As a current 12-year member of the Air Force, I've seen my fair share of gaffs; but none that resulted in anyone going to jail or having their career ended. Those consequences are reserved for committing crimes
During my six year stint in the navy aboard nuclear fast attack submarines, I did in fact see one man go to *jail* so you're experiences are not canonical. What you fail to address is the fact that loss of control of a nuclear weapon *is* a crime and is not only career-threatening but definitely in the realm of landing someone in the big house.
As for the last part of what you said:
Oh, and to the other posts that keep talking about 'attached to the wings'...Um, B-52s don't have anything attached to their wings except engines. The weapons would have been in the internal bay.
In the last four years, four of these smart weapons have been integrated into the B-52: the WCMD, the joint direct attack munition (JDAM), the joint standoff weapon (JSW), and the joint air-to-surface standoff missile (JASSM). All are certified except the JASSM, which is still undergoing operational testing.
Price said that the Air Force would like to create the capability to carry these smart weapons externally and internally on the B-52. Currently, the aircraft can only carry these weapons externally on pylons. Air Combat Command (ACC) would like to incorporate the weapons into the bomb bay but has not committed the funding to do so yet.
Buffs have carried external pylon mounted cruise missiles as well as AGM's for a couple of years now, and are constantly being upgraded with longer range missiles, more advanced targeting systems and control systems.
eBay provides a number of non-paypal alternatives and it's not about monopolistic practices. They have a list of accepted vendors on their website which includes Allpay.net, Bidpay, Canadian Tire Money, cash2india, CertaPay, Checkfree.com, hyperwallet,com, Moneybookers.com, Ozpay.biz, Payko.com, Paymate.com.au, Propay.com, and XOOM. In addition, any merchant-type VISA/Mastercard/etc account is valid, as is a direct exchange of checks, wire transfers (bank to bank), etc.
The list of unapproved money exchanges includes a lot of services including Western Union, so the hue and cry about antitrust and "eBay only allows their own stuff" is nothing more than a bunch of smoke without a fire. eBay specifically states that any "new" service without a track record of privacy protection and customer service will be scrutinized and most likely prohibited until it has some history.
Everyone's quick to bitch and whine about eBay not going after fraud, not going after bad sellers, not backing them up on financial transactions and the like yet when eBay DOES try and show some spine and protection everyone piles on. It has less to do with the "paypal competition" than it does with "we have no idea how stable, how reliable and how safe this service is and we're saying no until such time as it does appear to be safe, private and protected"
Pick a direction to go, guys... do you want eBay to get the hell completely out of your way and act like nothing more than a broker and middleman or do you want them to try and put stuff in place to protect people because you can't have it both ways.
And for all Netflix users out there, my Queue Manager program is now officially free, and officially version 1. Now that it's out of beta, come give it a spin!
Too bad it's for windows. How about a mac/linux port?
-- Gary F.
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I used to have SBC. I despised them. They nickle and dimed me for everything... $8 a month for this, $5 a month for that, etc. I also had DSL and directTV through them (only because my apt complex had a captive contract with them to keep comcast out). Then I bought a tivo and had to take it back when I found out SBC was doing signal stacking in my complex and I needed to buy a destacker before I could use the Tivo (which cost more than the Tivo did).
I just moved out into a townhome. I went from 768k DSL (on a good day) to 6 megabit cable, got high def and a middle of the road TV programming package, and signed up for Sunrocket VOIP. My phone bill alone was around $60 a month just for dialtone, a flat rate long distance package and a few minor extras (like caller ID) and I'm paying $16.50 or so a month for my VOIP through sunrocket with no contract, no cancellation fees, didn't pay a dime for the equipment, AND got a free set of uniden cordless phones when I signed up.
In addition, between the DSL and satellite charges compared to the cablemodem + cable TV I'm saving another $25 or so a month and I'm getting roughly 8 times the speed (I'm capping out around 5.6 megabit on my speed tests). That's just shy of $75 a month I freed up to spend on beer.
That may very well work with the mini, photo, etc. but it doesn't work with the *shuffle*.
The podcast playlist doesn't appear in the list of autofill targets and the ipod firmware update doesn't include an update for the shuffle (it's still running at 1.1).
Until it will autofill from my podcasts on my shuffle, I'll stick with one of those "low-quality" podcast clients, tyvm.
I use podsafe... it automatically dumps everything into a seperate playlist for me, I hit autofill and walk away. When I redock my shuffle, it updates the playcount and the next time I hit podsafe it automatically deletes all the ones I listened to.
When iTunes can do that for the *shuffle* I'll switch. Until then, I'm completely underwhelmed with version 4.9
Why should you care? Because buried in the crappy sea of angst-ridden podcasts you occasionally find some really good diamonds... Personally, I absolutely love the Rock and Roll Geek Show by Michael Butler (and there are a few other gems I listen to regularly). I also recommend you hunt down the Gillmoor gang podcasts, as well as the absolutely hilariouis LUG radio shows.
Podcasting is still in it's infancy, but the concept of anyone making content available to anyone is pretty cool. Yes, it's like audio blogging... but there are some real gems in the blogging world as well.
Suicide bombers are attempting to show how hopeless they feel about their situation in the very loudest way possible. There is a fair solution, and it doesn't involve more death.
Are you completely nuts? You DO realize that suicide bombers seek out crowded areas and then blow themselves up along with as many innocent civilians as possible? I fail to see how that doesn't "involve more death" nor do I see how it is a fair solution. It's a fucking stupid non-solution that does nothing but terrorize innocents (thus the whole "terrorism" thing).
A suicide bomber is a far far cry from the protesting monk who douses himself in kerosene and sets himself on fire or something. One kills himself only, as a form of social outcry. The other kills himself along with as many innocent people as possible with the sole intention of scattering body parts, blood and fear over as wide an area as possible.
Macintosh computers using Intel microprocessors do not use Open Firmware. Although many parts of the IO registry are present and work as expected, information that is provided by Open Firmware on a Macintosh using a PowerPC microprocessor (such as a complete device tree) is not available in the IO registry on a Macintosh using an Intel microprocessor.
There's way too much FUD circulating around this. Just to clear the rest of it up... the initial target is IA32, Open Firmware is gone, the plan is to be able to put windows on a macintel but disallow OS X on commodity hardware, and Steve Jobs is still richer than all of us. I think that about sums it up.
I can't name a single other programmer I've known who writes/has written REXX applications.
*raises hand* I used to use REXX extensively when I worked at Toyota. I used it on the OS/2 machines as well as the mainframe. I even used Visual REXX occasionally.
I loved REXX. Gave it up when I moved to perl though. It is a very nice scripting language with a rich feature set.
"Mac will never be on par with Windows because of the lac (sic) of software choices."
Kind of depends on what you are *doing* and what software you need. Yeah, windows has a lot more choices for software... virus scanners, trojan removes, spyware scrubbers...
"Windows are faster, they have twice as many Mhz as apple's (sic)"
Yeah, because clock speed is a direct indication of how fast the OS runs. Takes nothing about processor and bus architecture into account. A 3 MHz x86 is OBVIOUSLY twice as fast as a 1.5 MHz PowerPC.
"Windows are getting the job done..." Depends on the job. They *all* are "getting the job done".
Mac OS vs Windows vs Linux is just like anything else... they are a tool, designed to do a job. You first identify the job you need to do, then you fit the proper tool to that job. Each fills a particular niche pretty well.
You're obviously an idiot. I think that sums it up.:P
I gotta admit, Jadzia is pretty hot... and that lesbian kiss thing she did on DS9 with her "former wife" (well, the wife of one of her symbiants former hosts) was uhm... yeah. Whew. Anyway.
Maybe I mispoke about 7 of 9. But then again, maybe Jadzia and 7 of 9, together on the observation deck with a tub of crisco, some jumper cables and the mandatory hot grits... ok, back to work, geez, not gonna get anything done today.
Great, now I have this image of poor Bessie, standing in the middle of 880 mooing plaintively and struggling to unstick her feet as a semi barrels down on her.
I'm having an excellent time playing JE. I have finished quite a few of the side quests in the imperial city, just took the silver championship and am OMW to infilitrate the Lotus Blossom Assassins before I work my way up to the gold championship.
I think the game is a hell of a lot of fun, and quite a bit more engrossing than many I have played (although I did love the PC version of Morrowind and I'm also finally playing the xbox KOTR 1 and enjoying it as well). One thing that annoys me immensely about KOTR 1 is that I don't have Xbox live, and therefore can't get the bug fixes and game updates for it (why should I have to pay a subscription to get bug fixes?). Anyway, I digress...
The dialogue *is* excellently voice acted. The whole bit with the outlander (John Cleese) was hilarious. The combat is fun, but could be a bit more challenging. It's not completely dumbed down but it's also no Soul Caliber. Using the storm dragon style coupled with any other martial style (I'm using leaping tiger) pretty much leads to a "can't lose" versus anything that's stunnable. Like another poster I read, I almost never use blocks, and I don't think I've ever purposefully done a harmonic combo. Most of the time against normal opponents I can easily win just by tossing a few storm dragon strikes to stun them, then pummel them for 5 or 6 secs before stunning them again, rinse and repeat. During the silver championship, Soldier never touched me, he spent the entire time stunned/shocked/getting his ass handed to him. The final fight in the black leopard school was a bit more challenging, until I finally managed to stun Smiling Raven or whatever his name was and then it was all over.
I'm looking forward to playing it again from the beginning and doing a few things differently... number 1, going full closed fist instead of open palm and turning into a grade A bastard, number 2 not learning every single style I happen across and instead focusing on maxing out 3 or 4 bread and butter styles, and finally number 3 not even using Storm Dragon because it's almost like a cheat mode.
All in all, this game was WELL worth the cash, and I can't say that too often anymore. I've spent more money on a lot shitter games.
It's on the caller ID box, not on the printout. I don't even have my fax machine hooked up and don't accept incoming faxes (especially from junk faxers).
Somehow the person who had this number before me managed to get herself (yes, it's a her) on tons of different fax blaster spam lines, so I have to deal with the freakin' phone ringing at 3 am with some idiot wanting to junk fax me. Man, it's a really good thing junk faxing is illegal! Really puts a stop to those guys!
They are most definitely spoofing the Caller ID on the actual line.
-- Gary F.
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It's a hell of a lot easier to spoof a Caller ID tag than you are leading on. I routinely get fax blasters calling me from bogus numbers like "987-654-3210" (yeah, like THAT isn't obvious, sheesh). Requires no specialized equipment at all on your part.
You have places like http://www.spooftel.com/ and http://www.covertcall.com/ (tons more can be found by googling) that easily allow this (caveat, I haven't actually TRIED any of the above, they may be completely bogus).
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During my six year stint in the navy aboard nuclear fast attack submarines, I did in fact see one man go to *jail* so you're experiences are not canonical. What you fail to address is the fact that loss of control of a nuclear weapon *is* a crime and is not only career-threatening but definitely in the realm of landing someone in the big house.
As for the last part of what you said:
You are a blithering idiot and obviously work as an air force cook, not a weapons handler. This from a 4 year old article from http://www.military-aerospace-technology.com/arti
Buffs have carried external pylon mounted cruise missiles as well as AGM's for a couple of years now, and are constantly being upgraded with longer range missiles, more advanced targeting systems and control systems.
DAoC also had an amazingly smooth launch.
Launching a game smoothly shouldn't be rocket science. It should be the norm instead of the exception. Unfortunately...
-- Gary F.
eBay provides a number of non-paypal alternatives and it's not about monopolistic practices. They have a list of accepted vendors on their website which includes Allpay.net, Bidpay, Canadian Tire Money, cash2india, CertaPay, Checkfree.com, hyperwallet,com, Moneybookers.com, Ozpay.biz, Payko.com, Paymate.com.au, Propay.com, and XOOM. In addition, any merchant-type VISA/Mastercard/etc account is valid, as is a direct exchange of checks, wire transfers (bank to bank), etc.
The list of unapproved money exchanges includes a lot of services including Western Union, so the hue and cry about antitrust and "eBay only allows their own stuff" is nothing more than a bunch of smoke without a fire. eBay specifically states that any "new" service without a track record of privacy protection and customer service will be scrutinized and most likely prohibited until it has some history.
Everyone's quick to bitch and whine about eBay not going after fraud, not going after bad sellers, not backing them up on financial transactions and the like yet when eBay DOES try and show some spine and protection everyone piles on. It has less to do with the "paypal competition" than it does with "we have no idea how stable, how reliable and how safe this service is and we're saying no until such time as it does appear to be safe, private and protected"
Pick a direction to go, guys... do you want eBay to get the hell completely out of your way and act like nothing more than a broker and middleman or do you want them to try and put stuff in place to protect people because you can't have it both ways.
-- Gary F.
That's ok, he'll catch it when the dupe comes around.
Too bad it's for windows. How about a mac/linux port?
-- Gary F.
Psst... it's called Guild Wars.
-- Gary F.
I used to have SBC. I despised them. They nickle and dimed me for everything... $8 a month for this, $5 a month for that, etc. I also had DSL and directTV through them (only because my apt complex had a captive contract with them to keep comcast out). Then I bought a tivo and had to take it back when I found out SBC was doing signal stacking in my complex and I needed to buy a destacker before I could use the Tivo (which cost more than the Tivo did).
I just moved out into a townhome. I went from 768k DSL (on a good day) to 6 megabit cable, got high def and a middle of the road TV programming package, and signed up for Sunrocket VOIP. My phone bill alone was around $60 a month just for dialtone, a flat rate long distance package and a few minor extras (like caller ID) and I'm paying $16.50 or so a month for my VOIP through sunrocket with no contract, no cancellation fees, didn't pay a dime for the equipment, AND got a free set of uniden cordless phones when I signed up.
In addition, between the DSL and satellite charges compared to the cablemodem + cable TV I'm saving another $25 or so a month and I'm getting roughly 8 times the speed (I'm capping out around 5.6 megabit on my speed tests). That's just shy of $75 a month I freed up to spend on beer.
SBC can suck my ass.
-- Gary F.
That may very well work with the mini, photo, etc. but it doesn't work with the *shuffle*.
The podcast playlist doesn't appear in the list of autofill targets and the ipod firmware update doesn't include an update for the shuffle (it's still running at 1.1).
-- Gary F.
Until it will autofill from my podcasts on my shuffle, I'll stick with one of those "low-quality" podcast clients, tyvm.
I use podsafe... it automatically dumps everything into a seperate playlist for me, I hit autofill and walk away. When I redock my shuffle, it updates the playcount and the next time I hit podsafe it automatically deletes all the ones I listened to.
When iTunes can do that for the *shuffle* I'll switch. Until then, I'm completely underwhelmed with version 4.9
-- Gary F.
Why should you care? Because buried in the crappy sea of angst-ridden podcasts you occasionally find some really good diamonds... Personally, I absolutely love the Rock and Roll Geek Show by Michael Butler (and there are a few other gems I listen to regularly). I also recommend you hunt down the Gillmoor gang podcasts, as well as the absolutely hilariouis LUG radio shows.
Podcasting is still in it's infancy, but the concept of anyone making content available to anyone is pretty cool. Yes, it's like audio blogging... but there are some real gems in the blogging world as well.
-- Gary F.
Are you completely nuts? You DO realize that suicide bombers seek out crowded areas and then blow themselves up along with as many innocent civilians as possible? I fail to see how that doesn't "involve more death" nor do I see how it is a fair solution. It's a fucking stupid non-solution that does nothing but terrorize innocents (thus the whole "terrorism" thing).
A suicide bomber is a far far cry from the protesting monk who douses himself in kerosene and sets himself on fire or something. One kills himself only, as a form of social outcry. The other kills himself along with as many innocent people as possible with the sole intention of scattering body parts, blood and fear over as wide an area as possible.
-- Gary F.
I'll spend significantly more than $160 at Whole Foods this year. In fact, I'll probably make up for your share pretty quickly too.
Apple has very specifically stated in the developer's notes for the macintel porting guides (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/C onceptual/universal_binary/index.html) that the Macintel will not use OpenFirmware. Don't believe me? Here's the direct quote (emphasis mine):
There's way too much FUD circulating around this. Just to clear the rest of it up... the initial target is IA32, Open Firmware is gone, the plan is to be able to put windows on a macintel but disallow OS X on commodity hardware, and Steve Jobs is still richer than all of us. I think that about sums it up.-- Gary F.
Damn where are my mod points when I need them?
Thanks for making me spit coffee out of my nose.
*raises hand* I used to use REXX extensively when I worked at Toyota. I used it on the OS/2 machines as well as the mainframe. I even used Visual REXX occasionally.
I loved REXX. Gave it up when I moved to perl though. It is a very nice scripting language with a rich feature set.
-- Gary F.
"Mac will never be on par with Windows because of the lac (sic) of software choices."
:P
Kind of depends on what you are *doing* and what software you need. Yeah, windows has a lot more choices for software... virus scanners, trojan removes, spyware scrubbers...
"Windows are faster, they have twice as many Mhz as apple's (sic)"
Yeah, because clock speed is a direct indication of how fast the OS runs. Takes nothing about processor and bus architecture into account. A 3 MHz x86 is OBVIOUSLY twice as fast as a 1.5 MHz PowerPC.
"Windows are getting the job done..." Depends on the job. They *all* are "getting the job done".
Mac OS vs Windows vs Linux is just like anything else... they are a tool, designed to do a job. You first identify the job you need to do, then you fit the proper tool to that job. Each fills a particular niche pretty well.
You're obviously an idiot. I think that sums it up.
I gotta admit, Jadzia is pretty hot... and that lesbian kiss thing she did on DS9 with her "former wife" (well, the wife of one of her symbiants former hosts) was uhm... yeah. Whew. Anyway.
Maybe I mispoke about 7 of 9. But then again, maybe Jadzia and 7 of 9, together on the observation deck with a tub of crisco, some jumper cables and the mandatory hot grits... ok, back to work, geez, not gonna get anything done today.
-- Gary F.
You're kidding, right? That's a serious no-brainer.
7 of 9. As if there's anyone else that even comes close.
-- Gary F.
-- Gary F.
Yes, I got two of these. Both were expired.
-- Gary F.
I'm having an excellent time playing JE. I have finished quite a few of the side quests in the imperial city, just took the silver championship and am OMW to infilitrate the Lotus Blossom Assassins before I work my way up to the gold championship.
I think the game is a hell of a lot of fun, and quite a bit more engrossing than many I have played (although I did love the PC version of Morrowind and I'm also finally playing the xbox KOTR 1 and enjoying it as well). One thing that annoys me immensely about KOTR 1 is that I don't have Xbox live, and therefore can't get the bug fixes and game updates for it (why should I have to pay a subscription to get bug fixes?). Anyway, I digress...
The dialogue *is* excellently voice acted. The whole bit with the outlander (John Cleese) was hilarious. The combat is fun, but could be a bit more challenging. It's not completely dumbed down but it's also no Soul Caliber. Using the storm dragon style coupled with any other martial style (I'm using leaping tiger) pretty much leads to a "can't lose" versus anything that's stunnable. Like another poster I read, I almost never use blocks, and I don't think I've ever purposefully done a harmonic combo. Most of the time against normal opponents I can easily win just by tossing a few storm dragon strikes to stun them, then pummel them for 5 or 6 secs before stunning them again, rinse and repeat. During the silver championship, Soldier never touched me, he spent the entire time stunned/shocked/getting his ass handed to him. The final fight in the black leopard school was a bit more challenging, until I finally managed to stun Smiling Raven or whatever his name was and then it was all over.
I'm looking forward to playing it again from the beginning and doing a few things differently... number 1, going full closed fist instead of open palm and turning into a grade A bastard, number 2 not learning every single style I happen across and instead focusing on maxing out 3 or 4 bread and butter styles, and finally number 3 not even using Storm Dragon because it's almost like a cheat mode.
All in all, this game was WELL worth the cash, and I can't say that too often anymore. I've spent more money on a lot shitter games.
-- Gary F.
It's on the caller ID box, not on the printout. I don't even have my fax machine hooked up and don't accept incoming faxes (especially from junk faxers).
Somehow the person who had this number before me managed to get herself (yes, it's a her) on tons of different fax blaster spam lines, so I have to deal with the freakin' phone ringing at 3 am with some idiot wanting to junk fax me. Man, it's a really good thing junk faxing is illegal! Really puts a stop to those guys!
They are most definitely spoofing the Caller ID on the actual line.
-- Gary F.
It's a hell of a lot easier to spoof a Caller ID tag than you are leading on. I routinely get fax blasters calling me from bogus numbers like "987-654-3210" (yeah, like THAT isn't obvious, sheesh). Requires no specialized equipment at all on your part.
You have places like http://www.spooftel.com/ and http://www.covertcall.com/ (tons more can be found by googling) that easily allow this (caveat, I haven't actually TRIED any of the above, they may be completely bogus).
-- Gary F.
If it ain't baroque, don't fix it!
-- Gary F.
It's being worked on:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/SELinux
-- Gary F.