quite honestly its currently cheaper to spend the money looking for the Higgs Boson than it is recreating the entire current model from scratch and coming up with evidence to support the change.
Not completely true - because the new theory must first account for known phenomena, and thus can use existing data (and at virtually zero cost).
there's a plausible chance I'd get busted for a DUI if I got stopped on the way home
That app would save me money and jail time, save my district a bunch of paperwork, and make the roads safer.
How does giving you the tools to drive impaired and avoid being caught doing so make the roads safer? Seriously, what kind of doublethink does it take to think that "I'm too buzzed to risk a field sobriety test, but I'm still a safe driver"* is a reasonable statement?.*
Worst case scenario is the appropriate side roads would need increased patrols.
No. The worst case scenario is an impaired driver that might have been caught, isn't - and plows into something or someone.
*No, blowing 0.001% isn't all it takes.
** No, "I think I'm a safe driver, therefore I am" isn't a reasonable answer. Study after study has shown people don't realize how impaired they are. Nor is "I've played Russian Roulette with other people's lives many times and not had a problem".
Not even close. I can receive GPS, cellular data, and wi-fi within the passenger compartment of a commercial jetliner - none of which would be possible if it were a faraday cage.
This is one probe, and when stacked with their (proceeding at a continental drift pace) manned program... Doesn't at all compare with what the US is accomplishing [1], let alone what it has accomplished.
I'm as concerned about where the US is going as the next guy, but let's leave the ignorant, ill educated, and reflexive US bashing a rest shall we?
[1] One probe at Mercury, one rover and and two orbiters at Mars, one probe in the Asteroid Belt, and a probe at Saturn. There's also a probe in Lunar orbit. Then there's the solar observatories. And Hubble. And the Voyagers. *Whew*, I'm out of breath and I haven't listed the probes on their way or the ones under construction yet.
Bottom line was that the space weather groups were asking that the power industry pay a lot of money for predictions and warnings that were not of the highest reliability (another sad-but-true fact).
Hello! McFly! It's not the power industry that pays - it's ME. The little guy at the end of the wire. And if you can't deliver reliable warnings, I can't see paying you.
After the risk-management boys got done crunching the numbers, the power industry decided that it was cheaper to ignore the problem and live with the fact that they might lose a generator every 11 years or so. The insurance folks will pick up the monetary tab
Duh. That's what insurance is for in the first place.
the Great Unwashed Public (also known as "the customers") will shiver in their dark unheated homes until things get fixed and like it.
The Great Unwashed can do without your high and mighty attitude. When the space weather folks can do their job (E.G. providing useful and timely warnings), then you can talk other than out of your nether regions.
As long as these events can be legally treated as unpredictable "acts of God"
Until you can provide timely and reliable predictions (which you admit you can't) then they are unpredictable acts of God and should be treated as such.
Trying to hide the real nature of this accident has undermined nuclear power technology greatly.
Ah, yes. Had they come right out and said "this is the worst accident since Chernobyl, one of the worst accidents ever, and will play out over months of increasing releases of radioactives and widening evacuation zones" everything would have been kittens and rainbows.
Pass me some of whatever that hallucinogenic is that you're smoking, because if it isn't already - it'll soon be illegal.
Sure, but there are already portable USB chargers for use with cell phones so you could plug your light into one of those in a pinch. You could also charge the flashlight from a cigarette lighter.
You miss the point - the issue isn't charging, it's availability. With conventional AA/AAA powered flashlights (or other devices), you can carry or trivially obtain spares (rechargeable or non) and then swap them out for constant availability. With USB charging, when your device goes dead - it's dead and unavailable until recharged. You also cannot cannibalize batteries between devices to further extend availability.
I really like the idea that you can charge the light over USB and program it too.
As with the poster above, that doesn't sound as much useful as it does geek marketing hype.
My 'system', such as it is, is already built around rechargeable AA batteries. As I have a pool of charged spares, that means I always have fresh batteries if a device dies, or can cannibalize between devices at need - and immediately have that device available. Having to wait to charge the flashlight and requiring an USB charger in addition to the kit I normally carry/keep track of isn't really acceptable.
Website administrator were putting false information into the MetaData tag in hopes of generating more web crawler search hits. Google decided to go off of what was actually being presetned on the page, and we all found that to be more useful.
Yes, we found that to be more useful - until website administrators learned to put false information into what is actually being presented on the page.
Yeah, but bitcoin is infinitely sub-dividable, so that argument is irrelevant.
Right - being infinitely sub-divideable means you have an endless supply of them on demand. Oh, wait. It doesn't.
Everyone will always be able to get enough to transact.
Um, no. You can only get bitcoins if someone is willing to give you bitcoins (as charity, or in exhange for goods or services). But, the problem is, like other hard currencies, their built in deflation means their is an incentive to hoard and a disincentive to spend - which has, historically lead to exactly the kind of crash I described.
Crashes of exactly the kind I described have happened multiple times throughout history. The US, with it's rapidly growing economy, was hit by them several times in the 19th century - despite multiple gold rushes and expanding gold mining activities.
There are 21 million buttcoins (roughly) to be mined, and that's it. Over time you have fewer buttcoins (because they can be destroyed) chasing after more goods (because of economic growth).
And that's one of the reasons we've moved from a hard currency economy to a fiat one - because hard currency economies are highly limited and difficult to grow. And hard currency economies aren't, contrary to popular belief, any more stable than fiat currency economies. When you literally cannot physically (or virtually in the case of Bitcoins) obtain the currency you need to make purchases or pay debts - the whole economy comes to a screeching halt.
And at this point, why are drug dealers the first to get on board with Bitcoin?
Because they can be moved around completely anonymously. This is an extraordinarily valuable property for people wishing to hide their assets from Da Man.
But what will the drug dealer do with the Bitcoins?
Spend 'em. Isn't that the point? And as TFA shows, just because a legitimate market doesn't exist, doesn't mean an illegitimate one doesn't either.
Computing doesn't quite seem to be ready for that yet. All of the big work, especially on the hardware side, is done by corporations, with huge arrays of people involved
Other than substituting "university" for "corporation" - that's different from the Nobel Prize(s) or any other major prize... how? When the Nobel Prize was started, Really Big Discoveries in the sciences were pretty much the discovery of a single person (with maybe a lab assistant or two) - but that's no longer true and hasn't been for a long time.
Yeah, it's not like nobody has ever taunted their opponents by saying: "You, you may have caught caught me - but you've also got half a thousand of my buddies coming to kick your redcoated asses".
The rifts are neat, but I think it's the class system that really changed things up. In MMO's, your used to having a set number of classes/skills, and you have to fit your play style into one of them. Rift doesn't do that. Instead you pick an archetype, and then can pick and chose form the available souls to craft a class to fit your play style and goals.
In other words, their class system is a crippled version of what Ultima Online was doing back 1997, or roughly what City Of Heroes was doing back in 2004.
The game even lets you swap these with little pain.
and thanks to all the crossover souls, you don't really have to be locked into a role. i mean, you can be a debuffer/healer with AOE nukes if you wanted to, or a pet/DD/dps, etc etc.
People are getting disgusted with MMOs, it is inherently amoral business.
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Once you realize that, everything about MMO stops being fun, every reward is spolied because you know it is conditioning to keep you playing to get further rewards.
True for you maybe. But the whole world isn't you.
Don't get me wrong, 38 isn't too old to be playing MMORPGs
Being just shy of 48 myself and an active MMORPG player, I should hope not.
Perhaps the MMORPG bubble is bursting for almost 40-somethings like himself, the article would be more believable if it came from a 20-something with some actual numbers showing a decline in players
And why would a 20-something be more believeable than a 30- or 40- something?
Pretty much the whole article is about how cool Rift is, how smart he is, and how cool Rift is. Other than being an unabashed Rift fanboy - the author's qualifications are what?
Just now, there are a great many matters pressing in on us that compete for the money it takes to send people to other worlds. Should we solve those problems first or are they a reason for going?"
The amount of money needed to go there is annually something like.1% of the money spent on 'solving' most of those problems. Not that any of them are actually solvable.
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Not completely true - because the new theory must first account for known phenomena, and thus can use existing data (and at virtually zero cost).
You failed to solve #2. You retain the magnetic field, but don't offer a solution to the problem of interference.
How does giving you the tools to drive impaired and avoid being caught doing so make the roads safer? Seriously, what kind of doublethink does it take to think that "I'm too buzzed to risk a field sobriety test, but I'm still a safe driver"* is a reasonable statement?.*
No. The worst case scenario is an impaired driver that might have been caught, isn't - and plows into something or someone.
*No, blowing 0.001% isn't all it takes.
** No, "I think I'm a safe driver, therefore I am" isn't a reasonable answer. Study after study has shown people don't realize how impaired they are. Nor is "I've played Russian Roulette with other people's lives many times and not had a problem".
You're quoting a reporter, not an engineer. I think that says all that needs to be said.
When you demonstrate it's an unreasonable fear instead of flinging mud, calling names, and invoking conspiracy theories... then we can talk.
Not even close. I can receive GPS, cellular data, and wi-fi within the passenger compartment of a commercial jetliner - none of which would be possible if it were a faraday cage.
China expanding into space? Really?
This is one probe, and when stacked with their (proceeding at a continental drift pace) manned program... Doesn't at all compare with what the US is accomplishing [1], let alone what it has accomplished.
I'm as concerned about where the US is going as the next guy, but let's leave the ignorant, ill educated, and reflexive US bashing a rest shall we?
[1] One probe at Mercury, one rover and and two orbiters at Mars, one probe in the Asteroid Belt, and a probe at Saturn. There's also a probe in Lunar orbit. Then there's the solar observatories. And Hubble. And the Voyagers. *Whew*, I'm out of breath and I haven't listed the probes on their way or the ones under construction yet.
Hello! McFly! It's not the power industry that pays - it's ME. The little guy at the end of the wire. And if you can't deliver reliable warnings, I can't see paying you.
Duh. That's what insurance is for in the first place.
The Great Unwashed can do without your high and mighty attitude. When the space weather folks can do their job (E.G. providing useful and timely warnings), then you can talk other than out of your nether regions.
Until you can provide timely and reliable predictions (which you admit you can't) then they are unpredictable acts of God and should be treated as such.
Ah, yes. Had they come right out and said "this is the worst accident since Chernobyl, one of the worst accidents ever, and will play out over months of increasing releases of radioactives and widening evacuation zones" everything would have been kittens and rainbows.
Pass me some of whatever that hallucinogenic is that you're smoking, because if it isn't already - it'll soon be illegal.
You miss the point - the issue isn't charging, it's availability. With conventional AA/AAA powered flashlights (or other devices), you can carry or trivially obtain spares (rechargeable or non) and then swap them out for constant availability. With USB charging, when your device goes dead - it's dead and unavailable until recharged. You also cannot cannibalize batteries between devices to further extend availability.
As with the poster above, that doesn't sound as much useful as it does geek marketing hype.
My 'system', such as it is, is already built around rechargeable AA batteries. As I have a pool of charged spares, that means I always have fresh batteries if a device dies, or can cannibalize between devices at need - and immediately have that device available. Having to wait to charge the flashlight and requiring an USB charger in addition to the kit I normally carry/keep track of isn't really acceptable.
Not for the US. The vast majority of our oil comes from Canada, Mexico, Venezuala, and other locations in the Americas.
Yes, we found that to be more useful - until website administrators learned to put false information into what is actually being presented on the page.
Right - being infinitely sub-divideable means you have an endless supply of them on demand. Oh, wait. It doesn't.
Um, no. You can only get bitcoins if someone is willing to give you bitcoins (as charity, or in exhange for goods or services). But, the problem is, like other hard currencies, their built in deflation means their is an incentive to hoard and a disincentive to spend - which has, historically lead to exactly the kind of crash I described.
How divisible they are is irrelevant.
No, I'm correct - you're just utterly clueless.
Crashes of exactly the kind I described have happened multiple times throughout history. The US, with it's rapidly growing economy, was hit by them several times in the 19th century - despite multiple gold rushes and expanding gold mining activities.
And that's one of the reasons we've moved from a hard currency economy to a fiat one - because hard currency economies are highly limited and difficult to grow. And hard currency economies aren't, contrary to popular belief, any more stable than fiat currency economies. When you literally cannot physically (or virtually in the case of Bitcoins) obtain the currency you need to make purchases or pay debts - the whole economy comes to a screeching halt.
Because they can be moved around completely anonymously. This is an extraordinarily valuable property for people wishing to hide their assets from Da Man.
Spend 'em. Isn't that the point? And as TFA shows, just because a legitimate market doesn't exist, doesn't mean an illegitimate one doesn't either.
Other than substituting "university" for "corporation" - that's different from the Nobel Prize(s) or any other major prize... how? When the Nobel Prize was started, Really Big Discoveries in the sciences were pretty much the discovery of a single person (with maybe a lab assistant or two) - but that's no longer true and hasn't been for a long time.
And I'm supposed to care... why?
Seriously, sounds like the net-nerds version of an oldies station, relevant mostly to greybeards trying to relieve their youth.
Yeah, it's not like nobody has ever taunted their opponents by saying: "You, you may have caught caught me - but you've also got half a thousand of my buddies coming to kick your redcoated asses".
In other words, their class system is a crippled version of what Ultima Online was doing back 1997, or roughly what City Of Heroes was doing back in 2004.
Again, Ultima Online - 1997.
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True for you maybe. But the whole world isn't you.
Being just shy of 48 myself and an active MMORPG player, I should hope not.
And why would a 20-something be more believeable than a 30- or 40- something?
Pretty much the whole article is about how cool Rift is, how smart he is, and how cool Rift is. Other than being an unabashed Rift fanboy - the author's qualifications are what?
The amount of money needed to go there is annually something like .1% of the money spent on 'solving' most of those problems. Not that any of them are actually solvable.