Newton invented it in a sucky form which he refused to publish. Leibniz got ahold of some of Newton's work, made it ten times better, published it so people could use it - and so he could pretend it was all his idea. They had a legendary feud, mostly by proxy, which might be considered the first flamewar - perhaps the biggest until the arrival of Usenet.
Good idea - this gives us an opportunity for another layer of protocol tunneling - IP over Snail over Carrier-Pigeon. The data rate and ping times might be low, but now it has hard-shelled security.
It was standard terminology in climate research that there is one strong greenhouse gas of major importantce in the amosphere, water vapor, and several weak greenhouse gasses, including CO2. Since the normal levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are high, it still contributes an important part of the Earth's heat retention despite its relatively weak per-mole power. Your quote makes that point for me. (Those IPCC figures may be misleading for extrapolation since there is a first-order positive feedback in the effects of water vapor with other GGs present.)
This unilateral abandonment of primarily peaceful use of nuclear reprocessing was never a long-term strategy, and it created loads of radioactive "waste" which, except for a government label could be reprocessed into fuel. Further, if we'll do the reprocessing for other countries, ans sell reactor-grade rather than weapons-grade material, they will have no reason to have such facilities themselves except to make weapons. That should make things clearer in the UN.
Besides which, the surface UV has surprisingly little to do with the stratospheric ozone levels. Most of the reason that there is lower oxone over the Antarctic in the southern winter is because there is little sunlight to create the ozone. (3 O2 + energy -> 2 O3)
"It is well known that water vapor is a strong greenhouse gas. "
Water vapor is the only strong greenhouse gas significantly contributing to Earth's heat retention. (some CFCs are strong GGs, too, but compared to water vapor they are in such tiny amounts as to be insignificant.) Water vapor / clouds / oceans / condensation / evaporation / sublimation are still not modeled in sufficient detail to make the climate projections and simulations much better than astrology for predictions. Everything in the atmosphere is driven by water and the Sun, and we don't have all that good a grasp on the Sun's behavior, either.
The far-from equilibrium thermoynamics of this complex system are way beyond simulation capabilities today and will be for decades. This is many orders of magnitude beyond simply simulating a billion airplanes' fluid dynamics or creating posthuman AI. The predictions of doom are simply relatively educated guesses, not reliable predictions.
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IIRC, the first decent microprocessors were about 30K transistors and the next generation of chips should fit 300M transistors easily. So with enough crack and enough money, you could theoretically make a 10,000 core chip now. A practical device would need a network and memory on chip, but still - thousands of cores. If the inter-core communications were asynchronous, the cores could run at amazing clock rates, too, since the longest signal paths would be only a picosecond or two.
Because the Feds don't have the constitutional right to ban it outright, only to regulate it under the interstate commerce clause. Why do you suppose that it took a constitutional amendment to allow Congress to ban alcohol, and even when they had one, they still permitted medicinal and religious uses? No such amendment was ever passed to allow them to ban all the other substances they have prohibited. The only reason they get away with it is that the judges have been a bunch of spineless pussies ever since FDR threatened to pack the Supreme Court.
You can't obtain good ambergris that way, and given how rare it is to find a whale with any sort of ambergris, it really isn't an economical poaching opportunity. You would do better with a single top-quality tuna than a usual chunk of ambergris. Good quality ambergris gets as much as $20,000/kilo at retail, but the stuff fresh out of a whale's belly takes years to get to that quality.
Given any kind of value to the rest of the whale, ambergris would be a very small part of a whaler's expected profit. Given that whaling on large enough a scale to expect to get any ambergris is too obvious to pass unnoticed, and the expenses of such a ship too high to be financed by ambergris alone, requiring the sale of meat to make ends meet, thus making detection even more likely, the odds of any current ambergris being from whale hunting are just about zilch. Washed-up ambergris is pretty easy to tell from the fresh sort, anyway, so the rule is quintessential bureaucratic nonsense. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole idea came from the makers of the synthetic replacement for genuine whale-puke.
The difference being, of course, that you can't get ambergris by harming whales, and you can't get ivory without harming elephants, so the comparison, and thus any law prohibiting the sale of ambergris, is silly.
The dark matter is inferred from the high rotational rates of the galaxies which imply extra gravity holding them together. The rotational rates are measured mostly by differences in red shifts actoss a single faraway galaxy, with a relatively small variation in distances compared to the distance to earth, which eliminates the "tired light" explaination.
It's +5 now. Maybe someone modded you and then decided he couldn't resist posting. You got 20% negative mods, maybe they hit just before you looked. Maybe that was compounded by your custom score modifiers, if you have any.
Why should any company be forced to reveal their trade secrets?
Because Steve Ballmer kicks puppies, and Bill Gates makes the baby Jesus cry. Or maybe it's the other way around, I get mixed up. But they'e eeeevil. Or at least lots of their software is, which is even worse as far as most Slashdotters are concerned.
That depends on the licence, which will be as onerous as MS can get away with. MS's position has always been that even if they are forced to comply with opening up their protocols (which they're still fighting tooth and nail) the protocols are strictly for paying corporate licencees, not dirty FOSS hippies.
There's a good Reuters article which just came out which goes into more depth about how MS is wriggling on the hook and how little they have actually given up the fight.
From own painful personal experience, do not use a motherboard RAID controller for anything other than simple mirroring. Motherboard RAID controlers aren't even consumer grade, and that goes double for Soyo.
Hmm.. I thought my post would get your post noticed modded back up. Directly complaining about mods is risky here, but usually an unfair mod gets corrected.
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Newton invented it in a sucky form which he refused to publish. Leibniz got ahold of some of Newton's work, made it ten times better, published it so people could use it - and so he could pretend it was all his idea. They had a legendary feud, mostly by proxy, which might be considered the first flamewar - perhaps the biggest until the arrival of Usenet.
Good idea - this gives us an opportunity for another layer of protocol tunneling - IP over Snail over Carrier-Pigeon. The data rate and ping times might be low, but now it has hard-shelled security.
It was standard terminology in climate research that there is one strong greenhouse gas of major importantce in the amosphere, water vapor, and several weak greenhouse gasses, including CO2. Since the normal levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are high, it still contributes an important part of the Earth's heat retention despite its relatively weak per-mole power. Your quote makes that point for me. (Those IPCC figures may be misleading for extrapolation since there is a first-order positive feedback in the effects of water vapor with other GGs present.)
This unilateral abandonment of primarily peaceful use of nuclear reprocessing was never a long-term strategy, and it created loads of radioactive "waste" which, except for a government label could be reprocessed into fuel. Further, if we'll do the reprocessing for other countries, ans sell reactor-grade rather than weapons-grade material, they will have no reason to have such facilities themselves except to make weapons. That should make things clearer in the UN.
"...who outside an English teacher would know that?"
George Carlin. Of course he may be inside an English teacher, for all I know, and if so, that's something else to cheer.
Besides which, the surface UV has surprisingly little to do with the stratospheric ozone levels. Most of the reason that there is lower oxone over the Antarctic in the southern winter is because there is little sunlight to create the ozone. (3 O2 + energy -> 2 O3)
"It is well known that water vapor is a strong greenhouse gas. "
Water vapor is the only strong greenhouse gas significantly contributing to Earth's heat retention. (some CFCs are strong GGs, too, but compared to water vapor they are in such tiny amounts as to be insignificant.) Water vapor / clouds / oceans / condensation / evaporation / sublimation are still not modeled in sufficient detail to make the climate projections and simulations much better than astrology for predictions. Everything in the atmosphere is driven by water and the Sun, and we don't have all that good a grasp on the Sun's behavior, either.
The far-from equilibrium thermoynamics of this complex system are way beyond simulation capabilities today and will be for decades. This is many orders of magnitude beyond simply simulating a billion airplanes' fluid dynamics or creating posthuman AI. The predictions of doom are simply relatively educated guesses, not reliable predictions.
Are you saying it has the impuse to kick ass?
IIRC, the first decent microprocessors were about 30K transistors and the next generation of chips should fit 300M transistors easily. So with enough crack and enough money, you could theoretically make a 10,000 core chip now. A practical device would need a network and memory on chip, but still - thousands of cores. If the inter-core communications were asynchronous, the cores could run at amazing clock rates, too, since the longest signal paths would be only a picosecond or two.
Because the Feds don't have the constitutional right to ban it outright, only to regulate it under the interstate commerce clause. Why do you suppose that it took a constitutional amendment to allow Congress to ban alcohol, and even when they had one, they still permitted medicinal and religious uses? No such amendment was ever passed to allow them to ban all the other substances they have prohibited. The only reason they get away with it is that the judges have been a bunch of spineless pussies ever since FDR threatened to pack the Supreme Court.
You can't obtain good ambergris that way, and given how rare it is to find a whale with any sort of ambergris, it really isn't an economical poaching opportunity. You would do better with a single top-quality tuna than a usual chunk of ambergris. Good quality ambergris gets as much as $20,000/kilo at retail, but the stuff fresh out of a whale's belly takes years to get to that quality.
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The Soviet Juggernaut, p. 417.
Only 3-4% of all sperm whales killed by the Soviet whaling fleet were found to contain ambergris.
Given any kind of value to the rest of the whale, ambergris would be a very small part of a whaler's expected profit. Given that whaling on large enough a scale to expect to get any ambergris is too obvious to pass unnoticed, and the expenses of such a ship too high to be financed by ambergris alone, requiring the sale of meat to make ends meet, thus making detection even more likely, the odds of any current ambergris being from whale hunting are just about zilch. Washed-up ambergris is pretty easy to tell from the fresh sort, anyway, so the rule is quintessential bureaucratic nonsense. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole idea came from the makers of the synthetic replacement for genuine whale-puke.
"If you think whale barf is bad, check out civet."
Nothing says "class" like anal gland extract.
The difference being, of course, that you can't get ambergris by harming whales, and you can't get ivory without harming elephants, so the comparison, and thus any law prohibiting the sale of ambergris, is silly.
I used to prefer the "gravity is an illusion caused by everything constantly simultaneously shrinking" theory, but I couldn't afford the liquor bill.
The dark matter is inferred from the high rotational rates of the galaxies which imply extra gravity holding them together. The rotational rates are measured mostly by differences in red shifts actoss a single faraway galaxy, with a relatively small variation in distances compared to the distance to earth, which eliminates the "tired light" explaination.
What's really going on is a million times weirder, of course.
Perhaps it would be easier to explain how attractive forces result if we were simply to assume that particles suck.
It's +5 now. Maybe someone modded you and then decided he couldn't resist posting. You got 20% negative mods, maybe they hit just before you looked. Maybe that was compounded by your custom score modifiers, if you have any.
And the fundamental particle of sociology, the recently described "person"
Why should any company be forced to reveal their trade secrets?
Because Steve Ballmer kicks puppies, and Bill Gates makes the baby Jesus cry.
Or maybe it's the other way around, I get mixed up. But they'e eeeevil. Or at least lots of their software is, which is even worse as far as most Slashdotters are concerned.
That's Real money.
That depends on the licence, which will be as onerous as MS can get away with. MS's position has always been that even if they are forced to comply with opening up their protocols (which they're still fighting tooth and nail) the protocols are strictly for paying corporate licencees, not dirty FOSS hippies.
There's a good Reuters article which just came out which goes into more depth about how MS is wriggling on the hook and how little they have actually given up the fight.
Well, if you live near a coast or a fault line it's sure a good idea.
See if Cafe Press will do it. I'd buy one if it came in hat form.
From own painful personal experience, do not use a motherboard RAID controller for anything other than simple mirroring. Motherboard RAID controlers aren't even consumer grade, and that goes double for Soyo.
Hmm.. I thought my post would get your post noticed modded back up. Directly complaining about mods is risky here, but usually an unfair mod gets corrected.