And in New Zealand you can just drink the water straight from many streams (except in volcanos), some rivers (tongariro) and the biggest lake (taupo). Which is handy when you are hiking:-)
Hmm, the lake quality has declined in the last 20 years, so there are a whole heap of regulations for farmers in the catchment area (for example no more than 3.3 llamas or 10 goats per hectare), and a lot of paperwork with resource consents and Nitrogen Discharge Allowances. I wonder if China or Spain has such regulations.
It's apparently a proposal to reduce air-conditioning costs for cars and hence improve their efficiency. Surely that would be better handled by telling manufacturers to report the mpg with the aircon off and on if it varies much.
I think it would be more likely to save lives from car accidents than save the environment though - IIRC a 2003 study has shown that silver cars are 50% less likely to be involved in a crash resulting in serious injury than white cars, and black brown and green cars were worse than white cars. Obviously if Californians valued their lives, the government wouldn't need to propose such a ban since drivers would already be driving high-visibility cars. Or at least calling for a repeat of the study to be done in California.
So how are you going to feel about importing twice as many TV's
That would obviously be worse, but we would be lucky to get all that kit to test on so would just go for whatever is the "low-end" model that is common over there. I don't think HDMI is going to be used for cheap equipment for a couple of years yet so we will get away with the (tiny CRT based) kit we have now. It would be a benefit to test future projects on LCD and plasma screens though.
I can remember using RF encoded video which was really grim for either NTSC or PAL, so composite (which we use because it is cheap) looks much better than that.
As people have said, not all SCART cables have RGB wired up, but I am a fan of them in theory since it is much more convenient than separate cables and it seems silly to convert RGB to YUV and then back again. Not practical in USA because of lack of installed base, and pointless now that you have moved over to DRM based systems.
Sorry about the "US sucks" undertone in there; it does make sense for (asian) tv manufacturers to focus on cheapness rather than flexibility when the market is large enough. I think California is borderline big enough for specific TV models, but I don't know which models they will get.
Since you guys have stopped broadcasting television in NTSC anyway, all the legacy equipment might become a moot point (unless people are intending to keep old TVs around for playing retro games and watching VHS videos on I guess).
When drying clothes, I used tojust use a 50 watt pedestal fan pointed at a clothes horse in my lounge (preferably with the windows open and the sun shining, blowing perpendicular to the shirts), not being one of those fancy pants people with gardens:-)
It gets clothes dry quickly and they get less damaged I think.
how is the consumer going to know how much that shiny new fridge is going to consume ?
He or she looks at the giant letter on the front of the fridge in the salesroom saying "A++" rated (good) or "E" rated (bad). Requiring information on goodness/badness is not the same as banning bad things. If he or she passed maths class at school he or she could further make calculations based on the actual usage in kWH/year (for a certain climate) printed in slightly smaller print next to the giant letter.
The problem is that California is so large, manufacturers are not going to make a CA TV and a rest-of-the-world TV;
They do that already for the USA - they make NTSC only 110volt only televisions with crappy connectors for sale in the USA, and NTSC/PAL/PAL60 televisions 100-250volt power with RGB SCART connectors for countries that like colours to be the same from time to time.
(We have to specially import US specification televisions to check how it murders our games' artwork when played over there, and adjust the source artwork to avoid red and yellow).
Perhaps with HDTV they will standardise the models a little more, but it may not be as widespread as you think.
Ever been out at a bar or pub...then hopped in to your car?
No, I would take the train/bus/taxi home. And that is one of the reasons why the USA (and New Zealand which had a similar attitude) has terrible statistics for deaths on the road. It's like you have a twin towers moment every month, and nobody cares.
When I visit home I hate getting into the car with my parents if they have been drinking, but on occasion I feel I have no choice (there probably is no taxi in that (rural) area anyway).
Or the TV series QI (and Dr Basil Cottle) might claim it comes from "Richard Amerike" who owned the ship "Matthew" that landed in North America in 1497 (John Cabot's voyage).
Hey, don't forget Indonesia, where they want to introduce the death penalty (by stoning) for adultery. That makes the USA seem laid-back by comparison!
Some airports have an international transit area. Honolulu does not.
It used to in the 1970s, when DC10s couldn't make it all the way to los angeles.
Don't worry, when QANTAS gets a few more A380s perhaps you can have a direct flight in comfort. Of course you still run the risk of there being a natural disaster in Vancouver and the flight being diverted (IIRC this happens on the east coast and one person was jailed on an outstanding arrest warrant cos it landed on US soil).
Presumably good old American engineering can replicate something that the Japanese could do almost two decades ago.
If that were the case the USA wouldn't have needed to bail out all those car manufacturers recently, so I would guess not, unless they import some engineers from Japan or France, or hell, China (which has the fastest in-service train at 268mph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train) although that is just willy waving rather than useful, and German designed anyway).
Don't give me any guff about "people should walk more". A large portion of the population is sick/elderly/frail/disabled
Don't forget the obese! In the USA they outnumber people of healthy weight. (at the moment it is 1/3 healthy or underweight, 1/3 fat and 1/3 obese for US adults). The future described in Wall-E (for personal transportation anyway) is already nearly there.
Said as a fat man who can still walk to the train station, as long as it is along the flat:-)
And yes you do see people walking barefoot on the main street of the capital city in NZ (the footpaths are cleaner than in other countries - do *not* try this in London!).
Why should I have to do what you think is best for my life?
Of course you do not and should not have to. I am pleased you looked into the alternatives, but 60 years of town planning based on the assumption that everyone drives a car has led your neighbourhood to be laid out rather differently from mine, where the choice to drive is penalised by being very expensive (road tax, fuel, insurance), difficult (obtaining and paying for permissions for a parking space both at home and at work) and long-winded (traffic rush hours towards work, windy narrow roads to anywhere interesting). Whereas the bus comes by 11 times an hour during the day and means I do not have to be teetotal, meaning it is the easy choice. Being the easy choice I am not in a position to preach.
I still don't understand why generations of US city planners expected the price of oil to never go up. Even though we both live in the outer suburbs, my house was built before cars came into common use, and so has shops within walking distance and transport links. But the USA is not alone in that - my parents house (in another country) is pretty inaccessible. So it seems they will get the same problems.
In the olden days lines on roads were painted by hand. A guy got hired by the line painting company and seemed enthusiastic.
The first day he painted a mile! The boss was very pleased with his work.
The second day he only painted half a mile, and looked very tired. The boss wondered why he didn't keep up the amazing start.
The third day he came back to the office streaming with sweat, but had only painted a tenth of a mile.
The boss said, "hey, how come your work is so much less than on your first day?"
The guy said "boss, I'm trying, really I am, but each day, the paint pot gets further and further away!"
The moral being: move closer to your work/college!
PS the bus stop is 50 yards from my house but it would take a lot longer to do 30 miles because there is a speed limit (I live in a city). But at least they run 24 hrs. So in that case I would take the train, either the station that is 100 yards away or the one on the other line that is 500 yards away).
Anyway I thought if you lived in the "outback" in the USA away from train lines/city centres you don't have mobile phone service anyway!:-)
Thanks for that link - that guy sounds very cool and informative.
There might be some nomenclature issues here as well. I hear some people on slashdot saying "developer" meaning "programmer/software engineer" when I would say a developer could be an artist (animator/concept artist/texture artist/modeller), programmer (coder/engineer; tools/engine/game),
designer (mapper/scripter), internal producer,
musician (music/sfx) or internal tester (QA).
But I would not put publisher staff (external producer/test/marketing/finance)
or the wider industry (journalist, retailer,
distributer) in the same category, or even the
hollywood voice actors used in the actual game.
That might just be me though.
Still what really throws me is when music industry people call composers, songwriters, musicians and singers "artists". WTF they are not painting they are singing; have you seen Paul Macartney's paintings, or heard yoko ono's singing? Slightly disturbing but not what they are famous for...
169,2,141,32,208,96
OK that's decimal not hex and for the C64 not the Beeb but, you know, its been a few years!
(That should change the border colour to red IIRC).
But can I remember peoples birthdays or when the deadline is? Sadly no...
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And in New Zealand you can just drink the water straight from many streams (except in volcanos), some rivers (tongariro) and the biggest lake (taupo). Which is handy when you are hiking :-)
Hmm, the lake quality has declined in the last 20 years, so there are a whole heap of regulations for farmers in the catchment area (for example no more than 3.3 llamas or 10 goats per hectare), and a lot of paperwork with resource consents and Nitrogen Discharge Allowances. I wonder if China or Spain has such regulations.
It's apparently a proposal to reduce air-conditioning costs for cars and hence improve their efficiency. Surely that would be better handled by telling manufacturers to report the mpg with the aircon off and on if it varies much.
I think it would be more likely to save lives from car accidents than save the environment though - IIRC a 2003 study has shown that silver cars are 50% less likely to be involved in a crash resulting in serious injury than white cars, and black brown and green cars were worse than white cars. Obviously if Californians valued their lives, the government wouldn't need to propose such a ban since drivers would already be driving high-visibility cars. Or at least calling for a repeat of the study to be done in California.
And of course it will never happen...
If I put them outside to dry, a bus would drive through them :-)
This would not make them cleaner.
I live in a city.
That would obviously be worse, but we would be lucky to get all that kit to test on so would just go for whatever is the "low-end" model that is common over there. I don't think HDMI is going to be used for cheap equipment for a couple of years yet so we will get away with the (tiny CRT based) kit we have now. It would be a benefit to test future projects on LCD and plasma screens though.
I can remember using RF encoded video which was really grim for either NTSC or PAL, so composite (which we use because it is cheap) looks much better than that.
As people have said, not all SCART cables have RGB wired up, but I am a fan of them in theory since it is much more convenient than separate cables and it seems silly to convert RGB to YUV and then back again. Not practical in USA because of lack of installed base, and pointless now that you have moved over to DRM based systems.
Sorry about the "US sucks" undertone in there; it does make sense for (asian) tv manufacturers to focus on cheapness rather than flexibility when the market is large enough. I think California is borderline big enough for specific TV models, but I don't know which models they will get.
Since you guys have stopped broadcasting television in NTSC anyway, all the legacy equipment might become a moot point (unless people are intending to keep old TVs around for playing retro games and watching VHS videos on I guess).
It gets clothes dry quickly and they get less damaged I think.
He or she looks at the giant letter on the front of the fridge in the salesroom saying "A++" rated (good) or "E" rated (bad). Requiring information on goodness/badness is not the same as banning bad things. If he or she passed maths class at school he or she could further make calculations based on the actual usage in kWH/year (for a certain climate) printed in slightly smaller print next to the giant letter.
They do that already for the USA - they make NTSC only 110volt only televisions with crappy connectors for sale in the USA, and NTSC/PAL/PAL60 televisions 100-250volt power with RGB SCART connectors for countries that like colours to be the same from time to time.
(We have to specially import US specification televisions to check how it murders our games' artwork when played over there, and adjust the source artwork to avoid red and yellow).
Perhaps with HDTV they will standardise the models a little more, but it may not be as widespread as you think.
The people living in Hobart might disagree :-)
No, I would take the train/bus/taxi home. And that is one of the reasons why the USA (and New Zealand which had a similar attitude) has terrible statistics for deaths on the road. It's like you have a twin towers moment every month, and nobody cares.
When I visit home I hate getting into the car with my parents if they have been drinking, but on occasion I feel I have no choice (there probably is no taxi in that (rural) area anyway).
Or the TV series QI (and Dr Basil Cottle) might claim it comes from "Richard Amerike" who owned the ship "Matthew" that landed in North America in 1497 (John Cabot's voyage).
Hey, don't forget Indonesia, where they want to introduce the death penalty (by stoning) for adultery. That makes the USA seem laid-back by comparison!
It used to in the 1970s, when DC10s couldn't make it all the way to los angeles.
Don't worry, when QANTAS gets a few more A380s perhaps you can have a direct flight in comfort. Of course you still run the risk of there being a natural disaster in Vancouver and the flight being diverted (IIRC this happens on the east coast and one person was jailed on an outstanding arrest warrant cos it landed on US soil).
If that were the case the USA wouldn't have needed to bail out all those car manufacturers recently, so I would guess not, unless they import some engineers from Japan or France, or hell, China (which has the fastest in-service train at 268mph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train) although that is just willy waving rather than useful, and German designed anyway).
Don't forget the obese! In the USA they outnumber people of healthy weight. (at the moment it is 1/3 healthy or underweight, 1/3 fat and 1/3 obese for US adults). The future described in Wall-E (for personal transportation anyway) is already nearly there.
Said as a fat man who can still walk to the train station, as long as it is along the flat :-)
Hey, Ryanair "Copenhagen" (Malmo) was not even in the right country let alone city :-)
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The uncut DVD version will be much better than the theatrical version - Dr Manhattan is uncircumcised :-)
Q: What do you call a kiwi in a suit?
A: The defendant.
And yes you do see people walking barefoot on the main street of the capital city in NZ (the footpaths are cleaner than in other countries - do *not* try this in London!).
But the article author should have worn a helmet.
Of course you do not and should not have to. I am pleased you looked into the alternatives, but 60 years of town planning based on the assumption that everyone drives a car has led your neighbourhood to be laid out rather differently from mine, where the choice to drive is penalised by being very expensive (road tax, fuel, insurance), difficult (obtaining and paying for permissions for a parking space both at home and at work) and long-winded (traffic rush hours towards work, windy narrow roads to anywhere interesting). Whereas the bus comes by 11 times an hour during the day and means I do not have to be teetotal, meaning it is the easy choice. Being the easy choice I am not in a position to preach.
I still don't understand why generations of US city planners expected the price of oil to never go up. Even though we both live in the outer suburbs, my house was built before cars came into common use, and so has shops within walking distance and transport links. But the USA is not alone in that - my parents house (in another country) is pretty inaccessible. So it seems they will get the same problems.
The first day he painted a mile! The boss was very pleased with his work.
The second day he only painted half a mile, and looked very tired. The boss wondered why he didn't keep up the amazing start.
The third day he came back to the office streaming with sweat, but had only painted a tenth of a mile.
The boss said, "hey, how come your work is so much less than on your first day?"
The guy said "boss, I'm trying, really I am, but each day, the paint pot gets further and further away!"
The moral being: move closer to your work/college!
PS the bus stop is 50 yards from my house but it would take a lot longer to do 30 miles because there is a speed limit (I live in a city). But at least they run 24 hrs. So in that case I would take the train, either the station that is 100 yards away or the one on the other line that is 500 yards away).
Anyway I thought if you lived in the "outback" in the USA away from train lines/city centres you don't have mobile phone service anyway! :-)
For example the 1918 "Spanish" flu is thought to have come from the USA.
Surely you could have linked to a picture of Andi (the Rhesus monkey genetically modified to glow under a microscope in 2001) or these marmosets
Thanks for that link - that guy sounds very cool and informative.
There might be some nomenclature issues here as well. I hear some people on slashdot saying "developer" meaning "programmer/software engineer" when I would say a developer could be an artist (animator/concept artist/texture artist/modeller), programmer (coder/engineer; tools/engine/game), designer (mapper/scripter), internal producer, musician (music/sfx) or internal tester (QA). But I would not put publisher staff (external producer/test/marketing/finance) or the wider industry (journalist, retailer, distributer) in the same category, or even the hollywood voice actors used in the actual game.
That might just be me though.
Still what really throws me is when music industry people call composers, songwriters, musicians and singers "artists". WTF they are not painting they are singing; have you seen Paul Macartney's paintings, or heard yoko ono's singing? Slightly disturbing but not what they are famous for...
Epic Games defines it as 60 hour minimum work weeks :-)
Apparently their code all looks like it was written at 1:50am as well (they have compulsory 2am leaving time), but everyone seems to be using it...
EA defines it as changing a number in the product manual to match the current year.
169,2,141,32,208,96 OK that's decimal not hex and for the C64 not the Beeb but, you know, its been a few years! (That should change the border colour to red IIRC). But can I remember peoples birthdays or when the deadline is? Sadly no...