Come tho think of it, I would rather watch super soldier becoming human than PI and his love doll escaping the clutches justice yet again. The first could actually be an interesting take on ethics and machines/robots in warfare.
To a certain extent it is about machines (replicants) becoming human. At least that is the underlying dilemma packaged into a rather classic fime noir. Why not take the approach from the other angle. The same core question embedded into a rather action oriented movie. It's just an idea, ya know...
I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... [laughs] Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like [coughs] tears... in... rain. Time... to die...*
THAT could be made into an action movie. It would not tarnish the original movie and match quite well into a standard blockbuster format. This movie can use the blade runner name and still stand on it's own. Unfortunately, Hollywood being Hollywood... not much hope there.
True that you can find good beer in the US. I was referring to the average and unfortunately there is way to much Bud drunken in the US.
Beer is regional and seasonal in Germany. So generally at any given time and place you will basically and unfortunately find only 2 beer sorts to chose from. (Radler is just beer and soda, so not a beer type per se.) But if you drive from Hamburg to Munich over the course of one year you will see at least 15 different ways beer is brewed.
The main problem is also that they are very traditional, in that they will not brew other then their traditional kinds. What does not mean that they can't. For example my favorite Irish Pub brews it's stout and ale at the beer house down the street. It is a shame that little experimenting is going on.
True that. But now you change the problem "just" implementing game specific logic to implementing game specific logic AND palatalization and network serialization. No matter how you turn it, making something run in or rather with "the cloud" will mean more development effort. Oh yea... don't forget to implement soft fail over when the internet goes down.
Except that 80% of German beer that is drunk it good or better beer and 80% of american beer that is drunk is mediocre or worse. You can find very bad beer in Germany and great beer in the US. The big difference in Germany is that most beer that is sold in bars is from the one of the local breweries, which on average is 3 per town (from 1000 pop.). In many cases you have larger beer houses that brew and sell their own beer. On average you get better beer in Germany than the US.
Actually it is not a "law" as such. There is not law book that contains this law. It used to be a law in some places and guilds in the middle ages. But currently it is a well observed as a principle. The idea is to use the cleanest water possible. What is bad about trying to put the best ingredients into your product.
With regard to noise, a lot of that insulation also dampens road noise - which is not going to be any lower, until you switch to antigravity. So you probably still need a lot of that foam and rubber.
EV cars are so quiet that in few jurisdictions, e.g. the EU, you need artificial noise. This is all meant as a security precaution, if you hear it, you see it. Sure, at higher speeds that may be true that the noise overpowers the engine noise, but honestly, i doubt that. Since the noise is a function of speed, I can say that for all my experiences, the engine noise is the dominant sound and I can attest that for a large number of cars from speeds 0-200 km/h (124 mph). (German Autobahn for the win...)
You fail as a teacher. The GP's post does not have to be factually wrong. If you magically remove all fauna, including "animal" bacteria, all flora outside of the USA and all oceans. You would see the CO2 levels dropping rapidly. The amount CO2 that plants "eat up" is huge, that is a fact. (I don't know about that 25% though.) The problem is that pesky fauna that oxidizes complex carbon molecules. So as for the equilibrium, reforestation is one of the options available. Though the USA is in a better shape than, for example Europe. Europe lost large a amount of vegetation in the last 300 years.
As a teacher your goal is not to spread more disinformation, but to move localized facts into the larger context. Trees take up large amounts of CO2, but unfortunately there are also many animals, including use humans that breath oxygen. This system is or rather was, mostly in equilibrium. This is before we start burning fossil fuels, which is carbon that came from the atmosphere million years ago.
Why can't a psychologist get a doctorate in psychology? The layman definition of doctor as "A qualified practitioner of medicine; a physician." always bugged me. So there can be a Dr. Doe, who is a practicing psychologist.
As an engineer and laymen in climatology, I remain skeptical of the entire act. It is not that I do not think that man made C02 emissions can and will change the climate. The problem is that in many cases they it is very boldly stated, like the entire 395 ppm ordeal. The problem that I have with most climate science, is that not one single model was able to predict the near term, how am I to belie that they are able to predict long term with any reasonable certainty. It is and remains a complex problem. The meteorologists had about a century of daily feedback to refine their models and even they don't think that they can predict the weather for more then three days. Climatologists are wobbling all over the place only now are we starting to see feedback to the predictions. I think that it will take some time (a few decades) until Climatologists will start to get reliable results. Unfortunately this may actually already be to late to hold the status quo.
The other problem I often have with the entire rhetoric and this time it comes from policy makers, is that they always talk about emissions. Never about the loss of CO2 sinks. The planet lost large amounts of forested land over the last few hundred years. Yes, CO2 fosters plant growth, to bad there are not so many around. If nothing is done about the CO2 sinks, even at pre industrial revolution emissions the CO2 levels will go up.
It really depends on where you live. My father who lives in, or rather around Austin TX has at least 20 min to drive to the nearest supermarket. Granted the simplest way to save CO2 and time is to do the shopping on the way back from work.
Really? A grocery deliver has less carbon emission than me using public transportation (tram) on my way back form work?
Yea yea I know... Most of Mureca has little in the way of public transportation, which would not be feasible anyway. (I grew up partially in Autin TX.) But still, swapping gas guzzling single cars with one gas guzzling tuck. How about each individual reduced their emissions by getting more efficient cars (electic car + wind/solar/hydro?) and making minor detour from trips you do anyway.
But the point is irrelevant. You are already not allowed to publicly watch pron in the coffee shop. What goes over the connection is thus irrelevant and imposing legislation and fines are just waste of taxpayers money.
Yea but the implementation is stupid. We are talking about a public WiFi, where people connect using their own hardware, that will connect to the internet using other means. So if parents really are so scared about it, just install a filtering software on the device. End of story. If they are really so scared, why are they going after the ISPs and not mandating optional filters implemented by device vendors? I get the cause, but what they utter misses point and just shows that they don't understand technology.
Fun fact: In France there is no such thing as a search warrant. The Police can search you if the have reasonable suspicion. (You still have legal recourse against unreasonable searches.) But because of television and movies, that regularly show US shows and movies they demand a search warrant and trow a tantrum about it, until they contact a lawyer, that will explain that it is OK.
Yes they can, but only "reasonable" prices. But 0.20 EUR per Minute is considered reasonable. Oh and not while you are in the queue. So yea a support center can pay for itself.
That is what you call continuous integration and test first. But what else should they have done, there is so much you can do on paper. Only in the last two decades are we in the position where we can reliably "test" without ever building something physical and even there only on a limited scope. But even there, the effort put into building a digital model is similar in effort than a physical one. The only part you save are the actual resources and maybe an explosion or two.
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Honestly the worst I found where the uniforms. What was up with THAT?! Did someone want to make a sequel to Starship Troopers?
Come tho think of it, I would rather watch super soldier becoming human than PI and his love doll escaping the clutches justice yet again. The first could actually be an interesting take on ethics and machines/robots in warfare.
To a certain extent it is about machines (replicants) becoming human. At least that is the underlying dilemma packaged into a rather classic fime noir. Why not take the approach from the other angle. The same core question embedded into a rather action oriented movie. It's just an idea, ya know...
I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... [laughs] Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like [coughs] tears... in... rain. Time... to die...*
THAT could be made into an action movie. It would not tarnish the original movie and match quite well into a standard blockbuster format. This movie can use the blade runner name and still stand on it's own. Unfortunately, Hollywood being Hollywood... not much hope there.
Since when is grapefruit considered OK in the Reinheitsgebot?!
True that you can find good beer in the US. I was referring to the average and unfortunately there is way to much Bud drunken in the US.
Beer is regional and seasonal in Germany. So generally at any given time and place you will basically and unfortunately find only 2 beer sorts to chose from. (Radler is just beer and soda, so not a beer type per se.) But if you drive from Hamburg to Munich over the course of one year you will see at least 15 different ways beer is brewed.
The main problem is also that they are very traditional, in that they will not brew other then their traditional kinds. What does not mean that they can't. For example my favorite Irish Pub brews it's stout and ale at the beer house down the street. It is a shame that little experimenting is going on.
True that. But now you change the problem "just" implementing game specific logic to implementing game specific logic AND palatalization and network serialization. No matter how you turn it, making something run in or rather with "the cloud" will mean more development effort. Oh yea... don't forget to implement soft fail over when the internet goes down.
Except that 80% of German beer that is drunk it good or better beer and 80% of american beer that is drunk is mediocre or worse. You can find very bad beer in Germany and great beer in the US. The big difference in Germany is that most beer that is sold in bars is from the one of the local breweries, which on average is 3 per town (from 1000 pop.). In many cases you have larger beer houses that brew and sell their own beer. On average you get better beer in Germany than the US.
- from a USA/German national
Actually it is not a "law" as such. There is not law book that contains this law. It used to be a law in some places and guilds in the middle ages. But currently it is a well observed as a principle. The idea is to use the cleanest water possible. What is bad about trying to put the best ingredients into your product.
With regard to noise, a lot of that insulation also dampens road noise - which is not going to be any lower, until you switch to antigravity. So you probably still need a lot of that foam and rubber.
EV cars are so quiet that in few jurisdictions, e.g. the EU, you need artificial noise. This is all meant as a security precaution, if you hear it, you see it. Sure, at higher speeds that may be true that the noise overpowers the engine noise, but honestly, i doubt that. Since the noise is a function of speed, I can say that for all my experiences, the engine noise is the dominant sound and I can attest that for a large number of cars from speeds 0-200 km/h (124 mph). (German Autobahn for the win...)
This is what you normally call marketing. So far the cars are not so long in the field to really know.
You fail as a teacher. The GP's post does not have to be factually wrong. If you magically remove all fauna, including "animal" bacteria, all flora outside of the USA and all oceans. You would see the CO2 levels dropping rapidly. The amount CO2 that plants "eat up" is huge, that is a fact. (I don't know about that 25% though.) The problem is that pesky fauna that oxidizes complex carbon molecules. So as for the equilibrium, reforestation is one of the options available. Though the USA is in a better shape than, for example Europe. Europe lost large a amount of vegetation in the last 300 years.
As a teacher your goal is not to spread more disinformation, but to move localized facts into the larger context. Trees take up large amounts of CO2, but unfortunately there are also many animals, including use humans that breath oxygen. This system is or rather was, mostly in equilibrium. This is before we start burning fossil fuels, which is carbon that came from the atmosphere million years ago.
Why can't a psychologist get a doctorate in psychology? The layman definition of doctor as "A qualified practitioner of medicine; a physician." always bugged me. So there can be a Dr. Doe, who is a practicing psychologist.
As an engineer and laymen in climatology, I remain skeptical of the entire act. It is not that I do not think that man made C02 emissions can and will change the climate. The problem is that in many cases they it is very boldly stated, like the entire 395 ppm ordeal. The problem that I have with most climate science, is that not one single model was able to predict the near term, how am I to belie that they are able to predict long term with any reasonable certainty. It is and remains a complex problem. The meteorologists had about a century of daily feedback to refine their models and even they don't think that they can predict the weather for more then three days. Climatologists are wobbling all over the place only now are we starting to see feedback to the predictions. I think that it will take some time (a few decades) until Climatologists will start to get reliable results. Unfortunately this may actually already be to late to hold the status quo.
The other problem I often have with the entire rhetoric and this time it comes from policy makers, is that they always talk about emissions. Never about the loss of CO2 sinks. The planet lost large amounts of forested land over the last few hundred years. Yes, CO2 fosters plant growth, to bad there are not so many around. If nothing is done about the CO2 sinks, even at pre industrial revolution emissions the CO2 levels will go up.
It really depends on where you live. My father who lives in, or rather around Austin TX has at least 20 min to drive to the nearest supermarket. Granted the simplest way to save CO2 and time is to do the shopping on the way back from work.
Really? A grocery deliver has less carbon emission than me using public transportation (tram) on my way back form work?
Yea yea I know... Most of Mureca has little in the way of public transportation, which would not be feasible anyway. (I grew up partially in Autin TX.) But still, swapping gas guzzling single cars with one gas guzzling tuck. How about each individual reduced their emissions by getting more efficient cars (electic car + wind/solar/hydro?) and making minor detour from trips you do anyway.
What do you think Game Dev Tycoon is about? Railroads?
Two links from the summary: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2013/04/dont-write-this-letter-to-the-patent-office.html
It contains the letter and an excerpt of the patent application. This is a case of the USPTO doing it's job.
But the point is irrelevant. You are already not allowed to publicly watch pron in the coffee shop. What goes over the connection is thus irrelevant and imposing legislation and fines are just waste of taxpayers money.
Yea but did you see the amount of storage you can get into those phones? If you rally want to watch porn in starbucks, bring it with your...
Yea but the implementation is stupid. We are talking about a public WiFi, where people connect using their own hardware, that will connect to the internet using other means. So if parents really are so scared about it, just install a filtering software on the device. End of story. If they are really so scared, why are they going after the ISPs and not mandating optional filters implemented by device vendors? I get the cause, but what they utter misses point and just shows that they don't understand technology.
Fun fact: In France there is no such thing as a search warrant. The Police can search you if the have reasonable suspicion. (You still have legal recourse against unreasonable searches.) But because of television and movies, that regularly show US shows and movies they demand a search warrant and trow a tantrum about it, until they contact a lawyer, that will explain that it is OK.
bash == Linux ... you know command line and stuff...
For real, I use Cygwin on Windows7 since it beats any tool specifically built for Win.
Yes they can, but only "reasonable" prices. But 0.20 EUR per Minute is considered reasonable. Oh and not while you are in the queue. So yea a support center can pay for itself.
That is what you call continuous integration and test first. But what else should they have done, there is so much you can do on paper. Only in the last two decades are we in the position where we can reliably "test" without ever building something physical and even there only on a limited scope. But even there, the effort put into building a digital model is similar in effort than a physical one. The only part you save are the actual resources and maybe an explosion or two.