Iron Sky had some pretty hilarious parts and some pretty good parts, but those were unfortunately counterbalanced by some really really stupid parts. I think they could have easily made it a legit mainstream parody instead of trying for the "so bad it's good" category.
He wasn't at home, he drove down from norcal on vacation. A lot of the charging stations (and even a home wall outlet) just can't deliver the kind of current needed to charge the thing in less than a day.
The top range Tesla now is 270 miles per charge. How often do you drive more than 270 miles in a day? Be honest now. . . Because most of us rarely do that.
How often do you fully charge your Tesla? I knew a guy who owned one and was in a perpetual state of looking for chargers, basing his shopping and dining on charger locations and picking up 2-5 miles of range at each stop.
also not shitty little cars with no cargo like they're pushing for the land of fruits and nuts.
I helped a friend from Hawaii move his scuba equipment from the airport to the place he got his Tesla shipped to when he came back to the mainland. We had the back of my Tacoma packed full, and two bags crammed into the back seat. The Tesla not only ate all of that gear with no hassle at all, but also got him from San Diego to Sacramento in a day (while carrying a ton of scuba gear).
Range and space aren't hard to do in an electric car if you're willing to pour money into batteries. It's just a matter of how much power/money you want to throw at it.
Because then I'd have to use a wireless keyboard/mouse and I cant stand those. I want something to plug them in to
You plug them into the pi. The pi shares them to the desktop PC over your favorite 802.11 protocol via Synergy. The pi is kept headless, and in theory can be run completely wirelessly (get one of those external batteries with the USB outputs for charging cell phones).
Is there some reason you can't use a pi to remote desktop or VNC your desktop PC while using the TV as the pi's screen? You could probably build the entire setup for under $150.
If the remote desktop solution isn't acceptable for streaming video, then you can just use VLC or the pi itself to stream it.
If for some reason you don't want to do that, use a wireless HDMI cable (I'm assuming they make such a thing, if not then I suggest you man up and poke some holes in your wall) to clone the desktop monitor to the TV and use a headless pi running synergy to share the mouse and keyboard back to your desktop.
I could do an entire setup like what the OP wants for less than that. Raspberry pi + micro sd + usb wifi (assuming he's lazy and didn't run cat5 already) + wireless keyboard/mouse combo + hdmi cable + microusb cable (for powering the pi, assuming he doesn't have a box of old AC adaptors laying around). Hook the pi up to the TV and use it to RDP into the desktop PC.
I'm not talking about patching a skype vulnerability, I'm talking about microsoft deciding that installing it (when you didn't have it installed previously) is a "priority update". They already have a track record of flagging things as priority that really shouldn't have been.
The target market is people who don't know how to use smartphones and such. My grandpa actually was annoyed that he couldn't get a car with onstar in it.
I was really hoping for a list of specific complaints all compiled in one area. I have several, and a nice central place to just link other people to instead of typing them all out every time would be helpful.
Or, and hear me out here, home users might just in fact need the ability to opt out of some updates due to a wide variety of reasons ranging from compatibility issues to the update doing something they don't want (i.e. installing a "upgrade to windows 10!" popup) to the update not being required to install right at this instant and they need the bandwidth for something else (hello 300mb "ms word 2010 help file" update) due to being in a low connectivity area.
I've never really had that problem of hitting it on accident while gaming unless I was really frantic or horribly misaligned my fingers on the keys (at which point I'd be dead anyway so I never saw it as an issue). I had the opposite problem though once I got my G15. I'd use the switch on the keyboard to toggle it off, then forget to turn it on again and hit win+r-->type program name-->enter-->"wtf why is this random program on my desktop launching that's nowhere near what I typed???"
Falling birdshot isn't any more dangerous than hail of a similar size, no matter how hard you believe that that isn't the case.
Additionally, falling bullets actually aren't all that dangerous either if shot straight up (Mythbusters has tested this). They lose their spin and begin to tumble on the way down, drastically lowering the terminal velocity. The people who are killed or injured by falling bullets are generally hit by bullets that were fired into the air at a significant angle.
One of the ways of combating it economically is to make it require more effort to successfully deliver spam to the target recipients. i.e. using a filter.
A car is defective if it was designed to withstand people trying to hack it, and it doesn't.
I think what he's getting at is that the car wasn't designed to withstand people trying to hack it. i.e. security wasn't even a consideration in the design.
I was always under the impression that the fuel savings doesn't come from the altitude but from the fact all of the engines can be setup for efficiency in high altitude/vacuum and no part of the spacecraft needs to deal with low altitudes and high air densities.
The counter to a vibrant and well-informed democracy is to throw so much information (or misinformation) out there that it becomes impossible for the rest of the participants to remain well informed. They burn out, and then it loses the whole vibrant part and you've lost.
I can second the use of both of those. At first I was a little hesitant using ghostery and went around disabling stuff by hand on a per-site basis. Eventually I got tired of that and set it to block everything. Noticed no adverse effects, and it sped up page loading times significantly.
Or, people could take minimal effort to not be a giant POS and not habitually run red lights and speed through school zones.
This would be a valid comment if not for the fact that most municipalities implemented cameras in such a way as to entrap as many people as possible, rather than enforce safety. For example, shortening the yellow light duration (sometimes below the legal limit) on all of the intersections where red light cameras were installed. Or setting the school zone speed cameras to act on the "reduced speed when children are present" rules at times when children aren't present and the yellow lights on the sign aren't flashing.
They are far removed from the action, the consequences, less involved.
What an odd thing to tell yourself. On the contrary, the drone often watches the target for hours before the strike, and then sticks around after the strike doing damage estimations. You're trying to tell me that that's "far removed" compared to an F18 dropping a bomb from high altitude at near supersonic speed and being basically out of visual range by the time the thing impacts?
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Iron Sky had some pretty hilarious parts and some pretty good parts, but those were unfortunately counterbalanced by some really really stupid parts. I think they could have easily made it a legit mainstream parody instead of trying for the "so bad it's good" category.
The first few drops are drugs and other goodies. The last drop is a grenade inside a bag of flour.
He wasn't at home, he drove down from norcal on vacation. A lot of the charging stations (and even a home wall outlet) just can't deliver the kind of current needed to charge the thing in less than a day.
The top range Tesla now is 270 miles per charge. How often do you drive more than 270 miles in a day? Be honest now. . . Because most of us rarely do that.
How often do you fully charge your Tesla? I knew a guy who owned one and was in a perpetual state of looking for chargers, basing his shopping and dining on charger locations and picking up 2-5 miles of range at each stop.
also not shitty little cars with no cargo like they're pushing for the land of fruits and nuts.
I helped a friend from Hawaii move his scuba equipment from the airport to the place he got his Tesla shipped to when he came back to the mainland. We had the back of my Tacoma packed full, and two bags crammed into the back seat. The Tesla not only ate all of that gear with no hassle at all, but also got him from San Diego to Sacramento in a day (while carrying a ton of scuba gear).
Range and space aren't hard to do in an electric car if you're willing to pour money into batteries. It's just a matter of how much power/money you want to throw at it.
Except that facebook doesn't tie into the same account that I use for almost everything else.
But Kia doesn't make cars with OnStar last I checked, which is what he ended up buying because of reasons.
(sorry, my initial comment probably needed more context)
Because then I'd have to use a wireless keyboard/mouse and I cant stand those. I want something to plug them in to
You plug them into the pi. The pi shares them to the desktop PC over your favorite 802.11 protocol via Synergy. The pi is kept headless, and in theory can be run completely wirelessly (get one of those external batteries with the USB outputs for charging cell phones).
Is there some reason you can't use a pi to remote desktop or VNC your desktop PC while using the TV as the pi's screen? You could probably build the entire setup for under $150.
If the remote desktop solution isn't acceptable for streaming video, then you can just use VLC or the pi itself to stream it.
If for some reason you don't want to do that, use a wireless HDMI cable (I'm assuming they make such a thing, if not then I suggest you man up and poke some holes in your wall) to clone the desktop monitor to the TV and use a headless pi running synergy to share the mouse and keyboard back to your desktop.
I could do an entire setup like what the OP wants for less than that. Raspberry pi + micro sd + usb wifi (assuming he's lazy and didn't run cat5 already) + wireless keyboard/mouse combo + hdmi cable + microusb cable (for powering the pi, assuming he doesn't have a box of old AC adaptors laying around). Hook the pi up to the TV and use it to RDP into the desktop PC.
I'm not talking about patching a skype vulnerability, I'm talking about microsoft deciding that installing it (when you didn't have it installed previously) is a "priority update". They already have a track record of flagging things as priority that really shouldn't have been.
The target market is people who don't know how to use smartphones and such. My grandpa actually was annoyed that he couldn't get a car with onstar in it.
The page states that when only a metered connection is available, "Windows Update will only download priority updates."
Yes, but what happens when Microsoft decides that skype is a "priority update" ?
I was really hoping for a list of specific complaints all compiled in one area. I have several, and a nice central place to just link other people to instead of typing them all out every time would be helpful.
Or, and hear me out here, home users might just in fact need the ability to opt out of some updates due to a wide variety of reasons ranging from compatibility issues to the update doing something they don't want (i.e. installing a "upgrade to windows 10!" popup) to the update not being required to install right at this instant and they need the bandwidth for something else (hello 300mb "ms word 2010 help file" update) due to being in a low connectivity area.
I've never really had that problem of hitting it on accident while gaming unless I was really frantic or horribly misaligned my fingers on the keys (at which point I'd be dead anyway so I never saw it as an issue). I had the opposite problem though once I got my G15. I'd use the switch on the keyboard to toggle it off, then forget to turn it on again and hit win+r-->type program name-->enter-->"wtf why is this random program on my desktop launching that's nowhere near what I typed???"
What we need is a net gun that will disable drones without endangering people.
A net gun fired into the air at a drone won't be any less dangerous than #7 birdshot fired at a drone in the air.
Falling birdshot isn't any more dangerous than hail of a similar size, no matter how hard you believe that that isn't the case.
Additionally, falling bullets actually aren't all that dangerous either if shot straight up (Mythbusters has tested this). They lose their spin and begin to tumble on the way down, drastically lowering the terminal velocity. The people who are killed or injured by falling bullets are generally hit by bullets that were fired into the air at a significant angle.
One of the ways of combating it economically is to make it require more effort to successfully deliver spam to the target recipients. i.e. using a filter.
A car is defective if it was designed to withstand people trying to hack it, and it doesn't.
I think what he's getting at is that the car wasn't designed to withstand people trying to hack it. i.e. security wasn't even a consideration in the design.
I was always under the impression that the fuel savings doesn't come from the altitude but from the fact all of the engines can be setup for efficiency in high altitude/vacuum and no part of the spacecraft needs to deal with low altitudes and high air densities.
The counter to a vibrant and well-informed democracy is to throw so much information (or misinformation) out there that it becomes impossible for the rest of the participants to remain well informed. They burn out, and then it loses the whole vibrant part and you've lost.
I can second the use of both of those. At first I was a little hesitant using ghostery and went around disabling stuff by hand on a per-site basis. Eventually I got tired of that and set it to block everything. Noticed no adverse effects, and it sped up page loading times significantly.
Or, people could take minimal effort to not be a giant POS and not habitually run red lights and speed through school zones.
This would be a valid comment if not for the fact that most municipalities implemented cameras in such a way as to entrap as many people as possible, rather than enforce safety. For example, shortening the yellow light duration (sometimes below the legal limit) on all of the intersections where red light cameras were installed. Or setting the school zone speed cameras to act on the "reduced speed when children are present" rules at times when children aren't present and the yellow lights on the sign aren't flashing.
They are far removed from the action, the consequences, less involved.
What an odd thing to tell yourself. On the contrary, the drone often watches the target for hours before the strike, and then sticks around after the strike doing damage estimations. You're trying to tell me that that's "far removed" compared to an F18 dropping a bomb from high altitude at near supersonic speed and being basically out of visual range by the time the thing impacts?