Common Germany, your engineering is some of the finest. Think long term and if nothing else, put money into research of "Thorium" or "Travelling Wave" reactors, the type championed by Bill Gates. Both of these are completely safe and the waste is minimal.
Nice to see that he's aiming more long-term here. The reactor seems like a middleground between current nuclear reactors and the fusion dream, in terms of power generated / cost and maintenance. Would you say that's fair?
Probably. One can't say for sure, as there are apparently no peer reviewed studies unfortunately. I remember one place saying how one consumes many more times the amount of aluminium with normal food, but not sure how true that is.
Thanks anon. I'll check out boric acid, as maybe AA isn't perfect for shoes. One thing I didn't mention is food-grade peroxide (diluted of course!) which is great for breath;)
Okay here's a semi-secret which shouldn't be so secret. I use something called PitRok Crystal Deodorant (perhaps try this if you're US based), but any Ammonium Alum based deodorant will be good. It's meant for the armpits, but I find it works good on feet too. 5 stars on Amazon.co.uk by almost everyone including me.
I only wish I knew about this sooner. It's completely odorless and nonsticky, which is great, but also lasts over a year (you wet its hard crystal tip and apply). Anybody who benefits from this, feel free to buy me a beer or 10 according to how generous you feel.
Look, I don't mind too much what we would have used in the first place be it btus, joules, watt hours etc., As long as we remain consistent. Of course I could've looked up the BTU definition. But standards are a good thing, and anything else is a kludge.
(Yes, I look forward to a universal currency to save billions in conversion fees etc. and UWS (unnecessary work syndrome)).
Well the electric car will be the ultimate realization. Rather than lobby to change the car to suit our power, we should change our power (to nuclear) so we can have the best of all worlds.
It's a brain-dead suggestion, but why can't YouTube have a "buy this track" button, and sell the music shown for say 50p or so. I'd buy tons of stuff, stuff I'd never have a chance of buying through any other means. I want convenience though. One or two clicks, and be able to save it as non-DRM mp3.
Many things are hard to assess and could even be considered subjective, such as programming or CPU speed benchmarks. Doesn't mean there isn't a measure of 'goodness' or 'efficiency' that can be applied.
Music granted is more tricky (at least with our current level of knowledge) to determine a rating. But if they had picked a truly random number, and made music from that, they could have made that sound 'good' as well (especially since the simple diatonic scale is used). And I wonder if you would have had the same reaction then.
I'm one of the biggest advocates for the base 12 (or 16) number system, but if we have to keep with base 10 for now, then it would obviously make sense to have time as base 10 also to keep things standard.
I hope you're joking. The instruments make it sound better than it really is.
You do realize you'd get similar crap with random numbers.
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And why not scrap even Tau and have just 0-1 for a full circle? Yes I know the advantages of radians, but I've always found it useful to use cycles/revolutions for any trigonometric work. I'm amazed that it's not in more common use. With calculators, you get radians and degrees, but never cycles.
There are many people, myself included, who would step down given someone with better credentials (especially phd level). Meritocracy and all that. Maybe the situation is worse than I think, and a Pagerank system for people would need to be used. It could be abused, but I think it could work well. People could be marked down as well as up, and the strength of that marking would depend on the 'rank' of the person doing the marking.
I'm not sure if the "wisdom of the crowds" theory applies to knowledge, as well as optimization tasks.
What was the topic in question? And a link to the "Discuss" arguments? I ask because it's always possible to advertise to get other people involved, perhaps people more knowledgeable than either of you. With more people (and more expert people), a middle-ground consensus is more likely to established.
At first I thought that. But we don't know if they're fighting out of principle because of the supposed evilness that Facebook has done to them. I don't know how much the twins contributed to the whole thing, or what the terms of their stock were, but it could be a good thing if they win, since it will encourage other companies not to be so apparently evil.
I'm probably one of the more jaded people here when it comes to enjoying games. I rarely play them these days, as 'real life' gets in the way too much. Also, the atmosphere of games is WAY lower than when I was a kid. It's like having a weird dream, which has a strange kind of atmosphere, and then trying to explain that atmosphere to someone else - you can't do it (also similar to when you try to describe 'green' to a born-blind person). Hence nostalgia is incredibly difficult to pin down.
However I will say this, despite my pessimism and the way I usually find today's games utterly boring, I know that an INCREDIBLE game could be produced in theory. For a driving type game for example, it would have the physics of something like Stunt Car Racer, with the tight controls of Outrun, and the futuristic setting of F-Zero, Wipeout or STUN runner, with the variety and sometimes colour/clarity of say, Rainbow Islands, but a million times better than any of these. The game would be easy to master, and incredibly hard to complete with worldwide competitions taking place each day trying to beat the best time / get the furthest. There would always be something to do with your fingers to keep interest at every millisecond in the game (twitch gameplay to the max). The graphics would also be fully raytraced, with full global illumination, not the rasterization crap they use today, which always makes 3D graphics look 'cookie-cutter'-esque. It would be as popular as football if done right I reckon.
A while back, I made a spoof article and spoke about such a game. Look for 'Forward Inertia' which is described later on, and how it's compared to the dull and drab games which are churned out by their bucketloads with zero imagination today. Okay, that's a bit OTT, but not enough for me to feel a bit depressed about the situation.
Speaking about the perfect sonic game, here's one based on the old Sonic 1 game, but fully modernized in 3D - the new "Sonic Generations": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuj-6T_ymqg
They've even used the same music from Green Hill zone (which I still love today), and the orchestration is good, but I still prefer the original for various reasons (chorus section has the bass-line moving instead of the melody, giving more contrast etc.). Also the 3D on first glance looks great. But rasterization actually really spoils it. If this was fully-raytraced / globally illuminated, it would look a TON better, and much more likely to give the dreamlike feel that you would have gotten as a kid, but today instead of back then.
To even get a glimpse of that atmosphere from when you were a kid, you need detailed graphics, an I mean REALLY detailed stuff (and no, I don't mean realistic). Generations is great, but you bet you could get 1000x better.
I'm not saying playability isn't important, as it is, but a lot of the 'atmosphere' and nostalgia comes from the audio/visuals (and I would include even Space Invaders and Pacman here).
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Common Germany, your engineering is some of the finest. Think long term and if nothing else, put money into research of "Thorium" or "Travelling Wave" reactors, the type championed by Bill Gates. Both of these are completely safe and the waste is minimal.
Nice to see that he's aiming more long-term here. The reactor seems like a middleground between current nuclear reactors and the fusion dream, in terms of power generated / cost and maintenance. Would you say that's fair?
Probably. One can't say for sure, as there are apparently no peer reviewed studies unfortunately. I remember one place saying how one consumes many more times the amount of aluminium with normal food, but not sure how true that is.
Thanks anon. I'll check out boric acid, as maybe AA isn't perfect for shoes. One thing I didn't mention is food-grade peroxide (diluted of course!) which is great for breath ;)
Actually, it doesn't help you sweat less, as AA is a deodorant, not an anti-perspirant. It just stops the bacteria from building up.
Okay here's a semi-secret which shouldn't be so secret. I use something called PitRok Crystal Deodorant (perhaps try this if you're US based), but any Ammonium Alum based deodorant will be good. It's meant for the armpits, but I find it works good on feet too. 5 stars on Amazon.co.uk by almost everyone including me.
I only wish I knew about this sooner. It's completely odorless and nonsticky, which is great, but also lasts over a year (you wet its hard crystal tip and apply). Anybody who benefits from this, feel free to buy me a beer or 10 according to how generous you feel.
I see no mention of CPU speed. I'm guessing it wouldn't be that great.
The irony being I'm from the UK ;)
Look, I don't mind too much what we would have used in the first place be it btus, joules, watt hours etc., As long as we remain consistent. Of course I could've looked up the BTU definition. But standards are a good thing, and anything else is a kludge.
(Yes, I look forward to a universal currency to save billions in conversion fees etc. and UWS (unnecessary work syndrome)).
Btus? Can't we just stick to standards?
Kilo/Mega/Giga/Tera Watt hours in this case.
donations?
Well the electric car will be the ultimate realization. Rather than lobby to change the car to suit our power, we should change our power (to nuclear) so we can have the best of all worlds.
So don't tell, the catch is that it's trickier getting these particles in the tumours in the first place?
And why don't the associated researchers barely ever post on slashdot? I mean come on, it's their stuff we're promoting/featuring. Really annoying.
It's a brain-dead suggestion, but why can't YouTube have a "buy this track" button, and sell the music shown for say 50p or so. I'd buy tons of stuff, stuff I'd never have a chance of buying through any other means. I want convenience though. One or two clicks, and be able to save it as non-DRM mp3.
Many things are hard to assess and could even be considered subjective, such as programming or CPU speed benchmarks. Doesn't mean there isn't a measure of 'goodness' or 'efficiency' that can be applied.
Music granted is more tricky (at least with our current level of knowledge) to determine a rating. But if they had picked a truly random number, and made music from that, they could have made that sound 'good' as well (especially since the simple diatonic scale is used). And I wonder if you would have had the same reaction then.
I'm one of the biggest advocates for the base 12 (or 16) number system, but if we have to keep with base 10 for now, then it would obviously make sense to have time as base 10 also to keep things standard.
I hope you're joking. The instruments make it sound better than it really is.
You do realize you'd get similar crap with random numbers.
And why not scrap even Tau and have just 0-1 for a full circle? Yes I know the advantages of radians, but I've always found it useful to use cycles/revolutions for any trigonometric work. I'm amazed that it's not in more common use. With calculators, you get radians and degrees, but never cycles.
Your case illustrates why a meritocracy/pagerank system could work well.
At least the article seems okay now.
There are many people, myself included, who would step down given someone with better credentials (especially phd level). Meritocracy and all that. Maybe the situation is worse than I think, and a Pagerank system for people would need to be used. It could be abused, but I think it could work well. People could be marked down as well as up, and the strength of that marking would depend on the 'rank' of the person doing the marking.
I'm not sure if the "wisdom of the crowds" theory applies to knowledge, as well as optimization tasks.
What was the topic in question? And a link to the "Discuss" arguments? I ask because it's always possible to advertise to get other people involved, perhaps people more knowledgeable than either of you. With more people (and more expert people), a middle-ground consensus is more likely to established.
At first I thought that. But we don't know if they're fighting out of principle because of the supposed evilness that Facebook has done to them. I don't know how much the twins contributed to the whole thing, or what the terms of their stock were, but it could be a good thing if they win, since it will encourage other companies not to be so apparently evil.
Generations is only 30fps and not 60fps?
Wow, really?
I'm probably one of the more jaded people here when it comes to enjoying games. I rarely play them these days, as 'real life' gets in the way too much. Also, the atmosphere of games is WAY lower than when I was a kid. It's like having a weird dream, which has a strange kind of atmosphere, and then trying to explain that atmosphere to someone else - you can't do it (also similar to when you try to describe 'green' to a born-blind person). Hence nostalgia is incredibly difficult to pin down.
However I will say this, despite my pessimism and the way I usually find today's games utterly boring, I know that an INCREDIBLE game could be produced in theory. For a driving type game for example, it would have the physics of something like Stunt Car Racer, with the tight controls of Outrun, and the futuristic setting of F-Zero, Wipeout or STUN runner, with the variety and sometimes colour/clarity of say, Rainbow Islands, but a million times better than any of these. The game would be easy to master, and incredibly hard to complete with worldwide competitions taking place each day trying to beat the best time / get the furthest. There would always be something to do with your fingers to keep interest at every millisecond in the game (twitch gameplay to the max). The graphics would also be fully raytraced, with full global illumination, not the rasterization crap they use today, which always makes 3D graphics look 'cookie-cutter'-esque. It would be as popular as football if done right I reckon.
A while back, I made a spoof article and spoke about such a game. Look for 'Forward Inertia' which is described later on, and how it's compared to the dull and drab games which are churned out by their bucketloads with zero imagination today. Okay, that's a bit OTT, but not enough for me to feel a bit depressed about the situation.
Speaking about the perfect sonic game, here's one based on the old Sonic 1 game, but fully modernized in 3D - the new "Sonic Generations":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuj-6T_ymqg
They've even used the same music from Green Hill zone (which I still love today), and the orchestration is good, but I still prefer the original for various reasons (chorus section has the bass-line moving instead of the melody, giving more contrast etc.). Also the 3D on first glance looks great. But rasterization actually really spoils it. If this was fully-raytraced / globally illuminated, it would look a TON better, and much more likely to give the dreamlike feel that you would have gotten as a kid, but today instead of back then.
To even get a glimpse of that atmosphere from when you were a kid, you need detailed graphics, an I mean REALLY detailed stuff (and no, I don't mean realistic). Generations is great, but you bet you could get 1000x better.
I'm not saying playability isn't important, as it is, but a lot of the 'atmosphere' and nostalgia comes from the audio/visuals (and I would include even Space Invaders and Pacman here).
I'm sure some business decisions are long term based. Like .NET, or CUDA, or research generally.