...addressing the common theme in the above comments collectively. Trying to make people act less anti-social, in a privately run setting, is horrible censorship and a terrible evil? Trying to get people to act civilly is more unethical than telling people to kill themselves? Are you serious? I hope you don't take that approach raising kids, or managing workers. Jesus Christ.
Some people get annoyed thinking that electrical positive/negative charges should be reversed, or that pi would be more useful if we used a multiple of it. My pet peeve is star population labeling. Our current generation of stars (and all future ones) are Population I. The immediately previous one is Population II, and the very first stars are Population III.
I know there's history there... Pop I and II were labeled without regard to which ones actually came first, and Pop III wasn't visible by telescope when the others were discovered so we had to add them later, but come on. Have some dignity and reverse them, even if you need to create a new term instead of population to do it.
Probably a lot of responses will say that the delivery guy never comes up to the door, and probably a lot of them are right, but whatever helps. Some local friends had problems with delivery people knocking too quietly, maybe intentionally, who knows. They put up a sign on their door saying "Knock like this door is everyone who ever wronged you", and suddenly delivery people actually make noise! The novelty factor probably helps more than anything else.
C'mon guys, read the thing. They modified a LOT of genes, to the point where even several mutations wouldn't make it viable. Statistics really is in our favor on this one.
I adore watching speedruns. Okay, it's not the Olympics, but it's still fun to watch someone demonstrating a lot of skill.
Also to make streaming more personal--I remember that Zork: Grand Inquisitor had a multiplayer mode. It's your standard Mystlike first-person puzzle game, but you could let someone be a backseat driver, talk to you, point at things. It's not for everyone, but if you actually liked playing those games as a group and someone's moved across the country...yeah, pretty nice.
Fine, you can hide from it if you know what they're using and you know they're after you right now and you are willing to stay in an inconvenient spot. I don't think that's most situations, and water heaters probably aren't the best tactical positions, so the theoretical bad guys still suffer from the availability of this thing.
And that is the reason why I'm not sad to see the use of this stuff become more advanced and more widespread. This device wouldn't have prevented that--kid in a crib isn't moving around--but if they could actually see stuff through walls, or at least spot heat signatures (yeah I know it's really damn hard), that would be a great tool in a SWAT team's kit for minimizing fatalities on both sides. Restrict it to entry warrants and I don't see a problem.
Doesn't trust it to not fail catastrophically, or not break when you update your system. Slashdot is full of horror stories where a supposedly stable distribution switched to systemd, and systems that have operated for a decade suddenly failed to boot right. It's still experimental-quality.
It's getting harder and harder to find phones with hardware keyboards or decent battery life. Swap out the fancy graphics card for a second battery, and put a slide-out keyboard on the back, and I will be so, so happy.
I hope they have a keyboard. I'll be so disappointed if they don't.
Way overkill. UPSes are expensive to maintain if you need to replace a car battery every few years, they're very bulky which ruins the point of a tiny server that sits on a bookshelf, and they don't solve my problem of "I'd like to move it to a different shelf without losing power" unless I want to get a few people to carry around the UPS + everything attached to it. From my experience with large UPSes, just replacing batteries will cost more over the life of this machine than the computer would. I don't need to keep my internet online either--it'll come back up on its own when the power comes back on; for a home server I need to gently shut it down and bring it back online. I guess what I really want is a laptop...only with no keyboard or monitor. Surely there is a small portable laptop-battery kind of thing for machines without one, that you can put inline with the power cord...
My feelings towards big UPSes is that the battery only lasts a couple years, and costs a ton to replace. PiUPS looks pretty cool aside from the part where it only supplies enough power to run a Pi, so we'll see......"Input range — 10 to 15V DC" Worth a look to see if I can get that out of it. Running on AAs is fine, especially given that I'm not actually too concerned about power surges or neighborhood outages. It's really just for planned outages in my use case, so "put a couple batteries in, unplug from wall, move, plug back in" is pretty darn close to ideal. I'll investigate if this'll do the job, thanks!
Lack of a case makes it a poor comparison. Sure, if you're in the mood to DIY things, maybe even trivially, it works. But the Fitlet is "buy and then place on a shelf". When prices are this low, the time and effort and money to find or make a case that'll fit this other thing is actually pretty significant relative to the final cost.
I really want one of these things, or something similar sized, for a tiny home server. The only issue I have with running a home server is that, with home renovations, we need to kill the power for a couple minutes now and then and I'd love to not have to shut down the server every single time...same with relocating it to a different shelf. Could someone recommend a tiny UPS suitable for these mini-servers, with lifetime in the neighborhood of an hour?
Are...are you kidding? Cities XL is barely a game. It has some really nice features that were innovative for its time, like free-drawing roads, but a lot of its implementations are complete and utter BS. Like, you have to zone regions based on social class. Part of the challenge of SimCity is that you can't directly control that. Natural resources are garbage... the supply/demand graphs of different zones have hardly any bounce or buffer zone and your citizens move in with no intelligence at all. If you build twice as much unskilled-labor residential than you need--probably because you're trying to plan your city out early--people will SWARM in, and then whine about how there's not enough jobs. Even the very first SimCity game made people only move in if there were jobs (+/- a fudge factor). This is a really huge problem because you have to micromanage your zoning and build it a little bit at a time, rotating through all different kinds. You can't prebuild or everyone goes ballistic. Oh yeah, and road widths. God damn it, road widths. Hey great, I can upgrade this three-lane to a four-lane!...if I bulldoze everything along it, because the game cares about road width down to the foot, and you aren't allowed to build small roads with extra buffer on the side for future expansion. Dump tons of money now to build the nice roads, or you're hosed later.
All of this leads to extremely formulaic gameplay. There's not much variation in what works, and it feels tedious to do. I spent a lot of hours trying to find the fun, on a couple different versions, and it wasn't there. Went back to SC4.
I'm pretty sure I've heard of acoustic keyloggers. Yeah they probably have tough restrictions on where they need to be placed to be effective, but you might luck out. Bet you could put one of those into this thing and remove the "wireless keyboard" requirement.
C# is basically MS Java. Just go and develop in Java. Why make it hard on yourself?
You'd normally be correct, but UI is the one place where they are fairly different. Speaking as a dev who's switched between C# and Java just about every job for the last ten years, that's the only thing that gives me a headache.
My last job was a Windows client that used Silverlight for its UI. It really made me appreciate how much I like Java web development.
What's the difference, data-mining wise, between having a Facebook account and willingly using your real name all over the place online? People are perfectly happy to do the latter. I don't see why those people would care about the former. (I guess there's tracking through facebook buttons all over the place, so maybe suppose that people have solid blockers for that.)
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...addressing the common theme in the above comments collectively. Trying to make people act less anti-social, in a privately run setting, is horrible censorship and a terrible evil? Trying to get people to act civilly is more unethical than telling people to kill themselves? Are you serious? I hope you don't take that approach raising kids, or managing workers. Jesus Christ.
The stars that come after ours won't have meaningfully different metallicity, so no. Population is not (strictly) generation.
According to ancient alien theorists...
Some people get annoyed thinking that electrical positive/negative charges should be reversed, or that pi would be more useful if we used a multiple of it. My pet peeve is star population labeling. Our current generation of stars (and all future ones) are Population I. The immediately previous one is Population II, and the very first stars are Population III.
I know there's history there... Pop I and II were labeled without regard to which ones actually came first, and Pop III wasn't visible by telescope when the others were discovered so we had to add them later, but come on. Have some dignity and reverse them, even if you need to create a new term instead of population to do it.
Huh, I just read this article in a "history nerd" mindset.
Probably a lot of responses will say that the delivery guy never comes up to the door, and probably a lot of them are right, but whatever helps. Some local friends had problems with delivery people knocking too quietly, maybe intentionally, who knows. They put up a sign on their door saying "Knock like this door is everyone who ever wronged you", and suddenly delivery people actually make noise! The novelty factor probably helps more than anything else.
You wouldn't teleport a car.
C'mon guys, read the thing. They modified a LOT of genes, to the point where even several mutations wouldn't make it viable. Statistics really is in our favor on this one.
It's Bellevue. Getting a billion packages a day is normal, though they're usually from Amazon.
I adore watching speedruns. Okay, it's not the Olympics, but it's still fun to watch someone demonstrating a lot of skill.
Also to make streaming more personal--I remember that Zork: Grand Inquisitor had a multiplayer mode. It's your standard Mystlike first-person puzzle game, but you could let someone be a backseat driver, talk to you, point at things. It's not for everyone, but if you actually liked playing those games as a group and someone's moved across the country...yeah, pretty nice.
Fine, you can hide from it if you know what they're using and you know they're after you right now and you are willing to stay in an inconvenient spot. I don't think that's most situations, and water heaters probably aren't the best tactical positions, so the theoretical bad guys still suffer from the availability of this thing.
And that is the reason why I'm not sad to see the use of this stuff become more advanced and more widespread. This device wouldn't have prevented that--kid in a crib isn't moving around--but if they could actually see stuff through walls, or at least spot heat signatures (yeah I know it's really damn hard), that would be a great tool in a SWAT team's kit for minimizing fatalities on both sides. Restrict it to entry warrants and I don't see a problem.
Okay, fine, I'm going by anecdotes. But did you seriously just argue based on "I haven't read the same comments as you, it so it must not be true"?
Doesn't trust it to not fail catastrophically, or not break when you update your system. Slashdot is full of horror stories where a supposedly stable distribution switched to systemd, and systems that have operated for a decade suddenly failed to boot right. It's still experimental-quality.
You use prebuilt modules, you're not supposed to really hack or add your own. It's modular, not DIY.
It's getting harder and harder to find phones with hardware keyboards or decent battery life. Swap out the fancy graphics card for a second battery, and put a slide-out keyboard on the back, and I will be so, so happy.
I hope they have a keyboard. I'll be so disappointed if they don't.
Way overkill. UPSes are expensive to maintain if you need to replace a car battery every few years, they're very bulky which ruins the point of a tiny server that sits on a bookshelf, and they don't solve my problem of "I'd like to move it to a different shelf without losing power" unless I want to get a few people to carry around the UPS + everything attached to it. From my experience with large UPSes, just replacing batteries will cost more over the life of this machine than the computer would. I don't need to keep my internet online either--it'll come back up on its own when the power comes back on; for a home server I need to gently shut it down and bring it back online. I guess what I really want is a laptop...only with no keyboard or monitor. Surely there is a small portable laptop-battery kind of thing for machines without one, that you can put inline with the power cord...
My feelings towards big UPSes is that the battery only lasts a couple years, and costs a ton to replace. PiUPS looks pretty cool aside from the part where it only supplies enough power to run a Pi, so we'll see... ..."Input range — 10 to 15V DC"
Worth a look to see if I can get that out of it. Running on AAs is fine, especially given that I'm not actually too concerned about power surges or neighborhood outages. It's really just for planned outages in my use case, so "put a couple batteries in, unplug from wall, move, plug back in" is pretty darn close to ideal. I'll investigate if this'll do the job, thanks!
Lack of a case makes it a poor comparison. Sure, if you're in the mood to DIY things, maybe even trivially, it works. But the Fitlet is "buy and then place on a shelf". When prices are this low, the time and effort and money to find or make a case that'll fit this other thing is actually pretty significant relative to the final cost.
I really want one of these things, or something similar sized, for a tiny home server. The only issue I have with running a home server is that, with home renovations, we need to kill the power for a couple minutes now and then and I'd love to not have to shut down the server every single time...same with relocating it to a different shelf. Could someone recommend a tiny UPS suitable for these mini-servers, with lifetime in the neighborhood of an hour?
Are...are you kidding? Cities XL is barely a game. It has some really nice features that were innovative for its time, like free-drawing roads, but a lot of its implementations are complete and utter BS. Like, you have to zone regions based on social class. Part of the challenge of SimCity is that you can't directly control that. Natural resources are garbage... the supply/demand graphs of different zones have hardly any bounce or buffer zone and your citizens move in with no intelligence at all. If you build twice as much unskilled-labor residential than you need--probably because you're trying to plan your city out early--people will SWARM in, and then whine about how there's not enough jobs. Even the very first SimCity game made people only move in if there were jobs (+/- a fudge factor). This is a really huge problem because you have to micromanage your zoning and build it a little bit at a time, rotating through all different kinds. You can't prebuild or everyone goes ballistic. Oh yeah, and road widths. God damn it, road widths. Hey great, I can upgrade this three-lane to a four-lane!...if I bulldoze everything along it, because the game cares about road width down to the foot, and you aren't allowed to build small roads with extra buffer on the side for future expansion. Dump tons of money now to build the nice roads, or you're hosed later.
All of this leads to extremely formulaic gameplay. There's not much variation in what works, and it feels tedious to do. I spent a lot of hours trying to find the fun, on a couple different versions, and it wasn't there. Went back to SC4.
I'm pretty sure I've heard of acoustic keyloggers. Yeah they probably have tough restrictions on where they need to be placed to be effective, but you might luck out. Bet you could put one of those into this thing and remove the "wireless keyboard" requirement.
C# is basically MS Java. Just go and develop in Java. Why make it hard on yourself?
You'd normally be correct, but UI is the one place where they are fairly different. Speaking as a dev who's switched between C# and Java just about every job for the last ten years, that's the only thing that gives me a headache.
My last job was a Windows client that used Silverlight for its UI. It really made me appreciate how much I like Java web development.
What's the difference, data-mining wise, between having a Facebook account and willingly using your real name all over the place online? People are perfectly happy to do the latter. I don't see why those people would care about the former. (I guess there's tracking through facebook buttons all over the place, so maybe suppose that people have solid blockers for that.)
Are you sure you commented on the right story? I don't get it.