Don't you need a dev account to generate/issue "provisioning codes"? That just seems like a needless step. This is generally what happens:
me: "hey dev, there is a bug that does X, reproduce it by Y" dev: "oh shit i forgot about that, here let me compile this and throw up a URL on the forum and people can test it" me: navigates to forum, clicks on link, installs app, gives feedback, repeat
This is a 5-10 minute process and lots of people can participate, it works great:) Rapid prototyping is fun and lots of great features have been added as a result of this process. It also avoids the headache of waiting for a final build to get approved and go live on the * app store.
A lot of mods use their points early in the discussion to shape it to their own agenda. Five mod points in the first 20 posts can either promote an idea, or derail a discussion entirely. Not that this is a bad thing.
I've got some sort of strong password chrome plugin already, I use it for everything. I just don't bother to write down the passwords.
The chances that I'll lose the randomly generated password in the time between when the cookie expires, and when I actually need to use the site* again is about 90%. If I think I'll come back to the site, I'll email myself the password, and if it's just a throwaway account (is there a better single word term for this yet?) I'll just use the password recovery if by some chance I need to login a second time. Hell, I've started using the password generator to pick usernames.
*Does not include sites that have financial info like the Bank, Ebay, Amazon, etc.
Actually of all the apps I use on my phone, I think only gtalk (rapidly becoming replaced with facebook chat), google maps, and the web browser are the only two official google apps I really use. Google goggles will bust in and tell me interesting stuff about my photos, but generally 3rd party apps tend to be better in my experience.
I test out betas of people's android software on my phone all the time. I didn't have to sign up for a silly developer account. I just went in to the settings and checked the box that said "run unsigned code" and it just worked. Good times.
So which weapon has a higher long term mortality rate to the innocent? Land mines or biological warfare? Iran's research in nuclear weapons seems so passe at this point. As we approach 10 billion people on this blue marble, the chances that we'll cull our numbers by 20% or more using some novel new method seems to race towards 1 at a faster and faster rate.
Reportedly commercial cigarettes have sugar added to them [[citation needed]] which interacts with some of the other additives + nicotine in the tabacco to improve it's stimulating effects.
In Peru they make a really tasty margarita-tasting thing made with ice, vodka and coca leaves (the same species they extract Cocaine and Novocaine from - the leaves are legal and widely available in most of South America) which leaves you up all night and full of energy, which is good because the bars in the touristy areas never fully close.
it's pretty well established that sugar doesn't make kids hyper
I am speechless. Have you never had soda/juice/breakfast cereal? Maybe you misspoke, what you meant to say was "sugar doesn't make kids any more hyper than it does adults", which is to say, a lot. I eagerly await your reply where you tell me how sugar doesn't effect you in the slightest.
A standard cup of coffee/tea is about 100-110mg. Being a crop it can vary 10-15% in either direction from lot to lot, even the same brand/flavor. BMI has loopholes too (like body builders), but for many young people just entering the workplace, that giant pot of free coffee is enticing and this could really help a lot of people become more aware of how strong drugs like caffeine effect your body. Sure, you'd be better off with blood tests and a full suite of diagnostics, but like the food pyramid, I don't think many people disagree that refined sugars should be consumed the least.
Perhaps you missed the beginning of my post it started off with "In the PC world,". I weep for the downhill turn of reading comprehension on the internet these days.
The fact is, if you look at the hardware survey, something like 70% of users use something like four different intel processors, 5-6 AMD processors, 8-10 video cards, and 3-4 display resolutions. It's not perfect and there are a lot of potential combinations, but for the most part many of those are just slow/medium/high speed versions of the same product. Intel has slowly but surely been shrinking the total number of consumer processors they make. They're down to about 4 SKUs that system builders use, and then the i3 models they sell to large manufacturers. Sure, consoles are very specific, but the number of companies making the chips people program things for isn't 1/10th of what it used to be. In 1996 you could order a 486 chip from no less than 10 manufacturers out of a Tiger Direct catalog.
You could have saved a lot of time and just said "consoles are sold as a loss leader" and then linked to one of the literally thousands of articles on the internet, rather than explaining this in great detail. Do you really think someone on slashdot hasn't heard this same story 200 times already? If I had mod points right now I would mod you to oblivion as redundant.
In the PC world, developers often patch in additional content or features. New levels, new guns, new costumes, better UI. Balance patches, emergent gameplay tweaks (who knew rocket jumping would spawn entire game types/play style?). Adding additional language support, tutorial levels, user made levels. Special holiday events/levels. If you're already paying $60/yr for online console access, wouldn't you want these things? Valve pretty much blew the concept out of the water that "release it, patch it once" is a valid strategy for continued sales with online multiplayer games. Sony is jumping in bed with Valve for their next few titles and it will be very interesting to see what happens with CS:GO over the next couple of years. This concept that developers can't patch their software on Microsoft's service is going to have to change at some point. PC users have a hard time believing that console games don't get patched very often.
Right, but you're looking at real estate, meaning a 10x10' easement on the sidewalk near an office building, a 20x20' easement at the edge of a neighborhood (next to the well pump) and other tiny buildings. You might be able to stick a hotdog stand in there or a neighborhood convenience store, but it would have no windows, and is set back from the road by 20-30 feet, on the far side of a park.
These spaces are largely utility space, like a mechanical floor in a skyscraper. That said, there are a couple of larger switching buildings in each city, for example this monster which sits about 15 stories tall and is surrounded by single and double story homes. We call it the zombie apocalypse building because there are no windows on the first floor (or any of the other sides) and the back side has a deep wide loading ramp that sinks in to the earth like a moat. About four miles down the road there is a slightly more sane building, which looks more like a traditional warehouse or datacenter, and will probably be converted in to one at some point (many datacenters in Dallas are repurposed and upgraded railway warehouses along I-35). This amounts to a couple of big buildings in major cities, but I would argue that most of the 250 million square feet comes in chunks 400 sq feet at a time or smaller, and includes legal rights to telcom closets in office buildings, etc.
At a dollar a cable, even if they fail, you're still coming out ahead. Products purchased for mission critical operations should already come with all the necessary cables. I wouldn't buy a $1.00 cable for mission critical devices, but of all the cheap cables I've bought for consumer items, I haven't yet had a cable failure. Also, cables under 3m generally always work regardless of quality.
When I bought my new smartphone I found an offbrand 3' cable for $0.99 on amazon. I bought ten of them along with a dock for my phone and two USB wall warts which came out to just over the amount needed for free shipping. Rather than hunting for a cable, I always know I have two in my car, two in my travel bag, two at the computer and four spares in the junk drawer.
I bought my netbook from a brick and mortar store. Back in 2009. Because netbook keyboards from that era were notoriously awful, and the netbook was going with me on a trip coming up soon. Now that Lenovo makes netbooks, I don't have to worry about this problem.
I will still swing by the consumer electronics aisle at office depot every 6-8 months to see what the latest models of mice/keyboards are, just in case I need to replace something via Amazon.com or Newegg in the near future. A coworker recently said, "best buy is amazon's showroom". I can't agree with that enough.
I grew up near Seattle, the PacNW is a great place to live. Great, temperate year round climate, lots of things to do, great outdoors community. I would move back there in a second if it weren't for the cost of living + high unemployment rate. 3 days a year of snow vs 0 days of snow makes for a nice change of pace, reminds you that there are at least 2.5 seasons.
I'm not sure what the situation is in MS, but here in TX mosquitoes only come out in the summer - same as they do in MN. Even then, they don't come out until dusk because it's too hot during the day. To top that off, we get an extra hour of daylight (well, 50 minutes) each day than you guys do in February. That's an extra day of daylight! December is the only month people here that people commute home from work in the dark.
Perhaps also important, you can go outside in a tshirt and jeans November - March, meaning that skilled manufacturing jobs (machining, etc) are less likely to make flight for warmer climates (see also: Los Angeles). Now that we import much of our steel, there's no reason to keep the manufacturing clustered in one of the most miserable parts of the continental United States.
Hey North, NEWSFLASH - we have air conditioning now, it's safe to come down here;) You can enjoy hobbies like sailing in the winter. It's no wonder that southern cities are seeing double digit growth while great lakes industrial cities are collapsing.
I think they're claiming the benefit of removing the cost printing and shipping (i.e. shipping weight, cost to fedex or ups it to where the plane is currently) of the new copies to the bases. 50lbs of added weight is well below the threshold of margin of error on a C-5 Galaxy which has a maximum takeoff weight of 840,000 lbs (i.e. 84% of one million pounds). This is roughly equivalent to arguing that a single spiral notebook would notably decrease the mileage on a greyhound bus.
100 minutes (by your measure) is still within my 2-4 hour range. Lithium batteries slow down their charge rate tremendously after about 60-70%. Also being used by government employees, they're likely to run the batteries dry and leave them dead for weeks, crippling the battery. How you baby your precious iPad and how someone who was issued it as standard equipment with no financial investment treats theirs are two completely different use cases. There is a reason why people pay attention when you say "military grade hardware".
There's no reason to not keep an annually updated paper copy in the plane, in addition to the monthly updated digital copy. I think the bigger problem is going to come from battery replacements - which isn't as easy as just swapping in a new battery pack when the current one goes dead. You have to plug it in to a wall for 2-4 hours to bet to 50% charge first.
In my case, I am looking at using React OS when my developer version of Win8 expires. I run a steam chat bot in a windows VM that connects through steam. If I could get steam working on this thing (Tried - can't - yet) I could avoid paying the microsoft tax to run my otherwise free software steam bot. I haven't tried installing the.net 3.5 redistributable package on this yet either, which could be another hurdle.
That said, it's a pretty impressive chunk of code so far - I'm posting this from inside a React OS VirtualBox image right now. Other than some issues with screen redraws and window focus, it seems to be doing remarkably well. Hopefully in another six months this will be a formidable system. If I could get Chrome working on this, I might even consider giving it a go on my netbook for a few months.
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Don't you need a dev account to generate/issue "provisioning codes"? That just seems like a needless step. This is generally what happens:
:) Rapid prototyping is fun and lots of great features have been added as a result of this process. It also avoids the headache of waiting for a final build to get approved and go live on the * app store.
me: "hey dev, there is a bug that does X, reproduce it by Y"
dev: "oh shit i forgot about that, here let me compile this and throw up a URL on the forum and people can test it"
me: navigates to forum, clicks on link, installs app, gives feedback, repeat
This is a 5-10 minute process and lots of people can participate, it works great
A lot of mods use their points early in the discussion to shape it to their own agenda. Five mod points in the first 20 posts can either promote an idea, or derail a discussion entirely. Not that this is a bad thing.
I've got some sort of strong password chrome plugin already, I use it for everything. I just don't bother to write down the passwords.
The chances that I'll lose the randomly generated password in the time between when the cookie expires, and when I actually need to use the site* again is about 90%. If I think I'll come back to the site, I'll email myself the password, and if it's just a throwaway account (is there a better single word term for this yet?) I'll just use the password recovery if by some chance I need to login a second time. Hell, I've started using the password generator to pick usernames.
*Does not include sites that have financial info like the Bank, Ebay, Amazon, etc.
Actually of all the apps I use on my phone, I think only gtalk (rapidly becoming replaced with facebook chat), google maps, and the web browser are the only two official google apps I really use. Google goggles will bust in and tell me interesting stuff about my photos, but generally 3rd party apps tend to be better in my experience.
I test out betas of people's android software on my phone all the time. I didn't have to sign up for a silly developer account. I just went in to the settings and checked the box that said "run unsigned code" and it just worked. Good times.
So which weapon has a higher long term mortality rate to the innocent? Land mines or biological warfare? Iran's research in nuclear weapons seems so passe at this point. As we approach 10 billion people on this blue marble, the chances that we'll cull our numbers by 20% or more using some novel new method seems to race towards 1 at a faster and faster rate.
Reportedly commercial cigarettes have sugar added to them [[citation needed]] which interacts with some of the other additives + nicotine in the tabacco to improve it's stimulating effects.
In Peru they make a really tasty margarita-tasting thing made with ice, vodka and coca leaves (the same species they extract Cocaine and Novocaine from - the leaves are legal and widely available in most of South America) which leaves you up all night and full of energy, which is good because the bars in the touristy areas never fully close.
I am speechless. Have you never had soda/juice/breakfast cereal? Maybe you misspoke, what you meant to say was "sugar doesn't make kids any more hyper than it does adults", which is to say, a lot. I eagerly await your reply where you tell me how sugar doesn't effect you in the slightest.
A standard cup of coffee/tea is about 100-110mg. Being a crop it can vary 10-15% in either direction from lot to lot, even the same brand/flavor. BMI has loopholes too (like body builders), but for many young people just entering the workplace, that giant pot of free coffee is enticing and this could really help a lot of people become more aware of how strong drugs like caffeine effect your body. Sure, you'd be better off with blood tests and a full suite of diagnostics, but like the food pyramid, I don't think many people disagree that refined sugars should be consumed the least.
Perhaps you missed the beginning of my post it started off with "In the PC world,". I weep for the downhill turn of reading comprehension on the internet these days.
In most of the games I've bought, they were in patches. Any content can be transmitted and labeled DLC. DLC for me means "paid extra content".
The fact is, if you look at the hardware survey, something like 70% of users use something like four different intel processors, 5-6 AMD processors, 8-10 video cards, and 3-4 display resolutions. It's not perfect and there are a lot of potential combinations, but for the most part many of those are just slow/medium/high speed versions of the same product. Intel has slowly but surely been shrinking the total number of consumer processors they make. They're down to about 4 SKUs that system builders use, and then the i3 models they sell to large manufacturers. Sure, consoles are very specific, but the number of companies making the chips people program things for isn't 1/10th of what it used to be. In 1996 you could order a 486 chip from no less than 10 manufacturers out of a Tiger Direct catalog.
You could have saved a lot of time and just said "consoles are sold as a loss leader" and then linked to one of the literally thousands of articles on the internet, rather than explaining this in great detail. Do you really think someone on slashdot hasn't heard this same story 200 times already? If I had mod points right now I would mod you to oblivion as redundant.
In the PC world, developers often patch in additional content or features. New levels, new guns, new costumes, better UI. Balance patches, emergent gameplay tweaks (who knew rocket jumping would spawn entire game types/play style?). Adding additional language support, tutorial levels, user made levels. Special holiday events/levels. If you're already paying $60/yr for online console access, wouldn't you want these things? Valve pretty much blew the concept out of the water that "release it, patch it once" is a valid strategy for continued sales with online multiplayer games. Sony is jumping in bed with Valve for their next few titles and it will be very interesting to see what happens with CS:GO over the next couple of years. This concept that developers can't patch their software on Microsoft's service is going to have to change at some point. PC users have a hard time believing that console games don't get patched very often.
Right, but you're looking at real estate, meaning a 10x10' easement on the sidewalk near an office building, a 20x20' easement at the edge of a neighborhood (next to the well pump) and other tiny buildings. You might be able to stick a hotdog stand in there or a neighborhood convenience store, but it would have no windows, and is set back from the road by 20-30 feet, on the far side of a park.
These spaces are largely utility space, like a mechanical floor in a skyscraper. That said, there are a couple of larger switching buildings in each city, for example this monster which sits about 15 stories tall and is surrounded by single and double story homes. We call it the zombie apocalypse building because there are no windows on the first floor (or any of the other sides) and the back side has a deep wide loading ramp that sinks in to the earth like a moat. About four miles down the road there is a slightly more sane building, which looks more like a traditional warehouse or datacenter, and will probably be converted in to one at some point (many datacenters in Dallas are repurposed and upgraded railway warehouses along I-35). This amounts to a couple of big buildings in major cities, but I would argue that most of the 250 million square feet comes in chunks 400 sq feet at a time or smaller, and includes legal rights to telcom closets in office buildings, etc.
At a dollar a cable, even if they fail, you're still coming out ahead. Products purchased for mission critical operations should already come with all the necessary cables. I wouldn't buy a $1.00 cable for mission critical devices, but of all the cheap cables I've bought for consumer items, I haven't yet had a cable failure. Also, cables under 3m generally always work regardless of quality.
When I bought my new smartphone I found an offbrand 3' cable for $0.99 on amazon. I bought ten of them along with a dock for my phone and two USB wall warts which came out to just over the amount needed for free shipping. Rather than hunting for a cable, I always know I have two in my car, two in my travel bag, two at the computer and four spares in the junk drawer.
I bought my netbook from a brick and mortar store. Back in 2009. Because netbook keyboards from that era were notoriously awful, and the netbook was going with me on a trip coming up soon. Now that Lenovo makes netbooks, I don't have to worry about this problem.
I will still swing by the consumer electronics aisle at office depot every 6-8 months to see what the latest models of mice/keyboards are, just in case I need to replace something via Amazon.com or Newegg in the near future. A coworker recently said, "best buy is amazon's showroom". I can't agree with that enough.
I grew up near Seattle, the PacNW is a great place to live. Great, temperate year round climate, lots of things to do, great outdoors community. I would move back there in a second if it weren't for the cost of living + high unemployment rate. 3 days a year of snow vs 0 days of snow makes for a nice change of pace, reminds you that there are at least 2.5 seasons.
I'm not sure what the situation is in MS, but here in TX mosquitoes only come out in the summer - same as they do in MN. Even then, they don't come out until dusk because it's too hot during the day. To top that off, we get an extra hour of daylight (well, 50 minutes) each day than you guys do in February. That's an extra day of daylight! December is the only month people here that people commute home from work in the dark.
Perhaps also important, you can go outside in a tshirt and jeans November - March, meaning that skilled manufacturing jobs (machining, etc) are less likely to make flight for warmer climates (see also: Los Angeles). Now that we import much of our steel, there's no reason to keep the manufacturing clustered in one of the most miserable parts of the continental United States.
;) You can enjoy hobbies like sailing in the winter. It's no wonder that southern cities are seeing double digit growth while great lakes industrial cities are collapsing.
Hey North, NEWSFLASH - we have air conditioning now, it's safe to come down here
I think they're claiming the benefit of removing the cost printing and shipping (i.e. shipping weight, cost to fedex or ups it to where the plane is currently) of the new copies to the bases. 50lbs of added weight is well below the threshold of margin of error on a C-5 Galaxy which has a maximum takeoff weight of 840,000 lbs (i.e. 84% of one million pounds). This is roughly equivalent to arguing that a single spiral notebook would notably decrease the mileage on a greyhound bus.
100 minutes (by your measure) is still within my 2-4 hour range. Lithium batteries slow down their charge rate tremendously after about 60-70%. Also being used by government employees, they're likely to run the batteries dry and leave them dead for weeks, crippling the battery. How you baby your precious iPad and how someone who was issued it as standard equipment with no financial investment treats theirs are two completely different use cases. There is a reason why people pay attention when you say "military grade hardware".
There's no reason to not keep an annually updated paper copy in the plane, in addition to the monthly updated digital copy. I think the bigger problem is going to come from battery replacements - which isn't as easy as just swapping in a new battery pack when the current one goes dead. You have to plug it in to a wall for 2-4 hours to bet to 50% charge first.
In my case, I am looking at using React OS when my developer version of Win8 expires. I run a steam chat bot in a windows VM that connects through steam. If I could get steam working on this thing (Tried - can't - yet) I could avoid paying the microsoft tax to run my otherwise free software steam bot. I haven't tried installing the .net 3.5 redistributable package on this yet either, which could be another hurdle.
That said, it's a pretty impressive chunk of code so far - I'm posting this from inside a React OS VirtualBox image right now. Other than some issues with screen redraws and window focus, it seems to be doing remarkably well. Hopefully in another six months this will be a formidable system. If I could get Chrome working on this, I might even consider giving it a go on my netbook for a few months.