Electronics are even more vulnerable to radiation than meat. You definitely need shielding if you don't want your data scrambled by cosmic radiation (or use big chips where bits are too big to flip by radiation but that limits your computing power).
I can't speak about it myself since I got the Xperia Play but my father didn't have any issues with his ICS Xperia Arc S. I'm sure if WiFi didn't work he would already have come to me and demanded free tech support.
I'd attribute the current overall peace more to nuclear weapons which allow a country to be an effective threat with a significantly smaller army. The nukes of China and Russia are enough to scare away the US's significantly more expensive and advanced military. Some other conflict hotspots (Israel vs neighbors, India vs Pakistan) have remained relatively cool due to the threat of ICBMs preventing any major war. Europe has been at peace for possibly the longest stretch of time in its history.
A super-sized conventional military may be necessary for attacks but for defense you can get away with having enough to give you time to launch the nukes.
I think a govt that only provides police and military is an utopia just like the communist ideals are. That govt possesses unopposed power, where do you get the kind of overman that could run such a government without using his power to gain control of additional aspects of society?
Ireland's financial situation is what makes me wonder about the wisdom behind this move. If the country tanks then companies inside it will be hurt as well, basically they're buying a lot next toan active volcano because it was cheap.
Even if you get enough volunteers together you have the problem that commercial games are produced with a strict hierarchy where a small number of people are in charge of deciding what the game will be like and hundreds of people working to make what the designers ask for. With volunteers you can't have such a rigid structure or people will just get annoyed and leave (why contribute to a project if you're just a cog in the wheels?).
Games also don't have as strict of a definition for what's the right thing to do, with applications you can usually say that feature X is a good thing and should be added but with games adding features that are good by themselves can be bad and someone has to decide what to include and what to drop.
I've seen some good work with content packs for engines that are developed by different teams (e.g. Spring RTS "mods") but most content packs are made by very small teams to maintain coherence. The engine as a whole is a fairly utilitarian thing so it can support more developers but the content packs, the concrete games, don't work too well when too many people get involved because of all the disagreement and friction.
A lovely collection of baseless prejudices you have there. I'll just point at sites like this one as a counter point. Piles upon piles of assets for videogames, all free. Yeah, not all good but that's life.
Homeschooling is considered child abuse in Germany because it doesn't make sure that your child is getting a proper education and definitely prevents them from getting the necessary graduation certificates to enter higher education and have a shot at a good job. It destroys the career chances of your child for no good reason. Parents aren't qualified teachers and even if they are teachers by trade they will not be able to cover all the subjects that are part of the school curriculum up to eighth grade (which is the minimum school length and even that only qualifies you for jobs on the level of burger flipping).
If you don't like the way public schools are run feel free to put your child into a private school. If you want homeschooling for crazy reasons like teaching your religious beliefs in place of history then get lost. I hear the US offers asylum to people like that.
France has an even higher electricity usage increase during the winter because the French heat with electricity (Germans mostly use oil or gas). Their nuke plants can't keep up with the demand during winter so they have to import.
To be fair the games market has grown since then. The SNES didn't sell nearly as many units as the PS3 and XBox 360 and on top of that Chrono Trigger wasn't released in one of the three major territories (Europe).
I think they were on the EA Partners program which is meant to be a kind of hands-off thing where EA just handles distribution. They got 75M$ in investments and stated that 3M sales would be needed to break even so assuming they used up all that investment on the game that's about 25$ per copy sold.
I don't think normal WLAN ranges would work for that anyway, WLAN has a range of what, 30 meters? If you really want to give cars internet connections you'll have to use cellphone networks instead.
There's special anti-radiation missiles for that task. They home in on signal emitters and are used to hit radars. Whether anyone wants to bother hitting those trucks with 'em is a different question.
The only reason nobody is smashing North Korea into dust is that NK and South Korea are locked in a Mexican standoff. The north has tons of conventional artillery in range of Seoul and could kill millions with a bombardement but that's their only trump card, if they lost that they'd just be a pathetic third world country that wouldn't stand a chance against even a minor NATO assault. So both sides keep ignoring the other aside from some token insults because both know that actually attacking would cost more than it would gain.
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Electronics are even more vulnerable to radiation than meat. You definitely need shielding if you don't want your data scrambled by cosmic radiation (or use big chips where bits are too big to flip by radiation but that limits your computing power).
The analogy only works before you start eating them.
I can't speak about it myself since I got the Xperia Play but my father didn't have any issues with his ICS Xperia Arc S. I'm sure if WiFi didn't work he would already have come to me and demanded free tech support.
I'd attribute the current overall peace more to nuclear weapons which allow a country to be an effective threat with a significantly smaller army. The nukes of China and Russia are enough to scare away the US's significantly more expensive and advanced military. Some other conflict hotspots (Israel vs neighbors, India vs Pakistan) have remained relatively cool due to the threat of ICBMs preventing any major war. Europe has been at peace for possibly the longest stretch of time in its history.
A super-sized conventional military may be necessary for attacks but for defense you can get away with having enough to give you time to launch the nukes.
I think a govt that only provides police and military is an utopia just like the communist ideals are. That govt possesses unopposed power, where do you get the kind of overman that could run such a government without using his power to gain control of additional aspects of society?
Ireland's financial situation is what makes me wonder about the wisdom behind this move. If the country tanks then companies inside it will be hurt as well, basically they're buying a lot next toan active volcano because it was cheap.
Art is something practical but ideas are a dime a dozen, everybody has too many of them and nobody needs somebody else's.
Even if you get enough volunteers together you have the problem that commercial games are produced with a strict hierarchy where a small number of people are in charge of deciding what the game will be like and hundreds of people working to make what the designers ask for. With volunteers you can't have such a rigid structure or people will just get annoyed and leave (why contribute to a project if you're just a cog in the wheels?).
Games also don't have as strict of a definition for what's the right thing to do, with applications you can usually say that feature X is a good thing and should be added but with games adding features that are good by themselves can be bad and someone has to decide what to include and what to drop.
I've seen some good work with content packs for engines that are developed by different teams (e.g. Spring RTS "mods") but most content packs are made by very small teams to maintain coherence. The engine as a whole is a fairly utilitarian thing so it can support more developers but the content packs, the concrete games, don't work too well when too many people get involved because of all the disagreement and friction.
A lovely collection of baseless prejudices you have there. I'll just point at sites like this one as a counter point. Piles upon piles of assets for videogames, all free. Yeah, not all good but that's life.
How about a flash version of the WOPR from Wargames?
Then again they aren't building a nuclear weapons testing ground either so this won't be wiping all that out.
Homeschooling is considered child abuse in Germany because it doesn't make sure that your child is getting a proper education and definitely prevents them from getting the necessary graduation certificates to enter higher education and have a shot at a good job. It destroys the career chances of your child for no good reason. Parents aren't qualified teachers and even if they are teachers by trade they will not be able to cover all the subjects that are part of the school curriculum up to eighth grade (which is the minimum school length and even that only qualifies you for jobs on the level of burger flipping).
If you don't like the way public schools are run feel free to put your child into a private school. If you want homeschooling for crazy reasons like teaching your religious beliefs in place of history then get lost. I hear the US offers asylum to people like that.
France has an even higher electricity usage increase during the winter because the French heat with electricity (Germans mostly use oil or gas). Their nuke plants can't keep up with the demand during winter so they have to import.
Trains are one of the biggest electricity consumers in Germany.
To be fair the games market has grown since then. The SNES didn't sell nearly as many units as the PS3 and XBox 360 and on top of that Chrono Trigger wasn't released in one of the three major territories (Europe).
I think they were on the EA Partners program which is meant to be a kind of hands-off thing where EA just handles distribution. They got 75M$ in investments and stated that 3M sales would be needed to break even so assuming they used up all that investment on the game that's about 25$ per copy sold.
I got the driver package labeled "IT professionals only", that didn't include the crapware and was 1/10th the size to download.
Well, their invention was bankrolled by a mad dictator hoping for a miracle weapon and the production was initially handled by slave labor...
I think the following days will show whether the price is appropriate.
If it's still that flat connector used on my third gen iPod it'll hurt no matter where you put the port.
Sounds like a The Who cover band.
I don't think normal WLAN ranges would work for that anyway, WLAN has a range of what, 30 meters? If you really want to give cars internet connections you'll have to use cellphone networks instead.
That's the kind of "prank" that will have the army knocking on your door.
There's special anti-radiation missiles for that task. They home in on signal emitters and are used to hit radars. Whether anyone wants to bother hitting those trucks with 'em is a different question.
The only reason nobody is smashing North Korea into dust is that NK and South Korea are locked in a Mexican standoff. The north has tons of conventional artillery in range of Seoul and could kill millions with a bombardement but that's their only trump card, if they lost that they'd just be a pathetic third world country that wouldn't stand a chance against even a minor NATO assault. So both sides keep ignoring the other aside from some token insults because both know that actually attacking would cost more than it would gain.