The mount on the LCD looks like it was made out of tin and I guarantee you that the LCD vibrates enough to be unreadable even on idle, let alone moving. Not to mention the LCD is going to act as a great sail to catch wind and crank your bars to the right in a wind gust.
What an ugly, slipshod project. Look, you can bolt a bunch of consumer shit to a piece of Plexi. Is that power regulated or are you just praying that the + line sits somewhere around 12V with no spikes?
Also, due to the inappropriate 10-15 degree backtilt on the omni 802.11 antenna, you're not going to get good wireless signal in a roughly 120-180 degree arc centered on the front of the scooter. Homeboys need to learn how to pack a deployable mast and Yagi for real DX 802.11. Terrible antenna placement for proper radio usage.
Also, the scooter is likely illegal now due to their thoughtful removing of the horn.
Verdict: Needs more pointless tech, NOS. You can rep geek rice WAY better than this, fellas.
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are staying in a hotel. The engineer wakes up and smells smoke. He goes out into the hallway and sees a fire, so he fills a trash can from his room with water and douses the fire. He goes back to bed. Later, the physicist wakes up and smells smoke. He opens his door and sees a fire in the hallway. He walks down the hall to a fire hose and after calculating the flame velocity, distance, water pressure, trajectory, etc. extinguishes the fire with the minimum amount of water and energy needed. Later, the mathematician wakes up and smells smoke. He goes to the hall, sees the fire and then the fire hose. He thinks for a moment and then exclaims, "Ah, a solution exists!" and then goes back to bed.
In my experience, the "IT policies" of a company are generally so restrictively worded that they'll catch almost any individual at some point in time for a "policy violation." They are rarely enforced as a matter of practice or true benefit to the company's security and IT performance, but provide excellent leverage against employees who are under the hot lights for unfireable offenses. Simply whip out that pattern of browsing Myspace, whip out the IT policy, and have them sign their resignation letter right there.
I love how video game addicts and lazy capitalists have taken a liking to the MMO gold market. It continues to impoverish those who would choose to give a Chinese gold farmer real money for a virtual currency that is produced, regulated and consumed by a single private company, (further) lessening their attractiveness to the opposite sex and keeping them out of the gene pool. And that, as Martha Stewart says, is a good thing. But wait, there's more! Every time these gangs of bored Chinese hacker/farmers attack each other, we get to bear witness to thirty-page whinefest shit posts on game forums across the globe because somebody's DESTROYING THE GAME ECONOMY (but you wouldn't complain until you couldn't play with them any more). True, it does go whitenoise after page 3, but the anger and poorly worded flames are always there for you to come back to, like a bowl of steaming chicken soup on a cold, blustery day.
This MMO-based economy has to stop, because we're looking at a full on Mountain Dew and Cheeto-fueled nerd ragefest the minute that Blizzard or Linden or whoever decides to devalue their ingame currency significantly or increase availability of 'pay to level' accounts. If you look at the level of inflation in these games, it's fucking _astronomical_. I played an MMO for three years and saw the average 'template price' for a high end suit of armor and weapons go from 4 mega-woolongs to over 500 mega-woolongs due to the increased cash flow from carrot-on-stick expansion packs. Would you invest in any real market that had those numbers? That's not just inflation, that's 'Italy caught in between governments' inflation; 'burning rubles in wheelbarrows to stay warm' inflation.
P.S. Second Life is also a heap of overblown perverse shit and you know it, so stop convincing ignorant college deans and CEOs that virtual flying dicks and man-on-dog sex in shady e-discos are the next Amazon.com. I'm starting to get seriously fucking embarrassed for all the middle to upper class white collars who are drooling over 'presences' in an environment that prides itself on giving furries, 'ageplayers' (aka pedophiles) and the mentally unstable an unrestricted sandbox to play in. I hope Linden has a gigantic retarded IPO with ticker tape parades and prime time news debates, so I can make a goddamned fortune shorting it when somebody breathes on that house of cards.
That's okay, you're not in the target market anyways. Microsoft likes to sell things to people who actually spend money more than once every five years.:)
I swore to fuck the post I'm replying to was written by the Penny Arcade "From my parents basement, i strike at thee, Gates!" guy.
Meanwhile, your line of thinking is dooming an entire generation of tech support workers to continue putting up with the bullshit that is a 98 box trying to get networking running. We don't tell people to upgrade because we're trying to make Bill Fucking Gates richer (hint: 98 tech support calls make US rich. 8% of the customer base, 40% of inbounds), we're telling them to upgrade because their computers are slow as dogshit and they're having a miserable time trying to get on this intraweb with the packard bell that their son so thoughtfully gave them seven years ago. They have no idea of Moore's law, no idea how much easier it is today.
I'm not sayin' that he should have told her to get a new computer...but I understand.
[1]If you're pretenious enough to think that your Slashdot post needs footnotes, you should at least fake it and make it more than one line long.
Just because there might have been mishandling of the laptop does not absolve Dell of responsibility.
If dropping a battery will cause it to later catch fire (which it will almost always not), they should build a motion sensor into it. You can't tell me that they can put a mechanism in a hard drive that will lock the heads before it contacts pavement from a 3 foot drop, but the MYSTERY OF THE FLAMING DROPPED BATTERY remains unsolvable.
They fuck up the setup on the 4:3 and SDTV/EDTV sets so they look shittier compared to the HD sets. My roommate works at Best Buy and clued me in to this.
"Plus, no one ever mentions that both sides have to be able to hear each other."
Nobody ever mentions that antenna performance is identical when transmitting and receiving - if you have 6 decibels of gain in a 60 degree frontal arc on transmission, you'll have the same 6 dB of gain when receiving.
SBC charges ISP's $39.00 a month to run DSL over their copper to our customers. Beyond that, it's our Redback DSLAM, and our frame relays move the data about.
Compare this price range to the fucking $14.99 loss-leader shit DSL that Yahoo SBC offers, and enlighten me as to how the small ISP's are fucking the customer. Please.
(incidentally, the above figures are why i do not fear this change AT ALL.)
with all due respect, don't let the door hit you in the ass.
the number of young people wanting to become hams has decreased BECAUSE the white-haired fogeys bitch and moan that "computers are ruining ham radio." instead of trying to integrate, like the psk and digital guys, they withdrew and became surly and inconsiderate towards young people wanting to do something different with their PC than dial up and download porn. It's no wonder so many kids got turned off on it.
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pretty much standard mmo procedure. they want current members to let new players roll characters on their accounts, after which they'll promptly buy their own license if they dig the game. basically banking on the fact that many IRL friends enjoy playing MMO's together.
Your idea's cute, but the first time a company makes a big gamble on an mmorpg and it fails, they lose so much damn money it's not even funny, and nobody ever writes an mmorpg again.
Some videogames, having seen the good record of Gamespy service in years past built Gamespy browsers and such into their video game at release. Gamespy's protocols and formats are *not* a standard, and i'm sure there's proprietary crap all over it. Now that they want to drop support, many video games that people like to play online on the Mac may just.stop.working, or at best you'll have to manually enter server numbers.
1: Spend three years paying coders and devs to write a huge, immersive video game, an order of magnitude more complex than most console titles. 2: Invite 200,000 people to play on it. 3: Manage it for less than 2.5 million a month, while adding content, maintaining and adjusting game balance, keeping sufficient live CSRs on duty to answer help requests and appeals, and make it fun to not only the hardcore gamer, but the casual player and roleplayer as well.
once you can pull this off, you can bitch about mmo fees. until then, you can't say a got-damn thing.
It was pissed off and coarse, to be sure, but it wasn't flamebait.
I just consider this whole "slip in a few words about our product just because you like it" an exploitation of personal relationships used for short-term gain.
i know that if i had a friend for a decade that suddenly started talking about weetabix and how they're so delicious, and i take him at face value and then later find out that he's in some marketing club for weetabix, i'm going to feel betrayed and let down.
And it seems that's what these systems encourage you to do - burn your bridges for a few product plugs; that trust and bonding you've built up among friends and family is pure 93 octane Advert-o-line!
I hate to reply to myself, but a quick guideline that I often use is that if a Slashdot story is submitted by 'anonymous', it's probably an ad. You'll notice that except for this story, every single story on the front page (at least my front page) has a source listed.
I don't have a problem with Slashdot's masquerading as a news site, I just want to make sure they have the most educated readers possible:)
You are not the consumers of Slashdot. You are the product.
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The mount on the LCD looks like it was made out of tin and I guarantee you that the LCD vibrates enough to be unreadable even on idle, let alone moving. Not to mention the LCD is going to act as a great sail to catch wind and crank your bars to the right in a wind gust.
What an ugly, slipshod project. Look, you can bolt a bunch of consumer shit to a piece of Plexi. Is that power regulated or are you just praying that the + line sits somewhere around 12V with no spikes?
Also, due to the inappropriate 10-15 degree backtilt on the omni 802.11 antenna, you're not going to get good wireless signal in a roughly 120-180 degree arc centered on the front of the scooter. Homeboys need to learn how to pack a deployable mast and Yagi for real DX 802.11. Terrible antenna placement for proper radio usage.
Also, the scooter is likely illegal now due to their thoughtful removing of the horn.
Verdict: Needs more pointless tech, NOS. You can rep geek rice WAY better than this, fellas.
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are staying in a hotel.
The engineer wakes up and smells smoke. He goes out into the hallway and sees a fire, so he fills a trash can from his room with water and douses the fire. He goes back to bed.
Later, the physicist wakes up and smells smoke. He opens his door and sees a fire in the hallway. He walks down the hall to a fire hose and after calculating the flame velocity, distance, water pressure, trajectory, etc. extinguishes the fire with the minimum amount of water and energy needed.
Later, the mathematician wakes up and smells smoke. He goes to the hall, sees the fire and then the fire hose. He thinks for a moment and then exclaims, "Ah, a solution exists!" and then goes back to bed.
In my experience, the "IT policies" of a company are generally so restrictively worded that they'll catch almost any individual at some point in time for a "policy violation." They are rarely enforced as a matter of practice or true benefit to the company's security and IT performance, but provide excellent leverage against employees who are under the hot lights for unfireable offenses. Simply whip out that pattern of browsing Myspace, whip out the IT policy, and have them sign their resignation letter right there.
I love how video game addicts and lazy capitalists have taken a liking to the MMO gold market. It continues to impoverish those who would choose to give a Chinese gold farmer real money for a virtual currency that is produced, regulated and consumed by a single private company, (further) lessening their attractiveness to the opposite sex and keeping them out of the gene pool. And that, as Martha Stewart says, is a good thing. But wait, there's more! Every time these gangs of bored Chinese hacker/farmers attack each other, we get to bear witness to thirty-page whinefest shit posts on game forums across the globe because somebody's DESTROYING THE GAME ECONOMY (but you wouldn't complain until you couldn't play with them any more). True, it does go whitenoise after page 3, but the anger and poorly worded flames are always there for you to come back to, like a bowl of steaming chicken soup on a cold, blustery day.
This MMO-based economy has to stop, because we're looking at a full on Mountain Dew and Cheeto-fueled nerd ragefest the minute that Blizzard or Linden or whoever decides to devalue their ingame currency significantly or increase availability of 'pay to level' accounts. If you look at the level of inflation in these games, it's fucking _astronomical_. I played an MMO for three years and saw the average 'template price' for a high end suit of armor and weapons go from 4 mega-woolongs to over 500 mega-woolongs due to the increased cash flow from carrot-on-stick expansion packs. Would you invest in any real market that had those numbers? That's not just inflation, that's 'Italy caught in between governments' inflation; 'burning rubles in wheelbarrows to stay warm' inflation.
P.S. Second Life is also a heap of overblown perverse shit and you know it, so stop convincing ignorant college deans and CEOs that virtual flying dicks and man-on-dog sex in shady e-discos are the next Amazon.com. I'm starting to get seriously fucking embarrassed for all the middle to upper class white collars who are drooling over 'presences' in an environment that prides itself on giving furries, 'ageplayers' (aka pedophiles) and the mentally unstable an unrestricted sandbox to play in. I hope Linden has a gigantic retarded IPO with ticker tape parades and prime time news debates, so I can make a goddamned fortune shorting it when somebody breathes on that house of cards.
If they're not an Internet user, they're not a factor.
That's okay, you're not in the target market anyways. Microsoft likes to sell things to people who actually spend money more than once every five years. :)
Jesus fuck, dude. Do you sit down to piss?
I swore to fuck the post I'm replying to was written by the Penny Arcade "From my parents basement, i strike at thee, Gates!" guy.
Meanwhile, your line of thinking is dooming an entire generation of tech support workers to continue putting up with the bullshit that is a 98 box trying to get networking running. We don't tell people to upgrade because we're trying to make Bill Fucking Gates richer (hint: 98 tech support calls make US rich. 8% of the customer base, 40% of inbounds), we're telling them to upgrade because their computers are slow as dogshit and they're having a miserable time trying to get on this intraweb with the packard bell that their son so thoughtfully gave them seven years ago. They have no idea of Moore's law, no idea how much easier it is today.
I'm not sayin' that he should have told her to get a new computer...but I understand.
[1]If you're pretenious enough to think that your Slashdot post needs footnotes, you should at least fake it and make it more than one line long.
Just because there might have been mishandling of the laptop does not absolve Dell of responsibility.
If dropping a battery will cause it to later catch fire (which it will almost always not), they should build a motion sensor into it. You can't tell me that they can put a mechanism in a hard drive that will lock the heads before it contacts pavement from a 3 foot drop, but the MYSTERY OF THE FLAMING DROPPED BATTERY remains unsolvable.
Pharmaceutical companies make more money off of treating a long disease than they do curing it.
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They fuck up the setup on the 4:3 and SDTV/EDTV sets so they look shittier compared to the HD sets. My roommate works at Best Buy and clued me in to this.
"Plus, no one ever mentions that both sides have to be able to hear each other."
Nobody ever mentions that antenna performance is identical when transmitting and receiving - if you have 6 decibels of gain in a 60 degree frontal arc on transmission, you'll have the same 6 dB of gain when receiving.
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SBC charges ISP's $39.00 a month to run DSL over their copper to our customers. Beyond that, it's our Redback DSLAM, and our frame relays move the data about.
Compare this price range to the fucking $14.99 loss-leader shit DSL that Yahoo SBC offers, and enlighten me as to how the small ISP's are fucking the customer. Please.
(incidentally, the above figures are why i do not fear this change AT ALL.)
ethernet is balanced signal, with optoisolators on either end. Grounding is not an issue unless you're a dork and use STP. No issues.
properly installed ethernet lines are balanced and optoisolated.
Durrr.
with all due respect, don't let the door hit you in the ass.
the number of young people wanting to become hams has decreased BECAUSE the white-haired fogeys bitch and moan that "computers are ruining ham radio." instead of trying to integrate, like the psk and digital guys, they withdrew and became surly and inconsiderate towards young people wanting to do something different with their PC than dial up and download porn. It's no wonder so many kids got turned off on it.
pretty much standard mmo procedure. they want current members to let new players roll characters on their accounts, after which they'll promptly buy their own license if they dig the game. basically banking on the fact that many IRL friends enjoy playing MMO's together.
heh, that'd be a brilliant idea, but i hope for their sake that they take the fly game out.
:(
Touch screen game + whack-a-mole clone + excited in round 4 = broken touch screen
Your idea's cute, but the first time a company makes a big gamble on an mmorpg and it fails, they lose so much damn money it's not even funny, and nobody ever writes an mmorpg again.
Some videogames, having seen the good record of Gamespy service in years past built Gamespy browsers and such into their video game at release. Gamespy's protocols and formats are *not* a standard, and i'm sure there's proprietary crap all over it. Now that they want to drop support, many video games that people like to play online on the Mac may just.stop.working, or at best you'll have to manually enter server numbers.
1: Spend three years paying coders and devs to write a huge, immersive video game, an order of magnitude more complex than most console titles.
2: Invite 200,000 people to play on it.
3: Manage it for less than 2.5 million a month, while adding content, maintaining and adjusting game balance, keeping sufficient live CSRs on duty to answer help requests and appeals, and make it fun to not only the hardcore gamer, but the casual player and roleplayer as well.
once you can pull this off, you can bitch about mmo fees. until then, you can't say a got-damn thing.
these things are fucking expensive to run.
It was pissed off and coarse, to be sure, but it wasn't flamebait.
I just consider this whole "slip in a few words about our product just because you like it" an exploitation of personal relationships used for short-term gain.
i know that if i had a friend for a decade that suddenly started talking about weetabix and how they're so delicious, and i take him at face value and then later find out that he's in some marketing club for weetabix, i'm going to feel betrayed and let down.
And it seems that's what these systems encourage you to do - burn your bridges for a few product plugs; that trust and bonding you've built up among friends and family is pure 93 octane Advert-o-line!
I hate to reply to myself, but a quick guideline that I often use is that if a Slashdot story is submitted by 'anonymous', it's probably an ad. You'll notice that except for this story, every single story on the front page (at least my front page) has a source listed.
:)
I don't have a problem with Slashdot's masquerading as a news site, I just want to make sure they have the most educated readers possible
You are not the consumers of Slashdot. You are the product.
to anybody who can either convince me that this BzzMarketing crap is not an MLM, or to actually tell me what the hell it is they do.
Because the latter is not clear, I am assuming that the former is false.
It's just time for Slashdot's daily ads. This is a non-starter. The very fact that I found the phrase:
"Reality Marketing"
on their site immediately disqualifies them from my list of companies to do business with, whatever the fuck it is they're selling.
Duh.
Step 1: Go to the next largest nearby town.
Step 2: See if they can treat your issue.
Step 3: If not, see step 1.
Is it really that hard?
Good luck, but this whole issue is getting surreal.
Just to clarify any confused Slashdot readers, this is an advertisement. Check the 'submitter'.