The MiG based of the F-15 with larger engines can reach Mach 3
What are you talking about? There's a MiG based on the F-15?
If you're talking about the MiG-25 Foxbat, it was flying well ahead of the F-15 (which itself was a response to the development of the MiG-25), and was designed to intercept bombers like the XB-70, which were never made operational.
a subtle hint for the future? ie that you will need Vista to play anything new? BINGO! As Microsoft unifies PlaysFerShure and Zune DRM, they will include the feature in Vista only, ensuring that millions of people will not care in the slightest, but cementing the reputation of their marketing department as brain dead.
Wouldn't he have had to inform all of his neighbors within a certain radius that he was a sex offender, anyways? Or is that only for those convicted of molesting children?
Toyota, in the meantime, will have built a fleet of small, reliable robotic space transports (called the TacomaTransport) controlled by a Sony Playstation 10 and Linux, with an integral Honda robot. Meh. Toyota has its own robot now!
Now, whether HSPD12 itself is f'ing stupid is a whole other ball of wax. Based on the guidelines, George W. Bush would have been a high risk hire under HSPD-12. A drunk driving conviction, a history of alcohol abuse, and his penchant for being in charge of failed businesses would all have counted against him.
But he's President, so he gets to mandate these requirements to people who just want to keep their personal lives private.
Fire every scientist? Not going to happen. According to the management at our center, that's exactly what's going to happen. And they've been clear about it from day one. The folks at JPL are contractors to NASA - not NASA employees. If they don't want to submit to the HSPD-12 check (and I deeply sympathize with them), then they're free to find work elsewhere.
The last few private sector jobs I applied for involved credit checks, extensive interviews of my former employers, and other ongoing checks similar to what HSPD-12 provides for. While I wish there were a way to stop it, you're going to be investigated for any job that carries a fair degree of responsibility. Hopefully this security mania (which doesn't lead to better security, just better ass-covering) will die down after a while, but the paranoia of the American people and government is not to be underestimated these days.
It sounds like fun, and it would only take a few years to get results. Compared to raising children the cost is low and the results are fast. I agree. You do it.
Given the hottest temperature ever recorded in the United States is 56.7 degrees celsius (134.1 degrees fahrenheit) I find it impossible to believe this small part of America regularly gets temperatures of above 65.6 degrees celsius (150F). A friendly nitpick: surface temperatures on the desert floor - even on light-colored surfaces like the Racetrack - can often rise above 200 degrees F. Note that the ambient temperature may be far cooler than the ground surface.
From a dependable source:
In the heat of summer, Death Valley roasts in temperatures greater than 120 degrees, cool when compared with the surface temperature of the salt pan. "The ground temperature gets to over 200 degrees [f] at some points here," says Dr. Douglas. I'd wager that the surface temperatures at the Racetrack in early afternoon during high summer range above the boiling point of water at sea level*, since the racetrack's playa is lower and darker than the salt pan at Badwater. In other words, don't fall; you'll skin and burn your knees.
If you've never been to Death Valley in the summer, you should give it a try. If you're from a mild climate, I suggest March instead; the regular 90 degree temperatures before April has shown it's face will give you a little idea of the radical heat that this region experiences.
*The Racetrack and Badwater are both below sea level, so you'd need to get up to at least 240f to boil water.
I doubt this location is so remote that there isn't some way to link it up or at least to store the data and then periodically retrieve it. It'd cost a bundle, and might not work (rain, when it comes, is very heavy) during the kind of storms that produce the stone mobility. If you can't see the rocks from the only place that you can mount a camera, it's not going to help much. Take a look at where the Racetrack is - aside from a two-hour, 27-mile drive into a box canyon that demands a well-equipped vehicle, supplies, and some expensive equipment, I don't see what is stopping anyone from setting up a webcam.
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The webcams in Yosemite are all five minutes from the road. A webcam in the Racetrack, while technically feasible, would take a fair bit of money and time to set up for the possibility of no payoff.
Just seems to me that instead of crazy rocks sliding round on their own, some damn kids were up there fucking round with rocks. Considering how difficult it is to get out to the Racetrack, I doubt this. Otherwise, I would think someone might camp out there during a storm and find out if they really skate around on their own.
Problem is that storms come up rarely but suddenly there (usually) and it takes almost two hours to get to the Racetrack from the nearest paved road - three hours from the Death Valley visitor's center - and if you get out there before a storm, there's no guarantee that even a very capable 4x4 will get you back afterwards.
Running cubase or protools on mac vs the pc is exactly what got lots of pros going for the mac.
I suggest you study your history. We were running ProTools (and SampleCell) in 1988. On a Mac IIci.
Before PowerPC. Before OS X. Before Intel.
And most certainly before a freaking PC version of ProTools.
ProTools shipped a PC version after Windows 95, as Apple sat on their hands and Microsoft 'innovated' with features Apple had been working on for years. It's likely that the only reasons these tools exist on the Mac today is because of pro user inertia from well before Digidesign started making ProTools for the PC. Given that the products have equivalent functionality on both platforms suggest that people run ProTools on the Mac because they're Mac users already - and likely have been for some time.
I'm astonished it takes that long. My experience with XP Pro on my Mac Pro (2 x four core 3.0GHz Xeon) is about 40 seconds. Mac OS 10.5 on the same system is about 32 seconds. And on my 2.4Ghz Mac Book Pro, booting 10.5 takes only 28 seconds, for some reason.
1:30? Are you kidding? What the hell is so wrong with Vista that it takes so long to boot? Don't they cache anything to disk?
And most of Bush's potential replacements are as bad or worse, it appears. Ron Paul excepted. Yeah, he only wants to shut down NASA.
The support he gets from racist and hate organizations like Stormfront is a bit troubling too, as are some of this statements from the 80s which are plainly racist.
But hey, he's got a bunch of maniacs on the web pulling for him.
A gun that disables microprocessors?! I'm worried about more than stupid cop cars. In midflight, there goes planes, spaceships, satellites, and missiles Inverse square rule. Have you heard of it?
I don't think an airplane is going to be affected by this device unless the pursuant is hightailing it down a runway.
You can't fit great optics in the size of a typical mobile phone Smaller lenses can actually be sharper and have fewer aberrations than their larger counterparts with fewer elements. The physical size of a lens has nothing to do with "great optics" or cost - otherwise a Canon 300/2.8 would be a lot cheaper.
See also: microsocopes, film scanners.
You can absolutely fit 'great optics' in a cell phone - and as cameraphone sensors get smaller and smaller and density increases, doing so will be more important. Paying for 'great optics' at the giveaway prices everyone has gotten used to for phones is the problem.
If you want city workers to have network access every where say for the police then data cards and a data plan from a cell company will be cheaper.
That'll work great here in California, where the cell network was down for 20 minutes shortly after our minor earthquake the other day. Or at ground zero, where there was no telecom whatsoever after 9/11 - except for the poletop radios from Metricom, which had gone out of business a few weeks earlier, thanks to cell company FUD and horrible management.
Better than cellular would be a microcellular system, like municipal Wi-Fi or the old Ricochet system, which was extremely efficient at spectrum reuse, due to the high number of low power cells. Of course, these all run on poletop power, so if the power goes out over a large area, you may still be hosed, but all of the wired access points for microcell systems should have battery backups, at least.
Apple won't kill the product if it is relatively far along.
But they will get it even cheaper than ASUS planned to sell it to them for.
ASUS is in breach of confidentiality - the folks here at Slashdot seem to think that corporations play schoolyard games (ATI leak of Apple specs), but confidentiality is codified in contracts - if ASUS has cost Apple materially due to their employee's leak, Apple will probably reap some benefit in terms of product cost.
some DRM stuff enabled in the firmware Virtually every board with an Intel chipset built today has a TPM on it; true, Apple does set the manufacturer info, but the TPM is nothing remarkable.
then some metadata on the disk is modified to reflect your move. That's what I thought; the synopsis of the article seems to confuse the copy and move operations. I always considered a "move" to be traversing the directory tree of a particular volume, but the submitter is actually talking about a copy operation between two volumes, not a file move on a single volume...
Normally while moving you ensure the copy completed before deleting the original. Apple must be using some discount programmers. So what happens if you're moving a 120GB folder one directory level on a 150GB disk?
If Apple buys Adobe, expect Adobe's Windows products to be withdrawn or be crippled. Microsoft will no longer have credible opposition in many product areas where Apple will not bother to challenge.
Why? Apple makes products for Windows already. Buying Adobe would be stupid for many reasons, but if such an unlikely scenario were to occur, I don't envision Apple yanking those pro products from Windows.
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The MiG based of the F-15 with larger engines can reach Mach 3
What are you talking about? There's a MiG based on the F-15?
If you're talking about the MiG-25 Foxbat, it was flying well ahead of the F-15 (which itself was a response to the development of the MiG-25), and was designed to intercept bombers like the XB-70, which were never made operational.
Wouldn't he have had to inform all of his neighbors within a certain radius that he was a sex offender, anyways? Or is that only for those convicted of molesting children?
Only if he was an avid bowler named Jesus.
But he's President, so he gets to mandate these requirements to people who just want to keep their personal lives private.
The last few private sector jobs I applied for involved credit checks, extensive interviews of my former employers, and other ongoing checks similar to what HSPD-12 provides for. While I wish there were a way to stop it, you're going to be investigated for any job that carries a fair degree of responsibility. Hopefully this security mania (which doesn't lead to better security, just better ass-covering) will die down after a while, but the paranoia of the American people and government is not to be underestimated these days.
Whoops, my bad - the Racetrack is at 1130m, while Badwater is below sea level.
From a dependable source: In the heat of summer, Death Valley roasts in temperatures greater than 120 degrees, cool when compared with the surface temperature of the salt pan. "The ground temperature gets to over 200 degrees [f] at some points here," says Dr. Douglas. I'd wager that the surface temperatures at the Racetrack in early afternoon during high summer range above the boiling point of water at sea level*, since the racetrack's playa is lower and darker than the salt pan at Badwater. In other words, don't fall; you'll skin and burn your knees.
If you've never been to Death Valley in the summer, you should give it a try. If you're from a mild climate, I suggest March instead; the regular 90 degree temperatures before April has shown it's face will give you a little idea of the radical heat that this region experiences.
*The Racetrack and Badwater are both below sea level, so you'd need to get up to at least 240f to boil water.
3641'0.10"N, 11733'58.77"W
The webcams in Yosemite are all five minutes from the road. A webcam in the Racetrack, while technically feasible, would take a fair bit of money and time to set up for the possibility of no payoff.
Problem is that storms come up rarely but suddenly there (usually) and it takes almost two hours to get to the Racetrack from the nearest paved road - three hours from the Death Valley visitor's center - and if you get out there before a storm, there's no guarantee that even a very capable 4x4 will get you back afterwards.
Running cubase or protools on mac vs the pc is exactly what got lots of pros going for the mac.
I suggest you study your history. We were running ProTools (and SampleCell) in 1988. On a Mac IIci.
Before PowerPC.
Before OS X.
Before Intel.
And most certainly before a freaking PC version of ProTools.
ProTools shipped a PC version after Windows 95, as Apple sat on their hands and Microsoft 'innovated' with features Apple had been working on for years. It's likely that the only reasons these tools exist on the Mac today is because of pro user inertia from well before Digidesign started making ProTools for the PC. Given that the products have equivalent functionality on both platforms suggest that people run ProTools on the Mac because they're Mac users already - and likely have been for some time.
I'm astonished it takes that long. My experience with XP Pro on my Mac Pro (2 x four core 3.0GHz Xeon) is about 40 seconds. Mac OS 10.5 on the same system is about 32 seconds. And on my 2.4Ghz Mac Book Pro, booting 10.5 takes only 28 seconds, for some reason.
1:30? Are you kidding? What the hell is so wrong with Vista that it takes so long to boot? Don't they cache anything to disk?
The support he gets from racist and hate organizations like Stormfront is a bit troubling too, as are some of this statements from the 80s which are plainly racist.
But hey, he's got a bunch of maniacs on the web pulling for him.
I don't think an airplane is going to be affected by this device unless the pursuant is hightailing it down a runway.
See also: microsocopes, film scanners.
You can absolutely fit 'great optics' in a cell phone - and as cameraphone sensors get smaller and smaller and density increases, doing so will be more important. Paying for 'great optics' at the giveaway prices everyone has gotten used to for phones is the problem.
If you want city workers to have network access every where say for the police then data cards and a data plan from a cell company will be cheaper.
That'll work great here in California, where the cell network was down for 20 minutes shortly after our minor earthquake the other day. Or at ground zero, where there was no telecom whatsoever after 9/11 - except for the poletop radios from Metricom, which had gone out of business a few weeks earlier, thanks to cell company FUD and horrible management.
Better than cellular would be a microcellular system, like municipal Wi-Fi or the old Ricochet system, which was extremely efficient at spectrum reuse, due to the high number of low power cells. Of course, these all run on poletop power, so if the power goes out over a large area, you may still be hosed, but all of the wired access points for microcell systems should have battery backups, at least.
Apple won't kill the product if it is relatively far along.
But they will get it even cheaper than ASUS planned to sell it to them for.
ASUS is in breach of confidentiality - the folks here at Slashdot seem to think that corporations play schoolyard games (ATI leak of Apple specs), but confidentiality is codified in contracts - if ASUS has cost Apple materially due to their employee's leak, Apple will probably reap some benefit in terms of product cost.
No, that's a common surname in Baton Rouge, where TS is located.
TraceSecurity...the shining star of Baton Rouge's burgeoning information technology industry.
A city of paranoiacs with a single successful computer-related company...why am I not surprised?
If Apple buys Adobe, expect Adobe's Windows products to be withdrawn or be crippled. Microsoft will no longer have credible opposition in many product areas where Apple will not bother to challenge.
Why? Apple makes products for Windows already. Buying Adobe would be stupid for many reasons, but if such an unlikely scenario were to occur, I don't envision Apple yanking those pro products from Windows.