Not off the cuff no, there is a documentary on the subject which brings a lot of interesting info but it's very Moore-like, i.e. although factual, it's rather one sided.
Good question. Personally I'm in favor of neither but currently we don't have much of a choice.
I'd much rather we research cleaner energy sources such as making solar more efficient/less expensive, using waves/tides, using wind, using cow-farts or whatever. Regulation or heavily restricting the dirtier methods would force innovation and the discovery of cleaner methods.
I said that hydro-electric was cleaner than the other methods, not totally clean. I also said that other methods were looked into that might be cleaner still.
Learn how to read. Thanks.
I do however agree with you that there is no source of power which is 100% clean, but just because that's true it doesn't mean that we shouldn't care where the power comes from.
Currently, via electricity produced by hydroelectric dams. Yes, flooding large swatches of land is a bad thing, but it's cleaner energy than coal, shale gas or oil. My province (Quebec) is also currently working on adding cleaner sources such as wind and tides. Fracking was also proposed, but the outcry from the population put a break on that endeavor and the government decided to invest in cleaner forms of energy (energy companies here are owned by the government).
I'm not saying that the process doesn't work, I'm saying that whenever it's used it also contaminates the ground water. Even if you're careful, it's more than likely that you will contaminate the water so unless the odds improve, this tech should not be approved for use, even far from civilization as water is a more important resource than gas.
The U.S. Energy Department endorses this horrible process?!? All of the places where this technology was used has resulted in contaminating the neighboring population's water.
Oh wait, it also resulted in the harvesting of gas... well that trumps everything then.
People have been claiming this for quite a while. In fact, many Stop Smoking clinics shine lasers in people's ears which triggers something which removes the urge to smoke. Or so I hear, I have no clue whether or not this technique actually works.
From Al Qaeda's point of view, with a few box cutters, IED's and vintage assault riffles, they've managed to make the US waste tons of money and the US people lose the very rights that they are "fighting for" in the Middle East. So yeah, I wouldn't call that a waste of time.
... this should be done everywhere, not just drought stricken Texas. Water is a precious commodity that needs to be preserved, if we can recycle waste water and reduce the amount taken directly in nature with no adverse effects to us, go for it.
Not only can't you film police officers on duty in order to protect your rights and amass proof of misconduct (if present or needed), but now you can't make fun of police officers either?
I saw a bunch of webcomics making fun of the awkwardness of geeks, the Slashdot readership should band together for a class action.
I'm meeting with the kids at my old high school in November to talk to them about software development and IT. Being able to show them some code behind a fairly recent video game will give them a good idea of what they're getting into. All the kids want to "do video games" in some way or another, but none really know what that means.
Speaking of which, anybody have example test cases and/or design docs for a video game? I want to show parts of the entire process.
To add to Mirror's Edge's problems, you couldn't actually configure all of the keyboard as you wanted. I play with the numpad (old habits die hard) and Mirror's Edge won't let me configure half of those buttons, numlock on OR off.
Lego Indiana Jones. I own and love the Star Wards versions, but for some reason this game forces you to play with an Xbox 360 controller. I have a Gravis controller with the same amount of buttons as a 360 but the game doesn't recognize it as an Xbox 360 controller. The workaround is to download an application which you need to keep running in the background that will overload your controller inputs and fake the 360 controller. This was developed by a random user wanting to be able to play the game, not the company having made the game.
I doubt that they would just flat out lie, it's not really their style I think. Your number 2 scenario however does make quite a bit of sense and I wouldn't be surprised if that's what they ended up doing.
On the list of exclusives there's Metroid Fusion, that's a pretty decent game that would have done well on Virtual Console I should think. It's a bit odd that they won't ever make it available to non-early adopters.
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Not off the cuff no, there is a documentary on the subject which brings a lot of interesting info but it's very Moore-like, i.e. although factual, it's rather one sided.
The fracking process causes the gas to end up in the water in dangerous levels. On the plus side however, the water was found to be free of fracturing fluids.
Good question. Personally I'm in favor of neither but currently we don't have much of a choice.
I'd much rather we research cleaner energy sources such as making solar more efficient/less expensive, using waves/tides, using wind, using cow-farts or whatever. Regulation or heavily restricting the dirtier methods would force innovation and the discovery of cleaner methods.
I said that hydro-electric was cleaner than the other methods, not totally clean. I also said that other methods were looked into that might be cleaner still.
Learn how to read. Thanks.
I do however agree with you that there is no source of power which is 100% clean, but just because that's true it doesn't mean that we shouldn't care where the power comes from.
Currently, via electricity produced by hydroelectric dams. Yes, flooding large swatches of land is a bad thing, but it's cleaner energy than coal, shale gas or oil. My province (Quebec) is also currently working on adding cleaner sources such as wind and tides. Fracking was also proposed, but the outcry from the population put a break on that endeavor and the government decided to invest in cleaner forms of energy (energy companies here are owned by the government).
I agree that better methods are needed and that current methods aren't great, but fracking has been proven to be a problem and the benefits definitely do not outweigh the cost. This documentary provides quite a bit of info on the subject.
I'm not saying that the process doesn't work, I'm saying that whenever it's used it also contaminates the ground water. Even if you're careful, it's more than likely that you will contaminate the water so unless the odds improve, this tech should not be approved for use, even far from civilization as water is a more important resource than gas.
The U.S. Energy Department endorses this horrible process?!? All of the places where this technology was used has resulted in contaminating the neighboring population's water.
Oh wait, it also resulted in the harvesting of gas... well that trumps everything then.
You do realize that games are segregated to their own section, so you can just choose to ignore them... right?
People have been claiming this for quite a while. In fact, many Stop Smoking clinics shine lasers in people's ears which triggers something which removes the urge to smoke. Or so I hear, I have no clue whether or not this technique actually works.
I'm sorry, but Al Qaeda's actions were not a waste of time.
Don't believe me?
How much has the US spent on the wars in the Middle East so far? Yeah... most of that money could have been spent on healthcare, education or boosting the economy (admittedly, the war spending does keep some people employed).
From Al Qaeda's point of view, with a few box cutters, IED's and vintage assault riffles, they've managed to make the US waste tons of money and the US people lose the very rights that they are "fighting for" in the Middle East. So yeah, I wouldn't call that a waste of time.
... this should be done everywhere, not just drought stricken Texas. Water is a precious commodity that needs to be preserved, if we can recycle waste water and reduce the amount taken directly in nature with no adverse effects to us, go for it.
Power corrupts.
It's not as bad as you make it sound, I'm pretty sure there was finger pointing and the culprits had to "promise not to do it again" as well.
Not only can't you film police officers on duty in order to protect your rights and amass proof of misconduct (if present or needed), but now you can't make fun of police officers either?
I saw a bunch of webcomics making fun of the awkwardness of geeks, the Slashdot readership should band together for a class action.
A pro-Microsoft, anti-Google article on a website called winsupersite.com (Super Site for Windows), yeah... no bias there.
I'm meeting with the kids at my old high school in November to talk to them about software development and IT. Being able to show them some code behind a fairly recent video game will give them a good idea of what they're getting into. All the kids want to "do video games" in some way or another, but none really know what that means.
Speaking of which, anybody have example test cases and/or design docs for a video game? I want to show parts of the entire process.
Careful, the movement of hitting someone over the head with a hammer might be patented.
To add to Mirror's Edge's problems, you couldn't actually configure all of the keyboard as you wanted. I play with the numpad (old habits die hard) and Mirror's Edge won't let me configure half of those buttons, numlock on OR off.
Lego Indiana Jones. I own and love the Star Wards versions, but for some reason this game forces you to play with an Xbox 360 controller. I have a Gravis controller with the same amount of buttons as a 360 but the game doesn't recognize it as an Xbox 360 controller. The workaround is to download an application which you need to keep running in the background that will overload your controller inputs and fake the 360 controller. This was developed by a random user wanting to be able to play the game, not the company having made the game.
I doubt that they would just flat out lie, it's not really their style I think. Your number 2 scenario however does make quite a bit of sense and I wouldn't be surprised if that's what they ended up doing.
On the list of exclusives there's Metroid Fusion, that's a pretty decent game that would have done well on Virtual Console I should think. It's a bit odd that they won't ever make it available to non-early adopters.
President Thomas Whitmore: I don't understand, where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like this?
Julius Levinson: You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you?
They have the personal details (health records, bank info, addresses, etc.) of millions of people and they just now decided to encrypt the data? WTF?
Totally agree with you, however we both know what's really going to happen.
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