I don't know anyone with a 150kW electrical service to their house. Do you
I don't know anyone with a 10,000 gallon tank of gas under their house either
It is perfectly conceivable for a "gas station" (charging station) to get a hookup large enough to service 12 cars simultaneously.
6 minutes is not a long time to wait at a gas station, and I presume you don't have to wait for the battery to be drained before you charge it.
802.11 is near worthless in my apartment complex since everyone and their dog has a wireless router these days and the spectrum is completely saturated. I am lucky to get 5mbps out of my wireless connection (I've tried everything from 5mhz and 10mhz channels, there is no hope, and this is verified with spectrum analyzers).
They say that this will work with 1ms latency up to 30 feet away, but how far will the signal travel before it starts interfering with my TV, especially if all 8 neighbors in my building have this one 2 TVs each?
1% cpu doesn't sound like much when you think about your home computer, but when you think that sites like Facebook and Google are run by hundreds or thousands of servers, it suddenly becomes a slightly more expensive operation. Then when you consider that a company like Facebook doesn't seem to care about user security in the first place, it becomes an added expense for no gain.
I have often wondered when exactly video games lost their challenge to me. To figure it out, it took remembering the classic games that I played years ago, decades even. Games that not only took hours to beat, but took hours to beat the 3rd level. Old NES games like Super Mario Bros, Contra, Spy Hunter, Legendary Wings, Teenage Ninja Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mega Man. The time it took to beat these games was not measured in hours, or even days; it was measured in lives lost, and the count of empty soda cans lining the only clean spot on the carpet that marked where you sat while playing these video games. If you beat Super Mario Bros then it wasn't because you put up with the game long enough to inch your way to the end, with your hand held the entire way. You beat Super Mario Bros because in order to get to the last level it took playing the first level 50 times, the second level 48 times, the third level 46 times... A game might only have a total of 24 levels, but you beat 471 levels to get to the last level.
What has changed since then? What is so different about today's games? How can you beat an entire game with only having played the first level once? It was a slow and gradual change, one that started with codes. Not the kind of code that gave you twenty lives, but codes that marked your progress and allowed you to skip a portion of the game in order to start somewhere near where you last left off. Not a lot of games had these codes in the beginning, but something happened that caused nearly every game to have codes. Game Genie happened. Games endings that were previously out of your reach were now a trip to the store away. With this little device everyone could enjoy the thrill of beating a game, even if they didn't earn it. People became accustomed to being able to win, and started to hunger for it, and soon learned to demand it. The solution for the hungering masses was not more codes though, it would turn out to be easier than that. It turned out to be memory cards.
With the advent of the memory card the game could save your exact progress, not an estimate of how far you got, and it would do it automatically for you with an auto-save function. It no longer took writing down a save code, or a Game Genie with level skipping codes, it no longer took the will of the player to bypass entire segments of a game that you may have only just squeezed by. With auto-save you only had to beat the first level once. Eventually that wasn't enough though. At some point someone decided that having to play an entire level over again, or an entire checkpoint over again, was asking too much. They solved this with quicksave. No longer did you have to complete an entire level to earn a saved game, or reach a checkpoint a quarter or halfway through a level. You could now save the game any time you wanted. Have a hard time beating a portion of the level? Just save the game after every guy you kill. Save the game every 30 seconds, so that you'll never have to play that 30 seconds again. Saved games was not the end of an era of tough video games though, it was only the beginning of what would turn out to be a pitfall of easy-mode.
Somewhere along the line saved games wasn't enough for the average game player to win. Even if you beat the first level, or the fifth, you could still just barely scrape by those levels, enough to the point where you would run out of in-game resources and not have enough to beat the next levels. In-game resources such as lives, ammo, and health would make it so that although you beat level 5, you only had one life left to beat the next three levels, or not enough ammo to kill the 8 guys between you and the next cache of resources. At some point the notion of lives being a limited resource vanished out the window. You now had no fear of dying. If you died then you would just restart at the last save point, and you could continue on willy nilly. You could die 30 times on the first level, and then 40 times on the second. No longer did you have to be good to beat a level, you just had to end
If I understand correctly then these companies are simply blocking the user agent string that the google tv browser uses. I have read that there is an advanced settings option that allows you to change the string, which should allow you to bypass their "block".
While I agree that everyone should keep their private network secure, I also think that requiring a password out of the box would be a tech support nightmare.
Imagine that chronologically white bread came first, and then sliced white bread, and then wheat bread. Well now someone has come along and patented sliced wheat bread. We already have wheat bread, and we already have sliced bread, isn't sliced wheat bread a logical next step?
We already had embedded linux devices, and linux wireless routers, why is combining these two things patentable?
That is a cute, fuzzy, warm story about State Farm having human compassion, and that being the reason they footed the bill. The more likely reason is that State Farm's client, Pace, rear ended Inne's vehicle and Pace admitted fault; case closed.
I have seen the same thing regarding 900mhz. High noise floors resulting from utility companies and pager networks make it difficult to use even with precise fixed antennas. The free 900mhz spectrum is only 26mhz wide, there is hardly any wiggle room.
Without getting too detailed, shutting down the internet for an entire block is more difficult than you might think. You either need to physically stop the signal by breaking the circuit or having some sort of jammer on the wire, which would require interfering with multiple kinds of wire (cable, phone, etc). Or you need to cooperate with the internet providers to suspend individual user accounts or stop routing to their local node.
This still wouldn't stop cell data access unless they shut down entire towers, and even then there could be someone who gets a decent 802.11 signal from an AP a few streets down.
All in all the time involved, amount of participation, or cost of equipment and installation would be way too high for simply shutting down internet for a precise region.
If I am obligated to leave a tracking device on the underside of my car, am I obligated to not hop any curbs, possibly accidentally dislodging the device from the underside of my car?
Maybe if manufacturers didn't flood the market with incompatible pre-n and draft-n devices then there would have been more urgency in ratifying the standard.
It seems like adding some sort of unidirectional valve would be an easy fix, unless of course they regularly need to shoot money back toward the registers.
What ever happened to not selling things you can't offer?
ISPs are a business notorious for overselling. It makes less tangible sense today, but think back 15 years ago when each customer needed a physical modem to dial in to. Now everything is digital, so they will cram as many users on the same line as they can until it stops making fiscal sense because of lost customers.
The biggest difference here is that you can "craft" by following directions, just like you can cook a meal in real life by following directions. It takes a will to explore and an interest in the subject for someone to go above and beyond to try to figure out the premise of the recipe and expand on it with math.
It is also all in the name of "being green", but how much more polluting are the overseas factories, and the cargo transports to get all those bulbs back over to the U.S.?
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Sorry, but your story doesn't add up.
You claim to be an IT professional, but you willingly decided to put Norton on your own machine?
Less games sold means less game bought means less games made means less game developer jobs.
This isn't about game developers leaving California, it is about game developers being kicked out of the industry to increase profit margins.
I don't know anyone with a 150kW electrical service to their house. Do you
I don't know anyone with a 10,000 gallon tank of gas under their house either
It is perfectly conceivable for a "gas station" (charging station) to get a hookup large enough to service 12 cars simultaneously.
6 minutes is not a long time to wait at a gas station, and I presume you don't have to wait for the battery to be drained before you charge it.
802.11 is near worthless in my apartment complex since everyone and their dog has a wireless router these days and the spectrum is completely saturated. I am lucky to get 5mbps out of my wireless connection (I've tried everything from 5mhz and 10mhz channels, there is no hope, and this is verified with spectrum analyzers).
They say that this will work with 1ms latency up to 30 feet away, but how far will the signal travel before it starts interfering with my TV, especially if all 8 neighbors in my building have this one 2 TVs each?
1% cpu doesn't sound like much when you think about your home computer, but when you think that sites like Facebook and Google are run by hundreds or thousands of servers, it suddenly becomes a slightly more expensive operation. Then when you consider that a company like Facebook doesn't seem to care about user security in the first place, it becomes an added expense for no gain.
I have often wondered when exactly video games lost their challenge to me. To figure it out, it took remembering the classic games that I played years ago, decades even. Games that not only took hours to beat, but took hours to beat the 3rd level. Old NES games like Super Mario Bros, Contra, Spy Hunter, Legendary Wings, Teenage Ninja Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mega Man. The time it took to beat these games was not measured in hours, or even days; it was measured in lives lost, and the count of empty soda cans lining the only clean spot on the carpet that marked where you sat while playing these video games. If you beat Super Mario Bros then it wasn't because you put up with the game long enough to inch your way to the end, with your hand held the entire way. You beat Super Mario Bros because in order to get to the last level it took playing the first level 50 times, the second level 48 times, the third level 46 times... A game might only have a total of 24 levels, but you beat 471 levels to get to the last level.
What has changed since then? What is so different about today's games? How can you beat an entire game with only having played the first level once? It was a slow and gradual change, one that started with codes. Not the kind of code that gave you twenty lives, but codes that marked your progress and allowed you to skip a portion of the game in order to start somewhere near where you last left off. Not a lot of games had these codes in the beginning, but something happened that caused nearly every game to have codes. Game Genie happened. Games endings that were previously out of your reach were now a trip to the store away. With this little device everyone could enjoy the thrill of beating a game, even if they didn't earn it. People became accustomed to being able to win, and started to hunger for it, and soon learned to demand it. The solution for the hungering masses was not more codes though, it would turn out to be easier than that. It turned out to be memory cards.
With the advent of the memory card the game could save your exact progress, not an estimate of how far you got, and it would do it automatically for you with an auto-save function. It no longer took writing down a save code, or a Game Genie with level skipping codes, it no longer took the will of the player to bypass entire segments of a game that you may have only just squeezed by. With auto-save you only had to beat the first level once. Eventually that wasn't enough though. At some point someone decided that having to play an entire level over again, or an entire checkpoint over again, was asking too much. They solved this with quicksave. No longer did you have to complete an entire level to earn a saved game, or reach a checkpoint a quarter or halfway through a level. You could now save the game any time you wanted. Have a hard time beating a portion of the level? Just save the game after every guy you kill. Save the game every 30 seconds, so that you'll never have to play that 30 seconds again. Saved games was not the end of an era of tough video games though, it was only the beginning of what would turn out to be a pitfall of easy-mode.
Somewhere along the line saved games wasn't enough for the average game player to win. Even if you beat the first level, or the fifth, you could still just barely scrape by those levels, enough to the point where you would run out of in-game resources and not have enough to beat the next levels. In-game resources such as lives, ammo, and health would make it so that although you beat level 5, you only had one life left to beat the next three levels, or not enough ammo to kill the 8 guys between you and the next cache of resources. At some point the notion of lives being a limited resource vanished out the window. You now had no fear of dying. If you died then you would just restart at the last save point, and you could continue on willy nilly. You could die 30 times on the first level, and then 40 times on the second. No longer did you have to be good to beat a level, you just had to end
"Marty, he's in a '46 Ford, we're in a DeLorean. He'd rip through us like we were tin foil."
...or an iWalk
If I understand correctly then these companies are simply blocking the user agent string that the google tv browser uses. I have read that there is an advanced settings option that allows you to change the string, which should allow you to bypass their "block".
While I agree that everyone should keep their private network secure, I also think that requiring a password out of the box would be a tech support nightmare.
Exactly.
Imagine that chronologically white bread came first, and then sliced white bread, and then wheat bread. Well now someone has come along and patented sliced wheat bread. We already have wheat bread, and we already have sliced bread, isn't sliced wheat bread a logical next step?
We already had embedded linux devices, and linux wireless routers, why is combining these two things patentable?
That is a cute, fuzzy, warm story about State Farm having human compassion, and that being the reason they footed the bill. The more likely reason is that State Farm's client, Pace, rear ended Inne's vehicle and Pace admitted fault; case closed.
I have seen the same thing regarding 900mhz. High noise floors resulting from utility companies and pager networks make it difficult to use even with precise fixed antennas. The free 900mhz spectrum is only 26mhz wide, there is hardly any wiggle room.
Not only that, but wouldn't AM/FM radio be the most prevalent form of wireless technology?
Without getting too detailed, shutting down the internet for an entire block is more difficult than you might think. You either need to physically stop the signal by breaking the circuit or having some sort of jammer on the wire, which would require interfering with multiple kinds of wire (cable, phone, etc). Or you need to cooperate with the internet providers to suspend individual user accounts or stop routing to their local node.
This still wouldn't stop cell data access unless they shut down entire towers, and even then there could be someone who gets a decent 802.11 signal from an AP a few streets down.
All in all the time involved, amount of participation, or cost of equipment and installation would be way too high for simply shutting down internet for a precise region.
If I am obligated to leave a tracking device on the underside of my car, am I obligated to not hop any curbs, possibly accidentally dislodging the device from the underside of my car?
Unix text editors are becoming hip? Damn, I guess I have to make the move to notepad now.
The signal is being rebroadcast. If I snip a bit of my CCTV feed and upload it to Youtube, does that make my system not CCTV anymore?
Maybe if manufacturers didn't flood the market with incompatible pre-n and draft-n devices then there would have been more urgency in ratifying the standard.
He can do it because typing doesn't require his mouth.
This is a shout out for the 1% of lactose intolerant people who think Ice Cream rocks despite the horrible things it does to their insides.
It seems like adding some sort of unidirectional valve would be an easy fix, unless of course they regularly need to shoot money back toward the registers.
What ever happened to not selling things you can't offer?
ISPs are a business notorious for overselling. It makes less tangible sense today, but think back 15 years ago when each customer needed a physical modem to dial in to. Now everything is digital, so they will cram as many users on the same line as they can until it stops making fiscal sense because of lost customers.
The biggest difference here is that you can "craft" by following directions, just like you can cook a meal in real life by following directions. It takes a will to explore and an interest in the subject for someone to go above and beyond to try to figure out the premise of the recipe and expand on it with math.
It is also all in the name of "being green", but how much more polluting are the overseas factories, and the cargo transports to get all those bulbs back over to the U.S.?