Seriously, put a robot in the hangar bay, it plugs in, then NETWORK OWNED! you can open any jail cell, tell exactly where the prisoner are, open any door and even control the elevators.
Ahem. Please try to remember that the story takes place "a long time ago." That was before SP2. Geez, you people with no sense of history slay me.
The younger generation did try to show up during the last presidential election. Thats why it was so close! Baby boomers all vote for those "carpet baggers" minus a few intelligent people.
The results in the last presidential election were not as close as the previous one.
I am a Baby Boomer.
I am a Republican.
I voted for Kerry as the better of two unappealing candidates.
I know quite a few of my peers who did the same.
Carpetbagger is one word.
The statement was about Congress where legislation is introduced and those related elections.
A bunch of hyper kids for Dean are not going to make a difference. The difference comes from the makeup of Congress, and the under-40 turnout for those elections is dismal.
I'm not that old. The word 'piracy' does not conjure up images in my brain of barbarians raping and murdering without remorse.
I guess I'm older because it does carry connotations of rape, pillage, and murder for me, and I'm the same generation as most of the legislators in the Congress. Guess which generation has many members with little computer knowledge but are making these misguided laws. It's not just age or familiarity either. The politicians are in the pocket of big business, and a bit of hyperbole from the privateers (MPAA, RIAA) makes for a good, self-righteous speech on Capitol Hill while pocketing the campaign contributions and sponsoring the legislation.
I keep trying to vote these glad-handing, carpetbaggers out. Where is the younger generation?
By "minor glitch" I mean "minor oversight", "minor piece of inaccurate data", etc, that causes a fault.
I fail to see the distinction. Anything that causes catastrophic failure, by definition, is not "minor". The failure to upgrade thermostatic switches on an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 was hardly a "minor oversight". The standards conversion fiasco on a previous Mars probe may have been a simple mistake, but it was in no way a "minor piece of inaccurate data" -- it was a major mistake. Pick a different adjective.
Sounds like the John Varley novel "Red Thunder", in which a magic power source removes any weight concerns WRT spaceflight payloads, and the first people on Mars are able to take along an actual hopped-up pickup truck to cruise around the dunes of mars.
Not having read it, did this pickup not have an ICE, or was the requisite oxygen magically supplied on Mars as well?
Step 2: Tell everyone that you've created a good product with an intended lifespan of 3 months
There is a real difference between the official, designed lifespan and the expected (or hoped for) lifespan. The widget is truly supposed to function for the official lifespan in order to fulfill the main mission objectives. If it doesn't, it fails the mission. After that time, the mission is a success, no matter how you look at it, and the secondary objectives, extra telemetry, whatever, are gravy as long as NASA is willing to fund the continuing mission operations.
We have satellites that are way (a decade or more) beyond their designed lifespan, and running out of fuel. It's a good thing they have lasted as long as they have, since certain administrations are more interested in diverting funds to proposed missions that generate headlines instead of missions that provide us with information we need daily about our own planet. Now, big business is asking for a law that will prevent government agencies from allowing the public to access weather data that the taxpaying public paid for because businesses could make more profit by reselling the data. Sometimes I wanna barf.
I haven't watched it, just a few samples here and there, as I do plan on going to see it saturday with my g/f and if I watch it before then, I dont "get any" for a long time.
Okay, that leaves me no choice but to ask. Does she have her hair done up in twin cinnamon buns?
It seems like you could a modern cinema, where there is no such thing as uncomfortable seats and a tall guy in front won't even touch your line of sight.
It seems like you could the missing word. Design? Build? Finance? Drive 500 miles to? Now, I'm going to lie awake all night wondering what it was.
True; if you watch it on your home computer, you won't be surrounded by people dressed as Imperial Storm troopers, Amidala, young lord Vader, etc. Uh, and this is a bad thing because... ?
At the very least, I would wait a few days so those people who camped out in line for a month (and in costume) are long gone from the theatre.
The idea of patents sounds nice in theory but does not work well in practice, especially for software patents.
Agreed, patents have no place in software, which is essentially patenting an algorithm or series of steps. Patents in their original form, as applied to actual things for a short period of time were fine. Say you were the inventor of the Wanker^Hl engine, which slowly beats itself to death but is truly unique. The patent is justified even if the engine is not very practical in real life. Giving patents for ideas like XOR'd cursors has no benefit for the public, who are supposed to be the real beneficiaries of patents.
Most driver cd/downloads have their drivers tucked in a directory some where. Especially true with driver updates you download from the manufacture's website. So yeah, you installed all that crap, you live with it. When i install an epson or an HP i just point add printer wizard at the driver dir. I have found very few peripherals to not have some kind of "manual install".
And just why should "drivers" install the annoyware in the first place? You attach a new peripheral in Windows, and it asks you for a driver, which the manufacturer has conveniently supplied. You insert the disc, click yes, and it's all over. Nobody asks you for permission to install all the crapware. On one hand, we have the Windows users saying Linux is too hard to install/update and Windows just works, while on the other hand saying Windows users have to be more savvy than Linux users to avoid the hidden junk. Geez, pick a story and stick with it.
Does this mean that all software that leaves information in the Windows Registry when it uninstalls (so it can check and see if it's been installed before the next time you install it) is now illegal? How about programs that update a DLL and then don't revert your system to the previous version when they uninstall? Is MS Office now illegal spyware (it also tracks you without telling you in hidden parts of its Word documents)?
So ordered. So ordered. So ordered. Take 'em outside and hang 'em. Hang 'em high.
You mean aside from the affinity for carburetor fires, of course. All drivers should always keep an extinguisher in the passenger seat and keep an eye on the rear view mirror for the telltale smoke trail. That's just a basic driving habit.
As everyone in civilized Europe knows, the British invented leaking.
I'll take your word for that, but we do know the Brits invented faulty auto electronics. Lucas electronics, the inventor of the 90-day rectifier. Ooh, a bunch of old, unhappy memories are coming back.
I keep waiting for Hoss to hop out of a space ship.
You can stop avoiding it. I hate to break the news, but Hoss died -- over 30 years ago. It was a reaction to the MSG that Hop Sing put in all the food.
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Obviously, The Cisco Network failed to defend itself.
The router code was stolen by Ewoks. (Why not? It's been stolen by everyone else.)
Seriously, put a robot in the hangar bay, it plugs in, then NETWORK OWNED! you can open any jail cell, tell exactly where the prisoner are, open any door and even control the elevators.
Ahem. Please try to remember that the story takes place "a long time ago." That was before SP2. Geez, you people with no sense of history slay me.
Dave? Dave's not here, man.
The younger generation did try to show up during the last presidential election. Thats why it was so close! Baby boomers all vote for those "carpet baggers" minus a few intelligent people.
The results in the last presidential election were not as close as the previous one.
- The statement was about Congress where legislation is introduced and those related elections.
A bunch of hyper kids for Dean are not going to make a difference. The difference comes from the makeup of Congress, and the under-40 turnout for those elections is dismal.I'm not that old. The word 'piracy' does not conjure up images in my brain of barbarians raping and murdering without remorse.
I guess I'm older because it does carry connotations of rape, pillage, and murder for me, and I'm the same generation as most of the legislators in the Congress. Guess which generation has many members with little computer knowledge but are making these misguided laws. It's not just age or familiarity either. The politicians are in the pocket of big business, and a bit of hyperbole from the privateers (MPAA, RIAA) makes for a good, self-righteous speech on Capitol Hill while pocketing the campaign contributions and sponsoring the legislation.
I keep trying to vote these glad-handing, carpetbaggers out. Where is the younger generation?
By "minor glitch" I mean "minor oversight", "minor piece of inaccurate data", etc, that causes a fault.
I fail to see the distinction. Anything that causes catastrophic failure, by definition, is not "minor". The failure to upgrade thermostatic switches on an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 was hardly a "minor oversight". The standards conversion fiasco on a previous Mars probe may have been a simple mistake, but it was in no way a "minor piece of inaccurate data" -- it was a major mistake. Pick a different adjective.
A single minor glitch on such a complex system in such environmental and stress extremes, and it's often all over.
A poor choice of words perhaps. If it's "all over," then it's a catastrophic failure, not a minor glitch. Witness the Beagle, and previous probes.
Hear, hear! Wait, this is Slashdot -- I mean here, here!
Sounds like the John Varley novel "Red Thunder", in which a magic power source removes any weight concerns WRT spaceflight payloads, and the first people on Mars are able to take along an actual hopped-up pickup truck to cruise around the dunes of mars.
Not having read it, did this pickup not have an ICE, or was the requisite oxygen magically supplied on Mars as well?
Step 2: Tell everyone that you've created a good product with an intended lifespan of 3 months
There is a real difference between the official, designed lifespan and the expected (or hoped for) lifespan. The widget is truly supposed to function for the official lifespan in order to fulfill the main mission objectives. If it doesn't, it fails the mission. After that time, the mission is a success, no matter how you look at it, and the secondary objectives, extra telemetry, whatever, are gravy as long as NASA is willing to fund the continuing mission operations.
We have satellites that are way (a decade or more) beyond their designed lifespan, and running out of fuel. It's a good thing they have lasted as long as they have, since certain administrations are more interested in diverting funds to proposed missions that generate headlines instead of missions that provide us with information we need daily about our own planet. Now, big business is asking for a law that will prevent government agencies from allowing the public to access weather data that the taxpaying public paid for because businesses could make more profit by reselling the data. Sometimes I wanna barf.
I haven't watched it, just a few samples here and there, as I do plan on going to see it saturday with my g/f and if I watch it before then, I dont "get any" for a long time.
Okay, that leaves me no choice but to ask. Does she have her hair done up in twin cinnamon buns?
It seems like you could a modern cinema, where there is no such thing as uncomfortable seats and a tall guy in front won't even touch your line of sight.
It seems like you could the missing word. Design? Build? Finance? Drive 500 miles to? Now, I'm going to lie awake all night wondering what it was.
True; if you watch it on your home computer, you won't be surrounded by people dressed as Imperial Storm troopers, Amidala, young lord Vader, etc. Uh, and this is a bad thing because... ?
At the very least, I would wait a few days so those people who camped out in line for a month (and in costume) are long gone from the theatre.
:) Dude, what're you doing in the archives? It's dank and moldy. Get out of there before you catch something.
The idea of patents sounds nice in theory but does not work well in practice, especially for software patents.
Agreed, patents have no place in software, which is essentially patenting an algorithm or series of steps. Patents in their original form, as applied to actual things for a short period of time were fine. Say you were the inventor of the Wanker^Hl engine, which slowly beats itself to death but is truly unique. The patent is justified even if the engine is not very practical in real life. Giving patents for ideas like XOR'd cursors has no benefit for the public, who are supposed to be the real beneficiaries of patents.
So, does your keen sense of humor get you invited to a lot of parties? :)
Most driver cd/downloads have their drivers tucked in a directory some where. Especially true with driver updates you download from the manufacture's website. So yeah, you installed all that crap, you live with it. When i install an epson or an HP i just point add printer wizard at the driver dir. I have found very few peripherals to not have some kind of "manual install".
And just why should "drivers" install the annoyware in the first place? You attach a new peripheral in Windows, and it asks you for a driver, which the manufacturer has conveniently supplied. You insert the disc, click yes, and it's all over. Nobody asks you for permission to install all the crapware. On one hand, we have the Windows users saying Linux is too hard to install/update and Windows just works, while on the other hand saying Windows users have to be more savvy than Linux users to avoid the hidden junk. Geez, pick a story and stick with it.
Does this mean that all software that leaves information in the Windows Registry when it uninstalls (so it can check and see if it's been installed before the next time you install it) is now illegal? How about programs that update a DLL and then don't revert your system to the previous version when they uninstall? Is MS Office now illegal spyware (it also tracks you without telling you in hidden parts of its Word documents)?
So ordered. So ordered. So ordered. Take 'em outside and hang 'em. Hang 'em high.
The Hon. Judge Roy Bean
Where are these kittens [mit.edu] from?
That is a great link. This one has got to be Bill the Cat^H^H^HKitten.
Washington state also outlawed killing sasquatch.
Wow. The first vegetable protected by law.
is still the world most reliable car
You mean aside from the affinity for carburetor fires, of course. All drivers should always keep an extinguisher in the passenger seat and keep an eye on the rear view mirror for the telltale smoke trail. That's just a basic driving habit.
As everyone in civilized Europe knows, the British invented leaking.
I'll take your word for that, but we do know the Brits invented faulty auto electronics. Lucas electronics, the inventor of the 90-day rectifier. Ooh, a bunch of old, unhappy memories are coming back.
There's an entire line of them called mass transit systems.
Hasn't worked too well for the Japanese recently.
Doesnt seem to bother people when they get on fly by wire planes.
Most people don't know (and probably don't want to know) how planes work. Besides, the alternative is a Stearman, which probably isn't any safer. :)
I keep waiting for Hoss to hop out of a space ship.
You can stop avoiding it. I hate to break the news, but Hoss died -- over 30 years ago. It was a reaction to the MSG that Hop Sing put in all the food.