the security services would be negligent if I were allowed to go for a drive.
Well, I don't know where you're from, buddy, but here in teh Good 'ol U. S. of A® we have a little thing known as the Second Amendment to the Constitution. You can have my van full of fertilizer wired for detonation when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Note to NSA/DHS/FBI, et al.: This is what's known as a protest comment. The comment should not be taken literally. I do not own a van, flush my fertilizer nearly as soon as it is constituted, and the only thing I am aware of in my life that detonates is my true love, usually about this time every year.
There's already a standard for 23" racks widely used in telecom. So now we have to deal with 19, 21, and 23 options? Great.
Don't panic. The only rack standards a healthy male ever needs to concern themselves with, especially in Spring and Summer, involves the comprehension and visualization of cup-sizes, A through GG.
It's true, too. Windows Phone 7 UI is beautiful and even better than iPhone's, not to mention Android. Microsoft really outdid themselves with that.
In the turbid angry seas of opinion, personal choice, and inclination, its always refreshing to finally find some cold hard incontrovertable, academically provable, undeniable truth in a slashdot comment, without all the irrelivant and superfluous mucky muck editorial.
Even in a low altitude situation, a stall can only be recovered by lowering the angle of attack
Its anathema that with all the amazing technology on a modern commercial airliner, there is no system designed to correct a stall automatically, regardless of a pilot's intention or misinterpretation of the situation. Hell... judging by the excellent comments on this summary, seems like half the posters here could design the damn system themselves in their basements/garages using soda straws, duct tape and a mercury capsule from an old thermostat. WTFF?? C'MON!
this is quite unfortunate indeed, as any small-plane pilots instinct would have been simply to dip the plane's nose & recover easily.
What I find unfortunate is that if stall conditions are so well understood by qualified pilots and aerorospace engineers, (and just as importantly, slashdot posters) and these new planes are so densely filled with so many redundancies and auto-save-your-ass devices... why no one thought to design a system that faithfully detects a stall, and detects the pilots are doing nothing to prevent or correct the stall, then temporarly goes into auto-safe mode... ala a control system that, after, say, some reasonable number of seconds of "STALL STALL STALL," just fucking takes control automatically and dips the nose to correct the stall, regardless of what the fucking pilots are trying to do. Has no one thought of this? Honestly... how much fucking engineering would it take to detect a stall and auto-dip the damn nose before returning control to the pilot with a message "You suck! Go get the captain and stop crashing the plane you dumb fuck!"
Would it be so bad if three year olds weren't so damn delicate? I mean... wouldn't we all be a little better off if three year olds were tougher, smarter, and perhaps took a little responsibility for their online reputations? I like three year olds as much as the next post-neo tech poster/troll, but as often as not they do tend to toddle around like they have no idea what's going on or like they own the place. Maybe a little sand and rock tumbling might smooth their edginess, so the next time they drop their ice cream cone they might not completely self-destruct.
I made it through that checkpoint clean, with a small amount, didn't get caught, and I had JUST blazed about 10 miles before the checkpoint. Officers stopped me, very likely smelled it, but let me through anyway without even a second glance.
Oh, yeah. (facepalm). Wow... this is scatterring up memories of dark mornings and wet elementary school bus stops... indicates I probably spent many bus stop waits fantacising about after school Adventure.
I hope you are referring to the venerable text parsing game Adventure, which is probably still distributed with NetBSD, but I thought maybe this was both funnier and more on topic. And with text parsing games, its Infocom or gtfo.
Ya think? Why wouldn't this work for, say, Hardees? Hardees has a horrible franchise... the menu is similar to most of its competitors, but the implementation is crap. So can they just sell off their burger franchises and then use, say, KFC's and Long John Silver's franchises, to achieve better performance at the drive thru and customers' pallet? No... I don't understand business... but this just sounds like slight of hand. I think what really happened is when they "spun off the foundry," AMD ceased to exist, and a new thing became AMD, and the foundry got a new name. Or AMD is something like the Dread Pirate Roberts.
It's like... Ford decides to spin off its auto business so it isn't tied down to one manufacturer, and can then produce Ford's at Chevy and Dodge and even Honda plants. Why does it seem like someone decided the AMD brand was more valuable than its product? Does this help the consumer in any way to separate brand from product?
It was Jobs and his radical reshaping of the company, the elimination of failing product lines, and the introduction of the iPod/iTunes paradigm that probably saved Apple.
You're mostly right. Thing is, those $150 million were what bought enough time (i.e. market confidence, in this case) for Jobs to do all that needed to be done. To remind, $150 million changed hands in 1997; iPod and OS X both came out in 2001.
I disagree... I think I'm completely right. The $150 million maybe gave them payroll and utilities for several months, if that. The money was more important as a gesture than as cash.
$150 million investment that breathed new life into then-struggling Apple
when you have BILLIONS of cash in the bank, a $150 million 'investment' is better called, a token gesture.
This tiny detail of history is always presented wrong... but you have a wiff of the truth. Bill Gates' and Microsoft's $150 million investment was exactly that, a token gesture, and it is not what 'saved' Apple from bankruptcy. It was Jobs and his radical reshaping of the company, the elimination of failing product lines, and the introduction of the iPod/iTunes paradigm that probably saved Apple. Had that $150 million never changed hands, the result would not have been much different. Jobs wanted Microsoft's Office products for the Mac... that's ALL that was. Did MS Office save Apple? Fuck no... that's absurd.
Lastly, very little is shot in 1080p. that has changed recently, but all United states braodcast cameras are either 1080i (1/2 the resolution of 1080p)
1080i is not half the resolution of 1080p. It is the same resolution with half the frame rate. I.e., 30Hz rather than 60Hz. This isn't very important for most film transfers since movies are classically shot at 24Hz. Since TNG was a US television production, it should have been shot at 30Hz but I'll admit: I haven't looked it up.
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the security services would be negligent if I were allowed to go for a drive.
Well, I don't know where you're from, buddy, but here in teh Good 'ol U. S. of A® we have a little thing known as the Second Amendment to the Constitution. You can have my van full of fertilizer wired for detonation when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Note to NSA/DHS/FBI, et al.: This is what's known as a protest comment. The comment should not be taken literally. I do not own a van, flush my fertilizer nearly as soon as it is constituted, and the only thing I am aware of in my life that detonates is my true love, usually about this time every year.
There's already a standard for 23" racks widely used in telecom. So now we have to deal with 19, 21, and 23 options? Great.
Don't panic. The only rack standards a healthy male ever needs to concern themselves with, especially in Spring and Summer, involves the comprehension and visualization of cup-sizes, A through GG.
Actually, I think deliberations over the color of a bike shed is the epitome of bikeshedding.
Don't care what color, how long the deliberations last, nor where you put your bikeshed, so as long as its NIMBY.
The distance of point to point microwave links with standard radio technology is limited by the curvature of the earth, not power or beam divergence.
Perhaps there is a way to mitigate this limitation with strategically spaced Hot Pockets®.
So we're all at risk of cancer if we live long enough.
Well... I hope and pray for mankind that the damn cure for cancer is profitable... or we may never find one.
I prefer to keep my porn steganagraphically em bedded under my matress for easy access.
It's true, too. Windows Phone 7 UI is beautiful and even better than iPhone's, not to mention Android. Microsoft really outdid themselves with that.
In the turbid angry seas of opinion, personal choice, and inclination, its always refreshing to finally find some cold hard incontrovertable, academically provable, undeniable truth in a slashdot comment, without all the irrelivant and superfluous mucky muck editorial.
...has a pretty good framerate -- about 8.3*10^16fps
I think I need a new graphics card, possibly one of them "extreme" variety.
meh... just mount the servers backwards. Usually, once its on, you almost never need to get to the front.
Even in a low altitude situation, a stall can only be recovered by lowering the angle of attack
Its anathema that with all the amazing technology on a modern commercial airliner, there is no system designed to correct a stall automatically, regardless of a pilot's intention or misinterpretation of the situation. Hell... judging by the excellent comments on this summary, seems like half the posters here could design the damn system themselves in their basements/garages using soda straws, duct tape and a mercury capsule from an old thermostat. WTFF?? C'MON!
this is quite unfortunate indeed, as any small-plane pilots instinct would have been simply to dip the plane's nose & recover easily.
What I find unfortunate is that if stall conditions are so well understood by qualified pilots and aerorospace engineers, (and just as importantly, slashdot posters) and these new planes are so densely filled with so many redundancies and auto-save-your-ass devices... why no one thought to design a system that faithfully detects a stall, and detects the pilots are doing nothing to prevent or correct the stall, then temporarly goes into auto-safe mode... ala a control system that, after, say, some reasonable number of seconds of "STALL STALL STALL," just fucking takes control automatically and dips the nose to correct the stall, regardless of what the fucking pilots are trying to do. Has no one thought of this? Honestly... how much fucking engineering would it take to detect a stall and auto-dip the damn nose before returning control to the pilot with a message "You suck! Go get the captain and stop crashing the plane you dumb fuck!"
Would it be so bad if three year olds weren't so damn delicate? I mean... wouldn't we all be a little better off if three year olds were tougher, smarter, and perhaps took a little responsibility for their online reputations? I like three year olds as much as the next post-neo tech poster/troll, but as often as not they do tend to toddle around like they have no idea what's going on or like they own the place. Maybe a little sand and rock tumbling might smooth their edginess, so the next time they drop their ice cream cone they might not completely self-destruct.
I'm down with marijuana but driving while intoxicated is, simply put, an asshole move.
Only time ever... Jerry Garcia had just died, I was moving, and I didn't have any acid.
HINT TO GEO: travel with lots of cats.
Oh, yeah. (facepalm). Wow... this is scatterring up memories of dark mornings and wet elementary school bus stops... indicates I probably spent many bus stop waits fantacising about after school Adventure.
Do not look at shark with remaining eye.
I hope you are referring to the venerable text parsing game Adventure, which is probably still distributed with NetBSD, but I thought maybe this was both funnier and more on topic. And with text parsing games, its Infocom or gtfo.
Because you don't understand what's happening.
Ya think? Why wouldn't this work for, say, Hardees? Hardees has a horrible franchise... the menu is similar to most of its competitors, but the implementation is crap. So can they just sell off their burger franchises and then use, say, KFC's and Long John Silver's franchises, to achieve better performance at the drive thru and customers' pallet? No... I don't understand business... but this just sounds like slight of hand. I think what really happened is when they "spun off the foundry," AMD ceased to exist, and a new thing became AMD, and the foundry got a new name. Or AMD is something like the Dread Pirate Roberts.
It's like... Ford decides to spin off its auto business so it isn't tied down to one manufacturer, and can then produce Ford's at Chevy and Dodge and even Honda plants. Why does it seem like someone decided the AMD brand was more valuable than its product? Does this help the consumer in any way to separate brand from product?
Then we agree that you agree.
It was Jobs and his radical reshaping of the company, the elimination of failing product lines, and the introduction of the iPod/iTunes paradigm that probably saved Apple.
You're mostly right. Thing is, those $150 million were what bought enough time (i.e. market confidence, in this case) for Jobs to do all that needed to be done. To remind, $150 million changed hands in 1997; iPod and OS X both came out in 2001.
I disagree... I think I'm completely right. The $150 million maybe gave them payroll and utilities for several months, if that. The money was more important as a gesture than as cash.
$150 million investment that breathed new life into then-struggling Apple
when you have BILLIONS of cash in the bank, a $150 million 'investment' is better called, a token gesture.
This tiny detail of history is always presented wrong... but you have a wiff of the truth. Bill Gates' and Microsoft's $150 million investment was exactly that, a token gesture, and it is not what 'saved' Apple from bankruptcy. It was Jobs and his radical reshaping of the company, the elimination of failing product lines, and the introduction of the iPod/iTunes paradigm that probably saved Apple. Had that $150 million never changed hands, the result would not have been much different. Jobs wanted Microsoft's Office products for the Mac... that's ALL that was. Did MS Office save Apple? Fuck no... that's absurd.
Lastly, very little is shot in 1080p. that has changed recently, but all United states braodcast cameras are either 1080i (1/2 the resolution of 1080p)
1080i is not half the resolution of 1080p. It is the same resolution with half the frame rate. I.e., 30Hz rather than 60Hz. This isn't very important for most film transfers since movies are classically shot at 24Hz. Since TNG was a US television production, it should have been shot at 30Hz but I'll admit: I haven't looked it up.
The i stands for interlaced scan. A frame of 1080i video consists of two fields which resolve to 1920×540 pixels each, and whose horizontal lines are intertwined (that is, interlaced).
If you're going to bitch about it,
I wasn't!
at least get it right. This would be the third cat of the same name, as a Puma, Panther, and Mountain Lion are all the same thing.
In that case... Leopard and Snow Leopard are worth mentioning, even though they're not cougars, the names show that Apple doesn't mind reusing names.
I was hoping for Maine Coon.
I like it. Other suggestions out there for a while include:
Mac OS X Maru and Mac OS X Nyan Cat
Seems a little... strange but unimportant I guess that Apple already did the Mountain Lion