... a `Professional' and `Home' edition as well?
Seriously... is this what some people believe is holding back wider Linux adoption? There's already more than enough FUD in the press and on the web in articles about Linux providing too many choices now without adding a server and desktop edition for the naysayers to complain about.
By what strange theory does Slackware support systemd? And how is the conversation being "held back"? At least on LQ, I think it's been discussed to death to the point where there's really nothing new to say about it.
I can say one thing for certain: you do not know that anything concerning systemd in Slackware is likely or not. Hell, *I* don't.
Autoplay, shmautoplay... I'd be thrilled to figure out how to access
The GP poster was probably not being overpaid. It's just that in the current market and the high applicant/open-positions ratio, employers can low-ball on salary and desperate, unemployed IT folks will accept any offer.
``... employers couldn't distinguish my A's from those of people who didn't actually learn the material.''
Hopefully, you meant that the employers weren't looking at GPAs and not that the people who weren't learning the material were still getting As.
``... they're advertising for things like "minimum 5+ years experience
...''
But still only offering what, in other times, would have been considered an entry-level salary.
I received worse injuries playing Little League baseball and horseback riding than I ever saw anyone receive playing with pyrotechnics.
Oh yes, those were pressed into service when available. But soda cans were far more plentiful.
Most of my troublemaking involved the oldest technology: Fire. Matches and flammable liquids were frequently my preferred tools, although as I got older I learned to steal my mom's Bic lighters.
Remember steel soda cans? Those could be stacked to make tennis ball cannons, fueled by lighter fluid. You could also soak the tennis balls in lighter fluid, ignite them, and play fireball hockey.
Firecrackers, Roman Candles and Bottle Rockets used to be legal when I was a kid. In the summers, our dads would buy cartons of the stuff, far too many to light off on one early July evening.
So we'd have wars.
A dozen or so of us would line up on either end of a basketball court, with a cigarette in mouth (to light the fuses), a garbage can lid or folding lawn chair in one hand (as a shield), and pockets full of fireworks. We'd tape the roman candles to our shields, and light and toss the firecrackers like grenades (better watch the fuse burn down to 3 seconds first, or your firecracker would get thrown back at you). The bottle rockets were harder - you had to do a little aimed loft so that it would be at the apex of a gentle toss, pointing in the right direction when it fired. Done right, and the rocket would fire right into the opponent's crowd. Using a basketball court helped because they'd skip right off if you aimed low, and some people used that as a tactic. Having an off hand shield was essential, since the bottle rockets moved pretty fast, but not too fast to block if you saw it coming, and even if they exploded when they hit you it barely left a scorch. But the roman candles, those fkrs *burned.* Good thing they were slow and bright.
Of course we wore shorts. And no shirts. It was summertime in Florida.
OMG -- and wooden pallet bonfires... sometimes nightly. They used to just toss 'em out like trash. Nowadays pallets are almost as valuable as gold.
It's no surprise I grew up to be a rocket engineer... just about every rocket scientist I know is a major frikkin pyro.
Never say anything on a phone that you would hate to see in a newspaper (or on a blog) - that most definitely includes credit card numbers.
That goes for the camera, too. Don't take photos with your phone that you would never want revealed in public.
I would have written the same thing last Friday, but the whole fapocalypse thing last weekend underlines the risk. Unless you encrypt it yourself, your data isn't secure, not on the cloud, and not even on your own phone.
(So, can we just assume that the purpose of these towers are to collect nude photos of celebrities?)
a product with a name like "VME Dominator"
Sounds like something you'd find at the Adult Factory Outlet in West Hollywood...
I had forgotten about the gridded fins...you're right, that should provide substantial cross-range capability.
A big challenge for water landing will be wind during the descent of the rocket. If the wind is blowing 100 miles an hour for a minute as the rocket is falling, then it's going to be dragged a mile from the ballistic landing point. (When things move quickly through the air, the lift generated by wind is extremely high; bullets move with the wind.) I don't believe that the booster will have the capacity to fly horizontally too far, and it won't be firing at all for the bulk of the descent.
If the wind could be predicted accurately, it would be easy enough to steer the rocket to the right place -- or move the landing platform to the right place.
If you're landing back at the launch pad; there will have been a rocket that could have sampled the wind speed just a few minutes previously, so you could have very precise wind speed vs. altitude data.
Maybe he didn't last week, but this week, the FBI may do it for him.
The FBI said it is “addressing the matter,” calling the leak an “unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals.”
So, for Moot, do you see this weekend's celeb photo dump as threatening the continued existence of 4chan as we know it? Will you change the site policies in response?
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
