No doubt an editorial oversight, I'm sure they'll get around to it. I've seen it used often enough in WoW and its forums that I'm not surprised. As was explained to me long ago (with regards to how it was now optional to put a comma after "and" in a list), today's slang and grammatical errors can become tomorrow's official usage if done long enough by enough people.
When I think about the crappy PFD's which you get on aircraft I wonder why they can't be better. They're as good as the law requires them to be and no better I suspect. Did you sink?
why not have a simple parachute? Because it's not simple. If the plane is in such trouble that it cannot continue to fly, it is easier to get it to the ocean than to do anything else. Boeings, at least (don't know about Airbus except that they scare me), are designed to have the pieces of the airplane die before any passengers are hurt. I think you've been watching too many bad movies.
Here is one place where you can definitely say "Think about the children". Would you rather be holding your toddler in your arms in a parachute hitting the ocean at high speed or in a life vest sliding down a ramp?
I just don't see parachutes or any kind of airborne evacuation becoming a viable safety measure ever. Trust the pilot to get you down and after all, his life is at stake too.
Disclaimer: I've only had experience on the avionics side of airplanes, not the engineering.
The problem with the piracy angle is that it is not just a global issue, A major problem with this site is that posting history is truncated... so I"ll repost what I've written before.
I've lived in the Philippines since 2003. Most (nearly all) Filipinos do not own computers. Internet cafes are big business, but on very low margin (pennies an hour in gross receipts). I haven't seen anynon-pirated Microsoft Windows installations in Internet cafes the whole time.
The "problem" is worse in China, from what I've been told and observed myself.
GMA is heavily into Bush butt-kissing to save her failed Presidency and is promoting anti-piracy campaigns in what I presume is appeasement to the massive flock of vultures swooping overhead Malacanang. Philippine Presidents always turn to the US for support in times of desperation whether the help is there or not. A Microsoft Windows XP license was about P8000 (US$175) when I was last in a computer store two months ago, don't know how that's changed - the US Dollar has lost over 10% of its value versus the Peso since) and that's about a full month's salary (before taxes) for a highly paid professional.
Microsoft's recent additions to their registration program indicate that it is pursuing additional anti-piracy measures. Laws, draconian or otherwise don't trump basic economics.
Anyways, just in the in case there's anyone actually curious about this and not just interested in kneejerk reactions about poorly-written, inflammatory summary. You insensitive clod! I'm a kdawson fan!
notice that it is only available in the good ol US of A It only said "resident" not citizen. Aliens in another country are governed by the laws of they nation they reside in and I presume that's an anti-piracy sort of thing. If they send a copy to Pirate Wu, Chinese citizen living in Beijing they have no legal recourse. If they send a copy to Pirate Wu, Chinese citizen living in San Francisco with long term residence visa, they can maul him.
After recent events in Europe with regards to the ISO standards committees, it could also be an "in your face" sort of thing, but that would only be "an icing on the cake" compared to the piracy and legal jurisdiction matter. I think Microsoft is technically incompetent, not stupid or evil in the business sense, and my bet is on piracy.
Does this smell of DMCA and it's jurisdiction? Duh.
Catch #3: You have to be American. This is factually incorrect. The text I read said "US Resident", I presume the long click-to-accept contract qualifies that further, but I think that if you are residing in the United States legally but your passport is not blue, you're still good to go, if that's what you really want.
A lawyer can tell you for sure, but that's probably thrown in there so that you are guaranteed to be in US legal jurisdiction and can be prosecuted to the full extent of US law if your free copy is suddenly found flooding the streets of Beijing.
the moment I open firefox (which I have been using on a daily basis for months), it jump to around 650-700mb? If it is already cached, shouldn't it stay relatively constant? Because it's not already cached and Firefox is well, kind of a pig. The caches only get filled and (re)used while your computer is booted, once it crashes (or you shut it down) and you reboot, everything has to be reloaded.
$ ps -uxaww | grep firefox steve 1719 29.4 -25.8 1521604 542080 ?? Ss 3Dec07 4099:18.16/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -foreground
I've only had this instance of Firefox running a little more than a week - see the 3-December start date and it's taking 1.5GB of virtual memory. So sorry, but Firefox eating up system resources is not a valid criticism of Microsoft Windows Vista.
Free as in Microsoft...
What are the system requirements? The only requirements are that your home PC is running the Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows XP operating system, and that you have an Internet connection. That's it! I guess I don't qualify:( and I so wanted to dance in the streets burning Linux and Mac OS X cds celebrating my new freedom while I was installing a real OS on my MacBook Pro...
Obviously, when they say "lift" they just mean it contributes an upward component to the whole system. Well, um, yes. When you have a wing that's in the right shape, and you move air fast enough past it on top of it, it's pulled up. How that is done safely is the $!0,000,000 question and there are only two companies left still in the business. You can see the effect just by blowing across a sheet of paper held in your hand.
You wouldn't need as heavy of an engine if you were starting out dropped from a plane, you also wouldn't need an over-sophisticated wing design because you are starting out with enough air speed that you'll get enough lift from just about anything. The engine is only needed to maintain air speed and that's a much easier problem to solve. This was all done in the 1950's with specialized aircraft and how all the earliest speed records were set, so it's even been done before. A human as an airframe is the only exotic component.
I think it might have applications in airplane safety in future. Nope. From the sounds of it, flying in one of those suits takes some training. They won't let you jump out of a plane with a parachute without taking a safety class first. There are floating vests not parachutes in planes now for a reason.
when the reality of it being possible sets in: because flying is danged fun. Yeah, even something as tame as para-sailing. Did that for the first time last month.
Of course, any kind of flying where you don't have to strip half naked, pass through metal detectors and get searched by goons would be fun too. Only problem with those suits is that I'll bet lighting cigarettes is pretty tough.
Tell that to the Somali's who just got invaded twice, first by Iranian funded and trained agents. (Yes, Eritrea is a proxy state for Iran) That would never ever make it into US news, but I fail to see how I would have missed that. A reference or two, please? Thanks.
When the newspaper in my area investigated the publicized list, it turned turned out that the list was outdated, basically the state didn't make sufficient effort to check the list before publicizing it. So people were getting harassed just because they lived in the "wrong" house.
Interesting. The magic secret list of the people that DHS folks are supposed to harass at airports seems to work the same way, except they don't tell you why you matched someone who isn't you...
There seems to be two groups or two positions at work here: one which holds that all offenders can be reformed, the other that certain types of offenders cannot. As with everything else in life, reality is just a bit more complicated.
I do believe offenders can be reformed. I do not believe all offenders can be reformed, but the US legal system doesn't deal with that case very well as I don't trust the US psychiatric industry very much.
In my own case, since we're talking about murder, twenty years ago I was a most willing cold warrior contributing to war toys that had the express purpose of killing people the PTBs designated as kill-on-sight enemies. My views on war have changed somewhat since then.
I don't understand the psychology of rapists I'll give one example that makes most of the statistics we currently have meaningless.
Were the pharmaceutical companies who sold that kid in Nebraska the antidepressants that mad e him violent and crazy versus just crazy complicit for the deaths he caused? I would say yes, though the law does not agree with me.
We're force feeding powerful drugs with largely undocumented side-effects to an ever growing number of people, including especially children. This is *not* being taken into account into the collection of statistics and perhaps it should be.
(I've had extensive discussions with a couple of past rape victims and one escaped sex slave and the best I can say is that perhaps it is best if I do not understand the psychology of the people who victimized them).
and stripping voting rights away from convicted felons who have served their time, etc. etc. etc.
It's kind of like the system is set up so that the deck is so stacked against someone who has been in prison, they want him or her to do something bad again so they can pass even harsher laws.
If Megan's Law really did lead to this murder, then the parents of Megan share a portion of the blame and deserve to be treated as co-conspirators. The law doesn't bring their child back, but apparently it did deprive a once-sick man who had paid his debt to society from life. There, does that sound enough like the guys who think homosexual prison rape is a desirable punishment?
(Make no mistake, I do not sympathize with rapists, but if we do not have the rule of just law, we have nothing).
(Thanks for posting the whole article where we could read it).
This article is so *wrong* on any number of things. The guy had been released from an Atascadero mental hospital (only criminally dangerous people are put there, or were when I grew up on the central coast). That meant somebody thought he was crazy as well as a rapist. Either way, he was released, so the doctors there had decided that he wasn't a danger to society any more. If he was still a danger, then the doctors should share a portion of the blame of future criminal activity.
Oliver is being held without bail, a police statement said, because he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in San Diego and was on parole when Dodele was killed. And it sounds like this guy has issues of his own. And...
But Oliver said he saw the older man looking at the boy.
"It was more than watching," Oliver said. "You could see his eyes. He was fantasizing, plotting. Later on down the line, who knows how many other children he could have hurt." ... this sounds very much like the loonies who post here and on FreeRepublic fantasizing about homosexual rape in prison.
Oliver pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, burglary and elder abuse Murder and elder abuse? Elder abuse?????
When did that become a law? I guess I've been away from California too long, but apparently not long enough. This whole state is crazy.
Honestly I half expected a few Slashpeople to rail against the FCC for requiring backup power, but I'm glad I haven't seen any such posts. Having lived my entire life on the ring of fire on either side of the ocean, I consider such a law to be in the same vein as one requiring people to breathe a certain number of times per minute. What kind of idiots does the FCC think Americans are?
It's common sense, required and shouldn't need to be a law. How stupid do they want the American IT industry to look to the world?
What next? Do we need a law requiring American IT professionals to not stick their fingers into light sockets while in the bathtub? Or maybe a law requiring people not to carry and use a notebook computer while swimming in a swimming pool?
Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out...
Hell during the North Ridge quake we didn't lose power but instead watched the news people in the morning start looking around as the studio shook and than you heard the earthquake approaching which sounded like a 100 freight trains coming at you, pretty hilarious and later on that day we went to Knott's Berry Farm where all the rides were still working. I was in a 7-11 buying gasoline when that thing struck and it felt like a big giant had taken hold of the building and was slamming it up and down. But you're right, power was only out for a little bit if at all and I was something like a mile or two from Knott's Berry Farm.
Or California, where should an earthquake knock out the original power to a tower, it is just as likely to knock out the generator. No earthquake ever had as much effect to the power grid as that forest fire several states away did in the mid 1990s which knocked out the power grid to most of the Western United States. The Big Bear/Landers quake lit off those cannister thingies on power poles around me like fireworks, but power was restored faster than in that later fire.
Oh and *my* servers stayed up because we had generators when the fire took out Silicon Valley and everyone else. My first +1 year Linux server uptime was split before and after that fire.
If every person in the US tried to fly at once, the airline industry would be brought to it's knees. There's a fixed capacity and since you cannot get inside an airport without a ticket any more, I don't think that would be much of a problem. I think the days of routine overbooking ended six years ago. The terminals might get a tad full if every flight was fully booked, but whatever there's enough space at each gate for a fully booked flight.
You people who don't have your plane tickets already are out of luck, but the airlines won't melt down. People who find thin Sn headgear fashionable should take note...
Your drunk driving analogy is, with all due respect, a bit off. In reference to your Tokyo experience, that's a good cop versus the some fraction of bad cops out there...especially here in the US. If you had been driving I think his response would have been different. Sadly, I also have direct experience with that. They advertise a zero tolerance approach to drinking and driving (any amount of alcohol is forbidden). We hit a random road block on the way back from a karaoke bar and the test used was to have the driver blow onto the officer's hand, which he sniffed. The penalty for a first time offense for a Japanese in Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken in winter 1999/2000 was a 40,000 yen fine, two month license suspension and mandatory driving school in Mito (including some proof that you did not drive there). They did not impound the car and the driver was informed to stay there until she sobered up and then go straight home (the policeman left after a few minutes). I suspect an alien would be treated differently, but have no experience with that.
My case is that driving drunk and not hurting anyone is still a violation of law. Just because no one got hurt doesn't mean that the potential wasn't there and the likelihood is significantly greater than the likelihood of California stop causing damage. Driving drunk is a much different animal. I can do a California stop, speed by a few miles an hour, or not stop right on the line all day long and guarantee that I won't cause an accident or kill someone. No drunk driver can say the same. I've been hit multiple times by California drivers at intersections by cars failing to stop at signs/lights and/or making improper turns, one time my bicycle was destroyed, another time I ended up on the hood. Of course the one time I was rear-ended at high speed by a presumably drunk driver caused the most damage to me. He drove away without stopping, no one saw every digit of his license and because we only had 6 out of 7 digits[1] the officer basically told me off (my car was totaled).
[1] It was a White Bronco in Whittier within a few hours before the famous chase played out on national TV. OJ did it!
But it seems to me that our entire civilisation was built on something we now shun. Times change, people change. What's kind of interesting is that the sorts of stuff that drove folks to a revolution in the 1770s are quite tame compared to what things have gotten like today. I would consider "innocent until proven guilty" as socially useful innovation.
Without this something where would we be? Consider though. The Western systems of government we have now were invented by the Greeks, however the Greeks were only able to create and sustain the first Democracy by slavery. You may draw your own conclusions.
They knew it was designed for lesser hardware, had less time and resources to develop it and if they made it too much like VMS they could expose themselves to personal legal action with moist likely no support from MS. Less resources to what extent? Microsoft was already pretty rich by the time they were hired. After several iterations they've ended up with the most popular operating system for populating botnets. Vista won't change that btw, the brain rot is too deep. Deep enough that we'll probably always have botnets now, whether they be hosted by Mac OS X or the Linux distro of the day. Running executable code received off a network was always an idiotic thing to do, but now it's a required feature for too many people.
VMS wasn't without its faults - alphabetizing directory entries and RMS to name two[1], but it did not lose in the market place because of technical deficiencies and security[2]. VMS clustering was excellent, security was excellent and the descendents of Unix are still playing catchup there, in my opinion. Technically, VMS was far superior to Unix at the time.
I would have expected a bit more from those guys. Perhaps they were hampered in that many things are considered part of the O/S that shouldn't be and the fact that the overall Microsoft Windows architecture doesn't look architected with any kind of master plan in mind and was just kind of lumped together one feature at a time.
[1] One might add the quaint DCL syntax for scripting but even though DCL wasn't just an ordinary program like the Unix shell, it still wasn't part of the O/S and you could use something else like DEC/SHELL.
[2] My guess is that a signifcant part of that was due to combination of the proprietary nature of the system, the obvious applications for US DoD contracts, and the fact that the DoD started discouraging single-source systems in the late 80's.
Around the turn of this century. Yup. The last honorable and decent president we had was President Taft about a hundred years ago. His handlers dumped him when they found out he was too honest to be bought and his successor Woody Wilson started giving us neat stuff like The Federal Reserve Act, income taxes and the IRS and World War I.
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No doubt an editorial oversight, I'm sure they'll get around to it. I've seen it used often enough in WoW and its forums that I'm not surprised. As was explained to me long ago (with regards to how it was now optional to put a comma after "and" in a list), today's slang and grammatical errors can become tomorrow's official usage if done long enough by enough people.
They are constantly expanding Philippine English with words of the year http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=82266
that are quite useful in conversation. "Miskol me so I've got your number", "It's quiet, is the baby sleeping? Yes, he went lobat about an hour ago".
Here is one place where you can definitely say "Think about the children". Would you rather be holding your toddler in your arms in a parachute hitting the ocean at high speed or in a life vest sliding down a ramp?
I just don't see parachutes or any kind of airborne evacuation becoming a viable safety measure ever. Trust the pilot to get you down and after all, his life is at stake too.
Disclaimer: I've only had experience on the avionics side of airplanes, not the engineering.
I've lived in the Philippines since 2003. Most (nearly all) Filipinos do not own computers. Internet cafes are big business, but on very low margin (pennies an hour in gross receipts). I haven't seen any non-pirated Microsoft Windows installations in Internet cafes the whole time.
The "problem" is worse in China, from what I've been told and observed myself.
GMA is heavily into Bush butt-kissing to save her failed Presidency and is promoting anti-piracy campaigns in what I presume is appeasement to the massive flock of vultures swooping overhead Malacanang. Philippine Presidents always turn to the US for support in times of desperation whether the help is there or not. A Microsoft Windows XP license was about P8000 (US$175) when I was last in a computer store two months ago, don't know how that's changed - the US Dollar has lost over 10% of its value versus the Peso since) and that's about a full month's salary (before taxes) for a highly paid professional.
Microsoft's recent additions to their registration program indicate that it is pursuing additional anti-piracy measures. Laws, draconian or otherwise don't trump basic economics.
After recent events in Europe with regards to the ISO standards committees, it could also be an "in your face" sort of thing, but that would only be "an icing on the cake" compared to the piracy and legal jurisdiction matter. I think Microsoft is technically incompetent, not stupid or evil in the business sense, and my bet is on piracy. Does this smell of DMCA and it's jurisdiction? Duh.
A lawyer can tell you for sure, but that's probably thrown in there so that you are guaranteed to be in US legal jurisdiction and can be prosecuted to the full extent of US law if your free copy is suddenly found flooding the streets of Beijing.
$ ps -uxaww | grep firefox
steve 1719 29.4 -25.8 1521604 542080 ?? Ss 3Dec07 4099:18.16
I've only had this instance of Firefox running a little more than a week - see the 3-December start date and it's taking 1.5GB of virtual memory. So sorry, but Firefox eating up system resources is not a valid criticism of Microsoft Windows Vista.
The only requirements are that your home PC is running the Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows XP operating system, and that you have an Internet connection. That's it! I guess I don't qualify
You wouldn't need as heavy of an engine if you were starting out dropped from a plane, you also wouldn't need an over-sophisticated wing design because you are starting out with enough air speed that you'll get enough lift from just about anything. The engine is only needed to maintain air speed and that's a much easier problem to solve. This was all done in the 1950's with specialized aircraft and how all the earliest speed records were set, so it's even been done before. A human as an airframe is the only exotic component.
Of course, any kind of flying where you don't have to strip half naked, pass through metal detectors and get searched by goons would be fun too. Only problem with those suits is that I'll bet lighting cigarettes is pretty tough.
I do believe offenders can be reformed. I do not believe all offenders can be reformed, but the US legal system doesn't deal with that case very well as I don't trust the US psychiatric industry very much.
In my own case, since we're talking about murder, twenty years ago I was a most willing cold warrior contributing to war toys that had the express purpose of killing people the PTBs designated as kill-on-sight enemies. My views on war have changed somewhat since then. I don't understand the psychology of rapists I'll give one example that makes most of the statistics we currently have meaningless.
Were the pharmaceutical companies who sold that kid in Nebraska the antidepressants that mad e him violent and crazy versus just crazy complicit for the deaths he caused? I would say yes, though the law does not agree with me.
We're force feeding powerful drugs with largely undocumented side-effects to an ever growing number of people, including especially children. This is *not* being taken into account into the collection of statistics and perhaps it should be.
(I've had extensive discussions with a couple of past rape victims and one escaped sex slave and the best I can say is that perhaps it is best if I do not understand the psychology of the people who victimized them).
and stripping voting rights away from convicted felons who have served their time, etc. etc. etc.
It's kind of like the system is set up so that the deck is so stacked against someone who has been in prison, they want him or her to do something bad again so they can pass even harsher laws.
If Megan's Law really did lead to this murder, then the parents of Megan share a portion of the blame and deserve to be treated as co-conspirators. The law doesn't bring their child back, but apparently it did deprive a once-sick man who had paid his debt to society from life. There, does that sound enough like the guys who think homosexual prison rape is a desirable punishment?
(Make no mistake, I do not sympathize with rapists, but if we do not have the rule of just law, we have nothing).
This article is so *wrong* on any number of things. The guy had been released from an Atascadero mental hospital (only criminally dangerous people are put there, or were when I grew up on the central coast). That meant somebody thought he was crazy as well as a rapist. Either way, he was released, so the doctors there had decided that he wasn't a danger to society any more. If he was still a danger, then the doctors should share a portion of the blame of future criminal activity. Oliver is being held without bail, a police statement said, because he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in San Diego and was on parole when Dodele was killed. And it sounds like this guy has issues of his own. And
"It was more than watching," Oliver said. "You could see his eyes. He was fantasizing, plotting. Later on down the line, who knows how many other children he could have hurt." ... this sounds very much like the loonies who post here and on FreeRepublic fantasizing about homosexual rape in prison. Oliver pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, burglary and elder abuse Murder and elder abuse? Elder abuse?????
When did that become a law? I guess I've been away from California too long, but apparently not long enough. This whole state is crazy.
It's common sense, required and shouldn't need to be a law. How stupid do they want the American IT industry to look to the world?
What next? Do we need a law requiring American IT professionals to not stick their fingers into light sockets while in the bathtub? Or maybe a law requiring people not to carry and use a notebook computer while swimming in a swimming pool?
Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out
There, are you happy now?
Oh and *my* servers stayed up because we had generators when the fire took out Silicon Valley and everyone else. My first +1 year Linux server uptime was split before and after that fire.
You people who don't have your plane tickets already are out of luck, but the airlines won't melt down. People who find thin Sn headgear fashionable should take note
[1] It was a White Bronco in Whittier within a few hours before the famous chase played out on national TV. OJ did it!
VMS wasn't without its faults - alphabetizing directory entries and RMS to name two[1], but it did not lose in the market place because of technical deficiencies and security[2]. VMS clustering was excellent, security was excellent and the descendents of Unix are still playing catchup there, in my opinion. Technically, VMS was far superior to Unix at the time.
I would have expected a bit more from those guys. Perhaps they were hampered in that many things are considered part of the O/S that shouldn't be and the fact that the overall Microsoft Windows architecture doesn't look architected with any kind of master plan in mind and was just kind of lumped together one feature at a time.
[1] One might add the quaint DCL syntax for scripting but even though DCL wasn't just an ordinary program like the Unix shell, it still wasn't part of the O/S and you could use something else like DEC/SHELL.
[2] My guess is that a signifcant part of that was due to combination of the proprietary nature of the system, the obvious applications for US DoD contracts, and the fact that the DoD started discouraging single-source systems in the late 80's.
Yes, that's the case I was referring to. Thanks for posting the link.