"A combat system known as "push forward combat" is featured, which discourages players from taking cover behind obstacles or resting to regain health. Players instead collect health and armour pick-ups scattered throughout levels, or kill enemies to regain health."
Depends on the size of the surface. Have you watched the video?
Much more problematic are the amount of input lag and the lack of a cursor (besides when hovering, which I imagine to be very tiresome). Concerning the latter: Making your arm a giant touchpad is awesome, but we generally don't use normal touchpads without cursors (for good reasons) and it seems silly to disregard that.
What was your breakfast before you started eating yoghurt?
If it included bread or other carbs then that might have something to do with this: "I no longer craved sugar or other carbs, and started eating more fiber and veggies"
Also regarding that sentence, are you sure it wasn't the other way around? I'm not saying it is impossible that 'the little critters were using some sort of chemical feedback', but misattribution and jumping to conclusions are common things in diet-related matters (diet-hacks are an almost religious thing to many) and I think we should try to avoid that.
If it was possible, then it would have happened, and it hasn't.
1. We could be the first. 2. We can not be 100% sure that we would detect an advanced civilization. 3. My favorite (for being the most interesting): it could be that all advanced and ultrarational civilizations end up considering the universe, their existence (and growth) to be pointless.
I wasn't talking about journalctl. I was responding to this: "whether a file is text or binary you still need a tool to read it so its a meaningless argument." That is still an idiotic way to dismiss the difference between text(ASCII) files and some binary format.
You can also pipe the text output from journalctl to any text parser you like.
That is a great feature. To me this pretty much settles the argument over binary logging vs. text logging and deserves being stated often and immediately when it comes up.
In fact, nerds are interested in most of everything.
With the exception of the absolutely meaningless and inconsequential labeling of a goddamn animal species as the 'national mammal' of some country. What the fuck is next? Updates on the life of Whothefuckcares Kardashian? Honestly, even if India would have declared that cows are no longer 'holy' in their country it wouldn't belong on Slashdot (even though it would be a much, much bigger deal than this bullshit).
No. this is noise that distracts everybody from what does matter, nothing more.
Unless you can convert your binary to a stream of text, forget grepping it or doing any of the transformations everybody with a modicum of experience of *nix is very familiar with.
On the commandline, binary files are going to require a custom built interface for that specific type of binary. That custom built interface needs to have all the features you want for easy searching etc.: no regular expression search built-in? Then forget about it. If you're lucky, there is another tool that understands your specific binary flavour which may or may not do what you want. A text file does not have those problems because it can be interpreted using a standard that is ridiculously simple, old as dirt and supported by and ingrained in pretty much fucking everything that displays letters.
I'm not saying a binary format cannot have its advantages (databases obviously have many), but to dismiss the difference between binaries and text files with 'you still need a tool to read them' is absolutely fucking idiotic.
That is too much of a blanket statement to deserve a +5 Informative.
Most HTML in an e-mail is completely safe: a bold tag isn't going to steal your personal information. Save for exploits of the rendering engine, the bits that do not execute code or retrieve external resources (images) are all fine. Thunderbird has (and other clients have) solutions for the rest.
Sure, there are plenty of economic migrants, but refusing those entry to your country is commonplace and generally not considered to be morally wrong. Yes, there is illegal immigration, but the scale and the ethics are very different from migration of people fleeing for their lives.
Honestly, the whole focus on novels or technical writing is stupid. Speed reading (training) is amazing for the daily consumption of news, blogs, websites emails, etc. The signal to noise ratio in a lot of these is very very low, which makes being able to find and only consume the signal a superb time saver.
Even in quality books or articles there are passages that are unnecessarily long or just not that interesting. Knowing the speed reading techniques and being able to switch from attentive reading to speed reading allows fast-forwarding through the crappy bits, whilst still being reasonably aware of when the content turns interesting again.
Beyond that, some of the speed reading 'tricks' are just improvements to reading and information processing in general. Training your brain to use more of your peripheral vision for letter and word processing, to do more chunked processing, to better detect signal words and key elements, and training your eyes to move in efficient patterns works for all reading, including attentive reading.
So I urge everybody to look beyond the gimmicky part of speed reading (read a novel in minutes? Screw that) and just invest some time in improving reading skills in general (which is easily done through speed reading apps and courses). Considering the amount of text you process and read in a day, it seems like a no-brainer to make that process more efficient.
the airblade keeps the water sliding up your wrist because the water can't magically pass the airblade
So you missed the whole part about the speed, huh? Talking about reading comprehension. Or maybe you just ignored it out of stubbornness. Whatever.
You seem to think the air wall is somehow impermeable to water. It's not. The force lateral to the air flow (in this case up and down) matters and depends on the pressure in the air wall itself and the resulting vortices formed when the air hits a surface (such as your hands). The laminar flow can create very specific and stable vortices, which are essential for exerting a continuous lateral force on the water. When you speed up the motion of your hands, not only are you imparting more (downward) impulse on the water on your hands, you are also disturbing the vortices formed and diminishing the amount of impulse they can transfer to the water. These effects can allow the water to retain a downward velocity and 'slip through'.
This is why, as I said, your hands should move in sideways under the airblade and then be pulled up.
This works, of course, but is not necessary.
We have these at work, I use them daily, exactly as you describe, and they're shit and fail hard
Either they are not proper airblades, or you are either putting your hands in too slow and/or taking them out too fast (I take them out in about 10s, which is still far, far shorter than trying to dry your hands with a normal hand dryer).
So before doing a really bad job of trolling
I'm not trolling. I love airblades and it always hurts me to see idiots using them the wrong way and/or misunderstanding them. Furthermore, you're the one who started with displaying a painful lack of understanding of physics in a snarky manner: "And by what magical procedure does the airblade magically ignore water going downwards?"
I don't have any affiliation with Dyson, so I am going to leave it at this. Let me just extend commiserations to them for the idiocracy in which their product has to live.
Can you think of a reason why you have to pull up your hands slowly instead of quickly? How does the speed of your hands influence the effect of the 'air wall' ? (protip: imagine your hands being stationary and the air wall moving)
Go ahead. Take your time. Better yet, next time you encounter a Dyson airblade, make your hands wet, follow my instructions and experience the magic yourself.
What is baffling to me is that people seem to think that millennials don't care if somebody other than themselves or their friends is on their phone during a movie.
Sure, some people are not interested in any movie at any time whatsoever, but otherwise I imagine that plenty of 'millennials' think it's really annoying when other people are on their phone during a movie (of a genre) they themselves really like.
It's a pretty human thing to hold yourself to a different standard than 'other people'.
The proper way is to put your hands in completely, then slowly move them upwards once (twice if you want your hands really really dry).
The airflow is pointed slightly downwards, and the 'air wall' keeps almost all of the water below that line. It's really simple and really effective for those who actually think about it or follow the instructions on the damn things.
Also: I have never used Siri, but I assume it generates (indirect) ad revenue for Apple. I'm going to guess that the people offering prostitutes and Viagra spend more cash on ads than abortion clinics. If not that, I imagine the former lobbying Apple a lot harder to fix any problems.
Plenty of much more reasonable explanations than "Apple hates women!"
All of the major WiFi equipment vendors (Cisco, Aruba, etc.) have offered this for some time -- though they don't claim anywhere near the MIT Lab's level of accuracy.
You contradicted yourself within the same sentence. When you say 'this' it means 'exactly this', not 'something like this'.
Make a restaurant and advertise that you have portion sizes 1/2 everyone elses, see how long you stay in business.
I've been to NY and have eaten there at plenty of restaurants with normal portion sizes. There goes your hypothetical.
Well duh-huh, that's exactly what I said.
It's not. You focused solely on food ("restaurants started offering larger meals as a value proposition"), I focused on the broader American (again, weirdly nationalistic) mindset of bigger cars, bigger houses, bigger skyscrapers, bigger portions, bigger everything.
The whole WW2 thing is a red herring as it has no influence on aforementioned mindset. WW2 or not, that mindset is part of American culture.
In Europe, taking home leftovers from a restaurant is very uncommon. I'm not necessarily saying that is a good thing, but it probably helps in keeping the portions smaller. In any case, pretty much all the restaurants I've been to did not have oversized portions (save for maybe some Chinese/Indonesian restaurants). Especially the fancy restaurants tended to have quite small portions.
So no, it is not 'death' for a restaurant to risk having people leaving feeling they didn't get enough to eat. Not in Europe, at least.
Such bullshit. The Great Depression and WW2 occurred more than two generations ago, and the countries hit hardest by WW2 obviously don't share the same problem.
No, the problem simply lies in the mentality of 'bigger is better'. Many of the other developed countries just do not share that same (weirdly nationalistic) mindset. Take cars, for instance. Even on Last Week Tonight (which could be considered a 'liberal' show), they mock small 'European' cars. That, to me, is a sign of how pervasive the mindset is.
Slashdot Mirror
Total Commander.
https://play.google.com/store/...
It is awesome on Windows and it is equally awesome on Android.
Yes. Cursors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
CoD regen health crap.
Bullshit.
"A combat system known as "push forward combat" is featured, which discourages players from taking cover behind obstacles or resting to regain health. Players instead collect health and armour pick-ups scattered throughout levels, or kill enemies to regain health."
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )
In order to preserve anything, you must continuously renew and repair it.
Rip to FLAC. Automate offsite backups (you should be doing this anyway). Ensure error correction with PAR files and/or use ZFS.
Problem solved..
Depends on the size of the surface. Have you watched the video?
Much more problematic are the amount of input lag and the lack of a cursor (besides when hovering, which I imagine to be very tiresome).
Concerning the latter: Making your arm a giant touchpad is awesome, but we generally don't use normal touchpads without cursors (for good reasons) and it seems silly to disregard that.
What was your breakfast before you started eating yoghurt?
If it included bread or other carbs then that might have something to do with this:
"I no longer craved sugar or other carbs, and started eating more fiber and veggies"
Also regarding that sentence, are you sure it wasn't the other way around? I'm not saying it is impossible that 'the little critters were using some sort of chemical feedback', but misattribution and jumping to conclusions are common things in diet-related matters (diet-hacks are an almost religious thing to many) and I think we should try to avoid that.
If it was possible, then it would have happened, and it hasn't.
1. We could be the first.
2. We can not be 100% sure that we would detect an advanced civilization.
3. My favorite (for being the most interesting): it could be that all advanced and ultrarational civilizations end up considering the universe, their existence (and growth) to be pointless.
I wasn't talking about journalctl. I was responding to this: "whether a file is text or binary you still need a tool to read it so its a meaningless argument."
That is still an idiotic way to dismiss the difference between text(ASCII) files and some binary format.
You can also pipe the text output from journalctl to any text parser you like.
That is a great feature. To me this pretty much settles the argument over binary logging vs. text logging and deserves being stated often and immediately when it comes up.
In fact, nerds are interested in most of everything.
With the exception of the absolutely meaningless and inconsequential labeling of a goddamn animal species as the 'national mammal' of some country. What the fuck is next? Updates on the life of Whothefuckcares Kardashian?
Honestly, even if India would have declared that cows are no longer 'holy' in their country it wouldn't belong on Slashdot (even though it would be a much, much bigger deal than this bullshit).
No. this is noise that distracts everybody from what does matter, nothing more.
Unless you can convert your binary to a stream of text, forget grepping it or doing any of the transformations everybody with a modicum of experience of *nix is very familiar with.
On the commandline, binary files are going to require a custom built interface for that specific type of binary. That custom built interface needs to have all the features you want for easy searching etc.: no regular expression search built-in? Then forget about it. If you're lucky, there is another tool that understands your specific binary flavour which may or may not do what you want.
A text file does not have those problems because it can be interpreted using a standard that is ridiculously simple, old as dirt and supported by and ingrained in pretty much fucking everything that displays letters.
I'm not saying a binary format cannot have its advantages (databases obviously have many), but to dismiss the difference between binaries and text files with 'you still need a tool to read them' is absolutely fucking idiotic.
That is too much of a blanket statement to deserve a +5 Informative.
Most HTML in an e-mail is completely safe: a bold tag isn't going to steal your personal information. Save for exploits of the rendering engine, the bits that do not execute code or retrieve external resources (images) are all fine. Thunderbird has (and other clients have) solutions for the rest.
What's the best solution?
Nationalizing all infrastructure that is critical to society.
They are not fleeing from unemployment, you know.
Sure, there are plenty of economic migrants, but refusing those entry to your country is commonplace and generally not considered to be morally wrong. Yes, there is illegal immigration, but the scale and the ethics are very different from migration of people fleeing for their lives.
Honestly, the whole focus on novels or technical writing is stupid. Speed reading (training) is amazing for the daily consumption of news, blogs, websites emails, etc. The signal to noise ratio in a lot of these is very very low, which makes being able to find and only consume the signal a superb time saver.
Even in quality books or articles there are passages that are unnecessarily long or just not that interesting. Knowing the speed reading techniques and being able to switch from attentive reading to speed reading allows fast-forwarding through the crappy bits, whilst still being reasonably aware of when the content turns interesting again.
Beyond that, some of the speed reading 'tricks' are just improvements to reading and information processing in general. Training your brain to use more of your peripheral vision for letter and word processing, to do more chunked processing, to better detect signal words and key elements, and training your eyes to move in efficient patterns works for all reading, including attentive reading.
So I urge everybody to look beyond the gimmicky part of speed reading (read a novel in minutes? Screw that) and just invest some time in improving reading skills in general (which is easily done through speed reading apps and courses). Considering the amount of text you process and read in a day, it seems like a no-brainer to make that process more efficient.
the airblade keeps the water sliding up your wrist because the water can't magically pass the airblade
So you missed the whole part about the speed, huh? Talking about reading comprehension. Or maybe you just ignored it out of stubbornness. Whatever.
You seem to think the air wall is somehow impermeable to water. It's not. The force lateral to the air flow (in this case up and down) matters and depends on the pressure in the air wall itself and the resulting vortices formed when the air hits a surface (such as your hands). The laminar flow can create very specific and stable vortices, which are essential for exerting a continuous lateral force on the water. When you speed up the motion of your hands, not only are you imparting more (downward) impulse on the water on your hands, you are also disturbing the vortices formed and diminishing the amount of impulse they can transfer to the water. These effects can allow the water to retain a downward velocity and 'slip through'.
This is why, as I said, your hands should move in sideways under the airblade and then be pulled up.
This works, of course, but is not necessary.
We have these at work, I use them daily, exactly as you describe, and they're shit and fail hard
Either they are not proper airblades, or you are either putting your hands in too slow and/or taking them out too fast (I take them out in about 10s, which is still far, far shorter than trying to dry your hands with a normal hand dryer).
So before doing a really bad job of trolling
I'm not trolling. I love airblades and it always hurts me to see idiots using them the wrong way and/or misunderstanding them.
Furthermore, you're the one who started with displaying a painful lack of understanding of physics in a snarky manner: "And by what magical procedure does the airblade magically ignore water going downwards?"
I don't have any affiliation with Dyson, so I am going to leave it at this. Let me just extend commiserations to them for the idiocracy in which their product has to live.
Physics is challenging to you, isn't it?
Can you think of a reason why you have to pull up your hands slowly instead of quickly? How does the speed of your hands influence the effect of the 'air wall' ? (protip: imagine your hands being stationary and the air wall moving)
Go ahead. Take your time.
Better yet, next time you encounter a Dyson airblade, make your hands wet, follow my instructions and experience the magic yourself.
What is baffling to me is that people seem to think that millennials don't care if somebody other than themselves or their friends is on their phone during a movie.
Sure, some people are not interested in any movie at any time whatsoever, but otherwise I imagine that plenty of 'millennials' think it's really annoying when other people are on their phone during a movie (of a genre) they themselves really like.
It's a pretty human thing to hold yourself to a different standard than 'other people'.
The proper way is to put your hands in completely, then slowly move them upwards once (twice if you want your hands really really dry).
The airflow is pointed slightly downwards, and the 'air wall' keeps almost all of the water below that line. It's really simple and really effective for those who actually think about it or follow the instructions on the damn things.
Here's a video demonstrating this apparently baffling procedure:
https://youtu.be/fkQrCF-D-9k?t...
Also: I have never used Siri, but I assume it generates (indirect) ad revenue for Apple. I'm going to guess that the people offering prostitutes and Viagra spend more cash on ads than abortion clinics. If not that, I imagine the former lobbying Apple a lot harder to fix any problems.
Plenty of much more reasonable explanations than "Apple hates women!"
The kind with (unlocked) doors in them.
All of the major WiFi equipment vendors (Cisco, Aruba, etc.) have offered this for some time -- though they don't claim anywhere near the MIT Lab's level of accuracy.
You contradicted yourself within the same sentence. When you say 'this' it means 'exactly this', not 'something like this'.
Make a restaurant and advertise that you have portion sizes 1/2 everyone elses, see how long you stay in business.
I've been to NY and have eaten there at plenty of restaurants with normal portion sizes. There goes your hypothetical.
Well duh-huh, that's exactly what I said.
It's not. You focused solely on food ("restaurants started offering larger meals as a value proposition"), I focused on the broader American (again, weirdly nationalistic) mindset of bigger cars, bigger houses, bigger skyscrapers, bigger portions, bigger everything.
The whole WW2 thing is a red herring as it has no influence on aforementioned mindset. WW2 or not, that mindset is part of American culture.
Studies show that even babies understand bigger is better.
Fallacy: Loaded statement.
It is also bullshit. It's 1 study, not 'studies'. Furthermore, it does not show that 'bigger is better' and the onus is on you to prove that it does..
You must be an American.
In Europe, taking home leftovers from a restaurant is very uncommon. I'm not necessarily saying that is a good thing, but it probably helps in keeping the portions smaller. In any case, pretty much all the restaurants I've been to did not have oversized portions (save for maybe some Chinese/Indonesian restaurants). Especially the fancy restaurants tended to have quite small portions.
So no, it is not 'death' for a restaurant to risk having people leaving feeling they didn't get enough to eat. Not in Europe, at least.
that is hard to back away from now.
Such bullshit.
The Great Depression and WW2 occurred more than two generations ago, and the countries hit hardest by WW2 obviously don't share the same problem.
No, the problem simply lies in the mentality of 'bigger is better'. Many of the other developed countries just do not share that same (weirdly nationalistic) mindset.
Take cars, for instance. Even on Last Week Tonight (which could be considered a 'liberal' show), they mock small 'European' cars. That, to me, is a sign of how pervasive the mindset is.