I don't post the link here because I don't need the excess casual traffic - I'm already close to my bandwidth limit for this month.
Umm, you might as well have posted the URL straightaway; twenty seconds in google are sufficient with the directions you've provided. Next time try to be a bit less specific; I guess lots of people here will have reacted just like I did: "hmm, let's see if I can find it anyways... Bingo!";)
problem is you can't cram it in a two story building; the waste needs to be scattered a bit apart so that the chances of critical mass are never reached... Here in Belgium I went to visit the nuclear power plant of Doel once; they showed us the plans for the storage of the waste, and it consisted of a large tunnel complex in some clay underground nearby; apparently the clay is a good isolator for radioactivity.
OK, I know I'm a bit vague on details, but then again, I went there like 10 years ago, so it's not fresh in my head no more... I guess someone with a more intimate knowledge of this matter could explain all the little details to you.
Well considering I wrote the review I could of went into all that mumbo jumbo about it had this feature, it lacked this feature..
*sigh* I hate to be the next guy bashing your review since it's gotten bashed enough by now and people already get the idea, but... all that mumbo jumbo as you put it, is by many considered to be the basis of any decent review. A review that just says "I tried it, I liked it, it has nice colors" is not a review. It's good enough to be used in a conversation with your pals, but a review consists of a little more than subjetive shallow remarks about a product. When writing a review, and especialy before posting it on such a high traffic website as slashdot, you gotta ask yourself if the world realy needs to hear your message; if this is important enough to bother tens of thousands of people with. In fact, too little people think about this before they post something on the web. You could just as well have written this in 10 seconds instead of wasting 10 minutes of your day on this by just writing: "Ximian Desktop 2: Ooh, shiny!!!"
I must be the only one that got the "Wizard" joke there. Thanks, Lucas.;)
No, actualy I'm a slashdot reader too... Imagine the odds; two slashdot readers meeting on... *gasp* Slashdot of all places!!! This can't be coincidence...;-)
Still doesn't give them the right to decide for me what I should or shouldn't see. If I am offended by the contents of a movie or a song or whatever, nobody FORCES me to watch it/listen to it. It's almost as if those governments seem to think that if something isn't forbidden, it automaticaly means it's compulsory. "If we don't forbid this movie in our country, we're in fact FORCING everybody to go look at it, even though they may take offence at the ideas portrayed in it. Better ban the movie, unless we want the entire country to fall to ruins due to the riots this movie will cause."
Same thing happens in the US as well... Remember the South Park movie? The original title was "South Park: Al Hell Breaks Loose" or something along those lines, untill the FCC or whatever censorship committee it was that was in charge at that time decided it was not cool to use the word "hell" in a cartoon movie. So Matt and Trey had to change the title to "South Park - Bigger, Longer, Uncut". The censorship committee apparently didn't understand the hidden meaning in this; that realy gave me a kick...
But back to the subject now: same thing happens in the US too; movie scripts etc... have to be changed because some old yokels in much too expensive suits decide that we, the common populace, will turn into foul mouthed homicidal maniacs overnight after watching some violence and dirty language. Just listen how many times you'll hear the word "fuck" on MTV.
Heck, on an even larger scale: I dare you to publicly state that you don't believe in the holocaust. Even that is forbidden, worldwide. And why? I mean, I wasn't there, I wouldn't know, but if I had some reason to believe it's all a big conspiracy I'd expect to be looked upon as a crazy goof with strange ideas, but I don't expect to land in jail just because I believe something different than the rest of you.
ps: no, I'm not a negationist; this is just an example of censorship on a global scale. Now bug off, you frecking FBI goons in your black army helicopters!
Yup, my thought exactly as I read the article, which is why the following quote stroke me as particularly funny:
And for those who dislike the idea of yet more plastic in their wallets, Moneo can be incorporated onto their existing credit cards -- something that has never been tried outside of France.
Did I sleep the past eight or so years? When did Belgium become a part of France? Ha, they WISH!;-)
Actualy, there are a couple of good games ported to linux. Think UT, UT 2k3, the complete Quake saga, Tribes 2, the complete Descent saga (yeah, mainly 3d shooters). There's also a couple of other games that run on linux; some adventure I forgot the name of that doesn't look too interresting, a nice realistic pool game (foobillard), Descent Freespace 2 also has a linux port in the making since it went opensource, Parsec just looks *drool*...
The problem is, well, let's face it... Most Windows gamers just copy the games and play from illegal copies. Now the gaming industry still makes enough money on the legal minority of the gamers. However, Linux isn't as widespread as Windows; developers have less experience with Linux than Windows and Linux gamers are just as big a bunch of warez-hounds as their Windows counterparts. So it's harder and more expensive to develop for Linux since they have less experience, and on top of that they sell less... That's the real problem IMHO.
Thanks for clearing that up. I believed all of those were copyright free, public domain. Apparently not. Still seems unfair though. After all, it could be seen as educational use (fair use) and what's more... The schools already have enough financial trouble as it is, in my country at least, so making them pay for even the simplest things like Nursery Rhymes will put an even bigger strain on their already too thin budget.
Aren't Nursery Rhymes public domain anyway? Maybe I'm off, but I always believed it were those songs like "Old McDonald had a farm" etc... Fail to see how that can be copyrighted. Maybe I'm totaly off or just missing somehting.
We understand this site has been a very valuable tool and are working together to find a solution to make sure that the tool is available to the public in some way.
And one can't but wonder why it hasn't occured to them that the best way to do it is not to send a cease & decist letter in the first place... What a load of hogwash. The tool was already available to the public in some way untill they started interfering, and now they're looking for a way to make sure that... *sigh*
No, no... What he needs is a modified form of an NDA... The customer can look into the code (obviously), and the people they hire to maintain it can also look at the code (duh), but otherwise fall under the same NDA as the client, with the restriction that they don't have the right to further transfer the NDA to others, unless you want to create the following situation:
"List of personel cleared for mission Gainsburrough as dictated by general C. H. Melchett: you and me Darlig, obviously... field marshall Hague, field marshall Hague's wife, al field marshall Hague's wife's friends, their families, their servants, their families servants' tennis partners and some chum I bumped into in the mess they called Bernard."
but in my world, Java is the single largest memory hog and memory-leaking piece of crap I have ever seen.
I once had to write a small app for CG class in Java. OK, so I'm not good at Java (I manage to get around and get my shit working, but I never cared about getting intimate with the inner workings of the beast or stuff like that), but still... If a app you can code together in a couple of days starts eating up around 874 MB of RAM after running for a weekend while I was away, something must be wrong...
Anyway, since I'm not that intimate with Javas inner workings, this might be due to some fuckup on my behalf, but I thought the garbage collector was there to regularly free up memory used by objects to which there was no reference in the system anymore. And I'm damn sure I recycled my objects from the previous frame to the next...
12 cm, not inch... Metric system... Royale with cheese.
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It also causes a forward motion in the helicopter which helps to provide control and allows you to get to a safe landing space
Is this forward motion realy nesessary? I remember I just reversed the blade pitch in those chopper sims I used to play, plummet straight down, watch the ground and when it seemed to be close enough I reversed the blade pitch again. All I ever broke was the landing gear.
I can see the benefit of having some forward motion and control though... I just tested these crash landings over open terrain. You don't want to try this over a small forest or something.
but I think the forward movement of the copter can spin the blades, allowing it to "glide"
No, in fact what happens is this: they reverse the blades in direction: instead of "\" they turn them like "/". This causes the rotor to keep rotating in the same direction while plummeting down.Then, when they reach a certain altitude, they reverse the blade direction back to its previous position. The inertia of the whole rotor construction makes sure the rotor keeps rotating for a little while longer, but now creating downward thrust. When triggered at the right altitude you can land a chopper quite nicely this way.
Don't know the right altitude though, and it depends on the type of helicopter (weight, size and shape of rotor blades,...), but I'm sure an apache helicopter pilot could let you in on the details.;-)
Why you have to reboot you Windows XP machine is a mystery to me. I have used it for some time now and have no trouble whatsoever. And my PC is loaded with development stuff for work.
I find this funny; everytime Windows users try to convince the rest of the world (btw, why bother with a minority group anyway?) of the stability of their OS, for some weird reason they feel the need to explicitly state that they use their PCs to actualy run software other than the OS on it... So what? I don't think it's such a marvel that a PC runs stable even when running actual sofware other than the OS.
But I have to agree with you; although I prefer linux over windows, I still enjoy the occasional game such as Warcraft 3, and I prefer to run apps under their native OS. So yeah, I have XP on my laptop and it only crashed some 3 times since I got it in june or so. And yes, it's on 24/7. Must admit I reboot it regularly though since it seems to get slower when it's been running for some time. But I guess the combination of XP, 256MB of RAM and slow swapspace (4200 RPM harddrive) is the cause of this; not the OS.
On the other hand; linux on my workstation doesn't run stable at all. But then again; what OS would on a defective mainboard? There's something wrong with the AGP slot, one of three memory slots, and probably something in the PCI system is FUBAR as well... So yeah, it all depends on so many things. If a computer is unstable, it might be worth checking for hardware malfunctions before dissing the OS. Almost any OS runs stable nowadays; if the PC hangs too often something else must be wrong.
well, it's already pretty well established that security trough obscurity doesn't work. I mean, someone is gonna try to copy that CD anyway, he'll realise it's copy protected with a new and unknown copy protection scheme, before you can say the first 1000 digits after the comma of pi webforums on CD copying are flooded with posts on this new scheme, and the crackers are gonna have one hell of a party trying to crack it (and be home before 2am, all partied out!).
I'll feed the troll, just this once: The parent post was obviously joking.
And not doing a very good job at it. The "p2p" <-> "p2p file share app" uhhm... "joke" was probably the first thing everybody thought of when reading the post. Nobody has anything inteligent to say, yet everybody wants to be heard. The end result is thread upon thread of utter bullshit and bad puns that this/. article has already become.
If you don't have anything useful to say, simply shut up. My grandfather understood this, my father after him understood this, I understand this, the slashdot crowd obviously doesn't.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it. Ignorance of the license is no excuse for breaking it either. The licence already comes with the software. If a user can't be bothered with reading the README and the COPYING files, what makes you think they'd read the click-trough licence?
The licence is already there. If people want to read it, fine. If they don't and then break the licence agreement it shouldn't matter to the court if they were forced to read it or not. Nobody forces you to read the law either; but that doesn't make "I didn't read the law concerning theft of physical property" a valid excuse in court for me to get away with stealing your car.
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Umm, you might as well have posted the URL straightaway; twenty seconds in google are sufficient with the directions you've provided. Next time try to be a bit less specific; I guess lots of people here will have reacted just like I did: "hmm, let's see if I can find it anyways... Bingo!" ;)
No, he is refering to Lord Helmet from Spaceballs; Black Helmet Man is from this flick: Thumb Wars.
problem is you can't cram it in a two story building; the waste needs to be scattered a bit apart so that the chances of critical mass are never reached... Here in Belgium I went to visit the nuclear power plant of Doel once; they showed us the plans for the storage of the waste, and it consisted of a large tunnel complex in some clay underground nearby; apparently the clay is a good isolator for radioactivity. OK, I know I'm a bit vague on details, but then again, I went there like 10 years ago, so it's not fresh in my head no more... I guess someone with a more intimate knowledge of this matter could explain all the little details to you.
*sigh* I hate to be the next guy bashing your review since it's gotten bashed enough by now and people already get the idea, but... all that mumbo jumbo as you put it, is by many considered to be the basis of any decent review. A review that just says "I tried it, I liked it, it has nice colors" is not a review. It's good enough to be used in a conversation with your pals, but a review consists of a little more than subjetive shallow remarks about a product. When writing a review, and especialy before posting it on such a high traffic website as slashdot, you gotta ask yourself if the world realy needs to hear your message; if this is important enough to bother tens of thousands of people with. In fact, too little people think about this before they post something on the web. You could just as well have written this in 10 seconds instead of wasting 10 minutes of your day on this by just writing: "Ximian Desktop 2: Ooh, shiny!!!"
No, actualy I'm a slashdot reader too... Imagine the odds; two slashdot readers meeting on... *gasp* Slashdot of all places!!! This can't be coincidence... ;-)
Still doesn't give them the right to decide for me what I should or shouldn't see. If I am offended by the contents of a movie or a song or whatever, nobody FORCES me to watch it/listen to it. It's almost as if those governments seem to think that if something isn't forbidden, it automaticaly means it's compulsory. "If we don't forbid this movie in our country, we're in fact FORCING everybody to go look at it, even though they may take offence at the ideas portrayed in it. Better ban the movie, unless we want the entire country to fall to ruins due to the riots this movie will cause."
Same thing happens in the US as well... Remember the South Park movie? The original title was "South Park: Al Hell Breaks Loose" or something along those lines, untill the FCC or whatever censorship committee it was that was in charge at that time decided it was not cool to use the word "hell" in a cartoon movie. So Matt and Trey had to change the title to "South Park - Bigger, Longer, Uncut". The censorship committee apparently didn't understand the hidden meaning in this; that realy gave me a kick...
But back to the subject now: same thing happens in the US too; movie scripts etc... have to be changed because some old yokels in much too expensive suits decide that we, the common populace, will turn into foul mouthed homicidal maniacs overnight after watching some violence and dirty language. Just listen how many times you'll hear the word "fuck" on MTV.
Heck, on an even larger scale: I dare you to publicly state that you don't believe in the holocaust. Even that is forbidden, worldwide. And why? I mean, I wasn't there, I wouldn't know, but if I had some reason to believe it's all a big conspiracy I'd expect to be looked upon as a crazy goof with strange ideas, but I don't expect to land in jail just because I believe something different than the rest of you.
ps: no, I'm not a negationist; this is just an example of censorship on a global scale. Now bug off, you frecking FBI goons in your black army helicopters!
Learn Spanish and it will make sense.
And doing all that shit as root too... *sigh*
Yup, my thought exactly as I read the article, which is why the following quote stroke me as particularly funny:
Did I sleep the past eight or so years? When did Belgium become a part of France? Ha, they WISH! ;-)
Actualy, there are a couple of good games ported to linux. Think UT, UT 2k3, the complete Quake saga, Tribes 2, the complete Descent saga (yeah, mainly 3d shooters). There's also a couple of other games that run on linux; some adventure I forgot the name of that doesn't look too interresting, a nice realistic pool game (foobillard), Descent Freespace 2 also has a linux port in the making since it went opensource, Parsec just looks *drool* ...
The problem is, well, let's face it... Most Windows gamers just copy the games and play from illegal copies. Now the gaming industry still makes enough money on the legal minority of the gamers. However, Linux isn't as widespread as Windows; developers have less experience with Linux than Windows and Linux gamers are just as big a bunch of warez-hounds as their Windows counterparts. So it's harder and more expensive to develop for Linux since they have less experience, and on top of that they sell less... That's the real problem IMHO.
Not realy, judging by the musical preferences of people these days, if it remains unsold it must be good.
Thanks for clearing that up. I believed all of those were copyright free, public domain. Apparently not. Still seems unfair though. After all, it could be seen as educational use (fair use) and what's more... The schools already have enough financial trouble as it is, in my country at least, so making them pay for even the simplest things like Nursery Rhymes will put an even bigger strain on their already too thin budget.
Aren't Nursery Rhymes public domain anyway? Maybe I'm off, but I always believed it were those songs like "Old McDonald had a farm" etc... Fail to see how that can be copyrighted. Maybe I'm totaly off or just missing somehting.
And one can't but wonder why it hasn't occured to them that the best way to do it is not to send a cease & decist letter in the first place... What a load of hogwash. The tool was already available to the public in some way untill they started interfering, and now they're looking for a way to make sure that... *sigh*
No, no... What he needs is a modified form of an NDA... The customer can look into the code (obviously), and the people they hire to maintain it can also look at the code (duh), but otherwise fall under the same NDA as the client, with the restriction that they don't have the right to further transfer the NDA to others, unless you want to create the following situation:
I once had to write a small app for CG class in Java. OK, so I'm not good at Java (I manage to get around and get my shit working, but I never cared about getting intimate with the inner workings of the beast or stuff like that), but still... If a app you can code together in a couple of days starts eating up around 874 MB of RAM after running for a weekend while I was away, something must be wrong...
Oh yeah, screenshot (sorry, lost the code): here
Anyway, since I'm not that intimate with Javas inner workings, this might be due to some fuckup on my behalf, but I thought the garbage collector was there to regularly free up memory used by objects to which there was no reference in the system anymore. And I'm damn sure I recycled my objects from the previous frame to the next...
12 cm, not inch... Metric system... Royale with cheese.
Is this forward motion realy nesessary? I remember I just reversed the blade pitch in those chopper sims I used to play, plummet straight down, watch the ground and when it seemed to be close enough I reversed the blade pitch again. All I ever broke was the landing gear.
I can see the benefit of having some forward motion and control though... I just tested these crash landings over open terrain. You don't want to try this over a small forest or something.
No, in fact what happens is this: they reverse the blades in direction: instead of "\" they turn them like "/". This causes the rotor to keep rotating in the same direction while plummeting down.Then, when they reach a certain altitude, they reverse the blade direction back to its previous position. The inertia of the whole rotor construction makes sure the rotor keeps rotating for a little while longer, but now creating downward thrust. When triggered at the right altitude you can land a chopper quite nicely this way.
Don't know the right altitude though, and it depends on the type of helicopter (weight, size and shape of rotor blades, ...), but I'm sure an apache helicopter pilot could let you in on the details. ;-)
I find this funny; everytime Windows users try to convince the rest of the world (btw, why bother with a minority group anyway?) of the stability of their OS, for some weird reason they feel the need to explicitly state that they use their PCs to actualy run software other than the OS on it... So what? I don't think it's such a marvel that a PC runs stable even when running actual sofware other than the OS.
But I have to agree with you; although I prefer linux over windows, I still enjoy the occasional game such as Warcraft 3, and I prefer to run apps under their native OS. So yeah, I have XP on my laptop and it only crashed some 3 times since I got it in june or so. And yes, it's on 24/7. Must admit I reboot it regularly though since it seems to get slower when it's been running for some time. But I guess the combination of XP, 256MB of RAM and slow swapspace (4200 RPM harddrive) is the cause of this; not the OS.
On the other hand; linux on my workstation doesn't run stable at all. But then again; what OS would on a defective mainboard? There's something wrong with the AGP slot, one of three memory slots, and probably something in the PCI system is FUBAR as well... So yeah, it all depends on so many things. If a computer is unstable, it might be worth checking for hardware malfunctions before dissing the OS. Almost any OS runs stable nowadays; if the PC hangs too often something else must be wrong.
well, it's already pretty well established that security trough obscurity doesn't work. I mean, someone is gonna try to copy that CD anyway, he'll realise it's copy protected with a new and unknown copy protection scheme, before you can say the first 1000 digits after the comma of pi webforums on CD copying are flooded with posts on this new scheme, and the crackers are gonna have one hell of a party trying to crack it (and be home before 2am, all partied out!).
And not doing a very good job at it. The "p2p" <-> "p2p file share app" uhhm... "joke" was probably the first thing everybody thought of when reading the post. Nobody has anything inteligent to say, yet everybody wants to be heard. The end result is thread upon thread of utter bullshit and bad puns that this /. article has already become.
If you don't have anything useful to say, simply shut up. My grandfather understood this, my father after him understood this, I understand this, the slashdot crowd obviously doesn't.
Nope, more the "ij" in Dutch is pronounced almost like the "ey" in "they"... Just a wee bit more emphasis on the "e"... Subtle though.
And the "a" in the end is pronounced like "aah", but shorter.
So something along the lines of deykstraah.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it. Ignorance of the license is no excuse for breaking it either. The licence already comes with the software. If a user can't be bothered with reading the README and the COPYING files, what makes you think they'd read the click-trough licence?
The licence is already there. If people want to read it, fine. If they don't and then break the licence agreement it shouldn't matter to the court if they were forced to read it or not. Nobody forces you to read the law either; but that doesn't make "I didn't read the law concerning theft of physical property" a valid excuse in court for me to get away with stealing your car.