It was dark, you were driving with your headlight on the highway. As you turn the corner a small kid is out on the street chasing after her ball. You slam the breaks, but you still hit her.
In which case you were driving such that your stopping distance exceeded the distance that you could see to be clear, either round the corner or beyond the reach of your headlights, so you were going too fast.
Despite the fact that people get away with flying round blind corners assuming the other side is clear all the time, you are definitely liable on the occasion that it isn't.
From BG blog one can conclude that the author belongs to the category of people unclear about the difference between a quantity of energy and a rate of energy production.
If you're reading the same bit I am, are you sure?
...will handle waste from 100,000 people, producing up to 86,000 liters of potable water a day and a net 250 kw of electricity.
The "waste from 100,000 people" is a rate of input, and "86,000 liters a day" and "250kw of electricity" are rates of output. This is entirely consistent and correct.
Screen itself supports multiple regions, so you don't need anything else. I find this absolutely priceless; run a program in the top region of your terminal, while tail-ing logfiles in the others...
I'd like to see your airplanes vs. an AEGIS cruiser.
Erm. Planes launch missiles outside the range of the cruiser; planes go home; cruiser is left to take down every single incoming. Aegis is good, but it's not invincible, and the planes can always come back tomorrow.
Now imagine running a store. Are you sure you want to charge your customers only for items with intact RFIDs?
My local supermarket (Safeway, in the UK) lets you walk round with a barcode reader yourself, then pay at the end without having to get everything scanned. The idea is that there's always the chance of having everything scanned anyway, depending on how "trustworthy" the system considers you to be. When you first start you'll get scanned most of the time, but after you get checked a few times and aren't found to be sneaking anything through it becomes less often.
I'd imagine this could work in a similar way. You never know whether your trolley full of dead tags is going to get checked anyway. If you're always trying to sneak stuff out you'll see almost no advantage; if you're honest you'll be half way home by the time you would have got through the checkout.
If you can count me as a normal person just for one moment (I know, sorry) I avoided Netscape and Mozilla for years because out of the box it was just so damn ugly! Huge great dark grey buttons, not a shiny icon to be seen... hideous it was.
Then someone showed me the Pinball theme... and I'm hooked...:)
The only times in the last few years I've had to write anything more than notes on a piece of paper has been exams... pretty much every other lengthy work has been typed.
I do find you lose the ability to write as fast or neat without practice, and that just makes you type more. My hands ache something chronic after three hours of writing in an exam, but I could type all day...
I think that bluetooth would be more valuable than a flashlight, or the thermometer.
Indeed... a thermometer especially is going to be pretty damn useless if you carry the phone on you, where it's going to be warmer. Surprise surprise, my coat pocket is warmer than the air outside! Who'd have thunk it.
You just can't imagine someone making a fast getaway on one of these. Even sillier, however, is the threat faced by people who use unicycles as transport... if anyone tried to nick one of those you'd find it abandoned a few metres away after they gave up in disgust.
Did they look behind the bins round the corner after the thief realised he just didn't want the damn segway anyway?
Great for entering URLs you've visited before or text messaging, but suh-ucks in word processing. Thanks, I can write a sentence (or in this case, 1 word) for myself.
I disagree... when writing technical stuff with irritatingly long terms repeated many times I find autocomplete useful. It was the main reason why I did my degree project in OpenOffice.org rather than MS Word...
I hate to break it to you, but compiled BASIC is very very old, long before VB. I remember compiling eBASIC startrek games in 1979 on CDOS (a CP/M variant from Cromemco).
Shhh, he's having a Microsoft bashing moment... it could be dangerous to interrupt slashdotters whilst in this state, you never know what they might do...
I wish some higher level languages would force the use of comments in code, make it part of the declaration for a class or function.
Better would be languages which are self-documenting... you don't need to read the comments because the purpose is clear anyway.
Class or package specifications are an improvement over having to plough through masses of functions; there are bound to be methods of making plain code easier to read in the specification of the language too.
According to PETS, these companies force software to undergo lengthy and arduous tests, often without rest, for hours or days at a time.
It gets worse! Have you heard of Mutation Testing, where the poor programs are subjected to damaging fault injections over and over again? Oh the humanity!
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It was dark, you were driving with your headlight on the highway. As you turn the corner a small kid is out on the street chasing after her ball. You slam the breaks, but you still hit her.
In which case you were driving such that your stopping distance exceeded the distance that you could see to be clear, either round the corner or beyond the reach of your headlights, so you were going too fast.
Despite the fact that people get away with flying round blind corners assuming the other side is clear all the time, you are definitely liable on the occasion that it isn't.
D-Link have had a few routers like this for the past few years, they call it "SmartBeam"; for example the DSL-3590L.
We use RMsis; it's not the slickest interface in the whole world but it does everything we (medium size engineering company) want to do so far.
The people who support it are very good, and seem to be very amenable to requests for features and support.
From BG blog one can conclude that the author belongs to the category of people unclear about the difference between a quantity of energy and a rate of energy production.
If you're reading the same bit I am, are you sure?
The "waste from 100,000 people" is a rate of input, and "86,000 liters a day" and "250kw of electricity" are rates of output. This is entirely consistent and correct.
Screen itself supports multiple regions, so you don't need anything else. I find this absolutely priceless; run a program in the top region of your terminal, while tail-ing logfiles in the others...
I'd like to see your airplanes vs. an AEGIS cruiser.
Erm. Planes launch missiles outside the range of the cruiser; planes go home; cruiser is left to take down every single incoming. Aegis is good, but it's not invincible, and the planes can always come back tomorrow.
Now imagine running a store. Are you sure you want to charge your customers only for items with intact RFIDs?
My local supermarket (Safeway, in the UK) lets you walk round with a barcode reader yourself, then pay at the end without having to get everything scanned. The idea is that there's always the chance of having everything scanned anyway, depending on how "trustworthy" the system considers you to be. When you first start you'll get scanned most of the time, but after you get checked a few times and aren't found to be sneaking anything through it becomes less often.
I'd imagine this could work in a similar way. You never know whether your trolley full of dead tags is going to get checked anyway. If you're always trying to sneak stuff out you'll see almost no advantage; if you're honest you'll be half way home by the time you would have got through the checkout.
System Properties -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery -> untick "Automatically Reboot" ?
Noooo, you mean Blind Fury!
"A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier..."
Phil
Even though my ISP is in Birmingham, UK, half a country away... your site guessed Bridport, UK, which is just down the road.
I dunno how you did it, or whether it was a complete fluke, but I'm impressed! :-)
But then the bubble burst
You could have made such a good pun out of bubbles bursting and underwater cables if you'd tried, you know... :)
If you can count me as a normal person just for one moment (I know, sorry) I avoided Netscape and Mozilla for years because out of the box it was just so damn ugly! Huge great dark grey buttons, not a shiny icon to be seen... hideous it was.
Then someone showed me the Pinball theme... and I'm hooked... :)
Phil
The only times in the last few years I've had to write anything more than notes on a piece of paper has been exams... pretty much every other lengthy work has been typed.
I do find you lose the ability to write as fast or neat without practice, and that just makes you type more. My hands ache something chronic after three hours of writing in an exam, but I could type all day...
Phil
Oh great: more Fremch bashing. Will the madness never end?
Well they deserve it, the chess-eating suspender donkeys!
Phil
I think that bluetooth would be more valuable than a flashlight, or the thermometer.
Indeed... a thermometer especially is going to be pretty damn useless if you carry the phone on you, where it's going to be warmer. Surprise surprise, my coat pocket is warmer than the air outside! Who'd have thunk it.
Phil
The Accuracy International AW50, which uses massive .50 cal has a max effective range of 2000m!
Does effective range account for shooting straight up, or just horizontally?
Surely there must be a British-made SAM that could eliminate all these uncertainties... :-)
Phil (fellow York-dweller)
Stun guns in general are a poor weapon...
<hefts fscking huge great cattle prod>
Oh yeah?!
You just can't imagine someone making a fast getaway on one of these. Even sillier, however, is the threat faced by people who use unicycles as transport... if anyone tried to nick one of those you'd find it abandoned a few metres away after they gave up in disgust.
Did they look behind the bins round the corner after the thief realised he just didn't want the damn segway anyway?
Phil
Great for entering URLs you've visited before or text messaging, but suh-ucks in word processing. Thanks, I can write a sentence (or in this case, 1 word) for myself.
I disagree... when writing technical stuff with irritatingly long terms repeated many times I find autocomplete useful. It was the main reason why I did my degree project in OpenOffice.org rather than MS Word...
Phil
Even if there sole purpose is to stop the muppet next to you with a walkman singing "Whats a glove got to do with it"
The Archive of Misheard Lyrics: http://kissthisguy.com/, named after the line in Hendrix's Purple Sky...
Phil
I hate to break it to you, but compiled BASIC is very very old, long before VB. I remember compiling eBASIC startrek games in 1979 on CDOS (a CP/M variant from Cromemco).
Shhh, he's having a Microsoft bashing moment... it could be dangerous to interrupt slashdotters whilst in this state, you never know what they might do...
Phil
I wish some higher level languages would force the use of comments in code, make it part of the declaration for a class or function.
Better would be languages which are self-documenting... you don't need to read the comments because the purpose is clear anyway.
Class or package specifications are an improvement over having to plough through masses of functions; there are bound to be methods of making plain code easier to read in the specification of the language too.
Phil
You're kidding. There's oil on Mars?
Oil on Mars? But NASA doesn't know anything about drilling for oil! Who shall we send?
Phil
Hey, that'd be great! It would be like whack-a-mole with salespeople... pop-up stoppers would no longer come from websites but hardware stores...
Phil
According to PETS, these companies force software to undergo lengthy and arduous tests, often without rest, for hours or days at a time.
It gets worse! Have you heard of Mutation Testing, where the poor programs are subjected to damaging fault injections over and over again? Oh the humanity!
Phil