Generally the more efficient something becomes, the more people use it, and often end up using more than they would have had it not become more efficient. Something like that anyway.
Strictly speaking I mean neither. The offline community regularly traded items and had various 'events' where people used their own characters in their own single player games. People very much cared if you cheated, and most new players were treated with caution until they'd 'done their time' and people believed them to be trustworthy. I have no doubt that people did sometimes cheat (they were occasionally caught out), but on the whole it was a trustworthy environment.
The funny thing is that most people I know who played offline did so to get away from the cheaters. Even though it was exponentially easier to cheat offline, there was a moral agreement not to do so, and there was quite a community that grew up around offline social play.
I don't suppose you frequent the spf? I haven't visited there for years, but I went by the same username.
The graph I was referring to was about the absorption spectrum of different molecules and the spectrum of sunlight. That's all quite well established.
I confess I haven't read the entire page, I just skimmed Google for the spectrum data. My only position on global warming is "woosh" - as in it's all much more complicated than I can understand.
Energy from sun is not in the infrared so CO2 has no effect. However energy radiated from the Earth is in the infrared, so it interacts with CO2. As a consequence, some of it is radiated out to space, but some of it is radiated back to earth, when previously all of it would have radiated out to space.
That's how I understand it from school physics anyway.
I often wonder how much progress has been lost because obviously smart people, such as yourself, devote their lives to justifying their religious beliefs.
I had maths lecturers at University who spent most of his research careers working out convoluted mathematical explanations for biblical teachings. It seemed like a waste.
WRT your last paragraph you should have a look at the book "Dawn of Sex". It's not really about sex, it's about how the situation you described is the 'natural' state of human societies. It's not amazingly well written, but it discusses some interesting subjects.
Similarly I played Diablo 2 without purchasing it for a couple of years. Subsequently I paid for my own WoW subscription for 4 years, and that of my girlfriend's for 3. That's got to be the best return on 'investment' ever.
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Sounds sensible to me. My 3rd party car insurance was $125 this year.
I still have mine after 15+ years.
Stories like this explain why people don't trust doctors when they say vaccines don't cause Autism.
You should be able to trust your doctor shouldn't you? :(
If that's how much home, badly serviced connections cost, guess how much work connections with uptime guarantees cost.
I have 10 times as much allowance at home as I do at work, and the work connection is shared between 10 people.
A few months ago someone accidentally downloaded 2 Gb of podcasts. It cost us $100.
Done 3 weeks ago!
http://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/jej4o/im_officially_downloading_copyrighted_material_on/
True, but "making a cup of your favourite hot beverage" is pretty bad for the power network.
*Attempt to link article about kettles causing power spikes at the end of coronation street failed due to Slashdot Lameness Filter*
Understandable - Coronation Street is pretty lame.
The electric bill each month confirms that I'm just not using as much as I once did
That could well be true in your particular case. However it's not typical:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)
Generally the more efficient something becomes, the more people use it, and often end up using more than they would have had it not become more efficient. Something like that anyway.
Yes he is, and that's quite a different assumption from assuming that once all the whales die we won't be able to light our homes.
One is an engineering problem, the other a physical limitation.
People are very good at overcoming engineering problems. Overcoming physical limitations not so much. (Unfortunately).
Oxygen?
Strictly speaking I mean neither. The offline community regularly traded items and had various 'events' where people used their own characters in their own single player games. People very much cared if you cheated, and most new players were treated with caution until they'd 'done their time' and people believed them to be trustworthy. I have no doubt that people did sometimes cheat (they were occasionally caught out), but on the whole it was a trustworthy environment.
The funny thing is that most people I know who played offline did so to get away from the cheaters. Even though it was exponentially easier to cheat offline, there was a moral agreement not to do so, and there was quite a community that grew up around offline social play.
I don't suppose you frequent the spf? I haven't visited there for years, but I went by the same username.
What's the male/female split of posters on Twitter?
If 65.7% of users are male I can guess what gender a poster is and I'll get it right 65.7% of the time.
The graph I was referring to was about the absorption spectrum of different molecules and the spectrum of sunlight. That's all quite well established.
I confess I haven't read the entire page, I just skimmed Google for the spectrum data. My only position on global warming is "woosh" - as in it's all much more complicated than I can understand.
OK I read into this a bit more. What I said was correct in concept, however I got the spectrums a bit wrong.
So substitute 'the lower end of the infrared spectrum' for the first infrared and 'the higher end of the infrared spectrum' for the second infrared.
The second to bottom graph on this page explains it graphically. http://sanjeev.sabhlokcity.com/co2/
Energy from sun is not in the infrared so CO2 has no effect. However energy radiated from the Earth is in the infrared, so it interacts with CO2. As a consequence, some of it is radiated out to space, but some of it is radiated back to earth, when previously all of it would have radiated out to space.
That's how I understand it from school physics anyway.
I often wonder how much progress has been lost because obviously smart people, such as yourself, devote their lives to justifying their religious beliefs.
I had maths lecturers at University who spent most of his research careers working out convoluted mathematical explanations for biblical teachings. It seemed like a waste.
WRT your last paragraph you should have a look at the book "Dawn of Sex". It's not really about sex, it's about how the situation you described is the 'natural' state of human societies. It's not amazingly well written, but it discusses some interesting subjects.
Similarly I played Diablo 2 without purchasing it for a couple of years. Subsequently I paid for my own WoW subscription for 4 years, and that of my girlfriend's for 3. That's got to be the best return on 'investment' ever.
Every time I see this I'm amazed that you have to pay to receive text messages in the US.
Do you have to also pay when you send them?
Does it? I thought it was an axiom. It's not proven, it's just assumed, and general relativity is built on that assumption.
Oops! I should have said "No, but if they discover a way to tell the difference with an accelerometer"
Referring of course to gravitational mass and inertial mass
The accelerometer has no way of telling the difference between gravitational pull and normal movement
No, but if they discover a way to tell the difference... Now that would be something deserving of a patent.
This is why I love Slashdot. I read the summary and think "20 years is 2 decades, you fools", then the first post says exactly that.
What I hate is how movies appear and disappear and the movies I really want to watch are nearly impossible to find online.
Of course there's always other options... It's always nice when the illegal option is both cheaper, more convenient and a better product.
I like comments like this when most of the world hasn't even got Netflix yet :D
You Americans aren't so behind the times as you sometimes claim!