I agree. His comment sounds similar to a comment I heard an OS/2 zealot make years ago. He was talking about the single-threaded nature of Presentation Manager and said that if everyone wrote perfect programs PM would never lock-up. I asked (rhetorically) how likely he thought that was. I'm still waiting for an answer.
Honestly, have you ever seen anything but the most trivial program that was "correct by design"?
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Thank you, i was just about to say the same thing. I think the moderators did a terrific job in dealing with the signal-to-noise ratio here, and I think everyone in the community deserves congratulations, along with the slash crew.
And my karma's maxxed out at 50, so I'm not whoring for karma here, gang:)
Here's another article from the Globe And Mail that has a little more detail, and describes the terms of his parole.
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Really? That's not what I had been told. My understanding was that they were uniformed soldiers, well-armed and standing in plain view. Could you provide a little more information? I really don't understand how plainclothed security can act as a deterent.
(I'm not doubting you at all, I just don't get it.)
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It's not that simple. A terrorist may well have killed, injured, or taken a hostage before a plain-clothed security officer could act. The Israeli's have armed troops on every internal flight, and it has acted as a deterent so far.
I agree with you that visiblity works both ways. That's why I think it's a tricky issue and there doesn't seem to be a single best answer.
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since shooting guns in the air is er, not a great idea Maybe, maybe not. There is supposed to be a pistol that uses low velocity pre-fragmented rounds, designed specifically for in-flight security. Highly restricted, so I haven't been able to find much information about them.
Whether or not the sky marshalls should be in plain clothes is a matter of debate. I suggest that having them uniformed, and in plain sight would act as a deterent and prevent loss of life.
The War Measures Act was used in October 1970 in reponse to the FLQ kidnapping of a Quebec politian and a british diplomat. I was a young child living in Ottawa at the time and it was truly frightening. To this day is it debatable wether this was on over-reaction on Prime Minister Trudeau's part. It is a concession to terrorism to subject your citizens to this treatment. And you are correct, the precident that would be set is terrifying.
I used to work in nuclear safety in Canada, and I know that the containment building (the big dome that surrounds the reactor core) is designed to take a direct hit from a large passenger jet. I would assume that US reactors are designed the same way.
Not sure if this is what you had in mind but this tidbit comes from the scifi wire website:
Paramount has chosen English opera star Russell Watson to cover the Rod Stewart tune Faith of the Heart as the opening theme music of UPN's upcoming Enterprise series.
No, the NT kernel was originally written as a RISC kernel, and the development team hated the Intel RISC chip of the late eighties (i860?) so they wrote it for the R4000. Then they ported it to the i386 architecture, but they said it sucked. I think Microsoft did all the porting work themselves, including PowerPC and Alpha, but they never ported the apps.
Okay, something is screwed. None of those four comapanies appear on Jupiter Media Metrix top 50. I can not believe that porn sites don't get enough hits to make the charts. IIRC, porn and financial sites are the only web plays that even showed any profit.
At first I thought this was a joke, but you're right. On closer examination, this study seems to be another example of 'lies, damn lies, and statistics'. Yes X10 is 4th in total number of hits, but the average visit is 1.4 minutes per month. I'll bet this comes exclusively from that damn pop-under loading on machines whose users are too dumb to disable it.
Note that the site you linked to is hosted via aol.com, *the* top corporate-owned site in the article.
I think that's the point, and the flaw in the reasoning of the article. Just because the site is hosted by AOL doesn't mean AOL controls the content (although they probably exercise censorship in the form of "community standards").
So where do you draw the line? Just because a site is hosted by, or owned by, a mega-corp does not necessarily mean they control the content.CNN runs negative stories about AOL or Time-Warner, MSNBC runs negative stories about Microsoft, etc. I think the situation is a lot muddier than it appears.
Be stopped development of BeOS and concentrated on BeIA. The only hardware BeIA runs on is the eVilla, which is history, and Palm has stopped development of BeIA. Exactly what did Palm pay $10 million for?
There won't be a StarOffice, per se, but there is an OpenOffice port in the works, info at openoffice.org.
Unfortunately, the current port is very primitive (i.e. no printer support yet) and it doesn't appear that any work has been done since April. I wouldn't hold my breath.
That's great! Parodies as a replacement for Cliffs' Notes. I guess Doon would work for an SF class, if you didn't want to slogg through the 400+ pages of Dune.
From the article "We're supporting the position that the decision by government to acquire technology should be based on the benefits and value of that technology and not on limiting those possibilities."
Do a cost/benefit analysis of Microsoft Server software vs Linux. Doe any else think Microsoft has shot themselves in the foot with this statement?
You're the second person to mention this, so I should point you to MLCad, a Lego CAD program for Windows. You should start at www.ldraw.org to learn all about Lego CAD programs. Tons of good stuff there. There are parts libraries, rendering programs, and loads more.
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Honestly, have you ever seen anything but the most trivial program that was "correct by design"?
And my karma's maxxed out at 50, so I'm not whoring for karma here, gang
(I'm not doubting you at all, I just don't get it.)
I agree with you that visiblity works both ways. That's why I think it's a tricky issue and there doesn't seem to be a single best answer.
Whether or not the sky marshalls should be in plain clothes is a matter of debate. I suggest that having them uniformed, and in plain sight would act as a deterent and prevent loss of life.
The War Measures Act was used in October 1970 in reponse to the FLQ kidnapping of a Quebec politian and a british diplomat. I was a young child living in Ottawa at the time and it was truly frightening. To this day is it debatable wether this was on over-reaction on Prime Minister Trudeau's part. It is a concession to terrorism to subject your citizens to this treatment. And you are correct, the precident that would be set is terrifying.
I used to work in nuclear safety in Canada, and I know that the containment building (the big dome that surrounds the reactor core) is designed to take a direct hit from a large passenger jet. I would assume that US reactors are designed the same way.
No, actually they were building CP/M cards for the Apple II at least 20 years ago, maybe longer.
Thanks, I wish they'd keep it. It beats the hell out of Rod Stewart (See my earlier post).
Paramount has chosen English opera star Russell Watson to cover the Rod Stewart tune Faith of the Heart as the opening theme music of UPN's upcoming Enterprise series.
Is that close enough to a Star Trek musical?
Is that like a vanity-mirror universe?
Not in my lifetime. I had suffer through the brain-damaged 8086 and 80286 architectures. I still have nightmares.
No, the NT kernel was originally written as a RISC kernel, and the development team hated the Intel RISC chip of the late eighties (i860?) so they wrote it for the R4000. Then they ported it to the i386 architecture, but they said it sucked. I think Microsoft did all the porting work themselves, including PowerPC and Alpha, but they never ported the apps.
Okay, something is screwed. None of those four comapanies appear on Jupiter Media Metrix top 50. I can not believe that porn sites don't get enough hits to make the charts. IIRC, porn and financial sites are the only web plays that even showed any profit.
At first I thought this was a joke, but you're right. On closer examination, this study seems to be another example of 'lies, damn lies, and statistics'. Yes X10 is 4th in total number of hits, but the average visit is 1.4 minutes per month. I'll bet this comes exclusively from that damn pop-under loading on machines whose users are too dumb to disable it.
I think that's the point, and the flaw in the reasoning of the article. Just because the site is hosted by AOL doesn't mean AOL controls the content (although they probably exercise censorship in the form of "community standards").
So where do you draw the line? Just because a site is hosted by, or owned by, a mega-corp does not necessarily mean they control the content.CNN runs negative stories about AOL or Time-Warner, MSNBC runs negative stories about Microsoft, etc. I think the situation is a lot muddier than it appears.
Be stopped development of BeOS and concentrated on BeIA. The only hardware BeIA runs on is the eVilla, which is history, and Palm has stopped development of BeIA. Exactly what did Palm pay $10 million for?
There won't be a StarOffice, per se, but there is an OpenOffice port in the works, info at openoffice.org.
Unfortunately, the current port is very primitive (i.e. no printer support yet) and it doesn't appear that any work has been done since April. I wouldn't hold my breath.
That's great! Parodies as a replacement for Cliffs' Notes. I guess Doon would work for an SF class, if you didn't want to slogg through the 400+ pages of Dune.
Do a cost/benefit analysis of Microsoft Server software vs Linux. Doe any else think Microsoft has shot themselves in the foot with this statement?
You're the second person to mention this, so I should point you to MLCad, a Lego CAD program for Windows.
You should start at www.ldraw.org to learn all about Lego CAD programs. Tons of good stuff there. There are parts libraries, rendering programs, and loads more.
Bored of the Rings is back in print.