There IS a significant benefit for those who drink 2 cups or more, but a pronounced effect for those who drink 6 or more. At least according to the article, which I actually read.
Because piracy sometimes leads to sales of new games. Sales of used games never leads to sales of new games.
If only 5% of people who ever pirate games, also buy some of those, that is still more money than the people who buy used games. The games get two owners, the makers get only one profit.
And as to "new games will be worth less if you can't resell them", I don't really buy that. I would venture most games are never sold once purchased. I have over 100 games that I have bought over the last couple of decades. The floppies I finally pitched. The old games for Win31, 95, etc. I have finally pitched. I buy the game to play it, as do many others, not to virtually "rent" it. If I wanted to rent it, well, I would rent it.
Saying that heavy coffee drinkers consume more net water than non-heavy coffee drinkers simply is not supported by an evidence in this study, or anywhere else I have seen. I'm not questioning the benefits of drinking plenty of water, just the conjecture that coffee drinkers consume more than non-coffee drinkers. People who don't drink coffee still drink fluids, many drink lots of iced tea, or just water. They didn't benefit in this study.
Coffee (with caffeine or not) has other useful purposes as well. Bowel regularity is one of them. That tells me there is something besides water and caffeine that is at play here.
I was going to say, in the early 90s, it was multiline BBSes, many of which tied into IRC, then IRC. ICQ gained a little ground for personal chats, but for "social networking" there was no better system than IRC, a system that is still in use today.
What happened is now everyone has a digital camera and wants to share more than text (not so bad) but people don't want to learn how to use a computer for anything other than an appliance (is so bad). In the middle 90s, anyone on any IRC channel knew at least something about computers. Now grannies running unpatched XP are all over facebook.
I make a living due to ecommerce, but I still miss the old days when using a computer was a bit more difficult.
I use a 42TV and a 24, from the couch. I don't move stuff from to the other, I use them in completely different ways. I play TV through the TV card (media player classic) onto the 24" monitor, while I web and work with the 42. My priorities are pretty obvious.
I still say hari cari is the appropriate response. It is Japanese, it has a long tradition, and will reduce the chance that Sony does something similar in the future.
This would include for all the executives involved in the root kit scandal, removing "other OS", and all their other instances of raping the public.
Read his words foo, there is air between his intranet and the internet.
"They would have to penetrate our security perimeter first in order to gain access to our controls system."...means, they would have to physically walk into their building, getting passed their security perimeter. Those words have a meaning besides the internet, and even predates the internet. Unless the hacker can gain PHYSICAL access to one of the systems inside the building, it isn't going to get hacked.
Not insightful. The point is that where ever you find "very religious people", you find "republicans" and the GOP has traditionally been more generous to big business. It may not be causation but there certainly is a documented correlation. The more religious a state is, the more likely it is a red state.
For dog's sake, someone mod this up. When I read the crappy summary I *cringed* at how stupid the editors can be to equate "satire" and "parody".
Parody is clearly covered as "fair use". Satire is NOT considered "fair use". If you don't know the difference, look it up. They are NOT the same thing.
As soon as solar and wind becomes cheap and efficient enough the natural gas and coal devoted to power production will be able to go toward syngas and Diesel production.
I don't think so. It is a Catch 22. If we could magically jump to 50% renewable tomorrow, that would make the price of oil, coal and natural gas go DOWN. This would make biofuels of all kinds relatively more expensive, including syngas and biodiesel. Regular diesel would be cheaper, but the US taxes it heavily (to capture funds from trucking), which is one reason why there are so few diesel cars in the US. Money will NOT flow into these other technologies unless someone is convinced that they will pay off. Otherwise, few will invest in them, which is where we are today.
Power generation will always be done by the cheapest method, period. The only way to change what is used for power is to change the cost, and the only tool to overcome the market is called "taxation".
Occam's Razor may apply. - I thought I read that they were running an unpatched version of Apache on a system without a firewall, including here on/. The motive could have simply been "low hanging fruit with a high return". The real question is "why the hell did it take so long for someone to pwn them?"
Assigning it to "them black hat hackers" seems akin to them blaming Anonymous. Normally, if it was done for hactivism, someone would have taken credit for it by now. The simplest explanation would appear to be that they did it to make money.
This reminds me of the old expression "I can't get the job because I don't have any experience, but how can I get experience if they don't give me a job?"
Yes, on your own, but it is still saying "don't hire someone directly out of school" without considering that there are some advantages to this, such as being able to integrate someone into your system, before they have had the chance to develop "bad habits".
Thus, when you charge your car, the power company has to crank up some coal plant or diesel generator to produce your "extra" needs, hence the higher co2/km than a diesel car itself.
Not very accurate, however. Most cars would charge at night, when demand is low, thus secondary sources of electricity are offline (gas). Coal and nuclear can't be powered down so quickly, only hydro and gas, which is why the latter are used as "peak" supply. Nuke plants produce the same amount of power 24/7, whether or not it gets used, so until demand to charge electric cars causes the night time usage to approach peak day time use, it is almost "free" power to the power company, resulting in higher efficiency. IE: the plants were already spinning the turbines and the electricity just wasn't going anywhere at night.
Also, I'm not familiar with any diesel powered plants, in the US at least. Natural gas is the secondary powering hydrocarbon medium of choice here.
But if we switch back to paper, we would be creating massive carbon stores.
Not really, as the trees that paper was made out of was not only a carbon store, but a carbon dioxide reduction machine. And most of that paper will end up in the landfill, and start churning out methane eventually.
The problem with string theory is that it is nearly impossible to test. We have tested Einstein's theories, and they have held up. They are called "theories" in a different way that the general use of the word, particularly since there is no such thing as Truth® in science, just facts and theories. Truth (with a capital T) is reserved for religion, to explain things that no one understands and can not prove because they can't be tested.
I was wondering what would happen if we were *really* in a war with someone like Russia, and you just THOUGHT you were playing a game, but come to find out you were really controlling some defense system, and just killed a few hundred people in the real world.
Yes, sounds more like a movie than real life, but we aren't that many years away (in a technical possibility) from when a "citizen militia" might control expendable drones for defense.
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There IS a significant benefit for those who drink 2 cups or more, but a pronounced effect for those who drink 6 or more. At least according to the article, which I actually read.
Because piracy sometimes leads to sales of new games. Sales of used games never leads to sales of new games.
If only 5% of people who ever pirate games, also buy some of those, that is still more money than the people who buy used games. The games get two owners, the makers get only one profit.
And as to "new games will be worth less if you can't resell them", I don't really buy that. I would venture most games are never sold once purchased. I have over 100 games that I have bought over the last couple of decades. The floppies I finally pitched. The old games for Win31, 95, etc. I have finally pitched. I buy the game to play it, as do many others, not to virtually "rent" it. If I wanted to rent it, well, I would rent it.
Saying that heavy coffee drinkers consume more net water than non-heavy coffee drinkers simply is not supported by an evidence in this study, or anywhere else I have seen. I'm not questioning the benefits of drinking plenty of water, just the conjecture that coffee drinkers consume more than non-coffee drinkers. People who don't drink coffee still drink fluids, many drink lots of iced tea, or just water. They didn't benefit in this study.
Coffee (with caffeine or not) has other useful purposes as well. Bowel regularity is one of them. That tells me there is something besides water and caffeine that is at play here.
I was going to say, in the early 90s, it was multiline BBSes, many of which tied into IRC, then IRC. ICQ gained a little ground for personal chats, but for "social networking" there was no better system than IRC, a system that is still in use today.
What happened is now everyone has a digital camera and wants to share more than text (not so bad) but people don't want to learn how to use a computer for anything other than an appliance (is so bad). In the middle 90s, anyone on any IRC channel knew at least something about computers. Now grannies running unpatched XP are all over facebook.
I make a living due to ecommerce, but I still miss the old days when using a computer was a bit more difficult.
I use a 42TV and a 24, from the couch. I don't move stuff from to the other, I use them in completely different ways. I play TV through the TV card (media player classic) onto the 24" monitor, while I web and work with the 42. My priorities are pretty obvious.
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I still say hari cari is the appropriate response. It is Japanese, it has a long tradition, and will reduce the chance that Sony does something similar in the future.
This would include for all the executives involved in the root kit scandal, removing "other OS", and all their other instances of raping the public.
Read his words foo, there is air between his intranet and the internet.
"They would have to penetrate our security perimeter first in order to gain access to our controls system." ...means, they would have to physically walk into their building, getting passed their security perimeter. Those words have a meaning besides the internet, and even predates the internet. Unless the hacker can gain PHYSICAL access to one of the systems inside the building, it isn't going to get hacked.
Not insightful. The point is that where ever you find "very religious people", you find "republicans" and the GOP has traditionally been more generous to big business. It may not be causation but there certainly is a documented correlation. The more religious a state is, the more likely it is a red state.
For dog's sake, someone mod this up. When I read the crappy summary I *cringed* at how stupid the editors can be to equate "satire" and "parody".
Parody is clearly covered as "fair use". Satire is NOT considered "fair use". If you don't know the difference, look it up. They are NOT the same thing.
You forgot about the cost of pollution.
In America, pollution is free, for the most part.
As soon as solar and wind becomes cheap and efficient enough the natural gas and coal devoted to power production will be able to go toward syngas and Diesel production.
I don't think so. It is a Catch 22. If we could magically jump to 50% renewable tomorrow, that would make the price of oil, coal and natural gas go DOWN. This would make biofuels of all kinds relatively more expensive, including syngas and biodiesel. Regular diesel would be cheaper, but the US taxes it heavily (to capture funds from trucking), which is one reason why there are so few diesel cars in the US. Money will NOT flow into these other technologies unless someone is convinced that they will pay off. Otherwise, few will invest in them, which is where we are today.
Power generation will always be done by the cheapest method, period. The only way to change what is used for power is to change the cost, and the only tool to overcome the market is called "taxation".
Occam's Razor may apply. - I thought I read that they were running an unpatched version of Apache on a system without a firewall, including here on /. The motive could have simply been "low hanging fruit with a high return". The real question is "why the hell did it take so long for someone to pwn them?"
Assigning it to "them black hat hackers" seems akin to them blaming Anonymous. Normally, if it was done for hactivism, someone would have taken credit for it by now. The simplest explanation would appear to be that they did it to make money.
This reminds me of the old expression "I can't get the job because I don't have any experience, but how can I get experience if they don't give me a job?"
Yes, on your own, but it is still saying "don't hire someone directly out of school" without considering that there are some advantages to this, such as being able to integrate someone into your system, before they have had the chance to develop "bad habits".
Or maybe he just isn't funny. Besides, even a funny troll is still a troll.
That is worth a mod point but I don't have any for a change. Timothy's summary was pretty petty, at the very least. I'm not shocked, mind you.
Thus, when you charge your car, the power company has to crank up some coal plant or diesel generator to produce your "extra" needs, hence the higher co2/km than a diesel car itself.
Not very accurate, however. Most cars would charge at night, when demand is low, thus secondary sources of electricity are offline (gas). Coal and nuclear can't be powered down so quickly, only hydro and gas, which is why the latter are used as "peak" supply. Nuke plants produce the same amount of power 24/7, whether or not it gets used, so until demand to charge electric cars causes the night time usage to approach peak day time use, it is almost "free" power to the power company, resulting in higher efficiency. IE: the plants were already spinning the turbines and the electricity just wasn't going anywhere at night.
Also, I'm not familiar with any diesel powered plants, in the US at least. Natural gas is the secondary powering hydrocarbon medium of choice here.
But if we switch back to paper, we would be creating massive carbon stores.
Not really, as the trees that paper was made out of was not only a carbon store, but a carbon dioxide reduction machine. And most of that paper will end up in the landfill, and start churning out methane eventually.
In time?
No, this won't make any signal faster. Only the transmission of data would be faster.
Reading the article gives you information. Watching the (non-American) video gives you perspective about how others view it.
Kind of like how the Sebaceans do it?
The problem with string theory is that it is nearly impossible to test. We have tested Einstein's theories, and they have held up. They are called "theories" in a different way that the general use of the word, particularly since there is no such thing as Truth® in science, just facts and theories. Truth (with a capital T) is reserved for religion, to explain things that no one understands and can not prove because they can't be tested.
Doh, I should have known that. Orson Scott Card lives here in Greensboro, NC and writes articles for The Rhino Times.
I was wondering what would happen if we were *really* in a war with someone like Russia, and you just THOUGHT you were playing a game, but come to find out you were really controlling some defense system, and just killed a few hundred people in the real world.
Yes, sounds more like a movie than real life, but we aren't that many years away (in a technical possibility) from when a "citizen militia" might control expendable drones for defense.