Pilots have to be 100% sober, have no criminal records, good sight (without the use of glasses), and pass a billion other tests.
All you need for a pilot's license is a physical to ensure you have no health issues that would cause you to lose control of the vehicle. Things like heart problems and epilepsy would be a problem. And as long as your vision is correctable, it's basically the same rules as for driving a car. Only if you want to fly for an airline or the military are there additional rules and drug tests and stuff like that. At least, this was the case 10 years ago, 9/11 may have f'd this up.
Sorry, but Apple remotes can be paired to the device. You'd have to hope they didn't take this precaution or build something that can scan through all the serial numbers. Even if you did succeed, I'd expect you'd be more than banned and would need a lawyer. You might even face criminal charges if you own stock in any of Apple's competitors.
So to answer your question, I'd give you a Nelsonesque "HA HA".
"A spokesperson said that the human-powered session produced more computations than took place in the first 3,000 years of civilization." Except that they didn't pedal enough cover the development and manufacturing costs.
How'd that get modded funny? I tape over mine too. Some blue LEDs literally hurt even glancing at them in a dark room. Then you have the night vision loss.
Seems like if they did, we wouldn't need all these NTP servers The HeathKit GC-1000 Most Accurate Clock from about 20 years ago had an RS-232 port option (I still have mine). You can also get modern a GPS receiver to do the same thing. The advantage of NTP is that every computer connected to the net already has everything it needs to get accurate time. Very few people really need time as accurate as NTP can provide. The people who do need this already have to run their own NTP server. So basically, requiring everyone to have extra radio hardware and possibly an antenna structure just to set their clock isn't going to fly. Instead, you'd have the equivalent of a blinking 12:00 everywhere, but worse because with 12:00 you can suspect an inaccuracy, but a random time incrementing at a normal pace isn't going to raise many flags.
But yeah, we could get away with less servers, if the internet were redesigned with less suck and your ISP worked for you instead of content producers. No radios needed.
What I don't get is why time was never part of DHCP. That would make NTP pointless for anyone not trying to sync logs or transactions across servers. A bit too late for that though.
Oh, and goodbye Slashdot. You were great back in the day.
For those of you who weren't aware, most of the simpson characters are named after streets in Portland, Oregon. Where's our Kwik E Mart? On second thought, after looking at the pictures, I don't want it here. It sounded like a really fun idea. Too bad nobody had the backbone abort those stand-up characters things, whatever they're called. That's what ruined the fantasy for me.
Adding usage barriers to craigslist is not going to solve anything or make their image better. A feature like this would effectively shut down all real estate and rental listings leaving just the goods and services exchange. Since there's far more stolen items on craigslist than pranksters using addresses they aren't supposed to you'd just make their image worse overall.
What you see as flaw is the main feature for making craigslist work.
Low income consumers drive everything Walmart does which in turn drives their vendors. I doubt this low-tech crowd and their budget purchases will have any impact on the innovation being done today. Business purchasing and Gamers will continue to drive the premium market which is what funds innovation.
However, I could definitely see a "Walmart" standard being created strictly for dirt cheap systems. For example: a power supply with a single connector instead of a wiring harness, hard drives just slide in to a SATA backplane, custom cases to eliminate all but one fan (like Dell), and so on. This would diverge from what high end systems have to do to stay flexible.
"it's such a new standard that there are likely issues that would need to be worked out"
This didn't happen with.doc since the most obvious problem with it is still trying to be addressed today. Sarcasm mostly aside, I think OASIS might be looking (or have looked) into these issues.
"Also, more channels wouldn't give a reciever any more reason to clip. Each channel is a seperate amp. What matters in regards to clipping is the amount of power going in to a single channel. If it's more than the channel can handle, you clip, if not, you don't. What's happening on the other channels isn't relivant."
All those channels share the same power supply! You'll easily get clipping on the best silicon if your p.s. is crap, as most are.
"It's actually the same reason behind a centre channel. In theory on a good setup, such a thing sould be unnecessary. "
Um, yeah, but not everyone in the movie room is always positioned in center of the screen. The center channel solves this quite well.
I was the first in the neighborhood to get 5.1 and I had a pretty overkill speaker setup on my computer back when SB16 was in. Now I'm using 3.1 computer speakers for my movie projector and monitor speakers for my computer! Headphones do the trick when I'm interested in high quality.
I got tired of all the marketing bullshit from the audio industry so I stopped giving them money. It's not just 5.6.7.8.1 that's driving folks away it's the whole sleezy industry. I prefer to spend my money on technology not on marketing and I just don't have the patience to research audio anymore.
By keeping the heat off your legs with an insulator you are keeping the heat in your laptop. That doesn't sound good.
Next time just buy a laptop without teh suck. Mine was built with a full aluminum housing that sinks the heat fast and even. In fact, the only time the fan has ever turned on was when I tried to run WoW on it. I guess it takes both the GPU and CPU running full speed to kick in the fan.
My previous laptop was cheap plastic crap that burned my legs, ran the noisy fan doing simple things like web browsing, and crashed when speed stepping was on. The battery lasted half as long as my new laptop. After this nightmare, and realizing Linux was never going to run well on it, I gave in and paid a premium for a quality laptop.
I paid $60 for my router. I got 802.11g and four ethernet ports on it. How is a PC with a wired card, wireless card, and an external switch to be had for free? I'm also quite certain my dedicated router uses a lot less power than running a PC all the time. Especially if you're talking about an old junker PC you had laying around or got for free.
No, sir, Linux on your old junker is rarely cheaper than a budget router.
I'd like to point out that you paid for (or should have) IE. MSN, WMP, and ther rest of your Windows OS. Nobody forced these apps down your throat. You can easily install and use others. In fact, you're often better off using other apps. On the Apple side you could just as easily claim they force on you Safara, iTunes, iPhoto,.mac, bash, apache, and a number of other things that are all optional to use.
I don't see how Apple is bringing anyone down. The RIAA pretty much dictates how iTunes works (ala DRM et al). Apple just isn't sharing its IP right now. Seeing as how several apple execs probably had to sell their souls to get the RIAA to let them sell music I imagine these deals are too important to share lightly.
A thought.. AT&T (ma bell) was a government-granted monolopy. MS is a market-granted monopoly. iTunes Music Store is an RIAA-granted monopoly. Don't believe me? Try and sell popular music without the RIAAs permission.
It's pretty scary to think that the market-granted monopoly we gave the RIAA now gives them power to create other monopolies on their own. Sure, Apple is taking advantage of this. But to blame Apple for something the RIAA is on cotrol of is something I can't get behind.
"You can't connect the trees in series to increase the voltage because they share a common ground."
Hence the need for R&D funding to hit 12 volts. They'll have to engineer trees with "cells" that can have the Cu/Al rods driven into them individually so they can be hooked into series.
Why wouldn't you want to make a little profit and reduce the revenue of your competitor every time they sold a product? You could track and use those profits to fix why you lost the original sale.
'like taking your PC in for a tune up at the service station'
Yeah, folks break into my car all the time because only the glove box is secure. Exploits to defeat my door locks with a bic pen and rabid goat are all over the Internet. Then the bad guys store porno in my trunk to sell later and rent out time on my engine. I regularly take my car to the service station to have it tuned up because of this.
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Sorry, but Apple remotes can be paired to the device. You'd have to hope they didn't take this precaution or build something that can scan through all the serial numbers. Even if you did succeed, I'd expect you'd be more than banned and would need a lawyer. You might even face criminal charges if you own stock in any of Apple's competitors.
So to answer your question, I'd give you a Nelsonesque "HA HA".
"A spokesperson said that the human-powered session produced more computations than took place in the first 3,000 years of civilization." Except that they didn't pedal enough cover the development and manufacturing costs.
Sweet. Now I have something to drink after working up a thirst watching the 'batin' channel.
How'd that get modded funny? I tape over mine too. Some blue LEDs literally hurt even glancing at them in a dark room. Then you have the night vision loss.
Ok, I started one. Please come help with the data entry.
http://www.listphile.com/Linux
But yeah, we could get away with less servers, if the internet were redesigned with less suck and your ISP worked for you instead of content producers. No radios needed.
What I don't get is why time was never part of DHCP. That would make NTP pointless for anyone not trying to sync logs or transactions across servers. A bit too late for that though.
Oh, and goodbye Slashdot. You were great back in the day.
Google it up ACs, there's plenty of references. Let me get you started... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Simpsons_ name_origins
And I'll be there with the "HA HA" when you get busted.
For those of you who weren't aware, most of the simpson characters are named after streets in Portland, Oregon. Where's our Kwik E Mart? On second thought, after looking at the pictures, I don't want it here. It sounded like a really fun idea. Too bad nobody had the backbone abort those stand-up characters things, whatever they're called. That's what ruined the fantasy for me.
Adding usage barriers to craigslist is not going to solve anything or make their image better. A feature like this would effectively shut down all real estate and rental listings leaving just the goods and services exchange. Since there's far more stolen items on craigslist than pranksters using addresses they aren't supposed to you'd just make their image worse overall.
What you see as flaw is the main feature for making craigslist work.
Low income consumers drive everything Walmart does which in turn drives their vendors. I doubt this low-tech crowd and their budget purchases will have any impact on the innovation being done today. Business purchasing and Gamers will continue to drive the premium market which is what funds innovation. However, I could definitely see a "Walmart" standard being created strictly for dirt cheap systems. For example: a power supply with a single connector instead of a wiring harness, hard drives just slide in to a SATA backplane, custom cases to eliminate all but one fan (like Dell), and so on. This would diverge from what high end systems have to do to stay flexible.
"it's such a new standard that there are likely issues that would need to be worked out"
.doc since the most obvious problem with it is still trying to be addressed today. Sarcasm mostly aside, I think OASIS might be looking (or have looked) into these issues.
This didn't happen with
"Also, more channels wouldn't give a reciever any more reason to clip. Each channel is a seperate amp. What matters in regards to clipping is the amount of power going in to a single channel. If it's more than the channel can handle, you clip, if not, you don't. What's happening on the other channels isn't relivant."
All those channels share the same power supply! You'll easily get clipping on the best silicon if your p.s. is crap, as most are.
"It's actually the same reason behind a centre channel. In theory on a good setup, such a thing sould be unnecessary. "
Um, yeah, but not everyone in the movie room is always positioned in center of the screen. The center channel solves this quite well.
I was the first in the neighborhood to get 5.1 and I had a pretty overkill speaker setup on my computer back when SB16 was in. Now I'm using 3.1 computer speakers for my movie projector and monitor speakers for my computer! Headphones do the trick when I'm interested in high quality.
I got tired of all the marketing bullshit from the audio industry so I stopped giving them money. It's not just 5.6.7.8.1 that's driving folks away it's the whole sleezy industry. I prefer to spend my money on technology not on marketing and I just don't have the patience to research audio anymore.
By keeping the heat off your legs with an insulator you are keeping the heat in your laptop. That doesn't sound good.
Next time just buy a laptop without teh suck. Mine was built with a full aluminum housing that sinks the heat fast and even. In fact, the only time the fan has ever turned on was when I tried to run WoW on it. I guess it takes both the GPU and CPU running full speed to kick in the fan.
My previous laptop was cheap plastic crap that burned my legs, ran the noisy fan doing simple things like web browsing, and crashed when speed stepping was on. The battery lasted half as long as my new laptop. After this nightmare, and realizing Linux was never going to run well on it, I gave in and paid a premium for a quality laptop.
"Why are 'oooh, shiny!' features the main selling feature of Vista?"
Because fixing things like the inability to open a file named "README" with one click doesn't sell OSs as well as sprinkles and corporate admin tools.
"then any hardware router and about $60 cheaper."
I paid $60 for my router. I got 802.11g and four ethernet ports on it. How is a PC with a wired card, wireless card, and an external switch to be had for free? I'm also quite certain my dedicated router uses a lot less power than running a PC all the time. Especially if you're talking about an old junker PC you had laying around or got for free.
No, sir, Linux on your old junker is rarely cheaper than a budget router.
I'd like to point out that you paid for (or should have) IE. MSN, WMP, and ther rest of your Windows OS. Nobody forced these apps down your throat. You can easily install and use others. In fact, you're often better off using other apps. On the Apple side you could just as easily claim they force on you Safara, iTunes, iPhoto, .mac, bash, apache, and a number of other things that are all optional to use.
I don't see how Apple is bringing anyone down. The RIAA pretty much dictates how iTunes works (ala DRM et al). Apple just isn't sharing its IP right now. Seeing as how several apple execs probably had to sell their souls to get the RIAA to let them sell music I imagine these deals are too important to share lightly.
A thought.. AT&T (ma bell) was a government-granted monolopy. MS is a market-granted monopoly. iTunes Music Store is an RIAA-granted monopoly. Don't believe me? Try and sell popular music without the RIAAs permission.
It's pretty scary to think that the market-granted monopoly we gave the RIAA now gives them power to create other monopolies on their own. Sure, Apple is taking advantage of this. But to blame Apple for something the RIAA is on cotrol of is something I can't get behind.
"You can't connect the trees in series to increase the voltage because they share a common ground."
Hence the need for R&D funding to hit 12 volts. They'll have to engineer trees with "cells" that can have the Cu/Al rods driven into them individually so they can be hooked into series.
Or maybe use the fruit from a LEMON tree...
Bad science. Bad reporting. Bad ScuttleMonkey.
"I cant imagine Nvidia will let that continue."
Why wouldn't you want to make a little profit and reduce the revenue of your competitor every time they sold a product? You could track and use those profits to fix why you lost the original sale.
'like taking your PC in for a tune up at the service station'
Yeah, folks break into my car all the time because only the glove box is secure. Exploits to defeat my door locks with a bic pen and rabid goat are all over the Internet. Then the bad guys store porno in my trunk to sell later and rent out time on my engine. I regularly take my car to the service station to have it tuned up because of this.
"If 10 users will buy Achey Breaky Heart at 0.99, and 50 users will buy it at 0.50, it is much more profitable to sell it at 0.50."
Your basic idea is correct but you seem to have gross revenue and profit confused.
-david