Simcity does city planning, environmental issues, getting things done, and even how to plan for the future. Better.
The landfills in SimCity 4 would never go away. The power stations simply create too much pollution. People tend to build cities simply serve as landfill site and one massive power station.
I wonder how long do we have before they stop e-Petition completely. e-Petition is asking awkward/unrealistic questions. We already had a request of building a Death Star.
"the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom."
Because it is hard to make a standard like that. Counting individual atoms on such a large scale is very complicated.
It is being worked upon, to make the kilogram a sphere of a specified diameter of a pure element. The element chosen is silicon and as a mm is defined very well this will avoid all these problems as a new standard can be made and measured repeatably in every country. Did work in this field some years ago with contact with the people involved.
Why didn't they stick with the good old 1 dm^3 of water?
What if people get annoyed by the drones flying over their house, and shoot them down with catapult? Also flying over people's house could cause some privacy concern... I could mount some cameras on my drone, and fly over Girl Next Door (TM)'s house when she's having a shower.
While I admire your extreme cynicism, you haven't been paying attention to hardware trends. General purpose computers will be expensive relative to the special purpose ones, which is to say they will be dirt cheap (and obscenely powerful by today's standards) .
That really depends on what you meant by "general purpose computers", the last time I checked, Raspberry Pi is dirt cheap. It is general purpose, but not very powerful.
I think we need to somehow have a PETA style campaign to force hardware manufacturers to be ethical, and release all the documentations and drivers, as well as not locking up their devices.
So... it is okay for Apple to do it on their own products? Apple has a larger market share than Microsoft, in terms of phone and tablet.
I am not saying Microsoft and Apple are doing the correct thing. I am just saying that that practice seems to be an industrial standard, which/should be banned/.
1) The same reason many people multi-boot Windows and Linux on the PC: they like being able to run Linux, but they need some MS software. From the software side, the best feature of the Surface is probably that it comes with Office. Even among users of Linux at home, that's a tempting advantage for a mobile device that can be used to exchange documents with people at work. Being able to switch back and forth would be great.
You can run Office 2010 in 32-bit Wine perfectly fine. I actually do that sometimes. Although I have to say sometimes it does crash.
2) "Crippled by design" is accurate, but that doesn't automatically make the hardware itself terrible. The iPad is similarly crippled, but its high-resolution display is nonetheless a tempting feature. The Surface is one of the most rugged mainstream tablets (look up "Surface run over by car" if you're curious), probably the best hardware/price for a 10" widescreen tablet, and the keyboard+trackpad covers are greatly appealing to some people. For people who want the hardware features of the Surface, but want to run some other OS on it, the issue is very relevant.
If you want a rugged tablet, you should get one of those Panasonic Toughbook tablet, which can be disinfected by alcohol and bleach. (http://youtu.be/BARtNT4bNo0?t=23s) If you want something with a touchscreen + keyboard + trackpad, you should try the original Tablet PC. Microsoft published its specification in 2001. I think the majority of the implementation so far is not crippled, because the specification published before all the UEFI stuff came out.
I am just saying that people really should boycott weird products which restricts the consumers.
To make sure given the trend towards locked down everything that there will be a viable platform to run Linux on.
Which is why we should boycott Microsoft Surface, so they don't make such devices in the future! We should buy Google's tablets or this Vivaldi tablet thing, so they have the incentive to make more of them!
How would that help? Noise would still trigger the buffer circuit.
You get another circuit running, detecting whether the sound in the buffer has reached the trigger level. If it has, then send everything in the buffer, until it drop back down below the threshold. Otherwise don't send anything. How about that?
I think these days they should build a buffer circuit, and make everything delay for a few milliseconds, detect the voice, so the operators don't need to say "Ah".
Why would you even bother to put Linux on Microsoft hardware? You have chosen hardware that's crippled by design, you have chosen to get yourself shafted. There are plenty other Linux friendly hardware out there...
In any functioning democracy, voting is guaranteed to be anonymous. Voting is making a political statement. Making comments about politics is also making a political statement. If voting is anonymous, why making political comments shouldn't be anonymous. Lanier is clueless.
That's nice, an OS used by less than 2% of the entire planet has some tool that reports what SMART is telling it, no different that a billion freeware programs for Windows. Just FYI but I can think of about a dozen freeware programs that will do the same damned thing in Windows, INCLUDING the email, so its not exactly like you got anything to brag about Ms AC.
Now I'm gonna spell out what the REAL problem is, which any guy who has spent time in the trenches will tell you and that is SMART SUCKS ASS and for several years has more about covering bad batches for the HDD OEMs than it has been for actually telling you something is going bad. I have had drives in the shop that sounded like an angle grinder bouncing on pavement where SMART said "Nope, nothing wrong here la la la"" while the thing just ground and sputtered, its the most fucking pointless diagnostic tool there is.
What we NEED is a replacement for Spinrite, something that bypasses the lying SMART and just runs a pass of zeroes and ones on the drive and reports a simple pass/fail on the read/writes. Spinrite was fucking brilliant for this, it would give you a layout of the entire drive with red for sectors that failed to report the correct data back and blue for clean so it took just a second to glance at the readout to spot a drive that was buggy out of the box, but nobody has updated the tool in years so its useless now since it can't do SATA 6 or drives above 500Gb.
You meant badblocks? It does exactly what you suggested. However it can't detect those dynamic bad sector remapping done by the firmware.
So how about it FOSS devs, here is the requirements: Bypass SMART, does a single R/W cycle, reports results. That's ALL it has to do anjd so far nobody has stepped up to the plate. damned near every shop I knew including mine had bought a copy of Spinrite so there is good money to be made there if you are willing to put in the work, its a niche but its a niche with money, builders, repair shops and gamers would all love to hand you money for this tool, so get on it and report back when its done, okay?
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Ah, I agree so much. I had my fair share of legos when I was a child and the building blocks were nice and generic. Nowadays, all the pieces are molded to shape whatever you're supposed to make much better, resulting in a nicer looking whatever-it-is-you-were-making, but taking it apart, I wonder if there's much of a point in trying to make something else out of it, even beside the alternatives listed on the back of the box. I'm glad I kept most of my legos for when my son's old enough for them. Other than that it looks like I'm stuck remembering the old days fondly.
I think they have always sold them in theme sets. I think you didn't realise that they were in theme sets when you were young. I did not know that the pieces of paper that came with Lego were building instructions. I don't know if that was the case for you.
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Simcity does city planning, environmental issues, getting things done, and even how to plan for the future. Better.
The landfills in SimCity 4 would never go away. The power stations simply create too much pollution. People tend to build cities simply serve as landfill site and one massive power station.
I wonder how long do we have before they stop e-Petition completely. e-Petition is asking awkward/unrealistic questions. We already had a request of building a Death Star.
The mass of X number of molecules of element Y = 1 gram.
Like there is for the second:
"the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom."
Because it is hard to make a standard like that. Counting individual atoms on such a large scale is very complicated.
It is being worked upon, to make the kilogram a sphere of a specified diameter of a pure element. The element chosen is silicon and as a mm is defined very well this will avoid all these problems as a new standard can be made and measured repeatably in every country. Did work in this field some years ago with contact with the people involved.
Why didn't they stick with the good old 1 dm^3 of water?
Using SSL is ineffective, because the Chinese firewall active sends connection reset packets to disrupt your SSL connection.
What if people get annoyed by the drones flying over their house, and shoot them down with catapult? Also flying over people's house could cause some privacy concern... I could mount some cameras on my drone, and fly over Girl Next Door (TM)'s house when she's having a shower.
I bet this will be one of the winner in IG Nobel Prize for this year.
Where science and engineering is considered as excess,but litigation/lawsuit are considered as normal.
After all, Imperial (in the US flavor) is better for computing than metric since it's at least partially base 2.
Base 10 is partially base 2 as well, 10 = 2x5. So metric is as good as imperial unit, by your logic.
They still have to throw the tree itself away...
The missing "A" was not caused by static, but by the way that the VOX (Voice Operated Switch) operated.
I really don't think it was caused the VOX. When the VOX is switched off, it makes a beep sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csO9VTtrg5A
By "these days", I meant today, as in if I was designing a new one today. The GP said
Ask any Ham Radio Operator about setting up a VOX..
I will try to be more literate on Slashdot in the future.
Well, it is designed for you to stream 3D porn at Blu-ray quality across your house.
While I admire your extreme cynicism, you haven't been paying attention to hardware trends. General purpose computers will be expensive relative to the special purpose ones, which is to say they will be dirt cheap (and obscenely powerful by today's standards) .
That really depends on what you meant by "general purpose computers", the last time I checked, Raspberry Pi is dirt cheap. It is general purpose, but not very powerful.
I think we need to somehow have a PETA style campaign to force hardware manufacturers to be ethical, and release all the documentations and drivers, as well as not locking up their devices.
So... it is okay for Apple to do it on their own products? Apple has a larger market share than Microsoft, in terms of phone and tablet.
I am not saying Microsoft and Apple are doing the correct thing. I am just saying that that practice seems to be an industrial standard, which /should be banned/.
1) The same reason many people multi-boot Windows and Linux on the PC: they like being able to run Linux, but they need some MS software. From the software side, the best feature of the Surface is probably that it comes with Office. Even among users of Linux at home, that's a tempting advantage for a mobile device that can be used to exchange documents with people at work. Being able to switch back and forth would be great.
You can run Office 2010 in 32-bit Wine perfectly fine. I actually do that sometimes. Although I have to say sometimes it does crash.
2) "Crippled by design" is accurate, but that doesn't automatically make the hardware itself terrible. The iPad is similarly crippled, but its high-resolution display is nonetheless a tempting feature. The Surface is one of the most rugged mainstream tablets (look up "Surface run over by car" if you're curious), probably the best hardware/price for a 10" widescreen tablet, and the keyboard+trackpad covers are greatly appealing to some people. For people who want the hardware features of the Surface, but want to run some other OS on it, the issue is very relevant.
If you want a rugged tablet, you should get one of those Panasonic Toughbook tablet, which can be disinfected by alcohol and bleach. (http://youtu.be/BARtNT4bNo0?t=23s) If you want something with a touchscreen + keyboard + trackpad, you should try the original Tablet PC. Microsoft published its specification in 2001. I think the majority of the implementation so far is not crippled, because the specification published before all the UEFI stuff came out.
I am just saying that people really should boycott weird products which restricts the consumers.
To make sure given the trend towards locked down everything that there will be a viable platform to run Linux on.
Which is why we should boycott Microsoft Surface, so they don't make such devices in the future! We should buy Google's tablets or this Vivaldi tablet thing, so they have the incentive to make more of them!
How would that help? Noise would still trigger the buffer circuit.
You get another circuit running, detecting whether the sound in the buffer has reached the trigger level. If it has, then send everything in the buffer, until it drop back down below the threshold. Otherwise don't send anything. How about that?
So what VOX switched off before he said "a"?
I think these days they should build a buffer circuit, and make everything delay for a few milliseconds, detect the voice, so the operators don't need to say "Ah".
Why would you even bother to put Linux on Microsoft hardware? You have chosen hardware that's crippled by design, you have chosen to get yourself shafted. There are plenty other Linux friendly hardware out there...
In any functioning democracy, voting is guaranteed to be anonymous. Voting is making a political statement. Making comments about politics is also making a political statement. If voting is anonymous, why making political comments shouldn't be anonymous. Lanier is clueless.
Well the author didn't mention anything that happened between 1900-1960. We developed the skill to fly. Nobody knows what's coming up next....
The real issue here is that food is being used to make fuel.
Well, even if those corns are not used to make ethanol, they probably will be turned into high fructose corn syrup.
That's nice, an OS used by less than 2% of the entire planet has some tool that reports what SMART is telling it, no different that a billion freeware programs for Windows. Just FYI but I can think of about a dozen freeware programs that will do the same damned thing in Windows, INCLUDING the email, so its not exactly like you got anything to brag about Ms AC.
Now I'm gonna spell out what the REAL problem is, which any guy who has spent time in the trenches will tell you and that is SMART SUCKS ASS and for several years has more about covering bad batches for the HDD OEMs than it has been for actually telling you something is going bad. I have had drives in the shop that sounded like an angle grinder bouncing on pavement where SMART said "Nope, nothing wrong here la la la"" while the thing just ground and sputtered, its the most fucking pointless diagnostic tool there is.
What we NEED is a replacement for Spinrite, something that bypasses the lying SMART and just runs a pass of zeroes and ones on the drive and reports a simple pass/fail on the read/writes. Spinrite was fucking brilliant for this, it would give you a layout of the entire drive with red for sectors that failed to report the correct data back and blue for clean so it took just a second to glance at the readout to spot a drive that was buggy out of the box, but nobody has updated the tool in years so its useless now since it can't do SATA 6 or drives above 500Gb.
You meant badblocks? It does exactly what you suggested. However it can't detect those dynamic bad sector remapping done by the firmware.
So how about it FOSS devs, here is the requirements: Bypass SMART, does a single R/W cycle, reports results. That's ALL it has to do anjd so far nobody has stepped up to the plate. damned near every shop I knew including mine had bought a copy of Spinrite so there is good money to be made there if you are willing to put in the work, its a niche but its a niche with money, builders, repair shops and gamers would all love to hand you money for this tool, so get on it and report back when its done, okay?
Ah, I agree so much. I had my fair share of legos when I was a child and the building blocks were nice and generic. Nowadays, all the pieces are molded to shape whatever you're supposed to make much better, resulting in a nicer looking whatever-it-is-you-were-making, but taking it apart, I wonder if there's much of a point in trying to make something else out of it, even beside the alternatives listed on the back of the box.
I'm glad I kept most of my legos for when my son's old enough for them. Other than that it looks like I'm stuck remembering the old days fondly.
I think they have always sold them in theme sets. I think you didn't realise that they were in theme sets when you were young. I did not know that the pieces of paper that came with Lego were building instructions. I don't know if that was the case for you.