Thanks to all the greenhouse gases that China and the US produce, the world's alot warmer than it was 20 years ago. This at least will be a bit of a warmer cold war.
you got to remember that all controllers will wear out if you put enough game time in. Sure the $30 pads won't last forever, but I doubt any of the geeks on here would put enough time in to wear one out. We have one of those cheap DDR pads and it's lasted great for the few hours they've bothered to play with it. Not the Wico from the days of my commodore 64. Those things were indestructible and even managed to survive months of Track & Field 1500 metre races.
Torontoman
OK I know - but assumption.
But (again - assume they figured out a way...) I wonder if it's something that adds such a miniscule gain that it's not practical? Evolutionary sure - but if it costs $100,000,000 + bizarre hi-tech and lots of natural resources to get a net gain of.000000001 energy coefficient - where's the application in anything beyond theory?
Torontoman.
The problem with finger readers is that they break down all the time. THen you have to call someone (usually an intelligent person of higher order) at security to let you in blah blah blah.
Oh but come on... when has NASA done anything on time?
I think they should be more concerned about the launch vehicle *from mars* to bring the folks back. We have enough trouble taking off from earth... and we're here to do stuff to hopefully get it right. I wonder what the betting line will be on a successful launch from mars for the return trip.
Yes true - in the US/Canada we're abnormal because our shares are in the $0 - $100 range mostly. When they rise too high the companies split them. Elsewhere in the world they let shares reach astronomical prices - tens of thousands of $.
But you should try buying 5000 shares of Berkshire Hathoway.
The Japanese market system is much less nimble - the trade orders cannot be corrected once placed.
One has to remember though that the stock market is a zero sum game - someone (multiple buyers at 1Yuan) just *MADE* $250M on that very same trade as this bank lost that amount. The article seems to indicate there was a large buy placed at a total market value of $2.7B buying most of the $3.5B for sale.... some trader somewhere who was first to catch the mistake and probably had a couple coffees (or less sake the night before) made a bundle for his firm.
Yes I've noticed in the past week or so that it's become almost as cumbersome to use as Hotmail. Why I loved it and lept for it was because it was very smooth, and concise - Gmail was perfect for email and it kept it simple.
Now it's becoming something akin to AOL's interface. (OK I'm exhagerating a bit) but seriously what's next - popups selling me stuff and a 5 minute load up time?
Most traders make a few mistakes a week - but they catch them in seconds and back out the position. It's the ones that are made and not noticed for weeks that cost the real money.
It's part of the game - the risk a trader takes. When you find the error, you fix it by going the opposite direction immediately and then forget about it - Like Tiger woods at the next tee after he misses a 3ft put.
It can be *really* entertaining though! I once watched a lady melt down when she realized 20 minutes after the market closed that she had not sold 100 shares of a blue chip stock, she had types in the 12 digit account number and the firm was on the short side of a multi-hundred-million dollar trade.
Flip a coin... She lost the company only $80,000 as it was covered at 9:30 am the next morning and it could have just as easily been a brilliantly profitable trade.
THis is always there - you'd think $250 Million would buy a company a good set of electronic surveilance systems to identify outliers which just seem odd ('why is our guy selling this 610,000 yuan stock at 1yuan?!' says the comp in a split second). But there will *always* be human error.
Sure I have and it might make sense to do things like discover quarks and new periodic elements.
I simply think this is a rather brutish item - medieval in the methodology. I guess we must start somewhere but I wish we could come up with something better than 'hey look at this cool comet - lets blow it up'.
Bullet trains are very very heavily subsidized. Japan has a denser population, and the ticket prices are steep.
It's not really viable for many japanese to hop into a place and bounce from one part of the region to another - airports take up too much space so aren't built like they are here.
It's a situation where we've naturally evolved our system to meet our environment, and Japan has done the same. We have more space for airports and too much space between regions for bullet trains.
Not to argue the point as I would be 100% onside with conservation and alternative forms of energy.
But one of the most interesting items I read about a year ago was a potential foundation-shattering article about the fact that people can produce oil themselves given the proper conditions and the fact that it doesn't take millions of years under miles of rock to produce it. It thus may not be a finite source of energy
Supply and demand combined with human spirit is a fundamentally complex thing when you look at it over time.
Lessen the supply of oil, and some people will cut back, while others will find alternatives *and* others will find more ways to get the oil.
For example: At $50/BB it might not be economical to look for better ways to source and process oil, but if oil hits $200/BB - you'll be digging up your own back yard with your kid's toy shovel. (I jest, but the point is, you didn't think of looking there 'before', but it makes sense to look there 'now').
Before I opene myself up to scads of flaming - I AM conservationist-minded!
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Thanks to all the greenhouse gases that China and the US produce, the world's alot warmer than it was 20 years ago. This at least will be a bit of a warmer cold war.
you got to remember that all controllers will wear out if you put enough game time in. Sure the $30 pads won't last forever, but I doubt any of the geeks on here would put enough time in to wear one out. We have one of those cheap DDR pads and it's lasted great for the few hours they've bothered to play with it. Not the Wico from the days of my commodore 64. Those things were indestructible and even managed to survive months of Track & Field 1500 metre races. Torontoman
OK I know - but assumption. But (again - assume they figured out a way...) I wonder if it's something that adds such a miniscule gain that it's not practical? Evolutionary sure - but if it costs $100,000,000 + bizarre hi-tech and lots of natural resources to get a net gain of .000000001 energy coefficient - where's the application in anything beyond theory?
Torontoman.
The problem with finger readers is that they break down all the time. THen you have to call someone (usually an intelligent person of higher order) at security to let you in blah blah blah.
Oh but come on... when has NASA done anything on time?
I think they should be more concerned about the launch vehicle *from mars* to bring the folks back. We have enough trouble taking off from earth... and we're here to do stuff to hopefully get it right. I wonder what the betting line will be on a successful launch from mars for the return trip.
18 inches... about the size of a large pizza. What happens to a pizza at mach 6?
After that tyrade of a post - I think you should lock your doors and think about assuming some long-dead person's identidy.
Yes true - in the US /Canada we're abnormal because our shares are in the $0 - $100 range mostly. When they rise too high the companies split them. Elsewhere in the world they let shares reach astronomical prices - tens of thousands of $.
But you should try buying 5000 shares of Berkshire Hathoway.
The Japanese market system is much less nimble - the trade orders cannot be corrected once placed.
One has to remember though that the stock market is a zero sum game - someone (multiple buyers at 1Yuan) just *MADE* $250M on that very same trade as this bank lost that amount. The article seems to indicate there was a large buy placed at a total market value of $2.7B buying most of the $3.5B for sale.... some trader somewhere who was first to catch the mistake and probably had a couple coffees (or less sake the night before) made a bundle for his firm.
Yes I've noticed in the past week or so that it's become almost as cumbersome to use as Hotmail. Why I loved it and lept for it was because it was very smooth, and concise - Gmail was perfect for email and it kept it simple. Now it's becoming something akin to AOL's interface. (OK I'm exhagerating a bit) but seriously what's next - popups selling me stuff and a 5 minute load up time?
Buys instead of sells. Sells instead of buys.
Most traders make a few mistakes a week - but they catch them in seconds and back out the position. It's the ones that are made and not noticed for weeks that cost the real money.
It's part of the game - the risk a trader takes. When you find the error, you fix it by going the opposite direction immediately and then forget about it - Like Tiger woods at the next tee after he misses a 3ft put.
It can be *really* entertaining though! I once watched a lady melt down when she realized 20 minutes after the market closed that she had not sold 100 shares of a blue chip stock, she had types in the 12 digit account number and the firm was on the short side of a multi-hundred-million dollar trade.
Flip a coin... She lost the company only $80,000 as it was covered at 9:30 am the next morning and it could have just as easily been a brilliantly profitable trade.
THis is always there - you'd think $250 Million would buy a company a good set of electronic surveilance systems to identify outliers which just seem odd ('why is our guy selling this 610,000 yuan stock at 1yuan?!' says the comp in a split second). But there will *always* be human error.
Torontoman
Or moving the right Analog controller to the left, Hitting the left trigger button, and hitting the power button at the same time.
Torontoman
Yes - I wonder if the Starving children will be able to order food online for delivery with their laptop that is worth a king's ransom.
Yeah well my secret combo will be the last sequence you try!! Beat that!
Sure I have and it might make sense to do things like discover quarks and new periodic elements. I simply think this is a rather brutish item - medieval in the methodology. I guess we must start somewhere but I wish we could come up with something better than 'hey look at this cool comet - lets blow it up'.
We found out fast things hitting big things make big collisions. This is great science.
There's just a few of those broken applications around....
I'm going to lay claim to some of these points around Jupiter now before the market gets too tight.
It needs booster jets at the edges and the lakes eventually shallow-out to puddles.
I wonder though - if you took a helicopter up to a higher altitude and put it into a steep dive, if you couldn't get it to pass the MU1 barrier?
Seem to recall a certain test pilot being the first to pass the sound barrier using the same technique.
Bullet trains are very very heavily subsidized. Japan has a denser population, and the ticket prices are steep. It's not really viable for many japanese to hop into a place and bounce from one part of the region to another - airports take up too much space so aren't built like they are here. It's a situation where we've naturally evolved our system to meet our environment, and Japan has done the same. We have more space for airports and too much space between regions for bullet trains.
Wow, I can see this one just taking off. Move over NBC there's a new kid on the block.
Cyan...
Great. What's next Mauve and Fuscha?
Ink Cartridges are fast becoming a woman-dominated industry and at some point I won't know what any of the colors are.
Now all they need is a working rocket!
*cough Vaporware cough*
Not to argue the point as I would be 100% onside with conservation and alternative forms of energy.
But one of the most interesting items I read about a year ago was a potential foundation-shattering article about the fact that people can produce oil themselves given the proper conditions and the fact that it doesn't take millions of years under miles of rock to produce it. It thus may not be a finite source of energy
Supply and demand combined with human spirit is a fundamentally complex thing when you look at it over time.
Lessen the supply of oil, and some people will cut back, while others will find alternatives *and* others will find more ways to get the oil.
For example: At $50/BB it might not be economical to look for better ways to source and process oil, but if oil hits $200/BB - you'll be digging up your own back yard with your kid's toy shovel.
(I jest, but the point is, you didn't think of looking there 'before', but it makes sense to look there 'now').
Before I opene myself up to scads of flaming - I AM conservationist-minded!
And CB4 proved a rap group from the Burbs can make it big, if only for a time.