Of course the turbulence will look like tornadoes, but can't they adjust the sensitivity to "if vortex 3m ignore" Or set them to scan Higher then 100m Or whatever the tallest turbine is in that region?
If you get caught DUI then there are "reliable" tests that can determine your blood alcohol content, which is then used determine legal liability.
How do you prove that a person was 'texting, webbing, reading, etc'?
A (busted?) phone that may or may not show an active message screen x minutes after an accident for the police to look at? Eye-Witness reports? (looking down at radio vs looking down to text)
These lawmakers are chasing smoke. They want to look like they are trying to make a difference but ANY half competent lawyer could likely get those charges thrown out.
Laws already exist that cover crap like this: Undue care and attention while operating a motor vehicle. Unsafe operation of a motor vehicle. Dangerous driving. Dangerous driving resulting in bodily harm. Manslaughter.
Most crashes caused by idiot drivers can get 1-3 of those charges applied, do we _really_ need to add more?
After several instances of your company being evil towards the community bnetd & removal of LAN play on your newest titles, please give me a good reason to buy what you are selling.
I'd like to give all these dev's that pushed/forced us away from tree/folder view a boot to the head. X-Tree Gold in the DOS days had more functionality then a modern file-manager does.
Here is a hint that you are doing something wrong:
If you have to spend time adding functionality to a program that worked before you removed another function, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG!
I have recently moved to OSX for a big project I am working on, and I curse Steve Jobs mother every time I need to use Finder and open a dozen different windows/work my way through several nested folders that 3 mouse clicks would do in Windows Explorer/Konq. (from v3.5)
This is a perfect marketing opportunity for an E-Book reader. A device like a Kindle that gets VERY long battery life + can hold MANY books would be the perfect design for the weight conscious space launch, limited electrical supply, and low-bandwidth data link (email).
If I were to spend 200+ days in transit I would want a lot of reading material. All duties become dull and repetitive, it's the down-time that will drive a man insane from boredom.
Just because most of the IP's involved were from the UK does not mean that N.Korea wasn't responsible.
I have to wonder how one 'creates' such a geography specific botnet. Do they have UK spam with words like bollocks? Or in the USA is it 'gun porn'? I bet they use 'Tim Hortons' to catch the Canadians. =)
I understand that this could be considered definitive proof of an 'instrument', but surely they don't discount that beating two sticks together can be considered as being musical either.
Consider this: prehistoric man had to be MORE intelligent to survive then modern man. If all electrical devices stop working tomorrow, a significant % of the population will be dead within 4 weeks.
Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople So if you've a date in Constantinople She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way
So take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul (Istanbul) Istanbul (Istanbul)
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way
Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks
So take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks
This was better then the last 3 movies combined. I liked the way the characters were introduced (minus Kirk). I liked the story line. I liked the character development. I loved the fanboy nods.
I hated everything else. The lens-flare was so horrible (in my theatre) that there were entire scenes in the film that I could not see due to the film being completely white-washed. I was tempted to leave within the first 15 minutes due to the lens flare.
The bridge: I have seen the future; and it is an Apple iMac inspired hell. The translucent glass was everywhere and it looked like ass.
The engine room: the scale was completely wrong, and was jarring. I liked the idea of having a 'mechanical' engine room, this looked more like a Detroit Big-3 factory then a nuclear sub.
In summary: The story was decent, the film was distracting. This is the last Trek for me.
I have heard for a long time how horrible OOo looked. Personally, I never understood what the problem was. The icons were clear and easy to dostinguosh between them, and the text-buttons were obvious.
Compared to the newest version of MS Office, I'd say that any version of OOo wins hands down.
An OS job is to interpret application I/O into something the hardware understands and vice versa.
It should be transparent to the end user. This transparancy is shattered when the UI changes.
Microsoft OS version --------- Release date
Dos based releases: Win v3.1 March 1992 Win 95 August 1995 ***3 years between radical UI changes Win 98 June 1998 Windows Me September 2000
NT based: Windows NT 3.1 July 1993 Windows NT Server 4.0 July 1996 Win 2000 February 2000 ***4 years between radical UI change Server 2003 April 2003 Windows XP October 2001 ***Cosmetic change that could be reverted Windows Vista January 2007 ***7 years between radical cosmetic change Windows 7 2009*
"Average" family computing history Win3.1 -> Win95 -> WinXP -> Vista -> Win7 0 -> 3 years -> 6 years -> 6 years -> 8 years
The amount of time that transpired between Win95 & XP was a huge 6 years. This major change was resisted by a LOT of people. Eventually people accepted it and adapted. When Vista was released the # of "average families with computers" was larger, therefore even though the time-spam between 95-XP & XP-Vista was the same, there were MORE people complaining.
The need to relearn how-to do something is the single most annoying aspect of the computing experience. Necessary changes (i.e. Win3.1 ->Win95) between generations can be understood (Apple did this 'correctly' in OSX), but unnecessary changes (i.e. Win2k -> XP -> Vista) are annoying roadblocks to getting things done.
That is the purpose of an OS, enable the user to 'get-at' the applications (s)he want and get out of the way.
I use Debian, Fluxbox is my WM. My OS does not impede me.
I am the type of user who types it first, then makes it pretty. Too often in the past going back to WordPerfect5.1 for DOS days, the darned program would try to guess what I wanted to do next and force different styles on me. i.e. bullet points.
Having to stop what I am doing and FIX the errors that computer has made is complete regression in UI design, and 10+ years later they still have not learnt.
So now all of my data input happens in nano. I use OO as needed, as opposed to more regularly.
The real reason Vista & v7 won't get adopted is because of technology.
Win95 -> 32bit CPU support Win98 -> Proper 32bit support WinNT -> SMP Win2k -> Active Directory * WinXP -> USB Vista & v7 -> 64bit
-Yes Win98 did support USB but it was VERY buggy and required 3rd party drivers to make work. -It is true that AD was an "MS idea (copied from Novell)" but it made Big Companies much happier then NT did. -Average users don't need 64bit yet. That is why the uptake isn't there yet. The one feature that XP should have had out of the box *proper CD/DVD burning* is now in Vista/v7, but people are already trained to use a 3rd party app to do that.
There is no "must-have" technology that requires people to upgrade, therefore they won't.
So it appears that the Marketing department has won once again. After ~2000 years they have decided to 'freshen things up a little'. Looks like Buddy Christ lost.
So now that the Vatican is a Solar sect, does that mean using sunblock SPF-50 is a sin? Skin cancer the new stigmata?
Remember kids; everything old is new again, I'm just waiting for my Leisure Suits to come back into style.
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Of course the turbulence will look like tornadoes, but can't they adjust the sensitivity to "if vortex 3m ignore" Or set them to scan Higher then 100m Or whatever the tallest turbine is in that region?
If you get caught DUI then there are "reliable" tests that can determine your blood alcohol content, which is then used determine legal liability.
How do you prove that a person was 'texting, webbing, reading, etc'?
A (busted?) phone that may or may not show an active message screen x minutes after an accident for the police to look at?
Eye-Witness reports? (looking down at radio vs looking down to text)
These lawmakers are chasing smoke. They want to look like they are trying to make a difference but ANY half competent lawyer could likely get those charges thrown out.
Laws already exist that cover crap like this:
Undue care and attention while operating a motor vehicle.
Unsafe operation of a motor vehicle.
Dangerous driving.
Dangerous driving resulting in bodily harm.
Manslaughter.
Most crashes caused by idiot drivers can get 1-3 of those charges applied, do we _really_ need to add more?
In 1965 Canada brought into law the "Auto Pact" ahref=http://www.canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/1965canada_us_auto_pact.htmlrel=url2html-14781http://www.canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/1965canada_us_auto_pact.html>
It basically states that for every car bought in Canada, one car must be built in Canada.
(In 2001 it was abolished because it infringed on NAFTA.)
This policy works for everybody except the greedy CEO's. Any manufacturing industry could be converted to this setup.
After several instances of your company being evil towards the community bnetd & removal of LAN play on your newest titles, please give me a good reason to buy what you are selling.
I'd like to give all these dev's that pushed/forced us away from tree/folder view a boot to the head. X-Tree Gold in the DOS days had more functionality then a modern file-manager does.
Here is a hint that you are doing something wrong:
If you have to spend time adding functionality to a program that worked before you removed another function, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG!
I have recently moved to OSX for a big project I am working on, and I curse Steve Jobs mother every time I need to use Finder and open a dozen different windows/work my way through several nested folders that 3 mouse clicks would do in Windows Explorer/Konq. (from v3.5)
This is a perfect marketing opportunity for an E-Book reader. A device like a Kindle that gets VERY long battery life + can hold MANY books would be the perfect design for the weight conscious space launch, limited electrical supply, and low-bandwidth data link (email).
If I were to spend 200+ days in transit I would want a lot of reading material. All duties become dull and repetitive, it's the down-time that will drive a man insane from boredom.
Just because most of the IP's involved were from the UK does not mean that N.Korea wasn't responsible.
I have to wonder how one 'creates' such a geography specific botnet. Do they have UK spam with words like bollocks? Or in the USA is it 'gun porn'? I bet they use 'Tim Hortons' to catch the Canadians. =)
Here is the link:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=&daddr=Wintermute+Dr&hl=en&geocode=FeOahQIdW1YQ-w&mra=mr&sll=42.30243,-82.93065&sspn=0.216343,0.451126&ie=UTF8&ll=42.30423,-82.855453&spn=0.216336,0.451126&z=11
I was just finishing my bike-camping trip when I saw a street-sign called: Wintermute Ave. I giggled and took a picture.
I did proofread. I didn't think till later to add the model information.
I have the 720, and it is great.
P.S. Hey Slashdot, can we get an edit button!
It runs Linux, uses mplayer for media output, and is very hackable.
http://www.webazar.org/tomtom/index.php
Tripmaster is the #1 3rd party app that you can install. There is lots of other stuff you can do to it too.
I understand that this could be considered definitive proof of an 'instrument', but surely they don't discount that beating two sticks together can be considered as being musical either.
Consider this: prehistoric man had to be MORE intelligent to survive then modern man. If all electrical devices stop working tomorrow, a significant % of the population will be dead within 4 weeks.
I discovered that housepaint is made from latex. Condoms are made from latex.
Now I keep a can of Sears Weather-beater next to my bed.
This is the might Slash. We can understand proper units.
Femto = 10^-15
If I were MS I'd do it for them for free:
Just include a copy of lynx.
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul (Istanbul)
Istanbul (Istanbul)
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul
I want a single eye-piece monochrome display (800x600 at a minimum) with a good pixel density.
Something that I could ssh/mutt/lynx with (ssh being #1 on the list).
I'd pay upto $400 for this display.
This was better then the last 3 movies combined.
I liked the way the characters were introduced (minus Kirk).
I liked the story line.
I liked the character development.
I loved the fanboy nods.
I hated everything else. The lens-flare was so horrible (in my theatre) that there were entire scenes in the film that I could not see due to the film being completely white-washed. I was tempted to leave within the first 15 minutes due to the lens flare.
The bridge: I have seen the future; and it is an Apple iMac inspired hell. The translucent glass was everywhere and it looked like ass.
The engine room: the scale was completely wrong, and was jarring. I liked the idea of having a 'mechanical' engine room, this looked more like a Detroit Big-3 factory then a nuclear sub.
In summary: The story was decent, the film was distracting. This is the last Trek for me.
I have heard for a long time how horrible OOo looked. Personally, I never understood what the problem was. The icons were clear and easy to dostinguosh between them, and the text-buttons were obvious.
Compared to the newest version of MS Office, I'd say that any version of OOo wins hands down.
An OS job is to interpret application I/O into something the hardware understands and vice versa.
It should be transparent to the end user. This transparancy is shattered when the UI changes.
Microsoft OS version --------- Release date
Dos based releases:
Win v3.1 March 1992
Win 95 August 1995 ***3 years between radical UI changes
Win 98 June 1998
Windows Me September 2000
NT based:
Windows NT 3.1 July 1993
Windows NT Server 4.0 July 1996
Win 2000 February 2000 ***4 years between radical UI change
Server 2003 April 2003
Windows XP October 2001 ***Cosmetic change that could be reverted
Windows Vista January 2007 ***7 years between radical cosmetic change
Windows 7 2009*
"Average" family computing history
Win3.1 -> Win95 -> WinXP -> Vista -> Win7
0 -> 3 years -> 6 years -> 6 years -> 8 years
The amount of time that transpired between Win95 & XP was a huge 6 years. This major change was resisted by a LOT of people. Eventually people accepted it and adapted.
When Vista was released the # of "average families with computers" was larger, therefore even though the time-spam between 95-XP & XP-Vista was the same, there were MORE people complaining.
The need to relearn how-to do something is the single most annoying aspect of the computing experience. Necessary changes (i.e. Win3.1 ->Win95) between generations can be understood (Apple did this 'correctly' in OSX), but unnecessary changes (i.e. Win2k -> XP -> Vista) are annoying roadblocks to getting things done.
That is the purpose of an OS, enable the user to 'get-at' the applications (s)he want and get out of the way.
I use Debian, Fluxbox is my WM. My OS does not impede me.
You win 100 free internets for this most awesome usage of a line from Office Space.
Seriously, great post.
I am the type of user who types it first, then makes it pretty. Too often in the past going back to WordPerfect5.1 for DOS days, the darned program would try to guess what I wanted to do next and force different styles on me. i.e. bullet points.
Having to stop what I am doing and FIX the errors that computer has made is complete regression in UI design, and 10+ years later they still have not learnt.
So now all of my data input happens in nano. I use OO as needed, as opposed to more regularly.
The real reason Vista & v7 won't get adopted is because of technology.
Win95 -> 32bit CPU support
Win98 -> Proper 32bit support
WinNT -> SMP
Win2k -> Active Directory *
WinXP -> USB
Vista & v7 -> 64bit
-Yes Win98 did support USB but it was VERY buggy and required 3rd party drivers to make work.
-It is true that AD was an "MS idea (copied from Novell)" but it made Big Companies much happier then NT did.
-Average users don't need 64bit yet. That is why the uptake isn't there yet. The one feature that XP should have had out of the box *proper CD/DVD burning* is now in Vista/v7, but people are already trained to use a 3rd party app to do that.
There is no "must-have" technology that requires people to upgrade, therefore they won't.
So it appears that the Marketing department has won once again. After ~2000 years they have decided to 'freshen things up a little'. Looks like Buddy Christ lost.
So now that the Vatican is a Solar sect, does that mean using sunblock SPF-50 is a sin?
Skin cancer the new stigmata?
Remember kids; everything old is new again, I'm just waiting for my Leisure Suits to come back into style.