Quakecon (BYOC population 3000 or so, vs 5000 for this lan party) lived and breathed DC++. I'm pretty sure there's a video of the Mister Sinus show getting the entire drunken and rowdy crowd to should "Dee-Cee PLUS PLUS!" over and over. I've never used DC++ outside of Quakecon, but it's use was so prolific that they outright banned it by name in 2011. Bandwidth was never an issue. Many people would set their max upload speed to 0.001kbps for fear of degrading their ping during gaming.
People would buy multiple 2TB hard drives just for quakecon. People would slurp up 6-10TB of media over four days... they are probably still busy catching up and watching all that material from 2009!
TF2 has a lot of user generated content that isn't officially supported by Valve. Something like 10 worthwhile user made maps come out each month, in addition to whatever spin offs people come up with. For a single game it probably produces as much content as a bigger game like WoW or similar.
The article says that 380v DC is the sweet spot, but why? Here in the US 440v (3 phase) AC is pretty common, as is 220v AC. I realize there's a world of difference between AC and DC, but that's about all I can think of. 380/4=95 x 4v rails I suppose? Someone with an EE degree or master electrician jump in here and explain this to me please.
What happened to natural selection? The planet constantly changes, and species die all the time, if ocean temperatures are going to kill them off how do they expect them to survive in a warmer ocean!!
I've wondered this too. The seas tend to change by a foot or more every 200 years, with evidence of massive water level drops happening several times in the past. Either Coral is more resilient than we give it credit for, or this wide variety of coral appeared in just a few hundred years since the last major temperature/water level swing. Either way, there's definitely a major clue missing here. Huge chunks of Florida (Miami in particular) sit on top of ancient coral reefs. I mean, check out Coral Gables' Venetian Pool - where did all this coral come from? What happened to those species? That part of Florida no longer has reefs, nor has it had them for hundreds if not thousands of years. I think the Biologists and the Geologists need to get together and decide what's actually going on.
Uh, "such as", but not actually Al Qaeda? Have you even read Bin Laden's Fatwas? He pretty clearly outlines that he's pissed off about American imperialism and Jewish re-settlement of Israel, and the (claimed) resulting poverty and economic decline of Arab nations as a result. I get weekly emails from my stoutly republican grandfather outlining Obama's character and policies in a similar light. What you wrote reads almost exactly as what's on wikipedia.
No where does it mention expanding Islam and making it the "dominate" religion. If you have some primary sources you'd like to present here, I'd be interested to read them, but the primary literature Al Qaeda is based on is political, with religious undertones (as is the way with many things in that region), not the other way around.
I remember defending the beach at Normandy in Wolffenstein: Enemy Territory and a few other games. Pretty sure BF1942 had this map either in the base game, or one of the early expansion packs.
I think the 3.5 is a hold over from when displays were a significant cost of the device, and to help prop up the after market add ons. 4" will require retooling for most iphone accessory manufacturers, and wide availability of accessories has been a major selling point of the platform for years. You don't go changing form factors but once every few generations.
My clumsy digits have trouble ringing out a clear A-chord on an electric guitar without some fancy finger gymnastics - it's not the resolution that's the problem; it's the finger size:screen-width ratio. Before you go making dialing wand jokes, my BMI is 23.0.
To answer your original question, IIRC the Nexus S has a 800x480 resolution. As I reach 30, I find that larger font sizes make me less likely to want/need reading glasses. More than 80 characters wide @ 480px on a 4" screen is reaching a certain level of absurdity. There's a reason why newsprint has been the font size it has for so many years.
5" is too big, the bottom end of a tablet size. 4 - 4.2" is about the sweet spot for a touchscreen cell phone. 3.5" is about the bare minimum an adult male can manipulate. I have a 4" screen (seems to be about standard for android phones) and using a friend's iPhone feels very cramped in comparison, especially for things like reading text more than a paragraph long. 4" is about the bare minimum for extended reading.
All those brilliant thinkers were independently wealthy land owners and self financed. They were so far removed from the public education system it completely invalidates whatever your point was supposed to be.
I know! I love the look on HR's face when they see my actions per minute is over 300. Their eyes just light up, knowing that they have a new zerg rush champ for staff appreciation day.
Sports beyond football have been known to exist - baseball, tennis, swimming etc. If you want to expand beyond that, there's marching band, dance, ballet, cheerleading etc which require more finesse and coordination, but less brute strength. The same skills you list to be learned from SC can be learned on the speech or debate team at any school, and are more directly transferable to jobs. I don't doubt people enjoy SC (otherwise Blizzard may not have existed today) but I have reservations about how well being a top notch SC player translates in to being a successful person in meatspace. Many speech/debate students at the national level end up as successful law students based on the skills they learned through debate.
And, like chess, it has no skills that transfer on later in life. The burnout age for professional starcraft players is under the age of 30. After school programs like chess at least promote some level of socialization (no matter how remote). Sports and other extracurricular activities promote health and socialization, among other things.
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Not Open Source, but Brink came out this spring based on the Doom 3 (IDTECH 3, I think?) source code. While terribly supported by the developer (Splash Damage) for the PC, it's a beautiful game, and really says a lot about what can be done with this codebase.
I get about 5 hrs on my netbook, which isn't bad, but I wouldn't mind being able to leave the charger at home. I think 12 hours (real world) is the sweet spot for battery life. Enough time to use the laptop at 50% brightness + wifi while sitting in the airport, in flight, 2-3 hours on your trip, and then the trip home.
Actually most of my friends and family have netbooks these days, and they sort have standardized the power adapter for netbooks, so I have been able to mooch off of them when I am running low. 12 hours of battery life would be great though.
No idea what my netbook weighs - the heaviest laptop I have owned in the last decade was a 2001 Powerbook G4 Ti @ ~5 lbs. The era of clunky heavy laptops ended in 2004 or so (unless you're the type who includes "desktop replacement" in their regular vocabulary). Li-Ion batteries are so damn light that they don't really factor in to the weight of the computer anyways.
I told my mac-fan buddy I might buy a laptop, his response was, "you HAVE to buy a macbook"
My response was, "did they add in that feature that lets you swap out the optical drive for a second battery yet?"
He was not amused.
Seriously though; even with slimline optical drives, they take up an absurd amount of space in laptops, add more weight than a li-ion battery, and generally aren't useful. At least make them removable, with the option for a second battery.
Yep, if you visit a Fry's electronics, the RAM, processors and other high value per volumetric cm objects are kept in a literal wrought iron cage behind the counters. I worked at a CompUSA back in high school; the Palm Pilots and Handspring Visors, laptops and whatnot were kept in a separate room. You had to walk through the cash office (already a locked door), inside the cash office was a second locked door that took you to the electronics lockup room, which contained a fenced off set of 5-10 shelves with laptops and palm pilots, etc. I only saw the inside of that room once in the 18 months I worked there. I think the Fry's cage used to hold SD and CF cards as well, back when an 8GB card fetched more than $15.
I remember years and years ago (mid-1990s) when someone invented a fancy algorithm to take old data (photographs + the orbit & direction they were taken from) from the moon, venus and even mars and convert them in to three-dimensional maps you could fly through with a limited degree of accuracy. I would love to look at similar terrain on the moon in Google Earth finally.
For starters, when you run a nationwide full page political ad, you traditionally do it in the NYT. Sort of like when you give a civil rights speech, you do it on the steps on the Lincoln memorial. Second, there are two nationwide newspapers - USA Today and the New York Times. USA Today has a higher distribution due to hotels and whatnot, but NYT is a paper people actually pay for and read.
In Dallas many of the older homes that had central AC added after the 1960's simply have their windows painted shut as a way to seal the house from the heat. We measure "days over 100" (that's 42c roughly) in double digits, the record being 42. The total number of days over 100 in any given year ranges from 30 to 70. For example my last two houses were built in 1914 and 1945, single pane windows and wood floors. Sealing the windows by painting them shut is a last ditch effort to keep my electric bill under $200 a month in the summer months. The downside is that in the six weeks a year when the low is more than 15 degrees lower than the high for the day, I am stuck cooling the house with electricity rather than simply opening the windows for an hour.
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Quakecon (BYOC population 3000 or so, vs 5000 for this lan party) lived and breathed DC++. I'm pretty sure there's a video of the Mister Sinus show getting the entire drunken and rowdy crowd to should "Dee-Cee PLUS PLUS!" over and over. I've never used DC++ outside of Quakecon, but it's use was so prolific that they outright banned it by name in 2011. Bandwidth was never an issue. Many people would set their max upload speed to 0.001kbps for fear of degrading their ping during gaming.
People would buy multiple 2TB hard drives just for quakecon. People would slurp up 6-10TB of media over four days... they are probably still busy catching up and watching all that material from 2009!
TF2 has a lot of user generated content that isn't officially supported by Valve. Something like 10 worthwhile user made maps come out each month, in addition to whatever spin offs people come up with. For a single game it probably produces as much content as a bigger game like WoW or similar.
The article says that 380v DC is the sweet spot, but why? Here in the US 440v (3 phase) AC is pretty common, as is 220v AC. I realize there's a world of difference between AC and DC, but that's about all I can think of. 380/4=95 x 4v rails I suppose? Someone with an EE degree or master electrician jump in here and explain this to me please.
I've wondered this too. The seas tend to change by a foot or more every 200 years, with evidence of massive water level drops happening several times in the past. Either Coral is more resilient than we give it credit for, or this wide variety of coral appeared in just a few hundred years since the last major temperature/water level swing. Either way, there's definitely a major clue missing here. Huge chunks of Florida (Miami in particular) sit on top of ancient coral reefs. I mean, check out Coral Gables' Venetian Pool - where did all this coral come from? What happened to those species? That part of Florida no longer has reefs, nor has it had them for hundreds if not thousands of years. I think the Biologists and the Geologists need to get together and decide what's actually going on.
Uh, "such as", but not actually Al Qaeda? Have you even read Bin Laden's Fatwas? He pretty clearly outlines that he's pissed off about American imperialism and Jewish re-settlement of Israel, and the (claimed) resulting poverty and economic decline of Arab nations as a result. I get weekly emails from my stoutly republican grandfather outlining Obama's character and policies in a similar light. What you wrote reads almost exactly as what's on wikipedia.
Some light reading: 1996 Fatwa
1998 Fatwa.
No where does it mention expanding Islam and making it the "dominate" religion. If you have some primary sources you'd like to present here, I'd be interested to read them, but the primary literature Al Qaeda is based on is political, with religious undertones (as is the way with many things in that region), not the other way around.
I remember defending the beach at Normandy in Wolffenstein: Enemy Territory and a few other games. Pretty sure BF1942 had this map either in the base game, or one of the early expansion packs.
I think the 3.5 is a hold over from when displays were a significant cost of the device, and to help prop up the after market add ons. 4" will require retooling for most iphone accessory manufacturers, and wide availability of accessories has been a major selling point of the platform for years. You don't go changing form factors but once every few generations.
My clumsy digits have trouble ringing out a clear A-chord on an electric guitar without some fancy finger gymnastics - it's not the resolution that's the problem; it's the finger size:screen-width ratio. Before you go making dialing wand jokes, my BMI is 23.0.
To answer your original question, IIRC the Nexus S has a 800x480 resolution. As I reach 30, I find that larger font sizes make me less likely to want/need reading glasses. More than 80 characters wide @ 480px on a 4" screen is reaching a certain level of absurdity. There's a reason why newsprint has been the font size it has for so many years.
5" is too big, the bottom end of a tablet size. 4 - 4.2" is about the sweet spot for a touchscreen cell phone. 3.5" is about the bare minimum an adult male can manipulate. I have a 4" screen (seems to be about standard for android phones) and using a friend's iPhone feels very cramped in comparison, especially for things like reading text more than a paragraph long. 4" is about the bare minimum for extended reading.
Both Texas and California send more money to the federal government than they get back; what Miracle are you speaking of?
All those brilliant thinkers were independently wealthy land owners and self financed. They were so far removed from the public education system it completely invalidates whatever your point was supposed to be.
I know! I love the look on HR's face when they see my actions per minute is over 300. Their eyes just light up, knowing that they have a new zerg rush champ for staff appreciation day.
Sports beyond football have been known to exist - baseball, tennis, swimming etc. If you want to expand beyond that, there's marching band, dance, ballet, cheerleading etc which require more finesse and coordination, but less brute strength. The same skills you list to be learned from SC can be learned on the speech or debate team at any school, and are more directly transferable to jobs. I don't doubt people enjoy SC (otherwise Blizzard may not have existed today) but I have reservations about how well being a top notch SC player translates in to being a successful person in meatspace. Many speech/debate students at the national level end up as successful law students based on the skills they learned through debate.
And, like chess, it has no skills that transfer on later in life. The burnout age for professional starcraft players is under the age of 30. After school programs like chess at least promote some level of socialization (no matter how remote). Sports and other extracurricular activities promote health and socialization, among other things.
Not Open Source, but Brink came out this spring based on the Doom 3 (IDTECH 3, I think?) source code. While terribly supported by the developer (Splash Damage) for the PC, it's a beautiful game, and really says a lot about what can be done with this codebase.
I get about 5 hrs on my netbook, which isn't bad, but I wouldn't mind being able to leave the charger at home. I think 12 hours (real world) is the sweet spot for battery life. Enough time to use the laptop at 50% brightness + wifi while sitting in the airport, in flight, 2-3 hours on your trip, and then the trip home.
Actually most of my friends and family have netbooks these days, and they sort have standardized the power adapter for netbooks, so I have been able to mooch off of them when I am running low. 12 hours of battery life would be great though.
No idea what my netbook weighs - the heaviest laptop I have owned in the last decade was a 2001 Powerbook G4 Ti @ ~5 lbs. The era of clunky heavy laptops ended in 2004 or so (unless you're the type who includes "desktop replacement" in their regular vocabulary). Li-Ion batteries are so damn light that they don't really factor in to the weight of the computer anyways.
I told my mac-fan buddy I might buy a laptop, his response was, "you HAVE to buy a macbook"
My response was, "did they add in that feature that lets you swap out the optical drive for a second battery yet?"
He was not amused.
Seriously though; even with slimline optical drives, they take up an absurd amount of space in laptops, add more weight than a li-ion battery, and generally aren't useful. At least make them removable, with the option for a second battery.
Yep, if you visit a Fry's electronics, the RAM, processors and other high value per volumetric cm objects are kept in a literal wrought iron cage behind the counters. I worked at a CompUSA back in high school; the Palm Pilots and Handspring Visors, laptops and whatnot were kept in a separate room. You had to walk through the cash office (already a locked door), inside the cash office was a second locked door that took you to the electronics lockup room, which contained a fenced off set of 5-10 shelves with laptops and palm pilots, etc. I only saw the inside of that room once in the 18 months I worked there. I think the Fry's cage used to hold SD and CF cards as well, back when an 8GB card fetched more than $15.
I remember years and years ago (mid-1990s) when someone invented a fancy algorithm to take old data (photographs + the orbit & direction they were taken from) from the moon, venus and even mars and convert them in to three-dimensional maps you could fly through with a limited degree of accuracy. I would love to look at similar terrain on the moon in Google Earth finally.
For starters, when you run a nationwide full page political ad, you traditionally do it in the NYT. Sort of like when you give a civil rights speech, you do it on the steps on the Lincoln memorial. Second, there are two nationwide newspapers - USA Today and the New York Times. USA Today has a higher distribution due to hotels and whatnot, but NYT is a paper people actually pay for and read.
Wait, did you mean weight?
Ah, you see, I was using this map:
http://extendny.com/
I wonder why they are different?
What is the weather like in Uzbekistan this time of year?
Unless someone specifies a brand on Slashdot, it's safe to assume it was purchased in parts and assembled by hand.
In Dallas many of the older homes that had central AC added after the 1960's simply have their windows painted shut as a way to seal the house from the heat. We measure "days over 100" (that's 42c roughly) in double digits, the record being 42. The total number of days over 100 in any given year ranges from 30 to 70. For example my last two houses were built in 1914 and 1945, single pane windows and wood floors. Sealing the windows by painting them shut is a last ditch effort to keep my electric bill under $200 a month in the summer months. The downside is that in the six weeks a year when the low is more than 15 degrees lower than the high for the day, I am stuck cooling the house with electricity rather than simply opening the windows for an hour.