When I type 'ommadon' into my browser, how is it supposed to know if I mean to google on the string 'ommadon'*, or visit the host names 'ommadon' on my local network**, or resolve the gTLD 'ommadon'***?
If browser developers hadn't conflated the address field with the search field it wouldn't be a problem.
Your DCP or static confg sets the search domains. If ommadon doesn't exist in any of those ( that is, not your NAS box ), try to resolve.ommadon. as a eponymous host in that gTLD.
My 'local' hackerspace ( in a town about 10 miles away ) is expensive; basic membership is 25 UKP per month just to enter the place. And that doesn't cover costs of events or projects.
Hackerspaces might be good value for a student who could call in every evening, but for middle-age wage slaves who could avail once or twice a month it's uneconomic. But perhaps we're not their target demographic.
Do you find yourself searching the web with -wikipedia as a parameter, so that you can actually find sources of information and not endless repeats of what people copied from your site?
The E-Paper display and 7 day battery life got me.
Yes, E-Paper and not eInk. If it was the latter your battery life could perhaps be several weeks.
E-Paper is a clever marketing term for... a Sharp monochrome LCD display. It still requires a low current to maintain the display, even when the graphic is static.
[Pegg:] Probably some film student who wanted to demonstrate his or her knowledge of film terminology
Oh my, if only I was as informed about visual effects as Mr Pegg.
First, it's not a film term; it comes from photography. Lens flare indicates poor composure highlighting the flaws of the lens.
The first lens flare meme in filmed entertainment that I recall was in Babylon 5's CGI scenes, and we mocked that even though we loved the show and we weren't film students.
So now Mr Abrahms has discovered the technique for emphasising 'immediacy' and no-one may criticise.
1991: The first recorded successful scramjet test, when a modified Russian SAM was used as a booster for an engine which achieved supersonic combustion for 5 seconds.
1992: Another similar test, with French funding, pushed that out to 15 seconds.
2002: HySHot demonstrated the first controlled flight with supersonic combustion...
Corporation Tax is, of course, only levied on the profits disclosed by the company's annual return. So only profitable companies have to pay 23% of their net as tax.
But this encourages the Big Boys to simply shift their profit to other, overseas, divisions, through 'franchise payments' and other mechanisms.
Perhaps it's time to say that any company making over 1 million in annual revenue will pay, say, 5% on its revenue above that level. No discussion of profits. It is much easier to determine how much money a company took-in. What money landed in its UK bank accounts is what is taxed.
A traceroute showed the connection going around in a circle amongst a dozen or so routers near Milton Keynes before heading back to a server hosted in the exact same exchange I was connected to.
Reminds me of a line-test number that was available in BT exchanges up until the early 1990s ( wish I could remember the actual number ). It was three digits you dialled for an immediate ring-back-on-hang-up to test the line. However, certain people began to notice consistent delays in the ring-back... in terms of several seconds. Other people on the same exchange at the same time did not encounter such delays.
It was withdrawn soon after and functionally replaced with the 17070 'engineering test' menu.
The FAA is satisfied with the solution, and they're the ones who are going to get blamed if it fails catastrophically
Which counts for absolutely nothing. It's not as if individuals in the FAA will go to prison for negligence. There is no sanction for the FAA simply signing something off ( after all, they certified the original battery installation ).
In the backward Soviet Union, a new airliner type would be operated on domestic cargo and mail flights for 12 to 18 months before being assessed for carriage of fare-paying passengers. We didn't adopt that practice in the west because it was more important for the bottom line to certificate aircraft with fatal design flaws ( e.g. DC-10's cargo hatches ) and tidy-up afterwards.
The F-117 is a low-flying ground attack aircraft. The B-2 is a (very) high-flying strategic bomber.
F-117s and B-2s cruise around the same altitude, 30,000 to 40,000 feet. Not particularly high. Same as commercial airlines.
The SA-3 battery that shot it down only locked onto it with radar when it opened its bomb bay doors during a strike
Incorrect, they had tracked F-117s on the same flight path over the course of several says. The Serbians were also monitoring NATO comms with their AWACS; "At times, they acted like amateurs," said the battery commander.
and one missile got "close enough" that its proximity fuse detonated
Which is the primary terminal use-case for SAMs. Very few are designed to hit the target ( Rapier is one such example ).
As a result of the loss of control, the pilot ejected, and was later recovered by a Marine rescue unit.
That site is PR for airlines. In that one article alone there is one half-truth and one lie.
The half-truth is that the pilots / crew are powerless over the work of the aircon system It states: "pilots cannot tinker with a plane’s air-conditioning systems to modify the ratio of fresh to recirculated air". They can and do. For example, on the 737 Classic and NG there are two recirc fans. Disengage the left system and the forward cabin will receive 100% fresh air and this leaks to the aft cabin ( fed from the right-hand pack ).
The lie is that the pilots breathe the same air as the passengers. They do not, there is often a separate aircon feed to the cockpit which runs with a higher fresh air ratio ( in some cases 100% ).
I'll ignore any commentary (including _this_ one) that isn't from an actual Lawyer.
Law is such a huge field that trusting someone's opinion because he is a 'lawyer' is like asking a bus driver about landing an airliner because he is a 'vehicle operator'.
They are many laymen and paralegals who know know about specific points and precendents of law than any lawyer. The lawyer is the advocate that advocates what he has been told about the case.
In short, if you're spending $1300 for a laptop to put Linux on, you can do better - a MacBook would be a better deal, in terms of what hardware you get for the money.
Perhaps it would be a better deal, but do you not understand that there are a significant number of people who refuse to give Apple any money?
For us, the Chromebook Pixel is that machine for which we have been waiting several years.
Check out the examples in Three.js page.... It just takes time to ripple for usage.
Or, apparently, for everyone to somehow upgrade the graphics chip in their laptop:(
I had a peek: using FF18 but WebGL cannot run because my Intel on-board graphics are "too old, please upgrade". Umm... yet it's good enough for seamless, flicker-free, 3D models in Flash? No wonder WebGL is a niche.
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When I type 'ommadon' into my browser, how is it supposed to know if I mean to google on the string 'ommadon'*, or visit the host names 'ommadon' on my local network**, or resolve the gTLD 'ommadon'***?
If browser developers hadn't conflated the address field with the search field it wouldn't be a problem.
Your DCP or static confg sets the search domains. If ommadon doesn't exist in any of those ( that is, not your NAS box ), try to resolve .ommadon. as a eponymous host in that gTLD.
My 'local' hackerspace ( in a town about 10 miles away ) is expensive; basic membership is 25 UKP per month just to enter the place. And that doesn't cover costs of events or projects.
Hackerspaces might be good value for a student who could call in every evening, but for middle-age wage slaves who could avail once or twice a month it's uneconomic. But perhaps we're not their target demographic.
Do you find yourself searching the web with -wikipedia as a parameter, so that you can actually find sources of information and not endless repeats of what people copied from your site?
Buy more ram. It's cheap. You'll be much happier, and not just with chrome.
Buying more RAM only makes sense if there is somewhere to put it.
Of three laptops we have, one is limited to 8 GB and the two ultraportables to 2 GB.
According to a Google engineer, Hangout specifications for interoperability will come back, so third party apps can fully support it.
That was two years ago. Still waiting for those open specs.
And technically we don't know if the new Hangout will be based on the old G+ Hangouts.
The E-Paper display and 7 day battery life got me.
Yes, E-Paper and not eInk. If it was the latter your battery life could perhaps be several weeks.
E-Paper is a clever marketing term for ... a Sharp monochrome LCD display. It still requires a low current to maintain the display, even when the graphic is static.
[Pegg:] Probably some film student who wanted to demonstrate his or her knowledge of film terminology
Oh my, if only I was as informed about visual effects as Mr Pegg.
First, it's not a film term; it comes from photography. Lens flare indicates poor composure highlighting the flaws of the lens.
The first lens flare meme in filmed entertainment that I recall was in Babylon 5's CGI scenes, and we mocked that even though we loved the show and we weren't film students.
So now Mr Abrahms has discovered the technique for emphasising 'immediacy' and no-one may criticise.
Ease off the hyperbole.
1991: The first recorded successful scramjet test, when a modified Russian SAM was used as a booster for an engine which achieved supersonic combustion for 5 seconds.
1992: Another similar test, with French funding, pushed that out to 15 seconds.
2002: HySHot demonstrated the first controlled flight with supersonic combustion ...
2013: A milestone! A breakthrough!
Corporation Tax is, of course, only levied on the profits disclosed by the company's annual return. So only profitable companies have to pay 23% of their net as tax.
But this encourages the Big Boys to simply shift their profit to other, overseas, divisions, through 'franchise payments' and other mechanisms.
Perhaps it's time to say that any company making over 1 million in annual revenue will pay, say, 5% on its revenue above that level. No discussion of profits. It is much easier to determine how much money a company took-in. What money landed in its UK bank accounts is what is taxed.
A traceroute showed the connection going around in a circle amongst a dozen or so routers near Milton Keynes before heading back to a server hosted in the exact same exchange I was connected to.
Reminds me of a line-test number that was available in BT exchanges up until the early 1990s ( wish I could remember the actual number ). It was three digits you dialled for an immediate ring-back-on-hang-up to test the line. However, certain people began to notice consistent delays in the ring-back... in terms of several seconds. Other people on the same exchange at the same time did not encounter such delays.
It was withdrawn soon after and functionally replaced with the 17070 'engineering test' menu.
The FAA is satisfied with the solution, and they're the ones who are going to get blamed if it fails catastrophically
Which counts for absolutely nothing. It's not as if individuals in the FAA will go to prison for negligence. There is no sanction for the FAA simply signing something off ( after all, they certified the original battery installation ).
In the backward Soviet Union, a new airliner type would be operated on domestic cargo and mail flights for 12 to 18 months before being assessed for carriage of fare-paying passengers. We didn't adopt that practice in the west because it was more important for the bottom line to certificate aircraft with fatal design flaws ( e.g. DC-10's cargo hatches ) and tidy-up afterwards.
I can't believe that more parents don't set up a limited balance bank card so that their kids can learn about budgeting etc.
Such accounts are very, very rare. Even the most basic debit card account at my local bank has an implicit overdraft 'just in case' I 'overspend'.
we all know all know the associated trivia such as where ballpoint pens and Teflon came from
Do tell.
The ballpoint pen was invented by Laszlo Biro in 1938
Ah, XKCD: making cartoons of memes that have existed for 30 years. How unoriginal.
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
-- Andrew Tanenbaum
The F-117 is a low-flying ground attack aircraft. The B-2 is a (very) high-flying strategic bomber.
F-117s and B-2s cruise around the same altitude, 30,000 to 40,000 feet. Not particularly high. Same as commercial airlines.
The SA-3 battery that shot it down only locked onto it with radar when it opened its bomb bay doors during a strike
Incorrect, they had tracked F-117s on the same flight path over the course of several says. The Serbians were also monitoring NATO comms with their AWACS; "At times, they acted like amateurs," said the battery commander.
and one missile got "close enough" that its proximity fuse detonated
Which is the primary terminal use-case for SAMs. Very few are designed to hit the target ( Rapier is one such example ).
As a result of the loss of control, the pilot ejected, and was later recovered by a Marine rescue unit.
Mission kill, SAM battery succeded. USAF failed.
You're going to have to explain that one to us.
Appeasement bought enough time for the UK to rapidly bolster its forces. Just enough.
http://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers/cabin-air-quality/
That site is PR for airlines. In that one article alone there is one half-truth and one lie.
The half-truth is that the pilots / crew are powerless over the work of the aircon system It states: "pilots cannot tinker with a plane’s air-conditioning systems to modify the ratio of fresh to recirculated air". They can and do. For example, on the 737 Classic and NG there are two recirc fans. Disengage the left system and the forward cabin will receive 100% fresh air and this leaks to the aft cabin ( fed from the right-hand pack ).
The lie is that the pilots breathe the same air as the passengers. They do not, there is often a separate aircon feed to the cockpit which runs with a higher fresh air ratio ( in some cases 100% ).
I'll ignore any commentary (including _this_ one) that isn't from an actual Lawyer.
Law is such a huge field that trusting someone's opinion because he is a 'lawyer' is like asking a bus driver about landing an airliner because he is a 'vehicle operator'.
They are many laymen and paralegals who know know about specific points and precendents of law than any lawyer. The lawyer is the advocate that advocates what he has been told about the case.
None of these individuals need the money. Any one of them could raise $1 million from VCs in a few days, based on their reputation.
This money should have been used to fund new innovative ideas, but I suppose that wouldn't have grabbed the headlines for the main sponsors:
BAE Systems
British Gas
BP
GlaxoSmithKline
Jaguar Land Rover
National Grid
Shell
Siemens
Sony
Tata Steel.
It was just a stunt, and a fairly cheap one for companies of that magnitude.
In short, if you're spending $1300 for a laptop to put Linux on, you can do better - a MacBook would be a better deal, in terms of what hardware you get for the money.
Perhaps it would be a better deal, but do you not understand that there are a significant number of people who refuse to give Apple any money?
For us, the Chromebook Pixel is that machine for which we have been waiting several years.
This isn't about the morality of drone strikes
And neither was Fuzzom's question. The US President cannot legally kill anyone in Afghanistan because he has no legal authority there.
Are there *any* limits on the Presidential power to kill at the President's whim?
From the perspective of the rest of the World: no. We have already seen that through his actions in our countries. Why are you asking now?
It's a crime against the constitution for the government to kill a US Citizen, on US Soil, without due process.
But anyone that's not listed on your scrap of paper is fair game?
You disgust me, truly.
Nope. If he's going to make commercial space a reality, I'm all for hearing more from him.
'Commercial space' has been with us for 70 years.
Here's an example: NASA contracted Boeing, North American, Douglas and Thiokol to design, build and operate a launcher called Saturn V.
Here's another example: Orbital Sciences Pegasus.
Check out the examples in Three.js page. ... It just takes time to ripple for usage.
Or, apparently, for everyone to somehow upgrade the graphics chip in their laptop :(
I had a peek: using FF18 but WebGL cannot run because my Intel on-board graphics are "too old, please upgrade". Umm... yet it's good enough for seamless, flicker-free, 3D models in Flash? No wonder WebGL is a niche.
and the fact their satellite unexpectedly (to them at least) failed to make a stable orbit.
Huh? The orbit is stable and quite an impressive example of slewing elevation during launch.
"Spinning in an orbit" != "unstable orbit"