Posts by Eddy Ito

Re: Paranoid?

Meh, if you track many electronic transactions you'll see that they usually take a few days to fully process as well. The caveat is that not all banks show both the transaction and posting dates. I've even seen a few that took a week. Don't kid yourself into thinking the banks aren't taking a free loan from you for a few days regardless of how it gets handled. Hell, I closed a bank account many years ago when I was told my deposit would take a few days to clear - yes it was a cash deposit.

Re: Shrinkflation

They are reducing the size of bulk products like the pound of coffee I used to buy is now ten ounces but the size of individual portions of prepared food have increased. Granted it's largely the result of adding fillers with associated fat and carbs so that while the size and caloric value of let's call it a hamburger patty has increased the amount of actual meat in it has decreased. Of course the fact that it's lubed with a quart of some orange pseudo mayonnaise like condiment to help you choke it down and hide the actual flavor doesn't help much.

Re: What's the point?

Probably a last minute thing as the cops were walking up.

"Quick, hide the gun!"

"Where?"

"I don't care, anywhere!"

I will say, if that pic is the actual pee shooter, the plods did a fine job of cleaning it.

Re: Yay for the idea...

Agreed, I love the feat. The name I'm not sure about but more because he called it "super drone". I don't think it's still a drone if it has the pilot aboard. I think as configured it's a regular aircraft but if it just carried the occupant as cargo then it could be a drone.

I suppose it could have remote controls that would make it either depending on whether the occupant was holding the remote. Of course in that instance a tether on the remote would be rather handy since dropping it would likely result in some fancy maneuvering as the joysticks get knocked about on hitting the ground.

Re: Such a bargain....

Seeing as it's government, they probably haven't figured out who they need to notify or if the list is still growing.

Re: So, that's a couple of problems lined up for T-Mobile then..

Could be a first: a class action libel suit.

I think you'll find it difficult to get a lawyer to sign up for that one. US libel law differs greatly from that across the pond and I believe most lawyers would laugh if someone brought this to them.

Re: すし, 寿司, 鮨

Maybe we should call all animal products exactly what they are, may turn a lot of people into vegies

Oh, I don't know. They've been serving things like 炸豬大腸 and 大腸麵線 in China for a while and nobody seems to mind.

Re: Finally!

It's a good start but needs one more step. Find some way to identify the tiny 30 pixel player located halfway down the page I'm reading that is making noise so I can shoot it in the head efficiently. Maybe change the cursor into a flashing homing beacon that points out the offending page element.

Re: Well said.

That was the whole point of developing the A-10 in the first place. In Vietnam the jets of the day, F-4, F-105, et al. were too fast and couldn't loiter for good accurate support. The choppers were ok on soft targets but aren't really equipped to take on heavy armor. That left shoehorning older prop planes left over from the '40s to do the job. By the time they finally got the A-10 in service the war in Vietnam was over.

The love/hate relationship the USAF has with the A-10 is really odd. They keep looking for a replacement but they also won't let it be sold to allies. My only thought is that they absolutely never want to run the risk of being on the receiving end on an A-10's wrath.

There is a reason the iOS things hold their value better folks.

We must have a different understanding of value. I don't consider resale price to equal value, I consider lower cost of ownership to be value.

If replaced after the same period of time a $750 iPhone that holds 75% of its value has the same cost as a $375 phone that only holds 50% of its value. You only need the Moto G to hold 17%, assuming it's the $220 16GB version, to make out the same. The best value is probably a Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 which at about $150 only needs a new consumer replaceable battery and it's good for another few years.

If you want to do the full calculation, be sure to include lost opportunity cost on the money tied up in the expensive phone. The $600 saved with the Xiaomi can buy a plane ticket or nearly a half dozen shares of AAPL if you so desire.

Re: Lat Lons

Really, six decimal places on longitude? That's one hell of a GPS that can tell location within the length of an iPhone.

You are aware that you're comparing apples to oranges, aren't you? You aren't mentioning that the replacement, a printed picture, isn't the same as the original even if the functionality is very similar. It's a bit like saying that celluloid film that runs through an old time projector is the same as the digital bits that are tossed up by a DLP projector when it's not even though the end result of watching a movie is pretty much the same. You might also compare vinyl LPs and CDs or flash memory for that matter. In a like way, while your 3D printed component may be functionally similar enough to replace the original it isn't the same.

The true advances in 3D printing will come when people start to leverage the strengths of the technology rather than trying to duplicate things we already make very efficiently. Yes, your plastic figures and drawer pulls are very nice and printing one is cheaper than tooling up to make ten thousand, now go out and print something useful that is nearly impossible to be made any other way and maybe folks will find it hard to give you their money fast enough.

Re: MOM + DAD

Also, weren't PC HD floppies only 1.44Mb?

Technically the HD DD 3.5" floppies were 1440 KB, but yes. There were also DMF (the 1.68 MB mentioned in the article) and XDF that were done by MS and IBM respectively because software had gotten rather large and CDs had yet to become ubiquitous. Both required special utilities. I believe I still have XDF floppies of PC DOS 7 hanging about somewhere; I don't believe I still have a drive but perhaps it's worth a look if only for fun.

Another possibility is that even if it doesn't hear the full case SCOTUS can remand the case to a lower court to have another look at it or even force a new trial. In any event, I think you're right and Samsung buys a few months for relatively cheap money.

Re: "the Land of the Free"

That's probably why AT&T stopped with the cookie. They just leave the tracking to the NSA. I wonder if AT&T get a marketing basket with a nice big bow on it in return for all that data.

Re: Kill the buggers

Just like the politicians most people woul rather argue moot points and ignore that matters at hand, why does no-one talk about over-population, why are we not "forcing* a new power, other than oil to be used, the technology is there, why are wee still rapingAfrica etc of all the minerals, all this because you want comfort and riches and couldn't give a shit about the guy next door....fucking pathetic really..

Does over-population actually exist? Why are you so eager to use "force" to solve problems you perceive? It sort of paints you as a person who "couldn't give a shit about the guy next door" if you're ready to use force to solve problems. I'd be interested to know how a individual such as yourself uses force to solve a problem like over-population and whether you have any preferred methods from history. I hear some guys named Joe Stalin and Saloth Sar among others had some ideas that might work.

@luancap

It's the various congeners in drinks which give people problems not the ethanol itself. Distilled spirits typically have fewer congeners and if taken straight produce fewer hangovers. I'm surprised that red wine gives you no problems as it's usually one of the worst offenders since it contains a bit of methanol. It could be something particular to beer that you're sensitive to. My brother has the same problem and can drink margaritas all night but one beer will take him down for the evening; it turns out he has a sensitivity to something in barley which makes him ill and it's present in beer but distillation removes it and whiskey isn't a problem.

So you're saying they are taking Faceborg's automatic tag recommendation feature and applying magic Applesauce to make it new and palatable patentable?

Re: It would be like blaming MS for cause adobe flash

My guess is that it's a case something along the lines of putting in the hooks for self-driving cars to make life easier for phase 2 of their self-driving cars program and forgetting to nail it shut on the current production software.

Re: The Difference

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I understand the difference but it seems there's been a bit of whinging about it being a lapwarmer that seems unjustified. Heck the current E3 Xeon series run the TDP down to 35 W have integrated graphics and will easily run with the better i7s so I don't see the cause for all the hate.

Re: Life-saving, really?

Since no skin was broken and there was no mention of broken bone the question is whether it managed to put a hole in the cloth of whatever she was wearing. Typically, a hunting round has a soft tip or hollow point and will often break up on the initial impact leaving smaller parts that fly off with much less capability of inflicting damage. Of course it could have been a solid or tmj which is less likely to break up but the article doesn't state. The only time I've been hit by such shrapnel I was lucky enough that it didn't make it through the denim I was wearing but I did make the mistake of quickly picking up the shard in a wtf was that moment, a mistake because it was damn hot.

Re: Moronic Time cover sets back virtual reality another 12 months

The issue with VR is 'what problem does it solve?' The answer to that question is almost always going to be either gaming or a niche application like remote controls. Augmented Reality may have greater appeal if done right but things like Google's Glass tend to be a bit too intrusive. In reality, VR hasn't been pushed back 12 months, it's been pushed aside.

It's true that Apple still rules the tablet roost but the latest numbers from IDC shows that while the two dominant players, Apple and Samsung, are showing decreased sales, the next three much smaller players, Lenovo, Huawei, and LG, actually posted gains.

Re: I sort of agree

@BillG Thanks for the WDRB link. It seems they have an update which has the drone owner showing the tracked flight path on his iPad. The owner of the drone says it was at 272 feet (~83 m) above the shooters property. Now I don't know what kind of medals the shooter has won shooting trap or skeet but it's one heck of a shot to knock down something from that distance with a single shell of No. 8 bird shot.