I had a 16 yr old pack my main once and the damn pilot chute monkey fisted on me at pull time. Took a couple seconds to free it and then had one hell of a teeth shattering opening.
Wow, you make skydiving sound so exciting. I just love sports where I wonder for "a couple of seconds" whether I'm going home in a bus or a bag. ever try open warfare?
No, he is right. They need to start with the old design and look at how technology can improve it instead of re-inventing the wheel all over again.
Just like Ferrari should look at a '72 Fiat and try to learn from it?
You might be surprised, but those NASA engineers working on that parachute do have a clue how parachutes work, even the Apollo ones. They are making _better_ parachutes, and if you've ever engineered anything you'd know that the first design is never the final design. Neither is the second.
So what if USB3 does have "content controls"? If it does, it will only be used in specific vertical applications (eg iPods), its not going to magically somehow DRM your goatporn.
So, it does want I don't want it to, and doesn't do what I do want. Sounds a lot like marriage.
I'll secede my apartment from the US tommorow and name it Javalandia and get to work on this.
You laugh, but many people have tried seceding from the US unilaterally. I hear it often ends up with an FBI raid, and occasionally a few dead evangelists.
At least they did better than ps/2. Just yesterday I watched as a postal clerk jammed the pc/2 connector into her keyboard (apparently they disconnect from both sides), and as it did not go in, she started twisting and applying lateral force. This, with a tech on the phone on her shoulder. I told her to tell the tech that the ps/2 port is destroyed and that the thing won't be running again today. Then I left for a different branch.
The solution is to put the extension cable into the socket so it ends with a socket, and if that socket end is destroyed by too many cable changes, you replace it. If you get 100 changes per destroyed socket, you can replace the extension cable 100 times, and if you take more care with that than regular changes, you will get more than 100 changes there.
Be sure to use a USB 2 extension cable. I've seen USB 2 devices run at USB 1 speeds even though the PCI card supported USB 2, because a USB 1 extension was used.
In fact, extension cables are not really USB cables! They are USB-compatible, but they do not meet the USB spec.
For my desktop I always make a habit of using usb ports on a PCI card for devices that I plug in & out often so that when the connectors become damages I can cheaply & easily replace the card.
That is smart. Too bad for us the PCI slots are on the wrong side of the case for frequently-used devices.
Really? I'd like to see you NOT buy then new 512GB Disk On Key when it comes out in three years because it uses the USB 3 spec, which may or may not contain content controls.
Seriously, stop relying on the engineers to come to you, and start writing to them. The same thing goes for Linux software support: if you want Solidworks to run on Linux, then write to the company and tell them that!
RJ-* is great for "plug it in and leave it alone" situations, which it was designed for. However, it is terrible for connections that must be made and broken on a regular basis, which is what USB was designed for. In particular, the plastic locking mechanism is very fragile and prone to snapping off. I'd say that I've seen that more often than even loose USB sockets.
From TFA: Also, new Mass Storage Device drivers will have to be developed for Windows to take advantage of the spec.
Either Mac, Linux, Solaris, the BSDs and Symbian already support USB 3.0, or somebody at MaximumPC needs to pull their head out from under Ballmer's ballsack.
Yes this is great but have any controls along the lines of "trusted computing" been slipped in to these devices. I ask only because it seems to be the fashion now days to try to put as many controls into new technology as possible.
Why don't you write to the bodies involved with the development and ask them? If we as consumers don't display our wariness, then why shouldn't the engineers put the "controls" in?
I've seen too many people destroy USB 1 and 2 connectors by repeatedly wiggling the plug out of the sockets to the point where the sockets no longer hold the connector anymore. Now, USB 3 is going to be even deeper, providing even more leverage to ruin the socket with.
Tip: you can repair the USB 1 and 2 socktet by opening the case, placing a thin, flat object on the OUTSIDE on the socket, and giving the object a light tap. Just enough to bend it slightly inward again. Master this skill before USB 3 becomes mainstream.
The (hypothetical) woman down the hall being beaten by her husband isn't allowed to forcibly evict me from my apartment to get away from him.
But if another neighbor says to you "come stay with me while I throw the bitch out" and you pack your shit and go, and then the neighbor fails to throw the bitch out, do your grandchildren have a right to return to the apartment 60 years later?
If your answer is yes, then replace "60" with "2000", and replace "you pack your shit and go" with "were exiled by the Romans".
If they were developing a real civilian nuclear program, they could use the massive income they are getting now to just BUY one prepackaged from France or Russia. And yet they haven't - wonder why?
To be self-dependent? It says a lot to develop your own nuclear program || space program. Ever wonder why the Israelis, Indians, and Chinese all have their own nuclear and space programs? Same reason.
As for peak oil, in ten years you will be saying "in ten years...". I may be wrong, but past history shows that I am more likely to be right than you are - how many times has a date been given for peak oil?
You may be right. Actually, I hope that you are. But the time frame doesn't matter. When we get there, the nations that have decades of alternative energy experience will suffer less. Nuclear infrastructure is not built overnight.
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Good summary, I was wondering why so many chutes deployed and failed.
If you like that kind of stuff, you might want to try reading TFA every now and then. Just a thought.
I had a 16 yr old pack my main once and the damn pilot chute monkey fisted on me at pull time. Took a couple seconds to free it and then had one hell of a teeth shattering opening.
Wow, you make skydiving sound so exciting. I just love sports where I wonder for "a couple of seconds" whether I'm going home in a bus or a bag. ever try open warfare?
Why is it that Superman just stands there and lets you shoot at him, but he ducks when you throw the empty gun at him?
Maybe because getting hit with a thrown gun hurts?
No, he is right. They need to start with the old design and look at how technology can improve it instead of re-inventing the wheel all over again.
Just like Ferrari should look at a '72 Fiat and try to learn from it?
You might be surprised, but those NASA engineers working on that parachute do have a clue how parachutes work, even the Apollo ones. They are making _better_ parachutes, and if you've ever engineered anything you'd know that the first design is never the final design. Neither is the second.
...you have to find a way to get many people to write the engineers and refuse to buy the devices.
Which is what I'm doing every time I suggest it on /..
So what if USB3 does have "content controls"? If it does, it will only be used in specific vertical applications (eg iPods), its not going to magically somehow DRM your goatporn.
So, it does want I don't want it to, and doesn't do what I do want. Sounds a lot like marriage.
I'll secede my apartment from the US tommorow and name it Javalandia and get to work on this.
You laugh, but many people have tried seceding from the US unilaterally. I hear it often ends up with an FBI raid, and occasionally a few dead evangelists.
At least they did better than ps/2. Just yesterday I watched as a postal clerk jammed the pc/2 connector into her keyboard (apparently they disconnect from both sides), and as it did not go in, she started twisting and applying lateral force. This, with a tech on the phone on her shoulder. I told her to tell the tech that the ps/2 port is destroyed and that the thing won't be running again today. Then I left for a different branch.
The solution is to put the extension cable into the socket so it ends with a socket, and if that socket end is destroyed by too many cable changes, you replace it. If you get 100 changes per destroyed socket, you can replace the extension cable 100 times, and if you take more care with that than regular changes, you will get more than 100 changes there.
Be sure to use a USB 2 extension cable. I've seen USB 2 devices run at USB 1 speeds even though the PCI card supported USB 2, because a USB 1 extension was used.
In fact, extension cables are not really USB cables! They are USB-compatible, but they do not meet the USB spec.
For my desktop I always make a habit of using usb ports on a PCI card for devices that I plug in & out often so that when the connectors become damages I can cheaply & easily replace the card.
That is smart. Too bad for us the PCI slots are on the wrong side of the case for frequently-used devices.
You can also repair them like I mentioned.
What? Nobody has said
WARP speed.
This is slashdot, this speed should be a given.
Which is why it was not said.
Any ideas for how they could make the sockets more durable?
Require the socket to be made of a thicker gauge of steel.
I go the easier route. I just don't buy them.
Really? I'd like to see you NOT buy then new 512GB Disk On Key when it comes out in three years because it uses the USB 3 spec, which may or may not contain content controls.
Seriously, stop relying on the engineers to come to you, and start writing to them. The same thing goes for Linux software support: if you want Solidworks to run on Linux, then write to the company and tell them that!
RJ-* is great for "plug it in and leave it alone" situations, which it was designed for. However, it is terrible for connections that must be made and broken on a regular basis, which is what USB was designed for. In particular, the plastic locking mechanism is very fragile and prone to snapping off. I'd say that I've seen that more often than even loose USB sockets.
I do go through a lot of USB cables though.
The problem is that wiggling destroys the socket, not the replaceable cable.
I suggest you google "Operation Ajax".
So that's where the new Yahoo Mail beta interface came from? Those fucking terrorists!
From TFA:
Also, new Mass Storage Device drivers will have to be developed for Windows to take advantage of the spec.
Either Mac, Linux, Solaris, the BSDs and Symbian already support USB 3.0, or somebody at MaximumPC needs to pull their head out from under Ballmer's ballsack.
Yes this is great but have any controls along the lines of "trusted computing" been slipped in to these devices. I ask only because it seems to be the fashion now days to try to put as many controls into new technology as possible.
Why don't you write to the bodies involved with the development and ask them? If we as consumers don't display our wariness, then why shouldn't the engineers put the "controls" in?
After USB full speed and USB high speed, we now have USB superspeed. What comes next? Hyperspeed? FTL-speed?
Ridiculous speed.
I've seen too many people destroy USB 1 and 2 connectors by repeatedly wiggling the plug out of the sockets to the point where the sockets no longer hold the connector anymore. Now, USB 3 is going to be even deeper, providing even more leverage to ruin the socket with.
Tip: you can repair the USB 1 and 2 socktet by opening the case, placing a thin, flat object on the OUTSIDE on the socket, and giving the object a light tap. Just enough to bend it slightly inward again. Master this skill before USB 3 becomes mainstream.
The (hypothetical) woman down the hall being beaten by her husband isn't allowed to forcibly evict me from my apartment to get away from him.
But if another neighbor says to you "come stay with me while I throw the bitch out" and you pack your shit and go, and then the neighbor fails to throw the bitch out, do your grandchildren have a right to return to the apartment 60 years later?
If your answer is yes, then replace "60" with "2000", and replace "you pack your shit and go" with "were exiled by the Romans".
Does this mean I get to have one too?
If you run a sovereign nation and have developed nuclear technology at your own universities and scientific facilities, then yes.
Not as much as the Iranian missile department.
The IMD? Missing a B in there, are we not?
(cue BSD missing the M jokes)
If they were developing a real civilian nuclear program, they could use the massive income they are getting now to just BUY one prepackaged from France or Russia. And yet they haven't - wonder why?
To be self-dependent? It says a lot to develop your own nuclear program || space program. Ever wonder why the Israelis, Indians, and Chinese all have their own nuclear and space programs? Same reason.
As for peak oil, in ten years you will be saying "in ten years...". I may be wrong, but past history shows that I am more likely to be right than you are - how many times has a date been given for peak oil?
You may be right. Actually, I hope that you are. But the time frame doesn't matter. When we get there, the nations that have decades of alternative energy experience will suffer less. Nuclear infrastructure is not built overnight.
...that the Israeli Defense Forces were so into animation.