I guess the problem comes from the products not being stand-alone and not being easily interchangeable. All cars serve the same purpose and you could attach a trailer to any car strong enough to pull it. With software the interchangeability is lost, you can't trivially (i.e. without many hours of setting up) replace Windows with another OS and still run the same applications. If there were like 20 different OSes and they could all run the same applications (e.g. if all OSes were Linuxes with different Kernels and stuff but the same APIs) there wouldn't be a monoculture but software has a reinforcement cycle, the software that's popular gets more stuff made for it and thus becomes preferrable over the alternatives.
Coal waste disposal is not a truck, it's a series of tubes!
In other words, barrels are nice but that stuff doesn't come in barrels, at least not the part we worry about. It comes out of the chimney. If you know an efficient way to package that exhaust into barrels show it to the powerplant maintainers because currently they're just letting it escape into the atmosphere.
If you want a demonstration, I'll go stand in a room full of unshielded barrels of coal ash and CO2 for 12 hours, and you go stand in a room full of unshielded spent fuel rods for 12 hours.
If you're in a room with airborne ashes and such a high CO2 concentration radiation is the least of your worries.
We can't convert all our power production to solar and wind, we're using far too much power for that. I'd say nuclear is a decent interim solution until fusion arrives, I'd rather have to deal with a cave full of radioactive crap than a worldwide changed climate so I'd prefer if they shut down the fossil fuel based plants before the nuke plants, unfortunately there's only the nuclear scare and protests, no big protests about shutting down fossil fuel plants to reduce the climate change.
I think the problem is more a complete failure of the cooling system (especially if the maintenance is sloppy to save money) than running out of coolant. Having a lot of water isn't enough if it stops circling.
Doesn't explain why this doesn't happen for PC games and hardware and why there's no fluctuation with the currency values (the Euro was worth about 0.8$ when that price was set IIRC, they never adjusted it). Also the import duties on videogame consoles have been abolished quite some time ago and were never higher than single digit percents AFAIK.
Or he watched it dubbed in German. There's no language barrier between the axis and the allies in the german version which in retrospect makes me wonder which language Hogan was speaking.
I have a strong feeling that androids are also not supposed to be like us, as opposed to what SF belived.
If you take notice of what's happening in the east, they are trying to make their bots more and more humanlike. I think that's useful in a human interaction role, e.g. an automated cashier at a store or a personal all-purpose android. Of course it's not useful for very purpose-built robots, especially for the military where insect-like bots are much more useful than bipedal mechas or industrial robots which have a pretty much optimal shape already. But most people would probably prefer a bot that looks like a sexy woman over a more useful hexapod bot running around in their home (never mind that the hexapod would never be useful for a certain purpose...). Aesthetics and marketing are important for selling these things, people will buy an iPod over something that offers more functionality at a lower price because the iPod looks more appealing and is made by a brand they know.
Or option 4, think up a way to make games make as much money as movies do (which only "lose" money due to creative accounting). That means widely available hardware, low per-copy costs (few would buy a DVD at 50-60$, why do games cost that much?) and more working with merchandise and advertising.
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I guess the problem comes from the products not being stand-alone and not being easily interchangeable. All cars serve the same purpose and you could attach a trailer to any car strong enough to pull it. With software the interchangeability is lost, you can't trivially (i.e. without many hours of setting up) replace Windows with another OS and still run the same applications. If there were like 20 different OSes and they could all run the same applications (e.g. if all OSes were Linuxes with different Kernels and stuff but the same APIs) there wouldn't be a monoculture but software has a reinforcement cycle, the software that's popular gets more stuff made for it and thus becomes preferrable over the alternatives.
Coal waste disposal is not a truck, it's a series of tubes!
In other words, barrels are nice but that stuff doesn't come in barrels, at least not the part we worry about. It comes out of the chimney. If you know an efficient way to package that exhaust into barrels show it to the powerplant maintainers because currently they're just letting it escape into the atmosphere.
If you want a demonstration, I'll go stand in a room full of unshielded barrels of coal ash and CO2 for 12 hours, and you go stand in a room full of unshielded spent fuel rods for 12 hours.
If you're in a room with airborne ashes and such a high CO2 concentration radiation is the least of your worries.
We can't convert all our power production to solar and wind, we're using far too much power for that. I'd say nuclear is a decent interim solution until fusion arrives, I'd rather have to deal with a cave full of radioactive crap than a worldwide changed climate so I'd prefer if they shut down the fossil fuel based plants before the nuke plants, unfortunately there's only the nuclear scare and protests, no big protests about shutting down fossil fuel plants to reduce the climate change.
I think the problem is more a complete failure of the cooling system (especially if the maintenance is sloppy to save money) than running out of coolant. Having a lot of water isn't enough if it stops circling.
What is with ideas like this, when far superior designs have been around for years?
Because the Russians sell these reactors for cheap.
Doesn't explain why this doesn't happen for PC games and hardware and why there's no fluctuation with the currency values (the Euro was worth about 0.8$ when that price was set IIRC, they never adjusted it). Also the import duties on videogame consoles have been abolished quite some time ago and were never higher than single digit percents AFAIK.
Then they will lose customers to the larger publishers who are capable of putting boxes in stores.
Of course but I'd say they're losing more customers by pricing their game at 50$ instead of, say, 10$.
So you're saying you can't drop more than 137 protons into a neutron star?
Gold, actually. And they have wood instead of air.
But where does the Spanish Inquisition fit into this?
Would've been the perfect address for a spreadfirefox mirror...
Luxembourg is a member state of the European Union and as such bound by the declaration of human rights. That includes free speech.
By banning child pornography in any form we discourage its creation by at least scaring SOME people into not using it.
You're comparing apples and, well, pears.
Do you mean a European or an Asian pear?
How about romanes-eunt-domus.ie?
Or he watched it dubbed in German. There's no language barrier between the axis and the allies in the german version which in retrospect makes me wonder which language Hogan was speaking.
Animatronics and movie special effects?
In case anyone's wondering, those japanese "robots" they're talking about are 90% these (NSFW and Paedobear approved).
What qualifies as an AI? Does the automated targeting system of a Patriot missile battery count?
I have a strong feeling that androids are also not supposed to be like us, as opposed to what SF belived.
If you take notice of what's happening in the east, they are trying to make their bots more and more humanlike. I think that's useful in a human interaction role, e.g. an automated cashier at a store or a personal all-purpose android. Of course it's not useful for very purpose-built robots, especially for the military where insect-like bots are much more useful than bipedal mechas or industrial robots which have a pretty much optimal shape already. But most people would probably prefer a bot that looks like a sexy woman over a more useful hexapod bot running around in their home (never mind that the hexapod would never be useful for a certain purpose...). Aesthetics and marketing are important for selling these things, people will buy an iPod over something that offers more functionality at a lower price because the iPod looks more appealing and is made by a brand they know.
"Object not found"
Did you link to his wife?
Or option 4, think up a way to make games make as much money as movies do (which only "lose" money due to creative accounting). That means widely available hardware, low per-copy costs (few would buy a DVD at 50-60$, why do games cost that much?) and more working with merchandise and advertising.
Of course that's only if they go down and close shop, not if they get weakened and bought by EA.
What the hell are you talking about, he never said anything about that!