If you're a real NIMBY jerk you choose Natural Gas, where you're OK spending more money for energy while at the same time screwing somebody else over where it is extracted. Bonus point for picking oil for really expensive energy, while becoming even more dependent on whatever country that is extracted from, or as recently seen with BP, screwing coastal regions.
Of course most would say "renewable" sources without understanding what that really means. Basically not feasible without a real method of storage, which as yet doesn't really exist... Although that would be something more game changing, a technology that enables mass energy storage. Low tech solutions like Hydro work, there just isn't enough of it.
Obviously this tragedy came about from the titanic struggle between the Samsung Edge 6 and the iPhone 6 battle for supremacy, humans are just pawns now.
Seriously though, just hack them if it is so important. I don't have either, but every smartphone I have ever had or seen only has a 4 digit pass code. A modern supercomputer should be able to brute force that crap faster than I can type about doing so.
DOTA2. Which has only allowed the buying of cosmetic enhancements of the game. You can make it look or act a bit different, and show off to others, but it has more less zero impact on competition. The last couple of years they have added compendiums, which are a somewhat novel way to add to the model. First it leverages the whole "Kickstarter" crowdfunded kind of idea, where the more people that buy it, the more stuff everyone that does gets. Much of it is "special" cosmetic things as mentioned above, but also includes fun little side game options, but which again give no advantage to anyone. In addition, they pledge that a percentage of everything will go to the big DOTA2 international gaming tournament, which is kind of like betting, and makes for bigger and bigger prizes, and it is kind of interesting to be part of that, if if your changes are slim to none...
All the rest of the competitive freemium models fail in my opinion. There are 3 types. One is an impossible to beat single player game where only by buying stuff can you achieve crazy scores you can brag about, the second are PvP type games where you have to keep up with the jones' in order to have half a chance not getting blown away by somebodies multi-barreled wand of megadeath. Can't remember the 3rd type as my mind wandered.... but it was probably a variation on the same theme...
Agreed. However I was just saying that it seems the more capacity you add, the more complex a system can get, which can make management more difficult, so simply adding capacity for for capacity sake isn't all that great an idea either.
Not sure how it is done elsewhere, but I think we tend to balance load tenuously. Adding more applications and users slowly. When things start slowing down, users will start to complain, bring on a few more servers, repeat.
However, one thing I will say, there is a danger in overcapacity. Managing multiple servers can be difficult (apparently), and it can cause some pretty hard to nail down issues in applications, particularly in legacy applications.
I've had a couple of instances where a couple (not all) severs were configured differently, and applications would perform differently, depending on what server you were currently randomly connected to. Made user complaints really had to decipher as sometimes it would work fine, and other time not. Like having the default system date set to MM/DD/YYYY VS DD/MM/YYYY with legacy systems that just accept whatever... I've also had a few instances where certain services were turned off some but not all servers... again with similar results in that performance really depended on what servers you are being assigned to, and what the specific application is doing...
Even if it wasn't a myth, at least from a commercial farming point of view, most don't harvest seed for replanting anyway, and buy it from one of the large seed producers anyway (GMO or not).
I've yet to see any F2P system work, with one notable exception: DOTA2.
As far as WOW is concerned, I played for a number of years, and this was my experience: Keep in mind I never got into the PVP stuff, so that is out of my realm of knowledge, however as far as PVE there were a number of problems. The first is there is two type of players that play PVE. The first is people who enjoy leveling. They are some sort of weird breed that apparently likes grinding punishment. The simple fact was most "quests" were pretty much all the same. Go here and kill X number of something. Go here and collect X and bring it to Y. Repeat. The other group of people were the end game folks, or raiders. I eventually fell into this category. However the difficulty was really A) finding a good guild, and B) actually running a raid. I found that most wanted to do it at hours not really all that conducive to having a regular job. That is to say they want to raid between 1 and 3am, where I have to get up and work. On top of that, you would inevitably spend more time waiting around for people to show up, start late, and then go longer, making it even more unreasonable. More less why I quit, just couldn't keep it up. WOW also has some global issues that all players faced, like every new expansion coming out makes all your hard earned gear useless, and earning gold through crafting, gathering, and the market tedious and a bit crazy when you think about it. I recall getting off work, and going to play WOW where I am basically just getting in a couple of hours of mining and crafting for example, a second job really...
I had a very brief encounter with SWTOR, and would echo much of what your experienced. The first is I would say is the voice acting was something unique to that game, it was astounding at times really. Yes broken f2p model, which you could tell was pretty adhoc due to the fact they spent so much on the game, and the sell rate, and subscription rate, and the keeping rate of players was so poor they had to do something. I think a big part of that was what you summed up by saying it was "WOW in space". The "quests" had the same issue. Go here, kill X somethings, go here collect X somethings bring them to Y, repeat forever. Never did a raid or PVP as the f2p killed it before I got very far...
What I would *love* to see, would be something like eve online, but with less to do with markets and making money, and more to do with X-Wing VS Tie Fighter. Big battles with Star Destroyers, and Fighters, and big teams, etc... Fun times that would be,,, I recall some great mission variance as well from the old game. Gimmie MMO X-Wing VS Tie Fighter and take my damn money!:)
I'm sure a calculation was done to look at the odds of any of their technical staff getting someone pregnant where the net result was approaching infinity making the announcement of unlimited paternal time off somewhat more reasonable...
This is something that I think US Hollywood glosses over a bit...
I think it was more like 20 million... Germany wasn't brought down by the US, but by fighting Russia in the east, who while incurring horrific losses, probably inflicted more damage to the German war machine than anyone else...
Everything I've read said WMC (Windows Media Center) is gone in Windows 10.
As someone who actually uses it, I've been looking for alternatives. There look to be some good ones out there.
However WMC has been getting worse over the years, mostly because MS more less stopped supporting it or making updates for it a long time ago, and it (and Media Player in general) has't kept up with evolving codecs (likely due to copyright issues and the MPAA).
So while it isn't all that sad that the final nail has been put into the WMC coffin, I've found myself using VLC more and more simply because WMC would mess it up one why or another anyway an increasing amount. One of the reasons I still use it is I have a remote that is compatible with WMC, and with WIndows 10 would likely have to use alternative software, and go out and spend the 50$ to go get myself a new remote or media keyboard like the KT400. Perhaps I'll find a way to hack my current remote... we'll see.
I've registered for the Windows 10 update, but I'll likely wait a few weeks to see what others experiences end up being like.
Yes well the electric car will eventually make the Zombie Apocalypse a lot less fun... I mean at least you could scrounge, steal, and fight for conventional fuel to keep on running.... What are you going to do now? Use a hand crank dynamo for 12 hours to get 5min of drive time?
Then again, if you chain a bunch of zombies to a treadmill and stand at the other end, you basically just solved all your renewable energy needs! Then some warlord is going to take over a fitness gym and convert it into a power plant... oh the possibilities!
I was literally thinking about this problem the other day.
I was day dreaming about the idyllic rustic life living in a cabin in the woods away from civilization etc... Then I got thinking, you know what? I would hate that, this week the temperature has been hovering around 32-38 degrees, which is hot. Sitting in a hot cabin all day doesn't sound so romantic, nor does hiding in a lake all day. AC is pretty much out of the question, as I'm pretty sure it would be too inefficient and drain whatever power you have in short order...
However DC AC (lol new Aussie band name?) might work better. Presumably when it is hottest out when you want AC, it will also be very sunny for your solar panels, which if more less feed directly into your AC might work out better.
Anyway it all sounds rather interesting... OK I'm off to start day dreaming about unrealistic rustic off-grid living again!
First of all how am I supposed to yell at people online without the capslock key?
Second, I think most people use the right mouse button all the time regardless of whatever your stupid study says.
However on point for this, it might save some IT calls where people are trying to enter in their passwords, and do not notice that capslock is on... Happens so often that many applications have a built in reminder to check that it is indeed off when trying to enter passwords...
That's not good. I mean lots of people had issue with 8 due to poor UI choices, but it was stable. I had Vista on my old computer, to say it was buggy wasn't quite right. It was pretty broken from being unsupported more than anything else. MS HW drivers didn't work. You had to hunt them down individually online (if they had one, or wait until one was made)... So for the first year or so, not so good. After that it was more less fine, unless you had to re-install, as it was going to take you a couple hours to install... THEN about a half a day to download and install all the updates, patches, etc...
I use 7 on my new box, didn't trust the 8 when it came out.
I'll probably eventually go to 10, but I'm not in a big hurry. The one thing I have heard is that WMC is gone with no replacement... It was getting pretty terrible anyway with lack of native support for various codecs... however I used it with a WMC compatible remote, which I assume will now be useless.
But is is crystalline and available in pretty glowy colours? Because otherwise I don't want it. For too long we have been waiting for our 3D crystals that are memory devices in science fiction, and now we better get 'em!
So given this... and Honda's mention about a big fine... What company(s) has the best track record for A) Fewest required recalls, B) Fewest recall violations, and C) Safety record?
Exactly. During hot summer months, I'm mostly in a nice polos, cargo shorts, and sandals, it isn't that hard. In the winter I its usually a collared shirt and pants, but it is more weather appropriate then.
We have the opposite issue people all racing to the top trying to over dress to impress. Should have a business casual dress code go both ways... Wearing a suit jacket in July/August for your entry level position? Go home and change you jerk!
Considering the militarization of the American police and how they are getting surplus military hardware, I suspect this is just the Fire Departments getting jealous.
Bird Shot? The argument will be that the range is too limited.
The first step will be to try and retrofit missiles to fire helicopters. However, I'm sure after you load enough on there, it will start to limit how much water you can carry.... Then they will buy separate Apache attack helicopters to escort the water bombers. However eventually there will be cutbacks, and they will have to eliminate the water bombers, and just shoot missiles at the fires.
Or you could probably rig a localized focused jamming device that will screw with RF long enough for the drone to simply crash, while at the same time not interfering with radio communications or at least not for an extended period of time. That even sounds like kind of an interesting problem to solve...
Now imagine that the autonomous car in front of you was talking to your car about what actions it is performing, while your autonomous car is talking to the one behind it doing the same, etc... I mean things like visual cues, break lights, etc... are all human sensory information. A robotic car can simply transmit the exact information about everything to everyone around it more less instantaneously. Not to mention they could be sending information of road conditions coming up, etc......or extra caution ahead, human driver detected!:)
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Given options:
1) Live next to Nuclear
2) Live next to Coal
I think I would choose Nuclear.
If you're a real NIMBY jerk you choose Natural Gas, where you're OK spending more money for energy while at the same time screwing somebody else over where it is extracted. Bonus point for picking oil for really expensive energy, while becoming even more dependent on whatever country that is extracted from, or as recently seen with BP, screwing coastal regions.
Of course most would say "renewable" sources without understanding what that really means. Basically not feasible without a real method of storage, which as yet doesn't really exist... Although that would be something more game changing, a technology that enables mass energy storage. Low tech solutions like Hydro work, there just isn't enough of it.
Obviously this tragedy came about from the titanic struggle between the Samsung Edge 6 and the iPhone 6 battle for supremacy, humans are just pawns now.
Seriously though, just hack them if it is so important. I don't have either, but every smartphone I have ever had or seen only has a 4 digit pass code. A modern supercomputer should be able to brute force that crap faster than I can type about doing so.
DOTA2. Which has only allowed the buying of cosmetic enhancements of the game. You can make it look or act a bit different, and show off to others, but it has more less zero impact on competition. The last couple of years they have added compendiums, which are a somewhat novel way to add to the model. First it leverages the whole "Kickstarter" crowdfunded kind of idea, where the more people that buy it, the more stuff everyone that does gets. Much of it is "special" cosmetic things as mentioned above, but also includes fun little side game options, but which again give no advantage to anyone. In addition, they pledge that a percentage of everything will go to the big DOTA2 international gaming tournament, which is kind of like betting, and makes for bigger and bigger prizes, and it is kind of interesting to be part of that, if if your changes are slim to none...
All the rest of the competitive freemium models fail in my opinion. There are 3 types. One is an impossible to beat single player game where only by buying stuff can you achieve crazy scores you can brag about, the second are PvP type games where you have to keep up with the jones' in order to have half a chance not getting blown away by somebodies multi-barreled wand of megadeath. Can't remember the 3rd type as my mind wandered.... but it was probably a variation on the same theme...
and Alphabet creates an application/service called "Soup"...
The cynic in me likes to think they are really re-branding the company to be more meaningful...
In that most of their stuff is in "Alpha" too long and taking "bets" on crazy technology!
Agreed. However I was just saying that it seems the more capacity you add, the more complex a system can get, which can make management more difficult, so simply adding capacity for for capacity sake isn't all that great an idea either.
Not sure how it is done elsewhere, but I think we tend to balance load tenuously. Adding more applications and users slowly. When things start slowing down, users will start to complain, bring on a few more servers, repeat.
However, one thing I will say, there is a danger in overcapacity. Managing multiple servers can be difficult (apparently), and it can cause some pretty hard to nail down issues in applications, particularly in legacy applications.
I've had a couple of instances where a couple (not all) severs were configured differently, and applications would perform differently, depending on what server you were currently randomly connected to. Made user complaints really had to decipher as sometimes it would work fine, and other time not. Like having the default system date set to MM/DD/YYYY VS DD/MM/YYYY with legacy systems that just accept whatever... I've also had a few instances where certain services were turned off some but not all servers... again with similar results in that performance really depended on what servers you are being assigned to, and what the specific application is doing...
Even if it wasn't a myth, at least from a commercial farming point of view, most don't harvest seed for replanting anyway, and buy it from one of the large seed producers anyway (GMO or not).
I've yet to see any F2P system work, with one notable exception: DOTA2.
As far as WOW is concerned, I played for a number of years, and this was my experience: Keep in mind I never got into the PVP stuff, so that is out of my realm of knowledge, however as far as PVE there were a number of problems. The first is there is two type of players that play PVE. The first is people who enjoy leveling. They are some sort of weird breed that apparently likes grinding punishment. The simple fact was most "quests" were pretty much all the same. Go here and kill X number of something. Go here and collect X and bring it to Y. Repeat. The other group of people were the end game folks, or raiders. I eventually fell into this category. However the difficulty was really A) finding a good guild, and B) actually running a raid. I found that most wanted to do it at hours not really all that conducive to having a regular job. That is to say they want to raid between 1 and 3am, where I have to get up and work. On top of that, you would inevitably spend more time waiting around for people to show up, start late, and then go longer, making it even more unreasonable. More less why I quit, just couldn't keep it up. WOW also has some global issues that all players faced, like every new expansion coming out makes all your hard earned gear useless, and earning gold through crafting, gathering, and the market tedious and a bit crazy when you think about it. I recall getting off work, and going to play WOW where I am basically just getting in a couple of hours of mining and crafting for example, a second job really...
I had a very brief encounter with SWTOR, and would echo much of what your experienced. The first is I would say is the voice acting was something unique to that game, it was astounding at times really. Yes broken f2p model, which you could tell was pretty adhoc due to the fact they spent so much on the game, and the sell rate, and subscription rate, and the keeping rate of players was so poor they had to do something. I think a big part of that was what you summed up by saying it was "WOW in space". The "quests" had the same issue. Go here, kill X somethings, go here collect X somethings bring them to Y, repeat forever. Never did a raid or PVP as the f2p killed it before I got very far...
What I would *love* to see, would be something like eve online, but with less to do with markets and making money, and more to do with X-Wing VS Tie Fighter. Big battles with Star Destroyers, and Fighters, and big teams, etc... Fun times that would be,,, I recall some great mission variance as well from the old game. Gimmie MMO X-Wing VS Tie Fighter and take my damn money! :)
I'm sure a calculation was done to look at the odds of any of their technical staff getting someone pregnant where the net result was approaching infinity making the announcement of unlimited paternal time off somewhat more reasonable...
This is something that I think US Hollywood glosses over a bit...
I think it was more like 20 million... Germany wasn't brought down by the US, but by fighting Russia in the east, who while incurring horrific losses, probably inflicted more damage to the German war machine than anyone else...
Story only valid if scientist laughed maniacally before/during/after firing the worlds largest laser...
Everything I've read said WMC (Windows Media Center) is gone in Windows 10.
As someone who actually uses it, I've been looking for alternatives. There look to be some good ones out there.
However WMC has been getting worse over the years, mostly because MS more less stopped supporting it or making updates for it a long time ago, and it (and Media Player in general) has't kept up with evolving codecs (likely due to copyright issues and the MPAA).
So while it isn't all that sad that the final nail has been put into the WMC coffin, I've found myself using VLC more and more simply because WMC would mess it up one why or another anyway an increasing amount. One of the reasons I still use it is I have a remote that is compatible with WMC, and with WIndows 10 would likely have to use alternative software, and go out and spend the 50$ to go get myself a new remote or media keyboard like the KT400. Perhaps I'll find a way to hack my current remote... we'll see.
I've registered for the Windows 10 update, but I'll likely wait a few weeks to see what others experiences end up being like.
Yes well the electric car will eventually make the Zombie Apocalypse a lot less fun... I mean at least you could scrounge, steal, and fight for conventional fuel to keep on running.... What are you going to do now? Use a hand crank dynamo for 12 hours to get 5min of drive time?
Then again, if you chain a bunch of zombies to a treadmill and stand at the other end, you basically just solved all your renewable energy needs! Then some warlord is going to take over a fitness gym and convert it into a power plant... oh the possibilities!
I was literally thinking about this problem the other day.
I was day dreaming about the idyllic rustic life living in a cabin in the woods away from civilization etc... Then I got thinking, you know what? I would hate that, this week the temperature has been hovering around 32-38 degrees, which is hot. Sitting in a hot cabin all day doesn't sound so romantic, nor does hiding in a lake all day. AC is pretty much out of the question, as I'm pretty sure it would be too inefficient and drain whatever power you have in short order...
However DC AC (lol new Aussie band name?) might work better. Presumably when it is hottest out when you want AC, it will also be very sunny for your solar panels, which if more less feed directly into your AC might work out better.
Anyway it all sounds rather interesting... OK I'm off to start day dreaming about unrealistic rustic off-grid living again!
First of all how am I supposed to yell at people online without the capslock key?
Second, I think most people use the right mouse button all the time regardless of whatever your stupid study says.
However on point for this, it might save some IT calls where people are trying to enter in their passwords, and do not notice that capslock is on... Happens so often that many applications have a built in reminder to check that it is indeed off when trying to enter passwords...
That's not good. I mean lots of people had issue with 8 due to poor UI choices, but it was stable. I had Vista on my old computer, to say it was buggy wasn't quite right. It was pretty broken from being unsupported more than anything else. MS HW drivers didn't work. You had to hunt them down individually online (if they had one, or wait until one was made)... So for the first year or so, not so good. After that it was more less fine, unless you had to re-install, as it was going to take you a couple hours to install... THEN about a half a day to download and install all the updates, patches, etc...
I use 7 on my new box, didn't trust the 8 when it came out.
I'll probably eventually go to 10, but I'm not in a big hurry. The one thing I have heard is that WMC is gone with no replacement... It was getting pretty terrible anyway with lack of native support for various codecs... however I used it with a WMC compatible remote, which I assume will now be useless.
Register as a digital church of Pastafarian and save on the taxes... or was that Boing Boing that started that mess, I forget now.
But is is crystalline and available in pretty glowy colours? Because otherwise I don't want it. For too long we have been waiting for our 3D crystals that are memory devices in science fiction, and now we better get 'em!
Hmmmm apparently newegg.ca didn't win...
So given this... and Honda's mention about a big fine... What company(s) has the best track record for A) Fewest required recalls, B) Fewest recall violations, and C) Safety record?
Hai nVidia!
You can haz driver update!
No more cheeseburgers!
(Tried in all caps, but slashdot faeries didn't like it)
This is the equivalent of a small petulant child poking a very large bear with a pointy stick... I am pretty sure what the end result would be.
Nothing would make my day more than seeing the MPAA get mauled publicly.
Exactly. During hot summer months, I'm mostly in a nice polos, cargo shorts, and sandals, it isn't that hard. In the winter I its usually a collared shirt and pants, but it is more weather appropriate then.
We have the opposite issue people all racing to the top trying to over dress to impress. Should have a business casual dress code go both ways... Wearing a suit jacket in July/August for your entry level position? Go home and change you jerk!
Considering the militarization of the American police and how they are getting surplus military hardware, I suspect this is just the Fire Departments getting jealous.
Bird Shot? The argument will be that the range is too limited.
The first step will be to try and retrofit missiles to fire helicopters. However, I'm sure after you load enough on there, it will start to limit how much water you can carry.... Then they will buy separate Apache attack helicopters to escort the water bombers. However eventually there will be cutbacks, and they will have to eliminate the water bombers, and just shoot missiles at the fires.
Or you could probably rig a localized focused jamming device that will screw with RF long enough for the drone to simply crash, while at the same time not interfering with radio communications or at least not for an extended period of time. That even sounds like kind of an interesting problem to solve...
Now imagine that the autonomous car in front of you was talking to your car about what actions it is performing, while your autonomous car is talking to the one behind it doing the same, etc... I mean things like visual cues, break lights, etc... are all human sensory information. A robotic car can simply transmit the exact information about everything to everyone around it more less instantaneously. Not to mention they could be sending information of road conditions coming up, etc... ...or extra caution ahead, human driver detected! :)