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- Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:48 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Simulation and animation in 3-d. Recommendations?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9655
We are using LightWave3d here. Doing anything from viz to custom tools with it. It is a very capable application and easy to afford. Autodesk applications (pretty much anything else now, other than Cinema4d, Lightwave, Houdini and Blender) are not easy to afford. I also do not like Autodesks licensi...
- Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:33 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Election results
- Replies: 106
- Views: 43160
First nuclear != nuclear. Nuclear Fusion and nuclear fission are two very different things in about every aspect. Someone who is somewhat well saddled in even the most basic phyiscs should easily be able to unerstand he differences and make decisions accordingly and that even if the person has never...
- Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:08 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Election results
- Replies: 106
- Views: 43160
True, but there are different kinds of defence spendings. I can spend money on weapons and defense systems research or I can spend money on building a (civil-) defense- infrastructure in a country that is mostly not thanking it to you anway. Personally I think that is not money well spent. However I...
- Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:42 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Election results
- Replies: 106
- Views: 43160
- Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:56 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Election results
- Replies: 106
- Views: 43160
I have heard the opposite. He said that he sees nuclear power as a critical and important part in energy independence. Anyway once this war is over, there will be tons more money for anything else, including Nuclear Fusion, I am sure. Oh and dont even get me started on the Iraq war. This war is a fa...
- Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:30 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Greenpeace Is Sceptical (and ignorant)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 26949
Dont even get me started on this "organisation". Greenpeace is nowadays a rich company. Their ideals of the past are long gone (personally I do not think they ever had any)... Besides I dont think anyone there has ever really understood much of anything. They are against anything that is man-made. T...
- Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: X-Ray Tape
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4451
- Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:43 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: There Could Be Problems
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6815
- Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:01 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: and some more eestor news
- Replies: 65
- Views: 30740
To underline my original point: http://www.gizmag.com/all-electric-mini-los-angeles-auto-show/10229/ So if you want to have a mini that makes just 150 Miles, you have to give up the already very small backseats... That does not sound like a very efficient way to store energy to me. The reduced syste...
- Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:37 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Any news on competing approaches?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8418
- Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:29 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Any news on competing approaches?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8418
Lol, yeah I have heard about Blacklight before as well. What I heard about them and their claims made me very sceptical, even though I am not a phycisist. It just seems tooo far fetched. However, it is interesting that a 3rd party comfirmed their claims (at least it seems so, without me reading abou...
- Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:34 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Thermodynamics of Economics
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9926
Sorry, I just can not agree with the idea of having to spend money in order to make money. That just does not make sense. That way you will never have economic growth. However you do have that for the factors of technology(invention) and I think also population growth. I do also think that mining an...
- Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:07 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Thermodynamics of Economics
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9926
Hmm, I do not quite see how you would "fuel" money into the economy, other than by printing more money and increasing inflation, which does not generate wealth at all. Also, I do think that an ideal economy does not operate at losses but gains. The proof of this is the generally higher living standa...
- Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:56 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Thermodynamics of Economics
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9926
I think the real issue is having energy move from hot spots to cold spots and back again, to stick with this analogy. I think that the ideal situation is not having an equilibrium, but having a constant flow of energy in either direction. Thinking about it, it might be why the two general schools of...
- Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:41 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Thermodynamics of Economics
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9926
The term "trickle down" is intended to be a derogatory reference I apollogize, I was not aware that trickle down was a derogatory term (I thought it was the term most commonly used in the US for this kind of economic ideology). I agree that equilibrium can not work. This would be comunism, where ev...