though this does beg the question, what is it about tape that causes this emission? i know _very_ little on the subject but to me it seems there must be some chemical reaction occurring when the adhesive is being forced to lose adhesion, if not a reaction, some sort of molecular stress causing particle loss? again, having no professional background at all this is mere armchair speculation, but the notion of a chemical compound being the cause of this sort of generation is potentially very valuable. In the same way that electrochemical interactions were harnessed to form batteries and capacitors, potentially if we can understand more fully the nature of this interaction and perhaps how to contain, control, or throttle it, generating more useful emissions could be attained... and it would seem very inexpensively.
i For one, think the industry has been handling game advertising _all wrong_ it strikes me as bizarre that somehow they believe taht what works in the real world wont work in a game. so lets apply the idea here:
in the real world when you're driving, does the car *not start* until you've watched a commercial? no, but there are cheesy radio ads (if you chose to listen to the radio) and there are billboards all over the place. why not ad billboards in the game? you can change who advertises on them when their contract expires, they're not an annoyance, and it can actually add to the immersion. or instead of constantly thumping techno music, an announcer could just say "this race is brought to you by state farm" (as the youtube example depicts. i think about this in games all the time, from call of duty4 to Eve online, its one of the few places i actually wouldnt mind seeing current and frequently rotated ads. if its done right, it could really add to a game even, not to mention accomplishing and advertisers goal of reaching a target market, gamers can spent _lots_ of time playing and if those ads are _IN GAME_ in a non distracting manner, then everyone wins. the ads work purely by their virtue of being there.
Holy crap, thats ingeious! its like a EULA for your own work! i want mine to say by reading this content the boss has consented to an anual 30% raise and a binding labor agreement requiring no more than 20 hours of work and permitting no more than 50. nobody reads the EULA.hell... it should also stipulate a week in vegas with the bosses daughter, just for good measure... assuming shes hot.
some of my clients are marketing forms which use facebook (although i do wonder how actually _effective_ it is) and at least one that uses twitter for their remote people to keep tabs without having to call the office. twitter is basically like email... how many emails have you seen that are strings of one-line replies?
wtf? Fox News is Fear-mongering on/. what is this world comming to? "Tonights News: Terrorist Hacker Zombies Threaten Nuclear Apocalypse, Cancer Knows Where You Live, and Someday You Will Die! But First: Ten easy ways to loose weight while sucking down Double McWhopper Valu-Meals!
We did learn from TMI and Chernobyl. What we haven't done is build any new reactors.
this statement is paradox. the fact that no new reactors have been build definitively proves that _nothing_ has been learned aside from the knee jerk reaction of fear, and that isn't really learned, its instinctual. Congratulations America, you've shown how base and intellectually retarded you have become. Consumer society breeds stupidity, stupidity breeds fear, fear breeds oppression and oppression breeds revolution. fortunately for you consumerism also breeds complacency, and in this rock paper scissors game complacency and fear will always triumph over rational responsible progress, even in the face of certain death. There will be no revolution. Essentially what this means for you and i, is that American society _cannot_ remain in its current state, it will change or collapse. If the US cannot embrace radical changes in consumer behavior, the production and consumption of goods and energy, and their unilateral exertion of their will on the rest of the planet the US will quickly cease to become relevant in the next 5-15 years. Can America (and americans) make the changes necessary? its not impossible, but changing habits is literally very similar to torture on the brain, so i'm not really holding my breath. This generation of Americans are weak, and soft, unaccustomed to challenge and adversity. There will be conflict until their hedonistic world collapses around them and can no longer keep them pacified- and then their struggle will be infantile and futile. Well America, its been real. i'm moving to the moon... any closer is too close to the stupid epic fail that is about to take place.
i wouldnt call it a game so much as cleverly disguising crowd sourcing their work. its a really good idea actually.... excuse me, i need to go design a 'points system' where users, er... i mean players get points when they fix their own computer issues and put a basic trouble shooting guide in a flash docume-- er, game.
well a farm _does_ indeed grow things. my presumption has always been that wind and solar farms grow electricity (rather than breaking it out of some sort of fuel like coal, oil, NG or Nuclear) a server farm more or less grows processing power, or 1's and 0's if you like. by adding capacity to the server farm it grows greater floppage (thats a technical term, btw) also, like the act of growing plants there is little work involved on the surface, corn seems to _just grow_ and servers seem to _just operate_ of course, tell a farmer or a server farm director if their job is easy and you eather get laughed at or punched in the mouth.
Texas has a LOT of land that's not particularly good for animals, humans or plants over about 3 feet tall, and is perfect for wind farms.
Well, that's easy for you to say. Do you share the same opinions about the landscape of the arctic wildlife preserves?
theres a big difference between the artic wildlife preserves and the texas panhandle, BIG. obviously theclimate, but only _slightly_ less obvious is the wildlife diversity / scarcity. theres not a lot of wildlife that lives specifically in that area at all, much less endangered species. There are few Raptors that live in that area as well, furthermore the Energy Center of Wisconsin claims that Cell Phone Towers kill far more birds annually. i guess we should stop using them too, huh?
Those wind farms really scar the countryside, and the maintenance roads that link them further destroys the ecosystems you so readily condemn. Don't forget about the intra-farm transmission lines and support structures. These things destroy hundreds of square miles to produce the power of one natural gas power station. Of course, it's on somebody else's land, though, isn't it? I guess there's no price some people are not willing for someone else to pay.
In open, flat terrain, a utility-scale wind plant will require about 60 acres per megawatt of installed capacity. However, only 5% (3 acres) or less of this area is actually occupied by turbines, access roads, and other equipment--95% remains free for other compatible uses such as farming or ranching. But lets not limit our view to land use, since you mentioned the alternative of natural gas, lets look at some of the resources that requires in comparison according to the American Wind Energy Association [awea.org] (i know, probably a somewhat biased source, but hey, its _a_ source, all i saw in your post was youtube, which i dont consider a source for things like _facts_ and _data_) a combined cycle gas plant requires approx.25 gal\kWh produced, a wind plant requires.001 gal\kWh, again i ask, have you been to Texas? its not exactly drowning in water, except for the Gulf Coast, but thats several hundred miles away, should we truck the water in or lay pipelines for a gas plant? i'm sure the impacts of that would be minimal.
And funny that coal was mentioned, because it is the most favored fuel under the new "green energy" bill passed by the US House of Representatives. It is going to be massively subsidized for decades to come, while the cleanest fuel (natural gas) is the most punished -- both in power generation and industry. But, hey, who cares if "green energy" as portrayed in the popular press works or not... it's _GREEN_, and these wind farms go to ELEVEN!
ummm... the the US house of representatives? the same US house of representatives that is considered to be the 7th most corrupt on the planet by Transparency Internationals 2009 Global Corruption Barometer? http://www.transparency.org/ you _really_ want to trust that they're looking out for _your_ interests? wait, are you an Oil Barron, or a major Pharmaceutical manufacturer, or a Multinational Conglomerate or a failing bank? if so, these just might be your guys.
i agree this is a stupid waste that should never have happened and its saddening. the only thing i'll add is an NPR interview with the original designer of the camera reveals that apprently when GPS and other satellite networks were being deployed they were generating a huge ammount of data, they needed to store it and it wasnt a matter of bean counters, the medium they were storing it on was these magnetic tapes and they were writing so much of it that it was causing aglobal shortage of the media. thats why they were raiding the warehouses for tapes.
Probably they should. I have never seen one single credible justification for over 1 second boot time for any desktop operating system.
I don't think the eventual target is desktops.
From TFA:
For industrial automation and other similar applications, fast boot and response time is critical to successful operation. Applications must be fully operational at power on and cannot be delayed due to the volatile nature of the platform and environment. Variables such as power fluctuation, network failure, device availability, and memory management must be responded to with no loss of performance and functionality. These same demanding requirements are found not just in Industrial Automation applications, but automotive, aerospace, and military applications as well.
I can see other reasons for linux based kernel devices like web/net appliances, game consoles, cell phones, etc... to have really low boot times.
add to that list automobiles, GPS systems, and the like. IIRC the Bugatti Veron has win CE
one would think that solar power should be readily available in space, and with current technology commercially available the power demands are low enough where a full "PC experience" shouldn't be an issue, i'm thinking of the current generation of netbooks for example. their power consumption is pretty negligible, relative to the power used in modern avionics.
i appreciate that upon closer examination of the photo, the D&D guide is only available at the fine game stores, i cant imagine how bad it would have been if they decided to ship to the decent and the mediocre game stores as well.
if i had read the fine print, i'd certainly have paid the $400. hell i could recoup the cost by ebaying just one chunk of that thing. theres 300 million people in amreica, millions of whom would pay a good chunk of coin to own a piece of a space station. one mans trash...
ahhh slashdot, where the informative members of society are apperntly by definition, trolls. admittedly, not the politest response i've seen but certainly more contributory to the topic than many "trolls"
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though this does beg the question, what is it about tape that causes this emission? i know _very_ little on the subject but to me it seems there must be some chemical reaction occurring when the adhesive is being forced to lose adhesion, if not a reaction, some sort of molecular stress causing particle loss? again, having no professional background at all this is mere armchair speculation, but the notion of a chemical compound being the cause of this sort of generation is potentially very valuable. In the same way that electrochemical interactions were harnessed to form batteries and capacitors, potentially if we can understand more fully the nature of this interaction and perhaps how to contain, control, or throttle it, generating more useful emissions could be attained... and it would seem very inexpensively.
i For one, think the industry has been handling game advertising _all wrong_ it strikes me as bizarre that somehow they believe taht what works in the real world wont work in a game. so lets apply the idea here:
in the real world when you're driving, does the car *not start* until you've watched a commercial? no, but there are cheesy radio ads (if you chose to listen to the radio) and there are billboards all over the place. why not ad billboards in the game? you can change who advertises on them when their contract expires, they're not an annoyance, and it can actually add to the immersion. or instead of constantly thumping techno music, an announcer could just say "this race is brought to you by state farm" (as the youtube example depicts. i think about this in games all the time, from call of duty4 to Eve online, its one of the few places i actually wouldnt mind seeing current and frequently rotated ads. if its done right, it could really add to a game even, not to mention accomplishing and advertisers goal of reaching a target market, gamers can spent _lots_ of time playing and if those ads are _IN GAME_ in a non distracting manner, then everyone wins. the ads work purely by their virtue of being there.
***WOOOOOOOOSSSSSHHHHH***
hopefully they dont send us attack plan R
nice Kubrick reference there... nice indeed.
Holy crap, thats ingeious! its like a EULA for your own work! i want mine to say by reading this content the boss has consented to an anual 30% raise and a binding labor agreement requiring no more than 20 hours of work and permitting no more than 50. nobody reads the EULA.hell... it should also stipulate a week in vegas with the bosses daughter, just for good measure... assuming shes hot.
congrats... i htink your post /.'ed the site... if so thats the first i've seen a reply to a story do that ;)
some of my clients are marketing forms which use facebook (although i do wonder how actually _effective_ it is) and at least one that uses twitter for their remote people to keep tabs without having to call the office. twitter is basically like email... how many emails have you seen that are strings of one-line replies?
wtf? Fox News is Fear-mongering on /. what is this world comming to? "Tonights News: Terrorist Hacker Zombies Threaten Nuclear Apocalypse, Cancer Knows Where You Live, and Someday You Will Die! But First: Ten easy ways to loose weight while sucking down Double McWhopper Valu-Meals!
We did learn from TMI and Chernobyl. What we haven't done is build any new reactors.
this statement is paradox. the fact that no new reactors have been build definitively proves that _nothing_ has been learned aside from the knee jerk reaction of fear, and that isn't really learned, its instinctual. Congratulations America, you've shown how base and intellectually retarded you have become. Consumer society breeds stupidity, stupidity breeds fear, fear breeds oppression and oppression breeds revolution. fortunately for you consumerism also breeds complacency, and in this rock paper scissors game complacency and fear will always triumph over rational responsible progress, even in the face of certain death. There will be no revolution. Essentially what this means for you and i, is that American society _cannot_ remain in its current state, it will change or collapse. If the US cannot embrace radical changes in consumer behavior, the production and consumption of goods and energy, and their unilateral exertion of their will on the rest of the planet the US will quickly cease to become relevant in the next 5-15 years. Can America (and americans) make the changes necessary? its not impossible, but changing habits is literally very similar to torture on the brain, so i'm not really holding my breath. This generation of Americans are weak, and soft, unaccustomed to challenge and adversity. There will be conflict until their hedonistic world collapses around them and can no longer keep them pacified- and then their struggle will be infantile and futile. Well America, its been real. i'm moving to the moon... any closer is too close to the stupid epic fail that is about to take place.
i wouldnt call it a game so much as cleverly disguising crowd sourcing their work. its a really good idea actually.... excuse me, i need to go design a 'points system' where users, er... i mean players get points when they fix their own computer issues and put a basic trouble shooting guide in a flash docume-- er, game.
Raptors are birds of prey, not to be confused with the VELOCIraptors.
these sorts of places usually have designated areas for personal belongings such as lockers, not always, but often.
a combined cycle gas plant requires approx .25 gal\kWh produced, a wind plant requires .001 gal\kWh
i forgot to specify, we're talking about water per kilowatt hour of electricity.
Drug Lords, much?
wake up dude, people are dumb! _Especially_ here (or there) in the US
well a farm _does_ indeed grow things. my presumption has always been that wind and solar farms grow electricity (rather than breaking it out of some sort of fuel like coal, oil, NG or Nuclear) a server farm more or less grows processing power, or 1's and 0's if you like. by adding capacity to the server farm it grows greater floppage (thats a technical term, btw) also, like the act of growing plants there is little work involved on the surface, corn seems to _just grow_ and servers seem to _just operate_ of course, tell a farmer or a server farm director if their job is easy and you eather get laughed at or punched in the mouth.
Well, that's easy for you to say. Do you share the same opinions about the landscape of the arctic wildlife preserves?
theres a big difference between the artic wildlife preserves and the texas panhandle, BIG. obviously theclimate, but only _slightly_ less obvious is the wildlife diversity / scarcity. theres not a lot of wildlife that lives specifically in that area at all, much less endangered species. There are few Raptors that live in that area as well, furthermore the Energy Center of Wisconsin claims that Cell Phone Towers kill far more birds annually. i guess we should stop using them too, huh?
Those wind farms really scar the countryside, and the maintenance roads that link them further destroys the ecosystems you so readily condemn. Don't forget about the intra-farm transmission lines and support structures. These things destroy hundreds of square miles to produce the power of one natural gas power station. Of course, it's on somebody else's land, though, isn't it? I guess there's no price some people are not willing for someone else to pay.
In open, flat terrain, a utility-scale wind plant will require about 60 acres per megawatt of installed capacity. However, only 5% (3 acres) or less of this area is actually occupied by turbines, access roads, and other equipment--95% remains free for other compatible uses such as farming or ranching. But lets not limit our view to land use, since you mentioned the alternative of natural gas, lets look at some of the resources that requires in comparison .25 gal\kWh produced, a wind plant requires .001 gal\kWh, again i ask, have you been to Texas? its not exactly drowning in water, except for the Gulf Coast, but thats several hundred miles away, should we truck the water in or lay pipelines for a gas plant? i'm sure the impacts of that would be minimal.
according to the American Wind Energy Association [awea.org] (i know, probably a somewhat biased source, but hey, its _a_ source, all i saw in your post was youtube, which i dont consider a source for things like _facts_ and _data_) a combined cycle gas plant requires approx
And funny that coal was mentioned, because it is the most favored fuel under the new "green energy" bill passed by the US House of Representatives. It is going to be massively subsidized for decades to come, while the cleanest fuel (natural gas) is the most punished -- both in power generation and industry. But, hey, who cares if "green energy" as portrayed in the popular press works or not... it's _GREEN_, and these wind farms go to ELEVEN!
ummm... the the US house of representatives? the same US house of representatives that is considered to be the 7th most corrupt on the planet by Transparency Internationals 2009 Global Corruption Barometer? http://www.transparency.org/ you _really_ want to trust that they're looking out for _your_ interests? wait, are you an Oil Barron, or a major Pharmaceutical manufacturer, or a Multinational Conglomerate or a failing bank? if so, these just might be your guys.
you've must never have seen the Texas panhandle. its big, barren, desolate, empty space, like the moon- but with wind.
i agree this is a stupid waste that should never have happened and its saddening. the only thing i'll add is an NPR interview with the original designer of the camera reveals that apprently when GPS and other satellite networks were being deployed they were generating a huge ammount of data, they needed to store it and it wasnt a matter of bean counters, the medium they were storing it on was these magnetic tapes and they were writing so much of it that it was causing aglobal shortage of the media. thats why they were raiding the warehouses for tapes.
Probably they should. I have never seen one single credible justification for over 1 second boot time for any desktop operating system.
I don't think the eventual target is desktops.
From TFA:
For industrial automation and other similar applications, fast boot and response time is critical to successful operation. Applications must be fully operational at power on and cannot be delayed due to the volatile nature of the platform and environment. Variables such as power fluctuation, network failure, device availability, and memory management must be responded to with no loss of performance and functionality. These same demanding requirements are found not just in Industrial Automation applications, but automotive, aerospace, and military applications as well.
I can see other reasons for linux based kernel devices like web/net appliances, game consoles, cell phones, etc... to have really low boot times.
add to that list automobiles, GPS systems, and the like. IIRC the Bugatti Veron has win CE
one would think that solar power should be readily available in space, and with current technology commercially available the power demands are low enough where a full "PC experience" shouldn't be an issue, i'm thinking of the current generation of netbooks for example. their power consumption is pretty negligible, relative to the power used in modern avionics.
i appreciate that upon closer examination of the photo, the D&D guide is only available at the fine game stores, i cant imagine how bad it would have been if they decided to ship to the decent and the mediocre game stores as well.
AOL has always held the X.0 format where X = the number of times they've leveraged a re skinned pile of feces to make some coin.
if i had read the fine print, i'd certainly have paid the $400. hell i could recoup the cost by ebaying just one chunk of that thing. theres 300 million people in amreica, millions of whom would pay a good chunk of coin to own a piece of a space station. one mans trash...
ahhh slashdot, where the informative members of society are apperntly by definition, trolls. admittedly, not the politest response i've seen but certainly more contributory to the topic than many "trolls"