Apparently their standard procedure in the case of loss of control is to try to gain some altitude and then attempt to fly or glide to the landing strip. So he might have been trying to do this before he totally lost control and it started to nose dive.
Given that this was a race he was not trying to do a loop.
I dunno... never underestimate the power of human stupidity, particularly when there's money involved. I mean, this particular board has tolerated a fruitcake as CEO for some time now.
Boards don't generally view CEOs who generate huge and increasing profits, and vast quantities of free publicity, as fruitcakes.
You didn't nuke urban and military areas of North Vietnam not because of PR issues but because of fear of Soviet nuclear retaliation.
But that didn't stop Nixon and Kissinger privately musing (at different time periods) of the desirability of a nuclear strike.
Nuking jungle areas of South Vietnam and/or Laos/Cambodia would have been stupid from a PR pov and militarily ineffective. And also still risking a nuclear response.
Because it's our job to make the website look nice for everyone.
No it's not, because that would involve supporting every single browser, however old and however non-compliant.
You draw the line somewhere (or the client does). If that line is the wrong side of IE6 you have my pity. Mine is elsewhere (not involving any version of IE whatsoever).
Not equivalent. $(...) tries to use the onDOMReady event -- you don't want to wait for all resources (images, etc) to be loaded before JavaScript works, do you?
He didn't say it was equivalent.
He said it still worked. The whole point being that jquery is not in any way vital to the functioning of the original page.
I don't think so. It think it's because a game, like a film or a book, is something to consume and then move on from, i.e. by its very nature it's hard to maintain user and developer interest over years and years, even with the continual addition of new features.
Open source works very well were the software is not an end in itself, but a tool. Eg you don't get bored of vi, you get better and better at it.
I don't care if the laughter is real. I don't need to be told if something is funny. And shows that feel the need to have something "funny" every 10 seconds to justify the regular canned laughter (and yes, it's canned even if it's from the same show but edited and moved around) are invariably as funny as an air-borne Ebola virus outbreak.
Laughter tracks are hideous plain and simple, and should have died sometime in the mid 1980s.
My problem (at least at this point) isn't really with the iPad, but with people who are insisting the iPad is some kind of revolutionary device.
It will be revolutionary to most people. Because most people have never owned a tablet PC, just like most people hadn't owned a smart phone before getting the iPhone.
Apple is refined and locked down revolution for the masses.
I'm more excited about the Microsoft Courier, which looks like a genuinely revolutionary (for everyone) form factor.
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And military spending is obviously less important to the powers that be than social welfare:
http://macromon.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/chart-of-the-day-u-s-federal-spending/
And the writer of the piece (Richard Stallman) published by the Guardian seems to be marketing for free software..
Richard Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, marketing free software?
Have you notified the authorities yet?
Apparently their standard procedure in the case of loss of control is to try to gain some altitude and then attempt to fly or glide to the landing strip. So he might have been trying to do this before he totally lost control and it started to nose dive. Given that this was a race he was not trying to do a loop.
The bit that's missing from the summary is that you can trigger the sea landing with one click.
Revolutionaryily replacing Kodos with Kang.
I sadly don't think he's going to be able to enjoy it.
I dunno ... never underestimate the power of human stupidity, particularly when there's money involved. I mean, this particular board has tolerated a fruitcake as CEO for some time now.
Boards don't generally view CEOs who generate huge and increasing profits, and vast quantities of free publicity, as fruitcakes.
Many people find target shooting "fun" and a legitimate sport. Which doesn't involve killing anyone.
I think you'll find drugs and prostitutes can kill also (ODing and STDs). As can most objects and human activities.
One day many people will abandon the asinine left-right dichotomy over such things and embrace genuine libertarianism.
Nuclear mines. Such things exist.
You didn't nuke urban and military areas of North Vietnam not because of PR issues but because of fear of Soviet nuclear retaliation.
But that didn't stop Nixon and Kissinger privately musing (at different time periods) of the desirability of a nuclear strike.
Nuking jungle areas of South Vietnam and/or Laos/Cambodia would have been stupid from a PR pov and militarily ineffective. And also still risking a nuclear response.
No, because it doesn't directly use entanglement and superposition.
Like your car uses electricity, but it's probably not an electric car.
"Good minimalist design" and "shiny and flashy" aren't in any way mutually exclusive.
Because it's our job to make the website look nice for everyone.
No it's not, because that would involve supporting every single browser, however old and however non-compliant.
You draw the line somewhere (or the client does). If that line is the wrong side of IE6 you have my pity. Mine is elsewhere (not involving any version of IE whatsoever).
Or it sounds like academic research is an intellectual pyramid scheme.
ITER is/was a white elephant for inertial confinement physicists.
Laser confinement is basically weapons research (refinement of bomb codes, never going to break even in sustained fusion).
Bussard-esq electo-static confinement is cool, but unconfirmed in terms of a possible break-even.
University College London isn't in America.
Can you see why?
We already have airships that carry water. They're called clouds.
Not equivalent. $(...) tries to use the onDOMReady event -- you don't want to wait for all resources (images, etc) to be loaded before JavaScript works, do you?
He didn't say it was equivalent.
He said it still worked. The whole point being that jquery is not in any way vital to the functioning of the original page.
I don't think so. It think it's because a game, like a film or a book, is something to consume and then move on from, i.e. by its very nature it's hard to maintain user and developer interest over years and years, even with the continual addition of new features.
Open source works very well were the software is not an end in itself, but a tool. Eg you don't get bored of vi, you get better and better at it.
No it's not just him, 6 metric tons is more natural way to mentally picture this mass.
I don't care if the laughter is real. I don't need to be told if something is funny. And shows that feel the need to have something "funny" every 10 seconds to justify the regular canned laughter (and yes, it's canned even if it's from the same show but edited and moved around) are invariably as funny as an air-borne Ebola virus outbreak.
Laughter tracks are hideous plain and simple, and should have died sometime in the mid 1980s.
It's too wonderful and too practical a concept to be gone for long.
Er, the ipad is selling hugely. This is the start of the era of tablets, so no they are not dead.
The advantage they offer over laptops and netbooks is a tactile natural way to consume media at your leisure i.e. while you're on the sofa.
They won't replace laptops or desktops or anything else, but they're here to stay.
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My problem (at least at this point) isn't really with the iPad, but with people who are insisting the iPad is some kind of revolutionary device.
It will be revolutionary to most people. Because most people have never owned a tablet PC, just like most people hadn't owned a smart phone before getting the iPhone.
Apple is refined and locked down revolution for the masses.
I'm more excited about the Microsoft Courier, which looks like a genuinely revolutionary (for everyone) form factor.