Thankfully user tweak guides fixed most of it, and then a later patch cleaned up a bit. Still pretty ordinary effort though for supposedly "release quality".
Mostly UI issues as people suggested, and bad mouse smoothing.
Because games run alot better when more work is doen client side. Try doing hitbox detection on the server, and people complain about the lag. Do it on the client and 99% of people have a great time, and 1% get an aimbot.
Cameras would be no-where near as effective on the moralle of the crew. A nice viewing platform like this where you can use your peripheral vision could really reduce some of the claustrophobic feelings on the ISS.
Death threats are never trivial, and I have to worry about the maturity and mental stability of someone who cant figure that out. They are exactly the same sort of people who SHOULDN'T be playing R18+ games.
That said, i'm sure it's just a few bad apples in an otherwise very normal group.
Yeah, just like cameras and photocipiers stole the work of artists too.
The robot is a tool, and may need some form of an artist to program or operate it. It's no worse than going from baking your own charcoal to using a modern pencil.
Metabolic condition or not, the fat does not apppear out of thin air. You still have to have bring your hand to your mouth and consume those calories. It's like an asthmatic complaining of shortness of breath after smoking.
I realise however that in order to control your weight you may end up being hungry all of the time though, and that just plain sucks.
Here in the Australia contruction industry, there's sort of a hybrid. Everything is measured in metres or mm, but sizes are commonly in units of 300mm which is close to a foot. If you buy timber it might be a moninal length of 2.4m, or any other multiple of 300mm. Same for ceiling heights - 2.1 or 2.4 metres.
They usually put the flyvheel mounted in a gymbal, spinning with a vertical axis. Make that a pair and you can cancel out the charge/discharge reaction force too.
I agree completely, but there needs to be something done because it's just an unworkable situation currently.
If you relate copyright infingement with the next closest thing - say shoplifting (yes I know people will take issue with this example), you can see what I mean. With copyright infringement, there are million of poeple downloading in an isolated location (P2P networks), and you cant even find out who they (map IP address to user account) without a court order. By comparison, each shop only has to deal with a handful of people and they can both catch them in the act and have cameras for identification. When someone escapes the local TV station will put their mug on crimebusters.
Issuing infringement notices to the police/courts would just clog our entire justice system. There needs to be a better way.
No. Apart from the gearbox, those other items are assistance devices. You can still steer without the power steering, and brake without the booster. It's just (much) harder.
Sometimes incomplete coatings will cause differntial oxygen concentrations around the metal, leading to a galvanic cell and subsequent increase in corrosion. But if you dont paint it it will probably corrode anyway.
I think this article really refers to cars with engine management computers, as opposed to "points" substitutes.
The simple transistor ignitions are pretty robust units with high current BJT components in metal cans. By their very nature you still need quite a large base current to switch them, and I doubt a HERF gun would do this.
Bu comparison it would take much less energy to disrupt an engine management computer.
I have several dual core Atoms machines and can recommend them highly enough. One is a linux file/torrent/zoneminder server, one running Windows 2003 as a web/database server, and two more as XBMC media players. Many of them are doing far more intensive tasks than a standard desktop use and they cope well.
Not sure about system they are using, but as far as RAM goes the Atom motherboards I have are limited to 2GB or 3GB anyway. A bit limited for a server but fine for a desktop.
I agree though that the HDD and power supply seem a bit silly.
I think part of the problem is that launch mass is so expensive, satellites are built as light and flimsy as possible. It's a real tradeoff getting useful mass and structural support.
With substantially lower launch costs, you could make things sturdier - eg embed electronics in a solid block of resin. It will still be hard getting mechanical things to survive though.
Even surrounded by liquid, anything with a different density in your body (bones, boogers, urine) would immediately try and stratify, ripping everything apart.
But that's a moot point. Well before your body liquefied your brain would slosh around in your skull, killing you instantly.
Unencrypted content can be proxied, encrypted content cannot. Sure, the mail is dynamic, but images on the backround aren't. Still, it's only a minor point.
The more likely issue is that encrypting about 2 gazillion responses a day for all gmail users worldwide would be a significant impact on their webserver's CPUs.
Whilst they are sending the while inbox/outbox every time, they are also manually moving everything from the inbox to their personal folders whenever something arrives, so that the.ost is practically empty. Only the new incoming or outgoing mails remain.
Frequency plays a massive difference in EM radiation and magnetic induction.
For EM, you really need an antenna that's close to the wavelength, and for 50Hz that's 6000km. For 2.4GHz it's about 12cm.
For induction, frequency affects the overall number of turns required. A 50Hz transformer that copes with 300W is the size of a shoe box, but for a switchmode power supply at 100KHz it's the size of a match box.
They've been trying to get funding in Australia for years and years, and had a proposed site in New South Wales. It was really dissapointing that the government didnt come through.
Oh yeah, I agree completely. Chances are such a small singularity would pass through all other matter and not touch anything.
But on the outside chance that it did touch something and start growing, eventually consuming the earth, it would pretty much stop there. There's simply no other mass to pull in that isn't in a stable orbit.
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Thankfully user tweak guides fixed most of it, and then a later patch cleaned up a bit. Still pretty ordinary effort though for supposedly "release quality".
Mostly UI issues as people suggested, and bad mouse smoothing.
I think you can do a frequency plot or X-Y and look for repeating patterns.
Because games run alot better when more work is doen client side. Try doing hitbox detection on the server, and people complain about the lag. Do it on the client and 99% of people have a great time, and 1% get an aimbot.
For a permanent install, I would take a 10mbit coax over Wireless G or N anyday. Wireless is just flakey.
Cameras would be no-where near as effective on the moralle of the crew. A nice viewing platform like this where you can use your peripheral vision could really reduce some of the claustrophobic feelings on the ISS.
Death threats are never trivial, and I have to worry about the maturity and mental stability of someone who cant figure that out. They are exactly the same sort of people who SHOULDN'T be playing R18+ games.
That said, i'm sure it's just a few bad apples in an otherwise very normal group.
Yeah, just like cameras and photocipiers stole the work of artists too.
The robot is a tool, and may need some form of an artist to program or operate it. It's no worse than going from baking your own charcoal to using a modern pencil.
Metabolic condition or not, the fat does not apppear out of thin air. You still have to have bring your hand to your mouth and consume those calories. It's like an asthmatic complaining of shortness of breath after smoking.
I realise however that in order to control your weight you may end up being hungry all of the time though, and that just plain sucks.
Here in the Australia contruction industry, there's sort of a hybrid. Everything is measured in metres or mm, but sizes are commonly in units of 300mm which is close to a foot. If you buy timber it might be a moninal length of 2.4m, or any other multiple of 300mm. Same for ceiling heights - 2.1 or 2.4 metres.
They usually put the flyvheel mounted in a gymbal, spinning with a vertical axis. Make that a pair and you can cancel out the charge/discharge reaction force too.
I agree completely, but there needs to be something done because it's just an unworkable situation currently.
If you relate copyright infingement with the next closest thing - say shoplifting (yes I know people will take issue with this example), you can see what I mean. With copyright infringement, there are million of poeple downloading in an isolated location (P2P networks), and you cant even find out who they (map IP address to user account) without a court order. By comparison, each shop only has to deal with a handful of people and they can both catch them in the act and have cameras for identification. When someone escapes the local TV station will put their mug on crimebusters.
Issuing infringement notices to the police/courts would just clog our entire justice system. There needs to be a better way.
No. Apart from the gearbox, those other items are assistance devices. You can still steer without the power steering, and brake without the booster. It's just (much) harder.
Sometimes incomplete coatings will cause differntial oxygen concentrations around the metal, leading to a galvanic cell and subsequent increase in corrosion. But if you dont paint it it will probably corrode anyway.
I think this article really refers to cars with engine management computers, as opposed to "points" substitutes.
The simple transistor ignitions are pretty robust units with high current BJT components in metal cans. By their very nature you still need quite a large base current to switch them, and I doubt a HERF gun would do this.
Bu comparison it would take much less energy to disrupt an engine management computer.
It varies between power supplies. Efficiency is not constant over the whole load range and there are sweat spots.
I have several dual core Atoms machines and can recommend them highly enough. One is a linux file/torrent/zoneminder server, one running Windows 2003 as a web/database server, and two more as XBMC media players. Many of them are doing far more intensive tasks than a standard desktop use and they cope well.
Not sure about system they are using, but as far as RAM goes the Atom motherboards I have are limited to 2GB or 3GB anyway. A bit limited for a server but fine for a desktop.
I agree though that the HDD and power supply seem a bit silly.
Good luck. Notice how words in a dictionary are describe by..... other words!
I think part of the problem is that launch mass is so expensive, satellites are built as light and flimsy as possible. It's a real tradeoff getting useful mass and structural support.
With substantially lower launch costs, you could make things sturdier - eg embed electronics in a solid block of resin. It will still be hard getting mechanical things to survive though.
Even surrounded by liquid, anything with a different density in your body (bones, boogers, urine) would immediately try and stratify, ripping everything apart.
But that's a moot point. Well before your body liquefied your brain would slosh around in your skull, killing you instantly.
A focussed EM beam would work well though - eg a high gain microwave or radio waveguide could cause serious disruption.
Unencrypted content can be proxied, encrypted content cannot. Sure, the mail is dynamic, but images on the backround aren't.
Still, it's only a minor point.
The more likely issue is that encrypting about 2 gazillion responses a day for all gmail users worldwide would be a significant impact on their webserver's CPUs.
Whilst they are sending the while inbox/outbox every time, they are also manually moving everything from the inbox to their personal folders whenever something arrives, so that the .ost is practically empty. Only the new incoming or outgoing mails remain.
Still, it's a shitty method.
Frequency plays a massive difference in EM radiation and magnetic induction.
For EM, you really need an antenna that's close to the wavelength, and for 50Hz that's 6000km. For 2.4GHz it's about 12cm.
For induction, frequency affects the overall number of turns required. A 50Hz transformer that copes with 300W is the size of a shoe box, but for a switchmode power supply at 100KHz it's the size of a match box.
They've been trying to get funding in Australia for years and years, and had a proposed site in New South Wales. It was really dissapointing that the government didnt come through.
Oh yeah, I agree completely. Chances are such a small singularity would pass through all other matter and not touch anything.
But on the outside chance that it did touch something and start growing, eventually consuming the earth, it would pretty much stop there. There's simply no other mass to pull in that isn't in a stable orbit.