Yes, because what I really want to do is use a language that is terrible at string processing! If this were perl, python, or ruby, I might care. I'd rather learn javascript from scratch, than do string processing in C/C++.
Its all about sensibly assessing risk. Something we as a species, suck at.
Getting rid of the carpet is probably overkill. Get it steam cleaned and be done with it: either that is enough to pull the mercury out, or its now permanently part of your carpet. Either way it is unlikely to harm the kid unless the kid ingests the carpet. I suspect that's the worry on clothing, since kids will stick their shirt in their mouth and suck on it.
Of course that ignores all the nasty chemicals they use in steam-cleaning equipment, so...
Oh that's total BS, we already have the solution. Its just the rest of the world gets their panties in a twist when we change "waste" into "future-fuel" and toss it in a breeder and make plutonium.
The thinking has already mostly been done. The problem is the sheep are too paniced for anyone to manage to build one, at least in the US. When you can build a reactor that is fail-safe* rather than fail-deadly but aren't because "nukes are dangerous!!!!" frankly we as a species deserve what we get, even if it means writing off all higher-order life down the road.
On the flip side, China will probably build them if we don't, though I'm less sure about their real goals of fail-safe given how little they care about individuals, not to mention the ever present QC problems.
*: Say one that, when it starts doing dangerous things like heating up, becomes non-critical and so then cools down. Mother nature scattered a few prototypes of these off in Africa.
It isn't the problem with science education, it is the problem with the majority of the education we do in the US, science or otherwise. Memorize all this crap and regurgitate it on an easy to grade scantron(tm) test that asks you to memorize only not synthesize.
Most likely, no, they're doing it right. Circles/spheres are hard on the poly count. Each stud on top, plus the offset lock rings on the bottom (which are hollow too, so they count twice) is a circle that needs to be high poly so it doesn't look 'wrong'.
The musical styles are substantially different and at least from what I can tell, culturally(/period?) appropriate. In particular there is one really neat Japanese-style (at least I assume from the track name) drum piece that is pretty long and very nicely done. Similarly, a couple of the Chinese pieces are accurate of what I've heard from student/foreign parent "culture shows/celebrations" from the university's laboratory high school.
But I'm not exactly an expert in world music. I don't think it will disappoint, however, from what I've heard so far.
But I did do the steam unlock on my laptop and copied over the music directory to play while I'm at work today. The 15 hours and 58 minutes of oggs (and, I think, one wav) I copied over have -- at least so far -- been top notch. Not that I've listened to anything near the 15 hours of them, only about 2-3, but still.
Nice background music too; mostly instrumental, not too quiet nor too loud.
Memory go bad in a "san device" (I say in quotes because nobody in their right mind would actually think a singlepathed non-redundant disk array is really san-grand hardware) from a fruit-flavored vendor before, I can actually have some pity for the guys responsible/working on it. Debugging it is a great time too, because your filesystem rebuild generally works. As does copying small amounts of data. It is only once you try to copy a couple terabytes things go to hell.
Filesystem data and inode corruption both coming and going. Best part is fsck of course just makes things worse as it detects the real errors and the fake errors induced by reads of the bad ram.
Not just think. You need to be able to learn and remember at least some of it. Also a willingness to ask questions, because at least half the time what you're being asked to do is what someone thinks they need done, but not what they actually need done. Some social skills there doesn't hurt, especially with convincing someone they don't want what they asked for.
Sadly in the United Suburbs of America, the walk, bike, and bus options are often highly impractical to totally infeasible. You may as well fight the fight you can win (be it buy used or buy new) and try to get things going in a better direction than just be pissing in the wind.
Unfortunately this is also the Disposable States of America, so getting said old car fixed and running may cost you more $$$ than buying a new one. It'd be more envrio-friendly but there's a clear opportunity cost there. Those $$ going into fixing it are bucks that also could do things like upgrade a house's insulation, put on solar or wind generation, or a number of other green practices.
I can't be sure but there's a good chance he's referring to the fear of nuclear proliferation. You can turn "waste" into fuel in a breeder reactor and dramatically shorten the half-lives of what is actually truly waste. Problem is that breeds plutonium. And that's a political nightmare.
Side benefit: You can also convert "non-fuel" U-238 into Plutonium and by decay U-235 (aka "enriched uranium"). While U-235 is fairly rare in nature at 1% of natural Uranium, U-238 isn't. It's common as dirt -- it is after all what decays to produce that troublesome radioactive Radon gas.
3. Idiot hippy-environmentalists who'd rather see humans wiped off the face of the earth who erect red tape to tie nuke plant construction down.
If we built some modern nukes, we could actually reduce the dangers posed by the present plants which are old designs and just plain old-aged by shutting them down. But too many idiots see "nuclear" and have a little internal hissy fit.
I'd much rather compare the size of next year's SSDs to the size of storage I require. If next year's HDD was a yottabyte, and the SSDs only a terabyte... would I care about the HDD? No. I don't need the space.
Nor do any of the mom and pops out there right now. Oh sure the HDD size thing will be a selling point... until that starts to be a bother due to the BIOS limits on HDD size. And then someone (likely dell) will figure out they could include a smaller SSD for near the same cost and have really really fast PCs and the conclusion is foregone.
Even on Win 7 with a pile of games installed I don't need more than about 100 to 120 gig right now. Yes, it'll go up with time, but not as fast as SSD or HDDs advance in size.
You don't own polarized sunglasses, do you? Nor does anyone who rated you up. LCDs are already polarized light -- that's how they are able to turn pixels on and off. Two polarizations 90 deg out of phase = no light transmission. Put on polarized (sun)glasses and suddenly you have a entirely black LCD from certain angles. Not every angle mind you -- I can see my landscape display just fine, but the portrait one next to it goes jet black with them on.
Now, I'll admit it lets you see dust and dirt on the display very clearly when you can't see the display itself. That's not really a great selling point...
Now on an OLED or plasma display you might have something -- problem is you have to match the polarization orientations. So if you tilt your head, suddenly you can't see your screen.
The lack of an atmosphere, lack of gravity to sustain one, and lack of naturally occurring liquid water means the moon more or less totally lacks much of the negative changes we could induce by colonization. Air pollution doesn't do much for you when you don't have any air to pollute. There's no water cycle to carry waste where you don't want it. The outside environment (aka hard vacuum and or regolith) is already lethal/abrasive, good luck making it 'worse' by polluting it.
About all you'll get is the 'despoiling the view' -- but you have to do that directly by messing with the lunar landscape and soil. It isn't like you're cutting down thousands of trees in order to rip off the top of a mountain for the coal beneath. You can still do it, but it involves a lot more effort. (you actually have to do something to those how-many square kilometers?)
Patch monthly, turn the NPC on for the next quest stage weekly. Done! AC has been doing it for a while and it seems to work well for them. The problem is it means monthly patching, which from all reports out of classic AC is really really rough on the dev team and burns them out quickly. They seem to have cut back the amount of content each month just a little, which seems like enough to let the team handle it nowdays, so STO could maybe make it work.
Then again how much new content do you need to entertain players who's space battles consist of "fly around the other guy in circles, try not to be too close when he blows up" and the fps-on-rails on the ground?
What student loan debt? I only did a masters but I know a few PhD types who came out of the same (public) university I did and they weren't leaving with the mountain of debt. I left with none from my grad school (TA/RA positions the whole time).
Yes, I was young, single, lived like a college student, and didn't have a car (though I'd chip in on parking and gas for the roommate who usually did have one, though with the bus system and now zipcars that's a lot less of a problem). A TA/RA position isn't going to let you live the life of luxury nor support a family by itself, but it wasn't half bad either.
That said I don't disagree with the point; if we paid scientists like we pay big name sports/actors/models/musicians, we'd all be living in the Jetsons cartoons, complete with flying cars that go putt-putt-putt.
Because you installed the 'ubufox' package (probably by default), by chance? The package even says something about "remove this to have a vanilla firefox."
According to Turbine, it has done great things for DDO. I'd have to at least partially agree with them -- in the short term (6 months since release) I have seen plenty of noob characters running around.
After all, RuneScape (also free to play) has been terribly unsuccessful. Oh wait... #2 in accounts after WoW. Now they don't all pay $15/month like WoW but still, even if 5% of them pay $5 a month that's around $3mil/year. I wouldn't cry if I put out a silly little game with around two or three people originally and made $3mil/year with it ten years down the line.
I can only hope he has already done the voice acting/narration of technologies for Civ5, as in Civ4. His reading of the little quotes with each technological advance were spot-on almost every time. The deadpan delivery of Space Flight/Sputnik's "Beep. Beep. Beep." is probably the best, but Bureaucracy isn't far behind.
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Yes, because what I really want to do is use a language that is terrible at string processing! If this were perl, python, or ruby, I might care. I'd rather learn javascript from scratch, than do string processing in C/C++.
Its all about sensibly assessing risk. Something we as a species, suck at.
Getting rid of the carpet is probably overkill. Get it steam cleaned and be done with it: either that is enough to pull the mercury out, or its now permanently part of your carpet. Either way it is unlikely to harm the kid unless the kid ingests the carpet. I suspect that's the worry on clothing, since kids will stick their shirt in their mouth and suck on it.
Of course that ignores all the nasty chemicals they use in steam-cleaning equipment, so...
Oh that's total BS, we already have the solution. Its just the rest of the world gets their panties in a twist when we change "waste" into "future-fuel" and toss it in a breeder and make plutonium.
The thinking has already mostly been done. The problem is the sheep are too paniced for anyone to manage to build one, at least in the US. When you can build a reactor that is fail-safe* rather than fail-deadly but aren't because "nukes are dangerous!!!!" frankly we as a species deserve what we get, even if it means writing off all higher-order life down the road.
On the flip side, China will probably build them if we don't, though I'm less sure about their real goals of fail-safe given how little they care about individuals, not to mention the ever present QC problems.
*: Say one that, when it starts doing dangerous things like heating up, becomes non-critical and so then cools down. Mother nature scattered a few prototypes of these off in Africa.
You're doing it wrong: SSDs don't spin.
You mean like this: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Squier%26%23174%3B+-+Rock+Band+3+Game+Guitar+-+Black/1601028.p;jsessionid=FB4FAAC09FB260EAD5903AB78859877C.bbolsp-app06-17?id=1218272665437&skuId=1601028&st=rock%20band%203&contract_desc=null
Yes yes, not released yet. I know.
It isn't the problem with science education, it is the problem with the majority of the education we do in the US, science or otherwise. Memorize all this crap and regurgitate it on an easy to grade scantron(tm) test that asks you to memorize only not synthesize.
Most likely, no, they're doing it right. Circles/spheres are hard on the poly count. Each stud on top, plus the offset lock rings on the bottom (which are hollow too, so they count twice) is a circle that needs to be high poly so it doesn't look 'wrong'.
The LEGO Group is big about that sort of thing.
The musical styles are substantially different and at least from what I can tell, culturally(/period?) appropriate. In particular there is one really neat Japanese-style (at least I assume from the track name) drum piece that is pretty long and very nicely done. Similarly, a couple of the Chinese pieces are accurate of what I've heard from student/foreign parent "culture shows/celebrations" from the university's laboratory high school.
But I'm not exactly an expert in world music. I don't think it will disappoint, however, from what I've heard so far.
But I did do the steam unlock on my laptop and copied over the music directory to play while I'm at work today. The 15 hours and 58 minutes of oggs (and, I think, one wav) I copied over have -- at least so far -- been top notch. Not that I've listened to anything near the 15 hours of them, only about 2-3, but still.
Nice background music too; mostly instrumental, not too quiet nor too loud.
Memory go bad in a "san device" (I say in quotes because nobody in their right mind would actually think a singlepathed non-redundant disk array is really san-grand hardware) from a fruit-flavored vendor before, I can actually have some pity for the guys responsible/working on it. Debugging it is a great time too, because your filesystem rebuild generally works. As does copying small amounts of data. It is only once you try to copy a couple terabytes things go to hell.
Filesystem data and inode corruption both coming and going. Best part is fsck of course just makes things worse as it detects the real errors and the fake errors induced by reads of the bad ram.
Luckily we had backups.
Not just think. You need to be able to learn and remember at least some of it. Also a willingness to ask questions, because at least half the time what you're being asked to do is what someone thinks they need done, but not what they actually need done. Some social skills there doesn't hurt, especially with convincing someone they don't want what they asked for.
but patch and package management are part of the OS, and on Solaris they stink.
Sadly in the United Suburbs of America, the walk, bike, and bus options are often highly impractical to totally infeasible. You may as well fight the fight you can win (be it buy used or buy new) and try to get things going in a better direction than just be pissing in the wind.
Unfortunately this is also the Disposable States of America, so getting said old car fixed and running may cost you more $$$ than buying a new one. It'd be more envrio-friendly but there's a clear opportunity cost there. Those $$ going into fixing it are bucks that also could do things like upgrade a house's insulation, put on solar or wind generation, or a number of other green practices.
Mods. Try "Fall from Heaven 2" -- for Civ4/BtS/Warlords. It was on huge discount when Civ V got announced on Steam, but it looks regular price now.
I can't be sure but there's a good chance he's referring to the fear of nuclear proliferation. You can turn "waste" into fuel in a breeder reactor and dramatically shorten the half-lives of what is actually truly waste. Problem is that breeds plutonium. And that's a political nightmare.
Side benefit: You can also convert "non-fuel" U-238 into Plutonium and by decay U-235 (aka "enriched uranium"). While U-235 is fairly rare in nature at 1% of natural Uranium, U-238 isn't. It's common as dirt -- it is after all what decays to produce that troublesome radioactive Radon gas.
3. Idiot hippy-environmentalists who'd rather see humans wiped off the face of the earth who erect red tape to tie nuke plant construction down.
If we built some modern nukes, we could actually reduce the dangers posed by the present plants which are old designs and just plain old-aged by shutting them down. But too many idiots see "nuclear" and have a little internal hissy fit.
I'd much rather compare the size of next year's SSDs to the size of storage I require. If next year's HDD was a yottabyte, and the SSDs only a terabyte... would I care about the HDD? No. I don't need the space.
Nor do any of the mom and pops out there right now. Oh sure the HDD size thing will be a selling point... until that starts to be a bother due to the BIOS limits on HDD size. And then someone (likely dell) will figure out they could include a smaller SSD for near the same cost and have really really fast PCs and the conclusion is foregone.
Even on Win 7 with a pile of games installed I don't need more than about 100 to 120 gig right now. Yes, it'll go up with time, but not as fast as SSD or HDDs advance in size.
You don't own polarized sunglasses, do you? Nor does anyone who rated you up. LCDs are already polarized light -- that's how they are able to turn pixels on and off. Two polarizations 90 deg out of phase = no light transmission. Put on polarized (sun)glasses and suddenly you have a entirely black LCD from certain angles. Not every angle mind you -- I can see my landscape display just fine, but the portrait one next to it goes jet black with them on.
Now, I'll admit it lets you see dust and dirt on the display very clearly when you can't see the display itself. That's not really a great selling point...
Now on an OLED or plasma display you might have something -- problem is you have to match the polarization orientations. So if you tilt your head, suddenly you can't see your screen.
The lack of an atmosphere, lack of gravity to sustain one, and lack of naturally occurring liquid water means the moon more or less totally lacks much of the negative changes we could induce by colonization. Air pollution doesn't do much for you when you don't have any air to pollute. There's no water cycle to carry waste where you don't want it. The outside environment (aka hard vacuum and or regolith) is already lethal/abrasive, good luck making it 'worse' by polluting it.
About all you'll get is the 'despoiling the view' -- but you have to do that directly by messing with the lunar landscape and soil. It isn't like you're cutting down thousands of trees in order to rip off the top of a mountain for the coal beneath. You can still do it, but it involves a lot more effort. (you actually have to do something to those how-many square kilometers?)
Patch monthly, turn the NPC on for the next quest stage weekly. Done! AC has been doing it for a while and it seems to work well for them. The problem is it means monthly patching, which from all reports out of classic AC is really really rough on the dev team and burns them out quickly. They seem to have cut back the amount of content each month just a little, which seems like enough to let the team handle it nowdays, so STO could maybe make it work.
Then again how much new content do you need to entertain players who's space battles consist of "fly around the other guy in circles, try not to be too close when he blows up" and the fps-on-rails on the ground?
What student loan debt? I only did a masters but I know a few PhD types who came out of the same (public) university I did and they weren't leaving with the mountain of debt. I left with none from my grad school (TA/RA positions the whole time).
Yes, I was young, single, lived like a college student, and didn't have a car (though I'd chip in on parking and gas for the roommate who usually did have one, though with the bus system and now zipcars that's a lot less of a problem). A TA/RA position isn't going to let you live the life of luxury nor support a family by itself, but it wasn't half bad either.
That said I don't disagree with the point; if we paid scientists like we pay big name sports/actors/models/musicians, we'd all be living in the Jetsons cartoons, complete with flying cars that go putt-putt-putt.
Because you installed the 'ubufox' package (probably by default), by chance? The package even says something about "remove this to have a vanilla firefox."
According to Turbine, it has done great things for DDO. I'd have to at least partially agree with them -- in the short term (6 months since release) I have seen plenty of noob characters running around.
After all, RuneScape (also free to play) has been terribly unsuccessful. Oh wait... #2 in accounts after WoW. Now they don't all pay $15/month like WoW but still, even if 5% of them pay $5 a month that's around $3mil/year. I wouldn't cry if I put out a silly little game with around two or three people originally and made $3mil/year with it ten years down the line.
I can only hope he has already done the voice acting/narration of technologies for Civ5, as in Civ4. His reading of the little quotes with each technological advance were spot-on almost every time. The deadpan delivery of Space Flight/Sputnik's "Beep. Beep. Beep." is probably the best, but Bureaucracy isn't far behind.