the name 'Nevada' means ',mountains.
No, I think you've got your states confused. The word 'nevada' means 'snow-covered.' The word 'montana' means 'mountain.'
Yeah, someone isnt thinking energy alternatives through again. 1,000 people a day probably visit my grocery store. How are they going to pull 13 gallons of starch each? Where will by store put 13,000 gallons a day. In the cereal aisle?
Why, in a big tank of course. Doesn't your local grocery store have one of these in the cereal aisle?
Not that you'd have each customer filling their gas tank, from empty, every day. But sure, figure a thousand tanks per week - that's only 6 an hour for a 24-hr 'starch station', and you'd have to fill a 12' x 16' tank every week full of starch.
Not to mention the hassle of loading your car's tank with a powder. Are they really suggesting you'd buy off-the-shelf from a grocery store? What are you going to do, spoon it in, one tablespoon at a time? 3328 tablespoons later....
This isn't surprising. Among all the many other reasons mentioned here, let me add one more. Corn-based ethanol is not a solution to the issue of depleting nonrenewable resources. Simply put, midwestern topsoil is being depleted at a faster rate than the supply of oil and coal. I can't find the study by the Illinois EPA that I learned this from, but it's not hard to find sources explaining that "On human time scales, fertile topsoil is not a renewable resource."
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No, there's no "left-handed mode" setting or anything like that. However, unlike in, say, Wii Sports, the actual swinging motions you make have no effect on Link's action. Instead, it's basically a direct port from the GC version - instead of pushing a button to attack, you waggle the remote. The actual angle and speed of the swing don't matter - you can't aim the sword with the remote. Instead of the old 'hold b, then release' scheme, you waggle the nunchuck, and Link does his spinning move. The lock-on and jump attacks are all button presses even on the Wii.
Bottom line - I'd be shocked if handedness affected it for anyone at all. The only places where you actually do any aiming are the ranged weapons (bow, hookshot equivalent, etc), and those zoom in to a first-person mode with a crosshair - again, Link's handedness shouldn't affect your ability to put the crosshair on the spot you want to shoot.
The current list of best-rated Wii games puts a pure 2D game at #3, just behind the latest Zelda and Madden offerings. While it's just a remake of the DS game, the stylus-to-wiimote conversion works surprisingly well - in fact, it's the best use of the Wii's motion sensing capabilities I've tried yet.
In short, no. I think it's been long enough that there's no reason a game that only needs two-dimensional graphics should be forced to add a useless third one.
Less Supply = Higher Price
Higher Price = Less Demand
Less Demand = Fish Population Increases
Take a basic economics course. A change in the supply curve results in a change to the equilibrium price point, yes. The reverse is not true. Supply and demand curves don't shift as a result of a change in price.
Your 'higher price=less demand' would go in an endless loop with the 'less demand=lower price' and 'lower price=higher demand' and 'higher demand=higher price' that would have to follow.
They did. While they discuss a few things, like the fact you have to make use of a multiple-targeting feature to defeat an early boss, they don't actually reveal anything about the plot of the game that the screenshots or E3 didn't already. It's a six-page preview - do you expect it to be completely without substance?
From TFA, at the bottom of the second page, before they go into detail about the plot of the game:
And it truly is -- which takes us into spoiler territory. Now that we've elaborated on the gameplay, read on for more intimate story and structure details about Twilight Princess... or turn back now if you'd prefer to be surprised come November 19th.
There is no DRM, just an authentication key. Plug it in to the demo, and it becomes the full game. All authentication is done through Introversion's metaserver.
Yes - and the minute the game launched, the metaserver melted and is currently still a pile of slag. As a result, everyone who purchased the full version is currently forced down into demo mode, Steam and direct Introversion purchases alike.
Defcon seems to reauthenticate on each load and when trying to create a new game - I have gotten successfully authenticated three times now, but I go to get a game started, it rechecks, times out, and deauthenticates me.
Demo users can't play multiplayer with other demo users - so right now, that means no multiplayer at all. You're also limited to creating 2-player games, which kinda takes the 'global' out of 'global thermonuclear war'.
Wait on this one until the authentication issues get fixed.
Because that won't work: Those that really want the item no matter the cost will try to snipe it themselves. The rest of the people will not put that much effort in, so 5 mins more or less will not make a difference at all. Neither will an hour if most people are asleep at that time.
Actually, this is how the auction houses in World of Warcraft are operated. Each bid extends the amount of time left on the auction, and the exact closing time is not visible. Instead, approximations (0-30m, 30m-2hr, 2-8hr, 8hr+) on time left are listed, and the only way to get a precise closing time is to watch very carefully for the transition from one approximation to the next.
It's quite common for sniping wars on 'short time' items to bring an underpriced item up to standard market values, getting bumped to 'medium time' in the process. Given that it does work on one of the largest virtual economies, I see no reason why it wouldn't work for eBay. In any case, it provides the opportunity for competition between snipers, which doesn't occur in eBay's current system. There's no reason to flatly discard the idea to extend time after each bid. It doesn't hurt the people who don't put effort in, are sleeping, etc, and does a better job of mimicking an actual auction.
Okay, fair enough, but is this sufficient reason for choosing to be the highest point in the landscape? I would think that getting lower would be a better idea.
Unless the ground is very dry, precipitation tends to form a thin layer of conductive water across the surface of ground. If you're laying in this, your body has numerous entry and exit points for the current of the lightning strike. If you're crouching, however, your shoes actually provide a good degree of protection. Typical shoe materials (leather, plastic, rubber) are good resistors and separate your conductive body from the conductive water layer.
This spread of lightning across the surface is called the 'ground current effect' and occurs even without the aid of said water layer. A quick google turns up some limited details.
Keep in mind that the extra meter of height you present by crouching instead of lying is offset by the several thousand meters of air above you in either case. That's a relatively small difference, so the odds of you being struck directly are still low. However, the current can travel across the surface for 'long' distances (I've never seen it quantified), allowing you to be affected by any strike in a 'long' radius - obviously greatly increasing your odds of being injured. This ground current effect is responsible for 30% of lightning-related injuries. Direct strike injuries are only one-eighth of that, 3%-5%.
Actually, that's the cost for a quarterly subscription. A few hours after the announcement went up on fileplanet last night, they changed the link. It was originally pointing to the $7.90 basic subscription page.
http://www.fileplanet.com/subscribe/wow/r3.html is the cheaper signup page.
I'm a student and restech staff at Washington University (St. Louis - not the state school in the article). Our master plan before move-in was to program in a check for the Blaster/Welchia vulnerability as students attempted to register online for their ethernet connection.
However, this caused numerous problems. Firewalls prevented us from seeing the vulnerability and forced the restech consultant for each dorm to go check individual computers. This also did nothing about already-infected computers, but we programmed in an automatic disabling system to take care of those.
The biggest problem, however, was that our registration subnet turned into a cesspool of infection, as people plugged in and turned on their computers and then left them unpatched and unregistered for internet access. These quickly became infected and we didn't have anything trolling through the registration subnets to automatically disable people.
The resulting campuswide infection overloaded our router so much that the network-based swipe card door locks and heating/cooling systems stopped functioning. This produced lots and lots (60-80 hrs) of unpaid overtime as the small restech staff went computer-by-computer over the course of two days with a large stack of CDs programmed to patch and disinfect computers automatically, and then reenable each individual computer.
Needless to say, we're still suffering from a lot of difficulties. Welchia is particularly troublesome because the Symantec/Norton fixwelchia tool often misses copies lurking in system restore points and whatnot that reinfect computers.
The problem with the arguments that plants can eventually replace nonrenewable resources, such as petroleum, is inherently flawed. I live in central Illinois, where corn farming is incredibly common, and have heard this general idea presented numerous times. State EPA officials, though, are starting to get worried. I've know several personally, and they're qquick to point out that the few inches of topsoil that makes farming so profitable is probably the state's most valuable resource, and by no means renewable. It's actually being used and wasted at a rate in many areas even faster than our oil and coal reserves. Even if genetically engineered plants are more healthy, productive, or even can hope to replace petroleum supplies, the topsoil the plants grow in will not last long enough for this to be an effective solution.
Also on Nasa's page will you find this article, written in 1999 rather than 1996, which is from where I took my information.
The culprit turned out to be the innermost core, made of a porous material which, during its manufacture, trapped many bubbles of air, at atmospheric pressure.
Later vacuum-chamber experiments suggested that the unwinding of the reel uncovered pinholes in the insulation. That in itself would not have caused a major problem, because the ionosphere around the tether, under normal circumstance, was too rarefied to divert much of the current. However, the air trapped in the insulation changed that. As it bubbled out of the pinholes, the high voltage ("electric pressure") of the nearby tether, about 3500 volts, converted it into a plasma (in a way similar to the ignition of a fluorescent tube), a relatively dense one and therefore a much better conductor of electricity.
The instruments aboard the tether satelite showed that this plasma diverted through the pinhole about 1 ampere, a current comparable to that of a 100-watt bulb (but at 3500 volts!), to the metal of the shuttle and from there to the ionospheric return circuit. That current was enough to melt the cable.
Remember, when it comes to science, the first conclusion drawn after the fact is not always the best.
The other use could be space tethers. This goal is probably sooner in the future, though the first test (Feb 25, '96) failed a few years ago. That test, though was designed to generate electricity - the tether had a copper braid around a simple nylon string, and was encased in kevlar. That one failed because air was trapped in the nylon, and the 3500 volts being generated changed the air to plasma (similar to a fluorescent tube lighting up) which subsequently melted the tether.
This material would likely be far, far superior to the nylon.
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the name 'Nevada' means ',mountains. No, I think you've got your states confused. The word 'nevada' means 'snow-covered.' The word 'montana' means 'mountain.'
Why, in a big tank of course. Doesn't your local grocery store have one of these in the cereal aisle?
Not that you'd have each customer filling their gas tank, from empty, every day. But sure, figure a thousand tanks per week - that's only 6 an hour for a 24-hr 'starch station', and you'd have to fill a 12' x 16' tank every week full of starch. Not to mention the hassle of loading your car's tank with a powder. Are they really suggesting you'd buy off-the-shelf from a grocery store? What are you going to do, spoon it in, one tablespoon at a time? 3328 tablespoons later....
Article summary should read 10^6 bytes, not 106, and similarly 2^20 not 220.
This isn't surprising. Among all the many other reasons mentioned here, let me add one more. Corn-based ethanol is not a solution to the issue of depleting nonrenewable resources. Simply put, midwestern topsoil is being depleted at a faster rate than the supply of oil and coal. I can't find the study by the Illinois EPA that I learned this from, but it's not hard to find sources explaining that "On human time scales, fertile topsoil is not a renewable resource."
No, there's no "left-handed mode" setting or anything like that. However, unlike in, say, Wii Sports, the actual swinging motions you make have no effect on Link's action. Instead, it's basically a direct port from the GC version - instead of pushing a button to attack, you waggle the remote. The actual angle and speed of the swing don't matter - you can't aim the sword with the remote. Instead of the old 'hold b, then release' scheme, you waggle the nunchuck, and Link does his spinning move. The lock-on and jump attacks are all button presses even on the Wii. Bottom line - I'd be shocked if handedness affected it for anyone at all. The only places where you actually do any aiming are the ranged weapons (bow, hookshot equivalent, etc), and those zoom in to a first-person mode with a crosshair - again, Link's handedness shouldn't affect your ability to put the crosshair on the spot you want to shoot.
The current list of best-rated Wii games puts a pure 2D game at #3, just behind the latest Zelda and Madden offerings. While it's just a remake of the DS game, the stylus-to-wiimote conversion works surprisingly well - in fact, it's the best use of the Wii's motion sensing capabilities I've tried yet. In short, no. I think it's been long enough that there's no reason a game that only needs two-dimensional graphics should be forced to add a useless third one.
Your 'higher price=less demand' would go in an endless loop with the 'less demand=lower price' and 'lower price=higher demand' and 'higher demand=higher price' that would have to follow.
From TFA, at the bottom of the second page, before they go into detail about the plot of the game:
Defcon seems to reauthenticate on each load and when trying to create a new game - I have gotten successfully authenticated three times now, but I go to get a game started, it rechecks, times out, and deauthenticates me. Demo users can't play multiplayer with other demo users - so right now, that means no multiplayer at all. You're also limited to creating 2-player games, which kinda takes the 'global' out of 'global thermonuclear war'.
Wait on this one until the authentication issues get fixed.
We've already hammered this poor server once. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/1 7/1351221&mode=thread&tid=134
Because that won't work: Those that really want the item no matter the cost will try to snipe it themselves. The rest of the people will not put that much effort in, so 5 mins more or less will not make a difference at all. Neither will an hour if most people are asleep at that time.
Actually, this is how the auction houses in World of Warcraft are operated. Each bid extends the amount of time left on the auction, and the exact closing time is not visible. Instead, approximations (0-30m, 30m-2hr, 2-8hr, 8hr+) on time left are listed, and the only way to get a precise closing time is to watch very carefully for the transition from one approximation to the next.
It's quite common for sniping wars on 'short time' items to bring an underpriced item up to standard market values, getting bumped to 'medium time' in the process. Given that it does work on one of the largest virtual economies, I see no reason why it wouldn't work for eBay. In any case, it provides the opportunity for competition between snipers, which doesn't occur in eBay's current system. There's no reason to flatly discard the idea to extend time after each bid. It doesn't hurt the people who don't put effort in, are sleeping, etc, and does a better job of mimicking an actual auction.
Okay, fair enough, but is this sufficient reason for choosing to be the highest point in the landscape? I would think that getting lower would be a better idea.
Unless the ground is very dry, precipitation tends to form a thin layer of conductive water across the surface of ground. If you're laying in this, your body has numerous entry and exit points for the current of the lightning strike. If you're crouching, however, your shoes actually provide a good degree of protection. Typical shoe materials (leather, plastic, rubber) are good resistors and separate your conductive body from the conductive water layer.
This spread of lightning across the surface is called the 'ground current effect' and occurs even without the aid of said water layer. A quick google turns up some limited details.
Keep in mind that the extra meter of height you present by crouching instead of lying is offset by the several thousand meters of air above you in either case. That's a relatively small difference, so the odds of you being struck directly are still low. However, the current can travel across the surface for 'long' distances (I've never seen it quantified), allowing you to be affected by any strike in a 'long' radius - obviously greatly increasing your odds of being injured. This ground current effect is responsible for 30% of lightning-related injuries. Direct strike injuries are only one-eighth of that, 3%-5%.
Actually, that's the cost for a quarterly subscription. A few hours after the announcement went up on fileplanet last night, they changed the link. It was originally pointing to the $7.90 basic subscription page. http://www.fileplanet.com/subscribe/wow/r3.html is the cheaper signup page.
I'm a student and restech staff at Washington University (St. Louis - not the state school in the article). Our master plan before move-in was to program in a check for the Blaster/Welchia vulnerability as students attempted to register online for their ethernet connection. However, this caused numerous problems. Firewalls prevented us from seeing the vulnerability and forced the restech consultant for each dorm to go check individual computers. This also did nothing about already-infected computers, but we programmed in an automatic disabling system to take care of those. The biggest problem, however, was that our registration subnet turned into a cesspool of infection, as people plugged in and turned on their computers and then left them unpatched and unregistered for internet access. These quickly became infected and we didn't have anything trolling through the registration subnets to automatically disable people. The resulting campuswide infection overloaded our router so much that the network-based swipe card door locks and heating/cooling systems stopped functioning. This produced lots and lots (60-80 hrs) of unpaid overtime as the small restech staff went computer-by-computer over the course of two days with a large stack of CDs programmed to patch and disinfect computers automatically, and then reenable each individual computer. Needless to say, we're still suffering from a lot of difficulties. Welchia is particularly troublesome because the Symantec/Norton fixwelchia tool often misses copies lurking in system restore points and whatnot that reinfect computers.
The problem with the arguments that plants can eventually replace nonrenewable resources, such as petroleum, is inherently flawed. I live in central Illinois, where corn farming is incredibly common, and have heard this general idea presented numerous times. State EPA officials, though, are starting to get worried. I've know several personally, and they're qquick to point out that the few inches of topsoil that makes farming so profitable is probably the state's most valuable resource, and by no means renewable. It's actually being used and wasted at a rate in many areas even faster than our oil and coal reserves. Even if genetically engineered plants are more healthy, productive, or even can hope to replace petroleum supplies, the topsoil the plants grow in will not last long enough for this to be an effective solution.
The other use could be space tethers. This goal is probably sooner in the future, though the first test (Feb 25, '96) failed a few years ago. That test, though was designed to generate electricity - the tether had a copper braid around a simple nylon string, and was encased in kevlar. That one failed because air was trapped in the nylon, and the 3500 volts being generated changed the air to plasma (similar to a fluorescent tube lighting up) which subsequently melted the tether. This material would likely be far, far superior to the nylon.