Yeah, well, if you're subscribed to 40-odd e-newsletters and have 22,342 unread mails then you do have a problem. The problem is: thinking the world ends when you don't do everything. Thinking you're soooo important that you need to be current with everything.
Guess what. It doesn't and you're not.
What's the deal with Slashdot still using that Bill Gates Borg icon to represent Microsoft? That icon is so dated on both levels these days. Bill Gates hasn't worked at Microsoft in years, and the Borg reference just is no longer current or relevant. Anyone under 25 would hardly get the references.
I agree. Get a Steve Ballmer as Davy Jones icon. Sheesh, you guys. Live in the present.
I'm even surprised that they would accept glass jars or containers as luggage. Seeing the way luggage is handles this breaks within 2 seconds. How is a jar a bag anyway? And maybe some pictures of your failed attempt?
And reading the announcement on the check-in method, I'm amazed that this gets approved by any regulatory body. Is a checkin without human interaction something that is in use generally? As I see it you can just chuck any old fart in that check-in system and be done with it. Up to and including everything you do not want on board of an airplane.
...that 301 times £ 200 is £ 60.200, which is a year's wage.
Ok, it should be 301 times £ 185,50 (because he's getting £ 14,50 from each customer), but that still is £ 55.835,50 he's losing out on, and it takes him about a year to do it. If he can't do that math, then maybe taking pictures was a good career choice for him. I sure don't want him in accounting.
3) Yes - it only uses flood fill algorithm to determine if an error is blue or not. If the elevation of the location is less than the wave and it has a neighboring sector which is blue, then its blue.
If someone can point me to the maths that describes how to calculate this based on the wave's energy, velocity etc then I'll have a try. But there may be a limit to what can be done in 300 lines of JavaScript:-)
Then I have a far easier solution. Find and show an overlay with 1 meter increments and you know what a tsunami does in your simulation. IMHO your solution is only good as a programming excercise, not as anything worth showing the world.
As one of the previous commenters I also live in the low country and I would be very interested to see what a tsunami does. To limit it to 10x10 km means it does not show anything. I'm 15 meters up and 150 km inland. What does a 20 meter tsunami do to me?
Maybe interesting to count the hybrid countries too. The UK is still mainly imperial. I believe they use the litre for fuel, but everything else is imperial. Distances, speeds, even drink bottles are labeled 284 or 568 ml. Which conveniently is a 1/2 or full pint.
So this basically means that the mail you leave on the server and only read with IMAP can be subpoenaed if it was sent more than six months ago? Think of all the people with a gmail account. Think of all the webservices, even businesses use. My god, America is turning into 1984.
And I have to ask this: is there maybe also a data retention law that states that ISPs need to retain say a year's worth of data? Now I know that data is not equal to email, but laws like this make it damn easy for the government to get just about anything they want from everybody.
Yeah. And Xerox has 13/8. HP owns 15/8 and 16/8 (because DEC -> Digital -> Compaq -> HP).
There are a number of companies owning a class A block. But what does it solve to give some back? A few month's reprieve and we're in the same position.
That's a part of internet history. Not in the least: I want my company to be the holder of one of the first assigned/8 address spaces.
We need IPv6 to continue. Whatever you do now on IPv4 is only a patch and will not solve anything.
What is meant by short-range here? WiGig typically talks about 10 meters, and I would see that as an absolute minimum distance between two cars. In fact, only in urban situations where you are sitting at an intersection, traffic signal or on highways in trafficjams does this apply. Do remember that even bumper-to-bumper you will have 4-5 meters average between two aerials, except when you use one at either end of the car.
For applications that Ford is talking about, you are even at the limits of normal WiFi (operating up to 100 meters). Of course there may be cars between you and a hazard point, but if there are none, 100 meters is short even for a computer to act. Doing 120 km/h give a braking distance of 70 meters, which gives 1 second to react. Of course a computer can react in a fraction of that time, but it also has to determine whether or not braking is required.
and empower passengers with good-samaritan style legislation that exempts persons from prosecution for acts they genuinely believe to be in prevention of a terrorist incident.
Now that is a good idea. "I genuinely believe he is a terrorist!" Bang!
I'm sure you've seen Southpark episode "Volcano". Now sleep tight in your new world order. Suddenly full body scans by the TSA don't seem so annoying anymore...
Okay, I'm sure some high-end consumers would benefit from this, I think the majority of consumers will not. The number of multithreaded programs on my Windows computer can be counted on one hand I think. Java being the major one, if and only if the programmers want to program multithreaded.
At this point in time I'd rather have a dual core 3 GHz processor than a quad or octa core 2 GHz processor.
OpenCycleMap tiles are used as part of this app; the news isn't maps for cyclists, it's a satnav app for cyclists that's interesting.
You mean: it's a satnav app for cyclists using an iPhone that is interesting. The iPhone part is the news, as the rest was already here for a long time.
Already after the first reply from Steve I was confirmed in my thinking that Jobs is an absolute and total twat. What, that he decides for me that I can not watch porn constitutes freedom for him? I am so fortunate that my PC world is not slipping away from me. I am so relieved that I actually have a choice what to install on my PC and what I can watch and what not. And then He talks about freedom? It is the freedom the likes of Kim Yong Il and Mao fight for. That's no freedom, that's oppression.
And really, explain to me (having no kids) what the thing is about porn and kids. When I was really young, porn didn't interest me, but I did play doctor with some of my (girl) friends when I was 8. And by the time I was 14 I was going out of my way to look at the nudiemagazines. So, that's bad? Why?
And initial reports confirm that the death was not AIDS-related, as many had first feared. It would truly have been a blow to his legacy had being HIV positive been a contributing factor in this matter.
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I completely disagree with every word of the above post.
I'm glad you put that sig there. Because I don't see why being HIV positive would be a blow to someones legacy or even affect your look on someone.
First thing on my mind was: "this 10.10 release is going to be released as the 4.10 release... next thursday.
Then reading the comments, this appears to be genuine.
In other words, they will use 1kB for 1000 bytes and 1KiB for 1024 bytes. This is a good thing, it just means the UI should be consistent and you don't need to second-guess.
Not it is not. Every time I read this KiB or MiB nonsens I have to suppress my feeling of nausea. This has been the longest running April fool's gag ever and it's about time we stop this nonsense. It is only stupid people who can't distingish between kB and km (one is 1024 bytes, the other is 1000 meters).
Okay, one exception: the MiB are real. That's common knowledge.
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Yeah, well, if you're subscribed to 40-odd e-newsletters and have 22,342 unread mails then you do have a problem. The problem is: thinking the world ends when you don't do everything. Thinking you're soooo important that you need to be current with everything.
Guess what. It doesn't and you're not.
no, honestly, this is dumb. the terrorists have won.
So true. Fear rules the world. Common sense is now halfway to Proxima Centauri, waiting for Voyager to catch up. Wish I was there too.
What's the deal with Slashdot still using that Bill Gates Borg icon to represent Microsoft? That icon is so dated on both levels these days. Bill Gates hasn't worked at Microsoft in years, and the Borg reference just is no longer current or relevant. Anyone under 25 would hardly get the references.
I agree. Get a Steve Ballmer as Davy Jones icon. Sheesh, you guys. Live in the present.
I'm even surprised that they would accept glass jars or containers as luggage. Seeing the way luggage is handles this breaks within 2 seconds. How is a jar a bag anyway? And maybe some pictures of your failed attempt?
And reading the announcement on the check-in method, I'm amazed that this gets approved by any regulatory body. Is a checkin without human interaction something that is in use generally? As I see it you can just chuck any old fart in that check-in system and be done with it. Up to and including everything you do not want on board of an airplane.
does there have to be some intelligent agency behind the appearance of living things, as there clearly isn't any behind religious zealots.
...that 301 times £ 200 is £ 60.200, which is a year's wage.
Ok, it should be 301 times £ 185,50 (because he's getting £ 14,50 from each customer), but that still is £ 55.835,50 he's losing out on, and it takes him about a year to do it. If he can't do that math, then maybe taking pictures was a good career choice for him. I sure don't want him in accounting.
Then I have a far easier solution. Find and show an overlay with 1 meter increments and you know what a tsunami does in your simulation. IMHO your solution is only good as a programming excercise, not as anything worth showing the world.
As one of the previous commenters I also live in the low country and I would be very interested to see what a tsunami does. To limit it to 10x10 km means it does not show anything. I'm 15 meters up and 150 km inland. What does a 20 meter tsunami do to me?
Maybe interesting to count the hybrid countries too. The UK is still mainly imperial. I believe they use the litre for fuel, but everything else is imperial. Distances, speeds, even drink bottles are labeled 284 or 568 ml. Which conveniently is a 1/2 or full pint.
And what about Australia?
The setup looks nice as it is, but having 42" racks laying on their backs never gives the same rack density than the same racks standing upright.
So this basically means that the mail you leave on the server and only read with IMAP can be subpoenaed if it was sent more than six months ago? Think of all the people with a gmail account. Think of all the webservices, even businesses use. My god, America is turning into 1984.
And I have to ask this: is there maybe also a data retention law that states that ISPs need to retain say a year's worth of data? Now I know that data is not equal to email, but laws like this make it damn easy for the government to get just about anything they want from everybody.
The should be bourne from years of learning.
SCNR
Suggest you read the article first. Fully. Including links.
Yeah. And Xerox has 13/8. HP owns 15/8 and 16/8 (because DEC -> Digital -> Compaq -> HP). There are a number of companies owning a class A block. But what does it solve to give some back? A few month's reprieve and we're in the same position. /8 address spaces.
That's a part of internet history. Not in the least: I want my company to be the holder of one of the first assigned
We need IPv6 to continue. Whatever you do now on IPv4 is only a patch and will not solve anything.
You mean "that country north of Sudan"?
What is meant by short-range here? WiGig typically talks about 10 meters, and I would see that as an absolute minimum distance between two cars. In fact, only in urban situations where you are sitting at an intersection, traffic signal or on highways in trafficjams does this apply. Do remember that even bumper-to-bumper you will have 4-5 meters average between two aerials, except when you use one at either end of the car.
For applications that Ford is talking about, you are even at the limits of normal WiFi (operating up to 100 meters). Of course there may be cars between you and a hazard point, but if there are none, 100 meters is short even for a computer to act. Doing 120 km/h give a braking distance of 70 meters, which gives 1 second to react. Of course a computer can react in a fraction of that time, but it also has to determine whether or not braking is required.
and empower passengers with good-samaritan style legislation that exempts persons from prosecution for acts they genuinely believe to be in prevention of a terrorist incident.
Now that is a good idea. "I genuinely believe he is a terrorist!" Bang!
I'm sure you've seen Southpark episode "Volcano". Now sleep tight in your new world order. Suddenly full body scans by the TSA don't seem so annoying anymore...
Brutally bad.
Socialistic bad.
Communistic bad.
Maoistic bad.
"Chuck Norris won't be able to survive" bad.
But the last one is useless because Chuck Norris will be the only on left to read the warning.
Okay, I'm sure some high-end consumers would benefit from this, I think the majority of consumers will not. The number of multithreaded programs on my Windows computer can be counted on one hand I think. Java being the major one, if and only if the programmers want to program multithreaded.
At this point in time I'd rather have a dual core 3 GHz processor than a quad or octa core 2 GHz processor.
How the * did they know it is a 50 character password? And which programs use such long passwords? Or is it just an RSA key?
OpenCycleMap tiles are used as part of this app; the news isn't maps for cyclists, it's a satnav app for cyclists that's interesting.
You mean: it's a satnav app for cyclists using an iPhone that is interesting. The iPhone part is the news, as the rest was already here for a long time.
I may be trolling here, but how is this a privacy concern? You mean, someone actually reads my Facebook?
Already after the first reply from Steve I was confirmed in my thinking that Jobs is an absolute and total twat. What, that he decides for me that I can not watch porn constitutes freedom for him? I am so fortunate that my PC world is not slipping away from me. I am so relieved that I actually have a choice what to install on my PC and what I can watch and what not. And then He talks about freedom? It is the freedom the likes of Kim Yong Il and Mao fight for. That's no freedom, that's oppression.
And really, explain to me (having no kids) what the thing is about porn and kids. When I was really young, porn didn't interest me, but I did play doctor with some of my (girl) friends when I was 8. And by the time I was 14 I was going out of my way to look at the nudiemagazines. So, that's bad? Why?
And initial reports confirm that the death was not AIDS-related, as many had first feared. It would truly have been a blow to his legacy had being HIV positive been a contributing factor in this matter.
--
I completely disagree with every word of the above post.
I'm glad you put that sig there. Because I don't see why being HIV positive would be a blow to someones legacy or even affect your look on someone.
Then reading the comments, this appears to be genuine.
In other words, they will use 1kB for 1000 bytes and 1KiB for 1024 bytes. This is a good thing, it just means the UI should be consistent and you don't need to second-guess.
Not it is not. Every time I read this KiB or MiB nonsens I have to suppress my feeling of nausea. This has been the longest running April fool's gag ever and it's about time we stop this nonsense. It is only stupid people who can't distingish between kB and km (one is 1024 bytes, the other is 1000 meters).
Okay, one exception: the MiB are real. That's common knowledge.
I spent my honeymoon in Hawaii. I don't think I ever left the hotel room, much less the hotel.
It was enjoyable, but did I really enjoy Hawaii?
I'm not quite sure what it is you're saying here. Do you want to go spacewalking, or join the 100-mile high club?
If it is the former, I'm sure that that will be possible some day. (If it is the latter: just go for it man!)