Just look at the Firefox 3.6 news where Mozilla is going to be reducing the size of the sandbox that developers get to play in. Many feel this is a good move, but there are plenty of other developers and users that are going to be left in the cold. As long as they don't impede the function of Adblock+ and NoScript then I will remain a happy Firefox user.
I'd bet someone said this about color TV decades ago. "What do we need to see TV in color for? We need remote controls, larger screens, better sound yada yada"
Like any new technology, it is being built because manufacturers think there is a market for it. I believe 3D TV is going to be one of my generation's lasting contributions to our technology culture. Hopefully it will be as commonplace in 20 years as color TV had become in the 1960s. (or flat panels are today, I recall seeing my first Philips one in the late 80s in an upscale Boston electronic boutique priced on sale at $17,000)
No worries, that person will not get moderation duties much more once meta-moderation is complete. It tends to be a self-correcting problem around here... in addition to the following up-mods undoing the prior incorrect moderation.
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To support your point about acceptable frame rates varying by game, there are those that think an acceptable frame rate in flight simulator is 18 FPS, and that it can dip as low as 10 FPS in highly "populated" areas like cities and areas with lots of scenery. The difference is that there is no need to react instantly in flight simulator.
I have a crappy computer so I have learned to adjust. I can only dream of 60 - 240 FPS as I play the "buy the 2nd or 3rd generation behind" hardware.
Spoken like someone who doesn't live in a neighborhood with rooms over the garage. In my neighborhood in New England every house has a heated space over the garage and the roof is warmer than a house in which that space is unheated. Granted, the roof is not 120 degrees F but it isn't ambient temperature either.
I don't know what sort of batteries or energy storage devices are on board, but most of the conventional ones I am aware of (LiIon, LiPoly, NiCad, NiMH, Lead Acid) do not take kindly to a complete discharge. In fact I don't know of a single battery type that can get to 100% discharge and successfully be recharged. Apparently something needs to be there to tell the unit to wake back up, so there needs to be a least a little charge available.
Before recycling became vogue, I threw out hundreds of 3.5" "floppies" and various CDs. To the degree they survive the heat and pressure of the local landfill, someday in thousands of years someone may dig them up and learn something. I can't say it was anything useful except what a student of the late 80's had to produce in order to graduate from college. Oh and some games that refused to run on anything I owned... but I had the newest versions, so why bother keeping them (e.g. Flight Simulator for Atari) - doh!
Suspension of disbelief was difficult for anyone remotely technical. There were things that didn't make sense. However for those of us who either have the ability to put our technical analysis aside or simply do not know enough to question the validity this was a fantastic movie. I knew going in that the story was old, and yet I really liked everything about it. I didn't notice the "low gravity" thing until sometime after the movie. So really the disbelief is happening after the movie viewing, for me, than during. This made attending this movie a very enjoyable experience.
You will be neg'd out of existence because your post is a troll and flamebait, in addition to being wholely inaccurate (as the followup posts indicate).
With the recent popularity of Apple products and other internet surfing enabled devices, this is all about infecting the most machines possible. Previously that was easily accomplished by targeting the most popular devices - Windows PCs. But now there are even more targets available and most of them run Adobe Reader and Flash.
What happens to all the folks (us?) who have been gloating over the security of our Macs, Linux, smartphones etc. when these apps get broken? Time to eat crow?
China is the new Japan. For those of us who lived in the States in the late 70s and early 80s, everything was being made by the Japanese and they were buying everything over here. Ski resorts, swanky real estate, heck even Rockerfeller Center in NYCity.
So some enterprising young person will be the first to invent IPv6 for Windows XP just like Trumpet Winsock was cobbled onto Windows 3.1 to provide Internet access way back before Win95. If there is some compelling reason to join in IPv6 network then such capability will be built.
I suggest then, that if you need to take such a trip 4 times per year, that you rent a vehicle for those 4 times. That way you have your most efficient vehicle for the majority of your driving, and then can rent just the right size vehicle for the occasional trips. I recommend this to all my friends who "had" to have an SUV or huge pickup truck - for the money they saved in gas over the year, they were able to pay for the vehicle they needed to rent and they saved a whole bunch of uselessly burned fuel the remainder of the time.
Alternativey, those of us who have two car families have one large one and one smaller. We have a Mini and a Volvo station wagon, where the wagon is used for the family trips and I drive the Mini to the local commuter lot where I catch the bus.
Much like MySpace and Facebook are the first online foray for young adults & kids now, GeoCities was at one time the first entry point for many of us.
I remember reading a magazine telling all about this new thing called the "World Wide Web", and one of the highlighted links (yes, a magazine printed a list of links) was GeoCities. I was on of the first users at the time and setup my site, www.geocities.com/MotorCity/1108, at the time. In fact, this was my second site since the first I forgot the login for... much like low UIDs, not one valued low geocities addresses back then, and I'm not sure if they ever did.
It was an awesome introduction to HTML and I think served a lot of us very well.
The trick to flying easily is a well trimmed airplane and lack of course upset from wind, thermals, changes in direction needed. Without adjustments to the flight path, a well trimmed plane will fly itself hands off. It certainly helps that except for landing, a wandering flight path poses no risk to plane, pilot or others.
A car is not such a beast. The environment that a car lives in is full of necessary adjustments. Think of road crowns, potholes, traffic lights, turning vehicles etc. A wandering driving path provides a very real risk of collision with fixed and mobile objects. Therefore the need to make constant adjustments is very real also, and it is this that is very tiring. The trick will be to take the load off the driver and make automatic adjustments for these things that upset the direction of the car.
All that said, I remember SAAB showing off their joystick controlled car in an episode of Beyond 2000, whatever year that was! So this is nothing particularly new.
Isn't there a big difference in the population/air traffic density between Australia and pretty much everywhere else? I know Australia can be a bit of a nanny state at times, but with all that area it seems you can do quite a bit and not intefere with anyone or anything. Maybe they have taken a rather pragmatic approach knowing that as long as you stay out of known flight paths between the East and West coasts (Sydney/Melbourne/Canberra to Perth), then you can pretty much do whatever you want and not worry about it, whereas in NL or US or anywhere else you run significantly more risk hence there are more regulations to worry about.
If your keyboard is "on your desk" then it is probably not the best ergonomic setup. I do this, but that is because I am tall and my knees hit any keyboard trays. I would *hate* having anything below the desk. So for me, it might be the best arrangement to have a split touchpanel or keyboard.
For example, I might like to have the touchpanels on either side of my keyboard. I can put my hands over there. Either that, or split the keyboard (ala Microsoft Natural) on either side of the touch panel.
Don't feed the trolls, but how about moderating them?
This particular program, like most NASA programs, was funded and largely paid for a long time ago. To put a stop to this project simply because of a problem in our economy today would erase the benefits of these sunk costs, and instead only eliminiate a small portion of costs that remain - the launch and analysis. That'd be like building a car, and then driving it into a lake simply because you couldn't afford the gas. Sure, it makes sense on the surface that you can't drive it, but why throw it away?
BTW, I know that with the car analogy you could leave the car in the driveway. Apparently NASA projects aren't exactly like that, and have huge startup and shutdown costs, plus the issue of getting the timing just right.
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Just look at the Firefox 3.6 news where Mozilla is going to be reducing the size of the sandbox that developers get to play in. Many feel this is a good move, but there are plenty of other developers and users that are going to be left in the cold. As long as they don't impede the function of Adblock+ and NoScript then I will remain a happy Firefox user.
I'd bet someone said this about color TV decades ago. "What do we need to see TV in color for? We need remote controls, larger screens, better sound yada yada"
Like any new technology, it is being built because manufacturers think there is a market for it. I believe 3D TV is going to be one of my generation's lasting contributions to our technology culture. Hopefully it will be as commonplace in 20 years as color TV had become in the 1960s. (or flat panels are today, I recall seeing my first Philips one in the late 80s in an upscale Boston electronic boutique priced on sale at $17,000)
No worries, that person will not get moderation duties much more once meta-moderation is complete. It tends to be a self-correcting problem around here... in addition to the following up-mods undoing the prior incorrect moderation.
To support your point about acceptable frame rates varying by game, there are those that think an acceptable frame rate in flight simulator is 18 FPS, and that it can dip as low as 10 FPS in highly "populated" areas like cities and areas with lots of scenery. The difference is that there is no need to react instantly in flight simulator.
I have a crappy computer so I have learned to adjust. I can only dream of 60 - 240 FPS as I play the "buy the 2nd or 3rd generation behind" hardware.
Spoken like someone who doesn't live in a neighborhood with rooms over the garage. In my neighborhood in New England every house has a heated space over the garage and the roof is warmer than a house in which that space is unheated. Granted, the roof is not 120 degrees F but it isn't ambient temperature either.
I don't know what sort of batteries or energy storage devices are on board, but most of the conventional ones I am aware of (LiIon, LiPoly, NiCad, NiMH, Lead Acid) do not take kindly to a complete discharge. In fact I don't know of a single battery type that can get to 100% discharge and successfully be recharged. Apparently something needs to be there to tell the unit to wake back up, so there needs to be a least a little charge available.
Before recycling became vogue, I threw out hundreds of 3.5" "floppies" and various CDs. To the degree they survive the heat and pressure of the local landfill, someday in thousands of years someone may dig them up and learn something. I can't say it was anything useful except what a student of the late 80's had to produce in order to graduate from college. Oh and some games that refused to run on anything I owned... but I had the newest versions, so why bother keeping them (e.g. Flight Simulator for Atari) - doh!
Suspension of disbelief was difficult for anyone remotely technical. There were things that didn't make sense. However for those of us who either have the ability to put our technical analysis aside or simply do not know enough to question the validity this was a fantastic movie. I knew going in that the story was old, and yet I really liked everything about it. I didn't notice the "low gravity" thing until sometime after the movie. So really the disbelief is happening after the movie viewing, for me, than during. This made attending this movie a very enjoyable experience.
You will be neg'd out of existence because your post is a troll and flamebait, in addition to being wholely inaccurate (as the followup posts indicate).
Please take your political agenda elsewhere.
With the recent popularity of Apple products and other internet surfing enabled devices, this is all about infecting the most machines possible. Previously that was easily accomplished by targeting the most popular devices - Windows PCs. But now there are even more targets available and most of them run Adobe Reader and Flash.
What happens to all the folks (us?) who have been gloating over the security of our Macs, Linux, smartphones etc. when these apps get broken? Time to eat crow?
China is the new Japan. For those of us who lived in the States in the late 70s and early 80s, everything was being made by the Japanese and they were buying everything over here. Ski resorts, swanky real estate, heck even Rockerfeller Center in NYCity.
So some enterprising young person will be the first to invent IPv6 for Windows XP just like Trumpet Winsock was cobbled onto Windows 3.1 to provide Internet access way back before Win95. If there is some compelling reason to join in IPv6 network then such capability will be built.
This will be news when they find an African or European swallow doing the same thing.
Confucious say, nu uh!
L.Ron, is that you?
No it is supposed to go:
"Here I sit, broken hearted, came to s**t and only farted."
I suggest then, that if you need to take such a trip 4 times per year, that you rent a vehicle for those 4 times. That way you have your most efficient vehicle for the majority of your driving, and then can rent just the right size vehicle for the occasional trips. I recommend this to all my friends who "had" to have an SUV or huge pickup truck - for the money they saved in gas over the year, they were able to pay for the vehicle they needed to rent and they saved a whole bunch of uselessly burned fuel the remainder of the time.
Alternativey, those of us who have two car families have one large one and one smaller. We have a Mini and a Volvo station wagon, where the wagon is used for the family trips and I drive the Mini to the local commuter lot where I catch the bus.
Much like MySpace and Facebook are the first online foray for young adults & kids now, GeoCities was at one time the first entry point for many of us.
I remember reading a magazine telling all about this new thing called the "World Wide Web", and one of the highlighted links (yes, a magazine printed a list of links) was GeoCities. I was on of the first users at the time and setup my site, www.geocities.com/MotorCity/1108, at the time. In fact, this was my second site since the first I forgot the login for... much like low UIDs, not one valued low geocities addresses back then, and I'm not sure if they ever did.
It was an awesome introduction to HTML and I think served a lot of us very well.
Wait, so what is the relationship/proof of Chinese spying here? That your friend caught some Japanese spies?
The trick to flying easily is a well trimmed airplane and lack of course upset from wind, thermals, changes in direction needed. Without adjustments to the flight path, a well trimmed plane will fly itself hands off. It certainly helps that except for landing, a wandering flight path poses no risk to plane, pilot or others.
A car is not such a beast. The environment that a car lives in is full of necessary adjustments. Think of road crowns, potholes, traffic lights, turning vehicles etc. A wandering driving path provides a very real risk of collision with fixed and mobile objects. Therefore the need to make constant adjustments is very real also, and it is this that is very tiring. The trick will be to take the load off the driver and make automatic adjustments for these things that upset the direction of the car.
All that said, I remember SAAB showing off their joystick controlled car in an episode of Beyond 2000, whatever year that was! So this is nothing particularly new.
Isn't there a big difference in the population/air traffic density between Australia and pretty much everywhere else? I know Australia can be a bit of a nanny state at times, but with all that area it seems you can do quite a bit and not intefere with anyone or anything. Maybe they have taken a rather pragmatic approach knowing that as long as you stay out of known flight paths between the East and West coasts (Sydney/Melbourne/Canberra to Perth), then you can pretty much do whatever you want and not worry about it, whereas in NL or US or anywhere else you run significantly more risk hence there are more regulations to worry about.
If your keyboard is "on your desk" then it is probably not the best ergonomic setup. I do this, but that is because I am tall and my knees hit any keyboard trays. I would *hate* having anything below the desk. So for me, it might be the best arrangement to have a split touchpanel or keyboard.
For example, I might like to have the touchpanels on either side of my keyboard. I can put my hands over there. Either that, or split the keyboard (ala Microsoft Natural) on either side of the touch panel.
Usually it is the guy poking the girl.
Don't feed the trolls, but how about moderating them?
This particular program, like most NASA programs, was funded and largely paid for a long time ago. To put a stop to this project simply because of a problem in our economy today would erase the benefits of these sunk costs, and instead only eliminiate a small portion of costs that remain - the launch and analysis. That'd be like building a car, and then driving it into a lake simply because you couldn't afford the gas. Sure, it makes sense on the surface that you can't drive it, but why throw it away?
BTW, I know that with the car analogy you could leave the car in the driveway. Apparently NASA projects aren't exactly like that, and have huge startup and shutdown costs, plus the issue of getting the timing just right.
If your buddy turns purple, you're doing it wrong.