Lots of folk make parts for cars. You don't need BMW or Ford to be around to keep their cars going. Just like I don't need id to support Quake 3 to keep playing it.
Your faith in steam--a DRM server-- is far greater that I would give a company that just needs to turn a profit. Sooner or later some games will get phased out or they will go under or their server will not be upgraded enough etc etc. Its happened before, it will happen again.
But I can get car fixed without a "genuine" dealer. And a car doesn't check with the manufacture for "authorization" before starting.
For this car analogy to work, your BMW or Ford or whatever would need to disable itself the day BMW/Ford when out of business. You would not be able to drive to garage to get "fixed" and you wouldn't be able to buy any parts for it --ever. Furthermore working out a way to get it to work again, without requiring the built in authorization, would be a crime (a la DMCA).
This is not really true. In my experience there is a large sub-community that buys a game one weekend then sells or trades it in a few weeks/months later. They don't keep the game on the hard drive, they just are not interested in a game they have "finished". The boxes they return are mint and they usually get 50% or more the *current* retail price. The CD keys work fine (if its through a shop it has to be).
I have got quite a few second hand games off these kinds of people and have never been disappointed. To them games are disposable items that you get rid of when finished. I don't do that with games and still have my original Q3 CD and T-shirt. But we are not all the same.
For some people the ability to sell a game when they are finished is important.
So you can't get to the website. What about just using Google that will normally find a lot of TPB torrents. Can you still connect to the tracker? My guess is you probably can.
What??? Did you read my post? What are you even talking about? Do what bold? Whats bold about tax on imports. We already have them you know. But we won't push them beyond what is smart to do so. Hurting trade relations with the US will cost money. So we don't do it. Its got nothing to do with cowards or otherwise.
Oh yea Europe is a little more diverse than France. You want real political monkeys look at Italy or Greece. Also it wasn't till the 50's that the country I'm became a country again. Its a bit different here.....
Sure we have the guts. We would just prefer the money and ipods. Seriously, carbon tax will get pushed by each country only as much as it will be economically smart to do so.
It also states that this is a Pressurized Water Reactor, so it's probably more about generating by-products (esp. tritium) than it is about generating energy.
What are you talking about? If the control rods are Li then you get T. But if you want more interesting byproducts you leave the water out and go for a fast neutron spectrum *and* you get more tritium.
Its pretty clear that this is about generating electricity.
You are thinking of the R&D thin film cells, not the current crop. Parent almost certainly has silicon cells so the lead mercury and cadmium is released is nill. They make more energy over there lifetime (much more) that it takes to produce the cells in the first place.
No matter how you slice it, its a net win. Unless you are a plant and can grow better with *more* CO2 in the atmosphere.
I mean neutrino mass and oscillation. Yes the standard model has without a doubt "spectacular agreement between theory and experiment" and I would even call that an understatement. But like many others I still don't really like all the experimentally determined constants and stuff. So heres hoping for something better. It would be nice to have a theory that *predicted* the mass of the Higgs for example....
But the universe is not required to conform to our desires.
Black holes at the energies that LHC will reach is only a possibility under string theory. So its a push in the right direction. However not finding black holes does not disprove it.
But lets not get a head of our selves. We have cracks in the standard model, and who knows what the LHC will throw up.
After shifting from NZ to Austria, you really notice how much Telecom is shafting NZ'ers. I get unlimited 2Mbit for 20Eu per month including phone. I use an average of about 1Mbit and sometimes as much as 1.8MBit. So its really unlimited. Austria does not have great internet prices compared to some EU countries.
One thing is for sure. If I set up a another internet based company it won't be in NZ even if thats where I live.
Its far less than not so much. Its really none. There is not even a proper correlation. Example, in Germany that nut case that shot people played some FPS the night before. But how many males in his age bracket also played a FPS that night and didn't shoot up a school?
The real ratios are below 1%. ie the bank only keeps cents out of every 100 deposited. The system must fall down eventually, because the amount of money in the economy must increase exponentially and is not bounded by anything physical. Yet money has no meaning outside what you can physically buy with it which cannot increase exponentially indefinably.
Getting a full retirement fund to term out of the current system before a *bust* is quite a trick.
I don't disagree on any point and should add that I meant within our current understanding/models. We already have some cracks in the standard model, neutrino mass is one of them. The results from the LHC could be quite interesting to say the least.
People that argue FTL is inevitable, that our theoretical physics must have a tiny flaw that will allow it to happen, don't understand that this isn't about quantum physics or string theory or even relativity. It's about the basic rules that allow us to understand the universe.
Have to disagree there. It is about relativity. Its relativity that says we live in "4 space" with one time like dimension. Its relativity that makes the prediction that FTL travel can result in causality violations. So it can't not be about it.
You don't even need to modify it that much to prevent causality violations with FTL either. If FTL travel *does* have a preferred inertial frame, IIRC then thats enough. A FTL ether if you like. This however may not be interpreted as a "small" change to relativity.
Any (effective) FTL travel or communication methods can be used to violate causality. Period. This means that in some frame of reference you can get outside you light cone. AKA total travel time is less than lights travel time. Unless you add extra constraints to the system. You can violate casualty.
This warp bubble has many other problems. Like that the inside is casually disconnected to the outside. That it does not conserve some "invariants" of space time and the use of negative energy that does not exist and is not predicted via the standard model. Finally most warp drives need more energy than the entire visible universe.
I like these "claims". Check who made them and check the details of the claim and you might find that the story is a little different from what you think.
Unless there are extra constraints outside the current relativity theory, any FTL travel or communication can violate causality. This is a simple relativity problem. It does not matter *how* you achieve FTL travel/communication.
You don't need FTL travel to explore the local star system (or further). A antimatter drive is not theoretically impossible and reasonable mass ratios can give you 50% the speed of light. Thats only 40 or so years travel time out to 20ly (about 100 stars) and add life extension or hibernation methods and your golden. 80 years gets you out to 40 ly distances and your looking at more than 500 stars. There are other possibilities for sub light speed travel too.
The universe is not required to conform to our instant gratification culture, or too our SciFi faith.
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Lots of folk make parts for cars. You don't need BMW or Ford to be around to keep their cars going. Just like I don't need id to support Quake 3 to keep playing it.
Your faith in steam--a DRM server-- is far greater that I would give a company that just needs to turn a profit. Sooner or later some games will get phased out or they will go under or their server will not be upgraded enough etc etc. Its happened before, it will happen again.
But I can get car fixed without a "genuine" dealer. And a car doesn't check with the manufacture for "authorization" before starting.
For this car analogy to work, your BMW or Ford or whatever would need to disable itself the day BMW/Ford when out of business. You would not be able to drive to garage to get "fixed" and you wouldn't be able to buy any parts for it --ever. Furthermore working out a way to get it to work again, without requiring the built in authorization, would be a crime (a la DMCA).
And when it doesn't? Then what?
This is not really true. In my experience there is a large sub-community that buys a game one weekend then sells or trades it in a few weeks/months later. They don't keep the game on the hard drive, they just are not interested in a game they have "finished". The boxes they return are mint and they usually get 50% or more the *current* retail price. The CD keys work fine (if its through a shop it has to be).
I have got quite a few second hand games off these kinds of people and have never been disappointed. To them games are disposable items that you get rid of when finished. I don't do that with games and still have my original Q3 CD and T-shirt. But we are not all the same.
For some people the ability to sell a game when they are finished is important.
I hated Counter Strike. It was just too slow. Different strokes for different folks. I think theres plenty of room for more than a few "ordinary" FPS.
So you can't get to the website. What about just using Google that will normally find a lot of TPB torrents. Can you still connect to the tracker? My guess is you probably can.
What??? Did you read my post? What are you even talking about? Do what bold? Whats bold about tax on imports. We already have them you know. But we won't push them beyond what is smart to do so. Hurting trade relations with the US will cost money. So we don't do it. Its got nothing to do with cowards or otherwise.
Oh yea Europe is a little more diverse than France. You want real political monkeys look at Italy or Greece. Also it wasn't till the 50's that the country I'm became a country again. Its a bit different here.....
You can't send information with entanglement. Someone else said it better than me: /. post
Europe doesn't have the guts...
Sure we have the guts. We would just prefer the money and ipods. Seriously, carbon tax will get pushed by each country only as much as it will be economically smart to do so.
It also states that this is a Pressurized Water Reactor, so it's probably more about generating by-products (esp. tritium) than it is about generating energy.
What are you talking about? If the control rods are Li then you get T. But if you want more interesting byproducts you leave the water out and go for a fast neutron spectrum *and* you get more tritium.
Its pretty clear that this is about generating electricity.
You are thinking of the R&D thin film cells, not the current crop. Parent almost certainly has silicon cells so the lead mercury and cadmium is released is nill. They make more energy over there lifetime (much more) that it takes to produce the cells in the first place.
No matter how you slice it, its a net win. Unless you are a plant and can grow better with *more* CO2 in the atmosphere.
I mean neutrino mass and oscillation. Yes the standard model has without a doubt "spectacular agreement between theory and experiment" and I would even call that an understatement. But like many others I still don't really like all the experimentally determined constants and stuff. So heres hoping for something better. It would be nice to have a theory that *predicted* the mass of the Higgs for example....
But the universe is not required to conform to our desires.
Black holes at the energies that LHC will reach is only a possibility under string theory. So its a push in the right direction. However not finding black holes does not disprove it.
But lets not get a head of our selves. We have cracks in the standard model, and who knows what the LHC will throw up.
After shifting from NZ to Austria, you really notice how much Telecom is shafting NZ'ers. I get unlimited 2Mbit for 20Eu per month including phone. I use an average of about 1Mbit and sometimes as much as 1.8MBit. So its really unlimited. Austria does not have great internet prices compared to some EU countries.
One thing is for sure. If I set up a another internet based company it won't be in NZ even if thats where I live.
Its far less than not so much. Its really none. There is not even a proper correlation. Example, in Germany that nut case that shot people played some FPS the night before. But how many males in his age bracket also played a FPS that night and didn't shoot up a school?
The real ratios are below 1%. ie the bank only keeps cents out of every 100 deposited. The system must fall down eventually, because the amount of money in the economy must increase exponentially and is not bounded by anything physical. Yet money has no meaning outside what you can physically buy with it which cannot increase exponentially indefinably.
Getting a full retirement fund to term out of the current system before a *bust* is quite a trick.
I like the quote, "Humans don't understand exponential curves". Don't know who said it.
Now consider how many retirement schemes claim that 10% is no problem at all for 50+ years, generation after generation.
IMO Fractional banking is broken. And we haven't found the bottom yet.
What are you saying? 20 is too much or too little? I know quite a few people that wont buy for under 20 because "It must be cheap crap".
I think you are agreeing with me.
I don't disagree on any point and should add that I meant within our current understanding/models. We already have some cracks in the standard model, neutrino mass is one of them. The results from the LHC could be quite interesting to say the least.
People that argue FTL is inevitable, that our theoretical physics must have a tiny flaw that will allow it to happen, don't understand that this isn't about quantum physics or string theory or even relativity. It's about the basic rules that allow us to understand the universe.
Have to disagree there. It is about relativity. Its relativity that says we live in "4 space" with one time like dimension. Its relativity that makes the prediction that FTL travel can result in causality violations. So it can't not be about it.
You don't even need to modify it that much to prevent causality violations with FTL either. If FTL travel *does* have a preferred inertial frame, IIRC then thats enough. A FTL ether if you like. This however may not be interpreted as a "small" change to relativity.
Any (effective) FTL travel or communication methods can be used to violate causality. Period. This means that in some frame of reference you can get outside you light cone. AKA total travel time is less than lights travel time. Unless you add extra constraints to the system. You can violate casualty.
This warp bubble has many other problems. Like that the inside is casually disconnected to the outside. That it does not conserve some "invariants" of space time and the use of negative energy that does not exist and is not predicted via the standard model. Finally most warp drives need more energy than the entire visible universe.
People forget that scientists used to think that it was impossible to break the sound barrier for various reasons.
No they didn't. Some idiot writing for a news paper may have however.
I like these "claims". Check who made them and check the details of the claim and you might find that the story is a little different from what you think.
Unless there are extra constraints outside the current relativity theory, any FTL travel or communication can violate causality. This is a simple relativity problem. It does not matter *how* you achieve FTL travel/communication.
You don't need FTL travel to explore the local star system (or further). A antimatter drive is not theoretically impossible and reasonable mass ratios can give you 50% the speed of light. Thats only 40 or so years travel time out to 20ly (about 100 stars) and add life extension or hibernation methods and your golden. 80 years gets you out to 40 ly distances and your looking at more than 500 stars. There are other possibilities for sub light speed travel too.
The universe is not required to conform to our instant gratification culture, or too our SciFi faith.