Collimatrix Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 Google is well on the way to ruling the world. This does not mean that they don't make mistakes. We'll start with their messenger, which I greatly appreciated, but they did not. Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted August 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Oh boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted September 1, 2016 Report Share Posted September 1, 2016 Oh boy.I personally cannot wait for self driving cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted February 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 An unflattering review of Amazon's Alexa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted February 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 Why you should use a VPN while playing For Honor Quote I downloaded the software from the video, NetLimiter 4. With that, I can have the IP addresses of everyone in the session. I can also KILL THE CONNECTION OF ANYBODY IN THE SESSION. SergeantMatt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted February 20, 2017 Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 Rainbow Six: Siege did the same, I think they fixed it but I'm not sure. R6S also had horrible lag comp, if you played at like 200 ms ping your hitbox trailed about half a second behind you, but your gun didn't. You could peek around a corner, kill someone and pull back and the dude you'd kill would never even see you. He'd just... die. But that has been mostly fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted September 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 I missed this saga when it was ongoing, which makes me sad. Because it's very funny. Apparently there was a company called Juicero that was making a $699 juicer (with subsequent revisions to the business model dropping this to a practically trivial $400) that required an internet connection. Not only that; this thing wasn't even actually a juicer. You see, it didn't masticate and filter various fruits and vegetables to extract the juice from them. Instead it squeezed juice out of proprietary juice-filled packs, and only out of those packs, as they were equipped with chips to keep customers from inserting third-party juice packs just like printer cartridges! As if that weren't derpy enough, it was actually possible to squeeze the juice out of the packs without the help of the Juicero "juicer." This made the purpose of the expensive gadget even more opaque. Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 It also has German levels of overengineering: Bronezhilet and Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted September 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Holy shit, Google's venture capital arm threw $120 million at Juicero. Shame. Shame for everyone. Everyone gets a shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotMinisterofTrueKorea Posted September 7, 2017 Report Share Posted September 7, 2017 Ugh, if they wanted to piss away $120 Million on some stupid Bay Area shit, they should have just thrown it my way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 On 2/5/2017 at 4:25 AM, Collimatrix said: An unflattering review of Amazon's Alexa Alexa is a tax on gullible people. I've seen them, used them at other people's houses, and I have been thoroughly unimpressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted September 15, 2017 Report Share Posted September 15, 2017 http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1898610_1898625_1898640,00.html @Collimatrix, have you heard of Motorola's Iridium project? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted September 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2017 35 minutes ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said: @Collimatrix, have you heard of Motorola's Iridium project? I've actually seen an Iridium phone. There is, or was, a cult following among backpackers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted September 15, 2017 Report Share Posted September 15, 2017 1 minute ago, Collimatrix said: I've actually seen an Iridium phone. There is, or was, a cult following among backpackers. I'm sure they were great for that. Definitely belongs in this thread, though. My father packed an old motorola bag phone. Which, as low-tech as it was, saw a lot of boating accidents and was run over a few times. Never stopped ticking. Ranchers in Texas fought and fought Motorola to keep the bag phone network going, because the cell phones of the time had bad batteries and shitty service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted September 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2017 I have trouble feeling the same mix of pity and contempt for Iridium as I do for something like Juicero. Iridium actually worked as advertised, and a lot of hard work went into getting it right. It simply had the misfortune of emerging at the same time as the first digital cell phones, which did almost the same thing but much less expensively. I don't think they could have known it would happen that way, so they took the risk and lost. Happens with most businesses. Something like Juicero is self-evidently stupid from the start. The fact that it wasn't a scam makes it even more pathetic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted September 15, 2017 Report Share Posted September 15, 2017 Iridium is still used for niche applications. IIRC NASA tested some new re-entry shield designs a year or so back that used iridium to send data back before they hit the ocean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 They are shielding their capsules with satellite phones!?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted September 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 6 minutes ago, Sturgeon said: They are shielding their capsules with satellite phones!?!? The phones are made of iridium, shit's hella dense and should make pretty good shielding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 9 hours ago, Sturgeon said: They are shielding their capsules with satellite phones!?!? The actual satellite system in place has been re-worked for other applications. It was more expensive to crash the things out of orbit than use them for something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 Every intel CPU from the past decade or so is about to get 5-30% slower next tuesday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted April 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2018 Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect and LoooSeR 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 11, 2018 Report Share Posted May 11, 2018 Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect and Collimatrix 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted May 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2018 Well done, Twitter. Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect and Donward 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted June 17, 2018 Report Share Posted June 17, 2018 I haven't heard of this yet. A lock that costs 100 dollars and has numerous security flaws, both in software and hardware. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/15/taplock_broken_screwdriver/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted June 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2018 On 6/16/2018 at 9:47 PM, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said: I haven't heard of this yet. A lock that costs 100 dollars and has numerous security flaws, both in software and hardware. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/15/taplock_broken_screwdriver/ And it was crowd-funded! Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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