I agree the the size of the invasion force was probably close to the "right" size. However, I think all of the same issues we dealt with (badly) in Iraq would need to be addressed by anyone who wanted to act against NK. Could an invading force be in Pyongyang in a week or two? Probably. Could that same size force hold it indefinately? Probably not. Will the NK population rise up and support us? Maybe, but proabably not. There are two generations of people who haven't known freedom, and even if they don't like the current management one would expect them to follow the status quo since they don't have much of a comparison.
You're thinking old school. Wolfowitz & Feith would tell you we can invade NK with a dozen cub scouts and an angry hamster. Thats how they sold the Iraq war...gather up all the rational estimates for troop strength, divide them by 10, and you've got your "transformational" invasion force.
I'm not trying to troll, or even make a politcal statement, but aren't some of these "wars" rather silly and/or contrived? First browser wars then search engine wars?
Browsers and search engines are important, but it seems like "wars" reserved for more significant issues....otherwise it seems like we're headed for "varchar vs. char" wars.
...and sometimes not even that. IIRC there have been mixed judicial opinions on "right to die" cases, although the most current SCOTUS seemed to side with this in the Florida case.
I believe there are cases either pending or on appeal that deal with "death with dignity" cases.
Would be lame to be 700 years old and then get some 24 year old as a boss. This difference in musical tastes and fashion alone would probably be enough to cause one to take "early" (before age 720) retirement.
I believe these are installed/mandated on the Big Island of Hawai'i given the number of observatories loctated there. This allows the astronomers/techs to filter out a narrow band of what is basically noise, rather than the relatively broad band of white light.
The job was very *well done*, and servers like these are very *rare*. You seldom see people use a grill to send content over this *medium*. If this is linked to a database, I suppose he'd store the information in *char* fields.
Always an interesting question... In this case I think Yahoo! should grant the family (or more precisely, the executor of the late Corporal's estate) access to the account. It is customary to give personal affects and belongings to the family...this doesn't seem all that different.
To put it coarsely, it seems like when you die your family gets pretty much whatever is left...good, bad, or otherwise. This includes money if you saved it, debt if you have it, real estate, tax burden, CD collection, and so forth. Generally speaking these get passed on to the family whether or not the family wants them. In that sense it seems more or less fair that the family should get something for which they are asking.
Um, I think a little sensitivity is called for. The deceased account holder was killed in (I believe) Iraq and was probably too busy doing other things to archive his email to non-volatile storage. And even if he did have time, he was in a f* ing war zone...What in Iraq is not volatile? If you did find something, wouldn't you want to encrypt it somehow in case it was lost or stolen? What would you do with that password/key?
Maybe wills should include language defining how this type of information should be handled, but for now it seems like Yahoo should step and do the right thing.
I don't think Apple's (or anyone's) market share would need to surpass 80% in order to hurt or even displace MS. If MS market share dropped to 50% analysts and others would have questions about MS's ability to compete & innovate. Their market cap would probably diminish significantly even if they still had 50% market share.
Your plan B would so backfire. Somebody like Lance Bass or Ben Affleck would sign up to go to the moon and Mark Burnett would make a show about it. He'd be on Larry King every night for two years, until we all got so sick of it someone sabotaged the mission.
Sure! I have a newer 20 GB iPod and have downloaded 3 or 4 books from iTunes. Once you're done listening to them on the iPod you can keep them in iTunes and copy them back to the iPod at a later date if you need to. Audio books from iTunes or Audible.com com are generally cheaper than the dead trees version of the books, and I can listen to them during my commute (bus). My fave so far is Daily Show's "America (the book)", which was hard to listen to in public since I laughed my a** off. Interestingly, it was availabile as an audio book before it was available as a dead trees book.
I suppose you're right about the relative quality of these video formats, but it seems to me that the issue with adopting this (or any new tech) is a cost/benefit analysis that consumers perform. Audio cassettes were a better bargain than vinyl because the sound quality was about the same but the form factor was smaller and portable (could play in your car, on a walkman, and so forth). CDs were better still since they didn't mangle, sound quality was better, and you could shuffle/skip.
With video, people (myself included) seem to think "total package" for DVD is worth it since the audio & video are better, size it better, and format seems to be more durable compared to VHS/Beta.
Whatever comes comes next has to have a compelling overall cost/benefit ratio. It can't just be about video quality. Laserdiscs were available for years but never took off even though the quality was better. Likewise with DAT...better audio quality than an analog audio tape but CDs were just more compelling.
People are already griped at having to re-buy their video collections in DVD, and I doubt people will be thrilled about going through this again with BluRay or whatever. It was fun to get Caddyshack on DVD....not many people are going to rush out and buy the BluRay version so they can better appreciate the mise en scene.
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I agree the the size of the invasion force was probably close to the "right" size. However, I think all of the same issues we dealt with (badly) in Iraq would need to be addressed by anyone who wanted to act against NK. Could an invading force be in Pyongyang in a week or two? Probably. Could that same size force hold it indefinately? Probably not. Will the NK population rise up and support us? Maybe, but proabably not. There are two generations of people who haven't known freedom, and even if they don't like the current management one would expect them to follow the status quo since they don't have much of a comparison.
You're thinking old school. Wolfowitz & Feith would tell you we can invade NK with a dozen cub scouts and an angry hamster.
Thats how they sold the Iraq war...gather up all the rational estimates for troop strength, divide them by 10, and you've got your "transformational" invasion force.
I for one welcome our new TeeJS overlord.
Yikes! I have a feeling we'll find out we need to spread Freedom (TM) and Liberty (R) to yet another region - Mars!
Think of all the inspirational stories about how we brought drinking water to a place that had none, and how people are now free to fly kites on Mars.
I'm not trying to troll, or even make a politcal statement, but aren't some of these "wars" rather silly and/or contrived? First browser wars then search engine wars?
Browsers and search engines are important, but it seems like "wars" reserved for more significant issues....otherwise it seems like we're headed for "varchar vs. char" wars.
But isn't that about the same time they were having record wheat harvests?
...and sometimes not even that. IIRC there have been mixed judicial opinions on "right to die" cases, although the most current SCOTUS seemed to side with this in the Florida case.
I believe there are cases either pending or on appeal that deal with "death with dignity" cases.
He can use the material to "revise" the information presented in his most recent book. Follows the time-tested formula:
Calling it just "YR" would cause too much confusion with "The Young and Restless".
Would be lame to be 700 years old and then get some 24 year old as a boss. This difference in musical tastes and fashion alone would probably be enough to cause one to take "early" (before age 720) retirement.
I believe these are installed/mandated on the Big Island of Hawai'i given the number of observatories loctated there. This allows the astronomers/techs to filter out a narrow band of what is basically noise, rather than the relatively broad band of white light.
The job was very *well done*, and servers like these are very *rare*. You seldom see people use a grill to send content over this *medium*. If this is linked to a database, I suppose he'd store the information in *char* fields.
I think we got tired of supporting brutal regimes and decided to start our own.
Wrong. We have have an accurate delivery system in the form of Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner.
If we need a second chance, maybe they can get Lance Bass.
Always an interesting question... In this case I think Yahoo! should grant the family (or more precisely, the executor of the late Corporal's estate) access to the account. It is customary to give personal affects and belongings to the family...this doesn't seem all that different.
To put it coarsely, it seems like when you die your family gets pretty much whatever is left...good, bad, or otherwise. This includes money if you saved it, debt if you have it, real estate, tax burden, CD collection, and so forth. Generally speaking these get passed on to the family whether or not the family wants them. In that sense it seems more or less fair that the family should get something for which they are asking.
Um, I think a little sensitivity is called for. The deceased account holder was killed in (I believe) Iraq and was probably too busy doing other things to archive his email to non-volatile storage. And even if he did have time, he was in a f* ing war zone...What in Iraq is not volatile? If you did find something, wouldn't you want to encrypt it somehow in case it was lost or stolen? What would you do with that password/key?
Maybe wills should include language defining how this type of information should be handled, but for now it seems like Yahoo should step and do the right thing.
Or Hawaii, or parts of Indiana.
$35B as in Beer?
Will this help me see the Tron guys on motorcyles inside my computer? Cause right now they're tiny and they keep hiding inside capacitors.
I don't think Apple's (or anyone's) market share would need to surpass 80% in order to hurt or even displace MS. If MS market share dropped to 50% analysts and others would have questions about MS's ability to compete & innovate. Their market cap would probably diminish significantly even if they still had 50% market share.
Your plan B would so backfire. Somebody like Lance Bass or Ben Affleck would sign up to go to the moon and Mark Burnett would make a show about it. He'd be on Larry King every night for two years, until we all got so sick of it someone sabotaged the mission.
Sure! I have a newer 20 GB iPod and have downloaded 3 or 4 books from iTunes. Once you're done listening to them on the iPod you can keep them in iTunes and copy them back to the iPod at a later date if you need to.
Audio books from iTunes or Audible.com com are generally cheaper than the dead trees version of the books, and I can listen to them during my commute (bus).
My fave so far is Daily Show's "America (the book)", which was hard to listen to in public since I laughed my a** off. Interestingly, it was availabile as an audio book before it was available as a dead trees book.
The answer to #2 is to start importing from places like Iran and North Korea.
With our clever diplomacy they'll probably band together and form an OPEC-like cartel for fissionable fuel, and we'll be right back where we started.
In the 90's they would have been "Gary Coleman-sized"
I suppose you're right about the relative quality of these video formats, but it seems to me that the issue with adopting this (or any new tech) is a cost/benefit analysis that consumers perform. Audio cassettes were a better bargain than vinyl because the sound quality was about the same but the form factor was smaller and portable (could play in your car, on a walkman, and so forth). CDs were better still since they didn't mangle, sound quality was better, and you could shuffle/skip.
With video, people (myself included) seem to think "total package" for DVD is worth it since the audio & video are better, size it better, and format seems to be more durable compared to VHS/Beta.
Whatever comes comes next has to have a compelling overall cost/benefit ratio. It can't just be about video quality. Laserdiscs were available for years but never took off even though the quality was better. Likewise with DAT...better audio quality than an analog audio tape but CDs were just more compelling.
People are already griped at having to re-buy their video collections in DVD, and I doubt people will be thrilled about going through this again with BluRay or whatever. It was fun to get Caddyshack on DVD....not many people are going to rush out and buy the BluRay version so they can better appreciate the mise en scene.