Not here. There used to be a lot of charters in the early days, and there are still a few, but FIFO has been in place for more than fifteen years in WA. The big carriers pretty quickly wised up to the revenue they were losing, so now most of those mining centres go through public airports.
I'm not sure about the specific machines they're using, but the security person had what looked like a black plastic ping-pong paddle they waved over our clothes & luggage.
Good luck to explosives manufacturers - there go your chances of ever flying again!
Not just manufacturers. In Western Australia, and presumably other parts of the world, most mines operate on a fly-in fly-out basis. People work onsite for a fortnight, then fly back to the city for a week to live with their families. A fairly large proportion of those are exposed to explosives or their by-products pretty much constantly while they're on site.
The existing sniffers don't appear particularly sensitive. A few months ago I flew to site, worked with the shot crew for a day, including contact with ANFO emulsion and primers (TNT), then flew home. I expected the detector to pick it up, so I kept the work order on hand to explain the situation to security, but it didn't happen - not a peep.
While holding a normal conversation on the phone Babble plays back random meaningless snipits of your own voice which makes your conversation practically unintelligible to people as close as 4 feet away.
Yes, I believe this device could be a change catalyst which would allow us to re-engineer our business case and leverage best-practice synergies to proactively actualise our bottom-line.
More likely, all the craters, big and small, are the result of the thing blowing up again and again from the inside.
I have to admit, that's what I first thought when I saw the big crater feature - this is the "after" picture of a moon that's been moved (hard SF geek heritage showing here). Sadly, there's probably a more prosaic answer - maybe the moon is a fragment of a larger object, and the crater is the record of the impact that shattered it.
I presumed they ran QNX, or some other extremely lightweight, secure, embedded operating system.
I'd thought the same, but I've just had a closer look at some of the POS registers at the local supermarket, and they have touchscreen tablet computers that look a bit like small iMacs. They're hanging off what seem like fairly old NCR cash registers, and the PFY behind the counter said they ran Windows CE.
I couldn't be sure, but it looked like the CE tablets were a retrofit to the cash registers. Maybe the registers run some embedded system, and the front-end just talks to it through a com port or something similar.
That's about as true as your comment, yet I don't hear a lot of that said around here.
It's said constantly around here. Take a look at any archived discussion about Windows or Linux and you'll see half the commenters are claiming XP/2003 is as/more secure and stable than other OSs, and if it's ever had a virus, spyware or been hacked, it's the user's fault.
That you may lack the knowledge necessary to do it on Windows, is not the fault of Windows.
That's why Windows will never be ready to be used online. You have to jump through hoops to get it to work properly, and as soon as you suggest it could be improved, a dozen Windows zealots tell you it's your fault.
If you spend as much time properly setting up, and restricting access to, a Windows machine,/it won't get hosed either/.
Garbage. I spent a LOT more time setting up, cleaning up and generally stuffing around with their Windows installs. They still managed to get hosed on a regular basis.
Then, with respect, most of the people you know are idiots, who'd hose their Linux installs jsut as quickly.
That's not what I'm seeing. I've set up Linux desktops for a few friends who have some specific computer needs (writing letters, budgets, email, web browsing etc), but were constantly getting spyware, viruses and other OS wrecking events.
I want to make something clear now. They're absolutely not idiots. They may not understand the computer/internet world, but they're intelligent effective people who do not deserve to be insulted because their tools are defective and put them at risk.
I set up Debian KDE (from a Knoppix install) desktops for them, cut back the KDE menus to just the apps they needed, wrote a few little scripts and OOo macros to help with MS Office compatibility, and left them to it.
Not one of the Debian installs has been hosed. I'm still getting the occasional "How do I do this?" call, but there's about 1/10th of the dramas I used to get with Windows.
It might be worth dropping the silly jingoism and having a look at how the world actually works. International telecommunications are already being coordinated (very successfully) by a UN agency, and have been since 1947. http://www.itu.int/home/
All versions of office can open documents saved by a previous version as far as I know.
Access 2002 will not directly open Access 97 databases. It converts them to a format Access 97 cannot read. Many VBA functions, including.ini files break between Office 97 and 2000. If you want to share databases, you have to upgrade. Access 2003 tries to block "unsafe expressions" in earlier version databases, but does not explain what these "expressions" are.
MIT give us our soldering iron back. They've put tape over dead cells on their array, with little messages like "You should see the other guy's car!", and "Our driver is from Harvard."
This is very inconsistent with the claim, "we went in it for the oil."
It's entirely consistent. The people behind the war didn't start it to reduce fuel costs for ordinary Americans. They started it to control the production of oil in order to increase their own wealth.
It's about oil producers. They don't give a rats arse about oil consumers. Look at the price gouging that's happening right now.
Give it the electronic nose from the previous article and you might have to welcome them. Not every tool developed for war ends up being used on foreigners.
The mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the fire house. The dim light of one in the morning, the moonlight from the open sky framed through the great window, touched here and there on the brass and copper and the steel of the faintly trembling beast. Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber padded paws.
Nights when things got dull, which was every night, the men slid down the brass poles, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the hound and let loose rats in the fire house areaway. Three seconds later the game was done, the rat caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentle paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine. (From Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury.)
I'm off to start memorising "The Origin of the Species"
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Wouldn't those be charter flights though?
Not here. There used to be a lot of charters in the early days, and there are still a few, but FIFO has been in place for more than fifteen years in WA. The big carriers pretty quickly wised up to the revenue they were losing, so now most of those mining centres go through public airports.
I'm not sure about the specific machines they're using, but the security person had what looked like a black plastic ping-pong paddle they waved over our clothes & luggage.
a cat 5 in DC? no effing way - the water doesnt get warm enough that far up the coast.
Yet.
Good luck to explosives manufacturers - there go your chances of ever flying again!
Not just manufacturers. In Western Australia, and presumably other parts of the world, most mines operate on a fly-in fly-out basis. People work onsite for a fortnight, then fly back to the city for a week to live with their families. A fairly large proportion of those are exposed to explosives or their by-products pretty much constantly while they're on site.
The existing sniffers don't appear particularly sensitive. A few months ago I flew to site, worked with the shot crew for a day, including contact with ANFO emulsion and primers (TNT), then flew home. I expected the detector to pick it up, so I kept the work order on hand to explain the situation to security, but it didn't happen - not a peep.
While holding a normal conversation on the phone Babble plays back random meaningless snipits of your own voice which makes your conversation practically unintelligible to people as close as 4 feet away.
Yes, I believe this device could be a change catalyst which would allow us to re-engineer our business case and leverage best-practice synergies to proactively actualise our bottom-line.
More likely, all the craters, big and small, are the result of the thing blowing up again and again from the inside.
I have to admit, that's what I first thought when I saw the big crater feature - this is the "after" picture of a moon that's been moved (hard SF geek heritage showing here). Sadly, there's probably a more prosaic answer - maybe the moon is a fragment of a larger object, and the crater is the record of the impact that shattered it.
I presumed they ran QNX, or some other extremely lightweight, secure, embedded operating system.
I'd thought the same, but I've just had a closer look at some of the POS registers at the local supermarket, and they have touchscreen tablet computers that look a bit like small iMacs. They're hanging off what seem like fairly old NCR cash registers, and the PFY behind the counter said they ran Windows CE.
I couldn't be sure, but it looked like the CE tablets were a retrofit to the cash registers. Maybe the registers run some embedded system, and the front-end just talks to it through a com port or something similar.
That's about as true as your comment, yet I don't hear a lot of that said around here.
It's said constantly around here. Take a look at any archived discussion about Windows or Linux and you'll see half the commenters are claiming XP/2003 is as/more secure and stable than other OSs, and if it's ever had a virus, spyware or been hacked, it's the user's fault.
That you may lack the knowledge necessary to do it on Windows, is not the fault of Windows.
That's why Windows will never be ready to be used online. You have to jump through hoops to get it to work properly, and as soon as you suggest it could be improved, a dozen Windows zealots tell you it's your fault.
Then, my friend, you are NOT very compentent at all.
You are NOT my friend. My friends do not accuse me of incompetence. If you want a sensible response, apologise and post politely.
If you spend as much time properly setting up, and restricting access to, a Windows machine, /it won't get hosed either/.
Garbage. I spent a LOT more time setting up, cleaning up and generally stuffing around with their Windows installs. They still managed to get hosed on a regular basis.
Then, with respect, most of the people you know are idiots, who'd hose their Linux installs jsut as quickly.
That's not what I'm seeing. I've set up Linux desktops for a few friends who have some specific computer needs (writing letters, budgets, email, web browsing etc), but were constantly getting spyware, viruses and other OS wrecking events.
I want to make something clear now. They're absolutely not idiots. They may not understand the computer/internet world, but they're intelligent effective people who do not deserve to be insulted because their tools are defective and put them at risk.
I set up Debian KDE (from a Knoppix install) desktops for them, cut back the KDE menus to just the apps they needed, wrote a few little scripts and OOo macros to help with MS Office compatibility, and left them to it.
Not one of the Debian installs has been hosed. I'm still getting the occasional "How do I do this?" call, but there's about 1/10th of the dramas I used to get with Windows.
I thought Gorillas had relatively small "tools" compared to their human counterparts.
I'd heard that too, but none of these fancy scientists praise me when I get my tool out and show off with it...
And moreso please don't let the UN fix it.
It might be worth dropping the silly jingoism and having a look at how the world actually works. International telecommunications are already being coordinated (very successfully) by a UN agency, and have been since 1947. http://www.itu.int/home/
All versions of office can open documents saved by a previous version as far as I know.
.ini files break between Office 97 and 2000. If you want to share databases, you have to upgrade. Access 2003 tries to block "unsafe expressions" in earlier version databases, but does not explain what these "expressions" are.
Access 2002 will not directly open Access 97 databases. It converts them to a format Access 97 cannot read. Many VBA functions, including
Isn't there space in the market for a company or app which converts from MS to StarOffice?
There used to be a tiny little space in OOo's File/Wizards/Document Converter/ menu item, but somene's filled it now. Guess what with?
I'm not sure how I ended up with a "Troll" moderation
Having "Xenophon" as part of your nick and pretending to be naive about ethics? Or did you think The Apology of Socrates was a romance novel?
Who lost again?
Every computer user who would have been better off with a truly platform-independant application development platform.
I am trying hard to think of a company MS partnered with but didn't stab in the back. I can't think of one.
SCO?
Yes, it would bring a smile to my face to push you down a flight of stairs. ;o)
I live in Western Australia. Let me know when you're planning to visit. Might be best if you bring some friends as well...
Why does this sound like the old question "Will it run (on) Windows?
Yes, it does run on Windows, but it's tricky to set up. http://www.colinux.org/
Upside down country did it, the solar car was merely trying to right itself.
I like this comment from the Sungroper blog http://www.wsc.org.au/2005/competition/our.teams/
I hope these contests continue, but I also hope people don't think that these contests are solving the real-world problems of applying solar power.
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Well, since some of the "engineers" competing in this are Western Australian school kids, I think the experience they'll be getting bodes very well for solar power. http://www.leeming.wa.edu.au/programs/solarcar/so
This is very inconsistent with the claim, "we went in it for the oil."
It's entirely consistent. The people behind the war didn't start it to reduce fuel costs for ordinary Americans. They started it to control the production of oil in order to increase their own wealth.
It's about oil producers. They don't give a rats arse about oil consumers. Look at the price gouging that's happening right now.
Precursors and dual-use technology are not the same thing as chemical weapons.
Yeah sure. And giving homicidal maniacs detonators, fuses, C4 and assembly instructions is not the same as giving them bombs.
Weasel.
I'm off to start memorising "The Origin of the Species"