British police boxes likewise don't look on the inside like that (I hope)
British police boxes don't look like that on the outside any more. (There are actually very few left - and none of them use the classic design seen in Dr Who)
More like "+0 stating the obvious". Followed by "She is, but not quite as hot as you think she is". Despite my fondness for redheads, I'd have preferred to see the return of Michelle Ryan's Lady Christina de Souza - but that wouldn't have worked with the (excellent) story.
I am also sold on Matt Smith now after being initially disappointed that it wasn't Simon Pegg.
I'm still undecided about Matt. When he was first announced, I was "oh no, that's the end of it" - but he admitted himself quite well on Saturday. I'll give him time to sink or swim before I make up my mind. This may (or may not) bode well for Mr Smith - I wasn't overly keen on Tennant at the start of his tenure; now I think he's one of the best doctors (and I've seen 'em all; I'm even old enough that I saw Troughton in first-run on the BBC)
Simon Pegg would have been an interesting choice (although I think he's now too well known to be able to carry it off). John Simm would have been even more interesting (not least because of his appearance as the Master)
Interesting point - but I suspect it's actually to the converse of what you're suggesting.
Consider - the police will (generally) have localised those shots that are being fired at them - so this system makes little difference in that case. However, what it will do is locate other gunshots - which the police will then have to respond to (and thus putting themselves in the firing line)
And everyone is intimately familiar with everyone else's code bases and every library, UI toolkit etc that are also used, right?
No
Yeah, except for these quite high barriers to entry, yes everyone can go about fixing other people's code.
If it matters enough to you, then you have options; you could: 1) LEARN enough to do it yourself 2) Pay somebody who's already done the learning to do it for you 3) Find somebody who's already done the learning and wants the feature you want badly enough to do it for you.
If you can't be bothered to do any of the above, then it's obviously not that important to you
Does it need continuous power to stay capable of operating?
As has been pointed out elsewhere, yes it does. There's some detail in the Wikipedia article (oddly in the section on dust storms). There's also some nice "footage" of a Martian 'dust devil' - one of which fortuitously cleaned Spirit's solar panels earlier in the mission
There's an old trueism - "you get something right, nobody remembers. You get something wrong, nobody forgets." Sadly, no organisation in history has suffered from that more than NASA.
Why? Are you going to DRM all the documents mentioning DRM?
Hopefully they will know that it existed (and that it was a really bad idea). Something about those that forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them...
I have heard that blind people tend to have more sensitve hearing
A lot of people have heard that - it's a myth (I assume that in some way it helps the fully sighted feel better about themselves when they encounter someone who is blind). What actually happens is that the blind's hearing is pretty much on a par with the sighted - but blind folk actually listen to what comes through their ears.
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Because we can?
British police boxes likewise don't look on the inside like that (I hope)
British police boxes don't look like that on the outside any more. (There are actually very few left - and none of them use the classic design seen in Dr Who)
This is definitely +1 informative. She is indeed.
More like "+0 stating the obvious". Followed by "She is, but not quite as hot as you think she is". Despite my fondness for redheads, I'd have preferred to see the return of Michelle Ryan's Lady Christina de Souza - but that wouldn't have worked with the (excellent) story.
I am also sold on Matt Smith now after being initially disappointed that it wasn't Simon Pegg.
I'm still undecided about Matt. When he was first announced, I was "oh no, that's the end of it" - but he admitted himself quite well on Saturday. I'll give him time to sink or swim before I make up my mind. This may (or may not) bode well for Mr Smith - I wasn't overly keen on Tennant at the start of his tenure; now I think he's one of the best doctors (and I've seen 'em all; I'm even old enough that I saw Troughton in first-run on the BBC)
Simon Pegg would have been an interesting choice (although I think he's now too well known to be able to carry it off). John Simm would have been even more interesting (not least because of his appearance as the Master)
* Does she run Linux?
Nope, this is one of those times when you really want Windows instead of Linux.
After all, which one do you think goes down more often? *rimshot*
So your solution to "too much shooting" is more guns?
Amazing.
Welcome to Americans...
Interesting point - but I suspect it's actually to the converse of what you're suggesting.
Consider - the police will (generally) have localised those shots that are being fired at them - so this system makes little difference in that case. However, what it will do is locate other gunshots - which the police will then have to respond to (and thus putting themselves in the firing line)
Because everyone is a programmer, right?
No
And everyone is intimately familiar with everyone else's code bases and every library, UI toolkit etc that are also used, right?
No
Yeah, except for these quite high barriers to entry, yes everyone can go about fixing other people's code.
If it matters enough to you, then you have options; you could:
1) LEARN enough to do it yourself
2) Pay somebody who's already done the learning to do it for you
3) Find somebody who's already done the learning and wants the feature you want badly enough to do it for you.
If you can't be bothered to do any of the above, then it's obviously not that important to you
nobody's ever heard of it... not even virus writers.
But when they do, it'll be fucked - and that's the end of its Virginity.
especially over a moderately populated area.
I believe it's traditional for this kind of thing to land on Phoenix, AZ.
Eg. one coming in from the left at 3/4c and one coming in from the left at 3/4c.
If they're both coming from the left at 0.75c, then their relative velocity will be zero....
Don't worry they only came to deliver Pizza.
FTFY
Can they make gold?
If they can place atoms with 100% accuracy, could they not then assemble molecules into any chosen configuration?
That wouldn't help you make gold, since gold is an atom, not a compound.
It! Could! Also! Be! Used! To! Replace! All! Those! Exclaimation! Marks! That! You're! Wasting!
I guarantee that (unless you happen to be a champion powerlifter) there are are women who can outbench you.
What you've just said there is that there are women who can outbench GP - unless there aren't. Very "insightful".
Somebody mod parent +50000000 Ain't that the truth
All your money are belong to them
FTFY...
Is the idea that the government works for _us_ really that complicated a concept?
It certainly seems too difficult for politicians to grasp...
So they could propose a manned rescue mission.
Before they can get funding for that, they'll have to send Opportunity over to help out and get that stuck too...
Does it need continuous power to stay capable of operating?
As has been pointed out elsewhere, yes it does. There's some detail in the Wikipedia article (oddly in the section on dust storms). There's also some nice "footage" of a Martian 'dust devil' - one of which fortuitously cleaned Spirit's solar panels earlier in the mission
In Soviet Mars, Russia lands on you!
There's an old trueism - "you get something right, nobody remembers. You get something wrong, nobody forgets."
Sadly, no organisation in history has suffered from that more than NASA.
in the future, no one will know DRM even existed
Why? Are you going to DRM all the documents mentioning DRM?
Hopefully they will know that it existed (and that it was a really bad idea). Something about those that forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them...
Or maybe you're the foreign student and you killed the entire population of the country you were visiting?
Or maybe he's one of the foreign "explorers" that come long before the students do... they're the ones that do the killing and the driving away...
the Happy Birthday song has been in the public domain for over 100 years, it's unlikely that someone has any valid claim to it...
Wikipedeia disagrees with you. Amongst other things, it says "The song is currently set to pass in to the public domain in 2030"
I have heard that blind people tend to have more sensitve hearing
A lot of people have heard that - it's a myth (I assume that in some way it helps the fully sighted feel better about themselves when they encounter someone who is blind). What actually happens is that the blind's hearing is pretty much on a par with the sighted - but blind folk actually listen to what comes through their ears.