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Comment Re:Life finds a way (Score 1) 923

by Effing_T on Saturday May 12, 2007 @04:26AM (#19094155) Attached to: Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better?

Of course life will find a way: global warming does not mean the end of all life on Earth. But we have no mean to chose which way will be taken. And from what we can see today, we will have to adapt A LOT:
- more death from heat,
- new parasites or more parasites in crop fields,
- less rain in desertic countries...

This is already happening.

And it can be really worse... Remember how global warming can trigger an ice age (the melting of Greenland could stop the Gulf Stream, which is a gigantic heat pipe protecting Europe from freezing).

This article is pure propaganda: stop worrying, keep consuming, keep producing. Who cares about what our children's Earth will look like when one is making big money with his stock options.

I wish people realized 2 things:
- Environmentalism seems to be bad for business, but who cares about business when our planet is at stake???
- Environmentalism can be really good for business: we have to do everything a better way! This is an incredibly large field of development!

Data Centers Breathe Easier With Less Oxygen 392

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 19, 2007 @05:15PM from the waiting-for-the-first-casualty-from-a-locked-closet dept.

PC World is reporting that some companies are looking at a new method of fire protection in their server closets, oxygen-deprivation systems.""Wood stops burning when the oxygen content falls to 17 percent and plastic cables between 16 to 17 percent, said Frank Eickhorn, product manager for fire detection at Wagner Alarm and Security Systems GmbH in Hanover, Germany. Wagner makes electric compressors that use a special membrane to remove some of the oxygen from the outside air, a system the company calls OxyReduct. The excess oxygen is exhausted, and the remaining nitrogen-rich air is pumped inside the data center."

Adobe Releases Cross-Operating System Runtime 297

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 19, 2007 @03:50PM from the playing-nice-with-everyone dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention that Adobe released the first public version of their new cross-operating system runtime today nicknamed 'Apollo'. "The software relies on HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and Adobe Flex. The alpha version, which presently works on Windows and Macintosh, can be downloaded for free at http://www.adobe.com/go/apollo. Once the Apollo apps are created, users can launch them from their desktops, without using their browser or connecting online. An Apollo application can connect automatically to online data or services when an Internet connection is detected, with new components automatically downloaded and integrated. The user needs the Apollo runtime to run the apps, just as a Flash player is needed to run Flash animations."

Henry's Python Programming Guide 143

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 22, 2006 @12:21PM from the not-just-for-programmers-anymore dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Seems like someone else has put up another Python programming guide, although this one seems to be a little easier to get through. From the article: 'My name is Henry the Adequate, and I am a Python programming Guru. I know all of their movies, and their TV shows, and can quote the dead parrot sketch in my sleep. In fact I do quote it in my sleep. That may explain why I am single, although it could also have something to do with the flamethrower. Naturally many old-timers want to know what this new-fangled Python thing is all about. "Henry," they say, "What is this new-fangled Python thing all about?" See what i mean? So, here, at last, is the article you have all been waiting for...'"

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