Changing course enough to avoid any sizeable object would probably be fatal in that thing; there's a reason they've had people clear all the rocks & pebbles from the proposed test site so they don't have to worry about it.
Because the other applications (Notepad, Paint, etc) are minimally functional compared to their competition, they don't have massive market share compared the competition (partially for the same reason) and you're not forced to use Paint to get hold of a copy of Photoshop.
Every game purchased through Steam requires online activation, every single one
You mean the online store, that you're using, while online, to purchase games, online, requires you to be online to install your game, that you download while online? Say it ain't so.
The Steam DRM is optional, btw, entirely up to the publisher, which is why a lot of older games don't have it and can be run without Steam once they're installed.
Well with the exception of "SUNIV358", which is something of an outlier, the rest are all pretty standard passwords that you'd expect to see in any dataset like this
Having been in this situation twice in the last couple of years, I would bet the IT department did explain the limitations of the iPads and were overruled by the teachers who wanted shiny toys they could show off to their friends.
iPlayer is awesome, the iPlayer Android app is fucking awful.
Flash-dependant, doesn't work over 3G on most phones & networks, can't play in the background or with the screen off (for the Radio streams), to name but a few issues with it.
Flash going away from Android and staying would be the best thing that could happen to the iPlayer app.
Find someone who understands how things work & why they work; there are tens of thousands of Windows admins with MCSE (now MCITP) grade qualifications who don't actually understand why they do any of the things they do, just that Action A fixes Problem B. Also, find someone who can script - Powershell preferably, but VBS if you have to - as a lot of Windows admins are far too reliant on the GUI which can obviously slow them down a lot for some types of tasks.
Don't bother asking questions to test Windows "knowledge" because they don't really tell you much about the person's ability, just their memory. Give them scenarios you've encountered with your Windows estate and ask them how they'd deal with them; you don't even really need to know that much about Windows yourself to be able to judge answers to those kinds of questions and they give you a much better idea of how well the person actually understands Windows, which is much more important than reciting the FSMO roles or knowing how to do an Authoritative Restore.
Because, if the Twitter joke trial has taught us anything, it's that there is an important difference between comments made in jest and actual, serious threats against someone's well-being.
Saying "My ideas for the opening ceremony were rejected. I suggested we should crash a burning Jag into Mitt Romney." is clearly not an actual threat to carry out such an action.
Saying "Come on then you cunt, I'll stick a knife down your fukkin throat now comeback and stop hiding from me" can be more reasonably seen as an actual threat, context permitting.
The police have overreacted by arresting him, but the accuracy of the reporting of the incident by the media has been astonishingly poor.
You know what a tablet with a keyboard used to be called? A Laptop. Sure it's all touchy-feely, but that's not exactly difficult to add to a laptop, there just wasn'hasn't been the demand for it. Let's be honest, the Surface is pretty much a laptop as it is, just with a furry keyboard.
Once you take a tablet and add a keyboard and maybe a mouse for fiddly things and a charger because you're going to be using it for hours at a time there isn't any good reason not to just buy a laptop and have a proper computer instead.
iOS MDM is pretty laughably limited, you can't even disable WiFi or Bluetooth through it, set a proxy server (other than as part of a VPN connection) or otherwise restrict web access without turning off Safari entirely. Apple being Apple, of course, if they don't offer it as a setting, you can't do it without Jailbreaking, which few companies really want to have to mess around with.
Don't confuse the EU Parliament with the EU Commission; the former are elected and do a pretty decent job of being representative of their constituents, the latter are unelected and do a pretty decent job of being representative of anyone who pays for lunch.
I'm going to go with the latter. I saw very little sensationalist nonsense from the UK media on the whole, nor did I see a lot on any of the sci/tech blogs and sites that I read. The only place I saw anything even vaguely stupid (that wasn't intended as such) related to the Higgs discovery was on Twitter, where you can find stupid related to *anything* at any time.
Won't work. If there's one thing that the EU Parliament have shown is that when people try and bypass their authority they're willing to turn up in huge numbers to vote it down on principle.
At a guess, they've drafted all the former Linux & Android Flash devs to work full time on trying to patch the Windows version roughly as fast as new vulnerabilities are being discovered.
Charles Carreon is/was a lawyer representing FunnyJunk in their lawsuit against Matthew Inman (who runs The Oatmeal) in which FunnyJunk are upset that, over a year ago, Matthew Inman said it was a pretty dickish thing for FunnyJunk to republish loads of his content without attribution.
Because of all the shit that Charles Carreon has received from The Internet following this, he is additionally now personally suing Matthew Inman and the two charities that he is raising money for.
Spain really wasn't "fine" before last week, it just started getting a lot more media coverage because of Bankia et al.
France isn't fine either, but it's a long way from being as bad as Portugal or Greece; Ireland & Italy have made solid steps to move their economies back from disaster but they've still got a way to go before they're "safe".
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Changing course enough to avoid any sizeable object would probably be fatal in that thing; there's a reason they've had people clear all the rocks & pebbles from the proposed test site so they don't have to worry about it.
It stops mostly by use of a parachute.
Because we like to confuse visitors by using a random mixture of Imperial and Metric measurements where ever possible.
Because it's fucking awesome and nobody has done it before.
When did doing cool things out of curiosity become so derided?
And the "driver" is an RAF test pilot.
No it isn't. You can't just make this stuff up, you know, there are British people on the internet now.
Because the other applications (Notepad, Paint, etc) are minimally functional compared to their competition, they don't have massive market share compared the competition (partially for the same reason) and you're not forced to use Paint to get hold of a copy of Photoshop.
Every game purchased through Steam requires online activation, every single one
You mean the online store, that you're using, while online, to purchase games, online, requires you to be online to install your game, that you download while online? Say it ain't so.
The Steam DRM is optional, btw, entirely up to the publisher, which is why a lot of older games don't have it and can be run without Steam once they're installed.
Well with the exception of "SUNIV358", which is something of an outlier, the rest are all pretty standard passwords that you'd expect to see in any dataset like this
Which bit is the Fear, which is the Uncertainty and which is the Doubt? Or are you just using FUD as a synonym for "bad" for no apparent reason?
Having been in this situation twice in the last couple of years, I would bet the IT department did explain the limitations of the iPads and were overruled by the teachers who wanted shiny toys they could show off to their friends.
iPlayer is awesome, the iPlayer Android app is fucking awful.
Flash-dependant, doesn't work over 3G on most phones & networks, can't play in the background or with the screen off (for the Radio streams), to name but a few issues with it.
Flash going away from Android and staying would be the best thing that could happen to the iPlayer app.
Find someone who understands how things work & why they work; there are tens of thousands of Windows admins with MCSE (now MCITP) grade qualifications who don't actually understand why they do any of the things they do, just that Action A fixes Problem B. Also, find someone who can script - Powershell preferably, but VBS if you have to - as a lot of Windows admins are far too reliant on the GUI which can obviously slow them down a lot for some types of tasks.
Don't bother asking questions to test Windows "knowledge" because they don't really tell you much about the person's ability, just their memory. Give them scenarios you've encountered with your Windows estate and ask them how they'd deal with them; you don't even really need to know that much about Windows yourself to be able to judge answers to those kinds of questions and they give you a much better idea of how well the person actually understands Windows, which is much more important than reciting the FSMO roles or knowing how to do an Authoritative Restore.
Because, if the Twitter joke trial has taught us anything, it's that there is an important difference between comments made in jest and actual, serious threats against someone's well-being.
Saying "My ideas for the opening ceremony were rejected. I suggested we should crash a burning Jag into Mitt Romney." is clearly not an actual threat to carry out such an action.
Saying "Come on then you cunt, I'll stick a knife down your fukkin throat now comeback and stop hiding from me" can be more reasonably seen as an actual threat, context permitting.
The police have overreacted by arresting him, but the accuracy of the reporting of the incident by the media has been astonishingly poor.
Take a look at Project CARS, it's pretty astonishing.
You know what a tablet with a keyboard used to be called? A Laptop. Sure it's all touchy-feely, but that's not exactly difficult to add to a laptop, there just wasn'hasn't been the demand for it. Let's be honest, the Surface is pretty much a laptop as it is, just with a furry keyboard.
Once you take a tablet and add a keyboard and maybe a mouse for fiddly things and a charger because you're going to be using it for hours at a time there isn't any good reason not to just buy a laptop and have a proper computer instead.
iOS MDM is pretty laughably limited, you can't even disable WiFi or Bluetooth through it, set a proxy server (other than as part of a VPN connection) or otherwise restrict web access without turning off Safari entirely. Apple being Apple, of course, if they don't offer it as a setting, you can't do it without Jailbreaking, which few companies really want to have to mess around with.
Don't confuse the EU Parliament with the EU Commission; the former are elected and do a pretty decent job of being representative of their constituents, the latter are unelected and do a pretty decent job of being representative of anyone who pays for lunch.
I'm going to go with the latter. I saw very little sensationalist nonsense from the UK media on the whole, nor did I see a lot on any of the sci/tech blogs and sites that I read. The only place I saw anything even vaguely stupid (that wasn't intended as such) related to the Higgs discovery was on Twitter, where you can find stupid related to *anything* at any time.
I presume that Slash Outsourcing is Slashdot's latest unwanted "channel" to go with that Business Intelligence nonsense?
Won't work. If there's one thing that the EU Parliament have shown is that when people try and bypass their authority they're willing to turn up in huge numbers to vote it down on principle.
At a guess, they've drafted all the former Linux & Android Flash devs to work full time on trying to patch the Windows version roughly as fast as new vulnerabilities are being discovered.
Charles Carreon is/was a lawyer representing FunnyJunk in their lawsuit against Matthew Inman (who runs The Oatmeal) in which FunnyJunk are upset that, over a year ago, Matthew Inman said it was a pretty dickish thing for FunnyJunk to republish loads of his content without attribution.
Because of all the shit that Charles Carreon has received from The Internet following this, he is additionally now personally suing Matthew Inman and the two charities that he is raising money for.
Nationwide MITM attack.
Spain really wasn't "fine" before last week, it just started getting a lot more media coverage because of Bankia et al.
France isn't fine either, but it's a long way from being as bad as Portugal or Greece; Ireland & Italy have made solid steps to move their economies back from disaster but they've still got a way to go before they're "safe".
It's a small link but it's there: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso