I never disagreed with you on any of your technical points, what I took offense to was that you brought up a completely useless point in your reply to icebike. VLC works for him, that was all he said, you then asked him about the support of of formats he dont have any need for (or if he does, they are already covered). What you should have done is start your own thread with your complaints/gripes about players.
Ah, AC. Welcome. I see you've finally met Tepples.
Honestly, if someone's willing to subject themselves to EA's bullshit for the sake of playing "Giants @ Broncos" instead of "Ogres @ Stallions," then they deserve everything they get.
Probably doesn't hurt that they're already nice and warmed up by the NFL already. EA doesn't seem the type to mind sloppy seconds.
It actually does (did?) load faster than MS office, if one tweaks their system to prevent the pre-emptive loading of MS office, or allows the OO.o pre-emptive loader to run.
Haven't seen QuickStarter in awhile though. Maybe they did away with that.
There's plenty of legitimate problems with Windows 7. Most of them just aren't show-stoppers, and it really is a pretty solid system, but "absolutely nothing wrong?" Please.
I still can't figure out why it randomly stops recognizing the primary DNS server (but can still reach it when I run nslookup). Been doing that for a couple of years.
An interesting point. Not a rule of thumb I've heard before, admittedly, but if it's true, it does make the whole '3" monitor' concept even more ridiculous.
I don't have to try it with one of these, I've done it with smaller screens. I have no reason to believe that making the monitor bigger will solve the problem rather than exacerbate it.
At 16 inches, going from UL to LR of my 24", and being able to read the time requires head movement. Not sure what kind of multi-faceted insect eyes you might have but not everybody has 200 degrees of peripheral vision.
Judging by your reasoning, I'd say you graduated from... what, Yale?
It doesn't matter that you're only paying a "fraction of what it costs to attend as any other student" -- which is also false, unless current MIT students aren't allowed to take the course. Otherwise it costs exactly the same. -- since current students get things like... well, course credit is the big one. GP was looking at the return for the cost which, honestly, I agree is a bit steep for a 1-off.
Uh... no? At least, I don't see any real overlap in mine. Email address book is for people I want to email, and phone contacts are for people I want to call. The union of those two sets is in the single-digits.
I actually did, the first time through. Pissed me off, too, because doing it that way meant I couldn't do the quest line and get the immortal demon horse.:P
Can't agree with you there. There's always value to be found in cutting the hardware, farming it out to China or SE Asia "second string" factories, etc... If there's a penny to be shaved, especially in a really cutthroat market like cars, it's safe to assume it will be.
It's not a question of being cheaper than the prototypes. When it comes to the mass market, it's a question of being cheaper than the other self-driving car dealer across the street.
if the production cars take a HUGE step down from the existing prototypes. That's just not going to happen.
What makes you say that?
Even if you assume those 300k(?) miles of road testing cover every, or even most, situations and driving conditions, there's still one important fact to consider: If self-driving cars are going to be in any way relevant beyond being cool but impractical tech being argued about on geek forums, they're going to need to actually get into people's hands: Not just uber-rich geek-hands, but the mundanes out there, too. And in order for that to happen, there will be corner-cutting.
True, I did forget to mention that. I've had some issues when sites/forums I use do move into the big "borg collectives" (Curse, Wikia, etc...). Even then, it's just as you said, you can manually input the old url (I think it's just the host name, IIRC) to get the old password long enough to log in to reset it.
IIRC the chrome and IE versions are standalone - no auto-populate function. And I *know* the Android app is.
I have a sheet of paper hidden in my office on which I've printed a list of clues that reveal portions of my encryption keys. They can only be solved using information only known by close and trustworthy family and friends. It is not entitled and appears fairly obscure without context, but I know they're smart to figure that out.
Goddamn it, Wesker. We told you to knock that shit off! How many labs have to be blown up before you get it through your head that it doesn't work?
For websites, at least, I've found that an algorithmic generator works a treat. PasswordMaker (for firefox) works like that, and is just stupidly easy to use in most cases. (It can get a little trickier when the passwords are "too strong" for a given idiot website, and the occasional dumb luck where the generated password manages to lack one of the "blessed sigils")
Like all the "password database" programs and apps out there, it relies on remembering a "master password", but instead of storing the passwords, it uses the master password, url, etc... and generates an output string. It never gets stored, and unless it's one of those "special" cases I mentioned above, you don't even have to specifically create a record for it.
Honestly, even more than ABE and NoScript, that's the one extension that's still got me stapled to Firefox.
You could probably use the same technique for your other passwords (and I think there might even be smartphone apps that work similarly), but without the auto-generate/populate feature of the extension, it didn't take me long to decide that manually inputting 20-character 7-bit clean passwords was a bit too far from "convenient" for my taste
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I hear there's this newfangled gadget called an SPST that could do the job pretty well.
I never disagreed with you on any of your technical points, what I took offense to was that you brought up a completely useless point in your reply to icebike. VLC works for him, that was all he said, you then asked him about the support of of formats he dont have any need for (or if he does, they are already covered). What you should have done is start your own thread with your complaints/gripes about players.
Ah, AC. Welcome. I see you've finally met Tepples.
The FPF has lost a supporter in me with this action.
Considering you don't even know what a traitor is, I think they won't be too bothered by that.
Unfortunately, Patrick O' Donovan wasn't born then.
Reading such a clueless screed, I expected another clueless old luddite. Imagine my surprise to find out this schmuck is 37 years old!
My son's sim (male) got pregnant and had a baby (he told me that it was with aliens).
It wouldn't get them off my no-buy list, but Sims: Alien Nation Ed. does sound intriguing.
Might even buy it, if they put it on GoG.
Honestly, if someone's willing to subject themselves to EA's bullshit for the sake of playing "Giants @ Broncos" instead of "Ogres @ Stallions," then they deserve everything they get.
Probably doesn't hurt that they're already nice and warmed up by the NFL already. EA doesn't seem the type to mind sloppy seconds.
Agreed. And thanks for the confirmation. :)
It actually does (did?) load faster than MS office, if one tweaks their system to prevent the pre-emptive loading of MS office, or allows the OO.o pre-emptive loader to run.
Haven't seen QuickStarter in awhile though. Maybe they did away with that.
There's plenty of legitimate problems with Windows 7. Most of them just aren't show-stoppers, and it really is a pretty solid system, but "absolutely nothing wrong?" Please.
I still can't figure out why it randomly stops recognizing the primary DNS server (but can still reach it when I run nslookup). Been doing that for a couple of years.
Funny, isn't it? It's one of those words I have to periodically look up again to make sure old age isn't catching up with my internal lexicon. ;)
An interesting point. Not a rule of thumb I've heard before, admittedly, but if it's true, it does make the whole '3" monitor' concept even more ridiculous.
I don't have to try it with one of these, I've done it with smaller screens. I have no reason to believe that making the monitor bigger will solve the problem rather than exacerbate it.
At 16 inches, going from UL to LR of my 24", and being able to read the time requires head movement. Not sure what kind of multi-faceted insect eyes you might have but not everybody has 200 degrees of peripheral vision.
Judging by your reasoning, I'd say you graduated from... what, Yale?
It doesn't matter that you're only paying a "fraction of what it costs to attend as any other student" -- which is also false, unless current MIT students aren't allowed to take the course. Otherwise it costs exactly the same. -- since current students get things like... well, course credit is the big one. GP was looking at the return for the cost which, honestly, I agree is a bit steep for a 1-off.
Bingo. My first thought when I read TFS was "my neck hurts already."
4K is for sprendthrifts.
Dude! Trigger warning next time!
Uh... no? At least, I don't see any real overlap in mine. Email address book is for people I want to email, and phone contacts are for people I want to call. The union of those two sets is in the single-digits.
I actually did, the first time through. Pissed me off, too, because doing it that way meant I couldn't do the quest line and get the immortal demon horse. :P
Can't agree with you there. There's always value to be found in cutting the hardware, farming it out to China or SE Asia "second string" factories, etc... If there's a penny to be shaved, especially in a really cutthroat market like cars, it's safe to assume it will be.
It's not a question of being cheaper than the prototypes. When it comes to the mass market, it's a question of being cheaper than the other self-driving car dealer across the street.
if the production cars take a HUGE step down from the existing prototypes. That's just not going to happen.
What makes you say that?
Even if you assume those 300k(?) miles of road testing cover every, or even most, situations and driving conditions, there's still one important fact to consider: If self-driving cars are going to be in any way relevant beyond being cool but impractical tech being argued about on geek forums, they're going to need to actually get into people's hands: Not just uber-rich geek-hands, but the mundanes out there, too. And in order for that to happen, there will be corner-cutting.
True, I did forget to mention that. I've had some issues when sites/forums I use do move into the big "borg collectives" (Curse, Wikia, etc...). Even then, it's just as you said, you can manually input the old url (I think it's just the host name, IIRC) to get the old password long enough to log in to reset it.
IIRC the chrome and IE versions are standalone - no auto-populate function. And I *know* the Android app is.
I have a sheet of paper hidden in my office on which I've printed a list of clues that reveal portions of my encryption keys. They can only be solved using information only known by close and trustworthy family and friends. It is not entitled and appears fairly obscure without context, but I know they're smart to figure that out.
Goddamn it, Wesker. We told you to knock that shit off! How many labs have to be blown up before you get it through your head that it doesn't work?
There's a difference between "the method must be kept secret" and "the input/outputs must be kept secret."
For websites, at least, I've found that an algorithmic generator works a treat. PasswordMaker (for firefox) works like that, and is just stupidly easy to use in most cases. (It can get a little trickier when the passwords are "too strong" for a given idiot website, and the occasional dumb luck where the generated password manages to lack one of the "blessed sigils")
Like all the "password database" programs and apps out there, it relies on remembering a "master password", but instead of storing the passwords, it uses the master password, url, etc... and generates an output string. It never gets stored, and unless it's one of those "special" cases I mentioned above, you don't even have to specifically create a record for it.
Honestly, even more than ABE and NoScript, that's the one extension that's still got me stapled to Firefox.
You could probably use the same technique for your other passwords (and I think there might even be smartphone apps that work similarly), but without the auto-generate/populate feature of the extension, it didn't take me long to decide that manually inputting 20-character 7-bit clean passwords was a bit too far from "convenient" for my taste