The Star Wars music can't be copied from The Hidden Fortress, John Williams put a huge amount of sweat and effort into copying it from Holst's The Planets. Don't believe me? Listen to Mars, see if it sounds familiar.
Ok, so you're upset about all of the people complaining about problems that no one has?
Has it occured to you that just because you're not aware of a problem doesn't mean it doesn't exist? Some of us have actually noticed the difference in battery life with new phones. Some of us notice that features have been packed on without improving call quality. Some of us still get dropped calls in major metro areas.
"There are a lot of people..." does NOT mean everyone!
Absolutely. There are no differences between the Republican and Democratic Parties.
Except for abortion, gun control, gay marriage, civil rights, affirmative action, offshoring, states' rights, the environment, education, civil liberties, free speech, relationships with other countries, preservation of national parks, endangered species, pollution cleanup, corporate accountability, international treaties...and a few others.
No, actually I was making a sarcastic comment on the possibility of sending people up into space for the aforementioned "unspecified fee", and then specifying the fee once they're in orbit and their lives depend on them paying.
But you raise an interesting point. No, I don't think it would stand a chance in a US court either, but the way Russia is going these days, nothing their gov't or courts could do would really surprise me.
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Do you really think you wouldn't go to jail for aiming that thing at someone? The police don't care if it's not a real rifle, the same as they wouldn't care if you aimed a realistic looking squirtgun at someone on the highway. As far as they're concerned, if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, you're threatening someone with a duck.
Unfortunately, studies into specific technologies usually make vast assumptions regarding the related technologies. In this case, I wouldn't be surprised if someone took a graph of power/volume or power/weight over the past twenty years, projected out to 2020 and determined that batteries would be small and light enough by then.
If you want to spend the extra money and have a warranty and fancier case, look at Nexsan , or EMC's AX100. Scary that EMC is selling something cheaper than the competition, but they are. Sorta disturbs the natural order of the universe. Still, either will set you back several thousand. The AX100 looks pretty impressive on paper. Options for dual controllers, and up to 3 TB in a 2U space. Haven't tried one myself yet.
Disclaimer: I work for a storage integrator, both are brands we sell.
Kinetic kill devices are nice in that they aren't really dangerous after they hit.
Yeah, as long as you aren't the EOD guy that has to sweep the area:
"Yeah, just toss that into the back of the truck Bob, it's harmless." POP! "Oh wow, sorry dude. I'll go get you a truss."
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Sad to say, but you are raising your children to be victims.
our children will have to live with not being able to fight back unless absolutely necessary
My children will learn never to fight back unless "absolutely necessary", but they will be preapared to do so if they have to. Refusing to let your children learn to defend themselves ensures that they will be UNABLE to defend themselves when it IS necessary.
Violence is to be avoided. My children will be taught to walk away if possible. They will be taught to RUN away if walking away is not possible. And if running away is not possible then I feel sorry for the bully that picks on them. Provided they are well-adjusted members of society, the people best prepared to deal with violent situations are the LEAST likely to find themselves in one.
Got news for you, wrestling is a sport, not a way to defend yourself. Physical conditioning aside, a wrestler is at a great disadvantage against a martial artist whose skills include grappling. The Gracies are not wrestlers, they are martial artists, practicing a form of jiu-jitsu that they have developed. Look at your old videotapes that shows one of the Gracies against the 300lb wrestler. The guy was easily twice his size, yet Gracie (Royce?) (sp?) forced him to submit.
Practical martial arts are the way to go to teach people young and old self-defense, discipline, confidence, and courtesy, if taught correctly. Note I said "practical". If you're kicking at your opponent's head, spinning around, or hoping to God you don't end up grappling, it is NOT practical. Nothing wrong with sport-oriented Tae Kwon Do, just don't expect to do well in a bar fight.
In fact, no martial arts style is the be-all and end-all of fighting skills. Study several. Learn each well, and then move on to a totally different style while still developing your skills in the earlier style and bringing what you learned to your new style. Study Kenpo, jiu-jitsu, Okinawan karate, Aikido, Kali, etc. Learn from them all and remember that they are all right for what they teach (when taught properly), and that they are ALL wrong for what they do not teach.
The headline is not quite right. First off, the first stealth ship was the U.S. Navy's Sea Shadow, but it is only a technology testbed and demonstrator. This is the first stealth ship to see operational service.
Whatever happened to WhoopAss? It was the first "energy" drink I ever tried, and it tasted MUCH better than Red Bull. ThinkGeek doesn't carry it anymore, and it was the only place I ever saw it.
"SDI won't work" is still a valid argument. This is NOT SDI. This is theatre defense against a very small number of targets. When you have a system that can defend the continental US against thousands of targets and not miss a SINGLE ONE, then you can say SDI works.
I'm not saying it's not possible, just that it's not possible with the technology now or in the foreseeable future.
Besides, I think we did just fine against the USSR even without SDI.
Does anyone know where I could find some sort of evidence that there is a danger to begin with? Maybe then I'll stop believing that it's purely a matter of hoovering my wallet as completely as possible.
Yeah, but the price of a drive will probably be more than a decent import car. I'd love to do tape backups at home, but the SOHO tape offerings are not keeping pace. Maybe when LTO-3 comes out I'll be able to afford an old DLT library on ebay.
Seriously, the only market I'd even consider what's being described here is the SOHO arena, and even then it's probably cheaper, easier, and a whole LOT faster to backup to an external disk and take it home with you at night. (or to work during the day, depending on where the data starts out) I dunno where Iomega thinks they're going with this, probably the same place the Zip 750 took them. And I used to love my Zip 100 drive. Got an internal SCSI, external parallel, lots of disks, going cheap! No reasonable offer refused!
For example, there are cameras all over NYC, London, et. al., tracking people as they walk the streets, go into businesses, and so on.
Actually, the cameras AREN'T tracking people, they are monitoring a LOCATION and capturing the movements of the people who walk in front of them. There's a big difference between getting a video recording of what you do in public and tracking where you go and who else goes there, etc.
Cameras are keyed to a physical location. Tracking a person is a different thing.
Personally, I'm not afraid of government. But people scare the hell out of me. Name one technology that hasn't been perverted to scam, rob, control, kill, etc. No matter what you invent, someone out there wants to get rich/power, etc off of it.
Unless they're somehow going to use RFID to beam you the conditions of every highway in the US, how else do you think they're going to know WHAT road conditions to transmit to you? Tracking is implicit in any scheme to send personalized data. To send location-specific data, your location has to be tracked.
That's comparing Iomega's new product with Sony's obsolete one. Try comparing to AIT-2 or AIT-3, let alone LTO or LTO-2. 100GB LTO tapes can be had for around $60-80, IIRC. That's less than $1/GB. LTO-2 is 200GB uncompressed for a bit over $100 a tape. Drives are expensive as hell, but most of the cost for a backup system ends up being media anyway.
Disclaimer: I'm an engineer for a company that sells enterprise storage. We sell tape all the time. Disk is fast, but not portable. Optical (including CD, DVD) is slow and WAY too small for business backups. Tape is getting larger and faster all the time. LTO-3 is rumored to break the Terabyte per tape mark when it comes out. (Compressed, of course)
Each tape has it's own read/write heads so nothing is exposed (or potentially) to the outside of the casing.
This should dramatically reduce any chances of the data being affected. Iomega rates the disks as being able to last about 30 years.
Yeah, as long as you don't drop it during those 30 years. When I drop a DLT or LTO tape, I pick it up and put it back on the shelf, no worries. If the media contains its own r/w heads, that's FAR too fragile to replace tape.
And you clearly do not live in the Washington, D.C. area. Before they finally closed the Lorton prison down, one of the more outrageous (but certainly not the only) finds was photographs of inmates posing with weapons. Just showing off, wanting to look tough. What makes it truly sad is that the photographs were taken by GUARDS. Correctional Officers make even less than cops, in much more dangerous environments. Doesn't attract the highest caliber of applicants, and those that do get the job can be rather easily bought in some cases. Not to paint all COs with a broad brush, many are to be commended for honestly doing a job that would scare the hell out of most of us, but the ones that can be bought make anything possible on the inside.
And BTW, you think it's easier to hide a still than a cell phone and charger? You don't think stills can be found in the prisons if you know where to look? You don't have to charge a phone in your cell, you certainly don't have to use it from there.
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The Star Wars music can't be copied from The Hidden Fortress, John Williams put a huge amount of sweat and effort into copying it from Holst's The Planets. Don't believe me? Listen to Mars, see if it sounds familiar.
Sounds like this combines the productivity of meetings with the reliability and security of Microsoft applications. What's not to love?
This just in! Company exec. says their products are great!!!
Seriously, this is news?
Ok, so you're upset about all of the people complaining about problems that no one has?
Has it occured to you that just because you're not aware of a problem doesn't mean it doesn't exist? Some of us have actually noticed the difference in battery life with new phones. Some of us notice that features have been packed on without improving call quality. Some of us still get dropped calls in major metro areas.
"There are a lot of people..." does NOT mean everyone!
Absolutely. There are no differences between the Republican and Democratic Parties.
Except for abortion, gun control, gay marriage, civil rights, affirmative action, offshoring, states' rights, the environment, education, civil liberties, free speech, relationships with other countries, preservation of national parks, endangered species, pollution cleanup, corporate accountability, international treaties...and a few others.
Other than that, no difference at all.
Look at VMware. Secondary database crashes, just reboot that virtual machine. www.wmware.com
No, actually I was making a sarcastic comment on the possibility of sending people up into space for the aforementioned "unspecified fee", and then specifying the fee once they're in orbit and their lives depend on them paying.
But you raise an interesting point. No, I don't think it would stand a chance in a US court either, but the way Russia is going these days, nothing their gov't or courts could do would really surprise me.
Do you really think you wouldn't go to jail for aiming that thing at someone? The police don't care if it's not a real rifle, the same as they wouldn't care if you aimed a realistic looking squirtgun at someone on the highway. As far as they're concerned, if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, you're threatening someone with a duck.
Unfortunately, studies into specific technologies usually make vast assumptions regarding the related technologies. In this case, I wouldn't be surprised if someone took a graph of power/volume or power/weight over the past twenty years, projected out to 2020 and determined that batteries would be small and light enough by then.
Unspecified fee:
Liftoff: free
Trip to lunar orbit: free
Return to Earth: free
Re-entry: free
Deployment of parachutes: $100 million
If you want to spend the extra money and have a warranty and fancier case, look at Nexsan , or EMC's AX100. Scary that EMC is selling something cheaper than the competition, but they are. Sorta disturbs the natural order of the universe. Still, either will set you back several thousand. The AX100 looks pretty impressive on paper. Options for dual controllers, and up to 3 TB in a 2U space. Haven't tried one myself yet.
Disclaimer: I work for a storage integrator, both are brands we sell.
Yeah, as long as you aren't the EOD guy that has to sweep the area:
"Yeah, just toss that into the back of the truck Bob, it's harmless."
POP!
"Oh wow, sorry dude. I'll go get you a truss."
Violence is to be avoided. My children will be taught to walk away if possible. They will be taught to RUN away if walking away is not possible. And if running away is not possible then I feel sorry for the bully that picks on them. Provided they are well-adjusted members of society, the people best prepared to deal with violent situations are the LEAST likely to find themselves in one.
Got news for you, wrestling is a sport, not a way to defend yourself. Physical conditioning aside, a wrestler is at a great disadvantage against a martial artist whose skills include grappling. The Gracies are not wrestlers, they are martial artists, practicing a form of jiu-jitsu that they have developed. Look at your old videotapes that shows one of the Gracies against the 300lb wrestler. The guy was easily twice his size, yet Gracie (Royce?) (sp?) forced him to submit.
Practical martial arts are the way to go to teach people young and old self-defense, discipline, confidence, and courtesy, if taught correctly. Note I said "practical". If you're kicking at your opponent's head, spinning around, or hoping to God you don't end up grappling, it is NOT practical. Nothing wrong with sport-oriented Tae Kwon Do, just don't expect to do well in a bar fight.
In fact, no martial arts style is the be-all and end-all of fighting skills. Study several. Learn each well, and then move on to a totally different style while still developing your skills in the earlier style and bringing what you learned to your new style. Study Kenpo, jiu-jitsu, Okinawan karate, Aikido, Kali, etc. Learn from them all and remember that they are all right for what they teach (when taught properly), and that they are ALL wrong for what they do not teach.
The headline is not quite right. First off, the first stealth ship was the U.S. Navy's Sea Shadow, but it is only a technology testbed and demonstrator. This is the first stealth ship to see operational service.
Whatever happened to WhoopAss? It was the first "energy" drink I ever tried, and it tasted MUCH better than Red Bull. ThinkGeek doesn't carry it anymore, and it was the only place I ever saw it.
"SDI won't work" is still a valid argument. This is NOT SDI. This is theatre defense against a very small number of targets. When you have a system that can defend the continental US against thousands of targets and not miss a SINGLE ONE, then you can say SDI works.
I'm not saying it's not possible, just that it's not possible with the technology now or in the foreseeable future.
Besides, I think we did just fine against the USSR even without SDI.
Does anyone know where I could find some sort of evidence that there is a danger to begin with? Maybe then I'll stop believing that it's purely a matter of hoovering my wallet as completely as possible.
Yeah, but the price of a drive will probably be more than a decent import car. I'd love to do tape backups at home, but the SOHO tape offerings are not keeping pace. Maybe when LTO-3 comes out I'll be able to afford an old DLT library on ebay.
Seriously, the only market I'd even consider what's being described here is the SOHO arena, and even then it's probably cheaper, easier, and a whole LOT faster to backup to an external disk and take it home with you at night. (or to work during the day, depending on where the data starts out) I dunno where Iomega thinks they're going with this, probably the same place the Zip 750 took them. And I used to love my Zip 100 drive. Got an internal SCSI, external parallel, lots of disks, going cheap! No reasonable offer refused!
Actually, the cameras AREN'T tracking people, they are monitoring a LOCATION and capturing the movements of the people who walk in front of them. There's a big difference between getting a video recording of what you do in public and tracking where you go and who else goes there, etc.
Cameras are keyed to a physical location. Tracking a person is a different thing.
Personally, I'm not afraid of government. But people scare the hell out of me. Name one technology that hasn't been perverted to scam, rob, control, kill, etc. No matter what you invent, someone out there wants to get rich/power, etc off of it.
Unless they're somehow going to use RFID to beam you the conditions of every highway in the US, how else do you think they're going to know WHAT road conditions to transmit to you? Tracking is implicit in any scheme to send personalized data. To send location-specific data, your location has to be tracked.
That's comparing Iomega's new product with Sony's obsolete one. Try comparing to AIT-2 or AIT-3, let alone LTO or LTO-2. 100GB LTO tapes can be had for around $60-80, IIRC. That's less than $1/GB. LTO-2 is 200GB uncompressed for a bit over $100 a tape. Drives are expensive as hell, but most of the cost for a backup system ends up being media anyway.
Disclaimer: I'm an engineer for a company that sells enterprise storage. We sell tape all the time. Disk is fast, but not portable. Optical (including CD, DVD) is slow and WAY too small for business backups. Tape is getting larger and faster all the time. LTO-3 is rumored to break the Terabyte per tape mark when it comes out. (Compressed, of course)
Yeah, as long as you don't drop it during those 30 years. When I drop a DLT or LTO tape, I pick it up and put it back on the shelf, no worries. If the media contains its own r/w heads, that's FAR too fragile to replace tape.
And you clearly do not live in the Washington, D.C. area. Before they finally closed the Lorton prison down, one of the more outrageous (but certainly not the only) finds was photographs of inmates posing with weapons. Just showing off, wanting to look tough. What makes it truly sad is that the photographs were taken by GUARDS. Correctional Officers make even less than cops, in much more dangerous environments. Doesn't attract the highest caliber of applicants, and those that do get the job can be rather easily bought in some cases. Not to paint all COs with a broad brush, many are to be commended for honestly doing a job that would scare the hell out of most of us, but the ones that can be bought make anything possible on the inside.
And BTW, you think it's easier to hide a still than a cell phone and charger? You don't think stills can be found in the prisons if you know where to look? You don't have to charge a phone in your cell, you certainly don't have to use it from there.
(Cell phone. Heh. I just got that.)
Sadly, most of the absolutely stupid "common sense" rules and warnings come about because someone was stupid enough to try it already.