I visit 5-10 times a day (I really should invest in an RSS reader) and still get 5 mod points ~2x a week. I think the moderation system works fine. I don't see any moderation abuse to any great degree here. Usually if someone is astroturfing or BSing or just plain wrong, people will call them out on it in replies.
This was how the creator of the map "dismember the alamo" created his map of the alamo drafthouse (austin based movie theater chain) to scale. Hammer does a lot of things, but building real buildings to scale from photos is not one of them, which, presumably is why sketchup was supported as an importable filetype. If you can find the buildup thread on that site linked above, he does a pretty good tutorial (edit - you can find the sketchup/hammer buildup thread here). I would imagine this is what the Maximum PC tutorial is based off of.
Also there's nothing wrong with building a map of your school for quake/doom/halflife; I did it too back in the quake 1 days. Schools are the right size for deathmatch maps (I tried building mine and my friends' houses but they're waaay too small unless you scale the rooms waaay up, schools with their cafeterias and gyms are about the right size) and I never thought about rampaging through the actual school. So chill out everyone.
Someone on Fark was able to triangulate the launch location within about 20 miles by matching up the photos with the mountains on the horizon. I'm too lazy to pull it up right now but it was basically nothern norway, where norway wraps around the top end of sweden.
So basically the story is the Russians were testing a missile designed to hit multiple targets on the eastern seaboard of the US with nuclear warheads (google MIRV), withstand being hit (indirectly) by an atomic bomb while in flight, and penetrate missile bunkers. Launched from northern Norway, days before Obama is scheduled to recieve the Nobel peace prize, also in Norway. The US has been reulctant to pull out of Poland as part of our Missile Defense Shield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_missile_defense_complex_in_Poland) but did so recently. If this was an intentional failure by Russia, it's an odd way of showing affection. Either way the timing couldn't possibly be worse on the Russian's part. Putin was probably throwing chairs Balmer style as soon as he got wind of this.
GM doesnt make parts (except the actual chassis, and generally engines, maybe some other bits). The rest is bought from vendors, who purchase it from tier 2 suppliers. If someone came up with standard engine mount points and transmission mounting points. GM and ford have some basic "Standard" mounts, but there's no garuntee that they'll keep that standard for more than one generation. If you could standardize that sort of thing then you could buy replacement engine/transmissions for cars at cut rate costs and it would really undercut the new car market considerably since you could buy engine/transmission parts forever. Most people whose engine dies just buy another used car for less than the cost of buying a used engine/transmission out of a wrecked car and having it installed in their current car.
Trucks and "classic" RWD cars have a much lower maintenance cost since many of them will accept a "chevy 350" with little or no modifications, and there's enough parts out there that it's cheap to do. Unfortunately nobody has designed a 2.0L engine (modern, standard sized, fuel efficient analog to the old 350) with the same loyal following for > 15 years or so. The engine used in the Neon/PT Cruiser/some minivans might come close to this, but it hasn't been embraced as a "drop in" engine for other vehicles.
depends. right now were're surface mining lithium salts from exposed salt flats. theres no telling how many rich veins of lithium salts are hiding in valleys or near aquifers. i'm sure someone is working on that, but until someone runs analysis on where those veins might be i doubt anyone could tell you. more than likely battery technology will move beyond lithium long before (100 years?) we run out of lithium "ore" you can just shovel off the ground and into the back of a truck (Seriously, do a google image search for "lithium ore" - they literally shovel it right off the ground into piles, and later into pickup trucks)
i moderated in the myspace thread, so i cant comment there, and you don't have your email listed, but 5400 songs is what i had after a two years of dialup on napster/audiogalaxy back in my high school days. i think 30 gigs for a "serious" music collection is pretty small given all things considered.
The studio is being retired; there's no value in having the product work at launch. If it takes them a month to get the patch out, so be it, people will blame (the now defunct) Pandemic, and people will continue to buy EA games. If they ever revive the Pandemic name (why? what notable titles have they made? Dark Rein comes to mind, if only because my buddy was obsessed with Dark Rein 2 for so long in high school) nobody will remember this flop in 5-10 years time. The only flop anyone ever remembers is Duke Nukem Forever. I doubt most geeks could tell you the name of the rouge iD developer who made his own FPS (which failed miserably), or what the name of his game was. In two years nobody will remember the "Pandemic studios Pandemic of 2009".
That was my exact impression. Perfect for mom or grandma, but to break the seal and get at the guts takes entirely too much effort. I appreciate that they make the terminal easy to get to, but everything else is locked down like it's system 7.6 or something.
Ubuntu/linux in general won't work with many broadcom chipsets out of the box, you have to connect to the internet "manually" with an ethernet connection/cable.
Besides, when the screen is inevitably shattered/ripped off in a freak accident with a 6-year old, you can plug it into the home network as a NAS server, or in many cases with the newer models featuring HDMI out, a HTPC. Many if not most netbooks ship with gig-e onboard now.
also a lot of offices don't have wifi (or the admin isn't around to share the WEP key with you) and if you're traveling on business you're screwed without an ethernet port if you need to check email or send your boss an update. i guess you could carry around a USB eithernet dongle but... why? internal ethernet ports probably cost the manufacturer $0.25 to implement.
I ended up installing UNR (ubuntu netbook remix) 9.10 on my hp mini 110; I needed it in a hurry for my trip so I had to buy it retail with XP. But apparently netbooks don't come with restore CDs so I've been hunting the torrent sites for a copy of Windows XP Home ULC (i.e. netbook edition) because HP wants $15 "shipping and handling" for the disc that should have come with the device in the first place =/
UNR 9.10 takes some getting used to, and I sorely miss the "switch to traditional desktop mode" of UNR 9.04... I really want to try out Moblin 2.1 but I don't have time to mess with it on the road for 4 weeks if something breaks. Perhaps when I get back.
As soon as they're running regular flights I would imagine several other companies will be able to get funding to build their own SS2 clone(s). It wouldn't suprise me to see the price drop to $10,000 or $15,000 by 2025 or so -- $10,000 is what most parents spend on their kid's first (used) car in wealthy suburbs of Dallas, Houston and I would presume other cities like NYC and Chicago. At least a few of them spend that much on their yearly vacation(s). There's easily 100x the number of people who would go into space for 90 minutes for $10,000 as there are those who could afford a $200k trip, especially if they save for two or three years for it.
ok I tried really hard, I opened the tab, then closed it again, then read three more posts, before having to post this. "get's" does not have an apostrophe in it! It is "gets". It's not a contraction, and it's not possessive. I can understand bad grammar, lack of punctuation, etc., but poor usage of apostrophes really "get's" my goat!!!
There's already a hot market for dual-SIM card phones, but that requires you to "dual boot". If your job requires you live/do your job through your phone, this makes things a lot easier.
regarding your first paragraph, i wholly agree. I've been playing around with ubuntu netbook remix (unr) which essentially has tabbed windows that are always maximized. copying files using the GUI has been a complete pain in the ass but fortunately you can force non-maximized for this purpose. rebuilding my alsa drivers so that my hp mini would have a functional mic (For skype) requires a lot of copying and pasting between firefox and the terminal, which is easier when both windows aren't maximized.
maximized windows are great for resolutions 1280 and lower, but really most apps don't need to be larger than 8.5" wide (standard letter/a4 size). Maybe a better idea would be to split the display up virtually, create a center display, 8.5-12" wide, with two smaller virtual windows on either side, so you have three sets of tabs.
Either way, running 100% maximized 100$% of the time is somewhat inconvenient. There's a lot of work to be done in the netbook gui field, and I doubt a lot of that will be applicable for the more or less standard 22" 1680x1050 displays being deployed these days.
I'm kind of curious how many more situations like this will occur before people develop point to point 3G networks using old, root'd G1s and directional dishes. With the ability to just turn off the internet at will, eventually someone will develop a tethered G1 that can talk to other tethered G1s in a point to point situation. I think packet HAM radio does this to an extent already, but you should be able to push 10mb/s easy across p2p 3G packet radio, which then interfaces with a building's internal network. A primitive, 1980's DARPA internet via packet radio for the 21st century:)
With both a laptop and the cell phone being battery powered, such a situation should allow for interrupted power for an hour or more.
You would have to pay me to use a brother printer. They're like the Yugo/GM of printers - why buy a POS when for $10 more you can get a semi-reliable canon-- or better yet HP or Xerox?
I think the reason Brother has so many "specials" on their printers is because if they didn't price them what they were worth, people would avoid them for being unusually cheap (because they are). We had an all in one brother that replaced our old HP LaserJet 3100... it lasted about two cartridges before we had enough of the jamming and streaking and false low-toner alerts, and bought a refurb'd Laserjet. By pricing the brothers with the HPs, it looks like a great deal when they go on sale every other week. The reality is the "Sale" price is still well above what those POS's are worth. Any used HP laser printer from the late 80's-2003 or so is worth whatever you pay for it.
What? No, I'm saying buy a b&w laser printer and outsource your color prints to wallyworld.or snapfish. Why would you buy a color laser printer?:boggle: used laserjet IIs run about $75 and the toner costs about the same. Contrary to popular belief you don't need a color printer to print google maps directions.
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I visit 5-10 times a day (I really should invest in an RSS reader) and still get 5 mod points ~2x a week. I think the moderation system works fine. I don't see any moderation abuse to any great degree here. Usually if someone is astroturfing or BSing or just plain wrong, people will call them out on it in replies.
This was how the creator of the map "dismember the alamo" created his map of the alamo drafthouse (austin based movie theater chain) to scale. Hammer does a lot of things, but building real buildings to scale from photos is not one of them, which, presumably is why sketchup was supported as an importable filetype. If you can find the buildup thread on that site linked above, he does a pretty good tutorial (edit - you can find the sketchup/hammer buildup thread here). I would imagine this is what the Maximum PC tutorial is based off of.
Also there's nothing wrong with building a map of your school for quake/doom/halflife; I did it too back in the quake 1 days. Schools are the right size for deathmatch maps (I tried building mine and my friends' houses but they're waaay too small unless you scale the rooms waaay up, schools with their cafeterias and gyms are about the right size) and I never thought about rampaging through the actual school. So chill out everyone.
Someone on Fark was able to triangulate the launch location within about 20 miles by matching up the photos with the mountains on the horizon. I'm too lazy to pull it up right now but it was basically nothern norway, where norway wraps around the top end of sweden.
[citation needed]
Seriously though, I'm really curious where you heard something like that. I'd like to read up on these sorts of procedures.
So basically the story is the Russians were testing a missile designed to hit multiple targets on the eastern seaboard of the US with nuclear warheads (google MIRV), withstand being hit (indirectly) by an atomic bomb while in flight, and penetrate missile bunkers. Launched from northern Norway, days before Obama is scheduled to recieve the Nobel peace prize, also in Norway. The US has been reulctant to pull out of Poland as part of our Missile Defense Shield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_missile_defense_complex_in_Poland) but did so recently. If this was an intentional failure by Russia, it's an odd way of showing affection. Either way the timing couldn't possibly be worse on the Russian's part. Putin was probably throwing chairs Balmer style as soon as he got wind of this.
GM doesnt make parts (except the actual chassis, and generally engines, maybe some other bits). The rest is bought from vendors, who purchase it from tier 2 suppliers. If someone came up with standard engine mount points and transmission mounting points. GM and ford have some basic "Standard" mounts, but there's no garuntee that they'll keep that standard for more than one generation. If you could standardize that sort of thing then you could buy replacement engine/transmissions for cars at cut rate costs and it would really undercut the new car market considerably since you could buy engine/transmission parts forever. Most people whose engine dies just buy another used car for less than the cost of buying a used engine/transmission out of a wrecked car and having it installed in their current car.
Trucks and "classic" RWD cars have a much lower maintenance cost since many of them will accept a "chevy 350" with little or no modifications, and there's enough parts out there that it's cheap to do. Unfortunately nobody has designed a 2.0L engine (modern, standard sized, fuel efficient analog to the old 350) with the same loyal following for > 15 years or so. The engine used in the Neon/PT Cruiser/some minivans might come close to this, but it hasn't been embraced as a "drop in" engine for other vehicles.
depends. right now were're surface mining lithium salts from exposed salt flats. theres no telling how many rich veins of lithium salts are hiding in valleys or near aquifers. i'm sure someone is working on that, but until someone runs analysis on where those veins might be i doubt anyone could tell you. more than likely battery technology will move beyond lithium long before (100 years?) we run out of lithium "ore" you can just shovel off the ground and into the back of a truck (Seriously, do a google image search for "lithium ore" - they literally shovel it right off the ground into piles, and later into pickup trucks)
i moderated in the myspace thread, so i cant comment there, and you don't have your email listed, but 5400 songs is what i had after a two years of dialup on napster/audiogalaxy back in my high school days. i think 30 gigs for a "serious" music collection is pretty small given all things considered.
Thats probably why he'll be able to retire 15 years earlier than most people were able to in the 1960's.
The studio is being retired; there's no value in having the product work at launch. If it takes them a month to get the patch out, so be it, people will blame (the now defunct) Pandemic, and people will continue to buy EA games. If they ever revive the Pandemic name (why? what notable titles have they made? Dark Rein comes to mind, if only because my buddy was obsessed with Dark Rein 2 for so long in high school) nobody will remember this flop in 5-10 years time. The only flop anyone ever remembers is Duke Nukem Forever. I doubt most geeks could tell you the name of the rouge iD developer who made his own FPS (which failed miserably), or what the name of his game was. In two years nobody will remember the "Pandemic studios Pandemic of 2009".
That was my exact impression. Perfect for mom or grandma, but to break the seal and get at the guts takes entirely too much effort. I appreciate that they make the terminal easy to get to, but everything else is locked down like it's system 7.6 or something.
Ubuntu/linux in general won't work with many broadcom chipsets out of the box, you have to connect to the internet "manually" with an ethernet connection/cable.
Besides, when the screen is inevitably shattered/ripped off in a freak accident with a 6-year old, you can plug it into the home network as a NAS server, or in many cases with the newer models featuring HDMI out, a HTPC. Many if not most netbooks ship with gig-e onboard now.
also a lot of offices don't have wifi (or the admin isn't around to share the WEP key with you) and if you're traveling on business you're screwed without an ethernet port if you need to check email or send your boss an update. i guess you could carry around a USB eithernet dongle but... why? internal ethernet ports probably cost the manufacturer $0.25 to implement.
I ended up installing UNR (ubuntu netbook remix) 9.10 on my hp mini 110; I needed it in a hurry for my trip so I had to buy it retail with XP. But apparently netbooks don't come with restore CDs so I've been hunting the torrent sites for a copy of Windows XP Home ULC (i.e. netbook edition) because HP wants $15 "shipping and handling" for the disc that should have come with the device in the first place =/
UNR 9.10 takes some getting used to, and I sorely miss the "switch to traditional desktop mode" of UNR 9.04... I really want to try out Moblin 2.1 but I don't have time to mess with it on the road for 4 weeks if something breaks. Perhaps when I get back.
Best thing I've read all day. Thank you!
As soon as they're running regular flights I would imagine several other companies will be able to get funding to build their own SS2 clone(s). It wouldn't suprise me to see the price drop to $10,000 or $15,000 by 2025 or so -- $10,000 is what most parents spend on their kid's first (used) car in wealthy suburbs of Dallas, Houston and I would presume other cities like NYC and Chicago. At least a few of them spend that much on their yearly vacation(s). There's easily 100x the number of people who would go into space for 90 minutes for $10,000 as there are those who could afford a $200k trip, especially if they save for two or three years for it.
ok I tried really hard, I opened the tab, then closed it again, then read three more posts, before having to post this. "get's" does not have an apostrophe in it! It is "gets". It's not a contraction, and it's not possessive. I can understand bad grammar, lack of punctuation, etc., but poor usage of apostrophes really "get's" my goat!!!
There's already a hot market for dual-SIM card phones, but that requires you to "dual boot". If your job requires you live/do your job through your phone, this makes things a lot easier.
regarding your first paragraph, i wholly agree. I've been playing around with ubuntu netbook remix (unr) which essentially has tabbed windows that are always maximized. copying files using the GUI has been a complete pain in the ass but fortunately you can force non-maximized for this purpose. rebuilding my alsa drivers so that my hp mini would have a functional mic (For skype) requires a lot of copying and pasting between firefox and the terminal, which is easier when both windows aren't maximized.
maximized windows are great for resolutions 1280 and lower, but really most apps don't need to be larger than 8.5" wide (standard letter/a4 size). Maybe a better idea would be to split the display up virtually, create a center display, 8.5-12" wide, with two smaller virtual windows on either side, so you have three sets of tabs.
Either way, running 100% maximized 100$% of the time is somewhat inconvenient. There's a lot of work to be done in the netbook gui field, and I doubt a lot of that will be applicable for the more or less standard 22" 1680x1050 displays being deployed these days.
I would imagine with directional antennas one could crank the gain up pretty high and still keep a usable signal, though I haven't tested that myself.
I'm kind of curious how many more situations like this will occur before people develop point to point 3G networks using old, root'd G1s and directional dishes. With the ability to just turn off the internet at will, eventually someone will develop a tethered G1 that can talk to other tethered G1s in a point to point situation. I think packet HAM radio does this to an extent already, but you should be able to push 10mb/s easy across p2p 3G packet radio, which then interfaces with a building's internal network. A primitive, 1980's DARPA internet via packet radio for the 21st century :)
With both a laptop and the cell phone being battery powered, such a situation should allow for interrupted power for an hour or more.
Did salon remove their paywall? I thought they went paywall in 2001 or so.
Someone post the torrent already, preferably with both projects in the same .torrent
For, uh, my student paper on IP laws. I need this as a first hand source. Thanks!
You would have to pay me to use a brother printer. They're like the Yugo/GM of printers - why buy a POS when for $10 more you can get a semi-reliable canon-- or better yet HP or Xerox?
I think the reason Brother has so many "specials" on their printers is because if they didn't price them what they were worth, people would avoid them for being unusually cheap (because they are). We had an all in one brother that replaced our old HP LaserJet 3100... it lasted about two cartridges before we had enough of the jamming and streaking and false low-toner alerts, and bought a refurb'd Laserjet. By pricing the brothers with the HPs, it looks like a great deal when they go on sale every other week. The reality is the "Sale" price is still well above what those POS's are worth. Any used HP laser printer from the late 80's-2003 or so is worth whatever you pay for it.
I think that depends a lot on wether or not you're a visual learner. I for one don't get much out of color printouts vs b&w
What? No, I'm saying buy a b&w laser printer and outsource your color prints to wallyworld.or snapfish. Why would you buy a color laser printer? :boggle: used laserjet IIs run about $75 and the toner costs about the same. Contrary to popular belief you don't need a color printer to print google maps directions.