"We're basically saying, listen, this as a core game mechanic [tank/healer/damage roles] is tired, we can do something better, we can do something more interesting than this..."
Finally I think I can enjoy MMORPG's! Instead of relying on other players to fill those skills your avatar lacks, players are now more well-rounded. Focus well shifted, I say.
"questing is replaced by a dynamic events system that bins all the busywork and box-ticking admin from your adventures."
Of course I believe you, its a very good resource! It is a shame it's been downplayed so much, that it would be much, much, harder to farm. I can imagine hemp + soy farming filling a great need!
Not sure why you posted as AC, you will get more reads if you don't.
Semantics. An accident is something that happens outside of intent. An incident is an event that has happened intentionally or not. All accidents can be considered incidents, but not all incidents are accidents.
Yes I did check under the car, as the kitties have a habit or sleeping under the shade of the fenders during hot days, and also sometimes run out of the bushes padding the driveway, so I always back out the driveway _very_slowly_. I'm always aware with animals around. I know vehicles are killing machines. Jumped out the car, ran to the old kittie flailing on the ground, and saw it's eyes glaze over as it died a few seconds later.:-(
Her reaction did equate to one as if losing a child, and understandably so. If anything, I cry at the loss of an animal too, and believe me I did.
Context also factors into a situation's seriousness, as it balances out emotional attachment. Without context, our mouth-noises can be misinterpreted - That is what I meant, not sure how you misinterpreted that.. must've been out of context...
I had a girlfriend who's mom would freak out at the most silly things, and not so silly too, accentuating her voice to make this overtly apparent.
Should have seen her when I accidentally ran over her cat. Very unfortunate, and people react very different in panicked, or life threatening, situations.
I wonder how well this detection will hold up, 4% margin of error seems quite low.
- Ninety-eight percent of soy grown in the U.S. is used for livestock feed. [2]
Although soy has encouraged deforestation, a sad fact, this may have been avoided if consideration was given to the fact that fifteen fold more food could have been produced, if processed for human consumption, and not for cattle.
This is a _huge_ ratio. For sake of our example, and in a most extreme case, producing meat for 9 billion people (estimated for 2050), we could be effectively be substituting that with plant protein at 9 billion mouths x 15 fold = 135 billion people fed.
Keep in mind, scientifically, what our bodies need and don't need. I don't want a debate of morality.
That's one extreme. For the other, even if we figure in a huge gap for the sake of example, that value halved to 67 million, is still huge. Heck, even a tenth of the possible output would able us to provide more consumable protein than we need in 2050.
From a practical, scientific view, does this make sense?
Naturally there are issues like infrastructure, bureaucracy, fingers-in-pies and control over industry that won't make this possible yet, but I'd like to hear your thoughts!
Your opening statement rings true, but you "don't get it" because you don't understand real life (tm). That's how the world works: not everyone is as educated, has a public health care system, or a supportive family that doesn't abuse them.
All indirectly related, yes, but all factors add up into a complex downward spiral of social discrepancy and breakdown. You cannot pinpoint any one source as the cause, and can't isolate this problem so easily.
It sure is a marketing problem, "-- the drop the phone in the urinal ads --". Seriously now, they probably meant "social stigma" when they said "marketing problem".
- Mercury's density implies that a metal-rich core occupies at least 60% of the planet's mass, a figure twice as great as for Earth. - only 45% of the surface of Mercury had been photographed by a spacecraft. - Mercury has a global internal magnetic field, as does Earth, but Mars and Venus do not. - At Mercury's poles, some crater interiors have permanently shadowed areas that contain highly reflective material at radar wavelengths. - the period of time from which the position of the Sun in the sky at a given, fixed Mercury longitude returns to that same position is 176 Earth days. - 3:2 resonance - 3 planet rotations during 2 orbits around the sun
Given the mysterious material hiding in the cold craters turns out to be water ice, the abundant solar energy on Mercury could be used to separate this into Hydrogen and Water. Both great resources to stay put with operations on the little rock.
Putting this forth as a real consideration, to anyone reading: Who uses those widgets anyway?
Okay, fair enough, I'm sure many do - from years of habit, muscle memory, and the visual gravitation towards those widgets. Why are these widgets still necessary, though?
Fitt's law proves that a widget is easier to click, proportional to it's surface area. Given their small size, it explains why I find them cumbersome. I am more likely to:
- use keyboard shortcuts - Alt + Space / Alt + rmb to access the context menu - rmb the window drag-bar to access the ctm
Alt + Space is the most universal, and a great choice when jumping between different OS's and DM's. Hey, I don't care if they keep the buttons, I just don't think I'll notice even if they do remove them.
These awards may seem arbitrary to some, but they are necessary - Recognition is a powerful motivator!
If our world is managed by such intellectuals... just imagine the possibilities! A world that shifts it's ideology from mass consumerism (with detriment), to one of efficient pragmatism, solving problems hands-on and directly!
I find it annoying how so many claim their accounts have been 'hijacked' or 'hacked', while they obviously meant 'password-post-it-on-my-monitor' or a 'ID-10-T' error.
So very, very true! Not only your point, but the fact what it reflects: A generation reliant on software made easy. Too easy.
We have this moral and social imbalance in software, as it was made too easy for users, either too early, or without the right forethought towards these social issues.
It brings to light the idea, that knowing how something works, gives you insight into how it may be exploited to your detriment. Its that lack technical knowledge, in the software, and in the people using it, that would have made all the difference.
The 'games problem' comes full circle: GFX Hardware and drivers were signed to large corps to ensure profit, as such they were only developed for these closed proprietary systems.
This only allowed those in bed together, to access the technical specs needed to develop these cool graphics drivers. That is why, to this day, FOSS systems suffer this effect; progress on this front was locked down to a certain sector only.
Cases in point, only for two companies, there are many others, this is just a subset to strengthen my point:
Slashdot Mirror
"We're basically saying, listen, this as a core game mechanic [tank/healer/damage roles] is tired, we can do something better, we can do something more interesting than this..."
Finally I think I can enjoy MMORPG's! Instead of relying on other players to fill those skills your avatar lacks, players are now more well-rounded. Focus well shifted, I say.
"questing is replaced by a dynamic events system that bins all the busywork and box-ticking admin from your adventures."
Wonderful! :-)
Of course I believe you, its a very good resource! It is a shame it's been downplayed so much, that it would be much, much, harder to farm. I can imagine hemp + soy farming filling a great need!
Not sure why you posted as AC, you will get more reads if you don't.
You are very right, some people have allergens, that poses a big problem. Same with nuts, and to a lesser degree, dairy.
All quirks to consider, but workable aside from the fact we may suffer from a global food shortage if we rather not find alternatives.
That is why my Wikipedia links actually reference the citations, so you get the info, and the source :-)
Ah, very good point taken!
That's nasty. Lol. Yes, you _are_ a crackpot! :-D
Semantics.
An accident is something that happens outside of intent.
An incident is an event that has happened intentionally or not.
All accidents can be considered incidents, but not all incidents are accidents.
Yes I did check under the car, as the kitties have a habit or sleeping under the shade of the fenders during hot days, and also sometimes run out of the bushes padding the driveway, so I always back out the driveway _very_slowly_. I'm always aware with animals around. I know vehicles are killing machines. Jumped out the car, ran to the old kittie flailing on the ground, and saw it's eyes glaze over as it died a few seconds later. :-(
This is why I am now browsing at +1. "Enhance your calm, John Spartan."
Her reaction did equate to one as if losing a child, and understandably so. If anything, I cry at the loss of an animal too, and believe me I did.
Context also factors into a situation's seriousness, as it balances out emotional attachment. Without context, our mouth-noises can be misinterpreted - That is what I meant, not sure how you misinterpreted that.. must've been out of context...
I had a girlfriend who's mom would freak out at the most silly things, and not so silly too, accentuating her voice to make this overtly apparent.
Should have seen her when I accidentally ran over her cat. Very unfortunate, and people react very different in panicked, or life threatening, situations.
I wonder how well this detection will hold up, 4% margin of error seems quite low.
Read this with a scientific and practical view, just as I did writing it.
- Soybeans can produce at least twice as much protein per acre as any other major vegetable or grain crop, [1]
- 5 to 10 times more protein per acre than land set aside for grazing animals to make milk, [1]
- and up to *15 times* more protein per acre than land set aside for meat production. [1]
- soy farms _has_ encouraged Amazon deforestation [3]
- Ninety-eight percent of soy grown in the U.S. is used for livestock feed. [2]
Although soy has encouraged deforestation, a sad fact, this may have been avoided if consideration was given to the fact that fifteen fold more food could have been produced, if processed for human consumption, and not for cattle.
This is a _huge_ ratio. For sake of our example, and in a most extreme case, producing meat for 9 billion people (estimated for 2050), we could be effectively be substituting that with plant protein at 9 billion mouths x 15 fold = 135 billion people fed.
Keep in mind, scientifically, what our bodies need and don't need. I don't want a debate of morality.
That's one extreme. For the other, even if we figure in a huge gap for the sake of example, that value halved to 67 million, is still huge. Heck, even a tenth of the possible output would able us to provide more consumable protein than we need in 2050.
From a practical, scientific view, does this make sense?
Naturally there are issues like infrastructure, bureaucracy, fingers-in-pies and control over industry that won't make this possible yet, but I'd like to hear your thoughts!
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean#cite_ref-NSRL_4-0
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean#cite_ref-britannica_26-1
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean#cite_ref-23
Your opening statement rings true, but you "don't get it" because you don't understand real life (tm). That's how the world works: not everyone is as educated, has a public health care system, or a supportive family that doesn't abuse them.
All indirectly related, yes, but all factors add up into a complex downward spiral of social discrepancy and breakdown. You cannot pinpoint any one source as the cause, and can't isolate this problem so easily.
It really is that complicated of an equation.
It sure is a marketing problem, "-- the drop the phone in the urinal ads --".
Seriously now, they probably meant "social stigma" when they said "marketing problem".
Press release doesn't mention that, perhaps just the OP's words? Anyway there's a good QA on how much fuel the solar sails saved.
Then again:
- Mercury's density implies that a metal-rich core occupies at least 60% of the planet's mass, a figure twice as great as for Earth.
- only 45% of the surface of Mercury had been photographed by a spacecraft.
- Mercury has a global internal magnetic field, as does Earth, but Mars and Venus do not.
- At Mercury's poles, some crater interiors have permanently shadowed areas that contain highly reflective material at radar wavelengths.
- the period of time from which the position of the Sun in the sky at a given, fixed Mercury longitude returns to that same position is 176 Earth days.
- 3:2 resonance - 3 planet rotations during 2 orbits around the sun
Given the mysterious material hiding in the cold craters turns out to be water ice, the abundant solar energy on Mercury could be used to separate this into Hydrogen and Water. Both great resources to stay put with operations on the little rock.
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/why_mercury/index.html
Putting this forth as a real consideration, to anyone reading: Who uses those widgets anyway?
Okay, fair enough, I'm sure many do - from years of habit, muscle memory, and the visual gravitation towards those widgets. Why are these widgets still necessary, though?
Fitt's law proves that a widget is easier to click, proportional to it's surface area. Given their small size, it explains why I find them cumbersome. I am more likely to:
- use keyboard shortcuts
- Alt + Space / Alt + rmb to access the context menu
- rmb the window drag-bar to access the ctm
Alt + Space is the most universal, and a great choice when jumping between different OS's and DM's.
Hey, I don't care if they keep the buttons, I just don't think I'll notice even if they do remove them.
+1 for speaking your mind not as AC :-D
+1 for Openbox.
With you on this one!
These awards may seem arbitrary to some, but they are necessary - Recognition is a powerful motivator!
If our world is managed by such intellectuals... just imagine the possibilities! A world that shifts it's ideology from mass consumerism (with detriment), to one of efficient pragmatism, solving problems hands-on and directly!
Well said! It's about reading between the lines.
I find it annoying how so many claim their accounts have been 'hijacked' or 'hacked', while they obviously meant 'password-post-it-on-my-monitor' or a 'ID-10-T' error.
New Paradigm: Vi key bindings for all navigation. Really, its great! Try some web browser addons for this, you'll see what I mean.
Agreed, it's unjust bad news. Don't doubt many other companies, non profit, commercial and private, have this issue come up.
So very, very true! Not only your point, but the fact what it reflects: A generation reliant on software made easy. Too easy.
We have this moral and social imbalance in software, as it was made too easy for users, either too early, or without the right forethought towards these social issues.
It brings to light the idea, that knowing how something works, gives you insight into how it may be exploited to your detriment. Its that lack technical knowledge, in the software, and in the people using it, that would have made all the difference.
I thought restaurants made and served _FOOD_ :-D
The 'games problem' comes full circle: GFX Hardware and drivers were signed to large corps to ensure profit, as such they were only developed for these closed proprietary systems.
This only allowed those in bed together, to access the technical specs needed to develop these cool graphics drivers.
That is why, to this day, FOSS systems suffer this effect; progress on this front was locked down to a certain sector only.
Cases in point, only for two companies, there are many others, this is just a subset to strengthen my point:
- (2000) NVIDIA Licenses Breakthrough 3D Technology to Microsoft:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_20010613_6025.html
- (1998) NVIDIA and Microsoft Jointly Promote DirectX 6.0 at GDC:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_20020114_4700.html
- (2002) NVIDIA Announces Co-development of Microsoft DirectX 6.0:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_20020114_4871.html
- (2002) Microsoft lauds NVIDIA's commitment to DirectX:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_20020114_4700.html
- (2009) NVIDIA Collaborates With Microsoft:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1234354371335.html