A lot of the problems with the inventory system would have been solved by the Pg Up/Dn functionality. Especially since that is a standard function in the 360 interface-- using the Right and Left triggers to Pg Up/Dn in lists. The upgrade screen wouldn't have been a problem since it would have been easy to scroll back up to the top. Selling items would have been far easier because of a faster scrolling speed. I'm used to many other 360 games using the Dashboard standard for Pg Up/Dn, so I ended up being in the middle of editing an inventory and would switch to another character because I instinctively would pull the triggers for faster scrolling. One easy fix.
The hydrogen gas may not have helped, but studies have shown that the point of ignition was related to a static discharge that ignited the painted fabric skin of the dirigible. The hydrogen would not have burned if it weren't for the flammable exterior of the airship.
OTEC works wherever there's a temperature differential, so the equator is just where it is most efficient. This temperature differential can also be exploited in colder climates, where the ocean temp is higher than the air temperature.
Good to see that someone is covering it. In reference to the editor's comments in that link zogger posted, one theorized implementation of OTEC would be on fleets of supertanker-sized ships, allowing for the plant to move to where the temperature differential is maximized. Supertankers routinely weather harsh weather without having to be abandoned.
Maybe it isn't property damage, but it disruption of part of the restaurant's service. And maybe someone was watching that TV, but didn't have it turned back on because of the same reasons you used to justify turning it off with your gadget-- that they didn't want to interrupt the employees or cross the language barrier.
I don't have a problem with you wanting the TV to be turned off, my problem lies with your covert means of doing so. You didn't ask the establishment nor any of the other patrons, and thereby imposed your will upon others when it was not your right to do so. It's just rude.
When people talk about farming the oceans for energy, I always see algae cultivation for biodiesel brought up, but never see OTEC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTEC. Maybe this isn't useful for 100% of our energy supply, but neither is algae. Furthermore, OTEC doesn't have the same potential of dramatic ecosystem change that cultivated algae farms may have upon the ocean. Unfortunately, OTEC R&D funding seems to have been sidelined in recent years at a time where exploration of the new materials (sealants, anti-corrosives, the improved heat engine mentioned today in a/. article, etc) might yield large efficiency increases. OTEC has a lot of potential for coastal markets which, coincidentally, are where we are seeing the most growth in demand for energy.
I just wanted to mention that I'm also loving Carcassone, but I hardly ever see anyone playing it online! I wish we were getting a choice of games to choose from, because then I'd grab up Catan.
"Pointless" is the word of which you are mistaking the meaning. Just because a determined cracker can easily break WEP does not mean it is pointless. Most people only make unauthorized connections to a wireless network because the opportunity is there. Most people do not keep a packet sniffer on their computer, let alone know what it is. WEP and MAC filtering, no matter how easy they are to crack, are not pointless because they defeat opportunistic connections.
Some of us have to deal with legacy devices that are WEP-only and will just have to hope that the schmo next door and the old couple across the street don't know about how easy it is to break WEP and to sniff and dupe MAC addresses.
Why doesn't someone send these concerns to the web administrator? Maybe they still have a long list of things to be done and don't realize yet that they're not validating with the W3C. Let them know and maybe they'll increase their compliance. All it takes is an email with a link to the validator and maybe a link to this discussion. I would, but I'm not a web developer, and don't understand the validation process all that well.
Can all the people on the plane be expected to react in an adult manner if they were treated as such? I think that's expecting a bit much of the average American, especially when there's a hundred people sitting in a cramped metal tube.
Frankly, I hope that after this all gets resolved, we get an explanation of what happened. Whether by/. article, press release, or blog, I'd like to know what happened behind the scenes during what must be an insane time for the Xbox team.
So you're telling me that my cell phone's moisture "pink-dot" sensor won't be able to brick my phone at random anymore? How else are the mobile companies gonna keep ripping me off? Somebody please think of the phone companies!
This reminds me of Clarke's preface to 2010 where he discussed the influence of Kubrick adaptation of his previous work on the sequels he was writing. It was rather impressive to see an author not only acknowledging the superiority of an adaptation of his own work, but to admit that the adaptation had changed the way he imagined all ensuing work.
Pity King who can't defer to those who reinterpret his work with a deft hand.
Think of all of this from an economic perspective. Unlike defense spending, space related spending can be considered capital investment. It results in the training of workers, enhancements of skill sets, development of infrastructure for future projects, and new technology. Funding the space program is an investment in the capital resources of the United States, just like building a highway. NASA spending, like the highway, has to be done in the USA for us to get the most benefit.
Other countries will benefit as well, from the R&D and our improved launch capabilities when combined with international cooperation and sharing.
Are those with or without afterburners? They tend to use up all available fuel in short amount of time. And the extra thrust happens outside the jet engine.
The Concorde didn't have many routes because there was a NiMBY problem. Nobody wanted the plane flying out of their airports because of the sonic booms. Opposition to airport expansion is already bad as it is. I can't imagine how hard it will be to convince people to allow these scramjets on commercial flights, even if they were limited to trans-oceanic flights.
he insisted the cavemen had it right when they just left the old, infirm, etc. to die outside in the snow
When have the old impacted the gene pool anyway, if they're old enough to be beyond the biological age for reproduction? Further, the old help human groups by maintaining wisdom and knowledge. Theoretically, a human tribe that discarded their elderly would be less fit than one that keeps their elderly in situations that favor greater collective knowledge.
Unfortunately, considering Western society's preference for retirement homes, it seems your callous friend's ideas for evolutionary fitness are already being carried out. Pity.
Here's one example of an evolutionary path. Data indicates that sickle-cell anemia may have evolved in order to give resistance to malaria. As a plus side, people with sickle-cell anemia have resistance to a deadly disease, on the downside, people with sickle-cell anemia can experience pain in their joints and death. If our governments got their act together we could either eliminate or severely curtail the presence of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. If such a decrease in malaria occurred, it might lead to a reduction in sickle-cell anemia in the human gene pool. An example of tech (and to one's confoundment, politics) influencing environment and evolution.
Whoa. Assuming that the grad student would have been using pig flesh, which is very similar to that of humans, in his kill verification experiments, he merely went from consuming the sample product for a horrible project to producing the sample product for a horrible experiment???
The windmills they are planning are very large- 850ft or so (Ref:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3022277.ece). The large diameter of the blades means that the period of rotation will be very low, resulting in no chopped up birds. The risk of bird strikes will be similar to that of a similarly tall antenna or building.
At UCLA, the nearly every professor would announce, concurrent with announcing essay assignments, their disapproval (and occasional hatred) for Wikipedia.
The ban would not be permanent, but merely limited to the 2008 fiscal year. The point is not to keep NASA from Mars, but to force additional funding for what is currently an unfunded mandate. In 2004, when Bush announced his new space goals, NASA's budget was $15.5 billion. In 2007, the budget was only $16.3 billion. Adjusted for inflation, NASA's budget has been DECREASING despite having a mandate to undertake a new era of spaceflight. The Bush administration needs to work with Congress to dramatically increase NASA's funding levels.
With this temporary ban on manned Mars exploration, it can be interpreted that the Congress wants NASA to maintain its current scientific missions, including robotics, without cannibalizing them in order to pay for development of the manned Mars mission.
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New York desperately needs them, especially that KFC-Taco Bell from a year ago (http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=113755). Then again, maybe Washington needs them more for the big ones they have there.
A lot of the problems with the inventory system would have been solved by the Pg Up/Dn functionality. Especially since that is a standard function in the 360 interface-- using the Right and Left triggers to Pg Up/Dn in lists. The upgrade screen wouldn't have been a problem since it would have been easy to scroll back up to the top. Selling items would have been far easier because of a faster scrolling speed. I'm used to many other 360 games using the Dashboard standard for Pg Up/Dn, so I ended up being in the middle of editing an inventory and would switch to another character because I instinctively would pull the triggers for faster scrolling. One easy fix.
The hydrogen gas may not have helped, but studies have shown that the point of ignition was related to a static discharge that ignited the painted fabric skin of the dirigible. The hydrogen would not have burned if it weren't for the flammable exterior of the airship.
OTEC works wherever there's a temperature differential, so the equator is just where it is most efficient. This temperature differential can also be exploited in colder climates, where the ocean temp is higher than the air temperature.
Good to see that someone is covering it. In reference to the editor's comments in that link zogger posted, one theorized implementation of OTEC would be on fleets of supertanker-sized ships, allowing for the plant to move to where the temperature differential is maximized. Supertankers routinely weather harsh weather without having to be abandoned.
Maybe it isn't property damage, but it disruption of part of the restaurant's service. And maybe someone was watching that TV, but didn't have it turned back on because of the same reasons you used to justify turning it off with your gadget-- that they didn't want to interrupt the employees or cross the language barrier.
I don't have a problem with you wanting the TV to be turned off, my problem lies with your covert means of doing so. You didn't ask the establishment nor any of the other patrons, and thereby imposed your will upon others when it was not your right to do so. It's just rude.
When people talk about farming the oceans for energy, I always see algae cultivation for biodiesel brought up, but never see OTEC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTEC. Maybe this isn't useful for 100% of our energy supply, but neither is algae. Furthermore, OTEC doesn't have the same potential of dramatic ecosystem change that cultivated algae farms may have upon the ocean. Unfortunately, OTEC R&D funding seems to have been sidelined in recent years at a time where exploration of the new materials (sealants, anti-corrosives, the improved heat engine mentioned today in a /. article, etc) might yield large efficiency increases. OTEC has a lot of potential for coastal markets which, coincidentally, are where we are seeing the most growth in demand for energy.
I just wanted to mention that I'm also loving Carcassone, but I hardly ever see anyone playing it online! I wish we were getting a choice of games to choose from, because then I'd grab up Catan.
"Pointless" is the word of which you are mistaking the meaning. Just because a determined cracker can easily break WEP does not mean it is pointless. Most people only make unauthorized connections to a wireless network because the opportunity is there. Most people do not keep a packet sniffer on their computer, let alone know what it is. WEP and MAC filtering, no matter how easy they are to crack, are not pointless because they defeat opportunistic connections.
Some of us have to deal with legacy devices that are WEP-only and will just have to hope that the schmo next door and the old couple across the street don't know about how easy it is to break WEP and to sniff and dupe MAC addresses.
Why doesn't someone send these concerns to the web administrator? Maybe they still have a long list of things to be done and don't realize yet that they're not validating with the W3C. Let them know and maybe they'll increase their compliance. All it takes is an email with a link to the validator and maybe a link to this discussion. I would, but I'm not a web developer, and don't understand the validation process all that well.
Maybe the issue is that Madonna never had such a dream?
Can all the people on the plane be expected to react in an adult manner if they were treated as such? I think that's expecting a bit much of the average American, especially when there's a hundred people sitting in a cramped metal tube.
Frankly, I hope that after this all gets resolved, we get an explanation of what happened. Whether by /. article, press release, or blog, I'd like to know what happened behind the scenes during what must be an insane time for the Xbox team.
So you're telling me that my cell phone's moisture "pink-dot" sensor won't be able to brick my phone at random anymore? How else are the mobile companies gonna keep ripping me off? Somebody please think of the phone companies!
This reminds me of Clarke's preface to 2010 where he discussed the influence of Kubrick adaptation of his previous work on the sequels he was writing. It was rather impressive to see an author not only acknowledging the superiority of an adaptation of his own work, but to admit that the adaptation had changed the way he imagined all ensuing work.
Pity King who can't defer to those who reinterpret his work with a deft hand.
Think of all of this from an economic perspective. Unlike defense spending, space related spending can be considered capital investment. It results in the training of workers, enhancements of skill sets, development of infrastructure for future projects, and new technology. Funding the space program is an investment in the capital resources of the United States, just like building a highway. NASA spending, like the highway, has to be done in the USA for us to get the most benefit.
Other countries will benefit as well, from the R&D and our improved launch capabilities when combined with international cooperation and sharing.
Are those with or without afterburners? They tend to use up all available fuel in short amount of time. And the extra thrust happens outside the jet engine.
The Concorde didn't have many routes because there was a NiMBY problem. Nobody wanted the plane flying out of their airports because of the sonic booms. Opposition to airport expansion is already bad as it is. I can't imagine how hard it will be to convince people to allow these scramjets on commercial flights, even if they were limited to trans-oceanic flights.
he insisted the cavemen had it right when they just left the old, infirm, etc. to die outside in the snow
When have the old impacted the gene pool anyway, if they're old enough to be beyond the biological age for reproduction? Further, the old help human groups by maintaining wisdom and knowledge. Theoretically, a human tribe that discarded their elderly would be less fit than one that keeps their elderly in situations that favor greater collective knowledge.
Unfortunately, considering Western society's preference for retirement homes, it seems your callous friend's ideas for evolutionary fitness are already being carried out. Pity.
Here's one example of an evolutionary path. Data indicates that sickle-cell anemia may have evolved in order to give resistance to malaria. As a plus side, people with sickle-cell anemia have resistance to a deadly disease, on the downside, people with sickle-cell anemia can experience pain in their joints and death. If our governments got their act together we could either eliminate or severely curtail the presence of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. If such a decrease in malaria occurred, it might lead to a reduction in sickle-cell anemia in the human gene pool. An example of tech (and to one's confoundment, politics) influencing environment and evolution.
Whoa. Assuming that the grad student would have been using pig flesh, which is very similar to that of humans, in his kill verification experiments, he merely went from consuming the sample product for a horrible project to producing the sample product for a horrible experiment???
The windmills they are planning are very large- 850ft or so (Ref:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3022277.ece). The large diameter of the blades means that the period of rotation will be very low, resulting in no chopped up birds. The risk of bird strikes will be similar to that of a similarly tall antenna or building.
At UCLA, the nearly every professor would announce, concurrent with announcing essay assignments, their disapproval (and occasional hatred) for Wikipedia.
The ban would not be permanent, but merely limited to the 2008 fiscal year. The point is not to keep NASA from Mars, but to force additional funding for what is currently an unfunded mandate. In 2004, when Bush announced his new space goals, NASA's budget was $15.5 billion. In 2007, the budget was only $16.3 billion. Adjusted for inflation, NASA's budget has been DECREASING despite having a mandate to undertake a new era of spaceflight. The Bush administration needs to work with Congress to dramatically increase NASA's funding levels.
With this temporary ban on manned Mars exploration, it can be interpreted that the Congress wants NASA to maintain its current scientific missions, including robotics, without cannibalizing them in order to pay for development of the manned Mars mission.
A Pleo Pleasure Model???!! It doesn't even have hands! I don't know I could get down with a robotic dinosaur, let me know when it comes in "humanoid".