Yes tapping an icon is the same as clickong on an icon. It's not revolutionary in any way.
I had the first Tablet PC, a Dauphin DTR-1 it ran windows 3.11 and acted just like a iPhone except for swipes and gestures. Honestly, you think tapping an icon is revolutionary?
I am so far from an apple fanboi, it's not funny... and this isn't really said in defense of them, but yes... going from [needing an external device to manipulate a pointer on a screen to effect a 'click' using a button on said device] to [touching a screen] is very extremely revolutionary. So many levels.
And then in the second part, that's a little laughable when you're saying except for swipes and gestures... lol cause that's like sayin (I'm goin old school on this car analogy) a horse and buggy is exactly like a car except for the speed, lack of horse or horse shit. lol.
Remember, I'm not supporting Apple, I'm just saying you're a bit um... deluded?
So instead of telling them the stuff really works and there's value to it, you let them believe it's broken and offer to scrap it for them? Yet you keep it? That's cool.
He mentioned chain restaurants, not mom n pop on a budget restaurants.
Not sure if you've had the opportunity to WORK for ANYONE yet... but franchises do not give a fuck about throwing away equipment. And they give a fuck less... whether it works or not. Home office says, upgrade, they upgrade.
Then there's H&R Block... lol, that had tube monitors until a year ago. Wow.
Considering how much of the cost of the ISS comes from putting the pieces in orbit to begin with, you can be pretty sure that they won't be de-orbiting it until they have to.
I say this for everyone ELSE'S benefit, that would potentially, ignorantly quote you sometime in the future. Not yours.
1) Velocity, expressed in units of distance per time is much different than acceleration which is expressed as units of distance per time, SQUARED and is a measure of velocity CHANGE over TIME, thus the squaring. [MIND YOUR UNITS]
2) GRAVITY (9.8m/s^2) is ACCELERATION
3) Wind resistance calculates into TERMINAL VELOCITY, thus the need of ADDING THE WORD, TERMINAL to VELOCITY. Thus the TERMINAL VELOCITY of "ANY" object cannot be calculated without knowing quite a bit of the flow of the air stream around said object.
And that is why, it is common to say... "I wonder what the terminal velocity of 'widget A' is"
Notably in this case, an iPhone would have a complex terminal velocity calculation due to the fact it can present many different cross-sections to the wind. Something as simple as adding a tail, fin, trailer, etc to it, (like a neck or wrist strap) would significantly increase its terminal velocity compared to a non trailing version.
"A free-falling object achieves its terminal velocity when the downward force of gravity (Fg) equals the upward force of drag (Fd). This causes the net force on the object to be zero, resulting in an acceleration of zero."
TERMINAL FAIL. Stay in School! Or go back or something...
Or maybe they wanted to use MORE THAN ONE FUCKING MONITOR!
Jesus christ for Linux to have such a huge geek following, you'd think there would be a PROPER IMPLEMENTATION TO MULTIPLE FUCKING MONITORS.
Seriously, that made Linux a non-viable OS for me.
And wtf is up with 10.x Ubuntu not being able to put the task bar on the fucking left side. And then 11.x making it entirely impossible to have a work-usable interface.
Sure, sure I know these are the X renders I'm complaining about... but Windows works 'out of the box' with everything I need to use on a daily basis, without wasting extra time to figure out "workarounds".
You know... like devoting a half a day to getting a gd wifi card to work.
Simple things like that... is why I begrudgingly went back to Win 7.
Someday Linux will be usable in a production environment. Can't wait.
Obviously, somebody DID screw the pooch. Otherwise, how did the keylogger get on these machines in the first place. If there was a route for the virus to get on them, there is likely a route for the logged data to get off of them.
The drones have to get information somehow to (and from) their controllers, or else we'd never get images back or be able to control them. Presumably someone snooped the communications (radio) and figured out how to compromise it. Scary stuff.
No, they didn't. You are pulling two different stories out yer ass.
1) Data streams from the drones are not encrypted and insurgents had copies of streams on their computers
2) Drone computers are updated via USB and removable drive to receive new maps and updates.
These computers are classified, that means no connection to the net, no writable media drives, many places even epoxy the USB ports so at least it's obvious if someone tries to use it. Specific steps are taken when moving data off them to prevent any data except what was requested is removed. At least, that is how it is in the private world working on classified material. Cases like Manning being able to get a dump of the entire international cable DB would indicate that the government holds itself to a much lower standard than it holds contractors.
RTFA, they use USB for updates.
"Use of the drives is now severely restricted throughout the military. But the base at Creech was one of the exceptions, until the virus hit. Predator and Reaper crews use removable hard drives to load map updates and transport mission videos from one computer to another. The virus is believed to have spread through these removable drives. Drone units at other Air Force bases worldwide have now been ordered to stop their use."
Where does it say these machines are even windows machines? Other than in the comments (much like here) I don't see any reference to windows in TFA. Didn't see anything about OS on the wikipedia entry for them.
When they said they used instructions from Kaspersky's website to remove the virus.
As far as I know, hydrogen can be produced pretty simply using water and electricity.
I will not fall into the trap of citing potentially polarized sites that may have agendas behind them... so I will simply state:
There is nothing, either simple (on the scale needed) or inexpensive (if you're using the electricity you're producing, to produce electricity... you gotta see that there's a cost involved, right?) in the production of Hydrogen. [beyond concept]
This would be awesome; nickel and hydrogen are both extremely plentiful,
No 'they' aren't. Nickel is the fifth most common element in (in, iN, IN!) the Earth. Nickel is a metallic element, making up [ONLY] 0.008% of the Earth's crust. http://oldsite.nickelinstitute.org/index.cfm?ci_id=13&la_id=1 Nickel is abundant in space, where supernovae and stellar cooking has created it in chunks and hurled it about the universe. Exactly where we can't get to it.
[although I have imagined a time where 'mining' asteroids ended up being the controlled deorbiting of chunks of mined asteroids. Think there are big crowds for a shuttle launch? I think the antithesis would be a deorbited chunk of nickel. New lines of betting would come up in Las Vegas. People with a death wish would use boats and planes or pilgrimage to the target zone. We'd have some awesome footage... for the first dozen times, then people would get bored with it, haha.]
Hydrogen is only abundant on earth in molecular or compound form with a really weak 0.14% by weight showing. Once again, abundant in space, where we can't get it to cheaply.
and if copper is a byproduct, this would become a very inexpensive source of pure copper
No, it wouldn't... are you getting that nickel for free??? Remember why hydrogen cars "aren't taking off"? Where are you getting the hydrogen from?
which can eliminate at least some environment-damaging copper mines.
And replace them with nickel mines???
It sounds like you are regurgitating college 'book facts'.
Lastly, I know the nickel is used as a catalyst... and a lot might not be used but anything that increases its price will change the price of another process that uses nickel and none of use want to see it go up in price. STEEL.
Works awesome when you don't have the correct file/folder/executable name. Not quite as intuitive as a search engine. AFAIK, Windows search is still an exact match search. No?
I've had my account on hold, so I'm not dropping pennies in the coffers. But since I'm not interested in streaming, a service I was willing to allow to keep me as a statistic, now loses me as such.
And I'm not going to bother with the "new" service. I will try BlockBuster before rewarding Netflix for any of their current business decisions.
I predict Quixter will get way more customers than Netflix. I hope this will be a clear message to the Netflix board to finally get rid of the clueless CEO (Hastings).
Want to wager?
[I'm not saying the CEO has sense, just saying, any property Netflix owns or owned that dealt with DVD by mail is probably tainted. If I go back to DVD, I will test BlockBuster before going to any Netflix spinoff]
Then go on over the Qwikster to get it on DVD. And there are no contingencies for this. How the hell do you not realize that before you go through with the plan? Did this guy find his MBA in a Crackerjack box?
I didn't smell any trollishness here so... I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, you do realize a sale is forthcoming?
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Yes tapping an icon is the same as clickong on an icon. It's not revolutionary in any way.
I had the first Tablet PC, a Dauphin DTR-1 it ran windows 3.11 and acted just like a iPhone except for swipes and gestures.
Honestly, you think tapping an icon is revolutionary?
I am so far from an apple fanboi, it's not funny... and this isn't really said
in defense of them, but yes... going from [needing an external device to
manipulate a pointer on a screen to effect a 'click' using a button on said
device] to [touching a screen] is very extremely revolutionary. So many levels.
And then in the second part, that's a little laughable when you're saying
except for swipes and gestures... lol cause that's like sayin (I'm goin old
school on this car analogy) a horse and buggy is exactly like a car except
for the speed, lack of horse or horse shit. lol.
Remember, I'm not supporting Apple, I'm just saying you're a bit um... deluded?
-AI
So instead of telling them the stuff really works and there's value to it, you let them believe it's broken and offer to scrap it for them? Yet you keep it? That's cool.
He mentioned chain restaurants, not mom n pop on a budget restaurants.
Not sure if you've had the opportunity to WORK for ANYONE yet... but
franchises do not give a fuck about throwing away equipment. And they
give a fuck less... whether it works or not. Home office says, upgrade,
they upgrade.
Then there's H&R Block... lol, that had tube monitors until a year ago.
Wow.
-AI
I currently have around 4 2u servers with dual dualcore or quadcore cpu's.
Around? Either you have 4 2u servers or you don't.
-AI (I have around 20TB of data storage)
Just wait for the remake starting Selina Gomez and Justen Beeber.
Omg, I just puked a little bit in my mouth...
-AI
It's like this...
You know it's gonna be some bubba in jail that gets yer tender ass,
at least this is the nicest and cleanest smelling one.
-AI
It all is. Just Ghastly. Look at me, I'm a personality prototype. You can tell, can't you?
Sigh, a paranoid android reference... and ur still at 2?
What is the place coming to?
-AI
Considering how much of the cost of the ISS comes from putting the pieces in orbit to begin with, you can be pretty sure that they won't be de-orbiting it until they have to.
Or 2020, whichever comes first...
http://www.dailytech.com/International+Space+Station+to+Deorbit+After+2020/article22277.htm
-AI
Wow... lol... you FAILED that TWICE!
Good job!
I say this for everyone ELSE'S benefit, that would potentially,
ignorantly quote you sometime in the future. Not yours.
1) Velocity, expressed in units of distance per time is much different than acceleration which is expressed as units of distance per time, SQUARED and is a measure of velocity CHANGE over TIME, thus the squaring. [MIND YOUR UNITS]
2) GRAVITY (9.8m/s^2) is ACCELERATION
3) Wind resistance calculates into TERMINAL VELOCITY, thus the need of ADDING THE WORD, TERMINAL to VELOCITY. Thus the TERMINAL VELOCITY of "ANY" object cannot be calculated without knowing quite a bit of the flow of the air stream around said object.
And that is why, it is common to say... "I wonder what the terminal velocity of 'widget A' is"
Notably in this case, an iPhone would have a complex terminal velocity calculation due to the fact it can present many different cross-sections to the wind. Something as simple as adding a tail, fin, trailer, etc to it, (like a neck or wrist strap) would significantly increase its terminal velocity compared to a non trailing version.
"A free-falling object achieves its terminal velocity when the downward force of gravity (Fg) equals the upward force of drag (Fd). This causes the net force on the object to be zero, resulting in an acceleration of zero."
TERMINAL FAIL. Stay in School! Or go back or something...
-AI
Or maybe they wanted to use MORE THAN ONE FUCKING MONITOR!
Jesus christ for Linux to have such a huge geek following, you'd think there
would be a PROPER IMPLEMENTATION TO MULTIPLE FUCKING MONITORS.
Seriously, that made Linux a non-viable OS for me.
And wtf is up with 10.x Ubuntu not being able to put the task bar on the
fucking left side. And then 11.x making it entirely impossible to have a
work-usable interface.
Sure, sure I know these are the X renders I'm complaining about... but Windows
works 'out of the box' with everything I need to use on a daily basis, without
wasting extra time to figure out "workarounds".
You know... like devoting a half a day to getting a gd wifi card to work.
Simple things like that... is why I begrudgingly went back to Win 7.
Someday Linux will be usable in a production environment. Can't wait.
-AI
Why aren't they running off of livecds? Then every time they reboot, yay fresh system.
Unless the system that is making the CDs is infected, but then you've just got one system to clean.
Even tho this is obviously a troll...
you do realize that a CD is sooooooo slow...
ah never mind.
-AI
Obviously, somebody DID screw the pooch. Otherwise, how did the keylogger get on these machines in the first place. If there was a route for the virus to get on them, there is likely a route for the logged data to get off of them.
RTFA, please
-AI
The drones have to get information somehow to (and from) their controllers, or else we'd never get images back or be able to control them. Presumably someone snooped the communications (radio) and figured out how to compromise it. Scary stuff.
No, they didn't. You are pulling two different stories out yer ass.
1) Data streams from the drones are not encrypted and insurgents had copies of streams on their computers
2) Drone computers are updated via USB and removable drive to receive new maps and updates.
-AI
These computers are classified, that means no connection to the net, no writable media drives, many places even epoxy the USB ports so at least it's obvious if someone tries to use it. Specific steps are taken when moving data off them to prevent any data except what was requested is removed. At least, that is how it is in the private world working on classified material. Cases like Manning being able to get a dump of the entire international cable DB would indicate that the government holds itself to a much lower standard than it holds contractors.
RTFA, they use USB for updates.
"Use of the drives is now severely restricted throughout the military. But the base at Creech was one of the exceptions, until the virus hit. Predator and Reaper crews use removable hard drives to load map updates and transport mission videos from one computer to another. The virus is believed to have spread through these removable drives. Drone units at other Air Force bases worldwide have now been ordered to stop their use."
-AI
Where does it say these machines are even windows machines? Other than in the comments (much like here) I don't see any reference to windows in TFA. Didn't see anything about OS on the wikipedia entry for them.
When they said they used instructions from Kaspersky's website to remove the virus.
2 + 2 = ?
-AI
I think facts are different than 'facts arranged in a database'.
Not in U.S.
Huh... 1991 wow, thanks... fuck I feel old
-AI
As far as I know, hydrogen can be produced pretty simply using water and electricity.
I will not fall into the trap of citing potentially polarized
sites that may have agendas behind them... so I will
simply state:
There is nothing, either simple (on the scale needed)
or inexpensive (if you're using the electricity you're
producing, to produce electricity... you gotta see that
there's a cost involved, right?) in the production of
Hydrogen. [beyond concept]
Look it up some time:
http://www.google.com/search?&ie=UTF-8&q=hydrogen+production+cost
That is why our vehicles (for the most part) nowadays
are powered by dino juice. [cited that way colloquially]
-AI
meh, too many traps to say that simply
This would be awesome; nickel and hydrogen are both extremely plentiful,
No 'they' aren't.
Nickel is the fifth most common element in (in, iN, IN!) the Earth.
Nickel is a metallic element, making up [ONLY] 0.008% of the Earth's crust.
http://oldsite.nickelinstitute.org/index.cfm?ci_id=13&la_id=1
Nickel is abundant in space, where supernovae and stellar cooking
has created it in chunks and hurled it about the universe. Exactly
where we can't get to it.
[although I have imagined a time where 'mining' asteroids ended up being
the controlled deorbiting of chunks of mined asteroids. Think there are
big crowds for a shuttle launch? I think the antithesis would be a deorbited
chunk of nickel. New lines of betting would come up in Las Vegas. People
with a death wish would use boats and planes or pilgrimage to the target
zone. We'd have some awesome footage... for the first dozen times, then
people would get bored with it, haha.]
Hydrogen is only abundant on earth in molecular or compound form
with a really weak 0.14% by weight showing. Once again, abundant in
space, where we can't get it to cheaply.
and if copper is a byproduct, this would become a very inexpensive source of pure copper
No, it wouldn't... are you getting that nickel for free??? Remember why
hydrogen cars "aren't taking off"? Where are you getting the hydrogen from?
which can eliminate at least some environment-damaging copper mines.
And replace them with nickel mines???
It sounds like you are regurgitating college 'book facts'.
Lastly, I know the nickel is used as a catalyst... and a lot might not be used
but anything that increases its price will change the price of another process
that uses nickel and none of use want to see it go up in price. STEEL.
-AI
I think the big question on everyone's mind is if this actually *is* a nuclear reaction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation
Transmutation of metals (or any element) by manipulating
the atomic structure... (the nucleus) sounds like a 'Nuclear'
reaction to me.
Or at least that's what they taught at NCSU's newk tech.
-AI
I apologize in advance for my OCD, but if I don't say nucular,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucular]
my mind will implode.
The process is pulling money out of the gullible.
Did you read ANY of the articles, or are you just a sour-puss troll?
-AI
I thought the issue of whether you could copyright facts (e.g., phone numbers, timezone values for specific locations) was already settled law.
I think facts are different than 'facts arranged in a database'.
Ever written a database...? It's a non-zero time event. I'd
want to get paid if someone used a db I created.
*Mind you I'm not making a direct statement about the
pending lawsuit since it seems there isn't much info.
-AI
Works awesome when you don't have the correct file/folder/executable name. Not quite as intuitive as a search engine. AFAIK, Windows search is still an exact match search. No?
No
-AI
A car with extremely unique provenance?
Don't even bother going to that auction Jay will pay whatever it takes.
-AI
I've had my account on hold, so I'm not dropping pennies
in the coffers. But since I'm not interested in streaming,
a service I was willing to allow to keep me as a statistic,
now loses me as such.
And I'm not going to bother with the "new" service. I will
try BlockBuster before rewarding Netflix for any of their
current business decisions.
-AI
I predict Quixter will get way more customers than Netflix. I hope this will be a clear message to the Netflix board to finally get rid of the clueless CEO (Hastings).
Want to wager?
[I'm not saying the CEO has sense, just saying, any property Netflix owns or owned that dealt with DVD by mail is probably tainted. If I go back to DVD, I will test BlockBuster before going to any Netflix spinoff]
-AI
Then go on over the Qwikster to get it on DVD. And there are no contingencies for this. How the hell do you not realize that before you go through with the plan? Did this guy find his MBA in a Crackerjack box?
I didn't smell any trollishness here so... I'm gonna go out
on a limb and say, you do realize a sale is forthcoming?
-AI