The tube trains are unbelievably slow, they're hot all year round, to the point where there's warnings at the entrances.
In spite of this, it's still far more convenient then a car (even without factoring in the cogestion charge).
As I said, there are places where public transport is convenient, travelling within central London is one.
You don't mention what part of the UK you're from, but a 30 minute commute that's 90 minutes by public transport is an indication the PT is broken there too.
I disagree. As I pointed out, not everyone can have a train station on their doorstep, or right next to their place of work. Not everyone can have a direct journey on a train or bus. And the trains or busses can only run so frequently. That doesn't make the system "broken", it's just reality.
If this sort of attitude is typical, then its no wonder that the UK's greenhouse emissions are rising & you're not going to be able to meet your requirements under the kyoto treaty.
Actually our greenhouse emissions are reducing, just not as fast as they should. In fact the UK is closer to meeting its Kyoto obligations than almost all other EU countries. And our emissions are around a quarter of the per person emissions in the USA.
And I support reducing our greenhouse emissions, but I happen to think that using means that are actually practical, and don't entail unnecessary inconvenience, can be found, in fact they already exist.
I have to disagree about public transport. Here in the UK, we already have massive taxation on fuel. Tony Blair's government came in with grand plans to channel funds into the public transport infrastructure, and vastly increase the number of people using it. The plan was an utter failure, and was abandoned after a several years. (OK, so we're not talking *free* public transport, but affordable, and as far as free goes, I think you need to do some math on that).
Why did it fail? There are areas where public transport is convenient - intra-urban commuters primarily - but in most such cases the public transport system is already there and utilized almost as heavily as it can be. Meanwhile for everyone else - those commuting between suburbs/outlying areas and cities - in many cases there is just no way public transport can be made attractive. For example at my previous job, I had an easy 30 minute commute by car. Public transport took 90 minutes, and cost three times as much. You couldn't really improve that much, you can only have so many stations, and you can only run your busses and trains so often. Even if you made it free, the extra hour makes it unviable. Not to talk of losing the ability to stop of at a shopping center on the way home, or run errands in my lunch break.
Since the USA has more of a car culture than the UK, I'm sure there are improvements to be made, but it is fantasy to believe that public transport is the transportation panacea that some make it out to be. Public transport has it's place, but the convenience and freedom that comes with personal transportation is not something many people want to part with, and nor should they in my opinion.
Yeah. What's the betting the guy gets extradited and eventually sentenced to several years in jail, and Ken Lay gets off scott free? American justice, eh?
You jest, but considering masturbation reduces the risk of cancer, combined with any possible effect it may have on the risk of DVT, maybe there is a case for having a compulsory monkey spanking session at least once a day at work, for health reasons. I wonder if the boss will buy that?
"We wanted to really concentrate on the suit to improve mobility and to create a planetary spacesuit instead one for zero [gravity],"
Surely if it's used in space, it's a spacesuit. But if it's for use on a planet rather than in space, it should be called something else. I propose we call it a Hazardous EnVironment or HEV suit;).
For those who don't know, BBC Click is an extremely-dumbed-down-for-the-masses IT show from the BBC, to the extent that most slashdotters would probably cringe if they had to watch it. This being an interview, I'm assuming they're quoting verbatim and haven't edited it for the masses though, but you never know.
Only good thing about that show is Kate Russell, but she hardly gets any screen time.
A feature to encourage people to buy a Mac is really a cunning plan to get them to switch to Mac? Wow, he must be a genius to have figured that one out...
In this case it seems they are juat setting themselves up to fail.
No, they're setting a difficult task. Now look up the definition of "challenge". See?
People said the same thing after the first challenge, but people got the hang of that pretty quickly, and from what I've read over the last couple of years, this challenge should be just about doable.
Just capture the raw stream, there's a directshow filter around to play back FLV streams with a regular media player in Windows. Linux I couldn't speak for.
I love that movie, it being great braindead entertainment which leaves me not at all worried about nitpicking the technical points, but I'll take the time to answer your points.
Q. How did Jeff Goldblum's character figure out the alien signal? A. Duh! He's a genius.
Q. How did they know how to fly the alien ship? A. Captain Hiller is a bad-ass hero fighter pilot, he can fly anything. Anyway, you saw the controls - if pulling one way makes it go backwards, pulling the other way goes...
Q. All of the characters in this film are stereotypical. A. It's a fucking Hollywood movie, of course all the characters are stereotypical.
Q. The President of the United States of America flies a fighter plane against alien ships. A. So what's your point? Admittedly with your current draft-dodging coward of a president, I can understand your skepticism (if you're not American, I apologise for that).
Q. The town drunk is a hero for no reason. A. He got probed up the ass by the aliens, he's got to get some comeback. It's a classic tale of revenge and redemption. Positively Shakespearian.
Q. I could come up with more, but like a child who had been molestered by her uncle, I don't like thinking about it too much. A. Bring it on, we have all the answers.
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Did they pretend to be NEC in wholesale deals with other businessmen and the other businessmen did not they were dealing with them? I did not find it in TA.
Only because you didn't READ IT.
These records showed that the counterfeiters carried NEC business cards, commissioned product research and development in the company's name and signed production and supply orders.
Some of the factories that were raided had erected bogus NEC signs and shipped their products packaged in authentic looking boxes and display cases.
ThinkSecret normally doesn't have such inane punditry... We're saying here that a good strategy for a piece of softwares survival is to make it so bad that someone will be compelled to rewrite it?
Actually the presence of 802.11b devices on a 802.11g network will slow the network down, just not all the way to b speed. See this table for example. As stated there, you seem to drop about a third of the speed, and noting the source [PDF], I'd assume that data is reliable.
If you're going to charge a comparable price for the downloadable movie, it can't be an inferior product to the purchased disc, or it just won't fly. Hence needs to be watchable on a regular DVD player like a purchased DVD. Still seems a bit steep compared to some, erm, other sources of pr0n though.
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The tube trains are unbelievably slow, they're hot all year round, to the point where there's warnings at the entrances.
In spite of this, it's still far more convenient then a car (even without factoring in the cogestion charge).
As I said, there are places where public transport is convenient, travelling within central London is one.
You don't mention what part of the UK you're from, but a 30 minute commute that's 90 minutes by public transport is an indication the PT is broken there too.
I disagree. As I pointed out, not everyone can have a train station on their doorstep, or right next to their place of work. Not everyone can have a direct journey on a train or bus. And the trains or busses can only run so frequently. That doesn't make the system "broken", it's just reality.
If this sort of attitude is typical, then its no wonder that the UK's greenhouse emissions are rising & you're not going to be able to meet your requirements under the kyoto treaty.
Actually our greenhouse emissions are reducing, just not as fast as they should. In fact the UK is closer to meeting its Kyoto obligations than almost all other EU countries. And our emissions are around a quarter of the per person emissions in the USA.
And I support reducing our greenhouse emissions, but I happen to think that using means that are actually practical, and don't entail unnecessary inconvenience, can be found, in fact they already exist.
I have to disagree about public transport. Here in the UK, we already have massive taxation on fuel. Tony Blair's government came in with grand plans to channel funds into the public transport infrastructure, and vastly increase the number of people using it. The plan was an utter failure, and was abandoned after a several years. (OK, so we're not talking *free* public transport, but affordable, and as far as free goes, I think you need to do some math on that).
Why did it fail? There are areas where public transport is convenient - intra-urban commuters primarily - but in most such cases the public transport system is already there and utilized almost as heavily as it can be. Meanwhile for everyone else - those commuting between suburbs/outlying areas and cities - in many cases there is just no way public transport can be made attractive. For example at my previous job, I had an easy 30 minute commute by car. Public transport took 90 minutes, and cost three times as much. You couldn't really improve that much, you can only have so many stations, and you can only run your busses and trains so often. Even if you made it free, the extra hour makes it unviable. Not to talk of losing the ability to stop of at a shopping center on the way home, or run errands in my lunch break.
Since the USA has more of a car culture than the UK, I'm sure there are improvements to be made, but it is fantasy to believe that public transport is the transportation panacea that some make it out to be. Public transport has it's place, but the convenience and freedom that comes with personal transportation is not something many people want to part with, and nor should they in my opinion.
Yeah. What's the betting the guy gets extradited and eventually sentenced to several years in jail, and Ken Lay gets off scott free? American justice, eh?
Where do you get that Dell is using the Airgo products elsewhere? I can't find any reference to that, so what you said makes no sense.
You jest, but considering masturbation reduces the risk of cancer, combined with any possible effect it may have on the risk of DVT, maybe there is a case for having a compulsory monkey spanking session at least once a day at work, for health reasons. I wonder if the boss will buy that?
...a series of challenges, including mock-Martian hikes, sample collections and - this Saturday - a simulated sandstorm.
No idea how they're planning to simulate a sandstorm, but I can imagine any number of weather conditions that would undoubtedly make it tricky.
"We wanted to really concentrate on the suit to improve mobility and to create a planetary spacesuit instead one for zero [gravity],"
;).
Surely if it's used in space, it's a spacesuit. But if it's for use on a planet rather than in space, it should be called something else. I propose we call it a Hazardous EnVironment or HEV suit
For those who don't know, BBC Click is an extremely-dumbed-down-for-the-masses IT show from the BBC, to the extent that most slashdotters would probably cringe if they had to watch it. This being an interview, I'm assuming they're quoting verbatim and haven't edited it for the masses though, but you never know.
Only good thing about that show is Kate Russell, but she hardly gets any screen time.
For a minute there I thought you meant the bar at the top that says "Microsoft Internet Explorer", makes every website look threatening to me ;)
Well maybe there are no patches that need doing?
Which part of "patches announced in the April 2006 CPU" did you not understand? If they anounced them, then they need doing.
"... switch to Mac OS" that should read.
A feature to encourage people to buy a Mac is really a cunning plan to get them to switch to Mac? Wow, he must be a genius to have figured that one out...
"In his name" != "with his money"
They keep heaping shit on you until you die. That is just the way it is.
;).
I'm tempted to make that my sig
You don't worry about the future much, do you?
In this case it seems they are juat setting themselves up to fail.
No, they're setting a difficult task. Now look up the definition of "challenge". See?
People said the same thing after the first challenge, but people got the hang of that pretty quickly, and from what I've read over the last couple of years, this challenge should be just about doable.
Just capture the raw stream, there's a directshow filter around to play back FLV streams with a regular media player in Windows. Linux I couldn't speak for.
Or quick googling says there's software out there that can record Flash streams already.
"Only viewers within the United States can watch these full length episodes."
Or anyone with a list of US-based proxies, heh.
I love that movie, it being great braindead entertainment which leaves me not at all worried about nitpicking the technical points, but I'll take the time to answer your points.
Q. How did Jeff Goldblum's character figure out the alien signal?
A. Duh! He's a genius.
Q. How did they know how to fly the alien ship?
A. Captain Hiller is a bad-ass hero fighter pilot, he can fly anything. Anyway, you saw the controls - if pulling one way makes it go backwards, pulling the other way goes...
Q. All of the characters in this film are stereotypical.
A. It's a fucking Hollywood movie, of course all the characters are stereotypical.
Q. The President of the United States of America flies a fighter plane against alien ships.
A. So what's your point? Admittedly with your current draft-dodging coward of a president, I can understand your skepticism (if you're not American, I apologise for that).
Q. The town drunk is a hero for no reason.
A. He got probed up the ass by the aliens, he's got to get some comeback. It's a classic tale of revenge and redemption. Positively Shakespearian.
Q. I could come up with more, but like a child who had been molestered by her uncle, I don't like thinking about it too much.
A. Bring it on, we have all the answers.
Remember that you use his software every day.
;)
Don't have to, he reminds us often enough
Did they pretend to be NEC in wholesale deals with other businessmen and the other businessmen did not they were dealing with them? I did not find it in TA.
Only because you didn't READ IT.
These records showed that the counterfeiters carried NEC business cards, commissioned product research and development in the company's name and signed production and supply orders.
Some of the factories that were raided had erected bogus NEC signs and shipped their products packaged in authentic looking boxes and display cases.
etc, etc
ThinkSecret normally doesn't have such inane punditry... We're saying here that a good strategy for a piece of softwares survival is to make it so bad that someone will be compelled to rewrite it?
Works for some companies I could mention.
Actually the presence of 802.11b devices on a 802.11g network will slow the network down, just not all the way to b speed. See this table for example. As stated there, you seem to drop about a third of the speed, and noting the source [PDF], I'd assume that data is reliable.
If there's one thing worse than getting busted for shit, it's getting busted for shit after you flushed it already.
If you're going to charge a comparable price for the downloadable movie, it can't be an inferior product to the purchased disc, or it just won't fly. Hence needs to be watchable on a regular DVD player like a purchased DVD. Still seems a bit steep compared to some, erm, other sources of pr0n though.