You seem to fail to realise that the TGV doesn't slow down unless it is stopping or on regular lignes classiques (in which case it is subject to all the delays and running speeds of a normal slow train).
For the long distance high speed lines, the LGV lines, there are dedicated overpasses, underpasses, cuttings etc. Nothing is allowed to interfere with the train. It would be incredibly daft and pointless for the US to build similar lines, and then make them subject to the same issues your current lines suffer from.
To quote wikipedia... Furthermore, they believe that over a five-year period only 5,000 passengers would be needed in order to be profitable. Profits from early flights would be reinvested to make space tourism more affordable.
A certain somebody who may remain nameless, but may or may not also be the parent poster, used a similar method to rattle the noisy old disks on a server that lived in my bedroom at ungodly hours in the morning....
This is why I preferred Stanley over Red team in the last race. The Red team sat down with high-res imagery and data, whereas the Stanley team just plotted in the GPS track. The Red team were even down to plotting their speed in meters/second around individual twists and turns. Stanley on the other hand had been taught to distinguish between safe road and unsafe road, and drive appropriately.
The BBC made a great show about it which is well worth watching. Even if only for the onboard footage of Stanley catching up with Red Team and sweeping out to overtake on the 'non-optimal' surface.
The craziest use of the tech surely has to be RFID chips for Marks & Spencer suits you couldn't pay most people to wear one of them."
From another article linked from the main article... The RFID tags are contained in throwaway paper labels attached to, but not embedded in, a variety of men's and women's clothing items in stores. M&S uses mobile scanners to scan garment tags on the shop floor, and portals at distribution centres and the loading bays of stores allow rails of hanging garments to be pushed through and read at speed. and The retailer is aiming to use RFID tags to help achieve its goal of 100 per cent stock accuracy by ensuring the right goods and sizes are in the right stores to meet demand.
It sure would be nice of submitters did a little bit of basic research about their comic headline statements before publishing them. It's quite obvious that M&S aren't aiming to get people to wear the tags. They're using them to improve their stock accuracy, and have provided a simple and easy way to get rid of the tag if you don't want it.
Grandma is unlikely to be running Vista. By the time she is likely to be running Vista, MS will have official support for the Zune. If it works fine under compatibility mode, then it's just a case of qualifying it for the OS and publishing the qualification (ie, not long - no real work to be done)
A leap year is a product of the yearly calendar. The shuttle just keeps on counting days, and will get to day 1460 and roll over to 1461 (or whenever the 4 year marker is) as per usual. It's all about mission time, not calendar time.
Can a smart forklift go up stairs? Or unload directly from the back of a truck, take a box up some stairs, through the front door, and into the living room?
I work for the largest employer in Europe, the NHS, and it's great. I turn up any time between 8 and 10, have lunch between 12 and 2, and go home between 4 and 6. Obviously I still have the 37.5 hours a week to do, but it's flexible. I can carry credit or debit forwards within a 4 week period (or onto following months if I keep the boss happy). I don't do weekends unless I need and offer to (even then I share it with my regional colleagues), and the boss has to sign it off as well.
Lots of varied projects are on my plate, most of my own design and idea. As long as the users are kept happy, I'm free to further my own training/projects/plans/etc. Bureaucracy involves filling out my timesheets, posting holiday requests to Groupwise, and filling out change control forms for the servers... horrendous stuff:-)
I guess what I'm saying is that not all large corporations and organisations are as rigid as people think they are. Get the right ones, and they're great. Get the wrong one, and the world goes to hell in a handbag.
Uurrm, thanks for telling us everything we already knew about the article... Unless you're reading a parallel universe article where the old man claims he is using it to repel Mosquitos instead of people...
Minor correction... the o-ring failure was a known value. People like Roger Boisjoly knew it would fail under a certain temperature, it wasn't an unknown fatigue failure like you suggest.
All this because he doesn't have enough gas.?
I think you'll find it's not launched when there is the possibility of lightning striking it. Lightning struck Apollo 12, and caused problems, so for safety they don't launch when the possibility is there. You really think some rain and cloud affects the fuel consumption of the shuttle?
MS list it (falsely) as a critical update. This means it'll install automagically by autoupdate unless you have that turned off. They also prevent use of windowsupdate.microsoft.com without it, preventing you from getting updates easily. The only way for you to stay up to date, and secure, would be to download every patch manually from a 3rd party source, and install it. MS even prevent you from downloading updates manually, without WGA verification first.
Yes, you can do all this. But Average Joe isn't going to know about it, and will blindly install it to get the latest updates. MS may be heading down the wrong path, but the masses will blindly follow. Us tech savvy people will be the only ones who don't (and we're the minority)
You can still have real HPC with slow interconnects. It all depends on the application for the HPC. If your data has a high scatter rate that requires large amounts of data transfer all the time, then you need fast interconnects. On the other hand, if your data can be sent off to a node to be crunched on for 2 hours, then a bog standard gigabit ethernet interconnect will do you just fine.
Well, so how do you know that D-Link actually saw those terms? Maybe the guy told them it was OK to use their server. Maybe the service got announced somewhere else as open and unrestricted.
Someone at D-Link clearly wasn't doing their job then. They relied on a source that wasn't authorative. In motoring circles, an analogy would be "driving without due care and attention" and will get you done by the Police. The same applies to business procedures.
PHK would not have ignored his service agreement with DIX either and told D-Link otherwise. They waived a $4.4k service charge in order to have him provide this service to their members. I sincerely doubt he would be wanting to jeapordise that agreement with DIX
RTFA Even more importantly, if an unauthorized person tries to record the knocking sequence and play it back in order to open the door, the lock will not open since the knocking sequence changes every time.
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It's easy to use, easy to carry, convenient, etc... So of course the answer will be no
You seem to fail to realise that the TGV doesn't slow down unless it is stopping or on regular lignes classiques (in which case it is subject to all the delays and running speeds of a normal slow train). For the long distance high speed lines, the LGV lines, there are dedicated overpasses, underpasses, cuttings etc. Nothing is allowed to interfere with the train. It would be incredibly daft and pointless for the US to build similar lines, and then make them subject to the same issues your current lines suffer from.
To quote wikipedia...
Furthermore, they believe that over a five-year period only 5,000 passengers would be needed in order to be profitable. Profits from early flights would be reinvested to make space tourism more affordable.
A certain somebody who may remain nameless, but may or may not also be the parent poster, used a similar method to rattle the noisy old disks on a server that lived in my bedroom at ungodly hours in the morning....
This is why I preferred Stanley over Red team in the last race. The Red team sat down with high-res imagery and data, whereas the Stanley team just plotted in the GPS track. The Red team were even down to plotting their speed in meters/second around individual twists and turns. Stanley on the other hand had been taught to distinguish between safe road and unsafe road, and drive appropriately.
The BBC made a great show about it which is well worth watching. Even if only for the onboard footage of Stanley catching up with Red Team and sweeping out to overtake on the 'non-optimal' surface.
Linux hibernation on how many platforms, vs. Vista hibernation on how many platforms?
The craziest use of the tech surely has to be RFID chips for Marks & Spencer suits you couldn't pay most people to wear one of them."
From another article linked from the main article...
The RFID tags are contained in throwaway paper labels attached to, but not embedded in, a variety of men's and women's clothing items in stores. M&S uses mobile scanners to scan garment tags on the shop floor, and portals at distribution centres and the loading bays of stores allow rails of hanging garments to be pushed through and read at speed. and The retailer is aiming to use RFID tags to help achieve its goal of 100 per cent stock accuracy by ensuring the right goods and sizes are in the right stores to meet demand.
It sure would be nice of submitters did a little bit of basic research about their comic headline statements before publishing them. It's quite obvious that M&S aren't aiming to get people to wear the tags. They're using them to improve their stock accuracy, and have provided a simple and easy way to get rid of the tag if you don't want it.
Grandma is unlikely to be running Vista. By the time she is likely to be running Vista, MS will have official support for the Zune. If it works fine under compatibility mode, then it's just a case of qualifying it for the OS and publishing the qualification (ie, not long - no real work to be done)
A leap year is a product of the yearly calendar. The shuttle just keeps on counting days, and will get to day 1460 and roll over to 1461 (or whenever the 4 year marker is) as per usual. It's all about mission time, not calendar time.
I reported similar ages ago, and the maintainer gave it a little bit of effort and then gave up. Way to go Ubuntu... http://bugs.ubuntu.com/57607
Can a smart forklift go up stairs? Or unload directly from the back of a truck, take a box up some stairs, through the front door, and into the living room?
I work for the largest employer in Europe, the NHS, and it's great. I turn up any time between 8 and 10, have lunch between 12 and 2, and go home between 4 and 6. Obviously I still have the 37.5 hours a week to do, but it's flexible. I can carry credit or debit forwards within a 4 week period (or onto following months if I keep the boss happy). I don't do weekends unless I need and offer to (even then I share it with my regional colleagues), and the boss has to sign it off as well.
:-)
Lots of varied projects are on my plate, most of my own design and idea. As long as the users are kept happy, I'm free to further my own training/projects/plans/etc. Bureaucracy involves filling out my timesheets, posting holiday requests to Groupwise, and filling out change control forms for the servers... horrendous stuff
I guess what I'm saying is that not all large corporations and organisations are as rigid as people think they are. Get the right ones, and they're great. Get the wrong one, and the world goes to hell in a handbag.
Slashdot already has adverts around the sides of the stories. We don't need the stories to be adverts as well.
Uurrm, thanks for telling us everything we already knew about the article... Unless you're reading a parallel universe article where the old man claims he is using it to repel Mosquitos instead of people...
The Lord of Darkness has since retired, leaving the way open for other people to discover the delights of self dimming lights...
Minor correction... the o-ring failure was a known value. People like Roger Boisjoly knew it would fail under a certain temperature, it wasn't an unknown fatigue failure like you suggest.
All this because he doesn't have enough gas.? I think you'll find it's not launched when there is the possibility of lightning striking it. Lightning struck Apollo 12, and caused problems, so for safety they don't launch when the possibility is there. You really think some rain and cloud affects the fuel consumption of the shuttle?
MS list it (falsely) as a critical update. This means it'll install automagically by autoupdate unless you have that turned off. They also prevent use of windowsupdate.microsoft.com without it, preventing you from getting updates easily. The only way for you to stay up to date, and secure, would be to download every patch manually from a 3rd party source, and install it. MS even prevent you from downloading updates manually, without WGA verification first.
Yes, you can do all this. But Average Joe isn't going to know about it, and will blindly install it to get the latest updates. MS may be heading down the wrong path, but the masses will blindly follow. Us tech savvy people will be the only ones who don't (and we're the minority)
DNF... I first took that to be the sporting term - Did Not Finish :-)
You can still have real HPC with slow interconnects. It all depends on the application for the HPC. If your data has a high scatter rate that requires large amounts of data transfer all the time, then you need fast interconnects. On the other hand, if your data can be sent off to a node to be crunched on for 2 hours, then a bog standard gigabit ethernet interconnect will do you just fine.
And then you press the big button labelled 'degauss' and all is good again...
Well, so how do you know that D-Link actually saw those terms? Maybe the guy told them it was OK to use their server. Maybe the service got announced somewhere else as open and unrestricted.
Someone at D-Link clearly wasn't doing their job then. They relied on a source that wasn't authorative. In motoring circles, an analogy would be "driving without due care and attention" and will get you done by the Police. The same applies to business procedures.
PHK would not have ignored his service agreement with DIX either and told D-Link otherwise. They waived a $4.4k service charge in order to have him provide this service to their members. I sincerely doubt he would be wanting to jeapordise that agreement with DIX
Did you rtfa? No, maybe not...
Try going to the Why I can't mitigate D-Link's mistake part of it and try again.
Dumb users - you should all be terminated at birth
I'm sorry, maybe my eyesight is failing me, but I think you just compared a groupware client to an email client...
RTFA
Even more importantly, if an unauthorized person tries to record the knocking sequence and play it back in order to open the door, the lock will not open since the knocking sequence changes every time.