A part of me is hoping that this is a massive corporate conspiracy to drive the absurdity of current patent/IP law to the point where it becomes patently obvious to everyone that the system is fucking broken.
Satellite signals can be jammed. Libya has a history of jamming Thuraya signals.
If you can smuggle your gear in and the state isn't jamming, you can operate so long as you aren't caught. I used a Thuraya and Mini-M for both voice and data when I was working in Burma. During the day, I used the cell data network to send data. As necessary, I sent confidential data at night, when everyone was sleeping.
I spend about that much for a Macbook Pro every 2-3 years, so the price isn't crazy.
What is crazy is spending that much money on a Razer product. Razer gear is real hit and miss in terms of build quality.
They know ergonomics better than anyone else in the business, but no fucking way I'd spend that money on a Razer. As a long time gamer, I have lost confidence in their ability to build a quality product. I know down in my gut that the trackpad's going to lose a lot of it's functionality in a few months, when it decides to actually work.
Fuck that, Razer. You've taken too much of my money and then gave me shitty service. I pay Apple prices to Apple because of their customer service. Razer customer support? HA HA HA.
For two separate, month long periods about a year apart, I spent 30-45 minutes a day practicing echolocation.
Do NOT start practicing in a carpeted room/house. DO start in a room with relatively hard surfaces first. DO start with your hands cupping your ears. The hardest part of this will be getting the consistency of your hand cups, but you'll come to recognize the tone of the rushing blood in your ears for consistent positioning.
I never got very good, but did get to a point where in a dark room, I can get an idea of the general shape and size of the large, hard objects (tables, chairs, shelves, etc). I have a harder time telling where soft objects are, particularly in carpeted rooms. For example, my "echolocation sense" doesn't work very well in typical hotel rooms.
No, the Flying Spagetti Monster is a symbol of the illogic of all deistic/creationist religions, not specifically Christianity.
Not all religions are theistic. Not all religions demand adherents hold to a specific creation myth. Some even have multiple creation myths that are considered valid. For example, the Genesis of your Christian Bible contains two.
For me personally, Firefly drives deeply into uncanny valley. My mind rejects the Firefly universe because in trying for "realism" in certain aspects, it offends fantasy sense for all the other unrealistic aspects of the show. The result is that my suspension of disbelief is forcefully and unwillingly lifted all the goddamn time with this show.
The biggest problem with roundabouts/rotaries is that just one or two clueless users can disrupt the entire traffic pattern for everyone. In many other countries, where the users have some sense of what to do when they encounter a rotary, disruptions are self correcting. Here in the US, they are not, because there are always enough uneducated users to meet some sort of social mass stupidity threshold and the entire system falls apart.
How long has it been since they've been putting these up in the DC-Baltimore metro area? Gotta be at least ten years, since I was still in college when I started seeing these things pop up in the burbs. You'd think that's enough time for people to get accustomed to the idea.
Nope. 10-15 years after the fact, most of the people still have no fucking clue how to use them.
I go out of my way to avoid roundabouts in the US. Usually, I can get to where I'm going faster than if I go through them. If you're on a motorcycle, forget it. I ride a very big, very conspicuous motorcycle and I'm hard to miss. Which I guess is true in more ways than one because I've been clipped a couple times
And WTF were the traffic engineers who approved the rotary Joppa, Dulaney Valley and York thinking?
Most of the developing world. Outside of the OECD countries, huge portions of the population that have internet access get it through non-wired means. In the past five years, this has shifted to mobile data networks. And it most of these countries, the postal system sucks.
He was already a racing driver with plenty of kart experience until he was sixteen. He already had more seat time in competitive driving than the lower 99% of GT players combined before he every picked up the GT controller.
Lucas Ordonez was already well on the way to becoming a racing driver.
This guy wasn't a regular gamer. He karted as a kid until he was sixteen, when his family couldn't afford it anymore. Karting is where anyone with any racing aspirations starts before they move up to the junior formulas. Lucas Ordonez just had a delay in his career development and got his FIA racing licenses through a very unorthodox channel - Sony's GT Academy.
Racing success is all about the size of your bankroll and essentially, Sony paid for Lucas Ordonez.
The problem with Bose is you're getting decent low range sound at a mid range price.
If Bose would knock off 30% off it's MSRP, then maybe you could reasonably say that Bose speakers provide good sound/price bang for buck, especially in comparison to manufacturers of mid-high end audio equipment.
Razer peripherals have some great features. I particularly like how their designers have really studied mouse ergonomics and have produced good designs for different types of grips for different types of gamers.
OTOH, Razer build quality is atrocious and Razer software matches the sloppiness of their hardware QA. It's ridiculous. I've had several Razer products fail within weeks or just never work properly at all. I'm talking about stuff like keys on the keyboard rubbing together and sticking combined with buggy drivers making you wonder WTF is going on over there at Razer.
I own over a half dozen Razer products and I'm often tempted to spend money on their next new cool gadget. Fortunately, each time I am about to pull the trigger, I am reminded of all my other bad Razer experiences, think better of it and don't.
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A part of me is hoping that this is a massive corporate conspiracy to drive the absurdity of current patent/IP law to the point where it becomes patently obvious to everyone that the system is fucking broken.
Satellite signals can be jammed. Libya has a history of jamming Thuraya signals.
If you can smuggle your gear in and the state isn't jamming, you can operate so long as you aren't caught. I used a Thuraya and Mini-M for both voice and data when I was working in Burma. During the day, I used the cell data network to send data. As necessary, I sent confidential data at night, when everyone was sleeping.
I spend about that much for a Macbook Pro every 2-3 years, so the price isn't crazy.
What is crazy is spending that much money on a Razer product. Razer gear is real hit and miss in terms of build quality.
They know ergonomics better than anyone else in the business, but no fucking way I'd spend that money on a Razer. As a long time gamer, I have lost confidence in their ability to build a quality product. I know down in my gut that the trackpad's going to lose a lot of it's functionality in a few months, when it decides to actually work.
Fuck that, Razer. You've taken too much of my money and then gave me shitty service. I pay Apple prices to Apple because of their customer service. Razer customer support? HA HA HA.
For two separate, month long periods about a year apart, I spent 30-45 minutes a day practicing echolocation.
Do NOT start practicing in a carpeted room/house.
DO start in a room with relatively hard surfaces first.
DO start with your hands cupping your ears. The hardest part of this will be getting the consistency of your hand cups, but you'll come to recognize the tone of the rushing blood in your ears for consistent positioning.
I never got very good, but did get to a point where in a dark room, I can get an idea of the general shape and size of the large, hard objects (tables, chairs, shelves, etc). I have a harder time telling where soft objects are, particularly in carpeted rooms. For example, my "echolocation sense" doesn't work very well in typical hotel rooms.
No, the Flying Spagetti Monster is a symbol of the illogic of all deistic/creationist religions, not specifically Christianity.
Not all religions are theistic. Not all religions demand adherents hold to a specific creation myth. Some even have multiple creation myths that are considered valid. For example, the Genesis of your Christian Bible contains two.
In the US, publicly funded schools are government institutions and the teachers are state employees.
Hotcakes like chapati or hotcakes like mandazi? On every street corner. Hotcakes like pancakes, not so much.
I have no idea to what you're referring.
For me personally, Firefly drives deeply into uncanny valley. My mind rejects the Firefly universe because in trying for "realism" in certain aspects, it offends fantasy sense for all the other unrealistic aspects of the show. The result is that my suspension of disbelief is forcefully and unwillingly lifted all the goddamn time with this show.
Which was a boring. I don't know how many times I've tried watching this drivel and ended up rolling my eyes so much, I'd get dizzy.
Above comment (currently at Score:4, Informative) could be 20% cooler.
I don't think I've ever clicked on a Google ad (or any other ad for that matter), except by accident.
1m = 3.28 feet.
33 ft = slightly over 10 meters.
Maybe you are confusing meters and yards?
You can talk the talk, have you ever walked the walk?
It's easy to sit in front of your computer and say that standing up to oppression is easy. It's not.
Have you ever lived or worked in a truly oppressive country? I don't think you have.
Apple doesn't do indicator lights.
The biggest problem with roundabouts/rotaries is that just one or two clueless users can disrupt the entire traffic pattern for everyone. In many other countries, where the users have some sense of what to do when they encounter a rotary, disruptions are self correcting. Here in the US, they are not, because there are always enough uneducated users to meet some sort of social mass stupidity threshold and the entire system falls apart.
How long has it been since they've been putting these up in the DC-Baltimore metro area? Gotta be at least ten years, since I was still in college when I started seeing these things pop up in the burbs. You'd think that's enough time for people to get accustomed to the idea.
Nope. 10-15 years after the fact, most of the people still have no fucking clue how to use them.
I go out of my way to avoid roundabouts in the US. Usually, I can get to where I'm going faster than if I go through them. If you're on a motorcycle, forget it. I ride a very big, very conspicuous motorcycle and I'm hard to miss. Which I guess is true in more ways than one because I've been clipped a couple times
And WTF were the traffic engineers who approved the rotary Joppa, Dulaney Valley and York thinking?
What do you have against Steam?
Most of the developing world. Outside of the OECD countries, huge portions of the population that have internet access get it through non-wired means. In the past five years, this has shifted to mobile data networks. And it most of these countries, the postal system sucks.
He was already a racing driver with plenty of kart experience until he was sixteen. He already had more seat time in competitive driving than the lower 99% of GT players combined before he every picked up the GT controller.
Lucas Ordonez was already well on the way to becoming a racing driver.
This guy wasn't a regular gamer. He karted as a kid until he was sixteen, when his family couldn't afford it anymore. Karting is where anyone with any racing aspirations starts before they move up to the junior formulas. Lucas Ordonez just had a delay in his career development and got his FIA racing licenses through a very unorthodox channel - Sony's GT Academy.
Racing success is all about the size of your bankroll and essentially, Sony paid for Lucas Ordonez.
RMS has fully devoured his own tail.
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You've never been in a Blackhawk, have you?
There's just not enough room in there. It's just not possible. Anyone who's been in one can tell you that.
The problem with Bose is you're getting decent low range sound at a mid range price.
If Bose would knock off 30% off it's MSRP, then maybe you could reasonably say that Bose speakers provide good sound/price bang for buck, especially in comparison to manufacturers of mid-high end audio equipment.
Razer peripherals have some great features. I particularly like how their designers have really studied mouse ergonomics and have produced good designs for different types of grips for different types of gamers.
OTOH, Razer build quality is atrocious and Razer software matches the sloppiness of their hardware QA. It's ridiculous. I've had several Razer products fail within weeks or just never work properly at all. I'm talking about stuff like keys on the keyboard rubbing together and sticking combined with buggy drivers making you wonder WTF is going on over there at Razer.
I own over a half dozen Razer products and I'm often tempted to spend money on their next new cool gadget. Fortunately, each time I am about to pull the trigger, I am reminded of all my other bad Razer experiences, think better of it and don't.