional.
Usefulness my ass.
You have no idea how accurate your statement is, funny ornot.
Go on Camfrog and you will see it for yourself first-hand.
"What's it cost to train and employ a planet's worth of email admins to deal with the shite he's peddling?"
What's it cost to train someone to code their shit properly and not leave holes to be exploited in the first fucking place? What's it cost to keep such fresh untested technology off the damned internet until such a time as it has proven pretty solid, like gee, I dunno, HTML AND CGI SCRIPTING? With those two alone you can do about 99% of what Flash and Java do (minus vector animation, but video, audio, text, images, chats, etc, can all be done) and it's pretty goddamned secure.
Wrong. A calculator is a personal computer. If it handles any form of numerical data, it's a computer, and if you own it, it's personal. In fact that definition has not changed SINCE ITS INCEPTION.
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=personal%20computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer
"A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator."
Sometimes I wonder if you people with 7-digit UIDs are even out of high school.
Routers do not contain special RAM or a special EEPROM. In fact, most routers are using either SDRAM or DDR1 RAM. They're using an ARM processor usually. Older Linksys routers can have custom firmware OS installed, some routers alow you to load your own custom firmware/OS on them.
A router is still a personal computing device, though you do not directly use it. Ithas a processor it has RAM, some have USB ports for downloading, some even have the ability to have networked storage.
Just because it doesn't run windows or a cisco OS doesn't mean it's not a computer. Try again.
Yes Ford LTD is what I meant. The old Chevy BelAir could probably do better, but my friend from high schol got into many wrecks while driving his LTD. SUVs, Utility Trucks, and the worst he's ever had was the front bumper knocked off and a dent in the driver side door, and the windshield wipers were permanently stuck in the On position.
Those other vehicles? Totaled. LTD still running strong.
Sorry, I've tested both. Internal wifi/bluetooth ~71mW. For those phones that are powered by the laptop while pluged in, the USB port delivers up to ~500mW.
Even with wifi on both sides, half the available power gets used. Also, with USB tethering, that means you have to use the USB, which drains more power and ads CPU overhead.
Wireless tethering is better. Sure you might get a tiny bit of extra lag but unless you're gaming, no need to worry.
"you keep it from being too integrated with the PC and therefore vulnerable"
It's not 'secure' no matter how you look at it. Putting it outside the computer doesn't help. I can still run aircrack and pwn your system just as quickly.
Added benefit - less power consumption by having an extra wart on your wall converting power. If you're already running your 360 and tivo wireless, it's not going to matter very much if the box is next to them or not. Again, less wires. The computer case could even act as an antenna to help provide better signal reception/transmission.
Yes they have an incentive to do this for free - otherwise publishers won't come near them and move to places where security is a default inclusion. I know of two start ups that failed precisely because they charged for DRM when the publishers thought it should have been included in the deal.
You also eliminate the wires strung everywhere, only having one cable go into your computer and then serving up wifi to the rest of the systems in the house, or car, or whatever. Upgrades can be handled most likely by a firmware update, no need to open the computer. Also, being in a computer, you can grant it access to a hard disk partition for keeping logs, whitelists/blacklists, banlists, etc. Most regular consumer boxes are absolutely crap for log keeping without customized firmware, and even then the lack of memory in them makes the logfile pretty short.
And it's not like you're going to instal a gigabit router inside your computer today only to have it be obsolete in the next few years. Current hard drives today can barely saturate a 1Gb connection without some serious tricks, of course wireles is a totally different story. It's doubtful you're going to get an internet connection or network stream that'll eat up all that bandwidth for the most part. At least with current n routers. I haven't maxed one out yet streaming three lightly-compressed HD movies to different computers.
"USB tethering (hence the name) is really the best way to go."
Nope, Tethering VIA USB has actually killed laptop and phone both faster than just using WiFi/Bluetooth tethering.
See, USB likes to not only transmit data but CHARGE THE DEVICE CONNECTED TO IT, resulting in a larger power drain.
Spoken like someone that's never run aircrack.