I have seen people carrying serious cash like that in the UK and the usual way seems to be as a roll of notes.
I was in Jolliffe's in Marlow (the place where all the hired dress suits come from, but they can kit you out as anything) when a chap came in and asked for a grey chauffeur's uniform. They produced one from stock, and he paid for it in cash, peeled off a large roll of notes.
Even better, with a suitably modern TV, you don't need a separate remote. The TV remote will work through the HDMI connection and control XBMC on the RPi.
I started with a separate remote for the RPi, then realised I was using the wrong one and it still worked.
Windows still reins in the desktop world
What an accidentally apposite comment.
Just like MS-DOS held back software development on the original PC, now Windows reins in the desktop world.
If you want to write a post in American English, then the correct spelling is Centimeter.
FTFY
If you want to write a post in English English, then the correct spelling is Centimetre.
HTH
What would you suggest calling it instead of a "laser rifle"?
Light sabre?
Seems suitable for getting through the blast doors.
You may believe in both based on the evidence or feelings you experience. People believe in religion based on their experiences or feelings.
And do you spot the incredibly significant word which is present in your first sentence and missing from the second one? You've summed it up neatly - science is based on looking at the evidence, whilst religion is based on believing what you want to believe.
It's a helicopter if the writer pronounces the haitch
ITYM, "It's a helicopter if the writer pronounces the aitch"
Yes, no problem with that. If you pronounce horse as 'orse then it makes perfect sense to say "an 'orse". Likewise if you use the old-fashioned pronunciation of hotel then it makes perfect sense to say "an hotel". What gets me is the modern fashion for putting "an" before any word which begins with "h". (And indeed, the trick of adding a spurious "h" on the beginning of "aitch".)
"an helicopter"? How far can this idiocy of putting "an" in front of any word beginning with h go?
It's "a helicopter".
Doesn't matter. "Aluminum" was the original spelling.
No, the original spelling was "Alumium", followed by "Aluminum" and then the standardised "Aluminium".
During this period technology that the US long forget (such as ISDN) was as premium as you could get here
To be fair to ISDN, it's not technology that the US forgot - US telecoms never got quite that advanced. ISDN had some distinct advantages, but apart from in Germany, it was pretty much killed by telecom marketing wings who never really understood what they were selling.
I didn't see any hydraulics for mimicking the pitch, yaw, and roll.
That was my first thought too, but then I thought about naval simulators. I've been in a few of those, which are very much just large rooms with a lot of screens, and usually some raked seating at the back. They don't move at all, but it's funny to watch those standing on the "bridge" as they sway from side to side to keep their feet in rough seas. Yes, real simulators move around, but a lot can be achieved without.
but most fall into one category or another
In my experience, most software developers fall into neither category. The vast majority are un-skilled, un-talented plodders. When you come across one who is either skilled or talented you should cherish them.
The cable certainly is thick enough for a lethal current at 220V, provided it's applied in the right place. It's easy to conceive of a badly made charger which produces 5.5V between two of its conductors, but at 220V from earth, due to poor isolation. Then all the victim needs to do is earth another part of his or her body and away you go.
Their exclusion from the patent system would discourage some software innovations
Can anyone point to a single actual instance of a software innovation which wouldn't have become public without the benefit of patent protection?
Only because Apple made it work properly and added a GUI instead of text files that bomb with a misplaced comma or tab.
Wow - you really haven't used linux in the last decade or so, have you?
Find a computer with an install of any of the major linux distributions, fire up a web browser, and point it to http://localhost:631/
You exaggerate the difficulties of setting up a printer using CUPS and a modern Linux distribution.
I just did a little experiment. I'm sitting in a holiday house borrowed from friends, using my trusty Lenovo laptop running Debian Squeeze. Next to me on the bench is a printer - I've never used it before and it's been covered with a cloth up until the start of the experiment.
I removed the cloth, powered up the printer, and then plugged the USB lead into my laptop. About 10 seconds later a dialogue box appeared on my desktop saying, "A new printer has come into existence. Do you want to use this driver?". I answered yes. It then said, "Do you want to print a test page?" Again I said yes, and shortly afterwards there appeared a perfectly formatted colour test page.
I'm not sure it can be made much easier than this.
John
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato
