I think this is one of the best solutions offered here. Whilst I like the idea of a replica seating sled in the terminal that gets changed in and out, it just isn't going to happen.
There's so many rules about what you're NOT allowed to carry, lets reverse it.
You can take: * An mp3 player, camera and laptop so long as it's either (1) in your pocket or (2) in ONE bag. * A jacket or coat. * A book * Toiletries no bigger than a standard book
Anything (anything) else, has to be checked.
All of a sudden you discover that it all fits in the back of the seat in front of you except for your jacket.
Next optimization: you get a plastic bin in the waiting area if you have anything to carry on. You put your crap in there that you want in the overhead. If it doesn't fit, you can't take it and it's too late to check it: you lose it.
Now everyone carries on their bin and puts the square bin in the square hole above their own seat. Lo and behold everyone has the same amount of space and a container that fits into it easily and QUICKLY. Your bin has your seat number on it, so if you put it in the wrong place and moving it is the slightest bin inconvenient, it's removed and locked away in the crew cabin until you're at 10,000ft.
The other (more expensive) optimization would be sky bridges that went to all three doors. When you scan your boarding pass, it allocates/unlocks/corales a corridor for you to go down.
I wrote a perl library for work that has nothing to do directly with the business we're involved in. (Imagine we make car parts (we don't), this library makes it easy to add text to PDF files (it does))
I felt that the work I'd done might help other people, and as we use many pieces of open source software, I felt it might be nice to "give back". So I asked the boss if there was any way they'd consider open-sourcing the library.
He went one step further and said not to bother putting the company name on it at all. He understood completely that as we use open-source software all over the place, opening something that wasn't business critical made good sense.
Maybe the OP's boss would see the same logic -- or even retain the copyright but GPL the code for the OP to work on in his/her own time.
I wonder what would happen if everyone from the Church turned up on the day (night?) with their own TV. They each took them into the church hall, stacked them up in a grid and plugged them into one of those devices that splits the picture. That way, each person is watching the game on their own TV, AND the church gets to hold a great superbowl event... on an even BIGGER screen.
Once you start doing stupid stuff like this, it's going to get stupidly messy at some point.
If the church isn't charging for entry (and unlike the bar, probably isn't charging for drinks either!) then how on EARTH can you justify forcing them to turn it off?
Why on earth do you need specialized voting forms tailored to the individual voter? Surely that removes the anonymity from voting, or at least significantly reduces it?
If there are more than one type of vote on election day, and each person may be entitled for some strange reason to vote in different elections to the person next to them, have each vote on a different piece of paper.
Here in.au we get a green piece of paper that we number *in pencil* from 1 to n (where n is the number of candidates.. see Preferential Voting on wikipedia) for electing our lower house representative in our local ward and a *massive* white piece of paper that lists all the upper house candidates for our state.
I figure the same works for Florida right? You vote for the president directly, so you get a piece of paper for that. And then you vote for your local senator, so you get a piece of paper for that.
What on earth am I missing that makes voting methods in the USA such a controversial issue?
Typewriters were 12 'pitch' IIRC. Pitch is the number of characters per inch. I believe non metric paper is 8 inches wide? Thus 96 characters wide. Leave a half inch on each side and you end up with 84 characters per line.
WTF? Pantone (and all printing) is about ink colors.. subtractive color, not additive like your monitor. Your screen was never and will never (with ANY current technology) show you printed colors accurately, it just approximates. What's more, 99% of Pantone colors are out of both RGB and CMY(K) gammut. Products such as Photoshop and Illustrator have RGB conversion libraries supplied with them to approximate Pantone colors in RGB on your monitor.
Printing in spot color is all about ink recipes. Your printer will have a Pantone book that tells him exactly what weight of what ink he needs to _add_ together to create the color you asked for. And that requires a LOT more than just cyan, magenta and yellow.
Feel free to complain about Apple, or anyone else's LCD monitors, but don't get additive and subtractive confused. And never expect to see Pantone colors accurately on your monitor. Buy a Pantone color chip book if you need something to show your clients.
Erm.. no.. DON'T begin at the beginning and it's a HELL of a lot easier. Just start spitting out a million digits. You just claim it's a million digits from somewhere in the billion-digits-of-pi range..
In the real world, validation doesn't overly matter. However as the site doesn't even *work* in FireFox on linux, I'm not holding my breath for anything from these people.
I don't care who made the site, if you're writing an "OS" (or if you claim to be even if you're not) then you at least check the most popular browsers on existing operating systems.
...allowing chemical composition to be determined outside of a vacuum chamber. Purdue suggests this could be useful for everything from detecting explosive substances or cancer to predicting disease.
OK, but if we use this, can we get the chemical composition of Coke or KFC? From there, we should be able to determine the recipe or the 11 Secret Herbs and Spices.. right?
It all started with Lost. I really got into that on our local Free-to-air. Great show (well, back then:)). But what was it all about? Where were they? Who were 'the others'?
Being a highly connected person, I decided to check the internet. Surely there'd be people there who loved the show also and wanted to discuss it? Woohoo! There was. There's hundreds of sites and thousands of people talking about it. But THEY'RE ALL A SEASON AHEAD. I have to stop looking. I want the drama of the play-out. Don't tell me. Don't SPOIL it. But I still want to be able to talk about it. I still want to swap theories on what's going on.
So I decided to put my bandwidth to good use and catch up. So I caught up and watched it with only a slight delay from the US air time. I was able to discuss it with people and make wild guesses about things that weren't already a year old.
So now I watch the most part of my TV via BT. I watch Pay-TV for documentaries and most other 'time-wasting' television. I hardly ever watch free-to-air any more.
Cheers! Rick
Oh, and I remember they advertised they were going to show one of those Survivor things just hours after it aired in the US. I'm told the US pilot was 2 hours but we were only shown the first hour. So really, the whole series was at least 1 week behind. I assume they did the same with Jericho which they advertised in a similar matter. Treat the viewers like crap and expect to get treated like crap yourselves Free-to-air!
I'm certain LibriVox would be happy to record some more 'educational' books.. only they only have access to works in the public domain. Everyone else seems to want to be paid for their work. Because of this, most of their books are very old. Educational works that are old enough to be in the public domain will likely teach that the sun orbits the earth:)
If you have a source for public domain works that you'd like to hear as audio books, that's the place to submit them.
Cheers!
Rick Measham
(disclaimer: I'm a volunteer reader for LibriVox)
We've had phone porn in Australia for a few years now on our 3G network. You can't just view it though, you have to send a snail-mail application for all 'premium' content to the telco with the account holders signature and proof of age. (Premium covers other things in the phone too like pay-per-view so it's not just smut that becomes available, but I bet that's where the money is)
The funniest thing I saw for it was 'wankervision' (my name for it, not theirs!).. you pay for this movie of a girl giving 'oral stimulation' from the POV of the man. I think you're then supposed to hold the phone in front of you.. what will they think of next?
That's the very question I'm trying to aim at the artists themselves! You've dismissed all the peripheral work that goes into an album as extraneous, yet you haven't explained why the artists themselves should be the only ones to enjoy perpetual royalties from the end product.
It's the same in any industry: The artist gets the perpetual royalties as they're the ones with their name on the end product. It's not "Sony/BMG's latest album" it's "Kylie Minogue's". In software, it's Adobe who gets the royalties, not the guy who designed the box. In film it's seen as a production, so the production house gets the perpetual royalties. Whoever's name is on the product is clearly the one whose production it is.
The person whose name is on the product *should* be the person who hires everyone else to do some work-for-hire for them. Once that work is over, they are paid and we all move on. If the product is successful, the entity whose name appears on the product is the person who should be making the money.
Of course, in modern commercial music, the 'artist' is rarely more than a face and a dance move, so my argument should really be finished by arguing that their name SHOULDN'T be on the product.. it's more like film so the album should have the studio's name on it, and the face/dance should be paid as a work-for-hire job.
Strange to me that the parent has been modded a 'troll'.. apart from trollish language it makes a very good point:
Even if the 100% Certifiably Correct Observation of global warming is a natural phenomenon, why should we not try to do something about it? After all, as far as I know, everyone agrees that if it gets any warmer, the polar ice-caps melt and we flood coastal regions around the planet.
We've gotten all tied up on the argument of cause and are missing the point that it IS HAPPENING. And that IT WILL cause devistation. So damnit, lets just fix it and argue over it later. (Imagine if software was never patched until the world had reached consensus on which developer caused the bug?)
It it just to us nerds that the law appears incomplete. Taking the actual law rather than our brain-parse of it, it uses the words "electronic mail" not email. I'd argue (though IANAL) that mail is a narrowcast written communication. So whack an 'electronic' on there and IM is certainly arguably electronic mail (though not email).
Though to argue with myself, I'd really want to include 'delayed pickup' in my definition of mail, which would thus mean IM isn't electronic mail as the point of it is that it's instant. Though the 'leave a message for the offline person' would be included.
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Some of the E-boy art is fantastic. His, Web2.0 creation "FooBar" is great for any computer science office.
You don't say where in the world you are, but he's also drawn many of the major cities.
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I think this is one of the best solutions offered here. Whilst I like the idea of a replica seating sled in the terminal that gets changed in and out, it just isn't going to happen.
There's so many rules about what you're NOT allowed to carry, lets reverse it.
You can take:
* An mp3 player, camera and laptop so long as it's either (1) in your pocket or (2) in ONE bag.
* A jacket or coat.
* A book
* Toiletries no bigger than a standard book
Anything (anything) else, has to be checked.
All of a sudden you discover that it all fits in the back of the seat in front of you except for your jacket.
Next optimization: you get a plastic bin in the waiting area if you have anything to carry on. You put your crap in there that you want in the overhead. If it doesn't fit, you can't take it and it's too late to check it: you lose it.
Now everyone carries on their bin and puts the square bin in the square hole above their own seat. Lo and behold everyone has the same amount of space and a container that fits into it easily and QUICKLY. Your bin has your seat number on it, so if you put it in the wrong place and moving it is the slightest bin inconvenient, it's removed and locked away in the crew cabin until you're at 10,000ft.
The other (more expensive) optimization would be sky bridges that went to all three doors. When you scan your boarding pass, it allocates/unlocks/corales a corridor for you to go down.
I wrote a perl library for work that has nothing to do directly with the business we're involved in. (Imagine we make car parts (we don't), this library makes it easy to add text to PDF files (it does))
I felt that the work I'd done might help other people, and as we use many pieces of open source software, I felt it might be nice to "give back". So I asked the boss if there was any way they'd consider open-sourcing the library.
He went one step further and said not to bother putting the company name on it at all. He understood completely that as we use open-source software all over the place, opening something that wasn't business critical made good sense.
Maybe the OP's boss would see the same logic -- or even retain the copyright but GPL the code for the OP to work on in his/her own time.
I wonder what would happen if everyone from the Church turned up on the day (night?) with their own TV. They each took them into the church hall, stacked them up in a grid and plugged them into one of those devices that splits the picture. That way, each person is watching the game on their own TV, AND the church gets to hold a great superbowl event ... on an even BIGGER screen.
Once you start doing stupid stuff like this, it's going to get stupidly messy at some point.
If the church isn't charging for entry (and unlike the bar, probably isn't charging for drinks either!) then how on EARTH can you justify forcing them to turn it off?
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Why on earth do you need specialized voting forms tailored to the individual voter? Surely that removes the anonymity from voting, or at least significantly reduces it?
.au we get a green piece of paper that we number *in pencil* from 1 to n (where n is the number of candidates .. see Preferential Voting on wikipedia) for electing our lower house representative in our local ward and a *massive* white piece of paper that lists all the upper house candidates for our state.
If there are more than one type of vote on election day, and each person may be entitled for some strange reason to vote in different elections to the person next to them, have each vote on a different piece of paper.
Here in
I figure the same works for Florida right? You vote for the president directly, so you get a piece of paper for that. And then you vote for your local senator, so you get a piece of paper for that.
What on earth am I missing that makes voting methods in the USA such a controversial issue?
You know it's coming don't you?
"Are you a pirate or a robot?"
Typewriters were 12 'pitch' IIRC. Pitch is the number of characters per inch. I believe non metric paper is 8 inches wide? Thus 96 characters wide. Leave a half inch on each side and you end up with 84 characters per line.
WTF? Pantone (and all printing) is about ink colors .. subtractive color, not additive like your monitor. Your screen was never and will never (with ANY current technology) show you printed colors accurately, it just approximates. What's more, 99% of Pantone colors are out of both RGB and CMY(K) gammut. Products such as Photoshop and Illustrator have RGB conversion libraries supplied with them to approximate Pantone colors in RGB on your monitor.
Printing in spot color is all about ink recipes. Your printer will have a Pantone book that tells him exactly what weight of what ink he needs to _add_ together to create the color you asked for. And that requires a LOT more than just cyan, magenta and yellow.
Feel free to complain about Apple, or anyone else's LCD monitors, but don't get additive and subtractive confused. And never expect to see Pantone colors accurately on your monitor. Buy a Pantone color chip book if you need something to show your clients.
Duh
That being my point .. thanks for giving it a name though :)
Erm .. no .. DON'T begin at the beginning and it's a HELL of a lot easier. Just start spitting out a million digits. You just claim it's a million digits from somewhere in the billion-digits-of-pi range ..
In the real world, validation doesn't overly matter. However as the site doesn't even *work* in FireFox on linux, I'm not holding my breath for anything from these people.
I don't care who made the site, if you're writing an "OS" (or if you claim to be even if you're not) then you at least check the most popular browsers on existing operating systems.
It all started with Lost. I really got into that on our local Free-to-air. Great show (well, back then :)). But what was it all about? Where were they? Who were 'the others'?
Being a highly connected person, I decided to check the internet. Surely there'd be people there who loved the show also and wanted to discuss it? Woohoo! There was. There's hundreds of sites and thousands of people talking about it. But THEY'RE ALL A SEASON AHEAD. I have to stop looking. I want the drama of the play-out. Don't tell me. Don't SPOIL it. But I still want to be able to talk about it. I still want to swap theories on what's going on.
So I decided to put my bandwidth to good use and catch up. So I caught up and watched it with only a slight delay from the US air time. I was able to discuss it with people and make wild guesses about things that weren't already a year old.
So now I watch the most part of my TV via BT. I watch Pay-TV for documentaries and most other 'time-wasting' television. I hardly ever watch free-to-air any more.
Cheers!
Rick
Oh, and I remember they advertised they were going to show one of those Survivor things just hours after it aired in the US. I'm told the US pilot was 2 hours but we were only shown the first hour. So really, the whole series was at least 1 week behind. I assume they did the same with Jericho which they advertised in a similar matter. Treat the viewers like crap and expect to get treated like crap yourselves Free-to-air!
I'm certain LibriVox would be happy to record some more 'educational' books .. only they only have access to works in the public domain. Everyone else seems to want to be paid for their work. Because of this, most of their books are very old. Educational works that are old enough to be in the public domain will likely teach that the sun orbits the earth :)
If you have a source for public domain works that you'd like to hear as audio books, that's the place to submit them.
Cheers!
Rick Measham
(disclaimer: I'm a volunteer reader for LibriVox)
You might want to read up on space elevators before you open your mouth on the subject ...
Interesting point .. I haven't heard anything from Bova, Bear or Benford, Ian M Banks, Baxter, MZ Bradley, heard nothing from them either.
.. I just haven't heard it!
* Not saying they haven't said anything
OK, so the brain recognizes scenes (haven't read the article) .. but how come I read "Recognizing Scenes Like Brian Does"??
We've had phone porn in Australia for a few years now on our 3G network. You can't just view it though, you have to send a snail-mail application for all 'premium' content to the telco with the account holders signature and proof of age. (Premium covers other things in the phone too like pay-per-view so it's not just smut that becomes available, but I bet that's where the money is)
.. you pay for this movie of a girl giving 'oral stimulation' from the POV of the man. I think you're then supposed to hold the phone in front of you .. what will they think of next?
The funniest thing I saw for it was 'wankervision' (my name for it, not theirs!)
Isn't that the 'hospitality sector'? The service sector is business-services.
It's the same in any industry: The artist gets the perpetual royalties as they're the ones with their name on the end product. It's not "Sony/BMG's latest album" it's "Kylie Minogue's". In software, it's Adobe who gets the royalties, not the guy who designed the box. In film it's seen as a production, so the production house gets the perpetual royalties. Whoever's name is on the product is clearly the one whose production it is.
The person whose name is on the product *should* be the person who hires everyone else to do some work-for-hire for them. Once that work is over, they are paid and we all move on. If the product is successful, the entity whose name appears on the product is the person who should be making the money.
Of course, in modern commercial music, the 'artist' is rarely more than a face and a dance move, so my argument should really be finished by arguing that their name SHOULDN'T be on the product .. it's more like film so the album should have the studio's name on it, and the face/dance should be paid as a work-for-hire job.
Strange to me that the parent has been modded a 'troll' .. apart from trollish language it makes a very good point:
Even if the 100% Certifiably Correct Observation of global warming is a natural phenomenon, why should we not try to do something about it? After all, as far as I know, everyone agrees that if it gets any warmer, the polar ice-caps melt and we flood coastal regions around the planet.
We've gotten all tied up on the argument of cause and are missing the point that it IS HAPPENING. And that IT WILL cause devistation. So damnit, lets just fix it and argue over it later. (Imagine if software was never patched until the world had reached consensus on which developer caused the bug?)
It it just to us nerds that the law appears incomplete. Taking the actual law rather than our brain-parse of it, it uses the words "electronic mail" not email. I'd argue (though IANAL) that mail is a narrowcast written communication. So whack an 'electronic' on there and IM is certainly arguably electronic mail (though not email).
Though to argue with myself, I'd really want to include 'delayed pickup' in my definition of mail, which would thus mean IM isn't electronic mail as the point of it is that it's instant. Though the 'leave a message for the offline person' would be included.