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Global warming has been a really hot topic lately (sorry couldn’t resist the pun). The UN is putting together a letter stated in this news article via Yahoo! (Reuters), explaining that there is little time to avert big temperature changes here on Earth.
I strongly believe they are missing a bigger picture to this, what are we going to do when the average temperature is 10 degrees Celsius higher?
The fact that carbon monoxide causes hot are to be trapped in earths atmosphere is a theory. There isn’t enough proof that its what’s causing our temperature rise. The CO discharge from a volcano is huge, and Earth has been dealing with this for ever.
This is not a statement toward, should we or should we not, cut back our production of greenhouse gases, I am all for cleaner air and a better environment. Its a statement where I really don’t believe that even cutting all greenhouse gas production will make much of a difference and we need to plan on how we will be able to survive in our world with these much higher temperatures.
When my children are my age, this world will be very different. If this warming trend continues, things will be very different. I just hope that some planing is done for when 1/3 or more of America’s grasslands are nothing more than dirt and nothing can really live or grow there. What is the contingency plan for when reduction of the greenhouse gases just isn’t enough to slow the Earth’s warming?
I use a mobile device which runs Windows Mobile 5, a hand-held based OS which reminds me a lot of windows 95. Anyway, the default home page on the device has a link to the Windows Mobil home page, strangely enough, not very compatible at all with the browser which comes with Windows Mobile 5 (some hacked up version of IE 4 it seams). When I went to the site just now to verify the url, I noticed that there is a large flash area on the page. Mobile IE doesn’t support flash, nor does the site redirect you based on your browser type, so it is almost impossible to navigate around the page
I also receive an email once a month from the Microsoft Windows Mobile group, this email is sent in HTML which isn’t viewable by the mobile Outlook installed on the phone! Mostly what I see is many links to spacer.gif images.
I find this very strange that the mobile group, who are trying to promote their mobile services and offerings don’t support the applications the are promoting. One of the major reasons I have to device is so I may catch up on reading while commuting back and forth to work. Reading which can’t include Microsoft Windows Mobile information.
It’s the little things like this which drive customers away from a company. You either supply exemplary customer service, or you die in business. You think it doesn’t matter with a company like Microsoft? We will just wait and see. The Trio is looking very promising as my next hand-held.
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