Women get away with far more shit than men do. If some chick gets caught parked-up with her laptop, she'll play dumb and flutter her eyes at the cop, and she'll get let off. Or she'll blow him. Either way, most guys aren't getting anyway it quite as easily.
We're running Maxtors on RAID here, and we had one give occasional CRC errors after 3 years of faultless use. Replaced that with another Maxtor and added a hot spare. Yeh, it's a small sample size, but I'm happy with 'em.
We aren't exactly living in a cold war these days, and it's common with Russian cooperations in space these days, together with Americans and Europeans. Don't know what the big deal is about to be honest.
I notice you say you're European - not French, German, Italian, or whatever. That's the difference right there... you've got a "we" perspective that many cultures don't have.
Remember Microsofts Avalanche project? Odds are that was going to be used for P2P software updates. Even without Opera, and with or without BitTorrent specifically, legit P2P is here to stay.
True that. I look at the AROS project (x86 Amiga, more or less) every now and then, but if I hadn't had an Amiga back in the day, I'd never even know it existed. Lack of advertising is a key reason many alternative OS never come to fruition.
Got myself a Bachelor of Business Computing (they've since renamed it...) from a local school. It covered some Business Stuff, OO, Design Patterns, Project Management, Usability, Extreme Programming, and similar. Had a couple of pure language classes too. Had I done Comp Sci, I think I'd be a more l33t coder, but this set me up to be far more useful in the Real World. We'll just have to wait for the established Universities to make this kind of move.
Speed cameras are placed downhill (most often over the brow of a hill) because even cruise control often takes a second or two to compensate. If you're cruising on the limit (or just over) it'll overshoot as it crests a hill *snap* and then you've got a ticket - even though you set your cruise control within legal bounds.
Perhaps grandparent has a point, but consider this:
Cars can stop *much* faster now, once the driver has reacted. Why? Because brakes can exert more force on the wheel, tyres have more grip, suspension is better at keeping the wheels on the ground, and weight distribution and transfer has been considered in the design. And we have ABS too.
Cars handle *much* better now too. This is huge by itself. You can easily steer around obsticles you'd never have avoided 50 years ago. Again, engineering has improved handle almost beyond belief.
Cars are *much* safer in the event of an accident now. Go read "Unsafe At Any Speed" then consider the multiple airbags, safety cells, and the myriad of other improvements that make previously fatal accidents a mere inconvienience now.
We are still human, but the cars are much better at doing what we tell them now, and making our mistakes survivable.
Actually, traffic does behave like a liquid... kinda...
The traffic simulations I've seen use a particle model to work out traffic flows. The idea being that people over and under estimate the speed of their own car, and others on the road. The result of this is each car "vibrates" against others (with a certain air gap, hopefully).
The result of *that* is that traffic tends to slow *more* than the slowest driver would travel at. Which is why you get congestion at points of merging and corners for no apparent reason - nervous/careful people slow down, and it cascades into a near stop for everyone else.
Side note, slowing traffic down "for safety reasons" is inane. Traffic will slow itself down as volumes increase (eg, peak times) all you engineers have to do is make the road flow smoothly.
That almost works... Subtitles would be useful, but the business model is to download a trailer for new movies instead of storing soon-to-be-outdated trailers on the DVD.
Seconded. I had a look through the patent, and also through Google. There's a zillion iPod interfaces using the phono plug to get the audio out, and mostly powered by the lighter socket. It seems like the only thing "different" to the rest of that market here is the Firewire interface - but the iPod is frigging designed for this! CD players and MP3 players have used FM transmitters for a few years now. You could argue that the holder is innovative, except it isn't because every cellphone has something similar on the market.
So, this design patent is stupid. It's an MP3 player (like a zillion others), and it's powered from the lighter socket (like a zillion others) and it's got Firewire (like Apple designer it to) but in a car!
Not widespread? Well, down here in Dunedin the Internet and EFTPOS died - and of course, Telecom helpdesk died too. I got my initial information from the TelstraClear answerphone. Haven't actually heard about Christchurch.
That said, if Auckland had been majorly affected I think the outcome would have been much worse for Telecom. Bigger players and bigger dollars at stake.
IIRC, one fault happened a day or so previously, and was being fixed when the second fault occurred.
Personally, it smells like BS to me. I reckon somebody at Telecom fucked up, and they had to blame it on an "Act of God" to avoid enormous financial liability.
So Telecom is seeking compenstaion for fixing this. Fair enough you might say? The irony here is that Telecom has publicly stated they will not be paying *other* businesses for their losses due to the network going down.
To put this in perspective, much of the countrys EFTPOS system went down. Much of the countrys mobile network went down. Much of the countrys DSL network went down. That means, NO electronic sales transactions, NO websites, NO email, NO mobile calls. LOTS of lost productivity and sales here.
Even the friggin stock exchange went down - the 2nd time in a few weeks due to a Telecom fault! No wonder they don't want to compensate people - even Telecom doesn't have enough money for this.
I'll third that. McDonalds advertisers are leeching from popular culture. Their current tagline (in NZ) is "I'm lovin it" - which people were saying a lot *before* McDonalds used it. They're not trying to create "cool" phrases for themselves, they're trying to associate themselves with something that is already "cool". Unfortunately, by doing so, they kill the original... kind of like an overactive parasite.
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Women get away with far more shit than men do. If some chick gets caught parked-up with her laptop, she'll play dumb and flutter her eyes at the cop, and she'll get let off. Or she'll blow him. Either way, most guys aren't getting anyway it quite as easily.
We're running Maxtors on RAID here, and we had one give occasional CRC errors after 3 years of faultless use. Replaced that with another Maxtor and added a hot spare. Yeh, it's a small sample size, but I'm happy with 'em.
Not McMurdo either. The American camps have trashed the area around the base.
We aren't exactly living in a cold war these days, and it's common with Russian cooperations in space these days, together with Americans and Europeans. Don't know what the big deal is about to be honest.
I notice you say you're European - not French, German, Italian, or whatever. That's the difference right there... you've got a "we" perspective that many cultures don't have.
I dunno. My ZX81 never got pwn3d either...
Why 2008?
Remember Microsofts Avalanche project? Odds are that was going to be used for P2P software updates. Even without Opera, and with or without BitTorrent specifically, legit P2P is here to stay.
Cool as that is, I think that's the 3rd or 4th separate BT-for-Mozilla project posted on here.
True that. I look at the AROS project (x86 Amiga, more or less) every now and then, but if I hadn't had an Amiga back in the day, I'd never even know it existed. Lack of advertising is a key reason many alternative OS never come to fruition.
Been there done that.
Got myself a Bachelor of Business Computing (they've since renamed it...) from a local school. It covered some Business Stuff, OO, Design Patterns, Project Management, Usability, Extreme Programming, and similar. Had a couple of pure language classes too. Had I done Comp Sci, I think I'd be a more l33t coder, but this set me up to be far more useful in the Real World. We'll just have to wait for the established Universities to make this kind of move.
Speed cameras are placed downhill (most often over the brow of a hill) because even cruise control often takes a second or two to compensate. If you're cruising on the limit (or just over) it'll overshoot as it crests a hill *snap* and then you've got a ticket - even though you set your cruise control within legal bounds.
Perhaps grandparent has a point, but consider this:
Cars can stop *much* faster now, once the driver has reacted. Why? Because brakes can exert more force on the wheel, tyres have more grip, suspension is better at keeping the wheels on the ground, and weight distribution and transfer has been considered in the design. And we have ABS too.
Cars handle *much* better now too. This is huge by itself. You can easily steer around obsticles you'd never have avoided 50 years ago. Again, engineering has improved handle almost beyond belief.
Cars are *much* safer in the event of an accident now. Go read "Unsafe At Any Speed" then consider the multiple airbags, safety cells, and the myriad of other improvements that make previously fatal accidents a mere inconvienience now.
We are still human, but the cars are much better at doing what we tell them now, and making our mistakes survivable.
Actually, traffic does behave like a liquid... kinda...
The traffic simulations I've seen use a particle model to work out traffic flows. The idea being that people over and under estimate the speed of their own car, and others on the road. The result of this is each car "vibrates" against others (with a certain air gap, hopefully).
The result of *that* is that traffic tends to slow *more* than the slowest driver would travel at. Which is why you get congestion at points of merging and corners for no apparent reason - nervous/careful people slow down, and it cascades into a near stop for everyone else.
Side note, slowing traffic down "for safety reasons" is inane. Traffic will slow itself down as volumes increase (eg, peak times) all you engineers have to do is make the road flow smoothly.
Heh. You still going on about this? ;-) I've had a think and I'm pretty sure it's doable...
That almost works... Subtitles would be useful, but the business model is to download a trailer for new movies instead of storing soon-to-be-outdated trailers on the DVD.
Or it could make call-home and DRM "features" easier to implement.
I imagine your chest could destructively compress? It's possible to breath oxygen rich liquids, so this might work around that problem. http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2002/shorrock /3-%20%20Liquid_breathing.htm
It was more like state sanctioned terrorism against Green Peace. The murder was just an unfortunate side-effect.
Seconded. I had a look through the patent, and also through Google. There's a zillion iPod interfaces using the phono plug to get the audio out, and mostly powered by the lighter socket. It seems like the only thing "different" to the rest of that market here is the Firewire interface - but the iPod is frigging designed for this! CD players and MP3 players have used FM transmitters for a few years now. You could argue that the holder is innovative, except it isn't because every cellphone has something similar on the market.
So, this design patent is stupid. It's an MP3 player (like a zillion others), and it's powered from the lighter socket (like a zillion others) and it's got Firewire (like Apple designer it to) but in a car!
It's like "but on the internet" all over again.
Not widespread? Well, down here in Dunedin the Internet and EFTPOS died - and of course, Telecom helpdesk died too. I got my initial information from the TelstraClear answerphone. Haven't actually heard about Christchurch.
That said, if Auckland had been majorly affected I think the outcome would have been much worse for Telecom. Bigger players and bigger dollars at stake.
I think you'll find our utilities companies are largely foreign owned now anyway.
IIRC, one fault happened a day or so previously, and was being fixed when the second fault occurred.
Personally, it smells like BS to me. I reckon somebody at Telecom fucked up, and they had to blame it on an "Act of God" to avoid enormous financial liability.
So Telecom is seeking compenstaion for fixing this. Fair enough you might say? The irony here is that Telecom has publicly stated they will not be paying *other* businesses for their losses due to the network going down.
To put this in perspective, much of the countrys EFTPOS system went down. Much of the countrys mobile network went down. Much of the countrys DSL network went down. That means, NO electronic sales transactions, NO websites, NO email, NO mobile calls. LOTS of lost productivity and sales here.
Even the friggin stock exchange went down - the 2nd time in a few weeks due to a Telecom fault! No wonder they don't want to compensate people - even Telecom doesn't have enough money for this.
I'll third that. McDonalds advertisers are leeching from popular culture. Their current tagline (in NZ) is "I'm lovin it" - which people were saying a lot *before* McDonalds used it. They're not trying to create "cool" phrases for themselves, they're trying to associate themselves with something that is already "cool". Unfortunately, by doing so, they kill the original... kind of like an overactive parasite.
Hmm. That reminds me of a song...