How much does an inertial guidance system weigh? I know they try to make these things as light weight as possible, could it have been left out deliberately?
The iPhone has all the hardware (and software) needed for INS. What does the iPhone weigh?
Of course, most non-idiots have known for some time that the CIA and Mossad have been in a state of undeclared war with Iran for several years now--assassinating their best nuke scientists and engineers, spying on their facilities, helping fund the Green movement, releasing Stuxnet and other viruses aimed at sabotaging them. etc., etc. But die-hard apologists (who seem to think that all those people at the CIA just stare at the wall all day, I suppose) have refused to accept this. These are probably the same people who believe the Pakistani government when they claim they had no idea Osama Bin Laden was in that compound in Abbottabad and that they're still our good friends (please keep sending us your money, infidel allies). But I digress.
That was a pretty clever attempt to drag anti-Zionist into an anti-US rant. I assume that by "most non-idiots" you mean most people who believe anything that the media tells them, and by "die-hard apologists" you mean those with critical thinking skills.
That video was of a non-catapult launch, and in fact instances such as that depicted were quite the reason for introducing catapults in the first place.
By which I meant internal variables from the subroutine that failed.
Don't worry about, I wasn't picking on you but rather expressing the double standard in a way that most other software devs here might understand. I happen to agree with your practice.
> If it's a C++ app, then sure, having a built-in crash reporting mechanism shouldn't be that hard to build in
That's precisely what I do. The default exception handling routine sends an email to me with the app, version, username, machine id, error description, call stack, and any useful data that that I saw fit to include while coding. It has saved me mountains of pain over the years, and also fuels my reputation as the all-seeing eye.
Yet when Google or Apple or CarrierIQ do that, it is considered an invasion of privacy.
But unless it had a track record, I'd be wary of risking my life on the assumption that fuel could be extracted.
I would gladly go to Mars specifically in order to die so that the engineers could learn from the experience and make the trip safer for the next batch of meatsacks.
I agree with your every word, but we are looking at the issue from different angles. You are looking at it from the developer / content producer's point of view. I am looking at it from the consumer's point of view. The public has already been trained to expect incompatibilities as natural, instead of expecting compatibility as natural. That is the real problem.
Do we really want to follow an "exclusive for this platform" model like consoles for books?!?!?
Why not when "made for Internet Explorer" and "best viewed in Netscape" were all the rage not long ago? We are condemned to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again (see: DRM, religion, politics).
I see. I wonder if the antennae is gimballed or if the whole craft needs to orient itself to transmit. If the antennae is not gimballed then the "cone" might be quite large. I really have nothing to compare those values to, but the GP sure did his homework!
While I share your distaste of unions, there's no really way to avoid them in a democratic society. Democracy require the freedom of association, which will inevitability lead to unions if a majority of your workers are dissatisfied enough.
Most democracies have monopoly laws. It just needs to be recognized that a union holds a monopoly on labor. I cannot fathom why this obvious fact is never addressed.
The questions is if we'll see more experts or more sales staff.
Most experts in IT fields already know to hang around StackOverflow for helping others, and getting help as well. The sales staff have been poking at everything from Slashdot to Faceschmuck to Digg for years, never getting quite as well established. So, which group is on the lookout for new fora? Which company recently bought/. and what is their goal?
Not that I see this necessarily as a bad thing. For precedent, see the vendor forums on Geekhack.org. Very productive for both the consumer and the vendor, so long as it is properly labeled.
Fair enough; 1997 was probably the height of the browser wars, and there was a lot of "this site best viewed in..." crap floating around. But I do remember a lot of "fill out the form, get the data" sites, like the one OP referenced, that looked just fine in both Netscape and IE -- and which loaded faster over a 28.8 modem than many of their "modern" counterparts do over DSL.
I do agree about the loading and rendering. I cannot believe that modern sites take so long to load and render.
That article states that the attacker must direct the victim to a site with a malicious script in order to get a Session Authorization Key.
How hard is that? I have run dozens of websites, and I can get on a first-page google search for some key phrases easily. This is the law of averages: attack _everybody_ and some will fall. If the attacker wants a _specific_ domain, though, that is much more of a challenge.
The interface is clunky and 1997ish but hey.. that's your government at work!
By "clunky and 1997ish," you apparently mean "loads quickly, works the same on any browser, and gives you useful information without a bunch of extraneous crap." Man, I miss 1997.
You equate "works the same on any browser" with 1997? Wow, were you browsing only designed-for-Netscapse sites or only designed-for-IE sites at the time?
Aren't we told that Apple's walled garden would prevent non-sanctioned applications from running or even being installed? Does that mean that Apple is complicit in installing Carrier IQ?
Or maybe the big companies are interested in avoiding the bad publicity involved with developing a new field, so they fund the small companies that take the heat, and then take over after the dirty work is done.
The poster? Just that it doesn't show your details on the page doesn't mean it makes you invulnerable to prosecution if you break the law. Even Slashdot saves the ip addresses of commenters and if you post something that breaks the law and police comes asking about it, they have to hand out the details. That is not going to ever change either.
I do not know about today, but back when/. did not save the IP addresses of people posting with UID 666. That actually came to court once, I think, when some Anonymous Coward posted text from the Scientology holy book (copyrighted material).
I'm curious though to hear what it is that makes you prefer VS over Eclipse.
I find Eclipse to be a bit immature, even at version 3.5 or wherever it's at today. Try to change your font size, or even to enable word wrap! I always feel that I'm fighting against Eclipse, as if the devs don't even use it themselves. I have filed a few bugs, but I don't think that any of them have ever been addressed.
Regarding OOo programming, I agree that functions such as F3 and Ctrl-Alt-G (whatever they are called) are terrific. I can sort-of get similar functionality out of VIM with some coercion, but not as useful as in Eclipse.
...so they hire some $40 per month security company...
What should I be googling to find these companies? I have one customer that I can no longer support and I'd like to at least refer him to _somebody_ professional.
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How much does an inertial guidance system weigh? I know they try to make these things as light weight as possible, could it have been left out deliberately?
The iPhone has all the hardware (and software) needed for INS. What does the iPhone weigh?
Of course, most non-idiots have known for some time that the CIA and Mossad have been in a state of undeclared war with Iran for several years now--assassinating their best nuke scientists and engineers, spying on their facilities, helping fund the Green movement, releasing Stuxnet and other viruses aimed at sabotaging them. etc., etc. But die-hard apologists (who seem to think that all those people at the CIA just stare at the wall all day, I suppose) have refused to accept this. These are probably the same people who believe the Pakistani government when they claim they had no idea Osama Bin Laden was in that compound in Abbottabad and that they're still our good friends (please keep sending us your money, infidel allies). But I digress.
That was a pretty clever attempt to drag anti-Zionist into an anti-US rant. I assume that by "most non-idiots" you mean most people who believe anything that the media tells them, and by "die-hard apologists" you mean those with critical thinking skills.
Still, nice try.
almost hitting water if you don't have enough speed. Ski-jump gives you much more vertical speed on take off.
With flat launch, you do hit the water in high seas if they don't time the catapult launch correctly.
That video was of a non-catapult launch, and in fact instances such as that depicted were quite the reason for introducing catapults in the first place.
By which I meant internal variables from the subroutine that failed.
Don't worry about, I wasn't picking on you but rather expressing the double standard in a way that most other software devs here might understand. I happen to agree with your practice.
> If it's a C++ app, then sure, having a built-in crash reporting mechanism shouldn't be that hard to build in
That's precisely what I do. The default exception handling routine sends an email to me with the app, version, username, machine id, error description, call stack, and any useful data that that I saw fit to include while coding. It has saved me mountains of pain over the years, and also fuels my reputation as the all-seeing eye.
Yet when Google or Apple or CarrierIQ do that, it is considered an invasion of privacy.
If the Universe were to spontaneously disintegrate, that would be Bad.
I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean "bad"?
But unless it had a track record, I'd be wary of risking my life on the assumption that fuel could be extracted.
I would gladly go to Mars specifically in order to die so that the engineers could learn from the experience and make the trip safer for the next batch of meatsacks.
I agree with your every word, but we are looking at the issue from different angles. You are looking at it from the developer / content producer's point of view. I am looking at it from the consumer's point of view. The public has already been trained to expect incompatibilities as natural, instead of expecting compatibility as natural. That is the real problem.
Do we really want to follow an "exclusive for this platform" model like consoles for books?!?!?
Why not when "made for Internet Explorer" and "best viewed in Netscape" were all the rage not long ago? We are condemned to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again (see: DRM, religion, politics).
I see. I wonder if the antennae is gimballed or if the whole craft needs to orient itself to transmit. If the antennae is not gimballed then the "cone" might be quite large. I really have nothing to compare those values to, but the GP sure did his homework!
(Unless I've made some trivial calculation error, of course.)
Voyager is transmitting on a directional antennae.
While I share your distaste of unions, there's no really way to avoid them in a democratic society. Democracy require the freedom of association, which will inevitability lead to unions if a majority of your workers are dissatisfied enough.
Most democracies have monopoly laws. It just needs to be recognized that a union holds a monopoly on labor. I cannot fathom why this obvious fact is never addressed.
The questions is if we'll see more experts or more sales staff.
Most experts in IT fields already know to hang around StackOverflow for helping others, and getting help as well. The sales staff have been poking at everything from Slashdot to Faceschmuck to Digg for years, never getting quite as well established. So, which group is on the lookout for new fora? Which company recently bought /. and what is their goal?
Not that I see this necessarily as a bad thing. For precedent, see the vendor forums on Geekhack.org. Very productive for both the consumer and the vendor, so long as it is properly labeled.
Palm would like a word with you
HP (Palm) and Microsoft (Word) would like a word with you.
Everything is already patented or trademarked, even the ability to convey meaning (words).
Fair enough; 1997 was probably the height of the browser wars, and there was a lot of "this site best viewed in ..." crap floating around. But I do remember a lot of "fill out the form, get the data" sites, like the one OP referenced, that looked just fine in both Netscape and IE -- and which loaded faster over a 28.8 modem than many of their "modern" counterparts do over DSL.
I do agree about the loading and rendering. I cannot believe that modern sites take so long to load and render.
That article states that the attacker must direct the victim to a site with a malicious script in order to get a Session Authorization Key.
How hard is that? I have run dozens of websites, and I can get on a first-page google search for some key phrases easily. This is the law of averages: attack _everybody_ and some will fall. If the attacker wants a _specific_ domain, though, that is much more of a challenge.
The interface is clunky and 1997ish but hey.. that's your government at work!
By "clunky and 1997ish," you apparently mean "loads quickly, works the same on any browser, and gives you useful information without a bunch of extraneous crap." Man, I miss 1997.
You equate "works the same on any browser" with 1997? Wow, were you browsing only designed-for-Netscapse sites or only designed-for-IE sites at the time?
just like how most drinkers don't go out and crash their cars into crowded school buses (the president included in this list).
No that was the president's wife.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bush#Early_life_and_career
it's pretty established at this point that Scientology isn't a bona fide religion. A number of countries have already banned it.
Actually, I would say that being banned quite makes Scientology that much more legitimate. Think of the Bahai, Jews, or Falun Gong.
Aren't we told that Apple's walled garden would prevent non-sanctioned applications from running or even being installed? Does that mean that Apple is complicit in installing Carrier IQ?
Thanks. At the least that should give me an idea of what to look for. Have a great day!
Or maybe the big companies are interested in avoiding the bad publicity involved with developing a new field, so they fund the small companies that take the heat, and then take over after the dirty work is done.
The John Galt Drug Company?
The poster? Just that it doesn't show your details on the page doesn't mean it makes you invulnerable to prosecution if you break the law. Even Slashdot saves the ip addresses of commenters and if you post something that breaks the law and police comes asking about it, they have to hand out the details. That is not going to ever change either.
I do not know about today, but back when /. did not save the IP addresses of people posting with UID 666. That actually came to court once, I think, when some Anonymous Coward posted text from the Scientology holy book (copyrighted material).
I'm curious though to hear what it is that makes you prefer VS over Eclipse.
I find Eclipse to be a bit immature, even at version 3.5 or wherever it's at today. Try to change your font size, or even to enable word wrap! I always feel that I'm fighting against Eclipse, as if the devs don't even use it themselves. I have filed a few bugs, but I don't think that any of them have ever been addressed.
Regarding OOo programming, I agree that functions such as F3 and Ctrl-Alt-G (whatever they are called) are terrific. I can sort-of get similar functionality out of VIM with some coercion, but not as useful as in Eclipse.
...so they hire some $40 per month security company...
What should I be googling to find these companies? I have one customer that I can no longer support and I'd like to at least refer him to _somebody_ professional.