Glow Sticks are nontoxic Some aren't so safe to crack open, having a glowing mess on your hands while entertaining to friends, can be fairly uncomfortable as it burns your flesh.
how about he untether it and fly it across the country? Experimental aircraft licensing is really easy to get.
Reading the report, I get the impression that if someone were to cover the cost of a new prototype, then maybe they would unhook it and give it a more complete test but it's one thing knowing it should work and it's another to risking losing the only prototype you have, if you can't afford to rebuild it.
I'd slightly disagree with that, pilots are made, but then when making a series it's made in full, so you don't end up with something vanishing half way though a season. But it could not get made at all if the pilot is poorly recived.
In this case however, they didn't really need to "pilot" returning a show people have been crying out for for years.
I've not seen any mention yet of contracts. Every job I've had, be it Full time IT work, or temping in a warehouse doing manual labor has always had in the contract what is expected of employer, and employee with regards to a job ending. I think for full time work it's usually been 2 weeks, plus a week per year you've been there or some such.
As the sole worker in a department it's perfectly reasonable for the employer to expect time to find a replacement for you. Of course, not having it in writing makes things akward in that respect, so you need to decided what to do, two weeks seems very short, and so four might seem more approprite.. six weeks on the other hand might be a push, and having you 'on call' after that period, when you no longer work there is outside the realms of what would seem like common practice. - Sure, leave them an email address so new developers can ask you stuff if need be, so as not to actually burn bridges and offer a sign of good will. But draw the line between othering a bit of friendly guidance and giving professional assistance.
It's probably a bad idea to walk out of a job unless you have another lined up already, or, you have a decent enough redundancy (And I'm guessing in a take over situation, that you'd get some) to cover the rent and things for a while.
At the end of the day though, ethics don't pay the rent, or the bills, or food, or new gadgets, so while it's nice to stand by your principles, it's also nice to be able to do the things having a regular job allow you to do. So, you have to look at your responsabilities, as well.
It's also generally easier to change jobs, then it is to get one when your not working. (Though again, been made redundant would be an acceptable reason to be out of work)
London is London centric more to the point, just alot of media people are also london centric due to been based there, which gives an off balance view... beyond that, in the real world the vast majority of people don't give a damn.
I don't see why 'science' fiction shouldn't explore religious issues, off the top of my head Dune in particular had much more religion, then hard science and on TV Babylon 5 had a huge relgious element to it, in one form or another.
This just looks like a bug, plain and simple - If you go to settings, there is an option to group images from the same site - checked by default - but taking it off has no effect, so if one site such as in this case has ALOT of images, its going to be a long way before you get onto the next site. Which you can pretty easy.
Everything about this article is just based on one dumb luck search, and not alot else it seems. Sure it's Microsoft, so it's easy to get all het up, where as if Google made the same mistake, everyone would be much more likely to try figure out what the real deal was.
Since it's all math based at the core, and you can see how and why you are getting the results, I would think this would appeal to alot of slashdot folks, some of it's a bit silly, and it doesn't take it's self very seriously on the surface, but digging deeper there is a really nifty system running it all.
Point: India has nukes. If they want to hold the world hostage or become a true nuclear power they need to be able to send rockets/missles around the globe.
Replace 'India' with 'America' and strangely, I'm equally as worried. In fact more so, since they aren't currently exactly been very mature when it comes to global politics and playing nice with the other kids in the sand pit.
In other words, they fudge it to make it sound cooler. And its just as likely to be a bunch of techies thinking it was funny at the time, untill it stuck, then it is someone in a suit.
I've read a few reports on this now, some blame computer games, some say they were emulating the Matrix...... What gets me, is people are intent on blaming some form of media, as opposed to looking at the real problem, of how three kids managed to get hold of 2000 rounds of ammo and a bunch of guns, thats more then just a case of picking out Dad's hand gun from his draw, thats ALOT of hardware they were packing.
And its not just news reports, all the comments I've read here on./ also seem to focus on Games/Films rather then the huge amount of equipment the kids had.
Sending an email is much more like sending a mail thats labled 'The Current Occupier' or some such, rather then a named person at a postal address. They have every right to read it and do what they like with the contents...
Unless there were particularly sensative contents in the emails, acompanied with the disclaimers a lot of businesses append to emails about if your not the rightful recipient, you should and shouldnt do X, Y and Z.
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You buy tokens/slips at the door.. which the stripper then trades back to cash with her boss.
If your quick, you can patent that, and in 30 years when everyone has a system of 'plastic only' money, you'll be quids in.
If you read the article you might come across the section that sats:
there was no contract between Nominet and the registrants of domain names registered by the "Naming Committee" - the loose assortment of tech-heads that existed prior to Nominet.
Since, at one point you didnt have to pay for.co.uk domains, you just submitted to the commitee, and if they liked you they voted that you could have the domain and use it. (There might be more to it, I was only 16 when the ISP I was working for was doing this!! - But I do belive thats the gist)
There was also a 'limbo' of about 24 hours when the Naming commity handed over to Nominet, where people could register anything (No more voting by the committee), for free(Because Nominet werent charing yet).. but there is no paper work of any kind for these domains. (One of which I own - But cann't prove and not sure how to go about getting it back into my full control!)
There's also been several court cases I know about because of this lack of paperwork, and people selling domains they may or may not have been the owners off.
Since you never have to pay for these domains, you dont even have the invoices, no renewal fees etc. They just exist. Some are no doubt lost forever because people have just left them behind, and theres nothing to remind anyone about them.
The idea of waving the mouse about the screen to do things is good, if done right. But I don't see it as any major innovation, just something thats handy at times.
There is also the problem of having the 'gestures' easy to remember, and how do you document what counts as a gesture, how acurate does it need to be. - Maybe it will take off in many applications, but, its not likely to change the way we work or anything is it?
Not that this isnt very cool in itself.. but, Six Seconds in the air is in my eyes, a LONG way away from space by any streach of the imagination, its a first (Or second, or something) step, but nothing to get carried away with. - And its for that reason you don't see more people investing in it. No one has proved it can be nearly done, yet alone done.
Once one group has made a very significant breakthrough, then other people will start to take notice and try to follow, or get there first. But I think thats a good few years off.
Perhaps investing in life extending products is a better bet if you want to see the first moon base.;o)
maybe this CEO will be humiliated enough to think twice before ignorantly accusing people of things.
Or, more likely he'll sue you again for posting the stuff in the first place. I wouldnt like to take a chance on how legal it is, because even if it IS legal, it could be seen in bad taste and used against you ig things went further.
Isnt this just the same as using some software to stop banner Ads etc, You the users dont notice the difference, but in some way, another site is losing its 'rightful' revenue stream, and I think alot of people are taking a gut reaction to this issue, with out looking at the big picture.
The fact is MOST people use Kazaa for Music etc they dont have the legal right to have, even if you belive they have a moral right.
Add to that I have seen alot of support in the past for software for stopping banner ads etc from alot of posters over time. Perhaps its not the same issue, but its not all that different either.
Which kind of makes me think while I don't like the idea of something like this happening, given the way its happening, its a very murky water thats not clean cut as it might first look.
I am too young to really know what Commodore 64 games looked like
Then head on over to an Abandonware site like The Under Dogs and try a few for your self.
On the otherhand, old games are not really about what they look like, cos they pretty much all look dreadful by todays standards, rather, its about what the games PLAY like. And thats why people still enjoy them today.
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Glow Sticks are nontoxic
Some aren't so safe to crack open, having a glowing mess on your hands while entertaining to friends, can be fairly uncomfortable as it burns your flesh.
In fact, he sounds a lot more like the type of person who has food, water & weapons buried in the woods for the coming Apocalypse.
But if you did have a beer with him, come the Apocalypse, maybe he'd let you have some of his food and water.
how about he untether it and fly it across the country? Experimental aircraft licensing is really easy to get.
Reading the report, I get the impression that if someone were to cover the cost of a new prototype, then maybe they would unhook it and give it a more complete test but it's one thing knowing it should work and it's another to risking losing the only prototype you have, if you can't afford to rebuild it.
I'd slightly disagree with that, pilots are made, but then when making a series it's made in full, so you don't end up with something vanishing half way though a season. But it could not get made at all if the pilot is poorly recived.
In this case however, they didn't really need to "pilot" returning a show people have been crying out for for years.
I've not seen any mention yet of contracts. Every job I've had, be it Full time IT work, or temping in a warehouse doing manual labor has always had in the contract what is expected of employer, and employee with regards to a job ending. I think for full time work it's usually been 2 weeks, plus a week per year you've been there or some such.
As the sole worker in a department it's perfectly reasonable for the employer to expect time to find a replacement for you. Of course, not having it in writing makes things akward in that respect, so you need to decided what to do, two weeks seems very short, and so four might seem more approprite.. six weeks on the other hand might be a push, and having you 'on call' after that period, when you no longer work there is outside the realms of what would seem like common practice. - Sure, leave them an email address so new developers can ask you stuff if need be, so as not to actually burn bridges and offer a sign of good will. But draw the line between othering a bit of friendly guidance and giving professional assistance.
It's probably a bad idea to walk out of a job unless you have another lined up already, or, you have a decent enough redundancy (And I'm guessing in a take over situation, that you'd get some) to cover the rent and things for a while.
At the end of the day though, ethics don't pay the rent, or the bills, or food, or new gadgets, so while it's nice to stand by your principles, it's also nice to be able to do the things having a regular job allow you to do. So, you have to look at your responsabilities, as well.
It's also generally easier to change jobs, then it is to get one when your not working. (Though again, been made redundant would be an acceptable reason to be out of work)
Er, England is totally London centric.
London is London centric more to the point, just alot of media people are also london centric due to been based there, which gives an off balance view... beyond that, in the real world the vast majority of people don't give a damn.
I don't see why 'science' fiction shouldn't explore religious issues, off the top of my head Dune in particular had much more religion, then hard science and on TV Babylon 5 had a huge relgious element to it, in one form or another.
This just looks like a bug, plain and simple - If you go to settings, there is an option to group images from the same site - checked by default - but taking it off has no effect, so if one site such as in this case has ALOT of images, its going to be a long way before you get onto the next site. Which you can pretty easy.
Everything about this article is just based on one dumb luck search, and not alot else it seems. Sure it's Microsoft, so it's easy to get all het up, where as if Google made the same mistake, everyone would be much more likely to try figure out what the real deal was.
It's a good job we got over stupid problems like that with modern space exploration...
Just looking at the Steam forums it is full up of people moaning.
That because for the majority of people who it's worked just great for are busy actually playing the game.
Forums been full of people moaning isnt really an inidcator of anything other then the nature of gamers who post on forums.
Since it's all math based at the core, and you can see how and why you are getting the results, I would think this would appeal to alot of slashdot folks, some of it's a bit silly, and it doesn't take it's self very seriously on the surface, but digging deeper there is a really nifty system running it all.
True, but hopefully our oil output isn't sufficent to make it worth while.
Point: India has nukes. If they want to hold the world hostage or become a true nuclear power they need to be able to send rockets/missles around the globe.
Replace 'India' with 'America' and strangely, I'm equally as worried. In fact more so, since they aren't currently exactly been very mature when it comes to global politics and playing nice with the other kids in the sand pit.
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In other words, they fudge it to make it sound cooler. And its just as likely to be a bunch of techies thinking it was funny at the time, untill it stuck, then it is someone in a suit.
I've read a few reports on this now, some blame computer games, some say they were emulating the Matrix... ... What gets me, is people are intent on blaming some form of media, as opposed to looking at the real problem, of how three kids managed to get hold of 2000 rounds of ammo and a bunch of guns, thats more then just a case of picking out Dad's hand gun from his draw, thats ALOT of hardware they were packing.
./ also seem to focus on Games/Films rather then the huge amount of equipment the kids had.
And its not just news reports, all the comments I've read here on
Sending an email is much more like sending a mail thats labled 'The Current Occupier' or some such, rather then a named person at a postal address. They have every right to read it and do what they like with the contents...
Unless there were particularly sensative contents in the emails, acompanied with the disclaimers a lot of businesses append to emails about if your not the rightful recipient, you should and shouldnt do X, Y and Z.
You buy tokens/slips at the door.. which the stripper then trades back to cash with her boss.
If your quick, you can patent that, and in 30 years when everyone has a system of 'plastic only' money, you'll be quids in.
If you read the article you might come across the section that sats:
.co.uk domains, you just submitted to the commitee, and if they liked you they voted that you could have the domain and use it. (There might be more to it, I was only 16 when the ISP I was working for was doing this!! - But I do belive thats the gist)
there was no contract between Nominet and the registrants of domain names registered by the "Naming Committee" - the loose assortment of tech-heads that existed prior to Nominet.
Since, at one point you didnt have to pay for
There was also a 'limbo' of about 24 hours when the Naming commity handed over to Nominet, where people could register anything (No more voting by the committee), for free(Because Nominet werent charing yet).. but there is no paper work of any kind for these domains. (One of which I own - But cann't prove and not sure how to go about getting it back into my full control!)
There's also been several court cases I know about because of this lack of paperwork, and people selling domains they may or may not have been the owners off.
Since you never have to pay for these domains, you dont even have the invoices, no renewal fees etc. They just exist. Some are no doubt lost forever because people have just left them behind, and theres nothing to remind anyone about them.
For about a month now, in the UK at least with NTL (In the family package, maybe others) you can get 'CNX' which shows, daily:
Outlaw Star.
Cowbow BeBop.
Spawn.
Justice League.
Dragon Ball Z
Samurai Jack.
Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
Obscure Jap Action Films at 10.
As well as others.
Not all anime, but its the best your going to get right now! And it is right now, not what might be.
The idea of waving the mouse about the screen to do things is good, if done right. But I don't see it as any major innovation, just something thats handy at times.
There is also the problem of having the 'gestures' easy to remember, and how do you document what counts as a gesture, how acurate does it need to be. - Maybe it will take off in many applications, but, its not likely to change the way we work or anything is it?
Not that this isnt very cool in itself.. but, Six Seconds in the air is in my eyes, a LONG way away from space by any streach of the imagination, its a first (Or second, or something) step, but nothing to get carried away with. - And its for that reason you don't see more people investing in it. No one has proved it can be nearly done, yet alone done.
;o)
Once one group has made a very significant breakthrough, then other people will start to take notice and try to follow, or get there first. But I think thats a good few years off.
Perhaps investing in life extending products is a better bet if you want to see the first moon base.
maybe this CEO will be humiliated enough to think twice before ignorantly accusing people of things.
Or, more likely he'll sue you again for posting the stuff in the first place. I wouldnt like to take a chance on how legal it is, because even if it IS legal, it could be seen in bad taste and used against you ig things went further.
Isnt this just the same as using some software to stop banner Ads etc, You the users dont notice the difference, but in some way, another site is losing its 'rightful' revenue stream, and I think alot of people are taking a gut reaction to this issue, with out looking at the big picture.
The fact is MOST people use Kazaa for Music etc they dont have the legal right to have, even if you belive they have a moral right.
Add to that I have seen alot of support in the past for software for stopping banner ads etc from alot of posters over time. Perhaps its not the same issue, but its not all that different either.
Which kind of makes me think while I don't like the idea of something like this happening, given the way its happening, its a very murky water thats not clean cut as it might first look.
I am too young to really know what Commodore 64 games looked like
Then head on over to an Abandonware site like The Under Dogs and try a few for your self.
On the otherhand, old games are not really about what they look like, cos they pretty much all look dreadful by todays standards, rather, its about what the games PLAY like. And thats why people still enjoy them today.