That's one actor. Most shows go with a much cheaper star, but even with Shatner on there the whole season probably costs about as much as an episode of Friends.
See, there's what you believe, and what has been proven. Previously, there wasn't a whole lot of actual scientific evidence that coffee was addictive, just a hunch in that direction given how grouchy everyone at work was the day the percolator broke down. Most of science is simply proving the blatantly obvious, because a good portion of the time you find something nifty (on the topic of coffee, ever read about why coffee stains always form a ring rather than a dot? Its not because coffee collects around the rim of the mug.)
So... we don't want to use fossil fuels, or nuclear fuels... but we want a solution *right now*. This seems a bit incompatible; wind, solar, etc are all in development, but you won't get them overnight. Nuclear plants are worlds better than fossil fuel plants; all the waste goes into a big dense brick rather than into the atmosphere.
Modern American homes are rather energy conscious; there are just a lot of older homes that are impractical to upgrade. Once they start to fall down, the buildings replacing them will be built under new more efficient standards
We definately need tax breaks on green cars (those Smart Cars are amazing, and hybrids are coming along) and reduced/eliminated A/C. You don't need a tank to go to the supermarket (no roadside bombs, you see) and residential A/C is way overused.
I'm not thinking that it actually gets up to food-processor speeds. Birds fly quick enough that unless they actually flew into a blade head on, they stand little chance of being hit (though a hit would probably be a kill, given the mass behind the blades...)
Indeed, not to mention stations that cross national borders. I receive WCBS 880 out of New York City from just north of DC to the soutern part of Canada.
The DoD budget is huge, and they build really expensive things, but in the big picture DoD and Nasa are really the only entities experienced in building things of this magnitude (and even space stations and supercarriers are peanuts compared to this thing). The DoD is actually pretty good at getting things done efficiently, its just that the shear magnitude of the transactions sound insane. Having dealt with both, I'd say that private industry is more likely to screw you (government executives don't get bonuses/yachts/etc, just a salary that tops out just over $100K)
The other problem is hitting a sufficiently high contrast level to get the barcode scanner to read it. A while ago there was a program to generate barcode images onthe screen of TI calculators, but they didn't scan unless you played with the contrast settings a lot.
The problem with that X machine is that the company's internally standard Windows software won't run very well on it. This allows a migration to timesharing without needing to adapt to new software as well.
I guess my point was more for fully independant games; for mods I agree totally that they really stimulate sales of games that may be mediocre on their own.
From the perspective of the content controllers, this is a better tech. Who cares if the user can actually *use* the stuff, as long as they buy it and can't transfer it?
That's exactly what MS wants to prevent. There is no money in having someone else make software for your system without paying licensing costs to be a mainstream game. Just because fan-generated content is often more innovative or stimulating than that which is pumped through the XBox marketing machine, does not mean that it fits the business model of the XBox (which is to practically give the hardware away, and then rake it in on selling 'official XBox' game status).
I was commenting on the new device, which is rented. TiVo's are great, in that you can keep them if you stop paying, and no one can stop you from modding it into whatever you want (unless whatever you want is a WMD, in which case you might get missled:))
How about this scenario: You do a bunch of work for a major client. Right before release, your provider tells you that the version of ZBrush you were using is no longer offered. Oh, by the way, the files generated by the last version won't work with the new one. Sorry 'bout that. Conclusion: you're screwed, you no longer have the option of running the old files on the old version until you've migrated, etc. And don't tell me that software vendors don't break backwards compatibility all the time, either.
By the way, ZBrush now offers a demo: http://pixologic.com/support/contents.html
Some people upgrade every year, but a lot don't. I bought Office 97 6 years ago, and still use it as the office suite on my Windows machines. At $75 for the copy, that's like $1/month.
I also see the horror scenario, "oh crap, my internet connection just went down, my registration runs out in 6 hours, must have this paper done by tomorrow". I put my faith in things that I own that cannot be taken away.
Indeed! Wind is generated by temperature differentials caused by heat from the sun (barring the use of fossil/nuclear/hydroelectric power), so its really all solar energy that is proposed. If you math out the energy incident upon the earth from the sun, assuming total conversion (no energy hits the surface), you still wind up with a lower number than our needs.
DLP is a technology replacing the LCDs in high-end projectors. It is also used to replace the CRTs in high-end rear-projection televisions. This innovation improves backlit LCDs used for notebook and desktop computers. The competing tech in that arena is OLED, which is both thinner and does not require a backlight (once it gets rolling, it will also be easier to scale to larger screen sizes because of the inkjet process used to manufacture the displays)
It actually sounds like a neat project, just a sketchy application. I wonder if its legal to attach one to, say, your child's car. Perhaps make the sensor a bit less sensitive, so it only broadcasts a signal after an impact-type shock.
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That's one actor. Most shows go with a much cheaper star, but even with Shatner on there the whole season probably costs about as much as an episode of Friends.
See, there's what you believe, and what has been proven. Previously, there wasn't a whole lot of actual scientific evidence that coffee was addictive, just a hunch in that direction given how grouchy everyone at work was the day the percolator broke down. Most of science is simply proving the blatantly obvious, because a good portion of the time you find something nifty (on the topic of coffee, ever read about why coffee stains always form a ring rather than a dot? Its not because coffee collects around the rim of the mug.)
So ... we don't want to use fossil fuels, or nuclear fuels ... but we want a solution *right now*. This seems a bit incompatible; wind, solar, etc are all in development, but you won't get them overnight. Nuclear plants are worlds better than fossil fuel plants; all the waste goes into a big dense brick rather than into the atmosphere.
Modern American homes are rather energy conscious; there are just a lot of older homes that are impractical to upgrade. Once they start to fall down, the buildings replacing them will be built under new more efficient standards
We definately need tax breaks on green cars (those Smart Cars are amazing, and hybrids are coming along) and reduced/eliminated A/C. You don't need a tank to go to the supermarket (no roadside bombs, you see) and residential A/C is way overused.
Florida has been getting washed over by hurricanes for millenia. I wouldn't live there even if the hurricanes were getting smaller.
Well, what *do* you do with a disused wind turbine?
Free, once you pay of the mortgage used to build the thing, and find some alternative method of acquiring spare parts for when it breaks ...
I'm not thinking that it actually gets up to food-processor speeds. Birds fly quick enough that unless they actually flew into a blade head on, they stand little chance of being hit (though a hit would probably be a kill, given the mass behind the blades ...)
Obviously, we'll need to run it through our transmute-o-matic to get gold first, to maximize returns.
I know I don't have any DVDs. Hurrah for Laserdisc (except the blasted shipping charges ...)
Indeed, not to mention stations that cross national borders. I receive WCBS 880 out of New York City from just north of DC to the soutern part of Canada.
Of course we'll notice! It will be when we hit our head on the desk after the caffeine depravation kicks in.
The DoD budget is huge, and they build really expensive things, but in the big picture DoD and Nasa are really the only entities experienced in building things of this magnitude (and even space stations and supercarriers are peanuts compared to this thing). The DoD is actually pretty good at getting things done efficiently, its just that the shear magnitude of the transactions sound insane. Having dealt with both, I'd say that private industry is more likely to screw you (government executives don't get bonuses/yachts/etc, just a salary that tops out just over $100K)
The other problem is hitting a sufficiently high contrast level to get the barcode scanner to read it. A while ago there was a program to generate barcode images onthe screen of TI calculators, but they didn't scan unless you played with the contrast settings a lot.
The problem with that X machine is that the company's internally standard Windows software won't run very well on it. This allows a migration to timesharing without needing to adapt to new software as well.
I guess my point was more for fully independant games; for mods I agree totally that they really stimulate sales of games that may be mediocre on their own.
From the perspective of the content controllers, this is a better tech. Who cares if the user can actually *use* the stuff, as long as they buy it and can't transfer it?
That's exactly what MS wants to prevent. There is no money in having someone else make software for your system without paying licensing costs to be a mainstream game. Just because fan-generated content is often more innovative or stimulating than that which is pumped through the XBox marketing machine, does not mean that it fits the business model of the XBox (which is to practically give the hardware away, and then rake it in on selling 'official XBox' game status).
I was commenting on the new device, which is rented. TiVo's are great, in that you can keep them if you stop paying, and no one can stop you from modding it into whatever you want (unless whatever you want is a WMD, in which case you might get missled :))
How about this scenario: You do a bunch of work for a major client. Right before release, your provider tells you that the version of ZBrush you were using is no longer offered. Oh, by the way, the files generated by the last version won't work with the new one. Sorry 'bout that. Conclusion: you're screwed, you no longer have the option of running the old files on the old version until you've migrated, etc. And don't tell me that software vendors don't break backwards compatibility all the time, either.
By the way, ZBrush now offers a demo: http://pixologic.com/support/contents.html
Some people upgrade every year, but a lot don't. I bought Office 97 6 years ago, and still use it as the office suite on my Windows machines. At $75 for the copy, that's like $1/month.
I also see the horror scenario, "oh crap, my internet connection just went down, my registration runs out in 6 hours, must have this paper done by tomorrow". I put my faith in things that I own that cannot be taken away.
... and thus is the disadvantage of rented equipment. They *can* actually tell you that modding the box is against the rules.
Indeed! Wind is generated by temperature differentials caused by heat from the sun (barring the use of fossil/nuclear/hydroelectric power), so its really all solar energy that is proposed. If you math out the energy incident upon the earth from the sun, assuming total conversion (no energy hits the surface), you still wind up with a lower number than our needs.
DLP is a technology replacing the LCDs in high-end projectors. It is also used to replace the CRTs in high-end rear-projection televisions. This innovation improves backlit LCDs used for notebook and desktop computers. The competing tech in that arena is OLED, which is both thinner and does not require a backlight (once it gets rolling, it will also be easier to scale to larger screen sizes because of the inkjet process used to manufacture the displays)
It actually sounds like a neat project, just a sketchy application. I wonder if its legal to attach one to, say, your child's car. Perhaps make the sensor a bit less sensitive, so it only broadcasts a signal after an impact-type shock.
Hurrah for new hot-swappable expansion card standards! Your box doesn't even go down when the video card catches fire!