1934 didn't ban machine guns, it just taxed them - heavily. If you get an AR15 and a Dias from between 1982 and 1985 you can do the conversion pretty easily, but you must of course register the gun as a machine gun etc etc. lots of paperwork and hassle. It is can be done easily other ways including using a pre-81 dias, but it certainly isn't legal since you can't own both... then again if you are running arms to to mexican drug lords you probably are more concerned with "can it be done" than "is it legal". A decent machine shop could make all the parts necessary from specs that can be purchased for under $10 from gun magazines or online. That part can even be done in mexico once they have the weapons. Yes, I know they machine the lowers of the guns differently to make them single fire, but the problem is it isn't different enough to stop organized crime from doing the conversions, and that is the real problem. I'm not against guns, but I think it is only fair to be honest about them.
What the ill-informed such as yourself call "big guns - like assault rifles" are military-looking guns that have been altered so that they fire one bullet at a time. To make them or import them here, they must not be alterable to fully automatic fire.
hahahahahahaha
You're kidding, right? All single-barrel guns only shoot one bullet at a time silly!
In all seriousness though, "not alterable" doesn't mean what you think it means. Go to a few gun shows and you will see that they sell kits to "fix" your old pre-1994-assult-weapons-ban gun... It doesn't mean it is legal for you to modify it, but you know damn well people do it. The ban also expired in 2004 which means that in addition to the pre-1994 guns that fire "exactly the same ammo at exactly the same rate of fire" as military versions, you can also now get others that are fully automatic, but not quite as quick (still fixable with that nice gun show kit though).
I do agree about one thing though, those aren't big guns. This is a big gun.
It would arguably be a suitable basis for what he wants; but it wouldn't be the whole picture.
He was asking for a basis in the first place:
I'd run a "bus" cable round the house, and in each room or termination point I'd have a box that allowed me to run different signals and different protocols over that bus.
So basically he wants cat-5e connected to a switch at one end and another switch or computer at the other end. It is called a network. The whole point I was trying to make is that what he is asking for is already done in many large businesses and doesn't require any new branded fibre optic from intel to work - just a well laid out ethernet network.
What I've wanted for some time is a universal standard of structured cabling: I'd run a "bus" cable round the house, and in each room or termination point I'd have a box that allowed me to run different signals and different protocols over that bus - audio, HD video, ethernet, etc. No more running new cable runs each time I wanted to add a phone point, or an extra network socket.
The issue isn't whether the statement was true or not, but rather whether or not the logic used to describe the improvement was correct. In this case he said that the quicktime rewrite was a good idea because of bugs, not that they added additional security features such as sandboxing. If he had said that I would have agreed completely. If he would have said it is more stable because of bug fixes I would agree. If he said both I would be fine with it, but to say bug fixes are why the security is better just isn't true in and of itself.
I don't know of any energy conversion process that is 100% efficient, and I can tell you for certain that burning gas, wood, or coal is no where near 100% efficiency. In fact the better equipment most electrical companies have for combustion still provides a better efficiency even after transmission loss and conversion then you could achieve at home.
This article reads like a PR release for Vista a couple years late:
Even so, Miller said, Apple made several moves that did improve Mac OS X 10.6's security. Two that stand out, he said, were its revamp of QuickTime and additions to DEP (data execution prevention), another security feature used in Windows Vista.
DEP has been around for a long time and has been in XP since at least SP2.
"[the quicktime rewrite] was really smart, since it's been the source of lots of bugs in the past."
bugs != security failure (although they can cause one... the bad math issues in excel 2007 aren't particularly exploitable, just annoying)
I too am nostalgic for the return of this OS. It was amazing! I had a Pentium II 400mhz (fast at the time) and was astounded at how much quicker BeOS did everything than windows, linux, OS9 or anything else at the time. If apple hadn't killed the clones or Microsoft hadn't threatened the hardware vendors the computing landscape today would be very different.
For anyone who is interested in why be failed:
here is an article about the lawsuit that they filed against Microsoft which was later won for 23 million, but it was too little too late. Microsoft essentially told HP, Dell and others that if they even offered BeOS as an option then they wouldn't sell them licensing and they would be forced to purchase retail licenses for windows. None of the big manufacturers was willing to take that big of a gamble, so they were forced into bankruptcy.
most have backup generators and most urban areas have more than one tower. Redundant power + redundant towers + microwave transmission = high availability. Now that isn't 100% true all the time in all areas, but living in a hurricane state the only problem with the cell towers was they were jammed up from over use because all the landlines go down.... keep calling and you will get through. Wireless also has the advantage of being able to add extra capacity during an emergency by bringing in portable cells - they do this at many sporting events. They can be run right from the bed of a truck with a gas generator and a satellite or microwave link.
Just wait until I unleash my gamma-wave player upon the world! It is such a small wavelength that it can store a petabyte on a dime and transmits the image directly into your brain. muahahahaha.
So that's what Vista's transparency was all about. No one told me I was supposed to put the browsers on *top* of each other! Now where did I put my red and blue glasses...
This is good and well until the gps has bad/no data. For instance, we kept having to go out and turn people around when they shut down the interstate once. The gps systems would send them over a "bridge" on my dead end street. The street has 3 huge signs stating "dead end" and "no exit" and the detour signs took them completely the other way, but never the less hundreds of cars all ignored these signs and all conventional maps to follow the gps like lemmings. We contemplated letting them take the "bridge" at the end of the street, but decided the sunken cars and drowned bodies might contaminate the water and hurt the fishing, so we flagged them down and told them to follow the signs.
The proper rendering of documents is one of the main reasons PDF was created. If they require that you submit in some proprietary format that has known problems with rendering that shouldn't count against you. oh wait - its a BUSINESS competition... never mind.
Google anal-ytics has been a real real pain in the... well you can guess... lately - I had a couple sites running slow and couldn't figure it out. I removed analytics and voila! all better.
I've had no problem with their business machines lately... are you buying home or business computers? There is a big difference in quality with most of the large vendors between business and home systems, and most of their business systems have XP drivers available and many are even available with XP preinstalled.
Just out of curiosity what are the advantages of the dc7900 over the dx7500 in your experience? I'm trying to get our business off the cheapo dx2300 and need something that can reasonably be expected to last 5 years and doesn't break the bank for a 60 PC shop.
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The biggest problem with the Unified Medical Language is that there are too many fields that aren't required and information is often recorded in a different way be various practitioners. This results in it being not so "universal".
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1934 didn't ban machine guns, it just taxed them - heavily. If you get an AR15 and a Dias from between 1982 and 1985 you can do the conversion pretty easily, but you must of course register the gun as a machine gun etc etc. lots of paperwork and hassle. It is can be done easily other ways including using a pre-81 dias, but it certainly isn't legal since you can't own both... then again if you are running arms to to mexican drug lords you probably are more concerned with "can it be done" than "is it legal". A decent machine shop could make all the parts necessary from specs that can be purchased for under $10 from gun magazines or online. That part can even be done in mexico once they have the weapons. Yes, I know they machine the lowers of the guns differently to make them single fire, but the problem is it isn't different enough to stop organized crime from doing the conversions, and that is the real problem. I'm not against guns, but I think it is only fair to be honest about them.
What the ill-informed such as yourself call "big guns - like assault rifles" are military-looking guns that have been altered so that they fire one bullet at a time. To make them or import them here, they must not be alterable to fully automatic fire.
hahahahahahaha
You're kidding, right? All single-barrel guns only shoot one bullet at a time silly!
In all seriousness though, "not alterable" doesn't mean what you think it means. Go to a few gun shows and you will see that they sell kits to "fix" your old pre-1994-assult-weapons-ban gun... It doesn't mean it is legal for you to modify it, but you know damn well people do it. The ban also expired in 2004 which means that in addition to the pre-1994 guns that fire "exactly the same ammo at exactly the same rate of fire" as military versions, you can also now get others that are fully automatic, but not quite as quick (still fixable with that nice gun show kit though).
I do agree about one thing though, those aren't big guns. This is a big gun.
It would arguably be a suitable basis for what he wants; but it wouldn't be the whole picture.
He was asking for a basis in the first place:
I'd run a "bus" cable round the house, and in each room or termination point I'd have a box that allowed me to run different signals and different protocols over that bus.
So basically he wants cat-5e connected to a switch at one end and another switch or computer at the other end. It is called a network. The whole point I was trying to make is that what he is asking for is already done in many large businesses and doesn't require any new branded fibre optic from intel to work - just a well laid out ethernet network.
What I've wanted for some time is a universal standard of structured cabling: I'd run a "bus" cable round the house, and in each room or termination point I'd have a box that allowed me to run different signals and different protocols over that bus - audio, HD video, ethernet, etc. No more running new cable runs each time I wanted to add a phone point, or an extra network socket.
You mean like cat-5e with a switch?
Look here: http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/
Nice points AC. When did you stop posting goatse links and start making sense?
The issue isn't whether the statement was true or not, but rather whether or not the logic used to describe the improvement was correct. In this case he said that the quicktime rewrite was a good idea because of bugs, not that they added additional security features such as sandboxing. If he had said that I would have agreed completely. If he would have said it is more stable because of bug fixes I would agree. If he said both I would be fine with it, but to say bug fixes are why the security is better just isn't true in and of itself.
I don't know of any energy conversion process that is 100% efficient, and I can tell you for certain that burning gas, wood, or coal is no where near 100% efficiency. In fact the better equipment most electrical companies have for combustion still provides a better efficiency even after transmission loss and conversion then you could achieve at home.
Even so, Miller said, Apple made several moves that did improve Mac OS X 10.6's security. Two that stand out, he said, were its revamp of QuickTime and additions to DEP (data execution prevention), another security feature used in Windows Vista.
DEP has been around for a long time and has been in XP since at least SP2.
"[the quicktime rewrite] was really smart, since it's been the source of lots of bugs in the past."
bugs != security failure (although they can cause one... the bad math issues in excel 2007 aren't particularly exploitable, just annoying)
I too am nostalgic for the return of this OS. It was amazing! I had a Pentium II 400mhz (fast at the time) and was astounded at how much quicker BeOS did everything than windows, linux, OS9 or anything else at the time. If apple hadn't killed the clones or Microsoft hadn't threatened the hardware vendors the computing landscape today would be very different.
For anyone who is interested in why be failed: here is an article about the lawsuit that they filed against Microsoft which was later won for 23 million, but it was too little too late. Microsoft essentially told HP, Dell and others that if they even offered BeOS as an option then they wouldn't sell them licensing and they would be forced to purchase retail licenses for windows. None of the big manufacturers was willing to take that big of a gamble, so they were forced into bankruptcy.
So what they're really saying is they've got a great deal on Ukranian real estate that we don't want to miss out on?
Oh, and I for one welcome our uranium-eating overlords.
most have backup generators and most urban areas have more than one tower. Redundant power + redundant towers + microwave transmission = high availability. Now that isn't 100% true all the time in all areas, but living in a hurricane state the only problem with the cell towers was they were jammed up from over use because all the landlines go down.... keep calling and you will get through. Wireless also has the advantage of being able to add extra capacity during an emergency by bringing in portable cells - they do this at many sporting events. They can be run right from the bed of a truck with a gas generator and a satellite or microwave link.
Cocaine is not a cleaning product...
Sure it is... it works great at getting that pesky cartilage stuff out of your nose.
Just wait until I unleash my gamma-wave player upon the world! It is such a small wavelength that it can store a petabyte on a dime and transmits the image directly into your brain. muahahahaha.
So that's what Vista's transparency was all about. No one told me I was supposed to put the browsers on *top* of each other! Now where did I put my red and blue glasses...
This is good and well until the gps has bad/no data. For instance, we kept having to go out and turn people around when they shut down the interstate once. The gps systems would send them over a "bridge" on my dead end street. The street has 3 huge signs stating "dead end" and "no exit" and the detour signs took them completely the other way, but never the less hundreds of cars all ignored these signs and all conventional maps to follow the gps like lemmings. We contemplated letting them take the "bridge" at the end of the street, but decided the sunken cars and drowned bodies might contaminate the water and hurt the fishing, so we flagged them down and told them to follow the signs.
The problem is (A). Not even microsoft has figured out how to do that between versions.
The proper rendering of documents is one of the main reasons PDF was created. If they require that you submit in some proprietary format that has known problems with rendering that shouldn't count against you. oh wait - its a BUSINESS competition... never mind.
Google anal-ytics has been a real real pain in the... well you can guess... lately - I had a couple sites running slow and couldn't figure it out. I removed analytics and voila! all better.
I've had no problem with their business machines lately... are you buying home or business computers? There is a big difference in quality with most of the large vendors between business and home systems, and most of their business systems have XP drivers available and many are even available with XP preinstalled.
Just out of curiosity what are the advantages of the dc7900 over the dx7500 in your experience? I'm trying to get our business off the cheapo dx2300 and need something that can reasonably be expected to last 5 years and doesn't break the bank for a 60 PC shop.
The biggest problem with the Unified Medical Language is that there are too many fields that aren't required and information is often recorded in a different way be various practitioners. This results in it being not so "universal".
Oh hell! Just quarantine everybody...just to be safe.
Isn't that why they invented the internet... and Mother's basement?
Yep. I concur - it couldn't even tell me what the number 42 was used for!
shhhh! we aren't supposed to talk about the grassy knoll or the bad men will come again.