I'm with you, 25 and still look forward to an occasional weekend of gaming, alone. School and work have definitely cut down on the time available to do it. But mark my words, once grad school's done in a few years I'll be back to enjoying the maturing art form in long, solitary sessions.
Though, since trashing video gaming as something for unimportant, intellectually-lazy people with nothing better to do is en vogue on slashdot right now narratives like ours will be kept hidden beneath the pile of highly-moderated posts by people complaining about how busy they are and how they like flash "games" because they only take 11 minutes and can be played in the time between pumping out another kid and a trip to the corner starbucks.
Correction: Withdrawal has very little to do with addiction.
Cocaine, for example, has very minor, and in most people, no withdrawal symptoms at all. And for hard drugs with withdrawal problems, when the withdrawal has already been dealt with and years later the junkie still returns to the substance it seems then that the fear of withdrawal is not the thing that is keeping the junkie from giving up the drug, since they still took the drug when no withdrawal consequences were present. Or something, it's late and I'm dealing with sleep withdrawals...
You're making no point here at all. YOU came from dust and will someday be dust again and ultimately will have gone nowhere and, in the end, lots and lots of gallons of gas are gone.
pfffft, amateur.
When my family found out about the low off-peak electric costs my siblings transferred to night school and my parents transferred to the night shift at work. Now we all sleep during the day when the power is pricey. Using computers, tvs and everything else at night has cut our electric bill to a THIRD of what it was!
Let the electric rates go up and spur on the home roof-mounted solar panels on the 15% of US homes that have south-angled, unshaded roofs. Covering those roofs alone would cover 50% of current US usage. High electric rates would be the perfect incentive to get those panels up.
I may even give up my venerable diesel if I can drive coast to coast in the same time frame and same expense on batteries as on diesel.
How many times a year do you suppose the average American drives coast to coast?
I don't think you are really the target market here. Driving 200+ miles at once is a much different problem than daily commuting.
Imagine what the price of diesel would be though if people stopped using it for trips fewer than 200 miles. You could keep your diesel for the 200+ mile trips.
On NPR last week it was said that 15% of the roofs in the US are ideal for placing solar panels on them. i.e. they have the right pitch and exposure to the southern sun without being shaded by mountains/trees/other buildings. The commentator went on to say that if we just covered those 15% of roofs we could provide the US with 50% of the energy it currently uses. Plus, you get the benefits of a distributed power system to boot, increased security mostly.
This is nonsense talking about building 100 square mile power plants. The biggest downsides being transmission issues and the great big security risk it poses. We may as well make it in the shape of a bulls-eye and tell whatever nation we are at war with any time in the next 50-100 years that they now have a prime target to hit with missiles and bring the US to its knees.
We'd be better off with continuing to encourage people, through rebates and net-metering policies, to put panels on their own roofs and in their own yards. Then perhaps several large solar plants here and there using molten salt thermal storage to provide base load power. With our already large grid we could also store solar energy mechanically via dams and pumped water at existing or future hydro plants.
That's as far as solar goes anyway, I'm all for wind, wave, hydro and lastly, nuclear projects as well.
This 100 sq. mile idea is a nice metric for touting how much energy is just falling on us everyday, but it would be a foolish idea to actually build our solar energy infrastructure like that.
We need to stop depending on private vehicles to get you to work, get a gallon of milk, get the kids to school, etc.
Why?
Some people like it that way. And the future looks even better because they will be able to continue to live that way without polluting the air by using their electric car. Provided we go nuclear or renewable for our electricity we'll be far better off, even if we go coal we'll still be better off environmentally than with fossil fuel cars. The only environmental downside left is the manufacturing/disposal process of the car/batteries, but that can be managed. And then there's the impact of roads on local environments but hey, we're animals worth protecting too, we get to claim some space for our own use.
Hydrogen is not a fuel. It's a way of storing and transporting energy.
Fuel. Noun. 1. a substance that can be consumed to produce energy
Hydrogen can be consumed to produce energy. It is a fuel. A fuel is a storage of energy. Whether that storage happened five minutes ago by electrolyzing water or 500 million years ago by decaying organic material is irrelevant.
And you think making hydrogen is inefficient and costly? Try making some oil from scratch. Good luck finding a couple of dinosaurs.
What about my streaming HD security cameras that are running all day?
If you give people the bandwidth they will find a way to use it. Hell, a professional photographer backing up his daily photo shoots could hit 30Gigs without much problem. Or cinematographers collaborating over the internet. Not everyone just surfs message boards and downloads an ISO once a month so that they can consider themselves a 'power user'.
I say open up the hardware and the software will follow.
Then females become rare and ultimately valued more than males and the tide shifts back. This is already happening in China. Dowries are going the other way in some areas of China. Instead of the daughter's family paying for male suitors the males are offering dowries to the bride's family.
I think you also needed the original receipt or some proof of purchase. I remember going to the website to look into it when the decision was announced and there was something required like that. Frankly, I'm surprised 3,000 people had that lying around 3+ years after the game came out.
I have to buy another 80GB hard disk a day to fill this line
You know hard drives are rewritable? After watching that HD version of %latest_crappy_movie% you don't actually have to keep it on your hard drive for the rest of your life.
Here's a link to John Gilmore's case. He sued the TSA over this issue and won. The 9th circuit federal court of appeals ruled that no ID needs to be shown when flying and it is in fact illegal for an airline to deny you service because you refuse to show ID.
And get over yourself. I'll bet 10% of slashdotters fly "nearly 40,000 actual miles every year".
How many links to evidence that you are wrong do you need before you stop replying without anything to backup your argument other than, "I fly a lot"?
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This is from the "999 stitches in time saves 1" school of thought.
I'm with you, 25 and still look forward to an occasional weekend of gaming, alone. School and work have definitely cut down on the time available to do it. But mark my words, once grad school's done in a few years I'll be back to enjoying the maturing art form in long, solitary sessions.
Though, since trashing video gaming as something for unimportant, intellectually-lazy people with nothing better to do is en vogue on slashdot right now narratives like ours will be kept hidden beneath the pile of highly-moderated posts by people complaining about how busy they are and how they like flash "games" because they only take 11 minutes and can be played in the time between pumping out another kid and a trip to the corner starbucks.
Oh hear hear! Finally!
Like he said, get back to your lawn patrol!
overly aggressive video games like manhunt and GTAx can be very bad for children who have not developed proper conflict resolution skills.
How do you know?
Correction: Withdrawal has very little to do with addiction.
Cocaine, for example, has very minor, and in most people, no withdrawal symptoms at all. And for hard drugs with withdrawal problems, when the withdrawal has already been dealt with and years later the junkie still returns to the substance it seems then that the fear of withdrawal is not the thing that is keeping the junkie from giving up the drug, since they still took the drug when no withdrawal consequences were present. Or something, it's late and I'm dealing with sleep withdrawals...
and all the cars are where they started.
and a bunch of people had a hell of a time.
You're making no point here at all. YOU came from dust and will someday be dust again and ultimately will have gone nowhere and, in the end, lots and lots of gallons of gas are gone.
we just load it up and have them run at 2am
pfffft, amateur. When my family found out about the low off-peak electric costs my siblings transferred to night school and my parents transferred to the night shift at work. Now we all sleep during the day when the power is pricey. Using computers, tvs and everything else at night has cut our electric bill to a THIRD of what it was!
Let the electric rates go up and spur on the home roof-mounted solar panels on the 15% of US homes that have south-angled, unshaded roofs. Covering those roofs alone would cover 50% of current US usage. High electric rates would be the perfect incentive to get those panels up.
I may even give up my venerable diesel if I can drive coast to coast in the same time frame and same expense on batteries as on diesel.
How many times a year do you suppose the average American drives coast to coast?
I don't think you are really the target market here. Driving 200+ miles at once is a much different problem than daily commuting.
Imagine what the price of diesel would be though if people stopped using it for trips fewer than 200 miles. You could keep your diesel for the 200+ mile trips.
On NPR last week it was said that 15% of the roofs in the US are ideal for placing solar panels on them. i.e. they have the right pitch and exposure to the southern sun without being shaded by mountains/trees/other buildings. The commentator went on to say that if we just covered those 15% of roofs we could provide the US with 50% of the energy it currently uses. Plus, you get the benefits of a distributed power system to boot, increased security mostly.
This is nonsense talking about building 100 square mile power plants. The biggest downsides being transmission issues and the great big security risk it poses. We may as well make it in the shape of a bulls-eye and tell whatever nation we are at war with any time in the next 50-100 years that they now have a prime target to hit with missiles and bring the US to its knees.
We'd be better off with continuing to encourage people, through rebates and net-metering policies, to put panels on their own roofs and in their own yards. Then perhaps several large solar plants here and there using molten salt thermal storage to provide base load power. With our already large grid we could also store solar energy mechanically via dams and pumped water at existing or future hydro plants.
That's as far as solar goes anyway, I'm all for wind, wave, hydro and lastly, nuclear projects as well.
This 100 sq. mile idea is a nice metric for touting how much energy is just falling on us everyday, but it would be a foolish idea to actually build our solar energy infrastructure like that.
We need to stop depending on private vehicles to get you to work, get a gallon of milk, get the kids to school, etc.
Why?
Some people like it that way. And the future looks even better because they will be able to continue to live that way without polluting the air by using their electric car. Provided we go nuclear or renewable for our electricity we'll be far better off, even if we go coal we'll still be better off environmentally than with fossil fuel cars. The only environmental downside left is the manufacturing/disposal process of the car/batteries, but that can be managed. And then there's the impact of roads on local environments but hey, we're animals worth protecting too, we get to claim some space for our own use.
Hydrogen is not a fuel. It's a way of storing and transporting energy.
Fuel. Noun. 1. a substance that can be consumed to produce energy
Hydrogen can be consumed to produce energy. It is a fuel. A fuel is a storage of energy. Whether that storage happened five minutes ago by electrolyzing water or 500 million years ago by decaying organic material is irrelevant.
And you think making hydrogen is inefficient and costly? Try making some oil from scratch. Good luck finding a couple of dinosaurs.
What about my streaming HD security cameras that are running all day?
If you give people the bandwidth they will find a way to use it. Hell, a professional photographer backing up his daily photo shoots could hit 30Gigs without much problem. Or cinematographers collaborating over the internet. Not everyone just surfs message boards and downloads an ISO once a month so that they can consider themselves a 'power user'.
I say open up the hardware and the software will follow.
Then females become rare and ultimately valued more than males and the tide shifts back. This is already happening in China. Dowries are going the other way in some areas of China. Instead of the daughter's family paying for male suitors the males are offering dowries to the bride's family.
I think you also needed the original receipt or some proof of purchase. I remember going to the website to look into it when the decision was announced and there was something required like that. Frankly, I'm surprised 3,000 people had that lying around 3+ years after the game came out.
1999 called, they want their joke back.
Even if it were $100/brl it would still be cheaper.
I have to buy another 80GB hard disk a day to fill this line
You know hard drives are rewritable? After watching that HD version of %latest_crappy_movie% you don't actually have to keep it on your hard drive for the rest of your life.
When my sister went to college dad got dial up internet from MSN which came with a free computer which dad gave to her.
:-)
So that contract for his dial-up service is going to expire...what? This autumn?
Damn guy. You're wrong. Get over it.
Here's a link to John Gilmore's case. He sued the TSA over this issue and won. The 9th circuit federal court of appeals ruled that no ID needs to be shown when flying and it is in fact illegal for an airline to deny you service because you refuse to show ID.
And get over yourself. I'll bet 10% of slashdotters fly "nearly 40,000 actual miles every year".
How many links to evidence that you are wrong do you need before you stop replying without anything to backup your argument other than, "I fly a lot"?
Here are the photos it has taken so far.
http://fawkes1.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=0&cID=7
http://fawkes1.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=0&cID=7
As a programmer I actually want and need to ... Program!
So why didn't you?
Just because no one is telling you what to write doesn't mean you can't be coding something.
Isn't ABC.com already streaming HD? Or is that fake HD?
Much of recent software quality is CRAP!
Yeah, I wish we could go back to Windows 3.1 when programmers were programmers and quality wasn't just a post on the wall.