Absolutelly, it would be like banning the sexylosers comics because one of the caracters is necrophiliac. RTFR 'extreme porn', eck, that's also in the plan.
From my recent experience: HMM5: 3D, poor visibility of the ugly user interface, no feeling of immersion. the 4 was far better looking. NWN2: 3D, simply too slugish on my AMD X2 + NV7600 Metal Slug 5: 2D, great Yoshi's island: 2D, great Disgeae2: isometric 2D, great Runaway2: 2D great, except the many bugs in the cutscenes Dragon Quest IIX: 2/3D, absolutely great
I have absolutely no problem with the people who want to play driving or sport games on the 360 and I agree that high quality 3D is needed for those kind of games, but 3D is very expensive so when it is not required, it is usually a drawback since it usually reduces the ergonomy takes financial resources that could be usefull in level/quest design.
Fundind is one thing, but that would probably mean that 99% of that funding increase would be used to fill the next martian missions with thermonuclear warheads. "it's the only way to be sure", as they said.
I didn't do the math recently, but I vividly remember my science teacher insisting on that conclusion, but now, while I was trying to demonstrate that, I just remembered that we did the math modeling the battery as a serial RC circuit with a fixed tension generator, but if you use a power source that provides a variable tension (for example battery tension + 1V during the initial phase of the loading), you can charge with a fixed and limitted current. Since the battery charge will be linked to the integral (sorry, I'm not sure it is the english word for the reverse of the derivate) of I, while the power dissipated will be the integral of R*I^2, so I agree, with the right electronics, there must be a way to reduce the dissipated energy.
There is no such thing as cheap and clean energy, all we will ever have will be energy that is relatively cheap and clean corresponding to our technology level. -Oil looks cheap because we are using in a few centuries the production of millions of years. -Wind or solar energy comes free, but to use them, you need devides that need to be built, maintained and trashed, and due to their power source, they can have significant downtimes. Solar pannels also contains a lot of dangerous materials (As, Ge, Ga...) and their production causes some nasty pollution. -Nuclear power is probably the best we can have today for fixed power generation: we have largely enough uranium to wait for the fusion reactors and the generated pollution doesn't go into the atmosphere and therefore can be processed, but there will always be a risk with that. And of course, for the portable energy -Batteries are neither cheap or clean: they contain lots of toxic chemicals, have a limited life time, and due to Ohm law, can only give back only half of the energy that was put into them.
Technically, water can only be an energy carrier if it is hot since it has absolutely no chemical potential energy. H2 is the energy carrier created out of water. And yes, there is indeed a lot of dirty water on most of the planet, but either if you want to drink it or use it for chemical reaction, you need clean water, and this is naturally scarce, and expensive (energy+money) to make out of dirty water.
On the other hand, if a few million site owners run a program designed to flood that system with thousand bogus reports each day, it won't go anywhere.
Acording to wikipedia, an avergage healthy human is able to produce 3W/kg for at least an hour, therefore 200 to 250W. With minimal pay + other expenses, let's say they cost you 10$ an hour and the system has 50% conversion effciency, that's 80 to 100$ for eack kW*h. You really are desperate if you need to rely on that.
And unless at the end of Serenity, there is no space fight. I loved the show for its writing, ambiance and fun, kinda liked the movie, don't really like MMORPGs, but I sure won't play that game if it only about independants vs feds vs reavers raids. Maybe Babylon5 would be a better base for that kind of game.
My oldest memory is from the day my family moved when I was 3 and the most important part of what I remember from that day is the heavy rain. Unfortunatelly, it was actually a bright sunny day, so I believe it was only the sadness of leaving the only home I knew at that time mixed up with other things, but although I know it is wrong, it is still one of my strongest memories from my childhood.
Nice analogies... *If you are caught in a theater without a ticket, they take whatever change you have in your pocket then you are kicked out, maybe blacklisted and that's all, noone will bother to sue you for that. *If someone give away for free (or simply less) what you sell, you have the choice to either compete on quality or on price, but whatever your job, yo uhave no F*cking absolute god-given right to make a profit. If your competitor can sustain its offer and you can't compete, your restaurant will close and you will lose your job, period. Recording and selling CDs should not be an exception, they can't compete on price and refuse to compete on quality (DRM), so they deserve to disapear.
Considering that one of the richest familly owns Wallmart and built their fortune by making everyone else poorer, I would tend to disagree with that point.
On average, yes, but there seem to be a level where people are rich enough to avoid most of their taxes. For example, I'd love to pay the same percentage of taxes as the Rolling Stones (of course, I could not afford the consultant fees they pay for that service).
What you fail to understand is that the people you are talking of are already a part of the 20% richest people in the world, and those who can convince a bank to let them buy a big TV although they can't afford it and may build a fortune with that little money and a lot of work will be more probably in the richest 10%.
Do you remember last noble price? There are million of people for which a 100$ loan is the difference between starvation and a chance to have a poor but almost decent life. Those people could never afford a lottery ticket in their life.
Property is not the only thing. Give 10 bucks to a poor man and that money will go back in local economy in no time, with several other people also benefiting from that money. On the other hand, while some rich people invest their money in productive project, most of that money is used to finance states or normal people debts and gain even more money from that, which, on the overal, is loss for the economy.
To be exact, your analogy also need to say that there are still lots of free parking places in that street, since copying neither deprive any legitimate consumer from its right to buy any goods nor increases their price.
A few years ago, I was working with an indian, and he actually told me that indian schools teach future executives to behave like low level workers and always do whatever they are told to do the way they are told to do it. Those students are usualy hard working and on average as smart as anyone else (and this one was realy bright), but when you were always told that a solution that isn't the expected one is wrong, it is really hard to overcome the guilt feeling when you are faced to a professional environment that promotes creativity.
I would say there are already far too many things totally unrelated to copyright that are directly controlled by a few copyright holders (usualy of the kind that produce only memos and excel sheets).
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Can I wrote an app that automatically collect the credit card number of any subscriber of that service that is visiting my site (just to check they are 18, of course)? In other word, can anyone do whatever he want with the data or is there a good protection?
Last year, I was working for GE (I think we could all agree it is a BIG company) and we were only moving from NT4 to 2K. BTW, we were allowed to keep two NT4 systems because of a couple of apps that weren't ported yet.
Big corps didn't abandon Win95/98 because they want shiny or powerfull stuff, they did because NT4 or 2K is easier to maintain when you have hundreds of desktops and every up-to-date commercial application run on them without much hassle. They may consider a switch to XP and some already did, but Vista is just too young to be taken seriously by a big corp.
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What else should we expect since so many english politicians were recently caught in dirty affairs.
Absolutelly, it would be like banning the sexylosers comics because one of the caracters is necrophiliac. RTFR 'extreme porn', eck, that's also in the plan.
Absolutelly, among many other drawbacks...
From my recent experience:
HMM5: 3D, poor visibility of the ugly user interface, no feeling of immersion. the 4 was far better looking.
NWN2: 3D, simply too slugish on my AMD X2 + NV7600
Metal Slug 5: 2D, great
Yoshi's island: 2D, great
Disgeae2: isometric 2D, great
Runaway2: 2D great, except the many bugs in the cutscenes
Dragon Quest IIX: 2/3D, absolutely great
I have absolutely no problem with the people who want to play driving or sport games on the 360 and I agree that high quality 3D is needed for those kind of games, but 3D is very expensive so when it is not required, it is usually a drawback since it usually reduces the ergonomy takes financial resources that could be usefull in level/quest design.
Maybe, but I personnaly won't play most 3D games currently produced even if I didn't have to pay for them, they're just not entertaining.
Fundind is one thing, but that would probably mean that 99% of that funding increase would be used to fill the next martian missions with thermonuclear warheads. "it's the only way to be sure", as they said.
I didn't do the math recently, but I vividly remember my science teacher insisting on that conclusion, but now, while I was trying to demonstrate that, I just remembered that we did the math modeling the battery as a serial RC circuit with a fixed tension generator, but if you use a power source that provides a variable tension (for example battery tension + 1V during the initial phase of the loading), you can charge with a fixed and limitted current. Since the battery charge will be linked to the integral (sorry, I'm not sure it is the english word for the reverse of the derivate) of I, while the power dissipated will be the integral of R*I^2, so I agree, with the right electronics, there must be a way to reduce the dissipated energy.
There is no such thing as cheap and clean energy, all we will ever have will be energy that is relatively cheap and clean corresponding to our technology level.
-Oil looks cheap because we are using in a few centuries the production of millions of years.
-Wind or solar energy comes free, but to use them, you need devides that need to be built, maintained and trashed, and due to their power source, they can have significant downtimes. Solar pannels also contains a lot of dangerous materials (As, Ge, Ga...) and their production causes some nasty pollution.
-Nuclear power is probably the best we can have today for fixed power generation: we have largely enough uranium to wait for the fusion reactors and the generated pollution doesn't go into the atmosphere and therefore can be processed, but there will always be a risk with that.
And of course, for the portable energy
-Batteries are neither cheap or clean: they contain lots of toxic chemicals, have a limited life time, and due to Ohm law, can only give back only half of the energy that was put into them.
Technically, water can only be an energy carrier if it is hot since it has absolutely no chemical potential energy. H2 is the energy carrier created out of water.
And yes, there is indeed a lot of dirty water on most of the planet, but either if you want to drink it or use it for chemical reaction, you need clean water, and this is naturally scarce, and expensive (energy+money) to make out of dirty water.
On the other hand, if a few million site owners run a program designed to flood that system with thousand bogus reports each day, it won't go anywhere.
Iran's BTU/capita is about 1/4th of the U.S., & its GDP/capita is about 1/4th of the U.S
But european countries produce a lot more GDP per BTU than the US, maybe Syd Meyer was right and democracy helps economy to be more efficient.
Acording to wikipedia, an avergage healthy human is able to produce 3W/kg for at least an hour, therefore 200 to 250W. With minimal pay + other expenses, let's say they cost you 10$ an hour and the system has 50% conversion effciency, that's 80 to 100$ for eack kW*h.
You really are desperate if you need to rely on that.
And unless at the end of Serenity, there is no space fight.
I loved the show for its writing, ambiance and fun, kinda liked the movie, don't really like MMORPGs, but I sure won't play that game if it only about independants vs feds vs reavers raids. Maybe Babylon5 would be a better base for that kind of game.
For 75% of the world population, the most evil persons in the world are 40 to 75yo white catholic american males. Should we jail them all?
If you asked me, I would have rather phrased it "VR going nowhere"
My oldest memory is from the day my family moved when I was 3 and the most important part of what I remember from that day is the heavy rain. Unfortunatelly, it was actually a bright sunny day, so I believe it was only the sadness of leaving the only home I knew at that time mixed up with other things, but although I know it is wrong, it is still one of my strongest memories from my childhood.
Nice analogies...
*If you are caught in a theater without a ticket, they take whatever change you have in your pocket then you are kicked out, maybe blacklisted and that's all, noone will bother to sue you for that.
*If someone give away for free (or simply less) what you sell, you have the choice to either compete on quality or on price, but whatever your job, yo uhave no F*cking absolute god-given right to make a profit. If your competitor can sustain its offer and you can't compete, your restaurant will close and you will lose your job, period. Recording and selling CDs should not be an exception, they can't compete on price and refuse to compete on quality (DRM), so they deserve to disapear.
Considering that one of the richest familly owns Wallmart and built their fortune by making everyone else poorer, I would tend to disagree with that point.
On average, yes, but there seem to be a level where people are rich enough to avoid most of their taxes. For example, I'd love to pay the same percentage of taxes as the Rolling Stones (of course, I could not afford the consultant fees they pay for that service).
What you fail to understand is that the people you are talking of are already a part of the 20% richest people in the world, and those who can convince a bank to let them buy a big TV although they can't afford it and may build a fortune with that little money and a lot of work will be more probably in the richest 10%.
Do you remember last noble price? There are million of people for which a 100$ loan is the difference between starvation and a chance to have a poor but almost decent life. Those people could never afford a lottery ticket in their life.
Property is not the only thing.
Give 10 bucks to a poor man and that money will go back in local economy in no time, with several other people also benefiting from that money.
On the other hand, while some rich people invest their money in productive project, most of that money is used to finance states or normal people debts and gain even more money from that, which, on the overal, is loss for the economy.
To be exact, your analogy also need to say that there are still lots of free parking places in that street, since copying neither deprive any legitimate consumer from its right to buy any goods nor increases their price.
A few years ago, I was working with an indian, and he actually told me that indian schools teach future executives to behave like low level workers and always do whatever they are told to do the way they are told to do it. Those students are usualy hard working and on average as smart as anyone else (and this one was realy bright), but when you were always told that a solution that isn't the expected one is wrong, it is really hard to overcome the guilt feeling when you are faced to a professional environment that promotes creativity.
I would say there are already far too many things totally unrelated to copyright that are directly controlled by a few copyright holders (usualy of the kind that produce only memos and excel sheets).
Can I wrote an app that automatically collect the credit card number of any subscriber of that service that is visiting my site (just to check they are 18, of course)? In other word, can anyone do whatever he want with the data or is there a good protection?
Last year, I was working for GE (I think we could all agree it is a BIG company) and we were only moving from NT4 to 2K. BTW, we were allowed to keep two NT4 systems because of a couple of apps that weren't ported yet.
Big corps didn't abandon Win95/98 because they want shiny or powerfull stuff, they did because NT4 or 2K is easier to maintain when you have hundreds of desktops and every up-to-date commercial application run on them without much hassle. They may consider a switch to XP and some already did, but Vista is just too young to be taken seriously by a big corp.