Comment Re:Get What You Pay For (Score 1) 163
They do.
They make it very clear that streaming video is unacceptable and not allowed.
They do.
They make it very clear that streaming video is unacceptable and not allowed.
but that is presented to the buyer at closing to sign in a 3 inch stack of paper with hundreds of "initial here" and "Sign here" stickers and who has time to actually understand all that mess?
The most expensive and important purchase in your life
Dumbass, thats your own fault.
... I buy arduino stuff from RadioShack all the time, they stock a variety of shields and arduino units. Generally handy when I burn up a board and don't want to wait for a mail order replacement.
A far amount of generic basic components as well. Of course they never have the power FETs or triacs I want, but not that many people are trying to build custom ECUs or high powered light controllers either
Just to be clear incase it was missed, yes, I'm aware it runs android, thats meant to be (poor) sarcasm.
I don't think even 'audiophiles' that think they can tell the difference between 128kbs and 320kbs MP3s on their PC speaker are that stupid
Hell, it probably runs android too, meaning its EXACTLY like the premium phones
Oh and they can't subsidize it on your phone contract either.
Let me guess, you don't do anything related to research in space, which explains why you don't see or understand the benefit of having a person in space versus a machine.
Reality: IF our species wants a chance at long term survival, we MUST leave this rock. Its not optional, its required.
The ISS is more about learning to live in space than anything else. You can't learn to live in space if a robot is doing it for you. The research done on ISS is secondary, and still much of it can not be easily done by current generations of automation, yet SOME of it done by humans leads to more advanced automation. You want to put the cart before the horse.
And for reference, we do put autonomous systems in orbit, we do build radio telescopes, we are working on plans to put them in space, we do send many probes to other planets and moons, do you just not pay attention or do you ignore all these things just because you're upset that you didn't get a large enough budget?
I have a 360 and a One, and I've long wanted to just "fool around" with developing apps for them, to see how difficult it is. This will potentially make that a possibility on the One at least.
Its no more difficult than learning to develop in a compiled language for any other system.
Well a). You won't stop doing stuff even if you don't use taxis, but nice threat on slash dot, I'm sure everyone here cares.
B) did I mention that no one cares or will notice when you stop?
Your just going to stay home? Walk? Drive? What did you do before uber? The world hasn't changed irrevocably because you've used uber the last couple of years
I assume they're already fairly well optimized
You assume wrong. glibc is pretty poorly optimized in reality for most things. It works on god knows how many systems and is generally consistent, but optimization is not its strong point.
If speed is your concern and you have a choice between Linux with glibc and commercial OS, you pick the commercial OS and its libraries almost every time. I can't actually think of a case where this doesn't apply.
It could be a lot worse, but its certainly not as fast as it could be just about any where. I'm fairly certain that the point is not raw speed though.
http://xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc3923.h...
Seriously, stop using proprietary carpware.
Its one thing when proprietary offers you some benefit, but when it comes to IM, using anything other than XMPP from someone who supports federation is just as retarded as using email from someone who doesn't do proper SMTP.
The data is corrected and adjusted, not fudged. The methods have been disclosed.
For most people in the world, and pretty much anyone who isn't drinking the cool-aid, that means fudged. You can pretend its not, but outside of people who care more about believing they are right than actually being right, we're still going to call it fudged.
Fudging or more commonly called massaging data to represent more accurate results is common and many times is useful, BUT ITS STILL FUDGING THE DATA.
I'm for using solar power because its effectively renewable, so don't think I'm trying to be anti-solar
Don't talk about solar like its a pollution solution. The pollution from solar doesn't pollute the environment and generate AS MUCH greenhouse gas, but the process of creating solar panels is ridiculously dirty and the panels themselves aren't exactly bio-degradable or easy to recycle.
Lets not pretend that solar is a 100% solution. Carpet the planet with the amount of solar cells required for our energy budget and you've probably done more damage than current greenhouse emissions for close to the life of the panels.
What city do you live in where its acceptable to go 2 months without city provided services? Do you live in some third world country or something? No city thats is going to have fiber is going to behave like that for critical infrastructure.
Heres the reality: The important things get fixed quickly, regardless of how shitty you think you city performs. Your phone gets repaired quickly now not because the phone company wants to, but because they are legally REQUIRED TO
Some things aren't important so going extended periods without fixing them is intelligent management of resources. Sorry the pothole that pisses you off didn't get filled quick enough or the street light that went out takes a while to get repaired, but critical services just don't work that way in any city in America. Villages, maybe. Towns
Whats with it is your lack of understand of the term. It has nothing to do with actually robbing people directly, though you could easily argue that the term applies to both PayPal and depending on how far you wanted to stretch it, the Virgin group.
VG won't be doing anything special, (although even a private sub-orbital system is new; nothing like SS2 exists. X-15 with passengers and open space.)
But Musk already has the cheapest launcher on the market (perhaps ignoring a few micro-launchers), is about to develop fly-back first stage (something the industry has been wishing for since the early sixties), and is developing a private manned capsule, and is developing a heavy lift launcher that costs less than any other medium-lift launcher on the market even if they doesn't achieve reusability, and he's working with NASA to develop a Saturn V F1-class engine for a Saturn V class launcher, and he wants to go to Mars.
Not breaking new ground? What the fuck does this idiot want from them, a warp drive?
While I agree with most of you post, these parts are just wrong.
There is nothing new about anything they've done so far. They are simply taking advantage of more modern technology to do things that have already been done more efficiently, to the point that some of them are viable without being funded by the government. NASA has done all of these things in one form or another, it just cost far too much to be commercially viable. Hell, other civilians have been carried to the ISS by Russia so VG is WAY behind the curve. NASA had self landing rockets in the 60s - They were ridiculously expensive and unreliable, but occasionally they worked, they just didn't have the advantage of the fact that $100 worth of electronics can act as a fully functional guided autopilot (See: MegaPilot at HobbyKing, a rip off of the original 3DR auto pilot).
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