The problem is two-fold, its not just that corporations have so much money but also the courts really need money. The judicial system is very expensive to run, if they can save the costs of an enitre trial and just get a wad of cash from the corporations, they're going to try and get it. We can reduce the problem by funding the courts better.
I'd be more interested in knowing at what age Deja Vu begins to show up. I've always figured Deja Vu really was you recognizing something similar to something from your past. Nothing fancy, just a little fragment of sensory perception you stored up there and happened to set off the recognition trigger. If it happens in very young children no less often than adults, then you've got a good indication it's not a real memory fragment.
I think we're already seeing something like this to a much higher extreme. In the past, game engines have been reused and licenced quite a bit, but now-a-days (especially in the FPS genre) I'm seeing game engines that specifically tout their easy of development for licenced products; like Source, The Doom3 Engine, Unreal Engine 3.0 In the future, I could see all kinds of genre's picking up on this method. I don't really see it as a bad thing, merely an natural outgrowth of the vigorous mod community. Which may explain why the FPS genre, a genre notorious for being very mod friendly, seems to have had the greatest growth in engine licencing.
A Dam? In the Nevada (Nuclear) Test Site of the Nevada desert in which Yucca Mountain is situated? The volcanic tuff of which the mountain is built out of isn't going away unless the mountain goes away; volcanic tuff is slightly permiable to water and even if the unlikely happens and a huge earthquake cracks open the mountain storeage facility, the tuff is would stop the waste seepage well before it reaches the water table, 300m below; even if the climate gets much wetter. Wet enough for a dam. In the desert.
Sure, it's true that signs are still going to be tied to culture, but we can make them as readable as possible. I can't read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, but I can tell when a bunch of people are lying down in unnatural positions that they are dead. Then again, if they aren't advanced enough to learn to interpret the signs, they probably aren't advanced enough to get through the concrete and steel barriers we're building into the storage facility.
I fail to see how it merely postpones the problem. The idea is to store the waste until it is no longer dangerous, not stop the creation of nuclear waste. If you want to talk about dealing the waste in another way, we can greatly cut down on the production of the waste via reclaimation of uranium and other materials from spent nuclear fuel. Sure, it doesn't remove all the waste, but 95% of the waste can be reused for fuel.
Wind and Solar are nice, but they take up so much space. Nuclear power is so much more space efficient. One could argue that a distributed energy system (as in everyone generates there own power via solar homes, etc.) but a centralized system is just so much easier to get electricity to the most people. Not everyone wants to set up and maintain solar panels and windmills.
Actually, Yucca mountain was designed just for that kind of purpose. Set deep inside the longest dormant mountain in the US in an area specifically chosen because it's geologic composition prevents any leaking into ground water, we're digging out a massive storage space to store nuclear waste in ultra-hardened corrosive and leak resistant containers. The Yucca mountain site is designed to use robotic placement of the drums to minimize any need for people to enter it as well as maximize the storeage. As a final precaution, the creation of long-lasting, language-independentwarnings are being used throughout the site to ensure any future intelligences, aware of nuclear waste or not, will understand that this is a place to avoid.
Well, for one, the sooner we get Generation IV plants developed, the sooner we have a good method of generating hydrogen that isn't tied to coal or oil. New power plant take years to build and get up to max efficiency, we need to start building today for our energy needs tomorrow. While we've got supplies of coal and natural gas, we're still a net importer of energy.
*note* I feel sorry for the families for their loss, this post is not ment to sound as thouhg I mean otherwise.
This is a terrible event for nuclear energy. Directly connecting murder to radiation poisoning to only-in-nuclear-plants-production is devistating for public opinion. It won't matter that radiation generated by polonium can't even pentrate paper, let alone paper; that it is lethal (if ingested or inhaled) is what will stick in people's mind. Worse yet, news reports other people unrelated to the victims showing signs of minor levels; one analyst called it the 'equivalent of a dirty bomb' which is ludicrous but it'll still going to stick in the public's mind just as we really need to start developing new nuclear plants and technology.
If your going to include Sega's Sega CD and 32x, atleast mention that they were lock-ons to the Sega genesis...
Well, except for later on when some limited all-in-one versions were made. If you make your statement irregardless of the all-in-one, then you are correct that it takes three. However, I don't think it's just crappy consoles that kill a juggernaut. The Dreamcast was a very decent console and (for 2D) Saturn wasn't to bad either. What killed them was better competition, the PS and PS2 and 3rd party support. Saturn was notorious for being difficult to program for. The Dreamcast, though it focused on making it easier for developers, was just simply shut out but the PS2 hype-machine and missing EA. Tieing into thrid party support would also be marketing.
Wow, that's a confusing title, a ban on a law made permanent. At first I read it as the law banning [certain] video games was now perminent. Then, after I cleaned up after the spit-take, I read it as a permanent video game law [as in constitutional amendment] being banned. Took three tries to read it as a video game law being banned permanently.
Did they pull that thing out of a software licence or am I just sleep deprived?
And so what if they don't turn up? I see nothing wrong with being excited about the possibilities a new discovery presents. They help add easy to understand value to abstract research that may otherwise hard to understand for those who fund it. If you were a far removed executive looking at two research projects, one for low energy techniques for quantum vortex core inversion and the other for ultra high density magnetic storage, which one would you fund?
Plus, there's the sheer fun of imagining for those of us who aren't making the decisions. I enjoy hearing about this kind of news, even if any product is many years away; not everything we hear about on Slashdot should have to be a product or a service, good old fasion research makes for great news too. Even if it doesn't work out, it's inspiring and interesting.
According to 1up.com counting first party sales and accessories, Nintendo's Wii became a $190M business in just one week. Sadly, I do not think that accounts for costs of production and who knows what kind of development costs. Although I can't find any official numbers elsewhere, 2006 revenue for Nintendo was $4.6 Billion dollars, an increase. That doesn't say much about net income or loss, but it does give an interesting prespective on the 190M.
Interesting aside, Zelda sold over 454,000 copies. I wonder how many people want to buy the game and got (or are trying to get) as sort-of an afterthought, something to play it on. It'll be interesting to see what happens when the gamecube version comes out.
I will make the following correction: the itwire.com.au was a misreading, that's 100,000 additional units per week to christmas. As for CNN's 2 million Wii's I can't confirm it; it was a CNN TV report that they have not placed on the web. GI discusses a little about Canada's Wii launch in a NOC executive who tells us they will have 4 million shipped by the end of the year. They also state that Canada had 200,000 Wii units and makes up 10% of North America. If shipped in those percentages, 200,000 units to 10% of North America means 2million units in all of North America. There are many news stories refering to analysts who predict only about half the number of PS3s made it out, but yes, we will have to wait for more official numbers.
I see no reason not to think Nintendo will have a big lead over Sony in the US. Both companies are committed to constant resupply, but Wiis just move out faster.
Well, CNN had reported that Nintendo had shipped 2 million Wii units which is double expected if I remember correctly. Reportedly, The Wii is sold out everywhere. I can certainly attest to this fact. I tried 8 different stores in an 1 hour 30 min driving radius and failed at every turn. The closest I got was at my third try. A Toy 'R Us which I stood in line 90 minutes only to have them run out of tickets 5 people ahead of me...I can't find any solid game sales numbers, but the shelves have been pretty bare and Zelda's missing from most online retailers.
Sony's launch in Japan sold 88,400 units but only 0.98 games per machine...
Sony's US launch doesn't appear to have hit the intended 400,000 units. One group estimates a lowly 100,000 while others guess at closer to 150,000 to 200,000 neither of which are more than half the hoped shipping amount. We can safly say that all of them sold, but who knows how many games are being sold?
While the US launch certainly puts Nintendo in a good position this holiday season, the PS3 has the head start in Japan, since the Wii doesn't launch until December 2nd and even then, it'll only be 400,000 units. Personally, I can't wait to hear when the second US shipments start rolling in...
I'm really just kidding... if you look up 1984, it's a leap year and thus every 4 years is also a leap year and so it is never printed. The original post was also a fake news joke; sorry =)
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So long as there aren't any speedy blue ones to foul it all up...
The problem is two-fold, its not just that corporations have so much money but also the courts really need money. The judicial system is very expensive to run, if they can save the costs of an enitre trial and just get a wad of cash from the corporations, they're going to try and get it. We can reduce the problem by funding the courts better.
I'd be more interested in knowing at what age Deja Vu begins to show up. I've always figured Deja Vu really was you recognizing something similar to something from your past. Nothing fancy, just a little fragment of sensory perception you stored up there and happened to set off the recognition trigger. If it happens in very young children no less often than adults, then you've got a good indication it's not a real memory fragment.
...to have an identity Crysis...
I don't see anything wrong with a little (overused) joking. The problem is when people take the joke's content to be totally serial.
Wait, you mean to tell me that Al Gore invented the Triana Satalite? This is better than the internet!
To the Press Department!
At last, I've found the perfect Christmas gift for my evil genius cousin!
Sonic... submitted this story faster than me? *snickers* I think they just blew out my ironic-o-meter!
I think we're already seeing something like this to a much higher extreme. In the past, game engines have been reused and licenced quite a bit, but now-a-days (especially in the FPS genre) I'm seeing game engines that specifically tout their easy of development for licenced products; like Source, The Doom3 Engine, Unreal Engine 3.0 In the future, I could see all kinds of genre's picking up on this method. I don't really see it as a bad thing, merely an natural outgrowth of the vigorous mod community. Which may explain why the FPS genre, a genre notorious for being very mod friendly, seems to have had the greatest growth in engine licencing.
Yeah, I know. I botched this joke terribly. =(
Life found in Canada! Wow!
A Dam? In the Nevada (Nuclear) Test Site of the Nevada desert in which Yucca Mountain is situated? The volcanic tuff of which the mountain is built out of isn't going away unless the mountain goes away; volcanic tuff is slightly permiable to water and even if the unlikely happens and a huge earthquake cracks open the mountain storeage facility, the tuff is would stop the waste seepage well before it reaches the water table, 300m below; even if the climate gets much wetter. Wet enough for a dam. In the desert.
Sure, it's true that signs are still going to be tied to culture, but we can make them as readable as possible. I can't read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, but I can tell when a bunch of people are lying down in unnatural positions that they are dead. Then again, if they aren't advanced enough to learn to interpret the signs, they probably aren't advanced enough to get through the concrete and steel barriers we're building into the storage facility.
I fail to see how it merely postpones the problem. The idea is to store the waste until it is no longer dangerous, not stop the creation of nuclear waste. If you want to talk about dealing the waste in another way, we can greatly cut down on the production of the waste via reclaimation of uranium and other materials from spent nuclear fuel. Sure, it doesn't remove all the waste, but 95% of the waste can be reused for fuel.
Wind and Solar are nice, but they take up so much space. Nuclear power is so much more space efficient. One could argue that a distributed energy system (as in everyone generates there own power via solar homes, etc.) but a centralized system is just so much easier to get electricity to the most people. Not everyone wants to set up and maintain solar panels and windmills.
Actually, Yucca mountain was designed just for that kind of purpose. Set deep inside the longest dormant mountain in the US in an area specifically chosen because it's geologic composition prevents any leaking into ground water, we're digging out a massive storage space to store nuclear waste in ultra-hardened corrosive and leak resistant containers. The Yucca mountain site is designed to use robotic placement of the drums to minimize any need for people to enter it as well as maximize the storeage. As a final precaution, the creation of long-lasting, language-independentwarnings are being used throughout the site to ensure any future intelligences, aware of nuclear waste or not, will understand that this is a place to avoid.
Well, for one, the sooner we get Generation IV plants developed, the sooner we have a good method of generating hydrogen that isn't tied to coal or oil. New power plant take years to build and get up to max efficiency, we need to start building today for our energy needs tomorrow. While we've got supplies of coal and natural gas, we're still a net importer of energy.
*note* I feel sorry for the families for their loss, this post is not ment to sound as thouhg I mean otherwise.
This is a terrible event for nuclear energy. Directly connecting murder to radiation poisoning to only-in-nuclear-plants-production is devistating for public opinion. It won't matter that radiation generated by polonium can't even pentrate paper, let alone paper; that it is lethal (if ingested or inhaled) is what will stick in people's mind. Worse yet, news reports other people unrelated to the victims showing signs of minor levels; one analyst called it the 'equivalent of a dirty bomb' which is ludicrous but it'll still going to stick in the public's mind just as we really need to start developing new nuclear plants and technology.
If your going to include Sega's Sega CD and 32x, atleast mention that they were lock-ons to the Sega genesis...
Well, except for later on when some limited all-in-one versions were made. If you make your statement irregardless of the all-in-one, then you are correct that it takes three. However, I don't think it's just crappy consoles that kill a juggernaut. The Dreamcast was a very decent console and (for 2D) Saturn wasn't to bad either. What killed them was better competition, the PS and PS2 and 3rd party support. Saturn was notorious for being difficult to program for. The Dreamcast, though it focused on making it easier for developers, was just simply shut out but the PS2 hype-machine and missing EA. Tieing into thrid party support would also be marketing.
Wow, that's a confusing title, a ban on a law made permanent. At first I read it as the law banning [certain] video games was now perminent. Then, after I cleaned up after the spit-take, I read it as a permanent video game law [as in constitutional amendment] being banned. Took three tries to read it as a video game law being banned permanently.
Did they pull that thing out of a software licence or am I just sleep deprived?
And so what if they don't turn up? I see nothing wrong with being excited about the possibilities a new discovery presents. They help add easy to understand value to abstract research that may otherwise hard to understand for those who fund it. If you were a far removed executive looking at two research projects, one for low energy techniques for quantum vortex core inversion and the other for ultra high density magnetic storage, which one would you fund?
Plus, there's the sheer fun of imagining for those of us who aren't making the decisions. I enjoy hearing about this kind of news, even if any product is many years away; not everything we hear about on Slashdot should have to be a product or a service, good old fasion research makes for great news too. Even if it doesn't work out, it's inspiring and interesting.
According to 1up.com counting first party sales and accessories, Nintendo's Wii became a $190M business in just one week. Sadly, I do not think that accounts for costs of production and who knows what kind of development costs. Although I can't find any official numbers elsewhere, 2006 revenue for Nintendo was $4.6 Billion dollars, an increase. That doesn't say much about net income or loss, but it does give an interesting prespective on the 190M.
Interesting aside, Zelda sold over 454,000 copies. I wonder how many people want to buy the game and got (or are trying to get) as sort-of an afterthought, something to play it on. It'll be interesting to see what happens when the gamecube version comes out.
I will make the following correction: the itwire.com.au was a misreading, that's 100,000 additional units per week to christmas. As for CNN's 2 million Wii's I can't confirm it; it was a CNN TV report that they have not placed on the web. GI discusses a little about Canada's Wii launch in a NOC executive who tells us they will have 4 million shipped by the end of the year. They also state that Canada had 200,000 Wii units and makes up 10% of North America. If shipped in those percentages, 200,000 units to 10% of North America means 2million units in all of North America. There are many news stories refering to analysts who predict only about half the number of PS3s made it out, but yes, we will have to wait for more official numbers.
I see no reason not to think Nintendo will have a big lead over Sony in the US. Both companies are committed to constant resupply, but Wiis just move out faster.
Well, CNN had reported that Nintendo had shipped 2 million Wii units which is double expected if I remember correctly. Reportedly, The Wii is sold out everywhere. I can certainly attest to this fact. I tried 8 different stores in an 1 hour 30 min driving radius and failed at every turn. The closest I got was at my third try. A Toy 'R Us which I stood in line 90 minutes only to have them run out of tickets 5 people ahead of me...I can't find any solid game sales numbers, but the shelves have been pretty bare and Zelda's missing from most online retailers.
Sony's launch in Japan sold 88,400 units but only 0.98 games per machine...
Sony's US launch doesn't appear to have hit the intended 400,000 units. One group estimates a lowly 100,000 while others guess at closer to 150,000 to 200,000 neither of which are more than half the hoped shipping amount. We can safly say that all of them sold, but who knows how many games are being sold?
While the US launch certainly puts Nintendo in a good position this holiday season, the PS3 has the head start in Japan, since the Wii doesn't launch until December 2nd and even then, it'll only be 400,000 units. Personally, I can't wait to hear when the second US shipments start rolling in...
I'm really just kidding... if you look up 1984, it's a leap year and thus every 4 years is also a leap year and so it is never printed. The original post was also a fake news joke; sorry =)
A little of everything, printed once every four years (except it's not printed on leap years.)
It was started in 1984.
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