Or the women say "fuck you I'm not using/don't have a webcam to prove myself female" and either play as males or don't play at all. I'd guess more like 99% male 1% female.
Did you ever use it? For more than a few days? ME was a trainwreck when it came to stability. It made Windows 98 look rock-solid stable by comparison. It was like a hybrid of Windows 98SE and 2000 that took the worst features of both and combined them. Its Internet Explorer sucked, its networking sucked, its driver support sucked, its desktop features sucked, it was an awful mess. Calling it "Mistake Edition" is about the best it could hope for.
Anyway, point is on the many days when you use less than capacity and the batteries are fully charged, you are just throwing away the power when the batteries are full.
How is that "not green"? Sure there is some additional environmental cost in manufacturing/installing a slightly over-built system, but I doubt it's that big a deal.
"Wasted" solar energy happens all the time. Almost all of it is wasted into space. What little does hit Earth is mostly wasted reflecting off ice or desert or clouds and back into space. Some of what's left is wasted heating the air and ground.
Out of all the resources we have that can possibly be squandered, solar energy is the one I'm least worried about.
Uranium fuel is actually almost infinite. If supply ever became a concern, we'd just start reprocessing the waste to remove the neutron poisons instead of buying fresh new uranium (which is so ridiculously cheap that it's silly not to at this point).
The amount of uranium that actually gets *used up* (the amount that gets turned into non-radioactive material, turned into neutron poisons, or especially the amount actually converted from mass to energy) is almost negligible on a macro-scale.
There's also Thorium, which while a little trickier to use and has significantly less energy potential per unit, is so disgustingly plentiful that it would easily last us until the sun goes red giant (At which point solar energy is definitely the way to go *snicker*)
I fail to see how the Wiimote could provide a good duel experience with light sabers. You'd have no feedback when you hit your opponent's light saber. Your arm would continue to swing while your on-screen avatar's saber is blocked by your opponent's, and more than likely, if you move your hands back to match what shows on-screen, it'll move your saber while you do that in a direction you don't intend.
First of all, "no feedback" is not entirely true. The Wiimote has a pretty intense rumble ability. And what's the alternative, to try and do swordplay with a D-pad? Yikes.
Besides, up until very recently racing games had no feedback either, and they suffered almost all of the same problems, and yet somehow, they were still a lot of fun. It's about making the best with what you've got. If you find a better swordplay controller than the Wiimote, and manage to get market acceptance for it, I'd be more than happy to play a sword game on it. Until then, the Wiimote will do just fine.
Wah wah wah. My thoughts to the oil companies, as an Albertan: You got a few years of record profits through no actual overarching cleverness on your part. Consider yourselves lucky that you even got that much. You got your cake, now it's our turn.
You're not going to have enough budget to pull off any sort of astrophotography that will satisfy you, so I would recommend you start saving up.
For astrophotography you absolutely *must* have an equatorial mount, it is simply impossible to do astrophotography with a stock altitude-azimuth mount, because while it can still track the sky as it moves, the view will rotate as it does so. With an equatorial mount, the view stays properly aligned even while it tracks the sky. German equatorial mount is the preferred mount for astrophotography. Even looking at just the mount you've pretty much blown your budget right there.
Secondly, you're going to want a high quality right-ascension drive motor. It's possible to get by without one, though tedious and limiting, but don't bother with a cheap one. The gearing is insufficient for astrophotography and will cause jerking and backlash resulting in awful pictures.
You'll also need to get a heavy duty mount and tripod, because a normal tripod is only designed for the weight of a telescope, not a telescope with a camera hanging off the end. You also need to make sure you've got a very sturdy, firm mount, because any vibration at all will ruin your pictures. Remember we're talking about huge magnifications and long exposures here, it's extremely easy to blur the pictures. Astrophotography is a challenging enough hobby to begin with. Inferior equipment can make it damn near impossible.
You'll notice I haven't even talked about the actual telescope yet. That's how important the mount and tripod is to astrophotography. So now that I've completely blown your budget, I'll try and be a bit more gentle on the telescope side of things. Probably the most bang for your buck in this case will be a newtonian reflector telescope. They're by far the cheapest type of scope per inch of aperture. Sort of big and unwieldy, and they require very precise and regular maintenance (called collimation). I'd recommend a bare minimum of 5" aperture, but as high as 8" if you can manage it.
Then you have to figure out how to mount your camera to the telescope, which is a black art in and of itself. Duct tape is not recommended. For most SLRs and telescope brands you can find a suitable T-mount adaptor which will allow you to attach your camera in place of the telescope's eyepiece. For non-SLRs, I'm not sure. If you were thinking of getting an actual astronomy CCD camera (such as the popular SBIG brand) well that alone will blow your budget and then a whole lot more. Then you'll want a second one to use it as an autoguider.:)
Astronomy isn't cheap, but it is rewarding. Good luck and clear skies.
Yes, you could also just use a voltage spike on the cartridge to overload the 10NES circuit and allow the game to work. Just because it was ineffective, crude, and simplistic doesn't change the intentions behind it.
Do you think that Sony's rootkit was okay too because you could just hold down shift to bypass the autoloader? Should every CD come with a rootkit?
A neutron bomb (in theory) kills all life, human or otherwise. Radiation-resistant species like cockroaches might survive. A neutron bomb would be far from eco-friendly. It would be an ecological disaster. The point of a neutron bomb was to leave *things* (human-made ones) intact, like factories, powerplants, streets, vehicles, artillery, while killing all the living things around, human, animal, or plant. An eco-terrorist would probably want to do the opposite.
Or Star Trek, or Babylon 5, or just about any sci-fi series with humanoid aliens. As long as they're played by human actors, unclothed humanoid aliens are to be pretty few and far between (alas.)
No, he's right. Nintendo's 10NES was restricting users as well, the only difference is that there was that the third party is the one who dealt with getting around the problem, not the users. With homebrew games today, the fundamental problem is very similar, it's just that the third party developers are users themselves and no longer have the means required to get around the DRM. As a result it is the users who are now expected to get around the protections (by installing mod chips in their own consoles), and it is now suddenly seen as restricting users rights to play unlicensed games, even though it is the exact same problem at its core.
Really, it has always been about restricting users rights to play unlicensed games with their own hardware, the only difference is which party has been forced to work around the DRM. Used to be the third-party developers, now it's the users. It's equally unfair, either way.
Actually, near infrared is not blocked by water vapor, in fact water vapor is extremely transparent to near infrared light even moreso than visible light. That's why satellites can use infrared to see through clouds, and also why adaptive optics work so well in the near infrared range.
Far infrared is a different story, and you're absolutely correct there.
You might be right, but experts in the field have been convinced for over a decade that the formation of the plaques is what causes the problems. I'm not saying experts can't be wrong, but generally they're a pretty safe bet. Isn't it possible that the plaque growth is what causes the brain cells to die off? In which case dissolving the plaques seems like it would be a good treatment plan.
RedHat/CentOS/Fedora are also popular choices for business
Yeah, much to my dismay. At least with Debian/Ubuntu you don't have to worry about your subscription running out and suddenly not being able to install software anymore without paying more money. Also, up2date is a train wreck. You can't even upgrade your python version on the system without up2date breaking. It also has only a tiny subset of the software packages available in Ubuntu. Why does anyone use it? I don't get it.
Unfortunately, they have international trade laws to deal with. Or, more likely, they just want to charge everyone a different price and haven't decided how much money they can milk your country for, and setting the wrong price would poison future sales.
I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't possible to get around that with careful engineering. Otherwise the ISS would have melted by now. However, in the general case where all surfaces are the same material and color, the solar radiation absorbed will be more than the heat radiated away.
Just because Babe Ruth struck out sometimes doesn't mean he was a shitty baseball player.
No but if he decides for one season to start running around throwing his bat at the other players, setting the stands on fire and pissing on the umpires, I think we'd have a right to be angry at him for it.
The thermal heat capacity of space is also near 0. It's only "cold" in space because it's incapable of holding heat. If you put something in space, the only kind of cooling it can do is radiative. This is not nearly enough to counter the heating effect of solar radiation it absorbs.
I don't think you understand... you're not supposed to ever let them sit that long. That's my whole point. Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance. You can't just drop your "backups" into a vault and go "ahhh, now they are safe for eternity, because they are digital". It's not magic.
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UPS in North America is just as bad.
Or the women say "fuck you I'm not using/don't have a webcam to prove myself female" and either play as males or don't play at all. I'd guess more like 99% male 1% female.
Did you ever use it? For more than a few days? ME was a trainwreck when it came to stability. It made Windows 98 look rock-solid stable by comparison. It was like a hybrid of Windows 98SE and 2000 that took the worst features of both and combined them. Its Internet Explorer sucked, its networking sucked, its driver support sucked, its desktop features sucked, it was an awful mess. Calling it "Mistake Edition" is about the best it could hope for.
Anyway, point is on the many days when you use less than capacity and the batteries are fully charged, you are just throwing away the power when the batteries are full.
How is that "not green"? Sure there is some additional environmental cost in manufacturing/installing a slightly over-built system, but I doubt it's that big a deal.
"Wasted" solar energy happens all the time. Almost all of it is wasted into space. What little does hit Earth is mostly wasted reflecting off ice or desert or clouds and back into space. Some of what's left is wasted heating the air and ground.
Out of all the resources we have that can possibly be squandered, solar energy is the one I'm least worried about.
Well at least there's still the option to just print it out as-is and write on it. How quaint. :)
Uranium fuel is actually almost infinite. If supply ever became a concern, we'd just start reprocessing the waste to remove the neutron poisons instead of buying fresh new uranium (which is so ridiculously cheap that it's silly not to at this point).
The amount of uranium that actually gets *used up* (the amount that gets turned into non-radioactive material, turned into neutron poisons, or especially the amount actually converted from mass to energy) is almost negligible on a macro-scale.
There's also Thorium, which while a little trickier to use and has significantly less energy potential per unit, is so disgustingly plentiful that it would easily last us until the sun goes red giant (At which point solar energy is definitely the way to go *snicker*)
I actually WANT the police to overreact in cases like this in order to make me feel safer.
Fixed that for ya.
Please, share your secrets then. :)
I fail to see how the Wiimote could provide a good duel experience with light sabers. You'd have no feedback when you hit your opponent's light saber. Your arm would continue to swing while your on-screen avatar's saber is blocked by your opponent's, and more than likely, if you move your hands back to match what shows on-screen, it'll move your saber while you do that in a direction you don't intend.
First of all, "no feedback" is not entirely true. The Wiimote has a pretty intense rumble ability. And what's the alternative, to try and do swordplay with a D-pad? Yikes.
Besides, up until very recently racing games had no feedback either, and they suffered almost all of the same problems, and yet somehow, they were still a lot of fun. It's about making the best with what you've got. If you find a better swordplay controller than the Wiimote, and manage to get market acceptance for it, I'd be more than happy to play a sword game on it. Until then, the Wiimote will do just fine.
Wah wah wah. My thoughts to the oil companies, as an Albertan: You got a few years of record profits through no actual overarching cleverness on your part. Consider yourselves lucky that you even got that much. You got your cake, now it's our turn.
You're not going to have enough budget to pull off any sort of astrophotography that will satisfy you, so I would recommend you start saving up.
:)
For astrophotography you absolutely *must* have an equatorial mount, it is simply impossible to do astrophotography with a stock altitude-azimuth mount, because while it can still track the sky as it moves, the view will rotate as it does so. With an equatorial mount, the view stays properly aligned even while it tracks the sky. German equatorial mount is the preferred mount for astrophotography. Even looking at just the mount you've pretty much blown your budget right there.
Secondly, you're going to want a high quality right-ascension drive motor. It's possible to get by without one, though tedious and limiting, but don't bother with a cheap one. The gearing is insufficient for astrophotography and will cause jerking and backlash resulting in awful pictures.
You'll also need to get a heavy duty mount and tripod, because a normal tripod is only designed for the weight of a telescope, not a telescope with a camera hanging off the end. You also need to make sure you've got a very sturdy, firm mount, because any vibration at all will ruin your pictures. Remember we're talking about huge magnifications and long exposures here, it's extremely easy to blur the pictures. Astrophotography is a challenging enough hobby to begin with. Inferior equipment can make it damn near impossible.
You'll notice I haven't even talked about the actual telescope yet. That's how important the mount and tripod is to astrophotography. So now that I've completely blown your budget, I'll try and be a bit more gentle on the telescope side of things. Probably the most bang for your buck in this case will be a newtonian reflector telescope. They're by far the cheapest type of scope per inch of aperture. Sort of big and unwieldy, and they require very precise and regular maintenance (called collimation). I'd recommend a bare minimum of 5" aperture, but as high as 8" if you can manage it.
Then you have to figure out how to mount your camera to the telescope, which is a black art in and of itself. Duct tape is not recommended. For most SLRs and telescope brands you can find a suitable T-mount adaptor which will allow you to attach your camera in place of the telescope's eyepiece. For non-SLRs, I'm not sure. If you were thinking of getting an actual astronomy CCD camera (such as the popular SBIG brand) well that alone will blow your budget and then a whole lot more. Then you'll want a second one to use it as an autoguider.
Astronomy isn't cheap, but it is rewarding. Good luck and clear skies.
Yes, you could also just use a voltage spike on the cartridge to overload the 10NES circuit and allow the game to work. Just because it was ineffective, crude, and simplistic doesn't change the intentions behind it.
Do you think that Sony's rootkit was okay too because you could just hold down shift to bypass the autoloader? Should every CD come with a rootkit?
A neutron bomb (in theory) kills all life, human or otherwise. Radiation-resistant species like cockroaches might survive. A neutron bomb would be far from eco-friendly. It would be an ecological disaster. The point of a neutron bomb was to leave *things* (human-made ones) intact, like factories, powerplants, streets, vehicles, artillery, while killing all the living things around, human, animal, or plant. An eco-terrorist would probably want to do the opposite.
Or Star Trek, or Babylon 5, or just about any sci-fi series with humanoid aliens. As long as they're played by human actors, unclothed humanoid aliens are to be pretty few and far between (alas.)
No, he's right. Nintendo's 10NES was restricting users as well, the only difference is that there was that the third party is the one who dealt with getting around the problem, not the users. With homebrew games today, the fundamental problem is very similar, it's just that the third party developers are users themselves and no longer have the means required to get around the DRM. As a result it is the users who are now expected to get around the protections (by installing mod chips in their own consoles), and it is now suddenly seen as restricting users rights to play unlicensed games, even though it is the exact same problem at its core.
Really, it has always been about restricting users rights to play unlicensed games with their own hardware, the only difference is which party has been forced to work around the DRM. Used to be the third-party developers, now it's the users. It's equally unfair, either way.
Actually, near infrared is not blocked by water vapor, in fact water vapor is extremely transparent to near infrared light even moreso than visible light. That's why satellites can use infrared to see through clouds, and also why adaptive optics work so well in the near infrared range.
Far infrared is a different story, and you're absolutely correct there.
You might be right, but experts in the field have been convinced for over a decade that the formation of the plaques is what causes the problems. I'm not saying experts can't be wrong, but generally they're a pretty safe bet. Isn't it possible that the plaque growth is what causes the brain cells to die off? In which case dissolving the plaques seems like it would be a good treatment plan.
RedHat/CentOS/Fedora are also popular choices for business
Yeah, much to my dismay. At least with Debian/Ubuntu you don't have to worry about your subscription running out and suddenly not being able to install software anymore without paying more money. Also, up2date is a train wreck. You can't even upgrade your python version on the system without up2date breaking. It also has only a tiny subset of the software packages available in Ubuntu. Why does anyone use it? I don't get it.
Unfortunately, they have international trade laws to deal with. Or, more likely, they just want to charge everyone a different price and haven't decided how much money they can milk your country for, and setting the wrong price would poison future sales.
I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't possible to get around that with careful engineering. Otherwise the ISS would have melted by now. However, in the general case where all surfaces are the same material and color, the solar radiation absorbed will be more than the heat radiated away.
We require more vespene gas!
Just because Babe Ruth struck out sometimes doesn't mean he was a shitty baseball player.
No but if he decides for one season to start running around throwing his bat at the other players, setting the stands on fire and pissing on the umpires, I think we'd have a right to be angry at him for it.
The thermal heat capacity of space is also near 0. It's only "cold" in space because it's incapable of holding heat. If you put something in space, the only kind of cooling it can do is radiative. This is not nearly enough to counter the heating effect of solar radiation it absorbs.
But I doubt you have proof. Theories are malleable.
I don't think you understand... you're not supposed to ever let them sit that long. That's my whole point. Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance. You can't just drop your "backups" into a vault and go "ahhh, now they are safe for eternity, because they are digital". It's not magic.