Ecological Homeostasis

Are We Short of Water and Food ??

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Since the vegetarian diet is the most effective solution to global warming, under Supreme Master Ching Hai's guidance, members of The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association recently opened a chain of Loving Hut vegetarian restaurants around the world, in the United States, Japan, Indonesia, Au Lac and Formosa. These places provide affordable and high-quality vegetarian delicacies to the public, bringing a positive impact on the food and beverage industry...
Meat or vegetables? Independent online (SA)
A recent study has revealed that giving up meat could drastically reduce one's carbon footprint. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year (as many) greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car for 4,758 km, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said last week. But the food a vegetarian consumes in (the same period of time) is responsible for generating (gases only) as driving for 2,427km, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch...
Vegetarian Shoes And Bags
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From All Corners of the Galaxy

Which Stars Are You From?
  • Galactic Highway - The Wormhole
  • Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

    If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).

    Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.

    Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.

    Source:http://www.universetoday.com/

  • Stream of Time
  • Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.

    Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.

    Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.

    Source: http://www.socialtext.net/

2009-03-14

小灵通

“小灵通”介绍:

无线市话俗称小灵通,是一种新型的个人无线接入系统。它采用先进的微蜂窝技术,将用户端(即无线市话手机)以无线的方式接入本地电话网,使传统意义上的固定电话不再固定在某个位置,可在无线网络覆盖范围内自由移动使用,随时随地接听、拨打本地和国内、国际电话。

“小灵通”,具有性能优质、超低辐射、话费经济、使用灵活、轻巧时尚等诸多特点。

“小灵通”资费标准:
本地网无线市话新的试行资费标准分为两档:一档基本月租费为25元/月,本地网营业区内通话费为0.20元/分(单向收费);另一档基本月租费为35元/月,本地网营业区内通话费为0.15元/分(单向收费)。由各省、自治区、直辖市可以根据当地实际情况,选择其中一档为标准。
(资料来源:http://tech.sina.com.cn/focus/PAS/index.shtml

中國電信確定C網將向3G升級 4G路線倒向LTE
聯通:1/3中高端小靈通用戶將轉向C網

小靈通並不是中國人的專利,他來自日本,學名PHS.PHS是日本開發的網絡係統,日本人稱之為“個人手持電話係統”,就是我們常說到的個人無繩市話係統,于1995年7月開通運營。它可以在流動中接聽、撥打電話。但它的致命弱點是需要建大量的信號站,通話效果差,不容易漫遊,一旦車速超過60公裏,基本就不能通話了
“有事呼我。”隨著尋呼機市場的自然消亡,這句90年代風靡一時的潮流用語早已封存在了人們的記憶中。“有事打我小靈通,接聽不要錢。”近年來,這句話隨著幾大運營商變相的“單向收費”策略,也幾近絕跡。“有事呼我”沒人說了,尋呼機也沒人用了,那小靈通呢?

隨著電信重組的消息在坊間迅速傳播開去,購買了聯通CDMA網絡及業務的中國電信還會保留小靈通業務嗎?

2008年5月23日,傳聞已久的運營商高管調整名單終于塵埃落定,同時中國移動公告稱將與中國鐵通合並。由電信重組引發的民間第一波思潮已經出現———中國電信購入CDMA、中國網通與中國聯通合並,在GSM和CDMA兩大固話運營商朝思暮想的移動通信業務面前,原有的小靈通業務將何去何從?

據了解,目前廣東共有850萬小靈通用戶,但已遠不如巔峰時期。市場反應已說明了一切,再加上將擁有技術上更為優秀的CDMA網絡,中國電信要放棄小靈通業務似乎也成了情理中事。

關于小靈通的未來,目前業界盛傳的兩種方案包括:1、中國電信目前針對小靈通的具體方案包括在獲得CDMA網絡後,鼓勵小靈通用戶不改號轉C網;2、在獲得移動牌照後升級網絡,讓小靈通用戶也可以實現全國漫遊,然後與CDMA用戶一同過渡到3G.


廖曉濱認為,無論是技術演進還是市場選擇,第二種方案不可能。“小靈通又稱PHS,源起日本,但已是被淘汰的技術,肯定是生產力,但不是先進生產力。”他指出,拿小靈通的人是希望可以移動通話的,當然也是希望能快速移動通話,在這方面CDMA優于PHS.

其他運營商在資費上的調整讓小靈通價格優勢不復存在。加上無法漫遊、維護成本較高等問題,前景並未被看好,業內不少觀點認為引導小靈通用戶轉向CDMA網絡是中國電信的明智選擇,小靈通將像無線尋呼業務一般,因為技術和市場的雙重導向而逐漸消失。


(资料来源:http://big5.xinhuanet.com/)

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