So what we need to do is construct our space-ships out of titanium and use view-screens, instead of glass, to view our surroundings... or other alien species that we may happen across...
Well, I hope whoever's in charge (in America) when this thing hits the market is wise enough to start building nuclear plants immediately, or better yet, ahead of time. We've been needing more of them for a while now, anyways.
Water vapor holds a tremendous amount of heat (anyone ever been scalded by steam from boiling water before?). Because of this it is much worse in terms of green-house gasses than carbon dioxide, which everybody knows is produced by all fossil fuel engines, along with water vapor. Really, the only thing that's going to solve any of our global (warming/polluting/whatever) problems is to have less people.
You know, water vapor holds much more heat than carbon dioxide. Because of this, it is a much more potent 'green house' gas than other forms of exhaust.
I don't know... You stick a light, slightly toasted metal, like magnesium, with a low threshold of excitation from heat into steam. The metal absorbs the oxygen from the water vapor and voila, out comes pure hydrogen. I can believe it.
had you taken the time to check out the web-site you may have read that there are 3 back-up electronics systems and 8 engines (2 per propellor). Any one could fail and the craft would still be able to fly and land safely (according to the web-site). I think if we could convert the lexus' detection system that slows the car down or speeds it up to compensate for traffic when cruise control is engaged, only for collision detection, this thing might be relatively idiot proof.
When I took Electricity and Magnetism at the University I'm currently attending (which will remain nameless, but is ranked in the top 10 in the nation for engineering) we were given weekly quizes instead of a midterm. I guess the intention was to help students make sure they were on track for the final, which is fine and dandy; the problem was that the quizes were multiple choice. There were too many students for the TA's and the professor to grade every step of every problem, so they decreased their work-load by giving all-or-nothing multiple choice answers for questions that involved tripple integration. Out of 6 questions, the class average was a 1.2. I got a 6 on my first quiz, but being the super-genius I am, I decided studying wasn't worth my time or energy and I christmas-treed every quiz. I averaged a 2 out of 6 and passed the class with a B.
My major was Electrical Engineering at the time, I had been told my whole life by engineers that I would make a great engineer, too, and the only thing I got from my electricity and magnetism course was a brief refresher on probability and oppurtunity-cost. In other words, If the probability of guessing is higher than the class average, it's not worth it to study. I changed majors the next quarter.
I was working for a video game company as a beta tester a few summers ago when the company I was working for decided to make a drastic change in how things were done. Part of that change included taking a game producer that wasn't currently working on his own project and making him the manager of the game testers.
What a NIGHTMARE. Every day he was constantly breathing down our neck. I was used to simply reporting to the team who was responsible for the game I was testing, but he decided to force himself into the middle-man position, circumventing my ability to communicate with my friends and co-workers. I couldn't walk to their offices without walking passed my new manager's desk; he would always follow me and stand-in on our conversations if I tried to talk to them in person and then he would always comment on the conversation as I was walking back to my desk. He was always pointing out what we were doing wrong and yet he never seemed to notice what we did right. He really liked to micromanage the hell out of us.
This wasn't one of those sit-there-and-play-video-games-all-day-and-tell-th em-what-you-think jobs, either... On the contrary, I often worked 9 or more hours every day, usually on the the same broken game, doing very mundane and repetitive tasks.
I started having anxiety attacks. The other game-testers and I plotted against him. It was pretty awful.
Eventually they highered somebody else to the position. Someone who had years of game-testing experience that spent his time doing exactly what we did, instead of playing guitar or surfing the internet like the previous manager, and helping us out with our job or letting us help him with his. My job went from nightmare to pretty awesome over night.
FF4 was my favorite, but after restarting FF6 just recently, I'm starting to think it may be my number one... I remember paying 86 bucks for that game the day it first came out! I thought FF7 was ok, and I couldn't make it through disc 2 of FF8. It just didn't keep my interest. FF9 was the same. FFX looks pretty fun, but I have yet to purchase it and play it for myself.
I'll definitely be getting the new FF7 if and when it comes out;).
You have to also take into consideration the fact that Bill is probably worth tens of thousands of dollars every hour (or more) to Microsoft, so it's not really a free interview if you consider the cost-benefit.;-)
With all the linux crap that gets posted on this web-site I really can't fathom how it is that you get upset when legitimate news regarding Windows gets posted. I can't help but feel that you're just bitter because deep down inside you know windows is far superior to linux in terms of stability, versatility, and usability, and that just doesn't settle right with your pseudo-socialist/anarchist agenda. I would be much more upset and amused if high-ranking, world-renowned employees of Windows (such as Bill Gates) didn't try to talk-up or sell their product during an interview.
One more thing, "If they didn't release a product until 2008, the market (mostly linux) would have time to catch-up.", is akin to saying, "If (entity A) just stopped (doing whatever it is that makes entity A better than entity B), then (entity B) might have a chance to be as good or better than (entity A)!"... it's kind of a ridiculous, nonsensical statement...;)
I bet he would be going a lot faster and with much more stability if he had strapped this engine onto a wheelchair with bigger wheels... Like the ones that typically get used by people that can wheel themselves.
It always blows my mind how companies/countries can come and go as they please with global organizations as these. At least, that's what it seems like from what I read in articles or see on tv. I mean, isn't there some sort of process and/or repurcussions for doing this? And why do they just let them come back later?
Take the U.S. for example... they just withdraw from the U.N., break the Geneva convention, and the next thing you know they're back in, all buddy-buddy, like nothing ever happened.
putting ads in games isn't new at all. Every sports game has tons of them, and I just saw a screenshot from Doom3 that had a playboy sitting on a desk.
What they're doing new, and what is a total invasion of privacy, is that they will be tracking exactly which ads get viewed, when, where, how, etc... and then I imagine they'll be sending that info via your net connection back to whichever company for 'processing'. It's just so blatantly big brother.
I, for one, won't be buying these games unless I know for certain that I can disable the software.
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put briefly:
The act of believing in absurdism (and therefore trying to structure or add order to the universe) is in itself contradictory AND absurd, according to the definition of absurdism.
I don't think you understood what I was saying. I agree with you completely. Our problem is that we don't accept our differences. We don't respect each other for who we are. I think trying to pretend there isn't a difference is ridiculous. I also believe (and this, I think, is where we differ) that not accepting our differences is what causes us to bicker like children (hence "infantile").
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So what we need to do is construct our space-ships out of titanium and use view-screens, instead of glass, to view our surroundings... or other alien species that we may happen across...
Main screen on!
is to find all the secret messages about the end of the world, and the truth about the brotherhood of scion and the holy grail.
it only temporarily blinds them... I'm pretty sure maiming necessitates permanent damage.
touche!
Well, I hope whoever's in charge (in America) when this thing hits the market is wise enough to start building nuclear plants immediately, or better yet, ahead of time. We've been needing more of them for a while now, anyways.
Water vapor holds a tremendous amount of heat (anyone ever been scalded by steam from boiling water before?). Because of this it is much worse in terms of green-house gasses than carbon dioxide, which everybody knows is produced by all fossil fuel engines, along with water vapor. Really, the only thing that's going to solve any of our global (warming/polluting/whatever) problems is to have less people.
You know, water vapor holds much more heat than carbon dioxide. Because of this, it is a much more potent 'green house' gas than other forms of exhaust.
You know metal oxide is just a fancy way of saying rust, right?
I don't know... You stick a light, slightly toasted metal, like magnesium, with a low threshold of excitation from heat into steam. The metal absorbs the oxygen from the water vapor and voila, out comes pure hydrogen. I can believe it.
had you taken the time to check out the web-site you may have read that there are 3 back-up electronics systems and 8 engines (2 per propellor). Any one could fail and the craft would still be able to fly and land safely (according to the web-site). I think if we could convert the lexus' detection system that slows the car down or speeds it up to compensate for traffic when cruise control is engaged, only for collision detection, this thing might be relatively idiot proof.
nope, it's in California.
When I took Electricity and Magnetism at the University I'm currently attending (which will remain nameless, but is ranked in the top 10 in the nation for engineering) we were given weekly quizes instead of a midterm. I guess the intention was to help students make sure they were on track for the final, which is fine and dandy; the problem was that the quizes were multiple choice. There were too many students for the TA's and the professor to grade every step of every problem, so they decreased their work-load by giving all-or-nothing multiple choice answers for questions that involved tripple integration. Out of 6 questions, the class average was a 1.2. I got a 6 on my first quiz, but being the super-genius I am, I decided studying wasn't worth my time or energy and I christmas-treed every quiz. I averaged a 2 out of 6 and passed the class with a B.
My major was Electrical Engineering at the time, I had been told my whole life by engineers that I would make a great engineer, too, and the only thing I got from my electricity and magnetism course was a brief refresher on probability and oppurtunity-cost. In other words, If the probability of guessing is higher than the class average, it's not worth it to study. I changed majors the next quarter.
I was working for a video game company as a beta tester a few summers ago when the company I was working for decided to make a drastic change in how things were done. Part of that change included taking a game producer that wasn't currently working on his own project and making him the manager of the game testers.
h em-what-you-think jobs, either... On the contrary, I often worked 9 or more hours every day, usually on the the same broken game, doing very mundane and repetitive tasks.
What a NIGHTMARE. Every day he was constantly breathing down our neck. I was used to simply reporting to the team who was responsible for the game I was testing, but he decided to force himself into the middle-man position, circumventing my ability to communicate with my friends and co-workers. I couldn't walk to their offices without walking passed my new manager's desk; he would always follow me and stand-in on our conversations if I tried to talk to them in person and then he would always comment on the conversation as I was walking back to my desk. He was always pointing out what we were doing wrong and yet he never seemed to notice what we did right. He really liked to micromanage the hell out of us.
This wasn't one of those sit-there-and-play-video-games-all-day-and-tell-t
I started having anxiety attacks. The other game-testers and I plotted against him. It was pretty awful.
Eventually they highered somebody else to the position. Someone who had years of game-testing experience that spent his time doing exactly what we did, instead of playing guitar or surfing the internet like the previous manager, and helping us out with our job or letting us help him with his. My job went from nightmare to pretty awesome over night.
FF4 was my favorite, but after restarting FF6 just recently, I'm starting to think it may be my number one... I remember paying 86 bucks for that game the day it first came out! I thought FF7 was ok, and I couldn't make it through disc 2 of FF8. It just didn't keep my interest. FF9 was the same. FFX looks pretty fun, but I have yet to purchase it and play it for myself.
;).
I'll definitely be getting the new FF7 if and when it comes out
I think by far and large most Final Fantasy fans agree FFV was the worst Final Fantasy ever, which is why it was never originally released in the U.S.
One of the defining features of the Final Fantasy conglomeration is that each final fantasy has its own unique gameplay and style.
You have to also take into consideration the fact that Bill is probably worth tens of thousands of dollars every hour (or more) to Microsoft, so it's not really a free interview if you consider the cost-benefit. ;-)
With all the linux crap that gets posted on this web-site I really can't fathom how it is that you get upset when legitimate news regarding Windows gets posted. I can't help but feel that you're just bitter because deep down inside you know windows is far superior to linux in terms of stability, versatility, and usability, and that just doesn't settle right with your pseudo-socialist/anarchist agenda. I would be much more upset and amused if high-ranking, world-renowned employees of Windows (such as Bill Gates) didn't try to talk-up or sell their product during an interview.
;)
One more thing, "If they didn't release a product until 2008, the market (mostly linux) would have time to catch-up.", is akin to saying, "If (entity A) just stopped (doing whatever it is that makes entity A better than entity B), then (entity B) might have a chance to be as good or better than (entity A)!"... it's kind of a ridiculous, nonsensical statement...
I bet he would be going a lot faster and with much more stability if he had strapped this engine onto a wheelchair with bigger wheels... Like the ones that typically get used by people that can wheel themselves.
where do I sign up?
It always blows my mind how companies/countries can come and go as they please with global organizations as these. At least, that's what it seems like from what I read in articles or see on tv. I mean, isn't there some sort of process and/or repurcussions for doing this? And why do they just let them come back later?
Take the U.S. for example... they just withdraw from the U.N., break the Geneva convention, and the next thing you know they're back in, all buddy-buddy, like nothing ever happened.
Maybe I'm wrong...
amen, brotha'!
;-)
putting ads in games isn't new at all. Every sports game has tons of them, and I just saw a screenshot from Doom3 that had a playboy sitting on a desk.
What they're doing new, and what is a total invasion of privacy, is that they will be tracking exactly which ads get viewed, when, where, how, etc... and then I imagine they'll be sending that info via your net connection back to whichever company for 'processing'. It's just so blatantly big brother.
I, for one, won't be buying these games unless I know for certain that I can disable the software.
put briefly:
The act of believing in absurdism (and therefore trying to structure or add order to the universe) is in itself contradictory AND absurd, according to the definition of absurdism.
And that's why I think it's stupid.
I don't think you understood what I was saying. I agree with you completely. Our problem is that we don't accept our differences. We don't respect each other for who we are. I think trying to pretend there isn't a difference is ridiculous. I also believe (and this, I think, is where we differ) that not accepting our differences is what causes us to bicker like children (hence "infantile").