Instead of just asking "what can we do to pollute less to produce energy", we should ask "what can we do to WASTE less energy?"
I mean, we can have the most efficient power plants in the world and generate only 10% CO2, but if we keep using incandescent lightbulbs, CRT televisions and XTRA-HOT CPU's, i doubt it'll help.
Instead I'd welcome more investment in solar cells, ultra-efficient lighting and low-heat CPU's.
but if you actually try to READ the damned 15-25 pages of the EULA, you find the web site "times out" and you can't then proceed with the purchase/registration process.
That's because they assumme nobody will agree after reading the EULA, anyway: "Oh no they read the EULA, another lost sale:("
"SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: VISTA MAY CAUSE LUNG CANCER, EMPHYSEMA, AND BIRTH DEFECTS."
Wish they had warning labels on XP.
"Surgeon General's Warning: Your may get gastritis and sudden rage attacks due to viruses, deleted data, and other annoyances caused by this product, including but not limited to HELLO THERE! Looks like you're reading an EULA!"
I agree. I would love to see a sequel for Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, or more monkey island games. 3D Action games get boring after a while.
A little off-topic, but I've realized one thing while playing Silent Hill 3: The textures are realistic, and the control is user-friendly. Why not make a detective game (Sherlock Holmes, Hercules Poirot?) with that engine? It would rock if you could interrogate suspects and examine items, etc.
Anyway my point is, we need more story / plot / brain in today's games. The Indy graphic adventures contained all of these elements, and this is why they succeeded.
Here in Mexico we follow our own traditions regarding Easter (like praying / fasting / representations of the Passion), there are no things like the Easter Bunny or egg chocolates here.
Not only that, they don't include pictures, but rather an "artist depiction" (which IMHO looks rather funny and ridiculous). But yes, the article includes links to many news items about him.
If Windows users weren't logged in as admin the hosts file would be off limits.
Problem is, Even Windows has problems with the limited user accounts. I tried setting up internet connection sharing, and I can't even connect to my ISP using a limited account.
Sorry, I have to call bullshit on that one. Unless you call three squares a day and 5 prayer breaks torture.
Sorry, but Amnesty International disagrees with you. OK, maybe I exaggerated, Guantanamo isn't one of the worst prisons in the world. It's one of the worst AMERICAN prisons in the world. According to Amnesty Intl, "Guantánamo Bay has become a symbol of injustice and abuse in the US administration's 'war on terror'. It must be closed down".
Except in here, the "victim" is the most powerful state in the worl, with the worst information security in the world. Did you recall that a few days ago an airport had to be shut down because they didn't patch their WINDOWS systems correctly and got infected?
Or how about the FBI not having enough e-mail accounts? I could compare this hacker incident with a spy or thief entering a fortress thru the backdoor by simply turning the knob.
Helpless Joe Users running windows on their homes, I can understand them being hacked. But a government agency, I'm sorry, that's too much to ask. Can you explain how BILLIONS (not millions, BILLIONS) were invested in weapons for invading IRAQ, and not having enough budget to secure a couple of machines AT HOME?
Finally, the guy's an independent hacker, not a Jihad bomber. And they want to judge him for terrorism. That's just ridiculous.
Guantanamo is famous for tortures towards the prisoners. One thing is losing your freedom because you committed a crime. But towards an administrative crime (hacking), is it even logical that you get sent to one of the worst prisons in the world?
Let's not forget about the Iraqi soldiers tortured and humilliated.
I'd really appreciate it if Delphine not only published the game, I also want to play a sequel (and one with more levels, winning the game is possible in 30 minutes).
The only large scale production of hydrogen that I know of makes hydrogen from natural gas, a fossil fuel.
Yeah, we need to look into more efficient hydrogen producing methods. But the market plays a big role in this, too. By having hydrogen-powered vehicles, there will be more demand for cheaper and more effective (and hopefully less polluting) hydrogen production methods - at least compared with our current demand for fossil fuels.
I think that the GP poster meant to ask: Will the manufacturing process for these batteries produce less CO2 than the maximum usage of the trains with fossil fuels?
In any case, I think it's worth it. We've researched fossil fuels too much. It's time to research about alternative energy sources.
I recall (from my Dungeons n dragons times) that there was some kind of super-glue and some kind of super-oil. You needed the super-oil to apply it into the superglue bottle so it wouldn't stick.
Taking into account that the researchers are having problems with getting the glue off the instruments they use to fabricate it, perhaps we do need a super-oil in this case.
(And fact is stranger than fiction once more!)
An Idea I just came up with is that the superglue could be embedded inside small (nano? hmmm) particles that can be disolved with water or something, kinda like M&M's (melts in your mouth, not in your hands).
That was a funny one. Anyway, I can say this: Most of the people in here who are programmers have stumbled upon spaghetti code. Well, I have. The guy who wrote that was seen as a genius because he managed to build a full database catalog (where you edit all the records in a DB table) in only 15 minutes.
Wow, that's cool, isn't it?
Well, those 15 minutes turned into several hours of maintenance. (He used copy/paste a lot, now try to adjust 20 similar spaghetti php+html+sql pages - no, no templates - when you DON'T have a regexp search / replace editor handy). So, the fastest isn't necessarily the best. And some times it turns out to be the worst.
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OK, i misread. I thought pebble bed reactors used fusion, I don't know where I got that idea from.
:)
Thanks for the correction
Instead of just asking "what can we do to pollute less to produce energy", we should ask "what can we do to WASTE less energy?"
I mean, we can have the most efficient power plants in the world and generate only 10% CO2, but if we keep using incandescent lightbulbs, CRT televisions and XTRA-HOT CPU's, i doubt it'll help.
Instead I'd welcome more investment in solar cells, ultra-efficient lighting and low-heat CPU's.
I'm really hoping he's talking about the new FUSION reactors using pebble-beds.
But I'm not willing to let the government install a uranium reactor in my neighborhood.
but if you actually try to READ the damned 15-25 pages of the EULA, you find the web site "times out" and you can't then proceed with the purchase/registration process.
:("
That's because they assumme nobody will agree after reading the EULA, anyway: "Oh no they read the EULA, another lost sale
"SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: VISTA MAY CAUSE LUNG CANCER, EMPHYSEMA, AND BIRTH DEFECTS."
Wish they had warning labels on XP.
"Surgeon General's Warning: Your may get gastritis and sudden rage attacks due to viruses, deleted data, and other annoyances caused by this product, including but not limited to HELLO THERE! Looks like you're reading an EULA!"
I agree. I would love to see a sequel for Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, or more monkey island games. 3D Action games get boring after a while.
A little off-topic, but I've realized one thing while playing Silent Hill 3: The textures are realistic, and the control is user-friendly. Why not make a detective game (Sherlock Holmes, Hercules Poirot?) with that engine? It would rock if you could interrogate suspects and examine items, etc.
Anyway my point is, we need more story / plot / brain in today's games. The Indy graphic adventures contained all of these elements, and this is why they succeeded.
First it was ACID. And now they're going SOLID? Make up your minds! :P
Here in Mexico we follow our own traditions regarding Easter (like praying / fasting / representations of the Passion), there are no things like the Easter Bunny or egg chocolates here.
Not only that, they don't include pictures, but rather an "artist depiction" (which IMHO looks rather funny and ridiculous). But yes, the article includes links to many news items about him.
If Windows users weren't logged in as admin the hosts file would be off limits.
Problem is, Even Windows has problems with the limited user accounts. I tried setting up internet connection sharing, and I can't even connect to my ISP using a limited account.
Um, for us network newbies, what do we replace INVALID with? Mind giving more examples?
If you consider the AOL's CEO's brain as "software" :P
They said Microsoft SOFTWARE, not Microsoft STOCK. Oh darn...
Imagine A company like Red Hat PURCHASING Microsoft stock at discount prices! :D
they're laughing at YOU!
Sorry, I have to call bullshit on that one.
Unless you call three squares a day and 5 prayer breaks torture.
Sorry, but Amnesty International disagrees with you. OK, maybe I exaggerated, Guantanamo isn't one of the worst prisons in the world. It's one of the worst AMERICAN prisons in the world. According to Amnesty Intl, "Guantánamo Bay has become a symbol of injustice and abuse in the US administration's 'war on terror'. It must be closed down".
There, happy now?
This sounds seriously like blaming the victim.
Except in here, the "victim" is the most powerful state in the worl, with the worst information security in the world. Did you recall that a few days ago an airport had to be shut down because they didn't patch their WINDOWS systems correctly and got infected?
Or how about the FBI not having enough e-mail accounts? I could compare this hacker incident with a spy or thief entering a fortress thru the backdoor by simply turning the knob.
Helpless Joe Users running windows on their homes, I can understand them being hacked. But a government agency, I'm sorry, that's too much to ask. Can you explain how BILLIONS (not millions, BILLIONS) were invested in weapons for invading IRAQ, and not having enough budget to secure a couple of machines AT HOME?
Finally, the guy's an independent hacker, not a Jihad bomber. And they want to judge him for terrorism. That's just ridiculous.
Guantanamo is famous for tortures towards the prisoners. One thing is losing your freedom because you committed a crime. But towards an administrative crime (hacking), is it even logical that you get sent to one of the worst prisons in the world?
Let's not forget about the Iraqi soldiers tortured and humilliated.
I'd really appreciate it if Delphine not only published the game, I also want to play a sequel (and one with more levels, winning the game is possible in 30 minutes).
Also, Flashback ABSOLUTELY ROCKED. I WANT MORE!
The only large scale production of hydrogen that I know of makes hydrogen from natural gas, a fossil fuel.
Yeah, we need to look into more efficient hydrogen producing methods. But the market plays a big role in this, too. By having hydrogen-powered vehicles, there will be more demand for cheaper and more effective (and hopefully less polluting) hydrogen production methods - at least compared with our current demand for fossil fuels.
I think that the GP poster meant to ask: Will the manufacturing process for these batteries produce less CO2 than the maximum usage of the trains with fossil fuels?
In any case, I think it's worth it. We've researched fossil fuels too much. It's time to research about alternative energy sources.
I recall (from my Dungeons n dragons times) that there was some kind of super-glue and some kind of super-oil. You needed the super-oil to apply it into the superglue bottle so it wouldn't stick.
Taking into account that the researchers are having problems with getting the glue off the instruments they use to fabricate it, perhaps we do need a super-oil in this case.
(And fact is stranger than fiction once more!)
An Idea I just came up with is that the superglue could be embedded inside small (nano? hmmm) particles that can be disolved with water or something, kinda like M&M's (melts in your mouth, not in your hands).
That was a funny one. Anyway, I can say this: Most of the people in here who are programmers have stumbled upon spaghetti code. Well, I have. The guy who wrote that was seen as a genius because he managed to build a full database catalog (where you edit all the records in a DB table) in only 15 minutes.
Wow, that's cool, isn't it?
Well, those 15 minutes turned into several hours of maintenance. (He used copy/paste a lot, now try to adjust 20 similar spaghetti php+html+sql pages - no, no templates - when you DON'T have a regexp search / replace editor handy). So, the fastest isn't necessarily the best. And some times it turns out to be the worst.
And yet, you just did... :)
No, I did not. I just LINKED to the info
I already said why the ACM programming contest is crap, I won't say it again.