The 1968 movie actually showed her naked boob, and she's supposed to be how old? Isn't that a depiction of child porn? OH NOES!!!!11
And in fact the actress in it was under 18 when it was shot. Apparently she wasn't allowed to attend the debut because of the rating of the film - given because of the nudity. So basically she wasn't deemed old enough to see something she could see in the mirror every day.
I've had this idea for a while - why not exploit the third dimension. Bunk desks - they're the answer!
Seriously, here in the UK open plan offices are the norm. We've recently escaped plans to reduce the size of our desks to little more than the width of keyboard + mousemat.
You do have a point - DR and recovery processes tend to be better tested in big mainframe environments, and the environment is often more contained; restore the mainframe and you have all you need.
Moving off to midrange or smaller systems and it's a lot easier to end up with a mess of peripheral systems without the same level of simplicity or control (like discovering that some idiot is storing data on the Citrix server...)
I assume CA's database is some mainframe beast. Since DB2 also runs on the mainframe and is almost certainly a more modern database, I can see why customers would switch - especially given CA's "think of a number, add the salesman's telephone number and double it" approach to license costs.
Mainframe "databases" can be funny beasts. I worked on an app that used one about 15 years ago, and the database was effectively flat files, index files and an engine on top to hang it all together and make it look like a RDBMS - pretty much the MySQL approach when you use ISAM as the storage backend. I can't recall the name but it's probably owned by CA now - they seem to buy up a lot of smaller players in the mainframe world.
Before you judge the product by the label, you should try the WebOS. I'm not kidding when I say it's the best mobile phone OS out there.
But it's a dead end, on phones at least. Haven't HP said they won't bring out any more WebOS phones?
I have a Pre, and it's no more than OK. I hate the way (probably true of all smart phones) that if you're scrolling through an address book, or missed call list, it's all too easy to leave your finger in one place too long and inadvertently dial the number. I've made so many unintended calls, the one hack I want for it is a "are you sure you want to dial this number Yes/No" dialog!
On the other hand, getting root is easy, and it was handy to be able to configure it (eg. crontab to ntp sync twice a day because O2's brain damaged network doesn't do it automatically...)
Ah, so that's why a new translation was released the other year - the original work is out of copyright, but of course the latest translation isn't!
Various publishers can print War and Peace and sell it, but only one can sell the shiny new version (probably accounts for the various prices mentioned below, as well)
Not very plausible at all, since his friends posted pictures of the device online.
Well, sure, now. But he could have just ditched it somewhere and not posted the images (although if it was actually found by a mechanic working on his car, I suppose that doesn't really work either).
If I can sell you the credit card numbers of a bunch of people who I can identify as habitually making purchases of a given type of item, you can then make a series of non-suspicious orders on their cards and get away before they check their statements.
Well, yes, but then you only get to use the card for that kind of purchase. Which is great if you want to use the stolen number of buying groceries in the same town as the cardholder, but doesn't necessarily let you make large purchases.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you don't want to let any religion get their hands on your government - whether it's a nutjob cult set up by an early 19th century lunatic, a 7th century pedophile, or even a rather kindly gentleman whose major accomplishment was sitting on his ass under a tree for a month and a half.
And don't forget the 20th century science fiction writer popular amongst hollywood types.
No this law was written as an ego trip by Jack Straw to prove his power.
I believe there was talk at the time of sending an encrypted document to Jack Straw to prove the point - he would then have in his possession an encrypted document that he could not provide the password for, and therefore would not be able to comply with the law.
There has to be something fundamentally wrong with a law with which it is physically impossible to comply.
Sorry you took it so personally. But don't tell me correcting errors of this sort is something new to Slashdot. This is my third username, I've been visiting Slashdot as long as you have.;)
Sorry, but what error are you correcting? MaskedSlacker wasn't saying the star is 20 - 30 billion years old, just that it could reach that age.
My lifetime is (hopefully) likely to be in the 70 - 90 year range. Pointing out that I've only been alive for 30-something years does not make the first sentence an error.
Maybe they don't need to get past restrictions. Perhaps there's already enough info out there to hang you with. Go search for yourself at www.pipl.com. It's frightening... I just searched and found a usenet posts I made in '97. Thankfully they're just posts to technical discussions (hardware, programming, etc).
Didn't find me, even though my personal website comes up top when you google my real name. Not all that effective!
the Nikon CLS and Canon ETTL require a Nikon SB800 or a Canon 580EX II to control the remote flashes if you're talking CLS and ETTL.
Not so with Nikon. The pop-up flash in the D300, at least, will act as commander for external CLS flashguns. I use mine to control an SB900 off camera.
It is what makes the 10000$ difference between a work of art and POS produced by a point-n-shoot. If the light was not there in the first place and _at_ the right angle the necessary colour data will not be there to record.
At least in the 35mm film days, a point and shoot could equal an SLR using the same film stock, so it was about what you do with the equipment rather than what equipment you used; an artist using a point and shoot could take a better picture than some dumb rich guy with a thousand bucks of SLR.
It's more complicated with digital, as SLRs have better sensors (particularly larger pixels, rather than more megapixels), but there are some new compact cameras coming out that redress that balance. Sadly there doesn't seem to be a huge market for small, high quality compacts.
Imagine for a second that you're a woman getting drilled away by a perfect mate, how much of that guy are you going to see? Pretty much just his torso, head, and arms, right? That would explain why the legs are unimportant in teh decision making process.
Depends what position you're doing it in. Sometimes you'd see nothing. Except maybe the pillow.
The iPad won't replace anything while you need to attach it to a real computer running iTunes before you can even use the bloody thing, and to do updates.
I still can't get over the fact that you can't use in iPad without iTunes. When you first switch it on, you have to sync it to iTunes before you can do anything, and you need it to apply updates to the OS.
I got an iPad purely as a portable photo portfolio - the rotation makes it better than a netbook as you can show portrait and landscape format photos full screen. Sadly the built in photo gallery software is poor, especially if you have to sync with iTunes (you have more control if you use iPhoto - on a Mac).
I kinda feel dirty for buying in to the whole Apple thang.
If you have a "dock" then how is it easier? Normal docks already eliminate cables.
The Pre does not have a normal dock as such - the only other option is to plug the cable in to a connector hidden behind a rotating plastic flap. If used as often as you need to charge a smartphone (i.e. almost every day), I doubt the plastic flap would last all that long before it snapped off.
Using the touchstone dock removes that problem (admittedly a design flaw in the pre in the first place...)
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The 1968 movie actually showed her naked boob, and she's supposed to be how old? Isn't that a depiction of child porn? OH NOES!!!!11
And in fact the actress in it was under 18 when it was shot. Apparently she wasn't allowed to attend the debut because of the rating of the film - given because of the nudity. So basically she wasn't deemed old enough to see something she could see in the mirror every day.
I've had this idea for a while - why not exploit the third dimension. Bunk desks - they're the answer!
Seriously, here in the UK open plan offices are the norm. We've recently escaped plans to reduce the size of our desks to little more than the width of keyboard + mousemat.
Step 5: Say goodbye to business continuity
You do have a point - DR and recovery processes tend to be better tested in big mainframe environments, and the environment is often more contained; restore the mainframe and you have all you need.
Moving off to midrange or smaller systems and it's a lot easier to end up with a mess of peripheral systems without the same level of simplicity or control (like discovering that some idiot is storing data on the Citrix server...)
I assume CA's database is some mainframe beast. Since DB2 also runs on the mainframe and is almost certainly a more modern database, I can see why customers would switch - especially given CA's "think of a number, add the salesman's telephone number and double it" approach to license costs.
Mainframe "databases" can be funny beasts. I worked on an app that used one about 15 years ago, and the database was effectively flat files, index files and an engine on top to hang it all together and make it look like a RDBMS - pretty much the MySQL approach when you use ISAM as the storage backend. I can't recall the name but it's probably owned by CA now - they seem to buy up a lot of smaller players in the mainframe world.
They certainly talked about a permit system for "registered" photographers. (Now, that appears to be within a narrow area, but ...)
I read most of that and the sad thing is that even though it was an April Fool's joke it was just a little too plausible.
Before you judge the product by the label, you should try the WebOS. I'm not kidding when I say it's the best mobile phone OS out there.
But it's a dead end, on phones at least. Haven't HP said they won't bring out any more WebOS phones?
I have a Pre, and it's no more than OK. I hate the way (probably true of all smart phones) that if you're scrolling through an address book, or missed call list, it's all too easy to leave your finger in one place too long and inadvertently dial the number. I've made so many unintended calls, the one hack I want for it is a "are you sure you want to dial this number Yes/No" dialog!
On the other hand, getting root is easy, and it was handy to be able to configure it (eg. crontab to ntp sync twice a day because O2's brain damaged network doesn't do it automatically...)
Bad example. Copyright on Tolstoy expired long ago.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600
Book 2600, even....
Ah, so that's why a new translation was released the other year - the original work is out of copyright, but of course the latest translation isn't!
Various publishers can print War and Peace and sell it, but only one can sell the shiny new version (probably accounts for the various prices mentioned below, as well)
I can think of situations when something realistic down to heat signature would come handy.
And until then you can just come in hand.
(Sorry, couldn't resist!)
Not very plausible at all, since his friends posted pictures of the device online.
Well, sure, now. But he could have just ditched it somewhere and not posted the images (although if it was actually found by a mechanic working on his car, I suppose that doesn't really work either).
So he just says he knows nothing about it. Maybe it fell off. How plausible that it is depends where it was and how it was attached.
If I can sell you the credit card numbers of a bunch of people who I can identify as habitually making purchases of a given type of item, you can then make a series of non-suspicious orders on their cards and get away before they check their statements.
Well, yes, but then you only get to use the card for that kind of purchase. Which is great if you want to use the stolen number of buying groceries in the same town as the cardholder, but doesn't necessarily let you make large purchases.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you don't want to let any religion get their hands on your government - whether it's a nutjob cult set up by an early 19th century lunatic, a 7th century pedophile, or even a rather kindly gentleman whose major accomplishment was sitting on his ass under a tree for a month and a half.
And don't forget the 20th century science fiction writer popular amongst hollywood types.
Life's better when you ignore that whole segment of the marketplace (smartphones, I mean, not women)
There's a name for women you get from the marketplace...
No this law was written as an ego trip by Jack Straw to prove his power.
I believe there was talk at the time of sending an encrypted document to Jack Straw to prove the point - he would then have in his possession an encrypted document that he could not provide the password for, and therefore would not be able to comply with the law.
There has to be something fundamentally wrong with a law with which it is physically impossible to comply.
Booze and whores ARE fun when you are deployed to some foreign shithole.
And when you're not.
Sorry you took it so personally. But don't tell me correcting errors of this sort is something new to Slashdot. This is my third username, I've been visiting Slashdot as long as you have. ;)
Sorry, but what error are you correcting? MaskedSlacker wasn't saying the star is 20 - 30 billion years old, just that it could reach that age.
My lifetime is (hopefully) likely to be in the 70 - 90 year range. Pointing out that I've only been alive for 30-something years does not make the first sentence an error.
Maybe they don't need to get past restrictions. Perhaps there's already enough info out there to hang you with. Go search for yourself at www.pipl.com. It's frightening... I just searched and found a usenet posts I made in '97. Thankfully they're just posts to technical discussions (hardware, programming, etc).
Didn't find me, even though my personal website comes up top when you google my real name. Not all that effective!
the Nikon CLS and Canon ETTL require a Nikon SB800 or a Canon 580EX II to control the remote flashes if you're talking CLS and ETTL.
Not so with Nikon. The pop-up flash in the D300, at least, will act as commander for external CLS flashguns. I use mine to control an SB900 off camera.
It is what makes the 10000$ difference between a work of art and POS produced by a point-n-shoot. If the light was not there in the first place and _at_ the right angle the necessary colour data will not be there to record.
At least in the 35mm film days, a point and shoot could equal an SLR using the same film stock, so it was about what you do with the equipment rather than what equipment you used; an artist using a point and shoot could take a better picture than some dumb rich guy with a thousand bucks of SLR.
It's more complicated with digital, as SLRs have better sensors (particularly larger pixels, rather than more megapixels), but there are some new compact cameras coming out that redress that balance. Sadly there doesn't seem to be a huge market for small, high quality compacts.
Now if we could only talk our bosses into CS5 for Linux.....
Don't forget Lightroom.
Although the showstopper is lack of colour management support.
And don't worry - just like code, you have nothing to actually show off a day later.
Well, you can show off the output of your meal, but most people won't want to see it.
Imagine for a second that you're a woman getting drilled away by a perfect mate, how much of that guy are you going to see? Pretty much just his torso, head, and arms, right? That would explain why the legs are unimportant in teh decision making process.
Depends what position you're doing it in. Sometimes you'd see nothing. Except maybe the pillow.
The iPad won't replace anything while you need to attach it to a real computer running iTunes before you can even use the bloody thing, and to do updates.
I still can't get over the fact that you can't use in iPad without iTunes. When you first switch it on, you have to sync it to iTunes before you can do anything, and you need it to apply updates to the OS.
I got an iPad purely as a portable photo portfolio - the rotation makes it better than a netbook as you can show portrait and landscape format photos full screen. Sadly the built in photo gallery software is poor, especially if you have to sync with iTunes (you have more control if you use iPhoto - on a Mac).
I kinda feel dirty for buying in to the whole Apple thang.
If you have a "dock" then how is it easier? Normal docks already eliminate cables.
The Pre does not have a normal dock as such - the only other option is to plug the cable in to a connector hidden behind a rotating plastic flap. If used as often as you need to charge a smartphone (i.e. almost every day), I doubt the plastic flap would last all that long before it snapped off.
Using the touchstone dock removes that problem (admittedly a design flaw in the pre in the first place...)