It may have been somewhat hard to understand, but if you actually read it carefully, it was in no way ambiguous.
The best time was in fact at 0900 UTC, but of course that pesky sun will make it a bit difficult when 0900 UTC is between 9am and noon local time, hence the suggestion to look "from 0100 local time until dawn" - dawn being pretty much the end of useful meteor watching for the night. Duh.
No, the peak started at 01:00 Pacific time aka 04:00 Eastern time aka 09:00 UTC.
But trying to watch a meteor shower sometime between 9am and noon in Europe would be pretty futile, so they are telling people just to try it from 1am to dawn local time as their best bet. I don't know why so many people can't understand this...
Mark Cuban is an idiot, and the only reason he has money is that he managed to find an even bigger idiot at Yahoo to approve the acquisition of broadcast.com. Though I guess you have to give him some credit for that...
You're either an idiot who can't figure out time zones (a sad state of affairs), or you just wanted to make a point about ambiguity in the article's various references to time (a good point to make).
Actually could be both... or maybe he's just short on the reading comprehension, since there was *nothing* ambiguous about it ("0100 Pacific, 0400 Eastern, and those in Europe from 0100 local time until dawn"). Then again, that makes your point mostly useless as well, besides the point that his point is useless;)
It is 01:57 in Germany *right now*. So is it today?
By the way. "Europe" has more than one time zone! So this is completely useless. What is the time in my *country*?
From the valuable information you provided, I will hazard to guess that it is (was) 01:57 in your country...
And from the (fairly clear, IMO) instructions in the summary - "and those in Europe from 0100 local time until dawn" - the answer is yes, it is not only "today", it is *right now*...
Basically, they are telling you "no, you won't get a very good show in Europe, but if you are going to bother it's probably best if you make sure it's really dark".
It's not that sad. IMO id hasn't made a game worth playing *since* Quake 2.
Luckily Carmack still makes great engines for studios with actual design skill to use. His "games" have basically become demos for the engines, though...
480p @ 2 Mbps is NOT good video. 1080p @ 7-9 Mbps is good video. And when Comcast advertises, sells, and CHARGES for "20 Mbps", I expect to be able to get 9 Mbps no problem... (which is rarely true).
What I find amusing with all of his boasting about "safety features" is that the real motivation behind the British outlet had little to do with safety in the first place - it had to do with economy.
Much of the electrical infrastructure in the UK was damaged during WWII and had to be rebuilt. Since there was a shortage of copper at the time, they decided that they could save wiring by putting the fuse in the plug and daisy chaining the outlets rather than connecting all of the outlets to a common fusebox. That also explains the mandatory covers: you really don't want to be shorting the outlet when there isn't a fuse to cut off the juice...
I agree with your frustration and the unfairness of the EULA to consumers, but unfortunately just because you don't think they are fair, doesn't mean the courts have to agree.
I'm sure EULAs will continue to be tested in court, but there have been some rulings in favor of them, and if upheld by the courts, yes, it effectively does make it a legal and valid license...
You clearly don't understand licensing vs purchasing. You can use the *physical* disc for your personal use however you want. Need an extra coaster? Sure. A disturbing bedroom toy? Fine.
But the software is licensed, and that licensing includes a contract usually known as the "EULA". You may debate which terms of the license are enforceable (as the courts do all the time), it's still a license.
Not that I'm saying this is a good thing for consumers in general, but that's the way things are right now, so might as well understand the distinction...
Yes, outside of what the law and your agreement provide.
That is the entire point of this article, or most legal debates - what does the law provide? All of your other statements are just examples of what the law or agreement may or may not provide, so they don't really answer his question...
"Do I have a right to rob or murder anyone I want?" "Yes, outside of what the law provides."
And your response exemplifies the attitude of the ESA, which has never actually done anything of significance in space compared to NASA - a bunch of whiny representative countries debating meaningless politics and technicalities instead of just getting off their asses and DOING something useful.
Their guidance systems came within about 2' of each other, at which point it's already absurd to call a "winner" on that factor alone since it will have NO bearing in any real world usage. The contest rules prioritized the wrong deciding factor. And because of that (basically it was down to an extra crap shoot that only the other team was allowed) Carmack is legitimately pissed. Run this test 10 times and average it out, with a big penalty for total failure. THEN we'll see which design is something that should be used in a real mission landing.
Obviously there will always be special purpose devices for special purposes, I don't disagree with that at all. And Garmin will probably always be around to build those niche devices, because they will adapt to the mainstream consumer needs - ie THEY ALREADY MAKE AN ANDROID PHONE. But for TomTom, Dash, etc - the smaller companies with a limited product line hoping to cash in on the consumer auto turn-by-turn navigation market - the future is not so certain...
So you want to carry three devices because you don't want each function to drain the other's batteries?
Basically you are just carrying around three batteries along with the extra bulk of three sets of electronics, screens, etc. And the extra battery drain of the overhead of duplicate components in each.
Just get a smartphone with a removable battery and two spares. You wouldn't even have to carry the spare batteries in your pocket everywhere to get the functionality of all three devices - just when you think you may need to switch batteries on the go.
Remember, this is about whether smartphones WILL kill GPS, not whether they already HAVE. 20 years ago cell phones were huge bricks, GPS wasn't even available to consumers, and MPEG was still in development. It's amazingly naive to think technological improvements in power management, battery life, durability, coverage, etc will make most of the arguments in this thread moot in the near future.
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It may have been somewhat hard to understand, but if you actually read it carefully, it was in no way ambiguous.
The best time was in fact at 0900 UTC, but of course that pesky sun will make it a bit difficult when 0900 UTC is between 9am and noon local time, hence the suggestion to look "from 0100 local time until dawn" - dawn being pretty much the end of useful meteor watching for the night. Duh.
No, the peak started at 01:00 Pacific time aka 04:00 Eastern time aka 09:00 UTC.
But trying to watch a meteor shower sometime between 9am and noon in Europe would be pretty futile, so they are telling people just to try it from 1am to dawn local time as their best bet. I don't know why so many people can't understand this...
You are so right...
Mark Cuban is an idiot, and the only reason he has money is that he managed to find an even bigger idiot at Yahoo to approve the acquisition of broadcast.com. Though I guess you have to give him some credit for that...
You're either an idiot who can't figure out time zones (a sad state of affairs), or you just wanted to make a point about ambiguity in the article's various references to time (a good point to make).
Actually could be both... or maybe he's just short on the reading comprehension, since there was *nothing* ambiguous about it ("0100 Pacific, 0400 Eastern, and those in Europe from 0100 local time until dawn"). Then again, that makes your point mostly useless as well, besides the point that his point is useless ;)
It is 01:57 in Germany *right now*. So is it today?
By the way. "Europe" has more than one time zone! So this is completely useless. What is the time in my *country*?
From the valuable information you provided, I will hazard to guess that it is (was) 01:57 in your country...
And from the (fairly clear, IMO) instructions in the summary - "and those in Europe from 0100 local time until dawn" - the answer is yes, it is not only "today", it is *right now*...
Basically, they are telling you "no, you won't get a very good show in Europe, but if you are going to bother it's probably best if you make sure it's really dark".
Wow, did you just call him a Harley rider??
Maybe he meant "come \ - / to / ."
By way of anal extraction, I arrive at the conclusion that 90% of the eyeball wall time spent looking at flash is spent looking at videos.
Maybe, but 90% of the CPU cycles of most home computers is spent animating embedded Flash ads...
Actually, all art museums I have been to do have guided audio tours for the blind...
It's not that sad. IMO id hasn't made a game worth playing *since* Quake 2.
Luckily Carmack still makes great engines for studios with actual design skill to use. His "games" have basically become demos for the engines, though...
Probably from all of the salmonella-filled chicken fecal matter he couldn't be bothered to wash off the apple...
Actually, the device does work very simply, and is almost 100% accurate.
1) poke object with rod
2) does object blow up?
3) if yes, it was a bomb
480p @ 2 Mbps is NOT good video. 1080p @ 7-9 Mbps is good video. And when Comcast advertises, sells, and CHARGES for "20 Mbps", I expect to be able to get 9 Mbps no problem... (which is rarely true).
What I find amusing with all of his boasting about "safety features" is that the real motivation behind the British outlet had little to do with safety in the first place - it had to do with economy.
Much of the electrical infrastructure in the UK was damaged during WWII and had to be rebuilt. Since there was a shortage of copper at the time, they decided that they could save wiring by putting the fuse in the plug and daisy chaining the outlets rather than connecting all of the outlets to a common fusebox. That also explains the mandatory covers: you really don't want to be shorting the outlet when there isn't a fuse to cut off the juice...
I agree with your frustration and the unfairness of the EULA to consumers, but unfortunately just because you don't think they are fair, doesn't mean the courts have to agree.
I'm sure EULAs will continue to be tested in court, but there have been some rulings in favor of them, and if upheld by the courts, yes, it effectively does make it a legal and valid license...
You clearly don't understand licensing vs purchasing. You can use the *physical* disc for your personal use however you want. Need an extra coaster? Sure. A disturbing bedroom toy? Fine.
But the software is licensed, and that licensing includes a contract usually known as the "EULA". You may debate which terms of the license are enforceable (as the courts do all the time), it's still a license.
Not that I'm saying this is a good thing for consumers in general, but that's the way things are right now, so might as well understand the distinction...
Yes, outside of what the law and your agreement provide.
That is the entire point of this article, or most legal debates - what does the law provide? All of your other statements are just examples of what the law or agreement may or may not provide, so they don't really answer his question...
"Do I have a right to rob or murder anyone I want?"
"Yes, outside of what the law provides."
And your response exemplifies the attitude of the ESA, which has never actually done anything of significance in space compared to NASA - a bunch of whiny representative countries debating meaningless politics and technicalities instead of just getting off their asses and DOING something useful.
Congratulations, you should apply.
Their guidance systems came within about 2' of each other, at which point it's already absurd to call a "winner" on that factor alone since it will have NO bearing in any real world usage. The contest rules prioritized the wrong deciding factor. And because of that (basically it was down to an extra crap shoot that only the other team was allowed) Carmack is legitimately pissed. Run this test 10 times and average it out, with a big penalty for total failure. THEN we'll see which design is something that should be used in a real mission landing.
Obviously there will always be special purpose devices for special purposes, I don't disagree with that at all. And Garmin will probably always be around to build those niche devices, because they will adapt to the mainstream consumer needs - ie THEY ALREADY MAKE AN ANDROID PHONE. But for TomTom, Dash, etc - the smaller companies with a limited product line hoping to cash in on the consumer auto turn-by-turn navigation market - the future is not so certain...
Do you carry around a separate power drill for every size bit that you need? Build a great hardware platform and only the software has to change.
So you want to carry three devices because you don't want each function to drain the other's batteries?
Basically you are just carrying around three batteries along with the extra bulk of three sets of electronics, screens, etc. And the extra battery drain of the overhead of duplicate components in each.
Just get a smartphone with a removable battery and two spares. You wouldn't even have to carry the spare batteries in your pocket everywhere to get the functionality of all three devices - just when you think you may need to switch batteries on the go.
Remember, this is about whether smartphones WILL kill GPS, not whether they already HAVE. 20 years ago cell phones were huge bricks, GPS wasn't even available to consumers, and MPEG was still in development. It's amazingly naive to think technological improvements in power management, battery life, durability, coverage, etc will make most of the arguments in this thread moot in the near future.
Especially since people, you know, being sick don't really feel like browsing porn ...
Fixed that for ya...
Jeez, what a Godwin's Law Nazi...
Wow, your post is of the few times Godwin's Law has been invoked for a valid point rather than a blatant troll...