To address your second point, it would not be that difficult to target from the air at 2000 feet range.
Ever seen an AH-64 Apache attack chopper targetting a ground target with its 30mm chain gun? The pilot/CPG's helmet display is integrated with the cannon's hydraulics so that it aims exactly where the pilot/CPG is looking. He puts the crosshairs on the target and the cannon is effectively boresighted on that target. The weapons computer can adjust for aircraft movement and weather effects.
In a White House press release earlier today, the true reason for cancelling the NASA mission to Pluto was revealed.
George W Bush had discovered that Tom Leufkens had struck a secret deal with NASA to ship his 500MHz Celeron to Pluto, where he believed the surface temperature would allow him to run the machine at 3.3GHz.
Bush, the current champion overclocker (his Hillary-Clinton-cooled P75 benchmarked 900MHz last Friday) foiled the world-record attempt just in time.
In a statement, Bush was reported as saying "Ain't no pissin' on the presedential PC."
"At first, Ken Kutaragi's plan -- Kutaragi is without doubt the hero of this story -- to engineer a revolutionary new type of gaming console was ignored or resisted. Sony, he was told, wasn't interested in the "toy" business. The decision-making processes of a corporation like this, and the tensions between corporate and technical people are pretty interesting."
This surprises me, as Sony is one of the very few multinational corporations that have been open to utilizing their massive resources to investigating alternative or previously unexplored arenas. The revelation that Sony was investigating extrasensory perception in their very own ESPER psi-lab greatly increased my respect for them as open-minded, progressive scientists.
Therefore I am surprised that Ken Kutaragi came up against such resistance within Sony. But then, it's an enormous organization and I guess the ESPER-type culture may not have been prevalent throughout.
At my last company, the management was planning the launch of a new e-commerce division which they were going to call "companyname-foobar" (names changed to protect the guilty).
It was rumoured that the manager of the IT dept had gone and registered all combinations of "foobar" and "companyname-foobar" domain names that he could think of.
I wondered what would have happened if that had been the case. I guess the company would have won and he would have been fired, but I never found out what happened.
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Yes, quick! We've only got a few billion years left of tolerable sunlight. I think we should set a deadline for full colonization of another solar system by April 2012, just to be safe.
I'm not a lawyer, but can't the vice principal take out a defamation suit against the kid for implying or stating unfounded accusations about him? Some of those things sound like they could be professionally damaging to the vice principal.
For the record, I'm in support of the verdict. The school has no right to use their disciplinary system to punish him for something he did outside of school. However, I do think that the vice principal should have some options open to him personally if someone has published unfounded or unproven allegations against him.
- If Michael Dell carries a Thinkpad...
- If Scott McNealy gives the orders from behind a Deskpro...
- If Larry Ellison runs any Access databases "strictly for prototyping"...
I'm no expert on Patent Law, but couldn't Zilog (or similar early mPU designers/manufacturers) have sued Intel over the 8080 (or similar)?
To match the terms of this suit, it would be a breach of patent for "apparatus that uses binary arithmetic to complete a variety of computational tasks"?
No-one is suggesting geographic-only ordering. Simply that those sites that have a particular geographic interest (such as your single-branch home-town video store) should use a locality-based domain structure.
It's true that the Internet is a non-geographic, logical space, but a large proportion of its content is relevant only to specific localities.
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Ever seen an AH-64 Apache attack chopper targetting a ground target with its 30mm chain gun? The pilot/CPG's helmet display is integrated with the cannon's hydraulics so that it aims exactly where the pilot/CPG is looking. He puts the crosshairs on the target and the cannon is effectively boresighted on that target. The weapons computer can adjust for aircraft movement and weather effects.
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George W Bush had discovered that Tom Leufkens had struck a secret deal with NASA to ship his 500MHz Celeron to Pluto, where he believed the surface temperature would allow him to run the machine at 3.3GHz.
Bush, the current champion overclocker (his Hillary-Clinton-cooled P75 benchmarked 900MHz last Friday) foiled the world-record attempt just in time.
In a statement, Bush was reported as saying "Ain't no pissin' on the presedential PC."
Asikaa
This surprises me, as Sony is one of the very few multinational corporations that have been open to utilizing their massive resources to investigating alternative or previously unexplored arenas. The revelation that Sony was investigating extrasensory perception in their very own ESPER psi-lab greatly increased my respect for them as open-minded, progressive scientists.
Therefore I am surprised that Ken Kutaragi came up against such resistance within Sony. But then, it's an enormous organization and I guess the ESPER-type culture may not have been prevalent throughout.
Asikaa
At my last company, the management was planning the launch of a new e-commerce division which they were going to call "companyname-foobar" (names changed to protect the guilty).
It was rumoured that the manager of the IT dept had gone and registered all combinations of "foobar" and "companyname-foobar" domain names that he could think of.
I wondered what would have happened if that had been the case. I guess the company would have won and he would have been fired, but I never found out what happened.
Asikaa
...all about Internet scams - they're owned by AOL.
Asikaa
The cheese in my refridgerator is from the moon.
:)
I know this, because the grays told me.
Asikaa
Yes, quick! We've only got a few billion years left of tolerable sunlight. I think we should set a deadline for full colonization of another solar system by April 2012, just to be safe.
Asikaa
Hope they remember to disarm it first.
Asikaa
Next move will be to advertisement pages with content in tiny 400x60 banners. Yay. More commercials, less product.
Asikaa
I'm not a lawyer, but can't the vice principal take out a defamation suit against the kid for implying or stating unfounded accusations about him? Some of those things sound like they could be professionally damaging to the vice principal.
For the record, I'm in support of the verdict. The school has no right to use their disciplinary system to punish him for something he did outside of school. However, I do think that the vice principal should have some options open to him personally if someone has published unfounded or unproven allegations against him.
Asikaa
Asikaa
- If Michael Dell carries a Thinkpad...
- If Scott McNealy gives the orders from behind a Deskpro...
- If Larry Ellison runs any Access databases "strictly for prototyping"...
To match the terms of this suit, it would be a breach of patent for "apparatus that uses binary arithmetic to complete a variety of computational tasks"?
No-one is suggesting geographic-only ordering. Simply that those sites that have a particular geographic interest (such as your single-branch home-town video store) should use a locality-based domain structure.
It's true that the Internet is a non-geographic, logical space, but a large proportion of its content is relevant only to specific localities.