As an American what are your views on the Death sentence and trying children as adults. Im not American and regard these practices as "invalid"... barbaric in fact.
I think you are being a little melodramatic. I worked for a large R&D division of a large European telco whose business was patenting. I had a problem with software patents so I requested that my name was not attached to any of them. They had no problem with it. I felt I made my statement as far as I could without being annoyingly preachy. Did I do any good? Probably not much:)
You are close but slightly incorrect there. The BBC is funded from a licensing fee which you only have to pay if you own a TV. That said if you do not own a TV(like I have in the past) you still get a *lot* of hassle from them as they dont believe you dont own a TV and there is no way to prove that to them. But I still didnt have to pay when I was TVless.
Right on. One of my pet hates. My other one is the person who has arrived at the barrier in front of me only to then realise that in order to go thru they will require an Oyster card. ANd then proceed for 2 minutes fumbling thru a purse, bag or jacket looking for one. Not thinking for an instant that perhaps they should move aside to do this, but rather just stand blocking the way for everyone else.
I think we are talking about different fire control systems. THo if field artillery systems are run by a VB app this might explain friendly fire incidents:)
Not just avionics. Ive worked on SCADA and other mission critical systems(fire control and stuff like that). And people outside those industries are always harping on about how "backward" it all seems. If I had a penny for every dopey half wit manager type asked me why we didnt just upgrade everything(usually to Windows... windows 3.1/95 no less) Id have £56.34. Fine. If the 95 box freezes and knocks out the fire alarms reporting and evac alarms then I hope you all burn:)
A few years ago I had an idea about this and Ive been waiting to see if it ever happened. Basically I thought maybe a consortium of universities around the world could organise a kind of "offical" wiki for say scientific work(doesnt matter what subject... lets say physics) and then you could have a governance body(s) that allows different level of access. So basic Joe Sixpack would be given read only access and maybe the ability to comment on submissions in a limited way(have to be careful with this). Next if you have a recognised degree then you could make higher scored comments. If you are an academic in the field you get a higher comment score. If you are a specialist in the area(this would have to be judged by peers in some way) you get high score comment plus the ability to alter the text. I think you get my drift. I think this would be fantastic.
Israel is force to do what they do because of the situation they are in. I really dont think it is that comparable. The thing about 9/11 tho is it was kind of cheap and nasty. The only reason it occurred was because of surprise.
If you want to use aircraft as weapons again I can think of a few ways to do it. They are just a bit more expensive. 1. Why not train some real pilots to be commercial airline pilots. Would take years and money but once you have half a dozen "sleeper" pilots to wait for the day when three or four of them are in the air at the same time(you can do this becuase most flight crew "bid" for their monthly schedule) and then bam. Knock out three or four target all over the world(BTW my other half is flight crew so Im pretty familiar with how flight crews work). 2. Most people dont know by flight crew can deadhead on cargo. They are allowed to ride in the jumpseat cause they are qualified. 3. coordinate a bunch of flight attendants(who really are employed flight attendants) and coordinate an attack(this method would be a little harder as its still standby... but most flight crews on cargo are pretty happy to have the company along for someone new to talk to:) ) 3. If you have a lot of money, start your own legit small airline. Purchase the biggest aircraft that is credible and then, one day, bam.
Those methods are a bit tricker(and I think have a higher risk of not working for various reasons) but I think they could partially succeed.
PS If any of the above scenarios happens... I honestly had nothing to do with it:)
Had a $10 padlock and a 1/4" of aluminum door been in the way of the 9/11 hijackers they would have been rendered helpless. We essentially gave them a bunch of jets to do what they wanted to do with.
Are you sure about that? I suspect even if the cockpit was locked they would have still had a good chance to carry out their plan. What got everyone on 9/11 was the surprise. The flight crew may well have opened the door when the terrorists demanded. The flight crew would have reacted to way they were trained, which is to do what they say(this is because before 9/11 all terrorist hijackings were usually not nearly as destructive). What has changed it the perception to hijacked amongst the population. In the past if a plane I was one was hijacked I probably would have done what they said and hope to get out of it. Now a would be hijacked would be torn to pieces by the passengers and crew... even if he had a gun. Notice that no other terror groups are hijacking planes these days. There is a reason for that.
You have been kinda put down by a bunch of people for this comment and I dont really want to contribute to that. But it is quite often a case in companies that you are *not allowed* to go messing with your standard install on your company supplied hardware. As in it is a firing offense. You probably haven't worked as a programmer in a large organisation where you need to install something as part of your job that requires more access rights on your windows box than you are technically allowed. You can either override those accesses using your technical skills or have long arguments with people who are less technically savvy than you about why you need local admin access.
Wooooo there cowboy. It was an old hacker joke. Like all the old "Real Programmers..." jokes. Like real programmers dont need debuggers, they just read the core dump. With cat.
Also I have nearly 20 years of professional software development. You wound me sir.
Says who? How do you know our universe is not part of a larger system that, in order to generate our universe, lost outon the energy exchange. We dont know enough about the origins of the universe to know one way or the other.
Do you have a reference for that? All Ive heard is that it is an encyclopedia documenting the HP universe. I would be surprised if it didnt quote large part of the HP books as references, but I have heard nothing about cutting and pasting 90% of the book.
The HP case is kind of reminding me of the rather stupid cease and desist letters that Paramount was sending to Star Trek fan sites years ago. They quickly stop doing that when some suit in Paramount realised that the *only* reason that ST is a successful franchise is because of the fan base.
There can be lots of reasons. I like Linux as much as the next guy and have been using is since back in the days when I installed it on my 386 from dozens of floppies(and nearly fried my CRT monitor several time configing X:) Those were the days:) ). But I used to work on a project that used QNX. I was often pestered by people saying "Why cant you do that in WIndows" and then "Why cant you do that in Linux". Frankly we didnt because
1. We had years of libraries that were QNX specific
2. There were real time requirements that Plain Linux was not up to(real time linux may be... but you are talking a major porting project)
3. We had literally man-decades of programming experience in our team.
4. We were using a database soultion that was not available on Linux(and is still not)
SO the upshot is... it is often a decision to either have something working now to do the job or wait another few man-years before a (probably buggier) version is done for Linux. Its not anti-Linux. Its just common sense.
Not only that but the app makers are making it work in FF in 2009? It sounds silly. By the time the migration to Vista is complete the application in question will run under Linux just fine. From the summary(I didnt read the art) the Vienna dudes soultion sounds insane.
Going to the movies may or may not survive but I dont think technology will necessarily have much to do with it. After the introduction of the TV there was a massive plummet in movie going. However it eventually rebounded to the type of situation we have today. People dont go to movies just to watch the movie. They go for a night out of the house, to socialise with friends and a bunch of other reasons. Just becuase you have the greatest home movie system ever... sometimes its nice to get out of the house for a few hours.
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A small technical point. He never invented the Fing Longer. But a man can dream... a man can dream.
Maybe he's a "morhole" or an "assron"... I wanna be an assron.
As an American what are your views on the Death sentence and trying children as adults. Im not American and regard these practices as "invalid"... barbaric in fact.
I think you are being a little melodramatic. I worked for a large R&D division of a large European telco whose business was patenting. I had a problem with software patents so I requested that my name was not attached to any of them. They had no problem with it. I felt I made my statement as far as I could without being annoyingly preachy. Did I do any good? Probably not much :)
You are close but slightly incorrect there. The BBC is funded from a licensing fee which you only have to pay if you own a TV. That said if you do not own a TV(like I have in the past) you still get a *lot* of hassle from them as they dont believe you dont own a TV and there is no way to prove that to them. But I still didnt have to pay when I was TVless.
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Google for Tijuana bibles... its been done.
Alas the guys doing research on this are stuck using LaTeX.
Right on. One of my pet hates. My other one is the person who has arrived at the barrier in front of me only to then realise that in order to go thru they will require an Oyster card. ANd then proceed for 2 minutes fumbling thru a purse, bag or jacket looking for one. Not thinking for an instant that perhaps they should move aside to do this, but rather just stand blocking the way for everyone else.
I think we are talking about different fire control systems. THo if field artillery systems are run by a VB app this might explain friendly fire incidents :)
Not just avionics. Ive worked on SCADA and other mission critical systems(fire control and stuff like that). And people outside those industries are always harping on about how "backward" it all seems. If I had a penny for every dopey half wit manager type asked me why we didnt just upgrade everything(usually to Windows... windows 3.1/95 no less) Id have £56.34. Fine. If the 95 box freezes and knocks out the fire alarms reporting and evac alarms then I hope you all burn :)
As a recovering electronics engineer I must say you guys are giving me flashbacks to a particularly difficult physics lecturer in Physics 4.
A few years ago I had an idea about this and Ive been waiting to see if it ever happened. Basically I thought maybe a consortium of universities around the world could organise a kind of "offical" wiki for say scientific work(doesnt matter what subject... lets say physics) and then you could have a governance body(s) that allows different level of access. So basic Joe Sixpack would be given read only access and maybe the ability to comment on submissions in a limited way(have to be careful with this). Next if you have a recognised degree then you could make higher scored comments. If you are an academic in the field you get a higher comment score. If you are a specialist in the area(this would have to be judged by peers in some way) you get high score comment plus the ability to alter the text. I think you get my drift. I think this would be fantastic.
Israel is force to do what they do because of the situation they are in. I really dont think it is that comparable. The thing about 9/11 tho is it was kind of cheap and nasty. The only reason it occurred was because of surprise.
:) ) 3. If you have a lot of money, start your own legit small airline. Purchase the biggest aircraft that is credible and then, one day, bam.
:)
If you want to use aircraft as weapons again I can think of a few ways to do it. They are just a bit more expensive. 1. Why not train some real pilots to be commercial airline pilots. Would take years and money but once you have half a dozen "sleeper" pilots to wait for the day when three or four of them are in the air at the same time(you can do this becuase most flight crew "bid" for their monthly schedule) and then bam. Knock out three or four target all over the world(BTW my other half is flight crew so Im pretty familiar with how flight crews work). 2. Most people dont know by flight crew can deadhead on cargo. They are allowed to ride in the jumpseat cause they are qualified. 3. coordinate a bunch of flight attendants(who really are employed flight attendants) and coordinate an attack(this method would be a little harder as its still standby... but most flight crews on cargo are pretty happy to have the company along for someone new to talk to
Those methods are a bit tricker(and I think have a higher risk of not working for various reasons) but I think they could partially succeed.
PS If any of the above scenarios happens... I honestly had nothing to do with it
Had a $10 padlock and a 1/4" of aluminum door been in the way of the 9/11 hijackers they would have been rendered helpless. We essentially gave them a bunch of jets to do what they wanted to do with.
Are you sure about that? I suspect even if the cockpit was locked they would have still had a good chance to carry out their plan. What got everyone on 9/11 was the surprise. The flight crew may well have opened the door when the terrorists demanded. The flight crew would have reacted to way they were trained, which is to do what they say(this is because before 9/11 all terrorist hijackings were usually not nearly as destructive). What has changed it the perception to hijacked amongst the population. In the past if a plane I was one was hijacked I probably would have done what they said and hope to get out of it. Now a would be hijacked would be torn to pieces by the passengers and crew... even if he had a gun. Notice that no other terror groups are hijacking planes these days. There is a reason for that.
You have been kinda put down by a bunch of people for this comment and I dont really want to contribute to that. But it is quite often a case in companies that you are *not allowed* to go messing with your standard install on your company supplied hardware. As in it is a firing offense. You probably haven't worked as a programmer in a large organisation where you need to install something as part of your job that requires more access rights on your windows box than you are technically allowed. You can either override those accesses using your technical skills or have long arguments with people who are less technically savvy than you about why you need local admin access.
Wooooo there cowboy. It was an old hacker joke. Like all the old "Real Programmers..." jokes. Like real programmers dont need debuggers, they just read the core dump. With cat.
Also I have nearly 20 years of professional software development. You wound me sir.
If it was difficult to write it should be difficult to understand.
I have no idea. Perhaps we are budded off a universe where the 2LOT does not apply.
Says who? How do you know our universe is not part of a larger system that, in order to generate our universe, lost outon the energy exchange. We dont know enough about the origins of the universe to know one way or the other.
Do you have a reference for that? All Ive heard is that it is an encyclopedia documenting the HP universe. I would be surprised if it didnt quote large part of the HP books as references, but I have heard nothing about cutting and pasting 90% of the book.
The HP case is kind of reminding me of the rather stupid cease and desist letters that Paramount was sending to Star Trek fan sites years ago. They quickly stop doing that when some suit in Paramount realised that the *only* reason that ST is a successful franchise is because of the fan base.
There can be lots of reasons. I like Linux as much as the next guy and have been using is since back in the days when I installed it on my 386 from dozens of floppies(and nearly fried my CRT monitor several time configing X :) Those were the days :) ). But I used to work on a project that used QNX. I was often pestered by people saying "Why cant you do that in WIndows" and then "Why cant you do that in Linux". Frankly we didnt because
1. We had years of libraries that were QNX specific
2. There were real time requirements that Plain Linux was not up to(real time linux may be... but you are talking a major porting project)
3. We had literally man-decades of programming experience in our team.
4. We were using a database soultion that was not available on Linux(and is still not)
SO the upshot is... it is often a decision to either have something working now to do the job or wait another few man-years before a (probably buggier) version is done for Linux. Its not anti-Linux. Its just common sense.
Where has Richard Dawkins claimed otherwise?
Not only that but the app makers are making it work in FF in 2009? It sounds silly. By the time the migration to Vista is complete the application in question will run under Linux just fine. From the summary(I didnt read the art) the Vienna dudes soultion sounds insane.
IS it just me or does the levitating frog experiment sound like a physicist and biologist were drinking heavily one late night at the lab?
Going to the movies may or may not survive but I dont think technology will necessarily have much to do with it. After the introduction of the TV there was a massive plummet in movie going. However it eventually rebounded to the type of situation we have today. People dont go to movies just to watch the movie. They go for a night out of the house, to socialise with friends and a bunch of other reasons. Just becuase you have the greatest home movie system ever... sometimes its nice to get out of the house for a few hours.