When was the last time you saw a 'pod with a user replaceable battery.
When I left for work this morning. My 1st gen iPod has an aftermarket battery in it. No, it wasn't Apple's intention to let me change it, but when it died a year after purchasing the device, I wasn't going to spend that kind of money getting it replaced because of Apple's poor design decision, so I cracked the case open and did it myself. That was about 7-8 years ago, and that aftermarket battery is still going strong, unlike the original Apple part.
Meh, you think it's bad at the airport? Just remember, a lot of those clueless families have been subjecting the locals to their driving habits, and the locals suck on the highways to begin with. Couple that with a local traffic management department that appears to be staffed by either chimpanzees or very small children, and that leads me to a sneaking suspicion that there aren't really that many accidents in the Orlando area - lots of people drive into concrete embankments on I-4 because they *want* to.
Often they do it just to stroke their own ego. Look at some of the edit war histories and tell me with a straight face that those people have any kind of higher purpose motivating them. I got into a brief edit war with someone a few months back that, despite all his protestations to the contrary, didn't know the first damn thing about what he was talking about, whereas I was a subject matter expert by any objective measure. The guy simply would not admit he was wrong, and after a couple of iterations I got tired of reverting his changes and just said "fuck it". It really was an object lesson in just how useless Wikipedia can be as a source of accurate information.
You can't make a big deal of a fight that doesn't exist. Yes, the RIAA has acted shamefully, but the vast majority of people that they've strong-armed over the years did in fact settle, so they're done - there's no fight for them to pursue. I'd agree that Jammie Thomas probably isn't the best defendant to be involved in this, but she fought back, unlike most of the others, and she's going to be getting a whole new trial, which is a *huge* deal and gives her new lawyer all kinds of legal options to explore.
So the computer should prevent the pilot from attempting to recover from mistakes? Perhaps recovery was as simple as pushing the button a second time, perhaps not. In any event, the pilot, by virtue of multiple senses and experience, will often have more information from which to draw conclusions and make decisions, and as such I tend to place a lot more faith in their ability.
Computers tend to be great at such things as micro-managing control surfaces over very short periods of time to keep an unstable aircraft pointed in a straight line through the sky. People tend to be better at seeing the larger picture, such as knowing that a temporary command that places stress on an aircraft in excess of what it's supposed to be able to handle is probably better than running into the radio tower directly in front of him.
Bud Holland wasn't suicidal - he was was merely an over-confident asshole that refused to listen to anyone, and as you mention this was far from the first time he'd flown dangerously. Also, it wasn't an inspection flight, but rather was a rehearsal for a demonstration flight at an airshow to be held shortly thereafter. It had become painfully obvious by this time that even though Holland's superiors knew he was a risk to himself and everyone that flew with him, nothing substantial would be done to curb his behavior.
A plane, not requiring roads and able to travel anywhere on the planet in a day is a several order of magnitude increase.
It's not even a single order of magnitude for most places. I can drive from Orlando to Los Angeles in about 35-40 hours. The same trip via aircraft is about 5 hours, and the difference becomes less as the distance between the two points decreases.
Obviously this doesn't apply to transoceanic travel.:-)
The thing is, the large telco/cablecos' VoIP offerings don't come anywhere close to being an equivalent service. I can't do nearly as much with TWC's VoIP service as I can with my current ala carte provider (Vitelity), and it costs many, many, many times more than what I pay now.
Even if society IS cast back into darkness, they'll still figure it out. After all, we saw in "Battlefield Earth" that men that had reverted back to a primitive state could *easily* be taught to skillfully fly aircraft, so how hard could this be?
There's no double talk here. Sounds like someone's just feeling a bit threatened by someone saying that the sun doesn't rise and set on Linux, and that the rest of the world couldn't give two shits which OS they use, as long as they can get done what they need to get done..
But it still comes back to the fact that most good MEs will know their limitations, and will hand their designs off to a competent machinist to implement. They *can* find their way around a machine shop reasonably well, but don't often get the opportunity.
Even my best friend, who is an outstanding ME that hand-made some of the optics that are on the Cassini probe, still will usually hand his designs off to a master machinist because he knows it'll get done right the first time, and more quickly than he can. He's more than competent in the machine shop, but he spends *far* more time working with Pro/E than he does with his hands.
Do not buy Windows products if you want to see them in Linux.
That's easy to say, but computers are a tool to be used as a means to an end, and that's how most people use them. If I'm a graphic professional, I'm not going to boycott Adobe just because Photoshop isn't available on Linux. There are some great OSS solutions out there, and there are thousands of programmers that bust their ass every day to write and improve them, but the fact of the matter is that all that effort doesn't matter when someone has a need, and there's not a Linux solution that meets that need but there is one for Windows. It doesn't help when the OSS community refuses to listen to them and attempts to tell them otherwise (i.e. "GIMP is just as good as Photoshop!"). Given that, really the best you can hope for is that the person will run their Windows software under WINE instead of just discarding Linux altogether and using Windows itself. Most people don't care about what operating system they use - they just want to get their work done.
Learn from the unions, buy software made for Linux native if you want more of it.
As long as the general viewpoint of the Linux community diametrically opposes that of the majority of commercial software vendors, you're not going to see any appreciable amount of native software for general sale. Most commercial software houses of any size are extremely loathe to release source for their products, and I'd bet that the majority of Linux users aren't going to be interested in purchasing a product that doesn't abide by their political views by including source code or otherwise abiding by the GPL. Not to mention the support headaches the software houses would have owing to the huge number of widely disparate distros out there ("is that config file in/etc/network/interfaces or/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts?").
Don't get me wrong - I have several Linux boxes here at home, one hosted in a data center several states away, and I work exclusively on Linux machines at my job. It's not that I don't like Linux. It's just that there's going to have to be a lot more that happens in the Linux world for it to get traction on the desktop, and thus to become more attractive for vendors regarding native implementations. Hopefully the recent licensing changes in Qt will grease the rails a bit.
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Of course, I'm also finding the engineers behind the Mars rovers really inspiring too.
My sister-in-law is one of those engineers. I find her interesting, but not particularly inspiring.
When was the last time you saw a 'pod with a user replaceable battery.
When I left for work this morning. My 1st gen iPod has an aftermarket battery in it. No, it wasn't Apple's intention to let me change it, but when it died a year after purchasing the device, I wasn't going to spend that kind of money getting it replaced because of Apple's poor design decision, so I cracked the case open and did it myself. That was about 7-8 years ago, and that aftermarket battery is still going strong, unlike the original Apple part.
See 15 USC 2302(c).
And put in a bigger flash card when needed.
And as a LogicMail user on my new Curve 8900, I'd like to say thanks for providing the IMAP client that RIM couldn't seem to do properly.
Meh, you think it's bad at the airport? Just remember, a lot of those clueless families have been subjecting the locals to their driving habits, and the locals suck on the highways to begin with. Couple that with a local traffic management department that appears to be staffed by either chimpanzees or very small children, and that leads me to a sneaking suspicion that there aren't really that many accidents in the Orlando area - lots of people drive into concrete embankments on I-4 because they *want* to.
If you really appreciate what I am doing, buy my CD legitimately so I can continue to compose music rather than work at K-Mart.
They're not mutually exclusive, y'know.
A civil case doesn't require a verdict to be unanimous, but the defendant is still considered innocent until found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
No, the standard in civil cases is "preponderance of the evidence", which essentially means "more likely than not".,
They do it for the love of wikipedia.
Often they do it just to stroke their own ego. Look at some of the edit war histories and tell me with a straight face that those people have any kind of higher purpose motivating them. I got into a brief edit war with someone a few months back that, despite all his protestations to the contrary, didn't know the first damn thing about what he was talking about, whereas I was a subject matter expert by any objective measure. The guy simply would not admit he was wrong, and after a couple of iterations I got tired of reverting his changes and just said "fuck it". It really was an object lesson in just how useless Wikipedia can be as a source of accurate information.
I wonder if one could start a campaign to vote the RIAA out of the state of California.
Probably not - they're based in New York.
You can't make a big deal of a fight that doesn't exist. Yes, the RIAA has acted shamefully, but the vast majority of people that they've strong-armed over the years did in fact settle, so they're done - there's no fight for them to pursue. I'd agree that Jammie Thomas probably isn't the best defendant to be involved in this, but she fought back, unlike most of the others, and she's going to be getting a whole new trial, which is a *huge* deal and gives her new lawyer all kinds of legal options to explore.
So the computer should prevent the pilot from attempting to recover from mistakes? Perhaps recovery was as simple as pushing the button a second time, perhaps not. In any event, the pilot, by virtue of multiple senses and experience, will often have more information from which to draw conclusions and make decisions, and as such I tend to place a lot more faith in their ability.
Computers tend to be great at such things as micro-managing control surfaces over very short periods of time to keep an unstable aircraft pointed in a straight line through the sky. People tend to be better at seeing the larger picture, such as knowing that a temporary command that places stress on an aircraft in excess of what it's supposed to be able to handle is probably better than running into the radio tower directly in front of him.
Bud Holland wasn't suicidal - he was was merely an over-confident asshole that refused to listen to anyone, and as you mention this was far from the first time he'd flown dangerously. Also, it wasn't an inspection flight, but rather was a rehearsal for a demonstration flight at an airshow to be held shortly thereafter. It had become painfully obvious by this time that even though Holland's superiors knew he was a risk to himself and everyone that flew with him, nothing substantial would be done to curb his behavior.
Gotta agree. Florida is where poor drivers from all over come to die, sometimes taking some of us locals with them.
Rule #1 is "Never make eye contact."
I thought that was the key to determining right-of-way. "You made eye contact with me, therefore *I* have the right-of-way."
A plane, not requiring roads and able to travel anywhere on the planet in a day is a several order of magnitude increase.
:-)
It's not even a single order of magnitude for most places. I can drive from Orlando to Los Angeles in about 35-40 hours. The same trip via aircraft is about 5 hours, and the difference becomes less as the distance between the two points decreases.
Obviously this doesn't apply to transoceanic travel.
And how does it feel now, that your master plan has finally come to fruition and you have karma to burn? You gotta admire a man with focus.
They're not eavesdropping. They're running a download/torrent client themselves, not intercepting traffic to someone else's.
The thing is, the large telco/cablecos' VoIP offerings don't come anywhere close to being an equivalent service. I can't do nearly as much with TWC's VoIP service as I can with my current ala carte provider (Vitelity), and it costs many, many, many times more than what I pay now.
Well, we're talking about DNS issues, not HTTP issues, so Tim Berners-Lee has jack-all to do with the discussion.
Even if society IS cast back into darkness, they'll still figure it out. After all, we saw in "Battlefield Earth" that men that had reverted back to a primitive state could *easily* be taught to skillfully fly aircraft, so how hard could this be?
There's no double talk here. Sounds like someone's just feeling a bit threatened by someone saying that the sun doesn't rise and set on Linux, and that the rest of the world couldn't give two shits which OS they use, as long as they can get done what they need to get done..
I'm a software developer, but I'm so good with my hands that I can put ANY machine back together and have parts left over.
But it still comes back to the fact that most good MEs will know their limitations, and will hand their designs off to a competent machinist to implement. They *can* find their way around a machine shop reasonably well, but don't often get the opportunity.
Even my best friend, who is an outstanding ME that hand-made some of the optics that are on the Cassini probe, still will usually hand his designs off to a master machinist because he knows it'll get done right the first time, and more quickly than he can. He's more than competent in the machine shop, but he spends *far* more time working with Pro/E than he does with his hands.
Do not buy Windows products if you want to see them in Linux.
/etc/network/interfaces or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts?").
That's easy to say, but computers are a tool to be used as a means to an end, and that's how most people use them. If I'm a graphic professional, I'm not going to boycott Adobe just because Photoshop isn't available on Linux. There are some great OSS solutions out there, and there are thousands of programmers that bust their ass every day to write and improve them, but the fact of the matter is that all that effort doesn't matter when someone has a need, and there's not a Linux solution that meets that need but there is one for Windows. It doesn't help when the OSS community refuses to listen to them and attempts to tell them otherwise (i.e. "GIMP is just as good as Photoshop!"). Given that, really the best you can hope for is that the person will run their Windows software under WINE instead of just discarding Linux altogether and using Windows itself. Most people don't care about what operating system they use - they just want to get their work done.
Learn from the unions, buy software made for Linux native if you want more of it.
As long as the general viewpoint of the Linux community diametrically opposes that of the majority of commercial software vendors, you're not going to see any appreciable amount of native software for general sale. Most commercial software houses of any size are extremely loathe to release source for their products, and I'd bet that the majority of Linux users aren't going to be interested in purchasing a product that doesn't abide by their political views by including source code or otherwise abiding by the GPL. Not to mention the support headaches the software houses would have owing to the huge number of widely disparate distros out there ("is that config file in
Don't get me wrong - I have several Linux boxes here at home, one hosted in a data center several states away, and I work exclusively on Linux machines at my job. It's not that I don't like Linux. It's just that there's going to have to be a lot more that happens in the Linux world for it to get traction on the desktop, and thus to become more attractive for vendors regarding native implementations. Hopefully the recent licensing changes in Qt will grease the rails a bit.