I've never heard of anything that was specifically made out of recycled aluminum. I assumed it worked like steel, where everything has some scrap content but it's not labeled as such. Am I wrong about that?
I can usually identify spam calls and hang up before they start their spiel. The way the autodialers work is that they dial phone numbers until someone answers, and then route the call to one of the human talkers. So there's a delay of a few seconds after I pick up the phone, while it rings one of the people and waits for them to answer. If I don't hear a response a couple of seconds after I say "Hello", I hang up.
So far I haven't hung up on my mother, as far as I know.:-)
Seems to me that they've already made a contribution by funding a money-losing FreeBSD project. If they eventually make a fortune from a small FreeBSD investment then your criticism would be valid, but I'm still skeptical about companies making huge amounts of money by selling free software.
The sample code that comes with Microsoft Visual C++ is "Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation All rights reserved". How does your employer feel about that?
The computer error during screening at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital meant the women were originally told they were in the low-risk group.
Thus, women who were at risk were told they were not at risk. The effect was that some women either didn't get the real Down's Syndrome test or didn't get it soon enough (it's not clear) and two babies were born with Down's Syndrome.
The error did not cause any pregnancies to be terminated; it may or may not have prevented terminations.
The article seems to start out describing how this company converted their Windows network to Linux (but that's implied, not explicit). At the end, however, it seems that they're still using Windows. They didn't buy the upgrades Microsoft was trying to sell them, and I think they're using Linux for some services (see page 6), but it's not clearly stated.
The analysis of the costs of NT and the advantages of Linux seems plausible, but the article is written so that the implied claims are a lot stronger than the details of what actually happened.
If they put a GPS transmitter in a missile, didn't that fux0r the GPS system in that region? I thought GPS relied on signals transmitted from satellites in precise orbits.
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If free software is intended to be used by anyone other than programmers, then the authors need to be more diplomatic when dealing with users.
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Your review is based on the (important) fact that the game often doesn't work. GameSpot is also usually good about noting bugs and compatibility problems they encounter (here, for example). I'd guess that they didn't happen to run into the problems in Myst III, and their review was written before the game was released and the problems became known.
I also wonder if they might have had a pre-release copy of the game without Safedisc. --
but I know someone who tested his data link protocol for a cellular modem by shouting into another phone extension. (The protocol had to survive the drop-outs that occur when switching cells.) --
Sounds like you're agreeing with him.
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Salon.com's stock is trading at $0.35. The reason isn't the quality of their content; as you point out, the writing is excellent.
So whose fault is it? Management, maybe. Or it's the "business model". Or their "vision". Who knows if salon.com resembles the writer's company, but it does seem ironic for a troubled dotcom to publish that article. --
Now, I'm the first to admit that HTML, XML, DOM, JavaScript, Java, and style sheets have become rather complex. Actually, Curl looks pretty nice and clean. But does it stand a chance?
No, it doesn't stand a chance.
Look at C++. Hard to imagine a messier combination of ill-suited features that interact badly, but we're stuck with it now.
HTML (+Java+CSS+whatever) is, by now, equally entrenched. I really can't see it being replaced by something else. --
Trust is defined on a certificate-by-certificate basis, rather than on the basis of the common name. As a result, a warning dialogue would be displayed before any of the signed content could be executed, even if the user had previously agreed to trust other certificates with the common name "Microsoft Corporation".
It seems more appropriate to remove VeriSign from the list of trusted CA's, but of course that would invalidate most of the certificates on the net. --
More specifically, it's true if you believe that a thing only has value if it is useful to large numbers of fat Americans wearing bermuda shorts. --
I didn't find it unconvincing.
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I don't think the movie "loses its cohesion and unravels into its threads at the end". I guess I agree with Ebert's opinion. Yes, it had a rather distressing ending. But hey, if I didn't want to be a bit distressed, I wouldn't go to a movie about a serial killer.
I see from the pre-movie ads that we're soon to be treated to yet another movie in which Morgan Freeman catches a serial killer. What's wrong with someone making a movie with the other ending, just for a change? Must this type of story always be told the same way? --
It's not "happy" that's unrealistic, it's "stupid"
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First off, I don't know who equates "unhappy" and "realistic" endings. I only hear that when people complain about it. I suspect it's mostly a straw man.
Second, the thing that's really annoying about "happy" endings is that, in too many movies, they're just stupid. As if the movie makers didn't even bother trying to write an ending that made sense with the story and the characters, they just paired off all the males and females arbitrarily, brought in some deus ex machina to punish the bad guys, and made the preceding story seem like pointless filler.
I go to a movie to see a good story. If a stupid ending ruins the story, then I'm annoyed. By the nature of Hollywood, those "stupid" endings are always "happy". So are some of the good endings - I don't complain about those ones. --
can a public broadcaster turn around & start running ads
Haven't you noticed that PBS runs ads before & after every show? I guess they snuck it by you, by starting out years ago with sponsorship announcements that were so brief PBS could deny that they were advertising, but now they're basically full-blown commercials.
In Canada, CBC TV has been running commercials, just like any other network, for many years. CBC Radio, on the other hand, advertises nothing except their own shows. The CBC is still our "public" broadcaster, and still gets public money, but there's been a lot of debate about its role in the last few years -- like how to reduce its dependency on public money without it devolving into constant reruns of The Simpsons and America's Funniest Shootings. --
Alan Turing worked on speech encipherment at Bell Labs for a couple of months in 1943. It seems that he didn't actually work on the SIGSALY system, but did a technical appraisal of it for the British government.
Turing came up with Delilah after he returned to the UK. It was a much smaller and simpler device, but it was never put to any practical use.
I remember when the main competitor to DOS was the Mac OS. Both were "effectively" free in the sense that the price was bundled with the computer. But DOS wasn't really free, because Microsoft got paid for every copy that shipped in a PC.
And guess what? Microsoft reportedly made more money from each Macintosh sold than from each PC, on average. Even though they were getting money for every PC made by IBM, Compaq or whoever. That's because Excel and Word were very popular on the Mac, and application software has a higher markup than a bundled OS.
It's true that Windows Me costs more than DOS did way back when, but there's a lot more in it. And it's still lots cheaper than Office (or Adobe Photoshop, for that matter). --
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I've never heard of anything that was specifically made out of recycled aluminum. I assumed it worked like steel, where everything has some scrap content but it's not labeled as such. Am I wrong about that?
Um, I think that was a joke. "Aluminium" is the proper spelling in some (non-American) dictionaries.
I can usually identify spam calls and hang up before they start their spiel. The way the autodialers work is that they dial phone numbers until someone answers, and then route the call to one of the human talkers. So there's a delay of a few seconds after I pick up the phone, while it rings one of the people and waits for them to answer. If I don't hear a response a couple of seconds after I say "Hello", I hang up.
:-)
So far I haven't hung up on my mother, as far as I know.
Seems to me that they've already made a contribution by funding a money-losing FreeBSD project. If they eventually make a fortune from a small FreeBSD investment then your criticism would be valid, but I'm still skeptical about companies making huge amounts of money by selling free software.
The sample code that comes with Microsoft Visual C++ is "Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation All rights reserved". How does your employer feel about that?
Thus, women who were at risk were told they were not at risk. The effect was that some women either didn't get the real Down's Syndrome test or didn't get it soon enough (it's not clear) and two babies were born with Down's Syndrome.
The error did not cause any pregnancies to be terminated; it may or may not have prevented terminations.
Whoever owns the domain www.worldtradecenter.com has already put up a page saying "Domain available as memorial or for some other suitable purpose".
Thanks to DanielV for pointing this out.
The article seems to start out describing how this company converted their Windows network to Linux (but that's implied, not explicit). At the end, however, it seems that they're still using Windows. They didn't buy the upgrades Microsoft was trying to sell them, and I think they're using Linux for some services (see page 6), but it's not clearly stated.
The analysis of the costs of NT and the advantages of Linux seems plausible, but the article is written so that the implied claims are a lot stronger than the details of what actually happened.
No, of course not. Helios has prop engines. The altitude record for jet aircraft is still held by a jet aircraft.
If they put a GPS transmitter in a missile, didn't that fux0r the GPS system in that region? I thought GPS relied on signals transmitted from satellites in precise orbits.
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Your review is based on the (important) fact that the game often doesn't work. GameSpot is also usually good about noting bugs and compatibility problems they encounter (here, for example). I'd guess that they didn't happen to run into the problems in Myst III, and their review was written before the game was released and the problems became known.
I also wonder if they might have had a pre-release copy of the game without Safedisc.
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but I know someone who tested his data link protocol for a cellular modem by shouting into another phone extension. (The protocol had to survive the drop-outs that occur when switching cells.)
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So whose fault is it? Management, maybe. Or it's the "business model". Or their "vision". Who knows if salon.com resembles the writer's company, but it does seem ironic for a troubled dotcom to publish that article.
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Look at C++. Hard to imagine a messier combination of ill-suited features that interact badly, but we're stuck with it now.
HTML (+Java+CSS+whatever) is, by now, equally entrenched. I really can't see it being replaced by something else.
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More specifically, it's true if you believe that a thing only has value if it is useful to large numbers of fat Americans wearing bermuda shorts.
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I see from the pre-movie ads that we're soon to be treated to yet another movie in which Morgan Freeman catches a serial killer. What's wrong with someone making a movie with the other ending, just for a change? Must this type of story always be told the same way?
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First off, I don't know who equates "unhappy" and "realistic" endings. I only hear that when people complain about it. I suspect it's mostly a straw man. Second, the thing that's really annoying about "happy" endings is that, in too many movies, they're just stupid. As if the movie makers didn't even bother trying to write an ending that made sense with the story and the characters, they just paired off all the males and females arbitrarily, brought in some deus ex machina to punish the bad guys, and made the preceding story seem like pointless filler. I go to a movie to see a good story. If a stupid ending ruins the story, then I'm annoyed. By the nature of Hollywood, those "stupid" endings are always "happy". So are some of the good endings - I don't complain about those ones.
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In Canada, CBC TV has been running commercials, just like any other network, for many years. CBC Radio, on the other hand, advertises nothing except their own shows. The CBC is still our "public" broadcaster, and still gets public money, but there's been a lot of debate about its role in the last few years -- like how to reduce its dependency on public money without it devolving into constant reruns of The Simpsons and America's Funniest Shootings.
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Turing came up with Delilah after he returned to the UK. It was a much smaller and simpler device, but it was never put to any practical use.
More info can be found in Andrew Hodges' book "Alan Turing: the Enigma". (Hodges maintains The Alan Turing Home Page, referred to in the parent comment.)
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I remember when the main competitor to DOS was the Mac OS. Both were "effectively" free in the sense that the price was bundled with the computer. But DOS wasn't really free, because Microsoft got paid for every copy that shipped in a PC.
And guess what? Microsoft reportedly made more money from each Macintosh sold than from each PC, on average. Even though they were getting money for every PC made by IBM, Compaq or whoever. That's because Excel and Word were very popular on the Mac, and application software has a higher markup than a bundled OS.
It's true that Windows Me costs more than DOS did way back when, but there's a lot more in it. And it's still lots cheaper than Office (or Adobe Photoshop, for that matter).
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DiabloII.Net says that the "normal", not "hardcore", ladder was reset, which wouldn't help those permanently killed characters, and it didn't stop the problem anyway.
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Or is it the other way around? I keep forgetting.
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