Actually that wasn't the climax... The climax was later/
The climax was Ender realizing that it wasn't a video game simulation, but that it was actually real and he just destroyed the homeworld of another species, killing billions, and more importantly, killing the only ones that had brains.
There is nothing wrong with this. I believed that the whole point of the idea of privatizing it was to allow for this to occur, and force the rules and policies being used to need to conform to local laws. If doing something is sexual assault, then they get prosecuted for such and need to change what they are doing in their screening process.
Except as a private company, the people doing the screening would be private citizens, and as such, subject to local laws and rules. There were quite a few Sheriffs and DA's who wanted to prosecute the people performing the enhanced screens for rape and sexual assault as defined by their districts.
Seriously, when I read the headline, my mind read "Meat Drone Shield" and I thought at first there was some kind of organic meat shield which screwed up with drone targeting systems (like infra-red, etc.) and provided protection.
if an old person falls down on the sidewalk, strangers will rush to her side, whip out cell phones, in case a 911 call is needed, take photos and video to be used later for the lawsuit and help her to her feet
Yeah. I do have to agree with you here. The games that the teams at LucasArts themselves havn't really put out a decent game in 15 years. To be honest, that is never the fault of the employees who are getting canned, but the management who made bad decisions (either unrealistic deadlines, not enough talent, wrong kinds of talent, poor allocation of talent, bad game pitches/approvals).
Seriously, what other studio has been consistently been in the top 5-10 demands for a sequel and not even considered it (I'm talking about X-Wing/Tie Fighter here)? They didn't even consider it when Episode 1-3 came out. I mean, really? The Star Wars Universe just had a several billion reboot and you didn't take advantage by making a game which you can pilot the most bad-ass, and cool things which exist from it? Seriously? Yeah, the management had no clue, and as a result, it has been dead for a long time.
There once was a great game studio called LucasArts, who made some of the most innovative and cutting edge video games, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Manic Mansion, Metal Warriors, Monkey Island, Zombies Ate My Neighbors.... It turned into a Zombie about 15 years ago....
I do hope this gets Linux users to put their money where their mouths are and support AMD, I don't know how many "LOL use Nvidia" posts I've seen from Linux users which you just have to be gobsmacked when you realize here is the guys that spend so much time talking about "freedom" while supporting the most FOSS unfriendly company there is. I mean there is a reason why Torvalds gave Nvidia the bird ya know, and it wasn't his way of saying they were #1.
And guess what? AMD just released a BINARY BLOB just like Nvidia does to add this "support". In other words, to get full support like NVidia gives, you need to use the same method if you want to use an AMD card. I for one will continue to use the cards that have full support for the hardware. As much as AMD is trying to release opensupport drivers, I would rather use hardware that actually uses the hardware as intended (NVidia), and not AMD's where at best, I get 2D graphics support with now some hardware accelleration for video formats.
Huh? E8000 Core2 Duos are not that old. I've got a rack of a half dozen Pentium IIIs that I've run for years without problems.
What are you smoking? E8000 Core2 Duos are ancient. These are all 5 year old CPU's. Five years in which Intel has been focusing specifically on better power efficiency which in turn leads to better cooling efficiency all the while improving the number of cores contained in a chip. The 14 E8000 systems which are going to take up 42U of rack space can and should be replaced by a single 1U Dell R620 with 2x E5-2690 processors (8c + hyperthreading), with 8x16GB 1600Mhz ECC DIMMs (which will probably be more memory than you have total in all 14 of those old systems), and if you feel ambitious enough to develop your code to take advantage, 1 or 2 GPUs.
Not only will the 2x E5-2690 completely blow away all 14 E8000 cpu's combined, the single, 1U system will use less than 1/4 of the power and cooling needs of the 14 systems (the R620 without GPU's will only need a 750W power supply. 1100W if you go with the GPU's, but that is still less than the draw of the 14x255W power supplies the Optiplex's use). Given the power savings, some quick numbers on ROI should be done:
Dell R620 power usage 1yr: 6570 kWh 14x Optiplex power usage 1yr: 31273 kWh R620 will save you approx $2470 assuming $0.10 a kWh utility cost.
So in as little as 3 years the R620 will have paid for itself in power consumption alone, not even factoring in the fact that it is also going to only produce 1/8th the heat, meaning the HVAC in the room will not be using as much power to cool the space either. And you have not even factored in the time you are spending wasted on trying to construct a shelf system to hold those old desktop towers which are going to take up 42U of your precious rack space. All this is manpower time which costs money which could have been used on the R620 which is designed to be rack mounted and will take all of 30 minutes for a single person to pull out of the box and mount into the rack.
You still need your cable box for it to record, but if you get the channel, you can record it, and you can record it DRM free as well. Sadly, you need a cable box for each device as it uses your box itself to decode the video stream and simply captures that decoded stream.
Before Google purchased SageTV, SageTV was actively fighting the fight against the copy flags on cable channels because it was circumventing consumer fair use rights by circumventing copyright law with encryption.
You fail to remember the the lessons learned from the first Virtual Boy. Those lessons include that people will not concede a lot on graphics quality. At best you need to keep the quality to at least as good as the previous generations. The problem now is that 3D isn't a novelty anymore with 3D games already on the previous generation consoles (from Sony and Microsoft) for use on 3D TV's. As a result, you can not concede on graphics quality.
Except for the problem that the pollen of these plants is not contained to the field that they are planted. That pollen will blow on the wind and can travel hundreds of miles on trucks, cars, birds and other animals and could then find its way onto other soybean plants which did not have the terminator gene. What happens then?
Is that pollen never produced on the plants with these seeds (but from my understanding of how these things work, especially when the food substance is the seed itself), you still need to pollinate the plants. I guess you could do it such that you genetically modify the plant to not produce pollen, and then also sell pollen that can be used to pollinate the genetically modified plants, but that is not what is being done here.
Now back to what happens when the pollen from the GM plant with the terminator gene pollinates a plant without that gene? Is it sterile? If so, what stops the owner of that plant from suing the company that made the other plant that now ruined his future livelihood by sterilizing his plants?
Pretty good analogy, but the difference is that the guy who went to the "wrong room" was then "trapped there" by the people in the room. Forcing him to fight. So he called in backup so that he could get out.
There were many of us who came in and didn't pick any side but simply started using AOE attacks against everyone else for the lols:D
So if you started with a salary of $100,000 in 2005, it would mean the following (inflation adjusted to 2005 dollars): 2006: $97,977 2007: $99,692 2008: $97,003 2009: $98,073 2010: $98,845 2011: $100,857
In other words, a paltry 0.8% raise in real salary over those 6 years!
Which is interesting when they have effective tax rates of 8 or 9% of their incomes. How about this, no one who makes more than someone else can pay an effective rate lower than someone making less then they are, no matter the circumstances.
...then extrapolated how much more efficient integer and float math would be on 64-bit machines, and extrapolated when we were likely to see them (I had said by 2000, iirc, and AMD released the specs for X86_64 in 1999).
Too bad the SPARC V9 64bit CPU was already out in 1993.
Under features:
Add Config Filters i.e. for kids movies, documentaries, or adult films
Password protection by config - protected films never display for other users, not even the cover or fanart!
Only downside is that it is Windows only (but for me that is not an issue as my HTPC is also a gaming system, which requires Windows).
You have proven the point of what someone above already said. The OLD HP stuff is/was great. Its their new stuff which is utter crap. I recommend Dell over HP and day of the week anymore for computers/servers. I don't know who I would say to get a calculator from anymore (the "new" HP ones are cheap crap that they continue to try and sell with $60-80 price markups on ~$100 calculators when they are now using horrible components that will be lucky to survive as long as the 60 day warranty on parts/labor). HP printers have gone completely downhill, just like their calculators due to cost cutting which has dramatically increased their failure rates (my work stopped purchasing them about 5 years ago when their printers would not last a year without a major failure, and we moved back to Xerox. Don't get me wrong, we still have about a few hundred HP printers and plotters, and will continue to do so until the price of ink or a major failure occurs on those units, but many of these were from the heyday of HP printing division when they designed them like tanks and used parts which were spec'ed to last until the electrolyte evaporated...).
Fukushima did have a pressure vessel. The problem was the pressure vessel was damaged by the earthquake. The other problem was the majority of the issues were from the spent fuel rod storage in which the pool lining was damaged by the earthquake leading to the loss of all the water in the spent fuel rod pools, which then lead to a partial meltdown of the spent fuel rods in the pool with the runoff radioactive materials leaking through the same cracks which allowed the water to escape and out into the environment.
Lets see, classics:
Romeo and Juliet: Massive family feud between two wealthy "merchant" families, resulting in street battles and pub brawls with deaths. Ending with two main characters committing suicide.
King Lear: King splits up kingdom to his daughters based on who loves him the most. Two of the three daughters conspire together and lie to get the largest shares. King disowns daughter who didn't lie. Once having the kingdom, the 2 daughters proceed to treat their father like crap, and plot to kill him. The good daughter goes to war with the other two. Good daughter is executed. King finds out his good daughter was executed, dies from grief. King's good servant commit suicide to continue serving the King in the afterlife....
Hamlet: Brother of King, kills the King, and then marries his now dead brother's wife. The son of the original king confronts his mother and can't believe that she would marry her former husband's killer. Girlfriend/lover of the son/prince commits suicide because the prince declairs that marriage should be outlawed in rage of what his mother has done.
Oedipus Rex: Son/prince kills father/king. Marries mother who he is in love with....
No, there was no violence in classic literature, as long as you don't consider child molestation, incest, rape, murder, and suicide violent....
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw the post. You need to learn a little of how to use it, but learning Octave is going to be a skill useful for probably at least the next 10-20 years, and something that will give you a good advantage in college as well as the real world jobs market. It uses a very similar language structure as Matlab, which is pretty much the "standard" mathematics program for companies/corporations for precision mathematics.
Someone doesn't realize that some things like that can be there by other means. For instance, lots of people are convicted over just 1 or 2 strands of hair found on the victim's clothing. Did you know that if you happened to use a public laundry mat and used the same washer or dryer before the person that was killed used it, you may very well have some of your hair on their cloths?
That is the real question. Why was it rushed? There was no physical evidence to her. Just lies and uncooperativeness by her. Had they done their jobs and waited until the had more evidence instead of rushing to trial because the big flapping/talking heads were yelling and screaming, she would be going to trial now (after court date set) and would be taking either a plea deal (assuming one was even offered, which in this case it probably would not be), and be in jail in 3-4 weeks for the rest of her life (be it taken early by the state or not).
I am sorry to say it, but this Phd student has no clue. Dealing with a node failure is not a problem with proper, modern supercomputing programming practices as well a OS/system software. There is an amazing programming technique called "checkpointing", developed a while ago. This allows you to periodically to "checkpoint" your application, essentially saving off the system call stack, the memory, register values, etc., etc., to a file. The application is also coded to check to see if that file exists, and if it does, to load all those values back into memory, registers, call stack, and then continue running from that point. So in the event of a hardware failure, the application/thread is simply restarted on another node in the cluster. That is application level checkpointing, there is also OS level checkpointing, which essentially does the same thing, but at the OS level irregardless of the processes running on the system, allowing for anything running on the entire machine to be checkpointed and restarted from that spot.
Then there is the idea of a master dispatcher, which essentially breaks down the application into small chunks of tasks, and then sends those tasks to be calculated/performed on a node in the cluster. If it does not get a corresponding return value from the system it sent the task within a certain ammount of time, it re-sends to another node (and marking the other node as bad and not sending future tasks to it until that value is cleared).
Both of these methods fix the issue of having possible nodes which die on you during computation.
The reason Iron Dome works for Israel and may not for other nations is due to the way it operates. Iron Dome is successful in the fact that it requires detailed maps of the areas it is protecting and only fires when the missile/rocket/mortar it is engaging is going to hit a populated area. This is easier to do in an environment like Israel as the settlements are pretty much confined without a lot of sprawl outside of the town-proper. It is also unknown how well it would do against guided missiles or countermeasures on missiles. That said, the Aegis BMD system deployed by the US Navy does have those capabilities (or at least appears to from the press releases after tests). The only non-test use that I am aware of was the shooting down of a satellite which posed a risk of hitting a populated zone if it had been allowed to continue its failed trajectory (it also helped that China had just put on a big propaganda push showing that they could blow up a satellite as well, but they did it from a stationary launch vehicle on a target with extremely well known trajectory, unlike the US demonstration which was against a tumbling satellite without control and already interacting with the atmosphere which was constantly changing its trajectory).
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Actually that wasn't the climax... The climax was later /
The climax was Ender realizing that it wasn't a video game simulation, but that it was actually real and he just destroyed the homeworld of another species, killing billions, and more importantly, killing the only ones that had brains.
There is nothing wrong with this. I believed that the whole point of the idea of privatizing it was to allow for this to occur, and force the rules and policies being used to need to conform to local laws. If doing something is sexual assault, then they get prosecuted for such and need to change what they are doing in their screening process.
Except as a private company, the people doing the screening would be private citizens, and as such, subject to local laws and rules. There were quite a few Sheriffs and DA's who wanted to prosecute the people performing the enhanced screens for rape and sexual assault as defined by their districts.
Seriously, when I read the headline, my mind read "Meat Drone Shield" and I thought at first there was some kind of organic meat shield which screwed up with drone targeting systems (like infra-red, etc.) and provided protection.
if an old person falls down on the sidewalk, strangers will rush to her side, whip out cell phones, in case a 911 call is needed, take photos and video to be used later for the lawsuit and help her to her feet
Lets see:
CIWS ammo 1 second fire: ~$250
Solid State Laser: ~$1
Yeah, no reason at all for the new system....
Yeah. I do have to agree with you here. The games that the teams at LucasArts themselves havn't really put out a decent game in 15 years. To be honest, that is never the fault of the employees who are getting canned, but the management who made bad decisions (either unrealistic deadlines, not enough talent, wrong kinds of talent, poor allocation of talent, bad game pitches/approvals).
Seriously, what other studio has been consistently been in the top 5-10 demands for a sequel and not even considered it (I'm talking about X-Wing/Tie Fighter here)? They didn't even consider it when Episode 1-3 came out. I mean, really? The Star Wars Universe just had a several billion reboot and you didn't take advantage by making a game which you can pilot the most bad-ass, and cool things which exist from it? Seriously? Yeah, the management had no clue, and as a result, it has been dead for a long time.
There once was a great game studio called LucasArts, who made some of the most innovative and cutting edge video games, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Manic Mansion, Metal Warriors, Monkey Island, Zombies Ate My Neighbors.... It turned into a Zombie about 15 years ago....
I do hope this gets Linux users to put their money where their mouths are and support AMD, I don't know how many "LOL use Nvidia" posts I've seen from Linux users which you just have to be gobsmacked when you realize here is the guys that spend so much time talking about "freedom" while supporting the most FOSS unfriendly company there is. I mean there is a reason why Torvalds gave Nvidia the bird ya know, and it wasn't his way of saying they were #1.
And guess what? AMD just released a BINARY BLOB just like Nvidia does to add this "support". In other words, to get full support like NVidia gives, you need to use the same method if you want to use an AMD card. I for one will continue to use the cards that have full support for the hardware. As much as AMD is trying to release opensupport drivers, I would rather use hardware that actually uses the hardware as intended (NVidia), and not AMD's where at best, I get 2D graphics support with now some hardware accelleration for video formats.
Huh? E8000 Core2 Duos are not that old. I've got a rack of a half dozen Pentium IIIs that I've run for years without problems.
What are you smoking? E8000 Core2 Duos are ancient. These are all 5 year old CPU's. Five years in which Intel has been focusing specifically on better power efficiency which in turn leads to better cooling efficiency all the while improving the number of cores contained in a chip. The 14 E8000 systems which are going to take up 42U of rack space can and should be replaced by a single 1U Dell R620 with 2x E5-2690 processors (8c + hyperthreading), with 8x16GB 1600Mhz ECC DIMMs (which will probably be more memory than you have total in all 14 of those old systems), and if you feel ambitious enough to develop your code to take advantage, 1 or 2 GPUs.
Not only will the 2x E5-2690 completely blow away all 14 E8000 cpu's combined, the single, 1U system will use less than 1/4 of the power and cooling needs of the 14 systems (the R620 without GPU's will only need a 750W power supply. 1100W if you go with the GPU's, but that is still less than the draw of the 14x255W power supplies the Optiplex's use). Given the power savings, some quick numbers on ROI should be done:
Dell R620 power usage 1yr: 6570 kWh
14x Optiplex power usage 1yr: 31273 kWh
R620 will save you approx $2470 assuming $0.10 a kWh utility cost.
So in as little as 3 years the R620 will have paid for itself in power consumption alone, not even factoring in the fact that it is also going to only produce 1/8th the heat, meaning the HVAC in the room will not be using as much power to cool the space either. And you have not even factored in the time you are spending wasted on trying to construct a shelf system to hold those old desktop towers which are going to take up 42U of your precious rack space. All this is manpower time which costs money which could have been used on the R620 which is designed to be rack mounted and will take all of 30 minutes for a single person to pull out of the box and mount into the rack.
You still need your cable box for it to record, but if you get the channel, you can record it, and you can record it DRM free as well. Sadly, you need a cable box for each device as it uses your box itself to decode the video stream and simply captures that decoded stream.
Before Google purchased SageTV, SageTV was actively fighting the fight against the copy flags on cable channels because it was circumventing consumer fair use rights by circumventing copyright law with encryption.
You fail to remember the the lessons learned from the first Virtual Boy. Those lessons include that people will not concede a lot on graphics quality. At best you need to keep the quality to at least as good as the previous generations. The problem now is that 3D isn't a novelty anymore with 3D games already on the previous generation consoles (from Sony and Microsoft) for use on 3D TV's. As a result, you can not concede on graphics quality.
Except for the problem that the pollen of these plants is not contained to the field that they are planted. That pollen will blow on the wind and can travel hundreds of miles on trucks, cars, birds and other animals and could then find its way onto other soybean plants which did not have the terminator gene. What happens then?
Is that pollen never produced on the plants with these seeds (but from my understanding of how these things work, especially when the food substance is the seed itself), you still need to pollinate the plants. I guess you could do it such that you genetically modify the plant to not produce pollen, and then also sell pollen that can be used to pollinate the genetically modified plants, but that is not what is being done here.
Now back to what happens when the pollen from the GM plant with the terminator gene pollinates a plant without that gene? Is it sterile? If so, what stops the owner of that plant from suing the company that made the other plant that now ruined his future livelihood by sterilizing his plants?
Pretty good analogy, but the difference is that the guy who went to the "wrong room" was then "trapped there" by the people in the room. Forcing him to fight. So he called in backup so that he could get out.
:D
There were many of us who came in and didn't pick any side but simply started using AOE attacks against everyone else for the lols
Would be interesting if that "low" unemployment actually equated to raises which even matched inflation....
2006: Inflation rate: 3.8% Tech Salary: 1.7%
2007: Inflation rate: 2.8% Tech Salary: 4.6%
2008: Inflation rate: 3.8% Tech Salary: 1%
2009: Inflation rate: -0.4% Tech Salary: 0.7%
2010: Inflation rate: 1.6% Tech Salary: 2.4%
2011: Inflation rate: 3.2% Tech Salary: 5.3%
So if you started with a salary of $100,000 in 2005, it would mean the following (inflation adjusted to 2005 dollars):
2006: $97,977
2007: $99,692
2008: $97,003
2009: $98,073
2010: $98,845
2011: $100,857
In other words, a paltry 0.8% raise in real salary over those 6 years!
Which is interesting when they have effective tax rates of 8 or 9% of their incomes. How about this, no one who makes more than someone else can pay an effective rate lower than someone making less then they are, no matter the circumstances.
...then extrapolated how much more efficient integer and float math would be on 64-bit machines, and extrapolated when we were likely to see them (I had said by 2000, iirc, and AMD released the specs for X86_64 in 1999).
Too bad the SPARC V9 64bit CPU was already out in 1993.
Under features: Add Config Filters i.e. for kids movies, documentaries, or adult films Password protection by config - protected films never display for other users, not even the cover or fanart! Only downside is that it is Windows only (but for me that is not an issue as my HTPC is also a gaming system, which requires Windows).
You have proven the point of what someone above already said. The OLD HP stuff is/was great. Its their new stuff which is utter crap. I recommend Dell over HP and day of the week anymore for computers/servers. I don't know who I would say to get a calculator from anymore (the "new" HP ones are cheap crap that they continue to try and sell with $60-80 price markups on ~$100 calculators when they are now using horrible components that will be lucky to survive as long as the 60 day warranty on parts/labor). HP printers have gone completely downhill, just like their calculators due to cost cutting which has dramatically increased their failure rates (my work stopped purchasing them about 5 years ago when their printers would not last a year without a major failure, and we moved back to Xerox. Don't get me wrong, we still have about a few hundred HP printers and plotters, and will continue to do so until the price of ink or a major failure occurs on those units, but many of these were from the heyday of HP printing division when they designed them like tanks and used parts which were spec'ed to last until the electrolyte evaporated...).
Fukushima did have a pressure vessel. The problem was the pressure vessel was damaged by the earthquake. The other problem was the majority of the issues were from the spent fuel rod storage in which the pool lining was damaged by the earthquake leading to the loss of all the water in the spent fuel rod pools, which then lead to a partial meltdown of the spent fuel rods in the pool with the runoff radioactive materials leaking through the same cracks which allowed the water to escape and out into the environment.
Lets see, classics: Romeo and Juliet: Massive family feud between two wealthy "merchant" families, resulting in street battles and pub brawls with deaths. Ending with two main characters committing suicide. King Lear: King splits up kingdom to his daughters based on who loves him the most. Two of the three daughters conspire together and lie to get the largest shares. King disowns daughter who didn't lie. Once having the kingdom, the 2 daughters proceed to treat their father like crap, and plot to kill him. The good daughter goes to war with the other two. Good daughter is executed. King finds out his good daughter was executed, dies from grief. King's good servant commit suicide to continue serving the King in the afterlife.... Hamlet: Brother of King, kills the King, and then marries his now dead brother's wife. The son of the original king confronts his mother and can't believe that she would marry her former husband's killer. Girlfriend/lover of the son/prince commits suicide because the prince declairs that marriage should be outlawed in rage of what his mother has done. Oedipus Rex: Son/prince kills father/king. Marries mother who he is in love with.... No, there was no violence in classic literature, as long as you don't consider child molestation, incest, rape, murder, and suicide violent....
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw the post. You need to learn a little of how to use it, but learning Octave is going to be a skill useful for probably at least the next 10-20 years, and something that will give you a good advantage in college as well as the real world jobs market. It uses a very similar language structure as Matlab, which is pretty much the "standard" mathematics program for companies/corporations for precision mathematics.
Someone doesn't realize that some things like that can be there by other means. For instance, lots of people are convicted over just 1 or 2 strands of hair found on the victim's clothing. Did you know that if you happened to use a public laundry mat and used the same washer or dryer before the person that was killed used it, you may very well have some of your hair on their cloths?
That is the real question. Why was it rushed? There was no physical evidence to her. Just lies and uncooperativeness by her. Had they done their jobs and waited until the had more evidence instead of rushing to trial because the big flapping/talking heads were yelling and screaming, she would be going to trial now (after court date set) and would be taking either a plea deal (assuming one was even offered, which in this case it probably would not be), and be in jail in 3-4 weeks for the rest of her life (be it taken early by the state or not).
I am sorry to say it, but this Phd student has no clue. Dealing with a node failure is not a problem with proper, modern supercomputing programming practices as well a OS/system software. There is an amazing programming technique called "checkpointing", developed a while ago. This allows you to periodically to "checkpoint" your application, essentially saving off the system call stack, the memory, register values, etc., etc., to a file. The application is also coded to check to see if that file exists, and if it does, to load all those values back into memory, registers, call stack, and then continue running from that point. So in the event of a hardware failure, the application/thread is simply restarted on another node in the cluster. That is application level checkpointing, there is also OS level checkpointing, which essentially does the same thing, but at the OS level irregardless of the processes running on the system, allowing for anything running on the entire machine to be checkpointed and restarted from that spot.
Then there is the idea of a master dispatcher, which essentially breaks down the application into small chunks of tasks, and then sends those tasks to be calculated/performed on a node in the cluster. If it does not get a corresponding return value from the system it sent the task within a certain ammount of time, it re-sends to another node (and marking the other node as bad and not sending future tasks to it until that value is cleared).
Both of these methods fix the issue of having possible nodes which die on you during computation.
The reason Iron Dome works for Israel and may not for other nations is due to the way it operates. Iron Dome is successful in the fact that it requires detailed maps of the areas it is protecting and only fires when the missile/rocket/mortar it is engaging is going to hit a populated area. This is easier to do in an environment like Israel as the settlements are pretty much confined without a lot of sprawl outside of the town-proper. It is also unknown how well it would do against guided missiles or countermeasures on missiles. That said, the Aegis BMD system deployed by the US Navy does have those capabilities (or at least appears to from the press releases after tests). The only non-test use that I am aware of was the shooting down of a satellite which posed a risk of hitting a populated zone if it had been allowed to continue its failed trajectory (it also helped that China had just put on a big propaganda push showing that they could blow up a satellite as well, but they did it from a stationary launch vehicle on a target with extremely well known trajectory, unlike the US demonstration which was against a tumbling satellite without control and already interacting with the atmosphere which was constantly changing its trajectory).