Comment Re:SpaceChem = Tablet (Score 1) 48
Running OK on my Galaxy S III. I expect it'll be really annoying at later levels with complicated setups, though.
Running OK on my Galaxy S III. I expect it'll be really annoying at later levels with complicated setups, though.
No argument here. And by extension, it's been a competition since before recorded history.
Since when has education become a competition?
Since it became a business.
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You must be new here - that's really expecting far too much.
Oh, I don't expect them to DO it. I just want them to lose sleep at night.
FYI, Ontario is a province. net-security.org should appreciate the value of precision, and
Sincerely, an Ontarian. (Yes, that's a word.)
Few people ever actually saw money in their whole lives; a dowry would most likely have been in the form of clothes, cloth and similar things.
This is a common misconception. By the late medieval period, huge numbers of payments--even by humble peasants--were in silver coin. This was helped by new silver mines in German-speaking areas of Europe.
Sadly, btjunkie, one of the best of your list, recently threw in the towel due to all this nonsense.
Scan reveal Ötzi asshole who no respected bro?
Funny, but based on a "Flintstones" understanding of neolithic humans. Recent research suggests hunter-gatherers generally have and had little concept of monogamy as we know it. Check out Sex at Dawn: http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Dawn-Stray-Modern-Relationships/dp/0061707813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335976553&sr=8-1
The short answer is no. There is some speculation about the causes, but it probably wasn't because of CO2 changes, and certainly nothing like the anthropogenic CO2 loading that we see today. It also wasn't a global phenomenon, but localized to northern Europe. Our data for global climate that far back is very unevenly distributed, though: we know the most about northern Europe, and much less about the rest of the world.
I live in Canada. As you say, all of those areas are already highly productive. What I was referring to is new productivity as a result of climate change. Areas that might become warmer--and thus suitable for agriculture--are currently boreal forest. It would take decades of natural processes for that boreal forest soil to develop into anything that could support agriculture for more than a season or two. North of this is tundra, which might have a better soil profile, but doesn't have enough daylight for agriculture regardless of temperatures or precipitation.
* "negative-reinforcement" should read "negative-feedback"
There's no way to know. What we consider "normal" weather is the product of negative-reinforcement systems. Once climate change breaks us out of those cycles, anything goes. Our ability to model weather isn't nearly sophisticated enough to predict it.
No. The point is that weather will get weird. As the global climate warms, weather patterns will break out of their normal negative-feedback-enforced cycles. Freakish temperature streaks, extreme precipitation, drought, and irregular winds will make agriculture much more difficult and unreliable everywhere. For a fun preview of what we're in for, check out the events of 1315-22 in Europe (hint: it's commonly called "The Great Famine").
The best part is that even if other regions (for example, Canada) have warmer weather, that doesn't mean agriculture will be sustainable there. The topsoil in that part of Canada is thin and highly acidic. You're not going to be growing corn and wheat there no matter what the weather patterns become.
There is no argument about Unity. We all agree that it sucks. There is minor disagreement about the degree to which it sucks.
Does that really stop anyone from writing Linux applications?
It's happening. Check out the Mate project. Linux Mint is considering using it in future releases.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?