I fly primarily United, and the staff there is usually grumpy and, in some cases, surly. I tend to steel myself for it. When I went through a couple of days ago, though, all of them were pleasant and helpful, even though they were funneling people into the backscatter machine for the most part (kids were exempted). About four people before me, they went back to using the metal detector, I think partially to get the line moving.
I was pleased to see that boarding passes no longer need to be shown when going through the detectors. However, everything must be removed from pockets, including cash, wallets, ID, etc., if one is going to go through the scanner.
DFW and Denver are pretty big airports, both physically and in terms of the number of flights and passengers. I wonder if part of DFW's better experience is because they have volunteers that are visible and plentiful that can provide information on how to get around the airport, how and where to get meals and hotel shuttles, and what attractions are in town. This takes much of that burden off of the TSA staff.
At some airports, yes. LAX is a prime example of this. However, I've found the TSA staff at DFW, Denver, Orlando, OKC, and Norfolk to be helpful and in some cases even happy and funny.
There are a couple of guys I know and against whom I have played in various FPS games. In both cases, their skills are far superior to mine. However, I only enjoy going up against one of them. The way that they play differs. I may end up losing 20-3 against both, but against one I have fun, while against the other, I can't wait for the match to be over. One plays to win, and the other plays to dominate. There are differences between the two styles.
Half-Life fans have vented pretty loudly about the short play times for Episodes 1 and 2. There's some hope that Episode 3 will be a bit longer, but Valve did hear the complaints and said that they're going to drop the episodic releases, instead just doing HL3.
There are some games where such concepts work -- the DLC for L4D/L4D2, for example. But those are meant to be shorter games that focus on replay. For major games, it's a bad idea, and content really needs to be foremost. Bioware is about as short a game as I want to play through for paying for a full game, but I still felt shorted. The only thing that kept me from being really irritated by it was the interesting storyline.
I have a fairly spacious cubicle as things go, about 8 feet by ten feet. If I can hear someone typing from two cubicles over, I'm not going to stay sane for long. I don't even like to hear the cooling fan of my notebook running. I have the quietest keyboard that I could find in storage at work attached to my desktop, and it's still irritatingly loud. I spend more and more time on my notebook these days because of it. If someone in my area brought in a Model M, I'd probably end up beating them to death with it.
CDMA is in fairly widespread use throughout much of Asia. Some of the carriers are planning moves to other technologies, but the same thing is happening in the US as the CDMA carriers are moving to LTE.
An ESXi 4.1 host with 1.5TB of drive space, a Core i7 CPU, and 12GB of RAM
A desktop system with similar specs running Windows 7 with VMWare Workstation 7
A notebook with Core 2 Duo and 2GB primarily running Fedora 13 with VMWare Workstation 7
The desktop and notebook have usually one or occasionally two guests open. The ESXi host runs about a dozen guests simultaneously, including a fairly complete Windows 2008 R2 domain, a Linux server, a Linux workstation, and a Windows XP guest. A Windows 7 guest is also present, but isn't usually running, and I have test systems in place for various other OSes from Windows 2000 to Ubuntu to Damn Vulnerable Linux.
I have bogged it down when running a lot through it from time to time, but I was able to install eight Windows 2008 systems more or less simultaneously in under a day, patches and domain creation and joining included. I did learn that assigning appropriate memory to the virtual video cards is important, as the default 8MB drags until a remote desktop solution becomes available. The cost for the ESXi system came in at about $1000, including an Intel gigabit NIC, as ESXi doesn't recognize the onboard NIC in most desktop motherboards.
It might be more than what is being sought here, but it works well for me, and has dramatically reduced the clutter in my home office.
Part of the reason that they don't make water landings well is because there is so little actual data about it, in part because of the danger of landing on the water even when fitted with extensive safety gear. Scully's landing wasn't impressive just because no one was seriously hurt. It provided a huge volume of data that the NTSB, the FAA, the airlines, and the manufacturers are going to be poring over for years. It was an example of just about everything after the engine failure going right. New procedures will come out of it, new autopilot (or at least assisted) landing sequences will be developed to handle it, and the survival rate may actually go up a bit.
The takeoff speed of a 747 is pretty high, over 150 knots, so unless there's a hurricane/typhoon or a tornado, there's nothing to be worried about. Even the rotation speed is much higher than most storms are likely to provide.
A better analogy would be to say every citizen now has to have a personal overseer follow them 24/7 and observe all their movements and actions within public spaces - any law-abiding citizens have no grounds for complaint, therefore if you do complain you must be a criminal. That's tantamount what this law plus GGP post are saying. Most people don't mind being observed in public, but they would mind their entire day being observed by one set of people - this technology enables such observation and its justification is the sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut excuse of preventing illegal parking.
As AI develops and biometric identification improves, this is going to become more likely. Left unchecked, it may well reach the levels that we saw in Demolition Man, with every little infraction detected and immediately addressed, whether it be fines immediately assigned or police dispatched without anyone having to call.
China was never a part of the First World. That was aligned with the US and NATO. The Second World was aligned with or influenced by the USSR (basically the Communist nations), which included China. The Third World was made up of pretty much everyone else.
These days, the UN Human Development Index is more often used to categorize countries, and China falls into the range of medium human development, coming in 92nd out of 182 nations and regions included.
China has some modern cities, but much of the country is rural agriculture, with people farming and subsisting pretty much as they have for centuries. It has no blue-water navy, and what it does have has never been sufficient to conduct an invasion of Taiwan even without the threat of the US being brought into the fray. Its air force fighters have been upgraded rapidly over the last decade or so, but its AWACS capability is still primitive at best. The ground forces' armor and artillery are also much more advanced than they were in the 1990s, but still not on par with Western powers, or maybe even South Korea's tanks, which are based on the M1. A significant portion of their military arsenal still makes up for lack of accuracy with increased yields in the 3-5 megaton range.
That's not to say that such an invasion would be a cakewalk. Sheer military numbers and size of the country would make life difficult even for multiple nations invading, possibly to the point of defeat. At the very least, it would be horrendously expensive on a scale that we've never seen.
That's also well outside of what Windows Server is intended to run on. The minimum CPU for Server 2008 is 1GHz, and Server 2008 R2 doesn't run on 32-bit processors.
There are some exceptions, as I said in my post. But any hardware on which you're going to consider running Windows will have the requisite basic graphics.
How many video cards are sold these days that cannot do graphics? How many are even manufactured? I suspect that number is very small, and largely dedicated to the embedded realm. If you're running an OS that has a minimum requirement of 512MB of RAM, how likely are you really to have a video card that doesn't even do minimal graphics?
Being able to ssh into a Windows server without installing a third-party SSH service is news to me. There is a version called Server 2008 Core that does not have a GUI, and the installation can be automated.
As pointed out elsewhere, no, you don't have to have a GUI with Windows. PowerShell now comes by default on all versions of Windows. Windows Server 2008 Core even comes without any GUI on the system at all -- it's all PowerShell, nothing else (though you can administer it remotely with GUI-based tools). If you want to do anything local, you must be able to use PowerShell.
Microsoft's Group Policy also recently got a Recycle Bin of its own, allowing certain deletions to be undone. I haven't tinkered with it in depth yet, so I don't know its full limitations, but some form of state retrieval would be helpful for both GUIs and CLIs.
Aruba's web-based GUI does this. You stack up all of your changes per-page, and you can click on an option at the bottom that shows you the CLI changes that it will make (since it's going to run just those lines when you apply it anyway). It shows you when something is simple and can be done quickly from the CLI, and also when what takes three clicks actually takes five or six somewhat complex lines.
You're thinking largely of systems from years ago. Almost all baseline systems now use 7200RPM drives (unless one opts for the higher end of capacities), come with 2GB of RAM, the integrated graphics are accelerated (not great, but it works well enough for Windows 7), and the boxes are silent. In fact, I haven't seen a new non-gaming station in a few years that was not dead silent when running unless you put your head right up next to it, where you might hear a little bit of air movement.
I saw it at 9:22 on a second watch, just before Scales grabs the staff, but I didn't see it clearly before that, and given that Sintel is staring into the eyes of an angry dragon that's been breathing fire at her, I can forgive her for not noticing as well. Even at this point, it's not very well-lit, and I'm sure is easily missed by many.
I think the fragility of vinyl lends some perceived value to it as well. I can toss a CD on the desk without much thought, but I would never do that with vinyl because of the risk of damaging it even with a tiny scratch.
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I fly primarily United, and the staff there is usually grumpy and, in some cases, surly. I tend to steel myself for it. When I went through a couple of days ago, though, all of them were pleasant and helpful, even though they were funneling people into the backscatter machine for the most part (kids were exempted). About four people before me, they went back to using the metal detector, I think partially to get the line moving.
I was pleased to see that boarding passes no longer need to be shown when going through the detectors. However, everything must be removed from pockets, including cash, wallets, ID, etc., if one is going to go through the scanner.
DFW and Denver are pretty big airports, both physically and in terms of the number of flights and passengers. I wonder if part of DFW's better experience is because they have volunteers that are visible and plentiful that can provide information on how to get around the airport, how and where to get meals and hotel shuttles, and what attractions are in town. This takes much of that burden off of the TSA staff.
At some airports, yes. LAX is a prime example of this. However, I've found the TSA staff at DFW, Denver, Orlando, OKC, and Norfolk to be helpful and in some cases even happy and funny.
They were all 1s (or some other easy pattern). They were changed around the time that information went public.
Not all of them are missile-based, anyway. We still have a lot of free-fall bombs with nuclear warheads.
There are a couple of guys I know and against whom I have played in various FPS games. In both cases, their skills are far superior to mine. However, I only enjoy going up against one of them. The way that they play differs. I may end up losing 20-3 against both, but against one I have fun, while against the other, I can't wait for the match to be over. One plays to win, and the other plays to dominate. There are differences between the two styles.
Half-Life fans have vented pretty loudly about the short play times for Episodes 1 and 2. There's some hope that Episode 3 will be a bit longer, but Valve did hear the complaints and said that they're going to drop the episodic releases, instead just doing HL3.
There are some games where such concepts work -- the DLC for L4D/L4D2, for example. But those are meant to be shorter games that focus on replay. For major games, it's a bad idea, and content really needs to be foremost. Bioware is about as short a game as I want to play through for paying for a full game, but I still felt shorted. The only thing that kept me from being really irritated by it was the interesting storyline.
In Sacramento County, I believe they do have ballots in Russian due to the large Russian population there.
I have a fairly spacious cubicle as things go, about 8 feet by ten feet. If I can hear someone typing from two cubicles over, I'm not going to stay sane for long. I don't even like to hear the cooling fan of my notebook running. I have the quietest keyboard that I could find in storage at work attached to my desktop, and it's still irritatingly loud. I spend more and more time on my notebook these days because of it. If someone in my area brought in a Model M, I'd probably end up beating them to death with it.
CDMA is in fairly widespread use throughout much of Asia. Some of the carriers are planning moves to other technologies, but the same thing is happening in the US as the CDMA carriers are moving to LTE.
I have three basic systems at home:
The desktop and notebook have usually one or occasionally two guests open. The ESXi host runs about a dozen guests simultaneously, including a fairly complete Windows 2008 R2 domain, a Linux server, a Linux workstation, and a Windows XP guest. A Windows 7 guest is also present, but isn't usually running, and I have test systems in place for various other OSes from Windows 2000 to Ubuntu to Damn Vulnerable Linux.
I have bogged it down when running a lot through it from time to time, but I was able to install eight Windows 2008 systems more or less simultaneously in under a day, patches and domain creation and joining included. I did learn that assigning appropriate memory to the virtual video cards is important, as the default 8MB drags until a remote desktop solution becomes available. The cost for the ESXi system came in at about $1000, including an Intel gigabit NIC, as ESXi doesn't recognize the onboard NIC in most desktop motherboards.
It might be more than what is being sought here, but it works well for me, and has dramatically reduced the clutter in my home office.
Part of the reason that they don't make water landings well is because there is so little actual data about it, in part because of the danger of landing on the water even when fitted with extensive safety gear. Scully's landing wasn't impressive just because no one was seriously hurt. It provided a huge volume of data that the NTSB, the FAA, the airlines, and the manufacturers are going to be poring over for years. It was an example of just about everything after the engine failure going right. New procedures will come out of it, new autopilot (or at least assisted) landing sequences will be developed to handle it, and the survival rate may actually go up a bit.
The takeoff speed of a 747 is pretty high, over 150 knots, so unless there's a hurricane/typhoon or a tornado, there's nothing to be worried about. Even the rotation speed is much higher than most storms are likely to provide.
As AI develops and biometric identification improves, this is going to become more likely. Left unchecked, it may well reach the levels that we saw in Demolition Man, with every little infraction detected and immediately addressed, whether it be fines immediately assigned or police dispatched without anyone having to call.
As I posted above, their air force and army have been advancing rapidly over the last 20 years or so, and they still are a nuclear power.
China was never a part of the First World. That was aligned with the US and NATO. The Second World was aligned with or influenced by the USSR (basically the Communist nations), which included China. The Third World was made up of pretty much everyone else.
These days, the UN Human Development Index is more often used to categorize countries, and China falls into the range of medium human development, coming in 92nd out of 182 nations and regions included.
China has some modern cities, but much of the country is rural agriculture, with people farming and subsisting pretty much as they have for centuries. It has no blue-water navy, and what it does have has never been sufficient to conduct an invasion of Taiwan even without the threat of the US being brought into the fray. Its air force fighters have been upgraded rapidly over the last decade or so, but its AWACS capability is still primitive at best. The ground forces' armor and artillery are also much more advanced than they were in the 1990s, but still not on par with Western powers, or maybe even South Korea's tanks, which are based on the M1. A significant portion of their military arsenal still makes up for lack of accuracy with increased yields in the 3-5 megaton range.
That's not to say that such an invasion would be a cakewalk. Sheer military numbers and size of the country would make life difficult even for multiple nations invading, possibly to the point of defeat. At the very least, it would be horrendously expensive on a scale that we've never seen.
That's also well outside of what Windows Server is intended to run on. The minimum CPU for Server 2008 is 1GHz, and Server 2008 R2 doesn't run on 32-bit processors.
There are some exceptions, as I said in my post. But any hardware on which you're going to consider running Windows will have the requisite basic graphics.
How many video cards are sold these days that cannot do graphics? How many are even manufactured? I suspect that number is very small, and largely dedicated to the embedded realm. If you're running an OS that has a minimum requirement of 512MB of RAM, how likely are you really to have a video card that doesn't even do minimal graphics?
Being able to ssh into a Windows server without installing a third-party SSH service is news to me. There is a version called Server 2008 Core that does not have a GUI, and the installation can be automated.
As pointed out elsewhere, no, you don't have to have a GUI with Windows. PowerShell now comes by default on all versions of Windows. Windows Server 2008 Core even comes without any GUI on the system at all -- it's all PowerShell, nothing else (though you can administer it remotely with GUI-based tools). If you want to do anything local, you must be able to use PowerShell.
Microsoft's Group Policy also recently got a Recycle Bin of its own, allowing certain deletions to be undone. I haven't tinkered with it in depth yet, so I don't know its full limitations, but some form of state retrieval would be helpful for both GUIs and CLIs.
Aruba's web-based GUI does this. You stack up all of your changes per-page, and you can click on an option at the bottom that shows you the CLI changes that it will make (since it's going to run just those lines when you apply it anyway). It shows you when something is simple and can be done quickly from the CLI, and also when what takes three clicks actually takes five or six somewhat complex lines.
You're thinking largely of systems from years ago. Almost all baseline systems now use 7200RPM drives (unless one opts for the higher end of capacities), come with 2GB of RAM, the integrated graphics are accelerated (not great, but it works well enough for Windows 7), and the boxes are silent. In fact, I haven't seen a new non-gaming station in a few years that was not dead silent when running unless you put your head right up next to it, where you might hear a little bit of air movement.
I saw it at 9:22 on a second watch, just before Scales grabs the staff, but I didn't see it clearly before that, and given that Sintel is staring into the eyes of an angry dragon that's been breathing fire at her, I can forgive her for not noticing as well. Even at this point, it's not very well-lit, and I'm sure is easily missed by many.
I think the fragility of vinyl lends some perceived value to it as well. I can toss a CD on the desk without much thought, but I would never do that with vinyl because of the risk of damaging it even with a tiny scratch.