During peak, to compensate for spikes in demand, they use natural gas (or is diesal), but those are expensive. For offpeak, I believe they sell it to be used elsewhere.
It is. Basically since it is fully moddable with no server of any kind really (the game runs P2P), there is nothing stopping people from changing their char to anything. Runic did already disable console commands in multiplayer and do have a way to show that you are using a modded char, but since everything is client side, that will almost certainly be bypassed.
Basically, TL2 and D3 took the 2 halves of D2 game play and went full bore in opposite directions. TL2 has no secure server of any kind, whereas D3 is only that. Both gain some advantages from that but they also emphasize the disadvantages. TL2 will never have any large scale anything, there is 0 point to PvP or trading with anyone, or with ladder seasons. The game pretty much is for solo play, LAN play and for small groups of trusted people. Otherwise it is no differnt then D2 Open B.net aka a Hackfest Free for All. D3 will obviously not have offline play and LAN, but for the most part, people can reasonably (not perfect of course) trade and (when they get it patched in) PvP.
Umm those Heros are all late game carries or tanks, and are all very vulnerable to chain disables early on. Int are early game pushers/gankers and late game support/disablers. Ever tried fighting Rhasta + Lion? It's not fun, you chain disabled for 30 seconds (and dead nearly every time). Good teams recognize the carries and kill them to prevent them from getting powerful.
Umm... Even if the United States removed every last nuclear weapon they have, Iran and North Korea would still want nukes to protect themselves, because the United States possesses enough CONVENTIONAL firepower to level both countries.
What they REALLY need is an intelligent distributed proxy system at every call tower where hits are tallied by region/state/nation, in that order, & pre-distributed accordingly-- pushing it to every device is just fucking retarded.
Hmm a geographically distributed caches of content according to what is most heavily being requested. What do they called that again..... a CDN!!! *sigh*
I think the point the GP was making was that, yes the US military can instantly and overwhelmingly wipe out any civil resistance. However that is entirely dependent on said soldiers of the US military actually following those orders. If there was a civil insurrection, there is a real possibility that soldiers would simply refuse to open fire on civilians and also possible that they would simply join them. In that case you have a full scale civil war. All it would take would be one freedom loving pilot to go rambo with a Hornet bomber to take out DC.
I was always under the impression that the hobbits were not so easily corrupted by the ring, because their race had never wielded rings of power nor had any made for them, unlike the elves, dwarves and men. I guess the smoking also help, because it indicates a lifestyle that's about enjoying life, not accumulating power of some kind (power over nature, metal or other beings).
First you have to pay someone to divert from their usual tasks to do this, or given the volume, you would need to hire a brand new person to do the lookups, possible more. 2nd the manager or some person delegated by said manager would have to sign off on them, as well as have the legal dept. sign as well. Even if its a total rubber stamp, it will still take people's time, which equals money.
We already have the solution to overpopulation, it just will take the next 50 years. It's education mixed with birth control. Simple as that. For proof, look at the birth rates of most Western, developed nations (USA, Japan, Korea, Western Europe). Their birth rates are hovering at replacement rate, and Japan IIRC is below the replacement rate. Simply put, those countries populations are at the tipping edge between growing and shrinking and most are headed towards shrinking. The only question is whether it will be enough to compensate for growing energy appetite of growing middle classes worldwide.
Wouldn't this be asking for a DDoS? Couldn't one purposely put an app up that went about and blew every single one of these "eFuses", thus forcing a reset of the phone? Sounds like a easy path to take out phones and play some havoc. Not to mention if somehow an app accidentally tripped one too many of these. Hell I could see a scam going that nuked phones this way, then offered to "repair" them, for some extortionate fee.
Which promptly get crushed by the pressure at that depth, or instantly blasted off the top of the well due to the pressure the oil is coming out at. Is everyone now an armchair petroleum engineer? What a fucking waste......
Customers using the fastest connections of five-megabits per second, for example, will have a monthly allotment of 60 gigabytes, beyond which Bell will charge $1.12 per GB to a maximum of $22.50.
Haha.... this is a joke. In said example, a person would blow past that "allotment" just maxing their connection for a little over a day. To hit the money cap takes only another 20 gigs, so less the 10 hours at max speed. They should of just said "We get to legally jack up prices another $22.50/month on top of our monopolistic prices"
Umm most places already do give gigantic tax rebates, or straight up rebates on solar installations. Still too expensive for the average household. Not to mention I imagine most place would benefit from other upgrades before solar, such as better insulation, better windows, etc.
Yes that changed. AMD had integrated memory controller (HyperTransport), which gave them a huge memory bandwidth advantage over Intel. That ended with the i7, Intel moved memory controller on die as well. Intel has been beating up AMD offerings in both cores and raw speed ever since. Hence the first hexcore being an extreme edition, along the $1k price tag. Right now AMD is catching up on cores, but still behind on manufacturing tech, they still on 45nm, where Intel is already on 32nm. The new socket/board is no surprise, its all part of Intel's Tick/Tock strategy.
Because your talking top of the line, which applies to what?.01% of computers? Also those power supplies are only needed for people who want a dedicated GPU, along with probably overclocking headroom. Most off the shelf stuff that companies buy en masse, DOES use less power. The stock voltage for RAM and CPU's keeps falling, IIRC Core i5 can barely go over 1V before it fries the integrated memory controller. RAM voltage is down below 1.5V on DDR3. So yeah the majority of newer standard desktops use less power by default.
Actually in the case of Blizzard, all you gotta do is register your CD Key at Battle.net and then DL the installer. In effect you can make infinite DVD copies of the install disc, only costs you the bandwidth to DL it.
Yeah this was covered in a Star Trek Voyager episode (Year of Hell). Guy fucked his own race by removing an immunity to a disease by fucking with the timeline.
Agreed, this sounds like perfect expression of the Tyranny of the Majority. Thankfully they cannot organize into a political party, with all the problems that causes, ie Nazi Germany.
Oh and Godwin
The former was/is true, because Sergey Brin had issues with it since he lived in the former Soviet Union. I imagine he is a driving force behind Google's current actions.
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Gerrymandering. Democrats beat Republicans in popular votes overall, but that does not matter in winner take all systems.
During peak, to compensate for spikes in demand, they use natural gas (or is diesal), but those are expensive. For offpeak, I believe they sell it to be used elsewhere.
It is. Basically since it is fully moddable with no server of any kind really (the game runs P2P), there is nothing stopping people from changing their char to anything. Runic did already disable console commands in multiplayer and do have a way to show that you are using a modded char, but since everything is client side, that will almost certainly be bypassed. Basically, TL2 and D3 took the 2 halves of D2 game play and went full bore in opposite directions. TL2 has no secure server of any kind, whereas D3 is only that. Both gain some advantages from that but they also emphasize the disadvantages. TL2 will never have any large scale anything, there is 0 point to PvP or trading with anyone, or with ladder seasons. The game pretty much is for solo play, LAN play and for small groups of trusted people. Otherwise it is no differnt then D2 Open B.net aka a Hackfest Free for All. D3 will obviously not have offline play and LAN, but for the most part, people can reasonably (not perfect of course) trade and (when they get it patched in) PvP.
Umm those Heros are all late game carries or tanks, and are all very vulnerable to chain disables early on. Int are early game pushers/gankers and late game support/disablers. Ever tried fighting Rhasta + Lion? It's not fun, you chain disabled for 30 seconds (and dead nearly every time). Good teams recognize the carries and kill them to prevent them from getting powerful.
Umm... Even if the United States removed every last nuclear weapon they have, Iran and North Korea would still want nukes to protect themselves, because the United States possesses enough CONVENTIONAL firepower to level both countries.
Umm there was a Deep Space 9 episode that did exactly that, weaved a virus directly into replicated food.
What they REALLY need is an intelligent distributed proxy system at every call tower where hits are tallied by region/state/nation, in that order, & pre-distributed accordingly-- pushing it to every device is just fucking retarded.
Hmm a geographically distributed caches of content according to what is most heavily being requested. What do they called that again..... a CDN!!! *sigh*
Simple really, they had decades to do it, money was not a concern, and labor was worth less then even today (aka slaves, serfs, etc.)
Any sufficiently advanced RTS, like Starcraft?
I think the point the GP was making was that, yes the US military can instantly and overwhelmingly wipe out any civil resistance. However that is entirely dependent on said soldiers of the US military actually following those orders. If there was a civil insurrection, there is a real possibility that soldiers would simply refuse to open fire on civilians and also possible that they would simply join them. In that case you have a full scale civil war. All it would take would be one freedom loving pilot to go rambo with a Hornet bomber to take out DC.
I was always under the impression that the hobbits were not so easily corrupted by the ring, because their race had never wielded rings of power nor had any made for them, unlike the elves, dwarves and men. I guess the smoking also help, because it indicates a lifestyle that's about enjoying life, not accumulating power of some kind (power over nature, metal or other beings).
First you have to pay someone to divert from their usual tasks to do this, or given the volume, you would need to hire a brand new person to do the lookups, possible more. 2nd the manager or some person delegated by said manager would have to sign off on them, as well as have the legal dept. sign as well. Even if its a total rubber stamp, it will still take people's time, which equals money.
We already have the solution to overpopulation, it just will take the next 50 years. It's education mixed with birth control. Simple as that. For proof, look at the birth rates of most Western, developed nations (USA, Japan, Korea, Western Europe). Their birth rates are hovering at replacement rate, and Japan IIRC is below the replacement rate. Simply put, those countries populations are at the tipping edge between growing and shrinking and most are headed towards shrinking. The only question is whether it will be enough to compensate for growing energy appetite of growing middle classes worldwide.
Wouldn't this be asking for a DDoS? Couldn't one purposely put an app up that went about and blew every single one of these "eFuses", thus forcing a reset of the phone? Sounds like a easy path to take out phones and play some havoc. Not to mention if somehow an app accidentally tripped one too many of these. Hell I could see a scam going that nuked phones this way, then offered to "repair" them, for some extortionate fee.
So when I convince 51% of the people that it is illegal for you to live, you will comply?
Which promptly get crushed by the pressure at that depth, or instantly blasted off the top of the well due to the pressure the oil is coming out at. Is everyone now an armchair petroleum engineer? What a fucking waste......
Oh its easy, on my pathetic 1.5 Mb connection at home, I can do 150GB a month or more.
Haha.... this is a joke. In said example, a person would blow past that "allotment" just maxing their connection for a little over a day. To hit the money cap takes only another 20 gigs, so less the 10 hours at max speed. They should of just said "We get to legally jack up prices another $22.50/month on top of our monopolistic prices"
Umm most places already do give gigantic tax rebates, or straight up rebates on solar installations. Still too expensive for the average household. Not to mention I imagine most place would benefit from other upgrades before solar, such as better insulation, better windows, etc.
Yes that changed. AMD had integrated memory controller (HyperTransport), which gave them a huge memory bandwidth advantage over Intel. That ended with the i7, Intel moved memory controller on die as well. Intel has been beating up AMD offerings in both cores and raw speed ever since. Hence the first hexcore being an extreme edition, along the $1k price tag. Right now AMD is catching up on cores, but still behind on manufacturing tech, they still on 45nm, where Intel is already on 32nm. The new socket/board is no surprise, its all part of Intel's Tick/Tock strategy.
Because your talking top of the line, which applies to what? .01% of computers? Also those power supplies are only needed for people who want a dedicated GPU, along with probably overclocking headroom. Most off the shelf stuff that companies buy en masse, DOES use less power. The stock voltage for RAM and CPU's keeps falling, IIRC Core i5 can barely go over 1V before it fries the integrated memory controller. RAM voltage is down below 1.5V on DDR3. So yeah the majority of newer standard desktops use less power by default.
Actually in the case of Blizzard, all you gotta do is register your CD Key at Battle.net and then DL the installer. In effect you can make infinite DVD copies of the install disc, only costs you the bandwidth to DL it.
Yeah this was covered in a Star Trek Voyager episode (Year of Hell). Guy fucked his own race by removing an immunity to a disease by fucking with the timeline.
Agreed, this sounds like perfect expression of the Tyranny of the Majority. Thankfully they cannot organize into a political party, with all the problems that causes, ie Nazi Germany. Oh and Godwin
The former was/is true, because Sergey Brin had issues with it since he lived in the former Soviet Union. I imagine he is a driving force behind Google's current actions.