I would have used the capital W though, as you have done. A wait that long, for something that should be out 'in a year or two', deserves capitalization.
That's a tricky one. He died over a year ago which is plenty of time lapsed to be able to go around making up jokes, but on the other hand they only found his body a few days ago... in some peoples minds he only just 'died'.
That being said... people were inventing new acronyms for NASA before the debris had reached the ground, so go right ahead:)
* When RMS wants the printer driver source code it's freedom protection.
* When the chinese government wants his printer driver source code their trying to embezzle the gentle and caring westerners...
I'm not sure you understand the concept of 'freedom' in the context of open source.
RMS wants source code to be released free for everyone.
The Chinese government (according to the extract provided in the slashdot summary...) wants to be able to inspect the source code for their own purposes (with the possibility implied by the article authors that they might then seek to gain from it).
The former is embracing freedom. The second is not.
I know it's fun to point out hypocrisy in American (or other Western) cultures, but make sure you have your facts straight first.
I'd been driving for about 5 years when the following happened. I attended a weekend 'lan party', arrived Friday night, helped set up until about midnight, slept until about 7am, then played games until 8am the following morning, then drove home (~180km trip).
I'm not sure how much of a factor each of no sleep, too much jolt cola, and playing counterstrike non-stop for 6 hours had, but I swear that every parked car by the side of the road was pulling out right in front of me. I drove home very carefully:)
Having a nap wasn't an option... I just can't do it. It doesn't matter if i'm out partying until 6am, once I wake up at some time between 7am and 9am, I just can't go back to sleep again.
Either way, insurance companies play the numbers game. If they can identify a certain group of people that, statistically (and they have heaps of data to draw conclusions from) are more likely to have an accident then they have no problems charging higher premiums. The rest of the world may have a problem if, say, the demographic was blonde woman with large breasts, but for the most part they can do whatever they want. It's interesting seeing them identifying a demographic to offer lower premiums to though...
the pilot's first sign that he was in trouble was approximately 0.2 seconds before impact.
Every time I hear of a situation like this i'm reminded of the Far Side comic where there are two pilots in an airplane, and one remarks to the other "Hey, what is that goat doing all the way up there in that cloud?".
I wonder if we'll ever know... I assume that whatever happened was quick enough that he didn't have time to radio anyone about it. I suppose small planes don't typically carry flight recorders do they?
going above 50 mph would cause the driver's lungs to collapse from wind pressure, as well as tear off his face
I just test drove a mid sized hatchback, nothing special, but I did test out the ABS and felt like I was going to black out:)
I think the 50mph thing was first a concern with 'open' (no windows) train carriages.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone have the figures on what speed one would need to do in a windscreen-less (eg open air) vehicle in order for ones face to tear off?
I know you were kind of joking, but I think that would be a great test for any new law like this. Something to go in the constitution. Any politician voting to approve any new monitoring law has to make all data collected about them (and their family?) publicly available in as near to real time as possible for the duration of their term of office, and a few years afterward, just to make sure.
If the law gets in, the monitoring is only put in on a trial basis for (say) 6 months, after which the politicians are given the opportunity to change their mind about their vote (eg the law is put to vote again).
If any politician doesn't want to vote for such a law on that basis, then that's probably a pretty good indicator that the law is too intrusive.
Well... i guarantee that the percentage of aircraft with "No Hijacking" signs on them that don't get highjacked would have a significant number of 9's in it, so it obviously works and works well, provided you measure the outcomes correctly.
In time, the value of patents is going to come crashing down just as spectacularly,
This may be bad for companies whose entire business plan is 'buy patents and sell them', 'patent things and then sue people', or 'buy patents and sue people', but not necessarily bad for companies whose business plan is 'invest billions of dollars on research and then patent the invention to recoup the investment (and the investment on research that didn't work out) so we can invest in more research', so I don't see a problem:)
I have been told by someone who would know (psychiatrist) that drug trials (maybe just here in Australia) have to be announced before the trial begins otherwise the outcomes can't be published. The idea is that you have to announce a trial before you begin, and so if the outcomes are bad and you don't publish, the bad outcome can be inferred from the lack of publication, even if the specifics remain unknown.
And before computers existed, they spent 25 percent of their time standing-around the water cooler, or sitting at their desks daydreaming.
So now they spend 25% of their time standing around the water coolor, or sitting at their desks daydreaming, and another 25% of their time on the internet. I don't think the two are mutually excl
and of course: #/bin/rm -rf / rmdir: command not found
For anyone that tried this one out... my condolences. Maybe you'll be smarter with your next install:) (My assumption is that if you are the sort of person who typed that in to see what it did, you're the sort of person who didn't make backups first)
That reminds me of another idea - a dictaphone. I think most PDA's and probably phones too these days can record audio. If not, just call your voicemail and leave a message:)
I couldn't agree more - my Windows XP laptop gets booted for 3 reasons: 1. Windows updates - only the critical ones 2. runs out of 16 bit handles - I still use a 16 bit app and after about 30-60 days something goes wrong and it runs out of 16 bit handles 3. It crashes - this hasn't happened in the last 12 months. Before that it seemed to happen once a month or so but a chkdsk cleared that up.
Okay that one threw me for a minute... I think it might have been shift+F7 though... shift+7 normally gave you a '&' character:)
I used to love wordperfect for dos. It was sleek, ran almost identically on the Amiga, and while it took a small investment in time to get to know the keyboard codes, knowing them meant you could get things done really fast. I love vi for the same reason - you can edit text at high speed without your fingers leaving the home row.
I never found a version of wordperfect for windows that I liked though... it always just seemed easier to use word.
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Every time I watch that movie, I think that scene would have been a perfect opportunity to borrow a scene from Hi-Fidelity, where the main character imagines severely beating the guy who his girlfriend has left him for. My version of the scene would go something like:
Female Temp: Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mo- Peter Gibbons punches temp in the face Peter knee's temp in the stomach Female Temp falls down Peter, Michael, and Samir all kick her repeatedly Samir grabs the printer and drops it on her
Peter Gibbons shown with blank expression on his face...
I was thinking that too. And if at some point the whole world becomes too poor to afford google at all, the googleplex will be put into suspended animation until the world can afford it again...
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I would have used the capital W though, as you have done. A wait that long, for something that should be out 'in a year or two', deserves capitalization.
OSS movement says: Give the source to everyone (including China).
China says: Give the source to us or you can't sell your product here.
The former is a request for the greater good (from the OSS movements point of view).
The latter is a demand for the good of the Chinese government.
That's a tricky one. He died over a year ago which is plenty of time lapsed to be able to go around making up jokes, but on the other hand they only found his body a few days ago... in some peoples minds he only just 'died'.
That being said... people were inventing new acronyms for NASA before the debris had reached the ground, so go right ahead :)
I'm not sure you understand the concept of 'freedom' in the context of open source.
RMS wants source code to be released free for everyone.
The Chinese government (according to the extract provided in the slashdot summary...) wants to be able to inspect the source code for their own purposes (with the possibility implied by the article authors that they might then seek to gain from it).
The former is embracing freedom. The second is not.
I know it's fun to point out hypocrisy in American (or other Western) cultures, but make sure you have your facts straight first.
Depends... what's its false positive and false negative rate for Lupus?
I'd been driving for about 5 years when the following happened. I attended a weekend 'lan party', arrived Friday night, helped set up until about midnight, slept until about 7am, then played games until 8am the following morning, then drove home (~180km trip).
I'm not sure how much of a factor each of no sleep, too much jolt cola, and playing counterstrike non-stop for 6 hours had, but I swear that every parked car by the side of the road was pulling out right in front of me. I drove home very carefully :)
Having a nap wasn't an option... I just can't do it. It doesn't matter if i'm out partying until 6am, once I wake up at some time between 7am and 9am, I just can't go back to sleep again.
Either way, insurance companies play the numbers game. If they can identify a certain group of people that, statistically (and they have heaps of data to draw conclusions from) are more likely to have an accident then they have no problems charging higher premiums. The rest of the world may have a problem if, say, the demographic was blonde woman with large breasts, but for the most part they can do whatever they want. It's interesting seeing them identifying a demographic to offer lower premiums to though...
Every time I hear of a situation like this i'm reminded of the Far Side comic where there are two pilots in an airplane, and one remarks to the other "Hey, what is that goat doing all the way up there in that cloud?".
I wonder if we'll ever know... I assume that whatever happened was quick enough that he didn't have time to radio anyone about it. I suppose small planes don't typically carry flight recorders do they?
Diamond, which will then be used to build the space elevator.
I just test drove a mid sized hatchback, nothing special, but I did test out the ABS and felt like I was going to black out :)
I think the 50mph thing was first a concern with 'open' (no windows) train carriages.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone have the figures on what speed one would need to do in a windscreen-less (eg open air) vehicle in order for ones face to tear off?
I know you were kind of joking, but I think that would be a great test for any new law like this. Something to go in the constitution. Any politician voting to approve any new monitoring law has to make all data collected about them (and their family?) publicly available in as near to real time as possible for the duration of their term of office, and a few years afterward, just to make sure.
If the law gets in, the monitoring is only put in on a trial basis for (say) 6 months, after which the politicians are given the opportunity to change their mind about their vote (eg the law is put to vote again).
If any politician doesn't want to vote for such a law on that basis, then that's probably a pretty good indicator that the law is too intrusive.
Well... i guarantee that the percentage of aircraft with "No Hijacking" signs on them that don't get highjacked would have a significant number of 9's in it, so it obviously works and works well, provided you measure the outcomes correctly.
This may be bad for companies whose entire business plan is 'buy patents and sell them', 'patent things and then sue people', or 'buy patents and sue people', but not necessarily bad for companies whose business plan is 'invest billions of dollars on research and then patent the invention to recoup the investment (and the investment on research that didn't work out) so we can invest in more research', so I don't see a problem :)
I have been told by someone who would know (psychiatrist) that drug trials (maybe just here in Australia) have to be announced before the trial begins otherwise the outcomes can't be published. The idea is that you have to announce a trial before you begin, and so if the outcomes are bad and you don't publish, the bad outcome can be inferred from the lack of publication, even if the specifics remain unknown.
usive. The boss was coming and I panicked and hit Submit :)
So now they spend 25% of their time standing around the water coolor, or sitting at their desks daydreaming, and another 25% of their time on the internet. I don't think the two are mutually excl
For anyone that tried this one out... my condolences. Maybe you'll be smarter with your next install :)
(My assumption is that if you are the sort of person who typed that in to see what it did, you're the sort of person who didn't make backups first)
That reminds me of another idea - a dictaphone. I think most PDA's and probably phones too these days can record audio. If not, just call your voicemail and leave a message :)
I couldn't agree more - my Windows XP laptop gets booted for 3 reasons:
1. Windows updates - only the critical ones
2. runs out of 16 bit handles - I still use a 16 bit app and after about 30-60 days something goes wrong and it runs out of 16 bit handles
3. It crashes - this hasn't happened in the last 12 months. Before that it seemed to happen once a month or so but a chkdsk cleared that up.
Okay that one threw me for a minute... I think it might have been shift+F7 though... shift+7 normally gave you a '&' character :)
I used to love wordperfect for dos. It was sleek, ran almost identically on the Amiga, and while it took a small investment in time to get to know the keyboard codes, knowing them meant you could get things done really fast. I love vi for the same reason - you can edit text at high speed without your fingers leaving the home row.
I never found a version of wordperfect for windows that I liked though... it always just seemed easier to use word.
Every time I watch that movie, I think that scene would have been a perfect opportunity to borrow a scene from Hi-Fidelity, where the main character imagines severely beating the guy who his girlfriend has left him for. My version of the scene would go something like:
Female Temp: Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mo-
Peter Gibbons punches temp in the face
Peter knee's temp in the stomach
Female Temp falls down
Peter, Michael, and Samir all kick her repeatedly
Samir grabs the printer and drops it on her
Peter Gibbons shown with blank expression on his face...
or maybe that's just me...
... it's the only way to be sure.
Ah. So it's a machine to determine if she's made of wood?
If you can't get WPA or WPA2, then I think your chances of getting a WTF are close to zero.
Or possibly, Intelligent Redesign.
I was thinking that too. And if at some point the whole world becomes too poor to afford google at all, the googleplex will be put into suspended animation until the world can afford it again...