It's about the same, except it doesn't have the whole big brother thing with analysis tools that Razer insists on. Logitech's version is fully offline for all components.
Thank you so much for that pearl. You made my day.
Still laughing at the picture of that thing sitting in the hallway. I can already imagine some random guy humping it while normal hospital life goes by and no one batting an eye because it's all perfectly normal.
Nowadays an average bike with amortized seat and front fork will ensure that even a fairly cheap frame and wheels won't tax you with vibration. The only problem is that you'll have to use about 5% more energy on the same route because portion of your spent energy will go into depressing the shock absorbers in the front fork.
Now if you cycle at fairly extreme speeds where air drag becomes a serious issue, I can see going for a more expensive model, but in reality, all of you claims but one about using less energy at high speed due to lower drag have been long addressed for bikes on 1k budget.
That said there is indeed one thing that this bike will not provide for people like you. Placebo effect.
If I may make a recommendation, consider trying out logitech G13 before going for orbweaver.
It has a few significant advantages over orbweaver, like actual analogue joystick (orbweaver's "thumbstick" is just a directional pad). It's also shaped differently, and I found it to be a much better fit for my hand. It's also significantly cheaper.
If this goes to court, hotel has snowball chance in hell of winning. The problem is court costs. However now that this made it to top of BBC, consumer protection agency will likely take over and hotel will fold like a pro poker player who drew nothing and sees opponent pop up a maximum bet.
In most of Europe, law specifically requires contracts in common situations like booking a stay with a hotel that have "unusual terms" for the terms to be specifically and carefully explained. The burden of proof that explanation was delivered and appropriate lies with the one inserting these clauses (in this case hotel) and even if this was found to be true, court would still likely strike it down as illegal because of power balance in this case (customer arriving with expectation of a place to stay, hotel in a position of power because it holds the room guest has expected behind unreasonable contractual terms).
Reminder: Most of Europe is far more consumer-centric than wild west capitalism of US.
Not quite. MMOs like WoW also require server verification for every action. Even movement, which can be done for a short while without server input is usually synced with the server, hence the term "rubber banding" referring to server pulling you back to the known position after the connection is disrupted and re-established.
This is not going to be quite as harsh, more in line with diablo 3 apparently. I.e. you get to do some stuff without needing to call the server, but every time you trade, create a mission or interact with certain things, server needs to give you permission and feed you material to perform those actions.
Interesting. I don't recall seeing this on liveleaks, and that's where most of the even marginally verified stuff goes to.
Unfortunately one of the main sources for this, ukraineatwar blog was the site that was constantly implicated in both location and time shifting to paint rebels in bad light (i.e. claiming that photographs taken elsewhere or at a different time or both were taken in Donbass). They got especially famous for showing Yugoslavia war mass graves as "evidence of rebels conducting mass murder of Ukrainians" and I recall stopping following them when they showed old footage of Russian column on the way to Roki tunnel back in 2008 as "Russian army shifting armour in Eastern Ukraine" which was actually shown around Western media, and then rapidly pulled when the obvious fact that this was a footage from six years ago was pointed out.
Also, rocket engines do not leave contrails near ground. Contrails are condensed vapour created by high pressure from either engines or pressure from aircraft passing in upper atmosphere. BUK engines in essentially all videos I've seen of their post launch create and leave behind a slowly dissipating trail of persistent dark grey smoke. Still, this could be the final stage of dissipation with most particulates out of it, making it white-ish as it is in the picture. Another weird issue is verticality. BUK rockets are launched at angle which improves acceleration properties of the missile on launch. The smoke dissipating here is going directly up. This doesn't fit, unless the launch was made directly at or away from the observer, but that still doesn't match up - you'd see smoke increasing or decreasing in size due to parallax. We don't see it here.
The other problem is time-shifting. There have been several launches of the complex in the region at that time, among those ones that shot down the Ukrainian spy plane.
Still, interesting. I'll try to look into it further to see why the image wasn't released to our media in spite of its "explosive" nature. Thanks!
Yes. They can: 1. Deliver what they promised (in this case, would require reversal of the decision). 2. Issue refunds. 3. File for bankruptcy protection.
They describe the system is like the one in diablo 3. That is server needs to be synced with on any action that is related to goods and such.
It means that game simply won't have the code necessary to perform these actions. Instead what you will get is dumb MMO client that asks the server "what should I do here?" to do a lot of things.
But you can't monetize people on those private servers to buy skins, boosts and so on.
And can you imagine the fact that these servers will reduce grind, so you don't have to work for half a year, several hours a day just to get to the best ships? Who will buy booster packs?
I paid about 30 Euro for it. Considering the exchange rate at the time, it was probably around 35-40USD. With that I have full access to all alphas and betas as well as basic version and starting gear in the final product.
And then there are people who spent the minimal cost to buy the game like myself.
The biggest difference between Star Citizen and Elite: Dangerous is the way devs treat backers. On Star Citizen, they treat you like actual people, not "money bags to beg for money" that Elite: Dangerous project treats its backers as. If SC devs have a questionable decision, they don't drop it on people like this. Instead they ask people for comments and opinions, and then often publicly debate it. To this day, they're struggling with controls because they need to somehow make controls work for joystick and mouse+keyboard people equally well for example.
As a result, even people who spend a lot are generally happy with the project even if some parts of design don't match their expectations. Do you know why? Because they feel their voices have generally been heard, and their points were debated on their merits, instead of "dictat from above" that this particular decision appears to be. Because this cancellation of a feature clearly came completely unexpectedly and blindsided a lot of people.
Seriously, have you taken a look at live leak site? They are choke full of videos of SAM launches of all kinds. When you fight in one of the most urbanized areas of the country, it's not the soldiers who do the shooting that take most of the footage. It's either the civilians or bored-out-of-their-skull soldiers on both sides standing guard who have nothing better to do and to whom any change in the routine is a huge blessing.
Thank you for proving my point that even low visibility SAM missile launches are commonly recorded because area is so populated, so lack of images of exceptionally visible BUK is very strange.
One or two of them are. FBW computers in modern airliners are physically separated from one another to prevent localized malfunctions, such as local electric malfunctions from impacting more than one FBW computer at a time.
Usually you have all three behind the cockpit in various configurations above, on the sides or below the pilots, typically some distance behind the cockpit itself. That is the reason why one of the working hypotheses on how flight 370 went completely dark, but was able to fly for a long time involves an actual cabin fire that destroyed the pilot cabin interior, including the pilot controls, but FBW system was able to right the plane and steer it directly ahead until it ran out of fuel.
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It's about the same, except it doesn't have the whole big brother thing with analysis tools that Razer insists on. Logitech's version is fully offline for all components.
You can probably find video reviews of it online.
Thank you so much for that pearl. You made my day.
Still laughing at the picture of that thing sitting in the hallway. I can already imagine some random guy humping it while normal hospital life goes by and no one batting an eye because it's all perfectly normal.
That used to be the case long long ago.
Nowadays an average bike with amortized seat and front fork will ensure that even a fairly cheap frame and wheels won't tax you with vibration. The only problem is that you'll have to use about 5% more energy on the same route because portion of your spent energy will go into depressing the shock absorbers in the front fork.
Now if you cycle at fairly extreme speeds where air drag becomes a serious issue, I can see going for a more expensive model, but in reality, all of you claims but one about using less energy at high speed due to lower drag have been long addressed for bikes on 1k budget.
That said there is indeed one thing that this bike will not provide for people like you. Placebo effect.
If I may make a recommendation, consider trying out logitech G13 before going for orbweaver.
It has a few significant advantages over orbweaver, like actual analogue joystick (orbweaver's "thumbstick" is just a directional pad). It's also shaped differently, and I found it to be a much better fit for my hand. It's also significantly cheaper.
Hotel already folded and agreed to drop charges for these and all future customers:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...
Which already happened:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...
As I said, hotel folded instantly.
UK itself does. In law.
If this goes to court, hotel has snowball chance in hell of winning. The problem is court costs. However now that this made it to top of BBC, consumer protection agency will likely take over and hotel will fold like a pro poker player who drew nothing and sees opponent pop up a maximum bet.
In most of Europe, law specifically requires contracts in common situations like booking a stay with a hotel that have "unusual terms" for the terms to be specifically and carefully explained. The burden of proof that explanation was delivered and appropriate lies with the one inserting these clauses (in this case hotel) and even if this was found to be true, court would still likely strike it down as illegal because of power balance in this case (customer arriving with expectation of a place to stay, hotel in a position of power because it holds the room guest has expected behind unreasonable contractual terms).
Reminder: Most of Europe is far more consumer-centric than wild west capitalism of US.
Slashdot + american sense of overwhelming self-importance = result you see.
"Banks didn't fuck over anyone. They just (in hindsight wrongly) assumed they could make money off bad loans without any problems for economy".
Hey, this argument works no matter what cause you try to put into it!
Not quite. MMOs like WoW also require server verification for every action. Even movement, which can be done for a short while without server input is usually synced with the server, hence the term "rubber banding" referring to server pulling you back to the known position after the connection is disrupted and re-established.
This is not going to be quite as harsh, more in line with diablo 3 apparently. I.e. you get to do some stuff without needing to call the server, but every time you trade, create a mission or interact with certain things, server needs to give you permission and feed you material to perform those actions.
Basically, it's always online DRM.
Interesting. I don't recall seeing this on liveleaks, and that's where most of the even marginally verified stuff goes to.
Unfortunately one of the main sources for this, ukraineatwar blog was the site that was constantly implicated in both location and time shifting to paint rebels in bad light (i.e. claiming that photographs taken elsewhere or at a different time or both were taken in Donbass). They got especially famous for showing Yugoslavia war mass graves as "evidence of rebels conducting mass murder of Ukrainians" and I recall stopping following them when they showed old footage of Russian column on the way to Roki tunnel back in 2008 as "Russian army shifting armour in Eastern Ukraine" which was actually shown around Western media, and then rapidly pulled when the obvious fact that this was a footage from six years ago was pointed out.
Also, rocket engines do not leave contrails near ground. Contrails are condensed vapour created by high pressure from either engines or pressure from aircraft passing in upper atmosphere. BUK engines in essentially all videos I've seen of their post launch create and leave behind a slowly dissipating trail of persistent dark grey smoke. Still, this could be the final stage of dissipation with most particulates out of it, making it white-ish as it is in the picture. Another weird issue is verticality. BUK rockets are launched at angle which improves acceleration properties of the missile on launch. The smoke dissipating here is going directly up. This doesn't fit, unless the launch was made directly at or away from the observer, but that still doesn't match up - you'd see smoke increasing or decreasing in size due to parallax. We don't see it here.
Here is the BUK missile launch and what it looks like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The other problem is time-shifting. There have been several launches of the complex in the region at that time, among those ones that shot down the Ukrainian spy plane.
Still, interesting. I'll try to look into it further to see why the image wasn't released to our media in spite of its "explosive" nature. Thanks!
Of course. But it's the exact same point that author is making. "They didn't shaft me, so you should forgive them".
Yes. They can:
1. Deliver what they promised (in this case, would require reversal of the decision).
2. Issue refunds.
3. File for bankruptcy protection.
They describe the system is like the one in diablo 3. That is server needs to be synced with on any action that is related to goods and such.
It means that game simply won't have the code necessary to perform these actions. Instead what you will get is dumb MMO client that asks the server "what should I do here?" to do a lot of things.
But you can't monetize people on those private servers to buy skins, boosts and so on.
And can you imagine the fact that these servers will reduce grind, so you don't have to work for half a year, several hours a day just to get to the best ships? Who will buy booster packs?
I paid about 30 Euro for it. Considering the exchange rate at the time, it was probably around 35-40USD. With that I have full access to all alphas and betas as well as basic version and starting gear in the final product.
And then there are people who spent the minimal cost to buy the game like myself.
The biggest difference between Star Citizen and Elite: Dangerous is the way devs treat backers. On Star Citizen, they treat you like actual people, not "money bags to beg for money" that Elite: Dangerous project treats its backers as. If SC devs have a questionable decision, they don't drop it on people like this. Instead they ask people for comments and opinions, and then often publicly debate it. To this day, they're struggling with controls because they need to somehow make controls work for joystick and mouse+keyboard people equally well for example.
As a result, even people who spend a lot are generally happy with the project even if some parts of design don't match their expectations. Do you know why? Because they feel their voices have generally been heard, and their points were debated on their merits, instead of "dictat from above" that this particular decision appears to be. Because this cancellation of a feature clearly came completely unexpectedly and blindsided a lot of people.
Basically, diablo 3 always online style. You need to connect every time you trade so server can verify that you're eligible. It's straight on DRM.
They send you images of schematic that you can print out, and then cut out and glue together to make a paper donkey ears hat.
So you can wear it every time you think of backing up a kickstart project based on promises they make again.
"Yeah, our banks just shafted the entire economy, but I kept my job so hey, can't we just forgive them?" angle is really disturbing.
Seriously, have you taken a look at live leak site? They are choke full of videos of SAM launches of all kinds. When you fight in one of the most urbanized areas of the country, it's not the soldiers who do the shooting that take most of the footage. It's either the civilians or bored-out-of-their-skull soldiers on both sides standing guard who have nothing better to do and to whom any change in the routine is a huge blessing.
Thank you for proving my point that even low visibility SAM missile launches are commonly recorded because area is so populated, so lack of images of exceptionally visible BUK is very strange.
One or two of them are. FBW computers in modern airliners are physically separated from one another to prevent localized malfunctions, such as local electric malfunctions from impacting more than one FBW computer at a time.
Usually you have all three behind the cockpit in various configurations above, on the sides or below the pilots, typically some distance behind the cockpit itself. That is the reason why one of the working hypotheses on how flight 370 went completely dark, but was able to fly for a long time involves an actual cabin fire that destroyed the pilot cabin interior, including the pilot controls, but FBW system was able to right the plane and steer it directly ahead until it ran out of fuel.
If nothing else, it will provide an interesting data point for historians of the future on how geopolitical conflicts were handled in our age.