Flying a plane near the ground is piss easy. My instructor had me fly a few low approaches over the runway before starting on landings - this was perhaps when I had less than 10 hours of instruction.
To be honest, the current Slashdot design is better than ALL of the submitted designs so far. All the ones submitted either have tiny fonts, or are extremely busy, or ar Digg-ish (i.e. soul less link farms). These three are no different - fortunately, Taco isn't going for any of the Digg-ish type designs, but all the three shown here are far too 'busy'. The current Slashdot design is readable and doesn't distract.
It's not FedEx inspecting them - it's Customs inspecting packages being sent internationally. Customs have had this legal power for decades; they can open and inspect any package they want.
The MPAA aren't doing anything (hint: the AA means Association of America, and this is happening in the UK, so it'll be the UK counterpart). OK, so that was splitting hairs.
However, it's not even the UK counterpart doing it. Customs and Excise is ALREADY chartered with the job of detecting and prosecuting the shippers of illegal goods being shipped via UK ports and airports. Customs and Excise are merely doing their job - they are probably trying to detect the people who send large parcels of couterfeit DVDs through the mail. Customs and Excise already have the lawful power to inspect any item of international mail. In this respect, they are doing the same job under the law as detecting the smuggling of anything else that's illegal in the UK.
If you want pro-Microsoft or "unbiased" articles, then don't go to a website that advocates open source software. This is after all Slashdot, *not* Cee Colon Backslash Dot.
It's also going to disappear without much fanfare because it's pointless. It's far better to spend the extra money on a dual (or more) core processor which can be used for all your computing needs, rather than fewer general purpose cores and an expensive single use card. Dual core processors make it redundant before it's even come out.
I find a GUI (which, incidentally is available with Vim - it's not command line only) gets in the way. I want a text editor which never requires me to take my right hand off the keyboard to mess around with the mouse.
The nice thing about vim is that it does have a gui and a terminal version which work in exactly the same way - I merely use the gui version to make it easier to get multiple windows up at once.
I wrote a custom GINA for a project I was on in the NT 4.0 days. The reason why GINA is going is the same as what we found - it's inflexible and it's a crap approach. GINA makes PAM on Unix look like paradise.
You *can* use 'runas' as a sort of equivalent to su in existing Windows versions. If you run 'cmd.exe' with runas, well, it pretty much works like 'su - ' on Unix.
Huh? Apple computers for years have taken the standard memory modules that a PC takes. It's trivial to upgrade the memory on a Mac and has been for years. As for closed, Apple's entire base operating system (Darwin) is released complete with source code under the BSD license.
Some of it's limitations. You CAN buy a digital camera that doesn't have any 2-second pauses - I have one. But it'll cost - mine is a digital SLR, and it really is a worthy replacement for my old film SLR because it works just as well (I resisted the move to digital till this year due to the lack of affordable digital SLRs and the many drawbacks of digital photography, namely things like your 2-second wait). My Nikon D70 is ready as soon as I flip the switch, just like my old film Nikon.
But those aren't the features most people are using. Sure, people ARE using them, but not most as Microsoft asserts. Perhaps less than 1% of our company ever makes a presentation, and so far zero has included video - the vast majority (i.e. the "most people" Microsoft are referring to) in our office use Word and nothing else. Finance use spreadsheets, but they aren't using features in Excel that are not present in OpenOffice either.
I don't disagree that people use features in MS Office that aren't present in OpenOffice - however, I disagree that it's "most people".
I'm genuinely interested to know what features of Microsoft Word "most users use" that are not in OpenOffice or KOffice (which also does ODF).
Nearly all the users in our office are doing standard officey things in MS Office. None of them use features that aren't present in OpenOffice - in fact, hardly any of them use MS Office as anything more than a glorified typewriter with a handy spell checker.
Have you tried switching to GraniteCanyon to serve your DNS records? Doesn't matter who your registrar is -- just change your nameservers to a proper DNS provider like GraniteCanyon and you can add any valid RR, including a TXT record. See http://soa.granitecanyon.com/.
SPF is useful _now_ - I've not been 'joe jobbed' (i.e. someone "borrowing" my domain in forged From: headers since adding SPF). It also makes it much easier to get your mail delivered to AOL users (I have one domain which does have a mailing list for non-technical users - until the SPF record was added, AOL was problematical). Just avoiding being 'joe jobbed' is worth it - it's not nice to get 40,000 bounce messages when someone forged their From: address using your email address.
"When I left home at the age of 18, I thought my father was the stupidest man on earth. When I returned home at the age of 21, I was amazed at how much my father had learned in those three short years." -- Mark Twain
To put it in perspective, Debian got Woody and Sarge out in the time that Microsoft has taken to go from XP to Vista. They might even get Etch out before MS gets Vista out. So relatively speaking it's not that bad (especially considering how many packages Debian supports).
The people bitching about Vista and the people bitching about Office 07 are not necessarily the same people. There is more than one person who comments to Slashdot - opinions on each side are to be expected!
There will not be any mass defections - even if Vista is delayed another four years. This is because OEMs will keep shipping Microsoft Windows (of some kind) so MS continues to get paid for each new PC sold. Businesses in the main are so locked into Windows they have no alternative anyway. Microsoft knows this, and they realise it is probably to get Vista as right as possible rather than rush it out - they'll catch less heat that way, and they will still continue to make money on XP in the meantime.
Everyone goes on about how 'business savvy' Bill Gates and Microsoft is, but ever since Compaq cloned the PC BIOS and OEMs have shipped a Microsoft OS by default, making money from DOS and subsequently Windows has been about as difficult for Microsoft as falling off a log.
On the subject of porn - I wonder how much home-made porn has increased with the advent of digital cameras and camcorders, and not having to face the embarrasment of sending film off to be developed?
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What does a stringed instrument, a little larger than a violin, have to do with it?
Flying a plane near the ground is piss easy. My instructor had me fly a few low approaches over the runway before starting on landings - this was perhaps when I had less than 10 hours of instruction.
This was up in our school's biology lab. I have no idea who the original author is:
A mosquito was heard to complain,
A chemist had poisioned his brain,
The cause of his sorrow
Was 4-4-dichloro
Diphenoltrichloroethane
To be honest, the current Slashdot design is better than ALL of the submitted designs so far. All the ones submitted either have tiny fonts, or are extremely busy, or ar Digg-ish (i.e. soul less link farms). These three are no different - fortunately, Taco isn't going for any of the Digg-ish type designs, but all the three shown here are far too 'busy'. The current Slashdot design is readable and doesn't distract.
It's not FedEx inspecting them - it's Customs inspecting packages being sent internationally. Customs have had this legal power for decades; they can open and inspect any package they want.
The MPAA aren't doing anything (hint: the AA means Association of America, and this is happening in the UK, so it'll be the UK counterpart). OK, so that was splitting hairs.
However, it's not even the UK counterpart doing it. Customs and Excise is ALREADY chartered with the job of detecting and prosecuting the shippers of illegal goods being shipped via UK ports and airports. Customs and Excise are merely doing their job - they are probably trying to detect the people who send large parcels of couterfeit DVDs through the mail. Customs and Excise already have the lawful power to inspect any item of international mail. In this respect, they are doing the same job under the law as detecting the smuggling of anything else that's illegal in the UK.
If you want pro-Microsoft or "unbiased" articles, then don't go to a website that advocates open source software. This is after all Slashdot, *not* Cee Colon Backslash Dot.
It's also going to disappear without much fanfare because it's pointless. It's far better to spend the extra money on a dual (or more) core processor which can be used for all your computing needs, rather than fewer general purpose cores and an expensive single use card. Dual core processors make it redundant before it's even come out.
I find a GUI (which, incidentally is available with Vim - it's not command line only) gets in the way. I want a text editor which never requires me to take my right hand off the keyboard to mess around with the mouse.
The nice thing about vim is that it does have a gui and a terminal version which work in exactly the same way - I merely use the gui version to make it easier to get multiple windows up at once.
I wrote a custom GINA for a project I was on in the NT 4.0 days. The reason why GINA is going is the same as what we found - it's inflexible and it's a crap approach. GINA makes PAM on Unix look like paradise.
You *can* use 'runas' as a sort of equivalent to su in existing Windows versions. If you run 'cmd.exe' with runas, well, it pretty much works like 'su - ' on Unix.
Huh? Apple computers for years have taken the standard memory modules that a PC takes. It's trivial to upgrade the memory on a Mac and has been for years. As for closed, Apple's entire base operating system (Darwin) is released complete with source code under the BSD license.
Some of it's limitations. You CAN buy a digital camera that doesn't have any 2-second pauses - I have one. But it'll cost - mine is a digital SLR, and it really is a worthy replacement for my old film SLR because it works just as well (I resisted the move to digital till this year due to the lack of affordable digital SLRs and the many drawbacks of digital photography, namely things like your 2-second wait). My Nikon D70 is ready as soon as I flip the switch, just like my old film Nikon.
But those aren't the features most people are using. Sure, people ARE using them, but not most as Microsoft asserts. Perhaps less than 1% of our company ever makes a presentation, and so far zero has included video - the vast majority (i.e. the "most people" Microsoft are referring to) in our office use Word and nothing else. Finance use spreadsheets, but they aren't using features in Excel that are not present in OpenOffice either.
I don't disagree that people use features in MS Office that aren't present in OpenOffice - however, I disagree that it's "most people".
I'm genuinely interested to know what features of Microsoft Word "most users use" that are not in OpenOffice or KOffice (which also does ODF).
Nearly all the users in our office are doing standard officey things in MS Office. None of them use features that aren't present in OpenOffice - in fact, hardly any of them use MS Office as anything more than a glorified typewriter with a handy spell checker.
Have you tried switching to GraniteCanyon to serve your DNS records? Doesn't matter who your registrar is -- just change your nameservers to a proper DNS provider like GraniteCanyon and you can add any valid RR, including a TXT record. See http://soa.granitecanyon.com/.
SPF is useful _now_ - I've not been 'joe jobbed' (i.e. someone "borrowing" my domain in forged From: headers since adding SPF). It also makes it much easier to get your mail delivered to AOL users (I have one domain which does have a mailing list for non-technical users - until the SPF record was added, AOL was problematical). Just avoiding being 'joe jobbed' is worth it - it's not nice to get 40,000 bounce messages when someone forged their From: address using your email address.
"When I left home at the age of 18, I thought my father was the stupidest man on earth. When I returned home at the age of 21, I was amazed at how much my father had learned in those three short years." -- Mark Twain
Why, a better implementation of "backbone CVS" of course!
To put it in perspective, Debian got Woody and Sarge out in the time that Microsoft has taken to go from XP to Vista. They might even get Etch out before MS gets Vista out. So relatively speaking it's not that bad (especially considering how many packages Debian supports).
The people bitching about Vista and the people bitching about Office 07 are not necessarily the same people. There is more than one person who comments to Slashdot - opinions on each side are to be expected!
No, the evil bit is a far more fun to make!
You've not bought any cordless power tools recently, then. They still come with nickel cadmium batteries.
Well, that's if time was running backwards - the Tacoma Bridge collapsed 8 years before the 1948 standard...
There will not be any mass defections - even if Vista is delayed another four years. This is because OEMs will keep shipping Microsoft Windows (of some kind) so MS continues to get paid for each new PC sold. Businesses in the main are so locked into Windows they have no alternative anyway. Microsoft knows this, and they realise it is probably to get Vista as right as possible rather than rush it out - they'll catch less heat that way, and they will still continue to make money on XP in the meantime.
Everyone goes on about how 'business savvy' Bill Gates and Microsoft is, but ever since Compaq cloned the PC BIOS and OEMs have shipped a Microsoft OS by default, making money from DOS and subsequently Windows has been about as difficult for Microsoft as falling off a log.
On the subject of porn - I wonder how much home-made porn has increased with the advent of digital cameras and camcorders, and not having to face the embarrasment of sending film off to be developed?