Current news articles I've seen call them everything from Al Samoud, Scud, Scud-like, and "an unknown type of ineffective" missile. And of course, the Iraqis are saying they did not even launch the four missiles.
Oh, you are actually there examining these missiles and know the answers.... (If so, I withdraw my sarcasm.)
One of the generals interviewed on NBC last night made the comment that you should never believe the first report you get (wait for the second or third independent report, then you can bet on it). I agree, wholeheartedly.
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So, unimportant freedoms include:
1) Right to vote (ask any former felon or
suspected felon in Texas, Florida or
several other states -- several percent
of the population).
2) Right to a trial by jury (judges can overrule
jury verdicts in almost every state and the
District of Columbia, and if you are accused
of drug dealing or supporting terrorists, you
can be held for an awful long time without a
trial at all).
3) Freedom of speech (try your "loudly and
publicly critize the government" here and you
will quite likely wind up in jail with no
access to a lawyer, or worse -- not a lot
different from what would happen in Bahgdad
-- ask all those arrested Al Quaeda
sympathizers arrested since Sept 11, if you
can get a chance to talk to them).
Just because no one you know has become a victim of a particular organization, and you don't see those victims portrayed sympathetically on your new station doesn't mean that there are no victims. The tree still fell, even if you didn't see it fall.
Especially with laptop drives, I've had nothing but bad luck with IBM drives (3 laptop IBM drives and all three failed within 12 months) -- replaced one with a Fujitsu drive (it makes a lot of really scary sounds, but it does still work 2 years later) and one with a Toshiba (quieter than the IBM and a lot quieter than the Fujitsu, and seems to run very reliably).
Oddly, to me, the Toshiba drives are about the same price as the Seagate/Maxtor crowd and cheaper than IBM. I would say that right now I would only buy Toshiba laptop drives. And I'd avoid IBMs for the next few years until I see some kind of concensus that they have fixed whatever is their problem. Fujitsu's would be somewhere in the middle....
Oops, I forgot: this applies to drivers and other software who's sole purpose is to support some other product. If you really do have a software product the question of closed source for it becomes a lot more interesting and can make a lot of sense.
Hmmm, not the ARM Ltd. I'm familiar with. They have always seemed quite willing to bully anyone, big or small. I like the processor, but I don't like the company at all. I think that is one of the reasons that MIPS has done so much better with a far less useful processor design.
WRT bleating, how about those who bleat about soem of us picking on a company that tries to fradulently steal other folks rights (presumed -- I've not read anything directly from ARM)? I don't even think the MS legal department would go after someone for explaining an MS patent (what OpenCores did for the ARM7). ARM is right in there with the MPAA....
As a mensan, you should know that patents actually prohibit you from keeping the design from publication. All a patent does is protect your right to make money from the design. Anyone can order a copy of the patent in all its gore from the patent office, and I think that anyone can then post the exact text of the patent on a web page. IBM and the patent office both post an awful lot of the patent text for all the recently filed patents on their sites.
You still cannot sell a copy of the bacon cooker, as you mentioned, though. You also can't build an ARM core and put it in a chip that you sell for the same reason.
It really can't be both -- even a single pulse of
EM energy will have a spectrum. It always takes
up space (pretty much by definition -- sort of
like saying matter has mass). Any opinion
otherwise requires a redefinition of one or
another of the terms, i.e., marketspeak.
And I doubt the noise floor is raised uniformly
(that's really bulky and expensive) -- just using
cheap pulses is a lot like using a PC with no
shielding or case. And the number of such items
does affect the total noise (not quite linear,
but nearly, if I remember my physics courses back
in the 60's). And reradiation is rarely as
broadband as the incident radiation, so in the
real world we may see things like FM radios that
generate FM band noise internally (not good).
I would like to see more information on the actual
tests done in Austin before I am convinced.
> (tho the encryption is of dubious security)
I'd consider that an advantage, too. Other than the regular "urban legends" I've never heard of a case where better encription would have improved anyone's life. I know of one person, directly, who might not be in prison today if he had used less effective encryption. And I would be a lot happier and $280 richer if IBM never dreamed up that HDD protection idea.
Password and encryption security is badly oversold in my opinion.
I think the power supply is just an ATX thing, so you just need to swap it out if you put 8 or 12 big hard drives in the box.
No BIOS on it (one of my disappointments with the design), so you only get to boot from the drive(s) on the dock if you have a Mac (oops, they don't admit to Mac support yet...).
And they do have a smaller version (it pretends to be a hotrod USB dock, the 1000) -- no slots though.
I still think it's really neat even if you have a desktop system, and I don't work there any more.... It really is a nerd toy, it has limited
value for real world folks who can live with a 300 MHz processor, 4 GB of hard disk space and a couple of USB ports. There just aren't enough of
us who want 8 hard drives, SCSI scanners and controller based modems.... So it probably won't make it to Znet's top 100 list....
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And why do you believe Saddam has Scuds?
Current news articles I've seen call them
everything from Al Samoud, Scud, Scud-like,
and "an unknown type of ineffective" missile.
And of course, the Iraqis are saying they did
not even launch the four missiles.
Oh, you are actually there examining these
missiles and know the answers.... (If so, I
withdraw my sarcasm.)
One of the generals interviewed on NBC last
night made the comment that you should never
believe the first report you get (wait for the
second or third independent report, then you
can bet on it). I agree, wholeheartedly.
So, unimportant freedoms include:
1) Right to vote (ask any former felon or
suspected felon in Texas, Florida or
several other states -- several percent
of the population).
2) Right to a trial by jury (judges can overrule
jury verdicts in almost every state and the
District of Columbia, and if you are accused
of drug dealing or supporting terrorists, you
can be held for an awful long time without a
trial at all).
3) Freedom of speech (try your "loudly and
publicly critize the government" here and you
will quite likely wind up in jail with no
access to a lawyer, or worse -- not a lot
different from what would happen in Bahgdad
-- ask all those arrested Al Quaeda
sympathizers arrested since Sept 11, if you
can get a chance to talk to them).
Just because no one you know has become a victim
of a particular organization, and you don't see
those victims portrayed sympathetically on your
new station doesn't mean that there are no
victims. The tree still fell, even if you didn't
see it fall.
Especially with laptop drives, I've had nothing but bad luck with IBM drives (3 laptop IBM drives and all three failed within 12 months) -- replaced one with a Fujitsu drive (it makes a lot of really scary sounds, but it does still work 2 years later) and one with a Toshiba (quieter than the IBM and a lot quieter than the Fujitsu, and seems to run very reliably).
Oddly, to me, the Toshiba drives are about the same price as the Seagate/Maxtor crowd and cheaper than IBM. I would say that right now I would only buy Toshiba laptop drives. And I'd avoid IBMs for the next few years until I see some kind of concensus that they have fixed whatever is their problem. Fujitsu's would be somewhere in the middle....
Oops, I forgot: this applies to drivers and other software who's sole purpose is to support some other product. If you really do have a software product the question of closed source for it becomes a lot more interesting and can make a lot of sense.
Hmmm, not the ARM Ltd. I'm familiar with. They have always seemed quite willing to bully anyone, big or small. I like the processor, but I don't like the company at all. I think that is one of the reasons that MIPS has done so much better with a far less useful processor design.
WRT bleating, how about those who bleat about soem of us picking on a company that tries to fradulently steal other folks rights (presumed -- I've not read anything directly from ARM)? I don't even think the MS legal department would go after someone for explaining an MS patent (what OpenCores did for the ARM7). ARM is right in there with the MPAA....
As a mensan, you should know that patents actually prohibit you from keeping the design from publication. All a patent does is protect your right to make money from the design. Anyone can order a copy of the patent in all its gore from the patent office, and I think that anyone can then post the exact text of the patent on a web page. IBM and the patent office both post an awful lot of the patent text for all the recently filed patents on their sites.
You still cannot sell a copy of the bacon cooker, as you mentioned, though. You also can't build an ARM core and put it in a chip that you sell for the same reason.
It really can't be both -- even a single pulse of
EM energy will have a spectrum. It always takes
up space (pretty much by definition -- sort of
like saying matter has mass). Any opinion
otherwise requires a redefinition of one or
another of the terms, i.e., marketspeak.
And I doubt the noise floor is raised uniformly
(that's really bulky and expensive) -- just using
cheap pulses is a lot like using a PC with no
shielding or case. And the number of such items
does affect the total noise (not quite linear,
but nearly, if I remember my physics courses back
in the 60's). And reradiation is rarely as
broadband as the incident radiation, so in the
real world we may see things like FM radios that
generate FM band noise internally (not good).
I would like to see more information on the actual
tests done in Austin before I am convinced.
> (tho the encryption is of dubious security) I'd consider that an advantage, too. Other than the regular "urban legends" I've never heard of a case where better encription would have improved anyone's life. I know of one person, directly, who might not be in prison today if he had used less effective encryption. And I would be a lot happier and $280 richer if IBM never dreamed up that HDD protection idea. Password and encryption security is badly oversold in my opinion.
I think the power supply is just an ATX thing, so you just need to swap it out if you put 8 or 12 big hard drives in the box. No BIOS on it (one of my disappointments with the design), so you only get to boot from the drive(s) on the dock if you have a Mac (oops, they don't admit to Mac support yet...). And they do have a smaller version (it pretends to be a hotrod USB dock, the 1000) -- no slots though. I still think it's really neat even if you have a desktop system, and I don't work there any more.... It really is a nerd toy, it has limited value for real world folks who can live with a 300 MHz processor, 4 GB of hard disk space and a couple of USB ports. There just aren't enough of us who want 8 hard drives, SCSI scanners and controller based modems.... So it probably won't make it to Znet's top 100 list....