And yet, there are no electric cars on the market right now that can charge in 10 minutes. If you read my post carefuly, you'd see that I'm not opposed to electric cars on principle and am not denying their future potential. However, when talking about the Tesla, bringing up dozens of upcoming electric cars which might use a different battery tech is pointless. Even according to Aptera's own FAQ, recharging takes about 8 hours from a standard socket.
Ok, here's the idea behind saving time by refueling: you're stuck on a street with slow moving traffic, perhaps due to an accident or a poorly timed traffic light. To the right, there's a gas station. You leave the street, refuel, and take the exit from the gas station which is further down the initial street you were stuck on. If the traffic is slow enough, or not moving at all, you just saved some time. It's just a silly counter point to recharging at home.
As for the range, I'm not sure why you're still arguing this. The Golf simply does have at least a 55 litre fuel tank. Unless VW are lying, that is. Why does it need a tank that large? Well I guess it's so that Golf drivers could make fun of electric cars:). Even using your numbers, that's over 1000km on a tank. No, I don't think it's a good idea to drive for 10 hours straight, but it is possible.
At no point did I compare an EPA number to a NEDC one. The 50MPG Prius is just what everybody says it achieves, although having now found the EU number for the Prius the difference appears to be more pronounced, at 4.3 vs 4.9 for the Golf. However, you're still ignoring that Prius is just one hybrid out of dozens which are all less efficient, and I'm not even talking about the hybrid S-Class here. The Prius is of course slightly larger than the hatchback Golf, but not any faster. The Prius' top speed is 170 km/h vs 190 for the TDI Golf, and I suspect the acceleration is similar to Golf's 10.7 seconds, although Toyota's page won't give me this information.
As long as we aren't talking about emissions, which the OP did not, the energy density of diesel vs petrol is irrelevant, especially when the prices are almost identical. If the fuels are sufficiently different (puppy farts and fission, for example), then of course such measures become pointless. And slower depreciation is certainly nice, unless you want a car which is cheap to buy and cheap to run, and don't want to spend more than, say, 10 grand. If money weren't an issue, I'd be driving the abovementioned (AMG) S-class.
One could probably arrange for another "tanker" car to drive parallel to yours and have them refuel you without stopping through an extended hose. I don't see what could prevent that from working.:) Ok, seriously, why has this not been tried in a Gumball rally?
It's correct that most of the steps in refueling are the same, but your numbers for recharging the batteries come, ehm, from a dream world. While I don't deny the existence fast-charge battery cells, that's not what's used in the current electric cars. Instead, the Tesla cars use pretty standard laptop battery cells which take a few hours at best to charge. If you recharge at home, then sure, the situation is different. But then, I can also refuel on my way to work on a station next to a jammed street, possibly saving time by cutting in front of the cars that stayed in the line.
As for the range, why, 600 miles is completely reasonable. A VW Golf appears to have a 55 litre tank, and can realistically do 5l/100 km (a TDI, not the one from the link), putting the range at over 1000km or over 600 miles. Yes, some people drive that long without stopping for anything more than a bathroom stop or driver swap.
Then, you completely sidestep the MPG issue. A Prius gets what, 50MPG? If the google calc is to be believed, that's about 4.7l/100km. That's just a bit better than the 5l/100 km for a diesel Golf, which is the official EU combined cycle number (actually 4.9), a pretty realistic estimate according to people who drive one. So yeah, it's a bit worse, but hardly "complete nonsense", especially once you consider that the other hybrids (Civic, Camry, even the Insight) have noticeably worse performance in this regard. I don't see what the energy density of diesel fuel has to do with anything, and there was also no talk about the emissions of any sort here, you just brought that up to make you point seem stronger.
The purchase price is the only point at which the original poster is way off, at least when talking about new cars, or unless he meant 20% more. As for used, which is what many people buy, the Prius can be three times more expensive than a Golf of a same year. Or did you not hear about used Priuses(?) selling for more than the new car's price a while ago? The panic subdued a little, but they're still ridiculously expensive. PriusGolf. As a hidden bonus, you also get a car which isn't a complete dog to drive. The Aptera is an entirely different beast, of course, but it's also not available anywhere yet.
Having said all that, I hope you don't get the impression that I'm against electric cars in principle and that I don't see any future for them. They're not quite here yet for a normal person, and Tesla doesn't deserve any special treatment for that. Neither do GM or Chrysel or anyone else for that matter, but I can hardly do anything about that. Countless industries managed to get their products down to an average person's level, and this one will have to do the same.
For a 8mb/s connection, you could theoretically transfer over 2.5TB in a single month, and that's just counting downloads. If the cap is, say, a rather reasonable 100GB, do you really think the plan that used to cost $50 should now cost $2? Does that sound reasonable to you, or maybe you're missing something?
"just maybe"? My ten year old four-cylinder Opel Omega has a higher top speed than that. As for acceleration... well:
The Lotus Exige S, based on a similar platform to the one Tesla is using, does 0-100km/h in about 4.1 seconds, and costs ~40k less. A Porsche 997 Turbo could be as fast as 3.2 seconds, while the GT2 and GT3 have comparable times. The Nissan GT-R and Viper ACR are at about 3.5-3.3. The Caterham R500 is even better at about 2.88.
Ok, so the Caterham is a ridiculous car, but the others don't sacrifice much for the speed, and cost a reasonable amount of money (that is, we're not talking Veyron money here).
Accepting a signed photo is cruel, and as bad as actually torturing people? Are you nuts? Torture is, of course, completely unacceptable, but I don't see how the act of accepting a photograph signed by a person long since dead is in any way comparable.
Speaking of UT99, there was a great glitch involving the impact hammer and perhaps also the RL. Mostly useful in assault maps, but also to a lesser degree in CTF and other team games, it allowed a player or two to launch their teammate a great distance, much further than the teleporter would normally allow.
First, you could place the teleport beacon on the ground, and then use the impact hammer to launch it to the opposite side of the map. For instance, on CTF-Face you could climb to the top of your tower and then launch the beacon into the other team's base. If done properly, IIRC, it would land in one of the balconies mid-way up the tower, saving you the dangerous run.
Next, you could use the impact hammer to launch a teammate directly. Either by yourself or with another player, you could crouch on the ground with a charged-up hammer and have another player run into you. What made this really glitchy though was that you first aimed and fired the hammer in the direction you want the player to fly in its primary mode, and only then charged it up. This way the player flew off in the exact direction you aimed, and you could have another player crouch right by you to increase the launch distance. Of the default assault maps, this could be used to launch players into the cannon on AS-Overlord, leaving the players just a short run up to the final objective.
Finally, as many knew the RL loaded with 6 rockets was ridiculously powerful, and this could also be used in games with disabled team damage. On AS-Guardia Fortress, you'd have a player stand in the corner right near the initial spawn point, load up 6 rockets , and fire them into the player's feet in a close pattern. The resulting explosion launched the player in the direction you were aiming, with the mountain slopes guiding the player right on the roof of the enemy base. You could also try to launch more than one player at a time, or have more than one player do the launching, but the results were often unpredictable.
At first, I was mostly pissed off about the whole thing with the usual "you're exploiting the game!" whining as I felt it bypassed the intended combat and progression through the objectives, but in reality it just shifted it around a bit and added some variety to the tactics and gameplay. No longer would you have all of the defending team camp by a chokepoint, and instead the defense would have to spread around a bit. It was great fun, and when AS was revived with these glitches missing, I could never get into the game as much as I did with UT99.
Where do you find those? On my local (non-US) Lenovo site the cheapest tablet is the X200 and it's about four times more expensive than a good netbook, such as the HP 2140. Looking at their US site, the cheapest x200, which is not even a tablet, goes for about 1200. That's still more than double the netbook price. The X61 don't seem to be available any more. If a proper 12" Thinkpad was just 150 bucks more than the crippled Atom toys, I'd be all over it in an instant. Unless we're talking about shady Ebay offers here.
Speaking of Lenovo, their netbook entry, the S10, is pretty manly. At least if you get one in black.
Yeah, it does look like a combination of current premium cars, and especially remids me of the Jaguar XF concept. That's not a very bad thing, and at least it doesn't look like a fucking Prius.
No, that's not really what I'm saying at all. Would you say the McLaren F1 ultimately sucked because it's been discontinued 11 years ago after only 106 were made? It's possible that the parent poster also received a similar error, but by equating it with Fileplanet the impression was made that these two sites were equally bad.
Also, "despise" is quite a strong word for something that works quite well and is much better than most competition, which was the case with FF here. So sure, a clear message like "We're sorry we can't provide this service to our EU guests" would be nicer than a generic error, but this is a minor complaint.
What? Are you sure you aren't confusing anything? FileFront was totaly awesome not too long ago... until it suddenly wasn't. You could easily browse the files by games and categories (mods, maps, models, etc), then select one of the few mirrors and download it without any further bullshit. FilePlanet, on the other hand, was pretty bad and IIRC required registration or even paid subscription to get anything, and then you still had to wait in the queue before you could start downloading.
FileFront's demise for me came when I once couldn't download anything. I don't remember the specific error, but at first it looked like it might be a temporary problem which could be solved by simply trying later. I never managed to bypass it though, and a few searches revealed that it was a common error for european users. Apparently this was their way of not servicing some countries/regions.
Rapidshare's entirely different matter, but even then it's not that bad if you need just one file as all you have to deal with is a captcha.
Again, I'm not even sure why this is even news. Various Quake (up to and including Q3, IIRC) games have been available for all kinds of WM devices for quite a while now, not to mention Wolf 3d, DOOM, and a bunch of Build engine games. Q1 runs fine even on my six year old Asus A600. I guess this is just something Apple users occasionaly need to feel special.
What they could have done is pretend the game is set in South Africa. Then you can shoot as many white people with hilarious accents as you want, which is of course perfectly acceptable behavior.
Not to mention that WM can also function as a 3G->WiFi router with a little tweaking or a 3rd party app. Just today the DSL line in my office was down for a bit over an hour, so I whipped out my S730 and set up a hotspot for our little office so that people could get their mail or whatever it is that they do while pretending to work. It wasn't very fast since the area only has EDGE coverage, but everbody was nevertheless overjoyed.
Oh yeah, the good old big oil conspiracy. I'm sure Shell et al. are sitting on patens for super efficient fuel injection and combustion technology, 90% efficient solar panels which have no toxic byproducts during manufacturing, and wind generators that break even within a year.
That, or most of the magical technologies you keep hearing about are vaporware, and in fact the startups have no product. Instead, they are just looking for some easy VC money in a popular industry. The rest end up either infeasible, or require more research, while a small portion actually has some impact.
They might be exiting the business for now, but I seriously doubt they'll just burn the solar panel plant down to the ground together with all related assets and IP. It's probably going to be sold off, and continue to operate independently from the evil Big Oil company.
No, the remote on my Sony discman (probably, IIRC the connectors were similar) wouldn't work with my SAFA CD/MP3 player, but when a classmate stepped on my Sony's remote and made most buttons useless (there were of course separate buttons for next and previous tracks, play/pause as well as volume control and remote lock instead of the ridiculous morse code bullshit) I could still use my discman with ANY headphones I had. From $2 shitty earbuds from a cheap walkman knockoff to my ER-4s, the only difference being that I had to use the controls on the device itself. Also, while the remote was still in one piece, I could again use any of my headphones with the remote by unplugging the Sony earbuds from the top of the remote and plugging the ER-4s in.
Does that clear it up? Discman: no remote, no remote functionality. Shuffle: no remote, no functionality. At least not until you buy an adapter for half the price of the player itself.
All of the voice control examples you provide can be done in a few keystrokes/clicks in most modern games, so I don't see how they're an improvement over the current system unless you start with an already crippled controller. Still, what you're describing is already implemented in Tom Clancy's Endwar. It works, but at best it provides no advantage over m/k whatsoever. I mean besides freeing up a hand to masturbate with, of course.
This reminds me of the bash quote: <SRG> Metallica sold out in 45 mins:/ <NotOneOfUs> Yeah I know. <NotOneOfUs> Oh wait <NotOneOfUs> You mean, like, a concert?
Death Magnetic is clearly much better than St. Anger, of course, but then, what isn't? And while their old stuff is excellent material, recordings of their recent live performances didn't do anything to make me want to shell out for their tickets when they were on touring here. They just sound somehow sloppy and James' vocals are annoying as fuck.
No, there's no case for legislative intervention here. There's a shitload of phones with mini-USB/3.5mm connectors to choose from, so get any one of those models and the "problem" suddenly disappears. However, it's not going to fix itself if nobody cares or just ignores it a la DRM: "DRM sucks!" *buys ipod, iphone, Steam games because they're shiny and have auto-update*.
Yeah, but this is Python. I'm sure they could cut at least 280 lines if they only used perl. As for the defense projects, I'm convinced they're all just a bunch of shell scripts.
He's refering to a problem with the idle stylesheet which causes the textbox area to be only as wide as these lines.
Of course, ignoring this and typing normally works and results in expected behaviour, but it's yet another thing that is wrong with idle. I usually solve this by avoiding this section, but in this case I wanted to see if there are any opinions on the game itself.
Why would the US economists (whoever those are supposed to be) need to come up with an excuse for helping bring millions of dirt-poor peasants into the modern era with some fure prospects? Or are you trying to turn this into a flamewar related to the current crisis?
The growth figure might be shown in real terms. I have no idea having not actually RTFA, though it won't surprise me if it isn't.
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And yet, there are no electric cars on the market right now that can charge in 10 minutes. If you read my post carefuly, you'd see that I'm not opposed to electric cars on principle and am not denying their future potential. However, when talking about the Tesla, bringing up dozens of upcoming electric cars which might use a different battery tech is pointless. Even according to Aptera's own FAQ, recharging takes about 8 hours from a standard socket.
Ok, here's the idea behind saving time by refueling: you're stuck on a street with slow moving traffic, perhaps due to an accident or a poorly timed traffic light. To the right, there's a gas station. You leave the street, refuel, and take the exit from the gas station which is further down the initial street you were stuck on. If the traffic is slow enough, or not moving at all, you just saved some time. It's just a silly counter point to recharging at home.
As for the range, I'm not sure why you're still arguing this. The Golf simply does have at least a 55 litre fuel tank. Unless VW are lying, that is. Why does it need a tank that large? Well I guess it's so that Golf drivers could make fun of electric cars :). Even using your numbers, that's over 1000km on a tank. No, I don't think it's a good idea to drive for 10 hours straight, but it is possible.
At no point did I compare an EPA number to a NEDC one. The 50MPG Prius is just what everybody says it achieves, although having now found the EU number for the Prius the difference appears to be more pronounced, at 4.3 vs 4.9 for the Golf. However, you're still ignoring that Prius is just one hybrid out of dozens which are all less efficient, and I'm not even talking about the hybrid S-Class here. The Prius is of course slightly larger than the hatchback Golf, but not any faster. The Prius' top speed is 170 km/h vs 190 for the TDI Golf, and I suspect the acceleration is similar to Golf's 10.7 seconds, although Toyota's page won't give me this information.
As long as we aren't talking about emissions, which the OP did not, the energy density of diesel vs petrol is irrelevant, especially when the prices are almost identical. If the fuels are sufficiently different (puppy farts and fission, for example), then of course such measures become pointless. And slower depreciation is certainly nice, unless you want a car which is cheap to buy and cheap to run, and don't want to spend more than, say, 10 grand. If money weren't an issue, I'd be driving the abovementioned (AMG) S-class.
One could probably arrange for another "tanker" car to drive parallel to yours and have them refuel you without stopping through an extended hose. I don't see what could prevent that from working. :) Ok, seriously, why has this not been tried in a Gumball rally?
It's correct that most of the steps in refueling are the same, but your numbers for recharging the batteries come, ehm, from a dream world. While I don't deny the existence fast-charge battery cells, that's not what's used in the current electric cars. Instead, the Tesla cars use pretty standard laptop battery cells which take a few hours at best to charge. If you recharge at home, then sure, the situation is different. But then, I can also refuel on my way to work on a station next to a jammed street, possibly saving time by cutting in front of the cars that stayed in the line.
As for the range, why, 600 miles is completely reasonable. A VW Golf appears to have a 55 litre tank, and can realistically do 5l/100 km (a TDI, not the one from the link), putting the range at over 1000km or over 600 miles. Yes, some people drive that long without stopping for anything more than a bathroom stop or driver swap.
Then, you completely sidestep the MPG issue. A Prius gets what, 50MPG? If the google calc is to be believed, that's about 4.7l/100km. That's just a bit better than the 5l/100 km for a diesel Golf, which is the official EU combined cycle number (actually 4.9), a pretty realistic estimate according to people who drive one. So yeah, it's a bit worse, but hardly "complete nonsense", especially once you consider that the other hybrids (Civic, Camry, even the Insight) have noticeably worse performance in this regard. I don't see what the energy density of diesel fuel has to do with anything, and there was also no talk about the emissions of any sort here, you just brought that up to make you point seem stronger.
The purchase price is the only point at which the original poster is way off, at least when talking about new cars, or unless he meant 20% more. As for used, which is what many people buy, the Prius can be three times more expensive than a Golf of a same year. Or did you not hear about used Priuses(?) selling for more than the new car's price a while ago? The panic subdued a little, but they're still ridiculously expensive. Prius Golf. As a hidden bonus, you also get a car which isn't a complete dog to drive. The Aptera is an entirely different beast, of course, but it's also not available anywhere yet.
Having said all that, I hope you don't get the impression that I'm against electric cars in principle and that I don't see any future for them. They're not quite here yet for a normal person, and Tesla doesn't deserve any special treatment for that. Neither do GM or Chrysel or anyone else for that matter, but I can hardly do anything about that. Countless industries managed to get their products down to an average person's level, and this one will have to do the same.
For a 8mb/s connection, you could theoretically transfer over 2.5TB in a single month, and that's just counting downloads. If the cap is, say, a rather reasonable 100GB, do you really think the plan that used to cost $50 should now cost $2? Does that sound reasonable to you, or maybe you're missing something?
"just maybe"? My ten year old four-cylinder Opel Omega has a higher top speed than that. As for acceleration... well:
The Lotus Exige S, based on a similar platform to the one Tesla is using, does 0-100km/h in about 4.1 seconds, and costs ~40k less. A Porsche 997 Turbo could be as fast as 3.2 seconds, while the GT2 and GT3 have comparable times. The Nissan GT-R and Viper ACR are at about 3.5-3.3. The Caterham R500 is even better at about 2.88.
Ok, so the Caterham is a ridiculous car, but the others don't sacrifice much for the speed, and cost a reasonable amount of money (that is, we're not talking Veyron money here).
Accepting a signed photo is cruel, and as bad as actually torturing people? Are you nuts? Torture is, of course, completely unacceptable, but I don't see how the act of accepting a photograph signed by a person long since dead is in any way comparable.
Speaking of UT99, there was a great glitch involving the impact hammer and perhaps also the RL. Mostly useful in assault maps, but also to a lesser degree in CTF and other team games, it allowed a player or two to launch their teammate a great distance, much further than the teleporter would normally allow.
First, you could place the teleport beacon on the ground, and then use the impact hammer to launch it to the opposite side of the map. For instance, on CTF-Face you could climb to the top of your tower and then launch the beacon into the other team's base. If done properly, IIRC, it would land in one of the balconies mid-way up the tower, saving you the dangerous run.
Next, you could use the impact hammer to launch a teammate directly. Either by yourself or with another player, you could crouch on the ground with a charged-up hammer and have another player run into you. What made this really glitchy though was that you first aimed and fired the hammer in the direction you want the player to fly in its primary mode, and only then charged it up. This way the player flew off in the exact direction you aimed, and you could have another player crouch right by you to increase the launch distance. Of the default assault maps, this could be used to launch players into the cannon on AS-Overlord, leaving the players just a short run up to the final objective.
Finally, as many knew the RL loaded with 6 rockets was ridiculously powerful, and this could also be used in games with disabled team damage. On AS-Guardia Fortress, you'd have a player stand in the corner right near the initial spawn point, load up 6 rockets , and fire them into the player's feet in a close pattern. The resulting explosion launched the player in the direction you were aiming, with the mountain slopes guiding the player right on the roof of the enemy base. You could also try to launch more than one player at a time, or have more than one player do the launching, but the results were often unpredictable.
At first, I was mostly pissed off about the whole thing with the usual "you're exploiting the game!" whining as I felt it bypassed the intended combat and progression through the objectives, but in reality it just shifted it around a bit and added some variety to the tactics and gameplay. No longer would you have all of the defending team camp by a chokepoint, and instead the defense would have to spread around a bit. It was great fun, and when AS was revived with these glitches missing, I could never get into the game as much as I did with UT99.
Shame on you for such obvious achievement whoring. I'd mod you down in a heartbeat if I just had some mod points left.
GetStringLen()? This one seems too short for a real German word. Here's something more realistic:
BuildImpersonateExplicitAccessWithName
And speaking of ridiculously long function names, this one from a chess engine seems to take the cake (without the space):
IterativeDeepeningAlphaBetaSearchUsingKillerMoveOrderingAndTranpositionTable SimpleMaterialAndPositionalEvaluationChooseRandomly BetweenBestMovesStrategy
Where do you find those? On my local (non-US) Lenovo site the cheapest tablet is the X200 and it's about four times more expensive than a good netbook, such as the HP 2140. Looking at their US site, the cheapest x200, which is not even a tablet, goes for about 1200. That's still more than double the netbook price. The X61 don't seem to be available any more. If a proper 12" Thinkpad was just 150 bucks more than the crippled Atom toys, I'd be all over it in an instant. Unless we're talking about shady Ebay offers here.
Speaking of Lenovo, their netbook entry, the S10, is pretty manly. At least if you get one in black.
Yeah, it does look like a combination of current premium cars, and especially remids me of the Jaguar XF concept. That's not a very bad thing, and at least it doesn't look like a fucking Prius.
No, that's not really what I'm saying at all. Would you say the McLaren F1 ultimately sucked because it's been discontinued 11 years ago after only 106 were made? It's possible that the parent poster also received a similar error, but by equating it with Fileplanet the impression was made that these two sites were equally bad.
Also, "despise" is quite a strong word for something that works quite well and is much better than most competition, which was the case with FF here. So sure, a clear message like "We're sorry we can't provide this service to our EU guests" would be nicer than a generic error, but this is a minor complaint.
What? Are you sure you aren't confusing anything? FileFront was totaly awesome not too long ago... until it suddenly wasn't. You could easily browse the files by games and categories (mods, maps, models, etc), then select one of the few mirrors and download it without any further bullshit. FilePlanet, on the other hand, was pretty bad and IIRC required registration or even paid subscription to get anything, and then you still had to wait in the queue before you could start downloading.
FileFront's demise for me came when I once couldn't download anything. I don't remember the specific error, but at first it looked like it might be a temporary problem which could be solved by simply trying later. I never managed to bypass it though, and a few searches revealed that it was a common error for european users. Apparently this was their way of not servicing some countries/regions.
Rapidshare's entirely different matter, but even then it's not that bad if you need just one file as all you have to deal with is a captcha.
Again, I'm not even sure why this is even news. Various Quake (up to and including Q3, IIRC) games have been available for all kinds of WM devices for quite a while now, not to mention Wolf 3d, DOOM, and a bunch of Build engine games. Q1 runs fine even on my six year old Asus A600. I guess this is just something Apple users occasionaly need to feel special.
What they could have done is pretend the game is set in South Africa. Then you can shoot as many white people with hilarious accents as you want, which is of course perfectly acceptable behavior.
Not to mention that WM can also function as a 3G->WiFi router with a little tweaking or a 3rd party app. Just today the DSL line in my office was down for a bit over an hour, so I whipped out my S730 and set up a hotspot for our little office so that people could get their mail or whatever it is that they do while pretending to work. It wasn't very fast since the area only has EDGE coverage, but everbody was nevertheless overjoyed.
Oh yeah, the good old big oil conspiracy. I'm sure Shell et al. are sitting on patens for super efficient fuel injection and combustion technology, 90% efficient solar panels which have no toxic byproducts during manufacturing, and wind generators that break even within a year.
That, or most of the magical technologies you keep hearing about are vaporware, and in fact the startups have no product. Instead, they are just looking for some easy VC money in a popular industry. The rest end up either infeasible, or require more research, while a small portion actually has some impact.
They might be exiting the business for now, but I seriously doubt they'll just burn the solar panel plant down to the ground together with all related assets and IP. It's probably going to be sold off, and continue to operate independently from the evil Big Oil company.
No need to thank me.
No, the remote on my Sony discman (probably, IIRC the connectors were similar) wouldn't work with my SAFA CD/MP3 player, but when a classmate stepped on my Sony's remote and made most buttons useless (there were of course separate buttons for next and previous tracks, play/pause as well as volume control and remote lock instead of the ridiculous morse code bullshit) I could still use my discman with ANY headphones I had. From $2 shitty earbuds from a cheap walkman knockoff to my ER-4s, the only difference being that I had to use the controls on the device itself. Also, while the remote was still in one piece, I could again use any of my headphones with the remote by unplugging the Sony earbuds from the top of the remote and plugging the ER-4s in.
Does that clear it up? Discman: no remote, no remote functionality. Shuffle: no remote, no functionality. At least not until you buy an adapter for half the price of the player itself.
All of the voice control examples you provide can be done in a few keystrokes/clicks in most modern games, so I don't see how they're an improvement over the current system unless you start with an already crippled controller. Still, what you're describing is already implemented in Tom Clancy's Endwar. It works, but at best it provides no advantage over m/k whatsoever. I mean besides freeing up a hand to masturbate with, of course.
This reminds me of the bash quote:
:/
<SRG> Metallica sold out in 45 mins
<NotOneOfUs> Yeah I know.
<NotOneOfUs> Oh wait
<NotOneOfUs> You mean, like, a concert?
Death Magnetic is clearly much better than St. Anger, of course, but then, what isn't? And while their old stuff is excellent material, recordings of their recent live performances didn't do anything to make me want to shell out for their tickets when they were on touring here. They just sound somehow sloppy and James' vocals are annoying as fuck.
No, there's no case for legislative intervention here. There's a shitload of phones with mini-USB/3.5mm connectors to choose from, so get any one of those models and the "problem" suddenly disappears. However, it's not going to fix itself if nobody cares or just ignores it a la DRM: "DRM sucks!" *buys ipod, iphone, Steam games because they're shiny and have auto-update*.
Yeah, but this is Python. I'm sure they could cut at least 280 lines if they only used perl. As for the defense projects, I'm convinced they're all just a bunch of shell scripts.
He's refering to a
problem with the idle
stylesheet which
causes the textbox
area to be only as wide
as these lines.
Of course, ignoring this and typing normally works and results in expected behaviour, but it's yet another thing that is wrong with idle. I usually solve this by avoiding this section, but in this case I wanted to see if there are any opinions on the game itself.
Why would the US economists (whoever those are supposed to be) need to come up with an excuse for helping bring millions of dirt-poor peasants into the modern era with some fure prospects? Or are you trying to turn this into a flamewar related to the current crisis?
The growth figure might be shown in real terms. I have no idea having not actually RTFA, though it won't surprise me if it isn't.
Is this Jack Bauer guy something like Santa? I use WM6 every day, it's pretty nice.