Not the best? Only Timothy Dalton was worse then Brosnan. But that's entirely my own gusto. And that's the funny thing: everyone has a different point of view. I assume there might even by some people who would argue that Mr. Brosnan was the best Bond...
I don't know about your laws, and IANAL either. But here in Germany you do not necessarily need to do something illegal to be fined. There is something which would translate to "failure to render assistance". E.g. if you get to the site of an accident and there are people in need and you don't help them you can be fined for not helping them.
I don't want to say that the rule in TFA is the right decision. I just want to point out that law is not always as easy to grasp as it would seem at first.
Since police affairs are not nationwide over here in Germany, some german federal lands also have switched their main working OS to Linux. In Lower Saxony the year of the Linux Desktop has been 2003/2004, at least for police officers.
Google Keyword: "imaging software"
Install XP, install drivers, do image. Next time you feel the urge to reinstall, flip that image into your DVD and save all the hassle with 3rd party drivers.
That depends. If the cloaks only affect visible light: No, the tracking missile would not miss you. Most missile guidance systems are still based on RADAR or IR, which do not use visible light.
Well, if Valve would bring out Half Life 3 alongside a new Source Engine completely based upon OpenGL, OpenAL and OpenCL for Windows, MacOS X and Linux, that would boost OpenAL and imho pretty much make it the de-facto standard across distros pretty fast.
They got the tools, they got the franchise and perhaps the expertise. Everything that is lacking maybe is management ready to take a risk or two.
OpenCL is not Mac-specific. That is the big advantage of OpenGL, -CL and -AL. Along with the Webkit-based Steam this news is not just great for all you Mac owners but a bit of hope for the Linux fans, too.
I (proud Nexus One owner) would still take Android over Iphone or Windows phones
something empowering about having more freedom and choice than these 2 locked down and bastardized "platforms" where now i cant even download an app with boobies in it!
Yes, because it's so hard to download a 512KB file and run it to jailbreak an iPhone........
You shouldn't need to jailbreak. That is the whole point...
Stuck in the cinema? Well, I do not know if you get handcuffed to your seat in your favorite cinema, but over here in Germany you are free to leave the cinema at any given moment. Indeed, I have done so on some rare occasions like "Tomb Raider".
Of course you won't get a refund for the time you leave earlier. And some might point out that they paid for the movie and it would feel like wasting money. But I for one prefer to leave early and do something else I enjoy, than sitting there for another hour or so and get bored to death.
Dunno why you'd need it on Mac OS X though, the built-in Keychain and Keychain Access.app does the same thing and more.
Perhaps because he like me uses a variety of operating systems and wants to have one file rather than keeping track of new and changed passwords in two, three or even more files.
Got to agree with you on this tool. Have been using it since s.th. about two years now. What I'd like to add, because it is one of the most outstanding features in my opinion, is that there are clients for nearly everything. Linux, Windows, Android, WinMo, Blackberry, iPhone, MacOS X even Solaris iirc. That way I got one encrypted file with my password I can use on any of my devices.
Well, if the UK hauliers are anything like those over here in Germany, I'm not very suprised about your experience.
Most lorry drivers I've seen got some general Sat-nav device which was cheap or something in the mid-range by a known manufacturer like TomTom or Garmin.
I often talk to lorry drivers searching an addresse around my work, and I have only once seen a driver carrying some Sat-Nav device suitable for lorries, which was a TomTom Work. Those, and most likely similar devices by Garmin and others, got information about how wide a road is, what the maximum clearances are etc. But your average TomTom One is just cheaper...
And I agree with "that IT girl". It's the drivers fault. My hometown got some changes in traffic routeing. Some of them changed former two-ways roads to one-ways. Since this is only some month ago, my Sat-nav doesn't know of it yet. So should the Sat-Nav maker "hold some responsibility" because I blindly follow their device instead of using my brains and don't pay heed to road-signs?
Mind you, this could have an 'unexpected' benefit. Anyone running a bot would find they can't open a browser or play music or something. People would have a good incentive to make sure their PC is only running what it should be running.
Iirc, some viruses bypass firewalls or antivirus software today. So, if Antivirus is excluded from counted applications, I fear that the next viruses will register themselves as antivirus software.
Vista, for all its perceived faults was a massive step forward for the Windows architecture. Yes, it had sucky bits that people didn't like, but on the whole (and going forward), the changes were for the better.
Just remember that Windows NT was pretty poor when it first came out too, as was OSX. Windows 7 looks to be shaping up quite well (at least in terms of popular reception, even if it's not much different), which Microsoft must be thankful for.
Signed. I do not want to use Vista. I am more than happy with my XP/Ubuntu dual boot. But the most positive thing about Vista IMHO is that so much software did not run out of the box.
Now I hope there will be a similar situation with Windows 7.
If people get used to the idea that getting a new OS means you will most probably also need software, this is a GOOD thing, mainly because of three reasons:
1) They will more readily accept that switching from Win to OSX or Linux means getting new 3rd party software.
2) They will wait with buying the new OS until it has been tested about compatibility with their software. This means less frustration for supporters etc.
3)This is where I get back to unfunk. If MS goes on like this, they could achieve what really many techies have been longing for. One version, perhaps Windows 10 that breaks backward compatibilty completely. Do a real redesign and do it really clean. Get rid of x86, switch to x64 and bring a version for a completely different but superior architecture.
But somehow I fear MS will not try to do anything like this and will keep doing as they did before.
"The usual Slashdot interview rules apply, but beyond that the sky is the limit."
So, now questions regarding StarCraft II then? I got the feeling that will be an odd interview for Mr. Chris Sigaty...
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To be fair, Gates never said that line. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Misattributed
Well, as stated before: It's her opinion and if she's happy with it she shall be. I just don't share her opinion ;_)
Not the best? Only Timothy Dalton was worse then Brosnan. But that's entirely my own gusto. And that's the funny thing: everyone has a different point of view. I assume there might even by some people who would argue that Mr. Brosnan was the best Bond...
I don't know about your laws, and IANAL either. But here in Germany you do not necessarily need to do something illegal to be fined. There is something which would translate to "failure to render assistance". E.g. if you get to the site of an accident and there are people in need and you don't help them you can be fined for not helping them.
I don't want to say that the rule in TFA is the right decision. I just want to point out that law is not always as easy to grasp as it would seem at first.
Since police affairs are not nationwide over here in Germany, some german federal lands also have switched their main working OS to Linux. In Lower Saxony the year of the Linux Desktop has been 2003/2004, at least for police officers.
Well, at least we Germans don't give knighthoods, it just is on the same scale. See mce's comment.
Google Keyword: "imaging software" Install XP, install drivers, do image. Next time you feel the urge to reinstall, flip that image into your DVD and save all the hassle with 3rd party drivers.
That depends. If the cloaks only affect visible light: No, the tracking missile would not miss you. Most missile guidance systems are still based on RADAR or IR, which do not use visible light.
Try returning the call with a #31# prefix. If you want to know more just google for #31# "gsm codes". Works fine with a HTC Dream over here in Europe.
Oh how I wish that was 100% joking...
/Mikael
Me too...
Well, if Valve would bring out Half Life 3 alongside a new Source Engine completely based upon OpenGL, OpenAL and OpenCL for Windows, MacOS X and Linux, that would boost OpenAL and imho pretty much make it the de-facto standard across distros pretty fast. They got the tools, they got the franchise and perhaps the expertise. Everything that is lacking maybe is management ready to take a risk or two.
OpenCL is not Mac-specific. That is the big advantage of OpenGL, -CL and -AL. Along with the Webkit-based Steam this news is not just great for all you Mac owners but a bit of hope for the Linux fans, too.
I (proud Nexus One owner) would still take Android over Iphone or Windows phones
something empowering about having more freedom and choice than these 2 locked down and bastardized "platforms" where now i cant even download an app with boobies in it!
Yes, because it's so hard to download a 512KB file and run it to jailbreak an iPhone........
You shouldn't need to jailbreak. That is the whole point...
You're talking a Beowulf cluster of Hawking-brains? I for one welcome our new Skynet!
Stuck in the cinema? Well, I do not know if you get handcuffed to your seat in your favorite cinema, but over here in Germany you are free to leave the cinema at any given moment. Indeed, I have done so on some rare occasions like "Tomb Raider". Of course you won't get a refund for the time you leave earlier. And some might point out that they paid for the movie and it would feel like wasting money. But I for one prefer to leave early and do something else I enjoy, than sitting there for another hour or so and get bored to death.
keepass is available for windows linux and osx
Dunno why you'd need it on Mac OS X though, the built-in Keychain and Keychain Access.app does the same thing and more.
Perhaps because he like me uses a variety of operating systems and wants to have one file rather than keeping track of new and changed passwords in two, three or even more files.
Got to agree with you on this tool. Have been using it since s.th. about two years now. What I'd like to add, because it is one of the most outstanding features in my opinion, is that there are clients for nearly everything. Linux, Windows, Android, WinMo, Blackberry, iPhone, MacOS X even Solaris iirc. That way I got one encrypted file with my password I can use on any of my devices.
[...] sounds like something out of the Bundeswehr Handbook (copyright 1933)[...]
Certainly not. The Bundeswehr was formed in 1955, several years after the end of WW2. In 1933 there was the Wehrmacht
The problem with that little notice is that if you have a lot of email in your inbox, you have to make an effort to scroll down to see it.
There is this little key on most keyboards that's imprinted with "end". One press and all the way down you go ;-)
Where do you think you are, exactly?
+5, Funny? +5, Insightful would be more appropiate in my humble opinion.
Well, if the UK hauliers are anything like those over here in Germany, I'm not very suprised about your experience. Most lorry drivers I've seen got some general Sat-nav device which was cheap or something in the mid-range by a known manufacturer like TomTom or Garmin. I often talk to lorry drivers searching an addresse around my work, and I have only once seen a driver carrying some Sat-Nav device suitable for lorries, which was a TomTom Work. Those, and most likely similar devices by Garmin and others, got information about how wide a road is, what the maximum clearances are etc. But your average TomTom One is just cheaper... And I agree with "that IT girl". It's the drivers fault. My hometown got some changes in traffic routeing. Some of them changed former two-ways roads to one-ways. Since this is only some month ago, my Sat-nav doesn't know of it yet. So should the Sat-Nav maker "hold some responsibility" because I blindly follow their device instead of using my brains and don't pay heed to road-signs?
Sadly even "full fledged console or computer games" with at least 50 hours of playtime have become hard to come by lately.
Mind you, this could have an 'unexpected' benefit. Anyone running a bot would find they can't open a browser or play music or something. People would have a good incentive to make sure their PC is only running what it should be running.
Iirc, some viruses bypass firewalls or antivirus software today. So, if Antivirus is excluded from counted applications, I fear that the next viruses will register themselves as antivirus software.
Vista, for all its perceived faults was a massive step forward for the Windows architecture. Yes, it had sucky bits that people didn't like, but on the whole (and going forward), the changes were for the better. Just remember that Windows NT was pretty poor when it first came out too, as was OSX. Windows 7 looks to be shaping up quite well (at least in terms of popular reception, even if it's not much different), which Microsoft must be thankful for.
Signed. I do not want to use Vista. I am more than happy with my XP/Ubuntu dual boot. But the most positive thing about Vista IMHO is that so much software did not run out of the box. Now I hope there will be a similar situation with Windows 7. If people get used to the idea that getting a new OS means you will most probably also need software, this is a GOOD thing, mainly because of three reasons: 1) They will more readily accept that switching from Win to OSX or Linux means getting new 3rd party software. 2) They will wait with buying the new OS until it has been tested about compatibility with their software. This means less frustration for supporters etc. 3)This is where I get back to unfunk. If MS goes on like this, they could achieve what really many techies have been longing for. One version, perhaps Windows 10 that breaks backward compatibilty completely. Do a real redesign and do it really clean. Get rid of x86, switch to x64 and bring a version for a completely different but superior architecture. But somehow I fear MS will not try to do anything like this and will keep doing as they did before.
"The usual Slashdot interview rules apply, but beyond that the sky is the limit." So, now questions regarding StarCraft II then? I got the feeling that will be an odd interview for Mr. Chris Sigaty...