How much do you think those services charge? I'm willing to bet it is a non-trivial startup/setup cost plus a subscription and/or per transaction fee. Do you think EVERY mail order outfit in the US can afford to subscribe and integrate this into their operation? We're not just talking about Amazon and big retailers here.
True, but the pilots are smart enough to know that suddenly going full throttle while crusing is probably not the right thing to do. According to the video linked previously the A330 computers don't appear to having any problem doing just that if it thinks the aircraft is going to stall rightly or wrongly.
Maybe uncomfortable jest though... with any new technology you just don't know how it will play out in the real world. Heck people though windmills were the answer to everything, then they started killing bats by the thousands. Who knew?
Beaming microwaves from space sounds cool and all, but are you absolutely positive it won't burn a nice hole in the ozone layer or fry the bunnies underneath the array? I believe cell tower microwaves are similarly non-water exciting, but technicians do NOT stand in front of live ones for fear of losing the ability to reproduce.
I disagree. The PS3 is a game machine and was marketed as such. I've never seen the PS3 in the home theater stores or in to the TV area of Best Buy or Target... they were in the game section.
Of course it is granted that many people who were in the market for BD would choose PS3 because for whatever incomprehensible reason it was generally cheaper than a BD player, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a game machine.
If you don't subscribe to much of anything yes, you won't get as much spam. But it just takes one mailing list who accidentally or intenionally puts your email out there for you to get overwhelmed with spam.
If you have an unusual email name it's likely you get much, much less spam than others as the spammers try fishing with many common names.
It could also just be that your ISP is quietly blocking much of it.
And it also can depend on your provider. I get 90%+ spam on Gmail (almost all flagged into the Spam folder), but I get next to nothing on Comcast... except for some reason the Slashdot daily email keeps going into the Spam folder and I can't figure out how to get it out.
In Next Gen, they constantly had to worry about staying in orbit to stay within transporter range. In the movie, 'Scotty' informs us that he can beam stuff between planets in the same solar system "which is easy by the way" as he says. So how did technology regress by next gen?
He was obviously very good at it. He still lost things along the way (poor puppy) so no one else was likely to even attempt it... the risk was just too great of screwing up. I'm still not buying that you can hit a ship moving away from you at warp with a transporter beam though.
Also, what the hell is red matter? What a crock, we are supposed to buy that?
It came from the future in Spock's ship so it is post-TNG tech. It may be something as simple as a material which causes atoms to collapse. A bomb of some kind would have been more believeable though.
Sure, he explained it. But he also screwed up certain canon that *couldn't* be explained by Nero's time traveling. He also added stuff that plain didn't make sense. Delta Vega being within sight of Vulcan? Please. Uhura being of a similar age to Kirk? Please. An Academy non-graduate being made Captain? Please.
Other than the last one you are just nitpicking things that really don't matter in a "reboot". As far as the last one I'm not sure if it was said that he didn't graduate... he was grounded, that's different.
The biggest "offense" I saw was being able to transport to a ship at warp who knows how many light years away. Why even have ships? And now for the rest of the series they are going to have to use every plot device in existance to keep breaking the transporters just so that they can build tension, just as they did in this movie, twice.
Anyway, where's all the optimism of the original Trek? Seems to be completely missing.
Perhaps the optimism started to unfold later in the life of the Federation, we are somewhere between Enterprise (where things were not really all that optimistic) and Star Trek Classic after all. It wasn't all peachy until the TNG era anyway.
How is racking up $11 TRILLION in debt in 100 days going to help the economy in the long terms?
Obama has contributed $500 billion to the national debt so far. The total national debt stands at $11.2 trillion, of which Bush II contributed nearly half (45%).
But if Obama continues spending at the current pace he could pass Bush II around the end of his third year.
On the other hand there could be competitive advantages and/or productivity advantages to moving from a batch COBOL world to an online, always-on, web enabled modern infrastructure.
That certainly would qualify as a good reason to port. But knowing how complex financial systems actually work in the real world I think you are more likely to see an online, always-on, web enabled modern infrastructure glued onto the frontend of a database being updated by batch COBOL in the backend.
There is nothing wrong with a functional 20 year out of date COBOL application. It is a bigger waste of company/governmental resources to rewrite it just because you want to use the language flavor of the month.
So they should have rewritten it in 'C' 20 years ago, then of course you have to go OO and rewrite it to C++ 15 years ago, then Java was really cool so 10 years ago rewrite again, and now M$ has taken over the world so we better port it to.NET today, but you've just wasted 4 projects to simply get the existing functionality and your company is out of business (or added 0.0001% more to the national debt if you are the government).
There are very good reasons to port old projects but just doing it because it's 20 years out of date is not one of them.
You haven't even tried any other MMOs, have you?
Many of them have achievement systems and world events. Many of them are deeper than WoW, and many have less of a grind.
I've played City of Heroes/Villains and D&D Online in the past, and currently play WoW. I guess I would have to see what you mean by "deeper"... it seems that term would be purely subjective. WoW has five times the content of the other two games put together (at least that was true prior to the City of Heroes "Architect" update). The Heroes/Villains series content is certainly no more deep than WoW (go kill this boss and anything else that gets in your way) and up until "architect" you basically had one line of stories that you reran for every single alt you created. In D&D Online the content was much more complicated, but at the same time there was very little of it (~200 dungeons in all) so even your main spent a lot of time repeating dungeons.
The reason WoW is on top is because Blizzard programmers are top-notch. Their games are polished to perfection and brilliantly designed to induce addictive response. Because of that, Blizzard has a huge, ravenous fanbase which enabled them to start their game out strong.
All games which have any kind of achievement / favor system turn out to be addictive to those who are into that kind of thing (City had badges, lots of badges; D&D had favor which granted various rewards). But where WoW had me was that from day one the game ran like it was actually written with performance in mind... polished in a programming sense. I was able to load, login, choose a character and be ready to move in-game in the time it took D&D online to get to the login screen.
It's not because WoW is a better game than other MMOs. It's because there are gamers who revere Blizzard and don't look at other games. Blizzard has earned that kind of loyalty...but there is the sad question of what other games could have been great, if people would only have noticed them.
I disagree. Plenty of people try out other games, and come back to WoW because the other games just don't measure up at all. I went the other way... came to WoW from a couple other games and never went back. The biggest problem for new MMOs is that WoW has raised the bar on the MMO market, and it means your game actually has to have something compelling and woe to the game that flubs their launch (Conan).
Reducing single points of failure is what is needed
The cost of doing this is enormous, which is why it will never happen 100%. The scale of this outage is no where near what we had in the Chicago area when the Oak Brook central office caught on fire http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/6.82.html#subj2, and that was 20 years ago. I don't think any one system is any more fault tolerant now than it was 20 years ago, but there are now multiple providers which can mitigate it significantly as long as they don't all route through the same cables as was the case here to a large degree.
In the end any telecom system is vulnerable in localized areas... the trick is to make sure it cannot all be disabled (although software has managed to do so to great effect in the past http://www.soft.com/AppNotes/attcrash.html
let me ask you, what kind of glitch would cause material whose topics are at odds with conservative Christian values not to show up on the main search engine?
It very well could be a glitch. At the same time it is likely an intentional filtering system. Other countries that Amazon operates in probably have restrictions that they need to follow. My guess is that they were updating the filter for some country and accidentally messed it up for the US market.
Given the effects of the relatively dinky nukes dropped on Japan, I don't know how anyone can seriously consider dropping them at random to smoke out one idiot.
On top of that "those" people do not think like "we" do... dropping nukes on them will likely embolden their cause against us rather than driving them to surrender. Same for those Somali pirates... despite having a destroyer right next to them with one man being the only thing keeping them from becoming a grease spot they don't appear to have any intention of giving up. I hope the USN has no intentions of letting those guys go, and brings a bunch of warships down there to drive them out of business.
This may be true now with Vista SP1 but the GA version of Vista was an abomination. Slow as a dog with a huge memory footprint (but you can speed it up with a USB key/boggle), poor driver support, and multiple permission popups to do the most trivial things.
On top of that a few apps and games I had just failed completely when UAC was running and no setting I could find would allow them to run so I had to turn UAC off. What did MS expect me to do, wait for fixes for all the apps I need? At least I was able to get everything I needed running that way... I have no doubt many people couldn't get that far which is why you hear about so many people downgrading (upgrading) to XP.
Yes SP1 is getting better but they shot themselves in the foot with a terrible launch and they have been playing catch up ever since. I believe we would be seeing a lot fewer complaints today if they had delayed for a year or so and launched SP1.
And for some reason Labs isn't even an option on my screen. It's one of those weird things that shows up sometimes and doesn't most of the time.
They should just enable it by default. Even better they (and all other mail servers on the planet) should enforce a 5 second rule to slow down spammers. Maybe even 30 seconds.
Well, yes it was. Clinton is smart and knew he was mincing words. Bush has never shown such adeptness and may have been completely clueless about it rather than deceptive.
But your email address turns up a couple dozen hits on Google (mostly/.), is that on your resume? They could also google your phone number and your address as well, sometimes that can be revealing.
And frankly it's at work that we spend the majority of our hours,
Holy crapola, Batman, this person really IS a serf. They spend more than 4,380 hours a year at work! That's way more than the 40-hour week. Hope you're at least getting overtime.
I imagine he meant 'majority of our waking hours' which is true for many people working full time, especially if they are tagged with the 'exempt' sticker.
I'm not actually in favor of this, simply because it takes away the say of the people in Iowa. If their state votes for the loser, so be it, they should be counted.
Actually I think the opposite is true. Right now the outcome of the presidency is determined by a small handfull of so called "battleground" states, the rest of the states might as well not exist unless a major upset occurs there.
In Illinois it was a foregone conclusion that Obama was going to take it, so he and McCain spent almost zero time here campaigning. There was essentially no reason to vote at all in Illinois for either candidate.
By making the popular vote count, every vote becomes important battleground state or not.
Passengers of the three planes which reached their objective are not normally referred to as heroes in the media, they are called victims. Certainly the rebelling Flight 93 passengers are rightly called heroes as are the firefighters and police who went up into the towers to rescue people, but I haven't noticed that label being liberally applied to the victims as well.
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How much do you think those services charge? I'm willing to bet it is a non-trivial startup/setup cost plus a subscription and/or per transaction fee. Do you think EVERY mail order outfit in the US can afford to subscribe and integrate this into their operation? We're not just talking about Amazon and big retailers here.
True, but the pilots are smart enough to know that suddenly going full throttle while crusing is probably not the right thing to do. According to the video linked previously the A330 computers don't appear to having any problem doing just that if it thinks the aircraft is going to stall rightly or wrongly.
I think most of the comments are in jest.
Maybe uncomfortable jest though... with any new technology you just don't know how it will play out in the real world. Heck people though windmills were the answer to everything, then they started killing bats by the thousands. Who knew?
Beaming microwaves from space sounds cool and all, but are you absolutely positive it won't burn a nice hole in the ozone layer or fry the bunnies underneath the array? I believe cell tower microwaves are similarly non-water exciting, but technicians do NOT stand in front of live ones for fear of losing the ability to reproduce.
Must have been on sale yesterday. Today DVD is the same at $47.99, but Blu-Ray is now $55.49.
I disagree. The PS3 is a game machine and was marketed as such. I've never seen the PS3 in the home theater stores or in to the TV area of Best Buy or Target... they were in the game section.
Of course it is granted that many people who were in the market for BD would choose PS3 because for whatever incomprehensible reason it was generally cheaper than a BD player, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a game machine.
Isn't it sad that even after adding everything up that they are only 2% ahead 16 months after the death of HD-DVD?
If you don't subscribe to much of anything yes, you won't get as much spam. But it just takes one mailing list who accidentally or intenionally puts your email out there for you to get overwhelmed with spam.
If you have an unusual email name it's likely you get much, much less spam than others as the spammers try fishing with many common names.
It could also just be that your ISP is quietly blocking much of it.
And it also can depend on your provider. I get 90%+ spam on Gmail (almost all flagged into the Spam folder), but I get next to nothing on Comcast... except for some reason the Slashdot daily email keeps going into the Spam folder and I can't figure out how to get it out.
In Next Gen, they constantly had to worry about staying in orbit to stay within transporter range. In the movie, 'Scotty' informs us that he can beam stuff between planets in the same solar system "which is easy by the way" as he says. So how did technology regress by next gen?
He was obviously very good at it. He still lost things along the way (poor puppy) so no one else was likely to even attempt it... the risk was just too great of screwing up. I'm still not buying that you can hit a ship moving away from you at warp with a transporter beam though.
Also, what the hell is red matter? What a crock, we are supposed to buy that?
It came from the future in Spock's ship so it is post-TNG tech. It may be something as simple as a material which causes atoms to collapse. A bomb of some kind would have been more believeable though.
Sure, he explained it. But he also screwed up certain canon that *couldn't* be explained by Nero's time traveling. He also added stuff that plain didn't make sense. Delta Vega being within sight of Vulcan? Please. Uhura being of a similar age to Kirk? Please. An Academy non-graduate being made Captain? Please.
Other than the last one you are just nitpicking things that really don't matter in a "reboot". As far as the last one I'm not sure if it was said that he didn't graduate... he was grounded, that's different.
The biggest "offense" I saw was being able to transport to a ship at warp who knows how many light years away. Why even have ships? And now for the rest of the series they are going to have to use every plot device in existance to keep breaking the transporters just so that they can build tension, just as they did in this movie, twice.
Anyway, where's all the optimism of the original Trek? Seems to be completely missing.
Perhaps the optimism started to unfold later in the life of the Federation, we are somewhere between Enterprise (where things were not really all that optimistic) and Star Trek Classic after all. It wasn't all peachy until the TNG era anyway.
How is racking up $11 TRILLION in debt in 100 days going to help the economy in the long terms?
Obama has contributed $500 billion to the national debt so far. The total national debt stands at $11.2 trillion, of which Bush II contributed nearly half (45%).
But if Obama continues spending at the current pace he could pass Bush II around the end of his third year.
On the other hand there could be competitive advantages and/or productivity advantages to moving from a batch COBOL world to an online, always-on, web enabled modern infrastructure.
That certainly would qualify as a good reason to port. But knowing how complex financial systems actually work in the real world I think you are more likely to see an online, always-on, web enabled modern infrastructure glued onto the frontend of a database being updated by batch COBOL in the backend.
There is nothing wrong with a functional 20 year out of date COBOL application. It is a bigger waste of company/governmental resources to rewrite it just because you want to use the language flavor of the month.
So they should have rewritten it in 'C' 20 years ago, then of course you have to go OO and rewrite it to C++ 15 years ago, then Java was really cool so 10 years ago rewrite again, and now M$ has taken over the world so we better port it to .NET today, but you've just wasted 4 projects to simply get the existing functionality and your company is out of business (or added 0.0001% more to the national debt if you are the government).
There are very good reasons to port old projects but just doing it because it's 20 years out of date is not one of them.
At 2500 pixels (50x50 image) it'll be retro-porn, like the 80's lo-res b/w stuff that you could download on a 2400 baud modem.
You haven't even tried any other MMOs, have you? Many of them have achievement systems and world events. Many of them are deeper than WoW, and many have less of a grind.
I've played City of Heroes/Villains and D&D Online in the past, and currently play WoW. I guess I would have to see what you mean by "deeper"... it seems that term would be purely subjective. WoW has five times the content of the other two games put together (at least that was true prior to the City of Heroes "Architect" update). The Heroes/Villains series content is certainly no more deep than WoW (go kill this boss and anything else that gets in your way) and up until "architect" you basically had one line of stories that you reran for every single alt you created. In D&D Online the content was much more complicated, but at the same time there was very little of it (~200 dungeons in all) so even your main spent a lot of time repeating dungeons.
The reason WoW is on top is because Blizzard programmers are top-notch. Their games are polished to perfection and brilliantly designed to induce addictive response. Because of that, Blizzard has a huge, ravenous fanbase which enabled them to start their game out strong.
All games which have any kind of achievement / favor system turn out to be addictive to those who are into that kind of thing (City had badges, lots of badges; D&D had favor which granted various rewards). But where WoW had me was that from day one the game ran like it was actually written with performance in mind... polished in a programming sense. I was able to load, login, choose a character and be ready to move in-game in the time it took D&D online to get to the login screen.
It's not because WoW is a better game than other MMOs. It's because there are gamers who revere Blizzard and don't look at other games. Blizzard has earned that kind of loyalty...but there is the sad question of what other games could have been great, if people would only have noticed them.
I disagree. Plenty of people try out other games, and come back to WoW because the other games just don't measure up at all. I went the other way... came to WoW from a couple other games and never went back. The biggest problem for new MMOs is that WoW has raised the bar on the MMO market, and it means your game actually has to have something compelling and woe to the game that flubs their launch (Conan).
Reducing single points of failure is what is needed
The cost of doing this is enormous, which is why it will never happen 100%. The scale of this outage is no where near what we had in the Chicago area when the Oak Brook central office caught on fire http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/6.82.html#subj2, and that was 20 years ago. I don't think any one system is any more fault tolerant now than it was 20 years ago, but there are now multiple providers which can mitigate it significantly as long as they don't all route through the same cables as was the case here to a large degree.
In the end any telecom system is vulnerable in localized areas... the trick is to make sure it cannot all be disabled (although software has managed to do so to great effect in the past http://www.soft.com/AppNotes/attcrash.html
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let me ask you, what kind of glitch would cause material whose topics are at odds with conservative Christian values not to show up on the main search engine?
It very well could be a glitch. At the same time it is likely an intentional filtering system. Other countries that Amazon operates in probably have restrictions that they need to follow. My guess is that they were updating the filter for some country and accidentally messed it up for the US market.
Given the effects of the relatively dinky nukes dropped on Japan, I don't know how anyone can seriously consider dropping them at random to smoke out one idiot.
On top of that "those" people do not think like "we" do... dropping nukes on them will likely embolden their cause against us rather than driving them to surrender. Same for those Somali pirates... despite having a destroyer right next to them with one man being the only thing keeping them from becoming a grease spot they don't appear to have any intention of giving up. I hope the USN has no intentions of letting those guys go, and brings a bunch of warships down there to drive them out of business.
power consumption of 25 kilowatts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Mark_1
This may be true now with Vista SP1 but the GA version of Vista was an abomination. Slow as a dog with a huge memory footprint (but you can speed it up with a USB key /boggle), poor driver support, and multiple permission popups to do the most trivial things.
On top of that a few apps and games I had just failed completely when UAC was running and no setting I could find would allow them to run so I had to turn UAC off. What did MS expect me to do, wait for fixes for all the apps I need? At least I was able to get everything I needed running that way... I have no doubt many people couldn't get that far which is why you hear about so many people downgrading (upgrading) to XP.
Yes SP1 is getting better but they shot themselves in the foot with a terrible launch and they have been playing catch up ever since. I believe we would be seeing a lot fewer complaints today if they had delayed for a year or so and launched SP1.
And for some reason Labs isn't even an option on my screen. It's one of those weird things that shows up sometimes and doesn't most of the time.
They should just enable it by default. Even better they (and all other mail servers on the planet) should enforce a 5 second rule to slow down spammers. Maybe even 30 seconds.
Well, yes it was. Clinton is smart and knew he was mincing words. Bush has never shown such adeptness and may have been completely clueless about it rather than deceptive.
But your email address turns up a couple dozen hits on Google (mostly /.), is that on your resume? They could also google your phone number and your address as well, sometimes that can be revealing.
And frankly it's at work that we spend the majority of our hours,
Holy crapola, Batman, this person really IS a serf. They spend more than 4,380 hours a year at work! That's way more than the 40-hour week. Hope you're at least getting overtime.
I imagine he meant 'majority of our waking hours' which is true for many people working full time, especially if they are tagged with the 'exempt' sticker.
I'm not actually in favor of this, simply because it takes away the say of the people in Iowa. If their state votes for the loser, so be it, they should be counted.
Actually I think the opposite is true. Right now the outcome of the presidency is determined by a small handfull of so called "battleground" states, the rest of the states might as well not exist unless a major upset occurs there.
In Illinois it was a foregone conclusion that Obama was going to take it, so he and McCain spent almost zero time here campaigning. There was essentially no reason to vote at all in Illinois for either candidate.
By making the popular vote count, every vote becomes important battleground state or not.
Passengers of the three planes which reached their objective are not normally referred to as heroes in the media, they are called victims. Certainly the rebelling Flight 93 passengers are rightly called heroes as are the firefighters and police who went up into the towers to rescue people, but I haven't noticed that label being liberally applied to the victims as well.