While an interesting thought, my company is in the uninterrupted power generation/supply business and its anything but easy to configure larger sites. I dont know specs of a Tesla but if the grid disappears we usually have a transfer switch somewhere in there between the grid, the load and the UPS to handle load transfer and I doubt the place where you plugin your car is adequate for this. Usually the various devices in the new microgrid now have to synchronize with each other and someone has to be the grid reference now that the actual grid is down and that can be a pain. If I have 2 Teslas and a gas powered generator all three have to agree who is master and who is slave and to actually be a UPS solution there better not be any drop in the wave form during that or its not gonna be a UPS for very long. I could see something like this more likely at a place of work where it can be controlled but I'm not sure I'd want my car supporting my office building in a power outage as it may drain it enough that I'm not getting home.

Anyway if I were Tesla I would not want the car that I build to now be liable for keeping power up for houses and businesses in an environment I've never seen and have no control over. There is no way they could support a warranty for that.

Sometimes the differences matter. We jumped ship to MariaDB and are mostly happy with it. I am still frustrated with having to periodically rebuild my database because of huge ibdata files (yes we use innodb_file_per_table so it shouldn't be huge but it is after a time). I thought there was a MySQL labs build which enabled something to mitigate this problem which I probably would drop maria in a heartbeat for at the moment if it was in the mainline trunk.

Anyway, Oracle has apparently added EXPLAIN to statements other than SELECT which is a killer feature for me as I need to better understand certain UPDATE statement plans which seem to be very different than equivalent SELECT clauses. Monty has added ability to view actual plan for running Select statements. I really want both features now but they are forked now in this space.

innodb_file_per_table=1

Of course this does not fix the ibdata01 file growth issue in heavy transactional systems. Putting all that meta crap in a a file that does not shrink ever is the stupidest design decision in innodb. We have have had to rebuild several times because the ibdata file has grown to fill the disk despite not having any table data. Something to do with flush logs and transactions or something.

Saw something in labs build that may mitigate the need to rebuild completely from scratch when this happens but not sure if its in production yet.

This is the single best idea I've heard of regarding this technology so far and not one that immediately came to mind for what ever reason. I also suspect that people like the GP and myself would accept the technology if it was for a legitimate need like CC. Its far more likely to be used for voyeuristic purposes and I think that is what is objected to.

I remember the iPhone app that translated signs you pointed the camera at from a couple of years ago. Not sure if that was real or not but that's the other killer app I see for this. Unfortunately the big money is likely in less noble endeavours.

That could be useful. I was not aware they had general purpose I/O but so do many Arduinos. I'm assuming a couple dry contact digital inputs and maybe an A/D 10-12 bit converter. Throw in zigbee and battery pack I could see this being useful. Problem is I still don't really wouldn't want to have to wire these things all over the place so wireless is valuable. Not sure what life it would have on battery though probably pretty short since its general purpose.

Not ready to replace my wireless Omega sensors because those are reasonably well designed (with NEMA-2 enclosure) and come enough support software that I don't have to worry about it but they are reasonably expensive and I've had several issues with their general purpose Analog to be truly useful. They also run for 1-2 years on the batteries. But still expensive for what they are.

I was going login and give my own manifesto but your is close enough so I will support yours instead. I recall visiting Australia about 10 years ago and being absolutely confused by people kept telling me not to tip. They took pride in the fact that they paid a living wage and some considered it an insult because of that. Now I was just visiting and it was a really nice visit so I don't know if it really works but they currently pay about twice the US minimum and I've seen several articles showing that they have a higher average wage for people.

I'll save the fact that I hate tipping for another rant (though I tip reasonably well ~20% when I do) because it is hides the true cost of the transaction for the end user and usually screws over the tippee. Also tipping for coffee or sandwiches also rub me the wrong way. Just charge what it takes to pay your employees properly and provide the expected product. Don't try guilting me into paying an extra dollar for coffee because you underpay your employees.

Also agree that some CEOs do not really deserve to make 400x or more than their lowest paid employee. I'm guessing that several of these lower paid people could do the job just as well for much less. Or that they use subcontractors to avoid having to give benefits to janitors and other low wage help.

My biggest issue with my HTC One V is that it goes into super deep sleep and I miss phone calls and alarms do not go off. Alarms will go off when I turn the phone back on after it is usually too late. (Note: None of the free alarm apps help as I've tried the best 3 of them) What does help is keeping the thing charged. The other is that the ringer volume sometimes does not match settings and rebooting the phone fixes the volume control.

At least they fixed the battery issue in the Nov/Dec update. There were times I could not charge my phone beyond 50% unless I drained it completely and recharged while off to 100%). I was an inch away from returning the phone if they could not get the battery issue fixed.

Definitely a disappoint experience for me. I was probably happier with a simple Motorola phone and an iPod Touch for my smart phone needs before this phone.

Make sure you don't have a script blocker running. I have ScriptNo on Chrome and I can see the text just barely on 1920x1200 and fully on 1200x1600 (rotated) with it enabled by default. If I allow javascript to run then it perfectly expands the image so that indeed the apology is at the bottom of the page and I have to scroll (in both screen formats). Its unnecessary on 1920x1200 and extremely unnecessary on 1200x1600 to play that game as they could easily have fit the text at the bottom if they were not trying to hide it.

This technology is nothing new. Its been used heavily since the sixties to bring out vivid colors in all manner of displays (its actually even older than traditional color tv displays). Sometimes they refer to the technology as microdots. I'm not sure I need a LSD screen yet or one that uses PCB bus instead of a PCI bus one.

Pretty much same here different games probably. I've funded 6 games in past 3 weeks or so. 5 of those have already hit their targets. Shadowrun Returns, Wasteland 2 and the DFA game are run away successes I think in this phase. I don't think the 6th one will make its targets.

I think it will be successful for well known but niche titles. I have very few problems giving my money to the original authors of the games as that is probably a safe bet. I have slightly more reservations with new content from unknowns or people who have only good mods in their pocket. But I have invested in both just to see if this spurs on new kinds of development but I'm not giving $15 or $1000 to just anybody as there are few guarantees here that the money will be well spent and I will see anything in return in 1-2 years.

I don't care for the latest action game or multiplayer whatever. I'm far more interested in games with content and choices and a little back story not ones that accurately model the reloading behavior of the latest military firearms. Unfortunately we seem to be getting better graphics and animation and worse content as years go by. These kickstarters are showing that there is a market for older style games from decades past that are being updated for today's computers without having to sell your soul to the publisher in exchange for money.

I personally use Actual Window Manager for my desktop management of windows systems. Lots of options for saving preferred locations for apps and changing behaviors like adding a second taskbar (with start button) to second monitors. Forcing apps to startup on same window as the mouse. Forcing apps to always be on top. Just a lot of little useful things that I occasionally really want.

It has a few flaws especially if the application its hooking is unresponsive and is more expensive than free but worth it in by my book. I don't use Virtual Desktops Switcher much as I don't personally need it but that is its multiple virtual desktop manager and is reasonably easy to use. The product has a 60 day trial so plenty of time to try to see if you like it.

Yep. People only call me at work when they really need get a hold of me. I accomplish this by not letting the company pay for a phone so it does not have to be listed on the company contact list and then I give out my number or call only those I trust with it.

My solution to the email flood is to use lots of server side rules. Most emails are moved immediately to some subfolder under my inbox unless I've whitelisted the person or subject for some reason. I can check the subfolder when I like but its not automatically synced to remote devices. The primary inbox is left for emails that are presumably worth an immediate notification. Automated reports and notices get their own private hole to reside in. Its a little bit of work but it has held up so far.

Symbolic links aka Junctions were added in Windows XP so it is a decade old at least. What is missing was a good built in tool to use them but that is what Mark Russinovich is for.

Each FS have their merits. I don't really need to have README.TXT, Readme.txt, readme.txt coexist in the same folder at the same time so I prefer that part of FAT32/NTFS anyway.

I total agree. My boss pretty much discarded his middle layer in geronimo and rewrote the php layer to directly use the database instead of webservice because performance was so poor on our critical monitoring website.

We use a lot of Java and it just sucks memory and performance like there is no tomorrow. We have one server that we just had to up the memory from 5 GB to 7 GB to 10 GB because the fracken java app was doing god knows what with what should be at most 500 MB of data. I'm sure its bad code and one day we will get a fix from the vendor but this is not the first time I've seen this though never of that magnitude.

On topic we also use a Java Webstart based thick-client HMI and not a week goes by that most I get one comment or another about how much memory it using on users desktops (minimum 256 but usually 400 or so) and how crappy it looks (using swing widgets). My laptop only has 2 GB and between this app, firefox and eclipse I have nothing left and for anything else and have to play games with what apps I have open or risk running off the swap drive. I've only ever used one Java client application that was so well performing, well behaved and nice looking that I didn't know it was Java and was surprised by it usually that is not the case.

I agree it will be rooted but also that Amazon will fight rooting like apple. I think the main reason though will be so people cannot circumvent the onscreen ads on lower price models which would be the first thing I would do. It will be interesting how this shakes out.