Hope they have code to fix breakdowns..
Poor volkswagon.. a check of consumer reports and
the '04 Toureg gets a predicted reliability of Solid Black (poor for those who don't read CS). But good owner satisfaction (white circle).
A Ford Exploder comes out as good reliability (White circle) and fair owner satisfaction (dark half circle).
A Toyota 4 Runner on the other hand has Very good Reliabiity (red half circle) and excellent Owner Satisfaction (filled red circle)
My only beef with firefox is the inability to go to the download location after a download.
I have a peeve of not being able to launch or run the application from the folder it's installed to.
I don't download to my desktop but to folders on secondary partitions. It's annoying that after a download I must manually go to those location using the default firefox install.
This article is a crackup. Makes a couple of good jabs at us Yanks.. but he seems to think (do google for Airbus and you see lots of uncomfortable references to it being a white elephant) that this thing may not be all roses. White Elephant
Plainly this is idiotic. It would be much easier and cheaper to build them in France but politically this would be no good at all because the Airbus is intended to show how European co-operation can work. We do the wings and the engines, the French put everything together, the Germans finish everything off and the Spanish . . . actually, I don't know what the Spanish do, apart from gatecrash the launch party and lisp.
That is presuming you got past the check-in. I guess you have all experienced the ludicrous queues that build up now. Well, imagine how long they are going to be when there are half a dozen A380s scheduled to depart within 15 minutes of one another. With seating for 550 on each one that is 3,300 people to be interrogated, 3,300 suitcases to be loaded, 3,300 pieces of hand luggage to be x-rayed and 3,300 pairs of shoes to be examined.
Do you think that Virgin or Emirates will spend the money that they have saved on fuel by employing more check-in staff? I doubt it. As a result you will need to arrive at the terminal 3,300 hours before take-off. Then there is the flight itself to worry about.
Yes, at the moment, despite much plastic and carbon fibre in its construction, the A380 is four tons overweight, but when the 747 was rolled out in the 1960s that was 50 tons overweight. So let's not get too worried. They could save four tons by simply removing one American passenger.
Airbus made sure that its launch video featured on-board gyms and bars. There were big squidgy double beds and probably a polo lawn or two. But the reality is that airlines will fill the entire fuselage with seats they've nicked from a primary school to wedge the passengers in like veal.
In other words, being on board the A380 will be exactly the same as being on board any other jet liner.
This brings me to the final point. You see, the cruising speed of the A380 is Mach 0.85 (647mph), which is pretty good for something with the aerodynamic properties of a wheelie bin and engines that run on mineral water. But the 747 cruises at Mach 0.855 (651mph). This means that the 747 gets you there faster and means that you spend less time with your face wedged in an American's armpit.
On that basis you can marvel at how Airbus has jumped through political hoops and climbed technical mountains to bring the world its shareholder friendly A380. But you are better off going in a Boeing.
My guess would be Japan has one of the strictest immigration laws.
How many pockets of Japan are filled with ghettos of 3rd world immigrants?
How about the UK? France? US?
North Korea reminds me of an old british comedy about a fictional country that tried to invade US so that they too can get aid just like Japan and Germany. I think it's the Mouse that Roared or something like that.
I suspect the Bush policy on North Korea is different from Iraq becuase NK wants to blackmail the US into giving them unprecedented aid like Clinton did.
Another reason why the US isn't rushing to take care of NK is the geography. Look at North Korea geography and it's pretty isolated. To sell their nuke they're either gonna have to send it through China or ship it.
Look at Iraq and it is surrounded by countries or contains group hostile to the US. Iran, Syria, etc. etc.
I understand that their will be collateral damage but to the extent that people make it to be a massacre i am not so sure.
The people that should be shitting their bricks right now are the "Human Shields". They think they're gonna be able to go anywhere in Iraq they want (remember it's a totalitarian regime and not disneyland).
Saddams gonna place next to his Command & Control center or near military targets so they get killed and he can play the media game he's so good at.
If the war goes bad for the Iraqi they might treated as western whipping boys by the defeated Red Gaurd. If the war goes well then they might get beat by the liberated Iraqis. Either way I probably won't shed a tear...
All the liberals got cute and split the vote between gore and nader...
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Too bad.. i dislike bush, i dont think of him as a smart guy. but for some odd reason.. i am with him on taking out Saddam and his policy on the Middle East.
I don't understand how people can support a totalitarian regime that's expected to get billions of dollars a year that is hell bent on developing WMD.
Totalitarian regime by definition don't dissapear on there own. Look at Cuba, North Korea & Iran.
It's sad that as evil as everyone make US to be. The Middle east immigrants here don't want to be deported back home.
That kind of says something about the Middle east. In a perverse way I think Bush is gonna try to give Afganistan and possibly Iraq the same chance that we did to Japan and Germany.
Hell they are now our biggest trading partners and both countries have unprecedented conditions of living (if you ignore the current recession:)
It's up to the people we "regime change" to take that opportunity. Sadly it'll be some crazy mullah calling for his jihad that sets everyone in Afganistan and Iraq back to the dark ages. It's all part of Bush's faith based foreign policy.
Thank God for the US constitution and separation of church and state.
After SNL Celebrity Jeapardy, Keanu Reeves is damaged goods..
Alex Trebek: Why? Keanu Reeves has an impressive -$32,000.
Keanu Reeves: I know Kung Fu.
Alex Trebek: For the last time, no you don't.
And finally, Hilary Swank in a commanding lead with zero.
Connery, Reeves, Swank
Alex Trebek: Welcome back to Celebrity Jeopardy. I thought we were done with this, but Regis Philbin, that mongrel idiot, decided to do a Celebrity Millionaire, and network competition being what it is, I stand before you, a broken and miserable man. Let's take a look at the scores. Sean Connery has set a new Jeopardy record for futility with...
Sean Connery: Suck on it Trebek. Suck it long, and suck it hard.
Alex Trebek: That's beautiful. You kiss your mother with that mouth.
Sean Connery: No, but I did something to your mother with this mouth! [ points to mouth ]
Alex Trebek: Why? Keanu Reeves has an impressive -$32,000.
Keanu Reeves: I know Kung Fu.
Alex Trebek: For the last time, no you don't. And finally, Hilary Swank in a commanding lead with zero.
Hilary Swank: Did I win? Because there's some people I need to thank.
Alex Trebek: Let's just take a look at the board. And the categories are: "Potent Potables"; "Foreign Flicks"; "Things Trebek Sucks"-wait! [ Connery is laughing. ] All right. [ Trebek walks over and takes down the hand-written "Things Trebek Sucks" sign. ] Let's continue..."Potpourri"; "Hot or Cold"; "What Ears Do"; "Is This A Hat"-that's where I name and object, and you tell whether or not it's a hat. And finally, "Colors That End In Urple". Hilary Swank, you're in the lead, so we'll start with you.
Hilary Swank: I'm a girl you know.
Alex Trebek: [ shakes head ] Let's just go with Foreign Flicks for $800. [ Connery buzzes in. ]
Sean Connery: Ursula Andress.
Alex Trebek: What?
Sean Connery: Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice.
Alex Trebek: That's Foreign Flicks, Mr. Connery. Foreign Flicks. Mr. Reeves, why don't you pick?
Keanu Reeves: I shall take Balloons for $800, if you please.
Alex Trebek: That's not a category.
Keanu Reeves: My mistake. I shall choose Balloons for $600.
Alex Trebek: I tell you what, let's do Colors That End in Urple. For $800. This color ends in "urple". [ Swank buzzes in. ] Hilary Swank.
Hilary Swank: What is light urple?
Alex Trebek: [ shakes head ] Wow. [ Reeves buzzes in. ] Keanu Reeves.
Keanu Reeves: I will venture a guess. Who is Jaleel White?
Alex Trebek: What?
Keanu Reeves: Is that not the gentlemen who played Urple, the humorous fellow with the glasses who loves cheese?
Alex Trebek: That's Urkel! [ Connery buzzes in. ] Oh good, Mr. Connery wants to say something.
Sean Connery: I thought of some more foreign ladies I snogged.
Alex Trebek: Let's just go to Hot or Cold for $400. And it's a Video Daily Double. Here goes nothing. Please take a look at your video monitors. [ screen shows Ricky Martin and two dancers. They start dancing. ]
Ricky Martin: It's me! Come on, Ricky Martin! Come on! [ music starts ] Oh my! In this cup there's some hot tea! It's hot hot hot! Watch! [ takes a sip ] Yow! Hot hot hot! So the answer is: Hot hot hot! or cold. Hot hot hot! or cold. Come on! Hot hot hot! [ video fades ] [ no one buzzes in. ]
Alex Trebek: None of you knows. No one can figure out if the hot tea is hot or cold. [ Reeves buzzes in. ] Thank God! Keanu Reeves.
Keanu Reeves: Is it iced tea?
Alex Trebek: [ agitated ] No! It's hot tea!
Keanu Reeves: Well, then I have no idea.
Alex Trebek: Let's just go to Final Jeopardy. The category is...oh come on, why would they do this? The category is Famous Mothers.
Sean Connery: [ laughs ] My day has come! [ keeps laughing ]
Alex Trebek: [ rips card ] I'm not going to give you the satisfaction. [ Connery stops laughing. ] The new category is Anything. Write anything. [ music starts ] Just write. Use your arm, hand, and special pen, and move the pen around. Scribble if you want to, just make some kind of mark. [ music stops ] OK, let's get this over with. Sean Connery, you wrote down: Below. I don't know why you wrote that, but technically that's a correct answer. You did write something. Let's see what you wagered: Me. Below Me. [ Connery laughs ] Below Me...I don't get it.
Sean Connery: Oh, I'll bet you do, you Canadian ponch. [ slaps Trebek on the head. ]
Alex Trebek: Proud day for you and your family. Keanu Reeves, you look rather pleased. Let's see what you wrote down: [ a blank screen is revealed ] Nothing. The question was write anything, and you got it wrong. I'm speechless. Let's see what you wagered: Eleventy billion dollars. That's not even a real number.
Keanu Reeves: Yet.
Alex Trebek: That's simply amazing. And finally, Hilary Swank.
Hilary Swank: Thanks Alex. I'm so honored to have been here today, there's so many people I have to thank. [ camera shows a sobbing Chad Lowe in the audience. ] I couldn't have done it without Alex Trebek, the incredible cast and crew of Jeopardy, my publicist who is a beautiful human being...that's it.
Alex Trebek: Touching. That's all for Jeopardy; Regis, you can have them. Good night. [ Connery pushes Trebek as he walks by. ]
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NASA doesn't have to turn a profit.
/just saying
LIES
making anything open source does not equate to lots of volunteers.
Hope they have code to fix breakdowns.. Poor volkswagon.. a check of consumer reports and the '04 Toureg gets a predicted reliability of Solid Black (poor for those who don't read CS). But good owner satisfaction (white circle). A Ford Exploder comes out as good reliability (White circle) and fair owner satisfaction (dark half circle). A Toyota 4 Runner on the other hand has Very good Reliabiity (red half circle) and excellent Owner Satisfaction (filled red circle)
Does MS VC++ use the intel compilers?
How many applications are compiled using Intel compilers? What's the reach?
Unless a lot of applications are affected is this even a real story or something to knock down once again the market leader.
My only beef with firefox is the inability to go to the download location after a download.
I have a peeve of not being able to launch or run the application from the folder it's installed to.
I don't download to my desktop but to folders on secondary partitions. It's annoying that after a download I must manually go to those location using the default firefox install.
Lawyers
e7337 linux guru: OMG n000bs RTFM!!!!!1101010101
school admin: Um hello Bill? You want the first born or our soul.
web designers.. these the same people who use flash at every turn.
Are paid to place 'ads' creatively in YOUR FACE.
pfft..
pfft... he only had the whole day to compose it. /money says he's been hitting refresh on slashdot just ready to post.
Do as we always do.. we'll charge it.
Europe wants to sell their soul to the chinese; they want in on some of that Wal-Mart action.
/at the same time criticizing Wal-Mart
//business as usual (see Iraq, Iran, other axis's of evil)
glorification of violence, or offence against the law for the protection of the youth.
I don't know where you live but here we call it the local news sometimes it's the Fox Channel.
Successful company? Slashdot? Does this make Dell evil?
White Elephant
Do you think that Virgin or Emirates will spend the money that they have saved on fuel by employing more check-in staff? I doubt it. As a result you will need to arrive at the terminal 3,300 hours before take-off. Then there is the flight itself to worry about.
In other words, being on board the A380 will be exactly the same as being on board any other jet liner.
On that basis you can marvel at how Airbus has jumped through political hoops and climbed technical mountains to bring the world its shareholder friendly A380. But you are better off going in a Boeing.
How does more expensive tickets translate to higher operating cost?
Seems like the opposite, it'd make airlines more profitable.
Weird if you think abou it.
/Does this make Airbus evil?
Airbus is taking the Hummer route and making the SUV's of airplanes, it can't land at most airports w/o million dollar renovations.
Boeing is taking the Toyota route and making the Prius of airplanes, longer range (?and better fuel economy?).
You get what you vote for er dont' vote for.
If you've never voted then STFU.
My guess would be Japan has one of the strictest immigration laws. How many pockets of Japan are filled with ghettos of 3rd world immigrants? How about the UK? France? US?
Anyone who buys drugs from the 'net especially from groups like this deserve whatever they get from ingesting those products.
The F5 is still used in training as in the picture note it has Russian colors.
Pre F-15 and F-16 US military planes tended to be very fast but not very agile (ie F4, F14) like the Russian migs.
My guess is the F5 has similar characteristics to the Mig-21's.
You live near an airport and it's too loud?????
no shit sherlock.
What's next. Living next to the dump is bad cuz it stinks?
They didn't play with weapons... they went to church.. remember.
North Korea reminds me of an old british comedy about a fictional country that tried to invade US so that they too can get aid just like Japan and Germany. I think it's the Mouse that Roared or something like that.
I suspect the Bush policy on North Korea is different from Iraq becuase NK wants to blackmail the US into giving them unprecedented aid like Clinton did.
Another reason why the US isn't rushing to take care of NK is the geography. Look at North Korea geography and it's pretty isolated. To sell their nuke they're either gonna have to send it through China or ship it.
Look at Iraq and it is surrounded by countries or contains group hostile to the US. Iran, Syria, etc. etc.
I understand that their will be collateral damage but to the extent that people make it to be a massacre i am not so sure.
The people that should be shitting their bricks right now are the "Human Shields". They think they're gonna be able to go anywhere in Iraq they want (remember it's a totalitarian regime and not disneyland).
Saddams gonna place next to his Command & Control center or near military targets so they get killed and he can play the media game he's so good at.
If the war goes bad for the Iraqi they might treated as western whipping boys by the defeated Red Gaurd. If the war goes well then they might get beat by the liberated Iraqis. Either way I probably won't shed a tear...
All the liberals got cute and split the vote between gore and nader... BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Too bad.. i dislike bush, i dont think of him as a smart guy. but for some odd reason.. i am with him on taking out Saddam and his policy on the Middle East. I don't understand how people can support a totalitarian regime that's expected to get billions of dollars a year that is hell bent on developing WMD. Totalitarian regime by definition don't dissapear on there own. Look at Cuba, North Korea & Iran. It's sad that as evil as everyone make US to be. The Middle east immigrants here don't want to be deported back home. That kind of says something about the Middle east. In a perverse way I think Bush is gonna try to give Afganistan and possibly Iraq the same chance that we did to Japan and Germany. Hell they are now our biggest trading partners and both countries have unprecedented conditions of living (if you ignore the current recession :)
It's up to the people we "regime change" to take that opportunity. Sadly it'll be some crazy mullah calling for his jihad that sets everyone in Afganistan and Iraq back to the dark ages. It's all part of Bush's faith based foreign policy.
Thank God for the US constitution and separation of church and state.
Keanu Reeves: I know Kung Fu.
Alex Trebek: For the last time, no you don't.
And finally, Hilary Swank in a commanding lead with zero.
Connery, Reeves, Swank
Alex Trebek: Welcome back to Celebrity Jeopardy. I thought we were done with this, but Regis Philbin, that mongrel idiot, decided to do a Celebrity Millionaire, and network competition being what it is, I stand before you, a broken and miserable man. Let's take a look at the scores. Sean Connery has set a new Jeopardy record for futility with...
Sean Connery: Suck on it Trebek. Suck it long, and suck it hard.
Alex Trebek: That's beautiful. You kiss your mother with that mouth.
Sean Connery: No, but I did something to your mother with this mouth! [ points to mouth ]
Alex Trebek: Why? Keanu Reeves has an impressive -$32,000.
Keanu Reeves: I know Kung Fu.
Alex Trebek: For the last time, no you don't. And finally, Hilary Swank in a commanding lead with zero.
Hilary Swank: Did I win? Because there's some people I need to thank.
Alex Trebek: Let's just take a look at the board. And the categories are: "Potent Potables"; "Foreign Flicks"; "Things Trebek Sucks"-wait! [ Connery is laughing. ] All right. [ Trebek walks over and takes down the hand-written "Things Trebek Sucks" sign. ] Let's continue..."Potpourri"; "Hot or Cold"; "What Ears Do"; "Is This A Hat"-that's where I name and object, and you tell whether or not it's a hat. And finally, "Colors That End In Urple". Hilary Swank, you're in the lead, so we'll start with you.
Hilary Swank: I'm a girl you know.
Alex Trebek: [ shakes head ] Let's just go with Foreign Flicks for $800. [ Connery buzzes in. ]
Sean Connery: Ursula Andress.
Alex Trebek: What?
Sean Connery: Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice.
Alex Trebek: That's Foreign Flicks, Mr. Connery. Foreign Flicks. Mr. Reeves, why don't you pick?
Keanu Reeves: I shall take Balloons for $800, if you please.
Alex Trebek: That's not a category.
Keanu Reeves: My mistake. I shall choose Balloons for $600.
Alex Trebek: I tell you what, let's do Colors That End in Urple. For $800. This color ends in "urple". [ Swank buzzes in. ] Hilary Swank.
Hilary Swank: What is light urple?
Alex Trebek: [ shakes head ] Wow. [ Reeves buzzes in. ] Keanu Reeves.
Keanu Reeves: I will venture a guess. Who is Jaleel White?
Alex Trebek: What?
Keanu Reeves: Is that not the gentlemen who played Urple, the humorous fellow with the glasses who loves cheese?
Alex Trebek: That's Urkel! [ Connery buzzes in. ] Oh good, Mr. Connery wants to say something.
Sean Connery: I thought of some more foreign ladies I snogged.
Alex Trebek: Let's just go to Hot or Cold for $400. And it's a Video Daily Double. Here goes nothing. Please take a look at your video monitors. [ screen shows Ricky Martin and two dancers. They start dancing. ]
Ricky Martin: It's me! Come on, Ricky Martin! Come on! [ music starts ] Oh my! In this cup there's some hot tea! It's hot hot hot! Watch! [ takes a sip ] Yow! Hot hot hot! So the answer is: Hot hot hot! or cold. Hot hot hot! or cold. Come on! Hot hot hot! [ video fades ] [ no one buzzes in. ]
Alex Trebek: None of you knows. No one can figure out if the hot tea is hot or cold. [ Reeves buzzes in. ] Thank God! Keanu Reeves.
Keanu Reeves: Is it iced tea?
Alex Trebek: [ agitated ] No! It's hot tea!
Keanu Reeves: Well, then I have no idea.
Alex Trebek: Let's just go to Final Jeopardy. The category is...oh come on, why would they do this? The category is Famous Mothers.
Sean Connery: [ laughs ] My day has come! [ keeps laughing ]
Alex Trebek: [ rips card ] I'm not going to give you the satisfaction. [ Connery stops laughing. ] The new category is Anything. Write anything. [ music starts ] Just write. Use your arm, hand, and special pen, and move the pen around. Scribble if you want to, just make some kind of mark. [ music stops ] OK, let's get this over with. Sean Connery, you wrote down: Below. I don't know why you wrote that, but technically that's a correct answer. You did write something. Let's see what you wagered: Me. Below Me. [ Connery laughs ] Below Me...I don't get it.
Sean Connery: Oh, I'll bet you do, you Canadian ponch. [ slaps Trebek on the head. ]
Alex Trebek: Proud day for you and your family. Keanu Reeves, you look rather pleased. Let's see what you wrote down: [ a blank screen is revealed ] Nothing. The question was write anything, and you got it wrong. I'm speechless. Let's see what you wagered: Eleventy billion dollars. That's not even a real number.
Keanu Reeves: Yet.
Alex Trebek: That's simply amazing. And finally, Hilary Swank.
Hilary Swank: Thanks Alex. I'm so honored to have been here today, there's so many people I have to thank. [ camera shows a sobbing Chad Lowe in the audience. ] I couldn't have done it without Alex Trebek, the incredible cast and crew of Jeopardy, my publicist who is a beautiful human being...that's it.
Alex Trebek: Touching. That's all for Jeopardy; Regis, you can have them. Good night. [ Connery pushes Trebek as he walks by. ]