And along with the spaceborne detectors, nuclear explosions on or near the ground have a distinct seismic signature as well. Seismic detectors are a big part of the system, as they can triangulate the epicenter of the blast quickly.
As a rural dweller myself, here it's cellular broadband, or satellite. And the latency with satellite does, indeed, suck. Plus, it's not compatible with a lot of VPN software. Fortunately, Verizon recently upgraded their broadband in this area, so things aren't too bad. I tried to get WDSL, but am just barely out of transmission range of the nearest tower. That would have been faster than what Verizon gives me here, but no dice.
After all, if engineers were to let slip how bad our crumbling infrastructure has gotten, we might actually have to fix it, and that's very expensive. And you don't want your taxes raised, do you?
Bingo!
<tinfoilhat> My guess is that, post the I-35W bridge collapse, somebody in the agency located or finished a study showing that, nationwide, there were N bridges in equal or worse shape to the one that collapsed, where N turns out to be a disturbingly large number. And the agency decided it needed to make sure said study never saw the light of day, and that none of the personnel involved ever discussed it.
Here in TX, the MSM reported, within a couple of days of the accident, that all bridges in the state were A-OK. As if someone had actually recently inspected all of the major bridges found in the 268601 square miles (~69.6M hectares) that the state occupies on the planet. Yeah, sure. </tinfoilhat>
The article is about music people who are complaining about the poor quality of MP3s; why would they complain loudly about MP3s but not about compact cassettes or 8-tracks?
Because at the time cassettes and 8 tracks came out, there was no other convenient format for portable listening, that's why. The early pre-dolby B cassettes are pretty damn hard on the ears, but there wasn't much in the way of choice then. In addition, it opened up the market for recorded music in cars, which didn't previously exist. This is why the industry put up with it, even though it sounded bad. Also, as I said earlier, the smaller format always wins. One win for the cassette is that you can put a whole lot of 'em on a shelf, compared to LPs - More product in your record store without adding floor space. Record stores liked CDs over LPs for the same reason.
YMMV, of course, but I don't see this as a strawman argument. As a semipro musician and engineer at one point, MP3s just don't sound very good to me, at least at the default bitrates that most people use. Even AAC sounds flat to me, and certain tunes recorded via ATRAC make me wince. None of this stops me from adding to the 35GB of music I have, but every now and them I blast a well-recorded CD on my decent car system to remind myself what I'm missing.
The loss from the 15 ips 2 track masters to cassette is really devastating, when compared to your average 128k MP3 or AAC.
True enough, but perhaps slightly beside the point. No one but studio people had (or have) access to the kind of tape machines that can handle 15 IPS 2 track, so J Q Public didn't really have a choice to buy the superior sounding format in the cassette days. Nor were the production houses prepared to deliver dinner-plate-sized tape reels to the record stores for consumption.
In the present, music listeners can opt for the higher quality product, but opt for the more convenient, lower quality product. The point may be that when it comes to music delivery, the smaller, more convenient format always wins, regardless of quality:
Edison Cylinder > Wax 78 Record > LP > 8 track > Cassette > CD > Mini Disc > MP3 Player/iPod.
Or - 4. A viral marketing campaign for the soon-to-be-announced "Super Mario Brothers: Meteorite Mania!" game. Unfortunately, Adam and Morgan will only give it 2 1/2 stars, and it will disappear into well-deserved obscurity soon after.
A great idea! However, to give it one little tweak - I suggest re-enacting the days proceedings of the NZ Parliament using sock puppets for the MPs and related personnel. I mean, you're not using actual footage of Parliament, so it should be perfectly okay, eh?
Have you ever actually read The Right Stuff? The impression the book gives is that most of the original Mercury astronauts were apparently Type A overachievers suffering from chronic adrenaline and testosterone poisoning. At one point in the book, the flight surgeons told them that they were not supposed to drink within 24 hours of flying. According to the book, the astronauts interpreted this rule as "No drinking within 24 feet of the plane."
Sorry to be a spelling Nazi here, but I think you meant: "Anybody see anything phishy about this page?".
There, fixed it for you. And to answer your question - Maybe it's all perfectly fine. Perhaps they just had another intern whip that site up in FrontPage on his/her lunch hour.
That's the encryption method. I believe the previous intern's encryption method consisted of sticking the tapes to the 2 kg speaker magnet in the back of his guitar amp. That works pretty well, too.
But, seriously - What was the physical form factor for the stolen tapes? Some of the drives used for heavy backup duty aren't exactly the sort of gear you can purchase at your local shopping mall.
Oh boy, DECstations. Back in the day, we had one of those. (Not the 3100, though - Perhaps a previous model.) I was always fiddling with the hardware, and the through-hole boards DEC used were tightly fit in the chassis, and had dozens of sharp pins sticking out of the back. As a result, I don't think I ever completed a repair in that thing without my hands looking like I had tangled with a rabid cat.
* No camera. I do not want something that takes crappy photos. If I want a camera I will buy a camera. Putting a camera in a phone is about as good an idea as putting a phone in a camera.
Well, if it comes with a camera, and you have no use for it, just do what I do; Bounce it off your garage floor a couple of times, et voila, the camera no longer works and you never have to worry about it again.
The planet's surface temperature is 920 kelvin on the poles and 1220 kelvin on the bright side.
Welcome to "Planet Sauna" - Where a week is like 3 years, and it never rains. Humidity 90%. Heat Index, 980K. Don't forget to have your air conditioning serviced regularly!
Hey, if somebody wants to hack together a version of that Jurassic Park scene where T-Rex bites the lawyer in half while on the porta-potty, with the lawyer replaced with Jar-Jar, I'd watch. Sounds like YouTube gold to me!
As someone who trains dogs semi-professionally, I've got to agree with jimstapleton. Dogs are incredibly genetically variable animals, and just cloning a decent dog is, at best, only a small part of doing the job, and probably a waste. Other factors in the development of a drug-detection dog include:
Is the dog healthy enough to complete training? (A dog could have a fantastic nose, but bad hips, or some other non-obvious physical problem.)
Is the dog amenable to training? (Some dogs are dumb, but others are just not interested in learning.)
Does the dog have the stamina to work as hard as needed?
Does the dog have a decent nose? (Just because the cell donor does, doesn't mean the clone will, any more than the cat that was cloned had the same fur pattern as the cell donor.)
Is ScentCone out there? Given his handle, I guess he'd have a few words to say about this as well.
Development of a really high quality lightweight radiation shielding material.
Without this, any mission to anywhere besides the Moon is not really feasible. Without decent radiation shielding, one X- or M-class burp from the Sun, and your brave space explorers are all toast. Even if the Sun plays nice, cumulative radiation exposure results in a bunch of cancer ridden [astro|cosmo|taiko] nauts arriving at the target world, given the travel times for any ship involving technology this side of Star Trek.
When you look at business things are even worse. 99% of those systems are used for email,word proccesing,CMS, and light spreadsheets. Frankly they where just fine with P3s and Athlons. People don't need new PCs so they are not buying new Windows licences.
In my business, it's not about the hardware. The day-to-day stuff runs on XP machines (generally laptops) and the heavy lifting is done by big Sun boxen. Our issue is that there are a pile of hard-working proprietary apps that I used every day to connect to and otherwise deal with my client, and none of that stuff runs under Vista at all. So, my company got off the Vista bus right there.
but in Texas, a federal circuit court has upheld the right of a property owner (in this case, the property would be that person's identity) to use deadly force to protect it.
IANAL, but IAAT (I Am A Texan). And I believe that that particular law only applies to a person's residence and property (and, as of the latest session of the legislature, a person's car). That is, you can use deadly force to prevent theft out of your home, your land and your car, provided you are on your property or in your car. Unless the ID theft victim owned the Starbucks, I don't believe they'd be able to legally pull a gun on the thief, even in the Lone Star State. And, on top of that, even in gun-happy Texas there are town and city restrictions on firearm discharge. Again, IANAL.
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Forget Web 3.11...Wait for the update after that: Web 3.1415926 Ultimate Pro SP1.
Maybe I'll go down to the local Circuit City, type "zoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" into all of their laptops, and see which one wins.
Note; Kids, don't try any of what you see here at home - We have years of experience that keeps us safe!
When I need the one that "lasts the longest", I reach for the Little Blue Pill.
Oh, wait, we're talking about Dells vs. Macs, not... Never mind....
And along with the spaceborne detectors, nuclear explosions on or near the ground have a distinct seismic signature as well. Seismic detectors are a big part of the system, as they can triangulate the epicenter of the blast quickly.
As a rural dweller myself, here it's cellular broadband, or satellite. And the latency with satellite does, indeed, suck. Plus, it's not compatible with a lot of VPN software. Fortunately, Verizon recently upgraded their broadband in this area, so things aren't too bad. I tried to get WDSL, but am just barely out of transmission range of the nearest tower. That would have been faster than what Verizon gives me here, but no dice.
Bingo!
<tinfoilhat>
My guess is that, post the I-35W bridge collapse, somebody in the agency located or finished a study showing that, nationwide, there were N bridges in equal or worse shape to the one that collapsed, where N turns out to be a disturbingly large number. And the agency decided it needed to make sure said study never saw the light of day, and that none of the personnel involved ever discussed it.
Here in TX, the MSM reported, within a couple of days of the accident, that all bridges in the state were A-OK. As if someone had actually recently inspected all of the major bridges found in the 268601 square miles (~69.6M hectares) that the state occupies on the planet. Yeah, sure.
</tinfoilhat>
Because at the time cassettes and 8 tracks came out, there was no other convenient format for portable listening, that's why. The early pre-dolby B cassettes are pretty damn hard on the ears, but there wasn't much in the way of choice then. In addition, it opened up the market for recorded music in cars, which didn't previously exist. This is why the industry put up with it, even though it sounded bad. Also, as I said earlier, the smaller format always wins. One win for the cassette is that you can put a whole lot of 'em on a shelf, compared to LPs - More product in your record store without adding floor space. Record stores liked CDs over LPs for the same reason.
YMMV, of course, but I don't see this as a strawman argument. As a semipro musician and engineer at one point, MP3s just don't sound very good to me, at least at the default bitrates that most people use. Even AAC sounds flat to me, and certain tunes recorded via ATRAC make me wince. None of this stops me from adding to the 35GB of music I have, but every now and them I blast a well-recorded CD on my decent car system to remind myself what I'm missing.
True enough, but perhaps slightly beside the point. No one but studio people had (or have) access to the kind of tape machines that can handle 15 IPS 2 track, so J Q Public didn't really have a choice to buy the superior sounding format in the cassette days. Nor were the production houses prepared to deliver dinner-plate-sized tape reels to the record stores for consumption.
In the present, music listeners can opt for the higher quality product, but opt for the more convenient, lower quality product. The point may be that when it comes to music delivery, the smaller, more convenient format always wins, regardless of quality:
Edison Cylinder > Wax 78 Record > LP > 8 track > Cassette > CD > Mini Disc > MP3 Player/iPod.
Or - 4. A viral marketing campaign for the soon-to-be-announced "Super Mario Brothers: Meteorite Mania!" game. Unfortunately, Adam and Morgan will only give it 2 1/2 stars, and it will disappear into well-deserved obscurity soon after.
...And for those wanting a more simple recipe, sweet feed works well, too.
A great idea! However, to give it one little tweak - I suggest re-enacting the days proceedings of the NZ Parliament using sock puppets for the MPs and related personnel. I mean, you're not using actual footage of Parliament, so it should be perfectly okay, eh?
Have you ever actually read The Right Stuff? The impression the book gives is that most of the original Mercury astronauts were apparently Type A overachievers suffering from chronic adrenaline and testosterone poisoning. At one point in the book, the flight surgeons told them that they were not supposed to drink within 24 hours of flying. According to the book, the astronauts interpreted this rule as "No drinking within 24 feet of the plane."
Sorry to be a spelling Nazi here, but I think you meant: "Anybody see anything phishy about this page?".
There, fixed it for you. And to answer your question - Maybe it's all perfectly fine. Perhaps they just had another intern whip that site up in FrontPage on his/her lunch hour.
That's the encryption method. I believe the previous intern's encryption method consisted of sticking the tapes to the 2 kg speaker magnet in the back of his guitar amp. That works pretty well, too.
But, seriously - What was the physical form factor for the stolen tapes? Some of the drives used for heavy backup duty aren't exactly the sort of gear you can purchase at your local shopping mall.
Oh boy, DECstations. Back in the day, we had one of those. (Not the 3100, though - Perhaps a previous model.) I was always fiddling with the hardware, and the through-hole boards DEC used were tightly fit in the chassis, and had dozens of sharp pins sticking out of the back. As a result, I don't think I ever completed a repair in that thing without my hands looking like I had tangled with a rabid cat.
And to guarantee that you don't wind up the human meteorite, just make sure not to wear the red spacesuit!
Well, if it comes with a camera, and you have no use for it, just do what I do; Bounce it off your garage floor a couple of times, et voila, the camera no longer works and you never have to worry about it again.
Welcome to "Planet Sauna" - Where a week is like 3 years, and it never rains. Humidity 90%. Heat Index, 980K. Don't forget to have your air conditioning serviced regularly!
Hey, if somebody wants to hack together a version of that Jurassic Park scene where T-Rex bites the lawyer in half while on the porta-potty, with the lawyer replaced with Jar-Jar, I'd watch. Sounds like YouTube gold to me!
Is ScentCone out there? Given his handle, I guess he'd have a few words to say about this as well.
All good ideas, to which I'd add one:
Development of a really high quality lightweight radiation shielding material.
Without this, any mission to anywhere besides the Moon is not really feasible. Without decent radiation shielding, one X- or M-class burp from the Sun, and your brave space explorers are all toast. Even if the Sun plays nice, cumulative radiation exposure results in a bunch of cancer ridden [astro|cosmo|taiko] nauts arriving at the target world, given the travel times for any ship involving technology this side of Star Trek.
Microsoft is failing. Netcraft confirms it.
In my business, it's not about the hardware. The day-to-day stuff runs on XP machines (generally laptops) and the heavy lifting is done by big Sun boxen. Our issue is that there are a pile of hard-working proprietary apps that I used every day to connect to and otherwise deal with my client, and none of that stuff runs under Vista at all. So, my company got off the Vista bus right there.
IANAL, but IAAT (I Am A Texan). And I believe that that particular law only applies to a person's residence and property (and, as of the latest session of the legislature, a person's car). That is, you can use deadly force to prevent theft out of your home, your land and your car, provided you are on your property or in your car. Unless the ID theft victim owned the Starbucks, I don't believe they'd be able to legally pull a gun on the thief, even in the Lone Star State. And, on top of that, even in gun-happy Texas there are town and city restrictions on firearm discharge. Again, IANAL.
Not only that, the MIT guys made no mention of the soundtrack for the original experiment, either.
(Not AH's best, but it's got it's moments...)