Almost 10% of new computers buyers have macs actually.
Every time I read or hear this it's like nails on a chalkboard.....A MAC IS A PERSONAL COMPUTER. Any suggestion to the contrary is purely the invention of some bullshit-peddling marketer. I'm typing this post on a Mac, and provided you have a unit sold since the Intel transition, the hardware components are widely available and by no means Mac-specific. The only difference is the chassis they come in.
In any case, your point is irrelevant because you can play games perfectly well on any Intel-based Mac with a decent graphics card. Just buy or pirate a copy of Windows and install with Bootcamp. I've played COD4 and Bioshock on my MBP, and it works just fine, with graphics either on a par with or superior to anything I've seen from an Xbox 360.
Just buy an 2TB drive and stick in a drawer at work.
That's not a bad idea in itself, but I can imagine some employers having suspicions about an employee shuttling 2TB drives in and out of their workplace. The term "corporate espionage" springs to mind.
A safe builder near me will supply them with a 120v outlet and an RJ45 jack, so your in-safe NAS is always up to date.
That's an interesting idea, but what do they do about dissipation of heat from the NAS? It would seem your only options are making the safe thinner, or adding vents, which would tend to compromise its' integrity.
That seems to me to be a false dichotomy, you've got a few more choices besides "answer phone / wait until destination". You could have pulled over and checked your voicemail, or checked it when stopped at a traffic light (once you've started the message playing you don't need to hold the phone). If you've got a hands-free kit you could probably have taken the call without too much risk. Texting is different due to the requirement for diverting your eyes from the road and hand from the steering wheel.
In any case, you might want to get an agent that respects your time enough to give you reasonable notice of a cancellation;) .
This is why I think leading edge distros like Ubuntu should stop supporting 32-bit and only distribute 64-bit versions of their distros. The only computers that still are 32-bit are either embedded systems or older legacy computers. We need to move on.
Ubuntu has nowhere near enough market share to be able to just write off a huge swath of the personal computer userbase without alienating itself. Not to mention that one of the marketing points of Linux is that it will run on the older hardware you have laying around, unlike a certain other OS. Indeed, I'd suspect a sizable portion of Linux installs are run on old "junk hardware". Removing 32-bit for no reason other than "But 64 bit is newer!" wouldn't benefit anyone other than NetBSD uptake stats.
32-bit hardware is perfectly fine, and more than adequate for the needs of many computer users (when was the last time your grandparents needed >4GB RAM?), there's no reason for it not to be supported for the next few years at least. Do you have stock in Intel or something?
Only if the router is running PAT, and has to keep track of sessions. Otherwise it's not even looking at what type of packet is being received, just the source and destination networks. For a home user it might be a problem, but most ISP networks aren't using PAT, so it's not an issue.
Well, they didn't give $900 to me. Despite the fact that my income for the year was zero, and all the rest of it..
Firstly, they haven't given the $900 tax bonus payments to anyone, they don't start till tomorrow. Second, if you earned 0 you paid 0 tax, which means you don't qualify, so obviously you've not read "all the rest of it". Nobody has made a secret of this fact. It's named "tax bonus payment" for a reason; no tax = no payment.
If you want to be skeptical that the govt can deliver a FTTH network, fine, but this is not a supporting argument.
What would the DPRK possibly benefit by nuking Japan
Nothing. But that doesn't stop the DPRK from benefiting from having the capability to nuke Japan. The DPRK is heavily dependent on aid from the West, having a nuclear stick allows it to demand aid on far more favourable terms and remain relevant on the world stage.
US-DPRK relations are an artifact of the cold war,
They're like that because the DPRK still acts like the Cold War is on, with cross border skirmishes with the South every few years at least. Not to mention the fact that the Korean War never officially ended.
You also don't actually have to penetrate to get spalling to occur, but I suspect naval strategists of previous centuries might not have understood this.
The water belt-line of the Iowa class Battleships are 12.2 inches of SOLID steel.
Which won't do much good. Firstly, most weapons these days aren't penetrating the side, they're plunging from the top. Modern antiship missiles have had the ability to conduct a terminal "pop-up" maneuver and strike from above for some time now. You can't have 12.2 inches of armour everywhere.
Secondly, you can't compare todays weapons with those of WW2 in terms of pure explosive power. Nowadays we have penetrating warheads, shaped charges, and other techniques that were in their infancy back in WW2. The GBU-27 may "only" be a 2000 pound bomb, but it can penetrate six feet of reinforced concrete (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/gbu-27.htm). Try doing that 60 years ago.
yes airstrikes work very well, plus the Yamato was taken out simply because we overwhelmed the Japanese navy.
Which has only become easier to do with the proliferation of relatively cheap antiship missiles.
I'm not a pilot, but I believe the cost is due to: - The increased precision required of aviation units. - Added features such as standby power that are unique to aviation. - The fact that they are programmed with all sorts of aeronautical information (positions of beacons, approach patterns, etc). It costs money to license this information and include it in each unit. - Additional cost to ensure each unit complies with FAA regs.
Grammatical error on my part, I'm not looking to start a junta. As the other AC poster mentioned, it should have been "military, and the civilian government".
I'm aware of the plot device, but I'm sure I read somewhere else that there is a supply of weapons on board. Wikipedia claims:
All small arms and ammunition stores not under the physical possession of the Secret Service on board the VC-25s are stowed and secured in separate locked compartments each with a different locking mechanism by the Secret Service for added security.
So it sounds like there is some weapons storage. Unfortunately I can't find an original source though.
The Queen and the PM aren't head of the largest superpower in the world, in charge of one of the largest nuclear weapons stockpiles (I'm aware of the Vanguard class subs but they pale in comparison to what the Americans have). In any case, Blair wanted an equivalent to Air Force One ("Blair Force One"), and there is an RAF squadron charged with moving PM and Queen around, although in an aircraft less flash than the VC-25. Last I heard Brown was thinking about axing both but hadn't decided. Source.
It doesn't carry that many people. The aircraft may fly the President around, but it also has the job of being a flying command post. It's full of communication equipment to keep in constant contact with the military and civilian government, conference rooms, living facilities, supplies, weapons (in case they have to land in an unsecured location), electronic defense measures, and other classified stuff we can only imagine. It's also hardened against EMP.
Hence the reason they can't just buy one off of American Airlines and change the paint job.
Lets differentiate between the two types of ITers. The nerds and the no talented ass clowns.
I am a nerd. I am in it cause I love technology and I love the concept of open source.
I hope you're not implying that use of proprietary solutions allocates you to the "assclown" category, because IMHO that mentality is never good for the IT-business relationship. We're not there to evangelise, we're there to fill a business need. If that need can be filled with FOSS, by all means do it. But using a proprietary solution that fits the bill does not make you a "no talent (FTFY) ass clown" it makes you a realist who puts the needs of your clients above your own personal agenda. You can make sweet passionate love to your favourite FOSS technology all you want in your own time.
The no talented ass clown is a person that will write a statement like this,
"Open Source Solutions Although many open source solutions are available that will provide similar system functionality to a Windows environment at a lower cost; for mission critical hardware and software itâ(TM)s important to follow industry standards and use products which can be easily supported if a staffing change were to occur."
That statement is not without merit. I can find an IT staff member who is familiar with Active Directory in about 30 minutes. Finding one who is familiar with your customised LDAP-based authentication scheme is going to take longer, and probably going to cost me more. For a small business who cannot afford to pay premiums for highly specialised knowledge that they don't really need, or experience lengthy hiring delays, this might be important. The only error that statement makes is implying that industry standards are exclusively the domain of windows, which is not always the case.
Not all data loss is caused by incompetent IT staff. If the IT staff recommend a functional backup system but management refuses to shell out for it, there's not much that can be done.
Open Source software has nothing to do with price. I have every right to charge you to purchase my OS software, and I fail to see how this makes you a "slave". Everybody should have the choice to be compensated for their creative output. The refusal of the OS community to accept this is IMHO one of the biggest obstacles to further OS development.
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Almost 10% of new computers buyers have macs actually.
Every time I read or hear this it's like nails on a chalkboard.....A MAC IS A PERSONAL COMPUTER. Any suggestion to the contrary is purely the invention of some bullshit-peddling marketer. I'm typing this post on a Mac, and provided you have a unit sold since the Intel transition, the hardware components are widely available and by no means Mac-specific. The only difference is the chassis they come in.
In any case, your point is irrelevant because you can play games perfectly well on any Intel-based Mac with a decent graphics card. Just buy or pirate a copy of Windows and install with Bootcamp. I've played COD4 and Bioshock on my MBP, and it works just fine, with graphics either on a par with or superior to anything I've seen from an Xbox 360.
Just buy an 2TB drive and stick in a drawer at work.
That's not a bad idea in itself, but I can imagine some employers having suspicions about an employee shuttling 2TB drives in and out of their workplace. The term "corporate espionage" springs to mind.
A safe builder near me will supply them with a 120v outlet and an RJ45 jack, so your in-safe NAS is always up to date.
That's an interesting idea, but what do they do about dissipation of heat from the NAS? It would seem your only options are making the safe thinner, or adding vents, which would tend to compromise its' integrity.
Sorry, didn't read the last line of the parent comment. Mod my comment above down please. How I long for a delete button.....
So, do I answer next time, despite driving?
That seems to me to be a false dichotomy, you've got a few more choices besides "answer phone / wait until destination". You could have pulled over and checked your voicemail, or checked it when stopped at a traffic light (once you've started the message playing you don't need to hold the phone). If you've got a hands-free kit you could probably have taken the call without too much risk. Texting is different due to the requirement for diverting your eyes from the road and hand from the steering wheel.
In any case, you might want to get an agent that respects your time enough to give you reasonable notice of a cancellation ;) .
This is why I think leading edge distros like Ubuntu should stop supporting 32-bit and only distribute 64-bit versions of their distros. The only computers that still are 32-bit are either embedded systems or older legacy computers. We need to move on.
Ubuntu has nowhere near enough market share to be able to just write off a huge swath of the personal computer userbase without alienating itself. Not to mention that one of the marketing points of Linux is that it will run on the older hardware you have laying around, unlike a certain other OS. Indeed, I'd suspect a sizable portion of Linux installs are run on old "junk hardware". Removing 32-bit for no reason other than "But 64 bit is newer!" wouldn't benefit anyone other than NetBSD uptake stats.
32-bit hardware is perfectly fine, and more than adequate for the needs of many computer users (when was the last time your grandparents needed >4GB RAM?), there's no reason for it not to be supported for the next few years at least. Do you have stock in Intel or something?
According to some sources, dumping iron in the ocean actually stimulates plankton growth.
Not sure if iron administered in ship form will have the same effect though.
Only if the router is running PAT, and has to keep track of sessions. Otherwise it's not even looking at what type of packet is being received, just the source and destination networks. For a home user it might be a problem, but most ISP networks aren't using PAT, so it's not an issue.
Well, they didn't give $900 to me. Despite the fact that my income for the year was zero, and all the rest of it. .
Firstly, they haven't given the $900 tax bonus payments to anyone, they don't start till tomorrow. Second, if you earned 0 you paid 0 tax, which means you don't qualify, so obviously you've not read "all the rest of it". Nobody has made a secret of this fact. It's named "tax bonus payment" for a reason; no tax = no payment.
If you want to be skeptical that the govt can deliver a FTTH network, fine, but this is not a supporting argument.
What would the DPRK possibly benefit by nuking Japan
Nothing. But that doesn't stop the DPRK from benefiting from having the capability to nuke Japan. The DPRK is heavily dependent on aid from the West, having a nuclear stick allows it to demand aid on far more favourable terms and remain relevant on the world stage.
US-DPRK relations are an artifact of the cold war,
They're like that because the DPRK still acts like the Cold War is on, with cross border skirmishes with the South every few years at least. Not to mention the fact that the Korean War never officially ended.
How about shooting at the South Korean Navy in the Yellow Sea?. Or beating the crap out of UN personnel for chopping down trees?Or various other cross border skirmishes provoked by the North?
If you seriously think NK isn't aggressive than you're either too lazy to use Google or just plain ignorant.
That cloud of splinters and debris is called spall:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spall
You also don't actually have to penetrate to get spalling to occur, but I suspect naval strategists of previous centuries might not have understood this.
Play the Empire: Total War demo instead.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/10620/
The water belt-line of the Iowa class Battleships are 12.2 inches of SOLID steel.
Which won't do much good. Firstly, most weapons these days aren't penetrating the side, they're plunging from the top. Modern antiship missiles have had the ability to conduct a terminal "pop-up" maneuver and strike from above for some time now. You can't have 12.2 inches of armour everywhere.
Secondly, you can't compare todays weapons with those of WW2 in terms of pure explosive power. Nowadays we have penetrating warheads, shaped charges, and other techniques that were in their infancy back in WW2. The GBU-27 may "only" be a 2000 pound bomb, but it can penetrate six feet of reinforced concrete (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/gbu-27.htm). Try doing that 60 years ago.
yes airstrikes work very well, plus the Yamato was taken out simply because we overwhelmed the Japanese navy.
Which has only become easier to do with the proliferation of relatively cheap antiship missiles.
I'm not a pilot, but I believe the cost is due to:
- The increased precision required of aviation units.
- Added features such as standby power that are unique to aviation.
- The fact that they are programmed with all sorts of aeronautical information (positions of beacons, approach patterns, etc). It costs money to license this information and include it in each unit.
- Additional cost to ensure each unit complies with FAA regs.
Grammatical error on my part, I'm not looking to start a junta. As the other AC poster mentioned, it should have been "military, and the civilian government".
I'm aware of the plot device, but I'm sure I read somewhere else that there is a supply of weapons on board. Wikipedia claims:
All small arms and ammunition stores not under the physical possession of the Secret Service on board the VC-25s are stowed and secured in separate locked compartments each with a different locking mechanism by the Secret Service for added security.
So it sounds like there is some weapons storage. Unfortunately I can't find an original source though.
The Queen and the PM aren't head of the largest superpower in the world, in charge of one of the largest nuclear weapons stockpiles (I'm aware of the Vanguard class subs but they pale in comparison to what the Americans have). In any case, Blair wanted an equivalent to Air Force One ("Blair Force One"), and there is an RAF squadron charged with moving PM and Queen around, although in an aircraft less flash than the VC-25. Last I heard Brown was thinking about axing both but hadn't decided. Source.
I guess it is true that at the speed the government moves, if they issue an RFP today, it won't go into operation for 5 years anyhow... :)
The RFP from USAF Material Command requested an in-service date of 2017. And that's assuming it goes smoothly.
It doesn't carry that many people. The aircraft may fly the President around, but it also has the job of being a flying command post. It's full of communication equipment to keep in constant contact with the military and civilian government, conference rooms, living facilities, supplies, weapons (in case they have to land in an unsecured location), electronic defense measures, and other classified stuff we can only imagine. It's also hardened against EMP.
Hence the reason they can't just buy one off of American Airlines and change the paint job.
Both Mercury and Gemini spacecraft have been boosted into space by converted ICBMs (Atlas in the case of Mercury and Titan for Gemini).
Lets differentiate between the two types of ITers. The nerds and the no talented ass clowns.
I am a nerd. I am in it cause I love technology and I love the concept of open source.
I hope you're not implying that use of proprietary solutions allocates you to the "assclown" category, because IMHO that mentality is never good for the IT-business relationship. We're not there to evangelise, we're there to fill a business need. If that need can be filled with FOSS, by all means do it. But using a proprietary solution that fits the bill does not make you a "no talent (FTFY) ass clown" it makes you a realist who puts the needs of your clients above your own personal agenda. You can make sweet passionate love to your favourite FOSS technology all you want in your own time.
The no talented ass clown is a person that will write a statement like this,
"Open Source Solutions
Although many open source solutions are available that will provide similar system functionality to a Windows environment at a lower cost; for mission critical hardware and software itâ(TM)s important to follow industry standards and use products which can be easily supported if a staffing change were to occur."
That statement is not without merit. I can find an IT staff member who is familiar with Active Directory in about 30 minutes. Finding one who is familiar with your customised LDAP-based authentication scheme is going to take longer, and probably going to cost me more. For a small business who cannot afford to pay premiums for highly specialised knowledge that they don't really need, or experience lengthy hiring delays, this might be important. The only error that statement makes is implying that industry standards are exclusively the domain of windows, which is not always the case.
Not all data loss is caused by incompetent IT staff. If the IT staff recommend a functional backup system but management refuses to shell out for it, there's not much that can be done.
Open Source software has nothing to do with price. I have every right to charge you to purchase my OS software, and I fail to see how this makes you a "slave". Everybody should have the choice to be compensated for their creative output. The refusal of the OS community to accept this is IMHO one of the biggest obstacles to further OS development.
I'm sure some people might not have seen the tremendous value in the mould gave us penicillin. Fortunately someone did.