Add to that that there were other, less severe but similar problems with the battery on other planes.
Also, I'd say (but nobody listens to me anyway) that if the battery can be misswired like that, it's a design flaw and Boeing should issue a correction. Of course, there is a lot of needed research before stablishing that the battery in fact has this problem, but that'd be the proper action.
For $32,000, a would-be lone wolf or terrorist group can get the “Electromagnetic EMP Blaster Gun, Gen II,” capable of “shutting down a computer at a distance of 15 meters,” or almost 50 feet, and can “ignite highly explosive fuels in case of proximity or contact.”
Do you have any idea of the size of things on a rain florest? Even that 1000 meters maximum radius (for no known price) is ridicuslously small. And those numbers don't take into consideration the fact that the tree atenuates the pulse and that a portable has a single frequency antena that will lose some of the energy of the EMP. Making your radius smaller.
1) There is this thing called "Linux" out there. Have you tried it? KDE is better than W7 in so many ways... And IceWM is better in other ways.
2) Mozilla throwed IE < 9 under the buss, Chrome started the bus and made it move. MS was just watching all the time, trying to save it. After it was dead, MS released IE 9 (it is still a piece of shit, mind you) out of desperation, and in a way that had the least possible impact. Also, stopping figtinhg against something (because you lost al your forces) does not equals supporting something.
3) Yeah,ok. I don't know about that. (You are talking about Visual Studio, right? Because Word...)
4) That's good news for.Net developers. Not a reason to develop in.Net and not a reason to put MS in a good light. I'll make sure some.Net developers around here know about it.
5) You either have a funny definition for "threatened" or you don't know a thing about Mono. MS threats are what shape the entire project.
6) Yeah, they either do that or peole will use something else. Gotta love a free market.
The desktop is not irrelevant. It'll stay relevant as long as the current IO technology remains. (Unless you define "desktop" == "windows PC", then it's becoming irrelevant.)
There are three different things happening right now.
1 - There are plenty of people that don't have a smartphone, and want one (ditto for tablets, those are competing with laptops in some sense, and got some of their market); 2 - People are running away from Windows. Some people are forcing themselves to use bad shaped computers just so that they can escape, other are only running away from the recent versions of Windows; 3 - There was a worldwide economical depression for the last 4.5 years.
Number 1 is going away fast. As phones get cheaper the potential market expands even faster than people aquire them, but the end of the monetary growth is in sight already (in units the phone market will still grow for some time). Number 2 is bad news for Microsoft and nobody else, it matters only to the extent that another OS can take over some market now. Number 3 means people won't buy new computers, not that their current computers are irrelevant; it'll go away some day, but I won't try to guess when.
They put dates in an int, and added 3600 for each hour.
Great, because when compiled to a 64 bits target, their 'int' will have 64 bits.
What about databases where timestamps are stored in plain ints, instead of a special time value?
Is there still any database with 32 bits integers? In postgres you'll have to typecast to get one, I'm not aware of any means to get one in MySQL... Did the proprietary world come along?
Frankly I don't know why FOSS users would bitch about this since they are basically copying your "odd/even" or "LTS/regular" release concepts.
Funny, before I read the replies to that post, I couldn't think of a single FOSS project that used odd/even releases. Linux used to use it, but they reflected upon that and realised it was a dumb thing to do. All that before MS adopted it.
One certainly can draw a line between getting pre-assembled information from a database and being able to directly inquire reality (AKA, experiment it). I'm quite certain that Google won't be able to create a scientist bot just by putting a huge computer on the web, but I also dounbt it will be a big problem for a personal assistant.
He did commit several crimes, and there are some moral issues with them. That's a fact, and I didn't say it wasn't. Now, explain to me how any of that is worse than kiling a person. Or at least why the punishment must be.
Maybe 2 years in prision isn't life destroying. But he had his life already destroyed for 2 years without going into it, with a guarantee that it would stay destroyed by a long time untill something happens. Personaly, I always doubted he would go to a prision at all, but that doesn't make his life any less destroyed.
He purportely stole some information created with public money, but granted to privated a privated party, with the objective of returning it to the public. And was in line to get 35 years of prision for that. How much can you get if you murder someone in the US, by the way?
When he killed himself, he had still not yet been prosecuted. I seem to be missing the part where the "(in)justice system" did something they shouldn't have been doing?
The (in)justice system did still not prosecute him, years after he was marked as a felon and had his life destroyed. That's what it shouldn't have been doing. If you intend to destroy the life of somebody while he awaits judment, that judgment must be quick.
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They can't stop emulation, unless those DRM chips are on your PC.
Add to that that there were other, less severe but similar problems with the battery on other planes.
Also, I'd say (but nobody listens to me anyway) that if the battery can be misswired like that, it's a design flaw and Boeing should issue a correction. Of course, there is a lot of needed research before stablishing that the battery in fact has this problem, but that'd be the proper action.
if you want to pretend it's Debian, why don't you just put Debian in it?
How would they understand that? For 20 years, they never had to.
From your link:
Do you have any idea of the size of things on a rain florest? Even that 1000 meters maximum radius (for no known price) is ridicuslously small. And those numbers don't take into consideration the fact that the tree atenuates the pulse and that a portable has a single frequency antena that will lose some of the energy of the EMP. Making your radius smaller.
1) There is this thing called "Linux" out there. Have you tried it? KDE is better than W7 in so many ways... And IceWM is better in other ways.
2) Mozilla throwed IE < 9 under the buss, Chrome started the bus and made it move. MS was just watching all the time, trying to save it. After it was dead, MS released IE 9 (it is still a piece of shit, mind you) out of desperation, and in a way that had the least possible impact. Also, stopping figtinhg against something (because you lost al your forces) does not equals supporting something.
3) Yeah,ok. I don't know about that. (You are talking about Visual Studio, right? Because Word...)
4) That's good news for .Net developers. Not a reason to develop in .Net and not a reason to put MS in a good light. I'll make sure some .Net developers around here know about it.
5) You either have a funny definition for "threatened" or you don't know a thing about Mono. MS threats are what shape the entire project.
6) Yeah, they either do that or peole will use something else. Gotta love a free market.
7) What does that mean?
The desktop is not irrelevant. It'll stay relevant as long as the current IO technology remains. (Unless you define "desktop" == "windows PC", then it's becoming irrelevant.)
There are three different things happening right now.
1 - There are plenty of people that don't have a smartphone, and want one (ditto for tablets, those are competing with laptops in some sense, and got some of their market);
2 - People are running away from Windows. Some people are forcing themselves to use bad shaped computers just so that they can escape, other are only running away from the recent versions of Windows;
3 - There was a worldwide economical depression for the last 4.5 years.
Number 1 is going away fast. As phones get cheaper the potential market expands even faster than people aquire them, but the end of the monetary growth is in sight already (in units the phone market will still grow for some time). Number 2 is bad news for Microsoft and nobody else, it matters only to the extent that another OS can take over some market now. Number 3 means people won't buy new computers, not that their current computers are irrelevant; it'll go away some day, but I won't try to guess when.
Looks like you missed a "not".
Great, because when compiled to a 64 bits target, their 'int' will have 64 bits.
Is there still any database with 32 bits integers? In postgres you'll have to typecast to get one, I'm not aware of any means to get one in MySQL... Did the proprietary world come along?
Based on the fact that this stopped being true a long while ago, yes, if the number is actualy big, I'd be amazed.
Funny, before I read the replies to that post, I couldn't think of a single FOSS project that used odd/even releases. Linux used to use it, but they reflected upon that and realised it was a dumb thing to do. All that before MS adopted it.
I'm still waiting from the WinFS that would launch with Cairo by 92.
Microsoft always take some two or four years more to deliver Windows than they promissed. Will this time really be different?
(If so, when is the release date?)
One certainly can draw a line between getting pre-assembled information from a database and being able to directly inquire reality (AKA, experiment it). I'm quite certain that Google won't be able to create a scientist bot just by putting a huge computer on the web, but I also dounbt it will be a big problem for a personal assistant.
The Christian Science Monitor? Do you have a credible source?
The gun nuts say the statistics are exactly the contrary to what this site states. Well, they are not a credible source either.
It must be quite a big sphere and have very thin walls to float in the air.
Java 6 has an entirely different set of exploits.
Don't like that? Fork it.
He did commit several crimes, and there are some moral issues with them. That's a fact, and I didn't say it wasn't. Now, explain to me how any of that is worse than kiling a person. Or at least why the punishment must be.
Maybe 2 years in prision isn't life destroying. But he had his life already destroyed for 2 years without going into it, with a guarantee that it would stay destroyed by a long time untill something happens. Personaly, I always doubted he would go to a prision at all, but that doesn't make his life any less destroyed.
He purportely stole some information created with public money, but granted to privated a privated party, with the objective of returning it to the public. And was in line to get 35 years of prision for that. How much can you get if you murder someone in the US, by the way?
The (in)justice system did still not prosecute him, years after he was marked as a felon and had his life destroyed. That's what it shouldn't have been doing. If you intend to destroy the life of somebody while he awaits judment, that judgment must be quick.
But yeah, you are just trolling.
Too much documentation doesn't imply sufficient documentation.
Places that do too much documentation tend to document the most useless details possible, not the usefull large picture vision.
They don't trust in somebody, thus, they make a policy for everybody.
That's too common.
That's just great, I get a DNS error from Oracle when I click on that link.
(But I can resolve all the host names involved... Seems like Oracle lost an internal server.)
It's blocked behing a click-to-play warning. It's just like NoScript, you click on it, and it runs.
You need to take your thermodynamic classes again.
Heat and infrared radiation are two very different things.