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Comment Re:So wait (Score 1) 458

by karmic_penguin on Monday January 05, 2009 @04:12PM (#26335103) Attached to: More Climate Scientists Now Support Geoengineering

Fertilizing the algae will not only not effect the mount of CO2 absorbed by the seawater from the air, but will reduce the amount of CO2 in the water.

Actually, reducing the CO2 in seawater would change the CO2 concentration of the atmosphere. Removing CO2 from the ocean changes the equilibrium state between CO2 in the air and CO2 in the water. This causes more CO2 to be dissolved in the sea from the atmosphere through gas exchange, which is the whole point of Fe fertilization schemes.

Whether or not the algal blooms would successfully sequester the carbon on the ocean floor is another matter entirely.

Comment Re:My Oregon shuttle bus thinks it's in Canada too (Score 1) 392

by karmic_penguin on Thursday June 19, 2008 @11:09AM (#23858739) Attached to: How To Clean Up Incorrect Geolocation Information?

I'll bet the Canuck wi-fi is nice, but do they really need all those obnoxious noises on their website? I feel like I'm standing on a landing strip.

Submission + - Sun releases ODF plugin for MS Office (heise.de)

Submitted by extra88 on Thursday July 05, 2007 @11:15AM

extra88 writes: Heise online reported that Sun has released their OpenDocument Format (ODF) plug-in for Microsoft Office 2000, XP and 2003. The plug-in allows Microsoft Office (for Windows) users to open ODF files and save their work in ODF formats used by OpenOffice, StarOffice, and other programs. According to the ReadMe, the plug-in adds "ODF Text Document (*.odt)" as a format to Word's Open and Save dialogs and adds Import and Export options to Excel and PowerPoint. Support for Excel and PowerPoint in the Microsoft-sponsored OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office is yet completed and that Add-in supports only Office 2003 and 2007.

Submission + - The First Thing IT Managers Do in the Morning?

Submitted by on Thursday July 05, 2007 @08:50AM

An anonymous reader writes: When I was a wee-little IT Manager, I interviewed for a IT management position at an online CRM provider in San Francisco, a job I certainly was qualified for, at least on paper. One of the interviewer's questions was "What is the first thing you do when you get to work in the morning." I thought saying "Read Slashdot" wouldn't be what he was looking for — so I made up something, I'm sure, equally lame. Needless to say, I didn't get the job. But the question has stuck with me over the years. What do real IT and MIS managers do when they walk in to the office in the morning? What web sites or tools do they look at or use the first thing? Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity, so be honest.

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