I'm sure the EE guys who built the Syrian's air defense system thought the same way as you. "I'll use all this great off-the-shelf tech, it's just so easy". Ohhh, it had a backdoor in the hardware... damn.
I do get what you're saying, but i think it applies differently to platforms of war. When your opponent owns the companies that built half the parts for your weapon systems... can you really trust them?
I have no doubt you could build some nifty weapons to seige a neighbor with but not a local government. The bomb techs would have analyzed the debris and come up with a short list for an investigator to pin down.
One of my fav military techs is round return radar... even though it is simple and old. There's nothing like hearing outgoing fire before the first incoming round hits!
The smallest instance is 11 cents an hour or ~$80 a month. That just seems like a lot to me, atleast for a personal DB. That $80 only gets you a virtual box with "1.7 GB memory, 1 ECU (1 virtual core with 1 ECU), 64-bit platform." with a max of 1 TB storage (also an additional cost). It just doesn't seem worth it, tbh.
I guess if a company is counting hardware costs, payroll, electricity, and stuff like that.. $80 might be a good deal. But i think most people would rather have a normal server hosted for $10-20 a month.
They innovate, they just don't ever finish anything
That describes the vast majority of all Open Source software.
A work in progress is still good and usable.. businesses don't like touching that sort of thing though. But like you said, they haven't figured out how to focus their developers on things that make money.. like stable/complete software and services. That being said, they still make plenty of money, not that they really seem to care.
Clicking on Google ads.. i'm sure i do, but which ones and why i can't remember. Not for random stuff, but ads for things i want (robot parts!), probably.
I like that 5/95 thing, how true and depressing, hah.
I put forward that you cannot survive a year without touching/using a google technology. If you truely believe google tech is mediocre.. go a year without google search/mail/reader/youtube/maps/docs/books/code/chrome/images/news/android and of course.. no clicking google ads.
Search engine? There were plenty of search engines before Google came along
Agreed, but why did google become so popular? It was great and very minimal. We didn't want "web portals" filled with ads, news, and junk.. just a simple place to find sites from. Was that innovative? heck no.. was it very intelligent? yes.
It would be worse if cameras were allowed in a secure area with the understanding that you can't take pictures. It is better to try preventing all cameras from entering the area. If someone smuggles in some sort of spy camera and get caught, it is immediately apparent to everyone that it wasn't an accident. Or even a regular camera would reveal the spy's intentions.. just look at what was photographed.
I agree, but at first my thoughts were he tailored the response. I mean that the cells responded to input by changing their output, yes.. but he decided to say "when the output changes, that means turn". No matter what, there is no way the cells are directly controlling the motors. That output has to be filtered/modified/interpreted somehow.
But i did walk two miles there and back everyday after school! Bought a huge trampoline with the first paycheck:) Then later a rusted pile of metal i mistook for a car... oh the memories.
I thought public-key cryptography largely solved the whole pre-shared secrets thing? Third parties can sign the public key saying "yes, this person is actually who they say they are" but that doesn't improve the security of the data.
I would say that is a very common mindset and not just american. The whole "There's us.. and then there's them" thing is international. Many counties own citizens kill each other over religious disagreements (no provoking physical harm or damages). I'm not excusing the US for killing anyone, just saying it's a world mindset, not an american one.
Yes, you are right about the nukes. The US is still the only country to use nuclear weapons against another country during total war. I have no doubt that will change during the next round of total war (whenever that may be)
In EVE, servers are mapped directly to solar systems and they are in turn connected together. The market, contract system, chat, maps, everything in the game works the same no matter what system/server you are in.
If your alliance is having epic battles you can submit a request for more power in abcd-e system and they will temporarily allocate more power there. Typically this is done in advance because when you jump in 100+ capitals and 300+ support ships you want everything to be running smoothly from the get-go:)
And i was pointing out how much of a failure Steam started out as. They didn't start with a great catalog. They started with an aging title that had a great community following it. Steam was an Update and Friends system for all of us who already owned the game... it was certainly not a content distribution system.
I'm sure there are games+communities out there with the same kind of following HL1 had when Steam started out. HL itself was just a heavily modded Quake engine.
Half-Life and Counter-strike were out for YEARS before Steam was even available. We're not even talking about how usable steam was.. it was a nightmare! Steam was completely optional at that point.
I registered my half-life cd-key with Steam around the time the WON servers were shutting down. Steam was horrid, the friends thing didn't work and it crashed sometimes. First Lan party i went to post Steam conversion was a disaster. There was ~250 people there and not enough bandwidth to auth everyone trying to play : / That was pre-offline mode i think.
Also, don't think that half-life was "all that" either.. remember that the time period that Steam launched was the days of Quake3 and Unreal Tournament... half-life looked pretty dated at that point. The only thing that kept half-life around was all the free mods, like TFC, CS, NS, S&I, and on and on.
Ah yes, those were the days.. was gaming on my first home built computer.. an AMD K6-2 on a SOYO 5EMA+ mobo with a Voodoo 3 2000 ! god yes.. that was bamf
I also read that article, i thought it strange that Eva Malecki wouldn't talk about the plan because of security concerns. If the plant only provided heat/cooling i don't think either of those systems would be considered critical. Perhaps it actually DOES power something? Just not anything that is on the books. Built in 1910? When was that bunker under union square built? around that same time?
I play DOD:S often as a machine gunner. Anytime my position gets overrun and they take my MG and turn it on my teammates... i feel like i'm somehow responsible for friendly deaths. Should have fought harder!
It looks like a computer was extruded out from a smart surface or something. The appearence is very appealing to me, very few structural parts. That must be why it is made of metal instead of plastic. Not seeing 80/120mm fan grills all over the place looks strange too. I'm skeptical about how cool it actually is... well, air cooling anyways.
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Bombing a nuclear reactor seems worthwhile.. even if they only got to use that switch once, it seems worth it.
I'm sure the EE guys who built the Syrian's air defense system thought the same way as you. "I'll use all this great off-the-shelf tech, it's just so easy". Ohhh, it had a backdoor in the hardware... damn.
I do get what you're saying, but i think it applies differently to platforms of war. When your opponent owns the companies that built half the parts for your weapon systems... can you really trust them?
I have no doubt you could build some nifty weapons to seige a neighbor with but not a local government. The bomb techs would have analyzed the debris and come up with a short list for an investigator to pin down.
One of my fav military techs is round return radar... even though it is simple and old. There's nothing like hearing outgoing fire before the first incoming round hits!
The smallest instance is 11 cents an hour or ~$80 a month. That just seems like a lot to me, atleast for a personal DB. That $80 only gets you a virtual box with "1.7 GB memory, 1 ECU (1 virtual core with 1 ECU), 64-bit platform." with a max of 1 TB storage (also an additional cost). It just doesn't seem worth it, tbh.
I guess if a company is counting hardware costs, payroll, electricity, and stuff like that.. $80 might be a good deal. But i think most people would rather have a normal server hosted for $10-20 a month.
That 50% includes bandwidth, payment handling, updating system, achievments, friends, drm of course, and advertising... it's a steal!
They innovate, they just don't ever finish anything
That describes the vast majority of all Open Source software.
A work in progress is still good and usable.. businesses don't like touching that sort of thing though. But like you said, they haven't figured out how to focus their developers on things that make money.. like stable/complete software and services. That being said, they still make plenty of money, not that they really seem to care.
Clicking on Google ads.. i'm sure i do, but which ones and why i can't remember. Not for random stuff, but ads for things i want (robot parts!), probably.
I like that 5/95 thing, how true and depressing, hah.
I put forward that you cannot survive a year without touching/using a google technology. If you truely believe google tech is mediocre.. go a year without google search/mail/reader/youtube/maps/docs/books/code/chrome/images/news/android and of course.. no clicking google ads.
Search engine? There were plenty of search engines before Google came along
Agreed, but why did google become so popular? It was great and very minimal. We didn't want "web portals" filled with ads, news, and junk.. just a simple place to find sites from. Was that innovative? heck no.. was it very intelligent? yes.
I often get the "Could you please resend this in the 97/2003 format please?"
It would be worse if cameras were allowed in a secure area with the understanding that you can't take pictures. It is better to try preventing all cameras from entering the area. If someone smuggles in some sort of spy camera and get caught, it is immediately apparent to everyone that it wasn't an accident. Or even a regular camera would reveal the spy's intentions.. just look at what was photographed.
I agree, but at first my thoughts were he tailored the response. I mean that the cells responded to input by changing their output, yes.. but he decided to say "when the output changes, that means turn". No matter what, there is no way the cells are directly controlling the motors. That output has to be filtered/modified/interpreted somehow.
When I was a stupid kid I worked at McDonalds : /
But i did walk two miles there and back everyday after school! Bought a huge trampoline with the first paycheck :) Then later a rusted pile of metal i mistook for a car... oh the memories.
They make great hardware
*cough* RROD *cough*
I thought public-key cryptography largely solved the whole pre-shared secrets thing? Third parties can sign the public key saying "yes, this person is actually who they say they are" but that doesn't improve the security of the data.
I don't know much about encryption on phones : /
I am curious why you ask? It didn't occur to me that anything more than EM radiation would have been affected..
I would say that is a very common mindset and not just american. The whole "There's us.. and then there's them" thing is international. Many counties own citizens kill each other over religious disagreements (no provoking physical harm or damages). I'm not excusing the US for killing anyone, just saying it's a world mindset, not an american one.
Yes, you are right about the nukes. The US is still the only country to use nuclear weapons against another country during total war. I have no doubt that will change during the next round of total war (whenever that may be)
The hardware is standalone and doesn't rely upon Wikipedia. My guess is that means it is safe from WP's license.
For DUST 514 the commander plays an RTS version of the FPS game.
It's a trap!
In EVE, servers are mapped directly to solar systems and they are in turn connected together. The market, contract system, chat, maps, everything in the game works the same no matter what system/server you are in.
If your alliance is having epic battles you can submit a request for more power in abcd-e system and they will temporarily allocate more power there. Typically this is done in advance because when you jump in 100+ capitals and 300+ support ships you want everything to be running smoothly from the get-go :)
And i was pointing out how much of a failure Steam started out as. They didn't start with a great catalog. They started with an aging title that had a great community following it. Steam was an Update and Friends system for all of us who already owned the game... it was certainly not a content distribution system.
I'm sure there are games+communities out there with the same kind of following HL1 had when Steam started out. HL itself was just a heavily modded Quake engine.
Damn i love valve :)
Half-Life and Counter-strike were out for YEARS before Steam was even available. We're not even talking about how usable steam was.. it was a nightmare! Steam was completely optional at that point.
I registered my half-life cd-key with Steam around the time the WON servers were shutting down. Steam was horrid, the friends thing didn't work and it crashed sometimes. First Lan party i went to post Steam conversion was a disaster. There was ~250 people there and not enough bandwidth to auth everyone trying to play : / That was pre-offline mode i think.
Also, don't think that half-life was "all that" either.. remember that the time period that Steam launched was the days of Quake3 and Unreal Tournament... half-life looked pretty dated at that point. The only thing that kept half-life around was all the free mods, like TFC, CS, NS, S&I, and on and on.
Ah yes, those were the days.. was gaming on my first home built computer.. an AMD K6-2 on a SOYO 5EMA+ mobo with a Voodoo 3 2000 ! god yes.. that was bamf
I also read that article, i thought it strange that Eva Malecki wouldn't talk about the plan because of security concerns. If the plant only provided heat/cooling i don't think either of those systems would be considered critical. Perhaps it actually DOES power something? Just not anything that is on the books. Built in 1910? When was that bunker under union square built? around that same time?
Thanks for that video :)
I play DOD:S often as a machine gunner. Anytime my position gets overrun and they take my MG and turn it on my teammates... i feel like i'm somehow responsible for friendly deaths. Should have fought harder!
It looks like a computer was extruded out from a smart surface or something. The appearence is very appealing to me, very few structural parts. That must be why it is made of metal instead of plastic. Not seeing 80/120mm fan grills all over the place looks strange too. I'm skeptical about how cool it actually is... well, air cooling anyways.
HL2 is really good. I'd like to suggest Left4Dead as well (but play it with a buddy all the way through.. so much fun!)