I'm waiting for someone to build a solar-powered, unmanned zeppelin. If you inflate it with hydrogen, you can maintain altitude by electrolyzing ballast water or by venting off excess hydrogen. A weather balloon might stay up for days; this could stay up for years.
I guess we don't have as many problems with birdstrikes as the US, or the problem has been overstated there?
The very first large-scale wind farm was built in the middle of a major north-south migration route, leading to tens of thousands of birdstrikes every year. Every wind farm since then has been sited away from flyways, and collectively they produce fewer birdstrikes than a single office tower, but the publicity damage has been done.
I would love to sign up, then flood their call centers with complaints that Win 3.11 won't run on my New i7 build = D
Why do you think it won't? It runs just fine on my Athlon XP 2800. It's simply a matter of installing an underlying DOS that can access modern large drives -- FreeDOS should do the job just fine.
And as others have pointed out, it's not as if those things are completely gone. Take a bus or a train ride. Drive out to the middle of nowhere.
They may not be completely gone, but they're vanishing fast. The only patch of truly dark sky in all of Europe is a small area in northern Sweden. The US has a number of areas in the Rockies and northern Nevada, and a few in Montana and South Dakota, but nothing east of the Mississippi (a small patch of West Virginia comes close). Japan and South Korea have nothing.
Seriously, I see this as more of a factoid than a problem. Greedy capitalist pig that I am, I kinda like not getting mugged in parking lots and being able to see the road at night. YMMV.
Full-cutoff lamps would keep you from getting mugged, cut the energy bills in half, and preserve the night sky.
As an alternative, you could go entirely without artificial lighting, let your eyes adapt to the dark, and see the mugger hiding in the shadows.
The effect reminds me strongly of the water sounds in Myst. I think it's an artefact of recording flowing water in isolation: without an environment to reflect the sounds, the frequency mix isn't right.
Final Fantasy VIII had few and far between weapon upgrades, and you could just buy new weapons. There was quite a bit of strategy and experimentation in figuring out the best junction stats. Not to mention the power difference between a Lv10 and Lv100 is minimized because of junctioning.
VIII had a good idea, but a bad implementation. About 60% of your combat power comes from junctions, about 30% from levelling, and about 10% from weapons. Because of this, and because monster strength was scaled based on your level, the most effective strategy is to avoid gaining experience: at level 1, the final boss is almost trivial to beat, while at level 99, it's a long, slow, and difficult battle. One of the optional bosses (Cactaur, IIRC) is actually unbeatable if you encounter it at too high a level.
There are changes that can't be done with CSS. For example, you can hide Wikipedia's navigation framework, but you can't keep the 25k of HTML from being transmitted in the first place. You can resize images with CSS, but you can't keep the larger size from being transmitted, and you can't make the client-side scaling look good.
I had a fairly sure-fire way of getting ADHD kids to behave: get them focused on something that was interesting to them. And yes, that something may not have been what you originally had planned for them to be doing.
That's one of the lesser-known effects of ADHD: in addition to the well-known inability to focus on boring things, most people with ADHD have the ability to hyperfocus on things that are interesting.
SQLite is fast all right, but it doesn't scale at all.
MySQL does?
In comparison? Yes. When you're doing simultaneous writes from multiple threads, SQLite's lack of fine-grained locking kills performance.
A couple of months back I did some benchmarking of MySQL and SQLite3 as possible storage backends for a website. The test load was a task consisting of two SELECTs, an UPDATE, and an INSERT. With only one or two simultaneous clients, SQLite3 was faster. With three clients, they were tied. At 50 clients, SQLite3 was taking over 100 times longer than MySQL.
Is existing GFDL content compatible with the CC licence?
I think (please correct me) what they did was write a GFDL version compatible with the CC. Then they upgraded the licence of the existing content and thus now they can switch over to CC.
Close: Wikipedia was licensed under the GFDL version 1.2 or later. What the FSF did was write version 1.3 with a clause saying that any GFDL-licensed wiki (with safeguards to prevent license-washing) could be re-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0.
There might be some situations where it would be good to accelerate over the max speed, but I still dont get any other good reasons than you are a) chased by police b) you want to show how long your penis is or c) you have dying person in your car and you need to get to hospital as fast as possible, because every second counts...
Consider: a slightly hilly middle-of-nowhere two-lane road, with a speed limit of 65 miles per hour. You're behind a garbage truck that's governor-limited to 63 miles per hour, and is capable of 25 miles per hour when going uphill. You're legally permitted to pass him in the oncoming-traffic lane as long as you don't go over 65 miles per hour, but doing this will take two minutes and requires being able to check the next four miles of road for oncoming traffic.
As an alternative, you could pass at 85 miles per hour, taking twelve seconds to do so, and only needing a mile of clear road. Guess which is safer? Guess which will cause the police to pull you over?
If you look at the top ten websites on Alexa, maybe two of them (MSN and Microsoft Live) had high-profile launches. I know that three of them (Google, Yahoo, and Wikipedia) had launches consisting of the site creator saying to his friends "Hey, guys! Look at this cool thing I made!"
The free copies are in fact helping his sales. He is just not aware of this fact.
He's a college textbook author. He's got a captive market in which every individual is forced to acquire his book. In such a situation, every download is equal to one lost sale.
Perhaps a better approach would be documented, repeatable testing of the device. When I challenge a radar gun, I get to ask about its calibration documents, but I don't think I get to debate the blueprints from which it was built.
Calibration and testing won't reveal all the edge cases that might cause errors. Consider a radar gun designed to take the average of five samples. You've got a car moving away from you at 70 MPH, and a duck flies into the beam for one sample, moving towards you at 5 MPH. This gives the following five samples:
70 70 70 -5 70
I can see a way that badly-written code would turn that into an average speed of 106 MPH (storing a signed char as an unsigned char, which would turn the -5 into a 251), and yet it would pass calibration and every test someone's likely to perform.
A better comparison would be putting 50,000 gallons of gas into a 30-gallon tank. Yes, you could put a fuel tank into the cargo bay, but it would hold less than half the fuel you need. The shuttle can carry about 60,000 pounds of fuel, while the orbit change to go from Hubble to the ISS takes about 150,000 pounds.
All copyrights eventually expire, and yes that includes software too. The game will eventually fall into public domain. It might not happen until 2050, but it will eventually happen.
You're being overly optimistic here. Assuming we don't get another Mickey Mouse Protection Act (look for Disney to start lobbying in 2015 or so), the copyright on Chrono Trigger will expire in the US and the EU in 2080.
I'm 23, which is an age at which insurance companies charge you higher rates simply because they don't consider you a "responsible" adult yet... me and my wife...
You're married. It doesn't matter how old you are, that's a huge discount right there.
However, until the rest of you catch up, I'll be taking advantage of my lower monetary cost, lower stress lifestyle.
Smug all you want, but the rest of us live in the real world. Take my situation: I live across the street from a park-and-ride lot. I work on a major north-south street two blocks from a bus stop. The two locations are on the same east-west street about a mile and a half apart. This gives me the following options for getting to work:
1) Drive to work. Before they fucked with the timing of the lights, it took me seven minutes door-to-door. 2) Walk to work. I did this for five weeks last summer due to road construction: 25 minutes door-to-door, and I nearly got run down twice. 3) Bike to work. See above: I estimate my life expectancy would drop to a week. 4) Ride the bus: 50 minutes door-to-door. There's no bus on the east-west street: instead, I would catch the bus from the park-and-ride to the downtown hub (5 minutes), wait for the correct bus (40 minutes), and ride it to work (5 minutes).
Maybe you could explain the purpose of the woodchip mill at Eden, in the south east corner of Australia, then. Old growth forest is logged and then chipped in that mill and shipped to Japan to make paper.
Somebody's a bloody idiot. Old-growth forest is too valuable as lumber to turn into paper -- there aren't many trees left that you can make things like single-piece 10x10s or full-length roofbeams out of.
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I'm waiting for someone to build a solar-powered, unmanned zeppelin. If you inflate it with hydrogen, you can maintain altitude by electrolyzing ballast water or by venting off excess hydrogen. A weather balloon might stay up for days; this could stay up for years.
The very first large-scale wind farm was built in the middle of a major north-south migration route, leading to tens of thousands of birdstrikes every year. Every wind farm since then has been sited away from flyways, and collectively they produce fewer birdstrikes than a single office tower, but the publicity damage has been done.
Why do you think it won't? It runs just fine on my Athlon XP 2800. It's simply a matter of installing an underlying DOS that can access modern large drives -- FreeDOS should do the job just fine.
They may not be completely gone, but they're vanishing fast. The only patch of truly dark sky in all of Europe is a small area in northern Sweden. The US has a number of areas in the Rockies and northern Nevada, and a few in Montana and South Dakota, but nothing east of the Mississippi (a small patch of West Virginia comes close). Japan and South Korea have nothing.
Full-cutoff lamps would keep you from getting mugged, cut the energy bills in half, and preserve the night sky.
As an alternative, you could go entirely without artificial lighting, let your eyes adapt to the dark, and see the mugger hiding in the shadows.
Searching for supermodels? Why not search for women who actually look good instead?
The effect reminds me strongly of the water sounds in Myst. I think it's an artefact of recording flowing water in isolation: without an environment to reflect the sounds, the frequency mix isn't right.
VIII had a good idea, but a bad implementation. About 60% of your combat power comes from junctions, about 30% from levelling, and about 10% from weapons. Because of this, and because monster strength was scaled based on your level, the most effective strategy is to avoid gaining experience: at level 1, the final boss is almost trivial to beat, while at level 99, it's a long, slow, and difficult battle. One of the optional bosses (Cactaur, IIRC) is actually unbeatable if you encounter it at too high a level.
There are changes that can't be done with CSS. For example, you can hide Wikipedia's navigation framework, but you can't keep the 25k of HTML from being transmitted in the first place. You can resize images with CSS, but you can't keep the larger size from being transmitted, and you can't make the client-side scaling look good.
That's one of the lesser-known effects of ADHD: in addition to the well-known inability to focus on boring things, most people with ADHD have the ability to hyperfocus on things that are interesting.
Some years it it, some years it isn't. Read up on the Kalmar Union sometime.
In comparison? Yes. When you're doing simultaneous writes from multiple threads, SQLite's lack of fine-grained locking kills performance.
A couple of months back I did some benchmarking of MySQL and SQLite3 as possible storage backends for a website. The test load was a task consisting of two SELECTs, an UPDATE, and an INSERT. With only one or two simultaneous clients, SQLite3 was faster. With three clients, they were tied. At 50 clients, SQLite3 was taking over 100 times longer than MySQL.
Close: Wikipedia was licensed under the GFDL version 1.2 or later. What the FSF did was write version 1.3 with a clause saying that any GFDL-licensed wiki (with safeguards to prevent license-washing) could be re-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0.
No, it's the size. A text dump of the current version of the English Wikipedia (no images, no history) is 45 GB.
Consider: a slightly hilly middle-of-nowhere two-lane road, with a speed limit of 65 miles per hour. You're behind a garbage truck that's governor-limited to 63 miles per hour, and is capable of 25 miles per hour when going uphill. You're legally permitted to pass him in the oncoming-traffic lane as long as you don't go over 65 miles per hour, but doing this will take two minutes and requires being able to check the next four miles of road for oncoming traffic.
As an alternative, you could pass at 85 miles per hour, taking twelve seconds to do so, and only needing a mile of clear road. Guess which is safer? Guess which will cause the police to pull you over?
PAE only allows 4GB per process, and you take a performance hit (I've heard numbers around 30%) when you do so.
I asked it "what do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
It replied, 54.
Guess it's not the most powerful computer of all time.
If you look at the top ten websites on Alexa, maybe two of them (MSN and Microsoft Live) had high-profile launches. I know that three of them (Google, Yahoo, and Wikipedia) had launches consisting of the site creator saying to his friends "Hey, guys! Look at this cool thing I made!"
He's a college textbook author. He's got a captive market in which every individual is forced to acquire his book. In such a situation, every download is equal to one lost sale.
Calibration and testing won't reveal all the edge cases that might cause errors. Consider a radar gun designed to take the average of five samples. You've got a car moving away from you at 70 MPH, and a duck flies into the beam for one sample, moving towards you at 5 MPH. This gives the following five samples:
70 70 70 -5 70
I can see a way that badly-written code would turn that into an average speed of 106 MPH (storing a signed char as an unsigned char, which would turn the -5 into a 251), and yet it would pass calibration and every test someone's likely to perform.
A better comparison would be putting 50,000 gallons of gas into a 30-gallon tank. Yes, you could put a fuel tank into the cargo bay, but it would hold less than half the fuel you need. The shuttle can carry about 60,000 pounds of fuel, while the orbit change to go from Hubble to the ISS takes about 150,000 pounds.
You're being overly optimistic here. Assuming we don't get another Mickey Mouse Protection Act (look for Disney to start lobbying in 2015 or so), the copyright on Chrono Trigger will expire in the US and the EU in 2080.
You're married. It doesn't matter how old you are, that's a huge discount right there.
Smug all you want, but the rest of us live in the real world. Take my situation: I live across the street from a park-and-ride lot. I work on a major north-south street two blocks from a bus stop. The two locations are on the same east-west street about a mile and a half apart. This gives me the following options for getting to work:
1) Drive to work. Before they fucked with the timing of the lights, it took me seven minutes door-to-door.
2) Walk to work. I did this for five weeks last summer due to road construction: 25 minutes door-to-door, and I nearly got run down twice.
3) Bike to work. See above: I estimate my life expectancy would drop to a week.
4) Ride the bus: 50 minutes door-to-door. There's no bus on the east-west street: instead, I would catch the bus from the park-and-ride to the downtown hub (5 minutes), wait for the correct bus (40 minutes), and ride it to work (5 minutes).
Somebody's a bloody idiot. Old-growth forest is too valuable as lumber to turn into paper -- there aren't many trees left that you can make things like single-piece 10x10s or full-length roofbeams out of.