I didn't even mention backup tests because I just assumed that these were being done... I guess that is just something I take for granted because we have always done this. Some products have this ability built into the system to test the integrity of the backup by reading the files off the backup media and checksuming them vs the original files.
The simple solution is to have backups that go to physical media which is offline and not accessible from any computer system without human physical intervention. The only way to tamper with this backup would be to get physical access to it, which is much harder and much more dangerous/risky than cracking into a system remotely. A periodic rotation of tapes offline will prevent this kind of attack from succeeding in bringing your systems down and loosing all your data.
If you didn't notice, just because there are people who like a certain theory, if it is not yet the accepted theory, it is just that, another theory.
When we are dealing with students as young as 9 years old, they don't understand the issues enough yet to be able to make a scientific decision on the matter. At that point in life, they understand facts. Well the fact of the matter is, evolution is the current accepted scientific theory. That is a fact.
A better way might be to first teach about scientific theories. Like the theory that the earth is flat and the theory that the earth is round and show how the different theories hold up against the evidence as well as which is the accepted theory. Then go a little harder, like the Sun revolves around the Earth, vs the Earth revolving around the Sun as well with the evidence and which is the accepted theory. Finally you can teach about the theory of evolution vs the theory of the flying spaghetti monster, vs ID, vs creationism followed by the facts and which is the accepted theory.
Also, if you want to get into the teaching of multiple theories and let the students decide, we should then also be teaching the theory of the flying spaghetti monster, since it has just as much following of "scientists" as ID. Any we should continue this along with teaching Newtonian Physics instead of Einsteinian. And while we are at it let us teach that the earth is the center of the universe, and that the sun revolves around the earth.
With such a big concept as creation vs. evolution, why can they not just be made to teach that these are the two primary theories in existence, and present them in an unbiased manner?
But that is part of the problem. The accepted theory by 99.99999% of biologists is the theory of evolution. The reason it is the accepted theory is that it has stood past many tests and experiments. The theory of creation is not a testable theory. There is no known test which could be done to prove it true or false, thus it is not "science", but "belief", which has no place in a "science" curriculum. If it was a "belief" curriculum, fine, teach about creationism, however, the wise founders of this nation decided long ago that religion should be kept separate from state, thus you can't teach religion in school, which means you can't teach creation.
I feel sorry for the kids of these parents to be honest with you. But I am not worried that this will do much other than cause all the kids who didn't learn the correct commonly held theory to have to take an extra few classes in remedial science before they can get to their real classes...
Many more killers wear shoes when they kill someone than there are those that play video games. And while we are banning shoes, we should ban gloves while we are at it, since those even make it more difficult to identify people involved in shootings. And speaking of adding difficulty of identifying shooters, we should ban hats, sun glasses, face masks, hoodies, and wigs, since they all also help alter the appearance of a shooter and make it harder to identify them...
The universal remote has evolved already beyond what they see as the remote. Just because these devices are not in "Best Buy" for Joe Average to use does not mean they do not exist.
For instance, take the Nevo S70 remote. It has a combination touch screen and real physical buttons, WiFi internet capability (so it can tell you that a show you like is on a certain channel at this moment in time, or control internet accessible devices like certain media centers, etc.), display all the CDs/DVDs/Blu-Ray/MP3/Media that you might have in different archives/devices/changers and at the touch of a finger, play that song/movie/video depending on pre-set preferences from whatever device that it might be coming from. And that is just the start... It can also control lighting effects, HVAC(air conditioning and heating) or any of a number IR, Z-wave, or Wifi accessible devices (which now is just about everything from higher end refrigerators, to window blinds, curtains, heaters/air conditioners, to water pipe valves, and of course TVs, stereos, surround sound, and other home entertainment devices).
Just because it isn't in the big box store doesn't mean it doesn't exist or do the function a billion times better than that smart phone, which oh, by the way, can not communicate with Z-wave devices which is the standard method for home automation devices...
While I agree with your basic hypothesis about grammar and programming, I also want to point out that as long as that programmer makes the same spelling "mistake" consistently, the program will still work.
1) Officially copyright your own material
2) Contact ISP's of all lawmakers and Judges you can find
3) Get their internet cut off
4) Watch the media and political storm ...
???
Profit?
The windows driver is just that bad. It probably has tons of bloat and previous artifacts from older video drivers that were simply copy/pasted into the new one, with many obsolete functions, while the linux version was recently written from scratch and does not have that issue.
This is something that should have been looked at 15 years ago when the internet was starting to take off. An electronic copy with revision control to show how a bill has been changed and who introduced the changes is really needed and USEFUL system. Now we will be able to really see who is responsible for different things, not just the people who introduced the bill or were cosponsors, as well as who voted and how they voted on the bill. We won't just need to take their word on it that your representative has certain positions on the issues. We will be able to see exactly what their real position is on the matter.
Not necessarily. It simply means that whomever represents the different companies must have full authority to agree to any settlement amount, from nothing to everything.
To be honest with you, that is your best defense. Electrical conduit is not that expensive and certainly cheaper than an outage from a cable being chewed into... You can get 100 feet of 1/2 inch for about $70...
Sapphire is very brittle and would shatter under heavy impact, while aluminum oxynitride flexes more and thus dissipates the impact energy over more material which makes for better protection against high velocity/energy impacts.
The way to convince more people is to increase their wages, or drop the entry level barriers.... (at least in a capitalist society that is how it works). Now I for one would not welcome the second option, but the health care industry is having a hard time with the current wages and trying to make a profit (which is why you are seeing more and more hospitals not adding services like heart cathaterization and maternity wards, and instead dropping services due to the high liability involved when things go wrong. So instead of having hospitals which can do these things which can save lives, you are seeing fewer and fewer places with the service which requires either patient transfers to hospitals with the services or less quality services being used as alternates, or at worst loss of patient life because it takes too much time to transfer the patient to a hospital which still does offer the service).
Case in point -- they dropped Firewire from the MacBook. That means you can't use your family's DV or HDV camcorder anymore with a MacBook to use the new iMovie to edit your videos... and yet sales took off of the new laptop. That feature excluded that laptop from my consideration, but the fact that I don't like it doesn't mean it wasn't the right decision for them.
Actually, I believe Apple removed it so that it would be a unique feature on their Macbook Pro line, which would cause all the people who needed firewire to have to purchase their highest end laptops and not the lower tier products. The Nvidia 9600 mobile chipset that both the Macbook and Macbook Pro laptops use has no firewire capabilities built into the chipset. In previous Intel chipset motherboard, firewire was included as a chipset function. It takes an additional chip to be added to their motherboard design to add the firewire feature that the Pro line uses.
It won't "burn/melt most of the populated areas of Canada and Mexico", not even close. The magma/lava discharge will simply stay in and around the area of Yellowstone +/- at most 100 miles (heck, the longest known magma/lava flow in the solar system is only ~160 miles, and that is on Jupiter's moon, Io). The only thing that people outside that area have to worry about is ash and volcanic gasses which will be discharged. Unfortunately, the jet stream will force that eastward across the USA (and around the world, in the event of a major eruption). Get your facts straight. And the people modding the parent up for informative should also get their facts straight...
There is also no direct evidence that the eruption of Mt Toba was the cause of the drop in human population. For all we know there could have been a major epidemic which was highly contagious which would slowly kill someone over the course of a year or more (think something like an AIDs virus which was transmitted simply by close contact, not sexually transmitted). We simply don't know for certain. We are now, however, much more technologically capable of dealing with a mini-ice age if it was triggered by an event like this. While it would be difficult, if we really had to work for something, we would develop filters for removal of the particles of ash and soot in the air, and eventually also devise methods to remove or trap the volcanic gasses.
...after the first AAA "must have" title that comes out using this for a crack to appear. As said in the past DRM is defective by design, it simply will never work if the end user is the person who needs to both use and read the data. You can not then hide the data from that user. You either have access, or you do not have access, you can't have partial access in this case (i.e. read access, but not copy access), it simply does not exist. If you can read it, you can save it or copy it...
At most, the only thing you can do is restrict online play to legitimate CD Keys, but even then, key generators do get produced, and in some cases, legitimate purchasers get screwed when someone/thing guesses the key that they may have received in the box, or from the register, or whatever.
Oh and during frequency testing, I found that the house has a fundamental or harmonic mode of 12Hz. Real interesting when playing that frequency and being told that paintings were falling off of walls a floor away (as well as on the complete other side of the house).
That is just it. With this kind of cash, you aren't talking about a theater in a box, you are talking discrete separates, and high end speakers, with things like video upconverters, video processors (stream processing de-noise/artifact filtering), and other high-tech electronics (in other words all kinds of geek'ing out).
We are also talking "theater" here, which mean BASS... Personally, I have a setup which has 2x10" woofers, 2x8" woofers, 2x6.5" drivers, 24x5.25" drivers, 3x4" drivers, and 7x1" tweeters. Bass is all about pushing air. 24x1" tweeters just doesn't move much air. Heck, my CENTER channel speaker alone has more driver surface area than 12 laptops have (assume 24 1" drivers in the laptop = 24*(.5)^2*(3.14) = ~18.84sq. inches... my center has 1x1", 1x4" 2x6.5" drivers, so 0.785+12.56+2*33.16625=79.6775sq. inches... in other words over 4 times the surface area to push air), as well as about 3x the power driving the speaker (300W dedicated).
And I can tell you first hand and building, configuring, and tweaking a high end audio setup is more geek than you can believe.
I wonder what the frequency response is for the laptops... I have measured mine from 10Hz-50kHz (couldn't test higher because I have no method to generate a tone signal with a higher frequency, and no, obviously I did not use a CD since a CD maxes out at 44.1kHz).
/Paraphrase/ Modern day laptops are cost effective because they can be used as laptops when not in the grid \/Paraphrase/
What? TWELVE (12) MODERN DAY LAPTOPS are COST EFFECTIVE?!! Lets just give the benefit of the doubt that these are only the $800 variety and not the $2500 variety. For $9,600, you can buy an Integra DHC 9.9 pre-processor, a Emotiva MPS-2 multi-channel amplifier, and still have $6000 to buy speakers, and be under the cost of the 12 laptops. Not only that, but you will have all the same benefits and even more, since the pre-processor can accept HDMI v1.3, component, and composite video, and up-convert the video to 1080p to output all on a single HDMI connection to your TV, which means you can use other devices like stand-alone blu-ray, PS3, XBox360, etc., and connect to the system in HD (unlike the laptops). You also will have 200W power for 7 speakers, unlike the 5-10W for the 12 speakers from the laptops.
You can setup multiple boot or VM environments for Windows, Linux, and of course Mac OS X. You can easily use that to learn just about anything you want to learn (aside from SPARC or Power assembly language)...
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I didn't even mention backup tests because I just assumed that these were being done... I guess that is just something I take for granted because we have always done this. Some products have this ability built into the system to test the integrity of the backup by reading the files off the backup media and checksuming them vs the original files.
The simple solution is to have backups that go to physical media which is offline and not accessible from any computer system without human physical intervention. The only way to tamper with this backup would be to get physical access to it, which is much harder and much more dangerous/risky than cracking into a system remotely. A periodic rotation of tapes offline will prevent this kind of attack from succeeding in bringing your systems down and loosing all your data.
If you didn't notice, just because there are people who like a certain theory, if it is not yet the accepted theory, it is just that, another theory. When we are dealing with students as young as 9 years old, they don't understand the issues enough yet to be able to make a scientific decision on the matter. At that point in life, they understand facts. Well the fact of the matter is, evolution is the current accepted scientific theory. That is a fact. A better way might be to first teach about scientific theories. Like the theory that the earth is flat and the theory that the earth is round and show how the different theories hold up against the evidence as well as which is the accepted theory. Then go a little harder, like the Sun revolves around the Earth, vs the Earth revolving around the Sun as well with the evidence and which is the accepted theory. Finally you can teach about the theory of evolution vs the theory of the flying spaghetti monster, vs ID, vs creationism followed by the facts and which is the accepted theory.
Also, if you want to get into the teaching of multiple theories and let the students decide, we should then also be teaching the theory of the flying spaghetti monster, since it has just as much following of "scientists" as ID. Any we should continue this along with teaching Newtonian Physics instead of Einsteinian. And while we are at it let us teach that the earth is the center of the universe, and that the sun revolves around the earth.
With such a big concept as creation vs. evolution, why can they not just be made to teach that these are the two primary theories in existence, and present them in an unbiased manner?
But that is part of the problem. The accepted theory by 99.99999% of biologists is the theory of evolution. The reason it is the accepted theory is that it has stood past many tests and experiments. The theory of creation is not a testable theory. There is no known test which could be done to prove it true or false, thus it is not "science", but "belief", which has no place in a "science" curriculum. If it was a "belief" curriculum, fine, teach about creationism, however, the wise founders of this nation decided long ago that religion should be kept separate from state, thus you can't teach religion in school, which means you can't teach creation.
I feel sorry for the kids of these parents to be honest with you. But I am not worried that this will do much other than cause all the kids who didn't learn the correct commonly held theory to have to take an extra few classes in remedial science before they can get to their real classes...
Many more killers wear shoes when they kill someone than there are those that play video games. And while we are banning shoes, we should ban gloves while we are at it, since those even make it more difficult to identify people involved in shootings. And speaking of adding difficulty of identifying shooters, we should ban hats, sun glasses, face masks, hoodies, and wigs, since they all also help alter the appearance of a shooter and make it harder to identify them...
For instance, take the Nevo S70 remote. It has a combination touch screen and real physical buttons, WiFi internet capability (so it can tell you that a show you like is on a certain channel at this moment in time, or control internet accessible devices like certain media centers, etc.), display all the CDs/DVDs/Blu-Ray/MP3/Media that you might have in different archives/devices/changers and at the touch of a finger, play that song/movie/video depending on pre-set preferences from whatever device that it might be coming from. And that is just the start... It can also control lighting effects, HVAC(air conditioning and heating) or any of a number IR, Z-wave, or Wifi accessible devices (which now is just about everything from higher end refrigerators, to window blinds, curtains, heaters/air conditioners, to water pipe valves, and of course TVs, stereos, surround sound, and other home entertainment devices).
Just because it isn't in the big box store doesn't mean it doesn't exist or do the function a billion times better than that smart phone, which oh, by the way, can not communicate with Z-wave devices which is the standard method for home automation devices...
While I agree with your basic hypothesis about grammar and programming, I also want to point out that as long as that programmer makes the same spelling "mistake" consistently, the program will still work.
1) Officially copyright your own material
...
2) Contact ISP's of all lawmakers and Judges you can find
3) Get their internet cut off
4) Watch the media and political storm
???
Profit?
Oh FP?
This is something that should have been looked at 15 years ago when the internet was starting to take off. An electronic copy with revision control to show how a bill has been changed and who introduced the changes is really needed and USEFUL system. Now we will be able to really see who is responsible for different things, not just the people who introduced the bill or were cosponsors, as well as who voted and how they voted on the bill. We won't just need to take their word on it that your representative has certain positions on the issues. We will be able to see exactly what their real position is on the matter.
Not necessarily. It simply means that whomever represents the different companies must have full authority to agree to any settlement amount, from nothing to everything.
To be honest with you, that is your best defense. Electrical conduit is not that expensive and certainly cheaper than an outage from a cable being chewed into... You can get 100 feet of 1/2 inch for about $70...
Sapphire is very brittle and would shatter under heavy impact, while aluminum oxynitride flexes more and thus dissipates the impact energy over more material which makes for better protection against high velocity/energy impacts.
Don't you mean aluminum oxynitride? http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131
The way to convince more people is to increase their wages, or drop the entry level barriers.... (at least in a capitalist society that is how it works). Now I for one would not welcome the second option, but the health care industry is having a hard time with the current wages and trying to make a profit (which is why you are seeing more and more hospitals not adding services like heart cathaterization and maternity wards, and instead dropping services due to the high liability involved when things go wrong. So instead of having hospitals which can do these things which can save lives, you are seeing fewer and fewer places with the service which requires either patient transfers to hospitals with the services or less quality services being used as alternates, or at worst loss of patient life because it takes too much time to transfer the patient to a hospital which still does offer the service).
Case in point -- they dropped Firewire from the MacBook. That means you can't use your family's DV or HDV camcorder anymore with a MacBook to use the new iMovie to edit your videos... and yet sales took off of the new laptop. That feature excluded that laptop from my consideration, but the fact that I don't like it doesn't mean it wasn't the right decision for them.
Actually, I believe Apple removed it so that it would be a unique feature on their Macbook Pro line, which would cause all the people who needed firewire to have to purchase their highest end laptops and not the lower tier products. The Nvidia 9600 mobile chipset that both the Macbook and Macbook Pro laptops use has no firewire capabilities built into the chipset. In previous Intel chipset motherboard, firewire was included as a chipset function. It takes an additional chip to be added to their motherboard design to add the firewire feature that the Pro line uses.
It won't "burn/melt most of the populated areas of Canada and Mexico", not even close. The magma/lava discharge will simply stay in and around the area of Yellowstone +/- at most 100 miles (heck, the longest known magma/lava flow in the solar system is only ~160 miles, and that is on Jupiter's moon, Io). The only thing that people outside that area have to worry about is ash and volcanic gasses which will be discharged. Unfortunately, the jet stream will force that eastward across the USA (and around the world, in the event of a major eruption). Get your facts straight. And the people modding the parent up for informative should also get their facts straight...
There is also no direct evidence that the eruption of Mt Toba was the cause of the drop in human population. For all we know there could have been a major epidemic which was highly contagious which would slowly kill someone over the course of a year or more (think something like an AIDs virus which was transmitted simply by close contact, not sexually transmitted). We simply don't know for certain. We are now, however, much more technologically capable of dealing with a mini-ice age if it was triggered by an event like this. While it would be difficult, if we really had to work for something, we would develop filters for removal of the particles of ash and soot in the air, and eventually also devise methods to remove or trap the volcanic gasses.
If it happened during the time that the earth was mostly molten, then no, there would be on evidence...
...after the first AAA "must have" title that comes out using this for a crack to appear. As said in the past DRM is defective by design, it simply will never work if the end user is the person who needs to both use and read the data. You can not then hide the data from that user. You either have access, or you do not have access, you can't have partial access in this case (i.e. read access, but not copy access), it simply does not exist. If you can read it, you can save it or copy it...
At most, the only thing you can do is restrict online play to legitimate CD Keys, but even then, key generators do get produced, and in some cases, legitimate purchasers get screwed when someone/thing guesses the key that they may have received in the box, or from the register, or whatever.
Oh and during frequency testing, I found that the house has a fundamental or harmonic mode of 12Hz. Real interesting when playing that frequency and being told that paintings were falling off of walls a floor away (as well as on the complete other side of the house).
That is just it. With this kind of cash, you aren't talking about a theater in a box, you are talking discrete separates, and high end speakers, with things like video upconverters, video processors (stream processing de-noise/artifact filtering), and other high-tech electronics (in other words all kinds of geek'ing out).
We are also talking "theater" here, which mean BASS... Personally, I have a setup which has 2x10" woofers, 2x8" woofers, 2x6.5" drivers, 24x5.25" drivers, 3x4" drivers, and 7x1" tweeters. Bass is all about pushing air. 24x1" tweeters just doesn't move much air. Heck, my CENTER channel speaker alone has more driver surface area than 12 laptops have (assume 24 1" drivers in the laptop = 24*(.5)^2*(3.14) = ~18.84sq. inches... my center has 1x1", 1x4" 2x6.5" drivers, so 0.785+12.56+2*33.16625=79.6775sq. inches... in other words over 4 times the surface area to push air), as well as about 3x the power driving the speaker (300W dedicated).
And I can tell you first hand and building, configuring, and tweaking a high end audio setup is more geek than you can believe.
I wonder what the frequency response is for the laptops... I have measured mine from 10Hz-50kHz (couldn't test higher because I have no method to generate a tone signal with a higher frequency, and no, obviously I did not use a CD since a CD maxes out at 44.1kHz).
... and can I have some?
/Paraphrase/ Modern day laptops are cost effective because they can be used as laptops when not in the grid \/Paraphrase/
What? TWELVE (12) MODERN DAY LAPTOPS are COST EFFECTIVE?!! Lets just give the benefit of the doubt that these are only the $800 variety and not the $2500 variety. For $9,600, you can buy an Integra DHC 9.9 pre-processor, a Emotiva MPS-2 multi-channel amplifier, and still have $6000 to buy speakers, and be under the cost of the 12 laptops. Not only that, but you will have all the same benefits and even more, since the pre-processor can accept HDMI v1.3, component, and composite video, and up-convert the video to 1080p to output all on a single HDMI connection to your TV, which means you can use other devices like stand-alone blu-ray, PS3, XBox360, etc., and connect to the system in HD (unlike the laptops). You also will have 200W power for 7 speakers, unlike the 5-10W for the 12 speakers from the laptops.
So again, what the heck are they smoking?
You can setup multiple boot or VM environments for Windows, Linux, and of course Mac OS X. You can easily use that to learn just about anything you want to learn (aside from SPARC or Power assembly language)...