When something isn't used already, it's probably for a reason: 1. it doesn't work 2. it can't be produced (= it can't get cheap enough) or 3. someone has a deep interest in blocking it (think NiMH)
Is the news that they had to turn on the prepared additional generators, or that the generators were gas turbines (a very common solution), or that gas turbines need gas turbine fuel?
It's quite clear that someone at Google has Google+ as some sort of prestige project, and they are quite willing to sacrifice any Google service to get more people into Google+.
It's sounding more and more like a banana republic, third world police state, doesn't it? (I'm thinking about the book banning the other day as well to take something else recent.)
Scary part is that we tied in the world economy to that.:p
And that the EU and particularly the UK is following the ideas very closely.
I encounter new libraries and tools without a useful command line interface all the time. It's getting to be irritating.
Right now I'd like a CLI to open-zwave, but I can't find one. Web interface, sure. Huge bloated tools that does everything for me, sure. No single simple CLI...
With a CLI it would have been trivial to hook into everything else unix, like cron.
And here I thought that the main problem with NetworkManager is that it can't pick networks on priority, nor do roaming.
My phone also stores the wifi passwords (if it didn't also mail them to google). If someone gets root access on my machine, I'll just change my wifi passwords. I don't really see the problem - if someone gets root access on my *other* machines, they are already connected to my LAN, which doesn't require a password.
Assange did stupid things to at least two girls, none of which would count as rape in most countries (I think). But since having sex without renewed consent with a sleeping girl counts as rape in Sweden... And she wouldn't have gone to the police except that she got an STD from it, and then the authorities got pulled in.
But most of the Assange problem can be blamed on people doing the wrong thing on the side of the law in had Sweden, including pushing the big red interpol arrest button on someone that previously had no problem going to the police to be interviewed. (They are repeatedly criticised for that, the last article I saw today. They arrest and isolate people that don't need to be arrested or isolated on a routine basis, for a very long -- too long time. The *UN* is pissed about it.)
I don't think any outer pressure was needed for the prosecutors to cause trouble for Assange. They are like this all the time, just by themselves.
Not entirely true. The binary-proprietary firegl ATI driver worked fine back in the days (2003-ish?). For about half a year or so, better than nVidia, if I remember correct. (And the alternative was VESA...?)
(Where are my mod powers where I need them? This needs to be modded up.)
The CAN bus was my conclusion too. Most ECUs will do (very) safe stops if the readings from the CAN doesn't work out properly, but the timeout might be long (seconds). (The instruments would probably go dead quicker.)
You don't need to worry about corrupted packets; you'll just get packet loss if you don't manage to match the CRC (and when the sender gives up on not getting an ACK?).
Hopefully the break pedal still is connected to the cylinder. I don't know of any region that allows break- or steering-by-wire. And even if so, I doubt the CAN-bus would be used for that.
For years now I've been looking for a lightweight laptop that worked, with linux-compliant hardware, and a good screen. (And good battery time.)
So far I've managed two out of four (five).
Build machines people want to buy, and you'll have an easier time selling them. Stop building the same machines over and over again, with mysterious, buggy hardware, incomplete hardware drivers, too little battery. Even the nice "retina" full-hd screeens bug. Sometimes it seems to have everything, but the build quality is low or the manufacturer decided to mess up the keyboard (I blame Apple for that).
PC industry is suffering from the fate of going from an easy sell (everyone needs to buy one) to a hard sell (everyone got one already and/or doesn't need one).
I think the GSM-phone industry and car industry went through this already. Smartphone and pad industry will hit this any second now.
I fled last year, since I hated the horse combat. (I bought the expansion, and I'm on a lifetime account.) I did some RP and music, but since they had a chatbug and a musicbug that never went fixed, I didn't do much of that either.
If they now killed all the skills, I don't really know what's left.
But anyway, what I tried: TSW - The Secret World - very nice, but it's not an MMO you keep around in. Too little content. I recommend buying it and playing through, though. Beautiful, and well made. Usually rather mature and nice players as well (if you manage to get through the first areas). Very interesting skill system. SW:TOR - ok as an MMO. Feels like an MMO. Very buggy, and with "working as intended" as support if something goes wrong - even if you have a paid subscription. I played it until I ran into that wall. Not touching it now, it's not worth the frustration. Try it, maybe you'll be more lucky. Simple, slightly boring skill system. GW2 - this is a weird one. Beautiful, but combat is fast and random and with respawn. The quests and world is buggy, and even though it's known to bug, they usually don't fix it or help you out of the situations. Similar to SWTOR, I stopped because of a bug. The random combat made it boring to me. They have "world events" or even "world changing events" but it just means events that repeat every 2 hours and nothing actually changes. Very disappointing. Neverwinter Nights Online - not really an MMO, feels like a solo game where other people sometimes get in the way. I got bored very quickly. I can't say if it's still buggy.
So, my only hope right now is Everquest.
Until then, I'll play Bards Tale and Fallout: New Vegas.
(It feels like a shut-up-and-take-my-money situation: Lots of people are looking for The New MMORPG, but noone is delivering.)
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When something isn't used already, it's probably for a reason:
1. it doesn't work
2. it can't be produced (= it can't get cheap enough)
or
3. someone has a deep interest in blocking it (think NiMH)
- take your pick?
Is the news that they had to turn on the prepared additional generators,
or that the generators were gas turbines (a very common solution),
or that gas turbines need gas turbine fuel?
Anyone actually tried one of those cheap Seiko ones?
It's quite clear that someone at Google has Google+ as some sort of prestige project,
and they are quite willing to sacrifice any Google service to get more people into Google+.
Anyone know why?
I already have computers in everything. I just want them connected.
But not to the cloud. Please?
I thought the news was that a *drink company* bought network-property space.
If the company was H&M or IKEA I'm sure it would have hit the same news-level.
Amazon or Google, not so much.
The government of the US scares me a lot more than any fancy terrorist group ever could.
It's sounding more and more like a banana republic, third world police state, doesn't it? (I'm thinking about the book banning the other day as well to take something else recent.)
Scary part is that we tied in the world economy to that. :p
And that the EU and particularly the UK is following the ideas very closely.
Don't forget mencoder, part of mplayer. It does everything for video and audio streams that imagemagick does for images.
Worth naming is also sox, that is the same but for (only?) audio. I haven't use that one, so I don't know how good it is.
And maybe netpbm should be mentioned as a precursor to imagemagick.
I encounter new libraries and tools without a useful command line interface all the time. It's getting to be irritating.
Right now I'd like a CLI to open-zwave, but I can't find one. Web interface, sure. Huge bloated tools that does everything for me, sure. No single simple CLI...
With a CLI it would have been trivial to hook into everything else unix, like cron.
And here I thought that the main problem with NetworkManager is that it can't pick networks on priority, nor do roaming.
My phone also stores the wifi passwords (if it didn't also mail them to google). If someone gets root access on my machine, I'll just change my wifi passwords. I don't really see the problem - if someone gets root access on my *other* machines, they are already connected to my LAN, which doesn't require a password.
Assange did stupid things to at least two girls, none of which would count as rape in most countries (I think). But since having sex without renewed consent with a sleeping girl counts as rape in Sweden... And she wouldn't have gone to the police except that she got an STD from it, and then the authorities got pulled in.
But most of the Assange problem can be blamed on people doing the wrong thing on the side of the law in had Sweden, including pushing the big red interpol arrest button on someone that previously had no problem going to the police to be interviewed. (They are repeatedly criticised for that, the last article I saw today. They arrest and isolate people that don't need to be arrested or isolated on a routine basis, for a very long -- too long time. The *UN* is pissed about it.)
I don't think any outer pressure was needed for the prosecutors to cause trouble for Assange. They are like this all the time, just by themselves.
Considering the problems with the RNG, they had to pick between being stupid and useless - promoting something not secure - or being bribed.
They picked stupid and useless.
Regardless, noone is going to trust RSA anymore. Maybe even less now when we think they are both bribed and stupid?
OSM?
Everytime I hear the cloud knowing anything about my car, or my car using anything in the cloud, I shudder.
Didn't they just now make a USB standard for 100W?
Wouldn't that be much more useful as a laptop standard power plug?
Not entirely true. The binary-proprietary firegl ATI driver worked fine back in the days (2003-ish?).
For about half a year or so, better than nVidia, if I remember correct. (And the alternative was VESA...?)
Did I miss it since it's no longer the 13th? I can't seem to find a download link anywhere.
(Where are my mod powers where I need them? This needs to be modded up.)
The CAN bus was my conclusion too. Most ECUs will do (very) safe stops if the readings from the CAN doesn't work out properly, but the timeout might be long (seconds). (The instruments would probably go dead quicker.)
You don't need to worry about corrupted packets; you'll just get packet loss if you don't manage to match the CRC (and when the sender gives up on not getting an ACK?).
Hopefully the break pedal still is connected to the cylinder. I don't know of any region that allows break- or steering-by-wire. And even if so, I doubt the CAN-bus would be used for that.
It diminishes the use of the warning. If everything has a warning label, all warning labels are ignored.
Eventually you end up with a spraycan of aerosolized mercury or lead cookingware and they have the same label as a train station and noone cares.
For years now I've been looking for a lightweight laptop that worked, with linux-compliant hardware, and a good screen. (And good battery time.)
So far I've managed two out of four (five).
Build machines people want to buy, and you'll have an easier time selling them. Stop building the same machines over and over again, with mysterious, buggy hardware, incomplete hardware drivers, too little battery. Even the nice "retina" full-hd screeens bug. Sometimes it seems to have everything, but the build quality is low or the manufacturer decided to mess up the keyboard (I blame Apple for that).
PC industry is suffering from the fate of going from an easy sell (everyone needs to buy one) to a hard sell (everyone got one already and/or doesn't need one).
I think the GSM-phone industry and car industry went through this already. Smartphone and pad industry will hit this any second now.
So far I haven't seen a single MMO that isn't on the same level of bugs. :/
Any recommendations? ;)
You don't really need the double XP. It goes reasonably fast to complete the skill wheel anyway... :p
I fled last year, since I hated the horse combat. (I bought the expansion, and I'm on a lifetime account.)
I did some RP and music, but since they had a chatbug and a musicbug that never went fixed, I didn't do much of that either.
If they now killed all the skills, I don't really know what's left.
But anyway, what I tried:
TSW - The Secret World - very nice, but it's not an MMO you keep around in. Too little content. I recommend buying it and playing through, though. Beautiful, and well made. Usually rather mature and nice players as well (if you manage to get through the first areas). Very interesting skill system.
SW:TOR - ok as an MMO. Feels like an MMO. Very buggy, and with "working as intended" as support if something goes wrong - even if you have a paid subscription. I played it until I ran into that wall. Not touching it now, it's not worth the frustration. Try it, maybe you'll be more lucky. Simple, slightly boring skill system.
GW2 - this is a weird one. Beautiful, but combat is fast and random and with respawn. The quests and world is buggy, and even though it's known to bug, they usually don't fix it or help you out of the situations. Similar to SWTOR, I stopped because of a bug. The random combat made it boring to me. They have "world events" or even "world changing events" but it just means events that repeat every 2 hours and nothing actually changes. Very disappointing.
Neverwinter Nights Online - not really an MMO, feels like a solo game where other people sometimes get in the way. I got bored very quickly. I can't say if it's still buggy.
So, my only hope right now is Everquest.
Until then, I'll play Bards Tale and Fallout: New Vegas.
(It feels like a shut-up-and-take-my-money situation: Lots of people are looking for The New MMORPG, but noone is delivering.)
I hope it stays there. If it does, all is, if not well, at least ok.
It reached slashdot (and not as "some developers quibble over who has the best practices")
-- it might reach all kinds of tech news.