That's not really the discussion though. Frankly even the article messed up it's own title a bit. They really wanted to talk about class archetypes vs open ended skill systems.
Please fix the summary. Nobody is going to RTFA and now we'll never have an interesting discussion. Stats vs Twitch is an old convo that happens every time games are even discussed on slashdot. Ultima Online skill system vs Everquest leveling is something that would be interesting though.
It sounds like the interesting part here isn't the efficiency but that it's efficient enough and can handle a lot of extra sunlight via mirrors. The article fails to give any info though on what kind of efficiency other solar cells can achieve with mirrors focused on them. Without any reference it's hard to get an idea for whether or not this is even useful though.
You didn't understand his complaint because the bug is so stupid that explaining it leaves anyone going "huh?". Basically if you try to copy files from a network drive it will in some specific circumstances tell you that you don't have write access even when you are admin with full access.
For every useless wanker up there, just to make sure he has a reasonable chance to come back in one piece, and to provide him with a place to shit, sleep and eat, you've spent the equivalent of a hundred Mars rovers.
Rovers don't really get us anything we want though. I'm aware the "Space is for Science" crowd thinks that's all we need. The reality is though that NASA needs to be about exploring exploitation of space for financial profit. If we follow that path then we'll be sure to get far more science per buck in the long run.
That's probably not the most representative time frame. If you had invested just before the wall street crash, your investment would still have underperformed compared to a cash investment after all this time.
Because investing BEFORE a stock market crash is a "representative time frame" too. The fact remains that over a long term investing in the stock market will give you 5% or more if you actually let it sit as a long term investment. On top of that it's capital gains so it's not taxed as highly as normal income.
I'm all for legalizing pot but if they do it I'd want to see some pretty big requirements about where you can smoke it. The second hand smoke from it would be a lot bigger problem than normal cigarettes.
In English when a misunderstanding like that becomes "general" or "prevalent" it stops being a misunderstanding and starts being correct. Kleenex and Xerox are the most obvious examples.
It won't happen. For whatever reason web devs seem almost desperate to force everyone to use javascript. Anyone who uses NoScript notices this quickly. So many pages I go to are expressly designed to break without javascript. They scramble html links to the point that they aren't even written properly till javascript is enabled. OP is correct HTML is dead. HTML 5 won't save it because the web devs dont wan't to save it.
Really the article makes it sound like Nvidia is abandoning AMD chipsets but it's just SLI support. When they started making this decision it looked like AMD was totally dead in the enthusiast market. Even die-hards were switching to Intel chips. It seemed for a while there that the market for dual graphics cards on AMD was nearly dead. Now that AMD has a good chip again Nvidia will probably be scrambling to get a new chipset out for enthusiasts.
I think this could be used a lot differently than people are imagining. In just about any game with an "easy" mode it's already absurdly easy to play. The big problem as I see it though is there are probably a lot of people who can play on normal/hard who don't even bother. Past history has taught them that if they play on harder difficulties they'll eventually run into some nasty spot that was poorly designed and is so frustrating that they just want to quit. Thus a lot of people might choose more difficulty instead of less with this feature. Sure there will be people who just coast through the game with it but they were already doing that with easy mode anyways.
This is so obvious I can't understand what some of these people are thinking. I stopped buying music for like forever until they finally put MP3's on Amazon. I hate and despise the RIAA and sundry but I now buy MP3's on Amazon because it's easy and offers me what I wanted in the first place. Cheap, no annoying DRM and lets me buy per song. There are of course still problems for a lot of people out there but it works for me and I'm honest enough to pay.
Back before MP3's though it was like getting robbed blind with single prices at $6+ and albums twice that just to get one or two songs. It's completely obvious why they didn't want to change. This sort of thing also makes it obvious why nobody really feels guilty about downloading too though.
The fact is technology has trumped their bullshit artificial scarcity methods. If they want to call it theft they need to stop dealing from the bottom of the deck.
Posts like this drive me up a wall. Evolution is not some sort of religion. We have intelligence now and hence we no longer really need evolution to work in the way you describe. Anything with a real chance of wiping us out is almost definitely not going to be impeded by genetic diversity. Even if it could are you prepared to to tell a certain percent of the population to just live with severe genetic disorders because by some sort of fluke chance it might some day mean the survival of our species?
Let's be real, it's going to be expensive and its going to mean a dramatic reduction in our standard of living, and so everyone is looking to say they were against it, right up until they vote for it.
Let's be real. Any benefit a "dramatic reduction in our standard of living" would have on the bottom line would be completely swamped by 3rd world countries upgrading their own standard of living. Thankfully nothing of the sort will be required. Despite what you might want to believe science really can give us our cake and let us eat it too. Trying to argue otherwise only drags out the process and increases the toll our environment has to take in the meantime.
That looks like a slide-show showing how we can augment our current power generation methods with solar power?
The map on page 15 is interesting though. The problem is it looks pretty optimistic. How much of the real spots chosen would be farmland? How much farmland do we already need to return to wilderness by moving to hydroponic farming?
How much more energy will we need when we have to power the lights for those hydroponic farms? The greenhouse effect isn't the ONLY problem we need to solve here. That kind of thinking will just lead to a new ecological disaster.
There is no "Iranian" Iran is a hegemony like the United States.
Everyone understands what an "American" is though. Nobody thinks the word "American" applies to some specific ethnicity/religious grouping. The word "Iranian" is the same. This is just how the English language works.
Your point is of course very valid though. The OP is foolish to assume there is not some group subjugating another group through force.
Article is pretty iffy if you ask me. It doesn't even say how radioactive the water is. Nor does it mention why it's radioactive in the first place. It's supposed to be cooling off spent fuel rods but a crack is causing it to leak before it even gets to the fuel rods so why is it radioactive already?
Also are we supposed to believe there's no fail-safe for cooling five thousand fuel rods? If there wasn't a fail safe I can't believe the article would of failed to make a dig about it.
But we are guarunteed that the cost of wind power plants and solar plants will get cheaper. Its an economic fact.
The cheaper they get the more it will cost to put them somewhere. There are only so many spots where you can harness natural energy. Offshore is a good idea but somehow I doubt miles upon miles of turbine wind farm buoys are going to do wonders for marine ecology.
If you want to convince people these things can work you need to explain where we'll put them all. Show numbers explaining how we can supply 3x our current power needs 40 years from now without choking the surface of our planet with alternative power generation methods.
There's no reason to keep the end open. You wouldn't even need to put a door on it. You could just seal the end with the equivalent of air tight paper machete. The air pressure at such a height would be so small that it wouldn't take much of anything to keep it vacuum sealed.
This could have some use for escaping earth's gravity. Among all the theorized technologies one of the most promising has always been just launching stuff into space via rail gun style. If you have a long tube with nothing but vacuum inside it you can drastically increase the efficiency of such a device. The problem is the end of the device has to exit into something near vacuum or it would be like slamming into a solid wall made of atmosphere.
If a tower like this could be built such that it contained a vacuum corridor inside it then we could perhaps finally pursue this idea with already existing technologies.
You can hardly blame them for trying to stop people making actual physical copies for illegal resale. I'm all for bashing them for their evils but training a dog to sniff out optical media isn't exactly something from the Dr Evil pet tricks handbook.
Several companies have pulled this stunt where they stealh in an addon and disable the uninstall button. Firefox makes this too easy and needs to change how it handles addons which are not installed expressly via the user.
Those charts do not include MMO community members currently not paying for a game. This number is always far larger than anyone believes. The first week of WoW turned the entire industry on it's head for this reason. Everyone thought they had an idea about how big the MMO market was. Then suddenly WoW comes along and it turned out there were several hundreds of thousands of MMO gamers who were just drifting from game to game looking for something good. In a week they showed that basically at any given time the majority of MMO gamers aren't even subscribed to an MMO.
How exactly are you going to get good "PC games" on a console? There are still entire genre's that are just ass on a console. For the action types a console just isn't any good for FPS and RTS games. For MMO's you go PC or you don't play at all. Consoles have some good strategy games in the tactics style RPG's but the deeper strategy games like Civ 4 or Gal Civ are ignored on consoles for the most part.
Really if you are a PC gamer there is still no way you can just dump your PC and survive on console games alone.
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That's not really the discussion though. Frankly even the article messed up it's own title a bit. They really wanted to talk about class archetypes vs open ended skill systems.
Please fix the summary. Nobody is going to RTFA and now we'll never have an interesting discussion. Stats vs Twitch is an old convo that happens every time games are even discussed on slashdot. Ultima Online skill system vs Everquest leveling is something that would be interesting though.
It sounds like the interesting part here isn't the efficiency but that it's efficient enough and can handle a lot of extra sunlight via mirrors. The article fails to give any info though on what kind of efficiency other solar cells can achieve with mirrors focused on them. Without any reference it's hard to get an idea for whether or not this is even useful though.
You didn't understand his complaint because the bug is so stupid that explaining it leaves anyone going "huh?". Basically if you try to copy files from a network drive it will in some specific circumstances tell you that you don't have write access even when you are admin with full access.
Rovers don't really get us anything we want though. I'm aware the "Space is for Science" crowd thinks that's all we need. The reality is though that NASA needs to be about exploring exploitation of space for financial profit. If we follow that path then we'll be sure to get far more science per buck in the long run.
Because investing BEFORE a stock market crash is a "representative time frame" too. The fact remains that over a long term investing in the stock market will give you 5% or more if you actually let it sit as a long term investment. On top of that it's capital gains so it's not taxed as highly as normal income.
I'm all for legalizing pot but if they do it I'd want to see some pretty big requirements about where you can smoke it. The second hand smoke from it would be a lot bigger problem than normal cigarettes.
In English when a misunderstanding like that becomes "general" or "prevalent" it stops being a misunderstanding and starts being correct. Kleenex and Xerox are the most obvious examples.
Just out of curiosity did you notice that the product was lacking some polish before you made the changes?
It won't happen. For whatever reason web devs seem almost desperate to force everyone to use javascript. Anyone who uses NoScript notices this quickly. So many pages I go to are expressly designed to break without javascript. They scramble html links to the point that they aren't even written properly till javascript is enabled. OP is correct HTML is dead. HTML 5 won't save it because the web devs dont wan't to save it.
Really the article makes it sound like Nvidia is abandoning AMD chipsets but it's just SLI support. When they started making this decision it looked like AMD was totally dead in the enthusiast market. Even die-hards were switching to Intel chips. It seemed for a while there that the market for dual graphics cards on AMD was nearly dead. Now that AMD has a good chip again Nvidia will probably be scrambling to get a new chipset out for enthusiasts.
I think this could be used a lot differently than people are imagining. In just about any game with an "easy" mode it's already absurdly easy to play. The big problem as I see it though is there are probably a lot of people who can play on normal/hard who don't even bother. Past history has taught them that if they play on harder difficulties they'll eventually run into some nasty spot that was poorly designed and is so frustrating that they just want to quit. Thus a lot of people might choose more difficulty instead of less with this feature. Sure there will be people who just coast through the game with it but they were already doing that with easy mode anyways.
This is so obvious I can't understand what some of these people are thinking. I stopped buying music for like forever until they finally put MP3's on Amazon. I hate and despise the RIAA and sundry but I now buy MP3's on Amazon because it's easy and offers me what I wanted in the first place. Cheap, no annoying DRM and lets me buy per song. There are of course still problems for a lot of people out there but it works for me and I'm honest enough to pay.
Back before MP3's though it was like getting robbed blind with single prices at $6+ and albums twice that just to get one or two songs. It's completely obvious why they didn't want to change. This sort of thing also makes it obvious why nobody really feels guilty about downloading too though.
The fact is technology has trumped their bullshit artificial scarcity methods. If they want to call it theft they need to stop dealing from the bottom of the deck.
Posts like this drive me up a wall. Evolution is not some sort of religion. We have intelligence now and hence we no longer really need evolution to work in the way you describe. Anything with a real chance of wiping us out is almost definitely not going to be impeded by genetic diversity. Even if it could are you prepared to to tell a certain percent of the population to just live with severe genetic disorders because by some sort of fluke chance it might some day mean the survival of our species?
Let's be real. Any benefit a "dramatic reduction in our standard of living" would have on the bottom line would be completely swamped by 3rd world countries upgrading their own standard of living. Thankfully nothing of the sort will be required. Despite what you might want to believe science really can give us our cake and let us eat it too. Trying to argue otherwise only drags out the process and increases the toll our environment has to take in the meantime.
That looks like a slide-show showing how we can augment our current power generation methods with solar power?
The map on page 15 is interesting though. The problem is it looks pretty optimistic. How much of the real spots chosen would be farmland? How much farmland do we already need to return to wilderness by moving to hydroponic farming?
How much more energy will we need when we have to power the lights for those hydroponic farms? The greenhouse effect isn't the ONLY problem we need to solve here. That kind of thinking will just lead to a new ecological disaster.
Everyone understands what an "American" is though. Nobody thinks the word "American" applies to some specific ethnicity/religious grouping. The word "Iranian" is the same. This is just how the English language works.
Your point is of course very valid though. The OP is foolish to assume there is not some group subjugating another group through force.
Article is pretty iffy if you ask me. It doesn't even say how radioactive the water is. Nor does it mention why it's radioactive in the first place. It's supposed to be cooling off spent fuel rods but a crack is causing it to leak before it even gets to the fuel rods so why is it radioactive already?
Also are we supposed to believe there's no fail-safe for cooling five thousand fuel rods? If there wasn't a fail safe I can't believe the article would of failed to make a dig about it.
The cheaper they get the more it will cost to put them somewhere. There are only so many spots where you can harness natural energy. Offshore is a good idea but somehow I doubt miles upon miles of turbine wind farm buoys are going to do wonders for marine ecology.
If you want to convince people these things can work you need to explain where we'll put them all. Show numbers explaining how we can supply 3x our current power needs 40 years from now without choking the surface of our planet with alternative power generation methods.
There's no reason to keep the end open. You wouldn't even need to put a door on it. You could just seal the end with the equivalent of air tight paper machete. The air pressure at such a height would be so small that it wouldn't take much of anything to keep it vacuum sealed.
This could have some use for escaping earth's gravity. Among all the theorized technologies one of the most promising has always been just launching stuff into space via rail gun style. If you have a long tube with nothing but vacuum inside it you can drastically increase the efficiency of such a device. The problem is the end of the device has to exit into something near vacuum or it would be like slamming into a solid wall made of atmosphere.
If a tower like this could be built such that it contained a vacuum corridor inside it then we could perhaps finally pursue this idea with already existing technologies.
You can hardly blame them for trying to stop people making actual physical copies for illegal resale. I'm all for bashing them for their evils but training a dog to sniff out optical media isn't exactly something from the Dr Evil pet tricks handbook.
Several companies have pulled this stunt where they stealh in an addon and disable the uninstall button. Firefox makes this too easy and needs to change how it handles addons which are not installed expressly via the user.
Those charts do not include MMO community members currently not paying for a game. This number is always far larger than anyone believes. The first week of WoW turned the entire industry on it's head for this reason. Everyone thought they had an idea about how big the MMO market was. Then suddenly WoW comes along and it turned out there were several hundreds of thousands of MMO gamers who were just drifting from game to game looking for something good. In a week they showed that basically at any given time the majority of MMO gamers aren't even subscribed to an MMO.
How exactly are you going to get good "PC games" on a console? There are still entire genre's that are just ass on a console. For the action types a console just isn't any good for FPS and RTS games. For MMO's you go PC or you don't play at all. Consoles have some good strategy games in the tactics style RPG's but the deeper strategy games like Civ 4 or Gal Civ are ignored on consoles for the most part.
Really if you are a PC gamer there is still no way you can just dump your PC and survive on console games alone.