There was also some talk a while back about using FastPass logs to issue speeding tickets. If you got from Exit 12 to Exit 77 in under one hour, you covered 65 miles in under an hour. If the speed limit is 65MPH, at some point you were speeding, or you've invented wormhole navigation or teleportation technology. You can either demonstrate your new technology or pay the fine for speeding. I don't know if that's ever gone anywhere.
The French (that I know of; others probably) do this already on Autoroutes. Your ticket is timestamped at the entry toll. If you get to the exit toll too early, you get a speeding fine.
Agreed. It all looks smooth till you go and download that Linux ISO (DVD). The first 3Gb come across at close to the advertised speeds, then you're capped down to 768Kb/s.
I suspect they do something to the stream, too. I've never managed to d/l an ISO yet where the checksum tallied.
The description really is for a flying saucer, and it will — of necessity — need an equally-fantastic motor. Without that motor, nobody’ll even make it out of the parking lot.
Actually, I thought that most of the requirements mentioned in the summary could probably be met by a hovercraft...
Yeah. I understand that CarphoneWarehouse are planning to set up a large number of outlets around the UK.
It sounds from what people here are saying that Best Buy is where the store assistants from Tandy went when they folded. That alone ensures I'll never set foot in one.
Absolutely. I don't have exact figures, but I seem to recall that sea level on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal was > 30m higher than on the Caribbean side, possibly due to the moon dragging the water around.
A lot of consultants made some money by fixing the problem.
Fixed that for you. Working on pensions systems for people who were born in the 30's and later, who could still be alive well after 2000, we started fixing Y2K bugs in 1990. We didn't alll get paid shedloads of cash, either.
Just because you never saw any of the hard work being done, didn't mean it wasn't happening.
I discovered a bug in a 3rd-party calendar control which was particularly interesting: If the year of the date was set to 1999 (or less) and you added a value to it to give a date greater than 2000, it actually incorrectly made it 1000 more, ie 1999 + 1 = 3000. Not so obvious!
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There was also some talk a while back about using FastPass logs to issue speeding tickets. If you got from Exit 12 to Exit 77 in under one hour, you covered 65 miles in under an hour. If the speed limit is 65MPH, at some point you were speeding, or you've invented wormhole navigation or teleportation technology. You can either demonstrate your new technology or pay the fine for speeding. I don't know if that's ever gone anywhere.
The French (that I know of; others probably) do this already on Autoroutes. Your ticket is timestamped at the entry toll. If you get to the exit toll too early, you get a speeding fine.
You forgot about the lawyers...
It's always fun when you misread titles like this and end up with:
Not that I have any idea just how a land-powered vehicle would work, but the imagery was intriguing.
Obvious, really. You nuke it from orbit...
You haven't met my son, have you...
Not in the UK.
You actually want to see flash content? What kind of deviant are you?
Agreed. It all looks smooth till you go and download that Linux ISO (DVD). The first 3Gb come across at close to the advertised speeds, then you're capped down to 768Kb/s.
I suspect they do something to the stream, too. I've never managed to d/l an ISO yet where the checksum tallied.
But... we've always been at war with Oceania!
Worked for Helium, didn't it?
140 characters should be enough for everybody!
For some values of Mormon, obviously.
Is that what you'd use to cook a spherical cow in?
Good luck reading that in bed, or on the bus, or in the dentist's waiting-room...
You misunderstand. Actually building the thing has involved a whole lot of new engineering and scientific knowledge.
Doing experiments now it's up there is fine, but just getting it up there taught us a lot (including, the shuttle was a bad idea).
So... your newspaper has a backlight?
If the guy was a redneck from the south, I think the article would have mentioned shotgun pellets...
Did anybody tell the US government that?
Physorg doesn't credit a reporter because they're printing a CfA-authored story
Holy shit! I misread that as CIA... the mind boggles at the conspiracy theories that would cause...
Oh, come on. Don't look at the photostreams with remaining eye.
The description really is for a flying saucer, and it will — of necessity — need an equally-fantastic motor. Without that motor, nobody’ll even make it out of the parking lot.
Actually, I thought that most of the requirements mentioned in the summary could probably be met by a hovercraft...
Best Buy is coming to the UK this year.
Yeah. I understand that CarphoneWarehouse are planning to set up a large number of outlets around the UK.
It sounds from what people here are saying that Best Buy is where the store assistants from Tandy went when they folded. That alone ensures I'll never set foot in one.
Absolutely. I don't have exact figures, but I seem to recall that sea level on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal was > 30m higher than on the Caribbean side, possibly due to the moon dragging the water around.
A lot of consultants made some money by fixing the problem.
Fixed that for you. Working on pensions systems for people who were born in the 30's and later, who could still be alive well after 2000, we started fixing Y2K bugs in 1990. We didn't alll get paid shedloads of cash, either.
Just because you never saw any of the hard work being done, didn't mean it wasn't happening.
I discovered a bug in a 3rd-party calendar control which was particularly interesting: If the year of the date was set to 1999 (or less) and you added a value to it to give a date greater than 2000, it actually incorrectly made it 1000 more, ie 1999 + 1 = 3000. Not so obvious!
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"it'll never catch on" -- oh, how I wish this were true
though the code may be crap, but the release notes deem it perfect, and further defines all (the many, obvious) bugs as 'features'
pure marketing genius.
WTF? Has Microsoft been around that long then?