Because that's exactly what they'll do if they can sell us more sugar. While the sugar embargo was built with political intent, it has the side effect of keeping our neighbors from shredding their rain forests to grow more sugar specifically for us. The countries that have rain forest just aren't effectively protecting them enough for us to be comfortable doing that. I know none of the politicians involved are thinking about the rain forest and the whole thing is an accident, but there it is.
What we really need to be doing on a worldwide scale is penalizing countries that harm the environment the most and give the money to countries with vast natural resources that need to be protected like the rain forests. Create a "positive" loop where protecting the earth is economically beneficial and we'd all be better off. Teach the poorer countries how to be self sufficient and "green", don't just keep handing them cheap food to the detriment of your own citizens.
between 800MHz-1GHz is really good though
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I did a little research while I was in college for using focused microwaves to create a "hot spot" in high speed flow and I found that water responds really really well in the 800MHz to 1 GHz microwave frequency range. You'd get the most rotation of the molecule on the rising edge of the wave at those frequencies (rotates back on the falling edge), hence the maximum friction between the molecules and maximum heat. Higher than that and the water doesn't have enough time to move before the wave is past it.
Microwave ovens are higher than that because of the loss of frequency as the waves penetrate the material, so they gradually get better at heating as the wave passes through whatever you're cooking. In this way, it will cook the middle instead of just burning the outside.
So look at it like this: If that old 900 MHz telephone didn't give you a surface burn (and it would have, had it been powerful enough) there's no reason to worry about a 2.4GHz source such as wifi, they don't operate on a vastly increased power output.
Their best estimate is that there will be 10-20 inches less rainfall in some of the poorest areas of the world, not to mention most of europe. What exactly do you think less rainfall is going to do? People are going to starve. Maybe that's not a concern for you when you can drive down the street to the McDonalds and get a big mac, but for people who live by subsistance farming its really bad news. The whole "won't affect me" attitude is a lot of the problem. Crank up the A/C and keep watching Fox news.
And by the way, the "more arable land" would be in areas that aren't currently farmed, so we'd be chopping down even more trees and compounding the problem by wrecking even more carbon sinks.
People here are ignorant, they believe that casting a vote for someone who might not win is a wasted vote, so when they consider who to vote for, they also consider the likelyhood that that candidate will win. I honestly couldn't tell you WHY this is, because I'm not ignorant and I vote for who I think serves my interests best, but that's the best explanation I've been able to come up with so far.
I couldn't find any mention of the file bitrates anywhere on the site, has anyone downloaded any of these files? What's the bitrate? If it is some crappy 128k mp3 I'll pass.
So they both look like giant instant-death gravity fields. Which makes them useless until we actually understand how gravity works since no amount of probing is going to reveal anything other than how to efficiently kill a probe.
HDMI. And they already built it and put it into use. DX10 respects it, HD TV's respect it, HD DVD/Blu-ray players REQUIRE it to get full resolution, etc. Once they fully turn it on, you won't be able to watch a movie without "approved" hardware. And millions will buy it, because just like a pork bill that no one wants, when it is piggybacked onto something good (1080p, 8 channel uncompressed audio on a single cable) people will take the good with the bad.
I wouldn't touch this game with less than a 7900GT. I have one and there are things that I had to turn down to make the outdoor scenes workable. SLI isn't going to get you much here.
Even if you could download your limit in one second and get capped at 14kbps the rest of the month, that's another ~4.5GB of bandwidth. That's all that is possible, so your total is only 14.5GB of bandwidth a month. There's really no such thing as "unlimited" bandwidth, there's always a transfer rate cap. They shouldn't be allowed to call it unlimited, because it never is.
Part of getting a working mass transit system requires a relatively dense population. I personally don't like living in a densely populated area... Nobody right now wants to live in a city that is designed for efficient mass transportation because it requires people to live relatively closely together i.e. a group of large apartment/condo buildings connected to the man commercial/industrial centers by light rail systems. Why living like this is a problem and the silly desires for a large house in a suburb where you're miles of car ride away from anything you want to do is beyond me, but its a state that the majority of the US population shares.
Until this perception changes and buying a house in the 'burbs (at an insane cost) isn't the thing to do, don't expect the people-moving systems to change much either. Its just not cost effective to build a light rail system that connects a single suburb to a city center, you'll never have enough passengers to justify it. You don't have to live Japanese-style for it to be worth building it, but you have to live closer to that than the way we live now.
The PS3 and the Wii both use OpenGL, as well as every Linux system. The xbox and windows use DirectX. So ANY game that is developed for two of the three consoles can use OpenGL and IS built with it. The fact that the developers use DirectX instead of OpenGL when bringing a game to the PC that they're also developing for console is a choice, not a technical limitation.
And all the big name titles will be cross-platform, you'll find them on at least the xbox and PS3 (if not the Wii). So what's the real reason that we won't see these games on windows using OpenGL? What's the real reason that game makers, who already have a game built in OpenGL, won't port it to linux and expand their user base? Return on Investment might be it for that, but it doesn't explain why they don't use OpenGL on Windows. There is no extra cost there, they already have the game with OpenGL.
You didn't say which parent should quit their job and it doesn't matter. If one of the two incomes in a household can support the household, the other one can and probably should quit. It doesn't matter which parent that is.
Though the truth is that almost everything is sexist one way or another. The average person would probably assume that the statement above was referring to the female in the household. The "femenist" would assume the same and get pissed about it because it is sexist. But try being a good father with a good job and trying to get full custody of your kids from a bad mother and see what happens...life is skewed one way or the other.
Back to the decision, I applaud it. I'm tired of parents not taking responsibility for their kids. If they don't want them to see porn on the internet but aren't willing to put forth the effort to filter the content, then they should cut off their kids' access to the net. It really is that simple, no matter what they say.
I can pay $50 a year and get this "no worry" situation you talk about, OR, I can download two free programs for games that don't have voice chat built in.
And who cares if the username is consistent across games? The only way it matters is if you're trying to keep your friends together and in that case you'll know their "new" username anyway.
While Live is novel for consoles (feature previously only heard of in PC games), WE ALREADY HAVE IT ON THE PC. The fact of the matter is that the ONLY thing that MIGHT be worth looking at it for is the skill matching, and that's not worth $50 a year. If they want wide adoptation on the PC, they're going to have to lower the price by about half.
Instead, NASA lost a great astronaut and her life has been destroyed. You say that like she didn't destroy her own life. Companies can help and if they do that's good of them, but its not their fault if your psychotic.
How many players out there will even support ogg vorbis files? Not many. Just about anything made by cowon does (I have a U3, that's why I bought it) but those are all I know. And they don't even support ogg ID3 tag browsing yet. How do you establish the demand for a file format?
"Damn people's lives, there's a profit to be made!" or "That sure is a nice group of citizens you've got there, it'd be a shame if something happened to them..."
I guess indonesia didn't realize that "we'll give you these samples if we get a good discount on the vaccines" sounds a ton better PR-wise...
NES and SNES games wouldn't take more than a meg each, hell SNES game carts were only 4 megabits (half a MB) max. N64 games could be bigger (up to 64 MB) so you might have to do something different for them.
I don't personally feel a lossy 4 MB mp3 is worth a dollar now, DRM or not, let alone god knows what price they'll be charging for them without it. Not when I can get a CD for $10-$15 and rip it to whatever quality or format I'm after (192kbps OGGS most of the time, for OSS interoperability). A 128k mp3 (which you can't officially play with most OSS players) isn't the way to go if you ask me.
It should be priced to be fair with CD value. So if a CD with 10 tracks costs you $15, a lossless download should never cost you more than $1.50 per track since its cheaper to distribute. Scale it down from there based on encoding (distribution gets even cheaper when you take the download size down by an order of magnitude).
But, I'm just a customer, money in hand. What are you going to do record labels/music stores? Am I going to keep this money, or give it to you and get what I want?
Seriously, does anyone actually take the computer/DVD player output (s-video or whatever) and capture it with something else? I thought that went out along with dubbing VHS's as soon as we could get DVD drives for PCs. I realize that this is just trying to close the analog hole, but NOBODY copies DVDs this way, why do they think people will do that with high def DVDs?
The future of media cracking isn't signal capture, its firmware hacking DVD drives (if that much effort will even be required).
90% of people will not have an opinion, 9% of people won't understand what it is supposed to do,.9% of people will think it should work differently, and.1% of people will have useful input. But 90% of those people are idiots, so you really only have.01% of actual useful input. I hope your user base is big, because that is one in ten thousand...
I buy there because its DRM free and I can get it in any file format I want. If they charged 50 cents a track, I'd still buy there ($1 is ridiculous for lossy audio, I'd pay it for FLAC files, but not for OGGs or MP3s). Its about the DRM for me.
There has been a lot of theorizing that this is how some of the viking longships were so fast. Essentially the way the planks were laid out allowed the ship to catch air from in front of it and shove it underneath the boat, guiding it along its length. Look up the Gokstad ship for details.
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Because that's exactly what they'll do if they can sell us more sugar. While the sugar embargo was built with political intent, it has the side effect of keeping our neighbors from shredding their rain forests to grow more sugar specifically for us. The countries that have rain forest just aren't effectively protecting them enough for us to be comfortable doing that. I know none of the politicians involved are thinking about the rain forest and the whole thing is an accident, but there it is.
What we really need to be doing on a worldwide scale is penalizing countries that harm the environment the most and give the money to countries with vast natural resources that need to be protected like the rain forests. Create a "positive" loop where protecting the earth is economically beneficial and we'd all be better off. Teach the poorer countries how to be self sufficient and "green", don't just keep handing them cheap food to the detriment of your own citizens.
I did a little research while I was in college for using focused microwaves to create a "hot spot" in high speed flow and I found that water responds really really well in the 800MHz to 1 GHz microwave frequency range. You'd get the most rotation of the molecule on the rising edge of the wave at those frequencies (rotates back on the falling edge), hence the maximum friction between the molecules and maximum heat. Higher than that and the water doesn't have enough time to move before the wave is past it.
Microwave ovens are higher than that because of the loss of frequency as the waves penetrate the material, so they gradually get better at heating as the wave passes through whatever you're cooking. In this way, it will cook the middle instead of just burning the outside.
So look at it like this: If that old 900 MHz telephone didn't give you a surface burn (and it would have, had it been powerful enough) there's no reason to worry about a 2.4GHz source such as wifi, they don't operate on a vastly increased power output.
Look at the rainfall predictions.
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Their best estimate is that there will be 10-20 inches less rainfall in some of the poorest areas of the world, not to mention most of europe. What exactly do you think less rainfall is going to do? People are going to starve. Maybe that's not a concern for you when you can drive down the street to the McDonalds and get a big mac, but for people who live by subsistance farming its really bad news. The whole "won't affect me" attitude is a lot of the problem. Crank up the A/C and keep watching Fox news.
And by the way, the "more arable land" would be in areas that aren't currently farmed, so we'd be chopping down even more trees and compounding the problem by wrecking even more carbon sinks.
People here are ignorant, they believe that casting a vote for someone who might not win is a wasted vote, so when they consider who to vote for, they also consider the likelyhood that that candidate will win. I honestly couldn't tell you WHY this is, because I'm not ignorant and I vote for who I think serves my interests best, but that's the best explanation I've been able to come up with so far.
I couldn't find any mention of the file bitrates anywhere on the site, has anyone downloaded any of these files? What's the bitrate? If it is some crappy 128k mp3 I'll pass.
So they both look like giant instant-death gravity fields. Which makes them useless until we actually understand how gravity works since no amount of probing is going to reveal anything other than how to efficiently kill a probe.
HDMI. And they already built it and put it into use. DX10 respects it, HD TV's respect it, HD DVD/Blu-ray players REQUIRE it to get full resolution, etc. Once they fully turn it on, you won't be able to watch a movie without "approved" hardware. And millions will buy it, because just like a pork bill that no one wants, when it is piggybacked onto something good (1080p, 8 channel uncompressed audio on a single cable) people will take the good with the bad.
I wouldn't touch this game with less than a 7900GT. I have one and there are things that I had to turn down to make the outdoor scenes workable. SLI isn't going to get you much here.
Even if you could download your limit in one second and get capped at 14kbps the rest of the month, that's another ~4.5GB of bandwidth. That's all that is possible, so your total is only 14.5GB of bandwidth a month. There's really no such thing as "unlimited" bandwidth, there's always a transfer rate cap. They shouldn't be allowed to call it unlimited, because it never is.
Nobody right now wants to live in a city that is designed for efficient mass transportation because it requires people to live relatively closely together i.e. a group of large apartment/condo buildings connected to the man commercial/industrial centers by light rail systems. Why living like this is a problem and the silly desires for a large house in a suburb where you're miles of car ride away from anything you want to do is beyond me, but its a state that the majority of the US population shares.
Until this perception changes and buying a house in the 'burbs (at an insane cost) isn't the thing to do, don't expect the people-moving systems to change much either. Its just not cost effective to build a light rail system that connects a single suburb to a city center, you'll never have enough passengers to justify it. You don't have to live Japanese-style for it to be worth building it, but you have to live closer to that than the way we live now.
The PS3 and the Wii both use OpenGL, as well as every Linux system. The xbox and windows use DirectX. So ANY game that is developed for two of the three consoles can use OpenGL and IS built with it. The fact that the developers use DirectX instead of OpenGL when bringing a game to the PC that they're also developing for console is a choice, not a technical limitation.
And all the big name titles will be cross-platform, you'll find them on at least the xbox and PS3 (if not the Wii). So what's the real reason that we won't see these games on windows using OpenGL? What's the real reason that game makers, who already have a game built in OpenGL, won't port it to linux and expand their user base? Return on Investment might be it for that, but it doesn't explain why they don't use OpenGL on Windows. There is no extra cost there, they already have the game with OpenGL.
You didn't say which parent should quit their job and it doesn't matter. If one of the two incomes in a household can support the household, the other one can and probably should quit. It doesn't matter which parent that is.
Though the truth is that almost everything is sexist one way or another. The average person would probably assume that the statement above was referring to the female in the household. The "femenist" would assume the same and get pissed about it because it is sexist. But try being a good father with a good job and trying to get full custody of your kids from a bad mother and see what happens...life is skewed one way or the other.
Back to the decision, I applaud it. I'm tired of parents not taking responsibility for their kids. If they don't want them to see porn on the internet but aren't willing to put forth the effort to filter the content, then they should cut off their kids' access to the net. It really is that simple, no matter what they say.
I can pay $50 a year and get this "no worry" situation you talk about, OR, I can download two free programs for games that don't have voice chat built in.
And who cares if the username is consistent across games? The only way it matters is if you're trying to keep your friends together and in that case you'll know their "new" username anyway.
While Live is novel for consoles (feature previously only heard of in PC games), WE ALREADY HAVE IT ON THE PC. The fact of the matter is that the ONLY thing that MIGHT be worth looking at it for is the skill matching, and that's not worth $50 a year. If they want wide adoptation on the PC, they're going to have to lower the price by about half.
like these: http://www.quietrevolution.co.uk/ great for tidal power since it works both ways.
You say that like she didn't destroy her own life. Companies can help and if they do that's good of them, but its not their fault if your psychotic.
How many players out there will even support ogg vorbis files? Not many. Just about anything made by cowon does (I have a U3, that's why I bought it) but those are all I know. And they don't even support ogg ID3 tag browsing yet. How do you establish the demand for a file format?
"Damn people's lives, there's a profit to be made!" or "That sure is a nice group of citizens you've got there, it'd be a shame if something happened to them..."
I guess indonesia didn't realize that "we'll give you these samples if we get a good discount on the vaccines" sounds a ton better PR-wise...
NES and SNES games wouldn't take more than a meg each, hell SNES game carts were only 4 megabits (half a MB) max. N64 games could be bigger (up to 64 MB) so you might have to do something different for them.
I don't personally feel a lossy 4 MB mp3 is worth a dollar now, DRM or not, let alone god knows what price they'll be charging for them without it. Not when I can get a CD for $10-$15 and rip it to whatever quality or format I'm after (192kbps OGGS most of the time, for OSS interoperability). A 128k mp3 (which you can't officially play with most OSS players) isn't the way to go if you ask me.
It should be priced to be fair with CD value. So if a CD with 10 tracks costs you $15, a lossless download should never cost you more than $1.50 per track since its cheaper to distribute. Scale it down from there based on encoding (distribution gets even cheaper when you take the download size down by an order of magnitude).
But, I'm just a customer, money in hand. What are you going to do record labels/music stores? Am I going to keep this money, or give it to you and get what I want?
How do I emigrate?
Sorry for the apparent magnitude joke...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Nebula
Seriously, does anyone actually take the computer/DVD player output (s-video or whatever) and capture it with something else? I thought that went out along with dubbing VHS's as soon as we could get DVD drives for PCs. I realize that this is just trying to close the analog hole, but NOBODY copies DVDs this way, why do they think people will do that with high def DVDs?
The future of media cracking isn't signal capture, its firmware hacking DVD drives (if that much effort will even be required).
90% of people will not have an opinion, 9% of people won't understand what it is supposed to do, .9% of people will think it should work differently, and .1% of people will have useful input. But 90% of those people are idiots, so you really only have .01% of actual useful input. I hope your user base is big, because that is one in ten thousand...
I buy there because its DRM free and I can get it in any file format I want. If they charged 50 cents a track, I'd still buy there ($1 is ridiculous for lossy audio, I'd pay it for FLAC files, but not for OGGs or MP3s). Its about the DRM for me.
There has been a lot of theorizing that this is how some of the viking longships were so fast. Essentially the way the planks were laid out allowed the ship to catch air from in front of it and shove it underneath the boat, guiding it along its length. Look up the Gokstad ship for details.