Indeed, some of the idiots even object to fastening their belts when sitting behind someone - like I fancy a human sized projectile trying to get between me and the roof in a head on.
I mean how selfish can you get, fine, if you don't care about your own life go and jump of a cliff, but don't come up with lame excuses about it being better to be thrown clear when you can end up killing someone else on the way past.
Seriously. There's really only one thing for a married couple (or any couple, for that matter) to do when they're confined in a small space for several months at a time...
Yeah, trying to get as far away from each other as possible. Can you imagine spending months being asked which pair of shoes/spacesuit you think she should wear for dinner ?
I'd have to agree with this. The casual user has to move away from the "it's broke" helpless cry. My mother (who is in her sixties) is finally starting to figure out computer stuff for herself after a lot of patient tutoring.
I'd always encourage people to learn more about the computer/system they are using, but really they shouldn't have to. Why should anyone's parents, grannys or whatever have to move away from the cries from help ? It's incumbent on the developers of hardware and software to strive to make their software or hardware easier to manage. More self testing, better error codes, more attention to detail, better documentation. Yes it's idealistic, but that doesn't mean that it's not a worthwhile exercise.
Although it's fine for more technical people to use google, it doesn't help when you don't have access to the internet because your modem/router/pc has died.
At the moment this will tend to be true, but then as more organisations deploy Linux based solutions it may well tend to be not the case. Some of the Linux solutions we use are used by completely non technical staff, they know they're using Linux though but mainly 'cause they are told.
The award is really from the government, they draw up the list of honours from various sources. The Queen presents it as she is the current head of state, there are very few awards that the Queen personally gifts.
Nothing, even if monkeys did blow out of people's arses and this did actually happen, they'd quickly find their tenants had a right to buy. Besides I'm not sure that they own the land personally - only as part of their position. Abolish the position and the "threat" would become irrelevant.
tradeoffs we make that cause pollution save far more lives through technology.
True, however at some point the lines on the graph will cross. To consider pollution as a tradeoff seems to me to almost excuse it. We should be doing more to leave less of a fingerprint on the earth's ecosystem and strive to never accept pollution as a necessary evil - we will never not pollute but we should try our best not to. To examine industrial processes for pollution can lead to new developments and improved efficient in the processes themselves.
Back in non-liberal reality, I bet a coroner has never ever anywhere written "pollution" on a death certificate.
Possibly not, but I certainly wouldn't bet on it. People do die as a result of the effects of pollution or die of conditions (asthma and so on) exacerbated by pollution.
Given the current spate of bad luck/bad science they'll probably start colliding with each other. If the martians aren't pissed already they sure will be when the probes start interferring with their satellite TV reception.
All protocols, APIs and data formats fully
documented.
Where are there any undocumented protocols or protocols that you cannot get the documentation for, used in Linux?
I didn't say anything was undocumented, the emphasis on my comment was intended to be "fully". Some of the documentation for various security packages I've been working with is badly written and incomplete with badly worked through examples. I'm a fully paid up member of the open software paradigm but I wish that when people contribute they'd realise there contributions are more valuable if they fully document their software. Not that they have to, their contribution is valuable nevertheless, but it'd be even better if they did.
All security holes disguised as features closed, permanently, and no new ones added, ever.
While there will always be the possibility for security holes in ANY OS, when has there ever been ONE in Linux that has been hidden?
I think we read the second part of this one differently, I read it as "no new security holes added ever", I think you might have read it as "no more holes disguised as features added ever". To be honest, I doubt if even Microsoft deliberately add a true security hole disguised as a feature. Certainly they claim many security holes are features after the event, certainly some features they add contain inherent security problems but they, you'd have to assume, fit into the architectural model that they are/were trying to maintain however flawed that may be.
As to the last comment, I'm not sure why you've emphasised the "against" in the last sentence, if it's a tool that could be used to protect intellectual property is that a bad thing ? Maybe it is if you believe that companies shouldn't own it in the first place. Personally I see too many people "stealing" software and justifying it by saying it should have been free in the first place.
All protocols, APIs and data formats fully documented.
All security holes disguised as features closed, permanently, and no new ones added, ever.
Dump Trusted Computing. It is about restricting the rights of the end user.
I agree with most of the above although I wish Linux would strive to meet the ones I've quoted as well ! Not everything is rosy on the other side of the fence.
I've never understood this argument about flying cars, I mean isn't yer average cessna or (insert favourite small plane) just a wide three wheeler ?
Ok, so you need to make roads a bit wider and it's a bitch trying to overtake in a tunnel. Oh and multistorey car parks would need to be tweaked a bit as well. And you can be damn sure pedestrians will think a bit harder about running out in front of you.
That's not the height you'd fly enroute to the target though. Think about it, at 10ft there are all sorts of things that might be parked in it's way. You usually need some downwards motion in the final phase of the attack run. Besides all the targeting capability in the world doesn't help you when some idiot feeds in the wrong coordinates or issues idiotic inflight course corrections.
You want the routes to be variable, if you just fly in a bunch of missiles using the same routes ala the 1991 Gulf Conflict, you'll get some smart arse planting a great big wire mesh across a street and net them. Quite an exciting catch I'd imagine though.. "Ma, it was |---this---| big - honest!"
Range also doesn't mean much when I can launch one from my garage just down the street from the target or from my local airfield. Admittedly, that'd be a bit of a waste of a cruise missile, but you get the point. One of the reasons you want a long range on cruise missiles if that you don't want the hugely expensive launch and control platform being anywhere near anything remotely dangerous.
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Indeed, however sadly this is an indication of how sloppy a lot of stuff on Linux has been finished off. If you want portability then, of course, you start with the lowest common denominator - usually the stock version of whatever flavour of UNIX is your fancy.
Personally I'm getting fed up correcting badly written scripts on Linux targetted software. Give me some quality control and consistency on stuff being produced and I'll be a happy bunny.
I always thought a fair bit of the high tech investment in Scotland was more as a result of aggressive Government back inducements to companies to set up in Scotland. I seem to remember at one point a lot of the "high tech" jobs were in fact just in final assembly - bolting the real guts of the equipment together after the hard stuff was done in the far east. A policy like that is always vulnerable to some other government making more attractive offers to companies.
The appeal of this show is probably more to do with the historical background than the fact they are using a known game engine to reinact the battles. It's not as if they are allowed to actually play the game, they are using the game as a tool to reinact the battle, they don't let the contestants make second by second adjustments to troop positions as you might do if you were playing the game.
Don't get me wrong the show has merits and if you can use a game to reinact historical events then go for it, but it's not really got much to do with gaming.
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"Now then now then, what do we have 'ere ?"
"suuuuure you're gathering rock samples .. thats what they all say"
Indeed, some of the idiots even object to fastening their belts when sitting behind someone - like I fancy a human sized projectile trying to get between me and the roof in a head on.
I mean how selfish can you get, fine, if you don't care about your own life go and jump of a cliff, but don't come up with lame excuses about it being better to be thrown clear when you can end up killing someone else on the way past.
Yeah, trying to get as far away from each other as possible. Can you imagine spending months being asked which pair of shoes/spacesuit you think she should wear for dinner ?
I'd always encourage people to learn more about the computer/system they are using, but really they shouldn't have to. Why should anyone's parents, grannys or whatever have to move away from the cries from help ? It's incumbent on the developers of hardware and software to strive to make their software or hardware easier to manage. More self testing, better error codes, more attention to detail, better documentation. Yes it's idealistic, but that doesn't mean that it's not a worthwhile exercise.
Although it's fine for more technical people to use google, it doesn't help when you don't have access to the internet because your modem/router/pc has died.
At the moment this will tend to be true, but then as more organisations deploy Linux based solutions it may well tend to be not the case. Some of the Linux solutions we use are used by completely non technical staff, they know they're using Linux though but mainly 'cause they are told.
The award is really from the government, they draw up the list of honours from various sources. The Queen presents it as she is the current head of state, there are very few awards that the Queen personally gifts.
Nothing, even if monkeys did blow out of people's arses and this did actually happen, they'd quickly find their tenants had a right to buy. Besides I'm not sure that they own the land personally - only as part of their position. Abolish the position and the "threat" would become irrelevant.
True, however at some point the lines on the graph will cross. To consider pollution as a tradeoff seems to me to almost excuse it. We should be doing more to leave less of a fingerprint on the earth's ecosystem and strive to never accept pollution as a necessary evil - we will never not pollute but we should try our best not to. To examine industrial processes for pollution can lead to new developments and improved efficient in the processes themselves.
Possibly not, but I certainly wouldn't bet on it. People do die as a result of the effects of pollution or die of conditions (asthma and so on) exacerbated by pollution.
Given the current spate of bad luck/bad science they'll probably start colliding with each other. If the martians aren't pissed already they sure will be when the probes start interferring with their satellite TV reception.
Where are there any undocumented protocols or protocols that you cannot get the documentation for, used in Linux?
I didn't say anything was undocumented, the emphasis on my comment was intended to be "fully". Some of the documentation for various security packages I've been working with is badly written and incomplete with badly worked through examples. I'm a fully paid up member of the open software paradigm but I wish that when people contribute they'd realise there contributions are more valuable if they fully document their software. Not that they have to, their contribution is valuable nevertheless, but it'd be even better if they did.
All security holes disguised as features closed, permanently, and no new ones added, ever.
While there will always be the possibility for security holes in ANY OS, when has there ever been ONE in Linux that has been hidden?
I think we read the second part of this one differently, I read it as "no new security holes added ever", I think you might have read it as "no more holes disguised as features added ever". To be honest, I doubt if even Microsoft deliberately add a true security hole disguised as a feature. Certainly they claim many security holes are features after the event, certainly some features they add contain inherent security problems but they, you'd have to assume, fit into the architectural model that they are/were trying to maintain however flawed that may be.
As to the last comment, I'm not sure why you've emphasised the "against" in the last sentence, if it's a tool that could be used to protect intellectual property is that a bad thing ? Maybe it is if you believe that companies shouldn't own it in the first place. Personally I see too many people "stealing" software and justifying it by saying it should have been free in the first place.
.. and then someone pointing out the inconsistencies of the moderation is tagged as Flamebait .. pathetic.
All protocols, APIs and data formats fully documented.
All security holes disguised as features closed, permanently, and no new ones added, ever.
Dump Trusted Computing. It is about restricting the rights of the end user.
I agree with most of the above although I wish Linux would strive to meet the ones I've quoted as well ! Not everything is rosy on the other side of the fence.
the /. effect hits again
I've never understood this argument about flying cars, I mean isn't yer average cessna or (insert favourite small plane) just a wide three wheeler ? Ok, so you need to make roads a bit wider and it's a bitch trying to overtake in a tunnel. Oh and multistorey car parks would need to be tweaked a bit as well. And you can be damn sure pedestrians will think a bit harder about running out in front of you.
You want the routes to be variable, if you just fly in a bunch of missiles using the same routes ala the 1991 Gulf Conflict, you'll get some smart arse planting a great big wire mesh across a street and net them. Quite an exciting catch I'd imagine though .. "Ma, it was |---this---| big - honest!"
Range also doesn't mean much when I can launch one from my garage just down the street from the target or from my local airfield. Admittedly, that'd be a bit of a waste of a cruise missile, but you get the point. One of the reasons you want a long range on cruise missiles if that you don't want the hugely expensive launch and control platform being anywhere near anything remotely dangerous.
it's really all about how many finger you have.
Personally I'm getting fed up correcting badly written scripts on Linux targetted software. Give me some quality control and consistency on stuff being produced and I'll be a happy bunny.
British Aerospace .. a large military/civilian conglomerate based in the UK but with it's fingers in all sorts of pies.
Are you saying that he should have used a company that doesn't have any military/defence/security revenue stream ?
err I think that analysis is a little weak on the historical aspect. A lot has happened to the royal line since James I/VI.
I always thought a fair bit of the high tech investment in Scotland was more as a result of aggressive Government back inducements to companies to set up in Scotland. I seem to remember at one point a lot of the "high tech" jobs were in fact just in final assembly - bolting the real guts of the equipment together after the hard stuff was done in the far east. A policy like that is always vulnerable to some other government making more attractive offers to companies.
Don't get me wrong the show has merits and if you can use a game to reinact historical events then go for it, but it's not really got much to do with gaming.
and there goes another !
it's a sickness, they were lonely.