You missed the point. The point is that what effect the demand of biofuels will have on the hungry. Regardless they will have to feed themselves. Having a greater demand for biomass to use for feed stock will no doubt lead to greater supply of the said stock.
No matter how much food the world produces however the market will always find a more profitable way of distributing it then giving it away to the hungry.
Zimbabwe is an interesting point, where because of reasons (now stated above by other posters) the people dont have access to their own highly fertile land which could easily produce enough food to sustain them and instead they are starving.
Therefore, one day in the future when I fill up with biodiesel I wont be worried that I am somehow contributing to their plight.
Poor market management, lack of planning or agricultural investment and war cause famine, not biofuels. Zimbabwe is host to some of Africa's best ariable land and yet there are thousands who are starving. If the people hadn't let all the farms fall into disrepair after the revolution they would have so much food they could be exporting to other regions.
There is enough farmland available to grow enough food for all the world. Better prices for biofuel stock might drive up prices short term, but will lead to greater investment and supply long term.
That article makes no sense : an animal doesn't consume more natural resources than a car.
If you give your dog the left overs from the table , instead of throwing it in the garbage can , i can't see it consume any natural resources . And after digestion , a dog fertilizes the soil , so the resources are giving back the ground . That the cycle of life , and it works much better than how a car works.
And when your pet dies , you burry it , or maybe burn it , etc , but it's remains also come back to the ground.
Which will be the same of you eat your pet , but then it takes until you die to be completely returned to the soil.
My car consumes no resources either. I put gas in at the pump, and then burn it and return it to the atmosphere, thus recycling it. When its old it will eventually go to scrap and most of its parts will be directly recycled aswell. The rest will be buried in land fill, thus returning it to the ground from where it came.
It would be nice if its true.
Would be good if they could do this to apple in some kind of way by forcing itunes to allow competitors to interoperate in some way, and allowing other players to use the ubiquitous ipod dock.
Would reason that the brick and mortar store analogy doesn't apply because the provider of the store has no direct opportunity cost by stocking this extra app. (online space being virtually unlimited)
In order to get the R rating we require the unanimous decision from our state governor generals, and the SA Governor General is an ultra conservative, and refuses every time. Can't get around it until he dies or they change the bureaucracy .
Trying to imagine it?. Imagine if you are on the batters team, it would be like playing CS, waiting 20mins to get your turn to bat, only to strike out. It's like watching cricket.
They could always roll it out like mobile phone technology. Stuff the people in the country. Roll it out for the cities first, then rural centres. That covers 98% of the population. The rest can stick to deisel because there is no point driving say 350ks then having to stop for 30mins to recharge. Although this would probably help stop most fatigue related accidents on country roads.:) Maybe a good thing. If you want to cross the Nullaboor (which most people outside Australia wont understand, Its that giant desert in the middle of Aus, where the road is 1000ks without a bend on the road) then they can do it in a petrol powered car.
I dont see why we dont use a kind of induction grid where we run HV cables under the road and have huge coils wrapped around our cars and charge as we drive:)
I agree. It starts of with two keys... Then suddenly its all keys have these safety features... Limiting the max speed of your car to the max speed of the area+ a few %.
Soon we will all have to fit GPS systems in our car and the speed limit will be maxxed out based on the speed of the road.
And we will have to hook them up to our credit cards and we will pay by the second that we use public roads and 3x more when we use toll roads and 100x more while we are parked
Meh, I just want my vacuum tube maglev trains. Screw the flying car. Perth to Sydney in 45mins.
Thats all the system caters for. Cookie cutter students. In real life you change jobs, do what you want and advance at whatever rate your comfortable with. In school, you do the same tests as everyone else. If you do well you get a star then nobody cares.. If you do poorly you get extra attention. If your mediocre, no one cares.
In Australia now we have OBE (outcome based education) so the kids dont even get a grade anymore. No one really knows whats going on until they do the uni entrance exams and they realise how far behind they are. I think that students should be encouraged to take classes from different years. so the smart kids can finish school an hour early, or a year early or take extra curricular classes like languages, music, art, crafts, sport... Reward the smart kids without alienating them, help the slower ones with extra classes outside of school hours, and pay attention to all students in class pushing them all ahead.
Starcraft single player was average, and the multiplayer was good. Brood wars, was average single player, but had the perfect blend for multiplayer. balanced and diverse, with fast paced 5minute games and hour long marathons all possible. It requires the perfect blend of skill, macro strategy and micro (too much mirco for me but meh) and the game has had more patches then a typical MMO. Blizzard supports its games long after they are released and keeps the players happy.
It really is a great game, that has aged well. There are games that look pretty and play like crap and will age poorly (see Crysis) and there are those that are around 10 years old and still being played, Quake 3, Starcraft, Diablo 2, Dota.
Exactly. They customers wrote shit reviews for spore, and this is no fucking different. 3 vs 5 is not the problem. Even if it was a more reasonable 10 times, its still telling us the consumer that we are not trusted. And they want to shaft us out of value. Are we buying a product or a temporary license?
The kind of shit these companies try to get away with just wouldn't fly in any other market. If you buy a Car from GM you can only fill the tank at BP or you have the engine wont start. Buy a vacuum cleaner, and it will only work in the house that you first plugged it into. Try it elsewhere and you have to get it factory reset first. This costs $10 for the privilege. Its stupid. We can all see it. Why cant they?
330V at 6.5Amps? Are you sure. Doing the simplest of EE calcs that gives you 2145W of power. Or 2.1kW, that doesn't seem like enough to push a car anywhere.
Also assuming that the battery holds a standard 100Watt-Hours per KG thats 4.5kW hours. So the battery could push the car (at 2mph) for 2 hours before needing a recharge.
I think 65-100A delivering 21.5kW-33kW at least would be required to push the car around at a decent speed, for few minutes before the engine kicks in to keep the battery topped up. These are not Plug in electric vehicles, they are hybrids.
I disagree too. I think that copyright is so totally stuffed at the moment. This is essentially a new product, a new market for an old product or whatever. If he wanted to get a license from nintendo for the games/idea they wouldn't let you.They are as tight assed as apple when it comes to sharing.
So in this case copyright should have expired, and then fairly these guys came up with a new way to make money off an old idea... The exact thing that copyright is supposed to protect. Innovation. Sure they didn't do much, but as stated previously, "Copyright is not a license to print money."
These computers aren't causing poverty. These people were poor without the computers and they are poor with them. At least they have an opportunity to make some money to eat rather then begging, looting. Sure its disgusting, but in poor countries people live in the rubbish tips because 1 mans trash is another mans treasure.
This is going to sound weird but here goes. I am one of the few PC users who still goes to LANs. Games that require long installs first, so they can be patched, and then cracked dont really survive well at lans. BF2 is an example of this. Games which can easily copied ie. COD4 are awesome for LANs. I played COD4 at a lan, was addicted within minutes and went out and bought the game so I could do the single player campaign and play online.
2. There are a lot of games out there and so many games out there are just crap, with little replayability, why do they deserve my money. I own 2 copies of War3 and the Exp for Dota.
3. User content. Nuff said. Games that have heaps of free user content will go far. I bought Half Life and then got CS and DoD and TF and NS all free. Thats good value.
4. They are a rip off. A mod chip costs me $80 installed. A game $117. If games came out at $29, the same price as a DVD, and shit ones were like $10-20 I would have at least 10x the amount of games I do now. $117 is not an impulse buy, its a investment that I need to save for. $30? I could grab a new game every week. And so could most people.
5. Why make me have the DVD in the drive? Why? Why? WHY!!!! Its fucking annoying.
The reason this may stand up is that in the drug case it is SELLING the drugs that is illegal. In copyright law it is making the copies that is illegal. So -
in the drug bust the cops observe the dealer selling drugs; i.e. the illegal act.
in the copyright case making available is not the illegal act. The party making the copies (i.e. downloading) is the only one committing the illegal act.
Isn't the whole RIAA argument up until this point being the whole "making available" argument?
Well this was more an idea for militants on a low budget. I'm sure the military can do better then a wet T-shirt and Al-foil... After all its not very aerodynamic, and the extra weight would affect weapon range.
I read somewhere that a good idea for military installations would be to put a swimming pool on the roof(or build it under a lake/frozen lake) as any space bound lasers would run out of energy before they raised the temperature beyond a comfortable spa temperature.
The lasers dont burn through the metal, they just heat it up enough to trigger the explosive inside to detonate. Shells with higher flash point explosives, or covering the explosive in a wet tshirt and wrapping it in aluminium foil would do the trick. (Water has a very high specific and latent heat and would dramatically reduce the ability of the laser to heat up the warhead)
except all the songs will be in.rm or.ra format and not work on any standard mp3 player. +they will charge you to buy real player pro or infect your computer with 1000 different kinds of spyware/adware to go with the ad supported version.
And if you try and convert these files to MP3 you will have violated the EULA and lawyers/FBI will automatically be sent to your house and your computer will explode and spew killer bees into your room.
Ok well part 2 of my comment was, there is a certain amount of testing that should take place in real conditions. Ie out in the freezing cold digging up dirt. Not in labs.
And yeah I know that a manned mars/super complex robot mission would cost 10x more then a probe. But it would be 100x more popular. I would be checking the nasa page every 5mins for updates.:)
A high bandwidth satellite is needed for orbit, the one their currently using is pretty damned slow. We have to decide as a race is space important to us? If yes spend the real money and do it. If not, then why waste billions on something that you don't really care about. That could provide plenty of public housing, food, aged care... whatever.
Perhaps its time the US had a look around the world to see what other countries are doing right.
In Aus our telco's are forced to sell bandwidth at wholesale rates. They still gouge for line rental, but we are working on this. We seem to have better competition and choice then the US but nothing on the standards of Japan or Ireland. All of our ISP's have dumped unlimited plans and there is very little competition for the heavy user.
All ISP's here just want the monthly connection fee and hope that you dont actually use the internet at all. When you guys work out a solution let us know. We copy everything else you do;)
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You missed the point. The point is that what effect the demand of biofuels will have on the hungry. Regardless they will have to feed themselves. Having a greater demand for biomass to use for feed stock will no doubt lead to greater supply of the said stock.
No matter how much food the world produces however the market will always find a more profitable way of distributing it then giving it away to the hungry.
Zimbabwe is an interesting point, where because of reasons (now stated above by other posters) the people dont have access to their own highly fertile land which could easily produce enough food to sustain them and instead they are starving.
Therefore, one day in the future when I fill up with biodiesel I wont be worried that I am somehow contributing to their plight.
Poor market management, lack of planning or agricultural investment and war cause famine, not biofuels. Zimbabwe is host to some of Africa's best ariable land and yet there are thousands who are starving. If the people hadn't let all the farms fall into disrepair after the revolution they would have so much food they could be exporting to other regions.
There is enough farmland available to grow enough food for all the world. Better prices for biofuel stock might drive up prices short term, but will lead to greater investment and supply long term.
Really? That works? My password is hunter32. :P
Seems like i can see it still though.
Larger Margin for error?
When your in the air maybe. Not when your landing.
Its not the fall that kills you. Its the sudden stop at the end.
That article makes no sense : an animal doesn't consume more natural resources than a car. If you give your dog the left overs from the table , instead of throwing it in the garbage can , i can't see it consume any natural resources . And after digestion , a dog fertilizes the soil , so the resources are giving back the ground . That the cycle of life , and it works much better than how a car works.
And when your pet dies , you burry it , or maybe burn it , etc , but it's remains also come back to the ground. Which will be the same of you eat your pet , but then it takes until you die to be completely returned to the soil.
My car consumes no resources either. I put gas in at the pump, and then burn it and return it to the atmosphere, thus recycling it. When its old it will eventually go to scrap and most of its parts will be directly recycled aswell. The rest will be buried in land fill, thus returning it to the ground from where it came.
It would be nice if its true. Would be good if they could do this to apple in some kind of way by forcing itunes to allow competitors to interoperate in some way, and allowing other players to use the ubiquitous ipod dock.
Would reason that the brick and mortar store analogy doesn't apply because the provider of the store has no direct opportunity cost by stocking this extra app. (online space being virtually unlimited)
No, it was /b/'s favorite Australian, Josef Fritzl.
Fritzl is "Austrian", The same place as your Governor Schwarzenegger. Not Australia.
"We" really want the rating but our fatally flawed democracy wont allow it.
Every now and then we try but it never succeeds
In order to get the R rating we require the unanimous decision from our state governor generals, and the SA Governor General is an ultra conservative, and refuses every time. Can't get around it until he dies or they change the bureaucracy .
MMO Baseball = Epic Fail
Trying to imagine it?.
Imagine if you are on the batters team, it would be like playing CS, waiting 20mins to get your turn to bat, only to strike out. It's like watching cricket.
They could always roll it out like mobile phone technology. Stuff the people in the country. :)
Roll it out for the cities first, then rural centres. That covers 98% of the population. The rest can stick to deisel because there is no point driving say 350ks then having to stop for 30mins to recharge. Although this would probably help stop most fatigue related accidents on country roads.
Maybe a good thing. If you want to cross the Nullaboor (which most people outside Australia wont understand, Its that giant desert in the middle of Aus, where the road is 1000ks without a bend on the road) then they can do it in a petrol powered car.
I dont see why we dont use a kind of induction grid where we run HV cables under the road and have huge coils wrapped around our cars and charge as we drive :)
I agree. It starts of with two keys... Then suddenly its all keys have these safety features... Limiting the max speed of your car to the max speed of the area+ a few %.
Soon we will all have to fit GPS systems in our car and the speed limit will be maxxed out based on the speed of the road.
And we will have to hook them up to our credit cards and we will pay by the second that we use public roads and 3x more when we use toll roads and 100x more while we are parked
Meh, I just want my vacuum tube maglev trains. Screw the flying car. Perth to Sydney in 45mins.
Thats all the system caters for.
Cookie cutter students.
In real life you change jobs, do what you want and advance at whatever rate your comfortable with.
In school, you do the same tests as everyone else. If you do well you get a star then nobody cares..
If you do poorly you get extra attention. If your mediocre, no one cares.
In Australia now we have OBE (outcome based education) so the kids dont even get a grade anymore. No one really knows whats going on until they do the uni entrance exams and they realise how far behind they are. I think that students should be encouraged to take classes from different years. so the smart kids can finish school an hour early, or a year early or take extra curricular classes like languages, music, art, crafts, sport...
Reward the smart kids without alienating them, help the slower ones with extra classes outside of school hours, and pay attention to all students in class pushing them all ahead.
Starcraft single player was average, and the multiplayer was good.
Brood wars, was average single player, but had the perfect blend for multiplayer. balanced and diverse, with fast paced 5minute games and hour long marathons all possible. It requires the perfect blend of skill, macro strategy and micro (too much mirco for me but meh) and the game has had more patches then a typical MMO. Blizzard supports its games long after they are released and keeps the players happy.
It really is a great game, that has aged well. There are games that look pretty and play like crap and will age poorly (see Crysis) and there are those that are around 10 years old and still being played, Quake 3, Starcraft, Diablo 2, Dota.
Exactly.
They customers wrote shit reviews for spore, and this is no fucking different. 3 vs 5 is not the problem. Even if it was a more reasonable 10 times, its still telling us the consumer that we are not trusted. And they want to shaft us out of value. Are we buying a product or a temporary license?
The kind of shit these companies try to get away with just wouldn't fly in any other market. If you buy a Car from GM you can only fill the tank at BP or you have the engine wont start. Buy a vacuum cleaner, and it will only work in the house that you first plugged it into. Try it elsewhere and you have to get it factory reset first. This costs $10 for the privilege. Its stupid. We can all see it. Why cant they?
330V at 6.5Amps? Are you sure.
Doing the simplest of EE calcs that gives you 2145W of power. Or 2.1kW, that doesn't seem like enough to push a car anywhere.
Also assuming that the battery holds a standard 100Watt-Hours per KG thats 4.5kW hours.
So the battery could push the car (at 2mph) for 2 hours before needing a recharge.
I think 65-100A delivering 21.5kW-33kW at least would be required to push the car around at a decent speed, for few minutes before the engine kicks in to keep the battery topped up. These are not Plug in electric vehicles, they are hybrids.
I disagree too.
I think that copyright is so totally stuffed at the moment. This is essentially a new product, a new market for an old product or whatever. If he wanted to get a license from nintendo for the games/idea they wouldn't let you.They are as tight assed as apple when it comes to sharing.
So in this case copyright should have expired, and then fairly these guys came up with a new way to make money off an old idea... The exact thing that copyright is supposed to protect. Innovation. Sure they didn't do much, but as stated previously, "Copyright is not a license to print money."
These computers aren't causing poverty. These people were poor without the computers and they are poor with them. At least they have an opportunity to make some money to eat rather then begging, looting. Sure its disgusting, but in poor countries people live in the rubbish tips because 1 mans trash is another mans treasure.
This is going to sound weird but here goes. I am one of the few PC users who still goes to LANs. Games that require long installs first, so they can be patched, and then cracked dont really survive well at lans. BF2 is an example of this. Games which can easily copied ie. COD4 are awesome for LANs. I played COD4 at a lan, was addicted within minutes and went out and bought the game so I could do the single player campaign and play online.
2. There are a lot of games out there and so many games out there are just crap, with little replayability, why do they deserve my money. I own 2 copies of War3 and the Exp for Dota.
3. User content. Nuff said. Games that have heaps of free user content will go far. I bought Half Life and then got CS and DoD and TF and NS all free. Thats good value.
4. They are a rip off. A mod chip costs me $80 installed. A game $117. If games came out at $29, the same price as a DVD, and shit ones were like $10-20 I would have at least 10x the amount of games I do now. $117 is not an impulse buy, its a investment that I need to save for. $30? I could grab a new game every week. And so could most people.
5. Why make me have the DVD in the drive? Why? Why? WHY!!!! Its fucking annoying.
The reason this may stand up is that in the drug case it is SELLING the drugs that is illegal. In copyright law it is making the copies that is illegal. So -
in the drug bust the cops observe the dealer selling drugs; i.e. the illegal act.
in the copyright case making available is not the illegal act. The party making the copies (i.e. downloading) is the only one committing the illegal act.
Isn't the whole RIAA argument up until this point being the whole "making available" argument?
Well this was more an idea for militants on a low budget. I'm sure the military can do better then a wet T-shirt and Al-foil... After all its not very aerodynamic, and the extra weight would affect weapon range.
I read somewhere that a good idea for military installations would be to put a swimming pool on the roof(or build it under a lake/frozen lake) as any space bound lasers would run out of energy before they raised the temperature beyond a comfortable spa temperature.
The lasers dont burn through the metal, they just heat it up enough to trigger the explosive inside to detonate.
Shells with higher flash point explosives, or covering the explosive in a wet tshirt and wrapping it in aluminium foil would do the trick. (Water has a very high specific and latent heat and would dramatically reduce the ability of the laser to heat up the warhead)
except all the songs will be in .rm or .ra format and not work on any standard mp3 player. +they will charge you to buy real player pro or infect your computer with 1000 different kinds of spyware/adware to go with the ad supported version.
And if you try and convert these files to MP3 you will have violated the EULA and lawyers/FBI will automatically be sent to your house and your computer will explode and spew killer bees into your room.
Ok well part 2 of my comment was, there is a certain amount of testing that should take place in real conditions. Ie out in the freezing cold digging up dirt. Not in labs.
And yeah I know that a manned mars/super complex robot mission would cost 10x more then a probe. But it would be 100x more popular. I would be checking the nasa page every 5mins for updates. :)
A high bandwidth satellite is needed for orbit, the one their currently using is pretty damned slow. We have to decide as a race is space important to us? If yes spend the real money and do it. If not, then why waste billions on something that you don't really care about. That could provide plenty of public housing, food, aged care... whatever.
Perhaps its time the US had a look around the world to see what other countries are doing right.
In Aus our telco's are forced to sell bandwidth at wholesale rates. They still gouge for line rental, but we are working on this. We seem to have better competition and choice then the US but nothing on the standards of Japan or Ireland. All of our ISP's have dumped unlimited plans and there is very little competition for the heavy user.
All ISP's here just want the monthly connection fee and hope that you dont actually use the internet at all. When you guys work out a solution let us know. We copy everything else you do ;)