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Comment: Re:Nope (Score 4, Funny) 312

by NFN_NLN (#39024589) Attached to: <em>Twisted Metal</em> Designer Rails Against Storytelling Games

Jaffee is wrong. Some of the bet games in the past two year have been emotionally engaging narrative-driven. If you ignore the arc of characters and plot, and only focus on gameplay, then you end up in the same box as angry birds. And that box is worth $.99.

Yeah, that's what was missing from SimCity... 20 minute cut scenes and plot development of the citizens.

Comment: Re:One more issue (Score 0) 1064

by NFN_NLN (#38977045) Attached to: The Zuckerberg Tax

If his parents want to set him up with a paid-off house so he can live rent-free, why is that a problem? You think it's better that he give most of his income to a big apartment complex corporation instead?

It's a problem because the idea of inheritance doesn't align with capitalism in my opinion.

Someone who hasn't worked for and earned his wealth shouldn't be entitled to his parents wealth. If his parents were well off that should have been enough of a leg up for him to get an education and work hard: not become a barista.

What if you take it one step further and instead of a house he inherits a company. What if the company was well run and employed people. Once the incapable son inherits the company he slowly drives it into the ground. Instead of proper management or a co-op formed, this guy basically pisses away the company.

Money should essentially be destroyed when you die. It would basically act like reverse inflation giving a fractionally higher purchasing power to everyone else.

Comment: Re:Space junk from everyone, for everyone (Score 2) 119

by NFN_NLN (#38758386) Attached to: Launch Your Own Nanosatellite Into Space

It's not gravity. It's atmosphere. Even in Low Earth Orbit, there is a whisper of atmosphere. This causes a drag on the satellite, causing the orbit to decay.

causing the orbit to decay and the satellite to drift off into space...? if only there was a way to predict where in 3d space it would head towards.

Comment: Re:Well this will solve world hunger. (Score 5, Insightful) 121

by NFN_NLN (#38631366) Attached to: Lower Limit Found For Sudoku Puzzle Clues

Well this will solve world hunger.

The problem of world hunger has been solved multiple times already. The real problem is, every time we are able to increase food production, it results in a short term increase in the standard of living. Which is immediately followed by uncontrolled population growth and then back to square one.

1. Discovery the the New World
John Cabot - The fish were very plentiful and he would send word to King Henry VII that they would no longer need to fish in common waters as there was enough cod fish to feed England for an eternity.

2. Introduction of chemically produced fertilizers
Inorganic fertilizer use has also significantly supported global population growth — it has been estimated that almost half the people on the Earth are currently fed as a result of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use.[4]

3. Genetically modified crops
During the mid-20th century, Borlaug led the introduction of these high-yielding varieties combined with modern agricultural production techniques to Mexico, Pakistan, and India. As a result, Mexico became a net exporter of wheat by 1963. Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations.[4] These collective increases in yield have been labeled the Green Revolution, and Borlaug is often credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.[5]

Comment: Re:Well... (Score 2) 234

by NFN_NLN (#38541526) Attached to: Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise

Something's fundamentally wrong, though, if you can't click on a random link. OK, maybe there's a browser vulnerability from time to time, and given how many there have been, clicking on random links (especially on the seedier side of the web) might not be the smartest thing you can do - but if end users are supposed to have to worry about clicking on a link, then we (the techies) are letting them down big time.

It isn't always a browser vulnerability being exploited. For instance, meatspin.com is perfectly safe to browse as it only corrupts your brain.

Comment: Re:risk vs. electricity (Score 1) 210

by NFN_NLN (#38429202) Attached to: JPMorgan Rolls Out (Another) FPGA Supercomputer

/facepalm

Yet another misinformed soul parroting whatever it is he heard or read. Overpopulation is not the real problem, it's the fact that we're living in an outdated society with outdated structures (poor space management). Really, a lot of things in our society are inefficient and there's a lot of waste. We produce so much waste it makes me physically ill to think about, especially when you consider the problem could be mostly avoided with better management of our resources.

Inefficiencies like eating meat when insects are a far better at turning grains into protein?

The "Food and Agriculture Organization" (FAO) are making recommendations for the reduction of traditional meat and instead advocate eating insects. Why? To combat the growing demand for protein in world with too many people, which is only growing. This is only one example of one resource limitation... and they are all limited.

I don't know why you think we have a shortage of people or why the existing people need to reduce their quality of life to accommodate them.

And since you like George so much, here is a quote from your hero asshole: "It's irresponsible to have more than one child. Have one. Have one child, replacement value for yourself, that's all." - George Carlin

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/01/insects-food-emissions

Comment: Re:it is harder to get high on (Score 3, Interesting) 385

by NFN_NLN (#38418848) Attached to: The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives

Because the library author already took care of that detail. Put the cursor on diamorphine and press F3 (Eclipse):
const Narcotic diamorphine = C21H23NO5;

The chemical formula isn't specific enough. Different compounds can have the same chemical formula but entirely different structure and are known as isomers.

It gets even more confusing when you have compounds that look the same on first glance but differ due to chirality.

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