No, scientists do not get paid for the papers they write by the journals. Their reputation though is almost solely built upon their published work. Also, universities often give a bonus if a certain number of publications is written during a year. Same with government grants.
I am not sure what you are arguing. Are you for or against government control in those issues? It's that most of the problems you name were in part caused by companies and in part by lax government control.
That fishing example you gave. You seem to be saying that removing those quotas will somehow solve overfishing? And that trusting companies that only care about short term profits will work better? Or that letting fishermen who can barely make a living because there is too many of them handle this problem will work better than actual strict quotas?
For the amazon forest problem, short term lease is indeed a problem, but it's not all there is to it. How are you supposed to make money with a patch of forest covered land? Owners of those fields will see that the value goes up, you are right about that, by cutting down the forest and growing soy.
Let's add another, just for the sake of it. Do you think that the companies who created CFC cared about the ozone hole? They only started looking into new products because it would be more damaging for them to break the law by using more cfc rather than changing to something less damaging.
So, I hardly see how having absolute property rights actually help reduce pollution.
Newton's model had not been proved wrong. It has only been proved incomplete. You can still demonstrate all of newton's work starting from relativity. Simply take the proper simplification: low speed, outside observer, etc.
You know what? You can roleplay and get laid. Even better, do both at the same! Seriously. You know what is a bigger waste of time? Pretending on a message board that you've played RPGs.
As long as we're getting in the scientifically correct... Frequency does matter. If the frequency is too high, the dipole won't be able to follow and you'll see other phenomena pop up. That is, for instance, why water is blue. The frequency of the electrons around the dipole allow them to absorb a bit of red light. If you go even higher, it will stop interacting altogether. If you go too low, the energy transfer will be hindered.
In that respect, you are right that if it leaks in the reactor, it could melt and carry radioactive materials. Otherwise, it's not radioactive in itself.
I'd have to go with some strategy games.
World in conflict, Final Fantasy tactics (on psp) and the Dark Avatar expansion for Galactic civilizations 2 come to mind.
For your information, there already is a coop multiplayer:-P
Some freaks out there manage to finish the game and get high scores playing with one controller in each hand while the average player can't even finish the game without infinite credits...
Sweet... This game might finally get the recognition it deserves.
Right now, nobody knows it, except for a few Dreamcast and Gamecube owners.
On the other hand, I wonder if this is the kind of game that appeals to X-box players...
I don't know about Microsoft, but I remember reading that Sony and Nintendo don't allow A-O games on their consoles. But still, it raises the issue: the ESRB did its job and industry players will not play along.
It is still true though that target, best buy and some other stores refuse to carry A-O games.
I don't think the problem lies with the ESRB not being transparent.
The problem is that most retailers won't even sell A-O games. I don't know what changes rockstar made to get Manhunt to be M, but the point of the game is still the same. The ESRB was perfectly right to give it a A-O rating. It really is the big stores that prevented them to do their work properly this time around.
Seriously now, does Wal-Mart think that killing perverts in a game is more acceptable now that there is an M on the box instead of a A-O? If they do, they really have fucked up values.
On top of that, it's not like everybody else who was involved, either in the traumatic act or in support afterwards, will forget. See eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, for instance.
Just like if I were in France, I would expect a French speaking CSR...
That being said, they do outsource some of their call centers to countries like Senegal or côte d'ivoire. These people are native french speakers but they are taught to speak the with the accent from Paris so nobody could guess they're on another continent.
It really could be anything. It could be that, but it would be really surprising. It could be that its surrounded by dark matter. It could be that we underestimate the mass of its star. It could be that it's made of an exotic isotope, such as deuterium. It could be that our model is just wrong. Who know.
These so-called robots will probably end up being voted against in a new Geneva convention in the near future. Obviously, the USA will stand against and it will be stalemate.
I think it's highly risky to use. It's really prone to shooting by accident civilians, neutral people or even friendly units that are not wearing the proper transponder. I'm pretty sure it could even be fooled into firing on decoys, human or not. So, I don't know. For instance, poison gas weapons, such as the the mustard gas, were banned because it couldn't discriminate enemies, friends, foes or neutral and because it would cripple without killing. I think these are all problems that we will meet with these machines pretty fast.
In short, they won't stay around for very long. I hope so anyways.
Most likely, yes, it will be a clone. I don't know though... it is still bethesda. Even if they did make a WoW clone, I'm sure it would be of high enough quality that it would be fun nonetheless.
On the other hand, they might just surprise us.
Wait and see:-)
WoW is not going down anytime soon simply because it is so profitable. Even with "only" a million users, it's still 10 million $ in revenue per month! While I hope they are working on creating new intellectual property, I think we won't see anything come out while WoW still enjoys popularity.
And, I know Starcraft 2 has been announced, but it won't come out for a while and I don't believed it's aimed at quite the same crowd.
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No, scientists do not get paid for the papers they write by the journals. Their reputation though is almost solely built upon their published work. Also, universities often give a bonus if a certain number of publications is written during a year. Same with government grants.
I am not sure what you are arguing. Are you for or against government control in those issues? It's that most of the problems you name were in part caused by companies and in part by lax government control.
That fishing example you gave. You seem to be saying that removing those quotas will somehow solve overfishing? And that trusting companies that only care about short term profits will work better? Or that letting fishermen who can barely make a living because there is too many of them handle this problem will work better than actual strict quotas?
For the amazon forest problem, short term lease is indeed a problem, but it's not all there is to it. How are you supposed to make money with a patch of forest covered land? Owners of those fields will see that the value goes up, you are right about that, by cutting down the forest and growing soy.
Let's add another, just for the sake of it. Do you think that the companies who created CFC cared about the ozone hole? They only started looking into new products because it would be more damaging for them to break the law by using more cfc rather than changing to something less damaging.
So, I hardly see how having absolute property rights actually help reduce pollution.
"Most environmental problems can be traced back to state intervention and lack of property rights. Not all, but most." Care to give examples?
My point is this:
It is not any more right or wrong that modern theories. It simply is incomplete by the way we see things today.
I didn't say that relativity was a completion of Newton. I said that Newton's theory could be derived from relativity.
Newton's model had not been proved wrong. It has only been proved incomplete. You can still demonstrate all of newton's work starting from relativity. Simply take the proper simplification: low speed, outside observer, etc.
You know what? You can roleplay and get laid. Even better, do both at the same! Seriously. You know what is a bigger waste of time? Pretending on a message board that you've played RPGs.
Really?
You know, I'm apparently INTJ. I think it's a type fairly common here on slashdot.
[blockquote]as a guy of course I only get 3-4 messages on a good day :P [/blockquote]
Still pretty good. As a guy, I only get 3-4 messages on a good month.
As long as we're getting in the scientifically correct... Frequency does matter. If the frequency is too high, the dipole won't be able to follow and you'll see other phenomena pop up. That is, for instance, why water is blue. The frequency of the electrons around the dipole allow them to absorb a bit of red light. If you go even higher, it will stop interacting altogether. If you go too low, the energy transfer will be hindered.
In that respect, you are right that if it leaks in the reactor, it could melt and carry radioactive materials. Otherwise, it's not radioactive in itself.
The sodium wouldn't be radioactive. It's only a heat carrier.
I'd have to go with some strategy games. World in conflict, Final Fantasy tactics (on psp) and the Dark Avatar expansion for Galactic civilizations 2 come to mind.
I do not even see what the problem with playing top down is... Or not full screen. You are seeing issues where everybody else is happy :-P
For your information, there already is a coop multiplayer :-P
Some freaks out there manage to finish the game and get high scores playing with one controller in each hand while the average player can't even finish the game without infinite credits...
Sweet... This game might finally get the recognition it deserves. Right now, nobody knows it, except for a few Dreamcast and Gamecube owners. On the other hand, I wonder if this is the kind of game that appeals to X-box players...
Yes, you are right. I forgot about that.
I don't know about Microsoft, but I remember reading that Sony and Nintendo don't allow A-O games on their consoles. But still, it raises the issue: the ESRB did its job and industry players will not play along.
It is still true though that target, best buy and some other stores refuse to carry A-O games.
I don't think the problem lies with the ESRB not being transparent.
The problem is that most retailers won't even sell A-O games. I don't know what changes rockstar made to get Manhunt to be M, but the point of the game is still the same. The ESRB was perfectly right to give it a A-O rating. It really is the big stores that prevented them to do their work properly this time around.
Seriously now, does Wal-Mart think that killing perverts in a game is more acceptable now that there is an M on the box instead of a A-O? If they do, they really have fucked up values.
interesting...
Totally true.
On top of that, it's not like everybody else who was involved, either in the traumatic act or in support afterwards, will forget. See eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, for instance.
Just like if I were in France, I would expect a French speaking CSR... That being said, they do outsource some of their call centers to countries like Senegal or côte d'ivoire. These people are native french speakers but they are taught to speak the with the accent from Paris so nobody could guess they're on another continent.
Don't you guys have anything better to do?
seriously, now... arguing here on slashdot will not change anything, whether there is GW or not.
It really could be anything. It could be that, but it would be really surprising. It could be that its surrounded by dark matter. It could be that we underestimate the mass of its star. It could be that it's made of an exotic isotope, such as deuterium. It could be that our model is just wrong. Who know.
These so-called robots will probably end up being voted against in a new Geneva convention in the near future. Obviously, the USA will stand against and it will be stalemate.
I think it's highly risky to use. It's really prone to shooting by accident civilians, neutral people or even friendly units that are not wearing the proper transponder. I'm pretty sure it could even be fooled into firing on decoys, human or not. So, I don't know. For instance, poison gas weapons, such as the the mustard gas, were banned because it couldn't discriminate enemies, friends, foes or neutral and because it would cripple without killing. I think these are all problems that we will meet with these machines pretty fast.
In short, they won't stay around for very long. I hope so anyways.
Most likely, yes, it will be a clone. I don't know though... it is still bethesda. Even if they did make a WoW clone, I'm sure it would be of high enough quality that it would be fun nonetheless. On the other hand, they might just surprise us. Wait and see :-)
They just cracked the 9 million user mark!
WoW is not going down anytime soon simply because it is so profitable. Even with "only" a million users, it's still 10 million $ in revenue per month! While I hope they are working on creating new intellectual property, I think we won't see anything come out while WoW still enjoys popularity.
And, I know Starcraft 2 has been announced, but it won't come out for a while and I don't believed it's aimed at quite the same crowd.