I just caught a TV news story about doctor/patient consultations being done via the internet. This looming tech will lower the need of in-person visits. While it won't replace ''real'' exam, for follow-ups it would be useful. Hang in there, sir.
Anyone else worried at what all this radio saturation is doing to our insides? Bluetooth, Wifi, Cellular?
I'm looking at all the stuff on my desk and wondering how much of it is sending me to an early grave.
I too used to worry far more about these radio signals, learned enough to be reasonably assured we're okay around it. Basically we humans are just 'bags of water' walking around. I just learned from the Science channel that 2 billion pieces of 'dark matter' pass through us every day, with only a few actually 'impacting' us.
FM radio waves have always passed through us. It bothers me more that some really bad music/talk radio has gone through me.:-)
Isn't "Serious Gaming" an oxymoron, like "Civil War"? I mean, unless you're making 'serious' money at it, you're just playing a game. Gamers take themselves too seriously, in this neckbeards opinion.
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"What a world. What a world..." - Last words of 'The Wicked Witch of the West'
Rural areas. Dialup and satellite internet suck in this application. 3G? Unless one has a large data cap or uses their console infrequently.
This Ars article covers the best satellite currently seems to be able to offer:
"ViaSat's Exede service launched last year as a major improvement over WildBlue. It offers 12Mbps down and 3Mbps up across all of its plans, differentiating tiers not by speed but by data usage. Usage is unlimited from midnight to 5am, but metered at all other times of the day. $50 a month gets you 10GB per month, $80 equates to 15GB, and $130 provides 25GB.
Hughes charges between $40 and $100 a month, with speeds ranging from 10 to 15 Mbps down and 1 to 2 Mbps up, and data limits of 20 to 40GB per month. Satellite bandwidth is not limitless: both Hughes and ViaSat have optimized their service for download speeds, saying in their experience customers care much less about upload speeds.
While Dish Network or DirecTV services are one-way broadcasts, Hughes and ViaSat home systems receive and transmit.
One thing about laptops. Don't they have a negative effect on a guys sperm production over long term use? Not joking here. Or were those studies debunked?
My local library has the 'Freegal' service that allows patrons to download any 3 drm-free Mp3s each week. A lot of libraries use it, I think it's the entire Sony catalog (get revenge on them for their locked down Playstaions!).
It could've been worse, at least the battery fire occured after it landed. Statistically speaking, flying in an airplane is still far safer than flying in your own bathtub.
A few days back I put in for submission one of the many stories just out in the news about this. Headlines like, "Scientists go a few degrees below absolute zero!", etc. To Slashdot's credit, that and other submissions weren't accepted, because they were wrong. So yes, kudos Soulskill.
Slashdot. Not always perfect, but they do try to be.
I doubt you will get the performance of Samsung's quad-core Exynos processor, or the excellent graphics performance. But that IS a good deal.
No, it sure isn't a quad core (where's the jealous emoticon, dammit!). It's got a 1ghz A4 processor, 32gb sd slot too. Arnova sells better (1.5ghz) in the $179 range. Mine runs most emulators, runs all the Mame roms no problem. Not enough power for Nintendo64 and Playstation1, though. I think tablets are the way to go, if you aren't a power user. Stream movies, book reader, and no 'major' security updates to perform every other time you turn it on (I don't miss MS).
For the cheaper price and the desktop functionality, if all you need it for is web browsing and email, I'd go with a Chromebook. If you want to go 100% tablet, you are almost certainly going to have to buy a keyboard, so it would be very hard to get a decent combo for less than the $249 Samsung or the $199 Acer Chromebooks.
$99 Arnova tablet running ICS, $20 powered usb hub, $15 logitech usb keyboard/mouse. HDMI cable out to flat screen monitor, $135 total. I'm not cheap, I'm 'frugal'!
This. Next time he hits a car there might be somebody in it.
And there *will* be a next time if you approve of his behavior by inaction (ie. not "snitching").
Exactly. His friends reporting him ARE being his friends. Hopefully, this is a wake-up call that, if he wizens up to, will keep his future from being filled with regret and manslaughter charges. If he doesn't, his irresponsibility will wreck more than just his own selfish existence.
Here's the link to a video documentary that was done after the huge killer tsunami. It explains not just how it happened, but interviews a few of the people who survived it all. Compelling stuff, IMO,worth an hour of time. It's broken up into 6 or 7 ten minute videos...
Why are there apple/android fan sites today? The C64 was a somewhat affordable computer then that you could do things with. Play sophisticated games, program in understandable basic, copy/share disks of 'cracked of copy protection' games with friends. Communicate with others via 300 baud modems. Type in programs from magazines, line by line, and get a feeling of accomplishment (when you finally fixed the typos you entered) when it ran. All this stuff was new then, never been done before.
See the red & white ball at the top of this page? To get that ball drawn, and bouncing around the screen with shadow effect took hours of typing in a thousand plus lines of machine code from a magazine. ( 001,352,054,859,238,041 {enter} repeat ) And that (for the time) was amazing, never been seen before! A friend of mine created a rudimentary basic program, meant just for his girlfriend, that drew a human figure that got an erection when you answered a couple y/n questions. Took him days, I think, and he had a proud (and devilish) look when he showed it to us. Good times. Maybe it's just a case of 'you had to be there', I guess.
I swear, one day soon I'm going to submit 2 story titles with no story to them, and I bet that they'll get hundreds of replies... "Apple Patent Case" & "Windows 8".
I actually knew a guy who, like the 23 year old in this story, had one short lived job in his life so far. I don't know if he's serious about finding full time employment since he's currently 64.
No, I meant 25. Not everyone's "fully cooked", maturity-wise, just because they're legal age. From bad or no real parenting maybe.
So... you're saying you're a bad parent? It's your theoretical 25 year old son that you wouldn't let play Vice City after all.
No wonder the AC called you insane.
A 'theoretical' bad parent, thank you very much. I don't have any kids..., that I know of anyway. I also see a new story on/. right now, about a real dad worried his grown son is too obsessed with video gaming. I do believe that proves up my points here. Have a nice day, and don't forget to tip your waitress!
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I just caught a TV news story about doctor/patient consultations being done via the internet. This looming tech will lower the need of in-person visits. While it won't replace ''real'' exam, for follow-ups it would be useful. Hang in there, sir.
Anyone else worried at what all this radio saturation is doing to our insides? Bluetooth, Wifi, Cellular?
I'm looking at all the stuff on my desk and wondering how much of it is sending me to an early grave.
I too used to worry far more about these radio signals, learned enough to be reasonably assured we're okay around it. Basically we humans are just 'bags of water' walking around. I just learned from the Science channel that 2 billion pieces of 'dark matter' pass through us every day, with only a few actually 'impacting' us.
FM radio waves have always passed through us. It bothers me more that some really bad music/talk radio has gone through me. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_electronic_devices_and_health
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"What a world. What a world..." - Last words of 'The Wicked Witch of the West'
Rural areas. Dialup and satellite internet suck in this application. 3G? Unless one has a large data cap or uses their console infrequently.
This Ars article covers the best satellite currently seems to be able to offer:
"ViaSat's Exede service launched last year as a major improvement over WildBlue. It offers 12Mbps down and 3Mbps up across all of its plans, differentiating tiers not by speed but by data usage. Usage is unlimited from midnight to 5am, but metered at all other times of the day. $50 a month gets you 10GB per month, $80 equates to 15GB, and $130 provides 25GB.
Hughes charges between $40 and $100 a month, with speeds ranging from 10 to 15 Mbps down and 1 to 2 Mbps up, and data limits of 20 to 40GB per month. Satellite bandwidth is not limitless: both Hughes and ViaSat have optimized their service for download speeds, saying in their experience customers care much less about upload speeds.
While Dish Network or DirecTV services are one-way broadcasts, Hughes and ViaSat home systems receive and transmit.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/satellite-internet-15mbps-no-matter-where-you-live-in-the-us/
One thing about laptops. Don't they have a negative effect on a guys sperm production over long term use? Not joking here. Or were those studies debunked?
My local library has the 'Freegal' service that allows patrons to download any 3 drm-free Mp3s each week. A lot of libraries use it, I think it's the entire Sony catalog (get revenge on them for their locked down Playstaions!).
It could've been worse, at least the battery fire occured after it landed. Statistically speaking, flying in an airplane is still far safer than flying in your own bathtub.
Hospice employees need to travel to the dying patients homes, where the ptients are 'home to die', i.e. "hospice"
Puts on his mirrored hat...
Slashdot. Not always perfect, but they do try to be.
I doubt you will get the performance of Samsung's quad-core Exynos processor, or the excellent graphics performance. But that IS a good deal.
No, it sure isn't a quad core (where's the jealous emoticon, dammit!). It's got a 1ghz A4 processor, 32gb sd slot too. Arnova sells better (1.5ghz) in the $179 range. Mine runs most emulators, runs all the Mame roms no problem. Not enough power for Nintendo64 and Playstation1, though. I think tablets are the way to go, if you aren't a power user. Stream movies, book reader, and no 'major' security updates to perform every other time you turn it on (I don't miss MS).
For the cheaper price and the desktop functionality, if all you need it for is web browsing and email, I'd go with a Chromebook. If you want to go 100% tablet, you are almost certainly going to have to buy a keyboard, so it would be very hard to get a decent combo for less than the $249 Samsung or the $199 Acer Chromebooks.
$99 Arnova tablet running ICS, $20 powered usb hub, $15 logitech usb keyboard/mouse. HDMI cable out to flat screen monitor, $135 total. I'm not cheap, I'm 'frugal'!
I've already specced out the plans for my "retrievable drone capture net", almost ready to patent it. It's going to be a profitable year!
This. Next time he hits a car there might be somebody in it.
And there *will* be a next time if you approve of his behavior by inaction (ie. not "snitching").
Exactly. His friends reporting him ARE being his friends. Hopefully, this is a wake-up call that, if he wizens up to, will keep his future from being filled with regret and manslaughter charges. If he doesn't, his irresponsibility will wreck more than just his own selfish existence.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=b9DMiy_DVok
See the red & white ball at the top of this page? To get that ball drawn, and bouncing around the screen with shadow effect took hours of typing in a thousand plus lines of machine code from a magazine. ( 001,352,054,859,238,041 {enter} repeat ) And that (for the time) was amazing, never been seen before! A friend of mine created a rudimentary basic program, meant just for his girlfriend, that drew a human figure that got an erection when you answered a couple y/n questions. Took him days, I think, and he had a proud (and devilish) look when he showed it to us. Good times. Maybe it's just a case of 'you had to be there', I guess.
Oblig Dilbert http://www.gocomics.com/dilbert-classics/2013/01/05?utm_source=google&utm_medium=gadget&utm_campaign=gadget_clickthrough
Correct: http://www.zdnet.com/no-google-is-not-making-the-android-sdk-proprietary-whats-the-fuss-about-7000009406/
Kid cracks password protection by his 5th birthday.
I feel like I have read this article before. NASA Plans To "Lasso" Asteroid and Turn It Into Space Station
At the time of that story, NASA would not confirm any involvemant in any asteroid capturing.
I swear, one day soon I'm going to submit 2 story titles with no story to them, and I bet that they'll get hundreds of replies... "Apple Patent Case" & "Windows 8".
I actually knew a guy who, like the 23 year old in this story, had one short lived job in his life so far. I don't know if he's serious about finding full time employment since he's currently 64.
No, I meant 25. Not everyone's "fully cooked", maturity-wise, just because they're legal age. From bad or no real parenting maybe.
So... you're saying you're a bad parent? It's your theoretical 25 year old son that you wouldn't let play Vice City after all.
No wonder the AC called you insane.
A 'theoretical' bad parent, thank you very much. I don't have any kids..., that I know of anyway. I also see a new story on /. right now, about a real dad worried his grown son is too obsessed with video gaming. I do believe that proves up my points here. Have a nice day, and don't forget to tip your waitress!
No, I meant 25. Not everyone's "fully cooked", maturity-wise, just because they're legal age. From bad or no real parenting maybe.
Proof of how nature abhors a vacuum.