I did the same thing with Ubuntu. Booted into it after ignoring it for a few months - since it's a laptop, it's usually running XP for my wife's Facebook escapades. Drive had thousands of write errors - apparently recorded by the hard drive.
Windows didn't let me know about it. Durrrrr. Maybe there's an app to load to do that; however that same evening I jumped on newegg and ordered a new laptop drive (IDE - older laptop.) Still running just fine!
There's one other issue with a civic vs hummer collision. Bumper height.
The bumper on a hummer in a head on collision with a civic would probably peel the hood back and then finally have the wheels of the hummer actually stop the civic front end.
Then we could go the other way. Let's say a corvette and a hummer. No chance in hell that the bumpers of these two cars would ever meet..... unless you lowered the hummer.
I always wondered why bumper heights aren't enforced on the road. At the very least, it would give the smaller cars a fighting chance. I have been looking into smaller cars (actually the civic is on my short list) and as much as I'd like to save gas, I'd probably end up going with a slightly larger car - just because it "feels" safer. Not because it is.....
In case you haven't noticed, it's almost a stereotypical thing to do - men bash their wives/significant others/women in general, women bash men right back. It's a rare thing for someone to not get caught up in it. It's not just Slashdot.
GM did the same thing in their Blazer / small sport ute vehicles. Placed the brake lines (and the gas line) on top of the driver side frame. Over time, they just rust all to hell (especially here in ohio) and one day, foom. No brakes in the back and fluid everywhere.
To be honest, there doesn't seem to be a really good place to put these that they're not going to get wet etc; however I would pay a little more to get them rubberized to keep the water out - at least for the 10+ years I like to have a vehicle in service. I guess they're not that hard to change out, even if you bend your own - but still just one more annoyance.
I like your first point; however your second point - isn't that kind of wrong?
I would highly expect that Tesla would be buying the Lotus frame seperately - if they were buying the entire car, they'd be close (if not over) their asking price for the roadster just by purchasing the vehicle to strip...
You obviously didn't read the article. He's plugged this into the aux on a remote starter that already exists, therefore not having to worry about all of the scenarios you just described.
One of the limitations of remote starter systems is getting the signal to the car to tell it to start. I know Viper (and others) have a two-way system that greatly improves on the cheaper systems from a range perspective - and they even have an application for the iphone to start the car as well (note: car must get signal, same as this project.)
I must say, it really grates on me when someone goes and shits all over an idea or an implementation here. Let's face it - if some of us do things as a hobby and it's not to your expectations, well.... I'm sure he really really cares.
Manuals will cut the AC off under heavy load as well. Had two Chevy vehicles that you could tell would kick the AC off under load or high RPMs and they were both stick.
No one in the US (except for TMobile customers?) gets a discount on the actual service if they buy their phone outright. From recent postings on other cell phone threads - and my own personal experience with ATT - once your "contract" is up, where the subsidy should disappear... it doesn't. We get to pay the same rates as if we were still subsidizing a phone.
Side note - I heard that Cisco either recently bought or was strongly considering buying Tandberg. In that case, I have to wonder what will happen to Tandberg - will it be streamlined into Cisco Telepresence, or will Tandberg remain a "Brand" of Cisco (aka linksys) while having the Cisco stamp on it?
I actually have Garmin on my windows mobile (ATT Fuze) - so it's possible to do this.
What would be cool from my perspective (to get me off Garmin totally:)
1. turn by turn by google (already doing this on other OS/devices) 2. Store my route/maps to cover the route and then some in case of loss of signal (x miles in each direction?)
Actually, you will see collisions because you just plugged a hub in between your source and receiver.
Getting something like an Ethernet Tap or a switch that can mirror a port would be an option as well. Problem here is that if the switch/Tap doesn't have a capture buffer and you max out the link both ways, you will have issues getting all of the packets to your capture machine (assuming all connections are made at the same speed - sender, receiver and capture port)
Recently we received some Dell E6400s at work. Their brilliant idea of a power save is to set the NIC card speed to 10Mb/s when you're running on battery. You know - so copying files around takes forever. And you had to use their little utility to figure out what was happening; the setting wasn't in the device manager properties for the LAN card.
I wonder how much that truly saves. If it's in the matter of minutes on battery, I'd save more time if the card was at Gig....
My point is that #6 will always exist in modern systems, and #5 gives the excuse or reason to activate it, depending on which side of the fence you're on. It's not rocket science here, it's computers.
I just wanted to give one real-life-scenario to where the images/video would actually have a reason to be saved. Wasn't that what the conversation was about?
5) Person has bomb and blows up the plane because employee maybe had a "bad angle" - or was in cahoots with the bomber. 6) Effective immediately, the code that "deletes" the video is removed so everything has the possibility to be reviewed in case of the above scenario.
Saw a few of these advertised in the travel rag (can't remember the name of it for the life of me) that sits in the airplane seats. Not as common as they should be, but you can buy them.
Even playing on a LAN in the same building, you're looking at random lag times longer than the difference between 120fps and 30fps.
If it's designed right, you're not. Network stack and physical "move the bits across this copper" lag on a proper LAN should be 1ms. Ping testing can sometimes get sketchy - routers can slow down a ping if you address a ping packet to them and their cpu is a little loaded. Packets going through them though - even pings - will get as high a priority as the traffic they're classed in.
It seems to me that most larger companies nowadays have an over-the-top policy about being sick in the workplace. Basically, if you feel a little sick you are expected to go home as to not infect the other worker bees.
I've always been one that would rather be a little miserable and at work rather than sitting at home on a sick day with a cold/cough. But I can see their point.
Saw a friend who had his char blocked in - thought that was a neat trick, so I replicated it. It does help, however having enough fuel to fully repopulate a field with crops, even at my lower level, takes a lot of mouse clicks out of it.
In my opinion, I feel it is a scam because I don't think that spending money on virtual items is a good investment.
Now, others may respond with "Well, isn't your time worth money? Then buy the fuel and save time." Well, if my choices are being bored or being slightly entertained by growing a farm, then that's my choice that I can make and live with. I can truly deal with spending a little more time clicking than spending money on something that at the end of the day isn't getting me anywhere in life once it's all said and done.
Again: My stating that it's a scam is my opinion. I guess I did state overall that it "is" a scam rather than it's my opinion that it's a scam, but that wasn't the intent. I agree that others may not feel that it is a scam, but I feel it is when there is no other reliable way to get certain items other than to buy them with my real-world cash.
In all fairness, you did post a comment regarding a technical / usability issue on Slashdot. You're going to get all sorts of people commenting on exactly what you did wrong and why their way is better.
Heck, I even commented back to you on how my WM device works just to contrast. However, you have valid points for the usability of the device in the scenarios you've described.
Keep in mind that no one is calling you a liar - misunderstandings at best of how two different people use a device on a web forum can lead to unneeded arguments. I've run into this recently on other forums when describing my opinions on my particular phone; sometimes people just know their way is better and will do anything to proclaim they are correct when in fact both opinions can be correct.
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I did the same thing with Ubuntu. Booted into it after ignoring it for a few months - since it's a laptop, it's usually running XP for my wife's Facebook escapades. Drive had thousands of write errors - apparently recorded by the hard drive.
Windows didn't let me know about it. Durrrrr. Maybe there's an app to load to do that; however that same evening I jumped on newegg and ordered a new laptop drive (IDE - older laptop.) Still running just fine!
There's one other issue with a civic vs hummer collision. Bumper height.
The bumper on a hummer in a head on collision with a civic would probably peel the hood back and then finally have the wheels of the hummer actually stop the civic front end.
Then we could go the other way. Let's say a corvette and a hummer. No chance in hell that the bumpers of these two cars would ever meet..... unless you lowered the hummer.
I always wondered why bumper heights aren't enforced on the road. At the very least, it would give the smaller cars a fighting chance. I have been looking into smaller cars (actually the civic is on my short list) and as much as I'd like to save gas, I'd probably end up going with a slightly larger car - just because it "feels" safer. Not because it is.....
In case you haven't noticed, it's almost a stereotypical thing to do - men bash their wives/significant others/women in general, women bash men right back. It's a rare thing for someone to not get caught up in it. It's not just Slashdot.
See, now you have superpowers from all of your years of being irradiated. You can HEAR "silent" helicopters!
GM did the same thing in their Blazer / small sport ute vehicles. Placed the brake lines (and the gas line) on top of the driver side frame. Over time, they just rust all to hell (especially here in ohio) and one day, foom. No brakes in the back and fluid everywhere.
To be honest, there doesn't seem to be a really good place to put these that they're not going to get wet etc; however I would pay a little more to get them rubberized to keep the water out - at least for the 10+ years I like to have a vehicle in service. I guess they're not that hard to change out, even if you bend your own - but still just one more annoyance.
*nerdalert* So when the Throttle Position Sensor fails, does the manufacturer have to fill out a TPS report?
I like your first point; however your second point - isn't that kind of wrong?
I would highly expect that Tesla would be buying the Lotus frame seperately - if they were buying the entire car, they'd be close (if not over) their asking price for the roadster just by purchasing the vehicle to strip...
I thought creepy old men offered kids popsicles, not ice cream.
That's what Family Guy taught me.
You obviously didn't read the article. He's plugged this into the aux on a remote starter that already exists, therefore not having to worry about all of the scenarios you just described.
One of the limitations of remote starter systems is getting the signal to the car to tell it to start. I know Viper (and others) have a two-way system that greatly improves on the cheaper systems from a range perspective - and they even have an application for the iphone to start the car as well (note: car must get signal, same as this project.)
I must say, it really grates on me when someone goes and shits all over an idea or an implementation here. Let's face it - if some of us do things as a hobby and it's not to your expectations, well.... I'm sure he really really cares.
Manuals will cut the AC off under heavy load as well. Had two Chevy vehicles that you could tell would kick the AC off under load or high RPMs and they were both stick.
No one in the US (except for TMobile customers?) gets a discount on the actual service if they buy their phone outright. From recent postings on other cell phone threads - and my own personal experience with ATT - once your "contract" is up, where the subsidy should disappear... it doesn't. We get to pay the same rates as if we were still subsidizing a phone.
Side note - I heard that Cisco either recently bought or was strongly considering buying Tandberg. In that case, I have to wonder what will happen to Tandberg - will it be streamlined into Cisco Telepresence, or will Tandberg remain a "Brand" of Cisco (aka linksys) while having the Cisco stamp on it?
I actually have Garmin on my windows mobile (ATT Fuze) - so it's possible to do this.
What would be cool from my perspective (to get me off Garmin totally:)
1. turn by turn by google (already doing this on other OS/devices)
2. Store my route/maps to cover the route and then some in case of loss of signal (x miles in each direction?)
Actually, you will see collisions because you just plugged a hub in between your source and receiver.
Getting something like an Ethernet Tap or a switch that can mirror a port would be an option as well. Problem here is that if the switch/Tap doesn't have a capture buffer and you max out the link both ways, you will have issues getting all of the packets to your capture machine (assuming all connections are made at the same speed - sender, receiver and capture port)
Oh my, that brings back memories.
Recently we received some Dell E6400s at work. Their brilliant idea of a power save is to set the NIC card speed to 10Mb/s when you're running on battery. You know - so copying files around takes forever. And you had to use their little utility to figure out what was happening; the setting wasn't in the device manager properties for the LAN card.
I wonder how much that truly saves. If it's in the matter of minutes on battery, I'd save more time if the card was at Gig....
My point is that #6 will always exist in modern systems, and #5 gives the excuse or reason to activate it, depending on which side of the fence you're on. It's not rocket science here, it's computers.
I just wanted to give one real-life-scenario to where the images/video would actually have a reason to be saved. Wasn't that what the conversation was about?
Per the one article I read, they're talking about swapping the personalities, not the physical doll.
Someone wanting to swap one of these with me - had I actually had the desire to go and buy one - would just be too creepy.
5) Person has bomb and blows up the plane because employee maybe had a "bad angle" - or was in cahoots with the bomber.
6) Effective immediately, the code that "deletes" the video is removed so everything has the possibility to be reviewed in case of the above scenario.
Those do exist. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=813
Saw a few of these advertised in the travel rag (can't remember the name of it for the life of me) that sits in the airplane seats. Not as common as they should be, but you can buy them.
Even playing on a LAN in the same building, you're looking at random lag times longer than the difference between 120fps and 30fps.
If it's designed right, you're not. Network stack and physical "move the bits across this copper" lag on a proper LAN should be 1ms. Ping testing can sometimes get sketchy - routers can slow down a ping if you address a ping packet to them and their cpu is a little loaded. Packets going through them though - even pings - will get as high a priority as the traffic they're classed in.
It seems to me that most larger companies nowadays have an over-the-top policy about being sick in the workplace. Basically, if you feel a little sick you are expected to go home as to not infect the other worker bees.
I've always been one that would rather be a little miserable and at work rather than sitting at home on a sick day with a cold/cough. But I can see their point.
Saw a friend who had his char blocked in - thought that was a neat trick, so I replicated it. It does help, however having enough fuel to fully repopulate a field with crops, even at my lower level, takes a lot of mouse clicks out of it.
In my opinion, I feel it is a scam because I don't think that spending money on virtual items is a good investment.
Now, others may respond with "Well, isn't your time worth money? Then buy the fuel and save time." Well, if my choices are being bored or being slightly entertained by growing a farm, then that's my choice that I can make and live with. I can truly deal with spending a little more time clicking than spending money on something that at the end of the day isn't getting me anywhere in life once it's all said and done.
Again: My stating that it's a scam is my opinion. I guess I did state overall that it "is" a scam rather than it's my opinion that it's a scam, but that wasn't the intent. I agree that others may not feel that it is a scam, but I feel it is when there is no other reliable way to get certain items other than to buy them with my real-world cash.
Agreed - I think a lot of people are missing out (including me) on what exactly you were trying to do with a contact.
In all fairness, you did post a comment regarding a technical / usability issue on Slashdot. You're going to get all sorts of people commenting on exactly what you did wrong and why their way is better.
Heck, I even commented back to you on how my WM device works just to contrast. However, you have valid points for the usability of the device in the scenarios you've described.
Keep in mind that no one is calling you a liar - misunderstandings at best of how two different people use a device on a web forum can lead to unneeded arguments. I've run into this recently on other forums when describing my opinions on my particular phone; sometimes people just know their way is better and will do anything to proclaim they are correct when in fact both opinions can be correct.