Wikipedia has a nice graph of population growth. It seems to level off 0% somewhere between 2050 and 2100. The levelling off is mostly caused by better education and social security. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth

The problem with this specific study is that it doesn't contribute anything new. Tim Garrett basically states that the polution is related to the size of the economy. I would be surprised if that was news to the economists. Here is a link to the article http://www.springerlink.com/content/9476j57g1t07vhn2/fulltext.pdf In the appendix he tries to relate economy to thermodynamics, but that part doesn't really contribute to the conclussion of the article. Furthermore the relations between mass transfer and money transfer is so vague that they are fairly useless.

I s there any open source software that can generate a 3D model from photos? As far as I can see the source code of proforma is closed. http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~qp202/my_papers/BMVC09/

It looks like the pen and paper RPG-market is plummeting right now. That is bad new for me as a customer, because I really enjoy playing D&D. and I want to be able to buy new and exiting products in the future..

I personally hope that Hasbro makes enough money to keep making new D&D products, and I don't support sharing their stuff illegally over the internet.

Here is a better article http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/grad/681/mpoles_physicstoday.pdf

In this essay, I argue that human play is fundamentally selfish. Characteristics of individual and selfish play are observed and described within pve and pvp contexts of the MMORPG City of Heroes/Villains (Cryptic Studios). Analysis of player behaviors demonstrates the degree to which groups within MMORPGs attempt to restrict and transform individual and selfish play. In general, social play within MMORPGs tends to reduce the diversity of individual play; this undermines the ability of oppositional play to explore and value game components and processes. Conclusions recommend conceptualizing online social play as a form of social control. http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~cpearce3/DiGRA07/Proceedings/030.pdf

It seems that he wrote it in 2006.

According to another chart on the site, 50% of all the active WOW subscriptions are asian, but I don't know how Bruce Woodcock defines an active subscription. http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart11.html A rough summary is: 30% asian WOW subscriptions. 30% non-asian WOW-subscriptions 40% subscriptons to other games

Apparently WOW had 60% of the world market in april 2008. I think this number was meassured in players.

http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart7.html
http://www.mmogchart.com/charts/

But I don't know if they have peaked now.

This article is a weird. Prof. Gerlich doesn't even discuss the formulas that you will find in the first chapter of a book on athmospheric physics. How can he be a professor of physics?

I am getting curious here. Do you have a link to a webpage where NASA instructs people to use g95 instead of gfortran? I would like to read that. BTW: I also had problems with early versions of gfortran, but I believe that the compiler has improved.