The restriction he was mentioning is that the Shuttle be able to use the ISS as a lifeboat in an emergency, not the other way around. Which it wouldn't be able to if it were aiming for the Hubble.
Documentation is for those who want to know how something works, to get/extra/ benefit from it.
Aaah, the old "people shouldn't need to learn anything" school of thought.
Maybe that's what's wrong with schools in the U.S. - it's not kids aren't doing what's needed, it's that they're expected to deal with all this documentation!
Why don't you read that thread a little more thoroughly, especially this reply.
The responses in that thread point out that this isn't just a RedHat thing. It's also hardly the fault of kernel developers if binary-only drivers don't work due to enhancements in new kernel versions.. they're not going to stop making things work better just because it breaks something they're not allowed to fix.
There have been Windows updates that have broken drivers too... the solution is for the driver manufacturer to fix their code (or allow other people to fix it for them), not for the OS to hold back progress.
the article wasn't that well written or that well researched.
Did you even read the article? It doesn't show from your comment.
I know that you can round time's to the nearest 15 minutes. As long as you do it consistently for each employee each week for non punchcard/computerized employee's you're fine.
Rounding an employee's time to the nearest quarter-hour is one thing. Shaving off 10-15 hours from an employee's recorded work-week is something completely different.
The article makes it sound that if you work 41 hours in any job you get overtime, which in the United States is wholly untrue.
Quote from the article: "Federal law generally requires paying time-and-a-half to nonmanagerial employees who work more than 40 hours a week."(emphasis added)
"Data Loss: Auto recovery and application recovery tool
it's funny that OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 on my machine actually can open corrupted Word documents but M$ Office still can't."
Heck, this holds true for other things too.. I dealt with a dead harddrive a while back, and the only way I could get the data off the NTFS partition was by using a Linux boot cd (linux-bbc). Windows wouldn't even recognize that the partition existed, but the linux ntfs driver rescued every last bit of data including the files that were on the dead spots.
There's a certain amount of satisfaction in telling a customer that the only reason they're not looking for a new job is because some linux code reads MS formats better than MS's code does.
If I was to beat the crap out of you, can I be protected using the freedom of speech?
If I were to write a very in-depth web page on the mechanics of kicking someone's ass, and the best ways to do it, should it not be protected under freedom of speech?
Kicking someone's ass is a physical thing that infringes on someone else's rights. Same for bank robbing and killing people. Writing about such things, however, harms nobody.
Do you think your post should be removed because you talked about beating people up, robbing banks, and blowing up buildings?
I simply hope is isn't like "Contact" where everyone wished that Carl Sagan was still alive so that whole subplots weren't ripped out of the film to make space for too-long special-effects shots.
That's interesting... according to the special features on the DVD, He collaborated very heavily on the screenplay, and his main focus was on keeping things scientifically accurate.
[Zemeckis, director of the movie] "At one point, we actually debated for two hours on a line that two characters repeat. It ended up staying in the script."
They also got approval for the idea of the much-compressed reception of the message from Sagan before using it.
[Neverwinter Nights] doors and other elements are truly illogocal.
You select the door, and then select the waypoint or other door you want it to go to (or type in the name you made for it). What the heck is illogical about that?
Things in NWN only get odd when you are wanting to add in all sorts of special coding for your effects, and even then it's pretty straightforward for anyone who has some exposure to coding..
Don't have it available, but this is pretty close...
---------
A man walked into a bar today... Ouch!
The primary purpose of this email was to bring you the FREE Joke of the Week! The secondary purpose is to bring you information about..
Be ROCK SOLID all night long!!
[insert rest of typical spam here]
DISCLAIMER: This is Not a Commercial Email Message and is Exempt From Guidelines Outlined in US Code S.877
The Primary Purpose of this Email is Not a Commercial Advertisement or Promotion of a Commercial Product or Service.
I actually received a spam the other day that claimed it was CAN SPAM compliant.
It seems someone got the bright idea to take the portion of the law that specifies the primary purpose of an email literally. So the top part of the mail (proudly pointed out as the "primary purpose") was a short joke. Then the email went on to its "secondary purpose"...
And at the bottom, of course, was a disclaimer that stated again which part was the "primary" purpose and which was the "secondary", just in case you hadn't noticed the big notices above.
I'd love to see someone try to argue this point of view to a judge with a straight face...
Well...my guage of how much something infringes on my privacy is to ask myself, "Could this same information be collected by a cop sitting on public property?"
Personally, I'd ask myself how easily a cop on public property could collect the information. For instance:
say it reports if you're speeding. That's nothing a motorcycle cop with a radar gun couldn't see.
Fine, but the cop has to be sitting there, and you have to be in an area where the cop is allowed to use the radar gun, and the cop can actually look at the situation as it is happening.
Now, we're suddenly talking about an automated reporting that is pulled completely out of context. Days, weeks, months after the incident, someone looks at the raw data and sees only one thing: the speed your car was going between two specific points on the map.
Do you watch your spedometer constantly? Do you never drift over the speed limit accidently, or speed up to avoid a dangerous situation? Never miss a sign announcing a change in speed limit? Never glance down suddenly to realize that anxiety has caused you to speed up without noticing? Should we make it so everyone receives an exact bill every time they get one mile over the limit? Where does the line get drawn?
I've had my thumb sliced open by a CPU cooling fan on a xeon system... There isn't much danger from older fans, but more recent ones can do a lot of damage if your fingers wander into the wrong areas.
He was NOT going to sell it to Iran.. but his government said he could if he wanted to (well, part of his government said he could.. another part says that's incorrect. Doesn't matter much according to his stated aims, though).
What he wanted to do was strike a deal with a U.S. manufacturer, and he says he almost had that deal.
1) Anyone using a book like this for numbers to put up a geostationary satellite will probably have one that is stationary.. after it crashes back to earth (or hits some other body in space)
2) Many people would think 22,239 miles is close enough to satisfy 'about 22,300 miles'.
There will always be other ISPs, and other web pages for spammers to send spam with links to.
How about you prove that the person you're taking aim at actually gave/received money before talking about shotguns and such? Or, for that matter, prove that they had some idea of what was being done? If you can do that, chances are you'll be able to track down the spammer too. If you can't, then you are just as likely to be harming an innocent person.
Oh, sure... That'd make a great way to take out someone you don't like, just send a few million emails out linking to their website and looking like spam.
One thing anti-spammers really need to learn is that it's not always the fault of the person linked in the email or the ISP the mail was sent through. The only person who is *always* at fault is the guy who actually sent the spam.
Slashdot Mirror
Try 1.92, then.
Those are http urls btw.. it's not all that difficult to plug one into the web browser and see exactly what the file tree looks like...
The restriction he was mentioning is that the Shuttle be able to use the ISS as a lifeboat in an emergency, not the other way around. Which it wouldn't be able to if it were aiming for the Hubble.
Documentation is for those who want to know how something works, to get /extra/ benefit from it.
Aaah, the old "people shouldn't need to learn anything" school of thought.
Maybe that's what's wrong with schools in the U.S. - it's not kids aren't doing what's needed, it's that they're expected to deal with all this documentation!
Well, then, we already have a very user-friendly, commodity computer that is as easy to use as a toaster, microwave, or even (*gasp*) a car.
:p
Your standard desk calculator is all anyone needs!
But you know what I meant.
Microwaves and toasters do one thing: "heat stuff for a specified period of time".
Quick, give me a definition of what a computer does in the same number of words.
Why don't you read that thread a little more thoroughly, especially this reply.
The responses in that thread point out that this isn't just a RedHat thing. It's also hardly the fault of kernel developers if binary-only drivers don't work due to enhancements in new kernel versions.. they're not going to stop making things work better just because it breaks something they're not allowed to fix.
There have been Windows updates that have broken drivers too... the solution is for the driver manufacturer to fix their code (or allow other people to fix it for them), not for the OS to hold back progress.
Uh.. yeah, that's what he said. Why'd you call him a dolt if you agree with him?
the article wasn't that well written or that well researched.
Did you even read the article? It doesn't show from your comment.
I know that you can round time's to the nearest 15 minutes. As long as you do it consistently for each employee each week for non punchcard/computerized employee's you're fine.
Rounding an employee's time to the nearest quarter-hour is one thing. Shaving off 10-15 hours from an employee's recorded work-week is something completely different.
The article makes it sound that if you work 41 hours in any job you get overtime, which in the United States is wholly untrue.
Quote from the article: "Federal law generally requires paying time-and-a-half to nonmanagerial employees who work more than 40 hours a week."(emphasis added)
"Data Loss: Auto recovery and application recovery tool
it's funny that OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 on my machine actually can open corrupted Word documents but M$ Office still can't."
Heck, this holds true for other things too.. I dealt with a dead harddrive a while back, and the only way I could get the data off the NTFS partition was by using a Linux boot cd (linux-bbc). Windows wouldn't even recognize that the partition existed, but the linux ntfs driver rescued every last bit of data including the files that were on the dead spots.
There's a certain amount of satisfaction in telling a customer that the only reason they're not looking for a new job is because some linux code reads MS formats better than MS's code does.
If I was to beat the crap out of you, can I be protected using the freedom of speech?
If I were to write a very in-depth web page on the mechanics of kicking someone's ass, and the best ways to do it, should it not be protected under freedom of speech?
Kicking someone's ass is a physical thing that infringes on someone else's rights. Same for bank robbing and killing people. Writing about such things, however, harms nobody.
Do you think your post should be removed because you talked about beating people up, robbing banks, and blowing up buildings?
I simply hope is isn't like "Contact" where everyone wished that Carl Sagan was still alive so that whole subplots weren't ripped out of the film to make space for too-long special-effects shots.
That's interesting... according to the special features on the DVD, He collaborated very heavily on the screenplay, and his main focus was on keeping things scientifically accurate.
[Zemeckis, director of the movie] "At one point, we actually debated for two hours on a line that two characters repeat. It ended up staying in the script."
They also got approval for the idea of the much-compressed reception of the message from Sagan before using it.
Decent point, but bad example to back it up.
(Her name is Katherine Sadler)
"Another accused hooker, Katherine Saddler..."
Accidental typo, or mistaken identity? Only you can decide....
[Neverwinter Nights] doors and other elements are truly illogocal.
You select the door, and then select the waypoint or other door you want it to go to (or type in the name you made for it). What the heck is illogical about that?
Things in NWN only get odd when you are wanting to add in all sorts of special coding for your effects, and even then it's pretty straightforward for anyone who has some exposure to coding..
Don't have it available, but this is pretty close...
---------
A man walked into a bar today... Ouch!
The primary purpose of this email was to bring you the FREE Joke of the Week! The secondary purpose is to bring you information about..
Be ROCK SOLID all night long!!
[insert rest of typical spam here]
DISCLAIMER: This is Not a Commercial Email Message and is Exempt From Guidelines Outlined in US Code S.877
The Primary Purpose of this Email is Not a Commercial Advertisement or Promotion of a Commercial Product or Service.
I actually received a spam the other day that claimed it was CAN SPAM compliant.
It seems someone got the bright idea to take the portion of the law that specifies the primary purpose of an email literally. So the top part of the mail (proudly pointed out as the "primary purpose") was a short joke. Then the email went on to its "secondary purpose"...
And at the bottom, of course, was a disclaimer that stated again which part was the "primary" purpose and which was the "secondary", just in case you hadn't noticed the big notices above.
I'd love to see someone try to argue this point of view to a judge with a straight face...
The poster is getting credit for First stereogram pairs when someone else got their first.
Really? That's not what the article says:
"NASA has made the first stereo image pairs from Spirit available."
Too bad about the rejected article, though.
Well...my guage of how much something infringes on my privacy is to ask myself, "Could this same information be collected by a cop sitting on public property?"
Personally, I'd ask myself how easily a cop on public property could collect the information. For instance:
say it reports if you're speeding. That's nothing a motorcycle cop with a radar gun couldn't see.
Fine, but the cop has to be sitting there, and you have to be in an area where the cop is allowed to use the radar gun, and the cop can actually look at the situation as it is happening.
Now, we're suddenly talking about an automated reporting that is pulled completely out of context. Days, weeks, months after the incident, someone looks at the raw data and sees only one thing: the speed your car was going between two specific points on the map.
Do you watch your spedometer constantly? Do you never drift over the speed limit accidently, or speed up to avoid a dangerous situation? Never miss a sign announcing a change in speed limit? Never glance down suddenly to realize that anxiety has caused you to speed up without noticing? Should we make it so everyone receives an exact bill every time they get one mile over the limit? Where does the line get drawn?
I've had my thumb sliced open by a CPU cooling fan on a xeon system... There isn't much danger from older fans, but more recent ones can do a lot of damage if your fingers wander into the wrong areas.
Yes, you can. The main subject of the article is a ROM that didn't come from a calculator, and is thus legal to use without owning the calculator.
Did you read the article?
He was NOT going to sell it to Iran.. but his government said he could if he wanted to (well, part of his government said he could.. another part says that's incorrect. Doesn't matter much according to his stated aims, though).
What he wanted to do was strike a deal with a U.S. manufacturer, and he says he almost had that deal.
1) Anyone using a book like this for numbers to put up a geostationary satellite will probably have one that is stationary.. after it crashes back to earth (or hits some other body in space)
2) Many people would think 22,239 miles is close enough to satisfy 'about 22,300 miles'.
There will always be other ISPs, and other web pages for spammers to send spam with links to.
How about you prove that the person you're taking aim at actually gave/received money before talking about shotguns and such? Or, for that matter, prove that they had some idea of what was being done? If you can do that, chances are you'll be able to track down the spammer too. If you can't, then you are just as likely to be harming an innocent person.
Oh, sure... That'd make a great way to take out someone you don't like, just send a few million emails out linking to their website and looking like spam.
One thing anti-spammers really need to learn is that it's not always the fault of the person linked in the email or the ISP the mail was sent through. The only person who is *always* at fault is the guy who actually sent the spam.
So, the GNU tools are now an operating system by themselves?
did the Slashdot editor actually read the article?
How can you say that the reviewer was "mildly" disappointed with Fedora?
That's funny.. the actual title of the article in question on OSNews is.. "Fedora Core 1 is a Mild Disappointment".
Did you actually read the article?