Yeah, the thing seems horribly overhyped, and it still doesn't seem to be showing the kind of results already achieved with tokamaks, e.g. JET producing 5MW to 16MW fusion output power from 24MW input power for 5s. Why is the US so interested in the laser-pumped fusion approach used at NIF? UK gave up on it ages ago. There's got to be some motivation other than power generation technology. Is NIF more suitable for weapons research or something?
Well it is. SSH protocol overhead is higher than the minimal TCP overhead on the data connection for an FTP transfer. Whether this is significant or not is a different issue, but the statement is strictly true.
Have you actually flown an Embraer E190 or a Boeing 737-700? Both of them have localiser/glide scope instruments (blind landing is a bit of an archaic term I guess, how's ILS for you). Both of them give visual warnings about approaching stall condition (either by low airspeed or high angle of attack). Both of them give a visual alert if your approach speed is dangerously high. The E190 definitely has auto-throttle. Correctly flaring either of them is difficult, and if there's even a small chance of overshooting you should definitely go around. But seriously, if you're on an ILS approach, for the most part you can do it by just keeping the crosshairs centred and feeling for attitude.
IMHO small jetliners are easier to land than piston-engined GA aircraft. Throttle response on turbines is more intuitive, even with the lag. Also, a jetliner will have a full blind landing system, including the all-important glide scope, and a bunch of pilot-assist warning systems to remind you of things you need to do. I'd much rather be at the controls of an unfamiliar 100-seat jet than a 10-seat piston engined GA aircraft.
I can guarantee you that it will not be the same as visiting the local Apple Store.
You say that like Apple Stores are pleasant. In my experience, they're great if you want to fawn over the products on display, but terrible if you want to actually buy anything or get support. The "geniuses" are unknowledgeable, arrogant twats with condescending attitudes. Staff are always too busy to help you, or assure you that someone will come to look after you then no-one does. Unless you need something on the day, you're better off buying online.
It wouldn't hold back the economy to eliminate that exemption. In fact it would probably help housing affordability. CGT exemption on residence leads to people treating housing as a tax-free investment rather than a place to live. So they "improve" their house to the point where it's not even the kind of thing they'd want to live in any more with the sole intention of selling it without paying tax on the profit and moving on to the next one. Of course no politician will talk about eliminating the CGT exemption because their opposition would immediately use it to stir up negative feeling, because people only want others taxed, not themselves.
Considering it's a console that plugs into a TV, I don't think this matters much at all. Valve's definitely been throwing their weight around demanding better performance and fewer bugs, though. nVidia Linux drivers have been performing better with every release.
Which Samsung printers and washers suck? I've had a Samsung CLP-550N commercial laser for a decade now, and it's been great. I also have a Samsung SW50USP washing machine, which I bought because it was one of only two models that would fit in the space I have, and it's been fine for the three and a half years I've had it. I keep hearing about sucky Samsung consumer electronics, but I seem to have lucked out with the stuff I've bought.
No problems here. No crashes. No bugs Ive ever noticed. S3.
The Samsung gallery application isn't the same as the stock Android one. It's a lot faster and more stable. Despite what some people would have you believe, there are actually advantages to using a TouchWiz ROM.
I've used Firefox since it first came out, but it's so damned bloated with unneeded 'extras' that I only stick with it because it's the one browser that allows extensions like AdBlock Plus to block outgoing server requests, not just hide the results.
FWIW Safari allows extensions to block the requests before they're made as well, although the exact mechanism may be different.
Actually, the fact that HTML1 doesn't exist stops you. HTML2 was an attempt to document what browsers of the time rendered (i.e. it was descriptive, as opposed to the prescriptive HTML3 and later), but there was no HTML1.
KVM switches have had that name since at least the early '90s. How about Linux developers check to see that the aren't causing naming conflicts when they christen their projects?
WTF are you smoking. POSIX compatibility is easy to achieve, and you can get it on Windows by installing the optional SFU package. Too bad POSIX says nothing about file system driver interfaces - that's entirely kernel-dependent, and even varies between BSDs.
If we could get a decent micro-payments infrastructure together we would easily fund these things "ad-free" and "tracking-free". Who out there would REALLY balk at 50 cents a year for that?
That's a very big "if" and no-one's managed to do it so far. Meanwhile they still need money to operate while waiting for this ubiquitous micropayment system to become accepted. It would be nice if you could run things this way, but it doesn't seem to work in real life.
How do you expect it to survive without a revenue model?
I expect them to make a value proposition that attracts a sufficient number of users to their service.
But once they have the "sufficient number of users" how do they make money out of them to pay for provision of the service, and provide some kind of return on investment? Users alone don't represent ROI.
Perhaps, adding ads is that proposition. I don't want to see ads, no matter how masterfully targeted. Ads are simply a non-starter as far as paying for a service that someone hopes I will use.
The trouble is, the business model for these startups seems to be:
Get venture capital
Create cool new web site
Get lots of users
Bleed cash
Sell out to Google/Yahoo/AOL/whatever
???
Return on investment!
No-one seems to have come up with a ??? that doesn't involve selling personal data or selling ads. If you try to charge users (whether content producers or consumers) they just move on to the next start-up who's still providing it for free on the back of venture capital.
It requires server hardware, data centre space, storage media, backups, power, bandwidth, system administrator time, and at least some development time for maintenance and bug fixes. Online advertising generates very little revenue because of low conversion from impressions to sales, so it's not like they're going to be making a fortune out of it.
Honestly, how do you expect this to be funded? Would you be prepared to sign up for a paid subscription to read it? That never seems to go over well either. Should the writers pay some fee depending on readership? If it's close enough to free that advertising on it is immoral, why don't you set up a competing service for free?
How do you expect it to survive without a revenue model? People won't keep throwing capital at it forever. It needs to become profitable somehow or it'll be going away soon anyway.
All PowerPC Macs will current limit if they try to draw more than 100mA without negotiating, not sure what other PCs will or won't do (yeah, I'm out of date on that front). If a device is properly USB compliant it won't draw more than it knows it's allowed to. My Galaxy S3 is pretty quick to go into slow charge mode if it isn't sure it's allowed to go for more. Other reputable devices do the same - don't want to lose your USB logo certification.
This wouldn't allow devices to detect fast charge capability, as that depends on resistances between data pins and power pins, or high-level protocol negotiation if it's an intelligent host with this capability. Devices will only charge slowly (100mA) if at all.
Indeed, I remember travelling through the "Iron Curtain" in my youth with no thought that anything like this might occur to me.
Then you were lucky, because this sort of thing happened regularly.
It happened far less frequently than western propaganda would have you believe. It wasn't paradise, but it wasn't the nightmare it was painted to be in the west, either.
Perhaps the people commenting on the US border situation are Europeans, who are used to crossing the borders between the various European countries, where nothing like this happens.
Nothing like this happens between the American states either, and hasn't for more than two centuries. Imagine that.
That's completely irrelevant. State borders are nothing like international borders. Europe is not a single country. Go ahead and feel superior, you're only doing yourself and your fellow Americans a disservice.
I think it's a pretty safe bet that most Americans don't give a f*ck what you people think of us or what you do in the privacy of your own country.
Yet you keep claiming to be the "land of the free", you have the audacity to call yourselves "leaders of the free world", you criticise other governments for perceived abuses, and you try to force your system of values on other nations, without any sense of irony.
And a US audience needs to understand first of all that many of these supposedly horrible American failures are, in fact, commonplace in the world, and many of them simply should have low priority for our politicians.
Repeating it doesn't make it true
If you want to be outraged about something, as an Australian, may I make the suggestion that worry about your own marvelous detention facilities on Nauru and other places first?
Who says I don't? Doesn't mean I shouldn't respond to your denialism.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, the thing seems horribly overhyped, and it still doesn't seem to be showing the kind of results already achieved with tokamaks, e.g. JET producing 5MW to 16MW fusion output power from 24MW input power for 5s. Why is the US so interested in the laser-pumped fusion approach used at NIF? UK gave up on it ages ago. There's got to be some motivation other than power generation technology. Is NIF more suitable for weapons research or something?
Well it is. SSH protocol overhead is higher than the minimal TCP overhead on the data connection for an FTP transfer. Whether this is significant or not is a different issue, but the statement is strictly true.
Have you actually flown an Embraer E190 or a Boeing 737-700? Both of them have localiser/glide scope instruments (blind landing is a bit of an archaic term I guess, how's ILS for you). Both of them give visual warnings about approaching stall condition (either by low airspeed or high angle of attack). Both of them give a visual alert if your approach speed is dangerously high. The E190 definitely has auto-throttle. Correctly flaring either of them is difficult, and if there's even a small chance of overshooting you should definitely go around. But seriously, if you're on an ILS approach, for the most part you can do it by just keeping the crosshairs centred and feeling for attitude.
IMHO small jetliners are easier to land than piston-engined GA aircraft. Throttle response on turbines is more intuitive, even with the lag. Also, a jetliner will have a full blind landing system, including the all-important glide scope, and a bunch of pilot-assist warning systems to remind you of things you need to do. I'd much rather be at the controls of an unfamiliar 100-seat jet than a 10-seat piston engined GA aircraft.
2.4GHz is far too crowded. Switch to 5GHz and you should see an improvement, particularly if you're in the same room as the AP.
You say that like Apple Stores are pleasant. In my experience, they're great if you want to fawn over the products on display, but terrible if you want to actually buy anything or get support. The "geniuses" are unknowledgeable, arrogant twats with condescending attitudes. Staff are always too busy to help you, or assure you that someone will come to look after you then no-one does. Unless you need something on the day, you're better off buying online.
It wouldn't hold back the economy to eliminate that exemption. In fact it would probably help housing affordability. CGT exemption on residence leads to people treating housing as a tax-free investment rather than a place to live. So they "improve" their house to the point where it's not even the kind of thing they'd want to live in any more with the sole intention of selling it without paying tax on the profit and moving on to the next one. Of course no politician will talk about eliminating the CGT exemption because their opposition would immediately use it to stir up negative feeling, because people only want others taxed, not themselves.
Considering it's a console that plugs into a TV, I don't think this matters much at all. Valve's definitely been throwing their weight around demanding better performance and fewer bugs, though. nVidia Linux drivers have been performing better with every release.
Which Samsung printers and washers suck? I've had a Samsung CLP-550N commercial laser for a decade now, and it's been great. I also have a Samsung SW50USP washing machine, which I bought because it was one of only two models that would fit in the space I have, and it's been fine for the three and a half years I've had it. I keep hearing about sucky Samsung consumer electronics, but I seem to have lucked out with the stuff I've bought.
My response is to not have a YT channel. I'm not interested in being strong-armed into using G+ because I want to use YT.
The Samsung gallery application isn't the same as the stock Android one. It's a lot faster and more stable. Despite what some people would have you believe, there are actually advantages to using a TouchWiz ROM.
FWIW Safari allows extensions to block the requests before they're made as well, although the exact mechanism may be different.
Actually, the fact that HTML1 doesn't exist stops you. HTML2 was an attempt to document what browsers of the time rendered (i.e. it was descriptive, as opposed to the prescriptive HTML3 and later), but there was no HTML1.
Plenty of them do have video passthrough, e.g. Raritan Dominion, although those are pretty pricey.
KVM switches have had that name since at least the early '90s. How about Linux developers check to see that the aren't causing naming conflicts when they christen their projects?
WTF are you smoking. POSIX compatibility is easy to achieve, and you can get it on Windows by installing the optional SFU package. Too bad POSIX says nothing about file system driver interfaces - that's entirely kernel-dependent, and even varies between BSDs.
That's a very big "if" and no-one's managed to do it so far. Meanwhile they still need money to operate while waiting for this ubiquitous micropayment system to become accepted. It would be nice if you could run things this way, but it doesn't seem to work in real life.
But once they have the "sufficient number of users" how do they make money out of them to pay for provision of the service, and provide some kind of return on investment? Users alone don't represent ROI.
The trouble is, the business model for these startups seems to be:
No-one seems to have come up with a ??? that doesn't involve selling personal data or selling ads. If you try to charge users (whether content producers or consumers) they just move on to the next start-up who's still providing it for free on the back of venture capital.
It requires server hardware, data centre space, storage media, backups, power, bandwidth, system administrator time, and at least some development time for maintenance and bug fixes. Online advertising generates very little revenue because of low conversion from impressions to sales, so it's not like they're going to be making a fortune out of it.
Honestly, how do you expect this to be funded? Would you be prepared to sign up for a paid subscription to read it? That never seems to go over well either. Should the writers pay some fee depending on readership? If it's close enough to free that advertising on it is immoral, why don't you set up a competing service for free?
How do you expect it to survive without a revenue model? People won't keep throwing capital at it forever. It needs to become profitable somehow or it'll be going away soon anyway.
All PowerPC Macs will current limit if they try to draw more than 100mA without negotiating, not sure what other PCs will or won't do (yeah, I'm out of date on that front). If a device is properly USB compliant it won't draw more than it knows it's allowed to. My Galaxy S3 is pretty quick to go into slow charge mode if it isn't sure it's allowed to go for more. Other reputable devices do the same - don't want to lose your USB logo certification.
This wouldn't allow devices to detect fast charge capability, as that depends on resistances between data pins and power pins, or high-level protocol negotiation if it's an intelligent host with this capability. Devices will only charge slowly (100mA) if at all.
In this day and age everyone would just be giggling about a guy being called "hymen" of all things.
It happened far less frequently than western propaganda would have you believe. It wasn't paradise, but it wasn't the nightmare it was painted to be in the west, either.
That's completely irrelevant. State borders are nothing like international borders. Europe is not a single country. Go ahead and feel superior, you're only doing yourself and your fellow Americans a disservice.