24 hours in cattle class leaves me virtually unable to move. If my company wants to send me to Europe for work they have to pay for business class otherwise I spend the next week on site off on sick leave.
In Australia google was given a hard time for missing streets, this likely does relate to the greater sense of community in Australia and far stricter local and state planning controls and a much more developed idea of community ownership of the shared street scape.
Lower population density. Google had more problems in Japan where the population density is higher still. If you have a nice big back yard you won't care what goes on out the front.
Not true. Never flown business class in my life. I did accumulate 85,000 miles on Air Canada, United, ANA, Air China and Shanghai Airlines last year, and found standard N. American sockets on many planes in cattle class, especially on Air Canada.
Is that domestic in the US? I have never seen power supplies in cattle class internationally or flying domestic within Australia. Its definitely good they do that in the US though.
Maybe next time, NASA should include some type of cleaning devices, so that when the panels get dusty, then a brush or something could wipe the panels. Sure, it's more weight, but it could increase the productivity of the mission.
But we know now that the wind will clean the dust off, so cleaners are not required.
But also the environment on Mars is much more stable than on Earth. Mars has dust storms but we have hurricanes, bush fires, falling trees, floods, etc.
Once you get something working on Mars the chances are it will keep working for a long time.
Heh, if you have physical access the game is over. "Lock your terminal" is merely a poor defense against bored pranksters (beating their head in if they touch your machine is the only effective deterrent).
Lets say that the terminal only gives you a remote desktop on a secure remote system, and your credentials are required to authenticate.
Social networks provide a way for social engineering attacks to find the easiest way into a network. We can improve the security of our software. We can abandon friends but there is very little we can do about our relatives.
None of these systems have a checkbox too stop my idiot sister forwarding crap to me and implicitly enrolling me in her facebook centric lifestyle.
I can turn it off but I can't turn off the people who turn it on. For example as a result of this connection there are now pictures of me on facebook. Meta data in image files will soon include positioning information. I don't get a choice about this information being distributed.
At Pantai Cenang there is this bunch of Dudes who operate a ski boat. They take tourists for parasail rides. One day I watched them trying to launch this woman off the beach. I fly hang gliders and it was obvious that the wind was off. They were flying in a cross wind. As soon as she got off the ground she swung around down wind at enormous speed. The driver panicked and cut the power. The woman dropped on to hard, wet sand from two or three metres. Not good.
Thats not so silly. With navigation being so precise these days there is a tendency to want to stay exactly on a planned route. If you have GPS and Inertial navigation maybe two crews would follow a particular line of latitude or longitude because we like following things and collide as a result.
Years ago I was in an airliner flying over Indonesia. Looking straight down at some spectacular scenery I caught a glimpse of another aircraft going the other way about 5000 feet below us. A pilot I spoke to says he always flys a few miles offset from the route he is given for this reason. It really is possible for our desire for a nice round number and nice clean trajectory to cause a collision.
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24 hours in cattle class leaves me virtually unable to move. If my company wants to send me to Europe for work they have to pay for business class otherwise I spend the next week on site off on sick leave.
In Australia google was given a hard time for missing streets, this likely does relate to the greater sense of community in Australia and far stricter local and state planning controls and a much more developed idea of community ownership of the shared street scape.
Lower population density. Google had more problems in Japan where the population density is higher still. If you have a nice big back yard you won't care what goes on out the front.
Why does a school have an on site police officer?
If she could hide a phone in there she may not have been so hot.
Not true. Never flown business class in my life. I did accumulate 85,000 miles on Air Canada, United, ANA, Air China and Shanghai Airlines last year, and found standard N. American sockets on many planes in cattle class, especially on Air Canada.
Is that domestic in the US? I have never seen power supplies in cattle class internationally or flying domestic within Australia. Its definitely good they do that in the US though.
I know you're being funny, but isn't it possible to run a MBP off the power socket in the seat? What airline do you go on?
In business class you would, but not everybody flys business.
OS X is a kludge.
...could be hired to work for GM or Chrysler, Toyota and Honda would be the ones needing a bail-out.
How about the people who built the Apollo LRV? It even folds up so you can save on parking space.
Maybe next time, NASA should include some type of cleaning devices, so that when the panels get dusty, then a brush or something could wipe the panels. Sure, it's more weight, but it could increase the productivity of the mission.
But we know now that the wind will clean the dust off, so cleaners are not required.
But also the environment on Mars is much more stable than on Earth. Mars has dust storms but we have hurricanes, bush fires, falling trees, floods, etc.
Once you get something working on Mars the chances are it will keep working for a long time.
...that somebody in BSD land is doing something genuinely different, and making it work.
Nothing is broken. It works fine so long as you are CAREFUL.
On a laptop, using a touch pad it is easy to accidently click in a popup. It just takes a light tap.
I might be afraid of a potential employer knowing too much about me.
Do you have, or could you easily get a good face shot of the CEO of your organization?
Of course. Its right there on page one of the newsletter.
Heh, if you have physical access the game is over. "Lock your terminal" is merely a poor defense against bored pranksters (beating their head in if they touch your machine is the only effective deterrent).
Lets say that the terminal only gives you a remote desktop on a secure remote system, and your credentials are required to authenticate.
Nobody reads snowcrash anymore?
It's like so 1992.
Earth, the metaphor... for... all the information useful for people living on earth...
So simple... it's brilliant.
Interesting how cyberpunk, much more than space opera is coming true.
Social networks provide a way for social engineering attacks to find the easiest way into a network. We can improve the security of our software. We can abandon friends but there is very little we can do about our relatives.
None of these systems have a checkbox too stop my idiot sister forwarding crap to me and implicitly enrolling me in her facebook centric lifestyle.
I can turn it off but I can't turn off the people who turn it on. For example as a result of this connection there are now pictures of me on facebook. Meta data in image files will soon include positioning information. I don't get a choice about this information being distributed.
At Pantai Cenang there is this bunch of Dudes who operate a ski boat. They take tourists for parasail rides. One day I watched them trying to launch this woman off the beach. I fly hang gliders and it was obvious that the wind was off. They were flying in a cross wind. As soon as she got off the ground she swung around down wind at enormous speed. The driver panicked and cut the power. The woman dropped on to hard, wet sand from two or three metres. Not good.
Makes me think - how could plate tectonics work in a DiscWorld context?
Maybe the disc has a buckle which moves up and down when the elephants step over the irregular back of the turtle.
You COULD add even more jets to it for a formidable firefighting platform!
Yeah you know how it can be difficult for fire fighters to stand still when holding a hose? Thats a feature, not a bug.
So... what's it going to be used for? Rescuing cats from trees along the river?
Basically the same use case as a parasail towed behind a ski boat. They are a lot of fun, actually.
I work for a French company in Australia and collisions like this are common in our office environment.
Thats not so silly. With navigation being so precise these days there is a tendency to want to stay exactly on a planned route. If you have GPS and Inertial navigation maybe two crews would follow a particular line of latitude or longitude because we like following things and collide as a result.
Years ago I was in an airliner flying over Indonesia. Looking straight down at some spectacular scenery I caught a glimpse of another aircraft going the other way about 5000 feet below us. A pilot I spoke to says he always flys a few miles offset from the route he is given for this reason. It really is possible for our desire for a nice round number and nice clean trajectory to cause a collision.
the silicone-based rock creature that Spock mind melds with to share its emo about being a rock
Silicone? OMG smart breasts!
(I think you mean silicon).