Exactly. Any object can be used as a weapon by the wrong person. What's important is their intent: somebody who wants to do damage will, regardless of the restrictions on what they can carry on a plane.
I think what El-Al does (individual interviews with passengers and a second party observing their responses [1]) is the most security-effective way to do things, but ideally in a free world, such measures wouldn't be necessary at all.
Agree with the above. ASOIF has the most well developed characters of any fantasy book I've ever read, and GRRM constantly challenges the notion of good versus evil through his use of multiple perspectives. Is is probably my favourite series of books.
I'm a Linux newbie. I've run it for about 1.5 years and in that time, I've installed and used Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and now Arch.
I might have just been unlucky, but I ran the so-called "stable" branch of Gentoo and on more then one occasion, ebuilds had syntax errors, program sources had undeclared variables, and gaim (which I consider to be an important desktop application) segfaulted where the unstable release did not. The advice I was getting was to emerge the unstable version. Why was the unstable branch fixing known bugs in the stable branch? Am I missing something?
In any case, I've moved to Arch linux and I've been running it for about a week. So far, I've been extremely impressed.
To be fair, I ran Gentoo for 2 weeks only and I've never had experience with a server, so my opinion is likely insignificant.
I am consistently amazed by the support Opera has for different platforms. They have Ubuntu packages (that can be installed with dpkg) for all (past and present) versions of the operating system. I saw at least 10 other supported distributions.
I can honestly say I have never seen a consumer product so supportive of *nix.
A relative of mine started game testing for a EA in California as a summer job. He became known to the company, and is now doing a masters of game design (or something like that) and has already sold one of his team's games to a large company. I'm pretty sure his team also won a game-design contest for MTV.
So, as an observer, it seems to me that the answer is yes.;)
I watched the first place winner, "Daredevil" and frankly, I was confused. Besides the small text at the end, there was no mention of Firefox at all. From the perspective of an average observer, I just didn't get it.
I also disliked "Wee" (however it is spelt). It sunk down to demeaning other browsers rather then explaining and showcasing Firefox's abilities. The browser should rely on its merits, not the shortfalls of other browsers.
I loved "This is Hot". The animation was well done, and professional. The features of firefox were briefly explained, and a nice shiny logo with lots of flash was displayed at the end. In my opinion, this is clearly the winner.
Yes, I do program. Though admittedly, I am in the minority.
At 14/15, I had fun with the TI calculators in math class. I was making really long, stupid programs that had absolutely no structure and contained hundreds of goto's.
Programming excited me, so I decided I wanted to learn a "real" language. I bought a book on C and learnt that. I had so much fun with C (pointers, structs, and the last thing in the beginner's book: linked lists), that I decided I wanted to learn C++.
After buying a big ol' book on C++ (C++ Primer Plus, not the best choice at the time), I worked through it, and had a lot of fun in the process.
I was learning high-level scripting languages (Ruby, Python), but I recently had the desire to program at a lower-level, so I am going through Thinking in C++ Volume 2 to refresh my memory.
Like I said though, I am in the minority. The computer science course at my school is awful (mostly due to the terrible teacher), and most kids are completely disgusted that they took the course. It is really a shame, because I end up trying to reassure them that programming can actually be fun, despite our teacher's miserable attempts.
I think there are plenty of young people with personalities and interest similar to mine, but they are not exposed to the "programming world". The image they have of programming is very negative (you know the one I mean), and what they're taught (at least at my school) is boring as hell.
If the apparent popularity and success of the DS is any indication of the
success that Nintendo will have the Revolution, I think we all have something to look
forward to.:-)
The only reason I still prefer Microsoft Office 2003 to Open Office is the huge selection of templates, clipart, and other related goodies available from right within the window.
These benefits just aren't available to OO (especially compared to the scope and selection that is offered through MS Office).
PS: Yes, I do use linux, but not for making documents.
Agreed! Arrested Development is the most funny show that I have ever seen on TV.
KDE might offer a variety of features but...
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they often aren't stable (in my experience). For example, I might pop in a audio cd-rom. In GNOME, a dialog will pop up asking me if I want to play the tracks, browse the files, or rip the cd.
The same action in KDE will open 4 boxes:
a dialog asking me which program I want to open the cd with
a konqueror window displaying the contents of the cd
an instance of kaffeine, playing the cd
Now, I know I could change all of this, but try as I might, it just doesn't work.
In short, KDE may offer more, but GNOME just works (and audio-cd management is far from the only example that I have experienced).
...if it weren't for the cost. Honestly, that is the one thing which is preventing me from making the switch. At the present time, I am running GNU/Linux.
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Exactly. Any object can be used as a weapon by the wrong person.
What's important is their intent: somebody who wants to do damage will, regardless of the restrictions on what
they can carry on a plane.
I think what El-Al does (individual interviews with passengers and a second party observing their responses [1]) is the most
security-effective way to do things, but ideally in a free world, such measures wouldn't be necessary at all.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al#Airport_security_measures
Upon reading the title, who else thought of Pullman's "His Dark Materials"?
Agree with the above. ASOIF has the most well developed characters of any fantasy book I've ever read, and
GRRM constantly challenges the notion of good versus evil through his use of multiple perspectives.
Is is probably my favourite series of books.
I'm a Linux newbie. I've run it for about 1.5 years and in that time, I've installed and used Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and now Arch.
I might have just been unlucky, but I ran the so-called "stable" branch of Gentoo and on more then one occasion, ebuilds had syntax errors, program sources had undeclared variables, and gaim (which I consider to be an important desktop application) segfaulted where the unstable release did not. The advice I was getting was to emerge the unstable version. Why was the unstable branch fixing known bugs in the stable branch? Am I missing something?
In any case, I've moved to Arch linux and I've been running it for about a week. So far, I've been extremely impressed.
To be fair, I ran Gentoo for 2 weeks only and I've never had experience with a server, so my opinion is likely insignificant.
I am consistently amazed by the support Opera has for different platforms.
They have Ubuntu packages (that can be installed with dpkg) for all (past and present) versions of the operating system.
I saw at least 10 other supported distributions.
I can honestly say I have never seen a consumer product so supportive of *nix.
A relative of mine started game testing for a EA in California as a summer job. He became known to the company, and is now
;)
doing a masters of game design (or something like that) and has already sold one of his team's games to a large company. I'm pretty sure his team also
won a game-design contest for MTV.
So, as an observer, it seems to me that the answer is yes.
I watched the first place winner, "Daredevil" and frankly, I was confused. Besides the small text at the end, there was no mention of Firefox at all. From the perspective of an average observer, I just didn't get it.
I also disliked "Wee" (however it is spelt). It sunk down to demeaning other browsers rather then explaining and showcasing Firefox's abilities. The browser should rely on its merits, not the shortfalls of other browsers.
I loved "This is Hot". The animation was well done, and professional. The features of firefox were briefly explained, and a nice shiny logo with lots of flash was displayed at the end. In my opinion, this is clearly the winner.
Yes, I do program. Though admittedly, I am in the minority.
At 14/15, I had fun with the TI calculators in math class. I was making really long, stupid programs that had absolutely no structure and contained hundreds of goto's.
Programming excited me, so I decided I wanted to learn a "real" language.
I bought a book on C and learnt that. I had so much fun with C (pointers, structs, and the last thing in the beginner's book: linked lists), that I decided I wanted to learn C++.
After buying a big ol' book on C++ (C++ Primer Plus, not the best choice at the time), I worked through it, and had a lot of fun in the process.
I was learning high-level scripting languages (Ruby, Python), but I recently had the desire to program at a lower-level, so I am going through Thinking in C++ Volume 2 to refresh my memory.
Like I said though, I am in the minority. The computer science course at my school is awful (mostly due to the terrible teacher), and most kids are completely disgusted that they took the course. It is really a shame, because I end up trying to reassure them that programming can actually be fun, despite our teacher's miserable attempts.
I think there are plenty of young people with personalities and interest similar to mine, but they are not exposed to the "programming world". The image they have of programming is very negative (you know the one I mean), and what they're taught (at least at my school) is boring as hell.
If the apparent popularity and success of the DS is any indication of the :-)
success that Nintendo will have the Revolution, I think we all have something to look
forward to.
The only reason I still prefer Microsoft Office 2003 to Open Office is the huge selection of templates, clipart, and other related goodies available from right within the window.
These benefits just aren't available to OO (especially compared to the scope and selection that is offered through MS Office).
PS: Yes, I do use linux, but not for making documents.
I guess I'm not the only one. I hate digg comments. Pitiful...
Agreed! Arrested Development is the most funny show that I have ever seen on TV.
The same action in KDE will open 4 boxes:
- a dialog asking me which program I want to open the cd with
- a konqueror window displaying the contents of the cd
- an instance of kaffeine, playing the cd
Now, I know I could change all of this, but try as I might, it just doesn't work.In short, KDE may offer more, but GNOME just works (and audio-cd management is far from the only example that I have experienced).
That reminds me of me exactly. I guess I am not the only one. :)
...if it weren't for the cost. Honestly, that is the one thing which is preventing me from making the switch. At the present time, I am running GNU/Linux.
http://talk.google.com/ :)