As pointed out elsewhere in the thread... Virgin is a CDMA network. There's likely an LTE SIM card involved which could theoretically work on another phone just for the LTE data stream... but here's the kicker to that: On CDMA the phone's hard-coded IMEI and ESN is authorized to the tower first, then the LTE SIM is authenticated and data is allowed to flow. Without that authorization to the phone, there's no data connection allowed.
This is unlike GSM where the ID SIM ( most often separate from the LTE SIM but can be contained in the same card on occasion) can be moved from phone to phone and the tower only authenticates to the card, not the phone; thus allowing an easy change from phone to phone on a whim.
I can get all of the above at the local Farmer's Market for a tenth of the cost that Whole Foods sells for fresh off the tree peaches (yay Georgia), local farm grown lettuce, swiss chard, turnip greens, tomatoes, onions that don't tear my intestines apart and a slew of other fruits & vegetables. There's also a butcher and a bakery there so fresh meat and bread. Lastly, at the butcher during deer season, provided there's a hunter willing to sell his excess deer (usually quite a few), I can also easily get something that the local Whole Foods won't sell: a whole butchered deer to stick in my freezer (1 deer lasts about a year for us).
When you had to put down $5,000 - $6,000 for a PC that could play the games available at the time as opposed to $200-300 on a console that had a larger library and arguably better graphics until EGA/VGA started becoming a thing... PC gaming didn't make sense. It was when Doom came out that the landscape really started to change towards PC's favor.
The entire population of Finland could populate New York City and still have room to fit 300,000 more to match its current population.
Correction on this. New York City has a population of about 8.5 million. So that means that there's a difference of 3,000,000 people between Finland and New York, NY; not 300,000.
Talk about skimping on the info. FTA: "But he said it is based on PC technology. He said Atari is still working on the design and will reveal it at a later date." That kinda points to a higher end system, but I'm with others on the thread. WTH is the point? Consoles only really made sense when PC gaming was laughable. Now it's cheaper overall to build a Mid-Level Gaming PC to handle your light browsing and heavy gaming better than anything a current Gen console can put out. I can't justify a PS4 or XBone purchase, regardless of the exclusives... what in Atari's plans that makes them think that I (and others) will justify them?
I'm sorry... as a Fin you can't understand how wrong that statement is when talking about the US. The US is more than 11 times the geographical size of Finland and more than 300 times the population. The entire population of Finland could populate New York City and still have room to fit 300,000 more to match its current population. More than 62% of the entire United States Population, that's roughly 201,517,800 people, live in about 3.5% of the United States land area. That's move than 200 million people living in 126,657 square miles. 328,040 km^2. 200 million people living in Urban/suburban areas, working mostly in some form of commercial capacity: Retail, Construction, Industrial, Service, or Financial. Most of the people in these areas never venture out into the rural 96.5% of the country for anything more than a pass-through or pass-over...because that's boring, uninteresting, and not even worthy of a vacation. They do their vacation and business travel to other parts of the urbanized 3.5%...where things actually happen and can keep them entertained. Because of this, those in urban areas don't usually give a rat's ass about what happens to 97% of this country so long as each of their personal wants are met (yay! runaway capitalism). Unless something is going catastrophically wrong out in the flyover states (the big open plain central area of the states that lie east of the Rockies and west of the Appalachians), like the dust-bowl of the Great Depression in the 30's, the majority of the population doesn't care if those in the rural areas have any kind of voice in politics...because those out in the rural 96.5% live boring, laborious, non-glamorous lives that the urbanites just don't want to deal with.
Why should someone living on the countryside have any more say in who rules over the entire country?
They don't. They only get more say in choosing who gets to put the rest of the population in check to keep the urbanites from overruling the farmers and ranchers. You're making the common mistake of seeing our President as the seat of America's power, when his power is actually very limited and easily reigned in by either Congress or the Supreme Court. See, our Congress is set up so that those who live in 3.5% of the territory get more seats in the House of Representatives than those who live in the 96.5% of the territory because there's more people living in the urban areas. This means that as a general rule, those who live an urban lifestyle have more power in Congress over those who live out in the rural areas. More simply, people who have absolutely no idea what it means to be a farmer or rancher have more ability to create regulations on what a farmer or rancher can and cannot do with their property, and the representatives for the rural area could be out-voted on the House floor. The House is the will of the people where the population gets its voice heard. Decisions made here get passed to the will of the States, the Senate, where every state has an equal vote (2 per state). In this way there's a bit more balance in the way Congress operates, but it is still VERY heavily population oriented. Congress is also where most of the power of the land rests. The President only gets to pick and chose which laws Congress comes up with actually make it into law. Executive orders directing the agencies of the Executive Branch (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc) are given more credit than they deserve. Congress can easily overrule them if they wanted to.
The check and balance to this in the Executive branch was for the EC to give more power to the rural areas on who gets to sit as President, as he's the one who gets the ability to Veto what he deems as an unfair law. In this way, the power of the president is supposed to be able to overcome the mob rule that could come through Congress, and only a sufficiently unified congress could override a Presidential veto.
As the owner and current player of an original "Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest" cart, I call you out. There is no battery, only a password system. As a test, if you have a copy that's never been played (good luck), use the password: C1EN WMAK JXKN VMZK
Let me know if it errors or gives you every item in the game.
There's the Wii-U version if you have that system, which is apparently the superior version. Judging by several comparisons between the Switch version and the Wii-U: The Switch version was missing several graphic effects that the Wii-U had (Volumetric Fog, Lighting effects, etc). The only thing that can be said for the switch is the texture resolution was slightly better and not having the Volumetric Fog and Cloud effects made for sharper landscape images.
The launch of the Switch has so far been a botch only slightly worse than the launch of Sega's Dreamcast; At least the Dreamcast didn't require a day one patch to work.
With no exclusive IP that does anything innovative expected to be released in the next year (Metroid? Kid Icarus? Donkey Kong? Star Fox?) Nintendo is going to have to work a hell of a lot harder than they have been if they expect me to buy into the next console before its EOL year. Of course, I'm just one person who's not going to affect their bottom line by anything more than maybe a couple thousand. What do I matter?
I came here to say exactly this. I have no illusions that my job as it is right now couldn't be automated. As a matter of fact, I'm personally and actively trying to automate as much of it as I possibly can. I'm sure it's going to happen at some point, so why worry about it. In the mean time I'll just be playing 3D chess and biding my time as the world makes its moves.
The humans that develop these machines have the idea that if they build machines to do the mundane work for them, the humans will have more time to pursue labors of love. Unfortunately, the humans that think this way don't seem to care that the majority of other humans think that if you're not in a traditional 9-5 office job your value to society is null (yes I do realize that retail, service, and infrastructure building positions fall into this null category; this is deliberate).
I see no votes on parent. As of this posting (Score:0). Click on the word Score and the modal displays "No comment history available." Anonymous Cowards start with a score of 0 here. Always have.
Keeping the GPS receiver active is fine for navigation purposes (provided you have a proper built in nav-system and not that shitty OnStar turn-by-turn); you're not tracked by it directly. It's only the 4G LTE Wireless radio that needs to be disabled. That's where you have the data stream going back to OnStar, and thus to the MyChevrolet or OnStar app, with the read from your GPS for location along with the LTE triangulation to enhance location resolution. You've already stated this as part of your telemetry disablement plan before, but you didn't clarify the part to answer Cederic on what exactly keeps OnStar and its apps from knowing your location and vehicle status as just shorting out the GPS isn't going to stop anything telemetry wise (Cedric's point). Killing the data connection up-link is what's imperative, and that's not through satellites.
Please note... I wasn't complaining about the price. I was just noting for Hog- who made the commentary about 4K being the price instead of the screen resolution that yes it could very well have been the price. The laptop as designed has roughly the same CPU Cores & threads, twice the GPU, and 1/4 of the storage of my desktop. Also note that my tower is running an i7-4790K O.C. to 4.8GHz, so although a little faster, it's several generations behind. I paid roughly $2,500 for the tower. I fully expected a laptop with the same power specs to easily be twice as much in price. To have a laptop system that's on current gen processing with twice as much GPU cost just less than 2x what I put into my tower, I'd definitely consider that a good deal. I just don't need a laptop with those specs right now.
I just designed a Bonobo for shits and giggles with dual 1080 SLI, 16GB DDR4, two 2TB HDDs, and 867 Mbps WiFi, with a 3 year P&L Warranty leaving the rest of the blocks at the defaults. 4K is almost 1K too low. Total came to $4,892.
Call of Duty: The series that panders to lower and lower common denominators of gamers with each incremental update which no one will admit they even like... unless they're 12.
Or maybe the CEO and other Executives of MBCST could figure out how to live on $16 Million per year instead of $20 Million per year to give the employees an extra $5-10 an hour without having to raise the product cost or sacrifice the ever precious Profit Margin. Hell, maybe sacrifice some of that profit margin if it's really wide and they won't have to take as much of a pay cut if at all.
Seriously... what the hell is so wrong with cutting some of the huge numbers at the top by 10 to 20% to increase the meager numbers at the bottom? Executives would rather pile drive their companies into the ground than take let one red cent fall out of their pockets. Some of these guys make more money during a sneeze than I make in a quarter, and they can't abide their workers getting more than 5.15/hr (Georgia minimum wage provided a position falls outside of the federal FLSA).
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As pointed out elsewhere in the thread... Virgin is a CDMA network. There's likely an LTE SIM card involved which could theoretically work on another phone just for the LTE data stream... but here's the kicker to that: On CDMA the phone's hard-coded IMEI and ESN is authorized to the tower first, then the LTE SIM is authenticated and data is allowed to flow. Without that authorization to the phone, there's no data connection allowed.
This is unlike GSM where the ID SIM ( most often separate from the LTE SIM but can be contained in the same card on occasion) can be moved from phone to phone and the tower only authenticates to the card, not the phone; thus allowing an easy change from phone to phone on a whim.
Now this could be an interesting story, but let's do it with an other person someone we don't know...
Like Star Lord?
I can get all of the above at the local Farmer's Market for a tenth of the cost that Whole Foods sells for fresh off the tree peaches (yay Georgia), local farm grown lettuce, swiss chard, turnip greens, tomatoes, onions that don't tear my intestines apart and a slew of other fruits & vegetables. There's also a butcher and a bakery there so fresh meat and bread. Lastly, at the butcher during deer season, provided there's a hunter willing to sell his excess deer (usually quite a few), I can also easily get something that the local Whole Foods won't sell: a whole butchered deer to stick in my freezer (1 deer lasts about a year for us).
When you had to put down $5,000 - $6,000 for a PC that could play the games available at the time as opposed to $200-300 on a console that had a larger library and arguably better graphics until EGA/VGA started becoming a thing... PC gaming didn't make sense. It was when Doom came out that the landscape really started to change towards PC's favor.
The entire population of Finland could populate New York City and still have room to fit 300,000 more to match its current population.
Correction on this. New York City has a population of about 8.5 million. So that means that there's a difference of 3,000,000 people between Finland and New York, NY; not 300,000.
Talk about skimping on the info. FTA: "But he said it is based on PC technology. He said Atari is still working on the design and will reveal it at a later date." That kinda points to a higher end system, but I'm with others on the thread. WTH is the point? Consoles only really made sense when PC gaming was laughable. Now it's cheaper overall to build a Mid-Level Gaming PC to handle your light browsing and heavy gaming better than anything a current Gen console can put out. I can't justify a PS4 or XBone purchase, regardless of the exclusives... what in Atari's plans that makes them think that I (and others) will justify them?
...They won't be ignored or abused...
I'm sorry... as a Fin you can't understand how wrong that statement is when talking about the US. The US is more than 11 times the geographical size of Finland and more than 300 times the population. The entire population of Finland could populate New York City and still have room to fit 300,000 more to match its current population. More than 62% of the entire United States Population, that's roughly 201,517,800 people, live in about 3.5% of the United States land area. That's move than 200 million people living in 126,657 square miles. 328,040 km^2. 200 million people living in Urban/suburban areas, working mostly in some form of commercial capacity: Retail, Construction, Industrial, Service, or Financial. Most of the people in these areas never venture out into the rural 96.5% of the country for anything more than a pass-through or pass-over...because that's boring, uninteresting, and not even worthy of a vacation. They do their vacation and business travel to other parts of the urbanized 3.5% ...where things actually happen and can keep them entertained. Because of this, those in urban areas don't usually give a rat's ass about what happens to 97% of this country so long as each of their personal wants are met (yay! runaway capitalism). Unless something is going catastrophically wrong out in the flyover states (the big open plain central area of the states that lie east of the Rockies and west of the Appalachians), like the dust-bowl of the Great Depression in the 30's, the majority of the population doesn't care if those in the rural areas have any kind of voice in politics...because those out in the rural 96.5% live boring, laborious, non-glamorous lives that the urbanites just don't want to deal with.
Why should someone living on the countryside have any more say in who rules over the entire country?
They don't. They only get more say in choosing who gets to put the rest of the population in check to keep the urbanites from overruling the farmers and ranchers. You're making the common mistake of seeing our President as the seat of America's power, when his power is actually very limited and easily reigned in by either Congress or the Supreme Court. See, our Congress is set up so that those who live in 3.5% of the territory get more seats in the House of Representatives than those who live in the 96.5% of the territory because there's more people living in the urban areas. This means that as a general rule, those who live an urban lifestyle have more power in Congress over those who live out in the rural areas. More simply, people who have absolutely no idea what it means to be a farmer or rancher have more ability to create regulations on what a farmer or rancher can and cannot do with their property, and the representatives for the rural area could be out-voted on the House floor. The House is the will of the people where the population gets its voice heard. Decisions made here get passed to the will of the States, the Senate, where every state has an equal vote (2 per state). In this way there's a bit more balance in the way Congress operates, but it is still VERY heavily population oriented. Congress is also where most of the power of the land rests. The President only gets to pick and chose which laws Congress comes up with actually make it into law. Executive orders directing the agencies of the Executive Branch (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc) are given more credit than they deserve. Congress can easily overrule them if they wanted to.
The check and balance to this in the Executive branch was for the EC to give more power to the rural areas on who gets to sit as President, as he's the one who gets the ability to Veto what he deems as an unfair law. In this way, the power of the president is supposed to be able to overcome the mob rule that could come through Congress, and only a sufficiently unified congress could override a Presidential veto.
Helios Too.
Project Icarus. This needs to be called Project Icarus.
What keys did you press when you last withdrew money from an ATM, please?
Four numbers and the Enter key; along with a few of the keys along side the MFD to indicate transaction type, etc.
Which name and address did you type in when you last ordered something to be delivered to your home?
Mine.
As the owner and current player of an original "Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest" cart, I call you out. There is no battery, only a password system. As a test, if you have a copy that's never been played (good luck), use the password:
C1EN WMAK
JXKN VMZK
Let me know if it errors or gives you every item in the game.
What does the Internet have to do with being able to read and write?
Judging by posts I've seen on various social media and even here on /., very little.
Let me guess: Ih8myJ0b1
If they ever come out with Windows 10 Vacuum Edition, I'm sure it won't suck.
There's the Wii-U version if you have that system, which is apparently the superior version. Judging by several comparisons between the Switch version and the Wii-U: The Switch version was missing several graphic effects that the Wii-U had (Volumetric Fog, Lighting effects, etc). The only thing that can be said for the switch is the texture resolution was slightly better and not having the Volumetric Fog and Cloud effects made for sharper landscape images.
The launch of the Switch has so far been a botch only slightly worse than the launch of Sega's Dreamcast; At least the Dreamcast didn't require a day one patch to work.
With no exclusive IP that does anything innovative expected to be released in the next year (Metroid? Kid Icarus? Donkey Kong? Star Fox?) Nintendo is going to have to work a hell of a lot harder than they have been if they expect me to buy into the next console before its EOL year. Of course, I'm just one person who's not going to affect their bottom line by anything more than maybe a couple thousand. What do I matter?
I came here to say exactly this. I have no illusions that my job as it is right now couldn't be automated. As a matter of fact, I'm personally and actively trying to automate as much of it as I possibly can. I'm sure it's going to happen at some point, so why worry about it. In the mean time I'll just be playing 3D chess and biding my time as the world makes its moves.
The humans that develop these machines have the idea that if they build machines to do the mundane work for them, the humans will have more time to pursue labors of love. Unfortunately, the humans that think this way don't seem to care that the majority of other humans think that if you're not in a traditional 9-5 office job your value to society is null (yes I do realize that retail, service, and infrastructure building positions fall into this null category; this is deliberate).
I see no votes on parent. As of this posting (Score:0). Click on the word Score and the modal displays "No comment history available." Anonymous Cowards start with a score of 0 here. Always have.
Keeping the GPS receiver active is fine for navigation purposes (provided you have a proper built in nav-system and not that shitty OnStar turn-by-turn); you're not tracked by it directly. It's only the 4G LTE Wireless radio that needs to be disabled. That's where you have the data stream going back to OnStar, and thus to the MyChevrolet or OnStar app, with the read from your GPS for location along with the LTE triangulation to enhance location resolution. You've already stated this as part of your telemetry disablement plan before, but you didn't clarify the part to answer Cederic on what exactly keeps OnStar and its apps from knowing your location and vehicle status as just shorting out the GPS isn't going to stop anything telemetry wise (Cedric's point). Killing the data connection up-link is what's imperative, and that's not through satellites.
Please note... I wasn't complaining about the price. I was just noting for Hog- who made the commentary about 4K being the price instead of the screen resolution that yes it could very well have been the price. The laptop as designed has roughly the same CPU Cores & threads, twice the GPU, and 1/4 of the storage of my desktop. Also note that my tower is running an i7-4790K O.C. to 4.8GHz, so although a little faster, it's several generations behind. I paid roughly $2,500 for the tower. I fully expected a laptop with the same power specs to easily be twice as much in price. To have a laptop system that's on current gen processing with twice as much GPU cost just less than 2x what I put into my tower, I'd definitely consider that a good deal. I just don't need a laptop with those specs right now.
I just designed a Bonobo for shits and giggles with dual 1080 SLI, 16GB DDR4, two 2TB HDDs, and 867 Mbps WiFi, with a 3 year P&L Warranty leaving the rest of the blocks at the defaults. 4K is almost 1K too low. Total came to $4,892.
Call of Duty: The series that panders to lower and lower common denominators of gamers with each incremental update which no one will admit they even like... unless they're 12.
Or maybe the CEO and other Executives of MBCST could figure out how to live on $16 Million per year instead of $20 Million per year to give the employees an extra $5-10 an hour without having to raise the product cost or sacrifice the ever precious Profit Margin. Hell, maybe sacrifice some of that profit margin if it's really wide and they won't have to take as much of a pay cut if at all.
Seriously... what the hell is so wrong with cutting some of the huge numbers at the top by 10 to 20% to increase the meager numbers at the bottom? Executives would rather pile drive their companies into the ground than take let one red cent fall out of their pockets. Some of these guys make more money during a sneeze than I make in a quarter, and they can't abide their workers getting more than 5.15/hr (Georgia minimum wage provided a position falls outside of the federal FLSA).
The Following devices are connected to my TV and have Amazon Prime Installed and able to show Prime Video on the TV:
I smell something funny here.
So THAT's why the answer is always c.