Not to mention damn near every last grunt in Iraq. There's a lot of "down-time" involved in occupation efforts, and folks like us mailing DVD's out to them is one of their main sources of entertainment out there.
As a soldier who will be mobilized in less than a month (according to the current "best guess"), I wouldn't take an iPod with me to watch video for a few reasons:
1. I have a limited capacity to carry anything, if I want to take a personal device for watching movies I'm going to take a laptop. This way I can potentially check email when Internet access is available, read eBooks and listen to music.
2. A device the size of an iPod could get broken or lost a lot easier than a laptop.
3. If I had an iPod that played video, how would I update the videos? I'd need a computer, which means I should just have the computer.
4. When I watch a movie I would want the option to allow other soldiers that don't have a laptop or video iPod to watch as well. On a video iPod, if the sizes are approximately the same, only one person could realisticly watch the video.
5. If necessary it would be easier to find a replacement laptop charger or battery than a video iPod (unless the charger was identical to existing iPod chargers). The last thing I'd want is a video iPod that has no juice because my charger broke or was lost.
...with that said, an iPod-sized device that allowed me to plug into a video display to play the saved content would be nice. But I'd still have to get around the issue of uploading new content and deal with times when I don't have a display to plug into.
> I'm almost certain the Army wouldn't touch it at all.
As someone in the Army, I would have to disagree. This would fit perfectly with AKO (Army Knowledge Online). I'm sure the Army would *love* something like this, if it were to be hosted internally. Hosting at Google's site wouldn't work too well, especially for anything sensitive.
Right now one of the big pushes with AKO is to make everything paperless. We spend so much time and effort filling out things, priting them, faxing or mailing them only to have someone else sign it and fax it back. I've seen countless systems that don't have resources to run the versions of Office necessary to read the latest file formats. We can't always upgrade the hardware and a light-weight method of editing files would be an incredible help.
AKO has a place to save files, if I could edit the file and save a revision it would reduce the admin overhead on my unit. Right now my LtCol has us email the changes to him and he merges the data. We're an IA unit, doing things this way is insane; but not everyone has Office, or runs Windows (most of us don't)...so we use the least common denominator, email it to the boss and have him merge the data. Yes, our CO does the manual work since it may contain personal data about others in the unit depending on what we are responding to.
Then that's a recent change, are you running SP2? I have a machine running Windows but the settings were changed from the defaults too long ago to know what SP2 might have altered in that respect.
In thinking about this a little more there is also the issue of users checking the box to trust code signed by the same source. For example, all code signed by Microsoft; which could then open them to insecure code that had been previously signed....unless their browser is also set to check revocation lists (and the lists are used).
His argument did sound like that...for me it has to do with implementation. With ActiveX the code is loaded when I visit the page, for the average user there is no choice if the code will run; since the default settings typically aren't changed.
With Firefox extensions I have to install the code, the page I am visiting does not make that choice for me. It is possible to install from different sites, but that requires changing the default settings...which most users won't do.
There is also the issue that an insecure ActiveX control that is signed can be used in almost every instance of IE, where an insecure extension for Firefox may only be installed in a small fraction of the userbase.
And all the fun that comes along with changing the SID and testing to make sure your hardware changes don't break the image? I'll take any improvement we can get here.
We have standard hardware for supported systems and Ghost for imaging. We have around 4000 supported desktops and don't have any major issues that this would appear to help with.
I work in a large hospital, the largest in the world for our particular specialty, and at last count we had over 1K Macs. The number is constantly growing now that the org is officially supporting the machines on par with a machine running Windows.
A lot of the people with Macs do research, but in IT we have quite a few as well and end users are starting to request them.
...or they are concerned that BitTorrent (or something like it) could be used by the movie industry. That scenario would present one less area for Microsoft to controll organizations with.
Um, no. There is an automatic copyright on created works, unless you explicitly put them in the public domain. If you have given no indication that your works are to be in the public domain and you can be contacted the court has no basis for making such a decision on your behalf.
If you couldn't be found or were dead and had no family that could be reached it might be different.
While I am not a lawyer I have asked my lawyer this question and that's basically the plain English version I got.
I don't know what version it was first implemented in, but there is a restriction to prevent sites other than the Mozilla Update page from even prompting for XPIs. There is also a 2 second delay for XPIs that are not digitally signed from that page.
"Butcher" is far too nice of a word. I have never read her books, heck I have never even heard of her books before this. Maybe it was all those years playing D&D, but very little made sense in the movie.
Having Kristin Kreuk in the movie made up for some of the failings....some.
Speaking as someone that is in the military reserve and prior service active duty, we are also lacking critical equipment that we need. Part of the problem is that if you save money your budget is cut by that much next year.
There is no incentive to save since the more you spend the easier it is to keep your budget or get an increase. Once your budget gets cut you have to fight like hell to get it back when the money is really needed.
What has NASA really done and stuck with? Hubble was an accidental blessing. Heck, if they had known how good it would be the telescope probably would have been killed earlier.
They should disolve NASA and start over with a clean slate.
With the exception of the NUMA stuff, is there software available to re-create this? I'm not even sure what to search for; would this still be considered a "cluster"?
Although I do most of my programmign in Python, I have had the best success in teaching people Ruby. IMO, Ruby is a lot cleaner and easier for people to learn. There is also a book available for free online at http://www.rubycentral.com that will help with the basics.
Depending on what plan you can get, I just use a cell phone from the location I want a number at. Sprint has worked well for me and with a Treo I can use PdaNet to access the Internet when I am on the road.
I would buy this, the timeframe would depend on the price. I have been looking for a small computer to take to clients when I need to do diagnostics, network configurations or troubleshooting. I have a laptop right now but it is more than I need and still takes up more space than I would like (the laptop is a Fujitsu S Series). I have tried WinCE and Palm devices, but they lack a lot of application support for what I need.
With something like this I could cut down on the baggage carried, still do my work and probably dump my Palm.
I've been looking for something like this for a long time, previously I had considered wearable computers but they are hideous (IMO).
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.hushmail.com/
As a soldier who will be mobilized in less than a month (according to the current "best guess"), I wouldn't take an iPod with me to watch video for a few reasons:
1. I have a limited capacity to carry anything, if I want to take a personal device for watching movies I'm going to take a laptop. This way I can potentially check email when Internet access is available, read eBooks and listen to music.
2. A device the size of an iPod could get broken or lost a lot easier than a laptop.
3. If I had an iPod that played video, how would I update the videos? I'd need a computer, which means I should just have the computer.
4. When I watch a movie I would want the option to allow other soldiers that don't have a laptop or video iPod to watch as well. On a video iPod, if the sizes are approximately the same, only one person could realisticly watch the video.
5. If necessary it would be easier to find a replacement laptop charger or battery than a video iPod (unless the charger was identical to existing iPod chargers). The last thing I'd want is a video iPod that has no juice because my charger broke or was lost.
> I'm almost certain the Army wouldn't touch it at all.
As someone in the Army, I would have to disagree. This would fit perfectly with AKO (Army Knowledge Online). I'm sure the Army would *love* something like this, if it were to be hosted internally. Hosting at Google's site wouldn't work too well, especially for anything sensitive.
Right now one of the big pushes with AKO is to make everything paperless. We spend so much time and effort filling out things, priting them, faxing or mailing them only to have someone else sign it and fax it back. I've seen countless systems that don't have resources to run the versions of Office necessary to read the latest file formats. We can't always upgrade the hardware and a light-weight method of editing files would be an incredible help.
AKO has a place to save files, if I could edit the file and save a revision it would reduce the admin overhead on my unit. Right now my LtCol has us email the changes to him and he merges the data. We're an IA unit, doing things this way is insane; but not everyone has Office, or runs Windows (most of us don't)...so we use the least common denominator, email it to the boss and have him merge the data. Yes, our CO does the manual work since it may contain personal data about others in the unit depending on what we are responding to.
Then that's a recent change, are you running SP2? I have a machine running Windows but the settings were changed from the defaults too long ago to know what SP2 might have altered in that respect.
In thinking about this a little more there is also the issue of users checking the box to trust code signed by the same source. For example, all code signed by Microsoft; which could then open them to insecure code that had been previously signed....unless their browser is also set to check revocation lists (and the lists are used).
His argument did sound like that...for me it has to do with implementation. With ActiveX the code is loaded when I visit the page, for the average user there is no choice if the code will run; since the default settings typically aren't changed.
With Firefox extensions I have to install the code, the page I am visiting does not make that choice for me. It is possible to install from different sites, but that requires changing the default settings...which most users won't do.
There is also the issue that an insecure ActiveX control that is signed can be used in almost every instance of IE, where an insecure extension for Firefox may only be installed in a small fraction of the userbase.
We have standard hardware for supported systems and Ghost for imaging. We have around 4000 supported desktops and don't have any major issues that this would appear to help with.
I work in a large hospital, the largest in the world for our particular specialty, and at last count we had over 1K Macs. The number is constantly growing now that the org is officially supporting the machines on par with a machine running Windows.
A lot of the people with Macs do research, but in IT we have quite a few as well and end users are starting to request them.
...or they are concerned that BitTorrent (or something like it) could be used by the movie industry. That scenario would present one less area for Microsoft to controll organizations with.
Because of how they do it. Google's approach is often technically superior (at first) and different than other companies.
This also makes the concept of an online word processer a little closer...just keep adding features to the rich text code.
Um, no. There is an automatic copyright on created works, unless you explicitly put them in the public domain. If you have given no indication that your works are to be in the public domain and you can be contacted the court has no basis for making such a decision on your behalf.
If you couldn't be found or were dead and had no family that could be reached it might be different.
While I am not a lawyer I have asked my lawyer this question and that's basically the plain English version I got.
...and block direct access to your database from the Internet. Better yet, restrict it to only the machines you know need to have that access.
I don't know what version it was first implemented in, but there is a restriction to prevent sites other than the Mozilla Update page from even prompting for XPIs. There is also a 2 second delay for XPIs that are not digitally signed from that page.
"Butcher" is far too nice of a word. I have never read her books, heck I have never even heard of her books before this. Maybe it was all those years playing D&D, but very little made sense in the movie.
Having Kristin Kreuk in the movie made up for some of the failings....some.
...Military Reserves and physical security.
Hey! What's wrong with Iowa? I grew up there...and got out as soon as I could!
But the DVD style cases are useful, I just remove the AOL insert and stickers then re-use the cases.
Speaking as someone that is in the military reserve and prior service active duty, we are also lacking critical equipment that we need. Part of the problem is that if you save money your budget is cut by that much next year.
There is no incentive to save since the more you spend the easier it is to keep your budget or get an increase. Once your budget gets cut you have to fight like hell to get it back when the money is really needed.
What has NASA really done and stuck with? Hubble was an accidental blessing. Heck, if they had known how good it would be the telescope probably would have been killed earlier.
They should disolve NASA and start over with a clean slate.
With the exception of the NUMA stuff, is there software available to re-create this? I'm not even sure what to search for; would this still be considered a "cluster"?
Although I do most of my programmign in Python, I have had the best success in teaching people Ruby. IMO, Ruby is a lot cleaner and easier for people to learn. There is also a book available for free online at http://www.rubycentral.com that will help with the basics.
Depending on what plan you can get, I just use a cell phone from the location I want a number at. Sprint has worked well for me and with a Treo I can use PdaNet to access the Internet when I am on the road.
Have you tried Evolution?
http://www.ximian.com/products/evolution/
What are the problems they are having and why haven't we seen reqeusts for help?
I would buy this, the timeframe would depend on the price. I have been looking for a small computer to take to clients when I need to do diagnostics, network configurations or troubleshooting. I have a laptop right now but it is more than I need and still takes up more space than I would like (the laptop is a Fujitsu S Series). I have tried WinCE and Palm devices, but they lack a lot of application support for what I need.
With something like this I could cut down on the baggage carried, still do my work and probably dump my Palm.
I've been looking for something like this for a long time, previously I had considered wearable computers but they are hideous (IMO).