Check target. my local one has them $80 on the clearance table in the electronics section.

They started to backpedal on promises before the end of the crowdfunding, it is overpriced for what it was, and they had severe quality issues. 4 controllers with very little use in 1 year... Xbox controllers abused to hell work fine 4 years later. Yeah, it's dead, nobody cares, they cant even sell them in the clearance bin at Target.

I send signals around the globe with 5 watts. 100 watts is for the guys that have crap antennas.

RaDAR - Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio.

we make a game out of it by having impromptu events where a large group goes out and tries to get to a hard to reach location without power or anything else, erects antennas and then tries to contact as many other members on that event. It's great fun.

That game Saves peoples arses during emergencies.

Ham radio fills in the gaps for ALL natural disasters. Katrina it was a huge aspect of communications.

This is not new, this is what ham radio does.

yeah why indeed should you have strong dislike for ubuntu when their pulseaudio shitfest resulted in rebootings and rebootings and tinkering when simply staying at a friends place and trying to listen music while partying!

*srsly, I got a dislike for ubuntu from that and what they've been doing since has not made that dislike any less.

the real problem with copyrights is that the "interest groups" are the people benefiting from longer copyrights and most politicians continue to think so.

however, there's the other group as well: the normal people.

the canadians should vote for politicians who think that the people are an interest group and thus should be consulted.

At least when it comes to forks, a lot of what decides the winner is momentum. People who don't feel strongly either way about the divide who just want to work on their non-related part of the project and will eventually switch, but not until after the fact. That is why many dysfunctional projects and organizations keep on going, you might feel that your fork is the long term better way and you're just waiting for the old project to die and wither away so you can effectively get behind one rally flag again. From your perspective it's not so much a competition as the car ahead of you swerving all over the road to keep you behind him, so you get pissed. And sometimes there is a lot of sour grapes that you stole their thunder too.

resolution is my only issue with oculus rift 1st gen sdk. even the head tracking worked well enough(and most of the time I don't want it, i just want a good 90degree+ head mounted stereo display.

the fps etc. some researchers are focusing purely on that and bringing it up as a big deal because it's the only thing they can help with. -- because making higher resolution displays is not something they can try to get credit and press for.

and really, you would think that a friggin VR expert supadev would rather compare "pong" of vr to be the vrfx helmet stuff from TWO DECADES AGO.

yeah, it would be enough, really. I've used the rift(ks). half life 2 worked fine with it. surprisingly it was better to play with just a HACK than with the official tf2 shit! why? they fucked up the control options for the official(like 5 choices and none of them traditional kb+mouse! all had to try to stuff in head control for up / down and separate aiming from head movement or other weird things)

also what many of these journos forget is that some people will get sick from just looking someone else play doom.

the vr is already more on the doom level than pong. resolution sucks. also comparably to doom, plenty of researchers are trying to invent new controllers, walking around the room and shit. in reality, the vr headset games are best played with just a xbox controller or kb+mouse. also they're the least taxing. you don't want to be waving your hands around for 8 hours+ anyways - all their alternative control schemes are for _casual_ gaming! and who the fuck who is into casual gaming is going to invest into a vr headset for home? nobody. you want something you can play with all night long.

also due to this researcher obsession with control/head movement schemes and them getting it wrong time after time, the games that work best right now are simulator games with steering wheels or joysticks - and it's WAY beyond pong.

well..

if the drones are anything to go by, the us will just flip a coin about which side it gives a sat phone to call for hits.

that is, in the bigger picture this won't matter. and in the smaller picture us snipers are already good enough in setting up killing zones and hitting targets - good enough that what they would need help with would be identifying the targets and not hitting them - and in near future term, it's unlikely these bullets will be distributed like normal daily bullet rations. also from let's say an apache, they can already hit people they want with very good accuracy. if they should or not though, the systems can not tell.

if you want the military to be better, it would be just wiser to give the grunts a two year training before sending them into action. six months of training can just give them basics of killing and surviving - whilst the job they need to perform is more akin to police(so give them an european police training).

these bullets will not win a war: they're an assassination tool. for police etc action they have very limited use as well and when is the last time US snipers performed battlefield takedowns of enemy generals? Vietnam? after that it's just setting up zones of no entry working as glorified turret mines(whilst all the propaganda of the work is still that vietnam era style, since it's more honorable).

well how would you feel if you got something nasty because the doctor in the village was being creative with sharing needles?

the multi million dollare equipment isn't usually used to "keep healthy", it's used for getting healthy after getting something that would kill you.

you forgot the rough-looking-but-expensive tables to sip coffee on while chatting away on the macbook how you're at the makerspace.

also add to the list to buy expensive equipment that doesn't work well and that you don't understand how it works(makerbot 5th gens fit the bill quite well) and some stuff that's no good for anyone like the rotating table 3d scanners.

seriously though.. they should add a welding machine to the shop, a decent laser cutter, maybe a water jet cutter. a mill possibly. definitely a pcb router.

basically, the kind of stuff the college kids can't have in their college rooms. a simple 3d printer fits into their rooms well and if they have one then it's likely they want to actually have all the other stuff.

if the backups don't go back long enough, it doesn't matter if the backup device fetches the data or if the data is pushed to the device.

besides, all cheap backup hd's etc with a simple button, or cheap nas backup devices, do the pushing in software on the host pc...

Pay for real IT security staff. $250,000 a year each is a starting wage for Good ones. Until you do so you will have problems.

WE need to stop with this bullshit of trying to get security without paying for it. Tell these morons, DUH! you refuse to pay for it. until they understand.