I imagine it keeps the library files around, since they're called by the "My Computer" and "Windows Explorer" features. I wonder though, what it does when you type an "http" URL in the "My Computer" browser bar. The current behavior is to simply grab IE's web libraries and turn your file browser into a web browser on the fly. Will it still do that? On my Mac when you enter "http" URLs into the file browser it opens the default web browser.
Go to warrant officer school. Communications warrants do a lot of this stuff. I did quite a bit of network admin work as a communications officer too, but we were National Guard and I was mostly conscripted into that for my civilian skills. I don't think active duty communications officers get to do that much.
That's definitely a huge concern. For my money Belgium makes the best beer in the world. Not to say that there's no bad beer there, or that there aren't excellent beers from other places, but as taken as a whole, Belgian beer is better than than any competition.
Seriously, this drug is being talked about for two primary uses that I see.
1) You have been exposed to lots of radiation accidentally and are about to die. Right now. In this situation, you probably prefer the risk of potential cancer down the line to the "die tomorrow" solution. Especially since....
2) You already have an aggressive cancer that is not responding to normal treatments. This drug will allow you to receive what might otherwise be a lethal dose of radiation to destroy the tumor. Again, you are about to die of cancer, the risk of contracting a different cancer later in life, while unfortunate, is probably a small price to pay for having a later in life.
I don't think anyone is presenting this as a fun opportunity for everybody to have radiation showers installed in their houses with no ill effects. It's a drug (which they admit may increase the risk of future cancer) designed to help people who are already gonna die, to not die right now. The pill is not a cure all for every negative affect of radiation, it's an apparent panacea for the short term immediate death affect that is usually the biggest worry at the time of exposure. In the choice between "die now (or in the case of an advanced cancer patient, "die soon")", and "risk cancer ten years from now", most will chose the later.
No, it is in fact the case that you can never be completely sure that you have eradicated any sort of malware from inside the compromised operating system. You can be reasonably sure, and the vast majority of malware is not so smart as to hide itself, but if the operating system is compromised there is always that chance that the malware has infected deeply enough to cause the operating system to lie to you, or even your cleansing tool. The best bet is to scan the infected hard drive from an OS booted off of a CD or other other known-good setup. Mostly this is not necessary, but if you have a need to be really sure, it's the best policy.
I don't actually find backing up and restoring the data to be the bad bit of a Windows "wipe/restore". It's the software installations. I can start a backup to network drive, go do something else, reinstall Windows, start a restore from network drive, go do something else. The backup and restore can be safely ignored while I go for a walk, take a nap, watch TV, read a book, play on another computer, or whatever. Software installs take nearly as long and require constant supervision. games are the worst for this. World of Warcraft takes 25-30 minutes to install (at leas that's on a DVD and can be ignored for some portion of the time) and then another hour or two for updates. Knights of the Old Republic II came on fricken CDs. I have to change disks every 4-6 minutes. I just rebuild my Wife's computer so the pain is still fresh.
The difference here is that with voluntary service and relatively easy transitions to and from military life, many of us either are or were the military. GP served in the Marines. I served in the Army. Another guy right above this served in the Marines. Much more so than in many cases, in western democracies the "military" and the "population" are sets with a significant amount of overlap. I would have disobeyed an unlawful order to fire on civilians... He would have disobeyed the order... Most of the people either of us knew would have disobeyed the order (not all of them sadly, there's always the guy that will follow ANY order, but most would have), thus we can reasonably hope that our military is above such things, because we are/were the military.
Certainly no organization is above corruption, and the military of United States could become a vehicle for tyranny of the people of the United States; it's always possible. As things stand right now though, such an event would either require either an unbelievable world changing disaster or decades of change and transformation in how the military works. Certainly things like Kent State happen (and that was one of the reasons for the federal military making such huge efforts and strides in recent decades to "professionalize" the National Guard), but the use of the military as a generalized force of oppression in the US is not likely in the next decade or two at least.
This is what I was thinking as soon as I read the article. Even if it works (and the theory seems valid if they could do it on a massive enough scale, but it would have to be MASSSIVE) what else are you screwing up by doing this? What place do hurricanes occupy in the ecosystem of the east coast of the US? How is all of this cold water going to affect marine life? I mean, you'd need HUGE amount of colder water to affect storm development. We're talking about one of nature's most powerful forces here, you're not going to break it up by dumping a couple of buckets of ice. You're making a huge expanse of the upper ocean several degrees cooler, and simultaneously making a huge expanse of the lower ocean several degrees warmer, what's that going to do?
And before some anti-environmentalist starts saying "Well, yeah, but who cares if we screw up the ecosystem a bit if we're saving lives and property?", do you think the people on the Gulf Coast will thank you if you eliminate hurricanes but cause an overgrowth of algae that ruins the fishing and shrimping industries? Those industries are critical to southern Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and a good chunk of Florida. Or if the weather pattern change causes a heat up in the region and traditional crops to fail? Or for that matter a cool down with the same affect? We have no idea what this kind of thing could do, even assuming we got it to work.
This would need tons of modeling and study before it could be safely deployed, and even then, as parent said, if should be used sparingly.
Exactly. I wasn't suggesting that the iPhone be used to pilot commercial boats or anything (to be honest I don't even know what an autohelm is. I assume something like an autopilot for a boat). I was thinking we were talking a personal watercraft here, and in that case the difference between a cheapy maritime GPS and an iPhone (or other phone) with the right software is probably not a big deal. There will always be a market for purpose made GPS units, especially for things like plane and boats; but in general a phone with the right software can act well enough doing turn by turn driving directions, helping you navigate your small boat, or keeping you from getting lost on a hike. The article is about the consumer market, not commercial, industrial, or military use.
My unit still had (exactly, I was the officer responsible for COMSEC on them) 127 of those bricks when we deployed to Iraq 5 years ago. They were also still issued with Blue Force Tracker and the fire control system on the Paladins at that time. Maybe leg infantry and Special Ops got those cute little things, but I never saw one except in pictures, and I was the communications officer for an artillery battalion until 3 years ago. I or one of my guys touched every piece of electronics that went into that Battalion.
The military and commercial aircraft and boat manufacturers don't buy little consumer grade GPSes. Duh, the built in GPS on a 737 is not going to be replaced with a plug in slot for an iPhone. it's not going to be replaced by a plug in slot for a Tom-Tom Navigator 7 either. Military use is something else altogether. A military "Hand held" GPS using is about 10 inches long, by 3 inches wide, has a giant antenna on the side, weights about 10 pound and goes through its specialized and expensive batteries in about 6 hours of use. If you have a vehicle mount kit you can save on the batteries though. The screen is text only and is maybe 2"x3". It takes about an hour and half to program a reasonably simple route. Most of the guys in my unit bought Garmins before we went overseas. If it had been an option at teh time, we'd probably have used phones just as happily.
The screen on my Tom-Tom is only modestly larger than the screen on my iPhone. Oh, the DEVICE is much lager, it has about a half-inch of surrounding plastic framing the screen on every side, but as far a screen size goes I think they are roughly the same width with the Tom-Tom being about half again taller (assuming the phone is in landscape mode).
I don't use the GPS for any of the things GGP points out as being shortcomings for the phone, but none of those seem insurmountable. A high end case like this would be sufficient for using the phone on a boat or motorcycle (and I'm sure you can get something similar for most smart phones). The lack of elevation and lat-long data is simply a software issue, which could be quite trivial to correct (the GPS must actually HAVE this data, just no current software that I am aware of presents it to the user). The software on my Tom-Tom is the same way. Since it's a designed for driving, it doesn't present me with coordinate based locations or elevation data. It assumes that I'm taking the roads to where ever I'm going and plots routes bases on a street database instead. Doesn't mean that IT doesn't now my coordinate based location or elevation, just that it doesn't tell me the way a hiking or boat GPS program will.
The lack of a an "autohelm" interface is probably the most difficult to correct issue that the GP mentions, since that would require an outside hardware manufacturer to make it work. since the new iPhone OS has hooks to allow hardware manufacturers to interface with the docking port though (and most other smart phones always had this capability), that's not impossible to correct,y just requires the hardware manufacturer to see enough interest and create the interface. Not likely in the next week or two I'll grant you, but certainly possible and even likely of the market seems worth the effort.
He never said it was. The summary compared the efforts here to a Blizzard quality game on Linux, the GP was merely stating that this judgment might be best reserved for after playing the game. Blizzard is, in many people's eyes, the Gold Standard for RTS (they more or less invented the genre and their efforts have nearly always pushed the envelope at the time of release). To compare an unknown and unplayed effort to something Blizzard would do seems a bit premature.
Well in this case the reason for using Latin is probably "Because that's the proper name of the rhetorical device in question". For whatever reason, logical errors and rhetorical devices are mostly known by Latin names. If your primary exposure to rhetoric and logical fallacies was through a class in college (generally the case when people can give proper names to these devices), that's probably how you learned them. Though I know perfectly well that "Reductum ad Absurdum" means "reduction to absurdity", I always think of the logical device by the Latin name. It's how it was taught to me.
In this case I think chapter summaries, or more properly "chapter reviews", are appropriate. The book is a collection of essays; each of which, in theory, stands on its own as well as being part of the collection. By reviewing a few standout pieces the reviewer gives us an idea of particularly strong or weak blocks within the overall work. Had the book been a simple textbook or cohesive narrative, or had the reviewer merely summarized the chapters in question, I would agree with your criticism. As it is I think the "mini-reviews" within the main review give useful information.
This was George W. Bush's idea, not Obama's. Not that I don't think it's a good idea, it is. Even a blind dog sometimes finds a rabbit. I generally thought Bush was one of our poorer presidents, but his emphasis on space exploration was fine with me. His apparent reasons (a giant international "my penis is bigger than yours" competition) and mine (a desire to see space science and the resultant technology improve) are different, but the I agree with the result.
Foisting this off as "more Democratic Pork" is completely disingenuous. In fact it looks like the Dems may be cutting NASA's budget.
How is it not a valid expense. He's using it the way he claims on his taxes, he's just ALSO playing with it. They make little specialist RC robots to do this, those are way more expensive. For a small shop this a pretty good option.
What're you on about? Windows, Linux (with either major desktop environment and any of the less popular ones I can quickly think of), and MacOS all handle desktop shortcuts the same same way. A file in the "Desktop" directory on the OS's equivalent of your home directory.
He's talking about the search bar that comes with IE (I think 7 and 8, but I am not sure about 7). It's like the search bar that comes with Firefox. Unlike the Firefox add-on though, which by default searches 7 different engines and has the capability to add literally hundreds more, the MS one by default only searches Bing and allows you add maybe 10 more. One of the ones you can add is Google, but as GP points out it's at the bottom of the list and not well labeled.
I think a lot probably depends on how far out "normal" your moods swing. If your lows are so low that you, say, regularly contemplate suicide over running out of orange juice (a silly extreme I admit, but you get the picture) you probably have little choice but to stabilize your moods chemically.
He didn't say case sensitive he said case preserving. Which VFAT certainly is. It's aware of case for display purposes but does not use it for path names. Check out c: in a command window. If you do a 'dir' you'll see "Program Files", but you can 'cd' into "program files", "Program Files", or "PROGRAM FILES". It's displayed with the case it was created with, but doesn't care what case the user uses to refer to it.
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I imagine it keeps the library files around, since they're called by the "My Computer" and "Windows Explorer" features. I wonder though, what it does when you type an "http" URL in the "My Computer" browser bar. The current behavior is to simply grab IE's web libraries and turn your file browser into a web browser on the fly. Will it still do that? On my Mac when you enter "http" URLs into the file browser it opens the default web browser.
Go to warrant officer school. Communications warrants do a lot of this stuff. I did quite a bit of network admin work as a communications officer too, but we were National Guard and I was mostly conscripted into that for my civilian skills. I don't think active duty communications officers get to do that much.
Really, really good beer though. Maybe there's a connection there.
That's definitely a huge concern. For my money Belgium makes the best beer in the world. Not to say that there's no bad beer there, or that there aren't excellent beers from other places, but as taken as a whole, Belgian beer is better than than any competition.
Seriously, this drug is being talked about for two primary uses that I see.
1) You have been exposed to lots of radiation accidentally and are about to die. Right now. In this situation, you probably prefer the risk of potential cancer down the line to the "die tomorrow" solution. Especially since....
2) You already have an aggressive cancer that is not responding to normal treatments. This drug will allow you to receive what might otherwise be a lethal dose of radiation to destroy the tumor. Again, you are about to die of cancer, the risk of contracting a different cancer later in life, while unfortunate, is probably a small price to pay for having a later in life.
I don't think anyone is presenting this as a fun opportunity for everybody to have radiation showers installed in their houses with no ill effects. It's a drug (which they admit may increase the risk of future cancer) designed to help people who are already gonna die, to not die right now. The pill is not a cure all for every negative affect of radiation, it's an apparent panacea for the short term immediate death affect that is usually the biggest worry at the time of exposure. In the choice between "die now (or in the case of an advanced cancer patient, "die soon")", and "risk cancer ten years from now", most will chose the later.
No, it is in fact the case that you can never be completely sure that you have eradicated any sort of malware from inside the compromised operating system. You can be reasonably sure, and the vast majority of malware is not so smart as to hide itself, but if the operating system is compromised there is always that chance that the malware has infected deeply enough to cause the operating system to lie to you, or even your cleansing tool. The best bet is to scan the infected hard drive from an OS booted off of a CD or other other known-good setup. Mostly this is not necessary, but if you have a need to be really sure, it's the best policy.
I don't actually find backing up and restoring the data to be the bad bit of a Windows "wipe/restore". It's the software installations. I can start a backup to network drive, go do something else, reinstall Windows, start a restore from network drive, go do something else. The backup and restore can be safely ignored while I go for a walk, take a nap, watch TV, read a book, play on another computer, or whatever. Software installs take nearly as long and require constant supervision. games are the worst for this. World of Warcraft takes 25-30 minutes to install (at leas that's on a DVD and can be ignored for some portion of the time) and then another hour or two for updates. Knights of the Old Republic II came on fricken CDs. I have to change disks every 4-6 minutes. I just rebuild my Wife's computer so the pain is still fresh.
Except the Natalie Portman trolls. I don't think they EVER read the articles.
Probably not notice anything :-)
The difference here is that with voluntary service and relatively easy transitions to and from military life, many of us either are or were the military. GP served in the Marines. I served in the Army. Another guy right above this served in the Marines. Much more so than in many cases, in western democracies the "military" and the "population" are sets with a significant amount of overlap. I would have disobeyed an unlawful order to fire on civilians... He would have disobeyed the order... Most of the people either of us knew would have disobeyed the order (not all of them sadly, there's always the guy that will follow ANY order, but most would have), thus we can reasonably hope that our military is above such things, because we are/were the military.
Certainly no organization is above corruption, and the military of United States could become a vehicle for tyranny of the people of the United States; it's always possible. As things stand right now though, such an event would either require either an unbelievable world changing disaster or decades of change and transformation in how the military works. Certainly things like Kent State happen (and that was one of the reasons for the federal military making such huge efforts and strides in recent decades to "professionalize" the National Guard), but the use of the military as a generalized force of oppression in the US is not likely in the next decade or two at least.
This is what I was thinking as soon as I read the article. Even if it works (and the theory seems valid if they could do it on a massive enough scale, but it would have to be MASSSIVE) what else are you screwing up by doing this? What place do hurricanes occupy in the ecosystem of the east coast of the US? How is all of this cold water going to affect marine life? I mean, you'd need HUGE amount of colder water to affect storm development. We're talking about one of nature's most powerful forces here, you're not going to break it up by dumping a couple of buckets of ice. You're making a huge expanse of the upper ocean several degrees cooler, and simultaneously making a huge expanse of the lower ocean several degrees warmer, what's that going to do?
And before some anti-environmentalist starts saying "Well, yeah, but who cares if we screw up the ecosystem a bit if we're saving lives and property?", do you think the people on the Gulf Coast will thank you if you eliminate hurricanes but cause an overgrowth of algae that ruins the fishing and shrimping industries? Those industries are critical to southern Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and a good chunk of Florida. Or if the weather pattern change causes a heat up in the region and traditional crops to fail? Or for that matter a cool down with the same affect? We have no idea what this kind of thing could do, even assuming we got it to work.
This would need tons of modeling and study before it could be safely deployed, and even then, as parent said, if should be used sparingly.
Exactly. I wasn't suggesting that the iPhone be used to pilot commercial boats or anything (to be honest I don't even know what an autohelm is. I assume something like an autopilot for a boat). I was thinking we were talking a personal watercraft here, and in that case the difference between a cheapy maritime GPS and an iPhone (or other phone) with the right software is probably not a big deal. There will always be a market for purpose made GPS units, especially for things like plane and boats; but in general a phone with the right software can act well enough doing turn by turn driving directions, helping you navigate your small boat, or keeping you from getting lost on a hike. The article is about the consumer market, not commercial, industrial, or military use.
My unit still had (exactly, I was the officer responsible for COMSEC on them) 127 of those bricks when we deployed to Iraq 5 years ago. They were also still issued with Blue Force Tracker and the fire control system on the Paladins at that time. Maybe leg infantry and Special Ops got those cute little things, but I never saw one except in pictures, and I was the communications officer for an artillery battalion until 3 years ago. I or one of my guys touched every piece of electronics that went into that Battalion.
The military and commercial aircraft and boat manufacturers don't buy little consumer grade GPSes. Duh, the built in GPS on a 737 is not going to be replaced with a plug in slot for an iPhone. it's not going to be replaced by a plug in slot for a Tom-Tom Navigator 7 either. Military use is something else altogether. A military "Hand held" GPS using is about 10 inches long, by 3 inches wide, has a giant antenna on the side, weights about 10 pound and goes through its specialized and expensive batteries in about 6 hours of use. If you have a vehicle mount kit you can save on the batteries though. The screen is text only and is maybe 2"x3". It takes about an hour and half to program a reasonably simple route. Most of the guys in my unit bought Garmins before we went overseas. If it had been an option at teh time, we'd probably have used phones just as happily.
The screen on my Tom-Tom is only modestly larger than the screen on my iPhone. Oh, the DEVICE is much lager, it has about a half-inch of surrounding plastic framing the screen on every side, but as far a screen size goes I think they are roughly the same width with the Tom-Tom being about half again taller (assuming the phone is in landscape mode).
I don't use the GPS for any of the things GGP points out as being shortcomings for the phone, but none of those seem insurmountable. A high end case like this would be sufficient for using the phone on a boat or motorcycle (and I'm sure you can get something similar for most smart phones). The lack of elevation and lat-long data is simply a software issue, which could be quite trivial to correct (the GPS must actually HAVE this data, just no current software that I am aware of presents it to the user). The software on my Tom-Tom is the same way. Since it's a designed for driving, it doesn't present me with coordinate based locations or elevation data. It assumes that I'm taking the roads to where ever I'm going and plots routes bases on a street database instead. Doesn't mean that IT doesn't now my coordinate based location or elevation, just that it doesn't tell me the way a hiking or boat GPS program will.
The lack of a an "autohelm" interface is probably the most difficult to correct issue that the GP mentions, since that would require an outside hardware manufacturer to make it work. since the new iPhone OS has hooks to allow hardware manufacturers to interface with the docking port though (and most other smart phones always had this capability), that's not impossible to correct,y just requires the hardware manufacturer to see enough interest and create the interface. Not likely in the next week or two I'll grant you, but certainly possible and even likely of the market seems worth the effort.
He never said it was. The summary compared the efforts here to a Blizzard quality game on Linux, the GP was merely stating that this judgment might be best reserved for after playing the game. Blizzard is, in many people's eyes, the Gold Standard for RTS (they more or less invented the genre and their efforts have nearly always pushed the envelope at the time of release). To compare an unknown and unplayed effort to something Blizzard would do seems a bit premature.
Actually, it is. The summary is terrible.
Well in this case the reason for using Latin is probably "Because that's the proper name of the rhetorical device in question". For whatever reason, logical errors and rhetorical devices are mostly known by Latin names. If your primary exposure to rhetoric and logical fallacies was through a class in college (generally the case when people can give proper names to these devices), that's probably how you learned them. Though I know perfectly well that "Reductum ad Absurdum" means "reduction to absurdity", I always think of the logical device by the Latin name. It's how it was taught to me.
In this case I think chapter summaries, or more properly "chapter reviews", are appropriate. The book is a collection of essays; each of which, in theory, stands on its own as well as being part of the collection. By reviewing a few standout pieces the reviewer gives us an idea of particularly strong or weak blocks within the overall work. Had the book been a simple textbook or cohesive narrative, or had the reviewer merely summarized the chapters in question, I would agree with your criticism. As it is I think the "mini-reviews" within the main review give useful information.
This was George W. Bush's idea, not Obama's. Not that I don't think it's a good idea, it is. Even a blind dog sometimes finds a rabbit. I generally thought Bush was one of our poorer presidents, but his emphasis on space exploration was fine with me. His apparent reasons (a giant international "my penis is bigger than yours" competition) and mine (a desire to see space science and the resultant technology improve) are different, but the I agree with the result.
Foisting this off as "more Democratic Pork" is completely disingenuous. In fact it looks like the Dems may be cutting NASA's budget.
How is it not a valid expense. He's using it the way he claims on his taxes, he's just ALSO playing with it. They make little specialist RC robots to do this, those are way more expensive. For a small shop this a pretty good option.
What're you on about? Windows, Linux (with either major desktop environment and any of the less popular ones I can quickly think of), and MacOS all handle desktop shortcuts the same same way. A file in the "Desktop" directory on the OS's equivalent of your home directory.
He's talking about the search bar that comes with IE (I think 7 and 8, but I am not sure about 7). It's like the search bar that comes with Firefox. Unlike the Firefox add-on though, which by default searches 7 different engines and has the capability to add literally hundreds more, the MS one by default only searches Bing and allows you add maybe 10 more. One of the ones you can add is Google, but as GP points out it's at the bottom of the list and not well labeled.
I think a lot probably depends on how far out "normal" your moods swing. If your lows are so low that you, say, regularly contemplate suicide over running out of orange juice (a silly extreme I admit, but you get the picture) you probably have little choice but to stabilize your moods chemically.
He didn't say case sensitive he said case preserving. Which VFAT certainly is. It's aware of case for display purposes but does not use it for path names. Check out c: in a command window. If you do a 'dir' you'll see "Program Files", but you can 'cd' into "program files", "Program Files", or "PROGRAM FILES". It's displayed with the case it was created with, but doesn't care what case the user uses to refer to it.