those 40% arent britons, theyre villagers. look at where this is a substantial viewpoint in the states... village states. the more you see civilisation and a decent scientific education, the less you see this sort of thing.
ICEs are much more than 20% efficient, somewhere in the 35-40% range for the better models, im not talking about american beasts here, i know more is lost in the drivetrain, through rolling friction, etc, but still. and though 15% extra efficiency doesnt seem like all that much, in the grand scheme of things it could be extremely beneficial, especially when the extra power and torque is taken into account. i currently get between 450 and 700 miles to a tank (i drive an audi 2.0 tdi - 13 gallon tank) and those 15% would increase that to over 500 to 800. the increase would be more appreciated on the high end though, as for me refuelling isnt something i do often, someone whos filling up several times a week (my brother averages 2-3 tanks a week - 20 gallon tank) would see it as a definite improvement.
im sorry but i have to agree, there is no way that i would classify my dog a carnivore. hes more omnivorous than most humans, he will eat anything as long as its edible, with only 2 exceptions. the only dogs i know that are choosy are those that are excessively spoiled, or those that live in the street and are therefore more cautious than the trusting domestic kind. i have a golden retriever, and he will eat bread just as happily as dog food or beef filet, he loves fruit, apples, mango, anything really except for lemon (he likes grapefruit), he spits out lemon then picks it up again gradually wearing out the acidity, and even that i count as one of the exceptions. the other is garlic, wont touch the stuff raw, but doesnt mind it cooked. im not sure how this has affected him, but hes getting on in years and ageing bloody well for a golden retriever - i guess an well balanced diet does us all some good.
Everyone whos commenting saying that this isnt unusual, that people are making too much of a big deal out of this are more than a little full of shit. Consoles are not computers, you cannot compare them to a bad install. The hardware is identical, or at least should be, on all consoles, the software should be built to run on it flawlessly as developers should know exactly what theyre working with. I can understand hardware faults a few months in, things that cant be tested on a long enough timescale before release, but quality control should get the types of bugs out that we are seeing. Its completely unacceptable on a console. Its set production, set product, its like buying a car and having one in a thousand break down on the first day - that would not reflect well on the seller. Unfortunately with consoles theres not enough variety to drive people away from an individual model as a lot of games are unique to certain consoles. Its like saying you have to buy a ford to drive down this interstate, but the car is not all that unlikely not to make it all the way. Pathetic - the old meaning of the word.
Firstly the people pay taxes, which go in part to the EU. This in turn is funnelled back into the infrastructure, etc of countries. France in particular benefits, especially from the CAP (common agricultural policy) and the 1.2 million invested in this sceme will do much more good than paying farmers not to grow things. Firstly theres the cyclical nature of the investment, the workers setting the project up will go to the town to spend part of their wages on food, drink, etc. Secondly those workers will pay tax on their income, which in Austria is fairly high, meaning that around half the money will go back to the govenment, and part of that in turn to the EU. All that is being done is the money is being locked away for some time, not wasted entirely. On top of that the extra sunlight will aid people in their Vitamin A production which in long winter darkness in the shadow of a mountain could be severely deficient, this could in turn lower healthcare costs (Austria has a brilliant national healthcare system. And on top of that its promoting people to stay out of cities, which is beneficial in my view.
Id much rather the money goes to funding projects like this which would rely on funding Europes manufacturing infrastructure rather than on farming/not using land subsidies. Large mirrors can be of great use, and if cost of production drops it makes solar power much more viable. Focusing light to heat water can be much more efficient than using solar panels, which are a) produced abroad and b) cost substantially more.
I know that there are better uses for the money, but as far as EU money being spent goes, this is much more beneficial to EU citizens than to politicians than the usual projects.
shakespeares estate is being sued for causing every death related to failed relationships, loss of authority, those resulting from the acts of monarchs and anything poison related...
so the problem is someone building a portable clone? the software will still be protected for ages, just the hardware thats the issue. releasing the games without permission is still bound to be illegal for a while. i understand they will want to re-release games occasionally, especially on the portable systems. ocarina of time was released for the gamecube, free with wind waker... i think theyre doing the right thing
with nintendo yes... if you grab a gamecube, and 2 or 3 games youre set. super monkey ball, mario kart, even mario all have hundreds of hours of gameplay in them, not tens like most games released predominantly for other consoles. so if the arguement is revolution + 3 games against xbox 360 + 5 games, it becomes even more of a factor. and as to the kids arguement, you need to keep them satisfied over the long run, you dont but a console and several games at one, you buy ONE game, then more later, or buy several but wait before giving them out individually. several games at once mean the kids will play only one, and forget the rest...
Quite a few countries already modify weather to some extent. An example? In Russia and the Ukraine at least before large public events (tennis tournaments, parades, april 1st (big festival in Odessa)) the salt the clouds around the cities. As far as I am aware this involves artillery cannons shooting up fine salts into the clouds making them rain themselves out before they reach the cities. It is not uncommon for it to be in the low 30s Celcius in Odessa for April first and always sunny for a few days before and after compared to a monthly average in the mid to low teens. I guess this does have ramifications but i guess most of what its doing is speeding up the water cycle and perhaps creating a few localised cyclones/anticyclones. Then youve got the butterfly effect and whatnot but you never know exactly how that is going to affect things.
Are you sure its 40 C converted to fahranheit? because if it is then most people who are apparently healthy are wandering around who really should be in hospital. You are usually quite ill at 38, 37 is considered healthy in england, 36.6 in countries which prefer a little precision.
I saw a gorgeous old jag ('52 c-type if i remember) sold for a mil and a half at a christies auction in london. Stunning car, excellent condition. I can easily believe that about the dealership, there are a fair few jewelers and tailors which operate on a similar basis.
lets use greater than to symbolise better than... the statement is not less refined > more refined its P(certain product(less refined) > certain produce(more refined) is closer to 1 than to 0.
eating bread made from flour made from organic grains (im anti organic, much more inefficient use of land, much less stringent testing, etc... but bear with me) which is in other ways untreated is "better" for you than eating bread made from bleached, treated flour made from grains which have been saturated with pesticides and grown in what should be soil but is closer to a chemical soup. with grains its not really an issue as they do not absorb the pesticides to that great an extent, but root vegetables are much much worse in that respect.
Spot on. The resolution is what keeps me from switching to LCDs entirely. My box has twin 17 inch LCDs at 1280x1024 up in uni but there is no way im dumping my 22 inch 2048x1536 CRT at home. 1600x1200 is a must on a 19 inch monitor, let alone 21+"
Okay, i agree that terraforming mars is a pipe dream in the short-medium run but in the long run its something that has to be done. We might not have an large asteroid hit earth in 100 years, or for that matter ever, and even if we did, i am sure humanity would survive without any serious setbacks other than a 99% population loss, but if there were a habitable environment for a large number of people other than earth, do you think people would pay to get off earth and there before the catastrophy hit them? The chances of something like that happening are minimal, but the benefits as so extraordinarily large that working out an long term expectation based cost benefit analysis could come out to be positive.
No sensible government would invest heavily however as they would have been out of power for about half a century before the benefits could really be realised, but im sure you get my point
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A pyramid that large!? Are you crazy?! Have you not read any pratchett?! We'll have dimensions flying all over the place... its insane!
For a second there I read that as "Floating Pimp Overlords"... Now THAT would be interesting...
those 40% arent britons, theyre villagers. look at where this is a substantial viewpoint in the states... village states. the more you see civilisation and a decent scientific education, the less you see this sort of thing.
ICEs are much more than 20% efficient, somewhere in the 35-40% range for the better models, im not talking about american beasts here, i know more is lost in the drivetrain, through rolling friction, etc, but still. and though 15% extra efficiency doesnt seem like all that much, in the grand scheme of things it could be extremely beneficial, especially when the extra power and torque is taken into account. i currently get between 450 and 700 miles to a tank (i drive an audi 2.0 tdi - 13 gallon tank) and those 15% would increase that to over 500 to 800. the increase would be more appreciated on the high end though, as for me refuelling isnt something i do often, someone whos filling up several times a week (my brother averages 2-3 tanks a week - 20 gallon tank) would see it as a definite improvement.
good point. well made.
im sorry but i have to agree, there is no way that i would classify my dog a carnivore. hes more omnivorous than most humans, he will eat anything as long as its edible, with only 2 exceptions. the only dogs i know that are choosy are those that are excessively spoiled, or those that live in the street and are therefore more cautious than the trusting domestic kind. i have a golden retriever, and he will eat bread just as happily as dog food or beef filet, he loves fruit, apples, mango, anything really except for lemon (he likes grapefruit), he spits out lemon then picks it up again gradually wearing out the acidity, and even that i count as one of the exceptions. the other is garlic, wont touch the stuff raw, but doesnt mind it cooked. im not sure how this has affected him, but hes getting on in years and ageing bloody well for a golden retriever - i guess an well balanced diet does us all some good.
no posts welcoming our new feline-marsupial hybrid red-furred overlords? for shame...
Simple, you film a new reality show about the runaways, the sequels write themselves...
Everyone whos commenting saying that this isnt unusual, that people are making too much of a big deal out of this are more than a little full of shit. Consoles are not computers, you cannot compare them to a bad install. The hardware is identical, or at least should be, on all consoles, the software should be built to run on it flawlessly as developers should know exactly what theyre working with. I can understand hardware faults a few months in, things that cant be tested on a long enough timescale before release, but quality control should get the types of bugs out that we are seeing. Its completely unacceptable on a console. Its set production, set product, its like buying a car and having one in a thousand break down on the first day - that would not reflect well on the seller. Unfortunately with consoles theres not enough variety to drive people away from an individual model as a lot of games are unique to certain consoles. Its like saying you have to buy a ford to drive down this interstate, but the car is not all that unlikely not to make it all the way. Pathetic - the old meaning of the word.
what do you mean "becomes"?
Firstly the people pay taxes, which go in part to the EU. This in turn is funnelled back into the infrastructure, etc of countries. France in particular benefits, especially from the CAP (common agricultural policy) and the 1.2 million invested in this sceme will do much more good than paying farmers not to grow things. Firstly theres the cyclical nature of the investment, the workers setting the project up will go to the town to spend part of their wages on food, drink, etc. Secondly those workers will pay tax on their income, which in Austria is fairly high, meaning that around half the money will go back to the govenment, and part of that in turn to the EU. All that is being done is the money is being locked away for some time, not wasted entirely. On top of that the extra sunlight will aid people in their Vitamin A production which in long winter darkness in the shadow of a mountain could be severely deficient, this could in turn lower healthcare costs (Austria has a brilliant national healthcare system. And on top of that its promoting people to stay out of cities, which is beneficial in my view.
Id much rather the money goes to funding projects like this which would rely on funding Europes manufacturing infrastructure rather than on farming/not using land subsidies. Large mirrors can be of great use, and if cost of production drops it makes solar power much more viable. Focusing light to heat water can be much more efficient than using solar panels, which are a) produced abroad and b) cost substantially more.
I know that there are better uses for the money, but as far as EU money being spent goes, this is much more beneficial to EU citizens than to politicians than the usual projects.
shakespeares estate is being sued for causing every death related to failed relationships, loss of authority, those resulting from the acts of monarchs and anything poison related...
so the problem is someone building a portable clone? the software will still be protected for ages, just the hardware thats the issue. releasing the games without permission is still bound to be illegal for a while. i understand they will want to re-release games occasionally, especially on the portable systems. ocarina of time was released for the gamecube, free with wind waker... i think theyre doing the right thing
a very good point. would definitely mod up if i had the points
with nintendo yes... if you grab a gamecube, and 2 or 3 games youre set. super monkey ball, mario kart, even mario all have hundreds of hours of gameplay in them, not tens like most games released predominantly for other consoles. so if the arguement is revolution + 3 games against xbox 360 + 5 games, it becomes even more of a factor. and as to the kids arguement, you need to keep them satisfied over the long run, you dont but a console and several games at one, you buy ONE game, then more later, or buy several but wait before giving them out individually. several games at once mean the kids will play only one, and forget the rest...
Quite a few countries already modify weather to some extent. An example? In Russia and the Ukraine at least before large public events (tennis tournaments, parades, april 1st (big festival in Odessa)) the salt the clouds around the cities. As far as I am aware this involves artillery cannons shooting up fine salts into the clouds making them rain themselves out before they reach the cities. It is not uncommon for it to be in the low 30s Celcius in Odessa for April first and always sunny for a few days before and after compared to a monthly average in the mid to low teens. I guess this does have ramifications but i guess most of what its doing is speeding up the water cycle and perhaps creating a few localised cyclones/anticyclones. Then youve got the butterfly effect and whatnot but you never know exactly how that is going to affect things.
play with the monitor settings... tweak it to show black as blue... now youve got the most expensive blue screen of death...
Are you sure its 40 C converted to fahranheit? because if it is then most people who are apparently healthy are wandering around who really should be in hospital. You are usually quite ill at 38, 37 is considered healthy in england, 36.6 in countries which prefer a little precision.
bob dole will beat them to it
I saw a gorgeous old jag ('52 c-type if i remember) sold for a mil and a half at a christies auction in london. Stunning car, excellent condition. I can easily believe that about the dealership, there are a fair few jewelers and tailors which operate on a similar basis.
in a forest fire, maybe :)
i think that the key word there was "likely".
lets use greater than to symbolise better than... the statement is not less refined > more refined its P(certain product(less refined) > certain produce(more refined) is closer to 1 than to 0.
eating bread made from flour made from organic grains (im anti organic, much more inefficient use of land, much less stringent testing, etc... but bear with me) which is in other ways untreated is "better" for you than eating bread made from bleached, treated flour made from grains which have been saturated with pesticides and grown in what should be soil but is closer to a chemical soup. with grains its not really an issue as they do not absorb the pesticides to that great an extent, but root vegetables are much much worse in that respect.
uhm... vacuum... silence
Spot on. The resolution is what keeps me from switching to LCDs entirely. My box has twin 17 inch LCDs at 1280x1024 up in uni but there is no way im dumping my 22 inch 2048x1536 CRT at home. 1600x1200 is a must on a 19 inch monitor, let alone 21+"
Okay, i agree that terraforming mars is a pipe dream in the short-medium run but in the long run its something that has to be done. We might not have an large asteroid hit earth in 100 years, or for that matter ever, and even if we did, i am sure humanity would survive without any serious setbacks other than a 99% population loss, but if there were a habitable environment for a large number of people other than earth, do you think people would pay to get off earth and there before the catastrophy hit them? The chances of something like that happening are minimal, but the benefits as so extraordinarily large that working out an long term expectation based cost benefit analysis could come out to be positive.
No sensible government would invest heavily however as they would have been out of power for about half a century before the benefits could really be realised, but im sure you get my point