Further I'm not even convinced that speeding is that dangerous, drink/drug driving is far more likely to result in a fatal accident - and I have met people who do just that for fun. It's idiocy but these are just the people who you'd need to deal with...
Quite. Crap driving is the biggest cause of accidents, and speeding is just one part of that. (According to the UK's TRL, some figure in excess of 90% of accidents are due to human error.)
If you CHOOSE to run a proprietary, closed-source OS or application then there's something wrong with you and you must be ostracised.
It seems perverse to run a proprietary, closed-source OS or application because it is proprietary and/or closed-source. On the other hand, if it's the only thing that does the job then one must lump it.
I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in -3000 BC is a fundamental error.
Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design:-)
Honestly, you'd think the editors would be wiser than to post this story on today of all days, when Snakes on a Plane goes on general release. (Slashdot story yet?!) Maybe they were concerned about security --- trying to avoid worms on a plane and all that.
I have a colleague who works with Lattice QCD and he occasionally uses the AIX-based QCDOC front-end machine. "Foreign country" is more or less exactly how I'd describe it, and I refrain from LARTing him whenever he asks "obvious" questions with it. Even the staple UNIX stuff is different — cp, cat, no switched support for gzip or bzip2 on tar. It's like something from fifteen years ago.
Am I the only person that thought this posting was going to be about Viagra? Must just be the email I've been getting lately.
Going offtopic, the spam I've been getting recently has taken the curious (and some might say disturbing) turn of offering not Viagra-like products, but things that can reputedly increase, er, raw throughput. Quite why anyone would want to make any more mess than necessary is beyond me (unless they're trying to appeal to the subconscious male intent to sire as many offspring as possible).
Also HP failed to give the 48 GX a good programming language, and they gave up on the mythology of greatness.
I think HP did very well with User RPL considering the hardware limitations. It's a remarkably powerful and elegant language that should've been applied elsewhere. For example, it's object orientation features could've been greatly expanded to permit a user-defined class structure. Parallel execution is another possible feature (not on a calculator, but you could easily run multiple concurrent stacks on a computer). And you could go berserk with RPL's namespace system. How many other calculators have a programming language that can re-write its own programs?
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Quite. Crap driving is the biggest cause of accidents, and speeding is just one part of that. (According to the UK's TRL, some figure in excess of 90% of accidents are due to human error.)
Really, unless this thing hooks the ECU to mandate its use. Or does it work on parental faith alone?
See, another reason to move to open-source solutions because you never get... oh, wait...
So what's wrong with WPA Enterprise using EAP-TLS and AES encryption?
It seems perverse to run a proprietary, closed-source OS or application because it is proprietary and/or closed-source. On the other hand, if it's the only thing that does the job then one must lump it.
To all you guys pointing out the very obvious mistake of -3000 years BC, I ask that you take into account the wrap-around.
All makes sense now, doesn't it? Eh?
I'm an atheist, but that sort of kills the joke.
From: Andy T.
:-)
To: The Almighty
I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in -3000 BC is a fundamental error.
Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design
Honestly, you'd think the editors would be wiser than to post this story on today of all days, when Snakes on a Plane goes on general release. (Slashdot story yet?!) Maybe they were concerned about security --- trying to avoid worms on a plane and all that.
I have a colleague who works with Lattice QCD and he occasionally uses the AIX-based QCDOC front-end machine. "Foreign country" is more or less exactly how I'd describe it, and I refrain from LARTing him whenever he asks "obvious" questions with it. Even the staple UNIX stuff is different — cp, cat, no switched support for gzip or bzip2 on tar. It's like something from fifteen years ago.
Open AIX?
Isn't the whole idea to improve the Open Source gene pool?
Bloody lameness filter runied the original version of this post. "Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING." That's the WHOLE FUCKING IDEA!
Hey, 1982 just called — they want their, etc., etc.
"Zaurus speaks! The stylus is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes blah, blah, blah... Go forth and organise your day."
Oh, it's the old "dereference a page outside the publication bounds" running gag!
I remember there used to be loads of classified ads for "covert surveillance devices" in the back of Private Eye. Haven't seen them in a while, now.
I say, isn't lurking fun?!
This is the Grauniad we're talking about here. Forgive them, for they know roughly what they do.
1. Google.com; 2. Slashdot; 3. arXiv.org (preprints galore); 4. HoTMaiL (back when it was good); 5. Amazon.com 6. Wikipedia; 7. Flickr; 8. del.icio.us; 9. The Internet Archive; 10. Cryptome; 11. goatse.cx 12. MathWorld; 13. eBay/PayPal; 14. MySpace; 15. Timecube.
Oh! Oh! Here! And here! Even more! Yet More! Ha ha ha, lol! OMGWTFUSS1701D! And not forgetting this!
Going offtopic, the spam I've been getting recently has taken the curious (and some might say disturbing) turn of offering not Viagra-like products, but things that can reputedly increase, er, raw throughput. Quite why anyone would want to make any more mess than necessary is beyond me (unless they're trying to appeal to the subconscious male intent to sire as many offspring as possible).
(The first two questions were rhetorical, but thanks for reinforcing the point.)
"So that they may know them." Maybe they were provided masks.
There was this story on Slashdot recently. May not apply to passenger aircraft, though...