In a side-impact crash, I would expect the Smart to be more likely to roll and get less smashed-in, meaning that the occupants would be at greater risk for whiplash but less risk for entrapment or getting crushed.
In other words, good lawsuit material for you rather than your family. I think we have a winner!
Are there any programming magazines that still have code listings? or that ship with a CD with the code on it, which would be preferable?
Don't think so. Make Magazine is a great little DIY magazine, but more twards gadgets than programming. Like what Popular Mechanics/Science was 20+ years ago.
On a less related note, I was at the grocery store and realized that not one of the magazines in the checkout line was targeted to men.
I always wanted to open a grocery store where the only grab-items at the register were rolls of barbed wire. (Bachelor living while shopping at 1AM can give one strange thoughts).
Biofuels don't give off any more carbon than was originally absorbed by the plant. Assuming you use fertilizers from non-petroleum sources and the farm machinery runs on clean sources, it should create a net reduction in carbon. Even with petroleum-based fertilizers, it's a significant improvement.
Individual governments can choose to tax however they want within the self-imposed limits of their own constitution, or possibly international treaty. Just because some governments are looking at taxing only the transfer part right now doesn't mean they can't change the rules later.
from my point of view there can only be a taxation for the transaction that actually involves real money.
That's your point of view. The point of view that really counts here is the government, which tends to make up whatever rules will maximize its revenue without (we should hope) seriously impacting the overall economy.
Inevitably, when Governments hear about money being passed around, their first thought is how to tax it. MMOGs can take the position that their currency isn't real, and therefore shouldn't be taxed. However, being able to transfer virtual currency for real cash weakens that argument.
I personally don't want to play a game where I have to pay sales tax on buying items, or income tax for an in-game business, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Given this, do you see any foreseeable ways to keep taxes out of games?
Hopefully once they start porting more and more to OS X they will realize that if they code this way all it is is a simple recompile for a GNU/Linux port.
While porting to yet another platform is easier if you've already ported to at least one other, a simple recompile is unlikely to work in all but the simplest programs. In the real world, you'll have to deal with all sorts of incompatibilities.
Outside of the initial technical problems, your technical support will have to deal with Yet Another Platform. This is especially hard when that extra platform is Linux, which has a bunch of seemingly insignificant differences between distributions.
. . . Slingbox owners who stream home games while traveling are breaking the law because it allows consumers to circumvent geographical boundaries written in to broadcast deals.
Did I sign a broadcaster agreement? No? Then shut up.
What Starcraft got right was keeping the number of races to a minimum. Three classes/races is about the maximum you can balance before the number of combinations becomes too large for humans to handle the complexity. WoW, of course, has a lot more than three classes.
This effect can also be witnessed in C&C: Generals. The original game had three factions, and was fairly well balanced (not perfect, but I've seen a lot worse). The expansion pack added three sub-factions to each major faction, and had massive balance problems.
The other way to go is to put in massive numbers of classes, each overpowered in one specific way, and let the players work out which ones are worth using. Fighting games usually go this route. Some have 50 or more different fighters to use, but only 10-25% are worth using.
It's noteworthy that Blizzard has said there won't be a fourth faction in SC2. This is good news from a balance perspective.
The MySQL supporter is raving about the large talent pool of MySQL developers, and the detractor is raving about the GPL.
Yes, there are lots of people who have "MySQL" on their resumes, right next to "PHP". They're all clueless ninnies. If they weren't clueless ninnies, they would have chosen PostgreSQL years ago. Yes, you can hire clueless ninnies on the cheap. That's not the point.
What does the license have to do with it? I can conceive of a project where I'm going to be bundling up a database with my application and selling it. Why would your code be so deeply integrated with the database that you legally have to sell the whole thing under the GPL?
It may not be that bad if you're an American. In less fortunate areas of the world, such as Mexico, $47/year is a big deal for many people.
The study in question was specific to Americans, and therefore only relevant for Americans. That's not to say that there's no spillover effect to other economies, but you can't tell that from this study alone.
Also, keep in mind that corn is heavily subsidized in the US. What you're paying at the pump is not the true cost of the fuel.
It's important to note how it's subsidized. There's a huge surplus of corn in the US. The US government buys a bunch of it and either burns it or stores it in reserves, thus artificially inflating demand. This means the true market price for any corn product is actually quite a bit lower than what it is. If corn is desirable as a fuel source, the subsidies could be backed off while also pushing it as a fuel source. However, given the strength of the farming lobby in the US, they're more likely to keep the subsidies in place to keep the artificial demand, while also pushing it as a fuel source.
I don't think that matters much, though, simply because it would take far too much arable land to use corn as the main energy source. On the order of 4 times as much as is actually available in the US.
WiFi transmitters are less than a watt. Microwave ovens are often 600 watts or more. Despite this, burritos often come out half-frozen after a minute of being bombarded with that much power.
You can remove step 3 in this process, since the hydrogen can be extracted either in the car or at the filling station as needed. Step 2 becomes easier, though the energy efficiency may or may not be better than normal electrolysis process, depending on how good the Aluminum Oxide -> Pure Aluminum recycling process is.
The gallium can be reused every time. The aluminum oxide from the reaction can be recycled, though not necessarily cheaply. In either using new aluminum or recycled, it will probably only take a few years before gas prices rise enough for the process to be competitve, assuming no other advances in the recycling process.
Quick! Find Liechtenstein on a map. How about San Marino? No cheating with Google Maps.
There are a lot of countries and even more cultures within countries. Nobody can be expected to know all of them. While many Americans should be ashamed of not being able to find Iraq on a map, plenty of other countries play a much smaller role in world politics and nobody should blame anyone for not knowing about them.
Chrono Break was a planned game for a while, so apparently they did have some idea of a story for a new game.
There's plenty enough material left over. Other planets holding sentient life are already known to exist in the Chrono universe. Lavos came from somewhere, and other members of his species likely infect these other planets.
Even within the same planet, we don't know what happened to Magus, how Porre crushed Guardia (interview statements indicate that they got help from outside the normal stream of time), or about the corruption of the Masamune. There's enough material there for at least a small game on the DS. A full console game could probably be made out of the reptile dimension, where humans are either a sub-species or completely wiped out.
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And according to the article, Laura got him a bunch of ties.
In a side-impact crash, I would expect the Smart to be more likely to roll and get less smashed-in, meaning that the occupants would be at greater risk for whiplash but less risk for entrapment or getting crushed.
In other words, good lawsuit material for you rather than your family. I think we have a winner!
Are there any programming magazines that still have code listings? or that ship with a CD with the code on it, which would be preferable?
Don't think so. Make Magazine is a great little DIY magazine, but more twards gadgets than programming. Like what Popular Mechanics/Science was 20+ years ago.
On a less related note, I was at the grocery store and realized that not one of the magazines in the checkout line was targeted to men.
I always wanted to open a grocery store where the only grab-items at the register were rolls of barbed wire. (Bachelor living while shopping at 1AM can give one strange thoughts).
Biofuels don't give off any more carbon than was originally absorbed by the plant. Assuming you use fertilizers from non-petroleum sources and the farm machinery runs on clean sources, it should create a net reduction in carbon. Even with petroleum-based fertilizers, it's a significant improvement.
You're right. The Jon would never dump on Democrats.
Individual governments can choose to tax however they want within the self-imposed limits of their own constitution, or possibly international treaty. Just because some governments are looking at taxing only the transfer part right now doesn't mean they can't change the rules later.
I say some geeks go take over Antarctica and dismiss any current territory claims. Shouldn't have any problems with server cooling.
from my point of view there can only be a taxation for the transaction that actually involves real money.
That's your point of view. The point of view that really counts here is the government, which tends to make up whatever rules will maximize its revenue without (we should hope) seriously impacting the overall economy.
Inevitably, when Governments hear about money being passed around, their first thought is how to tax it. MMOGs can take the position that their currency isn't real, and therefore shouldn't be taxed. However, being able to transfer virtual currency for real cash weakens that argument.
I personally don't want to play a game where I have to pay sales tax on buying items, or income tax for an in-game business, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Given this, do you see any foreseeable ways to keep taxes out of games?
Hopefully once they start porting more and more to OS X they will realize that if they code this way all it is is a simple recompile for a GNU/Linux port.
While porting to yet another platform is easier if you've already ported to at least one other, a simple recompile is unlikely to work in all but the simplest programs. In the real world, you'll have to deal with all sorts of incompatibilities.
Outside of the initial technical problems, your technical support will have to deal with Yet Another Platform. This is especially hard when that extra platform is Linux, which has a bunch of seemingly insignificant differences between distributions.
Yeah, because the Sunny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and the DMCA were obviously signed into law by a Republican President in 1998.
. . . Slingbox owners who stream home games while traveling are breaking the law because it allows consumers to circumvent geographical boundaries written in to broadcast deals.
Did I sign a broadcaster agreement? No? Then shut up.
What Starcraft got right was keeping the number of races to a minimum. Three classes/races is about the maximum you can balance before the number of combinations becomes too large for humans to handle the complexity. WoW, of course, has a lot more than three classes.
This effect can also be witnessed in C&C: Generals. The original game had three factions, and was fairly well balanced (not perfect, but I've seen a lot worse). The expansion pack added three sub-factions to each major faction, and had massive balance problems.
The other way to go is to put in massive numbers of classes, each overpowered in one specific way, and let the players work out which ones are worth using. Fighting games usually go this route. Some have 50 or more different fighters to use, but only 10-25% are worth using.
It's noteworthy that Blizzard has said there won't be a fourth faction in SC2. This is good news from a balance perspective.
The MySQL supporter is raving about the large talent pool of MySQL developers, and the detractor is raving about the GPL.
Yes, there are lots of people who have "MySQL" on their resumes, right next to "PHP". They're all clueless ninnies. If they weren't clueless ninnies, they would have chosen PostgreSQL years ago. Yes, you can hire clueless ninnies on the cheap. That's not the point.
What does the license have to do with it? I can conceive of a project where I'm going to be bundling up a database with my application and selling it. Why would your code be so deeply integrated with the database that you legally have to sell the whole thing under the GPL?
It may not be that bad if you're an American. In less fortunate areas of the world, such as Mexico, $47/year is a big deal for many people.
The study in question was specific to Americans, and therefore only relevant for Americans. That's not to say that there's no spillover effect to other economies, but you can't tell that from this study alone.
Also, keep in mind that corn is heavily subsidized in the US. What you're paying at the pump is not the true cost of the fuel.
It's important to note how it's subsidized. There's a huge surplus of corn in the US. The US government buys a bunch of it and either burns it or stores it in reserves, thus artificially inflating demand. This means the true market price for any corn product is actually quite a bit lower than what it is. If corn is desirable as a fuel source, the subsidies could be backed off while also pushing it as a fuel source. However, given the strength of the farming lobby in the US, they're more likely to keep the subsidies in place to keep the artificial demand, while also pushing it as a fuel source.
I don't think that matters much, though, simply because it would take far too much arable land to use corn as the main energy source. On the order of 4 times as much as is actually available in the US.
WiFi transmitters are less than a watt. Microwave ovens are often 600 watts or more. Despite this, burritos often come out half-frozen after a minute of being bombarded with that much power.
You can remove step 3 in this process, since the hydrogen can be extracted either in the car or at the filling station as needed. Step 2 becomes easier, though the energy efficiency may or may not be better than normal electrolysis process, depending on how good the Aluminum Oxide -> Pure Aluminum recycling process is.
Why bother getting piddling amounts of energy out of breaking chemical bonds? Let's bombard some atoms with anti-matter instead!
1. Put a particle accelerator in everybody's home
2. ???
3. Profit!
The gallium can be reused every time. The aluminum oxide from the reaction can be recycled, though not necessarily cheaply. In either using new aluminum or recycled, it will probably only take a few years before gas prices rise enough for the process to be competitve, assuming no other advances in the recycling process.
Let's apply this principle retroactively to nearly every animation Disney has ever made.
And if congress was a single person instead of a collective entity, that would be relevant.
Public domain stuff has no owner. The GPL is something else. This is a very important legal distinction.
Quick! Find Liechtenstein on a map. How about San Marino? No cheating with Google Maps.
There are a lot of countries and even more cultures within countries. Nobody can be expected to know all of them. While many Americans should be ashamed of not being able to find Iraq on a map, plenty of other countries play a much smaller role in world politics and nobody should blame anyone for not knowing about them.
Chrono Break was a planned game for a while, so apparently they did have some idea of a story for a new game.
There's plenty enough material left over. Other planets holding sentient life are already known to exist in the Chrono universe. Lavos came from somewhere, and other members of his species likely infect these other planets.
Even within the same planet, we don't know what happened to Magus, how Porre crushed Guardia (interview statements indicate that they got help from outside the normal stream of time), or about the corruption of the Masamune. There's enough material there for at least a small game on the DS. A full console game could probably be made out of the reptile dimension, where humans are either a sub-species or completely wiped out.
. . . do the Chrono Trigger fans get some love?