Comment Re:Coal Rollers (Score 1) 395
It would be nice to make those coal-rolling dickheads inhale all of the crap they deliberately exhaust, though. They really give other diesel drivers a bad name.
They're inhaling it on purpose already... https://i.imgur.com/GDlU040.jp...
Comment Misleading summary (Score 5, Informative) 52
ADS-B is not powered (in whole or in part) by aviation hobbyists. They are just piggybacking with receivers for flight tracking.
The ADS-B system itself was designed for plane-to-plane communications to improve situational awareness. Ground-based ATC or hobbyists are not required to make the system work.
Source: I worked on an ADS-B product at Garmin.
The ADS-B system itself was designed for plane-to-plane communications to improve situational awareness. Ground-based ATC or hobbyists are not required to make the system work.
Source: I worked on an ADS-B product at Garmin.
Comment Just because others do it doesn't make it okay (Score 1) 130
I don't own or use anything mentioned in that article and intend to keep it that way.
Comment Re:No video on Linux (Score 1) 223
I couldn't get VLC to play videos smoothly about 5-6 years ago so I used mplayer instead. Then mplayer2. Now mpv. I've had no reason to try to switch back to VLC.
Comment Re:Reminds me of Chessmaster cheating (Score 1) 224
I'm not the anon, but I also did this a little over a decade ago. I made a separate account on a casual gaming site that had chess. I think I was just curious how the program would stack up to real people. Some of the [presumably real] players at the top gave Chessmaster a real challenge. But I think the only times I lost were when I inputed a move wrong. I quit when people started asking me for advice...
Comment Viper (Score 1) 261
Interesting that the Dodge Viper is in the bottom five. I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned in the summary (instead of, say, the #6 Land Rover).
Comment Re:Why lie? (Score 1) 53
Perhaps even if it was true the government would still claim it was a lie?
Comment Re:Shoot The Moon! (Score 1) 630
Mach 7 is about 1/5th of the way to escape velocity, at least.
Comment Re:eh, it's not that bad (Score 1) 459
As someone who touch-types Dvorak at home, and has to switch back to QWERTY at work, I think I can safely say my experience trumps your few symbol keys moving around...
Why aren't you using Dvorak at work? I use Dvorak at home and on my work computer as well.
Comment Re:Should have been driving a Tesla (Score 1) 961
And 600HP is nothing. I've got a good friend from college who gets almost 1200HP in his GTR (1192 WHP / 1402 crank, actually). I don't see him wrapping it around vertical objects.
The GTR (unless you are referring to the Ultima GTR) is front-engined and all-wheel drive. One with 1400 hp probably has a tremendous amount of turbo lag as well. I really don't think you can compare that to the mid-engined, naturally aspirated V10 Carrera GT.
Comment Receiver (Score 1) 171
I don't see how this lets me do anything that my receiver doesn't. Plus my receiver has 7 HDMI inputs instead of just 1...
Comment Re:Pronunciation question... (Score 3, Informative) 104
BetterFS and ButterFS are both correct. http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/167-amanda-mcpherson/22449-a-conversation-with-chris-mason-on-btrfs-the-next-generation-file-system-for-linux
Comment Re:How common is IR arming remotes? (Score 1) 153
Ah, that's right. I recall having to push some button on the garage door receiver and then do the learning sequence within a certain number of seconds (30?).
Comment Re:How common is IR arming remotes? (Score 1) 153
My car has HomeLink in the mirror. I believe in order to learn the code the remote needs to be close to the mirror (though I didn't test from further away). For rolling codes, I had to capture several button presses in a row (about 5 times, if I recall correctly). I'm pretty sure the captures need to be sequential to learn the rolling code.
