Um. Technically, it's brilliant (and has the same "Why" factor as running *). But, come on. It's a bit "Scrapheap Challenge / Junkyard Wars" when it comes to looks...[picky mode off. Lie mode on. Well Mr Rimmer, you are a total Smeeeeee Heeeeeee]
While many seem to be yet another variation on "neon lights in clear case", a klein bottle would solve all the problems - dust can't get "in" to something that has no "in" (or is it that the "in" is also on the outside?)
But then, anything above about 15th level, and there wasn't much that would put up a good fight.
Unless it was a dodgy mirror placed midway down a corridor. Funny how they always fell for that one - one fireball bouncing back and then they know how much damage they can inflict on themselves.
standards setting sits in a boring trough between two exciting peaks.... It's often the rush for money that makes us move to fast to do the job right.
Standards (now) exist in spelling, ever since Dr Johnson's dictionary came out. Before then, spelling was whatever someone could be bothered with.
Or did I misinterpret the last sentence, and what was actually meant was that the rush for money makes us abstain from food to do the job right?
Of course, like anything new and fun that doesn't need a licence, those who can't afford one now will get their own back by introducing legislation that will require any or all of the following:
a) a test to ensure competency;
b) insurance;
c) excessive protective clothing
And if that doesn't kill off the market, then there's always the name-calling:
"Gee, look at the dork on that thing!"
Of course, sometimes it back fires, and it's only the terminally unhip that don't have the new gizmo.
"You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off" Zaphod Beeblebrox
Interesting. Da Vinci code and Deception Point were the typical "all-action" adventure type, which had (some) twists, but made social comment. I was about to start Digital Fortress when someone waved the latest Pratchett under my nose...
I'm so weak... must read humour... even when it criticises monopolies and takes sideswipes at government run organisations...
On the other hand...
Mack is a knife (or a truck, according to preference) Mackintosh was an architect and art nouveau desgner
MAC is Mandatory Access Control (or Medium Access Control for the Ethernet-ies)
The problem with "real world" fiction such as this is that most people will either:
a) miss the point entirely (in this case that there is more to e-voting than pressing a button);
b) think "Way Off - can't happen here" (even when it has!);
c) ignore the book.
Maybe the way to do it is be more subtle (like Terry Pratchett, who wraps his attacks on society up in metaphor and allegory), or more gung-ho (like Dan Brown)
Um, since Concorde was retired from service last year the cost of a trip across the Atlantic in it is currently infinite.
OK, so the cost went up from around UKP2500 to UKP5000, when British Airways asked the regular customers how much they thought the ticket price was (they all said "about five thousand or so"), but I think I see what you mean.
Yeah and British Airways refusing to sell him Concorde was really really annoying. I would have loved to have had him keep it flying.
Except that, like many things with Branson, that was all PR and not a real desire on his part.
Sad, but true. At some stage in the late 1960s, when costs of developing Concorde were spiralling out of control, the UK government effectively took a 49% share to the French govt's 51% share. This meant that the French were the Design Authority. After the accident at Paris, and despite the reworking of the fuel tanks by British Aerospace and Aerospatiale, Air France ( = the French Government) lost faith in the aircraft, probably because ticket sales never recovered the way they did for British Airways. Hence, Aerospatiale, as the Design Authority, announced the intention to cease to provide DA status. Without DA, there can be no Certificate of Airworthiness. If the UK had been the DA, then it is possible that BA would have kept it going, as, with all the development costs written off back in the early 1970s, it was actually making an operating profit for them.
as well as being "Adenosine Tri-Phosphate", ATP also crops up in the UK rail industry - "Automatic Train Protection", first successfully used in the UK on the Docklands Light Railway, although earlier versions were used on the London Undergorund Victoria Line and by the Great Western Railway.
Too true! Like:
"Long Sentence... (no suggestions)"
I mean, why flag it up if it can't be bothered suggesting anything better?
I have also had a word order one where it wanted me to reverse the order of two adjectives. And then promptly put up a grammar error to reverse the adjectives when I actually did so!
But. Back when a "word processor" was merely a glorified typewriter, those with a floppy disk attached were advertised as being able to hold most of the Bible (or some such) - a reference point that most people were aware of, even if they'd never opened a copy. However, these days, you can pick up a pdf that's less than 3Mb, so you need to think bigger. Looks like The Simpsons is the new cultural reference...
Like music on iTMS, as long as it doesn't get in the way of what most people want to do (in this case, watch a film they've bought when they want to), then DRM is the necessary eveil that allows it to be sold at all.
Provided your use of DVD content is not simply to rip it to computer (whether or not you intend to post it as a torrent), then the DRM doesn't get in the way.
I am all for this idea if it brings the turbo button is back!
Did anyone ever run their PC without the turbo button "on"? I seem to remember that "on" meant the machine ran at its normal speed, whereas "off" limited the bus speed to the 4.77MHz of the original XT
That's probably true. Some tasks maybe only need level 3, but the marketing droids have convinced the public that they really need level 7 "at minimum"; better go for a level 9 to be safe, or a level 11 for "future proofing".
It's very similar to the "Landmark" benchmark, where processors were given a notional equivalence to an old 80286. Thus, a 25MHz 386DX was IIRC given a Landmark speed of "57MHz" (ie, a '286 would have to run at that speed to be as fast. It got dropped not long after the 486 came out, as the Landmark speeds were heading into 4 figures, when actual speeds were barely into 3.
This system (if it takes off) will go the same way, when people get fed up being told that they need a "level 250" just to browse the web.
good, 'cos you can re-live the old Infocom game here
If you type "restore", and use the name "tea", then it will get you about a third of the way through (off Earth, with babel fish, towel, past Vogons and onto Heart of Gold with a portable improbability drive to play with; bugblatter beast defeated and petunias created to get real tea)
Unless things have changed in the last few years when I was involved with computer security, governments don't do their own security testing. That's what evaluators are for. In the UK, there are only 5 licenced evaluators, who will look at both commercial and government written code.
So, giving the source only to governments gives a good sound bite, but little actual usefulness (unless said governments are allowed to pass the source to evaluators)
Slashdot Mirror
Um. Technically, it's brilliant (and has the same "Why" factor as running *). But, come on. It's a bit "Scrapheap Challenge / Junkyard Wars" when it comes to looks...[picky mode off. Lie mode on. Well Mr Rimmer, you are a total Smeeeeee Heeeeeee]
* Hmm. Must try that with my old Centris 610...
OK, so water is cheap, but why not go for materials with better cooling properties (like in a fridge), which would be more efficient?
Something that is non-destructive to PCBs if it leaks would also be a bonus.
But I'm sure as hell not giving up my Opterons...
Not even for one of these?
OK, so it's only an Athlon, but at least it's nearly a cube.
A recent Macformat article covered the Shuttle - they say that they saw the G4 Cube and wondered if they could make a similar PC.
Now that would be a case mod worth having!
While many seem to be yet another variation on "neon lights in clear case", a klein bottle would solve all the problems - dust can't get "in" to something that has no "in" (or is it that the "in" is also on the outside?)
My brain is starting to hurt...
Ah, the days when the DM concentrated on storylines, all the while trying to avoid the IUDC syndrome.
Roll?
The usual one was "I vape the b....."
But then, anything above about 15th level, and there wasn't much that would put up a good fight.
Unless it was a dodgy mirror placed midway down a corridor. Funny how they always fell for that one - one fireball bouncing back and then they know how much damage they can inflict on themselves.
standards setting sits in a boring trough between two exciting peaks. ... It's often the rush for money that makes us move to fast to do the job right.
Standards (now) exist in spelling, ever since Dr Johnson's dictionary came out. Before then, spelling was whatever someone could be bothered with.
Or did I misinterpret the last sentence, and what was actually meant was that the rush for money makes us abstain from food to do the job right?
Of course, like anything new and fun that doesn't need a licence, those who can't afford one now will get their own back by introducing legislation that will require any or all of the following:
a) a test to ensure competency;
b) insurance;
c) excessive protective clothing
And if that doesn't kill off the market, then there's always the name-calling:
"Gee, look at the dork on that thing!"
Of course, sometimes it back fires, and it's only the terminally unhip that don't have the new gizmo.
"You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off" Zaphod Beeblebrox
Interesting. Da Vinci code and Deception Point were the typical "all-action" adventure type, which had (some) twists, but made social comment. I was about to start Digital Fortress when someone waved the latest Pratchett under my nose...
I'm so weak... must read humour... even when it criticises monopolies and takes sideswipes at government run organisations...
On the other hand...
Mack is a knife (or a truck, according to preference)
Mackintosh was an architect and art nouveau desgner
MAC is Mandatory Access Control (or Medium Access Control for the Ethernet-ies)
The problem with "real world" fiction such as this is that most people will either:
a) miss the point entirely (in this case that there is more to e-voting than pressing a button);
b) think "Way Off - can't happen here" (even when it has!);
c) ignore the book.
Maybe the way to do it is be more subtle (like Terry Pratchett, who wraps his attacks on society up in metaphor and allegory), or more gung-ho (like Dan Brown)
Um, since Concorde was retired from service last year the cost of a trip across the Atlantic in it is currently infinite.
OK, so the cost went up from around UKP2500 to UKP5000, when British Airways asked the regular customers how much they thought the ticket price was (they all said "about five thousand or so"), but I think I see what you mean.
Aren't laptops cheaper than that, though?
I mean, even an iBook works out less.
Yeah and British Airways refusing to sell him Concorde was really really annoying. I would have loved to have had him keep it flying.
Except that, like many things with Branson, that was all PR and not a real desire on his part.
Sad, but true. At some stage in the late 1960s, when costs of developing Concorde were spiralling out of control, the UK government effectively took a 49% share to the French govt's 51% share. This meant that the French were the Design Authority. After the accident at Paris, and despite the reworking of the fuel tanks by British Aerospace and Aerospatiale, Air France ( = the French Government) lost faith in the aircraft, probably because ticket sales never recovered the way they did for British Airways. Hence, Aerospatiale, as the Design Authority, announced the intention to cease to provide DA status. Without DA, there can be no Certificate of Airworthiness. If the UK had been the DA, then it is possible that BA would have kept it going, as, with all the development costs written off back in the early 1970s, it was actually making an operating profit for them.
Possibly this lot?
as well as being "Adenosine Tri-Phosphate", ATP also crops up in the UK rail industry - "Automatic Train Protection", first successfully used in the UK on the Docklands Light Railway, although earlier versions were used on the London Undergorund Victoria Line and by the Great Western Railway.
Sure, most of its suggestions aren't great
Too true! Like:
"Long Sentence... (no suggestions)"
I mean, why flag it up if it can't be bothered suggesting anything better?
I have also had a word order one where it wanted me to reverse the order of two adjectives. And then promptly put up a grammar error to reverse the adjectives when I actually did so!
Actually, according to TFA, your analogy should be:
"My home-built kit car has a Ford engine. There's a problem with the engine. Ford needs to fix it"
Yeah, yeah, funny and all that.
But. Back when a "word processor" was merely a glorified typewriter, those with a floppy disk attached were advertised as being able to hold most of the Bible (or some such) - a reference point that most people were aware of, even if they'd never opened a copy. However, these days, you can pick up a pdf that's less than 3Mb, so you need to think bigger. Looks like The Simpsons is the new cultural reference...
more like "no intrusive DRM"
Like music on iTMS, as long as it doesn't get in the way of what most people want to do (in this case, watch a film they've bought when they want to), then DRM is the necessary eveil that allows it to be sold at all.
Provided your use of DVD content is not simply to rip it to computer (whether or not you intend to post it as a torrent), then the DRM doesn't get in the way.
History time (related to the "What OS" poll)
level 1
4k bytes RAM. BASIC written in shorthand:
10 P. "HELLO WORLD"
20 G.10
level 2
16k bytes RAM. BASIC interpreter uses normal text:
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10
More info Here
I am all for this idea if it brings the turbo button is back!
Did anyone ever run their PC without the turbo button "on"? I seem to remember that "on" meant the machine ran at its normal speed, whereas "off" limited the bus speed to the 4.77MHz of the original XT
Most people just don't need the extra power
That's probably true. Some tasks maybe only need level 3, but the marketing droids have convinced the public that they really need level 7 "at minimum"; better go for a level 9 to be safe, or a level 11 for "future proofing".
It's very similar to the "Landmark" benchmark, where processors were given a notional equivalence to an old 80286. Thus, a 25MHz 386DX was IIRC given a Landmark speed of "57MHz" (ie, a '286 would have to run at that speed to be as fast. It got dropped not long after the 486 came out, as the Landmark speeds were heading into 4 figures, when actual speeds were barely into 3.
This system (if it takes off) will go the same way, when people get fed up being told that they need a "level 250" just to browse the web.
good, 'cos you can re-live the old Infocom game here
If you type "restore", and use the name "tea", then it will get you about a third of the way through (off Earth, with babel fish, towel, past Vogons and onto Heart of Gold with a portable improbability drive to play with; bugblatter beast defeated and petunias created to get real tea)
Share and Enjoy!
Unless things have changed in the last few years when I was involved with computer security, governments don't do their own security testing. That's what evaluators are for. In the UK, there are only 5 licenced evaluators, who will look at both commercial and government written code.
So, giving the source only to governments gives a good sound bite, but little actual usefulness (unless said governments are allowed to pass the source to evaluators)