You mean like the northeast? I cruised through there about 15 years ago and going from Maine to New Hampshire was like driving past a continuous yard sale. As a tourist, I found it quaint. If I lived there and had to see that all summer long, It'd get on my nerves.
If a law isn't enforced in 10 years (maybe 20), it should automatically expire. If the city/county/state/federal government wants to keep an unenforced law on the books, it should have to be passed again like any other new law.
No kidding. I've never had a router die, wireless or not. Ever. In over a decade of 24/7 use. Not one. Zero. I'm currently connected thru a WRT54GL that's been running in my late grandpa's garage since 2005. No climate control of any kind. Same with the old Motorola cablemodem it's connected to. Bought the modem for $10 at a thrift shop and it's still going strong. I've got an older WRT54GS that's only been shelved because the GL was already set up and running when I got the house.
Maybe they make crappy routers these days and we old farts are unaware because we're still running our ancient Linksys gear from an earlier age.
I thought the most significant part of going to camp was GOING to camp. Socializing with new people, existing without your parents, sleeping on uncomfortable beds in drafty cabins, making wallets, getting chased by a bear, etc.
If all of the past disclosures and leaks haven't prompted them to do so, why would this one be any different? Did people really think the NSA put their toys away and went home after the Room 641A exposure? It's not like that was ancient history. It's the core of Congress' retroactive grant of immunity for warrantless wiretapping which was all over the news less than two years ago. And domestic spying was old news even before 641A.
This will last until the first major accident where someone's car is totaled and their insurance company won't pay. Lyft provides liability insurance up to $1,000,000 which is great for protecting you against injury lawsuits but it isn't going to replace your car. Better have an honest talk with your insurance agent to make sure your vehicle is covered for this type of use. And I wonder if your vehicle would need to be registered for commercial use.
While I'm a great supporter of The Internet, there's a downside to having all of that information so readily available. The information doesn't stick. There's no cost to obtain it. No effort required. The process of obtaining the information is part of what makes it stick.
Their best selling point is that you can't buy a new PC with anything but Win8. If you want Windows 7, budget another $100-130 for a home or pro license for 7. And good luck rounding up the drivers.
Totally! It's just so much effort to walk all the way to the gaming rig to play a game. OMG, it's like all the way across the room. And why would I want to play my PC game on a 27" screen when I can play it on a 5" screen?
There's no technical reason why the kiosk system needs to "know" or store the physical location of the locks that match the keys. Create an account and pay with cash and there's no reason to enter any personally identifying information.
I think charging $20 for an emergency key is a kick in the nuts, tho. They're only charging $3.50 for a standard copy of a key you have in-hand so why are they being dicks about the price of printing a key you've stored? Well, obviously, the reason is, "Because they can." But it's still a dick move.
Also, I hope they've got some sort of approval method where a human looks at a picture of the key to see if it's marked "do not duplicate" before a copy is made. That's something I wouldn't trust to OCR.
The weird thing is that computer power consumption at the user level seems pretty steady. My office PC of 10 years ago used the same amount of power as my office PC today. Today's PC has the potential to do more but, aside from facebooking and streaming video, most office workers are doing the same things now as they were 10 years ago. Maybe even less local (work-related) processing if they're at one of those companies that Clouded. The cube farm computer should be down to around 5 watts by now but it's not. Heck, my Raspberry Pi pulls 3 watts and has the potential to handle daily office tasks.
Think of the energy savings of cutting the average cube farm computer from 100 watts to 5 watts. Not only have you cut your energy demand for the computers by 95%, you're no longer pumping out all of the waste heat through the AC system. Seems like the kind of thing market forces should have been demanding for years.
Reality shouldn't be uncommon knowledge. Maybe I'm also one of the few people that knows you can plug a monitor with a DVI port into an HDMI port with a simple cable. And that i-link and Firewire are the same thing.
Any monitor with a displayport. Mini-displayport plugs directly into thunderbolt. Nothing special required except a cable with the correct plug on each end.
I'm a little shocked and a lot disappointed that this is still uncommon knowledge.
Try it before you get too locked into your position. I tried Sony's headset last year and almost forked over $800 for it. Same resolution as the current OR headsets. The main thing that kept me from buying it was the resolution. I agree that it's not sufficient. But it was close. And the consumer OR headsets will almost certainly be 1920x1080. That would be enough of a bump to look pretty darn good.
Would more pixels be better? Of course. But what do we have on the consumer market that can drive 4k displays? Nothin'. Okay, there are a few things that can upscale to 4k at 30Hz so I guess one could claim a few edge cases. And the Mac Pro will be able to improve on that by the end of the year. But that's it. There's simply no point in trying to make a 4k headset until we have something to plug it into and content to deliver.
At $49, I might buy one. At $199, I still expect to get something for my money. I discovered this recently when I bought a Chromebook on a whim. It was back in the box and returned in a few days. I thought I wouldn't care if it was just a toy at that price but I was wrong. I spent another $105 to get a quad-core 17.3" laptop and installed Chrome on it. Gives me the Chrome experience in addition to being able to do all kinds of other stuff.
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I had exactly the same thought but I was gonna say something like, "Those E.T. carts are gonna have some company soon."
You mean like the northeast? I cruised through there about 15 years ago and going from Maine to New Hampshire was like driving past a continuous yard sale. As a tourist, I found it quaint. If I lived there and had to see that all summer long, It'd get on my nerves.
If a law isn't enforced in 10 years (maybe 20), it should automatically expire. If the city/county/state/federal government wants to keep an unenforced law on the books, it should have to be passed again like any other new law.
I'm watching a documentary about a town in Maine that tried that. Doesn't look like it worked out too well for them.
No kidding. I've never had a router die, wireless or not. Ever. In over a decade of 24/7 use. Not one. Zero. I'm currently connected thru a WRT54GL that's been running in my late grandpa's garage since 2005. No climate control of any kind. Same with the old Motorola cablemodem it's connected to. Bought the modem for $10 at a thrift shop and it's still going strong. I've got an older WRT54GS that's only been shelved because the GL was already set up and running when I got the house.
Maybe they make crappy routers these days and we old farts are unaware because we're still running our ancient Linksys gear from an earlier age.
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I thought the most significant part of going to camp was GOING to camp. Socializing with new people, existing without your parents, sleeping on uncomfortable beds in drafty cabins, making wallets, getting chased by a bear, etc.
If all of the past disclosures and leaks haven't prompted them to do so, why would this one be any different? Did people really think the NSA put their toys away and went home after the Room 641A exposure? It's not like that was ancient history. It's the core of Congress' retroactive grant of immunity for warrantless wiretapping which was all over the news less than two years ago. And domestic spying was old news even before 641A.
So will I have to run in place for ten seconds to skip a weight loss ad and play my game?
Why are they pestering the user to be involved in the process? Just do it and don't bother me.
There can't be that many years. Because, counting forward from the...D'oh!
This will last until the first major accident where someone's car is totaled and their insurance company won't pay. Lyft provides liability insurance up to $1,000,000 which is great for protecting you against injury lawsuits but it isn't going to replace your car. Better have an honest talk with your insurance agent to make sure your vehicle is covered for this type of use. And I wonder if your vehicle would need to be registered for commercial use.
While I'm a great supporter of The Internet, there's a downside to having all of that information so readily available. The information doesn't stick. There's no cost to obtain it. No effort required. The process of obtaining the information is part of what makes it stick.
And that asshole doesn't even know what he's afraid of but he's going to publish his opinion.
Something something and remove all doubt.
Yeah, because American companies have an excellent track record with government IT projects.
Their best selling point is that you can't buy a new PC with anything but Win8. If you want Windows 7, budget another $100-130 for a home or pro license for 7. And good luck rounding up the drivers.
Totally! It's just so much effort to walk all the way to the gaming rig to play a game. OMG, it's like all the way across the room. And why would I want to play my PC game on a 27" screen when I can play it on a 5" screen?
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There's no technical reason why the kiosk system needs to "know" or store the physical location of the locks that match the keys. Create an account and pay with cash and there's no reason to enter any personally identifying information.
I think charging $20 for an emergency key is a kick in the nuts, tho. They're only charging $3.50 for a standard copy of a key you have in-hand so why are they being dicks about the price of printing a key you've stored? Well, obviously, the reason is, "Because they can." But it's still a dick move.
Also, I hope they've got some sort of approval method where a human looks at a picture of the key to see if it's marked "do not duplicate" before a copy is made. That's something I wouldn't trust to OCR.
The weird thing is that computer power consumption at the user level seems pretty steady. My office PC of 10 years ago used the same amount of power as my office PC today. Today's PC has the potential to do more but, aside from facebooking and streaming video, most office workers are doing the same things now as they were 10 years ago. Maybe even less local (work-related) processing if they're at one of those companies that Clouded. The cube farm computer should be down to around 5 watts by now but it's not. Heck, my Raspberry Pi pulls 3 watts and has the potential to handle daily office tasks.
Think of the energy savings of cutting the average cube farm computer from 100 watts to 5 watts. Not only have you cut your energy demand for the computers by 95%, you're no longer pumping out all of the waste heat through the AC system. Seems like the kind of thing market forces should have been demanding for years.
Reality shouldn't be uncommon knowledge. Maybe I'm also one of the few people that knows you can plug a monitor with a DVI port into an HDMI port with a simple cable. And that i-link and Firewire are the same thing.
Any monitor with a displayport. Mini-displayport plugs directly into thunderbolt. Nothing special required except a cable with the correct plug on each end.
I'm a little shocked and a lot disappointed that this is still uncommon knowledge.
It'll probably be doubling half resolution (1600x900) for the vast majority of apps, same as the retina Macs do.
Try it before you get too locked into your position. I tried Sony's headset last year and almost forked over $800 for it. Same resolution as the current OR headsets. The main thing that kept me from buying it was the resolution. I agree that it's not sufficient. But it was close. And the consumer OR headsets will almost certainly be 1920x1080. That would be enough of a bump to look pretty darn good.
Would more pixels be better? Of course. But what do we have on the consumer market that can drive 4k displays? Nothin'. Okay, there are a few things that can upscale to 4k at 30Hz so I guess one could claim a few edge cases. And the Mac Pro will be able to improve on that by the end of the year. But that's it. There's simply no point in trying to make a 4k headset until we have something to plug it into and content to deliver.
Yep.
At $49, I might buy one. At $199, I still expect to get something for my money. I discovered this recently when I bought a Chromebook on a whim. It was back in the box and returned in a few days. I thought I wouldn't care if it was just a toy at that price but I was wrong. I spent another $105 to get a quad-core 17.3" laptop and installed Chrome on it. Gives me the Chrome experience in addition to being able to do all kinds of other stuff.