Water is not an issue with proper hydroponic techniques. What you speak of is for traditional soil. Let us take grass, like barley grass. An acre of that takes approximately 100,000 gallons if grown in soil. On the other hand, you could do the exact same thing in an NFT system, and produce an acre of barley grass with a mere 1,000 gallons of water - a 99% reduction in water requirements. Of course, this reduction will vary depending upon crop type, but good NFT systems can easily drop most crop water requirements by about 60%.
Energy requirements for grass fodder can be drastically reduced, as well - http://imgur.com/mkCcF.jpg there's a fodder production system (barley grass) that uses absolutely no light at all. It's a specialized method my partners developed.
Really, resources are not the issue given our current technology (if the world were to adapt it.)
'but the installer does not explicitly tell you that it will install a Firefox extension."
Guess what I sued EA for and got them to settle on PDQ?
That EXACT same behavior with SecuROM.
I think, given how easily EA settled, that one would have a winnable case against any other company. EA settled to stop irreparable damage to their shady business model, I can only imagine every other company doing the exact same thing if you took them to task over it.
"we are 'out-breeding' our ability to be able produce enough food"
Says you. I actually work in the field, and we have well more than enough technology, raw seed stock, and modified seed stock, to feed this planet fifty times over for the next twenty generations.
"our main energy source is finite (oil), and our climate seems to be going through changes (i don't care if they're man-made or not),"
These actually pose real problems that we must work upon.
"putting more people on this rock with drastically increased lifespans don't seem to be sch a bright idea to me."
Well, odds are this would only be available to those that could afford it, while the general masses die off. While this leaves a lower population to sustain the planetary population overall, there's also a lower planetary population to handle. Thinking of a worst-case scenario, this would be like giving those hard working and intelligent enough a pass at a super-long life, while eliminating the unwashed masses. That poses another problem, but everything is a problem, and in truth nothing is a total solution.
"Besides, think a bit what it would be like to live forever, it's a nightmare."
I've been dead twice. I think I prefer life, TYVM.
"Personally, I'd prefer to see a social and economic reevaluation, that just plain leaves you more time and resources to live a more healthy life in the first place."
Given how prevalent human laziness and greed seems to be on this planet, I think more time and more resources would only lead to an exacerbation of the problem.
Personally I'd love for my knee and femur to regenerate (if possible.) You obviously have no idea what it feels like to know when bad weather is coming, nor what it feels like to be part-terminator.
Give me the names, and the address of the United States Copyright Group.
I've still got a bunch of cash to burn and I'll happily burn it destroying them.
Electronic Arts didn't fare too well against me (they settled to prevent precedent that would've killed the entire PC gaming industry) and I see EXACTLY how I'm going to destroy the US Copyright Group.
"Technically, the USCG attorneys could be right, depending on what's in the actual complaint (which we haven't seen here)."
No, you don't need to read the complaint.
"For example, maybe they're claiming Syfert is practicing law in a state he's not licensed in,"
No, Copyright is Federal and as such ALL jurisdictions are open.
"or is aiding pro se defendants for commercial gain"
That isn't uncommon and really isn't illegal. I can pay lawyers left and right for advice which I use myself in a courtroom without a lawyer present. Just because I have the right to an attorney doesn't necessarily mean I'll be hiring one to talk on my behalf in the courtroom.
'or is aiding them in filing frivolous motions"
Given the nature of the USCG, I find it hilarious you'd even suggest that nonsense.
And they're developed for the lowest common denominator of people - consumers instead of creative producers.
Creative people tend use PCs because it lets them create, consumers that have very little use for creativity of their own use consoles. The console type FAR outnumber the PC type.
Yes, the geForce 256 DID have it, if you got the card made by Asus. Came with a pair of active shutter lenses that physically plugged into the card itself for sync with your monitor.
It was an upgrade from my Asus TNT2 with the same thing.
"I see you've never head of pathfinding AI. Hundreds of units moving around, Not something console FPS games have to deal with."
WHAT? Kiss: Psycho Circus on the Dreamcast. Never heard of Lithtech? Countless enemies on screnn/in level. Tons of pathing AI to handle because some things weren't land-bound.
I think your own neolithic memory might need enhancement, or maybe some electrical shocks.
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Water is not an issue with proper hydroponic techniques. What you speak of is for traditional soil. Let us take grass, like barley grass. An acre of that takes approximately 100,000 gallons if grown in soil. On the other hand, you could do the exact same thing in an NFT system, and produce an acre of barley grass with a mere 1,000 gallons of water - a 99% reduction in water requirements. Of course, this reduction will vary depending upon crop type, but good NFT systems can easily drop most crop water requirements by about 60%.
Energy requirements for grass fodder can be drastically reduced, as well - http://imgur.com/mkCcF.jpg there's a fodder production system (barley grass) that uses absolutely no light at all. It's a specialized method my partners developed.
Really, resources are not the issue given our current technology (if the world were to adapt it.)
'but the installer does not explicitly tell you that it will install a Firefox extension."
Guess what I sued EA for and got them to settle on PDQ?
That EXACT same behavior with SecuROM.
I think, given how easily EA settled, that one would have a winnable case against any other company. EA settled to stop irreparable damage to their shady business model, I can only imagine every other company doing the exact same thing if you took them to task over it.
"we are 'out-breeding' our ability to be able produce enough food"
Says you. I actually work in the field, and we have well more than enough technology, raw seed stock, and modified seed stock, to feed this planet fifty times over for the next twenty generations.
"our main energy source is finite (oil), and our climate seems to be going through changes (i don't care if they're man-made or not),"
These actually pose real problems that we must work upon.
"putting more people on this rock with drastically increased lifespans don't seem to be sch a bright idea to me."
Well, odds are this would only be available to those that could afford it, while the general masses die off. While this leaves a lower population to sustain the planetary population overall, there's also a lower planetary population to handle. Thinking of a worst-case scenario, this would be like giving those hard working and intelligent enough a pass at a super-long life, while eliminating the unwashed masses. That poses another problem, but everything is a problem, and in truth nothing is a total solution.
"Besides, think a bit what it would be like to live forever, it's a nightmare."
I've been dead twice. I think I prefer life, TYVM.
"Personally, I'd prefer to see a social and economic reevaluation, that just plain leaves you more time and resources to live a more healthy life in the first place."
Given how prevalent human laziness and greed seems to be on this planet, I think more time and more resources would only lead to an exacerbation of the problem.
Personally I'd love for my knee and femur to regenerate (if possible.) You obviously have no idea what it feels like to know when bad weather is coming, nor what it feels like to be part-terminator.
When I have to travel, FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU
Give me the names, and the address of the United States Copyright Group.
I've still got a bunch of cash to burn and I'll happily burn it destroying them.
Electronic Arts didn't fare too well against me (they settled to prevent precedent that would've killed the entire PC gaming industry) and I see EXACTLY how I'm going to destroy the US Copyright Group.
"Technically, the USCG attorneys could be right, depending on what's in the actual complaint (which we haven't seen here)."
No, you don't need to read the complaint.
"For example, maybe they're claiming Syfert is practicing law in a state he's not licensed in,"
No, Copyright is Federal and as such ALL jurisdictions are open.
"or is aiding pro se defendants for commercial gain"
That isn't uncommon and really isn't illegal. I can pay lawyers left and right for advice which I use myself in a courtroom without a lawyer present. Just because I have the right to an attorney doesn't necessarily mean I'll be hiring one to talk on my behalf in the courtroom.
'or is aiding them in filing frivolous motions"
Given the nature of the USCG, I find it hilarious you'd even suggest that nonsense.
No, that's the definition of vexatious litigation.
Malicious prosecution applies to the DA/government.
"Sadly, the litigation from USCG is going to cost him"
Not one damned dime. It should take a matter of mere MINUTES to prove USCG's vexatious litigation and put an end to their business model permanently.
USCG's lawyers better backpedal quick before they get precedent set that cripples their business model.
"anon are newfags compared to you."
I dunno, that rather high UID says otherwise.
CNLPNP? Don't you mean CL4PTRP?
Only in the cutscenes loaded before you started the game or changed major point in storyline. Everything else (AKA 95%) was real-time rendered.
Every day. But that's what the ZOOM feature with thumbnail view is for. I also have to do the animations, tweak combat AI, and much more.
Just look up MUGEN on Google.
Right now I'm at about 6 gigs of data and climbing.
Umm, every game mentioned renders everything in the game engine. Try again. Even Metroid on the GC did this.
Blackthorne on the PC had Error #0, which resulted when the patch failed. That tended to happen quite often.
Nope, probably next year, when AMD releases their Fusion APU, we'll have that graphical capability in a portable form factor.
And they're developed for the lowest common denominator of people - consumers instead of creative producers.
Creative people tend use PCs because it lets them create, consumers that have very little use for creativity of their own use consoles. The console type FAR outnumber the PC type.
"True, but how often have you gotten friends around the pc monitor for playing a fighting game together vs on the whatever inch tv?"
All day every day, because my 1080p TV IS the computer monitor and I have (and am still tweaking and perfecting) the biggest fighting game in existence with over 800 characters, you can't even see the entire character roster with the smallest possible icon size.
And you can't beat an arcade stick like THAT.
Any further questions?
Oh, and the game that came with it, some game where you played as an anthro pig cop.
Yes, the geForce 256 DID have it, if you got the card made by Asus. Came with a pair of active shutter lenses that physically plugged into the card itself for sync with your monitor.
It was an upgrade from my Asus TNT2 with the same thing.
or have as good AI.
Crysis? Good AI? I've had better AI out of turn-based RPGs.
"Minecraft: innovative. What do they have in common? They could run on hardware that is 10 years old."
Funny you say that. It will not run on my 10 year old P4 with a Radeon 9500 Pro.
And that is because the whole thing is JAVA, which requires lots of power and a single-core P4 just can't keep up anymore.
Had the game designer just stuck with x86 ASM, it'd run on hardware almost TWENTY years old.
"I see you've never head of pathfinding AI. Hundreds of units moving around, Not something console FPS games have to deal with."
WHAT? Kiss: Psycho Circus on the Dreamcast. Never heard of Lithtech? Countless enemies on screnn/in level. Tons of pathing AI to handle because some things weren't land-bound.
I think your own neolithic memory might need enhancement, or maybe some electrical shocks.
What?
Metroid (gamecube,) Blackthorne (PC version,) and the the entire Orange Box on the PS3.
Those companies most certainly play by those rules. There are your cited games that had MAJOR issues upon release.
Want me to dig out more?