Forbid him to learn programming. You can be more specific than that - forbid him to learn Pascal or forbid him to write a program in Java that solves quadratic equations. The main thing is to forbid him to do it.
The nomenclature police are to underfunded to crack down on abuses like this.
As an aside, I once worked on an aerospace product that had a "Delta Flight Test". It sounded pretty interesting until I realized that they were just throwing a box on one of Delta Airline's planes.
Even outside the technology fields I'll bet the vast majority of people can name the first people to step on the moon (poor Micheal Collins, probably not though).
I'm pretty sure that Michael Collins could name both the first and seconds people to step on the moon.
I'll see your European anecdote and raise you one. In 2005 I spent 4 weeks driving around Europe with my wife and parents. We had no GPS, but plenty of maps. We were able to find our way into and out of all sorts of out of the way places. The only trouble was trying to meet one cousin where we were waiting on one side of the freeway and he was waiting on the other side.
Now, I've always been good with maps, have a good sense of direction, and a good spacial sense. Not everyone is good with maps or navigating.
On the other hand, often people get their trips too structured. Having a little less structure, a willingness to improvise, and a sense of adventure can result in a really memorable trip.
In your case, the GPS gave you the confidence to get off the beaten path. However if you were just blindly following its directions, you might still be sitting on the autobahn.
Captors? I don't think so. Servants, yes. Rather inept servants, definitely.
I think that if most cats though of us as captors, they'd be off on four paws before we could do anything about it. I'm sure that our cat thinks of us as his servants/slaves who are unable to understand the subtle variations of "meow". He responds by going "meow" louder and more forcefully, just like most people.
What I find ironic is that there is more fuss being made about support for Atom processors than PowerPC processors, and Apple even made PowerPC based computers. Once could also complain about the lack of 68k support, but probably most people don't remember back that far.
Well, just put a bunch of post-its on your monitor each with some piece of random stuff on it, old phone numbers, names, random words, dates, whatever.
-One punk with a gun decides to piss on everybody's day.
-The expenses of building such a thing would be astronomical. Before even taking into account the dome itself, just building an air-tight wall around the city would pose ridiculously complex (and expensive) engineering challenges.
There's no need for an airtight wall around the city. All you need is a bubble of above ambient temperature air under the dome to hold it up. Take a look at a hot air balloon. It's a similar principle. By the same token, bullet holes in the dome would have minimal effect.
In addition, without the airtight wall, the insects and birds can easily go in and out.
Just remember, a dome over the city doesn't mean that the city is hermetically sealed.
Indeed, Mac desktop software used to be locked in by Apple, too. Every app needed a 32 bit code ("Creator" code) controlled by Apple to identify it to the desktop, associate it with files, etc, or the app wouldn't work under the OS. Apple required every app to be submitted for registration before releasing the code. Apple was known to block some apps from reaching desktops by withholding the code, for reasons at the sole discretion of Apple. After a while, that ended, because the load of evaluating all the apps was too heavy for Apple to keep paying for, because enough people complained, and because the constrained app market looked worse than the totally unrestrained availability of every kind of app under Windows.
Or you could do what I did for some personal Apps and just pick a code. I'm sure that a bunch of small time software writers did the same thing. The code was 32 bits displayed as 4 characters. If you picked some strange characters, you were usually pretty safe. If there were collisions, those in the know could go in with ResEdit and change the creator code.
I am surprised that anyone is able to keep their job. Where an honest mistake where no one was harmed causes someone to loose their career. I would feel more comfortable riding in a plain from a pilot who has a relatively good record and made a mistake and got severely corrected As they know the severity of their mistake, and are extra careful not to make an other one. Vs. a Pilot who has a good records but has gone too comfortable with their job, and will be likely to make their first mistake.
An honest mistake is something like dialing up the wrong ATC frequency when handed off between sectors. After noticing that the radio is quiet for a couple of minutes, you can either look up the correct frequency or go back to the previous one and make contact. Things like this are easily caught and corrected and cause minimal disruption.
There are other mistakes like deviating from a cleared course without a good reason (i.e. an emergency) which, depending on severity, may get you a temporary suspension of your license and a black mark.
This, however, is a pretty egregious mistake. The pilots lost situational awareness and didn't even notice until the cabin crew alerted them.
I needed a simple security system that would dependably make a loud noise if someone opened the door. So far, it does that as well as could be expected in an house that's being rented.
This should be fairly easy - just carefully balance a stack of pots and pans against the door.
I always wonder when I see a comment like this. Did they not read any of the other comments? Virtually ever story on Slashdot has some outraged person or another posting a comment.
I'm not sure about CP/M, but the operating systems from DEC used slash for switches (RSTS and VMS being the ones that I'm familiar with). This probably came from earlier versions and likely even predated CP/M.
Indeed if Netgear doesn't want to play by the rules of the GPL, then they don't have to use GPL code. But they do want to use GPLd code because it saves them an asston of licensing on VXWorks or other router operating systems. They want to use Linux, so they have to play by the rules of Linux which are : If you link code to Linux code code, your code needs to be free.
Here's what I don't get: If they don't like the GPL and Linux, why not use one of the *BSDs? The license would be more to their liking and OpenBSD would be ideal for this sort of thing. I suspect that they're clueless and just heard that "Linux" is the latest hot techie buzzword. Sigh.
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Forbid him to learn programming. You can be more specific than that - forbid him to learn Pascal or forbid him to write a program in Java that solves quadratic equations. The main thing is to forbid him to do it.
The nomenclature police are to underfunded to crack down on abuses like this.
As an aside, I once worked on an aerospace product that had a "Delta Flight Test". It sounded pretty interesting until I realized that they were just throwing a box on one of Delta Airline's planes.
Even outside the technology fields I'll bet the vast majority of people can name the first people to step on the moon (poor Micheal Collins, probably not though).
I'm pretty sure that Michael Collins could name both the first and seconds people to step on the moon.
We're all going to die!
(now you can mod me....oh wait)
I'll see your European anecdote and raise you one. In 2005 I spent 4 weeks driving around Europe with my wife and parents. We had no GPS, but plenty of maps. We were able to find our way into and out of all sorts of out of the way places. The only trouble was trying to meet one cousin where we were waiting on one side of the freeway and he was waiting on the other side.
Now, I've always been good with maps, have a good sense of direction, and a good spacial sense. Not everyone is good with maps or navigating.
On the other hand, often people get their trips too structured. Having a little less structure, a willingness to improvise, and a sense of adventure can result in a really memorable trip.
In your case, the GPS gave you the confidence to get off the beaten path. However if you were just blindly following its directions, you might still be sitting on the autobahn.
Oh, this one's easy. Thanks to the internet, you can now target the fetish market with your whips.
Don't call them "American". Call them "Yankee". Then sit back and watch the fireworks ;-)
If Psystar had started with GnuStep (or OpenStep, or whatever it's called) and built a Mac OS X compatible OS, they would have probably been fine.
Read the book "City" by Clifford Simak. You might be able to find a copy at a used book store. You'll never look at ants and dogs the same...
Captors? I don't think so. Servants, yes. Rather inept servants, definitely.
I think that if most cats though of us as captors, they'd be off on four paws before we could do anything about it. I'm sure that our cat thinks of us as his servants/slaves who are unable to understand the subtle variations of "meow". He responds by going "meow" louder and more forcefully, just like most people.
What I find ironic is that there is more fuss being made about support for Atom processors than PowerPC processors, and Apple even made PowerPC based computers. Once could also complain about the lack of 68k support, but probably most people don't remember back that far.
Well, just put a bunch of post-its on your monitor each with some piece of random stuff on it, old phone numbers, names, random words, dates, whatever.
Explain that it's a mockup and you put obviously bogus stuff in it because you didn't want people to think that it was a real report.
-One punk with a gun decides to piss on everybody's day.
-The expenses of building such a thing would be astronomical. Before even taking into account the dome itself, just building an air-tight wall around the city would pose ridiculously complex (and expensive) engineering challenges.
There's no need for an airtight wall around the city. All you need is a bubble of above ambient temperature air under the dome to hold it up. Take a look at a hot air balloon. It's a similar principle. By the same token, bullet holes in the dome would have minimal effect.
In addition, without the airtight wall, the insects and birds can easily go in and out.
Just remember, a dome over the city doesn't mean that the city is hermetically sealed.
Indeed, you must be new here. The correct response is to go to the previous story, copy and paste some +5 comments, and rake in the karma.
Oh, you meant the previous story.
Indeed, Mac desktop software used to be locked in by Apple, too. Every app needed a 32 bit code ("Creator" code) controlled by Apple to identify it to the desktop, associate it with files, etc, or the app wouldn't work under the OS. Apple required every app to be submitted for registration before releasing the code. Apple was known to block some apps from reaching desktops by withholding the code, for reasons at the sole discretion of Apple. After a while, that ended, because the load of evaluating all the apps was too heavy for Apple to keep paying for, because enough people complained, and because the constrained app market looked worse than the totally unrestrained availability of every kind of app under Windows.
Or you could do what I did for some personal Apps and just pick a code. I'm sure that a bunch of small time software writers did the same thing. The code was 32 bits displayed as 4 characters. If you picked some strange characters, you were usually pretty safe. If there were collisions, those in the know could go in with ResEdit and change the creator code.
You think that's slow? You've obviously never tried to copy a 17 megabyte file using a Mac that by all accounts should be faster than this PC...
On top of all that, iTunes itself contains half of MacOS. OSX font rendering and associated fonts, graphic rendering elements etc.
So why is everyone so excited about installing Mac OS X on non-Mac computers? Just install iTunes and you're half way there.
I am surprised that anyone is able to keep their job. Where an honest mistake where no one was harmed causes someone to loose their career. I would feel more comfortable riding in a plain from a pilot who has a relatively good record and made a mistake and got severely corrected As they know the severity of their mistake, and are extra careful not to make an other one. Vs. a Pilot who has a good records but has gone too comfortable with their job, and will be likely to make their first mistake.
An honest mistake is something like dialing up the wrong ATC frequency when handed off between sectors. After noticing that the radio is quiet for a couple of minutes, you can either look up the correct frequency or go back to the previous one and make contact. Things like this are easily caught and corrected and cause minimal disruption.
There are other mistakes like deviating from a cleared course without a good reason (i.e. an emergency) which, depending on severity, may get you a temporary suspension of your license and a black mark.
This, however, is a pretty egregious mistake. The pilots lost situational awareness and didn't even notice until the cabin crew alerted them.
If you don't mind the door standing open a little, there's always the tried and true method of a bucket of whitewash balanced on top of the door.
If you're serious about detaining the intruder, replace the bucket of whitewash with an anvil. Check your local laws first before trying this.
I needed a simple security system that would dependably make a loud noise if someone opened the door. So far, it does that as well as could be expected in an house that's being rented.
This should be fairly easy - just carefully balance a stack of pots and pans against the door.
Please don't give them any ideas!
I always wonder when I see a comment like this. Did they not read any of the other comments? Virtually ever story on Slashdot has some outraged person or another posting a comment.
I'm not sure about CP/M, but the operating systems from DEC used slash for switches (RSTS and VMS being the ones that I'm familiar with). This probably came from earlier versions and likely even predated CP/M.
Indeed if Netgear doesn't want to play by the rules of the GPL, then they don't have to use GPL code. But they do want to use GPLd code because it saves them an asston of licensing on VXWorks or other router operating systems. They want to use Linux, so they have to play by the rules of Linux which are : If you link code to Linux code code, your code needs to be free.
Here's what I don't get: If they don't like the GPL and Linux, why not use one of the *BSDs? The license would be more to their liking and OpenBSD would be ideal for this sort of thing. I suspect that they're clueless and just heard that "Linux" is the latest hot techie buzzword. Sigh.