The article says it's a Boston study, not across America. My wife, who does population studies, wondered if lifestyles correlated to higher education could be a factor.
"You have come back late from work, and suddenly phone rings, and a group of 10 of your friends announce that they are coming to your place for dinner. You check around the cupboards, and find out that there is only one sack of flour and some pepper. What do you do ?"
One of the following: call for takeout; find an all-night market and pick up no-prep food, like pre-mix potato salad.
Organic matter in landfills are converted by anaerobic bacteria to methane and carbon dioxide, both greenhouse gases. Many landfills capture the methane and burn it to generate steam, for process use, electricity generation, or both. UCLA put in a cogeneration plant while I was a graduate student in chemistry.
Counting the carbon-based fuels involved in grass production and disposal, it's a net minus for carbon storage.
Didn't YouTube sign agreements with several content providers in the last week? I seem to remember a story somewhere. If true, the exposure is reduced, and may with time be eliminated.
What would you substitute, flowcharts or some high-level language? I learned data structures in part from Wirth's book, which used Pascal; it worked well for me.
They did, but with linear vs. circular accelaration arrangements. I believe there was a plan to put the launcher on the island of Kauai, part of the State of Hawaii.
Cisco was famous for claiming they had inventories under control, but ended up writing off something like $2.5 billion in excess inventory. There were also plans for campus expanion that were shelved. Oops.
Milton Freedman's "Free to Choose" (book and PBS series) discussed the cause of the Great Depression from a monetarist point of view. Balance of payments were settled by transferring gold among nations. The United States had a huge trade surplus with Europe and did not issue money proportional to the increase. This triggered a deflationary spiral that reduced prices and wages by something like two-thirds between 1930 and 1932.
The Crash of 1929 merely cleared a lot of debt and returned stock prices to realistic levels, relative to earnings. The Great Depression was really caused by the deflation, or so monetarists say.
Louis Rukeyser, the originator and first host of PBS' "Wall Street Week," explained in one of his books that a gold-backed currency was no protection against economic meddling, especially when (this was around 1980) the Soviet Union was the world's biggest gold producer. Rukeyser quoted someone (sorry, don't remember who) as saying "The Russians would buy us out."
Econ is too big and too serious an issue to reduce to a blog post, so I suggest you educate yourself beyond blind belief in what used to be called "gold bugs."
From the article:... because of a rapid warming trend over the past 30 years, the Earth is now reaching and passing through the warmest levels in the current interglacial period, which has lasted nearly 12,000 years.
It did not say that the previous interglacial temperature peak was at the beginning of the interglacial. Indeed, as that was the end of an ice age, that would be unlikely.
As to climate dynamics, you probably can find a good introductory book online.
"Each and every problem we face today is the direct and inevitable result of not thinking yesterday's brilliant solutions through before marketers and politicians got hold of them."
The Computer History Museum has a piece (maintenance console, IIRC) of an IBM 7030 STRETCH mainframe-supercomputer. On the front side, you can see the University of Utah property sticker.
it's almost free to just read a bunch of sectors before or after the requested sector, in hopes they will get used
DEC implemented a similar idea for VMS. Seven- and nine-track magnetic tapes have inter-record gaps that are, IIRC, 0.75 inch. When track densities were 200 bits per inch, a 512 byte record would have taken (512/200) + 0.75 = 3.31 inch. As densities increased to 6250 bits per inch, the same record takes (512/6250) + 0.75 = 0.83 inch. That is, a density roughly 31 times the old value yields only 4 times the amount of store.
The solution, is to join n physical records into a single tape segment with only one inter-record gap. 10 records of 512 bytes goes from 10*((512/6250) + 0.75) = 8.3 inch to 10*(512/6250) + 0.75 = 1.57 inch. An extra factor of 5 is obtained.
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The article says it's a Boston study, not across America. My wife, who does population studies, wondered if lifestyles correlated to higher education could be a factor.
I didn't so much miss the point as ignore it.
Taking it as an ethics issue, I would tell my friends, "It's been a long day. I'm tired, I need sleep. Good night."
"You have come back late from work, and suddenly phone rings, and a group of 10 of your friends announce that they are coming to your place for dinner. You check around the cupboards, and find out that there is only one sack of flour and some pepper. What do you do ?"
One of the following: call for takeout; find an all-night market and pick up no-prep food, like pre-mix potato salad.
Next night, pull the same stunt on them.
It's been a generation since "GEB:EGB" was a mass-culture fad, but it took me about 1 second to figure that out. Would Google hire me?
People, please!
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May I suggest reading any of the several of the Rickover biographies before commenting one way or another?
Oops, I forgot; this is Slashdot.
Organic matter in landfills are converted by anaerobic bacteria to methane and carbon dioxide, both greenhouse gases. Many landfills capture the methane and burn it to generate steam, for process use, electricity generation, or both. UCLA put in a cogeneration plant while I was a graduate student in chemistry.
Counting the carbon-based fuels involved in grass production and disposal, it's a net minus for carbon storage.
Maybe, but "investmental inertia," to borrow a phrase from Stan Kelly-Bootle, will keep IPv6 going strong.
Didn't YouTube sign agreements with several content providers in the last week? I seem to remember a story somewhere. If true, the exposure is reduced, and may with time be eliminated.
What would you substitute, flowcharts or some high-level language? I learned data structures in part from Wirth's book, which used Pascal; it worked well for me.
Thank you.
They did, but with linear vs. circular accelaration arrangements. I believe there was a plan to put the launcher on the island of Kauai, part of the State of Hawaii.
If paying by credit card, take it up with the issuer. You have rights under law.
Cisco was famous for claiming they had inventories under control, but ended up writing off something like $2.5 billion in excess inventory. There were also plans for campus expanion that were shelved. Oops.
Milton Freedman's "Free to Choose" (book and PBS series) discussed the cause of the Great Depression from a monetarist point of view. Balance of payments were settled by transferring gold among nations. The United States had a huge trade surplus with Europe and did not issue money proportional to the increase. This triggered a deflationary spiral that reduced prices and wages by something like two-thirds between 1930 and 1932.
The Crash of 1929 merely cleared a lot of debt and returned stock prices to realistic levels, relative to earnings. The Great Depression was really caused by the deflation, or so monetarists say.
Louis Rukeyser, the originator and first host of PBS' "Wall Street Week," explained in one of his books that a gold-backed currency was no protection against economic meddling, especially when (this was around 1980) the Soviet Union was the world's biggest gold producer. Rukeyser quoted someone (sorry, don't remember who) as saying "The Russians would buy us out."
Econ is too big and too serious an issue to reduce to a blog post, so I suggest you educate yourself beyond blind belief in what used to be called "gold bugs."
I look forward to hearing about researchers who have made use of this.
My old middle school now offers pre-algebra in 6th grade for those on the fast track. This used to be no earlier than 7th grade.
There is always the degenerate case, of circumfrence and radius equal to zero.
I understand it just fine, and what I posted is compatible with that.
From the article: ... because of a rapid warming trend over the past 30 years, the Earth is now reaching and passing through the warmest levels in the current interglacial period, which has lasted nearly 12,000 years.
It did not say that the previous interglacial temperature peak was at the beginning of the interglacial. Indeed, as that was the end of an ice age, that would be unlikely.
As to climate dynamics, you probably can find a good introductory book online.
Theories are generalizations about systems. Some generalizations are better fits to realty than others.
Not much, relative to the heat-trapping of all that carbon dioxide and water vapor jets spew.
"Each and every problem we face today is the direct and inevitable result of not thinking yesterday's brilliant solutions through before marketers and politicians got hold of them."
The Computer History Museum has a piece (maintenance console, IIRC) of an IBM 7030 STRETCH mainframe-supercomputer. On the front side, you can see the University of Utah property sticker.
it's almost free to just read a bunch of sectors before or after the requested sector, in hopes they will get used
DEC implemented a similar idea for VMS. Seven- and nine-track magnetic tapes have inter-record gaps that are, IIRC, 0.75 inch. When track densities were 200 bits per inch, a 512 byte record would have taken (512/200) + 0.75 = 3.31 inch. As densities increased to 6250 bits per inch, the same record takes (512/6250) + 0.75 = 0.83 inch. That is, a density roughly 31 times the old value yields only 4 times the amount of store.
The solution, is to join n physical records into a single tape segment with only one inter-record gap. 10 records of 512 bytes goes from 10*((512/6250) + 0.75) = 8.3 inch to 10*(512/6250) + 0.75 = 1.57 inch. An extra factor of 5 is obtained.