Comment Re:eat THEIR dog food? (Score 1) 169
Indeed, that's been SOP among cypherphreaks for some time. Even coming down to using "military-strength" encryption keys and the like; if the government says 1024 bits is enough, use 4096. And so on.
Indeed, that's been SOP among cypherphreaks for some time. Even coming down to using "military-strength" encryption keys and the like; if the government says 1024 bits is enough, use 4096. And so on.
He's protected from the Snow Crash, but the Blight will still own his computer.
I'm against placing one person in charge of anything important but I'd trust a Schneier standard a hell of a lot more than a government standard. If I could believe he hadn't been leaned upon by the government. Can we responsibly believe that?
The Colecovision did NOT have a flat D-pad style controller... it had a joystick. Get educated before trying to get smart.
It had a flat joystick that you basically had to press on the top of because it had such a massive head. The massive head was flat. And it was too big to reasonably put a child's fingers around and also be able to hold the controller and hit buttons. I've owned two of them, thanks.
Glyphosate has been off patent for while.
And yet, Monsanto and their worldwide subsidiaries are/is still collectively the single largest producer.
I fail to see how everyone missed this, but the trackpad functions perfectly as a joystick.
You know this how? Have you ever actually used a dual-touchpad device? I own one and carry it around on a daily basis. It's a shitty idea.
LOL. What is this, 1955? Labor unions don't exist to help workers. Labor unions exist to help labor union bosses and funnel money to one particular political party. That's it.
Maybe once upon a time, a long time ago, labor unions had a point. Not any more. They are corrupt cannot even keep their own members from deserting. Why are their members deserting? Because labor bosses don't give a shit about their members. Moreover unions are racist.
The cure you propose is worse than the disease.
When people first saw the diamond on the NES control pad, they said "The controller design is awful. Why the fuck would you get rid of the traditional joystick?"
Who is this "everyone"? And what is this "diamond"? When the NES control pad came out, kids had already learned to use the cross (or "D[irection] Pad" in the common parlance, which no one calls a diamond) by playing Nintendo's LCD Game & Watch series games. And gamers had already experienced flat game control pads on the Intellivision and Colecovision systems. You don't really know what you're talking about, so why do we care about your judgment?
I never got used to using my thumb for simultaneous presses.
Don't try to press both buttons. Only try to realize the truth. Er, wait. Only try to make both buttons be pressed down. If your goal is to make the buttons fall and not to press on them with a finger then eventually your nervous system will learn how to slide the finger over to hit the second button.
"Chemical industry" isn't a thing that exists, is it?
Of course it is; the chemical industry makes all the chemicals that everybody else (including agriculture) uses. Major corporations include BASF, Dow and DuPont.
Let us not forget Monsanto, still the world's largest producer of a number of nasty compounds including glyphosphate.
Support for PS3 controllers is pretty lousy. It works, but it requires a wonky daemon. You didn't ask, but support for the PS3 BD Remote is even lousier. It can be made to work, however. Wiimote support is also a wonky daemon situation.
where those phone games, "built around a new generation of super-precise haptic feedback, employing dual linear resonant actuators"?
Aside from resonant, which is irrelevant bullshit as far as actually controlling something with the pads is concerned, the answer is yes. Games were optimized for the Xperia Play, which means they had support for dual analog controls. That's precisely as "built around" this controller as most Steam titles are going to be. They'll work equally well with a Sony controller, which has most of the same functionality more or less, albeit with analog sticks instead of gimmicky touchpads. The Xperia Play also has dual touchpads and it sucks to use compared to dual analog sticks. Dual analog sticks won't fit on a phone, but they will fit in a console controller.
I declare Sony to be the winner of the controller design competition. The PS4 controller has tilt, touch/tap, dual analog sticks, and IIRC six analog buttons and two analog triggers. ObDisclaimer: Sony can go take a flying fuck in a rolling doughnut, and I won't be buying a PS4. I just think they have the best controller in this generation. I will be happy when they are available used.
Important difference here is that you have tactile feedback on your thumbs position relative to the center.
Not different. I have an Xperia Play. It has two trackpads which mimic analog gamepads. They have little center pips on them so you can find the center. They still suck to use. This will suck less because it's more ergonomic, but it will still suck.
If you expand the definition of rape to include anything you don't like, it will end up being a word with no real meaning at all.
O RLY? Origin: 1250â"1300; (v.) Middle English rapen . Try reading the definitions; the original meaning is still a valid meaning. I don't have OED access so I don't know when the meaning narrowed to mostly specify sexual assault, but that's what happened. The legal definition varies and often involves penetration, although those definitions are outdated and being updated.
You will have many recoverable tape errors.