Right. So an article on this other system can get through all that review with errors or at least with interpretations that are in dispute and unlike on Wikipedia those issues can't be fixed. Well they can be fixed but only after another shit storm of review and if those reviewers agrees etc etc. Wikis are excellent ways to document and organize knowledge in a relatively casual and cheap manner. Stanford setup a system that is slow, potentially still open to bias, definitely still open to mistakes, and requires much more resources. Comparing the two systems is like comparing a scooter to a tank.
I have an Addams Family machine and it isn't too bad. I had to pay someone to take a look at it when we first got it because it was reseting (turned out just to be a harness problem) but lots of the typical repairs require no more than maybe some pliers or a soldering iron. I'm pretty sure that many machines in arcades could be fixed pretty easily but the arcade owners are too lazy or won't take the few minutes to figure out what needs to be done. Parts aren't even that expensive. A whole flipper kit is only like twenty bucks, bulbs are cheap in bulk, etc.
Yeah Stern is pretty much the only company I know of that still makes new machines. There are a lot of collectors still out there though. The real shame is that Stern's new machines are apparently not all that great. I've heard they'll change the graphics on an old playing field setup and then release it as a new machine which is really lame. The creativity in the older machines is much better. I have an Addams Family machine which is in great working order. I had to spend some time and money to get it working well again though.
On the HTC EVO you can get 2.2 now if you go to settings > system update > HTC software update. They're rolling out the update notifications in waves I hear but you can force the upgrade if you want to right now. So far it hasn't been a huge change for me but the little tweaks have been positive so far.
Joking? I work in the aircraft industry and most of the mechanical problems we see are due to human error. There's almost certainly some selection bias but at least a good chunk of mechanical problems are the fault of the airline, not random.
End game WoW content is a great example of how multiplayer can suck. You have to depend on others to get anything done. While this can be fun if you can schedule your life around game time and find a good group to group up with regularly, the vast majority of people can't do that with their lives. So instead you occasionally get in with a group of randoms and no matter how good you are the success is based on the collective which is bad at least as much as it is good.
Obviously that's what the game is but too often developers apply the same logic to their other games instead of making them compelling in other ways.
Well don't feel bad. I really liked the original Starcraft. In fact I started back with Warcraft and played through all the sequels and expansions for Warcraft and Starcraft games as they came out.
I was never a huge fan of multiplayer. I never really understood how I was doing so poorly relative to random people I was being matched with until I watched some videos. Just watching the clicking makes my hand hurt. The stupid mechanic of moving the unit being attacked away over and over is obnoxious.
Multiplayer usually turns me off because it means other people factor into my gaming which means other people can make my gaming time suck. That's not fun.
They did respond. They're effectively saying, "this is stupid." They don't need to give more of a response because while Apple has created a few phones Nokia and RIM have created hundreds of different models from the stupid to the very cutting edge smart phone. It is like Starbucks getting into the light bulb industry and telling GE they're doing it wrong. It isn't worth dignifying with a response.
Yeah for a second I thought I was supposed to be upset because they're letting people get so close. Sixty five feet can be annoyingly close to a work site at sea.
Okay I guess you could just have a really fancy cable that splits that power/video/internet/usb/etc mess out into standard connectors to be hooked up to my wall/tivo/access point/computers (or whatever)/etc but that is going to be the mother of all cables. More likely you'll need yet another powered splitter box to do the transition. I like the idea of fewer cables but I don't see the value of this unless we're going to all get our homes rewired to have these master plugs instead of wall outlets.
As an engineer I agree with this message. I made a twitter account because my phone really seemed to want one and I thought a few entertainers I like might have good tweets. So far they don't and twitter still seems stupid.
I use PDFs daily and to my knowledge they still don't re-position and re-scale content. That's the same reason PDFs suck for books. Unless you're on a screen that the PDF was laid out for you're going to be dealing with wasted space or scrolling a lot. Now for a target device (like the ipad) I agree that it seems reasonable to just have a vertical and horizontal version of each page maybe even with some hooks to swap automatically.
There are different types of devices but what shops use are usually just reading maintenance message logs. Some devices can make some adjustment or even schedule changes. It takes another type of device to load an entirely new software into NVM provided someone has the know how and tools to generate the software. I'm not saying you are wrong in anything you've stated at all. I'm just trying to point out to people that doing the things that many people here are talking about isn't as trivial as the description makes it seem.
I have a sprint blackberry and can tether it via bluetooth and use it as a modem. It is neat but using a usb cable is definitely preferred because you kill the battery in no time otherwise.
What is odd is that Sprint is currently pretty happy with people using their smart phones as modems. I can tether my blackberry (via bluetooth or usb) to a laptop and get online easily. Some companies charge extra for this and sometimes it requires setting up a special connection and such. Sprint actually has an application that makes it as simple as tethering and clicking an icon. So I'm a little surprised they're going to charge so much extra when currently I can tether my phone to a device. I wonder if I'll still be able to do that without paying for the 8 device deal.
Glad to know I didn't imagine using this throughout college to access my dorm computer from any computer on campus. Normally the viewer is small enough and requires no install so you can just use that anyway. The web interface was/is only really needed when it is a machine you can't or don't want to put the viewer on.
Not really. Texas, like MA, just happens to have a situations that allows wind farm companies to get land, buy and build turbines, and then sell their power at rates unhinged from the market. The Cape Wind project isn't going to do much besides cost the public a lot of money and make Cape Wind very wealthy.
I've been to conferences at Mathworks. They're actually very responsive to their customers. They have market dominance and they actively work to maintain that by making their product the way their customers want it to be. They practically beg their users to give them ideas.
Typical argument from people who have never been to the cape or have no clue concerning Cape Wind. Here's some knowledge for you. The majority of the people on the cape and in fact the majority of people against Cape Wind are not rich. They do not have ocean views. They are working class people who are going to see their energy costs go up for no appreciable reason other than a private company exploited state and federal laws to get public land/water and public money to build a private power plant that the public will be forced to buy overpriced power from.
Sounds like you don't know anyone in the area. The biggest objections are from the working class people on the cape who live there year round and will see their energy costs go up for no good reason. The wind farm will be a money pit and the energy it eventually produces will be overpriced. Energy companies in MA are required to purchase renewable energy if available though. So many of us in MA will see our power bills go up all so "environmentalists" can have their proof of concept. The majority of people complaining just realize that the money could be better spent.
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Right. So an article on this other system can get through all that review with errors or at least with interpretations that are in dispute and unlike on Wikipedia those issues can't be fixed. Well they can be fixed but only after another shit storm of review and if those reviewers agrees etc etc. Wikis are excellent ways to document and organize knowledge in a relatively casual and cheap manner. Stanford setup a system that is slow, potentially still open to bias, definitely still open to mistakes, and requires much more resources. Comparing the two systems is like comparing a scooter to a tank.
I think they're including failure by the maintenance staff, airplane manufacturer, etc as human error.
I have an Addams Family machine and it isn't too bad. I had to pay someone to take a look at it when we first got it because it was reseting (turned out just to be a harness problem) but lots of the typical repairs require no more than maybe some pliers or a soldering iron. I'm pretty sure that many machines in arcades could be fixed pretty easily but the arcade owners are too lazy or won't take the few minutes to figure out what needs to be done. Parts aren't even that expensive. A whole flipper kit is only like twenty bucks, bulbs are cheap in bulk, etc.
Yeah Stern is pretty much the only company I know of that still makes new machines. There are a lot of collectors still out there though. The real shame is that Stern's new machines are apparently not all that great. I've heard they'll change the graphics on an old playing field setup and then release it as a new machine which is really lame. The creativity in the older machines is much better. I have an Addams Family machine which is in great working order. I had to spend some time and money to get it working well again though.
On the HTC EVO you can get 2.2 now if you go to settings > system update > HTC software update. They're rolling out the update notifications in waves I hear but you can force the upgrade if you want to right now. So far it hasn't been a huge change for me but the little tweaks have been positive so far.
Joking? I work in the aircraft industry and most of the mechanical problems we see are due to human error. There's almost certainly some selection bias but at least a good chunk of mechanical problems are the fault of the airline, not random.
End game WoW content is a great example of how multiplayer can suck. You have to depend on others to get anything done. While this can be fun if you can schedule your life around game time and find a good group to group up with regularly, the vast majority of people can't do that with their lives. So instead you occasionally get in with a group of randoms and no matter how good you are the success is based on the collective which is bad at least as much as it is good. Obviously that's what the game is but too often developers apply the same logic to their other games instead of making them compelling in other ways.
Well don't feel bad. I really liked the original Starcraft. In fact I started back with Warcraft and played through all the sequels and expansions for Warcraft and Starcraft games as they came out. I was never a huge fan of multiplayer. I never really understood how I was doing so poorly relative to random people I was being matched with until I watched some videos. Just watching the clicking makes my hand hurt. The stupid mechanic of moving the unit being attacked away over and over is obnoxious. Multiplayer usually turns me off because it means other people factor into my gaming which means other people can make my gaming time suck. That's not fun.
They did respond. They're effectively saying, "this is stupid." They don't need to give more of a response because while Apple has created a few phones Nokia and RIM have created hundreds of different models from the stupid to the very cutting edge smart phone. It is like Starbucks getting into the light bulb industry and telling GE they're doing it wrong. It isn't worth dignifying with a response.
Yeah for a second I thought I was supposed to be upset because they're letting people get so close. Sixty five feet can be annoyingly close to a work site at sea.
Okay I guess you could just have a really fancy cable that splits that power/video/internet/usb/etc mess out into standard connectors to be hooked up to my wall/tivo/access point/computers (or whatever)/etc but that is going to be the mother of all cables. More likely you'll need yet another powered splitter box to do the transition. I like the idea of fewer cables but I don't see the value of this unless we're going to all get our homes rewired to have these master plugs instead of wall outlets.
I do not like Tesla because they take Lotus Elises and screw them up. I can't support a car company that has a business of messing up my favorite car.
Coat everything in a thick and bulky neutral colored plastic shell and charge $40,000 and you'll start to have an actual medical imaging product.
As an engineer I agree with this message. I made a twitter account because my phone really seemed to want one and I thought a few entertainers I like might have good tweets. So far they don't and twitter still seems stupid.
I use PDFs daily and to my knowledge they still don't re-position and re-scale content. That's the same reason PDFs suck for books. Unless you're on a screen that the PDF was laid out for you're going to be dealing with wasted space or scrolling a lot. Now for a target device (like the ipad) I agree that it seems reasonable to just have a vertical and horizontal version of each page maybe even with some hooks to swap automatically.
A house of cards has to be carefully thought out and assembled. Your comparison is invalid.
There are different types of devices but what shops use are usually just reading maintenance message logs. Some devices can make some adjustment or even schedule changes. It takes another type of device to load an entirely new software into NVM provided someone has the know how and tools to generate the software. I'm not saying you are wrong in anything you've stated at all. I'm just trying to point out to people that doing the things that many people here are talking about isn't as trivial as the description makes it seem.
I have a sprint blackberry and can tether it via bluetooth and use it as a modem. It is neat but using a usb cable is definitely preferred because you kill the battery in no time otherwise.
What is odd is that Sprint is currently pretty happy with people using their smart phones as modems. I can tether my blackberry (via bluetooth or usb) to a laptop and get online easily. Some companies charge extra for this and sometimes it requires setting up a special connection and such. Sprint actually has an application that makes it as simple as tethering and clicking an icon. So I'm a little surprised they're going to charge so much extra when currently I can tether my phone to a device. I wonder if I'll still be able to do that without paying for the 8 device deal.
Glad to know I didn't imagine using this throughout college to access my dorm computer from any computer on campus. Normally the viewer is small enough and requires no install so you can just use that anyway. The web interface was/is only really needed when it is a machine you can't or don't want to put the viewer on.
Not really. Texas, like MA, just happens to have a situations that allows wind farm companies to get land, buy and build turbines, and then sell their power at rates unhinged from the market. The Cape Wind project isn't going to do much besides cost the public a lot of money and make Cape Wind very wealthy.
I've been to conferences at Mathworks. They're actually very responsive to their customers. They have market dominance and they actively work to maintain that by making their product the way their customers want it to be. They practically beg their users to give them ideas.
I AM a Matlab user and I do not care... Not even a little bit.
Typical argument from people who have never been to the cape or have no clue concerning Cape Wind. Here's some knowledge for you. The majority of the people on the cape and in fact the majority of people against Cape Wind are not rich. They do not have ocean views. They are working class people who are going to see their energy costs go up for no appreciable reason other than a private company exploited state and federal laws to get public land/water and public money to build a private power plant that the public will be forced to buy overpriced power from.
Sounds like you don't know anyone in the area. The biggest objections are from the working class people on the cape who live there year round and will see their energy costs go up for no good reason. The wind farm will be a money pit and the energy it eventually produces will be overpriced. Energy companies in MA are required to purchase renewable energy if available though. So many of us in MA will see our power bills go up all so "environmentalists" can have their proof of concept. The majority of people complaining just realize that the money could be better spent.