True enough, but at the same time I can't avoid paying those except by dropping out. So between the choices "go here and not download it" and "go here and download it" there is no difference in cost, so I think I'm justified in calling it free.
The same way the president submits a budget to Congress even though money bills have to start in the House. (Or something like that. I'm really tired and my Constitution-fu is weak now.)
Funny how often the US gets to bear the brunt of development costs while the rest of the world gets deep discounts
I can download, free of charge, any of the following products: MapPoint 2004 OneNote 2003 Project 2002 and 2003 Virtual PC 2004 Vision 2002 and 2003 Visual Studio 6,.NET 2003, and.NET 2005 (and the MSDN library) Windows Vista Business, XP Professional, and Server 2003 Enterprise
For free, legally. Other university departments have SQL Server, Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise, Access 2007, and others.
It's not just other countries getting the discounts. The *student* part is much more important.
Unless you're doing accounting or something, who needs word, powerpoint or excel?
Excel is fine for making graphs. There are other tools, but spreadsheets are the easiest to use, give you interactivity, etc.
LaTeX doesn't do spreadsheets, but it makes powerpoint look oh-so 1995.
LaTeX won't do animations (judiciously used, they CAN rather enhance a presentation even if 95% of the time IRL it's completely gratuitous), and it takes longer to make presentations look *good*. Don't get me wrong; I used LaTeX+Beamer for my last big presentation, and it looks pretty good because of it, but it took quite some time to do.
It works okay. It's at least 5 years out of date; the track changes feature in Word 2002 is vastly superior to OO.org's, and it's very possible that even earlier versions were the same. There is an open enhancement request for OO.org to support one of the main differences if you want to vote for it.
(Actually the issue is the ability to display comments in a Word-like manner. This is essentially a prerequisite to the improved track changes handling, because deleted text "should" be displayed in a similar manner. Currently OO.org strikes out deleted text, which both is busier to the eye and totally messes with line, paragraph, and page breaks.)
You can safely assume that the aircraft will be flown to the nearest convenient runway from a list of appropriate ones pre-stored on the aircraft itself!
Yes, after all, it being a fully-automated system is the impression I got out of this part of TFA:
After it has been activated, the aircraft will be capable of remote digital control from the ground, enabling operators to fly it like a sophisticated model plane, manoeuvring it vertically and laterally. Didn't Slashdot used to be mostly nerds, who understand that computers (and things containing computers, like nav systems) have advanced beyond what we had in the 1950's?
Didn't Slashdot used to be mostly literate people, who would actually read the articles before commenting?...nah.
Okay, I misspoke (typed?) a bit. What I was thinking was that all you have to do other than be able to hack the remote control system is have someone be able to reach the flight deck door.
The reason I was thinking this was because the thread started out by someone saying that cracking the remote system would let you take over all planes, and someone replied by saying that the pilot needs to flip a switch for the remote system to be active. However, considering that pounding on the door a bit is all you need to do to active it, this bit seems comparatively easy compared to hacking the system.
I should have been more accurate with what I said.
(BTW, is there something that causes people who are probably perfectly rational in real life to become assholes on the internet?)
And it's not anything new. My undergrad institution when I entered (and only for a couple weeks after I entered) had a deal with MS where students could get many MS products, including Office 2002 Pro, VS.Net (2002 at the time), Windows XP, Frontpage, and others for *free*. They still have something similar, but more restrictive, in the form of the MSDNAA (Academic Alliance) where you can get some of their stuff for free. The selection doesn't include Office and it's restricted to CS-related departments, unlike the previous deal. Just recently I've installed VS 2005, Windows XP (I may have needed another license for a virtual machine), and Windows Server 2003 (also into a VM) from MSDNAA.
Even if you're not eligible for this because you're not at a participating university or in the wrong department, as others have said, there are heavy discounts available.
There's another instance of the "lack of music effect" in Jaws. (A spoiler follows, but really, if you haven't seen the movie yet, do you care?) Every appearance of the shark is preceded by the buh-buh-buh-buh of the Jaws theme -- except one. When Quint, Brody, and Hooper are out on the boat, fairly early on in that segment, just after Brody says "come down and chum some of this shit" the shark head pops up. (This is right before the "you're gonna need a bigger boat" line.) There is no music at all until the shark's head is already visible.
I'm convinced that the music (or lack thereof) is the reason that moment scared the bejeezus out of me the first couple times I saw the movie.
You do realize that that actually happens, right?
But on Apollo the urine then would go outside, and you'd have to heat the nozzle because, of course, it instantly flashes into ice crystals. And, in fact, I told Stewart this, the most beautiful sight in orbit, or one of the most beautiful sights, is a urine dump at sunset, because as the stuff comes out and as it hits the exit nozzle it instantly flashes into ten million little ice crystals which go out almost in a hemisphere, because, you know, you're exiting into essentially a perfect vacuum, and so the stuff goes in every direction, and all radially out from the spacecraft at relatively high velocity. It's surprising, and it's an incredible stream of . . . just a spray of sparklers almost. It's really a spectacular sight. At any rate that's the urine system on Apollo. "Rusty Schweikart, Apollo 9 astronaut"
It most definitely is not. If you had a wormhole that allowed you to travel 1 lightyear in only 1 second, that doesn't mean you traveled faster than light. It means that the distance you traveled was much less than 1 lightyear.
But that's not how a lot of scifi that has people traveling lightyears do it. Reference Warp speed from Star Trek, or hyperspace from Star Wars. At least the former definitely isn't wormholes. (In fact, the Federation has demonstrated inability to control wormholes.)
Slashdot Mirror
True enough, but at the same time I can't avoid paying those except by dropping out. So between the choices "go here and not download it" and "go here and download it" there is no difference in cost, so I think I'm justified in calling it free.
n/t
The same way the president submits a budget to Congress even though money bills have to start in the House. (Or something like that. I'm really tired and my Constitution-fu is weak now.)
It had already been paid for, and generated profit, upon initial broadcast.
Really? Do you have any data to back that up?
This deal ended at the very beginning of my freshman year of undergrad, but I got Office 2002, VS .NET 2002, Frontpage, and Windows XP for free.
MS being "generous" to college kids isn't a new thing. They try to hook us young.
Funny how often the US gets to bear the brunt of development costs while the rest of the world gets deep discounts
.NET 2003, and .NET 2005 (and the MSDN library)
I can download, free of charge, any of the following products:
MapPoint 2004
OneNote 2003
Project 2002 and 2003
Virtual PC 2004
Vision 2002 and 2003
Visual Studio 6,
Windows Vista Business, XP Professional, and Server 2003 Enterprise
For free, legally. Other university departments have SQL Server, Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise, Access 2007, and others.
It's not just other countries getting the discounts. The *student* part is much more important.
Unless you're doing accounting or something, who needs word, powerpoint or excel?
Excel is fine for making graphs. There are other tools, but spreadsheets are the easiest to use, give you interactivity, etc.
LaTeX doesn't do spreadsheets, but it makes powerpoint look oh-so 1995.
LaTeX won't do animations (judiciously used, they CAN rather enhance a presentation even if 95% of the time IRL it's completely gratuitous), and it takes longer to make presentations look *good*. Don't get me wrong; I used LaTeX+Beamer for my last big presentation, and it looks pretty good because of it, but it took quite some time to do.
so its gotsa to beee good
Jar-Jar?!
It works okay. It's at least 5 years out of date; the track changes feature in Word 2002 is vastly superior to OO.org's, and it's very possible that even earlier versions were the same. There is an open enhancement request for OO.org to support one of the main differences if you want to vote for it.
(Actually the issue is the ability to display comments in a Word-like manner. This is essentially a prerequisite to the improved track changes handling, because deleted text "should" be displayed in a similar manner. Currently OO.org strikes out deleted text, which both is busier to the eye and totally messes with line, paragraph, and page breaks.)
It's probably been a standard since (Was it John Glen?) wet himself after an 8-hour hold.
If The Right Stuff is accurate, it was Shepard.
After all, he was only going up for a few minutes. Surely he could hold it until he got back.
(Okay, this is disturbing. This is the second, unrelated post I've made about space and urine in the last day...)
I laughed. It's very wrong, and the troll mod is probably not undeserved, but I laughed.
Yes, after all, it being a fully-automated system is the impression I got out of this part of TFA: After it has been activated, the aircraft will be capable of remote digital control from the ground, enabling operators to fly it like a sophisticated model plane, manoeuvring it vertically and laterally. Didn't Slashdot used to be mostly nerds, who understand that computers (and things containing computers, like nav systems) have advanced beyond what we had in the 1950's?
Didn't Slashdot used to be mostly literate people, who would actually read the articles before commenting?
Okay, I misspoke (typed?) a bit. What I was thinking was that all you have to do other than be able to hack the remote control system is have someone be able to reach the flight deck door.
The reason I was thinking this was because the thread started out by someone saying that cracking the remote system would let you take over all planes, and someone replied by saying that the pilot needs to flip a switch for the remote system to be active. However, considering that pounding on the door a bit is all you need to do to active it, this bit seems comparatively easy compared to hacking the system.
I should have been more accurate with what I said.
(BTW, is there something that causes people who are probably perfectly rational in real life to become assholes on the internet?)
There are news sources other than Slashdot?!
Or someone runs into the door really hard. So now all you have to do to take over a plane is get to the flight deck door.
It's a drug-dealer-style "the first hit is free."
.Net (2002 at the time), Windows XP, Frontpage, and others for *free*. They still have something similar, but more restrictive, in the form of the MSDNAA (Academic Alliance) where you can get some of their stuff for free. The selection doesn't include Office and it's restricted to CS-related departments, unlike the previous deal. Just recently I've installed VS 2005, Windows XP (I may have needed another license for a virtual machine), and Windows Server 2003 (also into a VM) from MSDNAA.
And it's not anything new. My undergrad institution when I entered (and only for a couple weeks after I entered) had a deal with MS where students could get many MS products, including Office 2002 Pro, VS
Even if you're not eligible for this because you're not at a participating university or in the wrong department, as others have said, there are heavy discounts available.
Ummmm, that was a reference to House.
;-)
You can take offense at them if you'd like.
There's another instance of the "lack of music effect" in Jaws. (A spoiler follows, but really, if you haven't seen the movie yet, do you care?) Every appearance of the shark is preceded by the buh-buh-buh-buh of the Jaws theme -- except one. When Quint, Brody, and Hooper are out on the boat, fairly early on in that segment, just after Brody says "come down and chum some of this shit" the shark head pops up. (This is right before the "you're gonna need a bigger boat" line.) There is no music at all until the shark's head is already visible.
I'm convinced that the music (or lack thereof) is the reason that moment scared the bejeezus out of me the first couple times I saw the movie.
This is also why you don't shoot a cadaver then put the body into the MRI.
/. thinking they might do that.
You know, in case there are any doctors on
I can't speak to the no vapor, but craft that make urine dumps in space produce, well, urine crystals. One source.
So when a forensics person fires a gun into water to get rifling marks, are they firing subsonic?
(Honest question; I don't know much about guns.)
It most definitely is not. If you had a wormhole that allowed you to travel 1 lightyear in only 1 second, that doesn't mean you traveled faster than light. It means that the distance you traveled was much less than 1 lightyear.
But that's not how a lot of scifi that has people traveling lightyears do it. Reference Warp speed from Star Trek, or hyperspace from Star Wars. At least the former definitely isn't wormholes. (In fact, the Federation has demonstrated inability to control wormholes.)
in which case we can have a semantic argument over whether the bomb is being dropped or fired
I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to argue unless you pay.
You beat me to the punch though...