The owner of the cell phone pays per minute for both incoming and outgoing calls, because the only alternative would be to treat all cell phones as long-distance numbers Thanks for the detailed explanation... I have cell phones in 3 different countries, and in each the number starts very clearly with a different prefix, so everybody knows that they are calling a different number with different tarification: you have local, long distance and cell phone (and 800, 900, etc). I don't see anything strange with that, but I find it strange that some want to treat cells as if they were local numbers and have the callee eat the difference.
As far as I know, the US is the only country where the SMS receiver pays up, which seems absurd to anybody else. Anyone cares to enlighten me as to the reason for that ?!?
I hate to tell you but birds by themselves or in flocks do show up on radar. Indeed. I worked on experimental VHF atmospheric research radars, used to estimate the mass and position of clouds up so several hundred kms away and flocks of migratory birds did show nicely (but we couldn't easily tell between the two).
I thought that being connected was the thing preventing WWIII or somesuch until I read something about WWI. Back then nobility and high bourgeoisie where highly intermarried all over Europe. But still they 'decided' on a war that everybody at the time thought would be a brief kind of reassessment where they didn't think they had much to lose. Unfortunately (?) it bankrupted most European countries, signed the death toll of royalty in Europe (except on some weird island) and gave rise to the US.
Just look at the current situation in the US: the neocon start a war for the 'good' of 'merica and its net effect is that the US economy now belongs to China. Talk about being patriots !
I've always had a strong dislike for fantasy (to each his own), so I was surprised as to why they would classify both Hyperion and Illium as SF. It's only looks superficially SF because he uses words like 'quantum' and 'nano', but it's just magic all the way: reverse time flow, nanobots that can change a human is mere seconds, faster than light teleportation and, hmmm, gods... Bleh.
I mean, the guy has great writing style and imagination. I just can't swallow the substance. Just call it fantasy and I won't have to next time.
Yes, and I also think it would be a good idea on a Public Relation standpoint: when a new version of Windows comes out, it makes the news. Now the news will also be able to say: 'a new version of Linux is out today' without need to specify if they are talking about the kernel, a specific distro, kde...
...and then a week later the competitor starts doing the same thing. Now what ? It's not like there's more than a handful of ADSL providers in any given area.
it should be something more relevant and useful than the middle button paste thingie, like where is the GUI to install new software what, apt-get not good enough ?!? C;-)
About Ubuntu looking more like Windows. Well, first of, you can chose the 'Redmond' UI style which will make it pretty similar. I use it myself to keep the confision low.
My main UI gripe is about the copy/paste. In windows, 9 time out of 10 you use copy/paste to _replace_ someting. So it works like this: select what you want to replace, alt-tab, search for the target (possibly doing other copy/pastes in the meanwhile), copy the target, alt-tab back to original window, ctrl-V. Done.
This is impossible with the classic X clipboard: when you return to your original window your original text is no longer selected and you have to paste at random and then try to remember what it was you wanted to remove. So annoying and there's no way you can change your behavior to make it work better: removing the original before going to seek the target is often not a convenient option.
Yes, I know most KDE apps support Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V operations, but they are still a far cry from working. The middle button copy/paste must be extracted from X like the painful infected molar tooth that it is.
Makes me wonder what screen size you use in Windows: every popup dialog will work fine in 640x480. KDE is NOT usable at that resolution (most dialogs are out of the screen and you can't even close them since the Esc key is not used to cancel operations).
Case in point, my wife's laptop died (from an overdose of spilled tea) while I was away in Antarctica. I sent her an email telling her how to convert our headless server into a basic user computer: add monitor, login as root, add user, install KDE and firefox (easy on Gentoo), login as user, configure Kmail, etc... Except that I had never fired X on it before and of course it was 'behaving' its usual self. She managed to get most stuff working... except increasing the useless 640x480 resolution !!!
check the people to whom you are shipping goods, to see if they are on a list of known terrorists If they know his name and address, why don't they go and arrest him ? And if he's too small-fishy to warrant an arrest, why can't the guy purchase his porn online like anybody else...?
I gave up C++ in 1995 and never looked back. I even wonder at what it is good for except messing with your brains in light of things like Python or Java. C is here to stay and I use it every day for low level stuff. But the C++ mess, yuck!
...re-write the punchline Then you'll get a kick out of those...
As for the Dilbert site... It's been part of my daily routine for a good 10 years, but now it's completely invisible with Firefox except for the top banner, and IE asks for lots of flash installs which I WILL NOT DO. kudos to those who posted RSS feeds.
I guess it refers to the length as the direction of propagation of the electron, and the width as to where the 'side' controls for the transistor are located. Yeah, I'm rusty in analog 'tronics, how can you tell ?
I don't know either flash or VMs in general, but in order for the attacker to return a fake value from a malloc call, shouldn't the attacker already have control to libc (in C) or to the internals of the VM in that case ? Meaning he already can do whatever he wants...
If I had a hunch as to what would change the future of space colonization, I'd say super-thin films grown in space. Imagine one surrounding a comet to keep the gasses in (a condition for the growth you mention to happen). Imagine one in heliosynchronous orbit between venus and the sun, lowering the amount of sunlight going into Venus, lowering its temperature and pressure, and thus hopefully making it easier to explore and colonize. Imagine one made in reflective material on the back side of Mars, almost doubling the mount of sunlight the planet gets... Imagine a film a few square km, with precise (hah!) position actuators, taking the shape of a parabola and acting as a lightweight giant telescope...
Some films have been deployed in space, but they were built on Earth and were rather thick. In weightlessness maybe it wouldn't be too hard (hah!) to grow a film only a few molecules thick... And you don't have the problem of folding / opening them.
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Missing option: "I hate fingerprints on my screen" !
Yeah, right, with the spammer putting your own phone number on the form and registering for the account at 3am... I don't think so.
As far as I know, the US is the only country where the SMS receiver pays up, which seems absurd to anybody else. Anyone cares to enlighten me as to the reason for that ?!?
Just look at the current situation in the US: the neocon start a war for the 'good' of 'merica and its net effect is that the US economy now belongs to China. Talk about being patriots !
Then it's pretty obvious that he was running faster than me !
I mean, the guy has great writing style and imagination. I just can't swallow the substance. Just call it fantasy and I won't have to next time.
Whoa, thanks, that's the best explanation why I always hated his whining that I've ever read. C;-)
Yes, and I also think it would be a good idea on a Public Relation standpoint: when a new version of Windows comes out, it makes the news. Now the news will also be able to say: 'a new version of Linux is out today' without need to specify if they are talking about the kernel, a specific distro, kde...
...and then a week later the competitor starts doing the same thing. Now what ? It's not like there's more than a handful of ADSL providers in any given area.
I wrote google with that exact same request something like a week after they unveiled 'image search' in, what, 2000 ? Fat good it did.
My main UI gripe is about the copy/paste. In windows, 9 time out of 10 you use copy/paste to _replace_ someting. So it works like this: select what you want to replace, alt-tab, search for the target (possibly doing other copy/pastes in the meanwhile), copy the target, alt-tab back to original window, ctrl-V. Done.
This is impossible with the classic X clipboard: when you return to your original window your original text is no longer selected and you have to paste at random and then try to remember what it was you wanted to remove. So annoying and there's no way you can change your behavior to make it work better: removing the original before going to seek the target is often not a convenient option.
Yes, I know most KDE apps support Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V operations, but they are still a far cry from working. The middle button copy/paste must be extracted from X like the painful infected molar tooth that it is.
Case in point, my wife's laptop died (from an overdose of spilled tea) while I was away in Antarctica. I sent her an email telling her how to convert our headless server into a basic user computer: add monitor, login as root, add user, install KDE and firefox (easy on Gentoo), login as user, configure Kmail, etc... Except that I had never fired X on it before and of course it was 'behaving' its usual self. She managed to get most stuff working... except increasing the useless 640x480 resolution !!!
It's called Mardis Gras and next year it falls on Feb 24th.
I gave up C++ in 1995 and never looked back. I even wonder at what it is good for except messing with your brains in light of things like Python or Java. C is here to stay and I use it every day for low level stuff. But the C++ mess, yuck!
...re-write the punchline Then you'll get a kick out of those...As for the Dilbert site... It's been part of my daily routine for a good 10 years, but now it's completely invisible with Firefox except for the top banner, and IE asks for lots of flash installs which I WILL NOT DO. kudos to those who posted RSS feeds.
Which is exactly why I could never stand the Macs: most of the time there is no keyboard shortcut for even the most basic actions.
I guess it refers to the length as the direction of propagation of the electron, and the width as to where the 'side' controls for the transistor are located. Yeah, I'm rusty in analog 'tronics, how can you tell ?
I don't know either flash or VMs in general, but in order for the attacker to return a fake value from a malloc call, shouldn't the attacker already have control to libc (in C) or to the internals of the VM in that case ? Meaning he already can do whatever he wants...
If I had a hunch as to what would change the future of space colonization, I'd say super-thin films grown in space. Imagine one surrounding a comet to keep the gasses in (a condition for the growth you mention to happen). Imagine one in heliosynchronous orbit between venus and the sun, lowering the amount of sunlight going into Venus, lowering its temperature and pressure, and thus hopefully making it easier to explore and colonize. Imagine one made in reflective material on the back side of Mars, almost doubling the mount of sunlight the planet gets... Imagine a film a few square km, with precise (hah!) position actuators, taking the shape of a parabola and acting as a lightweight giant telescope... Some films have been deployed in space, but they were built on Earth and were rather thick. In weightlessness maybe it wouldn't be too hard (hah!) to grow a film only a few molecules thick... And you don't have the problem of folding / opening them.