I think your comment is right-on to the topic. This finding, if it bears out, kind of blows the whole "sin" doctrine right out of the water, doesn't it? If some people cannot help but repeat their mistakes, how can they ever be "saved" from sin?
I can say that the idea of one fuel cell powering the camera, AF lenses, flash and attached slave devices is awesome. Not sure how it would recharge though, would the space saved by eliminating AA batteries from the camera bag be taken up with charging cables etc?
If a UAV pilot is expected to be tied to a remote mission for 10-13 hours, that sounds physically exhausting. Kind of like driving a semi-truck for 10 hours straight. That doesn't even consider the mental stress. I respect these UAV pilots.
The mininote has opened up a whole new front in the OS Wars.
Great point! I have noticed the Asus Eee and the Acer AspireOne are attracting a lot of attention. At the local Staples (the only electronics store of any note in my town) people are fascinated with them. They're small, quiet, powerful enough to play music and videos, have wireless access to the Internet and do basic office suite work for under $400. The ones on display are running Linux.
Granted, they also have the option of running a stripped-down (???) version of XP, but people I've seen playing with them seem to like the Linux interface and have no problem figuring it out.
Maybe the desktop is no longer the crucial front in the struggle to dominate home computing.
I'm not interested in seeing some 12-year-old's puerile attempt at humour with his penis monsters. I get to see that spray-painted in my office parking lot, on road signs, in public washrooms, etc. I have even seen the ol' "cock'n'balls" on downloadable Miis on the Wii.
EA plans to make sure nobody sees the content if they don't want to, Bradshaw said. When playing "Spore," users will be given three choices regarding people's creations: to receive no outside content, to receive content from buddies only or to receive all external content.
He's going to start the Deputy Prime Minister's Action Rangers, a secretive, shadowy organization including such diverse Canadians as Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, the clone of Frederick Banting and Alex Trebeck.
A press release from the newly-minted organization stated:
"As there is currently no deputy prime minister in Canada, we welcome Dr. Hawking to the position and are together looking forward to the great things he can do for our country, which is large and mostly empty, like our prime minister's head."
Tycho Brahe was a cornerstone for the development of modern astronomy:
He is credited with the most accurate astronomical observations of his time, and the data was used by his assistant Kepler to derive the laws of planetary motion. No one before Tycho had attempted to make so many redundant observations, and the mathematical tools to take advantage of them had not yet been developed. He did what others before him were unable or unwilling to do -- to catalogue the planets and stars with enough accuracy so as to determine whether the Ptolemaic or Copernican system was more valid in describing the heavens.
He meets the criteria of a scientist perfectly, regardless of his motivations. Plus, the dude lost his nose in a duel and wore a copper or gold one the rest of his life. How cool is that.
I mostly agree with you, but I expect the case will be made comparing accessing your neighbour's wide-open wireless network to be as bad as walking into your neighbour's house if he left the door unlocked, or using a found cell phone to make long-distance calls.
I guess there is some kind of theft going on, so there should be some kind of penalty - a fine, nothing more - but three years imprisonment? Here in Canada we can't even lock up drug dealers convicted of multiple offences for that long. Give me a break.
In a perfect world router manufacturers would set the security to "on" at the factory, but that would require consumers to understand a bit more about network setup than just "plug in, and pr0n".
Hmmm...you live in Fanny Bay, you work in Campbell River, you post on Slashdot. I predict you work either at the college or at one of our industry-oriented tech firms.
Sorry if I'm breaking Slashdot netiquette rules or anything, it's just interesting to encounter someone here I may actually know.
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William Shatner's ego doesn't need another boost! It's already at dangerously inflated levels!
I think your comment is right-on to the topic. This finding, if it bears out, kind of blows the whole "sin" doctrine right out of the water, doesn't it? If some people cannot help but repeat their mistakes, how can they ever be "saved" from sin?
I can say that the idea of one fuel cell powering the camera, AF lenses, flash and attached slave devices is awesome. Not sure how it would recharge though, would the space saved by eliminating AA batteries from the camera bag be taken up with charging cables etc?
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Great info, thanks.
If a UAV pilot is expected to be tied to a remote mission for 10-13 hours, that sounds physically exhausting. Kind of like driving a semi-truck for 10 hours straight. That doesn't even consider the mental stress. I respect these UAV pilots.
But when do they pee? Do they have poopy suits?
The mininote has opened up a whole new front in the OS Wars.
Great point! I have noticed the Asus Eee and the Acer AspireOne are attracting a lot of attention. At the local Staples (the only electronics store of any note in my town) people are fascinated with them. They're small, quiet, powerful enough to play music and videos, have wireless access to the Internet and do basic office suite work for under $400. The ones on display are running Linux.
Granted, they also have the option of running a stripped-down (???) version of XP, but people I've seen playing with them seem to like the Linux interface and have no problem figuring it out.
Maybe the desktop is no longer the crucial front in the struggle to dominate home computing.
Sort of like why does anyone want a 4 GHz Pentium processor for Microsoft Office, is that really useful?
It might come in handy for that idiot who keeps sending you doc files with 2 gigs of embedded pictures.
I also like apples and oranges. How about that?
If this is true, why is Wal-Mart pushing the Blu-Ray discs to the front of the electronics section? Because they're all going to push it on us anyway.
At least EA will offer some choices:
Maybe it will be available on Steam?
Those are awesome! Mod parent up (if this thread is still alive.)
He was still an asshole.
And he can't have been open-source -- he was too popular.
Demosthenes. That asshole.
Does it run Linux?
I misread the summary and thought this article was about virtual honeybuckets.
I'm a bit disappointed.
Most of Hasbro's board is so old they probably have to have oxygen tents built into the boardroom.
That made me laugh out loud.
And it's so true. Hasbro is living in the 1980s, still trying to make money off GIJoe and My Little Pony.
They don't have enough tiles to make the word "innovate."
He's going to start the Deputy Prime Minister's Action Rangers, a secretive, shadowy organization including such diverse Canadians as Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, the clone of Frederick Banting and Alex Trebeck.
A press release from the newly-minted organization stated:
"As there is currently no deputy prime minister in Canada, we welcome Dr. Hawking to the position and are together looking forward to the great things he can do for our country, which is large and mostly empty, like our prime minister's head."
Futurama has also dealt with this topic in a satisfactory way.
We're either the evil twin universe or the cowboy universe.
I mostly agree with you, but I expect the case will be made comparing accessing your neighbour's wide-open wireless network to be as bad as walking into your neighbour's house if he left the door unlocked, or using a found cell phone to make long-distance calls.
I guess there is some kind of theft going on, so there should be some kind of penalty - a fine, nothing more - but three years imprisonment? Here in Canada we can't even lock up drug dealers convicted of multiple offences for that long. Give me a break.
In a perfect world router manufacturers would set the security to "on" at the factory, but that would require consumers to understand a bit more about network setup than just "plug in, and pr0n".
So... when are we going to do the Vancouver Island /. convention?
Well, they lend a lot of money to industry...
I may have even seen you around town :O
Hmmm...you live in Fanny Bay, you work in Campbell River, you post on Slashdot. I predict you work either at the college or at one of our industry-oriented tech firms.
Sorry if I'm breaking Slashdot netiquette rules or anything, it's just interesting to encounter someone here I may actually know.
I agree, not earth-shattering. Earth-shattering would have been finding a ring on a chain around one of the tiny skeleton's necks.