Oops, I forgot to add the part about "or you post something on their forums that they don't like (such as complaining about the DRM?) and they kill your account and even the single player mode won't work anymore, for every game you have registered with them"
You may have connectivity but when their server goes down from the bean counters deciding that the old server is a cost center they can no longer afford after the next sequel comes out you'll be shit out of luck trying to pay your newly rented game from EA.
You work for Trollco? I got to see a bit of the video from that camera yesterday. (NHK English-language news program on my local PBS every afternoon.) The water is nasty with rust, but it's certainly not melting.
"Melting"? At 48C? Yes, that's the temperature they measured. That's not much warmer than a good hot spring, aside from the radiation. I rate your troll 1/10.
The up direction isn't blocked. It's only limited by gravity. Whatever knocks it out of your hand could cause it to fly upward. And the down direction isn't really blocked either. It could slide around below the seats, which could interfere with an evacuation.
Oh, and I should add that even if you're not talking on your phone, when it is turned on, it will still try to talk to base stations, all the while draining its battery (especially when there aren't any in sight) and hogging channels.
The problem is that cell phones work by only having line of sight to a small number of towers. That allows the frequency to be shared among multiple people in the same city. But when you're in a plane, you could have line of sight to dozens or even hundreds of towers. So your phone might work great, but you're messing up the system down on the ground, and hogging a cell channel.
But then again, you're 1) six miles up, and 2) moving very fast (five times highway speeds). So you're probably at long range for a given tower and using up more battery power, and you're going to be switching towers a lot more often. So it can be hit or miss as to how well your phone actually does work when in a plane.
The real problem isn't electronic interference. The real problem is that in the event of a takeoff or landing emergency, do you really want a bunch of cell phones and iPads flying around the cabin after a particularly bad bump of some sort of another? (ditto for magazines and books, fwiw)
Hey you on the cell phone, shut your pie hole and stow your toy already!
I think the idea is that (evilvoice) GLOBALLLL WARRRRMING (/evilvoice) will make it easier to get in there to fix things. But if the melting up there was really caused by the PDO, then they're going to be unpleasantly surprised.
On the other hand, it also means a lot less ship traffic that can drag anchors into the cable.
Scarcely populated places in northern Canada and Alaska will appreciate the chances of a bit more bandwidth!
...whilst crushing the hopes of all the people talking about how this new link will not be intercepted by US agencies. Not that it helps that the "Northwest Passage" areas tend to be the barely- to un-populated areas.
I'm more concerned about the "five shots per second". I read the wikipedia article, and it seems that the large number of hours between shots are because (essentially) the equipment needs to cool down due to the effect of heat on the optics. They're hoping to get that down to a few hours, which is still nowhere near five shots per second.
Then there's the little matter of how you're going to collect the resulting energy. One of those little spheres is supposed to give about a 10 kiloton explosion? That's a lot of energy in a short period of time. How are you going to get that to turbines?
Could you expand on the Pascal limitations things? I used Pascal when i was student, even in the industry (petroleum refinery) and I never encountered any kind of limitations.
Was it a UCSD variant? (that includes Turbo Pascal and the dialect that Apple used on the Lisa and Macintosh)
Standard Pascal had some serious limitations that were mostly fixed by Unit headers and pointers.
A lot of Perl's syntax is based on sed, awk, and Unix shells, with C-ness thrown on top. C wasn't the first and only language, ya know. And C wasn't "extemely well established" until about 1990 or so. Now get off my lawn.
which displays all downloads on the public BitTorrent network associated with an IP address.
Bittorrent is a protocol, not a network. Failed my BS detector right there.
It's got trackers, which keep track of who has and needs which chunks, and that's it. You can always set up your own tracker (getting people to use it is another matter), and nobody knows who is using it except the people who are using it. There is no requirement for trackers to talk to each other, and I don't even know if there is even an option for that.
I'm pretty sure you can't even get info on who is participating in a particular torrent unless you ask the tracker specifically about that torrent, and that there's no wildcard mechanism to ask the tracker for a list which torrents it serves.
So they could download a bunch of.torrent files off of popular sites that are using popular trackers and snoop into those, but there's no way they can see everything.
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In the end I replaced the Mozilla browsers icons with E icons and the office twonks where happy. God I hate lusers
Fixed that for you.
Oops, I forgot to add the part about "or you post something on their forums that they don't like (such as complaining about the DRM?) and they kill your account and even the single player mode won't work anymore, for every game you have registered with them"
How does "game refuses to play in single-player mode without an online connection" equate to microtransactions?
You may have connectivity but when their server goes down from the bean counters deciding that the old server is a cost center they can no longer afford after the next sequel comes out you'll be shit out of luck trying to pay your newly rented game from EA.
Fixed.
Well, at least they answered the ages-old question of "Will it blend?"
Q: What in your estimation is the worst-case scenario involving critical mass left uncooled and resting on a surface attached to the ground?
Exactly what "critical mass left uncooled" are you talking about? Certainly nothing that is on-topic in this article discussion.
You work for Trollco? I got to see a bit of the video from that camera yesterday. (NHK English-language news program on my local PBS every afternoon.) The water is nasty with rust, but it's certainly not melting.
"Melting"? At 48C? Yes, that's the temperature they measured. That's not much warmer than a good hot spring, aside from the radiation. I rate your troll 1/10.
Simple. Just put isotopes on your keys.
The up direction isn't blocked. It's only limited by gravity. Whatever knocks it out of your hand could cause it to fly upward. And the down direction isn't really blocked either. It could slide around below the seats, which could interfere with an evacuation.
When did Ars become Salon?
Oh, and I should add that even if you're not talking on your phone, when it is turned on, it will still try to talk to base stations, all the while draining its battery (especially when there aren't any in sight) and hogging channels.
Do cell phones work that well at high altitudes?
The problem is that cell phones work by only having line of sight to a small number of towers. That allows the frequency to be shared among multiple people in the same city. But when you're in a plane, you could have line of sight to dozens or even hundreds of towers. So your phone might work great, but you're messing up the system down on the ground, and hogging a cell channel.
But then again, you're 1) six miles up, and 2) moving very fast (five times highway speeds). So you're probably at long range for a given tower and using up more battery power, and you're going to be switching towers a lot more often. So it can be hit or miss as to how well your phone actually does work when in a plane.
The real problem isn't electronic interference. The real problem is that in the event of a takeoff or landing emergency, do you really want a bunch of cell phones and iPads flying around the cabin after a particularly bad bump of some sort of another? (ditto for magazines and books, fwiw)
Hey you on the cell phone, shut your pie hole and stow your toy already!
I think the idea is that (evilvoice) GLOBALLLL WARRRRMING (/evilvoice) will make it easier to get in there to fix things. But if the melting up there was really caused by the PDO, then they're going to be unpleasantly surprised.
On the other hand, it also means a lot less ship traffic that can drag anchors into the cable.
Scarcely populated places in northern Canada and Alaska will appreciate the chances of a bit more bandwidth!
...whilst crushing the hopes of all the people talking about how this new link will not be intercepted by US agencies. Not that it helps that the "Northwest Passage" areas tend to be the barely- to un-populated areas.
I'm more concerned about the "five shots per second". I read the wikipedia article, and it seems that the large number of hours between shots are because (essentially) the equipment needs to cool down due to the effect of heat on the optics. They're hoping to get that down to a few hours, which is still nowhere near five shots per second.
Then there's the little matter of how you're going to collect the resulting energy. One of those little spheres is supposed to give about a 10 kiloton explosion? That's a lot of energy in a short period of time. How are you going to get that to turbines?
A rubber ducky.
That's 140 imperial metres.
Could you expand on the Pascal limitations things? I used Pascal when i was student, even in the industry (petroleum refinery) and I never encountered any kind of limitations.
Was it a UCSD variant? (that includes Turbo Pascal and the dialect that Apple used on the Lisa and Macintosh)
Standard Pascal had some serious limitations that were mostly fixed by Unit headers and pointers.
It came out nearly the same time as C++ which. You had to buy Objective from its vendor or Apple which C++ was was free.
Apple had nothing to do with Objective C until it bought NeXT. By that time it was already integrated with GCC.
A lot of Perl's syntax is based on sed, awk, and Unix shells, with C-ness thrown on top. C wasn't the first and only language, ya know. And C wasn't "extemely well established" until about 1990 or so. Now get off my lawn.
If they hurry, they can get there before China.
Then I guess you've never been to Oklahoma. They don't even have the weird of Austin. Ever hear of the term "buckle of the bible belt"?
which displays all downloads on the public BitTorrent network associated with an IP address.
Bittorrent is a protocol, not a network. Failed my BS detector right there.
It's got trackers, which keep track of who has and needs which chunks, and that's it. You can always set up your own tracker (getting people to use it is another matter), and nobody knows who is using it except the people who are using it. There is no requirement for trackers to talk to each other, and I don't even know if there is even an option for that.
I'm pretty sure you can't even get info on who is participating in a particular torrent unless you ask the tracker specifically about that torrent, and that there's no wildcard mechanism to ask the tracker for a list which torrents it serves.
So they could download a bunch of .torrent files off of popular sites that are using popular trackers and snoop into those, but there's no way they can see everything.