Much depends on the exact reactor type, but for Gen II PWR/BWR reactors and up load-following is most definitely a realistic proposition. As the second link notes, German reactors were forced to switch to load-following mode due to the disruptions on the grid caused by the large-scale unbuffered PV solar and wind turbine fluctuations on the grid.
They could have changed it for different countries, yes. Yet the thing people seem to kind of forget here is that it's more of a cutesy little game, not anywhere as fundamental as say one's gender designation on a social networking site. To me it seems like a massively overblown issue which might have warranted possibly an email to Nintendo asking them politely to maybe change this, or even humorously file it as a bug report. Shaming Nintendo into changing this isn't very mature or helpful in my eyes. Humour tends to be more effective in cases like this, leaving a more pleasant aftertaste, if you catch my drift:)
As for my electronics projects, I sadly don't have much/anything online about it as I only recently have begun to get some time to do anything with it again, especially after moving to Germany:) I got some FPGA dev kits and other assorted equipment trickling in over the coming weeks to do fun stuff with and hopefully not releasing any magical smoke. Stay tuned, basically.
Thanks for the interest at any rate:) I guess this kind of goes to show how my approach to making an important but unknown topic known works.
Well, the sticking point here is that I don't think it's entirely fair to blame a Japanese company for publishing a game in which homosexual marriage is not possible when the very country they're operating from has made this thing illegal.
To me this seems more like a case of shooting the messenger when it's the Japanese government which should be seen as discriminatory and outdated with this position on marriage. To be honest I'm not sure whether it would be legal for Nintendo to publish this game in Japan if they had made homosexual marriage possible.
As for the further point of making more people aware of intersex, I'm definitely trying. Through media appearances (see my site for examples) and possibly in the future through some games I wish to develop and publish via my own software company or in cooperation with other studios/publishers. The last thing I want to do, however, is to antagonize or be seen as a complainer. Issues like this should be approached in a level-headed, rational manner to have the proper impact.
Well, there are people in the game. Male and female. Yet there are also people who are neither male or female such as yours truly. Are we intersex people represented in this game or games in general? Movies? Media? No way.
Yet we're not complaining about most of society not even being aware or caring about our existence. Not too much at least. I'd definitely call the complaints about this Nintendo game asinine as there are countless other games where one could complain about in the same manner, but what it comes down to it in the end is that it is a choice by the creator of the game which one has to respect as an artistic choice unless it's obviously discriminatory (e.g. having anti-homosexual marriage messages in the game).
Just imagine the massive nuclear power (fission and fusion) infrastructure (including reprocessing) one could construct for the cost of this project. No matter how one looks at it, this kind of space-based PV only gets attention because it seems so cool. In the end we can get a more reliable power infrastructure for less money simply by investing in what is a proven and known to be safe (though not idiot-proof, sadly) technology.
But hey, space. I'm sure it's far more cool and less controversial:)
When it comes to intersex case incidence there are no proper statistics, because nobody is keeping them. Normalization surgeries aren't kept track of as such either, and there are many types of intersex which are practically invisible until a much later age (such as CAIS and XXY).
At this point I think it'd be safe to use a number between 1:1,000 and 1:150, though. 1:25 is also used by some researchers, but it really depends on which conditions you include and which statistics for it you rely on.
Ambiguous genitals can mean a lot of things. They can be just variations on what we often refer to as 'regular' genitals, as in female or male, with a gradual transition between these two extremes.
There's also hermaphroditism - a sub-set of intersex - whereby both types of genitals are partially or fully present. Basically put this means having both a penis and vagina as well as a certain selection of internal reproductive organs.
Coincidentally I'm also a hermaphrodite, and although I used to have both testicles and ovaries at the same time, I was born fully infertile without a womb. You can find more details about my situation on my (easy to find) site:)
As for how often it actually occurs, intersex as an umbrella term is something in the order of 1:1,000 to 1:150 individuals who are born with an intersex condition.
This isn't another example of how precarious the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is, but one of how massive the incompetence of TEPCO is that they keep having 'incident' after 'incident'. Even long before Fukushima Daiichi TEPCO's safety record was beyond frightening.
That the Japanese government a) allows TEPCO to 'clean up' Fukushima and b) refuses any foreign help shows that the problem with Fukushima is and always has been a political one.
So, basically TCAS? Add the required responder to the drone and the TCAS implementation and it'll know where all other nearby planes/drones are as well as when one is on a collision course.
The area the Costa Concordia is in is a protected area, with fragile species living there. Dismantling it in place would cause damage to the marine life there, not to mention the possibility of pollution. It's far better scrapped in a controlled environment.
Yeah, timothy is the real troll here;) Glad we can agree on CRTs being alright then.
I agree that CRT TVs most often have the whine. The occasional CRT monitor has it as well, but they're generally the cheap type of CRT you don't want to be using for any extended period of time as well. I happen to be very sensitive to HF noises. Generally I was the only one in the room who could hear the HF whine from said CRT monitor as well. Try explaining that one:P
I'm not complaining too much about the IPS displays I have (Dell U2412M), just that I have to ignore the IPS glow I can just see in the corners when they're displaying a darker image. Beyond that they are almost perfect:)
As for electron calibration, I haven't done this myself, no, but I have disassembled enough CRTs to do it with a bit of guidance.
My experience is with the quality CRTs I mentioned. Philips, Sun, SGI, IBM and Iiyama CRTs, at various dimensions and specifications. I'll give you bulky and heavy. The 21" Sun CRT nearly broke my back a few times while trying to move it.
Blurry image? Your electron guns are probably out of alignment or other alignment issues fixable through proper calibration. Power usage? Sorry, but the massive Sun CRT I mentioned did around 100 Watt, which is just as much as a professional level (like the Sun) LCD uses, like those from Eizo.
On the geometry issues... again, use the OSD controls or use calibration. Flicker is utter nonsense. It's true that below their recommended refresh rate the phosphor pixels will fade faster than they are refreshed, leading to an uncomfortable experience. Even at 75 Hz I never had any issues, nor 60 Hz for older (15") CRTs.
I'm using only LCDs now (IPS where possible), but I miss the perfect viewing angles (damn gamma shift/IPS glow...) and the insane refresh rates (true 120 Hz). Waiting for OLED displays to eradicate LCDs now:)
The average (quality) CRT is perfectly fine for most people. They do not emit any high-frequency noises, nor do they have major flickering or geometry issues. To suggest that all CRTs are crappy is doing them a total disservice.
That said, there are plenty of CCFL-using LCDs which have given me dry eyes and a funky feeling after staring at them for a while, possibly due to the polarized light. Or perhaps just because they were low-quality pieces of junk.
If you want to check if there's any significant flickering that'd annoy you, check the display from the corner of your eyes. The peripheral vision of the eye is far more sensitive to motion than the central part you generally focus on. If you can't see flickering with your peripheral vision, it's just not there for you.
Thanks for the whine story, though. Would you care for some cheese with that?:)
I think it's more horrible that we think it's necessary to assign a gender (which is something very personal) to everyone, going so far as to physically alter our own infants and children to make them fit our ideas. This kind of forced surgery are Nazi-like practices.
I'm sure that if we can reach the stage where we allow our children to grow up to decide for themselves which gender they want to be instead of imposing one on them, the rest will take care of itself as well.
I didn't even mention those. I am just saying that there are a lot of individuals who get marked as transgender today, but who got assigned the wrong gender as an infant, usually through forced sex assignment (surgery).
Actually there are far more intersex people than transgender. And many transgender people are in fact intersex people who suffered forced sex assignment surgery as an infant. We are talking about up to 1:150 people here, if not more. From XXY, to AIS to full-blown hermaphroditism. Intersex conditions are everywhere and often lead to the gender hell described.
I'm a hermaphrodite myself. I was marked as being male at birth because my female genitals weren't visible. During puberty my body however turned fully female (breasts, hips, etc.). Yet my ID card still said that I was male. This was really fun because everyone recognized me as being female (looks, voice), but my official gender said something else. So many embarrassing and awkward situations.
It's taken me over eight years now to get my condition acknowledged and my first name as well as my official gender changed, the latter being the first time ever for an intersex person here in the Netherlands. I'm also suing the largest gender team in the Netherlands (VUmc, Amsterdam) for dismissing me as possibly intersex, instead trying to fool me into thinking I had to be transgender.
I'm really not sure what question it'd answer if a reliable survey was performed. Differentiating between people just by which genitals/sex chromosomes they have seems rather silly. Especially if you then also get into the whole intersex business as well. Gender is a muddy and grey business. You can trust me on that one.
Let's just all stick with us being brains in jars hooked up to the internet?:D
When was the last time they did a statistics check on/. users, though? Seems rather premature to conclude that/. is barren from female users if it could be 50/50. Who knows for sure?:)
Coal, not dangerous? From acid rain to fine dust particles causing many thousands of deaths among the US population alone each year, fly ash pools spilling into nearby rivers and rendering nearby areas unusable for generations, not to mention the other pollutants and their effect on people and the environment.
Been waiting for this release for a while now. Only the 5.0 release is going to be more significant. I hope that with 4.8 out we'll soon see it running on Android devices too.
I'm left clueless, then. What is the keyboard supposed to do anyway? I press the character I am reading, but nothing happens, and I can't see another way one'd transcribe it... I'd RTFM, but there isn't one:(
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30-100% load cycling, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Also this link: http://www.oecd-nea.org/nea-ne...
Much depends on the exact reactor type, but for Gen II PWR/BWR reactors and up load-following is most definitely a realistic proposition. As the second link notes, German reactors were forced to switch to load-following mode due to the disruptions on the grid caused by the large-scale unbuffered PV solar and wind turbine fluctuations on the grid.
Any slightly modern nuclear reactor these days is load-following. Many of the reactors in France are load-following by necessity, for example.
They could have changed it for different countries, yes. Yet the thing people seem to kind of forget here is that it's more of a cutesy little game, not anywhere as fundamental as say one's gender designation on a social networking site. To me it seems like a massively overblown issue which might have warranted possibly an email to Nintendo asking them politely to maybe change this, or even humorously file it as a bug report. Shaming Nintendo into changing this isn't very mature or helpful in my eyes. Humour tends to be more effective in cases like this, leaving a more pleasant aftertaste, if you catch my drift :)
:) I got some FPGA dev kits and other assorted equipment trickling in over the coming weeks to do fun stuff with and hopefully not releasing any magical smoke. Stay tuned, basically.
:) I guess this kind of goes to show how my approach to making an important but unknown topic known works.
As for my electronics projects, I sadly don't have much/anything online about it as I only recently have begun to get some time to do anything with it again, especially after moving to Germany
Thanks for the interest at any rate
Well, the sticking point here is that I don't think it's entirely fair to blame a Japanese company for publishing a game in which homosexual marriage is not possible when the very country they're operating from has made this thing illegal.
:)
To me this seems more like a case of shooting the messenger when it's the Japanese government which should be seen as discriminatory and outdated with this position on marriage. To be honest I'm not sure whether it would be legal for Nintendo to publish this game in Japan if they had made homosexual marriage possible.
As for the further point of making more people aware of intersex, I'm definitely trying. Through media appearances (see my site for examples) and possibly in the future through some games I wish to develop and publish via my own software company or in cooperation with other studios/publishers. The last thing I want to do, however, is to antagonize or be seen as a complainer. Issues like this should be approached in a level-headed, rational manner to have the proper impact.
Just my opinion on the matter, of course
Well, there are people in the game. Male and female. Yet there are also people who are neither male or female such as yours truly. Are we intersex people represented in this game or games in general? Movies? Media? No way.
Yet we're not complaining about most of society not even being aware or caring about our existence. Not too much at least. I'd definitely call the complaints about this Nintendo game asinine as there are countless other games where one could complain about in the same manner, but what it comes down to it in the end is that it is a choice by the creator of the game which one has to respect as an artistic choice unless it's obviously discriminatory (e.g. having anti-homosexual marriage messages in the game).
Just imagine the massive nuclear power (fission and fusion) infrastructure (including reprocessing) one could construct for the cost of this project. No matter how one looks at it, this kind of space-based PV only gets attention because it seems so cool. In the end we can get a more reliable power infrastructure for less money simply by investing in what is a proven and known to be safe (though not idiot-proof, sadly) technology.
:)
But hey, space. I'm sure it's far more cool and less controversial
When it comes to intersex case incidence there are no proper statistics, because nobody is keeping them. Normalization surgeries aren't kept track of as such either, and there are many types of intersex which are practically invisible until a much later age (such as CAIS and XXY).
At this point I think it'd be safe to use a number between 1:1,000 and 1:150, though. 1:25 is also used by some researchers, but it really depends on which conditions you include and which statistics for it you rely on.
Ambiguous genitals can mean a lot of things. They can be just variations on what we often refer to as 'regular' genitals, as in female or male, with a gradual transition between these two extremes.
:)
There's also hermaphroditism - a sub-set of intersex - whereby both types of genitals are partially or fully present. Basically put this means having both a penis and vagina as well as a certain selection of internal reproductive organs.
Coincidentally I'm also a hermaphrodite, and although I used to have both testicles and ovaries at the same time, I was born fully infertile without a womb. You can find more details about my situation on my (easy to find) site
As for how often it actually occurs, intersex as an umbrella term is something in the order of 1:1,000 to 1:150 individuals who are born with an intersex condition.
This isn't another example of how precarious the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is, but one of how massive the incompetence of TEPCO is that they keep having 'incident' after 'incident'. Even long before Fukushima Daiichi TEPCO's safety record was beyond frightening.
That the Japanese government a) allows TEPCO to 'clean up' Fukushima and b) refuses any foreign help shows that the problem with Fukushima is and always has been a political one.
So, basically TCAS? Add the required responder to the drone and the TCAS implementation and it'll know where all other nearby planes/drones are as well as when one is on a collision course.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_system
The area the Costa Concordia is in is a protected area, with fragile species living there. Dismantling it in place would cause damage to the marine life there, not to mention the possibility of pollution. It's far better scrapped in a controlled environment.
Yeah, timothy is the real troll here ;) Glad we can agree on CRTs being alright then.
:P
I agree that CRT TVs most often have the whine. The occasional CRT monitor has it as well, but they're generally the cheap type of CRT you don't want to be using for any extended period of time as well. I happen to be very sensitive to HF noises. Generally I was the only one in the room who could hear the HF whine from said CRT monitor as well. Try explaining that one
I'm not complaining too much about the IPS displays I have (Dell U2412M), just that I have to ignore the IPS glow I can just see in the corners when they're displaying a darker image. Beyond that they are almost perfect :)
As for electron calibration, I haven't done this myself, no, but I have disassembled enough CRTs to do it with a bit of guidance.
My experience is with the quality CRTs I mentioned. Philips, Sun, SGI, IBM and Iiyama CRTs, at various dimensions and specifications. I'll give you bulky and heavy. The 21" Sun CRT nearly broke my back a few times while trying to move it.
:)
Blurry image? Your electron guns are probably out of alignment or other alignment issues fixable through proper calibration. Power usage? Sorry, but the massive Sun CRT I mentioned did around 100 Watt, which is just as much as a professional level (like the Sun) LCD uses, like those from Eizo.
On the geometry issues... again, use the OSD controls or use calibration. Flicker is utter nonsense. It's true that below their recommended refresh rate the phosphor pixels will fade faster than they are refreshed, leading to an uncomfortable experience. Even at 75 Hz I never had any issues, nor 60 Hz for older (15") CRTs.
I'm using only LCDs now (IPS where possible), but I miss the perfect viewing angles (damn gamma shift/IPS glow...) and the insane refresh rates (true 120 Hz). Waiting for OLED displays to eradicate LCDs now
Yup, or other flyback/transformer/coil issues generally solvable through liberal application of epoxy on the bit making the noise :)
The average (quality) CRT is perfectly fine for most people. They do not emit any high-frequency noises, nor do they have major flickering or geometry issues. To suggest that all CRTs are crappy is doing them a total disservice.
:)
That said, there are plenty of CCFL-using LCDs which have given me dry eyes and a funky feeling after staring at them for a while, possibly due to the polarized light. Or perhaps just because they were low-quality pieces of junk.
If you want to check if there's any significant flickering that'd annoy you, check the display from the corner of your eyes. The peripheral vision of the eye is far more sensitive to motion than the central part you generally focus on. If you can't see flickering with your peripheral vision, it's just not there for you.
Thanks for the whine story, though. Would you care for some cheese with that?
Hi there :)
I think it's more horrible that we think it's necessary to assign a gender (which is something very personal) to everyone, going so far as to physically alter our own infants and children to make them fit our ideas. This kind of forced surgery are Nazi-like practices.
I'm sure that if we can reach the stage where we allow our children to grow up to decide for themselves which gender they want to be instead of imposing one on them, the rest will take care of itself as well.
I didn't even mention those. I am just saying that there are a lot of individuals who get marked as transgender today, but who got assigned the wrong gender as an infant, usually through forced sex assignment (surgery).
Only been here since the 90s :D
Actually there are far more intersex people than transgender. And many transgender people are in fact intersex people who suffered forced sex assignment surgery as an infant. We are talking about up to 1:150 people here, if not more. From XXY, to AIS to full-blown hermaphroditism. Intersex conditions are everywhere and often lead to the gender hell described.
I'm a hermaphrodite myself. I was marked as being male at birth because my female genitals weren't visible. During puberty my body however turned fully female (breasts, hips, etc.). Yet my ID card still said that I was male. This was really fun because everyone recognized me as being female (looks, voice), but my official gender said something else. So many embarrassing and awkward situations.
It's taken me over eight years now to get my condition acknowledged and my first name as well as my official gender changed, the latter being the first time ever for an intersex person here in the Netherlands. I'm also suing the largest gender team in the Netherlands (VUmc, Amsterdam) for dismissing me as possibly intersex, instead trying to fool me into thinking I had to be transgender.
I'm really not sure what question it'd answer if a reliable survey was performed. Differentiating between people just by which genitals/sex chromosomes they have seems rather silly. Especially if you then also get into the whole intersex business as well. Gender is a muddy and grey business. You can trust me on that one.
:D
Let's just all stick with us being brains in jars hooked up to the internet?
When was the last time they did a statistics check on /. users, though? Seems rather premature to conclude that /. is barren from female users if it could be 50/50. Who knows for sure? :)
Coal, not dangerous? From acid rain to fine dust particles causing many thousands of deaths among the US population alone each year, fly ash pools spilling into nearby rivers and rendering nearby areas unusable for generations, not to mention the other pollutants and their effect on people and the environment.
Oh sure, not dangerous at all...
Been waiting for this release for a while now. Only the 5.0 release is going to be more significant. I hope that with 4.8 out we'll soon see it running on Android devices too.
I'm left clueless, then. What is the keyboard supposed to do anyway? I press the character I am reading, but nothing happens, and I can't see another way one'd transcribe it... I'd RTFM, but there isn't one :(