I couldn't find anything on what exactly is the centre frequency for this, but around 120GHz is certainly allocated and in use--119.98-120.02 to ham use and 101-120 GHz to radio astronomy (search for intentional extraterrestrial emission). Perhaps they mean "previously unused for wireless computer communication"?
Some people are convinced that tube amps sound better, but that's because the distortion of the tube amps can be a more plesant sound than an actual hi-quality amp.
That's mostly true for the vinyl/CD difference (it's possible usually to distort a CD into sounding like vinyl), but tube amps really do have an advantage over transistors: they have better linearity over a wider dynamic range. It's a small effect, but there and worth considering with really high-end equipment. OTOH tubes frequently introduce more thermal/random noise on top of the signal.
Would "security through obscurity" be a good thing here?
Questionable. As with any technique designed to discover patterns in human nature, the focus already is on the aggregate, on how people tend to behave. There's going to be deviation no matter what. A good model accounts for this. A good detective understands the nature of the model and its limitations.
Take a look at the second article: Rossmo puts emphasis on certain locations based on his psychological assumptions about the quarry. At the same time, he discards or discounts other locations that he believes might skew his findings. This is just one tool in his arsenal: an important one, but other tools feed data in and yet others interpret what comes out. Sounds like the way to go.
I'm not a Boston resident (but I intend to be so within a year and have visited a bit). It's painfully obvious that the Dig is necessary to reunite the North End with the rest of the city...good on its own merits and gets the historical stuff connected with downtown, making life easier for the tourists. In the meantime, of course, the situation is worse.
As far as the overall effectiveness of the T, I've been pretty impressed. It's cheap and works; beats mass transit here in Grand Rapids hands-down of course, but also bests the CTA (just got kicked off the L this weekend "no trains further north tonight, sorry") and, IMO, the Washington Metro--which is pretty nice but infrequent and expensive.
Well, one lousy bit of scheduling is that this Thursday conflicts with Otakon; I'm not going to be anywhere near my home base. I'm not really complaining; I'm sure every day has something at least tangentially geek-related. So, er, that's one less person in Grand Rapids.
You can pick up a nice region-free copy from Image Anime here in NYC. Subtitled, 5.1 surround, it's nice!
That practically screams bootleg. Don't buy nonlicensed anime; it's the same as paying someone to photocopy an entire book for you. For more info: Pirate Anime FAQ
Production IG is actually getting pretty seriously into the North American market themselves; they've been working with Bandai (the Love Hina and Candidate for Goddess DVD's are technically Prod IG releases with Bandai distribution) and Synch-Point/Digital Manga. Sounds like Bandai will be distroing GiTS (being a more established company that makes sense) but Prod IG probably will be very closely involved. At any rate they'd have to be brain-dead to not bring it to the US in some form, given the popularity of the movie and the fact that they're already moving in this market.
They forgot about The Mummy Returns
Okay, other people have attempted to point this out, but without much success, so I'm just going to link you to the full Bad Astronomy review. (Another excellent page for bad science in movies, BTW).
Big Electronic Human-Engineered Machine, Only Too Heavy IIRC. He had god only knows how many computers built in and a load of ham gear; parts of each usable in motion and some of it only once standing still. A lot was in the trailer behind the thing.
Last I saw (in a 1991 issue of QST), he was up to BEHEMOTH III and was working on #4, to be dubbed the "MicroShip." Haven't heard much since.
Re:Skeptics, *yawn*
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Here's the problem. Once upon a time Thomas Aquinas wrote about how wasn't it really nifty and cool that the science of the time and the theology of the time just really meshed in a fantastic way and they all got together so beautifully and pointed to each other and supported each other.
Then the science started changing, or more accurately progressing and refining itself. And the theologians felt threatened and tried to push down the science.
Now along comes Hugh Ross. Who's saying isn't it so wonderful that our modern understanding of the cosmos gets along so great with "our" theology and points the way to...
I think it's understandable why a lot of people are very, very nervous about him and anyone who's backing his institute. I don't entirely discredit the argument from design, but it's really more of an interesting philosophical twist on things than anything else. Scientifically I dislike Ross' approach because it potentially restricts scientific inquery to "approved" channels. Religiously I dislike it because it tries to pigeonhole god into a particular "gap" in the cosmos and when our scientific understand expands to fill the gap, suddenly god seems useless. I sorta think of god as having better things to do than hanging around as a mystical incantation to fill holes in our scientific knowledge, and I think science has better things to do than trying to back up a theological perspective.
This doesn't preclude discussion and research into the scientific/theological interaction, but I'm highly suspicious of checking scientific research against theological conceptions.
Hummel's Galileo Connection is a pretty good read on the subject, BTW.
It's been OOP for years. The Amazon links others have given might help; otherwise scavenge the used book stores. For some reason the other two Empire novels have been reprinted much more recently.
One note though is that microsoft requires licenses for each machine(unique ip) that connects to there servers but apparently this only costs about 5 dollars per machine.
That is incorrect. Each machine that ever connects to the server requires a Windows Server CAL, $40. It also requires a Terminal Services CAL, $135. So each seat costs $175. Each concurrent connection to the server requires a Citrix connect license, about $300-$400 depending on what flavour of Citrix.
So fully replacing a PC costs around $500, plus the cost of the terminal, plus the cost of the server. Now, standard educational discount can run up to 90%--of course, you can frequently get educational discount on the hardware as well. Don't forget that applications running on the server are also licensed per-seat. Can't just install one copy of Office and run the whole place.
Citrix is also a bit of PITA to administrate. It's doing a difficult thing, and doing it pretty well, but there are minor sniglets, especially if you're using the more advanced functionality. Short answer? Better have a good reason to use Citrix. If you have one, it'll work out; installing Citrix blind, however, leads to massive problems. We use it where I work as part of our suite of services, and it fills the niche we use it for very well. But I'm not about to ditch all the computers in the office for WinTerms.
Also never hurts to remember: The network is the load average.
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The committee can only conclude that NASA's long history of successes in testing and launching space vehicles with pure oxygen environments at 16.7 p.s.i. and lower pressures led to overconfidence and complacency
North American was told that the CM would be pressurized at 5psi pure oxygen, which was true during flight. It was fireproofed to these specs. Nobody informed them that launch pressure was sea level. The CM was definitely not fireproof at that pressue.
"People" like you are the reason Ion Storm is gone, despite making Deus Ex, which is a fucking cool game,
Deus Ex kicked ass. And was the product of Ion Storm Austin, a mostly independent studio run by Warren Spector. ISA was an entirely different animal from the Dallas office, although still drawing from Romero's vision of design above all (and doing a much better job of it).
ISA, incidentally, still exists, and will probably be renamed if it hasn't already. (My vote for the new name is "Looking Glass," since they have many of the old LG staff and seem to be drawing from that heritage)
It's not that odd, since everything that can run W95 can run W98 too, IOW there is no reason not to upgrade from W95 to W98.
Well, 98 has stiffer memory requirements for starters. On top of that, for some reason 98 absolutely refuses to install on my machine--goes completely ape detecting the hardware. Be, 95, NT4, and various flavours of Linux are all fine.
Sure, from someone with a 50k id...Young'un:)
*ahem*
Anyhow, even if the patch applies sorta cleanly, it always helps to look for the latest info. Also learning how to muck with failed patches isn't something that everyone knows. I'm certainly saving Lethyos' post for future reference.
Don't know why a review of a game that's been out for so long is front-page worthy, but if you guys want a different take, I didn't like it very much. Just a lot of repetitive combat that, unlike a good twitch game (such as Descent) didn't have much fun quotient.
That wouldn't happen to be the same RiscOS that powered Acorn's ARM-based Archimedes computers, would it? One of the first true 32-bit OS's, on one of the first desktop RISC machines. Acorn did cool things, even in the 8-bit days (I love my model B).
First off, I think the car search is a little ridiculous and you should probably speak briefly with your superior about it. Heck, just talk to your boss and explain that you understand the need for increased security, but you'd prefer it be a little less in-your-face.
The other thing to do is minimize what you bring in and out. What are you taking home? A laptop to do work at home? Just leave the work at the office for a few weeks. Use a paper lunchbag and throw it out when you're done. Don't wear cargo pants. And when you talk to your boss, let him/her know that you're taking these steps to make life easier for both you and the security people.
In other words, do what you can to make the intrusion less of an intrusion, and make it know that you do still consider it an intrusion, but are willing to be reasonable, especially in the short term.
Well, a couple of things that probably aren't exactly what you're looking for, but may help:
There's a product out there called "crystal cube" which has a small "computer on a card" and then runs CAT5 out to your desk carrying video, keyboard, etc. etc. That's still a one-to-one, though.
More to your liking may be a product from Belkin. You can hang your workstation off the KVM via CAT5, so the KVM can be in the server room with you at your desk. They also offer a dual-head KVM: two people working on any two of the machines on the KVM. They have some good stuff, and the quality has been OK from my experience. We're not using their so-called hi-res cables and the video is acceptable for server maintenance, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for long-term used.
I've got a BBC Basic Interpreter for the PC that my dad and I wrote, and that has stuff like "MODE 1" and "PLOT 69,100,100", so I can do it, but the BBC basic language is a bit klunky nowadays.
ps. Anyone want a copy?
Heck yeah. I also need to find a Beeb emulator that will run Elite, and I'd really like to find a way to dump my Elite disc image out to an 80-track floppy so I can play on the model B I have sitting in the basement.
Usually, when a new kernel is out, I download the patch, apply it, use the most recent config file, which I go through some, but not necessary through all umpteen options and this usually worked just fine.
Um, you should use "make oldconfig" when you're upgrading kernels and using the same config file. It'll prompt you for any new options.
Fine then. How about 2TB of F-CAL RAID-5 using Seagate Cheetahs? $45,000, or 46MB per dollar, a factor of four more than the memory (which, BTW, is also dog MB if you're spending that little).
All in all, somebody screwed up, but RAM is certainly cheap enough that you'd expect SS HDD's to be a bit more common.
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I couldn't find anything on what exactly is the centre frequency for this, but around 120GHz is certainly allocated and in use--119.98-120.02 to ham use and 101-120 GHz to radio astronomy (search for intentional extraterrestrial emission). Perhaps they mean "previously unused for wireless computer communication"?
That's mostly true for the vinyl/CD difference (it's possible usually to distort a CD into sounding like vinyl), but tube amps really do have an advantage over transistors: they have better linearity over a wider dynamic range. It's a small effect, but there and worth considering with really high-end equipment. OTOH tubes frequently introduce more thermal/random noise on top of the signal.
Questionable. As with any technique designed to discover patterns in human nature, the focus already is on the aggregate, on how people tend to behave. There's going to be deviation no matter what. A good model accounts for this. A good detective understands the nature of the model and its limitations.
Take a look at the second article: Rossmo puts emphasis on certain locations based on his psychological assumptions about the quarry. At the same time, he discards or discounts other locations that he believes might skew his findings. This is just one tool in his arsenal: an important one, but other tools feed data in and yet others interpret what comes out. Sounds like the way to go.
As far as the overall effectiveness of the T, I've been pretty impressed. It's cheap and works; beats mass transit here in Grand Rapids hands-down of course, but also bests the CTA (just got kicked off the L this weekend "no trains further north tonight, sorry") and, IMO, the Washington Metro--which is pretty nice but infrequent and expensive.
Well, one lousy bit of scheduling is that this Thursday conflicts with Otakon; I'm not going to be anywhere near my home base. I'm not really complaining; I'm sure every day has something at least tangentially geek-related. So, er, that's one less person in Grand Rapids.
That practically screams bootleg. Don't buy nonlicensed anime; it's the same as paying someone to photocopy an entire book for you. For more info: Pirate Anime FAQ
Production IG is actually getting pretty seriously into the North American market themselves; they've been working with Bandai (the Love Hina and Candidate for Goddess DVD's are technically Prod IG releases with Bandai distribution) and Synch-Point/Digital Manga. Sounds like Bandai will be distroing GiTS (being a more established company that makes sense) but Prod IG probably will be very closely involved. At any rate they'd have to be brain-dead to not bring it to the US in some form, given the popularity of the movie and the fact that they're already moving in this market.
They forgot about The Mummy Returns
Okay, other people have attempted to point this out, but without much success, so I'm just going to link you to the full Bad Astronomy review.
(Another excellent page for bad science in movies, BTW).
Big Electronic Human-Engineered Machine, Only Too Heavy IIRC. He had god only knows how many computers built in and a load of ham gear; parts of each usable in motion and some of it only once standing still. A lot was in the trailer behind the thing.
Last I saw (in a 1991 issue of QST), he was up to BEHEMOTH III and was working on #4, to be dubbed the "MicroShip." Haven't heard much since.
Here's the problem. Once upon a time Thomas Aquinas wrote about how wasn't it really nifty and cool that the science of the time and the theology of the time just really meshed in a fantastic way and they all got together so beautifully and pointed to each other and supported each other.
Then the science started changing, or more accurately progressing and refining itself. And the theologians felt threatened and tried to push down the science.
Now along comes Hugh Ross. Who's saying isn't it so wonderful that our modern understanding of the cosmos gets along so great with "our" theology and points the way to...
I think it's understandable why a lot of people are very, very nervous about him and anyone who's backing his institute. I don't entirely discredit the argument from design, but it's really more of an interesting philosophical twist on things than anything else. Scientifically I dislike Ross' approach because it potentially restricts scientific inquery to "approved" channels. Religiously I dislike it because it tries to pigeonhole god into a particular "gap" in the cosmos and when our scientific understand expands to fill the gap, suddenly god seems useless. I sorta think of god as having better things to do than hanging around as a mystical incantation to fill holes in our scientific knowledge, and I think science has better things to do than trying to back up a theological perspective.
This doesn't preclude discussion and research into the scientific/theological interaction, but I'm highly suspicious of checking scientific research against theological conceptions.
Hummel's Galileo Connection is a pretty good read on the subject, BTW.
It's been OOP for years. The Amazon links others have given might help; otherwise scavenge the used book stores. For some reason the other two Empire novels have been reprinted much more recently.
That is incorrect. Each machine that ever connects to the server requires a Windows Server CAL, $40. It also requires a Terminal Services CAL, $135. So each seat costs $175. Each concurrent connection to the server requires a Citrix connect license, about $300-$400 depending on what flavour of Citrix.
So fully replacing a PC costs around $500, plus the cost of the terminal, plus the cost of the server. Now, standard educational discount can run up to 90%--of course, you can frequently get educational discount on the hardware as well. Don't forget that applications running on the server are also licensed per-seat. Can't just install one copy of Office and run the whole place.
Citrix is also a bit of PITA to administrate. It's doing a difficult thing, and doing it pretty well, but there are minor sniglets, especially if you're using the more advanced functionality. Short answer? Better have a good reason to use Citrix. If you have one, it'll work out; installing Citrix blind, however, leads to massive problems. We use it where I work as part of our suite of services, and it fills the niche we use it for very well. But I'm not about to ditch all the computers in the office for WinTerms.
Also never hurts to remember: The network is the load average.
The committee can only conclude that NASA's long history of successes in testing and launching space vehicles with pure oxygen environments at 16.7 p.s.i. and lower pressures led to overconfidence and complacency
North American was told that the CM would be pressurized at 5psi pure oxygen, which was true during flight. It was fireproofed to these specs. Nobody informed them that launch pressure was sea level. The CM was definitely not fireproof at that pressue.
Note also that an expired US passport is still considered proof of citizenship.
"People" like you are the reason Ion Storm is gone, despite making Deus Ex, which is a fucking cool game,
Deus Ex kicked ass. And was the product of Ion Storm Austin, a mostly independent studio run by Warren Spector. ISA was an entirely different animal from the Dallas office, although still drawing from Romero's vision of design above all (and doing a much better job of it).
ISA, incidentally, still exists, and will probably be renamed if it hasn't already. (My vote for the new name is "Looking Glass," since they have many of the old LG staff and seem to be drawing from that heritage)
It's not that odd, since everything that can run W95 can run W98 too, IOW there is no reason not to upgrade from W95 to W98.
Well, 98 has stiffer memory requirements for starters. On top of that, for some reason 98 absolutely refuses to install on my machine--goes completely ape detecting the hardware. Be, 95, NT4, and various flavours of Linux are all fine.
Sure, from someone with a 50k id...Young'un :)
*ahem*
Anyhow, even if the patch applies sorta cleanly, it always helps to look for the latest info. Also learning how to muck with failed patches isn't something that everyone knows. I'm certainly saving Lethyos' post for future reference.
Don't know why a review of a game that's been out for so long is front-page worthy, but if you guys want a different take, I didn't like it very much. Just a lot of repetitive combat that, unlike a good twitch game (such as Descent) didn't have much fun quotient.
That wouldn't happen to be the same RiscOS that powered Acorn's ARM-based Archimedes computers, would it? One of the first true 32-bit OS's, on one of the first desktop RISC machines. Acorn did cool things, even in the 8-bit days (I love my model B).
The other thing to do is minimize what you bring in and out. What are you taking home? A laptop to do work at home? Just leave the work at the office for a few weeks. Use a paper lunchbag and throw it out when you're done. Don't wear cargo pants. And when you talk to your boss, let him/her know that you're taking these steps to make life easier for both you and the security people.
In other words, do what you can to make the intrusion less of an intrusion, and make it know that you do still consider it an intrusion, but are willing to be reasonable, especially in the short term.
Sounds to me an awful lot like a bill of attainder. (sp?)
Well, a couple of things that probably aren't exactly what you're looking for, but may help:
There's a product out there called "crystal cube" which has a small "computer on a card" and then runs CAT5 out to your desk carrying video, keyboard, etc. etc. That's still a one-to-one, though.
More to your liking may be a product from Belkin. You can hang your workstation off the KVM via CAT5, so the KVM can be in the server room with you at your desk. They also offer a dual-head KVM: two people working on any two of the machines on the KVM. They have some good stuff, and the quality has been OK from my experience. We're not using their so-called hi-res cables and the video is acceptable for server maintenance, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for long-term used.
ps. Anyone want a copy?
Heck yeah. I also need to find a Beeb emulator that will run Elite, and I'd really like to find a way to dump my Elite disc image out to an 80-track floppy so I can play on the model B I have sitting in the basement.
Um, you should use "make oldconfig" when you're upgrading kernels and using the same config file. It'll prompt you for any new options.
Fine then. How about 2TB of F-CAL RAID-5 using Seagate Cheetahs? $45,000, or 46MB per dollar, a factor of four more than the memory (which, BTW, is also dog MB if you're spending that little).
All in all, somebody screwed up, but RAM is certainly cheap enough that you'd expect SS HDD's to be a bit more common.