RPG erroneously seems to be defined as "upgradeable stats" whether it is by leveling up or equipping better items.
Thats not a bad description of the original D&D actually, which was itself an offshoot of tabletop wargaming. Now you can get that sort of experience from a computer game, since its mostly mechanics, what you are capable of doing is quite limited within the confines of the game. More recent tabletop RPGs however are a completely different level of enjoyment, not even for the amateur theatrics but for the endless possibilities they offer. Like a particular book or movie? Spend a few hours setting up a world based on it and off you go with your favourite game system. Want to instead of bribing or fighting the guard at the gate, go into the woods and cast spells to get woodland animals to cause a distraction? No problem. Infinite adaptability, ad hoc creativity, limited only by your imagination, as different from computer RPGs as a computer game is from airsoft or paintball.
While the PC-xbox-what have you market may have hijacked the term "role playing game" for its own profit, it doesn't represent any actual role playing, which is where you sit around a table with your friends and pretend to be a someone or something else to whatever depth you feel comfortable. And until you have near reality physics engines and near human AI, as well as full facial/vocal/auditory interaction, you won't get that (really really fun) experience either.
Welcome to slashdot ha. The whole thing is a bit ridiculous to be honest, most turbines are built with adjustable blades anyway, and if they spin too fast they just turn them off. This should have been foreseen and planned for, and it wouldnt have been hard to do.
No its not. Its cockheaded idiots that purposefully go out of their way to make it brutal and cruel that make it so. Every terrorist that chops off a head, every engineeer that thinks he knows the rules of the game and picks on the weakest in the group to make sure its not him, every sales rep and marketroid told by mammy that the only way to thrive is on the backs of your fellow. Fools all.
China's "middle class" is now larger than the entire US population.
My ass it is. Definetely not in terms of buying power. And keep in mind that whatever they have, the rest of the hungry populace is going to want sooner or later.
And what a lot of nonsense. This study shows nothing new, con artists have known it for millenia. Once someone begins to buy into a delusion, they will then take actions, even just thinking, on the basis of that buy-in, and so will actually try to DEFEND the delusion, since by doing so they are defending their OWN actions. Its how you rope in a mark, no world shattering news here.
Hey there, the sediments are what gets stuck in the turbines, and the storm surges are what overwhelm the wall, hence reducing power. This has zero to do with jetties or inlets, so I'm going to go ahead and assume you're seizing on the engineering challenges facing the idea as mentioned in the article, turning them into environmental challenges of your own imagining, and having a spot of apoplexy for no good reason, or possibly for entirely retarded reasons.
The dams don't break the tidal surge, you moron, they just tap a bit of its power.
But if you don't mind a bit of a long build time, why not something like Dynamic Tidal power? Build a 50km concrete boom straight out into the ocean, another one perpendicular, and there you have an EIGHT GIGAWATT power generator.
I have to wonder what kind of dysfunctional area you'd have to live in that getting robbed would not be a regular problem. Or to put it another way, you'd only recommend credit card use to people living in dangerous shanty town slums? And hey, if worst comes to worst, at least you can tell a strung out junkie mugger that you only have credit cards on you, I'm sure he'll apologise and find a juicier target to go after, no harm no foul.
But all those that want to do so illegally have really, really bad plans in store
Believe it or not, almost zero crime has to do with terrah, in certain locations in colder climates you get a lot of home heating oil siphoned off from external tanks because it could save the thieves a few hundred euros to heat their own homes. We've had to put locks on the tanks in my area. Same thing goes for fuel pumps, it might not seem worth the risk to you, but a couple thousand dollars worth of gas could be well worth it to others.
Cash may be more private, but cash is definitely not safer than credit cards.
Sure it is, your only criteria for stating that cash is less safe is that "you might get mugged". If you're regularily getting mugged, you have bigger problems than cash vs credit card. And at least with cash you know if its gone, it might be quite a while before you discover a cloned credit card. As for reimbursement, the last time my cc details were swiped I got credit on the credit card, but still had to pay the accrued (fraudulent) charges from my own bank account. Thats as good as cash you say? Maybe, except I can't withdraw that as cash if I need it, you generally can't pay the rent with a credit card.
At the end of the day, saying that someone might violently beat you and take your money isn't a valid objection to the use of cash.
This is a case when we should be reading the comments to the article.
So... Not only did you read the fine summary, AND the fine article, but you actually read the fine comments UNDER THE FINE ARTICLE AS WELL!? The only higher heresy is reading the original fine publication, deviant! Purge, cleanse and purify in the name of the Taco!!
Here is my guess: China, despite the authoritarian pretensions of its central government, has a great deal of trouble with corruption and mismanagement at the local level. When you combine that with a somewhat wild-west quasi-capitalist expansion, you get a recipe for a nearly constant stream of stories of abuses that would get all but the most dogmatically statist Chinese citizens upset.
Meh, they are probably just clearing the way for the Chinese facebook, just like they did with Google and the rest of them.
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RPG erroneously seems to be defined as "upgradeable stats" whether it is by leveling up or equipping better items.
Thats not a bad description of the original D&D actually, which was itself an offshoot of tabletop wargaming. Now you can get that sort of experience from a computer game, since its mostly mechanics, what you are capable of doing is quite limited within the confines of the game. More recent tabletop RPGs however are a completely different level of enjoyment, not even for the amateur theatrics but for the endless possibilities they offer. Like a particular book or movie? Spend a few hours setting up a world based on it and off you go with your favourite game system. Want to instead of bribing or fighting the guard at the gate, go into the woods and cast spells to get woodland animals to cause a distraction? No problem. Infinite adaptability, ad hoc creativity, limited only by your imagination, as different from computer RPGs as a computer game is from airsoft or paintball.
where someone has the guts and sense of honor to fight in compliance with the rules of the Geneva Convention.
It doesn't seem to me that fighting to win with the lmited resources you have at your disposal implies a lack of guts or honour.
While the PC-xbox-what have you market may have hijacked the term "role playing game" for its own profit, it doesn't represent any actual role playing, which is where you sit around a table with your friends and pretend to be a someone or something else to whatever depth you feel comfortable. And until you have near reality physics engines and near human AI, as well as full facial/vocal/auditory interaction, you won't get that (really really fun) experience either.
Mod parent up.
Wind power is inherently unreliable and completely unfeasible as a large-scale power-generation method.
Look up the European supergrid concept.
More like 85% to 90% efficient to be honest.
Welcome to slashdot ha. The whole thing is a bit ridiculous to be honest, most turbines are built with adjustable blades anyway, and if they spin too fast they just turn them off. This should have been foreseen and planned for, and it wouldnt have been hard to do.
However, it's not terribly efficient
90% efficiencies would not be unusual.
One third is always wasted but it is better than wasting all of that energy.
Hows that, pumped storage hydro does better than 90% in most cases.
A man's anus pales in comparison.
Only if he bleaches.
In other news, what are you doing about it?
There's a little phrase at the core of the American society. "Freedom of speech". You might be familiar with it.
Oh get over yourself, and get back to your free speech zone.
The real world is cold, brutal and cruel
No its not. Its cockheaded idiots that purposefully go out of their way to make it brutal and cruel that make it so. Every terrorist that chops off a head, every engineeer that thinks he knows the rules of the game and picks on the weakest in the group to make sure its not him, every sales rep and marketroid told by mammy that the only way to thrive is on the backs of your fellow. Fools all.
Let's see... when's the last time China invaded another nation? When is the last time a Western nation invaded another nation?
China = one nation, western nations != one nation.
China's "middle class" is now larger than the entire US population.
My ass it is. Definetely not in terms of buying power. And keep in mind that whatever they have, the rest of the hungry populace is going to want sooner or later.
And what a lot of nonsense. This study shows nothing new, con artists have known it for millenia. Once someone begins to buy into a delusion, they will then take actions, even just thinking, on the basis of that buy-in, and so will actually try to DEFEND the delusion, since by doing so they are defending their OWN actions. Its how you rope in a mark, no world shattering news here.
Hey there, the sediments are what gets stuck in the turbines, and the storm surges are what overwhelm the wall, hence reducing power. This has zero to do with jetties or inlets, so I'm going to go ahead and assume you're seizing on the engineering challenges facing the idea as mentioned in the article, turning them into environmental challenges of your own imagining, and having a spot of apoplexy for no good reason, or possibly for entirely retarded reasons.
The dams don't break the tidal surge, you moron, they just tap a bit of its power.
But if you don't mind a bit of a long build time, why not something like Dynamic Tidal power? Build a 50km concrete boom straight out into the ocean, another one perpendicular, and there you have an EIGHT GIGAWATT power generator.
and access to jailbait
Wait, what?
"would be a regular problem" I mean. Ah slashdot, the only forum on earth without an edit button.
I guess getting robbed is considered a safer bet.
I have to wonder what kind of dysfunctional area you'd have to live in that getting robbed would not be a regular problem. Or to put it another way, you'd only recommend credit card use to people living in dangerous shanty town slums? And hey, if worst comes to worst, at least you can tell a strung out junkie mugger that you only have credit cards on you, I'm sure he'll apologise and find a juicier target to go after, no harm no foul.
But all those that want to do so illegally have really, really bad plans in store
Believe it or not, almost zero crime has to do with terrah, in certain locations in colder climates you get a lot of home heating oil siphoned off from external tanks because it could save the thieves a few hundred euros to heat their own homes. We've had to put locks on the tanks in my area. Same thing goes for fuel pumps, it might not seem worth the risk to you, but a couple thousand dollars worth of gas could be well worth it to others.
Cash may be more private, but cash is definitely not safer than credit cards.
Sure it is, your only criteria for stating that cash is less safe is that "you might get mugged". If you're regularily getting mugged, you have bigger problems than cash vs credit card. And at least with cash you know if its gone, it might be quite a while before you discover a cloned credit card. As for reimbursement, the last time my cc details were swiped I got credit on the credit card, but still had to pay the accrued (fraudulent) charges from my own bank account. Thats as good as cash you say? Maybe, except I can't withdraw that as cash if I need it, you generally can't pay the rent with a credit card.
At the end of the day, saying that someone might violently beat you and take your money isn't a valid objection to the use of cash.
This is a case when we should be reading the comments to the article.
So... Not only did you read the fine summary, AND the fine article, but you actually read the fine comments UNDER THE FINE ARTICLE AS WELL!? The only higher heresy is reading the original fine publication, deviant! Purge, cleanse and purify in the name of the Taco!!
Here is my guess: China, despite the authoritarian pretensions of its central government, has a great deal of trouble with corruption and mismanagement at the local level. When you combine that with a somewhat wild-west quasi-capitalist expansion, you get a recipe for a nearly constant stream of stories of abuses that would get all but the most dogmatically statist Chinese citizens upset.
Meh, they are probably just clearing the way for the Chinese facebook, just like they did with Google and the rest of them.
Er, if you can join (and leave) a class as easily as all that, it wasn't much of a class, was it?