Try a different brand of Halogen. I've replaced one bulb in two years, but this was after a period where new bulbs would burn out in 3-4 weeks. The common factor was all of the new bulbs that burned out were made by Sylvania. None of my Phillips or GE bulbs have burned out, so I just don't buy Sylvania anymore.
I see a lot of good, original work coming out of Microsoft Research. They do some very good, very fundamental computer science research. I am an ACM member, and it has seems to me that a considerable number of the papers that I've read on parallel programming recently have had one or more authors from MSR.
No disclaimer required. I don't work for Microsoft, never have, and don't want to (they've asked). Their products constantly frustrate me (as do MacOS X and Linux, which I both use daily, in different ways). But I won't deny their contributions either through research or in the marketplace.
I would have been happy using the MacOS X OpenOffice 3.0 port...if an official version existed.
I'm using a PPC Mac, and the official download page for OO lists the latest version as 2.4.0. I believe there are alpha or beta ports on some other web sites, but that's not what the average user or the potential corporate user wants.
Forget about 3.1, how about an official port of 3.0?
Go read Joe Simpson's "Dark Shadows Falling" for a thoughtful contemplation of the morality of the recent trend in guided high-altitude expeditions. In fact, go read any of Joe Simpson's books, they're well worth the time.
I haven't read the article yet, but the result as summarised is exactly what I would have expected.
How many times have you changed occupation, had kids, changed partner, moved to a new city, changed your lifestyle habits, reconsidered your core values and beliefs, or made some other big change in your life?
No, that's a bad solution. Mobile phone reception in my house is unreliable at best. Ironically, I live on the top of a hill, in sight of several radio masts in a major US west coast city.
Last time I checked, commercial aircraft didn't drive next to each other with only 3 feet to spare one side, and a concrete barrier the other side. OK, I'll be charitable, the speeds are 10x faster, but I haven't seen another plane within 30 feet whilst in the air either.
Aircraft autopilot technology just doesn't compare to robot driving technology. There are too many differences in the environments.
ELTs can also be triggered manually, which suggests that if he's lost, he may be incapacitated, or the ELT battery is dead, or the aerial is broken. As a private pilot, I'm staggered by the amount of misinformation in this whole discussion (I shouldn't be, it's Slashdot after all), so thanks for adding some real signal to the noise.
For non-pilots, and student pilots, note that filing a flight plan for this sort of flight would be the exception, not the rule.
I've flown quite a bit in Citabrias (7ECA, 7GCAA) and Decathlons (8KCAB), including aerobatics. They are very forgiving planes, they glide well, they have good visibility and very good ground manners (for a taildragger).
Which sounds very reasonable, until you realize that the worst case scenario with a reactor (say, a Chernobyl style accident) happens every year with conventional technology. We would have to have a Chernobyl event annually to compete with the death and destruction caused by the coal industry.
Really? So every year, the coal industry has accidents bad enough to exclude human habitation from over 1100 square *miles*? Please do tell where these are.
The worst case scenario for a nuclear accident has nothing to do with the immediate number of deaths.
I'm not that surprised. If WinHEC (the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference) was anything to go by, Microsoft have post-coital fatigue after the (premature?) release of Vista, and have very little to say. The main keynote at WinHEC was totally uninspiring, there are a couple of neat things happening with Windows Server, but the rest of the conference was zero content. Attendance seemed low to me, compared to the one PDC and three or four other WinHECs I've been to.
What if I need to change security descriptors on some files so all users can write to them, e.g. log files?
Why should you need to change security descriptors? If you can write the log, you can probably truncate and modify it too, introducing possibilities to cover up spyware or rootkit installes. Why don't you have a logging API that writes the log with the correct permissions instead, callable from the user's sandbox?
Set up a rule to automatically bounce the message with a friendly reminder that you need to know which site is theirs, so you can sort their mail accordingly.
...and watch your client base diminish as you cease to get recommendations for your friendly service. Or increase your interruption rate and phone support costs as they complain to you about bounced messages. The reason he is supporting other people's web sites is presumably because they are *not* geeks, and are not particularly computer-savvy.
Oh, for goodness sake. RTFA. I know this is Slashdot, but this point was addressed in the second sentence of the article. No, I'm not going to tell you. Go and read the article yourself.
How many people really need > 4 Gb of secure data available off-net?
I do, and so do many people in many different businesses. Some of us actually visit other company sites and other companies, and we need our source code, product documentation, product plans, etc., to be secure in case we lose our laptops, or have them stolen in transit. That's considerably more than 4Gb data.
Your comment is in the same category as "nobody will ever need more than 640Kb".
Shame the yanks slipped up and implemented a speed limit, though, isn't it? The Autobahn has local limits when it gets near to a city or so (which is reasonable) but seriously.. the entire state of Oregon limited to 55mph?
You have your facts somewhat confused. The freeways in Oregon are not limited to 55mph. There are 65mph limits much of the way along I-5, I can't remember but they may go to 70mph in some places.
People make fun of Windows hibernation because it *still* doesn't work.
Really? That's news to me...I have to reboot my Windows tablet PC once every 2-3 months, and I travel with it a lot. It goes into hibernation when I'm travelling, it wakes up just fine when I get where I'm going, and carries on exactly where I left off.
From a pilot's point of view, UAVs are no more an issue than any other military traffic.
Except that the responsibility for "see and avoid" in VFR traffic isn't clear for UAVs. Is the remote controller responsible for see and avoid? What if they don't have 360 degree vision from the UAV?
Ooh, you're so optimistic. I can hardly wait. So on Mondays, it'll be under British control. Also on Wednesdays, and Fridays. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, it'll be under French control. On Sundays, it will alternate, except in leap years, when it will be decided by ballot, unless the tax refund from the EU is higher for Britain than for France, in which case French farmers will decide on Easter Sunday and Ascension, and British car workers (if there are any left) will decide on Christmas.
They don't want to make it harder to get credit. The whole basis of their profitability is giving easy credit to people who will draw on the credit, and pay them interest. Making it too hard to get credit would make them less profitable. It's only when the cost of identity fraud exceeds the profitability from easy granting of credit that they'll change.
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Try a different brand of Halogen. I've replaced one bulb in two years, but this was after a period where new bulbs would burn out in 3-4 weeks. The common factor was all of the new bulbs that burned out were made by Sylvania. None of my Phillips or GE bulbs have burned out, so I just don't buy Sylvania anymore.
That's a stupid cheap shot.
I see a lot of good, original work coming out of Microsoft Research. They do some very good, very fundamental computer science research. I am an ACM member, and it has seems to me that a considerable number of the papers that I've read on parallel programming recently have had one or more authors from MSR.
No disclaimer required. I don't work for Microsoft, never have, and don't want to (they've asked). Their products constantly frustrate me (as do MacOS X and Linux, which I both use daily, in different ways). But I won't deny their contributions either through research or in the marketplace.
I would have been happy using the MacOS X OpenOffice 3.0 port...if an official version existed.
I'm using a PPC Mac, and the official download page for OO lists the latest version as 2.4.0. I believe there are alpha or beta ports on some other web sites, but that's not what the average user or the potential corporate user wants.
Forget about 3.1, how about an official port of 3.0?
Go read Joe Simpson's "Dark Shadows Falling" for a thoughtful contemplation of the morality of the recent trend in guided high-altitude expeditions. In fact, go read any of Joe Simpson's books, they're well worth the time.
I haven't read the article yet, but the result as summarised is exactly what I would have expected.
None, none, none, none, none, none, none.
I guess I should get out more...
No, that's a bad solution. Mobile phone reception in my house is unreliable at best. Ironically, I live on the top of a hill, in sight of several radio masts in a major US west coast city.
US Citizens and legal residents, according to the bill itself. So not all "foreigners" are screwed.
You can't tell the difference between a Herron and a Gibbon?
Welcome to the forum, Mr. Cheney.
I did...I emigrated.
Last time I checked, commercial aircraft didn't drive next to each other with only 3 feet to spare one side, and a concrete barrier the other side. OK, I'll be charitable, the speeds are 10x faster, but I haven't seen another plane within 30 feet whilst in the air either.
Aircraft autopilot technology just doesn't compare to robot driving technology. There are too many differences in the environments.
Actually, a cluster of Beowulfs would be pretty good at mounting an invasion with hardly anyone...
ELTs can also be triggered manually, which suggests that if he's lost, he may be incapacitated, or the ELT battery is dead, or the aerial is broken. As a private pilot, I'm staggered by the amount of misinformation in this whole discussion (I shouldn't be, it's Slashdot after all), so thanks for adding some real signal to the noise.
For non-pilots, and student pilots, note that filing a flight plan for this sort of flight would be the exception, not the rule.
I've flown quite a bit in Citabrias (7ECA, 7GCAA) and Decathlons (8KCAB), including aerobatics. They are very forgiving planes, they glide well, they have good visibility and very good ground manners (for a taildragger).
Old song, sung to "home on the range".
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Really? So every year, the coal industry has accidents bad enough to exclude human habitation from over 1100 square *miles*? Please do tell where these are.
The worst case scenario for a nuclear accident has nothing to do with the immediate number of deaths.
I'm not that surprised. If WinHEC (the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference) was anything to go by, Microsoft have post-coital fatigue after the (premature?) release of Vista, and have very little to say. The main keynote at WinHEC was totally uninspiring, there are a couple of neat things happening with Windows Server, but the rest of the conference was zero content. Attendance seemed low to me, compared to the one PDC and three or four other WinHECs I've been to.
Why should you need to change security descriptors? If you can write the log, you can probably truncate and modify it too, introducing possibilities to cover up spyware or rootkit installes. Why don't you have a logging API that writes the log with the correct permissions instead, callable from the user's sandbox?
Oh, for goodness sake. RTFA. I know this is Slashdot, but this point was addressed in the second sentence of the article. No, I'm not going to tell you. Go and read the article yourself.
I do, and so do many people in many different businesses. Some of us actually visit other company sites and other companies, and we need our source code, product documentation, product plans, etc., to be secure in case we lose our laptops, or have them stolen in transit. That's considerably more than 4Gb data.
Your comment is in the same category as "nobody will ever need more than 640Kb".
You have your facts somewhat confused. The freeways in Oregon are not limited to 55mph. There are 65mph limits much of the way along I-5, I can't remember but they may go to 70mph in some places.
Really? That's news to me...I have to reboot my Windows tablet PC once every 2-3 months, and I travel with it a lot. It goes into hibernation when I'm travelling, it wakes up just fine when I get where I'm going, and carries on exactly where I left off.
We'd all have started using DDAs (digital differential analysers) sooner.
Except that the responsibility for "see and avoid" in VFR traffic isn't clear for UAVs. Is the remote controller responsible for see and avoid? What if they don't have 360 degree vision from the UAV?
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Ooh, you're so optimistic. I can hardly wait. So on Mondays, it'll be under British control. Also on Wednesdays, and Fridays. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, it'll be under French control. On Sundays, it will alternate, except in leap years, when it will be decided by ballot, unless the tax refund from the EU is higher for Britain than for France, in which case French farmers will decide on Easter Sunday and Ascension, and British car workers (if there are any left) will decide on Christmas.
They don't want to make it harder to get credit. The whole basis of their profitability is giving easy credit to people who will draw on the credit, and pay them interest. Making it too hard to get credit would make them less profitable. It's only when the cost of identity fraud exceeds the profitability from easy granting of credit that they'll change.