It's far from clear to me that Europe has really thought through all the problems associated with a large amount of solar/wind power generation and the difficulties of building reliable power distribution systems dependant on renewables.
It seems they/we have, according to a documentary I saw on German TV a couple of weeks ago. That was about Norwegian water power plants. The idea was: use over-supply from solar energy to store water in large reservoirs in Norway. I'm no engineer, so can't comment much on the technical aspect. But the overall concept did sound good.
"guns dont kill people - people do" if not for firearms, people would use knives or swords, or bows & arrows, or sticks & stones,
Except that it's much easier to kill someone with a gun than to kill someone with a knife. Because the gun - as a remotely used weapon - disolves its user from the actual act of killing. Stabbing someone with a knife and feel the blade cutting through flesh and hitting the bones inside that body is way more scary and impressive than remotely pulling a trigger.
So, yes - guns do kill people, which otherwise might have only been hurt (with a knife)
Newsworthy, because this time they stream also the qualifier rounds live (again), whereas last tournament, they put those on YouTube the day later and only showed the final round live. Also newsworthy: (working) HD stream this time.
I'm glad to see this. I've been playing EVE lately, but I just can't get into it. [...] When you get a fresh WoW account you're off to the woods killing Kobolds or whatever right away, and maybe it is not totally challenging, but there's always something to do, somewhere to go, and pretty things to look at. But in EVE the first few *days* are mostly doing boring agent missions where you don't really even do anything (at least in WoW you have to click on the damned Kobold) except fly around and learn to use the maddeningly bad UI.
WoW caters to the "theme park players", whereas EVE is for the "sandbox players". You don't need to do a single mission ever in EVE, if you don't like it. EVE is what you make of it. And the more you're willing to put into the game the more you get out of it. And I'm not talking about time or money, but about thought. I can fully understand that people don't like that, but prefer to be "guided" by the game for their casual MMO evening. There's nothing bad/wrong about that.
I've never played WoW (or any other MMO besides EVE), but I personally don't like all the WoW bashing going on in EVE. Comparing these two games can't work, because they based and two completely different philosophies.
Talking about no-IQ zone... you do realize that running nuclear facilities isn't the main problem we face, but getting rid off the toxic waste? The world is running nuclear power plants for how long? 50 years? And we've yet to find a place on earth to store away the nuclear waste, which is supposed to be safe for next couple of 100,000 years. Today, there's not *one* *single* *place* in the whole damned world for that purpose.
Sure, I'm joking. And while I was at it, I made up Superbugs and Superweed as well. And let's not forget Monsanto'sactivities on that matter. A layman would think that if all's so good and well, a company like this wouldn't need all that lobbying and lawsuits.
I love how the anti-GE guys out there rail against the 'dangers' of foreign DNA being inserted into plants yet are blissfully unaware that species get foreign DNA all the time.
Yes. Perhaps with the little insicnificant difference that nature tests its "genetic engineering" thouroughly a couple of million years before releasing it to the public...
Eve is tiny, on any chart it rides the bottom. Oh, it gets a LOT of attention but that is in no relation to its financial success.
(Bias alert: EVE player here) It might "ride the bottom" of the chart (although this chart ('til 2008) seems to indicate otherwise). But there aren't many commercial MMOs out there that a) are around since 2003 and b) have a continuously rising subscriber base. A lot MMOs seem to have a subscription peak shortly after their release and from that point on the subscriber base slowly declines, finally hitting its floor of players who really like that MMO and keep on playing it.
Oh, and I'm the archetype of a carebear. What still keeps me playing EVE after all these years is not it's PvP part, but the sandbox and "one server" approach. That's something unique I still have to find somewhere else in a non-fantasy setting.
It depends at which kind of spam you're looking at. And in these days we should perhaps start to distinguish the different types.
If talking about the "classic spam" aka email spam, then yes, I agree with your observation.
However, (forum) comment spam in our case (Germany) stems mostly from IP address blocks allocated to Russia and former-USSR countries (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Latvia etc.) and China. I would guesstimate those two make up of 80% of the spam attempts. Very few comment spam attempts stem from IPs allocated to U.S. providers, so the U.S. is at least for us not "King of spam" there. The remaining 20% are equally shared between North America, Europium and African IP addresses. Of the top of my head, I can't remember comment spam from South America or Australia/New Zealand.
The difference is - as I see it - that the FileHippo is "just" a new version checker, whereas the PSI checks for software versions on your PC that have known vulnerabilities. You know, an older version isn't necessarily a security risk. The PSI is also a bit more verbose as to what and why it lists the updates. Also, FileHippo is "just" an ordinary download site (correct me, if I'm wrong), whereas Secunia is in the security business.
I'm not saying that FileHippo is bad. And I admit that using the verb "trust" wasn't perhaps the best choice (attribute that to the fact that English is not my native language). Let's say I find PSI more informative. The enterprise version (which I haven't tried yet), is supposed to let you handle 3rd party updates via WSUS.
Have you ever actually tried to download all the patches for a particular operating system (especially one that you are not running)? Microsoft doesn't make this easy to accomplish. [...] Go ahead and try to find all the patches for Windows Server 2003 x64 (just to pick a random version). I'll wait.
But than again I can't remember the last time that the BVerG (Bundesverfassungsgericht = Federal Consitutional Court) ruled a law straight as "unconstitutional" and demanded all records to be removed immediately. Most of the time it grants a grace period in which the parlament needs to come up with a revised version of the law. This isn't the case this time. The law was basically ruled as "null and void/has never existed". So they can't just "adjust" the current law to meet the court's requirements. They need to formulate and pass a complete new law.
To be honest, we weren't the first ones. The Constitutinal Courts of Romania and Bulgaria (not sure of the second country) already ruled the EU data retention law unconstitutional.
EVE Online is a MMO that is based on griefing and death, and has been growing year on year since launch and is now one of the biggest.
To add to that: The founders/first generation of devs of CCP (developers of EVE Onlinve) outed themselves as big UO fans/players. I haven't played UO myself, but others who played/play both games told me "it shows (that CCP likes UO)"
The poor could stop having that many children, now that we have drastically reduced childhood mortality through oodles of foreign aid. But they won't listen, they keep having more and more.
Typically, in poor countries children = money. Children earn more in their jobs than they "cost". That's the reason they won't stop getting children. More than one study shoed that the higher the per capita income the lower the number of children per wife.
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It seems they/we have, according to a documentary I saw on German TV a couple of weeks ago. That was about Norwegian water power plants. The idea was: use over-supply from solar energy to store water in large reservoirs in Norway. I'm no engineer, so can't comment much on the technical aspect. But the overall concept did sound good.
For the most part of our history, Prussians and Russians had a good, helpful relation.
Except that it's much easier to kill someone with a gun than to kill someone with a knife. Because the gun - as a remotely used weapon - disolves its user from the actual act of killing. Stabbing someone with a knife and feel the blade cutting through flesh and hitting the bones inside that body is way more scary and impressive than remotely pulling a trigger.
So, yes - guns do kill people, which otherwise might have only been hurt (with a knife)
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I doubt so. You would miss out all those beautiful neologisms.
Newsworthy, because this time they stream also the qualifier rounds live (again), whereas last tournament, they put those on YouTube the day later and only showed the final round live. Also newsworthy: (working) HD stream this time.
WoW caters to the "theme park players", whereas EVE is for the "sandbox players". You don't need to do a single mission ever in EVE, if you don't like it. EVE is what you make of it. And the more you're willing to put into the game the more you get out of it. And I'm not talking about time or money, but about thought. I can fully understand that people don't like that, but prefer to be "guided" by the game for their casual MMO evening. There's nothing bad/wrong about that.
I've never played WoW (or any other MMO besides EVE), but I personally don't like all the WoW bashing going on in EVE. Comparing these two games can't work, because they based and two completely different philosophies.
There were plenty of those in Win9x
Why even boot up to the login prompt? Press Shift+F5 = boot to plain DOS. cd windows, del *.sam, all users gone.
A PW protected screensaver? Hit CTRL+ALT+DEL, kill screensaver task and you're in.
Personal fines? Part of upper management contracts are clauses which regulate that the fines are paid by the companies.
Talking about no-IQ zone ... you do realize that running nuclear facilities isn't the main problem we face, but getting rid off the toxic waste? The world is running nuclear power plants for how long? 50 years? And we've yet to find a place on earth to store away the nuclear waste, which is supposed to be safe for next couple of 100,000 years. Today, there's not *one* *single* *place* in the whole damned world for that purpose.
Sure, I'm joking. And while I was at it, I made up Superbugs and Superweed as well. And let's not forget Monsanto's activities on that matter. A layman would think that if all's so good and well, a company like this wouldn't need all that lobbying and lawsuits.
Well, this pretty much looks like forums to me.
Yes. Perhaps with the little insicnificant difference that nature tests its "genetic engineering" thouroughly a couple of million years before releasing it to the public ...
Look at it that way: in 1999 it was probably a high (NN out of business, Firebird in beta, Opera was not free at that time). This time its a low.
(Bias alert: EVE player here) It might "ride the bottom" of the chart (although this chart ('til 2008) seems to indicate otherwise). But there aren't many commercial MMOs out there that a) are around since 2003 and b) have a continuously rising subscriber base. A lot MMOs seem to have a subscription peak shortly after their release and from that point on the subscriber base slowly declines, finally hitting its floor of players who really like that MMO and keep on playing it.
Oh, and I'm the archetype of a carebear. What still keeps me playing EVE after all these years is not it's PvP part, but the sandbox and "one server" approach. That's something unique I still have to find somewhere else in a non-fantasy setting.
It depends at which kind of spam you're looking at. And in these days we should perhaps start to distinguish the different types.
If talking about the "classic spam" aka email spam, then yes, I agree with your observation.
However, (forum) comment spam in our case (Germany) stems mostly from IP address blocks allocated to Russia and former-USSR countries (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Latvia etc.) and China. I would guesstimate those two make up of 80% of the spam attempts. Very few comment spam attempts stem from IPs allocated to U.S. providers, so the U.S. is at least for us not "King of spam" there. The remaining 20% are equally shared between North America, Europium and African IP addresses. Of the top of my head, I can't remember comment spam from South America or Australia/New Zealand.
The difference is - as I see it - that the FileHippo is "just" a new version checker, whereas the PSI checks for software versions on your PC that have known vulnerabilities. You know, an older version isn't necessarily a security risk. The PSI is also a bit more verbose as to what and why it lists the updates. Also, FileHippo is "just" an ordinary download site (correct me, if I'm wrong), whereas Secunia is in the security business.
I'm not saying that FileHippo is bad. And I admit that using the verb "trust" wasn't perhaps the best choice (attribute that to the fact that English is not my native language). Let's say I find PSI more informative. The enterprise version (which I haven't tried yet), is supposed to let you handle 3rd party updates via WSUS.
Thanks, but I prefer Secunia's PSI. When it comes to security (patches), I trust Secunia more than FileHippo
What the TFA doesn't make clear: the moral behaviour aka "soul" isn't influenced by the magnet. It's influenced by the magnet's soul ... ;)
How about WSUS?
From a today's article over at German IT news portal Heise. Revenue in 2009:
Overall estimated money spent on social gaming in 2009: $490 million. Estimates for 2010: $835 million.
Thanks to both ACs for correcting me and the explanation about the Bulgarian case.
But than again I can't remember the last time that the BVerG (Bundesverfassungsgericht = Federal Consitutional Court) ruled a law straight as "unconstitutional" and demanded all records to be removed immediately. Most of the time it grants a grace period in which the parlament needs to come up with a revised version of the law. This isn't the case this time. The law was basically ruled as "null and void/has never existed". So they can't just "adjust" the current law to meet the court's requirements. They need to formulate and pass a complete new law.
To be honest, we weren't the first ones. The Constitutinal Courts of Romania and Bulgaria (not sure of the second country) already ruled the EU data retention law unconstitutional.
To add to that: The founders/first generation of devs of CCP (developers of EVE Onlinve) outed themselves as big UO fans/players. I haven't played UO myself, but others who played/play both games told me "it shows (that CCP likes UO)"
Typically, in poor countries children = money. Children earn more in their jobs than they "cost". That's the reason they won't stop getting children. More than one study shoed that the higher the per capita income the lower the number of children per wife.