guess they sold his number as one who will talk and it was non-stop.
And this is the most important reason to not ever talk with telemarketers aside from "please put me on your do not call list". Once you're a "live fish", your name and phone number are worth more money to them. Even more so when a "charity" (real or fake) cold-calls you, and you actually give them money. (of which they probably took at least 80% for "expenses")
You need a license to make phone calls now? Please tell me where I can get one so that I can keep calling my pet fish Eric. He gets so lonely when nobody calls.
This new thing is based on mbed, which uses an online web-based cloud IDE and compiler, nothing to install. I've seen indications that they may want to run their own back-end on a different domain than the usual mbed compiler, but it should be the same principle. Once you hit compile, all your code (stored remotely, but you can get it exported as a zip file) is compiled, and it creates the.bin file as a Save As, which you save to the (usually fake) file system presented by the USB interface, which then programs the target CPU.
I've read a few things about it today, and it's going to be mbedbased, which has me chuffed because I'm a big mbed fan, and that means that the USB port will obviously be for programming and power. And once it's programmed, the battery means it won't have to stay plugged into a computer to flash its blinkenlights.
The CPU they're using not only has a Bluetooth module, it even supports programming over Bluetooth. At that point you'll probably want a battery to make up for the lack of a USB connection.
What I don't know is if the USB can be used as a regular USB device port, to make little HID devices and such. But in my experience, a USB port used for programming usually can't be used that way, and boards will have a second USB port just for this.
I think a fight would be pretty pointless, possibly even boring, and when it was over, you would just end up with two broken robots. What I would like to see is some kind of athletic competition for piloted robots, sort of like the one DARPA just had, only with a little less pratfalls. You know, run an obstacle course, do a long jump, fire at targets, etc.
After a few years of 4chan, I now often go out of my way to check the Post Anonymously button when I make a silly funpost on/.
But seriously, for all the/b/ad parts that it has, the "anonymous by default" (and enforcement by the culture calling out "namefags" and "tripfags") works. Maybe it's from stripping away the ego with posting under your name, but I also like not having to defend my posts if I say something stupid. It's like the ultimate Libertarian Free Speech Meme Swapping Zone.
And thanks to the Play Station thing today, I have discovered that/vr/ has Teh Comfy and will be going back.
I personally prefer Slashdot's style of moderation for most things. (Where its limited to -2 to +5, and you have taxonomy built in).
But that's not why it works. It works because you only get 5 or 15 mod points at a time, you have 3 days to use them or lose them, and you only get them when you get enough micro-points (I think they're called "tokens") from normal usage such as reading threads.
When EVERYONE can upboat and downboat EVERY post with no limit, that's when the groupthink and circle-jerks begin. Metamod helps too, but not as much as simply making mod points something that happens only once or twice a month for normal users.
Give people the ability to create things tied to real world locations without any sort of moderation controls, act surprised when they pick controversial locations. Trolls gonna troll.
If you have a relatively recent (Motorola) router, Uverse uses a 6to4 translation. I have a/29 static, and while technically that means I have IPv6 space corresponding to all eight addresses in that range, I don't know if they would get routed properly. I'm moving in a few months and don't have time right now to dick around with routing the IPv6 into my LAN; I was happy enough that I was able to keep most of my old NAT LAN configuration without having the new router make me do tricks. But for the few machines I have on the WAN side, IPv6 does at least work okay as a client.
Well, okay, they're in that list somewhere along with everybody else. I've also heard that at least one of those networks in the UK (25/8?) isn't even connected to the routed internet, yet it is still assigned the space. And seriously, what does DISA really need four/8 blocks for?
And I find it ironic that HP ended up with two adjacent/8 blocks that can't be merged into a/7.
Also, the "Class D" (multicast) address space (224/4) is extremely under-utilized (IIRC, only 3 of the 16/8s are even used), and IPv4 multicast is mostly a failure anyhow.
And the "Class E" space (240/4) is unusable because the TCP/IP stack in Windows NT and later was explicitly coded to consider those as bad addresses and not even attempt to communicate with them. Thanks a lot, anal-retentive programmer-guy.
Those two together account for 32 "Class A" equivalent addresses, or one eighth of the IPv4 address space.
Or you could, you know, give it a manual assignment (or a static address assignment on your DHCP server) of the low 64 bits. That way you could also make use of the short form of an address like "b1ab:1ab1:ab1a:b1ab::1".
Turn off all the multi-touch crap except two-finger scroll. "Tap to click" on a touchpad is one of the stupidest things ever invented. And the touchpads on Apple stuff have always been light years ahead of the old Alps touchpads with the "edge scroll". Whenever I have to use an old Dell from the 200x era it drives me nuts. Doubly so if the drivers aren't installed, because PS/2 emulation mode has tap-to-click enabled.
And if you want a mouse so bad, GET ONE. They're like ten bucks. No laptop has a built in mouse, the closest was the old PowerBooks with trackballs. I still don't see how it's faster to take you hands off the damn keyboard to mouse around, but hey, nobody is stopping you.
And you do have a thumb, right? The thumb is for clicking, the index finger for pointing. Maybe you're just doing it wrong?
And it takes a lot of energy to hover. And energy takes space and weight to store it. And it takes more energy to hover the additional weight that stores the energy, etc. Well, gosh, maybe it is Star Wars-style after all!
Slashdot Mirror
Derek Lowe, In The Pipeline, I got into him from his Things I Won't Work With tag (Note: he's going to be moving to another domain in a few weeks)
Stephen Smith's Space KSC (I think he's a bigwig with NASA's outreach or advocacy programs or something)
Bunnie Huang's blog (famous for hacking the Xbox, but he isn't updating very often this year, so he must be working on something)
guess they sold his number as one who will talk and it was non-stop.
And this is the most important reason to not ever talk with telemarketers aside from "please put me on your do not call list". Once you're a "live fish", your name and phone number are worth more money to them. Even more so when a "charity" (real or fake) cold-calls you, and you actually give them money. (of which they probably took at least 80% for "expenses")
You need a license to make phone calls now? Please tell me where I can get one so that I can keep calling my pet fish Eric. He gets so lonely when nobody calls.
This new thing is based on mbed, which uses an online web-based cloud IDE and compiler, nothing to install. I've seen indications that they may want to run their own back-end on a different domain than the usual mbed compiler, but it should be the same principle. Once you hit compile, all your code (stored remotely, but you can get it exported as a zip file) is compiled, and it creates the .bin file as a Save As, which you save to the (usually fake) file system presented by the USB interface, which then programs the target CPU.
I've read a few things about it today, and it's going to be mbed based, which has me chuffed because I'm a big mbed fan, and that means that the USB port will obviously be for programming and power. And once it's programmed, the battery means it won't have to stay plugged into a computer to flash its blinkenlights.
The CPU they're using not only has a Bluetooth module, it even supports programming over Bluetooth. At that point you'll probably want a battery to make up for the lack of a USB connection.
What I don't know is if the USB can be used as a regular USB device port, to make little HID devices and such. But in my experience, a USB port used for programming usually can't be used that way, and boards will have a second USB port just for this.
Breakout for Atari was the all-TTL hardware version. Just chips. And he got Woz to do it.
I think a fight would be pretty pointless, possibly even boring, and when it was over, you would just end up with two broken robots. What I would like to see is some kind of athletic competition for piloted robots, sort of like the one DARPA just had, only with a little less pratfalls. You know, run an obstacle course, do a long jump, fire at targets, etc.
After a few years of 4chan, I now often go out of my way to check the Post Anonymously button when I make a silly funpost on /.
But seriously, for all the /b/ad parts that it has, the "anonymous by default" (and enforcement by the culture calling out "namefags" and "tripfags") works. Maybe it's from stripping away the ego with posting under your name, but I also like not having to defend my posts if I say something stupid. It's like the ultimate Libertarian Free Speech Meme Swapping Zone.
And thanks to the Play Station thing today, I have discovered that /vr/ has Teh Comfy and will be going back.
I personally prefer Slashdot's style of moderation for most things. (Where its limited to -2 to +5, and you have taxonomy built in).
But that's not why it works. It works because you only get 5 or 15 mod points at a time, you have 3 days to use them or lose them, and you only get them when you get enough micro-points (I think they're called "tokens") from normal usage such as reading threads.
When EVERYONE can upboat and downboat EVERY post with no limit, that's when the groupthink and circle-jerks begin. Metamod helps too, but not as much as simply making mod points something that happens only once or twice a month for normal users.
Give people the ability to create things tied to real world locations without any sort of moderation controls, act surprised when they pick controversial locations. Trolls gonna troll.
If you have a relatively recent (Motorola) router, Uverse uses a 6to4 translation. I have a /29 static, and while technically that means I have IPv6 space corresponding to all eight addresses in that range, I don't know if they would get routed properly. I'm moving in a few months and don't have time right now to dick around with routing the IPv6 into my LAN; I was happy enough that I was able to keep most of my old NAT LAN configuration without having the new router make me do tricks. But for the few machines I have on the WAN side, IPv6 does at least work okay as a client.
At least now we won't have the confusion of IDA1 on PMA2 and IDA2 on PMA3. Now we can put IDA2 on PMA2 and IDA3 on PMA3!
Another advantage of going to Mars rather than the moon!
I'm only using a few out of my 127/8 class A block, the bidding for the rest starts at one milllllllion dollars. (puts pinky next to mouth)
these companies (which I'd love to name)
Here, I'll name them for you... List of assigned /8 IPv4 address blocks
Well, okay, they're in that list somewhere along with everybody else. I've also heard that at least one of those networks in the UK (25/8?) isn't even connected to the routed internet, yet it is still assigned the space. And seriously, what does DISA really need four /8 blocks for?
And I find it ironic that HP ended up with two adjacent /8 blocks that can't be merged into a /7.
Also, the "Class D" (multicast) address space (224/4) is extremely under-utilized (IIRC, only 3 of the 16 /8s are even used), and IPv4 multicast is mostly a failure anyhow.
And the "Class E" space (240/4) is unusable because the TCP/IP stack in Windows NT and later was explicitly coded to consider those as bad addresses and not even attempt to communicate with them. Thanks a lot, anal-retentive programmer-guy.
Those two together account for 32 "Class A" equivalent addresses, or one eighth of the IPv4 address space.
Or you could, you know, give it a manual assignment (or a static address assignment on your DHCP server) of the low 64 bits. That way you could also make use of the short form of an address like "b1ab:1ab1:ab1a:b1ab::1".
Turn off all the multi-touch crap except two-finger scroll. "Tap to click" on a touchpad is one of the stupidest things ever invented. And the touchpads on Apple stuff have always been light years ahead of the old Alps touchpads with the "edge scroll". Whenever I have to use an old Dell from the 200x era it drives me nuts. Doubly so if the drivers aren't installed, because PS/2 emulation mode has tap-to-click enabled.
And if you want a mouse so bad, GET ONE. They're like ten bucks. No laptop has a built in mouse, the closest was the old PowerBooks with trackballs. I still don't see how it's faster to take you hands off the damn keyboard to mouse around, but hey, nobody is stopping you.
And you do have a thumb, right? The thumb is for clicking, the index finger for pointing. Maybe you're just doing it wrong?
Range safety has said they didn't have time to push the button, it broke up before they knew there was enough of a problem to use the destruct.
you have a giant heat exchanger to the biggest sink in existence
Which is what? You know that vacuum is a very good insulator, right? You basically have to radiate your heat away.
The range guys were asked if they pressed the button. They said they didn't have time to, it broke up before they had a chance to order a destruct.
That was referring to the docking adapter (one of two) being sent up this mission.
Orbital speed or GTFO. Hyperbolic flights are for chumps and tourists.
And it takes a lot of energy to hover. And energy takes space and weight to store it. And it takes more energy to hover the additional weight that stores the energy, etc. Well, gosh, maybe it is Star Wars-style after all!
Where is Zefram Cochrane when we need him?