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Krisly Philip

Thoughts on Global Warming: Top 5 Worst Effects of Global Warming - 0 views

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worst consequences global warming top 5

shared by Krisly Philip on 02 Dec 08 - Cached
  • 1. Polar ice caps meltingThe ice caps melting is a four-pronged danger.First, it will raise sea levels. There is 5,773,000 cubic miles of water in ice caps, glaciers, and permanent snow. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, if all glaciers melted today the seas would rise about 230 feet. Luckily, that’s not going to happen. But sea levels will rise.Second, melting ice caps will screw up the global ecosystem. The ice caps are fresh water, and when they melt into the ocean, they make it less salty, or desalinize the ocean. The desalinization of the gulf current will screw up, to put it simply, the current. It will cool the area around north-east America and Western Europe. Luckily, that will slow some of the other effects of global warming in that area. But with the stream shutdown, the whole Atlantic ecosystem could be warped.Third, all the animals in the Arctic will be in danger because of a changing habitat.Fourth, global warming will accelerate with the ice caps gone. Ice caps are white, and reflect sunlight. Some of that sunlight is reflected back into space, further cooling Earth. If the ice caps are melted, only the dark-colored ocean will be there. Darker colors absorb sunlight, further warming the Earth.
Jilliane Velazco

Online Music Alters Industry Sales Tempo - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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iTunes cd cd sales music music industry

shared by Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08 - Cached
  • A year after Apple Computer Inc. launched its iTunes Music Service, the online music industry is selling songs by the millions
  • Customers at three of the leading online services – iTunes, Musicmatch Inc.’s Musicmatch Downloads and RealNetworks Inc.’s Rhapsody – buy about 10 times as many singles as they do albums. Offline, people buy 50 times more CDs than singles.
  • music lovers buying a few 99-cent singles instead of $15 CDs.
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  • “There’s no money to be made from singles,”
  • Dozens of free networks emerged to let people copy songs from one another’s computers, drawing an estimated 63 million users in the U.S. alone by mid-2003.
  • Apple said the service sold its 50 millionth song March 15.
  • Some online music companies continue to struggle, but the sector is growing fast and steadily.
  • Analysts estimate that the services’ revenue will grow from about $65 million last year to $250 million in 2004, with $120 million or more from downloadable singles
  • CD sales totaled $11.2 billion in the U.S. last year
  • online customers are buying a much broader range of music than is being sold in stores.
  • about 75% of the paid downloads weren’t in Billboard’s Top 200 and about 60% were “catalog,” or older, tracks.
  • more than 63% of the CDs sold in stores last week were new releases.
  • Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08
     
    more people have been using piracy instead of buying real cd's from stores
Jilliane Velazco

Top music seller's store has no door - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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apple walmart music itunes

shared by Jilliane Velazco on 08 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Apple Inc. has surpassed Wal-Mart to become America’s No. 1 music store, the first time that a seller of digital downloads has ever beaten the big CD retailers.
  • Video game companies and other software makers are selling more of their products as downloads rather than CDs.
  • Songs could be downloaded faster than movies or TV shows, both legally and illegally.
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  • devices such as Apple’s iPod made songs easy to listen to anywhere.
  • It said it counted every 12 singles sold as one album, and that Apple probably received a boost during the two months by people cashing in iTunes gift cards – which Wal-Mart and other retailers also sell – received during the holiday season.
  • Apple launched iTunes in 2003, creating an online business model for a music industry that was struggling with plummeting CD sales and online piracy. In addition to selling albums, iTunes offered hundreds of thousands of individual songs for 99 cents each. That was ideal for customers who wanted to buy hot singles or old favorites without buying the whole album.
  • it reported $808 million in revenue for a category that includes iTunes store sales, a 27% jump from the same quarter the previous year.
  • Although Apple has given the music industry a new way to sell songs, it has become so powerful that music companies have sought to help create and fortify potential iTunes rivals.
  • Jilliane Velazco on 08 Dec 08
     
    apple is the top seller of music; on and off the computer! =] apple overtakes wal-mart as the biggest US music seller
Erika Moz

5 Deadliest Effects of Global Warming: Global Warming Effects, Causes of Global Warming... - 0 views

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shared by Erika Moz on 08 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Green house gases stay can stay in the atmosphere for an amount of years ranging from decades to hundreds and thousands of years. No matter what we do, global warming is going to have some effect on Earth. Here are the 5 deadliest effects of global warming.
  • As the temperature of oceans rises, so will the probability of more frequent and stronger hurricanes
  • global warming will exacerbate the conditions and could lead to conflicts and war.
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  • urricanes cause do billions of dollars in damage, diseases cost money to treat and control and conflicts exacerbate all of these.
  • The ice caps melting is a four-pronged danger.
  • First, it will raise sea levels.
  • Second, melting ice caps will throw the global ecosystem out of balance
  • Third, temperature rises and changing landscapes in the artic circle will endanger several species of animals. Only the most adaptable will survive.
  • ourth, global warming could snowball with the ice caps gone
  • Katie M on 08 Dec 08
     
    pictures and descriptions
  • Erika Moz on 10 Dec 08
     
    global warming
Minjie Kim

Thought processes - 0 views

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thought process . psychology reasoning

shared by Minjie Kim on 04 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am)
  • reasoning and problem solving
  • deductive, inductive or abductive
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  • Deductive reasoning involves deciding what must be true given the rules of logic
  • Inductive reasoning involves deciding what is likely
  • Deductive reasoning derives the logically necessary conclusion from the given premises.
  • it can lead to a logical conclusion which conflicts with our knowledge of the world
  • Human deduction is at its poorest when truth and validity clash
  • people bring their knowledge of the real world into the reasoning process
  • Induction is generalizing from cases we have seen to infer information about cases we haven't
  • In the absence of counter examples, all that we can do is gather evidence to support our inductive inference
  • Abduction reasons from a fact to the action that caused it
  • can lead to unreliability as an action preceding an event can be wrongly attributed as the cause of the event.
  • Problem solving is the process of finding a solution to an unfamiliar task
  • Gestalt theory and the problem space theory.
  • productive problem solving involves insight and restructuring of the problem
  • productive and reproductive
  • Reproductive problem solving draws on previous experiences
  • Reproductive problem solving could be a hindrance to finding a solution
  • theory says that problem solving centers around the problem space.
  • People solve novel problems by mapping knowledge in a similar known domain, to it
  • people miss analogous information unless it is semantically close to the problem domain.
    • Minjie Kim
      Minjie Kim on 04 Dec 08
       
      doesn't this basically say that humans are quite narrow minded, and fail to see a connection between two things unless it's right in front of them??
Eriel Eaglin

Four Reasons Stock Market Hope Will Overcome Despair - Seeking Alpha - 0 views

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4 reasons

shared by Eriel Eaglin on 01 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Interestingly enough, stock prices suggest the opposite. We haven't sold off like this since the Depression. Even during the inflation crisis of the 1970's, the most we ever sold off was 17%. Being down 40% on the year must be very scary for market bears. Everyone wants to tell you that valuations don't matter but I have a secret for you - they do. It's hard to find a stock with a p/e over 20 anymore. Apple's market cap is down to $79 billion and yet it will have $30 billion in cash on its balance sheet by year end.Apple's not the only one either. Corporate America has never been more fiscally responsible. Record amounts of cash sit on balance sheets across many different sectors. Leverage has been limited to consumers and banks.
  • Outstanding credit card debt sits at $971 billion for the United States. This amounts to approximately $3,000 per person. This problem is nowhere near the problems that we were faced with earlier in the year in the financial sector. Government stimulus can easily fix the problem of consumer leverage. With a shot of confidence, the consumer will prove resilient once again.
    • Eriel Eaglin
      Eriel Eaglin on 03 Dec 08
       
      America is in debt
  • Eriel Eaglin on 01 Dec 08
     
    4 reasons
Haley Herebia

Polar bears drown as ice shelf melts - Times Online - 0 views

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polar ice caps melting help the bears

shared by Haley Herebia on 03 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Haley Herebia on 03 Dec 08
     
    ice melting is killing the polar bears
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