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Comment Re:no disk means no resale (Score 1) 71

Why should you be allowed to resell a game when you have already enjoyed the experience of playing the game? That is like selling your movie ticket after already watching the movie.

No it's more like a ticket that allows you to return to the cinema as many times as you want to watch the same movie again. Once you get bored of watching the same movie multiple times, you sell the ticket to someone else.

Your analogy of seeing a movie with a one off ticket is closer to an arcade where you pay per play.

Comment Re: If you buy it, you're paying to get screwed (Score 1) 71

It's more like seeing your neighbor wearing jewelry, and then crafting your own piece that looks the same. Your neighbor still has their original jewelry.

People do this kind of thing all the time, they see their neighbors get something and then copy them - wether its a paint job or landscaping, or a new car etc.

Comment Re:We need them, but (Score 1) 207

if we stop using coal for power, what're we gonna do with (bing) "1.1 trillion tons of proven coal reserves, enough to last around 133 years at current consumption levels" worldwide? Have one helluva BBQ party?
If we switch to BEVs and no more ICE vehicles, what're we gonna do with the oil?

I'm going to make a radical suggestion: how about we leave it all in the ground, and continue to enjoy living in a viable biosphere instead?

Comment Re:Python ? (Score 4, Informative) 64

What you don't understand is the Python is often used as a method of invoking libraries that are written in more efficient languages. And for the layer that it handles it doesn't introduce unacceptable inefficiencies. E.g., you wouldn't want to do ray tracing in Python, but it's fine for calling a library that does that.

Comment Re:"the most likely scenario is that it doesn't wo (Score 1) 64

I'm quite sure quantum computers are valid. Whether they're useful is another question. I'll agree that it's not clear that general purpose quantum computers will ever be useful. (I won't agree that it's clear they never will be useful.)

OTOH, specialized quantum computers are already useful. DWave sells one design.

Comment Re:Hot or cold? Make your minds up! (Score 1) 136

Thanks, that article left a lot out.
Britain runs from approximately 50 degrees N to 59 degrees N with most of the population at the Southern end of that.
In N American terms, that is Winnipeg / Medicine Hat / Kelowna to Skagway / Uranium City / the southernmost tip of Greenland (yeah, but there's F-all else up there, and for a reason).

Comment Re:Hot or cold? Make your minds up! (Score 4, Informative) 136

Only a couple of weeks ago I was reading about how the collapse of the Gulf Stream due to climate change is going to turn Britain into a frozen wasteland.

Either you misunderstood what they wrote or the writer - deliberately or not - misrepresented the process.
The Gulf Stream is a wind system starts some place around Florida, then heads NW across the Atlantic towards Britain and nearby countries, then onwards to Scandinavia before circling westwards and then S along the E coast of Canada and the US.
The air stream which arrives in Britain has been warmed up (winter) or cooled down (summer) on its way across the Atlantic, it has also accumulated a lot of moisture on the journey. This is where Britain's reputation for wet weather originates, although that applies more in western areas (Ireland, Wales, W England and W Scotland) than on the E side of England and Scotland. The high pressure systems affecting Britain and Western Europe are leading to more extreme weather with less precipitation. There is a high pressure system affecting the weather in the region right now and it has funnelled hot, humid air from N Africa to the region. Hot and dry, apart from the occasional thunderstorm. This is supposed to peak this coming weekend and drop away at the start of next week - it should be a lot cooler with some much needed rain.

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