Right, it wasn't Sony hype, it was the lack of Sega hype that killed the console. I really think though that Sega *could* have done it, had the right games(which I think they were close to having; nothing I could recommend as a must-have to casual gamers of that day) and slick marketing campaigns, which they've been hit or miss with.
even if it had great titles, no one was aware of them.
Exactly the failure of the Dreamcast.
The dreamcast was a huge hit with the hardcore console gaming crowd, but the Spyro/Madden/Final Fantasy crowd that only picks up AAA or high visibility titles didn't care what was on the DC. When you look at games like Legacy of Kain, Shenmue, Capcom vs SNK, the casual gamer responds, "Who's Kain? How do i even pronounce Shenmue? And what's a Snick?"
If we build breeder reactors, the standard sized containment pool(think extra deep Olympic sized swimming pool) will be able to contain all the waste for the lifetime of the plant.
If this is true then there's really no worry with storing nuclear waste. I was under the impression that even breeder reactors had to haul it's waste off site. There's still the problem of what to do with it, but, if it's that little, then, big deal.
A) The new waste generated when we run out fissible waste and turn to new stocks of raw nuclear material?
Even if it's 99% fissioned out, it's still going to generate waste, and if we replace coal with nuclear, the rate we generate that 1% of toxic material will be astounding.
B) Still doesn't mean nuclear is a fantastic option. Nuclear's probably much better in a lot of aspects, but the question remains, where do you stuff the left overs?
More hazardous than billions of tons of CO2 we are releasing every year? More hazardous than the radioactive fly ash generated in coal power plants? More hazardous than the chemicals used by the petrochemical industry?
Quite frankly, yes.
Nuclear material will kill you now. Pollution will kill you later.
it's not a big challenge at all to contain something for 200 years. remember that it's radiation levels are FALLING over that whole time to a point where it's harmless.
Yes and we'll keep consuming nuclear fuel too. So even though current stocks of radioactive waste gets made safer, newer stocks will still be just as deadly.
the containment problems that oil has aren't nearly the same problems spent nuclear fuel has.
Further more, the big problem is that if we're going to consume nuclear fuel, then we're going to keep generating waste. it's not that we need one storage facility, it's that we need to meet a growing demand for nuclear storage. Yucca doesn't work. There's a water table near by that feeds Las Vegas, and it's near several fault lines. I don't care how high the consumption rate is for a given reactor, eventually there will be waste, and it will be extremely hazardous to humans and it has to go somewhere.
The PS1/PS2 versions did have such an option. I haven't played a home DDR game since DDR Extreme so, I don't know if they do anymore. I think beatmania IIDX still does though.
You wouldn't say that if you were one of its victims. My daughter worked in a record store, bought one of those poison music CDs, and never suspecting that Sony would plant malware, she ran the program deliberately; it was a trojan, running the program allowed you "extras", more than just the music (as she explained when I cherwed her out).
As a long time Windows user, yes. Yes I would say just that.
From what I understand the Palm sync stuff was largely PPC. When they dropped the PPC support from OSX, they had to drop anything that relied on it as well, including the Palm sync capability. It's not interoperability between mobile and desktop platforms that drove apple to drop Palm sync, it's interoperability between desktop CPU platforms.
more accurately it would be like trying to claim patent over having the clutch on the left side, brake in the middle and gas on the right and the gear shifter in the center area of the car.
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By hand. Without my fingers.
I sincerely hope, "By Stump" replaces "By Hand" by this declaration.
WebKit based browser? Capacitive touchscreen? Slick media player? Centralized app distribution(Google doesn't fucking count)?
No? No sale.
Right, it wasn't Sony hype, it was the lack of Sega hype that killed the console. I really think though that Sega *could* have done it, had the right games(which I think they were close to having; nothing I could recommend as a must-have to casual gamers of that day) and slick marketing campaigns, which they've been hit or miss with.
even if it had great titles, no one was aware of them.
Exactly the failure of the Dreamcast.
The dreamcast was a huge hit with the hardcore console gaming crowd, but the Spyro/Madden/Final Fantasy crowd that only picks up AAA or high visibility titles didn't care what was on the DC. When you look at games like Legacy of Kain, Shenmue, Capcom vs SNK, the casual gamer responds, "Who's Kain? How do i even pronounce Shenmue? And what's a Snick?"
If we build breeder reactors, the standard sized containment pool(think extra deep Olympic sized swimming pool) will be able to contain all the waste for the lifetime of the plant.
If this is true then there's really no worry with storing nuclear waste. I was under the impression that even breeder reactors had to haul it's waste off site. There's still the problem of what to do with it, but, if it's that little, then, big deal.
Nuclear material coming out of a fresh fission reaction will kill you.
Low level radioactive materials like low levels of radon will not.
A) The new waste generated when we run out fissible waste and turn to new stocks of raw nuclear material?
Even if it's 99% fissioned out, it's still going to generate waste, and if we replace coal with nuclear, the rate we generate that 1% of toxic material will be astounding.
B) Still doesn't mean nuclear is a fantastic option. Nuclear's probably much better in a lot of aspects, but the question remains, where do you stuff the left overs?
More hazardous than billions of tons of CO2 we are releasing every year? More hazardous than the radioactive fly ash generated in coal power plants? More hazardous than the chemicals used by the petrochemical industry?
Quite frankly, yes.
Nuclear material will kill you now. Pollution will kill you later.
it's not a big challenge at all to contain something for 200 years. remember that it's radiation levels are FALLING over that whole time to a point where it's harmless.
Yes and we'll keep consuming nuclear fuel too. So even though current stocks of radioactive waste gets made safer, newer stocks will still be just as deadly.
the containment problems that oil has aren't nearly the same problems spent nuclear fuel has.
Further more, the big problem is that if we're going to consume nuclear fuel, then we're going to keep generating waste. it's not that we need one storage facility, it's that we need to meet a growing demand for nuclear storage. Yucca doesn't work. There's a water table near by that feeds Las Vegas, and it's near several fault lines. I don't care how high the consumption rate is for a given reactor, eventually there will be waste, and it will be extremely hazardous to humans and it has to go somewhere.
The problem is that as even with decay rates in the timespan of decades, where are we going to put it?
If not, maby a big hammer will do the trick.
Like the Apple 1984 ads?
The PS1/PS2 versions did have such an option. I haven't played a home DDR game since DDR Extreme so, I don't know if they do anymore. I think beatmania IIDX still does though.
You wouldn't say that if you were one of its victims. My daughter worked in a record store, bought one of those poison music CDs, and never suspecting that Sony would plant malware, she ran the program deliberately; it was a trojan, running the program allowed you "extras", more than just the music (as she explained when I cherwed her out).
As a long time Windows user, yes. Yes I would say just that.
yes, it dumps core like everyone else.
BlazBlue is RemotePlay compatible.
You can't play BB on a pad, muchless a PSP, but it's compatible.
(Fighting games on pads? ew. Might as well play FlightSim with a mouse and keyboard)
Enough of this shit about the Sony CD rootkit.
It happened on a small set of discs that came out *years* ago and they recanted.
Do you want to talk about evil? Don't talk about the people who put rootkits on CDs.
Talk about the people who make it possible for a rootkit to install WITH OUT YOU KNOWING IT.
like microsoft.com, windows.com and xbox.com?
Esc(or Meta)-x eshell
then type vi.
I was under the impression it was a compile-time flag even for GCC.
I really don't think it's political vis-a-vis compiler drama, just performance. i can't imagine there's not a gcc 4.4 fork that's not PPC tuned.
OSX comes bundled with Emacs, who needs bash? :)
I would say that 100% of the money making malware market is Windows machines. breaking into a new market would be good business.
it burns when i ctrl-p
From what I understand the Palm sync stuff was largely PPC. When they dropped the PPC support from OSX, they had to drop anything that relied on it as well, including the Palm sync capability. It's not interoperability between mobile and desktop platforms that drove apple to drop Palm sync, it's interoperability between desktop CPU platforms.
more accurately it would be like trying to claim patent over having the clutch on the left side, brake in the middle and gas on the right and the gear shifter in the center area of the car.