That's the same answer you'll get from any residential ISP about running servers unless it's Speakeasy or some other such company. The only port they block is inbound port 80, which is still annoying but can be worked around.
Please, in keeping with the "streets" to avoid losing the "cred" of GTA, you would need SimPimp, complete with income (hos) and ouput (Caddys, gold teeth, purple hats).
The problem with that is that those in-flight entertainment systems are probably designed to be economical with power (they don't want to heat up the seats, plus planes have a power budget to consider) and it's pretty damn hard to start a fire with seat material using only 5v at 200mA.
As an added bonus, due to the flight profile (especially the stall recovery) an autogyro would be even more of a deathtrap than his helicopter already is.
If you ever get into driver development you would be shocked at how many bugs there are in just about every piece of hardware on a modern PC. Even simple things like SATA chipsets can have errata sheets that are several pages long, and the idea of a modern graphics card without hardware bugs is laughable. One of the major jobs of drivers is to work around these bugs to make them invisible to the user. Luckily almost all of the bugs are minor, but occasionally you'll get real nasty ones that prevent you from running the chip efficiently without corrupting data.
They THINK it will be the end of those problems, only time will tell. Hopefully it will fix the problem, but despite all of the online speculation that the problem has been fixed for months, it is still cropping up at an alarming rate.
The real question is: Will they start making the 360s reliable enough to reduce the failure rate down to something reasonable? I don't really care about HD tuners and stuff like that, what I really care about is will it keep running long enough for me to finish a game before having to send it back to the shop?
You lease the cards from your cable company, so hacking the card itself is probably out. It's just a reencrypter anyway. The boxes themselves could very well be hackable though, and without the cable company giving you the scare tactic of "if this screw ON OUR EQUIPMENT is touched when you return the box we will fine your ass off." Theoretically the umpteen encryptions that happen through a cablecard box should render it unhackable, but my guess is all of the complexity from all of the different encryption steps the cable companies insisted on will leave holes open that hackers can exploit.
I think the more fundimental concern the companies have is the lack of control they would have over the whole system if they don't own it. People could set up services for free that would work better than the ones the cable company would try to sell (because they always halfass features like that).
I was impressed at how badly they were able to make a 2d sprite game run on PS2 hardware. Slowdowns are inevitable in parts of the game (underworld especially) and some of the boss battles are basically guaranteed slowdown. There are also some fairly fundamental gameplay flaws IMHO (block and attack on the same button) but it does look absolutely beautiful. Since Altus is publishing it you can pretty much guarantee that it will be a rare game in a year or so and fetch a decent price on the used market.
Most of the military is going towards the CAC Card, which is good because since it is your badge you have to take it with you when you go somewhere (you can't just leave it plugged into your workstation when you stand up to go somewhere, because eventually a guard will stop you and ask why you're not wearing your ID, and then you're in trouble).
Now they have a lot of issues with their implementation currently, but the underlying concept is a good one.
I thought some of the plasmids were kinda underpowered personally. How much use did you get out of Cyclone trap or Security Bullseye? The only legitimate use for Security Bullseye is to toss it on a Big Daddy when he's wandering near a camera since the whirlybirds seem to use AP rounds or something. Otherwise there is really no reason to not just hack the camera/turret.
I did find that if you neglected the Engineering plasmids too much you could easily get hacks that were out and out impossible (a solid row of hazards between the start and end). It doesn't help that you can make hacking almost completely consequence free after you pick up the camera and learn Natural Camouflage. If you ever find that you've messed up a hack, just route the pipes into the nearest friendly alarm tile and let the drones buzz around you for a minute while you attempt another hack. I was very glad to finally get enough research to auto-hack drones and turrets though. That minigame was getting seriously old by that point.
I also thought that and EVE based character was likely to be gimp because although ammo is scattered quite liberally throughout Rapture, eve hypos are fairly rare. You'd almost certainly be low on funds if you had to constantly buy them, especially since each hypo doesn't go very far with popular plasmids like Electrobolt. The game would need an "Eve Efficiency" plasmid that cut the costs in half or something if you really wanted to go down that route. It would have to appear early on too because even a single electrobolt on guys running at you would drain your Eve pretty fast, not to mention the fact that you can't build Eve Hypos at U-invent (although by the time you get to U-invent you tend to be swimming in excess ammo anyway).
I have to admit that I'm the kind of guy who explored every single nook and cranny in Bioshock. There were only a couple of rooms I never figured out how to get into (that room behind the water filled generator room in the Little Sister nursery and the ammo jail Fontane's hideout that had the great big physics disabled girder blocking the door (thankfully you could TK the stuff out of that room and I was completely full on ammo by that point anyway)) and I hacked almost everything hackable in the game.
Given how 90% of the ISPs these days provide Usenet access through companies like Giganews, and third party Usenet providers like Usenet.com aren't very common, this could easily be just the first strike against every major Usenet provider.
Looks like someone forgot the first rule of Usenet.
The article also mentions how unhealthy habits can be a major contributor to RSI (computer use certainly doesn't help). That said, RMS is the posterboy for unhealthy personal habits.
I do think having the CTRL key way down in the penalty corner (literally the most difficult place for your fingers to reach on a normal keyboard outside of useless multimedia keys) is a major detriment to using EMACS. IMHO anybody who seriously uses it should remap capslock to control and save themselves considerable pain.
Scorch is fun, but it suffers a bit from the same thing the original Scorch did. The computer seems very adept at killing you with their first or second shot, but then spends the next 50 turns taking pitiful shots at the other opponents while you sit and watch from your smoking crater. Also, like the original Scorch it has a tendency to crash.
I guess last minute flights are out the window then huh? It's not like people don't have emergencies that require them to be across the country by tomorrow. I'm sure the counterargument is that "it does us no good to discover that someone 'suspicious' was on a flight that landed two days ago, he might have been a bomber!", but frankly I don't think the extra security is worth the inconvenience in this case. I know that is a rather cavalier thing to say, but in essence all security measures like this are a tradeoff vs. convenience and I feel this one goes way too far.
Where did you get that idea? Your hands and feet are actually the sweatiest parts of your body, and of course they extrude oils, otherwise your skin would be constantly dry and flaky, in fact they are the worst offenders because the skin is thicker there.
I thought the point of jumpgates was that the universe they jumped into was much more compressed than the regular universe, so they moved at the same (slow) speed through that universe, but went through a lot more regular space in the process. Of course any form of FTL travel is going to involve a fair bit of hand wringing, but it's really unavoidable if you want to maintain a cast of characters and not involve timelines that stretch across eons (which sounds cool in theory, but in practice is almost impossible to write).
I suspect that Apple signed a deal with AT&T where the money they normally set aside for offsetting the cost of the subsidized phone is instead given to Apple--which is why the plans are no cheaper despite the fact that you bought the phone outright.
However, if this is the case, then there is really no need for a contract locking them into AT&T. AT&T is out no money on your phone purchase so you really shouldn't be beholden to them. The whole thing smells like a bad deal/greed somewhere along the way.
There's no special flywheel in the Hybrid though, just what you might find in a conventional gasoline engine. From what I've seen, the Prius (which, being the most popular I have the most experience with) doesn't have a flywheel at all on the drivetrain.
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How are you still paying $55/month for that? I have the same plan and the price has been creeping up rather alarmingly for the past few months.
That's the same answer you'll get from any residential ISP about running servers unless it's Speakeasy or some other such company. The only port they block is inbound port 80, which is still annoying but can be worked around.
It supports Javascript just fine. Flash they might get working at some point, but I wouldn't hold my breath for Shockwave.
Please, in keeping with the "streets" to avoid losing the "cred" of GTA, you would need SimPimp, complete with income (hos) and ouput (Caddys, gold teeth, purple hats).
You'd be lucky to get much smoke at all before blowing the fuse on the whole system.
The problem with that is that those in-flight entertainment systems are probably designed to be economical with power (they don't want to heat up the seats, plus planes have a power budget to consider) and it's pretty damn hard to start a fire with seat material using only 5v at 200mA.
As an added bonus, due to the flight profile (especially the stall recovery) an autogyro would be even more of a deathtrap than his helicopter already is.
If you ever get into driver development you would be shocked at how many bugs there are in just about every piece of hardware on a modern PC. Even simple things like SATA chipsets can have errata sheets that are several pages long, and the idea of a modern graphics card without hardware bugs is laughable. One of the major jobs of drivers is to work around these bugs to make them invisible to the user. Luckily almost all of the bugs are minor, but occasionally you'll get real nasty ones that prevent you from running the chip efficiently without corrupting data.
They THINK it will be the end of those problems, only time will tell. Hopefully it will fix the problem, but despite all of the online speculation that the problem has been fixed for months, it is still cropping up at an alarming rate.
The real question is: Will they start making the 360s reliable enough to reduce the failure rate down to something reasonable? I don't really care about HD tuners and stuff like that, what I really care about is will it keep running long enough for me to finish a game before having to send it back to the shop?
You lease the cards from your cable company, so hacking the card itself is probably out. It's just a reencrypter anyway. The boxes themselves could very well be hackable though, and without the cable company giving you the scare tactic of "if this screw ON OUR EQUIPMENT is touched when you return the box we will fine your ass off." Theoretically the umpteen encryptions that happen through a cablecard box should render it unhackable, but my guess is all of the complexity from all of the different encryption steps the cable companies insisted on will leave holes open that hackers can exploit.
I think the more fundimental concern the companies have is the lack of control they would have over the whole system if they don't own it. People could set up services for free that would work better than the ones the cable company would try to sell (because they always halfass features like that).
Also, if you run low on health potions right before the boss fight it can make the fight rather difficult.
I was impressed at how badly they were able to make a 2d sprite game run on PS2 hardware. Slowdowns are inevitable in parts of the game (underworld especially) and some of the boss battles are basically guaranteed slowdown. There are also some fairly fundamental gameplay flaws IMHO (block and attack on the same button) but it does look absolutely beautiful. Since Altus is publishing it you can pretty much guarantee that it will be a rare game in a year or so and fetch a decent price on the used market.
Most of the military is going towards the CAC Card, which is good because since it is your badge you have to take it with you when you go somewhere (you can't just leave it plugged into your workstation when you stand up to go somewhere, because eventually a guard will stop you and ask why you're not wearing your ID, and then you're in trouble).
Now they have a lot of issues with their implementation currently, but the underlying concept is a good one.
I thought some of the plasmids were kinda underpowered personally. How much use did you get out of Cyclone trap or Security Bullseye? The only legitimate use for Security Bullseye is to toss it on a Big Daddy when he's wandering near a camera since the whirlybirds seem to use AP rounds or something. Otherwise there is really no reason to not just hack the camera/turret.
I did find that if you neglected the Engineering plasmids too much you could easily get hacks that were out and out impossible (a solid row of hazards between the start and end). It doesn't help that you can make hacking almost completely consequence free after you pick up the camera and learn Natural Camouflage. If you ever find that you've messed up a hack, just route the pipes into the nearest friendly alarm tile and let the drones buzz around you for a minute while you attempt another hack. I was very glad to finally get enough research to auto-hack drones and turrets though. That minigame was getting seriously old by that point.
I also thought that and EVE based character was likely to be gimp because although ammo is scattered quite liberally throughout Rapture, eve hypos are fairly rare. You'd almost certainly be low on funds if you had to constantly buy them, especially since each hypo doesn't go very far with popular plasmids like Electrobolt. The game would need an "Eve Efficiency" plasmid that cut the costs in half or something if you really wanted to go down that route. It would have to appear early on too because even a single electrobolt on guys running at you would drain your Eve pretty fast, not to mention the fact that you can't build Eve Hypos at U-invent (although by the time you get to U-invent you tend to be swimming in excess ammo anyway).
I have to admit that I'm the kind of guy who explored every single nook and cranny in Bioshock. There were only a couple of rooms I never figured out how to get into (that room behind the water filled generator room in the Little Sister nursery and the ammo jail Fontane's hideout that had the great big physics disabled girder blocking the door (thankfully you could TK the stuff out of that room and I was completely full on ammo by that point anyway)) and I hacked almost everything hackable in the game.
Given how 90% of the ISPs these days provide Usenet access through companies like Giganews, and third party Usenet providers like Usenet.com aren't very common, this could easily be just the first strike against every major Usenet provider.
Looks like someone forgot the first rule of Usenet.
On the other hand, innocent people also don't like being punished just because everybody "knows" they're bad.
The article also mentions how unhealthy habits can be a major contributor to RSI (computer use certainly doesn't help). That said, RMS is the posterboy for unhealthy personal habits.
I do think having the CTRL key way down in the penalty corner (literally the most difficult place for your fingers to reach on a normal keyboard outside of useless multimedia keys) is a major detriment to using EMACS. IMHO anybody who seriously uses it should remap capslock to control and save themselves considerable pain.
Scorch is fun, but it suffers a bit from the same thing the original Scorch did. The computer seems very adept at killing you with their first or second shot, but then spends the next 50 turns taking pitiful shots at the other opponents while you sit and watch from your smoking crater. Also, like the original Scorch it has a tendency to crash.
Theoretically I guess they could say you were already cleared for the first flight, so you should be ok for the rebooked flight.
This concern is moot anyway since an actual reading of the PDF has shown that the Slashdot writeup was wrong and inflammatory.
I guess last minute flights are out the window then huh? It's not like people don't have emergencies that require them to be across the country by tomorrow. I'm sure the counterargument is that "it does us no good to discover that someone 'suspicious' was on a flight that landed two days ago, he might have been a bomber!", but frankly I don't think the extra security is worth the inconvenience in this case. I know that is a rather cavalier thing to say, but in essence all security measures like this are a tradeoff vs. convenience and I feel this one goes way too far.
Where did you get that idea? Your hands and feet are actually the sweatiest parts of your body, and of course they extrude oils, otherwise your skin would be constantly dry and flaky, in fact they are the worst offenders because the skin is thicker there.
I thought the point of jumpgates was that the universe they jumped into was much more compressed than the regular universe, so they moved at the same (slow) speed through that universe, but went through a lot more regular space in the process. Of course any form of FTL travel is going to involve a fair bit of hand wringing, but it's really unavoidable if you want to maintain a cast of characters and not involve timelines that stretch across eons (which sounds cool in theory, but in practice is almost impossible to write).
I suspect that Apple signed a deal with AT&T where the money they normally set aside for offsetting the cost of the subsidized phone is instead given to Apple--which is why the plans are no cheaper despite the fact that you bought the phone outright.
However, if this is the case, then there is really no need for a contract locking them into AT&T. AT&T is out no money on your phone purchase so you really shouldn't be beholden to them. The whole thing smells like a bad deal/greed somewhere along the way.
There's no special flywheel in the Hybrid though, just what you might find in a conventional gasoline engine. From what I've seen, the Prius (which, being the most popular I have the most experience with) doesn't have a flywheel at all on the drivetrain.