The simplest, most elegant solution I can think of to global warming is to build giant orbital sunshades to reduce the total solar irradiance to the earth's surface.
it is also the most stupid solution.
first of all, incoming sunlight is not the problem. the problem are the green gases. blocking incoming sunlight might slow down the climate change but it won't solve the co2 saturation of oceans (and dying out of corals) and of the atmosphere.
second, and most important, life needs the sunlight. by blocking it, less plants will grow and plants are currently the most effective co2 containers. but less plants means not only more global warming, it also means more famines because plants are the primary food source.
time-precise explosion triggering was difficult half a century ago, but today it can be achieved with some simple microcontrollers synchronized via high speed can bus.
lots of good old game developers are sorely missed.
origin systems for example, they used to create worlds with their privateer and strike commander games westwood studios, who used to make fun adventures (kyrandia) and rpgs (lands of lore) before starting endless dune 2 and command and conquer franchise remakes. dynamix with their great battle sims (especially fun for mecha war lovers) psygnosis with games so different as lemmings and discworld bullfrog with their cyberpunk syndicate interplay, ocean, virgin interactive...
Oh, I say, we are grand, aren't we? Oh, oh, no more buttered scones for me, mater, I'm off to play the grand piano. Pardon me while I fly my aeroplane. Now get on the table!
actually very far - ussr was the largest country in the world. you could get a flight over 8 time zones (and this without any passport or hassle at the check in).
internal ids are pretty common in europe (the system is not much different) and european police asks for them way more often than soviet militia did it back then.
you have to get some perspective. while the ussr looked quite totalitarian some decades ago, comparing it to modern europe and usa creates a very different picture. in some ways soviet people were more free than western people are now.
Well, comparing to a real third world country with nukes (Pakistan), the soviet industry was way more advanced back then - 40 years ago - than pakistani industry is now.
You see, national socialists and communists were enemies from the beginning, also Hitler was paid by industry owners to eradicate communism in Germany.
Still, one of the first things Hitler tried after the enabling act of 1933 was to call for a boycott of jewish businesses and a law against jewish public servants.
pink floyd is my favourite band but still, "silly, navel-gazing pseudo-intellectual rubbish, with a good measure of holier-than-thou arrogance" is a good discription of the final cut album.
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it is also the most stupid solution.
first of all, incoming sunlight is not the problem. the problem are the green gases. blocking incoming sunlight might slow down the climate change but it won't solve the co2 saturation of oceans (and dying out of corals) and of the atmosphere.
second, and most important, life needs the sunlight. by blocking it, less plants will grow and plants are currently the most effective co2 containers. but less plants means not only more global warming, it also means more famines because plants are the primary food source.
do you bill yourself everytime you make a break?
microsoft wasn't allowed to, thanks to an apple lawsuit.
time-precise explosion triggering was difficult half a century ago, but today it can be achieved with some simple microcontrollers synchronized via high speed can bus.
not that much. never liked all those commander keen franchise :-b
anyway, id soft is still out there, so why should i miss them?
lots of good old game developers are sorely missed.
origin systems for example, they used to create worlds with their privateer and strike commander games
westwood studios, who used to make fun adventures (kyrandia) and rpgs (lands of lore) before starting endless dune 2 and command and conquer franchise remakes.
dynamix with their great battle sims (especially fun for mecha war lovers)
psygnosis with games so different as lemmings and discworld
bullfrog with their cyberpunk syndicate
interplay, ocean, virgin interactive...
it was actually a reference to a monty python sketch
I hate 1 Belkin product: F5D8000 WiFi Card/a>
it is next to impossible to find vista x64 drivers, the card frequently (every 20 minutes or so) drops the connection when using bittorrent.
well, how did people manage to do it back then in early nineties when neither windows nor os/2 had included a browser, or even (gasp!) a tcp/ip stack?
no idea?
i'll tell you: they got both on some shiny compact discs (and sometimes even on floppy disks) of many many computer magazines.
not exactly. the german word "korn" means "cereal", not "maize".
Oh, I say, we are grand, aren't we? Oh, oh, no more buttered scones for me, mater, I'm off to play the grand piano. Pardon me while I fly my aeroplane.
Now get on the table!
sinclair research :-)
spectrum clones were most popular computers in the ussr.
actually very far - ussr was the largest country in the world. you could get a flight over 8 time zones (and this without any passport or hassle at the check in).
internal ids are pretty common in europe (the system is not much different) and european police asks for them way more often than soviet militia did it back then.
you have to get some perspective. while the ussr looked quite totalitarian some decades ago, comparing it to modern europe and usa creates a very different picture. in some ways soviet people were more free than western people are now.
in the soviet union there was freedom to roam, similar to the laws in nordic countries.
Well, comparing to a real third world country with nukes (Pakistan), the soviet industry was way more advanced back then - 40 years ago - than pakistani industry is now.
You see, national socialists and communists were enemies from the beginning, also Hitler was paid by industry owners to eradicate communism in Germany.
Still, one of the first things Hitler tried after the enabling act of 1933 was to call for a boycott of jewish businesses and a law against jewish public servants.
well, the specifications of all interfaces you mentioned are documented so people can redo them in 100 years if they need to.
fast autofocus?
change lenses?
decent manual focus?
high iso modes?
real time picture preview?
there are lots of things that speak for dslr.
Actually, there are no hifi mp3 players because mp3 players aren't defined in DIN 45500 at all.
hear hear.
the currently best pda phone is imho htc touch hd.
pink floyd is my favourite band but still, "silly, navel-gazing pseudo-intellectual rubbish, with a good measure of holier-than-thou arrogance" is a good discription of the final cut album.
dude, that slogan was about flash memory, not about hard drives.
i wouldn't call stock market gambling an economy, whether it is directly invested or taken by banks and invested again.
actually, they do.
so it is like a simpad, only with modern hardware. how very innovative.