In (some) European countries they do test for all that. Of course it isn't a replacement for experience, but it does help - and you can make much more efficient traffic (such as using roundabouts instead of 4-way stops everywhere...).
The back side is that getting a drivers license is a long process and really expensive - I Norway you end up paying something like 2-3000 $ just for the training with a instructor - and then they assume you will practice many hours with you parents/significant other/friend etc. (you are allowed to practice on the road with an experienced driver sitting in the passenger seat (who is responsible) and some extra equipment (big red magnetic sticker identifying the car + extra rearview mirror).
The french police seems to love their heavy assault rifles, but they're not so common most other places. Where I come from, the police does not normally carry guns.
Sure, big enough doses will kill/hurt you - no-one is debating this. But some research and theory suggests that it might be - in small doses. It basically keeps the cells damage-repairing mechanisms on its toes. You are continuously exposed to ionizing radiation from natural sources - and our cells has evolved the mechanisms necessary to deal with it.
The problem is actually that it is very hard to prove *any* effect at all of low radiation doses - either good or bad...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
The people are still living and breathing, so its not completely crippled. But in many factories and energy-hungry facilities are offline, and in office/residential buildings many lights are out, elevators not running etc. due to power cuts. But needing an (alkaline-powered) torch to go talk to the guy in the next office (if the building is still there after the tsunami) isn't completly nice either.
Yes. Your system is really hosed, so you boot it with a LiveCD to read the logs. Does your LiveCD include readJournalLog? Do you really want to play with that possibility?
I assume your live distro includes package management, right? Have you never installed wireshark, or vmfs support, or HFS+ support on a live cd?
So now you have to get WLAN working before you can read the log, read the log, and then maybe reboot to do something - and then rinse-repeat... Great.
I have an Optiplex at my desk, and it's a fairly powerfull machine (for its time), running RHEL5 (probably officially supported). Methinks optiplex is their line for workstations needing some "ooomph" (but cheaper than the certified-for-everything line of workstations which I can't remember what's called), not just typing stuff into word?
Hooked up my old 386 to a 21" good quality CRT - and the picture was definitively bad (not just the resolution). This card was designed to drive a puny little 14" monitor from the early 90s, not a good-quality (it still beats many LCD's, and I laughed when people started talking about "HD", its max-usable resolution still beats most monitors that's not 2x larger)...
Also upgrading my old-old PC from a "integrated" ATI board to a much better nVidia board also yielded similar results: Much better picture quality - sharper with better colors.
But this was ~6-7 years ago, with 10-15 year old hardware. And that machine is still running (fedora something) - my mother insists on using it even after I gave her a much more modern machine.
I usually jump back and forth between Eclipse and Emacs - different tools for different jobs. Eclipse is great when you have more than a few files and more than ~1000 lines of code, and it is a project you will be working on for some time. But for smaller stuff, quick scripts / smaller TeX'es etc., emacs is really the Editor (vim probably works fine too -- started on that, switched to emacs later -- or Your Editor Of Choice.), as you don't have to bother with setting up projects, rectangle-copy etc.
I think I vaguely remember seeing a tablet computer in the late 90's, or really a small computer with a wireless touchscreen. I think it also might have ran Linux - but I was to young to know anything about that then. It might also been related to some defense project - at least the guy who had it was working IT in the military.
Can anyone remember this machine, and know what it was?
Somehow loosing a TV seems like a *much* smaller issue than ending up as a murderer, and I have a feeling that if (hand-)guns where more common in the UK, there would be a lot more deaths as people tried to "protect themselves".
I dunno how it is in your corner of the world, but in mine there are geeks of both sexes... And as the summary says, similar people are often attracted to each other:)
It's every 5 years - they will have to go to court and describe why this guy is still a dangerous menace to society. And I do have problems imagining that he would *want* to get out of prison, if he ever gets the opportunity. Thick walls work both ways...
Speaking as a Norwegian, knowing several who have lost close friends and family members (or are gravely injured, or where at Utøya during the terrorist attack), but as far as I know the people I know are OK.
He did not target muslim civilians. He targeted Norwegian civilians, regardless of faith - mostly teenagers at a peacefull political camp. If I where to guess the faith of most of his victims (based on Norwegian demography), i would assume most where atheists - but there was also christians and muslims.
This guy is to most christians what jihadists are to most muslims.
The bullshit spread by O'Reilly and Fox news is nothing but shamefull, and hopefully extremely easy to look through:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1078836718001/media-brand-norwegian-maniac-a-christian-extremist/?playlist_id=86857
(reposted after finally registering to \., having been a lurker for ~5-8 yrs)
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In (some) European countries they do test for all that. Of course it isn't a replacement for experience, but it does help - and you can make much more efficient traffic (such as using roundabouts instead of 4-way stops everywhere...). The back side is that getting a drivers license is a long process and really expensive - I Norway you end up paying something like 2-3000 $ just for the training with a instructor - and then they assume you will practice many hours with you parents/significant other/friend etc. (you are allowed to practice on the road with an experienced driver sitting in the passenger seat (who is responsible) and some extra equipment (big red magnetic sticker identifying the car + extra rearview mirror).
The french police seems to love their heavy assault rifles, but they're not so common most other places. Where I come from, the police does not normally carry guns.
Sure, big enough doses will kill/hurt you - no-one is debating this. But some research and theory suggests that it might be - in small doses. It basically keeps the cells damage-repairing mechanisms on its toes. You are continuously exposed to ionizing radiation from natural sources - and our cells has evolved the mechanisms necessary to deal with it. The problem is actually that it is very hard to prove *any* effect at all of low radiation doses - either good or bad... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
The people are still living and breathing, so its not completely crippled. But in many factories and energy-hungry facilities are offline, and in office/residential buildings many lights are out, elevators not running etc. due to power cuts. But needing an (alkaline-powered) torch to go talk to the guy in the next office (if the building is still there after the tsunami) isn't completly nice either.
Yes. Your system is really hosed, so you boot it with a LiveCD to read the logs. Does your LiveCD include readJournalLog? Do you really want to play with that possibility?
I assume your live distro includes package management, right? Have you never installed wireshark, or vmfs support, or HFS+ support on a live cd?
So now you have to get WLAN working before you can read the log, read the log, and then maybe reboot to do something - and then rinse-repeat... Great.
I have an Optiplex at my desk, and it's a fairly powerfull machine (for its time), running RHEL5 (probably officially supported). Methinks optiplex is their line for workstations needing some "ooomph" (but cheaper than the certified-for-everything line of workstations which I can't remember what's called), not just typing stuff into word?
Hooked up my old 386 to a 21" good quality CRT - and the picture was definitively bad (not just the resolution). This card was designed to drive a puny little 14" monitor from the early 90s, not a good-quality (it still beats many LCD's, and I laughed when people started talking about "HD", its max-usable resolution still beats most monitors that's not 2x larger)... Also upgrading my old-old PC from a "integrated" ATI board to a much better nVidia board also yielded similar results: Much better picture quality - sharper with better colors. But this was ~6-7 years ago, with 10-15 year old hardware. And that machine is still running (fedora something) - my mother insists on using it even after I gave her a much more modern machine.
I usually jump back and forth between Eclipse and Emacs - different tools for different jobs. Eclipse is great when you have more than a few files and more than ~1000 lines of code, and it is a project you will be working on for some time. But for smaller stuff, quick scripts / smaller TeX'es etc., emacs is really the Editor (vim probably works fine too -- started on that, switched to emacs later -- or Your Editor Of Choice.), as you don't have to bother with setting up projects, rectangle-copy etc.
I think I vaguely remember seeing a tablet computer in the late 90's, or really a small computer with a wireless touchscreen. I think it also might have ran Linux - but I was to young to know anything about that then. It might also been related to some defense project - at least the guy who had it was working IT in the military. Can anyone remember this machine, and know what it was?
And as an accelerator physcisist, I say bring it on :)
The cards would probably still work fine in text- and VESA-mode - but 3D graphics etc. won't.
Somehow loosing a TV seems like a *much* smaller issue than ending up as a murderer, and I have a feeling that if (hand-)guns where more common in the UK, there would be a lot more deaths as people tried to "protect themselves".
I dunno how it is in your corner of the world, but in mine there are geeks of both sexes... And as the summary says, similar people are often attracted to each other :)
This is what happens if you raise an exception in a pyGTK program.
It's every 5 years - they will have to go to court and describe why this guy is still a dangerous menace to society. And I do have problems imagining that he would *want* to get out of prison, if he ever gets the opportunity. Thick walls work both ways...
Speaking as a Norwegian, knowing several who have lost close friends and family members (or are gravely injured, or where at Utøya during the terrorist attack), but as far as I know the people I know are OK. He did not target muslim civilians. He targeted Norwegian civilians, regardless of faith - mostly teenagers at a peacefull political camp. If I where to guess the faith of most of his victims (based on Norwegian demography), i would assume most where atheists - but there was also christians and muslims. This guy is to most christians what jihadists are to most muslims. The bullshit spread by O'Reilly and Fox news is nothing but shamefull, and hopefully extremely easy to look through: http://video.foxnews.com/v/1078836718001/media-brand-norwegian-maniac-a-christian-extremist/?playlist_id=86857 (reposted after finally registering to \., having been a lurker for ~5-8 yrs)