virtually all propeller planes that carry passengers are turbo props, i.e. just as vulnerable.
Small piston-driven aircraft might be affected to a lesser degree but they still need an airfilter that isn't clogged with dust to function. I don't know if the volcanic ash particles are smaller than the normal particulates that air filters are designed to remove. Hope so, otherwise a lot of cars will be having expensive engine problems, too.
...and choose hardware from a vendor that understands this - most vendors will sell a "pro" line that is substantially the same as a home desktop version, but they'll guarantee production of that model with that hardware for x years - e.g. Dell Inspiron vs Lattitude models.
DOn't get me started with manufacturers who think it's a brilliant idea to swap 3Com for Broadlink NICs mid batch...
Yup. It's going to get lost in a sea of zealotry though, isn't it!
The old way I used to do it was set driver path to a folder on C, and place any new hardware drivers in that folder everytime I updated the image. The image itself was of a Windows install that had been stopped immediately prior to first boot - before Windows has seen the hardware it's running on for the first time and hasn't installed any specific drivers. Ghost that image and so long as your new hardware has driver.inf files placed in the driver directory, it'll boot and install just fine (assuming you're using compatible HAL but that's almost certainly the case)
interestingly there have been a number of studies which show that within close range, an assailant armed with a knife will almost always come out on top of someone with a gun, even if that gun is drawn and readied for use. I agree with your other points though.
YOu're kidding, right? At, what, a billion dollars, it'd make sense for HTC to buy Palm, bin WebOS, and acquire all their IP. Patent law is patent war - Apple has noticeably *not* gone after Palm about multitouch etc - they've gone after Google/HTC/Android. Apple knows that Palm has enough patents to tie Apple up in mutually-assured destruction for years.
HTC could buy Palm, licence certain IP to Google / the OHSA and so free Android from any legal mither from Apple.
Personally, I'd love to see WebOS get extended - I think it's great, however I doubt there's room for 3 big app-store ecosystems in the market, soon to be 4 with Windows Phone 7. I think it more likely that HTC might buy them for the reason above, and then skin Android using WebOS stuff, thus differentiating their product from the other OHSA Android phones.
HTC would own Palm's IP, which appears to be strong enough to ward off Apple - as Apple are suing HTC for features in Android (huh?) currently, this would both strengthen their hand with Apple, and with Google and the Open Handset Alliance, and also give them a choice of going HTC-WebOS, using Android, or Windows Phone 7 (which now you can't skin it removes HTC's Sense UI)
No it isn't. The bulk of their revenue doesn't come from people buying retail copies of the OS and upgrading, it comes from deals with the PC manufacturers to supply new machines with the latest OS preinstalled. Hence bloating is in their interest and the hardware manufacturer's interest as it sells machines. A surprising small percentage of people ever upgrade their OS themselves...
...it's so Peter Mandelson can hand a nice, fat-profit-inducing mess over to Murdoch and the big media companies. Crack down on things they see as threatening their revenue stream, and give people a big fat pipe from which to slurp premium content. In return, maybe there'll be some favourable coverage in the media of Labour in the run up to the election on May 6th.
What's wrong with you? This is a city that is home to huge numbers of people. People who didn't ask for an invasion, and didn't ask for armoured helicopters to lay waste to the suburbs on a whim. It's not some distant battlefield - it's urban one-sided warfare. Where do you suggest a city of people move to?
I spent 10 years in pharma IT. Compliance gives you, as the IT tech guy, a stick to hit the bean counters with to justify your security. You have serious licence-to-operative FDA tigers growling at you, and it's no longer acceptable to not bother with some reasonable baseline of security and repeatability - ComVal. If you need to spend a small fortune on fixing a security problem, you'll get it if you phrase your request in terms of compliance.
in the UK cell phone records have been used as evidence of dangerous driving after fatalities for years - it's common place. You don't have to actually be on th ephone at the time of the crash for it to count against you - there was a case of an articulated lorry killing a teenager through gross inattention where the records showed that for the previous 40 miles he'd made a number of calls (without handsfree), sent a large number of texts, etc when he wasn't stationary. I think this is fair enough. It has crossed my mind that my iPhone's tendency to go off and do data things by itself might count against me in a crash if it looked like I'd been surfing the net rather than my phone downloading my push email in the bvackground...
It wasn't a great game, but what they did do pretty well was the first model of the centre of London, with accurate-ish streetmaps. I spent a lot of time playing that game, having not driven around London much, and was a bit freaked out to realise that when I drove up to see a Londoner mate a few months later that I actually knew my way around some of it!
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virtually all propeller planes that carry passengers are turbo props, i.e. just as vulnerable. Small piston-driven aircraft might be affected to a lesser degree but they still need an airfilter that isn't clogged with dust to function. I don't know if the volcanic ash particles are smaller than the normal particulates that air filters are designed to remove. Hope so, otherwise a lot of cars will be having expensive engine problems, too.
AAAARRRRRRR! Ready ye selves, me boys, there's plunder a plenty!
look up British Airways Flight 9 on wikipedia.
...and choose hardware from a vendor that understands this - most vendors will sell a "pro" line that is substantially the same as a home desktop version, but they'll guarantee production of that model with that hardware for x years - e.g. Dell Inspiron vs Lattitude models.
DOn't get me started with manufacturers who think it's a brilliant idea to swap 3Com for Broadlink NICs mid batch...
Yup. It's going to get lost in a sea of zealotry though, isn't it! .inf files placed in the driver directory, it'll boot and install just fine (assuming you're using compatible HAL but that's almost certainly the case)
The old way I used to do it was set driver path to a folder on C, and place any new hardware drivers in that folder everytime I updated the image. The image itself was of a Windows install that had been stopped immediately prior to first boot - before Windows has seen the hardware it's running on for the first time and hasn't installed any specific drivers. Ghost that image and so long as your new hardware has driver
presumably health insurance doesn't cover a "happy finish"
interestingly there have been a number of studies which show that within close range, an assailant armed with a knife will almost always come out on top of someone with a gun, even if that gun is drawn and readied for use. I agree with your other points though.
youtube works on 10+ platforms. like opera content, it's all rendered server side and streamed.
Sure, you can buy lawyers, but you can't as readily buy a particular verdict. Palm's portfolio of patents is very, very strong. See http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/09/editorial-htc-and-palm-should-get-hitched-and-make-beautiful-ba/ for Engadget's take on it. At $870m, they'd be getting a lot for their money.
YOu're kidding, right? At, what, a billion dollars, it'd make sense for HTC to buy Palm, bin WebOS, and acquire all their IP. Patent law is patent war - Apple has noticeably *not* gone after Palm about multitouch etc - they've gone after Google/HTC/Android. Apple knows that Palm has enough patents to tie Apple up in mutually-assured destruction for years.
HTC could buy Palm, licence certain IP to Google / the OHSA and so free Android from any legal mither from Apple.
Personally, I'd love to see WebOS get extended - I think it's great, however I doubt there's room for 3 big app-store ecosystems in the market, soon to be 4 with Windows Phone 7. I think it more likely that HTC might buy them for the reason above, and then skin Android using WebOS stuff, thus differentiating their product from the other OHSA Android phones.
I *hate* your yellow teeth
They publicised their earnings projections, it was pretty bloody obvious that they were ripe for purchase
HTC would own Palm's IP, which appears to be strong enough to ward off Apple - as Apple are suing HTC for features in Android (huh?) currently, this would both strengthen their hand with Apple, and with Google and the Open Handset Alliance, and also give them a choice of going HTC-WebOS, using Android, or Windows Phone 7 (which now you can't skin it removes HTC's Sense UI)
No it isn't. The bulk of their revenue doesn't come from people buying retail copies of the OS and upgrading, it comes from deals with the PC manufacturers to supply new machines with the latest OS preinstalled. Hence bloating is in their interest and the hardware manufacturer's interest as it sells machines. A surprising small percentage of people ever upgrade their OS themselves...
They're not going to be checking this, they'll be checking the sticker on the bottom of the unit against the one on the box or their records
...it's so Peter Mandelson can hand a nice, fat-profit-inducing mess over to Murdoch and the big media companies. Crack down on things they see as threatening their revenue stream, and give people a big fat pipe from which to slurp premium content. In return, maybe there'll be some favourable coverage in the media of Labour in the run up to the election on May 6th.
What's wrong with you? This is a city that is home to huge numbers of people. People who didn't ask for an invasion, and didn't ask for armoured helicopters to lay waste to the suburbs on a whim. It's not some distant battlefield - it's urban one-sided warfare. Where do you suggest a city of people move to?
I spent 10 years in pharma IT. Compliance gives you, as the IT tech guy, a stick to hit the bean counters with to justify your security. You have serious licence-to-operative FDA tigers growling at you, and it's no longer acceptable to not bother with some reasonable baseline of security and repeatability - ComVal. If you need to spend a small fortune on fixing a security problem, you'll get it if you phrase your request in terms of compliance.
in the UK cell phone records have been used as evidence of dangerous driving after fatalities for years - it's common place. You don't have to actually be on th ephone at the time of the crash for it to count against you - there was a case of an articulated lorry killing a teenager through gross inattention where the records showed that for the previous 40 miles he'd made a number of calls (without handsfree), sent a large number of texts, etc when he wasn't stationary. I think this is fair enough.
It has crossed my mind that my iPhone's tendency to go off and do data things by itself might count against me in a crash if it looked like I'd been surfing the net rather than my phone downloading my push email in the bvackground...
" It's important to be able to yank the impossible out of your ass on a moments notice, or you suddenly become another statistic."
I'm going to use this quote. Nice post.
...but you get to drop the price of a console on a new graphics card every 6 months...!
Man, I'm bored of TuxRacer
You can, but it's not intuitive. There's a terminal command, or a free app called "Deep Sleep" that let you set it:
http://www.macworld.com/article/53471/2006/10/sleepmode.html
It wasn't a great game, but what they did do pretty well was the first model of the centre of London, with accurate-ish streetmaps. I spent a lot of time playing that game, having not driven around London much, and was a bit freaked out to realise that when I drove up to see a Londoner mate a few months later that I actually knew my way around some of it!
My bad, misread the parent post. You're right of course: a compromomised VM won't see host keyboard traffic.