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Re: Lessons Learned from deploying a UniFi network at home

Saturn2888 — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 23:18:15 -0000

Where are you seeing the information about the HDs having less range? My HD provides, at the minimum, 4dBm EIRP more signal strength than my PROs when at the highest setting. Even at medium, it's still 1dBm more.

I agree, they are designed for high density, but they're not less range from my experience. I'm always surprised how much better signal my devices get connected to the HD.

Re: Using Source Sans Pro font in Sublime Text

Saturn2888 — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:34:27 -0000

Did you get it to work properly? I've been having problems getting it to recognize font styles such as bold and italics. It's a fantastic font otherwise, but a lack of typographical features really makes it difficult to use.

Re: Pulsen Giveaway #01

Saturn2888 — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:23:52 -0000

Yep!

Re: Pulsen Giveaway #01

Saturn2888 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:01:06 -0000

Looks like you got the DM on Twitter. Did you get it working?

Re: Pulsen updated to r0012

Saturn2888 — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:22:13 -0000

I still don't know what broke, but I'm glad the latest build didn't have that issue :).

Re: Pulsen Giveaway #01

Saturn2888 — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:01:47 -0000

Hey! Yes you can. I don't know why the private message didn't send before, but it worked this time :)

Re: Pulsen Giveaway #01

Saturn2888 — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:48:51 -0000

I can only Direct Message you the key if you're following @PulsenGame because of Twitter ;).

Re: How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community (updated)

Saturn2888 — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:01:19 -0000

Awesome experiment! It really does show what can happen. I've been doing a lot of fact-checking recently myself. I think the biggest thing of importance is the site you're getting your news from.

It's hard to know which sources are credible, but it's good to know, when checking up sources, which sources are credible. I wonder if there could be credibility rating websites where people fact-check the information on sites and sites' articles, images, videos, links, and as a whole get rating of their credibility such as "Credible, Fake, Rumor, Unknown". That could be a very useful tool; even more useful if it showed up on the site itself apart from the comments.

Re: Pulsen beta for r0011

Saturn2888 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:34:29 -0000

When I'm under the belief there are no longer any bugs.

Re: Announcing Receiver

Saturn2888 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:42:43 -0000

I'm surprised at how such a simple concept looks (haven't played it yet) many times better than any of the FPS games released in the last 10 years.

Re: Announcing Pulsen: SCI Recordings I

Saturn2888 — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:01:56 -0000

It's out now :).

Re: Kickstarter Projects: Nubuwo Summer Music Bundle (Jeriaska)

Saturn2888 — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:11:27 -0000

What's causing this complete hatred of KickStarter? I understand your argument here, but I don't know the cause. Just because people /can/ do something doesn't mean everyone's doing it.

Have you had deals on KickStarter go sour on you before, have you read articles about this, have you seen it by going and seeing all the failed projects, or is there something else I'm not seeing?

Re: Pulsen Giveaway #01

Saturn2888 — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:34:54 -0000

Glad you liked it!

Re: Pulsen updated to r0004

Saturn2888 — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 05:15:55 -0000

That's a feature for the editor. You'll see it used in some charts; most notably, Untulia's blue chart from the Souleye pack.

Re: Pulsen updated to r0005

Saturn2888 — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 05:12:07 -0000

If you download and play the game, you'll see 'em in there!

Re: Overgrowth a179 changelog - Wolfire Games Blog

Saturn2888 — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:23:54 -0000

I think it'd be a great idea to have blog posts if there's no video. Usually the blog posts just reiterate what's in the video, but it'd be nice to have something else to look at if no video is available :).

Re: Commenting now possible

Saturn2888 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:29:09 -0000

Well this is cool.

Re: Overgrowth a169 video changelog - Wolfire Games Blog

Saturn2888 — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:29:35 -0000

Seems like a possible way around the force field could be to just have the area wrap around to the other end of the stage like a sort of small planet on a flat plane.

Re: How Much Would You Pay For TV In The Future?

Saturn2888 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:33:57 -0000

Then I'd have to agree, that would be correct.

The one difference Netflix has with the Antenna, Cable, and Satellite industry is that they currently own most of the US market for online TV and movies. Hulu's got subscribers too, but probably not nearly as many since they offer an advertising model for non-subscribers.

Think about it, a Cable company is forcibly restricted to one small area in most cases. Most cable companies have to sell to a highly competitive industry in their area provided the city lets in competition.

They also usually provide you with free in-house installation of pretty much everything and will sometimes re-wire your house so you become a customer in the first place.

They place a bunch of cable boxes in your home as well as the modem (or modem-router combo) that facilitates you connecting to Netflix. Even still, they will provide you with most, if not all, of the cable connections you need for free whether they be HDMI or Ethernet. To top it off, they provide you with a phone line and keep that running as well.

This is why the price tag is so high. It's not cable that's $130, it's everything together. I believe my area charges $99 for Cable, Internet, and Phone all in one. This makes Netflix's rate still cheap, but much more reasonably priced.

Worse yet, Netflix doesn't really have anything worth watching on the Instant Watch service so I don't even believe it's worth even $8 a month if you use it for more than 4 months. This may just be me, but only one person in my family utilizes Netflix continually, and it's for pretty shoddy TV shows that aren't going to show up states-side.

You are right though, holding the industry back is troublesome, but if a company offered the movies and TV shows Netflix did not, I think it could pull off a much higher price per month.

EDIT: I'll add in that Netflix /did/ raise prices. This is why they siphoned off their Instant Watch and Disc Mailing which you posted out before. It's a sly way of essentially doubling the price. Since they've hardly got any competition, people can't really do anything about it. This is why the business model is so effective.

Re: How Much Would You Pay For TV In The Future?

Saturn2888 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:58 -0000

You missed something. With Netflix, each individual has his or her own account whereas with TV, it's a per-house thing. The more houses, the more sales; but Netflix is based mostly on people. Sometimes families share an account, but I bet it's not as rampant.

Netflix would do a lot better if it was $20-30 a month, but only if it actually had content people would want to watch. As it stands now, no good movies are ever on the instant watch service and hardly anything is worth watching that you couldn't go through within a few months.

Re: Hanano Puzzle

Saturn2888 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:21:23 -0000

That means there's a solution to 26. Just great.

Re: PC Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary - Does It Have A Future ?

Saturn2888 — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:13:18 -0000

There's nothing to be proven wrong about. This is what you enjoy at this point in time and with the retromania we seem to be having happen globally, I don't feel like it's ever going to die out. Interestingly enough, I personally have started using PCs more and more as I've grown up. If anything, moving to a tablet for everything is a step backward. There are no technologies right now which provide a suitable enough platform for an everything device except for the PC and well, good luck getting rid of something so important to everything.

The typewriter might've gone away but the keyboard still exists. Vacuum tubes might've gone away but solid state media took over the same exact tasks, just better. CRTs are gone but Plasmas, LCDs, OLEDs, and other screens do exist. It's replacing one with another. A tablet is not a PC replacement, it's yet another commodity. Tablets are on the verge of replacing mobile devices; or should I say, mobile devices are becoming tablets. Vinyl is gone but CDs are still around even though they've arguably been replaced by even-faster spinning disks (hard drives) or solid state media. And do I even need to denote that light bulbs still exist, just in a different way? Dr. Dean seems to be referring to light bulbs as if we no longer use light switches.

There's no evidence for the statement that the PC is going away, especially not the way of the do-do bird. Might I note that the do-do bird was hunted out of existence; not to be confused with the notion that it naturally went extinct because it couldn't survive in any habitat. And Dr. Dean does bring up a point. People are moving mobile, but laptops and desktops are technically
the same hardware. The PC's probably going to, and have already, changed into more
slim-line devices. PCs are already getting integrated into everything anyway
whether those be videogame consoles or all-in-one-monitors.
From what I've seen personally, there's a tend to go smaller, but never
away. PCs change and morph, but they're not going to go away. What a ridiculous statement.

Re: Content Aware Image Manipulations

Saturn2888 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:13:03 -0000

I caught these just recently and think they're neat. I wish I knew more about them though. I couldn't figure out if it was all fake or not and how it'll change the cleanup portion of the graphic design industry from now on. Clearly these videos were contrived to showcase the best of the features. Notice how not one video was in an area with more than one person, no crowds, no city. This tool is fantastic for landscapes, but that's about it.

I'm more concerned with the abuse. With a tool like this means we need to start educating people on reality. What's real, what's not, how to not ever trust an image ever again.

Re: Understanding How To Respond To Change

Saturn2888 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:04:25 -0000

The people who change win.
The people who change are the people who win, not wins.

Re: I.D. Magazine Shuts Down, Blames Change

Saturn2888 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:57:13 -0000

I'd have to say the move to smaller, more focused, areas has some bad consequences because you don't see the world. I read joystiq.com every-so-often because I get news I would not normally see in other areas of interest. I do not hear this new from others, but it could give me something to talk about or have knowledge about outside of my own gaming habits. It also allows me to see what the market looks like and how my investment into games, game companies, and gaming peripherals are looking like.

The only problem with joystiq.com is the sheer amount of news and articles on there. It's incredibly difficult to keep up with to the point where I had to remove the RSS feed. It's far easier to go to the site and pickup on headlines with images rather than grudging through an RSS feed of 150 entries after only a few days. Yet, the information is so useful to me, I have no reason to subscribe only to the console-specific channels.

On the other hand, there's TV news stations which don't cover stories properly, don't cover literally any stories I care about and anything they have covered in my field has been extremely uneducated and from the viewpoint of a child who knows nothing rather than a well-educated person who has expertise in the area and functionality of the story itself. That's the problem though. Those people would best be viewed in a larger conglomerate with a larger audience. If you partition off diversity, it will only cause narrow-minded individuals who only know of their small world. This is why people who watch the news thought this whole Facebook and AT&T thing was related to Facebook and not specifically to AT&T's network; it's because the news people tell them that news and those people don't get the information from qualified personnel because they're less interested in computer-specific news than in celebrities and will, therefore, not acquire the correct information.

I think you should revise what you've been saying to realize that the future in this social news feed is actually detrimental because it causes qualified personnel to become niche instead of public. While there is no current sense of public qualified personnel, /that/ is where the future needs to be, not this "he said she said on Facebook from a tweet that this article person X found on Google showed blah that makes no sense because the story changed so much." If you've ever played telephone as a kid, this is the reason what was told never came back to you as exactly the same. I think the game telephone is designed to basically show kids you can't trust the word of knowledgeably-challenged information.