Are you assuming they will try to grow something in pure ammonia? And to illustrate you point in a relevant way I would like you to take a look at this bottle of medical oxygen, people do breathe it and it does indeed help them, when used to supplement air. Simply put, you are neglecting the fact that the ammonia will be dispersed in the water so that it will indeed be able to create a healthy algae bloom. Or, as the GP pointed out, it may be sold to farmers to be pumped into the soil to fertilize crops which is currently a common practice. (side note: the overuse of ammonia in a crop can lead to polluting runoff)
They are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities. One of these does not belong, which one is it? Seriously, they say one thing, then turn around and say the opposite as well just so they don't offend anyone, without citing any actual research other than their anecdotal experience. What content?
Goodbye recharging my cell phone every night and my iPod every other.
Keep in mind that talk time will cut into listening time. So if you talk on the phone for 4 hours, you'll only have about 10~12 hours audio playback. You'll still probably be charging it at least every other night.
No, I know for a fact (work at a radio station) that radio stations (at least the independantly operated ones) pay for a subscription to the cd service that delivers compositions of new music to them. So, YES many radio stations DO pay for the music, but not directly to the RIAA.
If you pplug the card in and doen't get video output from POST, your card is dead. Check that. If you do see the POST output but get nada from linux, something is probably wrong with the linux install. My guess is that the card is bad.
"just try it" is the fastest way to at least find out that it doesn't work.
It has been my experience that the simplest way to see if a car works is to put gas in it and turn the key.
I'm looking for two criteria: 1. To be used to support legal activities, I'm not talking about a drug dealer using the list to check to see if his buyers are undercover police
2. Of reasonable plausibility, just because someone thinks it is important to lookup whether the cashier at Walmart has ever worked undercover for the police does not mean anyone would
My argument is that the primary, if not exclusive, users of such a list would be using it because they are engaging in criminal activity.
short of that, I'm just wasting my time pointing out crap.
You mean like the guy on ebay who'll sell you an Xbox 360 in great condition for $250 except that you receive a picture of one two weeks later after paying, yeah I'm sure he's a snitch for the FBI. Or do you mean the dealer who says the pot is fine even though it is laced with lsd, yeah they'll be listed on this site. Your reason is crap, give me a valid legitimate reason for this kind of service.
The analogy was supposed to illustrate that intent is important in such discusions.
But staying with the analogy, what kind of tree stumps are you going to remove with it? I can't think of any legitimate uses for such a system.
I can buy fetilizer in massive quantities - totally legal, A-OK
I can buy dynamite to remove stumps from my property - totally legal, A-OK
Would blowing up a building with it be legal? Hell no. Nor would it be a good idea. (if I wasn't before, I'm probably on some watch list now, and I don't even condone such behavior)
Just because something is publically/freely/legally available, it does not mean doing anything you want with it morally right/legal. Sometimes it's about what you do with something, the not thing it self that is the problem.
Yes, but I would imagine they are heading there anyway, especially by the time the next version of Windows comes out. So requiring 64bit won't really affect the lead in landfils.
Will this increase the amount of lead going into our landfills?
What? Are you basing this on 64 bit chips being larger? Anyway, no. RoHS is influencing the American market quite a bit, so I would imagine that since these will be new chips following those guidelines, they will actually reduce the amount of lead going into landfills.
Give players 30 or 60 days then drop that content and then rearrange the game world to reflect those changes.
MMOs already do this and call them 'story quests', 'story arcs', and whatnot.
A "solution"... Instance it. Present a storyline with quests and some such that build the story, then have an instanced "dungeon" that friends can group together and play through the conclusion of.
That takes the MMO out of MMO, and leaves you with a single player or cooperative game that is not an MMO. When you do that, you get a coop game with a 3d lounge. Guild Wars does that. It gets really boring after a short while for players like myself that like a dynamic and social game.
Another "design" goal seems to be to create devices that look like they were squeezed out of an orifice, have only one flat side (the bottom) and as a consequence, won't stack.
Don't buy Apple products and you won't have that problem.
The more something can tell me without requiring me to interact with it, the more time I save. A glance is always faster than calling up a web page and selecting some option.
Exactly. LEDs are especially useful for troubleshooting. The device isn't working properly, but is it because it isn't getting power? Enough power? Still booting? Chip dead? Connector bad? You can't tell those things by bring up a webpage, but lights will often tell you.
I don't like that idea, because it'll be stressful enough filing an insurance claim if my car is broken into, I don't want to have to call the credit card company to cancel my cards too. I'd prefer to keep my card with me where I can keep better track of it. I also keep my cards in my pocket so that I don't forget it in my deskdrawer/whatever.
And what are you doing, besides sitting on it, that you need to replace your card once a year?
This is a valid point. My card lasts me through the expiration date. I think this only becomes an issue when you use your credit cards for everything. Some people need to realize that they can use cash for that 70 polar pop or 2 dollar coffee. Hell, it costs those business around 30 cents just to process a credit card transaction which is why an ice cream place doesn't accept credit cards, because they would take a loss on their dollar ice cream cones with credit cards.
I don't think that allowing people to be jedi was the mistake, but making it too easy to be a jedi is. When I played, being a jedi wasn't what drew people to the game. And the people that wanted to play SWG just to be a jedi left pretty quickly, which weeded out a lot of idiots. Granted many people wanted to be a jedi, but doesn't everyone want to be a level 60 character in WoW? I agree that they should have picked a better time period if they wanted to stay cannon with lots of jedis. What you need to realize is that some people don't play Star Wars games just to be jedis.
If they stuck to lore, then people didn't like the game.
That is not true. People did like the game. Then SOE changed it and lost a very large portion of its player base. As far as I know, it is the only game that has an active community (http://www.swgemu.com/) attempting to change it back to its original state, not because they just want to run and control their own servers, but because the original version was significantly better than its current version.
I don't think you realize what the game was initially supposed to be. It wasn't a game where everyone starts as a jedi: that was KotOR. SWG was... well, SWG. It was a MMORPG, not a MMOFPS. If you want that, go play PlanetSide. Galaxies had one of the most complex and fun as hell games when it first came out. They decided that wasn't good enough and made it easy to become a jedi and killed the game because now a bunch of people with a12 year old mentality are running around going 'OMG!1 I b jedi!one chk out me leet skillz1!'
The cost of producing the CFL is also dramatically higher than that of making an incandescent. Making and twisting the tube is much more complex than making the simple bubble for an incandescent. The circuitry (ballast) and plastic case also cost more to make than the filament, both in terms of money and energy. Are you sure that the overall energy consumption from production through the full lifetime is going to be lesser for CFLs?
My guess is that is the reason they cost more initially, so the consumer pays those production costs upfront. If the bulb ends up saving the consumer money by conserving power, that would indicate that the buld is indeed cheaper ($ and environment - mercury is not the only polutant involved here) to produce+operate.
IMO, modern American society is a failure in terms of work ethic. As society progresses, people should be working less for more money and more leisure, not the other way around.
That is not hard to obtain in America. Move out of the urban areas to 'smalltown, midwest'. Ok, you only make 35k a year instead of 45k, but you only work, 40-50 hours a week. Food costs less, and if you settle for an older (>20 years old) house you can live VERY comfortably. I think the problem arises when the 'Starbucks generation' (not that you are, but those people make the same complaints) finds it unacceptable to make 10k less a year and can't find a Panera and Starbucks on every city block, even when it costs >15k less to live there. Everything may not be as shiny, but at least you have to time and opportunity to actually enjoy life.
To take this analogy a little bit further, imagine the big bully on the block comming and taking all of your cookies. He then refuses to share any of them unless you pay him. That is what the GPL prevents.
Wouldn't putting the code in public domain be doing the same thing? If I put my code in public domain and a company decides to use it after that, would that not be illegal? Or am I confusing patents with copyright too much? Damn IP laws, I'm so confused! I'm a coder Jim, not a lawyer!
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Are you assuming they will try to grow something in pure ammonia? And to illustrate you point in a relevant way I would like you to take a look at this bottle of medical oxygen, people do breathe it and it does indeed help them, when used to supplement air. Simply put, you are neglecting the fact that the ammonia will be dispersed in the water so that it will indeed be able to create a healthy algae bloom. Or, as the GP pointed out, it may be sold to farmers to be pumped into the soil to fertilize crops which is currently a common practice. (side note: the overuse of ammonia in a crop can lead to polluting runoff)
I see you point, but you severely underestimate the stupidity of people.
No, I know for a fact (work at a radio station) that radio stations (at least the independantly operated ones) pay for a subscription to the cd service that delivers compositions of new music to them. So, YES many radio stations DO pay for the music, but not directly to the RIAA.
1. To be used to support legal activities, I'm not talking about a drug dealer using the list to check to see if his buyers are undercover police
2. Of reasonable plausibility, just because someone thinks it is important to lookup whether the cashier at Walmart has ever worked undercover for the police does not mean anyone would
My argument is that the primary, if not exclusive, users of such a list would be using it because they are engaging in criminal activity.
That's what I am saying.
You mean like the guy on ebay who'll sell you an Xbox 360 in great condition for $250 except that you receive a picture of one two weeks later after paying, yeah I'm sure he's a snitch for the FBI. Or do you mean the dealer who says the pot is fine even though it is laced with lsd, yeah they'll be listed on this site. Your reason is crap, give me a valid legitimate reason for this kind of service.
The analogy was supposed to illustrate that intent is important in such discusions. But staying with the analogy, what kind of tree stumps are you going to remove with it? I can't think of any legitimate uses for such a system.
I can buy fetilizer in massive quantities - totally legal, A-OK I can buy dynamite to remove stumps from my property - totally legal, A-OK Would blowing up a building with it be legal? Hell no. Nor would it be a good idea. (if I wasn't before, I'm probably on some watch list now, and I don't even condone such behavior) Just because something is publically/freely/legally available, it does not mean doing anything you want with it morally right/legal. Sometimes it's about what you do with something, the not thing it self that is the problem.
Yes, but I would imagine they are heading there anyway, especially by the time the next version of Windows comes out. So requiring 64bit won't really affect the lead in landfils.
Completely agreed. I wish I had mod points, but since I don't I'll simply voice my agreement.
To stretch this out with the analogy, giving countries nukes affected conventional wars, just like people having guns will affect fist fights.
Oh, but didn't you hear? Global warming causes supernovas as well!
I don't think that allowing people to be jedi was the mistake, but making it too easy to be a jedi is. When I played, being a jedi wasn't what drew people to the game. And the people that wanted to play SWG just to be a jedi left pretty quickly, which weeded out a lot of idiots. Granted many people wanted to be a jedi, but doesn't everyone want to be a level 60 character in WoW? I agree that they should have picked a better time period if they wanted to stay cannon with lots of jedis. What you need to realize is that some people don't play Star Wars games just to be jedis. If they stuck to lore, then people didn't like the game. That is not true. People did like the game. Then SOE changed it and lost a very large portion of its player base. As far as I know, it is the only game that has an active community (http://www.swgemu.com/) attempting to change it back to its original state, not because they just want to run and control their own servers, but because the original version was significantly better than its current version.
I don't think you realize what the game was initially supposed to be. It wasn't a game where everyone starts as a jedi: that was KotOR. SWG was... well, SWG. It was a MMORPG, not a MMOFPS. If you want that, go play PlanetSide. Galaxies had one of the most complex and fun as hell games when it first came out. They decided that wasn't good enough and made it easy to become a jedi and killed the game because now a bunch of people with a12 year old mentality are running around going 'OMG!1 I b jedi!one chk out me leet skillz1!'
I've known some vegan hippie computer scientists. The two groups are not mutually exclusive.