There are a surprising number of mistakes in this summary. TFA says the balloon goes to 57K feet, then the Tempest goes 35 miles or so (30 nautical miles), and then the Cicadas go the last 11 miles.
Unleashed at 57,000 feet, the Tempest drones traveled as far as 30 nautical miles before unleashing their Cicada cargo. Once deployed, the Cicada drones glided an extra 11 miles, and landed an average of 15 feet away from their target locations.
... looked over my resume (which had only a distant physics class)...
Why do you have a physics class on your resume if you're not looking for a physics-related job? I weed out applicants that had cluttered up their CVs with every little thing they had ever touched. And I make it a point to ask questions related to every skill you have listed; it's the only way to filter out the liars.
For those of us who aren't full-time Windows users, could someone please explain how the described "Refresh" feature is different than the current ability to go back to a Restore Point? My (possibly limited) understanding is that you can create a Restore Point whenever you want, and it saves the state of your Windows OS install. You can then go back to any previous Restore Point, and it will undo registry settings and whatever, without touching your documents. How is that different from this "new' Refresh?
Maybe the problem is his business model: he's offering a service that is already available for free. Canada Post had 9,000 volunteers responding to Santa's letters and emails last year. If his competitors offer a similar or better service for free, why would he ever expect anyone to pay for his?
If you're just interested in a specific set of comments, you can click on the comment number next to a post. That will load up just that comment and its children. For example, your comment is #38465010. I find it useful because it limits the number of comments. Safari on my poor old iPod Touch can't handle the more popular Slashdot articles due to the mass of comments that get loaded all AJAx-y, so I filter to the most popular comments and then drill into the ones I think will have interesting children.
Could you at least have the fucking brains to DO THE RESEARCH YOURSELF before opening your mouth like a fucking parrot?
FYI - the article you linked lists "injury to a child... that is not punishable as a felony of the first degree" under the 5 years limitation. TFA states this happened 7 years ago.
The Wikipedia article linked from the/. summary states that the volcano last produced lava "between 890 and 271 thousand years ago". I'm not sure that really qualifies as "give or take a few years, 300.000 years ago".
CS students don't need to know that a stack is implemented differently in C++, Pascal or Java. They do need to know that a stack is a first-in last-out structure, that most stacks don't allow random access, that a stack is a linear structure, and that it's how procedural languages track the calls.
Programming languages come and go, but what a CS major learns should enable them to make the right choices when learning/using languages.
Sometimes I think/. reviewers select the most esoteric thing they can find
I suppose that depends on your perspective. Record Management / Document Management has been really big with enterprises and big government for the past decade. It's about storing and tracking information, and previous versions of that information, for as long as is legally required. Think Sarbanes–Oxley, or google Data Retention Policy for more examples. It's not just the Americans either - the government of Canada uses a customized product to store any information (documents, powerpoints, spreadsheets, emails) that might ever be the subject of an Access to Information Request.
The issue before the appeals court was whether the Caldera settlement [from the 1996-2000 case] also included the associated office productivity software, WordPerfect and Quattro Pro
The way I read that, it doesn't have to do with how many years ago Novell sold WordPerfect, it has to do with an old court case in which the parties are disputing what the settlement covered.
Um, what? The Opera installer is less than 8MB, and the installed size is less than 20MB. In fact, to check that it was still small, I just downloaded and installed the latest version, v11.10. Universal installer is 7.3MB, full install on an older Windows XP machine is 18.5MB, installed and started up in 17 seconds. Sorry, but it doesn't get much better than that.
The only reason it probably hasnt happened yet is their system is hacker-resistant being based on COBOL and 9-track tapes. IRS and SS both have legacy systems.
More likely it has happened already and they just don't know it yet.
I'm wondering if these live streams will be available on Apple products (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad)? Currently they're very restricted; Apple pushed out it's own YouTube app, and Apple has rejected a lot of video streaming apps. You can watch some HTML 5 video, or mp4s, but that's about it. I'd love to for this streaming to "just work", but I can't imagine Apple would allow itself to get cut out of a potential revenue stream.
This is old news. If you don't log into your Hotmail account for 30 days, they wipe out all your emails. After 60 days, they wipe out your contacts and other custom settings. After a few more months, they delete your account. I lost all my historical emails in 2006; I didn't use my account for anything except keeping track of old emails from the 90s, but it also meant I lost contact details for a lot of friends I didn't contact often. This policy has been reported since at least Nov 2006.
If there are specific areas you'd like to learn about, there's always How Stuff Works (or go directly to the electronics setion.) For example, Ham Radio is covered, as are all the actual components like Resistors.
North, Central and South America are the same continent; America.
Sorry, no, the convention is that they are two continents: North America and South America. It's mostly just those in Latin America that consider the Americas as one continent. (Obviously they love Canada so much they want to be on the same continent.)
So basically, it's okay if your nav system is on your iPod Touch, but not if it's on your iPhone. WTF?
Would a nav system on an iPod Touch be of much use? The iPod Touch relies on wifi connectivity to determine your location, so unless you're in a city with full wifi coverage, your position on your trip wouldn't update.
Lots of the hands-free kits respond to voice commands. That's the point - otherwise how would you dial, answer, etc? I assume they would do the same for navigation. I'm sure there's a voice-driven navigation app for the iPhone. (If you know for sure there isn't, let me know, I'll invest in a local team to build one. Sure to be a money maker.)
Not sure what all the fuss is about, as you will be allowed to use your mobile phone via a hands-free kit. So as long as your phone does navigation over the hands-free, it's fine to use.
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There are a surprising number of mistakes in this summary. TFA says the balloon goes to 57K feet, then the Tempest goes 35 miles or so (30 nautical miles), and then the Cicadas go the last 11 miles.
Unleashed at 57,000 feet, the Tempest drones traveled as far as 30 nautical miles before unleashing their Cicada cargo. Once deployed, the Cicada drones glided an extra 11 miles, and landed an average of 15 feet away from their target locations.
... looked over my resume (which had only a distant physics class) ...
Why do you have a physics class on your resume if you're not looking for a physics-related job? I weed out applicants that had cluttered up their CVs with every little thing they had ever touched. And I make it a point to ask questions related to every skill you have listed; it's the only way to filter out the liars.
For those of us who aren't full-time Windows users, could someone please explain how the described "Refresh" feature is different than the current ability to go back to a Restore Point? My (possibly limited) understanding is that you can create a Restore Point whenever you want, and it saves the state of your Windows OS install. You can then go back to any previous Restore Point, and it will undo registry settings and whatever, without touching your documents. How is that different from this "new' Refresh?
Maybe the problem is his business model: he's offering a service that is already available for free. Canada Post had 9,000 volunteers responding to Santa's letters and emails last year. If his competitors offer a similar or better service for free, why would he ever expect anyone to pay for his?
If you're just interested in a specific set of comments, you can click on the comment number next to a post. That will load up just that comment and its children. For example, your comment is #38465010. I find it useful because it limits the number of comments. Safari on my poor old iPod Touch can't handle the more popular Slashdot articles due to the mass of comments that get loaded all AJAx-y, so I filter to the most popular comments and then drill into the ones I think will have interesting children.
Just what kind of other costs could they have? $4B is an awful lot of hookers...
THE FUCKING STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAS NOT EXPIRED.
http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/2008/09/statute-of-limitations-texas-l.html
Could you at least have the fucking brains to DO THE RESEARCH YOURSELF before opening your mouth like a fucking parrot?
FYI - the article you linked lists "injury to a child ... that is not punishable as a felony of the first degree" under the 5 years limitation. TFA states this happened 7 years ago.
The Wikipedia article linked from the /. summary states that the volcano last produced lava "between 890 and 271 thousand years ago". I'm not sure that really qualifies as "give or take a few years, 300.000 years ago".
And yet the rest of the world knows why the 4th of July is significant.
Because it's 3 days after Canada Day?
CS students don't need to know that a stack is implemented differently in C++, Pascal or Java. They do need to know that a stack is a first-in last-out structure, that most stacks don't allow random access, that a stack is a linear structure, and that it's how procedural languages track the calls.
Programming languages come and go, but what a CS major learns should enable them to make the right choices when learning/using languages.
Sometimes I think /. reviewers select the most esoteric thing they can find
I suppose that depends on your perspective. Record Management / Document Management has been really big with enterprises and big government for the past decade. It's about storing and tracking information, and previous versions of that information, for as long as is legally required. Think Sarbanes–Oxley, or google Data Retention Policy for more examples. It's not just the Americans either - the government of Canada uses a customized product to store any information (documents, powerpoints, spreadsheets, emails) that might ever be the subject of an Access to Information Request.
From TFA:
The issue before the appeals court was whether the Caldera settlement [from the 1996-2000 case] also included the associated office productivity software, WordPerfect and Quattro Pro
The way I read that, it doesn't have to do with how many years ago Novell sold WordPerfect, it has to do with an old court case in which the parties are disputing what the settlement covered.
I think the parent poster was commenting that the CEO's shouldn't profit if the company doesn't.
rather than the bloated ~200 megabyte Opera
Um, what? The Opera installer is less than 8MB, and the installed size is less than 20MB. In fact, to check that it was still small, I just downloaded and installed the latest version, v11.10. Universal installer is 7.3MB, full install on an older Windows XP machine is 18.5MB, installed and started up in 17 seconds. Sorry, but it doesn't get much better than that.
The only reason it probably hasnt happened yet is their system is hacker-resistant being based on COBOL and 9-track tapes. IRS and SS both have legacy systems.
More likely it has happened already and they just don't know it yet.
They could have used the 2-character country code instead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#NZ It's a lot more common.
I'm wondering if these live streams will be available on Apple products (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad)? Currently they're very restricted; Apple pushed out it's own YouTube app, and Apple has rejected a lot of video streaming apps. You can watch some HTML 5 video, or mp4s, but that's about it. I'd love to for this streaming to "just work", but I can't imagine Apple would allow itself to get cut out of a potential revenue stream.
This is old news. If you don't log into your Hotmail account for 30 days, they wipe out all your emails. After 60 days, they wipe out your contacts and other custom settings. After a few more months, they delete your account. I lost all my historical emails in 2006; I didn't use my account for anything except keeping track of old emails from the 90s, but it also meant I lost contact details for a lot of friends I didn't contact often. This policy has been reported since at least Nov 2006.
I have found an excellent proof of this... But the margin is too narrow to contain it.
Isn't that a quote from Euler (the mathematician)?
If there are specific areas you'd like to learn about, there's always How Stuff Works (or go directly to the electronics setion.) For example, Ham Radio is covered, as are all the actual components like Resistors.
North, Central and South America are the same continent; America.
Sorry, no, the convention is that they are two continents: North America and South America. It's mostly just those in Latin America that consider the Americas as one continent. (Obviously they love Canada so much they want to be on the same continent.)
So basically, it's okay if your nav system is on your iPod Touch, but not if it's on your iPhone. WTF?
Would a nav system on an iPod Touch be of much use? The iPod Touch relies on wifi connectivity to determine your location, so unless you're in a city with full wifi coverage, your position on your trip wouldn't update.
Lots of the hands-free kits respond to voice commands. That's the point - otherwise how would you dial, answer, etc? I assume they would do the same for navigation. I'm sure there's a voice-driven navigation app for the iPhone. (If you know for sure there isn't, let me know, I'll invest in a local team to build one. Sure to be a money maker.)
This has been in discussion since at least June 2008. And here's a nice link to the federal government's announcement in August, which clearly states that hands-free and two-way radios are exempt. Cheap hands-free kits are about $30 NZD, and my crappy $130 NZD phone even came with one.
Not sure what all the fuss is about, as you will be allowed to use your mobile phone via a hands-free kit. So as long as your phone does navigation over the hands-free, it's fine to use.