You know what? Your entire bitch paragraph below applies 100% to me AS WELL.
But, I can close the lid of my laptop and it goes to sleep, open it and it wakes up. I don't have to write wpa-supplicant files by hand, worry about wireless drivers, or anything else. I can watch my DVDs, I can watch internet videos if I want to (as much as I bitch about youtube culture and whatnot, there are occasionally things worth watching that happen to live inside of an embedded flash player), my battery life doesn't suck and I spend a lot less time beating my head against the wall due to "not quite 100% compatible" issues.
Being that there is no more trial, I had to pay for it to try it.
Complete waste of time. It took me hours to get the peice of shit to play... and I couldn't figure out how to do a damn thing once I started. No manual, no useful in game prompting (it seems it assumed I knew how to do basic stuff)... I tried just about every key and key combination I could think of, mouse clicks etc - and I couldn't do anything useful -at-all-.
AFAIK they do have a transponder code for unmanned craft, so ATC can at least be aware that it's not got a meatbag in it. I think they use the "X" bit (which was previously only used by BOMARC missiles (airborn targets)).
Given that this identifier would be in addition to whatever normal 4-digit squawk was assigned, I could see how this would work.
Communicating with the operator may be a bit different. Perhaps implementing some kind of control channel that would allow ATC to issue guidance overrides if required?
This is exactly why you should never take it off. You should have thought ahead and built in panels so you can use the toilet.... and that's only ONE of the features of such a panel!
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In mine, 4-functions were allowed, as they would help you work faster and not make stupid mistakes that didn't reflect on your understanding of the subject matter... and yet were primitive enough that they were of no help with the actual material.
Why bother? For such a niche device I don't see the point. So much other hardware can, and can do the things that you'd use it for (and are both much cheaper, and more easily obtained).
I don't know about you, but I remember trying to do systems with 5 or more functions... and having a really hard time interpreting the interesting patterns the tiny little B&W display would, er, display.
Alright, so they can't bug it on your property. But they can use old fashioned field work to see when you were there, and tag the vehicle when you go, well, anywhere else.
... and it also told me (and anyone else who cared to know) that he won't be home, and that we should be dropping by to help ourselves.
Doing shit like that is just not smart. If it isn't outright dangerous, it's usually pointless. He could have just called you, or sent you an email, or hell - even posted something to some other social network that isn't quite as open.
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My laptop has Linux on it.
You know what? Your entire bitch paragraph below applies 100% to me AS WELL.
But, I can close the lid of my laptop and it goes to sleep, open it and it wakes up. I don't have to write wpa-supplicant files by hand, worry about wireless drivers, or anything else. I can watch my DVDs, I can watch internet videos if I want to (as much as I bitch about youtube culture and whatnot, there are occasionally things worth watching that happen to live inside of an embedded flash player), my battery life doesn't suck and I spend a lot less time beating my head against the wall due to "not quite 100% compatible" issues.
I'm no coder, and the applications that I run all support MySQL, but not all of them support Postgres.
Kind of a bad situation to be in, eh?
At least my livelihood doesn't depend on them, it's just a toy (in a sense).
... some poetry really is just crap by another name, though!
I've enjoyed a single game they made: FF8.
Nothing else. FF7 was palatable, but not really enjoyable.
Does it even run in a normal screenspace? FFXI wanted to run at some half-assed 1024x1024 (then scale up to the monitor resolution) system. WTF.
I tried FFXI.
Being that there is no more trial, I had to pay for it to try it.
Complete waste of time. It took me hours to get the peice of shit to play... and I couldn't figure out how to do a damn thing once I started. No manual, no useful in game prompting (it seems it assumed I knew how to do basic stuff) ... I tried just about every key and key combination I could think of, mouse clicks etc - and I couldn't do anything useful -at-all-.
Not much of a reputation to foul...
I lost no sleep over Tom being cut.
God that character was annoying.
http: //img257.imageshack.us/img257/2474/tlds.png
Just in case you lack font support and still want to see it.
For those who are curious but lack the font support: //img257.imageshack.us/img257/2474/tlds.png
http:
Remove the space in the URL. Inserted in the hopes of not exploding tinyurl, you know how slashdot is.
Dang, not a single unsupported character on the page! Heh, and I can't ready a single one of them anyways.
AFAIK they do have a transponder code for unmanned craft, so ATC can at least be aware that it's not got a meatbag in it. I think they use the "X" bit (which was previously only used by BOMARC missiles (airborn targets)).
Given that this identifier would be in addition to whatever normal 4-digit squawk was assigned, I could see how this would work.
Communicating with the operator may be a bit different. Perhaps implementing some kind of control channel that would allow ATC to issue guidance overrides if required?
Yea, because I really only pay attention to the color/materials of roofs as I drive. I can't see how anyone might benefit from this.
This is exactly why you should never take it off. You should have thought ahead and built in panels so you can use the toilet. ... and that's only ONE of the features of such a panel!
Mod disclaimer: this is intended to be funny, nothing else.
Hell, they don't even have a distributor, either!
In mine, 4-functions were allowed, as they would help you work faster and not make stupid mistakes that didn't reflect on your understanding of the subject matter... and yet were primitive enough that they were of no help with the actual material.
Why bother? For such a niche device I don't see the point. So much other hardware can, and can do the things that you'd use it for (and are both much cheaper, and more easily obtained).
Protip: I just proved you wrong.
True, but there's a big difference in the impact between:
a) I can't even enter that room
b) It takes me a moment to distinguish between these two colors, here
I don't know about you, but I remember trying to do systems with 5 or more functions... and having a really hard time interpreting the interesting patterns the tiny little B&W display would, er, display.
There's something to be said about readability.
My point is you can't hide from the feds behind your state government.
(for those who don't see it, keep in mind that Alaska is one of those places where tampering with someone's property can easily render them dead)
Federal > State
Shooting federal employees is generally a bad thing anywhere that said federals have power. That would be anywhere in the country.
Alright, so they can't bug it on your property. But they can use old fashioned field work to see when you were there, and tag the vehicle when you go, well, anywhere else.
You have to do something so exceptionally bad to get snipers like that pointed at you, that a GPS bug is the least of your worries...
... and it also told me (and anyone else who cared to know) that he won't be home, and that we should be dropping by to help ourselves.
Doing shit like that is just not smart. If it isn't outright dangerous, it's usually pointless. He could have just called you, or sent you an email, or hell - even posted something to some other social network that isn't quite as open.