If you're doing an instrument landing (i.e. all commercial flights, basically everything except single-engine hobbyists), why are there windows in the cockpit?
Just put pull-down shades on the cockpit windows. Leave them closed unless you need them. Problem solved. If you can land in a snowstorm at night, then you don't need the windows in the first place.
It isn't just sex offenders, it includes all strangers:
With Halloween around the corner, parents now have another tool to learn where offenders live so they can ensure their children stay away from those locations, as well as strangers’ homes.
Do people these days really need a smartphone app to tell where strangers live?
Or do loads of people have friends who are sex offenders?
Many modern English speakers use "begging the question" to mean the same as "raises the question".
Many American speakers use "begging the question" to mean the same as "raises the question". The American and English languages are diverging at an alarming rate.
wow, that's not something anyone wants to see, a bug in their hard drive. CPU I can replace, ram I can replace... pretty much everything I can swap out, but my hard drive is where everything is stored, I can't risk losing data because of a bug.
So, you're storing important data on a single drive with no backup? And you expect a typical rotating-magnetic hard drive to last forever and never fail?
Studies show that, overall, long-term failure rates for SSD drives are *lower* than traditional hard drives.
If Ballmer meant that - and he probably did - then he should have said UI, not OS.
When people stop using the almost meaningless term "operating system", and refer to what they mean - kernel, UI, packaged apps, public API - there might be less pointless arguments about Mac vs. Windows vs. "Linux".
So, in your world is 12:00 during the business day in Tokyo? How about Los Angeles? What about Harare?
Today you need to look up a database of time differences so you can tell what time it is now in Tokyo. If everyone used the same clock, you would need to look up what typical working hours are in Tokyo. Same work involved. Once you've called Tokyo a few times you would remember what their workday is. As an added bonus, there would be no confusion as to what *day* it is there, like there is now.
The reason we need timezones is so that we can easily know whether or not a particular time is a reasonable time to be able to contact someone in a geographically distant location.
If you base your decision on local time alone, you are going to be annoying a lot of programmers. 12:00 is far, far too early in the day to be calling, whether they are in Tokyo, LA, or elsewhere.
It is not the colour range so much as the intensity range. Companies are working hard on building sensors with a larger range, but a sensor with both the resolution and the dynamic range of film is not there yet. It might be possible to manufacture a camera with multiple sensors and neutral density filters to expand the range, but I don't think anyone has done so.
Film is still widely used in the television industry because of that. A large percentage of high-budget TV dramas, commercials, and movies are shot on film, and then digitized. Yes, that market will evaporate instantly once a sutable camera appears - and that day may come soon, but it is not here yet. And no, the Red camera is nowhere near good enough yet - it isn't even the best digital movie camera available today.
The original article is wrong, though - Panavision has not stopped manufacturing film cameras. All of their cameras and lenses are custom made, by hand, as needed. You can still get any Panavision gear you want.
Extremely good analogy: very few people who work for a chain of garages can actually rebuild a car engine, and very few people at a help desk can actually fix computer problems.
At least the guys at the garage don't ask you to shut off the car and restart it, to see if that fixes the problem.
Permission?? You have physical access; that's all the permission you need. Just create yourself a bootable CD or USB key, and then go ahead and fix your own problems.
If they were smart, they would design them like the air brakes on trucks - they default to on, the air pressure is required constantly to be able to move the vehicle. That way if an air line leaks, the truck will come to a stop.
The project is pretty ambitious as it is - they are designing *two* things that are not normally done on a bike: electrically activated brakes, and wireless brakes. A totally silly idea for a bicycle, but potentially useful for trailers.
If you spot a lost cell phone, ignore it. Don't touch it, don't look at it, don't ponder it, and above all, don't be the one who calls attention to it.
1.99 is the current release of grub 2. There is no release with a version number that actually begins with 2... or 1 for that matter--"grub legacy" ended at 0.97.
There is a release that begins with 1 - you just said so yourself.
Grub 1 starts with a 0.
Grub 2 starts with a 1.
This is probably a worse situation than Firefox's new-version-every-week.
Well, *there* is the problem. Apple has roughly 50,000 - and makes more phones than Nokia, plus they make iPods, and tablets, and computers, Oh, and operating systems. So if Nokia wants to reduce the company to Apple's size, this is the first 3,500 out of 80,000, or less than 5% of their excess.
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And it has an awesome name: Perky Jerky
Red Hat has differing levels of support at different price levels.
e.g. for a very basic 2-socket x86 server:
So the OP could save significant money by continuing to purchase Red Hat, but dropping support.
But there's nothing in his tour rider that deserves derision
Yeah, there is. RMS doesn't like beer. WTF? First computer geek on the planet who doesn't drink beer.
Maybe that explains his constantly surly attitude.
OK, since you're a pilot....
If you're doing an instrument landing (i.e. all commercial flights, basically everything except single-engine hobbyists), why are there windows in the cockpit?
Just put pull-down shades on the cockpit windows. Leave them closed unless you need them. Problem solved. If you can land in a snowstorm at night, then you don't need the windows in the first place.
It was probably summer when he did it. Once winter arrives, he'll figure out how to answer a phone while wearing a sweater and a coat.
With Halloween around the corner, parents now have another tool to learn where offenders live so they can ensure their children stay away from those locations, as well as strangers’ homes.
Do people these days really need a smartphone app to tell where strangers live?
Or do loads of people have friends who are sex offenders?
a phone call telling them their mail has moved.
You're new here in IT, I can tell. We normally just send them an email with the new POP/SMTP addresses.
Hmmmm... Most start ups fail and end up collapsing completely within a few years!
But in the meantime, there are a ton of perks, including free beer on Fridays. If VanRoekel is going to do that, he has my vote.
Every few days someone comes by with a new programming language claiming to be the best thing since sliced bread. Nobody every shows a scrap of proof.
But I have yet to get a Thinkpad at least 90% running.
I don't have the fingerprint reader on my X200s working with Fedora but everything else works, including the dock.
So, the fingerprint reader counts for 10% of the system??
I don't have much experience with the post-IBM models, though, so I can't claim things haven't changed.
You can still easily buy factory-refurbished IBM ones at bargain prices.
Many modern English speakers use "begging the question" to mean the same as "raises the question".
Many American speakers use "begging the question" to mean the same as "raises the question". The American and English languages are diverging at an alarming rate.
wow, that's not something anyone wants to see, a bug in their hard drive. CPU I can replace, ram I can replace... pretty much everything I can swap out, but my hard drive is where everything is stored, I can't risk losing data because of a bug.
So, you're storing important data on a single drive with no backup? And you expect a typical rotating-magnetic hard drive to last forever and never fail?
Studies show that, overall, long-term failure rates for SSD drives are *lower* than traditional hard drives.
Windows Phone 7 UI is really well done.
If Ballmer meant that - and he probably did - then he should have said UI, not OS.
When people stop using the almost meaningless term "operating system", and refer to what they mean - kernel, UI, packaged apps, public API - there might be less pointless arguments about Mac vs. Windows vs. "Linux".
So, in your world is 12:00 during the business day in Tokyo? How about Los Angeles? What about Harare?
Today you need to look up a database of time differences so you can tell what time it is now in Tokyo. If everyone used the same clock, you would need to look up what typical working hours are in Tokyo. Same work involved. Once you've called Tokyo a few times you would remember what their workday is. As an added bonus, there would be no confusion as to what *day* it is there, like there is now.
The reason we need timezones is so that we can easily know whether or not a particular time is a reasonable time to be able to contact someone in a geographically distant location.
If you base your decision on local time alone, you are going to be annoying a lot of programmers. 12:00 is far, far too early in the day to be calling, whether they are in Tokyo, LA, or elsewhere.
You can certainly do this for your local time zone. If you're booking a flight elsewhere, you can't see the clocks in that time zone.
The database in question is just a list of what everybody around the world would type in.
It is not the colour range so much as the intensity range. Companies are working hard on building sensors with a larger range, but a sensor with both the resolution and the dynamic range of film is not there yet. It might be possible to manufacture a camera with multiple sensors and neutral density filters to expand the range, but I don't think anyone has done so.
Film is still widely used in the television industry because of that. A large percentage of high-budget TV dramas, commercials, and movies are shot on film, and then digitized. Yes, that market will evaporate instantly once a sutable camera appears - and that day may come soon, but it is not here yet. And no, the Red camera is nowhere near good enough yet - it isn't even the best digital movie camera available today.
The original article is wrong, though - Panavision has not stopped manufacturing film cameras. All of their cameras and lenses are custom made, by hand, as needed. You can still get any Panavision gear you want.
Extremely good analogy: very few people who work for a chain of garages can actually rebuild a car engine, and very few people at a help desk can actually fix computer problems.
At least the guys at the garage don't ask you to shut off the car and restart it, to see if that fixes the problem.
Permission?? You have physical access; that's all the permission you need. Just create yourself a bootable CD or USB key, and then go ahead and fix your own problems.
If they were smart, they would design them like the air brakes on trucks - they default to on, the air pressure is required constantly to be able to move the vehicle. That way if an air line leaks, the truck will come to a stop.
The project is pretty ambitious as it is - they are designing *two* things that are not normally done on a bike: electrically activated brakes, and wireless brakes. A totally silly idea for a bicycle, but potentially useful for trailers.
If you spot a lost cell phone, ignore it. Don't touch it, don't look at it, don't ponder it, and above all, don't be the one who calls attention to it.
No, no, no. The *correct* thing to do is to bring it home and put it in your blender.
Extremely satisfying, zero chance of legal repercussions.
1.99 is the current release of grub 2. There is no release with a version number that actually begins with 2... or 1 for that matter--"grub legacy" ended at 0.97.
There is a release that begins with 1 - you just said so yourself.
This is probably a worse situation than Firefox's new-version-every-week.
You mean like this?
Google calls it 45-degree view. Only available in certain locations. Complaints go to the people in the building shown.
[...] even if you did it's not like Firefox or Google would be using such a thing, especially not on OSX --
You were +1 insightful until you said that OSX is Linux. Now you're -1 offtopic.
Nokia has over 130,000 employees.
Well, *there* is the problem. Apple has roughly 50,000 - and makes more phones than Nokia, plus they make iPods, and tablets, and computers, Oh, and operating systems. So if Nokia wants to reduce the company to Apple's size, this is the first 3,500 out of 80,000, or less than 5% of their excess.