Comment Re:Alberto Federico Ravell an Asshole Liar (Score 1) 335
Make an. account so folks see this. Hugo Chavez is no saint, but the folks who run the media attacks on him are no Mother Teresas either.
Make an. account so folks see this. Hugo Chavez is no saint, but the folks who run the media attacks on him are no Mother Teresas either.
Sorry. The people taking science by the neck and slitting its throat these days are the ones who produce cherry-picked "metastudies" trying to reach a pre-picked "conclusion" and call it "science."
Sorry. You can dismiss a statistical meta-study out of hand without an even cursory glance at it's methodology, because it doesn't agree with the conclusions you would wish for. And then opine at length about the "small minority" who "can become desensitized," or those who might "temporarily" become violent after playing games, and insist, against all the assembled evidence, that the harmful effects are restricted to "those who are predisposed to go nutso anyways." Why use stats when unsubstantiated conjecture confirms personal prejudice so much more effectively?
Science is indeed is having its throat slit by those "trying to reach
And she can reply about how it's irresponsible to try to raise a child (or even go through a pregnancy) when you are not prepared for it.
but I'm frankly sick of phone-home DRM. Here's a perfect example of it failing and locking out legitimate users.
Except that isn't what happened. It's a clock error. It has nothing to do with phoning home.
In order to conclusively prove which one of you is correct, I'd like to conduct a simple experiment in which we set hair on fire. One of you gets to be in the control group... which will it be?
you should re-learn the alphabet and whoever taught you to read should be fired.
But stop insulting me and my neighbors and family!
Turns out the only benefits to this are the flexibility and low cost (which are good, sure, but not that exciting).
Actually, low cost is far more exciting than high efficiency. Low cost means it'll be used. A lot. High efficiency plus expensive just means we have a better grade of "no, we can't afford that right now"....
No kidding. I almost slapped my forehead at the "low cost solar panels aren't exciting" comment. Solar panels are so ridiculously expensive that you'd be lucky to get a return on your investment in 10 years, and that's with government subsidies.
I was looking for a solar powered exhaust fan for my attic, which is about the simplest solar device you can make (sun hits roof, fan spins). But it was cheaper to buy a fan hooked to the power and let it run for 10 years. Adding a timer would have made it even worse.
The power of the cell tower is measured on the 'receiving' end of the antenna.
The tower also gets the same 3dB boost from the antenna on incoming signals.
Also, the antenna has some incredibly sensitive sensors.
I find it interesting that after many years of stories about the impossibility of cellphone radiation having any damaging effect due to its low power, we suddenly hear this story about the positive effects it has. One of the two can't be true.
On the contrary, almost everything you get in touch with has positive and negative effects. To take the current example, the radiation might have a statistically significant effect on temperature, bacterial growth rate, electronic equipment or something completely different. Some of these might be positive, some might be negative, and some (probably most) will be either depending on other factors.
Is this a problem? Someone posted a funny reply about getting hot water being a feature not a bug, but if it combines producing electricity with hot water, then it is indeed extremely useful a domestic power AND heating unit.
Since the unit is plastic, then presumably having water also pumping through it would be simple.
So I started thinking "HD Failing" (it is an original PS3 after all). Figured I'd have it format the drive then reinstall and repatch my games. Nearly a 5 hour time estimate. Take a nap, wake up, see this.... "oh god damnit."
AKA the "it just works" console gaming experience? Or are you running a PS3 emulator on a windows PC? I haven't had/heard that kind of agony in gaming since trying to get Wing Commander working by editing config.sys lines back in 1991-ish.
I'm not trolling, I'm genuinely curious, since your experience is supposed to be unpossible on a console.
Ok, there's alot of sentiment that EM radiation has no effect on DNA, etc etc. But I had read somewhere that people that live near power lines out in the country seem to develop extremely rare forms of cancer at a higher percentage than people living in the city. Of course, coincidence is not causation.
With that in mind, do I exclusively use a cell phone? Yes. I just don't know if I'd want to live next to a tower that might focus EM radiation right at my room while I sleep 8 hours a day.
The signal power will reduce by the cube of distance from the masts
Square of the distance, actually.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.