I wonder how common it is for there to be a reverse of our solar system? That is, as observed, gas giants migrate their way into the inner solar system, but some dynamic allows rocky planets to form outside their orbits? Would the new pull from the star destabilize the orbits of moons like Io and Ganymede and occasionally send them into a stable orbit? Or, would the gravity crush them into dust allowing new planets to form?
Given that LHC will create a black hole that will cause a time loop, the amount of time wasted by these guys will loop over and over, meaning they have wasted an infinite amount of time with this video. That pisses me off.
Well, not sure about the point about Hybrids being barely more efficient than modern combustion engines. I think that hybrids' increase in mileage does count for something. However, I'd like to see plugin hybrids make the point moot in dense, urban areas.
Totally agree on trains and mass transit, and especially agree on getting more of us fatass Americans on some bikes (except for cities like SF where we have mean hills).
Finally, cable cars are mostly a tourist attraction here in SF. We're all actually using hover-Segways now.
Also, in tersm of scale of a project, if China can build 3 Gorges Dam, they can certainly invest the same kind of effort in other types of clean energy. This is a huge opportunity for them to not just be on par, but to lead the world in very real terms.
Building a green city does nothing to reduce China's carbon footprint. And I'm not suggesting tearing down the city and rebuilding. You don't have to do that to increase the percentage of hybrids on their streets, to switch public transportation to hybrids (San Francisco is doing it), to switch over some of their power to solar/wind, etc. I'm sure they could do better with air conditioning, using less incandescent lighting, etc.
I'm referring to the Japan I visit twice a year. I'm referring to people like my wife who is one of the many people you, like a moron, insulted without any due diligence.
By the way, to me, it sounds like you described parts of America, Russia, China, and pretty much most countries, so spare me your high minded, um, whats the words for it... CRAP.
I think there's a more general, obvious question: Why do people steal? Software is unique in that there is the *potential* to thwart thieves through the same medium that makes up the goods. I suppose just like Masterlock likely uses its own product to prevent breakins to their warehouses, developers try to adopt the same strategy. However, perhaps this is a lost cause. Thieves will get what they want, despite the technology. However, the useful function is about the percentage of honest people out there. Perhaps the real problem is that software just costs too much.
If bread bakers charged $50 per loaf, I would suspect they would suffer the same thievery rates as software. Perhaps Microsoft Office should be $50, not $500. After all, there are more than 100 times the number of honest potential customers than there were when they started that product.
Indie games should cost less. There is often a sweet spot where the effort to steal is just not worth the cost of the software.
First thing, they do have addresses. Either you're wrong, or the thing we write on the envelopes to my wife's parents in Japan are useless scribbles, and we've been getting unimaginably lucky.
Second thing, a godsend to who? Sounds to me like this feature isn't wanted. The Japanese are plenty brilliant, and if they needed something like this, they would have had it years ago.
In Soviet Russia, the street views YOU.
Seriously though, I completely agree with this letter. My wife is Japanese and has been living here in the Bay Area for 5 years. She's pretty accustomed to American life, but as soon as I showed the Street View Japan, she went silent and then said something like, "No. no no no, this is bad. Not in Japan. No way." And her friends feel exactly the same way. It really is a cultural difference, and Google really is asking for a world of hurt here.
What is astounding is that they pretty much did *all* of Tokyo. Look at how much of that map is blue. Did it occur to them to try it out in a small area to see how the Japanese would react? To me, this reeks of extreme hubris on Google's part.
Right, I agree. If I were an angel, the line of questioning I'd ask for this kind of project is:
"How much money do you have? $100K? So, why don't you use that money?"
You should post it here and us./ers will tell you what you need to know...
My opinion is that you just don't hold the cards to effectively sell your idea. I think it's all in the execution of the demo. Rough-as-nails demo probably won't cut it because I think investors want to know how well you can actually execute the real thing. They aren't just investing in the idea, they are investing in your abilities. Either you have most of the talent baked in (plus the great idea), or you have the resume that gives them confidence that you'd pull the right team together to make it happen.
That said, I might suggest moving to Naples, FL and pitching your idea to some of the many rich, bored doctors that live there. Avoid the rich, bored lawyers that live there, however.
I think it shows the kind of incredible resolve it takes to do rocket science. I think it's the same resolve the Apollo program had, and I think it's infectious. It's one thing to be balls to the wall but have no demonstrative ability to execute, but remember that Flight 2 actually did make it up there. And that NASA and the US Government have enough confidence in their ability to give them major contracts.
For those invoking the Ahab thing, I just don't see that. 5-1 odds they nail it in Flight 4.
I think before the 90's, games were the domain of the sole, rogue programmer. Creating the greatest Apple II game ev@r was possible. You don't need pro creative talent to make pixelated blobs to appear and blips/bleeps to happen in a way that is entertaining for the player. In those days, it was about evoking the experience in the mind of the player, not just their ears and eyes.
I'm glad to see affordable tools magnify the creativity of the sole programmer such that they can compete again. As long as indie devs continue to understand their roots and don't get caught up in trying to out-Blizzard Blizzard.
So, in other words, be like Apple
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I think product teams tend to have an inferiority complex that is fed by the worst marketing invention ever: the feature matrix on the back of the box. Not enough product teams care about anything else.
Alternatively, you could move onto Wrath of Denethenor or Questron II.
And if you have a couple of days and are all fantasy'd-out and wanna go sci-fi, 2400AD is great.
Seriously, I wish I had a little pocket Apple II with every game ever made on a micro SD card. And, if they could figure out a way to simulate 8 floppy drives so I never have to swap disks, and if they could translate the mockingboard to something better, man would I be in nostalgia heaven.
Cmon NASA, stop being coy. You found it didn't you? I'm bummed you won't report on the ancient Martian gateway into deep inside the planet, marked with ancient pictoglyphic scriptures with overtones from Egypt. You know you have it. You know you've found the interdimensional gateway where your inside people had supersecret meetings with The Progenitor, a master being who designed evolution here on Earth.
What's with this wussy "interesting chemical" crap?
Doesn't the tractor have to expend energy to maintain a fixed distance from the asteroid? Also, wouldn't the tractor gain more benefit from maintaining as small a distance from the asteroid as possible to maximize its gravitation effect? In that case, the amount of energy it would have to expend would be proportional to inverse distance squared to maintain that distance, right?
Is that really less energy than landing on the thing and using one of those ion propulsion engines?
Or, perhaps the benefit is in the logistics. Perhaps landing safely on the thing is much harder than maintaining a fixed distance. If that's the case, I would get it.
Sorry, I didn't do any real math, this is just a from the hip question.
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I wonder how common it is for there to be a reverse of our solar system? That is, as observed, gas giants migrate their way into the inner solar system, but some dynamic allows rocky planets to form outside their orbits? Would the new pull from the star destabilize the orbits of moons like Io and Ganymede and occasionally send them into a stable orbit? Or, would the gravity crush them into dust allowing new planets to form?
Given that LHC will create a black hole that will cause a time loop, the amount of time wasted by these guys will loop over and over, meaning they have wasted an infinite amount of time with this video. That pisses me off.
Well, not sure about the point about Hybrids being barely more efficient than modern combustion engines. I think that hybrids' increase in mileage does count for something. However, I'd like to see plugin hybrids make the point moot in dense, urban areas. Totally agree on trains and mass transit, and especially agree on getting more of us fatass Americans on some bikes (except for cities like SF where we have mean hills). Finally, cable cars are mostly a tourist attraction here in SF. We're all actually using hover-Segways now.
Also, in tersm of scale of a project, if China can build 3 Gorges Dam, they can certainly invest the same kind of effort in other types of clean energy. This is a huge opportunity for them to not just be on par, but to lead the world in very real terms.
Building a green city does nothing to reduce China's carbon footprint. And I'm not suggesting tearing down the city and rebuilding. You don't have to do that to increase the percentage of hybrids on their streets, to switch public transportation to hybrids (San Francisco is doing it), to switch over some of their power to solar/wind, etc. I'm sure they could do better with air conditioning, using less incandescent lighting, etc.
Yeah, what an unfortunate name. I would have avoided that problem altogether and named the city Wangtan. Much better.
I have an even greener idea for China: How about not building the city at all, and greenify an existing city?
I thought I saw Jar Jar Binks in the opening ceremony, but wasn't sure. This explains everything.
I'm referring to the Japan I visit twice a year. I'm referring to people like my wife who is one of the many people you, like a moron, insulted without any due diligence. By the way, to me, it sounds like you described parts of America, Russia, China, and pretty much most countries, so spare me your high minded, um, whats the words for it... CRAP.
I think there's a more general, obvious question: Why do people steal? Software is unique in that there is the *potential* to thwart thieves through the same medium that makes up the goods. I suppose just like Masterlock likely uses its own product to prevent breakins to their warehouses, developers try to adopt the same strategy. However, perhaps this is a lost cause. Thieves will get what they want, despite the technology. However, the useful function is about the percentage of honest people out there. Perhaps the real problem is that software just costs too much. If bread bakers charged $50 per loaf, I would suspect they would suffer the same thievery rates as software. Perhaps Microsoft Office should be $50, not $500. After all, there are more than 100 times the number of honest potential customers than there were when they started that product. Indie games should cost less. There is often a sweet spot where the effort to steal is just not worth the cost of the software.
That's right. They are run by search bots and Android.
First thing, they do have addresses. Either you're wrong, or the thing we write on the envelopes to my wife's parents in Japan are useless scribbles, and we've been getting unimaginably lucky. Second thing, a godsend to who? Sounds to me like this feature isn't wanted. The Japanese are plenty brilliant, and if they needed something like this, they would have had it years ago.
In Soviet Russia, the street views YOU. Seriously though, I completely agree with this letter. My wife is Japanese and has been living here in the Bay Area for 5 years. She's pretty accustomed to American life, but as soon as I showed the Street View Japan, she went silent and then said something like, "No. no no no, this is bad. Not in Japan. No way." And her friends feel exactly the same way. It really is a cultural difference, and Google really is asking for a world of hurt here. What is astounding is that they pretty much did *all* of Tokyo. Look at how much of that map is blue. Did it occur to them to try it out in a small area to see how the Japanese would react? To me, this reeks of extreme hubris on Google's part.
Right, I agree. If I were an angel, the line of questioning I'd ask for this kind of project is: "How much money do you have? $100K? So, why don't you use that money?"
Sorry, I didn't mean to be derogatory by saying "you don't hold the cards." That's an unjust assumption on my part.
You should post it here and us ./ers will tell you what you need to know...
My opinion is that you just don't hold the cards to effectively sell your idea. I think it's all in the execution of the demo. Rough-as-nails demo probably won't cut it because I think investors want to know how well you can actually execute the real thing. They aren't just investing in the idea, they are investing in your abilities. Either you have most of the talent baked in (plus the great idea), or you have the resume that gives them confidence that you'd pull the right team together to make it happen.
That said, I might suggest moving to Naples, FL and pitching your idea to some of the many rich, bored doctors that live there. Avoid the rich, bored lawyers that live there, however.
I think it shows the kind of incredible resolve it takes to do rocket science. I think it's the same resolve the Apollo program had, and I think it's infectious. It's one thing to be balls to the wall but have no demonstrative ability to execute, but remember that Flight 2 actually did make it up there. And that NASA and the US Government have enough confidence in their ability to give them major contracts. For those invoking the Ahab thing, I just don't see that. 5-1 odds they nail it in Flight 4.
Well, that's actually not against my point. It's more about how amazing Tetris still is and how its impact compares to World of Warcraft.
I think before the 90's, games were the domain of the sole, rogue programmer. Creating the greatest Apple II game ev@r was possible. You don't need pro creative talent to make pixelated blobs to appear and blips/bleeps to happen in a way that is entertaining for the player. In those days, it was about evoking the experience in the mind of the player, not just their ears and eyes. I'm glad to see affordable tools magnify the creativity of the sole programmer such that they can compete again. As long as indie devs continue to understand their roots and don't get caught up in trying to out-Blizzard Blizzard.
I think product teams tend to have an inferiority complex that is fed by the worst marketing invention ever: the feature matrix on the back of the box. Not enough product teams care about anything else.
Alternatively, you could move onto Wrath of Denethenor or Questron II. And if you have a couple of days and are all fantasy'd-out and wanna go sci-fi, 2400AD is great. Seriously, I wish I had a little pocket Apple II with every game ever made on a micro SD card. And, if they could figure out a way to simulate 8 floppy drives so I never have to swap disks, and if they could translate the mockingboard to something better, man would I be in nostalgia heaven.
Ultima II is so outdated. Stop living in the past and get with the program. You need to upgrade to Ultima III, which has scrolling towns.
Cmon NASA, stop being coy. You found it didn't you? I'm bummed you won't report on the ancient Martian gateway into deep inside the planet, marked with ancient pictoglyphic scriptures with overtones from Egypt. You know you have it. You know you've found the interdimensional gateway where your inside people had supersecret meetings with The Progenitor, a master being who designed evolution here on Earth. What's with this wussy "interesting chemical" crap?
Not just about basketball, UMD is actually a rocking engineering school. Also, Google has some roots in UMD...
Doesn't the tractor have to expend energy to maintain a fixed distance from the asteroid? Also, wouldn't the tractor gain more benefit from maintaining as small a distance from the asteroid as possible to maximize its gravitation effect? In that case, the amount of energy it would have to expend would be proportional to inverse distance squared to maintain that distance, right? Is that really less energy than landing on the thing and using one of those ion propulsion engines? Or, perhaps the benefit is in the logistics. Perhaps landing safely on the thing is much harder than maintaining a fixed distance. If that's the case, I would get it. Sorry, I didn't do any real math, this is just a from the hip question.