No engine break with emergency stop won't matter much as you normally hit your brakes until the wheels block. ABS will kick in if you have this. Engine break doesn't do anything there in my experience.
It is just that indeed in the end your engine stalls, possibly giving your car a shock due to the momentum of the engine and the wheels that now completely block
Very non-standard controls... the reason I can jump in basically any car and drive it is because the operations are mostly standardised. Left pedal clutch, middle break, right accelerator, steering wheel is obvious, indicators is the stick on the right. Lights etc trial-and-error mostly. Trucks, buses - well anything that hits the road and has more than two wheels pretty much works like that.
This is so different, will we need special licenses/training for it? How about force-feedback, for example? I know it's experimental but still makes you wonder how about using it on the road.
And safety. For such a super-compact car. Crumple zones don't compact well - maybe I should state that different. They need space to crumple in. Something like that. And that is space OUTSIDE the passenger compartment of course.
Actually I think so too - it's just that I got it working in Windows this way (only after going through the effort of installing VirtualBox and XP I figured out what is going on) that I couldn't be bothered to search further. It's a bit laziness, and also the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" idea. It has to work, now it works, I'm OK. I can make my remittances, see my balance, not having that many transactions anyway.
From TFA there were parts of the text that were very strongly Shakespearian, and parts not. There is no word on whether they did a plagiarism test on this script vs Kyd's work.
Though it's highly plausible to me that they both contributed. If plagiarized by Kyd from Shakespeare then I think there would be clearer similarities between this and other works by Shakespeare: complete conversations or so. Or complete sentences. If this is plagiarized it is at least seriously rewritten.
On the other hand it could of course also be Shakespeare that had a writers block and used Kyd's play script as starting point. Shakespeare being famous is not necessarily the one being plagiarised. Maybe he is the one plagiarising.
Fyi, in my office I'm running Mandriva since I set it up (4 years ago), at home for about 10-12 years now (Mandrake/Mandriva mostly). I'm using an Apple G5 laptop and an EEEPC also with Linux. And a Debian based server in office as well.
Maybe things have changed, but when I tried out a Bluetooth device for my EEEPC it didn't work. This was one with a chipset that was supposedly supported well in Linux - but it just didn't work. Less than two years ago.
There are many many el-cheapo no-brand webcams on the market, none lists Linux as supported. Only Win and OSX. I steer clear from those.
Still many printers do not work. Many do, but before shopping for printers I will have a look at the printer database for brands that work.
Digital cameras generally no problem these days as many do not require special drivers, they present themselves as generic "mass storage device".
One of my PCs has built-in video adapter, including S-VHS out. I haven't been able to get this to work, the machine is only 4-5 years old by now but still it doesn't work well. It can work, I have seen tips on the Internet and success stories, but easy? No. It will require xorg.conf hacking to make it work. This iirc is an Ati integrated chipset.
For e-banking I'm now using XP in VirtualBox on my Linux workstation. This is Bank of China (Hong Kong). It works in Firefox, but not under Linux because of some Java applet for the "e-cert" electronic key, which doesn't run in Linux. The web-site blocks me from logging in under Linux. And part of the web site (L/C operations - I don't use this) requires IE.
Oh and W3Schools getting almost 50% FF that is nice but I don't think that is the net at large. That is a developers-targeting web site. Better try getting statistics from Google. Or e-bay. Yahoo maybe. Or what about bbc.co.uk. That kind of more general web sites.
Predicted half-lives are in the order of hours, maybe days. That's why. That's also why many of the lighter elements we can make artificially are not (or barely) present in nature. Think of all the elements used in radiotherapy and so, they also tend to have half-lives in the order of hours or days.
Those "islands of stability" have been predicted long time ago. What I don't understand is why those researchers do not try to make those elements, instead of the intermediate ones.
Afaik making those superheavy elements is done by fusing lighter ones. Not by building them up brick-by-brick (or proton/neutron by proton/neutron). So I wonder why not just go for the ones that are predicted to be more stable? Is there something we need to know from slightly-less-heavy elements that we can't predict before making those more stable ones?
Yes of course because we all know how well that went when OS/2 was fully compatible with Windows 3.1 (the current version at the time), and would run Win software seamlessly. Later they even released a version "OS/2 for Windows" (that was OS/2 without the Windows binaries - you had to have your own Windows installation for it to run Windows software).
Wine is a nice hack, but that's it. I don't use it. Tried it, failed, gave up on it, just started using native Linux software instead. At least that works.
Slowly, but surely, people will realize the Emperor is wearing no clothes. All the time, people see how sexy my KDE 4 desktop is. They ask me how they can get their computer to look like that. Then they hear it is free, legal, has no viruses, and easier to use than Windows.
Next thing they will probably ask is whether it will run all their games, and whether it plays nice with their brand-new video card. And their no-name cheap webcam. And their e-banking which works only in IE. And in the end everyone sticks to Windows.
Don't tell me it's not like that. Otherwise why has Linux still a 90%?
It's not that far off! Pim Fortuyn was important for about 16 mln people - the Dutch population. Of which of course only a small minority is politically active. Outside of The Netherlands he didn't really matter.
Darl McBride is important for the Linux community and a whole lot of related businesses - hard to put a number on it but the Linux community alone can easily be 10-20 mln people./. alone has well over a million registered users, and that million is what you could call "politically active" when it comes to the Linux community. People that care enough to register a user name and presumably comment on stories (why else register, after all).
So the number of people that REALLY care, that care enough to at least speak up (not counting the relatively passive and anonymous act of voting) is in the same order of magnitude for McBride and Fortuyn. With the difference that McBride lives in a country with a far more violent culture.
Sounds quite an obvious thing to do to me - but then there are so many inventions that are obvious as soon as you see it. Obviousness is indeed one of the tests for a patent to pass, though it's one of the easiest I think to pass and one of the hardest to prove.
When the system is working properly that doesn't mean it's a good thing. DRM comes to mind. If that works properly it's a bad thing because it prevents you from doing what you could technically do.
This whole issue is a form of DRM (=Digital Restrictions Management of course - nothing more, nothing less, no rights involved here, the DRM user is the victim and has no rights anymore). Big brother's Firefox Co. and Microsoft Co. decide what is good for the end-user, and force it upon them. MS with those plug-ins, FF with blocking and shortly after re-enabling them remotely.
When Sony prevents you to play some CD on your computer/. falls over each other condemning them. When FF blocks a plug-in that was installed legitimately and that people are actually using, that's OK. Or is that because the plug-in in question is from Microsoft? It's waiting for a serious bug in adblock plus or so, and have FF disable that one remotely too.
But it takes only one madman to make a murder - for example the murder of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. He was popular at the time, but had also many opponents. But no-one ever thought anyone would come out and hurt him. He did not have a bodyguard even as far as I know. Violence in Dutch politics is as good as unheard of. Still he got killed - it took just one madman to do so.
Or a bit closer to your home: John F. Kennedy. Depending on which conspiracy theory you believe, it took only one madman with a gun to take him out. Just one was enough.
McBride lives in one of the countries with the largest number of firearms in the population. A country with one of the highest numbers of murders and violence rates. Not many people will be actually out to kill him, but it takes only one. Just one. One crazy guy with a gun in his hands, and it's over for Mr McBride. And that guy has made vast numbers of enemies, so I'm not surprised he's paranoid and has bodyguards with him.
Well for better or for worse he did manage to keep SCO afloat for years - without making sales, just burning piles of money on law suits. I still don't understand how they got all that money (other than a "licensing" deal with Microsoft I have not heard of any significant income for the company). I have to say he impresses me. It's not easy to make it last as long as he did, to cause as much damage and trouble as he did. McBride has made heaps of money for many people I'm sure (not just for himself), and in a business sense that alone makes him a good CEO.
So yes I'm sure he's a good manager/CEO, and I'm sure he's evil. Just like Hitler was a really strong leader, and also totally evil (sorry, Godwin, just using him as an example here).
It's impressive how Windows people are not only used to pay a lot for software, but also to pay a lot for software that fixes parts of their other software that they paid a lot for already.
And, yes, by all rights, Firefox should support.Net natively. It already has special support built in for Java, so there's no reason why it shouldn't include the same hooks for.Net other than an irrational hatred of Microsoft.
Try again anonymous Microsoft fanboi.
Don't panic, this is probably just an AC that forgets that Java != JavaScript, the latter which is built in natively into the browser indeed. And which, by the way, even can be disabled by the user, and easily so.
They still allow you to use Windows for that matter... or IE... both full of bugs, known vulnerabilities and the like.
Joking aside, this may break some.NET functionality (I wouldn't know, not on Windoze - I did see it happen in my XP in a VM that I use for e-banking only) which makes it sound strange that MS so readily accepted the block. I hear a patch is out already even - which is also blocked by FF due to them blocking by name/version and the patch has no new version number (strange action from MS - how to tell you are patched?).
On top of that, FF doesn't seem to have a way to override this block even if you'd want to, e.g. after patching. That's equally bad from FF's side.
Whether one should take out loans to study is a different discussion - education is by many people seen as an investment in ones self, and taking loans to make investments is considered a very reasonable thing to do.
Back to the tax thing and government investment: higher educated people on average earn higher salaries than low educated people, so have to pay more in tax. I can imagine that this higher tax will already pay for the education over their lifetime.
Secondly, having more highly educated people will improve your economy (stronger companies, innovations done, etc), and more money made in the economy at large also means more tax income for the government.
Also I have heard about the idea of a education-tax, the basic idea behind it is that education is free for the student (the government pays for the tuition fees and gives a hand-out to the student for living expenses - up to a certain period, or with performance checks on the way), but after finishing the study the student pays a percentage of their income on top of normal taxes for the education they enjoyed. The period this is paid depends on the time spent studying, e.g. three years tax for every year of higher education. Quite interesting idea; too radical though for most governments to seriously consider.
Before The Netherlands, now Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Police Force is nicknamed "Asia's Finest" and I mostly agree with that.
I have had a few police contacts so far and all were positive experiences from the side of the police. That is not to say I enjoyed it of course, but the not enjoying part was not because of the police but the reasons I needed them.
So two decks out of the 6-8 in the shoe played. Well then the counting-advantage may just start at that point, enough cards out to have a sufficiently non-homogeneous distribution of the rest. So need at least another 20 hands or so to see whether a player is showing counter-signs such as sudden high bids.
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No engine break with emergency stop won't matter much as you normally hit your brakes until the wheels block. ABS will kick in if you have this. Engine break doesn't do anything there in my experience.
It is just that indeed in the end your engine stalls, possibly giving your car a shock due to the momentum of the engine and the wheels that now completely block
Very non-standard controls... the reason I can jump in basically any car and drive it is because the operations are mostly standardised. Left pedal clutch, middle break, right accelerator, steering wheel is obvious, indicators is the stick on the right. Lights etc trial-and-error mostly. Trucks, buses - well anything that hits the road and has more than two wheels pretty much works like that.
This is so different, will we need special licenses/training for it? How about force-feedback, for example? I know it's experimental but still makes you wonder how about using it on the road.
And safety. For such a super-compact car. Crumple zones don't compact well - maybe I should state that different. They need space to crumple in. Something like that. And that is space OUTSIDE the passenger compartment of course.
Actually I think so too - it's just that I got it working in Windows this way (only after going through the effort of installing VirtualBox and XP I figured out what is going on) that I couldn't be bothered to search further. It's a bit laziness, and also the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" idea. It has to work, now it works, I'm OK. I can make my remittances, see my balance, not having that many transactions anyway.
According to WP, copyright started with the Statute of Anne in Britain in 1710. International copyright recognition came only later.
Also according to WP, Shakespeare lived from 1564 to 1616.
So actually I think Shakespeare's plays were never copyrighted in the first place.
You are the second commenter already who assumes Shakespeare is the victim here. Maybe he's actually the culprit, and plagiarised someone else's play?
From TFA there were parts of the text that were very strongly Shakespearian, and parts not. There is no word on whether they did a plagiarism test on this script vs Kyd's work.
Though it's highly plausible to me that they both contributed. If plagiarized by Kyd from Shakespeare then I think there would be clearer similarities between this and other works by Shakespeare: complete conversations or so. Or complete sentences. If this is plagiarized it is at least seriously rewritten.
On the other hand it could of course also be Shakespeare that had a writers block and used Kyd's play script as starting point. Shakespeare being famous is not necessarily the one being plagiarised. Maybe he is the one plagiarising.
At least that question you can answer with a resounding "YES".
Fyi, in my office I'm running Mandriva since I set it up (4 years ago), at home for about 10-12 years now (Mandrake/Mandriva mostly). I'm using an Apple G5 laptop and an EEEPC also with Linux. And a Debian based server in office as well.
Maybe things have changed, but when I tried out a Bluetooth device for my EEEPC it didn't work. This was one with a chipset that was supposedly supported well in Linux - but it just didn't work. Less than two years ago.
There are many many el-cheapo no-brand webcams on the market, none lists Linux as supported. Only Win and OSX. I steer clear from those.
Still many printers do not work. Many do, but before shopping for printers I will have a look at the printer database for brands that work.
Digital cameras generally no problem these days as many do not require special drivers, they present themselves as generic "mass storage device".
One of my PCs has built-in video adapter, including S-VHS out. I haven't been able to get this to work, the machine is only 4-5 years old by now but still it doesn't work well. It can work, I have seen tips on the Internet and success stories, but easy? No. It will require xorg.conf hacking to make it work. This iirc is an Ati integrated chipset.
For e-banking I'm now using XP in VirtualBox on my Linux workstation. This is Bank of China (Hong Kong). It works in Firefox, but not under Linux because of some Java applet for the "e-cert" electronic key, which doesn't run in Linux. The web-site blocks me from logging in under Linux. And part of the web site (L/C operations - I don't use this) requires IE.
Oh and W3Schools getting almost 50% FF that is nice but I don't think that is the net at large. That is a developers-targeting web site. Better try getting statistics from Google. Or e-bay. Yahoo maybe. Or what about bbc.co.uk. That kind of more general web sites.
Predicted half-lives are in the order of hours, maybe days. That's why. That's also why many of the lighter elements we can make artificially are not (or barely) present in nature. Think of all the elements used in radiotherapy and so, they also tend to have half-lives in the order of hours or days.
Those "islands of stability" have been predicted long time ago. What I don't understand is why those researchers do not try to make those elements, instead of the intermediate ones.
Afaik making those superheavy elements is done by fusing lighter ones. Not by building them up brick-by-brick (or proton/neutron by proton/neutron). So I wonder why not just go for the ones that are predicted to be more stable? Is there something we need to know from slightly-less-heavy elements that we can't predict before making those more stable ones?
Yes of course because we all know how well that went when OS/2 was fully compatible with Windows 3.1 (the current version at the time), and would run Win software seamlessly. Later they even released a version "OS/2 for Windows" (that was OS/2 without the Windows binaries - you had to have your own Windows installation for it to run Windows software).
Wine is a nice hack, but that's it. I don't use it. Tried it, failed, gave up on it, just started using native Linux software instead. At least that works.
Slowly, but surely, people will realize the Emperor is wearing no clothes. All the time, people see how sexy my KDE 4 desktop is. They ask me how they can get their computer to look like that. Then they hear it is free, legal, has no viruses, and easier to use than Windows.
Next thing they will probably ask is whether it will run all their games, and whether it plays nice with their brand-new video card. And their no-name cheap webcam. And their e-banking which works only in IE. And in the end everyone sticks to Windows.
Don't tell me it's not like that. Otherwise why has Linux still a 90%?
But well I'm also dreaming now and then.
It's not that far off! Pim Fortuyn was important for about 16 mln people - the Dutch population. Of which of course only a small minority is politically active. Outside of The Netherlands he didn't really matter.
Darl McBride is important for the Linux community and a whole lot of related businesses - hard to put a number on it but the Linux community alone can easily be 10-20 mln people. /. alone has well over a million registered users, and that million is what you could call "politically active" when it comes to the Linux community. People that care enough to register a user name and presumably comment on stories (why else register, after all).
So the number of people that REALLY care, that care enough to at least speak up (not counting the relatively passive and anonymous act of voting) is in the same order of magnitude for McBride and Fortuyn. With the difference that McBride lives in a country with a far more violent culture.
Sounds quite an obvious thing to do to me - but then there are so many inventions that are obvious as soon as you see it. Obviousness is indeed one of the tests for a patent to pass, though it's one of the easiest I think to pass and one of the hardest to prove.
When the system is working properly that doesn't mean it's a good thing. DRM comes to mind. If that works properly it's a bad thing because it prevents you from doing what you could technically do.
This whole issue is a form of DRM (=Digital Restrictions Management of course - nothing more, nothing less, no rights involved here, the DRM user is the victim and has no rights anymore). Big brother's Firefox Co. and Microsoft Co. decide what is good for the end-user, and force it upon them. MS with those plug-ins, FF with blocking and shortly after re-enabling them remotely.
When Sony prevents you to play some CD on your computer /. falls over each other condemning them. When FF blocks a plug-in that was installed legitimately and that people are actually using, that's OK. Or is that because the plug-in in question is from Microsoft? It's waiting for a serious bug in adblock plus or so, and have FF disable that one remotely too.
There is more to IP than just Linux. Now re-read GP's post.
That is what many other people thought as well.
But it takes only one madman to make a murder - for example the murder of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. He was popular at the time, but had also many opponents. But no-one ever thought anyone would come out and hurt him. He did not have a bodyguard even as far as I know. Violence in Dutch politics is as good as unheard of. Still he got killed - it took just one madman to do so.
Or a bit closer to your home: John F. Kennedy. Depending on which conspiracy theory you believe, it took only one madman with a gun to take him out. Just one was enough.
McBride lives in one of the countries with the largest number of firearms in the population. A country with one of the highest numbers of murders and violence rates. Not many people will be actually out to kill him, but it takes only one. Just one. One crazy guy with a gun in his hands, and it's over for Mr McBride. And that guy has made vast numbers of enemies, so I'm not surprised he's paranoid and has bodyguards with him.
"Fired" still sounds better than "I'll Be Back" in this case.
Well for better or for worse he did manage to keep SCO afloat for years - without making sales, just burning piles of money on law suits. I still don't understand how they got all that money (other than a "licensing" deal with Microsoft I have not heard of any significant income for the company). I have to say he impresses me. It's not easy to make it last as long as he did, to cause as much damage and trouble as he did. McBride has made heaps of money for many people I'm sure (not just for himself), and in a business sense that alone makes him a good CEO.
So yes I'm sure he's a good manager/CEO, and I'm sure he's evil. Just like Hitler was a really strong leader, and also totally evil (sorry, Godwin, just using him as an example here).
It's impressive how Windows people are not only used to pay a lot for software, but also to pay a lot for software that fixes parts of their other software that they paid a lot for already.
Try again anonymous Microsoft fanboi.
Don't panic, this is probably just an AC that forgets that Java != JavaScript, the latter which is built in natively into the browser indeed. And which, by the way, even can be disabled by the user, and easily so.
They still allow you to use Windows for that matter... or IE... both full of bugs, known vulnerabilities and the like.
Joking aside, this may break some .NET functionality (I wouldn't know, not on Windoze - I did see it happen in my XP in a VM that I use for e-banking only) which makes it sound strange that MS so readily accepted the block. I hear a patch is out already even - which is also blocked by FF due to them blocking by name/version and the patch has no new version number (strange action from MS - how to tell you are patched?).
On top of that, FF doesn't seem to have a way to override this block even if you'd want to, e.g. after patching. That's equally bad from FF's side.
Whether one should take out loans to study is a different discussion - education is by many people seen as an investment in ones self, and taking loans to make investments is considered a very reasonable thing to do.
Back to the tax thing and government investment: higher educated people on average earn higher salaries than low educated people, so have to pay more in tax. I can imagine that this higher tax will already pay for the education over their lifetime.
Secondly, having more highly educated people will improve your economy (stronger companies, innovations done, etc), and more money made in the economy at large also means more tax income for the government.
Also I have heard about the idea of a education-tax, the basic idea behind it is that education is free for the student (the government pays for the tuition fees and gives a hand-out to the student for living expenses - up to a certain period, or with performance checks on the way), but after finishing the study the student pays a percentage of their income on top of normal taxes for the education they enjoyed. The period this is paid depends on the time spent studying, e.g. three years tax for every year of higher education. Quite interesting idea; too radical though for most governments to seriously consider.
Before The Netherlands, now Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Police Force is nicknamed "Asia's Finest" and I mostly agree with that.
I have had a few police contacts so far and all were positive experiences from the side of the police. That is not to say I enjoyed it of course, but the not enjoying part was not because of the police but the reasons I needed them.
So two decks out of the 6-8 in the shoe played. Well then the counting-advantage may just start at that point, enough cards out to have a sufficiently non-homogeneous distribution of the rest. So need at least another 20 hands or so to see whether a player is showing counter-signs such as sudden high bids.