The government or military may simply be interested in creating fear and demonstrate to the public that they are determined to screw anyone who doesn't conform. If that's the goal, electron scanning your hard drive is but a small price to pay.
Right, because that unethical government or military needs iron clad evidence for their devious plan to work.
Just a little over a week ago my boss brought this up:
Bullet #6 is probably the biggest complaint I hear from all PDA users.
He was referring to an article that he forgot to link to and I got the URL from an IM. It seems some "journalist" had an article due and the iPhone is hot and top 10 lists are easy to write. The #6 slot was dedicated to the enterprise shortfall of the iPhone by not including native support for editing MS-Office documents.
My boss doesn't even have a PDA. However, the other executives with PDAs have bought into the marketing line that needing to edit office documents on your phone is a sign of importance. That strokes their ego a lot more than pointing out it's more a sign of the need for a collaboration platform that can operate without duplicating and shuttling large binaries.
When their A320 debuted at the French airshow, the computer got very confused at take off and simply refused to allow the pilot to pull up more than 20-30 feet off the ground, causing the a/c to crash into the forest at the end of the runway.
I remember reading about that in high school. It's one of the "cautionary tales" in The Day the Phones Stopped Ringing. While the computers were initially blamed, the final conclusion was human error caused by a misplaced confidence in technology. It wasn't that the computers wouldn't let them pull up. The plane was physically incapable of pulling up when the pilots tried to. The pilots were maneuvering to give the crowd a good look and they believed the computers wouldn't let them do so if the plane couldn't handle it.
I first saw it in a bar, last night, during a football game. The entire bar went quiet to watch it, laughed at the right spots, everyone laughed out loud at the end, and some applauded.
I was at a bar last night watching the same Giants vs. Redskins game. For the people that didn't run out for a smoke during the commercials I'd say "WTF" was the general reaction.
Matt Lauer: You're looking at a cinematic device employed by Zhang Yimou here. This is actually almost animation. A footstep a second, 29 in all, to signify the 29 Olympiads.
Bob Costas: We said earlier that aspects of this Opening Ceremony are almost like "cinema in real time", well this is quite literally cinematic.
I watched the broadcast and remember hearing them say that. Fake fireworks being added was the furthest thing from my mind so I took what they were saying metaphorically. e.g. "These are some sick fireworks, it's like something out of a movie." not "This is made with computers like in a movie."
It sounds like NBC was getting a feed like any other broadcaster. I can see how they wouldn't be 100% certain of how much was real or where other effects were going to be inserted. Their statements sound ambiguous enough to cover themselves.
The repeated mentioning of this guy taunting the animal irritates me, because it seems to imply it was his fault.
I'm sure some misguided folks think he did deserve to die. However, the details of the taunting points to the possibility of the tiger's performance having been aided by adrenaline. The fellow wasn't just a helpless bystander when a tiger suddenly realized that she could escape her enclosure.
The other day I was replaying Vice City and in the mission where you break the safe cracker out of jail I reflexively drove the guy home despite the police trying to slam me off the road. I get to the glowing pink halo just to note on the map that it wanted me to go to a Spray N Paint on the way to where I was. By then it only took a couple of more hits from the cops and my NPC passenger went up in flames with the car. I had to replay the mission following the game's route even though I'd made it to my destination without needing to lower my wanted level.
Were you a Campus Rep? At the 2000 MacWorld in San Francisco some of the reps that had woken up early and gone to the keynote got to take a picture with Steve Jobs after the keynote. When I saw him at the Apple booth later in the week I asked him if he'd take a picture with me and when he declined I said "oh, but I work for you, I'm a campus rep" or some weak thing along those lines and he replied "It's my day off."
I'd shared the story with some of the guys and it came up again when we were with our corporate handler -- I forget his name, he came in after Laura. He looked at me like I was dead man walking. He then shared with me how he'd never do such a thing in a brotherly tone as if he sincerely believed it could possibly be our last employer to employee conversation.
Compare that to the military budget, which is about 500 times higher.
I'm not anti-NASA though the jury is still out on being a freak. Lets compare charges for space exploration vs. defense as found in the constitution that grants powers to the federal government. Funny enough, defense wins by the very scientific number of 500.
In the meantime, anyone on BellSouth should switch (if possible). I abandoned Bell about two years ago and life is great! Come and join me!
I rid myself of BellSouth last fall. I switched my DSL XTREME! to Adelphia cable (lesser evil) and have found that I'm getting better throughput. I haven't missed my static IP although I have the option of getting a business class Adelphia plan that includes static ips and a better SLA. I was intially peeved that they block port 80 but only because I found it petty.
I signed up for the bring your own device geek-friendly plan from BroadVoice for VOIP and my wife and I have cell phones (pay-as-you-go) from different companies on different networks as back ups and all the benefits of a cell phone.
It's also possible to get DSL from SpeakEasy without having to deal with a separate phone bill from BellSouth for the line. In my area they offer up to 7Mbps downstream but I couldn't justify the extra cost at this time.
My biggest complaint about Microsoft hasn't really been so much about poor software that doesn't obey standards, or horrible market practices, but that they're actively spending huge amounts of money to influence the Government...
Maybe you should be in politics instead of IT since you're not bothered by how M$ hurts IT but you have issue with how many industries participate in government?
OooO... I've got a solution. I better patent it so I can sell it to Apple.
No more vulgar scrolling through artist and album names. I call my invention the iHum interface. Get in touch with me Steve, I'm sure we can work out reasonable royalties.
And why, pray tell, did you include Guevarra in your little list [of psychopaths]?
I know, it's tough to come to terms that
Hot Topic lead you astray. Guevara ran Cuba's gulags -- the real kind, not the three meals a day Git'mo kind that Amnesty International calls gulags. He also oversaw the temporary forced work camps. This is where the regular citizens were sent to broaden their horizons through sugar cane farming. Then there are the people that were murdered while he tried to sow insurrection in South America.
Sure, compared to Castro who eventually left Guevara to die, he's a pussy cat. Then there's a certain level of romanticizing from The Motorcycle Diaries. However, I wouldn't cut Hitler any slack because he killed many millions less than Stalin. Although I'm sure there's a romantic story lying somewhere in Hitler In Vienna.
I was starting to wish the ruling was as terrible as everyone was going ape shit over. I thought for sure we'd have affordable wireless broadband for all after a few months of the Bells trying to lock out competition.
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I think it's more a bit of history repeating -- Native Americans meet people who see only dollar signs...
It's terrible how those poor ignorant savages keep being taken advantage of.
The government or military may simply be interested in creating fear and demonstrate to the public that they are determined to screw anyone who doesn't conform. If that's the goal, electron scanning your hard drive is but a small price to pay.
Right, because that unethical government or military needs iron clad evidence for their devious plan to work.
Just a little over a week ago my boss brought this up:
He was referring to an article that he forgot to link to and I got the URL from an IM. It seems some "journalist" had an article due and the iPhone is hot and top 10 lists are easy to write. The #6 slot was dedicated to the enterprise shortfall of the iPhone by not including native support for editing MS-Office documents.
My boss doesn't even have a PDA. However, the other executives with PDAs have bought into the marketing line that needing to edit office documents on your phone is a sign of importance. That strokes their ego a lot more than pointing out it's more a sign of the need for a collaboration platform that can operate without duplicating and shuttling large binaries.
Cisco will soon be introducing a product to address this exact problem!
Please, this is Cisco. They've already purchased the company that makes the product to address this.
http://www.ironport.com/
When their A320 debuted at the French airshow, the computer got very confused at take off and simply refused to allow the pilot to pull up more than 20-30 feet off the ground, causing the a/c to crash into the forest at the end of the runway.
I remember reading about that in high school. It's one of the "cautionary tales" in The Day the Phones Stopped Ringing. While the computers were initially blamed, the final conclusion was human error caused by a misplaced confidence in technology. It wasn't that the computers wouldn't let them pull up. The plane was physically incapable of pulling up when the pilots tried to. The pilots were maneuvering to give the crowd a good look and they believed the computers wouldn't let them do so if the plane couldn't handle it.
I first saw it in a bar, last night, during a football game. The entire bar went quiet to watch it, laughed at the right spots, everyone laughed out loud at the end, and some applauded.
I was at a bar last night watching the same Giants vs. Redskins game. For the people that didn't run out for a smoke during the commercials I'd say "WTF" was the general reaction.
I watched the broadcast and remember hearing them say that. Fake fireworks being added was the furthest thing from my mind so I took what they were saying metaphorically. e.g. "These are some sick fireworks, it's like something out of a movie." not "This is made with computers like in a movie."
It sounds like NBC was getting a feed like any other broadcaster. I can see how they wouldn't be 100% certain of how much was real or where other effects were going to be inserted. Their statements sound ambiguous enough to cover themselves.
The repeated mentioning of this guy taunting the animal irritates me, because it seems to imply it was his fault.
I'm sure some misguided folks think he did deserve to die. However, the details of the taunting points to the possibility of the tiger's performance having been aided by adrenaline. The fellow wasn't just a helpless bystander when a tiger suddenly realized that she could escape her enclosure.
But, naturally, they would never follow you into a spray shop, nor would they realize that the same model car coming out, but repainted, is you.
Exactly. I prefer when game inconsistencies break my way ;)
The other day I was replaying Vice City and in the mission where you break the safe cracker out of jail I reflexively drove the guy home despite the police trying to slam me off the road. I get to the glowing pink halo just to note on the map that it wanted me to go to a Spray N Paint on the way to where I was. By then it only took a couple of more hits from the cops and my NPC passenger went up in flames with the car. I had to replay the mission following the game's route even though I'd made it to my destination without needing to lower my wanted level.
Were you a Campus Rep? At the 2000 MacWorld in San Francisco some of the reps that had woken up early and gone to the keynote got to take a picture with Steve Jobs after the keynote. When I saw him at the Apple booth later in the week I asked him if he'd take a picture with me and when he declined I said "oh, but I work for you, I'm a campus rep" or some weak thing along those lines and he replied "It's my day off."
I'd shared the story with some of the guys and it came up again when we were with our corporate handler -- I forget his name, he came in after Laura. He looked at me like I was dead man walking. He then shared with me how he'd never do such a thing in a brotherly tone as if he sincerely believed it could possibly be our last employer to employee conversation.
How would the machines know what a T-Rex's DNA was like.
I'm not anti-NASA though the jury is still out on being a freak. Lets compare charges for space exploration vs. defense as found in the constitution that grants powers to the federal government. Funny enough, defense wins by the very scientific number of 500.
Plain Text of US Constitution
Do not hire any more journalists with noticeable bulges in their pant crotches caused by a case of having massive balls.
I rid myself of BellSouth last fall. I switched my DSL XTREME! to Adelphia cable (lesser evil) and have found that I'm getting better throughput. I haven't missed my static IP although I have the option of getting a business class Adelphia plan that includes static ips and a better SLA. I was intially peeved that they block port 80 but only because I found it petty.
I signed up for the bring your own device geek-friendly plan from BroadVoice for VOIP and my wife and I have cell phones (pay-as-you-go) from different companies on different networks as back ups and all the benefits of a cell phone.
It's also possible to get DSL from SpeakEasy without having to deal with a separate phone bill from BellSouth for the line. In my area they offer up to 7Mbps downstream but I couldn't justify the extra cost at this time.
Clippy: Ok man, I was just saying... I should really just go, sorry.
Maybe you should be in politics instead of IT since you're not bothered by how M$ hurts IT but you have issue with how many industries participate in government?
Date and cost of final deployment
What's your point? The CCCP trying to keep up with those kinds of numbers was a contributing factor to the fall of the wall.
From the blurb: Also, Intel's mammoth production capacity erases any supply worries.
No more vulgar scrolling through artist and album names. I call my invention the iHum interface. Get in touch with me Steve, I'm sure we can work out reasonable royalties.
Dude, he's totally got xxx in front of his name and after. He's a total bad ass and you sir are out matched.
Damn it, M$ sucks. Why don't they call it Halo Whenever and get it over with.
This is very telling of why there is such little progress on these issues. Instead of focusing on seeking truth too many people are seeking sides.
I know, it's tough to come to terms that Hot Topic lead you astray. Guevara ran Cuba's gulags -- the real kind, not the three meals a day Git'mo kind that Amnesty International calls gulags. He also oversaw the temporary forced work camps. This is where the regular citizens were sent to broaden their horizons through sugar cane farming. Then there are the people that were murdered while he tried to sow insurrection in South America.
Sure, compared to Castro who eventually left Guevara to die, he's a pussy cat. Then there's a certain level of romanticizing from The Motorcycle Diaries. However, I wouldn't cut Hitler any slack because he killed many millions less than Stalin. Although I'm sure there's a romantic story lying somewhere in Hitler In Vienna.
I was starting to wish the ruling was as terrible as everyone was going ape shit over. I thought for sure we'd have affordable wireless broadband for all after a few months of the Bells trying to lock out competition.