According to Outpost Gallifrey, "The Fourth Doctor costume was discussed, where it was clarified that the costume wasn't used in the series itself, but was used by Tom Baker for public appearances like conventions."
I thought about it, but apparently things are changing too quickly. Witness MHT going free August 8, while in mid-July I was paying something like $7 for an evening. I'll leave it to the more recent flyers.
I had the exact same problem. I had to use my older Firefox to download the new one; Safari didn't try to download it, but as you say tried to render it as text.
BUT... using the Live HTTP Headers extension to Firefox, I saw that the mime type coming from the web server is, in fact, application/octet-stream.
Exactly! Not publicity photo-ops, but rather imaging of the shuttle as it comes in. If something were to actually go wrong it's imperative for forensic analysis to be able to see it, be it from the ground or from chase planes.
MS, like virtually all Unix variants, is using a scripting language engine as its CLI. This is no different than Bash, Sh, Tcsh, etc. all of which support functions, etc.
Can you imagine a command-line interface that didn't support aliases, functions, the ability to do more than just launch programs? Even command.com wasn't that limited. My daily experience at work (Linux) would suck if I hadn't been able to customize the shell as I have.
And as for testing - it's not that hard. Since the same language is used in scripts as is interactively, you have a test framework right there.
The first thing I thought when they said MS added OO was that this was like using the Python interactive REPL. It all strikes me as much like Eshell-mode in Emacs.
You are right that as with any technology, the more the power and functionality, the more abusable it is. But a CLI that can only launch programs? Perhaps one could argue that that the model to follow is OS/2, whose CMD language was not nearly as rich as the ReXX scripting language (precompiled into filesystem extended attributes... sigh), as opposed to the VMS model of the DCL language and CLI. But if you're going to live at a command line, there are things you have to be able to do to the environs of that shell that subprograms or scripts just cannot do for you.
Of course there is, and it's generally the nighttime. In Mass there is even a generation facility, Northfield Mountain, which during the nighttime pumps water from the Connecticut River up into a high reservoir using that surplus electricity. Then, during the day, when demand is high and supply short, the reservoir dumps through turbines back into the river to feed the grid.
My understanding is that there is no financial gain to this; it is entirely about "banking" surplus power in the form of potential energy (the water in the reservoir at elevation) for times of need.
If it's a decent, usable port (ie, printing and fonts don't require a PhD to set up), and doesn't have a myriad of libc-version-compatibility problems (something that people seem to ignore, but is a valid, serious issue with distributing software for Linux), then I will be one of the first in line to buy WP/Linux. I started with my thesis on WP5.1 for VMS and for DOS. I used 6 for DOS professionally, and skipped the first few Windows versions.
8 for Linux was a bit awkward but it worked, reliably, and I enjoyed it until suddenly it wouldn't work anymore because of my libc version. 2000, well, I really liked the consistency of the Linux and Windows versions; however, printing was difficult and reliability was awful (most crashes were font-related, though, and I blame Wine for many of them).
Another post asks "Why WP when OpenOffice is out there?" You might also ask "Why OO when Word is out there?" or "Why Gnome when there's KDE?" or even "Why Linux when we have Windows?" It's about choice. Some people, myself included, dislike OO immensely. Why? Because it imitates Word, both the UI and the underlying structure of how it formats documents. I've hated Word and its imitators since the DOS version.
I'm not going to argue about whether or not Reveal Codes is philosophically correct or not. *I* like it. *I* am the consumer, and it's what I prefer to use. I hope it's successful; right now I use VMware to run the Windows version, but would much prefer to run natively.
I should actually research the issue and see the difficulty level in the following
You could hack that all together on your own, but whatever you come up with will not get you the 20%-30% discount on your comprehensive auto insurance that the real On*Star gets you as a recognized auto tracking and retrieval service.
That alone breaks even with the cost of the basic subscription for me.
The widening of Route 3 was the first venture by MHD into what are called design-build construction projects. In this case, construction actually goes on while the project plans are still being designed. This can have a huge savings in that you don't spend one to two years just doing the project on paper and still have to respond to changes while it's being built. The drawback is that there isn't much opportunity to change things (for example, a railroad bridge over an abandoned corridor was not replaced; that corridor is scheduled to be reopened as a bike path, but the project management would not change the plans to put a small bridge there).
Another one of the problems is that Modern Continental is having financial difficulties. Considering the hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts they won for the CA/THT project, they must have managed their money poorly or overextended themselves. And being late will not help, since there are payment penalties.
So we'll see how many more design-builds happen in Mass...
Building a new road, even with land takings, would in this case be expected to be far cheaper than:
Relocating the massive, jumbled warren of urban utility lines in the proposed right-of-way of the tunnel.
Staging temporary ramps all over the place to enable building the new road directly under the old one and keeping the old road open during construction.
If they had just closed I-93 to do this, it would have been finished years ago and for billions less. The impact of closing the road, however, would have been catastrophic.
95 North and 128 South run on the same shared section of roadway
This was never true. What existed was a short stretch of I-93 north and 128 south being the same road, between where I-95 splits off (Readville) up to where 3 splits off of 93 (Braintree).
That has also been eliminated: 128 south now officially ends in where I-93 starts.
Actually, the Pause/Break key's "pause" functionality was not originally there. In the really old days, back when the NumLock key made a difference because keyboards didn't separate the arrows and the numeric keypad, the way you paused output to the screen in DOS was to press Ctrl-Numlock. This would throw the NumLock indicator light out of sync on cheap keyboards (where the lights weren't programmable).
Both Break and PrtSc were standalone keys, without separate functions listed on them. At least not on my first PC keyboard. Ctrl-Break and Ctrl-C actually did different things in DOS, which was sometimes quite a pain.
I have to wonder if to this day, the BIOS still has hardcoded that (in real mode, anyway) pressing PrtSc generates software INT 5.
Now don't get me started on BS v. DEL, Caps vs. Ctrl, or any of the other wonderful things on the Sun or VT320 keyboards that were lost in the PC world. Argh. Thank goodness for my fully-programmable Kinesis keyboard.:-)
A grotesque is a carved figure, often "evil" looking. These are what adorn many cathedrals and gothic structures. When most people say gargoyle, they really mean grotesque.
A gargoyle may be carved in the grotesque style, but is different - it specifically sticks out from the roof gutter and is used to drain water away from the building. It's no coincidence that "gargoyle" and "gargle" sound alike.
There's a great page with pictures here.
be one happy man when Open Office can perform all the functions Word can
Really? I would be horribly disappointed to find that an Open Source project produced a word processor that insists on operating on and formatting my documents the way MS thinks they should be, as opposed to the way I want to lay them out. I hope they at least put all the items on the menus instead of leaving most of them out for the user to have to discover hidden away on some toolbar (or not even accessible anywhere without manually putting on a new toolbar).
I've loved WordPerfect since 4.2, even wrote my thesis in 5.1 for VAX/VMS. I think this is terrific news because it means the product has new life and isn't going to disappear on me. Quattro Pro is a far better spreadsheet for engineering and mathematics as well - it's truly 3D instead of Excel's notion of worksheets, and doesn't have Excel's huge "business presentation" slant.
Whee! Let the the Word/WordPerfect flame wars begin!:-)
I'd like to throw in my $0.02 in favor of Acts of the Apostles. Sure, some the tech is iffy; however, we accept completely bogus tech all the time in our fictional books and programs. Why do so many people suddenly have such huge caveats when the tech is written so much more realistically?
I will grant that the younger/. audience members may not appreciate the references to DEC and the Mill, but I don't find they detract from the story, which blends a fictional plot with real-life facts, and whether you believe it could be true or not, it's still a good story. Maybe there's a proofing problem here and there, but that's not the reason to skip out on a well-thought book that in particular caters to the intelligent reader.
I thoroughly enjoyed Acts and in fact read it through nearly nonstop, except for the annoying interruption of having to go to work. I'll be ordering CCDs as soon as I can find my checkbook under the rubble of my desk.
I looked at the details of some of the patents they claim. For example, they cite 5,309,355 whose abstract talks about a terminal display that guides users step-by-step through a transaction. At first glance, this is frightening; however, a read of the actual patent shows such statements as:
Specifically this invention is directed to a tool for augmentation of sales and marketing capabilities of travel agency personnel in conjunction with computerized airline reservation systems.
So what I don't see, reading their patents, is anything that actually applies to a typical e-commerce web site. All their claims (and the citations) point to specific inventions, not any abstract ideas (you know, the way patents are supposed to work).
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According to Outpost Gallifrey, "The Fourth Doctor costume was discussed, where it was clarified that the costume wasn't used in the series itself, but was used by Tom Baker for public appearances like conventions."
I thought about it, but apparently things are changing too quickly. Witness MHT going free August 8, while in mid-July I was paying something like $7 for an evening. I'll leave it to the more recent flyers.
And they got Manchester (MHT) wrong as well. Its wifi is most certainly *not* free.
I had the exact same problem. I had to use my older Firefox to download the new one; Safari didn't try to download it, but as you say tried to render it as text.
... using the Live HTTP Headers extension to Firefox, I saw that the mime type coming from the web server is, in fact, application/octet-stream.
BUT
And there's no way it can "install a kernel extension" without prompting for your password to run under the covers with sudo.
One could only hope that they actually get the clocks right on the cameras. Around here, they're certainly not correct on the flashing lights!
Exactly! Not publicity photo-ops, but rather imaging of the shuttle as it comes in. If something were to actually go wrong it's imperative for forensic analysis to be able to see it, be it from the ground or from chase planes.
The exact same reasoning is used for launches.
MS, like virtually all Unix variants, is using a scripting language engine as its CLI. This is no different than Bash, Sh, Tcsh, etc. all of which support functions, etc.
... sigh), as opposed to the VMS model of the DCL language and CLI. But if you're going to live at a command line, there are things you have to be able to do to the environs of that shell that subprograms or scripts just cannot do for you.
Can you imagine a command-line interface that didn't support aliases, functions, the ability to do more than just launch programs? Even command.com wasn't that limited. My daily experience at work (Linux) would suck if I hadn't been able to customize the shell as I have.
And as for testing - it's not that hard. Since the same language is used in scripts as is interactively, you have a test framework right there.
The first thing I thought when they said MS added OO was that this was like using the Python interactive REPL. It all strikes me as much like Eshell-mode in Emacs.
You are right that as with any technology, the more the power and functionality, the more abusable it is. But a CLI that can only launch programs? Perhaps one could argue that that the model to follow is OS/2, whose CMD language was not nearly as rich as the ReXX scripting language (precompiled into filesystem extended attributes
Also, several hydropower plants and an airport in Niagara Falls are only in low-res while all of their surroundings are of much higher detail.
Instead of a "safe" language, how about simply flagging the memory pages of the stack to be non-executable?
Of course there is, and it's generally the nighttime. In Mass there is even a generation facility, Northfield Mountain, which during the nighttime pumps water from the Connecticut River up into a high reservoir using that surplus electricity. Then, during the day, when demand is high and supply short, the reservoir dumps through turbines back into the river to feed the grid.
My understanding is that there is no financial gain to this; it is entirely about "banking" surplus power in the form of potential energy (the water in the reservoir at elevation) for times of need.
If it's a decent, usable port (ie, printing and fonts don't require a PhD to set up), and doesn't have a myriad of libc-version-compatibility problems (something that people seem to ignore, but is a valid, serious issue with distributing software for Linux), then I will be one of the first in line to buy WP/Linux. I started with my thesis on WP5.1 for VMS and for DOS. I used 6 for DOS professionally, and skipped the first few Windows versions.
8 for Linux was a bit awkward but it worked, reliably, and I enjoyed it until suddenly it wouldn't work anymore because of my libc version. 2000, well, I really liked the consistency of the Linux and Windows versions; however, printing was difficult and reliability was awful (most crashes were font-related, though, and I blame Wine for many of them).
Another post asks "Why WP when OpenOffice is out there?" You might also ask "Why OO when Word is out there?" or "Why Gnome when there's KDE?" or even "Why Linux when we have Windows?" It's about choice. Some people, myself included, dislike OO immensely. Why? Because it imitates Word, both the UI and the underlying structure of how it formats documents. I've hated Word and its imitators since the DOS version.
I'm not going to argue about whether or not Reveal Codes is philosophically correct or not. *I* like it. *I* am the consumer, and it's what I prefer to use. I hope it's successful; right now I use VMware to run the Windows version, but would much prefer to run natively.
Why do you even plug the camera in? Just use a card reader and the brand of yours or Aunt Martha's camera doesn't matter.
The widening of Route 3 was the first venture by MHD into what are called design-build construction projects. In this case, construction actually goes on while the project plans are still being designed. This can have a huge savings in that you don't spend one to two years just doing the project on paper and still have to respond to changes while it's being built. The drawback is that there isn't much opportunity to change things (for example, a railroad bridge over an abandoned corridor was not replaced; that corridor is scheduled to be reopened as a bike path, but the project management would not change the plans to put a small bridge there).
Another one of the problems is that Modern Continental is having financial difficulties. Considering the hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts they won for the CA/THT project, they must have managed their money poorly or overextended themselves. And being late will not help, since there are payment penalties.
So we'll see how many more design-builds happen in Mass...
Building a new road, even with land takings, would in this case be expected to be far cheaper than:
Relocating the massive, jumbled warren of urban utility lines in the proposed right-of-way of the tunnel.
Staging temporary ramps all over the place to enable building the new road directly under the old one and keeping the old road open during construction.
If they had just closed I-93 to do this, it would have been finished years ago and for billions less. The impact of closing the road, however, would have been catastrophic.
Actually, the Pause/Break key's "pause" functionality was not originally there. In the really old days, back when the NumLock key made a difference because keyboards didn't separate the arrows and the numeric keypad, the way you paused output to the screen in DOS was to press Ctrl-Numlock. This would throw the NumLock indicator light out of sync on cheap keyboards (where the lights weren't programmable).
:-)
Both Break and PrtSc were standalone keys, without separate functions listed on them. At least not on my first PC keyboard. Ctrl-Break and Ctrl-C actually did different things in DOS, which was sometimes quite a pain.
I have to wonder if to this day, the BIOS still has hardcoded that (in real mode, anyway) pressing PrtSc generates software INT 5.
Now don't get me started on BS v. DEL, Caps vs. Ctrl, or any of the other wonderful things on the Sun or VT320 keyboards that were lost in the PC world. Argh. Thank goodness for my fully-programmable Kinesis keyboard.
A grotesque is a carved figure, often "evil" looking. These are what adorn many cathedrals and gothic structures. When most people say gargoyle, they really mean grotesque. A gargoyle may be carved in the grotesque style, but is different - it specifically sticks out from the roof gutter and is used to drain water away from the building. It's no coincidence that "gargoyle" and "gargle" sound alike. There's a great page with pictures here.
Obviously they should not be Firebird and Thunderbird. The two make no sense together: one's a Ford, one's a Pontiac/GM.
Really? I would be horribly disappointed to find that an Open Source project produced a word processor that insists on operating on and formatting my documents the way MS thinks they should be, as opposed to the way I want to lay them out. I hope they at least put all the items on the menus instead of leaving most of them out for the user to have to discover hidden away on some toolbar (or not even accessible anywhere without manually putting on a new toolbar).
I've loved WordPerfect since 4.2, even wrote my thesis in 5.1 for VAX/VMS. I think this is terrific news because it means the product has new life and isn't going to disappear on me. Quattro Pro is a far better spreadsheet for engineering and mathematics as well - it's truly 3D instead of Excel's notion of worksheets, and doesn't have Excel's huge "business presentation" slant.
Whee! Let the the Word/WordPerfect flame wars begin! :-)
I will grant that the younger /. audience members may not appreciate the references to DEC and the Mill, but I don't find they detract from the story, which blends a fictional plot with real-life facts, and whether you believe it could be true or not, it's still a good story. Maybe there's a proofing problem here and there, but that's not the reason to skip out on a well-thought book that in particular caters to the intelligent reader.
I thoroughly enjoyed Acts and in fact read it through nearly nonstop, except for the annoying interruption of having to go to work. I'll be ordering CCDs as soon as I can find my checkbook under the rubble of my desk.
Most kids these days don't even know why the phrase is to "dial" a phone number.
Heck, I've even seen advertising saying "touch" or "press" instead of "dial".
Sorry, prior art exists - an episode of Farscape where the majority of society are all lawyers and the rest are the oppressed minority.
Whatever you do, don't cross the street against the light.
:-)