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General Discussion / Re: Emdrive news: we might be about to become an interstellar civilization
« on: April 24, 2015, 08:26:48 am »
Quote from: forsaken1111 on April 24, 2015, 07:50:43 am
There are big datacenters in the states who cool the equipment racks using water pumped though chillers and then pipe the hot water to nearby homes to give them free heating. Its always interesting to me when people come up with good ways to use what someone else has as 'waste'.

There are cities in Sweden that does the same with crematoria.

(ptw)

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: April 24, 2015, 06:53:43 am »
Quote from: i2amroy on April 24, 2015, 04:12:34 am
Quote from: IronyOwl on April 24, 2015, 03:55:22 am
Does it seem to fluctuate, possibly based on time of day? I've noticed Netflix doing weird quality things here and there in the past.
Honestly I haven't noticed it being related to time of day. To me it seems more like a combination of Netflix being especially over conservative about allowing the switch to high quality and them not having any quality levels between "uber high" and "horrible pixels". My internet can handle streaming their top quality, but not by much, and if someone else is doing anything too big at the same time it can't quite take it. Netflix seems to think that this means they should disable HD even when there's just me online and I specifically say they should be using it though, at which point the only quality level they have left involves horrible pixels and all the lines becoming fuzzy (and personally I can't stand to watch most animes at less than 720p, there's just too much fuzz on what should be clean lines for me :P).

Are you watching through a web browser? If so, have you tried the ctrl-alt-shift-S trick to force the bitrate?



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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« on: April 17, 2015, 07:35:25 am »
I want to be rich enough to play KSP with real rockets too.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: April 16, 2015, 04:28:25 am »
Quote from: Reelya on April 16, 2015, 01:00:54 am
This current Kyoto Animation show about brass instruments, I was reading that it's just K-On with different instruments.

That made me chuckle because of how often people try and describe other shows in terms of a handful of the best known shows even if it doesn't really fit. Sora no Woto? - just K-On in the army. Aria? That's just K-On with boats. Free? Gender-flipped K-On set at the pool.

I guess the trick is to never watch K-On then. I definitely didn't feel the need to slot Soranowoto into some forced subgenre, and it remains my favourite series.


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General Discussion / Re: Space Thread
« on: April 14, 2015, 03:33:40 pm »
Stage one reached the pad, but landed hard again unfortunately.

They'll get it right eventually.

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General Discussion / Re: Space Thread
« on: April 14, 2015, 03:05:51 pm »
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/6540154

T -5 minutes

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: April 10, 2015, 09:39:23 am »
From some googling it seems like Hulu had the original series at least between 2010-2012 but I can't find it there anymore (unless they're hiding it through some geoblocking shit), so they did manage to get streaming rights, at least for a while.

Buying boxed copies looks to be hideously expensive, and I only buy those I've watched and enjoyed enough to not risk streaming services dropping the rights (which happens all too often). So far the only I've bought are Sound of the Sky and Angel Beats.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: April 10, 2015, 05:34:22 am »
Depends what you want from a Samurai anime. House of Five Leaves is good but has very little swordfighting, for instance.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: April 10, 2015, 04:26:04 am »
Anyone know if Macross is available on any (legal) streaming site? The only I've found are the Macross Plus and Macross 2 miniseries on Hulu, but I prefer to watch things in sequence. I haven't watched any of the "classic" shows (the few animes I've watched are from 2010 and later), and giant mechs saving mankind through the power of J-Pop seems like a decent starting point (specifically I saw this clip from Macross Frontier and was intrigued).

What I've actually watched recently is Barakamon and KanColle, since I had nothing else to do through easter. Barakamon was a great, fun watch with some sad undertones about the depopulation of the Japanese countryside. KanColle struck me as being pretty much Upotte without the shock value (no furiously masturbating finnish girl elf kalashnikov) and with a silly game premise. Somehow not a bad show though.

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Other Games / Re: The "Forgotten the name of this game?" thread. Ask here to prevent clutter.
« on: January 30, 2015, 03:39:20 am »
Quote from: wlerin on January 29, 2015, 09:16:15 pm
edit: Found it. I Miss the Sunrise.

That looks pretty amazing for an RPGMaker game.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: January 29, 2015, 03:44:13 am »
Scientists managed to film a laser beam as it bounces between mirrors. They had to make a composite of 2 million laser pulses to get enough scattered photons to reach their special sensors, but it's still very cool.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« on: December 17, 2014, 05:21:57 pm »
And when the UK wanted to investigate a possible submarine contact off its coast recently they discovered that they've scrapped all their maritime patrol aircraft.

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General Discussion / Re: Russia Watch Thread/Ветка о России
« on: December 17, 2014, 10:57:44 am »
Quote from: Sergarr on December 17, 2014, 10:41:07 am
I've heard rumors that the recent jump in ruble was because of 600 billion ruble credit the Central Bank has given to Rosneft to pay up their outer debt.

The local rumor mill (i.e. the financial media) says it's because the Russian central bank is selling foreign currency reserves. It used this picture for illustration purposes:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« on: December 17, 2014, 09:52:57 am »
The Luxembourg Air Force is the result of some NATO brass having an actual sense of humour.
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NATO acquired 18 Boeing E-3As and support equipment for a NATO air defense force. Since all aircraft must be registered with a certain country, the decision was made to register the 18 NATO AWACS planes with Luxembourg, because until that point Luxembourg did not have an air force.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« on: December 17, 2014, 09:44:56 am »
The invocation of article 5 did not involve any active combat from NATO after 9/11. It mostly meant the Luxembourg air force was deployed over the US and various other elements were shipped over to provide extra cover (I remember norwegian mobile SAM batteries were deployed in Washington DC). The Afghanistan invasion was a "Coalition of the Willing" sort of thing, mostly the US and UK. NATO took command of ISAF a couple of years later after a UNSC resolution or something.

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