Oh, the house centipede? Creepy-looking and they move with disturbing speed when spooked. But if they don't find anything to eat, they generally move on
Spiders on the other hand, don't move on, and I have an issue with them erecting webs in my living space
.(protip, a green laser pointer is particularly useful in lighting up otherwise invisible webs lurking in odd corners where one might stick their hands without looking)
The nearest parallel I've seen to the condition in TFA is the huge nasty-looking "bags of tree cancer" made by the Fall Webworm that infest some trees in the Southeast US (usually where I see them, but have noticed infestations as far north as the Baltimore area). During a particularly bad year in South Carolina long ago, large trees sometimes were festooned with dozens of these nests, and some saplings were so covered with webbing that they looked like a giant pantyhose was draped over them. Gross.
Out of curiosity, I've been using Google Maps' timeline feature to log my commute times and the various paths I take between home and work to see which one offers the shortest travel times. It's not as clear-cut as it would seem, since in my particular corner of NYC, between various combinations of subways and buses, there are upwards of 14 different routes I could take to make the trip without going very far out of my way.
As for location services underground, I have found that if you connect to the WiFi service offered in the underground stations (Transit Wireless) then your phone can get a location fix within a few seconds of establishing a connection to their access points as you move from station to station. Using a navigation app to keep the GPS active, you can watch the pointer indicating your position on the map jump from station to station as the phone re-acquires Transit Wireless at each stop. Naturally, this doesn't work between stations..
(protip: "singledigits.com" is the redirect to the Transit Wireless portal page if your default browser complains that it can't reach the Web upon getting its connection)
Demon Attack was by Imagic. Coleco was noteworthy for publishing the first home version of Donkey Kong on their own platform, along with a 2600 version.
I used an Eee 901HA to do image editing while out and about. Digital drawings, mostly...until I looked at a drawing I had colored using it, on a device with a better screen--the colors were all wonky. A cartoon character that was supposed to be a light cream color came out looking a sickly greenish somethingoranother.
After that, I went to other machines with better LCD's (eyes his 17" Toshiba P850 on another table) and the netbook served just to run an old portable Canon scanner until I found out how to bamboozle my Surface Pro 2 (Win 8.1) into running an older driver to access it. The image editors I was (and still use) didn't tax the Eee, but the color fidelity of its display ended its career as a portable image editor.
I'm keeping an eye on the Eve V. in the meantime. Given what I'm carrying now though, I'm probably not in the same boat as the OP.
New York City is in the midst of a sodium-to-LED street-lamp upgrade. I was going to get a before-and-after photo of how my block looked at night when I saw the closest main thoroughfare upgraded, but the DOT beat me to it.
The lighting is very directional. So much so that the sidewalk on my side of the street (opposite the poles) looks like it's lit by spotlights (the brightness trails off rapidly as one moves farther back but the opposite sidewalk is mostly in darkness by comparison. The commercial strips on the main streets have had additional short-armed fixtures installed on the opposite sides of the poles to light up the sidewalks, but it remains to be seen if anything will be done about the residential side streets thus affected
Even so, riding above these streets on elevated subway lines makes them look dim by comparison since almost none of the light is visible once you're above the fixture heads. It'll be interesting to see how this makes nighttime cloud cover look after the first snowstorm turns the ground into a reflective surface.
Of all the dozens (hundreds?) of videos of Indian passenger trains I've seen (there seem to be a lot of railfans in India) on YouTube, none use head-end power (HEP) generated by the locomotive--even if it's an electric unit (as far as I can tell, locomotive-borne HEP just isn't a thing in India). There is almost always a diesel generator car at one end (usually both) of the passenger consist.
This is most likely due to the sheer length of these trains--it isn't even unusual for premium services to have well in excess of 15 coaches. Trains with non-air-conditioned classes (basically anything with bars on the windows instead of glass) can easily hit 18-20 cars and up. There is a limit to how many cars can be powered off a single generator car (or HEP-equipped locomotive), usually about 15 or so cars max.
There are a number of people who have designed mods for the 2600 (as well as other consoles) that allow it to output composite or S-Video. A number of these are discussed/demonstrated on YouTube.
Be sure to read through the comments, the poster lists his web store in the last thread. If he doesn't have them, a look through the related videos may give you some leads
What we're looking at here is Apple slowly phasing out the last remnants of sales to old devices. It has been impossible for over a year to release new software targeted at people with old devices through the App Store, and it is about to become impossible to sell them new copies of software that was previously released.
This is what gets me about the Apple model (I'm an iPad Mini user -- non-retina) -- the walled garden does an awful lot to preserve the security of the device, but they then brick us old users up in a tiny corner when us and the devices we bought are of no interest to them. If they want to rent us iPads, rent us them. Don't sell them to us then make them useless when the hardware is still working perfectly well.
My LG 47VL5500, from about 4 years ago works like this:
--hit the Input button on the remote. List of inputs comes up. (usually it's on HDMI1)
--Either hit the Input button twice to select HDMI 3 or tap the D-pad twice
--Hit OK.
Maybe the UI changed between your model year and mine? I could do it via the menu system like you describe, but this just seems to work.
If you're running a phone's GPS then *that* in particular will chew through batteries like nobody's business.
I had a Galaxy Note 4 completely drain a 10,000MaH battery-based phone charger running GPS for about 7 hours (was watching my progress in a navigation app during a bus trip) At my destination, the phone was at almost full charge, the charger it was hooked to was almost completely flatlined.
I never could get the timing right on parachuting into the cliff hole under the tree on Raiders.
Probably too late to offer this, but...
I seem to recall that you had to hit the branches under the leaf cluster with the canopy of the parachute. The game would then pull the player-character diagonally down the tree trunk and into the hole.
Then you had to avoid touching the "thieves" running back and forth across the next screen as you made your way to your objective on the bottom.
When I got my recall notice (via Amazon, where I bought it), my first thought was "good thing I don't keep mine plugged in all the time" (it sees very light usage, and the battery holds up nicely for weeks on end while powered down)
Then I clicked on the actual notice and was puzzled for a bit. The charger pictured in the notice didn't look anything like the one that came with my Surface. Mine was a compact wall wart with folding prongs. More searching led me to a listing for a Surface 24-watt charger that looked just like the one packed with my SP2, and taking another look at the logo on mine, it says "Surface RT". I'd been using the thing on-and-off for almost a year and never noticed. Turns out the RT and Pro could use each other's chargers.
Anyone else get an RT charger bundled with their Surface Pro 2 or 3?
You're thinking of the Aleutian Trench.
That's a long ways from the Bering Strait. Any plate-boundary crossing would occur on land in NE Russia and be across a strike-slip fault much like the San Andreas, not a subduction zone.
(aside)
Last time I heard of this scheme, it was to be a tunnel, proposed to run under the Strait between the Diomede Islands, and it was to be exclusively for rail (conventional--not high-speed).
Need to send vehicles across? Put 'em on the train. No sense building gas stations out in the middle of nowhere, and a tunnel is both less maintenance-intensive and less prone to severe weather.
As always, the hard part isn't building the actual link--it's connecting it to the nearest railheads on both sides, and conjuring up a business rationale for doing so.
Coincidentally, I had been taking a close look at Krita on and off (the last "on" being a week or so ago) after hearing that someone is working on adding frame-by-frame animation functionality to the application.
I ran across P&C while scoping out the application's capabilities (in part via your YouTube channel) and now I'm tempted to try out this application before the animation capabilities are added in. And now it gets spotlighted in/.
Now if I only knew how to color well enough to actually take advantage of Krita's capabilities:D...
As for doing artwork with OSS, I've used Inkscape for digital inking for a couple of years now, and have given MyPaint enough playtime to produce one of my few completely digital pics (cell-shaded w/o backdrop), which is more than I can say for the apps I actually paid for (Sketchbook Pro 2011 and Clip Studio Paint 5), for some inexplicable reason.
Those cars as pictured do not run on the Northeast Corridor. Maximum allowable height on the NEC is 14'6" (4.4m) due to the Baltimore and Hudson River tunnels, and that's only if the top corners of the carbody are angled.
No they aren't. Amtrak outlined a plan for a new Northeast Corridor that could support what everyone else in the world would term "high speed rail".
It amounts to a formal plan to have on hand, just in case monkeys flew out all our collective butts, causing the money to actually do this to miraculously materialize out of hot air.
In reality, at best Amtrak is more concerned with wrangling the funding to replace it's Acela trainsets before they completely wear out, and assuming they pull that off, finding funding to replace all the close-to 40-year-old passenger cars and the not-much-younger diesel locomotives that they've been running the wheels off of just to keep their network running.
But please explain to me the incredible amount of high level management dunces that would not have survived the promotion past middle management if the Peter Principle had been applied to them.
Slashdot Mirror
AFAIK, the largest one(s) is/are hosted in the US, soooo......
---PCJ
Doctor: "So...technically, we are never supposed to put that lever up to 10..."
---PCJ
Oh, the house centipede? Creepy-looking and they move with disturbing speed when spooked. But if they don't find anything to eat, they generally move on
Spiders on the other hand, don't move on, and I have an issue with them erecting webs in my living space
The nearest parallel I've seen to the condition in TFA is the huge nasty-looking "bags of tree cancer" made by the Fall Webworm that infest some trees in the Southeast US (usually where I see them, but have noticed infestations as far north as the Baltimore area). During a particularly bad year in South Carolina long ago, large trees sometimes were festooned with dozens of these nests, and some saplings were so covered with webbing that they looked like a giant pantyhose was draped over them. Gross.
---PCJ
Out of curiosity, I've been using Google Maps' timeline feature to log my commute times and the various paths I take between home and work to see which one offers the shortest travel times. It's not as clear-cut as it would seem, since in my particular corner of NYC, between various combinations of subways and buses, there are upwards of 14 different routes I could take to make the trip without going very far out of my way.
As for location services underground, I have found that if you connect to the WiFi service offered in the underground stations (Transit Wireless) then your phone can get a location fix within a few seconds of establishing a connection to their access points as you move from station to station. Using a navigation app to keep the GPS active, you can watch the pointer indicating your position on the map jump from station to station as the phone re-acquires Transit Wireless at each stop. Naturally, this doesn't work between stations..
(protip: "singledigits.com" is the redirect to the Transit Wireless portal page if your default browser complains that it can't reach the Web upon getting its connection)
---PCJ
--> 41 minutes of pedestrian pain,
Not just China. But yeah.(disclaimer: some of these collisions are obviously lethal)
---PCJ
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Maybe not so much now...
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I used an Eee 901HA to do image editing while out and about. Digital drawings, mostly...until I looked at a drawing I had colored using it, on a device with a better screen--the colors were all wonky. A cartoon character that was supposed to be a light cream color came out looking a sickly greenish somethingoranother.
After that, I went to other machines with better LCD's (eyes his 17" Toshiba P850 on another table) and the netbook served just to run an old portable Canon scanner until I found out how to bamboozle my Surface Pro 2 (Win 8.1) into running an older driver to access it. The image editors I was (and still use) didn't tax the Eee, but the color fidelity of its display ended its career as a portable image editor.
I'm keeping an eye on the Eve V. in the meantime. Given what I'm carrying now though, I'm probably not in the same boat as the OP.
---PCJ
New York City is in the midst of a sodium-to-LED street-lamp upgrade. I was going to get a before-and-after photo of how my block looked at night when I saw the closest main thoroughfare upgraded, but the DOT beat me to it.
The lighting is very directional. So much so that the sidewalk on my side of the street (opposite the poles) looks like it's lit by spotlights (the brightness trails off rapidly as one moves farther back but the opposite sidewalk is mostly in darkness by comparison. The commercial strips on the main streets have had additional short-armed fixtures installed on the opposite sides of the poles to light up the sidewalks, but it remains to be seen if anything will be done about the residential side streets thus affected
Even so, riding above these streets on elevated subway lines makes them look dim by comparison since almost none of the light is visible once you're above the fixture heads. It'll be interesting to see how this makes nighttime cloud cover look after the first snowstorm turns the ground into a reflective surface.
---PCJ
And this was all before the hurricane...
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(example)
This is most likely due to the sheer length of these trains--it isn't even unusual for premium services to have well in excess of 15 coaches. Trains with non-air-conditioned classes (basically anything with bars on the windows instead of glass) can easily hit 18-20 cars and up. There is a limit to how many cars can be powered off a single generator car (or HEP-equipped locomotive), usually about 15 or so cars max.
---PCJ
Here is one of them: Atari 2600 AV + pause drop in pcb mod for 6 + 4 switchers composite stereo s-vid
Be sure to read through the comments, the poster lists his web store in the last thread. If he doesn't have them, a look through the related videos may give you some leads
---PCJ
Obligatory Transformers clip
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My LG 47VL5500, from about 4 years ago works like this:
--hit the Input button on the remote. List of inputs comes up. (usually it's on HDMI1)
--Either hit the Input button twice to select HDMI 3 or tap the D-pad twice
--Hit OK.
Maybe the UI changed between your model year and mine? I could do it via the menu system like you describe, but this just seems to work.
---PCJ
If you're running a phone's GPS then *that* in particular will chew through batteries like nobody's business. I had a Galaxy Note 4 completely drain a 10,000MaH battery-based phone charger running GPS for about 7 hours (was watching my progress in a navigation app during a bus trip) At my destination, the phone was at almost full charge, the charger it was hooked to was almost completely flatlined.
---PCJ
I never could get the timing right on parachuting into the cliff hole under the tree on Raiders.
Probably too late to offer this, but...
I seem to recall that you had to hit the branches under the leaf cluster with the canopy of the parachute. The game would then pull the player-character diagonally down the tree trunk and into the hole.
Then you had to avoid touching the "thieves" running back and forth across the next screen as you made your way to your objective on the bottom.
---PCJ
SP2 owner here.
When I got my recall notice (via Amazon, where I bought it), my first thought was "good thing I don't keep mine plugged in all the time" (it sees very light usage, and the battery holds up nicely for weeks on end while powered down)
Then I clicked on the actual notice and was puzzled for a bit. The charger pictured in the notice didn't look anything like the one that came with my Surface. Mine was a compact wall wart with folding prongs. More searching led me to a listing for a Surface 24-watt charger that looked just like the one packed with my SP2, and taking another look at the logo on mine, it says "Surface RT". I'd been using the thing on-and-off for almost a year and never noticed. Turns out the RT and Pro could use each other's chargers.
Anyone else get an RT charger bundled with their Surface Pro 2 or 3?
---PCJ
Up to SP2 are Wacom digitizers. SP3 and up are from Ntrig, a company MS acquired specifically for their digitizer tech
Found this out while evaluating SP2/SP3 models as a "cheaper than a Cintiq" method of getting into all-digital drawing.
---PCJ.
You're thinking of the Aleutian Trench. That's a long ways from the Bering Strait. Any plate-boundary crossing would occur on land in NE Russia and be across a strike-slip fault much like the San Andreas, not a subduction zone.
(aside) Last time I heard of this scheme, it was to be a tunnel, proposed to run under the Strait between the Diomede Islands, and it was to be exclusively for rail (conventional--not high-speed).
Need to send vehicles across? Put 'em on the train. No sense building gas stations out in the middle of nowhere, and a tunnel is both less maintenance-intensive and less prone to severe weather.
As always, the hard part isn't building the actual link--it's connecting it to the nearest railheads on both sides, and conjuring up a business rationale for doing so.
---PCJ
Well, they could try getting the "fuel tank" to actually separate the next time around...
And then actually glide the RR to a controlled landing. That would really blow everyone's mind.
---PCJ
Coincidentally, I had been taking a close look at Krita on and off (the last "on" being a week or so ago) after hearing that someone is working on adding frame-by-frame animation functionality to the application.
/.
:D...
I ran across P&C while scoping out the application's capabilities (in part via your YouTube channel) and now I'm tempted to try out this application before the animation capabilities are added in. And now it gets spotlighted in
Now if I only knew how to color well enough to actually take advantage of Krita's capabilities
As for doing artwork with OSS, I've used Inkscape for digital inking for a couple of years now, and have given MyPaint enough playtime to produce one of my few completely digital pics (cell-shaded w/o backdrop), which is more than I can say for the apps I actually paid for (Sketchbook Pro 2011 and Clip Studio Paint 5), for some inexplicable reason.
---PCJ
Those cars as pictured do not run on the Northeast Corridor. Maximum allowable height on the NEC is 14'6" (4.4m) due to the Baltimore and Hudson River tunnels, and that's only if the top corners of the carbody are angled.
---PCJ
No they aren't. Amtrak outlined a plan for a new Northeast Corridor that could support what everyone else in the world would term "high speed rail".
It amounts to a formal plan to have on hand, just in case monkeys flew out all our collective butts, causing the money to actually do this to miraculously materialize out of hot air.
In reality, at best Amtrak is more concerned with wrangling the funding to replace it's Acela trainsets before they completely wear out, and assuming they pull that off, finding funding to replace all the close-to 40-year-old passenger cars and the not-much-younger diesel locomotives that they've been running the wheels off of just to keep their network running.
Relevant link: Why America Can't Have Great Trains
---PCJ
But please explain to me the incredible amount of high level management dunces that would not have survived the promotion past middle management if the Peter Principle had been applied to them.
That would fall under the Dilbert Principle
---PCJ
Obligatory Freakazoid Clip
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