SMS is a different protocol which requires a different infrastructure. The prices are high, but it's not just as easy as normal data transfer. I've heard about this, but in my opinion, bandwidth is bandwidth. If a wireless provider is sending two signals, one of which has a throughput that is thousands of times the data rate of the other signal, yet the signal with the smaller amount of data costs them thousands of times more than the larger signal to send, they are doing something really wrong. Of course the thing that is really wrong about text messaging is not the technical implementation but the pricing, for which there is simply no excuse. It's price gouging, pure and simple, and the US providers are collectively guilty of it.
There are new reactor designs that are literally meltdown-proof (such as pebble-bed reactors. Also, while I agree that federal regulations at all levels have taken a beating under the current administration, we can't just sit back and go "oh well, can't trust the government" and just continue on an unsustainable path. That's defeatism. This country has the capability to do extraordinary things, good or bad. Also, this administration is coming to an end, I'm cautiously optimistic.
I don't know who I am more frustrated with, the plant operators who allow safety/security to lapse, or the overreactors (no pun intended) who are knee-jerk anti-nuke and use every small thing to bash nuclear power. People need to wake up; we are facing massive climate change and in the short term (decades) there are two sources of energy that can serve as an energy backbone to meet global need: coal or nuclear. The only question is, do you want your pollution in the form of carbon, causing massive global warming leading to human and economic destruction in the form of wars over water and category 5 hurricanes, or do you want your pollution in barrels stored underground? How is this even a question at this point?
Well, "hardy" does not literally mean "hard," but it sounds like perhaps a nickname about a heron with a constant erec...wait, why am I explaining myself to a cranky, humorless AC?
Many moons ago when I was in high school I went on a trip to northern Europe (France, Germany, and England). It rained the whole time except for the one day I was in London. It's an ironic little tidbit that I like to share with people when discussing my famous Europe trip, and now I've shared it with all of you. How delightful!
This is what happens when you only write games for a proprietary API (and for that matter only a single OS). Newell and other game developers cannot truly be shocked about this problem; anyone with half a brain could have told you something like this was bound to happen when you are so wedded to Microsoft. If games were still developed with OpenGL, this would not be an issue. If games were written for multiple OS's, this would not be an issue.
Don't apologize for your analogy. After reading it I was ready to volunteer for the fight! If it was a car analogy the most it would inspire me to do is maybe drive across town to do some shopping or something.
Alright, you're the second person I've seen post about how Oregonians hate Californians. I'm typing this from the midwest and am totally ignorant of this phenomenon, care to elaborate?
There are currently two major approaches in the development of fusion power. One is the traditional tokamak, a magnetized toroidal reactor, which is the concept behind ITER. The other is laser ignition / inertial confinement, which is what they are pursuing at the National Ignition Facility.
On the issue of whether you could make something like this with a DVD laser diode, forget about it. The power levels required of lasers to cause electric breakdown (plasma formation) in air are extremely high. Laser diodes are typically limited to a few hundred milliwatts, whereas lasers that are powerful enough to create plasma spots in air are in the megawatt range. They are pulsed so they don't output this power continuously, but still way beyond what laser diodes can achieve.
The color of the balls is the spectrum of the air plasma at the very hot temperatures that are produced by the laser. Unfortunately, this is a very rich spectrum across the entire visible range in these kind of plasmas, which would make it basically impossible to make any other color than white. You could conceivably make other colors by changing the gas to something other than air (which is primarily an oxygen/nitrogen mix), but then you aren't projecting them into the air anymore. Also you couldn't make each dot a different color because they would be made in the same gas.
The sounds that would be heard are the shockwaves that arise from the rapid expansion of the superheated plasma spot. Someone in my research group here at the University of Wisconsin is making laser-produced plasma spots, we've done imaging of the pressure wave that is emitted from these kind of plasmas. What's really neat is that if you make one of these spots very close to a surface the expansion looks like a mini mushroom cloud.
I'm really snobby when it comes to sound quality and I have a pair of Shure e2c in-ear headphones and I really love them. In my opinion unless it they are in-ear types, headphones need to be pretty large to have adequate sound reproduction. "Ear buds" that rest in the ear but do not create an air seal, even when very carefully designed, are incapable of quality sound reproduction, particularly in the lower frequencies.
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The version for men is called the iJizm.
I'm so sick of that lower-case 'i' in front of every fucking product name I see. It's enough to drive someone to iMurder.
This is clearly the work of International Metric Mass Prototype Gnomes. 1. Collect platinum/iridium alloy. 2. ???? 3. Profit!
There are new reactor designs that are literally meltdown-proof (such as pebble-bed reactors. Also, while I agree that federal regulations at all levels have taken a beating under the current administration, we can't just sit back and go "oh well, can't trust the government" and just continue on an unsustainable path. That's defeatism. This country has the capability to do extraordinary things, good or bad. Also, this administration is coming to an end, I'm cautiously optimistic.
I don't know who I am more frustrated with, the plant operators who allow safety/security to lapse, or the overreactors (no pun intended) who are knee-jerk anti-nuke and use every small thing to bash nuclear power. People need to wake up; we are facing massive climate change and in the short term (decades) there are two sources of energy that can serve as an energy backbone to meet global need: coal or nuclear. The only question is, do you want your pollution in the form of carbon, causing massive global warming leading to human and economic destruction in the form of wars over water and category 5 hurricanes, or do you want your pollution in barrels stored underground? How is this even a question at this point?
I don't have any mod points, but if I did I'd mod the parent +1 Extremely Clever Obscure Reference.
Sure she's receiving top-quality cutting-edge health care...but she had to wait six months to get the artificial heart!
My "favorite" Peace Prize recipient is Henry Kissinger.
Well, "hardy" does not literally mean "hard," but it sounds like perhaps a nickname about a heron with a constant erec...wait, why am I explaining myself to a cranky, humorless AC?
I've got a dirty mind, but this name conjures up images of a sex-crazed bird terrorizing his native wetlands.
Many moons ago when I was in high school I went on a trip to northern Europe (France, Germany, and England). It rained the whole time except for the one day I was in London. It's an ironic little tidbit that I like to share with people when discussing my famous Europe trip, and now I've shared it with all of you. How delightful!
This is what happens when you only write games for a proprietary API (and for that matter only a single OS). Newell and other game developers cannot truly be shocked about this problem; anyone with half a brain could have told you something like this was bound to happen when you are so wedded to Microsoft. If games were still developed with OpenGL, this would not be an issue. If games were written for multiple OS's, this would not be an issue.
Bedtime for Gonzo.
That list is awesome. Are you an imagineer in real life?
The proper phrase is TIA: This is Africa
Uh, Suhweeeet!
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Shoulder-mounted RPG, remote-controlled bomb, flame thrower, or M-16, your choice.
Don't apologize for your analogy. After reading it I was ready to volunteer for the fight! If it was a car analogy the most it would inspire me to do is maybe drive across town to do some shopping or something.
Alright, you're the second person I've seen post about how Oregonians hate Californians. I'm typing this from the midwest and am totally ignorant of this phenomenon, care to elaborate?
There are currently two major approaches in the development of fusion power. One is the traditional tokamak, a magnetized toroidal reactor, which is the concept behind ITER. The other is laser ignition / inertial confinement, which is what they are pursuing at the National Ignition Facility.
On the issue of whether you could make something like this with a DVD laser diode, forget about it. The power levels required of lasers to cause electric breakdown (plasma formation) in air are extremely high. Laser diodes are typically limited to a few hundred milliwatts, whereas lasers that are powerful enough to create plasma spots in air are in the megawatt range. They are pulsed so they don't output this power continuously, but still way beyond what laser diodes can achieve.
The color of the balls is the spectrum of the air plasma at the very hot temperatures that are produced by the laser. Unfortunately, this is a very rich spectrum across the entire visible range in these kind of plasmas, which would make it basically impossible to make any other color than white. You could conceivably make other colors by changing the gas to something other than air (which is primarily an oxygen/nitrogen mix), but then you aren't projecting them into the air anymore. Also you couldn't make each dot a different color because they would be made in the same gas.
The sounds that would be heard are the shockwaves that arise from the rapid expansion of the superheated plasma spot. Someone in my research group here at the University of Wisconsin is making laser-produced plasma spots, we've done imaging of the pressure wave that is emitted from these kind of plasmas. What's really neat is that if you make one of these spots very close to a surface the expansion looks like a mini mushroom cloud.
I'm really snobby when it comes to sound quality and I have a pair of Shure e2c in-ear headphones and I really love them. In my opinion unless it they are in-ear types, headphones need to be pretty large to have adequate sound reproduction. "Ear buds" that rest in the ear but do not create an air seal, even when very carefully designed, are incapable of quality sound reproduction, particularly in the lower frequencies.
If you are posting on an international website you should use standard numbering if you wish to be easily understood.