Streaming video over in-flight WiFi? So this means I shouldn't check my notebook?
Sadly more and more people refuse to pay to check any bags, leading to flights over boarding first, massive problems in the overhead bins, high stress, and delayed flights.
seriously, a total ripoff. i'm surprised they don't start charging for overhead luggage space. although if you bring your stuff to the gate and there's no baggage bin room, they usually gate check it for free.
The airlines I fly allow you to check for free. Doesn't help. I'd be delighted if they charged for overhead space, or just make a charge for any "hand luggage" with wheels. If you're too lazy to carry your essentials, you should be forced to check them.
Hey, my laptop could power the whole building! (For ten seconds or so. Before it exploded.)
A typical AA battery stores about 3WH of power, or 10kJ That's 10kW for a second It's 10MW for a millisecond It's 10GW for a nanosecond
P.S. You'd need 15,000 of the things (with the right capacitor) to travel through time (1.21GW provided along a 50cm lightning rod at 88mph - so 1.21GW * 120ms = 145MJ)
They just need to use the Renault clone of the Nissan. You get the same battery but the car owner leases it from Renault, so they are the ones stuck with the cost extra failing batteries (and will certainly not pass it down to customers, right...).
Of course they will, but if the revenues are your lease charge at $xx per month, and the costs are the new batteries, they have an incentive to make the battery replacement cheap.
If they sold you the car then you pay for a new battery every year, they don't have that incentive.
Streaming video over in-flight WiFi? So this means I shouldn't check my notebook?
Sadly more and more people refuse to check any bags, leading to flights over boarding first, massive problems in the overhead bins, high stress, and delayed flights.
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Who's claiming Reagan is "this generation's Gandhi"?
Gandhi was known for his non-violence. Mandela was known for his violence, just like George Washington, Obama and Churchill. Now that violence may have been justified, but Mandella was far closer to those men than he was to Gandhi. Hell Gerry Adams is closer to a "this generation's Gandhi" than Mandela.
(P.S. for anyone currently under the age of 30 Communism and apartheid both fell before they were teenagers. "This generation" is an interesting word.)
You're making the assumption that violence from someone you agree with is good whereas violence from someone you disagree with is bad.
No, you're making the assumption that there's no difference between "good violence" and "no violence". I have no problem with Mandela's tactics, but he's no Gandhi.
What about all the founding fathers of the US who burned down a lot of buildings and tortured or killed a lot of British supporters? Ie "tar and feathering" which we are taught about in grade school was not just some mild public humiliation but a form of torture that could sometimes cause death. Were those people brave patriots fighting for freedom or terrorists using fear tactics?
Terrorists (as in they employed terrorist tactics to get their own way) that rose up in arms against their (ridiculous) government. For profit. I don't think anyone would say Washington was that generation's Gandhi, nor was George 3rd.
It's so much worse than just Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher calling Mandela a "terrorist".
When congress passed anti-apartheid sanctions, Reagan vetoed them, and then actively called the Senators before the veto override vote to try to convince them to let it stand. Congress went ahead and overrode the veto, giving Reagan one of his worst political defeats as president. It was the only time in the 20th century when congress overrode a president's veto of a foreign policy bill.
Reagan still refused to enforce the sanctions against the apartheid regime, asking South African President Botha to call congress himself and lobby to have the sanctions lifted.
Reagan's successor, George H W Bush, included in his platform a promise to enforce the sanctions to their fullest extent, which he ultimately did.
Mandela's legacy will ring out long after Reagan and Thatcher's have been relegated to the trash.
I continue to feel Reagan is overrated. Mandela was the Gandhi of our time.
Is that computer hardware has become much more reliable over time. In fact some business now waits 3 or so years before refreshing hardware. And personal is anywhere from that 3 to 5 years range.
3 years? Don't make me laugh. Most businesses used to have a 3 year cycle at tops. Most businesses I encounter are on 5 or 7 years of sweating assets, and the staff really don't care.
Disagree, they've changed the fucking keyboard layout and I will hate them forever for that. As a touch typist since 1977, and a computer keyboard touch typist since 1992, it irritates the crap out of me that they've swapped the left Function and Control key, moved F1 where Escape should be, and put Escape where you need to actually take your hands off the keyboard to reach it. Then the Delete/Home/etc cluster is messed up too. The worst part of it all is that there is absolutely no reason for it, so I work on this Lenovo fucked up layout and then go home and have to re-adjust to my normal keyboard on my laptop at home. Absolutely unforgivable as far as I'm concerned.
I managed to get a new T410s a couple of months ago to replace my old one which was literally falling apart. I'm not looking forward to 18 months time.
Fn/Ctrl is swappable in the bios, at least it is on the t410.
The latest craze, so I understand, is shaving off all body hair, except the top where if you are bald you should add hair. What for?? Legs was bad enough, but now shaving even the pubic hair is the in thing to do. I can only think this is an appeal to childhood. Innocently wanting to remember the good old days when life was easier with parents around to take care of things, or perhaps it's also to appeal more to those with pedophilic tendencies.
Do you shave your beard? Or keep it kept? I grew a Moustache for Movember, very itchy, and I'm glad to be rid of it.
There are plenty more. Do you use a clothes dryer, instead of a line or a rack?
Yes, means my clothes get dry and I don't need to keep an eye on the weather all the time. Drying indoors leads to damp (that moisture has to go somewhere), not to mention the loss of a room
As soon as I can find something like Eclipse that works on a Tablet, or iPad; I'll buy one of those.
You are not the typical person.
And if you only use a PC for eclipse, you're not a typical eclipse user either. I have eclipse open at the moment on my laptop, still own a tablet though.
It is one thing to say that the spec is incomplete, but when the spec is bad there is not much a developer can do. If you are told to make the wrong thing, well, either you make the wrong thing or someone else will be paid to do so. There is only so much a developer can do in that situation.
When I develop I embed myself in the business. I never lose sight of the fact I'm writing code to make the business perform it's job better, which means I understand the business.
The department I used to work for is an internal department in a $7 billion organisation. I left when they decided to bring in product managers, technical analysts, business analysts and the like, none of whom had done a day in the core business, and aren't even based in the same building.
My old department is now being downsized, and a new team that's (once again) embedded in the business is starting up.
Not only that, but with digital TV, they know what you watch and when. With analog TV, they don't. Knowning who watches what and when is a very, VERY valuable business model - just ask Google...
Erm, they don't know who's watching digital TV either. Unless you buy a receiver that phones home, which would be dumb. DVB-T is as open a standard as PAL, you can generate a valid signal from your video card.
he is a man who has watched his father deteriorate and come to the brink of death while his own estate is pissed away for no reason but to keep him in this state longer.
You see I'd be sympathetic if inheritance wasn't brought into it. But then I'm a proponent of a 100% inheritance tax.
The site is also less secure for me because none of my standard, extremely secure, never before had a problem with them passwords will work for it. That will force me to write it down, making the site inherently less secure.
If you're reusing passwords, it's not secure.
When sites come up with new, unusual standards for usernames and passwords (e.g. must contain a %, *, or ^), then they are making the site less secure because they are increasing the odds that people will have to write down their usernames and passwords.
They will, and it will be far more secure than using "my5tr0ngP@$$w0rd!" that you reuse on other sites.
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You mightn't call being in the top 9% of households incomes "exceptionally affluent", but the other 91% of people probably do.
I'm in the bottom 91%, but I certainly don't think a household on $150k a year is "exceptionally affulent". The median is about $70k.
5 years ago where I live finally got DSL at 768bps.
wow, my first modem I used for the internet was 15 times faster, and that was 20 years ago.
You should look at the statistics for people who attend Harvard. 30% of their students have a family that pulls in 150k or more.
I'm amazed it's that low.
Streaming video over in-flight WiFi? So this means I shouldn't check my notebook?
Sadly more and more people refuse to pay to check any bags, leading to flights over boarding first, massive problems in the overhead bins, high stress, and delayed flights.
seriously, a total ripoff. i'm surprised they don't start charging for overhead luggage space. although if you bring your stuff to the gate and there's no baggage bin room, they usually gate check it for free.
The airlines I fly allow you to check for free. Doesn't help. I'd be delighted if they charged for overhead space, or just make a charge for any "hand luggage" with wheels. If you're too lazy to carry your essentials, you should be forced to check them.
Hey, my laptop could power the whole building! (For ten seconds or so. Before it exploded.)
A typical AA battery stores about 3WH of power, or 10kJ
That's 10kW for a second
It's 10MW for a millisecond
It's 10GW for a nanosecond
P.S. You'd need 15,000 of the things (with the right capacitor) to travel through time (1.21GW provided along a 50cm lightning rod at 88mph - so 1.21GW * 120ms = 145MJ)
They just need to use the Renault clone of the Nissan. You get the same battery but the car owner leases it from Renault, so they are the ones stuck with the cost extra failing batteries (and will certainly not pass it down to customers, right...).
Of course they will, but if the revenues are your lease charge at $xx per month, and the costs are the new batteries, they have an incentive to make the battery replacement cheap.
If they sold you the car then you pay for a new battery every year, they don't have that incentive.
Streaming video over in-flight WiFi? So this means I shouldn't check my notebook?
Sadly more and more people refuse to check any bags, leading to flights over boarding first, massive problems in the overhead bins, high stress, and delayed flights.
Name one current UK Minister who isn't a fuckwit.
Vince Cable?
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Book a flight to Moscow first though
How many buildings did Gandhi blow up?
Not nearly as many as Reagan did.
Who's claiming Reagan is "this generation's Gandhi"?
Gandhi was known for his non-violence. Mandela was known for his violence, just like George Washington, Obama and Churchill. Now that violence may have been justified, but Mandella was far closer to those men than he was to Gandhi. Hell Gerry Adams is closer to a "this generation's Gandhi" than Mandela.
(P.S. for anyone currently under the age of 30 Communism and apartheid both fell before they were teenagers. "This generation" is an interesting word.)
You're making the assumption that violence from someone you agree with is good whereas violence from someone you disagree with is bad.
No, you're making the assumption that there's no difference between "good violence" and "no violence". I have no problem with Mandela's tactics, but he's no Gandhi.
What about all the founding fathers of the US who burned down a lot of buildings and tortured or killed a lot of British supporters? Ie "tar and feathering" which we are taught about in grade school was not just some mild public humiliation but a form of torture that could sometimes cause death. Were those people brave patriots fighting for freedom or terrorists using fear tactics?
Terrorists (as in they employed terrorist tactics to get their own way) that rose up in arms against their (ridiculous) government. For profit. I don't think anyone would say Washington was that generation's Gandhi, nor was George 3rd.
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Because it's "stuff that matters."
95 year old man dies after long uneventful retirement
It's so much worse than just Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher calling Mandela a "terrorist".
When congress passed anti-apartheid sanctions, Reagan vetoed them, and then actively called the Senators before the veto override vote to try to convince them to let it stand. Congress went ahead and overrode the veto, giving Reagan one of his worst political defeats as president. It was the only time in the 20th century when congress overrode a president's veto of a foreign policy bill.
Reagan still refused to enforce the sanctions against the apartheid regime, asking South African President Botha to call congress himself and lobby to have the sanctions lifted.
Reagan's successor, George H W Bush, included in his platform a promise to enforce the sanctions to their fullest extent, which he ultimately did.
Mandela's legacy will ring out long after Reagan and Thatcher's have been relegated to the trash.
I continue to feel Reagan is overrated. Mandela was the Gandhi of our time.
How many buildings did Gandhi blow up?
That took forever...
That took forever...
Aww, was it upsetting for you to go through those 22 weeks his health and body were failing?
Imagine what is must have been like for him.
We wouldn't do it to pets
Kind of hard to cross that big old ocean 'tween the U.S. and Malaysia...
IN A CAR!!!
You just have to get a kayak
Is that computer hardware has become much more reliable over time. In fact some business now waits 3 or so years before refreshing hardware. And personal is anywhere from that 3 to 5 years range.
3 years? Don't make me laugh. Most businesses used to have a 3 year cycle at tops. Most businesses I encounter are on 5 or 7 years of sweating assets, and the staff really don't care.
Disagree, they've changed the fucking keyboard layout and I will hate them forever for that. As a touch typist since 1977, and a computer keyboard touch typist since 1992, it irritates the crap out of me that they've swapped the left Function and Control key, moved F1 where Escape should be, and put Escape where you need to actually take your hands off the keyboard to reach it. Then the Delete/Home/etc cluster is messed up too. The worst part of it all is that there is absolutely no reason for it, so I work on this Lenovo fucked up layout and then go home and have to re-adjust to my normal keyboard on my laptop at home. Absolutely unforgivable as far as I'm concerned.
I managed to get a new T410s a couple of months ago to replace my old one which was literally falling apart. I'm not looking forward to 18 months time.
Fn/Ctrl is swappable in the bios, at least it is on the t410.
Lenovo is huge in business laptops. They're durable and reliable and don't have any obviously stupid features or issues with them.
Except they killed the keyboard with the T430s, either to save a few bucks or because it "looks cool".
The latest craze, so I understand, is shaving off all body hair, except the top where if you are bald you should add hair. What for?? Legs was bad enough, but now shaving even the pubic hair is the in thing to do. I can only think this is an appeal to childhood. Innocently wanting to remember the good old days when life was easier with parents around to take care of things, or perhaps it's also to appeal more to those with pedophilic tendencies.
Do you shave your beard? Or keep it kept? I grew a Moustache for Movember, very itchy, and I'm glad to be rid of it.
There are plenty more. Do you use a clothes dryer, instead of a line or a rack?
Yes, means my clothes get dry and I don't need to keep an eye on the weather all the time. Drying indoors leads to damp (that moisture has to go somewhere), not to mention the loss of a room
Why are we so hung up on lawns, even to the point of many cities having made it illegal to have a natural lawn?
Land of the free eh?
As a country, you think that universal healthcare is a terrible idea, but yo're happy to trample over people's freedoms not to mow their lawn?
As soon as I can find something like Eclipse that works on a Tablet, or iPad; I'll buy one of those.
You are not the typical person.
And if you only use a PC for eclipse, you're not a typical eclipse user either. I have eclipse open at the moment on my laptop, still own a tablet though.
It is one thing to say that the spec is incomplete, but when the spec is bad there is not much a developer can do. If you are told to make the wrong thing, well, either you make the wrong thing or someone else will be paid to do so. There is only so much a developer can do in that situation.
When I develop I embed myself in the business. I never lose sight of the fact I'm writing code to make the business perform it's job better, which means I understand the business.
The department I used to work for is an internal department in a $7 billion organisation. I left when they decided to bring in product managers, technical analysts, business analysts and the like, none of whom had done a day in the core business, and aren't even based in the same building.
My old department is now being downsized, and a new team that's (once again) embedded in the business is starting up.
Not only that, but with digital TV, they know what you watch and when. With analog TV, they don't. Knowning who watches what and when is a very, VERY valuable business model - just ask Google...
Erm, they don't know who's watching digital TV either. Unless you buy a receiver that phones home, which would be dumb. DVB-T is as open a standard as PAL, you can generate a valid signal from your video card.
http://bellard.org/dvbt/
he is a man who has watched his father deteriorate and come to the brink of death while his own estate is pissed away for no reason but to keep him in this state longer.
You see I'd be sympathetic if inheritance wasn't brought into it. But then I'm a proponent of a 100% inheritance tax.
The site is also less secure for me because none of my standard, extremely secure, never before had a problem with them passwords will work for it. That will force me to write it down, making the site inherently less secure.
If you're reusing passwords, it's not secure.
When sites come up with new, unusual standards for usernames and passwords (e.g. must contain a %, *, or ^), then they are making the site less secure because they are increasing the odds that people will have to write down their usernames and passwords.
They will, and it will be far more secure than using "my5tr0ngP@$$w0rd!" that you reuse on other sites.