More importantly, why don't video sites recognise this and change the aspect ratio of the player to match? Also seems like there should be some way to tag mobile video formats with accelerometer readings (and therefore orientation) during recording.
I've found Console Calculator to be quite handy in the office environment, although it is (currently) windows only. The "virtual tape", minimize-to-tray, responsiveness, and absence of the space-devouring visual number pad help are great when you're working on another business app. I will be trying gtapecalc though! http://www.zoesoft.com/console-calculator/
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I've played a little OSS RTS game called Globulation 2, it sounds just like the game you describe. Even though it's unfinished, it's a lot of fun to play and, and to give these commands (such as "Make a building here", "Attackers stand here" etc). It suffers in larger/longer games when units trip over each other and starve to death, or cannot survive the trip from the battlefront to the inn, but I think these issues can be resolved.
Try it out: http://globulation2.org/
And to supplement eddy's comment, breaking the DRM schemes ensures there will always be a way to redistribute the media in an unprotected format - if it were never compromised, there would be no alternative (for people who want the content) but to buy it, DRM and all.
Obfuscated TCP is very promising, an application-transparent method of encrypting TCP traffic, with graceful failure. Not designed to prevent targeted man-in-the-middle attacks, but will make generalised packet inspection extraordinarily difficult.
Odds are your prior browser is set to check whether it's the default browser or not and the next time you start it, it will ask you.
Yes, but by then it is too late - the problem is that I rely on the Automatic Update feature to keep my software up-to-date with the latest patches, not to bring in new software that I didn't expressly ask for.
I would say it's because of electrical safety regulations - there is a very low limit on the number of splitters / adapters you can have on a single outlet (no matter which configuration) which doesn't allow for overloading of the master feed circuit.
If you have a house which can safely power an arc welder in every room simultaneously, then sure, go for it, but in the majority of cases, having multiple power adapters with active connected appliances will burn your house to the ground.
I agree with the bulk of your post, except the last part: "Well, violence is not an acceptable substitute for rational and logical discussion, and it should not be a way of enforcing values and morals on children."
In the cases where the child is rational and logical, that would be true. But in the vast majority of cases, physical discipline is directed at younglings that don't yet have a fully developed mind. The difference between just saying "Don't stick things in power sockets" and saying it while slapping their wrist when they attempt to do it, could save their lives.
I believe that it is still important to try to explain Why you are disciplining them, as it sets up an association between words and actions/consequences.
This is fine for clear cut examples like the power socket, but less so for the vagaries of teaching ethics and morality.
[i]then play a very cautious strategy[/i]
I'd say that would give the sensors more time to pick up your intentions. Going hell for leather without thinking things through would definitely strain a system that needs a couple of seconds to pick up a change...
Sir, you are technically correct (re exponential increases) but I believe you may have a disparity in timescales in your model. Stuff is put up there a lot faster than it comes down, and for such small masses even the miniscule drag at >1000km altitudes dwarfs any gravitational interparticle interaction effects (which still only serve to aggregrate masses, not alter orbits).
For questions 2, 3, 4 and 6, it's just because the broken lines were major arteries, and you didn't see any slowdown until later because that's when the backbone traffic was redirected, flooding the other lines.
Question 5: no, but the quake hit a bunch at once, which should be very rare (but evidence points to the contrary...) The cables themselves are quite brittle.
in addition, i would like for carriers that they not drop packets during congestion as it makes it almost impossible to access hosts.
Do you have any idea how much ungodly expensive hardware they would need to cache more than 1500gbit/s for more than a few seconds?
Do you have any idea how badly that would worsen the reachability problem? You'd never get through because the thousands of other clients have already put their packets in and saturated the queue downstream with retransmits.
So if your phone lines pass through Company Y's systems, they can listen in? Oops, now all forms of long-distance communication are open for listening!
Not sure if it's actually gravity or "dark energy" behind it, but the Hubble sphere defines the area outside of which no light or information can reach us. From what I've read, if the expansion of the universe is accelerating, then the Hubble sphere will contract. First red-shifting the most distant stars into blackness, then moving closer and closer until we can only see the stars in our own galaxy (but by then, the expansion may have become strong enough to adversely affect life on Earth...)
I don't know how scientifically valid that particular theory is, but it does make for very good plotlines in the Legacy of Kain series (ie time travel is possible, but without the Macguffin, in this case a pair of Soul Reavers*, nothing can be changed.)
* An interesting tidbit: there's only one Soul Reaver ever created.
TA is one game that always finds its way back onto my desktop. Especially with the number of mods (Absolute Annihilation in particular).
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night isn't far behind.
It's because most of the physics engines use aerodynamic friction as a cop out. Without motion damping, you can quickly find too many phys-objects still moving (slightly) around using the same clock cycles, so everything gets dragged heavily to bring them to a halt.
These sort of cpu-saving hacks are especially noticeable when you try making clumps of physobjects, once they stop moving they lock in place to save cycles and it tends to create unmanageable frozen lumps.
Nope, the gravitational attraction of all the Earth's mass points in one direction: down. When you are at "down", you've got 5.972e19kg of rock trying to get to where you are. It wouldn't be pretty. (Although the strength of the gravitional field does drop as you approach "down", at no point does it reverse, let alone strongly enough to counteract weight of the outer mass).
A hollow earth isn't stable, either. Especially for a mostly-liquid mantle. As soon as the center of the hollow sphere (the "bubble") diverges from the gravitational center, more material will pile up on one side, further accelerating the "rise" of the bubble.
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More importantly, why don't video sites recognise this and change the aspect ratio of the player to match? Also seems like there should be some way to tag mobile video formats with accelerometer readings (and therefore orientation) during recording.
I've found Console Calculator to be quite handy in the office environment, although it is (currently) windows only. The "virtual tape", minimize-to-tray, responsiveness, and absence of the space-devouring visual number pad help are great when you're working on another business app. I will be trying gtapecalc though!
http://www.zoesoft.com/console-calculator/
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I've played a little OSS RTS game called Globulation 2, it sounds just like the game you describe. Even though it's unfinished, it's a lot of fun to play and, and to give these commands (such as "Make a building here", "Attackers stand here" etc). It suffers in larger/longer games when units trip over each other and starve to death, or cannot survive the trip from the battlefront to the inn, but I think these issues can be resolved.
Try it out:
http://globulation2.org/
And to supplement eddy's comment, breaking the DRM schemes ensures there will always be a way to redistribute the media in an unprotected format - if it were never compromised, there would be no alternative (for people who want the content) but to buy it, DRM and all.
http://code.google.com/p/obstcp/
Obfuscated TCP is very promising, an application-transparent method of encrypting TCP traffic, with graceful failure. Not designed to prevent targeted man-in-the-middle attacks, but will make generalised packet inspection extraordinarily difficult.
Then you would probably be missing several security updates for various programs.
Odds are your prior browser is set to check whether it's the default browser or not and the next time you start it, it will ask you.
Yes, but by then it is too late - the problem is that I rely on the Automatic Update feature to keep my software up-to-date with the latest patches, not to bring in new software that I didn't expressly ask for.
I would say it's because of electrical safety regulations - there is a very low limit on the number of splitters / adapters you can have on a single outlet (no matter which configuration) which doesn't allow for overloading of the master feed circuit.
If you have a house which can safely power an arc welder in every room simultaneously, then sure, go for it, but in the majority of cases, having multiple power adapters with active connected appliances will burn your house to the ground.
I agree with the bulk of your post, except the last part: "Well, violence is not an acceptable substitute for rational and logical discussion, and it should not be a way of enforcing values and morals on children."
In the cases where the child is rational and logical, that would be true. But in the vast majority of cases, physical discipline is directed at younglings that don't yet have a fully developed mind. The difference between just saying "Don't stick things in power sockets" and saying it while slapping their wrist when they attempt to do it, could save their lives.
I believe that it is still important to try to explain Why you are disciplining them, as it sets up an association between words and actions/consequences.
This is fine for clear cut examples like the power socket, but less so for the vagaries of teaching ethics and morality.
Oh, it is an engineering problem, it's just a distinctly non-trivial engineering problem.
[i]then play a very cautious strategy[/i] I'd say that would give the sensors more time to pick up your intentions. Going hell for leather without thinking things through would definitely strain a system that needs a couple of seconds to pick up a change...
Nice! That's actually a pretty intriguing idea - if not a good basis for some scifi!
Sir, you are technically correct (re exponential increases) but I believe you may have a disparity in timescales in your model. Stuff is put up there a lot faster than it comes down, and for such small masses even the miniscule drag at >1000km altitudes dwarfs any gravitational interparticle interaction effects (which still only serve to aggregrate masses, not alter orbits).
You might never know, period.
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For questions 2, 3, 4 and 6, it's just because the broken lines were major arteries, and you didn't see any slowdown until later because that's when the backbone traffic was redirected, flooding the other lines.
Question 5: no, but the quake hit a bunch at once, which should be very rare (but evidence points to the contrary...) The cables themselves are quite brittle.
in addition, i would like for carriers that they not drop packets during congestion as it makes it almost impossible to access hosts.
Do you have any idea how much ungodly expensive hardware they would need to cache more than 1500gbit/s for more than a few seconds?
Do you have any idea how badly that would worsen the reachability problem? You'd never get through because the thousands of other clients have already put their packets in and saturated the queue downstream with retransmits.
So if your phone lines pass through Company Y's systems, they can listen in? Oops, now all forms of long-distance communication are open for listening!
Not sure if it's actually gravity or "dark energy" behind it, but the Hubble sphere defines the area outside of which no light or information can reach us. From what I've read, if the expansion of the universe is accelerating, then the Hubble sphere will contract. First red-shifting the most distant stars into blackness, then moving closer and closer until we can only see the stars in our own galaxy (but by then, the expansion may have become strong enough to adversely affect life on Earth...)
I don't know how scientifically valid that particular theory is, but it does make for very good plotlines in the Legacy of Kain series (ie time travel is possible, but without the Macguffin, in this case a pair of Soul Reavers*, nothing can be changed.)
* An interesting tidbit: there's only one Soul Reaver ever created.
Just as soon as the poor support for joysticks in DirectX/DirectPlay is improved, mind you.
There's still no adapter that can interpret the analog buttons on the DualShock 2.
TA is one game that always finds its way back onto my desktop. Especially with the number of mods (Absolute Annihilation in particular). Castlevania: Symphony of the Night isn't far behind.
It's because most of the physics engines use aerodynamic friction as a cop out. Without motion damping, you can quickly find too many phys-objects still moving (slightly) around using the same clock cycles, so everything gets dragged heavily to bring them to a halt.
These sort of cpu-saving hacks are especially noticeable when you try making clumps of physobjects, once they stop moving they lock in place to save cycles and it tends to create unmanageable frozen lumps.
Nope, the gravitational attraction of all the Earth's mass points in one direction: down. When you are at "down", you've got 5.972e19kg of rock trying to get to where you are. It wouldn't be pretty. (Although the strength of the gravitional field does drop as you approach "down", at no point does it reverse, let alone strongly enough to counteract weight of the outer mass). A hollow earth isn't stable, either. Especially for a mostly-liquid mantle. As soon as the center of the hollow sphere (the "bubble") diverges from the gravitational center, more material will pile up on one side, further accelerating the "rise" of the bubble.
Except for pastors' daughters...