My driver's license photo is five years old; I've lost 130 lbs and a bunch of facial hair since then. It doesn't look any more like me now than the fake ID I bought for $10 in high school. Gets me on airplanes, though - no problem! Sheesh.
Sounds like this prof is actually trying to educate his students instead of being one of these pro-terrorist cranks the university system seems to enjoy hiring, but shouldn't we be wanting the Feds to go have a look for themselves to make sure everything was on the level?
However, the Pyramids have the advantage of being in the desert. There is little to bother them save the slow weathering of the wind. What threats face our great cities, even if they are away from flood or hurricane or earthquake hazards?
Glaciers. Most of the temperate zones are going to get ground to bits at some point pretty soon, geologically speaking.
Aperture ships as a fat binary, meaning it contains code to run on Intel and PowerPC versions of Mac OS X.
TFA says Aperture only supports PPC, and anticipates that upcoming versions will be released dual-architecture when capable Intel machines ship. Do you have conflicting information?
31. According to the record companies, Ms. Andersen's personal computer was invaded by MediaSentry after she was identified with a nine digit code (an Internet Protocol Address ("IPA")) obtained from the anonymous information farming lawsuits. MediaSentry did not have permission to inspect Ms. Andersen's private computer files. It gained access only by illegal acts of subterfuge.
They only identified the offending IP down to a/24 subnet??
A Long time ago, people KNEW the world was flat. A long time ago, people KNEW the earth was the center of the universe. Imagine what you'll KNOW tomarrow.
Gave Ubuntu a try on my two-year old PB17 a couple of months ago.
No wireless, no sleep, no power management... that's as far as I got before rebooting. Oh, and I don't think Bluetooth worked, either.
That's about as stationary target as Linux can expect, they haven't come within a mile of hitting it.
My experiences with Linux/BSD have been that they're pretty damned picky WRT hardware. As an end user, I don't really care whether it's because nobody has written to my particular hardware, or the manufacturer has withheld docs. Reality is I can't run Linux on my PB with anything like the functionality of OS X, and when I try to put one of them on a PC I expect to have to buy a new NIC, new video card, or both. I have yet, in years of attempts, to get Linux installed on a laptop with support for all the hardware features - and I've not heard of anyone else doing so, either. I see a lot of CLAIMS, but they end up being heavily caveated with "but I don't use (this/that/other), so I don't care that it doesn't work". Well, I care.
My compass analogy was to the GPS - all GPS can tell you directly is the lat/long/elevation/time, but a good receiver can extrapolate a lot more useful information from that. All a compass can really tell you is what direction you're facing (and even that is relative to local magnetic fields, as noted by many). With the aid of other tools, yes, you can also extrapolate a good deal of other info. My navigational experience is largely offcoast marine, so the topography is pretty featureless.;)
Looks from the Garmin feature comparison like they're starting to incorporate them in some units - per the Garmin site the Summit, Legend C, and Etrex C are the handhelds that have an electronic compass. None of my GPS units have ever had them. Good to know, thanks!
I wonder how they resolve the local isogonal flux variations (which the compass knows of and the GPS has no clue about).
I recognize that this borders on trivia, and it may not matter much for ditzing around the local geocache, but if you're headed out on a big undifferentiated body of land/water it can get pretty significant pretty quickly. Thanks again for the update on the Garmin units.
This is totally false and potentially harmful. GPS receivers do *NOT* come with built-in compasses, at least I don't know of any that have them. GPS tells you exactly four things, to various degrees of accuracy and precision:
latitude,
longitude,
elevation,
time
*Everything* else is interpolated from that info, and if you lose satellites, you lose everything. Even if you stand still, GPS won't tell you where north is; you have to be moving so it can triangulate.
A GPS has some capabilities that overlap with a magnetic compass, and vice versa, but it is extremely risky and potentially hazardous to substitute one for the other.
That being said, I don't know what the OP was planning to do with a compass for mapping villages anyway: a compass doesn't tell you where you are, it only tells you what direction you're facing.
Then there'd be regular shootings, and regular funerals, going on all the time. Any time somebody threw a temper tantrum, there'd be another death - and maybe multiple deaths by the time all the OTHER armed citizens got done. _You_ might want to live in a society like that, but I sure don't
a) I don't know about "most citizens", but your assumption has proven incorrect in EVERY STATE that has adopted "must issue" CCW permits over the past ten years or so of that initiative. A vanishingly small percentage of CCW owners have been involved in ANY crime, never mind violent crime. And the violent crime rates have declined in those states/areas.
b) If you don't want to live in a society endorsing the right to keep and bear arms, fine. Absolutely fine. Let me just ask you to do one of two things: either move, or pursue the appropriate LEGAL means to alter or remove the second amendment.
You're concerned about 2nd Amendment supporters - I'm concerned about people who think it's fine to flout the Constitution with semantic arguments that I saw as ridiculous in fifth grade. "Uh, 'the people' means THIS here, but THAT here two sentences later, and explanatory clauses invoke dependencies, and we are talking about the National Guard even though it won't be invented for a hundred years or so." And if you don't think the RKBA has been "infringed", I suggest you go through the legal process to acquire, store, transport (not CCW, just to the range/field), repair and supply a handgun. Do that and then tell me what "infringe" means.
This copyright issue is a perfect example - if you want support for the first amendment, you'd better group together with those who support ALL the amendments. Enemies of your enemy, and all that.
I tried using my Mac Mini (Panther) install CD to reinstall a PowerBook G3 yesterday. It popped the "must run a program to check things" requester, then reported back that the hardware wasn't supported or some such. Perhaps all of Panther was on there and I could have hacked the install, but it certainly didn't work by default.
I dont wan't to pay an extra $50 bucks to SBC for static IPs.
It doesn't matter. I *do* pay the extra $50 to SBC, and have run my own clean, personal mail server for years. Just last night I had an SMTP connection denied 553 "Excessive spam from address 66.125.9." - so they blocked at least the/24 I'm on, which is all statically assigned "Pro" DSL space for SBC. That particular message was an attempt to get an instructor in contact with his student to answer some questions about the course material.
The fascists' response is that I should forward all my mail through SBC's mailservers - hell, if SBC could deliver mail I wouldn't have started running my own mail server in the first place. *I'm* following the RFCs, if you choose to throw my legitimate mail away, fine, but don't tell ME how I "should be" sending it. That sword cuts both ways.
Sure, they can say "we don't want to accept mail from anyone in DSL space", that's their call - but they shouldn't pretend no innocent parties are being affected, or that no innocuous mail is being dropped.
I don't understand why the majority of wireless mice/keyboards out there use RF rather than BlueTooth. It's a reasonable standard, it's been out there for awhile, lots of notebooks come with built-in BlueTooth - I expected to see all the newer wireless mice start to use it over the past couple of years. Is it licensing fees? Power consumption? Implementation problems?
Downloaded Ubuntu and tried it on my PowerBook last month. Same fixed target hardware that supposedly is what allows Apple to optimize the user experience.
I switched to Apple when 10.0 was released, as I considered it my best shot at getting a Unix system with a decent GUI on top.;) It proved a good choice for me, and I'm very happy with my 17" PowerBook and Mac Mini server. I'll be ecstatic when an x86 PB shows up so I can run VPC at reasonable speed for vertical Win apps.
That said, the attitude of an assortment of people representing themselves as "the Mac community" has been the most negative factor in my Apple experience. Any complaint or criticism of Apple, from single-button laptop trackpads, to no USB 2.0 support on the FireWire 800 PB, to the apparently serious crime of calling the key with "ALT" printed on it an alt key; has been met with a degree of flamage and rationalization unprecedented to even me, a former Amiga owner! I've chosen to simply divorce myself from the interactive (forum/newsgroup) support sources - it just isn't worth the grief to me.
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My driver's license photo is five years old; I've lost 130 lbs and a bunch of facial hair since then. It doesn't look any more like me now than the fake ID I bought for $10 in high school. Gets me on airplanes, though - no problem! Sheesh.
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TFA says Aperture only supports PPC, and anticipates that upcoming versions will be released dual-architecture when capable Intel machines ship. Do you have conflicting information?
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They only identified the offending IP down to a /24 subnet??
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No wireless, no sleep, no power management... that's as far as I got before rebooting. Oh, and I don't think Bluetooth worked, either.
That's about as stationary target as Linux can expect, they haven't come within a mile of hitting it.
My experiences with Linux/BSD have been that they're pretty damned picky WRT hardware. As an end user, I don't really care whether it's because nobody has written to my particular hardware, or the manufacturer has withheld docs. Reality is I can't run Linux on my PB with anything like the functionality of OS X, and when I try to put one of them on a PC I expect to have to buy a new NIC, new video card, or both. I have yet, in years of attempts, to get Linux installed on a laptop with support for all the hardware features - and I've not heard of anyone else doing so, either. I see a lot of CLAIMS, but they end up being heavily caveated with "but I don't use (this/that/other), so I don't care that it doesn't work". Well, I care.
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My compass analogy was to the GPS - all GPS can tell you directly is the lat/long/elevation/time, but a good receiver can extrapolate a lot more useful information from that. All a compass can really tell you is what direction you're facing (and even that is relative to local magnetic fields, as noted by many). With the aid of other tools, yes, you can also extrapolate a good deal of other info. My navigational experience is largely offcoast marine, so the topography is pretty featureless. ;)
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I wonder how they resolve the local isogonal flux variations (which the compass knows of and the GPS has no clue about).
I recognize that this borders on trivia, and it may not matter much for ditzing around the local geocache, but if you're headed out on a big undifferentiated body of land/water it can get pretty significant pretty quickly. Thanks again for the update on the Garmin units.
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latitude, longitude, elevation, time
*Everything* else is interpolated from that info, and if you lose satellites, you lose everything. Even if you stand still, GPS won't tell you where north is; you have to be moving so it can triangulate.
A GPS has some capabilities that overlap with a magnetic compass, and vice versa, but it is extremely risky and potentially hazardous to substitute one for the other.
That being said, I don't know what the OP was planning to do with a compass for mapping villages anyway: a compass doesn't tell you where you are, it only tells you what direction you're facing.
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a) I don't know about "most citizens", but your assumption has proven incorrect in EVERY STATE that has adopted "must issue" CCW permits over the past ten years or so of that initiative. A vanishingly small percentage of CCW owners have been involved in ANY crime, never mind violent crime. And the violent crime rates have declined in those states/areas.
b) If you don't want to live in a society endorsing the right to keep and bear arms, fine. Absolutely fine. Let me just ask you to do one of two things: either move, or pursue the appropriate LEGAL means to alter or remove the second amendment.
You're concerned about 2nd Amendment supporters - I'm concerned about people who think it's fine to flout the Constitution with semantic arguments that I saw as ridiculous in fifth grade. "Uh, 'the people' means THIS here, but THAT here two sentences later, and explanatory clauses invoke dependencies, and we are talking about the National Guard even though it won't be invented for a hundred years or so." And if you don't think the RKBA has been "infringed", I suggest you go through the legal process to acquire, store, transport (not CCW, just to the range/field), repair and supply a handgun. Do that and then tell me what "infringe" means.
This copyright issue is a perfect example - if you want support for the first amendment, you'd better group together with those who support ALL the amendments. Enemies of your enemy, and all that.
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It doesn't matter. I *do* pay the extra $50 to SBC, and have run my own clean, personal mail server for years. Just last night I had an SMTP connection denied 553 "Excessive spam from address 66.125.9." - so they blocked at least the /24 I'm on, which is all statically assigned "Pro" DSL space for SBC. That particular message was an attempt to get an instructor in contact with his student to answer some questions about the course material.
The fascists' response is that I should forward all my mail through SBC's mailservers - hell, if SBC could deliver mail I wouldn't have started running my own mail server in the first place. *I'm* following the RFCs, if you choose to throw my legitimate mail away, fine, but don't tell ME how I "should be" sending it. That sword cuts both ways.
Sure, they can say "we don't want to accept mail from anyone in DSL space", that's their call - but they shouldn't pretend no innocent parties are being affected, or that no innocuous mail is being dropped.
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I dip into rec.audiophile every once in awhile to watch them blather on about burning in their digital optical cables...
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Power management - doesn't work. Wireless - doesn't work. Suspend/sleep - doesn't work. Sound - don't recall, sorry.
There's your oranges to Apples comparison!
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That said, the attitude of an assortment of people representing themselves as "the Mac community" has been the most negative factor in my Apple experience. Any complaint or criticism of Apple, from single-button laptop trackpads, to no USB 2.0 support on the FireWire 800 PB, to the apparently serious crime of calling the key with "ALT" printed on it an alt key; has been met with a degree of flamage and rationalization unprecedented to even me, a former Amiga owner! I've chosen to simply divorce myself from the interactive (forum/newsgroup) support sources - it just isn't worth the grief to me.
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