a) it only works with Internet Explorer b) documents saved with it will never load on anything but Microsoft products c) shortcuts to it will be placed in highly visible locations in all future versions of Windows d) it can only be accessed from PC's running licensed copies of Windows
We never invited her, because we were all worried about sexual harrassment.
Interesting and ironic. At the last round of sensitivity training we had where I work, we were told that excluding people from activities conducted during non-working hours, like going to happy hour after work, could be considered to be exclusionary, creating a hostile environment for the excluded, if the group going out consisted of only one identifiable group like all guys.
So invite her and get in trouble for harassment, don't invite her and get in trouble for excluding her.
As Mr. Miyagi said, "sometimes better just stay home"
If we could just somehow show that terrorists are using magstripe cards to funnel money around, the government or public pressure would force it to happen.
Me thinks that Citi is not being entirely forthright about the true extent of what's going on.
I'm almost 100% sure that this is not limitted to the UK, Canada, and Russia, or to customers of Sam's Club or Office Max. I'm in the U.S., and have never used my ATM / debit card for purchases at either of those retailers. It could just be coincidence, but my Citibank account had unauthorized transactions made at an ATM in California just last week. Since I don't go around sharing my PIN, and was in possession of my ATM card, its obvious that someone somehow got my PIN (which I am now going to be changing at least monthly) and duped my card.
If you have a Citibank ATM card, I encourage you at a minimum to get yourself over to your local branch as soon as possible (I imagine that for most that will now have to be Monday) and change your PIN right away. I'd also strongly consider closing your account and moving to a more secure bank, but honestly I'm not sure at what other bank the situation is really any better.
I'll support jail time for operators of web sites that publish music lyrics and scores when the record companies support jail time for record company executives / employees who engage in payolla, price fixing etc. The law is a two way street.
Besides, you'd think it would occur to these idiots that if they actually included the lyrics to the songs on a CD in the booklet that comes with the CD (which they do, but only in a relatively small number of CDs), they'd a) encourage more people to buy the CD instead of downloading it (either illegaly, or even for $.99 per track which they lambast Apple for) and b) largely eliminate the need for web site operators to publish the lyrics in the first place.
"They're not angels, they just try to make us think they are."
Right - in one of the earlier season 4 episodes, we see two vorlons out of their encounter suits, and not telepathically projecting themselves as angels - we see them in their 'true' form - which to me was something like squids made of energy.
Doesn't the "DISC" logo on the front of my CD-ROM, my Walkman, my home stereo etc. identify the player as a certified CD player based on some consortium of manufacturers??? When one of the RIAA member companies sells me the a CD, and they call it a "Compact Disc" or a "CD", aren't they vouching that it will be compatible with any device that has the "DISC" logo on it?
The RIAA member companies should feel "privileged" that I choose to give them any money for any of their (mostly) lousey products to begin with. That is the only "privilege" involved in any of this.
In another recent thread here on/., a discussion took place on the possibilities of artificially decreasing the strength of hurricanes, or artificially altering their paths, through a variety of proposed approaches, most of which seem to be highly impractical given current technology - one idea is to somehow cool the surface temperature of the ocean.
If you dis-believe the correlation between global warming (or warmer ocean waters in general, whatever the cause), ask yourself this:
If the technology existed for doing so, would you be in favor of taking action to intentionally RAISE the ocean surface temperature in the path of a hurricane, or in areas where tropical depressions / storms / hurricanes tend to form?
If your answer is "no", I don't believe that you can also in good faith claim no correlation between warmer ocean temperatures and the frequency / power of hurricanes.
I'm sure that I'd join you in ridiculing the poor folks in New Orleans, only I'm sure that a few moments afterwards the ground here in California would start shaking beneath me and swallow me whole.
Seriously, I grant you that large hurricanes tend to be much worse than other natural disasters, and I think that it would be great to simply not inhabbit these areas, but where would you build that is not prone to natural disasters of one sort or another? Its really a matter of choosing your poison.
Almost every location in this country is prone to earthquakes (California), tornadoes (great plains areas especially), flooding from periodic large storms (the west coast frequently), blizzards, wildfires etc. Where would you go that doesn't have some predisposition to one sort of natural disaster or another?
To truely deal with the hurricane threat by not living in danger prone areas, no habitation could occur probably within 20 miles of the entire Gulf coast or the entire Atlantic coast at least as far north as the Carolinas (I only say this because - I think - farther north the colder water tends to prevent the truely monster sized hurricanes - not that I'd want to deal even with a large tropical storm). Maybe if the country were just being started today, it might be pratical to avoid building in these areas. But how could such a situation pratically come to pass now that these areas are in fact so built up? (as an asside, i note that the scary thing is that with melting glaciers and rising ocean waters, we might have to do this anyway, and for the west coast too.)
Its not a bad idea, but probably wouldn't work. The shuttle's fuel cells can only keep the craft powered for about two weeks. By the time they were ready to land, there wouldn't be any juice left to power life support (or the ship itself) during the landing. Even if the ship could be powered down in the interim so that there'd be juice left later, its probably no small matter to power it back up during orbit, and it probably wasn't designed for that to be done.
Great point. As I recall, for the first four or so launches the external tank was painted white. Did the paint actually prevent (or help minimize) the shedding of foam? I *think* I've read that the tank has shed debris on every single shuttle mission?
Would be very ironic if not painting the tank ultimately doomed Columbia, as the painting of the tanks was suspended to save weight and it was thought to be unnecessary.
Not sure about the CarterCopter, but typically a conventional helicopter CAN (at least in theory) land after an engine failure, using a technique called autorotation (obligitory WikiPedia link).
Basically, to land using autorotation, the pilot uses his controls to angel the rotor blades such that he is not trying to have the rotor produce lift, but allows the airflow from the helicopter's downward fall to keep the rotor blade spinning at high speed.
At the proper distance from the ground, the pilot adjusts the controls so that the rotor starts to produce lift and slows its spinning - transfering the kenetic energy of its spinning motion into lift.
The timing of this has to be correct - if the pilot applies lift to soon, the verticle descent will be slowed, but the velocity of the rotor's spinning motion will diminish to the point where no lift is being produced while the helicopter is still in the air - meaning the chopper will start accelerating downward again with no real way to recover. If the pilot waits to long, the verticle descent of the helicopter cannot be slowed down in time and the helicopter will plow into the ground.
Up until this point what has differentiated Apple from just another clone maker? To run their (superior, at least to some people) OS you basically had to own their hardware. Doesn't this decision pretty much throw that out the window? Even if the Intel version of OS X won't run, out of the box, on any Intel powered PC out there, what's to really keep open source developers from hacking it to make it compatible? Is there really going to be any sort of locking mechanism in Apple's new Intel hardware to prevent exactly this from happening?
IMHO, with this decision Apple will find itself out of the hardware business within a few years (unless their Intel boxes are going to sell at competitive prices) and out of business altogether shortly thereafter.
A very sad day for Apple after they spent all that money espousing the virtues of the PPC chip and its superiority over Pentiums to anyone who would listen.
But an even sadder day for everyone who's bought Mac hardware in the last several years, who just got cut off at the knees. Two or three years from now, who will be developing for PPC based Macs?
Here he is signing a law that helps a big business (the movie industry) - a traditionally Republican thing to do.
Yet according to Republicans, the movie industry (the big business that is helped by this law) is full of people who are anti-traditional values, anti-decency, liberal and anti-Republican - all characteristics that make the movie industry one that a good Republican ought to want to help quash.
Accordingly, if movie piracy really threatens the existence of the movie industry, wouldn't Bush be better served not to sign bills that are designed to help eliminate piracy (and thus preserve this thorn in the side of the Republican party)?
And what about the clueless? I can name five Windows users who couldn't tell you if they had anything in a shared folder or not under threat of torture, and I can do that buy reading the first five names in my PDA!
Mod parent up, please.
This is a really good point, the law only says you're guilty if you knew / should have known the content was not yet released - it doesn't say your guilty only if you knew / should have known you put the file some place that meets the definition of 'shared folder' (IMHO, a potentially legitimate defense for a lot of people out there who probably barely know how to use a mouse and only own a computer because they want to "use the Internet" like everyone else is).
Of course, having the illegal content is wrong to begin with, either if its been released yet or not, but I'd hate to see an over-the-top penalty applied to some poor soul who might not be so computer literate and ended up unintentionally re-sharing the file when they didn't intend to.
Maybe I'm mis-informed,but wasn't the plan before the Columbia tradgedy to have a shuttle mission to service Hubble? What's changed? Would the cost of doing so, or the cost of sending an alternate vehicle if a shuttle mission is too risky, really be that much different post-Columbia vs the pre-Columbia shuttle mission that was planned? Didn't NASA already have the debate about the cost of saving Hubble years ago, and didn't they decided that the answer was "yes"?
Isn't the real issue that the President (or his administration) has repurposed this money for going to the moon and to Mars, and (right or wrong) they've decided that this is more important than saving hubble?
On one hand, I wonder if the Hubble and JWST could compliment each other if they were operating simultaneously (being that they use different wavelengths and all - concurrent observations of the same objects ought to be somewhat useful). On the other hand, since concurrent operation seems to be completely out of the question in any case, I wonder what's the big deal if there is a 5 or 6 year gap between hubble and the JWST?
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Can't we just build a really, really, tall lightning rod next to the 62,000 mile space elevator?:)
Problem is, $0.99 songs expose 10 song $18.99 traditional CD's as outright ripoffs - if we know that they're willing to sell us the music for $9.99 and still turn an acceptable profit, where's the other $9 going? The packaging? The material cost of the CD itself? Yeah, maybe $1 of it. The rest is raw profit.
At $0.99 per song, the record companies are undercutting their own highly profitable product and loosing out on around $0.90 extra profit per song that they get on a regular CD. I imagine they want the price to be in the $1.75 - $2.00 range per song in order to see the same profit margin, and that's not counting the fact that iTunes lets you buy only part of an album - again, a huge dent in their sales.
JMS is great in the sense that he came up with a simply fantastic story. But as a script writer, he leaves a lot to be desired. Too often in B5, characters explain their actions through ackward, un-natural sounding dialogue that really drags the show down at times.
As for the acting, some of the actors have been terrific, and others have just been awful. Most have been decent.
Still, I love the show and I do think it is probably the best Sci-Fi that has come around in many, many years, and to that end I own 3 of the seasons on DVD and eventually plan to pick up the other two.
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every member of the Jedi order knows. To begin your study of the life of Darth Vader, then take care you first place him in his time: born in the 18th year before the reign of the Galactic Emporer, Palpatine I. And take the most special care that you locate Darth Vader in his place: the planet Coruscant. Do not be deceived by the fact that he was born on Tattoine and lived his first eight years there. Coruscant, the planet known as 'The City Planet', is forever his place.
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Knowing Microsoft, it will have features like:
a) it only works with Internet Explorer
b) documents saved with it will never load on anything but Microsoft products
c) shortcuts to it will be placed in highly visible locations in all future versions of Windows
d) it can only be accessed from PC's running licensed copies of Windows
etc. etc. etc.
I'll stick with Google.
Interesting and ironic. At the last round of sensitivity training we had where I work, we were told that excluding people from activities conducted during non-working hours, like going to happy hour after work, could be considered to be exclusionary, creating a hostile environment for the excluded, if the group going out consisted of only one identifiable group like all guys.
So invite her and get in trouble for harassment, don't invite her and get in trouble for excluding her.
As Mr. Miyagi said, "sometimes better just stay home"
If we could just somehow show that terrorists are using magstripe cards to funnel money around, the government or public pressure would force it to happen.
Me thinks that Citi is not being entirely forthright about the true extent of what's going on.
I'm almost 100% sure that this is not limitted to the UK, Canada, and Russia, or to customers of Sam's Club or Office Max. I'm in the U.S., and have never used my ATM / debit card for purchases at either of those retailers. It could just be coincidence, but my Citibank account had unauthorized transactions made at an ATM in California just last week. Since I don't go around sharing my PIN, and was in possession of my ATM card, its obvious that someone somehow got my PIN (which I am now going to be changing at least monthly) and duped my card.
If you have a Citibank ATM card, I encourage you at a minimum to get yourself over to your local branch as soon as possible (I imagine that for most that will now have to be Monday) and change your PIN right away. I'd also strongly consider closing your account and moving to a more secure bank, but honestly I'm not sure at what other bank the situation is really any better.
I'll support jail time for operators of web sites that publish music lyrics and scores when the record companies support jail time for record company executives / employees who engage in payolla, price fixing etc. The law is a two way street.
Besides, you'd think it would occur to these idiots that if they actually included the lyrics to the songs on a CD in the booklet that comes with the CD (which they do, but only in a relatively small number of CDs), they'd a) encourage more people to buy the CD instead of downloading it (either illegaly, or even for $.99 per track which they lambast Apple for) and b) largely eliminate the need for web site operators to publish the lyrics in the first place.
Right - in one of the earlier season 4 episodes, we see two vorlons out of their encounter suits, and not telepathically projecting themselves as angels - we see them in their 'true' form - which to me was something like squids made of energy.
That would be a threat how, exactly?
Doesn't the "DISC" logo on the front of my CD-ROM, my Walkman, my home stereo etc. identify the player as a certified CD player based on some consortium of manufacturers??? When one of the RIAA member companies sells me the a CD, and they call it a "Compact Disc" or a "CD", aren't they vouching that it will be compatible with any device that has the "DISC" logo on it?
The RIAA member companies should feel "privileged" that I choose to give them any money for any of their (mostly) lousey products to begin with. That is the only "privilege" involved in any of this.
In another recent thread here on /., a discussion took place on the possibilities of artificially decreasing the strength of hurricanes, or artificially altering their paths, through a variety of proposed approaches, most of which seem to be highly impractical given current technology - one idea is to somehow cool the surface temperature of the ocean.
If you dis-believe the correlation between global warming (or warmer ocean waters in general, whatever the cause), ask yourself this:
If the technology existed for doing so, would you be in favor of taking action to intentionally RAISE the ocean surface temperature in the path of a hurricane, or in areas where tropical depressions / storms / hurricanes tend to form?
If your answer is "no", I don't believe that you can also in good faith claim no correlation between warmer ocean temperatures and the frequency / power of hurricanes.
I'm sure that I'd join you in ridiculing the poor folks in New Orleans, only I'm sure that a few moments afterwards the ground here in California would start shaking beneath me and swallow me whole.
Seriously, I grant you that large hurricanes tend to be much worse than other natural disasters, and I think that it would be great to simply not inhabbit these areas, but where would you build that is not prone to natural disasters of one sort or another? Its really a matter of choosing your poison.
Almost every location in this country is prone to earthquakes (California), tornadoes (great plains areas especially), flooding from periodic large storms (the west coast frequently), blizzards, wildfires etc. Where would you go that doesn't have some predisposition to one sort of natural disaster or another?
To truely deal with the hurricane threat by not living in danger prone areas, no habitation could occur probably within 20 miles of the entire Gulf coast or the entire Atlantic coast at least as far north as the Carolinas (I only say this because - I think - farther north the colder water tends to prevent the truely monster sized hurricanes - not that I'd want to deal even with a large tropical storm). Maybe if the country were just being started today, it might be pratical to avoid building in these areas. But how could such a situation pratically come to pass now that these areas are in fact so built up? (as an asside, i note that the scary thing is that with melting glaciers and rising ocean waters, we might have to do this anyway, and for the west coast too.)
Its not a bad idea, but probably wouldn't work. The shuttle's fuel cells can only keep the craft powered for about two weeks. By the time they were ready to land, there wouldn't be any juice left to power life support (or the ship itself) during the landing. Even if the ship could be powered down in the interim so that there'd be juice left later, its probably no small matter to power it back up during orbit, and it probably wasn't designed for that to be done.
Great point. As I recall, for the first four or so launches the external tank was painted white. Did the paint actually prevent (or help minimize) the shedding of foam? I *think* I've read that the tank has shed debris on every single shuttle mission?
Would be very ironic if not painting the tank ultimately doomed Columbia, as the painting of the tanks was suspended to save weight and it was thought to be unnecessary.
Great actor who played a great character. The episode of TNG that featured Scotty was one of my favorites.
Its too bad that, like physics, ya cannot change the laws of mortality.
Meanwhile, back at Cape Canaviral, NASA readies the Deep Impact backup hardware for launch, this time targeted at a slightly closer object....
Basically, to land using autorotation, the pilot uses his controls to angel the rotor blades such that he is not trying to have the rotor produce lift, but allows the airflow from the helicopter's downward fall to keep the rotor blade spinning at high speed.
At the proper distance from the ground, the pilot adjusts the controls so that the rotor starts to produce lift and slows its spinning - transfering the kenetic energy of its spinning motion into lift.
The timing of this has to be correct - if the pilot applies lift to soon, the verticle descent will be slowed, but the velocity of the rotor's spinning motion will diminish to the point where no lift is being produced while the helicopter is still in the air - meaning the chopper will start accelerating downward again with no real way to recover. If the pilot waits to long, the verticle descent of the helicopter cannot be slowed down in time and the helicopter will plow into the ground.
Up until this point what has differentiated Apple from just another clone maker? To run their (superior, at least to some people) OS you basically had to own their hardware. Doesn't this decision pretty much throw that out the window? Even if the Intel version of OS X won't run, out of the box, on any Intel powered PC out there, what's to really keep open source developers from hacking it to make it compatible? Is there really going to be any sort of locking mechanism in Apple's new Intel hardware to prevent exactly this from happening?
IMHO, with this decision Apple will find itself out of the hardware business within a few years (unless their Intel boxes are going to sell at competitive prices) and out of business altogether shortly thereafter.
A very sad day for Apple after they spent all that money espousing the virtues of the PPC chip and its superiority over Pentiums to anyone who would listen.
But an even sadder day for everyone who's bought Mac hardware in the last several years, who just got cut off at the knees. Two or three years from now, who will be developing for PPC based Macs?
Is it just me, or have events over the last few weeks led to the number 66 replacing 42 as the most important number in geekdom?
Here he is signing a law that helps a big business (the movie industry) - a traditionally Republican thing to do.
Yet according to Republicans, the movie industry (the big business that is helped by this law) is full of people who are anti-traditional values, anti-decency, liberal and anti-Republican - all characteristics that make the movie industry one that a good Republican ought to want to help quash.
Accordingly, if movie piracy really threatens the existence of the movie industry, wouldn't Bush be better served not to sign bills that are designed to help eliminate piracy (and thus preserve this thorn in the side of the Republican party)?
Mod parent up, please.
This is a really good point, the law only says you're guilty if you knew / should have known the content was not yet released - it doesn't say your guilty only if you knew / should have known you put the file some place that meets the definition of 'shared folder' (IMHO, a potentially legitimate defense for a lot of people out there who probably barely know how to use a mouse and only own a computer because they want to "use the Internet" like everyone else is).
Of course, having the illegal content is wrong to begin with, either if its been released yet or not, but I'd hate to see an over-the-top penalty applied to some poor soul who might not be so computer literate and ended up unintentionally re-sharing the file when they didn't intend to.
Maybe I'm mis-informed,but wasn't the plan before the Columbia tradgedy to have a shuttle mission to service Hubble? What's changed? Would the cost of doing so, or the cost of sending an alternate vehicle if a shuttle mission is too risky, really be that much different post-Columbia vs the pre-Columbia shuttle mission that was planned? Didn't NASA already have the debate about the cost of saving Hubble years ago, and didn't they decided that the answer was "yes"?
Isn't the real issue that the President (or his administration) has repurposed this money for going to the moon and to Mars, and (right or wrong) they've decided that this is more important than saving hubble?
On one hand, I wonder if the Hubble and JWST could compliment each other if they were operating simultaneously (being that they use different wavelengths and all - concurrent observations of the same objects ought to be somewhat useful). On the other hand, since concurrent operation seems to be completely out of the question in any case, I wonder what's the big deal if there is a 5 or 6 year gap between hubble and the JWST?
Can't we just build a really, really, tall lightning rod next to the 62,000 mile space elevator? :)
What's the big deal? I know of at least one other bank that's had NT based ATMs for years.
Problem is, $0.99 songs expose 10 song $18.99 traditional CD's as outright ripoffs - if we know that they're willing to sell us the music for $9.99 and still turn an acceptable profit, where's the other $9 going? The packaging? The material cost of the CD itself? Yeah, maybe $1 of it. The rest is raw profit.
At $0.99 per song, the record companies are undercutting their own highly profitable product and loosing out on around $0.90 extra profit per song that they get on a regular CD. I imagine they want the price to be in the $1.75 - $2.00 range per song in order to see the same profit margin, and that's not counting the fact that iTunes lets you buy only part of an album - again, a huge dent in their sales.
JMS is great in the sense that he came up with a simply fantastic story. But as a script writer, he leaves a lot to be desired. Too often in B5, characters explain their actions through ackward, un-natural sounding dialogue that really drags the show down at times.
As for the acting, some of the actors have been terrific, and others have just been awful. Most have been decent.
Still, I love the show and I do think it is probably the best Sci-Fi that has come around in many, many years, and to that end I own 3 of the seasons on DVD and eventually plan to pick up the other two.
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every member of the Jedi order knows. To begin your study of the life of Darth Vader, then take care you first place him in his time: born in the 18th year before the reign of the Galactic Emporer, Palpatine I. And take the most special care that you locate Darth Vader in his place: the planet Coruscant. Do not be deceived by the fact that he was born on Tattoine and lived his first eight years there. Coruscant, the planet known as 'The City Planet', is forever his place.