The reason that you're finding it so hard to find non-dimmers in the UK is that we typically don't have a neutral wire in our lighting circuits.
With a dimmer, even when it's turned off it still allows a tiny vampiric current through the circuit - this is to keep the device powered and listening for commands. This current can occasionally be enough to make the bulbs react, which is why most dimmers recommend the inclusion of a bypass in the circuit.
With relays, and a hard on/off decision, there can be no vampiric current. Therefore, when in the 'off' position, the device itself loses power and is unable to respond to commands, negating the whole point of the system.
Relays are usable when there is a neutral wire present, as they can stay powered without opening the circuit, but that's not possible in most UK lighting environments, hence why there are so few non-dimmer solutions on the UK market.
Factorio, as the game from the above list with which I am most familiar, is a beast for performance. Your CPU will manage a small base without issue, and so meets the minimum specs, but will struggle massively once you increase the size and complexity of your base.
Factorio has a base clock of 60 updates per second (UPS). Frames per second (FPS) are limited to UPS, as there is no point displaying two consecutive, identical frames. So you start the game at 60 UPS, which means that your CPU has 16.6666 milliseconds to process each 'tick', and your CPU blazes through it it only 2 or 3 milliseconds. Once your base gets more complex, and there are more entities to track, that tick gets longer and longer, and once it passes 16.6666, you drop below 60 UPS. Large bases can fall to 10 UPS, even on monster PCs. I have an i7 6700 clocked at 4.6GHz, and it doesn't take long for me to drop below 60 UPS. Once you're in the 20 UPS range the game is really unplayable.
With Factorio it's important that your CPU is beefy, but apparently it's your RAM latency that can really make the difference due to the fact that the whole world is recalculated every tick.
While it's easy to say that Factorio will run on your 9 year old i7 950, that's if you only scratch the surface of the game. Performance of Factorio is most definitely limited by our current architecture.
Hmm, I'm not sure about changing the base from 10 as an acceptable method. Can't I just decide that, for the problem of 20747222 467734852078216 952221076085874 80996474721117292 752992589 912196684750549658, I am working in base 20747222 467734852078216 952221076085874 80996474721117292 752992589 912196684750549658?
So the SC has ruled you have to give a physical key, but not a combination. Very clear.
No, you've misread. In the 1988 case, the judge who lost 8-1 used this argument, that a key is different from a combination. But he lost. The other 8 judges voted against him. Therefore, it was established in 1988 that there is no difference between a key and a combination, and neither counted as evidence, ergo no violation of the 5th amendment.
Once you've digested why this judge referenced the 1988 case, you can see that he actually ruled in line with the previous ruling. The defendant cannot be compelled to bear witness against himself, but it has been ruled that providing a key or combination is not bearing witness.
My understanding is that the blue pixels fade faster only in RGB-OLED displays. The current generation of LG OLEDs don't use RGB-OLED, they use W-OLED (which they've got patented so only LG have them), which suffer from none of the fading or burn-in that older sets did.
Still, they're expensive, but the downsides of the early models are affecting perception of the current models, despite the current models exhibiting none of the earlier issues.
I don't understand your position here. You seem to troll every thread on the subject of voice activated assistants in order to slag off the Echo, but you're spouting nonsense.
You frequently claim that 'no one really uses one', but that simply isn't the case. Or perhaps it is, if you mean that 'anyone who uses one often goes on to buy a second'. I have 2 in the house, and they're great. My wife uses them more than I do, but they are a fantastic convenience factor. Not necessary for anything, but handy for dozens of tasks per day.
For those that are interested in the positives, we find Alexa especially useful when cooking, especially meals that have different items with different oven timings. Bang something in the oven and "Alexa, set a timer for 12 minutes". Go do your thing, then she'll call you back when it's time to put the Naan in, and you set her for another 8 minutes. Like I say not necessary, but handy, especially with greasy fingers. "Alexa, play something relaxing" while my wife does some work. "Alexa, turn off the Livingroom lights" once we've settled down for a movie and can't be bothered getting up. "Alexa: Wikipedia: Blake Lively" when we watch end up arguing about who she's married to.
worst of all - if your city starts building something, you can't change it until it's complete
Erm, you definitely can change what a city is currently building. I'm thinking about how to do it, and I'm coming up blank on how you would find it confusing, there are several intuitive ways to do it, two of which are:
1) Click City, click 'Contrruction', click what you want to build. 2) On the City's bar (over the city itself, not the UI overlay), click the cogwheel at the right hand side; this will bring up the construction menu.
I understand it'll be horribly expensive right now and that production prices will drop, but cheap enough for the likes of insulation?
Or are we talking space station stuff here?
Believe it or not, its slightly different in Scotland.
There is no "It may harm your defence if you fail to mention...". Up here, you're perfectly within your rights to, and cannot be punished for, remaining completely silent till your lawyer arrives.
I've spent numerous weeks training at Cultybraggan with the OTC, though never got to see inside the bomb shelter.
That would have made for some amazing piss-ups.
I listened to that TED podcast a few weeks ago, I found it really interesting, but I was driving at the time, and once getting home it had completely slipped my mind to read more in to it.
His presentation was excellent, and it didn't occur to me that he was nearly that old.
Treason? Isn't treason an act against your own government, as apposed to someone else'? It winds me up no end that foreign governments have the power to effectively close the bank accounts of foreign companies, I think it is ridiculous, in fact, and that the big bad old U S of A should fuck off and deal with the problem at home, such as not letting this Asange fellow enter. Either the country in which he is hosted should shut him down, because they agree with America, or there shouldn't be anything done, because they don't, and are their own country and do what the fuck they want.
But.. A password, then face verification? Facebook et al. I'd be happy with face only, ditto with emails, but for the banking stuff it'd be great to have both. As you enter the password, the face recognition does it's business. I'd even love this on the unlocking screen (when the phone goes into keylock due to idleness). My N900 is great, but when someone says "what can it do that my phone can't?", I'm usually at a loss to demonstrate. I know its capable of lots of cool stuff, but currently its shining glory is the FM transmitter, and that's not blow-your-socks-of wow.
Ah. It being a Scottish beer, brewed not far from me in fact, I was using the British notation - I didn't realise there were any others.
If you read on where the 'proof' system came from, you'll quickly see that the american one is, in fact, nonsense, but I suppose that that's a debate for another day.
So that those who are already downloading 2Gb at 30kb/s get it even later.
Nah I'm just trolling, there must be a lot of interest as nobody's getting a decent speed - well, a few have it completed, but its just a case of changing your settings and finding a location that's not suspended.
Anyway, good job Valve on a free open source game that might actually be half decent:O)
I didn't, however, like the browser. The inability to open new taps was the killer for me, for all its rendering speed.
I used Opera Mini on my 5800, and was pleased that it did tabbed browsing, but it just wasn't that good for form filling. I get a lot of trains, and cannot always be sure of my connections before setting off, so a phone that allows me to search for onwards trains as I'm nearing a stop is what I need. Opera mini did not allow that. With all their stuff being pre-rendered, it was fast, but hitting up thetrainline.com or scotrail.co.uk was useless, as once I'd filled in a form I was unlikely to get any meaningful result.
So I've been using firefox 1.1 since yesterday, and its everything I need. Not blisteringly fast, but it is intuitive, tabbed, and compatible with modern websites with javascript et al. The only challenge was finding out how to make it my default browser, but, as they say in apple parlance, "there's an app for that", so it was righted in short order.
Also, while opera mini looked good on the 5800, on the N900 it looks terrible - the border menus are ungainly and look poor.
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The reason that you're finding it so hard to find non-dimmers in the UK is that we typically don't have a neutral wire in our lighting circuits.
With a dimmer, even when it's turned off it still allows a tiny vampiric current through the circuit - this is to keep the device powered and listening for commands. This current can occasionally be enough to make the bulbs react, which is why most dimmers recommend the inclusion of a bypass in the circuit.
With relays, and a hard on/off decision, there can be no vampiric current. Therefore, when in the 'off' position, the device itself loses power and is unable to respond to commands, negating the whole point of the system.
Relays are usable when there is a neutral wire present, as they can stay powered without opening the circuit, but that's not possible in most UK lighting environments, hence why there are so few non-dimmer solutions on the UK market.
Don't bet on it.
Factorio, as the game from the above list with which I am most familiar, is a beast for performance. Your CPU will manage a small base without issue, and so meets the minimum specs, but will struggle massively once you increase the size and complexity of your base.
Factorio has a base clock of 60 updates per second (UPS). Frames per second (FPS) are limited to UPS, as there is no point displaying two consecutive, identical frames. So you start the game at 60 UPS, which means that your CPU has 16.6666 milliseconds to process each 'tick', and your CPU blazes through it it only 2 or 3 milliseconds. Once your base gets more complex, and there are more entities to track, that tick gets longer and longer, and once it passes 16.6666, you drop below 60 UPS. Large bases can fall to 10 UPS, even on monster PCs. I have an i7 6700 clocked at 4.6GHz, and it doesn't take long for me to drop below 60 UPS. Once you're in the 20 UPS range the game is really unplayable.
With Factorio it's important that your CPU is beefy, but apparently it's your RAM latency that can really make the difference due to the fact that the whole world is recalculated every tick.
While it's easy to say that Factorio will run on your 9 year old i7 950, that's if you only scratch the surface of the game. Performance of Factorio is most definitely limited by our current architecture.
Hmm, I'm not sure about changing the base from 10 as an acceptable method. Can't I just decide that, for the problem of 20747222 467734852078216 952221076085874 80996474721117292 752992589 912196684750549658, I am working in base 20747222 467734852078216 952221076085874 80996474721117292 752992589 912196684750549658?
I disagree with this, it's only really the case for FPS games. The likes of Factorio and Cities:Skylines are CPU bound.
So the SC has ruled you have to give a physical key, but not a combination. Very clear.
No, you've misread. In the 1988 case, the judge who lost 8-1 used this argument, that a key is different from a combination. But he lost. The other 8 judges voted against him. Therefore, it was established in 1988 that there is no difference between a key and a combination, and neither counted as evidence, ergo no violation of the 5th amendment.
Once you've digested why this judge referenced the 1988 case, you can see that he actually ruled in line with the previous ruling. The defendant cannot be compelled to bear witness against himself, but it has been ruled that providing a key or combination is not bearing witness.
Very clear.
My understanding is that the blue pixels fade faster only in RGB-OLED displays. The current generation of LG OLEDs don't use RGB-OLED, they use W-OLED (which they've got patented so only LG have them), which suffer from none of the fading or burn-in that older sets did.
Still, they're expensive, but the downsides of the early models are affecting perception of the current models, despite the current models exhibiting none of the earlier issues.
I don't understand your position here. You seem to troll every thread on the subject of voice activated assistants in order to slag off the Echo, but you're spouting nonsense.
You frequently claim that 'no one really uses one', but that simply isn't the case. Or perhaps it is, if you mean that 'anyone who uses one often goes on to buy a second'. I have 2 in the house, and they're great. My wife uses them more than I do, but they are a fantastic convenience factor. Not necessary for anything, but handy for dozens of tasks per day.
For those that are interested in the positives, we find Alexa especially useful when cooking, especially meals that have different items with different oven timings. Bang something in the oven and "Alexa, set a timer for 12 minutes". Go do your thing, then she'll call you back when it's time to put the Naan in, and you set her for another 8 minutes. Like I say not necessary, but handy, especially with greasy fingers. "Alexa, play something relaxing" while my wife does some work. "Alexa, turn off the Livingroom lights" once we've settled down for a movie and can't be bothered getting up. "Alexa: Wikipedia: Blake Lively" when we watch end up arguing about who she's married to.
worst of all - if your city starts building something, you can't change it until it's complete
Erm, you definitely can change what a city is currently building. I'm thinking about how to do it, and I'm coming up blank on how you would find it confusing, there are several intuitive ways to do it, two of which are:
1) Click City, click 'Contrruction', click what you want to build.
2) On the City's bar (over the city itself, not the UI overlay), click the cogwheel at the right hand side; this will bring up the construction menu.
Even their guide dong can't tell the color of the traffic lights.
Where can I get a guide dong? That sounds amazing!
...and welcome to the UK.
I understand it'll be horribly expensive right now and that production prices will drop, but cheap enough for the likes of insulation? Or are we talking space station stuff here?
There is no "It may harm your defence if you fail to mention...". Up here, you're perfectly within your rights to, and cannot be punished for, remaining completely silent till your lawyer arrives.
Wait; in the US, if you sue someone and lose, you don't have to pay their legal fees? Is that right?
I've spent numerous weeks training at Cultybraggan with the OTC, though never got to see inside the bomb shelter. That would have made for some amazing piss-ups.
That game looks awesome! Did you see the open/close manoeuver? I can just imagine the *snick* as it hits full extension.
Finally, a game I can play on my N900
Sorry to be a party pooper, but those numbers all stack up.
A US gallon is 83% of a UK gallon, so the the MPG figures are going to vary.
50 MPG (US) is roughly the same as 59 MPG (UK).
When using US gallons, its hardly surprising that you reach the US figure, rather than the UK figure.
Not everybody does things your way.
I listened to that TED podcast a few weeks ago, I found it really interesting, but I was driving at the time, and once getting home it had completely slipped my mind to read more in to it.
His presentation was excellent, and it didn't occur to me that he was nearly that old.
Treason? Isn't treason an act against your own government, as apposed to someone else'? It winds me up no end that foreign governments have the power to effectively close the bank accounts of foreign companies, I think it is ridiculous, in fact, and that the big bad old U S of A should fuck off and deal with the problem at home, such as not letting this Asange fellow enter. Either the country in which he is hosted should shut him down, because they agree with America, or there shouldn't be anything done, because they don't, and are their own country and do what the fuck they want.
Puts democracy at risk, what nonsense you write
I can tell you right off that everyone in britain calls them satnavs.
As does, like, garmin themselves
But.. A password, then face verification? Facebook et al. I'd be happy with face only, ditto with emails, but for the banking stuff it'd be great to have both. As you enter the password, the face recognition does it's business. I'd even love this on the unlocking screen (when the phone goes into keylock due to idleness). My N900 is great, but when someone says "what can it do that my phone can't?", I'm usually at a loss to demonstrate. I know its capable of lots of cool stuff, but currently its shining glory is the FM transmitter, and that's not blow-your-socks-of wow.
Ah. It being a Scottish beer, brewed not far from me in fact, I was using the British notation - I didn't realise there were any others.
If you read on where the 'proof' system came from, you'll quickly see that the american one is, in fact, nonsense, but I suppose that that's a debate for another day.
Of course there could. But it would have to be 62.9% alcohol. The beer in the article, at 55% alcohol, is 96.25% proof, not the 110 quoted.
So that those who are already downloading 2Gb at 30kb/s get it even later.
Nah I'm just trolling, there must be a lot of interest as nobody's getting a decent speed - well, a few have it completed, but its just a case of changing your settings and finding a location that's not suspended.
Anyway, good job Valve on a free open source game that might actually be half decent :O)
Somebody clearly hasn't RTFA
I got a new N900 yesterday. I like it.
I didn't, however, like the browser. The inability to open new taps was the killer for me, for all its rendering speed.
I used Opera Mini on my 5800, and was pleased that it did tabbed browsing, but it just wasn't that good for form filling. I get a lot of trains, and cannot always be sure of my connections before setting off, so a phone that allows me to search for onwards trains as I'm nearing a stop is what I need. Opera mini did not allow that. With all their stuff being pre-rendered, it was fast, but hitting up thetrainline.com or scotrail.co.uk was useless, as once I'd filled in a form I was unlikely to get any meaningful result.
So I've been using firefox 1.1 since yesterday, and its everything I need. Not blisteringly fast, but it is intuitive, tabbed, and compatible with modern websites with javascript et al. The only challenge was finding out how to make it my default browser, but, as they say in apple parlance, "there's an app for that", so it was righted in short order.
Also, while opera mini looked good on the 5800, on the N900 it looks terrible - the border menus are ungainly and look poor.