If you could walk to your meeting place in the 18th century, you can walk there in the 21st. The car just makes it more convenient, and there is no amendment that gives us a right to convenience.
Yes, but the rest of my message questions how DVD player mode would give you that ability in the first place. Since I can't find anything for a DVD player mode to actually shut down, why would you be able to watch LotR with it when you can't watch it in normal mode?
Is there anybody who think that newspapers should be able to publish ANYTHING? Say, a list of witness protection program participants? The fact that you are a convicted child molestor, complete with picture, even if you're not? Hey, it's "freedom of speech", right?
Yes, I do. Freedom of speech can't be done in half measures, and you have to take the bad with the good.
I don't understand the point of a DVD mode. What would the system shut down? The graphics card and CPU need to be used anyway. The optical drive obviously has to stay running. The hard disk will spin down if it's not being used anyway. The screen is going to be running as usual.
My PowerBook can easily play a full normal-length movie (no LotR, though) off its battery, can't yours?
It's also total bullshit. If they made a 200 ppi screen but just made everything twice as large in pixel dimensions, it would be even more sharp and wouldn't cause any eyestrain.
I dropped my TiBook and it cracked like crazy. This eventually lead to its untimely demise, as the cracks lead to structural failure and eventually (a year and a half later) destroyed the motherboard.
I haven't had the occasion to drop its aluminum replacement, but the thing is built like a tank. (But a really light tank.) I think it would take a three foot drop to the floor much better than my poor old TiBook did.
Does the average NASCAR driver have a 1 in 70 chance of dying every time they take to the track? That's what the current average risk is for a shuttle flight at the moment.
While a typical shuttle crew is seven, it can be flown with only a pilot and copilot. The rest are there for the non-flight bits, like seeing whether ants can learn to sort tiny screws in space. Can they come back to Earth with nine? I don't know, but it's not quite as bad as having to hold two full crews.
Your post is a bit contradictory. First, you seem to indicate that the rescue is useless because the second shuttle could fail too. Second, you say that the chance of losing a shuttle is very small. These two concepts don't fit together.
Two shuttle in fifteen years is not small, because the shuttle launches so rarely. There have only been a little over a hundred shuttle launches, so the rate of failure is something like 1 in 70. While this is fairly comparable to, say, the Soyuz system, Soyuz is much older and more mature, and its recent accident rate is significantly lower. The shuttle's safety record is not that great compared to other launch systems. Soyuz has survived the rocket exploding on the pad. Apollo survived a lightning strike during launch. The shuttle was killed once by cold weather and once by a chunk of ice. The accidents weren't freak, they were symptoms of a systematic failure in design and management at NASA. These are efforts at patching those failures, which does make a certain amount of sense, even if they aren't likely to fix the root cause of the problem (namely, the shuttle is badly designed and NASA management believes that it's invulnerable).
That said, I have to agree that the rescue mission is useless. If NASA were still serious about manned spaceflight, they'd have dropped the shuttle when Columbia broke up (if not way sooner) and developed a system that actually makes sense.
They are doing these things also. Delaying the launch has always been there, since it's often necessary due to weather and equipment failure. (Not delaying the launch when it should and could have been delayed is why Challenger blew up.) Delaying the return is now an option as well. Presumably they will be given extra supplies, and all shuttle flights will be put into an orbit that can reach the ISS, so the worst case is that they have to hang out there until the problem is fixed or they're rescued. I believe they have equipment and procedures in place for an inspection as well. The rescue mission is on top of that.
The thing is, a shuttle mission involves an incredible amount of preparation. People have theorized that if everybody at NASA had realized that Columbia was in trouble as soon as it was launched, and they had rushed Atlantis (the next shuttle in line to launch) through prep for a rescue mission, they might have maybe possibly been able to get there before everybody died of starvation or lack of oxygen or whatever would have killed them first. If a rescue mission is going to be an option, then it needs to be prepared before the main mission is launched, simply because it takes so damned long to get a shuttle into orbit.
Compared to OS X, right of the top of my head, Gnome has XML-based GUI specifications, a network transparent window system, theming, language neutrality (so you can write GUIs in modern OOLs like Python and C#--possible but a lot harder on OS X), and a consistent look-and-feel (as opposed to the Carbon/Cocoa Metal/Glass mess on Macintosh). There is no technology in OS X/Cocoa that I can think of that doesn't have a comparable or better equivalent in Gnome, but if you have examples, please share them; if they are valid, we can add the functionality to Gnome.
I once spent half an hour trying to figure out how to put a shortcut to Mozilla on my Gnome desktop at school. I didn't even succeed, I just gave up. All of the stuff you mention is great, but until Gnome makes the simple, common stuff easy, it's pretty much irrelevant.
Of course, it'll just make him even less competitive than the 16-year-old kid who's trying for the same job, and who needs the money much less in the end.
The G5 will have been introduced two years ago in June. A G5 PowerBook is not late, but neither would it be early if it were to be released in the next few months. The PowerBook G4 followed the Power Mac G4 by less than a year and a half.
You forgot two other alternatives: one, don't steal the car at all, and two, steal Bob's car that doesn't have an RFID verification system. You don't need to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the guy next to you.
According to www.crimedoctor.com (reliability completely unknown), there are about 49,000 carjackings and attempted carjackings a year a year, with about half of them succeeding. There are 1.4 million vehicles stolen a year. It would seem that carjacking is not as common as you might think.
In a year of having a long-distance relationship and calling France all the time, I never once found a calling card cheaper than about four cents a minute that didn't totally screw me over with hidden fees. Do you have any pointers?
And how does this have anything to do with the subject at hand? Were these people from Germany and France coming to Poland? (Your use of the word "send" would seem to indicate that they weren't.)
Even if they were in Poland, your story doesn't invalidate my point. Cooperating with officials is always a good idea. Not doing so is a risk. It may be a good risk, it may be calculated, it may be for the greater good, but if your first priority is not getting hauled off to jail then that's what you should do. I have the utmost respect for the people you're talking about, but it doesn't change my point one bit.
Time in China seems to be a lot like time on the internet. Unfortunately, this means that some of your advice is as pertinent to travelling to China today as talk of Netscape Navigator 4 and 40-bit encryption is to using the internet today. Apparently lot has changed in the past seven years.
There is no special policy whatsoever for electronic devices, and they don't even inspect them at customs. Odds are that half the people on your flight will have notebook computers, digital cameras, PDAs, and of course they will all have cell phones, most of them with cameras and web browsers.
Certain pieces of computer equipment are cheaper in China (mainly parts like RAM or hard drives) but portable computers are generally more expensive than in the US.
The "Great Firewall of China" is very much not in evidence in the large cities. Overall, it tends to block specific Chinese dissident web sites, and not obvious stuff like CNN or Voice of America. I was not affected by it at all and you probably won't be either.
Being courteous and cooperating with officials is always a good idea no matter where you go, of course.
Also, if you're going to circumvent censorship with fancy tools, you first have to find some censorship to circumvent. During my two month-long stays in Beijing, I never once had any problems accessing any of the sites I regularly visit, including slashdot, CNN, Google News, etc. I know that it varies from place to place, but it's not as bad as a lot of people think.
However, when traveling to another country you must RESPECT that country. You are a guest, just as your a guest in someone's home. Failure to obey the rules of that country is rude, inconsiderate and frankly, you deserve whatever punishment is given for violations.
Wait, wait, should I be respecting the country's government, or its population? In the case of China, the former would mean not bringing in banned games, saying nice things about Three Gorges, and generally being quiet. The latter would mean buying shitloads of pirated games and DVDs and chatting with people from all over the world over the internet about whatever I want. Which kind of respect is good, and which kind makes me deserve a stay in jail?
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If you could walk to your meeting place in the 18th century, you can walk there in the 21st. The car just makes it more convenient, and there is no amendment that gives us a right to convenience.
Yes, but the rest of my message questions how DVD player mode would give you that ability in the first place. Since I can't find anything for a DVD player mode to actually shut down, why would you be able to watch LotR with it when you can't watch it in normal mode?
Could you please point out the section that says the Bill of Rights only applies to US citizens? I'm having trouble finding it.
Is there anybody who think that newspapers should be able to publish ANYTHING? Say, a list of witness protection program participants? The fact that you are a convicted child molestor, complete with picture, even if you're not? Hey, it's "freedom of speech", right?
Yes, I do. Freedom of speech can't be done in half measures, and you have to take the bad with the good.
I don't understand the point of a DVD mode. What would the system shut down? The graphics card and CPU need to be used anyway. The optical drive obviously has to stay running. The hard disk will spin down if it's not being used anyway. The screen is going to be running as usual.
My PowerBook can easily play a full normal-length movie (no LotR, though) off its battery, can't yours?
It's also total bullshit. If they made a 200 ppi screen but just made everything twice as large in pixel dimensions, it would be even more sharp and wouldn't cause any eyestrain.
I dropped my TiBook and it cracked like crazy. This eventually lead to its untimely demise, as the cracks lead to structural failure and eventually (a year and a half later) destroyed the motherboard.
I haven't had the occasion to drop its aluminum replacement, but the thing is built like a tank. (But a really light tank.) I think it would take a three foot drop to the floor much better than my poor old TiBook did.
Does the average NASCAR driver have a 1 in 70 chance of dying every time they take to the track? That's what the current average risk is for a shuttle flight at the moment.
While a typical shuttle crew is seven, it can be flown with only a pilot and copilot. The rest are there for the non-flight bits, like seeing whether ants can learn to sort tiny screws in space. Can they come back to Earth with nine? I don't know, but it's not quite as bad as having to hold two full crews.
Your post is a bit contradictory. First, you seem to indicate that the rescue is useless because the second shuttle could fail too. Second, you say that the chance of losing a shuttle is very small. These two concepts don't fit together.
Two shuttle in fifteen years is not small, because the shuttle launches so rarely. There have only been a little over a hundred shuttle launches, so the rate of failure is something like 1 in 70. While this is fairly comparable to, say, the Soyuz system, Soyuz is much older and more mature, and its recent accident rate is significantly lower. The shuttle's safety record is not that great compared to other launch systems. Soyuz has survived the rocket exploding on the pad. Apollo survived a lightning strike during launch. The shuttle was killed once by cold weather and once by a chunk of ice. The accidents weren't freak, they were symptoms of a systematic failure in design and management at NASA. These are efforts at patching those failures, which does make a certain amount of sense, even if they aren't likely to fix the root cause of the problem (namely, the shuttle is badly designed and NASA management believes that it's invulnerable).
That said, I have to agree that the rescue mission is useless. If NASA were still serious about manned spaceflight, they'd have dropped the shuttle when Columbia broke up (if not way sooner) and developed a system that actually makes sense.
They are doing these things also. Delaying the launch has always been there, since it's often necessary due to weather and equipment failure. (Not delaying the launch when it should and could have been delayed is why Challenger blew up.) Delaying the return is now an option as well. Presumably they will be given extra supplies, and all shuttle flights will be put into an orbit that can reach the ISS, so the worst case is that they have to hang out there until the problem is fixed or they're rescued. I believe they have equipment and procedures in place for an inspection as well. The rescue mission is on top of that.
The thing is, a shuttle mission involves an incredible amount of preparation. People have theorized that if everybody at NASA had realized that Columbia was in trouble as soon as it was launched, and they had rushed Atlantis (the next shuttle in line to launch) through prep for a rescue mission, they might have maybe possibly been able to get there before everybody died of starvation or lack of oxygen or whatever would have killed them first. If a rescue mission is going to be an option, then it needs to be prepared before the main mission is launched, simply because it takes so damned long to get a shuttle into orbit.
Compared to OS X, right of the top of my head, Gnome has XML-based GUI specifications, a network transparent window system, theming, language neutrality (so you can write GUIs in modern OOLs like Python and C#--possible but a lot harder on OS X), and a consistent look-and-feel (as opposed to the Carbon/Cocoa Metal/Glass mess on Macintosh). There is no technology in OS X/Cocoa that I can think of that doesn't have a comparable or better equivalent in Gnome, but if you have examples, please share them; if they are valid, we can add the functionality to Gnome.
I once spent half an hour trying to figure out how to put a shortcut to Mozilla on my Gnome desktop at school. I didn't even succeed, I just gave up. All of the stuff you mention is great, but until Gnome makes the simple, common stuff easy, it's pretty much irrelevant.
According to the movie industry, they're fighting a losing battle with piracy too.
Of course, it'll just make him even less competitive than the 16-year-old kid who's trying for the same job, and who needs the money much less in the end.
For me, this is just more reasons why invasions of privacy are a bad thing. If there is no data, then it can't be misinterpreted.
The G5 will have been introduced two years ago in June. A G5 PowerBook is not late, but neither would it be early if it were to be released in the next few months. The PowerBook G4 followed the Power Mac G4 by less than a year and a half.
You forgot two other alternatives: one, don't steal the car at all, and two, steal Bob's car that doesn't have an RFID verification system. You don't need to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the guy next to you.
According to www.crimedoctor.com (reliability completely unknown), there are about 49,000 carjackings and attempted carjackings a year a year, with about half of them succeeding. There are 1.4 million vehicles stolen a year. It would seem that carjacking is not as common as you might think.
Given that Skype doesn't actually have any spyware, I don't think there will be much of an audience for Skype Lite.
In a year of having a long-distance relationship and calling France all the time, I never once found a calling card cheaper than about four cents a minute that didn't totally screw me over with hidden fees. Do you have any pointers?
And how does this have anything to do with the subject at hand? Were these people from Germany and France coming to Poland? (Your use of the word "send" would seem to indicate that they weren't.)
Even if they were in Poland, your story doesn't invalidate my point. Cooperating with officials is always a good idea. Not doing so is a risk. It may be a good risk, it may be calculated, it may be for the greater good, but if your first priority is not getting hauled off to jail then that's what you should do. I have the utmost respect for the people you're talking about, but it doesn't change my point one bit.
Time in China seems to be a lot like time on the internet. Unfortunately, this means that some of your advice is as pertinent to travelling to China today as talk of Netscape Navigator 4 and 40-bit encryption is to using the internet today. Apparently lot has changed in the past seven years.
There is no special policy whatsoever for electronic devices, and they don't even inspect them at customs. Odds are that half the people on your flight will have notebook computers, digital cameras, PDAs, and of course they will all have cell phones, most of them with cameras and web browsers.
Certain pieces of computer equipment are cheaper in China (mainly parts like RAM or hard drives) but portable computers are generally more expensive than in the US.
The "Great Firewall of China" is very much not in evidence in the large cities. Overall, it tends to block specific Chinese dissident web sites, and not obvious stuff like CNN or Voice of America. I was not affected by it at all and you probably won't be either.
Being courteous and cooperating with officials is always a good idea no matter where you go, of course.
Also, if you're going to circumvent censorship with fancy tools, you first have to find some censorship to circumvent. During my two month-long stays in Beijing, I never once had any problems accessing any of the sites I regularly visit, including slashdot, CNN, Google News, etc. I know that it varies from place to place, but it's not as bad as a lot of people think.
However, when traveling to another country you must RESPECT that country. You are a guest, just as your a guest in someone's home. Failure to obey the rules of that country is rude, inconsiderate and frankly, you deserve whatever punishment is given for violations.
Wait, wait, should I be respecting the country's government, or its population? In the case of China, the former would mean not bringing in banned games, saying nice things about Three Gorges, and generally being quiet. The latter would mean buying shitloads of pirated games and DVDs and chatting with people from all over the world over the internet about whatever I want. Which kind of respect is good, and which kind makes me deserve a stay in jail?
Pretty cynical of you to think that their simple mention of the timing was actually trying to take credit for the change.