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North Korea's 5th satellite attempt-7th Feb 2016
pxi replied to xenomorph555's topic in Science & Spaceflight
When it comes to DPRK I think it's fair to say that everyone in this thread is speaking from positions of relative ignorance, given how little information actually makes its way out of the country. As an outsider looking in, things like the satellite maps at night sure look to me like a country that is not-entirely in the 21st century, but I'm open to the possibility I'm dead wrong. -
North Korea's 5th satellite attempt-7th Feb 2016
pxi replied to xenomorph555's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Given that the dear leader is personally responsible for everything in DPRK, right down to the design of the desks they sit on, I'd say there's an above-zero chance that he's been here. Managing your own space program is a pretty niche subject, there can't be many places to go for information, after all. -
It's relatively old news now, but it's still a pity. Maxis's Sim games were a big part of my childhood.
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Allow me to slightly make your day. http://www.elderscrolls.com/daggerfall/ You can find Frontier First Encounter online too, I seem to recall getting it off the official frontier.co.uk site years ago, but the page seems to have gone now. You'll find it on a few abandonware sites though if you want.
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It's a grey area. It can be hard to avoid stumbling across some material. As for respecting someone's privacy, I've never once spoken directly about a single thing I've seen. (I did once get legal advice about a particular case where something that I saw was really pushing the boundaries of legality.) I don't go trawling looking for dirt, but the reality is you're going to see things when you're tasked with moving files from one PC to another, or wiping an email mailbox or whatever. There are times when you are instructed to do things in a certain way, and that's what you do.
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That's quite head-shakingly stupid. I get this attitude myself quite a bit. It's wilful ignorance. If someone is willing to find out what went wrong, I'm perfectly happy to enlighten them, but it's very rare. Meh, as you say, it pays the bills. And yeah, if you're going to fix computers for a living, you'd better be prepared to see some interesting stuff on people's pc's. The pr0n downloading rootkit is truly the industry's best-kept secret, because yeah, the end-user is never, ever to blame.
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There's a certain numerically-titled computer security magazine that I subscribe to. Almost every issue the letters page has at least one similar (often worse) story. It's sad really. Unfortunately it's easier to 'shoot the messenger' than actually address the root issue of the infrastructure itself being faulty.
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I doubt you were the only one who had some form of malware on their laptop. Frankly I'm more surprised they even bothered calling you back over it. And that issue with schools 'keeping an eye' on students via their laptop webcams is just damn creepy any which way you look at it. EDIT: I've been thinking about this a bit more, and the thing that strikes me is why they are even running antivirus scans at all? It implies to me that they'll just hand out the laptops as-is to the students next year. While not 'wrong' as such, from a support point of view, I'm just kind of surprised that they don't wipe and re-image the hard disks. It's no more work intensive than what they're currently doing, and mitigates all sorts of unknown unknowns like students installing buggy drivers, and things that the av scans miss.
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What is the rationale behind playing completely stock?
pxi replied to falloutaddict's topic in KSP1 Discussion
I tend to start fresh on stock after every release for a while, then after a couple of weeks or a month, I go on a mod-downloading spree. I could make all sorts of arguments as to why, but really I just do it to offend the sensibilities of the maximum possible number of members of our community within any given dev-cycle. Also Mozart is objectively better then Beethoven. -
This guy has the right of it. Everyone knows the international Discordian conspiracy is the one to watch.
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Assuming you're on the Windows 1.0.x version of KSP, there's only 32-bit. The 64-bit client has been removed for the moment.
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It's a major improvement. I'm still surprised by how fast it loads.
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Quick bit of google-fu turns up this: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.1237 (abstract below) and http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003491614002395?np=y (abstract below)
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I'm seeing $1,500 up front or $75 per month looking at https://store.unity3d.com/products Where are you getting the $10,000 figure?
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Shouldn't Squad Release Updates to Popular Modders First?
pxi replied to sp1989's topic in KSP1 Discussion
I disagree. Modders bought the game *and* developed something that extends the game further. They went the extra mile. They absolutely deserve a small degree of "special treatment". And let's keep this in perspective, not giving updates to modders as part of the experimentals process will not result in the updates hitting mainstream any quicker, but it would increase the time required to update mods. -
I figured it'd get a good score, but that knocks it out of the park.
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I'm looking forward to seeing his review. Also worth noting that Dodger was talking about having played the game for the first time on last weeks co-optional podcast, she was pretty positive about it. On-topic, if it was me, I'd have hoped for more than a 6 minute video, especially if I was paying for the coverage. Declaring victory over stranding his kerbal in space - total success! Snark notwithstanding though, I do hope it gives the sales numbers an extra bump, I don't see anything wrong with paid promotion, once it's disclosed.
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Strange foreign website reposting forum threads
pxi replied to waterlubber's topic in Kerbal Network
That's typical with blogspot sites. I get a .ie version when I follow a blogspot.com link. -
It appears that Valve take 30% and Bethesda take 45%. Furthermore, a mod has to generate $400 in sales before the modder is paid, which seems ludicrous to me.
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It's an interesting idea. I would be more likely to donate towards a mod via steam credit than, say paypal, because I actually use steam. However, there is a massive elephant in the room insofar as Steam takes 75% of the transaction. That is a massive issue for me right off the bat. I'm fine with Valve taking their cut, but that's a ridiculous slice. Next, having browsed the workshop, I'm seeing things like armor sets being sold for about €3.50 - that's a ridiculous price right there imho. There is simply no way I'm going to pay that kind of price for minor cosmetic content, it's like horse armor all over again. I'm not drawing any conclusions at the moment, I really want to see how this pans out, but at the moment, in the early 'gold rush' stages, it's looking like a massive pile of do not want. As i said, I've no issues in theory with modders being financially compensated for their efforts, but the price really does need to be appropriate to the content being provided.
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This just popped up on the KSP Youtube channel.
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https://www.random.org/
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I agree with all of them, excepting CKAN. It's not that I don't think it's not useful - I'm sure it is for many in the community - it's just that it's the only one in the list that I don't personally use.