This isn't a combat "warplane". This is a SIGINT/Surveillance/etc. plane and was simply a commercial airframe that was stuffed to the gills with "spy gear". Simply put, any airframe of this nature would need to be pretty much scrapped when this incident happened because you've basically lost the wing. Has nothing to do with "complexity". Most of the gear's actually surprisingly agile and quickly demilled at the same time- it's just things like JSTARS isn't by their very nature.
It probably basically totalled the airframe. At that point it's cheaper to take the payload out- but don't think pulling the payload and putting it into a new 707 is going to be cheap. It's probably going to cost something on the order of a third to half of the 25 mil at least to do it and then recertify the new plane for service.
Not quite as simple as that. You've got to rip the gear out of the dead plane as salvage and then install it in a new one. Part of the $200 mil is not the gear itself but it's installation, calibration, etc.
It's because the DLC in question wasn't integral to the game's enjoyment in single-player mode. It was an extra inducement to buy new and that's all it was.
Indeed. How do you fight it? By bitching like people are doing and then NOT buying it. It's rather simple. And, I wish people would put their money where their mouths are and just simply do that, whether it's music, e-books, movies, or games- as it's all of those baubles that people just simply seem to not be willing to give up so they can practice what they preach.
Dude... There's other passtimes- taking walks, playing REAL sports, that sort of thing. Not to mention that the Indie stuff, while it doesn't always have the same production values, is often more fun to play than the overpriced stuff anyhow- and they're typically NOT doing rat-bastard things like this.
That was my take on it. I was going to download the demo for the game at the suggestion of a fellow gamer- now...not a chance. Not worth my time no matter HOW good the title is if they're going to play these sorts of games.
Actually, if they offered the service that he's discussing, yes it's within their rights and authority so long as what they're doing here with the way they're doing it is legal and within their rights and authority.
Yeah...what size? And it needs a special adapter to hook to an HDMI monitor... Sorry...you're grasping at straws. Don't get me wrong, the BeagleBone's a GREAT device. So's the BeagleBoard and PandaBoard. All of them are way more expensive...and they're overkill for what's being done here and for that purpose.
They might work out for YOU, but they don't provide the stated purposes (Providing an inexpensive computer specifically intended to do comp-sci education with what's a very usable but almost utterly throwaway computer...). And it's pretty real...or XBMC wouldn't have had one in hand to actually showboat like this.
BeagleBone's how much more? Besides...the OLPC's problem was they aimed high. This beastie's down to roughly the pricepoint in question. Not for profit, remember. And...the devices are very much a first cousin to a device that retails for $99 or less for the mid-range and basic models- that plays back things like Hulu, Netflix, etc. BoM costs place the Roku2 series devices right down into the price-point of the R-Pi...and the only real differences are possibly a bit of POP RAM profile and a few different peripherals. And...we won't get into the fact that the BeagleBone's not got a direct video out on top of being more expensive.
Once you understand what's being done and with what, your thinking changes a bit.
Not to mention that this wasn't intended for the same audience as OLPC was aiming for (Not that you couldn't manage to do that... An HDMI capable monitor worth messing with this device will only set someone back ~$99 retail plus the cost of an HDMI to DVI cable for about $20...) It was for providing a brutally inexpensive computer for teaching Computer Science to the "FIRST" world that could be priced as cheap or cheaper than the textbooks for the classes.
Not all things are immediately intended for "the third world" when it's trying to be made cheaply. Stupid to presume it, really. The fact that it could possibly done that way is just the cherry on top of everything else.
The R-Pi is being made with a chip that's intended to be a head on a remote monitor (Hint: The same SoC is the one used in the Roku2 series set-tops...)- if you're trying to record, you're using the wrong device- and an AMD E-350's of debatable value unless you're using a hardware encoder (which then negates the need for the "higher performance" device...) you're going to probably want a much more powerful "gamer" desktop machine to do the transcode/encode work properly.
You're missing the point... The color, even with your argument, isn't possible for the area like people keep trying to dismiss. I live in the DFW area (Tagline...) and that color isn't IN the soil or typically in the streams around the Trinity. It's a chemical contaminant or blood like I said originally. Trying to paint it any other way is to be promulgating a lie for the sake of playing "devils advocate"...
Yep, looking at the sat imagery...there's little doubt about it. What's more of an epic fail is that a State Rep's office is right across the street. Special.
Sorry, gotta call BS on that one. It's not the same color as the "red silt" that predominates in the area. I'm a local resident and I know that there's nothing that color in the soil or water normally to make it- that's friggin' blood or a chemical contaminant emanating from the packing plant.
Actually...the problem can be solved by re-thinking their codebase rather than coming up with a tailor-made language that may/may not really fix things. Coming up with a new language for the problem they're seeing is...a bit foolish... Now...if it's the same problem in other places, perhaps it's time to come up with a new one; but they're not facing anything that a proper clean-up, refactor, and rethink wouldn't fix in C++. Seriously.
It's not properly multi-threaded. A stall in an HTTP fetch somewhere or a rogue plugin (Flash...sigh...) can wedge the entire browser application up tighter than a drum. It's over designed with an Object-Heavy Microsoft COM-like object framework on top of the other sins in their over-engineering. It leaks memory out the wazoo- not because of the language, but because of sloppy coding and poorly thought out designs. A language might help "prevent" the problems after a fashion, but so far, there's not very many useful, high-performance answers there that don't have some idiot loophole somewhere- even Java has ways of hosing it up.
A new language won't fix those problems. Sitting down and re-thinking some of this would.
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This isn't a combat "warplane". This is a SIGINT/Surveillance/etc. plane and was simply a commercial airframe that was stuffed to the gills with "spy gear". Simply put, any airframe of this nature would need to be pretty much scrapped when this incident happened because you've basically lost the wing. Has nothing to do with "complexity". Most of the gear's actually surprisingly agile and quickly demilled at the same time- it's just things like JSTARS isn't by their very nature.
It probably basically totalled the airframe. At that point it's cheaper to take the payload out- but don't think pulling the payload and putting it into a new 707 is going to be cheap. It's probably going to cost something on the order of a third to half of the 25 mil at least to do it and then recertify the new plane for service.
Not quite as simple as that. You've got to rip the gear out of the dead plane as salvage and then install it in a new one. Part of the $200 mil is not the gear itself but it's installation, calibration, etc.
It's because the DLC in question wasn't integral to the game's enjoyment in single-player mode. It was an extra inducement to buy new and that's all it was.
Pales in comparison to the real thing...
Oh, SNAP! I'm on /.
Sorry, guys, I forgot...
Indeed. How do you fight it? By bitching like people are doing and then NOT buying it . It's rather simple. And, I wish people would put their money where their mouths are and just simply do that, whether it's music, e-books, movies, or games- as it's all of those baubles that people just simply seem to not be willing to give up so they can practice what they preach.
Dude... There's other passtimes- taking walks, playing REAL sports, that sort of thing. Not to mention that the Indie stuff, while it doesn't always have the same production values, is often more fun to play than the overpriced stuff anyhow- and they're typically NOT doing rat-bastard things like this.
That was my take on it. I was going to download the demo for the game at the suggestion of a fellow gamer- now...not a chance. Not worth my time no matter HOW good the title is if they're going to play these sorts of games.
No, but with a Console, you have few options with the emulator route if the console dies- the PC still has that option choice.
Actually, if they offered the service that he's discussing, yes it's within their rights and authority so long as what they're doing here with the way they're doing it is legal and within their rights and authority.
Yeah, it's called terms of service. Selling the acct. to someone else, once caught out, causes the termination of the account in question.
You can't Copyright an idea. Only the EXPRESSION thereof.
Here's a hint... Does it describe the EXACT same image? If it does not...this is a questionable decision.
Copyright does not protect an idea, but rather a specific expression thereof.
eg. If I make a story very similar to Harry Potter, but doesn't use the characters or a substantive part of the verbiage I've not violated Copyright.
Not seeing the pictures, I can't say...but it's fishy to say the least.
Yeah...what size? And it needs a special adapter to hook to an HDMI monitor... Sorry...you're grasping at straws. Don't get me wrong, the BeagleBone's a GREAT device. So's the BeagleBoard and PandaBoard. All of them are way more expensive...and they're overkill for what's being done here and for that purpose.
They might work out for YOU, but they don't provide the stated purposes (Providing an inexpensive computer specifically intended to do comp-sci education with what's a very usable but almost utterly throwaway computer...). And it's pretty real...or XBMC wouldn't have had one in hand to actually showboat like this.
BeagleBone's how much more? Besides...the OLPC's problem was they aimed high. This beastie's down to roughly the pricepoint in question. Not for profit, remember. And...the devices are very much a first cousin to a device that retails for $99 or less for the mid-range and basic models- that plays back things like Hulu, Netflix, etc. BoM costs place the Roku2 series devices right down into the price-point of the R-Pi...and the only real differences are possibly a bit of POP RAM profile and a few different peripherals. And...we won't get into the fact that the BeagleBone's not got a direct video out on top of being more expensive.
Once you understand what's being done and with what, your thinking changes a bit.
Not to mention that this wasn't intended for the same audience as OLPC was aiming for (Not that you couldn't manage to do that... An HDMI capable monitor worth messing with this device will only set someone back ~$99 retail plus the cost of an HDMI to DVI cable for about $20...) It was for providing a brutally inexpensive computer for teaching Computer Science to the "FIRST" world that could be priced as cheap or cheaper than the textbooks for the classes.
Not all things are immediately intended for "the third world" when it's trying to be made cheaply. Stupid to presume it, really. The fact that it could possibly done that way is just the cherry on top of everything else.
Yeah, you'd have to nab binaries off of a Roku2 somehow to accomplish the same thing...at which point, just use the Roku2...
It's the same SoC that the Roku2 uses...it handles high profile.
The R-Pi is being made with a chip that's intended to be a head on a remote monitor (Hint: The same SoC is the one used in the Roku2 series set-tops...)- if you're trying to record, you're using the wrong device- and an AMD E-350's of debatable value unless you're using a hardware encoder (which then negates the need for the "higher performance" device...) you're going to probably want a much more powerful "gamer" desktop machine to do the transcode/encode work properly.
FOMHLMAO! Thank you for saying what I try not to in a discussion like this.
You're missing the point... The color, even with your argument, isn't possible for the area like people keep trying to dismiss. I live in the DFW area (Tagline...) and that color isn't IN the soil or typically in the streams around the Trinity. It's a chemical contaminant or blood like I said originally. Trying to paint it any other way is to be promulgating a lie for the sake of playing "devils advocate"...
Yep, looking at the sat imagery...there's little doubt about it. What's more of an epic fail is that a State Rep's office is right across the street. Special.
Yep. Very simple indeed.
Sorry, gotta call BS on that one. It's not the same color as the "red silt" that predominates in the area. I'm a local resident and I know that there's nothing that color in the soil or water normally to make it- that's friggin' blood or a chemical contaminant emanating from the packing plant.
Actually...the problem can be solved by re-thinking their codebase rather than coming up with a tailor-made language that may/may not really fix things. Coming up with a new language for the problem they're seeing is...a bit foolish... Now...if it's the same problem in other places, perhaps it's time to come up with a new one; but they're not facing anything that a proper clean-up, refactor, and rethink wouldn't fix in C++. Seriously.
It's not properly multi-threaded. A stall in an HTTP fetch somewhere or a rogue plugin (Flash...sigh...) can wedge the entire browser application up tighter than a drum.
It's over designed with an Object-Heavy Microsoft COM-like object framework on top of the other sins in their over-engineering.
It leaks memory out the wazoo- not because of the language, but because of sloppy coding and poorly thought out designs. A language might help "prevent" the problems after a fashion, but so far, there's not very many useful, high-performance answers there that don't have some idiot loophole somewhere- even Java has ways of hosing it up.
A new language won't fix those problems. Sitting down and re-thinking some of this would.