Like many people, I've become spoiled by modern graphics. I can't even go back and play Xbox 1 games and not be annoyed. I know there is a niche market for retro gsmes and all, but no matter how much I tell myself "It's about the gameplay, not the graphics" I just can't get into them. I'm afraid my grue slaying days are long gone.
We've never done this kind of generation on even a tiny fraction of the scale it would take to generate the our worldwide power needs (which, I might add, are ever increasing). You laugh it off too casually.
If you're being serious here, then yes that's rather the point. ANYTHING you do on a large scale has an impact. Nothing is free. Scaling up wind and solar could produce just as many unintended consequences as any other form of power generation. But everyone's so infatuated with them right now that no one seems to even be CONSIDERING the potential problems (all I've heard are a few grumblings about birds getting hit by the turbine blades and the environmental costs of producing solar panels).
There still aren't any decent MMO's out for consoles and that says *something* for the continuing viability of the PC market. Blizzard doesn't seem too worried about consoles or console gamers. Hell, even Bioware made their new KOTOR MMO PC-only, and KOTOR made most of its sales on the xbox.
All this talk about solar and wind energy being "free" and building these giant wind farms and turbines has had me wondering about something that I never see addressed. Has anyone considered the meteorological effects of removing all that energy from the atmosphere? I mean wind and solar energy serve a FUNCTION, they move our weather systems around, melt our snow, power our rivers, etc. You start taking a significant chunk of that energy out of the atmosphere, couldn't you end up with climate changes that could be even more devestating than the global warming you're trying to avoid?
No energy is truly "free," after all. But environmentalists keep talking about wind and solar as if there's NO downside whatsoever. It seems to me that there might be a pretty big one.
Actually, I'm from Alabama. And those Alabama stereotypes are usually true. But seriously, I can remember sex being pretty pervasive in high school and even middle school going back into the 70's (as far back as I can remember). By the time I was 15, every other guy I knew was either doing it or trying very hard to.
The other day I turned on CNN and Wolf Blitzer was just screaming "Twitter, Twitter, Twitter!" over-and-over again, in a desperate bid to show that CNN was, in fact, "down with the kids these days." Periodically, someone came in an interrupted him for the latest breaking report on what would become of Michael Jackson's pets. Between that kind of "reporting" and Nancy Grace, I just pray that Bernard Shaw isn't watching CNN anymore. It would break the poor guy's heart.
All this talk about solar and wind eneergy being "free" and building these giant wind farms and turbines has had me wondering about something that I never see addressed. Has anyone considered the meteorological effects of removing all that energy from the atmosphere? I mean wind and solar energy serve a FUNCTION, they move our weather systems around, melt our snow, power our rivers, etc. You start taking a significant chunk of that energy out of the atmosphere, couldn't you end up with climate changes that could be even more devestating than the global warming you're trying to avoid?
No energy is truly "free," after all. But environmentalists keep talking about wind and solar as if there's NO downside whatsoever. It seems to me that there might be a pretty big one.
Dell's netbooks are overpriced anyway. Seriously, I went shopping for one recently and their netbooks seemed crazy expensive compared to asus, acer, et. al.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the intellect of the average PS3 fanboy. Please keep your hands away from his mouth when feeding him and remember that long words and reality will only enrage him.
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Then you won't have any problem showing me even a single post where this specific issue was raised.
Like many people, I've become spoiled by modern graphics. I can't even go back and play Xbox 1 games and not be annoyed. I know there is a niche market for retro gsmes and all, but no matter how much I tell myself "It's about the gameplay, not the graphics" I just can't get into them. I'm afraid my grue slaying days are long gone.
Yeah it's only brought up in every single /. discussion about wind power.
I've never seen this specific consideration raised or addressed before.
We've never done this kind of generation on even a tiny fraction of the scale it would take to generate the our worldwide power needs (which, I might add, are ever increasing). You laugh it off too casually.
...and hydroelectric power, a power generation method once considered quite "green," which turned out to cause some unexpected problems as well.
If you're being serious here, then yes that's rather the point. ANYTHING you do on a large scale has an impact. Nothing is free. Scaling up wind and solar could produce just as many unintended consequences as any other form of power generation. But everyone's so infatuated with them right now that no one seems to even be CONSIDERING the potential problems (all I've heard are a few grumblings about birds getting hit by the turbine blades and the environmental costs of producing solar panels).
There still aren't any decent MMO's out for consoles and that says *something* for the continuing viability of the PC market. Blizzard doesn't seem too worried about consoles or console gamers. Hell, even Bioware made their new KOTOR MMO PC-only, and KOTOR made most of its sales on the xbox.
All this talk about solar and wind energy being "free" and building these giant wind farms and turbines has had me wondering about something that I never see addressed. Has anyone considered the meteorological effects of removing all that energy from the atmosphere? I mean wind and solar energy serve a FUNCTION, they move our weather systems around, melt our snow, power our rivers, etc. You start taking a significant chunk of that energy out of the atmosphere, couldn't you end up with climate changes that could be even more devestating than the global warming you're trying to avoid?
No energy is truly "free," after all. But environmentalists keep talking about wind and solar as if there's NO downside whatsoever. It seems to me that there might be a pretty big one.
They've found through extensive research that a bullet to the back of the head affects a very thorough mind wipe.
Actually, I'm from Alabama. And those Alabama stereotypes are usually true. But seriously, I can remember sex being pretty pervasive in high school and even middle school going back into the 70's (as far back as I can remember). By the time I was 15, every other guy I knew was either doing it or trying very hard to.
When I was a kid, we called this technology the "telephone."
Your 1985 looked a lot different than my 1985. Maybe you were in Utah.
The other day I turned on CNN and Wolf Blitzer was just screaming "Twitter, Twitter, Twitter!" over-and-over again, in a desperate bid to show that CNN was, in fact, "down with the kids these days." Periodically, someone came in an interrupted him for the latest breaking report on what would become of Michael Jackson's pets. Between that kind of "reporting" and Nancy Grace, I just pray that Bernard Shaw isn't watching CNN anymore. It would break the poor guy's heart.
The other day I looked in the mirror and realized that not only was I no longer fighting the man, but, in fact, I *am* the man now.
Speak for yourself. I have a fetish for plain and ugly women. I walked into a public library the other day and almost lost it right there.
Oh great, that made me think of Don Johnson. Now I've got that damn Miami Vice theme song stuck in my head. Thanks, buddy!
I hear that you can even order Vista on 2,000 5.25" floppies.
You got to go to school?
I kept thinking of The Road Warrior (aka "Mad Max 2"). They even had the dog.
Nonsense! Bethesda has posted a helpful pdf right on their website entitled "Three simple steps to getting DLC on the PS3." I'll summarize it here:
1) Go to your local electronics retailer
2) Buy a Xbox 360
3) Download content
Problem solved!
All this talk about solar and wind eneergy being "free" and building these giant wind farms and turbines has had me wondering about something that I never see addressed. Has anyone considered the meteorological effects of removing all that energy from the atmosphere? I mean wind and solar energy serve a FUNCTION, they move our weather systems around, melt our snow, power our rivers, etc. You start taking a significant chunk of that energy out of the atmosphere, couldn't you end up with climate changes that could be even more devestating than the global warming you're trying to avoid?
No energy is truly "free," after all. But environmentalists keep talking about wind and solar as if there's NO downside whatsoever. It seems to me that there might be a pretty big one.
Dell's netbooks are overpriced anyway. Seriously, I went shopping for one recently and their netbooks seemed crazy expensive compared to asus, acer, et. al.
Ironically, Google all but owns Firefox. Google's contributions account for almost 90% of Mozilla's revenue. Excellent article on it here.
I hereby dub thee the ee cummings of /.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the intellect of the average PS3 fanboy. Please keep your hands away from his mouth when feeding him and remember that long words and reality will only enrage him.