All the precision GPS approaches on that list in Alaska are at Anchorage though. I actually found a link to GPS re Alaska Airlines (ick ppt but you can view it in html on Google):
More likely than some cell phone jamming the GPS, irate passengers will attempt to stuff a loudly yakking jerkwad through a window, thus decomressing the aircraft and causing mass casualties.
Seriously, so many of the forseeable modes of failure have been engineered around, future aircraft crashes will always be either "unusual" (Well, we never expected toilet fumes to overcome the crew!") or just man-made terrorism.
Back it the olden days, it was good to go home and feel like you had accomplished all the day's work you set out to do.
Now, it's a sign you are a slacker who didn't tale on enough work in the first place.
Values have changed, and the appearance of frantic activity is much better for your career than the actual amount and quality of work you get done, and you get rewarded for it regardless of whether someone else has to clean up the half-assed mess you made.
Many firms require their associates to engage in a certain amount of pro bono work. Wouldn't want people to think they were a binch of venal ambulance chasers, now.
and CNN says that's what he was using. When you're the VP you probably get free loads from some lobbyist, so finding ammo at WalMart for an unusual gauge isn't a problem.
My grandpappy hunted with a.410 bore, although you don't see many of those anymore either.
>>> You can tell the priorities at a company by how cranky its admins are.
Is cranky good or is cranky bad? My guess is cranky is bad.
The best developers I've worked with know how to create both features and stability. What makes sysadmins cranky is, to take an example, getting into an argument with a developer who has just noticed that all the soft links have permissions 777 and thinks it's a security problem.
Actually the bigger the organization the less variation in crankiness. It may seem overly bureaucratic, but having that bureaucracy keeps people from rolling out bad code thirty minutes before the market opens. I think TFA was a pretty typical description of work at a large company (except this company turned out to be crooked.)
The big point TFA missed (this being a late 90s kind of project) was how these days, Java makes programmers lazy or stupid by abstracting system internals. Why should a developer worry about mmap() vs malloc() when he can blame all performance problems on the sysadmins' inability to twiddle JVM and system parameters properly? Again, in the largest organizations, there actually are some Java programmers who understand performance, because they actually are more likely to have a training budget, as opposed to smaller organizations where training is random.
I find that any RSI-type discomfort I feel has more to do with poor wrist cushioning, particularly if the mouse is too close to the desk edge and the desk edge puts sharp pressure on my inner wrist or arm.
If you have wrist discomfort, be sure you're using a wrist pad to rule out that as a source of pressure.....
My community has enough trouble getting rid of its old tires, let alone having its own nuke in the backyard. And preferebly surround each plant with lots of guys with these the between to shred any kwaazy tewwowists who come around.
I just logged in to this Search History thing. I have both GMail and a personalized home page, and even though I have been using Google for years my search history is empty. I had to opt in to the service to get it to start tracking, and then I was able to successfully suspend it again. I wasn't exactly presented with pages and pages of disclaimers though, and it's not clear if Google will disaasociate my search results from my login from now on.
So how does the license,er licence or whatever, plate scheme work in the UK? I notice the newspapers are full of ads from people auctioning off their anagrammatic or otherwise cool plate numbers, like/. numbers, the lower the cooler. Is there no system in place to prevent duplicates?
In the US each state has its own system, numbers are assigned randomly, and the state plate are all different enough that there's no confusion. Of course you can get "vanity plates" of your own design but they can't be a sequence easilty confused with the normal random plates.
Of curse any system is subject to data entry errors.
What I find dubious about this theory is that eating rubbish is expensive. You pretty much get what you pay for in calories at McDonalds for example. I have lunch there about once a week and usually get 2 McChickens. This is about 740 cals (kC), about 32g total fat according to the McD website. I chase it down with a big bottle of water. Yum. But all around me are people ordering megameals with large fries, soda, etc, and paying $6 - $7. (These are San Francisco prices.) Even though my McChickens are on "sale" for $1, "list price" for them is under $2.
Same with KFC. I had an uncontollable urge to eat at KFC and found some coupons in the newspaper. Sheesh, a bucket of chicken is like $16 without the coupons.
Meanwhile, there are a lot of skinny, healthy, people running around in other parts of the world subsisting on nearly-vegetarian, nearly-protein complete beans and rice diets, or some other vegetarian variation, that costs pennies a day. Americans could eat that way too if we wanted, for maybe $1 or $2 per day not counting fuel costs. Good lettuce is less than two dollars a head still, root veggies like carrots and onions calorie for calorie cheaper still. So I just don't buy the good food is too expensive theory.
So I can't really justify the "poor people eat badly" theory. I don't think their diet is any worse than anyone else's. They very likely *do* have reduced access to health care, and when you have 9 kids or are working 3 subsistence jobs at WalMart and spending a lot of your time stuck in traffic commuting between your jobs you certainly aren't going to have time to visit the health club each day.
I've been asked to put '.' in the default path at several places. This seems to be a common request in giant-bloated-java-crapware-land where you have to source in half a dozen scripts' worth of environment variables to get things to work properly. When I argued against it people acted me like I had bats flying out of my nose.
I dunno if this kind of thing is much used except by malevolent insiders. Same for buffer overruns, I haven't seen any buffer overruns do anything but crash a Solaris or Linux server in a long time. It's so much easier to just get hold of some personal info (I won't even say "steal" personal info, it's so easy) and social your way in nowadays.
I think a mite can pass through the eye of a needle. Or maybe it lodges in your eye? Either way, it's awful hard to "cast" the first might, lest one be smitten or something.
>>>> So it's not about a law at all, it's about the governments attempt to show the need for a law.
This post is one of the few to point this out. This is just a fishing expedition to provide data for - something. God knows what. Maybe the next step - lets go to one random residential neighborhood in Anytown USA and sieze all the computers. Who knows what we'll find! We promise not to arrest anyone - this time!
Aside from the privacy concerns, what business wants to be obliged to respond to random government requests for information, outside of that is already required by law and good business practices?
BTW Almost certainly the info Google might be forced to provide contains no identifiable information, so you can take your tinfoil hats off. Yahoo and AOL already complied, and aggregated the data and removed individually identifying information. Microsoft, good little quislings they are, had no comment.
Making almost everything accessible in as open a way as possible under the circumstances is the best way to make China more free. Most Chinese are aware their government is corrupt, that they have serious envionmental issues to work through, and that Falun Gong is a harmless cult.
This is my Cuba Theory - if instead of the stupid policy we have now the US opened up our borders to Cuba, allowed free trade and free communication even within the limitations of Castro's murderous regime, Cuba would be a free and prosperous democracy in months, not years, and Castro would live out his days happily doddering away in retirement.
The same IS WORKING NOW from China. Because we opened our doors, China is a better and freer place every day.
Of course, we are utterly dependent on Chinas' good will, and soom half of America will be scrubbing toilets for Red Army officers, but hey that's progress.
Pre-Centrino P3's underclock automatically as well. My piece of crap Presario 1750 drops the CPU speed from 733 to 600-mumble when external power is removed. This feature extends my battery life from about 1 minute to nearly two minutes. (Compaq's battery charging logic in these Presarios was bogus and their batteries were all defective or ruined by the bugs in the charging logic.)
Aren't you aware that the US economy depends largely on the work of lawyers, and people who scrub toilets for lawyers? The never-ending legal fight can only propel the US ecomony upwad and onward.
It is a slanderous urban legend that the license terms for OSS are impossible to enumerate. They are hard to find sometimes, and if you really want to be thorough about it you need to just give up and buy a supported OS.
But all the licenses you are likely to encounter are listed here:
So y'all can give the tinfoil hat a break, at least if you remember to sign out and exit your browser. Not easy. I think IE doesn't even write these cookies to disk.
And what buggy old browser are you using that lets the CIA read Google's cookies on your machine?
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I suspect there are some palces where a precision GPS approach has replaced no instrument approach at all. List of precision GPS approaches:
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http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/air_traffic/waas-lpv
All the precision GPS approaches on that list in Alaska are at Anchorage though. I actually found a link to GPS re Alaska Airlines (ick ppt but you can view it in html on Google):
www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/summaryrpts/37
linked from
http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/air_traffic/waas.htm
There are probbaly a number of places where they can get in now that they have a non-precision GPS approach, where no approach existed before.
More likely than some cell phone jamming the GPS, irate passengers will attempt to stuff a loudly yakking jerkwad through a window, thus decomressing the aircraft and causing mass casualties.
Seriously, so many of the forseeable modes of failure have been engineered around, future aircraft crashes will always be either "unusual" (Well, we never expected toilet fumes to overcome the crew!") or just man-made terrorism.
Back it the olden days, it was good to go home and feel like you had accomplished all the day's work you set out to do.
Now, it's a sign you are a slacker who didn't tale on enough work in the first place.
Values have changed, and the appearance of frantic activity is much better for your career than the actual amount and quality of work you get done, and you get rewarded for it regardless of whether someone else has to clean up the half-assed mess you made.
Hey I have an idea - why don't you video providers pay me extra to access my pipes and I'll bump up the priority of your traffic.
Your truly,
-Satan
Many firms require their associates to engage in a certain amount of pro bono work. Wouldn't want people to think they were a binch of venal ambulance chasers, now.
There actually does seem to be a 28 gauge, although I've never seen one:
.410 bore, although you don't see many of those anymore either.
http://www.chuckhawks.com/intro_gauges.htm
and CNN says that's what he was using. When you're the VP you probably get free loads from some lobbyist, so finding ammo at WalMart for an unusual gauge isn't a problem.
My grandpappy hunted with a
A guy gets on at the bottom and punches all the buttons. For 100,000 km your're thinking, "asshole!"
Quick, get Cheney on the phone, this has so many practical applications!
1) Detect user is in movie theater with ringer activated.
2) Explode.
3) Profit!
>>> You can tell the priorities at a company by how cranky its admins are.
Is cranky good or is cranky bad? My guess is cranky is bad.
The best developers I've worked with know how to create both features and stability. What makes sysadmins cranky is, to take an example, getting into an argument with a developer who has just noticed that all the soft links have permissions 777 and thinks it's a security problem.
Actually the bigger the organization the less variation in crankiness. It may seem overly bureaucratic, but having that bureaucracy keeps people from rolling out bad code thirty minutes before the market opens. I think TFA was a pretty typical description of work at a large company (except this company turned out to be crooked.)
The big point TFA missed (this being a late 90s kind of project) was how these days, Java makes programmers lazy or stupid by abstracting system internals. Why should a developer worry about mmap() vs malloc() when he can blame all performance problems on the sysadmins' inability to twiddle JVM and system parameters properly? Again, in the largest organizations, there actually are some Java programmers who understand performance, because they actually are more likely to have a training budget, as opposed to smaller organizations where training is random.
They could be using SMELLS to communicate aggregated information.
Ah the 'Net is full-o-beans today!
I find that any RSI-type discomfort I feel has more to do with poor wrist cushioning, particularly if the mouse is too close to the desk edge and the desk edge puts sharp pressure on my inner wrist or arm.
If you have wrist discomfort, be sure you're using a wrist pad to rule out that as a source of pressure.....
My community has enough trouble getting rid of its old tires, let alone having its own nuke in the backyard. And preferebly surround each plant with lots of guys with these the between to shred any kwaazy tewwowists who come around.
Back in the Goodle Days, the battle was set for AC vs DC on the electricity grid. Thomas Edison backed DC, and Westinghouse backed AC.
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AC won, and Westinghouse became rich and famous: http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/edison/sectio
I just logged in to this Search History thing. I have both GMail and a personalized home page, and even though I have been using Google for years my search history is empty. I had to opt in to the service to get it to start tracking, and then I was able to successfully suspend it again. I wasn't exactly presented with pages and pages of disclaimers though, and it's not clear if Google will disaasociate my search results from my login from now on.
So how does the license,er licence or whatever, plate scheme work in the UK? I notice the newspapers are full of ads from people auctioning off their anagrammatic or otherwise cool plate numbers, like /. numbers, the lower the cooler. Is there no system in place to prevent duplicates?
In the US each state has its own system, numbers are assigned randomly, and the state plate are all different enough that there's no confusion. Of course you can get "vanity plates" of your own design but they can't be a sequence easilty confused with the normal random plates.
Of curse any system is subject to data entry errors.
What I find dubious about this theory is that eating rubbish is expensive. You pretty much get what you pay for in calories at McDonalds for example. I have lunch there about once a week and usually get 2 McChickens. This is about 740 cals (kC), about 32g total fat according to the McD website. I chase it down with a big bottle of water. Yum. But all around me are people ordering megameals with large fries, soda, etc, and paying $6 - $7. (These are San Francisco prices.) Even though my McChickens are on "sale" for $1, "list price" for them is under $2.
Same with KFC. I had an uncontollable urge to eat at KFC and found some coupons in the newspaper. Sheesh, a bucket of chicken is like $16 without the coupons.
Meanwhile, there are a lot of skinny, healthy, people running around in other parts of the world subsisting on nearly-vegetarian, nearly-protein complete beans and rice diets, or some other vegetarian variation, that costs pennies a day. Americans could eat that way too if we wanted, for maybe $1 or $2 per day not counting fuel costs. Good lettuce is less than two dollars a head still, root veggies like carrots and onions calorie for calorie cheaper still. So I just don't buy the good food is too expensive theory.
So I can't really justify the "poor people eat badly" theory. I don't think their diet is any worse than anyone else's. They very likely *do* have reduced access to health care, and when you have 9 kids or are working 3 subsistence jobs at WalMart and spending a lot of your time stuck in traffic commuting between your jobs you certainly aren't going to have time to visit the health club each day.
I've been asked to put '.' in the default path at several places. This seems to be a common request in giant-bloated-java-crapware-land where you have to source in half a dozen scripts' worth of environment variables to get things to work properly. When I argued against it people acted me like I had bats flying out of my nose.
I dunno if this kind of thing is much used except by malevolent insiders. Same for buffer overruns, I haven't seen any buffer overruns do anything but crash a Solaris or Linux server in a long time. It's so much easier to just get hold of some personal info (I won't even say "steal" personal info, it's so easy) and social your way in nowadays.
I think a mite can pass through the eye of a needle. Or maybe it lodges in your eye? Either way, it's awful hard to "cast" the first might, lest one be smitten or something.
Lije it is said, "Blessed are the Cheesemakers".
>>>> So it's not about a law at all, it's about the governments attempt to show the need for a law.
This post is one of the few to point this out. This is just a fishing expedition to provide data for - something. God knows what. Maybe the next step - lets go to one random residential neighborhood in Anytown USA and sieze all the computers. Who knows what we'll find! We promise not to arrest anyone - this time!
Aside from the privacy concerns, what business wants to be obliged to respond to random government requests for information, outside of that is already required by law and good business practices?
BTW Almost certainly the info Google might be forced to provide contains no identifiable information, so you can take your tinfoil hats off. Yahoo and AOL already complied, and aggregated the data and removed individually identifying information. Microsoft, good little quislings they are, had no comment.
Making almost everything accessible in as open a way as possible under the circumstances is the best way to make China more free. Most Chinese are aware their government is corrupt, that they have serious envionmental issues to work through, and that Falun Gong is a harmless cult.
This is my Cuba Theory - if instead of the stupid policy we have now the US opened up our borders to Cuba, allowed free trade and free communication even within the limitations of Castro's murderous regime, Cuba would be a free and prosperous democracy in months, not years, and Castro would live out his days happily doddering away in retirement.
The same IS WORKING NOW from China. Because we opened our doors, China is a better and freer place every day.
Of course, we are utterly dependent on Chinas' good will, and soom half of America will be scrubbing toilets for Red Army officers, but hey that's progress.
Pre-Centrino P3's underclock automatically as well. My piece of crap Presario 1750 drops the CPU speed from 733 to 600-mumble when external power is removed. This feature extends my battery life from about 1 minute to nearly two minutes. (Compaq's battery charging logic in these Presarios was bogus and their batteries were all defective or ruined by the bugs in the charging logic.)
Aren't you aware that the US economy depends largely on the work of lawyers, and people who scrub toilets for lawyers? The never-ending legal fight can only propel the US ecomony upwad and onward.
It is a slanderous urban legend that the license terms for OSS are impossible to enumerate. They are hard to find sometimes, and if you really want to be thorough about it you need to just give up and buy a supported OS.
But all the licenses you are likely to encounter are listed here:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
And once you have those the risks with "unlicensed" or "non-GPL" compliant software isn't any greater than any other OS.
So y'all can give the tinfoil hat a break, at least if you remember to sign out and exit your browser. Not easy. I think IE doesn't even write these cookies to disk.
And what buggy old browser are you using that lets the CIA read Google's cookies on your machine?