... Lumia 521... $120 from Wal-Mart... built-in Nokia mapping/navigation program that has complete offline capability... I don't have a data plan...
I get what you're saying (I think), but it sounds a whole lot like you just want a decent feature phone (ie. not a full blown smart phone). In that regard, I would completely agree that the market is sorely lacking in good "feature phones". Those used to make up the majority of available phones... for a couple years at least.
Finally, Android bothers me because I don't use gmail and I don't trust google. The people I've talked to claim that it is difficult to really make the most of an Android phone without giving your life over to your google account.
More or less, yes.... to get the most out of an advanced smart phone, you need a data plan, and you need to make use of the features available. Otherwise, you might as well just have a dumbed down feature phone. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's also not a good comparison.
FWIW, when it comes to phones, I'm no fanboi of anything currently out there. You've actually made that Lumia sound somewhat appealing, though it still lacks in key areas I'd like.
So, since purchasing power of the $1 wasn't taken into account, the results are flawed, since the reward will vary so much depending on the wealth of the individuals taking part.
From TFS, "While fewer than half of the people who viewed the task actually ran the benign executable when offered a penny to do so, the numbers jumped to 58 percent when offered 50 cents, and 64 percent when offered $1."
So, for $0.01, fewer than 50% of respondents (let's just guess around 45%... I'm not going to bother reading the article, but if it was only 10%, then they wouldn't have said "fiewer than half"). And for $0.50, 58%. And for $1, 64%.
Generally, getting lots of people infected is not an attempt to get EVERYONE infected, and at $1 it was only 68% anyway... so just spend your money more wisely and only offer $0.01, but hit a MUCH larger audience. The math of it:
Spend $10. Offering $1 = 10 offers = 6.4 people Offering $0.01 = 1000 offers = 450 people
Sorry, but let's just put aside the purchasing power stuff for a minute, since $0.01 isn't going to buy much anywhere (even if it does buy a little more in third world countries).
This was more-or-less my same thought when reading the summary. Lies, damn lies, and statistics. * iPhone theft down 19% * Samsung theft up by 40%
That means absolutely nothing without additional context.
What if prior to the change period, iPhone theft was at 100,000 units a month, and samsung was at 10 units a month? What about ratios (N% of activiated iPhone devices stolen per month vs N% of activated samsung devices)? What about device classes (they just say "Samsung devices", without qualifying if those are even phones, let alone if that's just their Andriod phones, let alone if that's just certain models, etc)? What about market changes? (did samsung sales increase while iPhone decreased, meaning there is a corrolation to availability / supply-and-demand?)
I wouldn't mind having an option for a kill switch (done "right"), remote wipe (via always-encrypted storage and wipe the key... and abilty to restore the key), lowjack, etc, but these numbers are garbage. They don't deserve to be included in the summary.
Do you live under a rock? It's a pretty big deal in most large cities.
Is it really? Do you have statistics? My family were early adopters of smartphones...
While I agree that useful statistics would help, following up your request with anecdotal evidence does not. FWIW, I've seen it happen first hand: * myself and 3 friends at a dive bar mid-day-ish, which was otherwise empty * one of us bartended there occassionally * random guy comes in and sits a few seats down from us * bartender friend leaves to go to the bathroom, and leaves phone on the bar * random guy pays for his one beer, casually gets up and leaves * friend comes back and notices his phone is gone... we didn't see the guy take it, but we had seen it on the bar, and it was suddenly gone at the same time the only other person in the bar left.
Crime of opportunity (rather than robbery by force), but it does happen. Say what you will about the situation (ex. why was his phone left on the bar, etc... we were regulars, and no one was there, and there was an expectaction that no one would mess with anyone in that place... still not the best idea, but that's what happened), but that does not change the fact that it happens.
I think his big mistake is taking the ID of 3D printing and applying it to a martial for which it wasn't intended. I'd think he'd have better luck if he instead looked at Powdered metals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
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anyways, yea, that's the direction he should go. I'd use electro static charge to hold the shape and then use something like an Xray laser to melt/fuse/sinter it.
There is room for more than one tech.
Sintering *may* make a more detailed final part, but this may make a stronger part. This machine is very likely to be less expensive in all aspects:
* cheaper to build with more readily available parts (fairly standard welder rather than xray laser, for instance) * cheaper and more readily available feedstock (simple spools of mig wire) * much easier to work with on a large scale (filling a 10'x10'x10' box with powdered metal will be HEAVY, and clean up will be a bitch; this just keeps laying down wire right where it needs it)
All of that means that it fits the hobby/maker crowd better (one can do it in their garage).
To be honest, I'm quite curious about several aspects of it, like:
* why is it so difficult to issolate/insolate the controller? * why tig instead of mig? (in my breif welding experience, mig seems like it'd be much easier to adapt to this)
I'd also be very interested in seeing a setup that uses actual molten metal exactly as plactic printers use (eg. steel or tungsten print heads; zinc or aluminum feed stock). If the stock was fine/thin enough, perhaps the head could be made small enough to get comparible resolution/detail (~0.3mm). Maybe an alloy feed stock would work better (feed in tin and copper -> have a second bronze age).
Isn't Freecode just a clone of Soureforge? A place to download free crap? What problem did it solve?
No. It was basically just metadata. Hosted files, official project page, bug tracker, version control, etc... that was all off site at any configurable location the project wanted.
"Freecode" was an awful name. Freshmeat.net, while not obvious, didn't make it sound like it hosted code.
AFAIK, there is no replacement for it. Perhaps someone can fork it, but the data is the really valuable part.
Rather than change the name and update the site layout (which, IMO, is now worse than it was), they should have enhanced the actual code so that it had closer integration with popular code repositories (sourceforge included). When one added a project to freshmeat/freecode, you had to fill out ever link (where your site it, where version control is, where each version download is, etc etc). They could have had a "project type" dropdown, then you fill in where your github project, or sourceforge project, etc lives, and it'd auto-fill the rest and keep the release versions up to date automatically. As it is/was, with every release you made, you had to go and manually update freshmeat/freecode (unless you used some third party tool to have it do that for you).
How is 700TB "endurance"? I copy near a TB of data from Backups at work almost daily. So 1-2 years (if that) is "endurance"? Screw that! Sounds more like modern SSD's suck hard and aren't designed to last past 1-2 years of work. I'll stick with traditional HD's until they figure out DRAM drives that don't need batteries or constant power.
How large is your backup filesystem(s)? This was 700TB written to a 250gb drive. If you're copying "near a TB of data from Backups... almost daily", then I'm betting you have many many TB of storage in the backup pool... so divide that by 250gb and multiple that by 700TB and that's the endurance the SSD's would have. However, even then it doesn't really apply... your backups are not likely to be rewriting a lot of sectors (ex. deduplication, if used, means few files are actually written). You also said you copied FROM backups, so those are just reads (I'm presuming those are going out to multiple clients).
In any case, the 700TB "endurance" figure is still acurate, even if you consider that fragile - it's a level of endurance under a specific use case.
FWIW, for a backup system, I'd also stick with spinning disks (or tape) for now and well into the foreseeable future. Throughput and IOPs are not very important to backup storage, and you'll get way more GB/dollar from HDD's.
Others below have already said it, but most were AC's... so...
1, That ship has sailed; it's physically impossible for armed Americans to defeat state tyranny.
That's simply wrong. For one, this argument is almost always raised as an us versus them dichotomy. However, the "state" is made up of fellow citizens; the US military is 100% citizens. If a significant enough revolution happened someday, it would involve many from that branch as well. It would be an awful and ugly affair. The state would not simply crush the people. In addition, it's very unlikely that a giant half-the-population-ish revolution would happen. If it did, it'd be such chaos that, at the very least, it would bring significant change no matter who won. If it was a smaller one, but not insignficant in size (not just one David Koresh house), and armed, it'd still have enough force to achieve many objectives. Whether they would win or not would depend (almost entirely) on the rest of the population - how they side, and what they do, including those that are part of the govenment.
If Bruce or anyone else feels like they can't trust themselves to be sane enough to have a weapon in their house, so be it... they don't have to have one. Assuming no one else should be trusted is, IMO, wrong.
I'd be fine with dropping concealed carry, or heavily restricting it... so long as open carry was more socially acceptable (it's technically legal in most places, but you won't often get very far without getting stopped/detained/arrested).
The decision to switch from decimal to hexadecimal notation was arbitrary and jarring...not at all unlike switching phone numbers from decimal to alphanumeric notation would be.
I'm not so sure. Data entry is, IMO, much more difficult when dealing with hexadecimal, but memorizing the strings actually seems easier to me, or at least on par. Some example phone numbers:
base36 is unrealistic, but so is the phone number comparison. IP's are dotted quads; phone numbers are normal base 10 numbers.
216.34.181.45 -> decimal = 3626153261 (which is, IMO, harder to remember... not that anyone memorizes more than a couple IPs) 216.34.181.45 -> hex = d8.22.b5.2d (which is, IMO, just as easy, if not easier, to remember) base36 = 1nyx1rh
The reason you have a harder time memorizing mac addresses is probably because they contain more information than IPv4. Ex: 00:16:3E:02:90:52 -> IP like notation = 0.22.62.2.144.82 (seems just about as hard to remember IMO).
True, it's a "hack" but it's a pretty trivial hack.
They are the ultimate script kiddies. Kids, using a script published by the manufacturer.
Even putting "trivial" in front diminishes the glory of hacking.
Isn't this all very similar to the phreaking of the 70's/80's, or hacks resulting from simply reading IBM manuals or the rainbow series? Or is everyone too old to remember that? FWIW, I do think this is trivial, and it's simply a poorly setup ATM, but taking advantage of obscure weaknesses is a time honored tradition AFAIK, and I bet the kids even learned a fair bit from doing this (unlike a script kiddie that just downloads and blindly executes other peoples work).
... the tech isn't shitty, it just has limitations.
you have to be within range of the CO, have newer wiring, and the farther out you go the slower the speeds they will advertise a max speed like LTE, which you will never see because of old and crappy wiring and people "far away" from the CO because the wiring twists and turns underground
While that's all true, it's also just the last mile, and it is easily and clearly testable**. This means you should be able to determine the speed of your connection from you to the CO (with the ISP's assistance), and it's not going to change based on congestion or time of day (though you could have a crappy copper line that is affected by water damage or other environmental factors... but not congestion).
What this means is that it's actually much more clear cut when there is an issue, as compared to something like cable (a shared medium). If your speeds over DSL vary depending on time of day (ex. congestion), then it's the network's fault, not your line, and it's most likely due to over subscribing the connection from the CO to ISP (after that, it's the same network that FiOS/etc uses).
** I have no idea if they actually disclose the line speed at signup, nor do I know if it's easy for a user to get a test scheduled, and I suspect it is an ugly mess of customer service reps to jump through, but it is technically very easy.
This is someone asking a company to update one of their model.
Nope, it isn't. See way up there where an AC said, "I don't want to get a Windows PC. I really don't. BUT YOU LEAVE ME NO CHOICE! I will be forced to flee the obsolence of the Apple realm if there is not a modern Mac Mini released sometime in the nearest of futures", which is where the linux (chromebox, to be exact) suggestions started.
The fact is, he has loads of choices, but is just going to complain that none of them are viable, all while yelling that his current product is too outdated.
All those TVs and set top boxes are running Linux under Android, and Netflix is already supported on Android.
"Most" run that way, but not all. For example, Seagate FreeAgent Theater (and Theater+) both run linux, no andriod, and support netflix and hulu plus. The playstation also supports netflix and does not run windows, mac, nor andriod.
My only point is that netflix has supported playback on niche platforms for a long long time without silverlight, html5, or encrypted media extensions. Any lack of support on any platform is completely by choice. Whatever... there's lots of other options these days, both from the client side and service side.
The controllers themselves are fine. I just think it's weird to hold a console controller and prop up your itty bitty phone on a table to play.
I don't know about Apple products, but many other devices (ex. Samsung Galaxy S4 & S5) support MHL (basically a micro HDMI connection). A cheap cable lets me plug it into my home reciever, and it works great for netflix, sharing pictures/video, Karaoke, or games (I've used it for Real Racing 3 on a 110" projector screen).
Add something like the chromecast, or intel's WiDi, and all that would be wireless, which certainly seems more in line with Apple's stuff. I have zero clue if anything like that is in the works, and I'm not speculating, but it'd make the gamepadded phone quite usable in the home as well.
That said, photoshop was not listed as a requirement. Few people need/want it anway. GGP's post didn't mention it at all. Seems like it's just a lot of bitching with absolutely no effort to avoid the root cause. Like someone bitching about who gets elected but never bothing to even register to vote.
Want an alternative? Put your money and effort into alternatives. Want to continue to be treated like a sheep? Just keep bleating and follow along.
Agreed. I know just enough that I don't know why this is still being debated. AFAIK:
a) Yucca mountain (or similar) plan: dig a really deep hole in a (presumably) very stable and large rock; shove all the waste from NN years in it (waste with a giant half life); cap it off decades from now and hang a sign saying, "in year YYYY, please review, reprocess, recontain, or come up with a new magic bullet to clean up this dump"... where YYYY is something like 500-5000 years from now.
b) There *are* ways to reprocess the waste. Those can, and often do, have a net possitive energy output (ie. they'd make more electricity). The waste from those is more volitile (ex. weapons grade stuff) but, as such, has a MUCH smaller half life. Storage of that waste would require a couple hundred hears, rather than thousands of years.
c) The current "temporary" on site storage is not sustainable.
d) no one wants "a" in their backyard. Statements like, "Cut back on lobbying from the gambling industry, or bribery in general..." and it's an easy solution to just stick it in the desert or in a mountainin Nevada, are really irritating. How about those that used the energy deal with the mess they've made? (and no, I'm not from CA or NV)
I'm sure someone will disagree with every one of the above points on some technicallity, but I've yet to see anything that contradicts those in general.
As such, doing "b" seems like the only sensible thing to do. If "b" was done, then I'd be pretty surprised if "a" wasn't more acceptible. The fact that it'd be more immediately dangerous materal would almost guarentee that we the people would not suddenly withdraw support in 50 years, leaving a contanimated and unmaintained site.
A combo of red tape and greed is all that keeps us from doing "b". Reprocessing is more expensive when viewed as a power plant in direct comparison to other power plants, but power generation should be seen as nothing but gravy... it's reducing our waste; getting power out of that process is just an added bonus.
A bit offtopic, but if we're going to cover nevada in something, let's blanket it with a solar array (potasium or salt type, or a mix of lots of tech, whatever). That'd make enough power to run the whole country ("what about at night?" - shut up... there's lots of ways to temporarily store power, from simple things like pumping water up into a resevior and using a damn for night time generation, to much more technical solutions). Yes, power distribution needs solved; Yes, this is expensive; but it doesn't make waste that lasts for thousands of years, nor does it burn anything, let alone limitted resources like coal and oil.
The price of a T1 hasn't really changed all that much.
Nitel just quoted me $350 in Dallas... sounds a little better than $1000+... still expensive, but I'd say it changed quite a bit.
Not that I doubt you, but I am curious what you and the above posters consider to be part of the "T1"? Is that for the loop only? Does that include port? Is that a PtP from you to another location of yours, or does that include internet access? If it includes internet+port, how good is that connectivity (ex. connected to a network with 3x Tier 1 ISP's, peering with 150 major providers, plus presence in several NAPs; etc)?
In many cities, you can get a zero mile T1 loop for around $100/month. Doing something with it will cost you more.
Another equally honest headline would have been "Electronic devices may soon hold much more charge allowing them to be used without frequent charging via power cords or where existing battery powered devices would be impractical". The existing headline suggests the same thing with nineteen fewer words.
I don't buy it. Take a cell phone for example... the existing lion batteries have more mass than the phone chassis, and they have 10 times the energy density of the supercap in question. Just for the sake of argument, let's say the phone chassis has twice the mass of the existing battery, and lets say you replace both the battery and the phone chassis with this supercap material. You would end up with 3/10ths the energy capacity.
AFAICT, this tech does nothing to eliminate power cords. Even in their example of a house with supercap in place of drywall (I'm sure that's more cost effective than running wires/sarcasm), devices would still need to connect to the supercap, which will almost certainly be facilitated by plugs placed regularly along the wall.
IMO, where this tech is interesting is in applications where you would not normally find an electronic device, but a low powered device may be desirable. For example, if you could make a bicycle frame out of it and have a similar strength to weight ratio as existing frames, then electric assist on a bike would not require lugging a heavy battery around with you. It'd also alow for much faster charging (ex. so delivery people on bikes, which is very common in NYC and other big cities, would always have power for their next trip).
I'm sure there are many other uses, but those where capacity is already the major issue are probably not where we should be looking first. In all cases though, this does not eliminate the cord. Charges faster, sure... and has one tenth the capacity, so you'll be charging more or lugging more weight around.
Too bad they didn't implement their validation tool as a normal browser plugin (or a suite of such for FF/Chrome/Safari/IE).
WTF? Really? How many users would actually install that plugin? How many of those users wouldn't already be paying attention to the warning the browser prints out on bad certs? Using a very widely deployed technology (flash) means they write it once, deploy via the website, and it runs almost everywhere, and it can report back to them (as opposed to the browser warning, which is client side only).
I'd be a little surprised if it wasn't possible to script this up in javascript, but that would probably only work in recent browsers with full web sockets support. That may be good _in_addition_to_ this flash method, but the flash method is going to work with the largest number of users, giving them the sample size they need.
Why in the world would they write multiple plugins, greatly limitting the number of subjects, incurring additional development overhead, removing the ability for them to disable it later at any time, and resulting in a useless sample size and unmanagable install base? Coopting flash for this purpose is perfect.
If you really want a plugin, go write one... I'm willing to bet their methods are clearly laid out.
If this post had started with them writing browser plugins, tons of people here would be saying how no one would install those and they should have used something else (javascript, flash, java, etc).
To achieve a better power to weight ratio, you can either increase power or decrease weight...
However, as in the realm of cars, the reduction in weight that carbon fiber offers only makes sense in extreme cases (usually the very high end cars).
Average weight for a new road bike is around 20-22lb. Steel frame ones can be easily found weighing less (ex. 19lb), same for both the others. Really high end carbon fiber bikes may weight around 14lb. A fairly cheap steel road bike frame alone is about 4.5lb (ex. http://www.performancebike.com...)..... now to my point... I can afford to lose a lot more than the difference in frame weights. I normally carry a bag full of tools and repair kit and pump etc that weights way more than the difference. A typical water bottle (full) is around a pound. A couple pounds lighter is not going to help me or any average rider.
I think the same goes for cars... even these electric ones. The cost of a tiny bit more electricity or gas use will be greatly outweighed if a part gets a ding, let alone the recycling costs.
That was my first thought. To me, "carport" is synonymous with "I didn't have enough money for a proper garage". There's nothing wrong with carports but, as soon as you add on the fancy solar panels and all that stuff, this thing is going to be more expensive than a nice garage that includes additional storage, security, protection from the elements, etc etc etc.
Second thought was, how is this something to "unveil"? it's just a typical solar panel install... *on*a*carport*! I'd be amazed if this hasn't been done before, but if it hasn't, it's because people used a garage or the roof of their house.
And this is relevant to people who drive cars how? Don't get me wrong, I love bikes, they're just not a realistic option for everyone and all situations.
Seems pretty relevant since so many comments are about what MPGe means, and we're (mostly) all geeks. It's also relevant since the range of these things (38 miles for the Scion; 81 for the BMW) are less than my overweight ass can do on a bike in a day... especially on that low end, it's very relevant. If you can go no further than 38 miles without a recharge, then you're probably not trying to push that envelope and, in many cases, you'd be doing a round trip (go somewhere, do something, get home, probably shooting for less than 30 miles). That's well within the biking sweet spot.
You can't carry as much luggage (though the scion really doesn't hold much either), and you can't easily have a passenger, and rain and other inclement situations suck a lot more, and it can be slightly more scary to ride one on the highway than the scion, but bikes have a much better MPG*, similar range, and significantly lower sticker price and TCO.
I'm glad garote posted that... I've always been a bit curious about that figure. My hunch, when I was riding a LOT, was that I wasn't really saving any money because my calories cost way more than a gallon of gas, and my intake went up significantly. This approaches an answer to that question... not exactly the same question, but interesting.
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... Lumia 521 ... $120 from Wal-Mart ... built-in Nokia mapping/navigation program that has complete offline capability ... I don't have a data plan ...
I get what you're saying (I think), but it sounds a whole lot like you just want a decent feature phone (ie. not a full blown smart phone). In that regard, I would completely agree that the market is sorely lacking in good "feature phones". Those used to make up the majority of available phones... for a couple years at least.
Finally, Android bothers me because I don't use gmail and I don't trust google. The people I've talked to claim that it is difficult to really make the most of an Android phone without giving your life over to your google account.
More or less, yes.... to get the most out of an advanced smart phone, you need a data plan, and you need to make use of the features available. Otherwise, you might as well just have a dumbed down feature phone. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's also not a good comparison.
FWIW, when it comes to phones, I'm no fanboi of anything currently out there. You've actually made that Lumia sound somewhat appealing, though it still lacks in key areas I'd like.
So, since purchasing power of the $1 wasn't taken into account, the results are flawed, since the reward will vary so much depending on the wealth of the individuals taking part.
From TFS, "While fewer than half of the people who viewed the task actually ran the benign executable when offered a penny to do so, the numbers jumped to 58 percent when offered 50 cents, and 64 percent when offered $1."
So, for $0.01, fewer than 50% of respondents (let's just guess around 45%... I'm not going to bother reading the article, but if it was only 10%, then they wouldn't have said "fiewer than half").
And for $0.50, 58%.
And for $1, 64%.
Generally, getting lots of people infected is not an attempt to get EVERYONE infected, and at $1 it was only 68% anyway... so just spend your money more wisely and only offer $0.01, but hit a MUCH larger audience. The math of it:
Spend $10.
Offering $1 = 10 offers = 6.4 people
Offering $0.01 = 1000 offers = 450 people
Sorry, but let's just put aside the purchasing power stuff for a minute, since $0.01 isn't going to buy much anywhere (even if it does buy a little more in third world countries).
This was more-or-less my same thought when reading the summary. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
* iPhone theft down 19%
* Samsung theft up by 40%
That means absolutely nothing without additional context.
What if prior to the change period, iPhone theft was at 100,000 units a month, and samsung was at 10 units a month?
What about ratios (N% of activiated iPhone devices stolen per month vs N% of activated samsung devices)?
What about device classes (they just say "Samsung devices", without qualifying if those are even phones, let alone if that's just their Andriod phones, let alone if that's just certain models, etc)?
What about market changes? (did samsung sales increase while iPhone decreased, meaning there is a corrolation to availability / supply-and-demand?)
I wouldn't mind having an option for a kill switch (done "right"), remote wipe (via always-encrypted storage and wipe the key... and abilty to restore the key), lowjack, etc, but these numbers are garbage. They don't deserve to be included in the summary.
Is it really a thing at all?
Do you live under a rock? It's a pretty big deal in most large cities.
Is it really? Do you have statistics? My family were early adopters of smartphones ...
While I agree that useful statistics would help, following up your request with anecdotal evidence does not. FWIW, I've seen it happen first hand: ... we didn't see the guy take it, but we had seen it on the bar, and it was suddenly gone at the same time the only other person in the bar left.
* myself and 3 friends at a dive bar mid-day-ish, which was otherwise empty
* one of us bartended there occassionally
* random guy comes in and sits a few seats down from us
* bartender friend leaves to go to the bathroom, and leaves phone on the bar
* random guy pays for his one beer, casually gets up and leaves
* friend comes back and notices his phone is gone
Crime of opportunity (rather than robbery by force), but it does happen.
Say what you will about the situation (ex. why was his phone left on the bar, etc... we were regulars, and no one was there, and there was an expectaction that no one would mess with anyone in that place... still not the best idea, but that's what happened), but that does not change the fact that it happens.
I think his big mistake is taking the ID of 3D printing and applying it to a martial for which it wasn't intended. I'd think he'd have better luck if he instead looked at Powdered metals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
anyways, yea, that's the direction he should go. I'd use electro static charge to hold the shape and then use something like an Xray laser to melt/fuse/sinter it.
There is room for more than one tech.
Sintering *may* make a more detailed final part, but this may make a stronger part.
This machine is very likely to be less expensive in all aspects:
* cheaper to build with more readily available parts (fairly standard welder rather than xray laser, for instance)
* cheaper and more readily available feedstock (simple spools of mig wire)
* much easier to work with on a large scale (filling a 10'x10'x10' box with powdered metal will be HEAVY, and clean up will be a bitch; this just keeps laying down wire right where it needs it)
All of that means that it fits the hobby/maker crowd better (one can do it in their garage).
To be honest, I'm quite curious about several aspects of it, like:
* why is it so difficult to issolate/insolate the controller?
* why tig instead of mig? (in my breif welding experience, mig seems like it'd be much easier to adapt to this)
I'd also be very interested in seeing a setup that uses actual molten metal exactly as plactic printers use (eg. steel or tungsten print heads; zinc or aluminum feed stock). If the stock was fine/thin enough, perhaps the head could be made small enough to get comparible resolution/detail (~0.3mm). Maybe an alloy feed stock would work better (feed in tin and copper -> have a second bronze age).
Isn't Freecode just a clone of Soureforge? A place to download free crap? What problem did it solve?
No. It was basically just metadata. Hosted files, official project page, bug tracker, version control, etc... that was all off site at any configurable location the project wanted.
"Freecode" was an awful name. Freshmeat.net, while not obvious, didn't make it sound like it hosted code.
AFAIK, there is no replacement for it. Perhaps someone can fork it, but the data is the really valuable part.
Rather than change the name and update the site layout (which, IMO, is now worse than it was), they should have enhanced the actual code so that it had closer integration with popular code repositories (sourceforge included). When one added a project to freshmeat/freecode, you had to fill out ever link (where your site it, where version control is, where each version download is, etc etc). They could have had a "project type" dropdown, then you fill in where your github project, or sourceforge project, etc lives, and it'd auto-fill the rest and keep the release versions up to date automatically. As it is/was, with every release you made, you had to go and manually update freshmeat/freecode (unless you used some third party tool to have it do that for you).
Anyway... I'll miss it.
How is 700TB "endurance"? I copy near a TB of data from Backups at work almost daily. So 1-2 years (if that) is "endurance"? Screw that! Sounds more like modern SSD's suck hard and aren't designed to last past 1-2 years of work. I'll stick with traditional HD's until they figure out DRAM drives that don't need batteries or constant power.
How large is your backup filesystem(s)? This was 700TB written to a 250gb drive. If you're copying "near a TB of data from Backups ... almost daily", then I'm betting you have many many TB of storage in the backup pool... so divide that by 250gb and multiple that by 700TB and that's the endurance the SSD's would have. However, even then it doesn't really apply... your backups are not likely to be rewriting a lot of sectors (ex. deduplication, if used, means few files are actually written). You also said you copied FROM backups, so those are just reads (I'm presuming those are going out to multiple clients).
In any case, the 700TB "endurance" figure is still acurate, even if you consider that fragile - it's a level of endurance under a specific use case.
FWIW, for a backup system, I'd also stick with spinning disks (or tape) for now and well into the foreseeable future. Throughput and IOPs are not very important to backup storage, and you'll get way more GB/dollar from HDD's.
Others below have already said it, but most were AC's... so...
1, That ship has sailed; it's physically impossible for armed Americans to defeat state tyranny.
That's simply wrong.
For one, this argument is almost always raised as an us versus them dichotomy. However, the "state" is made up of fellow citizens; the US military is 100% citizens. If a significant enough revolution happened someday, it would involve many from that branch as well. It would be an awful and ugly affair. The state would not simply crush the people.
In addition, it's very unlikely that a giant half-the-population-ish revolution would happen. If it did, it'd be such chaos that, at the very least, it would bring significant change no matter who won. If it was a smaller one, but not insignficant in size (not just one David Koresh house), and armed, it'd still have enough force to achieve many objectives. Whether they would win or not would depend (almost entirely) on the rest of the population - how they side, and what they do, including those that are part of the govenment.
If Bruce or anyone else feels like they can't trust themselves to be sane enough to have a weapon in their house, so be it... they don't have to have one. Assuming no one else should be trusted is, IMO, wrong.
I'd be fine with dropping concealed carry, or heavily restricting it... so long as open carry was more socially acceptable (it's technically legal in most places, but you won't often get very far without getting stopped/detained/arrested).
The decision to switch from decimal to hexadecimal notation was arbitrary and jarring...not at all unlike switching phone numbers from decimal to alphanumeric notation would be.
I'm not so sure. Data entry is, IMO, much more difficult when dealing with hexadecimal, but memorizing the strings actually seems easier to me, or at least on par. Some example phone numbers:
18003368478 -> base36 = 89qqo0u
18003569377 -> base36 = 89quz1d
7185551212 -> base36 = 3au3ass
base36 is unrealistic, but so is the phone number comparison. IP's are dotted quads; phone numbers are normal base 10 numbers.
216.34.181.45 -> decimal = 3626153261 (which is, IMO, harder to remember... not that anyone memorizes more than a couple IPs)
216.34.181.45 -> hex = d8.22.b5.2d (which is, IMO, just as easy, if not easier, to remember)
base36 = 1nyx1rh
The reason you have a harder time memorizing mac addresses is probably because they contain more information than IPv4. Ex:
00:16:3E:02:90:52 -> IP like notation = 0.22.62.2.144.82 (seems just about as hard to remember IMO).
True, it's a "hack" but it's a pretty trivial hack.
They are the ultimate script kiddies. Kids, using a script published by the manufacturer.
Even putting "trivial" in front diminishes the glory of hacking.
Isn't this all very similar to the phreaking of the 70's/80's, or hacks resulting from simply reading IBM manuals or the rainbow series? Or is everyone too old to remember that?
FWIW, I do think this is trivial, and it's simply a poorly setup ATM, but taking advantage of obscure weaknesses is a time honored tradition AFAIK, and I bet the kids even learned a fair bit from doing this (unlike a script kiddie that just downloads and blindly executes other peoples work).
except DSL has always been a shitty tech
... the tech isn't shitty, it just has limitations.
you have to be within range of the CO, have newer wiring, and the farther out you go the slower the speeds
they will advertise a max speed like LTE, which you will never see because of old and crappy wiring and people "far away" from the CO because the wiring twists and turns underground
While that's all true, it's also just the last mile, and it is easily and clearly testable**. This means you should be able to determine the speed of your connection from you to the CO (with the ISP's assistance), and it's not going to change based on congestion or time of day (though you could have a crappy copper line that is affected by water damage or other environmental factors... but not congestion).
What this means is that it's actually much more clear cut when there is an issue, as compared to something like cable (a shared medium). If your speeds over DSL vary depending on time of day (ex. congestion), then it's the network's fault, not your line, and it's most likely due to over subscribing the connection from the CO to ISP (after that, it's the same network that FiOS/etc uses).
** I have no idea if they actually disclose the line speed at signup, nor do I know if it's easy for a user to get a test scheduled, and I suspect it is an ugly mess of customer service reps to jump through, but it is technically very easy.
This is someone asking a company to update one of their model.
Nope, it isn't. See way up there where an AC said, "I don't want to get a Windows PC. I really don't. BUT YOU LEAVE ME NO CHOICE! I will be forced to flee the obsolence of the Apple realm if there is not a modern Mac Mini released sometime in the nearest of futures", which is where the linux (chromebox, to be exact) suggestions started.
The fact is, he has loads of choices, but is just going to complain that none of them are viable, all while yelling that his current product is too outdated.
All those TVs and set top boxes are running Linux under Android, and Netflix is already supported on Android.
"Most" run that way, but not all. For example, Seagate FreeAgent Theater (and Theater+) both run linux, no andriod, and support netflix and hulu plus. The playstation also supports netflix and does not run windows, mac, nor andriod.
My only point is that netflix has supported playback on niche platforms for a long long time without silverlight, html5, or encrypted media extensions. Any lack of support on any platform is completely by choice. Whatever... there's lots of other options these days, both from the client side and service side.
The controllers themselves are fine. I just think it's weird to hold a console controller and prop up your itty bitty phone on a table to play.
I don't know about Apple products, but many other devices (ex. Samsung Galaxy S4 & S5) support MHL (basically a micro HDMI connection). A cheap cable lets me plug it into my home reciever, and it works great for netflix, sharing pictures/video, Karaoke, or games (I've used it for Real Racing 3 on a 110" projector screen).
Add something like the chromecast, or intel's WiDi, and all that would be wireless, which certainly seems more in line with Apple's stuff. I have zero clue if anything like that is in the works, and I'm not speculating, but it'd make the gamepadded phone quite usable in the home as well.
Okay sure. Just let me buy Photoshop for Linux and... oh wait, your solution doesn't work at all, you fucking moron.
Looks like it works to me.
http://appdb.winehq.org/object...
That said, photoshop was not listed as a requirement. Few people need/want it anway. GGP's post didn't mention it at all.
Seems like it's just a lot of bitching with absolutely no effort to avoid the root cause. Like someone bitching about who gets elected but never bothing to even register to vote.
Want an alternative? Put your money and effort into alternatives.
Want to continue to be treated like a sheep? Just keep bleating and follow along.
The submitter may have an excuse or two. Editors, on the othe hand, have no good excuses.
A space bar is the easiest button to find.
Agreed.
I know just enough that I don't know why this is still being debated. AFAIK:
a) Yucca mountain (or similar) plan: dig a really deep hole in a (presumably) very stable and large rock; shove all the waste from NN years in it (waste with a giant half life); cap it off decades from now and hang a sign saying, "in year YYYY, please review, reprocess, recontain, or come up with a new magic bullet to clean up this dump"... where YYYY is something like 500-5000 years from now.
b) There *are* ways to reprocess the waste. Those can, and often do, have a net possitive energy output (ie. they'd make more electricity). The waste from those is more volitile (ex. weapons grade stuff) but, as such, has a MUCH smaller half life. Storage of that waste would require a couple hundred hears, rather than thousands of years.
c) The current "temporary" on site storage is not sustainable.
d) no one wants "a" in their backyard. Statements like, "Cut back on lobbying from the gambling industry, or bribery in general..." and it's an easy solution to just stick it in the desert or in a mountainin Nevada, are really irritating. How about those that used the energy deal with the mess they've made? (and no, I'm not from CA or NV)
I'm sure someone will disagree with every one of the above points on some technicallity, but I've yet to see anything that contradicts those in general.
As such, doing "b" seems like the only sensible thing to do. If "b" was done, then I'd be pretty surprised if "a" wasn't more acceptible. The fact that it'd be more immediately dangerous materal would almost guarentee that we the people would not suddenly withdraw support in 50 years, leaving a contanimated and unmaintained site.
A combo of red tape and greed is all that keeps us from doing "b". Reprocessing is more expensive when viewed as a power plant in direct comparison to other power plants, but power generation should be seen as nothing but gravy... it's reducing our waste; getting power out of that process is just an added bonus.
A bit offtopic, but if we're going to cover nevada in something, let's blanket it with a solar array (potasium or salt type, or a mix of lots of tech, whatever). That'd make enough power to run the whole country ("what about at night?" - shut up... there's lots of ways to temporarily store power, from simple things like pumping water up into a resevior and using a damn for night time generation, to much more technical solutions). Yes, power distribution needs solved; Yes, this is expensive; but it doesn't make waste that lasts for thousands of years, nor does it burn anything, let alone limitted resources like coal and oil.
"The only piece missing is Pac Bell." ...and Lucent and Avaya.
I'm not aware of any PSTN in the US that they own. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The price of a T1 hasn't really changed all that much.
Nitel just quoted me $350 in Dallas ... sounds a little better than $1000+ ... still expensive, but I'd say it changed quite a bit.
Not that I doubt you, but I am curious what you and the above posters consider to be part of the "T1"? Is that for the loop only? Does that include port? Is that a PtP from you to another location of yours, or does that include internet access? If it includes internet+port, how good is that connectivity (ex. connected to a network with 3x Tier 1 ISP's, peering with 150 major providers, plus presence in several NAPs; etc)?
In many cities, you can get a zero mile T1 loop for around $100/month. Doing something with it will cost you more.
Another equally honest headline would have been "Electronic devices may soon hold much more charge allowing them to be used without frequent charging via power cords or where existing battery powered devices would be impractical". The existing headline suggests the same thing with nineteen fewer words.
I don't buy it. Take a cell phone for example... the existing lion batteries have more mass than the phone chassis, and they have 10 times the energy density of the supercap in question. Just for the sake of argument, let's say the phone chassis has twice the mass of the existing battery, and lets say you replace both the battery and the phone chassis with this supercap material. You would end up with 3/10ths the energy capacity.
AFAICT, this tech does nothing to eliminate power cords. Even in their example of a house with supercap in place of drywall (I'm sure that's more cost effective than running wires /sarcasm), devices would still need to connect to the supercap, which will almost certainly be facilitated by plugs placed regularly along the wall.
IMO, where this tech is interesting is in applications where you would not normally find an electronic device, but a low powered device may be desirable. For example, if you could make a bicycle frame out of it and have a similar strength to weight ratio as existing frames, then electric assist on a bike would not require lugging a heavy battery around with you. It'd also alow for much faster charging (ex. so delivery people on bikes, which is very common in NYC and other big cities, would always have power for their next trip).
I'm sure there are many other uses, but those where capacity is already the major issue are probably not where we should be looking first. In all cases though, this does not eliminate the cord. Charges faster, sure... and has one tenth the capacity, so you'll be charging more or lugging more weight around.
Too bad they didn't implement their validation tool as a normal browser plugin (or a suite of such for FF/Chrome/Safari/IE).
WTF? Really? How many users would actually install that plugin? How many of those users wouldn't already be paying attention to the warning the browser prints out on bad certs? Using a very widely deployed technology (flash) means they write it once, deploy via the website, and it runs almost everywhere, and it can report back to them (as opposed to the browser warning, which is client side only).
I'd be a little surprised if it wasn't possible to script this up in javascript, but that would probably only work in recent browsers with full web sockets support. That may be good _in_addition_to_ this flash method, but the flash method is going to work with the largest number of users, giving them the sample size they need.
Why in the world would they write multiple plugins, greatly limitting the number of subjects, incurring additional development overhead, removing the ability for them to disable it later at any time, and resulting in a useless sample size and unmanagable install base? Coopting flash for this purpose is perfect.
If you really want a plugin, go write one... I'm willing to bet their methods are clearly laid out.
If this post had started with them writing browser plugins, tons of people here would be saying how no one would install those and they should have used something else (javascript, flash, java, etc).
To achieve a better power to weight ratio, you can either increase power or decrease weight...
However, as in the realm of cars, the reduction in weight that carbon fiber offers only makes sense in extreme cases (usually the very high end cars).
Average weight for a new road bike is around 20-22lb. Steel frame ones can be easily found weighing less (ex. 19lb), same for both the others. Really high end carbon fiber bikes may weight around 14lb. A fairly cheap steel road bike frame alone is about 4.5lb (ex. http://www.performancebike.com...). .... now to my point... I can afford to lose a lot more than the difference in frame weights. I normally carry a bag full of tools and repair kit and pump etc that weights way more than the difference. A typical water bottle (full) is around a pound. A couple pounds lighter is not going to help me or any average rider.
I think the same goes for cars... even these electric ones. The cost of a tiny bit more electricity or gas use will be greatly outweighed if a part gets a ding, let alone the recycling costs.
... A garage would be better, though...
That was my first thought. To me, "carport" is synonymous with "I didn't have enough money for a proper garage". There's nothing wrong with carports but, as soon as you add on the fancy solar panels and all that stuff, this thing is going to be more expensive than a nice garage that includes additional storage, security, protection from the elements, etc etc etc.
Second thought was, how is this something to "unveil"? it's just a typical solar panel install... *on*a*carport*! I'd be amazed if this hasn't been done before, but if it hasn't, it's because people used a garage or the roof of their house.
And this is relevant to people who drive cars how? Don't get me wrong, I love bikes, they're just not a realistic option for everyone and all situations.
Seems pretty relevant since so many comments are about what MPGe means, and we're (mostly) all geeks.
It's also relevant since the range of these things (38 miles for the Scion; 81 for the BMW) are less than my overweight ass can do on a bike in a day... especially on that low end, it's very relevant. If you can go no further than 38 miles without a recharge, then you're probably not trying to push that envelope and, in many cases, you'd be doing a round trip (go somewhere, do something, get home, probably shooting for less than 30 miles). That's well within the biking sweet spot.
You can't carry as much luggage (though the scion really doesn't hold much either), and you can't easily have a passenger, and rain and other inclement situations suck a lot more, and it can be slightly more scary to ride one on the highway than the scion, but bikes have a much better MPG*, similar range, and significantly lower sticker price and TCO.
I'm glad garote posted that... I've always been a bit curious about that figure. My hunch, when I was riding a LOT, was that I wasn't really saving any money because my calories cost way more than a gallon of gas, and my intake went up significantly. This approaches an answer to that question... not exactly the same question, but interesting.
Your uid is too high. Go read up on it.