Concorde was a joint British-French venture, but anyway...
That there was Russian interest in the blueprints was "discovered" by the "security services", and so some modified plans were drawn up and subsequently copied by the KGB spooks.
The resulting aeroplane was the Tupelov TU-144, affectionatly known as "Concordski" - a 2/3 scale replica of a Concorde that couldn't fly . . . or at least not for very long:)
(bastard netscape 4.6 screwed my login, hence the previous ac post)
Public - Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
What nonsense. Who decides what is the public interest? Does this mean no coders could write a bulk mortgage foreclosure system? No more missile guidance software?
I've generally found that such "ideas" for professional organisations are reasonably explained by:
I would bet they said some time ago 'ok, lets record these people the shows, this would not do any great harm, as the quality would be bad, and it would not spread to more than a few people'. This way the could do as if they were consumer-friendly without many loss of $$$.
But the rules have changed with mp3.
Not at all. For many years DeadHeads have been taking direct mixing desk feed into portable DAT machines, and burning CDs from them - producing better quality "live" albums than many commercial offerings.
The underlying philosphy of the band is that each and every live performance is different - even two nights in the same arena on the same tour can have a markedly different feel to them - so preserving that moment is a worthwhile exercise for the fans.
This is radically different to most "live" bands who either mime to tapes or perform the shows script so mechanically that you might as well be watching a video.
Now to the MP3 ban. Unfortunatley, I can understand where the reasoning comes from. The original idea of the band was for people to record live shows and trade them for other live show recordings. Deadabase is not adhering to the spirit of the idea.
Have all your routers block the IP addresses of the "problematic" machines, and/or set DCHP/BOOTP to refuse to issue an address to the MAC address of problem machines.
You'll find it increadible how quickly people will resolve their config issues once you cut off their fat pr0n pipe...
I find it incredible that while Intel receives so much grief for having a serial number in a CPU that NO EXISTING SOFTWARE makes use of, the NetPC (or any one of its other names) gets no attention at all.
Is it just me who finds the thought of having to have my "computer" connected to a service provider every time I want to run an application a little suspicous? How would you like to pay a fee every time you start your favorite word processor?
What about the privacy implications of your "computer" having NO local storage at all? Where do you plan keeping your private PGP keys?
About 18 years ago, our state-of-the-art college network was 8 Apple ][s connected to a 10Mb Corvus HD - which was formatted into umpteen 147K partitions...
The entire thing was backed up onto a VHS via UHF...
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Concorde was a joint British-French venture, but anyway...
:)
That there was Russian interest in the blueprints was "discovered" by the "security services", and so some modified plans were drawn up and subsequently copied by the KGB spooks.
The resulting aeroplane was the Tupelov TU-144, affectionatly known as "Concordski" - a 2/3 scale replica of a Concorde that couldn't fly . . . or at least not for very long
(bastard netscape 4.6 screwed my login, hence the previous ac post)
I've got hardly any of this stuff . . .
More generally, please don't export to terroristic nations, or those oppressive to their own people.
I suppose I ought to stop exporting the good old US of A...
I assume that your code is distribution-independent, so why no have the end user get a copy of S.u.S.E Linux..?
I get ~12 hours our of my Rio with a single Duracell AA...
They have a mid-year "release date", but only a dodgy artists impression of the unit on the site...
I suspect a certain amount of bull*cough*...
but both the parallel and USB versions can be hot-swapped with ease.
http://www.adaptec.com/products/index.html#1394
Public - Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
What nonsense. Who decides what is the public interest? Does this mean no coders could write a bulk mortgage foreclosure system? No more missile guidance software?
I've generally found that such "ideas" for professional organisations are reasonably explained by:
Those who can, do. Those who can't, administrate.
I just copied the link to the clipboard, and Gozillagrabbed the file for me!
http://www.gozilla.com
but I think this one would need checkboxes
I would bet they said some time ago 'ok, lets record these people the shows, this would not do any great harm, as the quality would be bad, and it would not spread to more than a few people'. This way the could do as if they were consumer-friendly without many loss of $$$.
But the rules have changed with mp3.
Not at all. For many years DeadHeads have been taking direct mixing desk feed into portable DAT machines, and burning CDs from them - producing better quality "live" albums than many commercial offerings.
The underlying philosphy of the band is that each and every live performance is different - even two nights in the same arena on the same tour can have a markedly different feel to them - so preserving that moment is a worthwhile exercise for the fans.
This is radically different to most "live" bands who either mime to tapes or perform the shows script so mechanically that you might as well be watching a video.
Now to the MP3 ban. Unfortunatley, I can understand where the reasoning comes from. The original idea of the band was for people to record live shows and trade them for other live show recordings. Deadabase is not adhering to the spirit of the idea.
Who is right and who is wrong? Don't know.
What kind of nonsense is this? NO external SCSI version?
MS's OS division earns more money than some countries. Does anyone really think that MS would allow a RedHat or Caldera distro of Windows?
Is there any way I can find out my default post score without actually posting anything?
Have all your routers block the IP addresses of the "problematic" machines, and/or set DCHP/BOOTP to refuse to issue an address to the MAC address of problem machines.
You'll find it increadible how quickly people will resolve their config issues once you cut off their fat pr0n pipe...
However, is it too much to hope for a spell checker?
Great idea, but only if it does UK English as well as US...
Just because I live in NY, it doesn't mean I don't have a colourful lifestyle...
If a response to an article gets a good +score we get to see it, but do we see all the responses to it, or just those that also get a good + score.
I'd rather like to see trolls/flamebait/me-firsts off the root, but not lose down-checked responses on the threads.
Maybe if I could have a threshold of 2 for the root and 0 for the threads (or something?)
Just some random thoughts instead of going to get lunch...
I find it incredible that while Intel receives so much grief for having a serial number in a CPU that NO EXISTING SOFTWARE makes use of, the NetPC (or any one of its other names) gets no attention at all.
Is it just me who finds the thought of having to have my "computer" connected to a service provider every time I want to run an application a little suspicous? How would you like to pay a fee every time you start your favorite word processor?
What about the privacy implications of your "computer" having NO local storage at all? Where do you plan keeping your private PGP keys?
...how are they getting VooDoo2 acceleration in a window . . . and will it work with SLI?
The flash memory used by the Rio is compact only in that it is small, not that it conforms to the CompactFlash specification.
I made the same mistake when I bought mine, but I can't return it now...
A previous /. story report a guy in Australia got AUD 100 as a refund from Toshiba.
This translates to USD 62.90 according to Yahoos' financial section.
Are eMachines getting a better volume discount than Toshiba?
About 18 years ago, our state-of-the-art college network was 8 Apple ][s connected to a 10Mb Corvus HD - which was formatted into umpteen 147K partitions...
The entire thing was backed up onto a VHS via UHF...