I'd imagine that there's also a printer in the mix somewhere. While there are still some parallel port models available, I'd imagine they're hard to come by (and that work with DOS, yet).
I hope the GRRM has a backup strategy, because I'd hate to see what happens when that old system fails!
Maybe because most of the people who were concerned with the above have already bought a PS4? Yeah, the changes are great... and many of the reasons to NOT BUY are now gone, but what are the reason TO BUY an XBOne?
The water pipe to my house doesn't need to be replaced because it was sized properly from day one
Water needs haven't changed that much over the last decade or so. A better comparison might be electricity In that case many homes are insufficient, which will be compounded as EV's etc become more popular.
Internet bandwidth consumption, OTOH, has grown from the days of 56k modems to require multi-MBPS connections. The problem is that the providers are even slower than utilities to upgrade.
Maybe they can't control your vote (except, y'now if they're going to be intercepting people's routers then how hard is it to hack a voting machine), but even if they didn't they could still control the person you voted for. Similar to the movie "J Edgar", having all that intelligence also means a lot of means for blackmailing politicians into doing what you want...
IIRC, a lot of these games DO still support LAN play - BF1942 and most C&C games - so they should still work for local games (or I suppose Hamachi etc)...
The only change I really hate is the "Compose Message" overlay (where it loads in a Div on top of your Inbox). It breaks on certain older browsers, and I've had it do weird things even on some newer ones.
Which is also the reason for the insane fines you hear about when some corporation gets slammed by the EU or a state around here again.
Given that fines in the US cases don't seem to invoke much of a change (we'll just switch from shady practice A to slightly different shady practice B), I'd say that the fines in the US are the one that are insane. Big isn't crazy when it needs to be big to be effective...
"These creatures do not exhibit behaviour of an intelligent being. While they are smarter than the average krrrthat, they appear to lack the ability for direct mind-to-mind communication and instead use a primitive form of sound-wave propagation which would not be feasible in non-planetary environments. Similarly, their ocular organs appears to only discern a limited spectrum of light and cannot see more useful forms of radiation.
Furthermore, their mating and excretory habits are disgusting. Do you know that they rely on precious water to dispose of their waste material. They have a primitive filtration system but still contaminate their overall water supply. Mating involves direct orifice copulation instead of through a Zzapht intermediary.
Truly primitive. Perhaps they might be useful for study or dissection, though. "
The two useful situations I could see (assuming the owner works a regular day schedule) a) Multiple vehicles. One would be charging, the other could be on the road b) Applying this to a parking garage. This might be better bang-for-the-buck - actually - if the top level had a solar collector and then had charging for EV's below it.
Who would really want a plane anyhow. Unless it's among some of the concepts like "repaint and fly into building", I think that the passengers might be more useful as hostages for ransom or some other such thing.
I've had pretty good luck with it thus far, mind you this is same-partition restore, not between devices etc. I have also used it to clone drives with decent success, though usually I have to run through scandisk once afterwards.
Level 3 and Cogent are both guilty of selling cheap bandwidth to internet companies who mostly only send traffic one way
OK... but, WHO CARES. They're sending the traffic one-way because the CUSTOMERS of Verizon, Comcast, etc are REQUESTING the traffic. What is the internet without content?
Yeah, the old updater was slightly annoying with popups etc, but the "solution" (hide it behind a bunch of menus so you almost never see update info) is even worse!
Never mind the "Update", I had major issues where a certain combination of software/drivers was making my system unbootable. After the reboot, win8.1 would get stuck on the splash screen forever. One of the things I try to do is keep my C: down to just the OS and core applications (a side benefit is that it allows it to fit on a 128GB SSD). Games, data, etc go on a different drive.
After the third reinstall, I started going through a step of "install app", "reboot", "backup" and "restore if unbootable"
ntfsclone is your friend. If you pipe it through BZIP2 it'll make a decently small backup file - relative to the OS drive size - that will save your bacon
ntfsclone --save-image -o -/dev/sda1 | bzip2 -c backup.img.bz2
The best part of DVD - at least to me - wasn't the resolution, but rather no longer needing to "rewind" (fast-skip also being a nice part). This was offset by the irritation of some players which didn't let you skip the warning/ads. Luckily cheap players still allowed this, as they ignored the "don't skip" buts. I haven't seen equivalent cheap players in the BD world.
Not many people have a 30-50 Mbit/s internet connection
I presume you mean "not many people in the USA"
Western Canada. City of 10,000 (22k if you count the environs). Internet packages are available up to 250GB/s. It's over $100/mo, but you can get other - still very fast - packages for less.
The usual lag is between when everybody is actually showing up as "ready" in the game. There was a noticable lag on Linux wherein it got really slow while loading the map/graphics/etc (only the first load). This sounds like it will address that issue, at least to some extent.
I can see this situation playing out in a lot of companies
Employee: Hey, I've got this [great idea]. It's innovative and likely to be popular. Here's how it works. Corp: Sounds nice, but there's no guarantee it'll make money. Instead we'll just put out a sequel [game] 2 or perhaps introduce [new game] based on [game]'s existing technology. Maybe we'll get to your idea eventually Employee: OK, we've done that. Now about that idea Corp: Sorry, we'll need you to work on [game] 3 now. But look, it's got prettier graphics Employee: I'm outta here. Nobody listens to my suggestions and so I'm going to [NewCorp] who is interested in my ideas Corp: Hey, NewCorp implemented [great idea] and is making money off of them. We should sue because obviously they stole it from us.
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I'd imagine that there's also a printer in the mix somewhere. While there are still some parallel port models available, I'd imagine they're hard to come by (and that work with DOS, yet).
I hope the GRRM has a backup strategy, because I'd hate to see what happens when that old system fails!
Starships are filled with RedShirts. RedShirts are tasty to the noodly one.
Create a local account without a Gold membership and see if it works?
Maybe because most of the people who were concerned with the above have already bought a PS4? Yeah, the changes are great... and many of the reasons to NOT BUY are now gone, but what are the reason TO BUY an XBOne?
The water pipe to my house doesn't need to be replaced because it was sized properly from day one
Water needs haven't changed that much over the last decade or so. A better comparison might be electricity In that case many homes are insufficient, which will be compounded as EV's etc become more popular.
Internet bandwidth consumption, OTOH, has grown from the days of 56k modems to require multi-MBPS connections. The problem is that the providers are even slower than utilities to upgrade.
The NSA can't control who you vote for.
Well actually...
Maybe they can't control your vote (except, y'now if they're going to be intercepting people's routers then how hard is it to hack a voting machine), but even if they didn't they could still control the person you voted for. Similar to the movie "J Edgar", having all that intelligence also means a lot of means for blackmailing politicians into doing what you want...
IIRC, a lot of these games DO still support LAN play - BF1942 and most C&C games - so they should still work for local games (or I suppose Hamachi etc)...
The only change I really hate is the "Compose Message" overlay (where it loads in a Div on top of your Inbox).
It breaks on certain older browsers, and I've had it do weird things even on some newer ones.
Which is also the reason for the insane fines you hear about when some corporation gets slammed by the EU or a state around here again.
Given that fines in the US cases don't seem to invoke much of a change (we'll just switch from shady practice A to slightly different shady practice B), I'd say that the fines in the US are the one that are insane. Big isn't crazy when it needs to be big to be effective...
"These creatures do not exhibit behaviour of an intelligent being. While they are smarter than the average krrrthat, they appear to lack the ability for direct mind-to-mind communication and instead use a primitive form of sound-wave propagation which would not be feasible in non-planetary environments. Similarly, their ocular organs appears to only discern a limited spectrum of light and cannot see more useful forms of radiation.
Furthermore, their mating and excretory habits are disgusting. Do you know that they rely on precious water to dispose of their waste material. They have a primitive filtration system but still contaminate their overall water supply. Mating involves direct orifice copulation instead of through a Zzapht intermediary.
Truly primitive. Perhaps they might be useful for study or dissection, though.
"
the battery solutions becomes extremely expensive - as expensive as the car itself actually (if not more).
With a little bit of addition for inefficiency of transfer, would you just need roughly the same battery capacity in the garage as the car?
The two useful situations I could see (assuming the owner works a regular day schedule)
a) Multiple vehicles. One would be charging, the other could be on the road
b) Applying this to a parking garage. This might be better bang-for-the-buck - actually - if the top level had a solar collector and then had charging for EV's below it.
With an overlay so that you can see what's in the viewfinder through the *ahem* orifice?
Who would really want a plane anyhow. Unless it's among some of the concepts like "repaint and fly into building", I think that the passengers might be more useful as hostages for ransom or some other such thing.
"you are a pretty bright light for HARM missiles or other radar-seeking technology"
Well, it's a good thing that no bad people deliberately set themselves up amongst civilian infrastructure or on hospitals, etc...
Typo. Up to 250MB/s, though 250GB/s would be cool as well it'd probably be the "wall of diminishing returns" at that point.
The 250MB/s (1TB/mo) is about $120CAD ($110USD).
I've had pretty good luck with it thus far, mind you this is same-partition restore, not between devices etc. I have also used it to clone drives with decent success, though usually I have to run through scandisk once afterwards.
Level 3 and Cogent are both guilty of selling cheap bandwidth to internet companies who mostly only send traffic one way
OK... but, WHO CARES.
They're sending the traffic one-way because the CUSTOMERS of Verizon, Comcast, etc are REQUESTING the traffic. What is the internet without content?
Yeah, the old updater was slightly annoying with popups etc, but the "solution" (hide it behind a bunch of menus so you almost never see update info) is even worse!
Never mind the "Update", I had major issues where a certain combination of software/drivers was making my system unbootable. After the reboot, win8.1 would get stuck on the splash screen forever.
One of the things I try to do is keep my C: down to just the OS and core applications (a side benefit is that it allows it to fit on a 128GB SSD). Games, data, etc go on a different drive.
After the third reinstall, I started going through a step of "install app", "reboot", "backup" and "restore if unbootable"
ntfsclone is your friend. If you pipe it through BZIP2 it'll make a decently small backup file - relative to the OS drive size - that will save your bacon /dev/sda1 | bzip2 -c backup.img.bz2
ntfsclone --save-image -o -
The best part of DVD - at least to me - wasn't the resolution, but rather no longer needing to "rewind" (fast-skip also being a nice part).
This was offset by the irritation of some players which didn't let you skip the warning/ads. Luckily cheap players still allowed this, as they ignored the "don't skip" buts. I haven't seen equivalent cheap players in the BD world.
Not many people have a 30-50 Mbit/s internet connection
I presume you mean "not many people in the USA"
Western Canada. City of 10,000 (22k if you count the environs). Internet packages are available up to 250GB/s.
It's over $100/mo, but you can get other - still very fast - packages for less.
iPhones go to drug cartels
iPhone theft leads to seizure of drugs/guns.
Also, if you can bust the "criminal of opportunity" perhaps it'll stop before reaching the "career criminal" point.
The usual lag is between when everybody is actually showing up as "ready" in the game. There was a noticable lag on Linux wherein it got really slow while loading the map/graphics/etc (only the first load). This sounds like it will address that issue, at least to some extent.
I can see this situation playing out in a lot of companies
Employee: Hey, I've got this [great idea]. It's innovative and likely to be popular. Here's how it works.
Corp: Sounds nice, but there's no guarantee it'll make money. Instead we'll just put out a sequel [game] 2 or perhaps introduce [new game] based on [game]'s existing technology. Maybe we'll get to your idea eventually
Employee: OK, we've done that. Now about that idea
Corp: Sorry, we'll need you to work on [game] 3 now. But look, it's got prettier graphics
Employee: I'm outta here. Nobody listens to my suggestions and so I'm going to [NewCorp] who is interested in my ideas
Corp: Hey, NewCorp implemented [great idea] and is making money off of them. We should sue because obviously they stole it from us.