So many times I've read US comments on Slashdot regarding privacy and how awful it is in the UK because of our camera coverage.
Ha! You were getting stiffed the whole time too! You weren't even getting the remote chance of video evidence to protect the innocent, just a blanket government surveillance of your online activity to protect against a largely government-engineered threat.
Now that we're both screwed, can we quiet-down on the finger pointing across ponds, and start pointing elsewhere?
Yup, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has a growing list of environmental regulations that apply to every ship in the world.
Most people will be surprised how good oil companies are when it comes to employing decent, environmental sound ships for their projects. Generally the majors don't have their own fleets now, so charter in tonnage, and have very high standards and a ridiculous number of inspections for the vessels they employ.
Admittedly, this is largely because they have caused some huge catastrophes in the past.
Tankers represent 2% of Samsung's current backlog according to their IR report.
If we take super tanker to mean VLCC, that's anything over 200,000dwt (ULCCs are around 320,000 dwt, so I'm being generous). If they were churning out 100, that would be 20,000,000 dwt per annum.
According to Braemar Seascope, global tanker deliveries for all tankers over 27,000 dwt peaked at just under 55,000,000 dwt in 2011, with around 32,000,000 dwt in deliveries expected this year, not accounting for slippage. Samsung are not producing 100 super tankers a year.
Deletions from the fleet are under 10,000,000 dwt per annum. Overcapacity is already bad, I'm glad we don't live in the world that documentary was covering.
That's not how shipbuilding works. The cheapest labour is not a way to success. Chinese yards are generally not as successful as the Korean and Singaporean yards that pay better, are more efficient and more advanced.
Ship owners can ill-afford to have shoddily-built ships anymore, especially in the tanker sector if they're looking to work with the oil majors.
... and therefore, we shouldn't consider the impact of the floating facility on the environment around them.
I agree, Prelude is a good idea and from what I understand is by a way the lesser of two evils, I am still interested in the effect it will have on the area it's deployed in.
Commenter specifically said the area around it, not the whole ocean.
You don't bed down subsea apparatus, anchor the largest floating structure in the world, start offloading shuttle tankers full of LNG and transport supplies and crew for such a installtion without affecting the surrounding ecology in some way.
I for one welcome the curiosity of the original post over your off-topic twitter-bashing and (hopefully) deliberate misinterpretation of the commenter's point.
Prelude has three 6,700 horsepower thrusters for weathervaning. Mightn't be the best way of getting it around, but if they can pivot the bugger about the mooring turret, I'm sure they could move it around in some dreadfully slow and awkward fashion.
Interesting question - the mooring points are likely to have a direct impact wherever they're attached to the seabed, as will all of the subsea equipment and the engineering work to secure them in place.
The platform itself will, I imagine, have a minimal impact aside from noise and vibration. There have been whispers of regulating ship noise and vibration for the protection of the marine environment at IMO for some time, but nothing has come forward yet or is likely to in the next couple of years.
There will be increased marine traffic from shuttle tankers and crew/support vessels, but oil majors are largely pretty careful about the vessels they employ, especially for a project with as high profile as this.
Once it's in place, I doubt we'll ever hear too much about prelude, unless it goes horribly, horribly wrong.
Sounds like motion sickness/seasickness. The way I had it explained to me was that it was a mechanism to deal with poisons. Your senses give conflicting information on balance and what you're seeing, or the input is just plain alien, so your body reacts by assuming you've been poisoned and it hits the eject button.
Not preaching this, happy to be told otherwise. Luckily if it is similar to seasickness, three constant days of it should see you straightened out.
Better find a handy place to hotkey all of my abilities ready for Azeroth. Perhaps I could hardwire them into a suck bucket? Moisture sensor at the bottom linked to feign death might be a start.
My other half has very little interest in games beyond puzzle games on her mobile or FB, but my four year old son has a great time watching me play Minecraft. I never envisaged being forced to play video games by my child, but I'm sure as hell not complaining. He enjoys watching me create buildings and machines and I make a point of using the game to help with his reading and some problem solving.
He independently plays games on his tablet, and we often take turns on games like Angry birds and Cut the Rope. I don't think he's quite capable of grasping wasd and mouse yet, but I can't wait until he does!
TL;DR - Why not try seeing if your kids like video games?
Amazed you didn't go for the Chrome example - didn't google drop Google Chrome in results for certain keywords last year after it was revealed they were paying for blog posts?
Agreed. Not to mention that many of the google services do have alternatives. There will be a hardcore of people getting pissy, but how much will the average person on the street care about restricted access to google and its products?
There are other providers of maps, email and search, people will move to alternative (probably inferior and state backed) services and then continue with their lives.
Having been out of high end PC Gaming for a number of years, I'd need an accessible go to resource for specs and support info before I considered investing in and building a box for Steam on Linux.
I get to add another OS to my MacBook. It was so difficult to find games worth playing on OSX that I installed Win7 with bootcamp. Now I'll feel morally obliged to install Linux too.
Interesting that Windows 7 continues to be the most stable operating system on my early 2012 MBP since I upgraded OSX to Mountain Lion. I wonder if I'll have as much luck with a Linux install? I wish them every luck, and will certainly show my support as I do my best to stay away from awful walled gardens, but it seems like a big ask compatibility-wise for Steam, which on both OSX and Win7 is already a programme with multiple bugs and infuriating crashing habits in my experience.
I'll only address the bit of your post that isn't wearing tin foil.
Whoever is stupid enough to make this a topic on Slashdot: this is a right wing troll. The big bad evil government is not going to rip your high end gaming machine from your cold dead hands. Stop wasting our bandwidth and time with this dumb ass crap.
I sure hate it when there's an article posted on Slashdot that causes a healthy debate about energy efficiency and computer use. I don't come here to read about computers and the real world, I want to hear about the latest trends in aluminium milliners and the protection their products offer against meningitis or Felix Baumgartner landing on my head.
and we can all benefit from the savings on distribution and packaging, which is why my £45 digital copy of Diablo 3 was considerably cheaper than the £45 hard copy in Game down the road. (also my digital download was a US client despite downloading from eu.battlenet which left me unable to play when the US server was patched but EU servers weren't - noobs.)
My worry with digital download services is that in my experience they are more expensive than wandering down to Game/Tesco and seeing what's on the shelf. Competition between game retailers and supermarkets/amazon drives price reductions and promotions. Microsoft don't have substantial price reductions, sales and promotions because they have a captive audience, where else are you going to download your Xbox game from? Switch to digital only media and the console manufacturers hold even more power than the substantial amount they do already.
Unless you got sucked in by the lovely bandwidth at Virgin Media, then they throttle the crap out of you for torrenting. Uploads sit at a shiny zero, which makes private trackers an issue if share ratios are enforced.
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So many times I've read US comments on Slashdot regarding privacy and how awful it is in the UK because of our camera coverage.
Ha! You were getting stiffed the whole time too! You weren't even getting the remote chance of video evidence to protect the innocent, just a blanket government surveillance of your online activity to protect against a largely government-engineered threat.
Now that we're both screwed, can we quiet-down on the finger pointing across ponds, and start pointing elsewhere?
or someone with a sense of humour.
I don't understand how you've been upvoted for reinstating a point I've already agreed with.
Just because it's a lesser impact doesn't mean it's not an interesting one.
Yup, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has a growing list of environmental regulations that apply to every ship in the world.
Most people will be surprised how good oil companies are when it comes to employing decent, environmental sound ships for their projects. Generally the majors don't have their own fleets now, so charter in tonnage, and have very high standards and a ridiculous number of inspections for the vessels they employ.
Admittedly, this is largely because they have caused some huge catastrophes in the past.
Tankers represent 2% of Samsung's current backlog according to their IR report.
If we take super tanker to mean VLCC, that's anything over 200,000dwt (ULCCs are around 320,000 dwt, so I'm being generous). If they were churning out 100, that would be 20,000,000 dwt per annum.
According to Braemar Seascope, global tanker deliveries for all tankers over 27,000 dwt peaked at just under 55,000,000 dwt in 2011, with around 32,000,000 dwt in deliveries expected this year, not accounting for slippage. Samsung are not producing 100 super tankers a year.
Deletions from the fleet are under 10,000,000 dwt per annum. Overcapacity is already bad, I'm glad we don't live in the world that documentary was covering.
That's not how shipbuilding works. The cheapest labour is not a way to success. Chinese yards are generally not as successful as the Korean and Singaporean yards that pay better, are more efficient and more advanced.
Ship owners can ill-afford to have shoddily-built ships anymore, especially in the tanker sector if they're looking to work with the oil majors.
... and therefore, we shouldn't consider the impact of the floating facility on the environment around them.
I agree, Prelude is a good idea and from what I understand is by a way the lesser of two evils, I am still interested in the effect it will have on the area it's deployed in.
Commenter specifically said the area around it, not the whole ocean.
You don't bed down subsea apparatus, anchor the largest floating structure in the world, start offloading shuttle tankers full of LNG and transport supplies and crew for such a installtion without affecting the surrounding ecology in some way.
I for one welcome the curiosity of the original post over your off-topic twitter-bashing and (hopefully) deliberate misinterpretation of the commenter's point.
Prelude has three 6,700 horsepower thrusters for weathervaning. Mightn't be the best way of getting it around, but if they can pivot the bugger about the mooring turret, I'm sure they could move it around in some dreadfully slow and awkward fashion.
Interesting question - the mooring points are likely to have a direct impact wherever they're attached to the seabed, as will all of the subsea equipment and the engineering work to secure them in place.
The platform itself will, I imagine, have a minimal impact aside from noise and vibration. There have been whispers of regulating ship noise and vibration for the protection of the marine environment at IMO for some time, but nothing has come forward yet or is likely to in the next couple of years.
There will be increased marine traffic from shuttle tankers and crew/support vessels, but oil majors are largely pretty careful about the vessels they employ, especially for a project with as high profile as this.
Once it's in place, I doubt we'll ever hear too much about prelude, unless it goes horribly, horribly wrong.
Sounds like motion sickness/seasickness. The way I had it explained to me was that it was a mechanism to deal with poisons. Your senses give conflicting information on balance and what you're seeing, or the input is just plain alien, so your body reacts by assuming you've been poisoned and it hits the eject button.
Not preaching this, happy to be told otherwise. Luckily if it is similar to seasickness, three constant days of it should see you straightened out.
Better find a handy place to hotkey all of my abilities ready for Azeroth. Perhaps I could hardwire them into a suck bucket? Moisture sensor at the bottom linked to feign death might be a start.
My other half has very little interest in games beyond puzzle games on her mobile or FB, but my four year old son has a great time watching me play Minecraft. I never envisaged being forced to play video games by my child, but I'm sure as hell not complaining. He enjoys watching me create buildings and machines and I make a point of using the game to help with his reading and some problem solving.
He independently plays games on his tablet, and we often take turns on games like Angry birds and Cut the Rope. I don't think he's quite capable of grasping wasd and mouse yet, but I can't wait until he does!
TL;DR - Why not try seeing if your kids like video games?
Amazed you didn't go for the Chrome example - didn't google drop Google Chrome in results for certain keywords last year after it was revealed they were paying for blog posts?
Are they chilling in that they will cause the idiots prosecuting to chill the fuck out?
Agreed. Not to mention that many of the google services do have alternatives. There will be a hardcore of people getting pissy, but how much will the average person on the street care about restricted access to google and its products?
There are other providers of maps, email and search, people will move to alternative (probably inferior and state backed) services and then continue with their lives.
Having been out of high end PC Gaming for a number of years, I'd need an accessible go to resource for specs and support info before I considered investing in and building a box for Steam on Linux.
Is there a candidate for such a resource already?
I get to add another OS to my MacBook. It was so difficult to find games worth playing on OSX that I installed Win7 with bootcamp. Now I'll feel morally obliged to install Linux too.
Interesting that Windows 7 continues to be the most stable operating system on my early 2012 MBP since I upgraded OSX to Mountain Lion. I wonder if I'll have as much luck with a Linux install? I wish them every luck, and will certainly show my support as I do my best to stay away from awful walled gardens, but it seems like a big ask compatibility-wise for Steam, which on both OSX and Win7 is already a programme with multiple bugs and infuriating crashing habits in my experience.
I'll only address the bit of your post that isn't wearing tin foil.
Whoever is stupid enough to make this a topic on Slashdot: this is a right wing troll. The big bad evil government is not going to rip your high end gaming machine from your cold dead hands. Stop wasting our bandwidth and time with this dumb ass crap.
I sure hate it when there's an article posted on Slashdot that causes a healthy debate about energy efficiency and computer use. I don't come here to read about computers and the real world, I want to hear about the latest trends in aluminium milliners and the protection their products offer against meningitis or Felix Baumgartner landing on my head.
Post on text on a picture?
The paedos could be looking forward to catching a break for once.
won't somebody please think of the CHILDREN?!
I'm not sure your sexual activities are necessarily relevant here.
and we can all benefit from the savings on distribution and packaging, which is why my £45 digital copy of Diablo 3 was considerably cheaper than the £45 hard copy in Game down the road. (also my digital download was a US client despite downloading from eu.battlenet which left me unable to play when the US server was patched but EU servers weren't - noobs.)
My worry with digital download services is that in my experience they are more expensive than wandering down to Game/Tesco and seeing what's on the shelf. Competition between game retailers and supermarkets/amazon drives price reductions and promotions. Microsoft don't have substantial price reductions, sales and promotions because they have a captive audience, where else are you going to download your Xbox game from? Switch to digital only media and the console manufacturers hold even more power than the substantial amount they do already.
Unless you got sucked in by the lovely bandwidth at Virgin Media, then they throttle the crap out of you for torrenting. Uploads sit at a shiny zero, which makes private trackers an issue if share ratios are enforced.
Should have read the small print.
Must be a matter of taste, I'd ban any video with a Creed track on it in every country ;-)