What you conveniently “forgot” to mention, is that pure uranium is 99.27% U238 (source: Wikipedia), which is useless for power plants. It first has to be enriched to get the 0.72% U235 out, which is actually used. You do the math.
Sorry, but while nuclear power certainly is the best of the non-renewable ones, it still is non-renewable. And every such concept is by definition not working in the long run. It only works for retards who can’t think further ahead than their own and maybe another generation.
And it’s so simple to get it right: Solar-thermic power plants: Mirrors, tube of water/oil, turbines, wires. DONE. Add a battery or other storage for the night. Or run wires from the day side to the night one. Or just build the array of mirrors in space.
Every 3rd world nation could do it. Everyone can repair it. Hell I can repair it. The costs are really low. Even the materials that it’s built of are abundant. It’s impossible to fill earth with enough humans to use up those materials for power plants. We would go into space long before that.
There really is no excuse to not build them right now. If I were a leader of a 3rd world nation, I would do exactly that, sell the energy to my neighbors, and become rich (until they do the same).
Wrong! See solar-thermic power plants. Which also make much more sense than fucking with the climate by creating a massive updraft and even more global warming.
You don’t make any sense. The capacity of the disk is not related to the bandwidth. Think of fitting longer movies in there that are of the same quality that the shorter movies are: The top quality that is standardized as being playable by any standards-conforming player. Or adding more languages, saving on production costs. Or adding other bonus material. Maybe a PS3 game demo. Maybe something else.
Just sandbox everything, and sandbox it again, then interpret, sandbox, and interpret again. Until you can barely get the framerate of a small handheld console from 15 years ago (remember that JavaScript Tetris?)
Just don’t feel the urge to actually write clean code. And cling to C-like languages, ’till the bitter end. Since C in a generic VM is oh-so-much faster, than Java (in its Hotspot VM) or Haskell on the bare metal...
Yay. I wonder how much I will kick the butts of others by writing clean straight-to-the-metal code without having to micromanage (C-style)...;)
Yes, the sun is finite. And silicon is finite. Aluminium too. But that is something entirely different than fossil oil or uranium.
Wanna know what you need, for ” in terms of humanity ” unlimited power?
- Mirrors made out of silicon (glass) and aluminium), on an aluminium frame. - A glass tube filled with water, partially protected with aluminium or iron. - Iron/aluminium/etc turbines and cables.
Done. As much energy as humanity could possibly use. Times some huge number. Times the ability to put such power plants into space.
Interesting. Without you mentioning it, we wouldn’t even know that you have anything to do with IBM.
Why do people always think others would think that by default they would state anything else than their own opinion? Stating your own opinion is the default. No matter if some asshole might want to pull some shit on you, acting all egocentric, on how this also affects him, because you are in some remote way related. Protip: He’s the asshole. He’s wrong. You should act insulted that he thinks crap like that. You should define how things are. You should tell someone (e.g. your boss) who pulls this shit on you, that you are disappointed and that he should be ashamed of himself for thinking something like that. Because he has to be ashamed for his behavior.
It’s basic common sense: People state what they themselves think. Is that so hard?
Well, there already is the ability to add scripts (as in every browser, usually JavaScript) to SVG, just like you would with XHTML, since both are XML-based. So MS could simply expose an API to JS. Oh wait, it already does that! (ActiveX, even partially DirectX.)
That’s a very bad comparison, since the effects of 60 fps vs 30 fps for me literally means the difference between winning matches and losing matches. Or a crazy increase in kill/death ratio.
Even worse with the 18 fps I have in GTA IV. It’s virtually unplayable, because if there is action, it gets even worse.
Above 60 fps there no point in increasing it anymore. I tested this 120 fps (with 120 Hz): No changes in feeling and game stats. So I spend that on higher resolution, better enemy movement prediction, useful sound effects (hearing what type of room someone is in), and what’s left on graphics.
How weird... You contradict your whole argument the last paragraph.
Anyhow: That is an interesting idea: Why not make an engine that does render all changes since the last frame in the same manner? Not with the primitive motion blur though. Something more intelligent, that helps you predict things too.
No. It’s much simpler: CRTs have a reaction time for the phosphor surface. On all screens I ever had (some very expensive professional ones too), I could see the blur when I switched the screen to black, and quickly moved the white mouse cursor around. I think on older ones that effect was much worse. And the low resolution did not make it any better too.
The difference is, that your eyes have a freedom to focus anywhere on the screen. Which means that the place you look at has to be free of blur, just as in nature. But that in-game blur usually forces you to not move your eyes, which is incredibly annoying. Also it pointlessly takes a good load of GPU power. It’s always the first thing I disable in games.
Back when we played in the Counterstrike league (before and around when 1.0 came out), a simple raise from 30 fps to 60 fps dramatically rose my kill/death ratio. ”nuff said.
The other thing that dramatically made me better (some years later): Going from a cheap wireless mouse to a good wireless mouse, to a great wired mouse (Razer Copperhead right now). (Also, if you still have mouse acceleration enabled, please go and disable it right now.:)
Online I always prefer 1. more frames 2. faster ping and 3. higher resolution, over better graphics. Only over 60 fps it stops making sense, because it does not change anything anymore. Same thing with a DPI above what my eyes can see. (Got 120%, so that’s pretty high.)
My Nokia 5800 already has text to speech. And speech to text! It can e.g. say the name of someone if that someone calls me. And it can recognize a name that I speak into the microphone, without me previously recording it. That feature surprised me, and from my experience works very well.
Yes, I should have made that distinction of J2ME vs full Java. Although I think that full Java on Android is definitely possible with those specs. (And on the iPhone too. But I read a statement from Jobs, that he personally thinks Java is crap and therefore the iPhone will not have it. Which as a Java developer, I find pretty arrogant, considered that every single phone of the last 10 years that is out there, except for the iPhone, supports J2ME. In fact is it so common, that software often is not even labeled as being J2ME anymore. Also on at least all modern Nokia phones, you get accelerated OpenGL ES, accelerated EAX-HD-like sound effects, and every important API exposed. It’s all in all a great development platform.)
I’m sure if you ask the Japanese, they will laugh in your face. But a quick comparison:
Nexus One vs iPhone vs. N900
CPU: 1GHz Qualcomm SnapDragon | 600 Mhz ARM Cortex-A8 + PowerVR SGX | 600 MHz ARM Cortex-A8 + PowerVR SGX RAM: 512MB | 256MB | 1GB Display: 800x480 AMOLED | 480x320 TFT | 800x480 TFT Camera: 5 MP, LED flash | 3 MP, no flash | 5 MB + 0.3 MP (dual), LED flash | (All without optical zoom, which in this day and age, is pathetic.) Storage: 4 GB + unlimited | 16 GB (fixed) | 32 GB + unlimited Battery: 1400 mAh | 1219 mAh (non-removable) | 1320 mAh | (all 3.7 V li-ion) Input: capacitive touchscreen + trackball | multi-touch touchscreen | resistive touchscreen + 38-key backlit keyboard OS: Android | iPhone OS | Maemo Linux Dimensions: 119 * 59.8 * 11.5 mm | 115.5 * 62.1 * 12.3 mm | 110.9 * 59.8 * 18 mm Java support: yes | no | yes GPS: They all got A-GPS and Wi-Fi triangulation is possible with a software. Although from what I heard, the iPhone has that software built-in. (I bought it for 3€ for my Nokia, so not much trouble there.) Ability to put on it and do with it what you want: likely | locked down | absolutely FM radio: no | no | yes
That’s about the differences I could make out. I hope this gives a better picture. I tried to stay unbiased. (And I’m sure I will draw hate for this.;) As always: No guarantees.
Because in terms of math, cutting edge theory, and elegance, Haskell just blows everything I’ve seen out of the water.
Try #haskell, to get you started on the theory. But don’t be surprised if it feels like another planet, when they make jokes about The One True Monoid, and Unlambda.;) (The are also much friendlier with mathematical questions, than the #math channel, where every free thought or idea is punished with anti-troll trolling, aggression, hate and the banhammer, and socially acting even remotely like a human is taboo.;)
They do not care at all if you have fun, or got anything from it. They only care, if you give them the money. The only reason they are not selling empty boxes, is because they try to steer clear of getting a class action lawsuit for fraud. But they try to get as close as possible to that magic line, as long as it means more money.
And what do you expect from a company that basically works like a ancient galley, or a gulag... powered by mindless slaves, and controlled by someone who would sell his own grandmother for peanuts, or steal a lollipop from a child.
They work on the same basis, that makes the two party system work: Idiots, who don’t learn from being fucked over. Hint: If you bought a couple of EA games, that includes you. But at least you got a chance. ^^
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What you conveniently “forgot” to mention, is that pure uranium is 99.27% U238 (source: Wikipedia), which is useless for power plants. It first has to be enriched to get the 0.72% U235 out, which is actually used. You do the math.
Sorry, but while nuclear power certainly is the best of the non-renewable ones, it still is non-renewable.
And every such concept is by definition not working in the long run. It only works for retards who can’t think further ahead than their own and maybe another generation.
And it’s so simple to get it right: Solar-thermic power plants: Mirrors, tube of water/oil, turbines, wires. DONE.
Add a battery or other storage for the night. Or run wires from the day side to the night one. Or just build the array of mirrors in space.
Every 3rd world nation could do it. Everyone can repair it. Hell I can repair it. The costs are really low. Even the materials that it’s built of are abundant. It’s impossible to fill earth with enough humans to use up those materials for power plants. We would go into space long before that.
There really is no excuse to not build them right now. If I were a leader of a 3rd world nation, I would do exactly that, sell the energy to my neighbors, and become rich (until they do the same).
Wrong! See solar-thermic power plants. Which also make much more sense than fucking with the climate by creating a massive updraft and even more global warming.
I’d up that to: EAT A BAG OF DICKS!
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Yes. Bono. :D
The difference being what?
I have burned my share of 890MB CD-Rs. WITH error correction that is! (Not that Mode 2 trick. That would have given me even more!)
You’re making a bold statement by suggesting that it was intentionally crippled.
Why? Because technology never ever improves with time? Because CDs weren’s 640 MB at first, and my last drive could burn those 890 MB ones?
How about they just found a better encoding scheme? Or noticed that they can leave out some error correction without harming the reliability?
Or how about *gasp* you actually finding out what the improvement is, before making stupid assumptions?
You don’t make any sense. The capacity of the disk is not related to the bandwidth.
Think of fitting longer movies in there that are of the same quality that the shorter movies are: The top quality that is standardized as being playable by any standards-conforming player.
Or adding more languages, saving on production costs. Or adding other bonus material. Maybe a PS3 game demo. Maybe something else.
...because nearly nobody needs even more power...
Just sandbox everything, and sandbox it again, then interpret, sandbox, and interpret again. Until you can barely get the framerate of a small handheld console from 15 years ago (remember that JavaScript Tetris?)
Just don’t feel the urge to actually write clean code. And cling to C-like languages, ’till the bitter end. Since C in a generic VM is oh-so-much faster, than Java (in its Hotspot VM) or Haskell on the bare metal...
Yay. I wonder how much I will kick the butts of others by writing clean straight-to-the-metal code without having to micromanage (C-style)... ;)
Are we thinking in black and white again?
Yes, the sun is finite. And silicon is finite. Aluminium too. But that is something entirely different than fossil oil or uranium.
Wanna know what you need, for ” in terms of humanity ” unlimited power?
- Mirrors made out of silicon (glass) and aluminium), on an aluminium frame.
- A glass tube filled with water, partially protected with aluminium or iron.
- Iron/aluminium/etc turbines and cables.
Done. As much energy as humanity could possibly use. Times some huge number. Times the ability to put such power plants into space.
Interesting. Without you mentioning it, we wouldn’t even know that you have anything to do with IBM.
Why do people always think others would think that by default they would state anything else than their own opinion? Stating your own opinion is the default. No matter if some asshole might want to pull some shit on you, acting all egocentric, on how this also affects him, because you are in some remote way related.
Protip: He’s the asshole. He’s wrong. You should act insulted that he thinks crap like that. You should define how things are. You should tell someone (e.g. your boss) who pulls this shit on you, that you are disappointed and that he should be ashamed of himself for thinking something like that. Because he has to be ashamed for his behavior.
It’s basic common sense: People state what they themselves think. Is that so hard?
Well, there already is the ability to add scripts (as in every browser, usually JavaScript) to SVG, just like you would with XHTML, since both are XML-based. So MS could simply expose an API to JS. Oh wait, it already does that! (ActiveX, even partially DirectX.)
Or HTML.
We should make pictures similar to the John Locke fucks things up (expand gallery) ones, but with Microsoft in the middle picture. ;)
That’s a very bad comparison, since the effects of 60 fps vs 30 fps for me literally means the difference between winning matches and losing matches. Or a crazy increase in kill/death ratio.
Even worse with the 18 fps I have in GTA IV. It’s virtually unplayable, because if there is action, it gets even worse.
Above 60 fps there no point in increasing it anymore. I tested this 120 fps (with 120 Hz): No changes in feeling and game stats. So I spend that on higher resolution, better enemy movement prediction, useful sound effects (hearing what type of room someone is in), and what’s left on graphics.
How weird... You contradict your whole argument the last paragraph.
Anyhow: That is an interesting idea: Why not make an engine that does render all changes since the last frame in the same manner? Not with the primitive motion blur though. Something more intelligent, that helps you predict things too.
You mean it will be the table that accompanies the already flying chairs, when he hears that it will be as “successful” as the Zune? ^^
No. It’s much simpler: CRTs have a reaction time for the phosphor surface. On all screens I ever had (some very expensive professional ones too), I could see the blur when I switched the screen to black, and quickly moved the white mouse cursor around.
I think on older ones that effect was much worse. And the low resolution did not make it any better too.
The difference is, that your eyes have a freedom to focus anywhere on the screen. Which means that the place you look at has to be free of blur, just as in nature. But that in-game blur usually forces you to not move your eyes, which is incredibly annoying. Also it pointlessly takes a good load of GPU power. It’s always the first thing I disable in games.
Back when we played in the Counterstrike league (before and around when 1.0 came out), a simple raise from 30 fps to 60 fps dramatically rose my kill/death ratio. ”nuff said.
The other thing that dramatically made me better (some years later): Going from a cheap wireless mouse to a good wireless mouse, to a great wired mouse (Razer Copperhead right now). (Also, if you still have mouse acceleration enabled, please go and disable it right now. :)
Online I always prefer 1. more frames 2. faster ping and 3. higher resolution, over better graphics. Only over 60 fps it stops making sense, because it does not change anything anymore. Same thing with a DPI above what my eyes can see. (Got 120%, so that’s pretty high.)
Why would you want a Pediatric Attention Disorders Diagnostic from Doctor Crusher?
My Nokia 5800 already has text to speech. And speech to text! It can e.g. say the name of someone if that someone calls me. And it can recognize a name that I speak into the microphone, without me previously recording it. That feature surprised me, and from my experience works very well.
Yes, I should have made that distinction of J2ME vs full Java. Although I think that full Java on Android is definitely possible with those specs. (And on the iPhone too. But I read a statement from Jobs, that he personally thinks Java is crap and therefore the iPhone will not have it. Which as a Java developer, I find pretty arrogant, considered that every single phone of the last 10 years that is out there, except for the iPhone, supports J2ME. In fact is it so common, that software often is not even labeled as being J2ME anymore. Also on at least all modern Nokia phones, you get accelerated OpenGL ES, accelerated EAX-HD-like sound effects, and every important API exposed. It’s all in all a great development platform.)
I’m sure if you ask the Japanese, they will laugh in your face. But a quick comparison:
Nexus One vs iPhone vs. N900
CPU: 1GHz Qualcomm SnapDragon | 600 Mhz ARM Cortex-A8 + PowerVR SGX | 600 MHz ARM Cortex-A8 + PowerVR SGX
RAM: 512MB | 256MB | 1GB
Display: 800x480 AMOLED | 480x320 TFT | 800x480 TFT
Camera: 5 MP, LED flash | 3 MP, no flash | 5 MB + 0.3 MP (dual), LED flash | (All without optical zoom, which in this day and age, is pathetic.)
Storage: 4 GB + unlimited | 16 GB (fixed) | 32 GB + unlimited
Battery: 1400 mAh | 1219 mAh (non-removable) | 1320 mAh | (all 3.7 V li-ion)
Input: capacitive touchscreen + trackball | multi-touch touchscreen | resistive touchscreen + 38-key backlit keyboard
OS: Android | iPhone OS | Maemo Linux
Dimensions: 119 * 59.8 * 11.5 mm | 115.5 * 62.1 * 12.3 mm | 110.9 * 59.8 * 18 mm
Java support: yes | no | yes
GPS: They all got A-GPS and Wi-Fi triangulation is possible with a software. Although from what I heard, the iPhone has that software built-in. (I bought it for 3€ for my Nokia, so not much trouble there.)
Ability to put on it and do with it what you want: likely | locked down | absolutely
FM radio: no | no | yes
That’s about the differences I could make out. I hope this gives a better picture. I tried to stay unbiased. (And I’m sure I will draw hate for this. ;) As always: No guarantees.
Because in terms of math, cutting edge theory, and elegance, Haskell just blows everything I’ve seen out of the water.
Try #haskell, to get you started on the theory. But don’t be surprised if it feels like another planet, when they make jokes about The One True Monoid, and Unlambda. ;) ;)
(The are also much friendlier with mathematical questions, than the #math channel, where every free thought or idea is punished with anti-troll trolling, aggression, hate and the banhammer, and socially acting even remotely like a human is taboo.
...in the first place.
They do not care at all if you have fun, or got anything from it.
They only care, if you give them the money. The only reason they are not selling empty boxes, is because they try to steer clear of getting a class action lawsuit for fraud. But they try to get as close as possible to that magic line, as long as it means more money.
And what do you expect from a company that basically works like a ancient galley, or a gulag... powered by mindless slaves, and controlled by someone who would sell his own grandmother for peanuts, or steal a lollipop from a child.
They work on the same basis, that makes the two party system work: Idiots, who don’t learn from being fucked over.
Hint: If you bought a couple of EA games, that includes you. But at least you got a chance. ^^