No. This is INTEL'S fault, for hating SCSI and hating FireWire, and any technology that does not sell CPU chips.
ATA and USB require a CPU to intevene and manage transfers. (Do a tranfer of data from one SCSI disk to another, then one ATA disk and another, in the same machine, and the ATA transfer will eat up CPU cycles) SCSI and FireWire do not. Intel LOVES ATA and USB, because it sells more CPUs and drives up demand for faster CPUs.
Now, since Intel pretty much owns the hardware side of the PC industry, isn't it obvious why technologies intel does not favor would fall by the wayside?
I thought that the multiple-engines approach was for fault-tolerance. (since their engines have a high failure rate). However, that may have just been American propaganda. . .
INS and Customs ARE getting some heat (some people are calling for the dismissal of the head of the INS) - not enough in my opinion.
I always thought it was weird that they used to allow me to carry a pocket knife onto planes. It was obvious then, and it's sure obvious now that planes could be hijacked by a team of knife-weilding terrorists. As "unimaginalbe" and "unthinkable" as everyone says this incident was, I hope that a lot of people had imagined or thought about it before. Or am I just a genius? Probably not. I thought that it was a crime that they allowed people to carry knives onto planes before, and an example of gross negligence.
Oh yeah, I also forgot that we have Moussai, who was supposedly going to be on one of the flights, and there is ample evidence that he's involved, and we have intelligence sources from foreign countries placing him in the same cities on the same dates as some of the other alleged hijackers, plus Moussai attended the same Mosque as Richard Reid, who is guilty as sin, no question about it. His shoes stink enough to prove that.
There are just too many independent sources that all fit together.
Yes there are things that don't fit (like the slow response time of the USAF to this threat, the fact that Bush didn't respond to the attack immediately, yet kept talking to the kiddies 30 minutes after the first impact and knowledge that at least two other airlines were hijacked, plus the mobilization of US forces in the days prior, plus the reports of a crop-duster dusting civillians in Louisiana that was very quickly hushed-up); but none of this equates in my mind to a government conspiracy to commit this attack and pin it on the arabs. There's something fishy going on, but it's not THAT.
Your points are all well taken, but if there are so many sources of evidence from different points, I just don't believe that the US Government is competent enough to fake that. I mean, these are the same people that brought us the Monica Lewinsky deal.
Okay, we have airport security camera footage of the alleged perpetrators. We have ATM camera footage. We have INS documentation. We have witnesses at the various flight schools. We have the passenger lists from four airplanes from two different airlines with independent corroboration from the booking agency. We have cell phone calls from doomed airline passengers to various news agencies and private citizens. We have information from foreign intelligence agencies tracking meetings between the alleged perpetrators and known terror operatives and Taliban/Al Qaieda. We have planning paperwork on the attacks recovered from captured Al Qaida locations in Afghanistan. We have a video of OBL, making statements that sounded very much as if he was aware of the attack prior to it's occurance (of course, he could just have been talking trash).
Any one, or even several of these bits of evidence can be faked. I find it much harder to believe that ALL of it was faked, even in the face of all the surrounding fishiness.
I've read many of the conspiracy theories, and I compared that to eyewitness accounts I read as it was unfolding on September 11th, right here on Slashdot, and much of the information in the conspiracy theories just does not agree with what people who were (claiming to be) there, IN the buildings, posted on Slashdot. Did the CIA send a bunch of spooks orders to post false claims on Slashdot corroborating the media's account - and then hack into Slashdot deleting posts from the people who supposedly "saw explosives planted on the 40th floor" or "heard explosions all up and down the building prior to the collapse"?
At that point, you're not rationally approaching this problem - you're rationalizing to try to prop up a shaky world view. And that's my point about the folks that believe the conspiracy theories, and my point that - people who believe that the US is evil, can do no right, and is trying to slaughter all the arabs so we can get at their oil, are going to believe whatever they want to believe no matter what evidence you present.
Shrink it, the display, and the CPU into a pen-sized device that could be stood upright with folding legs onto any flat surface, and you'd have a killer PDA.
The realignment is only necessary if you have to switch back and forth between mouse and keyboard. Good GUI/workflow design eliminates or minimizes this need. (are you listening, Apple?)
The biggest problem with the Sinclair (yes, I had one) - was not only was there no tactile feedback, but the amount of pressure required to activate a key was non trivial. I remember having to press rather hard, and I never knew how hard was hard enough, so I had to press probably twice as hard as necessary just to make sure.
If the sensitivity issues can be worked out, (ie. actually activating a keystroke on a very light touch) - I think this could be an acceptable solution. Sure beats carrying that crappy fold-up keyboard.
I dunno, I think that the airport security should have been able to prevent Sept 11, and I don't see a big hue and cry to lynch the metal detector jockeys and their bosses.
Seeing as how a large percentage of the muslim population of the world believes that the WTC attack was either actually perpetrated by Mossad, or the CIA (or both) in conjunction with a secret airliner remote-control system, I think that if an asteroid flew out of the sky and killed a cow in rural Iraq, we'd be hard pressed to convince them that it was anything other than a failed nuclear attack by the US.
In Traveller, the IR Sig suit would absorb IR, but you had to replace a disposable "chill can" every couple of hours. . . I think that was at Tech Level 10, don't know if they souped it up for TL 15. T
The problem with this is that Microsoft is the standard, and in order to be MS Certified software, you MUST use Microsoft's MSI installer (which is absolute SHIT!!!). And MSI isn't going to play nice in any of the ways you outlined, because MS doesn't want it to, and doesn't care.
I rather doubt that. inverse square law and all. If you've ever taken a hard drive apart (and I sure have), you'd know that the magnets used on the voice coil are very small, extremely strong rare earth magnets.
It's more likely that the constant low-intensity field was disrupting the domains on the disk or interfering with the write head's field, rather than it's actual physical position. (on the other hand, if the field acted vertically along the platters, it might induce head crashes, which would be entirely different than causing tracking problems, but would be fatal nonetheless).
OT, I know, but I was at an "open house" tour at Fermilab quite a few years ago. They had a prototype apparatus set up to do this. The magnets were the size of a large truck, and it pushed water out of a pipe about 4" in diameter, at a few miles per hour.
There was a fence around it so that you couldn't get close to it. Within about 5' of the device, you'd risk screwing up a wristwatch, or a pacemaker (from the very intense magnetic field), so the fence was for safety of the tourists. One of the guides said that inside, the magnets were strong enough to pull the iron out of your blood, but I rather doubted that.
GUI design was turned over to the Marketroids, with no input from engineers, or anyone else with any sound training or experience. Now, the programmers just get an MRD that says "Make it do X, and make it look like Y" and that's it.
Good idea. I'd say - to raise a grassroots, you should go to your local audio/video electronics store, and tell them about all the revenue they're going to lose from blank tape and VCR sales. Have them hang a poster in their window.
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No. This is INTEL'S fault, for hating SCSI and hating FireWire, and any technology that does not sell CPU chips.
ATA and USB require a CPU to intevene and manage transfers. (Do a tranfer of data from one SCSI disk to another, then one ATA disk and another, in the same machine, and the ATA transfer will eat up CPU cycles) SCSI and FireWire do not. Intel LOVES ATA and USB, because it sells more CPUs and drives up demand for faster CPUs.
Now, since Intel pretty much owns the hardware side of the PC industry, isn't it obvious why technologies intel does not favor would fall by the wayside?
FF nothing- it's in Andromeda too. Wait - no, strike that, I didn't want to admit in public that I watched Andromeda. . . can I take that back?
I thought that the multiple-engines approach was for fault-tolerance. (since their engines have a high failure rate). However, that may have just been American propaganda. . .
It was called "Salvage 1" - - don't bother.
INS and Customs ARE getting some heat (some people are calling for the dismissal of the head of the INS) - not enough in my opinion.
I always thought it was weird that they used to allow me to carry a pocket knife onto planes. It was obvious then, and it's sure obvious now that planes could be hijacked by a team of knife-weilding terrorists. As "unimaginalbe" and "unthinkable" as everyone says this incident was, I hope that a lot of people had imagined or thought about it before. Or am I just a genius? Probably not. I thought that it was a crime that they allowed people to carry knives onto planes before, and an example of gross negligence.
Oh yeah, I also forgot that we have Moussai, who was supposedly going to be on one of the flights, and there is ample evidence that he's involved, and we have intelligence sources from foreign countries placing him in the same cities on the same dates as some of the other alleged hijackers, plus Moussai attended the same Mosque as Richard Reid, who is guilty as sin, no question about it. His shoes stink enough to prove that.
There are just too many independent sources that all fit together.
Yes there are things that don't fit (like the slow response time of the USAF to this threat, the fact that Bush didn't respond to the attack immediately, yet kept talking to the kiddies 30 minutes after the first impact and knowledge that at least two other airlines were hijacked, plus the mobilization of US forces in the days prior, plus the reports of a crop-duster dusting civillians in Louisiana that was very quickly hushed-up); but none of this equates in my mind to a government conspiracy to commit this attack and pin it on the arabs. There's something fishy going on, but it's not THAT.
Your points are all well taken, but if there are so many sources of evidence from different points, I just don't believe that the US Government is competent enough to fake that. I mean, these are the same people that brought us the Monica Lewinsky deal.
Okay, we have airport security camera footage of the alleged perpetrators.
We have ATM camera footage.
We have INS documentation.
We have witnesses at the various flight schools.
We have the passenger lists from four airplanes from two different airlines with independent corroboration from the booking agency.
We have cell phone calls from doomed airline passengers to various news agencies and private citizens.
We have information from foreign intelligence agencies tracking meetings between the alleged perpetrators and known terror operatives and Taliban/Al Qaieda.
We have planning paperwork on the attacks recovered from captured Al Qaida locations in Afghanistan.
We have a video of OBL, making statements that sounded very much as if he was aware of the attack prior to it's occurance (of course, he could just have been talking trash).
Any one, or even several of these bits of evidence can be faked. I find it much harder to believe that ALL of it was faked, even in the face of all the surrounding fishiness.
I've read many of the conspiracy theories, and I compared that to eyewitness accounts I read as it was unfolding on September 11th, right here on Slashdot, and much of the information in the conspiracy theories just does not agree with what people who were (claiming to be) there, IN the buildings, posted on Slashdot. Did the CIA send a bunch of spooks orders to post false claims on Slashdot corroborating the media's account - and then hack into Slashdot deleting posts from the people who supposedly "saw explosives planted on the 40th floor" or "heard explosions all up and down the building prior to the collapse"?
At that point, you're not rationally approaching this problem - you're rationalizing to try to prop up a shaky world view. And that's my point about the folks that believe the conspiracy theories, and my point that - people who believe that the US is evil, can do no right, and is trying to slaughter all the arabs so we can get at their oil, are going to believe whatever they want to believe no matter what evidence you present.
Well, someday they'll use force-feilds for tactile feedback for this kind of thing. Until then, we'll just have to suffer.
Shrink it, the display, and the CPU into a pen-sized device that could be stood upright with folding legs onto any flat surface, and you'd have a killer PDA.
The realignment is only necessary if you have to switch back and forth between mouse and keyboard. Good GUI/workflow design eliminates or minimizes this need.
(are you listening, Apple?)
The biggest problem with the Sinclair (yes, I had one) - was not only was there no tactile feedback, but the amount of pressure required to activate a key was non trivial. I remember having to press rather hard, and I never knew how hard was hard enough, so I had to press probably twice as hard as necessary just to make sure.
If the sensitivity issues can be worked out, (ie. actually activating a keystroke on a very light touch) - I think this could be an acceptable solution. Sure beats carrying that crappy fold-up keyboard.
I dunno, I think that the airport security should have been able to prevent Sept 11, and I don't see a big hue and cry to lynch the metal detector jockeys and their bosses.
I wonder why?
Seeing as how a large percentage of the muslim population of the world believes that the WTC attack was either actually perpetrated by Mossad, or the CIA (or both) in conjunction with a secret airliner remote-control system, I think that if an asteroid flew out of the sky and killed a cow in rural Iraq, we'd be hard pressed to convince them that it was anything other than a failed nuclear attack by the US.
How about a shorter example:
The rich SHOULD pay more taxes, because we need to buy all these tanks and planes and guns to protect THEIR way of life.
If we were invaded by China, the poor in the US would not have substantially different lives. The rich would.
In Traveller, the IR Sig suit would absorb IR, but you had to replace a disposable "chill can" every couple of hours. . . I think that was at Tech Level 10, don't know if they souped it up for TL 15. T
No security will stop terrorism.
The security is there to make people feel safe so they'll spend their money on plane tickets.
The problem with this is that Microsoft is the standard, and in order to be MS Certified software, you MUST use Microsoft's MSI installer (which is absolute SHIT!!!). And MSI isn't going to play nice in any of the ways you outlined, because MS doesn't want it to, and doesn't care.
The invisible hand job at work again. Wheeee!
I rather doubt that. inverse square law and all. If you've ever taken a hard drive apart (and I sure have), you'd know that the magnets used on the voice coil are very small, extremely strong rare earth magnets.
It's more likely that the constant low-intensity field was disrupting the domains on the disk or interfering with the write head's field, rather than it's actual physical position.
(on the other hand, if the field acted vertically along the platters, it might induce head crashes, which would be entirely different than causing tracking problems, but would be fatal nonetheless).
OT, I know, but I was at an "open house" tour at Fermilab quite a few years ago. They had a prototype apparatus set up to do this. The magnets were the size of a large truck, and it pushed water out of a pipe about 4" in diameter, at a few miles per hour.
There was a fence around it so that you couldn't get close to it. Within about 5' of the device, you'd risk screwing up a wristwatch, or a pacemaker (from the very intense magnetic field), so the fence was for safety of the tourists. One of the guides said that inside, the magnets were strong enough to pull the iron out of your blood, but I rather doubted that.
Or, just run OS X, and minimize some windows, scroll some windows, you'll peg a dual 1ghz G4 pretty dang quick.
GUI design was turned over to the Marketroids, with no input from engineers, or anyone else with any sound training or experience. Now, the programmers just get an MRD that says "Make it do X, and make it look like Y" and that's it.
Good idea.
I'd say - to raise a grassroots, you should go to your local audio/video electronics store, and tell them about all the revenue they're going to lose from blank tape and VCR sales. Have them hang a poster in their window.
Hmm. Novell proponents back in the 90's said the same thing about ActiveDirectory.
Now, I can wipe my ass with my CNE certificate.
I hope you don't have an Al Qaeda mail server.
Because if they "win", you can be sure that SeaLand won't be allowed under Sharia.
So what about a few tens of thousands of people getting leukemia over the next 20 years. I wanna go to Mars now!