You can get a similar effect by adjusting the "power level" on the microwave. Usually this doesn't actually lower the power level, it just cuts it on and off a percentage of the time. For example, on my microwave power level "10" is full force (High). Power level 5 (50%) will cook on high for a 30 seconds, then switch off entirely for the next 30 seconds, then back on again for 30 seconds, etc.
I've found that with microwave cooking, the implied (but all-too-often unwritten) instruction is to let the food sit for a while before you actually try to eat it. With two Hot Pockets, you cook them for 3 min 30 sec. Then (not mentioned in the instructions), you need to let them sit for about 10-15 minutes. If you were foolish enough to try to eat them right out of the oven, your mouth and throat would probably be incinerated into a fine ashy substance.
I'm not sure why so few microwave instructions don't mention letting the food sit after being cooked. Maybe because they're afraid it would scare away customers if they knew they couldn't have their Hot Pockets RIGHT GODDAMNED NOW! Or maybe they want to keep up that "Ready to eat in just 2 minutes!" fiction on the box. But then again, I also never figured out why McDonalds used to feel the need to give you a cup of coffee that was BOILING hot (until their infamous lawsuit).
Toaster ovens also generate a lot of waste heat. I don't need a little space heater in my kitchen in the summer--taking FOREVER to heat my goddamned Hot Pocket!
The average person doesn't use pirate and torrent sites. And even if they did, one letter from their ISP saying "This is your warning. Knock it out." or blocked site and they're going to stop and just pay for it instead.
YouTube uses this for a lot of their 1080 HD content. Most people don't notice it because it will throttle you down to 720 if your browser doesn't support it.
Oh, to be young and naive again. The Cableco/Telco lobbies are among of the strongest out there, not just in Washington but in pretty much every state (and most localities). To do any of what you're proposing, you would have to first cut through a myriad of federal, state, and local laws and regulations that the industries have established to protect their precious monopolies from such incursions.
Good luck with that. Hope you've got a few $billion in brib....uhm, "campaign contributions" to spread around.
HBO counts to them as a third party. They actually pay HBO to carry them. To be a "friend" who gets to send their video without counting against customer caps, it would have to be the other way around.
Replacement costs for current-gen batteries are a real bitch too. A replacement battery can run almost as much as the car itself. IIRC, Tesla was quoting replacement batteries at something like $30,000 a pop at one point. Obviously a major problem.
Electric has a lot of potential. But I think battery tech needs several MAJOR breakthroughs before it's ready for prime-time.
We've been thirty years away from putting a man on Mars now for the last forty years. Do you think that by 2035, we'll have finally moved to being just 30 years away from finally putting a man on Mars?
If you spent $200 million to develop a game, would YOU want to release all your development tools to the public so that they could give away the kind of content that you wanted to sell as DLC for free?
Increasing development costs, kids. It's what's really driving the industry today. Ever wonder why your favorite franchise decided to drop single-player for an MMO monthly-charge model? Development costs. Why are they nickel-and-diming us on everything from horse armour to day-one DLC? Development costs. Why are they suddenly cracking down so hard on piracy? Development costs. Why are they dumbing our favorite game down to appeal to the mass market? Development costs.
Developing a triple-A title these days is a whole other ballgame than it was just 15 years ago. Just look at the end credits of a typical big title these days. What used to be a team of maybe a dozen people has become an army of HUNDREDS of people. Shit, a triple-A title today will spend more on voice actors alone than the entire budget of a game like Duke Nuke'em 3D back in the day. Add in marketing, porting costs, continuing patches, etc. and you can easily get into the hundreds of millions of $ for even a relatively small title.
Well, they have a point. I mean, they are pretty innovative. Just 10 years ago, I had exactly two options for home broadband. Today, with all that amazing innovation and competition, I have exactly one option for home broadband.
Wasn't it nice when at least space programs still worked together and were kind of outside the scope of international quarrels.
When was that? I don't ever recall a time when the programs ever really worked together without a bunch of resentment and political bullshit. Certainly not during the Cold War (the U.S. would barely even acknowledge the EXISTENCE of the USSR's space program, and vice-versa). And not after the Cold War either. Even the littlest thing would cause NASA or the Russians to thrown a goddamned temper tantrum even after the USSR ended. Remember when Russia dared to accomplish another space first by launching the first space tourist? NASA threw a shit-fit on that one worthy of a 4-year-old in a grocery store. And that was long before Putin ever invaded anything.
The programs have never really cooperated or gotten along. That's just PR.
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You can get a similar effect by adjusting the "power level" on the microwave. Usually this doesn't actually lower the power level, it just cuts it on and off a percentage of the time. For example, on my microwave power level "10" is full force (High). Power level 5 (50%) will cook on high for a 30 seconds, then switch off entirely for the next 30 seconds, then back on again for 30 seconds, etc.
Fuck it. Too much work. I'll just eat this tube of cake frosting instead.
I've found that with microwave cooking, the implied (but all-too-often unwritten) instruction is to let the food sit for a while before you actually try to eat it. With two Hot Pockets, you cook them for 3 min 30 sec. Then (not mentioned in the instructions), you need to let them sit for about 10-15 minutes. If you were foolish enough to try to eat them right out of the oven, your mouth and throat would probably be incinerated into a fine ashy substance.
I'm not sure why so few microwave instructions don't mention letting the food sit after being cooked. Maybe because they're afraid it would scare away customers if they knew they couldn't have their Hot Pockets RIGHT GODDAMNED NOW! Or maybe they want to keep up that "Ready to eat in just 2 minutes!" fiction on the box. But then again, I also never figured out why McDonalds used to feel the need to give you a cup of coffee that was BOILING hot (until their infamous lawsuit).
Toaster ovens also generate a lot of waste heat. I don't need a little space heater in my kitchen in the summer--taking FOREVER to heat my goddamned Hot Pocket!
Why the presumption that Amazon's new hires will be 75% male?
Well, about 85% of CS grads today are male. But if it makes you feel better, they could hire more women for the packing floor.
it seems to me that even an organization like Microsoft wouldn't be opposed to donating licenses to charities
Not only are they not opposed to it, but AFAICT it's almost standard practice for them to do this for charitable NGO's in developing countries.
The average person doesn't use pirate and torrent sites. And even if they did, one letter from their ISP saying "This is your warning. Knock it out." or blocked site and they're going to stop and just pay for it instead.
YouTube uses this for a lot of their 1080 HD content. Most people don't notice it because it will throttle you down to 720 if your browser doesn't support it.
Oh, to be young and naive again. The Cableco/Telco lobbies are among of the strongest out there, not just in Washington but in pretty much every state (and most localities). To do any of what you're proposing, you would have to first cut through a myriad of federal, state, and local laws and regulations that the industries have established to protect their precious monopolies from such incursions.
Good luck with that. Hope you've got a few $billion in brib....uhm, "campaign contributions" to spread around.
Dude, this is Slashdot. Being correct isn't part of the game... giving the angry hordes something to beat their chests about is.
That would certainly explain their bizarre obsession with trying to force beta on everyone.
HBO counts to them as a third party. They actually pay HBO to carry them. To be a "friend" who gets to send their video without counting against customer caps, it would have to be the other way around.
He keeps loosing his new chapters. If you're going to try for a second side on your floppies with a hole punch, you take your chances.
90% of Mozilla's income comes from Google.
Google owns YouTube.
YouTube uses this DRM.
'nuff said
you cannot stop pirated content
The goal isn't to stop it, it's to make it complicated or risky enough that the average person will pay for it instead of pirating.
So, you're planning on citing excerpts from all those Jay-Z videos you pirated in an academic paper, then?
Replacement costs for current-gen batteries are a real bitch too. A replacement battery can run almost as much as the car itself. IIRC, Tesla was quoting replacement batteries at something like $30,000 a pop at one point. Obviously a major problem.
Electric has a lot of potential. But I think battery tech needs several MAJOR breakthroughs before it's ready for prime-time.
My Tears for Fears mix CD will never rust. My love will preserve it forever.
Yeah, but with any luck, we're just 20 years away from finally being just "Nineteen years away from putting a man on Mars."
We've been thirty years away from putting a man on Mars now for the last forty years. Do you think that by 2035, we'll have finally moved to being just 30 years away from finally putting a man on Mars?
Wrong. It's where our evil goateed counterparts in the evil universe come through.
God help us if evil Eric Cartman and his hippie charitable ways ever comes through.
If you spent $200 million to develop a game, would YOU want to release all your development tools to the public so that they could give away the kind of content that you wanted to sell as DLC for free?
Increasing development costs, kids. It's what's really driving the industry today. Ever wonder why your favorite franchise decided to drop single-player for an MMO monthly-charge model? Development costs. Why are they nickel-and-diming us on everything from horse armour to day-one DLC? Development costs. Why are they suddenly cracking down so hard on piracy? Development costs. Why are they dumbing our favorite game down to appeal to the mass market? Development costs.
Developing a triple-A title these days is a whole other ballgame than it was just 15 years ago. Just look at the end credits of a typical big title these days. What used to be a team of maybe a dozen people has become an army of HUNDREDS of people. Shit, a triple-A title today will spend more on voice actors alone than the entire budget of a game like Duke Nuke'em 3D back in the day. Add in marketing, porting costs, continuing patches, etc. and you can easily get into the hundreds of millions of $ for even a relatively small title.
Well, they have a point. I mean, they are pretty innovative. Just 10 years ago, I had exactly two options for home broadband. Today, with all that amazing innovation and competition, I have exactly one option for home broadband.
Magic!!
You needed a Gold account to do ANYTHING on a Xbox One. That's something else they just backpedaled on too.
Wasn't it nice when at least space programs still worked together and were kind of outside the scope of international quarrels.
When was that? I don't ever recall a time when the programs ever really worked together without a bunch of resentment and political bullshit. Certainly not during the Cold War (the U.S. would barely even acknowledge the EXISTENCE of the USSR's space program, and vice-versa). And not after the Cold War either. Even the littlest thing would cause NASA or the Russians to thrown a goddamned temper tantrum even after the USSR ended. Remember when Russia dared to accomplish another space first by launching the first space tourist? NASA threw a shit-fit on that one worthy of a 4-year-old in a grocery store. And that was long before Putin ever invaded anything.
The programs have never really cooperated or gotten along. That's just PR.