Glacier bay used to be green in the 1700s. The indians lived there. And then the glacier came and filled the bay to where the wall of ice was 2 miles from the entrance. Without any help from mankind, over the next 200 years it receded. By the mid 1800's, it had retreated 44 miles and by the early 1900's it had retreated 65 miles.
The earth undergoes a constant state of change.
Climate change and all of the knee jerk reactions to save our planet are merely a scam to extract more money from the world serfs. Cap and Trade. California passed it. Electric rates are going up. The net effect for California's CaT is to take more from the middle and lower class.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...
is a nice rebuttal to the whole climate warming...eh no...climate change...eh no....climate chaos and we must do something....anything in the next 500 days or it will be too late group..
People are stupid sheep.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...
A rebuttal for the Obama's FUD piece.
What's up with all the climate alarmism on Slashdot. Next, we'll have horoscopes and astrological papers.
On the server side of the NASCAR project, the JMS on a Tomcat server was able to handle 2000 concurrent connections. A C++ implementation was able to handle 40,000 concurrent connections. That increase means less hardware, less power. It seems that the Java server side mantra is throw more hardware at the problem.
Several C# projects also suffered from performance problems. The customers bought into the platform again because of the short development time. By utilizing Qt and C++, we were able to develop a highly polished product in the equivalent time as the C# product. We however were able to respond to 10 millisecond performance windows that are an absolute requirement of the project.
One thing that disappoints me is the quality of software engineers we encounter when we do college recruiting. It seems that the "hardest" language learned is Java. Assembly is an optional course and C++ is taught as a part of comparative languages. As a consequence, we see a number of people who consider themselves software engineers but don't have a good theoretical back ground in what the hardware is doing underneath. Then when these same engineers encounter a performance bottleneck, they don't have the tools to solve those bottle necks.
To get back on topic, I like STL and the evolutions of C++. It talked to Stroustrup about STL and told him that it was a good addition that I didn't initially grok. He said he had the same experience as well. Twocows, keep at it. You just might find a diamond in your turd.
The truth is, alfalfa is used for milk production, not meat production. If you want to fatten up a cow, you feed them grains. You know, the carbohydrates that America uses as a primary source of their diet; which is why America is obese. The article talks about the cost of alfalfa driving up up the cost of beef. It is true that the Imperial Valley alfalfa farmers can ship their alfalfa to China on the empty cargo ships returning to China and make more money than they can shipping up to San Joaquin Valley where the dairies exist. The impact has been on milk prices and horse ranches. Alfalfa went from $9 for a 140 lb bale to $17 for a 100 lb bale. That upswing did nothing to meat prices. During this upswing, beef was incredibly cheap. I stuffed my freezer with $4 a pound rib eyes. There are other market forces that are now bringing beef prices up. The American herd is at a 60 year low. More people, less beef, more money.
I do believe the water figures given for vegetables to be fairly consistent. Most of that water doesn't go into producing the product, but instead evaporates off leaving the salts behind that ultimately destroys the land for farming. We have switched to hot house hydroponics. It uses a little as 1/20th the water as conventional farming. The reduction in pesticides is drastically reduced. The fish and crustaceans provide the nutrients that the plants need, and the plants and bacteria break down the fish wastes purifying the water. A hot house produces a tremendous amount of food.
If feels to me that the author as ideological agenda. The truth is, we are designed to eat meats, eggs and vegetables. Everything else, not so much. The American diet has caused an epidemic in obesity, diabetes and Alzheimer's. This is directly a result of what we eat today. You can read, "Grain Brain" for a neurosurgeons take on this subject.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.