Alpha still is running fine last time I looked and is doing very well on 'big-iron' systems like at the DoD and various financial exchanges. However, they are all being forced to look elsewhere now as chip development has stopped. HP is supposedly offering a migration path to Itanium, but there are problems with that so they are still selling Alphas.
Not since the MMR jab started floating around. With the majority taking the jab, there is no longer a pool of infection in schools, etc. There is a minority who don't have the jab and rely on there being no infection pools any more.
There may not be in the US, but go somewhere else in the world (such as our favourite offshore centres) and the virus is running wild. If your wern't immunised or already had it, then adult onset measles is nasty.
Your mistake was to choose Inspiron rather than Latittude. Latittude is their commercial line and has better support. Specifically, they haven't offshored their call centre.
It really isn't a good idea to hold your breath when pressure is lost. It could do you some damage (a bit like the bends). The big problem isn't explosive decompression (although this can cause other problems like misting of instruments and cockpit windows). The problem is with slow loss of pressure which isn't so noticeable and with bozos who design the alert noise to sound the same same as the landing configuration (apparently this is a problem in the 737).
The real problem is partial pressure of O2. When it is too low then the O2 is shed by the haemoglobin rather than absorbed.
Most people can last about 15 secs before LOC. Reinhold Meissner went to the top of Everest (a tad under 30K feet) without oxygen.
As an observation, there seems to be a lot of support for faith based aid organisations at the moment in the US. The theory seems to be that your church can ensure that only the deserving receive the assistance.
As a non church member, I don't know how effective this is in practise.
In London at the moment, you porobably won't be able to go more than a couple of minutes away from any device left at a station without being surrounded by dogs and seriously overarmed policemen.
Back to bluetooth, I guess if you changed your device name to "ExplodeMe", you would definitely find yourself at the centre of a lot of attention, and very quickly.
Nice idea, unfortunately this is apparently happening at a major railway station which is being videoed from all angles (except the one where the police are executing the suspect, but that is another issue).
If you stood for a while near a particular ad, they would very quickly work out who it is.
I have worked on multiple trading systems, but I don't know the Taiwanese system. All systems I know have allowed traders to have order-limits applied by their management. These are relaxed when the trader is seen to be experienced enough to cope with the system.
I have also seen an electronic trade that wiped about a couple of hundred million off the German exchange. Some idiot decided to sell 5000 DAX futures at 5 rather than the other way round. Of course, they had disabled order checking in their system It wasn't just the bad trade, it was that the trade went through the order book hitting all the stops. With a panic, the trade hit the cash market as well and brought down the main index by about a thousand points.
And Buran worked fine, and was in many ways superior to the Shuttle - it, for example, contained jet engines that allowed for a powered landing
Actually the jet engines were bolt-on and not used in space missions, but rather for shipping the shuttle around between sites. As for the copy, well I've heard that it was an independent design. They had the same main-mission profile (single-orbit observational) for the military and had the same requirement for a substantial cross-range capability. It therefore is no coincidence that the form looks similar. However the payload for the shuttle was greater, again driven by the military for the Manned-Orbital Laboratory project.
Of course, when someone invented CCDs, this made the main military use of the Shuttle (and Buran)out of date.
Nice theory, but I gather that the effect of the dust devils cleaning the solar panels was a surprise to most people. The feeling was the sand and static would reduce the power output fairly quickly.
On the other hand, I agree that the back end mission costs are negligable compared to the cost and risk of getting there in the first place.
The organisation doing the outsourcing must be able to show that they applied due dilligence when qualifying the suppler/service provider. You cannot be permitted to outsource responsibility.
If Ford sell you a car with tires imported from another country and they keep blowing up, it is still Ford's responsibility.
The EULA is a civil contract so legality doesn't enter into it. MS have given you the software, they don't explicitly list which elements you are allowed to use so you can choose to load whatever you may find. MS may decide that you are then in breach of contract, but you haven't broken the copyright.
Besdies, in theory at least, all US military control and all classified data travels on networks physically seperate from the Internet. Goes back to the Kennedy assanation where the government found the PSTN so clogged they couldn't communicate and so worke don getting their own. Today the policy, and hopefulyl the implementation, is an air gap: physical seperation of classified networks from the Internet.
I seem to remember an incident where a tiger team working for the USN were able to demonstrate an attck from the 'public' internet though a base to a carrier and then from the carrier to an aircraft in flight where they had access to some non-flight systems. Note that neither the carrier nor the aircraft was in an EMCON regime (locked down radio comms), so the compromised systems may have been isolated in war. Note the Tiger Team assumed and had technical knowledge of the systems compromised, but no special passwords or access to tokens.
Clean separations and airgaps may be the 'nirvana' but with the hodge-podge of systems, and frequently large numbers of contractors required for operational support, it is quite conceivable that any large network may not be as clean as it should be.
There has been a lot of stuff recently on timed administration of drugs to maximise the effect. In the case of cancer it is to hit and block the replication phase rather than the quiescent phase when the cancerous cell is almost identical to others.
A patent license can be revoked arbitrarily when there is no contract.
Nokia is typical of the large companies that love the idea of software patents. However even they must go to smaller companies for innovation, EPOC32 anyone? With patents smaller companies would have many more problems to innovate.
Sure, you can only scan people of the same sex, but that doesn't exclude homosexual screeners. The whole point of same-sex screeners is to remove any sexual element from the scan, but it doesn't do that at all.
The civil aviation business is fairly well known for the number of gays. It definitely isn't just the male FAs any more and it also extends to ground staff including security.
I was joking, but only slightly. Personally, I think that when Exchange and Outlook run well, they are excellent. I have been there and suffered when IT support try to restore stuff and screw up, often badly. I'm not talking Exchange Gurus there but the regular support monkeys appointed by major outsourcing vendors. The best thing about it is that Exchange Server always gives an investment bank a convenient excuse to lose email!
Microsoft's insistence on sticking to its own standards which move on frequently makes it hard for anyone to interoperate, or to be able to fix things. This is why people like open standards, it gives more possibilities for real interworking and optimising the use of tools.
Yahoo jumped the shark with the scale of their advertising. Nobody minds ads but with 50% or more covered with some horrendous flash, it doesn't really look good.
Sorry, despite marketing info to the contrary, Exchange Server isn't enterprise ready. The file storage uses a combination of propietary technologies, which make it difficult to recover parts (it always seems easier to recover the whole message store). It certainly doesn't provide an open client interface. Those people interfacing have had a lot of hard work getting at the protocols.
There are maintenance tools, but they aren't documented. Without source code or documentation, you can be very much in the dark.
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Alpha still is running fine last time I looked and is doing very well on 'big-iron' systems like at the DoD and various financial exchanges. However, they are all being forced to look elsewhere now as chip development has stopped. HP is supposedly offering a migration path to Itanium, but there are problems with that so they are still selling Alphas.
Maybe Katrina was rather bigger than they expected, but Iraq is now just a police action so there should be plenty of men and equipment to spare.
There may not be in the US, but go somewhere else in the world (such as our favourite offshore centres) and the virus is running wild. If your wern't immunised or already had it, then adult onset measles is nasty.
Your mistake was to choose Inspiron rather than Latittude. Latittude is their commercial line and has better support. Specifically, they haven't offshored their call centre.
Hey, the bank where I work hates to allocate 500MB for email. The fact that these days we have to retain everything seems to have been ignored.
The real problem is partial pressure of O2. When it is too low then the O2 is shed by the haemoglobin rather than absorbed.
Most people can last about 15 secs before LOC. Reinhold Meissner went to the top of Everest (a tad under 30K feet) without oxygen.
As a non church member, I don't know how effective this is in practise.
Back to bluetooth, I guess if you changed your device name to "ExplodeMe", you would definitely find yourself at the centre of a lot of attention, and very quickly.
If you stood for a while near a particular ad, they would very quickly work out who it is.
When I try to access the plugged website, it is full of evil pop-ups that try to force you to download expensive internet access tools.
Seriously, you are right, there are thankfully few automatic weapons incidents in the UK but they are increasing.
I have also seen an electronic trade that wiped about a couple of hundred million off the German exchange. Some idiot decided to sell 5000 DAX futures at 5 rather than the other way round. Of course, they had disabled order checking in their system It wasn't just the bad trade, it was that the trade went through the order book hitting all the stops. With a panic, the trade hit the cash market as well and brought down the main index by about a thousand points.
Of course, when someone invented CCDs, this made the main military use of the Shuttle (and Buran)out of date.
This link gives you an identifiable flying object, a plane, slightly proceeded by a ghost plane (some kind of artifact, I guess).
On the other hand, I agree that the back end mission costs are negligable compared to the cost and risk of getting there in the first place.
If Ford sell you a car with tires imported from another country and they keep blowing up, it is still Ford's responsibility.
The EULA is a civil contract so legality doesn't enter into it. MS have given you the software, they don't explicitly list which elements you are allowed to use so you can choose to load whatever you may find. MS may decide that you are then in breach of contract, but you haven't broken the copyright.
Clean separations and airgaps may be the 'nirvana' but with the hodge-podge of systems, and frequently large numbers of contractors required for operational support, it is quite conceivable that any large network may not be as clean as it should be.
There has been a lot of stuff recently on timed administration of drugs to maximise the effect. In the case of cancer it is to hit and block the replication phase rather than the quiescent phase when the cancerous cell is almost identical to others.
Nokia is typical of the large companies that love the idea of software patents. However even they must go to smaller companies for innovation, EPOC32 anyone? With patents smaller companies would have many more problems to innovate.
Microsoft's insistence on sticking to its own standards which move on frequently makes it hard for anyone to interoperate, or to be able to fix things. This is why people like open standards, it gives more possibilities for real interworking and optimising the use of tools.
Yahoo jumped the shark with the scale of their advertising. Nobody minds ads but with 50% or more covered with some horrendous flash, it doesn't really look good.
There are maintenance tools, but they aren't documented. Without source code or documentation, you can be very much in the dark.