I'm actually going to buy a new cell phone and switch carriers next year just because of the fact that my new car has bluetooth. Sadly, I'm not even joking here.
Especially since they're the same damned company. If you buy something from eBay, but then aren't able to pay for it using an eBay owned payment/banking service, that seems kind of strange.
From an end-user point of view, I guess the number of games that use OpenGL matters. From a programming point of view, the number of engines using OpenGL would seem to matter more (to me). If the only popular games using OpenGL use the same engine, that tends to make me think that people are not fond of programming for OpenGL in general, just one person/company.. And yes, they happen to make some kickass engines, so they get used a lot.
While I love OpenGL far more than DX, your argument would be better served by not listing games that are all from the same company. (or at least, using engines from the same company)
I have a computer, an xbox, a ps2 and maybe a tivo sometime in the future near my tv. All of those like having ethernet, especially the computer since I can stream from one computer in the house to the other.
The phone wire? well.. there's no phone wires in my house. In my parent's house we had phone jacks in three rooms.. kitchen, master bedroom and yes, the room with the tv.. but it was in a stupid spot. We were running cat5 already, easier to run that and infinitely more versatile. If I really needed it to be something special, then I'm sure there's adapters somewhere that'll only make use of 4 of the wires, so I could use the existing cable to do phone stuff. *shrug* never needed to even consider that before.
Anything like this for the US? My phone already knows where I am, I can turn it on so that Verizon's network knows, or turn it off so that it only figures it out when I dial an emergency number (I don't really believe that this works, but whatever). Is there any way I can do something similar to what this guy did? I'm thinking of nifty things like if it detects I'm at work, put up an appropriate message saying "Yea, I'm at work, don't bother to call me since I won't be able to answer."
This really needs support from the phone as well (changing the ringer depending on my location. I'm in a theater, set it automatically to vibrate only), but it goes well with my other pet project.. I want to make a website that I can use to track my daily habits. Knowing where I am/was every few minutes would be a neat addition!
I fear the usage costs though, esp. on Verizon's network. I'd prolly have to switch to some other network or some other plan if I were to do something like this. I'd get a phone that wasn't as crippled as well.. too bad all the other networks have crap for coverage.
They don't activate phones that aren't theirs anymore, and I don't know that they ever did. I tried several times, and they refused to do it. They wouldn't even consider it, it wasn't that they said that the phone was incompatible.. just that it couldn't be done.
I never got it to work, but the feature is supposedly there! (In the windows version, obviously)
You can also probably rig VLC (http://www.videolan.org) to do this pretty easily as well, though I've never tried. I don't know about changing channels remotely, but use a remote desktop (windows XP) or VNC (everything else) and there shouldn't be any problems. I bet one of the many remote admin plugins for VLC supports this as well, and VLC is cross platform, which is always a plus.
Then point to the logs the AP prolly keeps as to when various people connected using it, and say "Hey, wasn't me." There's at least an easy way to deny it.
If you have the thing encrypted up the wazoo, and they break it, then the courts are going to say "Sorry, not possible. It's using really good encryption."
If you're really worried about trusting your neighbors, then give them free access to it, and limit their speed somehow so it doesn't bother you. Voila, you're a carrier with no knowledge of what they did on your wires, and you can't be held responsible for their actions.
I realize you prolly won't even see this comment, but I"ll reply anyway..
I was going downhill on the onramp to the highway, which is when I honestly care most about getting up to speed quickly.. since if I don't I'm going to need to test those brakes at the end of the on ramp and have to stop. I've had to do this several times in my current car, because it doesn't have the power to get up to speed, and the merge lane was short to non-existant..
The way back was rural traffic with a very low slope. Constantly climbing, but nothing really noticeable:)
Hey, someone who actually OWNS an Insight and would have answers for me..
First, do you have the automatic or the manual? I'm looking at a manual..
second, what kind of mileage are you ACTUALLY getting? I've heard too many people say that it isn't near what it's rated.
And finally.. how does it really do power wise? I figure it'd be hard pressed to suck more than my current car, but do you ever find hills that you can't climb at the same speed everyone else is going? I drive about 70 on the highways (I realize this is going to kill my gas mileage, but I much prefer my gas mileage being killed than my person being killed when some jackass rams my backend), and often times there's climbing lanes for trucks and stuff. Ever had to use them?
And finally, since the dealer and myself can't seem to agree: does the damned thing have cruise control? He insists it does (he said all Honda hybrids have cruise control). I tend to doubt it, since it's not mentioned on Honda's page. I wonder if he's ever even seen an Insight.
I've test driven the insight, and it didn't seem too bad power wise.. but I was going downhill at the time. I have yet to try the prius.. have tried the civic hybrid.. I'm about to make a decision, and would like some advice:)
You realize that these are powered by light? So, you get an eerie red glow ANYWAY, the second you break it. If you're stupid enough to not fix it by the time the lava starts flowing, then that says something ELSE about you. The lava flowing is not the first indication that it's messed up. The light coming on says "Hey, look, this tard broke it."
The lava flowing says "Hey, look, this tard doesn't know how to FIX IT."
These people were operating DC hubs, not sharing the 40PB themselves. If you know nothing about DC then at least learn this: It's used a LOT at colleges that have lots of rich computer-savvy people. I know several people sharing over a terabyte a piece. 40PB for each hub is quite a lot, but I've seen people share even more than a terabyte. A lot of the kids at these colleges (the person in the room next to me) would do nothing else but collect stuff to share to others.
He wouldn't even watch it.
Three years ago, he had 1.5 terabytes shared. I don't imagine that it's that hard to get up to 3 or 4 terabytes a person. Now, you'd need 10,000 people doing that. Yes, that's a lot. Perhaps they meant 4 petabytes combined, which I actually would NOT doubt at all. 5 hubs, that's 8 petabytes per hub. 2,000 people sharing 4 terabytes.. Still quite high, but some will share more, some less. Mandatory minimum of 1-100 gigs.. if you say the min is 100 gigs, and the program automatically re-shares whatever you download, that'll get up there very quickly.
I've only skimmed the article, nothing said where these people were. But it really wouldn't surprise me. (I know the DC hub at RIT would allow RIT people on, and people from a few other I2 institutions nearby. I didn't go to RIT, and I didn't go to those other institutions, but I wouldn't doubt if they were well over 10PB.)
Agreed on all points. i wrote the email while at work, looked at my japanese phone when I got home. two years ago it was $46 dollars from au (A3014S.. a sony ericsson phone), and it's better than any I've seen here in America..
well, it might be handled on the network instead of at the phone, but it's transparent. my cell phone had an email address (spectral@myprovider), and I could send emails to anyone.. it just worked.
Attachments and everything, so I could send my phone an email with a vcard or a purevoice file and have it save them (to its data folder, address book, wherever) for later use. I never tried emailing myself a program, but i suspect that would have worked as well.
He's completely wrong. Every japanese cell phone I've used has each column of the chart on a button..
so if you have the chart like
a ka sa ta.. i ki shi chi u ku su tsu e ke se te o ko so to
then '2' would be a, press again for i, again for u.. depending on the manufacturer and model, you'd go through hiragana first, then hit katakana. Or, you'd switch modes to get to katakana/hiragana/alpha/numeric inputs.
For the kanji, there's either a special button and it'll interpret, or some phones have a little window at the bottom that has a list of commonly used words that start with what you've typed in so far. This was a really nifty feature on mine that I loved.. saved me a lot of typing for when I was emailing my japanese friends.
And yes, I said email: that's how text messaging works over there. There's in-network (c-mail, skymail, whatever..), but to get between J-Phone, DoCoMo, au, etc.. you use regullar smtp email, built in to the damned phone. Annoying when my parents didn't realize that I was reading their 10 page long emails on a cell screen, but oh well.
I thought windows had 'Web Folders', which was WebDAV access? If you can switch OS's, KDE's kioslaves almost certainly support it. I can't check at the moment though..
In addition to Apop, and VNV.. I find Assemblage 23 , Psyche, and some Covenant songs to work quite well. I still listen to my Ministry of Sound CDs religiously (Australia 2003 I believe)..
But you said 'trance'.. Infected Mushroom, Astral Projection.. That's where my work hours are spent most.
WebEx is a remote support tool, using IE. So if a spyware's uninstall requires IE to be closed, his connection to that computer is forcefully terminated.
because those employees don't cont. I was mostly joking, it'd be rather stupid to assume that a) they'd tell people to do this (it's admitting to the problem), and b) that they'd pay people to stand there and watch and make sure that the button got pressed.
The one or two employees at each station aren't the ones making the decision, and aren't the ones making the money. IF there's a conspiracy, and I tend to doubt it, then it's the managers of the gas station, or whoever installed the pumps, or someone other than the lackey behind the counter. Someone who might benefit.
I always wondered about the pump giving me proper amounts when I had the thing only trickling in to my tank. Sometimes I have to do this because 90% of the pumps shut off before getting my tank even half full if I do more than just trickle it. The numbers on the thing go up slower, but I wonder just how accurate they would be. Hmm.
I was just down by NYC (well, over an hour north in peekskill), and even at 20 cents more expensive than Pennsylvania prices, I still couldn't find any that weren't 10% ethanol. And like you said, that performance difference is brutal. I filled on the way from Binghamton, and made it to peekskill no problem. I had to fill halfway back because it burned through it so quickly. And honestly, I was happy, because it helped flush that crap out of my car. I expect my car to go when I push down the gas pedal.. nearly got in to an accident because I couldn't speed up the way I thought I should be able to. (Accelerate to fit in between two cars that were in a whole line of cars being dicks and not slowing down so I could get off the onramp.. didn't break the speed limit there). But I pushed down the pedal and nothing happened. grr.
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Would an AIBO work? Dog AND geeky. I dont' know if they bark though.
I'm actually going to buy a new cell phone and switch carriers next year just because of the fact that my new car has bluetooth. Sadly, I'm not even joking here.
Especially since they're the same damned company. If you buy something from eBay, but then aren't able to pay for it using an eBay owned payment/banking service, that seems kind of strange.
From an end-user point of view, I guess the number of games that use OpenGL matters. From a programming point of view, the number of engines using OpenGL would seem to matter more (to me). If the only popular games using OpenGL use the same engine, that tends to make me think that people are not fond of programming for OpenGL in general, just one person/company.. And yes, they happen to make some kickass engines, so they get used a lot.
Not even close to the sound support in DX (DirectSound and DirectSound 3D). OpenAL is the only cross platform library for 3d positional audio..
While I love OpenGL far more than DX, your argument would be better served by not listing games that are all from the same company. (or at least, using engines from the same company)
I have a computer, an xbox, a ps2 and maybe a tivo sometime in the future near my tv. All of those like having ethernet, especially the computer since I can stream from one computer in the house to the other.
The phone wire? well.. there's no phone wires in my house. In my parent's house we had phone jacks in three rooms.. kitchen, master bedroom and yes, the room with the tv.. but it was in a stupid spot. We were running cat5 already, easier to run that and infinitely more versatile. If I really needed it to be something special, then I'm sure there's adapters somewhere that'll only make use of 4 of the wires, so I could use the existing cable to do phone stuff. *shrug* never needed to even consider that before.
Anything like this for the US? My phone already knows where I am, I can turn it on so that Verizon's network knows, or turn it off so that it only figures it out when I dial an emergency number (I don't really believe that this works, but whatever). Is there any way I can do something similar to what this guy did? I'm thinking of nifty things like if it detects I'm at work, put up an appropriate message saying "Yea, I'm at work, don't bother to call me since I won't be able to answer."
This really needs support from the phone as well (changing the ringer depending on my location. I'm in a theater, set it automatically to vibrate only), but it goes well with my other pet project.. I want to make a website that I can use to track my daily habits. Knowing where I am/was every few minutes would be a neat addition!
I fear the usage costs though, esp. on Verizon's network. I'd prolly have to switch to some other network or some other plan if I were to do something like this. I'd get a phone that wasn't as crippled as well.. too bad all the other networks have crap for coverage.
They don't activate phones that aren't theirs anymore, and I don't know that they ever did. I tried several times, and they refused to do it. They wouldn't even consider it, it wasn't that they said that the phone was incompatible.. just that it couldn't be done.
I never got it to work, but the feature is supposedly there! (In the windows version, obviously)
You can also probably rig VLC (http://www.videolan.org) to do this pretty easily as well, though I've never tried. I don't know about changing channels remotely, but use a remote desktop (windows XP) or VNC (everything else) and there shouldn't be any problems. I bet one of the many remote admin plugins for VLC supports this as well, and VLC is cross platform, which is always a plus.
Then point to the logs the AP prolly keeps as to when various people connected using it, and say "Hey, wasn't me." There's at least an easy way to deny it.
If you have the thing encrypted up the wazoo, and they break it, then the courts are going to say "Sorry, not possible. It's using really good encryption."
If you're really worried about trusting your neighbors, then give them free access to it, and limit their speed somehow so it doesn't bother you. Voila, you're a carrier with no knowledge of what they did on your wires, and you can't be held responsible for their actions.
I realize you prolly won't even see this comment, but I"ll reply anyway..
:)
I was going downhill on the onramp to the highway, which is when I honestly care most about getting up to speed quickly.. since if I don't I'm going to need to test those brakes at the end of the on ramp and have to stop. I've had to do this several times in my current car, because it doesn't have the power to get up to speed, and the merge lane was short to non-existant..
The way back was rural traffic with a very low slope. Constantly climbing, but nothing really noticeable
Hey, someone who actually OWNS an Insight and would have answers for me..
:)
First, do you have the automatic or the manual? I'm looking at a manual..
second, what kind of mileage are you ACTUALLY getting? I've heard too many people say that it isn't near what it's rated.
And finally.. how does it really do power wise? I figure it'd be hard pressed to suck more than my current car, but do you ever find hills that you can't climb at the same speed everyone else is going? I drive about 70 on the highways (I realize this is going to kill my gas mileage, but I much prefer my gas mileage being killed than my person being killed when some jackass rams my backend), and often times there's climbing lanes for trucks and stuff. Ever had to use them?
And finally, since the dealer and myself can't seem to agree: does the damned thing have cruise control? He insists it does (he said all Honda hybrids have cruise control). I tend to doubt it, since it's not mentioned on Honda's page. I wonder if he's ever even seen an Insight.
I've test driven the insight, and it didn't seem too bad power wise.. but I was going downhill at the time. I have yet to try the prius.. have tried the civic hybrid.. I'm about to make a decision, and would like some advice
You realize that these are powered by light? So, you get an eerie red glow ANYWAY, the second you break it. If you're stupid enough to not fix it by the time the lava starts flowing, then that says something ELSE about you. The lava flowing is not the first indication that it's messed up. The light coming on says "Hey, look, this tard broke it."
The lava flowing says "Hey, look, this tard doesn't know how to FIX IT."
These people were operating DC hubs, not sharing the 40PB themselves. If you know nothing about DC then at least learn this: It's used a LOT at colleges that have lots of rich computer-savvy people. I know several people sharing over a terabyte a piece. 40PB for each hub is quite a lot, but I've seen people share even more than a terabyte. A lot of the kids at these colleges (the person in the room next to me) would do nothing else but collect stuff to share to others.
He wouldn't even watch it.
Three years ago, he had 1.5 terabytes shared. I don't imagine that it's that hard to get up to 3 or 4 terabytes a person. Now, you'd need 10,000 people doing that. Yes, that's a lot. Perhaps they meant 4 petabytes combined, which I actually would NOT doubt at all. 5 hubs, that's 8 petabytes per hub. 2,000 people sharing 4 terabytes.. Still quite high, but some will share more, some less. Mandatory minimum of 1-100 gigs.. if you say the min is 100 gigs, and the program automatically re-shares whatever you download, that'll get up there very quickly.
I've only skimmed the article, nothing said where these people were. But it really wouldn't surprise me. (I know the DC hub at RIT would allow RIT people on, and people from a few other I2 institutions nearby. I didn't go to RIT, and I didn't go to those other institutions, but I wouldn't doubt if they were well over 10PB.)
But.. didn't you ever go to school where they told you that "mean means average?" What would you expect 'average' to mean?
Agreed on all points. i wrote the email while at work, looked at my japanese phone when I got home. two years ago it was $46 dollars from au (A3014S.. a sony ericsson phone), and it's better than any I've seen here in America..
:)
Damn I want to go back
that's what I said. On the cell phone, it's done the way I said in the first email.. on the computer, most use the romaji input.
I then went off on a rather drastic tangent describing an imaginary alternate input system I just made up, but thought would be cool.
well, it might be handled on the network instead of at the phone, but it's transparent. my cell phone had an email address (spectral@myprovider), and I could send emails to anyone.. it just worked.
Attachments and everything, so I could send my phone an email with a vcard or a purevoice file and have it save them (to its data folder, address book, wherever) for later use. I never tried emailing myself a program, but i suspect that would have worked as well.
He's completely wrong. Every japanese cell phone I've used has each column of the chart on a button..
..
so if you have the chart like
a ka sa ta
i ki shi chi
u ku su tsu
e ke se te
o ko so to
then '2' would be a, press again for i, again for u.. depending on the manufacturer and model, you'd go through hiragana first, then hit katakana. Or, you'd switch modes to get to katakana/hiragana/alpha/numeric inputs.
For the kanji, there's either a special button and it'll interpret, or some phones have a little window at the bottom that has a list of commonly used words that start with what you've typed in so far. This was a really nifty feature on mine that I loved.. saved me a lot of typing for when I was emailing my japanese friends.
And yes, I said email: that's how text messaging works over there. There's in-network (c-mail, skymail, whatever..), but to get between J-Phone, DoCoMo, au, etc.. you use regullar smtp email, built in to the damned phone. Annoying when my parents didn't realize that I was reading their 10 page long emails on a cell screen, but oh well.
I thought windows had 'Web Folders', which was WebDAV access? If you can switch OS's, KDE's kioslaves almost certainly support it. I can't check at the moment though..
In addition to Apop, and VNV.. I find Assemblage 23 , Psyche, and some Covenant songs to work quite well. I still listen to my Ministry of Sound CDs religiously (Australia 2003 I believe)..
But you said 'trance'.. Infected Mushroom, Astral Projection.. That's where my work hours are spent most.
WebEx is a remote support tool, using IE. So if a spyware's uninstall requires IE to be closed, his connection to that computer is forcefully terminated.
because those employees don't cont. I was mostly joking, it'd be rather stupid to assume that a) they'd tell people to do this (it's admitting to the problem), and b) that they'd pay people to stand there and watch and make sure that the button got pressed.
The one or two employees at each station aren't the ones making the decision, and aren't the ones making the money. IF there's a conspiracy, and I tend to doubt it, then it's the managers of the gas station, or whoever installed the pumps, or someone other than the lackey behind the counter. Someone who might benefit.
I always wondered about the pump giving me proper amounts when I had the thing only trickling in to my tank. Sometimes I have to do this because 90% of the pumps shut off before getting my tank even half full if I do more than just trickle it. The numbers on the thing go up slower, but I wonder just how accurate they would be. Hmm.
I was just down by NYC (well, over an hour north in peekskill), and even at 20 cents more expensive than Pennsylvania prices, I still couldn't find any that weren't 10% ethanol. And like you said, that performance difference is brutal. I filled on the way from Binghamton, and made it to peekskill no problem. I had to fill halfway back because it burned through it so quickly. And honestly, I was happy, because it helped flush that crap out of my car. I expect my car to go when I push down the gas pedal.. nearly got in to an accident because I couldn't speed up the way I thought I should be able to. (Accelerate to fit in between two cars that were in a whole line of cars being dicks and not slowing down so I could get off the onramp.. didn't break the speed limit there). But I pushed down the pedal and nothing happened. grr.