Posts by Chris Gray 12 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Mar 2008
Reading through Slashdot, I came across this article:
http://www.gizmag.com/shipping-pollution/11526/
In short, large container ships are *far* worse that cars - 15 of the largest container ships emit as much sulphur oxides as all the cars in the world. Seems to me that they should go nuclear. Of course, given they are run by commercial companies, we *would* have nuclear disasters. Sigh.
Wow! Rik, your system was pretty similar to the one I had. Similar Godbout cards. I wish I still had my CPU board to see if my 8088 was an AMD as well! My box was the full 20 slots - I had a separate box for dual floppies (only single density though). Did the "Ram disk" work under CP/M-80 or CP/M-86? I mostly used CP/M-80, and I programmed my own RAM disk for it - I used the 24 bit addressing mode of the Disk Controller to write instructions to the high part of each 64K bank of my 256K DRAM card, and I think it was 5 bytes per cycle that I could transfer from the "main" 64K bank to a "cache" bank, inside the CPU registers. Wonderful fun!
Before that system, I built my own diskless one using the original Intel 8080 chipset. I also went through a Radio Shack Colour Computer and an Exidy Sorcerer, before I got my first Amiga - the A1000 - that one I still have.
I don't know much about this, but doesn't sulphur in the atmosphere result in the formation of weak sulphuric acid, which drops out as acid rain? That kills lots of trees, which isn't going to help the situation. This has been an issue for many years, with the effect being seen downwind of large industrial sites that spew sulphur.
Hmm. My copies of Half-Blood and Hallows are exactly the same length. I guess that means that the Half-Blood movie will be the same crap that Order of the Phoenix was. If you hadn't read the book, you couldn't follow the mish-mash of disconnected events. If you had read the book, you hated the way it was all chopped up.
Mike JVX: wrong on all counts. If that's the best you can do, quit trying.
Chris: read it when it first came out - don't remember much except the Motie's arms
Art Hawkes: are you actually suggesting that there weren't any ice ages? Weird. If not, then what exactly *IS* your point?
To those that deny climate change: go to Australia and tell them about it
I'm off - time to go eat some cow.
I'm not worried about temperatures 170,000 years from now - it'll come on slow enough that they'll figure something out.
But, on a somewhat related topic, I believe we've long since used up all of the easily accessible oil and coal. So, if (when?) we end up wiping ourselves off the planet, the next round can't become a technologically advanced (?) society like ours using the same path that we did. Is there another path to high technology? Any historians out there know? If there isn't, then I guess we've made sure that if we go, Earth won't have another bunch like us. That's not a big loss, I expect, unless we happen to be the only advanced bunch there is anywhere.
Of course, I don't expect much sympathy for this view from the highly self-centered El Reg crowd.
The alien icon because maybe the next round won't be our descendants.
Shaw Cable in Canada seems OK:
Your name server, at 64.59.184.15, appears to be safe, but make sure the ports listed below aren't following an obvious pattern.Requests seen for b14aed6a1cd3.toorrr.com:
64.59.184.15:21877 TXID=14695
64.59.184.15:23901 TXID=9436
64.59.184.15:30578 TXID=50420
64.59.184.15:20735 TXID=39373
64.59.184.15:9712 TXID=46561
As a long-time Canuck (born in Blighty, but came over at age 4), I am very happy that Canada has reacted this way. From what I can tell, a very large percentage of Canadians feel it quite important to keep Canada as separate and distinct as possible from the US. Many find the state of affairs down there to be quite distasteful, and want nothing to do with it.
Preventing this sale of the space part of MDA is probably a very popular move on the part of the government. Being politicians, they may have done it just because they thought it would be popular, but in a way that's OK too.
Long live an independent Canada!
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