... doesn't mean it is usable. The pen sitting on your desk has energy, but I don't see you jumping to extract energy from it.
The exciting thing here is that empty space has **some** energy potential. Less energy potential than a lump of mass just sitting on a desk or a burning coal in a fire, but **some** energy potential.
Three satellites form a plane. Your location will be one solution to the problem, the second solution will be a point mirrored across the plane formed by the three satellites. You can throw the ridiculous solution out.
Shuttle will be retired in 2010, earlier if problems arise. CEV takes over in 2014.
We should send people when we get the fuel to vehicle mass ratio better than 97%
Grab a copy of "Mechanics and Thermodynaics of Propulsion" by Hill and Peterson or "Rocket Propulsion Elements" by Sutton. 97% is kind of a magic number I guess for a SSTO but if you are willing to do multiple stages (you might as well, for a mars visit you will most likely do at least three burns to to trans-martian-injection) the mass ratio requirement drops quite a bit. The math is laid out quite well in either text.
... Games are not consumables (like detergent). You still have the products you already own, they will still work in either XP or Vista, and game designers can choose to use DX9 (or corelease). DX10 is just an API.
or to carry a million tonnes of coal from Texas to New York City (or whereever).
Already being done
What's appropriate is to use a rail system for commuting from suburbia to the city centre twice daily,
In big cities, yes.
The big point I was contesting, which you apparently missed, is that a train is no substitute for an interstate system (read the f*cking article). In fact it would have been nonsensical to build in parallel with the interstate system. Just think about it real hard. There were a few strategic (read: non-people-moving) reasons to build interstates (1) land airplanes in war (2) move military equiptment. Neither of which could be done on a railroad.
I'm a fan of trains. Had my train set since I was a boy. But when I was a child, I thought like a child, and when I became a man, I thought like a man.
When driving through look for the bypass (generally prefixed by a number, making it a three-digit highway number, for example, 894 for I-94). The bypass will take you around or through a city with a minimal number of offramps.
Alternatively cities like Chicago have express lanes that switch direction depending on time of day (in to town in the morning, out of town in the afternoon) that are basically the innermost lane(s) but barricaded off, and have no exits.
I can't speak for atlanta... but up north we do think these things through:P
Amtrak isn't doing too hot. They handled 0.1% of all intercity traffic passenger miles in 2003 (most recent data point I could dig up).
Also remember the gas savings is proportional to the number of people actually using the trains. If your trains are a flop and you have routes only servicing a few people at a time, you are actually polluting more than a car would have.
I think based on present data in the US, the 1950's commission made the right decision.
I get really bitter when I think at how marvelous it would be to have railroads in place of every interstate...gah! Oh well.
I don't.
I'm going camping this weekend with my wife and kid. I don't see how I could bring all the gear we need onto a train - it surely wouldn't be allowed on an Amtrak ( I've ridden them before, I know ).
There are plenty of activities that would be difficult - nigh unto impossible - to partake in if there were no long-range ability to travel via ones own vehicle. It is cheaper for me to move about the US of A (my parents live 1000 miles across the country) via car than via airplane ticket. That is just for one ticket, it becomes vastly cheaper if you factor in the additional ticket for my wife, if we are traveling together. Personal travel is important, and enjoyable.
We also like our wide, expansive country. We also like our small towns. We like living in the country and commuting to the city. Trains work great in some places and not so well in other places; there is no "universal solution". So please take your trolling somewhere else and let us marvel and some fine engineering from the 1950's. Thanks.
I soloed to 70 as a necromancer (granted, SOE's gift to the soloer) and as a beastlord. Completely solo. My wife both grouped and soloed as a shaman.
A new server is opening next week (with only the original three continents, expansions will be unlocked as end-game content is successfully raided) and I intend to solo with another class. Haven't made up my mind yet. Thinking enchanter.
So basically your "holy trinity" argument is bunk. There is a lot of content that encourages it and the concept is sound, but you conveniently overlook **plenty** of us who think outside the box and do things that amaze our guild mates. I can't tell you how many times guildies have said "wow... you can do that?" etc. You have to think outside the box. What about kite groups? What about GoD instances where you don't have a tank (think vxed)? What about Plane of Valor, Halls of Honor, or any of 20 higher end zones that are kitable, requiring only one person with snare to fight in? Just because the average joe can't see beyond the trinity doesn't mean alternatives don't exist. Simple minds are the reason WoW is so popular...
Contrast this with charitable contributions made by an average middle class worker. If a family man earning $50,000/year donates $100 to charity annually, he is making an actual sacrifice. That's a week's worth groceries. A tank and a half of gas. Half the monthly electric bill.
If Warren donated $100, it would still be the same power bill, a tank and a half of gas, a week worth of groceries (given the same house / car / stomach).
Donation is about motivation. You do it because it is the right thing to do.
They are modable to use with PC's. Back when I was in high school (98-99) there was a community of people who worked with Rend386/AVRIL to make "immersive environments" where you could interact with a lot of different interfaces, including the power glove... I used to to think it was cool as hell and drooled over it, but the going rate for PowerGloves was like $75 at the time and I never found 'em at rummage sales...
Zap forward to the future an I do 3D programming (in a much different context) and I could see some fun to be had with a PowerGlove. I see some on eBay for $7-$22... hmmm...
Everquest Titanium contains the first 10 expansions (that is everything except the most recent, Prophecy of Ro) for $19.99. Buy it in stores or digital download. Same price. Buy that + $29.99 and for $50.00 you are ready to go.
But you obviously have internet access. Personally, I save money when I play a MMO. My wife and I play Everquest. $100/year for the subscription, and the expansions are all paid for. For less than the price of three date nights a year we have fun several nights a week for the entire year. There is an open-endedness you get in an MMO that doesn't exist in games that are "bought and paid for", and we utilize it to have fun and save money, versus seeing a movie or going out on a "date night" (we still do occasionally, gotta keep the flame alive... but we've definitely noticed the money saved)
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... doesn't mean it is usable. The pen sitting on your desk has energy, but I don't see you jumping to extract energy from it.
The exciting thing here is that empty space has **some** energy potential. Less energy potential than a lump of mass just sitting on a desk or a burning coal in a fire, but **some** energy potential.
Three satellites form a plane. Your location will be one solution to the problem, the second solution will be a point mirrored across the plane formed by the three satellites. You can throw the ridiculous solution out.
BTW - WTF is a name that a terrorist wouldn't use?
John Wayne!
However good beer commericals on the other hand...
**scribes your post into large book**
but they'd get whats coming to them. An independant contractor always considers the risks involved before taking a job ...
OH LOOK, ITS THAT KID ON THE ESCALATOR AGAIN!
It is called the CEV.
Shuttle will be retired in 2010, earlier if problems arise. CEV takes over in 2014.
We should send people when we get the fuel to vehicle mass ratio better than 97%
Grab a copy of "Mechanics and Thermodynaics of Propulsion" by Hill and Peterson or "Rocket Propulsion Elements" by Sutton. 97% is kind of a magic number I guess for a SSTO but if you are willing to do multiple stages (you might as well, for a mars visit you will most likely do at least three burns to to trans-martian-injection) the mass ratio requirement drops quite a bit. The math is laid out quite well in either text.
... Games are not consumables (like detergent). You still have the products you already own, they will still work in either XP or Vista, and game designers can choose to use DX9 (or corelease). DX10 is just an API.
I need gopherchucks!!!!
I killed a mob but I died... corpse becomes publicly lootable after a few minutes.
Will I get back in time to loot it?
Will it have dropped that zonewide uber item I wanted?
Will someone have just snagged the leet random drop, but left everything else on? I'll never know...
FOSS says, "Are you coming, or what?"
To which I reply to OO.o: No, you aren't mature enough for an ad to take on Microsoft Office. Maybe in 5 years. Now get to work.
Guess the turn of phrase came off wrong. The articles on the page beat the question of whether it is a RTOS into a living pulp. That better? :P
Yes, I know what a RTOS is. I've done embedded work before although not with CE yet. Mostly PIC and AVR's.
or to carry a million tonnes of coal from Texas to New York City (or whereever).
Already being done
What's appropriate is to use a rail system for commuting from suburbia to the city centre twice daily,
In big cities, yes.
The big point I was contesting, which you apparently missed, is that a train is no substitute for an interstate system (read the f*cking article). In fact it would have been nonsensical to build in parallel with the interstate system. Just think about it real hard. There were a few strategic (read: non-people-moving) reasons to build interstates (1) land airplanes in war (2) move military equiptment. Neither of which could be done on a railroad.
I'm a fan of trains. Had my train set since I was a boy. But when I was a child, I thought like a child, and when I became a man, I thought like a man.
... in 1950. Think in context.
When driving through look for the bypass (generally prefixed by a number, making it a three-digit highway number, for example, 894 for I-94). The bypass will take you around or through a city with a minimal number of offramps.
... but up north we do think these things through :P
Alternatively cities like Chicago have express lanes that switch direction depending on time of day (in to town in the morning, out of town in the afternoon) that are basically the innermost lane(s) but barricaded off, and have no exits.
I can't speak for atlanta
Amtrak isn't doing too hot. They handled 0.1% of all intercity traffic passenger miles in 2003 (most recent data point I could dig up).
Also remember the gas savings is proportional to the number of people actually using the trains. If your trains are a flop and you have routes only servicing a few people at a time, you are actually polluting more than a car would have.
I think based on present data in the US, the 1950's commission made the right decision.
I get really bitter when I think at how marvelous it would be to have railroads in place of every interstate...gah! Oh well.
I don't.
I'm going camping this weekend with my wife and kid. I don't see how I could bring all the gear we need onto a train - it surely wouldn't be allowed on an Amtrak ( I've ridden them before, I know ).
There are plenty of activities that would be difficult - nigh unto impossible - to partake in if there were no long-range ability to travel via ones own vehicle. It is cheaper for me to move about the US of A (my parents live 1000 miles across the country) via car than via airplane ticket. That is just for one ticket, it becomes vastly cheaper if you factor in the additional ticket for my wife, if we are traveling together. Personal travel is important, and enjoyable.
Americans, we like our freedom.
We also like our wide, expansive country. We also like our small towns. We like living in the country and commuting to the city. Trains work great in some places and not so well in other places; there is no "universal solution". So please take your trolling somewhere else and let us marvel and some fine engineering from the 1950's. Thanks.
I soloed to 70 as a necromancer (granted, SOE's gift to the soloer) and as a beastlord. Completely solo. My wife both grouped and soloed as a shaman.
A new server is opening next week (with only the original three continents, expansions will be unlocked as end-game content is successfully raided) and I intend to solo with another class. Haven't made up my mind yet. Thinking enchanter.
So basically your "holy trinity" argument is bunk. There is a lot of content that encourages it and the concept is sound, but you conveniently overlook **plenty** of us who think outside the box and do things that amaze our guild mates. I can't tell you how many times guildies have said "wow... you can do that?" etc. You have to think outside the box. What about kite groups? What about GoD instances where you don't have a tank (think vxed)? What about Plane of Valor, Halls of Honor, or any of 20 higher end zones that are kitable, requiring only one person with snare to fight in? Just because the average joe can't see beyond the trinity doesn't mean alternatives don't exist. Simple minds are the reason WoW is so popular...
firefox 1.5.0.4 under windows ... article read just fine
Business 2.0 confirms!
(it's a joke. laugh.)
Contrast this with charitable contributions made by an average middle class worker. If a family man earning $50,000/year donates $100 to charity annually, he is making an actual sacrifice. That's a week's worth groceries. A tank and a half of gas. Half the monthly electric bill.
If Warren donated $100, it would still be the same power bill, a tank and a half of gas, a week worth of groceries (given the same house / car / stomach).
Donation is about motivation. You do it because it is the right thing to do.
They are modable to use with PC's. Back when I was in high school (98-99) there was a community of people who worked with Rend386/AVRIL to make "immersive environments" where you could interact with a lot of different interfaces, including the power glove ... I used to to think it was cool as hell and drooled over it, but the going rate for PowerGloves was like $75 at the time and I never found 'em at rummage sales ...
... hmmm...
Zap forward to the future an I do 3D programming (in a much different context) and I could see some fun to be had with a PowerGlove. I see some on eBay for $7-$22
Anyone wanna buy a virtual boy?
...
No, but if you come across a PowerGlove in good condition
Everquest Titanium contains the first 10 expansions (that is everything except the most recent, Prophecy of Ro) for $19.99. Buy it in stores or digital download. Same price. Buy that + $29.99 and for $50.00 you are ready to go.
But you obviously have internet access. Personally, I save money when I play a MMO. My wife and I play Everquest. $100/year for the subscription, and the expansions are all paid for. For less than the price of three date nights a year we have fun several nights a week for the entire year. There is an open-endedness you get in an MMO that doesn't exist in games that are "bought and paid for", and we utilize it to have fun and save money, versus seeing a movie or going out on a "date night" (we still do occasionally, gotta keep the flame alive... but we've definitely noticed the money saved)