Thankfully I think most of the world likes to prevent employers from screwing over their employees like that, and vice versa mind you. At least here in NZ, firing on the spot will get you into court very quickly where you will be severely punished for your disregard of the rights of the employee.
An example was a Kiwi pilot who is considered by Kiwis the first person to ever have a controlled flight he just did it a few years after the Wright Brothers.
Richard Pearse, and he was potentially first, research shows it was likely very close either way. Certainly not "a few years after".
Flying is HIGHLY regulated by the government. For one, you need a medical certificate to fly which needs to be updated every few years
Don't be so quick to generalize there sonny. Lst time I checked you do not need a license to fly an ultralight aircraft in the United States of America. You do not need a medical. You are not even required to undertake any training. You can perfectly legally purchase a Part 103 ultralight aircraft, jump in, and go fly.
You'll probably kill yourself if you did do that, but at least you'd be doing so legally.
Also, jQuery is terribly popular. Not including support for it would have been a huge oversight.
Bollocks.
Specifically including "mozilla developer favorite javascript library" is not the right thing for them to do AT ALL.
By basing this around jQuery (and it looks like the jetpack code is dependant on it rather than just "supporting" it), I believe it is is fair to say that you pretty much say to developers using mootools, or prototype or any other library (and there are many) "my way or the highway", owing to the pollution caused by all common javascript libraries making it inherently incompatible.
The correct way to do this, would have been to write it in bog standard javascript, do not pollute the dom or javasacript objects any more than absolutely necessary, encapsulate everything you need in a single object.
Lots of work, holidays are not supposed to be about work.
How about this idea instead - setup a blog, and each day post JUST ONE photo which tells a story about that one day. Annotate with where you are, who you are with, and why you thought this photo said it.
If any of my friends was doing that, you can bet I'd add it to my feed reader.
Holiday photos are about stories and experience, not places. Without you to tell the story, the photos no matter how beautiful, could be taken by anybody, it's meaningless.
But I wouldn't be surprised if the Linux flight simulators (X-Plane and FlightGear) pick up all the slack. The hard core people will go nuts putting in the hooks for realistic cockpits, added inputs, etc.
Funny how people see things differently.
One of the reasons that I left Flight Sim behind years ago to use FlightGear instead was cockpits, "photo realism" is all well and good but I'll take a basic looking 3D cockpit (like basically all Flight Gear aircraft) over a 2D cockpit of any quality (like basically all Flight Sim aircraft) any day.
As for X-Plane, I tried it once a year or so ago. It was crap compared to Flight Gear, in my opinion.
Apart from the trouble reported in this/. article which I found occuring on one of the existing sites I wrote yesterday (simply because there were no USPS prices being returned, no error, but took about 30 seconds to work out what happened), USPS simply sucks ass.
Here's why:
Some time ago, they had an API to get rates, it was called RateV2. Then they "updated", and now have RateV3. RateV3 is the only specification published. To get access to the Rate API servers, you must first test your implementation against thier testing servers successfully, when they see that they let you on the production server....
Thier testing servers only work with a limited version of RateV2.
So, in order to use the USPS API, you must:
Write to the now unpublished RateV2.
Test that RateV2 on the test servers.
Ask USPS to allow you to use Production (and get the keys etc) because you have successfully tested.
Write completely new code against RateV3.
Test that RateV3 on the production servers.
And if you try and show the USPS staff the logical problem in this process, they will reply "I can not put you on production servers, until you have done three successful tests on the test servers".
In NZ, I've always understood:
Bun + Some Hot Filling = Burger (or commonly "Hamburger" regardless of the presence of ham)
Bun/Roll + Some Cold Filling = Filled Roll (or commonly just "Roll")
Bread Slices + Any Filling = Sandwich regardless of temperature. Bread type not important; exception:
Toasted s bread with hot filling, usually with the bread sealed at the edges forming an enclosed pocket, or filled with melted cheese which forms the sealing action without mechanical assistance = Toasted Sandwich (or Toastie). However, if said sandwich is formed from ciabatta or other special bread, the name reverts to Heated or Pressed Sandwich.
Here's the thing. Big Sky Theory only works outside of airways (official, and unofficial) and especially outside airport circuits. Inside the circuit, the pilot is rather busy getting setup for landing, running through checks, at uncontrolled fields they need to ascertain the runway in use, wind conditions etc.. unfortunately so are the other 10 aircraft all converging on that small piece of airspace. This is when most mid-air collisions happen, not in the big sky, but in the little patches above airports.
That's 28.74752 km/h faster than the fastest speed limit in New Zealand, if you got seen by the police doing that speed around here, even when overtaking, you're gonna be nicked quick smart.
I can't believe the number of people in this discussion saying "but what if they need to go faster to avoid an accident".
Damn, faster than that on typical public highways and you are an accident waiting to happen.
The Vusix are not shutter glasses, they are a VR headset/head mounted display, that is, they have two tiny lcd displays infront of your eyes which provide the imaging. They also do head tracking.
Shutter glasses which is what is being discussed here use your normal monitor to provide the display, and thier "screens" are either black, or transparent. Your monitor rapidly switches between displaying the left and right image, at the same time as your glasses switch between blacking your right or left eye.
Shutter glasses are pretty simple devices, while systems like the Vusix are vastly more complicated and expensive simply for the fact that they have to pack in two fully functinal LCD monitors of suitable resolution in front of your eyes.
Head Mounted Displays like the Vusix have come quite a long way over the years, compare the pretty lightweight Vusix with the monstrosities of old. They do have a ways to go though
* They need higher resolution, at the moment I think the Vusix at 640x480 is as good as you can get.
* They need a wider field of view, as you noted.
* They meed to be cheaper. $400US is a pretty pricey bit of kit.
* Preferably, they need to be wireless.
If those issues could be resolved the Vusix would be a kick ass system.
Unless IE defines "INTRANET" in some peculiar manner...
Person A, employee of Company A, views the company's website, it is viewed over INTRANET.
Person B, Joe Public, views same website, it is viewed over INTERNET.
Person A now sees it in "compatability" mode, Person B (with defaults) now sees it in "standards" mode.
Oh, how I look forward to the hacking and kludging because the same damn version of the browser in the same damn default configuration, displays the same damn website in two completely different ways.
I think you are talking about the Network Applet (nm-applet ?). That is a Notification widget and as such is displayed in the Notification Bar along with similar icons like the Update notifications.
You should be able to grab the handle of the notification bar (which will be to the left of the icon) and drag it as required (and lock it if necessary).
So you sent people home, and productivity went up, so for "management reasons" you brought everybody back, to the low productivity work environment.
What does this tell you about your managers.
"Up your skirt" (or in any other way under your clothes) is not public, it doesn't matter if you are in a bedroom, or in the town square, it is assuredly private and one reasonably has an expectation of privacy in that regard.
Your recording situation, IANAL but I'd say it's no different than telephoto, provided the subjects are in public. It is, granted, a little grey though if the conversation is specifically being held in a manner which conveys privacy (hushed voices, participants obviously not wanting to be heard).
Your nudity situation, has nothing to do with privacy, the word you seek is decency. The city/state/country has an expectation of what it calls decency (sometimes masquerading as health and safety) in public and legislates such that this is adhered to, your or anybody else's expectation of privacy is a totally separate thing.
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Ahhh, America, land of shit employment laws.
Thankfully I think most of the world likes to prevent employers from screwing over their employees like that, and vice versa mind you. At least here in NZ, firing on the spot will get you into court very quickly where you will be severely punished for your disregard of the rights of the employee.
Richard Pearse, and he was potentially first, research shows it was likely very close either way. Certainly not "a few years after".
Did it fly? Don't think so. DNF doesn't count.
The rest I agree with.
Don't be so quick to generalize there sonny. Lst time I checked you do not need a license to fly an ultralight aircraft in the United States of America. You do not need a medical. You are not even required to undertake any training. You can perfectly legally purchase a Part 103 ultralight aircraft, jump in, and go fly.
You'll probably kill yourself if you did do that, but at least you'd be doing so legally.
Just what is wrong with that!
And you call yourself a nerd. Pshaw.
Poster is talking regards jQuery, and other javascript libraries, which typically use a function named "$" to select & augment elements from the dom.
By using jQuery and thus polluting the global function namespace in this manner, they exclude the ability to use other javascript libraries.
Bollocks.
Specifically including "mozilla developer favorite javascript library" is not the right thing for them to do AT ALL.
By basing this around jQuery (and it looks like the jetpack code is dependant on it rather than just "supporting" it), I believe it is is fair to say that you pretty much say to developers using mootools, or prototype or any other library (and there are many) "my way or the highway", owing to the pollution caused by all common javascript libraries making it inherently incompatible.
The correct way to do this, would have been to write it in bog standard javascript, do not pollute the dom or javasacript objects any more than absolutely necessary, encapsulate everything you need in a single object.
Lots of work, holidays are not supposed to be about work.
How about this idea instead - setup a blog, and each day post JUST ONE photo which tells a story about that one day. Annotate with where you are, who you are with, and why you thought this photo said it.
If any of my friends was doing that, you can bet I'd add it to my feed reader.
Holiday photos are about stories and experience, not places. Without you to tell the story, the photos no matter how beautiful, could be taken by anybody, it's meaningless.
You're doing it wrong.
First, why use 32 bit compiled software at all, just get the 64 bit (or compile it yourself).
Second, 32 bit stuff should work fine, as long as you have the requisite 32 bit runtime libraries installed.
While I do not bother with this (no 64 bit, no use) you may wish to view: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474790
No it's not.
Mrs Slocum says this phrase often.
Mrs Bucket does not.
You seem to have made an error in your statement, please allow me to correct you.
Hopefully they'll spend their spare time contributing to FlightGear -- a much better simulator if actual flight simulation is important to you.
Seriously, FlightGear > X-Plane on so many levels.
But I wouldn't be surprised if the Linux flight simulators (X-Plane and FlightGear) pick up all the slack. The hard core people will go nuts putting in the hooks for realistic cockpits, added inputs, etc.
Funny how people see things differently.
One of the reasons that I left Flight Sim behind years ago to use FlightGear instead was cockpits, "photo realism" is all well and good but I'll take a basic looking 3D cockpit (like basically all Flight Gear aircraft) over a 2D cockpit of any quality (like basically all Flight Sim aircraft) any day.
As for X-Plane, I tried it once a year or so ago. It was crap compared to Flight Gear, in my opinion.
Apart from the trouble reported in this /. article which I found occuring on one of the existing sites I wrote yesterday (simply because there were no USPS prices being returned, no error, but took about 30 seconds to work out what happened), USPS simply sucks ass.
Here's why:
Some time ago, they had an API to get rates, it was called RateV2.
Then they "updated", and now have RateV3.
RateV3 is the only specification published.
To get access to the Rate API servers, you must first test your implementation against thier testing servers successfully, when they see that they let you on the production server....
Thier testing servers only work with a limited version of RateV2.
So, in order to use the USPS API, you must:
Write to the now unpublished RateV2.
Test that RateV2 on the test servers.
Ask USPS to allow you to use Production (and get the keys etc) because you have successfully tested.
Write completely new code against RateV3.
Test that RateV3 on the production servers.
And if you try and show the USPS staff the logical problem in this process, they will reply "I can not put you on production servers, until you have done three successful tests on the test servers".
Did you just confuse JAVA and JavaScript, or have I misunderstood you?
In NZ, I've always understood:
Bun + Some Hot Filling = Burger (or commonly "Hamburger" regardless of the presence of ham)
Bun/Roll + Some Cold Filling = Filled Roll (or commonly just "Roll")
Bread Slices + Any Filling = Sandwich regardless of temperature. Bread type not important; exception:
Toasted s bread with hot filling, usually with the bread sealed at the edges forming an enclosed pocket, or filled with melted cheese which forms the sealing action without mechanical assistance = Toasted Sandwich (or Toastie). However, if said sandwich is formed from ciabatta or other special bread, the name reverts to Heated or Pressed Sandwich.
This is what you get: http://thefutureofthings.com/pod/1012/gyrocopter-to-the-rescue.html
Here's the thing. Big Sky Theory only works outside of airways (official, and unofficial) and especially outside airport circuits. Inside the circuit, the pilot is rather busy getting setup for landing, running through checks, at uncontrolled fields they need to ascertain the runway in use, wind conditions etc.. unfortunately so are the other 10 aircraft all converging on that small piece of airspace. This is when most mid-air collisions happen, not in the big sky, but in the little patches above airports.
That's 28.74752 km/h faster than the fastest speed limit in New Zealand, if you got seen by the police doing that speed around here, even when overtaking, you're gonna be nicked quick smart.
I can't believe the number of people in this discussion saying "but what if they need to go faster to avoid an accident".
Damn, faster than that on typical public highways and you are an accident waiting to happen.
Actually the Decathalon is rag and tube. Steel tube fuselage covered in fabric.
Cornflakes. Cornflakes. Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes. Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes.
Cornflakes.
***
The postercommment compression filter is the single most predicatable and boring filter that any post could be subjected to.
The Vusix are not shutter glasses, they are a VR headset/head mounted display, that is, they have two tiny lcd displays infront of your eyes which provide the imaging. They also do head tracking.
Shutter glasses which is what is being discussed here use your normal monitor to provide the display, and thier "screens" are either black, or transparent. Your monitor rapidly switches between displaying the left and right image, at the same time as your glasses switch between blacking your right or left eye.
Shutter glasses are pretty simple devices, while systems like the Vusix are vastly more complicated and expensive simply for the fact that they have to pack in two fully functinal LCD monitors of suitable resolution in front of your eyes.
Head Mounted Displays like the Vusix have come quite a long way over the years, compare the pretty lightweight Vusix with the monstrosities of old. They do have a ways to go though
* They need higher resolution, at the moment I think the Vusix at 640x480 is as good as you can get.
* They need a wider field of view, as you noted.
* They meed to be cheaper. $400US is a pretty pricey bit of kit.
* Preferably, they need to be wireless.
If those issues could be resolved the Vusix would be a kick ass system.
Unless IE defines "INTRANET" in some peculiar manner...
Person A, employee of Company A, views the company's website, it is viewed over INTRANET.
Person B, Joe Public, views same website, it is viewed over INTERNET.
Person A now sees it in "compatability" mode, Person B (with defaults) now sees it in "standards" mode. Oh, how I look forward to the hacking and kludging because the same damn version of the browser in the same damn default configuration, displays the same damn website in two completely different ways.
I think you are talking about the Network Applet (nm-applet ?). That is a Notification widget and as such is displayed in the Notification Bar along with similar icons like the Update notifications. You should be able to grab the handle of the notification bar (which will be to the left of the icon) and drag it as required (and lock it if necessary).
Surely this has to be a simple mistake, somebody must have typed in 499 instead of 4.99. Who in thier right mind would think otherwise.
So you sent people home, and productivity went up, so for "management reasons" you brought everybody back, to the low productivity work environment. What does this tell you about your managers.
"Up your skirt" (or in any other way under your clothes) is not public, it doesn't matter if you are in a bedroom, or in the town square, it is assuredly private and one reasonably has an expectation of privacy in that regard.
Your recording situation, IANAL but I'd say it's no different than telephoto, provided the subjects are in public. It is, granted, a little grey though if the conversation is specifically being held in a manner which conveys privacy (hushed voices, participants obviously not wanting to be heard).
Your nudity situation, has nothing to do with privacy, the word you seek is decency. The city/state/country has an expectation of what it calls decency (sometimes masquerading as health and safety) in public and legislates such that this is adhered to, your or anybody else's expectation of privacy is a totally separate thing.