Visuals? There's no drug references in either game and an exposed belly button is only "inappropriate" if you're a prude.
I let my five year old watch all the time. (Though it is true I sometimes have to make sure to cough at the appropriate time during some of the songs.)
An all electric car gives you the option of choosing how the power gets generated. For instance, I could buy solar panels for my house, thereby ensuring that no fossil fuels are used at all.
Only all electric cars allow you to use power only from completely renewable, carbon neutral sources.
Even ignoring JIT, the cost isn't that high. Five years or so, I wrote took a short task (a programming contest entry) and wrote it in C++, Java and C#, using the same algorithm but best practices for each language. The C++ code seemed to run at about twice the speed.
The funniest one I've seen was in Fallout 3. I was talking to Nova in Megaton. She starts to cock her head to the right and it just keeps going, doing a complete 360 degree rotation, talking all the while.
German is a lot closer to English than French is. Dutch is even closer. French provides a lot of English vocabulary, but not the grammar and almost none of the most common words.
I'm running an Ubuntu box, a browser up, an email package up, and instant messenger running, multiple editors open, Perforce open, open office open and am doing compiles. I am currently using 1.4 GB of RAM.
A lot more than a year..."Head Six" was talking about "God's Plan" from the very beginning and Baltar had a "pick randomly and it turns out to work perfectly" miracles in the first season.
You are presuming that their spaceships could magically create everything they needed to survive. The show was making it very clear that their ships were falling apart, they were very short on supplies, and were having difficulties keeping the basics going.
You misunderstand what Mitochondrial Eve is. Plenty of others may have had offspring, as long as those offspring didn't have girls that continued a matriarchal line to present day.
Read your history of the Americas. Lots and lots of white men and women "went native" and became part of local tribes.
Also, in many cases, in similar situations on Earth, with less of a technological gap, outsiders were at least initially seen as gods, or at least potential gods. Certainly in the Americas, where the natives were far more advanced then people 150k years ago and where the invaders were far less advanced than the Galactica crew, the invaders were often initially met with at least some friendliness.
Except that they did not, in fact, get rid of all technology. They got rid of space ships. They kept "supplies", which presumably included things like antibiotics, books, pens, etc. What antibiotics they had. Bear in mind that the fleet likely had no way to manufacture antibiotics. That's what a lot of people here seem to miss...without the technological infrastructure to create supplies, those supplies will inevitably not last.
Hell, the most valuable bit of technology in their situation is not an unmaintainable spaceship that can no longer jump and is barely spaceworthy. The most valuable bit of technology would be a book on wilderness survival. Presumably they didn't launch those into the sun.
With no technological infrastructure to maintain them, those ships would have fallen apart and become useless within a decade or so. I think a lot of people don't realize how much of the technological infrastructure that was "thrown away" required a large technological civilization to maintain it.
1) Are you sure that the "supplies" didn't include "small backup generators"? In any case, those things are going to run out of fuel.
2) There is essentially no way you are going to get crops for 30,000 people with out agricultural knowledge grown in six months. The best shot is to join the natives, who already know how to survive on the planet. But given that those natives probably can only support themselves with a population density of 1/sq mile, this requires spreading out.
3) Presumably "supplies" included whatever medical supplies are available.
4) Natives are likely to see the colonists as "Gods" given that they possess technology indistinguishable from magic.
First: if you actually paid attention, they weren't discarding "every scrap" of technology by any means. Adama kept a Raptor, for Gods' sakes! Most people brought "supplies". They were just discarding the large scale stuff.
Tell me which is more practical:
* Try to make a city out of remnants of technology that is falling apart and cannot be replaced without any real knowledge of agriculture, etc., hoping you can get enough crops in to feed 30k plus wherever you happen to settle before winter arrives.
* Have everyone split up into groups of 1-3 and join small tribes of natives who already know how to survive on the planet, and who will likely greet you as gods.
Google filters results unless you go out of your way to turn off "safe search". Not perfectly, but between that and adblock, I can't remember the last time I accidentally clicked on something not knowing it was NSFW.
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Visuals? There's no drug references in either game and an exposed belly button is only "inappropriate" if you're a prude.
I let my five year old watch all the time. (Though it is true I sometimes have to make sure to cough at the appropriate time during some of the songs.)
Me too. Honestly, I mostly only play console games these days because they tend to be more stable than their PC counterparts.
An all electric car gives you the option of choosing how the power gets generated. For instance, I could buy solar panels for my house, thereby ensuring that no fossil fuels are used at all.
Only all electric cars allow you to use power only from completely renewable, carbon neutral sources.
Even ignoring JIT, the cost isn't that high. Five years or so, I wrote took a short task (a programming contest entry) and wrote it in C++, Java and C#, using the same algorithm but best practices for each language. The C++ code seemed to run at about twice the speed.
The funniest one I've seen was in Fallout 3. I was talking to Nova in Megaton. She starts to cock her head to the right and it just keeps going, doing a complete 360 degree rotation, talking all the while.
If I recall correctly, the iPod Touch has roughly the same computing power as the Cray XMP, which was the fastest supercomputer available in 1983.
Now they can have the pleasure of reading Toutes votre base sont appartiennent à nous!
So is UK English and American English.
Note the word "common": http://www.duboislc.org/EducationWatch/First100Words.html
Linguists call English a Germanic language and French a Romance language. Presumably for a reason.
German is a lot closer to English than French is. Dutch is even closer. French provides a lot of English vocabulary, but not the grammar and almost none of the most common words.
I'm running an Ubuntu box, a browser up, an email package up, and instant messenger running, multiple editors open, Perforce open, open office open and am doing compiles. I am currently using 1.4 GB of RAM.
He can sell it. It's just that whoever he sells it to is going to be way pissed about buying a bunch of bits that they can't do anything with.
A lot more than a year..."Head Six" was talking about "God's Plan" from the very beginning and Baltar had a "pick randomly and it turns out to work perfectly" miracles in the first season.
You are presuming that their spaceships could magically create everything they needed to survive. The show was making it very clear that their ships were falling apart, they were very short on supplies, and were having difficulties keeping the basics going.
You misunderstand what Mitochondrial Eve is. Plenty of others may have had offspring, as long as those offspring didn't have girls that continued a matriarchal line to present day.
Yeah, hope they didn't starve during the long African winter...
Read your history of the Americas. Lots and lots of white men and women "went native" and became part of local tribes.
Also, in many cases, in similar situations on Earth, with less of a technological gap, outsiders were at least initially seen as gods, or at least potential gods. Certainly in the Americas, where the natives were far more advanced then people 150k years ago and where the invaders were far less advanced than the Galactica crew, the invaders were often initially met with at least some friendliness.
Except that they did not, in fact, get rid of all technology. They got rid of space ships. They kept "supplies", which presumably included things like antibiotics, books, pens, etc. What antibiotics they had. Bear in mind that the fleet likely had no way to manufacture antibiotics. That's what a lot of people here seem to miss...without the technological infrastructure to create supplies, those supplies will inevitably not last.
Hell, the most valuable bit of technology in their situation is not an unmaintainable spaceship that can no longer jump and is barely spaceworthy. The most valuable bit of technology would be a book on wilderness survival. Presumably they didn't launch those into the sun.
With no technological infrastructure to maintain them, those ships would have fallen apart and become useless within a decade or so. I think a lot of people don't realize how much of the technological infrastructure that was "thrown away" required a large technological civilization to maintain it.
You don't understand...the true motivation for going native was that they ran out of liquor.
1) Are you sure that the "supplies" didn't include "small backup generators"? In any case, those things are going to run out of fuel.
2) There is essentially no way you are going to get crops for 30,000 people with out agricultural knowledge grown in six months. The best shot is to join the natives, who already know how to survive on the planet. But given that those natives probably can only support themselves with a population density of 1/sq mile, this requires spreading out.
3) Presumably "supplies" included whatever medical supplies are available.
4) Natives are likely to see the colonists as "Gods" given that they possess technology indistinguishable from magic.
First: if you actually paid attention, they weren't discarding "every scrap" of technology by any means. Adama kept a Raptor, for Gods' sakes! Most people brought "supplies". They were just discarding the large scale stuff.
Tell me which is more practical:
* Try to make a city out of remnants of technology that is falling apart and cannot be replaced without any real knowledge of agriculture, etc., hoping you can get enough crops in to feed 30k plus wherever you happen to settle before winter arrives.
* Have everyone split up into groups of 1-3 and join small tribes of natives who already know how to survive on the planet, and who will likely greet you as gods.
Google filters results unless you go out of your way to turn off "safe search". Not perfectly, but between that and adblock, I can't remember the last time I accidentally clicked on something not knowing it was NSFW.
One or two random links isn't going to cause damage, even goatse.cx