Full body CT scans aren't typically done anyway. They're too dangerous to expose an entire body, particularly the gonads of young people, to unnecessary radiation.
If you ever run across the documentary called "Japan Land" you'll see the female adventurer treking about the country on her own. It's shown on PBS World from time to time.
In one of the episodes she manages to get a night in a capsule hotel and films herself getting in and out. She managed to get into a few other places where women aren't completely welcome and got to see some interesting things like standing in the middle of a sea of Yakuza during a temple festival.
Postscript can definitely be hand coded. Using it to produce a complete document is not for the faint of heart but it's no worse than writing Lisp. Once you have a library of layout routines set up it is pretty easy to do. There is a gentleman, Don Lancaster, who has been putting out newsletters for years using handwritten code. Here are someexamples.
And to the other responder. PDF may carry over the Postscript concept of a "form" as a macro but I was referring to "form entry" which has long been a part of PDF and it predates the inclusion of Javascript. There's nothing precluding the use of a limited subset of Postscript as a validation language. You wouldn't need to have support for any of the graphical operators or file I/O. The core Postscript interpreter is far simpler and hence easier to secure than Javascript.
Funny. The PDF format had forms before Javascript was tacked on. If they needed something to do validation they should have looked in house and used a language they already had like, oh I dunno... Postscript.
They deserve this for gutting their engineering operations in Rochester. This is what you get when you farm out your product design to the lowest bidder in a far off land.
This has been hashed out before. Monty wants to force the legitimate owner of MySQL to give up its rights to the documentation and proprietary parts of the source code so he can deploy his own commercial product using MariaDB. It's that simple. He got a big payoff when he cashed out and now he wants to double dip by getting back for free what he has already been compensated for.
The problem is that school administrations are all run by baby boomers. They're still too technologically naive (/.ers excluded) to consider the problems of abandoning traditional teaching methods for shiny bling. I had the displeasure of going through some computer based education in the 80's (Chelsea Clinton was in the same program just to name drop) and I vastly preferred regular classroom instruction. With regards to reading, there's nothing wrong with a regular book. It's important to teach children how to use those too. There isn't much value in getting kids to cram their faces into a glorified VTech toy.
Those in the position to make decisions about these things love to feel that they're doing something to help the poor and disadvantaged by sneaking some technological contrivance into the curriculum wherever they can. Books are a pretty advanced technology all their own. They are far more reliable, dependable, and cheaper than any gizmo based solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Even more importantly, it is necessary to instill some degree of self-sufficiency in the kids growing up today. Teaching them that they just need to rely on the machine to do everything for them and rely on it unquestioningly isn't the best way to prepare children for a productive life in our society. The mass deployment of electronic calculators in elementary school classrooms has led to the creation of generations of innumerate people. Certainly children should be encouraged to learn about the use of computers and information technology but that should not be used as an excuse to set them up into accepting computers as magic.
The Fujitsu P16(10,20,30) has what you're looking for. You get a convertible touchscreen thrown in as a bonus. With the extended battery, undervolting, and underclocking they can be made to run for six hours under light use. The P1610 can be had for less than the cost of a new netbook on eBay.
Maybe they didn't know how to image it because it wasn't Windows?
Which unequivocally proves that he's a terrorist. If he didn't have anything to hide he wouldn't have gone to such lengths to prevent investigators from performing their sworn duty.
France has gone through five republics and some semi-dictatorships since their revolution so GPs point still stands with regards to the fundamental stability of the US system.
Their hegemonic empire will not be torn down in the name of equality if Lynx isn't included in the list of choices. They should also be forced to include alternatives to Paint and Notepad. That they have the audacity to continue bundling these applications is a slap to the face of every righteous EU official. They may also want to look into rumors that Apple is bundling a single web browser into their own OS at the expense of other meritorious alternatives.
The issue is that the FTC allows anyone to claim they are transmitting/displaying HD if it is displayed in a higher resolution than 480i. They don't put any restrictions on minimum bitrate or playing games with scaling the image. This is results in the curious case that the best HD transmissions in the US are from OTA broadcasts rather than cable or satellite.
VLC has a command line option "--no-playlist-enqueue" that controls that behavior. Under Windows the default action is "Play" which enqueues but there is also an action called "Play with VLC media player" that doesn't. There is another action that enqueues but doesn't play the file passed as the argument. These extra actions are, as usual, accessible through the explorer context menu. I suppose OSX could have a similar behavior.
Here are the command lines for each action: Play: "...\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --started-from-file "%1" Add to VLC media player's Playlist: "...\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --started-from-file --playlist-enqueue "%1" Play with VLC media player "...\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --started-from-file --no-playlist-enqueue "%1"
Part of the problem is that the advertisers take a cue from the CD loudness wars and introduce intentional clipping in their audio track. This has the effect of building more energy into the signal which enhances perceived loudness. Another plus (for them) is that a speaker can't actually stop its excursion in one direction when it gets to the clipped part of the waveform. The inertia of the moving element takes it further before the magnetics can pull it back for the return trip. This effectively allows them to turn your speakers "up to 11" for free.
FWIW a lot of the "bad manners" exhibited by the US border guards are part of their training. They are basically conducting an interrogation within a brief timeline on a constant stream of largely unremarkable people. Unlike a conventional police officer they are dealing with a broad spectrum of travelers. Whereas a police officer, when questioning a problematic person, is only engaged because of what this person has done or alleged to have done the border guards are always starting with a clean slate and don't know what to expect. Their questioning is designed to put pressure on the traveler and "break" them into exposing themselves as a person of interest. Sure, some of the guards seems to get off on the power trip but the general grumpiness is part of the act so to speak.
If you cross frequently enough and analyze their pattern of questioning you can build a picture of what they've been trained to do. A lot of their questions are meant to catch you in a lie. Oftentimes you'll have the same question asked in the dialogue. That doesn't happen because the guard is forgetful, he or she is verifying that your first response was truthful. Typically it's "where are you from?" or "where were you born?". For US returnees, depending on what you were doing in Canada you will get them to jump to a common point in their interrogation "script" and you will hear certain questions pop up repeatedly. The guards are also monitoring your body language, checking for hesitant or stumbling speech, and anything else that that may be a sign that you aren't being truthful. The end result may not be a pleasant encounter but some diligence is needed to protect our border crossings.
That being said the Canadian guards tend to be more pleasant although sometimes to the point of wonder in their lack of diligence to even look at any credentials when you get waved through on a lightly used crossing.
Just what we need, yet another networking module built into the kernel. Creating a fresh config with the 2.6 series kernels has become even more of a hassle since there are so many modules that are activated by default. To stop the insanity I have to go through and eliminate 90% of what's there so that 'make modules' doesn't take longer than the kernel proper. Most of them are targeted for special applications and don't need to be in a default build.
If only someone could figure out how to make a DTD for this newfangled XML that duplicates the capabilities of JSON and could be parsed with a built-in routine to achieve the same result without eval.
You will of course back up this vehement disgust by refusing to associate with anything connected to the GPL's backward, misguided socialism. I suggest you start by refusing to make use of GCC, its entourage of hippie fueled utilities, and all applications created with such tools. Then you can truly stand atop your mountain of smugness and enjoy the the wonderful free toys you have to play with after you have purged yourself of that demon taint. Then again, after that, you might find yourself a bit more productive in a Windows environment atop your tiny sand pile.
Verizon's business methods are shit but they do have a superior cell network compared to AT&T. This is largely because CDMA (IS95) outperforms GSM in all respects when signal conditions are marginal. i.e. congested urban areas, or in rural areas far from the nearest tower. GSM was designed around the concept of having a high density of cells in Euroland where one is never truly far from urbanity as in the states. GSM also suffers from congestion problems in underserviced urban areas because it is less bandwidth efficient than CDMA. AT&T's network isn't built around the concept of a dense array of cells and thus falls down when the going gets tough. It doesn't help things when the iPhone becomes the latest fad status symbol and AT&T's network gets flooded with extra traffic they don't have the capacity to handle.
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Full body CT scans aren't typically done anyway. They're too dangerous to expose an entire body, particularly the gonads of young people, to unnecessary radiation.
If you ever run across the documentary called "Japan Land" you'll see the female adventurer treking about the country on her own. It's shown on PBS World from time to time.
In one of the episodes she manages to get a night in a capsule hotel and films herself getting in and out. She managed to get into a few other places where women aren't completely welcome and got to see some interesting things like standing in the middle of a sea of Yakuza during a temple festival.
Postscript can definitely be hand coded. Using it to produce a complete document is not for the faint of heart but it's no worse than writing Lisp. Once you have a library of layout routines set up it is pretty easy to do. There is a gentleman, Don Lancaster, who has been putting out newsletters for years using handwritten code. Here are some examples.
And to the other responder. PDF may carry over the Postscript concept of a "form" as a macro but I was referring to "form entry" which has long been a part of PDF and it predates the inclusion of Javascript. There's nothing precluding the use of a limited subset of Postscript as a validation language. You wouldn't need to have support for any of the graphical operators or file I/O. The core Postscript interpreter is far simpler and hence easier to secure than Javascript.
Funny. The PDF format had forms before Javascript was tacked on. If they needed something to do validation they should have looked in house and used a language they already had like, oh I dunno... Postscript.
They deserve this for gutting their engineering operations in Rochester. This is what you get when you farm out your product design to the lowest bidder in a far off land.
This has been hashed out before. Monty wants to force the legitimate owner of MySQL to give up its rights to the documentation and proprietary parts of the source code so he can deploy his own commercial product using MariaDB. It's that simple. He got a big payoff when he cashed out and now he wants to double dip by getting back for free what he has already been compensated for.
The problem is that school administrations are all run by baby boomers. They're still too technologically naive (/.ers excluded) to consider the problems of abandoning traditional teaching methods for shiny bling. I had the displeasure of going through some computer based education in the 80's (Chelsea Clinton was in the same program just to name drop) and I vastly preferred regular classroom instruction. With regards to reading, there's nothing wrong with a regular book. It's important to teach children how to use those too. There isn't much value in getting kids to cram their faces into a glorified VTech toy.
Those in the position to make decisions about these things love to feel that they're doing something to help the poor and disadvantaged by sneaking some technological contrivance into the curriculum wherever they can. Books are a pretty advanced technology all their own. They are far more reliable, dependable, and cheaper than any gizmo based solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Even more importantly, it is necessary to instill some degree of self-sufficiency in the kids growing up today. Teaching them that they just need to rely on the machine to do everything for them and rely on it unquestioningly isn't the best way to prepare children for a productive life in our society. The mass deployment of electronic calculators in elementary school classrooms has led to the creation of generations of innumerate people. Certainly children should be encouraged to learn about the use of computers and information technology but that should not be used as an excuse to set them up into accepting computers as magic.
Pac Man fever was real. For some people it was the WoW/Evercrack of its era.
The Fujitsu P16(10,20,30) has what you're looking for. You get a convertible touchscreen thrown in as a bonus. With the extended battery, undervolting, and underclocking they can be made to run for six hours under light use. The P1610 can be had for less than the cost of a new netbook on eBay.
A ripped DVD can retain all of the extra features you desire. There is no dire need to have an optical drive in a portable computer.
No moral scruples... check.
Congratulations. You're just the man we need to institute our plan for Change.
Maybe they didn't know how to image it because it wasn't Windows?
Which unequivocally proves that he's a terrorist. If he didn't have anything to hide he wouldn't have gone to such lengths to prevent investigators from performing their sworn duty.
France has gone through five republics and some semi-dictatorships since their revolution so GPs point still stands with regards to the fundamental stability of the US system.
my pedantic friend.
I much prefer pedantik. Has a more Teutonic flair, you see.
Their hegemonic empire will not be torn down in the name of equality if Lynx isn't included in the list of choices. They should also be forced to include alternatives to Paint and Notepad. That they have the audacity to continue bundling these applications is a slap to the face of every righteous EU official. They may also want to look into rumors that Apple is bundling a single web browser into their own OS at the expense of other meritorious alternatives.
The issue is that the FTC allows anyone to claim they are transmitting/displaying HD if it is displayed in a higher resolution than 480i. They don't put any restrictions on minimum bitrate or playing games with scaling the image. This is results in the curious case that the best HD transmissions in the US are from OTA broadcasts rather than cable or satellite.
It's very cool how Ubuntu has essentially forced every other distro to get up to speed...
To be fair and give credit where credit is due, the creation of a sane packaging system was all Debian's doing.
VLC has a command line option "--no-playlist-enqueue" that controls that behavior. Under Windows the default action is "Play" which enqueues but there is also an action called "Play with VLC media player" that doesn't. There is another action that enqueues but doesn't play the file passed as the argument. These extra actions are, as usual, accessible through the explorer context menu. I suppose OSX could have a similar behavior.
Here are the command lines for each action:
Play: "...\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --started-from-file "%1"
Add to VLC media player's Playlist: "...\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --started-from-file --playlist-enqueue "%1"
Play with VLC media player "...\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --started-from-file --no-playlist-enqueue "%1"
Part of the problem is that the advertisers take a cue from the CD loudness wars and introduce intentional clipping in their audio track. This has the effect of building more energy into the signal which enhances perceived loudness. Another plus (for them) is that a speaker can't actually stop its excursion in one direction when it gets to the clipped part of the waveform. The inertia of the moving element takes it further before the magnetics can pull it back for the return trip. This effectively allows them to turn your speakers "up to 11" for free.
iRiver had (has?) different firmware for the EU that would limit the maximum volume compared to the rest of the globe.
FWIW a lot of the "bad manners" exhibited by the US border guards are part of their training. They are basically conducting an interrogation within a brief timeline on a constant stream of largely unremarkable people. Unlike a conventional police officer they are dealing with a broad spectrum of travelers. Whereas a police officer, when questioning a problematic person, is only engaged because of what this person has done or alleged to have done the border guards are always starting with a clean slate and don't know what to expect. Their questioning is designed to put pressure on the traveler and "break" them into exposing themselves as a person of interest. Sure, some of the guards seems to get off on the power trip but the general grumpiness is part of the act so to speak.
If you cross frequently enough and analyze their pattern of questioning you can build a picture of what they've been trained to do. A lot of their questions are meant to catch you in a lie. Oftentimes you'll have the same question asked in the dialogue. That doesn't happen because the guard is forgetful, he or she is verifying that your first response was truthful. Typically it's "where are you from?" or "where were you born?". For US returnees, depending on what you were doing in Canada you will get them to jump to a common point in their interrogation "script" and you will hear certain questions pop up repeatedly. The guards are also monitoring your body language, checking for hesitant or stumbling speech, and anything else that that may be a sign that you aren't being truthful. The end result may not be a pleasant encounter but some diligence is needed to protect our border crossings.
That being said the Canadian guards tend to be more pleasant although sometimes to the point of wonder in their lack of diligence to even look at any credentials when you get waved through on a lightly used crossing.
Just what we need, yet another networking module built into the kernel. Creating a fresh config with the 2.6 series kernels has become even more of a hassle since there are so many modules that are activated by default. To stop the insanity I have to go through and eliminate 90% of what's there so that 'make modules' doesn't take longer than the kernel proper. Most of them are targeted for special applications and don't need to be in a default build.
If only someone could figure out how to make a DTD for this newfangled XML that duplicates the capabilities of JSON and could be parsed with a built-in routine to achieve the same result without eval.
I hate the GPL ... so much.
You will of course back up this vehement disgust by refusing to associate with anything connected to the GPL's backward, misguided socialism. I suggest you start by refusing to make use of GCC, its entourage of hippie fueled utilities, and all applications created with such tools. Then you can truly stand atop your mountain of smugness and enjoy the the wonderful free toys you have to play with after you have purged yourself of that demon taint. Then again, after that, you might find yourself a bit more productive in a Windows environment atop your tiny sand pile.
Verizon's business methods are shit but they do have a superior cell network compared to AT&T. This is largely because CDMA (IS95) outperforms GSM in all respects when signal conditions are marginal. i.e. congested urban areas, or in rural areas far from the nearest tower. GSM was designed around the concept of having a high density of cells in Euroland where one is never truly far from urbanity as in the states. GSM also suffers from congestion problems in underserviced urban areas because it is less bandwidth efficient than CDMA. AT&T's network isn't built around the concept of a dense array of cells and thus falls down when the going gets tough. It doesn't help things when the iPhone becomes the latest fad status symbol and AT&T's network gets flooded with extra traffic they don't have the capacity to handle.