Well, I just hope it's more usable than the web site. Stranded in the Visuals section for ages before finally figuring out that I had to click on the damned copyright notice to get back to the home page.
If this is the site I hate to think what the cockpit/cab/bridge is going to be like...
Wish I'd patented the idea of making money through ridiculous lawsuits and sat on it. Then I could sue these clowns, and Forgent and the rest of them, and, um, make money through ridiculous lawsuits...
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"There's no such thing as a fluke shot in pool. It's just an oversight in the calculations."
When I fluke, it's because i fsck up the fsck-up...
I'd rather something that took the shot I told it!
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I can see the angles, dammit! The hard part is getting the damned stick thing to poke the damned round white thing into the other round things at the angle I can see, without going down a damned hole thing, getting airborne, or knocking the damned round black thing down a damned hole thing!!!
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I do think a little buissness casual is good, cause if there is no dress code I am coming in wearing my old Metallica t-shirt (metal up your ass), some ripped jeans and combat boots.
That's fine - just remember to iron that t-shirt if you're meeting with a customer:)
Red hair is a phenotype particular only to scarce areas of Northern Europe, mostly in Scotland, Ireland, and Scandinavia -- even there, it is not entirely common.
Everyone thinks I've got red hair because I'm Scottish. Actually - though I generally keep it quiet - I'm English, but I spent most of my life north of the border and have the accent to prove it. My granny on my mum's side of the family is descended from Norwegians, and that's where the red hair came from.
What I find really interesting is that, as far back as we can determine, the red hair has skipped a generation and shown up on one of the grandchildren... anyone else know of this happening?
Some guy up in the back row with a camcorder doesn't bother me in the slightest.
<rant>Oh no, what bothers me is this: Picture a big chase scene, lots of kick-ass explosions, sound's way up, you're getting blown out of your seat by the bass, fscking amazing. Hero escapes, fade to silence... and some bastard decides that now would be a good time to dive into that monster sodding crisp packet and make as much noise as humanly possible! They couldn't have done it during the explosions, ohhhhhno, they have to wait till everyone can hear them. Really sets my teeth on edge, makes me think of administering a post-natal abortion right then and there. (There isn't enough violence in the cinema these days.)
These sound systems cost thousands, when it's quiet it's meant to be fscking quiet!!!
Why cinemas insist on selling noisy food in the noisiest containers possible is beyond me.
In short, don't hassle the guy with the camcorder, slap the cinema management around the head and enforce a mandatory euthanasia policy on anyone with a big bag of crisps!</rant>
This Google-mash of a PDF gives a comparison of security betwen 802.11 and Bluetooth. Essentially it seems to conclude that it's much harder work to get into BT than 802.11 unless you do it during the initial pairing of the devices.
What isn't mentioned is that Bluetooth is almost continually changing frequency, so I guess you'd have to be pretty lucky to follow it for long enough to get something useful if you weren't known to the "network". I must confess to being completely ignorant of 802.11 - does it do this too, or is the frequency relatively fixed?
My Bluetooth headset died a couple of months ago. Mind you, I did drop the thing in a fish tank a few months before that...
Some guys in my high school class stole a substantial quantity of sodium from the school labs. They decanted this, oil and all, into several freezer bags. Leaving the bags unsealed, just wrapping the open end very tightly around the sodium, they then proceeded to flush all these down the toilet - and to run.
These guys were hoping to spark off the methane in the cesspit. I think they got a bit more than they bargained for!
What a mess. Put it this way: One, if you must do this, use someone else's toilet. Two, for heaven's sake make sure the other stalls are empty!!!
Our company's Web-based calendar is buried three or four layers deep in the intranet, and I'd never use it if I couldn't put it on the Active Desktop where I can see it as soon as I log in. I use a blank page with a meta redirect on my Active Desktop because Win98 is too stupid to recognise "*.php" as a web page. Sure, an iframe would probably work just as well. Gonna try that.
And meta refresh seems like a great way to keep it up to date!
Of course, whether anything involving the Active Desktop can be considered legitimate use is a matter of personal opinion:)
...that block of blue ice had landed in the toilet. Now that would have been some aim.
I remember reading a while ago that, if the toilet drain point leaks, you can get toilet waste building up behind the hatch. This then freezes, expands, and pushes the hatch off. When the aircraft descends into warmer air, and the ice starts to melt, there's no hatch to keep it in place and gravity kicks in.
Now, *really* rotten luck is to stow away in the undercarriage, fall out at the other end when the wheels come down, land in a haystack... and have a lump of blue ice land on top of you.
Yaaaawwwnn..... Seen that before. Never seen a left-handed one though! (And non-handed doesn't count - they're even worse than right-handed ones...) Anyone know where I can get a left-handed cordless optical mouse?
On a side-note, best mouse I ever had was a Logic3 pen mouse. That thing rocked. I could sit with my feet on the desk, arms folded, doing CAD by scribbling on my shoulder. Funny thing is, I used that in my right hand.
In a nutshell: It sometimes works. But only if the sender and the receiver both have the same phone. If you have the T68i and I send you an MMS from a Nokia you either get gibberish or nothing at all.
It may not be just the handsets - the MMC (multimedia messaging centre) may be to blame as well.
My company did some MMS apps, back when you could count the number of MMS-capable handsets without taking your socks off and we didn't have any of them:) All we had was a vague standards document, which said that the T68 would support "a subset of SMIL" (which is an XML-based presentation language). At this point I didn't know of any Nokia handset, and if it existed whether it would even support the same "subset of SMIL". We tested using a media player that could handle SMIL.
With the MMC we were using, nothing happened. Nothing. We racked our brains for ages. Eventually we discovered that the MMC didn't like the whitespace in our nicely-indented SMIL. It wanted the whole thing on one line without a single extraneous space. I'm sure it's quite concievable that both handsets are outputting perfectly valid messages, even identical messages, and the MMC in the middle is screwing it up.
It's easy to blame the handsets, and I'm sure they're far from perfect, but I can't help wondering how good the infrastructure is. I also can't help wondering why it's so hard to send what is, to all intents and purposes (at least in transit), a multipart email.
If the telcos had got their act together and standardised on a single system (like GSM across Europe), then maybe it would be easier for the handset manufacturers to bring these toys to the market.
Imagine, for example, that you had to have a different car radio if you wanted to listen to tunes in the next county over. That would suck. And there probably wouldn't be nearly as many cool and innovative car radios, because the manufacturers were pouring all their budgets into making 15 or 20 versions of each product and their production runs were a fifteenth or a twentieth what they could have been.
I love being able to take my T68 (which I just got flashed to T68i, so I get MMS without the girly case) anywhere in Europe, and knowing that it'll work. I don't love taking my T68 all over Europe and finding that it's far cheaper than in.uk:(
If someone will make it their life's mission to fuck you in ever[y] possible way without relent for all of their existence, would you bother messing with them[?]
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karma, but this has to be said:
Did any of the moderators who modded this up and thought to mark it "Insightful" actually read the article?
Not getting at the poster, but the comment does completely miss the point - I thought the whole idea of moderation was to keep things on track. Too often it seems to be a mechanism for ensuring that scum floats to the top, as moderators just "follow the herd"...
I don't think it'll fly, people will end up putting up porn that isn't free.
A bigger problem is who's going to pay for all this bandwidth. It isn't going to be the ISPs, that's for sure.
All this P2P stuff is likely to cost all of us dear unless something revolutionary happens (and in my opinion, this would still only delay the inevitable).This BBC article has more detail about possible consequences, and actually mentions Napster porn (admittedly as an afterthought).
Better yet, how about a camera mounted on the shuttle itself for a landing? (think dashboard, what a view.)
When I was at Kennedy Space Center [sic], and it must have been 10 years ago now, they had an IMAX film, "The Dream is Alive". That had some nice shots of the runway as seen from the flight deck. Landing a Cessna 150 was never the same, after that:)
I've seen several IMAX films since, and none have come close to being as good as this one.
Of course, the airlines could make a case for banning the laptops aboard by saying that they could be used by the terrorists to "knock out" whatever UWB systems that are vulnerable to this
My old 286 "laptop" (you needed a big lap) could be used by the terrorists to "knock out" flight attendants... it was essentially two or three house bricks in a beige case!
If the concern is that this corn is going to get grown instead of eaten, why not just grind it before distributing it? I've never tried growing flour, but I don't imagine it'd work:)
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That sounds like an awful lot of work :)
Imagine, not only do we have people who refuse to RTFA, but also people whining because it's too much effort...
Well, I just hope it's more usable than the web site. Stranded in the Visuals section for ages before finally figuring out that I had to click on the damned copyright notice to get back to the home page.
If this is the site I hate to think what the cockpit/cab/bridge is going to be like...
This thing would still kick ass though.
Wish I'd patented the idea of making money through ridiculous lawsuits and sat on it. Then I could sue these clowns, and Forgent and the rest of them, and, um, make money through ridiculous lawsuits...
"There's no such thing as a fluke shot in pool. It's just an oversight in the calculations."
When I fluke, it's because i fsck up the fsck-up...
I can see the angles, dammit! The hard part is getting the damned stick thing to poke the damned round white thing into the other round things at the angle I can see, without going down a damned hole thing, getting airborne, or knocking the damned round black thing down a damned hole thing!!!
I do think a little buissness casual is good, cause if there is no dress code I am coming in wearing my old Metallica t-shirt (metal up your ass), some ripped jeans and combat boots.
That's fine - just remember to iron that t-shirt if you're meeting with a customer :)
I don't care what they make me wear, it's better than the McDonald's prison uniform I wore before I came here.
In fact, I'd rather they were dicking around with the dress code, if it kept their minds off dicking around with my pension. Too late.
Are there any other NP-hard games which were invented by dead Russians?
Is Russian Roulette NP-hard?
How the heck does the Pro-Life movement fit in with these groups?
A hard-core group within each makes somebody fear for his/her life?
Red hair is a phenotype particular only to scarce areas of Northern Europe, mostly in Scotland, Ireland, and Scandinavia -- even there, it is not entirely common.
Everyone thinks I've got red hair because I'm Scottish. Actually - though I generally keep it quiet - I'm English, but I spent most of my life north of the border and have the accent to prove it. My granny on my mum's side of the family is descended from Norwegians, and that's where the red hair came from.
What I find really interesting is that, as far back as we can determine, the red hair has skipped a generation and shown up on one of the grandchildren... anyone else know of this happening?
Some guy up in the back row with a camcorder doesn't bother me in the slightest.
<rant>Oh no, what bothers me is this: Picture a big chase scene, lots of kick-ass explosions, sound's way up, you're getting blown out of your seat by the bass, fscking amazing. Hero escapes, fade to silence... and some bastard decides that now would be a good time to dive into that monster sodding crisp packet and make as much noise as humanly possible! They couldn't have done it during the explosions, ohhhhhno, they have to wait till everyone can hear them. Really sets my teeth on edge, makes me think of administering a post-natal abortion right then and there. (There isn't enough violence in the cinema these days.)
These sound systems cost thousands, when it's quiet it's meant to be fscking quiet!!!
Why cinemas insist on selling noisy food in the noisiest containers possible is beyond me.
In short, don't hassle the guy with the camcorder, slap the cinema management around the head and enforce a mandatory euthanasia policy on anyone with a big bag of crisps!</rant>
Moderator clue: it's humour. :P
This Google-mash of a PDF gives a comparison of security betwen 802.11 and Bluetooth. Essentially it seems to conclude that it's much harder work to get into BT than 802.11 unless you do it during the initial pairing of the devices.
What isn't mentioned is that Bluetooth is almost continually changing frequency, so I guess you'd have to be pretty lucky to follow it for long enough to get something useful if you weren't known to the "network". I must confess to being completely ignorant of 802.11 - does it do this too, or is the frequency relatively fixed?
My Bluetooth headset died a couple of months ago. Mind you, I did drop the thing in a fish tank a few months before that...
Some guys in my high school class stole a substantial quantity of sodium from the school labs. They decanted this, oil and all, into several freezer bags. Leaving the bags unsealed, just wrapping the open end very tightly around the sodium, they then proceeded to flush all these down the toilet - and to run.
These guys were hoping to spark off the methane in the cesspit. I think they got a bit more than they bargained for!
What a mess. Put it this way: One, if you must do this, use someone else's toilet. Two, for heaven's sake make sure the other stalls are empty!!!
Are there any legitimate uses of refresh?
Our company's Web-based calendar is buried three or four layers deep in the intranet, and I'd never use it if I couldn't put it on the Active Desktop where I can see it as soon as I log in. I use a blank page with a meta redirect on my Active Desktop because Win98 is too stupid to recognise "*.php" as a web page. Sure, an iframe would probably work just as well. Gonna try that.
And meta refresh seems like a great way to keep it up to date!
Of course, whether anything involving the Active Desktop can be considered legitimate use is a matter of personal opinion :)
...that block of blue ice had landed in the toilet. Now that would have been some aim.
I remember reading a while ago that, if the toilet drain point leaks, you can get toilet waste building up behind the hatch. This then freezes, expands, and pushes the hatch off. When the aircraft descends into warmer air, and the ice starts to melt, there's no hatch to keep it in place and gravity kicks in.
Now, *really* rotten luck is to stow away in the undercarriage, fall out at the other end when the wheels come down, land in a haystack... and have a lump of blue ice land on top of you.
Yaaaawwwnn..... Seen that before. Never seen a left-handed one though! (And non-handed doesn't count - they're even worse than right-handed ones...) Anyone know where I can get a left-handed cordless optical mouse?
On a side-note, best mouse I ever had was a Logic3 pen mouse. That thing rocked. I could sit with my feet on the desk, arms folded, doing CAD by scribbling on my shoulder. Funny thing is, I used that in my right hand.
In a nutshell: It sometimes works. But only if the sender and the receiver both have the same phone. If you have the T68i and I send you an MMS from a Nokia you either get gibberish or nothing at all.
It may not be just the handsets - the MMC (multimedia messaging centre) may be to blame as well.
My company did some MMS apps, back when you could count the number of MMS-capable handsets without taking your socks off and we didn't have any of them :) All we had was a vague standards document, which said that the T68 would support "a subset of SMIL" (which is an XML-based presentation language). At this point I didn't know of any Nokia handset, and if it existed whether it would even support the same "subset of SMIL". We tested using a media player that could handle SMIL.
With the MMC we were using, nothing happened. Nothing. We racked our brains for ages. Eventually we discovered that the MMC didn't like the whitespace in our nicely-indented SMIL. It wanted the whole thing on one line without a single extraneous space. I'm sure it's quite concievable that both handsets are outputting perfectly valid messages, even identical messages, and the MMC in the middle is screwing it up.
It's easy to blame the handsets, and I'm sure they're far from perfect, but I can't help wondering how good the infrastructure is. I also can't help wondering why it's so hard to send what is, to all intents and purposes (at least in transit), a multipart email.
If the telcos had got their act together and standardised on a single system (like GSM across Europe), then maybe it would be easier for the handset manufacturers to bring these toys to the market.
Imagine, for example, that you had to have a different car radio if you wanted to listen to tunes in the next county over. That would suck. And there probably wouldn't be nearly as many cool and innovative car radios, because the manufacturers were pouring all their budgets into making 15 or 20 versions of each product and their production runs were a fifteenth or a twentieth what they could have been.
I love being able to take my T68 (which I just got flashed to T68i, so I get MMS without the girly case) anywhere in Europe, and knowing that it'll work. I don't love taking my T68 all over Europe and finding that it's far cheaper than in .uk :(
If someone will make it their life's mission to fuck you in ever[y] possible way without relent for all of their existence, would you bother messing with them[?]
Hell no, I'd let her get on with it...
I bet the pavements round every Nokia building will be covered in chalk by the end of the week!
I can see the ads now: Nokia - Connecting Thieves. Heh.
Here goes my piddling little amount of karma, but this has to be said:
Did any of the moderators who modded this up and thought to mark it "Insightful" actually read the article?
Not getting at the poster, but the comment does completely miss the point - I thought the whole idea of moderation was to keep things on track. Too often it seems to be a mechanism for ensuring that scum floats to the top, as moderators just "follow the herd"...
I don't think it'll fly, people will end up putting up porn that isn't free.
A bigger problem is who's going to pay for all this bandwidth. It isn't going to be the ISPs, that's for sure.
All this P2P stuff is likely to cost all of us dear unless something revolutionary happens (and in my opinion, this would still only delay the inevitable).This BBC article has more detail about possible consequences, and actually mentions Napster porn (admittedly as an afterthought).
Better yet, how about a camera mounted on the shuttle itself for a landing? (think dashboard, what a view.)
When I was at Kennedy Space Center [sic], and it must have been 10 years ago now, they had an IMAX film, "The Dream is Alive". That had some nice shots of the runway as seen from the flight deck. Landing a Cessna 150 was never the same, after that :)
I've seen several IMAX films since, and none have come close to being as good as this one.
Of course, the airlines could make a case for banning the laptops aboard by saying that they could be used by the terrorists to "knock out" whatever UWB systems that are vulnerable to this
My old 286 "laptop" (you needed a big lap) could be used by the terrorists to "knock out" flight attendants... it was essentially two or three house bricks in a beige case!
Maybe I'm missing something here, but:
If the concern is that this corn is going to get grown instead of eaten, why not just grind it before distributing it? I've never tried growing flour, but I don't imagine it'd work :)