Used game sales do hurt the game industry. If people didn't buy and sell used games they would make more money. The thing is that is just too bad. Yes people have the right to resell the game.
I think what ticks them off is GameStop pushing used games over new. If you go buy a new game off the self and they have a used copy they will tell you that they have a used copy and offer to sell that to you instead of the new. The reason isn't good customer service it is because they make a lot more on a used game than used. I promise you that game makers hate it with a passion. Me I save money and hardy lever buy a new game. Okay I bought Ghostbusters new but that is a rare event.
Actually I am not for hydrogen. Hydrogen isn't corrosive but yes some metals can suffer from hydrogen embrittelment. Not that big of a risk to be honest at the concentration you would find in an engine and can be worked around with the right materials. As to battery safety if you hang around the RC forums you must know about the fire proof bags they sell for recharging and that a good number of RC folks put their batteries in the fire proof bags in their fireplace to charge them since at least one person has lost a workshop because their batteries vented with flame. Or you may have seen the notebook fires. Methanol can be made from any plant matter, coal, natural gas or air and water with enough energy. Electric only cars just are not practical for a lot of people because of range and recharge times. Also I like your math for the recharge life but you got it wrong. Batteries loose capacity with every recharge cycle. A thousand cycles will not be 200,000 miles for most users. It will be three years since they will recharge every night. Hey I could be wrong but until I can buy a economical ev that fits my needs or even see one on the market it is vapor. I think the lack of research in Methanol is a huge mistake since it can also be used in fuel cells and has been used in IC engines for decades. Heck every "gas" model engine you are likely to see uses methanol. There are a few that don't but they are rare. Not to mention that Methanol is used for camp stoves around the world so it isn't that toxic.
I would think something like Kermit combined with CRC checks and encryption with some scripting would do the trick.. Does sound like something from Tom Clancy.
It was designed to work under the worst conditions and with any type of machine on the planet. It is old but still in use so it probably works really well.
I agree the UK and the people in the UK are for the most part reasonable in my experience. Become active in local politics and try to steer your nation in the direction you think is best. I don't like the term fight as much as work with and motivate.
Twitter is like anything else. It really is all in how you use it. I follow NASA Engadget and a few friends and a few podcasters. I don't tend to post on it much and only check it a few times a day. But for getting Comcast to provide service it works great. Too bad that you can get them to do the right thing without shaming them.
Yea they need more power... They are just evil. Helpful hint to my fellow Comcast victims. If you crab on twitter you will get better service than over the phone. Complain long and loud on twitter and use the #Comcast hash tag and you will be surprised how helpful they will be.
Just thinking , talking, and debating about a subject don't make you an expert. If so every creationist crack pot is a an expert in biology. In this day and age you usually require education in a subject to be an expert. The FSF has lawyers on staff that at the experts on the law. Frankly I am not a fan of Mono because it duplicates Java in many ways and c# and dot net are trying to be the new Visual Basic. Mono lets them pretend that it is "multi platform". But that is just my opinion. However yes calling the web the tech flavor of the month is making excuses. RMS really seems to be loosing a grip on reality bit by bit. Frankly having a bunch of zelots that think he is the bringer of all truth and light probably isn't helping. Honestly he doesn't think he needs to use the Web? That right there shows a disconnect for someone that is very technical. Now if he said he rarely used it or only used it for a reference now and then that would be understandable but not using it for personal reasons? His lack of personal grooming is another example of a real disconnect. As to should we still listen to him. Yes you should listen to just about everyone. However I feel totally free to disagree with him and often do. Frankly I am honestly starting to wonder if he needs to seek some professional help. I am not saying that to be cruel or dismiss him but frankly I am worried that he is developing mental health issues. I know people that have them and it is a terrible thing to see happen. Frankly reinforcing someones illusions is the worst thing that one can do in those cases and frankly RMS gets a lot of that from his fan base. I wonder if there is a term for Celebrity insanity. It seems that it is common for people that have fan base to start to believe that they are above everyone and everything.
Like I said I am not a big fan of Hydrogen but just how would it reduce engine power and life? Rapid charging does have a negative effect on battery life and is also dangerous. Read up on battery safety some time. Most of those dangers should be reduced by advanced battery chargers. EVs are just not practical. I still think Methanol is a better solution for energy storage than hydrogen. Probably the ultimate solution for transportation would be a completely synthetic hydrocarbon made from water and atmospheric CO2. That is impractical without a source of cheap clean power like Fusion. Let's hope the Polywell reactor works out.
I will give you he is a good programmer. software expert? Maybe but things change and I am not sure that he is the best of the best. As to an expert on IP no I really do not believe that he is an expert in intellectual property law. He doesn't have a degree in law. So I think calling him an expert in intellectual property law is totally unfounded. But the rest of your statements are clearly making excuses. I don't think that you can say that his not using the web has anything to do with him being an expert or as was stated "mucking around with the latest flavor of the month technology" That is so an excuse and a very poor one at that.
Sounds exactly like what the McCain campaign said. "unless you really mean to question the software experience of the guy who wrote emacs..." So he is unquestionable because he wrote an editor...
"In my experience, the real experts frequently don't have time or interest in mucking around with the latest flavor of the month technology because they're too busy thinking about real issues." Yea that new fangled web thing just isn't worth using... Please if you where telling me that is why he doesn't use Twitter or Facebook and that might hold water. RMS is just odd. Frankly I have found many of his statements to be out of touch. That is my opinion. Yes the GPL is great, GCC is pretty nice but really does need work, and emacs is emacs love it or hate it is one of those classical pieces of software. But he sure isn't my leader.
Last time I checked you could use Bing or Yahoo for search. I think that most people still use Google for one big reason. It doesn't suck. If a product doesn't suck it is very hard to get them to move to another product even if it is better. Heck Bing might be better but it isn't worth my time to change to it. Google got where it is because it is a good service. Now the product that they sell is different. They sell ads and there you do have some real competition with FaceBook selling ads. A lot of people spend a lot of time on FaceBook. So I do not see it as a target for anti-trust.
I do tend to agree but the replacement cost of the fuel cells could be off set by a core charge on the old cells. Depending on how much of the value of the fuel cell can be reclaimed during recycling. Of course you could park said fuel cell car next to a battery car that is is all the same things that you can drive across country without out stopping for a lengthy recharge every 300 miles. Oh and is available today without some revolutionary charging/battery tech that you can not buy yet.
Of course what everybody seems to be forgetting is that you can burn Hydrogen in any number of engines instead of using a Fuel Cell including gas turbines, Stirling, or a good old fashioned Otto cycle engine.
Actually most hydrogen is made from Natural Gas. You could make it from wind or solar but that is pretty inefficient. I am not a big fan of the hydrogen economy. It sounds good but when you start to look at all the problems it just doesn't work out. Hydrogen is great for rockets and wielding but not for cars IMHO. I much prefer the idea of Methanol or even making the hydrogen into a synth fuel..
Exactly Kids should have some expectation of rights. They don't own their lockers so searching those if fine IMHO. Book bags, purses, even asking them to empty their pockets is okay IMHO. If they refuse then call the Police and follow due process.
Well I don't think they would last long over Iranian airspace and there would be no reason for the Iranians not to shoot them down. Shooting one down in international airspace or in the airspace of another country would be a violation of international law so they might think twice about it. Plus they are not cheap.
I wouldn't call ether of them belligerent. They both have their rules for how their code is used. Now it would have been really great if Nintendo had allowed it to released but they didn't. Now if the ScummVM people where the sole copyright holders to all the code in ScummVM they could have duel licensed it. They could have charged Atari $x to use ScummVM in their product and used those funds to fund more development. They choose not to do or they couldn't do that.
Actually the best would probably be a GlobalHawk. Cell and WiFi are going to be limited by line of sight. GlobalHawks can fly higher than a C130 or an AWACS. Plus GobalHawks don't have families so if they shoot it down nobody dies which is a big plus.
Oh and remeber that florida thing? I only had blue jeans, wool socks, a sweater, and a jean jacket to wear. I did buy some wool gloves as well. For most of the time I was there it was only down in the teens. Chilly to be sure but that last day and the ride to the air port was an experience.
Well I went to Rochester in February. Got to slip on ice for the first time in my life walking to dinner. The people where very nice but I was glad to finish up that job. They day I left it -4 with a -23 windchill. When I landed at Palm Beach it was 75.
Humm. yea several billion dollar aircraft that can be used to coordinate air strikes right on there boarder will not bet anybody upset... Actually you so wouldn't us AWACS for that. There are dedicated C-130s for that job. There is even a flying TV station.. Some how I think any of the above lack subtlety.
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Used game sales do hurt the game industry. If people didn't buy and sell used games they would make more money. The thing is that is just too bad. Yes people have the right to resell the game.
I think what ticks them off is GameStop pushing used games over new.
If you go buy a new game off the self and they have a used copy they will tell you that they have a used copy and offer to sell that to you instead of the new.
The reason isn't good customer service it is because they make a lot more on a used game than used. I promise you that game makers hate it with a passion. Me I save money and hardy lever buy a new game. Okay I bought Ghostbusters new but that is a rare event.
Actually I am not for hydrogen. Hydrogen isn't corrosive but yes some metals can suffer from hydrogen embrittelment. Not that big of a risk to be honest at the concentration you would find in an engine and can be worked around with the right materials.
As to battery safety if you hang around the RC forums you must know about the fire proof bags they sell for recharging and that a good number of RC folks put their batteries in the fire proof bags in their fireplace to charge them since at least one person has lost a workshop because their batteries vented with flame.
Or you may have seen the notebook fires.
Methanol can be made from any plant matter, coal, natural gas or air and water with enough energy.
Electric only cars just are not practical for a lot of people because of range and recharge times. Also I like your math for the recharge life but you got it wrong.
Batteries loose capacity with every recharge cycle. A thousand cycles will not be 200,000 miles for most users. It will be three years since they will recharge every night.
Hey I could be wrong but until I can buy a economical ev that fits my needs or even see one on the market it is vapor. I think the lack of research in Methanol is a huge mistake since it can also be used in fuel cells and has been used in IC engines for decades. Heck every "gas" model engine you are likely to see uses methanol. There are a few that don't but they are rare.
Not to mention that Methanol is used for camp stoves around the world so it isn't that toxic.
I would think something like Kermit combined with CRC checks and encryption with some scripting would do the trick..
Does sound like something from Tom Clancy.
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
It was designed to work under the worst conditions and with any type of machine on the planet.
It is old but still in use so it probably works really well.
I agree the UK and the people in the UK are for the most part reasonable in my experience. Become active in local politics and try to steer your nation in the direction you think is best.
I don't like the term fight as much as work with and motivate.
Twitter is like anything else. It really is all in how you use it.
I follow NASA Engadget and a few friends and a few podcasters.
I don't tend to post on it much and only check it a few times a day.
But for getting Comcast to provide service it works great.
Too bad that you can get them to do the right thing without shaming them.
Yea they need more power... They are just evil.
Helpful hint to my fellow Comcast victims. If you crab on twitter you will get better service than over the phone.
Complain long and loud on twitter and use the #Comcast hash tag and you will be surprised how helpful they will be.
Just thinking , talking, and debating about a subject don't make you an expert. If so every creationist crack pot is a an expert in biology. In this day and age you usually require education in a subject to be an expert. The FSF has lawyers on staff that at the experts on the law.
Frankly I am not a fan of Mono because it duplicates Java in many ways and c# and dot net are trying to be the new Visual Basic. Mono lets them pretend that it is "multi platform". But that is just my opinion.
However yes calling the web the tech flavor of the month is making excuses.
RMS really seems to be loosing a grip on reality bit by bit. Frankly having a bunch of zelots that think he is the bringer of all truth and light probably isn't helping.
Honestly he doesn't think he needs to use the Web? That right there shows a disconnect for someone that is very technical. Now if he said he rarely used it or only used it for a reference now and then that would be understandable but not using it for personal reasons?
His lack of personal grooming is another example of a real disconnect.
As to should we still listen to him. Yes you should listen to just about everyone. However I feel totally free to disagree with him and often do. Frankly I am honestly starting to wonder if he needs to seek some professional help.
I am not saying that to be cruel or dismiss him but frankly I am worried that he is developing mental health issues. I know people that have them and it is a terrible thing to see happen.
Frankly reinforcing someones illusions is the worst thing that one can do in those cases and frankly RMS gets a lot of that from his fan base. I wonder if there is a term for Celebrity insanity. It seems that it is common for people that have fan base to start to believe that they are above everyone and everything.
Like I said I am not a big fan of Hydrogen but just how would it reduce engine power and life?
Rapid charging does have a negative effect on battery life and is also dangerous. Read up on battery safety some time. Most of those dangers should be reduced by advanced battery chargers.
EVs are just not practical. I still think Methanol is a better solution for energy storage than hydrogen. Probably the ultimate solution for transportation would be a completely synthetic hydrocarbon made from water and atmospheric CO2.
That is impractical without a source of cheap clean power like Fusion. Let's hope the Polywell reactor works out.
I will give you he is a good programmer. software expert? Maybe but things change and I am not sure that he is the best of the best. As to an expert on IP no I really do not believe that he is an expert in intellectual property law. He doesn't have a degree in law. So I think calling him an expert in intellectual property law is totally unfounded.
But the rest of your statements are clearly making excuses. I don't think that you can say that his not using the web has anything to do with him being an expert or as was stated "mucking around with the latest flavor of the month technology" That is so an excuse and a very poor one at that.
Sounds exactly like what the McCain campaign said.
"unless you really mean to question the software experience of the guy who wrote emacs..."
So he is unquestionable because he wrote an editor...
"In my experience, the real experts frequently don't have time or interest in mucking around with the latest flavor of the month technology because they're too busy thinking about real issues."
Yea that new fangled web thing just isn't worth using...
Please if you where telling me that is why he doesn't use Twitter or Facebook and that might hold water.
RMS is just odd. Frankly I have found many of his statements to be out of touch. That is my opinion. Yes the GPL is great, GCC is pretty nice but really does need work, and emacs is emacs love it or hate it is one of those classical pieces of software. But he sure isn't my leader.
Last time I checked you could use Bing or Yahoo for search. I think that most people still use Google for one big reason. It doesn't suck. If a product doesn't suck it is very hard to get them to move to another product even if it is better.
Heck Bing might be better but it isn't worth my time to change to it. Google got where it is because it is a good service. Now the product that they sell is different. They sell ads and there you do have some real competition with FaceBook selling ads. A lot of people spend a lot of time on FaceBook.
So I do not see it as a target for anti-trust.
I do tend to agree but the replacement cost of the fuel cells could be off set by a core charge on the old cells. Depending on how much of the value of the fuel cell can be reclaimed during recycling.
Of course you could park said fuel cell car next to a battery car that is is all the same things that you can drive across country without out stopping for a lengthy recharge every 300 miles. Oh and is available today without some revolutionary charging/battery tech that you can not buy yet.
Of course what everybody seems to be forgetting is that you can burn Hydrogen in any number of engines instead of using a Fuel Cell including gas turbines, Stirling, or a good old fashioned Otto cycle engine.
Actually most hydrogen is made from Natural Gas.
You could make it from wind or solar but that is pretty inefficient.
I am not a big fan of the hydrogen economy. It sounds good but when you start to look at all the problems it just doesn't work out. Hydrogen is great for rockets and wielding but not for cars IMHO.
I much prefer the idea of Methanol or even making the hydrogen into a synth fuel..
Exactly Kids should have some expectation of rights.
They don't own their lockers so searching those if fine IMHO. Book bags, purses, even asking them to empty their pockets is okay IMHO. If they refuse then call the Police and follow due process.
Well I don't think they would last long over Iranian airspace and there would be no reason for the Iranians not to shoot them down. Shooting one down in international airspace or in the airspace of another country would be a violation of international law so they might think twice about it.
Plus they are not cheap.
I wouldn't call ether of them belligerent. They both have their rules for how their code is used. Now it would have been really great if Nintendo had allowed it to released but they didn't.
Now if the ScummVM people where the sole copyright holders to all the code in ScummVM they could have duel licensed it. They could have charged Atari $x to use ScummVM in their product and used those funds to fund more development. They choose not to do or they couldn't do that.
No you put it in international air space.
But yea both are iffy. A globalhawk would probably be a better choice.
Of course that doesn't take in account resale value. Think about it, in ten years they may add 10 or 20 thousand dollars to the value of the home.
Actually the best would probably be a GlobalHawk. Cell and WiFi are going to be limited by line of sight. GlobalHawks can fly higher than a C130 or an AWACS.
Plus GobalHawks don't have families so if they shoot it down nobody dies which is a big plus.
Oh and remeber that florida thing?
I only had blue jeans, wool socks, a sweater, and a jean jacket to wear. I did buy some wool gloves as well. For most of the time I was there it was only down in the teens. Chilly to be sure but that last day and the ride to the air port was an experience.
Well I went to Rochester in February. Got to slip on ice for the first time in my life walking to dinner.
The people where very nice but I was glad to finish up that job. They day I left it -4 with a -23 windchill.
When I landed at Palm Beach it was 75.
Yea that would be hard to track down. So why sir do you have that 20 meter rig?
Countries have been using DF to stop that kind of stuff since WWII.
Humm. yea several billion dollar aircraft that can be used to coordinate air strikes right on there boarder will not bet anybody upset... ..
Actually you so wouldn't us AWACS for that. There are dedicated C-130s for that job. There is even a flying TV station
Some how I think any of the above lack subtlety.