Windows phones was definitely the wrong way to go. Getting Qt working well on Android and iOS and marketing it as a platform could have been a lot more successful. Being able to use the same core code on multiple platforms is a big advantage. Instead, they chose a dying mobile OS.
Firewalls as in whatever software firewall the customer may have installed. The behavior of software firewalls on windows varies a lot. Antivirus and firewalls can also muck with permissions and/or stop the game from accessing its files. There are occasionally permissions issues on Linux, but every such issue I've seen can be identified with a simple ls -lR in the game directory.
I work for S2Games, and we have had native Linux clients for Savage 1, Savage 2, and currently Heroes of Newerth. It was the Linux support that originally got me involved with the company's games and eventually hired. Our OpenGL renderer is slightly lacking at the moment, but the main problem is that of business and market share, not technical reasons. Maintaining something around only 4% of the user base uses is difficult (mac and linux combined), but many of the community volunteers come from that mac/linux group.
As the guy who runs the technical support, I really wish more people would play on Linux. The Linux problems are usually much easier to solve (except alsa problems). With Windows issues, there's a lot of uncertainty with firewall setups, antivirus, file permissions, and odd behavior in general. With Linux, the problem can usually be identified with a few tests.
It's a viscous circle. There aren't many Linux games because not many gamers run Linux, and there aren't many Linux games because the companies don't want to have to increase build times for each patch by supporting another OS. EA taking this small first step may help break this cycle, which is only good news for Linux gaming.
Solar is expensive to clean up, too. Either we need to find a way of processing and recycling old solar cells, or they need to be stored in a dry place indefinitely. The arsenic (from doping or from GaAs substrate panels) can contaminate groundwater.
Also, natural greenhouse gas emissions is not the same as natural contribution. Many natural processes emit greenhouse gasses. These are fairly consistently balanced by cooling effects. The issue isn't that there are greenhouse gasses being emitted, but rather that the equilibrium is being thrown off balance.
Additionally, the levels of greenhouse gasses makes the difference between the Earth being frigid and the Earth being hot enough to melt iron, meaning a small change can have a huge effect on life on Earth, which is limited to very narrow parameters.
Also, natural forests are a lot more wind resistant than farmed ones where the trees are all roughly the same height. Given how few forests are old growth these days, wind farms may help to balance out our logging activities (globally, ignoring location).
Terahertz radiation is not nearly ionizing radiation; it's between infrared and microwave. It can't hurt you unless you use high enough intensities to cause burning.
The awesome thing about terahertz is that can also be used for spectroscopic analysis as well as imaging. The terahertz energies correspond to crystal phonon energies, which means substances and their crystal structure can be determined by a terahertz scan. This means that for security applications, you don't even need to form an image unless the signature of an explosive substance is seen, which reduces privacy concerns of such technology considerably.
The major downside, at least for devices operating at around 1THz, which I've worked on at the University of Leeds, is that water is opaque. Atmospheric water is highly annoying (samples in labs are run in dry nitrogen environments) and a damp cloth would completely block such scans. Many of the commercial devices run at 300GHz, however, so I'm not sure if water is a problem for them.
The NSA develops things like SELinux for its own use, not out of charity. Putting an intentional flaw in SELinux would open up back doors into their systems as well. Something tells me an intelligence agency wouldn't allow anyone clever enough to spot their flaw to access their systems, which might contain classified information.
A lot of parents just want to dump their kids off at school and let them do the parenting. Unless there's some type of supervision, I don't see how this could work well.
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Windows phones was definitely the wrong way to go. Getting Qt working well on Android and iOS and marketing it as a platform could have been a lot more successful. Being able to use the same core code on multiple platforms is a big advantage. Instead, they chose a dying mobile OS.
Firewalls as in whatever software firewall the customer may have installed. The behavior of software firewalls on windows varies a lot. Antivirus and firewalls can also muck with permissions and/or stop the game from accessing its files. There are occasionally permissions issues on Linux, but every such issue I've seen can be identified with a simple ls -lR in the game directory.
Thanks. Savage 1 is ridiculously hard. It took me a couple years to get a 1:1 kill:death ratio. There's no single player, but there are practice maps.
I work for S2Games, and we have had native Linux clients for Savage 1, Savage 2, and currently Heroes of Newerth. It was the Linux support that originally got me involved with the company's games and eventually hired. Our OpenGL renderer is slightly lacking at the moment, but the main problem is that of business and market share, not technical reasons. Maintaining something around only 4% of the user base uses is difficult (mac and linux combined), but many of the community volunteers come from that mac/linux group. As the guy who runs the technical support, I really wish more people would play on Linux. The Linux problems are usually much easier to solve (except alsa problems). With Windows issues, there's a lot of uncertainty with firewall setups, antivirus, file permissions, and odd behavior in general. With Linux, the problem can usually be identified with a few tests. It's a viscous circle. There aren't many Linux games because not many gamers run Linux, and there aren't many Linux games because the companies don't want to have to increase build times for each patch by supporting another OS. EA taking this small first step may help break this cycle, which is only good news for Linux gaming.
Solar is expensive to clean up, too. Either we need to find a way of processing and recycling old solar cells, or they need to be stored in a dry place indefinitely. The arsenic (from doping or from GaAs substrate panels) can contaminate groundwater.
Also, natural greenhouse gas emissions is not the same as natural contribution. Many natural processes emit greenhouse gasses. These are fairly consistently balanced by cooling effects. The issue isn't that there are greenhouse gasses being emitted, but rather that the equilibrium is being thrown off balance.
Additionally, the levels of greenhouse gasses makes the difference between the Earth being frigid and the Earth being hot enough to melt iron, meaning a small change can have a huge effect on life on Earth, which is limited to very narrow parameters.
Also, natural forests are a lot more wind resistant than farmed ones where the trees are all roughly the same height. Given how few forests are old growth these days, wind farms may help to balance out our logging activities (globally, ignoring location).
Terahertz radiation is not nearly ionizing radiation; it's between infrared and microwave. It can't hurt you unless you use high enough intensities to cause burning.
The awesome thing about terahertz is that can also be used for spectroscopic analysis as well as imaging. The terahertz energies correspond to crystal phonon energies, which means substances and their crystal structure can be determined by a terahertz scan. This means that for security applications, you don't even need to form an image unless the signature of an explosive substance is seen, which reduces privacy concerns of such technology considerably.
The major downside, at least for devices operating at around 1THz, which I've worked on at the University of Leeds, is that water is opaque. Atmospheric water is highly annoying (samples in labs are run in dry nitrogen environments) and a damp cloth would completely block such scans. Many of the commercial devices run at 300GHz, however, so I'm not sure if water is a problem for them.
Yeah, why break something that you are going to use, especially when your security requirements are far higher than an average user.
The NSA develops things like SELinux for its own use, not out of charity. Putting an intentional flaw in SELinux would open up back doors into their systems as well. Something tells me an intelligence agency wouldn't allow anyone clever enough to spot their flaw to access their systems, which might contain classified information.
A lot of parents just want to dump their kids off at school and let them do the parenting. Unless there's some type of supervision, I don't see how this could work well.