From the article: "Cars powered by fuel cells are electric cars that do not rely on batteries, but that instead generate their own electricity. Fuel cells combine hydrogen and oxygen from the air in a chemical reaction, with water vapor as their only emission, at least from the tailpipe."
Sounds like these fuel cells would be ideal to power a hybrid vehicle, where most of the energy for propulsion is drawn from the battery. These fuel cells won't be replacing batteries as we know them - they will be replacing Internal Combustion Engines (ICE).
Intelligent design doesn't depend on faith. In fact, it is logically deduced.
You begin with "I think therefore I am". The core of the argument lies in entropy. If things are constantly spiralling into a state of disorder (or high entropy), then how is it that there was enough order in the beginning to allow the creation of DNA? Or of an eyeball? Or of anything at all, really?
The intelligent design movement simply looks at the facts and says: "Hold on a second. There is CLEARLY too much order in the universe. There is EVIDENCE OF DESIGN." And so they look for a designer.
I encourage you to read "The Big Mystery". You can check out the whole of the argument here.
Thinkers exist, and you are thinking. Therefore, you exist. Your thoughts require the passage of time, and the outside world exists, and things have beginnings and endings. All events are caused. Entropy increases. The universe is winding down, breaking into a state of higher entropy...
In the end, you will realise that the universe isn't even able to sustain itself, and it could not have begun on it's own. It is entirely inadequite, in and of itself, to explain it's beginning.
1) It could only "drive up costs" of the competition. They sell less product, so they have to start selling their product line for more. Supply and demand.
2) Curtail future innovation? How many of our companies and governments are built on priorietary formats and systems? How many of us *want* to switch to FOSS but we can't because we've got an existing infrastructure that isn't easy to migrate? FOSS *is* future innovation. It's here, today.
Add to this the fact that Access is appropriate for small projects, ad-hoc data access, and provides an easy interface for those not familiar with SQL syntax (particularly joins and aggregate expressions).
Having mentioned the upside, to say that a tool like access should be bundled or customized for each database strikes me as naive. Most of the real work happens in a text editor; if you're asking for access, you're asking for a simple interface to make simple queries. And that's not what these ever more robust and feature rich databases are "meant" to do.
You seem to think that developers choose which platform to develop on based on how easy it is to develop on that platform. This is clearly not the case. Professional developers make software they think other people will pay them to make.
Tales of Middle Earth (ToME) has a sanity meter. When you get below a certain level of sanity you start to hallucinate. It's essentially like hitpoints or mana.
It's a definite case of prior art. I'm not sure if it was introduced into roguelikes with ToME or not (could be in a later version of Angband than I've played), but there it is.
"Your probablility, if it can even be calculated, of success or failure in ANY endeavor is the same irrespective of any ideology you posess"
I don't believe this is true. Your expectations have an impact on your performance. Your expectations are impacted by your paradigm - optimistic, pessimistic, or realistic.
A man who is optimistic about his chances with a woman will have better results with her than a man who is pessimistic because they will approach her differently; they will act differently. If an optimist and a pessimist were to act the same, them your statement would be correct. But since their ideology influences their actions (and in this case, their demeanor), they will achieve different results (success for one, failure for the other).
Now, if two men of equal skill were to take a rifle shot at 100 yards, would the optimist be more likely to hit the target dead center? I don't know; there is something to be said for mindset and confidence in these situations. But in all likelyhood, if they are of the same skill they will achieve the same performance.
There is no ganking in Guild Wars (one of it's many attractions). All zones are instanced, and hence only people on your own group will be playing with you when you enter a zone.
Guild Wars has done much to limit "griefer" behaviour and the things that make playing these kinds of games unenjoyable sometimes. For one, There's no kill-stealing, no camping, and no ninja-looting. You can't attack people in your own group. PvP, however, is a very major part of the game, and there are a number of zones designed specifically for this, as well as different types of PvP gameplay. The Tombs allow pickup groups to play vs one another. There's also Guild v Guild. The "Arena" allows you to just join without even forming a group and it's your random group vs the other.
I had the desire to read another set of books that I had in my youth which had excellent character development. Do check out the Guardian's of the Flame series if you'd like some light, entertaining reading with quality characters.
key litigation: define console A computer designed with the sole intention to play video games.
And microsoft didn't design the components in their system either. They slapped together existing technology with some of their proprietary technology and sold it as a "console".
When I put together a computer, I use similar components. But what we're really talking about here is "intention". Is my sole intention, when I designed (put together) my computer, to play video games? It sure is! In fact, ask any DIY gamer: they build their computer so they can play HL2 or Doom3 or Far Cry. The fact that it can do other things is irrelivant; so can the xbox and ps2. Just look at the GentooX project.
But consider what we do believe in: (1) spirits and angels - an emepheral "heavens" where real stuff happens and real entities live, that can impact us in the world of our perceptions. (2) God - the ultimate "other" life form.
I would say that the reason kiddie porn is illegal is that it is harmful. Ted Bundy was known to have told the Son of Sam (iirc, could be that Larry Berkowitz was talking about his own experiences) that every mass murderer he had met was addicted to porn.
While the actual act of creating kiddie porn would no doubt be "bad enough" the impact that it has on it's viewers is the real enemy here. The consumers would then turn into abusers.
There are some sick people out in this word. "Everbody is a good guy underneath it all; what you you are when the world is done screwing you over is something else."
Sure you are. But I know where you're coming from. When I was a teenager, I thought I was in school to learn. So I paid attention in class, and pretty much never did my home work. I scored pretty well on tests, but of course my grades were weaker than they should have been because I was always last-minuting my homework, and whipping off papers the nite before they were due.
I spent a lot of time reading books *I* thought were interesting. I wasn't afraid to speak my mind, or the criticize the "establishment". I spent my fair share of time in detention, though I can't recall what for.
To think that you're in school to learn is a noble, idealistic perspective. Unfortunately, it's also naive. One doesn't spend 15-30K to "learn". It's an investment. An investment that will hopefully pay off in like kind. Unless, of course, someone else is paying for your "education" (more like continuing indoctrination), or you're so filthy rich you can afford to pay for learning for learning's sake.
I now go to work every day. Why? Not because I enjoy it. I'll tell you something, I enjoy being with my family, fishing, hiking, and playing computer games a lot more than being chained to this desk every day. I go to work every day because I get paid to do so. I literally convert time into money, and waste the majority of my life so that I can maintain a family and standard of living.
In the end, learning something doesn't make you a better person. Day to day, being kind, honorable, honest and self-sacrificing - that's how to be a "better person". If what you learn leads you that way, then it's good. If not, then hopefully you've got a practical use. All else is misguided trivialities.
So consider this: if I'm trading my time, my actual life here on earth, to get some cash, why should you spend cash without seeing a clear return? Personal enjoyment? "Personal growth"?
Hopefully, it's worth it. Because we're all people. We all are born, and die, and our lives pass like waves in the ocean. 40k is a lot for someone to spend to "better" themselves, only to walk out of that place with a degree or two to find themselves flipping burgers, selling tires, or waiting tables.
Slashdot Mirror
From the article: "Cars powered by fuel cells are electric cars that do not rely on batteries, but that instead generate their own electricity. Fuel cells combine hydrogen and oxygen from the air in a chemical reaction, with water vapor as their only emission, at least from the tailpipe."
Sounds like these fuel cells would be ideal to power a hybrid vehicle, where most of the energy for propulsion is drawn from the battery. These fuel cells won't be replacing batteries as we know them - they will be replacing Internal Combustion Engines (ICE).
Intelligent design doesn't depend on faith. In fact, it is logically deduced.
You begin with "I think therefore I am". The core of the argument lies in entropy. If things are constantly spiralling into a state of disorder (or high entropy), then how is it that there was enough order in the beginning to allow the creation of DNA? Or of an eyeball? Or of anything at all, really?
The intelligent design movement simply looks at the facts and says: "Hold on a second. There is CLEARLY too much order in the universe. There is EVIDENCE OF DESIGN." And so they look for a designer.
I encourage you to read "The Big Mystery". You can check out the whole of the argument here.
Thinkers exist, and you are thinking. Therefore, you exist. Your thoughts require the passage of time, and the outside world exists, and things have beginnings and endings. All events are caused. Entropy increases. The universe is winding down, breaking into a state of higher entropy...
In the end, you will realise that the universe isn't even able to sustain itself, and it could not have begun on it's own. It is entirely inadequite, in and of itself, to explain it's beginning.
Yet implicit in all other theories is the statement: "Life was not created by an intelligent designer, but by ..."
Actually, it was "to blaive"
Kids in third world countries? Black market?
Let's sell these to people: to anyone who wants one. Why place a restriction on it?
1) It could only "drive up costs" of the competition. They sell less product, so they have to start selling their product line for more. Supply and demand.
2) Curtail future innovation? How many of our companies and governments are built on priorietary formats and systems? How many of us *want* to switch to FOSS but we can't because we've got an existing infrastructure that isn't easy to migrate? FOSS *is* future innovation. It's here, today.
Add to this the fact that Access is appropriate for small projects, ad-hoc data access, and provides an easy interface for those not familiar with SQL syntax (particularly joins and aggregate expressions).
Having mentioned the upside, to say that a tool like access should be bundled or customized for each database strikes me as naive. Most of the real work happens in a text editor; if you're asking for access, you're asking for a simple interface to make simple queries. And that's not what these ever more robust and feature rich databases are "meant" to do.
You seem to think that developers choose which platform to develop on based on how easy it is to develop on that platform. This is clearly not the case. Professional developers make software they think other people will pay them to make.
It's a definite case of prior art. I'm not sure if it was introduced into roguelikes with ToME or not (could be in a later version of Angband than I've played), but there it is.
I don't believe this is true. Your expectations have an impact on your performance. Your expectations are impacted by your paradigm - optimistic, pessimistic, or realistic.
A man who is optimistic about his chances with a woman will have better results with her than a man who is pessimistic because they will approach her differently; they will act differently. If an optimist and a pessimist were to act the same, them your statement would be correct. But since their ideology influences their actions (and in this case, their demeanor), they will achieve different results (success for one, failure for the other).
Now, if two men of equal skill were to take a rifle shot at 100 yards, would the optimist be more likely to hit the target dead center? I don't know; there is something to be said for mindset and confidence in these situations. But in all likelyhood, if they are of the same skill they will achieve the same performance.
There is no ganking in Guild Wars (one of it's many attractions). All zones are instanced, and hence only people on your own group will be playing with you when you enter a zone.
Guild Wars has done much to limit "griefer" behaviour and the things that make playing these kinds of games unenjoyable sometimes. For one, There's no kill-stealing, no camping, and no ninja-looting. You can't attack people in your own group. PvP, however, is a very major part of the game, and there are a number of zones designed specifically for this, as well as different types of PvP gameplay. The Tombs allow pickup groups to play vs one another. There's also Guild v Guild. The "Arena" allows you to just join without even forming a group and it's your random group vs the other.
See Guild Wars. No monthly fee to play.
You'll see pretty much any Linux distro use a "full gig" of RAM just running KDE if you let it sit long enough. It's how linux manages memory.
I had the desire to read another set of books that I had in my youth which had excellent character development. Do check out the Guardian's of the Flame series if you'd like some light, entertaining reading with quality characters.
".esnet etairporpani na" naem uoy kniht I
Check out Guild Wars.
And microsoft didn't design the components in their system either. They slapped together existing technology with some of their proprietary technology and sold it as a "console".
When I put together a computer, I use similar components. But what we're really talking about here is "intention". Is my sole intention, when I designed (put together) my computer, to play video games? It sure is! In fact, ask any DIY gamer: they build their computer so they can play HL2 or Doom3 or Far Cry. The fact that it can do other things is irrelivant; so can the xbox and ps2. Just look at the GentooX project.
That's pretty much any gamer's computer =p
Rekall is compatible with PosgreSQL.
Obligatory Skycar link.
I'll agree with you here. I'm also a Christian.
But consider what we do believe in:
(1) spirits and angels - an emepheral "heavens" where real stuff happens and real entities live, that can impact us in the world of our perceptions.
(2) God - the ultimate "other" life form.
Don't think that we're alone.
I would say that the reason kiddie porn is illegal is that it is harmful. Ted Bundy was known to have told the Son of Sam (iirc, could be that Larry Berkowitz was talking about his own experiences) that every mass murderer he had met was addicted to porn.
While the actual act of creating kiddie porn would no doubt be "bad enough" the impact that it has on it's viewers is the real enemy here. The consumers would then turn into abusers.
There are some sick people out in this word. "Everbody is a good guy underneath it all; what you you are when the world is done screwing you over is something else."
Sure you are. But I know where you're coming from. When I was a teenager, I thought I was in school to learn. So I paid attention in class, and pretty much never did my home work. I scored pretty well on tests, but of course my grades were weaker than they should have been because I was always last-minuting my homework, and whipping off papers the nite before they were due.
I spent a lot of time reading books *I* thought were interesting. I wasn't afraid to speak my mind, or the criticize the "establishment". I spent my fair share of time in detention, though I can't recall what for.
To think that you're in school to learn is a noble, idealistic perspective. Unfortunately, it's also naive. One doesn't spend 15-30K to "learn". It's an investment. An investment that will hopefully pay off in like kind. Unless, of course, someone else is paying for your "education" (more like continuing indoctrination), or you're so filthy rich you can afford to pay for learning for learning's sake.
I now go to work every day. Why? Not because I enjoy it. I'll tell you something, I enjoy being with my family, fishing, hiking, and playing computer games a lot more than being chained to this desk every day. I go to work every day because I get paid to do so. I literally convert time into money, and waste the majority of my life so that I can maintain a family and standard of living.
In the end, learning something doesn't make you a better person. Day to day, being kind, honorable, honest and self-sacrificing - that's how to be a "better person". If what you learn leads you that way, then it's good. If not, then hopefully you've got a practical use. All else is misguided trivialities.
So consider this: if I'm trading my time, my actual life here on earth, to get some cash, why should you spend cash without seeing a clear return? Personal enjoyment? "Personal growth"?
Hopefully, it's worth it. Because we're all people. We all are born, and die, and our lives pass like waves in the ocean. 40k is a lot for someone to spend to "better" themselves, only to walk out of that place with a degree or two to find themselves flipping burgers, selling tires, or waiting tables.
One day the truth of it hit me:
People don't go to college to learn things. They go to college to get a piece of paper that qualifies them for certain jobs.
This is a program that lets you walk out of there with 2 useful certifications and a degree under your belt. It's a "cut the crap" kind of education.
These people aren't out there to bilk you out of your money, or to brainwash you. They're there to provide a service to a niche market. And you're it.
Short, accurate, and to the point? I wouldn't know. I didn't know what half of the terms he was talking about meant =p