And while I have a stopover in Singapore next week, I'm yet to confirm if it'll be two days or two hours
Goddamn this speed of light business
I wonder if sometime in the distant future we will build underground waveguides that tunnel directly through the middle of the earth to get low latency connectivity across the globe
Granted, 250ms latency at the moment isn't utterly debilitating for web access, but it is for things like VR, game streaming, and so forth
And heck, it would be nice to have <10ms ping from anywhere on the planet to anywhere else on the planet.
At least until we invent subspace/FTL communication
o_0 Tiger Air is... in Essex UK?
Because let's face it, the path of human evolution and development will be severely held back if the likes of Star Trek and FTL never materializes
> The New Taiwan dollar was first issued by the Bank of Taiwan on June 15, 1949, to replace the Old Taiwan dollar at a ratio of 40,000 to one. The first goal of the New Taiwan dollar was to end the hyperinflation that had plagued Nationalist China due to the Chinese Civil War.
@JourneymanGeek Heh, try a full desktop, four monitors, audio console, three laptops, two routers, 5.1 speaker set, various electronics (soldering iron, etc.), UPS, and some LED lighting and a Hue bulb.
Everywhere I walk is just a spider's web of cables
> Would you like to spend 4 hours pancaked between a smiling old Thai Yai geezer and a toothless Lisu woman with a half-naked crying baby, who, every time you look away, shifts ever closer and knocks what small fraction of your remaining single buttock is still resting on the seat? No? Then you better read the advice section below to avoid that situation, and many others like it.
They say Singapore is like the Switzerland of Asia. I think they were talking about the prices. Maybe that's the premium you have to pay for people to actually understand you...
In fact the whole internet backbone could do with some work.
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ARGH
Google: Stop being obnoxious Oracle: Fix your shit
•Your system has an IPv6 address that does not work •We detected an HTTP proxy that may be vulnerable to attack •A detected in-network HTTP cache incorrectly caches information
Minor Aberrations –
•Certain TCP protocols are blocked in outbound traffic •Certain UDP protocols are blocked in outbound traffic •We detected at least one proxy •The time to set up a TCP connection was somewhat high •None of the server's bandwidth measurement packets arrived at the client
So there's a standards breaking cache, standards breaking proxy, standards breaking firewall and standards breaking dns server on this connection
And broken ipv6
Gotta love invisible proxies tampering with traffic.
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If they were my £130 pair I'd probably ask the airline to ship 'em back to me but these were cheap ones I got as a spare cause I couldn't find my decent pair when I needed them last summer
@Bob Yeah. I had them beside my bum on the seat (cause I had a very wide seat, and also lack of storage space in the seat pocket0
I wonder if I have time or if it's worth it to get my headphones back
I do have a second booking for a two night stay at the same hotel already, so it'd be trivial to pick them up
But I'm inclined to cancel that and stay an extra two nights in Thailand cause it's so much cheaper.
And if they even have bags for lost property - even generic shitty ziplock sandwich bags.. it takes no more than a second or two to scribble a seat number onto the bag with a marker
@qasdfdsaq Dunno about the UK, but here they're the "budget" option that, recently, costs more than other providers while providing worse service. The policies are worse too, for the same price.
Yet the common public perception is that they're the cheap option.
The lower tiers are covered by free/subsidised NHS vouchers. High-end designer glasses you pay the difference.
> For classification purposes only, please indicate your annual household income before taxes: Less than $50,000 $50,000 to less than $100,000 $100,000 to less than $150,000 $150,000 to less than $200,000 $200,000 to less than $500,000 $500,000 or more
I like how the lowest category is $50k...
(This is on the hotel guest survey for my last hotel)
They have an unusual combination of "Net operator" and "SIM operator"
And the same network (MNC+MCC) has different names on different frequency bands
I suppose that makes it real easy to select a frequency band and/or network technology if your phone doesn't have the setting
Quite the opposite of the UK, where operators go to lengths to make it impossible for you to tell what you're on, and even harder to manually switch
Anyhow, they seem to have one 3G operator only on the 850 band, 2G only on the 900 band, 2G + 4G on the 1800 band, nothing on 1900, and a dozen 3G and 4G operators on the 2100 band.
Now if only my phone had LTE CA, like the S5 Neo :-(
They also appear to have backhaul problems, and spelling problems
There's a speedtest server hosted by "Omputer engineering department"
Also of note, man have laptops improved
After a few hours burning-in at maximum CPU and GPU turbo, my new laptop's still quieter than my last one, while maintaining lower temperatures, and three times the performance, in half the thickness
And it cost half as much. That's a seriously non-trivial improvement for 4 years of tech
I know this is a question answer forum, but the last 2 years I've been building three systems (2 computers, old and new, running dolphin and a XPenology NAS) and found some very interesting facts. Which may be very usefull for other people.
Can I create a blog of some sort, just for posting info...
