I would think that the NSA should be on top of the serious stuff more than the FBI. I mean, why else would they be so secretive?
Historically, the NSA's charter was everyone outside the US, while the FBI was everyone inside the US. This separation is why many folks are less than happy to find the NSA (might) be not only listening in on foreigners chatting and figuring out relationships, but might have expanded that to include the US (under the idea that a foreign national is communicating with a US based person). Not that it makes the job any more or less serious - just a different target audience.
The half-life of plutonium is about twenty-thousand years.... By "half-life" I mean the time required for the plutonium to decay to half of its original amount; to decay to the point it is safe to be around will take millions of years.
How are we going to store the nuclear waste in such a way that no one is hurt by it? Who will guard this facility for a million years?...
I think this is the 'hard' way to look at the time scales. Much like breakthroughs in math theory took some processes from 'to infinity and beyond' to something doable, I suspect science will continue to advance. Look at the ground covered in the last 200 years. I believe in another 200 years (or less), we will not just have the theory, but the technology to modify these isotopes into something safe and/or useful - far beyond what we can do with it today. This 'trash' is likely to be very valuable resource long before time transforms it naturally.
"Pilot applicants must have at 1,000 hours at the controls of a fighter jet or in command of a larger jet aircraft. "
A thousand hours of flight time is a pretty typical amount before the insurance companies are willing to let you fly commercial aircraft - seems to be the amount of pilot time you need before they consider you a trusted aviator. You end up seeing a lot of pilots get their 'comercial' certification around 250 hours of flight time and do flight instruction (and work baggage lines) until they hit the magic 100-1200 hour window (depending on demand) where they can actually fly some of the more serious commercial aircraft. Seems to hold true for 'larger jet aircraft' to crop dusting.
It's not in the capability of an average man to pilot his own personal plane, be it just pair of wings on his back, unless a computer does 99.9% of the job. And if it does it, then it better be coordinated centrally with all other flying personal jets in the area.
I suspect you over estimate how hard it is to learn to fly. I flew solo after 10 hours of instruction, and that was with some pucker factor built in. Learning to crash (gracefully) and navigate ate up another 30 hours, and another 4 hours practicing for the test. The hardest part might just be the medical. (grin) Once you get past remembering to put the gear down, jet engine is not much harder than a constant speed prop.
As for signing stuff... depends on how they license this thing. They sell it as under 'sport aircraft' regs, it takes even less training to fly less than even experimental. Usually the gating factor is getting someone willing to insure you.
Have you tried a current Intel graphics card lately? I've been struggling with a Intel 945GM graphics card in a laptop. Yes, drivers in source code form exist at http://www.intellinuxgraphics.com/ but I'll be damned if I can get everything to work with the directions provided using Centos/RHEL. Using the 915Resolution hack got it running at 1280x800, but for all the googling and failed attempts, 'supported' is a very strong word. Yes, I'm not a guru when it comes to the Linux configuration stuff. An RPM, yum, apt-get, emerge or deb for the 'major' distros is what I'd call supported. Source code is good, but I had to figure out what GIT was and how to install it before I could even start with trying to get native resolution. Way more work than it has to be compared to some of the other graphics cards/chipsets.
One of the goofy things I noticed with the Thinkpad recovery image was they included the recovery image as part of the restore, so the 'restore' CD's were about a third to twice (depending on compression) larger than what they needed to be. Still, XP on a t60p was only 6 CD-ROMs.
Same here, but there is a nifty SystemRescueCd that can do all of that as well - while also being free as in beer (and probably free in other ways as well) Nice write-up on it with screen shots at lifehacker.com
He said, "Can we have another option to fly? We'll call it Fly At Your Own Risk Airlines. We won't screen for anything and you can pay for your tickets five minutes before your flight just like in the old days-1997."
They have this - commonly known as 'private' jets - though they are usually a comercial charter as well from a paperwork perspective. Thing is, most folks can't afford it.
...instead of the two DVI (Digital Visual Interface) ports now used. The speed enables 2560x1600...
You need a 'dual link' DVI - which is actually a single cable. I've got an old 7900gtx running my 30" Dell at that resolution - and while the card is a bit long in the tooth for current games, it uses a single cable and works just fine for work and CS:Source at native resolution.
Ah, the v-tailed doctor killer! From my perspective, the v-tail configuration did not fly much different than the more conventional cross or t style configuration. The plane itself *is* high performance, and does command respect - easy to forget those little things like putting the gear down or working with a constant speed prop. I did not have issues on the taxiway, however, with it.
It's really not hard to select 'Save in Office 97-2003 format' from a drop down menu on the save dialogue.
You have the 'commercial' version of Office. One of the nasty surprises for many people I know who picked up the cheaper student/teacher version is it only saves in the Office 2007 format. The older format save is disabled.
Another happy side-effect of freezing your credit: No snail-mail spam about preapproved credit offers. It's saved me much over the last year in time devoted to shredding.
Not quite - I followed the links. For us here in MN...
Does freezing my file mean that I won't receive pre-approved credit offers?
No. You can stop the pre-approved credit offers by calling 888-5OPTOUT (888-567-8688). Or you can do this online at www.optoutprescreen.com. This will stop most of the offers, the ones that go through the credit bureaus. It's good for five years or you can make it permanent.
Only 47k units moved? Yikes! From those numbers, neither player appears to be really selling at this point - even combined, the sales are not even close to 'old and busted' DVD media. I've got a 1080p monitor, but went with an upscaling DVD player (Oppo dv-981hd) until the format wars sort themselves out. From my 'customer' perspective, both formats are way over priced at this point and quite a risk. Might go with a dual mode player when they get to the $250 mark, but forget about it for now.
I hope they make a decent single player campaign. It almost feels like a formula - 7 missions per race, with just unlocking the highest tech at the very last mission, and the first missions more or less a trainer. I do enjoy multi player, but so many of the games feel like they are purposely cut short to sell an expansion pack. RTS games seem to get shorter and shorter. Just finished Supreme Commander, and compared to its earlier incarnation of Total Annihilation, it felt really short. (even with the 2+ hour expanding map missions) Still - glad to have an update to what I rank as one of my favorite games!
My bride has a MacBook. She got the notification, it downloaded what seemed like a fairly large file after prompting for a password. Don't know if it asked and she missed it, or if it rebooted after installing the patch - but either way her machine did an unexpected restart. (Not that Microsoft is not guilty of the same thing, as one of my servers installed and rebooted last week at a very inconvenient time - dang thing was set to automatic) Anyhow, it sure made her nervous. She wanders down to my lab-of-doom and tells me her mac just shut down. I asked and she said she had just done an update. Perhaps she missed the dialog asking to restart... don't know. Had not seen a CERT email about it yet.
You can make a 'clean' install CD that uses the OEM license key that comes with the machine. First off, snag a copy of nlite(http://www.nliteos.com) and a 'normal' copy of of the CD - any version works. Look for a file called setupp.ini on the dell (or whatever) machine and put that in place of what you copied off the other CD. Make it bootable, add drivers, fixpacks, and create an iso. (You cannot turn an OEM into a retail version, but retail to OEM works just fine). The Win32 install will then activate and pass whatever other validation things Microsoft does. As a bonus, nlite also allows you to remove much of the Win32 crapware that normally gets put on a base windows install.
Is IPv6 so unappealing that they've gotta bribe people with pr0n to use it?
With one of the bigger 'features' of IPv6 being the possibility of assigning and tracking users individually with the huge number of addresses - I suspect it does not play into the current (sorta) anonymous surfing mindset folks have today. (Not that anyone is truly anonymous on the web) Once you have to slap down your address to access the content, I can see why people might not be interested.
Wow. Just wow. This guy was trying for a 1000' dive? This guy did a 400' dive on air? Just as a few notes. With the PADI (recreational) diving, you can hit about 90' before you have to start dealing with decompression. 130' and you start hitting nitrogen narcosis as O2 gets toxic as the pressure increases. I've got buddies who are crazy enough to hang tanks and do 160' on air, and even they both admit that one was feeling a bit drunk/stupid from air and had been rescued by their buddy. After the third time, they gave up on the deep O2 dives.
What's up with your Win98 numbers jumping up and down? Bet is is WINE users. I've been able to get a few Win32 apps to run on OSX using WINE, and the default bottle I use is Win98.
I picked up a handful of SCOX shares the last time they were in danger of delisting. The paper certificates, framed, make for one of the best white elephant gifts in the IT sector. Even more desired than the chia pet or the Apple II people were swapping for. You pay extra to get the paper version, but at least the stock itself is less than a buck.
I simply can't find a rational explanation to the great satisfaction that we get from waiting till the very last hour.
I wait to file any time I owe more money in taxes. When I do file, I also send it in snail mail. When they refund my money I file a couple months early.
Agreed! No arguments about life evolving. I also could buy the idea of a single celled organism becoming what we see today - but where things don't work for me is getting that very first viable organism and then survive long enough to replicate. All odds are stacked against it. Getting anything to work is such a delicate balance. There is no debate what so ever (in my mind) that living organism evolve. They do. When folks start talking Evolution vs Creationism, it a question about that first spark of life. Most of the interesting science about evolution and ecology get lost the moment someone jumps into that 'where did everything come from' rather than how living organisms adapt. I don't know.... heck, all I'm saying is I'm a bit shocked when folks are so forceful about what I consider a questionable theory. Plenty of others were quick to point out that Galileo was teh stupid for his crazy theory about the earth not being the center. Non religious or religious issues are not part of this. Folks are way to quick to take things for fact when it stands as an educated guess, at best, for where things came from.
Amazing how much folks get lathered up over where things came from. Do species change over time - you betcha! Just watch one dog show and you will see the amazing results of selective breeding over a short time period. Natural selection and evolution of living things is not in question. Nature abhors a vacuum.
My beef is people taking evolution and pushing the theory that 'life' started from a random mix, and then natural selection/evolution got us where we are today. Working in the lab with 'simple' single cell organisms which seem to die by just looking at them funny leaves me a bit cynical. It is not like.05% mutations tend to be positive. Life - even if using self replicating as the measuring stick - is amazingly complex. I don't care if someone believes in the beginning 'bang it happened' or 'God created the heavens and the earth' - whichever you chose requires an enormous amount of faith in a theory that does not match nicely to what is observable. Picking a theory on where life sprang from seems largely irrelevant and a waste of time.
Few things make you as appealing as *having* a job while you are looking for one. As a hiring manager, I know I prefer to take someone who is currently working than someone who is unemployed. I'll ask about the gap. (I also don't attach a stigma to layoffs - those happen often at the business unit level) I'll also consider it a warning flag if you 'quit' your job without having another lined up. To me, something really ugly happened... Not quiting should give you a better starting salary at the next gig.
You are darn close to a year. A job hunt can take a couple months so at this point it will more or less be a year. Odds are you will pay a bit more attention to location, job, and some of those non-tangibles. As you shift your energies into finding another job, it will also probably take your current employer more than a few months to dispose of you! If you are going, *do NOT* tell anyone you work with that you are hunting. Play nice with your coworkers and boss while you look.
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I would think that the NSA should be on top of the serious stuff more than the FBI. I mean, why else would they be so secretive?
Historically, the NSA's charter was everyone outside the US, while the FBI was everyone inside the US. This separation is why many folks are less than happy to find the NSA (might) be not only listening in on foreigners chatting and figuring out relationships, but might have expanded that to include the US (under the idea that a foreign national is communicating with a US based person). Not that it makes the job any more or less serious - just a different target audience.
The half-life of plutonium is about twenty-thousand years.
How are we going to store the nuclear waste in such a way that no one is hurt by it? Who will guard this facility for a million years?
I think this is the 'hard' way to look at the time scales. Much like breakthroughs in math theory took some processes from 'to infinity and beyond' to something doable, I suspect science will continue to advance. Look at the ground covered in the last 200 years. I believe in another 200 years (or less), we will not just have the theory, but the technology to modify these isotopes into something safe and/or useful - far beyond what we can do with it today. This 'trash' is likely to be very valuable resource long before time transforms it naturally.
"Pilot applicants must have at 1,000 hours at the controls of a fighter jet or in command of a larger jet aircraft. "
A thousand hours of flight time is a pretty typical amount before the insurance companies are willing to let you fly commercial aircraft - seems to be the amount of pilot time you need before they consider you a trusted aviator. You end up seeing a lot of pilots get their 'comercial' certification around 250 hours of flight time and do flight instruction (and work baggage lines) until they hit the magic 100-1200 hour window (depending on demand) where they can actually fly some of the more serious commercial aircraft. Seems to hold true for 'larger jet aircraft' to crop dusting.
I'm holding out for a processor that goes to 11.
Well, technically this triple core CPU does - in binary.
It's not in the capability of an average man to pilot his own personal plane, be it just pair of wings on his back, unless a computer does 99.9% of the job. And if it does it, then it better be coordinated centrally with all other flying personal jets in the area.
I suspect you over estimate how hard it is to learn to fly. I flew solo after 10 hours of instruction, and that was with some pucker factor built in. Learning to crash (gracefully) and navigate ate up another 30 hours, and another 4 hours practicing for the test. The hardest part might just be the medical. (grin) Once you get past remembering to put the gear down, jet engine is not much harder than a constant speed prop.
As for signing stuff... depends on how they license this thing. They sell it as under 'sport aircraft' regs, it takes even less training to fly less than even experimental. Usually the gating factor is getting someone willing to insure you.
Have you tried a current Intel graphics card lately? I've been struggling with a Intel 945GM graphics card in a laptop. Yes, drivers in source code form exist at http://www.intellinuxgraphics.com/ but I'll be damned if I can get everything to work with the directions provided using Centos/RHEL. Using the 915Resolution hack got it running at 1280x800, but for all the googling and failed attempts, 'supported' is a very strong word. Yes, I'm not a guru when it comes to the Linux configuration stuff. An RPM, yum, apt-get, emerge or deb for the 'major' distros is what I'd call supported. Source code is good, but I had to figure out what GIT was and how to install it before I could even start with trying to get native resolution. Way more work than it has to be compared to some of the other graphics cards/chipsets.
One of the goofy things I noticed with the Thinkpad recovery image was they included the recovery image as part of the restore, so the 'restore' CD's were about a third to twice (depending on compression) larger than what they needed to be. Still, XP on a t60p was only 6 CD-ROMs.
Same here, but there is a nifty SystemRescueCd that can do all of that as well - while also being free as in beer (and probably free in other ways as well) Nice write-up on it with screen shots at lifehacker.com
He said, "Can we have another option to fly? We'll call it Fly At Your Own Risk Airlines. We won't screen for anything and you can pay for your tickets five minutes before your flight just like in the old days-1997."
They have this - commonly known as 'private' jets - though they are usually a comercial charter as well from a paperwork perspective. Thing is, most folks can't afford it.
...instead of the two DVI (Digital Visual Interface) ports now used. The speed enables 2560x1600...
You need a 'dual link' DVI - which is actually a single cable. I've got an old 7900gtx running my 30" Dell at that resolution - and while the card is a bit long in the tooth for current games, it uses a single cable and works just fine for work and CS:Source at native resolution.
Ah, the v-tailed doctor killer! From my perspective, the v-tail configuration did not fly much different than the more conventional cross or t style configuration. The plane itself *is* high performance, and does command respect - easy to forget those little things like putting the gear down or working with a constant speed prop. I did not have issues on the taxiway, however, with it.
It's really not hard to select 'Save in Office 97-2003 format' from a drop down menu on the save dialogue.
You have the 'commercial' version of Office. One of the nasty surprises for many people I know who picked up the cheaper student/teacher version is it only saves in the Office 2007 format. The older format save is disabled.
Another happy side-effect of freezing your credit: No snail-mail spam about preapproved credit offers. It's saved me much over the last year in time devoted to shredding.
Not quite - I followed the links. For us here in MN...
Does freezing my file mean that I won't receive pre-approved credit offers?
No. You can stop the pre-approved credit offers by calling 888-5OPTOUT (888-567-8688). Or you can do this online at www.optoutprescreen.com. This will stop most of the offers, the ones that go through the credit bureaus. It's good for five years or you can make it permanent.
Only 47k units moved? Yikes! From those numbers, neither player appears to be really selling at this point - even combined, the sales are not even close to 'old and busted' DVD media. I've got a 1080p monitor, but went with an upscaling DVD player (Oppo dv-981hd) until the format wars sort themselves out. From my 'customer' perspective, both formats are way over priced at this point and quite a risk. Might go with a dual mode player when they get to the $250 mark, but forget about it for now.
I hope they make a decent single player campaign. It almost feels like a formula - 7 missions per race, with just unlocking the highest tech at the very last mission, and the first missions more or less a trainer. I do enjoy multi player, but so many of the games feel like they are purposely cut short to sell an expansion pack. RTS games seem to get shorter and shorter. Just finished Supreme Commander, and compared to its earlier incarnation of Total Annihilation, it felt really short. (even with the 2+ hour expanding map missions) Still - glad to have an update to what I rank as one of my favorite games!
My bride has a MacBook. She got the notification, it downloaded what seemed like a fairly large file after prompting for a password. Don't know if it asked and she missed it, or if it rebooted after installing the patch - but either way her machine did an unexpected restart. (Not that Microsoft is not guilty of the same thing, as one of my servers installed and rebooted last week at a very inconvenient time - dang thing was set to automatic) Anyhow, it sure made her nervous. She wanders down to my lab-of-doom and tells me her mac just shut down. I asked and she said she had just done an update. Perhaps she missed the dialog asking to restart... don't know. Had not seen a CERT email about it yet.
You can make a 'clean' install CD that uses the OEM license key that comes with the machine. First off, snag a copy of nlite(http://www.nliteos.com) and a 'normal' copy of of the CD - any version works. Look for a file called setupp.ini on the dell (or whatever) machine and put that in place of what you copied off the other CD. Make it bootable, add drivers, fixpacks, and create an iso. (You cannot turn an OEM into a retail version, but retail to OEM works just fine). The Win32 install will then activate and pass whatever other validation things Microsoft does. As a bonus, nlite also allows you to remove much of the Win32 crapware that normally gets put on a base windows install.
Is IPv6 so unappealing that they've gotta bribe people with pr0n to use it?
With one of the bigger 'features' of IPv6 being the possibility of assigning and tracking users individually with the huge number of addresses - I suspect it does not play into the current (sorta) anonymous surfing mindset folks have today. (Not that anyone is truly anonymous on the web) Once you have to slap down your address to access the content, I can see why people might not be interested.
Wow. Just wow. This guy was trying for a 1000' dive? This guy did a 400' dive on air? Just as a few notes. With the PADI (recreational) diving, you can hit about 90' before you have to start dealing with decompression. 130' and you start hitting nitrogen narcosis as O2 gets toxic as the pressure increases. I've got buddies who are crazy enough to hang tanks and do 160' on air, and even they both admit that one was feeling a bit drunk/stupid from air and had been rescued by their buddy. After the third time, they gave up on the deep O2 dives.
What's up with your Win98 numbers jumping up and down?
Bet is is WINE users. I've been able to get a few Win32 apps to run on OSX using WINE, and the default bottle I use is Win98.
I picked up a handful of SCOX shares the last time they were in danger of delisting. The paper certificates, framed, make for one of the best white elephant gifts in the IT sector. Even more desired than the chia pet or the Apple II people were swapping for. You pay extra to get the paper version, but at least the stock itself is less than a buck.
I simply can't find a rational explanation to the great satisfaction that we get from waiting till the very last hour.
I wait to file any time I owe more money in taxes. When I do file, I also send it in snail mail. When they refund my money I file a couple months early.
Agreed! No arguments about life evolving. I also could buy the idea of a single celled organism becoming what we see today - but where things don't work for me is getting that very first viable organism and then survive long enough to replicate. All odds are stacked against it. Getting anything to work is such a delicate balance. There is no debate what so ever (in my mind) that living organism evolve. They do. When folks start talking Evolution vs Creationism, it a question about that first spark of life. Most of the interesting science about evolution and ecology get lost the moment someone jumps into that 'where did everything come from' rather than how living organisms adapt. I don't know.... heck, all I'm saying is I'm a bit shocked when folks are so forceful about what I consider a questionable theory. Plenty of others were quick to point out that Galileo was teh stupid for his crazy theory about the earth not being the center. Non religious or religious issues are not part of this. Folks are way to quick to take things for fact when it stands as an educated guess, at best, for where things came from.
Amazing how much folks get lathered up over where things came from. Do species change over time - you betcha! Just watch one dog show and you will see the amazing results of selective breeding over a short time period. Natural selection and evolution of living things is not in question. Nature abhors a vacuum.
.05% mutations tend to be positive. Life - even if using self replicating as the measuring stick - is amazingly complex. I don't care if someone believes in the beginning 'bang it happened' or 'God created the heavens and the earth' - whichever you chose requires an enormous amount of faith in a theory that does not match nicely to what is observable. Picking a theory on where life sprang from seems largely irrelevant and a waste of time.
My beef is people taking evolution and pushing the theory that 'life' started from a random mix, and then natural selection/evolution got us where we are today. Working in the lab with 'simple' single cell organisms which seem to die by just looking at them funny leaves me a bit cynical. It is not like
Few things make you as appealing as *having* a job while you are looking for one. As a hiring manager, I know I prefer to take someone who is currently working than someone who is unemployed. I'll ask about the gap. (I also don't attach a stigma to layoffs - those happen often at the business unit level) I'll also consider it a warning flag if you 'quit' your job without having another lined up. To me, something really ugly happened... Not quiting should give you a better starting salary at the next gig.
You are darn close to a year. A job hunt can take a couple months so at this point it will more or less be a year. Odds are you will pay a bit more attention to location, job, and some of those non-tangibles. As you shift your energies into finding another job, it will also probably take your current employer more than a few months to dispose of you! If you are going, *do NOT* tell anyone you work with that you are hunting. Play nice with your coworkers and boss while you look.