I'm looking forward to the time when I can't play a game online because some POS hardware/software thinks that my MP3 or video encoder is a cheat mechanism. Actually, Half Life did this way in the beginning with "HLAmp". HLAmp was an addition to the GUI in-game that would allow you to control Winamp from inside the game. Valve or whoever at some point decided it was a hack, and banned anyone who used it. Even after several thousand explanations from pissed off gamers, they kept that rule, as I believe it had to do with stopping piracy or something.
In my experience its less to do with the actual capabilities of the phone, and more of the lack of capabilities of the phone network. If you try to bring up a webpage on any smart phone, the latency is on the order of seconds, even if the bandwidth is massive. Thats what really kills it for me; I like to check my Yahoo mail on my phone, and I have the old-style interface going that uses very little bandwidth. Even on a dial up connection, it loads sharpishly. However, on a phone, it takes several seconds just to get the request for the page, several seconds to send the page to my phone, and after I've entered my login info, several seconds to send that info to the network, then several seconds to finally load up my inbox. Granted, cell phone networks aren't broadband, but I'm just too damn used to the speed of my typing (which is actually rather fast) being the absolute limiting factor in how fast I can access my email.
I live on a street where the other apartment buildings force their occupants to park on the street. My building has an ingenious idea though: underground garage. Bizzang. In any case, if that guy talking about a 15 minute charge time is right, then it just means you have to pull into a fuel station, grab a cup of coffee, read the newspaper, go to the bathroom, whatever. If the electric cars have a range of 300 miles, thats like 5 hours driving? You should probably stop for a few minutes to chill anyway after driving for 5 hours.
I thought that was pretty obvious...water conducts heat, right? While piss is stored in your body, it absorbs a bit of your body heat. As you piss, boom, lots of heat going away from your body in the stream. You may (or may not) have noticed that when you piss on a cold day, particularly at night with a street light nearby for good illumination, that there is steam or vapours or something to that effect coming off the stream. At least, I've noticed it. Thats why I generally wait until I can get indoors to take a piss, so I can gather some more heat before going out again.
And as for accidents -- all industries have accidents. A chemical plant caught fire a few years ago and poisoned hundreds.
Indeed, there was an accident at a refinery or something like that in Texas City, Texas, and thats the conventional stuff.
On March 23, 2005, the city suffered an explosion in a local BP (formerly Amoco) oil refinery which killed 15 and injured over 100. The BP facility in Texas City is the United States's third largest oil refinery, employing over 2,000 people and processing 460,000 barrels (73,000 m) of crude oil each day.
I believe settling on Mars would actually be easier than settling underneath the ocean....the reason I say so is that the further down you go in the ocean, you have increasing amounts of pressure on everything due to the amount of water above you. This is a HUGE challenge to overcome.
Whereas if we went to Mars, ok, theres a few things to work out, like; how do we get there fast enough; what kind of building materials to use when there; how to deal with the radiation; how to produce water. These are probably a lot easier to solve however, than "how the hell do we build a structure capable of holding up the entire freakin' ocean". As I understand it, Mars has a similar atmospheric pressure to Earth - and even if it doesn't, it still has to be a lot easier to deal with than holding up the Atlantic on your walls.
I am not a scientist or anything but I can't even imagine how you would even get any buildings or building materials down onto the ocean floor! The pressure and buoyancy (sp?) would be a major hurdle to overcome. Sure they are building underwater buildings in some parts of the world as hotels, but they are generally less than 100 feet underwater. Now imagine something like 1 mile or further. Friggin' impossible.
No I'm sorry, BASIC games sucked balls. Typing meticulously (sp?) for an hour to have a text based question game or, have a few lines run across your screen, was NOT fun. If you could have saved it, maybe, but at the time they put all those games code in the magazines you couldn't IIRC.
This is still a law in effect in Texas at least; its the only state I heard about in being in. Its an old law from the 1800s or so, basically it was put into effect because automobiles in those days were crap, and the floor of the car would get REALLY hot. So driving barefoot would cause the driver to get burn injuries, and possibly crash the car. Doesn't make sense now, but then there are a lot of laws in place that probably don't make any sense in modern times.
I recall seeing a show on the Discovery channel about the DC to NY route. Basically, they had two women; one went via plane to NY from DC, the other went via train. The train was a new "omghighspeed" train Amtrak had just put in...
End result, train lady got in 20 minutes later than the plane lady. I think that says it all - a bit slower, but still worth it. In addition, it showed the plane lady doing all the security bullshit, waiting in line etc. Whereas the train lady already had her ticket (eticket I guess) and literally just walked up the platform and onto the train, into a WAY more comfortable seat than you would get on an airplane.
Do you mean you own the CDs? Otherwise, it might be worth the 30 cents a song to get higher quality drm free versions. It should technically save some battery power on an Ipod as well right?
How much is "full resources"? I'm a big C&C fan, I'm just curious. Is it like 9999 "credits" or whatever that just refills after something is purchased?
Same thing happened with the Concorde....French and British governments spend billions developing them, and sell them to the airlines for, literally, 1 penny. Otherwise, no one would have bought them, and even at that price, only France Airlines and British Airways took them on, and only a couple each, as symbols of their countries' governments. Airbus would have to do the same with the A380, except the A380 probably costs several billion more to make.
I think what he meant is that S&M sounds nothing like their studio stuff. From what my Iron Maiden-loving friends tell me, IM spends a long time before each concert setting up all the amps so it sounds like it does in the stuido; most artists just play and it sounds crap compared to their CDs.
You know, I don't get this whole "Prius owners are smug arseholes" thing. Maybe some are, like some Hummer owners buy them to increase their attractiveness. I would like to own a Prius because it gets a good mileage rating. I don't drive offroad. I just think, for some crazy stupid reason, it would be really neat to drive for 500+ miles before having to fill up the tank again. For the amount of driving I do, it would almost certainly be cheaper overall owning a Prius due to the reduced amount of petrol purchased. Add in the fact that oil prices - and thus petrol prices - change constantly, ususally upwards, then having a car that doesn't guzzle a gallon of the stuff to move just 15 miles or so means I'm less financially screwed due to world oil price fluctuations. Its nothing to do with "OMG I'm better than you". Its about, say, driving from Houston to San Antonio (200 or so miles) with the AC blasting the whole way and only having to fill up when I get there, or perhaps halfway on the way back - or, in an ideal world perhaps, when I get back. Is that really such a crime?
The thing is, Planetside at least had HUGE potential; they just totally mismanaged it. They brought its one and only expansion out 1 month after release; the max amount of devs to ever work for the game was 5 IIRC; and they have never marketed it. Yet of all their MMOs, it was definitly the most fun, and so I say it had the most potential.....its just a shame they had to waste it.
Just think about it for a second. Wouldn't you like to play an FPS game with hundreds of players? Yup. I think everyone would want to give it a try. However it was never marketed, so if you ask the average person, "Have you heard of Planetside" they will say no, but if you mention Everquest its like "Oh yeah that was cool!".....
No, you don't understand. He's an "Energy Troll". Unless the Prius manages to form energy all on its own; no gas, no wind, no solar, no hydro, no coal, etc. - then it doesn't constitute an "electric" vehicle. Obviously, a "true electric vehicle" is one that consists of a nuclear powerplant within the car.
I thought it was about potential. As in, you can potentially die touching a 110v line, you WILL die touching a 220v line, and if theres a gas leak, you will also die. Except you will probably die horribly, being blown up into several meaty chunks for the fire department to wade through.
Electricity = scorched stump of what you formerly were. Gas = blowing up into millions of pieces.
IIRC there was a similar issue in the USA during Vietnam; the drinking age as a result for the duration of the war was lowered to 18. After the war it was put back up to 21 because of a "mountain of evidence" that American teenagers loved to drink and drive and get in crashes. Not totally unbelievable I suppose....most of my American friends have driven drunk at least once, whereas when I was in the UK everyone would get a taxi home....and there, of course.
I had a friend who's dad was fortunate to have turned 18 at the time of the age going to 18, then 21 when it turned back to 21.
Right. So these "rebels" carried out attacks on civilian populations mostly, and not the British armed forces, setting bombs in cities and blowing up people who have had nothing directly to do with the "occupation". By any definition, that is terrorism, not whatever the fuck you think it is. I'm an American by the way, with German ancestry, but I feel the IRA and Real IRA are on the same level as al-Qaeda, if not worse. al-Qaeda for example actually launches attacks on military targets, as opposed to putting bombs in unarmed civilian populations.
If the Irish were serious about gaining independence from the British, they would form a sovereign military in Ireland and take it north, attacking the British armed forces. Instead they have a few psychopaths who revel in killing women and children with bombs and guns, unarmed civlians no less, as this is Britain, not the US, and there are few to no gun owners in the UK.
Go Ireland, right?
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In my experience its less to do with the actual capabilities of the phone, and more of the lack of capabilities of the phone network. If you try to bring up a webpage on any smart phone, the latency is on the order of seconds, even if the bandwidth is massive. Thats what really kills it for me; I like to check my Yahoo mail on my phone, and I have the old-style interface going that uses very little bandwidth. Even on a dial up connection, it loads sharpishly. However, on a phone, it takes several seconds just to get the request for the page, several seconds to send the page to my phone, and after I've entered my login info, several seconds to send that info to the network, then several seconds to finally load up my inbox. Granted, cell phone networks aren't broadband, but I'm just too damn used to the speed of my typing (which is actually rather fast) being the absolute limiting factor in how fast I can access my email.
I live on a street where the other apartment buildings force their occupants to park on the street. My building has an ingenious idea though: underground garage. Bizzang. In any case, if that guy talking about a 15 minute charge time is right, then it just means you have to pull into a fuel station, grab a cup of coffee, read the newspaper, go to the bathroom, whatever. If the electric cars have a range of 300 miles, thats like 5 hours driving? You should probably stop for a few minutes to chill anyway after driving for 5 hours.
I thought that was pretty obvious...water conducts heat, right? While piss is stored in your body, it absorbs a bit of your body heat. As you piss, boom, lots of heat going away from your body in the stream. You may (or may not) have noticed that when you piss on a cold day, particularly at night with a street light nearby for good illumination, that there is steam or vapours or something to that effect coming off the stream. At least, I've noticed it. Thats why I generally wait until I can get indoors to take a piss, so I can gather some more heat before going out again.
Indeed, there was an accident at a refinery or something like that in Texas City, Texas, and thats the conventional stuff.
On March 23, 2005, the city suffered an explosion in a local BP (formerly Amoco) oil refinery which killed 15 and injured over 100. The BP facility in Texas City is the United States's third largest oil refinery, employing over 2,000 people and processing 460,000 barrels (73,000 m) of crude oil each day.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City>
I believe settling on Mars would actually be easier than settling underneath the ocean....the reason I say so is that the further down you go in the ocean, you have increasing amounts of pressure on everything due to the amount of water above you. This is a HUGE challenge to overcome.
Whereas if we went to Mars, ok, theres a few things to work out, like; how do we get there fast enough; what kind of building materials to use when there; how to deal with the radiation; how to produce water. These are probably a lot easier to solve however, than "how the hell do we build a structure capable of holding up the entire freakin' ocean". As I understand it, Mars has a similar atmospheric pressure to Earth - and even if it doesn't, it still has to be a lot easier to deal with than holding up the Atlantic on your walls.
I am not a scientist or anything but I can't even imagine how you would even get any buildings or building materials down onto the ocean floor! The pressure and buoyancy (sp?) would be a major hurdle to overcome. Sure they are building underwater buildings in some parts of the world as hotels, but they are generally less than 100 feet underwater. Now imagine something like 1 mile or further. Friggin' impossible.
No I'm sorry, BASIC games sucked balls. Typing meticulously (sp?) for an hour to have a text based question game or, have a few lines run across your screen, was NOT fun. If you could have saved it, maybe, but at the time they put all those games code in the magazines you couldn't IIRC.
This is still a law in effect in Texas at least; its the only state I heard about in being in. Its an old law from the 1800s or so, basically it was put into effect because automobiles in those days were crap, and the floor of the car would get REALLY hot. So driving barefoot would cause the driver to get burn injuries, and possibly crash the car. Doesn't make sense now, but then there are a lot of laws in place that probably don't make any sense in modern times.
I recall seeing a show on the Discovery channel about the DC to NY route. Basically, they had two women; one went via plane to NY from DC, the other went via train. The train was a new "omghighspeed" train Amtrak had just put in...
End result, train lady got in 20 minutes later than the plane lady. I think that says it all - a bit slower, but still worth it. In addition, it showed the plane lady doing all the security bullshit, waiting in line etc. Whereas the train lady already had her ticket (eticket I guess) and literally just walked up the platform and onto the train, into a WAY more comfortable seat than you would get on an airplane.
If Briton was still a superpower in the way they were, I doubt this would have happened.
Iran took hostages from the US Embassy in the eighties, so I doubt superpower status has any bearing on what that country will do.Do you mean you own the CDs? Otherwise, it might be worth the 30 cents a song to get higher quality drm free versions. It should technically save some battery power on an Ipod as well right?
How much is "full resources"? I'm a big C&C fan, I'm just curious. Is it like 9999 "credits" or whatever that just refills after something is purchased?
Same thing happened with the Concorde....French and British governments spend billions developing them, and sell them to the airlines for, literally, 1 penny. Otherwise, no one would have bought them, and even at that price, only France Airlines and British Airways took them on, and only a couple each, as symbols of their countries' governments. Airbus would have to do the same with the A380, except the A380 probably costs several billion more to make.
I think what he meant is that S&M sounds nothing like their studio stuff. From what my Iron Maiden-loving friends tell me, IM spends a long time before each concert setting up all the amps so it sounds like it does in the stuido; most artists just play and it sounds crap compared to their CDs.
You know, I don't get this whole "Prius owners are smug arseholes" thing. Maybe some are, like some Hummer owners buy them to increase their attractiveness. I would like to own a Prius because it gets a good mileage rating. I don't drive offroad. I just think, for some crazy stupid reason, it would be really neat to drive for 500+ miles before having to fill up the tank again. For the amount of driving I do, it would almost certainly be cheaper overall owning a Prius due to the reduced amount of petrol purchased. Add in the fact that oil prices - and thus petrol prices - change constantly, ususally upwards, then having a car that doesn't guzzle a gallon of the stuff to move just 15 miles or so means I'm less financially screwed due to world oil price fluctuations. Its nothing to do with "OMG I'm better than you". Its about, say, driving from Houston to San Antonio (200 or so miles) with the AC blasting the whole way and only having to fill up when I get there, or perhaps halfway on the way back - or, in an ideal world perhaps, when I get back. Is that really such a crime?
Thats all tax though. Blame your government, not oil users.
Indeed. You can register any address you want on iTunes. I download music under the following address:
69 Gofuckyourselves Apple Lane Gofuckyourselvestown
The thing is, Planetside at least had HUGE potential; they just totally mismanaged it. They brought its one and only expansion out 1 month after release; the max amount of devs to ever work for the game was 5 IIRC; and they have never marketed it. Yet of all their MMOs, it was definitly the most fun, and so I say it had the most potential.....its just a shame they had to waste it.
Just think about it for a second. Wouldn't you like to play an FPS game with hundreds of players? Yup. I think everyone would want to give it a try. However it was never marketed, so if you ask the average person, "Have you heard of Planetside" they will say no, but if you mention Everquest its like "Oh yeah that was cool!".....
No, you don't understand. He's an "Energy Troll". Unless the Prius manages to form energy all on its own; no gas, no wind, no solar, no hydro, no coal, etc. - then it doesn't constitute an "electric" vehicle. Obviously, a "true electric vehicle" is one that consists of a nuclear powerplant within the car.
I thought it was about potential. As in, you can potentially die touching a 110v line, you WILL die touching a 220v line, and if theres a gas leak, you will also die. Except you will probably die horribly, being blown up into several meaty chunks for the fire department to wade through.
Electricity = scorched stump of what you formerly were. Gas = blowing up into millions of pieces.
I think that is what scares people.
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5 Philadelphia, PA 6 Dallas, TX 7 Nashville, TN 8 Charlotte, NC 9 Columbus, OH 10 Houston, TXI'd tell them the story about my fiancee, I'm not sure I'd tell them about my finance though, lol.
IIRC there was a similar issue in the USA during Vietnam; the drinking age as a result for the duration of the war was lowered to 18. After the war it was put back up to 21 because of a "mountain of evidence" that American teenagers loved to drink and drive and get in crashes. Not totally unbelievable I suppose....most of my American friends have driven drunk at least once, whereas when I was in the UK everyone would get a taxi home....and there, of course. I had a friend who's dad was fortunate to have turned 18 at the time of the age going to 18, then 21 when it turned back to 21.
Don't you mean "Come on who?"This is Slashdot; no.
Right. So these "rebels" carried out attacks on civilian populations mostly, and not the British armed forces, setting bombs in cities and blowing up people who have had nothing directly to do with the "occupation". By any definition, that is terrorism, not whatever the fuck you think it is. I'm an American by the way, with German ancestry, but I feel the IRA and Real IRA are on the same level as al-Qaeda, if not worse. al-Qaeda for example actually launches attacks on military targets, as opposed to putting bombs in unarmed civilian populations. If the Irish were serious about gaining independence from the British, they would form a sovereign military in Ireland and take it north, attacking the British armed forces. Instead they have a few psychopaths who revel in killing women and children with bombs and guns, unarmed civlians no less, as this is Britain, not the US, and there are few to no gun owners in the UK. Go Ireland, right?