Posts by phuzz 6738 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2010
Make his own personal version of Fox news. You'd probably just need to overdub the audio with "...and President in Chief Trump has made another fantastic move with his tariffs on China. He's really making America great again!", and swap in whatever he's ranting about today. No fuss.
They're also trying to replace the Windows Snipping Tool (very useful if you need to create a set of screenshots) with 'Snip and Sketch', which is a moderately rubbish name.
In that case though the replacement works much the same as the original program, so I'm not too bothered.
Stupidly, in US English "contemporary" can mean both:
Definition of contemporary1a : marked by characteristics of the present period : modern, current contemporary American literature contemporary standards
b : simultaneous
2 : happening, existing, living, or coming into being during the same period of time The book is based on contemporary accounts of the war.
In proper English, definition 2 is more correct.
You're also more likely to get done for possession if you happen to look more like a dealer, ef if: the drugs are already split into multiple amounts, or you've got hoards of empty baggies, or lots of loose cash, or you have scales etc. Probably multiple mobile phones would be a bad sign too.
Generally though the exact threshold would be down to how much you've pissed the police off, and how easy they think it would be to get a conviction.
So, you could try hiding multiple baggies of weed in someone's shed and then calling the cops, but the police might well guess that it's a stitch-up, and they'll be looking for you.
Certainly Spikes books don't go as far as pointing out the profits to be made from war, but they definitely don't portray his senior officers in a uniformly good light (cf everything he says about 'Jumbo' Jenkins).
I'm not sure where you get the idea that "Most of the officers are decent blokes who enjoy a joke and are good leaders."? He was clearly fond of some of the brass, but mostly despite their attempts to lead him, not because of.
Yes he was in a citizen army, but he was conscripted, and did his best to avoid the draft (ignoring the letters, trying to get a medical deferment). Whenever possible, he and his friends would try and shirk their duties and bunk off for a fag.
The biggest similarity though is Spike's mad sense of humour, which he deployed as the only way to stay sane in the midst of an insane war. Both books have the underlying message that war is a fucking stupid idea, usually thought up by people who will be nowhere near it, but fought by people who have no personal quarrel with their enemies.
(The other obvious similarity is that they're both set during the invasion of Italy, but that's less of a tonal similarity).
For those that are interested, you can see what's being logged here.
Of course, it's disabled by default, but lets not let that get in the way of a good rant eh?
There's easy, and there's "easy". Some phones still have removable batteries (Moto G5, released 2017), some have really easy access to the battery, but you're going to need to undo some tiny screws and un-gum some glue (Nokia 3.1).
Most seem to go for gluing the batteries into the middle of a glued together case though :(
Why would you give someone a bad reference? If you do, they might not get the job and you'll be stuck working with the useless bastard.
(Unless you have a roll of old carpet, some foundations that need filling, and an appropriately BOfH mindset, of course.)
Not just other laptops, pretty much every piece of electronic equipment I can see from here has a Kensington lock slot. In fact, I thought Macs had them as well, did they get rid of them at some point?
(Just looked, for £50 Apple will sell you a Kensington adaptor for your MacPro. Thanks Apple!)
I usually end up having to merge because I made a change without remembering to update my local copy (because I am an idiot).
So far I've never managed to successfully merge a commit, so instead I just make a copy and then git reset --hard. I assume that this is the intended workflow, so this is my life now.
"notepad's brain-damaged line-ending"
It's more broadly Microsoft's line-ending policy, and there is actually some reasoning behind it (believe it or not).
ASCII is originally based on the (7 bit Baudot code) character encoding originally used in teletype machines, which was still used for early line printers (this is why *nix shells are called tty's). A teletype required both a Carriage Return and and a Line Feed in order to move the print head to start typing the next line in the correct place on the paper (CR moves it back to the left, LF moves it down one line).
When computers stopped relying so much on actual teleprinters, they all adopted their own style of new line characters in text files. The *nix's, BeOS, RISC OS etc. went for just a LF. Windows, DOS, DEC, Atari TOS etc. kept the CRLF, whilst others went with a variety of other combinations (see here).
TL/DR Marking a new line in a text file is done in many ways across different OS's, all relating back to teletypes. Microsoft's is no more "brain damaged" than any other (except BBC Micros which used LFCR which is just BACKWARDS and WRONG).
I'd not thought about it until I read this article, but whenever I've seen someone discussing temperatures in a computer, they've always used Centigrade, it must be the standard, even for Yanks.
It's a bit like how Americans use litres to measure engine capacity (as well as cubic inches or square cubits or something). Slowly they're learning to use normal units in specialist fields. Eventually they'll know how to use them all the time.
NASA in the 1970's: Let's build a really efficient engine for the Shuttle, it doesn't matter if it's expensive because we'll be bringing them back after each flight.
NASA in 2010: We need an engine for the SLS, let's use the RS-25. Who cares if we're throwing them away into the ocean after each use?
(They're planning to use ex-Shuttle engines for the first flights of the SLS. Taking what would otherwise have ended up in museums and dropping them in the Atlantic.)
"Does Linux work on it?"
I'd be bloody surprised if it didn't.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if a few of the features (eg that mobile broadband) don't work straight out of the box, but searching for obscure binary blobs and half translated commands on unanswered threads in dead forums is part of the fun of installing linux. If you wanted it to all work first time every time, get a mac.
I feel that prosecution is taking it a bit far, but I do agree that giving the authors at least some warning is best.
After all, being able to say "I found this bug" is nice, but being able to say "I found this bug, and worked with the authors to fix it" is better ("I found this bug, and told the authors but they've ignored me" is still pretty good).
It would be a graphics/designer person. I always assumed that Adobe were never too bothered about people pirating Photoshop/Illustrator, because most of the pirates were young people who would learn design on their pirate copy, and then finally get a job at a real company which would say "well we can't let you use a pirate version, I suppose we'll have to buy a licensed copy for you".
Thus the easy access to pirated versions of Photoshop, led to it being the default tool for most designers.
Of course, they've fucked that up with their cloud based subscription bollocks, but serves them right.
Blimey, something about 'quantum' has got amfM's diodes all in a twist. Maybe it's trying to tell us something?
What's that Skip? The kids fell down the quantum well?!
Buran was intended to carry cosmonauts, and was on it's way to being man-rated. Unlike the US, the USSR weren't about to stick humans in a vehicle for it's maiden flight, so it went up, and more impressively, landed, uncrewed. It's main problems really were:
It had even less purpose than the Space Shuttle (the politburo had seen the US spending so much money on the STS, and decided that there must be a rational reason, even if they couldn't work it out, so therefore the USSR must have a shuttle as well). Dumb rockets could carry everything the Soviets needed to get into space
It was carried by an Energia rocket, which was still in development, and very expensive.
Which brings us to the main reason Buran failed, it was incredibly expensive, and the Soviet union broke up, so there was no more money.
That's because Farscape-1 was also copying NASA's HL-20 design.
The HL-20, in turn, was inspired by NASA's earlier lifting body test aircraft, including the HL-10 and M2-F1 (read the free NASA publication "Wingless Flight, The Lifting Body Story" [SP-4220] for more on those two), and also somewhat on the Soviet BOR-4 (and the MiG 105).
NASA researchers have been wanting to send a proper lifting body into space for years, but for long-winded reasons the shuttle ended up being closer to a regular, winged, glider than a true lifting body. The HL-20 design was then taken by Dreamchaser and used as the basis for their craft.
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