Each aircraft has two people flying it regardless of whether it is carrying 100 or 600 people. Pilots do occasionally fuck up and when there are so many lives at stake it makes sense to dedicate more people to the job of flying the plane.
The number of pilots required is based on distance, not number of passengers. In newspapers reporting the recent court case against a AA pilot who turned up to Manchester airport drunk when he was scheduled to fly to Chicago, it was reported that the plane had to be diverted to New York to comply with the FAA rules that flights longer than 8 hours carry 3 flight crew.
Think spying on your activities is hard? Think again. Most smart phones have no equivalent of Bluetooth authentication when plugged in -- they just become slave USB devices and give up all of your data.
Oh phleeze. What does USB and Bluetooth have to do with each other anyway? In anycase, yes, there were phones in the past that didn't include any sort of Bluetooth authentication (such as Nokia 6310i), but that is hardly the case now.
I think what the GP is trying to say is that when you plug it in via USB, you don't have to authenticate the connection, like you do with bluetooth. But at least with Windows Mobile, you do have to enter the phone's PIN before you can access it, so this is more a problem for non-smart mobile phones in my experience.
What difference does it make how much RIAA pays its own lawyers? Shouldn't the attourney fees be whatever the defense lawyers charged?
Normally, yes. In this case, the RIAA challenged the defense lawyers' fees as unreasonable. So the court is trying to determine what is reasonable by comparing what the RIAA paid its lawyers to see if it is in the same ballpark.
but somehow we can't understand there ever being more than one 2007.
There was another, 4014 years ago. What I can't figure out is how prehistoric man knew when Jesus was going to be born/die/be baptised or whatever event you believe led to the changeover, and how clever it was of him to count backwards.
The semantic web will fail because it is too complex and noone outside the academic community working on it really understands it. The ad-hoc tagging systems and microformats Web 2.0 has brought are good enough for most people, and much simpler for the casual web developer to understand.
The blog entry didn't say that iPod created the hard drive market, it claimed that iPod expanded the market.
Expanded isn't really the right word. When the first iPod came along, hard-drive players were using 3.5" laptop hard-drives. Apple found a manufacturer that was about to launch 2.5" drives, and bought 6 months of their entire production, blocking competitors from being able to match their smaller players for the first six months of the iPods life.
The only things that need be passed along are current GPS location ( deliberately imprecise by about 20ft )
GPS hasn't been deliberately imprecise since 2000, and systems like WAAS and EGNOS that are fitted to most new in-car GPS systems allow you to get readings typically to within 3-4 feet. The 20 feet you quote above is the typical accuracy of plain GPS when it is not being tampered with by the military, the official spec for GPS (with deliberate imprecision) only guarantees accuracy to within 300ft.
1. Many IT shops are in financial institutions or other businesses where systems are handling millions or billions of dollars. In that situation you don't want a whole lot of creativity. Every time you change code you introduce risk, and the more money at stake, the more risk-averse you are.
Part of the risk is stagnating and falling behind your competitors.
Also, I don't agree to something simply by reading it. I have to indicate it (see: Electronic Signature) in a legally binding manner. And the 1996-era pop-up (that does no checking to prevent me from clicking no and continuing) certainly doesn't constitute a legal agreement.
There was a popup? I guess my Firefox settings blocked that one.
These days, Windows XP brings up its desktop icons quite quickly for me (I haven't timed it, but maybe around 1 minute), but it is another 5 minutes before the system is usable.
I've had customers ask me to email them things via their gmail addresses because of boneheaded network administrators who think it is their duty to protect users against every type of attachment known to man. If you block the big four webmail providers, users will just use smaller ones, because ultimately they have a job to do, and your draconian lockdown policies are getting in the way.
MTBF matters because it's random. They're not saying that every drive will last that long, they're saying that the average drive will.
False advertising is illegal in many countries. This 5 million hours figure (and SanDisk's 2 million) seems to be based on much shorter tests of large numbers of devices and extrapolating the results based on the assumption that this randomness is evenly distributed. They MUST know that this assumption is wrong. As taught in basic engineering courses, failure distributions are basically U shaped, with most failures on the steep left hand side being detected during manufacture (and hence not counted in their MTBF figures), and those on the right hand side optimally starting to increase shortly after the warrantee expires by fine tuning the manufacturing process to minimise production costs and maximise unit sales.
Google should index the static content, but run/analyse the Javascript and throw out any pages where the user-visible content changes drastically. To be 100% effective though, they'd have to fake the IE or Firefox User-Agent, and use IP addresses from an ISP's dynamically assigned range for their crawling, which some people might see as evil.
The same reason an American gallon/pint is not the same as a British gallon and is certainly not metric. Americans just like to do things differently, there need not be any logical justification for it.
Damn. Now I'm going to have to be careful to run traceroute before uploading anything to a server, just in case it goes via the US and some future law change makes uploading pictures of kittens illegal retrospectively. No way do I want my pictures sitting in a US government owned database, especially with their attitude towards applyingUS lawto foreigners.
You forgot to mention that in the wilderness is a 20 volume set of the entire knowledge handed down by the blacksmiths guild over centuries of experience, and a telephone on which you can phone the expensive support line for your knife, only to be told after 20 minutes on hold that "you shouldn't have done that".
It's not at all like saying Veal Marsala. Marsala is the name of a town in Sicily famous for its wine, port and sherry. The Marsala in Veal Marsala refers to the wine based sauce.
They never knocked on mine (not when I was home, at least), but they did park one of their vans outside around 6pm two nights in a row. That was after I got sick of having to inform them I didn't have a TV every month when they sent out their accusatory letters asking me to sign a declaration if I don't own a TV and send it back to them.
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The number of pilots required is based on distance, not number of passengers. In newspapers reporting the recent court case against a AA pilot who turned up to Manchester airport drunk when he was scheduled to fly to Chicago, it was reported that the plane had to be diverted to New York to comply with the FAA rules that flights longer than 8 hours carry 3 flight crew.
I think what the GP is trying to say is that when you plug it in via USB, you don't have to authenticate the connection, like you do with bluetooth. But at least with Windows Mobile, you do have to enter the phone's PIN before you can access it, so this is more a problem for non-smart mobile phones in my experience.
Normally, yes. In this case, the RIAA challenged the defense lawyers' fees as unreasonable. So the court is trying to determine what is reasonable by comparing what the RIAA paid its lawyers to see if it is in the same ballpark.
There was another, 4014 years ago. What I can't figure out is how prehistoric man knew when Jesus was going to be born/die/be baptised or whatever event you believe led to the changeover, and how clever it was of him to count backwards.
The semantic web will fail because it is too complex and noone outside the academic community working on it really understands it. The ad-hoc tagging systems and microformats Web 2.0 has brought are good enough for most people, and much simpler for the casual web developer to understand.
And I think we all know how difficult it is to buy energy by the pound.
It's quite easy in the UK, though you don't get much for a pound these days.
Of course. Desktop drives are 3.5". I was thinking 5.25" for some reason (mixing them up with old floppies - the ones that were really floppy).
The blog entry didn't say that iPod created the hard drive market, it claimed that iPod expanded the market.
Expanded isn't really the right word. When the first iPod came along, hard-drive players were using 3.5" laptop hard-drives. Apple found a manufacturer that was about to launch 2.5" drives, and bought 6 months of their entire production, blocking competitors from being able to match their smaller players for the first six months of the iPods life.
The only things that need be passed along are current GPS location ( deliberately imprecise by about 20ft )
GPS hasn't been deliberately imprecise since 2000, and systems like WAAS and EGNOS that are fitted to most new in-car GPS systems allow you to get readings typically to within 3-4 feet. The 20 feet you quote above is the typical accuracy of plain GPS when it is not being tampered with by the military, the official spec for GPS (with deliberate imprecision) only guarantees accuracy to within 300ft.
1. Many IT shops are in financial institutions or other businesses where systems are handling millions or billions of dollars. In that situation you don't want a whole lot of creativity. Every time you change code you introduce risk, and the more money at stake, the more risk-averse you are.
Part of the risk is stagnating and falling behind your competitors.
Also, I don't agree to something simply by reading it. I have to indicate it (see: Electronic Signature) in a legally binding manner. And the 1996-era pop-up (that does no checking to prevent me from clicking no and continuing) certainly doesn't constitute a legal agreement.
There was a popup? I guess my Firefox settings blocked that one.
These days, Windows XP brings up its desktop icons quite quickly for me (I haven't timed it, but maybe around 1 minute), but it is another 5 minutes before the system is usable.
'put into place a system of controls, and document those controls'. Then my conversations with my regulators go like this: Great, wtf does that mean?
It means exactly what it says. It's ISO-9000 for the finance department.
I've had customers ask me to email them things via their gmail addresses because of boneheaded network administrators who think it is their duty to protect users against every type of attachment known to man. If you block the big four webmail providers, users will just use smaller ones, because ultimately they have a job to do, and your draconian lockdown policies are getting in the way.
Personally, I would have sued the Cybersquatters first, and left innocent kids called Mike Rowe alone.
MTBF matters because it's random. They're not saying that every drive will last that long, they're saying that the average drive will.
False advertising is illegal in many countries. This 5 million hours figure (and SanDisk's 2 million) seems to be based on much shorter tests of large numbers of devices and extrapolating the results based on the assumption that this randomness is evenly distributed. They MUST know that this assumption is wrong. As taught in basic engineering courses, failure distributions are basically U shaped, with most failures on the steep left hand side being detected during manufacture (and hence not counted in their MTBF figures), and those on the right hand side optimally starting to increase shortly after the warrantee expires by fine tuning the manufacturing process to minimise production costs and maximise unit sales.
You should have left out the mess about the tv, etc. It isn't affected and has nothing to do with this.
I disagree. The extra hour of daylight in the evening means people are more likely to do something outside than sit in front of the TV all evening.
Google should index the static content, but run/analyse the Javascript and throw out any pages where the user-visible content changes drastically. To be 100% effective though, they'd have to fake the IE or Firefox User-Agent, and use IP addresses from an ISP's dynamically assigned range for their crawling, which some people might see as evil.
The same reason an American gallon/pint is not the same as a British gallon and is certainly not metric. Americans just like to do things differently, there need not be any logical justification for it.
Damn. Now I'm going to have to be careful to run traceroute before uploading anything to a server, just in case it goes via the US and some future law change makes uploading pictures of kittens illegal retrospectively. No way do I want my pictures sitting in a US government owned database, especially with their attitude towards applying US law to foreigners.
I wasn't expecting it to work, but I tried it anyway. It worked, they must have upgraded their backend since I last tried non-ASCII characters.
You forgot to mention that in the wilderness is a 20 volume set of the entire knowledge handed down by the blacksmiths guild over centuries of experience, and a telephone on which you can phone the expensive support line for your knife, only to be told after 20 minutes on hold that "you shouldn't have done that".
"chourico" here (formally so as well)
Formally, it should have a cedilla on the second c, but I don't think Slashdot will let you post one of those (ç).
It's a bit like saying Veal Marsala.
It's not at all like saying Veal Marsala. Marsala is the name of a town in Sicily famous for its wine, port and sherry. The Marsala in Veal Marsala refers to the wine based sauce.
They never knocked on mine (not when I was home, at least), but they did park one of their vans outside around 6pm two nights in a row. That was after I got sick of having to inform them I didn't have a TV every month when they sent out their accusatory letters asking me to sign a declaration if I don't own a TV and send it back to them.