why should i want/be required to be an expert at cars, computers, vcrs, home building, etc? i shouldn't and i shouldn't be branded 'lazy' for not wanting to know. for each of those things there should be experts (surprise! there are) who enable me to use each of these things without any expertise whatsoever. in turn, i may be an expert for these people in another area (chiropractor, lawyer, farrier) that they can't/don't want to master.
if i don't need to use a computer for what i do, why should i have to know or even want to know how to use one. if you don't ride horses, do you need/want to know how to shoe one (and even if you do ride horses, you probably don't shoe them).
so get off your high horse and realize that you're not an expert in everything ('i could harly read properly before i was playing the piano and using a Mac' blah blah blah) and neither is anyone else. that, in itself, does not make someone lazy.
if you like ricky gervais in the slightest, you should find his podcast hilarious. in fact, it's one of 2 podcasts that actually come close to the podcast hype. i believe the rest all suck completely. but $7 bucks a months IS a bit high. at least for me, i'll skip the 30 minutes of continuous laughter i was enjoying. half that -- i'd consider it.
it's ridiculous to claim this policy is a perfect example of the FAA's complete ineptness and a specific byproduct of them being tasked with 'two conflicting tasks' when most other countries (without an FAA) have the SAME POLICY.
there's a party in the river? i'll be there in 10.
now i'm not saying that the no fly list is useful or properly implemented or not but...
as one of those false positives i'm going to have to correct you on this one. in general -- if you are a false positive on the no-fly list when you check in the airline employees will have to call a phone number where they will ask for additional identifying information and they will look more closely at your id. once you give it to them, they'll clear you for the flight. this will happen every time you go to fly. occasionally they will automatically make you one of the 'random' screens for extra security. this does not mean they will molest you or interrogate you.
eventually (after about 30 flights) this did stop and the explanation i was given was that they (same airline so they can identify me using my frequent flyer number as well) cleared me enough times by dialing the 'security hotline' that they could now do it automatically.
your mileage may vary. but to say that every 'John Nelson' is going to be denied boarding if one is on the no fly list is just plain wrong. absolutely and completely wrong.
you don't have to submit to a credit check for a hamburger either, but you do when you buy a car. so stop with your damn stupid questions. the airline has "a right to know who you are" if that's the condition they sell their tickets under. and that is.
or some weird pattern. peachtree accounting saved files are always flagged by hotmail regardless of extension or stuffing it into a zip file or something. claims trend micro's scanner found a virus in it. go to trend micro's web page and have it scan the file -- no virus. so there's no way to send it via hotmail. so you go get an e-mail account through gmail.
In fact, the politicians in Massachusetts are bright enough NOT to hire some programmers to develop whatever features are required. Governments are NOT IT shops and they don't usually have the expertise in either programming or managing programming projects to be able to do this in any way cost effectively. And it's not something they should try to get into - it's completely orthogonal to the business of governance. As such, it has nothing to do with being 'in the pockets' of anybody and all to do with 'that's not what we know how to do.'
no that's not what i'm suggesting, and it's seems pretty obvious that the difference between a gun and the mouse as input device is so different as to make such a comparison moot.
but if you must, you can try things like 1 degree of rotation is 6 degrees of in game rotation. then you can get 180 degrees by rotating only 30. but don't try to turn around too much. you'll also lose fine grained control of your aim. in addition, i think you're going to be needing rather spendy motion sensors. you can maybe get clever by having a non-linear relationship such that 1 degree is 1 degree but 30 degrees is actually 360. if you can get that to work smoothly, i commend you, but you'll hit another big problem with the second thing...
second, a mouse you slide to the side to turn. the distance you move determines how far you turn. once you stop moving it though, you are once again considered at the center position. i think it's obvious that this doesn't work in rotating a pistol in your hand.
this is only for a single direction (left/right) of movement. add the others (up/down, forward/back, and aiming) and you've got even more problems.
but i think the fact that flight simulation games have mock cockpit controls, racing games have steering wheels/pedals, and so on the fact that no FPS games have even attempted a gimicky gun for movement make it pretty obvious that the problem is nowhere near simple to solve.
because i think that for actual movement on the screen (something that's not just point and click like duck hunter) a motion sensing gun would suck.
did you seriously think this would work? how do you rotate the gun to turn 180 degrees and shoot something? if you raise and lower the gun for jumping and crouching, how do you maintain aim? this is going to be impossible to use. if you turn the gun to the left to turn left, you're either now facing left yourself or your wrist is cocked to the left in a horribly unhealthy position. and you're going to have to stay that way in order to go straight in that direction. this is silly. even sillier if it's a light gun and needs to be pointing at the screen to work.
Note that outsourcing is only a piece of the services offering of IBM. The outsourcing of which they speak is when a company outsources their entire IT department to IBM. This is a relatively small portion of IBMs services compared to their more typical consulting services where they provide more typical project based stuff.
that's because IBM Rescue and Recovery CANNOT be used to repair/restore linux or osx. it also cannot be used to 'repair' windows systems -- only restore an image what would have been saved to the external device.
> But it begs the question: why would anyone in their right mind boot to Linux to recover a windows machine?
Noone would. Except those people who have IBM Rescue and Recovery software which creates images of the Windows installation (including data). This will allow them to store these images on something other than the default of a hidden partition on the hard drive and then restore the image to any hard drive just by booting into Linux which requires 0 licenses and can be easily stripped down to provide the very small set of functions actually needed for this task.
This doesn't really contain recovery tools. This works specifically with IBM Rescue and Recovery which is a program which creates images of your hard disk and stores them for later restoration. Up until now, these images were, as far as I know, restricted to residing on a hidden partition on your hard drive. Depending on the size of actual applications and data on your OS partition, these images could VERY EASILY top 1GB. Do you want to split that 30GB image over 50CDs or stick it on the unused portion of your 60GB iPod for easy recovery if your hard drive crashes?
I will venture a guess that there are NO linux distros with the specific ability specified in the article. What it seems everybody is missing is that this is NOT a general recovery solution. This is a specific recovery solution that works with the XPoint software listed (also called IBM Rescue and Recovery). This software is installed now on every new IBM Thinkpad (and maybe their desktops as well) and essentially stores images of a person's hard drive on a hidden portion of their hard drive. For example, my Thinkpads hard drive is technically 80GB but when I first received it there was, I believe, only 60GB available in Windows because IBM creates a hidden partition that is used specifically for storing the images of the first 60GBs. In case of OS corruption of any sort, one can then use the utilities provided by the BIOS to restore a recent working (and complete) image.
Yes one could use linux to do something similar, but not that works with this IBM R&R software. So for all those without IBM systems (or the Xpoint software separately installed) this is more pointless than anyone here seems to realize. However, for those with IBM systems, it is significantly more useful than most people here seem to realize. First, in the event of a hard drive crash the current setup of this software is useless because the images are restricted to being on the hard drive that just crashed. However, being able to offload these images to any other external drive now both frees up all of your hard drive for actual work and allows you to easily recover everything in the event of the hard drive crash. Most people I know with Thinkpads remove that software immediately so they can reclaim their entire hard drive, now they can have the best of both worlds.
if you look at the crap you have to agree to it says that the $250.00 deposit is non-refundable whether or not they ever produce or deliver a cat. with that kind of agreement i wouldn't reserve one until i saw one with my own eyes.
XP is NOT, by default, set up to auto-connect to non-prefered networks (at least using XP to control the wireless device). This has to be switched on and I'm not really sure it's reasonable to expect many people have/will do that.
but then you also have to remember that just because we import it, doesn't mean we import it from the persian gulf. hybridcars.com doesn't claim we wouldn't need to import any oil, it claims that we wouldn't need to import any from the persian gulf.
Probably more damaging is the fact that the music industry he's most familiar with is that of the 1970s, not that of the contemporary industry. Sure, he's involved, but as a veteran/player, not as an up-and-coming musician.
Yes, he's been putting out music and touring since the 70's. How does this not mean he's MORE qualified to talk about how the music industry has changed than an up-and-coming 'musician' (The very musician the Frontline episode is saying has changed for the worse because of the industry)? You do realize that's what the Frontline show is about, right?
As for the drug busts comment -- nice work on being the last one to criticize him for it...
i'm pretty sure you're crazy. 4'6" not short? maybe not a midget, but the average height of white, american females (yes, i'm making an assumption) is 5'5". If your wife really is 4'6" then she's significantly shorter than the average and certainly is '*that* short'. my girlfriend is 5'0" tall and i rarely see (adult) women shorter than she is.
in addition, the average height for white, american men is 5'10" so if you want to possibly classify men under 4'11" as 'midgets' (11 inches shorter than average), you certainly better allow your wife (coincidently 11 inches shorter than average) to be classified as a midget.
maybe you should measure your wife, verfiy she's really 4'6" and then, if true, come to terms with the fact that she's frickin' short.
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Similarly, I used to think chopsticks originated in Asia, at least until someone made me aware of their creation as an enticing gimmick by immigrant restaurant owners in American mining communities in the 1800s and subsequent exportation to the Far East as a unique dining tool.
What are you smoking? Chopsticks have been used in Asia for thousands of years. Their 'invention' in American mining communities is completely false.
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why should i want/be required to be an expert at cars, computers, vcrs, home building, etc? i shouldn't and i shouldn't be branded 'lazy' for not wanting to know. for each of those things there should be experts (surprise! there are) who enable me to use each of these things without any expertise whatsoever. in turn, i may be an expert for these people in another area (chiropractor, lawyer, farrier) that they can't/don't want to master.
if i don't need to use a computer for what i do, why should i have to know or even want to know how to use one. if you don't ride horses, do you need/want to know how to shoe one (and even if you do ride horses, you probably don't shoe them).
so get off your high horse and realize that you're not an expert in everything ('i could harly read properly before i was playing the piano and using a Mac' blah blah blah) and neither is anyone else. that, in itself, does not make someone lazy.
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if you like ricky gervais in the slightest, you should find his podcast hilarious. in fact, it's one of 2 podcasts that actually come close to the podcast hype. i believe the rest all suck completely. but $7 bucks a months IS a bit high. at least for me, i'll skip the 30 minutes of continuous laughter i was enjoying. half that -- i'd consider it.
it's ridiculous to claim this policy is a perfect example of the FAA's complete ineptness and a specific byproduct of them being tasked with 'two conflicting tasks' when most other countries (without an FAA) have the SAME POLICY.
there's a party in the river? i'll be there in 10.
the kind of ridiculously wasteful policy used by nearly every other industrialized country?
now i'm not saying that the no fly list is useful or properly implemented or not but...
as one of those false positives i'm going to have to correct you on this one. in general -- if you are a false positive on the no-fly list when you check in the airline employees will have to call a phone number where they will ask for additional identifying information and they will look more closely at your id. once you give it to them, they'll clear you for the flight. this will happen every time you go to fly. occasionally they will automatically make you one of the 'random' screens for extra security. this does not mean they will molest you or interrogate you.
eventually (after about 30 flights) this did stop and the explanation i was given was that they (same airline so they can identify me using my frequent flyer number as well) cleared me enough times by dialing the 'security hotline' that they could now do it automatically.
your mileage may vary. but to say that every 'John Nelson' is going to be denied boarding if one is on the no fly list is just plain wrong. absolutely and completely wrong.
you don't have to submit to a credit check for a hamburger either, but you do when you buy a car. so stop with your damn stupid questions. the airline has "a right to know who you are" if that's the condition they sell their tickets under. and that is.
except it doesn't rhyme with 'sign' and 'line'. it rhymes with 'scene' and 'lean'
http://xinehq.de/index.php/faq#PRONOUNCE
and yet you're here on slashdot - presumably loving linux? ironic?
wow! it's so good you regularly fall asleep to it. that must be a GREAT show.
or some weird pattern. peachtree accounting saved files are always flagged by hotmail regardless of extension or stuffing it into a zip file or something. claims trend micro's scanner found a virus in it. go to trend micro's web page and have it scan the file -- no virus. so there's no way to send it via hotmail. so you go get an e-mail account through gmail.
In fact, the politicians in Massachusetts are bright enough NOT to hire some programmers to develop whatever features are required. Governments are NOT IT shops and they don't usually have the expertise in either programming or managing programming projects to be able to do this in any way cost effectively. And it's not something they should try to get into - it's completely orthogonal to the business of governance. As such, it has nothing to do with being 'in the pockets' of anybody and all to do with 'that's not what we know how to do.'
no that's not what i'm suggesting, and it's seems pretty obvious that the difference between a gun and the mouse as input device is so different as to make such a comparison moot.
but if you must, you can try things like 1 degree of rotation is 6 degrees of in game rotation. then you can get 180 degrees by rotating only 30. but don't try to turn around too much. you'll also lose fine grained control of your aim. in addition, i think you're going to be needing rather spendy motion sensors. you can maybe get clever by having a non-linear relationship such that 1 degree is 1 degree but 30 degrees is actually 360. if you can get that to work smoothly, i commend you, but you'll hit another big problem with the second thing...
second, a mouse you slide to the side to turn. the distance you move determines how far you turn. once you stop moving it though, you are once again considered at the center position. i think it's obvious that this doesn't work in rotating a pistol in your hand.
this is only for a single direction (left/right) of movement. add the others (up/down, forward/back, and aiming) and you've got even more problems.
but i think the fact that flight simulation games have mock cockpit controls, racing games have steering wheels/pedals, and so on the fact that no FPS games have even attempted a gimicky gun for movement make it pretty obvious that the problem is nowhere near simple to solve.
because i think that for actual movement on the screen (something that's not just point and click like duck hunter) a motion sensing gun would suck.
did you seriously think this would work? how do you rotate the gun to turn 180 degrees and shoot something? if you raise and lower the gun for jumping and crouching, how do you maintain aim? this is going to be impossible to use. if you turn the gun to the left to turn left, you're either now facing left yourself or your wrist is cocked to the left in a horribly unhealthy position. and you're going to have to stay that way in order to go straight in that direction. this is silly. even sillier if it's a light gun and needs to be pointing at the screen to work.
dumbest thing i've read today. mark me flamebait.
Note that outsourcing is only a piece of the services offering of IBM. The outsourcing of which they speak is when a company outsources their entire IT department to IBM. This is a relatively small portion of IBMs services compared to their more typical consulting services where they provide more typical project based stuff.
that's because IBM Rescue and Recovery CANNOT be used to repair/restore linux or osx. it also cannot be used to 'repair' windows systems -- only restore an image what would have been saved to the external device.
> But it begs the question: why would anyone in their right mind boot to Linux to recover a windows machine?
Noone would. Except those people who have IBM Rescue and Recovery software which creates images of the Windows installation (including data). This will allow them to store these images on something other than the default of a hidden partition on the hard drive and then restore the image to any hard drive just by booting into Linux which requires 0 licenses and can be easily stripped down to provide the very small set of functions actually needed for this task.
This doesn't really contain recovery tools. This works specifically with IBM Rescue and Recovery which is a program which creates images of your hard disk and stores them for later restoration. Up until now, these images were, as far as I know, restricted to residing on a hidden partition on your hard drive. Depending on the size of actual applications and data on your OS partition, these images could VERY EASILY top 1GB. Do you want to split that 30GB image over 50CDs or stick it on the unused portion of your 60GB iPod for easy recovery if your hard drive crashes?
I will venture a guess that there are NO linux distros with the specific ability specified in the article. What it seems everybody is missing is that this is NOT a general recovery solution. This is a specific recovery solution that works with the XPoint software listed (also called IBM Rescue and Recovery). This software is installed now on every new IBM Thinkpad (and maybe their desktops as well) and essentially stores images of a person's hard drive on a hidden portion of their hard drive. For example, my Thinkpads hard drive is technically 80GB but when I first received it there was, I believe, only 60GB available in Windows because IBM creates a hidden partition that is used specifically for storing the images of the first 60GBs. In case of OS corruption of any sort, one can then use the utilities provided by the BIOS to restore a recent working (and complete) image.
Yes one could use linux to do something similar, but not that works with this IBM R&R software. So for all those without IBM systems (or the Xpoint software separately installed) this is more pointless than anyone here seems to realize. However, for those with IBM systems, it is significantly more useful than most people here seem to realize. First, in the event of a hard drive crash the current setup of this software is useless because the images are restricted to being on the hard drive that just crashed. However, being able to offload these images to any other external drive now both frees up all of your hard drive for actual work and allows you to easily recover everything in the event of the hard drive crash. Most people I know with Thinkpads remove that software immediately so they can reclaim their entire hard drive, now they can have the best of both worlds.
if you look at the crap you have to agree to it says that the $250.00 deposit is non-refundable whether or not they ever produce or deliver a cat. with that kind of agreement i wouldn't reserve one until i saw one with my own eyes.
XP is NOT, by default, set up to auto-connect to non-prefered networks (at least using XP to control the wireless device). This has to be switched on and I'm not really sure it's reasonable to expect many people have/will do that.
but then you also have to remember that just because we import it, doesn't mean we import it from the persian gulf. hybridcars.com doesn't claim we wouldn't need to import any oil, it claims that we wouldn't need to import any from the persian gulf.
from yahoo:
From January to May of 2003, the U.S. received 42.8% of its imported oil from OPEC nations and 23.5% from Persian Gulf countries.
and the top 5 countries are...
# 17.8% from Saudi Arabia
# 16.5% from Canada
# 12.8% from Venezuela
# 12.0% from Mexico
# 7.5% from Nigeria
so the hybridcars.com claim as impressive as it first seems nor is it necessarily wrong.
Yes, he's been putting out music and touring since the 70's. How does this not mean he's MORE qualified to talk about how the music industry has changed than an up-and-coming 'musician' (The very musician the Frontline episode is saying has changed for the worse because of the industry)? You do realize that's what the Frontline show is about, right?
As for the drug busts comment -- nice work on being the last one to criticize him for it...
i'm pretty sure you're crazy. 4'6" not short? maybe not a midget, but the average height of white, american females (yes, i'm making an assumption) is 5'5". If your wife really is 4'6" then she's significantly shorter than the average and certainly is '*that* short'. my girlfriend is 5'0" tall and i rarely see (adult) women shorter than she is.
in addition, the average height for white, american men is 5'10" so if you want to possibly classify men under 4'11" as 'midgets' (11 inches shorter than average), you certainly better allow your wife (coincidently 11 inches shorter than average) to be classified as a midget.
maybe you should measure your wife, verfiy she's really 4'6" and then, if true, come to terms with the fact that she's frickin' short.
What are you smoking? Chopsticks have been used in Asia for thousands of years. Their 'invention' in American mining communities is completely false.