I've always thought Kerbal Space Program would be great for VR. Sadly, with the state of KSP development these days...
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Let's sum up Google's VR strategy so far: Making life less crap for a lonely 20-something
The real battle of Android's future – who controls the updates
Thursday 18th May 2017 18:59 GMT 
Re: No Skins please.
"Why would Samsung willingly give up their branding and experience to offer exactly what everyone else does?"
Wow. You mean they'd then have to compete on actual FEATURES, like a decent size replaceable battery, removable SD card, nice camera, waterproofness, etc instead of whether their icons are flat-colored or not?
I've never seen a skin add value. It's usually clunkier and uglier, with more bugs. Thus, I have never bought a Samsung phone.
No laptop ban on Euro flights to US... yet
Like a celeb going bonkers with botox, Google injects 'AI' into anything it can
Guess who's getting fat off DRAM shortages? Yep, the DRAM makers
US court decision will destroy the internet, roar Google, Facebook et al
HTC's 2017 flagship U11 woos audiophiles and bundles Alexa
German court set to rule on legality of IP address harvesting
Uber red-faced from Waymo legal row judge's repeated slapping
Giant spawn hammer on Antarctica map. Thanks, Google Waze
NASA nixes Trump's moonshot plan
Drugs, vodka, Volvo: The Scandinavian answer to Britain's future new border
Thursday 11th May 2017 18:14 GMT
US/Canada border used to be "soft" too
Until the Homeland Security guys turned out to be such assholes. Now it's "PAPERZ PLEAZE! JA!" just like everywhere else.
It used to be "why are you entering <country>?" and as long as the answer wasn't "smuggling drugs" or "planning to assassinate <head of state>" then they let you through. Not any more.
Thursday 11th May 2017 18:10 GMT
Re: Probably won't work
Hm. At least here in the US there's a roadworks number to call with such problems. They even asked me to bring my bike if it was convenient for me, to help with the calibration.
There's also a law saying if the bike waits through a couple lights and it's obvious it's broken, then it's legal to ignore it when safe to do so.
OTOH, once I blocked a VERY busy left turn when the light ignored my bike, and I got an actual Sheriff's car to pull up and direct me through the light. That was years ago, though... and I was kind of being a dick by knowing it was a busy road and being content with being ignored.
America's mystery X-37B space drone lands after two years in orbit
Tuesday 9th May 2017 00:09 GMT
Re: Astonishing what you can do when you learn from experience.
The Shuttle was great, but it was supposed to be an R&D design, where they learned from what worked and what didn't, and made successively better follow-on vehicles. That never happened.
Also, kudos to the USAF for rescuing X-37 from the shitcan that NASA threw it in. Yes, this is a cancelled ex-NASA project.
US Air Force networks F-15 and F-22 fighters – in flight!
User loses half of a CD-ROM in his boss's PC
FYI: World was warned FIVE years ago about flaw exploited in Google Docs phishing phrenzy
Tesla: Revenues up, losses deepen, in start to 'exciting' 2017
Imagination puts two-thirds of itself up for sale as Apple IP fight rumbles on
Thursday 4th May 2017 16:53 GMT
"About half of Imagination’s annual revenues depend on income from Apple."
As Adam Savage would say, "THERE'S YER PROBLEM!"
When you put yourself in the position that one customer dictates your life, you're already screwed. This is not much different than the sapphire glass dustup.
They're complete morons that deserve to be selling pencils out of a cup on a street corner.
Fake news is fake news, says Google-backed research
Chip design chap arrested for using photocopier
Thursday 4th May 2017 16:05 GMT
Re: Reminder to self...
You joke, but that's what John Walker did when he was selling US Navy secrets to the Soviets from the '60s to the '80s.
He was using the copier a lot, and someone asked what he was doing. He actually said "selling secrets to the Russians", the other guy laughed and walked off.
So that's another reason I don't joke about bombs around TSA & FBI folks, as if I needed one...
Thursday 4th May 2017 15:59 GMT
Re: Just another normal business day in China
Yup, I've got a counterfeit OBD-II dongle that reports an ELM-327 chip rev that ELM never made.
No CE, FCC or any other government type acceptance. Crashes frequently. Doesn't accept several standard documented commands.
I got an email begging me to post a review on Amazon, so I said the above, and now they're in an absolute panic for me to send it back so they can refund me and delete the review saying "counterfeit"
None of my other points are even addressed, that's the one they keep saying "so solly!" about.
Edit: counterfeit serial-USB chips are so bad and so prevalent, that FTDI once altered their Windows driver to brick such devices. Big Slashdot-style kerfuffle.
Don't panic, Florida Man, but a judge just said you have to give phone passcodes to the cops
It's Russian hackers, FBI and Wikileaks wot won it – Hillary Clinton on her devastating election loss
Red alert! Intel patches remote execution hole that's been hidden in chips since 2010
Well, hot-diggity-damn, BlackBerry's KEYone is one hell of a comeback
Don't listen to the doomsayers – DRM is headed for the historical dustbin, says Doctorow
'I feel violated': Engineer who pointed out traffic signals flaw fined for 'unlicensed engineering'
Bullyboy Apple just blew a $500m hole in our wallet, cries Qualcomm
Apache OpenOffice: Not dead yet, you'll just have to wait until mid-May for mystery security fixes
Flatpak and Snaps aren't destined for graveyard of failed Linux tech yet
Friday 28th April 2017 15:02 GMT
Distro value-add
My distro packaging folks (Debian) do quite a lot of work. They track and report bugs, They keep an eye on updates. They handle security issues by informing people and packaging the fix as quick as possible. They also do documentation like manpages and READMEs where these are missing from the application. They aggregate user feedback to the developer.
A lot of the application developers aren't so keen on supporting end users like that. They're usually focused on churning out code for bug fixes and new features.
I don't see where cutting out the distro ecosystem gets me anything.
Software woes keep NASA's new crewed missions grounded
Friday 28th April 2017 08:08 GMT
"if suppliers deliver on time and the ESA stops finding dodgy welds and other defects."
Soooo... were there no penalties in the contract for not delivering on time? And letting the CEO's wife's nephew do the welding?
Can you imagine telling Elon Musk he has dodgy welds in his spacecraft? There Would Be Pain.
"each program must integrate its own hardware and software individually, after which EGS is responsible for integrating all three programs’ components into one effort at Kennedy Space Center"
I'm reading about Apollo (again) and the main lesson was they ALWAYS had some bloke paid to be on top of shit like this, trying to predict problems like this and proactively dealing with it before it hit the fan. He had the authority to say "big 'ol nope!" and get things fixed.
THAT NASA's long, long dead, however.
Plan to kill net neutrality is the best thing/worst thing ever! EVER!!1
China launches aircraft carrier the length of 13.6 brontosauruses
Mysterious Hajime botnet has pwned 300,000 IoT devices
Reg reader offered £999,998 train ticket from Cambridge to Horley
A very Canadian approach: How net neutrality rules reflect a country's true nature
eBay denies claims it's failing to thwart 'systematic fraud'
Monday 24th April 2017 17:45 GMT
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt and the dead USB sticks.
The first thing I do with storage now is check the capacity. Heck, I've gotten bogus stuff from Best Buy. Not that they care when you return it...
The http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918 was a huge eye opener for me.
For example, Kingston just rebrands other people's chips. I'd already figured out they were crap and put them on my "avoid" list.
systemd-free Devuan Linux hits version 1.0.0
Web celeb product whores told to put on the red light – or else
Will the MOAB (Mother Of all AdBlockers) finally kill advertising?
Why Firefox? Because not everybody is a web designer, silly
Wednesday 19th April 2017 12:21 GMT
Firefox. It's awash with Mozilla developer stupidity
I think that the real Firefox developers have left the house. The only "developers" left are the resume-padding "look ma! imma firefox developer!!" losers. They remove features because it's beyond their ability to add new ones. How else do you explain things like removing working useful features like the tabs preferences for absolutely no reason?
They've removed:
* the ability to turn off javascript
* the ability to not use tabs
* the activity indicator
* the user profile manager
* tab groups
* the ability to disable cookies
* fine-grain cookie management ("accept/deny this cookie" dialogs)
* sound (PulseAudio only, no ALSA)
Removed from mobile Firefox:
* doubletap to zoom
* "Quit/Exit" menu item
Other important failures:
* Still doesn't respond to SIGHUP/SIGTERM properly, after a decade.
* Still can't properly print in landscape.
Naked Androids to rampage across Russia
US military makes first drop of Mother-of-All-Bombs on Daesh-bags
Thursday 13th April 2017 22:46 GMT
Actually that figure includes the R&D to design it, which is already spent whether we use it or not. A steel casing, explosive to fill it, and the fins & guidance package isn't that expensive.
I believe it was originally designed for "if we find Saddam and/or bin Laden, and they're underground and we can't get 'em out..."
Fuel for dropping it is not an issue. C-130s fly every day in and out of Afghanistan anyway. A C-130 flies carrying the Thunderbirds demo team around to airshows all over the US. As for expenses "schlepping it there" what's a 10 ton bomb cost in fuel on an aircraft carrier massing 93,284 tons?
Bomb 'em again, I say.
Back to the future: Honda's new electric car can go an incredible 80 miles!
Thursday 13th April 2017 19:30 GMT
That's crap. My electric motorcycle has about 120 miles range, and it's barely able to get me to some of the places I want to go without charging.
I wouldn't even bother looking at 80 miles. Don't forget that's a circle of only 40 miles radius since you have to get there and back.
I can carry my car charging system, but that's 45lbs extra.
Also, car charging is scarce in the US, and fuel cell hydrogen is non-existent, and will probably remain so, for the reasons Snowy lists.
Musk realized battery costs were the limiting factor LONG ago, and started building the gigafactory to make cheap plentiful batteries.
Why can't Honda think that big? Why are they thinking so small?
"no automaker knows more about customers of electrified vehicles than Honda" - fucking SERIOUSLY? He said that with a straight face? Does he really NOT know about Tesla??
Boss swore by 'For Dummies' book about an OS his org didn't run
Broadband providers almost double prices after deals end
Customer satisfaction is our highest priority… OK, maybe second-highest… or third...
Friday 7th April 2017 13:04 GMT
You might find this amusing (or not)
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/03/16/magnets
What I didn't find amusing was the older version of Google Maps, before it had an official offline mode. If your cell data was switched off it would simply hang forever when rerouting or trying to display the map. No error message, no progress bar, nothing. I'd be stuck at a gas station in the middle of bumfuck trying to figure out where I was, much less how to get to where I wanted to go. I think that was the winner for "cause of most swearing"
I of course, can't use Android Pay because I'm one of those evil heretics that's rooted his phone. So I get to play the American game of "does it have a chip&pin slot, and if so, is it actually functional?"
I stopped at a expensive Mercedes dealership once, since they had a electric car charger, and I was severely low on charge. I was vastly amused to find their wi-fi didn't work, just like every other car dealership in the nation. (Strangely enough, the dealership staff were not at all snooty. They were very friendly and encouraged me to use the lounge while my bike charged.)
I had MS-DOS format say "Formatting 13,04.96M" once.
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