and a range of 300 kilometers based on four hours of flying time.
But based on the actual length of the hose, the range is more like 100 feet.
100 feet up. The boat the hose is attached to follows you around in the water. There was a video of it on Fark a few weeks ago, but I can't find the link.
How the hell is this +5 Insightful? Slashdot has gotten really dumbed down lately, both content (saw this on Fark 10+ days ago) and users.
Quick, someone subpoena Slashdot and get the identity of this AC! He wasn't careful enough to state that Dhalka226's cloddinal insensitivity was his opinion.
They already ship this feature, it's called "Quick Searches" and it's been around since before Firefox. I can already type "map 10 Downing Street" and get a Google maps result.
You're right though, it would be best if the Firefox browser itself was completely minimal and all the included features where extensions. I don't care if it comes with 15 extensions to provide all the "standard" features as long as I can disable/uninstall what I don't want.
Backward compatibility mostly matters for legacy proprietary apps. Since there aren't too many of those for Linux, this issue is not an important factor in Linux adoption.
Go ahead and read that statement again. I'll wait.
An author of the paper in question speaks up to clarify his work from the grossly miss-representative headline and summary, and in 3.5 hours it gets modded +2 Insightful? I think this needs an Informative and an Underrated, pronto.
(Slashdot: Even the submitters don't RTFA anymore.)
Does a black hole just "exist", or does it presumably get more and more powerful the more matter it pulls in?
A black hole out by the heliopause has nothing to "eat" if you will, but something in the collider is buried under the surface of a giant lump of mass (the earth). Does that raise the possibility of it getting larger, or is there some other factor required for black hole stability? (I'm asking: IANAPhysicist)
We all decided to buy war machines instead of going into space with that momentum we had in the 60s. Maybe we could have the technology to push this bad boy out in space so if it DOES create a black hole, it can't eat the earth and gain mass, only the collider itself, which presumably isn't massive enough to start sucking in distant objects.
Any physicists want to clarify? Do we need to be inside the ionosphere/have gravity for this equipment to function properly?
How can you mod this as Troll? The only reason most Mac users ever act smug is because we're sick and tired of Windows people telling us that we're idiots who need to buy "real" computers.
Think about how you act when a Microsoft fanboy tries telling you something foolish like "Linux doesn't even have any games, and that's the REAL test of an OS!"...
Considering many new users on Slashdot have problems with the concept of how a capacitor works, I think they're trying to encourage people to once again learn how to build electronics.
Being a geek used to be about soldering and assembly language, but most people these days stop at, say JavaScript. We're going to need people who understand the bits before we can keep inventing new uses for the objects.
Wow that sounds awesome! I'd have time to run errands or make appointments, and I'd still be out of work early enough to get home and maybe get ready and go out and do something? Man i need to find an employer that does that!
Weren't there concerns that Bush staffers where using non-secure equipment for communications because they could be "cleaned" and wouldn't keep records, as required by law? Didn't the White House "lose" emails, including many from Karl Rove related to firings?
Who's to say Bush didn't do the same? I mean, who KNOWS what they covered up by not following procedure? Not that there is a large belief that Obama is a bad guy, but every President (and administration) must be held to higher standards and accountability from here forward. We see what being too trusting has brought us.
...every single person is constantly shifting his gaze from point to point like a coked out monkey with ADD. It's one of the things that I hate about New York.
Your civil liberties don't always trump the good intentions of the well meaning.
If the "good intentions" of those that are supposedly "well meaning" include my arrest for something that isn't illegal, why then yes, yes they do. Every time. EVERY time. Just because that makes you nervous, doesn't make it not so. Sorry (not really).
I always find it interesting when people have this Utopian view of things when in reality risks have to be taken to ensure the world runs smoothly.
Personally I find it interesting (disheartening actually) when something as innocuous as taking a picture of a train can seem so frightening to some people as to be enough reason to curtail civil liberties in order to prevent it from happening.
Personally, I think some people don't have what it takes to live in a free society, as that means someone will be able to kill you if they try hard enough. It's just a natural consequence of people being in charge of themselves. I'm sorry if that scares you (for real this time, I have empathy for that condition), but I promise that the alternatives are far worse and, unintuitively, more dangerous in the long run.
Twentieth century history is full of examples showing how well trading liberty for security works out. Please do not set the bar of expectation as low as taking pictures of trains or buildings, that is entirely too far gone down the proverbial slippery slope.
Exactly. I think of it this way: If I get hit by a car, or shot by a dangerous criminal, that's a hazard of being alive. It's our (twisted) version of natural selection; sometimes it's unavoidable and that's a shame, but it is what it is. The world will never be 100% safe.
However, if we live in a country with no freedoms, we have no right to prevent injustices on a mass scale. Those who are in charge are put there to ensure order and peace to the best of their ability, but with no checks and balances, this can be used to further a position of power, for something as insignificant as a personal vendetta (remember Hitler?)
So I ask folks this: Is it better to die through fault of a criminal or thought fault of your government? I'd rather be killed by an outlaw. Those who make the laws are not the ones who should ever be killing me.
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and a range of 300 kilometers based on four hours of flying time.
But based on the actual length of the hose, the range is more like 100 feet.
100 feet up. The boat the hose is attached to follows you around in the water. There was a video of it on Fark a few weeks ago, but I can't find the link. How the hell is this +5 Insightful? Slashdot has gotten really dumbed down lately, both content (saw this on Fark 10+ days ago) and users.
My name is "XYZ", you insensitive clod.
Quick, someone subpoena Slashdot and get the identity of this AC! He wasn't careful enough to state that Dhalka226's cloddinal insensitivity was his opinion.
They already ship this feature, it's called "Quick Searches" and it's been around since before Firefox. I can already type "map 10 Downing Street" and get a Google maps result.
You're right though, it would be best if the Firefox browser itself was completely minimal and all the included features where extensions. I don't care if it comes with 15 extensions to provide all the "standard" features as long as I can disable/uninstall what I don't want.
Backward compatibility mostly matters for legacy proprietary apps. Since there aren't too many of those for Linux, this issue is not an important factor in Linux adoption.
Go ahead and read that statement again. I'll wait.
You hinted at why there is no iTunes for Linux: Apple doesn't have time to re-write it from the ground up for a new window manager every 2 years.
Gee, I don't see that game anywhere here...
Thousands for dollars for an instrument + equipment. vs. $50-$150 for a simulation game.
An author of the paper in question speaks up to clarify his work from the grossly miss-representative headline and summary, and in 3.5 hours it gets modded +2 Insightful? I think this needs an Informative and an Underrated, pronto.
(Slashdot: Even the submitters don't RTFA anymore.)
Does a black hole just "exist", or does it presumably get more and more powerful the more matter it pulls in?
A black hole out by the heliopause has nothing to "eat" if you will, but something in the collider is buried under the surface of a giant lump of mass (the earth). Does that raise the possibility of it getting larger, or is there some other factor required for black hole stability? (I'm asking: IANAPhysicist)
We all decided to buy war machines instead of going into space with that momentum we had in the 60s. Maybe we could have the technology to push this bad boy out in space so if it DOES create a black hole, it can't eat the earth and gain mass, only the collider itself, which presumably isn't massive enough to start sucking in distant objects. Any physicists want to clarify? Do we need to be inside the ionosphere/have gravity for this equipment to function properly?
How can you mod this as Troll? The only reason most Mac users ever act smug is because we're sick and tired of Windows people telling us that we're idiots who need to buy "real" computers.
Think about how you act when a Microsoft fanboy tries telling you something foolish like "Linux doesn't even have any games, and that's the REAL test of an OS!"...
Dying a long, slow death. Oh god, when will it ever end?
It's not. Get over it.
That's because it takes 15 minutes for the "Preview" button script to complete in Firefox for some damn reason...
Considering many new users on Slashdot have problems with the concept of how a capacitor works, I think they're trying to encourage people to once again learn how to build electronics. Being a geek used to be about soldering and assembly language, but most people these days stop at, say JavaScript. We're going to need people who understand the bits before we can keep inventing new uses for the objects.
"Scramble" circuitry within the DIMM itself, so that once it's pulled it triggers, independent of the mobo it was previously attached to.
NASA used the experimental Space Butt Detector to determine that Mars has, indeed, cut the cheese.
If it does, just eat through lunch.
Nonsense! Why would lunch be for eating?
Wow that sounds awesome! I'd have time to run errands or make appointments, and I'd still be out of work early enough to get home and maybe get ready and go out and do something? Man i need to find an employer that does that!
Weren't there concerns that Bush staffers where using non-secure equipment for communications because they could be "cleaned" and wouldn't keep records, as required by law? Didn't the White House "lose" emails, including many from Karl Rove related to firings?
Who's to say Bush didn't do the same? I mean, who KNOWS what they covered up by not following procedure? Not that there is a large belief that Obama is a bad guy, but every President (and administration) must be held to higher standards and accountability from here forward. We see what being too trusting has brought us.
(Other then you can build a structure 3x as massive on the moon without worrying about the bricks breaking)
Fixed that for you.
What's all that stuff mean? ;-)
Apple Hides Account Info in DRM-Free Music Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 04:17 PM -- Wednesday May 30 2007
Phil Schiller stated in the Keynote that once you bought a DRM-free track, you could put it on as many devices and computers as you own.
...every single person is constantly shifting his gaze from point to point like a coked out monkey with ADD. It's one of the things that I hate about New York.
Quick note: You're closer than you think. :-)
Your civil liberties don't always trump the good intentions of the well meaning.
If the "good intentions" of those that are supposedly "well meaning" include my arrest for something that isn't illegal, why then yes, yes they do. Every time. EVERY time. Just because that makes you nervous, doesn't make it not so. Sorry (not really).
I always find it interesting when people have this Utopian view of things when in reality risks have to be taken to ensure the world runs smoothly.
Personally I find it interesting (disheartening actually) when something as innocuous as taking a picture of a train can seem so frightening to some people as to be enough reason to curtail civil liberties in order to prevent it from happening.
Personally, I think some people don't have what it takes to live in a free society, as that means someone will be able to kill you if they try hard enough. It's just a natural consequence of people being in charge of themselves. I'm sorry if that scares you (for real this time, I have empathy for that condition), but I promise that the alternatives are far worse and, unintuitively, more dangerous in the long run.
Twentieth century history is full of examples showing how well trading liberty for security works out. Please do not set the bar of expectation as low as taking pictures of trains or buildings, that is entirely too far gone down the proverbial slippery slope.
Exactly. I think of it this way: If I get hit by a car, or shot by a dangerous criminal, that's a hazard of being alive. It's our (twisted) version of natural selection; sometimes it's unavoidable and that's a shame, but it is what it is. The world will never be 100% safe.
However, if we live in a country with no freedoms, we have no right to prevent injustices on a mass scale. Those who are in charge are put there to ensure order and peace to the best of their ability, but with no checks and balances, this can be used to further a position of power, for something as insignificant as a personal vendetta (remember Hitler?)
So I ask folks this: Is it better to die through fault of a criminal or thought fault of your government? I'd rather be killed by an outlaw. Those who make the laws are not the ones who should ever be killing me.
(Goodwin's law has been invoked. Goodnight ;-)