My wife works for USDA. On several occasions, she has gone a week or more without email due to botched Lotus Notes upgrades. Mostly, I think it was due to incompetent contractors, but, considering the times I've had a gun put to my head and forced to use Notes (over a slow WAN connection - the very definition of torture) I am sure some of that is intrinsic to the application. I'm not sure what they use now, she does 90% of her email on her blackberry, but I think they have gone to Exchange/Outlook.
That crazed loners write good code seems largely to be a myth. Check out the Daily WTF - nearly all the stories involve some project that only one person knew the inner workings of.
If one and only one person knows how something like a filesystem works, I don't care what happens to it. Under the terms of its license and the demands of the OSS "bazaar", ReiserFS will continue on, fork, or wither away.
I know you can argue the same is true of significant parts of Linux as well, but there is a considerable amount of weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth devoted to overcoming that.
Why use encryption when you can fly 40 hours to Dubai and back, and use the hours to either bill the government or fulfill your pro-bono work requirement?
> he fault in out justice system is that our fate is in the hands of the lowest common denomiator.
Oh puhleeze.
Reiser could have waived his right to a jury trial, and put his fate in the hands of a judge. Since you make the argument that a jury not composed of geniuses is unfair, he was even more stupid not to waive. Unless you have the same contempt for judges that you do for non-geniuses who make up juries.
Beta blockers are a 2nd choice for hypertension most cases. 1st choice is a diuretic or angiotensin inhibitor, fewer side effects. The side effects aren't potentially lethal, but you need to use them under the supervision of a doctor just to make sure they, like don't slow your heart down so much it stops.
A friend with hypertension who takes them says they have the same effect as weed on his mood - so he takes his dose right before he heads out on his daily freeway commute, and no road rage!
I bought a suplused HP Jornada 720 for $100. A very usable ultra portable except The OS cannot be upgraded, so one is stuck with Windows CE 3.01, no way of transferring files off the machine except by sneakernetting the memory card, and a browser than can't do SSL2, Javascript, Java, iFrames, PNG's... But for plain web pages it's outstanding.
It cost $900 when it came out in the late 90s, they could probably make it for less than $500 today.
There have never been any restrictions on calls on the ground, as long as the plane is not on the runway. When was the last time anyone got stuck in the air for three hours? That does not happen anymore.
It's legal everywhere in the US, and not legal in most if not all of Europe.
It's not *necessary* in most of Europe - almost always there is some decrepit truck driving 50 km/h down the right lane, and trucks driving 55 km/h trying to pass him, trucks driving 60 km/h trying to pass them, etc.
I never had so much fun on the dreary drive between Dallas and Houston as the times when we used to carry a radar speed gun in the car and would turn it on when some tailgating speeding asshole flew past us.
Extra points for visible smoke emanating from the screeching tires.
Last I heard the IRS still had football-field-sized warehouses stacked floor to ceiling with reel to reel 1/2" tapes.
I can just see a Google appliance in use there - a tiny box spidering a hectare of moldering IBM 360s, with 60 operators standing in line waiting to mount tapes.
Mostly, a rollable OLED screen wont break if you drop it. The biggest advance in mobile computing of the decade will be Real Soon Now when the LCD is dead and gone.
I for one only ask for ubiquity, like you. $50 per month per device for network connectivity will hopefully be a thing of the past in 2015.
Well, you can perfect your superduper bioweapon but since it's a DOE facility you'll just get arrested and the US Government will end up selling your invention to terrorists...... oh wait that never happens!
Federal employees are a tiny faction of the US electorate.
Are you talking about just pay for Congress? What do they care? Most of them are well off and would accept whatever fluctuations in their income resulted however lame their policies were.
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Every FAA-registered aircraft does have one. Every boat venturing more than three (maybe six) miles offshore has to have one.
They don't always work.
AFAIK Fossett was piloting a Bellanca, which is heavy enough that it would have to be FAA-registered.
Mee thinka you UI sucky sucky!
No YOU sucky sucky!
My wife works for USDA. On several occasions, she has gone a week or more without email due to botched Lotus Notes upgrades. Mostly, I think it was due to incompetent contractors, but, considering the times I've had a gun put to my head and forced to use Notes (over a slow WAN connection - the very definition of torture) I am sure some of that is intrinsic to the application. I'm not sure what they use now, she does 90% of her email on her blackberry, but I think they have gone to Exchange/Outlook.
That crazed loners write good code seems largely to be a myth. Check out the Daily WTF - nearly all the stories involve some project that only one person knew the inner workings of.
If one and only one person knows how something like a filesystem works, I don't care what happens to it. Under the terms of its license and the demands of the OSS "bazaar", ReiserFS will continue on, fork, or wither away.
I know you can argue the same is true of significant parts of Linux as well, but there is a considerable amount of weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth devoted to overcoming that.
Why use encryption when you can fly 40 hours to Dubai and back, and use the hours to either bill the government or fulfill your pro-bono work requirement?
> he fault in out justice system is that our fate is in the hands of the lowest common denomiator.
Oh puhleeze.
Reiser could have waived his right to a jury trial, and put his fate in the hands of a judge. Since you make the argument that a jury not composed of geniuses is unfair, he was even more stupid not to waive. Unless you have the same contempt for judges that you do for non-geniuses who make up juries.
Unbibium, the most cromulent of all elements!
Yeah, if there's a war and the US turns SA back on you'll be S.O.L.
Koala sanctuary? Oh, you're in the dingo feed area instead!
It doesn't consider other modes of transport, like my rocket-powered Breeches of Security.
I mean, if you learned something from a professor who was under the influence of performance enhancing drugs, do you have to forget it?
Beta blockers are a 2nd choice for hypertension most cases. 1st choice is a diuretic or angiotensin inhibitor, fewer side effects. The side effects aren't potentially lethal, but you need to use them under the supervision of a doctor just to make sure they, like don't slow your heart down so much it stops.
A friend with hypertension who takes them says they have the same effect as weed on his mood - so he takes his dose right before he heads out on his daily freeway commute, and no road rage!
I bought a suplused HP Jornada 720 for $100. A very usable ultra portable except The OS cannot be upgraded, so one is stuck with Windows CE 3.01, no way of transferring files off the machine except by sneakernetting the memory card, and a browser than can't do SSL2, Javascript, Java, iFrames, PNG's ... But for plain web pages it's outstanding.
It cost $900 when it came out in the late 90s, they could probably make it for less than $500 today.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&product=61677
There have never been any restrictions on calls on the ground, as long as the plane is not on the runway. When was the last time anyone got stuck in the air for three hours? That does not happen anymore.
It's called "a chain".
According to TFA, it shoots Red Bull cans.
Liberation through overpriced syrupy caffeinated beverages! Bet Rommel never thought of that.
Triple points if they die!!
If you're going to drive like an asshole, learn how to brake without losing control of your car.
I bought an HP Jornada 720 surplused from the Dutch Railways from Tigerdirect for $100.
:-)
Sucks to not have Javascript on the web browser
Managed to get Wifi working on it though. And VNC works, although painfully. And the battery was in good shape.
It's legal everywhere in the US, and not legal in most if not all of Europe.
It's not *necessary* in most of Europe - almost always there is some decrepit truck driving 50 km/h down the right lane, and trucks driving 55 km/h trying to pass him, trucks driving 60 km/h trying to pass them, etc.
I never had so much fun on the dreary drive between Dallas and Houston as the times when we used to carry a radar speed gun in the car and would turn it on when some tailgating speeding asshole flew past us.
Extra points for visible smoke emanating from the screeching tires.
Double extra points for loss of vehicle control!
The engadget people are dissembling. If you look at http://www.engadgetmobile.com/ the logo, in addition to being magenta, looks like this:
engadgeT--mobile
I think they might have a problem.
Last I heard the IRS still had football-field-sized warehouses stacked floor to ceiling with reel to reel 1/2" tapes.
I can just see a Google appliance in use there - a tiny box spidering a hectare of moldering IBM 360s, with 60 operators standing in line waiting to mount tapes.
Mostly, a rollable OLED screen wont break if you drop it. The biggest advance in mobile computing of the decade will be Real Soon Now when the LCD is dead and gone.
I for one only ask for ubiquity, like you. $50 per month per device for network connectivity will hopefully be a thing of the past in 2015.
Well, you can perfect your superduper bioweapon but since it's a DOE facility you'll just get arrested and the US Government will end up selling your invention to terrorists ... ... oh wait that never happens!
On other words, it's not a routing problem, it's how to color the graph so that a given route always works.
Federal employees are a tiny faction of the US electorate.
Are you talking about just pay for Congress? What do they care? Most of them are well off and would accept whatever fluctuations in their income resulted however lame their policies were.