With the money Microsoft has, they should buy their own country. No matter how favorable a countries laws might be currently, there's no guarantee they'll stay that way.
83% fewer votes were counted. That might means 83% fewer voters, which is a significant loss of confidence, or it could mean 83% of the votes were lost. Either way, I'd say the system is a failure.
Maybe we should actually determin if game are addictive first? No game site that I knwo of has ever used the term correctly or with any understanding of what a professional means when they talk about addictive.
The term "addictive" has changed in meaning over time, and different professionals define it differently. Once upon a time, "addictive" included the concept we currently call intoxicating, now it doesn't. On a popular site, it's reasonable to use the popular definition;
To occupy (oneself) with or involve (oneself) in something habitually or compulsively. Most good games fit that definition.
Our target is to get a five to ten fold increase in storage capacity, which is beyond the horizon of current lithium batteries.
In order, the annoying factors of current lithium batteries IMO; 1. The cost. 2. Lifetime (i.e. how many times you can recharge it.) 3. Weight. 4. Size. 5. Speed of charge.
The fact that they don't say this would be cheaper, or cycle better makes me think that it probably won't be cheaper, or cycle better. Smaller and lighter is nice, but size isn't really the problem.
Giving parents the right to confiscate (read: search and seize) property from their kids, EVEN if they bought it with their own hard earned money, implies that children have no property rights at all.
You imply that children can have their own money. With the possible exception of creative works, most state law believes that parents have a right to their kid's services and earnings.
I actually enjoy the low-level game more than the level 40 - 50. I like the progression, and feeling like I've become a more powerful and notable hero or villain.
Me too, I've even gone so far as to actually turn on the NoXP option in CoH so I can stay at lower levels on some of my toons. But what does the way I like to play have to do with what level you can start at? Why not let anyone who wants to start at 50? Then if you're the sort who likes to play from 1 to 50, then you can, and if you're the sort who likes to start at 50, then you can do that instead.
I thought the US supreme court only heard cases that were real. If both sides in this case waived reasonable arguments, then it sounds to me like a show trial designed specifically to get a ruling.
Maybe it's too late, but I wonder what would have happened if someone had filed an Amicus curiae in this case stating either (or both) of the low hanging fruit defenses.
I don't understand how stock options work. Did NCSoft save money by forcing Richard Garriott to exercise his options 90 days early?
I don't know the specifics of this case, but it's very doubtful. Usually stock options are extra stock the company issues at the set price. In essence, they print up new shares - they don't buy them at the market rate - the cost to the company is close to 0. Then they sell them to you. Far from costing them money, they actually make money. But they're going to get the same amount of money whether you buy them today or 2 years from now. (Because of inflation, money now is worth more than money later, but that's pretty trivial.)
If we really make a push to convert all cars to being electric, that's a ton of lithium required
And it is estimated that there are 5.4 million tons, so by your estimates, we could convert all the cars 5.4 million times over. But maybe you're estimate is a bit off:)
I estimate 10 kWh of storage per car, 128 Wh per kilogram, and 500 million cars which works out to 39 billion kilos, or 43 million tons.
My estimates are probably a bit off too, but with only 5.4 million tons in Bolivia and 13.4 million tons world wide, I think we're still quite a bit short of the mark.
Piracy? Maybe what they want is to stop people from being able to play their DVDs without restrictions. In other words, it's about controlling what you watch, and how you watch it.
I don't care who you are: even with a 50 Gig commit you're still looking and $8-10/mbps for a decent multi-homed BGP mix.
So about $0.10 a gigabyte, which makes $1-$2 per visitor a bit suspect, but not completely out of line.
But I think there's a factor that isn't being considered here; Traffic balancing. I'll bet Google has (had?) an insane traffic imbalance because they're indexing the entire web. Outbound traffic could very well be "free" for them - it may even have a negative cost when peering arrangements are factored in.
a large, flat area (2' x 4' ~= 0.74 square meters)
If you're going to be crazy optimistic in your other assumptions, you might as well assume a flexible solar cell car cover, with 3 times that area. Or you could carry a folding 4x8 canopy and go all the way to 15 miles.
>Sure, as long as you can find a 25000 watt outlet.
I don't think so...
Typical Miles per kilowatt hour is 4. A 100 mile fill-up = 25 kilowatt hours = 90,000,000 watt seconds. If you want that in 10 seconds, you'd need a 9 Megawatt outlet.
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With the money Microsoft has, they should buy their own country.
No matter how favorable a countries laws might be currently, there's no guarantee they'll stay that way.
I could swear I read that LEDs were at least three times as efficient as CFLs
You may be thinking of traffic lights.
Red LEDs are much better than white lights with a red filter wasting 1/3 the light output.
White LEDs are about the same as CFL, though they do seem to be improving steadily.
... it took less than three days for my local school district to misplace my daughter, I have decided that something needs to be done.
Your daughter's school starts in May? Where do you live, Thailand?
83% fewer votes were counted.
That might means 83% fewer voters, which is a significant loss of confidence, or it could mean 83% of the votes were lost.
Either way, I'd say the system is a failure.
Maybe we should actually determin if game are addictive first? No game site that I knwo of has ever used the term correctly or with any understanding of what a professional means when they talk about addictive.
The term "addictive" has changed in meaning over time, and different professionals define it differently.
Once upon a time, "addictive" included the concept we currently call intoxicating, now it doesn't.
On a popular site, it's reasonable to use the popular definition;
To occupy (oneself) with or involve (oneself) in something habitually or compulsively.
Most good games fit that definition.
Our target is to get a five to ten fold increase in storage capacity, which is beyond the horizon of current lithium batteries.
In order, the annoying factors of current lithium batteries IMO;
1. The cost.
2. Lifetime (i.e. how many times you can recharge it.)
3. Weight.
4. Size.
5. Speed of charge.
The fact that they don't say this would be cheaper, or cycle better makes me think that it probably won't be cheaper, or cycle better.
Smaller and lighter is nice, but size isn't really the problem.
Giving parents the right to confiscate (read: search and seize) property from their kids, EVEN if they bought it with their own hard earned money, implies that children have no property rights at all.
You imply that children can have their own money.
With the possible exception of creative works, most state law believes that parents have a right to their kid's services and earnings.
It's got to be a hoax ...
Joke probably, but hoax?
Google "studyball" and you'll see dozens of links like http://gizmodo.com/5252291/the-study-ball-enslaves-your-lazy-kids
If it's a hoax, it's a damn good one.
In my experience children usually form strong relationships with a strict but fair teacher.
I think I've heard of that - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
Technology works both ways, if it's so advanced it lets someone find genetic "imperfections" it can also be used to mask them.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
If almost no one had bad eye sight, we'd never have invented Lasik.
If we identify and eliminate all of the "bad heart" genes, we might never figure out how to make artificial hearts.
I actually enjoy the low-level game more than the level 40 - 50. I like the progression, and feeling like I've become a more powerful and notable hero or villain.
Me too, I've even gone so far as to actually turn on the NoXP option in CoH so I can stay at lower levels on some of my toons.
But what does the way I like to play have to do with what level you can start at?
Why not let anyone who wants to start at 50?
Then if you're the sort who likes to play from 1 to 50, then you can, and if you're the sort who likes to start at 50, then you can do that instead.
I thought the US supreme court only heard cases that were real.
If both sides in this case waived reasonable arguments, then it sounds to me like a show trial designed specifically to get a ruling.
Maybe it's too late, but I wonder what would have happened if someone had filed an Amicus curiae in this case stating either (or both) of the low hanging fruit defenses.
Wow, only a little smaller than a shipping container, and just 6 times the price!
Seriously, at $30 a square foot, while these apartments might be a good deal, they're hardly newsworthy.
I don't understand how stock options work. Did NCSoft save money by forcing Richard Garriott to exercise his options 90 days early?
I don't know the specifics of this case, but it's very doubtful.
Usually stock options are extra stock the company issues at the set price.
In essence, they print up new shares - they don't buy them at the market rate - the cost to the company is close to 0.
Then they sell them to you. Far from costing them money, they actually make money.
But they're going to get the same amount of money whether you buy them today or 2 years from now.
(Because of inflation, money now is worth more than money later, but that's pretty trivial.)
I knew testing that hardware random number generator was a bad idea.
If we really make a push to convert all cars to being electric, that's a ton of lithium required
And it is estimated that there are 5.4 million tons, so by your estimates, we could convert all the cars 5.4 million times over. :)
But maybe you're estimate is a bit off
I estimate 10 kWh of storage per car, 128 Wh per kilogram, and 500 million cars which works out to 39 billion kilos, or 43 million tons.
My estimates are probably a bit off too, but with only 5.4 million tons in Bolivia and 13.4 million tons world wide, I think we're still quite a bit short of the mark.
Water isn't free. You pay for clean water via your taxes and/or water bill. Or you buy it bottled.
Isn't it amazing how some people act like water falls free from the sky.
Piracy?
Maybe what they want is to stop people from being able to play their DVDs without restrictions.
In other words, it's about controlling what you watch, and how you watch it.
That's the 2nd law, not 3rd.
1st law - You can't win.
2nd law - You can't even tie.
3rd law - You can't get out of the game.
I believe it's called the line of death.
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So about $0.10 a gigabyte, which makes $1-$2 per visitor a bit suspect, but not completely out of line.
But I think there's a factor that isn't being considered here; Traffic balancing.
I'll bet Google has (had?) an insane traffic imbalance because they're indexing the entire web.
Outbound traffic could very well be "free" for them - it may even have a negative cost when peering arrangements are factored in.
-- Should you believe authority without question?
If you're going to be crazy optimistic in your other assumptions, you might as well assume a flexible solar cell car cover, with 3 times that area.
Or you could carry a folding 4x8 canopy and go all the way to 15 miles.
>Sure, as long as you can find a 25000 watt outlet.
I don't think so...
Typical Miles per kilowatt hour is 4.
A 100 mile fill-up = 25 kilowatt hours = 90,000,000 watt seconds.
If you want that in 10 seconds, you'd need a 9 Megawatt outlet.