The double-decker A380 plane has a wing span of 80 meters (262 feet), almost the length of an American football field. It's 73 meters long and weighs as much as 569 tons (1.2 million pounds) when fully loaded for takeoff. It will have a range of 8,000 nautical miles.
That is an impressive list of superlatives for a vehicle vulnerable to someone with a laser pointer and a grudge.
I don't think that the exorbitant ticket prices charged at the ball park cover the mega-salaries of the athletes involved. Television revenues are probably the bulk of the ball clubs income. They are probably the CATV providers biggest expense and the bulk of your cable bill.
I have two ReplayTV units. I have had very few problems. Initially, I had an occasional lockup, but a software upgrade seems to have corrected that problem. The automagic commercial skip is great. I wish a Tivo "Season Pass" feature was avaialble, but overall I think it is a fine PVR.
Still, I am planning on building my own system running MythTV. Why? I want to record HDTV programming, I want multiple tuners, and I want the satisfaction of setting the unit up myself.
30 years ago I would have been soldering together a Heathkit system. Today the equivalent is roll your own PVR.
You can find a better article about the OS X vs. Windows with respect to viruses here.
I have never been able to shake my perception of PC Magazine/ZD as just a shill for their biggest advertisers. Just ask yourself: Who butters their bread?
*Especially* for the less technically inclined it would be better to have as many different ways as possible to do something.
Will the end result of TMTOWTDI will be an obfuscated GUI contest?
Re:I'm still waiting for my paperless office
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What's Always Next?
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Ummm yeah... You didn't put a cover sheet on your TPS report. Did you get a copy of that memo? See we are including new cover sheets on all of our TPS reports now. So if you could do that, it would be great.
And I'll make sure you get another copy of that memo...
Once they find out that they have something stable in their distribution, they will have to change it as a matter of "Company Policy.":^) ---------
echo "Jon Katz" /dev/null
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The movie is fiction. If you want the reality of Open Source, then take a look at C.H.I.M.P. and see Open Source in action!
This article slipped by my "Exclude Jon Katz" filter.:-( ---------
Laser Equipped AC Shoots Down Duplicate /. Stories
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Somehow I feel as if we had posted this a while ago - no search found it. i do remember that this has been talked about for quite some time, tho'.
After a rash of duplicate stories on slashdot, engineers have annouced plans to convert a Boeing 747 into a hot-blooded killer with a swiveling nose-cone laser beam theoretically capable of destroying duplicate slashdot stories "hundreds of keystrokes away." Of particular interest is the fact that "No human finger will actually pull a trigger. Onboard computers will decide when to fire the beam."
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Slashdot Mirror
The double-decker A380 plane has a wing span of 80 meters (262 feet), almost the length of an American football field. It's 73 meters long and weighs as much as 569 tons (1.2 million pounds) when fully loaded for takeoff. It will have a range of 8,000 nautical miles.
That is an impressive list of superlatives for a vehicle vulnerable to someone with a laser pointer and a grudge.
Socks?!
EIGHT pair, can you believe it?! And Scott, for you, some slacks!
I, for one, welcome our new search overlords.
In Soviet Russia, Google seaches you!
I don't think that the exorbitant ticket prices charged at the ball park cover the mega-salaries of the athletes involved. Television revenues are probably the bulk of the ball clubs income. They are probably the CATV providers biggest expense and the bulk of your cable bill.
Do the George Carlin "Seven Dirty Words" test:
/usr/src/linux/* | wc -l
$egrep -Hirn '( shit| piss| fuck| cunt| cocksucker| motherfucker| tits)'
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Some things are so snazzy they never go out of style! Like tail fins... And bubble domes... And shag carpeting...
-- Homer, designing a car, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
See (and buy) the Homer car here.
I have two ReplayTV units. I have had very few problems. Initially, I had an occasional lockup, but a software upgrade seems to have corrected that problem. The automagic commercial skip is great. I wish a Tivo "Season Pass" feature was avaialble, but overall I think it is a fine PVR.
Still, I am planning on building my own system running MythTV. Why? I want to record HDTV programming, I want multiple tuners, and I want the satisfaction of setting the unit up myself.
30 years ago I would have been soldering together a Heathkit system. Today the equivalent is roll your own PVR.
Don't read what isn't there. My comment was only that the excuse has been used before.
Deja Vu?
"There is no controlling legal authority that says this was in violation of law."
-- Al Gore, seven times (in one form or another), White House news conference, March 3
Because you can never really leave work.
Uber procrastinators should try for a USPS signature server on Guam where America's day begins. :)
It could be worse.
Wi n0t trei a h0liday in Sweden this yer?
See the l0veli lakes
The wonderful teleph0ne system
And mani interesting furry animals
You can find a better article about the OS X vs. Windows with respect to viruses here.
I have never been able to shake my perception of PC Magazine/ZD as just a shill for their biggest advertisers. Just ask yourself: Who butters their bread?
I for one
our new RPN overlords
welcome!
*Especially* for the less technically inclined it would be better to have as many different ways as possible to do something.
Will the end result of TMTOWTDI will be an obfuscated GUI contest?
Ummm yeah... You didn't put a cover sheet on your TPS report. Did you get a copy of that memo? See we are including new cover sheets on all of our TPS reports now. So if you could do that, it would be great.
And I'll make sure you get another copy of that memo...
"as a sometimes-traveler for work, and a huge nerd..."
Watch out for the Huge Nerd penalty when flying.
From that height you could keep a close eye on all of those pesky reconnaissance planes.
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> I want the old internet back.
a nifesto.txt
gopher://gopher.heatdeath.org/00/the%20gopher%20m
Back far enough for ya?
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So says Netcraft.
Ironic.
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I wonder if it is possible to get repetitive stress injures from speaking to your computer all day?
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Once they find out that they have something stable in their distribution, they will have to change it as a matter of "Company Policy." :^)
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The movie is fiction. If you want the reality of Open Source, then take a look at C.H.I.M.P. and see Open Source in action!
:-(
This article slipped by my "Exclude Jon Katz" filter.
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Somehow I feel as if we had posted this a while ago - no search found it. i do remember that this has been talked about for quite some time, tho'.
After a rash of duplicate stories on slashdot, engineers have annouced plans to convert a Boeing 747 into a hot-blooded killer with a swiveling nose-cone laser beam theoretically capable of destroying duplicate slashdot stories "hundreds of keystrokes away." Of particular interest is the fact that "No human finger will actually pull a trigger. Onboard computers will decide when to fire the beam."
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