If only we had a way to predict when the sun would set...
Ah the use of subtle truth may not work well here:)
But this comment is so much on the money it's not funny. \
A mixed strategy of
ramping up just before the lead time required to ramp up so there's no gap shock
Realising that as night demand rises day facing business demand drops which means the gap may not b as large as thought
Deploying capacitors in a way that they can take the load. Probably not here yet but what I've been reading is a molten sodium tower in a new or existing development fed by the solar , wind or whatever will reduce the overall need to ramp up at night.
If it is so bad then why not ban tobacco? The problem with tobacco is that it is so widely available, making getting off the stuff so hard. I certainly would not visit a dealer to get illegal baccy.
The reality is that governments are addicted to the tax income. 11 billion a year in Australia.
Yes the tax take is attractive to governments. Unfortunately the tax take doesn't offset completely the cost to the system of illnesses caused by Tobacco.
Banning Tobacco outright would have to get past the lobby groups, a problem in Australia and apparently a bigger problem in the US, as well as the likelihood it would just spawn an unregulated black market. Differing Tax regimes in Australia has already spawned a black market moving tobacco products from a lower taxed state to a higher taxed state.
It may be the increasing tax cost on tobacco along with other measures are more effective in control than outright banning would ever be.
It's really the only viable answer to piracy that's left and publishers are embracing it wholeheartedly.
....
It turns out that there's another answer to piracy that works: sell your product in a way that's easy to use at a reasonable price. Stop worrying about pirates and start worrying about customers. Someone who wouldn't buy your game anyway who pirates it is not a lost sale, but someone who can't be bothered to put up with your treating them like a criminal and so doesn't buy from you is. Buying a game from gog.com is easier than pirating and, if you factor in the cost of your time, probably cheaper as well.
Sorry you'll never progress in the content sales arena when you speak sense. The DRM touts will now attack your logic with utter bullshit.
Give me a product I want for a reasonable price and I will happily hand over my money, because I feel that I'm getting something valuable in return. Don't, and... well, computer games are not the only form of entertainment available.
More sense. The drones, human variety, are coming for you
The problem is that in our society, we are bathed in countless stress-causing events which were not around during the millions of evolutionary years we spent not having to deal with 8 to 5 cubicle work, tax time, propaganda and traffic congestion when you're late. -Stressors which cannot be effectively dealt with by Fight or Flight responses.
It's useful to have some tools at our disposal when dealing with these (very) new day-to-day pressures.
Fair point as long as they aren't the whole of your arsenal. I read some creative wanker who claimed he never used adrenaline when creating cause it clouded the mind. Dimwit.
The vagus nerve does a lot of really cool things which don't get a lot of appreciation.
Cats purr to self-stimulate it. That's what they're doing when they make that noise. And you can do it also. It orders the mind, creating calm and clarity. When you're affronted with terror or high emotion, "pipe breathe" and within half a minute, you're in the zone, able to think and react with calm precision to high-stress situations. And that's just *one* thing.
So yeah, let's allow big pharma to cyberman our core nervous apparatus for something as incredibly stupid as a weight loss gimmick.
Yeah of course in a critical scenario enhancing the flight response over the fight response is always going to have a good outcome.
Whilst you're purring yourself to calmness people who use both responses often make the right choice.
This concept some people have that adrenaline is only used by muscle bound idjits is somewhat amusing. At least evolutionary forces have an answer to the idjit response.
Wrong: BarbaraHudson cheats moderation by sockpuppets http://science.slashdot.org/co... and that is dishonorable and scumbaggish. Most could care less if BarbaraHudson was foolish enough to attempt to become a woman, which he/she is not by a long shot. Get real.
Attack the deed not the person. By attacking her gender choice you show yourself to be less than an idiot and certainly not brave enough to be a man.
Nonsense, malarkey, and hocus pocus. That's 5 links to articles, all of which make assertions that are not tested or are too vague to be easily testable.
"Putting chemicals on your skin is actually far worse than ingesting them.
Which chemicals? This statement could be true for some, and patently false for others. Ditto for all the stuff you said about the liver. (IANAD but I've taken biochem, so, come at me if you like)
That Dr. Hyman article is BS.... I can't believe how hard that fucking vaccine myth is to stamp out. THE RESEARCH WAS FRAUDULENT! (and abusive!)
Concerning autism and vitamin D, correlation and causation....
If I seem shrill about this, well, my brother is autistic, and I am extremely BS-averse.
"That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
Apparently you don't like LBGTt peeps. Not sure if it's your blatant homophobia or just the totally inane bringing in of sexual choice to a science article.
"Too fucking bad buy a new phone" is not a proper response for a gaping security flaw. I hold Google accountable, as well as the handset manufacturers.
You forgot the Telcos who load Androids with 4.7 giga tons of useless shit then refuse to update the phone as it would be to expensive to update said shit no one wanted in the first place.
Thankfully I bought a unlocked phone so it now only has 2.3 gigatons of useless Google shit I never use.
Not every male peer hirer assumes a peer has the same genitalia. Until the misogynist time wasters are removed from a position of making decisions then the problem will continue.
When a company moves from innovating to abusing its market share, it's usually not a good sign.
Except when you get a phone with an old version of Android and loads of proprietary bloatware 'innovation' the phone sucks in ways it would not suck if it just had the up-to-date integrated Google app suite and android versions.
In this instance, the more Google succeeds, the better the products are.
Wow your definition of better fails to match reality. Google crapware as a mandatory is not better.
Given Village Roadshow and Foxtel apparently have our AG in their pockets, and Rupert baby owns our PM, I'm sure that many many millions will be spent trying to block VPN's.
Quickflix's two big problems are most of it's movies are on DVD mailed out and they are caught in the let's overcharge the Aussies mentality of the content providers so their offering is tiny.
Foxtel are trying to pretend to lower prices at the moment but are more interested in getting the govt to try the great firewall of Aus and harsh penalties for accessing content that doesn't have the 50+% surcharge they love.
Oh for the days when Governments were of the people and for the people rather than of the highest bidder for the highest bidder.
You jest but first it was global warming, then global cooling, than warming again and finally climate change. What it should be is "atmospheric CO2 level rise"
...
Instead we got decades of alarmist and bogus predictions. its no surprise that so many folks are so dismissive now.
The fact that it's not just a rise on CO2 or the fact that a growth in one season is not a trend is exactly what the deniers will batten on to as proof positive that human mediated climate change is not happening.
A large part of the denialists increasingly strident position is that there might be climate change happening but that humans have had little to no impact on it so continuing to burn fossil fuels won't have an impact.
I'd be fascinated to see the evidence that have been decades of alarmist and bogus predictions.
and I can think of a certain group of American Democrats who despite whatever noises they make at the end of the day are equally mega-corporate bitches same as the Republicans. Obama and 90% of Democrats in Congress for starters....
Just because both sides of your Govt are broken / corrupt doesn't mean the system is right.
"Someone above hit the nail on the head when they commented on the price of bandwidth that Ads take."
It is 2014. You buy unlimited bandwidth, and the cost of it is zero. If you try to be cheap, then you should have purchased a regular cell phone, not one that uses data. Period.
I may have forgotten to mention that being in Australia the concept of unlimited bandwidth is a fairy tale that reportedly Yanks get.
I have one of the better plans in Australia at 4GB. Most are around 1 or 2 GB at most and come with usurious prices if you exceed the limit, ie 15c a Mb .
I think I'll go right on complaining about services that use data when I don't want them to.
I have been using Android since the first device... the T-Mobile G1... came out. In fact I pre-ordered it before it was released. It has never been a problem for me either, and I use plenty of apps. This whole thing is much ado about nothing, really. Yes some apps have an ad in them, but I never really even notice them. I pay attention to the UI and don't click on the ads. Thus my reason for not having any sympathy for the winers, who are likely M$ schills or just plain idiots.
Ah when you have no idea blame it all on M$. Lolz.
Someone above hit the nail on the head when they commented on the price of bandwidth that Ads take. Not only ads. If I keep an app I pay to get rid of the Ads naively thinking that was the end of the intrusiveness of Ads popping up. However when resetting a stats on a game I had paid to remove ads from I was a tad annoyed to find that the app was sending data about the phone on a weekly basis. A bit of digging around found most were doing it. Tie that in with the recent flurry of permissions that allow games to read contact details etc and the Privacy issue is quite large.
Apple should be bought in on the suite as the bandwidth use is much greater. My daughter being an Ebil Fruit empire captive is starting to have trouble as the Apps are chewing up the 1.5 Gb of data she gets a month. Of course the phone companies then gleefully charge 10c a Mb for data over the cap. Until she switched to IOS 7 it hadn't been an issue.
The assumptions that manufacturers and app providers have the right to take data when they feel fit without obvious permission is becoming an issue.
I'm surprised there is any software to release given the mainly manual nature of our voting system. I'd be more concerned that the transposition from Paper ballots to Paper Tallies to a Computer might be inaccurate. More likely than the software organising the results would be flawed in my opinion.
Gee I'm surprised that Farmers may not accept the evidence.
From a local perspective given that the Aussie farmers took over 50 years to understand that clear felling was causing the erosion they were bitching about it is not that great a surprise that their Swedish confrères are equally unable to understand reality.
Now if someone can prove that Farmers are the keystone of right wing blindness and not just religion the world will be explained.
If you're talking about the post-Jenny McCarthy era, you can't blame the current rise in whooping cough cases on her. Pertussis cases began rising in the 1980's, and the current spike takes off in 2003 - four years before she started her campaign.
However you can and should blame the dumbarses world wide who have been waging a campaign against vaccination based on at best a misunderstanding of the facts and at worst deliberate falsification of evidence.
Pertussis mutating and reducing the effectiveness of the vaccine is a bad thing. However I've yet to see a credible report that if the vaccination rate remained at pre noughties highs that mutated virus would have gained a foothold.
The Tea Party may be taking all the credit for this, but the reality is is far more grim than any political insider is willing to admit: this has been the most unpopular Congress since the Do-Nothing Congress of 1947-49.
And if anyone paid attention to history, what happened then is what will happen this time, too. The incumbents are in the crosshairs.
Of course replacing Idjits unwilling to compromise with bigger idjits even less willing to compromise is a good thing for democracy.
I hope Tony Abbot is in his not able to comprehend the written word mode right now as he'd take comfort from the nutters apparently winning.
Odd the court is against Tenure for Teachers, not that I disagree, but any suggestion that Tenure protections be removed from Judges would be ruled unconstitutional by the Judges.
The reasons that would be put forward for not removing Tenure for Judges apply equally to Teaching.
They should be moving towards a model where you can individually allow or disallow a permission, even if the app says it requires it. But this would cause chaos for all those apps that require 'full internet access' so they can push ads, collect data, invade your privacy, and molest your children.
Oh yeah this. Of course removing the permission from an App like say Kindle or a game that has no need to read SMS or phone calls would have course remove the ability to secretly and maliciously steal and sell metadata.
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If only we had a way to predict when the sun would set...
Ah the use of subtle truth may not work well here :)
But this comment is so much on the money it's not funny. \
A mixed strategy of
ramping up just before the lead time required to ramp up so there's no gap shock
Realising that as night demand rises day facing business demand drops which means the gap may not b as large as thought
Deploying capacitors in a way that they can take the load. Probably not here yet but what I've been reading is a molten sodium tower in a new or existing development fed by the solar , wind or whatever will reduce the overall need to ramp up at night.
If it is so bad then why not ban tobacco? The problem with tobacco is that it is so widely available, making getting off the stuff so hard. I certainly would not visit a dealer to get illegal baccy.
The reality is that governments are addicted to the tax income. 11 billion a year in Australia.
Yes the tax take is attractive to governments. Unfortunately the tax take doesn't offset completely the cost to the system of illnesses caused by Tobacco.
Banning Tobacco outright would have to get past the lobby groups, a problem in Australia and apparently a bigger problem in the US, as well as the likelihood it would just spawn an unregulated black market. Differing Tax regimes in Australia has already spawned a black market moving tobacco products from a lower taxed state to a higher taxed state.
It may be the increasing tax cost on tobacco along with other measures are more effective in control than outright banning would ever be.
It's really the only viable answer to piracy that's left and publishers are embracing it wholeheartedly.
....
It turns out that there's another answer to piracy that works: sell your product in a way that's easy to use at a reasonable price. Stop worrying about pirates and start worrying about customers. Someone who wouldn't buy your game anyway who pirates it is not a lost sale, but someone who can't be bothered to put up with your treating them like a criminal and so doesn't buy from you is. Buying a game from gog.com is easier than pirating and, if you factor in the cost of your time, probably cheaper as well.
Sorry you'll never progress in the content sales arena when you speak sense. The DRM touts will now attack your logic with utter bullshit.
Give me a product I want for a reasonable price and I will happily hand over my money, because I feel that I'm getting something valuable in return. Don't, and... well, computer games are not the only form of entertainment available.
More sense. The drones, human variety, are coming for you
The problem is that in our society, we are bathed in countless stress-causing events which were not around during the millions of evolutionary years we spent not having to deal with 8 to 5 cubicle work, tax time, propaganda and traffic congestion when you're late. -Stressors which cannot be effectively dealt with by Fight or Flight responses.
It's useful to have some tools at our disposal when dealing with these (very) new day-to-day pressures.
Fair point as long as they aren't the whole of your arsenal. I read some creative wanker who claimed he never used adrenaline when creating cause it clouded the mind. Dimwit.
The vagus nerve does a lot of really cool things which don't get a lot of appreciation.
Cats purr to self-stimulate it. That's what they're doing when they make that noise. And you can do it also. It orders the mind, creating calm and clarity. When you're affronted with terror or high emotion, "pipe breathe" and within half a minute, you're in the zone, able to think and react with calm precision to high-stress situations. And that's just *one* thing.
So yeah, let's allow big pharma to cyberman our core nervous apparatus for something as incredibly stupid as a weight loss gimmick.
Yeah of course in a critical scenario enhancing the flight response over the fight response is always going to have a good outcome.
Whilst you're purring yourself to calmness people who use both responses often make the right choice.
This concept some people have that adrenaline is only used by muscle bound idjits is somewhat amusing. At least evolutionary forces have an answer to the idjit response.
Wrong: BarbaraHudson cheats moderation by sockpuppets http://science.slashdot.org/co... and that is dishonorable and scumbaggish. Most could care less if BarbaraHudson was foolish enough to attempt to become a woman, which he/she is not by a long shot. Get real.
Attack the deed not the person. By attacking her gender choice you show yourself to be less than an idiot and certainly not brave enough to be a man.
Nonsense, malarkey, and hocus pocus. That's 5 links to articles, all of which make assertions that are not tested or are too vague to be easily testable.
"Putting chemicals on your skin is actually far worse than ingesting them.
Which chemicals? This statement could be true for some, and patently false for others. Ditto for all the stuff you said about the liver. (IANAD but I've taken biochem, so, come at me if you like)
That Dr. Hyman article is BS.... I can't believe how hard that fucking vaccine myth is to stamp out. THE RESEARCH WAS FRAUDULENT! (and abusive!)
Concerning autism and vitamin D, correlation and causation....
If I seem shrill about this, well, my brother is autistic, and I am extremely BS-averse.
"That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
-Christopher Hitchens
Oh I like this person. Short, sharp and surgical.
zzzing
BarbaraHudson got her/his tranny ass kicked again and ran http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Apparently you don't like LBGTt peeps. Not sure if it's your blatant homophobia or just the totally inane bringing in of sexual choice to a science article.
And somehow this is an acceptable situation?
"Too fucking bad buy a new phone" is not a proper response for a gaping security flaw. I hold Google accountable, as well as the handset manufacturers.
You forgot the Telcos who load Androids with 4.7 giga tons of useless shit then refuse to update the phone as it would be to expensive to update said shit no one wanted in the first place.
Thankfully I bought a unlocked phone so it now only has 2.3 gigatons of useless Google shit I never use.
What have Republicans got to do with it? This is in the UK, they don't have Republicans there.
They do have right wing whackers who think small government will result in Business acting responsibly. /lolz
.... Misogynist self serving whining ....
Not every male peer hirer assumes a peer has the same genitalia. Until the misogynist time wasters are removed from a position of making decisions then the problem will continue.
When a company moves from innovating to abusing its market share, it's usually not a good sign.
Except when you get a phone with an old version of Android and loads of proprietary bloatware 'innovation' the phone sucks in ways it would not suck if it just had the up-to-date integrated Google app suite and android versions.
In this instance, the more Google succeeds, the better the products are.
Wow your definition of better fails to match reality. Google crapware as a mandatory is not better.
Given Village Roadshow and Foxtel apparently have our AG in their pockets, and Rupert baby owns our PM, I'm sure that many many millions will be spent trying to block VPN's.
Quickflix's two big problems are most of it's movies are on DVD mailed out and they are caught in the let's overcharge the Aussies mentality of the content providers so their offering is tiny.
Foxtel are trying to pretend to lower prices at the moment but are more interested in getting the govt to try the great firewall of Aus and harsh penalties for accessing content that doesn't have the 50+% surcharge they love.
Oh for the days when Governments were of the people and for the people rather than of the highest bidder for the highest bidder.
You jest but first it was global warming, then global cooling, than warming again and finally climate change. What it should be is "atmospheric CO2 level rise"
Instead we got decades of alarmist and bogus predictions. its no surprise that so many folks are so dismissive now.
The fact that it's not just a rise on CO2 or the fact that a growth in one season is not a trend is exactly what the deniers will batten on to as proof positive that human mediated climate change is not happening.
A large part of the denialists increasingly strident position is that there might be climate change happening but that humans have had little to no impact on it so continuing to burn fossil fuels won't have an impact.
I'd be fascinated to see the evidence that have been decades of alarmist and bogus predictions.
Yep totally agree that because the Govt might be able to brick your phone the ability to lower theft rates should be withheld from the populace.
Of course bricking your phone makes it much harder for them to listen to your phone calls but needs must.
Oh sorry /sarcasm
and I can think of a certain group of American Democrats who despite whatever noises they make at the end of the day are equally mega-corporate bitches same as the Republicans. Obama and 90% of Democrats in Congress for starters....
Just because both sides of your Govt are broken / corrupt doesn't mean the system is right.
It is 2014. You buy unlimited bandwidth, and the cost of it is zero. If you try to be cheap, then you should have purchased a regular cell phone, not one that uses data. Period.
I may have forgotten to mention that being in Australia the concept of unlimited bandwidth is a fairy tale that reportedly Yanks get.
I have one of the better plans in Australia at 4GB. Most are around 1 or 2 GB at most and come with usurious prices if you exceed the limit, ie 15c a Mb .
I think I'll go right on complaining about services that use data when I don't want them to.
I have been using Android since the first device ... the T-Mobile G1 ... came out. In fact I pre-ordered it before it was released. It has never been a problem for me either, and I use plenty of apps. This whole thing is much ado about nothing, really. Yes some apps have an ad in them, but I never really even notice them. I pay attention to the UI and don't click on the ads. Thus my reason for not having any sympathy for the winers, who are likely M$ schills or just plain idiots.
Ah when you have no idea blame it all on M$. Lolz.
Someone above hit the nail on the head when they commented on the price of bandwidth that Ads take. Not only ads. If I keep an app I pay to get rid of the Ads naively thinking that was the end of the intrusiveness of Ads popping up. However when resetting a stats on a game I had paid to remove ads from I was a tad annoyed to find that the app was sending data about the phone on a weekly basis. A bit of digging around found most were doing it. Tie that in with the recent flurry of permissions that allow games to read contact details etc and the Privacy issue is quite large.
Apple should be bought in on the suite as the bandwidth use is much greater. My daughter being an Ebil Fruit empire captive is starting to have trouble as the Apps are chewing up the 1.5 Gb of data she gets a month. Of course the phone companies then gleefully charge 10c a Mb for data over the cap. Until she switched to IOS 7 it hadn't been an issue.
The assumptions that manufacturers and app providers have the right to take data when they feel fit without obvious permission is becoming an issue.
I'm surprised there is any software to release given the mainly manual nature of our voting system. I'd be more concerned that the transposition from Paper ballots to Paper Tallies to a Computer might be inaccurate. More likely than the software organising the results would be flawed in my opinion.
The books were absolute shite.
For once the screen version was true to the books.
Gee I'm surprised that Farmers may not accept the evidence.
From a local perspective given that the Aussie farmers took over 50 years to understand that clear felling was causing the erosion they were bitching about it is not that great a surprise that their Swedish confrères are equally unable to understand reality.
Now if someone can prove that Farmers are the keystone of right wing blindness and not just religion the world will be explained.
However you can and should blame the dumbarses world wide who have been waging a campaign against vaccination based on at best a misunderstanding of the facts and at worst deliberate falsification of evidence.
Pertussis mutating and reducing the effectiveness of the vaccine is a bad thing. However I've yet to see a credible report that if the vaccination rate remained at pre noughties highs that mutated virus would have gained a foothold.
The Tea Party may be taking all the credit for this, but the reality is is far more grim than any political insider is willing to admit: this has been the most unpopular Congress since the Do-Nothing Congress of 1947-49.
And if anyone paid attention to history, what happened then is what will happen this time, too. The incumbents are in the crosshairs.
Of course replacing Idjits unwilling to compromise with bigger idjits even less willing to compromise is a good thing for democracy.
I hope Tony Abbot is in his not able to comprehend the written word mode right now as he'd take comfort from the nutters apparently winning.
Odd the court is against Tenure for Teachers, not that I disagree, but any suggestion that Tenure protections be removed from Judges would be ruled unconstitutional by the Judges.
The reasons that would be put forward for not removing Tenure for Judges apply equally to Teaching.
They should be moving towards a model where you can individually allow or disallow a permission, even if the app says it requires it. But this would cause chaos for all those apps that require 'full internet access' so they can push ads, collect data, invade your privacy, and molest your children.
Oh yeah this. Of course removing the permission from an App like say Kindle or a game that has no need to read SMS or phone calls would have course remove the ability to secretly and maliciously steal and sell metadata.
That would be an evil Google wouldn't allow.