Also, as for the naysayers, I suspect the farmer gave permission because: - that many people milling around the farm would have been noticed - taking off a light plane AND a Robinson R22 helo off the farm would certainly get noticed by the farmer.
We don't live in Total Recall world, and a walk through scanner that can detect a capsule of liquid shoved up someone's ass doesn't exist - nor is it likely to exist in the near future.
That's another funny language thing. In Britain, 'lego' is rather like 'sheep' (sheep is both singular and plural - you have a flock of sheep, not a flock of sheeps). In the same way, lego means a single lego brick or the collective - we don't say a box of Legos, just a box of Lego.
It's a British thing. Virtually everyone in Britain (and probably Ireland too) calls a vacuum cleaner a hoover (lower case 'h') - and using one is called 'doing the hoovering'. I remember when I was a kid, and I first saw a Hoover branded appliance that wasn't a vacuum cleaner being a bit confused why they'd mislabel something that was quite clearly a washing machine as a hoover!
Fvwm was not the first multi-platform WM by far. Both OLWM (Open Look Window Manager) and olvwm (Open Look Virtual Window Manager) from Sun ran on Linux before fvwm was even released. Most of us used to run olvwm prior to 1995.
And that's not even counting twm (Tom's Window Manager), the first really usable X11 window manager which has always been multi platform (although I don't think twm really counts as a gui - it's more a way of getting lots of X terms up:-))
Why not get a DC-DC converter to power your laptop off the DC source? Surely it'll be a lot more efficient to go from 12VDC - 2x VDC (whatever the Powerbook uses) than go from 12VDC, through the inverter to whatever your mains voltage is where you are, then get converted back down to low voltage DC?
Things like 'fud' and 'wishfulthinking' are perfectly valid as tags - if you want to search for stories that Slashdotters thought were FUD or wishful thinking. There's room for more than one tag - so something tagged 'linux', 'fud' and 'wishfulthinking' would allow people to, say, find stories about Linux that Slashdotters thought were fud (or wishful thinking) or just plainly about Linux.
I think much of it is culture. In the Unix world, programmers have always assumed that the machine you are using is multiuser and multitasking and network connected. In the Windows world though, the culture comes from DOS - so the majority of developers treat the machine as if it were single user and single tasking and not network connected. Even in 2006.
Illinois won't be paying - they will just raise taxes or cut services to recover the costs. Those who made the decision to do this will face no consequences. Rather, the taxpayer will face all of the consequences.
I'm not sure I agree with either of those scenarios (in so far that innovation by 2006 has been held back compared to what it is today). By the mid 80s, the microcomputing scene was boiling with contenders, any of which could have matured into one of the next business machines.
The equipment needs for making alcohol are so basic that people made it thousands of years ago. Making your own beer today is easier than ever, and anyone who can cook would be able to make reasonable beer.
- many people are already nervous about flying - aircraft are relatively fragile and can easily be destroyed with complete loss of life
If you do things that make something (air travel in this instance) more frightening to the already nervous, you can cause easy terror. Also, the pay-off: as Pan Am 103 demonstrates, you need very little explosives to destroy a plane in-flight with the loss of all hands.
The man was NOT fleeing from the police, he was running to catch a train that was about to leave. The police didn't shout at him until after he was *seated* in the train, and the police had to put a foot in the sliding door of the tube train to prevent the door closing because it was on the verge of leaving - that's why Menezes was running for the train. He didn't start to run, according to witnesses, until he saw that there was a train in the platform. He didn't vault a ticket barrier (he used his Oyster card to enter the station). He wasn't wearing heavy winter clothing; he was wearing a denim jacket (as the photographs in evidence show).
Slashdot isn't and never has been a breaking news site. It's a site for discussing news that might be interesting to geeks. If you think Slashdot is a breaking news site then you will continue to be disappointed - that has never been the point of Slashdot.
Video drivers, I suspect, contain quite a bit of GPU-specific code. Now try and reverse engineer an unknown, undocumented proprietary instruction set and disassemble the GPU-specific code. If you don't, you'll have to just copy the bits which contain the code to run on the GPU, and that would land you in court for violating copyright. Video drivers aren't just something you can disassemble and reverse engineer because half of what you're looking at will be in an undocumented, proprietary ISA.
That's retarded. Why not just kill the offending process instead of crashing the whole machine? Can't wait for the inevitable DOS attacks that will use this to crash Windows.
Why would Microsoft want to convince the movie/music industry to not use DRM? If they can convince the movie/music industry that DRM is absolutely necessary, Microsoft can make themselves the gatekeeper of music/movies, too - since Microsoft DRM will be the only DRM which will ship by default with a new PC.
DRM is extremely beneficial to Microsoft since it gives them another cash cow - because anyone who makes a device anywhere will have to license Microsoft's DRM software.
Expecting Vista to be a colossal failure is wishful thinking. Vista will be a roaring commercial success, since it will come by default on any new PC, so people buying new PCs will get it by default since Microsoft will stop selling OEM versions of XP. Unless people stop buying PCs (they won't), Vista will be a roaring success. Making a new version of Windows a huge runaway success is about as difficult as falling off a log.
Sorry to be pedantic, but if you "could really care less about Vista", this implies that you actually care about it a lot. The phrase you're looking for is "couldn't care less".
Well, 'homicide bomber' is a pretty useful term: most bombers are homicide bombers - such as the IRA bombers during The Troubles. But the IRA bombers definitely weren't suicide bombers. 'Suicide bomber' actually tells you something about the nature of the bombing in the same way as 'aerial bombardment' or 'naval bombardment' or 'cruise missile bombardment' would - it tells you that the weapons delivery platform was a human who planned to be killed by his bomb. A 'homicide bomber' could be any kind of bomber, including naval bombardment or a cruise missile.
Only great if you think Apple being crushed is a good thing. Sadly, Microsoft are probably going to crush the life out of Apple over the next few years.
Why couldn't they have just SAID that instead of this ridiculous sporting analogy which sounds like rapid-fire buzzwords from a marketdroid? I couldn't resist tagging the article 'badsportinganalogy'.
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Nice to see at least someone wearing a kilt.
Also, as for the naysayers, I suspect the farmer gave permission because:
- that many people milling around the farm would have been noticed
- taking off a light plane AND a Robinson R22 helo off the farm would certainly get noticed by the farmer.
We don't live in Total Recall world, and a walk through scanner that can detect a capsule of liquid shoved up someone's ass doesn't exist - nor is it likely to exist in the near future.
Would it be practical to screen every single passenger through medical screening equipment? If not - bye bye airline industry.
That's another funny language thing. In Britain, 'lego' is rather like 'sheep' (sheep is both singular and plural - you have a flock of sheep, not a flock of sheeps). In the same way, lego means a single lego brick or the collective - we don't say a box of Legos, just a box of Lego.
It's a British thing. Virtually everyone in Britain (and probably Ireland too) calls a vacuum cleaner a hoover (lower case 'h') - and using one is called 'doing the hoovering'. I remember when I was a kid, and I first saw a Hoover branded appliance that wasn't a vacuum cleaner being a bit confused why they'd mislabel something that was quite clearly a washing machine as a hoover!
Fvwm was not the first multi-platform WM by far. Both OLWM (Open Look Window Manager) and olvwm (Open Look Virtual Window Manager) from Sun ran on Linux before fvwm was even released. Most of us used to run olvwm prior to 1995.
:-))
And that's not even counting twm (Tom's Window Manager), the first really usable X11 window manager which has always been multi platform (although I don't think twm really counts as a gui - it's more a way of getting lots of X terms up
Why not get a DC-DC converter to power your laptop off the DC source? Surely it'll be a lot more efficient to go from 12VDC - 2x VDC (whatever the Powerbook uses) than go from 12VDC, through the inverter to whatever your mains voltage is where you are, then get converted back down to low voltage DC?
Things like 'fud' and 'wishfulthinking' are perfectly valid as tags - if you want to search for stories that Slashdotters thought were FUD or wishful thinking. There's room for more than one tag - so something tagged 'linux', 'fud' and 'wishfulthinking' would allow people to, say, find stories about Linux that Slashdotters thought were fud (or wishful thinking) or just plainly about Linux.
I think much of it is culture. In the Unix world, programmers have always assumed that the machine you are using is multiuser and multitasking and network connected. In the Windows world though, the culture comes from DOS - so the majority of developers treat the machine as if it were single user and single tasking and not network connected. Even in 2006.
Illinois won't be paying - they will just raise taxes or cut services to recover the costs. Those who made the decision to do this will face no consequences. Rather, the taxpayer will face all of the consequences.
I'm not sure I agree with either of those scenarios (in so far that innovation by 2006 has been held back compared to what it is today). By the mid 80s, the microcomputing scene was boiling with contenders, any of which could have matured into one of the next business machines.
The equipment needs for making alcohol are so basic that people made it thousands of years ago. Making your own beer today is easier than ever, and anyone who can cook would be able to make reasonable beer.
The reason why aircraft are popular targets is:
- many people are already nervous about flying
- aircraft are relatively fragile and can easily be destroyed with complete loss of life
If you do things that make something (air travel in this instance) more frightening to the already nervous, you can cause easy terror. Also, the pay-off: as Pan Am 103 demonstrates, you need very little explosives to destroy a plane in-flight with the loss of all hands.
The man was NOT fleeing from the police, he was running to catch a train that was about to leave. The police didn't shout at him until after he was *seated* in the train, and the police had to put a foot in the sliding door of the tube train to prevent the door closing because it was on the verge of leaving - that's why Menezes was running for the train. He didn't start to run, according to witnesses, until he saw that there was a train in the platform. He didn't vault a ticket barrier (he used his Oyster card to enter the station). He wasn't wearing heavy winter clothing; he was wearing a denim jacket (as the photographs in evidence show).
Slashdot isn't and never has been a breaking news site. It's a site for discussing news that might be interesting to geeks. If you think Slashdot is a breaking news site then you will continue to be disappointed - that has never been the point of Slashdot.
Book? According to the DfT website you can't even take a _book_ with you.
Video drivers, I suspect, contain quite a bit of GPU-specific code. Now try and reverse engineer an unknown, undocumented proprietary instruction set and disassemble the GPU-specific code. If you don't, you'll have to just copy the bits which contain the code to run on the GPU, and that would land you in court for violating copyright. Video drivers aren't just something you can disassemble and reverse engineer because half of what you're looking at will be in an undocumented, proprietary ISA.
That's retarded. Why not just kill the offending process instead of crashing the whole machine? Can't wait for the inevitable DOS attacks that will use this to crash Windows.
Why would Microsoft want to convince the movie/music industry to not use DRM? If they can convince the movie/music industry that DRM is absolutely necessary, Microsoft can make themselves the gatekeeper of music/movies, too - since Microsoft DRM will be the only DRM which will ship by default with a new PC.
DRM is extremely beneficial to Microsoft since it gives them another cash cow - because anyone who makes a device anywhere will have to license Microsoft's DRM software.
Expecting Vista to be a colossal failure is wishful thinking. Vista will be a roaring commercial success, since it will come by default on any new PC, so people buying new PCs will get it by default since Microsoft will stop selling OEM versions of XP. Unless people stop buying PCs (they won't), Vista will be a roaring success. Making a new version of Windows a huge runaway success is about as difficult as falling off a log.
Sorry to be pedantic, but if you "could really care less about Vista", this implies that you actually care about it a lot. The phrase you're looking for is "couldn't care less".
Oops, I meant 'homicide bomber' is a pretty USELESS term.
Well, 'homicide bomber' is a pretty useful term: most bombers are homicide bombers - such as the IRA bombers during The Troubles. But the IRA bombers definitely weren't suicide bombers. 'Suicide bomber' actually tells you something about the nature of the bombing in the same way as 'aerial bombardment' or 'naval bombardment' or 'cruise missile bombardment' would - it tells you that the weapons delivery platform was a human who planned to be killed by his bomb. A 'homicide bomber' could be any kind of bomber, including naval bombardment or a cruise missile.
Only great if you think Apple being crushed is a good thing. Sadly, Microsoft are probably going to crush the life out of Apple over the next few years.
Why couldn't they have just SAID that instead of this ridiculous sporting analogy which sounds like rapid-fire buzzwords from a marketdroid? I couldn't resist tagging the article 'badsportinganalogy'.