Of course it doesn't use the Play Store. It's not meant as a general-purpose Android platform (and neither would any Google console). It has to have it's own specialized store. You can't very well have a console loading apps that expect a touch screen, accelerometer, etc. Even if Google let their console use the Play Store, they would have to wall it off into it's own area.
I think an accelerometer would be a logical component of a console, in the controllers though.
As for having its own "area" - as long as the app developers are careful about marking what devices the app is compatible with, there shouldn't be any problems.
UnIike firefox, it's not possibIe to override a website's font settings, this means l'm stuck with whatever idiotic decision the designers chose, which sometimes feeIs like the bad old days of geocities.
ln some circumstances, this means it's not possibIe to teII an upper-case 'I' from a Iower-case 'l'.
(Try viewing this post in firefox and chrome to see what l mean.)
Then you had another kind of glitch where you found two planets (or was it even on the same planet, just different traders it's been a really long time...) where you could do a trade with ridiculous margins, making loads of money in a few minutes...
"Cemeiss" as I recall, precious metals and gems were illegal and had negative prices, like rubbish and radioactive waste...
There's an old question - is the red that I see the same as the red that you see? - something that is probably unknowable.
I imagine we'd still see the same range of colours, except they'd be assigned to a much greater range of frequencies - i.e. what appears to be red, is actually far infra-red with pretty much all of the traditional "visual" spectrum appearing blue/violet.
Or it might all be random..., in any case I'd expect the brain to adapt to the new inputs well enough:
Intuitively, this makes sense - being able to recover data from an overwritten part of the hard drive effectively means the capacity has been multiplied (if you can recover from 1 overwrite, while still being able to get the new data, the capacity has just doubled.)
If this was easy enough to do, Seagate, Hitachi, WD etc. would all be doing it (or are already).
That said, taking the word of someone whose job is actually recovering data - well, that might not be a good idea.
"But: do the measurement in your own world. My software, hardware and artificial measured usage pattern may differ from yours, subtly but enough that my conclusion doesn't transfer. Be scientific about it:)"
Best advice I've seen - try and build up a representative sample of a day's work (or just a random sample if that's not easily determinable), copy it, run one copy on unencrypted disks and one on the mandated encryption.
If there's a significant difference take the evidence to your IT dept. or supervisor and hope for a favourable decision.
"Just because someone somewhere thinks something is okay does not make it right!"
Correct, but it makes it non-universal -- which was the point being made, something that "offends universal sensibilities" will offend *every* sentience that exists throughout the universe.
"As for using realistic modelling techniques, I don't know about other countries, but in the UK it's already illegal to make anything that could be construed as child porn - drawings, 3D models, etc."
Actually, I remember talking to a law student friend about this and he said that probably only applies to representations that are high-quality enough to be indistinguishable from "real" stuff. Reason being, it removes the possibilty of using the excuse "it's not real -- it's all CG" for something that *is* actually real. Could be wrong, but it made sense to me.
There may be other issues here, but would it not be possible for any docking/booster spacecraft to carry it is own gyros which could be used to aim the scope/booster combination?
I suppose this means the new gyros would be offset a few metres from their optimum position but is there any reason why it wouldn't work?
this shouldn't really be a problem, I've got a 5-fan box about 3 feet from my bed and since it's just white noise (and some not-so-white-light...:-) ) it actually drowns out *other* noise to an extent, it's really quite reassuring to wake up at 0130, 0300, and 0530 * and hear the constant whirr and see the nice friendly glow of the computer.
* this also happened before I stopped shutting down when not using, guess I don't do >3to5 hrs sleep that well...
I assume it just means the electron beams are deflected at a greater angle and you have to be a bit more careful aligning the grille. Is that essentially it?
The "1-hour" thing doesn't actually require the vehicle to go into orbit, a big enough ballistic arc will do (yes, I know an orbit is just a ballistic arc that misses the object being orbited...), there's probably ICBMs that could be modified to slow down enough at journey's end.
That site also considered the possibility of coating the ocean in a substance capable of preventing evaporation -- wonder if crude oil would work for that?...
I've always thought that beeps/warnings when a battery is about to run out are a waste - couldn't the energy used be better spent in continuing normal operation for a little longer until there's NO energy available at all?, after all by the time the warning appears it's usually too late (changing the battery will cut the call in any case), when my phone cuts off and shows a blank screen it doesn't take much thought to figure out the most likely problem...
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...and it will refuse to print just one colour unless it's loaded with all colours.
A lot of women also don't want to go through all that scary 'labor'' business
Who would?
Of course it doesn't use the Play Store. It's not meant as a general-purpose Android platform (and neither would any Google console). It has to have it's own specialized store. You can't very well have a console loading apps that expect a touch screen, accelerometer, etc. Even if Google let their console use the Play Store, they would have to wall it off into it's own area.
I think an accelerometer would be a logical component of a console, in the controllers though.
As for having its own "area" - as long as the app developers are careful about marking what devices the app is compatible with, there shouldn't be any problems.
Hacksaw?
Depending on the model, it might just be plastic in that area.
UnIike firefox, it's not possibIe to override a website's font settings, this means l'm stuck with whatever idiotic decision the designers chose, which sometimes feeIs like the bad old days of geocities.
ln some circumstances, this means it's not possibIe to teII an upper-case 'I' from a Iower-case 'l'.
(Try viewing this post in firefox and chrome to see what l mean.)
Then you had another kind of glitch where you found two planets (or was it even on the same planet, just different traders it's been a really long time...) where you could do a trade with ridiculous margins, making loads of money in a few minutes...
"Cemeiss" as I recall, precious metals and gems were illegal and had negative prices, like rubbish and radioactive waste...
For those that don't know what I'm talking about, it's the yellow thing in the top right of the desktop, used for some sort of menu button.
Anyway, there is no obvious way to get rid of it, not even a config file that can be edited - the only option being to download a third party add-on.
Seriously, is it so hard from a programming perspective to add a "Hide" option?
It's the only thing that annoys me about KDE (apart from the system tray icon background issue, which I think is being worked on).
That, and I want a "firesomething" addon for Chrome. :)
I want Firesomething for the current version of Firefox...
I tried it once, there just wasn't the speed and ease-of-use that adblock plus provides:
*right click*
*block*
*edit filter*
*OK*
Done.
If they launched their own junk-vaporising laser drones, that would get them noticed.
I hope someone announces this at their meeting later this month.
There's an old question - is the red that I see the same as the red that you see? - something that is probably unknowable.
I imagine we'd still see the same range of colours, except they'd be assigned to a much greater range of frequencies - i.e. what appears to be red, is actually far infra-red with pretty much all of the traditional "visual" spectrum appearing blue/violet.
Or it might all be random..., in any case I'd expect the brain to adapt to the new inputs well enough:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html
Intuitively, this makes sense - being able to recover data from an overwritten part of the hard drive effectively means the capacity has been multiplied (if you can recover from 1 overwrite, while still being able to get the new data, the capacity has just doubled.)
If this was easy enough to do, Seagate, Hitachi, WD etc. would all be doing it (or are already).
That said, taking the word of someone whose job is actually recovering data - well, that might not be a good idea.
"But: do the measurement in your own world. My software, hardware and artificial measured usage pattern may differ from yours, subtly but enough that my conclusion doesn't transfer. Be scientific about it :)"
Best advice I've seen - try and build up a representative sample of a day's work (or just a random sample if that's not easily determinable), copy it, run one copy on unencrypted disks and one on the mandated encryption.
If there's a significant difference take the evidence to your IT dept. or supervisor and hope for a favourable decision.
*shrugs* -- we're arguing about semantics here, I'm interpreting "sensibility" as "a (possibly incorrect) belief" -- you're not
"Just because someone somewhere thinks something is okay does not make it right!"
Correct, but it makes it non-universal -- which was the point being made, something that "offends universal sensibilities" will offend *every* sentience that exists throughout the universe.
"As for using realistic modelling techniques, I don't know about other countries, but in the UK it's already illegal to make anything that could be construed as child porn - drawings, 3D models, etc."
Actually, I remember talking to a law student friend about this and he said that probably only applies to representations that are high-quality enough to be indistinguishable from "real" stuff. Reason being, it removes the possibilty of using the excuse "it's not real -- it's all CG" for something that *is* actually real. Could be wrong, but it made sense to me.
wtf?, internet porn will always be free; the "preview selections" at least, a complete hi-res pic series on the other hand...
There may be other issues here, but would it not be possible for any docking/booster spacecraft to carry it is own gyros which could be used to aim the scope/booster combination?
I suppose this means the new gyros would be offset a few metres from their optimum position but is there any reason why it wouldn't work?
this shouldn't really be a problem, I've got a 5-fan box about 3 feet from my bed and since it's just white noise (and some not-so-white-light... :-) ) it actually drowns out *other* noise to an extent, it's really quite reassuring to wake up at 0130, 0300, and 0530 * and hear the constant whirr and see the nice friendly glow of the computer.
* this also happened before I stopped shutting down when not using, guess I don't do >3to5 hrs sleep that well...
I assume it just means the electron beams are deflected at a greater angle and you have to be a bit more careful aligning the grille. Is that essentially it?
The "1-hour" thing doesn't actually require the vehicle to go into orbit, a big enough ballistic arc will do (yes, I know an orbit is just a ballistic arc that misses the object being orbited...), there's probably ICBMs that could be modified to slow down enough at journey's end.
h tm
Either that or use one of these:
http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v1/v1n1/ww2space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbervogel
That site also considered the possibility of coating the ocean in a substance capable of preventing evaporation -- wonder if crude oil would work for that?...
I've always thought that beeps/warnings when a battery is about to run out are a waste - couldn't the energy used be better spent in continuing normal operation for a little longer until there's NO energy available at all?, after all by the time the warning appears it's usually too late (changing the battery will cut the call in any case), when my phone cuts off and shows a blank screen it doesn't take much thought to figure out the most likely problem...
Applications for the Imperial Space Invader force are being accepted now (formation flying experience desirable).
would a rigid balloon filled with *nothing* provide some mass saving or would the materials req'd be too heavy?