Microsoft: "We don't have Longhorn ready yet, but Tiger, that OS from that other company, is shipping in 14 days if you want a 99% approximation of our OS that will ship in two years."
Apple: "Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger': Even Microsoft Says It's Good."
Isn't Rule Number One of advertising never to mention the "leading brand" by name? Sheesh, you'd think M$ would have learned by now.
I used to be an organic chemist, and absolutely every paper for refereed journals was reviewed by a third party in the lab to ensure the results could be duplicated. Our lab did a few, and our lab's papers were done by others.
It is expensive and time-consuming. That's why journals like JACS, JOC, Tetrahedron, etc. are respected so widely: the research in them is rock-solid and proven to work.
The company that published the magazine at the time still owns the copyright, unless that company either sold those rights or was bought up by another company, in which case the purchaser owns the copyright.
Actually, it *does* seem to be a unique scan -- the Intel PDF doesn't have the cover, for instance -- but yeah, either way, it's a giant ripoff, and still illegal.
It is in fact a failure of pre-college education to present it properly, and the ever-present misunderstandings that further confuse people.
Which is in itself a failure of the government to provide better education in the first place. Look where these battles over evolution are being fought: primary and secondary public schools. Americans have a terrible idea of what the principles of science are because the Fundies are preventing them from being taught!
Those of us who know better and who actually realise what's going on -- you, me, the majority of Slashdotters -- owe it to our children to keep the problem from getting any worse.
I'll just say a big "YES" to that last paragraph, and further advise pilots who might be reading this to, as AOPA says, "talk and squawk" as much as possible. Pick up VFR Flight Following if possible. And for the love of all things holy, take a free online airspace awareness course from the Air Safety Foundation.
A GPS receiver that's FAA-certified for installation in an aircraft is a multi-thousand-dollar piece of technology, and there are literally thousands of aircraft out there that have no GPS on-board whatsoever. All these would have to be retrofitted, and a large number of experimental and homebuilt craft would have to be totally redesigned in order for a GPS system to be installed. Remember, not all aircraft even have electrical systems!
A handheld is fine (and much cheaper), but the FAA says they're not legal for navigation. They're simply an "aid to situational awareness." Furthermore, handhelds don't have a good way to alert the pilot if he/she is about to violate some kind of airspace, as they don't have a connection to the aircraft's audio system, and -- once again -- not all aircraft even HAVE audio systems.
Finally, desire does not make cash. I want a GPS in any airplane I fly, but that doesn't give the owners the money to put one in.
If they were flying when there was sufficient visual obscuration to the point that a laser weren't visible, they had damn well better be on an IFR flight plan, at which point the responsibility for keeping them out of restricted airspace gets at least partially transferred to air traffic control.
If the FAA mandated GPS units in every aircraft, that would provide a simple fix.
Unfortunately, mandating a GPS in every aircraft authorised to operate in US airspace is prohibitively expensive and damn near impossible to enforce.
The lasers seem like a reasonable stopgap measure until something better can be figured out, but the real fix for pilots violating prohibited airspace is not to have so much damn prohibited airspace.
Except it won't, because commercial jets aren't the problem, and taking ultimate control away from the pilot is a Very Bad Thing(tm). Technology in aircraft is not going to solve the problem of terrorism.
This auction is for a digital copy of the above magazine article, including the issue cover and credits page. This is a MINT CONDITION copy because it has been fully restored digitally and available in Adobe PDF format. All raster graphics have been restored and saved at 300 dpi for quality reproduction.
In other words, the person is selling a copyright violation. Methinks eBay would love to know about that.
7) Seriously, did you just ask what we could do? Of course there's nothing we can do, you rhetorical-question-asking moron. We hope to Darwin that we can evolve.
8) Natalie Portman naked in hot grits. (If the world was about to end in a giant gamma ray bath, that is.)
I agree with you, but as a commercial pilot, I have to disagree with
Not at all like flying an airplane, where autopilot has been accepted for decades.
When you're flying an airplane on autopilot, it's EXTREMELY unlikely that another airplane will suddenly be parked in the sky in front of you for no good reason. The sky is a big place. Train tracks are not, and sensors -- even sensors with multiple layers of redundancy -- can fail.
Computerising the subway system is a great idea, but it needs to be designed with some really serious failsafes that aircraft autopilots don't have. Take a pitch trim runaway, for instance -- without a human on board, there's no way to fix a pitch trim runaway, and since aircraft are assumed to have humans on board to fix this, there's no failsafe mode in the autopilot. If a train has a similar loss of control and there's no human on board to stop it, there need to be multiple layers of sensors to detect such a condition and stop the train dead so it won't kill anybody.
SpyMac reports Apple intends to ship a Power Mac G6 with a 600 GHz processor by Macworld San Francisco '06, thus bringing the company back into harmony with Satan.
Oh, and just to piss off right-wing Windows users, Steve has decided to celebrate 29 years of Apple with a retro pricing scheme of $666 for "Hellspawn," as the new system has been code-named.
An Apple representative did not deny the story, saying that "company policy is not to comment on unannounced products." Clearly, it must be true.
Actually, businesses aren't required to accept any specific form of payment for a purchase, but in this case, since Best Buy claimed the customer was already in their debt (he owed them money for a service already rendered), they are required to accept any form of legal tender.
Personally, I would have paid the bastards in pennies.
The right to free speech does not extend to your employment unless you have a contract that says it does.
As has been said a million times before on Slashdot whenever this sort of thing comes up, most U.S. states and many foreign countries have "at-will" employment, meaning your employer keeps paying you money solely because they wish to. They have the right to terminate you at any time, for any reason*, and you do NOT have the right to a job.
*With reasonable limitations. For instance, it's illegal to fire someone for being gay, or female, or black, or handicapped, etc., in the United States.
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Lemme get this straight.
Microsoft: "We don't have Longhorn ready yet, but Tiger, that OS from that other company, is shipping in 14 days if you want a 99% approximation of our OS that will ship in two years."
Apple: "Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger': Even Microsoft Says It's Good."
Isn't Rule Number One of advertising never to mention the "leading brand" by name? Sheesh, you'd think M$ would have learned by now.
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You'd never heard of Paul Thurrott until today, had you?
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Even more reason to mod that moron down, as CS was the one field in which he claimed it should be *possible* to peer review everything.
:)
Thanks for the support.
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Mod parent idiotic.
I used to be an organic chemist, and absolutely every paper for refereed journals was reviewed by a third party in the lab to ensure the results could be duplicated. Our lab did a few, and our lab's papers were done by others.
It is expensive and time-consuming. That's why journals like JACS, JOC, Tetrahedron, etc. are respected so widely: the research in them is rock-solid and proven to work.
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Isn't the magazine defunct now?
Yes.
Who would own the copyright now?
The company that published the magazine at the time still owns the copyright, unless that company either sold those rights or was bought up by another company, in which case the purchaser owns the copyright.
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Actually, it *does* seem to be a unique scan -- the Intel PDF doesn't have the cover, for instance -- but yeah, either way, it's a giant ripoff, and still illegal.
p
Because I couldn't e-mail you:
It is in fact a failure of pre-college education to present it properly, and the ever-present misunderstandings that further confuse people.
Which is in itself a failure of the government to provide better education in the first place. Look where these battles over evolution are being fought: primary and secondary public schools. Americans have a terrible idea of what the principles of science are because the Fundies are preventing them from being taught!
Those of us who know better and who actually realise what's going on -- you, me, the majority of Slashdotters -- owe it to our children to keep the problem from getting any worse.
p
I'll just say a big "YES" to that last paragraph, and further advise pilots who might be reading this to, as AOPA says, "talk and squawk" as much as possible. Pick up VFR Flight Following if possible. And for the love of all things holy, take a free online airspace awareness course from the Air Safety Foundation.
Fly safe.
--a CFI
A GPS receiver that's FAA-certified for installation in an aircraft is a multi-thousand-dollar piece of technology, and there are literally thousands of aircraft out there that have no GPS on-board whatsoever. All these would have to be retrofitted, and a large number of experimental and homebuilt craft would have to be totally redesigned in order for a GPS system to be installed. Remember, not all aircraft even have electrical systems!
A handheld is fine (and much cheaper), but the FAA says they're not legal for navigation. They're simply an "aid to situational awareness." Furthermore, handhelds don't have a good way to alert the pilot if he/she is about to violate some kind of airspace, as they don't have a connection to the aircraft's audio system, and -- once again -- not all aircraft even HAVE audio systems.
Finally, desire does not make cash. I want a GPS in any airplane I fly, but that doesn't give the owners the money to put one in.
p
If they were flying when there was sufficient visual obscuration to the point that a laser weren't visible, they had damn well better be on an IFR flight plan, at which point the responsibility for keeping them out of restricted airspace gets at least partially transferred to air traffic control.
p
If the FAA mandated GPS units in every aircraft, that would provide a simple fix.
Unfortunately, mandating a GPS in every aircraft authorised to operate in US airspace is prohibitively expensive and damn near impossible to enforce.
The lasers seem like a reasonable stopgap measure until something better can be figured out, but the real fix for pilots violating prohibited airspace is not to have so much damn prohibited airspace.
p
Except it won't, because commercial jets aren't the problem, and taking ultimate control away from the pilot is a Very Bad Thing(tm). Technology in aircraft is not going to solve the problem of terrorism.
p
Really difficult indeed if the plane has no radio onboard, or if the radios aren't working.
Why yes, I *am* a CFI.
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From the auction description:
This auction is for a digital copy of the above magazine article, including the issue cover and credits page. This is a MINT CONDITION copy because it has been fully restored digitally and available in Adobe PDF format. All raster graphics have been restored and saved at 300 dpi for quality reproduction.
In other words, the person is selling a copyright violation. Methinks eBay would love to know about that.
p
1) Send Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to break the gamma ray in half...wait...
2) Make a gigantic lead planetary Dyson sphere
3) In the immortal words of David Levinson, "Uh, hide."
4) PANIC!!!
5) Seven words: Journey to the Center of the Earth.
6) Profit!!!
7) Seriously, did you just ask what we could do? Of course there's nothing we can do, you rhetorical-question-asking moron. We hope to Darwin that we can evolve.
8) Natalie Portman naked in hot grits. (If the world was about to end in a giant gamma ray bath, that is.)
p
I agree with you, but as a commercial pilot, I have to disagree with
Not at all like flying an airplane, where autopilot has been accepted for decades.
When you're flying an airplane on autopilot, it's EXTREMELY unlikely that another airplane will suddenly be parked in the sky in front of you for no good reason. The sky is a big place. Train tracks are not, and sensors -- even sensors with multiple layers of redundancy -- can fail.
Computerising the subway system is a great idea, but it needs to be designed with some really serious failsafes that aircraft autopilots don't have. Take a pitch trim runaway, for instance -- without a human on board, there's no way to fix a pitch trim runaway, and since aircraft are assumed to have humans on board to fix this, there's no failsafe mode in the autopilot. If a train has a similar loss of control and there's no human on board to stop it, there need to be multiple layers of sensors to detect such a condition and stop the train dead so it won't kill anybody.
p
SpyMac reports Apple intends to ship a Power Mac G6 with a 600 GHz processor by Macworld San Francisco '06, thus bringing the company back into harmony with Satan.
Oh, and just to piss off right-wing Windows users, Steve has decided to celebrate 29 years of Apple with a retro pricing scheme of $666 for "Hellspawn," as the new system has been code-named.
An Apple representative did not deny the story, saying that "company policy is not to comment on unannounced products." Clearly, it must be true.
p
When did the Chewbacca Defense turn into Yet Another Slashdot Meme?
I musta missed that memo. Damn Slashdot Memo Distributron. That thing's always acting up.
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Clearly those in favour of "On the Internet" patents are also "enhancement smokers."
...
"Ever look at the back of a $20 bill?"
"Ever look at the back of a $20 bill...ON THE INTERNET?"
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The only reason you posted this story was to work in the phrase "camel jockey" without being labeled as blatantly racist.
What's next, "News for Niggars?"
(Yes, I know I'm not Dave Chappelle, but hopefully it's funny.)
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Made of adamantium, right? :)
I'd buy it...
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Now the fall of Oscorp is just one successful test away!
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Actually, businesses aren't required to accept any specific form of payment for a purchase, but in this case, since Best Buy claimed the customer was already in their debt (he owed them money for a service already rendered), they are required to accept any form of legal tender.
Personally, I would have paid the bastards in pennies.
p
Free speech is great.
The right to free speech does not extend to your employment unless you have a contract that says it does.
As has been said a million times before on Slashdot whenever this sort of thing comes up, most U.S. states and many foreign countries have "at-will" employment, meaning your employer keeps paying you money solely because they wish to. They have the right to terminate you at any time, for any reason*, and you do NOT have the right to a job.
*With reasonable limitations. For instance, it's illegal to fire someone for being gay, or female, or black, or handicapped, etc., in the United States.
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I hate "me too" posts, but...
Me too.
I would definitely pay twenty bucks a year or so for a twenty- or thirty-page newsletter-type thing full of Wikipedia articles. That would rock.
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