A pity, and a huge waste of energy, especially considering that power plants that convert fuel to electricity plus transport are at most 30% efficient. Compare that to 85% efficiency for a gas-fired furnace.
A small quibble: up here in the great northwest, most of our electricity is from hydro, so this does not apply. In fact, electricity here is so cheap, that it makes solar panels not cost effective by a significant margin.
A nice idea, but not very practical. Current annual fossil fuel consumption is about 400x the annual carbon fixation rate by the biosphere. So maybe if we had another 400 earths to grow the crops on, this would work.
No, the only solutions that scale are: high efficiency solar, nuclear and geothermal (which is just natural nuclear). Total annual insolation is about two orders of magnitude above our current energy budget, so with (efficiency * land used) =.01, we can replace it with just solar. Don't know the figures for the other two.
This is by far the most informative reply I have seen. Thanks for posting.
The only reason I bother to read/. articles on this subject is because you keep posting replies despite the huge amount of gibberish posted by agressive ignoramouses with more attitude than brains. So please keep it up - some of us appreicate your insights.
Yes, because CO2 released when burning fossil fuels is magically tagged so that plants know not to use it for photosynthesis ever again.
As other have pointed out, it is the difference that is important, not the actual molecules. We are currently releasing 400 times the amount of carbon fixed by the biosphere every year (400 is not a typo - go look it up). This is incidentally why approaches otehr than solar/nuclear/geothermal will not do anything useful - they can't scale to our energy needs.
What process caused the CO2 to get "stored" in the first place, again?
Believe it or not, the climate has not been identical for the last 4 billion years. At various periods, it has been warmer and more carbon has been fixed by plants.
Trent's entry for May 24, 1763, includes the following statement:... we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect.
and it looked (to my uneducated eyes) like the pilot lost control of the craft for a bit
According to Melville, he put it into a roll by accident, but since he had no trouble controlling it, he let it keep going as a crowd pleaser! (I'm glad he was having fun - I was watching it with my 6 year old and hoping is wasn't another Columbia landing...)
Men, on the other hand have the opposite problem. They fall asleep immediately after sex.
IIRC, this is a myth. About 40% of both sexes fall asleep after sex. But consider the cases. If uppercase represent awake afterwards, and lowercase asleep, then there are 4 of them:
MF - No problem. mf - No problem. Mf - No problem. mF - Problem!
More importantly, your mind needs the time to process the day's memories and integrate them into the larger structure of the brain. Long before you fell apart physically, you would be dead or insane from the mental collapse.
Seriously, Gatto's analysis is deeper than the link you gave. That article makes it out to be all the Big Bad Gubbimints fault. Gatto has all the information your article provides, but he also shows how governemt was deliberately influenced by non-profit foundations set up by Carneigie and his ilk.
I have two little ones myself and my advice to you is to stop watching television.
Seriously. We watch network television about once every six months, and when we do, the advertising annoys the fsck out of my kids. We probably won't bother again after watching the ADD inspired "Charlie Brown Valentine's Day" special last winter.
Oh, we watch VIDEOS. Good stuff, like the Muppets, Thunderbirds, Veggie Tales (maybe not your taste, but the silly songs are hilarous), Finding Nemo and so on.
But mostly we read a lot. Spend that time teaching them to read (phonics - it's not hard) and buy some books (preferably with as few pictures as possible). They will be much happier, and so will you.
Back to the subject. So does this sudden middle age realization of ones own mortality seem to fit Microsoft? In other words, they might have as many years still ahead, as they have behind them, but suddenly, there is the realization.
I was talking to a classicist friend of mine a while back about the durablility of institutions. He pointed out that the "big corporations" of the Roman Empire (the shipping companies of Ostia) have been gone for many centuries now.
So rest assured: all things in this life are mortal, even Microsoft.
I agree with most of your post, but I have to take issue with this statement (which appears to be at odds with the rest of the post):
Home schooling is no better either. What you get there are socially inept children who are coddled and shielded from the real world.
First, a joke from a friend of mine who homeschooled here 4 boys (one of whom is autistic, which you would have a hard time telling if you talked to him today): "We used to work on socialization all the time. Once a week I would take the kids into the bathroom and steal their lunch money."
More seriously, for a comprehensive look at the history and goals of American public education, please have a look at this book. Non-americans may also find this interesting as the author describes a number of educational traditions from around the world, including the dominant European and Chinese models, both of which have had major influences on the American model. His hyperbole gets away from him at times, but all the facts I have spot-checked hold up.
If you don't have time for the book, the short rebuttal to your statement is as follows: compulsory education is only about 200 years old (if you count from when Prussia started doing it) and people were not noticably more socially inept before that time. In fact, the opposite argument is usually made.
How did the Ferengi ever build big ships if they were all retailers and wholesalers?
There was a TNG episode with a Ferengi scientist. And IIRC, there was a Klingon restaraunteur who was a DS9 minor character (he used to wander around the place singing Klingon opera). And there was an ENT episode featuring a Klingon lawyer who was lamenting the militarization of his society.
Maybe a silly question, but what is the function of chase planes? Do they look for external damage/problems? Do they try to help in case of an emergency (what could they do)? I was trying to explain it to my 5 year old and then realized I had no idea what I was talking about (kids are fun that way;-)).
WriteNow was written by Heidi Rozen's company. IIRC, the company was made up of all the female Macintosh engineers of the time who were both competent and attractive. The reason was supposedly that Heidi (quite a looker herself) had created an environment where they could just be engineers without having to worry about being constantly hit upon at work.
You seemingly have a mystical belief in the unique status of the human soul (what you call "id"). And there's nothing wrong with that position. Plenty of philosophers, including Penrose who you refer to in all but name, would agree.
I think that Penrose and Hamerhoff would disagree with this statement. The most sobering thing I have picked up from the Objective Reduction model is the idea that consciousness may be close to ubiquitous in the animal kingdom - single celled creatures may use it for navigation. Penrose comments at one point that he has trouble viewing insects as conscious, but that is still pretty low down the complexity chain.
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No, the only solutions that scale are: high efficiency solar, nuclear and geothermal (which is just natural nuclear). Total annual insolation is about two orders of magnitude above our current energy budget, so with (efficiency * land used) =
This is by far the most informative reply I have seen. Thanks for posting.
/. articles on this subject is because you keep posting replies despite the huge amount of gibberish posted by agressive ignoramouses with more attitude than brains. So please keep it up - some of us appreicate your insights.
The only reason I bother to read
Believe it or not, the climate has not been identical for the last 4 billion years. At various periods, it has been warmer and more carbon has been fixed by plants.
Ha! I can make a fake Picasso as well as anyone.
--Pablo Picasso
MF - No problem.
mf - No problem.
Mf - No problem.
mF - Problem!
Hence the myth...
More importantly, your mind needs the time to process the day's memories and integrate them into the larger structure of the brain. Long before you fell apart physically, you would be dead or insane from the mental collapse.
(And I doubt the UK is much better as it has a similar education system.)
As did you
Seriously, Gatto's analysis is deeper than the link you gave. That article makes it out to be all the Big Bad Gubbimints fault. Gatto has all the information your article provides, but he also shows how governemt was deliberately influenced by non-profit foundations set up by Carneigie and his ilk.
I have two little ones myself and my advice to you is to stop watching television.
Seriously. We watch network television about once every six months, and when we do, the advertising annoys the fsck out of my kids. We probably won't bother again after watching the ADD inspired "Charlie Brown Valentine's Day" special last winter.
Oh, we watch VIDEOS. Good stuff, like the Muppets, Thunderbirds, Veggie Tales (maybe not your taste, but the silly songs are hilarous), Finding Nemo and so on.
But mostly we read a lot. Spend that time teaching them to read (phonics - it's not hard) and buy some books (preferably with as few pictures as possible). They will be much happier, and so will you.
A little google search turned up a 1999 patch for this problem in NT 4.0. Since the OP's paper was written in 1999, he may be behind the curve.
I remember messing around with a port on a Symbolics LISP machine in about 1986. Nice to know someone else my age isn't dead yet
*cough* cvs *cough*
*cough* dev mailing lists *cough*
*cough* kernel release schedule *cough*
If you think that there is no "process" behind the release of OSS, please stay as far away from any development projects as possible.
And yes, I helped develop MacCVS, so I do know WTF I am talking about.
So rest assured: all things in this life are mortal, even Microsoft.
Not to mentional being written by someone with actual skill in the craft...
First, a joke from a friend of mine who homeschooled here 4 boys (one of whom is autistic, which you would have a hard time telling if you talked to him today): "We used to work on socialization all the time. Once a week I would take the kids into the bathroom and steal their lunch money."
More seriously, for a comprehensive look at the history and goals of American public education, please have a look at this book. Non-americans may also find this interesting as the author describes a number of educational traditions from around the world, including the dominant European and Chinese models, both of which have had major influences on the American model. His hyperbole gets away from him at times, but all the facts I have spot-checked hold up.
If you don't have time for the book, the short rebuttal to your statement is as follows: compulsory education is only about 200 years old (if you count from when Prussia started doing it) and people were not noticably more socially inept before that time. In fact, the opposite argument is usually made.
Maybe a silly question, but what is the function of chase planes? Do they look for external damage/problems? Do they try to help in case of an emergency (what could they do)? I was trying to explain it to my 5 year old and then realized I had no idea what I was talking about (kids are fun that way ;-)).
WriteNow was written by Heidi Rozen's company. IIRC, the company was made up of all the female Macintosh engineers of the time who were both competent and attractive. The reason was supposedly that Heidi (quite a looker herself) had created an environment where they could just be engineers without having to worry about being constantly hit upon at work.