The dynamic pricing is a problem, potentially. But having queued up for the tickets on ticketmaster myself I can tell you that the process was the worst bit.
It look me nearly 3 hours to hit the front of the queue to find out that there were only high priced tickets available. If I had known instantaneously I would have wasted no time with my decision not to purchase -- instead, I held out hope and was glued to my computer for hours.

When the queue started to go faster there was a notice from ticketmaster saying tickets were still available - but the reason that the queue was going faster is because people were bailing out having seen the price increases rather than checking out. If there was no queue and dynamic pricing, or the price was shown in real time as you waited then at least you could make a fair decision.

Wow that's amazing.
Not.

If it is true that this software is bricking the graphics card, then surely it's Nvidia's fault for allowing that to happen?
I mean, if they are using standard APIs and there isn't any protection against overheating in the card firmware or drivers then that is surely Nvidia's problem.

Fixing to a maximum fps seems like it would reduce the pressure on the GPU to work around the issue but shouldn't be required.

Also tacitly recognising that the iPad is powerful enough to compete with a conventional laptop. A lot of people refuse to recognise how powerful the chips in the recent iPad and iPhones have been - and how Apple have developed a hardware team that is now the best in the business.

This blog has a breakdown of the techniques the developers have used to keep the app alive on iOS. Ingenious, but I can't help thinking they should just use the apple/google api...

https://reincubate.com/blog/nh...

I used one of these all summer when I was 15. I was a Sysop for a bulletin board and went on holiday. A fellow sysop had one and lent it to me to keep checking in on my BBS. I perched in a phone box, with the optional acoustic coupler, and dialled in diligently each day.

Fantastic device!

I think there is something in this. I used to read paper books prolifically, but through change in lifestyle (kids, work pressures) didn't get round to it so much. The kindle has allowed me to read more again because I can take it everywhere with me. But I certainly get much more confused about which book was which and have less association with who the author was as the whole book purchase decision making is so much quicker.

This means I lose track of which books in a particular series I've read, and find myself wondering if I've read a particular title or not

BUT, I am reading more again and enjoying it when I do. So does it really matter?

I find the livescribe system brilliant. It is pen and paper, but it records audio and you can transfer your scribblings to computer. The audio and your writing are synced up so you can touch on any part of your writing either on the paper or on the computer and jump to the audio at the time you wrote it.

For some reason I am REALLY engergised by these US elections. I am UK resident and full time worker.

I'd like to listen to as much as I can without compromising too much of my work week

Which UK radio can I listen to at which times are going to keep me informed? And what UK time can I expect to keep my eyes opened for key results?

Hydrogen peroxide powered rocket packs fly for around 30 seconds, because they have a specific impulse of around 125, meaning that one pound of propellant can make 125 pound-seconds of thrust, meaning that it takes about two pounds of propellant for every second you are in the air. Mass ratios are low for anything strapped to a human, so the exponential nature of the rocket equation can be safely ignored.

A pretty hot (both literally and figuratively) bipropellant rocket could manage about twice the specific impulse, and you could carry somewhat heavier tanks, but two minutes of flight on a rocket pack is probably about the upper limit with conventional propellants.

However, an actual jet pack that used atmospheric oxygen could have an Isp ten times higher, allowing theoretical flights of fifteen minutes or so. Here, it really is a matter of technical development, since jet engines have thrust to weight ratios too low to make it practical. There is movement on this technical front, but it will still take a while.

John Carmack