To be fair, one of my friends got expelled for building a pipe bomb and bringing it to our magnet school (back in the pre-war-on-terrorism-panic days).
OK, call me old-skool, but I'd love to get a GPS navigation system for my Palm TX.
Right now I'm using old versions of GoogleMaps 1.x and a copy of Mapopolis I bought back when they both were still produced. But neither of them will talk to my bluetooth GPS.
I really love Garmin products and interfaces (still use my monochrome eTrex Legend for hiking / boating), and I'd love to be able to buy their Palm interface that they put on their iQue PalmOS product... hopefully that way I could use the same maps for both the eTrex and my Palm. But unfortunately, I'm afraid this is a missed boat... someday I'll finally give up my aging devices and join the smartphone age with an Android phone or maybe even an N900 if they could get decent map/nav software for it.
I don't really care about my phone records (I never really call anyone anyway). But how hard is it for them to sift through my credit card records looking for dirt?
I want to know why I still have to guard my SSN and my mother's maiden name like it's some sort of dirty secret. No one should be able to open up a credit card in my name unless they somehow got the request signed with my private key.
No, it's still pretty broken. But to our advantage. You can still get their $10/mo. web2go plan through their wap gateway. This will let your phone get to pretty much any http server, but not let you use apps that insist on other ports (notably gmail, google maps, etc.). However, if you tether your PDA or laptop through your phone with the cheap data plan, you get full internet access... pings and ssh and other sockets and everything... maybe with the exception of open incoming connections. From reading the messageboards, it has been this way for several years, though they have closed some other holes that allowed the phones themselves to get full internet access with the wap plan within the past few years.
I've been pretty happy with T-Mobile (been a customer for 10 years since it was Voicestream), which is pretty easy since they're still one of the cheapest and they perform pretty well in metropolitan areas. Verizon and Sprint CDMA networks might have better coverage in the far suburbs and out in the boonies where I sometimes go on vacation, but then it's usually a nice thing not to be super accessible.
And yeah, T-Mobile has that thing where they drop your monthly fee slightly if you import your own phone without a contract, so you got that going for you as well.
I think I actually made it through most of the GT4 license tests using the gamepad.
However, I remember floundering for a long, long time at the last Sport license test (the full Nurburgring in that crappy Mercedes)... So yes, after getting the wheel and practicing it a few times more I finally passed that one:P
It's fun watching the reference run, where they're obviously using a wheel and you can see the pro's exact control inputs. Well, that is to say, it's fun after struggling with the track a bit and watching how lame your control inputs are in comparison ^_^
I'm still running reiser3, and probably holding out for reiser4... it's been confusing since the benchmarks for the next-gen fs's have been all over the place, but some look promising: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388#comment_127
I've always run software RAIDs to crank out a bit more performance out of the slowest part of my system, and reiserfs3 has always worked better out of the box. I'd spent long hours tuning EXT3 stripe widths and directory indexes and stuff, and EXT3 always came out slower and more wasteful of space.
Here's a handful of numbers from bonnie++ from my 4-disk raid10:
Oh, you're looking in the wrong places... the "easter bloc" chicks that have the sense to leave looking for better opportunities are more into intelligent guys:P Than the homebodies that you might find in local bars, at least ^_^
Other than that, the only time I appreciate it is when people make fun of it, and when it helps me know when to stop paying attention to the news because they're talking about it.
At some point, I was thinking of trying to set this up on my Linksys WRT54Gv4 when moving from HyperWRT to Tomato. But it seemed like too much work... maybe if I somehow end up with another WRT54G so I don't have to dink with my production configuration.
Also, Tomato has gotten a good reputation for performance... when I recently upgraded my FiOS to 25/15Mbps, I benchmarked my unit using http://speedtest.net/ and only got about 20/10Mbps using HyperWRT, but upgrading to Tomato allowed it to max out my link... which saved me from having to run out and buy a new router or go back to the awful but beefier ActionTec router that came from Verizon.
I've also wanted to play with OpenWRT, which has an OLSRD module that takes your open access point a step further and makes it part of a mesh. But sounds like that would involve actual work:/ And it seems likely that Tomato might support OLSRD sometime soon anyway.
Anyway, my machines are pretty up-to-date... and the only one I care about is the server which is serving out in the DMZ anyway. So I just leave my station wide open. I make sure I use encryption on anything I care about going out wirelessly (I wouldn't trust even WPA much anyway). And if the neighbors or wardrivers get to be a problem, then I might set up one of my older crap wifi routers up for them instead and monitor and rate-limit the heck out of it.
Doh! Grr, just as well. It's not like I haven't been this disappointed since... well, since Vendetta Online adopted the same licensing system from EVE:P
It used to be really neat to be able to jump into the game as a new character and run a few obscure and risky trade runs to upgrade to the biggest ship within a few hours. Lousy games that substitute stat grinding for skillz:P
Can't be *that* obsolete if you can still buy them in hobby stores. Best set I had when I was a kid had jumps and loops. Always found them rather boring compared to R/C cars, though, which you can get in the same scale now.
My grandmother had a set of mechanical slot tracks, that actually had a long chain that ran through a gully... you could stick pins in just about any matchbox car and race them around that track. Also pretty boring, but *there's* something so obsolete that would be a challenge to find today...
I just wish people would set up toy trains to carry dishes back to the sink... it was one of my childhood fantasies before I found out how expensive those toy trains were:P
Ha, that reminds me that I need to take them up on their 5 free days offer just so I can switch my character to the next skill that will take a month to train to L5. EVE is almost as bad as Mafia Wars, I swear:P
There are some real gems in SL, such as the NASA museum.
I would love to use it to prototype architectural stuff. However, the engine is pretty old and not really compatible with models you could build in Blender or other 3D editor software. You need to do a lot of stuff in the SL editor itself, which is pretty nice, but I don't really want my creations locked away in their proprietary format. I've been looking at using the UnReal engine or the Valve Source engine instead (though I'll probably just end up cheesing out and using Blender's built-in game engine), which should produce better visual results and ultimately give me more control of my creations.
I think people like me who want to create things are waiting for something a bit more open, and, well, modern:/ SL was a pretty good first attempt at creating a 3D web with interaction features, though, considering how many real companies made an effort to establish storefronts and virtual conference rooms, though. Hopefully that effort will be preserved and brought into future metaverses.
I used to think that, but you'd need some kind of weird compression / decompression. You can't find absolutely *any* pattern in irrational numbers... no repeating digits or zeros.
Slashdot Mirror
Is that a reference to a particular event?
Also maybe this:
http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-01-15/local-county-news/suspicious-object-prompts-school-evacuation
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4942164
To be fair, one of my friends got expelled for building a pipe bomb and bringing it to our magnet school (back in the pre-war-on-terrorism-panic days).
Is Eureka cancelled yet? :P
OK, call me old-skool, but I'd love to get a GPS navigation system for my Palm TX.
Right now I'm using old versions of GoogleMaps 1.x and a copy of Mapopolis I bought back when they both were still produced. But neither of them will talk to my bluetooth GPS.
I really love Garmin products and interfaces (still use my monochrome eTrex Legend for hiking / boating), and I'd love to be able to buy their Palm interface that they put on their iQue PalmOS product... hopefully that way I could use the same maps for both the eTrex and my Palm. But unfortunately, I'm afraid this is a missed boat... someday I'll finally give up my aging devices and join the smartphone age with an Android phone or maybe even an N900 if they could get decent map/nav software for it.
I don't really care about my phone records (I never really call anyone anyway). But how hard is it for them to sift through my credit card records looking for dirt?
Stupidity is more like doing the same thing expecting the same results.
Classic joke:
brunette: "Aw, a dead bird"
blonde: <looks up> "where?"
Yeah, I get all of my news from /. and fark anyway, what's the use of any other site?
And contrary to popular belief, no, we do not get news from TheOnion and The Daily Show. We get /analysis/, dammit.
But it's the only chance a lot of people would have (thus broadening their market)...
http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2009/11/awesome-by-proxy-addicted-to-fake.html
Maybe the insurance companies?
I want to know why I still have to guard my SSN and my mother's maiden name like it's some sort of dirty secret. No one should be able to open up a credit card in my name unless they somehow got the request signed with my private key.
No, it's still pretty broken. But to our advantage. You can still get their $10/mo. web2go plan through their wap gateway. This will let your phone get to pretty much any http server, but not let you use apps that insist on other ports (notably gmail, google maps, etc.). However, if you tether your PDA or laptop through your phone with the cheap data plan, you get full internet access... pings and ssh and other sockets and everything... maybe with the exception of open incoming connections. From reading the messageboards, it has been this way for several years, though they have closed some other holes that allowed the phones themselves to get full internet access with the wap plan within the past few years.
I've been pretty happy with T-Mobile (been a customer for 10 years since it was Voicestream), which is pretty easy since they're still one of the cheapest and they perform pretty well in metropolitan areas. Verizon and Sprint CDMA networks might have better coverage in the far suburbs and out in the boonies where I sometimes go on vacation, but then it's usually a nice thing not to be super accessible.
And yeah, T-Mobile has that thing where they drop your monthly fee slightly if you import your own phone without a contract, so you got that going for you as well.
I think I actually made it through most of the GT4 license tests using the gamepad.
However, I remember floundering for a long, long time at the last Sport license test (the full Nurburgring in that crappy Mercedes)... So yes, after getting the wheel and practicing it a few times more I finally passed that one :P
It's fun watching the reference run, where they're obviously using a wheel and you can see the pro's exact control inputs. Well, that is to say, it's fun after struggling with the track a bit and watching how lame your control inputs are in comparison ^_^
I'm still running reiser3, and probably holding out for reiser4... it's been confusing since the benchmarks for the next-gen fs's have been all over the place, but some look promising:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388#comment_127
I've always run software RAIDs to crank out a bit more performance out of the slowest part of my system, and reiserfs3 has always worked better out of the box. I'd spent long hours tuning EXT3 stripe widths and directory indexes and stuff, and EXT3 always came out slower and more wasteful of space.
Here's a handful of numbers from bonnie++ from my 4-disk raid10:
EXT3fs: 4G 246 97% 61403 29% 39928 11% 1512 95% 166253 24% 525.3 10%
Latency 87699us 4739ms 644ms 54683us 69023us 302ms
Reiser3: 4G 264 97% 65732 31% 44530 15% 1447 95% 164567 34% 557.9 18%
Latency 33368us 4201ms 4061ms 21967us 134ms 118ms
Oh, you're looking in the wrong places... the "easter bloc" chicks that have the sense to leave looking for better opportunities are more into intelligent guys :P Than the homebodies that you might find in local bars, at least ^_^
I don't have any disposable income to throw at a PS3 for my Logitech G25 now anyway. Come back later when I have the time.
And yes, the PS2 I bought a year or two ago was just an accessory for the G25 too :P
...the chicks actually dig intelligent guys.
Really.
So do chicks from just about any eastern bloc country for that matter.
Meh, the only halfway decent thing I've seen on twitter is http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
Other than that, the only time I appreciate it is when people make fun of it, and when it helps me know when to stop paying attention to the news because they're talking about it.
At some point, I was thinking of trying to set this up on my Linksys WRT54Gv4 when moving from HyperWRT to Tomato. But it seemed like too much work... maybe if I somehow end up with another WRT54G so I don't have to dink with my production configuration.
Also, Tomato has gotten a good reputation for performance... when I recently upgraded my FiOS to 25/15Mbps, I benchmarked my unit using http://speedtest.net/ and only got about 20/10Mbps using HyperWRT, but upgrading to Tomato allowed it to max out my link... which saved me from having to run out and buy a new router or go back to the awful but beefier ActionTec router that came from Verizon.
I've also wanted to play with OpenWRT, which has an OLSRD module that takes your open access point a step further and makes it part of a mesh. But sounds like that would involve actual work :/ And it seems likely that Tomato might support OLSRD sometime soon anyway.
Anyway, my machines are pretty up-to-date... and the only one I care about is the server which is serving out in the DMZ anyway. So I just leave my station wide open. I make sure I use encryption on anything I care about going out wirelessly (I wouldn't trust even WPA much anyway). And if the neighbors or wardrivers get to be a problem, then I might set up one of my older crap wifi routers up for them instead and monitor and rate-limit the heck out of it.
Doh! Grr, just as well. It's not like I haven't been this disappointed since... well, since Vendetta Online adopted the same licensing system from EVE :P
It used to be really neat to be able to jump into the game as a new character and run a few obscure and risky trade runs to upgrade to the biggest ship within a few hours. Lousy games that substitute stat grinding for skillz :P
Can't be *that* obsolete if you can still buy them in hobby stores. Best set I had when I was a kid had jumps and loops. Always found them rather boring compared to R/C cars, though, which you can get in the same scale now.
My grandmother had a set of mechanical slot tracks, that actually had a long chain that ran through a gully... you could stick pins in just about any matchbox car and race them around that track. Also pretty boring, but *there's* something so obsolete that would be a challenge to find today...
Here, LMGTFY: http://images.google.com/images?q=christmas%20tree%20trains
I just wish people would set up toy trains to carry dishes back to the sink... it was one of my childhood fantasies before I found out how expensive those toy trains were :P
Ha, that reminds me that I need to take them up on their 5 free days offer just so I can switch my character to the next skill that will take a month to train to L5. EVE is almost as bad as Mafia Wars, I swear :P
So if the engineers had their way, we'd be flying around in something like this?
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/images/gallery32.jpg
I already missed all of the Saturn V launches, now I'm probably going to miss seeing the last shuttle launch as well? I need more vacation time :P
Wow, cool, thanks for introducing me to the Feynman point... I guess I can resume my search for meaning in irrational digits now :>
There are some real gems in SL, such as the NASA museum.
I would love to use it to prototype architectural stuff. However, the engine is pretty old and not really compatible with models you could build in Blender or other 3D editor software. You need to do a lot of stuff in the SL editor itself, which is pretty nice, but I don't really want my creations locked away in their proprietary format. I've been looking at using the UnReal engine or the Valve Source engine instead (though I'll probably just end up cheesing out and using Blender's built-in game engine), which should produce better visual results and ultimately give me more control of my creations.
I think people like me who want to create things are waiting for something a bit more open, and, well, modern :/ SL was a pretty good first attempt at creating a 3D web with interaction features, though, considering how many real companies made an effort to establish storefronts and virtual conference rooms, though. Hopefully that effort will be preserved and brought into future metaverses.
I used to think that, but you'd need some kind of weird compression / decompression. You can't find absolutely *any* pattern in irrational numbers... no repeating digits or zeros.
Heh, TFA mentions that they're looking for hybrid electric engines and advanced batteries, among other things.
My prediction is that the group that wins the competition will use some sort of deployable hot-air balloon to achieve "VTOL".
I only have until January 7th to register for their poster session? Aw, nuts :P