Does the TSA actually have any real authority to patrol a football game? The football stadium is privately owned and unlike an airport does not fall under any government security oversight. Were the owners of the stadium notified that the TSA would have a presence at the game?
Now I know that there are those that will say the TSA can and will do what it wants wherever it wants. That is how they operate, without having to explain their actions, thinking that will keep the bad guys in check. But the TSA/Homeland security is a government organization and are to be held accountable to the public. But unlike the massive airport presence there is no precedent for them to be at a football game. Were they reacting to a specific threat? Someone in the TSA decided for whatever reason they should be present at this game. The question is why. Write your local representative asking about this disturbing new trend. Voice your concerns over the police like state and abuse of power all in the name of safety.
Or don't do anything but complain amongst ourselves and go along with everything they ask us to do. Which is what they really want.
Just about every recording studio runs some type of Digital Audio Workstation, and a lot of those are OS X machines running Avid's ProTools software. While ProTools is available for Windows, I don't see many Windows boxes in recording studios. In music production Apple products continue to dominate.
10 years ago we would have said "that is a cool hack". Yes, smartphones are capable devices, but they don't do everything. They weren't designed to do everything. I have already seen Iphone apps(audio spectrum analyzer/oscilloscope) which attempt to replace dedicated hardware used in my line of work. It is neat to have a portable something that does it all, but if it doesn't do it as well or better than the original device I fail to see the point beyond the cool, small factor.
And believe it or not, not everyone has a smartphone.
There was a reason that the tricorder and communicator where not combined into 1 device.
While I won't go so far as to say that the problems with the LHC are cool, I do think it is to be expected. The LHC is a highly complex instrument with countless sub-assemblies and parts. I am sure that every effort was made to model the interaction of all these parts but the truth is that no one knows how it will perform untill it is physically assembled and then put into use. To expect it to work without incident as soon as it is powered up is unrealistic.
Compare it to the design and construction of a modern day airliner. Computer models are used to design, plan and aid in construction but a full size working aircraft is still produced before they start shipping them off to waiting customers.
Palm's real response is they are waiting for a new version of windows mobile before they do anything. When Palm started favoring windows mobile over its own palm OS it was over. Sure they would make some sales to the corporate sector that need to see everything stamped with windows on it, and as a result cut into blackberry teritory, which is what they wanted anyway. But now they are in no where land. Not as dominant as blackberry and not as inovative as they once were. Just another phone company. How much longer before they sell the name and what little tech along with it. If I was anyone looking for a total gadget/cool phone in the next few months I would be waiting for an iphone. If buissness needs make me carry a device then I probably have a blackberry and dont see changing except for a newer blackberry in the near future. What a shame.
Or see it portrayed in a realistic manner? Then watch a documentary. Or read a book. I hate sitting in movie theater and hearing someone say "that could never happen". I know that Zaphod Bebbeblebrox isn't the galactic president, but it is fun to see it on screen or read about it in a book. It is called entertainment. In this case a work of fiction. Actors and places may resemble those you know, or think you know, in real life, but any similarity is purely coincidental.
I realize the article was specific to the Silicon Valley area, but what about the rest of the country? What about the manufacturing base that has all but disappeared from the US. The auto and steel industries use tremendous amounts of power. Since those industries are now a fraction of what they once were isn't there now excess electrical capacity in those former manufacturing areas? Companies frequently are offered tax breaks to open up shop in a particular area, what about a power price break?
What does the organization/school want to see on donated computers? I assume you are not just going to put it in a box marked "To: Some School in Uganada". Perhaps they have guidlines established for donated hardware/software. While it is nice and kind of you to be sending your broken, outdated laptop to a 3rd world country, maybe they have specific needs which you could meet if you did the research.
I recently did sound for a touring UK band. The first thing these guys did when they hit NY was to head down to the Apple store. Four 12" Powerbooks and five 40gig Ipods later they were off. They had a field day buying software in Canada a few days later. The pound/Canadian dollar exchange was very favorable for them.
This is getting ridiculous. Why should the TSA need to see personal information in order for a person to travel by airplane? Cockpit doors have been or are in the process or being reinforced to prevent unauthorized entry during flight. Passengers are thoroughly screened to prevent them from boarding with any weapons or materials that would jeopardize the flight or the safety of fellow passengers. So what is the point of the TSA wanting access to all passengers personal information? Is it that they simply don't want suspected bad guys to fly? I don't either, but where does it end? And whose suspicions are now becoming the guidlines that deny us access to in this case air travel, but in the next case who knows what. Your EZ-pass not letting you onto a interstae highway? At what point are people going to be denied access to air travel based on a yahoo group affiliation or what books they have purchased from amazon. And yes, I do fly often.
Reminds me of what goes on in the back lounge of the tour bus on the last few tours I have done. I am a FOH engineer for a touring band and there were 5 or 6 laptops with us on the bus in adition to 4 or 5 ipods. There was an 1/8th inch plug with a 20 foot cable plugged into the stereo and people would simply plug in anyones computer or ipod and start djing. It was always intersting to hear what someone else would pick and play from the music I had stored on my computer or pod. It became a very communal thing and it was no big deal for one of us(there were about 10 on the bus)to pick up a laptop or ipod that was laying around and simply start playing music.
bull shit. the only people that envision this happening are those that have invested in this new format. to claim that it would take as little as 5 years to make this a comercialy viable product is just smoke being blown up someones ass. get over it. the cd/dvd will be the last of the hard product used to distribute music on wide scale and they will continue to be the format of choice amongst the major studios/record companies. it takes a lot of money and resources for a studio/lable to change formats. i watched it happen first hand at a record company. to think that in 5 years this new paper thin thing is going to see the light of day, let alone be a viable format and be the end of the cd is unfounded.
That thing must sound like a vacuum cleaner. Maybe he can install some air filters and then it can be a computer/monitor/air cleaner combo unit. Or run all the fans as exhaust and fly a hot air baloon over it. It simply amazes me what we do with our "spare time".
A few years back I ran the mailroom for a major record lable. Offices all over the country/world. On many an occasion some person from IT would wander into my cube and tell me they needed a server/router/etc shipped to another office across the country. Apparently they would configure certain pieces of hardware at my location and then ship them out to other offices to be installed. 9 times out of 10 the person needing the equipment shipped couldnt tell me how much to insure it for or what department was to pick up the cost of the shipping. All they knew was that it had to be there ASAP. When asked if the original shipping materials had been saved(knowing that the piece was to be re-shipped)most simply pretended it wasnt their problem. It had suddenly become mine. Yet another example of the "let someone else deal with it" attitude so prevelant in large corporations.
I breathe a sigh of relief knowing that you can continue to use your American Express card.
It certainly is heart warming to know that you who depends so heavily upon your American Express card can continue on with your life as usual in the wake of this tragedy.
Just keep spending and it will all be ok for you I am sure.
As long as you can whip out the plastic then its all good....
I don't know where you live, but the idea that the time for sorrow and loss has passed is not an idea on the minds of my fellow New Yorkers. In case you are unaware there are 6,333 people unacounted for. Tell the families, friends and co-workers of those missing that "the statute of limitations for sorrow and loss has passed".
I am going to guess and say that you are not living in NYC and only see images of this tragic event on tv, the web and the papers. Those images do little to convey what has really happened here. Maybe you are just totally unaffected by what has happened, but out of respect for those that have been please show think before you speak.
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Does the TSA actually have any real authority to patrol a football game?
The football stadium is privately owned and unlike an airport does not fall under any government security oversight.
Were the owners of the stadium notified that the TSA would have a presence at the game?
Now I know that there are those that will say the TSA can and will do what it wants wherever it wants. That is how they operate, without having to explain their actions, thinking that will keep the bad guys in check. But the TSA/Homeland security is a government organization and are to be held accountable to the public.
But unlike the massive airport presence there is no precedent for them to be at a football game.
Were they reacting to a specific threat?
Someone in the TSA decided for whatever reason they should be present at this game. The question is why.
Write your local representative asking about this disturbing new trend. Voice your concerns over the police like state and abuse of power all in the name of safety.
Or don't do anything but complain amongst ourselves and go along with everything they ask us to do. Which is what they really want.
Just about every recording studio runs some type of Digital Audio Workstation, and a lot of those are OS X machines running Avid's ProTools software.
While ProTools is available for Windows, I don't see many Windows boxes in recording studios.
In music production Apple products continue to dominate.
10 years ago we would have said "that is a cool hack".
Yes, smartphones are capable devices, but they don't do everything. They weren't designed to do everything. I have already seen Iphone apps(audio spectrum analyzer/oscilloscope) which attempt to replace dedicated hardware used in my line of work. It is neat to have a portable something that does it all, but if it doesn't do it as well or better than the original device I fail to see the point beyond the cool, small factor.
And believe it or not, not everyone has a smartphone.
There was a reason that the tricorder and communicator where not combined into 1 device.
While I won't go so far as to say that the problems with the LHC are cool, I do think it is to be expected. The LHC is a highly complex instrument with countless sub-assemblies and parts. I am sure that every effort was made to model the interaction of all these parts but the truth is that no one knows how it will perform untill it is physically assembled and then put into use. To expect it to work without incident as soon as it is powered up is unrealistic.
Compare it to the design and construction of a modern day airliner. Computer models are used to design, plan and aid in construction but a full size working aircraft is still produced before they start shipping them off to waiting customers.
If only CompUSA was still around.
"Hello, I would like 60,000 copies of McAfee Safeboot please."
"Do you want the extended warranty with that?"
Palm's real response is they are waiting for a new version of windows mobile before they do anything.
When Palm started favoring windows mobile over its own palm OS it was over.
Sure they would make some sales to the corporate sector that need to see everything stamped with windows on it, and as a result cut into blackberry teritory, which is what they wanted anyway. But now they are in no where land. Not as dominant as blackberry and not as inovative as they once were. Just another phone company.
How much longer before they sell the name and what little tech along with it.
If I was anyone looking for a total gadget/cool phone in the next few months I would be waiting for an iphone.
If buissness needs make me carry a device then I probably have a blackberry and dont see changing except for a newer blackberry in the near future.
What a shame.
Or see it portrayed in a realistic manner?
Then watch a documentary. Or read a book.
I hate sitting in movie theater and hearing someone say "that could never happen".
I know that Zaphod Bebbeblebrox isn't the galactic president, but it is fun to see it on screen or read about it in a book. It is called entertainment. In this case a work of fiction. Actors and places may resemble those you know, or think you know, in real life, but any similarity is purely coincidental.
I realize the article was specific to the Silicon Valley area, but what about the rest of the country? What about the manufacturing base that has all but disappeared from the US. The auto and steel industries use tremendous amounts of power. Since those industries are now a fraction of what they once were isn't there now excess electrical capacity in those former manufacturing areas? Companies frequently are offered tax breaks to open up shop in a particular area, what about a power price break?
And how much time would I save if someone would mirror this site so I can read the article now that it is slashdoted?
For days on end I was passing my hand over everything in the hopes of it unlocking a door or passage way.
What does the organization/school want to see on donated computers?
I assume you are not just going to put it in a box marked "To: Some School in Uganada".
Perhaps they have guidlines established for donated hardware/software. While it is nice and kind of you to be sending your broken, outdated laptop to a 3rd world country, maybe they have specific needs which you could meet if you did the research.
I recently did sound for a touring UK band.
The first thing these guys did when they hit NY was to head down to the Apple store. Four 12" Powerbooks and five 40gig Ipods later they were off. They had a field day buying software in Canada a few days later. The pound/Canadian dollar exchange was very favorable for them.
This is getting ridiculous.
Why should the TSA need to see personal information in order for a person to travel by airplane?
Cockpit doors have been or are in the process or being reinforced to prevent unauthorized entry during flight. Passengers are thoroughly screened to prevent them from boarding with any weapons or materials that would jeopardize the flight or the safety of fellow passengers. So what is the point of the TSA wanting access to all passengers personal information?
Is it that they simply don't want suspected bad guys to fly? I don't either, but where does it end? And whose suspicions are now becoming the guidlines that deny us access to in this case air travel, but in the next case who knows what. Your EZ-pass not letting you onto a interstae highway? At what point are people going to be denied access to air travel based on a yahoo group affiliation or what books they have purchased from amazon.
And yes, I do fly often.
Reminds me of what goes on in the back lounge of the tour bus on the last few tours I have done. I am a FOH engineer for a touring band and there were 5 or 6 laptops with us on the bus in adition to 4 or 5 ipods. There was an 1/8th inch plug with a 20 foot cable plugged into the stereo and people would simply plug in anyones computer or ipod and start djing. It was always intersting to hear what someone else would pick and play from the music I had stored on my computer or pod. It became a very communal thing and it was no big deal for one of us(there were about 10 on the bus)to pick up a laptop or ipod that was laying around and simply start playing music.
bull shit.
the only people that envision this happening are those that have invested in this new format.
to claim that it would take as little as 5 years to make this a comercialy viable product is just smoke being blown up someones ass.
get over it.
the cd/dvd will be the last of the hard product used to distribute music on wide scale and they will continue to be the format of choice amongst the major studios/record companies.
it takes a lot of money and resources for a studio/lable to change formats. i watched it happen first hand at a record company. to think that in 5 years this new paper thin thing is going to see the light of day, let alone be a viable format and be the end of the cd is unfounded.
That thing must sound like a vacuum cleaner.
Maybe he can install some air filters and then it can be a computer/monitor/air cleaner combo unit.
Or run all the fans as exhaust and fly a hot air baloon over it.
It simply amazes me what we do with our "spare time".
A few years back I ran the mailroom for a major record lable. Offices all over the country/world. On many an occasion some person from IT would wander into my cube and tell me they needed a server/router/etc shipped to another office across the country. Apparently they would configure certain pieces of hardware at my location and then ship them out to other offices to be installed. 9 times out of 10 the person needing the equipment shipped couldnt tell me how much to insure it for or what department was to pick up the cost of the shipping. All they knew was that it had to be there ASAP. When asked if the original shipping materials had been saved(knowing that the piece was to be re-shipped)most simply pretended it wasnt their problem. It had suddenly become mine. Yet another example of the "let someone else deal with it" attitude so prevelant in large corporations.
ASIMO doesnt hold a candle to ROBOT FRANK. www.roborfrank.com
"It's not at all obvious -- to me at least -- that we should want AIs to feel emotions. Who wants a warehouse full of smart bombs with hurt feelings?"
Remember Bomb in Dark Star?
I breathe a sigh of relief knowing that you can continue to use your American Express card.
It certainly is heart warming to know that you who depends so heavily upon your American Express card can continue on with your life as usual in the wake of this tragedy.
Just keep spending and it will all be ok for you I am sure.
As long as you can whip out the plastic then its all good....
I don't know where you live, but the idea that the time for sorrow and loss has passed is not an idea on the minds of my fellow New Yorkers. In case you are unaware there are 6,333 people unacounted for. Tell the families, friends and co-workers of those missing that "the statute of limitations for sorrow and loss has passed".
I am going to guess and say that you are not living in NYC and only see images of this tragic event on tv, the web and the papers. Those images do little to convey what has really happened here. Maybe you are just totally unaffected by what has happened, but out of respect for those that have been please show think before you speak.
Who is John Galt?