Comment Re:Uninformed Rant, or Sony Apologist? (Score 1) 185
I could be wrong here, but I think the Secu-ROM is DRM added by whatever company made the game, and not something that's part of Steam itself.
Comment Re:Pull A Jordan? Seriously? (Score 1) 279
I genuinely believe that the next two books will happen a lot faster than the previous two did. From what I understand, the long delays on AFFC and ADWD occurred because of restructuring/rewriting. This restructuring occurred because Martin had originally intended to have them take place after a 5-year gap (in-book time), but realized after partially writing it that this necessitated too many flashbacks and wasn't working, and changed it so that the events in AFFC and ADWD take place immediately after A Storm of Swords.
I think Martin will probably have gotten most of the parts of the books that the timeline change affected out of the way with ADWD. Also, he has a few chapters banked for the next book already. Besides, he'll have to write faster so the new HBO series based on his books doesn't catch up with him.
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Hugh Pickens writes: "The economist reports that Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems that capture and focus the sun's rays to heat a working fluid and drive a turbine, are making a comeback. Although the world's largest solar farm was built over twenty years ago, until recently no new plants have been built. Now with the combination of federal energy credits, the enactment of renewable energy standards in many states, and public antipathy to coal fired power plant, the first such plant to be built in decades started providing 64 megawatts of electricity to Las Vegas this summer. Electricity from the Nevada plant costs an estimated 17 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), but projections suggest that CSP power could fall to below ten cents per kWh as the technology improves. Coal power costs just 2-3 cents per kWh but that will likely rise if regulation eventually factors in the environmental costs of the carbon coal produces."
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