All of which I'm sure is true. The game's been out for about a month; online multiplayer is a complicated bit of code that has to have been in development for almost the entire length of the project. It's Capcom's right to do that, but I kind of hope consumers reject it. If they don't, it will soon become standard to charge an extra fee for online multiplay.
Science is like Journalism. It can be done by anybody; there may be a distinction between professional and amateur, but science needs no particular certification, license, or accreditation.
honestly, I can't get my head around what the difference here is between reviewing a pirated movie and a pre-release screening that the reporter had been invited to.
One is legal, one is not. One is with permission, one is without permission. The distinction is pretty obvious, so you must be deliberately overlooking it to make your point.
Would your father ask you to get him a car that lasts 15 years?
Many people do drive the same car for over a decade.
However, I bet the father is not concerned about the cost of the hardware; the problem is the cost and failure rate of changing hardware. Every OS upgrade runs a risk of something not working; every time a configuration is touched, something may mysteriously break. Every change means time and effort spent training, changing work procedures.
I think the best bet is generic commodity equipment and a virtual environment. Then it can be copied onto other generic equipment in five years, without any actual change to the product.
Do you still have to click through the GPL license to install Firefox? That always irritates me when a GPL program does that. I don't understand why anybody who understands the GPL would think that made any sense.
That is true, one of the reasons for the 2nd amendment is to put down an out of control government.
However, one of the responsibilities that we have as possessors of the right to bear arms is to not start shooting with out good reason and clear heads. You, I, and everybody else on Slashdot don't know yet what the purpose of the fed's action was. Maybe the CEO is a criminal, and a number of the businesses are fronts. Maybe there was some clear and eminent danger that required a (legally warranted) search of the CEO's house and servers. We just don't know, the coverage of this event has been lousy. Don't run off half-cocked.
I think your analogy works, but I think it underestimates how much China depends on the United States. If they call in debt, it's a form of mutual destruction, a massive collapse on their end as well as ours. I don't think either party can choose to end the interdependency right now; it can only shift slightly from year to year. Maybe that's a good thing.
That point is often forgot. The purpose of the UN is communication. I have little respect or tolerance for the UN as it exists today, because of their evident desire to overreach their purpose. Still, I would hate for the UN to go away. It should have no power, though, besides the ability to assist member nations to conduct diplomacy.
You need to learn better English. If I didn't allow for your evident unfamiliarity with the language, I'd think you were hugely and inappropriately over-reacting.
On 21 December 2007, Q7 (later renamed as Princess Amalia Wind Farm) exported first power to the Dutch grid, which was a milestone for the offshore wind industry. The 120MW offshore wind farm with a construction budget of 383 million was the first to be financed by a nonrecourse loan (project finance). The project comprises 60 Vestas V80-2MW wind turbines. Each turbine's tower rests on a monopile foundation to a depth of between 18-23 meters at a distance of about 23 km off the Dutch coast.
So let's figure each propeller generates 2MW, or around 17,500MWh in a year.
...a private home in a temperate climate generally needs around 20,000 kilowatt-hours per year (20000 kWh/year) to fulfill its energy needs
So each household uses 20MWh in a year. That would indicate that each windmill could power 17500/20, or 875. There are approx. 115,000,000 households in the United States, so we would need to build about 132,000 offshore windmills.
That's better than I thought it would be; I figured the idea was completely ludicrous. Of course, at the cost quoted above, it would take 842,600,000,000, or over 800 billion Euros. That's really high, but not impossibly high. It would need to be overbuilt some, to handle outrages and stalls, but there would be economies of scale involved as well.
I suspect everybody was downloading everything they could right up until March 31st, and that a part of the decline on 4/1 was just a return to normal volume.
Plus, there's a potentially harmful network effect. A particular department might need new pcs, and upgrade to Vista with no particular cost or problem... but then, they're on a network with, swapping documents with, and have different support and training requirements than other XP users. All of a sudden, other XP users might feel a need to upgrade, generating unnecessary expense.
Even more importantly, do not EVER let anybody in your company or government upgrade to a newer version of Office, because the moment that lid is opened, there's no going back.
Well, yes, an accurate diagnosis is far better than the alternative. Knowledge by itself is never bad.
However, regardless of your condition, at some point you will need a job. You will need to converse with strangers. You will need to introduce yourself to a girl. You will need to handle a bullying arrogant SOB. And so on, and so on. Starting an independent life is stressful, sometimes far more stressful for someone with Aspergers, but they will be better off having done it. Shielding a child from stresses when they're young make it harder for them to cope with necessary stresses when they're older.
I totally agree that different people are better off with learning different ways of handling stress and coping with difficult situations. For instance, some people will never 'get' small chat with strangers, but can learn to fake it, once they intellectually understand the role it plays for many other people in society.
This is one of those cases where modern treatments don't seem to be as effective as the older, sink or swim method: Man up. Got Aspergers? Great for you. Suffer your knocks until you learn to cope with it. It leads to getting a lot of knocks, but it also ends with a lot more mature and competent individual. Their method of learning and coping may be different from other kids... but they NEED to learn and cope. Life is about handling stress, not avoiding it.
It's odd the amount of geeks that seem eager to be diagnosed with Aspergers... as if that excuses their perceived failings, allows them to blame it on a condition they have no control over... or perhaps it simply is a badge of being a 'true' geek.
It occurs to me that this post seems critical of geeks; I don't mean that, it's probably my asperger's acting up. We all have flaws, but imagining that a defect is out of our control when it truly isn't, ensures that it will probably never be corrected. It stunts growth.
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I have no problem with nudist photos being placed online; but it's a bit creepy to have a specific call-out on the front page emphasizing that they sell dvds with "no-age-restriction" photos. I wouldn't want them to be censored, and I don't think there's anything wrong with a photo of a naked child playing on the beach, but it's a little weird to make that a front-page marketing bullet-point. It makes the whole enterprise seem less about 'nudism' and more about 'a legal way to see naked kids.'
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All of which I'm sure is true. The game's been out for about a month; online multiplayer is a complicated bit of code that has to have been in development for almost the entire length of the project. It's Capcom's right to do that, but I kind of hope consumers reject it. If they don't, it will soon become standard to charge an extra fee for online multiplay.
What makes one an official "scientist"?
Science is like Journalism. It can be done by anybody; there may be a distinction between professional and amateur, but science needs no particular certification, license, or accreditation.
honestly, I can't get my head around what the difference here is between reviewing a pirated movie and a pre-release screening that the reporter had been invited to.
One is legal, one is not. One is with permission, one is without permission. The distinction is pretty obvious, so you must be deliberately overlooking it to make your point.
Or are you saying that you should only criticize politicians in countries that you never intend to visit?
That really may be the most sensible option...
They don't benefit from nuking Japan. But the benefit GREATLY by being ABLE to nuke Japan.
Just like their ability to annihilate Seoul; it would be a suicide attack, but that doesn't stop it from keeping the entire civilized world at bay.
Would your father ask you to get him a car that lasts 15 years?
Many people do drive the same car for over a decade.
However, I bet the father is not concerned about the cost of the hardware; the problem is the cost and failure rate of changing hardware. Every OS upgrade runs a risk of something not working; every time a configuration is touched, something may mysteriously break. Every change means time and effort spent training, changing work procedures.
I think the best bet is generic commodity equipment and a virtual environment. Then it can be copied onto other generic equipment in five years, without any actual change to the product.
Do you still have to click through the GPL license to install Firefox? That always irritates me when a GPL program does that. I don't understand why anybody who understands the GPL would think that made any sense.
That is true, one of the reasons for the 2nd amendment is to put down an out of control government.
However, one of the responsibilities that we have as possessors of the right to bear arms is to not start shooting with out good reason and clear heads. You, I, and everybody else on Slashdot don't know yet what the purpose of the fed's action was. Maybe the CEO is a criminal, and a number of the businesses are fronts. Maybe there was some clear and eminent danger that required a (legally warranted) search of the CEO's house and servers. We just don't know, the coverage of this event has been lousy. Don't run off half-cocked.
I think your analogy works, but I think it underestimates how much China depends on the United States. If they call in debt, it's a form of mutual destruction, a massive collapse on their end as well as ours. I don't think either party can choose to end the interdependency right now; it can only shift slightly from year to year. Maybe that's a good thing.
That point is often forgot. The purpose of the UN is communication. I have little respect or tolerance for the UN as it exists today, because of their evident desire to overreach their purpose. Still, I would hate for the UN to go away. It should have no power, though, besides the ability to assist member nations to conduct diplomacy.
We're better than North Korea.
It's both naive and dangerous of you to think otherwise.
There's no law against adultery, so it's never wrong. Good to know. I think I'll avoid taking ethical advice from you, though.
You need to learn better English. If I didn't allow for your evident unfamiliarity with the language, I'd think you were hugely and inappropriately over-reacting.
Using wikipedia and some quick web searches.
...a private home in a temperate climate generally needs around 20,000 kilowatt-hours per year (20000 kWh/year) to fulfill its energy needs
On 21 December 2007, Q7 (later renamed as Princess Amalia Wind Farm) exported first power to the Dutch grid, which was a milestone for the offshore wind industry. The 120MW offshore wind farm with a construction budget of 383 million was the first to be financed by a nonrecourse loan (project finance). The project comprises 60 Vestas V80-2MW wind turbines. Each turbine's tower rests on a monopile foundation to a depth of between 18-23 meters at a distance of about 23 km off the Dutch coast.
So let's figure each propeller generates 2MW, or around 17,500MWh in a year.
So each household uses 20MWh in a year. That would indicate that each windmill could power 17500/20, or 875. There are approx. 115,000,000 households in the United States, so we would need to build about 132,000 offshore windmills.
That's better than I thought it would be; I figured the idea was completely ludicrous. Of course, at the cost quoted above, it would take 842,600,000,000, or over 800 billion Euros. That's really high, but not impossibly high. It would need to be overbuilt some, to handle outrages and stalls, but there would be economies of scale involved as well.
Don't forget to add OnLive to that list.
I suspect everybody was downloading everything they could right up until March 31st, and that a part of the decline on 4/1 was just a return to normal volume.
The more of you who leave, the less unprofitable they will be.
There's a strategy in there somewhere.
If I ever do cutting edge research on robot AI, please punch me if I try to name my new robots "Adam" or "Eve".
The government collapses. Anarchy erupts. The entire economy evaporates except for canned goods, lawyers and guns.
Unfortunately, we're several months into this process.
Not at all. But I wouldn't try to protect the child from ever needing to read.
Plus, there's a potentially harmful network effect. A particular department might need new pcs, and upgrade to Vista with no particular cost or problem... but then, they're on a network with, swapping documents with, and have different support and training requirements than other XP users. All of a sudden, other XP users might feel a need to upgrade, generating unnecessary expense.
Even more importantly, do not EVER let anybody in your company or government upgrade to a newer version of Office, because the moment that lid is opened, there's no going back.
Well, yes, an accurate diagnosis is far better than the alternative. Knowledge by itself is never bad.
However, regardless of your condition, at some point you will need a job. You will need to converse with strangers. You will need to introduce yourself to a girl. You will need to handle a bullying arrogant SOB. And so on, and so on. Starting an independent life is stressful, sometimes far more stressful for someone with Aspergers, but they will be better off having done it. Shielding a child from stresses when they're young make it harder for them to cope with necessary stresses when they're older.
I totally agree that different people are better off with learning different ways of handling stress and coping with difficult situations. For instance, some people will never 'get' small chat with strangers, but can learn to fake it, once they intellectually understand the role it plays for many other people in society.
And about my parent post... Flamebait? Really?
It could be redundant if it restates something obvious from the summary or article.
Which this particular one doesn't do, so please mod me irrelevant.
Hah! You CAN'T!
This is one of those cases where modern treatments don't seem to be as effective as the older, sink or swim method: Man up. Got Aspergers? Great for you. Suffer your knocks until you learn to cope with it. It leads to getting a lot of knocks, but it also ends with a lot more mature and competent individual. Their method of learning and coping may be different from other kids... but they NEED to learn and cope. Life is about handling stress, not avoiding it.
It's odd the amount of geeks that seem eager to be diagnosed with Aspergers... as if that excuses their perceived failings, allows them to blame it on a condition they have no control over... or perhaps it simply is a badge of being a 'true' geek.
It occurs to me that this post seems critical of geeks; I don't mean that, it's probably my asperger's acting up. We all have flaws, but imagining that a defect is out of our control when it truly isn't, ensures that it will probably never be corrected. It stunts growth.
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I have no problem with nudist photos being placed online; but it's a bit creepy to have a specific call-out on the front page emphasizing that they sell dvds with "no-age-restriction" photos. I wouldn't want them to be censored, and I don't think there's anything wrong with a photo of a naked child playing on the beach, but it's a little weird to make that a front-page marketing bullet-point. It makes the whole enterprise seem less about 'nudism' and more about 'a legal way to see naked kids.'