Yeah, but that *new* pilot has several hundred hours of flight time (ie: Commercial pilots license by FAA, PLUS an instrument rating, certifying he's able to fly safely in the soup) in other aircraft before an airline will even talk to him.. He trains for MANY in that full-motion simulator for the type aircraft he will fly for the airline before he ever sits in the right seat (First Officer)....

Cars=moving in X and Y axis... Aircraft=moving in X, Y AND Z axis...

Damn.. the ONE good player for Windows that 1) plays Shoutcast streams withOUT any drama, and 2) doesnt try to force you to catagorize your music into that artist-album bullshit.. My several thousand mp3s are simply catagorized in folders by genre, and every other player seems to want to force me to throw that catagorization away and play *their* way.. Thats my main gripe with most all of the Linux music players, EXCEPT for XMMS/Audacious, which I exclusively use on Linux.. Winamp is more than happy to let me leave my music library the way *I* want it.. Gonna miss Winamp, wish AOL would Opensource it so the community could continue with it.. Oh well, a nice dream but *that* will never happen.. it *is* AOL we're talking about, after all.. Gonna download one last copy of Winamp and keep using it till the wheels fall off..

IN YOUR OPINION... It's a pile of crap in mine..

We are to the point where I wonder why everybody keeps falling back on things like "constitutional right to quit".. Its now to the point where this government has spit on the constitution for so many years, and are now to the point of actively setting it on fire, bringing on its total and complete disregard by this government.. I love this country, served in its military in the 70s, but am embarrased and sickened by its government.. We are WELL beyond "the ballot box" being able to fix the MANY problems, and the government is well on its way to be SURE that no corrections in it can be made by "the ammo box"... May God Bless and keep this wonderful country, as we certainly don't seem to be able to...

THIS!!
The company I worked for a few years ago had a compute cluster for engineering/modeling with over 100 nodes. They were originally running RHEL3, which of course was coming up to EOL in a few months. The suits wanted to buy licenses for RHEL to upgrade the nodes, the IT staff wanted to use CentOS. Research was done on pricing for over 100 RHEL licenses, and after a while, the suits decided to go with IT's choice of CentOS for the compute nodes and use *one* RHEL install for the master node. I wasn't involved with the pricing discussions, but I heard that RH sales were stuck on nearly full pricing for all 100+ licenses.

Yup.. and I think somebody just threw a barrel of oil down that "slippery slope"... I got a strong feeling the reason some of the "rising stars" of the teaparty/quasi-republican party (Scott Walker-Wisc Governor AND Marco Rubio) suddenly came out for the Senate Immigration bill is because *somebody* *somewhere* found some kind of dirt on them and are blackmailing them with it.. Go ahead and tell me my tinfoil hat is too tight.. We're so far down the toilet toward tyranny that NOTHING would surprise me.. Not even Mr Obama-Soetero arranging 15000 Russian troops for "support" in America.. I gather he's afraid that OUR military might refuse to fire on American civilians.. I can be pretty sure Russians would NOT....

Anybody who actually *believed* Comrade Obama prior to being elected, I got a very nice bridge in NYC I'll sell you for $24.....

I don't doubt they did it on a more limited basis as far back as Bush #1.. He was the first of the RINO/NewWorldOrder-types to manage to get into our Whitehouse... It's been downhill since then...

I'll agree with them on the Snowden = Hero part.. But using Obama's logo for the "O" is just icky...

AND Clinton AND Bush#1... This country has been slowly going down the shithole since Reagan left office.. Its just gotten seriously more pronounced with the current sewage in power... I'm not a republican (used to be, gave THAT up during BushJr's second term) and I'm DAMN straight NOT a democrat, now better referred to as the "New American Communist Party"... I'm a GODDAMN AMERICAN and I'm FED UP with the shit we're forced to put up with by BOTH corrupt political parties..

Geez that felt good to get that off my chest!!!

Thats the same kinda shit eBay has been doing with their DSR b.s. since the inmates took over the assylum, after Meg Whitman left. its a 1-5 scale and if you as a seller drop below about 4.5 you get hassled by eBay and can be prevented from selling. I started selling on eBay back in 1998 but when the current management started screwing it up, I quit.. Looks this outfit has the same grade of moron in *its* management.

Yup.. They retroactively make this factoid a secret, and send the black SUVs to Timothy's house and send him off to Guano-tanamo.. Oh wait.. No more timothy stories on /.???? hmm.. an out-of-control government or no more timothy stories... ahh.. gotta go with the out-of-control governent.. Timothy only annoys me when I read /. and the government annoys me (and a LOT of others) only ALL the time

...Ignoring the fact that Congress IGNORED the Constitution??? The 4th Amendment flatly prohibits
this kind of activity. Try READING it sometime, its a good read... Here, I'll even help you.. I realize
the schools today don't bother teaching the Constitution, as its sooooo inconvient to their aims, that
being indocrination camps for good little obiedient consumers...

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

You'll notice the "shall not be violated"... Kinda puts a BIG damper on the current Congress and its three-letter-agencies activities, or at least its supposed to... when the government works as the founding fathers intended...

See? you learned something today...

Just for shits and grins, I downloaded the Windows 8.1 Blue preview ISO and slapped it into a VM on my system (Debian Linux, thank you very much..).. The first damn thing it INSISTED on doing was either having me login to whatever BS backend they have for it, OR create a backend account.. I recall on the Win 8 preview there was a link there to merely create a local system account, which was what I wanted to do, but it seems like the fuckwads at MS took even THAT away.. Don't know what I did, but eventually I managed to find a screen to create a local account.. Once I got into Win8.1, I do see they've done some improvements over the steaming turd that is Windows 8.. The only reason I took the time to check Win8.1 out is because, since i'm the defacto neighborhood support "slave", I guarantee I'll be asked to help figure MS's latest pile of shit out.. Personally, its Linux for me.... (yes, I AM a Linux fanboy.. thank you very much...)