I once accidentally burned my finger with one of those "Jumpin Jacks" fireworks. (you can get them to hover in the air if you throw them at the right moment)
Anyway, the burn smelled like bacon... somewhat disturbing, and yet, it made me a little hungry.
The point that clarkkent09 was making is that if it is relatively easy fro ubisoft to patch the game to allow offline play, it means that the DRM is not heavily woven into the underlying code of the game. In other words, it would be relatively easy to hack it such that the DRM is disabled.
My car has a GPS system that uses accelerometers to estimate my location/heading when it doesn't have a clear view of the sky, such as in a parking ramp. But in my experience, if you spend too much time out of sight of the GPS satellites, it gets really confused, and thinks that you are a few blocks away from your actual location (even after going back out into the open) It has always corrected itself eventually, but sometimes it takes 15-20 minutes to give up on where it though I was and just use the GPS coordinates.
This isn't a banking system... it's a car. Toyota isn't going to go out of their way to hide the logging data. The method of reading it just isn't disclosed. That's all.
You keep an off switch for any situation when you want the car to be off RIGHT NOW, not three seconds from now. Immediately. Maybe the engine is on fire, maybe someone was [stupidly] working on the engine while it was running and got their sleeve stuck in a belt, maybe the brakes failed at the same time as your accelerator stuck. Whatever the reason, you should be able to kill the engine in a moment if needed.
Besides, it rather annoys me when my control is artificially limited. For example, in my car, if you switch the heat to to the defrost setting, the outside air setting is also engaged. I know the reason for this is that the inside air tends to become humid, and thus does not work as well at clearing the windshield... but there IS a solution to that... turn on the AC. Somewhat counterproductive in the winter, i'll give you that, but at least I wouldn't have to breath the black smoking exhaust from the poorly maintained vehicle that I am stuck following. If they would just let me engage recirculate while defrosting i would be happy, but the electronics prevent that.
It doesn't matter what political experience you have. That doesn't let you dictate the meaning of "term limit". Elections are NOT term limits.
While it is true that a constituency can prevent a politician from winning another term in office by voting for an incumbent, that has nothing to do with term limits. A term limit prevents the politician from seeking another term in the first place. This is something you should have learned in 7th grade, if not earlier.
I suspect Descartes fear had more to do with the possibility of ending up on a burning stake... roman inquisition and all that... but I could be wrong.
It is rather natural for a human to assume a greater being is guiding the world, since we are wired to look for relationships in the world around us, and tend to find them even when there are none. But if God as a first premise is reasonable, then ANYTHING as a first premise is reasonable... tiny magical gnomes, tooth fairy, flying spaghetti monsters, etc
however, the real reason that Descartes included God, was that he was living smack dab in the middle of the roman inquisition. Had he made any suggestion that god didn't exist, he could quite reasonably assume that he would be killed or imprisoned as a heretic.
But if I cease to exist, that imperative disappears. In the event of a catastrophe, where all but a handful of humanity is destroyed (myself included in those who perish), where is the imperative for me to ensure survival of strangers
Because you would hope that strangers would help to ensure your own survival, were you to be one of the lucky (unlucky?) survivors. I suspect it is just an aspect of being a social animal. Even if you cannot save yourself, or your offspring, there is still an innate drive to protect your clan/tribe/etc.
It doesn't matter if you have a contact for fuel at x rate for a year, when the going rate for that fuel is four times the original amount at the end of the contract. The last oil bubble came close to killing the airline industry. If it had persisted for another six months, many major airlines would have gone bankrupt. This is coming from someone that works for a major airline.
I remember a memo that stated that each penny increase in the cost of jet fuel cost the company something like 14 million dollars per year. At the peak that would have been a difference in fuel cost of around 107 BILLION dollars per year. And that is just for my company.
If there is another rapid increase in fuel costs, many industries will just plain fail. 6 months to a year of contract pricing will not help much at all. Those companies will just fail a little later than their competitors.
The numbers he cites cannot be used to make his conclusion: "that climate change will not cause massive disruptions or huge death tolls. " While a higher temp might be good for Europe, (for the sake of argument, lets assume it is) you can't make the leap that it will be fine for the population of the planet as a whole. Just guessing now, but it might make monsoons much more severe for east Asia, more than offsetting the reduction in cold related deaths in Europe.
While that may or may not be true, what one can say is that more research is needed before one can come to any sort of conclusion.
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Are you sure that honor would not go to politicians? Most of them start as lawyers...
I once accidentally burned my finger with one of those "Jumpin Jacks" fireworks. (you can get them to hover in the air if you throw them at the right moment)
Anyway, the burn smelled like bacon... somewhat disturbing, and yet, it made me a little hungry.
It has nothing to do with dead humans sinking or floating or decomposing
If you read closely, it states that they piggybacked their research onto a another team that was doing exactly that.
Sure they will, if you are willing to pay for it. Why wouldn't they sell you one?
The point that clarkkent09 was making is that if it is relatively easy fro ubisoft to patch the game to allow offline play, it means that the DRM is not heavily woven into the underlying code of the game. In other words, it would be relatively easy to hack it such that the DRM is disabled.
My car has a GPS system that uses accelerometers to estimate my location/heading when it doesn't have a clear view of the sky, such as in a parking ramp. But in my experience, if you spend too much time out of sight of the GPS satellites, it gets really confused, and thinks that you are a few blocks away from your actual location (even after going back out into the open) It has always corrected itself eventually, but sometimes it takes 15-20 minutes to give up on where it though I was and just use the GPS coordinates.
This isn't a banking system... it's a car. Toyota isn't going to go out of their way to hide the logging data. The method of reading it just isn't disclosed. That's all.
As long as you don't spew into your regulator... i know that supposedly it is ok to do that, but ewww.
Nope. It doesn't. I can turn it on if I choose to, but it doesn't turn on automatically.
even if it did, that doesn't change the fact that i should be able to choose recirculate, even if it initially changes the setting to outside air.
Even the Linux Kernel it is broken into a bunch of smaller programs, so a fix doesn't effect millions lines of code.
Wrong wrong wrong. See the following:
Radiation affects human cells.
One of the effects of radiation on human cells is the destruction of DNA.
Understand the difference now?
You keep an off switch for any situation when you want the car to be off RIGHT NOW, not three seconds from now. Immediately. Maybe the engine is on fire, maybe someone was [stupidly] working on the engine while it was running and got their sleeve stuck in a belt, maybe the brakes failed at the same time as your accelerator stuck. Whatever the reason, you should be able to kill the engine in a moment if needed.
Besides, it rather annoys me when my control is artificially limited. For example, in my car, if you switch the heat to to the defrost setting, the outside air setting is also engaged. I know the reason for this is that the inside air tends to become humid, and thus does not work as well at clearing the windshield... but there IS a solution to that... turn on the AC. Somewhat counterproductive in the winter, i'll give you that, but at least I wouldn't have to breath the black smoking exhaust from the poorly maintained vehicle that I am stuck following. If they would just let me engage recirculate while defrosting i would be happy, but the electronics prevent that.
Indeed. I'll just go sit in the corner now.
Democracy is a system that is capable of giving the people what they want so long as the people realize they can actually choose.
Unchecked, it would also devolve into a political system that is oppressive of any minority group. That is why we are a republic, and not a democracy.
Also, term limits exist to prevent a particular politician from becoming entrenched and more powerful than they should be.
It doesn't matter what political experience you have. That doesn't let you dictate the meaning of "term limit". Elections are NOT term limits.
While it is true that a constituency can prevent a politician from winning another term in office by voting for an incumbent, that has nothing to do with term limits. A term limit prevents the politician from seeking another term in the first place. This is something you should have learned in 7th grade, if not earlier.
The statue of liberty was a gift, and we'll keep it thank you.
I suspect Descartes fear had more to do with the possibility of ending up on a burning stake... roman inquisition and all that... but I could be wrong.
It is rather natural for a human to assume a greater being is guiding the world, since we are wired to look for relationships in the world around us, and tend to find them even when there are none. But if God as a first premise is reasonable, then ANYTHING as a first premise is reasonable... tiny magical gnomes, tooth fairy, flying spaghetti monsters, etc
however, the real reason that Descartes included God, was that he was living smack dab in the middle of the roman inquisition. Had he made any suggestion that god didn't exist, he could quite reasonably assume that he would be killed or imprisoned as a heretic.
I don't think stupendous means what you think it does.
But if I cease to exist, that imperative disappears. In the event of a catastrophe, where all but a handful of humanity is destroyed (myself included in those who perish), where is the imperative for me to ensure survival of strangers
Because you would hope that strangers would help to ensure your own survival, were you to be one of the lucky (unlucky?) survivors. I suspect it is just an aspect of being a social animal. Even if you cannot save yourself, or your offspring, there is still an innate drive to protect your clan/tribe/etc.
You fail. Go back to school.
And that is supposed to just magically happen? This breakthrough will likely be one of the things that makes your statement possible.
It doesn't matter if you have a contact for fuel at x rate for a year, when the going rate for that fuel is four times the original amount at the end of the contract. The last oil bubble came close to killing the airline industry. If it had persisted for another six months, many major airlines would have gone bankrupt. This is coming from someone that works for a major airline.
I remember a memo that stated that each penny increase in the cost of jet fuel cost the company something like 14 million dollars per year. At the peak that would have been a difference in fuel cost of around 107 BILLION dollars per year. And that is just for my company.
If there is another rapid increase in fuel costs, many industries will just plain fail. 6 months to a year of contract pricing will not help much at all. Those companies will just fail a little later than their competitors.
The numbers he cites cannot be used to make his conclusion: "that climate change will not cause massive disruptions or huge death tolls. " While a higher temp might be good for Europe, (for the sake of argument, lets assume it is) you can't make the leap that it will be fine for the population of the planet as a whole. Just guessing now, but it might make monsoons much more severe for east Asia, more than offsetting the reduction in cold related deaths in Europe.
While that may or may not be true, what one can say is that more research is needed before one can come to any sort of conclusion.
Based on the SpaceX website, the per launch costs of Falcon 9 are about 45-50 million. That is FAR below the cost of an Ariane 5 launch.