1 lag time: even when you are talking subsonic you have very little time to correct for "stuff" 2 local intelligence : even the dumbest pilot is about 20X the smarts of anything that we could put in a plane 3 payload : if you have a drone the size of a normal plane you might as well put a pilot in so you need to use X number of drones to replace each plane 4 retrieval and performing a mission on the way "home": even if a pilot has to eject you still have a soldier that could do "something" in the process of getting to an evac point with a drone you have scrap metal
"OR, you must vigorously scrub your hands for 2-3 minutes with special cleanser before you're clean to "gown up."**1 When you're standing around waiting for the procedure to start, you have to have your hands crossed in front of you in a special position to avoid touching anything that isn't sterile, including your own face, sides of your gown, etc.**2 Good luck reproducing these intricate details in Second Life."
1 sink with a "scrub hands" animation rigged to a clock script 2 Animation override with "zero contact" stand animation
and one of the biggest things with this is you can lock the camera to your self and see exactly how to do the pose
SL is more to be used as a "Role Play" environment so that you can get protocol and language down they are most likely using this a stupid prevention
the "look" of a font can not be copyrighted (with some wiggle for "trade dress" issues) but the actual font file itself is very much copyrighted (since its a "program")
so you could create a specimen sheet with the font in several sizes and then build a new font file from those (to pick up tweaks for size and such) and be clear of the letter of the law.
the sane way to do this is to have the top browsers installed (Firefox Opera and MSIE) then have the home pages set to a portal deal with the installers for all comers as a link farm.
or do something wild and have a "Package Manager" with the various different known programs (hmm maybe as an update to Add/Remove Programs (or whatever they are calling it these days))
of course a real geek will have a nuke and pave helper disc/disk so that would run
yank the network cable install the base OS run the sp3 installer run your post sp3 patch tool install printer ask for her "computer keychain thing" to load her documents install the various other programs including the free av from your N&PH disc and then configure the updater to do so quietly
just so we have solid proof they need to gather together all of the stuff that they have under this "community promise" and then etch the following onto titanium plates
1 the exact wording of the "Community Promise" 2 all of the code/concepts that are covered under the community promise 3 a machine readable copy of the source code (data glyphs maybe) with human readable chunks for failsafe (maybe on a left side right side basis
make like three copies of the plates and give one copy to the GNU foundation one copy goes in the national archives one copy stays with MS and if they try to sue over covered code HIT THEM WITH THE PLATES
"Anyhow, how fast is it? GMail's system appears to be horribly slow. 150 ms per message means it can only handle 8 messages per second. And that's likely on fairly new hardware -- my old PIII mail server can do far better than that."
i would bet you that this stat is PER SERVER (which google has whole buildings full of)
since its just good practice to have a backup system why wouldn't you 1 fail your primary and switch to the backup 2 upgrade your primary 3 revert to your now upgraded primary 4 upgrade your backup 5 Profit!!
An orange is highly acidic, how can you call that a real fruit? and where does it say in the FDA OED regs that acid content means anything to it being a fruit?? (hint tomatoes are technically fruits also there are fuits that are in fact poisonous to humans)
How can you call something who's pealing is not edible a fruit? (orange peel not edible?? BZZT WRONG) also pineapples are fruit and i don't think that a pineapple peel is edible as such
also you can cut down the problem some if you put the smoking section near the air returns (i think that the kitchen is effectively negative pressure and the upper floors of a multistory setup should also be good)
the problem is "Toxic Assets" Unless somehow a Judge actually waves off on this "plan" if you buy the company
1 You get the lawsuits and liabilities (hint you would have to pay Novell their money) 2 the current assets are not worth all that much 3 you encourage some other company to try the same thing
Right now IBM does not care about the money they want TSCOG dead and dust Novell would like to see some money from this but they really don't care about the amount as such (they already have paper for pennies on the dollar).
the real trick is the Felony Charges that some folks are looking at maybe seeing
1 find something non tech to do (some sort of craft hobby) then find a local group that does this and join in 2 get a small dog and name it something not obviously geeky (spend more than a few minutes coming up with the name) make sure you take your dog out for walks in any local parks frequently 3 get an account with SecondLife and Be The Small Dog (hey its a reach but you may have some local people in SL) 4 do Secondlife and be a not so small dog/wolf/fox 5 Profit!!!
* note if you do SL get a chunk of land and build stuff
Twins are very frequently very similar (same Mom same Dad same err "dice roll") "Identical" twins (the bet was "split") have some very minor things different due to those features having a nongenetic component (chaos theory get in the way)
I would bet that direct clones of a person would also have Biometric differences.
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"the military has really, really cool toys, and when you work for them you can break into systems without worrying about going to jail."
this would be about the only E (ring) ticket left for folks today
and besides Basements are cooler if they are DOD spec basements :-)
"I do live in a Command Center!!"
the big problem with drones is
1 lag time: even when you are talking subsonic you have very little time to correct for "stuff"
2 local intelligence : even the dumbest pilot is about 20X the smarts of anything that we could put in a plane
3 payload : if you have a drone the size of a normal plane you might as well put a pilot in so you need to use
X number of drones to replace each plane
4 retrieval and performing a mission on the way "home": even if a pilot has to eject you still have a soldier that could do "something" in the process of getting to an evac point with a drone you have scrap metal
well MS could do it a few ways
1 port SL to the Xbox platform and just use the SL grid
2 pay SL for a copy of their software and put up a grid of their own
3 just say FIDO and hand Linden Labs the protohype hardware and the needed SDK
but then Microsoft does not want to get that "OpenSource" stuff on them
"OR, you must vigorously scrub your hands for 2-3 minutes with special cleanser before you're clean to "gown up."**1 When you're standing around waiting for the procedure to start, you have to have your hands crossed in front of you in a special position to avoid touching anything that isn't sterile, including your own face, sides of your gown, etc.**2 Good luck reproducing these intricate details in Second Life."
1 sink with a "scrub hands" animation rigged to a clock script
2 Animation override with "zero contact" stand animation
and one of the biggest things with this is you can lock the camera to your self and see exactly how to do the pose
SL is more to be used as a "Role Play" environment so that you can get protocol and language down
they are most likely using this a stupid prevention
the situation with fonts is a bit weird
the "look" of a font can not be copyrighted (with some wiggle for "trade dress" issues)
but the actual font file itself is very much copyrighted (since its a "program")
so you could create a specimen sheet with the font in several sizes and then build a new font file from those
(to pick up tweaks for size and such) and be clear of the letter of the law.
the sane way to do this is to have the top browsers installed (Firefox Opera and MSIE) then have the home pages
set to a portal deal with the installers for all comers as a link farm.
or do something wild and have a "Package Manager" with the various different known programs (hmm maybe as an update to Add/Remove Programs (or whatever they are calling it these days))
yah know there a company thats working on thats called Liden Labs.
all the fun of Myspace and Facebook NOW IN 3D!!!
the trick is XP has a known/stable set of bugs (so you can avoid them)
what iron key should do is go to DEFCON with a bunch of these drives and then run a contest
If you can crack the drive you get some obscenely large amount of money
how to run the contest fairly
have the contents of the drive detail how to get to an offshore account with the prize money
So Ironkey how much you want to bet this key is "secure"
of course a real geek will have a nuke and pave helper disc/disk so that would run
yank the network cable
install the base OS
run the sp3 installer
run your post sp3 patch tool
install printer
ask for her "computer keychain thing" to load her documents
install the various other programs including the free av from your N&PH disc
and then configure the updater to do so quietly
as it happens Google (and i would bet whatever iCalendar uses for data) has both a chinese and a korean calender
please note the Chinese/Japanese/Korean trio have sometimes completely different holidays (kind of like the US/Canada/England do)
my favorite trick is to get a bill out of my pocket and wave it at a camera to see if that will make the clerks reappear.
(do none of the clerks nowadays know what a buying signal is??)
just so we have solid proof they need to gather together all of the stuff that they have under this "community promise"
and then etch the following onto titanium plates
1 the exact wording of the "Community Promise"
2 all of the code/concepts that are covered under the community promise
3 a machine readable copy of the source code (data glyphs maybe) with human readable chunks for failsafe (maybe on a left side right side basis
make like three copies of the plates and give one copy to the GNU foundation one copy goes in the national archives one copy stays with MS and if they try to sue over covered code HIT THEM WITH THE PLATES
"Anyhow, how fast is it? GMail's system appears to be horribly slow. 150 ms per message means it can only handle 8 messages per second. And that's likely on fairly new hardware -- my old PIII mail server can do far better than that."
i would bet you that this stat is PER SERVER (which google has whole buildings full of)
yes but the atmosphere leaves something to be desired
since its just good practice to have a backup system why wouldn't you
1 fail your primary and switch to the backup
2 upgrade your primary
3 revert to your now upgraded primary
4 upgrade your backup
5 Profit!!
An orange is highly acidic, how can you call that a real fruit? and where does it say in the FDA OED regs that acid content means anything to it being a fruit?? (hint tomatoes are technically fruits also there are fuits that are in fact poisonous to humans)
How can you call something who's pealing is not edible a fruit? (orange peel not edible?? BZZT WRONG)
also pineapples are fruit and i don't think that a pineapple peel is edible as such
also you can cut down the problem some if you put the smoking section near the air returns (i think that the kitchen is effectively negative pressure and the upper floors of a multistory setup should also be good)
note IANAHVACE please consult one as required
actually roaches are not all that tough its been covered in "That Show"
the problem is "Toxic Assets"
Unless somehow a Judge actually waves off on this "plan" if you buy the company
1 You get the lawsuits and liabilities (hint you would have to pay Novell their money)
2 the current assets are not worth all that much
3 you encourage some other company to try the same thing
Right now IBM does not care about the money they want TSCOG dead and dust Novell would like to see some money from this but they really don't care about the amount as such (they already have paper for pennies on the dollar).
the real trick is the Felony Charges that some folks are looking at maybe seeing
some phones have the ability to go into a hard lock mode that requires a full firmware reload to unlock
(the phone displays "Return to %carrier%")
1 find something non tech to do (some sort of craft hobby) then find a local group that does this and join in
2 get a small dog and name it something not obviously geeky (spend more than a few minutes coming up with the name)
make sure you take your dog out for walks in any local parks frequently
3 get an account with SecondLife and Be The Small Dog (hey its a reach but you may have some local people in SL)
4 do Secondlife and be a not so small dog/wolf/fox
5 Profit!!!
* note if you do SL get a chunk of land and build stuff
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Twins are very frequently very similar (same Mom same Dad same err "dice roll")
"Identical" twins (the bet was "split") have some very minor things different due to those features having a nongenetic component (chaos theory get in the way)
I would bet that direct clones of a person would also have Biometric differences.
and just remember worst case without ice problems the human body is more or less water proof.
(walked 30 minutes in a thunderstorm, check)