...l think you're my sister.
Is that all? No.
My family's last name is Buckwalter.
My brother's name is Cletus.
So you see, we're not related.
We can have sex again.
Joe, what's the matter?
Don't I turn you on?
I don't know what the problem is.
Would it help if you went back
to thinking I'm your sister?
Like I'm some
sort of white-trash perv?!
I'm your sister. I'm your sister.
Oh, you're my sister!
The military successfully killed everything that they were pitted against only to have the politicians come in and stop the military right before they finished the job.
When huge swathes of the native population hate you and want you gone, "finishing the job" typically involves carpet bombing the natives back to the stone age. That or keeping a semi-permanent military presence and installing a puppet dictator. Which option were you thinking we should have gone for?
If you're going to talk about Solyndra, you really should include mention of China dumping solar cells on the U.S. market below cost as a big part of Solyndra's woes.
And how the federal government didn't really do anymore to prevent that then they did to keep the Japanese from destroying domestic television set production via dumping back in the '70s, despite the government's ability and duty to regulate commerce.
Bingo. A very similar thing drove US companies out of the the chip fabrication market (excepting high value components such as CPU and ASIC) in the 1980's. A very similar thing drove all US companies out of the LCD/LED/Plasma display market in the 1990's, etc.
I'm not totally sure what that has to do with the issue at hand, but I'll leave you with this quote.
"[America Is] a unique society in which we have free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich."
-Gore Vidal
I haven't tried the Oculus Rift, but I do remember using an older headset that had a modified version of Hexen as a pack-in.
That thing was brutal. Swimming in a sea of jello surrounded by huge pixels of green and brown != fun. It was the Virtual Boy all over again, except on a PC and in color.
as someone who used the equivalent functionality in CyanogenMod for a while, I can confirm that turning off permissions dynamically in this way requires quite a bit more care than it might appear at first - apps did crash when apparently denied features quite reasonably, even when you might think they'd have to cater for that situation anyway. I'd deny network privileges to an app, and see it crash, even though it would work without problems when the privilege was given but the network was unavailable for technical reasons.
Speaking as a fellow Cyanogenmod user...
CASE #1
Some apps will crash if they can't read your phone contacts (or whatever absurd permission they asked for) and report them to their remote server...and I'm totally fine with that. They said right out they needed X permission and I said no you can't.
CASE #2
A lot of applications (I've no idea what percentage though) ask for permissions that they don't need, presumably on the basis that they might need them in the future and don't want automatic updates to stop (which they will if they suddenly want new permissions)
CASE #3
see CASE #1, except the developers used this super secret coding technique called try{}catch, and the application still works fine.
Even the more obscure 5th gen consoles still have no working emulators. (Jaguar and 3D0 to name two) and the ones that do exist aren't always that great either (Sega Saturn)
Emulating modern systems is a very tall order. If you want to play 360 titles in 5-10 years hit craigslist and stick one in your attic.
However, unfortunately, even that's changing now, as that what were once safe neighborhoods...the thugs have started figuring out where they are and are now starting to case places in the good areas, at least in some cities.
I've always wondered why this didn't happen ages ago. On the bad side of town the only people with money have guns and rottweilers. Why on earth would they try and rob people there when they can just commute to where people actually have things to steal. As an added bonus they're all off at work during the day, so it's win win.
Come on everyone, back to leeches and faith healing * we go, just like $diety_0 intended !
The real danger is that we come up against a highly contagious bacteriological disease that we now treat with antibiotics. Then it's the Spanish flu/black plague x 1000.
A local suburban police force got an armored ram-car a few years back. They had no need for it. What they had was a bunch of federal "beef up the national police forces" money and nothing to spend it on. So they bought a tank. Some military contractor made a ton of money selling those things.
If it's a Homeland Security grant (which is where the vast majority of this hardware comes from) your local suburban police didn't just 'get it', they specifically filled out paperwork asking for it.
If they had no need for it they shouldn't have asked for it. Unfortunately DHS grants were essentially rubber stamped, so there are lots of little towns with armored personnel carriers, grenade launchers, biohazard suits, and whatever else they could think of asking for.
It's your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. How do you react?
You've got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar. What do you do?
You're watching television. Suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm.
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it canâ(TM)t, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind. About your mother.
No, anti malware programs do not catch everything. But even the worst of them (interestingly named after its currently quite mobile founder) finds about 95% of the threats. Yes, that means that one out of 20 attacks could bet past it. But the other 19 do not!
If my own corporate experience with antivirus/antimalware tools is any indication they actually find 120% of the threats.
How do they do that you say? By flagging legitimate files as malware and trojans. It's a very real problem for small software development houses. Even if you can get your application whitelisted by the offending scanners (not easy), chances are the next revision of your build will get flagged the same way.
That doesn't mean that they won't let malware through, it just means that they use fairly conservative heuristics in addition to file signatures. It's definitely possible to fool them.
I believe I have an answer to this EXACT problem. (RIP Sam)
I'm just trying to help, do what ever I can for people. Like the world hunger thing, the USA for Africa. isn't that great did you guy's hear the song? Nice song isn't it. Beautiful. I'm like anybody else on the planet I'm very moved by world hunger. I've seen the commercials, those little kids starving. And I think god how cruel you know. You see a little kid out there and I know the film crew could give this kid a sandwich You know the kids not out there filming a letter from home on a Betamax eh? There's a director five feet away going "Dont feed him yet! get that sandwich out of here, it doesn't work unless he's hungry". But I'm not trying to make fun of world hunger if fact I think I have the answer.
If you want to stop world hunger, stop sending them food. Don't send these people another bit folks. You want to send them something, you want to help? Send them U-hauls. Send them U-hauls, some luggage, and send them a guy that goes Hey, we've been driving out here every day with your food for the last thirty or forty years, and we were driving out here, through the desert and it occurred to us that there wouldn't be world hunger if you people lived where the food is! Get out of the desert! You live in a fucking desert! Nothing grows out here! Nothings gonna grow out here! Come here you see this huh? This is sand. You know what it's going to be in another hundred years from now? It's gonna be sand!" "Get your kids, get your shit... We'll take you to where the food is! We have deserts in America, we just don't live in them ass hole!"
The other change? SCOTUS needs to be elected by the people to 10 year terms (serve once, no reelections), the POTUS needs to be elected by popular vote. Congress gets up to 12 years, then out they go.
I support a Judiciary that has no fear of re-election since that insulates them from exactly the same bias that our elected officials have. I would support them a whole lot more if they would stop allowing the constitution to be shredded in front of our eyes in favor of what large corporations want, but I'm not sure how that change would fix it.
As for a coup, we shall see. I agree that there's little chance of an armed rebellion given that vast disparity in both fire, infrastructure and media power. What's the difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist? Mainly the press.
This is not very different than GlaxoSmithKline or Pfizer making some token change to one of their drugs (*now in extended release caplets*) and getting a patent extension...except that it's copyright.
You know, I do believe the US developed these "Floating Offshore Platforms" that generate power some time ago, we just decided to put nuclear reactors and F-16's on ours.
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Is it wrong that I instantly channel this when I read the story?
God_Bless_America-Theatre Scene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Bless_America_(film)
Is it irony that "No Child Left Behind Act" was signed into law by a grade C student?
Designed around Web 2.0 and Extortion 4.0? Yep, that would be Yelp in a nutshell.
Actually, the first steam engine was invented in 10AD, by the Greeks, but thanks for playing along.
So I did a real bad thing there because...
...l think you're my sister.
Is that all? No.
My family's last name is Buckwalter.
My brother's name is Cletus.
So you see, we're not related.
We can have sex again.
Joe, what's the matter?
Don't I turn you on?
I don't know what the problem is.
Would it help if you went back to thinking I'm your sister?
Like I'm some sort of white-trash perv?!
I'm your sister. I'm your sister.
Oh, you're my sister!
When huge swathes of the native population hate you and want you gone, "finishing the job" typically involves carpet bombing the natives back to the stone age. That or keeping a semi-permanent military presence and installing a puppet dictator. Which option were you thinking we should have gone for?
Bingo. A very similar thing drove US companies out of the the chip fabrication market (excepting high value components such as CPU and ASIC) in the 1980's. A very similar thing drove all US companies out of the LCD/LED/Plasma display market in the 1990's, etc.
I'm not totally sure what that has to do with the issue at hand, but I'll leave you with this quote.
"[America Is] a unique society in which we have free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich."
-Gore Vidal
I haven't tried the Oculus Rift, but I do remember using an older headset that had a modified version of Hexen as a pack-in.
That thing was brutal. Swimming in a sea of jello surrounded by huge pixels of green and brown != fun. It was the Virtual Boy all over again, except on a PC and in color.
Speaking as a fellow Cyanogenmod user...
CASE #1
Some apps will crash if they can't read your phone contacts (or whatever absurd permission they asked for) and report them to their remote server...and I'm totally fine with that. They said right out they needed X permission and I said no you can't. CASE #2
A lot of applications (I've no idea what percentage though) ask for permissions that they don't need, presumably on the basis that they might need them in the future and don't want automatic updates to stop (which they will if they suddenly want new permissions) CASE #3
see CASE #1, except the developers used this super secret coding technique called try{}catch, and the application still works fine.
Go go wayback machine!
Even the more obscure 5th gen consoles still have no working emulators. (Jaguar and 3D0 to name two) and the ones that do exist aren't always that great either (Sega Saturn)
Emulating modern systems is a very tall order. If you want to play 360 titles in 5-10 years hit craigslist and stick one in your attic.
I've always wondered why this didn't happen ages ago. On the bad side of town the only people with money have guns and rottweilers. Why on earth would they try and rob people there when they can just commute to where people actually have things to steal. As an added bonus they're all off at work during the day, so it's win win.
Come on everyone, back to leeches and faith healing * we go, just like $diety_0 intended !
The real danger is that we come up against a highly contagious bacteriological disease that we now treat with antibiotics. Then it's the Spanish flu/black plague x 1000.
* We'll make the witch burning optional for now.
Just wait for Thanksgiving/Black Friday, they're not under stress yet.
Also...I for one welcome our green testosterone filled overlords.
No, they can't. We've known that for some time...and this is why.
FTFY.
If it's a Homeland Security grant (which is where the vast majority of this hardware comes from) your local suburban police didn't just 'get it', they specifically filled out paperwork asking for it.
If they had no need for it they shouldn't have asked for it. Unfortunately DHS grants were essentially rubber stamped, so there are lots of little towns with armored personnel carriers, grenade launchers, biohazard suits, and whatever else they could think of asking for.
It's your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. How do you react?
You've got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar. What do you do?
You're watching television. Suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm.
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it canâ(TM)t, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind. About your mother.
Sure have at it. The thing is though, even our old facial recognition system flags those people as terrorists so....
If my own corporate experience with antivirus/antimalware tools is any indication they actually find 120% of the threats.
How do they do that you say? By flagging legitimate files as malware and trojans. It's a very real problem for small software development houses. Even if you can get your application whitelisted by the offending scanners (not easy), chances are the next revision of your build will get flagged the same way.
That doesn't mean that they won't let malware through, it just means that they use fairly conservative heuristics in addition to file signatures. It's definitely possible to fool them.
Bassed on the requirements I'm guessing this is for HTPC purposes.
In that case the 'needlessly stringent' power draw is because
A. The case is probably tiny, it may not even have space for a discrete GPU. Less power input = less heat to dissipate.
B. For a completely fanless solution you want a picoPSU. These max out at around 160watts.
C. Most people looking for quiet HTPC could care less if you can run Gears of Warcraft 5 on it.
I believe I have an answer to this EXACT problem. (RIP Sam)
I'm just trying to help, do what ever I can for people. Like the world hunger thing, the USA for Africa. isn't that great did you guy's hear the song? Nice song isn't it. Beautiful. I'm like anybody else on the planet I'm very moved by world hunger. I've seen the commercials, those little kids starving. And I think god how cruel you know. You see a little kid out there and I know the film crew could give this kid a sandwich You know the kids not out there filming a letter from home on a Betamax eh? There's a director five feet away going "Dont feed him yet! get that sandwich out of here, it doesn't work unless he's hungry". But I'm not trying to make fun of world hunger if fact I think I have the answer. If you want to stop world hunger, stop sending them food. Don't send these people another bit folks. You want to send them something, you want to help? Send them U-hauls. Send them U-hauls, some luggage, and send them a guy that goes Hey, we've been driving out here every day with your food for the last thirty or forty years, and we were driving out here, through the desert and it occurred to us that there wouldn't be world hunger if you people lived where the food is! Get out of the desert! You live in a fucking desert! Nothing grows out here! Nothings gonna grow out here! Come here you see this huh? This is sand. You know what it's going to be in another hundred years from now? It's gonna be sand!" "Get your kids, get your shit... We'll take you to where the food is! We have deserts in America, we just don't live in them ass hole!"
I support a Judiciary that has no fear of re-election since that insulates them from exactly the same bias that our elected officials have. I would support them a whole lot more if they would stop allowing the constitution to be shredded in front of our eyes in favor of what large corporations want, but I'm not sure how that change would fix it.
As for a coup, we shall see. I agree that there's little chance of an armed rebellion given that vast disparity in both fire, infrastructure and media power. What's the difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist? Mainly the press.
This is not very different than GlaxoSmithKline or Pfizer making some token change to one of their drugs (*now in extended release caplets*) and getting a patent extension...except that it's copyright.
You know, I do believe the US developed these "Floating Offshore Platforms" that generate power some time ago, we just decided to put nuclear reactors and F-16's on ours.