"Their claim was that they intended to create small explosions in airports as a political act or protest." An explosion that is a political act is an act of terrorism or even an attack. What is wrong with these guys signs or chaining your self to the metal detector isn't good enough?
But windows CE has all the problems that Linux has but more. Lack of hardware support. Know of any printers with Windows CE support that you can get at Best Buy? Lack of software support. It is all aimed at the mobile market. Linux will actually have more software and hardware support out of the box than WinCE.
LTE will probably be the standard but I really don't think that you will see a CDMA iphone. Apple is selling iPhones hand over fist. Verizon will not give Apple the control that it wants so why would Apple build a CDMA iPhone. Also even if they did produce a CDMA iPhone it will not have LTE so yes LTE is an issue for five years from now.
"Said it once, and I'll say it again. CDMA is a dead end, the world is moving to LTE. " Then GSM is also a dead end. LTE doesn't even have a standard yet for voice calls. Right now it is a data only network. Also from a technology point of view it has a lot more in common with CDMA than with GSM. Frankly the CDMA vs GSM vs LTE vs WiMax debate just doesn't matter today. I like Sprint because their smart phone plans are cheaper than AT&T and Verizon. You will not see LTE coverage for probably five years so by that time you will be ready for a new phone anyway. Also I like CDMA because you don't get the GSM clicking over speakers that every GSM phone on the planet seems to make. Also Sprint doesn't cripple it's phones they way Verizon does. But that is just my point of view but over all the whole GSM vs CDMA debate is just a tempest in a teapot today. I do fear that Sprint is making a bad choice in picking WiMax over LTE but then who knows, Maybe WiMax will catch on but that will not really matter for at least three to five years.
I would call it more the rise of science fiction than the slowing of progress. I am a little younger than the author but I disagree. The internet is a great example. We can now find out about any subject. When I was in school I loved model rockets. I was stuck with what books where in the library and what magazines I could find at the news stand. Now a young person or adult can research any subject with ease. Then you have mobile devices. Now I have access to the internet everywhere. Then look at Google Maps. Everything seems like a small advance because we are living it. When I was born the best pictures of the outer planets where from earth based telescopes. We have sent probes to all of them except Pluto on one is on the way there. Hay it was a planet when I was born and I say it still is. It has swept it's orbit clean but I am open that there may be planets past Pluto as well but that is another fight. Not that long ago we had no proof of plants around other suns. Now we have detected how many extra solar planets? Yes airplanes have reached maturity just like ships did before them. Computers will or already have reached that point as well. Once that happens you get evolutionary improvements over time.
Actually I work for a software company that produces software for the legal system. We have had a way to mark fields as all caps for 15 plus years. As well as ways to print output as all caps while mataining mixed case in the document and what really drives me nuts is a way to force mixed case in an all caps document for names like McSomething or MacSomebody! That one made my head hurt for a long time... We have about 6 competitors and they are all hyper competitive.
Proper software design 101. If a data field requires data in all upper case then in your data verification you convert it to all upper case. The only excuse is if the software predates the requirement. Or if for some unlikely reason it is an COTS product but the program you describe hardly ever is.
I would because if it was I doubt that it would be in the news. My bet is this will be a lot more boring than the news services will want. A clerical error in ordering or someone hacked into the the ordering system.
My guess is that it will be layered with other material. By turning hard it will spread out the impact over a larger area. A good example of how can work would be to take two sheets of foam. Hit one with a tack hammer. Take a piece of plywood and put it on the other sheet of foam and hit that with a tack hammer.hammer. So use a layer of the goo and a layer of foam.
You left out one big advantage the British had. They had the AIM-9L while the Argentine military only had the AIM-9B I think. The 9L was the first all aspect IR Sidewinder. The British could shoot the Argentine head on or from the side while the Argentine had to get on the Harriers tail. Combine that with the Harriers vectored thrust and you have a bad situation all the way around. If the Argentine could have keep fighters at Port Stanley and kept them in service it would have been a much nastier war. But then if the British had real carriers with AEW then it also would have been a much shorter battle.
Maybe but don't you think that the effort probably isn't worth the risk and potental gains vs the hey "hey I got into the the GSA system of HP and can order a bunch of laptops to be sent and billed to these Governors" option? Since these laptops seem to be coming straight from HP just how did they get hacked before delivery? And even if they are some hacked spybots it was a very clumsy way of doing it that got caught very quickly.
Seems way to stupid of a way to hack it. The solution is the same in both cases. Inspect them and track them. Find out what is happening. Format and give them to a school.
Really? They why state governors? They really don't have a lot of access to secret stuff. My guess is a little more amusing. Someone has figured out how to hack into HPs GSA ordering system and is pranking them. They are basically ordering laptops on the states dime from HP just to see if anyone notices. Sort of like ordering Pizzicati to be set to buddy's house as a joke. The difference is this is going to be a federal offense.
Russia has a lot of Cruise Missiles as does China. Any country more advanced than Germany in 1944 can have a cruise missile. Rankly several other nations have them and they are not expensive of complex to make. A cruise missle is nothing but a small airplane with an auto pilot and a warhead. Any country that can make a drone can make a cruise missiles. Also just so you understand almost but not all anti ship missiles are cruise missiles.
Actually the free market will just make it profitable to start capturing it again. The price of Helium was artificially low for a very long time because the US government was paying for it to be captured and stored as a strategic material. Most of it comes from natural gas wells in West Texas where ti comes from... Alpha emitters. Yes we still may run out but right now I don't think we are actually capturing much of it.
LTE is the replacment for GSM. The problem with LTE is that there is still no standard for voice calls on it. LTE as it stands is just a data standard. I suggest they adopt Speex for the codec. It isn't going to happen but it would be cool.
Yes Verizon and Sprint are both finally getting Android phones which I feel will help a lot. I also think AT&T may be getting them but I doubt they will push them. Frankly I was hoping that Palm would adopt Android since it was in so much trouble. My wife has a Pre and she loves it except for the lack of apps. Hopefully that will change soon. But before the Pre I kept thinking put Android on the Centro folks. Now if the smartphone folks will just stop limiting the Bluetooth profiles and put on good voice commands I will be a happy man.
In the US that is tied to the lack of CDMA support. You have four major players. Number 1 Verizon and number 3 Sprint are CDMA. Number two AT&T is GSM but has the iPhone. That leaves only number four to push Android. Add in that HTC is heavy into Windows Mobil and you have a not great phone on the number four carrier. Too bad they didn't include CDMA from the start and got a phone maker like Samsung, LG, or Motorola the be the exclusive hardware partner.
Now for your punishment you may not talk about how people from the US don't know anything about Europe for one year.
Just kidding. I was shocked when I found out as well. I am into classic motorcycles and the best magazine for classic motorcycles IMHO comes from the UK. They where talking about the cost and difficulty of getting leaded fuel and I was wondering what they heck they where talking about.
Yes it is old tech but frankly that makes it all the more interesting in a way. It is a tube and not solid state. And now here is the joke that I know must come. If we used these for wireless internet then it really would be a bunch of tubes. Sorry but it had to be done..
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"Their claim was that they intended to create small explosions in airports as a political act or protest."
An explosion that is a political act is an act of terrorism or even an attack.
What is wrong with these guys signs or chaining your self to the metal detector isn't good enough?
Simple too many people think laptop means Intel+Windows.
But windows CE has all the problems that Linux has but more.
Lack of hardware support. Know of any printers with Windows CE support that you can get at Best Buy?
Lack of software support. It is all aimed at the mobile market.
Linux will actually have more software and hardware support out of the box than WinCE.
LTE will probably be the standard but I really don't think that you will see a CDMA iphone. Apple is selling iPhones hand over fist. Verizon will not give Apple the control that it wants so why would Apple build a CDMA iPhone. Also even if they did produce a CDMA iPhone it will not have LTE so yes LTE is an issue for five years from now.
"Said it once, and I'll say it again. CDMA is a dead end, the world is moving to LTE. "
Then GSM is also a dead end. LTE doesn't even have a standard yet for voice calls. Right now it is a data only network. Also from a technology point of view it has a lot more in common with CDMA than with GSM.
Frankly the CDMA vs GSM vs LTE vs WiMax debate just doesn't matter today.
I like Sprint because their smart phone plans are cheaper than AT&T and Verizon. You will not see LTE coverage for probably five years so by that time you will be ready for a new phone anyway.
Also I like CDMA because you don't get the GSM clicking over speakers that every GSM phone on the planet seems to make. Also Sprint doesn't cripple it's phones they way Verizon does.
But that is just my point of view but over all the whole GSM vs CDMA debate is just a tempest in a teapot today. I do fear that Sprint is making a bad choice in picking WiMax over LTE but then who knows, Maybe WiMax will catch on but that will not really matter for at least three to five years.
But what about Vatican City and Liechtenstein?
I would call it more the rise of science fiction than the slowing of progress.
I am a little younger than the author but I disagree. The internet is a great example. We can now find out about any subject. When I was in school I loved model rockets. I was stuck with what books where in the library and what magazines I could find at the news stand. Now a young person or adult can research any subject with ease. Then you have mobile devices. Now I have access to the internet everywhere. Then look at Google Maps. Everything seems like a small advance because we are living it. When I was born the best pictures of the outer planets where from earth based telescopes. We have sent probes to all of them except Pluto on one is on the way there. Hay it was a planet when I was born and I say it still is. It has swept it's orbit clean but I am open that there may be planets past Pluto as well but that is another fight.
Not that long ago we had no proof of plants around other suns. Now we have detected how many extra solar planets?
Yes airplanes have reached maturity just like ships did before them. Computers will or already have reached that point as well. Once that happens you get evolutionary improvements over time.
Actually I work for a software company that produces software for the legal system. We have had a way to mark fields as all caps for 15 plus years. As well as ways to print output as all caps while mataining mixed case in the document and what really drives me nuts is a way to force mixed case in an all caps document for names like McSomething or MacSomebody! That one made my head hurt for a long time...
We have about 6 competitors and they are all hyper competitive.
Proper software design 101.
If a data field requires data in all upper case then in your data verification you convert it to all upper case.
The only excuse is if the software predates the requirement.
Or if for some unlikely reason it is an COTS product but the program you describe hardly ever is.
I would because if it was I doubt that it would be in the news.
My bet is this will be a lot more boring than the news services will want. A clerical error in ordering or someone hacked into the the ordering system.
My guess is that it will be layered with other material.
By turning hard it will spread out the impact over a larger area.
A good example of how can work would be to take two sheets of foam. Hit one with a tack hammer.
Take a piece of plywood and put it on the other sheet of foam and hit that with a tack hammer.hammer.
So use a layer of the goo and a layer of foam.
You left out one big advantage the British had. They had the AIM-9L while the Argentine military only had the AIM-9B I think.
The 9L was the first all aspect IR Sidewinder. The British could shoot the Argentine head on or from the side while the Argentine had to get on the Harriers tail.
Combine that with the Harriers vectored thrust and you have a bad situation all the way around.
If the Argentine could have keep fighters at Port Stanley and kept them in service it would have been a much nastier war. But then if the British had real carriers with AEW then it also would have been a much shorter battle.
Maybe but don't you think that the effort probably isn't worth the risk and potental gains vs the hey "hey I got into the the GSA system of HP and can order a bunch of laptops to be sent and billed to these Governors" option?
Since these laptops seem to be coming straight from HP just how did they get hacked before delivery?
And even if they are some hacked spybots it was a very clumsy way of doing it that got caught very quickly.
Seems way to stupid of a way to hack it.
The solution is the same in both cases.
Inspect them and track them. Find out what is happening. Format and give them to a school.
Really? They why state governors? They really don't have a lot of access to secret stuff. My guess is a little more amusing. Someone has figured out how to hack into HPs GSA ordering system and is pranking them. They are basically ordering laptops on the states dime from HP just to see if anyone notices. Sort of like ordering Pizzicati to be set to buddy's house as a joke. The difference is this is going to be a federal offense.
Russia has a lot of Cruise Missiles as does China. Any country more advanced than Germany in 1944 can have a cruise missile.
Rankly several other nations have them and they are not expensive of complex to make. A cruise missle is nothing but a small airplane with an auto pilot and a warhead. Any country that can make a drone can make a cruise missiles.
Also just so you understand almost but not all anti ship missiles are cruise missiles.
Actually the free market will just make it profitable to start capturing it again.
The price of Helium was artificially low for a very long time because the US government was paying for it to be captured and stored as a strategic material. Most of it comes from natural gas wells in West Texas where ti comes from... Alpha emitters.
Yes we still may run out but right now I don't think we are actually capturing much of it.
Or the remake of the Wild West?
LTE is the replacment for GSM. The problem with LTE is that there is still no standard for voice calls on it. LTE as it stands is just a data standard.
I suggest they adopt Speex for the codec. It isn't going to happen but it would be cool.
Yes Verizon and Sprint are both finally getting Android phones which I feel will help a lot. I also think AT&T may be getting them but I doubt they will push them.
Frankly I was hoping that Palm would adopt Android since it was in so much trouble. My wife has a Pre and she loves it except for the lack of apps. Hopefully that will change soon. But before the Pre I kept thinking put Android on the Centro folks.
Now if the smartphone folks will just stop limiting the Bluetooth profiles and put on good voice commands I will be a happy man.
Actually the Sprint people have been very good of late. Even the folks in the store.
Things do change for both good and bad.
In the US that is tied to the lack of CDMA support. You have four major players. Number 1 Verizon and number 3 Sprint are CDMA. Number two AT&T is GSM but has the iPhone. That leaves only number four to push Android. Add in that HTC is heavy into Windows Mobil and you have a not great phone on the number four carrier. Too bad they didn't include CDMA from the start and got a phone maker like Samsung, LG, or Motorola the be the exclusive hardware partner.
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Now for your punishment you may not talk about how people from the US don't know anything about Europe for one year.
Just kidding. I was shocked when I found out as well. I am into classic motorcycles and the best magazine for classic motorcycles IMHO comes from the UK. They where talking about the cost and difficulty of getting leaded fuel and I was wondering what they heck they where talking about.
Yes it is old tech but frankly that makes it all the more interesting in a way.
It is a tube and not solid state.
And now here is the joke that I know must come.
If we used these for wireless internet then it really would be a bunch of tubes.
Sorry but it had to be done..
Are you sure?
This website says that leaded fuel is still available in the UK.
http://www.leadedpetrol.co.uk/