No, to do that would be to do the same silliness as the GNU/Linux crowd. The Android system is a separate entity. I don't hark on ideals. It has become standard to refer to that system as "Android". Insisting on putting "Linux" in the name (or making it the name) is just as silly and foolish as insisting that GNU be in the name of what's become commonly called the "Linux" desktop OS.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Sorry, but this war has been fought, and your side lost. I'm not using GNU/Linux/x.org/XFCE anymore than others are using Windows/CrystalReports/Office/PhotoShop.
Listing every single component of the system is stupid. Linux is the kernel, Linux is what gets recognized as the OS. There are a lot of programs that go into making the system usable - each one need not be referenced in the name.
Most aren't willing to admit it, but its the "treadmill" concept of these games that keeps people coming back.
Make it absolutely trivial to get whatever you want and people won't be interested in playing the game. You've got the Uber Epics Sword of Everlasting Awesomeness? Well sure - everyone has one - and there's nothing left to do to get the EVEN BETTER sword.
The treadmill concept tricks people into thinking they're working towards a goal, and its what keeps them playing. It also is what makes most eventually quit when they realize that the goal keeps moving and they're never going to get there.
WoW got particularly bad with this when the concept of daily quests were introduced. I saw tons of players resort to "just logging in to do my dailies" at that point, which is bad when you really analyze it. You're logging into a game nearly every day to do the EXACT same thing to make one number go up (gold or token count) just so that you can eventually buy a bunch of pixels that make another number (stats) go up - all so that you can be more efficient at killing things to make the gold tokens go up. Its a vicious cycle.
That's pretty much exactly my situtation. I was a WOW player myself for about 3 years there. Not "hardcore" by most definitions, but I played about 15-20 hours per week. Prior to that I wasn't into much multiplayer. I'd play maybe 3 or 4 single player games per year to completion and be done with them.
When I finally got bored of WoW I actively didn't want to start playing any other MMORPG. After seeing the time investment such games took I really wanted to avoid them altogether. Now I'm back to playing the occasional single player game, which lets me enjoy video games but also other things in life that I had been missing.
The honest truth is that while i liked video games and still do, I don't want them to be my primary focus in life - and that's nearly what it takes to stay current with most MMORPG's.
Any robot that could go out that far is going to have to be pretty sophisticated - to the point that its probably cheaper to just build and launch another telescope (and then we get to benefit by replacing it with a better one).
I'm sure New York has deeper pockets and can afford more than the small jurisdiction I work for, but in our case camera footage ends up deleted for very practical reasons: storage space.
Our detention center (jail) has about 4 dozen security cameras, and even with a fairly decent SAN our retention period is less than 30 days just because we don't have space to hold anymore than that.
Figure in an order of magnitude (or more) more cameras than that, and while I'm sure they could do more than 30 days, I doubt they'll be able to realistically keep the footage for more than a few months tops.
Your happy with XFS because your machine has never lost power or crashed. If either of those things happened with the older versions of XFS it was nearly a 100% guarantee you would lose data. Now i'm told its more reliable.
I don't know about being more reliable. I use XFS on my RAID array (mdadm) at home. I'm running the latest version of Linux Mint (Nadia), and if I ever lose poser and don't unmount that file system cleanly it looses all recent changes to the drive (and "recent" sometimes stretches to hours ago). The drive mounts fine and nothing appears corrupted (so I guess its not completely data loss), but any files changes (edits, additions, or deletions) to the file system are simply gone.
Its gotten to the point where if I've just put a lot of stuff on the drive I unmount it and then remount it just to make sure everything gets flushed to disk. If I ever get a chance to rebuild that array it most certainly will be using something different.
Right now, you can walk into a T Mobile store, plunk down cash and get a smartphone and not have a contract beyond a month to month agreement; which you can end without fees.
You can do that with just about any carrier. The only real difference is that T-Mobile cuts you a break on your per month price for not taking a subsidized phone. With Verizon, AT&T, or any other carrier you can sign up without a contract, its just that you'll be paying the same price as the guys who took the free/cheap phones.
Exactly. I'm 31 myself. I still enjoy gaming - quite a bit when I get a chance, but realistically I can only play very occasionally on weekends and I might play through 3-4 games per year. I don't personally buy $1000 graphics cards, but I have several other hobbies (I shoot a lot of competitive pistol matches, and I'm a private pilot) where dropping $1,000 every other year or so would seem pretty cheap in comparison.
I doubt many people living in "mom's basement" have $1000 to put into a video card. Realistically the people that grew up playing games has continued to go up, and in particular a lot of people who want a video card like this are going to be older (30-45) anyways as a lot of the younger crowd is trending more towards tablet and mobile games.
To a lot of people in that 30 to 45 age bracket $1,000 isn't a whole heck of a lot to spend on a hobby.
I think the problem people have in the US isn't that phones are subsidized - its that the carriers have it arranged so that the "unsubsidized" price is artificially inflated to deter you from even thinking about buying one. Also, except for T-Mobile, you're paying a phone subsidy even if you DO buy your device outright. All you're really buying is the option to remain month-to-month rather than renew a contract.
A good, recent release smartphone shouldn't run more than $300. Heck some of the best Android tablets with 10" screens are getting down around that level, and if you look at the Nexus phones thats about what they run. The carriers though tend to set the "no contract" price for most good phones up around $500-600.
Alas - I just personally end up buying used phones. As long as you're willing to live a generation or so behind the "latest and greatest" there's always some kid dumping their phone to get the new hot thing. I'm currently using an LG Lucid 4G which serves me just fine and I paid $99 for.
Hmm, sounds like he's such an ass that instead of a distortion field he's become large and dense enough to collapse into a singularity.
Interestingly, it seems something like Hawking radiation is occurring at the edge of the singularity's influence: The Chief Officers begin radiating away from the company's event horizon giving one reason to those on the outside, while the actual reasons for departure fall back inward toward the singularity.
If only there were a name for such phenomena where you become so dense and toxic that no intelligible thoughts escape you and everything within your reach turns to crap -- Sort of like a social version of a blackhole... hmm. Any ideas?
Ideas? Sure. First idea: you ran with the metaphor WAY too long;).
Tazers are for things like a fleeing suspect who needs to be stopped, or if they're responding with a level of force that doesn't justify gunfire (physically resisting arrest). If they actually are actively threatening the life of the officer, they're never going to use a tazer.
Or to put it more bluntly, you never take a tazer to a gunfight.
That's a politically correct way to look at it, but realistically all officers are trained to shoot "center of mass" which is generally a very lethal area. The goal is to incapacitate the attacker (which death does very well), but they're intentionally, and justifiably, using the most lethal method they can to try and achieve that.
The purpose of a weapon (in he hands of a soldier, a police officer, or a civilian) is to stop the threat. Death happens to be a really quick way to stop a threat, so in defensive situations one shoots to kill. If the threat is stopped without the suspect dieing (ie, he passes out from blood loss, drops his gun,etc), then all the better and they'll be calling in EMS to try and save them, but until the threat is stopped then they will be responding with lethal force.
Cable has EBS as well. I'd be shocked if satellite didn't.
Cable has EBS because its distributed from a local office (and people out in the boondocks generally don't have access to cable). Satellite is the same signal broadcast all over the country. Unless they wanted to interrupt the programming across the entire country it can't be targeted locally (except on local affiliates that one might get over satellite, though only a small fraction of people watching will be watching their local affiliates).
(they prioritize smaller cartridges so that more rounds can be carried and the recoil remains manageable under full-auto fire)
Yes, military arms have trended towards smaller less powerful rounds for a reason - reasons I've already stated.
The point of my post was arguing that just because the military has body armor doesn't make civilian weapons suddenly useless. The vast majority of body armor is ineffective against common civilian ammunition, and even the civilian arms that do use the smaller and less powerful rounds that the military uses are still not useless (else the military wouldn't use them in the first place).
Telling someone that their civilian rifles are useless because the army has body armor is kinda like telling a fat kid he can't eat a Twinkie because it has a plastic wrapper around it.
Almost no one is watching broadcast TV these days. The emergency broadcast system is largely pointless. Even amongst backwoods hicks, a lot of them are watching satellite or on the internet (at whatever speed they can attain where they're at) rather than watching broadcast.
Yes, but it still hits a problem: military small arms ammo is actually fairly low in power (they prioritize smaller cartridges so that more rounds can be carried and the recoil remains manageable under full-auto fire). Notice that in the link you provided it'll protect against steel core (armor piercing) ammo from 7.62x39 and 5.56 NATO (common infantry rounds) but up to 7.62 NATO it only protects against standard lead core ammo and is the most powerful ammo they warrant against.
7.62 NATO is just a bit more powerful than the.30-30 I referenced, but nearly every other major hunting cartridge today (.30-06,.270, 7mm Rem Mag, etc) outstripes 7.62 NATO in power by at least 15%..300 Winchester Mag (which is used by many for hunting) actually generates about 60% more power than 7.62NATO.
So you're still looking at a very large number of consumer owned rifles that effectively ignore body armor.
Yeah, but the difference is, if something breaks, you can fix it.
It might make one feel like they're taking a more "active" role in the problem, but you're likely to spend as much time fixing your homegrown solution as Google is fixing Gmail. With the cloud solution when something goes wrong though SOMEONE ELSE fixes it.
Besides - Gmail actually has an "offline" mode available for Chrome users. For those really that worried about downtime they can use that.
They are weak and ineffective against armoured vehicles, UAVs or soldiers wearing ballistic armour with ceramic plates.
They are hilariously effective against civilians who incidentally have nothing of those. Unless you know a lot of people who go to work in an IFV and wear bulletproof vest on a daily basis.
Actually body armor (a "bulletproof" vest) is generally only effective against handgun rounds. Virtually every rifle round including grandpa's lever action.30-30 will punch right through one.
Early Nintendo days? For the first half of its history Nintendo hardware generally outclassed its competitors. NES was a LOT better than than the Sega MasterSystem. SNES make Genesis look downright feeble, and despite their decision to stick to cartridges, N64 was far more capable than PSX or the Saturn from the standpoint of processing power. Heck even Gamecube was in many ways superior to PS2 and Xbox.
Nintendo's whole "quality content on inferior hardware" dance really only started on the Wii.
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No, to do that would be to do the same silliness as the GNU/Linux crowd. The Android system is a separate entity. I don't hark on ideals. It has become standard to refer to that system as "Android". Insisting on putting "Linux" in the name (or making it the name) is just as silly and foolish as insisting that GNU be in the name of what's become commonly called the "Linux" desktop OS.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Sorry, but this war has been fought, and your side lost. I'm not using GNU/Linux/x.org/XFCE anymore than others are using Windows/CrystalReports/Office/PhotoShop.
Listing every single component of the system is stupid. Linux is the kernel, Linux is what gets recognized as the OS. There are a lot of programs that go into making the system usable - each one need not be referenced in the name.
Yep - and that's the problem.
Most aren't willing to admit it, but its the "treadmill" concept of these games that keeps people coming back.
Make it absolutely trivial to get whatever you want and people won't be interested in playing the game. You've got the Uber Epics Sword of Everlasting Awesomeness? Well sure - everyone has one - and there's nothing left to do to get the EVEN BETTER sword.
The treadmill concept tricks people into thinking they're working towards a goal, and its what keeps them playing. It also is what makes most eventually quit when they realize that the goal keeps moving and they're never going to get there.
WoW got particularly bad with this when the concept of daily quests were introduced. I saw tons of players resort to "just logging in to do my dailies" at that point, which is bad when you really analyze it. You're logging into a game nearly every day to do the EXACT same thing to make one number go up (gold or token count) just so that you can eventually buy a bunch of pixels that make another number (stats) go up - all so that you can be more efficient at killing things to make the gold tokens go up. Its a vicious cycle.
That's pretty much exactly my situtation. I was a WOW player myself for about 3 years there. Not "hardcore" by most definitions, but I played about 15-20 hours per week. Prior to that I wasn't into much multiplayer. I'd play maybe 3 or 4 single player games per year to completion and be done with them.
When I finally got bored of WoW I actively didn't want to start playing any other MMORPG. After seeing the time investment such games took I really wanted to avoid them altogether. Now I'm back to playing the occasional single player game, which lets me enjoy video games but also other things in life that I had been missing.
The honest truth is that while i liked video games and still do, I don't want them to be my primary focus in life - and that's nearly what it takes to stay current with most MMORPG's.
Any robot that could go out that far is going to have to be pretty sophisticated - to the point that its probably cheaper to just build and launch another telescope (and then we get to benefit by replacing it with a better one).
I'm sure New York has deeper pockets and can afford more than the small jurisdiction I work for, but in our case camera footage ends up deleted for very practical reasons: storage space.
Our detention center (jail) has about 4 dozen security cameras, and even with a fairly decent SAN our retention period is less than 30 days just because we don't have space to hold anymore than that.
Figure in an order of magnitude (or more) more cameras than that, and while I'm sure they could do more than 30 days, I doubt they'll be able to realistically keep the footage for more than a few months tops.
No, actually I hadn't. Though I have now looked it up and it does look like it'll simplify the process. Thanks.
Your happy with XFS because your machine has never lost power or crashed. If either of those things happened with the older versions of XFS it was nearly a 100% guarantee you would lose data. Now i'm told its more reliable.
I don't know about being more reliable. I use XFS on my RAID array (mdadm) at home. I'm running the latest version of Linux Mint (Nadia), and if I ever lose poser and don't unmount that file system cleanly it looses all recent changes to the drive (and "recent" sometimes stretches to hours ago). The drive mounts fine and nothing appears corrupted (so I guess its not completely data loss), but any files changes (edits, additions, or deletions) to the file system are simply gone.
Its gotten to the point where if I've just put a lot of stuff on the drive I unmount it and then remount it just to make sure everything gets flushed to disk. If I ever get a chance to rebuild that array it most certainly will be using something different.
Right now, you can walk into a T Mobile store, plunk down cash and get a smartphone and not have a contract beyond a month to month agreement; which you can end without fees.
You can do that with just about any carrier. The only real difference is that T-Mobile cuts you a break on your per month price for not taking a subsidized phone. With Verizon, AT&T, or any other carrier you can sign up without a contract, its just that you'll be paying the same price as the guys who took the free/cheap phones.
Exactly. I'm 31 myself. I still enjoy gaming - quite a bit when I get a chance, but realistically I can only play very occasionally on weekends and I might play through 3-4 games per year. I don't personally buy $1000 graphics cards, but I have several other hobbies (I shoot a lot of competitive pistol matches, and I'm a private pilot) where dropping $1,000 every other year or so would seem pretty cheap in comparison.
I doubt many people living in "mom's basement" have $1000 to put into a video card. Realistically the people that grew up playing games has continued to go up, and in particular a lot of people who want a video card like this are going to be older (30-45) anyways as a lot of the younger crowd is trending more towards tablet and mobile games.
To a lot of people in that 30 to 45 age bracket $1,000 isn't a whole heck of a lot to spend on a hobby.
As it should be.
I think the problem people have in the US isn't that phones are subsidized - its that the carriers have it arranged so that the "unsubsidized" price is artificially inflated to deter you from even thinking about buying one. Also, except for T-Mobile, you're paying a phone subsidy even if you DO buy your device outright. All you're really buying is the option to remain month-to-month rather than renew a contract.
A good, recent release smartphone shouldn't run more than $300. Heck some of the best Android tablets with 10" screens are getting down around that level, and if you look at the Nexus phones thats about what they run. The carriers though tend to set the "no contract" price for most good phones up around $500-600.
Alas - I just personally end up buying used phones. As long as you're willing to live a generation or so behind the "latest and greatest" there's always some kid dumping their phone to get the new hot thing. I'm currently using an LG Lucid 4G which serves me just fine and I paid $99 for.
Hmm, sounds like he's such an ass that instead of a distortion field he's become large and dense enough to collapse into a singularity.
Interestingly, it seems something like Hawking radiation is occurring at the edge of the singularity's influence: The Chief Officers begin radiating away from the company's event horizon giving one reason to those on the outside, while the actual reasons for departure fall back inward toward the singularity.
If only there were a name for such phenomena where you become so dense and toxic that no intelligible thoughts escape you and everything within your reach turns to crap -- Sort of like a social version of a blackhole... hmm. Any ideas?
Ideas? Sure. First idea: you ran with the metaphor WAY too long ;).
Tazers are for things like a fleeing suspect who needs to be stopped, or if they're responding with a level of force that doesn't justify gunfire (physically resisting arrest). If they actually are actively threatening the life of the officer, they're never going to use a tazer.
Or to put it more bluntly, you never take a tazer to a gunfight.
Here's a hint: if you want to defend yourself in court, DON'T SHOOT AT THE FUCKING COPS when they come to arrest you.
That's a politically correct way to look at it, but realistically all officers are trained to shoot "center of mass" which is generally a very lethal area. The goal is to incapacitate the attacker (which death does very well), but they're intentionally, and justifiably, using the most lethal method they can to try and achieve that.
The purpose of a weapon (in he hands of a soldier, a police officer, or a civilian) is to stop the threat. Death happens to be a really quick way to stop a threat, so in defensive situations one shoots to kill. If the threat is stopped without the suspect dieing (ie, he passes out from blood loss, drops his gun,etc), then all the better and they'll be calling in EMS to try and save them, but until the threat is stopped then they will be responding with lethal force.
Cable has EBS as well. I'd be shocked if satellite didn't.
Cable has EBS because its distributed from a local office (and people out in the boondocks generally don't have access to cable). Satellite is the same signal broadcast all over the country. Unless they wanted to interrupt the programming across the entire country it can't be targeted locally (except on local affiliates that one might get over satellite, though only a small fraction of people watching will be watching their local affiliates).
Did you not read my entire post?
(they prioritize smaller cartridges so that more rounds can be carried and the recoil remains manageable under full-auto fire)
Yes, military arms have trended towards smaller less powerful rounds for a reason - reasons I've already stated.
The point of my post was arguing that just because the military has body armor doesn't make civilian weapons suddenly useless. The vast majority of body armor is ineffective against common civilian ammunition, and even the civilian arms that do use the smaller and less powerful rounds that the military uses are still not useless (else the military wouldn't use them in the first place).
Telling someone that their civilian rifles are useless because the army has body armor is kinda like telling a fat kid he can't eat a Twinkie because it has a plastic wrapper around it.
Three words: "Emergency Broadcast System"
Almost no one is watching broadcast TV these days. The emergency broadcast system is largely pointless. Even amongst backwoods hicks, a lot of them are watching satellite or on the internet (at whatever speed they can attain where they're at) rather than watching broadcast.
Yes, but it still hits a problem: military small arms ammo is actually fairly low in power (they prioritize smaller cartridges so that more rounds can be carried and the recoil remains manageable under full-auto fire). Notice that in the link you provided it'll protect against steel core (armor piercing) ammo from 7.62x39 and 5.56 NATO (common infantry rounds) but up to 7.62 NATO it only protects against standard lead core ammo and is the most powerful ammo they warrant against.
7.62 NATO is just a bit more powerful than the .30-30 I referenced, but nearly every other major hunting cartridge today (.30-06, .270, 7mm Rem Mag, etc) outstripes 7.62 NATO in power by at least 15%. .300 Winchester Mag (which is used by many for hunting) actually generates about 60% more power than 7.62NATO.
So you're still looking at a very large number of consumer owned rifles that effectively ignore body armor.
Yeah, but the difference is, if something breaks, you can fix it.
It might make one feel like they're taking a more "active" role in the problem, but you're likely to spend as much time fixing your homegrown solution as Google is fixing Gmail. With the cloud solution when something goes wrong though SOMEONE ELSE fixes it.
Besides - Gmail actually has an "offline" mode available for Chrome users. For those really that worried about downtime they can use that.
They are weak and ineffective against armoured vehicles, UAVs or soldiers wearing ballistic armour with ceramic plates.
They are hilariously effective against civilians who incidentally have nothing of those. Unless you know a lot of people who go to work in an IFV and wear bulletproof vest on a daily basis.
Actually body armor (a "bulletproof" vest) is generally only effective against handgun rounds. Virtually every rifle round including grandpa's lever action .30-30 will punch right through one.
What happened before modern medicine was invented?
If someone dies you can't say "Well, once upon a time they would have died anyways so its not a problem."
Early Nintendo days? For the first half of its history Nintendo hardware generally outclassed its competitors. NES was a LOT better than than the Sega MasterSystem. SNES make Genesis look downright feeble, and despite their decision to stick to cartridges, N64 was far more capable than PSX or the Saturn from the standpoint of processing power. Heck even Gamecube was in many ways superior to PS2 and Xbox.
Nintendo's whole "quality content on inferior hardware" dance really only started on the Wii.