There is enough oil in Saudi, UAE, Iraq, etc to last more than 50 years at the current consumption rate.
That is if you believe the rosey estimates that the Saudi royal family wants to believe in. This article raises doubts. In addition the keyword is at present consuption rates
Apart from that there is increasing evidence that we are running out of atmosphere as fast as we we are running out of fossil fuel. Since the industrial revolution the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from 290 ppb to 370 ppm. If the trend continues, (which will which is the tragedy of the commons) the atmospheric carbon count will reach 800-1,000 ppm by the end of the century.
You make a good point. I have always wondered why C and C++ have escaped the ugly moniker.
If given the choice would you prefer to debug badly written C, C++ or perl? Perl is much easier to debug and read because you can easily interrogate it. For example, in perl code at any place I can print out the entire contents of a data structure and learn the hiearchy with something like.
print Dumper($struct_ref);
In fact, you can easly print out all the variables and their values in a package (ie name space).
Perl also has a number of very useful functions such as caller that returns the context of the current subroutine call and even let you get the entire call frames make to the main package.
I say sample this guy's DNA or lets clone him. He will be way to old to go to Mars. He could the basis of a "founding event" for a space fairing subspecies.
As long as the distribute of IE comes on virtually all new machines IE will remain around 90%. People will not go thru the trouble to downloading a different component of software for what is now a commoditity.
What does not make short-term economic sense may make long term economic sense. For example from this article
The cost of wind-generated electricity at prime wind sites has fallen dramatically in the United States over the last 15 years--from 35 per kilowatt-hour in the mid-1980s to 4 per kilowatt-hour in 2001.
The reasons for the dramatic drop in costs is advances in technology and economies of mass production. In other words these production sources need to be bootstrapped.
However, the traditional energy producers are well embedded in the political process and receive favorable tax breaks, incentives and lax regulation. These benefits result in a situation where the full costs (acid rain, air pollution, global warming, not to mention skewed and demented foreign policy in order to secure foreign sources) of these sources are not directly borne by the consumers.
Since most technical advances come from arms races maybe this is not altogether a bad thing. Would be prefer money is spent on increasing the effectiveness of anthrax or smart intercepting rockets. .
btw thesneak "Nasa spent billions making a pen capable of writing in space. The Russians just use a pencil." is a long ago debunked urban legend. You might want to update your sig.
Identical twins are formed when one egg is fertilized by one sperm. After fertilization, the egg splits. Each twin will share exactly the same DNA. They will look alike right down to hair color and eye color.
In fact since twins share the same womb environment they are more identical than a clone.
We need to start now in genetically engineering a breed of humans able to withstand the high energy particles. Sort like fish eveolving lungs and being able to withstand a foriegn environment.
Well the answer is quite obviously there is a fundamental difference between hearing music "pushed" to you on someone else's time frame and owning the song and playing whenever you wish. Which is why you want to own it (either legally or illegally).
Now the issue really boils down to price vs convience. Actually illegally downloaded (or ripped) music is actually more convient because you do not have to deal with rights managment. And the other commercial model of buy music via cdrom is getting inconvient from a storage, cataloging, random access and flexibility of devices to play it.
I think the true model that will appear is cheap legal download that is very convient. So cheap that will not be worth dedicating Megabytes of space and backing up and cataloging etc. Just like it is with movies. Not many people go out of the way to copy a rented dvd or tape because it is to easy and cheap just to rent it again and let someone else store it.
And don't forget that Novell Goes for SCO's Throat. This is most interesting development yet. Novell may well end up with the money destined to pay Boies scumbag lawyer that came from Microsoft and SUN.
Alas poor SCO! we knew them well a company of infinite jest and now slowly slipping into irrelevancy.
It is pleasing to note that in the old days any sort of SCO story generated thousands of heated and passionant posts here on/. Now it is lucky to draw a couple of hundred.
I remember McBride was so proud of the fact that his company generated so much press in the early days of the "SCOsource initiative" that McBride proudly dumped two phone-book-sized binders of press clippings on the stage during his SCO Forum keynote as proof that his company had become more relevant in the high technology industry. ha ha ha
So all of you smarty pants UFO deniers what do you think of that!!! Just wait until I hack into the USAF computers and force them reveal the truth likewise.
Oh hey I have maintained code written with this technique
Sure and when you get around to actually writing your code and you find out that it doesn't quite work as easily as you thought it should and you deviate from your comments then rarely does the comments get updated. After a few rounds of revision and testing the comments are a mere artifact and document how you original thought it should work.
Only difference is that the happy pink floating martian elephants didn't leave there foot prints unfortunately.
However there is strong evidence of water on Mars at one time and when you talking geologically time, millions of years is a good assumption. Look at some of the images and you can see tributaries whose structures are only known to form via a fluid based erosion.
The Pioneer anomoly is a unaccounted for force in the direction of the Sun and results the slowing down of the probes. If this new object was some massive unkown body it would be if anything applying a force out from the Sun. Also the probes are in different quadrants and would expect to see different effect.
This post is repeated over-and-over on each and every perl topic. dont waste mod points or responding as the AC who posted it couldn't defend any of it.
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Why is this funny? I have sitting on my desk "Programming Perl in the.Net Environment" by Yevgeny Menaker, Michael Saltzman and Robert j. Oberg published by Printice Hall. The book is about 2 years old now.
So I point to the gcc man page and become overwhelmed for the available options for gcc is that enough reason to go "running or screaming" into the dark night.
Or if provide a link to the winners of the last C obfuscation contest winners should I just issue the following as root and be done with it
root> find / -name \*.c -exec rm -f {} \;
Part of the complexity of Perl is its richness which often allows you to succiently solve a problem with elegance and clarity. And almost all the complaints about "line noise" or "explosions in a ascii factory" are from the presence of regular expressions or formats which both are indispensible for text manipulations.
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There is enough oil in Saudi, UAE, Iraq, etc to last more than 50 years at the current consumption rate.
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That is if you believe the rosey estimates that the Saudi royal family wants to believe in. This article raises doubts. In addition the keyword is at present consuption rates
Apart from that there is increasing evidence that we are running out of atmosphere as fast as we we are running out of fossil fuel. Since the industrial revolution the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from 290 ppb to 370 ppm. If the trend continues, (which will which is the tragedy of the commons) the atmospheric carbon count will reach 800-1,000 ppm by the end of the century.
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Perl doesn't write bad code, people write bad code.
You make a good point. I have always wondered why C and C++ have escaped the ugly moniker.
If given the choice would you prefer to debug badly written C, C++ or perl? Perl is much easier to debug and read because you can easily interrogate it. For example, in perl code at any place I can print out the entire contents of a data structure and learn the hiearchy with something like.
print Dumper($struct_ref);
In fact, you can easly print out all the variables and their values in a package (ie name space).
Perl also has a number of very useful functions such as caller that returns the context of the current subroutine call and even let you get the entire call frames make to the main package.
I say we all hit it for happy hour this friday and check out the intragalactic chicks!
Marie Sharps is hot
I say sample this guy's DNA or lets clone him. He will be way to old to go to Mars. He could the basis of a "founding event" for a space fairing subspecies.
As long as the distribute of IE comes on virtually all new machines IE will remain around 90%. People will not go thru the trouble to downloading a different component of software for what is now a commoditity.
So what your saying is that in Soviet Siberian Russia the global warming is intelligently designed?
Global warming is faux science while intelligent design is worth teach as an alternative - yeah ok I buy that!
What does not make short-term economic sense may make long term economic sense. For example from this article
The cost of wind-generated electricity at prime wind sites has fallen dramatically in the United States over the last 15 years--from 35 per kilowatt-hour in the mid-1980s to 4 per kilowatt-hour in 2001.
The reasons for the dramatic drop in costs is advances in technology and economies of mass production. In other words these production sources need to be bootstrapped.
However, the traditional energy producers are well embedded in the political process and receive favorable tax breaks, incentives and lax regulation. These benefits result in a situation where the full costs (acid rain, air pollution, global warming, not to mention skewed and demented foreign policy in order to secure foreign sources) of these sources are not directly borne by the consumers.
Since most technical advances come from arms races maybe this is not altogether a bad thing. Would be prefer money is spent on increasing the effectiveness of anthrax or smart intercepting rockets. .
Just a thought if you could Magnetohydrodynamics to dynamically build a throat to optimally fit operating conditions.
btw thesneak "Nasa spent billions making a pen capable of writing in space. The Russians just use a pencil." is a long ago debunked urban legend. You might want to update your sig.
Clones are no different than identical twins.
Identical twins are formed when one egg is fertilized by one sperm. After fertilization, the egg splits. Each twin will share exactly the same DNA. They will look alike right down to hair color and eye color.
In fact since twins share the same womb environment they are more identical than a clone.
Why are cloning dogs "notoriously difficult"? Is it because of the wide range of variability within the species?
We need to start now in genetically engineering a breed of humans able to withstand the high energy particles. Sort like fish eveolving lungs and being able to withstand a foriegn environment.
Well the answer is quite obviously there is a fundamental difference between hearing music "pushed" to you on someone else's time frame and owning the song and playing whenever you wish. Which is why you want to own it (either legally or illegally).
Now the issue really boils down to price vs convience. Actually illegally downloaded (or ripped) music is actually more convient because you do not have to deal with rights managment. And the other commercial model of buy music via cdrom is getting inconvient from a storage, cataloging, random access and flexibility of devices to play it.
I think the true model that will appear is cheap legal download that is very convient. So cheap that will not be worth dedicating Megabytes of space and backing up and cataloging etc. Just like it is with movies. Not many people go out of the way to copy a rented dvd or tape because it is to easy and cheap just to rent it again and let someone else store it.
And don't forget that Novell Goes for SCO's Throat. This is most interesting development yet. Novell may well end up with the money destined to pay Boies scumbag lawyer that came from Microsoft and SUN.
Marie Sharps is hot
Alas poor SCO! we knew them well a company of infinite jest and now slowly slipping into irrelevancy.
/. Now it is lucky to draw a couple of hundred.
It is pleasing to note that in the old days any sort of SCO story generated thousands of heated and passionant posts here on
I remember McBride was so proud of the fact that his company generated so much press in the early days of the "SCOsource initiative" that McBride proudly dumped two phone-book-sized binders of press clippings on the stage during his SCO Forum keynote as proof that his company had become more relevant in the high technology industry. ha ha ha
So all of you smarty pants UFO deniers what do you think of that!!! Just wait until I hack into the USAF computers and force them reveal the truth likewise.
Oh hey I have maintained code written with this technique
Sure and when you get around to actually writing your code and you find out that it doesn't quite work as easily as you thought it should and you deviate from your comments then rarely does the comments get updated. After a few rounds of revision and testing the comments are a mere artifact and document how you original thought it should work.
Only difference is that the happy pink floating martian elephants didn't leave there foot prints unfortunately.
However there is strong evidence of water on Mars at one time and when you talking geologically time, millions of years is a good assumption. Look at some of the images and you can see tributaries whose structures are only known to form via a fluid based erosion.
burn baby burn
The Pioneer anomoly is a unaccounted for force in the direction of the Sun and results the slowing down of the probes. If this new object was some massive unkown body it would be if anything applying a force out from the Sun. Also the probes are in different quadrants and would expect to see different effect.
This post is repeated over-and-over on each and every perl topic. dont waste mod points or responding as the AC who posted it couldn't defend any of it.
Why is this funny? I have sitting on my desk "Programming Perl in the .Net Environment" by Yevgeny Menaker, Michael Saltzman and Robert j. Oberg published by Printice Hall. The book is about 2 years old now.
So I point to the gcc man page and become overwhelmed for the available options for gcc is that enough reason to go "running or screaming" into the dark night.
Or if provide a link to the winners of the last C obfuscation contest winners should I just issue the following as root and be done with it
root> find / -name \*.c -exec rm -f {} \;
Part of the complexity of Perl is its richness which often allows you to succiently solve a problem with elegance and clarity. And almost all the complaints about "line noise" or "explosions in a ascii factory" are from the presence of regular expressions or formats which both are indispensible for text manipulations.