My apologies for implying you were rude! It's funny, but I have no qualms with calling some people the worst sorts of names, ensconced behind my slashdot identity*, yet I feel bad for even suggesting that your behavior was improper. I must have eaten something bad. =)
*I've been told I do this a bit too much in real life as well, so I can't just blame the internet.
CMBO rules, man. I am so sad that it's not OS X native and that I have to reboot into OS 9 to play. I haven't bought CMBB (Barbarossa to Berlin) nor CMAK (Afrika Kore) because of this shortcoming, but I've been sorely tempted by the demos, which are excellent. (Curse you, Apple for droping RAVE support!)
Any word on how the new product, that WILL play on OS X, is coming along?
This suddenly made me think that there would have to be some kind of safeguards against someone just putting a bomb in a pod and sending it off to its destination.
Well, one way to look at it is this: How much explosive can you fit into a regular car that you can drive up to the terminal vs how much explosive can you fit into a piece of luggage and throw it onto one of these pods?
Another: What are the chances that someone will see you throwing a piece of luggage onto a pod vs. pulling a car up to the terminal and then running away?
This system really doesn't increase the security risk. If anything, it might decrease it.
Hopefully whatever plan they come up with doesn't make for airport-security-style delays getting in to the system. "Your wait time is less than a minute... once you get to the platform.
I was thinking the same thing as well. The worst thing about public transport, on the whole, is the waiting for the next car or bus. It beats being stuck in rush hour traffic alone in your car, but it still sucks. It's one reason why I bought a motorcycle. =)
But I think one could expect to be given a clue if the review of The Washington Manual Hematology and Oncology Subspecialty Consult to explain it, especially if that review appeared in a general purpose tech site.
Besides which, hematology and oncology are not obscure terms, and it is quite easy to find a definition. Pivot Tables, otoh, are a specialized phrase to a specific program (or programs, I guess, given the mentions of the Lotus product above), and even the review itself points out that this is a "buried feature".
Saying, "If you have to ask, you don't need to know," in this situation is a bit rude.
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. See that large bum is actually very beneficial for sitting. Those who didn't have a comfy reear would fidget a lot and would be noticed by bears and eaten first...
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Thousands of fat, lazy slashdotters breath a collective sigh of relief.
An honorific post? Really? Do you actually know anything about the NASA Advisory Coucil? Are you aware that it's the senior external advisory source to NASA? Senior. That means they trump EVERY outside advisory source. That's a bit more than honorific.
There you go, making me look like an ass for making assumptions. =)
Yeah, you're right. These problems are just too difficult to overcome, so we should instead just use privately owned automobiles, a system that we know has all the kinks worked out, especially when driving home at 5:00 PM on the 101.
You've got a good point, but there is nothing saying that this has to be a stand alone solution, and not integrated with other systems.
Also, a system like this would be really cool for airports, where the trend has become to place parking lots further away from the terminals for security reasons.
Uh, in case you hadn't noticed, just about anything is a "handy terrorist tool". A duffel bag left in a shopping mall or subway car. An automobile or truck. Box cutters. So your "potential terrorist tool" argument is pretty weak.
I'm sure Asimov, Clarke and some other Sci-Fi authors would be able to provide valuable advice in the area of space exploration because, if nothing else, they tend to spend a lot of time thinking of the realism of the ideas in their books (something movie directors aren't particularly noted for).
Asimov is dead, and it's hard to sit up at advisory council meetings when you're dead. They have to nail you to the chair, and it gets messy.
Clarke is a British citizen, IIRC. He lives in Sri Lanka and is wheelchair bound and in generally poor health. He couldn't even make the trip to England for his knighting ceremony, so I don't think he'd make many advisory council meetings in the U.S.
Also, he is credited with the idea that geostationary satellites would be ideal for telecommunications. This makes your statement something of an understatement.
Cameron is a big shot celebrity with an interest in science. That's his only real qualification, and it's enough for what basically is an honorific post.
Why trek through the jungle when you have the world's greatest chicken chokers right here on slashdot? Oh, wait. Trekking through the jungle puts hair on your knuckles.
Wired Magazine used to make pretty good toilet reading, and the $12/year subscription price seemed like a no-brainer. However, when I got a wireless card for my laptop, that became a thing of the past.
It really turns me on when you get all totalitarian and threatening! I'm going to think about your words again and again as I beat of to pictures of John Ashcroft and Benito Mussolini.
Oh, and thanks for adding to the impression that all us conservatives are idiots. An intelligent conservative might understand the sense in which Nygard was using the word conservative, and not get all bent out of shape.
Conservative is not some brand or trademark that belongs exclusively to the GOP, despite the way certain intellectual thugs are trying to co-opt it (just as they've tried to make Liberal a dirty word).
You actually made me wonder: Do HD based MP3 players count as solid state, because of the spinning platters? I'm not an EE, so forgive my ignorance. I suspect that solid state merely means using ICs instead of tubes, as in your joke (at least that's the way I remember having it explained to me long ago.)
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You forgot about the part where he's placed under house arrest first.
My apologies for implying you were rude! It's funny, but I have no qualms with calling some people the worst sorts of names, ensconced behind my slashdot identity*, yet I feel bad for even suggesting that your behavior was improper. I must have eaten something bad. =)
*I've been told I do this a bit too much in real life as well, so I can't just blame the internet.
CMBO rules, man. I am so sad that it's not OS X native and that I have to reboot into OS 9 to play. I haven't bought CMBB (Barbarossa to Berlin) nor CMAK (Afrika Kore) because of this shortcoming, but I've been sorely tempted by the demos, which are excellent. (Curse you, Apple for droping RAVE support!)
Any word on how the new product, that WILL play on OS X, is coming along?
This suddenly made me think that there would have to be some kind of safeguards against someone just putting a bomb in a pod and sending it off to its destination.
Well, one way to look at it is this: How much explosive can you fit into a regular car that you can drive up to the terminal vs how much explosive can you fit into a piece of luggage and throw it onto one of these pods?
Another: What are the chances that someone will see you throwing a piece of luggage onto a pod vs. pulling a car up to the terminal and then running away?
This system really doesn't increase the security risk. If anything, it might decrease it.
Hopefully whatever plan they come up with doesn't make for airport-security-style delays getting in to the system. "Your wait time is less than a minute... once you get to the platform.
I was thinking the same thing as well. The worst thing about public transport, on the whole, is the waiting for the next car or bus. It beats being stuck in rush hour traffic alone in your car, but it still sucks. It's one reason why I bought a motorcycle. =)
But I think one could expect to be given a clue if the review of The Washington Manual Hematology and Oncology Subspecialty Consult to explain it, especially if that review appeared in a general purpose tech site.
Besides which, hematology and oncology are not obscure terms, and it is quite easy to find a definition. Pivot Tables, otoh, are a specialized phrase to a specific program (or programs, I guess, given the mentions of the Lotus product above), and even the review itself points out that this is a "buried feature".
Saying, "If you have to ask, you don't need to know," in this situation is a bit rude.
I'm here for the dupes, man.
. See that large bum is actually very beneficial for sitting. Those who didn't have a comfy reear would fidget a lot and would be noticed by bears and eaten first...
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And in other news . .
Thousands of fat, lazy slashdotters breath a collective sigh of relief.
How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to change a light bulb?
Three. One to screw it in, and one to confuse the issue.
An honorific post? Really? Do you actually know anything about the NASA Advisory Coucil? Are you aware that it's the senior external advisory source to NASA? Senior. That means they trump EVERY outside advisory source. That's a bit more than honorific.
There you go, making me look like an ass for making assumptions. =)
Yeah, you're right. These problems are just too difficult to overcome, so we should instead just use privately owned automobiles, a system that we know has all the kinks worked out, especially when driving home at 5:00 PM on the 101.
You've got a good point, but there is nothing saying that this has to be a stand alone solution, and not integrated with other systems.
Also, a system like this would be really cool for airports, where the trend has become to place parking lots further away from the terminals for security reasons.
Uh, in case you hadn't noticed, just about anything is a "handy terrorist tool". A duffel bag left in a shopping mall or subway car. An automobile or truck. Box cutters. So your "potential terrorist tool" argument is pretty weak.
I'm sure Asimov, Clarke and some other Sci-Fi authors would be able to provide valuable advice in the area of space exploration because, if nothing else, they tend to spend a lot of time thinking of the realism of the ideas in their books (something movie directors aren't particularly noted for).
Asimov is dead, and it's hard to sit up at advisory council meetings when you're dead. They have to nail you to the chair, and it gets messy.
Clarke is a British citizen, IIRC. He lives in Sri Lanka and is wheelchair bound and in generally poor health. He couldn't even make the trip to England for his knighting ceremony, so I don't think he'd make many advisory council meetings in the U.S.
Also, he is credited with the idea that geostationary satellites would be ideal for telecommunications. This makes your statement something of an understatement.
Cameron is a big shot celebrity with an interest in science. That's his only real qualification, and it's enough for what basically is an honorific post.
Why trek through the jungle when you have the world's greatest chicken chokers right here on slashdot? Oh, wait. Trekking through the jungle puts hair on your knuckles.
Absolut Retard. =)
Wired Magazine used to make pretty good toilet reading, and the $12/year subscription price seemed like a no-brainer. However, when I got a wireless card for my laptop, that became a thing of the past.
All I have to say is turring tar pit, the analogy that is used in the Mythical Man Month to a software project gone wrong.
Is that anything like Schroedinger's Cat Box? "I'm not sure if the cat crapped or not, but something smells dead."
What the hell does Big Oil (Sunoco) have to do with Linux (let alone VA Software)?
That's like comparing dead dinosaurs and algorithms.
Too bad that there are always enough jackasses out there, that you can NEVER trust the public to do anything right, honest, or decent.
Spoken like a blue stater! =)
It really turns me on when you get all totalitarian and threatening! I'm going to think about your words again and again as I beat of to pictures of John Ashcroft and Benito Mussolini.
Oh, and thanks for adding to the impression that all us conservatives are idiots. An intelligent conservative might understand the sense in which Nygard was using the word conservative, and not get all bent out of shape.
Conservative is not some brand or trademark that belongs exclusively to the GOP, despite the way certain intellectual thugs are trying to co-opt it (just as they've tried to make Liberal a dirty word).
I'm guessing* he uses a powerbook (alpha nerd +) but that he has never installed linux on it (alpha nerd -). =)
*He mentions using FCP to edit Trekkies II.
What, no links? Saving that for the Trekkies Gone Wild video, I bet.
But running the Gimp on an MP3 player makes more sense than running KOffice. =)
Heh.
You actually made me wonder: Do HD based MP3 players count as solid state, because of the spinning platters? I'm not an EE, so forgive my ignorance. I suspect that solid state merely means using ICs instead of tubes, as in your joke (at least that's the way I remember having it explained to me long ago.)
But these nuclear cask farms are offering us the opportunity to make our time.