i realize that was a joke, but in all seriousness, you could set it up so that the autopilot would not engage if the plane was flying an ILS approach.
for those of you who aren't pilots, ILS is a system used by pilots when they can't see the runway. there's an instrument in the plane with horizontal and vertical indicators that tell you how far to the left or right you are, and whether you're high or low.
it'd be a real simple check -- the system could take a look at the ILS status, and if the pilot was reasonably lined up with a runway and following a glidepath, it wouldn't take over.
The city of Bloomington, IN is currently in the process of running conduit all over town for 1000BaseLX fiber. The press release from last year is here.
Did the moderator even LOOK at the story before slamming this to -1?
i'm willing to bet that choice phrases like "What about suits for Dickless Wonders" and "What about space suits for the penis challenged" were among the reasons for the post's demise.
There are extremist left-wing groups who have been known to commit acts of terrorism. However, I hesitate to use the term "terrorism", because the specific example I'm aware of is Playskool compared to what happened today.
Another thing to note is that if you take a screenshot in OS 9 while playing a DVD you get a big magenta rectangle where the DVD screenshot is supposed to be. Is there a technical reason for this or are the MPAA really that paranoid?
this is because the decoder is hardware-based, and it writes directly to the video card's buffer, bypassing quickdraw altogether. when you take a screen shot on a mac (presumably with command-shift-3) it copies the contents of the quickdraw graphics ports, which do not reflect what's actually in the video card's memory.
clear and concise (if not dull), with three bits of info that are pretty important. also it's easy to tell it apart from commands and output. and of course, for root there's a slight variation:
heh.. that's funny, but so near the truth. we just replaced windows with linux in one of our departments. they have everything they need to get their work done, and the first thing out of their mouths was -- and this went on for about twenty minutes -- "does this mean i can't play freecell?"
we're going to destroy the earth! it'll be just like that time the year changed, all of our computers stopped working, the power went out, and we had a serious world-wide recession!
the internals of OS X are massively different from those of any previous OS
actually, the internals of OS X are completely identical to those of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. same kernel (Mach), same flavor of unix (BSD), same administration tools (NetInfo), same API, and the graphics engine is *almost* the same (they ditched display postscript in favor of pdf).
expert users who are only experts at macs will certainly have a lot of learning to do. NeXT experts will be right at home, and *nix experts who never got their hands on a NeXT will have a bit of learning to do, but not much.
Slashdot Mirror
How would a plane equipped suchly ever land?
i realize that was a joke, but in all seriousness, you could set it up so that the autopilot would not engage if the plane was flying an ILS approach.
for those of you who aren't pilots, ILS is a system used by pilots when they can't see the runway. there's an instrument in the plane with horizontal and vertical indicators that tell you how far to the left or right you are, and whether you're high or low.
it'd be a real simple check -- the system could take a look at the ILS status, and if the pilot was reasonably lined up with a runway and following a glidepath, it wouldn't take over.
The city of Bloomington, IN is currently in the process of running conduit all over town for 1000BaseLX fiber. The press release from last year is here.
Did the moderator even LOOK at the story before slamming this to -1?
i'm willing to bet that choice phrases like "What about suits for Dickless Wonders" and "What about space suits for the penis challenged" were among the reasons for the post's demise.
I have no idea how the Dune stillsuits conquered that problem...
last i checked, they conquered that problem by being fictitious.
There are extremist left-wing groups who have been known to commit acts of terrorism. However, I hesitate to use the term "terrorism", because the specific example I'm aware of is Playskool compared to what happened today.
Another thing to note is that if you take a screenshot in OS 9 while playing a DVD you get a big magenta rectangle where the DVD screenshot is supposed to be. Is there a technical reason for this or are the MPAA really that paranoid?
this is because the decoder is hardware-based, and it writes directly to the video card's buffer, bypassing quickdraw altogether. when you take a screen shot on a mac (presumably with command-shift-3) it copies the contents of the quickdraw graphics ports, which do not reflect what's actually in the video card's memory.
set prompt="%B%n@%m %~ %%%b "
clear and concise (if not dull), with three bits of info that are pretty important. also it's easy to tell it apart from commands and output. and of course, for root there's a slight variation:
set prompt="%B%Sroot%s@%m %~ %%%b "
heh.. that's funny, but so near the truth. we just replaced windows with linux in one of our departments. they have everything they need to get their work done, and the first thing out of their mouths was -- and this went on for about twenty minutes -- "does this mean i can't play freecell?"
wouldn't it make a bit more sense to use universal coordinated time?
we're going to destroy the earth! it'll be just like that time the year changed, all of our computers stopped working, the power went out, and we had a serious world-wide recession!
wait a minute...
Microsoft runs Hotmail on BSD, and takes shit for not using their own OS.
Sun decides to use Solaris in Cobalt boxes, and takes shit for using their own OS instead of Linux.
Does anyone else see an inconsistency here?
the internals of OS X are massively different from those of any previous OS
actually, the internals of OS X are completely identical to those of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. same kernel (Mach), same flavor of unix (BSD), same administration tools (NetInfo), same API, and the graphics engine is *almost* the same (they ditched display postscript in favor of pdf).
expert users who are only experts at macs will certainly have a lot of learning to do. NeXT experts will be right at home, and *nix experts who never got their hands on a NeXT will have a bit of learning to do, but not much.