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[mojoey]

Hark the herald Spitfires sing
"Glory to the Rolls Royce Merlin
Peace on earth and mercy mild
Hurricanes and Spitfires reconciled"

Joyful all ye pilots sortie
Join the furball of the skies
With Chain Home proclaim
"Spitfire is born in Wiltshire"
With Chain Home proclaim
"Spitfire is born in Wiltshire"

Mild He lays His .303 by
Born that plane no more may die
Born to raise the sons of earth
Born to give them first shot

Veiled in sheet metal, the Godhead see
Hail the incarnate 20mm
Pleased as man with men to dwell
Churchill, our leader
Pleased as man with men to dwell
Churchill, our leader

Hail the Heaven born Prince of Poland
Hail the Sun of Czechoslovakia
Fear and death to the Luftwaffe He brings
Ris'n death dealing in His wings

Spitfire the highest Heaven adored
Spitfire the everlasting Fighter
Come desire of Allies come
Fix in us Thy humble Aerodrome
Come desire of Allies come
Fix in us Thy humble Aerodrome

A deity we can all get behind.

 

[Dantassii]

:woohoo:

After being stuck with a desktop that would at most run Orbiter at ~40fps when staring at space, and ~15fps looking at the default ISS, I've now got my hands on a laptop that gets ~50fps most of the time and with my stress test utilizing Thorton's ISS, it stayed at ~30fps. Every other computer I've had thus far would be >1fps. I might still be ages behind the state of the art, but it's still a great feeling get to this point.

You may want to try my HUMONGOUS Lunar Station mission for size on your new tower of power. I've been told that it will bring any system to its knees although I tend to get 10-15 FPS on approach and 45-60 FPS FPS when doing closeups under the DX9 client.

Lunar Station @ Mission 243

When I posted this station after mission 108 someone posted "That's not a space station, that's a planet". Now it has almost twice as many modules...

I'm still waiting to see if anyone can beat my 10 FPS at just before docking.

Dantassii
HUMONGOUS IMS shipbuilder

 

[Unstung]

Another interesting thing i found is something called RSS - many people were viewing from mobile apps that read a concentrated and metadata-infused stream from Hackaday, containing just the posts themselves without all the rest of the site.
Which is absurdly useful - I'm surprised it isn't widely used yet.

I've been using RSS feeds for years on my desktop. It works differently when I subscribe to a feed in my Firefox browser; when I open a drop-down menu I can go directly to the article on the original webpage.

Whoever can correctly guess the 10 other websites I'm subscribed to wins two Internet points.

 

[orb]

Which is absurdly useful - I'm surprised it isn't widely used yet.

It was used more widely in the past. Now many sites I've been getting news from removed their RSS feeds and switched to posting links to the news articles on Twitter or Facebook or another social media instead, as also web browsers removed the RSS icon built-in feature from the navigation/address bar, which appeared when a site you view features RSS/Atom feeds (I needed to install an extension to get that feature back).

Additionally, an RSS reader/notifier browser extension I was using removed options/features I used and started notifying me multiple times about articles I already read and even articles from a few years back, so I uninstalled it, and that was also the time I disappeared from posting the spaceflight news.

 

[Unstung]

It was used more widely in the past. Now many sites I've been getting news from removed their RSS feeds and switched to posting links to the news articles on Twitter or Facebook or another social media instead, as also web browsers removed the RSS icon built-in feature from the navigation/address bar, which appeared when a site you view features RSS/Atom feeds (I needed to install an extension to get that feature back).

Additionally, an RSS reader/notifier browser extension I was using removed options/features I used and started notifying me multiple times about articles I already read and even articles from a few years back, so I uninstalled it, and that was also the time I disappeared from posting the spaceflight news.

I agree, it's becoming harder to find RSS feeds lately. That and your extension issues definitely explain why you suddenly stopped updating threads so much. I think Firefox manages RSS feeds well natively, as in the screenshot of my browser I posted earlier.

You used to update the Spaceflight News forum constantly. It feels empty without all the updates, and I've never been able to figure out how you were able to make detailed posts all the time. Did you use a feature from the RSS extension to copy and paste the news that's already been formatted for web forums?

 

[orb]

Did you use a feature from the RSS extension to copy and paste the news that's already been formatted for web forums?

No. I copied them as plain text and next formatted them manually, with excessive use of "Preview Post" function.

 

[Unstung]

No. I copied them as plain text and next formatted them manually, with excessive use of "Preview Post" function.

Wow, that must've taken ages.

 

[orb]

I think the most of time was spent on getting through all the feeds and sorting articles by the topic/event and choosing appropriate pictures, as the news were from multiple sites. Posting and formatting in forums took maybe 1/5th of that.

 

[SolarLiner]

I've been using RSS feeds for years on my desktop. It works differently when I subscribe to a feed in my Firefox browser; when I open a drop-down menu I can go directly to the article on the original webpage.

Whoever can correctly guess the 10 other websites I'm subscribed to wins two Internet points.

I use a combinasion of Pushbullet and IFTTT for RSS feeds.
Pushbullet is an app that allows to "push" things (text, links, images and files) from device to device (pretty useful to share links from my phone to my desktop and vice versa). IFTTT is an app that allows you to trigger actions on event. (For example change my Android wallpaper each time NASA or APOD posts a picture, log calls on a Google Drive spreadsheet, etc.)

So when one of my feeds is updated, I get a pushbullet notification on all my paired devices (which are my two phones and my two computers) so I can read it anywhere.

Also, speaking of Pushbullet: I recommend anyone having a smartphone to get this on your phone and on your desktop. It support Android and iOS, and Windows, Linux (although with additional setup) and OSX, and allows to mirror your phone notifications to your phone, but the best is that you can then answer SMS directly from your computer, and even use the notification buttons on Android.

 

[Linguofreak]

More of "in what kind of situations is it practical?".
In general, it feels like something absolutely unstable, and/or a trickle.

It tends to work very well for religious and/or charitable organizations.

It had better work for the kinds of things that are now generally funded by copyright and patent royalties, and we'd better find a way to make the transition soon, or else the outlook for the future is quite dystopian. I'm not sure if it will be practical for funding such projects, or if we can make the transition, but I believe the consequences of failure are severe, and that we're already beginning to see them.

 

[Artlav]

Uh-oh.
Russia Shoots Down Santa’s Sleigh Near North Pole.
http://dailycurrant.com/2014/12/24/russia-shoots-down-santas-sleigh-near-north-pole/
I'am afraid there will be no presents for the kids this year...
Or ever.

 

[SolarLiner]

Uh-oh.
Russia Shoots Down Santa’s Sleigh Near North Pole.
http://dailycurrant.com/2014/12/24/russia-shoots-down-santas-sleigh-near-north-pole/
I'am afraid there will be no presents for the kids this year...
Or ever.

Well then how did I get my presents? How did Google track Santa then? Did they lied to us? Is there a conspiracy going on there?
:lol:

---------- Post added at 13:21 ---------- Previous post was at 12:52 ----------

"The Interview" is available for purchase on Google Play Movies and on YouTube, starting $6.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed2kSuKqfz0
https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/The_Interview?id=Ed2kSuKqfz0

 

[Artlav]

"The Interview" is available for purchase on Google Play Movies and on YouTube, starting $6.

"This video is not available in your country."
This is retarded.

But once you get past that, the result is even worse.
You have to pay for it.

Once more, for emphasis.
A video on Youtube.
Is only viewable.
If you pay for it.

That is scary.

 

[SolarLiner]

Yeah, the movie is only available in the US (for the moment?). And this isn't new that you have paid videos on YouTube; the only application as of now is to watch films. Go to the Films YouTube channel and you'll see a selection of films that can be purchased for streaming.

It is kind of a duplicate of Google Play Movies in itself, and doesn't serve great purpose since the films can be downloaded on Play Movies, but not on YouTube. Maybe the prices aren't as high in YouTube as in Play Movies, I haven't compared yet.

 

[Artlav]

And this isn't new that you have paid videos on YouTube

Perhaps, but it's kind of weird.
Youtube is pretty much synonymous with "for free", AFAIK.

But at least the "purchase" part makes sense.
Look closer at that label - "available for rent or purchase".
What would it even mean to rent a movie online?

 

[SolarLiner]

What would it even mean to rent a movie online?

Already did that, but on the Play Movies store (perhaps it's the same, don't know)
Once you pay you have a week to watch the movie, and once you start it you have 48 hours to finish it.

 

[Artlav]

Once you pay you have a week to watch the movie, and once you start it you have 48 hours to finish it.

That is completely meaningless.
Once i got the movie, i got it.
On my disk.

What are they expect me to do after 48 hours?
Upload it back?

Maybe they also want their faxes sent back once you look over them (cause they still need the originals)?

Seriously, i just don't get how it is different to purchasing a movie, other than having a limit on download time.

 

[SolarLiner]

Except that you don't download the file yourself. The app downloads it, and then you only have access to it through the application.

 

[Artlav]

Except that you don't download the file yourself. The app downloads it, and then you only have access to it through the application.

Different apps then.
There is a big red "Download" button under youtube player here, and i always use it for anything longer than 30 minutes or so.
It's much more comfortable to play videos outside of a browser, in a proper player.

 

[SolarLiner]

Different apps then.
There is a big red "Download" button under youtube player here, and i always use it for anything longer than 30 minutes or so.
It's much more comfortable to play videos outside of a browser, in a proper player.

Well, I speak of the "native", "legal" ways of downloading a film from YT and watch it. But if of course you add a User Script or something external to get the download URL and download the film, then sure you'll have it forever. (Except if the file itself got DRM and you need special keys/codecs like the film industry puts in their downloadable films)