Is it possible to fly the plane into the Pentagon while hitting light poles along the way? It's hard to tell, as soon as you approach the Pentagon things get really fuzzy and 8-bit.
No, I imagine I'd be pulled off the cliff whether I liked it or not by the massive gravitational field... That's fricken awesome! The first/. post in a very long time that has actually made me laugh out loud. Somebody mod this guy +6.
Sheesh, you americans can never make up your mind, can you?
"The government is too big and wasteful. There's so much paperwork and useless red tape and hoops to jump through to do one simple little thing. There's so much money just thrown away! I wish they'd fix that."
"This new system is slick and efficient. It scares me. I wish they had lots of red tape, paperwork, and hoops. That would slow them down and protect my liberties."
I wish Slashdot had a filter, like "remove all Star Trek posts" It does, actually. Just go up to your location bar and type "About:blank" Voila. Slashdot without the Star Trek posts.
Use what you have... existing tools and infrastructure, and inexpensive or free software. You have a network. Use it. Briefcase is your friend. Set up your laptops with a PGP drive to hold all work information. Unless management likes the idea of your work product being stolen and given to a competitor. Train your users about where to save their data. Then use policies (Windows, not HR) to enforce it. If they're in the office regularly, use KIX scripts to copy the entire PGP file to the network. Poof, instant backup on startup. Just tell them to plug in and go for coffee. If they're not, train them to do backups to media. A pgp drive on a memory stick isn't too bad. Better than unencrypted CDs.
Really, that seems like a good start. All it takes is some common sense and training. Also, it takes my favourite rule of remote users. "If you're not smart enough to do Task X, after I show you, do it for you, and give you written instructions... then you're not smart enough to have a computer at home."
Rather than count on an 85/15 split in sales between Vista and XP, said Chris Liddell, Microsoft now expects a 78/22 split, an increase of nearly 50% in anticipated XP sales. Seriously, what is this hardon everyone has for "XP still selling strong"?? The new OS is now accounting for 78% of OS sales, that's pretty damn good! Not everyone is going to immediately jump ship for a new OS. But instead, XP sales are adjusted from 15% to 22%, and it's "an increase of nearly 50%". And yes, that is technically correct (the best kind of correct), but still completely undermines the reality that Vista accounts for 4 out of every 5 OS sales for MS.
I wish they'd put crap like that at the top of the articles, so I could stop reading there and have a bit more of my life back.
After 15 pages (with no notable "print version" option) and enough meaningless graphs, charts, and whoozits to get you a bandwidth warning from your ISP...
It's really big. But it's not really fast. But you're gonna buy it anyways. Cuz it's a fricken TERABYTE!!! Or is that TibiByte? TribbleByte? I'm not sure, I'll have to go read the first few pages again...
Seriously, why the hell do they pain us with all these charts? When was the last time you went to buy a HD and went "Oh, no, not that one, it scored low on the MP3/ISO transfer test, even though it did really good on the Photoshop render thingy and the Doom3 loadscreen". Sheesh.
Q) At what velocity must the Evil Physics Monkey fire himself head-on into the Green Army supply train in order to stop it? The Train has a mass of 80,000kg and is traveling at 50km/h. The Evil Physics Monkey has a mass of 100kg. The EPM's scimitar has a mass of 15kg, recalculate the problem assuming that the EPM has carried his scimitar into battle with the Green Army supply train. Assume structural and soft-tissue damages are not a factor. Well, the clear answer is 0.99C. After all, the question implies we want to stop the forward momentum of the supply train. It shouldn't matter if we cause a little reverse momentum too.
Actually, as much as I have a problem with Sharia law when it comes to women and prostitutes and a variety of other things, I don't have a huge problem with chopping someones hand off for stealing. Why? It's a nonfatal but severe punishment that would severely discourage theft. I also support chopping the wangs off of men who violently rape women (but actual, grab-them rape, not 17 year olds getting a blowjob from a 16 year old). Both serve a good purpose. You do activity X, you suffer a severe penalty. I would predict a huge reduction in those two crimes if we'd implement those. (note, I'm not American, and I suspect if this was implemented in the US it would immediately be abused)
For the uninitiated, they decided to ban the original Carmageddon because one of your goals was to run down pixelated pedestrians in a uniform-but-still-gorey shower of blood. So, to appease those who would protect our values by not letting us run over people in a video game, they changed it so all the pedestrians became zombies, and their blood splatter was now green.
Because, as we all know, it's much less damaging to our youth to imagine that the entire world is infested with the walking undead.
Trackballs have gone the way of Beta. They're a niche market. People were just so confused by something different, they stick with their stupid mice.
I have a Kensington Expert Mouse Pro at work, and I love it. Unfortunately, unlike many other items, the price of them doesn't seem to come down much when they go on ebay, so I use a LogiTech Marble at home. It's alright, better than a mouse, but I dislike it compared to my Pro. I've been a trackball lover for many years tho. They're better for your wrist, easier to use, take less space, and are more versatile. Unfortunately, so many people come in, look at it, and don't understand how it works. I had one person turn it upside down and try using it that way. The majority of mainstream computer users are still idiots, so unfortunately anything different confuses them.
That said, the one area they fall down in for me is drawing and graphics. A tablet or a regular mouse is a lot easier to use for things like drawing on a picture or writing on someones Grafitti wall.
But the answer to the article question is "It's different, and the sheep scare easily"
This is really good news. The military job in Iraq just got easier. Now all the terrorists will be easy to spot. They'll be the ones standing in the middle of the market square holding a big bomb, waiting for 5 minutes for the square to fully render, cursing about lag.
So, for those who have no problem with this... how do you feel about a new police program that uses facial recognition to identify everyone walking through public areas (you know, to catch felons and such), remembers the GPS, and stores that information indefinitely? You've got nothing to hide, right?
Seasons 1-2 were fairly good for what they were, decent kid/teen animated series. Some of them stood out, most didn't, but almost all were entertaining. But Season 3 was da bomb. Dark, desperate storylines. Excellent writing. Character development for almost everyone, every episode. Storylines popping up, fading away, and coming back again. Characters that you worried about because they really felt disposable, that they could die any episode. I was supremely disappointed to see it end after that season. It was better written and more interesting than most series on TV. The only good thing was that it spawned Shadow Raiders, which was also an excellent series, though short-lived. I kinda liked (Season 4)/(The mini-movie), but I've always been hooked on the elements of Season 3. Although I can see why they'd like to restart the series, in a way I wish they'd just continue with the storyline in a way that new viewers could pick up on. Either way, I'll be a definite viewer.
Matrix should be one of the top 100 heroes of all time. Mostly because he's a compilation of all of them.:)
140F +? 140F is 60 C. Protein denatures at that temperature -- nothing human could survive the exposure long-term.
To further underline how ridiculous your claim is, the record highest temperature ever measured in the U.S was 134 degrees F at Death Valley, CA in July of 1913. The record for the world is 136 F at Al' Aziziyah, Libya in September of 1922. While I agree s/he might be stretching a bit, those recorded temperatures are outdoor temperatures. Put a car in the sun with the windows up and it gets damn toasty.
"My round trip to work is 7.5 KM. A little too far to walk or bike..."
You are absolutely joking, I'm sure. A trip of 3.5-4.5 km should be well within the 10-15 minute range for a person on a bike, which is barely enough to make a me break a sweat (unless it is above 25 C out).
I'm sure with all the money you save by filling up once every month or two (since cars are great for grocery runs), you could get some pitstick to take with you if the odour is that bad. A car that does 13km round trips is great for winter, but useless in summer when it's no problem to bike. Funny you should say that. It hit about 35C outside today in the sun. Been like that all month. In a few months it'll be below 0 for 5-6 months. Surrounding that 5-6 month period will be a month bookend of slush, muck, and mud. That gives me basically a 4-6 week window in the spring and fall that I could reliably bike it, excepting freak weather (which we get up here all the time. I've seen green grass at christmas, and snow in June). Oh, and here's hoping I don't get caught on the way home in one of our violent rainstorms that like to spring out of nowhere a few times per season.
I'd love to bike and get even more exercise. But it's just not in the books as a regular activity, based on weather, not even examining whiny cow-irkers. Maybe if I switch to an industrial job, and have someone who can give me a lift home if the weather turns... then I'd be quite happy to. Until then, I just don't see it happening.
7.5KM round trip is too far for a bike ride? How lazy are you? That's less than a half-hour bike ride each way. I mean, I know I'm on Slashdot, but yeesh, how bad of shape are you in? Unfortunately, it's not a question of shape, it's a matter of (a)lack of nearby shower facilites, and (b) 35C+ weather. Throw in a little (c) whiny cow-irkers, and that rules out conveyance methods that involve sweating.
And yes, I'm sure after a month or two I'd barely even be breathing hard. Unfortunately the whining would start far before that.
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Somebody mod this guy +6.
Sheesh, you americans can never make up your mind, can you?
"The government is too big and wasteful. There's so much paperwork and useless red tape and hoops to jump through to do one simple little thing. There's so much money just thrown away! I wish they'd fix that."
"This new system is slick and efficient. It scares me. I wish they had lots of red tape, paperwork, and hoops. That would slow them down and protect my liberties."
four words
don't do at work.
Two words:
Cream Pie
Voila. Slashdot without the Star Trek posts.
Plasma displays?
This is very, very cool.
And I see it ending very, very badly, for some new Darwin Award recipient.
Use what you have... existing tools and infrastructure, and inexpensive or free software.
You have a network. Use it. Briefcase is your friend.
Set up your laptops with a PGP drive to hold all work information. Unless management likes the idea of your work product being stolen and given to a competitor.
Train your users about where to save their data. Then use policies (Windows, not HR) to enforce it.
If they're in the office regularly, use KIX scripts to copy the entire PGP file to the network. Poof, instant backup on startup. Just tell them to plug in and go for coffee.
If they're not, train them to do backups to media. A pgp drive on a memory stick isn't too bad. Better than unencrypted CDs.
Really, that seems like a good start. All it takes is some common sense and training.
Also, it takes my favourite rule of remote users.
"If you're not smart enough to do Task X, after I show you, do it for you, and give you written instructions... then you're not smart enough to have a computer at home."
TFA says they're using a "33 Tesla magnet".
What's with these weird, nonstandard units? How many lightning strikes per american football pitch is that? Or lightbulbs per library of congress?
I wish they'd put crap like that at the top of the articles, so I could stop reading there and have a bit more of my life back.
After 15 pages (with no notable "print version" option) and enough meaningless graphs, charts, and whoozits to get you a bandwidth warning from your ISP...
It's really big. But it's not really fast. But you're gonna buy it anyways. Cuz it's a fricken TERABYTE!!! Or is that TibiByte? TribbleByte? I'm not sure, I'll have to go read the first few pages again...
Seriously, why the hell do they pain us with all these charts? When was the last time you went to buy a HD and went "Oh, no, not that one, it scored low on the MP3/ISO transfer test, even though it did really good on the Photoshop render thingy and the Doom3 loadscreen".
Sheesh.
So what, the ugly ones don't use math?
Probably not as much, it's not like they need to worry about memorizing and reciting 7-digit numbers...
Claim, and proof, are different.Then don't squeal when your two enemies both claim that you stole something from them.
I agree the current implementation of Sharia makes this possible. But that's a fault of the system, not the rules.
Actually, as much as I have a problem with Sharia law when it comes to women and prostitutes and a variety of other things, I don't have a huge problem with chopping someones hand off for stealing. Why? It's a nonfatal but severe punishment that would severely discourage theft. I also support chopping the wangs off of men who violently rape women (but actual, grab-them rape, not 17 year olds getting a blowjob from a 16 year old).
Both serve a good purpose. You do activity X, you suffer a severe penalty. I would predict a huge reduction in those two crimes if we'd implement those.
(note, I'm not American, and I suspect if this was implemented in the US it would immediately be abused)
Ah, the Carmageddon banning. So many memories. :)
For the uninitiated, they decided to ban the original Carmageddon because one of your goals was to run down pixelated pedestrians in a uniform-but-still-gorey shower of blood. So, to appease those who would protect our values by not letting us run over people in a video game, they changed it so all the pedestrians became zombies, and their blood splatter was now green.
Because, as we all know, it's much less damaging to our youth to imagine that the entire world is infested with the walking undead.
Trackballs have gone the way of Beta. They're a niche market. People were just so confused by something different, they stick with their stupid mice.
I have a Kensington Expert Mouse Pro at work, and I love it. Unfortunately, unlike many other items, the price of them doesn't seem to come down much when they go on ebay, so I use a LogiTech Marble at home. It's alright, better than a mouse, but I dislike it compared to my Pro.
I've been a trackball lover for many years tho. They're better for your wrist, easier to use, take less space, and are more versatile. Unfortunately, so many people come in, look at it, and don't understand how it works. I had one person turn it upside down and try using it that way. The majority of mainstream computer users are still idiots, so unfortunately anything different confuses them.
That said, the one area they fall down in for me is drawing and graphics. A tablet or a regular mouse is a lot easier to use for things like drawing on a picture or writing on someones Grafitti wall.
But the answer to the article question is "It's different, and the sheep scare easily"
This is really good news. The military job in Iraq just got easier. Now all the terrorists will be easy to spot. They'll be the ones standing in the middle of the market square holding a big bomb, waiting for 5 minutes for the square to fully render, cursing about lag.
I say Apple should just give him free battery replacements until he's done with his phone.
Loaner extra.
So, for those who have no problem with this... how do you feel about a new police program that uses facial recognition to identify everyone walking through public areas (you know, to catch felons and such), remembers the GPS, and stores that information indefinitely? You've got nothing to hide, right?
Seasons 1-2 were fairly good for what they were, decent kid/teen animated series. Some of them stood out, most didn't, but almost all were entertaining.
:)
But Season 3 was da bomb. Dark, desperate storylines. Excellent writing. Character development for almost everyone, every episode. Storylines popping up, fading away, and coming back again. Characters that you worried about because they really felt disposable, that they could die any episode. I was supremely disappointed to see it end after that season. It was better written and more interesting than most series on TV. The only good thing was that it spawned Shadow Raiders, which was also an excellent series, though short-lived.
I kinda liked (Season 4)/(The mini-movie), but I've always been hooked on the elements of Season 3. Although I can see why they'd like to restart the series, in a way I wish they'd just continue with the storyline in a way that new viewers could pick up on. Either way, I'll be a definite viewer.
Matrix should be one of the top 100 heroes of all time. Mostly because he's a compilation of all of them.
To further underline how ridiculous your claim is, the record highest temperature ever measured in the U.S was 134 degrees F at Death Valley, CA in July of 1913. The record for the world is 136 F at Al' Aziziyah, Libya in September of 1922. While I agree s/he might be stretching a bit, those recorded temperatures are outdoor temperatures. Put a car in the sun with the windows up and it gets damn toasty.
You are absolutely joking, I'm sure. A trip of 3.5-4.5 km should be well within the 10-15 minute range for a person on a bike, which is barely enough to make a me break a sweat (unless it is above 25 C out).
I'm sure with all the money you save by filling up once every month or two (since cars are great for grocery runs), you could get some pitstick to take with you if the odour is that bad. A car that does 13km round trips is great for winter, but useless in summer when it's no problem to bike. Funny you should say that. It hit about 35C outside today in the sun. Been like that all month. In a few months it'll be below 0 for 5-6 months. Surrounding that 5-6 month period will be a month bookend of slush, muck, and mud. That gives me basically a 4-6 week window in the spring and fall that I could reliably bike it, excepting freak weather (which we get up here all the time. I've seen green grass at christmas, and snow in June). Oh, and here's hoping I don't get caught on the way home in one of our violent rainstorms that like to spring out of nowhere a few times per season.
I'd love to bike and get even more exercise. But it's just not in the books as a regular activity, based on weather, not even examining whiny cow-irkers. Maybe if I switch to an industrial job, and have someone who can give me a lift home if the weather turns... then I'd be quite happy to. Until then, I just don't see it happening.
And yes, I'm sure after a month or two I'd barely even be breathing hard. Unfortunately the whining would start far before that.