However, compared to the original DS or DS Lite, that's atrocious. Played with low sound, or through headphones, my DS Lite lasts significantly longer; I'd estimate 12 hours or so. The GameBoy Advance SP was even better -- turn off the backlight and lower the sound, and you could get over 24 hours of gameplay with that sucker.
So yeah, while 4.5 hours (on a brand-new battery) isn't horrid in itself, consider its predecessors and it's terrible. Also consider the fact that a rechargeable battery only has a set amount of charge cycles before it is effectively useless. There will be a lot of people who get about 90 minutes/charge in about a year...and with an equally loathsome 3 hours to refill. Battery "memory" is a bitch.
Indeed. There is no theoretical limitation to how much you can cram into a frequency range.
The problem is creating the hardware and software to be able to transmit and receive all of that data reliably. For example, older satellite systems may only use 2-way polarization (vertical/horizontal), whereas modern systems can rotate their polarization not just in 90/180 increments. Again, this is just one example.
It's not a panacea, but we'll refine our techniques as technology improves and necessity pushes.
I'd like to see a system which combines FDMA, TDMA, DAMA and SSMA all in one though. It'd be a frequency hopping demand oriented spread spectrum network. To my knowledge, it hasn't been successfully tested yet (or even tried?).
Unions are not a problem in themselves. They can help gain more benefits and fairer wages for their employees. They can help to relocate workers to areas when jobs need realignment. They often help communities by being entrenched within the ranks of them -- a town with only 1 major industry (and therefore one major union, at times) will be supported by the union because the failure of one IS the failure of the other.
Now when unions browbeat companies into paying out unfairly high wages and benefits, there becomes a major problem-- because lets face it, someone flipping burgers does not deserve $25/hour for menial, unskilled labor. Unions have to exist in order to keep things closer to "fair", but there is a large gray zone in which the power of a union can begin to supersede the power of the market itself.
Sometimes revenue gets way down, and businesses need to make cuts to stay in business long enough to fix the problem(s) -- that either means layoffs or wage/benefit reduction at times, something which very few unions would vote for. But when all those "Nay" votes add up and negotiation does not result in a fair bargain for both the enterprise and the union, someone is going to feel the effects and jobs may be lost.
Unions have their proper place in any market, but just like Gov't or Corporations, their power must be checked and balanced in order to avoid monopoly-like situations.
Through this logic, a cop shooting a violent criminal makes the cop a criminal too...?
Defending those who cannot defend themselves is one of the more honorable behaviors a human being can exhibit. Idly watching while others suffer, yet you have the ability to make a change...now there is something equivalently wrong.
Those drones are controlled by the same people who are operating drones in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other AORs. It does not require any extra military operational activity; merely requires reallocation of current assets.
On a side note, watching live Predator/UAV feeds while I was in the military was pretty cool. Just like war it's 99% boredom, but that 1% of chaos is outstandingly entertaining.
If DISA is directed to do so (by US STRATCOM) or DoD directly, then of course they'll comply.
I remember attending a DISN conference in 2008 or 2009, having them detailing why a group of sites (such as Myspace/Facebook, etc.) were periodically blocked off. They showed spikes in data usage around times of crises or major world events (the previous FIFA World Cup comes to mind, as well as the Marines going to Lebanon). It was pretty good insight as to how this process works -- if you're already on the inside you may have access to such information.
The Defense Information System Agency (DISA) periodically blocks, unblocks, and restricts access to various sites as they deem necessary. Generally, the most popular and trafficked sites are affected. Back in 2005 myspace was blocked off, but other networking sites were open. From Iraq, I could get on AIM's web portal (and google chat when it was unveiled), but not Yahoo for instant messaging. Some time later, it was allowed again.
The reason the NIPR exists on.gov and.mil computer systems is so Uncle Sam can do his job and complete the missions. Everything else is absolutely auxiliary and unnecessary. DISA recognizes the importance of keeping people in contact with their friends and families, and that they can often not access the internet anywhere except while at work, so they appropriately authorize things like social networking, news, personal email, etc., so long as it does not negatively affect the organization's mission(s). It may be nice to burn some downtime on Break.com or Hulu, etc., but if that bandwidth is slowing down other high-priority functions, then the line is clearly drawn.
This doesn't happen too often, in large part due to the fact that multiple non-internet networks exist for higher classifications of information systems. You don't want to display Top Secret data on an Unclassified machine, after all. That may land you in Quantico or Ft. Leavenworth:P
Luckily, they've never decided to block/. in all these years.
I never stated it was HTML5, Flash, Java, or any other type. However, it is a browser-based game; once you've got the extremely small Unity file installed, you're g2g.
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I believe the spiritual successor of DotC was Conqueror: 1086 AD by Sierra.
If you could get it to run properly, it was actually pretty good. Now though, unless someone hacks it for modern windows versions, it won't run as it is a DOS based game. I suppose a VM could do the trick, but I'm not going to set one up just to play a 16 year old game I kicked the shit out of when I was 12.
In case you're still in the dark about browser-based games, here's Interstellar Marines. http://www.interstellarmarines.com/
The graphics are pretty darn good for a browser-based First Person Shooter. I'm looking forward to seeing how multiplayer will be. For now, the shoothouse-type scenarios are pretty fun, even if it is only against bots.
Didn't the Army teach you the difference between the M193 55gr 5.56mm round vs. the M855 62gr 5.56mm round "Green Tip" (with steel penetrator core)!?!? ~3250 vs. ~3100 f/s, respectively.
Every soldier should know that the M16 series (M16 + A1-4) is optimally configured with its 20" barrel to fire a lighter, faster M193, while its counterpart the M4 cycles better with the M855 and performs more suitably due to its shorter barrel -- it can't get the necessary velocity to make use of the 55gr bullet, so it goes for more punch with more mass. But I'm just busting your chops (though everything I said is true).
The 62gr M855/SS109 was developed for use with the M249 SAW (because of its Belgian manufacturer) and through that proliferation it came to be used in almost all of the US military's 5.56mm weapons. Basically, after Vietnam they phased out the M193 and primarily had contracts to produce M855/M856 (the tracer variant) for non-crew-served weapons. That's what the Uncle Sugar taught me, at any rate.
Remember back when having a two income family really put you on top. Then everyone started to do it and the economy adjusted. Now you need that just to get by. We need to do that in reverse then keep going!
Part of the problem (if perceived as such) is that people expect certain non-necessities as par. There is a lot of wasted spending. No one needs 500+ channels of satellite television, costing $150/mo or more. A family does not need two brand new cars, paying $300+ for each note or monthly lease payment, when they could have slightly used vehicles for far less. Even buying an efficient hybrid car is actually less economically feasible. It costs around $32k for a Prius -- that could be a $500/mo bill depending on money put down. When you consider how much fuel most use in a month...definitely not more than a hundred gallons on average (I think I use about 30-35 gallons a month, with a V6 engine), the cost of the car outweighs its benefit of mpg. Even a 1-year-used Prius can cut the price down by over $10000, and thereby the monthly payments by about a third. No need to even venture into the savings on insurance for used-vs-new!
Your average household will never use 50 Mb/sec of bandwidth internally or externally not even if they've got all of the cousins and friends over to have a LAN party -- maybe some of the/. community would find a use for that, but that'd be a lot of traffic to consistently occupy. These are just a couple of examples where people could cut out or significantly reduce their spending. Maybe too few children are learning basic economics from their parents or school systems.
I understand as well as anyone that technology can improve the quality of life, but there is a point where it goes beyond improving and becomes a burden. I don't believe everyone will lead spartan lives just to save a few bucks, nor should that be necessary. Really, it is a point of personal responsibility and accountability. My old security chief said it well: "Buy what you need, save for what you want."
If you're referring to the Genesis Coupe, it's not bad. It certainly going to win a GT race right off the lot, but for your average consumer it is sportier than many of its competitor's per-price. I've heard more complaints about its manual gearbox than its handling -- the automatic is actually pretty nice, and somehow ~50 lbs lighter?
Its main competition would be cars like the 350/370Z, Camaro, RX-8, Mustang, etc. It is less expensive than most any of those mentioned, but has comparable speed, power, and handling. It's not designed to compete with an NSX (though they've been out of production for a few years anyway), Maserati, AM, or even the BMW M-series. However, considering that it is Hyundai's first RWD sports coupe, they've put out a much better car than many other companies' first tries at that class.
Given their track record over the last ~5-6 years, they'll take the lessons learned from its performance and sales, improve the vehicle, and make it better for the next generation.
While Robert Jordan may have died before he finished the series, I think he and his wife/editor made a good decision in selecting Brandon Sanderson as co-author to complete the final 3 installments. While many people got jaded around books 4-5-6-7 (YMMV), I think Jordan picked up his original style around books 10-11; A Knife of Dreams was fantastic. 12 and 13 were co-authored, but were both excellent works. A Memory of Light is still in the process, but it is expected to be just as good, or better than, the previous two.
So even if GRRM does kick the bucket, if he "pulls a Jordan" that means that he'll have written out enough notes for a solid conclusion to his fictional world and have selected a competent co-author who can finish out strongly. Is that such a worst-case-scenario?
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Heh...that made me think of a giant junkyard construct with numerous metallic tentacle-limbs.
And what if it's a child vampire, a la "Interview..." ?
I agree though. Guys like me are not likely to stress over stuff, but people who haven't experienced chaos & carnage are more likely to freak out.
That does not do much good without the NFL and -PA coming to an agreement.
I really don't care either way, the Superbowl is a good reason to visit friends, eat & drink.
However, compared to the original DS or DS Lite, that's atrocious. Played with low sound, or through headphones, my DS Lite lasts significantly longer; I'd estimate 12 hours or so. The GameBoy Advance SP was even better -- turn off the backlight and lower the sound, and you could get over 24 hours of gameplay with that sucker.
So yeah, while 4.5 hours (on a brand-new battery) isn't horrid in itself, consider its predecessors and it's terrible. Also consider the fact that a rechargeable battery only has a set amount of charge cycles before it is effectively useless. There will be a lot of people who get about 90 minutes/charge in about a year...and with an equally loathsome 3 hours to refill. Battery "memory" is a bitch.
Indeed. There is no theoretical limitation to how much you can cram into a frequency range.
The problem is creating the hardware and software to be able to transmit and receive all of that data reliably. For example, older satellite systems may only use 2-way polarization (vertical/horizontal), whereas modern systems can rotate their polarization not just in 90/180 increments. Again, this is just one example.
It's not a panacea, but we'll refine our techniques as technology improves and necessity pushes.
I'd like to see a system which combines FDMA, TDMA, DAMA and SSMA all in one though. It'd be a frequency hopping demand oriented spread spectrum network. To my knowledge, it hasn't been successfully tested yet (or even tried?).
Unions are not a problem in themselves. They can help gain more benefits and fairer wages for their employees. They can help to relocate workers to areas when jobs need realignment. They often help communities by being entrenched within the ranks of them -- a town with only 1 major industry (and therefore one major union, at times) will be supported by the union because the failure of one IS the failure of the other.
Now when unions browbeat companies into paying out unfairly high wages and benefits, there becomes a major problem-- because lets face it, someone flipping burgers does not deserve $25/hour for menial, unskilled labor. Unions have to exist in order to keep things closer to "fair", but there is a large gray zone in which the power of a union can begin to supersede the power of the market itself.
Sometimes revenue gets way down, and businesses need to make cuts to stay in business long enough to fix the problem(s) -- that either means layoffs or wage/benefit reduction at times, something which very few unions would vote for. But when all those "Nay" votes add up and negotiation does not result in a fair bargain for both the enterprise and the union, someone is going to feel the effects and jobs may be lost.
Unions have their proper place in any market, but just like Gov't or Corporations, their power must be checked and balanced in order to avoid monopoly-like situations.
Nay, he was a scoundrel.
Through this logic, a cop shooting a violent criminal makes the cop a criminal too...?
Defending those who cannot defend themselves is one of the more honorable behaviors a human being can exhibit. Idly watching while others suffer, yet you have the ability to make a change...now there is something equivalently wrong.
Those drones are controlled by the same people who are operating drones in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other AORs. It does not require any extra military operational activity; merely requires reallocation of current assets.
On a side note, watching live Predator/UAV feeds while I was in the military was pretty cool. Just like war it's 99% boredom, but that 1% of chaos is outstandingly entertaining.
If DISA is directed to do so (by US STRATCOM) or DoD directly, then of course they'll comply.
I remember attending a DISN conference in 2008 or 2009, having them detailing why a group of sites (such as Myspace/Facebook, etc.) were periodically blocked off. They showed spikes in data usage around times of crises or major world events (the previous FIFA World Cup comes to mind, as well as the Marines going to Lebanon). It was pretty good insight as to how this process works -- if you're already on the inside you may have access to such information.
The Defense Information System Agency (DISA) periodically blocks, unblocks, and restricts access to various sites as they deem necessary. Generally, the most popular and trafficked sites are affected. Back in 2005 myspace was blocked off, but other networking sites were open. From Iraq, I could get on AIM's web portal (and google chat when it was unveiled), but not Yahoo for instant messaging. Some time later, it was allowed again.
.gov and .mil computer systems is so Uncle Sam can do his job and complete the missions. Everything else is absolutely auxiliary and unnecessary. DISA recognizes the importance of keeping people in contact with their friends and families, and that they can often not access the internet anywhere except while at work, so they appropriately authorize things like social networking, news, personal email, etc., so long as it does not negatively affect the organization's mission(s). It may be nice to burn some downtime on Break.com or Hulu, etc., but if that bandwidth is slowing down other high-priority functions, then the line is clearly drawn.
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The reason the NIPR exists on
This doesn't happen too often, in large part due to the fact that multiple non-internet networks exist for higher classifications of information systems. You don't want to display Top Secret data on an Unclassified machine, after all. That may land you in Quantico or Ft. Leavenworth
Luckily, they've never decided to block
You coulda been a poet, didn't even know it!
Correct.
I never stated it was HTML5, Flash, Java, or any other type. However, it is a browser-based game; once you've got the extremely small Unity file installed, you're g2g.
Consoles just don't offer the same support for porn :P This is why the PS3/X360 isn't "everything you'll ever need for media".
http://xkcd.com/456/
I believe the spiritual successor of DotC was Conqueror: 1086 AD by Sierra.
If you could get it to run properly, it was actually pretty good. Now though, unless someone hacks it for modern windows versions, it won't run as it is a DOS based game. I suppose a VM could do the trick, but I'm not going to set one up just to play a 16 year old game I kicked the shit out of when I was 12.
Now that's clever.
In case you're still in the dark about browser-based games, here's Interstellar Marines.
http://www.interstellarmarines.com/
The graphics are pretty darn good for a browser-based First Person Shooter. I'm looking forward to seeing how multiplayer will be. For now, the shoothouse-type scenarios are pretty fun, even if it is only against bots.
Then please, do interpret!
Just wait until Kepler begins finding and identifying alien Kepler-like telescopes. Then the confusion will really begin.
Unless I'm misreading the chart, it seems like gvoice has SRTP encryption.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software
Didn't the Army teach you the difference between the M193 55gr 5.56mm round vs. the M855 62gr 5.56mm round "Green Tip" (with steel penetrator core)!?!? ~3250 vs. ~3100 f/s, respectively.
Every soldier should know that the M16 series (M16 + A1-4) is optimally configured with its 20" barrel to fire a lighter, faster M193, while its counterpart the M4 cycles better with the M855 and performs more suitably due to its shorter barrel -- it can't get the necessary velocity to make use of the 55gr bullet, so it goes for more punch with more mass. But I'm just busting your chops (though everything I said is true).
The 62gr M855/SS109 was developed for use with the M249 SAW (because of its Belgian manufacturer) and through that proliferation it came to be used in almost all of the US military's 5.56mm weapons. Basically, after Vietnam they phased out the M193 and primarily had contracts to produce M855/M856 (the tracer variant) for non-crew-served weapons. That's what the Uncle Sugar taught me, at any rate.
Thanks for serving!
Generally speaking...that IS how babies are born.
Remember back when having a two income family really put you on top. Then everyone started to do it and the economy adjusted. Now you need that just to get by. We need to do that in reverse then keep going!
Part of the problem (if perceived as such) is that people expect certain non-necessities as par. There is a lot of wasted spending. No one needs 500+ channels of satellite television, costing $150/mo or more. A family does not need two brand new cars, paying $300+ for each note or monthly lease payment, when they could have slightly used vehicles for far less. Even buying an efficient hybrid car is actually less economically feasible. It costs around $32k for a Prius -- that could be a $500/mo bill depending on money put down. When you consider how much fuel most use in a month...definitely not more than a hundred gallons on average (I think I use about 30-35 gallons a month, with a V6 engine), the cost of the car outweighs its benefit of mpg. Even a 1-year-used Prius can cut the price down by over $10000, and thereby the monthly payments by about a third. No need to even venture into the savings on insurance for used-vs-new! /. community would find a use for that, but that'd be a lot of traffic to consistently occupy. These are just a couple of examples where people could cut out or significantly reduce their spending. Maybe too few children are learning basic economics from their parents or school systems.
Your average household will never use 50 Mb/sec of bandwidth internally or externally not even if they've got all of the cousins and friends over to have a LAN party -- maybe some of the
I understand as well as anyone that technology can improve the quality of life, but there is a point where it goes beyond improving and becomes a burden. I don't believe everyone will lead spartan lives just to save a few bucks, nor should that be necessary. Really, it is a point of personal responsibility and accountability. My old security chief said it well: "Buy what you need, save for what you want."
If you're referring to the Genesis Coupe, it's not bad. It certainly going to win a GT race right off the lot, but for your average consumer it is sportier than many of its competitor's per-price. I've heard more complaints about its manual gearbox than its handling -- the automatic is actually pretty nice, and somehow ~50 lbs lighter?
Its main competition would be cars like the 350/370Z, Camaro, RX-8, Mustang, etc. It is less expensive than most any of those mentioned, but has comparable speed, power, and handling. It's not designed to compete with an NSX (though they've been out of production for a few years anyway), Maserati, AM, or even the BMW M-series. However, considering that it is Hyundai's first RWD sports coupe, they've put out a much better car than many other companies' first tries at that class.
Given their track record over the last ~5-6 years, they'll take the lessons learned from its performance and sales, improve the vehicle, and make it better for the next generation.
While Robert Jordan may have died before he finished the series, I think he and his wife/editor made a good decision in selecting Brandon Sanderson as co-author to complete the final 3 installments. While many people got jaded around books 4-5-6-7 (YMMV), I think Jordan picked up his original style around books 10-11; A Knife of Dreams was fantastic. 12 and 13 were co-authored, but were both excellent works. A Memory of Light is still in the process, but it is expected to be just as good, or better than, the previous two.
So even if GRRM does kick the bucket, if he "pulls a Jordan" that means that he'll have written out enough notes for a solid conclusion to his fictional world and have selected a competent co-author who can finish out strongly. Is that such a worst-case-scenario?