Also, I think the Flixster in SD is a "permissions" thing. Hopefully that's an easy software fix to get HD because otherwise, my Ultraviolet Collection is unusable on the Fire TV.
Also, there is a USB Port. I've got a keyboard hooked up to it right now. However, not all the apps support input with the keyboard and some are clunky. I was hoping to avoid using the remote / controller for passwords and usernames during setup. It worked for a number of things. However, not all apps support the tab key to switch between fields or the enter key (it acts like the select button rather than a completions). The Amazon Video PIN entry also doesn't recognize numbers on the keyboard so you have to use the arrow keys and the enter/return key for select.
I'm hoping that software updates bring a little more polish to using the keyboard but it's not terrible if you consider it to be sort of a public "beta" until a couple software updates occur.
There is support for Plex. I have the Amazon Fire TV and I bought the Plex App for it. It's $0.99 (or 99 Coins) on sale from $4.99 for an introductory period. This works with your PC Plex server or a Drobo or Synology box running Plex server apps.
Also, there is a USB Port. I've got a keyboard hooked up to it right now.
FWIW, I also own two Apple TV's, an Atom-based HDMI-out net top, a Chromecast, and now the Amazon Fire TV. I think the software needs a little work. They need to figure out the pairing issue with the remote. The game controlled needs a serious redesign though. It's painful. Or hopefully they will support third party controllers.
The Plex App on Fire TV is $0.99 and I bought it as well with some of the free Amazon "Coins" that I got from buying the Amazon Controller. I'll update some info when I get the device paired with my Plex Server.
My Amazon Fire TV arrived today. Initial impressions:
The box is a lot bigger than Apple TV and includes an external power brick (unlike AppleTV). The physical look and feel of the device and remove are very premium.
The controller is big and uncomfortable. D-PAD is very poorly positioned. This is worse than the Pre-S XBox Controller. It feels like the NVidia Shield a bit but that at least has an entire computer (roughly as powerful as the Fire TV) inside the controller. Seriously, I think they hired the Atari Jaguar controller design team here
First impression is that the UI is not as polished or pretty as the Apple TV but it seems usable. Voice Search is fairly fast but not nearly as "instant" as the commercials and videos online make it seem. Also, the results are only for Amazon Instant Video, Amazon App Store (and supposedly Hulu but I haven't seen any of those).
HBO GO is not on it yet. I installed Flixster to access my Ultraviolet Collection. Unfortunately, Flixster will not play any of my movies in HD and highly compressed 480 SD resolution is a mess on my 65" TV.
And my Fire TV remote seems to lose "pairing" a lot. I sometimes have to use the game controller to go to settings and then to Add Remote and it will find it again.
So if you are running down the hallway waving your arms as you escape the building during a fire, you might disable the alarm before it warns other people.
What if he had said, "blacks don't deserve the right to vote"?
If someone said that in Alabama in 1957, would it be justified to deny them employment for the rest of their life even if they changed their mind after the Civil Rights Act passed?
Nope... but I certainly wouldn't put them as the CEO of an organization that officially places a higher value on openness and inclusiveness than profit.
The CEO of a company can have religious beliefs. However, the Supreme Court of the US is about to decide if the a Corporation can have strongly religious beliefs based on the beliefs of it's CEO and if those beliefs justify not complying with Federal Laws (Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc).
A number of missile defense systems involve using a high power laser that is reflected off a highly controllable (both in speed and accuracy) aiming mirror to destroy the missile. Even flying low and at hypersonic speeds, if there is a line of sight, then the missile could be targetted by the defense system's laser. Light moves quite a bit faster than a hypersonic missile last time I checked.
I just bought a new thermostat. I really wanted a Nest because of it's cool factor however, I ended up buying a Honeywell. First, the Nest isn't as advanced; for example, the Honeywell has some features that allow me to run the fan periodically throughout the cycles.
Nest has fan cycling, the ability to run the fan after heating or cooling have completed (to get the rest of the warmth / cold more efficiency), and the ability to run the fan on demand for a user specified amount of time. You can also tell your Nest to run the fan for X minutes every hour (say 15 minutes per hour) to keep the air circulated in the house and to avoid heating / cooling differentials. All controllable from your iPhone or iOS or Android device.
"As long as that SSD doesn't stall trying to pull blocks off the top of that queue, it really doesn't matter how deep it is. So if you have 10GB of free space on your partition, you only need to call wiper.sh / fstrim once every 10GB worth of file deletions."
This isn't necessarily true. Earlier Trim will improve the performance of the SSD drive because the drive knows more free space -- more free space allows the drive to 1) pre-emptively erase flash 2) coalesce fragmented blocks 3) more efficiently combine write blocks 4) perform wear levelling operations with less overhead.
Early trimming can have a similar effect to the manufacturer increasing slack space which increases performances on nearly all SSD's.
Yeah but this "archaeological chemist" thinks that ancient Egypt was a desert, whereas most others have concluded that it was a lush rainforest, and that the people of that day were into farming on a large scale. That and there aren't many comments on this "nerd fair" article.
It wasn't a rain forest. Yearly flooding of the Nile provided fertile soil and water which allowed for farming of the flood plain. Go a bit away from the Nile and you were still out in the dessert rather quickly. This is why nearly all major ancient Egyptian sites are along the Nile River (whereas a rainforest would have allowed for a more geographical dispersed population).
The Nile no longer floods every year though due to the construction of the Aswan damn.
Whatever your complaints about your job, at least debugging your code doesn't involve stepping through assembly on a pencil and paper virtual machine.
That was how I wrote my first published game back in the 80's. I have no complaints. Everything was new back then and even though the "wheel hadn't yet been invented", programming was still exciting and it was some of the most fun coding I have ever done.
We are targetting custom / closed-wall systems. Single binary EXE for user systems - No user level DLL's or external binary loading allowed (for security purposes). Incremental linking not allowed on retail or profile builds (it's a compiler level hack that potentially adds a thunk per function and at the very least adds one per function moved and also significantly changes the memory footprint for code memory layout from build to build on the functions you are modifying). Additionally, we use link pass optimizations (i.e. link-time inlining) on those builds on certain platforms which on retail and profile builds which require incremental linking to be disabled.
In the best case in the above mentioned builds, we do have about a 15 second compile time followed by the full link time.
But even without these limits, it very easy to find programs where a single change in a common header causes a full recompile and non-cremental link times on all large projects (especially ones with a lot of redundant template functions per translation unit) can grow significantly.
30K lines is pretty small. It's smaller than a single library in our code base. For example, both our memory system and our network layers are significantly larger than this and they are just support libraries.
Faster compile times make for faster iteration... which lets you test global changes for examples - which optimizations actually work - more easily. Not to mention that having better iteration on a program usually produces a superior product.
Also, as a developer, faster compile times make my life a little less frustrating so I'll be less likely to pull out all my hair while waiting on the computer.
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Also, I think the Flixster in SD is a "permissions" thing. Hopefully that's an easy software fix to get HD because otherwise, my Ultraviolet Collection is unusable on the Fire TV.
Also, there is a USB Port. I've got a keyboard hooked up to it right now. However, not all the apps support input with the keyboard and some are clunky. I was hoping to avoid using the remote / controller for passwords and usernames during setup. It worked for a number of things. However, not all apps support the tab key to switch between fields or the enter key (it acts like the select button rather than a completions). The Amazon Video PIN entry also doesn't recognize numbers on the keyboard so you have to use the arrow keys and the enter/return key for select.
I'm hoping that software updates bring a little more polish to using the keyboard but it's not terrible if you consider it to be sort of a public "beta" until a couple software updates occur.
There is support for Plex. I have the Amazon Fire TV and I bought the Plex App for it. It's $0.99 (or 99 Coins) on sale from $4.99 for an introductory period. This works with your PC Plex server or a Drobo or Synology box running Plex server apps.
Also, there is a USB Port. I've got a keyboard hooked up to it right now.
FWIW, I also own two Apple TV's, an Atom-based HDMI-out net top, a Chromecast, and now the Amazon Fire TV. I think the software needs a little work. They need to figure out the pairing issue with the remote. The game controlled needs a serious redesign though. It's painful. Or hopefully they will support third party controllers.
The Plex App on Fire TV is $0.99 and I bought it as well with some of the free Amazon "Coins" that I got from buying the Amazon Controller. I'll update some info when I get the device paired with my Plex Server.
My Amazon Fire TV arrived today. Initial impressions:
The box is a lot bigger than Apple TV and includes an external power brick (unlike AppleTV). The physical look and feel of the device and remove are very premium.
The controller is big and uncomfortable. D-PAD is very poorly positioned. This is worse than the Pre-S XBox Controller. It feels like the NVidia Shield a bit but that at least has an entire computer (roughly as powerful as the Fire TV) inside the controller. Seriously, I think they hired the Atari Jaguar controller design team here
First impression is that the UI is not as polished or pretty as the Apple TV but it seems usable. Voice Search is fairly fast but not nearly as "instant" as the commercials and videos online make it seem. Also, the results are only for Amazon Instant Video, Amazon App Store (and supposedly Hulu but I haven't seen any of those).
HBO GO is not on it yet. I installed Flixster to access my Ultraviolet Collection. Unfortunately, Flixster will not play any of my movies in HD and highly compressed 480 SD resolution is a mess on my 65" TV.
And my Fire TV remote seems to lose "pairing" a lot. I sometimes have to use the game controller to go to settings and then to Add Remote and it will find it again.
What it failed to do was detect an actual fire that didn't produce much, if any, smoke.
How does and old fashioned smoke detector fare at detecting fires that don't produce smoke?
So if you are running down the hallway waving your arms as you escape the building during a fire, you might disable the alarm before it warns other people.
Mozilla is an organization that officially places a higher value on openness and inclusiveness than profit in its charter and mission.
Having someone who is perceived as being bigotted and biased against a minority community as CEO is at odds with Mozilla's reason for existence.
Hence, he is a bad fit for CEO despite his other qualifications.
What if he had said, "blacks don't deserve the right to vote"?
If someone said that in Alabama in 1957, would it be justified to deny them employment for the rest of their life even if they changed their mind after the Civil Rights Act passed?
Nope... but I certainly wouldn't put them as the CEO of an organization that officially places a higher value on openness and inclusiveness than profit.
As a CEO, can I not have any beliefs?
The CEO of a company can have religious beliefs. However, the Supreme Court of the US is about to decide if the a Corporation can have strongly religious beliefs based on the beliefs of it's CEO and if those beliefs justify not complying with Federal Laws (Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc).
The BMW technology detects oncoming traffic as well as cars in front of you and automatically dims the beams so as not to blind other drivers.
A number of missile defense systems involve using a high power laser that is reflected off a highly controllable (both in speed and accuracy) aiming mirror to destroy the missile. Even flying low and at hypersonic speeds, if there is a line of sight, then the missile could be targetted by the defense system's laser. Light moves quite a bit faster than a hypersonic missile last time I checked.
Can someone identify the music in the video?
I just bought a new thermostat. I really wanted a Nest because of it's cool factor however, I ended up buying a Honeywell. First, the Nest isn't as advanced; for example, the Honeywell has some features that allow me to run the fan periodically throughout the cycles.
Nest has fan cycling, the ability to run the fan after heating or cooling have completed (to get the rest of the warmth / cold more efficiency), and the ability to run the fan on demand for a user specified amount of time. You can also tell your Nest to run the fan for X minutes every hour (say 15 minutes per hour) to keep the air circulated in the house and to avoid heating / cooling differentials. All controllable from your iPhone or iOS or Android device.
Isn't Hegh'bat the equivalent of a Klingon Resignation?
"As long as that SSD doesn't stall trying to pull blocks off the top of that queue, it really doesn't matter how deep it is. So if you have 10GB of free space on your partition, you only need to call wiper.sh / fstrim once every 10GB worth of file deletions."
This isn't necessarily true. Earlier Trim will improve the performance of the SSD drive because the drive knows more free space -- more free space allows the drive to 1) pre-emptively erase flash 2) coalesce fragmented blocks 3) more efficiently combine write blocks 4) perform wear levelling operations with less overhead.
Early trimming can have a similar effect to the manufacturer increasing slack space which increases performances on nearly all SSD's.
Did the Net-Security.org site repackage this article before it was repackaged by Slashdot?
Yeah but this "archaeological chemist" thinks that ancient Egypt was a desert, whereas most others have concluded that it was a lush rainforest, and that the people of that day were into farming on a large scale. That and there aren't many comments on this "nerd fair" article.
It wasn't a rain forest. Yearly flooding of the Nile provided fertile soil and water which allowed for farming of the flood plain. Go a bit away from the Nile and you were still out in the dessert rather quickly. This is why nearly all major ancient Egyptian sites are along the Nile River (whereas a rainforest would have allowed for a more geographical dispersed population).
The Nile no longer floods every year though due to the construction of the Aswan damn.
Whatever your complaints about your job, at least debugging your code doesn't involve stepping through assembly on a pencil and paper virtual machine.
That was how I wrote my first published game back in the 80's. I have no complaints. Everything was new back then and even though the "wheel hadn't yet been invented", programming was still exciting and it was some of the most fun coding I have ever done.
The 500GB HD can be replaced by any commercial drive of larger capacity according to the engineer in the video!
That rolling out a large website is a process that has "some glitches" but will turn out fine in the end -- much like raising children apparently.
We are targetting custom / closed-wall systems. Single binary EXE for user systems - No user level DLL's or external binary loading allowed (for security purposes). Incremental linking not allowed on retail or profile builds (it's a compiler level hack that potentially adds a thunk per function and at the very least adds one per function moved and also significantly changes the memory footprint for code memory layout from build to build on the functions you are modifying). Additionally, we use link pass optimizations (i.e. link-time inlining) on those builds on certain platforms which on retail and profile builds which require incremental linking to be disabled.
In the best case in the above mentioned builds, we do have about a 15 second compile time followed by the full link time.
But even without these limits, it very easy to find programs where a single change in a common header causes a full recompile and non-cremental link times on all large projects (especially ones with a lot of redundant template functions per translation unit) can grow significantly.
30K lines is pretty small. It's smaller than a single library in our code base. For example, both our memory system and our network layers are significantly larger than this and they are just support libraries.
Moderate template use is fine. FWIW, Unity/Unified Builds seem to help a lot with compile time on template heavy code.
Faster compile times make for faster iteration... which lets you test global changes for examples - which optimizations actually work - more easily. Not to mention that having better iteration on a program usually produces a superior product.
Also, as a developer, faster compile times make my life a little less frustrating so I'll be less likely to pull out all my hair while waiting on the computer.