There was decent interest, but they only had the fund-raising run for a couple of months.
The Star Citizen game is around 16mill last I looked, but it's been gathering funds for like a year. But that's not escrow, so they've been using the funds they already got to do actual work.
I haven't tried it yet, but a couple of my friends really dig the UI on Unity and haven't complained about bugs. I was actually going to download a Live CD this weekend to try it out
The first few minutes of a RARE outage for me, even a single site, I often assume it might be a hiccup with my connection. In which case I either let my PC sit for a couple of minutes (or reboot) while I grab a glass of water.
Reboot? Seriously?
I tend to run my machines non-stop for weeks on end. So if I'm having an odd performance / connectivity issue and I'm going to go get a glass of water anyway then I might as well use that time to reboot unless I have something important running.
Between an SSD drive and decent all-around kit, it's usually done rebooting before I've even filled my glass with water.
The first few minutes of a RARE outage for me, even a single site, I often assume it might be a hiccup with my connection.
In which case I either let my PC sit for a couple of minutes (or reboot) while I grab a glass of water.
If everything is working by the time I get back, then cool. If not then I start to investigate and act accordingly. My PC? My connection? The DNS I'm using? This site's service provider? etc.
However it's quite rare that I have an ISP issue or one of the sites I traffic often has an issue let alone one that lasts more than a couple of minutes.
I'm fine with Bing... it works well enough. Some of my coding / tech searches work better with Google but the difference isn't that huge.
That being said, all of my browsers are set to Google... so when I just type something into the address bar without the full url it does a Google search. If Google went down I'd have to go and toggle my option back to Bing; between my PCs + iPad + phones it would take a couple of minutes to do so Google would have to be down longer than a few minutes for me to bother... or would have to be down frequently.
I take it you mean Sony, though I don't recall which scenario you meant in particular since they'd done a lot of garbage in the past.
I'm kind of torn. Sony has done some insanely bad things to the consumers over the years with rootkits and what-not.
The PS4 looks like an interesting piece of hardware, but I'm kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop and we find out that Sony is going to require or incorporate something insane with the unit. The only thing pushing back is they're seeing the backlash with Microsoft and don't want any of "that" coming their way.
LOL, I see that too. Here in NJ the speed limit is (usually) 65MpH on the major highways. But I see out-of-staters and such riding at 55MpH even though they've passed like their 3rd speed-limit-sign. So either they're not paying enough attention (and are dangerous) or are stupid and think the state posted the wrong sign umpteen times.
One guy I was speaking to while travelling said the national speed limit was 55MpH and there was no such thing as a USA highway (interstate or otherwise) with a 65 or 75 limit; and anyone who said otherwise was lying to get out of a ticket. I chuckled and thought he was kidding or trying to be ironic, but it turns out he actually believed that.
I can understand the left-lane being safer. With the right-lane you have people jumping in to take that exit they're about to miss and perhaps sideswiping you, people parked on the shoulder, people merging with traffic, etc. I've never seen hard-data but I wouldn't doubt that it's true. I could see the middle-lane being the in-between-safety.
But then, as you say, try to stay in a high-percentile of the speed. Don't drive insane-speeds, but at least keep up with the flow of traffic.
Personally I don't like to scoot around lane-to-lane and I don't mind if it takes me another couple of minutes to get where I'm going.
However it drives me nuts when I see the open highway in front of these 2-3 cars (nothing ahead for miles) and I look in my rear-view mirror and see traffic or congestion because nobody can pass them. It's an accident waiting to happen BECAUSE when the people in the congestion want to get over to the right for their inevitable exit's hard to get over because everyone is so clumped together. Which shouldn't be the case because in front of those 2-3 cars is just empty highway.
Seriously, this is annoying as heck. Either because they're going under the speed limit, or they're going at the exact-speed as the guy in the next lane and blocking traffic. And the highways by me are plastered with "Left lane pass only" or "keep to right except to pass"
Under the speed limit is obvious...
But the same-speed thing bothers me. NOT when it's rush hour... there's nothing to be done about that.
But it's mid-day and some idiot decides to cruise on the left-lane at the EXACT speed as the guy in the next lane. Nobody in front of either of them as far as the eye can see. So traffic is building up and up behind them and causing congestion because nobody can pass these 2-or-3 cars in front of them.
If you want to be going as the same speed as the guy in the middle or right lane, then GET IN the middle or right lane!
ADDENDUM... especially when the left-lane idiot is going the same speed as the dump-truck next to him. So everyone is getting pelted with small pebbles and things and are unable to pass.
Lets say you want 10,000 square kilometers of "surface" area to build up there.
One large area would take fewer resources / parts / complexity than 100 mini floating modules of 100 square kilometers. That's even factoring in like airlocks and such every X kilos. More materials, more repairs, overall more of everything. What's quicker / easier to build and maintain: a single large box to hold a lot of stuff, or a bunch of small boxes to hold a similar volume? And that's just wood-and-nails.
If the earth truly is trashed then raw materials and time were an important factor.
On the other hand, the 100 mini floating modules would be better in most other ways. Easier to cope with disasters such as meteor-strike, fires, catastrophic part failure, etc. And considering we're talking about SPACE here, you probably want the safer and more redundant method up there.
So yeh, personally I agree with the mini floating modules with interchangeable parts when talking about space. But large monolithic beast might have had its reasons.
I was the same way: I never had one and wanted to try. I finally had one when I was like 20yo: I couldn't take more than a bit or two and threw the rest out.
I'm not a pastry snob or anything: I've tried and enjoyed a number of mass-produced pasties. I used to LOVE Butterscotch Krimpets.
But I can't see why the Twinkie is so popular, it tastes like junk. I mean: out of all of the mass-produced pasties out there... Twinkies are like the bottom of the barrel. Even the other Hostess products were better.
Well, we've seen Superwoman/girl, Batgirl, Spider-woman, Wonder Woman, Power Girl, etc. so a female so Dr. Who wouldn't be such a big deal...
Barring one-shots and alternate-realities, all of the above have one thing in common. They're separate people that exist along-side their male counter-parts.
So, I'd be cool with a show following River or some other female Time Lord. Like for a whole season we have one of them using the TARDIS to find a lost Doctor. But switching the gender of the actual character? That's a little different.
I wouldn't be opposed to it per-se, so long as the writing stays as fun as it is now. Personally I liked River's aggressive personality. But to switch it would seem like doing it "just because"
I used to use Netflix DVD renting, but I watched few enough movies that I wound up paying for months and months of idle usage. So I eventually cut the cord.
RedBox is similarly far away, about as far as the nearest DVD rental store. They used to have one at the same shopping-mall where the DVD rental store was. But then the RedBox went away and got replaced by an A&P equivalent rental-machine. And then the A&P rental-machine went away.
So between Netflix OnDemand and iTunes rental I'm covered for most of my stuff.
Read the message again. I said it USED to be 3/4 of a mile away and in walking distance. I used to walk down to that shopping center for the exercise.
But THEN they closed those down.
NOW the nearest rental place is a 20-30 minute drive. That's like 9 miles each way, 18 round-trip. That's not worth the walk unless I want to make a big afternoon exercise excursion out of it.
Most of the DVD-rental places near me have closed and they removed a lot of those RedBox kiosks. So now I use Netflix and iTunes.
Sure, back in the day when I could just drive or walk 3/4 of a mile somewhere and get my DVDs (or VHS way back) it wasn't that bad. Although I had to deal with the fact that the movie I wanted to see wasn't in selection: either popular and it was rented out, or not popular enough and they either zero copies or only 1 copy that someone hadn't returned yet. Or maybe they put the movie in the wrong place. Or they re-organized things *again* and I had to find the stupid thing. But it was OK.
But now it's a hassle to go out and find a disc to rent: it's at least 30 minutes of my time and I have to waste gas going each way.
Meanwhile I can see if Netflix has it or rent it from iTunes. Sure the iTunes rental is a little more expensive than the old Blockbuster prices... but it's not too bad. And if it saves me from having to waste 30 minutes of my time and 0.5 gallons of gas then it's worth it.
Even in prior seasons users have commented that Dexter has changed and was starting to demonstrate empathy.
As opposed to the Pilot, where he says his beard-girlfriend appears to have feelings for him and he casually says "I think that's nice" but otherwise doesn't care.
For the most part, I agree. There is too much lighting.
But sometimes, there is way too little.
I live in a townhouse complex with very little light. If you're a visitor coming to my place, you need a flashlight because the path from the parking lot to my place is heller dark for at least 100 yards. Honestly, if the neighborhood wasn't as nice as it was even I'd be worried. One visitor said it's "Rapey dark out there"
Meanwhile, BECAUSE so many people are used to heavy lighting not everyone keeps a flashlight in their car and not everyone has the option on their cellphone for a mini-flashlight. So I get a bunch of complaints when people come to my place for the first time.
Honestly, I'm considering trying out some solar-battery things to plant around my unit to see if that helps a little. Unfortunately because of tree-cover they won't be lots of light, but honestly they'd only really need to run for a few hours a night when company would be coming over.
Do none of your phones have an OFF button? You know, turn the phone off at night or must you be reachable 24/7/365?
Many have started relying on the cellphone as their only phone. Between high minute offerings and how more electronic forms of communication have replaced the phone call.. it's not outlandish. Though you're asking for trouble if you have an emergency to phone in while the cells are down (like during hurricane Sandy).
So people tend to leave the phone on and plugged in overnight for use the next day, and take advantage of the alarm clocks feature.
So it going off early as heck would be a problem: on, plugged in, waiting to wake up the users a few hours later.
In this case, the new "feature" added to some phones recently are on my default and most don't even know about the feature or that it was pushed to them.
I think they even make the town if you put the phone on silent... but I'm not sure about that one.
Yeh, mine went off a couple of weeks ago for a flood warning. I was already in the office and my phone and a few others went off. They made strange tones as opposed to the normal email/txt/phone tones.
Meanwhile, my co-worker was still driving to work when his went off. He never heard it before, it apparently was piped through the car speakers via bluetooth, and scared the heck out of him. He joked that he could've had a crash/accident when it went off, but I don't think it's that far of a stretch to assume.
Personally, in my NJ suburban area Sandy hit us a lot worse than either Irene or that freak snow storm around Halloween 2011.
I don't remember much about Irene actually. I think we were without power at my parents house for like a 2-3 days but some co-workers were pushing a week. Some were without water, but in my case I was just mildly inconvenienced. And gas wasn't that hard to find.
A few months later we had the freak snow storm around Halloween. The leaves were still on the trees due to a mild autumn and as a result the heavy snow took out branches which took out TONS of powerlines. Lots of places without power for a week. My parents were without power for 6 days and 12 hours. THAT I remember more vividly, because being without power for a week really stinks. Meanwhile a co-worker closer to NY said she had no issues, but she was in an area with far fewer trees. Gas was still not a big deal though, but harder than Irene.
I moved into a townhouse a few months before Sandy. It was a bad storm and I considered staying in the basement at one point due to the debris flying and hitting the sides of the townhouses. My parents got power back in like 7 days... my townhouse was out for 9 days. Getting gas was VERY difficult this time in my area. Trees fell on houses nearby. Roads were closed. And our section of NJ isn't exactly near the coast or even NY.
Meanwhile, I talked to the neighbors at my townhouse association... they were upset because this was like the first time in a decade that they lost power for more than a couple of hours. Since the associations lines are all underground and the lines in the actual town normally faired pretty well. This time though, it was bad.
Darn, I saw the AC response before I saw this one.
My reaction is a post above this. It's along the lines of "teaching kids respect for firearms is practically a necessity if you have a young kid" And you can do your best to keep them away from it.
But ultimately I, personally, would just be too paranoid that one day my kid might peak and learn the combo or whatever... show his friend... and as careful as he is *something* happens and now one kid is dead. Too much risk for me.
But that's just me. I also think Motorcycles are cool but frankly I don't want to deal with the risk of having a bad crash on one.
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There was decent interest, but they only had the fund-raising run for a couple of months.
The Star Citizen game is around 16mill last I looked, but it's been gathering funds for like a year. But that's not escrow, so they've been using the funds they already got to do actual work.
Really?
I haven't tried it yet, but a couple of my friends really dig the UI on Unity and haven't complained about bugs. I was actually going to download a Live CD this weekend to try it out
The first few minutes of a RARE outage for me, even a single site, I often assume it might be a hiccup with my connection.
In which case I either let my PC sit for a couple of minutes (or reboot) while I grab a glass of water.
Reboot? Seriously?
I tend to run my machines non-stop for weeks on end. So if I'm having an odd performance / connectivity issue and I'm going to go get a glass of water anyway then I might as well use that time to reboot unless I have something important running.
Between an SSD drive and decent all-around kit, it's usually done rebooting before I've even filled my glass with water.
^^THIS^^
The first few minutes of a RARE outage for me, even a single site, I often assume it might be a hiccup with my connection.
In which case I either let my PC sit for a couple of minutes (or reboot) while I grab a glass of water.
If everything is working by the time I get back, then cool. If not then I start to investigate and act accordingly. My PC? My connection? The DNS I'm using? This site's service provider? etc.
However it's quite rare that I have an ISP issue or one of the sites I traffic often has an issue let alone one that lasts more than a couple of minutes.
I'm fine with Bing... it works well enough. Some of my coding / tech searches work better with Google but the difference isn't that huge.
That being said, all of my browsers are set to Google... so when I just type something into the address bar without the full url it does a Google search. If Google went down I'd have to go and toggle my option back to Bing; between my PCs + iPad + phones it would take a couple of minutes to do so Google would have to be down longer than a few minutes for me to bother... or would have to be down frequently.
"RadioTimes.com Accidentally Included In UK Antipiracy Blocking"
So... were they put in the list to block anti-piracy? Or put in the list to block piracy? /sarcasm
The title COULD be a little on the ambiguous side, even though it's obvious what they mean in the context.
I take it you mean Sony, though I don't recall which scenario you meant in particular since they'd done a lot of garbage in the past.
I'm kind of torn. Sony has done some insanely bad things to the consumers over the years with rootkits and what-not.
The PS4 looks like an interesting piece of hardware, but I'm kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop and we find out that Sony is going to require or incorporate something insane with the unit. The only thing pushing back is they're seeing the backlash with Microsoft and don't want any of "that" coming their way.
LOL, I see that too. Here in NJ the speed limit is (usually) 65MpH on the major highways. But I see out-of-staters and such riding at 55MpH even though they've passed like their 3rd speed-limit-sign. So either they're not paying enough attention (and are dangerous) or are stupid and think the state posted the wrong sign umpteen times.
One guy I was speaking to while travelling said the national speed limit was 55MpH and there was no such thing as a USA highway (interstate or otherwise) with a 65 or 75 limit; and anyone who said otherwise was lying to get out of a ticket. I chuckled and thought he was kidding or trying to be ironic, but it turns out he actually believed that.
I can understand the left-lane being safer. With the right-lane you have people jumping in to take that exit they're about to miss and perhaps sideswiping you, people parked on the shoulder, people merging with traffic, etc. I've never seen hard-data but I wouldn't doubt that it's true. I could see the middle-lane being the in-between-safety.
But then, as you say, try to stay in a high-percentile of the speed. Don't drive insane-speeds, but at least keep up with the flow of traffic.
Personally I don't like to scoot around lane-to-lane and I don't mind if it takes me another couple of minutes to get where I'm going.
However it drives me nuts when I see the open highway in front of these 2-3 cars (nothing ahead for miles) and I look in my rear-view mirror and see traffic or congestion because nobody can pass them. It's an accident waiting to happen BECAUSE when the people in the congestion want to get over to the right for their inevitable exit's hard to get over because everyone is so clumped together. Which shouldn't be the case because in front of those 2-3 cars is just empty highway.
Seriously, this is annoying as heck. Either because they're going under the speed limit, or they're going at the exact-speed as the guy in the next lane and blocking traffic. And the highways by me are plastered with "Left lane pass only" or "keep to right except to pass"
Under the speed limit is obvious...
But the same-speed thing bothers me. NOT when it's rush hour... there's nothing to be done about that.
But it's mid-day and some idiot decides to cruise on the left-lane at the EXACT speed as the guy in the next lane. Nobody in front of either of them as far as the eye can see. So traffic is building up and up behind them and causing congestion because nobody can pass these 2-or-3 cars in front of them.
If you want to be going as the same speed as the guy in the middle or right lane, then GET IN the middle or right lane!
ADDENDUM... especially when the left-lane idiot is going the same speed as the dump-truck next to him. So everyone is getting pelted with small pebbles and things and are unable to pass.
Meh, it's give-and-take.
Lets say you want 10,000 square kilometers of "surface" area to build up there.
One large area would take fewer resources / parts / complexity than 100 mini floating modules of 100 square kilometers. That's even factoring in like airlocks and such every X kilos. More materials, more repairs, overall more of everything. What's quicker / easier to build and maintain: a single large box to hold a lot of stuff, or a bunch of small boxes to hold a similar volume? And that's just wood-and-nails.
If the earth truly is trashed then raw materials and time were an important factor.
On the other hand, the 100 mini floating modules would be better in most other ways. Easier to cope with disasters such as meteor-strike, fires, catastrophic part failure, etc. And considering we're talking about SPACE here, you probably want the safer and more redundant method up there.
So yeh, personally I agree with the mini floating modules with interchangeable parts when talking about space. But large monolithic beast might have had its reasons.
Don't bother trying it.
I was the same way: I never had one and wanted to try. I finally had one when I was like 20yo: I couldn't take more than a bit or two and threw the rest out.
I'm not a pastry snob or anything: I've tried and enjoyed a number of mass-produced pasties. I used to LOVE Butterscotch Krimpets.
But I can't see why the Twinkie is so popular, it tastes like junk. I mean: out of all of the mass-produced pasties out there... Twinkies are like the bottom of the barrel. Even the other Hostess products were better.
Really? I heard
There are nooooo cats on Maaarrs, and the streets are paved with cheeese!
Well, we've seen Superwoman/girl, Batgirl, Spider-woman, Wonder Woman, Power Girl, etc. so a female so Dr. Who wouldn't be such a big deal...
Barring one-shots and alternate-realities, all of the above have one thing in common. They're separate people that exist along-side their male counter-parts.
So, I'd be cool with a show following River or some other female Time Lord. Like for a whole season we have one of them using the TARDIS to find a lost Doctor. But switching the gender of the actual character? That's a little different.
I wouldn't be opposed to it per-se, so long as the writing stays as fun as it is now. Personally I liked River's aggressive personality. But to switch it would seem like doing it "just because"
I recall one of the old old assistants would actually show him up intellectually quite often. It's been a while: maybe I'm thinking of Mel?
I just recall a couple of them were quite smart, and then one or two of them were more fighting-skills than intelligence.
Actually, read above. The Doctor recently talked about a Time Lord friend of his who would choose to swap genders on occasion during regenerations.
Episode = "The Doctor's Wife"
The Time Lord in question is "The Corsair"
I'm not saying I want it to happen, in fact I prefer they leave it alone. But the writers opened the door.
I used to use Netflix DVD renting, but I watched few enough movies that I wound up paying for months and months of idle usage. So I eventually cut the cord.
RedBox is similarly far away, about as far as the nearest DVD rental store. They used to have one at the same shopping-mall where the DVD rental store was. But then the RedBox went away and got replaced by an A&P equivalent rental-machine. And then the A&P rental-machine went away.
So between Netflix OnDemand and iTunes rental I'm covered for most of my stuff.
Read the message again. I said it USED to be 3/4 of a mile away and in walking distance. I used to walk down to that shopping center for the exercise.
But THEN they closed those down.
NOW the nearest rental place is a 20-30 minute drive. That's like 9 miles each way, 18 round-trip. That's not worth the walk unless I want to make a big afternoon exercise excursion out of it.
Most of the DVD-rental places near me have closed and they removed a lot of those RedBox kiosks. So now I use Netflix and iTunes.
Sure, back in the day when I could just drive or walk 3/4 of a mile somewhere and get my DVDs (or VHS way back) it wasn't that bad. Although I had to deal with the fact that the movie I wanted to see wasn't in selection: either popular and it was rented out, or not popular enough and they either zero copies or only 1 copy that someone hadn't returned yet. Or maybe they put the movie in the wrong place. Or they re-organized things *again* and I had to find the stupid thing. But it was OK.
But now it's a hassle to go out and find a disc to rent: it's at least 30 minutes of my time and I have to waste gas going each way.
Meanwhile I can see if Netflix has it or rent it from iTunes. Sure the iTunes rental is a little more expensive than the old Blockbuster prices... but it's not too bad. And if it saves me from having to waste 30 minutes of my time and 0.5 gallons of gas then it's worth it.
Not really.
Even in prior seasons users have commented that Dexter has changed and was starting to demonstrate empathy.
As opposed to the Pilot, where he says his beard-girlfriend appears to have feelings for him and he casually says "I think that's nice" but otherwise doesn't care.
Then later seasons, he emotes more.
And NOW the shrink is commenting on it.
For the most part, I agree. There is too much lighting.
But sometimes, there is way too little.
I live in a townhouse complex with very little light. If you're a visitor coming to my place, you need a flashlight because the path from the parking lot to my place is heller dark for at least 100 yards. Honestly, if the neighborhood wasn't as nice as it was even I'd be worried. One visitor said it's "Rapey dark out there"
Meanwhile, BECAUSE so many people are used to heavy lighting not everyone keeps a flashlight in their car and not everyone has the option on their cellphone for a mini-flashlight. So I get a bunch of complaints when people come to my place for the first time.
Honestly, I'm considering trying out some solar-battery things to plant around my unit to see if that helps a little. Unfortunately because of tree-cover they won't be lots of light, but honestly they'd only really need to run for a few hours a night when company would be coming over.
Do none of your phones have an OFF button? You know, turn the phone off at night or must you be reachable 24/7/365?
Many have started relying on the cellphone as their only phone. Between high minute offerings and how more electronic forms of communication have replaced the phone call.. it's not outlandish. Though you're asking for trouble if you have an emergency to phone in while the cells are down (like during hurricane Sandy).
So people tend to leave the phone on and plugged in overnight for use the next day, and take advantage of the alarm clocks feature.
So it going off early as heck would be a problem: on, plugged in, waiting to wake up the users a few hours later.
In this case, the new "feature" added to some phones recently are on my default and most don't even know about the feature or that it was pushed to them.
I think they even make the town if you put the phone on silent... but I'm not sure about that one.
Yeh, mine went off a couple of weeks ago for a flood warning. I was already in the office and my phone and a few others went off. They made strange tones as opposed to the normal email/txt/phone tones.
Meanwhile, my co-worker was still driving to work when his went off. He never heard it before, it apparently was piped through the car speakers via bluetooth, and scared the heck out of him. He joked that he could've had a crash/accident when it went off, but I don't think it's that far of a stretch to assume.
Personally, in my NJ suburban area Sandy hit us a lot worse than either Irene or that freak snow storm around Halloween 2011.
I don't remember much about Irene actually. I think we were without power at my parents house for like a 2-3 days but some co-workers were pushing a week. Some were without water, but in my case I was just mildly inconvenienced. And gas wasn't that hard to find.
A few months later we had the freak snow storm around Halloween. The leaves were still on the trees due to a mild autumn and as a result the heavy snow took out branches which took out TONS of powerlines. Lots of places without power for a week. My parents were without power for 6 days and 12 hours. THAT I remember more vividly, because being without power for a week really stinks. Meanwhile a co-worker closer to NY said she had no issues, but she was in an area with far fewer trees. Gas was still not a big deal though, but harder than Irene.
I moved into a townhouse a few months before Sandy. It was a bad storm and I considered staying in the basement at one point due to the debris flying and hitting the sides of the townhouses. My parents got power back in like 7 days... my townhouse was out for 9 days. Getting gas was VERY difficult this time in my area. Trees fell on houses nearby. Roads were closed. And our section of NJ isn't exactly near the coast or even NY.
Meanwhile, I talked to the neighbors at my townhouse association... they were upset because this was like the first time in a decade that they lost power for more than a couple of hours. Since the associations lines are all underground and the lines in the actual town normally faired pretty well. This time though, it was bad.
Darn, I saw the AC response before I saw this one.
My reaction is a post above this. It's along the lines of "teaching kids respect for firearms is practically a necessity if you have a young kid" And you can do your best to keep them away from it.
But ultimately I, personally, would just be too paranoid that one day my kid might peak and learn the combo or whatever... show his friend... and as careful as he is *something* happens and now one kid is dead. Too much risk for me.
But that's just me. I also think Motorcycles are cool but frankly I don't want to deal with the risk of having a bad crash on one.