Guess they're going with all the integration of their maps that's already been done. Good to hear it's being opened up though. With the stuff that's been done so far without the API I can only see better combinations in the future.
Yeah it does. I would like to hear from a developer as to the actual cost but I would guess probably around 10-15 per game. Plus they sell the SDK too AFAIK.
AFAIK, the licensing costs to produce a game for a console are pretty steep. That's part of why a console games are more expensive than PC games (at least when the console is new).
Doesn't really matter as long as it sells well they'll make a killing in the software licensing. Then, a couple years down the road when the hardware manufacturing costs have come down they start breaking even on the hardware too.
PS2 has been selling for what? Almost 5 years now. While they sold at a loss at first, it's likely been profitable even at their reduced price for quite awhile now.
Game consoles are all about potential market, if it wouldn't cost too much they'd give the boxes away just to keep the developers making for their product.
That's where you're missing the boat though... it's not the big companies that drive innovation. It's the mod teams and small programmers that either don't have the ability (alter console games cheaply like modders) or the finance (because the SDK/licensing for consoles is too expensive).
Probably depending on the amount. Light water seems like it would be a good one for getting more heavy water, not sure if the neutron absorption for H is too low compared to the O though. Or use heavy water to get tritium.
Would I want a fusion research facility in my neighborhood? Hell yes!
Too many people have this stigma about anything with the word nuclear in it that they panic and envision 50 foot ants eating them. Nuclear = dealing with the nucleus of the atom. Nuclear fusion = combining two light nuclei to make a heavier nucleus and release energy. Other than neutron activation of the surrounding material (the immediate area around the reaction, since it likely to be well shielded) there is no residual radiation (unlike fission which leaves slowly decaying fissile materials afterward).
Magnets?...
Ruin the soil or rain? This process doesn't have to emit anything to the atmosphere or water. Unlike conventional fossil fuel plants which spew tons (tons!) of material into the air.
I worked at Fermilab for awhile and there would always be a protest for a couple of weeks during the summer by people who just plain did not understand a bit of physics. They apparently read that the lab, reproduces the energy levels present at near the big bang, and assumed it was some sort of risk to the world (universe?).
To borrow ideas from Kim Stanley Robinson's excellent Mars series, put a second disc in polar orbit around the earth reflecting additional light back at the other side of the lens (rings of concentric double sided mirrors) to counteract the push from the light. Use a lensing effect to minimize the temperature and light pressure on it.
Actually the absorption of the CO2 by the ocean is one of the reduction factors. The increased acidity disolved the old shells of sea critters and produces bicarbonate, trapping the carbon in a harmless form. The process takes time though and in the intervening period the increased acidity can be quite harmful.
Again, this took a very long time. If we help heat things up we will have to deal with the consequences for a very long time.
The problem is the people who want to ignore it, think they'll be dead by the time the bill comes due. That AND they don't give a damn about future generations. Bad combination for the long term viability of a technologically advance human race.
The effect of cloud cover, while difficult to model, is being taken into account in climate change predictions. The problem is, that while higher temperatures do mean increased evaporation, that does not necessarily translate to more clouds. In fact, it's possible to have less clouds because the air is less saturated (by water) at higher temperatures. That and the cloud albedo effect can be mitigated by the fact that water vapor is an effective greenhouse gas.
Personally, I think it's a combination of wishful thinking and echo box effect. Someone makes an article or comment (based off wishful thinking or monetary concerns) and then 5 others base their comments/articles on that same one and so forth until all the people who don't want to listen to the science of it can just sit back and point at the umpteen thousand articles saying it's bogus.
It seems to show up in the comments these people make, mixing in pure BS as if it was fact (like the Greenland comment the GP made).
The other thing that people seem to miss is the tremendous effect that even just 1 deg C can have. If you think of the amount of mass of the atmosphere, raising the temperature means a huge amount of additional energy. More energy in the air is more energy available for storms and other extreme weather events.
Anyway, I'll stop before I ramble more. I'd mod you up if I had the points.
Cold doesn't damage tissue, the formation of ice crystals damages the tissue. Which is avoidable with some form of disolved material to lower the freezing point and/or inhibit the formation of crystals. This is how certain animals survive hibernating and being frozen.
Though I do agree on one point, moving to human trials so quickly does seem unlikely.
This isn't about copyrights or patents, only about government information. It will have to be presented in an open format.
Basically, they're saying that you can't provide government info in a format that would require someone to buy software to be able to read it. Which, all in all, is a good thing - information is more publicly available with fewer differences in who can access it.
After someone (or several someones) take time to reverse engineer the file format and then the next 'update' they're broken again. It's wasted time and effort because they're closed.
Just think of all the links that get posted in slashdot to wikipedia and it doesn't falter under the load. That and it's not just static pages, between building, rebuilding, keeping reversion history, indexing for searches and constant slashdotting...
/savecred (at least seems) that it only saves it for subsequent runs in the same session. If there's more to it, I wasn't able to spot it in a brief look over the options.
Would be better to not have the admin password stored plaintext. There are tools to setup encrypted saved runas. http://joeware.net/ has a freeware encrypted runas tool and I've seen various shareware versions.
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If I were in the market to buy an OS and I was going to get something MS (weird). I would choose the one that has the least crap in it integrated from MS. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of (where I work) having to fight tooth and nail to disable MSN messenger, passport, automatic updates, etc. or even to find where it says the damned things are installed.
What really blows my mind, some OS installs (XP on HP systems) have the uninstall clearly available and some have no indicator that it's installed, with no way to remove, and still some don't show it installed, but have a hidden way to disable.
Less is more really when you can't get rid of any undesired items when there are tons of apps that play nicely to do the same function.
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Guess they're going with all the integration of their maps that's already been done. Good to hear it's being opened up though. With the stuff that's been done so far without the API I can only see better combinations in the future.
Yeah it does. I would like to hear from a developer as to the actual cost but I would guess probably around 10-15 per game. Plus they sell the SDK too AFAIK.
AFAIK, the licensing costs to produce a game for a console are pretty steep. That's part of why a console games are more expensive than PC games (at least when the console is new).
Doesn't really matter as long as it sells well they'll make a killing in the software licensing. Then, a couple years down the road when the hardware manufacturing costs have come down they start breaking even on the hardware too.
PS2 has been selling for what? Almost 5 years now. While they sold at a loss at first, it's likely been profitable even at their reduced price for quite awhile now.
Game consoles are all about potential market, if it wouldn't cost too much they'd give the boxes away just to keep the developers making for their product.
Grab the session saver plugin. Even after a crash you can sometimes (always if you make a manual capture) pop right back where you were.
IIRC, WiMax doesn't work when moving. Which is a showkiller for cellphones.
That's where you're missing the boat though... it's not the big companies that drive innovation. It's the mod teams and small programmers that either don't have the ability (alter console games cheaply like modders) or the finance (because the SDK/licensing for consoles is too expensive).
Damnit, and I here I was going to say that the first fusion on earth was at the bikini island (now atol) IIRC. France is 50 years late!
Probably depending on the amount. Light water seems like it would be a good one for getting more heavy water, not sure if the neutron absorption for H is too low compared to the O though. Or use heavy water to get tritium.
Would I want a fusion research facility in my neighborhood? Hell yes!
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Too many people have this stigma about anything with the word nuclear in it that they panic and envision 50 foot ants eating them. Nuclear = dealing with the nucleus of the atom. Nuclear fusion = combining two light nuclei to make a heavier nucleus and release energy. Other than neutron activation of the surrounding material (the immediate area around the reaction, since it likely to be well shielded) there is no residual radiation (unlike fission which leaves slowly decaying fissile materials afterward).
Magnets?
Ruin the soil or rain? This process doesn't have to emit anything to the atmosphere or water. Unlike conventional fossil fuel plants which spew tons (tons!) of material into the air.
I worked at Fermilab for awhile and there would always be a protest for a couple of weeks during the summer by people who just plain did not understand a bit of physics. They apparently read that the lab, reproduces the energy levels present at near the big bang, and assumed it was some sort of risk to the world (universe?).
To borrow ideas from Kim Stanley Robinson's excellent Mars series, put a second disc in polar orbit around the earth reflecting additional light back at the other side of the lens (rings of concentric double sided mirrors) to counteract the push from the light. Use a lensing effect to minimize the temperature and light pressure on it.
Actually the absorption of the CO2 by the ocean is one of the reduction factors. The increased acidity disolved the old shells of sea critters and produces bicarbonate, trapping the carbon in a harmless form. The process takes time though and in the intervening period the increased acidity can be quite harmful.
Again, this took a very long time. If we help heat things up we will have to deal with the consequences for a very long time.
The problem is the people who want to ignore it, think they'll be dead by the time the bill comes due. That AND they don't give a damn about future generations. Bad combination for the long term viability of a technologically advance human race.
The effect of cloud cover, while difficult to model, is being taken into account in climate change predictions. The problem is, that while higher temperatures do mean increased evaporation, that does not necessarily translate to more clouds. In fact, it's possible to have less clouds because the air is less saturated (by water) at higher temperatures. That and the cloud albedo effect can be mitigated by the fact that water vapor is an effective greenhouse gas.
Very insightful post.
Personally, I think it's a combination of wishful thinking and echo box effect. Someone makes an article or comment (based off wishful thinking or monetary concerns) and then 5 others base their comments/articles on that same one and so forth until all the people who don't want to listen to the science of it can just sit back and point at the umpteen thousand articles saying it's bogus.
It seems to show up in the comments these people make, mixing in pure BS as if it was fact (like the Greenland comment the GP made).
The other thing that people seem to miss is the tremendous effect that even just 1 deg C can have. If you think of the amount of mass of the atmosphere, raising the temperature means a huge amount of additional energy. More energy in the air is more energy available for storms and other extreme weather events.
Anyway, I'll stop before I ramble more. I'd mod you up if I had the points.
This word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
Cold doesn't damage tissue, the formation of ice crystals damages the tissue. Which is avoidable with some form of disolved material to lower the freezing point and/or inhibit the formation of crystals. This is how certain animals survive hibernating and being frozen.
Though I do agree on one point, moving to human trials so quickly does seem unlikely.
Open standards for government information means that everyone has the same access to said information regardless of income or what software they own.
This isn't about copyrights or patents, only about government information. It will have to be presented in an open format.
Basically, they're saying that you can't provide government info in a format that would require someone to buy software to be able to read it. Which, all in all, is a good thing - information is more publicly available with fewer differences in who can access it.
After someone (or several someones) take time to reverse engineer the file format and then the next 'update' they're broken again. It's wasted time and effort because they're closed.
US scraps space program turning over leadership of technology and science to China/Europe...
At least hopefully that isn't what happens.
Someone else already posted about the CEV, so there is at least a planned successor.
Just think of all the links that get posted in slashdot to wikipedia and it doesn't falter under the load. That and it's not just static pages, between building, rebuilding, keeping reversion history, indexing for searches and constant slashdotting...
/savecred (at least seems) that it only saves it for subsequent runs in the same session. If there's more to it, I wasn't able to spot it in a brief look over the options.
Would be better to not have the admin password stored plaintext. There are tools to setup encrypted saved runas. http://joeware.net/ has a freeware encrypted runas tool and I've seen various shareware versions.
If I were in the market to buy an OS and I was going to get something MS (weird). I would choose the one that has the least crap in it integrated from MS. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of (where I work) having to fight tooth and nail to disable MSN messenger, passport, automatic updates, etc. or even to find where it says the damned things are installed.
What really blows my mind, some OS installs (XP on HP systems) have the uninstall clearly available and some have no indicator that it's installed, with no way to remove, and still some don't show it installed, but have a hidden way to disable.
Less is more really when you can't get rid of any undesired items when there are tons of apps that play nicely to do the same function.