The altitude reported is taken from the aircraft altimeter. The transponder is part of the IFF system and cannot be considered to be RADAR in any true sense.
If I remember correctly, a one digit error on the altimeter setting can equal 50 feet in altitude.
I think all of these universities should be congratulated for for one not bowing to the capitalist nature of modern society and at least pretending to take a stand for freedom of access to information.
Yadda yadda yadda... Do you think Harvard, MIT, and UC have such noble intentions? I wonder.
``This is not a statement of support for Napster, nor are we condoning copyright infringement,'' said Bob Harty, a spokesman for Georgia Tech. ``To unilaterally block access to a site is an overly blunt response to this issue and we believe that it constitutes an unwise policy.''
Translation: "We have a business to protect and unilaterally punishing our customers er... students is bad business.
On the other hand, it's a nice legal argument from the universities. "We are not responsible for the actions of our students while on line." It's almost the same argument that Napster uses. "We are not responsible for the actions of Napster users."
Unfortunately, Napster doesn't appear to be winning with this argument.
Charging for upgrades will only aggravate the consumer.
...and the aggravated consumer will what? Trade in the 3Com PDA for a Handspring or Sony? Over $20?
Apple is one company that comes to mind who makes the hardware and sells their own operating system, but they certainly don't charge for small revisions.
At the prices Apple is charging for their systems, to charge for small revisions might cause someone to compare Apple to Microsoft and Jobs to Gates. We can't have that!
What's the turnover rate on PDAs? How long does the typical user keep his/her Palm before upgrading hardware?
IMHO, physical performance is far from one dimensional.
An athlete needs discipline to achieve greatness. It's not just physical conditioning. An olympic athlete's entire lifestyle is centered around building and maintaining the physical and mental conditioning necessary to perform at that level.
The difference is that the disk thrower (or any other serious athlete) has a major life-style investment in his/her sport. Athletics require physical conditioning even beyond that needed for the actual game. There are weight training and diets to consider before you even hit the playing field.
What kind of additional training beyond simply playing the same game over and over again does a gamer require? None. Practice makes perfect.
The human body is a complex machine. Tuning it to peak performance for the ascent to the "next level" isn't as simple as installing the latest and greatest video card/processor/input device combo and then loading up with caffeine for a few hours of FPS while you polishing the chair with your fat ass.
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The uproar over DeCSS is particularly amazing when you consider just how little is done to prevent televison satellite hacking. Hell, you can purchase the equipment online.
...which is exactly the reason that MSNBC, Netscape, Opera, Microsoft, etc. should be supporting web standards. This proprietary crap is just one big headache.
I guess it depends on who you ask. According to Jeffrey Zeldman:
Some say this this article debunks the "myth" of the web-safe color palette. What it actually debunks is the myth that "thousands of colors" are enough. And the corollary myth, tossed about on web design lists like so much wishful thinking, that we can dispense with the web-safe color palette because "most" people have thousands of colors. Most people have brown eyes, too. Neither fact has any bearing on the web-safe color palette.
I agree with Zeldman. The websafe palette is still useful and I'll continue to use it.
Liberal politicians are not your problem. The USAToday article states:
''Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children,'' said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.
Of course, maybe the Republicans in Kansas are liberals now.
I hate it when someone uses phrases like "common sense tells us..." What he really means to say is, "If you don't or can't agree, you must be an idiot."
In the CNN article it states, "There are six video games ratings voluntarily set by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB),... "AO" for adult only and "RP" for rating pending. Kmart does not sell video games with an "AO" rating."
Maybe I've been living in the dark under a rock. What games are rated "AO"?
Doesn't Katz also rant on and on about corporatism and how large corporations will eventually subsume governments and reduce the nation state to little more than a subsidiary?
This current rant is idealogical flipside of that discussion. In the Katz-world we have two forces working to make the nation state irrelevent. There is the "information age" allowing unregulated communication and business conduct across international borders and forcing governments to play catch up and develop ways to get in on the action. Meanwhile, we also have the multi-national billion dollar corporations exercising the age old golden rule. He who has the gold, makes the rules.
It's all a dream. Maybe one day, we won't need governments and everyone on the planet will communicate with each other and therefore we'll cooperate in the spirit of mutual beneficence and we won't need to fight over tracts of land or oil. Uh huh... right.
I think the notion that corporatism will define the new world order is the more plausible of the two. The nation-state will be replaced by the merchant-state.
Whatever happens, I don't see it coming in my lifetime.
Now I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
Hmmm... I read Exodus 35:2 to say, "Each week, work for six days only. The seventh day is a day of total rest, a holy day that belongs to the LORD. Anyone who works on that day will die."
It's rather meaningless. We're all going to die someday.
I wonder about Exodus 35:3 and "Do not even light fires in your homes on that day."
I assume that this means no cooking and no light. Are you prohibited from using electric stoves/ovens and electric light or is the prohibition strictly against the use of flame?
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The altitude reported is taken from the aircraft altimeter. The transponder is part of the IFF system and cannot be considered to be RADAR in any true sense.
If I remember correctly, a one digit error on the altimeter setting can equal 50 feet in altitude.
As an administrator at a UC I can assure you that we do not consider students to be customers, per se.
I don't speak on behalf of UC on this matter. These are my opinions only.
Is it just me or do these statements contradict? You had me convinced until I read the sig.
Too cool... I used to love that game. It was a nice precursor to games like Elite.
Wasn't that the game that had the extra controller with just buttons?
Not that it matters. The moment Napster loses in court and is shut down, it will cease to be a university problem.
I think all of these universities should be congratulated for for one not bowing to the capitalist nature of modern society and at least pretending to take a stand for freedom of access to information.
Yadda yadda yadda... Do you think Harvard, MIT, and UC have such noble intentions? I wonder.
Translation: "We have a business to protect and unilaterally punishing our customers er... students is bad business.
On the other hand, it's a nice legal argument from the universities. "We are not responsible for the actions of our students while on line." It's almost the same argument that Napster uses. "We are not responsible for the actions of Napster users."
Unfortunately, Napster doesn't appear to be winning with this argument.
The grid 'feels' it, as it is now being tapped for energy.
Just to make sure I understand... Putting a passive collector next to power lines will cause the lines to radiate more?
How much is Apple charging for the final release after you've purchased a beta?
Charging for upgrades will only aggravate the consumer.
...and the aggravated consumer will what? Trade in the 3Com PDA for a Handspring or Sony? Over $20?
Apple is one company that comes to mind who makes the hardware and sells their own operating system, but they certainly don't charge for small revisions.
At the prices Apple is charging for their systems, to charge for small revisions might cause someone to compare Apple to Microsoft and Jobs to Gates. We can't have that!
What's the turnover rate on PDAs? How long does the typical user keep his/her Palm before upgrading hardware?
AFAIK, you cannot upgrade the OS on a Handspring. Is this same limitation present on the Sony PDA?
My guess is that it should work on any Palm. A few months ago, I picked up a IIIxe. It came with OS 3.5.
Has me wondering why it has taken 3Com this long to release it.
Racist? Which part? Gook?
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Main Entry: guck
Pronunciation: 'g&k
Function: noun
Etymology: perhaps alteration of goo
Date: 1949
: oozy sloppy dirt or debris; broadly : GOO, GUNK
IMHO, physical performance is far from one dimensional.
An athlete needs discipline to achieve greatness. It's not just physical conditioning. An olympic athlete's entire lifestyle is centered around building and maintaining the physical and mental conditioning necessary to perform at that level.
Psshaw...
The difference is that the disk thrower (or any other serious athlete) has a major life-style investment in his/her sport. Athletics require physical conditioning even beyond that needed for the actual game. There are weight training and diets to consider before you even hit the playing field.
What kind of additional training beyond simply playing the same game over and over again does a gamer require? None. Practice makes perfect.
The human body is a complex machine. Tuning it to peak performance for the ascent to the "next level" isn't as simple as installing the latest and greatest video card/processor/input device combo and then loading up with caffeine for a few hours of FPS while you polishing the chair with your fat ass.
The uproar over DeCSS is particularly amazing when you consider just how little is done to prevent televison satellite hacking. Hell, you can purchase the equipment online.
I don't get it...
If accessibility is your goal, I highly recommend you visit Bobby.
Bobby is a webbased app that will check your pages for accessibility.
I should use IE or Netscape to view their site.
...which is exactly the reason that MSNBC, Netscape, Opera, Microsoft, etc. should be supporting web standards. This proprietary crap is just one big headache.
I guess it depends on who you ask. According to Jeffrey Zeldman:
Some say this this article debunks the "myth" of the web-safe color palette. What it actually debunks is the myth that "thousands of colors" are enough. And the corollary myth, tossed about on web design lists like so much wishful thinking, that we can dispense with the web-safe color palette because "most" people have thousands of colors. Most people have brown eyes, too. Neither fact has any bearing on the web-safe color palette.
I agree with Zeldman. The websafe palette is still useful and I'll continue to use it.
Set the fonts to generic families like serif, sans-serif, or monospace. It's the safest way. You can use fantasy and cursive also, but YMMV.
Ya know, in Ohio, we now have a magnetic strip on the badboy, and I've never seen it swiped... ever.
Ya know, in California, we have a magnetic strip also. I ran a magnet over it the day I got it.
Oh... and no one has ever swiped it either. Not once in ten years.
Liberal politicians are not your problem. The USAToday article states:
''Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children,'' said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.
Of course, maybe the Republicans in Kansas are liberals now.
I hate it when someone uses phrases like "common sense tells us..." What he really means to say is, "If you don't or can't agree, you must be an idiot."
Pssshaw...
In the CNN article it states, "There are six video games ratings voluntarily set by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), ... "AO" for adult only and "RP" for rating pending. Kmart does not sell video games with an "AO" rating."
Maybe I've been living in the dark under a rock. What games are rated "AO"?
Doesn't Katz also rant on and on about corporatism and how large corporations will eventually subsume governments and reduce the nation state to little more than a subsidiary?
This current rant is idealogical flipside of that discussion. In the Katz-world we have two forces working to make the nation state irrelevent. There is the "information age" allowing unregulated communication and business conduct across international borders and forcing governments to play catch up and develop ways to get in on the action. Meanwhile, we also have the multi-national billion dollar corporations exercising the age old golden rule. He who has the gold, makes the rules.
It's all a dream. Maybe one day, we won't need governments and everyone on the planet will communicate with each other and therefore we'll cooperate in the spirit of mutual beneficence and we won't need to fight over tracts of land or oil. Uh huh... right.
I think the notion that corporatism will define the new world order is the more plausible of the two. The nation-state will be replaced by the merchant-state.
Whatever happens, I don't see it coming in my lifetime.
It's not a story yet. It's the start of an online interview. Pfft.
Now I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
Hmmm... I read Exodus 35:2 to say, "Each week, work for six days only. The seventh day is a day of total rest, a holy day that belongs to the LORD. Anyone who works on that day will die."
It's rather meaningless. We're all going to die someday.
I wonder about Exodus 35:3 and "Do not even light fires in your homes on that day."
I assume that this means no cooking and no light. Are you prohibited from using electric stoves/ovens and electric light or is the prohibition strictly against the use of flame?