Actually under Carbon Emissions restrictions passed in Europe, coal burning plants are burning wood pellets that are seen as carbon neutral. Many of the wood pellets burned in Europe come from the SouthEast US. The author of the BBC article I was reading this in wondered how long the united states will continue to ship wood pellets to Europe when it enacts its own Cap and Trade restrictions.
The wood pellets can be made from young or old trees, sawdust, trimmings, scraps, wood pulp, anything.
Likewise China has severe restrictions on logging, in China. Furniture made there now is made from wood harvested legally and illegally in other Asian countries.
All kidding aside though, the type of trees matter, even palm oil plantations aren't the same ecosystem as the native rainforest they replace. Though the Palm Oil plantations are seen as the greener alternative to soy bean farms which is what a lot of rainforest is being cut down for.
8 Trees per acres sounds about right for centuries old trees in pristine forest.
I have a quarter acre with 5, 30-40 year old maples on it, we also have 2 Japanese Cedars and a Cherry tree.
200 trees in an acre would be pretty closely spaced young trees, maybe like an orchard or nursery.
Now what we should be looking at is not how many trees we have per acre, but how many of those are young AND carbon absorbing trees, compared to carbon producing trees from decomposition. Forests have a carbon life cycle, and their balance shifts during that cycle, also some species of tree are better absrbers than others.
I don't know, I think you're going to find more support in the Netbook and Phone market. Sure they might not pay much, if anything for the OS, but they're still selling a product and the end user might want to play games on the bus, train, plane, or waiting at the airport as much as the next guy.
When I bought my Droid it didn't come with 1 game! It comes with the market that lets me buy games and apps, but am I expected to believe that Verizon couldn't pony up for one Tetris/Chess/Checkers clone on a $299 phone?
I think your Internet cafes are mostly going to cater to the websurfing, email, facebook crowd. Those kinds of users might play Flash Games in the browser, but necessarily expect there to be any games on the machine.
But are any of those paid OSS contributors working on games?
I'd seriously like to see a set of Free as in Speech/Beer 3D Elements developed (Soldier, City Block, Assault Rifle, Gunshot Audio and Run/Jump/Walk animations for the Soldier) that any developer could plug into their game as a basic level and see if their engine works correctly. The level should have stairs, portals (doors/windows), and things to jump on. This should allow you to test opening/closing doors, occlusion, indoor and outdoor lighting and effects.
I kind of imagine them as a Hello World or Teakettle (3D modelers Hello World) for game programmers.
Unfortunately I haven't been sucessful enough in finding 3D modellers for my own project to be able to gift art resources to the community.
Because Creative/Artist types want to get paid, good reliable artists are hard to find.
I lost one of my best 2D artists to a Flash Game developer.
Maps might be easier to get if Textures were already available, and scripts you might be able to get if the scripting tools were easy enough to attract writing types.
I don't know enough to say much about the lack of audio out there.
There are good royalty free meshes and textures available on the web for a fee, anyone good at modelling usually finds a way to make a buck off of it.
As I posted elsewhere in the thread, I used to audit an underground facility.
One of their problems was employee turnover, a hundred feet down there aren't any windows or sunlight, one person there quit on their very first day.
I assume like submarine crews, it takes a certain kind of attitude to work underground in a 60 degree room all day with no sunlight. Lighting was provided by the same sort of opressive Fluorescents any cube rat qould recognize. Unlike cube farms, we had rooms the size of football fields (like I said elsewhere these spaces were normally used for warehousing) so you never felt crampt.
Well, if you don't want any geothermal heat for electricity, you can use one of these for just cooling.
I worked for an outfit where I had to audit a facility that was built in an old Limestone Quarry (basically a flat underground mine, not an open pit mine) there were 3 million square feet of useful space underground around 80-100 feet deep. There are lots of these facilities in the Kansas City area, most of them are used for warehousing.
Anyhow for our needs it was constant temperature in the 60s and constant humidity, unfortunately despite poured concrete floors, and cinder block partition walls, there was a lot of dust from the unpainted ceilings. Also folks periodically found rocks in their workspaces that would fall from the ceiling.
It worked really well for paper records, but until we dealt with the dust, it played merry hell with our drive arrays.
Parent has missed the point of TFA and even TFS this is not FREE.
Danish Climate Change Summit Prostitutes are Postcardware.
Maybe some folks are too young to remember the flavor of shareware where the author asked you to send him/her a postcard if you liked/used the software.
The problem with GOLD is that if you had a huge gold nugget sitting in space, some have said it wouldn't be worth the cost of de-orbiting it. Not to mention what it would do to the precious metals markets to have tons of gold dumped on the market.
In this instance you need something with worthwhile industrial uses, not just novelty or scarcity driving the prices.
This is why I brought up the helium3 in another part of this thread, its useful in Nuclear Fusion, apparently in Medical imaging, and other stuff. Its currently worth $20,000 per pound.
I thought one of them was supposed to be for 'observers' tourists that don't have $200k and want to do something spacy, but have already spent the $3k for the Vomit Comet and want something new.
Well as a recent Slashdot story told, Helium3 just hit $20,000 per pound, the moon has plenty of it. The Rare Earth metals that China is hording are likely plentiful in the Near Earth Objects.
For each mining venture, you send up a module with two units inside with two solar arrays, a VASIMR drive gets them out to the resources. Unload the mining-module and attach the VASIMR to the transport module, the miner makes ingots which the transporter takes from the mine to LEO, and back. Possibly the VASIMR is always attached to the transporter, and the miner is berthed inside its cargo bay for the first trip.
My two oddest notions here are using mechanical gecko feet to attach the miner to an asteroid, and then using cutting lasers to make oblique cuts into an asteroid producing cones of ore, and footholds for itself at the same time.
There is also the theory that Google can't do everything in-house, there will be some projects that they wouldn't work on, the seeds of which can't take hold in a big company, and have to be developed by a startup.
Read Innovator's Dilemma for examples, big companies that can't build cheaper better products because they would undercut their current expensive status quo products.
If Google finds one of these geniuses in the wild and they're entrepreneurial enough to develop a brilliant new product, Google can just buy them.
As I saw once somewhere else on the Internets, you better cook the hell out of it.
You think we have to go to great lengths to keep Mad Cow disease and E-Coli from infecting us, vat grown human meat could carry all the normal human diseases, making it very easy for you to catch something from consuming it.
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Actually under Carbon Emissions restrictions passed in Europe, coal burning plants are burning wood pellets that are seen as carbon neutral. Many of the wood pellets burned in Europe come from the SouthEast US. The author of the BBC article I was reading this in wondered how long the united states will continue to ship wood pellets to Europe when it enacts its own Cap and Trade restrictions.
The wood pellets can be made from young or old trees, sawdust, trimmings, scraps, wood pulp, anything.
Likewise China has severe restrictions on logging, in China. Furniture made there now is made from wood harvested legally and illegally in other Asian countries.
Obviously they are trying to ruin the environment, don't you read Nature?
http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=10949
All kidding aside though, the type of trees matter, even palm oil plantations aren't the same ecosystem as the native rainforest they replace. Though the Palm Oil plantations are seen as the greener alternative to soy bean farms which is what a lot of rainforest is being cut down for.
8 Trees per acres sounds about right for centuries old trees in pristine forest.
I have a quarter acre with 5, 30-40 year old maples on it, we also have 2 Japanese Cedars and a Cherry tree.
200 trees in an acre would be pretty closely spaced young trees, maybe like an orchard or nursery.
Now what we should be looking at is not how many trees we have per acre, but how many of those are young AND carbon absorbing trees, compared to carbon producing trees from decomposition. Forests have a carbon life cycle, and their balance shifts during that cycle, also some species of tree are better absrbers than others.
I haven't traced or debugged code in a few years, not since my last C++ class.
I've never contributed a fix to OSS.
That wouldn't in this case stop me from sending a copy of the crash debug report to the developer. Maybe opening a bug report, which is dead easy.
Before open source drivers I would have no choice but to use binary blobsk, and wouldn't even be able to send in the crash reports.
Because the Card that the Driver is um... Driving, wasn't Free as in Beer.
I don't know, I think you're going to find more support in the Netbook and Phone market. Sure they might not pay much, if anything for the OS, but they're still selling a product and the end user might want to play games on the bus, train, plane, or waiting at the airport as much as the next guy.
When I bought my Droid it didn't come with 1 game! It comes with the market that lets me buy games and apps, but am I expected to believe that Verizon couldn't pony up for one Tetris/Chess/Checkers clone on a $299 phone?
I think your Internet cafes are mostly going to cater to the websurfing, email, facebook crowd. Those kinds of users might play Flash Games in the browser, but necessarily expect there to be any games on the machine.
But are any of those paid OSS contributors working on games?
I'd seriously like to see a set of Free as in Speech/Beer 3D Elements developed (Soldier, City Block, Assault Rifle, Gunshot Audio and Run/Jump/Walk animations for the Soldier) that any developer could plug into their game as a basic level and see if their engine works correctly. The level should have stairs, portals (doors/windows), and things to jump on. This should allow you to test opening/closing doors, occlusion, indoor and outdoor lighting and effects.
I kind of imagine them as a Hello World or Teakettle (3D modelers Hello World) for game programmers.
Unfortunately I haven't been sucessful enough in finding 3D modellers for my own project to be able to gift art resources to the community.
Because Creative/Artist types want to get paid, good reliable artists are hard to find.
I lost one of my best 2D artists to a Flash Game developer.
Maps might be easier to get if Textures were already available, and scripts you might be able to get if the scripting tools were easy enough to attract writing types.
I don't know enough to say much about the lack of audio out there.
There are good royalty free meshes and textures available on the web for a fee, anyone good at modelling usually finds a way to make a buck off of it.
Like if you run out and buy all of the CDs you infringed, and then appealed the ruling to a higher court?
Its gotta cost less than $625k
As I posted elsewhere in the thread, I used to audit an underground facility.
One of their problems was employee turnover, a hundred feet down there aren't any windows or sunlight, one person there quit on their very first day.
I assume like submarine crews, it takes a certain kind of attitude to work underground in a 60 degree room all day with no sunlight. Lighting was provided by the same sort of opressive Fluorescents any cube rat qould recognize. Unlike cube farms, we had rooms the size of football fields (like I said elsewhere these spaces were normally used for warehousing) so you never felt crampt.
Well, if you don't want any geothermal heat for electricity, you can use one of these for just cooling.
I worked for an outfit where I had to audit a facility that was built in an old Limestone Quarry (basically a flat underground mine, not an open pit mine) there were 3 million square feet of useful space underground around 80-100 feet deep. There are lots of these facilities in the Kansas City area, most of them are used for warehousing.
Anyhow for our needs it was constant temperature in the 60s and constant humidity, unfortunately despite poured concrete floors, and cinder block partition walls, there was a lot of dust from the unpainted ceilings. Also folks periodically found rocks in their workspaces that would fall from the ceiling.
It worked really well for paper records, but until we dealt with the dust, it played merry hell with our drive arrays.
Parent has missed the point of TFA and even TFS this is not FREE.
Danish Climate Change Summit Prostitutes are Postcardware.
Maybe some folks are too young to remember the flavor of shareware where the author asked you to send him/her a postcard if you liked/used the software.
We have insufficient Astromech Droid technology to name anything the Ebon Hawk.
The problem with GOLD is that if you had a huge gold nugget sitting in space, some have said it wouldn't be worth the cost of de-orbiting it. Not to mention what it would do to the precious metals markets to have tons of gold dumped on the market.
In this instance you need something with worthwhile industrial uses, not just novelty or scarcity driving the prices.
This is why I brought up the helium3 in another part of this thread, its useful in Nuclear Fusion, apparently in Medical imaging, and other stuff. Its currently worth $20,000 per pound.
I thought one of them was supposed to be for 'observers' tourists that don't have $200k and want to do something spacy, but have already spent the $3k for the Vomit Comet and want something new.
Khan was supposed to rule the world in the 1990s, instead of Kahn in 1996 we got a second term for Bill Clinton.
I remember Picard and Riker bumper stickers back then and thought they truly lacked the imagination of the superior intellect party.
Well as a recent Slashdot story told, Helium3 just hit $20,000 per pound, the moon has plenty of it. The Rare Earth metals that China is hording are likely plentiful in the Near Earth Objects.
For each mining venture, you send up a module with two units inside with two solar arrays, a VASIMR drive gets them out to the resources. Unload the mining-module and attach the VASIMR to the transport module, the miner makes ingots which the transporter takes from the mine to LEO, and back. Possibly the VASIMR is always attached to the transporter, and the miner is berthed inside its cargo bay for the first trip.
My two oddest notions here are using mechanical gecko feet to attach the miner to an asteroid, and then using cutting lasers to make oblique cuts into an asteroid producing cones of ore, and footholds for itself at the same time.
There is also the theory that Google can't do everything in-house, there will be some projects that they wouldn't work on, the seeds of which can't take hold in a big company, and have to be developed by a startup.
Read Innovator's Dilemma for examples, big companies that can't build cheaper better products because they would undercut their current expensive status quo products.
If Google finds one of these geniuses in the wild and they're entrepreneurial enough to develop a brilliant new product, Google can just buy them.
As I saw once somewhere else on the Internets, you better cook the hell out of it.
You think we have to go to great lengths to keep Mad Cow disease and E-Coli from infecting us, vat grown human meat could carry all the normal human diseases, making it very easy for you to catch something from consuming it.
The skills of the live (maintenance) team are never as good as the original development team, who have by now certainly moved on to new projects.
Amazon has like 20 something copies available.
Funny, I thought Linux was a Kernel.
Since we're being pedantic and all.
Maybe you can't judge a book by its ocver, but people still buy them like you can.
By its Cover even
Even on the tiniest shoestring buget, you take up a $5 collection from each of the authors, donate some plasma or something.
Maybe you can't judge a book by its ocver, but people still buy them like you can.
Oops
FPS "Scantily Clothed Girls with Guns."
RPG "Scantily Clothed Girls with Swords."