You know, I'd bet that between the dDOS, and/., and all the fun people have been having here, that the RIAA's Sysadmins and techs are losing hair from their pates at a rabid rate this last few days....:)
Basically, peer-to-peer networks encourage diversity, and it's this diversity that hurts the recording industry (though it does not have to).
Yes. The decision makers they have simply don't have the imagination to do anything different. Thanks, that's a beautiful way to state it. IDIC. Just not on 21st century Earth.:) according to the RIAA...
I hate to lapse into darkly paranoid hypotheses here, but is this yet another multitentacled strategy to turn the Internet into TV with fewer moving parts?
Yup.
Remember WebTv?
(Can't we just define computers as tools or something and leave "productivity" [whatever that's supposed to mean, really] out of it?)
That's one of those arguments I've expounded elsewhere (not here). Some time ago I found the comparison to a Milwaukee hammer drill useful. (I buy that tool, it's mine for life, I can take it apart, fix it, modify it, I just can't put my own trade name on it and sell it.) Software manufacturers like MS have a horrible stranglehold on their market.
Of course software is a tool. Operating Systems, ditto. So what seperates the two? Marketing "strategy". And a lot of dumb buyers. A good quality hammerdrill takes just as much effort to design as software does. Don't think coders are "special". It's fallacy. Hell, a well-designed garden rake doesn't take a degree either, and you don't see people "licensing" them. The only extra (?) charge with software should be upgrades and support. Particularly support.
(end rant, ok, mod me to hell, and it's time to crack another beer;)
I see those interfaces quite often. IMO they are garbage: they could be done much better. The learning curve is so steep (and so unlike everything else out there, they are always *improving* them) that most people never bother to learn them. I tutor people in general electronic gadgets quite often and most of the average customers I have abhor the interfaces. Heck, I hate 'em - they're all different and they're all a PITA.
However, I also tutor people in using Windows. I'll give someone some sessions, they'll nod and say "OK" and a month later they're calling me wanting to know how to cut and paste again. Windows learning curve vs. Linux learning curve? Give me a break. Maybe learning curve applies a lot (more/less?) to corporate customers, but for the average person (Wow, that's a computer? How do you turn it on? Can I surf with it?:) it's a pointless argument. They have to be taught from scratch anyway. I'd like to disclaim some of that by saying that my experience may be unique to some extent - I work in a very poor area providing cheap computers to people who often it is their first experience.
Very few Linux customers as yet, most of them seem to pretty much know what they're doing:) which of course forces *me* to learn more...
Of course GUI limits the capabilities of CLI. But remember that (mostly) the reason this is so is that few designers write GUI apps to include form code for all the CLI options. This is left to the users/coders:) - tho it's something I think that designers should do. (Bury 'em under the "advanced" tabs....)
Think of what a permutation of the BeOS could do....talk about a short learning curve. I've shown it to a few customers and they've gone "Wow, this is easy":) Sigh.It can be implemented in so small a space...
Which is exactly why my personal opinion is that the penalty that should be imposed on MS by CKK is that the entire!!! upper management of MS should be axed and imprisoned, and control of the company taken away from those who made the decisions, and there should be a impartial (as much as can be anyways) jury imposed to elect MS administration people who have some friccing *integrity*...if you can find anyone with that sort of experience who has any. (John Carmack, maybe)
In politics in our country, there is at least some effort made towards electing 'honest' officials (whether or not it succeeds is another argument).
Whilst here we have a transnat. corp who makes decisions whose effect is distributed across the same number of people, but who enjoy *no accountability whatsoever for their actions*.
I don't believe government should be involved in this at all...but to be honest, there's nobody else with the power to stomp 'em back into their place (which in this instance is in prison for fraud at the least)
As far as I can tell there is no link to the patch, the only place you can get it is thru Windows Update. I haven't been able to find anything official about this on MS's site (just the articles on The Reg and Salon)
"For once they've dealt with an issue in timely fashion"
I wonder about that. Just how long has MS known about these bugs? Who originally reported them?
With MS's secretiveness about vulnerabilities nowadays it could have been months. Anyone have better info? I can't even find anything on these bugs on MS's site....
" The secular benefits of marriage (a religious act) are so well understood that it's also become a state act as well as a religious one. Social stability and lower criminality are general secular benefits of religious expression"
Oh, that certainly explains why the divorce rate in the US is so high.
Good point. I don't really know enough about the characteristics of welders eq, but I suspect they have filter some UV. Whether it is the same UV ranges as what sunburn results from, I don't know. Anyone?
The weldburn isn't as nasty as the Flying Hot Chunks Burn tho. Try a good Aloa skin lotion with no alcohol (alcohol aggravates the burn).
" If I do it without wearing my leather welding gloves or coat for even an hour"
Remember that a leather welding glove filters *everything*;-) ( ok, not neutrinos and some other things, go away Trolls)
Another thing a boss/teacher told me once was that the filters in welding goggles were usually low quality - ie there were many 'microholes' where the filtering agent hadn't spread to - and I wonder just how much that contributes to eyesight problems of welders.
I opined: " Saying that the existence of Reality confirms the existence of God is a specious argument that bites it's own tail. "
You said " I didn't say that, and nor was it my argument"
Ok, here's the original argument.
"It's all around you. You are proof, too. Every feature of you, but for the existence of God, is at the end of a very long chain of water-flowing-uphill-style materialistic miracles. Occam's Razor says: the simplest explanation wins. The God Hypothesis requires many orders of magnitude fewer miracles than the No God Hypothesis, so it is much more reasonable to accept it."
It amounts to the same thing. What you are basically saying is that since I exist, and reality exists, and it's unlikely and against the odds that this would happen, therefore the fact that it DID happen must mean that the universe was created, and quoting Occam's Razor here I think is stretching it a bit. Occam's Razor was meant at certain scientists who tended to build incredible unnecessary complexity into their theories because they weren't willing to do the grunt work of eliminating dead-end 'forks'. It doesn't mean that the *absolute* simplest explanation (the one with the fewest factors) is always right. It's implied - at least among most scientists I know - that there should be a condition on The Razor: "As long as you are satisfied your data is honest and accurate."
I'll touch on a few more points. (I'm not being facetious, I take this stuff pretty seriously as nearly all of my family is religious,and I'm a 'practicing scientist';-) snort! The debates are interesting.
"The forests weren't flattened, that's the whole point, and the surrounding rock is alluvial"
You bring up some interesting data here that I haven't seen. I am going to take a look at those references. I had two years of college geology (not the basic stuff) and spend what time I can find free fossil hunting. I'm going to leave this part of the argument alone for now. I will note however, that I can think of decade or less timespan processes that could have covered up the trees the way you describe. Ash falls, for instance. I'd like to know what the compression ratio of the surrounding rock to the tree material was.
As to the evangelist healing story, I've heard a lot of them, but so far nobody seems to be able (or willing) to reproduce them where they can be studied. However, it's a widely noted fact that there is a class of humans called "hucksters" and that a subset of that class really believes in what they are doing. Many of those cases of "healing" have been shown in the past to be deception, and I'm not aware of one single instance in the last 20y or so that was really shown to be unexplainable. Perhaps you have some links? (not religious organizations, but professional medical ones?) There is also a (argh, growing) class of humans who fake illnesses, sometimes to astonishing degree, for sometimes monetary reasons and sometimes reasons unknown.
The story of what the surgeons were doing to him doesn't sound right, somehow.....;-(
"This is not an isolated datum, there are many things which have to have happened very quickly."
Two notes:
There is nothing - nothing! in geology that says that things cannot happen quickly. There are, however, a lot of processes we don't understand - not yet. As for an explanation for what you brought up, how about a steady long term ashfall that encapsulated the trees, sealed them and toxicated them (helping prevent rot) and then heavier ash falls on top?
Two: All of your links seem to be large or small religious organizations. Do you have any to peer reviewed science journals? Anywhere this has been seriously studied? If not, don't give me any crap about "conspiracies" either. I've worked in the scientific community. I know better.
"And if these things which have been upheld as taking aeons took minutes or months, what of other measures?"
You're trying to make blanket rules from a single or a few events. It doesn't work that way.
"And if these things which have been upheld as taking aeons took minutes or months, what of other measures?"
Show me the fossil. Hell, don't show it to me, show it to a group of experienced bone freaks.
"ancient engineering done with 2000-tonne blocks of stone"
Yah, the Pyramids, Easter Island, etc, etc. I doubt the techniques they used today - mass numbers of workers, leverage and very good engineering - I doubt we could duplicate it. The workers would form a union and go on strike.;-) They didn't exactly have that option then. That's pretty well documented.
- heh - a friend of mine and I moved a 40 ton boulder out of it's hole once with block and tackle and some willing neighborhood kids. Backhoe couldn't get the blade under to lift and roll it. Took 15 of us, but we got the darn thing out.;-)
I'd like to say that I do enjoy debating this subject...just be warned;-)
I'd also like to comment that while I have "faith" in science, and follow it's tenants, that doesn't mean that I think current theories completely correct. It's just they fit the best evidence we can provide, gathered over centuries and debated longer than that. Science is evolving - like few religions ever do.
If I ever did get religious, it'd probably be Zen Buddhism. They seem to have more logic than all the rest do.
Cheers, and Troll Ye Not Often;-)
SB
PS Not dumb, but just because that is true doesn't mean I think like you do, either;-)
Amazing, isn't it? Shows how much energy the sun puts out;-0
Aren't welders filters logarithmic (scale of ten)? between ratings? I can't remember.
As to being outside with them, remember most of the light you are looking at is reflected light, from 1-30% of the light falling on the surfaces, and most of the UV (which does the real damage) is absorbed rather than reflected. When you look at the sun, most of the visible light is filtered, but as far as I know welders goggles don't filter much UV.
You said: "(something I am probably going to learn about as I get older)."
I can guarantee you that. Back in the early 80s I spent a lot of time observing sunspots with varying degrees of filtering, projection and other diddling around. Before I could afford to buy good filters - they were very expensive at the time - I damaged several small portions of my retinas. I did not really realize this until many years later. The effect is not really noticeable any more unless I am concentrating on seeing something very small (like a star's pinpoint); the images get smeared out. Several optom's I've gone to think the damage may be fixable in a few decades as tech gets better....
I can't stress it enough to/.er's, make sure your eyes are protected!
(after all, then you would have to have/. READ to you;-)
I have #12s and they seem to work ok. keep_it, you're right about not looking too long anyway, welding goggles don't filter all the UV that you need filtered, although they do take care of most of the visible spectrum, and one can still damage one's retina. RETINA DAMAGE IS PERMANENT. I KNOW.
Note that it also does NOT mean you can use welders goggles of any kind to view thru binoculars or small telescopes.
Saying that the existence of Reality confirms the existence of God is a specious argument that bites it's own tail.
I could just as well say that because the sky is blue that confirms the Divinity of Barney the Purple Dinosaur.
Dendrochronology works quite well - within it's limitations. All scientific working theories have limitations - it's the nature of the beast. I haven't seen anything on Yellowstones forests - but I can well imagine a mechanism that would explain it (like repeated volcanic eruptions that flattened and covered the forests). Got a reference?
I don't believe in God. That said, one reason is that while he is (supposedly) omniescent, Nature has rules and limitations. The reality I observe follows those rules, not Gods Ten Commandments. Nor do I need God to quiet my fears about death, or to explain the universe.
Like a friend of mine said, show me a burning bush and I'll look for evidence of matches and starter fluid. If it starts talking to me I'd wonder what someone had slipped in my punch.;-)
But in UTs case if they wanted it to run on linux servers, and fast, they had to make most of the base engine code portable. So if you have a large part of it written already, can tilt your decision toward writing up the GUI and the rest.
The server market is going more and more Linux/GNU/whatever combinations all the time. It might be only one factor, but as online gaming continues to grow like crazy the growing requirement for game code portable to *nix/whatever will grow.
Which is why I responded as I did. Not heat, no, electricity, yes. There are other ways to generate the hydrogen tho. A lot of companies are working on catalytic filters that will seperate hydrogen from gasoline, methane, and a whole slew of other hydrocarbon compounds.
Sorry, no links handy....
In any case, we can generate all the electricity we want. Called solar cells. Planned right it could be a very efficient (if expensive in terms of acreage) process.
" I agree but from what I have been told hydrogen fuel cells won't work because of the energy (heat) needed to make them work, and Geothermal won't produce enough power."
Um...do some real research on them. H. fuel cells generate heat, they don't consume it. I've been researching them for several years with an eye toward using one to power a rural house. Just waiting for them to get the methanol catalysts working at high efficiency.
Yah, they just put out a major announcement, the website is up, and everyone is on vacation....or maybe they're all sitting in the back room working frantically on the alpha release...
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You know, I'd bet that between the dDOS, and /., and all the fun people have been having here, that the RIAA's Sysadmins and techs are losing hair from their pates at a rabid rate this last few days.... :)
SB
Just remember, *you* started it. :)
SB
Yes. The decision makers they have simply don't have the imagination to do anything different. Thanks, that's a beautiful way to state it. IDIC. Just not on 21st century Earth. :) according to the RIAA...
SB
Yah, this is WebTV 5.0 :)
Whee! Hey, I just HAVE to HAVE one of those! (Jones's do, ya know)
SB
Slashdotted? :)
Opening it in Mozilla/RH7.3 gives a blank page...
Sigh.
Shadowbearer
Yup.
Remember WebTv?
(Can't we just define computers as tools or something and leave "productivity" [whatever that's supposed to mean, really] out of it?)
That's one of those arguments I've expounded elsewhere (not here). Some time ago I found the comparison to a Milwaukee hammer drill useful. (I buy that tool, it's mine for life, I can take it apart, fix it, modify it, I just can't put my own trade name on it and sell it.) Software manufacturers like MS have a horrible stranglehold on their market.
;)
Of course software is a tool. Operating Systems, ditto. So what seperates the two? Marketing "strategy". And a lot of dumb buyers. A good quality hammerdrill takes just as much effort to design as software does. Don't think coders are "special". It's fallacy. Hell, a well-designed garden rake doesn't take a degree either, and you don't see people "licensing" them. The only extra (?) charge with software should be upgrades and support. Particularly support.
(end rant, ok, mod me to hell, and it's time to crack another beer
Shadowbearer
About satellite tv sys:
:) it's a pointless argument. They have to be taught from scratch anyway. I'd like to disclaim some of that by saying that my experience may be unique to some extent - I work in a very poor area providing cheap computers to people who often it is their first experience.
:) which of course forces *me* to learn more...
:) - tho it's something I think that designers should do. (Bury 'em under the "advanced" tabs....)
:) Sigh.It can be implemented in so small a space...
I see those interfaces quite often. IMO they are garbage: they could be done much better. The learning curve is so steep (and so unlike everything else out there, they are always *improving* them) that most people never bother to learn them. I tutor people in general electronic gadgets quite often and most of the average customers I have abhor the interfaces. Heck, I hate 'em - they're all different and they're all a PITA.
However, I also tutor people in using Windows. I'll give someone some sessions, they'll nod and say "OK" and a month later they're calling me wanting to know how to cut and paste again. Windows learning curve vs. Linux learning curve? Give me a break. Maybe learning curve applies a lot (more/less?) to corporate customers, but for the average person (Wow, that's a computer? How do you turn it on? Can I surf with it?
Very few Linux customers as yet, most of them seem to pretty much know what they're doing
Of course GUI limits the capabilities of CLI. But remember that (mostly) the reason this is so is that few designers write GUI apps to include form code for all the CLI options. This is left to the users/coders
Think of what a permutation of the BeOS could do....talk about a short learning curve. I've shown it to a few customers and they've gone "Wow, this is easy"
Shadowbearer
Which is exactly why my personal opinion is that the penalty that
should be imposed on MS by CKK is that the entire!!! upper management
of MS should be axed and imprisoned, and control of the company taken
away from those who made the decisions, and there should be a impartial
(as much as can be anyways) jury imposed to elect MS administration
people who have some friccing *integrity*...if you can find anyone with
that sort of experience who has any. (John Carmack, maybe)
In politics in our country, there is at least some effort made towards
electing 'honest' officials (whether or not it succeeds is another argument).
Whilst here we have a transnat. corp who makes decisions whose effect
is distributed across the same number of people, but who enjoy *no
accountability whatsoever for their actions*.
I don't believe government should be involved in this at all...but
to be honest, there's nobody else with the power to stomp 'em back
into their place (which in this instance is in prison for fraud at
the least)
End Rant
SB
Ok, NOW I found it. Wasn't there when I looked yesterday.
SB
As far as I can tell there is no link to the patch, the only place you
can get it is thru Windows Update. I haven't been able to find anything
official about this on MS's site (just the articles on The Reg and Salon)
Anyone know where MS has written these up?
SB
"For once they've dealt with an issue in timely fashion"
I wonder about that. Just how long has MS known about these
bugs? Who originally reported them?
With MS's secretiveness about vulnerabilities nowadays it could
have been months. Anyone have better info? I can't even find anything
on these bugs on MS's site....
SB
" The secular benefits of marriage (a religious act) are so well understood that it's also become a state act as well as a religious one. Social stability and lower criminality are general secular benefits of religious expression"
Oh, that certainly explains why the divorce rate in the US is so high.
/sarcasm
SB
Good point. I don't really know enough about the characteristics of welders eq, but I suspect they have filter some UV. Whether it is the same UV ranges as what sunburn results from, I don't know. Anyone?
;-) ( ok, not neutrinos and some other things, go away Trolls)
;-)
The weldburn isn't as nasty as the Flying Hot Chunks Burn tho. Try a good Aloa skin lotion with no alcohol (alcohol aggravates the burn).
" If I do it without wearing my leather welding gloves or coat for even an hour"
Remember that a leather welding glove filters *everything*
Another thing a boss/teacher told me once was that the filters in welding goggles were usually low quality - ie there were many 'microholes' where the filtering agent hadn't spread to - and I wonder just how much that contributes to eyesight problems of welders.
I wish I had your endurance for welding
SB
Neither.
;-) snort! The debates are interesting.
;-) They didn't exactly have that option then. That's pretty well documented. ;-)
;-)
;-)
;-)
Let's take this without the insults, no?
I opined: " Saying that the existence of Reality confirms the existence of God is a specious argument that bites it's own tail. "
You said " I didn't say that, and nor was it my argument"
Ok, here's the original argument.
"It's all around you. You are proof, too. Every feature of you, but for the existence of God, is at the end of a very long chain of water-flowing-uphill-style materialistic miracles. Occam's Razor says: the simplest explanation wins. The God Hypothesis requires many orders of magnitude fewer miracles than the No God Hypothesis, so it is much more reasonable to accept it."
It amounts to the same thing. What you are basically saying is that
since I exist, and reality exists, and it's unlikely and against
the odds that this would happen, therefore the fact that it DID happen
must mean that the universe was created, and quoting Occam's Razor here I think is
stretching it a bit. Occam's Razor was meant at certain scientists who
tended to build incredible unnecessary complexity into their theories
because they weren't willing to do the grunt work of eliminating
dead-end 'forks'. It doesn't mean that the *absolute* simplest explanation (the one with the fewest factors) is always right. It's implied - at least among most scientists I know - that there should be a condition on The Razor: "As long as you are satisfied your data is honest and accurate."
I'll touch on a few more points. (I'm not being facetious, I take this
stuff pretty seriously as nearly all of my family is religious,and
I'm a 'practicing scientist'
"The forests weren't flattened, that's the whole point, and the surrounding rock is alluvial"
You bring up some interesting data here that I haven't seen. I am
going to take a look at those references. I had two years of college
geology (not the basic stuff) and spend what time I can find free
fossil hunting. I'm going to leave this part of the argument alone
for now. I will note however, that I can think of decade or less timespan
processes that could have covered up the trees the way you describe.
Ash falls, for instance. I'd like to know what the compression ratio
of the surrounding rock to the tree material was.
As to the evangelist healing story, I've heard a lot of them, but
so far nobody seems to be able (or willing) to reproduce them where
they can be studied. However, it's a widely noted fact that there is
a class of humans called "hucksters" and that a subset of that class
really believes in what they are doing. Many of those cases of "healing"
have been shown in the past to be deception, and I'm not aware of
one single instance in the last 20y or so that was really shown to be
unexplainable. Perhaps you have some links? (not religious organizations,
but professional medical ones?) There is also a (argh, growing) class
of humans who fake illnesses, sometimes to astonishing degree, for
sometimes monetary reasons and sometimes reasons unknown.
The story of what the surgeons were doing to him doesn't sound right, somehow.....;-(
"This is not an isolated datum, there are many things which have to have happened very quickly."
Two notes:
There is nothing - nothing! in geology that says that things cannot happen quickly. There are, however, a lot of processes we don't understand - not yet. As for an explanation for what you brought
up, how about a steady long term ashfall that encapsulated the trees,
sealed them and toxicated them (helping prevent rot) and then heavier
ash falls on top?
Two: All of your links seem to be large or small religious organizations. Do you have any to peer reviewed science journals? Anywhere this has been seriously studied? If not, don't give me any crap about "conspiracies" either. I've worked in the scientific community.
I know better.
"And if these things which have been upheld as taking aeons took minutes or months, what of other measures?"
You're trying to make blanket rules from a single or a few events. It doesn't work that way.
"And if these things which have been upheld as taking aeons took minutes or months, what of other measures?"
Show me the fossil. Hell, don't show it to me, show it to a group of experienced bone freaks.
"ancient engineering done with 2000-tonne blocks of stone"
Yah, the Pyramids, Easter Island, etc, etc. I doubt the techniques they used today - mass numbers of workers, leverage and very good engineering - I doubt we could duplicate it. The workers would form a union and go on strike.
- heh - a friend of mine and I moved a 40 ton boulder out of it's hole once with block and tackle and some willing neighborhood kids. Backhoe couldn't get the blade under to lift and roll it. Took 15 of us, but we got the darn thing out.
I'd like to say that I do enjoy debating this subject...just be warned
I'd also like to comment that while I have "faith" in science,
and follow it's tenants, that doesn't mean that I think current
theories completely correct. It's just they fit the best evidence
we can provide, gathered over centuries and debated longer than
that. Science is evolving - like few religions ever do.
If I ever did get religious, it'd probably be Zen Buddhism. They
seem to have more logic than all the rest do.
Cheers, and Troll Ye Not Often
SB
PS Not dumb, but just because that is true doesn't mean I think like you do, either
Amazing, isn't it? Shows how much energy the sun puts out ;-0
Aren't welders filters logarithmic (scale of ten)? between ratings? I
can't remember.
As to being outside with them, remember most of the light you are looking
at is reflected light, from 1-30% of the light falling on the surfaces,
and most of the UV (which does the real damage) is absorbed rather
than reflected. When you look at the sun, most of the visible light is
filtered, but as far as I know welders goggles don't filter much UV.
SB
Very informative.
I have a comment tho:
You said: "(something I am probably going to learn about as I get older)."
I can guarantee you that. Back in the early 80s I spent a lot of time
observing sunspots with varying degrees of filtering, projection
and other diddling around. Before I could afford to buy good filters -
they were very expensive at the time - I damaged several small portions
of my retinas. I did not really realize this until many years later. The
effect is not really noticeable any more unless I am concentrating on
seeing something very small (like a star's pinpoint); the images get
smeared out. Several optom's I've gone to think the damage may be
fixable in a few decades as tech gets better....
I can't stress it enough to
(after all, then you would have to have
SB
I have #12s and they seem to work ok. keep_it, you're right
about not looking too long anyway, welding goggles don't
filter all the UV that you need filtered, although they do
take care of most of the visible spectrum, and one can still
damage one's retina. RETINA DAMAGE IS PERMANENT. I KNOW.
Note that it also does NOT mean you can use welders goggles of
any kind to view thru binoculars or small telescopes.
SB
So we can all write in and say how lousy the experience is because
the friccing clouds aren't going to break up!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, I got that off my chest....but it looks pretty grim for seeing
any of it here.
SB
Saying that the existence of Reality confirms the existence of God is a specious argument that bites it's own tail.
;-)
I could just as well say that because the sky is blue that confirms the Divinity of Barney the Purple Dinosaur.
Dendrochronology works quite well - within it's limitations. All scientific working theories have limitations - it's the nature of the beast. I haven't seen anything on Yellowstones forests - but I can well imagine a mechanism that would explain it (like repeated volcanic eruptions that flattened and covered the forests). Got a reference?
I don't believe in God. That said, one reason is that while he is (supposedly) omniescent, Nature has rules and limitations. The reality I observe follows those rules, not Gods Ten Commandments. Nor do I need God to quiet my fears about death, or to explain the universe.
Like a friend of mine said, show me a burning bush and I'll look for evidence of matches and starter fluid. If it starts talking to me I'd wonder what someone had slipped in my punch.
Just my bag of change.
SB
"The answer is `God exists'."
Better publish that proof right quick then....
SB
But in UTs case if they wanted it to run on linux servers, and fast, they had to make most of the base engine code portable. So if you have a large part of it written already, can tilt your decision toward writing up the GUI and the rest.
The server market is going more and more Linux/GNU/whatever combinations all the time. It might be only one factor, but as online gaming continues to grow like crazy the growing requirement for game code portable to *nix/whatever will grow.
Disclaimer: not seen UT's code yet.
SB
Which is why I responded as I did. Not heat, no, electricity, yes.
There are other ways to generate the hydrogen tho. A lot of companies are working on catalytic filters that will seperate hydrogen from gasoline, methane, and a whole slew of other hydrocarbon compounds.
Sorry, no links handy....
In any case, we can generate all the electricity we want. Called solar cells. Planned right it could be a very efficient (if expensive in terms of acreage) process.
SB
"Where do you get the hydrogen?"
Solar cell powered electrolysis "farms". There's sunlight to burn...
SB
" I agree but from what I have been told hydrogen fuel cells won't work because of the energy (heat) needed to make them work, and Geothermal won't produce enough power."
Um...do some real research on them. H. fuel cells generate heat, they don't consume it. I've been researching them for several years with an eye toward using one to power a rural house. Just waiting for them to get the methanol catalysts working at high efficiency.
SB
LOL
Yah, they just put out a major announcement, the website is up,
and everyone is on vacation....or maybe they're all sitting in the
back room working frantically on the alpha release...
SB