I've seen this in other games as well. In dark maps, blue is harder to see. I wish what they would do is let each player set the actual color of each team individually. i.e. a player, regardless of what team they were on, would see teammates as blue and opponents as red or whatever colors they choose.
Shall we start with the 3D renditions of Humans not looking realistic when you give it more than a glance? Followed by the picture looking like previous shots of the moon.
I'm inclined to believe that the formats will settle into mutual coexistence. Physically, both media are the same. Same size and dimensions. Codec wise, there is little or no difference between them. The only difference is the physical way they are stored, which has about as much difference as a CD to a DVD. And since we have dual CD/DVD drives, I see them making multi CD/DVD/BluRay/HDDVD drives in the future as well.
So basically, I see the format war as a bust and not a repeat of VHS/Betamax.
First, if you have a bigger army and more nukes than anybody else you pretty much have jurisdiction anywhere you feel like it. Well, China has a bigger army and Russia has more nukes. So...
The point was that the addition of geothermal power means that using more electricity is a viable option as a replacement for gasoline. If you can't generate the power first then none of the options can ever come into existence so we can't begin to replace current hardware. That was exactly what I was referring to when I mentioned that it was shortsighted to say that geothermal energy would have zero impact on oil consumption. There's no magic involved and not immediate impact but we're looking for a long term solution and this is part of it.
In which case, the transition to Geothermal will STILL not cut down on oil usage, switching the trams to electric instead of LP or gasoline or diesel WILL. Electric capacity would be increased regardless of the use or method of generation. Again, going to Geothermal will do nothing. Changing out the vehicles will.
I'm an American, here's what I know about it. So, I may be a bit wrong for a few things.
When TV got started in the UK, there was the BBC and only the BBC and it was good. This is also the source of the TV tax in the UK. Where as in the US, we had CBS, NBC and ABC. PBS in the US was not established until 1969. In the UK, it was THE station at the beginning. Another difference, the BBC gets most (all?) of it's funding from the TV tax. The PBS stations get over 85% of it's funding from donations. There are other networks now, but the BBC is equivalent to combining ABC/NBC/CBS all into one.
Yes, I am planning on my next car being the Chevy Volt. However, that would reduce oil consumption regardless of the source of the electricity. Again, going to geothermal will not in any way reduce oil consumption. It is other things that are going to cause this.
With more abundant electricity available other options become more feasible like electric trams for mass transit in addition to electric cars.
All trams I have seen are already electric and have been for something like the past 100 years. The electric trolley is nothing new. Electric cars will still require the change in current hardware as it is replaced. So, just going to geothermal will still not have any effect on oil consumption. Actually, as is using electricity is cheaper in most applications (if not all) than gasoline provided you can get the access you need to it. So, again, Geothermal is not going to cause us to magically use less oil. Other things are.
Geothermal will be used to generate electricity, not power transportation. Less than 1% of US electric generation comes from Oil. Increasing the price of oil has essentially zero effect on electric generation. Using Geothermal in the US will have zero effect on Oil imports.
Potential buyers in the developing world have expressed concern about the availability of training for schoolteachers, and after-sales support. Mr. Negroponte's plan is for the machines to be simple enough that students can train themselves -- and solve any glitches that arise. ....
Mr. Negroponte said some initial tech support would be provided by Brightstar Corp., a Miami-based wireless equipment distributor. Just who would provide support a few years from now, he said, was "a frightening question." The students, he said, will need "to do as much maintenance as possible."
No real vendor support. Who is going to buy these things when they have to fix every single problem themselves?
Anyway, doesn't the FCC or whatever body regulate that sort of stuff? here in the socialist paradise of the United Kingdom we have pretty hard and fast standards for emergency response (IIRC it's 8-12 minutes for an ambulance to be on scene, and that applies basically everywhere except isolated & sparsely populated areas like central wales or the Scottish highlands.) Wait half an hour for a reply from the cops in a life-and-death situation and you'd make the front page of the local paper, at least.
The FCC is the Federal Communications Commission. They have no authority over anything that is not wireless or TV related.
Now, to Police and Medical assistance, this is run by the local government with state funding. The federal government has little to no say in this. For the most part, response times are established by the local government, which is roughly two government levels below the national government. The local governments are the ones that pay for most of the police, firefighters and emergency medical assistance.
Pitty they could not get the original girls back. When the machines were rebuilt, they came to B.P. and went back into their old routine. During the war after a while they would "guess" possible start position combinations.
No time for that, shame. I was deeply impressed with their retained "bone knowledge" at the time.
Also a shame not replicating "Y" stations, and sending the intercepts by motorbike. Alas, while my Grandfather fought in the Pacific and I have read a bit on the Enigma, I'm not sure what some of these are. What are "Y" stations, "bone knowledge" and by "guess" do you mean making a prediction and coming out very close to the actual starting combination?
Last week in my county we had 160,000 people vote (not registered voters, people that voted) in which roughly 50 positions were open and I was eligible to vote for about 12 in my specific area. This was an off year election. Hand counting would take a while. Prior to computerized voting, we had mechanical machines made by (drum roll please) Diebold since at least the 70's.
A working replica of the code-breaking device will return to active service as part of the Cipher Challenge on 15 November to mark the launch of the National Museum of Computing.
So it looks like they are using the original wheel combinations, which are widely known. This means I could probably emulate Colossus on my calculator and still solve it faster.
Yes, actually. This was looked into by multiple companies during the late 90's. I'm not sure if any were ever built. I think one of the considerations as a byproduct was the savings of not having to run chillers with the cost of getting fibre and power laid to the facility.
You're saying that having the software, source code, the notes and the documentation for the software is useless? What kind of crappy software documentation process do you follow?
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I've seen this in other games as well. In dark maps, blue is harder to see. I wish what they would do is let each player set the actual color of each team individually. i.e. a player, regardless of what team they were on, would see teammates as blue and opponents as red or whatever colors they choose.
I object to that. I am not a cripple.
Shall we start with the 3D renditions of Humans not looking realistic when you give it more than a glance? Followed by the picture looking like previous shots of the moon.
Only until we unlock the water and make it blue and then green. Go KSR
I'm inclined to believe that the formats will settle into mutual coexistence. Physically, both media are the same. Same size and dimensions. Codec wise, there is little or no difference between them. The only difference is the physical way they are stored, which has about as much difference as a CD to a DVD. And since we have dual CD/DVD drives, I see them making multi CD/DVD/BluRay/HDDVD drives in the future as well.
So basically, I see the format war as a bust and not a repeat of VHS/Betamax.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
$55 billion over 10 years. Hardly a good fraction of a trillion.
In which case, the transition to Geothermal will STILL not cut down on oil usage, switching the trams to electric instead of LP or gasoline or diesel WILL. Electric capacity would be increased regardless of the use or method of generation. Again, going to Geothermal will do nothing. Changing out the vehicles will.
I'm an American, here's what I know about it. So, I may be a bit wrong for a few things.
When TV got started in the UK, there was the BBC and only the BBC and it was good. This is also the source of the TV tax in the UK. Where as in the US, we had CBS, NBC and ABC. PBS in the US was not established until 1969. In the UK, it was THE station at the beginning. Another difference, the BBC gets most (all?) of it's funding from the TV tax. The PBS stations get over 85% of it's funding from donations. There are other networks now, but the BBC is equivalent to combining ABC/NBC/CBS all into one.
Any other questions?
You mean when 99.999% of the population died before they turned 60?
Yes, I am planning on my next car being the Chevy Volt. However, that would reduce oil consumption regardless of the source of the electricity. Again, going to geothermal will not in any way reduce oil consumption. It is other things that are going to cause this.
With more abundant electricity available other options become more feasible like electric trams for mass transit in addition to electric cars.
All trams I have seen are already electric and have been for something like the past 100 years. The electric trolley is nothing new. Electric cars will still require the change in current hardware as it is replaced. So, just going to geothermal will still not have any effect on oil consumption. Actually, as is using electricity is cheaper in most applications (if not all) than gasoline provided you can get the access you need to it. So, again, Geothermal is not going to cause us to magically use less oil. Other things are.
Geothermal will be used to generate electricity, not power transportation. Less than 1% of US electric generation comes from Oil. Increasing the price of oil has essentially zero effect on electric generation. Using Geothermal in the US will have zero effect on Oil imports.
Don't forget Black & White.
Potential buyers in the developing world have expressed concern about the availability of training for schoolteachers, and after-sales support. Mr. Negroponte's plan is for the machines to be simple enough that students can train themselves -- and solve any glitches that arise.
....
Mr. Negroponte said some initial tech support would be provided by Brightstar Corp., a Miami-based wireless equipment distributor. Just who would provide support a few years from now, he said, was "a frightening question." The students, he said, will need "to do as much maintenance as possible."
No real vendor support. Who is going to buy these things when they have to fix every single problem themselves?
Anyway, doesn't the FCC or whatever body regulate that sort of stuff? here in the socialist paradise of the United Kingdom we have pretty hard and fast standards for emergency response (IIRC it's 8-12 minutes for an ambulance to be on scene, and that applies basically everywhere except isolated & sparsely populated areas like central wales or the Scottish highlands.) Wait half an hour for a reply from the cops in a life-and-death situation and you'd make the front page of the local paper, at least.
The FCC is the Federal Communications Commission. They have no authority over anything that is not wireless or TV related.
Now, to Police and Medical assistance, this is run by the local government with state funding. The federal government has little to no say in this. For the most part, response times are established by the local government, which is roughly two government levels below the national government. The local governments are the ones that pay for most of the police, firefighters and emergency medical assistance.
You're off by a bit. We pay $470 billion interest on the national debt a year.
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http://www.kowaldesign.com/budget/budget.html
No paper or punchcard was used. There were wheels with numbers in the back/insided that were incrimented with each vote. No physical record.
Last week in my county we had 160,000 people vote (not registered voters, people that voted) in which roughly 50 positions were open and I was eligible to vote for about 12 in my specific area. This was an off year election. Hand counting would take a while. Prior to computerized voting, we had mechanical machines made by (drum roll please) Diebold since at least the 70's.
So it looks like they are using the original wheel combinations, which are widely known. This means I could probably emulate Colossus on my calculator and still solve it faster.
Yes, actually. This was looked into by multiple companies during the late 90's. I'm not sure if any were ever built. I think one of the considerations as a byproduct was the savings of not having to run chillers with the cost of getting fibre and power laid to the facility.
You're saying that having the software, source code, the notes and the documentation for the software is useless? What kind of crappy software documentation process do you follow?
Teaking the truck to use one of the winning technology is relatively easy. It's the software algorithms itself that are hard.
All three teams took development money from DARPA. As such, DARPA gets a copy of all software and development notes that the teams produced.