Last I read, developing Skylon was going to cost about ten billion pounds (or maybe dollars, though it's a big number either way). So there's a big jump from having an engine to being able to fly into space from your local airport.
Blair sold us to Murdoch, he sold us to Bush, he connived at the deaths of many Iraqis.We really cannot point the finger at the US political system; we elected him all by ourselves.
Who's we?
About 25% of Britons voted for the Labour party, and a majority of those in England who voted voted for the Tories. So you can really blame Blair on a small minority of Scots.
He's just lucky that a lot of people in the UK hate the US (mainly since Iraq) and so he got a lot of public sympathy and so his supporters could bring up the whole Guantanamo Bay/disproportionately long potential prison sentence thing.
That and the fact that he doesn't seem to have actually done anything illegal under UK law.
Of course the 'no questions asked' extradition treaty between the UK and USA is a one-way deal. You don't think the US government would agree to anything so insane, do you?
Bollocks. Most of the stop lights here have flashing lights on the pedestrian crossings that flash about a dozen times before the lights change, so I have a very good idea of when the light is going to change; that means I can either start to brake because I know I'm not going to get through the light, or I can ignore the light because I know it's not going to change, or accelerate so I'll be through the light before it does change. I hate the lights here which don't have pedestrian crossings because I can't tell whether I'm going to have to stop.
Of course the correct solution would be to rip most of them out and replace them with roundabouts.
Here's how speed cameras used to work in the UK when I lived there:
Road would have a big crash when there hadn't previously been one for years. Government would install a speed camera. Police collect fines from people driving past the camera who don't know it's there. Locals either take a different route away from the camera, or hit the brakes just before the camera, then accelerate back to their normal driving speed just after it. No more crashes. Wow, it worked! Except in most previous years there hadn't been a big crash at that spot either.
So the OS is a complete failure because some cheap OEM decides to ditch the touchscreen to save a few bucks?
Who in their right mind wants a touchscreen on a laptop? Yeah, let's spend all day lifting up our arms to press buttons on the screen and then trying to read text through the film of finger crud that now covers it.
Touchscreens suck when you have a keyboard and mouse.
[Unity] has raised the bar for usability on the Linux desktop.
My girlfriend would disagree. We run Unity on the netbook and she's continually asking where some random window has disappeared to and why she can't find the menu bar.
Unity made some useful changes for small screen devices like the netbook, but overall it's a disaster for Linux usability. Now I'm running XFCE on my laptop I'll probably switch the netbook over to it as well.
So you're saying the end-user should have no say about where to install files? That they should rely on the package to install the files wherever it pleases based on the whim of the person who created the package? I'll pass.
A real OS doesn't let apps install files in random places all over the disk, so it's not a problem. If Windows programmers hadn't been allowed to install in random directories and write data files into the program install directories, it would be far less of a horrible mess.
You might know that the message is 'The Commies have XXX tanks' where XXX is a number, but if the pad is correctly generated and used, the XXX can decode to any three digit number whatsoever, so that knowledge gives you no information at all.
That's a cool idea. Then I could install the Ad Block Blocker add-on which would block the query response from going out to the web site and we'd all be happy.
Good point. I don't know about XP/7 but Windows 95 used to pass a lot of 'handles' around which were actually pointers to internal data. If the size of the handles has changed, people may have been storing them as 32-bit integers and now discovering that they're a different size in 64-bit code.
I lost several days of simulation work that had been running over Christmas. Again, not a big deal because I restarted it when I got back in January, but still a real Y2K bug that we hadn't found or fixed.
Duh. That's because a self-signed certificate delivered over the Internet from a random web site provides no protection whatsoever against a man-in-the-middle attack.
By an odd coincidence, this morning I was reading Arthur C Clarke's classic SF short story 'The Nine Billion Versions Of Firefox' where the universe comes to an end when they release version 9,000,000,000. I had hoped it wouldn't happen in my lifetime, but it's looking increasingly likely now.
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Last I read, developing Skylon was going to cost about ten billion pounds (or maybe dollars, though it's a big number either way). So there's a big jump from having an engine to being able to fly into space from your local airport.
Blair sold us to Murdoch, he sold us to Bush, he connived at the deaths of many Iraqis.We really cannot point the finger at the US political system; we elected him all by ourselves.
Who's we?
About 25% of Britons voted for the Labour party, and a majority of those in England who voted voted for the Tories. So you can really blame Blair on a small minority of Scots.
He's just lucky that a lot of people in the UK hate the US (mainly since Iraq) and so he got a lot of public sympathy and so his supporters could bring up the whole Guantanamo Bay/disproportionately long potential prison sentence thing.
That and the fact that he doesn't seem to have actually done anything illegal under UK law.
Of course the 'no questions asked' extradition treaty between the UK and USA is a one-way deal. You don't think the US government would agree to anything so insane, do you?
Bollocks. Most of the stop lights here have flashing lights on the pedestrian crossings that flash about a dozen times before the lights change, so I have a very good idea of when the light is going to change; that means I can either start to brake because I know I'm not going to get through the light, or I can ignore the light because I know it's not going to change, or accelerate so I'll be through the light before it does change. I hate the lights here which don't have pedestrian crossings because I can't tell whether I'm going to have to stop.
Of course the correct solution would be to rip most of them out and replace them with roundabouts.
Here's how speed cameras used to work in the UK when I lived there:
Road would have a big crash when there hadn't previously been one for years.
Government would install a speed camera.
Police collect fines from people driving past the camera who don't know it's there.
Locals either take a different route away from the camera, or hit the brakes just before the camera, then accelerate back to their normal driving speed just after it.
No more crashes. Wow, it worked! Except in most previous years there hadn't been a big crash at that spot either.
So the OS is a complete failure because some cheap OEM decides to ditch the touchscreen to save a few bucks?
Who in their right mind wants a touchscreen on a laptop? Yeah, let's spend all day lifting up our arms to press buttons on the screen and then trying to read text through the film of finger crud that now covers it.
Touchscreens suck when you have a keyboard and mouse.
And you need someone to hide inside your basement walls and randomly jump out at you.
[Unity] has raised the bar for usability on the Linux desktop.
My girlfriend would disagree. We run Unity on the netbook and she's continually asking where some random window has disappeared to and why she can't find the menu bar.
Unity made some useful changes for small screen devices like the netbook, but overall it's a disaster for Linux usability. Now I'm running XFCE on my laptop I'll probably switch the netbook over to it as well.
So you're saying the end-user should have no say about where to install files? That they should rely on the package to install the files wherever it pleases based on the whim of the person who created the package? I'll pass.
A real OS doesn't let apps install files in random places all over the disk, so it's not a problem. If Windows programmers hadn't been allowed to install in random directories and write data files into the program install directories, it would be far less of a horrible mess.
Raids today are as challenging as they've ever been. Anything else is filler.
The only challenge raids have ever posed is finding enough people able to press buttons at the right time who aren't complete morons.
You still don't get it.
You might know that the message is 'The Commies have XXX tanks' where XXX is a number, but if the pad is correctly generated and used, the XXX can decode to any three digit number whatsoever, so that knowledge gives you no information at all.
You're right. If you know what the decoded message is, you can easily decode it without knowing the pad.
Otherwise, you have no chance if the pad was correctly created and used, as any character in the message can decode to any other character.
That's a cool idea. Then I could install the Ad Block Blocker add-on which would block the query response from going out to the web site and we'd all be happy.
Good point. I don't know about XP/7 but Windows 95 used to pass a lot of 'handles' around which were actually pointers to internal data. If the size of the handles has changed, people may have been storing them as 32-bit integers and now discovering that they're a different size in 64-bit code.
You are John Galt and I claim my five gold dollars.
Safari does this now too, it is now the rule rather than the exception...
Stupidity is contagious.
We do have common sense. That's why we know touchscreens on the desktop are a really, really dumb idea unless you're solving crimes on CSI.
Most people probably wouldn't be complaining if Metro wasn't forced on them when running it on a machine with a keyboard and mouse.
Because I totally want to give random PPAs root access to my machines.
I trust an actual distro used by large numbers of people far more than a PPA few have ever heard of.
I lost several days of simulation work that had been running over Christmas. Again, not a big deal because I restarted it when I got back in January, but still a real Y2K bug that we hadn't found or fixed.
To be fair, if you actually need the accuracy NTP provides, you probably shouldn't be running Windows.
Duh. That's because a self-signed certificate delivered over the Internet from a random web site provides no protection whatsoever against a man-in-the-middle attack.
By an odd coincidence, this morning I was reading Arthur C Clarke's classic SF short story 'The Nine Billion Versions Of Firefox' where the universe comes to an end when they release version 9,000,000,000. I had hoped it wouldn't happen in my lifetime, but it's looking increasingly likely now.
But, uh, didn't 10.0 ESR only come out a couple of months ago?
But it is a devil's bargain, as long as this system continues, it is yoking so many people to the jobs they hate.
You seem to think that's an unintended consequence of the health insurance laws.