No it's a steaming pile of Turd because it is no different than a Xbox360. They had one at best buy playing the same game across both (Battlefield 4) and there was ZERO difference.
Even the bugfest that is BF4 had the same bugs across both platforms. For it's price it should be "OMFG! THIS IS AMAZING!"
How do you get Loki games to run in a modern linux? I have all the Disks when Loki was around and I bought the games. they all stopped working after they changed the kernel significantly about 3 years after loki closed up shop.
The rest was true on the October release when I tried it last. and they have not released anything different cince then then. Last time I tried to compile a daily release it refused to compile, at that point I walked away from it as something that is worthless.
Phone calls are #1 priority, and an incoming phone call MUST have absolute priority over all other parts of the OS. These developers dont know that, the craptastic OpenMoko phone from a few years ago had the same problems. I honestly would give an app 2 rings to die and release control, on ring #3 all apps not sleeping should be violently killed by the OS, and reported to the mothership that it is misbehaving causing a UI problem to the phone.
Google will not sell your "life" as that is not their business model.
LexisNexis does that. I can cheaply buy enough info about you to really scare the shit out of you. And they have far FAR more info on you than Google would ever dream of having.
Spoken just like someone that has not used Ubuntu Touch.
If you dont like to make or receive phone calls, Use ubuntu touch. If you dont like internet connectivity Use ubuntu touch. If you LIKE your phone locking up, Use ubuntu touch.
Also when you actually look at ubuntu touch, it's just Android with a UI stapled on top but with no apps, and no functionality.
What he is after is a Nexus 5 that has a pure android on it.
If you pay $500 a month for heat, you can easily afford a place that is $150 more a month that is a lot newer and actually insulated. Sadly most renters never actually do any math to figure out that their "low rent" is really not when you look at all your expenses and how you can save money by paying more rent at a better maintained location.
Most people are walking morons, they will NEVER understand it's historical significance. The company in charge of it now could give a rats ass about historical significance.. They care about profits.
"Where I live, its costing $400-500 a month right now in heating oil" yet people who own homes are too damn cheap to pay a company $2000 to upgrade your insulation in the home and attic.
If you own your home and you pay $500 a month to heat your 1929 uninsulated home, you have no right to complain about your heating bill.
I bought my home and that summer paid for blown in insulation to all walls and the attic, I then went around and measured each window and ordered 1 window a month and replaced them myself.
I live in mid michigan, my temperature is lower than what new england has seen and I currently have 4 feet of snow in my yard with 7 foot tall snow piles where we shoveled the driveway, the roads are the same. I just paid my Jan 2014 heating bill, keeping the house at 68-70 it was $69.00 adding R-30 worth of insulation to the attic, R18 to the walls and replacing the windows with the cheapest drop in replacements I can order one at a time from home depot.
If you are a home owner and dont improve your home, you are a horrible home owner. If you are a renter, well I suggest moving to a place that costs more per month and has a landlord that cares about the place and has it insulated and new windows.
I can burn "Jet Fuel" in my cheap garage kerosene heater.
Honestly Journalism is getting worse and worse these days, it seems that the only thing you need to be a journalist is to dress like a hipster and not have any ability at all to do research or have any education about the subject.
I had a mac at home that had the add on card to run windows/dos. it was an actual 386 computer on an expansion card and it's output was piped to the video board via a 15 pin jumper cable.
A lot of people forget that there are AWACS way up there that will identify a jamming source and relay to another aircraft to smoke them. We utterly owned IRAQ's "best military in the world" because every time the lit up the radar on their anti aircraft installs, we send a nice big present to them automatically.
and if someone thinks that a soldier on the ground is going to have a shoulder mounted jammer, well they are funny as hell. I dare them to just keep a laser pointer aimed at a dime on the top of a stick that is 300 yards away, because that is a lot easier than doing the same to a fighter jet in the sky.
All the species on this planet are hell bent on destruction and killing. Trees choke out competing trees, animals eat each other, Humans are evil horrible creatures that care only about themselves and their own goals....
In fact we have no species at all on this planet that is 100% benevolent. All of them are violent and destructive in their own way.
Unless we invent some serious technology to dig that signal out of the noise, you are 100% correct. Even insane gain levels on the antennas have a diminishing return. At a certain point, you end up amplifying the noise and making it all worse.
This is the scientific reason why SETI is a waste of time, Only someone cruising by below the speed of light within that very small radius even have a chance at hearing us.
If anything deliberate broadcasts from EARTH are simply "come eat us" beacons.
Until they have electric cars with a 400 mile range and can recharge to 100% to give me 400 miles again within 30 minutes. that is a gigantic hell no.
Well actually there could be a way. The united states would have to invest heavily in light rail that is affordable. I can drive from Michigan to florida for $90. Until I can take a train for $90 for two tickets and load my electric car on it, with it taking a sane amount of time..... It will never happen.
Right now amtrack is as much as an airline flight and it takes 3 DAYS to get there because you have to go from detroit to chicago to Washington DC to North Carolina, to Florida. Oh and to bring your car, $3500 shipping charge and it will arrive 1-2 weeks after you arrive.
If you think the uplinks to the Geostationary satellites are low power and dont spread out, you really dont understand RF or satellite comms. Some of the older TV birds up there are almost deaf, so we are BLASTING 100,000 watts of energy into a 25 to 30 db gain antenna to hit them. when the signal hits it, it is not 3 inches around and fits nicely in the receiving antenna, it's about 5 miles across, and will continue to spread.
Here is the problem. Radio waves drop in strength Logarithmically. Which means even a 100,000 watt tightly beamed RF signal will be barely above the noise floor before it even get's 4X the diameter of our solar system away. When they talk to Voyager 1 or 2 they are using the largest dish antenna on the planet, and then they are blasting an ungodly amount of power to barely reach it. They also are using the 8GHZ band that has a very low noise floor and almost no interference within a lightyear.
Voyager has a 23 watt transmitter, but a large gain antenna focusing it at earth, but it requires the massive 1000 foot dish or a huge array of smaller dishes to barely receive it. and not much longer, we will not have an antenna with enough gain on this planet to receive it's signal any longer. within the next 4-5 years we are expected to lose all contact with Voyager 1. And this thing is just in out back yard a few feet from the house.
Even if an alien race knew where earth was exactly, and had a 1000 foot dish antenna with a 10Terawatt transmitter pointed right at us. If they were not within a 20 lightyear radius of the earth, their signal would not reach us at a strength that we could detect today.
The drake equation does not take into consideration that most civilizations destroy themselves when they achieve the point of being able to communicate. We are at that point right now, we may simply wink out in a large war in the next 50 years. but if we make it past that 50 year point we will have the technology to much more, unless we create a new super weapon, then the cycle starts all over.
Because as a species we are not very evolved. We gladly kill each other over really stupid shit.
first, they are "journalists" It seems that they just make crap up and do not do any actual research on their articles anymore. I have discovered that 99% of technology journalists are complete idiots that dont even know 1/80th of what they are talking about and do ZERO research before they write something down.
Environmental Science is harder than tech, so I will bet these are the same caliber "journalists". We dont have an real ones out there anymore, most of them are just half hearted bloggers that happen to be paid to do a half assed job.
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Or live in the warzone slums of Detroit.
Want Detroit to be sold to Ohio or Canada. Please can we just make that entire armpit of the state go away?
No it's a steaming pile of Turd because it is no different than a Xbox360. They had one at best buy playing the same game across both (Battlefield 4) and there was ZERO difference.
Even the bugfest that is BF4 had the same bugs across both platforms. For it's price it should be "OMFG! THIS IS AMAZING!"
How do you get Loki games to run in a modern linux? I have all the Disks when Loki was around and I bought the games. they all stopped working after they changed the kernel significantly about 3 years after loki closed up shop.
I would LOVE to play those games again.
Which is why I am considering a PS4....
I HATE Sony, and Microsoft's steaming turd is making me consider one.
The rest was true on the October release when I tried it last. and they have not released anything different cince then then. Last time I tried to compile a daily release it refused to compile, at that point I walked away from it as something that is worthless.
Phone calls are #1 priority, and an incoming phone call MUST have absolute priority over all other parts of the OS. These developers dont know that, the craptastic OpenMoko phone from a few years ago had the same problems. I honestly would give an app 2 rings to die and release control, on ring #3 all apps not sleeping should be violently killed by the OS, and reported to the mothership that it is misbehaving causing a UI problem to the phone.
in 10 years we will see the BlackBerry brand on very low end china TV sets just like GE and Phillips.
Google will not sell your "life" as that is not their business model.
LexisNexis does that. I can cheaply buy enough info about you to really scare the shit out of you. And they have far FAR more info on you than Google would ever dream of having.
"You can also get Ubuntu Touch."
Spoken just like someone that has not used Ubuntu Touch.
If you dont like to make or receive phone calls, Use ubuntu touch.
If you dont like internet connectivity Use ubuntu touch.
If you LIKE your phone locking up, Use ubuntu touch.
Also when you actually look at ubuntu touch, it's just Android with a UI stapled on top but with no apps, and no functionality.
What he is after is a Nexus 5 that has a pure android on it.
If you pay $500 a month for heat, you can easily afford a place that is $150 more a month that is a lot newer and actually insulated. Sadly most renters never actually do any math to figure out that their "low rent" is really not when you look at all your expenses and how you can save money by paying more rent at a better maintained location.
"Capitalism cannot fix everything, but can destroy a lot if let to run rampant."
FTFY
Most people are walking morons, they will NEVER understand it's historical significance. The company in charge of it now could give a rats ass about historical significance.. They care about profits.
"Where I live, its costing $400-500 a month right now in heating oil"
yet people who own homes are too damn cheap to pay a company $2000 to upgrade your insulation in the home and attic.
If you own your home and you pay $500 a month to heat your 1929 uninsulated home, you have no right to complain about your heating bill.
I bought my home and that summer paid for blown in insulation to all walls and the attic, I then went around and measured each window and ordered 1 window a month and replaced them myself.
I live in mid michigan, my temperature is lower than what new england has seen and I currently have 4 feet of snow in my yard with 7 foot tall snow piles where we shoveled the driveway, the roads are the same. I just paid my Jan 2014 heating bill, keeping the house at 68-70 it was $69.00 adding R-30 worth of insulation to the attic, R18 to the walls and replacing the windows with the cheapest drop in replacements I can order one at a time from home depot.
If you are a home owner and dont improve your home, you are a horrible home owner. If you are a renter, well I suggest moving to a place that costs more per month and has a landlord that cares about the place and has it insulated and new windows.
Here is a secret. Jet Fuel is KEROSENE.
I can burn "Jet Fuel" in my cheap garage kerosene heater.
Honestly Journalism is getting worse and worse these days, it seems that the only thing you need to be a journalist is to dress like a hipster and not have any ability at all to do research or have any education about the subject.
I had a mac at home that had the add on card to run windows/dos. it was an actual 386 computer on an expansion card and it's output was piped to the video board via a 15 pin jumper cable.
X-47B Tankers can refuel them.
A lot of people forget that there are AWACS way up there that will identify a jamming source and relay to another aircraft to smoke them. We utterly owned IRAQ's "best military in the world" because every time the lit up the radar on their anti aircraft installs, we send a nice big present to them automatically.
and if someone thinks that a soldier on the ground is going to have a shoulder mounted jammer, well they are funny as hell. I dare them to just keep a laser pointer aimed at a dime on the top of a stick that is 300 yards away, because that is a lot easier than doing the same to a fighter jet in the sky.
Ended in the 50's? Did you forget what the Falkland Islands are? There was a lot of pissed off people there as well.
All the species on this planet are hell bent on destruction and killing. Trees choke out competing trees, animals eat each other, Humans are evil horrible creatures that care only about themselves and their own goals....
In fact we have no species at all on this planet that is 100% benevolent. All of them are violent and destructive in their own way.
Unless we invent some serious technology to dig that signal out of the noise, you are 100% correct. Even insane gain levels on the antennas have a diminishing return. At a certain point, you end up amplifying the noise and making it all worse.
This is the scientific reason why SETI is a waste of time, Only someone cruising by below the speed of light within that very small radius even have a chance at hearing us.
If anything deliberate broadcasts from EARTH are simply "come eat us" beacons.
Until they have electric cars with a 400 mile range and can recharge to 100% to give me 400 miles again within 30 minutes. that is a gigantic hell no.
Well actually there could be a way. The united states would have to invest heavily in light rail that is affordable. I can drive from Michigan to florida for $90. Until I can take a train for $90 for two tickets and load my electric car on it, with it taking a sane amount of time..... It will never happen.
Right now amtrack is as much as an airline flight and it takes 3 DAYS to get there because you have to go from detroit to chicago to Washington DC to North Carolina, to Florida. Oh and to bring your car, $3500 shipping charge and it will arrive 1-2 weeks after you arrive.
If you think the uplinks to the Geostationary satellites are low power and dont spread out, you really dont understand RF or satellite comms. Some of the older TV birds up there are almost deaf, so we are BLASTING 100,000 watts of energy into a 25 to 30 db gain antenna to hit them. when the signal hits it, it is not 3 inches around and fits nicely in the receiving antenna, it's about 5 miles across, and will continue to spread.
Here is the problem. Radio waves drop in strength Logarithmically. Which means even a 100,000 watt tightly beamed RF signal will be barely above the noise floor before it even get's 4X the diameter of our solar system away. When they talk to Voyager 1 or 2 they are using the largest dish antenna on the planet, and then they are blasting an ungodly amount of power to barely reach it. They also are using the 8GHZ band that has a very low noise floor and almost no interference within a lightyear.
Voyager has a 23 watt transmitter, but a large gain antenna focusing it at earth, but it requires the massive 1000 foot dish or a huge array of smaller dishes to barely receive it. and not much longer, we will not have an antenna with enough gain on this planet to receive it's signal any longer. within the next 4-5 years we are expected to lose all contact with Voyager 1. And this thing is just in out back yard a few feet from the house.
Even if an alien race knew where earth was exactly, and had a 1000 foot dish antenna with a 10Terawatt transmitter pointed right at us. If they were not within a 20 lightyear radius of the earth, their signal would not reach us at a strength that we could detect today.
The drake equation does not take into consideration that most civilizations destroy themselves when they achieve the point of being able to communicate. We are at that point right now, we may simply wink out in a large war in the next 50 years. but if we make it past that 50 year point we will have the technology to much more, unless we create a new super weapon, then the cycle starts all over.
Because as a species we are not very evolved. We gladly kill each other over really stupid shit.
first, they are "journalists" It seems that they just make crap up and do not do any actual research on their articles anymore. I have discovered that 99% of technology journalists are complete idiots that dont even know 1/80th of what they are talking about and do ZERO research before they write something down.
Environmental Science is harder than tech, so I will bet these are the same caliber "journalists". We dont have an real ones out there anymore, most of them are just half hearted bloggers that happen to be paid to do a half assed job.
VNC has been around for quite a while I remember using the AT&T Labs version back in 1999.
Log Me in was simply a repackaged VNC with aded wrapper software and service.