This controller is awful. I originally bought it hoping to improve my noob slaying skills. Merely looking at it however caused me to become blind in my left eye. The special tension wires and switches severed my thumbs and index fingers on both hands. Also unknown to me at the time, the Avenger controller is made of asbestos and coal dust and now I have the black lung and Mesothelioma. When I called customer support I was told to stop being a b***h and that they were websiting since I was a sperm inside my father. All that is left for me to do is weep inside my iron lung. Do not buy this controller. (permalink)
Seriously, I missed the drama earlier this week and finally went to look at this thing. It's ugly as sin, and I can't see how those goofy-looking levers could do anything but break with a few hours use.
I have two cheap $15 Logitech USB game pads that I regularly use that are constantly breaking and needing to be repaired, including wires breaking due to the lack of strain reliefs. (compared to standard Sony PS2 game pads that last months before I need to repair them... yeah, I need to just get a PS2-USB adapter already) This looks much more fragile than those.
Lucky you. Here in the US, I've heard of credit card companies would sit on payments in the incoming mail for a day or two just so they can call it late when they finally open it up. (Postmarks? Why should they care about that?)
What you hear at the start isn't data. It's both modems synchronizing with each other and doing a test of line quality. (Well, there's a little data there, but not data that comes from the data terminal ports of the modems.)
They're standard 5mm LEDs with the legs bent into a molded plastic socket adapter. How much simpler can you get? "Replacement bulbs" (though not necessarily the same color or lens shape) can be found at any decent electronics parts store. And there's no "flasher" involved, though they do flicker because half of the LEDs operate off of one phase of AC and the other half from the other phase.
And that's not even considering that LEDs are a lot more durable than a fragile piece of tungsten wire suspended between two other wires, in a glass bulb with a vacuum.
ObjC is not that friendly or easy, it sports some weird syntax, slow code (compared to plain C)
And C++ syntax isn't weird compared to plain C, too? Just because "everyone uses it" doesn't make it less weird. Templates are from another planet. Uh-oh, here comes a guy in a suit holding a flashy thing...
Most the ones I've seen for sale do have replaceable lamps, and even come with a couple of spares in the box. And the LEDs are standard (except for the lens shape) 5mm LEDs which simply have their leads bent into the socket adaptor. I've also seen some with soldered 3mm LEDs that have a plastic "Christmas light" shape hot-glued onto them.
This means that even a dead strand is still desirable for picking out the LEDs for making cool projects with. And since they already have matching sockets, even the sockets could be desirable for cool projects.
Unfortunately, at the Goodwill salvage outlet store that I go to every now and then, I've only seen one strand of LED lights there (compared to at least two dozen incandescent strands), and someone else snapped it up before I realized what it was.
Probably nothing. If you tune that analog TV to a digital channel, you see nothing but snow, just like a channel with nothing on it. That's because an efficient use of the channel would look as random as the data in a zip file.
Woooosh! Someone with his humor threshold set too low didn't read to the end, and hit the THAT'S RACIST button too early. Because gingers are such an oppressed class.
And that's just one of his articles about actual security theater stupidity incidents.
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I have a simple fix for you. Just turn the volume way up and wait for it to kill the rest of your hearing.
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I not even close to being an audiophile but even I can certainly tell the difference between CD and DVD audio of the same thing. (CD being significantly worse).
Say what? CD is 44Ksamples/sec 16-bit PCM stereo, or about 1500Kbits/sec. DVD stereo audio is usually a Dolby Digital bitstream of 192Kbits/sec, or maybe 384Kbits/sec for 5.1 audio, and usually from a 44Ksamples/sec source. And you say CD sounds worse? Perhaps what you are hearing is the extra channels from 5.1 audio. Or maybe your amp is processing the CD audio differently, like not mixing a center channel, or not doing Dolby Stereo, or maybe even trying to do Dolby Stereo when the source material wasn't recorded with it.
It's a classic troll like those from the dawn of internet trolling, alt.religion.kibology circa 1993. Ah, the good old days of cross-posting about "Majel Barrett Shatner" and "the fifth Beable", both to the appropriate newsgroup for the show, and a.r.k for the audience.
I remember back around '04 or so, there was a virus that wanted to spread itself via SMB shares. If it managed to contact a printer, it somehow thought it was a file share and tried to copy its code over. This would result in hundreds of pages (thank you HP for form feed support in whatever printer language this was) being printed with a few garbage characters on each page. One printer actually wore out some rollers from having to do this.
But yeah, your average ID-10T couldn't identify a Chinese character from any other mojibake even if it tried to cook him fried rice.
Maybe someday the Slashdot guys will realize... oh, I dunno... maybe they should actually TEST their site coding changes on multiple browsers before pushing them to the main site? (Hint: use a test server that connects to the same database back-end) At least they finally got that stupid "working" thingy to go away with Mozilla-based browsers.
Good luck jailbreaking it first. That's one of the reasons they're completely breaking away from the old PSP architecture other than more or less keeping the same form factor.
As a programmer, something about the way this conditional logic is specified makes me twitch.
It's s/star/start/g that makes me twitch. If you're going to copy and paste something six times, you could at least notice that you've left a letter off.
It could be worse. Go 100 miles south and you can get all kinds of tax breaks for building an new hotel... in the center of a tourist and convention district!
Where do you put all that irradiated waste, ranging from water over metals, concrete, oils, various sealants and so on?
The really nasty stuff is nasty specifically because it has such a short half-life. The more radioactive something is, the shorter its half-life. The worst is the stuff with half-life measured in decades, that chemically substitutes for elements your body uses (like the calcium in your bones), thus irradiating you from the inside. But because it's measured in decades, you really don't have to worry about the "Egyptian tomb" problem. And the stuff that's in-between (a few centuries) can be induced to move along the decay process by adding some radiation.
The stuff that doesn't have a short half-life could be reprocessed as fuel, if people weren't so scared of "turrrurrrists" getting hold of it. Hint: it's harder to make an A-bomb out of stuff that has a mix of isotopes; you want really pure stuff. And dirty bomb material could be made via "radioactive boy scout" methods anyhow.
It's like taking raw sewage and trying to hold it in tanks forever, instead of extracting clean water out of it and dealing with the shit sludge separately.
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This controller is awful. I originally bought it hoping to improve my noob slaying skills. Merely looking at it however caused me to become blind in my left eye. The special tension wires and switches severed my thumbs and index fingers on both hands. Also unknown to me at the time, the Avenger controller is made of asbestos and coal dust and now I have the black lung and Mesothelioma. When I called customer support I was told to stop being a b***h and that they were websiting since I was a sperm inside my father. All that is left for me to do is weep inside my iron lung. Do not buy this controller. (permalink)
Seriously, I missed the drama earlier this week and finally went to look at this thing. It's ugly as sin, and I can't see how those goofy-looking levers could do anything but break with a few hours use.
I have two cheap $15 Logitech USB game pads that I regularly use that are constantly breaking and needing to be repaired, including wires breaking due to the lack of strain reliefs. (compared to standard Sony PS2 game pads that last months before I need to repair them... yeah, I need to just get a PS2-USB adapter already) This looks much more fragile than those.
Lucky you. Here in the US, I've heard of credit card companies would sit on payments in the incoming mail for a day or two just so they can call it late when they finally open it up. (Postmarks? Why should they care about that?)
What you hear at the start isn't data. It's both modems synchronizing with each other and doing a test of line quality. (Well, there's a little data there, but not data that comes from the data terminal ports of the modems.)
They're standard 5mm LEDs with the legs bent into a molded plastic socket adapter. How much simpler can you get? "Replacement bulbs" (though not necessarily the same color or lens shape) can be found at any decent electronics parts store. And there's no "flasher" involved, though they do flicker because half of the LEDs operate off of one phase of AC and the other half from the other phase.
And that's not even considering that LEDs are a lot more durable than a fragile piece of tungsten wire suspended between two other wires, in a glass bulb with a vacuum.
ObjC is not that friendly or easy, it sports some weird syntax, slow code (compared to plain C)
And C++ syntax isn't weird compared to plain C, too? Just because "everyone uses it" doesn't make it less weird. Templates are from another planet. Uh-oh, here comes a guy in a suit holding a flashy thing...
Most the ones I've seen for sale do have replaceable lamps, and even come with a couple of spares in the box. And the LEDs are standard (except for the lens shape) 5mm LEDs which simply have their leads bent into the socket adaptor. I've also seen some with soldered 3mm LEDs that have a plastic "Christmas light" shape hot-glued onto them.
This means that even a dead strand is still desirable for picking out the LEDs for making cool projects with. And since they already have matching sockets, even the sockets could be desirable for cool projects.
Unfortunately, at the Goodwill salvage outlet store that I go to every now and then, I've only seen one strand of LED lights there (compared to at least two dozen incandescent strands), and someone else snapped it up before I realized what it was.
YOU find satellite!
(Damn kids trying to do ISR memes these days, get off my lawn.)
FWIW, "DVD audio" != "DVD-Audio"
I suddenly imagined Santa, his sleigh, reindeer, etc., covered in BETA stickers.
Probably nothing. If you tune that analog TV to a digital channel, you see nothing but snow, just like a channel with nothing on it. That's because an efficient use of the channel would look as random as the data in a zip file.
They release free versions of their compilers
...which don't support C99 (and won't support C11)
If you don't call "letting the standard wither", then I don't know what it is.
(That being said, yeah, you can do most C99-ish things with MSVC by simply adding a "pp" to a few file names. Not that that's always convenient.)
Woooosh! Someone with his humor threshold set too low didn't read to the end, and hit the THAT'S RACIST button too early. Because gingers are such an oppressed class.
But if you're a commercial pilot, you get to experience the security theater just like the rest of us.
And that's just one of his articles about actual security theater stupidity incidents.
I have a simple fix for you. Just turn the volume way up and wait for it to kill the rest of your hearing.
I not even close to being an audiophile but even I can certainly tell the difference between CD and DVD audio of the same thing. (CD being significantly worse).
Say what? CD is 44Ksamples/sec 16-bit PCM stereo, or about 1500Kbits/sec. DVD stereo audio is usually a Dolby Digital bitstream of 192Kbits/sec, or maybe 384Kbits/sec for 5.1 audio, and usually from a 44Ksamples/sec source. And you say CD sounds worse? Perhaps what you are hearing is the extra channels from 5.1 audio. Or maybe your amp is processing the CD audio differently, like not mixing a center channel, or not doing Dolby Stereo, or maybe even trying to do Dolby Stereo when the source material wasn't recorded with it.
Japan's Supreme court also ruled in favor of the creator of Winny.
I think it's a little stupid too, since Newt Gingrich already has a web site with a much cooler 4-character name.
Then again, it's kind of bad on Newt's part too for not having preemptively bought it long ago and set it as a redirect.
It's a classic troll like those from the dawn of internet trolling, alt.religion.kibology circa 1993. Ah, the good old days of cross-posting about "Majel Barrett Shatner" and "the fifth Beable", both to the appropriate newsgroup for the show, and a.r.k for the audience.
I remember back around '04 or so, there was a virus that wanted to spread itself via SMB shares. If it managed to contact a printer, it somehow thought it was a file share and tried to copy its code over. This would result in hundreds of pages (thank you HP for form feed support in whatever printer language this was) being printed with a few garbage characters on each page. One printer actually wore out some rollers from having to do this.
But yeah, your average ID-10T couldn't identify a Chinese character from any other mojibake even if it tried to cook him fried rice.
Maybe someday the Slashdot guys will realize... oh, I dunno... maybe they should actually TEST their site coding changes on multiple browsers before pushing them to the main site? (Hint: use a test server that connects to the same database back-end) At least they finally got that stupid "working" thingy to go away with Mozilla-based browsers.
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Good luck jailbreaking it first. That's one of the reasons they're completely breaking away from the old PSP architecture other than more or less keeping the same form factor.
As a programmer, something about the way this conditional logic is specified makes me twitch.
It's s/star/start/g that makes me twitch. If you're going to copy and paste something six times, you could at least notice that you've left a letter off.
It could be worse. Go 100 miles south and you can get all kinds of tax breaks for building an new hotel... in the center of a tourist and convention district!
Where do you put all that irradiated waste, ranging from water over metals, concrete, oils, various sealants and so on?
The really nasty stuff is nasty specifically because it has such a short half-life. The more radioactive something is, the shorter its half-life. The worst is the stuff with half-life measured in decades, that chemically substitutes for elements your body uses (like the calcium in your bones), thus irradiating you from the inside. But because it's measured in decades, you really don't have to worry about the "Egyptian tomb" problem. And the stuff that's in-between (a few centuries) can be induced to move along the decay process by adding some radiation.
The stuff that doesn't have a short half-life could be reprocessed as fuel, if people weren't so scared of "turrrurrrists" getting hold of it. Hint: it's harder to make an A-bomb out of stuff that has a mix of isotopes; you want really pure stuff. And dirty bomb material could be made via "radioactive boy scout" methods anyhow.
It's like taking raw sewage and trying to hold it in tanks forever, instead of extracting clean water out of it and dealing with the shit sludge separately.