@Bob Verizon is rolling out new LTE bands, faster speeds, new technologies, etc. incrementally approximately every 18-24 months. Given how many towers they have to support, that's a wicked fast pace! And that also means I have to buy a new phone every 2 years at the latest to keep up with the latest LTE tech. I'm actually extremely concerned about having the latest LTE chipset supporting all the bands, etc.
LTE Advanced is still a few years out, but when you compare the original Verizon LTE rollout to what I have today, the current implementation is about 3 times faster (!), with 5 times higher upstream, and 10x better SNR and resistance to building wall attenuation.
If you keep the same phone things won't get faster, but if you upgrade, you get the incremental benefits.
@Bob aside from listening to streaming media (more audio than video) and tethering, I don't need much muscle. I need enough muscle to host a 2-device WiFi network and push bits between the devices and from the baseband to the devices and back.
I don't think I've had a phone that's CPU-limited on the tethering since before 2010
The G3 is too power-hungry compared to its battery size for my tastes. If it had another 33% battery capacity I might buy it.
Although, I could consider the possibility of an extended battery (with an alternate back piece, if available)
if one exists, that could be a reason to buy the G3
honestly, at this point, I'm just going to wait to see what the actual specs on the new Motorola/Lenovo device is, and what the actual specs are on the Note 4, and once I see the three device choices laid out in front of me (Note 4, Droid Ultra+1, and LG G3), I'll pick one...
none of the devices will make me 100% happy, guaranteed :P
but if the G3 has an optional extended battery, I could probably make it work
@Bob S5: I'm trying to avoid going with Samsung's TouchWiz; I really am :P although the Note 4 makes up for it by obviating the need for a tablet, so I can ditch my tablet, which is always nice
Note4: I didn't say I won't get the Note4, only that I'm leaning LG G3 right now because the Note4 is very much an unknown, and for all we know, its bat life could be horrid, in which case I will avoid it at all costs
@Bob the "ROM devs" don't work around locked bootloaders / lack of root. the hacking community (which loves to install rootkits along with giving you #) does that
my phone's bootloader has never been unlocked, except through some EXTREMELY shady (and probably illegal) method that involves sending your IMEI/MEID to a Chinese guy on ebay (along with a sum of money) in return for an "unlock key", which is evidently from a stolen database.
@allquixotic Oh yea, that game I played lastnight with the Serbians was insane. My lane partnered randomed and got viridian... then proceeded to stand there and just not kill anything.
@Bob to be honest, I really don't want to dick with my production (primary) phone at all. I'm fine with dicking with a secondary Android device like a tablet that I can afford to lose for a few days due to a brick
@Bosspvz2 It's not really a problem; just surprising.
Also probably better in future to just paste a link rather than explicitly inviting certain users, if you want general (i.e. not specific) people to join some discussion room.
@Bob I just figured out how to build the Selenium WebDriver with what I need, while skipping all the bullshit (tests, Ruby bindings, Python bindings, .NET bindings, etc. etc.)
(1) check out Selenium source code (2) install Java 7 (Oracle OR OpenJDK) -- JDK is required, not just JRE (3) apply my patch (4) -- my next chat line (I need ``)
that produces client-combined-standalone.jar (deep in a directory tree somewhere) which is about 40 MB of images, CSS, browser addons, XML, and .class files -- the built Selenium binary needed by so-chatbot-driver.
I have no idea why they had to invent their own build system... ant, maven, cmake, GNU Autotools... so many good build systems exist already, it's stupid they had to write one
@JourneymanGeek as true as that is, it's actually not a case of that -- they aren't trying to make a build system that works for absolutely everyone. they just wanted a build system that works for Selenium
Selenium is weird, since it's approximately 6 or 7 mostly-independent implementations of the exact same thing, rather than the "typical" way of handling this type of situation, where you write your code once in C/C++ (or some kind of native linkage) and then create bindings to that native code in higher level languages/environments
the Ruby code is pure Ruby; the Java code is pure Java; the Python code is pure Python; etc
not exactly the type of thing you can use ant for, I guess
@MichaelFrank No, the "ohshit" command is where Cavil shoots himself in the head on the bridge of the Galactica when he thinks that the Final Five have betrayed him.
I'll forewarn you: the ending is good, and makes you think a lot, and leaves some stuff open but closes a lot of stuff too, and sends chills down your spine, etc etc, but it's also a very sad ending
it's one of those where they kind of score that sweet spot between leaving stuff open and satisfying a lot of your curiosities at the same time
not like, say, Babylon 5, which left way too much open
I stacked the life items like crazy that game... didn't build up much in the way of resistances, but I had so much hp regen and so much hp that they didn't have the raw damage output to bring me down
escaped a lot of team fights with low hp but alive
Cerulean doesn't have that kind of sustain from the abilities, but he does have an armor and magic resistance buff from a stim, so if you stack haste you can use that pretty often
and if you use your ult on somebody low on health, it's close to being a full heal
that can really take the enemy team by surprise -- they think you're low so they might as well target you to try to kill you in a team fight, and then in the blink of an eye you're at full again
There's these pesky things called "Physics" and "Legal regulation of power and frequency bands"
The amount of power needed to transmit follows something called the inverse square law - transmission power doubles with distance. You could, in theory, use highly directional antennae on either end (...
@Bob That's incredibly useful. Allows me to allow it through the firewall
Oh, I didn't even read the fine print. It has several conditions that make it pause apparently
And it can't install while Steam is running because it needs to patch some Steam libraries to record the payment information you use to purchase games. The money is then used for research on how to eliminate AMD from the market
Nvidia's driver will soon automatically binary patch "Powered by AMD" games with cheats that make Nvidia players have better stats so they can win more often :P
@Bob "once I get some time and money" (which hopefully is sooner rather than later), I'm hoping I'll be able to buy one of those SP-64 servers from OVH in Canada, and put CentOS 7 on it... I'll probably scrap much of the junk on my existing server and completely redo the architecture around Docker or KVM (haven't decided which, yet)
Docker sounds like it's the "secure" application containers variant, and it's essentially perfect for use cases like Cavil
I just need to take stock of everything that's running on my server (that I want to keep), then build Docker containers for each thing that doesn't trust any of the other things
'course I could make you hate me by running BSD, or Solaris or something in KVM for Cavil ;-D
Hi, I am using vmWare player and Ubuntu Linux as a guest operating system but my laptop got frozen , so I had to do the restart.... Now when I try to play the guest operating system it says:
@allquixotic or when someone uses "why was" in combination with "deleted/closed/dafuq" in the title. Then a mod comes in, soothes everything down and applies the fix tag:
What do I need to get my home WiFi to reach my phone at work a 1/4 mile away. Any help? I have looked all over for an answe but can not find one.
Tray It!
Tray It! is free and seems to work fine on Windows 7 32bit; there are some issues on Windows 7 64bit.
