By buying a solar cell, even if it may be a bad one, he raise demands, gives the companies a profit and money for R&D which will in the end give better products.
We and the technology has to start somewhere, and someone have to buy the less than perfect products for others to keep on trying to make better ones.
No matter what energy source he use it could be said to be solar power I guess. Wood, moving water, oil, nuclear. Even if we used magnetism in space somehow I guess it would be "solar powered", same for the dyson sphere =P
I find them annoying, melted together = suck because it require me to find a scissor and sometimes it's not very easy anyway.
Shrink-wrapped plastic = quite annoying to
Plastic bubble over paper card = as long as the plastic bubble don't cover the whole card these are decent, I never care for the pre-cut holes in the card but pull card and plastic appart. Waste of material and impossible to separate the plastic from all the paper though.
A small plastic box with pieces fiting on top of each other holding the package together by friction and a small plastic clip locking it all together but removable with some simple tool in the checkout would work ok to. (Probably easy to remove if you really want to but then brining a scissor is easy to..)
The good solution would be to package in simple to open paper boxes, such as for instance what Nintendo and Apple use, or what books often come in when ordered online, and then spare the cutting tool for the people who commit the theft...
The guy don't seem to know how to burn a CD-image or understand that he has to shrink his current NTFS-partition before he's able to create a new one though.
Yeah, must be poor people in China and other countries trying to catch up and get up to our living standard. Fuck what we have done earlier and to get here. Stupid chinese!
Fuck all poor people who may want to get a car or whatever to.
Rich people ftw!
Or well, fuck rich people to.
I agree that habitat loss is a much bigger problem atm, at least for bigger animals, and especially for bigger animals competing for our prey / seeing us as prey. And polution is obviously a problem to, how big I don't know, I guess global warming thru co2 is a polution problem to though.
Much greater scale? Doubt it, greater? Probably. Often? Probably not.
But would any other species in the same scenario care? Probably not. But I'd say we keep things as they are because we want to.
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That depends on how you play laser game, and how serious you are on a treadmill or on a bike.
YOU may go to a gym because it gives the maximum result for the least effort, but you shouldn't expect that to be the case for everyone else.
And there are more fun things to do in a gym than running on a treadmill, practising olympic lifts for example or vertical jumps or whatever.
And more don't have to be better since recovery and food consumption effects the results as well.
Anyway, fact is that you are much more likely to go on if you have fun, that's why doing boring cardio work just because you think you should do cardio suck, find an activity you LIKE such as badminton or whatever, even if it's less effective you are much more likely to keep doing it if you like it.
But weight lifting and proper diet works pretty good alone, and if recovery is good more will probably BE better.
Anyway, playing laser game with your friends for 2*45 minutes 4 times / week would be way more effective than pulling your ass to the gym once a week for 15 minutes of treadmill.. And it may even improve your life quality.
Playing say capture the flag in a forest with laser guns if there was any which would work in that scenario would probably be very efficient to, it all depends on what amount of effort you put into it.
For most people doing less exercise in the gym / session is more likely to have them longing for getting back and try to improve on the last session even more the next time than long sessions where you get to tired in the end. And I doubt the 25:th set of chest exercises will do much to help you either, nothing says that's better than only 5 sets of better quality.
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Oh, didn't got that it was for home usage, I saw it more like gym equipment.
There is some laser game things for home usage to but I guess they suck.
Where is the outdoor version!?! With slow showing laser beams:D
The Chinese version however has you shooting peasants as you pedal along.
Carmageddon pedal car edition?:D
Ok, if the car could react a la electronic bump cars and you could hit each other someway then maybe:D
Personally I like the battle of brains / fun strats / unexpected things and such in RTSes, not doing workouts.
I play WC3 first and go to the gym later, or the other way around, depending on how serious I am:D
Back in the days Quake used to work just fine as cardiovascular training to, all that stress, fear and anger must have lead o something:D If nothing else slamming the mouse in the table each time you die sure as hell has to work your lats, or something:D
Why not just play laser game? Seems like much more fun and "creative."
I'm all for working out but cardio exercise in general is fucking boring. Coupled with an FPS it probably get more fun if it works decent but I doubt it can beat reality.
Something like laser game but out in the wild (as in urban setting / forest /..) must be awesome. More wargames for everyone!:D
Riding a stationary bike in a gym even if you got a virtual rider riding on a screen as well will still just be a stationary bike in the same fucking environment without the natural noise, smell, fresh air and the rest of the experience. (Sure, no rain or stains either but..)
Just make a laser game (paintball?) gym with year membership cards and get a mountainbike or something and ride tracks in the forest instead.
Say what? I may be ok of buying that random junk may kill people over a 8000 sq m area, though not very likely since the pieces of junks actually hitting the ground is probably very limited, if any, and will probably cover say up to 20 sq m or something at most but anyway.
But there is no chance in hell that one single piece of them would whipe you out if it hit 50 meters from you, how can you belive that?! Even in a worst case scenario where it's 18 kg hitting at 160 km/h I guess that would end up with a "splash" or "thud" and not a "kablam!"
I think the risk of dying from it unless you get any piece of it in your head is rather limited...
Considering you risk it 10 times more in your calculations just because people are to lazy to walk / take the bike / public transport (accidents can happen there to though) vs trying to somehow get rid of a huge fucking tank on a space station I guess the later is still more acceptable:D
But anyway, Nasa probably don't give a shit, it was easier to throw it away than to transport it back, so they did it. Simple:)
Informative or insightful doesn't mean anything than the subject is Apple products, all you need to do is to say anything positive and you will get them by default, no matter what if it's wrong or retarded.
1.2 GHz Dell is what? Pentium-M? Pentium III? You don't specify shit, and it's not like it's up to date, neither is your G4.
If flash can easily destroy my 2.2 GHz C2D why wouldn't it totally trash your machine?
All Apple fanboys have some sort of weird reality distortion field.
Quartz is smart, to bad Apple don't seem to make good use of it. Why would they put so little VRAM in my machine if they did? With quartz and core image lots of vram makes sense, why use less than what everyone else use?
Also GPU acceleration don't have to lead to higher performance, at least not with a stupid configured machine such as this one from Apple. Apple Aperture use the GPU for it's effect but it's running dead slow since 128 MB vram isn't enough, Adobe Lightroom don't but it's snappy since the amount of RAM haven't become a limitation, even though the CPU may not be optimal for pre-rendering the effects compared to what the GPU could had been had the machine been decent configured.
Anyway, it's not like you're supposed to understand things like that, Apple fanboy as you obviously are.
BTW, a troll is someone who post just to stir up the forum/thread/whatever with lots of emotion and posts but don't give a shit about what is said, simply because it's fun. I'm not a troll, I actually believe what I post, you may not agree but I won't accept censorship just because you Apple people can't handle the truth. So I'll keep on posting even if you moderated me inappropriate (It's not like it's the first time you are wrong anyway..)
The chances of me dying from one drivers driving each day is probably similar to that of said debris. More control yes but also more likely to be in an area where I happen to be (in a city among the streets.)
But most people drive many times per year, and there are lot of drivers, why worry about random piece of space junk hitting earth? The likehood of that affecting me is virtually zero. People take much bigger risks than that each and every day, which was my point.
Sure it may be neglectful of Nasa to just throw it out there, but people do things which have a much bigger chance of having an impact on me or whoever every day and in most cases no-one cares.
Didn't the american military blast a re-entering spy satellite to pieces a few months ago to see if and tell all others that it could shoot down whatever satellite they wanted to? Ignoring space war treaties? Why couldn't they use the same technique?
Fixed that for you. The answer? Probably that you end up with even more junk and smaller pieces harder to track.
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By buying a solar cell, even if it may be a bad one, he raise demands, gives the companies a profit and money for R&D which will in the end give better products.
We and the technology has to start somewhere, and someone have to buy the less than perfect products for others to keep on trying to make better ones.
No matter what energy source he use it could be said to be solar power I guess. Wood, moving water, oil, nuclear. Even if we used magnetism in space somehow I guess it would be "solar powered", same for the dyson sphere =P
I find them annoying, melted together = suck because it require me to find a scissor and sometimes it's not very easy anyway.
Shrink-wrapped plastic = quite annoying to
Plastic bubble over paper card = as long as the plastic bubble don't cover the whole card these are decent, I never care for the pre-cut holes in the card but pull card and plastic appart. Waste of material and impossible to separate the plastic from all the paper though.
A small plastic box with pieces fiting on top of each other holding the package together by friction and a small plastic clip locking it all together but removable with some simple tool in the checkout would work ok to. (Probably easy to remove if you really want to but then brining a scissor is easy to ..)
The good solution would be to package in simple to open paper boxes, such as for instance what Nintendo and Apple use, or what books often come in when ordered online, and then spare the cutting tool for the people who commit the theft ...
Speaking of hand problems and all ;)
The guy don't seem to know how to burn a CD-image or understand that he has to shrink his current NTFS-partition before he's able to create a new one though.
Or maybe he do but just failed.
On Slashdot that's preferable :D
Yeah, must be poor people in China and other countries trying to catch up and get up to our living standard. Fuck what we have done earlier and to get here. Stupid chinese!
Fuck all poor people who may want to get a car or whatever to.
Rich people ftw!
Or well, fuck rich people to.
I agree that habitat loss is a much bigger problem atm, at least for bigger animals, and especially for bigger animals competing for our prey / seeing us as prey. And polution is obviously a problem to, how big I don't know, I guess global warming thru co2 is a polution problem to though.
Much greater scale? Doubt it, greater? Probably. Often? Probably not.
But would any other species in the same scenario care? Probably not. But I'd say we keep things as they are because we want to.
That depends on how you play laser game, and how serious you are on a treadmill or on a bike.
YOU may go to a gym because it gives the maximum result for the least effort, but you shouldn't expect that to be the case for everyone else.
And there are more fun things to do in a gym than running on a treadmill, practising olympic lifts for example or vertical jumps or whatever.
And more don't have to be better since recovery and food consumption effects the results as well.
Anyway, fact is that you are much more likely to go on if you have fun, that's why doing boring cardio work just because you think you should do cardio suck, find an activity you LIKE such as badminton or whatever, even if it's less effective you are much more likely to keep doing it if you like it.
But weight lifting and proper diet works pretty good alone, and if recovery is good more will probably BE better.
Anyway, playing laser game with your friends for 2*45 minutes 4 times / week would be way more effective than pulling your ass to the gym once a week for 15 minutes of treadmill .. And it may even improve your life quality.
Playing say capture the flag in a forest with laser guns if there was any which would work in that scenario would probably be very efficient to, it all depends on what amount of effort you put into it.
For most people doing less exercise in the gym / session is more likely to have them longing for getting back and try to improve on the last session even more the next time than long sessions where you get to tired in the end. And I doubt the 25:th set of chest exercises will do much to help you either, nothing says that's better than only 5 sets of better quality.
Oh, didn't got that it was for home usage, I saw it more like gym equipment.
There is some laser game things for home usage to but I guess they suck.
Where is the outdoor version!?! With slow showing laser beams :D
The Chinese version however has you shooting peasants as you pedal along.
Carmageddon pedal car edition? :D
Ok, if the car could react a la electronic bump cars and you could hit each other someway then maybe :D
Personally I like the battle of brains / fun strats / unexpected things and such in RTSes, not doing workouts.
I play WC3 first and go to the gym later, or the other way around, depending on how serious I am :D
Back in the days Quake used to work just fine as cardiovascular training to, all that stress, fear and anger must have lead o something :D :D
If nothing else slamming the mouse in the table each time you die sure as hell has to work your lats, or something
Why not just play laser game? Seems like much more fun and "creative."
I'm all for working out but cardio exercise in general is fucking boring. Coupled with an FPS it probably get more fun if it works decent but I doubt it can beat reality.
Something like laser game but out in the wild (as in urban setting / forest / ..) must be awesome. More wargames for everyone! :D
Riding a stationary bike in a gym even if you got a virtual rider riding on a screen as well will still just be a stationary bike in the same fucking environment without the natural noise, smell, fresh air and the rest of the experience. (Sure, no rain or stains either but ..)
Just make a laser game (paintball?) gym with year membership cards and get a mountainbike or something and ride tracks in the forest instead.
Say what? I may be ok of buying that random junk may kill people over a 8000 sq m area, though not very likely since the pieces of junks actually hitting the ground is probably very limited, if any, and will probably cover say up to 20 sq m or something at most but anyway.
But there is no chance in hell that one single piece of them would whipe you out if it hit 50 meters from you, how can you belive that?! Even in a worst case scenario where it's 18 kg hitting at 160 km/h I guess that would end up with a "splash" or "thud" and not a "kablam!"
I think the risk of dying from it unless you get any piece of it in your head is rather limited ...
Considering you risk it 10 times more in your calculations just because people are to lazy to walk / take the bike / public transport (accidents can happen there to though) vs trying to somehow get rid of a huge fucking tank on a space station I guess the later is still more acceptable :D
But anyway, Nasa probably don't give a shit, it was easier to throw it away than to transport it back, so they did it. Simple :)
Funny, over here the only thing I can hear is fap-fap-fap...
"lol, you don't even trust Sony!?!"
Informative or insightful doesn't mean anything than the subject is Apple products, all you need to do is to say anything positive and you will get them by default, no matter what if it's wrong or retarded.
1.2 GHz Dell is what? Pentium-M? Pentium III? You don't specify shit, and it's not like it's up to date, neither is your G4.
If flash can easily destroy my 2.2 GHz C2D why wouldn't it totally trash your machine?
All Apple fanboys have some sort of weird reality distortion field.
Quartz is smart, to bad Apple don't seem to make good use of it. Why would they put so little VRAM in my machine if they did? With quartz and core image lots of vram makes sense, why use less than what everyone else use?
Also GPU acceleration don't have to lead to higher performance, at least not with a stupid configured machine such as this one from Apple. Apple Aperture use the GPU for it's effect but it's running dead slow since 128 MB vram isn't enough, Adobe Lightroom don't but it's snappy since the amount of RAM haven't become a limitation, even though the CPU may not be optimal for pre-rendering the effects compared to what the GPU could had been had the machine been decent configured.
Anyway, it's not like you're supposed to understand things like that, Apple fanboy as you obviously are.
BTW, a troll is someone who post just to stir up the forum/thread/whatever with lots of emotion and posts but don't give a shit about what is said, simply because it's fun. I'm not a troll, I actually believe what I post, you may not agree but I won't accept censorship just because you Apple people can't handle the truth. So I'll keep on posting even if you moderated me inappropriate (It's not like it's the first time you are wrong anyway ..)
lol, someone haven't learned their significant numbers correctly.
Around 100 mphs = 161 km/h? Ooook :D
Nearly 40 pounds = 17.5 kg is quite bad to, no chance at all of 18 kg I guess!? 17 pretty likely? =P
The chances of me dying from one drivers driving each day is probably similar to that of said debris. More control yes but also more likely to be in an area where I happen to be (in a city among the streets.)
But most people drive many times per year, and there are lot of drivers, why worry about random piece of space junk hitting earth? The likehood of that affecting me is virtually zero. People take much bigger risks than that each and every day, which was my point.
Sure it may be neglectful of Nasa to just throw it out there, but people do things which have a much bigger chance of having an impact on me or whoever every day and in most cases no-one cares.
Tell that to the tens (hundred?) of thousands (?) who die in traffic each year.
Uhm, does it? I know you can run Linux on it, but does it really use Linux for basic usage such as running a game or the media players?
Use the word Cell multicore processor if anything because it's not multiple PPC cores, just one.
Didn't the american military blast a re-entering spy satellite to pieces a few months ago to see if and tell all others that it could shoot down whatever satellite they wanted to? Ignoring space war treaties? Why couldn't they use the same technique?
Fixed that for you.
The answer? Probably that you end up with even more junk and smaller pieces harder to track.
YOU, traveling in a 2000 kg car at 90 km/h, what if you hit someone?
It's all a balance of the risk, the possible consequences and the benefits.
Also the chances of it dropping into the car or airplane of the guy in charge at NASA? Rather slim ;D
On the other side with anything else aren't you stuck with the same amount of suck the whole time?
But you don't switch them around do you? Controllers whatever form has been there for long but who cares?
So don't use them, and they can't be worse than Safari + flash.
1.2 GHz Dell? Who cares about your experience on that one?
Flash kills my 2.2 GHz C2D MBP...
All modern laptops have wide screen you know, and many have them at higher res than Apples laptops.
Who cares about a 5-7 year old laptop? Mac or PC?