What I don't understand is, why not give them real computers? Surely Google has some old desktop & server systems that are being retired that could be donated, or hell, write a check and buy a couple Linux servers, install Android SDK and relevant tools, and send some of your engineers in for intensive "here's how to hack your phone" training with the teachers. Probably wouldn't cost that much, and would probably have far more "real world" application than these ridiculously overhyped RPis.
Did you notice how the subject being taught is "Computer Science", not "IT"? There's a reason the names are different.
You don't have to do a full search. Unless the flat is really large, it would be enough to have a policeman stand in front of the open door and make the phone he's looking for make noise (either via the phone location app or just by calling it).
Sure, because no phone thieves would know how to switch a phone to silent.
I've repaired many a Microwave ovens and I have never seen any vacuum tubes.
Nathan
Indeed they do use magnetrons. And to quote from the first line of the Wikipedia article on magnetrons" "The cavity magnetron is a high-powered vacuum tube..." (my emphasis). Do you repair the microwaves with your eyes closed?
Are they necessarily illiterates? They're politicians, so presumably they don't care whether this is practical or not, they only care how it will play with the voters.
No, not half a country: half of the world. The report says that the bulk of the piracy is in developing countries (not that they have much chance of suing there). Oh, and the report uses made-up numbers for the financial losses as usual.
If everybody was gay/lesbian, the problem would solve itself in 100 years.
Mankind would die since there would be no children born.
It'd get spooky after only 6 years when entire grades of schools are empty.
As a former Catholic, I'm sort of glad that "thou shalt not play Diablo III for 12 hours on Sunday while occasionally watching free pornography" is no longer applied to me. Hard to shake the guilt that I'm enjoying so much while others deliberately stunt themselves though...
That's something I like about my church... Not only can I play games for 12 hours on Sunday, but one of our ministers will join in!
When one of your ministers is starring in the free porn, then you have something to write about.
That's the danger of DC: when the muscles grip they stay gripped. With AC they grip and release 50/60 times a second, which gives you a chance to get free.
AC is a lot safer around the home, at least at mains voltages (DC is ok once you get below about 40V). If you touch anything with live mains on it then it will tend to throw you off. If it were DC it could lock your muscles and you'd fry.
The inverse square law still applies with a directional antenna. You start out with more in the direction you want, but it still falls off according to an inverse square law.
Half-hearted indeed. The alchemy should still work, and the character doesn't necessarily abide by the law. All the levitation act should do is make it that being seen gets you a bounty.
The stuff out of the portal is levelled, yes. I'm pretty sure the thugs in Lelle's shop are not -- that's just a hard mission for somebody who isn't a tough fighter.. There are ways of evening the odds, though...
The point was if you can beat the entire game plus one of the guild quest lines with a level 1 character with NO RECORDED KILLS even the most absurdly borked up character should still be viable even with all the so-called leveling issues.
No, those levelling issues do catch you out. I levelled my character up about eight levels in one go and discovered that I could barely go outside a town without getting hacked to a pulp. The enemies all levelled up attributes, weapons and armour. I had only levelled up attributes. That meant that the enemies could rip through my armour like tinfoil whilst I was trying to beat them off with little more than a rolled-up newspaper. Morrowind handled this much, much better. Hardly any of the monsters levelled up, but some locations were more dangerous than others. You stayed in places where you had a chance of surviving, and as you levelled up you could go to more places. In other words, Morrowind rewarded you for levelling up; Oblivion punishes you.
For many reasons, Skyrim just isn't as open-ended as the Elder Scrolls series used to be. Huge numbers of invincible NPC's; doors with unpickable locks; no levitation, jump, slowfall, lock, open, or teleportation spells; inexplicable invisible walls to prevent you from accessing quest areas you haven't asked permission to enter (e.g. Goldenglow Estate); unsellable "quest items" that can't be removed from inventory.
Pretty much all of that was true of Oblivion, too (although the Shivering Isles expansion does include a very limited teleportation spell), but that's still a fine game. Yes, Morrowind probably was the best of the series so far, but really the lack of levitation didn't spoil my gameplay at all, except for making me wonder what had happened to it -- a continuity issue.
- hacker == good guy; hobbyist; enginner or technician
- cracker == bad guy; thief; like a safecracker
We need to teach the reporters and press the difference between these two words, so they start using "crack" or "cracker" for someone up to no good rather than demeaning us enginners, technicians, and hobbyists.
Or recognise that language changes, recognise that it's a natural process, and try to keep up.
I'm UK based, but most of my work is in continental Europe. All of my clients use MS Office under MS Windows, and in some cases require that we use their templates with VBA macros, which pretty much prevents us using an open source office suite. Europe isn't the Gnu/Linux/Libre Office hotbed you seem to think it is.
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I'm on a waiting list to join the waiting list :(
I might have to start looking for one of the alternatives.
I was not sure if this guy was evil or a genius.
"Or"???
What I don't understand is, why not give them real computers? Surely Google has some old desktop & server systems that are being retired that could be donated, or hell, write a check and buy a couple Linux servers, install Android SDK and relevant tools, and send some of your engineers in for intensive "here's how to hack your phone" training with the teachers. Probably wouldn't cost that much, and would probably have far more "real world" application than these ridiculously overhyped RPis.
Did you notice how the subject being taught is "Computer Science", not "IT"? There's a reason the names are different.
You don't have to do a full search. Unless the flat is really large, it would be enough to have a policeman stand in front of the open door and make the phone he's looking for make noise (either via the phone location app or just by calling it).
Sure, because no phone thieves would know how to switch a phone to silent.
Uh... Microwave ovens use a magnetron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Design
I've repaired many a Microwave ovens and I have never seen any vacuum tubes.
Nathan
Indeed they do use magnetrons. And to quote from the first line of the Wikipedia article on magnetrons" "The cavity magnetron is a high-powered vacuum tube..." (my emphasis). Do you repair the microwaves with your eyes closed?
Are they necessarily illiterates? They're politicians, so presumably they don't care whether this is practical or not, they only care how it will play with the voters.
None of which is even remotely relevant to the question of whether US highways are public or government property.
No, not half a country: half of the world. The report says that the bulk of the piracy is in developing countries (not that they have much chance of suing there). Oh, and the report uses made-up numbers for the financial losses as usual.
If everybody was gay/lesbian, the problem would solve itself in 100 years. Mankind would die since there would be no children born. It'd get spooky after only 6 years when entire grades of schools are empty.
Not as long as turkey basters are available.
As a former Catholic, I'm sort of glad that "thou shalt not play Diablo III for 12 hours on Sunday while occasionally watching free pornography" is no longer applied to me. Hard to shake the guilt that I'm enjoying so much while others deliberately stunt themselves though ...
That's something I like about my church... Not only can I play games for 12 hours on Sunday, but one of our ministers will join in!
When one of your ministers is starring in the free porn, then you have something to write about.
That's the danger of DC: when the muscles grip they stay gripped. With AC they grip and release 50/60 times a second, which gives you a chance to get free.
I said "touch", not "grip". I agree that if you grip AC you're still in trouble.
AC is a lot safer around the home, at least at mains voltages (DC is ok once you get below about 40V). If you touch anything with live mains on it then it will tend to throw you off. If it were DC it could lock your muscles and you'd fry.
The inverse square law still applies with a directional antenna. You start out with more in the direction you want, but it still falls off according to an inverse square law.
Obviously you dont understand the saying. People are far more often stupid vs malefic
Obviously you don't understand the saying. Malicious peoples are far more likely to disguise themselves as incompetent.
Whereas stupid people are likely to try to appear benign and fail (even if they are benign). Hanlon's razor still works.
True religion at work.
Your definition of "True religion". Not mine: I'd call it "bad religion at work".
Religion can be a force for good (even if it's accidental).
Half-hearted indeed. The alchemy should still work, and the character doesn't necessarily abide by the law. All the levitation act should do is make it that being seen gets you a bounty.
The stuff out of the portal is levelled, yes. I'm pretty sure the thugs in Lelle's shop are not -- that's just a hard mission for somebody who isn't a tough fighter.. There are ways of evening the odds, though...
Assuming they were his. Did he sign them with strong public key encryption?
The point was if you can beat the entire game plus one of the guild quest lines with a level 1 character with NO RECORDED KILLS even the most absurdly borked up character should still be viable even with all the so-called leveling issues.
No, those levelling issues do catch you out. I levelled my character up about eight levels in one go and discovered that I could barely go outside a town without getting hacked to a pulp. The enemies all levelled up attributes, weapons and armour. I had only levelled up attributes. That meant that the enemies could rip through my armour like tinfoil whilst I was trying to beat them off with little more than a rolled-up newspaper. Morrowind handled this much, much better. Hardly any of the monsters levelled up, but some locations were more dangerous than others. You stayed in places where you had a chance of surviving, and as you levelled up you could go to more places. In other words, Morrowind rewarded you for levelling up; Oblivion punishes you.
For many reasons, Skyrim just isn't as open-ended as the Elder Scrolls series used to be. Huge numbers of invincible NPC's; doors with unpickable locks; no levitation, jump, slowfall, lock, open, or teleportation spells; inexplicable invisible walls to prevent you from accessing quest areas you haven't asked permission to enter (e.g. Goldenglow Estate); unsellable "quest items" that can't be removed from inventory.
Pretty much all of that was true of Oblivion, too (although the Shivering Isles expansion does include a very limited teleportation spell), but that's still a fine game. Yes, Morrowind probably was the best of the series so far, but really the lack of levitation didn't spoil my gameplay at all, except for making me wonder what had happened to it -- a continuity issue.
You stab vampires with stakes, not spikes.
Spike was a vampire, you insensitive clod!
- hacker == good guy; hobbyist; enginner or technician - cracker == bad guy; thief; like a safecracker
We need to teach the reporters and press the difference between these two words, so they start using "crack" or "cracker" for someone up to no good rather than demeaning us enginners, technicians, and hobbyists.
Or recognise that language changes, recognise that it's a natural process, and try to keep up.
I'm UK based, but most of my work is in continental Europe. All of my clients use MS Office under MS Windows, and in some cases require that we use their templates with VBA macros, which pretty much prevents us using an open source office suite. Europe isn't the Gnu/Linux/Libre Office hotbed you seem to think it is.