I happen to know somebody who was in Irak as a soldier and he told me that it isn't just that these are scared kids or that it's a mistake of the Italians.
In Irak there are actually a lot of insurgents who set up roadblocks. They do this to rob cars and kill or kidnap passengers. Sure, there is a chance that you get shot by the soldiers if you race through the roadblock, but the chance that you stop and get shot is about as high if it are not soldiers but insurgents. And in the latter case it might not even matter if you stop or not, they might shoot at you anyway.
In one of the many mobile comunications journals I get I get spammed with I read that one of the largest problems with inflight GSM trafic was not the interference - which is a semi serious problem - but the fear that Airlines would have to face litigation if they travel over multiple GSM masts at high speeds with many passengers with GSMs trying to connect to each of the masts. As with wifi, GSM to AP communication can take some time, this is even more problematic if you take into account that the telco may be providing for partnered out of state/country telcos. Traveling at over 1000km/h causes some disruption to normal service to not just the airborne customer, but to the ground based customers too. This searching/connecting is also the main cause of disruption to the inflight systems.
I won't ask the obvious question about what your reason was for such and such. What I would like to know is how you experience the type of H2G2 fan reaction you have probably seen on places such as slashdot? Do you have sympathy for the fans who rant about your creation or do you write them of as rabid fans who don't understand the problems you experienced while making the film?
Personally I'm reserving judgement until I've seen it, but was upset that some things might not live up the the H2G2-verse as I know it.
I remember this one from the "The BOFH interpretation skills test":
7. You're reading a trade mag which tells you that a certain popular operating system of the 80s is making a comeback. In plain terms this means: A. Serious development has produced results at OS/2 central B. Serious money has produced results at VMS central C. Guru Meditation has produced results at Amiga central D. Alcohol has produced results at the editorial office
April Fools I forgive you for changing the text, it was actually:
Webcomic Little Gamers violates MPAA copyright
It seems that the wesite for the webcomic Little Gamers has been shut down by the MPAA because it "... facilitates the illegal downloading of copyrighted motion pictures via so called 'Torrents'." It has the smell of a practical joke, it being April fools and all.
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I've seen a number of sacrifices to the strawman.
My RSS reader is showing the comment box, for me to type something in. This is bizarre.
Not very bizarre /. has two feeds, one with comments and one without.
... that Mark Zuckerberg was a thief and a backstabber must have been living under a rock for the last couple of years.
Slightly before UT there was Stellar Crisis, 1993. I myself ran the game in 1999.
Sort them as they should be sorted, in a mindmap.
Why? Doesn't that take all the fun out of starting a new job? Then again I am like a child always testing other people's boundries.
Retard-Prod(tm), you say it like it's a bad thing. Get them back to work!!! ;)
This has already appeared on slashdot, somebody actually tried to solve this conundrum.
For those who hadn't seen it
The original
Faster than light speed isn't possible.
I know, I'm a bastard.
I happen to know somebody who was in Irak as a soldier and he told me that it isn't just that these are scared kids or that it's a mistake of the Italians.
In Irak there are actually a lot of insurgents who set up roadblocks. They do this to rob cars and kill or kidnap passengers. Sure, there is a chance that you get shot by the soldiers if you race through the roadblock, but the chance that you stop and get shot is about as high if it are not soldiers but insurgents. And in the latter case it might not even matter if you stop or not, they might shoot at you anyway.
Whoever modded this done is a little weird, this was a valid comment.
I do hope they removed the asserts.
I know, as I wrote a linux implementation and send it to the guy who wrote the CPU affinity code for the linux kernel.
In one of the many mobile comunications journals I get I get spammed with I read that one of the largest problems with inflight GSM trafic was not the interference - which is a semi serious problem - but the fear that Airlines would have to face litigation if they travel over multiple GSM masts at high speeds with many passengers with GSMs trying to connect to each of the masts.
As with wifi, GSM to AP communication can take some time, this is even more problematic if you take into account that the telco may be providing for partnered out of state/country telcos.
Traveling at over 1000km/h causes some disruption to normal service to not just the airborne customer, but to the ground based customers too. This searching/connecting is also the main cause of disruption to the inflight systems.
It's actually quite sad that I knew exactly what he meant to... Must be hanging out in #teens too much. ;)
It's so old that they had it when Yahoo! was still funding Google and Google was starting to do the Yahoo!! backend. It still works in Yahoo! btw.
I won't ask the obvious question about what your reason was for such and such. What I would like to know is how you experience the type of H2G2 fan reaction you have probably seen on places such as slashdot? Do you have sympathy for the fans who rant about your creation or do you write them of as rabid fans who don't understand the problems you experienced while making the film?
Personally I'm reserving judgement until I've seen it, but was upset that some things might not live up the the H2G2-verse as I know it.
Absolutely, I have the Sony baby vaio (PCG-C1XD) and use that to read e-books. An advantage is that with a wifi card I can also browse webpages.
I don't think they sell this model anymore, but I've seen a number of other good ones.
I know this is offtopic, well heregoes my Karma but...
The joke is in the title.
April Fools I forgive you for changing the text, it was actually:
Webcomic Little Gamers violates MPAA copyright
It seems that the wesite for the webcomic Little Gamers has been shut down by the MPAA because it "... facilitates the illegal downloading of copyrighted motion pictures via so called 'Torrents'." It has the smell of a practical joke, it being April fools and all.
Oh, first post!!!